The Kootenai herald. [volume], October 21, 1893, Image 6

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THUGS GROW BOLDER
THE BOLD HIGHWAYMEN CET AWAY
the
A Faro Dank at Cœur d'Alene City Re*
ileved of Its Funds and no Trace
of the Kobhers to he Found.
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Cœur d'Alene, Idaho, Oct. 16. —The
boldest robbery ever perpetrated here
occurred last night. One man has al
ready been captured and a large posse
is now In pursuit of two others who
have fled toward Spokane. Both par
ties are heavily armed and if overtaken
the robbers will fight to.the death.
The robbery took place in Dickey &
Becker's gambling hall about midnight.
The game had been finished and both
proprietors were sitting by the stove
chatting with a half-dozen loungers.
Suddenly the door opened and three
masked men sprang in, covering the
crowd with a Winchester and two six
shooters. Ordering "hands up
quiGk!" the leader covered Mr. Becker
with his revolver and stepped to the
Jerking open the
table.
faro
drawer he took out $600 in gold and
silver with his left hand, crossed to the
other faro table and took out $200,
shoved it into his pocket and all three
backed out of the room. As the leader
crossed the threshold he said; "The
first-that follows us will get
his hide full of lead," and slammed the
door.
An alarm was given at once, and a
posse was being organized, when a sol
dier came into town. He said he was
on his way back to the fort about 12:30
o'clock when three men came up be
hind him, walking very fast. Just be
fore overtaking him one of the men
said; "It is about seven miles to the
ranch/
covering him with their guns told
him to go back to town and keep his
mouth shut. Being unarmed he hurried
back to town.
H.
Then they saw the soldier and
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CHINAMEN ROBBED.
Montana Chinamen Robbed of $4.000
In Gold.
Libby Creek, Mont., Oct. 16.—Officer
McDonald of Fort Steele arrived in.
town this morning. He reports that
three Chinamen were robbed of $4,000
about a week ago, near the boundary
line by three highwaymen. Six China
men In all had been working at placer
mining across the line and had accumu
lated nearly $10,000. The company
■were on their way to the Flowery
Kingdom, and were divided into two
bands of three each. The celestials
brutally assaulted. McDonald
were
also stated that the robbers stole horses
to flee the country. He, in company
with Deputy Marshal Roderick of this
place, went to Troy this afternoon.
The supposed robbers were iu this
region a few days ago.
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
Ada county (Idaho) warrants are sell
ing at 80 cents.
An electric street car Une is contem
plated for Walla Walla.
Tbers is a scarcity of grain cars on
the Washington Central.
Seattle is experimenting with vitri
fied brick for street pavement.
An Odd Fellows' lodge has just been
organized at Cottonwood, Idaho.
Rev. E. P. Henderson, a pioneer
preacher, of Eugene. Oregon, is dead.
The fruit-growers of Boise have or
ganized for mutual benefit and protec
tion.
Moscow people are making successful
experiments with tile in draining their
wet lands.
The wooly aphis is doing considerable
damage to fruit tteets in the vicinity
of Kendrick.
Hogs are in demand in the Palouse
country. Farmers wish to feed their
damaged wheat.
The late rains have one redeeming
feature—fall pasturing will be better
than for several years.
Hundreds of wild geese are feeding
in the grain fields in the vicinity of
Lake, in Asotin county.
Five steamers are now plying on the
upper Willamette, aud the business on
the river resembles old times.
Puyallup has become a prohibition
town, and consequently Puyallup hops
are being boycotted by the brewers.
Harry E. Evans, son of the lighthouse
keeper of Admiralty inlet, robbed the
station a few days ago, stole a boat and
started on a cruise .of adventujre. He
was heard fron at Smith's island, ar.d
has probably been captured by this
time.
Fort Benton, Mont., has shipped over
32,000 sheep this year. The total for
the year promises to reach or exceed
55,000.
Mrs. S. D. Munroe. a passenger en
route to Portland over the Oregon
Short Line, died suddenly on the train
of heart disease.
