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y e d m o k VOL. I. NO. i • COLUMBIA FALLS, MONTANA. AUGUST 22, 1903. lilt 1ELEGRAPH MIES CULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF THE ASSOCIATED PRE38. A Review of Happenlnge In Both Eaatern and Weetern Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events Tersely Told. A special from Valdez, Alaska, an nounces the safe arrival there, eight days behind its schedule, o f the United States senatorial party. The delay Is attributed to the failure of the boat from the lower Yukon to arrive at Dawson. The alleged embezzlement of $45,- 000 of the funds of the Commercial Banking company of Duluth, Minn, for which E. E. Johnson, a trusted clerk of the bank, la under arrest, has brought about the failure of the Merchants’ Bank of Duluth. \Dollar wheat\ was seen on Minne apolis exchange last Saturday for the first time since the Lelter corner In 1890. It was cash wheat, and there were sales at that figure. Later $1.02 was asked and $1.01 bid, with no sales. September option touched 85 cents. Frank B. Greer of the East Boston Athletic Association Boat club wrested the sculling championship from <J—S. Titus of the Atlantic Boat club of New York on Lake Qulnsagamond recently at the annual regatta of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen. Greer was eight lengths ahead. The steamer Princess May from Skagway has brought word of a tribal war among the Chllkat Indians of the Klukwan tribe. For several days reign of terror was In progress In the valley of the Chllcat from Pyramid Harbor to Klukwan. As the result of the attempt of Jim Dollard to \shoot up the town” at Lander, Wyo., Frank Bryant and Rosa Springer, the latter a printer, are'-dead. and Dollard Is In Jail. Dollard ran out of cartridges In killing. Bryant, and used a heavy board to kill St* er, crushing the latter's skulL m- of common pleas has decided the brought by Alan A Lord against a tenant for rent which was unpaid be cause the tenant had to move owing to bedbugs. The court favors the ten ant. Few cases of the kind are on the court records. ’ The Reliance and Shamrock in. have been measured In the Erie basin by C. E. Mower,-the offlclal measurer of the New York Yacht club. As the result of his measurements and cal culations It was announced tonight at the yacht club that the Reliance would allow the challenger one minute and 45 seconds over a 30 mile cohrse. The hottest day of the season was characterized by thunderstorms, which did thousands of dollars’ worth of dam age In 8an Bernardino, Cal., valley. The climax of three hot days was reached when the mercury marked 110 . - Two little boys, sons of John Basin of Buffalo Hump, Idaho, who were lost In woods for three days and who lived during that time on salmon berries and the raw flesh of wild birds they caught, have been found by some of the large searching parties and have been returned to their home here lit tle the worse for their experience. The thermometer at Lewiston, Ida., recently registered 108 degrees, the hottest day of the year. Dividends of $20,000,000 have been paid by the mines of the Inland Em pire, according to a careful article read by Bernard MacDonald, E. M., at a meeting of the Society of Engt- nesa recently at 8pokane. Mr. Mac Donald, who was formerly manager of the Le Rol at Rossland, Is one of the best known mining engineers la the northwest • • Henry L. Bidwell, the prominent and well known Justice of the peace of Hope, Idaho, accidentally shot himself at Clarks Fork, Idaho while waiting for the passenger train to return to his home. The kidnaping of a young white girl and the killing of one of a posse that tried- to rescue her are the crimes charged against a party of eight ne groes, fortified on Bruce’s Island, 16 miles west of Fort Smith, Ark. The negroes are said to be well armed. D. J. Thomley, who alleges that he Is a private detective from Michigan, was recently taken from the Hillsboro, Ore, city Jail by a crowd of 25 young men and treated to a liberal dose of tar and feathers. For some weeks Tromley has been stopping with a wo man who resides near the courthouse, and has made himself very obfloxlous to ladles who reside In the Immediate vicinity. The home of Rome Respess, owner of the race horse Dick Welles, In Har lem. near Chicago, was entered recent ly by burglars, who secured $4000 In cash and diamonds. The loss Is about equally divided between Mr. Respess and Jockey Dominick, who lives with Respess. The London Dally Mall’s correspond ent at HL Petersburg describes a sen sational Incident which occurred dur ing the Kleff strikes. On one occas ion. he says, when the troops were ordered by the governor to fire on, the strikers, a young captain stepped In front of his company and forbade the troops to fire on “their poor starving brothers.’’ The soldlen obeyed the counter order and the captain made a It Never Expected It to Be Ratified— flaming revolutionary speech to his men. He was immediately arrested, tried by courtmartlal and sentenced to death. Massachusetts democrats may nomi nate General Miles for governor. Eight women concerned In the smashing of a Joint last week were arraigned In the Wichita, Kan, court All pleaded guilty of assault and were fined $10 each and costs. Dwight, the 12 year old son of C. W. Taylor, a farmer living four mil< northwest of Pullman, Wash, had a narrow escape from death and may yet die from his Injuries. He went after the cows on horseback and his horse returning riderless search Instituted and he was found In pasture with his skull frightfully crushed. Doctors were called and moved pieces of the skull, leaving a hole nearly two Inches square In the skull. A piece of bone had been driven Into the brain. At a recent convention of the liberals of Grand Forks riding held at Grand Forks, B. C , Alderman NelU McCal- lum was unanimously chosen as the liberal candidate at the approaching provincial elections. News from Victor, Col, says ie miners' union officials )unced that three general sup ply stores will be established at once by the union for the benefit of the striking miners of the Cripple Creek district The parade of the military, naval and civic bodies o f San Francisco and state which took place recently fur- 'nished an Imposing spectacle for the -vast crowds of people at O. A. R. en campment A fierce forest fire which has been raging near Elk, Wash, for the past week has already completely destroy ed about 1000 acres of the finest tlm- of Spokane county. 82 82 H I IM IMMIIBillim TREATY REJECTED BY COLUM BIAN GOVERNMENT. Columbian 8«nate Thinks Uncle 8am Bluffing About Nicaragua Route—New Military Commander Appointed. Panama, Columbia, Aug. 10.—The unanimous rejection of the Panama canal treaty by the senate Colombia has created a profound Impression here In all circles. The question on all lips Is what will become of Pana- The only consolation the Isth mians have is that the rest of the re public with exchange at a very high figure and with an upward tendency, will suffer a great deal more. It seems that the government never expected the treaty to be ratified and It was not supported at all in the senate. General Valezzo, an old veteran and a distinguished army officer, has been appointed military commander of the department of Panama. It is thought that the fears caused by the rumors o f a secession movement on the Isthmus may have Influenced the appointment Sensation on the Isthmus. Colon, Colombia. Aug. 19.—The re jection of the canal treaty by the Co lombian senate has produced a tre mendous sensation on the Isthmus. It was generally thought that the treaty would pass with some modifications. There Is good reason to suppose that the majority of the senate re gard the Spooner amendment, to build by the Nicaraguan route if the Pana ma route was rejected by Colombia, as a mere threat on the part of the United States. They are convinced owner of the Reliance, defender of the America's cup. The Wabash Bridge ft Iron company has assigned for the benefit of credl- Liabllltles are estimated $200,000, assets at $100,000, which is capital stock. Edna Folia, a servant girl for Mrs. Glllln, residing two miles below Mil ton, Ore, committed suicide recently by taking a heavy doee o f strychnine. Despondency Is given as the cause. A bill Is ready authorizing the Co lumbia government to make a new canal treaty with the United States upon a fixed basis, and also providing for modifying the national constitu tion. A strike which threatened to tie up practically all the streetcar service- of Seattle and suburbs, was averted recently when the streetcar employes of the Seattle Electric company de termined to await the return of Presi dent Jacob Furth of the company, who has promised