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THE SILVER BLADE. OFFICIAL PAPER •) COMMERCIAL PRINTING Of •J ? OF KOOTENAI C« COONTY. IDAHO. (.• 1 ALL KINDS. •J 41* $1.50 PElt YEAH. RATHDRUM, IDAHO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1902. VOLUME VII. NUMBER 41. for or he 20 all at at a is of to CULLED FROM DISPATCHES. A Review of Happealast In Both Euatrra and Western Hemispheres Duriug the Fast Week—National, Historical, Political and Personal Brents Tersely Expounded. The pope is again said to be dying. Joseph Gleason, formerly of Spokane, was recently drowned at Cocolalla, Idaho. The house has passed the house ap propriation pension bill. No amendments were adopted. Hope for the safety of the British war ship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval men are convinced she went to the bot tom of the sea. Two men were killed and three injured in an explosion three miles west of Maekay, Idaho. The killed are Beno Hinterholzer and James Person. -Frank McDonough died at Spokane from injuries received while switching cars about at Wilson Creek. McDonough was a brukeman on the Great Northern. Joseph H. Choate, ambassador of the United States to Great Britain, who lias been home on a vacation, nas sailed for the British capital to resume his official duties. He has been here since October. The appointment of Whitelaw Reid as special ambassador to represent the Uni ted Stales at the coronation of King Ed ward has been received with much satis faction in official and unofficial circles in London. At South Bend, Ind., Lem Yu, the Chinaman who was convicted of the mur der of Oscar Bloom, and who was to have been hanged on January 31, escaped from the jail, and no clue has yet been ob tained as to liia whereabouts. The Sound steamer Fairhaven, operat ing between Seattle, Laconner and way porta, struck a rock or reef a short dis tance from Utsalady early this morning during a fog and soon after sank in 10 feet of water. The passengers and crew all succeeded in reaching the lifeboats in safety. Lord Kitchener has confirmed the death sentence passed upon the Boer commandant Sheepers, who was cap tured last October. He will be shot next Saturday. Boer delegates recently met in Brus sels at some mysterious rendezvous, and peace rumors are in the air. It is believed some movement is afoot be tween British and the Transvaal exiles. A Spanish village near Manresa was the scene of a disastrous explosion. Mill hands and families were crushed to death under flying timbers and de bris. Sixty dead and 100 injured. Work of. extracting victims was diffi cult. I. Solomon, a Syrian, living at Keo kuk, Iowa, was held up and robbed of a money belt containing $8500. Solo mon had sold out his business in Keo kuk and was looking for a location. Two fellow countrymen have been ar rested charged with the robbery. Solo mon says one of them held him while the other cut the belt from his waist. The money has not been recovered. An attempt on the part of the Terre Haute, Ind., Electric company to run its cars on the city lines after a boy cott was declared by the Central La bor Union resulted Sunday in several small riots in the business center. Frederick Krainnardt, a Catholic priest, residing at Josephsville, Mo., committed suicide Sunday by hanging himself with a bedspread. Rev. Krain hardt was 62 years of age and had of ficiated in a clerical capacity at Jo sephsville for 30 years. Mother Joseph of the order of the Sisters of Charity of the House of Providence and founder of the mother house of that order in the northwest, located in Vancouver, Wn., died Sun day at the convent which she erected, aged 80 years. William Slaughter and Ralph John son, colored musicians, were shot and killed, and Powell Calloway, white, was mortally wounded recently by Lillian Williams at a dance at Morris Creek, W. Va., in the mining regions. She de manded ragtime and didn't get it, so she shot them. At Ducktown, Tenn., another injunc tion has been granted against the sul phur and copper companies on account of sulphur smoke and fumes emitted from their plants. The president of the Tennessee Copper company has Issued a notice that when the injunc tion is served on him the manager is to close down the entire works and mines and pay off and discharge every man. At Cincinnati, Ohio, William Whit taker, prominent attorney, and wife, went visiting Sunday and left theii only child, a 5 year old boy, with Annie Lage, who has been with the family l only a short time. When they returned ' the child was found dead, hanging to a gaspipe in the cellar, and the servant , unconscious from asphyxiation. She win The census office has divided the ! country into the west, the north and the south. The west comprises that j territory from the Pacific to the east ern boundaries of Montana. Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. The line separating the north from the south is rivers, and the southern boundaries of formed by the Potomac and Ohio Missouri and Kansas. Perhaps the most notable senatorial election thlB year is that of Senator Al lison of Iowa. He is to be reelected for the sixth consecutive term, an hon or never before conferred on an Ameri can citizen. Should he live out his term—something not Improbable, for he is enjoying as good health as he did 20 years ago—he will have served 36 years in the upper house of congress and eight in the lower. At Detroit, Mich., four buildings, each four stories high, located in the heart of the wholesale district, col lapsed without any apparent cause and all that now remains is a smouldering heap of ruins. The buildings were occupied by five concerns. Their stocks are a total loss, which are estimated at $152,000, exclusive of the loss on the buildings, which amounts to $50, 000. The buildings joined each other at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Shelby street. At Victor, Col., John Warner and Gus Peterson, lost their lives In the May B. mine while being lowered in a bucket to the bottom of a shaft. They were overcome by gas. Both men were about 30 years of age and single. Re ports from different parts of the dis trict show that the prevalence of gas is quite general, due to changes in the atmosphere. A bulletin has been issued by the department of mines which estimates the total mineral production of the province during last year at $20,731, 501, which is an increase of 25 per cenc over last year, although the duties on lead and charges ol American reuneries caused a largely decreased production of lead. The Increased production of lode mines was 57 per cent over last year. The product of gold amounted to $5,600,000, silver $2,600,000, copper $5,000,000, lead $2,000,000, and coal $4, 587,630. The Kootenays contributed about $7,000,000 to the mineral pro duction; Yale nearly $3,000,000 and the Coast districts about $5,000,000. The boldest robbery yet recorded in eastern Montana took place recently between 1 and 6 o'clock at the North ern Pacific Railway company's depot, when two ironbound trunks belonging to C. B. Clausen, traveling salesman for S. Clausen & Co., wholesale and manufacturing jewelers of Minneapo lis, Minn., were removed from the bag gage room, carried through a window across the platform west of the station and dropped to the ground about five feet below the platform, broken open and rifled of their most valuable con tents. A bag of mounted diamonds and between 300 and 400 gold mounted rings were the only articles of value missed by Mr. Clausen, who, from a hasty inventory of the list, stated that the loss wound run from $10,000 to $20,000. The robbers overlooked a tray containing 500 diamond rings in one of the trunks and disturbed nothing else, leaving all the watches and other contents except to throw them about when in search of the diamonds. is of ar of Jo of de so of has is to She the and line is of Went Atirulnat Chinese. At a largely attended meeting of Pa cific coast senators and representatives recently a final determination was reached as to the course to be pursued on Chinese exclusion legislation and the following resolution was adopted; "Resolved, That the Pacific coast senators and representatives approve the policy and general provisions of the bill which they have requested Repre sentative Kahn to introduce in the house and Senator Mitchell in the sen ate; but this shall not effect the privi lege of any member to perfect the same by amendment." The bill thus to be introduced was agreed upon at the meeting. As finally adopted the insular section reads as follows: "That from and after the passage of this act the entry into the American mainland territory of the United States of Chinese laborers coming from | any of the insular possessions of the ' United States shall be absolutely