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OFFICERS OF BURLEIGH COUNTY.
Sheriff H. P. Bogue
Treasurer E. H. Sperry
Auditor W. S. Moornouse
County Judge John Fort
Clerk of Court Walter Skelton
States Attorney E. S. Allen
Register of Deeds ........Chas. A. Johnson
Coroner John White
Superintendent of Schools C. D. Edlclt
Surveyor John Harold
Physician C.'A Ballard
County Commissioners—George A. Welsh,
Harvey. Harris, Gust W. Johnson
County Board of Health—Dr. W. A. Bent
ley, E. 8. Pierce. E. S. Allen.
Insanity Board—J. F. Fort, Dr. W. A.
Bentfey, E. S. Allen.
County Justices—Edgar Tlbbals, Edward
Rawllngs, Elvis Wood, John Clark.
County Constables—Patrick McHugh, John
Hubert, David Williams, Ole Satner.
BISMARCK CITY OFFICIALS.
Mayor Edw. G. Patterson
Clerk Henry W. Rtehholt
Treasurer S. M. Pye
Justice J. F. Fort
Attorney E. S. Allen
Aldermen—First ward, John White. M. .T.
Halloran Second ward, H. P. Bogue, E
S. Pierce Third ward, Walter Skelton,
J. A. Barnes Fourth ward, S. D. Rohrer,
W. H. Sanderson.
Chief of Police ,..P. McHugh
Night Watchman John Hubert
Chief of Fire Department ,Wm. Jaeger
Custodian of Engine P. McHugh
City Surveyor John Harold
Poundmaster Chas. White
PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND OFFICES.
School Board—Jos.' Hare, Harvey Harris,
H.
It.
MIchelson, Louis Larson, James
McDonald.
State Officials Offices at Capitol
County Officials—offices at courthouse ex­
cept as herein otherwise Indicated.
City Council—regular meetings first and
third Tuesdays or each month at city hall.
Chambers of W .H. Winchester, district
judge. First National Bank Building.
Office of County Judge Webb Block
Office of States Attorney Webb Block
Office of Mayor Sheridan House
Office of City Treasurer.. .First Nat. Bank
Office of City Clerk City Hall
Office of City Justice Webb Block
Office of County Justice City Hall
Office of Supt Schools.First Nat Bank Blk
U. S. Land Office ....First Nat Bank Blk
U. S. Surveyor General Webb Block
U. S. court rooms Webb Block
U. S. Commissioner, J. R. Gage, First Na­
tional Bank Block.
Deputy U. S. Marshal E. G. Patterson
United States Weather Bureau, (and state
weather and crop service) B. H.
lironson, director, government reserva*
tlon, West Main street.
(Postoffice, Agatha G. Patterson, postmas­
ter, Webb Block.
St. Alexius Hospital ....Main & Sixth Sts
Acting Assistant U. S. Marine Hospital Sur­
geon, F. R. Smyth, First Nat. Bank Blk.
United States Board of Pension Examining
Surgeons—Dr. G. A. Stark, president Dr.
Ballard, secretary. Board meets the
first ana third Mondays of each-month at
the office of Dr. Ballard, First National
Bank Block.
Western Union Telegraph office, Main and
Fourth streets.
Authorized Northern Pacific Surgeons—F.
R. Smyth, Bismarck G. B. Furniss, Man
dan.
Officer in charge of construction of new mili­
tary post, Major E. B.Robertson, TJ. S. A.
Resident engineer, new military post, T. H.
Humphreys, Bismarck Bank block.
TERMS OF DISTRICT COURT—SIXTH
DISTRICT.
First Subdivision—At Bismarck, third Tues­
day in May and fourth Tuesday in No­
vember.
Second Subdivision—At Medora, Billings
County two terms, at such times as judge
shall direct.
Third Subdivision—A Willlamsport, Em­
mons county two terms, at such time as
the judge shall direct
Fourth Subdivision—At Steele, Kidder
county third Tuesday In June and second
Tuesday in January.