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The Palouse Irrigation Company will ■
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cultivate 1.000 acres in 1394. The land -,
Will he put into Wheat, rye, barley, oats,
hops, potatoes and fruit.
Senator Shoup of Idaho has announced
that he will not be a candidate for re
election. This leaves the field open to
other aspirants.
Jacob Crounce, who had been sent by
the masons to the Good Samaritan hos
pital at Portland for treatment for can
cer, committed suicide a few days ago.
It has been announced that the Great
Northern shops at .Hlllyard will be
started up next month, with a monthly
payroll aggregating $35,000 or $40,000.
John McClees, warden of the peni
tentiary at Walla Walla, has tendered
his resignation. It is rumored that J.
H. Coblentz will be appointed in his
stead.
The east side of the Cascade range
promises to be filled with prospectors
next season. A number of rich finds
this year will stimulate the search in
the-spring.
The unexpected rise in the Clear
water river caused the loss of 600.000
feet of lumber and several hundred
cords of wood, which were swept down
the stream.
several thousand
There has been
bushels of No. 1 wheat marketed at
various places in the Palouse country,
it having been threshed before the rainy
season set in.
The death warrant of John White is
the first ever issued in Snohomish coun
ty. White is to be hanged Friday, De
cember 22. which will be the first anni
versary of his crime.
J. A. Johnson and Frederick A. Brazil,
notorious horset'nieves,.who have been
operating extensively in Manas river
country, Montana, have been captured
and taken to Great Falls.
The name of the Clearwater Horti
cultural Association at Lewiston has
been changed to the North Idaho Horti
cultural Association. J. W. Howe is
president and Robert Schleicher secre
tary.
Old settlers predict a flood in the Pot
Fourteen
latch country next spring,
years ago the ground was soaked with
rain before the snows came and when
the snow melted it filled the rivers to
overflowing. At Kendrick the ice was
piled 15 feet high after the waters sub
sided.
Stupid in Her. ,
They spoke at greater or less length
upon politics, religion, weather, mil
linery, gloves, neckties, skating, the
drama, society, dancing, the public
schools, the church and its mission, the
probability of a continuance of rain,
the difficulty of getting hired girls', the
supply of natural gas, and other topics
of minor importance.
Still he lingered. Instinct told him
that the old man was yet awake, but
he set the danger at naudght and still
stayed.
There was another subject which he
wished to broach.
"My dear friend—"
It seemed a very cold and distant
form of address, but he had previously
decided that it was the best under the
circumstances. She looked up.
"I wish—to—speak to you of some
thing very near my heart."
"Why—"
As she stared at him the perplexity
in her face suddenly gave way to in
telligence.
"Oh, yes, I know ; your lungs. How
are they, anyway? How stupid in me
not to ask you before."
He never knew what he murmured ia
reply. When he recovered complete
consciousness he was walking home.
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Low Itatéa to the Fair.
All the transcontinental lines have
announced a reduced rate of $47.60
from Spokane to Chicago and return
and $44.80 for the round trip to St.
Louis. A reductlou on this basis is
made from all other points in the West.
The limit expires November 13
on
Oppose kindness to perverseness. The
heavy sword will not cut soft silk; by
using soft words and grntleness you may
lead an elephant with a hair.
LOST IN THE LAKE
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NO T1DINCS OF STEAMERS'S CREW.
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Wliru Last Seen the Boat Was Disman
tled and Itudderless—The Schooner
Minnehaha a Wreck.
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Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 15. —The saddest
feature of the storm which raged yes
* terday and last night is the reported
loss of the steamer Dean Richmond on
the shore near Dunkirk. The first heard
of the disaster was at 9 o'clock this
morning, when the captain of the Hel
en T. reported having sighted the Dean
5 Richmond off Long Point, where she
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' was laboring under difficulties. Later
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Captain Tierney of the W. H. Stevens,
ted that ^ sl hted the Richm0 nd
In the middle of the lake about four
mi-les this side of Erie. One of her
stacks was missing, and while he was
looking the other stack and a spar went
by the board. She was laboring heavily
in the trough of the lake, as the steer
ing gear had become disabled. Since
then nothing has been seen or beard of
the vessel. It is thought she must have
gone down with all on board.
