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OFFICIAL PAPER OF KOOTENAI COUNTY j s I THES1LVER BLADEi j PUBLISHED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK j THE SILVER BLADE PUBLISHING CO., | ,1 C. HK ADV Edit. : T E n M s : ....*1.50 . 1.00 One Yeah, ie Paiu in advance. Six Months. niKKK Months.. . SlNOt.K COI'IBS ... ,50 (En'eretf at the PostotUce at Rathdrum, I laho. as second class matter. I JULY 21, 1900. SATURDAY j THE DOGS OF WAR. The press despatches Russia state that lias handed the Chinese envoy at St. Petersburg bis pass 1 ports and requested him to leave tne country along with his mission. This means but one tiling, Russia and China certainly, and war possibly be tween Russia and England. It that whatever horror of war. War between means butchery and outrage vv .ich may have occurred to the ministers and missionaries of other nations, the demands of these powers for in demnity and retribution must wait in abeyance upon Russia or, it means a clasii of nations. As a straw pointing the setting of the winds comes this dispatch from Washington: "The United States has inform ally notified the other powers that this country must hereafter he reckoned with in all steps taken either for pacification or partition in China. In furtherance of this policy it is believed the United States, Germany and Great Brit ain have taken a determined stand 1 and will act together. Japan nor Russia nor any other nation will he permitted to profit by the situa tion which has been created by the horrible attack upon the diplomat ic envoys of all nations." What can the United States hope to gain by interference in the partition of China? Can she gain anything hut a hand in the broil? Is it trade? What will trade with China amount to when she is struggling in deadly war with Rus sia or other powers, or after she has been impoverished by such war? Is it indemnity? In either event in what condition will China be tosatisiy indemnity claims of all nations? Is the indiscriminate slaughter of Chinamen in punish ment, in vengeance, a sufficient and righteous satisfaction of these claims? Will a slice of Chinese soil atone for the blood and torture or salve the heart wounds of those who mourn? Is American punish ment more severe than that of the Russian? Now that the situation has forced Russia to the front, to be the first to declare war; now that she lias massed 200,000 troops to be immediately hurled into China, the powers can do no more, can render no greater service to the cause ol right and Christian civilization than by standing aside, placing the settlement of this ter rihle affair in the hands of Russia, and unitedly strengthening her hands in every possible way. As the situation has shaped itself this >s the true course. This is the only course the United States can Russia is first upon the field, first in power, and first in ability. pursue. Any other course can but embroil the nations, But England is not content to do tiiis. Nothing but territory will satisfy Great Britain, stands If America with England at all, above intimated, she stands assist her in this as to purpose. If the McKinley administration interferes in the- partition» of. Chin», i-t inter itses. Km ïïuL fceïhalî »£ England. Tlue people more than half believe in the existence of the secret alli ance so much talked about. Ceremre in the partition of China will simply confirm this belief—a belief that while England is crush ! j ' Inter wig two republics in the Transvaal, McKinley is-pulling English, chest mots out oB the Chinese fine.. "What is- the empire?" asksd ■ Charles A_ Tow ne in. his speech at the Lincoln ratification meeting And he answered: "The empire is where the question whether a man s | la ]j have his due is determined pudiated and scoffed at; where the liberty which that great charter declares to be given by God to all j men is replaced by the liberty by the caprice of some other man; where the 'promise of nature' is only a barren ideality; where the Declarati.on of Independence is re which a McKinley may grant to some men 'in such measure as : suits his opinion of their capacity 1 where the 'consent of the gov emed' is changed into the 'consent of the governors;' where there are rights but only concessions, j where authority may be limited in no 1, therefore, tends to become j