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4 Sanders County Democrat - VOLUME I. PLAINS. MONTANA. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1910. NUMBER 21 NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS NOTES SELECTED FOR BUSY READERS. all.BOUT PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN MONTANA, IDAHO, OREGON •\' AND WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Pulluian flood 106SCS will reach ta total of $85,000. state Senator R. A. Hutchinson of rSpoktine is improving slowly from his xeceut sickness. • Cheney 's water supply was cut off ; .- Saturday, as torrents from nearby kill- esides submerged the reservoir. Mrs. VV Lawson, whose mind •becatue deranged over grieving over the (leath of a daughter, committed suicide eattle Sunday. Bishop Lemuel 11. Wells of Spokane, who has been ill in New York, is again -tat his work raising funds fur western .Episcopal Missions. Ray will be scarce between now and tthe first cutting of the new crop in May. The entire Yakima valley is i‘Apretty well sold out. All the bodies of the victims of the Wellington dieaeter will not be recut , - -ered fur a month, according to a state- ment made by Superintendent O'Neill. Charles Mersey, the 14 -year -old son .of Dwight Mersey, a farmer living -three miles west of Touchet, was ac- •cideutally shut and killed by a younger • lorother. The body of L. D. Schwartz and , Maurice O'Brien, drowned at Oakesdale on last Tuesday, were found in the -creek a mile below the scene of the ac- -eideut. John Stokes, who killed his wife, has teen sentenced to from 10 - to 20 years in the penitentiary for manslaughter by' Judge Y akey in the superior court Kitisap county. The body of the late William Win- ' -ten of Spokane, who died recently in .New York, will be brought to Spokane interment, sad will Yrobably arrive there - the last of the week. Without an instant's warning Henry 4 ,e J. Mayer, chief night dispatcher of the .Northern Pacific, was crushed to death .Sunday moruing while attempting to -couple a coach and baggage ear at !Spokane. The parade of about 2,000 working- men through the streets of Spokane - Tuesday night Was an event novel in the history of that city. They want - the city to raise the scale of wages 1 , :from $2.75 to $3 for eight hours. Harry B. Hanford, youngest son of --Judge C. H. Hanford of the federal has been placed in a padded cell :at the Seattle city jail, becoming yin - Le -110y insane, and his father lies pros- erated at his home as the result. • All of the Industrial Workers of the World disturbers who have been do- ing time on the city rockpile at Spo- kane will be released before the end of the present week, according to Chief of Police Sullivan. They all agree to keep within the city's ordinance. Vr. Ralph Matson, city bacteriologist sof Portland, has made public the fact :that he had found about one grain of strychnine in a small portion of the con- tents of the stomach of Mrs. Edith Pe- poon, whose husband, George Pepoon, is under arrest. at Northport, Wash., on a charge in connection with Mrs. Pe- i peon 's death. , Backers of the horse against the -automobile rejoiced recently at Walla Walla. Some of the councilmen pulled in a -fire alarm to test the relative peed of the horses and the new auto- mobile chemical engine. The horses made it in a minute and a half and were calling for a second helping of oats before the automobile puffed into sight. Jacob Furth, president of the Puget • e3ouud Electric Railway company, op- erating the interurban railroad between Seattle and Tacoma and other lines radi- ating from the two cities, announces 4 that the company will not accept the recent order of the state railroad com- mission ordering it to make certain re- ductions in its fares, but will carry the cas , into the courts. The state law of 1893, requiring rail- roads at their own expense to conduct end maintain crossings, gates and bars, where their grades bisect land owned by a farmer, is now held to have been • repealed by a decision of the state supreme court in the case of I. N. fluff - • man against the Oregon Railway & Nav- igation company, thus reversing the de- cision of the lower court. The supreme court says that under the law of 1907 the landowner must pay the expense of such crossings. • IDAHO