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Sanders County Democrat VOLUME IT. 1 PLAINS. MONTANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1910. NUMBER 11 ANOTHER EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN LOS ANGELES EARLY IN MORNING CHRISTMAS. Dynamite Wrecked the Llewellyn Iron Works and Shops --Large Building Blown to Pieces—Only Watchman Aahbury Injured—Bitter War Be- tween Capital and Labor Is Cause. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 26.—A mys- terious explosion, presumably ef dyna- mite, wrecked a considerable portion of the main building of the Llewellyn Iron works, one of the big industrial institutions of the kind in the south- west, at Redondo and Main streets at 1:54 o'clock Christmas morning. Win- dows of adjoining plants of the Lacey Manufacturing company, the Johnson Machine works and the Stearns Gas Engine company were blown out, and minor damage done. Residents of the Westlake district, two miles away, were awakened by the force of the explosion, which shook 'he whole neighborhood. Who placed the supposed charge of dynamite is un- • known. A hole in the ground 18 inches deep and about six feet in diameter bears witness to the place of origin and probable cause of the damage. This hole is just outside the business line, and adjacent to what was the wagon entrance. On the other side of the hole was a wooden shed, which, with its oontents of stored iron, was re- duced to a mass of debris. The front of the main building, a three-story frame, for a distauce of probably 75 feet, was shot to pieces, and its contents of furniture and of- fice paraphernalia are piled together in apparent ruin. The material damage, however, is confined to the chipping room, the offices, and the space above them, and is relatively small. The big machinery of the plant is apparently undamaged. With the exception of a cut on the right band and an abrasion of the scalp and face Watchman J. F. Asbury was uninjured. The Llewellyn Iron works has long been prominent in the figst against the recognition of union labor in this city, and is one of the concerns involved in the existing metal workers' strike, which went into effect on June 1 of this year. The strike has been char acterized by great bitterness on both aides. The strike was called originally for the purpose of enforcing a demand for an eight hour day for all the metal workers, and a uniform wage of 50 cents per hour. Walter Taylor, vice president, and John Llewellyn, secretary of the com- pany, however, both gave it as their belief that the local union men were - not responsible for the crime. CHICAGO MOURNS For Death of Her Firemen Who Lost Lives in Recent Fire. christmaa was a day of mourning for official Chicago. The disaster at the stockyards last week, when a tire in the Morris & Co. beef house swept away the lives of Fire Chief Horan and 24 other men, covered the whole city with a pall of sadness. In the churches Christmat services were joined with prayers of sorrow for the dead and sympathy for their grief stricken families. From the staffs of public buildings, department stores and many residences flagi hang at half- mast. The funeral of James Horan, fire marshal, took place Monday. Edward Morris, head of the packing company, whose building was destroyed in the fire in rritich the men gave their lives, has anwitinced a gift of $25,000 to the citizens' relief fund for the Aid of the firemen's widows and orphans. Terminates Irrigation Board. Members of the irrigation engineer 4 board have been ordered to their re opectIve army stations. Their work Is practically completed. Their report will be returned to Secretary Ballinger shortly. The board will then go out of existence and It will be up to the secre- tary to decide how and where the $ 20 ( 000,000 to be obtained 'from a bond !mew shall he spent on reclamation AP projects. Big lire at Buffalo. Buffalo, N. Y., Doe. re. ---Fire de etroyed the dry goods and shoe store of J. M. Recker & Co , Joseph White's elothing store and Josieph Wolfe 's mil linery shop in. High street. The loss 1 1a $200,000. HARRIMAN MERGER. Harriman System in Three States of Northwest Valued at $115,415,000. An aggregate valuation of $115,415,- 000 was placed on Harriman properties in the northwest when they were taken over by the Oregon -Washington Rail- road & Navigation company December 24. The values on the roads included in the Harriman merger are distributed us follows: 0. R. #r N $78,380,000 Oregon & Washington..... 