pro-1 hibited; and the prohibition shall ap ply to all Chinese laborers as well as to such as were in the insular posses sions at the time or times of acquisi tion thereof, respectively, by the United States, or to those who have come there since, and those who have been born there since, and those who may come there hereafter and those who may hereafter be born there." The decision arrived at is the result of six weeks consideration of the gen-1 eral subject of Chinese exclusion, the purpose being to bring all the Pacific coast interests together into united support of one measure. The bill as presented had a clause covering the Chinese coming from the Philippines, but the sentiment at the meeting was in favor of making the provision more sweeping. Section Foremon Killed. Jerry Lane, the foreman of a rock gang on the Northern Pacific, was struck by a train and instantly killed. The accident happened at a point on the Northern Pa oific about three quarters of a mile cast of the station at Cheney. Killed Himself. St. Louis, Jan. 23-William F. Hoff-' meister of St. Louis, ex-supreme recorder . .. n r Tinner L. _ a • , * STV T u cnle at the Planters hotel by shooting him self with a revolver. 'FIVE VESSELS WENT DOWN the it BIO BATTLE OFF PANAMA. A Naval Engageaient Between the llevolationary and Government Fleets—Three Vessels on Each Side—Guns at Las Bovedus Also Fired at the Rebel Ship». Colon, Colombia, Jan. 22, via Galves ton.—A naval battle i in progress in the harbor of Panama. The revolutionary fleet consists of the steamers Padilla, Dar ien and Gatien. They are trying to force a landing off Saoana. The government ships are the Chilean line steamer Lautaro, the Pacific Steam Navigation company's steamer Ohicuito and the Panama Canal company's steamer Boyaca. The first named steamed was seized by General Alban and he other two have been chartered by the Colombian govern ment. As this dispatch is being sent three shots have just passed over the Chicuito and she has answered with sev eral shots. They fell close to the Padilla, which is seen to be retiring. The guns at Las Bovedas are also firing at the rebel ships. The government forces are throwing up entrenchments. The United Staes cruiser Philadelphia is close to the scene of the fighting. 10. Governor Killed. Washington, Jan. 21.—The state de a til , - ■: of of < : '• v . 1 II ii ■ , i HENRY C. PAYNE. New Postmaster General who took oath of office January 15. New pany. | ' partment has received the following cable gram from Consul General Gudger, dated Panama : "Fighting in bay; governor killed. Ex citement great." Five Vessel» Sank. New York, Jan. 22.—The Panama Railroad company today received a cable gram from Colon saying that three in surgent and two government vessels had been sunk in the naval engagement in Panama harbor. The cablegram came from Colonel J. L. Shaler, general super intendent in Colon for the Panama com Sinking of tile Lnutnro. Washington, Jan. 22.—The secretary of the navy has received the following cablegram from Commander Meade of the battleship Philadelphia, dated Panama: "The insurgent steamer Padilla attacked the Lautaro yesterday morning at close quarters. The crew has deserted her. She is now on fire and sinking." All Is Quiet at Panama. Panama, Colombia, Jan. 23.—All is quiet here now. General Herrera, tiie rev lutionary leader, informed Captain Mead of the United States cruiser Philadelphia | that he came here to prevent the Colom | bian government using the steamer Lau taro against the liberals. He had accom plighed this and therefore retired, The revolutionists hud 17 wounded iri yeterday's engagement. The number killed can not be precisely ascertained. Of the government forces five men were killed and f our wounded, ! | Policeman Was Killed. San Francisco, Jan. 23.