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, 1890-07-03
FIENDISH CRIME.
Peter Johnson Assassinated by an
Unknown Person Last Sun
day Night.
While on His Way to Visit a
Friend in Shantytown-The
Inquest.


A mysterious crime. fiendish In
execution and evidently the result
of a drunken carotisal, was commit
ted In the dago quarter of Shanty-
town on Sunday night last. IL was
the killing of Peter johnson, a Dane,
who, o,accompanied by two associates,
was seeking a friend to secure a
lodging for the night, when n bull
let shot by the hand of an unknown
person pierced his brain and killed
him on the spot. The murder was
probably case of mistaken identl-
ty, and 20 quick was the assassin in
executing the deed and fleeing from
the premises that no possible clew
for his apprehension has I'm to the
nrsse,t time heen obtained
7, .aoa, 49,, -, io,oo l., ,o
ee,'s 'ii"V a'o"' io'' III ''e
evening the murdered man IN COM
pany with George Peterson and
james Robertson, was going through
Shantytown to reach the house of
William Jarsop who had nromised
,ho ,rio 10 80, ,hon, n sboa,, - ht.
w y, 'r, VI '''
,o' resiuehce' me 'iree cothPah-
ions had just reached town nom a
long tramp from Cpur 'Alene city,
aud were trudging along with their
baggage. which was n yalIse. car.
ried hy Jobnson and his BLANKET
wh,oh u,ns narr,ad hy po,arsnr
while Rohertson was hurdsnod with
his own luggage. The men ns they
strolled along A narrow street which
leads off from the railroad track
were talking over their misfortune
at not finding work at Cpur d Alene
and speaking of their future plans,
when, on nearing the intersection
of Park and Second streets. about
100 yards ahead of them, there
flashed from the darkness II sudden
light, instantly followed by re.
port, anu before any one reallhed
man a oave n a a,npp n"pe"yIm nIaoed al his hamd
70 his bleediSg fore head and sonk To
the ground without utterlpg a word.
The two companions, after they
had collected their senses, gave the
alarm, which was answered by "a
number OF the residents In the
neighbor rhood, who did all in their
power for the comfort of the
wounded, but IL proved of no avail,
for when a physician arrived upon
the scene, which was but short
time aiterward, he was dead.
rup poIrcp az rASn
mn -, =,
Inc cry OF murder, which rang
out through the stiffness of the
night, brought Captain Martin and
a number of the police officers to the
scene inst az the man expIred The
oornn.r WOO ,hon aont rnr amd ,ho
"ao. '',ia "s', Wv" a, ~ a', ,i', "uu Wv.
'"o eo''p"uions e'ose'y pues',oheo
resarding their knowledge ot the
affair, They stated that two men
, 1890-07-03
1HB HOMIE PREss.


Lewiatou Teller; Daily large quanti-
ties Of wVJl are belng drawn to this point
for shipment Why should all our wool
be shipped away for manufacturingf 1t
Is an industry We eau easily develop
here. We have an excellent water power
lying idle. A large manufacturing in
forest here would draw a large populs-
tion Of non producers who would furnish
a market for our food products. No city
can hope to attain any considerable s!zs
unless II develops dlversihed industries.
Nature has fitted US with the necessary
qualifications for developing manufac-
turing interest 10, energy and enter
prise take advantage Of the gifts.
, 1890-07-03
IN THE AFTERNOON.
Several Plumbers Testify That W. II.
Wilson ls Unreliable.

eevers Plumbers Testify That W. II.
Wilson is Unreliable
Joseph Smith, a baker, was the first
witness called in ths afternoon. lie said
that on the night of the trouble he met
MoCrossin, who asked him to show him
the back door I'VE tried II, but il was
locked, and we could not get in. He
then asked me to go around to the front
door. He took heavy revolver out OF
his back pocket and showed 1t In his
rantaloons on tho left side under his
vest When we got around to the front
door noticed there was fuss inside.
Baer was showing u man out. Mac said
lto Baer;
What are you doingr
Tvs none of your business, replied
n wei, I'll make II my business
men they came together and Nc
Sross'n struck Baer on the face. don't I
know whether Baer struck back or not,
.u, ne lad his hands up. McCrossin
,nos, s'eP nhok and one forward, AMI
mn paei mrew his gun and shot him,
,oNis ollDert--l WIS coming out OF the
Mnzeppa saloon, after having taken a
ssrnk' saw Big Mac interfere with
oaer when Harry told him that IL was
aohe OF his business. Mac threatened to
maase y his business, and struck him.
saer SAD, For Gods sake, don't xiii
@ ~, MAC showed his hand under hi,
~ & 1T 'ne Ieil side as II to draw gun.
md hred twice in rapid succession.
.nen went back into the saloon. No, /
BILLY THE BoorBLAcK.
w. IL. Nnunu vgho
h'ly' the bootblack." was mex,
Nneu' Ito said that he conducted a
k'e&loiaok stand In Datch Jske's tent,
1N<Has preparing to 10 hom.
10Th of January last, when
baor putting the LOUSY
Nd ou, Of the place. McCrosrin
~ on .he sidewalk and interlrred.
~ss' sSaa nun that what he WAS doing
, 1890-07-03
ORE FROM osooYos.

