MANY DEATHS FM
SEVEDE
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LARGEST CITIES IN THE EAST
RLPilRT GREATEST LUSS
FROM THE COLD.
General Snowfall Throughout All West
Central States Added to Misery—In
Canada Northwest 38 Below—Train
Service Delayed in Dakotas—Seven'
Inches of Snow in Tacoma.
New York.—A total of II deaths from
the extreme cold weather was the ree-jin
ord in this city Saturday for the win- j
ter 's coldest day here.
thermometer had sunk to eight degrees
at about 10 o'clock, from a maximum
of 15 in raidafternoon, the suffering was
not so intense because of a marked D-t
Although the
up in the furious gale.
The sudden cold snap has driven so
thousands of destitute and home
many
less to seek shelter in the municipal
lodging houses, the coveted places, and|
the morgue that the lenders of the
churches
even
mission appealed to the
open their doors to the homeless.
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to feel the cold and there was much sut -
fering reported, charity in the city went
far to relieve the homeless. One death
was reported in the city. The Chicago
weather report indicated a temperature
Chicago Reports One Death.
( hicago.—While Chicago, as well as
the rest of the middle West, continued
of 7 degrees below zero.
A general snowfall through Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan and Missouri added to
the misery.
The general temperature range in the
Canadian northwest 38 below.
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which
entire
covered the
The cold
northwest and the
wave
Mississippi
valley is causing severe distress in many
of the big middle western cities.
I n Montana, according to the railroad I
officials, there has been a great deal of
but the weather is comparatively
•un
snow,
mild and trains in that state are
ning well.
Most of the delay is caused in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, where it is bit
terly cold and where the snow
drifted over the tracks in immense
' llls
hills, which are being slowly penetrated
by the snowplows.
Not for many years has there been so
general a paralysis of telegraph and tel
ephone wires as resulted Saturdav night
from a sleet storm in western Oregon
and Washington. Fortland was almost
cut off from the world. Reports re-j*
ceived from Portland points north and
south of that city indicate that every
thing outdoors is coated with ice, which
will destroy trees and shrubbery in the
manner of the so-called "silver thaw'''river
of several years ago. Seattle experi
enced a very slushy day with enough
snow to paint the ground white, while
Tacoma has seven inches of snow. Snow
,s general over Oregon, W ashington and
Idaho. There was no disturbance at
No damage is reported except at
sea.
Portland.
Few Low Records.
38 below
18 below
10 below
7 below
Chicago .
Duluth ..
Texas .
Oklahoma .
Nebraska .
Missouri .
20 below
10 below
Spokane .
6 below
WASHINGTON-IDAHO STATE LINE
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Pamphlet Issued by the Geological Sur
vey Sent Free.
Olympia.—I. M. Howell, secretary of j
state, is in receipt of a pamphlet enti
tied "Retracement of the Boundary
Line Between Idaho and Washington,
issued by the United States geological
survey.
This resurvey was
not taken with
the contemplation of finding any
in the old survey of 1873, but rather to
"ascertain, mark and reestablish that
line. ' '
The length of the line surveyed is
miles, and extends due north from the
junction of the Snake and Clearwater
rivers to the international boundary
errors
178
The bulletin contains a map show
in detail the important points in
tiff' entire 178 miles. Secure copies by
making application to Secretary How
ell direct.
line.
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GOVERNORS' TRIP A GOOD IDEA
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So Says Ohio's Governor at Banquet f 11 (
New York City. :
Governor Judson Har-
New York.
mon of Ohio xvas the guest of honor at
dinner of the Lotus club Saturday
night, and in his address took the re
cent visit of the western governors to
New York and other eastern cities as
the basis for argument for wiping out
all sectional lines. He urged that it
would be a good thing for the eastcin
to return the visit. The ad-
governors
dress made no reference to the political
situation.
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WEATHER^'""" " pr "'"' c '' "
A Chautauqua will be held at Walla
Walla this summer.
Five companies of Puget Sound are
now in an electric merger.
United States District Judge George
Donworth of Seattle has resigned.
For the first time in several years
the l'end Ü 'Reille river is frozen over
solid.
WASHINGTON STATE
According to assessor's report, the
total valuation of all property in Stev
ens county for 1911 is $7,855,175.
