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C.jJ74 €1 Sanders County1 Democrat VOLUME I. PLAINS. MONTANA. FRIDA Y, JANUARY 28, 1910. NUMBER 15 • NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. ABOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. _ WASHINGTON ITEMS. A petition has gone to Washington asking another rural mail route from Spangle to be known as R. F. D. No. 3. A rousing meeting of the Farmers' union was held at Garfield, when 12 new members joined, making a total of 25 new members this month. State Organizer Reed made an address. Two million sacks to be used in har- vesting this year's wheat crop of Walla Walla county were purchased recently by the Walla Walla Farmers' union from a Tacoma firm at a contract price of $5.48 a hundred. Fears that fall -sown grain through- out the Inland Empire had been in- jured during the recent cold weather are allayed among farmers, who declare that the warm winds of the,past week have thoroughly thawed out the ground. Orain shows an excellent growth. The Inland Einpite excursion, as the party of Spokane and Walla Walla ex- cursionists is officially called, arrived at Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific Coast line. A committee from the chamber of dbminerce met them in Santa Barbara. According to W. N. Iris, president • of the Yakima County Horticultural union, officials of the North Coast in- formed him when in Spokane last week that the &reborn line will be prepared to handle a part of this year's fruit crop of the Yakima valley. The bard rains of the last week have brought branches of the Palouse river up and they are filled with floating ice. The ice has jammed in severe, places and men are employed to dynamite it from under the railroad bridge at the lower end of Colfax. Paul Montgomery, aged 6Q, dropped dead of heart failure at the W. P. Reser ranch near Walla Walla. Mont - • ornery was a convict on parole who was sent here from Seattle last No- vember for obtaining money under false pretenses. Frank Stossell was robbed of 280, a watch and drafts for $1000 in a Yima rooming house recently. Stoseell was on his way home from Oregon. Thieves entered the room while he was sleeiiing, taking his trousers and all. The vic- tim was forced to borrow clothes and money to resume his journey home- ward. The state has received $10,900 from the federal government, being the quarterly payment of the $100 per annum allowed toward the support of the inmates of the state soldiers' home st Orting. The entire maintenance ex- penses of the home for the current and for several ensuing months will be paid -out of federal money on bend, saving the state general fund just that much. Spokane Was included in the zone of an earthquake recently, according to the record of the seismograph at Don - saga college. Four distinct shrieks were recorded in six minutes. The general direction of the movement of the earth's crust -vas north and south, the markings made by the instrument in these directions being much more pro- nounced than were those east and west. Justice J. W. Holman, aged civil war veteran, was yesterday appointed by the council as police judge of Dayton for the twentieth successive term. Judge Holman served four years in the Union army, coming to Columbia county soon after the war. He claims the honor of having held the office of police judge longer than any -other man on the Pa- cific slope and to having tied more mat- * rimonial knots than any person in the Same territory. George Pestot and his wife, who with their children were found naked and dancing on the roof of their home at Lynden, inear Bellingham, recently, waiting foe the Lord to come in a fiery clOnd and bear them to heaven, one of the children dying from ex- posure during the dance, were adjudged insane and committed to the asylum. Both are violent, the woman being in a straightjacket, manacled hands and ifeet and tied down to . a cot when vis- ited by the lunacy commission in the county jail. The three children of the couple, have': regained their reason 'and are in the charge of the Associated charities., MAIM JOTTINGS. The _First State bank ,of Kellogg has jumt been installed in its new quarters • in Ore Cos & Brown 'e brick block. The county treasurer at Wallace re- cently remitted to the state treasurer $71,520 state and county licenees and taxes for 1009. \Grandpa\ George Pophan of Orangeville. Idaho, who died recently at the home of his greed -daughter Mrs. W. W. Bowman, aged 103 years, was perhaps the oldest pioneer of the west. Leaving his home in England in 1849 he joined the gold rush to California, where be prospered in the hotel busi- ness. Later he lost his rapidly accumu- lated wealth and was obliged to seek a new field. James Hutchinson died at his ranch on Fix ridge recently. Thirty years ago Hutchinson homesteaded the land on which he died. Members of the Western Federation of Miners in the Coeur d'Alene district have each been assessed a sum for the relief of idle miners in the Homestake district in South Dakota. The Rev. Thomas Warren of Lapwai has sold his farm at the mouth of Gar- den Gulch, near the Indian agency, to Charles Heckner for $3,200. The tract contains 120 acres. The poultry and pet etock show an- nounced by the Latah County Poultry association to be held at Moscow ...Jan- uary 28, 27, 28 and 29 has been