Fifth Subdivision—At Stanton, Mercer
county two terms, at such times as the
judge shall direct
Sixth Subdivision—At Washburn, McLean
county two terms, at such times as the
judge shall direct
8eventh Subdivision—At Mandan, Morton
county third Tuesday In April and first
Wednesday after the first Monday in No­
vember.
Eighth Subdivision—At Sanger, Oliver
county two terms, at such times as the
judge shall direct
Ninth Subdivision—At Dickinson, Stark
county first Tuesday in April and second
Tuesday in September.
Hon. W. H. Winchester,- judge chambers
In First National Bank Block.
R. M. Tuttle, Stenographer.
MTATT.fi AND '.TRANSPORTATION.
MAILS CLOSE.
Eastern via N. P. No. 2—7:30 p, m.
Westernivia N. P. No. 1—ll:45.a.'m.
Office hours of postoffice. general delivery,
a. m. to 7:80 p. ra., dally except Sunday
DOX delivery from 7 a. m. to li p. m. dally.
On SULday the- general delivery Is open
between 1:30 p. m. and 2:30 p. m. Gen­
eral- delivery is closed while mall is being
distributed after arrival of trains each way.
WEST BOUND.
No. 1- Leaves St. Paul at 10:85 p. m. Fargo,
6:15 a. m.. Valley City, 7:50 a* m. Jamestown,
8:58 a. ra. *Tappen, 10:22 Dawson, 10:30
Steele 10:49: *McKenzie, 11:45 'Burleigh,
11 52 a. m. Bismarck, 12:12 p. m.
BAST BOUND.
No. 2—Leaves Mandan, 11:55 a.m. Bismarck,
12:10 a. m. *Burleigh, 12 -.35 a. m. *McKenzie,
.11:43 a. m, Sterling, 12:53a.m. Steele, 1:43
a.m. Dawson, 2:05 a. m. Jamestown, 3:45
a. m. Valley City, 4:45 a. m. Fargo, 4 .-00
a. m. St. Paul. 8 p. m.
Passengers can obtain permits of agent
to ride on some way freights each way.
STAGE LINES.
For Fort Yates, way points and connections.
Including Glencoe, LIvona, Campbell, La
every morning except Sunday returning
leaves Fort Yates at 7 a. m., arriving In.
Bismarck about 6 p. m.
For Fort Berthold, Coal Harbor, Turtle
Lake, Weller. Washburn, Painted Woods,
Falconer, Elbow Woods, and way
points, stage leaves every morning except
Sunday returning leaves Berthold every
morning, arriving In Bismarck about 6
p. m.
For Slaughter, Conger, Crofte, Cromwell
and Francis and way points, stage leaves
J? at 8 a. m, Mondays and Fridays return
"»tag arrives In Bismarck Tuesdays juid
Saturdays. 1^%
MISSOURI RIVER PACKETS.
Benton Transportation Company, I. P.
.4,w, Baker, general superintendent steamers
I' leave weekly during navigation season
,Jfi for Standing Rock, Fort Yatea. Cannon
&V Ball and way points, anfl to Washburn,
T'.V Coal Harbor, Mannhaven and up river
points, as per special announcement.
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EASI1 ST. Loins, Ills., Jan. 16.—Mrs.
Christina Harth emerged from a trance
daring the morning to find herself un­
der process of being embalmed and
prepared for the grave. Tbe discovery
of life $as the result of the merest acci­
dent and astounded th* nndertaker^^
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Former Resident Director Hears
That Buller Has Lost
Again.
General Opinion in London That
a Battle Is at Least
Due.
Borne Momentons Changes in Dis­
position of Boer Forces
Imminent.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—A telegram from
Newport, Wales, says Rutherford Har­
ris, formerly resident director in South
Africa of the British South Africa
company, has received a cablegram to
the effect that General Buller has suf­
fered another reverse.
