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Sanders County Democrat VOLUME I. PLAINS. MONTANA, FR1DAt, DECEMBER 31, 1909. NUMBZU 11 EAST HIT BY GALE NEW ENGLAND STATES SUFFERED MOST. HIGH TIDE INVADES BOSTON AND CAUSES DAMAGE NOW ESTI- MATED AT 21,000,000. Boston, Dec. 27.—A northeast storm Sunday swept into, New England with terrific effect. The gale drove into Massachusetts bay a tide which nearly equaled that of the famous storm of • 1851. The wet snow prostrated wires, telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley and railroad trains were stalled. Three persons lost their lives in Everett and Chelsea by the sudden rise of the tide. Coming on a full moon, the gale rolled a wave along the coast which, in some places, reached a height of more than 15 feet above low water mark. In this city the tide went across Atlantic avenue on the water front and caused an estimated damage of $1,000,- 000. In Everett, Cornelius Harkin and his wife were caught in their beds and overwhelmed by the flood. Large cities such as Cambridge, Somerville, Lynn, Brockton, Provi- dence, Fall River and New Bedford were in darkness, except for light af- forded by the full moon. Big Snow in Connecticut. A swirl of snow, driven by a 40 -mile wind, swept over Connecticut. Small Tidal Wave at New York. New York and its environments prac- tically were stormbound for the first time this winter. More than 10,000 shovelers and 6,000 trucks were called out. A small tidal wave swept into the harbor and dashed over the Battee,./ seawall and flooded many cellars. fit.L.Aed All Oars at kliliadelpfdr•. Snow, which fell steadily for 12 hours, tied up transportation, both steam and electric. Maroons 500 at Harrisburg. About 500 passengers on the Penn- sylvania road were obliged to remain here Sunday night as a result of the snow blockade east of Lancaster, Pa. DR. COOK GETS FIRED. Explorers' Club Says Ile Never Climbed to the Top of Mount McKinley. New York.—The board of governors of the Explorers' club receNtly feet in executive 'session and, standing in silence, and with bowed heads, ordered that Dr. Frederick A. Cook be dropped from the rolls of the club for frauds practiced on its members and on the public. Comincon the heels of the crushing verdict lately rendered by the Univer- sity of Copenhagen, the action of the Explorers' club is the result of import- ant investigations which in no way touched upon the polar controversy, and the weight of its disapproval thus be- comes cumulative. Preliminary to its vote of expulsion the board met tq pass upon the report of its committee, which has been in- vestigating the validity of Dr. Cook's • report that he had reached the top of Mount McKinley. This committee, in concluding an exhaustive report, said: 'Dr. Cook 's claim that he ascended to the summit of Mount McKinley in 1906 must be rejected by the Ex- plorers' club, as not worthy of credence.\ TAFT FAMILY'S CHRISTMAS. Christmas at White House Quiet and Enjoyable Occasion. Is a Washington.—The first Christmas of 1 the Taft administration was joyously spent. While the capital was nearly denuded of statesmen, the day retained ..its old-fashioned spirit. President Taft and his family oh - served Christmas in the White House and there were a bumber of visitors, to whit' the {wady happiness. The day at the White House was spent quietly. There was no Christmas tree and no stockings were hung. Only merhbers of the Taft family were at the White house in the morning. Shortly after arieieg the Taft family gathered in the library and the president distrib- uted the gifts to Miss Helen, Robert and Master Charles. Ile was given many in return. The White House was sled with holly and Christmas gr, ,, TIM. Every attache of the White House was given something. Mrs. Taft received as a Christmas gift from women of the cabinet a beau- tiful diamond brooch. FARMER NOT TO BLAME. Mayor Pratt of Spokane Takes Excep tioris to Statements of a. J. Hill. Nelson S. Pratt, mayor of Spokane, a successful farmer and lumberman.in the Mississippi valley and the Pacific northwest, takes exception to the state- ment by James J. Hill, who says the present high cost of living is charge- able to the extravagance, carelessness and lack of thrift of the agricultural classes of the country. Mayor Pratt said: \I am more than surprised that a man with the understanding and ob- servation- of Mr. Hill should undertake to make such sweeping charges, in view of the fact that the methods of a quar- ter of a century ago are not to be com- pared to the present systematic mode of farming. There is nothing to bear out Mr. Hill's contentions. \As the result of a recent visit to some of the largest districts in the middle western and Pacific states, I am prepared to say there has never been a time when general farming was conducted along such economical lines as at. present. In fact, the methods of today are marvels to those who farmed land in the '80s. Had we been as thorough then as are the farmers of today, we certainly would have been equally successful. Agricultural col- leges and experiment stations have been and are important factors. \It is not overstating the case when I say that