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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
Moving the KootehGis.

Major Roman passed through
town last Monday with seven of the
Kootenai Indians EN- route to their
new home in the Flathead reserva-
ton. Owing to the condition of
the roads-thanks to the county
commissioners-the Major was I'M
able to procure transportation for
the Indians and only seven out of
the whole lot were willing to walk,
the rest prefering to wait until next
April when they will all be moved
in a body. The seven that walked
six bucks and one squaw, stood it
well, and were as lively and chip
per in the evening as if they had
been playing seven-up all day in
stead of walking thirty miles. The
Major said it wore him out to ride.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
The Kind of Men we Want.

Mr.. L. ]. Merlin, one of our pop
ular mining men, paid Spokane a
visit the fore part of the week, and
while there a proposition was sub
mitted to him by his partner, Mr.,
McCandlish, to purchase several
ferry boats at Port Columbia. On
learning the particulars Mr.. Merlin
consented to be a partner in the
purchase and the deal was closed.
While investments in Port Column
bia don't help the Panhandle, new
ertheless that is the proper spirit.
Don't be afraid to get your money
down. 1t won't CROWN your hand.
Kalispell, Montana, boasts of 800
inhabitants and wants to incorpor-
ate.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
Oklahoma Wants Statehood.

OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Dec. 49,
The statehood convention met here
yesterday and during the days ses-
sion two factions were developed,
one in favor of single state and
the other in favor of two states, one
to be formed out of Oklahoma and
the other out of Indian Territory.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26

In decision recently rendered
by the commissioner Of the general
land Office, he held that deposits of
clay valuable for aluminium for the
manufacture of pottery ware, does
not render the land containing such
deposits subject to entry under the
mining laws.
The Kootenai Courier reiterates
its charges against the county COM
missioners in this weeks issue,
Good. Let us have a thorough in
vestigation, and may the Lord have
mercy on the guilty parties.
The Post Falls Post is out this
week with tWo-column article dis
eCssing the chances of the various
prominent democrats for the speak
ership. That seems strange for an
all home print paper.
Senator Shoup has introduced a
bill to provide for the purchase of
site for a public building at Boise.
The bill carries an appropriation OF
100000.
1t seems to us that if the Idaho
Falls Times is not able to write its
own editorials it would at least give
credit to the papers it clips them
from.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
READS IKE FICTION
after Twenty-Five Years tho Lost
Belle Isle is Found Again.
The i1exbaush5ie Wealth of LIBBY Greek
Coming to View---An old and yet Mex
Country Looming Up---Ricb in
Nickel and Tin---A Death
bed Regsiation.


Mr.. Eugene Howard, an old time
miner and prospector, who has been
in every great mining camp in the
United States and Old Mexico, in
Guiding California in the days o.
49," was registered at the n. P.
Hotel the fore part of the week and
while here paid the HERALD Q very
pleasant call. Mr.. Howard has a
valuable nickel mine on Libby
creek in Montana on which he has
done considerable work the past
summer. Assays from rock sent to
the United States assay office in
Helena being "a per cent. nickel
and 6 per cont. tin it will be seen
at once how valuable the property
is.
For many years, in fact way back
in the COS, there was known to ex-
list on Libby creek, about twenty
five miles from what is now Smead's
Spur on the Northern Pacific, a
rich lead called the Belle Isle and
WHICH was found in the summer OF
1866 by man named Dave Hill.
Not being able to work it himself
and not wanting anyone else to
know of its existence till he could
get sufficient money to locate and
develop it, he left it, after carefully
preparing q map Of the country
and returned to try and get the
necessary money he thought he
required. From that time on luck
was against him, and it seemed im-
possible for him to make a raise
and 80 it has been lying there known
but to that one man for the past
twenty-five years;
Last July Hill.was dying at ST.
Ignatius mission. Mr.. Howard
who was an old time partner of his
was sent for by the superior of the
mission, and arrived there two days
before Hill's death. Hill gave tc
him, in the presence Of the priests
the map which he had prepared Of
the country and9 such verbal in
strpctions as he thought necessary
for the finding of the lead.
AS soon as his friend was buried
Howard started in search of the
lead. He wandered about for over
a month after reaching Libby creek
without finding it, and was about
discouraged and ready to give W
the search, and evidently woulc
have given it up but for the merest
accident. One day, while out hunt
ing for meat, he killed a deer, anc
in dragging the animal down tn,
side of a mountain overturned ;
piece of the float and from that dis
covered the vein. He immediately
returned and hired a man anC
started in to open it up, and at tn,
depth of forty-tive feet has a well
defined lead Of the richness abov
stated 1t is one of the very few
nickel mines known in the United
States.
Mr. Howard has gone to Ruby
in the Okanogan country, to spent
the holidays with his family, bu
will return in the spring and fur
ther develop his find.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
Anothen Promment Man Gone.

