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•••• ID • k 4 4 4 4 • Re Sanders County Democrat VOLUME I. SUMMARY OF NEWS SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PAR Ta OF THE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED HEREWITH. We live too high, says Andrew Car- negie. Japan will build no more warships abroad. Neil Burgess, the actor, died Satur- day in New York. Investigations are to be made by Japan into their alleged army scandals. At Chicago Saturday the price of hogs jumped to $9.50, ma a king a new high record. New York city is now building the first monorail railway in the United States. Lyle Comnserse of Louisville, Ky., committed suicide in Portland by tak- ing carbolit acid Dr. F. E. Clark, father of Christian Endeavor, has just finished a tour of the Pacific coast states. John C. Barclay, assistant general manager of the Western Union Tele- graph company, has resigned. At Tangier, Morocco, the authorities untounce that the semi-official report of the death of Raisuli, the bandit, was erroneous. • The platform men of the Philadelphia. Rapid Transit company are on a strike, following the dismissal of several union e in ployes. At Hansom City, Mo., William Jack - 38 years old, a negro janitor, re- cently confessed to assaulting five young white girls. The Rev. Father Ciprian Etansbield, provioeial of the Romani Catholic order of St. Francis, died at Ashland, Wis., recently of paralysis. King George of Greece has signed a decree recalling all Greek diplomatic representatives in foreign ports, with the exception of Constantinople and Washington. At Birmingham. Ala., Geo. Stephens recently shot and killed hie three motherless children, fatally wounded their colored nurse and then commit- ted suicide. With over 200 men of the marine corps and a number of naval officers on board, the United States transport. Crook sailed for Manilla Saturday from San Francisco. C. A. Hunt of Portland, formerly of The Dillies, Ore., has been indicted by the grand jury of Wage° county on the charge of embezzling funds of the Odd Fellows lodge at The Defies. The body of John F. Johnson, former president of the State National bank of Logansport, Ind., was found float- ing in the Wabash river Saturday. It is presumed he committed suicide. Cal. Pery, city marshal of Blanchard, Okla., was shot and seriously wounded recently in a battle with seven robbers who hai blown up the vault of the town's bank. The robbers escaped on handcars. AU of Germany heartily applauds the action of the kaiser in sanctioning the betrothal of his cousin, Prince Froder- iek William of Prussia, to Princess Agatha of Ratibor-Hoheniehe, grand niece of the second imperial ehancellor. GEN. MAUS SETTLES DISPUTE. Re -Assignment of Col. Abercrombie Is Announced. Lieut.-Col. W. H. Abercrombie has been relieved of command at Fort George Wright, Spokane, and ordered to regimental headquarters at Fort Law- ton, Wash. This aetion is taken on recommenda- tion submitted to the secretary of war by General Maus, commanding the J)e- partment of the Columbia, and leaves Maj. M. T. Partelln in command at Fort Wright. Abererombie's transfer and relief from command, it is under- stood, puts an end to his suspension, recently ordered by General Maus. LEOPOLD'S HEIRS IN QUANDARY., Mystery Surrounds Disappearance of Monarch's Wealth. Brussels. ---The deeper the heirs of King Leopold dig into the affairs of the deceased monarch, the more per- plexing becomes the mystery of his for- tune, and the heirs are asking them- selves what became o4 Leopold 'a money which was disposed of before he made his will. Tt is known beyond any pus tion of doubt that some disposition was made of a huge bulk of hie wealth when he realised that the shadow of death was npon him, and the qnestion is as to „tat what he did with it. One afternoon Francis Wilson was sip - plug lime juiee with several brethren of the buskin when John Drew saun tercel np to the group. \Hello Wilson,\ he maid, \here you are again with your little coterie.\ \Yee returned Wilson, smoothing his vat, \and with my little vestry and pantry, too.'' JUDGE LAWLOR INSISTS ON TRIAL PLAINS. MONTANA. F1111)AY, FEBIWARY 25, 1910. Denies Motion to Dismiss Cassel Againht the Lawbreakers in San Francisco. The conduct of the bribery graft cases in San Francisco brought about another clash recently between Supe- rior Judge Lawlor, who insists that the trials proceed, and District Attorney Charles Fickert, who has repeatedly attempted to secure the dismissal of the cases pending in Judge Lawlor's court. Fickert moved that the indictments against Frank Drum, John Martin ana Eugene De Sabia, officials of the gas company charged with bribing super- visors during the Schmitz-Ruef admin- istration to vote for higher rate!, be dismissed. Lawlor promptly dismissed the mo- tion. SPORTING NEWS ITEMS. San Francisco has captured the Jeff- ries -Johnson fight. At Paris recently Hurry Lewis and Willie Lewis fought to a draw. \Jake\ Schaefer, the \wizard of bil- liards,\ is dying at his home in Denver. Weston, the veteran walker, is going along fast on his ocean to ocean trip. Sam Langford has made arrange- ments to arrive in Paris, France, about March 1. • President Dreyfus of Pittsburg has given Joe Nealou his unconditional re- lease. The University of