Arrival in This City OF $500 Pounds
OF jold Rock.
ii. w. Jones arrived In the city
Saturday from the Empire mine,
i'll the Osooyos mining district.
He brought with him $500 pounds
of gold ore. Mr.. Jones is one OF
the largest owners in the Empire
mine. 1t is n very promising piece
of property, and should 1t continue
10 pan out as 1t has commenced II
will prove a paying venture for the
owners.
, 1890-07-03
AT BoNNERs FERRY.
First Shipment From Kootenai Valley
Idaho.

First Shipment From Kootenai Valley,
] Idaho.
BoNNER's FERRY, Idaho, June
27.-Partles Just In from the Upper
Kootenai river report a good find on
Rainy creek, made by jasper King
and party. The ore Is high grade
galena, concentrating proposition.
Rainy creek puts into the Kootenai
river from the north, about nine
miles above Kootenai Falls, and is
close to the proposed Great North
ern route.
The steamer Idaho came in yester-
day from Boulder creek, eighteen
miles above here, loaded with ore,
which is the first ever shipped from
the Kootenai valley In Idaho. The
shipment of ore Is being made by
the Boulder Creek Mining Company
and will go either to Helena or
Great Falls, Mont.
There Is 100 tons of freight at
Kootenai station waiting for trans
portation to this point, destined to
/ the mines up and down the river.
There is a steady increase In both
freight and passenger business,
which indicates that the Kootenui
country will have II prosperous sea-
son.
Work is being steadily pushed on
the Canadian Pacific railway from
Spraats Landing TO Nelson as fast
as supplies can be got in.
The Great Northern surveying
party, with Chief Engineer Preston,
is In the pass between here and
Kootcnai station, and expects to
reach the Kootenui river In about
thirty days.
, 1890-07-03

Articles incorporating the Spo-
kane Investment Company were
filed with the auditor Monday by
a. NJ Cannon, j. J. Browne, Ralph
l., Clarke, J. Heine and Charles. III.
Strutton, The capitol stock is Ia he
fixed mt Ss00,0O0 divided into 5000
shares of the par value Of 500 each.
The duration OF the corporation is to
be fifty years.
, 1890-07-03
rrAcuiso MORALITY 10 THE xAsr.

Anaconda Standard: Eastern news
papers in the habit Of commenting upon
the wild and woolly West will please pull
in their horns The board of education
OF Seattle has refused TO re-engage tho
principal Of the high school another
year for the reason that he smokes. 1t
was not alleged that he smoked in tho
classroom, or in church. or In the
boudoirs OF his lady friends, but ~ was
conolusiyely proved that he had boon
seen sitting on hotel veranda with q
lighted cigar III his mouth. Nor was
any defense put In to the charge that in
his own room he sometimes used that
abominatIon called pipe. Boston her
self could not have displayed stneter
sense of the proprieties than Seattle has
done. The city council, 1t is ohe hoped.
will back up the board OF education by
passing an ordinance prohibiting smok-
ing anywhere within the city limits.
, 1890-07-03

Dig Bend Empire; Douglas county
appears TO be "a victim Of continual in
justices. There were only two enume-
rators appointed to take tho census, and
they are not supplied with a sufficient
number OF blanks. If the legislative
apportionmont Is made on the basis of
the present census IL will require a Wig
orous kick to secure one representative
The actual population ofDougIas county.
If We could have a fair shake, would bs
II not quite, 1900.
, 1890-07-03
THE COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Statements of Henry Hcsksth Officially
Denied.

