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W E E K X T E L m O N . t altitnbian. V O L . I . N O . IT. C O L U M B I A F A L L S , M O N T A N A , O C T O B E R 24, 1903. 5l>flt Conn ltc. Sutler!(U .0 Price l l » per Yn J. M . Grist, Tonsorial Parlors The Pioneer Shop. BEST EQUIPPED SllOP IN THE LAUNDRY AGENCY. In the Sank Block. Thom as Carrol, J. P. Real Estate, NOTARY. Renta and Collections. COLUMBIA PALLS, MONT. nniDKiiiMH CULLED FROM DI8PATCHE8 OF THE A880CIATED PRE88. A Review of Happenings In Both Eastern and Wes'tem Hemispheres —j ^-During the Past Week—National Historical, Political and Personal Evens Tersely Told. J. K . Miller, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. . NOTARY- PUBLIC. Conlin & Miller Block. Practices in All the Courts. Columbia Falls - • Mont F .J, Combs, Blacksmith, WAGONMAKER AND FEED MILL. Strictly first-class professional horse- shoer will be always kept here. COLUMBIA PALLS. B A N K o f Colum b ia F a lls General Banking Business Transacted Poreign fnd Domestic Exchange.*'*' DRAFTS SOLD AVAILABLE ON A N . PART OP THE WORLD. WM. READ, Cashier. When at Kallspell Remember the Red Barn JAY RAKESTRAW, Proprietor. Beat Equipped Livery in Flathead County. J. J. Miller, HARNE88 MAKER. Columbia Palls. Carries a complete stock of reliable goods in the harness and saddlery line, also Whlpt, robes, gloves, etc. He has no ppor stock. The best is always the cheapest and his is invariably the best O. M. JUNK INS, Proprietor. Fresh and Cured Meats Fancy and Stample Groceries Game, oysters, fish, etc. Produce, veg etables and frulL Wholesale and Retail. COLUMBIA PALLS, MONT. Sir Thomas Llpton la back home, almost completely recovered In health. Colonel L 8. BabbUt, U. S. A-, re tired, la dead in Dover, N. J., after an illness of three years. The safe in the State Bank at Hub bard, Neb., was blown open-recently. The robbers secured 11100. Under extremely bad weather con ditions Harvard defeated West Point Saturday, 6 to 0. There was much fumbling on both sides. Dan Patch,-1:69, recently broke the world's pacing record to wagon, and came within a quarter of a second of equaling his own sulky record. Albert Joerndt, a letter carrier. Is )w in the Chicago jail awaiting ar raignment on the charge of stealing letters and money they contained. An atrocious attempt wsafcmade Rossland, B. C., recently by unknown Incendiaries to destroy the city. Four empty buildings were fired inside of three hours. Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant -sailed' from New York recently for Europe on the steamer Sampania, being called abroad by the sickness of her sister, Mrs. Potter Palmer, who Paris. The archbishop o f Lima, Peru, has sent a note to the minister of justice asking the government to veto the recent law approved by congress giv ing facilities for the marriage of non- Cathollcs. Frankie Nell of San Francisco, champion bantamweight pugilist, and Johnny Regan of Brooklyn fought 20 rounds to a draw recently at Los An geles. It was one of the fastest fights eyer witnessed here. The International Bank A Trust company of America, W. H. (Hunt, president, with branches in New York and San Francisco and various points throughout Mexico, doors. The two companies of American ar tillery which occupied Santa Clara and the five batteries at Havana hare left tyr their return home. Two thou sand people were assembled at the Punta and 2000 more at the Placo. Dr. J. E. Jay, a prominent physician residing near Asheville, N. C., recently killed his three children, aged 2. 4 and 6 years, using a hammer as a weapon. He then set fire to his home. The flames were extinguished by neighbors. Secretary Moody has approved the estimates .for the support of the navy for the next fiscal year, as recommend ed. by the chiefs of bureaus, amount ing to 1102,866.449, as against $79, 816,791 appropriated for the last fis cal year. The Northern Pacific may have struggle along without a president tor a couple of months, according the latest advices from SL Paul, is announced that Charles S. Mellen, the president, will leave S t Paul Sat urday. At Dayton, Ohio, with no excuse to offer, other than they had quarreled, Charles F. Welffenoach, well conect- e4 in Dayton, early today choked his wife to death. He later went to police headquarters, coolly told his story, and was locked up. masked men robbed the Far- num. Neb., State bank recently, curing $4000. One of the men was arrested, and the officers, with blood hounds, are on the trail of the oth ers. Dynamite was used, and the safe and bank furniture was wrecked. The jury In the case of Daniel Voor- hles Miller and Joseph M. Johns, on trial In the federal court at Cincin nati all week on the charge of an alleged'conspiracy to extort a bribe, reported shortly before midnight that It was unable to agree, and was dis charged by Judge Thompson. Miss' Pansy Ballard, a freshman dent of the* University of Nebraska, took a large dose of carbolic acid while standing In front of SL Mary’s cathedral recently. She