JOTTINGS. Silas D. Beebe has received his com- mission for the postmasterahip of Coeur d'Alene, empowering him to take charge at once. The Craig Mountain Lumber corn - pans big mill at Winchester will be- gin operations May 1, according to Charles Lindsey, rice president and manager. Many floods are reported in the Twin Falls district and a number of breaks in the irrigation ditches have occurred. One break near Kimberly is said to be 12 feet in length. The discovery of natural gas about sour miles east of Hope, on the old Lawrence ranch, has caused excitement at Hope. The gas blazed and burned a bright white light. Robert Burns, a resident of Twin Falls, was shot and killed at Jarbridge recently'. The shot was fired by a for- est ranger who engaged in a dispute with Burns over some town lots. .Julius Hanson was accidentally shot ,. . inuipeg, March 6.—Canadian Pa - recently, while hunting for rabbits cific officials report that 92 met death along the Clearwater river. The bullet from a 32 -calibre revolver passed and that 14 injured were in the hos- through the fleshy part of the thigh. Lafe Roe, who is alleged to have killed W. H. McClintock, an Ada county rancher, last December over a sheep deal quarrel, is on trial in Boise for the crime. Self-defense will be- the theory of the defense. While endeavoring to save a suspen- sion foot bridge across the Snake river at King's Hill, near Glenn's Perry, re- cently, two men were swept into the raging water and drowned. Many wit- nessed the accident but were power- less to render assistance. Ex -Postmaster Jesse W. Baer of Gem, who has served a sentence in the county jail for appropriating funds of the postal department, has been released from jail on making affidavit that he Names of the Known Victims. is unable to pay the fine imposed, Vancouver, B. C., March 6.—Of the 92 amounting to $263.80. • Canadian Pacific trainmen, trackman and laborers buried by an avalanche in MONTANA NEWS. A local option campaigu, the first of any pretensions in Montana, was begun in Anaconda Saturday by the Womee'e Christian Temperance union. The Puget Sound railroad has resumed passenger service between Butte and the Pacific coast, after a complete tieupl of the entire system 'for nearly two weeks. With 1200 telephones connected the Great Falls Automatic Telephone com- pany has just made its initial bow to the public, and the new service is now in active operation. Boston and Montana paid its regular quarterly dividend of $300,000, which makes a total for this Amalgamated holding of $61,325,000, or more than 24 times its issued capital of $2,500,000. Judge Cheadle at Lewistown has sen- tenced Cyrus A. Spangler, a wealthy Forest Grove stockman, who killed Law- rence Boland by braining him as he slept, to 25 years in the penitentiary. A hurricane which caused much prop- erty damage swept over Missoula Sat- urday. The roof was blown from a saloon building on west Front street and signs and awnings all over town were broken from their fastenings. Five landslides in one day is the rec- ord for the -region about Libby. The ten -stamp mills at the American-Koote- ai mine was wiped out by an avalanche, George Blackwefl bringing the news. Three families living at the mine es- caped injury. It is feared that a serious flood will result along the upper Missouri river on account of the unusually high water for this time of the year. The river klready is higher than it has been at any time during the month of March in five years. The largest dividend payment by a copper mine this year is $600,000 by the Anaconda of Montana. Since its or- ganization in 1895 this company has paid dividends totaling $45,900,000, a 153 per cent return on the $30,000,000 issued capitalization. The body of Louis James, the actor, who died at Helena, was shipped to Kansas City, where it was - buried Mon- day. The famous tragedian died Sat- urday from heart failure, after several days' illness. He was 68 years of age, and was born at Tremont, Ill., in 1842. Silk trains, carrying $12,000,000 in Asiatic silks consigned to New York importers, are lost somewhere in the Bitter Root mountains beyond Missoula, according to report, and eight armed special agents of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul and Great Northern roads are searching for them. Flood conditions Montana chow little improvement. In eastern Mon- tana, the Yellowstone and Tongue rivets are on a rampage with some loss of livestock. The Missouri river in many places is badly jammed, while smaller etreams are running bank full. Rail- roads are more or less demoralized, al- though the Great Northern is open from Helena to Minneapolis. No loss of life has been reported during the day. Wind Into Electricity. 