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Cbe £halaka Eagle.
O. A. DAHL, Publisher.
EKALAKA. MONTANA
NEWS Of WEjK_SUMMARIZ£D
Important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
George Herbert McCord, a well
Itnown landscape artist, died from
apoplexy in his studio in New York.
Mrs. Fanny Friedman is dead in
New York at the age of 112 years.
She was born in Hungary Jan. 3, 1797,
and has been ill only a few days.
Gen. Sir O'Moore Creagh has been
appointed commander-in-chief in lu
clia, to succeed Gen. Lord Kitchener
when the latter retires in August.
Rev 1 . James Stuari Dickson, corre
pponding secretary of the college
board of the Presbyterian church,
d'ed at East Orange, N. J. He was
fifty years old.
Co 1 . Samuel H. Stone, former state
auditor of Kentucky, died at his home
in Louisville, aged fifty-nine years.
He v,-as one of the most brilliant men
in Kentucky.
Otho Herbert Dilley. musician, di
rector and composer of popular
Ftngs. died from consumption at his
heme in S'necaville. Ohio. He was
thirty-five years old.
Joseph H. Russell, who went to
Montana as a prospector in 1S67. is
dead f.t Helena. At one time he dis
posed of mining property to James J.
Hill and the lute Col. Broadwater for
$110,010.
The president has withdrawn the
r.cm'nation of William G. Wheeler to
lie United States attorney for the
Western district of Wisconsin. Mr.
Wheeler bas accepted a more lucra
tive rosit-on as attorney for the Chi
nt o fz North-Western railway iu
Wise c m in.
ACCIDENTAL HAPPENINGS.
A slight scratch from a nail on his
thumb nearly a month ago resulted
in the death from lockjaw ot Dr. J. O.
Joily of Lixon, Neb.
Three men were killed when 100
quaits of nitroglycerin exploded in
tbe construction camp of Boxley &
Can enter at Blue Sulphur. W. Ya.
When driving near Laporte, Iowa,
Benjamin Brandt, sixteen years old,
was killed by a bolt of lightning that
also kille d the horses and demolished
the buggy.
Jchn Ott of Heidlerslmrg, a suburb
of Pittsburg, carried his father and
mother out of their burning home only
to find that his father was badly burn'
ed and Iiis mother was dead .
As ;i result of playing with matches
Stephen Keefe, ihree years old, was
burned to death in Washington. Mrs.
Mamie Keefe. his mother, was badly
burned in an effort to save his life.
Will L. Payne of Lansing, Mich., a
stockman, was killed and six others
injured, one seriously, in a rear-end
collision between two Union Pacific
Mock trains in the yards at Fremont,
Neb.
The establishment of the Zellerbach
Paper company in North Los Angeles
was burned, the loss being estimated
at $300,000. The fire for a time threat
ened the center of the wholesale dis
trict.
When trying to save her two chil
dren. Mrs. Graz ia Pettinate of New
York was burned ta death, following
the explosion of a can of kerosene,
with which she had attempted to
quicken the kitchen fire.
Kenneth English, a junior in the
Marion, Iowa, high school, while at
tempting to board a moving freight
train, lost his footing and was struck
on the head by a car and received in
juries from which he died.
Mary Stottenberg. the fourteen-year
old daughter of Fred Stottenberg, a
farmer living near Mason City, Iowa,
was run down by an auto. Both
wheels passed over her body and phy
sicians say she will not recover.
CRIMES.
Armed with a revolver, a man
smashed the window of Groth's jewel
ry store at Montreal and escaped with
a tray containing diamonds valued at
$3,000.
Two little girls were injured in a
fight between opposing factions of the
German Evangelical church at Globe
ville, a suburb of Denver. A dozen
shots were fired.
Five years in the Fort Leavenworth
penitentiary was the sent* nee imposed
upon Thomas M. Hayes, former re
ceiving teller of the- American Nation
al bank of Washington, convivtcd of
embezzlement.