Washington crow may go to Poughkeepsie instead of to Wisconsin: • The University of Idaho Rifle club is steadily improving its scores, although practice is not . so consistent as could be desired. The W. S. C. basket ball team took a firmer hold on the northwest cham- pionship recently by defeating the Ore- gon Agricultural eollege, 29-18. Willie Hoppe, who plays George Sut- ton for the 18-1 balk line title in Chi- cago next month, intends to get all of the championships, if he can. When Ketchel meets Frank Klause for six rounds in Pittsburg next nfonth, it will be his first appearance in the ring sine Johnson knocked him out. Entries to the international balloon race which probably will be held in St. Louis in October, have been re- ceived from England, France, Germany, Switzerland. At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Associated Students of Whitman college, W. E. Crawford was elected football manager for the season of 1910. Fritz Holland, who recently jumped into the limelight by defeating Kid Breen, well known Canadian fighter, may meet Mike (Twin) Sullivan in Ta- coma in April. The Vancouver Athletic club and the Multnomah club athletes divided hon- ors in the international boxing and wrestling meet held at Vancouver re- cently, each winning two events. There is a movement on foot to perfect a baseball league from towns along the G. N. railway, and Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Ephrata and Wilson Creek have expressed their willingness to enter such a league. David Gautenbein, a veteran river fisherman of Diamond Bluff, Wis., now holds the championship for the largest. haul of \rough\ finh in the history of the upper Mississippi, his nets ha.v ing brought to the surface $9,000 in marketable fish. The 15 -mile race at Spokane last Sat- urday between Peter Terway, running instructor at the Y. M. C. A. there, and C. N. Lockwood of Walla Walla, resulted in an easy victory for Ter - way, he finishing 12 laps ahead of Lock• wood, in 1:27:50, which is very close to the amateur record of 1:25:57 for this distance. All eyes in the bowling world are centered on Detroit, wpere the tenth international tournament of the Amoti- can Bowling congress will be held from February 26 to March 15. From pres- ent indications, the tournament prom- ises to be one of the most successful ever conducted by that association, and it is estimated that 400 teams from all over the United States and Catflida will partieipate. Following receipt of the news that his eon, George C. Robbins, an assayer, known throughout the Pacific coaet, min- ing regions, has , been arrested in Mex- ico for bigamy alleged to have been committed in Los Angeles, Francis C. Robbins announces that he would stand by the young matt. Mr. Robbins is prominent mining engineer. .He ham retained attorneys to fight his son's legal battles. • STILL HEADS APPLE SHOW. Howard Elliott Accepts Presidency for Another Year. Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacific Railway company, has agreed to continue as president of the National Apple show of Spokane for 1910. He was the unanimous choice of the board of MOURes of the show, which Rent a committee to St. Paul to take 'thin matter up with him. Mr. Ries re- mains as secretary and treasurer. NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. &BOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON ITEMS. A new Great Northern depot is prom- ised for Newport. Michael Regan, 102 years old, died in Seattle recently. Many cases of hog cholera have ap- peared in the vicinity of Walla'Walla, Palouse grain dealers are making large shipments to the Coast for export trade. The commercial club of Tacoma plans a junket to eastern Washington in May. The Colville Chamber of Commerce was organized at a recent meeting of the business men. Weneha reservation will accommodate 12,000 bead of cattle and horses and 102,000 head of sheep this year for grazing. State Senator R. A. Hutchinson of Spokane is improving gradually and is on the road to rapid recovery from his recent illness. It is reported that Colville's main business street will be improved this summer by 'the addition of an 18 -inch layer of crushed rock and gravel. Five boys, ranging in age from 15 to, 22 years, have been arrested at Che- halis on a charge of setting fire to the school building which was recently burned. The Washington Veteraio' home at Port Orchard, formally chAticated on Lincoln's birthday this year, received its first inmate Tuesday, Washington's birthday. The announcement is made by the Bellingham Bay Lumber company that its mill at Bellingham will immediately resume operations. The mill has been closed down for two years. Snow drifts 10 feet deep have cut off travel on many roads leading out of Dayton. In many plaees, i.id4ret- ported, fences, fruit trees, gates and even entail outbuildings are buried. Thousands of ground squirrels have been starved to death and thousands of others are on starvation rations in the country surrounding Walla Walla as a result of the recent fall of snow. A united effort will be made by the people of Kennewick and Pasco to pre- vail upon the Good Roads convention this week to indorse tiAbuilding of a wagon bridge over the Columbia river. \Conspiracy fraud and favoritism,\ are the sweeping charges made against the