post- poned until Februarft 3, 4, and 5. James DeCourcey, justice of the peace of Orofino, has sent in his resig- nation to the county board. DeCoarrcey was accused of having assaulted a citi- zen and thereby violated his oath of office. W. B. Thews, United States immigra- tion inspector, has apprehended 10 aliens at Bonners Ferry who came to this country without paying the head tax. He will take them to Eastpprt and deliver them to the board of spe- cial inquiry. MONTANA NEWEL Traffic over the Great Northern has been at a standstill on the east end of the Kalispell division on account of heavy snowslides at Paola, Skyland and Highgate. The biggest slide, at s High- gate, was 300 feet long and- 15 feet deep. It buried four men employed by Grant Smith Se Co., contractors. The jury in the federal court at Helena recently returned a verdict of not guilty in the cases of O. C. Dallas, former chief clerk, and J. D. McLeod, former chief draftsman, in the United States surveyor general's office, who were indicted on the charge of con- spiracy with intent to defraud the United States. Hunting up a justice of the peace at nearly midnight to locate his 18- year.old brother, Who had disappeared, F. Lykins found him in the Kalispell jail serving a $25 tine for having bought tobacco for small boys, paid his fine and took him out. Archie, the younger, who had been let go tempo- rarily, after being convicted, slipped away from his brother and went to the city hall to serve the fine. CARRIED TO TREE BY EAGLE. Strang.' Tragedy in Louisiana—Men Killed Birds. Gibson, La.—His little body bruised and torn by the talons of two giant eagles, who kidnapped him from his crib and carried him to the top of a giant oak tree, two months' old Rene Thebedaux lies dead today in the The- bedaux home near Gibson. The baby's mother had left the cradle near the open door while she went about her work. With a beating of wings, an enormous eagle almost immediately Nwoopeci at the cradle and seized the child in its claws and Sapped to a tree in the yard, where another eagle was perched. The woman 's agonized cries brought two farm hands to the house. One attempted to climb the tree, where the baby lay among the topmost branches, suspended by its clothing. Ile was driven back by one of the birds, which attacked him savagely. A shotgun was brought from the house, but the men were afraid to fire, because the birds hovered about the baby's body. For more than two hours the ehild lay ex- posed to the bitter wind, while the men hurried to the nearPet neighbor's house for a rifle. When they returned the eagles were killed, after several shots wer fired. The child was dead from the cold and the wounds the birds' talons had inflicted before it could be taken from the branching. FINDS HER BOYS AT LAST. Success Crowns Search of Two Years By Mrs. Keegan of Tacoma. PLUNGES INTO RIVER PASSENGER TRAIN ON C. P. R. DERAILED. RESCUED PASSENGERS TELL OF AGONY OF VICTIMS IN WRECK. Sudbury, Ont., Jan. 23.—With three - big drayloads of rough boxes. waiting to receive the bodies of about two score vietims the scene of yesterday's Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish river presented an almost hopeless field for labor for the hundred or more men sent to clear away the debris and re- cover the victims' bodies. A storm raged all day. Two of the wrecked cars drifted under the bridge antLyvere completely submerged. The dining car remained partly on the river bank and partly sub- merged. Little remained of the second-class coach which was split in two when it struck the bridge girder and took fire. Ice has closed over the first-class coach J and the colonist car and it is impossible to determine titeir • exact location. More than 30 injured were taken to the general hospital and the hotels of Sudbury. The engine, combination mail and baggage car and express car had passed safely over the bridge when the forward trucks of the second-class coach jumped the track. The car struck an immense 641 girder with such terriffie force as to snap the beam in two and split the car as with a cleaver. The rear of the second-class coach swerved to one side, pulling the colonist car, first-class coach and diner off the bridge into the river and tipping over the Pullman beside the track. Fire added to the horror of the accident. - Fed survivors are in condition to give accurate details of the accident. Survivors of the catastrophe , wh,, have reached here express the belief that at least 75 persons lost their lives. Owing to the circumstances sur- rounding tbe wreck it will be several days before the full extent of the dis- aster will be known. Divers Chop Into Ice. Divers descended through the crust of ice on the Spanish river into some of the submerged ears. Hardy sub- marine workers could remain in the frigid waters but a few moments. Their uncovered hands were almost frozen as they were hauled to the surface. Working in relays iu the glare of bon- fires built at either end of the bridge, they chopped their way into the cars in an effort to recover the ghastly freight. Wrecking crews are making futile efforts to fasten chains about the cars to hoist them from the bed of the frozen stream. So fearful is the cold and so great is the hardship faced by the workers that progress is cruelly slow. The divers have eucceeded in reach- ing the smoking compartment of the first-class coach and bringing to the surface four bodies of traveling men who were playing cards at the time of the disaster. They were frozen stiff in a great block of ice when sent to the surface and had scarcely moved - from their playing positions. At the scene of the wreck a raging blizzard was wreaking its fury upon the gangs of wreckers who were work- ing in the teeth of • bitter and blind- ing snow. For tree hours one man hung by his hen& to the transom of the breatling what little air remained at the roof of / the car, while his body was submerged in the water. Robert Burroughs, manager of the Bell Telephone company at Sault Ste. Marie, a passenger in .the Pullman car, which did not- go into the river, said: Screams of the Victims. Tacoma. Wash.