Her cargo of merchandise was from
Toledo to Buffalo. She belonged to the
Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas line.
A dispatch from Dunkirk this evening
states that a few bodies have been wash
ed ashore near there. One was identi
fied as that of John Hogan, first engin
eer, of Port Huron. A sign board bear
ing her name was found soon after and
some barrels of flour, which formed part
of her cargo, also drifted to the land.
She must have gone down off Lighthouse
poiqj.
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and
loss
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Schooner Minnehaha Lost.
Manistee, Mich., Oct. 15.—The schoon
er Minnehaha has been wrecked and six
lives lost. Captain William Packer was
saved. The schooner was beached at
Sarke yesterday at noon in order to save
her from foundering in deep water.
The seas soon drove the crew into the
rigging. Before the arrival of life
saving crews the schooner went to
pieces, and only Captain Packer was
saved. The dead are; John Rafferty,
mate ; John Rafferty .sailor ; Mary Keete,
cook, and three sailors, names unknown.
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Passed Through a «Juautity of Wreckage.
Detroit, Oct. 15—A Free Press spe
cial from Saulte Ste Marie, Mich., says;
"The captain of the steamer Jay Gould,
which passed down té'night, reports pass
ing through a quantity of wreckage
above White Fish Point. This would
indicate that some vessel had foundered
with ail on board.
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Many Fishing Smacks Missing.
New York, Oct. 15.—Nineteen fishing
smacks, the crews of which number 160
men, have been at sea since T hursday
last and it is feared that a number of
them foundered during the gale.
Sprung a Leak and Sunk.
Racine, Wis., Oct. 15 —The steam
barge James W. Masten, with 1,000 tons
of coal, sprung a leak and sunk off this
harbor today.
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CENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Harmonia hall, Detroit, was complete
ly destroyed by fire.
There is a shortage of silver in India,
on account of the falling off of imports.
Five persons were killed by a prema
ture explosion of dynamite at Eming
ton, Illinois.
Thousands of acres of rangehave been
burned over in Victoria county, Texas,
and cattle are suffering.
Financial operations in France are
nearly at a standstill, pending a settle
ment of the silver question in the United
States.
Noah King, leader of the gang that
robbed a train near Staunton, Indiana,
has been sentenced to 13 years impris
onment.
By the spreading of rails on the Wa
bash railroad, near Nameoki, Illinois,
30 world's fair excursionists were se
verely injured.
Emma Goldman," the young anarchist,
convicted in New York of inciting to
riot, has been sentenced to imprison
ment for one year.
St.
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The schooner Minnehaha beached at
Sarke, Mich., and before rescue could
reach them John Rafferty, mate, the
cook and four sailors were drowned.
The bill pending In Congress to pro
tect depositors of national banks pro
vides that all banks shall set aside one
fourth of one per cent, of the average
deposits for two months preceding Jan.
by
1, until a fund of $10,000,000 is created
to pay depositors of suspended banks. •
A large dynamite bomb was exploded
in front of the Florentine gate at Pisa,
Causing a panic. Beyond the shattering
of considerable glass, no damage was
done.
The
Women of Michigan have organized
an educational club, the object of which
is to arouse the women of the state to
the importance of understanding civil I
government.
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The merchant steamer Dean Rich
mond, from Toledo to Buffalo, was
wrecked at Dunkirk. It is supposed all
her crew.are lost, several bodies having
been washed ashore.
Col. W. H. H. Taylor, state librarian
in Minnesota, is dead. He married the
daughter of General William Henry
Harrison and was Harrison's private sec-1
retary while he was president.
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At Wilmington, N. C., the storm of !
last week was the worst ever known, aud
to
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Wharves and rice fields were flooded
and much damage done. The only
deaths reported are two children. The
loss will reach $150.000.
