The Kootenai herald. [volume], October 21, 1893, Image 4

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By A. D. WALKER.
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ages are paid except at our option. Bills for
advertising due the 1st of each month, except
transient advertising, which is payable in ad
vance.
In order to immre prompt attention, all com
munications not of a personal character should
he addressed ns follows:
THE KOOTENAI HERALD,
Bonner's Ferry, Idaho.
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY.
Jo more apt illustration of the
old adage, "delays are dangerous,
can be found than in the fact that the
Great Northern has delayed looking
after the ore shipments from the
Slocan country until now 90 per
cent of it is going out through Nel
son. Thi$ is the natural route and
the shippers would as a rule prefer
to ship this way, but nothing has
been done by the Great Northern
to induce the mine owners to ship
this way. At this late day, how
ever, the railroad intends putting
in some kind of a dock and ware
house and secure what ore they can
get that is not already contracted.
The silver senators show that
they are good in tactics as well as
at talking. They got their heads
together and worked a little scheme
which forced an adjournment Fri
day night. They have brought the
senate to the point where it may be
come important to inquire whether
a senator who declines to vote shall
be counted on roll call as one mak
ing up a quorum. If that question
is forced upon the attention ol the
senate will furnish a new grist to
grind—it will last for weeks as a
live topic for discussion. Mr. Voor
hees didn't think it worth while to
demand a continuous session last
night; probably he wanted all the
senators to be rested up bright and
fresh for today's services in the
churches.—Anaconda Standard.
Again the cloud of disaster which
seems constantly to hang over this
little burg settled down on a portion
of the business center at about 10:45
Wednesday night and destroyed
with scorching flames seven or eight
buildings, among them the largest
hotel in the town. Scarcely had the
embers of the fire of September 26
ceased to burn when a fire was dis
covered right in the very center of
the most closely built portion of the
town. This, however was soon ex
tinguished and no great amount of
damage was done. But now comes
the third visitation of fire within
three weeks. As on both former oc
casions, men worked bravely and
well, risking in many instance their
lives that the entire town might not
be destroyed. No town has more
heroic and loyal citizens than has
Bonner's Ferrry. With a large por
tion of our town in ashes and little
or no necessity of rebuilding before
spring it is a manifestation of faith
in the future of the city of the Pan
handle that equals any record in
holy writ. When the beautiful
buildings, which shall, one year
hence, have taken the places of
those destroyed by fire, are seen,
those beholding will say: "These
are they that have come up out of
hard trials and great tribulations.
Again the controversy bigins be
tween Richard Fry and Milo Som
mers. It was hoped that the spe
cial Indian agent would make such
settlement of the question at issue
between these two ranchers that no
further resort to the courts would
be necessary, but it appears that
such was not the case. As is often
the case, many times, the value of
the disputed land .has been spent in
litigation. *
Can an American Keep a Hotel?
No, he cannot, andere with much
emphasis General Rush C. Hawkins in
The North American Review. Ameri
cans do not know how to cook for a ho
tel, and that is the most serious count in
his indictment. He himself undertook
a summer campaign among country re
sorts, visited four of the best advertised
and highest priced ones within a radius
of several hundred miles, and at length
returned to his city home in despair and ;
disgust, with his digestion, he had reason
to fear, irreparably damaged. At one of
the resorts he tried a certain so called
"fancy dish" which purported to be ca
pon and truffles. He found it was "a
sort of cold pressed hash of veal and
beef tongue, with not a particle of capon
or even chicken in it, while the truffles
were a composition of a shining black
substance of the texture of isinglass."
In spite of the $5 to $7 a day charges
at our principal hotels, General Hawkins
has information from expert'authority
that the total cost per head for food is
no more than 40 cents.