15,000,000 North Coast 7,550,000 Oregon, Washington & Idaho 3,400,000 Northwestern railroad 2,640,000 Snake River Valley 2,265,000 Idaho Northern 1,400,000 Columbia Southern 1,075,000 Ilwaco railroad 1,000,000 Columbia River & Oregon Central 950,000 Lake Creek & Coeur d'Alene 790,000 Malheur Valley railway 550,000 Umatilla Central 315,000 The figures represent the actual cost of the roads. The Oregon -Washington Railroad & Navigation company paid the stockholders of the Oregon Railway Fic, Navigation company $55,000,000 for their property and assumed the mort- gage of $23,380,000. The new company will immediately issue bonds, thus reimbursing the Union Pacific for its expenditures. THE VALUE OF PINEAPPLE JUICE The man who brings out a new food preparation usually has to create the \long -felt want\ which be fills. In tackling the pineapple juice problem, no such difficulty confronted James D. Dole of Honolulu.. When we eat pineapple it is for the juice alone. When the doctor orders pineapple in cases of throat trouble or certain stomach and intestinal diffi• culties it is the pure, uncooked juice pressed from the ripest obtainable fruit which he wants his patients to have. It is this name refreshing juice which the nurse gives fever convalescents where cooling and slightly acid drinks are desirable. The problem was how to get the pure juice of pineapple on the market in such a form that it would please the healthy lover of the fruit, and be use- ful to the doctor and nurse. Mr. Dole spent years in experiments which finally resulted in the Hawaiian Pine- apple Juice which bears his name. It is the juice of \picked ripe\ Ha- waiian pineapple pressed out and bottled on the islands where the fruit grows. Filtered, refined, sterilized in the bottle, retaining all the natural flavor and aroma, not a bit of sugar, water, preservative, or anything else A added. It has been four months on the market, and its success has been most gratifying and . unprecedented. Drastic Meolores. • \I will kill myself!\ ehonted the half erared man, struggling in the arms of the offieers of the law. \No you won't!\ said one of the policemen. \T will! I will! commit inieble of die in the attempt!\ Will Cudahy' Reunite? Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 26.—Mrs. Edna C. Cudahy, divorced wife of Jack Cud - thy, the wealthy packing house man of the middle west, spent Christmas with net children in the Michael Cudahy home. Jack Cudahy arrived for the tarn° purpose. The result was a family reunion, the divorced parents and three children enjoying the day together and the father acting the part of Santa Claus. To all intents and purposes there has besn a reconciliation of the di- vorced pair. The cause for divorce, it was alleged at the time, was the sensational at- tack upon and knifing of Jere Lillis, a wealthy clubman, by Cudahy and ' , is chauffeur in the Cudahy home one night after a theater performance. Mrs. Cudahy and LIMP; were in the drawing room. — -- MONTANA NEWS NOTES R. E. Porterfield has been awarthul a franchise for water werks and electric light systems at Troy. Instead of attending the wedding at Whitehall Christmas day of Henry Knight, one of the well-known mining men of the state, to which function, coupled with a Christmas dinner, they had been invited; friends gathered at his bier to pay their last tribute of re- spect. He died frnm pneumonia. The annual report which Adjutant mineral Phil Oreenan of the Montana militia has submitted to Governor Ed- win L.. Norris, shows that there are, at the present time, 37,686 able-bodied male citizens qualified for the perform- ance of military duty in this state. These ligteres are based on the returns of the various county assessors. It shows that in the last year, four new (mimpaniem have been mustered in—at Lewistown, Kaliorpell, Miles City and Libby, and that the national guard of the state is in all respects, organized, uniformed, armed and equipped similar to the United Shoe- a th i y, BANDIT ROBS TRAIN ON MISSOURI PACIFIC RAIL- ROAD ---STATION TO STATION JOB. Single -Handed He Goes Through Entire Train, Then Escapes—Even Bobbed the Crew and Every Passenger — Didn't Stop Train—Where Passengers Had Little Money He Refuses Kansas City, Dec. 26.