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NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week—National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
Vv. J. Bryan and family have arrived
at Yokohama.
ic Is rumored that Prince Louis Na
poleon, governor general of Caucasus,
nas been assassinated at Tiflis.
Wilbur Flske Studebaker, only son
of the late Peter K. Studebaker, prom
inent in the carriage business, is dead.
Thu emperor of Russia and the em
peror of Japan have signed their re
si i,'dive copies of the peace treaty,
I bus officially ending the war.
Stockholm.—Both houses of parlia
ment have unanimously adopted the
government hill providing for the cat
iticalion of the Karistadl treaty.
The Costa Rican government has or
dered a census of the Chinese in the
country In order that those who have
entered illegally may be banished.
The strike of the Beilin electrical
workers is ended. Thu workmen ac
cept the associated companies' original
otter of 5 per cent increase in wages.
Mary B. Golding, cashier for the
Larkin Soap company, has confessed
that she has embezzled at least $2UDU
from the company within four years.
The view prevails In official quarters
at Paris that a mouth may elapse be
fore a decision is reached as to what
steps shall be taken against Venezu
ela.
While the races at the county fair at
Bucyrus, Ohio, wore in progress the
grandstand was discovered to be on
fire. A panic followed and many were
injured.
The line from Sioux City to Ashland,
which is to connect the Great Northern
ami Burlington railroad system at
Sioux City, Iowa, will be operated by
the Burlington.
The final subscriptions to the latest
Japanese loan of $50,000,000 financed
in this country three months ago, was
payable Monday. It amounts roughly
to about $40,000,000.
The International Harvester com
pany has purchased the Vulcan works
near Norkoping, Sweden. A Swedish
corporation will be formed to manu
facture harvesting machinery.
Colonel H. C. Loomis, past depart
ment commander of the Kansas O. A.
R„ is dead. He was lieutenant colonel
of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth
New York volunteers In the civil .war.
Dispatches from Reggio, Monteleone
and Messina say that further violent
earthquake shocks have occurred and
that considerable damage was done to
property. The people are panic strick
en.
The president has accepted the res
ignation of Eugene Tucker as associ
ate justice of the supreme court of
Arizona, to take effect the 14th Inst.
To succeed him the president has ap
pointed Paul Jessen.
If the wishes of the people of Pan
ama are to be complied with Secretary
Taft will lime his intended visit to the
Isthmus to be theie November 4, the
date of the anniversary of the sepa
ration of Panama from Colombia.
Hostilities have broken out between
the Tartars and Armenians around
Elizabethport, Prussia, and bauds of
them are firing on each other In vil
lages. Two Armenian and nine Tar
tar villages have already been de
stroyed.
Heart broken over the closing of the
Peoria (Ill.) National bank, on account
of the alleged defalcation of Professor
Newton C. Dougherty. Its president,
Calvin C. Lines, for twenty-one years
bookkeeper and officer of the bank,
died at his home recently.
Over a thousand farm laborers, made
desperate by the famine, Invaded Mar
ket place at Ecija, 48 miles from Se
ville, Spain, recently, seized the stock
of goods and money, destroyed the
market and threw the town Into a
panic. The authorities hastily applied
for military relief.
Pope Plus X, In a consistory to he
held November 13, will name as the
first South American cardinal Mon
signeur J. A. DearcoveJ de Alburque
Calvacantl, archbishop of Rio de Ja
neiro. At the same time Monsigneur
Cagiano do Azevedo, major domo of
his holiness, will be created a cardi
nal.
The Missouri building at the Lewis
and Clark fair was destroyed by fire
two days before the fair closed. The
tire is supposed to have originated
from defective electric lighting. The
loss is estimated at $50,000 and the on
ly insurance was $5000 on some art
exhibits. Practically nothing was sav
ed.
The appraisement of the estate of
William M. Rice, tho octogenarian mil
lionaire, who died September 23, 1900,
and for whose death by poison Albert
T Patrick was sentenced to death, was
filed recently. The gross personal es
tate held by Mr. Rice In New York
state is estimated at $3,300,577, and the
net personal estate comes to $2,570,080.
G. D. COLLINS DROPS HIS FIGHT.
He Will Return to San Francisco for
Trial.
Victoria, B. C.— O. D. Collins, want
ed at San Francisco for perjury, has
formally abandoned his fight against
extradition before Justice Duff, who
granted the application to abandon the
habeas corpus proceedings,
then reverted from the custody of
Sheriff Richards, to whom he bad
been ordered by Chief Justice Hunter,
to that of the chief of police, who will
allow him to go at large as before
with a special guard pending the ar
rival of the warrant of surrender from
Ottawa about a week hence, when Col
lins will be turned over to Detective
Gibson of San Francisco, who holds
President Roosevelt's warrant for Col
lins.
