The Newport miner. [volume], January 30, 1908, Image 3

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STEVENS COUNTY WASHINGTON
May Cm Railroad Rates
Railway passenger rates through
out this state may be cut to 2\
cents a mile, unless the Great
Northern either retires its mileage
book or changes their form, and
this the railroad company refuses
to do, says the Spokane Chronicle.
The contest, which will prob
ably be tried in the courts, has
arisen over a rule which the com
mission has promulgated, and
which the Great Northern refuses
to obey. The order in question
requires railway companies in
dealing with mileage books to in
struct their conductors to pull only
such number of coupons as would
be equivalent at 3 cents to the
regular fare. _
One instance is that the exact
distance between Seattle and
Olympia is 73 miles, which would
cost passengers, at 3 cents a mile,
just *2-19. The railroads, to meet
competition, charge $1.80 a trip.
When, however, a man is traveling
on mileage, the conductor pulls 73
miles. The commission rules that
he must pull only 60 miles, in or
der to give the man owning the
mileage the benefit of the rate of 21
cents a mile, at which rate he has
paid for this mileage book.
The railroads say that if the
rule of the commission is enforced
by the courts they will retire their
miltage books. Commissioner J.
C. Lawrence has stated that the
retirement of mileage books will
probably be followed by the issu
ance of an order by the commis
sion for a hearing on the subject
of reducing passenger rates at 2\
cents a mile.
The railroads can if they will,
avoid the controversy by issuing
a mileage book like that recently
put out by the O. R. & N., where
the mileage coupons are designated
in cents, and the conductors are re
quired to pull only the regular fare
between stations, instead of cou
pons representing the actual mile
age.
Lame Shoulder Cvred.
Lame shoulder is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles and quickly
yields to a few applications of Chamber
lain's Pain Balm. Mrs, F. H. McElwee,
of Boistown, N. 8., writes: "Having
been troubled for some time with a pain
in my left shoulder, I decided to give
Chamberlain's Pain Balm a trial, with
the result that I got prompt relief." For
sale by Tiss & McMorran.
Look out for Land Frauds
Citizens of the northwest who
have advanced sums ranging from
$25 to $100 in the hope of obtain
ing valuable timber lands in South
ern Oregon at $2.50 an acre will
receive a rude awakening by a
communication from the general
land office at Washington to land
offices throughout the United
States.
Under the representation that
the California <fc Oregon Railway
would be compelled by the terms
of its original land grant from the
government to sell to bona fide
settlers any part of holdings in
Southern Oregon at 12.50 an acre,
a number of promoters have had
agents in various parts of the
Northwest taking applications from
unsuspecting persons for the pur
chase of these lands from the rail
road company.
Agents of the promoters, several
of whom had headquarters at Rose
burg, Oregon, near the railroad
lands, would tell investors that the
advance was for the purpose of
making the necessary legal ap
plication through the courts. If
the court granted the application,
they Baid, demand would be made
upon the railroad and, according
to the terms of the original grant,
the company would be compelled
to grant the application and the
-investor would obtain for $450
lands worth thousands of dollars.
The first advance of $50 would be
necessary to cover the legal ex-
and no further momy would
he necessary until the actual tender
was made to the railroad.
As far ad known the promoters
f the scheme have made the
applications lo the courts and have
thus carried out the deal suflici-nt'ly
to put themselves bevond the pos
,ibility ~f any legal action for the
recovery of any money advanced.
According lo men versed in land
rulings there is no chance for the
purchases to he completed as the
ojiginal grant contains no such
clause as advertised by the pro
moter.-. It is also true that in
making the application to the
court and playing the small fee
needful the promoters carry out all
demanded of them by law and the
rest of their percentage of the ad
vance money is clear profit.
Fair Will Be Held in 1909
Seattle, Jan. 29. —Owing to a
slight rumor that the Alaska-
Yukon-Pacitic exposition is going
to be postponed, caused by the re
cent financial flurry, the executive
committee of the 1909 fair has
passed the following resolution: 'It
is the unanimous sense of the
members of the executive commit
tee that the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition be held at the place and
time hitherto planned—Seattle, U.
S. A., from June 1 to October 15,
1909."
The contract for another large
exhibit palace, the agriculture
building, has been let for $81,830.
Six of the main buildings will soon
be well under way. The manufac.
tures building is progressing rap
idly.
The executive committee an
nounces that there is plenty of
money on hand with which to carry
on the work, and that money for
stock is coming in all the time.
Word received from Washington,
D. C., from Vice-President John
H. McGraw and Director of Ex
ploitation Henry E. Reed, indicates
that congress is looking with favor
on the exposition. The appropria
bill will soon come up for consid
eration. The governmenc has asked
,for more ground space than was
originally allotted to it.