D1lA'N'
SPANGLE, June 90.
To TuE EniroR oF TuE REvtsv'
see one Henry Hesketh, who
has been an inmate at the county
hospital, has been misrepresenting
affairs through the Chronicle Of Fri
day, June ~. He says their meat
was rotten bacon, which is false.
He also acknow ledged to me that
he had syphilis; said that lie con-
tracteL the disease in Denver last
August, and | have got witnesses to
that effect. put him In a
house that is kept as pest
house and was ordered by
the commissioners to put all
syphilitics in the same house, The
man that roomed with Hesketh was
a credit to him. Hesketh used pro-
fame language and acted in an un-
gentlcmanly manner all through
his stay here. Hcskcth has also
been hguring In the police courts at
Spokane Falls at different times.
Dir. Newman states that | am what
knowledge that. | am an eclectic.
Dunglison's medical dictionary de-
fines IAN eclectic as u sect of physi'
clans who professed to choose from
other sects all the opinions which
appeared to them best founded, and
further states that every judicious
physician must be an eclectic.
G.. w. HoyEY, NJ. D.,
Physician to county poor house and
hospital, Spangle, Wash.
, 1890-07-03
Harry 4. Baer.

We, the jury duly empaneled and
sworn to try the cause OF the state OF
Washington, plaintiff, agalust Harry
Il. Baer, defendant, find the defend
ant not guilty.
GEo. w. PHILLIPS, Foreman.
The large crowd OF friends of the
defendant in the courtroom rushed
forward and Baer was kept very
busy for quarter of nm hour re.
ceiving congratulations. He shool,
hands with the jury and that body
was discharged. Court then nd.
jourued until 10 o'clock Monday
morning
, 1890-07-03

Adel Bishop, prosperous ranchei
and prospector from the Little
Dalles, is In the city. Mr.. Bishop
states that there Is great deal OF
life in his section, occasioned by
railroad bnilding, prospecting and
ranchlnU
, 1890-07-03

LouIsyIiLr, KY. June 2L-The heat
for several days has been excessive.
Fifteen deaths from prosiration have
occurred In three days. Meager reports
have been received OF the havoc wrought
by the tornado In Graves county Thurs
day. One person was killed aud many
injured.
, 1890-07-03

BAroS .iouGB, La, June e7.-The
senate committee to- night decided to
report the lottery bill favoraby, after
making the amount to be paid annually
$3.50, 900.
, 1890-07-03

noLsdala gur, The tkird marty moxe.
-, Il, Whitn,,n countv .,rikes nv asa
r,sh, s,on in ,hs wrong direction. pro-
hihit,on is a moral issue too broad 10 be
na,,,,nad w,,hj,, ,h. IIrni,s az nar,v I,ns.
snd whor We epaeavor 10 clothe /, in A
n,,,,.st aa.h uo naps n n,st.ts
TrSsn ro" .,u ,avs, he made ~
- 's'oano,,, n,,. co. ia Nd
,e's" sup.s". '.s-n,a' n, no, 1910.
py eoei.'.e i,l' "'.%' ra,',a..,a,a,r a,,s. ~
y, asncat,on iot m, nraaeher nre,ch
ot eduehuon. bes 'no p'eso"ei p'saeh
II, let the eaeher teaeh IL;
educate public sentiment, but
don't hide the true beauty OF
,an,neranee the glory of prohibition by
I'InS n1ii,ie,I cIo,t
putting oen'n' iV'..in ~, a.
Never 'iii men nave oeeonle euuea'su 70
, 1890-07-03

snAwsEr, I. r., June 6-A treaty
was made with the Potiawo'tamies to-
day. They receive their lana In sever
atty and Slo0, o00 In money.
, 1890-07-03

Cork, June gs. The court at Danton
to-day sentenced Father Crowley 70
three rnonths' Imprisonment and six
more additional. IN ,ieiault OF bail. Nf
good bchayior.lpr intiIniuatinG = frot>s-
taDt clergyman az u schooi. ~,
, 1890-07-03

had on light sack coat, but no
overcoat. He was confined to his
homo over week by the wound
over his eye. IL was not the wound
40 much as the danger of catching
cold in II.
, 1890-07-03

Work is being steadily pushed on
the Canadian Pacific railway from
Spraars Landing TO Nelson as fast
as supplies can be got in.
The morning call., 1890-08-20
tn RISE IN SILVER.