Collins
Seven shepherds drove a herd of 14,
000 sheep from Mamuga, In Queens
land. to Narbi, in New South Wales, a
distance of 900 miles, without losing
a sheep.
MR. CARNEGIE'S GREAT SCHOOL.
Enterprise Costing Millions Opened Its
Doors Monday.
Pittsburg. Oct. 16.—When the Car
negie School of Technology opened for
business Monday there was launched
an educational enterprise which the
great steel maguate proposes shall be
ultimately the greatest of its kind in
vorld. Over iOOO young men and
women from every part of the globe
made application as students.
Only one of the great group of build
ings planned has been completed and
the total expenditures to date aggre
gate $3,000,000. Mr. Carnegie agreed
to give $10,000,000 tor buildings alone
and as much more as may be needed.
One third of the applicants were re
jected because they could neither rend
nor write. Many expected Mr. Carne
gie to pay railroad fare and expenses
for the school year. After the sifting
process there were left 1723 eligibles,
but because of limited accommoda
tions only 120 were accepted.
The tuition will be $20, Mr. Carnegie
insisting on this nominal sum because
he did not wish the students to feel
they were attending a charity institu
tion. All books, tools and material
will be furnished free.
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SPORTING NOTES.
Eddie Santry was given the decision
over Eddie Kenny In a six round bout
recently at Chicago.
VV. T. Kipp of Spokane has pur
chased Le Rol, Die pacer, with a rec
ord of 2:10 l /4, from N. K. West of La
Grande, Ore.
Russ Hall will probably manage
next season's Seattle team, though uo
official announcement to that effect
has been made by the directors.
A. F. Wlcseman of Spokane Is plan
ning a field trial for setter and pointer
dogs of eastern Washington which
have never taken part In such a meet.
In the $400 trot or pace at Kalis
poll. Mont., Gold Dust, the local horse
driven by Kelly, won three straight
heals in spile of efforts to pocket
him.
Martin J. Sheridan of the Irish
American Athletic club, all round
champion of America, beat all records
at throwing the discus recently, by
establishing a new world's record of
138 feet, 3 inches.
Beldame has been shipped to Ken
tucky and her future home will be at
August Belmont's nursery stud. Bel
dame retires close to a $100,000 win
ner on the turf and one of the most
popular mares that ever raced in this
country.
After being apparently beaten,
Farmer Burns came back and won the
last two falls and the match from
George Baptiste of St. Louis recently
at Dos Moines, Iowa. By doing so he
settled the dispute regarding the mid
dleweight championship of America.
Amid the frenzied plaudits of more
than 24,000 baseball enthusiasts, the
New York National league champions
won the world's professional baseball
championship by defeating the Phila
delphia American league team in the
lift!■ game of the post season's series
by the score of 2 to 0. Of the tour pre
vious games New York had won three
and Philadelphia one.
"Kjd" Egan, formerly press agent
for Jim Jeffries, Is arranging a match
between Battling Nelson and Jimmy
Gardner, to lake place at Goldfields,
Nev., in the week before New Year's
day. Egan says that a bank at Gold
fields has (akon up the proposed match
as a business venture and will offer a
purse of $25,000, the sum of $5000 be
ing already deposited. Gardner has
»greed to sign at 133 pounds. Nelson
is now on the road with a theatrical
show and Egan is seeking to locate
him.
At the Spokane Amateur Athletic
club George Peterson, who is to meet
Honey Mellody October 20, is diligent
ly training for the contest. Since his
stay here he has increased the re
spect of the sporting fraternity for his
prowess as a tighter. There is nothing
of the dainty boxer about Peterson.
He is of the rugged, bulldog class, al
ways boring in and willing to take hard
blows for the chance of landing his
punch. For the last few days he has
been doing the customary road work
and boxing with local pugilists. He is
a few pounds over weight, and expects
to be at 145 pounds just at the right
moment.
The 20 round contest between Billy
Honey Mellody of Boston and George
Peterson of San Francisco, has been
postponed one week and will not be
held until Friday, October 27, at Spo
kane.
Saturday Football Games.
Lewiston high school defeated Col
fax high school by the score of 6 to 0.
California defeated Stanford in tho
12th annual freshman game on Cali
fornia field by the score of 6 to 0.
