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LINCOLN COUNTY TIMES i L. T. Alexander, Publisher JEROtfE . . . . IDAHO IDAHO STATE NEWS The hotel and three dwellings at Rocky Bar were destroyed by tiro last week. Boise Is to have a Federated Trades Council, if plans now being formulated are carried out. George Allen of Halley had his right band badly shattered by the pre mature discharge of a gun while out hunting. The first carload of "prunes of tha season was shipped from Emmett on September 2. The prune crop of that section this year is estimated at about fifteen carloads, Mrs. \E. H. \Harriman, widow of the late railroad king, last week left for her eastern home, atfer three weeks' vacation at the country home of W, S. Ecoles, Island Park. Idaho. Night Warehouseman H. T. Peter son of the Oregon Short Line run down and killed by a train at Payette on the 6th. definitely how the accident happened. O. L. Phillips, one of Middleton's prominent citizens and fruit growers, was painfully and nearly fatally in jured last week by being kicked In the head by his family driving horse. Ten thousand pounds of luscious, Juicy watermelons and cantaloupes will be consumed by residents and visitors to Mountain Home on was It Is not known Sun day, September 10, which is ''Melon Day" in that city. The number of young trout In tha streams of Bannock. Bear Lake and Twin Falls counties has been increas ed approximately 600,000 during tha past fortnight as a result of the visit of the state fish car. The Anti-Saloon league, carried oft Its feet with the sweeping victories won in Bannock and Canyon counties, has already launched a movement to down the "wets" In Ada county, if such a thing is possible. John Reed, aged 59 years, a tour ist from Elwood, Neb., to Nampa, was the victim of an accident in the Pocatello yards that resulted in the loss of his left hand. Reed fell under a train when getting off. At the local option election In Can yon county on tne 6th, the again voted dry by a majority of 2,400 out of 8.500 votes cast. Nampa the only town voting wet. crease of the wet vote is shown in all the towns. The first elephant that ever trod the soil of Kamas prairie was exhib ited at Cottonwood last week by small circus, and the farmers from all over the country suspended haresting countv was An in . operations and came to greet the pio neer pachyderm. Largely because she Is the mother of six children. Mrs. C. L. Isbell of St. Joe. Ida., has been made teacher of the Gordon school at a salary of $100 per month. At present there Is but one child in the entire district, besides those of the teacher. The Long valley Indictment return ed against thirty-two ranchers resid ing in that section of Idaho, charg ing them with conspiring to deprive a citizen of his rights under the laws of the United States, were quashed In the federal court at Boise on the 6th. Preston is to have a water system. Birch springs were purchased from the Cub River Irrigation company and a survey of the pip© line is nearly completed, when figures will be fur nished of the estimated cost and election called to decide the bonding question. A coroner's jury at Orangeville found that Peter Malllck, a half-breed Nez Perce Indian, who was shot to death in the county jail there, met death at the hands of unknown sons. It also exonerated keepers on the ground that they overpowered. per the jail were Bannock county has voted to main In the dry column, following one of the bitterest local option elec tions ever held. Despite the fact that Pocatello, the county seat and metropolis of the southeast part of the state, gave a wet majority of 660, the drys won. ro The Lower Salmon Falls power plant located on the Snake river in the Ilagerman valley 1« at present be ing enlarged to take care of the Idly growing burliness and the territory being covered by the line* of the Great Shoshone & Twin Palls Water Power company. rap new Heavy ra!ns have fallen in the Snake and Clearwater valleys and In the Prairie regions. About five per cent of grain Is still unout, half of which is barley, and this will discolor some extent; the standing and shocked