NEWSOFNORTHWEST
WASUMTON, IDAHO, OREGON
AND MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges' of the Sur
rounding Country—Numerous Acci
dents and Psrsonal Events Taks
Place—Fa.> Trade Is Good.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Fred Thede, a widely known young
man of North Yakima, pleaded guilty
In the superior court the other day
to forging his father's name to a S2O
check.
Commendable attention Is being giv
en to fire drills In the schools at Dav
enport.
Two distinguished Japanese visitors,
Prince Haseba, a member of the Jap
anese parliament, and Yashacblro
Yamashita, visited Spokane recently
as guests of W. F. Meier and George,
A. Lee, who were classmates of Yama
shita at the University of Nebraska.
Following a recent declaration of
Governor A. E. Mead that sessions of
the supreme court should be held In
Spokane during a portion of the year
to accommodate the attorneys of east
ern Washington, a call has been sent
out by Judge William E. Richardson,
president of the Spokane Bar asso
ciation, to the menftgrs of pie asso
ciation, urging them to attend a spe
cial meeting In the city hall next Fri
day evening when the matter of east
ern sessions of the court will be dis
cussed.
Last Saturday it was reported the
Skagit river Immediately south of
Sedro was A mile and a half wide and
still rising. The water from the river
In the Sterling bend district has gone
over the Great Northern right of way
and it is feared will carry away the
road’s grading. The damage to mills
and lumber, farms and stock is ines
timable. The town of Minkler is stand
ing in a lake three feet deep and many
houses have been abandoned.
Hundreds of five and ten dollar gold
pieces are being ■’shaved" by some un
known man In Seattle. So well is the
work done that it has escaped detec
tion by some of the most expert bank
cashiers.
The steamboat service to Brewster
and Bridgeport Is very irregular, ow
ing to low water. During high water
the run to Wenatchee is made in 10
hours, but at this season it requires
sometimes as much as two days to
make the run down river.
R. A. Jackson, Columbia county's
representative sheepman, has made
arrangements for a display of his fa
mous Rambouillet sheep at the inter
national stock show to be held In Chi
cago, commencing December 1, and
will leave for that city with a car
load on November 10. His Rambouil
let sheep won the gold medal at the
St. Louis exposition.
IDAHO NEWS.
• The Sandpoint high school boys
have, organized a basketball team and
are very anxious to arrange games
with other high school teams.
Secretary Taft has left Washington
on a campaign tour which will even
tually take him to Boise and Pocatel
lo, where he is scheduled for speeches
on November 2 and 3 respectively.
It Is reported the fuel shortage In
Lewiston will be relieved soon.
At Mullan Coroner D. E. Keys held
an Inquest over the remains of James
O’Nell, which were found by a pros
pector in the upper Clearwater coun
try last August. Evidences of foul
play are claimed to have been unearth
ed and the verdict of the coroner's
jury has been withheld pending furth
er investigation. Mr. O’Neil was a
prospector, and just before his disap
pearance he sold a claim for SSOOO.
and it is believed that he had this
money on him when he left here.
Mud fell at Moravia in a shower for
three hours Saturday, constituting the
most remarkable phenomenon ever
witnessed in the Idaho panhandle. An
alysis showed the mud to be formed of
fne volcanic dust such as exists in the
Walla Walla, Palouse and Bit; Bend
districts of Washington. The pre
sumption Is that the enormous clouds
of dust raised by the gale in these sec
tions was carried Into Idaho and fell
with the rainstorm.
Robert Ijinsdon, republican candi
date for state secretary, arrived in
Boise Saturday morning prepared to
hand In his resignation. It was found,
however, that no change ca* be made
at this time.
Melting snow has raised the Clear
water and Saturday morning several
hundred cords of $6.50 wood went out
under a boom In the east end. The
falsework on one of the piers of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation com
pany’s bridge was also washed away.
Several thousand cords of wood are
strung along the banks of the Clear
water.