The war office has no information to
enable it to confirm or deny the dis­
patch said to have been received by
Mr. Rutherford Harris.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—Up to the present,
the reported crossing of the Tugela
river by General Warren's division re­
mains but rumor. Nevertheless, the
whole tenor of Buch news as has drib­
bled in from South Africa during the
last 48 hours indicates that a combined
forward movement of a comprehensive
character is proceeding. It is not nec­
essary to believe tne unconfirmed sto­
ries of the Boers being in full retreat
from Colenso because it has been
learned that a column is proceeding via
Weenan to Helpmaakar to cut off their
retreat. But at the same time credible
information from many sources indis­
putably points to momentous changes
in the disposition of the Republican
forces. Advices from Pietermaritz
burg, dated Saturday, Jan. 13, say that
since their defeat on Jan. 6, the Boers
have befen removing their guns from
the positions south of Ladysmith. The
same dispatch confirms the report that
the Thirteenth Hussars reached Grob
ler's Kloof without meeting the Boers.
As the trenches of Grobler's Kloof were
perhaps the strongest position held by
the burghers, their vacation had con­
siderably astonished the British.
They Want the Jam.
Merchants ,&t Pietermaritzburg have
received messages from Ladysmith say­
ing "Bring up jam," etc., indicating
that their Ladysmith's agents antici­
pated an immediate opening of commu­
nication, while Ladysmith also helio
graphed the belief prevalent there Jan.
18, that the Boers were moving and
concentrating their forces elsewhere.
As corroborative of the British activity
in the direction of the relief of Lady­
smith, a dispatch has been received in
London from General Buller to the
effect that he expected all the disposi­
tions for asynchronous movement of
the various columns against the besieg­
ers would be completed Monday morn­
ing. Under these circumstances, it is
considered quite probable that the ad­
vance on the beleagured town has com­
menced and that fighting is progrebs
ing. Optimists go so far as to say that
it is expected that Ladysmith will be
relieved by night if all goes well. The
military men are. divided in opinion as
to whether General Buller is at Spring­
field or personally directing the flank
movement from Weenen. The officials
are inclined to credit the report that
the British have crossed the Tugela
river in that direction, although there
is no confirmation of the information,
and altogether there is a more Hopeful
feeling in official circles.
There is little news of importance
from elsewhere. General French's
forces have succeeded in dragging a 15
pounder to the summit of the steep,
rocky Coleskbpf, 1,000 feet above the
surrounding plain and Jan. 12, they
successfully routed a Boer camp on the
plain three miles away from Storm
etroom.
An interesting item of n^ws is that
800 Boers escorting a party of reapers,
have successfully garnered all the crops
within two miles of the colonial camp
at Bird's river, the British force being
too weak to interfere,
BOERS MUST SUCCEED.
President Krager Affirm* That Prori
dence
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on Their Old*.
PBBTOBIA, Thursday, Jan. 11.—Presi­
dent Kruger, in the course of a stirring
address just issued to the burghers, af­
firms that Providence is on their aide,
that their cause is a just one and that
they must succeed.
The official list of the Boeif casualties
in the attack on Ladysmith shows 26
killed and 77 wounded. These figures
are described as the "first return."
The embargo at Delagoa Bay upon
Transvaal imports is the question Of the
hour with the burghers. If-this is not
removed it is stated that steps will be
taken prejudicial to prisoners and
aliens.
FRENCH ADVANCES.
British Occupy Sltngerafonteln, ttie
Boers Retiring.
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strong lorce or rarotsn troops advanced
during the morning under cover of a
brisk artillery fire and encamped at
Slingersfontein, on the Boers' eastern
flank. The Boer patrols retired, but
subsequently a body of Boers attempted
to seize the position, threatening com­
munication between the British en­
campment and Rensburg. The iftew
Zealanders, with a brilliant dash, frus­
trated the attempt. They race 4 and
Beized the position first and fired alleys
at the enemy, who retired in the direc­
tion of Colesberg.
DESPERATE FIGHTING.