wheat is bleaching slightly, but the damage will be nominal. A. J. Howd, who owns a fruit farm on the slope, near Emmett, is dis playing a bunch of grapes raised hls place. They are of the Tokay variety and the bunch weighs two and a half pounds, is 11 Inches long and nine inches wide. to on Governor Hawley has offered a re ward of $1000 for tho arrest of the night riders in Idaho county who put to death Peter Malick as he lay on his «ouch in a cell at the county jail at Grtjngevilie awaiting trial for assault opdir his wife, a Carlisle Indian school graduate. i MISSOURI FARMER SEEKS RE VENGE FOR BEING COMPELLED TO CONFESS OTHER'S CRIME. R*al Offender Make» Confession After Inncent Man Had Narrowly Es caped Rough Treatment at Hands of Farmers. HartJlle, Mo.—Armon Elumbangh, a young farmer, who last May, to his life from a mob, confessed that he had robbed the home Hopkins of Reyburn. Mo., quitted of the charge in the circuit court here Thursday. Ezra Blaylock, a neighbor of Hopkins, on the witness stand confessed that he committed the burgalry, and was sentenced to five years in the state reformatory. Elumbangh was placed under picion when bloodhounds that save of John was nc 8U8 were secured to trail the robbers went di rectly to his home. The following night a band of farmers Elumbaugh's house and tht^^tened him with physical violence, for his life, he confessed the bery. He was told to sell his erty and leave the community, which he did. ment in a newspaper stating that he was innocent and that the real fender had been apprehended. Elumbaugh then returned home and filed suit for $20.000 damages against the leaders of the mob. went to Fearing rob prop Later he saw an advertise of MISSIONARIES IN PERIL. Have Been Ordered to Concentrate In Larger Towns in Szechuan Province. Pekin.—Missionaries in the outlyfng district of Szechuan province have been ordered by the viceroy to con centrât e in the larger towns in con sequence of the general unrest among the natives arising from the ment's railroad policy. All foreigners in Chengtu, the capital of Szechuan province, are taking refuge in the pound of the missionary society of the Methodist church of Canada. Szechuan is a western province of China bordering on Tibet. It has an area of upward of 200,000 square miles. The region is very mountainous. The govern com population is estimated at 70,000,000. The agitation against the railroad propects of the government is directed chiefly against the construction of the Szechuan-Hankow railroad- which is to be built with foreign capital. WILL SUPPORT LA FOLLETTE. Progressive Minnesotan as Standard Bearer. Republicans Acclaim Minneapolis—More than 300 gressive Republicans from all pro parts of Minnesota at a banquet Thursday night hailed with acclaim Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin as the logical "advanced Senator standard bearer of Republicanism" In the next presidential campaign. Resolutions, pledging support to the j Wisconsin senator, "first, last and all j the time," in the contest for the Re publican presidential nomination adopted. were High Cost of Food in Germany. Berlin.—In view of the great in crease in the cost of living, owing to the summer's drouth, the Berlin cham her of commerce and the merchants' j guild has petitioned the government ! to reduce the tariff on grain, fodder, j etc., by applying a special classifies-, tlon to these products, and to cut ; the duties on potatoes by 50 per cent. ! the new rates to be effective until August 1, 1912. Uncle Jam Responsible. Grand Junction, Colo.—Protesting that the United States is responsible for "bootlegging" and intemperance in every "dry" city and county in the country, the Women's Christian Tem perance union here has started l movement to secure the enactment of a law prohibiting the Issuance liquor licenses in prohibition tory. J a Hartford, Conn.