The new Presbyterian church at
Sandpoint Is completed.
The Hope Athletic club Is flourish
ing. There are 36 members on the
roll.
James Casey, the miner who picked
Into a missed hole*ln the Capitol pros
pect shaft near Osburn last Thursday,
died Sunday.
Lloyd Fenn, who holds the Inter
scholastic records for the 100 and 220
yard dashes, won on the Pullman
track last spring undej the colors of
the Lewiston high school, is prepar
ing to enter Ann Arbor. Fenn is a
graduate of the Lewiston high school,
class of 'O6. His home Is in Boise,
where his father holds the office of
superintendent of forest reserves In
Idaho.
MONTANA ITEMS.
F. E. Garside, cashier of the defuact
Aetna bank at Butte, Is missing, fol
lowing the handing down of an Indict
ment by the grand lury |n connection
with the failure of the Institution. A
searching investigation of the affairs
of the Aetna are being made and it la
hinted that the failure will disclose
several sensations.
Following the organization of a com
pany to handle the wool clip of Mon
tana next season in the Interest of the
growers, a strenuous effort is now be
ing made to get all the sheepmen of
the state inside the organization.
After a wild ride of nearly six blocks
down Wyoming street, in Butte, be
hind a team of maddened horses, Jos
eph Gardiner, a well known hack driv
er, was dashed to death against a tele
graph post.
Harry Penna, convicted of murder in
the first degree for having shot and
killed Mrs. Susan Bryant in Butte last
April, was to have been sentenced to.
death by hanging in Judge Donlan's
court last 1 week, but upon the applica
tion of Alex Mackel of counsel for the
defense for additional time in which to
perfect the appeal to the supreme
court, the judge continued the time for
the passing of sentence until Saturday.
November 10. .
OREGON SQUIBS.
Governor Chamberlain and other
state officials of Oregon went to Walla
Walla last Tuesday to look over the
penitentiary jute mill and collect data
concerning the same with a view of
establishing a similar industry in con
n«ttfon with the penitentiary at Sa
lem.
W. J. Burns, as president of Balfour,
Guthrie & Co., in the northwest, has
affixed his signature to.the agreement
between the exporters and gralnhand
k rs, thus completing the contract. All
exporting firms on the water front are
now on the fair list. Loading opera
tions on grain ships started Monday.
SPORTING NOTES.
Moscow, Idaho. —The crippled right
foot of Fred Moulten, Oregon's big
guard, thrice landed the pigskin
through the goal posts in .^Friday's
game on Idaho's field and ended a
stubbornly fought game In Oregon’s
favor, 12 to 0.
Biddy Bishop, Louie Long's man
ager, has Issued a challenge to Bat
tling Nelson to meet Long before. the
club offering the best purse, a Spo
kane club preferred.
Articles of agreement for a finish
fight between Joe Gans and Kid Her
mann of Chicago have been signed.
The terms are 133 pounds two hours
before the fight, the winner to receive
65 per cent and the loser 36 per cent
of the purse, the fight to take place
before the club offering the largest
purse.
Promoter Coffroth has decided he
does not want either Terry McGovern
or Young Corbett as attractions at his
Colma, club in San Francisco and has
withdrawn his offer of a $20,000 purse
for the winner to meet Jimmy Britt.
Jeffries denies that he will box with
Jack O'Brien at the police benefit In
Los Angeles'.
The Abbe, 2:10 1-2. is by the records
the fastest three-year-old colt of the
season of 1006.
There is trouble at San Francisco
amoung the fight promoters and Eddie
Grandy Is suing for an Injunction to
restrain James W. Coffroth from bring
ing off the fight between Kaufmann
and Berger.
Tommy Corcoran will succeed
Hughey Jennings as manager of the
Baltimore Orioles.
An offer of $15,000 for Young Cor
bett and Terry McGovern to decide
their superiority with gloved fists, has
teen wired to Harry Pollock, manager
of Young Corbett by Al Hereford, man
ager of the Eureka Athletic club of
Baltimore.