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The Denver & Rock Island regular :
collided with a freight train near Baxi-1
but
co, Kan., and two colored tramps were j
E. E. Harter, mail agent, was I
seriously hurt, and Charles Toppen and j of
Baggagemaster Forsythe, it is feared, j
fatally.
killed.
The congress of the Woman's Chris- j
tian Temperance Union convened in CO
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Chicago Monday. Lady Henry Somer- j
set called the session to order. Dis
tinguished representatives were present
from all parts of the world, including
China and Japan.
The suit of Mrs. John D. Walker, of
Arizona, whose husband was worth $5,
000,000, has been appealed to the su
preme court. Walker's brothers claimed
that the marriage was illegal by reasofl
of his insanity and the lower court sus
tained this theory.
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Terrific storms have swept along the
Atlantic coast. The tide Submerged a
large area of land near Wilmington. N.
C., doing great damage. The storm ex
tended to Baltimore, New York, Cleve
land, Toronto and Detroit, in all of
which there was great loss of property.
Benjamin Webber, formerly connect
ed with the fire department of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, was caught in the act of
■setting tire to a building. He was ar
rested and upon his confession the chief
of the fire department and several oth
ers have been taken into custody on the
charge of incendiarism.
Columbia, S. C.. reports terrible de
vastation from the recent hurricane.
Nearly every house at Magnolia Beach
was washed away and thirteen white
and six colored people drowned. Ia
many localities homes were wrecked
and the people barely escaped with
their lives.
Attempt to Dynamite Chinese.
Grant's Pass, Or., Oct. 17.—An at
tempt was made to blow up Wing Lee's
wash house and Chinese store this morn
ing. A bomb was thrown on the front
poarch, but it was not of sufficient
force to do the desired work. A hole
was blown through the poarch and a
smaller one in the side of the wali.
The windows and doors were shattered
but the Chinamen were not injured. A
gang of toughs have been agitating
the Chinese lately. There i3 strong
suspicion against a man who is a strong
advocate of anarchy.
At a Touch.
A neat little experiment in electricity
is to soak half a sheet of stout foolscap
paper in water, drying it rapidly before
a fire, spreading it while warm on a var
nished table or dry woolen cloth and
then rubbing the surface sharply with
a piece of India rubber. The paper be
comes so electrified that it will stick to
a smooth wall or looking glass, and also
attracts srçjall bits of tissue paper like
a magnet, and on being laid upon at ja
panned tray which is stood upon three
thoroughly dry goblets will cause the
tray to give out sparks at a touch of the
finger. _'_
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Wrecks of Nobility
The ups and downs of life are illus
trated by the case of a waiter in a res
taurant, who, having applied for a di
vorce, was compelled to reveal his real
identity. He claims to be a count, born
in Russian Poland of noble, but impov
erished, parents. There are supposed
to be a large number of these wrecks
of nobility in restaurants or on ranches
in America beginning life anew under
assumed names.
Don't try to pleahe everybody except
yourself.
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PRIZES ON PATENTS
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The Winner Has a Clear Gift of
$2,500, and the Losers Have
Patents That May Bring
Them In Still More.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars? If you would, read carefully
what follows and you may see a way to
do it.
Tbe Press (Taitus Company devotes much
attention to patents. It has handled thous
ands o! applications for inventions, but
it would like to handle thousands more.
There is plenty of inventive talent at large
in this country, needing nothing but encour
agement to produce practical results. That
encouragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT NO HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as on appall
ing formidable thing. The idea is that an
inventor must be a natural genius, like
Edison or Bell; that he must devote years to
delving in complicated mechanical problems
aud that he must spend a fortune on de'icate
experiments before he can get a new device
to a patentable degree of perfection. This
delusion the company desires to dispel). It
desires to get into the public a clear com
prehension of the fact that it is not the
great complex, anil expensive inventions
that bring the best returns to their authors.
but the little, simple aud cheap ones—the
things that seem so abruptly trivial that the
of bringiug them to the attention of the
average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
Patent Office.