—The search of a mother for her two boys since March, 1908, when they wet.) kidnapped by their father, which continued to Alaska and through western Canada, has just closed and Mrs. Nellie A. Keegan has returned to this city with the boys from Victoria, B. C. After following the trail to Alaska and losing it, Mrs. Keegan, who se cured a divorce from her husband shortly after the kidnapping, was forced to return to Tacoma. A short time ago she took up the trail in Canada and finally located the two boys, live end seven years of age, in a con- vent three miles from Duncan on Van conver island. Habeas corpus proceedings were started in Canada recently and the ehil dren were awarded to the moth& No trace has been found of the father. He is said to be in eontempt of r eonrt in this country 'for to obey a (wort order to prodnee the childrea. coach, \ When the Pullman went down that embankment and turned over I was thrown in a corner, etunned and bruised and covered with debris. All around us I could hear the screams of women and ehildren in the burning half of the second-class ear. They were all consumed by flames.\ Burroughs declared he had to force his way through the debris in order to get out of the car. \I found a woman on the floor lying pinned under the seat,\ he continued. \She tried to rise, but could not and asked me to look fir her husband. I made her as comfortable se I could and finally found her husband dead. When I returned to tell her she was dead, too, her, spine having been broken. 'When we began removing the in- jured a little boy wrapped in a blanket was haiided up to me to pass along the line of rescuers. As I took him the wind blew the blanket aside and he wai so horribly crushed that it was hard to believe he was human. I said, 'Are you all right, little hey,' anid he answered cheerfully, 'Yes, I'm feeling fine; but my mother is down there in the water.' \I saw one man make his way from the colonist car to the bridge, appar- ently unhurt. He endeavored to walk a little farther on, but fell from the bridge and was drowned.\ Woman Shows Fortitude. Another eurvivof who has reached here said: \The most terrible thing I saw was a young Norwegian woman about 25 years of age. When we ex- tricated her from the burning half of the second-class car she had three wounds across her forehead. Her right leg was horribly injured above the ankle, laying the flesh bare to the bone. In that condition she walked up the track away from the burning car and sat at the side of the track for five hours awaiting the coming of the physicians. So great was the wound in her leg that the physician's needle would not reach across it and I bad to hold the parts together while the doctor sewed it up. he did not wince or move a muscle. \The worst thing was the helpless- ness of those of us who were saved. The river was frozen 15 inches deep and the heavy cars cut clean through the ice, not breaking it for more than a foot on each side.\ Conductor Reynolds places the total dead at 50. \Only one man escaped in the first-class car,\ said Reynolds. \He was the man who hung to the top of the ear for three hours.\ BRIGHTEST DAY FOR UN/ONISTS. Nineteen Seats Captured From the Liberals in Recent Balloting In London. This is the liberal program when the tiew parliament meets in February: Passing the Lloyd -George bill, tax- ing unearned increment of land, in- creased land taxes, the supertax on in- comes, death and licensing duties. The reformation of the house of Lords, taking away the vote power on finance measures and limiting the power of veto ou other bills. Self government for Ireland in purely Irish affairs, while preserving the in- tegrity of the empire. Reform of the franchise laws doing away with dual voting. A more drastic licensing policy in eonnealon with the liquor traffic. Reform of the school laws. Reports were received for 70 seats of the next house of commons, but of these 63 were voted recently. The results show the following: Unionists, 30; liberals, 26; laborites, 1; nationalists, 9. The standing of the parties is as fol- lows: Unionist, 21R; liberals, 185; la- borites, 33; nationalists, 87. Total gains: Unionists, 100; liberals, 14; laborites, 1. Gain for seats are: Unionists, ,j9; liberals, 4. The nationalists are assured of the control of the house, according to all political prophets. It Was reported that Premier Asquith would resign and request the king to summon a conservative to organize the government if the liberals failed to se- cure a majority of their own party, so that they could conduct legislative