Men Wanted in Alaska
Just now when there are so
many unemployed men in this
country it seems that it will be
interesting to many people to learn
of the demand for laborers and
miners in the Tanana district in
Alaska.
Mr. Chas. E. Peabody, president
of the Alaska Steamship company,
with which has-been consolidated
the Northwestern Steamship com
pany, advise that the Tanana dis
trict is short between 2,000 and
3,000 men for mining work.
The route into that country is by
way of Valdez, and sailings of the
Alaska Steamship company from
Seattle occur about every eighth
day. Passenger fares from Seattle
to Valdez are: First class $45-00,
steerage $25.00.
Where Old Maids are Insured
The Maiden Insurance Co. is a
most singular institution, and is
believed not to exist outside of
Denmark. It is confined to the
nobility. As soon as a female
child is born her name is enrolled
on the company's books, and there
after a fixed annual amount is paid
to the treasury. When the girl
has reached the age of 21, she is
entitled to a fixed income and to
a suite of apartments, and this in
come And home, both almost
princely, hers until she either
marries or dies. The society has
existed for generations. It has
always prospered. Thanks to it,
poverty-stricken old maids are un
known among the Denmark no
bility.
L. E. Carter has filed suit against M.
L. Morton at Colville and asks for $5000
damages. He alleges that Morton alien
ated the affections of Mrs. Carter.
Restore Homestead Rights
* —— ——
Washington, D. C.. Jan. 13.—The bill
recently reported by the house commit
tee on public lands, permitting all per
sons who, through any cause, have
failed to prove up on previous home
stead entries, passed the house today,
with an amendment excluding those
cases where fraud has been proven, or
where the entryman's rights have been
sold for valuable considerations.
The passage and approval of this bill
by the president will allow many per
sons to secure homesteads who lost them
through the inability to obtain funds to
prove upon.
Lenora Hews. x
Lenora, Wash., Jan. 21, 1908.
Misses Maybelle Hoistington and
Mollie Maxwell spent last week visiting
Miss Hoistington's parents at Tweedie.
Nearly everybody here is ill with la '
grippe.
A.M. Button made a business trip to
Harrison, Idaho, last week.
Clinton Disbrow is furnishing the peo
pie of Lenora with extra fine strictly '
fresh eggs, lie has a flock of about 100 1
hens. *
F. S. Maxwell made a business trip to 1
Newport Monday. (
A. M Button went to Newport Tues- i
day. s
Mr. Hart went to IJsk Tuesday.
Attendance at school is small on ac
couftt of so much illness.
Arthur Nehnman, Mr. Sherwood and '
his son Ralph went to Spokane Tuesday.
Alex Wilson returned home from '
Milan, where has been working. '
Geo. Budge has secured the job of
hauling the cedar poles from Elmer 1
Black's place to the river. '
Miss Jessie Mackleboy, who has been *
staying with Mrs. A. M. Button and at- J
tending school has gone across the river '
to work at Bert Canuon-'s.
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Bad Billy Williams !
_ i
"Billy" Phillips, a notorious Indian !
gambler from Cusick, is in trouble '
again. He has frequently been an in- 1
mate of the Whitman countv jail. Last 1
Saturday he was taken to Colfax from 1
Tekoa to serve a 12 day's sentence for 1
cruelty to animals. "Billy" is a full 1
blooded Couer d'Alene Indian and is
well known in the vicinity of Newport, 1
where he has occasionally figure! in the
police courts.
Advice to mothers: Don't let your I
children waste away. Keep them strong
and healthy during the winter with 1
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. It is
the greatest tonic for children. Pure
and harmless. Does the greatest good. 1
35c, Tea or Tablets. Adam's Pharmacy.
A Cabby Stung.
foreigners often tail a prey to the
unscrupulous wiles of the British cabby,
who basely takes advantage of the
stranger's want of familiarity with
English idiom, coinage and locality.
We have heard of the intelligent for
eigner being driven about six statute
miles in a journey from London bridge
to Charing Cross. That cabby got the
best of the transaction, but a recent
attempt to impose upon foreign ere- ,
dullty was frustrated cleverly by a son
of Gaul, whose taste for joking led him
to try to bamboozle a cabby into at
tempting it with him. He demanded
In exceedingly broken English to be
driven to a certain place, the fare to
which was exactly a shilling. It may
be remarked that he really could speak i
English as well as he could his moth
er tongue. On arriving at his destina
tion he asked, still in a struggling fash
ton:
" 'Ow mooch 'ave I to pay?"