There is a new boxer who will bear
watching. This is Tommy Stone of
New York, the 115-pound amateur
champion, who made his professional
debfit at the National last Saturday
night and made good.
Henry Ford's old racing machine,
"999," with which Barney Oldfield first
made himself famous as a track racing
automobollst, is being put into shape
again and will be raced in California.
Saturday Football Games.
Washington 0, Oregon A. C. 0.
Multnomah 9, Whitman 0.
Montana 11, S. A. A. C. 0.
Idaho preps 2, Lewlstbn high 0.
Livingston high 7, Butte high 0.
Spokane high 0, Blair 0.
Mutiny Occurs at Harbin.
The truth of reports that serious
military troubles have occurred at
Harbin. Manchuria. Is admitted In
army circles. bu( it was impossible to
obtain exact details. A censorship ap
parently has been Imposed on Harbin
press dispatches, but according to re
ports here several battalions have
nlutihled and the situation has beconje
more serious on account of Chinese'
bandits who are plundering almost to
the gates of Harbin. ,
Heroines of Fiction.
The November Century frontispiece
in color, Becky Sharp of "Vanity Fair,”
will be the flrst of an unusually Inter
esting series of color pictures to be
called "Heroines of Fiction.” The an
nouncement of the artist, Slgismond
de Ivanowski. assures peculiar sym
pathy and brilliancy of Interpretation.
Every new overcoat 1b technical In
making comparisons.
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM All
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happening* In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During ths Past Week—National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
Two farm hands, whose names are
not known, were murdered at least
ten days ago, their bodies having been
discovered In a hayloft one mile north
west of Bristol, S. D. The Indications
ere that murder was committed while
the men were asleep.
A mining and consulting engineer
operating in the Coeur d’Alene coun
try is responsible for the statement
that F. Augustus Heinze has had three
aifferent experts examining the Moni
tor mine near the Montana line. It is
presumed that Heinze will endeavor
to purchase the property. It Is said
It will cost the Butte mining magnate
about $500,000 to secure control of the
mine.
In a Portland. Maine, dispatch to the
New York Times. Mrs. Robert E.
Peary, wife of the ekplorer, is quoted
as saying: “I feel just as sure as I
am living at this moment that my hus
band has found the North Pole, and
that he will soon be home to tell us
all about it.”
Eugene Sfhmltz, mayor of San Fran
cisco, ib at present in the British capl
tai spending much of his time in visit
ing Ixjndon municipal directors in or
der to see how affairs are administer
ed, and the class of building that is in
vogue. Mr. Schmldtz expressed the
opinion that in reconstructing San
Francisco they must build for the peo
ple who will live there 200 years
hence, as well as today, and said that
was the reason for bls visit to Europe.
After February 1 next the American
Bank Note company will manufacture
all United States postage stamps. Un
der a contract made public the con
cern must deliver 27,000,000 stamps
daily six times a week.
Melilla. Morocco. —The sultan's
forces have been victorious In a battle
on the borders of Mullaya. A strong
agitation against foreigners is report
ed to be in progress in Morocco City.
The controversy as to who was the
youngest soldier of the civil war has
probably been settled In favor of Per
ry Byan of Seattle. He enlisted as a
drummer boy in company D. 24tb lowa
volunteers on August 22, 1862, at the
age of nine years and four months. He
was born October 22, 1852, in Kane
county, Illinois. .
Postmaster General George B. Cor
telyon will retire from the chairman
ship of the republican national com
mittee when he becomes secretary of
the treasury in succession to Secre
tary Shaw.
Passenger train No. 272, off the
Great Northern railroad, recently
struck a wagon, killing Samuel Han
cock. the driver, and Benjamin Swartz.
Willis Nyland and H. E. Copeland, oc
cupants of the wagon, were seriously
Injured.