business without help of their Irish allies. Politicians, however, do not credit this report. The excitement over the elections is waning in London, although still in- tense in the provinces. WARNING ISSUED BY J. J. HILL. Great Northern Magnate Sees in Conditions a Menace to West ern Property. New York. ---James J. Hill, the rail- road magnate, who is in this city after a tour throqgh the west and northwest, sees a menace to western prosperity in the tendency to invest beyond the cap- ital available. Mr. Hill says that if there comes a panic people can not look to the government to help because it will be •a serious conditign brought down on the people by their own acts. Generally spearing, however, the rail- road builder Sees nothing but prosper- ity in 1910. Mr. Hill said: \Western banks are loaned up very closely, but still there is plenty of money. The only menace I see is a tendency to invest beyond the available capacity. If that hap- pens the investors can not look to the government for aid.\ Speaking of his railroad Mr. Hill concluded: \The Great Northern is in fine condition.•- It I. running trans- continental mail trains on f faster schedules that were ever done. be- fore.\ ., TOOK STRYCHNINE BY MISTAKE. Denver Woman Swallows Large Dose of Poison in Dark. Denver, Cot—Mistaking a bottle of strychnine for one containing bromo- seltzer, Mrs. Kate Jones took enough poison to kill a dozen persons and died before a physician could be summoned. The woman went to the- cupboard in the dark and got the wrong bottle, the poison having been plowed there out of the reach of her 3 year old son. The Gasmen iron and steel induetry is apparently as busy and prosperous as the American. SUMMARY against American railroad men in Mexi- co that have attracted nation-wide at- tention in the United States was die - OF' NEWS posed of recently, with the release front prison at Monterey of Joe Woods., an engineer who has been confined for three months on a charge growing out of the accidental killing of a fellow engineer. The other case, that of Con- ductor James A. Cook, who is being held in jail at Guadalajara for Com- plicity in the robbery of a train in his chargti, has been passed to the jurisdic- tion of the prosecuting attorney. 5'. SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. The Royal Geographical society of London has decided to award a special gold Inds! to Commander R. E. Peary. Elinc&iWilliams of Cleveland, Ohio, once a nurse in the home of John D. Rockefeller, and a widely known local character, is dead, aged 100 years. Ezra Kendall, comedian, died of apo- plexy recently in a sanitarium at Mar- linsville, Ind. The first news of his death received by friends' outside the immediate fami/k was when the body was brought to Cleveland. Thirty-seven unsolved murders in 12 months was the record of New York for 1909. Seven more have been added in the first three weeks of the new year, according to a report just issued by the police department. Native reports estimate that a thou- sand deaths from smallpox have oc- curred at Chang Chow, one of the largest cities in China, in the last week, principally among children. The bu- bonic plague also is reported to have broken out again at that place. George H. Schumann, president of the Louisville Anzeiger company, and one of the oldest German -American news- paper men in the United States, died recently at Louisville, Ky., aged 73 years. Mr. Schumann had been at the head of the Anzeiger for 30 years. The executive committee of the Na- tional Educational association an- nounced that the 48th annual conven- tion will be held in Boston July 2 to 8, 1910. San Francisco was under consid- eration, but the choice of Boston was deemed advisable, as the association met iu Denver in 1909. Miss Jennie Rosen, a young woman of Denver, whose leg was broken and who received other injuries whea she was struck by a Denver & Rio Grande rail- road train on August 21, 1907, has been awarded a verdict of $13,422 by a jury in her suit for damages against the railroad. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt will sail for Naples February 15 on the liner Ham- burg on her way to upper Egypt. Ac- cording. to news received from East Africa recently, ex -President Roosevelt will arrive at Khartoum March 15. After remaining two or three days at Khartoum he will meet Mrs. Roosevelt. He will be back in the United States June 1. Ricliard 11. Rushton of Philadelphia, president of the Fourth Street Na- tional bank, one of the largest finan- cial institutions, died recently from a complication of diseases. Three years ago his nervous system Was almost wrecked by a bomb explosion. An un- known, man who had been refused money, dropped a bomb at Mr. Rush - ton's office door, instantly killing him- self and the cashier of the bank. The body of Alma Cunningham, a daughter of P. Cunningham of San Francisco, who has been a patient in a sanitarium here ever since the disaster of 1908, when her nervous system was shattered, was found recently floating in a reservoir several miles from a sanitarium in Mill Valley, Cal. It is unknown whether the girl fell from the steep hillside above the pool or threw herself into the water. Drastic proposals for dealing with drunkenness are contained in the po- lice jurisdiction and summary offenses bill, which ie now before the