Uonstitutionality of the act creating
the industrial insurance commission will
be argued in the federal court in April.
A lumber company has acquired title,
'for $22,800, to 1540 acres of timber land
the northern part of Spokane county,
A lumber company is contracting the
logging of 6 , 000,000 feet of yellow and
white pine logs for the Beyersdorf mill
at Diamond lake.
State permanent funds on January 1 .
.this year, aggregated $9,270,701, of
which all but $264,130 had been in
vested in interest-bearing bonds.
The United States submarine boat F3
a Seattle
was launched recently from
shipyard, where three other vessels of
same class are to be constructed.
The sale of the Holdings of the Hoos
ier Land company of New York city,
consisting of 27,tf21 acres of timber land
in Kittitas county, to New York capi
talists, is confirmed,
J. M. Johnson is now agent for the
Colville Indians. Captain John McA
Webster was relieved of part of his du
ties as agent for Indians in eastern
Washington and northern Idaho.
While watching the funeral procession
of Dennis Rose, whose death resulted
from the kick of a horse, Fat Donahue,
ja Dayton truck operator, was kicked in
the face by a horse, dying a few hours
later.
»he Snake River line recently, Patrick
Hoyle fell before the wheels of the rush
engine and was cut and torn to
pieces.
Benumbed with the cold while steal
ing a ride on the pilot of the'engine up
When a shotgun slipped down be
tween several logs on his sled at Moab
and was accidentally dischargea, E. S.
Mackay, aged 63. received the full
charge of shot in his left hi)), shattering
t) 1P bones,
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first degree assault upon A.
;'- Stpvens ° n at Springdale last August
bepa bro "g llt back from Portland
01 tlla •
At a recent meeting of the commis
sioners of Franklin county an appro
jpriation was made to advance two great
projects—development of the Columbia
and government irrigation for
Franklin county.
Mfs Sarah B Fprry , . pJ 85 , widow
of K , jsha T> FerrV) first g0VPrll0r 0 f the
( f Washin ton and onp of the Rov
r|)0rs of t))(l tprrit of Washington,
James Brown, charged by information
filed in the superior court of Stevens
died Saturday morning at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary,
of Seattle.
Each shooting with poor aim in the
growing dusk, Sunday evening, Dan
Rubertt, Austrian bartender, famed as
a S un man an< l "killer," and Mrs. Eli
Austrian woman, fought
She may
Radovich, an
> F isto1 duel in th0 stroet -
llie - hp wasn't hit.
While journeying from Sherlock, on
to Seattle in a
the Xesqually river,
small open boat and camping at night
[on the open beaches of Puget sound,
old man, said to be a blacksmith.
was frozen to death on the beach near
Steilacoom, recently,
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The bodies of Mrs. Mary P. Hyde,
nee Rosslow. who died at Lemon Grove,
Cal., December 23, and Miss Louise
Rosslow, who passed away in her berth
while returning to Spokane bringing the
body of her sister, arrived in Seattle
Tuesday on the steamer President.
Pleading guilty to burglary, Paul
Starke and Frank Warner, alias "Ala
bama Dutch," were each sentenced to
from to 15 years in prison, and Harry
J. Eastman, ringleader of a band of
thugs who operated in Seattle during
the last few months, drew a sentence
of five to 14 years.
The Very Rev. Emil Kauten, former-
ly rector of Our Lady of Lourdes Cath-
olic church, Spokane, and for the last
years chancellor of the diocese of
Seattle and chaplain of the Providence
hospital, Seattle, died Sunday
at Seattle.
morning
He was one of the most
w-idely known and popular Catholic mis
s j onar i cs j n the northwest, having serv
ed the church in this section since com
ing to America, 36 years ago.
The commissioners of Pend Oreille
county will hold a special meeting Jan-
uary 16, at which time they will make
final arrangements for the calling of a
special election on the proposal to bond
the county for $ 110,000 for taking up
outstanding warrants on the current ex-
%
pense fund. This amount will cover the
portion of Stevens county debt assumed
by the new county, $16,000, also the cost
of equipping the new county, building
of the jail and vaults, transcribing of
the records and all costs of operation
to date.
LA FOLLETTE BLAMES WALL ST.