—A lone bandit celebrated Christmas by going through a Missouri Pacific train and holding up more than 100 passengers, from whom he took only money and watches. The man boarded the train, which was from St. Joseph, bound for St. Louis, at Leavenworth junction, in the outskirts of Leavenworth, and left it at North- western junction, in Kansas City, Kan., after securing a large amount of money and valuables and shooting one man who attempted to resist him. As the train pulled out of the Leav- enworth junction station the robber opened the rear door of the Pullman and confronted the astonished crew with a revolver, after which he robbed them. Cautioning the conductor and porter to keep still, he went through the car, taking up a collection of watches ana wallets. Finishing with the Pullman, he continued through the chair cars and the smoking car, until he had robbed every passenger. The train was in charge of Conductor May, who, with his, brakeman and porter, was robbed. The train left Leavenworth junction shortly before 1.0 o'clock, and by the time the man had finished his work it had reached Kansas City, Kan. Here he dropped from the steps of the smoker and dis- appeared. Entering the day coach the robber shoved the revolver into the face of the first passenger he met and then fired, through the window. This thor- oughly intimidated the passengers, who complied with his demands. Several passengers saved their money by drop- iing it beside their seats, or simply Laudin g ii.. Pa WI ulyaug• To two of the passengers, who handed him only a small amount of money, the man returned it, telling them if that was all they had they could keep it. SUNNYELIDE AND TEETON $1,915,000 . Apportionment of Fund for Reclamation Has Taft'a Approval. Presideat Taft has approved the re- port it( the special board of army engi- neeri recommending the apportionment of the $20,000,000 fund, provided by congress, among the following reclama- tion projects in the west: Salt River, Aria., $495,000; Yuma, Ariz., and California, $1,200,000; Grand Valley, Col., $1,000,000; Uncompahgre, la( $1,500,000; Payette -Boise, Idaho, $2,000,000; Milky River, Mont., $1,000,- 100; North Platte, Wyo., and Nebraska, $2,000,000; Truckee -Carson, Neb., $1,- 193,000; Rio Grande, N. M., Texas and Mexico, $4,600,000; Umatilla, Ore., $325,- 000; Klamath, Ore.,' and California, $600,000; Strawberry Valley, Utah, $2,272,000; Sunnyside and Tieton, Yaki- ma, Wash., $1,250,000 and '665,000, re- spectively. To Be Spent in rive Years. $20,000,000 is to be spent within the next five years and the interest on the loan is to be charged against the projects. The following projects completed, or nearing completion, carry recommenda- tions for the funds from the general reclamation act sufficient only for main- tenance and operation: Orland, Cal.; Carlsbad, N. M.; Ilondu, N. M.; Garden City, Kan.; Kittitas, Wapata and Ben- ton, units of the Yakima (Wash.) pro- ject. For the following existing reclamation projects the board of engineers in the report approved by the president, recom- mends allotments from the general re- clamation fund: Missouri pumping, N. D.; Bellefourebe, S. D.; Shoshone, Wyo.; Minidoka, Idaho; Iluntley, Mont.; Min river, Mont; Lower Yellowstone, Mont.; Okanogan, Wash. The Tree Riders. \A good many people get on thin eitith who aren't worth the room they take np.\ said the eynicel sociologist. \ YPI, \ replied the eminent astrono- mer. \It's a good thing for many of us that we ere not obliged to - get aboard this whirling planet on a pay , as-you-enter.—Exehange. Colorado Grafters Arrested. A sensation was sprung in the Col orado state -investigation of alleged grafting in the state penitentiary, when warrants were issued charging the for- mer warden of the penitentiary and four prominent citizens with the embezzle- ment of $25,000 of the state's funds. mit an amendment to the state consti- NoRT11wEsT STATES t e i f i t i t o h n e t c i r e eas e ef i n g t h t e h e ft r h et o m ee l e -r ee u l e e po e w e r r e ! suit of the meeting of the newly organ- ized Washington League of Municipali- WASHINGTON MONTANA AND ties, which met in Seattle recently. The desired amendment is to remedy the frequent difficulties arising from the conflicts between general legislation of the state