717177;refill efforts are now being made to eonvert wind into electrielty. Quite a large farm near Hamburg is being supplied with electrical energy generated by wind power, threshing ma- chines, pumps, and various farm appli- ances being driven, while some hun- dreds of ineandeeeent lamps are lighted in ( , arions shed* and home on the farm. Foetal Bill Passed. The postal eavings bill was passed by the senate by a vote of SO -to 2$, the division being on strict party lines. ANOTHER BIG SLIDE OVER 90 RAILROADERS KILLED UP NORTH.; AVALANCHE 900 FEET SWEEPS EVERYTHING FRONT OF IT. WIDE IN pita' as a result of the avalanche at Rogers pass, B. C., Friday night. Another elide occurred on the banks of the Kicking Horse river near Palliser today. It buried the creek for a length of 900 feet to a depth of 25 feet. As soon as this 'slide is removed a west- bound passenger train, stalled 25 miles east of Rogers pass, will be hauled back to Calgary arid the passengers and mails shipped through to the Coast via Medi- cine Hat and the Crows Nest l'ass rail- road. Another elide is reported from Three Valley, a small point wect of Revelstoke. The slide is 300 feet long and 10 feet deep. Rogers pass, on the summit of the Sel- kirk range of the Rocky mountains, all are probably dead. Following is a list of the victims: R. J. Buckley, conductor. W. l'hillips, engineer. J. J. Fraser, roudinaster. T. Griffith, Areman. A. P. Pottruff, engineer. J. McClelland, bridgeinan. A. Johnson, foreman. G. Anderson, foreman. F. Welsander, foreman. D. J. McDonald, bridgeman. A. Mahone, brakeman. G. Nicholls, bridgetnan. Twelve of Bridge Foreman McDon- ald's men, names unknown, and 37 Jap- anese. Only Seven Recovered, This afternoon the bodies of only seven men had been recovered. They were those of Headmaster Fraser, Fire- man Griffith, Conductor Buckley, Engi- neer Phillips, A. P. Pottraff and A. Ma- hone and a Japanese. The work -of re- covering the dead and of opening the track is greatly impeded by a blizzard that is blowing through the pass. There was also another big slide of 'snow and rock this morning a mile east of the spot where the men were over- whelmed. It destroyed a portion of a snowshed and buried the track for 400 yards to a depth of 60 feet. There were no victims in the last avalanche. Today's eastbound expreas left here at 3:15 as usual. Until the tracks have been cleared passenger traffic, east and westbound, will be handled via the Ar- row Lakes, Nelson & Crows Nest Pase railway. Came With Noise Like Thunder. The accident occurred near a snow - shed one mile west of Rogers pass and at the actual summit of the Selkirk*. Conductor Vic Buckley and Engineer W. Phillips of the work train, headed by a rotary snow plow, were killed. The men were a working crew en- gaged in clearing away a small slide which had come down early in the evening. The men were spread out over the elide and working a rotary engine over it when a larger elide came down and carried them to their death in the canyon below. As soon as the news reached Revel- stoke the firebell was sounded and within half an hour the relief train conveying physicians and nurses and over 200 railway men and other cid- eons was speeding out to Rogers pass. Thirty Bodies Taken Out. Vancouver, B. C., March 7.—Thirty bodies have been found in the wreckage at Rogers Pass, -where the avalanche buried 62 workmen engaged in clearing the Canadian Pacific tracks of wreck- age brought down by an earlier elide. Twenty-two of the bodies recovered are thooe of white men, the other being the bodies of Japanese section men. . The local offices of the Canadian Pacific ad- here to their estimate of 62 dead. They say they have carefully checked' the list of employes and that the number given is correct. Five hundred men are at work clear- ing away the wreckage, and the railway company expects to have the line open foe traffic by totnorrow night. It is ex- pected most of the bodies will have been recovered by that time. The danger of other slides is imni- ñe0t- Rain and sleet have been falling for the last two days and tonight a fearful snowstorm is raging. The wind blows through the pass with terrific force and the rescuers are greatly hamp- ered in their work. Corn—United Starer; and Canerla in- ereemed 2,203.000 be. PACIFIC COAST NOTES. Buffalo Attacks a Man. San Frencisco.