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Volume 25 The Lewiston Teller. j COMING Our Spring Stock 1 3 NEXT Is now all in. Our Miss Murphy will arrive next week direct from i WEEK Chicago. Wait for our spring opening for the latest designs in Millinery i 4* THE FASHION» w 4 V- ^ Hr Wi The largest and most complete line of Hot Wa ter Bags for Cold Weather can be found at DENT & BliTLER the DRUGGISTS Telephone 15. » IF IN NEED of a BUGGY or ft 1 a SPRING WAGON, LOOK ftft at our STOCK. WE HAVE some BARG AINStoCLOSE OUT :::::::::: FLETCHER HARDWARE COMPANY MMMNWMMNMNWVW - L'AGLEON It is the new Satah Bernhard Belt and Collar. Drop in and see the new idea. Plain or fancy silk, but trimmed in gold or silver, with long tassels, with spike ends. Do you catch the idea? Then we have the spikes for sale, too. They are new and novel, and we shall be pleased to show you how to use them. They are selling at two cents. O. A. KJ OS 1000 piece« of new ribbon« in a special «ale, commencing on March io _ WM \ HftS ft ftftftftftft ftft ft ftftftftftft ftftl LAST SALE OF THE SEASON ON Winter Underwear To make room far our SMtfNG STOCK we wM aaS all our muB lot* and odds and and* ef Ladles'. Men's, Misses' and Mays' Underwear si ... 25 ... PERCENT ....DISCOUNT».. This sale lasts ana ftlyHMiMIMHI ..THE FAHL The Plaça to Say* I j HORRID DEED An Insane Mother Murders Her Six Children Then Throws them in a Well. SHE JUMPS AFTER THEM Attempts Suicide for Herself—Deed Deliberately Planned With the Children's Consent. A horrible deed by an insane mother occurred at Uniontown .Sunday. Mrs. Rosa Wurzer, a widow, in a fit of insanity, drowned her six children aged from 4 to 12 years. Two were boys and four girls. She threw them into a well 30 feet deep, containing two feet of water, then jumped in herself and held the heads of the children beneath the surface until all were drowned. Mrs. Wurzer was found alive in the well with her six children by neighbors, who pulled her out with a rope. She is violently insane. The woman's husband died a year ago, and since that time she has been sup ported by the county and the charity of neighbors. Following is a detail of the matter taken from the press dispatches: City Ma-sliall Hagerman of Union town, Wash., who is a neighbor of Mrs Wurzer, when coming home at i o'clock Sunday afternoon, beard the faint cry of "Hagerman" coming from near the Wur zer house. He saw no one but finally located the noise in the well. As he peered into the dark depths he discovered Mrs. Wurzer. / What's the trouble?" said the mar shal. "I threw the children into the well and I am down here also," faintly replied Mrs. Wurzer, speaking in the German tongue. "When did you throw the children in?" the marshal asked, and the woman re plied: "Last night." Marshal Hagerman did not stop to par ley longer, but rushed for help. He col lected half's dozen stout men and Mr. Hanna volunteered to go down the well. He was lowered to where Mrs. Wurzer was standing and was asked if the chil dren were there. He sent up the answer: No." He placed the rope under the arms of Mrs. Wurzer, who was in a sad condition from cold and exposure and exhaustion and she permitted herself to be drawn out of the well, from which the officer and his aides had removed the curb, without remonstrance. Then Mr. Hanna felt in the water and shouted up: T have found one child," and sent up the body by the same well rope. In like manner ht started the other five bodiea to the surface. The bodies were carried into the sitting room of the house, placed in a row crosswise of a bed and a sheet drawn over them. In the pocket of one boy was found an apple, indicating that the family had finished the evening meal before the tragedy occurred. Waiting the coming of the coroner, no one has made a careful examination of the little bodies. The only marks of violence dis cernible are a ent on the boy's face and a Mack and blue spot on one girl's head. If they escaped other injuries, it will be remarkable for the drop was folly 30 feet and the bottom of the well is rock, the last five feet having beep blasted out. The dead children are Anna, aged 7; Rosa, aged 11; Louisa, 10; George, 4; and Joseph and Mary, twit», aged 6. A Naval Tsiephaae System. A new telephone system is being in auguated on Nezperce prairie. J.M. Mc Gee is the promoter of the system, which is a local line fer the nae of the merch ants and fermera. Smooth wire is laid along the tops of the fence«, attached to the barbed wire. No poles art used ex cept to carry the line across u gate or fence, when a 30-foot pole is raised. This line begius at Peek ami is carried to Mohler, a distance of 22 miles, and will he brought into Nezperce tile latter part of next week. The line has been tested and is reported to be a success. CRIMINAL BUSINESS TO DATE Principal Work in the District Court Is on the Criminal Calendar — Williams and Rubens Acquitted—Phinney Information Defective. The principal work in the district court this week has been the trial of cases from the criminal calendar. The case of the state vs. Amos Williams and Stephen Ruben was put on trial Monday. The defendants were charged with rob bery, having, it was alleged, held up one L. D. Gibson and relieved him of So cents, a pocket knife and two bottles of vaseline. The defendants were two Nez Perce Indians and« the jury found them not guilty as charged in the information. The case against Lee Phinney failed, owing to a fatal