SHE LOVES HER FOUR HUSBANDS
New York Woman Bigamist Knew
How to Handle -the Boys.
New York. —In the police court re
cently a cook, who was Miss Augusta
Brunnlng before she admitted marry
ing four men, appeared before Magis
trate Steinert, charged with bigamy,
and was held In ssuoo bail for the
grand jury, after waiving examination.
Of her four husbands, three were in
court.
“I did not know I was doing wrong
by marrlnglng these men. They were
all so nice and sweet and I loved them
all. Besides, they worried me to mar
ry them so much,” said the woman.
FOUR MORE KANSAS CITY DEAD.
Total Fatalities Now 12, With Many
Persons Missing.
Kansas City.—Four additional bo
dies have been removed from the ruins
of the Chamber of Commerce'building
In Kansas City, Kansas, making the
total known dead 12. Four persons
are still missing.
Herring are not so plentiful In
Puget sound as they were several
years ago before a whaling station
was established on Vancouver island.
They Died Together.
Louis G. Hampton, assistant secre
tary of the United States Trust com
pany of New York city, shot and kill
ed Victoria C. Taczkow, a beautiful
young woman. In the Hotel Griffou, In
West Ninth street, and then committed
suicide.
Hampton was Infatuated with the
woman and they had beeh together
many times during the past month.
They had been at the hotel, where
the tragedy occurred, since early yes
terday. Whether or not the tragedy
was the result of a pact between them
to die together, has not been deter
mined, but the circumstances seem to
show that the young woman had
agreed to die with her companion.
Besides the new series of fairy stor
ies by Frances Hodgson Burnett,
which are to appear during several
months In St. Nicholas, the magazine
In 1907 will have a serial for boys by
the author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab
bage Patch,” and a Christmas story for
girls by the author of "Rebecca."
There Is to be a story for girls also
from the author of “Emmy Lou." and
more Pinkey Perkins adventures.
A DARING ROBBERY
OVER $200,000 STOLEN FROM
OFHCERIN ST, PETERSBURG
Band of Fifteen Revolutionist* U*e
Bomb* With Deadly Effect—Fight
Ensued, Lasting 20 Minutes and Ex
tending for Several Blocks—Whole
sale Arrests Follow.
St. Petersburg, Uot,'29. —The n?ost
daring robbery plot ip-the history of
St. Petersburg wa» -^executed about
noon, when a band of about 15 revolu
tionists attacked and robbed an em
plpye of the customs service of about
$200,000. They wrecked the vehicle in
which the official was riding with a
bomb, but were driven off by two gen
darmes forming the cashier’s escort,
who made defense of the treasure.
When the bomb exploded, the cashier,
bis assistant and two guards jumped
out of the carriage and fled in a panic,
abandoning the money, but the gen
darmes, though wounded by the ex
plosion, opened fire on the revolution
ists.
They were soon joined by some pass
ing soldiers and several policemen,
and the robbers, who were mere
youths, fled before the growing num
bers of the defenders of the treasure.
A runping tight ensued, lasting 15
minutes and extending for several
blocks from the scene of the outrage.
The revolutionists, who threw two
more bombs in their flight, lost two
killed and had five of their number
captured. The firing of the rifles and
revolvers and the explosions of the
bombs were audible throughout the
business district and caused great ex
citemeat.
After the explosion $120,000 In paper
was recovered from the wreck of the
cashier's carriage.
The panic stricken cashier bewailed
the loss of SIBO,OOO.
Later In the day, however? the total
amount in the cashier's possession was
officially slated to have been $330,000,
of which a package containing $195,-
000 was stolen, but It is said that the
amount of booty may be raised to
$200,000 as the count of the smaller
packages has not yet been 1 finished.