In the biggest football surprise Seat
tle has seen in years Whitman tied
tho University of Washington with the
score of 6 to 6.
Outclassed, hut fighting gamely for
every inch, the second team of the
University of Montana, at Missoula,
went down to defeat before the Spo
kane high school at Spokane park by
Ihe score of 24 to 6.
Add to Terrors of Famine.
Madrid.—Bands of well armed rob
bers have appeared in the province of
Cadiz and added to the terrors of fam
ine. They are burning and robbing
tho farms and the houses of the land
owners, and the governor has wired
for reinforcements of gendarmery.
More Pay in Fall River Mills.
Fall River, Mass.. Oct. 17.—It Is un
derstood in manufacturing circles that
within a short time the Fall River
Cotton Manufacturers' association will
grant an advance In wages of 12 1-2
per cent, to the operatives, numbering
upward of 25,000, now employed In
association mills.
Joseph Pulitzer's Son Weds.
Shelburne, Vt.—Frederica Vander
bilt Webb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Seward Webb of Shelburne, and
Ralph Pulitzer, son of the owner of
the New York World, were recently
married in Trinity Episcopal church.
Buda Pesth has a dead street of 23
houses which no one will enter because
of the abnormal death rate that has
prevailed there in the past.
TRAGEDY IN A HACK
Deed Took Place at Sioux City, Iowa,
FATHER KILLS DAUGHTER IN LAW
AND SLAYS HIMSELF.
While the Couple Were Going From
Hotel to Depot—Cause of Tragedy
Not Known—Mr. Darrow Was Min
ing Promoter In Black Hills.
Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 17.—While
driving In a closed hack from a hotel
to a railway station here, E. H. Har
row, aged 60, shot and killed his son's
wife, Lillian Harrow, aged 25, and then
shut and killed himself.
The hack driver immediately upon
bearing the first shut and without
stopping to Investigate, started for the
police station. When the police sta
tion was reached, both occupants of
the carriage, sitting upright on oppo
site seats, were found to be dead.
The cause of the tragedy is not
known. E. H. Darrow and the woman
came to the Arcade hotel In this city
on October 10, registering as "B. H.
Darrow and wife." They had started
for the railway station, ostensibly to
take a train for Sioux Falls, the home
of Mr. Darrow's son.
The murdered woman formerly was
Miss Lillian Morrison, a school teach
er. Five years ago she was married to
W. E. Darrow and they removed to
Bellefourche, S. D.
Letters were found In the woman's
purse, unsigned, but apparently from
her husband, saying the writer was dy
ing of a broken heart.
Papers found on the dead man in
dicate the couple has been traveling
together throughout the west. In Dar
row's notebook was written "Better
to die than live In poverty."
A letter from a sister In Chicago of
fered financial assistance, and a letter
from a daughter begged him for
money. He and the woman were well
dressed. Inside the woman's under
clothing was a letter from a town in
South Dakota and signed "C. C. T„"
addressed to Mrs. Lillian Darrow. Its
contents were of an Impassioned, love
sick character and addressed her as
'Sweetheart Nellie."
Harrow was a mining promoter who
had failed as president of the Two
Bear Mining company in the Black
hills.
TRAINMEN KILLED
DOUBLE HEADER FREIGHT RAN
INTO HERD OF CATTLE.
Both Locomotives and 11 Loaded Cars
Piled in a Heap Near Seaton, III.—
Wreckage Caught Fire—Engineer
Summers Was Scalded to Death by
Steam.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, Oct. 16.—Five
trainmen were killed Sunday at Sea
ton, ill,, when a heavy double header
freight train on the Iowa Central rail
road ran into a bunch of cattle on the
track. Both locomotives and 11 loaded
freight cars were piled in a heap.
The dead: George A. Caffll, engi
neer; Hurry Summers, engineer; Har
ry Barr, fireman; L. H. Bralley, fire
man; P. T. Morgan, brakeman.
All lived at Oskaloosa except
Bralley, whose home was at Mon
mouth, Ill.
The wreckage caught fire and the
mangled bodies of the trainmen were
only saved by the quick work of the
conductor and farmers living nearby.
Engineer Summers was caught In
the cab of his locomotive and scalded
by steam. He lived several hours, al
though large pieces of cooked flesh
tell from the hone.
CZAR IS WITH THE PRESIDENT.
Invitation to Peace Conference Similar
to Roosevelt Circular.
The state department has made pub
lic the invitation of the Russian gov
ernment to a second conference at The
Hague and the president's response.