—To a Connecticut audience of 50,000 persons, gathered on the home stretch of Charter Oat race track. President Taft on Thurs day spoke on arbitration. The presi dent was in excelent voice. Time an! of terrl Taft Talks on Arbitration. again his plea for an arbitration court between the great nations of the world was applauded. Madero Runs Into Mob. Vera Cruz, Mexico—Francisco J. Madero, the candidate of the Progrès sive party for president, was the vic tim of a mob on his arrival here Thurs day night, being crowded and hustled until made thoroughly angry Not all were his friend, since "stones were ! thrown and several members of the ' crowd received Injuries. Rancher Kills Crazy Neighbor. Plymouth, Cal.—James Sharpe, rancher near here, became violently insane Thursday night and was shot dead after attempting to murder neighbor and his family, a A jury ex onerated his slayer. Martin and Swrnson Triumph. Richmond, Va. —United States Sen ators Thomas S. Martin and Claude A. Swanson were renominated for , slectlon a* the Democratic primariee re 1 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS V £ rS % s* Ty .!) (Copyright. 1911.) State Executives All Headed for Sorlna Lake, N. J. BEATTIE GUILTY OF MURDER When Sentenced to Die on November 4, He Betrays No Feeling and Tries to Cheer Fatter. Chesterfield Court Houfe, Henry Clay Beattie, jr„ wan on Fri day found guilty by a jury of having murdered his wife, and sentenced to be electrocuted on November 24. The twelve Virginia farmers who held his fate in their hands took only fifty-seven minutes to find him guilty Va.— of murder in the first degree.. They were so eager to make known their judgment that when asked for it they did not merely allow their foreman to reply, but they chorused it, all twelve: Guilty—guilty—guilty!" Young Beattie stood motionless with his hands at his sides, his shoul ders squared, his head thrown back, his eyes directed straight forward. Not a tremor, not a blink betrayed fear or regret. In his defiance of death. A few minutes later, when Judge Watson, with a tremble in his voice, I solemnly sentenced him to be electro-, cuted Friday, November 4, he stood quite as steadily, and at the conclu sion of the pronouncement He was magnificetn nodded easily as though to say: so." "Yes, quite He was actually smiling and trying to cheer his white-haired father the old man. with his arm about 2ha boy's neck, walked across the lawn with him, after all was over to the lit tle jail in the rear. as MAKING WAR PREPARATIONS. German Troops Are Being Massed French Frontier. Paris.— La Liberté declares that Germany is proceeding with war pre parations on the French frontier in spite of her explanations to the con trary. The paper states that 150 guns are now stationed on the southeast on ern frontier, in addition to numerous forces at Nancy. San Francisco.—Creeping into the golden sate Friday through a heavy fog ' the coaster steamer Santa Clara ran u P° n tee submerged Contesslma rocks ' wichh government engineers j In a recent search were unable to f,nd ' and for the blowing up of which (he last congress made an appropria tion. All concerned now agree that the rocks are there, but that the sää'ä 1 when Coaster Steamer Goes on Rocks. ! Toadstools Kill Twenty-Two. New York—With a total of twenty two persons killed within a week in 'jNew York and vlcinitf by eating toad stools, the board of health on Friday posted notices in the Italian settle ments, where most of the fatalities occurred, giving warning of the dan ger of eating supposed mushrooms. Grocers were enjoined to use the great f 8b car , e - „ Thirty-three persons "oning ,U ° f t0ad8t ° 01 poi ' New York.— William J. Bryan drop ped in Friday at Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's editorial offices. He spent some time with tho former .presi dent. After the visit Colonel Roose velt said: "Mr. Bryan and I have had quite a nice visit. We had Bryan Drop* In to See Roosevelt. a gen eraI talk on Interesting subjects. That was a11 " _ j . 2" 1 ? ® olla P 8ed here Friday morning, 7 ' T T I" 6 " e " SaKPd in mak ' "I " ,° warp p "r beenV^reT ^ b ° d ' e3 haVe Workmen Buried Under Building. Nice, France.—The theatre Eldo Heyburn Will Not Bolt. Spokane, Wash.—"! will fight for the Republican nominee for president in 1912 whether he is a standpatter or an insurgent," said Senator W. B Heyburn on hls return to his home in Wallace, Ida., on Friday. Tarred and Feathered Woman. Shady Bend, Kan.