Discovery was made at Columbus,
Ohio, that two safes in the office of
H. G. Fitzgerald & Co. dentists, had
been picked by professionals and rob
bed of gold filling mite: i;,1, said to
be worth £2,300.
ROCHESTER SWEPT
BVHERCE FIRE
Several Sections of City De=
stroyed, Causing Damage of
About Half a Million.
FAMI1IES ARE HOMELESS
Militiamen Guard the Burned Districts
—Several Firemen Hurt by
Falling Walls.
Rochester, N. Y„ April 15.—Swept
by a twenty-five-mile gale, fire yester
day destroyed several sections of the
city and did damage estimated at half
a million dollars. For a time it was
thought a great portion of the city
would be swept, and aid was summon
ed from Buffalo and Syracuse.
One hundred families are homeless
and militiamen are guarding what lit
tle the people saved of their house
hold effects.
Call for Relief.
Mayor Edgerton has issued a call
for relief funds for these families.
Some are quartered in precinct
houses, and a laige number are spend
ing the night in a public school. A
heavy rain set in at 0 o'clock last
night, and while it helped in extin
guishing the smoldering ruins, it was
a hardship on the homeless. Thiev
ing, which started early in the day,
has been stopped by the militia.
Because of the numerous fires in
Rochester recently the board of fire
underwriters lias Increased rates here
c li all buildings except dwellings 25
rents on every $100. The increase
wuit into effect at 5 o'clock yester
day. The Palmer building, a four
• tory brick structure devoted to man
ufacturing interests, at Main and
Gibbs streets, was the starting point
of the conflagration, which spread
over a wide area, and then jumped
r.caily a mile and started a second
series of fires.
Fifty Homes Burned.
Buildings destroyed, in addition to
about fifty residences, were the Pal
mer building. Temple B'rith Kodesh,
Fiist Reformed Church of America,
the Ward apartments and First Ger
man Luther Zion church. The St. Pe
ter's Presbyterian church, the Palmer
lumber yards and several small firms
on Main street were damaged.
Several firemen were injured by
falling walls or were overcome by
smoke, but none was seriously hurt.
Rochester is terror-stricken. Yes
terday's conflagration was the culmi
nation of an uninterrupted series of
fires, many of which have been charg
ed to incendiarism. The flames are
still smoldering in dozens of places
and the wind is increasing in veioc
ity.
WILL HAVE 13 IN JURY BOX.
Judge Seeks« to Prevent Failure of the
Calhoun Case.
San Francisco, April 15.—Thirteen
Jurors will hear the evidence in the
case of Patrick Calhoun, president of
the United Railroads, charged with of
fei ing a bribe to a former supervisor.
Provision for the odd juror was made
yesterday by Superior Judge Lawlor
and atter the defense had opposed any
such departure.
In rendering Iiis decision the court
expressed a determination not to en
danger tbe work of the thirteen
weeks by neglecting any precaution
that might insure an uninterrupted
trial.
WHEAT AGAIN GOES UP.
New High Record Marks for All Deliv
eries.
Chicago, April 15. — Wheat prices
cgain rose yesterday to new high
record marks for all deliveries, July
advancing to $1.17 1-2 and September
to $1.01)1-2 per bushel. At the same
time the May option sold at $1.28. The
market slumped sharply on realizing
sales, but regained part of the loss.
At the close prices were 3-4®7-8c low
er to 1 l-4c higher compared with final
quotations of the previous day. Corn
and oats closed easy and provisions
were steady.
Trachina Fatal to Six.
Sioux City, Iowa, April 14. — Three
persons are dead and three others are
at the point of death in the German
Lutheran hospital here as a result of
eating trachina infected pork sausage
k st Thursday. All are members of the
n.i \ of John Kolpin, a Galva (Iowa)
druggist.
Woman Kills Rival.
Muskogee, Okla., April 15. — Mrs.
('rant Huddkston, mother of six ehil
dr< n. last night shot and killed Miss
re ilah Cox, whom she charged with
; lie rating her husband's affections,
lludd'.eston witnessed the shootine.