state dental board, and the legisla- tive investigating committee will meet to exantine the charges in Seattle this week. G. M. Willson, proprietor of the Park - side Stock farm near Wilbur, has re- turned from the east with a carload of imported registered stallions and mares, consisting of Shires, Percherons and Belgium.. The Uniontown branch of the Ferm- ent' union has bought the farmers' warehouses at that place and at Leon, and will take possession of them June 1. The price paid for the warehouses at both places was $6,000. Funeral services for F. E. Michaels, who committed suicide at Spokane last week in a fit of despondency as the re- sult of continued poor health, was held Sunday at the Mascnic temple under Masonic auspices. Surgeon M. W. Glover of the United States public health service reports to Washington that a suspected rat killed in Seattle had been fully identified as afflicted with bubonic plague. The rat was killed in R district covered by wooden buildings and the city has al- ready ordered the district cleaned. The contract for the construction of chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad's branch line to Everett was awarded to Horace C. Henry of Se- nttle. The branch, which will be 45 miles long, will leave the main line at Moneton, King county, and the cost of construction will be about $35.000 per mile. Work will be begun Mnrch 15 and completed in nine months. IDAHO JOTTINGS. A well Known merchant of Ferrell and resident of the St. Joe country for about 25 years, J. M. Vandnyn, died during a'recent operation. A new canning eompany, to be known as the Sprague Sanitary Preserving company, capitalized at $50,000, of which $20,000 represents preferred stock, carrying n guarantee of 8 per cent interest, has been formed in Lew- iston. Tony Shadenski has been erreeted at Twin Falls on suspicion of being the man who robbed the peatottlee at Di- vide, Mont., recently. He had, a large quantity of postage \damps in his prim sessiion which he could not satiefactorily account for. •amity Assessor T S lacks has corn - the work of checking up total ALASKA tax. , collected in Nez Perce county and has turned over to the county trean- \m1M1••••••••• ursr $301,352 and to the treasurer of LAND (3fIt the city of Lewiston $33,357, collected by he county for the city. _ With his skull fractured, Philip W. Hillman, a civil war veteran, lies dying CONGRESS HEARS in a Boise hospital following a quarrel With a confederate soldier, J. D. Evans. The men disputed on the advisability of placing the statue of General Lee in the National Hall of Fame. Although two weeks have passed since the opening of the second semester of the State Normal school, students continue to arrive from dis- tant points and Dean Hallowell says that the eproliment before the semester is much further advanced will reach 30'), as against 199 last year. 'file commissioners of Bonner county have adopted a resolution whereby an additional $5,000 was voted from the current expense fund for the construc- tion of the bridge across the Kootenai river at Bonners Ferry. This makes $20,000 that the county has set aside for expenditure on the construction of this bridge. That there will be no radical change in the method of assessment in the coun- ties of the state for the corning year, that a liberal compliance with the law reouiring assessment at full valuation .ild place an intolerable burden on t! e taxpayers, that public policy de- mands that this law be held in abey- ance, that the present syslem is hope- lessly inadequate and ineffective and a satisfactory solution can not be reached until a betfer system can be provided and a resolution that the next legislature create a tax commission to investigate conditions in other states, eas the result of the recent meeting of the committee on revenue and taxa- tion. That horticulturists of southern Idaho may be on their guard against the approach of frosty nights and there- by eliminate the danger of losing their crops, C. J. Sineel, general manager of the Independent Telephone company, announces that weather forecasts will be given regularly every day at noon to all rural subscribers. Farmers have begun to invest in smudge pots and are ready for the frosts. As a further protection to the orchardists, arrange- ments have been perfected to run spe- cial cars over the electric line at any hour of the night to carry men from _Boise, and by this plan each rancher can secure immediately help to save his crop. MONTANA NEWS. Patrick Meade, a resident of Butte for the past 16 years, is dead. William H. Lindsay, one of the prom- inent mining men of Butte, died re- cently. Arthur Hendricks. a youth who lived near Victor, committed suicide recently by swallowing laudanum. He was 19 years of age and had been disappointed in love. Little 4 year -old Rosie Bush came to the front as a genuine heroine Sunday, when alone she rescued her baby brother from certain death in their burning home, says a foreman special. William West has been arrested at Belgrade on the charge of felonious assault on a daughter of a rancher for whom he was working. West is in jail and fins pleaded not guilty to the charge. A large number of deputy sheriffs, who have been employed by the Great Northern Railway company, at Great Falls, since the switchmen's strike