—At an early hour Patrolman Eugene C. Robinson of the southern station was mortally wounded three burglars whom he surprised in 16 ^ . rca ln ®, in ° a ar '' ar ® 8 ? n , 8 encla 8 r * e ,> ' e d, .? d 8 °°" afte / , take , n to , th ® hoä P ' a ' 6 ° ® nt> of 8 ®f ecra er8 supposed to be F. Daly, was badly wound-1 ed by a shot from the policemans pistol and captured. Vi,itor ' He!p ,'° Enrich M,ine ' vaca t* oa visitor to Maine in re cent seasons has been so numerous and so generous in his expenditures that the prosperity of the Pine Tree State has taken long leaps ahead. Eleven Neu Raeape. Eleven of the most desperate pris oners in the United States made their, escape between 1 and 2 o'clock Sun day. It was the most daring and suc cessful jailbreak ever attempted in. the state of Washington, and the character of the men implicated makes it doubtful whether they will be re taken without loss of life. The men at large are W. D. Snyder, sent up from Idaho for robbery; James Campbell, Nome, pickpocket; Thomas Morton, Nome, burglary; Frank Ainsworth, Nome, larceny; Mike Williams, felter; James Morlarlty, counterfeiter; J. P. Stewart, Idaho, counterfeiter ; Bruce Kenwrlght, Nome, manslaughter; James Carroll, Alaska, murder. A hole in the brick wall of cell No. 10. occupied by convicts Snyder and Davis, reveals the method of escape. The wall is about a foot in thickness Spokane, counter Spokane, and the floor of the cell is of equal thickness, covered with concrete, The tunnel was dug at the junction of the wall and the floor, sloping out wardly until it formed a connection with the air chamber, about two feet below, and a foot outwardly from the corridor wall of the cell. Through this air chamber the prisoners crawled about forty feet to where it opened into the boiler room, the open ing being covered by iron grating. This obstacle was overcome by the use of saws and the prisoners had then only to walk out of the back door of the boiler room across the yard and scale the board fence. A few yards from the prison grounds and the dense growth of the timber offered them temporarily a safe retreat. A Few Canght. Tacoma, Jan. 23.—Convicts Campbell, Ainsworth and Morton were captured on McNeil's island tiiis forenoon und have been returned to the penitentiary. 'Die men were captured near the center of-the island. They were well nigh exhausted, having had nothing to eat since Sunday morning. Convict Davis, who was shot last night by a guard, was again caught this morn ing, and again escaped. LATER.—All the prisoners have been captured. Field of Sapphires. Helena, Mont., Jail. 23.—A special to the Independent from Lewistown, near the scene of the reported diamond dis covery, says that according to Clifford Deo, the discoverer, the fields cover an urea 15 miles long and four miles wide. Deo brought in a large number of the stones, which he found on a hunting trip, on the side of ant Hills. Some of the stones that were examined and thorough ly tested by a mineralogist located at Spotted Horse were pronounced by him sapphires of an excellent quality, similar to the white sapphires found in the Congo district, which are now shipped to Lon don. Deo insists that Tiffany of New York rendered an opinion to the effect that the stones were diamonds. There is no corroboration of this and the gen eral impression is that the discovery is a sapphire field richer than that of Yogo, which is the most noted in the United States. Leagues Will Not Amalgamate. aiieag0i Jan 20.-Ban Johnson and A. G. Spalding held a conference here at j which the baseball situation was discussed at considerable length. Mr. Johnson and >j'Mr. Spalding agreed that it was inadvia abk . to consider an amalgamation of the two , g on M[t of a basi g. J > ton, g' ll: in the f> nal game if the tourna j ment at the Hanover club, Brooklyn. New York, Jan. 20.—Arthur Townsend lost the American championship of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players to Edward Gardner of Passaic, N. noth sidea of ty at ed \ SENATE COMMITTEE LISTENED. the Question Will Be Hepresented—Boston Orator Was In Favor of the Proetor Bill— Thinks Chinese Will Be Unfairly Dealt With. Washington, Jan. 23.—The senate com mittee on immigration gave hearing to representatives of various interests on the question of Chinese immigration. Among those present were: D. S. Tompkins of | tlte industrial commission; Silas B. Webb, 'president of the China & Japan Trading conipanyj New y ork . H on. Charles S. Hamlin, Boston chamber of commerce ; tàmiuel Gompers, president of the Ameri 1 can Federation of Labor; S. C. Meade, as sistant secretary of the Merchants' asso ciation, New York; Hon. John W. Foster; Theophilus Parsons of the Arkwright club, Boston; John Foord of the Asiatic associa tion; H. R. Fuller, representing the rail road employes of the United States, and a number of representatives of southern in dustries. ' j to G, to Mr. Gompers, the first speaker, outlined the efforts