ALL READY FOR DRAINAGE WORK
Commission Has Surveys, Plans and
Estimate» Prepared.
All preparations for a big season's
work of the^ state drainage commis
sion have been made. Everything has
been planned,"ditches surveyed, all es
timates made aud maps and plans
drawn. Work will begin in earnest
immediately after the passage of the
appropriation bill fixing the amount
available for drainage.
The commission expects no less
than it received from the last legisla
ture two years ago, when it was given
$100,000 for each year.
All ditches for draining state lands
have been surveyed in St. Louis, Ait
kin, Hubbard, Marshall, Rosaau, Kitt
son and Polk counties.
About ten co-operative ditches,
which are built by the state with the
co-operation of counties in the im
provement of river channels, have
been planned.
The state land ditches, built by di
rect assessments in which the state
pays ' pro rata portion of the cost,
have been surveyed in localities where
the land if drained, will be immedi
ately available for agricultural pur
poses.
No ditches have been planned so
far in lands heavily timbered, the
work being confined to meadows and
swamp lands.
Several of the projects under con
sideration will, if carried out, entire
ly exhaust the appropriation for one
,vear. Contracts have been delayed
awaiting the appropriations and will
not be let for about two months. This
wait has caused a delay in the entire
system of the'work.
The commission is at present seek
ing a plan whereby the work will not
be needlessly delayed pending action
by the legislature. It is thought that
the appropriations can just as well be
made several years in advance.
ARREST FORMER OFFICIAL.
Extradition Papers Issued for Former
Treasurer of Beltrami County.
Oliver J. Shinn, former treasurer of
ßeltrami county, who is accused ol
having decamped six years ago with
nearly $400 of the state's cash, has
been arrested at Portland, Ore., and
will be brought back to face trial.
Extradition papers have been Issued
by Gov. Johnson to the governor oi
Oregon, and Sheriff Hazen of Be
midji is on his way to secure the fu
gitive.
Shinn is charged with having col
lected $355.40 interest on June 1, 1903,
on state timber, fro/i the J. Niels
Lumber company, while treasurer ol
Beltrami county. By tearing a receipt
from the back of his regular book he
evaded notice for some time, it is said
W hen discovered he fled and was not
heard from until the authorities ar
rested him at Portland. Steps were
taken immediately to bring him back,
Shinn's sureties made up the loss
of $355.40, with interest of $115.40,
and have been trying to locate him
ever since. The man was well liked
in the community and many would not
believe that he taken the cash until
after he had failed to show up.
MAKES NEW BUTTER PRIZE.
A new feature is to be added to the
butter scoring contests this year, and
known as the "improvement" contest.
The idea is to give a prize to the con
testant who shows the largest per
centage of gain this year over his
record for last year, irrespective of
whether he stands near the top or the
bottom of the list.
The state dairy and food commission
believes that this will supply an in
centive to the man who did not win
any prizes last year to strain every
nerve to better his dairy products this
year.
Last year about 200 better and
cheescniakers took part at different
times, although only eighty-five en
tered in all six contests. The first
pi'ize in each of the three classes,
whole milk, butter, hand separator
butter and cheese, was a trip to New
York, and the second a trip to Chicago.
Arrangements are now being made for
the contests, the first of which will
probably be held at the Booth cold
storage warehouse, St. Paul, about the
middle of next month.
NO RACE SUICIDE HERE.
Vital statistics for lf)08 showed up
well in comparison with those of pre
vious years. The state department of
public health reports that in the past
year there was 44,274 births and 22,
1G0 deaths.
"No race suicide here," said Dr. H.
M. Bracken, gloating over the com
plete nature of the report. "I think
that the great increase in the number
of reported births and deaths is due
largely to the operation of the new
law which has been in force during
ti e past year, forbidding the burial of
a body without a burial permit.
Let i oit Minn., April 15.—The body
of K. T. Olsen, a bachelor, fifty-three
years eld, iiving near Westbury, was
discovered by Soo section men near
C< 11a way. Three passenger trains
passed over the body before it waa
discovered.
