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VOL. I. NO. 11. COLUMBIA FALLS. MONTANA, SEPTEMBER 5, 1903 Slitfe Copies 10c. Subscription Price SUB per Yew. lilt Ifljjjj puts CULLED FROM D18PATCHE8 OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. A Review of Happenings ' Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Events Tersely Told. Senator Hanna is still sick in bed. The New York glass workers are on a strike. They refuse to sign slips telling of their previous employment. General Robert Shaw Oliver of New York, the new assistant secretary of war, has entered upon the duties of his office. A Wabash train carrying the 8t Louis and Cleveland base ball teams wan wrecked recently at Napoleon, O. Several of the players were hurt. The navy department has received a cablegram from Rear Admiral Cot ton, saying that the Brooklyn and San Francisco have sailed from Genoa for Beirut. Cleveland, O.—Mrs. Alexander Win- ton, wife of the president of the Win | ton Automobile company, committed ‘ suicide recently by throwing herself Into the lake. Facing his divorced wife, Herbert R. Shaffer of Chicago lifted a vial of carbolic acid to his lips and said: \It is your fault, Minnie. Goodby,' then swallowed the acid. Joseph Haworth, aged 48, the well known actor, was found dead.recently in a room in the Kingsley hotel - at Willoughby, O.. a small village a few Dr. Kraus* the former governor of Johannesburg, who was senteqped in London, January 18, 1802, to two years’ imprisonment, after having been con victed on the charge o f Inciting Cor nelius Broecksmann, the former public prosecutor of Johannesburg, to murder John Douglas Foster, an English law- who Vas on the staff of Lord Rob erts, has been released from Benton- vllle prison. He expects to return to SopUt Africa, pracUce law and eschew politics. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles’ last communication to the war office It is in the form of a letter to Secre tary Root. In it are recommendations for the Improvement of \he army ser vice. The general regards the cavalry as obsolete, saying the automobile wiU take the place of the horde Jn the next war. For that reason he advises reducing the cavalry branch to the minimum and the building of military ftads of strategic Importance through out the country in time of peace. The steamer North Star, which has come back from Alaska, reports the pack of the principal salmon canneries at Bristol Bay, Alaska, to be as fol lows: Alaska Packers' association, 281,000 cases; Pacific Packing A.Nav igation company, 63,000; Alaska Fish ermen's Packing company,' 43,000; Portland-Alaska Packing company, 39,000; Columbia River Packer^juso- clatlon, 28,700; Wood River Packing company, 26,000; North Alaska Sal- company, 16,000. Total\ 494.700 The season was stormy and nine men were drowned at Bristol !■ « « « HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED IN THE NORTHERN PART. The Union Veterans' union, com posed of soldiers of the civil war, fa vors the use of old Fort Sherman. Idaho, for use as a national soldiers' home. The union held Its annual en campment at San Francisco at the same time the recent G. A. R. gather ing took place. R. B. Scott of Spo kane offered the following resoluuon, which was adopted: \That campment indorse the bill now Bids for the delivery of feed at Port land. San Francisco, Tacoma and Se attle have been asked by the gorvern- ment for* the army in the Philippines. The quantity asked is 8700 tons of oats and 9000 tons of hay. The third section of the Barnum A l Bailey circus train, composed almost Congress for giving the abandoned entirely of sleeping cars for the per- KV'-t » • * ” \ — *— - — « — * formers, was wrecked at Wildwood, Pa., recently, and ja serious accident dent Roosevelt was narrowly averted. w * ' An envelope .said to contain govern ment bows and .copper mining st valued at 81.500,000, which Joseph card says he placed in a vault at the Minnesota state capitol 16 years a for safe keeping, cannot be found. The transport Texas has sailed from Oakland, Cal., with 600 miles of the submarine cable which is to be laid in Alaskan waters. The cable now on the Texas will be transferred at Seattle to the, United States cableship Bum- side. RCv. Dr. C. Farris, aged 77 years, former pastor of the North Presbyte rian church and well known through out the southern Presbyterian