the Present-day farmer con- ducts his operations along the same lines that prevail in a well-organized business establishment, and as a re- sult he is making a good living, edu- cating his children and putting money into substantial improvements, as wen as into the bank. \It is idle tall( to charge the high cost of living to the farmer, as it must he plain to any one who has Studied the subject that at least three causes contribute to increasing the prices of the necessities of life. The large pro. duction of gold during the — Tifet few years is an important factor, in that it has resulted in making money cheap, and, to a great extent, no doubt is re- sponsible hr increases in prices. Cheap srreirseele'gh prime. , \Perhnpe the greatest factor for the present high cost of living is the tar- iff, which, r believe, enables manufac- turers to combine and compel the con- sumers to pay enormous and unreason- able prices. Such farm products as beef and pork are controlled entirely by the so-called beef trust, while but- ter, eggs, cheese and poultry are handled by cold storage companies and kindred combinations, and the prices of cereals are fixed largely by the speculative boards of trade and stock exchanges. . \As a matter of fact, I found while in the Mississippi valley, a short time ago, that the prices of butter, eggs, cheese and poultry are nearly as high there as they are on the Pacific coast, where the demand at present is far greater than the supply. I also learned from reliable sources that these products are almost entirely controlled by combinations and not by the pro- ducers. 'I hold no brief for the farmers of the country, but from an experience of almost a lifetime, until about 15 years ago, as a farmer, born and raised on a farm, I know that the system em- ployed during my time was no com- parison to the present method of farm- ing. Intensive farming, by the use of water supplied by scientific means. was then largely an experiment. and so- called dry farming, or more properly soil and moisture conservation, was in its very infancy. These methods are successes today, as is evidenced by crop gains, taking acre for acre. \1 challenge Mr. Bill or any one Plee to show any period prior to 1894, when they were larger acre yields of grain and fruits, grasses and roots than at the present time, and with this I would also ask him to point to any year when the farmers were more pros- perous than they are today. Extrava- gance, carelessness and lack of thrift and progress and prosperity do not go hand in hand, and that fact alone answers Mr. Hill's broad statement, which I RM chavitable enough to say, probably was made by him for the want of something to say in fixing the causes leading to the present high cost of living.\ Killed by Policeman. San Francisco, Dee. 27.—Andrew McCoregick, said to be a merntier of the Induntrial Workers of the World from Portland, Ore., was killed Sunday in a pistol duel with Patrolman A. W. Bigelow, after the policeman had been shot in the arm Rnd a bystander slight- ly wounded in the head. The battle followed a row in a saloon. Old Synagogue Burn& Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. 26—Fire that broke out here in the old Jew- ish tabernacle at East Fifth street and Grand avenue for a time threatened to destroy an entire block of buildings. The tabeemelo..and a, few other build- ings were burned, Musing a lose of $60,000. NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON ' AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON STATE NEWS. The main line of the Northern Pa- cific from Spokane to Tacoma and Se attle is to be shortened 100 miles dur- ing 1910. The Sound steamer Columbia, a ves- sel of 120 tons, was rammed and sunk by the steam schooner Tiverton at the Standard Oil company's wharf at Se- attle. One of the largest land sales made in Sprague district was consummated re- cently when T. N. Lynch sold his farm of 560 acres for $22,400. The laud is eight miles south. Charles S. Voorhees, prominent Spo- kane attorney, for two terms terri- torial delegate from Washington to the United States coagress, one of the pio- neer residents of the city, died at his home Sunday. Heart failure is given as the immediate cause of death. Eastbound mail train at Odessa Sun- day struck the buggy of John Schimke, seriously injuring the three occupants, John Rougust and Ruth and Talbert Sehimke, the latter two being the chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel E. Schim- ke of Odessa, aged 9 and 6 years re- spectively. The driver died the same day. Ben. Bergunder, one of the oldest and most prominent residents of Col- fax, fell recently on an icy sidewalk and is confined to his home ip a seri- ous condition. The Seattle National bank and the Puget Sound National bank, two large banking houses, are to consolidate. Governor Hay signed final discharges 241-11, which gave liberty to 25 eellreicts have been working all summer on state road work in the Cascade mountains. In the 13 banks and trust companies of Spokane, with a population of 125,000, there is a larger aggregate capital stock than in the 19 similar in- stitutions of Denver, Col., a city with about 