conflict between testi mony and the allegations of the informa tion. Phinney was charged with steal ing horses from the Indians, branded on the left shoulder, but the testimony of the Indian owner was that the horses were branded on the left hip. This fatal conflict led to a dismissal of the defend ant. On motion of the prosecuting at torney Judge Steele instructed the jury to bring a verdict of not guilty. Yesterday the jury was selected for the trial of the Brockway case. Brockway is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and the trial isnowjn progress at the court house. A divorce was granted the plaintiff in the of Julia Klagge vs. William Klagge and the custody of their oue child given to the mother. The parties were mar ried in Minnesota five years ago and the husband oon after deserted his family anti has since neglected to support them. The cases of M. E. Halle« vs. F. F. Gwinn and of Sarrah C. Thompson vs. T. C. Moxley have been dismissed on motion of the plaintiffs. In each case suit was for money due. Cash Hardware Store vs. Sam B. Sweeney. Demurrer overruled and de fendant given 30 days to file an answer. James W. Stoneburner vs. Abbie E. Stoneourner. The cou« allows \he de fendant alimony in the sum of $90, to be paid by March 5, 1901, $50 to pay attor neys' fees and 540 for costs. They Paid the Penalty. Prkin, Feb. 26.—Two of the chief of fenders, whose lives were demanded by the powers, said the penalty today. Chin Chiu, former grand secretary, and Cheng Fu, son of the notorious Hsu Tung, were publicly beheaded today. The street in which the execution to >k place was guarded bv French, German and Ameri can troops. The officials were taken to the ground in carts guarded by a com pany of Japanese infantry. Chin Chiu met his fete in a dignified manner, walk ing from the cart calmly and fearlessly. Cheng Fu was stupefied by opium. torture followed. The Reiffs off for England. Nkw Yokk. Feb. 28.—Lester Reiff and hia brother Johnny sailed for Eng'and today. Announcement of the engage ment of Letter and Fannie Rowell, daughter of Dr. H. E. Rowell, the west ern turfman, has been made. The mar riage will take place next fall after Reiff returns from England. In an interview previous to his departure, Lester Reiff •aid: "My first engagement will be at Lincoln early in March. I shall ride for Croker. I suppose Crojter will have first call on Johnny, but Lord Beresford has second call, and if Wishard has nothing in the Derby, Johnny will probably ride one of Lord Beresford's horses." Tortured by a Mob. Nbw York, Feb. 25 — An excited mob in Mattewan, N. J., last night bang ed Chaa. Herbert, a reaident of that place, in an effort to make him confeaa that he had started a fire which destroyed the buaineaa portion of the town on January 27. Herbert protested his innocence. He was strung up a second time, and when lowered again asserted that he was hot guilty. This time the torture ceased and the man was taken to jail. Last night a dwelling occupied by Her bert's mother, caught fire and alter the flames were extinguished it was discover ed that the stairway in the house had been soaked with kerosene. Suspicion pointed to Herbert and his arrest and TROUBLE IN CAMP The Populists are in Arms Against the Domocrats to Block Legislation. DIVISION OF SPOILS THE ALLEGED CAUSE Populists Claim They Have Been Buncoed and for Revenge Will Hold up Democratic Measures. There is trouble in the fusion camp at Boise aud a party row of great dimensions on tapis. It is reliably reported that the populists have decided on reprisals against the democrats, to enforce the agreement over the division of state patronage. The plan is for the populists to act as a unit in killing off democratic measures. Their first shot was taken at the appor tionment bill, where, Tuesday evening, a general caucus of the fusionists, the populists objected to the measure giving 46 members to the house. The demo crats and silver republicans stood pat, and the outlook is that the democrats will ignore the populists. The latter will now have to fight it out as their attitude is more patronage or no more legislation. There is no doubt that the martial law resolution is also a feature of the fusion split. The populists still contend that such a resolution should be passed. The democrats oppose such a resolution and will turn it down in the general cancuc. Should they do so it is asserted that the populists will retaliate and open a gen eral warefare upon the democratic legis lation. The senate has passed the bill estab lishing the academy of Idaho at Poca tello, with an amendment by the author eliminating the maintainance appropria tion of $ 13,000 for the next two years. Provision will be made to cover the ex penses in the general appropriation bill. The senate has also passed the house bill making tli<* killing of live stock prima facie evidence of negligence, and ih.