UNITED ATTACK ON
INTERSTATE BOARD
Western Railroads Combine
Test Constitutionality of
Commission's Acts.
LUMBER CASE USED AS TfST
St. Paul, April 15—A united attack
through the United States courts
against the interstate commerce com
mission as an institution was begun
before Judge Frederick N. Dickson,
special master in chancery, in the
federal circuit court yesterday morn
ing by a combination of the Union Pa
cific. Great Northern and Northern
Pacific, and, with the exception of the
Santa Fe and the Gould lines, every
other railroad operating west of the
Missouri river.
A final and conclusive decision by
the United States supreme court, to
the effect that the powers and func
tions authorized by congress and ex
ercised by the commission are uncon
stitutional, is what the carriers are
after, and their army of lawyers here
claim to have a strong case.
Lumber Case as Fulcrum.
A recent meeting of the commission
is to be used as a test of the constitu
tionality of tiie authority of that body.
This ruling is conceded to be a typical
one and one 011 which a decision by
the highest tribunal of the nation
would be vital. The case is the one
in which the commission ordered the
Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and
Great Northern and other Western
lailroads to reduce the freight rates
on lumber shipped eastward frc.m the
Pacific coast. These rates the roads
had increased on what they claim to
have been justifiable grounds. The in
crease amounted to 10 cents per hun
dred. The commission ordered that
the original rates be restored west of
the Missouri river, but allowed an in
crease of 5 cents per hundred pounds
on coast shipments destined to points
east of the Missouri.
Rates Are Confiscatory.
The most formidable feature of the
prosecution will be the fight to intro
duce evidence tending to show that
the rates ordered by the commission
are confiscatory, and therefore in vio
lation of the fourteenth amendment of
the constitution of the United States.
Thomas Cooper, land commissioner
of the Northern Pacific, testified yes
terday as to the cost of reproduction
of that road. The railroads expect to
show that, according to that cost, the
rates ordered by the commission are
confiscatory and therefore unconstitu
tional. Mr. Cooper's cross-examination
will be continued today.
WHOLE FAMILY IS WOUNDED.
Daughter Also Is Injured and Man
Then Shoots Himself.
Blue Earth, Minn., April 15.— Knute
Olsen of Kiester, near this city, at
tempted to kill his wife last evening
by shooting her with a shotgun. Somo
of the shot entered her jaw, knocking
out several teeth, and several scat
tering shots struck his little daughter.
He then went tj a closet and shot
himself. Small hope ol his recovery
is entertained. The condition of his
wife and daughter is not thought to
be dangerous. Bitter feeling exists
against Olsen.
WRAPPED IN BLAZING OIL.
Fireman Is Seriously Burned in a Fire
at Sioux City.
Sioux City, Iowa, April 15.—Sponta
neous combustion in the glazing rocni
of the City Sash and Door company's
factory started a fire which did $10,
( "0 damage to the building and con
tents. Fireman Lew Humphrey was
enveloped in flames when a barrel of
cil exploded and was seriously burned.
FEVER RAGING AT RICH VILLE.
Schools Are Closed and All Public
Meetings Suspended.
Fergus Falls, Minn., April 15.—Scar
/et fever Is prevalent in the village of
J ichville, this county, and the board
ci health has decided to close the
schools and suspend all public meet
ings. Shirley Shaw, the nine-year-old
sen of Mr. and Mrs. James Shaw, died
t f the disease.
Stc-ck Shipments Good.
Thief (fiver Falls. Minn., April 15.—
That this sectirs of the state is fast
becoming well if ;own for its stock is
( vh'tiiCed by the fact that twenty ear
to: ds of c attie were shipped from two
suk 'U stations 011 the Great Northern
line, just north of this city, last week
Marathon Race Is Fatal.
-Pittsburg, April 15—William H. Ho
<• iek, seventeen years old, died last
î i 'l t as- the result of running a Mar
ttl.cn race three weeks ago. Howiek
wt n the race, but never has been well
»since.