The cooks in our hotels are "a lot of
French, German, Italian and Irish upper
scullions who are no more cooks than j
they are astronomers." The most they j j
ever did in the old country was to peel
potatoes and wash onions. Of the food
these fellows serve General Hawkins re
marks:
It 1 b quite unnecessary to write that not one
In ten of those products of the kitchen named j
in the bill of faro is properly prepared or de
cently served. The vegetables are usually cold
and soggy, often slopped with a nasty looking
and worse tasting sauce. The joints are usual
ly tough and cold. The flesh made dishes (en
trees), with high sounding French names, nei
ther taste nor smell like anything we have
ever seen before. The sweets are often the
better part of the dinner, but the fruits. In the
majority of instances, are the cheapest and
poorest that can be found.
Woman's Right to Smoke.
The difficulty of distinguishing be
tween law and custom even in the mind
of the average policeman was well ex
emplified in Louisville the other day.
Three giddy girls walked up one of the
city streets. They were different look
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ing from the hundreds of other girls
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that promenaded Louisville highways
only in one respect—they were smoking
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cigarettes. It curdled the blood of two
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law and order policemen who stood on a
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corner, and they instantly arrested the ,
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g.r.s or c isor er y com uc .
In the morning when the young worn
en were brought to trial, the police judge .
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remarked, "While the accused were not i
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acting m accordance with the established
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canons of society, 1 cannot see that they
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were violating any law. He according- 1
ly dismissed the case.
But this decision opens up a fearful
vista for the future. There is no law
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any where agamst women s smoking ciga
rettes or pipes in public or m private.
This decision will become widely known.
Are the female sex from this time on go
ing to walk along the streets puffing to
bacco smoke? They can if they want to
but will they? And if they do, will the
lawmaking sex then enact a statute that
women shall not smoke in public?
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The fewest failures recorded during
the present stringency are those of farm- j
ers. Of merchants 90 per cent fail at
one time or another, of farmers only 10 |
per cent. Agriculturists are apt to con- j
sider merchants, manufacturers and
bankers as their enemies in some degree,
yet in this hour, when the city business
man is tearing his hair in the vain effort j
to find money where no money is, the
farmer can sit secure under his roof tree, !
knowing that come what will he is sure
of at least food aud shelter. He may
have to economize sharply, but ruin does
not stare him in the face. All this is ;
something—it is much.
The universities of Europe have 16
times as many students as those of Amer
ica, though European countries do not !
begin to be as wealthy as this republic
is. There are only 2,500 university stu
dents proper in the United States. There
are compensations, however. One is that
a large proportion of the university stu
dents in Europe are Americans. Another
is that every young man in America can
drive a nail and black his own boots,
which hundreds of foreign university
graduates cannot do.
Supply aud demand regulate them
selves where they are allowed to. In
the tightness of the money market the
prices of government bonds fell along
with other securities to a price which
paid the banka to bay them. Buying
them and using them as a basis, the
banks were enabled to increase their
circulation and thus throw more money
on the market. During the month of
July $8,000,000 were added to the circu
lation through the national banks.
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Certainly Senator Mitchell of Oregon
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expressed the sentiment .of the people of j
the United SUtes, whether he did that
of the politicians in congress or not,
when he said, "These are times ill which
the real welfare of the -country should
not be sacrificed for the sake of mere
partisan advantage."
This autumn the medical department
of Johns Hopkins university will be open
ed to women students on equal terms
with men. The requirements for ad
mission to the medical school are of
the highest grade—maintained in this ;
country. The applicant to Johns Hop- j
kins must be a graduate of a regular !
college or have an education equivalent |
to it. The medical course itself has'been |
lengthened to four years. If this sort of j
training for physicians becomes general
in America, the doctors of the twentieth
century will every one of them know
how to spell. The University of Penn
sylvania has lengthened the medical T
course to four years, so also has Harvard.
All of them should demand the college
education or its equivalent as prelimin
ary to entrance on the physician's
course. The lack of literary training in
sur medical profession has been a serious
drawback hitherto.
At the time of the Baring failure in
1891 the New York banks helped the
London banks substantially in their
straits. The Bank of England is now
j the movement of gold to America. This
j j 8 partly to relieve the American money
stringency, partly also to enable British
merchants to get in a good stroke of
wor k in the way of making large pur
chases of breadstuffs in the United i
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returning the kindness by facilitating
States while the price is down.