Special Dispatch Describes the Battle
at Ladysmith.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—A special dispatch
from the Hoofd laager at Ladysmith,
dated Jan. 9, describing the assault on
Jan. 6 upon Ladysmith, says: 4
"The British made no attempt to hold
the first line of breastworks, but made
an exceedingly stubborn resistance at
the next row. Every inch was stub­
bornly contested and conspicuous brav­
ery was displayed on both sides.
"After 10 o'clock the British artillery
fire slackened and a terrible individual
contest ensued among the riflemen for
the possession of Plat-Rand ridge. At
noon a heavy thunder storm inter­
rupted the battle, lasting for two
hours.
"Although the burghers succeeded
in ultimately gaining possession of
most of the British positions on the
western side of the Plat-Rand, they
were finally obliged to retire from most
of the ground they occupied. The Brit­
ish were most strongly entrenched,
their redoubts skillfully loopholed and
the combatants were so close that rifles
were frequently fired at arm's length.
It was a hand to hand encounter. The
men on both sides fought like demons
and the horror and bewilderment of
the scene could scarcely be realized."
DISPATCH FFIOM ROBERTS.
Commander-in-Chief Reports No Change
In the Situation.
LONDON, Jan. 16.—The war office has
issued a dispatch from Field Marshal
Roberts, saying:
"There is no change in the situation."
,The war office simultaneously issued
the following:
"Methuen's cavalry reconnoissance
returned on Jan. 11. Went 25 miles
into Free State. Country clear of en­
emy, except patrols.
"All quiet at Modder River.
"French reconnoitred around the en­
emy's left flank on Jan. 10. Advanced
from Slugger's farm on Jan. 11, with
cavalry and horse artillery to bombard
Bo^r laager east of Colesberg Junction,
but was unable to outflank the enemy.
"Gatacre reports no change.
"All well on Dec. 28 at Mafeking."
Straightening the Iiine.
MITCHELL, Ind., Jan. 16.—The Balti­
more and Ohio Southwestern is spend­
ing $1,500,000 straightening and short­
ening its line through Indiana five
miles, preparatory to cutting tbe sched­
ule between St. Louis and Cincinnati
from 9 to 8 hours.
OCCUPIED BY THE FRENCH.
Warships Take Possession of Kwong
Chan Wan Bay.
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 16.—The
steamer Elm Branch brings news from
Shanghai that French warships have
taken possession of Kwong Chau Wan
bay, where a boundary dispute has been
pending for several months.
The French commenced operations
by seizing two Chinese gunboats, de­
stroying their guns and ammunition
and taking the officers aboard the
French ship as prisoners. The war­
ships. then shelled 20 Chinese villages,
compelling the Chinese troops to move
back.
A four hours' battle took place at
Yegluoe, in which the French lost four
killed and 28 wounded. The Chinese
loss was heavier. After the Chinese
retreated the French forces were di­
vided into four expeditions, which
pillaged and burned many villages on
their march back to the seashore.
Several mandarins surrendered to pre­
vent the burning of their towns. They
are held as hostages to prevent retali­
ation by the natives.
DEED OF A LONE ROBBER.
Held Hp Two Kestanrants In the Ueart
of Knusa* City.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 16.—In true West­
ern fashion, alone robber, masked and
armed, cleaned out two restaurants in
the center of the city at 6 a, 111. under
the glare of an electric light. In Lewis'
restaurant at 1910 Walnut street, he
pointed a pistol at the cashier and
tapped the register, while he ke his
revolver in plain view of the customers
eating nearby. Skipping across the
street to the restaurant of Robert Mc
Clintock the robber covered the cashier
there and oommanded two waiters and
three oustomers to hold up their hands.
They complied promptly and the rob­
ber emptied the register in a twinkling.
He pocketed the entire contents, $146,
and backing oat of the door escaped.
American Good* Ralea«*d.'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Secretary of
State Hay Baid that the British govern­
ment had released the American goods
on the Dutch vessel Maria and that
they were now in Delagoa Bay. The
goods consist of flour and other pro
Visions, which the English authorities
seised as contraband of war intended
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Again Appeals to Con­
gress
For Power to Enforce Some ol
Its Rulings Regarding
Rates.