—Eight men and [boys have been arrested and placed bond here for alleged crm,.«™ tion with the tarring and feathering ' CITIES AND TOWNS IN CHINA ! j j j UNDER WATER, MANY HOMES BEING SUBMERGED. Because of Destruction of Fields and Scarcity of Rice, the Cost of Liv ing Has Risen to Highest Point Ever Attained. Washington.—The enormity and horror of the famine situation con fronting China, caused by the over flow of the Yang Tsen river, was on Wednesday officially reported to the state department by American Con sul General Wilder at Shanghai, and the question of tendering Red Cross assistance is under consideration. As the amount at the disposal of ap Ilecess 'ty. it is possible that an ,)eal for additional funds may be is sued - the American Red Cross society fo.' this purpose is infinitesimal when compared with the proportions of the ...... Mr. Milder reports. Cities and towns are under water, many dwellings be ing submerged. Because of the city of rice and the destruction The entire territory between Han kow and Shanghai, a about 600 miles, has been overflowed. distance of of ; the fields, the cost of living has risen to the highest point ever attained. C. D. Jameson, an American engi neer. is now in China, at the expense of the American Red Cross, studying 1 means by which that country may scientifically control the ravaging waters of the streams. ° j j MOROCCAN SITUATION CLEARING Better , Better Feeling Noted In Both Berlin scar- 1 Paris.—Tension over the Moroccan situation, regarding which negotin lions are now going on between France and Germany, has been some what relieved by Impressions derived both from Berlin and quarters in Paris that is more likely since the French pro posals have been read by the and Paris. peror and the imperial chancellor The anxiety, however by no means has disappeared, but a c —Lain conft dence has non inspired by the nun Ushed statement of sober-minded loa nais, such as the Temns that *h'„ Ks y of an accord 1138 8ensib * The foreign office maintains plete silence regarding the from official an agreement em a corn progress of negotiations. Plnchot Exploring Party in Alaska. Seward, Alaska—Tho Gifford Pin chot exploring party, composed of the former chief forester; Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington; Mr pj:i. chot's secretary, and two newspaper men, arrived on the steamship North western Thursday night, and started Friday for the Matanuska coal fields. Before his departure. Senator Poin dexter said he favored home rule fo • Alaska. Reject Citizens Army Proposal. Newacastlo-on-Tyne, England.—By half a million votes to 93,000 the trades union congress, now in sien here, on Wednesday rejected proposal for the organization of 803 the a cit izen army. ninety Thirty-two Drowned Lima Peru —A telegram received Wednesday from tho purser of the Chilean steamer Tucapel, which was wrecked near Qulica. say 3 thlrly twu persons were drowned ana were saved. at Sea. Tulsa. OWa.—Jimmy ^Walker, « Shawnee Indoan. 108 years olit wtr. live despite the fact teat ho ,0.7 à leg in a railroad accident near here cWef h of IC his n c 8 la yS ' Walker wa8 once Hearing on Wool Rates Begun. Chicago. An investigation into al leged unreasonable -Tom west raies on mer.ts of wools and hides r shTp begun here Wedensday byTta ünîEî States interstate comniissh, c -, ' U ern points to eastern recede Oil KRUTTSCHNITT MUST MODIFY REFUSAL TO RECOGNIZE FED ERATION, SAY LEADERS. Three-Day Conference of International Advisory Board Ends With Minds of Labor Leaders Made Up for Recognition or War, Julius Krüllschnitt, vice-president and direc tor of maintenance of the Hurlman lines, recedes from his absoltue-refus I al to recognize the Federation of i Shop Workers or its committees, on 1 these lines, he will bo confronted I with a strike. No reason for believinç that he j will recede has been found by labor ' leaders here. General advisory committees of the San Francisco. —• Unless I five international shop craft unions j which are comprised in the federation concluded here Saturday a