absolute in all places; where rea son is subordinated to force and some places but absolute in others, ani 1 selfishness; where military ideals usurp the place of the ideals of ! where war is glorified in j peace; and for itself and the shedder of blood has more status than states men, philosophers and poets bave; I where colonies and dependencies are insulted by false pretences of philanthropy, while their resources are exploited by' the minions and This is what agents of power, exists in the Philippines, and it is what will exist in the United States if the American people sanction imperialism by re-electing Presi dent McKinley. Discussing the Chinese situa tion the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung says: "Doubtless, if the United States government has already cre ated a military basis in China, Washington would now make a claim for a special sphere of influ ence. If 'Imperialism' succeeds at the forthcoming election, expan sion towards China is to be ex pected from the United States." What a commentary is this upon the republican party—an American political party. succeeds at forthcoming election the United States would expand toward China—-Washington would claim a special sphere of influ What does this 'sphere of fluenee mean? It means that slice of territory which each power will claim as its share in the partition of China. The fact is so patent that foreign papers comment upon it and accept it as a matter of course, that if McKinley is elected the war of conquest will go on, not only in th? Philippines, but in China, and anywhere else where the people are too wea-k to defend themselves. That to raise the im mense army necessary for con quest, the conscript will be used and war taxes be levied to main tain it. Do you know now what the republican platform means? The path of militarism and terri torial conquest and aggression up on which the republican party has entered is not one of roses. It is beset with thorns that are con stantly pricking the people. One particular thorn which is now jab bing to the quick is this. If this territory is to be obtained by force of arms it must be held 1 by force of arms. General McArthur now in sists that 100,000 troops are now, after two years of war, necessary to conquer the Filippinos; and no man' knows how large arr army will' be required to make them stay conquered. The republican party says it makes no difference how large an army is required, it will he raised. But how? By volun teers? Btrt if it carwvot be raised l>y volunteers, what then?' It will BE RAISED BY CONSCRIPT TON — BY THE 1 >KAKi'. Thus every vo-te for the republican ticket means a vote to carry on an unholv, unrighteous-. un-American war of conquest by conscription If 'Imperialism' » t ence. law ellesCige a«au*C tÜ* "•The laws against trusts," says» Congressman Dolliver, "are nearly all signed by republican govern Bat what good against trusts when republican presidents,governors and attorneys» general refuse or neglect to- enforce them? A«orney-G>eneral Griggs, who makes no attempt to enforce ! the federal anti trust act, is kept j in office. Attorney-General Me» ' nett, who sought to make the Ohio are- laws ors. ■ Standard Oil monopoly, Was de nied renomination by the republi can party. As well might Deliver undertake to prove that black is white as to convince intelligent people that republican leaders are against trusts' It is not because the party is their enemy that the industrial combinations are con tributors to its campaign funds. It j s because the organization is their friend. When a Kootenai county repub ]jran has ye n ed prosperity until , m throat ia sore> his face j 3 as red as a beet and the Salt brine trickles fmm hjs eyes> jt is downright cruelty for a Rathdrum prairie far mer to as k j 1 j ln to give the exact percentage of prosperity in 40-ccnt wheat. Don't ask him that. j 1 ; m w j 1Q g ets t he prosperity when Ask a soulless corporation fires all the white men and puts in a crew of Japs and dagos? This will cheer him up, and while everyone knows it is the corporation, he will pre varicate like a Second cousin to • Annanias and swear it is the people. For four years the republicans and the republican press have howled that the money question was dead—that the silver question had h^pn buried fathoms deep. They have