220,000. A Washington nurseryman has closed a contract to furnish 46,000 fruit trees to be set out on 500 acres at Priest rapids. The order will contain 24,000 apple trees and 22,000 peach trade. A stabbing affray occurred at lone recently in which a lumberjack by the name of Kirby was seriously if not fatally injured. With wheat at a dollar and higher, wheat men believe the high prices will be not only maintained, but are de- stined to go to still greater extremes by spring. Convicts at the state penitentiary gave their minstrel show Christmas afternoon, and gay; it well. A stage was erected in the dining room and set with scenery furnished by the theaters in the city. The actors and the audience, with perhaps a dozen exceptions, were all prisoners. Judge It. S. Lovett, successor of E. 11. Harriman as head of the great Har- riman system of railroads, has already taken steps to meet the effort of the Seattle Commercial club, acting, it is believed in New York, with the back- ing of James J. Hill, to divert the China trade to the northern port, so it is said in Wall street. Whitman county won the grand sweepstakes prize in the boys' corn growing contest inaugurated by Wash- ingtern State college and *he Oregon Railroad & Navigation company last lipring and set a pace for older\ corn growing states in the yield. Four coun- ties competed in this contest and the winner of the sweepstakes prize of $100 had the yield of 93 bushels an acre. This was Warren Love of Garfield, whose two brothers are graduates of Washington State college and whose father is a prominent farmer. IDAHO ITEMS. Carl Overhalter of Moscow, was re- cenely arrested in Pullman by Deputy Sheriff Roberts, charged with having deserted his wife of a year and an infant daughter. The big mines and the majority of the smaller mines and the prospects in the Coeur d'Alenes closed for Christ- mas to give their employee a vacation. The period of these vacations varied from two days to 10 days. The main producers allow two or three days' holiday. According to Reny McLaughlin, aged 35, well known in Sendpoint and sur- rounding country by woodsmen, he has fallen heir to about $500,000. A free library for Sandpoint is pro- posed. Wallace will have a library inside the next year. By the beginning of the second semester at they of Idaho ) there will have been completed one of the most up-to-date testing departments for dairying in Morrill hall of any sim- ilar institution in the country. Farmers bring cream and sell it to the experi- mental station at good prices and the Institution buys all that is offered. Any surplus is made into butter and sold in the local market at 40 cents a pound, retail. As a forceful commentary on the Letter times prevailing in Wallace Christmas season than previous is the fact that the number of destitute falai- Bee is only one-fourth as great as last Christmas. Paddy Burns, a miner from Pierce City, has been judged insane and taken to the Idaho insane hospital at °refine. Gilbert N. Lightfoot of Enaville, Idaho, died Sunday morning at Spo- kane as the result of a blow struck, it is alleged, by Sam Lewis, a young cab- driver, during a saloon brawl. Lewis, who is now in jail, may have to answer the charge of murder. Harry Crofoot, aged 85, for three years head farmer at the Fort Lapwai Indian agency, has been arrested, charged with selling liquor to Indians. For the third time Mrs. Siotha Riggs has launched her craft on the sea of matriniony, being married to James F. Marcum, well known in Nez Perce. MONTANA NOTES. While searching for a man named Charles Laher, who is wanted for the forgery of a check which he cashed with Miles Milligan, Sheriff Wells of Miles City, stumbled onto what he thinks is a \robbers' roost,\ on the islaud in the Yellowstone, known as Milwaukee park. J. W. Olinger, a former resident of Nebraska and well known Black Hills character, during an altercation re- cently shot and killed Dan Neater, in the fornier's saloon at Newton. It is said that Neater held Olinger responsi- ble for his arrest on a charge of run- ning a hurdy-gurdy house, for which he had just completed a jail sentence. \I'm guilty of making that counter- feit money. I alone. No one else helped nie,\ emphatically declared 80 - year -old Joseph Lee, anent the charge against him of making and passing counterfeit coins, to which he had only a few minutes before entered a plea of not guilty in the federal court ot Helena. \I want to stay with my son John until the trial comes off. He didn't have a thing to do with it. He stayed with my wife, with whom I have not lived for 20 years. Our affairs have been entirely separate,\ he con- tinued. The Christmas season of 1909 will go do*n in the annals of Butte as one of the most prosperous ever en- joyed by the mining metropolis. A Great Northern passenger train, in charge of Engineer R. W. Larter and Conductor Mathews, was ilerailed Christmas night at Stonehill, 72 miles west of Whitefish, by a journal on the baggage car breaking. The car broke down and tore up a part of the track. All the cars following ran onto the ground. Engineer barter stopped be- fore he had gone more than the length of his train and the frozen ground