Preston B, Plumb, United States
senator FROM Kansas, died at his
residence in Washington last Sun
day of appoplexy. The death Of
Senator Plumb, at the early age Of
"a, when he should have been in
the prime Of usefulness and vigor-
pus health, will startle the entire
country Ever since his appear
ance in public life he had been
slowly winning his way into
prominence, labQriously studying
into the problems of government,
the relationa of corporations to the
people, and the complex matters Of
transportation, currency and taxa
ton, until he had reached a posi-
ton Of power at Washington. He
was a plain man-plain in his
manner, habits and dress and west,
ern to the backbone. By his death
the Senate has lost one of its shin
ing lights,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-26
What the People Want to Know.

made couple.
Bruegger wants to know if Taylor
was cumming drinks on the mes
sage racket at Bonner's.
Rickert wants to know if Taylor
made a mash at the Ferry, f'Say
nothin', Taylor, but have drink, 2
when the dark clouds roll by.
Algeo wants to know if Taylor
got away with the monkeys hook
ing glass or was it some other hobo.
Mason wants to know if Taylor
is around at all hoqFs of the night
yet looking for burglars.
Nose Robenorvitz wants to know
if Taylor's "sphree" broke him-he
wants SO much advertising.
cOtley wants to know what be-
came of the big bottle Taylor had
in his inside pocket when he started
for the Ferry,
Little wants to know if Taylor is
going to accept position as night
clerk.
Mrs. Kaiser wants to know I'll
Mr.. Taylor is really going to get
married"
Ed Riley whistled a few bars
from a popular wedding march and
wanted to know when it was all gor
ing to happen.
Merrin wants to know if Taylor
wants passes for two.
Jack Lunz took his long pipe
from his mouth, blew a great cloud
of smoke towards the ceiling, and
said "well, | want to know"
Joe Warren would like to know
where Taylor is.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
SLOWLY LEARNING.


You can't regulate everything by law.
The Kansas legislature enacted law at its
last session which made the eight-hour
day compulsory throughout the State. 1t
was believed that, if the work day were
made eight hours in length. great deal of
unemployed labor would be in demand,
and that great advance would be made
in industrial activity. The Kansas people
thought that they could command the
laws of political economy to obey their
will. However we'll meant their plans
might be, the practical operation of the
law in the State charitable institutions
is such that these establishments
cannot be proftably carried on
according to the eight-hour sys-
tenn. Their trustees have notified the
governor of Kansas that unless special
session of the legislature is called to abol-
ish the eight-hour law it will be impossi-
BILE to carry on these institutions longer
than the end of next September. The leg
islature made it illegal for anybody to work
more than eight hours day, but it did not
provide that the compensation should be
less than had been formerly paid for full
days work.
This is an instructive lesson. The peo-
pie of Kansas have also found out that
they can't afford to deal carelessly or dis
honestly with people who lend them money
They will perhaps discover by and by that
the financial schemes of the alliance are
full of trouble for them.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
YESTERDAYS HANGING,

The hanging of Scheele in Bridgeport
pressive affair, but it did not add much to
the argument for capital punishment. The
crime of which it was the penalty was
committed more than three years ago.
Sympathy for the murdered man and his
family has pretty much died out. The
murderer was pitied and apparently looked
upon by his keepers and others near him
as man who had been unfortunate enough
to murder fellow being. He spent most
of his last night in playing cards and the
rest in sleeping calmly. He ate hearty
breakfast yesterday morning and went to
the gallows apparently the least distressed
man of the party.
The truth is that hanging as punish
ment for crime in Connecticut doesn't
amount to much. Perhaps it doesn't any
where. 1t is kept up to a limited extent
because nobody knows what else to do.
Of course it is not felt to be adequate as a
punishment or as a deterrent to others
who have murderous propensities. Muir
der is barbarous and hanging is barbarous,
as everybody who has ever seen the opera
ton knows. Imprisonment for life, with
out chance of pardon, is often, and per-
haps usually worse punishment than
hanging, and its deterrent effect is proba-
bly, as strong We do not suppose that
people capable of murder think much
about the punishment they may get. And
their punishment is perhaps not very i'm
proving to them or their fellow men. The
question is, how can society best protect
itselfs Hanging man now and then is q
terrible thing, and it doesn't seem to dc
good enough to warrant it.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
HREEZY.