proclaimed it from the housetops, from the rostrum and from every two-by-four country weekly of the tribe. Now comes the word direct from the mouth of Mark Hanna that the money ques tion is the paramount issue of the campaign; that imperialism is the base subterfuge of the ignoble democrats to evade this issue. Either someone has lied most vig orously in the past or a mighty poor job of burying has been done. W. J- Butterfield is verj low with I tuAaumiation of the bowels, but it is I hoped it is not of a dangerous nature MINISTER CONGER ALIVE, The state department has been handed a cipher dispatch in the secret code, signed by Minister Conger, which states he is alive but in deadly peril. POST FALLS. From Our Special Correspondent. W. J. Butterfield, Misses Mamie Bump and Lulu Leonard y hoarded Hier irai n fur Spokane Friday and relumed home Sunday. Frank Carter was on the sick fist for several days, but is now almost recovered. The sawmill and factory were closed down for a few days in order to repair the waterwheel, but both are running again. Harvest has been in full blast for several days, and the crop is most all harvested. The Misses Lizzie and Mary Young visited friends on Pleasant prairie last week. John Young was a Spokane visitor this week. Miss Kmma Clarke, daughter of C. W. Clarke of Spokane, accom panied by her friend, Miss Madge Knapp of New York, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. lîufus Dillard. Mr. Jobes of Seattle, one of the owners of the flour mill at this place, was here on business Monday. The band boys' benefit will fake place at the opera-house on the eve ning of Saturday, July J. A splendid program has been arranged The ad mission will be 15 cents. Darwin Lyon is suffering with a hut It i-s not of a serious felon, nature. Will Seyfortb is speculating in horses. Frank Cerveny and wife have moved ;h"re from Coeur d'Alene, and Frank is again at work in the factory. • ••Grandma" Post has- been very sick for several days, bu-t is improving , slowly. Dave Nogin's 1-ittl'o Soy was rfanger imi'ly sick this week, hut is now out I i,l .'anger. I nid that he will soon recover. 1 j rm can't top ttoa. Y„u tart'?'"' want to keen them—vou sell them' The Flor t* Hattwltoa Cigar. ' 1 f-i-n Hamilton, Jack SHecly, II. Nogle, Clare Nogle, Herb Seyfortb and Dari y Barber have jumped their job:- ab the mill and gone to»Washing ton. Mr. Hall has taken the huh con tract from the Spokane and Idaho lumber company, and the kith mill-is doing more work than ever before. He pays his men by the thousand ! instead of by the day. TELL SHOCKING STORIES. Tales Tol<l by Agues am! Mitha Molkinthin l.ead to the Arrest of Their Father F pou an lufattlous Charge. On the foilrlli of July Aghes and Mitha Molkinthin, aged 14 and 11 missed from their home at Molkinthin, Turner bay, about Coeur d'Alene. years, were the ranch of Herman their father, on eight miles above Investigation proved that they had The gone away with Gust Johnson, national holiday was also chosen as the wedding day of an older daughter, sister to Agnes and Mitha. A roman tic story began to be noised about that Johnson was the forlorn and hopeless lover of the older girl, and in revenge for her marriage to another had stolen the younger sisters away. Johnson, with the two little girls, were traced to Valley City, N. I)., where they were arrested just its tickets were being procured to take them to Burlington, IS. D., a little town about 100 miles distant from Valley Citv. Sheriff Bradbury was notified of their capture and dis patched Deputy Ed Bradbury to bring them back to Idaho. They arrived in Raihdtum last Sunday, when another story was told. John son claimed he was taking the girls to his mother, Mrs. John Marley, at Burlington, N. I)., at the solicitation and request of their mother, to get them away from their father, who habitually abused and maltreated them. The girls openly charged the father with an heinous crime. On Monday Johnson was arraigned before Justice James H. Harte at Coeur d'Alene, when a cliaige of criminal assault was placed against him. lie was bound over in the sum of $2,000 to appear for trial on Tues day the 24th inst. The girls reiterated the charge against the father, Herman Malkin t h I ci, when a complaint was sworn out charging him also with criminal assault, and