then stag gered Into the church and trying to kneel In a pew, died while In the act of muttering a prayer. She was a daughter of E. E. Ballard, a business man of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Fifteen persons were killed about 40 injured In a collision which occurred recently on the Belvldere division of the Pennsylvania Rall- raod company near Washington cross ing at Trenton, N. J. The persons killed ad Injured were laborers who were on a work train and were on their way to work at Washington crossing to repair washouts along the road. Details from the upper OJal, Cal., valley tell of a disastrous mountain fire. Dwellings, barns, water plants, swept by the flames. The fire is said to have been started by Miss Smith near the Thatcher school. She had started a small brush fire in the yard. The wind scattered the flames, which became uncontrollable. The war department has rebeived Information from Manila that as a re sult of sending throughout the Island hundreds of thousands of pamphlets In Spanish and the native tongue, 34,- 000 exhibits have been promised for the 8L Louis fair. The Spanftfh consul general and the French and German consuls have promised support In get ting collective exhibits of their coun trymen In the Philippine display. Acting Secretary Oliver of the war department was in conference recent ly with the heads of the various mili tary'bureaus with a view to the re duction of the estimates for the sup port of tho army during the next fis cal year to the lowest possible limit consistent with efficiency. The esti mates will be finally considered- next week and sent to-the secretary p i the treasury for transmission to congress. LATE NEW8 ITEM8. Over 30,000 people engaged in a rial : a recent meeting of the New York Zion. Grace George, the actress, one those trampled under foot. Canadians at Vancouver are vexed at England over the award of the Alaska boundary decision. Mayor Kollands thiaJts the award may lead to tho estab lishment of an independent nation. Howard Elliott, second vice president of the Burlington, has been elected pres ident of the Northern Pacific, vice O. S. Mellen, who has resigned. Tho selection made by Jrmes J. Hill. A8 THE 8EA80N PROQRE88E8 EVERY 8ECTION IMPROVES. Items of Interest Gathered During the Past Week—B. C. Mines Busy— Coeur^d'Alene District Making a Wonderful 8howlng—Accldeht* and Personals—Mergers All the Go. Senator W. B. Heybnra of Idaho, Congressman Francis W. Cushman of this state and Andrew F. Burleigh, formerly receiver of the Northern Pa cific railroad, and one of the most prominent politicians in the state, but now a practicing attorney of New York city, have gone to Valdes, Alaska, to try an important mining < fore Judge Wickersham. BRITISH COLUMBIA M1NE8. David P. Barber, who was awarded the contract for the clearing of the new electric line from Phoenix to ureenwood to furnish electric power to the Greenwood smelter, is mating ihe most oi the excellent weather with a force of 35 men. Camp has been established on the Skylark claim, about half way between Phoenix and Greenwood, and the work Is being done towards Phpenlx flrsL The tonnage from Boundary mines ns fallen off. uue largely to needed repairs to ore crushers and blast fur- MONTANA ITEM8. The Butte Miner was awarded unanimous verdict in the $50,000 ds age suit brought against it by a Butte physician. The action- was brought on an editorial relating to the death of Dr. Cayley, who was shot under suspicious circumstances a year ago. Albert Beckmann, who killed Helen Kelly, a former sweetheart, was cap tured at Melrose by Sheriff Quinn. . jieckmann was escaping on a handcar : when a rifle brought him to a halt ’ A heavy force of deputies have gone to bring the prisoner back. Lynching IS feared. —» As the result of the massacre of seven Indians on the Blackfoot reser vation by Little Plume, Miss Helen P. Clark, former county superintend ent of schools for Lewis and Clarke county, has preferred charges of mal administration against Major J. H. Monteath, agent of tho Blackfoot (Piegan) reservation. The decomposed remains of \John McQulnnan, a well known railroad man of Boulder, farming down abont 30 miles from fiutte, was discovered In the bottom of a deep well near Boulder recently, by Mrs. McLaughlin. Fort Missoula was the scene of a bloody murder recently. Private Ken nedy of Company L being shot death, it is alleged, by John Tuliey, another private of Company If Tsaac Gravelle was brought ___ ena the other night by a posse of Northern Pacific detectives and lodged In jail, on the charge of being con nected with the dynamite outrages on the Northeriu-Paciflc. Recently, while a watchman was patrolling the tracks about 15 miles west of Helena he ran across a man digging a hole under the rails. On being detected the man ran away, and the watchman fired at him twice, but missed. In the morning Captain Weown and two others took the trail and followed it 20 miles Into the mountains, finally capturing the man at his cabin. He was armed with a rifle and revolver. name was Plummer, but the men knew him to be Isaac Gravelle and an ex-convlct, released from the peniten tiary In July. He Is the man the de tectives have been hunting for three weeks, his picture having been iden tified as that of the man who was found at a haystack near Townsend, where 60 pounds of dynamite was in a haystack. Lou Dillon. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 22.—What was expected to be one of the greatest har ness horse contests in the local his tory proved to be-a very tame affair Monday, when Lon Dillon gave Major Del mar a decisive beating In straight heats in ordinary time. The 2 minute trotters meft in the second renewal of the Memphis cup. Both-heats were trotted In 2:04’ 3-4. Creston Boy Killed. Creston, Wash., O c t 22.—The little son of W. A. McDowell, aged 7 years, while playing on the edge of a cliff near his home southeast of Creston, fell over and lamjgd on the jagged rocks below, crushing his skull In a terrlble'manner. He died without re gaining consciousness. Murdered a Foreman. Tucson, Aria., OcL 21.—Bert McFar land. mine foreman of the Lake Su perior mine at Blsbee, Arl*., was mur dered b y a man that he had discharged, i fruit trees, timber and brush were j F. Obermuller. Colonel John G. Egan, one of the veteran newspaper men of the north- wesL has been visiting Poplar creek the Lardeau. He says that in all his experience he never saw so many quartz ledges in the same i should they prove as rich at depth as the surface. Poplar creek will be the greatest free gold camp ever found ish Columbia. Shipments from the Slocan for the ist week: American Boy, 60 tons; Boeun, 40; Enterprise, 40; Idaho, Jonitor, 124; Payne, 31; Red Fox, 20; Slocan Star, 31; total, 396. Total shipments for the year are 11,054 tons. We have the consent of the Con solidated Lake Superior company and will have possession at once,1 James Blcknfll, acting receiver at the Soo, who leaves for that place tonight W. W. Warner has stopped work at “ Wonderful In the Slocan on ac count of tho wet ground. The vitally Interesting question of the day in the Rossland camp is tlie Inauguration of concentrating opera tions at the Le Rol No. 2 mines and the steps being taken to apply concen tration to the ores of the War Eagle- Cdhtre Star mines. Joseph D., Murphy of Yakima has sold 320 acres of wheat land, situated several miles north of Pendleton, to W. McCormack for $10,760. The prop erty is located In an excellent wheat belt day hay In Dawson Is selling for $180 per ton. The Scandla tunnel In the Granite, Ore., district Is in 2460 feet with about 800 feet more to go before striking tho main lead. The tunnel will give a depth of 1200 feet Grading has been nearly completed for the Bine Bird mill near Sampler, Ore., and construction of the buildings will commence at once. It Is to be a 100 ton concentrator with Sturtevant rolls. Camp A Wade are working their Bear Gulch property a mile and a half below Sumpter, Ore., and expect tq ship some picked ore that will run $ 200 . August Anderson, superintendent of the Morning Glory mine at Republic; Wash., has two carloads of ore, which ho will ship to the smelter as soon as ho can get the cars. He Is still cross cutting for the vein 300 feet below the tunnel level, and expects to strike It Inside of a month, having probably about 40 feet to run. A shortage o f coke at the Northport, Wash., smelter closed two furnaces for a portion o f last week. The necessary coke Is on the .road and the closed furnaces will soon resume work. Officials of the American Steel & part of the United corporation, have had for the construction of a canal between Worcester, Mass., and Providence. The estimated coat *- $4,000,000 afid It will be a difficult glneering feat W. H. Kells has 15 men actively working on the Nob Hill mine at Re public, Wash., six of whom are under hand stoping in an excavation on the pay shoot, yrhlch goes down from the surface about 25 feet deep and is abont 30 feet long. It Is definitely learned that the charges on which Brigadier General John Chase of the Colorado nations! guard had been summoned before a military court next Monday are per jury and disobedience of orders. The perjury fa in connection with the im prisonment o f Davis, one of the strike leaders at Cripple Creek. Auburn, Ore., which in 1861 with a population of 6000 miners, largest town in the northwest of Portland, is no more. The postal department has closed the postofflee for lack of business. Forty years ago it was the richest placer camp north of California. The Qullp at Republic, Wash., has struck some of the richest ore ever found In Eureka gulch, and a fufi face runs nearly $600. DECI8ION BY ALASKAN BOUND- ARY COMMISSION. >11 the American Contentions But One Have Been Granted—Portland Canal Case Their Strongest and Our Weak est—Boundary Practically Un changed—Canadians Gloomy. London,- OcL 1# . - T i e Alaskan boundary commission has verbally agreed to grant all the American con tentions except that of the Portland canal, which goos to Canada. United States Victory; Washington, OcL 19.