church, is dead at his home in SL Louis. ~ many years he was editor of the St Louis Presbyterian church. President Roosevelt has announced that Henry C. lie. at present a •her of the Philippine commission, would be designated as vice governor of the Philippines General Luke Wright when the latter assumes the office of g Word has been received from Moore- - croft, Wyo., that the most disastrous cloudburst in the history of that sec tion occurred there recently. Two large bridges on the Burlington rail road, with a considerable amount of trackage,\ was washed out and ■ de stroyed. V* 8ir Thomas Lipton, aboard the Erin, declared after losing the second race in an interview, that he would never \challenge again for the America’s until a man had been found in Eng land who equaled Nat Herreshoff yacht building. The baronet admitted his disappointment at his failure, and frankly said that be had no hope of winning even aslngle'race. Of the lumber export in the last fis cal year the Pacific coast shipped 16 per cent. The increase in eastbound lumber shipments from Washington by the Great Northern. Northern Pacific sind Canadian Pacific is an interesting feature. The first six months of this year shows about 830,000,000 feet of lumber, an increase of 20, per cent over the same time last year. Shingles ln- xreased 25 per cent General Frederick Funston, accom panied by his aide de camp, Lieuten ant Mitchell, has arrived in Seattle on his return from an inspection of the forts of Alaska. General Funston, as commanderyjt the, department of Fort Sherman, Idaho, tor a national we ask Presi- nbers of both R<x»evelt for president in 1904, which was unanimously adopted by the union. What is supposed to have been an attempt to hold np the westbound flyer on the Great Northern by Kid Curry and his gang occurred recently, soon after the train had left the Malta water tank, and was only frustrated by detectives riding on the engine. Three suspicious looking characters boarded the train and two started to climb over the tendfer, when they were discovered by officers, who covered them with guns and ordered them off. They promptly slid off the tender, dl» appearing under cover of the night INSPECTING THE COLUMBIA. Washington Congressmen at We natchee. Wenatchee, Wash., Sept 1.—United States Senators Ankeny and Foster were tendered a reception and banquet Monday afternoon by a large blage. Their mission is to Inspect the Columbia river to the British line, with the hope of securing an early ap propriation from congress to clear the obstructions from the river and make it navigable for steamboat traffic, tor Foster, in his remarks, said he would do all in his power to help se cure the money necessary to carry on the work. -He was willing to listen to remarks presented by any or all of the audience, and would try and « c t in accordance with their wishes. Senator Ankeny said in part that Ir rigation and transportation were the problems that were confronting the people o f our great state, and the west in general. He cited Instance after in stance where but a few years ago land that was barren Is now blossoming as the rose. He thought the process of Irrigation would be continued until all t^e Immense bodies of desert land would be brought under wal saiu that In many Instances larger ap propriations were given for small navigable streams in the east than was appropriated for all of Washing- combined, and he would use his undivided efforts to secure Just and liberal appropriations for the Colum bia river as well as the state in gen eral. • the ColurohjJ^ has Alaska\ under his jurladict'i o, and the trip which he has Jrm completed was for the pur pose of making the regular inspection which the government requires to be made of all its property., Los Angeles.—An electric car on the 8an Pedro-Los Angeles line of the California Pacific railway was held up at -the crossing of the Santa Fe rail road, about two miles south of the city limits, at 9 o'clock at night and the crew and five passengers robbed. The Highwaymen secured about 875 to 8100 In cash and several watches. There was no resistance on the i f the crew or passengers and no shooting by the highwaymen. Revolutionists Just Waiting for th« jftord When 8ultan's Anniversary Would Arrive—News of 8evere Fighting Coming In—Turks Massa cre Inhabitants of Whole Village. Sofia, Sept 3.