These take the shape of two memor
andums, one dated September 13, be
ing an unsigned memorandum deliv
ered by Baron Rosen to the president
at Oyster Bay, and the other dated Oc
tober 12, also unsigned, delivered by
the president to Baron Rosen in Wash
ington. Tho first memorandum Is a
mere recital of the opportuneness of
another conference with the promise
to submit a detailed program by Rus
sia when the congress meets.
The president's memorandum is a
hearty acceptance of the invitation and
directs attention to the fact that his
previous circulars to the powers ap
pear to be precisely in line with the
Russian papers. The last memoran
dum was delivered to Baron Rosen
for transmission to Russia.
Street Duel at Bullfrog. "
Bullfrog, Nev.—In a street duel A.
J. Jodoin, a Frenchman, shut and al
most instantly killed "Bob" Arnold, a
prospector, formerly of Madisonville,
Ky.. but recently of Salt lAke and
Denver. The trouble arose over a tri
.(ling remark made by Jodoin, at which
Arnold took offense. The latter drew
a gun and struck Jodoin a severe blow
on the head, making an ugly cut. To
day as Jodoin was leaving a saloon
Arnold began shooting. Jodoin turn
ed, drew a revolver and took deliber
ate aim. His pistol missed fire four
times, but the fifth attempt was suc
cessful, and Arnold fell, shot through
the abdomen. He died 30 minutes la
ter. This is the first homicide in Bull
frog.
Names Negro Minister.
The resignation of William F. Pow
ell as United States minister to Haytl
has been submitted to the president
and accepted. As his successor the
president has determined upon Dr. H.
W. Furniss of Indianapolis, a promi
nent negro. Dr. Furniss is the pres
ent consul to BahiA
C/PT. TAGGART GETS DIVORCE.
Given Freedom from Wife and Custody
of Children.
Wooster, Ohio.—Judge Eason, who
heard the divorce case of Captain El
more F. Taggart against his wife, has
rendered his decision. The court grant
ed Captain Taggart the divorce and
the custody of the two children, Cul
ver, aged 11, and Charles, 7. Although
Mrs. Taggart is denied possession of
the children, she will be permitted to
see them.
The case has been of exceptional in
terest because of statements during
the trial by Captain Taggart that the
use of intoxicants in the army was so
common as to be almost the custom.
A number of prominent army officers
were named In Captain Taggart's pe
tition as having been more or less the
cause of the domestic troubles between
Captain and Mrs. Taggart.
In the outbreak against his father
upon the streets, Culver Taggart called
the Captain a liar. The child openly
cursed his father, and said: "I will
never go with you; you have lied about
my mother, and every witness who
swore at The trial against mama were
liars." Then Culver burst into tears.
Judge Eason decided that "Tiddles,"
the youngest child of the Taggarts,
shall be left in the care of his mother
at Wooster.
GRAND DUKE DISHONORED.
Czar Vents Displeasure Upon Cyril for
Recent Marriage.
The Grand Duke Cyril has arrived
at Peterhot, having been summoned
from Germany to receive the full
weight of the imperial displeasure on
account of his marriage to the di
vorced Grand Duchess Victoria of
Hesse, which occurred recently at
Munich, Bavaria. He will be deprived
of his rank as aide de camp to the
emperor, of his commission In the ar
my and other honors, and will be ex
cluded from Russia.
Grand Duke Cyril will suffer more
heavily than the Grand Dukes Paul
and Michael Michaelovich, as be not
only defied the reiterated commands
of the emperor, but broke the canoni
cal law in marrying a divorced woman
and his first cousin, and also because
the grand duke of Hesse Is the em
press' brother.
CURE CANCER WITH RADIUM.
Five Persons Cured of Disease at the
Flower Hospital.
New York.—That five persons have
been cured of cancer at the Flower
hospital by the use of radium coating
on celluloid rods inserted Into the
diseased parts was the substance of
a paper read recently by Dr. William
H. Dletfenbach, United States delegate
to the International Medical congress
at The Hague, before the Homeopathic
medical society of the county of New
York.
In only one of six cases which he
treated. Dr. Dieftenbach said, his ef
forts met with defeat. In that case
the disease was far advanced.
MINING NOTES.
Within a tew Days another diamond
drill will be In operation at Kendall,
Mont.
pany this week moved the machinery
to the ground and the drill is now set
The Bullard Extension com
up.
Russland, B. C.—It Is announced that
the Le Roi No. 2 has obtained the con
sent of the management of the Le Rol
Mining company to extend the cross
cut from the 1500 foot level of the Le
Roi into the Josie ground to prospect
the Josie at that depth.