—The con ten- : lion of the United States regarding , the Portland canal was the weakest , part of the American case and the strongest point in the Canadian con tention. u 1 b but a minor detail of the controversy. The Canadians contend that the Portland canal ran to tho north of two small islands;, the Amer- ! lean contention was that the channel alongside of these islands. On' this point there was ground for argu- MINING NOTES. ties of treasure lost at sea do not generally have the happy ending of that just concluded through the wprk of divers and a dredge in Staten Isl and sound, off Sewaren, N. J. Silver and lead bullion worth $100,000 has been recovered after lying at the bot- of the sound since September 27. The bullion came from the Mexican s by way of Galveston on a Mal lory line steamer, and was on Its way from the East River water front to the plant of the American Smelting & Refining company, near Perth Am boy, N. J. A special from Dawson says: Win ter is closing in quickly, several thou sand tons_of freight will not reach Dawson this season. Freight charges are phenomenally high and prices on certain staples are going skyward. To- COL. J. D, POWERS BADLY HURT. Falls Between Cars and Just Escapes Horrible Death. Reno, Nev., OcL 19.—Colonel J. D. Powers of Louisville, Ky., president of the United States Trust company, was seriously Injured in Reno. The spe cial train in which be and a number of other bankers wore traveling on their way to San Francisco to attend the bankers’ convention, broke in two Just in front of the depoL Colonel Powers was stepping from one coach the other and fell between cars. He retained his presence mind and, though a portly and elderly man, succeeded In rolling off the track Just as the wheels of the follow ing coach grazed his shoulder. His Injuries consisted of a dislocation of the right shoulder, two fractured-ribs and a severe cut on the left leg. Papal Secretary of 8tate. Rome, OcL 20.—The pope has ap pointed Mgr. Merry del Val papal sec retary of statu The announcement of this appoint ment was made In a letter presented by the pope to Mgr. Merry del Val. The nomination, however, will not be made \official until the next consistory, when the monsignor will also he made a cardinal. §mall islands are both of small or lit tle Importance and their acquisition gives no particular adrantagu The boundary commission decision ren dered along tbe lines Indicated by the Associated Press will be a complete victory for the United States. The state department I b naturally profound ly gratified that an agreement has been reached. As was pointed out to night by a high official the decision is a \complete Justification o f our claims, and ovidence of the skill with which tbe American case haa been presented and a tribute to the fairness and broad mindedness of the British members of the commission.” The effect ot-the decision, it is stat ed here, I b to leave the Alaskan bound ary where it is now. The main point of the contention involved the outlet from the Klondike gold fields at the head of Lynn cannljncludlng the porta of Skagway and Dyea, through which he Klondike business is transacted. These ports remain American terri tory. The decision is taken to concede the American claim to a strip of territory 10 leagues in width from American aters and extending from the head 6f Portland canal to the 141st meridian of west longitude. The Americans laid espeolal stress upon their conten tion that this strip should be measured from the heads of the estuaries oj bays, while the Canadians argued that the measurements should be from the main water o f the ocean. The control of the sites of Skagway and Dyeh are In the territory involved. WENTZ STILL MIS8ING. Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 20.—It to now five days since E. L. Wefitz, the young Philadelphia millionaire, so mysteri ously disappeared In the mountains of Wise county, Virginia, and notw ith standing a party of 1000 .men have been sconring the mountains for five days, no clue has been obtained. The missing man’s bother, Daniel Wentz, has Increased the reward for the find ing of the young man from $6000 to $2.6,000, provided he to returned alive. The reward, if the young man should be found dead, is $6000. McGovern Won. Boston, OcL 22.—Terry McGovern, former featherweight champion of the world, was given the decision over Jimmy Briggs of Chelsea after a hard 14 round battle before the Criterion Athletic club. ^ WHITEFISH, I MONTANA, T h e C om ing M etropolis o f the Flathead V a lley. Take a trip over to the new “town by the lake ” and see the new terminals and yards going in, which will be the largest west of St. Paul. This will open your eyes and convince you that you ought to be there too. Do not allow yourself to be intimidated by any mem ber of “The Knocker’ Club” but go up and see the coming town for yourselves. h W hitefish T o w n site Company, W HITEFISH , M O N T A N A .