—The Macedonian revolutionists awaited the anniversary of the sultan’s accession to proclaim thel/ long anticipated general Insur rection in northern Macedonia, the proclamation of which has been'issued and signed by all members of the in surgent general staff. The new out break is headed by the famous Mace donian leaders, General Zentchieff, president of the Macedonian commit tee, and Colonel Jankoff, who was wounded in the ris(pg of 1902. The new territory covers the dis tricts in the valley of the Struma, at the base of the Rhodope mountain chain and to the north of the river Vardar. Colonel Jankoff is directing the movements of the bands in the southern part News of severe fighting is still com ing in. At the village of Armensi, after a *day’s fighting, the Turkish troops in the nighttime-massacred the entire population of 180 men and 200 JThe Turks have also massacred the inhabitants of the village of Veteso. It is rumored that Helmi Pasha, the Inspector for Macedonia, refuses to leave his headquarters in the konak at Monastlr. The Insurgent loader, Grueff, In a letter to- Helmi Pasha, demanded that he prevenf the barbar- acts of the Turkish soldiers and Bashl batouks, otherwise the revolu tionists would massacre all the Turk ish inhabitants. The Insurgents have occupied the mountain pass of Ger- gele, on the main line from Salonica to Uskub, and Turkish troops have been sent to dislodge them. The town of Malkotirnovo is re ported to be in a state of anarchy, the Turks plundering the houses and committing unspeakable atrocities o the Rejected 8ultor Despondent. Spokane, SepL 2.—Rejected by his sweetheart, Private Burbln of Com pany I, Nineteenth infantry, made a spectacle attempt at suicide, accom panied by his sweetheart's chum, Miss Lulu Hoffman. With handkerchief tied about their four hands the two jumped off the footbridge leading Port Wright and landed in the chilly Spokane river 30 feet below. Then be changed his mind and swam ashore with his fair companion. Ns Race Tuesday. New Nork, 8epL 2.—The third at tempt to sail the third and probably the final race of the series for the America’s cup was a failure Tues day. Navy Yard. • Estimates have been submitted to Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, for the improvements and expenditures various navy yards for the fiscal year ending June 30,1905. These estimates are made by. the civil engineers at tached to the various navy yards.. The total amount for New York, is 53,624,714; for Pensacola, Fla., 82,545,- 516; for Port Royal, S. C., 84,869,246; for New Orleans, 83,816,190; for Puget sounu, 83,096,054. The Puget sound estimates Include the following items: New dry docks, 81,600.000; repairs to timber dry docks, 8100,000; pur chase of land, 8250,000. MONTANA 8QU1B8. The eleventh annual session o f the State Trade and Labor council will be held in Hamilton next year. The Pacific express, the North Paci uc limited, S t Paul to Seattle, was uerailed recently east of Glendive. No one was hurt Frank Smith, the rancher who shot and killed D. R. Dlrlam, a neighbor, living near Cody, Wyo., committed sui cide by shooUpg. There is n 6 doubt that Kid Curry is now in the Little Rocky country, 90 miles east of Havre. Information ab solutely authentic comes from Harlem that the famous train robber and tesperado had been seen at that place. While Mrs. James Boyce of Fulton. O., was cooking on a stove in the tourist car of No. 7. the Burlington express, near Laurel, recently, the stove exploded and fatally burned her 3-year-old girl, who stood by. The ignited the roof of the car, but were extinguished by the crew. Ralph Pull tier, son of the proprietor of the New York World, was arraigned In Choteau recently on the charge of having killed a mountain sheep out of season as prescribed by the Montana statutes, the charge having been pre ferred by a deputy game warden. Pu litzer waived examination and was bound over to the district court for trial, which convenes September 7. Ail the tuberculosis dairy cows in he state where the meat and muk Inspection law is in force will have to be slaughtered. Such is the opinion of Attorney General Donovan, ren dered to State Veterinarian Knowles. 