he was placed under $2,000 bonds to appear for trial before Justice Harte on Wednesday the 25th inst. Both men failed to give hands and were brought back to Uathdruiii and confined in the.couniy jail. The girls were given temporarily into tue charge of Mrs. James Judge of Coeur d'Alene. The girls and Johnson and the father talk freely of their troubles. Johnson, wha is a Swede about 28 years of age, tells his story in a straightforward manner and always the same, denying any intimacy with the girls. The girls corroborate John son's story, but in charging their father with an infamous crime, do so as though ignorant ol the gravity of the charge. The father, Herman Molkenthln, says he was in Coeur d'Alene on the 4th Inst. When he returned to his home on the next day he found his wife in the woods, calling and hunting for the children and in a very nervous and excitable condition, and as the night came on and the girls did not return, it was with great difficulty that she was controlled and induced to. stay in the hou u e, while he went to the neighbors for assistance. Just before the girls were located or had been heard from, she woke him up at 2 o'clock in the morning, saying they were at the door. He arose and went out, looking all around the htn.se for them, but of course they were mil there. Tire mother then gojt ri p a rid wandered around in the moonlight in her night dress until nearly morning, before she could be induced to re-enter the house. When asked specifically of the charge against him, he said the girls had been "put up" to tell that story and would not swear to it, and they could not do so. He said his wife was not very strong, mentally, and had not been for the past eight years. He then t»ld a story of hard struggles in getting his farm at Turner hay in condition so that it He said would support the family, he had always given every cent an.1 done all he could for the support and comfort of "mamma and the gids,"' and had done the best he could. His story was told simply, but at this point his voice choked somewhat. He is a Germany about 55 years of age, and seems a common, ordinary hard-working man—a ranchman». Card of Thanks. We desire to tender our most grate ful thanks to the many friends who» have been so kind to ns during the sickness and death* of our little one. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. CeN'froRs. Insinuation o» OtHcerr. Panhandle lodge, No: 1'3; Knights of Pythias, installed the following 1 officers last Tuesday night: C. Ci, j T. S. Quarles;'- Prelate,-Joseph Buckle; tart'?'"' f^ W ; u n * .Sf-'of E- iMu»- 1 <£org* ! SALTESE. Frttm out* Special Corespondent. With the opening of the mining season there has come a strong degree of activity in this district. A wagon road has been constructed from the rail mad station to the mines. Al though the road lacks several him .. . , ..to dred feet of bemg s,x miles in length, its cost lias been about $7,000. hut the orè in sight, on the dumps and shafts of the diflerebt holdings, more than justified this expense. On the j Monitor alone there is $7,000 worth of ore on the dump, while fully $10,000 more in high grade copper ore is blocked out on the 50-foot leveh This mine, or prospect rather, for it has not yet gone beyond this stage, is developed^by a 100-foot shaft with 50-foot drifts driven in on the vein both at the 100 and 50-foot levels. While the ore is a high grade copper, averaging 40 per cent., it also carries a gold value of $16.00 per ton. The property is owned by the Ilill Iiros. a About 2,500 feet north of the Mon itor is an excellent showing in the Sitting Bull, owned by J. T. Dugan. The vein is a strong one, showing a width of three feet. While it is yet but a prospect with but a 10-foot shaft, it has yielded specimens which have run away up in copper. Nuggets of native copper have been found in a number of instances upon the sur face of this claim. It possesses oue of the best tunnel sites imaginable. A 50-foot tunnel would cut the vein at a depth of 200 feet. Bart Wistnud came to Saltese sta tion last Sunday, bringing some of the best luoking specimens of ore from his claims that have been found in this district. Mr. Wishard, with his partneis, Buckle, Borthwick and Crenshaw, own a group of seven claims. The group is developed by a shaft 40-feet deep and a