August Paulson and E. H. Moffat of
Wallace, A1 Page of Wardner and L.
W. Steadman of Murray have been ap
pointed by Governor Gooding as dele
•gates to represent Idaho at the Amer
ican Mining congress at El Paso, Tex.,
November 14. *
Mr. Armstrong is working on a plan
to erect a concentrator In the Bound
ary. B. C., district, to handle ores from
low grade properties. He says he now
hys assurances of 200 tons per day
from a dozen or 15 different proper
ties, and that he will shortly build a
100 ton concentrator that can readily
be enlarged.
It is practically assured that the
Federal Mining & Smelting company
will purchase the Morning mine at
Mullan, Idaho, from Peter Larson and
Thomas L. Grecnough before the expi
ration of the option this month. -At
$3,000,000 mining men believe the pur
chase of the Morning will prove the
best investment made by the Federal
company in the Coeur d'AIenes.
Great Britain for Treaty.
The London Observer says It un
derstands Great Britain has agreed to
maintain the treaty of 1855, which
guarantees the integrity of Scandina
via. so far as Norway is concerned,
on condition that a monarchy be estab
lished. The paper adds that the can
didature of Prince Charles of Denmark
to the Norwegian throne has been vir
tually accepted by all parties.
Chicago to Coast Cheaply.
Officials of the Union Pacific. South
ern Pacific and Oregon Short Line at
a recent conference agreed that here
after the regular one way second class
passenger rate between Chicago and
all Pacific coast points shall be $33
for four months of every year, spring
and fall, September 1 to October 31,
and from February 1 to April 7.
Throws Himself Under Car.
I-ong Branch, Cal., Oct. 16.—Wor
rying over his lapse of memory, which
he believed an indication of approach
ing insanity, Warren Henderson, an
inmate of the soldiers' home at Saw
telle, threw himself in front of a
rapidly moving electric car at Six
teenth and American avenues, Just be
yond the city limits, and was instant
ly killed.
Ritzvllle Mayor Dies.
Ritzvllle, Wash., Oct. 17.—Mayor
Lansing, who had been lingering be
tween life and death for the past three
or four days, died Sunday night about
12 o'clock.
Storm Sweeps Bering Sea.
A severe storm raged in Bering sea
recently four days.
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WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA 1
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A Few Interesting Items Gathered !
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From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country—Numerous Acci
dents and Personal Events Take
Place—Fall Trade Is Good.
NORTHWEST STATES
IDAHO NEWS.
The district court at Rathdrum will
open October 2-,
Monday morning the First Bank of
Troy opened its doors for business.
Monday morning the Lewiston
Clarkston Interstate fair opened for
one week.
The car shortage in the Lewiston
country is becoming more oppressive
than in former years and is holding
the price of'grain In the Clearwater
country below the Lewiston market.
There are at the present time 19
men, in charge of H. B. Carpenter, en
gaged in surveying the line between
Idaho and Montana, which work they
expect to have completed by the mid
dle of the present month.
Fred Munson, general foreman of
camps Nos. 1 and 2 of the Lewis
Lumber company at Mica bay, near
Coeur d'Alene city, was struck by a
log and knocked into the lake, the log
falling upon him and crushing his
chest.
Mike McGowan, a resident of
Wardner for many years, Is dead.
He was between 60 and 70 years old.
He was a pioneer in the Black Hills,
coming from there to the Coeur d'Al
enes. Nothing is known of his rela
tives.
Burglars entered the home of J. M.
Pierce at Lewiston and stole $150
worth of clothing, silverware and oth
er articles» Just one week ago Mr.
Pierce's home caught fire and, while
it was not a total loss he suffered
heavily.
Governor Gooding has ordered
Executive Commissioner McBride, In
charge of the Portland exposition to
dispose of the Idaho building to the
best advantage and to prepare all
exhibits which can be preserved for
shipment to Boise.
An unwritten law prevents the Jap
anese living in the Coeur d'AIenes.
Chinese are absolutely prohibited and
the unwritten law is construed to also
apply to the Japanese. Members of
both nationalities are aware of the
understanding among the Coeur
d'Alene residents and give the dis
trict a wide berth.
The sale of town lota at Rupert and
Heyburn, which was to take place
next month, will probably be post
poned until next spring. The postpone
ment was recommended by Governor
Gooding and has the approval of the
reclamation service. Secretary Hitch
cock Is expected to act favorably upon
the request within the next few days.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Fifty thousand people have paid their
way into the fair this year at Spokane.