legislature and the provision of city charters. IDAHO HAPPENINGS ARE BRIEFED. & Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Sur- rounding Coantry—Numerous Acci- dents and Personal Events Take Place --Crop Outlook Just Fair. WASHINGTON. The' new Colville high school is being completed. )4 The Northport Republican has sus- pended publication. M. Walser, Fairfield's oldest business man, has retired from business. The new First Christian church of Palouse was dedicated recently. G. W. Walker, a well-to-do retired farmer living in Pullman, shot himself in the head Christmas day. The students in the Seattle high schools have submitted to the inevit- able and dropped all their fraternities. The government has a large force of men and teams at work widening the main canal and other improvements near Grandview. C. W. Werman, who started - the first newspaper in Uniontown in May, 1887, the Washington Journal, is now a farm- er near that place. Jan Hunt, the oldest Indian in the northwest, reputed to be 108 years old, who has a ion 77 years of age, is sick in bed at White Salmon. State Game Warden Reif has estab- lished a farm in King county for the breeding of Hungarian partridge, Chi- nese pheasants and partridges. The third session of the short course in forestry in the University of Wash- ington is announced to commence Jan- uary 3 and continue until March 24. The Northwestern Saddlery 5s50cia- 4:.—, Makivocal v iriu Li el3 ueaiers Of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, will hold its annual convention in Spokane, January 8 to 12 inclusive. James Woodley, the Whitman county pioneer who dropped dead at his country store at Dusty, 15 miles southeast of Colfax Thursday, was buried by the Masons of Colfax Saturday. The Malden council passed an ordi- nance granting license to three saloons at $1,000 a year. The territory will be restricted in which they can operate, and the regulations are strict. From Tacoma comes the report that home builders can buy lumber at actual cost or a little below and those who in- tend putting up buildings will be wise to begin immediately. The condition is abnormal, however, and will last but a short time. The Oak Park high school eleven demonstrated the superiority of Chicago football over that of the Pacific coast Monday by defeating the Wenatchee (Wash.) eleven 22 to 0. Wenatchee was outclassed at every point by the Chi- cago boys. John B. Meeker, one of the early pio- neers of the state, died recently at Walla. Walla at the age of 86 years. its passed away at the Odd Fellow*' home, where he has been a resident for. the past three years. lie, was a brother of Ezra Meeker of ox -team fame. Declaring it utterly useless and worth- less, a thing without good, Warden C. S. S. Reed of the state penitentiary has formally consigned the prison lock -step and striped suits to the oblivion from which it came. He made its aboliticn a Christmas present to his prisoners. The efforts of State Treasurer Lewis to enforce collection of delinquent taxes due the state from various municipali- ties as its 10 per cent share of all liquor licenses, have succeeded so well that the only outstanding claim for which arrangements for payment have not been made is against North Yakima for $2,645. Suit will soon be instituted on this claim. istit• Perish in Tire. Montreal, --- Dec. 27—Four small dia. dren of Ovid Bari! of Athabaska enunty were burned to death in a fire that de- stroyed the store and hnme of their father Christmas morning. Both parents were severely burned. rapke Loses on Foul. Sidney, N. R. W., Dee. 27.—Billy Papite, who claims the rniddlweight championship of the world, Monday lost to Dave Smith, the Anstralien middle weight champion, on a foul In the tenth round. Smith led the fight throughout. IDAHO. The $50,000 packing plant of the Hagan & Cushing company, Moscow, starts January 1. Brooding over his defeat at the re- cent election Probate Judge J. E. Jacques of Idaho county became vio- lently insane recently. Mrs. Mary E. Pettee and her 20 - year -old daughter Mamie of Lewiston, are under observation, pending an ex- amination as to the sanity. The secretary of the interior has with- drawn from entry 2,660 acres on Crane creek and 12,142 acres on Blackfoot river, to protect water power sites. While out in the woods where a num- ber of laborers were