Edison suys that the profits helias received
from the patents on all his marvelous iuven;
tions Dave not been sufficient to pay the
CO , Bt ° f I» 1 ", « Périment* But the man
who conceived the idea of fastening a bit of
rubber cord to a child's hall, so that it
would come buck to the hand when thrown,
made a fortuue out of his scheme. The
modern sewing-muctiine is a nierieal of in
genuity—the product, toi! of hundreds of
busy brains through a hundred and fifty
years, but the whole brilliant result rests
upon the simple device of putting the eye of
the needle at the point instead of at the
other end.
THE LITTLE THING THE MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost everybody
has been struck, at one time or another, with
ideas that seemed calculated to reduce some
of the little frictions of life. Usually such
ideas are dismissed without further thought.
'•Why don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they can be slid up
and down without breaking the passengers'
backs'.''' exclaims the traveler. "Il I were
running the road I wouid make them in such
a way."
" What «as the man that made this sauce
pan thiukiug of? " grumbles the cook. "He
never had to work over a stove, or he would
have known how it ought to have beeu fixed."
"Hang such a collar buttou!" growls the
man who is late for breakfast. "If I were in
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn't
slip our, break off, or gouge out the back of
my neck." »
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances aud begin to think of some
thing else. If they would sit down at the
next convenient opportunity, put their ideas
about the car windows, saucepans and collar
buttons into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves as
independently wealthy as the man who in
vented tile iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen, puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people 'to keep track of their
bright ideas and see what there is in them,
the Press Claims Company has resolved to
offer a prize.
To the person who submits to it the sim
plest and most promising invention, from a
commercial point of view, the company will
give twenty-five hundred dollars iu cash, in
addition te refunding the fees for securing
the patent.
It will also advertise the invention free of
charge.
This offer is subject to the following condi
tions:
Every competitor must obtuiu a patent for
his invention through the company. He
must first apply for a preliminary search, the
cost of which will be five dollars. Should
this search show his invention to be unpat
entable. he eau withdraw without further
expense. Otherwise he .will be expected to
complete his application and take out a (lat
ent in the regular way. The total expense,
including Government and Bureau fees, will
lie seventy dollars. For this, whether he
secure« the prize or not. the inventor will
have a patent that ought to be a valuable
property to him. The prize will be uwarded
by u jury consisting of three reputable pat
ent attorneys of Washington. Intending
competitors should fill out the following
blank and forward it with their application:
"—-.-, 1893.
"I submit the within described invention
iu competition for the Twenty-five hundred
Dollar Prize offered by the Press Claims I om
pany."
NO BLANK IN THIS COMPETITION.
This is a competition of rather an unusual
nature. It is common to offer prizes for the
best story, or picture, or architecural plan,
all the comiietitors finking the loss of
their labor and the successful one merely
selling his for the price. But the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely dif
ferent Each person is asked merely to help "
himsel aud the one person who helps him
self to he best advantage is to be rewarded
for doing it. The prize is only a stimulus to
do something that would be well worth do
ing without it. The architect whose com
petitive plan for a club house on a certain
corner is not accepted has spent his labor
on something of very little use to him. But
the person who patents a simple and useful
device*!a the Press Claims Company's com
petion, need not worry if he fails to ««cure
the prize. He has a substantial result to
show for his work—one that will command
its value iu the market at any time.
The plain mau who uses an article in his
daily work ought to know better how to
improve it than the mechanical expert who
studies it only from a theological point of
Got rid of the idea that an imorove
view.
meut can be too simpleto lie worth patent
ing. The simpler the better. The person
who best succeeds iu cofiibiniug simplicity
aud popularity, will get the I'ress Claims
Company's twenty-five hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company may be
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred of the leadiug news
papers in the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company, John
YVedderlnmi, managing attorney, 618 F
street, N. W., Washington, D. C.