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Ito a r?' Sanders County 1)rnocr t VOLUME I PLAINS. MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909. SUMMARY OF NEWS SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ABE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. At .Niagara Falls, N. Y., the interna- tional theater burned Saturday night. LOSS, $125,000. Victoria, B. C.—Lieutenant Governor Thomas W. Patterson was sworn in at the government building Saturday. Nine workmen were suffocated at Naple, Italy, when working on a com- pressed air compartment in the harbor Monday. Three others were rescued. Vice President ileberling of the switchmen 'a union, in an official state- ment, says 14 men have been killed in the St. Paul yards because of the strike. Every effort is being made to secure the conviction of those who may be guilty of cutting timber unlawfully upon Indian lauds in the hope that this may have a deterrent effect upon others who may be inclined to commit similar depredations. Isaac Funk, 65 years old, one of the best known farmers in the country and owner of many hundreds of acres near Bloomington, Ill., was killed recently by a fast train near his home just outside of Bloomington. Madrid.—Fallowing the receipt here of a dispatch from General Marina, in command of the Spanish forces in Mo- rocco, King Alfouso called the Spanish cabinet into an extraordinary session. Marina's dispatch, sent to the minister of war, related to an invasion of the war zone by French troops, who crossed the border from Algeria on December Strike conditions remained unchangll on the Northern Pacific and Giat Northern railways. Father Aloysius M. Folchi, S. J., pio- neer missionary priest of the northwest, died in the blonzaga college informatory at Spokane Saturday. Southampton, L. L—The home of the late James A. Herne, actor and play- wright, was destroyed by fire recently. The loss is estimated at $50,000. ErneatOpyling, a railroad brakeman, met witfi an accident at Othello on Sat- urday which may prove fatal. While switching his train lie was taken with an epileptic fit and fell in front of the moving locomotive. One arm was broken and he was injured internally. Lawrence Ehrhart, 25 years of ages is being examined in the belief that he shot and killed his brother, Joseph 28 years of age, on a farm in the villège of Manhattan, near Joliet, Ill. The Standard Oil and certain sub- sidiary companies have been placed un- der the ban by Secretary Dickinson. Or- ders were issued to all branches of the war department directing that no con- tracts were to be made with them. At Buffalo, N. Y., the plant of the Vartray Water company was damaged by fire to the extent of $100,000 Satur- day. Chicago.—Lyon Brothers, one of the best-known mail order houses in the Country, was put in the hands of a re- ceiver Saturday. Charles Lim, aged 52 years, of Brooklyn, who was recently dismissed from his position an a cuetom house in- spector by Collector Loeb, committed suicide Sunday night by slashing his throat with a razor. That there is no hazing at present at the Annapolis naval academy was as- Plerted by Captain Bowyer, the superin- tendent, before the house committee on naval affairs Saturday Andrew Carnegie hailed Commander Peary as the first discoverer of the north pole in a brief address Saturday night in New York City at the Pentleyl- vania aoety, at which Commander Peary was made an honorary member. Robber Was Persistent. San Francisco. ---After being sought by the entire police department of the city for a week, the unidentified man who Saturday night, December 4, held up and robbed two drug stores and then entered a Hammen bath eetablishment and without a word shot down and killed the bookkeeper, William TI Schneider, Saturday, December 11, walked into the first place held up by him a week ago, and at the point of a pistol again robbed it, obtaining $125. The drug store is located on Market street near Larkin, and scores of Chrietmaa shoppers were passing the place at the time. Strike Situation. St. Paul, Dee. 12.—Little change hae oecorred in the ptwitehmen's strike Mtn ation.