three days' conference with the international offl „ , cers of those unions, lire geenral of ficers were intrusted with full charge | of the situation heceuforth, and In ternational President J. \V. Kline of the Blacksmiths' and Helpers' union, ' their appointed spokesman, said that the general officers had made up their ! minds what they would do. j "Mr. Krüllschnitt w..t have to make j concessions," he said, "or the public, j for whch he has expressed so great regard, probably will suffer because he does not." TRIP TO BE A RECORD-BREAKER. President Will Make Longest Tour Ever Attempted by Chief Execu tive When He Leaves Capital. Washington.— President Taft's trip, which begins September 17. will the greatest swing around the circle ever attempted by a president, even by President Roosevelt, he gets back to Beverly, have trav eled 15,000 miles, traversed nearly every state In the Union north of Ma s °n and Dixon's line, outside of New a He will wuen England, and he will have placed his views on the tariff, on reciprocity, on the recall of judges and similar points of difference between himself and the insurgent members of hl s party fore the people of practically Insurgent district of the country. Thouasnds of Invitations have been , received urging the president to slop ( and mingle with the people of this I and that community he< every All of them ; Portant from the peculiar "mIIuÄ conditions existing are being selected and woven into the Itinerary. e hirl IT---— P Burns ' Ten Llv e» Lost. 1 Port Llmon > Costa Rica.—The ex- [ pI ° Bion of a gasoline tank on board 1 tbe Bcbooner Whisper early Sunday, l j cauaed the loss of ten lives and the 1 j total destruction of tho vessel car g° of valuable mahogany, off the Nicaraguan coast. 100 miles southeast of here. Passing vessels, the crews passengers of which witnessed i <he di8astp r. brought the | p0rt Sunt I ay. 1 cannot b© accepted. and ; an news to this Seattle, Wash.—The eight-hour law ; for women passed by the sion of the legislature Woman Vioalted Eight-Hour Law. recent sea was declared constitutional by Superior Judge John P- Main, who imposed a fine of $20 upon Mrs. Henrietta Somerville, fore woman in a box factory, bevanse she required girls to work eight hours a day. more than „ , . , The case will be appealed totee staW suprc/ie court. Flood in New Mexkro. Santa Fe, N. M.-A continuous downpour of rain, akin to a cloud hurst. over the Sacramento mountains, Otero county, has transformed the dry arroyos and canons Into torrents, washed away crops, flooded the streets of Alamogordo, carrieu away bridges and culverts, and badly damaged many adobe houses. Bgea Riotlng in Mexico. more than iwmeThat num her wounded when Reyestas and r„a (Jurists clashed Sunday In Tuxtla Chi co, a village in the state of Chianaa near the southern boundary of Moi co according report.receive? . t ' the presidents office. | Struck DumhTnTT -- I Napa ral —a ream ' I Junction c-,1 * APPlas. of- Napa l a hallucinatin' was Btrickpn dumb by i asr.vi.j; mon,i„ s , tal >>en f Mexico City.—Nine killed and passengers avenue e,, . When a | track and turned ea P®d from the killed ed ovcr ' No °" 8 * a8 Car Jumped the Trark Milwaukee-* ' were injured SunT™ ° f ! Greenfield y Wellsvi^-T* ,'° P '° W ' court m v Arraigned In probate ^ failed to p.m » "t* ? r £ ecaURe Bh * Pleaded gnUt" U, Jacob z 'mmerman ■ of the court. „ . ... - and sought the mercy _ 1 Seventeen Bankers Seek Parole. Leavenworth, Kara.—sixteen form er bankers In tho federal Including John R S" 'T* before ar °' e Erptpmbor prison hero, '■ alsh of Chicago, tee federal hoard 12 to ask for re SIBii""*™«« Counter Proportion on Morocco N Acceptable to France, a* it Would" Suppress Commercial Equality Paris.