prevented the wheels from sinking. The Montana , legislature met Mon- day in extraordinary session to con- sider the character of materials to be used in the new wings to the capitol, authorized at the last session at a cost of $500,000. Because of the high price of Montana stone the board of ex- amitierg authorized the use of Bedford (Ind.) stone and a contract was made on that basis. Montana residents pro- tested against the use of foreign stone, but this came to naught until the labor unions discovered that there was a strike on at Bedford, and then pressure for an extra session to make an ap- propriation so that Montana stone could be used became irresistible, and it was called by the governor. Now it devel- ops that the Indiana firm with which the contract was made has never had any trouble with the unions, hut in the meantime demands have been made for the use of other Montana products and these will also be considered by the legislature. Indiana outbid Montana by $58,000 on the stone. Legislators are servinggratis during the extra gee sin. OREGON SQUIB& The Oregon Short Line has recently received 500 new box ears with steel underframes and an exceptionally large cubic capacity. Mx. and Mrs. Fred Tried of San Francisco were arrested recently end charged with passing forged checks at Roseburg, Ore. and Chico, Cal. Reports from the vicinity of Vale, in the northern part of Malheur county, indicate that Oregon is destined to become one of the oil producing states. Six companies are drilling in the vicin• ity of Vale and one company reports having struck oil at a depth of 1,000 feet, which flows at the rate of 150 barrels a day, but the report has not been verified. Mark Twin Saddened. Redding, Conn., Dee. 25. --The body of Mime Jean Clemens, the daughter of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), who died during an epileptic convol- don En her bathroom at the home of the humorist, was taken to Elmira, N. Y., this morning for burial. SUMMARY OF NEWS SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. A coal shortage looms in Chicago. Slough J. Fletcher, millionaire owner the Ildicher National bank of le- d napolis, died the 25th. 'Former President Theodore Roosevelt was the man to initiate a typical Yankee Christmas An King Daudi Chwag territory Saturday. At Spartansburg, N. C., Miss Myrtle Hicks, one of the three women mail carriers in the' United States, was fatally'injured by a train the 25th. Christmas brought to New York a snowstorm, cheeriug all who delight in wintry holidays and gladdening the heart of the small boy with his new sled. King Edward spent Christmas in the good, old-fashioned English way, with his own family, and as a private coun- try gentleman, at Sandriugham house, Norfolk. The railway labor situation at Chi- cago has been aggravated by a flat re - Weal of the Chicago & Northwestern to grant the dernauda . of the locountlAve firemen fur increased pay. Mexico now harbors '4elaya, the de- feated and unpopular ex•presideut of Nicaragua, embarked uuder \heavy guard at Corinto on a gunboal for a trip to Mexican port Saturday. Nine persons were crushed and mangled Christmas when an interurban car struck the rear cud of another car while roundiug a curve two wiles from Mount Pleasant, near Pittsburg. 'Made despondent through illness and the desertion of his \affinity who returned to her home and family in Aienurn, N. T. Ui1l, ayoung, 14- erymau of gacramento, euded his own life. The first section police of Russian secret service here arrested two men and four womeu charged with being implicated in a plot to kill Czar Nich- olas and the czarina while at Moscow this week. Reports from various parts of Spain about the recent storm state that the damage is incalculable. Railway com- munication with l'ortugal has been cut off except by one route, which was re- i cehtly inaugurated, and 20 villages in (Leon have been inundated. Reports which have been received at the Brit:tah legation in Peking regard- ing time suppression of opium smoking show that considerable progress has been made in the northern provinces and in Yunnan and Kwangtung. Brussels.—The Twentieth Century, an organ of the government, quotes \an authoritative person\ as confirm- ing the religious marriage of King Leopold on his deathbed. It also says that a few days prior to this, Baroness Vaughan received holy commuuion. Judge Horace II. Lurton has ten- dered to President Taft his formal res- ignation as judge of the United States circuit court. This step is preliminary to his assuming his place as a justice of the United States supreme court in succession to the late Rufus J. Peckham. Berlin.