to arbitrate the differ ences with the employes. The decision of the men was urged by Mayor Humes and the city council. Mr. Furth will return In about 10 days from the Yel lowstone park. Reports from New York tell of plans for consolidating the new Federal Min ing ft 8melting company with the American Smelting ft Refining com pany, or the smelter trust. Hesse Langsdorf, cashier of the Sal on City (Idaho) bank, was taken Salt Lake recently to be treated for two dangerous gunshot wounds re ceived while camping out on the Sal- river, in Idaho. A shotgun was accidentally discharged, a portion of the load striking him In the right eye, destroying that organ, and the rest of the charge making a dangerous wound In the thigh. The fence about the Fort Belknap Indian reservation, In Montana, which Is 40 miles long and 60 miles wide, has at last been finished. It Is probably the longest fence In the world and has taken years in building. Dan Patch broke the world’s record recently for pacers by pacing a mile in 1:69 at Brighton Beach. It was a most magnificent performance and seemed an Impossibility, the wind and track considered. The veterans of the Spanlsh-Ameri- in war and the Philippine Insurrec tion held a largely attended reunion at San Francisco and campfire at their armory on Ellis street recently. The election of officers was held with the following result: Commander chief, General Owen Summers of Ore- senior vice commander, Major B. T. SIme, of California; Junior vice commander. Colonel J. J. McCllntock of Arizona; Judge advocate general, General W. P. Metcalf of Kansas; sur geon general, Major Elmer 8. Brown of Washington; chaplain general. Rev. Joseph 8. Woolley, of Rhode Island; officer of the day, Lieutenant L. Hart man of Idaho. that the Nicaraguan project Is Impos sible, and that the United 8tates will again deal with Colombia. The rejection Is a heavy blow to property owners here, who have been Investing heavily on the prospects of the treaty being ratified. nSMkfeSfeR, of tile treaty by the Colombian It Is said here, was the alleged en croachment on Colombian sovereignty, which its opjffinenta contended would result from the treaty. This Informa tion was contained In a dispatch re ceived tonight by Dr. Herran, the Co lombian charge, from Foreign Minister Ricos, at Bogota. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING TRAN8MI88I88IPPI CONGRESS. Opened Under Most Favorable C cumstancee—800 Delegatee Present From All States of the West—Gov ernor Mctfrlde and Mayor Humee -Made Speeches of Welcome. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 20.—The four teenth annual session of the Trans- mlsslsslppl Commercial congress open ed In Seattle under the most favorable circumstances, and the leaders say the session promises to be the largest and most productive of good since the or- ganiration of the association. The ses sions are held In a big pavilion at Leschl park, overlooking tba w*ter of Lake Washington, and the >*~*iJer ever since the delegates began to ar rive has been most pleasant. The 600 or 800 men who are In at tendance from all the states of the ibled at the pavilion after a cable ride across the city and are en tertained at luncheon in the pavilion. Various excursions and other enter tainments are planned for the pleasure of the visitors during their stay of sev eral days In the city. The session the first day was occu pied largely with the reading of pa pers and the discussion on the various subjects which they called forth. The delegates were welcomed to the state and city by Governor Henry McBride, by Mayor Humes of Seattle and by Judge Thomas Burke, western coun sel for the Great Northern. 4n behalf of the manufacturing and commercial Interests of the northwest. The absence of Mr. Kirby, the presl- of the congress, was regretted. TURK8 LOSE HARD FIGHT. In 8!x Hour Battle Insurgents Repulse the Enemy. Sofia, Aug. 20.