Lincoln county took 11 medals on
her grains exhibited at the Lewis and
Clark fair at Portland.
The remains of N. C. Green, the
banker of Ritzvllle, who died recently,
were burled In Spokane.
Horace McClure, for the past five
years managing editor of the Post
Intelligencer. has resigned.
In the burning of a laundry build
ing at Cle Elum a few days ago a
young girl named Ada Ransler was
burned to death.
W. S. Norman of Spokane has de
posited $25,000 toward the purchase of
the Tacoma hotel and the deal will
be completed soon.
New York and Michigan apple buy
ers are seeking fruit in the Inland
Empire for the first time In the his
tory of the country.
Gus Danielson of Palouse has raised
all summer and Is still gathering straw
berries unexcelled by any of the lux
urious fruits of warmer climes.
Fire in the outskirts of Walla Wal
la Sunday noon partly destroyed the
machine shops of Severance & Brough
ton, entailing a loss of about $3000.
Federal prisoners now awaiting
trial at North Yakima and Walla Walla
are to be brought to Spokane for the
district court criminal sittings com
mencing November 6.
All indications point to the unquali
fied success of the approaching con
vention of the Pacific Coast Adver
tising Men's association to be held
October 23 and 24, at Seattle.
John B. Krienbuhl, grand treasurer
of the Odd Fellows, who died In Spo
kane, was buried Sunday. Mr. Krien
buhl succumbed to a complication of
diseases. He was 78 years of age.
"Doc" H. G. Brown, well known
in the Inland Empire, is now located
in the new and bustling mining camp
of Goldfield, Nev. xxe is one of the
proprietors of the Palace, a saloon
and gambling house.
Spokane bank clearances last week
were the largest ever recorded dur
ing any week by several hundred
thousand dollars, and passed the $4,
000,000 mark for the first time in the
history of the clearing house.
The attorney general holds that the
state superintendent of schools has
authority to revoke any kind of a cer
tificate or diploma for nonattendence,
without good excuse at a regular teach
ers' institute or on account of viola
ting the law concerning fulfilling
contracts to teach.
Jesse Kelsey, the 9 year old son
of O. W. Kelsey of Walla Walla, while
crossing the street recently with one
foot In his little wagon, which was
being propelled by the other, ran under
the heels of a horse attached to a deli
very wagon, sustaining a fracture of
the skull. Little hopes are entertained
for his recovery.
Three giant electric locomotives
have been ordered by the Spokane &
Inland railroad. The engin will be
employed In hauling freight, and will
be the first Introduced into the Pacific
northwest. They are among the lar
gest and most powerful electrl« loco
motives In use In the entire west.
Yakima county won first honors and
the $150 first premium for the best
general exhibit of fruits made either
by a county, district or individual at
the Spokane interstate fair.
France of A'enatchee, Wash., with an
individual exhibit, won second prise,
$100: Simons and Hartman of Wenat
chee. Wash, th.rd prize. ,75. and
Stevens county fourth, $50.
At the recent session of the Oregon
and California African Methodist Epis
copal church Hev. G. H. W. Smith t)f
Tacoma was expelled for "gross 1m
morality and Rev. A. G. Woodward of
Seatt i e was a i so expelled for conduct
G. G.
unbecoming a minister of the gospel.
George A. Lovejoy, the young man
of Spokane who was skinned to fur
nish grafts needed to save the life of
a friend's wife, suffering from fright
ful hums, has brougt suit against Or.
C. P. Thomas for $10,000. That, he
says, is the value. of 150 inches of
skin without permission removed by
the doctor while Mr. Lovejoy was on
the operating table.
George Farr of Clayton, Wash.,
has Identified the body at Salt Lake
city as that of his son, Charles Farr,
who accidentally shot himself. In ac
counting for his unwillingness to be
lieve this was his son, Farr said that
he had positively Identified the Port
land body some years ago and thought
It his son's, but his wife bad never
believed Charles was dead.
- MONTANA 8QUIBB8.
The argument of the timber cutting
case of Senator Clark, of Montana, was
set for January 2 next by the supreme
court.
The last day of the Kalispell fair
was marked with sunshine. A crowd
of fully 5000 attended. The event of
the day was the public marriage of
Cloyd J. Crossley and Maggie Pearson,
both well known young people of the
valley.
George Case is in Jail charged with
being the leader of a gang of horse
thieves which has stolen more than
Koo horses In Valley county in less
than a year. Officers' are busily en
gaged in an effort to arrest the sus
pected confederates of Case, among
thpm being a cowboy named Ryan.