8am Cohn, a middle aged Jew, who sayB he Is from Spokane, has confessed that he blew up the Northern Pacific bridge at Livingston last month. When arrested near Arlee he was trying to buy dynamite to blow up the Moran trestle near Missoula. Cohn says it is his mission on earth to correct certain evils and destroy railways, which, he says, are all trusts. REV. R. H. KENNEDY OF HILLS BORO, OREGON. Entered the House and Tried to Chloroform the FamUy—Was Dis covered—He Made Whole Family 8tand and Deliver—Only Wore 8mall Mask—Had on Preacher Clothes. N O R T H W E S T M IN E S - A 300 ton quicksilver plant is going up on the Black Butte mines, near Cot tage Grove, Ore. i immense deposit of what is claim ed by experts to be a fine grade of Must Pay F*re. SepL 3.—Stockmen throughout the west, who have many years been enjoying free trans portation from their homes to the shipping centers, will find this privi lege curtailed after January 1, 1904. The executive officials of western lines have agreed that on and. after the date mentioned they would discontinue the Issuance to stockmen of return trans portation, thereby compelling them pay their fare to their homes after having come to the various shipping centers with stock. 8weeny Pays. Spokane, Sept. 3.—The last act in turning the big Coeur d'Alene mines ' to Charles Sweeny’s new Federal Mlnln'g & Smelting company was ac complished In New York, when Mr. >eeny maae the entire payments for the Standard, the Empire State-Idaho and the Mammoth mines. The amount paid was approximately 81.875,000 in cash and over 810,000,000 in the stock of the big merger. Fight Packing Trust insas City, Mo., SepL 3.—Twenty- five stockmen from different parts of the western grass country met in the Midland hotel in this city and arrang ed\ to perfect the organization of a packing company to compete with tho alleged packers’ trust The new com pany was named the Independent Packing company. Jim Wardner Dying. Rossland, \B. C., Sept 3.—James Wardner. famous throughout the Kootenays and Coeur d’Alenes as a mining promoter and raconteur, is dying from blood poisoning in a Mil waukee hospital. To touch Joy Killed Him. T San Juan, J* R„ Sept 3.—Jose Mar rero, a nonleprous patient who was liberated from the leper colony as a result of the recent investigation, died of heart disease, superinduced by joy at his release. in the Deer Creek country, a few mill from Big Timber, Mont The Little Chief mine near Mullan, Idaho, which adjoins thd Gold Hunter for 3000 feet is placing about 750 feet of air pipe in the lower tunnel. The air lately became so foul in the low* workings that the Improvement was found necessary. The four furnaces of the Granby smelter at Grand Forks have blown out and will remain cold for at least two weeks, while the connections on furnaceB Nos. 6 and 6 are being made, and all details completed for the con tinuous operation of the six furnaces. Ed Ford, superintendent of the Gold Coin Mining company, operating in the Black.Lake district, in Welser, Idaho, recently with a 86000 cleanup from a 10 days' run with toe cyanide planL This is the third cleanup made within the past two months, aggregating 814, 000. The Gold Coin is owned by La Crosse, Wls., capitalists. F. Augustus Heinze won in his first spar with the. Amalgamated Copper company over the question of renew ing the Injunction In the famous Min nie Healy copper mine in force before the supreme court remanded the noted case for retrial. Judge E. W. Harney refused to enjoin Heinze from work ing the rich Minnie Healy mine pend ing a second trial. Harney disposed of tho whole matter summarily, d dining to transfer the noted case another court for trial or to grant continuance of the case. He set the trial d the Minnie Healy case for Sep- temtssr 16. Heinze declared that the order for a retrial dissolved all previ ous injunctions and the status of the Minnie Healy was the same as before the proceedings of the first trial were instituted. He accordingly made hur ried preparations, and before several days had lapsed he had fall crews at work hurriedly extracting tons of rich copper glance from the extensive de posits for which the Minnie Healy is noted. The Boston & Montana attor neys began at once proceedings to h^ve Heinze enjoined from working the Minnie Healy deposits pending final .adjudication of the ownership of the mine. As the matter now stands, tfle Amalgamated people are practi cally helpless In the hands of Heinze so far as the Minnie Healy situation is concerned. The deposits of Minnie Healy are rated as among the richest In the Butte camp, one vein of popper glance averaging as high as 60 per cent copper, traversing the property. The mine has a value set upon It 810,000.000. The Amalgamated Copper company has closed the Boss Tweed and Clip per group of gold claims near Pony, Mont., apparently abandoning the ef fort to make the vast mountain of low grade gold ore yield profitable returns. Over a year ago the Amalgamated peo ple paid 8600,000 for the group of claims and erected a large mill for the purpose of treating the ore. Hillsboro, Ore., Sept. 4.