—A reign of terror la reported to prevail at Uskub, where the Christian Inhabitants are afraid to leave their homes. The vail has Is sued the strictest orders to the Mus sulman population to remain quiet and not molest their Christian neighbors; but the Mussulmans meeting In the mosques have resulted In an agree ment at a given signal to massacre the whole Christian population Immediate ly the first insurgent bands appear near Uskub, or on any other pretext The Christians are terrorized. The Turkish troops, who are their only protection, do not show the slightest disposition to aid them. Telegraphic communication between Sofia and Con stantinople is Interrupted, the wires having been cut between Adrlanople and Constantinople. The Evening Post states that a band of Basht Bazouks have crossed the Bulgarian frontier in the district of Etheldere, killed three frontier guards with yatagans and wounded two others. They also set fire to sev eral honses. This raid has created great excitement Slaughter at Krushsvo. * Sofia, Aug. 18.—Reports received here from Constantinople, and believed be authentic, confirm the previous statements to the effect that when the Turks recaptured Krushevo they slaughtered the entire Christian popu lation without exception, and It pointed out that among the killed were the employes *of the government to bacco establishments, which were der European control, as the proceeds from these establishments were as signed \to the satisfaction of the Turk ish debt A fierce battle Is reported to have occurred In the neighborhood of Mona- stlr. Three Turkish battalions attack ed 1000 Insurgents, and, after the fight had raged for six hours, the Turks were repulsed with the loss of 210 kill ed and wounded. The Insurgents’ loss Is not given. but his address was read by Tom Rich ardson, the head of -the New Orleans Progressive league, and was received with enthusiastic applause, because Its author and its sentiments. One of the most striking addresses of the day was that of F. B. Thurber, tective Idea of President McKinley and ““ - urged the necessity of wider markets. He declared that the great theater of commercial activity In the future Is destined to be the orient, and spoke of transportation as one of the press ing problems. He said that the or ganlzation of trusts Is the Inevitable lit of development and that their present evils will .in time be righted by the same growth. Herbert Strain of Montana and United States Senator Reed Smoot of Utah were among the speakers. The Utah senator told of the marvelous wealth—mineral, agricultural and ani mal—of his state. The sessions of the congress will continue for three days. The question of consolidation of the Transmlsslsslppl congress with the National Irrigation congress, which has been proposed, will probably be» discussed tomorrow. John Barrett, the ne*wly appointed minister to Argentina, Is also here. NEXT 8E8SION IN 8T. LOUI8. Elects Deafi of Judge H. L. Bidwell. Hope, Idaho, Aug. 19.—Word has Just been received from Clarks Fork that Jndge H. L. Bidwell was acci dentally killed at that place, where he had gone to hold an inquest o* the body of a person killed by a train. He was highly esteemed by the peo ple of Hope, who, with his family, will mourn his untimely end. He was about 26 years of age. Trsns-Mlsslsslppl Congress Officers. Seattle, Aug. 20.—It is generally understood that the next session of the Trans-Mlsslssippl congress will be held In SL Louis, during the world’s Richard C. Kerens, the republi can leader of Missouri, was unani mously elected president for next year. Washington had a candidate In L. Black of Whatcom, but as the next meeting is to be held in St. Louis, the name of Mr. Kerens met with in stant favor. Mr. Black was named as first vice president; Walter Gresham of Gal veston, who Is presiding over the pres ent congress, was elected as second vice president; Hon. John Caulfield of SL Paul third vice president; C. B. Booth of Los Angeles fourth vice president George B. Harrison of Kan- City was reelected as treasurer and Arthur F. Francis of Cripple Creek, Colo., was reelected secretary. 8pokane School Destroyed. Spokane, Aug. 19.—With the almost total “ destruction by fire of the Lin coln school building, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, on Hilliard street and the annex, which Is 90 per cent complete, the city of Spokane sus tained a loss of between IJ9.000 and $35,000 and aboumM cIHMren will be without soluble accommodations when the fall term commences. The fire started from a match or lighted cigarette dropped In the shavings on th$ floor of the tool house. The Jury In the case of Curtis Jett and Thomas White, charged with the assassination of James B. Marcum, at Jackson, K y , returned a verdict of, guilty and fixed the punishment of each at life Imprisonment Owing to the