—Attacked by a vi- cious bull buffalo, Mounted Policeman Frank Black was saved from death by Nelsen Norton, game warden at Golden Gate park, recently. Buys Portland Streetcar Line. l'ortland. -Reports that James J. Hill and Great Nurthern interests had pur- chased the United railways of Portland, which have been more or less in cir- culation ever since the road changed hands last fall, are now positively con- firmed. Umatilla Waters Recede. Pendleton. — Although Washington and Idaho suffered great - disaster from the recent release of winter's grip, eastern Oregon emerged from the high waters with no loss of life and but little loss of property. Though the Umatilla river Resumed threatening proportions, no serious dathage is reported along its COMM Seize Opium on Boat. Seattle.—Niuety-seveu five-tael tins of opium were discovered in a linen closet of the Great Northern steamship Minnesota by customs officers. The opium weighs 50 pounds, and in the United States is valued at $40 a pound, or $2400. Following the new statute, the opium will be destroyed by incinera- tion. Teachers to Meet at Pendleton. Pendleton.—Pendleton is to have the largest gathering of school teachers in its history, when the Inland Empire Teachers' association convenes here March 22. Delegates from all districts in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana will be in attend- ance for the sessions, which last four days. Oregon Girl Suicides. Danes, Ore.—Making a noose of the swing on which she and her brothers and sisteis played, Mary West, 15 years old, hanged herself to a tree near her home in the upper Salt creek. It is believed the girl committed suicide fear- ingihe would die of consumption as did her brothers and sisters when they had attained her age. thiperial Valley Land. Los Angeles.—Commisaioner Dennett of the general land office in Washing- ton has rendered a decision which prac- tically confirms title to a majority of land claims in Imperial valley. The decision at one stroke destroys hundreds of contests and establishes security to values of more than $20,000,000 worth of property which was in jeopardy. eelerJ Aeroplane Fails. Portland.—Several persons were se- verely injured at the Country club grounds here Saturday during the avia- tion meet, when the Ihemme aeroplane, driven. by Forrest Smithson, an amateur, became unmanageable as it was being started and plunged into a crowd of spectators, injuring four. The machine was partially wrecked. Smithson was not injured. Aocitsed of Embezzlement. San Francisco—After 15 years in the service of the company in which he had begun as an office boy and had worked his way to a position of re- sponsibility, Bartholomew H. Foley, 30 years old, cashier of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph company, is un- der arrest charged with embezzlement. Ile is accused of having stolen $5,100 of the corporation's money. Gets Forgery Sentence. Vancouver, Ii. C.—Charles 11 Chap- man, alias Campbell, most recently a real estate agent at Tacoma, who told the court that he had been in his time president of s earbinoleum company, sawmiii man and longshoreman, but bad to admit that he had been in trouble in Portland and at Salt Lake City, was sentenced to two years for uttering • document forged with the name of George Willoughby on the Eugene Sav- ings company, Oregon. Trail Canadian Bandit. hos Angeles.