• Railroads elaim today that they are moving freight cars fairly, and are steadily improving the 'service, while strikers (limpete this assertion. Father—My son, would you ever tell me a Bet Johnny: ---Yes, father. Pather—Ah, you are truthfill beyond iny fondest dreanisl Here's a nickel. LATE SPORTING NEW& Jim Corbett is to help Jeffries reach top condition for his fight with John- son. Spokane's athletes are far in the lead for the first half of the season's inter - club boxing and wrestling smokers. The run of 11 at three -cushion bil- liards made by George Chilson at Jack Bowie's parlors in Portland the other day has started a lot of reminiscing among oldtime players here. Investigation reveals that the pub- lished list of 26 deaths purported to have resulted from football during the season of 1909 can not be accepted as correct, that the list is flagrantly swelled and padded solely for sensa- tionalism and that deaths of football players that have resulted from causes foreign to football are unjustly charged up against violence of the game under the 1909 rules. Jack Beymer, the little Tacoma high school quarterback, .who was so criti- cally ill with blood poisoning and whose life was despaired of a few days•ago, is on a fair road to recovery and out of danger. Johnny Hayes, Marathon hero at the Olympic games, at London, was an easy victor in a Marathon race held Sunday in San Francisco, defeating Jimmy Fitz- gerald, the Canadian runner, by three laps on the ocean shore track, and Con- nelly of San Francisco by a mile. George Mullin, of the Detroit cham- pions, was the leading pitcher in the American league last season. At a meeting of the delegates from the northwestern colleges held in Port- land Saturday the Pacific northwest baseball collegiate conference was or- ganized and Emmett D. Angell of the Oregon Agricultural college was chosen president. Paul Savidge of the Uni- versity of Idaho is secretary and Victor Zednick of the University of Wash- ington and John Jones of Washington State college executive committeemen. The Reach ball was adopted as the offi- cial ball. Rutt and Clark Winners. New York.—Walter Butt of Germany and \Jack\ Clark of Australia won the annual six -day bicycle race at Madison Square garden from an exhausted and hopeless field. Their distance of 2860.1 miles for 142 hours, which is 75 miles behind the record of 27371 miles, made last year by McFarland and Moran, gives no adequate idea of a race which, for broken records?, broken precedents and broken teams, has been the most exciting ever seen at the gardens. In the competitive mile exhibition between the two winners that followed the race proper Butt defeated his part- ner, Clark, by six inches, although Clark is rated the speediest short -distance man in the world, barring Frank Kramer, the champion. The men divided first money—$1,600--between them. -- Fortune for Big Fighters. The winner of the Jeffries-Johneon fight will receive a larger income for the three hours spent in the contest— assuming that the fight lasts 45 rounds of three minutes each, with a rest of one minute between rounds— ban th of any man in the world for simjlar period. Calculations do not in iiike the rich profits that will accrue from the moving -picture concessions. The win- ner's hourly profit will compare as fol- lows with other hourly incomes: Name. Income per honr. Jeffries or Johnson _ $33,300 John D. Rockefeller — 3,640 King Edward ... 870 Caruso 650 Mary Garden 500 Harry Lauder ... -. 330 Henry Miller .... ..... ... 80 Oxford Beat Cambridge. London.—Oxford had matters all her own way in the annual inter-varsity Rugby match at the Queen's club Sat- urday, defeating Cambridge by four goals and five tries to one try. Donald Grant Herring of Bloomsburg, Pa., a Rhodes scholar from Princeton uni- versity, was among the Oxford for- wards. His presence *Warted atten- tion as it was the first time that an American had played in a varsity match. Joe Madden Best Horse. Thirty race horse, have won a total of 2475,000 on the American and Canadian tracks since last New Year's. Sam Hildreth'e Joe Madden, a three- year -old by Yankee -Tarantella, heads the list with $49,905 to his credit. New Billiard and Pool Hall. Bob Brown 's new billiard parlors were formally thrown open to the pub- lic Tuesday night at 410 1 / 2 Riverside avenue, Spokane. The Spokane baseball manager has sPent a large num install- ing eight tables and equipping a long hall, 140 feet deep by 20 feet wide right behind his cigar store in up-to-date billiard and pool hall fashion. The eight tables will be equally di- vided, four pool, four billiards, all 4%x9 tables. Six card tables will also be installed, four on the balcony. Dean Frank Chapman, one of the oldest and most popular billiard men in Spokane, will be pot in charge of the tables. The man who is /satisfied to make a good living is the happieV man in the world. NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN IS'IONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON STATE NEW& His hand caught between cog -wheels of mill machinery at South Deed, Ind., Joseph Sietofl was drawn toward the machinery, his head being ground to a pulp before the machinery was stopped. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Chamberlain, 5224 Walnut street, Spokane, lost three chil- dren by death from scarlet fever last week. Farmers in the Skagit flooded dis- tricts and adjacent communities are feeding lots of wheat and oats about their premises to save thousands of game birds from starvation and extinc- tion. • The 0. R. & N. company:contemplates building a feeder line from a point three miles west of Washtucna west across the region known as Rattle- snake flat, to compete with the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail- road for the wheat haul. • Chesaw.—Peter Grant, who shot his brother at the latter's cabin on oat lake, was taken to the county 'a . at Conconully last ntght. Job he iztjayed man, is under the doctor's care. '. What is said to be the best horse in the Inland Empire was bought recently by Palouse farmers from the Ruby barns at Portland. The animal is a Shire, weighs 1,800 pounds and cost $3,800. He won four ribbons at the Alaska -Yukon -Pacific exposition. John H. Etridge, a farmer living eight miles northwest of Lind, has filed a suit against Adams county asking damages of $5,300 for injuries alleged to have been sustained while driving on the public road. Wenatchee.—The street improvement work has been stopped for the winter by snowfall. Elsworth Bishop, who owns a farm south of Garfield, says: \The Nelson Coal company of Seattle has had sur- veyors at his place for several days and will have men and machinery on the ground to begin drilling for coal by January 1.' Judge Carey, at Colville, announced that he would order a venire of 45 jurors to report for duty January 3, and that, unless a proper showing should be made by either the state or the defense the trial of James Logan for the kill- ing of Agnes Jansen, his German house- keeper October 26, would be set for that date. Elmer Watson, known as the \Mon- tana kid,\ was sentenced recently at North Yakima to from two to 15 years at the state prison at Walla Walla for horse stealing. Two cars of hogs and nine of wheat were recently shipped from Johnson. The hogs were raised by James E. Adames, manager of the Coolidge 8t McClaim ranch. The average weight was 250 pounds. They were billed for Tacoma and will be marketed at 7 3-4 cents a pound. After deliberating lest than an . hour the jury in the case of the state against John Riplinger, former city comptroller of Seattle, charged with embezzlement, acquitted the defendant. A half-grown deer feeding% with a herd of cattle is a novel sight which may be seen any day on the ranch ef M. Lynch, on Cedar ereek, 4 ,10 north of La Center. The two Bar association. at Spokane are now merged by unanimous vote of attorneys. The new logging road from Colville to a point 14 miles east on the Little Pend Oreille river is now assured of construction in the early spring. In an opinion to the prosecuting attorney of Chehalis county, Attorney General Bell rules that but $3 must be exacted foi a marriage license, $2 for the auditor, $1 for the clerk and noth- ing fer the affidavits. Coffin Brothers have taken their flocks fro,i the summer range in the Passed@ ountaine to their ranch on the Columb)k river, seven miles below here. In ad tion to their own crop they have bought hundreds of tons of alfalfa hay and will winter 12,000 head on their ranch. That Fort Walla Walla will he abol- ished and Whitman college get the land on whieh the barracks are located is be- lieved to be a sctrtainty. IDAHO `moss. At recent meeting of the hoard of truirtees of the Lewiston normal the eontrset for the new domestic science building was awarded, the building to be finished Rhout February 1, only one wing to be built this year. Most of the sawmills on the upper Pend Oreille river have been compelled to close on account of the eold weather, The Potlatch Lumber company has giaen