which the Federation of labor had made in connection with the Pacific coast delegation in congress to perfect a hill which would secure a continuance of Chinese exclusion, and this had been ac complished in what is known as the Mitchell bill. Mr. Foord spoke in opposition to the bill and presented statistics of trade be tween China and the United States. He bf urged a postponement of any action by congress looking to Chinese exclusion un til the expiration of tue present treaty, in 1904. We are all interested in being on good terms with China," he said, "and should treat her with,some degree of con sideration and some decent j-egard for in ternational facts." He said that the Chinese student, Chi nese traveler and Chinese merchant bave been unfairly dealt with. He said that the hope of imbibing American ideas lay in tlic Chinese students, and the law is hurt ful particularly to this class of students of Chinese extraction. Mr. Hamlin presented resolutions of the Boston chumber of commerce, advocating the Proctor bill continuing in force the present Chinese law on the expiration of tiie existing treaty with China in 1904, and urged that no bill he adopted incon sistent with that treaty, because, he said, "that treaty involves the honor and faith of the United States government." The ways and means committee resumed its hearings on Cuban reciprocity, with special reterence to the proposed reduction on Cubun tobacco. 'Die tobacco interests of the United States were largely repre sented. a John R. Young, president of the Na tional Leaf Tobacco association, made an earnest plea against any tobacco conces sions to (Juba. He said there was great sentiment in favor of granting relief to Cuba, but he contended that we should be as just to the people of our own coun try as to the people of foreign countries. The purpose of the movement for reci procity, lie said, was to have the whole expense of Cuba's relief fall on two indus tries,—tobacco and sugar. There was a tobacco acreage in Ohio of 35,990 acres, Wisconsin 25,999, Pennsylvania 22,000, New York 72,900, Connecticut 11,009, and several thousand acres in other states would be seriously crippled. As to cigars, Mr. Young declared that the proposed concessions would "wipe out the American made 10 cent cigars, and secure for Cuba the entire American mar ket for all goods above 5 cents. Repre sentative Richardson of Tennessee asked if the price of cigars would be reduced to the cigar smoker. Mr. Young said the price would be reduced, but he did not believe tiie consumer would ask this reduction at the expense of the American industry. J. Wertheim of New York, head of a cigar concern employing 0000 people, pre sented the serious effect of concessions oil the American cigar interests. The senate passed a number of private pension bills and bills granting permission to construct bridges, and at 2 o'clock Sen ator Lodge took tiie floor to speak on the Philippine tariff bill. Hie said the United States' rights in the Philippines were set tled. There was also, he said, doubt whether the tariff adopted for the islands themselves would stand without further ac tion of congress. There was, however, un der the supreme court decisions no doubt of the right of congress to act. Flooring Mills Burned, Sprague, Wash., Jan. 20.—The Sprague Roller mills, owned by the Ontennial Mill company of Seattle and Spokane, burned at an early hour this morning. The loss is $60,000, fully covered by in surance. The mill, elevator, two warehouses and the office were totally destroyed. The gine room is built separate from the main building and is of brick. This was not burned. About two carloads of flour was saved and all the books and papers in the office were secured. The mill company announces its inten tion of rebuilding. en company at Dow, I. T. "The windows of the soul without pains. Ten miners lost their lives in the ex plosion in mine No. 9 of the Milby & Dow are not IDAHO GLEANINGS. K Agitation looking toward the Incor poration of Wardner has resulted In the circulation of a petition to the coun ty commissioners. It is being generally signed. Wardner has all the statutory requirements to incorporate. S. B. Steunenberg, clerk of the state land board, has sold all the state tim ber In townships 39 north, ranges 1, 2 and 33 east, and township 41 north, range 2 east, Boise meridian. Henry . Turrish of West