Whether the storage battery streetcar
will come into common use depends al
together on whether it can be run as
cheaply as the trolley car. No doubt the
owners of the trolley lines themselves
would be glad to substitute storage cars
and thus be rid of the complaints made
of the overhead wires if they could. To
produce a cheap and lightweight storage
battery system for street car propulsion
presents a field of invention worthy the
highest ambition. The storage battery
fills all the requirements made of it as a
motor.
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A person of an imaginative turn of
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mind writes to recommend that para
attached to the outfit of all
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firemen, so that when they find them
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selves cut off by flames from commun!
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cation with the ground they can simply
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launch the parachute, throw themselves i
from the window and sail down to safe
YefJ ^ the j record of hve8
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I lost every summer by reckless parachut
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ing, this is a suggestion, isn t it? Let j
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j the man who wants to try it on the fire
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i men try it on himself first,
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A curious sort of economist says that
low prices for agricultural products
I stimulate the growing of still more of
the Mme product8 , because the fanner
must ^ u quantities of them
^ meet his )0n9es . Not if the faruier
has any sense. If the price of wheat,
I cotton or potatoes falls below a paying
figure, the farmer with gumption will go
to raising something else that does pay
him.
The Siamese difficulty will bring into
common use a frétai bit of slang in the
j terms "buffer" and a "buffer state." It is
only necessary to remember that a buf
| fer is something that keeps things from
j bumping together hard in order to see
many apt applications of the word.
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j mind, but now a Chicago man believes
he has bnilt a balloon machine which
! will enable him to soar in the clouds. It
is 200 feet long, of tubular form, and is
propelled by wheels which are expected
to "grip" the air. Next!
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Chicago always did soar in her own
The chamber of ^deputies to be elected
this month in France will legislate till
1897, four years being the limit of the
French parliament's duration. One of
the tasks of the coming chamber will
be in connection with the senate to elect
a president of France.
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Another lying newspaper story has
been printed about a disastrous cloud
burst at Pueblo, Colo. Hunt the author
0 f .; t down and boot him out of the pro
feanion. For the sake of honest
paper writers the fakirs must be de
stroved.
news
There is only one subject of more
thrilling interest than the silver question
in connection with the opening of con
grees. and that is the question who shall
be elected doorkeeper and sergeant at
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There is considerable to live for even ;
after one's heart is broken, but when a
man's stomach has gone back on him
things look bad indeed.
The first whale back freight steamer
on the American plan has been launched
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, in Europe, at Sunderland, England. It
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engme ' ——— -
In the United States at present there
»re nearly 9,000,600 Roman Catholics,
with abont 10.000 priesU to preside over
them.
n. B. & H. S. BAINES
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^° HN McRae, Proprietor.
- BONNER'S FERRY, IDA O. -
peal Estate ar\d JMir\ir\g
^BROKERS#
Eastern Corrspondents Givn on Application.
J. C. McRae, Manager.
the: slocan saloon,
-CARRIES — ;—
Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
BONNER'S FERRY
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BILLIARD HALL IN CONNECTION.
IDAHO.
THE BONNER HOUSE.
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL IN EVERY RESPECT.
JAMES CASEY, PROPRIETOR,
Nicely furnished rooms. Rates reasonable. Tables supplied with the
best the market affords.
IDAHO,
BONNER'S FERRY.
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BOARD
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FRANK R. LITTLE, Proprietor.
Gigars.
Wir\es, Liquors
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Fine Goods a Specialty.
COZILY FURNISHED CLUB ROOMS IN CONNECTION.
W. F. KALB,
DEALER IN
ISTIETW SECOITID
O-OOIDS,
Furniture, (Bedding, Crockery, Glass-ware
Stoves, Tin-ware, Saddles, tduns,
Tents aud Notions.
Buy and Bell Everything.
IGNATZ WEIL,
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WHOLESALE DEALER IN
IiIQTTCCRS
-A-OSTXD CiailES.
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And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
General Merchandise
IDAHO.
SAND POINT,