cutting down trees, the 3 -year -old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barto, north of lionners Ferry, was killed by a falling limb. The board of trustees of the State Normal held their annual session re- cently. President Black made his re- port for the year as well as his recom- mendations for the next biennium. All the big mines of the Coeur d'Alene district and many of the smaller ones closed down Sunday to give their employes a holiday. Many of the com- panies have made it a double holiday and will not call their men back till ruesday morning. With a gigantic earthen dam under which the water is already sifting, standing above the town of Mackay, in Custer county, this state, ready to go out with the spring floods and to sweep before it the town and its inhabitants, a grave danger threatens that section. Idaho will lose its reputation as a rapid divorce mill, and Boise will cease to be the mecca for Reno's overflow of matrimonial bond breakers if the reso- lution recently adopted by the Ada County Bar association goes into effeet. Tor at provides ior resido..,v within the state for one year instead of six months, as is 'now the case, before application can be made for divorce. A horrible tragedy was enacted in the village of Eagle, nine miles west of Boise, recently at fr./ masquerade dance when William — trowder, son of one of the most prominent ranchers of the valley, killed Lawrence_ Vaughn by stabbing him to death. Crowder gave himself up. Insults addressed by Vaughn to Crowder 's wife and an old feud were at the bottom of the killing. There are 34,056 more children going to the public schools of Idaho this year than last year. The state makes an an- nual expenditure of $2,000,000 for the maintenance of its school buildings. The school property has a valuation of $4,000,000 and its total receipts for school purposes per year antourits to $2,500,000. Approximately 2,000 teach- ers are employed who are paid an• nually $1,000,000. The supreme court has issued a tem- porary writ of prohibition restraining Governor Brady, Secretary of State Lansdon, Attorney General McDougall, State Auditor Taylor and Miss S. Belle Chamberlain, superintendent of public instruction, as members of the state Clad board, from proceeding further, in the matter of the - proposed auction gales public 'school lands in Detail and Net Peree counties, ranting the petition of Attorney Curtiss of Pike county. A corporation . of Wallace business business Men representing a capital of $50,000 will soon be formed to engage in bueinese in Texas, where they have closed a deal to take over all the con- cessione controlled by a new railroad across Texas connecting with Gulf of Mexico points. The corporation will consist of Irerman Rossi, L. L. Sweet, 0. D. Jones, W. S. Simone, George R. Garrett and Harry L. Mndgwick of Wallace, J. B. Short of Mullen and F. G. Hopkins of Falcon. The Indian agency at Fort fiimeoe has received'notice that new rules for the disposition of deceased and non - competent Indian lands on the Yakima Indian reservation have been promul- gated at Washington. Hereafter the installment system of selling the lands will be permitted. Bidders who are successful will deposit one tenth of the purchase price, the balance to be paid in annual installments. . State banks in Washington increased their deposits more than $3,000,000 in the period between September I and November 16, weeording to the report of the state bank examiner, just issued. The increase in total deposits was nearly $10,000,000. Spokane county was a good second to Seattle in the teal standing with $11,8641,711, while Pierce county, or Tacoma, cams third with deposits of $7,314,352 Seattle had lete,1016,1 1 19f1 at MONTANA. Etta Henderson, age 8, was burned to death at Butte in an attempt Monday morning to light the candles of a Christ- mas tree. There are 823 children of school age in Lincoln county, and the apportion- ment is on a basis of $25.48 for each one. Marshal G. W. Reif of*Virginia City is suffering from knife wounds that may prove fatal as result of an attack made upon him by Hugh White. John Gill, a resident of Frenchtown, near Miesonla, while walking to his home along the railroad track, was struck by an engine Monday and in etantly killed. Auditors who checked the accounts of the Montana Live stock association