was first called on November 30 last, have been discharged. In a fire which broke out in the barn belonging to the 0. W. Perry company at Missoula Sunday four horses were destroyed and the barn with all its con- tents was ruined by the flames, the total loss amounting to more than $2000. An overheated stove was the cause. Alleging that rates fixed by the city council for water, effective April 1, are Confiscatory in nature, the receiver for the Helena Water Works company has applied to the federal court for an injunction to prevent the city of Helena enforcing the ordinance. An order to show cause why the injunetion should not issue Was made by Judge Hunt. Thinning wild about six miles down the mountain at a mile a minute, gath- ering speed with each succeeding mile, two Great Northern, engines and 11 ears, forming an extra freight train, which started down the long grade from Mountain junction, craithed into the rear end of Great Northern passenger train No. 237 in the yards at Butte Sun- day, almost demolishing the dining car Chewelah and injuring three member* of the freiglit crew. The two days' meeting of Missoula county farmers' Institute dosed Satur- day after a series of meetings at which many prominent state agriculturists and ornhardiate were beard in addresses on meiatiOn-cultivation of lands. A letter from Senator Dixon Was read at the concluding meeting advising that the Wean apple -box measure is a reeeiving a lot of tinexpeeted support. The cham- ber of commerce declared that the eon- ditione of the bill are unjust to wat- ers growers and packers, and an mope- efally •ifferens protest is being lodged against the Attempt of eastern barrel where firing the size of the package. GREAT PROFI S. AB OF SYNDICATE ONLY EXPECTED TO REALIZE $200,000,000 OF PROFIT. These are cash values involved • in Alaska coal lauds: Cunningham coal fields, 5,000 acres. Miueable coal in their neighborhood, 500,000,000 tons. Value of the tonnage, $900,000,000. Cost of getting it out of the ground, $700,000,000. Not profit to the exploiters, $200,000,- 000. Washington, Feb. 21.—Two hundred million dollars of profit in clean, cold cash is only one feature of the colossal game of exploitation of Alaska placed by the Guggenheim -Morgan syndicates, according to testimony in tha Glavis- Ballinger administration investigation. The audience before the committee on territories of the senate Saturday was fairly stunned when General Man- ager Birch of this syndicate revealed the figures of values at stake in this famous controversy. At an earlier stage of the Cunnieg- ham-Ballinger affair it was vigorously denied by Ballinger 's friends that the coal lands were of any extraordinary value. In order, ostensibly, to clear their skirts of innuendo and allegations of improper connection with the exploita- tion of the richest domain in the United States, Morgan and Guggen- heim came out into the open and so far, instead of helping Ballinger, they have helped only themselves and Glavis. For the mere sum of $250,000 Mor- gan and Guggenheim were, apparently, putting themselves in line with the as- sistance of Cunningham for the ulti- mate clean up of $200,000,000. One of the strangest of all the con- siderations is that experts like Cun- ningham did not know that they were endeavoring to get lands which would make Morgan and Guggenheim ins, mensely richer and that they were to sell for a bagteller's rights what would make them as rich as Monte Cristo. A statement as startling as Birch's mountainous pile of figures was that the syndicate used no influence with congress or anyone else to get posses- sion of the richest domain in the world. The plan pursued by the Morgan- Guggenhirn altruistic combine was ac- cording to the testimony, simply to get A, B, C, D, and all the other little mem- bers of the alphabet to buy up and patent parcelà of the immense whole and when they had done so to turn it all over to X. Y. Z. • Politicians Amazed. The Glavis-Ballinger inquiry in in , full blast now, both before the special investigating committee and the com- mittee on territories of the senate. Meanwhile, politicians are wonder- ing, not to say amazed, at the volun- tary act of Morgan, Guggenheim and company in coming to Washington and, to all appearances, helping out L. R. Glavit, who has accused seriously a member of President Taft's cabinet. Out of a maze of testimony submit- ted to the senate committee on terri- tories by Birch these facts stood out prominently. That the syndicate had purchased a competing railroad built' by Post Brothers of London, and that through Its own line from Cordova bay to the coal and copper fields, it absolutely dominated the situation and could con- trol those two great products as it willed. That in addition to holding an op- tion on the Cunningham group of coal lands, the syndicate had accumulated a half interest for $250,000 which con- tained coal that would yield a profit of $25,000,000; that the entire Rehring river coal field contained 500,000,000 tons of coal worth in gross $900,000,- 000, which would net its exploiters, after paying all expenses of miffing and carrying to the market, $200,000,000. Immense Profit. That the syndicate had paid $3,000,- 000 on the copper properties it now had, while only a very alight develop- ment. of the account brought