Superior, Wls., was the only bidder, taking the whole tract at the appraised value, $78,529. Men from Dixie report that the peo ple of that camp and Elk City have, established a mall route Into Thunder mountain. From that point it requires four days to make the trip, and a let ter reaches Thunder mountain from Lewiston In seven days. By this route the highest range crossed Is 5400 feet and the mall route has been establish ed for steady service through the wln ter. Edward Williams, who has been well known in Moscow for 15 years, died suddenly with stroke of paralysis Sun day. The county commissioners of Nez Perce county have appropriated $100 to aid In the construction of an arm »ry building for the use of Company G, Idaho National Guard. The com pany Is now completing arrangements to build the largest drill hall In the state. The Dr. Watkins gold medal for ora tory, which has been presented to the University of Idaho since the beginning bf the Institution's hlBtory, will be. per petuated by Dr. Watkins' daughter, Mrs. Nat E. Brown. The announce ment has just been made to the uni versity authorities by. Mrs. Brown. Methodism Rebuked. Chicago, Jan. 20*—The Record-Hèrald says: Professor Charles W. Pearson of the chair of English literature in the North western university, which is conducted under Methodist auspices, has thrown a bomb into the ranks of Methodism in Ev anston, thp seat of the university, by giv ing out for publication a statement of his belief that biblical infallibility is a iuperstitous and hurtful tradition and that the biblical stories of Christ bring ing the dead to life and of his walking on the water and feeding the multitude with the loaves and fishes were poetic fancies, incredible and untrue. Professor Pearson declares that the pol icy of the Methodists is one of inactiv ity, obstruction and Jesuitical silence on the part of leaders of the churches, but ane not held by the .body of the church. He says that most of the present church teaching and that most of the Sunday school teaching is almost farcical and tirely inadequate. mere en FJre at a Fanerai. Hartford City, Ind., Jan. 21.—At the United Brethren church, near Humboldt, while Rev. J. M. Hobbs was preaching a funeral sermon, flames burst through the floor beneath the casjcpf, and the church was almost immediately filled with focating smoke. The panic stricken locating smoke. The panic striken mourn ers and friends of the deceased escaped through the windows, and the corpse momentarily forgotten,' but was finally rescued from the flames. The men formed a bucket brigade and the flames tinguished before the church was totally destroyed. The funeral cortege then pro ceded to the cemetery' where the preacher finished his ermon at the grave. The fire was caused by an overheated stove in the basement. sui mour was were ex Veterans Get Preference, Washington, Jan. 20.—The following executive order has been issued, directed to each executive department: "The attention of the department' it hereby culled to the provisions of the laws giving preference to veterans in ap pointment and retention. "The president desires that, wherever the needs of the service will justify and the law will permit, preference shall bo given alike in appointment and retention to honorably discharged veterans of the civil war who are fit and well qualified to perform the duties of the places which they seek and are filling. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT, "White House, Jan. 18, 1902." Portland Bor Won. Philadelphia, Jan. 20— A crowd that filled all the available space in the Second Regiment armory witnessed the finish of . the six days' bicycle race. The contest was won by Freeman and Maya, the former rider by a remarkable spurt cross ing the tape a wheel's length ahead of the second man. Four teams covered the same distance, 1004 miles and 10 laps, breaking the best previous record by 38 8-15 miles. Washington Beet Sugar Bounty. Olympia, Jan. 20.—The state auditor has received an application for a warrant calling for $19.207 to be issued in favor of D. C. Corbin, president of the Wash ington State Sugar company. This repre sents the bounty upon nearly 2,000,000 pounds of sugar manufactured by that company from home grown beets, for which not less than $4 per -ton was paid to the producer. It is well not to notice the innuendoes of a self constituted moral censor.