ourtallment In the cot ton mills in MassachusetU 14 mills are idle and 6000 operatives affected. Gjernor Toole has pardoned Cht ;s L. Houcks, sent up for 10 from Deer Lodge county for em- nent ik Ortoff, held at Butte for the Wy ling authorities on a charge of 'robbery, hanged himself in his cejlb the county Jail. Helena baseball team Is out Pacific Northwest league. The bac rs give up the unequal struggle afte vain effort to pay expenses. of the sugar beet and the esUblishment of beet sugar In this sUte have received attention the last year from the it experiment station, dispatch from Dupuyei* says four- masked men took a herder from the] sheep camp of Joe Sturgeon, on creek, recently, and, carrying hin^lO miles Into the mounUlns, tied to a tree and whipped him to death. The men were cattlemen who had warned the sheepmen to leave the country. - r«u 'wambling has been stopped at Havre by'>a4t_8hOTiff> and three well known gamblcrtrs^ye been bound over to the district court' 1 n .$1000 bonds. The city authorities are Inclined to allow gambling to continue under a system of fin e g but “the sheriff de clares it must be stamped out Major Nichols of Washington, D. C.. has completed a census of the Indians the Flathead reservation and finds there are 1728 redskins. Including Flatheads, Kootenais and others. The population has decreased and it Is be lieved the object of the government In sending a special agent to take the census means that a part of the vatlon will be thrown open. A range war of no small dimension Is raging In the northern part of Lewis Clarke county, in the region of the middle fork of the Dearborn river. Sheriff Jeff O'Connell returned from having placed seven well known ranchers and cattlemen under arrest They are all charged with as sault In the thi’M degree as the result of an alleged attack made upon Alde- lard Dagfnalse, a herder, who says that he was surprised one night last week by 20 armed whltecaps coming They Are Charged With Moat Horrible Crimes by Bulgarian Government in IU Note to the Powers—Villages Destroyed—People Driven Away— Turkish Authorities Take no Action. Sofia, Aug.. 18.—The Bulgarian gov ernment has presented a memorandum the powers setting out at groat length the condition of affairs during the past three months In Macedonia since the Turkish government under took to Inaugurate the promised re forms. The most precise details, dates, plaees and names of persons are given In the memorandum, the whole constituting a terrible cate gory of murder, torture. Incendiarism, pillage and general oppression com mitted by the Ottoman soldiers and 1 his corral and scattered neck, according to Daglnalse's story, the whltecaps strung him up to a tree for a few momenta. He was let down choking and made to swear he would quit the country and not reveal the names of bis assaulters. Prof. J. W. Gill of the UnlveAity of Montana has been appointed to the chair of mechanical and electrical en gineering at MtUiken university, De catur, UK Mllllken university Is a new institution, and will open Sep tember 15. Orders have been received from the war department retiring Colonel L. A. Mantile, commander of the Twenty- fourth Infantry at Port Harrison, as brigadier general. Mantile has seen 40 years of service. No announce ment Is made as to General Mantile’ successor. On the strength of a sensational signed statement made by Edward Dorval, chief operator of the Western Union Telegraph company at Butte, the effect that he was an eye wit 's to a terrible beatjng* administer ed to Frank Ortoff, the Wyoming stage robber, who led the Jail break several days ago, Coroner Egan has ordered the body held and an autopsy performed. - Fonnie Buck, 6 year old son of John Buck of Stevensvllle, was abducted by a man In a buggy recently. Today Harry Jackson, a farm hand, was ar rested for alleged complicity In the abduction and is jailed at Hamilton. He maintains silence. No trace has been found of the child. Farmers In Bitter Root valley have deserted their hay fields and put In two days In successful search for the child. The body of-the 6 year old Buck boy, who. It was believed, had been abducted by a stranger, was discovered Stevensvllle, Mont The boy had been made the victim of the most heinous crime known In the lnter- mountaln country. The child’s body had been shockingly disfigured with a knife. The coroner’s Jury at Stevens vllle this afternoon returned a verdict that the boy had been murdered by Walter Anderson of Missoula. Railroads in Philippines. Washington, Aug. 19.