—Rev. R. H. KennedjspYormerly pastor of the Con gregational church here, has been placed under \arrest and lodged in jail on a charge of burglary.\ Recently the house of E. H. Warren was entered by a masked burglar, who attempted to chloroform the family. Warren, his daughter and Mrs. Mackinder of 8t. Helena, Cal., were in the house , The burglar first entered Mrs. Mack inder's room and -tried to chloroform her. She awoke and started to scream, which aroused the others. On enter ing the room where the Intruder stood, Miss Warren struck a match and se^ lng a man wearing a mask she ran down stairs for her father. While she was down stairs the robber lighted the lamp and set it on the floor, close the window, where he had gained < trance by mean* of a ladder. As Miss Warren and her father i irned, a revolver was drawn on them and they were all ordered to stand in line and deliver over their valuables and money. Mrs. Mackinder delivered her purse, containing 87, together with a gold watch valued at 8160. The Vo- men closely observed the intruder, Miss Warren even going so far as to grab his mask and partially remove IL He remained for nearly half an hour, and then left the- house through the window by which he entered: The burglar did not attempt to disguise his dress, simply wearing a mask over his face. Miss Warren claims that she recognized the minister both by his voice and his clothing. Kennedy, who came hefe from Al bany about nine months ago, was pastor of the Congregational church here for;-a •jhort time, missed because he did not devote enough time to church work. Lately he has been engaged as a timber cruiser. He is a man of culture and has a wife and three small children. Turner’s Princely Fee. In addition to the honor of rep resenting his country on an interna tional arbitration tribunal, ex-Senator George Turner of the state of Wash ington will probably receive a princely fee for his services as member of the Alaskan boundary commission, which has begun its sittings in London, land. The salary for the members of the commission is left to the discre tion of President Roosevelt, but the opinion of men familiar with such mat ters is that it will not be lee* than 820,000, while it may reach 850,000. Nearly always In such cases dbi pensatlon is left to the presidenL President McKinley allowed the Paris commissioners,, who negotiated the treaty \of peace with Spain in 1898, 8100,000 each. isa appropriated 8100,000 for the expenses of the Alaska boundary commission,* but It is understood that salaries of the three commissioners are not to be paid out of that appro priation. COLD BLOODED MURDER. H. T. Edson of New York Kills Mrs. Pullen, Then Suicides. New York, SepL 4.—Henry Town send Edson, son qfc former mayor of New York, Franklin Ed soil, at his apartments at 292 West Ninety-second street, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Fannie Pullen of 673 West End -ave nue. and then shot and killed himself. The murder and suicide appear to have been premeditated, and followed * a dramatic scene in which Edson call ed upon Mrs. Pullen, a close and hon ored friend of his wife and family, do - desert her husband and children and ,r fly with him to another state. Mrs. Pullen, a very handsome woman, is said to have been the daughter of a United States naval officer. The double tragedy brought to the surface the fact that Edson, who was ■controller\ of St. Michael's Protest ant Episcopal church, had been sus pected of misappropriating funds be longing to the'parish and that expert accountants were at work on his ac counts. It was also declared by those related to the family that Edson was financially distressed on account of Wall street speculations. Whatever may have been the precise cause of the tragedy, members of the Edson family insist that the man was In- Harsh Justice In Venezuela. - Wlllemstadt, Curacao, Sept. 2.