The scene of the attack was care
fully chosen in a narrow street off the
Ekaterinsk canal and Overhung by a
house from a window of which the
first bomb was thrown. Immediately
after the explosion a group of revolu
tionists on the sidewalk drew revol
vers and attempted to surround the
carriage, with the result already de
tailed. The force of the explosion
shook three blocks of houses and
many of these now show the marks
of bullets fired during the fight be
tween the revolutionists and officers.
In spite of wholesale arrests and the
cordoning at noon of the scene of the
robbery, the majority of the revolu
tionists have made good their escape
with the booty amdunting to $200,000.
Up to midnight the police had no defi
nite clews and released all those per
sons arrested except the five who were
captured during the battle. None of
these has been identified. All of them
persistently refuse to answer ques
tions. but it is supposed the crime was
organized and executed by a band of
Moscow and Warsaw revolutionists, of
whose coming to St. Petersburg the
police were warned 10 days ago.
It is said that because of the Inti
mate knowledge of the method of
transferring money the men had a con
federate in the customs house service.
Report on Cuban Finances.
Havana. —Major Ladd, supervisor of
the treasury, has submitted to Gover
nor Magoon a report showing the con
dition of the treasury and Its relative
ability to meet the current and extra
ordinary expenses for the current year
and also carry ton the numerous pro
jects Imposed by the regular budget
and special appropriations.
The total liabilities are estimated at
$31,000,000. Total assets are $27,000.-
000. This leaves a deficit of $4,000,000,
providing all outstanding obligations
are met during the year.
Standard Oil Company Wins.
Attorney General Ellis of Ohio was
defeated in his fight against the oil
trust In a decision handed down by
Judge Dillon In the common pleas
court. The Manhattan Oil company,
which is understood to be a part, of
the Standard Oil company, was sued
by the attorney general for fines
amounting to $270,000. this method
being taken Instead of trying to oust
the company from the state. The
s'ate claimed the above amount un
der the Willis law. The corporation
admitted that it had ngt paid the tax.
but claimed It was exempt. 'lne case
came up for settlement on motion for
iudgment and was decided against the
attorney general.
Sixty Weeks for $1.75.
Don’t put off until tomorrow the
matter of subscribing for the Youth’s
Companion. The publishers offer to
send to every new subscriber for 1907
who at once remits the subscription
price, $1.75, all the Issues for the re
maining weeks of 1906 free. The
Youth’s Companion, 144 Berkeley
street, Boston, Mass.
Castro Again on Duty.
The Venezuelan legation has re
ceived a cablegram from Carcas, dated
October 25, stating that President Cas
tro had returned there and again as
sumed the duties of the presidency.
ELECT IN FQ/tTY-TWO STATES.
Storm of Ballot* Will Rag* • W*«k
Next Tuaaday. j
Next Tuesday there will be election
In 42 state* and three terrltorlea. Ore-,
gon, Maine and Vermont have already
elected atate officers and members of
the Sixtieth congress. In 23 of the
state* a governor and other state of
ficer* (in 20 of them also a legisla
ture) ; in 10, minor state officers or
justices of the supreme court; in two,
congressmen and a legislature, and in
seven c6ngressmen only are to be
elected. Oklahoma Is to vote on a
state constitution, and Arizona and
New Mexico on joint statehood.
The terms of 30 United States sena
tors —15 democrats and 15 republicans
—expires March 3, 1907. Virginia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and
Arkansas have already selected demo
crats and Georgia has a legislature
which will elect another, while Maine
and Oregon have legislatures which
Insure the return of republicans. Of
the 22 states in which is to be chosen
November 6 a legislature that will
elect United States senators, 14 are
now represented in the senate by re
publicans and eight by democrats.
A national house of representatives
Is to be elected—the Sixtieth congress,
with 386 members. The present house
is composed of 250 republicans and 136
democrats. Maine has already elected
four republicans, Oregon two and Ver
mont two.