to view copper ore estimated to be worth $6,000,000. That naming its vital interest in this coal product estimated to be contained in the Cunningham group, the syndi- cate, according to Birch, had taken no steps townie] securing a patent from the government, and \indignant' de- nial\ was made of the charge that the syndicate maintained a lobby in Wash- ington to further its interests. ' These facts were brought out as ka remit of . careful questioning, in whieli Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee, bed an active part. The expose that the syndicate's copper mining company had obtained eopper lands through private indi- NUMBER 19 viduals locating the claims, making their entries and then turning their interests over to the company as soon as the patents were issued, gave the committee a clearer insight than it previously had as to the methods by which syndicates, created for the pur- pose of obtaining the public domain and valuable mining lands, have been able to make a monopoly of what under the law is supposed to give every en- terprising man an equal opportunity to discover and develop the riches that nature has concealed. SENATOR TILLMAN IN BAD SHAPE Even if He Recovers He Will Have Partial. Lose of His Speech. Benjamin R. Tillman, senior senator from South Carolina, is critically ill at the national capital. The senator's right side is almost wholly paralyzed and aphasia has de- veloped as a result of ,a cerebral hemor- rhage on the left side of the brain. He has nearly lost the power of articula- tion, which is regarded as the most se- rious symptom. He may recover from the paralysis, but it is said he prob- ably never will regain complete use of his speech. This is Senator Tillman's second stroke of paralysis. The first occurred nearly two years ago, when he suffered a nervous breakdown. Favorable indications showed them- selves Monday in the condition of Sen- ator Tillman. The initial symptoms which caused partial loss of speech have abated and improvement has com- menced, according to a bulletin issued late during the day. INTERESTING MINING NEWS. Work on the Esperanza property in the Elk City district will start in a few days. The gold strike made in the Morrow. Harmonproperty in the Elk City dis- trict, Idaho, is deAribed as phenomenal. H. H. McVety has arrived in Spokane from Missoula bearing good news of the Bit Elk Mining company's prop- erty in the St. Joe district of Idaho. Six feet of high grade copper ore has been truck in the Conquest mine in the Newport district, on the Peed Oreille river of Idaho. More than $2,000,000,000 worth of mineral oil has been exported from the United States since that product be- gan to be an article of exportation, less than a half century ago. The Tom Thumb mine, located near Republic, which has been operated for the past two months by the New Re- public company under knee, has trans- ferred the- lease to J. 8.. Mires. Twelve feet of ore assaying $35 in copper and other metals to the ton is reported to have been penetrated by diamond drills on the ninth leveed of the War Eagle mine in the Roseland dis- trict, B. C. Fifteen first motion engineers have arrived in Butte from the Black Hills and Colorado points to take the places of the engineers seceding from Western Federation of Miners there. Engineers for first motion engines are difficult to secure and the mining companies are not anxious to try any but the most experienced men on the 23 hoists, which are valued at $200,000 or more apiece. The master mechanics on the Butte hill are now working with engineers trying to break them in. Pour acci- dents have resulted in placing four of the largest shafts out of commission. The Amalgamated is now hoisting 2,000 tons of ore in 24 hours, where the nor- mal hoist is 15,000 tons. Forces at the Anaconda and Great Falls smelters are curtailed and unless the union differ- ences are settled soon, the smelters will close and all the mines there will be idle, There are 8,000 miners out of work and about 2,000 imeltermen and other crafts. The lone in wages is esti mated at more than $30,000 a day. Fed- eration officials insist that it any min- ing is done in this camp it will be by workers all of whom are under the fed- eration jurisdiction. For Mine Bureau. The national organization of the American Mining congress- is urging the United States congress to the speedy enactment of a bill for the cre- ation of a bureaui of mines in the -de- partment of the interior. The reasons why the bureau should be.established are given at length In the regular monthly report of the min- ing congress for February and are briefly as follows: I. Mining is a great national indus try. 2. The losses in the mining and treatment of ores are enormous. 3. The waste of the mineral production of the United States is estimated at 111,000,000 daily. The coal lose is 200,- 000,000 tons annually. 4. Low-grade ores mat now be used, as honania mining is a thing of the past. 3. Hu- man life in the mines must be pro- tected. 6. InCestigation and steps toward the elimination of these condi- tions could be better handled by the hurewn than by the pris ate companies, and calls for the highest scientific Ind technical skill.. The matter is now in the hands of congress and mining men are watch- ing the developments closely. •• •