Unless Moderate Measures Are
Enacted Radical Ones Are
Inevitable.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Its.—The inter­
state cdmmerce commission has made
public its 18th annual report. The
feature of the report is tbe strong plea
that congress uphold the hands of the
commission by amendments making
the interstate commerce law more
effective. The report says that the
commission a year ago called attention
to the fact that in vital respects the
present law has proved defective and
inadequate, and until further legisla­
tion is provided the best efforts at reg­
ulation must be feeble and disappoint­
ing. The requests of the commission
for needful amendments have been
supported by petitions and memorials
from agricultural, manufacturing and
commercial interests throughout the
country, yet, says the report, not a line
of the statute has been changed, and
none of the burdensome conditions
which call for relief have been removed
or modified.
Need Becomes More Imperative.
The existing situation and the devel­
opments of the past year, it is added
render more imperative than ever be­
fore the necessity for speedy and suit­
able legislation. Nine-tenths of the
people know that any railroad com­
pany can charge for its service what­
ever it pleases, and as much as it
pleases, without any real power of this
commission or any other tribunal or
court to limit the amount of such
charge for the future, when complaint
is made by an aggrieved shipper, and
they are substantially of one mind in
desiring that this and other defects in
the statutes be properly remedied.
Shippers, also, have been practically
unanimous in favor of a single classifi­
cation of freights, one which will be
uniform for all roads and all sections
of the country, and reasonably stable
when established.
Thte or Something More Badioal.
This general public dissatisfaction
has been frecmently expressed in reso­
lutions of various national organiza­
tions, and at a conference in Chicago
last November, attended by representa­
tives from a number of national asso­
ciations of manufacturers, merchants
and others, a bill embracing the more
important amendments recommended
by the commission was approved as
the measure which would best meet
the requirements of business and com­
mercial interests. This bill Senator
Oullom has introduced, and the report
significantly suggests whether contin­
ued failure to perfect the regulation
statute on reasonable lines will not
soon result in an irresistible demand
for the most radical and drastic legis­
lation.
Continuing, it adds:
Vast Schemes of Consolidation Afoot.
"It is a matter of common knowl­
edge that vast schemes or railway con­
trol are now in process of consumma­
tion, and that the competition of rival
lines is to be restrained by these com­
binations. While this movement has
not yet found full expression in the ac­
tual consolidation of railroad corpora­
tions, enough has transpired to disclose
a unification of financial interests which
will dominate the management and
harmonize tne operations of lines here­
tofore independent and competitive.
This is today the most noticeable and
important feature of the railway situa­
tion. If the plans already foreshad­
owed are brought to effective results
and others of similar scope are carried
to execution, there will be a vast cen­
tralization of railroad properties, with
all the power involved in snch far
reaching combinations, yet uncontrolled
by any public authority which can be
efficiently exerted. The restraints of
competition upon excessive and unjust
rates will, .in this way, be avoided, and
whatever evils may result will be rem
edyless under existing laws."
cnioaffoaaa nay atg LanaDcr Cot.
MABINETTE, Wis., Jan. 16.—The
Perley-Lowe Company of Chicago has
purchased the season's out of the H.
Witbeck company of this city. The
deal involves a consideration of over
$500,000, and is the largest one made
this year. It will undoubtedly stand
as one of the largest angle deals for
1900,
Burled by Wife No. 9.
Sioux CITY, la., Jan 16.—The re­
mains of Dr. Gustave Mahe, whose
body two wives claimed, was buried
during che day by wife No. 2. Although
wife No. 1 in San Francisco demanded
custody of the remains local officials
decided to issue a burial permit to wife
No. 2, and she had charge ef the cexe
monioii
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Zx.Hlnliter Barrett Says the Senator*!
Speech Was Cabled to Manila.