—Canallian mounted po- lice and the searchers working for a $6,500 reward, are scouring the (lila- bases hills for Bill Haney, a bandit, although, according to reports from Ven- ture, the outlaw has been dead for sev- eral months. Bill'. brother, Dave, who, it is al- leged, participated in all of Bill's train robberies in the Dominion, is said to be in the same wild country skirting the borders of hos Angeles and Ventura counties. Change Apple Box Bill. Representative McCredie of Washing- ton has introduced a bill intended all a enbstUnte for the Lafean apple box bill, which provides that boxes need for shipping apples from Washington, Idaho and °realm shall have inside di- mensions 18 by 11% by 10% inches, stiff that pear boxes in those states shall measure 18 by 11% by 8 inches. SUMMARY OF NEWS SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM DAILIES. NEARLY ALL PA3S OF THE WORLD ARE REPRESENTED 1IEBJ3WITH. New Jersey's light against the beef trust is to be pressed to a finish. The budget and Irish home rule are still burning questions in Great Britain. George Neave Merryweather, one of the oldest merchants of southern Ohio is dead. Major General Leonard Wood, U. S. A., has left John Hopkins hospital, be- ing greatly improved. The Russian empress is reported to be aboard the imperial yacht Standart, which is at Ville Franche. A cablegram received from Panama reports that General Chamarro has pro- claimed himself president, and has im- prisoned General Estrada. Struggling against the raging torrent, two men went to their death in the rapids of the Canadian channel of the Upper Niagara river Saturday noon. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt sailed Friday on the steamship Schleswig for Cairo, en route to Khertutun to meet Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit. John J. Murphy, president of Cen- tral Labor union, surrendered to the Philadelphia police on a warrant charg- ing him with iacitiug to riot. It was based upon an interview credited to him. Under the guise of \friendly repre- sentation,\ the British government is bringing exceedingly heavy pressure to bear upon China to influence her to re- move her troops from Tibet as speed- ily as possible. Four firemen were badly hurt and it is estimated a damage of $500,000 was caused by a fire in the store room and wool building of the New England Building company, in the heart of the wool district in Boston. The house interstate commerce com- mittee has decided to include steamship lines in the paragraph in the interstate act prohibiting transportation companies from acquiring interest in the capital stock of competing lines. Commander Robert E. Peary, \ North- est North,\ and Sir Ernest Shackleton, \Farthest -South,\ are to be brought together under the auspices of the Civie Forum as guests of honor at a ban- quet in New York April 20. 0 PRESIDENT DIAZ RECEIVES H. L. WILSON Former Spokane Man, New Ambassa- dor to Mexico, Formally Presented. Mexico City.—President Diaz re- ceived Henry Lane Wilson, who suc - ceeds David Thompson as United States ambassador to Mexico, at the national palace Saturday. The new ambassador was escorted by a squad of cavalry to the palace at the doors of which the party passed between a double file of officers in full dress uniform. Mr. Wil- son in presenting his credentials said in part: \Mr. President: I shall confidently rely upon your excellency's benevolent co-operation in the solution of all questions that may arise and I shall hope to be a faithful interpreter of the views of the Mexican government, as well as an advocate of those of ,my own country.\ General Diaz, replying, said: \It is pleasant to bear the friendly sentiment of your chief magistrate toward me and chiefly toward the Mexican nation. Mr. Ambesisador, the similarity of po- litical institutions, the sameness of ideals and our nearness to each other, oblige us to cultivate close relationship while endeavoring at the same time to settle amicably and well the problems which this contact may bring to us. You will, therefore, have the support of the Mexican nation.\ Sperry's Last Speech. .Teremiah Sperry of Connecticut, aged 82 years, the oldest man in congress, made what will be probably his last speech in congress Saturday. lie has an- nounced that he will not be a candi- date for re-election and took the floor Saturday for the first time In several years. The veteran member spoke in favor of a traveling allowance for rail- way ninil glerks. He declared with much feeling that they are the most valuable public servants. He received an otation when he finished. Want Caruso 'a Money. 