found irk -disarepaney of $30,000. The association is composed of leading cat- tlemen Of the state and in a keeper of :all brands. the same Avoid pushing to the fiont by going The legislators will be asked to Sob?,ibaisk ymtr friends. WORLD NEWS NOTES SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED FROM LATE PRESS DISPATCHES FROM THE DAILIES. A Review of Happenings in Both East- ern and Western Hemiepheres During the Past Vs eek—Natioual, Historical, Political and Personal Events Told in Short Paragraphs. The call of Ancaster died Christmas day. Admiral Dewey was 73 years old Monday. At Oxnard, Cal., Henry Lewis, son of J. F. Lewis, a large lima bean grow- er, was killed in an auto accident. Two persons were killed outright and eight others severely injured in a wreck of a Glasgow -bound express train. The national wool growers' conven- tion and mid -winter sheep show will be held at Portland, Ore., January 4-7, 1911. That the duke of Connaught will not be the next governor general of Canada is the growing conviction in official cir- cles in Ottawa. The safe in a substation at Long • Beach (Cal.) pasteffice was blown open • with nitroglycerin Sunday night and $13 and a few stamps and books taken. Two persons were killed and nine in- jured in a collision between the Paris- Vintimiglia express and a freight train which occurred at Montreaux, France. At Chicago a Christmas holly wreath swinging from a chandelier forced open a gas cock and caused the asphyxi- ation of Mrs. Edna May Simpson of Toronto, Canada. Gerniany, in the event of a tariff war with the United. States over the potash dispute, would be able to inter- fere seriously with the manufacture of ' powder for the army and navy. \Biz Harry\ Rogelee la .4.:ner by about $7,000 and a diamond stud worth about $2,500 as a result of a game of craps with Sam Pinchower, a gambler and Tenderloin character at Seattle. An engagement took place recently along the Dominian and Haytien bor- ders. Several are reported killed. A gunboat will be dispatched with troops, to be sent to the scene of the trouble. Suffering from severe burns about the face, head, arms, shoulders and upper part of the body, Mrs. Eva Baker, 50 years old, of Portland, is at a hospital as the rest of a Christmas tree fire. Three trainmen, Thomas A. Cox, en- gineer; R. E. Henderson, fireman, And B. P. Smith, brakeman, were killed when a freight train of the Missouri, Kan- sas & Texas railway was derailed at Greenville, Texas. Claude Grahame -White, who had a narrow escape from serious injury a week ago in an attempt to fly across the- English channel for the Baron de Forest prize of $20,000, met with a fur- ther mishap Sunday. Bringing to an end a running battle at Portlebd, Ore., Patrolman Hinson and Police Sergeant Wandless attempt- ed to disperse a crowd of brawlers. Hinson shot one of the men through the bead, killing him instantly. It is reported that the department of justice has conic to the conclusion that it can not convict and secure imprison- ment of the sugar trust magnates for violations of the Sherman anti-trust laws in the newest frauds discovered, those relating to drawbacks. An hour after she had announced to her family that -they would have to forego the usual Christmas turkey dinner, on account of poverty, Mrs. „ Minnie Crosby of Chickasaw, Oklahoma, received a telegram telling her that she was heir to a fortune of $2,000,000. Christmas eve in the village of Leigh, England, and in the vicinity of the Pre- toria mine of the Little Halton cod - puny, where approximately 290 miners lost their lives in an explosion.in the pits, was made the time for a great funeral service over the bodies of the 186 recovered dead. He Courts -Investigation. In a letter to the grand jury Mayor P. 11. McCarthy of San Francisco has called upon that body to begin forth with an investigation of his official acts with a view to determining whether any foundation exists for ru- mors which, be says, have been per 'intently circulated, by politieal ene- mies of the present union labor adntis• intration that' he recently accepted two bribes of $10,000 and $60,000 re- spectively. \The leading question.\ said the colonel, \is the financial one.\ \Right replied the major, \and I was jest about to ask you to add $5 to that $10 I borrowed from you yes- terday.\—Unell Retitle Magazine.
