The silver blade., July 21, 1900, Image 2

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JULY 21, 1900.
SATURDAY
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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
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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
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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,
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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'
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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
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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
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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.
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nid that he will soon recover.
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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;
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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
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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.
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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
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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.;
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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
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