The silver market is advancing. Silver
is now selling in London at 54d, and the
Treasury Department bought 200,000 ounces
on Monday at 81 19A. 1t is thirteen years
since the metal commanded SO high a price
That was the time when the argentiierous
deposits Of lead carbonates were discovered
at Leadvile, and the boom which ensued
was largely due to the belief that the price
of silver was more likely to advance than
to decline. 1t did decline, however, and
kept on declining until, ten years after
ward, it had fallen 131ad in London.
The result was the closing of some mines
which ran low in silver. 1t is the dspen-
sation that the precious metals are so thinly
distributed through the adjoining rock or
gravel that the miner WHO seeks them
rarely makes better wages than he would
earn at other callings. Here and there,
from time to time, bODanzas are found
which enrich their owners. But they are
rare and invariably sEort-lived. Veins and
deposits which carry large percentage of
precious metal near the surface grow leaner
as depth is gained. and there generally
comes a time when the closest economy is
required to make The workings pay at all.
Most Of our mines on the Comstock, in
reached that stage in their history.
By the law providing for an increased
coinage of silver the metal has been in
creased in value, for silver is now worth SO
per cent mere than it was in 1888, and ores
which in that year were not worth working
may now yield a small profit Two years
ago, in Colorado, ores which carried less
than fifteen ounces of silver to the ton,
with little or no lead, were thrown over
the dump. They will new probably be
sent to mill or smelter and afford some
profit. IL is difficult, however, to form an
estimate of the effect which this change
will have on the mining industry. The
United States are supposed to be produc-
ing, one year with another, S50,000000 of
silver. or perhaps little more. Miners are
now in hopes that the law viii so increase
the price of silver that poorer ores may be
worked.
We think 81 pence a high price for silver
in London but in 1864, when the new royal
Government of India was being put into
complete operation under Sir John Law
renee, the silver ounce commanded in Lon
don 62la pence. Our own coinage is based
upon a valuation of silver 10 cents above
the present price. Everybody now realizes
that. instead of dumping its surplus silver
into the United States, Europe wants silver,
and that it is going to be a scramble as 10
which continent shall get it. The law of
Congress is mandatory. Until silver reaches
the old parity with gold the Treasury must
buy the amount fixed by the statute; and
at The same time England must buy silver
to meet its India bills, and France must buy
for use in Tonquin. With these three sources
TO supply, silver is likely to advance until it
reaches the limit set.
The morning call., 1890-08-20
IN TnE AUprron,s OFFICE,

There was quite a scene in the Auditors
office on Saturday between Registrar Smiley
and Auditor Strother. Mr.. Smiley charged
that seryiceable men were being added to
the tax list with view to their appointment
as registration officers. Mr.. Smiley named
four men who, he said, had been added to
the list of taxpayers since the books were
handed over to the Auditor, and had been ap-
pointed. Auditor Strother thanked Registrar
Smiley for the information. and declared his
purpose to have the matter investigated.
The Auditor added that the names had been
given to Mr.. Smiley for purposes OF lnves-
tigation. Mr.. Smiley replied that the Sec
retaIy of the Democratic Registration Blu
reau had furnished him a lot of names, half
of whom were not those of taxpayers, and
conveyed the impression. if he did not make
the charge that there was purpose IN
submitting so many ineligible names.
Auditor Strother is noted for his disposition
to put himself in the way OF stray shots OF
this character. While Mr.. Smiley's remark
seemed to implicate the Secretary Of the
Democratic Bureau of Registration rather
than the Auditor, the latter in a somewhat
vehement manner made known his lnten
ton not to stand such insults any longer.
When the Auditor had sufficiently vlndl-
Gated himself report was read which
showed conciusively that men had been
appointed TO serve as officers who did
not reside in the precinct for which
they were appointed. Even Mr.. Strother
must admit that the appointment of a num-
Der OF unknown and unindable men to
register voters a reflection upon the Election
Board.
This little breeze, which subsidized with
the accumulation of evidence of the truth of
the Registrars charges, Will tend to direct
public attention to the appointment OF
registration officers.
The morning call., 1890-08-20
WHAT NEXT?

We copy the following paragraph from
the Los Angeles Express of recent date ::
II Marcus p Boruck will call at this Office and
identify his remains he VIII be rewarded by a
back number Of his own Spirit. No questions
asked.
We do not think it is quite the fair thing
to ridicule Mr. Boruck, for has he not been
a power in the State since Governor Water
man came into Office? If reports are to be
credited Mr. Boruck has been the malnstay
of the Administration. Governor Water
man has had all of the odium OF bad ad-
mnistration, while Mr.. Boruck has moved
behind the scenes and pulled the wires. No
doubt MIR. Boruck has had good time
while prompting the Governor, and to nave
been the Prime Minister OF such an admin
istration has it not served to make the
name of Boruck known from one extremity
of the State to the other? Glory enough,
one would say, without taking into cOnsid-
Grafton the sAekelS which it has brought in.
But, mark our words this is not the last OF
Mr. Boruck, for does he not belong to what
he terms the American party, and is not
that party, in its efforts to draw off votes
from the Republican State ticket and give
them to Mr.. Bidwell, assisting to place In
Office lust such set of plunderers as were
shoveiing out the money of taxpayers dur
ing the last session of the legislature? we
doubt whether all the fools in Calltornla
who can be led by trickSters are yet dead
hence we presume Mr.. Boruck will still
have following.
The morning call., 1890-08-20
BONDING PRIVILEGES.