Mrs. William Young was arrested re
cently at Butte for bigamy. She ac
knowledges that she had been married
and divorced four times, declaring that
when she married Young, husband No.
4, she was under the impression that
she bad been divorced from him. In
this she is mistaken, according to the
records of the court.
F. Augustus Heinze and M. S. Lar
gey, a young millionaire, bought a con
trolling interest In the State Savings
bank, at Butte purchasing practically
the entire holdings of Thomas M.
Hodgens, cashier and founder of the
Institution. While no official announce
ment has been made, it Is understood
upon good authority that the Irans
action involved about $300,000.
An explosion occurred in the bakery
shop of Edward Euglett at Glasgow to
day. The shop, which was a small
frame building, was blown to pieces
and the proprietor was so badly In
Jured that physicians say he can not
live. As Euglett is unable to talk,
the cause of the explosion can only
he conjectured. It la known that he
recently was using dynamite for blast
ing purposes, and It is supposed that
he had some of It stored about the
f' aC0 ' Th f® WR f DO T, ln
the shop at the time of the explosion.
OREGON ITEMS.
N, Willoughby, a merchant of Pom
eroy. Wash., committed suicide at Port
land by inhaling gas. It appears that
be had been robbed on an O. R. & N.
train, but how much was taken from
him is not known.
District Attorney Francis J. Heney,
accompanied by his secretary, has
left for Tucson, Ariz., where he goes
to argue a civil suit. From there he
will return to San Francisco, and then
go to Washington, D. C. During his
absence the land fraud cases which he
has been prosecuting with such vigor,
will be at a standstill. He will return
to Portland late In November.
The glory of industrial achievement
that has been supreme at the "Dream
City" of the Lewis and Clark exposi
tion four and a half months, came to
an end when the turnstiles were lock
ed tor the last time at 1 o'clock Sun
day morning, having recorded an at
tendance for the last day of 66,960 and
for the entire exposition 2,545,509.
Monday the work of wrecking the Im
mense exhibit palaces and state build
ings commenced and in a tew 'months,
all that will remain of the exposition
will be a memory of Us success—sue-'
cess as expositions go, for President
Goode has made public announcement
that stockholders will receive a divi
dend of from 30 to 40 per cent on their
stock, a record said to excel any expo
sition of like character ever held In the
world.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
by the Portland jury In the case of
Louis Ferraris, charged with the mur
der of Carlo Bonanuo. Ferraris claim
ed to have killed Bonando in defense
of his sister's honor.
John Newton Williamson, congress
man from Oregon for the Second dis
trict, was sentenced in the United
States court to serve 10 months Im
prisonment and pay a fine of $500.
He was lectured by the court for fail
ure to set a good example to others be
cause of bis exalted position. Marion
R. Biggs, ex-Unlted Stales commission
er, was taxed by the court with a sim
ilar dereliction of duty and given an
equal penally, but In the case of Ur.
Van Gesner, convicted of being a fel
low conspirator to suborn perjury, on
account of bis age and feeble health
the term of imprisonment was cut in
two and the fine doubled. Appeals are
pending and a stay of execution was
made pending a further order of the
court.
Six Miners Still Entombed.
FTederlcktown, Pa, Oct. 16.—The six
miners entombed In the Clyde mine
yesterday have not yet been rescued.
The entombed men are 1500 feet from
the pit month and hopes of reaching
them alive are not entertained.
John D. Commended by Blacks.
Dallas, Texas, Oct. 18.—A negro
Baptist conference. In session at Was
co, adopted a resolution commending
John D. Rockefeller, and saying that
in the opinion of the convention he
was an Inspired giver.
Of the 1,600,000,000 of people be
lieved to Inhabit the world, only three
fifths are known by censuses.
THE THOUGH If III GUEST.
Sometimes the best intentions
but traps; sometimes the loftiest
deavor ends in disaster, says a con
tributor to Pearson's Weekly, and 11
lustrâtes his meaning by the case of a
friend of his—a writer, already be
coming famous. He did not live in
London, but at the time was staying
with some friends in town. One night
they took him to the theater. At ths
end of the play he said he would
over to a club, to keep an appointment
with a friend. Would they let him
have a latch-key, so that he might let
himself In and not disturb anybody
when he got back Of course they did.
At 2 o'clock In the morning he found
that It was 2 o'clock, and he Jumped
up In a hurry, got Into a oab. and
drove home. As he opened the door
with his latch-key his blood ran cold.
Borne foolish servant had left the door
on the chain! It opened about eight
Inches, and no more.
are
run
There wus not a light In the bouse.