"Five shillings," promptly responded
the cabby.
"And 'ow mooch is 5 shillings?"
queried the traveler, taking out three
half crowns and laying them across 'his
palm.
"Them three's right," said the cabby (
pointing to the coins.
"Oh!" said the Frenchman. Then,
dropping his assumed imperfect ac
quaintance with the vernacular,""Wel t
here's a bob for you," he said and de
parted, leaving his erstwhile jehu
standing with a perplexed expression
on his face which took some time t®
disappear.—London Tit-Bits.
Rules For Right Eating.
The rules for eating, which ought to
be a part of every child's A B C's,
are few and simple, though neglected
by half of the adult population.
Expressed in don'ts, they are:
Don't eat in a hurry; don't eat when
tired; don't forget to chew well; don't
drink much with meals—do It before—
don't eat all one kind of food; don't
take much cold food at one time.
Most of us live as if unconscious
that there are such things as laws of
health whose violation brings pain and
sickness. The stomach will bear as
much abuse and neglect as any organ
of the body, perhaps more than most
of them. But when it rebels there is
usually one more cross dyspeptic in
flicted on society and destined to spend
the rest of his days alternating be
tween a diet of soft eggs and toast and
sundry excursions into mince pies, pork
and cabbage and other things that he
niroa ( but which make him miserable.
—Charles H. Cochrane in Metropolitan
Magazine.
An illustration.
little Harry-Pa, what's a foregone
conclusion? Pa-Anything thats sure
to follow something else. To give you
an Illustration, if I were to lock the
drawer of my desk it wouldnt be
twenty minutes before your mother
would break it open for the purpose of
finding out what I was trying to con-_
r>A»i.—Cleveland Leader.
Neighborhood News.
Sandpoint is contemplating the issu
ance of a sufficient amount of bonds to
construct a new building, o> sewage sys
tem, the purchase of new fire apparatus
and the possible purchase of the water
works system. It was figured that the
improvements contemplated would te
3ult in asking the"citizens to vote to
issue $75,000 in bonds.
Spokane parties are trying to purchase
a controlling interest in the Traders'
State Bank,of Sandpoint, and merging
that institution into a national bank
with a capital stock of $50,000.
A new paper to be called the Planta
tion Gazette is to be established at
Meyers Falls, Stevens county. R. A.
Smith, of St. Maries, Idaho, in to be the
editor of the new publication. It is
proposed to boom the Plantations irri
gated land in that locality.
Hunters, this county, in to have a
waterworks saystem.
Blanche Lewis, the 14-year-old daugh
ter of a resident of Dunn, died of diph
theria last week. Her parents belong
to a sect known as the Saints of God,
and did not believe in medical treat
ment and the girl did not receive proper
care. An older brother is ill with the
same disease, but insisted upon having
a physician and is now improving.
Colville is to have a new city hall. It
will be two stories high.
The mistletoe will be the state flower
for the new state of Oklahoma.
Martin Donovan has notified the pub
lic that his wife has left his bed and
board.
- The Bonner county fight over the
renting or purchase of the Weil block
for a court house is receiving much at
tention from the papers of that county.
How would it be to have the county seat
location settled before buying?
Sandpoint aspires to entertain the
Idaho Republican state convention.
Several cities throughout the state have
suggested that the Panhandle should be
given the honor, and it looks as though
Sandpoint might land the prize. It is a
rather ambitious plan, but it is piob
able that the smelter town will be able
to give a good account of herself in case
the Republicans decide to deliberate
there.
The state failed to make a case against
the Sandpoint gamblers, according to
the jurymen, so the green cloth men
went free. However, the gamblers
agreed to shut up their games and be
good in the future. It appears that the
lid is on again and off again quite fre
quently in the Bonner county capital.
One of the Sandpoint papers is taking
a straw vote of its subscribers on the
question of purchasing the court house
building recently constructed by Auditor
Weil.
Springdale is to have a state bank.
Parties from Grangeville, Idaho, will"
furnish most of the capital.
The county seat fight In Kootenai
couuty is going merrily on. Coeur d'
Alene and St. Maries are trying to wrest
the prize from Rathdrum. It is a three
cornered fight, with the prospects favor
ing Coeur d'Alene on account of the cor
porate interests to a large extent, ac
cording to some of the other fellows.
An effort is being made to boom the
mining districts in the vicinity of Re
public and Orient. Both towns are in
the vicinity of the Curlew mining dis
trict and not far distant from the famous
Boundary Creek district, which contains
some of the famous mines of the north
west.
The Granby smelter is to be enlarged
this year, in order to accommodate the
many new producers in the Granby dis
trict.
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