The Dominion Cartridge Company is re-
ported as having received from an Ameri-
can Transportation Company copy of a
letter from the Treasury Department in
which the American company is warned
that the bonding privilege which Canadian
companies now enjoy will soon be taken
from them. The bonding privileges now
accorded to Canada are distinct violation
of the spirit of the navigation laws in ex-
istence when the bonding privileges were
conferred. When the navigation laws were
enacted there was no other means of con-
veyance between American ports than YES
sells. Railroads were then unknown. When
Congress said that foreign vessels should
not carry merchandise between American
ports it practically prevented foreigners
from taking part in our coastwise trade.
Railroads were not prohibited from doing
the same thing for the simple reason that
there were no railroads to enjOin. The dis
patch from Montreal above referred to indi-
Gates a purpose on the par of the Admin
istration to apply to railroads the law which
already applies to vessels. This in its com
mercial aspect is the most important act yet
considered by the Administration. Through
the favor of the Treasury Department the
Odnduldn l dclHci d ntdfllg SuuolOS8tu ldiI-
way, has been enabled to compete with
American transportation companies which
have to earn their own expenses. The Can
adian company has built UP large business
by taking business that on even terms would
be done by the American roads. 1t has all
the time been within the power of the
Treasury Department to withdraw from the
Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk
Railroad Companies the privileges granted
them to transport goods in bond from one
port in the United States through Canada
to another port in the United States, and
the Montreal dispatch announces an inten-
ton to exercise that power.
The morning call., 1890-08-20
UNITED STATES SENATORS.

Neither of the Democratic papers in the
city has fairly presented the question in
yolved in the resolution authorizing the
State Convention to name candidate for
the United States Senate. The question is
in its essential features if a caucus COM
posed of members of the Legislature shall
name the candidate for Senator or if the
State Convention shall indicate its choice
and bind aspiTantS for the Legislature to
abide by il. State conventions of both
parties have advocated a change in the
Constitution. taking the election Of Senator
from the Legislature and giving 1t to the
people. but it is well known that such
change cannot be made for years, if at all.
Meantime, more direct way to accomplish
the same purpose is proposed. Instead Of
taking the election of Senator from the
Legislature it is proposed to permit the
PEOPLE to determine whom the Legislature
shall elect. This proposition is distasteful
to the machines. 1t has not been found
difficult for corporations and plutocrats to
manage Legislatures, bnt the handling of
State conventions is quite another thing
The opponents of the plan of convention
nomination are of various classes. Corpo-
rations which want an agent in the L nited
States Senate prefer that the choice shall
remain where it now is. Millionaires who
regard a seat in the Senate as they would
any other luxury have found Legislatures
open to the kind of argument they were able
to advance, and certain class of grubbing
politicians who seek seats in the Legislature
for the purpose of money-making look with
horror upon a proposition to take the cleo
ton of Senator from that body. They re-
gard it almost as an attack upon vested
rights. There have been recent and con-
spicuous examples of the advantages to the
classes of people we have mentioned of the
present method of electing Senators. In
fact the most noted cases Of political cor
ruptiOn that have recently come to the
knowledge Of the public find their origin in
the power given handful of men to fill the
most desirable positions in the gift of the
State. Of course men WHO hope to buy
their way into the Senate do not like the
proposition to devolve upon a convention
the duty of making nomination. A con-
veution is always liable to be I'm purchas-
able In the same way machine politicians
who stand well with the bosses do not
want to take their chance before conven-
ton. The Senator of q State should be in
the highest sense of the term the represen-
tatiye of the people of a State. lie should
derive his title from the original source of
power. No man should be in political
sense eligible who has not done service in
the ranks and won distinction through
such service. The mass OF legislators
should be sifted and the highest office given
TO the one who has won the highest reputa-
titn for ability and integrity. 1t was in
this way that the great men whose ability
made the Senate half century ago the
most intellectual body of legislators in the
world obtained their seats,