The number of tickets In the differ
ent states Is: 1, South Carolina; 2,
Alabama. Florida, North Carolina? Ten
nessee. Washington; 3, Delaware. Mon
tana. Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode
island, Utah; 4, Connecticut, Colorado,
Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Da
kota, Wisconsin, Wyoming; 5, Illinois,
lowa, Kansas, New York, Ohio, 6; In
diana, Massachusetts, Texas; 7, Cali
fornia; 12, Pennsylvania.
SEVENTY^DROWNED
ELECTRIC TRAIN AT ATLANTIC
CITY, RUNS OFF BRIDGE
Train of Three Cars Loaded With Peo
ple Plunged Into 30 Feet of Water—
There Wai no Escaping From the
Cars—Many Survivor* Owe Lives to
Heroism of Rescuers.
Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 29.—At
least 50 persons, and in all probability
75, lost their lives in a horrible man
ner just outside this city at 2:30
o’clock Sunday, when a three car elec
tric train over the Pennsylvania rail
road third rail system, running about
25 miles an hour, struck a spreading
rail upon the drawbridge that carries
‘he tracks over the ‘‘Beach Thorough
fare," and plunged headlong into 35
feet of water. Every man, woman and
child In the first two cars perisheji
without even a remote fighting chance
for their lives. The cars were closely
vestlbuled with air tight windows.
There was no escaping from them.
From the third car a few managed
to make their way from the rear end,
as this rested above water upon one
it the projecting piers of the bridge.
But they were cut and bruised and
half drowned, and they said that there
were as many more persons left In the
car who could not get out.
James L. Curtis, the conductor of
the train, Is alive, but he is so frenzied
with grief and shock that he Is unable
to say just how many tickets he col
'ected. His estimates vary from 86 to
130.
It is known that the train was fairly
well filled when it left Camden, and It
took on more passengers at Newfield,
ihe junction point of the Cape May di
vision, and at Pleasantville, upon the
other side of the meadows from here.
Passengers who survive the wreck
declare that there were at least 100
persons In the three cars, which have
a capacity of about 58 each.
Every effort is being made toward
recovering the bodies. \ A hundred
yachts and motor boats and skiffs are
out at the drawbridge, filling the wa
ters of the narrow thoroughfare. These
boats are manned by men who are
working like flends, although there is
little they can do. A wrecking train
Is drawn up Just above the spot where
the three submerged cars ard lying.
But its powerful derricks can not at
tempt to raise the cars,'for the bridge
Is a light structure and any strong pull
would drag the derrick into the thor
oughfare. It has been impossible, so
for. to attach hoisting chains to the
cars.
In the light of acetylene automobile
lamps, electric searchlights and loco
motive headlights, there are 200 men
in the small boats, grappling for bodies
that may possibly be swept out of the
cars, with oyster tongs and heavy fish
lines.
11l Fated Train.
The train composed of three cars
left Camden on time —at 1 o'clock. At
the controller handle was Motorman
Walter Scott of Camden. Charles
Wood of Camden was the brakeman,
and James L. Curtis, also of that city,
the conductor. The usual crowd of
Sunday passengers was aboard, some
of them Philadelphians going down to
the beach to try the new electric road,
which has been in operation only since
September.
An advantage In having nothing to
give Is in the free4otn of the assertion
of what wotild be done under other
circumstances.
R. M. SNYDER KILLED
WAS MILLIONAIRE CAPITALIST
OF KANSAS CITY, MO.
Snyder Wa* Riding In Rapid Auto
mobile When It Struck a Pole While
Trying to Avoid a Boy—He Wa*
Under Indictment in St. Loul* on
Charge of Bribery.
Kansas City, Oct. 28.—Robert M.
Snyder, millionaire capitalist of this
.city and under indictment in St. Louis
on a charge of bribery, is dead in this
city, as a result of Injuries received
in an automobile accident Saturday.
Robert Snyder was the father of the
late Carey Snyder, who was convicted
of holding up and robbing a Kansas
City pawnbroker of S6OOO in diamonds
in 1900. He did not go to the peni
tentiary, but Judge Woolford of the
criminal court here paroled him.