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—John Barrett, ex
United States minister to Siam, for the
first time publicly named Senator Hoai
at Lake Forest university as the United
States senator whose anti-expansion
speech was cabled to Hong Kong and
subsequently put into the hands of the
Filipino soldiers, causing, as Mr. Bar­
rett believed, the open insurrection. It
appeared further from the ex-minister'e
speech that the government has dis­
covered privately the stages by which
the anti-expansion address reached
Luzon.
In the course of his address, which
was on the general subject of the
Philippines, the speaker said it had
been discovered in the government in­
vestigation that Senator Hoar's speech
was cabled in cipher and in fragments
to Paris where it was put together and
forwarded to Hong Kong. The message
included several thousand words and
the cost for transmission was said to
have been $4,000. It interested the
government to know what friends the
Filipinos had at this time who were in
a position to send the message.
Sent to the Filipino Officer*.
"I was in Hong Kong at the time,"
said Mr. Barrett, "and I remember the
incident distinctly. I was coming down
stairs in the hotel when I met the
president of the Hong Kong junta and
he had in his hand the long dispatch he
had just received. It gave a large part
of Senator Hoar's speech in full and a
summary of the rest of it. I asked the
president what he was going to do with
it, and he told me that he meant to
send it to the officers of the army in the
Philippines. He was urged not to do
so, but he protested that it had been
printed in the United States and was
public property.
"Four days after that speech had
been delivered it was in the hands of
those who saw an opportunity to make
political capital of it. The speech was
published and distributed among the
soldiers and believe it was the culmi­
nating influence that brought about
the open insurrection. This speech, you
must remember, was delivered before
there was an open insurrection."
Senator Boar Is Silent.
BOSTON, Jan. 1 .—Senator Hoar de­
clined to take any notice of the state­
ment attributed to Mr. Barrett, ex
minister to Siam, in an address on the
Philippine question. The senator said
that General Otis' reports give him the
fullest accounts of the events that led
to hostilities, and that he expects, as
he has already given notice, to deal
with the whole matter in the senate.
SUGGESTED BY MERRIAM.
Fitrmtri Should Prepare Accurate Sta*
tiatios For £nameraton.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Director Mer
riam suggests to the agriculturists of
the country that they use some of their
spare time between now and June next
in thoroughly preparing themselves to
answer promptly and accurately the
questions relative to the acreage, quan­
tity and value of crops the quantity
and value of all farm products, animal
and vegetable the cost of fertilisers
and farm labor, and in fact all the
items of farm operations for the calen­
dar year 1899, which the census enu­
merators are by law compelled to as­
certain. This, he says, will result in
a full and accurate census.
CREES ARE QUIET.
Reports That Canadian Indians Were
Excited Over Boer War Denied*
OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 16.—Reports
having become current of excitement
among the Indians of the North, the
home of the Crees, over the Transvaal
war, on the alleged grounds that the
grievances of the Boers were similar to
those which provoked the rebellion of
1885, in the Canadian Northwest, Hon.
Clifford Sifton, minister of the interior
ordered and the Indian agent at Mon
don, reports that he has visited five
agencies and that the Indians are ig­
norant that there is a war in South
Africa. He has also met a reliable
man who came from Lesser Slave Lake,
who gave a flat' denial to the report.
The Indians were all quiet and con­
tented.
EXCITED ABOUT LUMPY JAW
An Entire Herd of Wisconsin Cattle
May Have to Be Killed.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis., Jan. 16.—
The state veterinary surgeon has been
visitiug the farm of H. M. Swarthout,
several miles south of here, in La
Crosse county. He was called there tc
investigate the severe cases of lumpy
jaw in the large stock of cattle on Mr.
Swarthout's dairy farm. The eniiri
herd seem to be affected, and there will
be a large number of them killed.
There are isolated cases on several
other farms, but of a milder form. 1:
is causing a great deal of excitement
among the farmers in that vicinit"
JAPAN IN CHINA.
Offers to Eitablith a Military Academy
to Bdaeata Chinese soldiers.
PKKIN, Jan. 16.— A significant sign of
the part Japan hopes to play in the fu­
ture in China is that the Japanese gov­
ernment has definitely offered to estab­
lish a military academy at Pekin, to
educate ChitteSe under /Japanese of­
ficers. It is said that China ia favora
bly disposed towards this Drooosition.