Says Panics Would Not Have Occurred
If Receivership Suits Started.
Danville, Ill.—That Wall street is re
sponsible for every panic the country
has suffered and none would have oc
curred if the federal government, when
the first symptoms appeared, had threat
ened to sue for receivership for the
principal banking institutions unless
they stemmed the disaster, was declared
by Senator Robert M. La Follette in
the. closing address of his campaign in
Illinois.
Water should be squeezed out of
overcapitalized corporations, he said,
and the government should prevent
their combining with banks to exploit
the public for profit.
HORTICULTURAL MEET.
W. P. Sawyer Elected President—Next
Meet at North Yakima.
Clarkston, Wash.—North Yakima was
unanimously elected as the place of
holding the next annual meeting of the
Washington State Horticultural asso
elation.
The presidency of the association
also went to the famous Washington
fruit district, W. P. Sawyer of that city
being unanimously chosen.
L. H, Tisehner of Weuatchèe was
elected first vice president and J. D.
Daggett of Waitsburg second vice pres
ident. L. M. Brown, who has accom
plished good results as secretary of the
association, was reelected. E. P. Wqt
son of Clarkston was chosen treasurer
THIS YEAR'S
CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS GREAT
SUCCESS.
The special train excursion to Los
Angeles, Cal., which will leave Spokane
via O. R. & N., Friday, January 19th,
is proving very attractive to a great
many people of Spokane and the In
land Empire. People from Northport,
Marcus, Libby, Colville, Chewelah. La
Crosse, Fairfield, Pullman, Moscow,
Reardan, Almira, Spangle, Palouse City,
Wenatchee. North Yakima. Walla Walla,
and a great many others have reserva
tions made. The party promises to be
a big. as well as a pleasant one. Farm
ers, merchants, bankers, mechanics and
capitalists are on the list.
Parties in Walla Walla district have
a special from WaRa Walla that will
connect at Wallula Junction with the
excursion train which leaves Spokane
Jan. 19, ht 11 p. m.
These excursions are winners, both
from standpoint of convenience to pa
trons and publicity. It's quite an ad
vertising feature for the Inland Empire
to take an elegant special train of
Pullman sleepers, diners, observation
car, etc., through California, and they,
on their part, do their utmost to enter
tain the visitors.
A similar excursion left Spokane
January 5th, with seven cars of excur
sionists from Calgary, Edmonton, Medi
cine Hat and other Alberta points.
There were so many applicants for space
on this train that those having it in
charge actually stopped selling tickets
seven days before the train was to leave.
There was 197 people in the party who
were in Spokane part of the day Janu
ary 5th. Those who went on the same
excursion last year proved such good
boosters for this grand trip, their
friends simply filled the train long be
fore it was to leave.
Those in this territory contemplating
a California trip this winter cannot do
better than to investigate at once,before
too late to secure reservations. Rate:
$100 for the round-trip ticket, which
includes all meals in dining cars, at
hotels; all side trips, carriage, automo
bile and trolley rides, etc.; in fact, every
a
GEN. LEA HAS GOOD REASONS
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expense on the going trip. Two tickets
entitles holders to a section, and only
a limited number will be taken. Train
electric lighted throughout. An excel
lent observation car, two diners and a
special baggage car will be carried.
Full particulars, with an itinerary of
the trip, may be had by writing the
O.-W. R. & N. Co., 601 Sprague avenue,
Spokane, Wash.
Declines to Act as Chief of Staff With
Revolutionaries.
Shanghai.—General Homer Lea, the
American officer who accompanied Dr.
Sun Yet Sen to China, it was said for
the purpose of taking a responsible po
sition with the revolutionaries as mili
tary adviser, has received official notifi
cation that there is a penalty of death
attached to the participation by an
American in the insurrection in China.
General Lea sometime ago declined to
act as chief of staff.
Burns, Detective, Before Court.
Indianapolis.—The federal grand
jury, after hearing brief testimony by
Detective W. J. Burns, adjourned its
investigation of the alleged dynamiting
conspiracy for a few days. Guy Bid-
dinger, a Burns detective, also appeared 1
in the federal building.
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NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES
Work has commenced on the steel
bridge at Libby.