— Harsh Justice is being meted out -to foreigners residing in the interior of Venezuela, where the local authorities are hnntlne down all foreigners who dare to present claims against Vene zuela in accordance with tjie recent protocol. _ , Near Coro’ a local tribunal refused to accept the testimony of five Italians. On the latter insisting in tendering tnelr depositions three were thrown into Jail. Two of them attempted escape and were fired upon, one being killed. The Venezuelan governmi does not deny this occurrence, but it doing all it can to pr^rent a repetition. Base Ball Schedule. September 29-October 4—Butte at Salt Lake; Spokane at Seattle. September 2-7—Salt Lake at Butte; Spokane at Seattle. September 9-14—Salt Lake at Spo kane; Butte at Seattle. September'16-20—Butte at Spokane; Salt Lake at Seattle. September 22-27—Seattle at Spo- LATE NEWS ITEMS. Henry Weilbrenner has been arrest ed at Sagamore Hill while making a persistent, demand to see President Roosevelt The man was armed with a revolver, fully loaded. He was taken to the village and placed in the town prison. He is supposed to be Insane. As the result of a bicycle accident at Spokane, W. C. Staples is at the hospital suffering from concussion of the brain. The fourth attempt to sail what as expected to be the concluding race between Reliance and Shamrock III. failed miserably Wednesday. The yachts were not even sent across the line. At New York more than 2000 Eagles were in line, recently in the parade of the delegates to the national con vention of this fraternal order. Hun- dtal dred8 ot Ihousandf^fheered. the vislt- rote X parade was reviewed by Mayor Low. President Roosevelt was expected to be presenL' but official business de tained him at Oyster Bay. The annual estimate of the wheat crop of Oregon, Washington and Idaho places the total yield in the , three states- for 1903 at 34,750,000 i bushels, divided as follq,ws: Washing, ton, 19,1000,000; Oregon, 11,400,000.. , Idaho, 4,250,000. The crop is nearly 20 per cent below that of last year. The engagement is announced of Miss Goelet to the duke ot Roxburgh\. The duke of Roxburgh is now the guest of Mrs. Ogden Goelet, mother of Miss May Goelet. at Newport, R. I. \rhe duke, who was born in 1876, is the owner of some 60.000 acres. Mrs. Julia _McNalr Wright of Fulton. Mo., died recently, aged 63 years. She was the author of a number of suc cessful books which have been trans-' lated into several foreign languages and are in preparation tor a text book for the blind. The grand Jury case against police , chief of Seattle has been dismissed. A. B. Brown, a well known race horse man of Iowa, residing at Clarin- da. shot and killed himself at Creston, Iowa, because his horse had lost a race, and because he had lost 8100 that he had bet. Articles of incorporation of the Ore gon, Washington & Idaho Railroad company have been filed with the au ditor at Lewiston. It Is incorporated to run from Riparia to Lewiston and believed to be a plan to connect the O. R. & N. river lines. Wheat Crop Better. Harrington, Wash., Sept 3.—Wheat in the Harrington wheat belt is yield ing better than expected. Chris Knapp's wheat went 26 bushels. Geo. Witt’s is averaging 25 bushels. Geo. Knapp's made 24 bushels. All this was supposed to make about 20 bushels. The highest average was reported\ on the L. P. Turner ranch, going 30 London Sells to Mad Mullah. Aden. Arabia, Sept. 2.—The principal 'Sources of the supply of rifles and era- munition to the Mud Mullah’s forces in Somaliland have been traced through a complete identification ot trademarks through agents at Harsar and Jlbutil, Abyssinia, to a London Farmer Blows Brain OuL Walla Walla, Wash, SepL l r - William H. Foster, a well to do farmer on the south fork of the Walla Walla river, committed suicide in a hay loft here by blowing his brains ont with a rifle. He was despondent over disease and domestic troubles. He was visit-. Ing his father, J. H. Foster, a stock holder In «ne of the local banks. Geo. B. Lathrop Suicides. Spokane, Sept. 3.—“How sweet ufe is, even after health Is gone.” wrote George B. Lathrop as h sion e’er he snffied off this mor via the laudanum route. He a despondent Fast Trotter Honored. Cleveland, Ohio, SepL 1— n. 2:00, U__ . _ the turf in the presence of 5 pie at the Intercity matinee. __________ . - ....__________ ___ _____ _ ___