Young Snyder went west after his
parole. While a fugitive from justice
he was murdered near Hillsboro, Ore.,
several months ago. Carey Snyder's
body was found about a month ago.
He was believed to "be one of three
men who robbed a bank at Forest
Grove, Ore., an dthe Oregon officers
were trying to apprehend him for that
crime. He had been tried for high
way robbery in this city before going
to Oregon, and was released on parole.
Robert Snyder, in his own automo
bile, which was driven by Frank M.
Schroeder, an expert driver who came
here recently from Cleveland, Ohio,
was riding eastward and just passing
a moving trolley car, when the chauf
feur saw a small boy jump from in
front of the car directly in the path of
the machine. In an effort to save the
boy Schroeder turned the machine to
ward the curb and as it struck, Snyder,
who was in the rear seat, was thrown
against an iron trolley pole and his
skull fractured at the base of the
brain. The boy, whose name was Ar
thur Rodell, was knockeu down and
fatally Injured. Schroeder was not
hurt. Mr. Snyder was taken to Agnew
hospital, nearby, but died without re
gaining consciousness. Young Rodell,
who was 13 years of age, sustained a
fracture of the skull and internal In
juries and died late tonight.
Schroeder was taken to the police
station, where he made a statement of
the affair and was later released.
Schroeder says he was not driv
ing over 10 miles an hour. He claims
to be an expert chauffeur, and that he
worked in an automobile factory in
Cleveland before coming to Kansas
City.
Notwithstanding Schroeder’s state
ment that the machine was not going
faster than 10 miles an hour, witnesses
say that the automobile driven by
Schroeder was racing with another au
tomobile.
Robert M. Snyder was Indicted for
boodllng during the crusade conducted
by Joseph W. Folk, who was the cir
cuit attorney there. Snyder was con
victed, but he appealed the case to the
supreme court of the state and was re
manded for a new trial. The case
never came up, as It was dismissed for
want of necessary testimony a few
weeks ago.
An Indictment against Snyder was
procured about a month ago, when the
necessary witnesses were again
brought within the jurisdiction of the
court. That Indictment is still pend
ing. The charge against Snyder was
of bribing members of the house of
delegates In St. Louis to get a traction
franchise.
Robert M. Snyder is survived by a
widow and three sons.
GAS BLAST RAZES BLOCKS
In Coffeyville, Kan., Terrific Explosion
Slays Two and Injures Many.
Topeka. Kan., Oct. 30.—Two per
sons were killed, one is missing, four
were seriously Injured, and 20 more
were more or less injured in a terrific
explosion of natural gas, which com
pletely demolished five two story
buildings at Coffeyville, Kan., at noon
Sunday. The dead:
Jess Ross, a negro.
Mrs. J. E. McDaniel.
Missing:
Young son of J. E. Clossen, grocer.
The seriously injured:
C. J. Closben, grocer.
Colton Ray, a cabman.
Mrs. Pearl Kellar.
Three year old son of MTs. Kellar.
It Is supposed the gas escaped from
a leaking main somewhere in a block
and that a sufficient quantity having
accumulated. It became ignited, caus
ing the explosion.
The buildings were In a row on East
Eighth street, and were occupied by a
real estate office, a restaurant and
three stores. The second floors were
occupied by rooming houses.
Delays Forest Reservation.
The proposed extension of the Priest
river forest reserve of Idaho into
Washington so it will Include some
three or four hundred thousand acres
of additional timber land already with
drawn from the public entry in Ste
vens county for that purpose has been
postponed until congress convenes,
and Forester Pinchot will take up the
matter In person with members of
the state congressional delegation who
are opimsed to ho large an extension
of the reserve In Stevens county. The
withdrawal of lands represent an im
mense timber forest whose area has
been much damaged by fire of late.
Officials of the forest service say that
the only way to save this timber is to
Include it within a forest reserve.