E. E. Boone the contract for logging off one and a half sections of timber north of Potlatch. Mr. Boone has his camp near the lower Crane creek schoolhouse. Forty men are working. The commercial club of Orangeville ha e under advisement plans for a sum- mer school at the Lewiston Normal school at Orangeville. The contest against the Kootenai county local option election was filed Saturday, ex -Mayor Hugh V. Scalion being plaintiff and contestant. The Idaho National Harvester com- pany has moved into the new factory buildings at Moscow, and this week will begin constructing as many 1910 models as the plant will permit. With a good demand and the supply running short grain prices in Lewiston have taken a jump. The greatest change was that of oats, from $1.25 a hundred to $1.35. The next fight in behalf of local op- tion in Idaho will be fought in Shoshone county. After one of the most successful meetings ever held by the organization the sixth annual convention of the Idaho Retail Hardware and Implement association closed Saturday night at Boise with a banquet at the Idaha hotel. Judge Edgar C. Steele has handed down a decision sustaining the Idaho county local option election. This is the second time Judge Steele upheld the result. Andrew Johnson, a Finlander, aged 30, employed at Steamboat landing, on the north fork, attempted suicide by shooting himself through the body with a .25-.35 rifle. The bullet passed through the chest on the left side and out the back, penetrating the lobe of the • lung. - Johnson was taken to Wallace. Declared guilty of murder in the sec- ond degree, John Lockhart, through his attorney, at Wallace, has appealed. The jury recommended clemency in passing sentence. The penalty of murder in the second degree in Idaho is from 10 years to life. The presence of a crew of locating, engineers on Ford's creek, a small trib- utary of the (llearwater, which empties into the main river four miles south of Orofino, adds another interesting phase to the already puzzling railroad situa- tion in the Clearwater district. A line will be located east and south over a well settled farming diet -Oct and through a virgin , body of white pine timbet, MONTANA NOTES. The annual session of the Montana State Teachers' association will be held at Bozeman December 28, 29 and 30, and it is expected that there will be a good attendance of teachers from all over the state. At an evening session Judge Hunt, of the United States cir- cuit court, will address the association. This session will conclude 'with a ban- quet at the Bozeman hotel. The ladies of the association will be received in Elks' hall. It will be one of the most profitable and enjoyable in the his- tory of the association. There will probably be an attendance of about 600. The officers of the association are: President, R. J. Condon, Helena; first vice president, B. E. Tenn, Cboteau; second vice president, R. L. Foote, Dil- lon; third vice president, May Trumper, Kali/Tell; secretary, Peter Marshall, Missoula; treasurer, Robert Clark, Dil- lon. The executive committee is corn - peed of R. J. Condon, Helena; H. H. Swain, Dillon; R. G. Young, Butte, and R. J. Cunningham, Bozeman. OREON SOME& Baker county in worth $10,003,500, ac- rding to the last assessment rolls, nd show increase in valuation over the year past. Alleging that lands valued at $10,000 had been fraudulently acquired from the government by Douglas Belts of Pilot Rock, District Attorney John Mc - Court hex instituted a civil suit in the United Stites court for recovery of the lands or their equivalent in eath. A body found on Cletsop beach Sat- urday was one of the victims of the svr4k of the steamer Argo, which was wrecked on Tillamook bar November 6. An association of Vale men, known te; \Cottonwood West Creek Irri- gation company,\ has been quietly get- ting an irrigation project under way, to take in a part of three townships and cover 15, 773 acres. \Trilby\ in Light Opera. Messrs. Harper & Brothers announce that arrangements have been made with Mr. Charles Dillingham for a light -opera version of the famous Du Maurier novel, \Trilby.\ This is the first authoritative news of mimics! \Trilby about which rumors have hitherto been idly current that it was destined for grand opera. Dynamite FL Louis Editor. St. Louis, Dec. 12.