4 Antonni Cincotto and Antonio Mese eni, who Were arrested in Brooklyn charged with sending threatening let- ters to Enrico Caruso demanding $15,- 000, were arraigned in court and re- Vanity in a woman is almost as bad mended to jail. las conceit in a man. CUDAHY SCANDAL IN KANSAS CITY He Returned to His Home Unexpectedly and Found Mr. J. F. Lillis, Whom He Butcherlid. Kansas City, March 7.—Finding Jere P. Lillis, a millionaire local banker, in his home when he arrived unexpectedly at an early hour, John P. Cudahy, a' wealthy packer and son of Michael Cudahy, the Chicago millionaire, is al- leged to have committed an assault upon the man which led to his arrest on a charge of disturbing the peace. He was released on a $100 bond. Lillis is in a hospital. His condition ie said to be critical. Cuts said to have been inflicted with a - knife are on his face, limbs and one arm. The cuts have been made in criss-cross fashion. If he recovers he will be disfigured for life, it is averred by physicians. Before cutting Lillis, Cudahy is said to have bound Lillis with a strong rope. One of Cudahy's chauffeurs was present.\' As the police arrived three men were in the room. Prostrate on the floor lay Lillis, half nude and bound with a rope. His lower limbs were bare. Above him stood Cudahy. He was in correct evening dress except that he wore no coat. His sleeves were rolled up. Blood was on his hands. At his side stood John Moss, a chauffeur, in regulation leather cap and duster, as though he had come into the house after a hurried call and a run with his machine. Victim Groans and Pleads. None of the men noticed Underwood. Lillis groaned and tugged feebly at the cords that bound him. \Don't do it, Jack. Please don't do it,\ he pleaded. Cudahy did not answer. Rushing over to the trio Underwood addressed Cudahy: \What does this meant\ he queried. \lie's ruined my home. He's ruined my home,\ said Cudahy, turning to the officer and making no attempt at resist- ance. From the beginning to the end of the affair Mrs. Cudahy was not in evidence. Cudahy's friends admit the general facts in the case, but are unwilling to go into details. Mrs. Cudahy Expects Vindication. , Mrs. Cudahy was extremely nervous. The reports that have gone broadcast have perturbed her greatly. However, she says she is going to bear up as best she can, as she is positive that in time she will be vindicated. It is understood generally that Lillis will not prosecute Cudahy, so the case may be dismissed with a small fine. Since Cudahy's marriage to Miss tEdna Cowin, who was a society belle ' of Omaha, on December 28, 1899, the family has been prominent there. On the day of the marriage Cudahy's father made him manager of his Kansas City interests. A Lillis is a bachelor, 47 years old. He is manager of the Western Exchange bank and prominent socially. FAMOUS LETTERS TO BE PRESERVED 'Congress Appropriates i1,500 for Docu- ments from Great yeomen—Others Crumbling With Age. With reverend attention the house listened Saturday to a letter written by the widow of Washington and also one written by the widow of Lincoln, and then ordered the expenditure of $1,500 for the preservation of the manu- scripts. The first was a letter from Martha Washington, written in 1799 to the speaker of the house of representatives soon after her husband's death, plan of removing Washington's remains from Mount Vernon to a crypt in the capitol. The second, from Mrs. Lincoln, written in 1869, pleaded for a pension. The pension was granted, and she drew $5,000 a year until her death. Representative O'Connell, a democrat from Massachusetts, who presented the letters to the house, said that thousands of other valuable histories/ documents are now crumbling with age in the capitol. PLAN TO DRIVE LABOR MEN OUT OF POLITICS New York Congressmen and Capitalists Said to Be Forming An Alliance. • 711/ • ' — ' Seveial New York capitalists and con- gressmen, who have been opposed in their distriete for re election by the American Federation of Labor, are re- ported to be behind a new organize - Lion formed fot the purpose of driving the labor faction from politica, The new organization will be called the Na- tional Labor Alliance. One of the plans of the alliance, it was reported, was to provide campaign funds and speakers in each district where the election of a republican con- gressman was opposed. John W. Hays, grand master of the Knights of Labor, Is said to be interested in the move- ment. •