—Secretary Root has been in correspondence with Governor Taft regarding the construc tion of a system of railroads In the Philippines amounting to some miles. It Is proposed to build a line from Manila north through Luzon a harbor at the northmost end of the Island. Another projected line Is branch from the north and south line over the mountains to the eastern coast. Another proposed line Is from Manila south to Batangaa. Recently a Denver ft Rio Grande passenger train went through a bridge near Nathrop, Col., causing the Injury of 14 passengers. Fire that started In the stables of the Armour Packing company at Kan sas City threatened the entire plant for a time recently. These particulars were obtained en tirely from offlclal sources, such as the reports of the Bulgarian consuls and agents of the Bulgarian government, and In many instances the reports made by Turkish authorities. The Bulgarian government guarantees the absoltfte truth o f every statement, and challenges the porte to disprove a single charge made In the memoran dum. The memorandum begins by stating that during the past three months the Ottoman government has taken a series of measures with the alleged Intention of Inaugurating the era of promised reform and o f assuring peace and tranquility to the Bulgarian popu lation of European Turkey, but which have had the contrary effect of furth er exasperating this population and re viving the revolutionary movement Instead of proceeding solely against persons guilty of breaches of the pub- 11^ order the military and civil au thorities have Sought every possible pretext to persecute, terrorize and — v h K n.ii- . dMi--imhahitanta alike In the large cities and In the small villages. Wholesale massacres. Indi vidual murders, the destruction of villages, the pillaging and setting fire to houses, the arrest ill treatment tor- tnre, arbitrary imprisonment and ban ishment the closing and disorganizing of churches and schools, the ruining of merchants, the collection of taxes for many years In advance—such pro ceedings, the memorandum says, are the acts of the Ottoman administra tion of Monastlr, Uskub and Odrlan- ople. The memorandum next relates In de tail a number of such cases In each vll- layet Beginning with the vlllayet of Salonlca it states that the town of Salonica Itself the Bulgarian profes sors of the university, the students and shopkeepers, In fact all the Intel ligent Bulgarians In the city, have been cast Into prison. One hundred and twenty soldiers entered the vil lage of Gorna-Ribnltea. May 19, and tortured to death five men and two young women. During the first three weeks of July, 25 villages In the dis trict of Tikvesch were subjected to the depredations of the Turkish sol diers and BashI Bazouks. The vil lagers were beaten and tortured, the women violated and the houses plund ered, while the administration authori ties took no action. Turkey Buying Guns. Constantinople. Aug. 17.—The Ot toman government has concluded no* gotlatlons with the Krupp works for the supply of 32 batteries of quick fire artillery guns, each constituting 'lx guns. St Petersburg, Aug 17.—The Rus sian press does not lay emphasis on the dispatch of a division of the Rus sian Black Sea fleet to Turkish wa ters. merely repeating the offlclal statement without comment British Ambassador Busy. Constantinople, Aug. 17.—The Brit ish ambassador has called the atten tion of the porte to the situation In Macedonia He pointed out that grave consequences may attend fresh mur ders o f consuls or foreign subjects. The ambassador had an audience with the sultan on Friday. — Baseball League In Bad Way. Affairs of the Padflc National league are In a sorry tangle. The Ta coma club has been paid off and the released. Ogden wants the Hel- franchlse, but that matter Is in the air. Manager McClosky is doubt ful about the San Francisco dub con tinuing. The Spokane management Is ready to fend its club to Butte In the morning. ' What the outcome will be baseball problem difficult to solve. Owing to the prevailing high price of wheat and the probable shortage In the crop, which gives no promise of relief to the situation, flour has been advanced 20 cents per barrel within the past two days. -