A Chautauqua is planned for Spirit
Lake this summer.
On January 18 a postal savings bank
will be opened at Valier, Mont.
Wireless telegraphy will become a
factor in the prevention of forest fires
in Montana.
One hundred years ago Saturday the
first white man arrived at or near what
is now Pendleton, Ore.
Tablets sold as a cold cure caused
the death of little Edith Anteil, aged
2 years, at Bingham, Utah.
Kellogg, Idaho, is to have a weekly
newspaper, according to the plans of
Walter Moriarity, a journalist.
The
against which the government filed suit
in Los Angeles last month, dissolved
Saturday.
Both Washington and Idaho arc in
splendid condition financially, with ex
Pacific
plumbing
''trust,
cellent prospects for a great progress in
the year 1912.
Willjam Growler, a passenger on the
steamer Santa Barbara, en route from
Grays Harbor to San Francisco, became
violently insane.
Charles Cams and George Fargo, who
escaped from the Asotin county (Wash
ington) jail December 29, were recap
tured at Ferdinand. Idaho.
The 1912 meeting of the Northwest
Livestock association and Livestock
Show will be held at Lewiston, Idaho,
Deeember 9 to 13, inclusive.
A combination of paint and oil es
tablishments on the Pacific coast is in
course, of formation, involving an out
lay of approximately $ 20 , 000 , 000 .
Thc Great Northern Railway company
has let contracts for $250,000 worth of
work in the revision of its main line
track west of Crossport, Idaho.
Sheriff Clifford C. Brown of Moscow
has gone to New York to bring back to
prison Robin K. Bradbury, who twice
escaped from the Latah county jail.
The recent fall of snow, unless il
melts too soon and is followed by freez
ing weather, will be a great help to the
wheat crops of the Inland Empire.
James Brown, a well-known lumber
man and contract logger, was danger
ously injured recently by being kicked
in the face by a fractious horse a few
miles from Sumpter, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Pen
rose, commandant at Fort George
Wright, near Spokane, has asked for a
60-day sick leave and will leave for Cali
fornia as soon as the request is granted.
Temple W. Alexander, former pur
purchasing clerk of the O.-W. R. & N.
eompanj' at Portland, is charged with
embezzlement of $15,000. He has con
fessed. He blames "butterfly life."
Alexander was recently married.
C. J. Clark, who has been hold at
Eureka, Mont., pending the outcome of
the injuries to William Conklin, who
was shot by Clark in an altercation on
Christmas night, has been released.
Clark was night officer at the time.
Sunday the enormous steel bridge of
the Oregon Trunk railway across the
Columbia river at Celilo falls was
opened for through trains between Port
land and all central Oregon points on
the Oregon Trunk. The new
eliminates the ferry service at
bridge.
Paul J. Berg and his wife,
Berg, an elderly couple from McLeod.
bridge
Fall
Louise
Alberta, Canada, were placed in prison
at San Francisco following a raid by
detectives on their apartments in a
hotel where women's wearing apparel
valued at about $1000 and supposed to
have been stolen, was discovered.
According to estimates compiled by
United States Surveyor General Je
rome Locke, there will soon be open to
entry in Montana 6,107,000 acres of
public land, settlement of which has
been delayed owing to the fact that the
land was unsurveyed. Of this amount,
2,104,000 acres has been surveyed dur
ing the last year, and the remaining
4,000,000 acres were surveyed in 1909
and 1910, but the rJturns have not yet
been checked up. The land will proba
bly be opened this year.
John Laird, one of the most notori
ous boxcar robbers operating in the
western country, and going under some
half a dozen assumed names, pleaded
guilty at Butte to robbing a box car of
the C., M. & P. S. railway of 4500 ci
gars, kid gloves and various other arti
cles, and was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary. In different parts
of the country he has been known as
J. B. Corrigan, W. C. Wilson, "Fat"
Wilson and Fred Strand. He is one of
a gang operating between Butte and
Spokane.
St. Louis.—Samuel Cupples, aged 80
multi-millionaire of this city,
St. Louis Millionaire Dies.
years,
whose gifts to Washington university
amounted to $1,000,000, died Sunday
night.