PEACE REIGNS IN
CONSTANTINOPLE
New Cabinet Takes Hold and
Sultan Ordains Observance
of Sheeri Laws.
SULTAN'S NAME IS ACCLAIMED
During Whole Outbreak the Troops
and People Remain Loyal to
the Sultan.
Constantinople, April 16.—After the
stirring events of Tuesday and the
early part of yesterday in the Turk
ish capital, the successful formation of
the cabinet and the issue of an impe
rial proclamation ordaining the ob
servance of the Sheeri laws and the
preservation of the constitution serv»
ed to bring about a comparatively
peaceful situation here last night. The
members of the new cabinet, of which
Tewflk Pasha is the grand vizier,
have been installed in office.
Relieves the Tension.
The formation of the cabinet, al
thought it is not composed according
to general expectations, has greatly
relieved the tension of the last thir
ty-six hours. The majority of tha
people passed a sleepless night, owing
to the continued discharges of mus
ketry. Last night the city was quiet.
Confidence is gradually returning, al
though the military situation will re
quire all the energies of the new gov
ernment for its successful handling
and the promulgation of wise meas
ures so that the army may be placed
on a more satisfactory basis.
Soldiers Lead Rising.
It is noteworthy that while the rev
olution of last July was the work of
officers, the present movement was
carried forward by the soldiers, aided
by the religious patty, the leaders in
the movement bo. ne the very troops,
the Saloniki Chassmirs, which hereto
fore had been the mainstay of the
committee of union and progress. The
rising h s s resulted in the complete
obliteration of this committee and its
newspaper organs.
Remain Loyal to Sultan.
During the whole thrilling momen
tous episode the salient, features ot"
the revolution were the loyalty of the
troops and the people to the sultan,
whose name was frequently acclaim
ed, aud the absence of attacks on the
lives and property of citizens.
KILLED IN RUNNING FIGHT.
Italian With Black Hand Record Shot
in Brooklyn Streets.
New York, April 16.—Andrew Gani
hino, a young Italian barber, who
three years ago killed a man with two
loads from a shotgun, was killed last,
night in a running battle with three
countrymen through Brooklyn streets,
while several thousand persons looked
on. The Brooklyn branch of the Ital
ian detective bureau credits Gambino
with a conspicuous Black Hand rec
ord.
Pietto Zarcone, a butcher, told th< j
police that Gambino approached him
and demanded $50 under penalty of
death. Gambino also drew a pistol
and the battle began.
NEW STATE GAME OFFICIALS.
Two Wardens 5«h Fish Commissioner
Named hi North Dakota.
Fargo, N. D, Ar*?! 1C—-At a meet
ing last night of tro jrame and fish
board of control, »;?•>! the r.ew law,
Capt. W. R. Mfl.ii' ct C m do. father of
the hill provid'ng f r the first fish
hatchery in the state was selected
fish commissioner, with a salary of
$1,200, and W. N. Smith of Grafton,
and Ole Bjerke of .^lerciTimhic were
elected wardens at salaries of $1,500
each. The law abolishes spring shoot
ing, with severe penalties.
GOTCH RETAINS TITLE.
Easily Defeats Bulgarian in Wres
tling Match.
Chicago, April l(i —Frank Gotch of
Humboldt, Iowa, succeeded in retain
ing his title as champion wrestler of
the world last night hy defeating Yu
siff Mahmout of Bulgaria in a fast and
furious match. The much-touted Bul
garian was as a child in the hands of
the American master of mat strategy.
Gotch won both falls with crotch and
half-nelson holds, respectively, in 8
minutes and 0 minutes and 10 sec
onds.
Again Threatened by Black Hand.
Chicago, April 16. — Joseph Arrigo,
Who was shot at as he lay in his bed
last Monday morning because he had
failed to comply with demands made
in two letters from the Black Hand,
received another letter signed by the
blackmailing society last night, threat
ening him with certain death unless
be deposited $1,000 in a certain spot
by 10 o'clock today.