—Owing to the defective means employed in heating the church of Gefrees, .in ,Upper Bavaria, 30 men and women 'and all the school children in the gallery were rendered uncon- scious, by poisonous gases during the sermon. ' Henry 8. Yamishite, a Japanese, and Maude Lawrence, a pretty white girl of 18, were married at Tacoma Satur- day by Justice Graham. The pair came from San Francisco accompanied by the bride's mother and will return to that city to make their home. Rumors that will not down link the names of ,Mrs. Alva Willing Astor, di- vorced wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, New York, and Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Another rumor has it that the beautiful young woman with $10,- 000,000 is to marry Cagtain Poneonby, the hero son of the earl of Beasboreiigh. FOES OF BOOZE CLAIM BIG GAINS Year 1909 Has Broken All Records , in War on Alcohol, States Chair- man Charles R. Jones. \The year 1909 brenke all records as'a 12 month period of anti aleohol re- form,\ is the opening line of a state- ment isogied by Chairmen Charles R. Jones ati national prohibition -head- quarters, which was read Sunday in Chicago churches. The statement was Issued in reply to eleams of a reaction by liquor interests. King's Brother to Canada. According te the political program the duke of Connaught, brother of King Edward, will emeeed Earl Grey as gov- ernor general of Canada in 1910. FIRST GUN TO FIRED AT PINCHOT Outcome of Conference Relative to Investigation Demanded by Secretary Ballinger. The forthcoming congressional inves- tigation into the official conduct of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger will be opened with the firing of a big gas directed at Chief Forester Pinebot. This has been decided upon at a con- ference in which Attorney General Wickersham, Senator Aldrich, Senator Jones of Washington, Representa- tive Humphrey of Waahington and Secretary Ballinger participated. Ballinger 's charge tha/ the forest service is back of the attack on him will be given the first attention. If this can be demonstrated it will go a long way toward discrediting the attacks on Ballinger, his friend. think. Two officers of the forest service are alleged by Ballinger's friends to have been unduly active in the fight on the secretary, Associate Forester Overton W. Price and Law Officer A. C. Shaw. The oft -repeated story that Shaw journey to Chicago to help L. R. Glans prepare his charges against Ballinger and that Price gave mit information to Washington corre- spondents that was used against the cabinet officer will Ie among the first considered. These will be met by the stateinent of Pinchot that he did not sind Shaw to Chicago to aid Glavis. Pinchot's friends will atternut bring out that Shaw's part in the. preparation of the charges was dis- covered by detectives sent to Chicago. and who drew pay from the special agent fund for their work when the information could have been obtained. - readily by requesting it from the forest service. The sending of detectives after em- ployes of one branch of the govern- ment by the head of another depart- ment will .probably be severely criti- cized by Pinchers adherents in con- gress, A ROYAL TRIP. BOUT lirlitN CAL:./ORMAIL EXCURSION JANUARY 17 Many Prominent Resort Points Will Be Visited. \mt I could only have a personal tall. with every one considering a trip, or could have them talk with one who accompanied our excursion last year, we wouldn't be able to get cars enough to carry them,\ says Harry Munson, city ticket agent for the 0. It. & N. Co. at Spokane. From the time the train leaves the depot at Spokane until long after the arrival at Los Angeles, the party in just like one great big family. Acquaintances are soon made and all go in for a good time. One of the nicest features of this trip is that all arrangements are made beforehand for the party to see the prominent resort places of California at their best. Suf- ficient accommodations are made for all. Some of the side trips taken and hotel facilities could not be purchased for ten times the money. When an ex- cursion as largo as this comes to Cali- fornia the people there treat the party like kings. They want you to see and have their best. From Spokane the rate is $99. From Walla Walla, $91. This includes every expense on the going trip—l'ul/man berth, all meals on diner and at the palatial hotels, all side tripe and enter- tainment, also a buntered mile trip by trolley through the orange groves at Riverside, Rediande, etc., and the re- turn ticket. Tickets will be good for three months and good for stoporrnt An itinerary of the trip will bee mailed any one on request. Berth reservations are coming in rapidlee. over 150 now booked., The number will be limited to about 200. The train will consist of eight Pullmans, two diner', observation car and baggage, 12 ears in all. Access may be had to trunk• in baggage car at any time on that trip. For further particulars, write Secre- tary- Chamber of Commerce, or II. C. Munson, Agent 0. R. & N., Spokane, or to R. Burns, D. F. & P. A., 0. R. as N., Walla Walla, Wash. DISCHARGED FOR LIGHT WEIGHT. Pennsylvania Railroad Employes Are Discharged. Nineteen employes of the Delaware & Hudson railroad shops were recently discharged because they weigh lone than 150 pounds, and It le expected that others under the weight will lone thei , positions soon. Cooking Turkey; Burned. Los Angeles, Dec. 26.—Mrs Polly Bolotin, who 'offered frightful barna when she used kerosene to encourage - the fire under the family's Christmas' turkey, died a few hours later. Dewey. 72 Years Old Sunday. Wasfiington, Dee. 27. — Admiral' George Dewey celebrated his 7241 birth day anniversary Sunday.