—The reeidaece of Harry B. Wendell, city editor of the St. Louis Star, was dynamited Saturday morning. The front door and windows of the Virandell house were blown out. A man was seen running awly from the house. No person was injured. It is sometimes difficult to distin- guish between opportunity and tempta- tion. FIFTY -NI NE DROWNED IN LAKE ERIE DURING RECENT STORM. MANY VESSELS WRECKED AND PROPERTY LOSS AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN A MILLION. , Cleveland, Dec. 41Iik4.The terrific storm which prevailed ever Lake Erie re- cently, reaped a harvest of death and laid waste more than 21,000,000 worth of property. Late reports show that 60 lives were lost, that 20 sailors were rescued; that four boats were destroyed, and that one is aground and sustained heavy damages. The summary shows: Steamer Clarion, burned; 15 lives lost; six saved. Steamer W. C. Richardson, sunk; five drowned, four saved. Car ferry Marquette and Bessemer No. 2, wrecked; 38 lives lost. Steamer Josiah Munro, went aground attempting to rescue sailors from the Clarion, tow barge sunk; no lives lost. One sailor from the Richardson, crazed by exposure, committed suicide. No one considers now that there is any chance that any of the 13 members of the crew of the Clarion having sur- vived. Two of the crew are known to have perished. Neither is any hope now held out for any of the members of the crew of the ear ferry Marquette and Bessemer No. 2, who have been missing for four days. Bodies Recovered. hrie, Pa., Dec. 13.—With her ilkg..-at half-mast the state boat Commodore Perry, Captain Gerry Driscoll command- ing, brought to this port late today the dead bodies of nine of the crew of the Bessemer and Marquette ferry No. 2, which left Conneaut, Ohio, Tuesday morning carrying 32 men. The ferry has probably foundered in the middle of Lake Erie. CALIFORNIA EXCURSION GIVEN BY COMMERCIAL CLUBS OF WALLA WALLA AND SPOKANE. Special Train Starts From Spokane January 17 at 8 P. M. Over 0. R. & N. Unusual interest in being taken at Spokane and throughout the Inland Em- pire in the third annual Los Angeles excursion, which is to leave Spokane January 17 at 8 p. m. via the 0. R. & N. Previous year's trips coved this prob- ably the best arranged — ilaost en- joyable ever taken. The train will con- sist of eight Pullmans, two diners, spe- cial baggage car and club observation. Cost of ticket $99, which includes berth, all meals on diner and at hotels, all side trips and entertainment and the return ticket to Spokane. Stops will be made at Portland, Grant's Pass, Medford, Ashland, Shasta Springs, San Francisco, Stanford university, San JOSS, Del Monte, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara and the \inside track\ trip from Lon An- geles passing through the orange groves of Riverside, Redlands, etc. An itinerary of the trip with further information will be mailed anyone on request to L. G. Monroe, secretary Chamber of Commerce, or A. C. Mun- son, O. R. & N. agent, at Spokane, Wash. Rein/lents of the Northwest are cor- dially invited to join this, the third annual California mid -winter excursion, which is to be far more elaborate than previous tripe. Return limit is April 17, 1010; stopovers allowed returning. A full section in sleeper is given with two tickets, insuring ample room and guard- ing against cars being crowded. Mem- bers of the party may have access to their trunks if they so desire while on the train, a special baggageman being in charge. Rates: From Spokane, $99; Walla Walla, $94. This includes every. thing on trip going down to Los An- geles and first elate ticket returning, good for stopovers on the Way home. Berth reservations 611i1 be made at any time through the following: if. C. Munson, city ticket agen, 0. R. & N., Spokane, Wash.; L. G. Monroe, secre- tary Spokane chamber of eommerce, or R. Ruins, district freight and passenger agent, Walla Walla, Wash. A deposit of $20 will be required on each ticket at time reservation is requested. Merchants Should Ewe It. There is not a retail merchant, whole- sale dealer, broker or manufacturer in the Inland Empire who eannot save money by being a subscriber to the Trade Register, published by Lovett M. Wood at Seattle, and reading it regu- larly. Costs yen only $2 a year and is well worth several times that amount. Send for sample copy. NU ER 9 - DEATHS BY DROWNING. Over Ten Pet a l:let Sad Fate on Y. - Rainier, Ore., Dec. 13.