— denn any', counter propo«, to those submitted by Prance ing the settlement of the Morocca. difficulty reached Poris Saturd» ulKht M. De Solves, the foreign min Ister, Immediately carried the docu ment to Premier Calllaux. The two ministers made examination of Its contents ed to submit the counte; specialists on Moroccan question» notably M. Kegault, tne French min' later to Morocco. When they have formed an opinion, th e premier will call a meeting of the cabinet prob ably Thursday, and lay the whole mat ter before the ministers for decision; In cccordanco with mr.de with the German no communication was a lengthy and decid, r^reposal to an agreement government, made to the pi ess concerning the text of the doc ument. hut it is understood that many in return for the G er recognition of Morocco de Frances free hand in Brands economic amount guarantees to privileges and which which woitld be unacceptable not or.*y to France hut to ail the other powers, us they would practically suppress clal equality In Morocco. commer JOHN JACOB ASTOR WEDS. Miss Madeline Force Become» Bride of Head of Famous Family, Newport, R. I. —Madeline Talmadg* Force of New York became the bride of Colonel John Jacob Astor. head of the famous American family of hi» name, a few minutes after 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Although the ceremony was held at Newport in the midst of tee famed so ciety leaders, not one the service. was present at The marriage was per formed In the beautiful white and gold ballroom of Beechwood. the fanroui Astor show place. Immediately after the marriage a» ho was rushing away to board hl» yacht Noma for his honeymoon age. Colonel Astor said; "Now that we are happily married vojr I don't care how difficult divorce and remarriage laws arc made. "I sympathize heartily with these straight laced people In most of their ideas, but believe remarriage should be possible once, as marriage is the happiest condition for the individual and the community." Panic Caused by Moroccan Cri»l». Berlin.—The financial world on Sat e ! tp<! 1 rienc * d ' he wor "' day beglnnlng of tho Moroccan crisis, A fee,lng approaching panic was wide ly evident throughout Germany. Newa paper offices were repeatedly queried 118 to whether it was true that the mobilization of the German army he ,iad been ordered. A storm of sell lne or<ler8 burst on the bourse. °P ed at Cologne, Essen, Chapelle and other places. cludl "K a Berlin suburb. : a Fur ther savings banks runs wore dcvel Alx Le* even Irl Preacher Get* in Trouble. Providence, R. I—Tne Rev. Joseph Isimbert. who leaped from ecctesiasll obscurity into world-wide notire because of officiating at the marriage of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Miss •auellno T. Force at Newport on Saturday, faced a flock of parishioner* ounday who are thoroughly aroused over hls action. It Is understood he w... be summoned before the general conference of church to explain. the Congregational Reye» Demon«lratlon Fall*. Juarez. Mexico.—The big ■ demonstration planned for this city by political clubs failed to materialize Sunday morning, but in us place wa* a throng of fully 1.000 Madcrlstns pa rading the streets with banners bear ing likenesses of the former revolu tionary chief, splitting the air with their wild enthusiasm, cries of "Down with "Death to Reyes." Reyes There wvro Reyes," and Sh °' Hu,band ' 8 A Nashvllle * Tenn.—While tho Dixie ^ f * a * re wa * crowded with women nt ® a,urday ' 8 matinee, Mrs. ICnrlo Sam u<>18 8bot and f a, ally wounded Mis* T"° W " 8t pistol of small calibre, which eealed In a handbag. Later, at the * al1 ' Mra Samuels talked freely. In 8 general complaint against Miss West, she charged her with aliénai - 110 - -— Mrs. Samuels used a was con Kidnaped Child I« ©tain. Madison, Wls.—That little Annie Lcmberger. the seven-year-old child whose body was found In Lake Mon ona Saturday, was murdered, Is tlie opinion of Dr. H. E. Parcel) and Dr. f 1 08eph I,ean ' wh <> made an cxarnlna * on ot the body. The child had been kidaapPd from tho Lcmberger on the previous Tuesday. heme r M ° Un ' E, " a Act ' Ve ' Catania. Sicily.—Mount a r ' vlva ' Cra,erB hav e feet above the Etna Is of acllclty. Two opened about 8.000 , * ca level. A cloud of 8n, oke is visible and ashes ed continuously. are erupt Lost Brother la Found. Laporte ( ind.—A letter received Snn day by 1* B. Ashton of this city nd vl8od aim that a brother whom he had mourned nu dead for thirty-two year* was a wealthy business man in Oak land, Cal,