tunnel run ning in on one of the veins, which has been driven a distance of 50 feet. One or two other of the owners will soon he in to assist Mr. Wisnard in further development ami assessment work. The Vandalia has about lfrO feet of shaft work. It shows a large mass ■of mineralized spar and quartz, carry ing gold, silver and copper. It is owned by Messrs. Dugan, Kilert and Vosburg. The assessment work for 1000 is now completed. J. Kelly recently discovered, in what is known as Kelly's camp, which is about three miles up the ridge from Sa I tese Camp, tiiree and a-ha If feet ol solid copper ore, which assays 40 per cent, copper. The ore is identical with that of the Monitor. There is 350 feet tunnel work in this*claim. This ore was encountered in the 300 foot or creek tunnel. About >0 tons from this Hud are already on the dump, and the ore shoot still con tinues with the.width of three and a half feet of solid ore. Morgan, Bingman and Howell have just started work on the Kootenai Giant,- about a mile and a-half on an air line southeast from tlie Monitor, close to the divide orr the head waters of the north fork of the St. Joe. The Kootenai Giant shows a strong ledge six feet wide At a depth of 35 feet they are finding rock which carries quite a little copper and shows some gold. The creek with its canyon cuts across this vein, leading it exposed on each side. In the creek bottom large masses of chaleopynte may he seen. Your correspondent is of the opinion this vein could be more easily exposed ■and shown op by a tunnel from either side of the creek. This claim is stocked, the stock selllog at 2 cents. Kepublican State Ticket. After a two- days' Uneventful ses sion, the republican state'convention at Boise nominated the following state ticket 1 . Presidential electors—George' M. Parsons, Judge W. B. Heyburn and J. W. Row ton of Ida ht > ewerrtv. For congress—John T. Morrison of Canyon. For supreme ewm---Edgar C. Steele of Latah. For governor - É* W, SEarndTort of Bannock'. For lieiEBena-nt) governor—A. A-. Crane of Kootenai. For secretary of state— M Patrie of Y re m one. For treasurer- "Geor g e W. Rester of Ne* Perce county. For state auditor—'Harry J. gyms of Elmore. For attorney general—George E. Gray of Oneida. For superintendent of public in struction—M-iss 1 Jessie Reilly Blaine. For mine inspector— -N. Robert Bell of Custer. Andrew Christenson is in Boise ïïtt !HÎ! * Ubl,CiU1 8tatu con * Of » % ; SENEACQUOTEEN» f®. iFrdm Oilr Special Correspondent. Miss Grace Porter lëft Siitklay fat ' Treilt, Wash., whefe slVe goes to visit : Miss Lena Fox. u ' 0 n Tuesday, July 17, Miss H|| r u Christensen celebrated her fifteenth birthday. At noon she surprised thé haplls and teacher by inviting them her home to eat Ice Cream so, a C!|ke Kveryone enjoyed themset r or an hour, when they returned to the school house And resumed the cur; " tomary duties of the daÿ.; j ves Notice of Entry of Townsite. PUBLIC NOTICE in herehy given tliatthn undersigned, il. C. Brady, l'ro'oaie Judge 16 Kootemu county; State of Idaho, has eiltry on the following described to-wft: Lot Number one (1) Section (34) Tow nah in . No. fifty-seven (57) North Range one ( 1 ) of Boise Meridian. ' ' 1,4111 Said entry is made under the laws of the United Slates and of the State of Idaho gov) eriling entries of pdlilte land for towslt« ' purposes. . . Notice js also given that all persons claiming to lie entitled to tile above described land or aiiy block, lot, share, or parcel thereof, must within sixty days from the first puhllcatidn of this notice, present the undersigned a statement, in Writing of his clälbl describing' accurately tlie part or parts claimed, and stating the facts on which such claim u btlsed. baled at Kathdruin, Idallo; this 14th davnf July. liKlO. ' ™ J. c. Brady. ' > 1'rbbate Judge of mad land J 23.138 * BO AND SAMPLE j î JSKKY LAND'S ! « famous S î *»AÀâiââààAAAiZÀijila J • WINES, LIQUORS. ! j CIGARS. j j o WV *» WWWWV» V wv¥vw^ M ♦ < : < 3 < O 4 . : • « Î THE CELEBRATED HENCÜ BE EU * Always on Tii|,. J I * * 9 * 4 • IMtllMT till- Ü1I.1 ► « : mill plitcc • . O Mo * - sTAMMANY î ©NALL: j ialQQr v ! o fir 9 9 9 o » Next to Hotel Wright. J. d. LAlfE, Proprietor !îoc3ooo«»eo0o*ooeoeodcl rnnrrnnarfcTjsrnj » :rc tt .. 8 .. .. !■! SALOOK. 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