There was not a soul In the street
with »horn he could confer, not even
a policeman. Would he, after all,
have to disturb the whole household?
No. He suddenly remembered that
wherever a man's head could
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, He to aud
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f* 8 n * Hmself on hl» right arm, his
8 * arm would enter. Holding the
P°®Hlon of an overhand swimmer, he
ulu 5criook to get his right arm In. It
wou ^ not go In, try as he might,
Besides, the strained position of his
left arm was unbearable. He raised
on right, and withdrew It. He
would get out altogether on the door
* fe P. an <l ttet cool and think It over,
He was alarmed then to hear the hall
clock strike 4, and be tried to look up
at It, to see if he' had heard aright,
From this time—Just as the clock
struck 4—he lost all faith In all the
scientific knowledge he had ever pos
sessed. His head would not come out
again—It had grown! Either that, or
the door had closed a link or two.
How time went after that be did
no t know. He only knew that his
head and body were bathed in perspl
rilt lon. and that the wind had changed
and wag blowing from the north. The
k^ied*« that hlg trousers had work
well aboTe hl „ klleeH> MK , hlg ex .
tremltlaa were atoneK!oldi told Mm
^ ^ wlnd waB Mowing; „„d
ha ^* a " think that perhaps It
Wf)Ula haT , looke< , more he
died with his boots on.
pene
trate, his body could follow. Science
said that
The door was open about eight Inch
est He wore a seven and three-quar
ters hat He tried to see If the tdt>
of the hat would go in. It would.
Bo, carefully maneuvering it round
the brim, he gently deposited It on the
mat Inside. Then, still planning to
avoid noise, he took his money, his
keys and his watch from his pockets,
and'placed them beside the hat After
that he took oft his boots. To mute
the thing thorough, he took oft his
coat and laid that also Inside.
At B;80 o'clock the policeman on
the beet, passing that way on his.
first round, saw the difficulty, and
knowing that the average burglar
does not wear silk stockings, made In
quiries Explanations came In a muf
fled and exhausted voice. He sent the
milkman for a locksmith.
A big crowd had collected, and, as
the man was freed, It raised a cheer
that—Incidentally—woke the house
hold.
Kraal for Yellow Fever,
During the yellow fever epidemic at
New Orleans lu 1878 a German medl
oal student braved the terrors of the
plague to secure the advantage of ex
perience, says the Isis Angeles Ex
près». Doctors were few and his serv
ices were gladly accepted. He had
Ideas and many were hlg experiment*.
Treating a Hollander at the hospital.
Dr. Hans decided that bis patient was
about to die, »o he prescribed as a last
solace to the expiring man a huge
plate of sauerkraut. He watched tho
sick mau devour the delicacy so dear
to the palate of our friends across the
sea. To Hans' unbounded amaze
ment on his next Inspection he found
the Hollander sitting up In bed read
ing a newspaper, well on the road to
recovery.
Jerking forth his notebook, he Jolted
dewn; "R. Sauerkraut will cure a
Dutchman of yellow fever." Proceed
ing te another ward he found a Span
iard In a bad way. .Procuring another
plate of sauerkraut, be bade the
patient eat It and live—but speedily
the Spaniard died. Reaching for his
notebook, Hans added to the pre
scription, "but will kill a Spaniard."
One of the three doctors who were
prominent In treating hundreds of yel
low fever patients at Jacksonville,
Fla., during that city's last visitation
of the scourge remarked afterwards,
when ashed for hi* favorite prescrip
tion: "Roll the patient In hot blan
ket*. Sweat It out of him If that
falls take kins out to the sand hills
hospital and administer with the ham
mer one bard blow upon the temple.
That Is both effective and humane."
Uncle Eben.
"You can't beat fie lazy man." said
Uncle Eben. "Whea de weather's bud
ke aays ke can't work, an' when It's
fine he say* It's a shame not to enjoy
It."—Washington Star.
When a woman has a groat deal to
say about being a lady, It U a pretty
sura sign sh« Is not one.
For Abner McKinley's Estate.
Somerset, Pa.—A. F. Kennedy of
New York has filed exceptions to the
account of Mrs. Annie E. McKinley,
executrix of the estate of the late pres
ident's brother. Mr. Kennedy alleges
that about $80,100, representing life
insurance policies on the life of Abner
McKinley, has not been accounted for
by the executrix, and Abner's share
of the estate of the late President Mc
Kinley. amounting to $50,000 or $80,
000, has not been divided among the
creditors.