FROM MINING CAMPS
Portland.—Track prices:
Club, 790/'
SOc; bluestem, 82@83c; fortyfold, 80 (o
81c; red Russian, 78@79c; valley, 800i
81c.
The Clugston Mining company has
been making some valuable finds on its
property on Clugston creek, north of
Colville, Wash.
The new 80-horsepower engine and
six-drill compressor on the Jack Waite
mine in the Coeur d'Alenes, started
operations this week.
According to reports, the, old Cracker
jack mine, now owned by the Mines
company, located near Elk City, Idaho,
has been sold to California investors
for $ 200 , 000 .
The Bear Top-Orofino company is set
ting up a (i0-horsepower gasoline en
gine on its property in Coeur d'Alene,
and as soon as it is installed will he
able to operate all the year around.
While the prospects of a settlement
of the cotton strike are considered im
proved in England, another labor trou
bles threatened in the shape of a na
tional strike of miners, who desire to
secure a minimum wage.
The Black Horse company, operating
in northern Idaho, is setting up a gaso
line engine to reinforce its water power.
It is rated at 100 horsepower and will
be used to actuate a seven-drill com
pressor, as well as the mill, which has
a capacity of 125 tons daily.
One of the biggest boilers in the dis
t rict ; s ) lP i, 1K installed in the power
) 10USP 0 f the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mmP nt Wardner. It is a 250-horse
power boiler of the Heine type, a eom
bination of the tubular and water tube
varieties.
According to the annual report of tin
stilte coal , nine inspector, J. B. McDer
mott, of Montana, the coal production
> n Montana for the year 1911 was 9,91.!.
tons, against 2,970,246 tens in 1910.
A total of 3776 men were employed,
and the mine value of the coal pro
duepd wns *4,903,620.73.
Statistics compiled by the commis
sioner of conservation in ( anada show
that the death rate in Canadian coal
minps is much higher than in any other
civiHzed f . 0 untrv. During the last 10
the mt e ' in the Fernie district
was 4 pcr epnt> against a ratc of 3.49
per cent in the United States. In all
other countries the rate was still lower,
IDAHO COMMISSIONERS MEET.
They Object to Proposals of Idaho Tax
Commission.
Boise, Idaho.—The county commis
sioners' state convention adjourned
Saturday to meet here in December.
While the body did not go on record,
there was a plain majority against the
proposed state tax commission. The con
vention also opposed the proposed $250(1
tax exemption on small homes and voted
to cut it to $ 1000 . The convention
also demanded the right to send out of
the state for printing matter whenever
that could not be secured cheaply and
reasonably within the state itself.
It advocated laws forcing family der
sorters to work on the county roads and
providing for the payment of the larg
est part of the money earned into the
family pocketbook, qualifications for
state employes rather than political
aspirations, economy in management of
county business, abolition of road over
seers. stringent marriage laws prevent
j n g the physically and mentally un
j.sound from entering that relation, six
jyear terms for commissioners, adequate
salaries and the recall, assessment of
property ever two years instead of every
four, as provided under the new law. ex
emption of cities and villages from
county poll taxes, levy of taxes in Sep
tomber instead of April, as provided
by the new law, appointment of proba
tion officers by the probate judge, but
with the approval of the commission
ers, who shall fix the compensation in
stead of leaving all of these matters in
the hands of the court, and other mat
ters of like importance.
BOSS BROKER'S DAUGHTER SUES
Mrs. John J. Breen of New York Tires
of Husband.
New York.—The existence of a di
vorce suit by Mrs. John J. Breen, who
was Miss Ethel Croker, was disclosed
by a motion filed by counsel for Breen
in the supreme court. Breen, a business
man, wants a public trial.
Recently Breen began an action
against his father-in-law. Richard Cro
ker, former leader of Tammany Hall,
for $ 100,000 damages for the alleged
alienation of the affections of his wife.
GET NO CLUE TO DARING BANDIT
Robber Who Rifled Mail Car in Cali-
fornia Vanishes With Ease.
Redding, Cal.—Postal detectives in-
vestigating the recent robbery of the
Oregon express mail car by the lone
bandit, who escaped when the train
reached Redding, have found no trace
of the daring robber. The rewards of
$1000 each offered by the Southern Pa-
^ific and government officials, have
stimulated the search for the bandit.