Queens- land parliament in Australia. For • first offense the culprit will be fined 20 shillings, for • second within six months 40 shillings, and for any sub- sequent conviction within a similar period 50 shillings. After a third con- viction the offender \shall be deemed a habitual drunkard,\ and power is given the court to remand a drunken person to some hospital or asylum for curative treatment at his own expense. John R. Walsh has been initiated into the office an reading &Emir in the bu- reau of criminal identification at the federal prison. His dirty is to read newspapers and clip from them \ write- ups\ of criminals, which are preserved at the prison. Walsh's hande are drawn up with rheumatism, crippling him in such a manner that he is usable to work deftly. He worked with a pre- occupied air and made slow progress through a large pile of newspapers. Jeffries and Johnson will meet to de- cide their argument over the title of heavyweight champion of the world at Ely, Nev., next July 4, accordiag to a etetement made by a chime friend ef Tex Rickard, oee of the promoters of the match. Jeffries and Rickard met at Salt Lake recently -and held several hours' secret conference. No official announcement of the miteonie of the meeting was made, but a friend 4 01 Rickard, who claimed to be \in on -the know,\ whimpered \Ely.\ One of two charges of. criminality PINCHOT STILL IN FIGHT. Elected President National Conserva- tion Association. Washington.—The election of Gif- ford Pinchot to succeed Dr. C. W. Eli'ot as president of the National Conserva- tion association was announced re- cently. Dr. Eliot, at whose suggestion Mr. Pinchot was elected, retains the honorary presidency. Mr. Pinchot will take active charge of the association, headquarters of which will be in Wash- ington. Two weeks ago Mr. Eliot wrote to the executive committee of the as- sociation that Mr. Pinchot, as the recog .. nized head of the conserwaftion move- ment, should take the active leadership. He wrote Mr. Pinchot a personal letter,' suggesting that he accept the presi- dency. At Dr. Eliot's direction a meet- ing of the committee of the association was held and Mr. Pinchot's election fol- lowed. The National Conservation associa- tion was formed last July to help, through a large individual membership, to put into practical effect conserva- tion principles declared by the confer- ence of governors in May, 1908. It is announced that an extensive campaign to extend the membership into every state will be carried on. AIRSHIPS GO TO NEW FIELDS. Will Engage in Contests and Ex- hibition Flights at Various Places. Los Angeles.—All of the aviators and aeronauts who took part in the 10 -day aviation meet just concluded in this city have departed, with the exception. of Glenn H. Curtiss, who will leave for Hammondsport, N. Y., soon. Louis Paulhan and entourage left early for San Francisco. Charles R. Hamilton left for San Diego, where be will try for the alti- tude record of the world in the future. Charles F. Willard has gone to Fresno, where be will fly under the management of Frank Johnson. Clifford B. Harmon and President Bishoi, of the Aero Club of America started for New York. Dick Ferris, manager of the avia- tion meet hero, has left for San Fran- cisco and from that city will go to Salt Lake and Denver to arrange for the appearance of Paulhan and his associ- ates in those cities. WITHDRAW POWER SITES Land Removed From Public Domain in Three States. Washington, Jan. 2 5.—In the aid of proposed legislation affecting the dispo- sition of public lands thought to be val- uable for power purposes the interior department has withdrawn the follow- ing: Territory aggregating 17;332 acres along the Clearwater river and its trib- utaries in Idaho; 2549 acres along the Walla Walla river, in Oregon, and 24,150 acres along the Sevier river in Utah. As probably containing oil, 147,887 acres in California also have been with- drawn. The total of this class of lands withdrawn in California is 1,952,453 acres. • r Along the Green river in Utah 11,487 acres withdrawn for power purposes have been shown to have no value as such and are restored to the public do - nix' n. The secretary of the interior has des- ignated under the enlarged homestead act approximately 7320 acres in Mon- tana as being subject to the pro•isions of the act. W. W. P. 00. LOSES POINT Is Denied Modification of Injunction at Coeur d'Alene. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.—Judge R. N. Dunn has denied the motion of the Washington Water Power company .to modify the injunction- requiring it to prosecute diligently the condemnation suit against Charles Waters, a resident along the Coeur d'Alene river, on the ground thl the company cannot get a fair trial in Kootenai County and has filed similar action in the federal court at Moscow. The court, however, allowed an addi- tional time of 10 days to ascertain the necessity , of condemning Waters' land for the public good. The hearing of this latter motion is set for February 3. The denial is' a lengthy document, and besides showing the origin of the Cala points out why the court denies the motion for a' further modification. Ten or 19 other caies are gnrerned by this order. • The city council of Chicago has killed ,he proposed ordinance 1;i - inhibiting peddlers and newsboys from crying their wares. •