—Miss Selma Hendrickson, aged 17; Anna Hendrick- son, 19; Grace Waud, 16, and Lee Bar- ber, 20, residents of Maygers, Ore., met territli deaths by drowning in the Co- lumbia river early Sunday morning, when a launch in which they were rid- ing turned turtle at Burton's landing, !pilling the party of seven into the icy cold water. Three others were rescued after hanging on the boat for seven hours, which to them seemed like cen- turies. Lee Barber, who hung on for nearly an hour and a half, was the first to let go. \I'm sleepy,\ he said. \I'm go- ing to sleep,\ and he slipped back into the water and did not rise. The bodies of the dead were washed ashore later. Other Accidents Reported. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 13.—Five deaths have resulted from the inaugura- tion of the ice skating. season Sunday in this state and New Jersey. Four were boys who had ventured on thin ice and the fifth, a father, was drowned after rescuing his 12-yecr-old son. Oak Harbor, Ohio.--)61eon David and Mary Mylander, both school teachers, were drowned while skating on the Portage river. Family Drowned. Kent, Ohio.—A hole in the ice and a sled floating in the black waters bore Mute evidence Saturday afternoon of a drowning accident on the Cuyahoga river in which five persons wont to death unseen. Of a family of seven the mother and her young babe only survived. The dead: Frank Cormonie, age 33; Florence Cormonie, age 9; Helen Cor- monie, age 7; Mabel Cormonie, age 4; Rusigell Cormonie, 22. BELGIUM'S KING NEAR TO DEATH Leopold Was on Verge of Recovery but Suffers a Relapse. Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 13.—King Leopold, who has been seriously ill for a fortnight, but who was believed to be convalescent, suffered a relapse. A bul- letin says: \The rheumatic pains have disap- peared, but the king is suffering from a disquieting affection of the ab- domen.\ Supplementary information indicates -that/ the *Section is obstruc- tion of the intestines. There is pres- ent also some dropay of the legs. Phy- sicians did not disguise from the king the gravity of the situation, although they do not regard it as desperate. The king, who is in possession of all his faculties, conferred with Baron Goffiziet, his private secretary, to whom he gave a few final instructions. The baron, Prince Albert Leopold, heir pre- sumptive, and Prince Albert and M. Schollaert, the premier, did not leave the bedside of his majesty today and Princess Clementine, his third daughter, is expected soon. MILLIONS LOST IN TIMBER FIRES Fully 0,450,000 Feet Estimated to Have Been Destroyed in Forest Biases. Approximately 32,219 acres of timber were burned over by forest fires dur- ing the last summer in western Wash- ington, aceording to figures compiled by D. 1'. Simmons, chief fire warden of the Washington Forest Fire associa- tion. Of the 32,219 acres, 1,029 were covered with green timber. It is estimated that a total of 51,450,000 feet of timber were dentreyed. Mr. Sim- mons places the loss of sawmills, log- ging equipment and down timber at approximately 4500,000. The cost to •the association of fight- ing fires was $45,000. In addition to this the state fire warden had $23,000 available for the use of his forces. Advance Rural Education. The importance of rural education in our state can be realized when it is remembered that 94 per cent of our population is rural. For some time peat President Black of the Lewiston Nor- mal of Idaho has recognized the fact that it would be well if those wio are to teach in the rural schools received special training for this important work. To the past, in Idaho as everywh'ere, the rural schools have been mire or less below the general standard—eometimes because of poor equipment, but more often because of poorly trained teacher; who had no thorough understanding nor sympathy with the condition • about them. Strange as it may seem there are but two educational institutions in America today that offer eountes in rural Peiklee with the distinct view of training teach- er* for rural schoo)s—Macdonald college in Canada awl Lewiston normal in our own state. It is Idaho that is now pointing the way in this important phase of education. Bulletins are soon to be issued by the Lewieton normal on various phases of rural school education and may be obtained by -addressing President Blank. Spokane is to have a new seven-day afternoon daily paper about February 1, to be called \The Inland Herald.\ to. • I s 1