- senate hill allowing free holders and householders and their wives the right to vote at school bond elections. The committee of the whole took favor able action on the senate bill prohibiting the appointment of legislatora to salaried positions they helped to create, and the house bill giving trial judges enlarged power in taking testimony out of court. The senate has passed the bill appro priating 53,000 for the bridge aero a Sal mon river oh the Houston Challis road and in the committee of the whole took favorable action on the following senate bills: To prevent the spread of disease among stock, making the blowing up of buildings where life is not endangered a felony instead of a misdemeanor, and al lowing divorce in cases where the de fendant is confined in an asylum outside of the state. The house took favorable action on Munaon's bill prohibiting deficiency judgments. It is similar to tha bills shat have been killed biennially for many sessions. It is not believed it will paisa the senate. The committee of the whole also acted on the following measures: For a bridge acroas Salmon river between Blaine and Custer counties; for a road over Packer mountain, Boise county; to reimburse Nez Perce county for building the Kamiah grade;fora bridge scrota the Payette. Boise county. A bill was introduced for a bond iaane of $104,000 to cover the deficiencies al lowed by the state board of examinera from 1895 to 1900, inclusive, and to in clude $59,000 of claims growing ont of the Coeur d'Alene trouble. ^ The compromise Clearwater bill was brought in with majority and minority »«porta. T reise ta, of this county, signed The majority re ______ _______ the minority report, port was adopted. The bill is on its firm reading. The compromise take » j n the PotUtch prairie instead of the Nezperce prairie. In its present form the bill will be contested, a strong petition from the Potlatch protesting to segregation is al ready enroute to the capital. PROTEST FROM POTLATCH. In Arms Against County Division—Mass Meet ings to Be Held all Over That Section Satur day night. The Potlatch section of the country is greatly stirred up over the news from Boise that the amended county bill had been favorably reported and that the Pot latch prairie was included in the bill. Nine tenths of the people of that section are opposed to the measure and their sig natures are already attached to a protest which has already been forwarded to Boise. But this action has created real alarm aud there has been inaugurated a movement to sweep the whole country into mass meetings and send the protest to the legislature. Auditor Stookey has been in communi cation with several prominent citizens of the Potlatch over the telephone and learned from Fred Choate that masa meetings are to be held Saturday night at Tekeau, Cavendish and Southwick. The people are alarmed and will draft resolu tions of protest to be forwaided to Boise. They claim if the bill passes as drawn that the Potlatch country will be ruined. Their property would be called upon to hear the burden of taxes for the new county, as they would have practically all the deeded land thete would be in the new county. They claim that they have now, for several years, been heavily taxed to support the schools and build the roads of the reservation country, and now, just free from that excessive burden, if they are to be thrown into a new county, its support will practirally ruin them. The whole of the Potlatch is against the proposed bill and the citizens claim that residents of a few tie camps are the only signers for the county di vision matters. Since the county division matter at Boise has taken the turn it baa a» amend ed to take in the Potlatch, Mr, Gwinn,' deputy assessor, has gone through the books to ascertain bow much valuation was cut off by the proposed division. The bill as amended now takes in fonr townships in the Potlatch and a section of the reservation. The fonr townships are 37 and 38 in range i, east, and the same townships in rauge 1 west. The property valuation in these townships under the assessment of last year is $108, 317, an equal section of the reservation also segregated from this county had only an assessed valuation of $3,658, be ing assessed on the improvements only. All, or nearly all the land in the Potlatch is deeded laftd and assessable at its full value and on it would fell the burdens of supporting the new coupty. It would have to be taxed heavily to sup port a Urge section where only the im provements are asaeaaable. Sun Gazers Set Out N*w York, Feb. 28.— A party of scientists from the Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology aailed today from this port on the Wena to observe the total solar eclipse on May 17, 1901, near Pad aug, visible only in the Indian ocean. The party, under charge of Profeaaor Al fred E- Burton, will include Harrison W. Smith, of the department of phyrica, as photographer; George T. Hoamer and Gerald H. Matthes, interpreter. At Genora they will take the Dutch Line steamer Köningen Régentes, wiling di rect to Padang, carrying a party ae«-t by the Netherlands government. The ex penses of the expedition are borne pertly by subscriptions of friends of the insti tute, but are paid chiefly from the in come of e fund given by the lata Mrs. Edward Austin. Remarkable Escape. Butts, Mont., Feb. as —John Yocum, Tim Stevens and John Regan, employed tn the Rose mine, had the moat remarka- ble escape from death today iu the history of mining accidents in this camp. They entered the bucket to deaoend the shaft, 450 feet deep, the bucket wsa swung clear and tbe brakes on the hoisting ap- paratus refused to work. Tbe men de- scended at lightning speed to the bottom. There the bucket struck the boikltead and crashed through, Unding with its human freight in the slump. Yocum had one of his legs broken end the were ent and bruised. How they 1 death is a miracle. 1 v *1 -•—. m .. w •• . There will be 50,000 b am airek l eastern states dropped ink» i northwest this season.