FIVE CENTS
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FLOODS SUBSIDE
Frost Comes to the Rescue oi
People of Idaho and Wash­
ington,
Checking What Promised to Be
Exceedingly Disastrous
Floods.
Large Amount of Railroad Track
Washed Ont—Towns in
Danger.
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 16.—The floods
in the Potlatch and Clear Water rivers
are receding. The wires to the Ken
drick and Julietta districts are down,
hence meager information comes from
there, but enough to show that no
further damage has been done. Lewis
ton has mail for the first time in three
days. All traveling in thpt vicinity is
by wagons. Trains are everywhere
tied up in the valleys. The line of road
from Kendrick to Lewiston on the
Northern Pacific is obliterated in many
places, and no trains will run for two
weeks on that portion of the branch.
The weather in Eastern Washington is
cooler, and all danger from further
floods is believed to be passed.
THREE DAYS DOWNPOUR.
Washington and Idaho Rivers Become
Basing Torrents.
TACOMA, Jan. 16.—A downpour of
rain for three days, together with a pre­
vailing Chinook wind, melted the
snow and suddenly flooded several
western Washington valleys and a
great portion of lyatah county, Idaho.
Hundreds of farms in Puyallup, Stuck
and White river valleys are under
water and the mountain streams are
raging torrents. The streets of Kent,
lying on the banks of the White river,
are flooded, and for a distance
of three miles below town the
river is out of its bank. The county
bridge has been washed out at Sumner
and two others are damaged. The
Stuck has cut anew channel for itself
across the Maloney fruit farm and into
the Puyallup.
The Northern Pacific has been unable
to get a westbound passenger train
into Tacoma since noon Friday.
Green river left its banks at Canton
and tore out a long piece of track along
the mountain side, where the work of
rebuilding is slow and difficult.
A special from Kendrick, Ida., states
that three children of Charles Ham
blin and two Chinamen are reported to
have been drowned there.
Whole Train Carried Away.
A Northern Pacific freight train was
caught by rushing waters in the can­
yon between Moscow and Kendrick and
swept into the raging torrent. The train
crew escaped.
Kendrick, a town of about 600 people,
situated on the fiat where the Potlatch
and Bear creek converge in a narrow
canyon, suffered most. With a rush
the waters engulfed the town and 30
frame business houses and a number of
dwellings were soon floating down the
Potlatch river. So rapid was the rise
of the water that many people were
caught in the flood and rescued with
difficulty. Communication with the
flooded district by wire or rail has been
completely cut off and details as to loss
of life are unobtainable.
The town of Juliaetta, also on the
Potlatch, when last heard from before
the wires went down, was. immi­
nent danger.
Lewiston reports that the Snake and
Clearwater rivers are rising rapidly
and threaten to overflow vast territory.
A Juliaetta (Ida.) special says that for
miles along the Potlatch there is no
vestige of track, ties or roadbed. Some
believe the Northern Pacific will not be
able to run trains over the branch be­
fore March. One informant says every
bridge and yard of track between Julia­
etta and Clearwater rivers has been
washed out.
WOMEN LABOR BARKED.
Action Taken by the Chicago Btildlair
Material Trades CounetL
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Woman labor
to be abolished in all factories where
building material is produced in Chi­
cago, if a resolution passed by the
Building Material Trades' council can.
be made effective. The resolutions
provide that each of the organizations
affiliated with the council demand that
a clause be inserted in all union con­
tracts hereafter specifying that no
woman be employed in the shops.
There are now 200 women at work in
the various factories, for the most part
as metal polishers and buffers and on
plumbers'supplies.
Half of "Bareelona Bedfast.
BARCELONA, Jan. 16.—An epidemic
of grippe has seised the town the mor­
tality has increased. Half the popula­
tion is bedfast and in the store# and
workshops, only a quarter of tike
wud number of employes are working.
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