Kind lady-What is your business in the
summers Breezy whiskers-Keeping off
the grassl-New York Herald.
The man who escaped with his life was a
thoughtful creature, as he saved himself
the trouble of going back for it.-Baltl-
more Critic.
"What are you doing for a living these
days, Goslini" asked Dolly.
IT bweathe;;' replied Goslin, with a
weary sigh.-Judge.
Caraway-These new people are rich, but
from this invitation I fancy they are from
the west. Hooks-Well! Caraway-They
have added D. Q. to the R. s. V. P.-Life.
Ambiguous heard that
YOU made an hours speech at the debating
club. Was it we'll receiveda Singerly-
cheered me when sat down.-Brooklyn
Life.
Amateur Artist should like to pre-
sent the last picture 1 painted to some
charitable institution; now, which would
you recommends Cruel Lady Friend-The
blind asylum.-~Life.
Madge-What are you looking for, Mil!
Millicent-That bathing suit 1 bought
this morning 1t must have dropped out
of my pocketbook when l paid my car
fare.-Brooklyn Eagle.
In the New House.-"What handsome
plumbing you have; Your pipes are plat
ing from the way they work should say
they were solid. d."-Puck.
A Correct .-Showman-Look here.
Your bill says: "Forty-nine days board for
camell" You've only had him seven days.
Keeper-That's all right; that camel has
seven stomachs. Seea-Puck.
Boy-Say, mister, shall 1 carry your
satchell Do it for dime.
Dude-My satchel is not heavy.
Boy-Well, let me carry your cane, then.
Street S Smiths Good News.
"Did the plumber come down to inspect
the pipes this morningl" eyes" "What
did he sayf" che said there was nothing
the matter, but he could very soon remedy
that"
She-I really don't think it was nice of
you to borrow money of papa so soon af-
ter We became engaged. He greatly sur
rised)-Why, you are the first girl who
ever objected to it in all my experience
Munsey's Weekly.
Chow beautifully your daughter plays" ="
said Mrs. Peterby. The music ceased at
that moment. The door opened and a Ger
man professor said: ''Pefore finishes tun-
ing dot piano I wants mine tollar and a
half "-Te1as Siftings.
''Dinny, me bye, I'm in throuble. Have
yez any pull in this coortl"
'I hev."
"Here's S5 for ye, Dinny. What pull
have yezp
sI pull the benches into the mkt room
livery marnin' befoor sweepin'. ."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
"Why," asked the lady of the house of
Bootless Bob, the tramp, edo you stick out
straight when you eat! Was it ever brok-
enw 'No, madam, but during my halcyon
days wore diamond ring on that finger,
and it has become second nature with me. "
New York Continent.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
9rB Goods.
Howe & StGtsOl.
SUM MER
WaSlDpeSS Goods

The balance of our imported
French Organdies in handsome
printed dark and tinted grounds
at 2oc per yard.
linda Grape Cloth l5c per yd ;
a handsome, sezsonable fabric in
white and cream grounds, with
unique printings.
Black Surah Novelties at &C
per yard. This fabric is war
ranted fast black, acid and per-
spiration proof, printed in white
figures and stripes.
One case black and white
Checks, double fold, woven, not
printed, warranted fast collars, llc
per yard also handsome Dress
Ginghams at 11c per yard.
The beautiful Shantong Pom
gees at l2ac per yard.
Two cases of first quality dress
styles IN tlannelettes at loc per
yard; always sold at l2asc.
Warranted Fast Black Satin
Plaid Lawns at l2ac yard, regu-
lar price 2oc. These plain black
Lawns are in handsome broken
plaids and very desirable.
This is a great season for Chi
ma Silks We carry a large line
of this popular fabric in all grades.
Special values this week in Black
China Silks at 25c, 38c, soc, 65c,
75c, 85c and $l.oo per yard.
600 yards all wool Novelty
Homespun Dress Goods, 25c yd.
Marked down from soc.
Special bargains in Black Silk
Demi-Flouncings, from 35c to
$500 per yard.
45 in. White Muslin Embroi-
dered Hemstitched Flounces at
25c per yard, usual price 39c.
Job lot Corset Covers, Ham
burg trimmed, at l5c each. No
thing better to be found in regu-
lar goods under 35c.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19

the Golden Grail in Massachusetts, get
small comfort from the courts in their ap-
peal for help against the grip of the ''im-
perial" recipients of their money. Judge
Dewey dismissed their petition for an in
junction against the supreme officers on
the ground that the court cannot interfere
to relieve persons who have entered into
foolish contracts with their eyes open.
The order is legal corporation, and can
not be put out of existence in any such
way at the relation of individuals; action
to this end must proceed from the attor-
ney general in behalf of the people.
A remarkable case has just been ended
in the British courts. This was the suit
for ESQ, 900 brought by Margaret Josephine
Smith against the estate of the late ]. c..
Park. Miss Smiths story was that Mr.. j.
G. Park was anxious that she should mar
ry his son, and in order to bring about the
marriage agreed to pay her on her wedding
day clear sum of e30, 900 for her sole and
separate use. If the son, however, refused
to marry her, or died before the mar
riage, Miss Smith was to receive as q
solatium the sum of EGO, 900 with inter
est at 5 per cent, within six months
after Mr.. ]. G. Parks death. In proof
of this a deed was produced dated
March 90, 1885, purporting to have been
signed by Mr.. Park, and corroborated by
a letter of instructions addressed to the
solicitor in whose Office the deed was
drawn, also purporting to be signed by
him, and by letter of later date ostensi-
bly, from Mr.. Park to Miss Smiths solicitor,
substantiating the document on which
the claim was based. There were wit
nesses in abundance ready and willing to
swear to the genuineness of these papers,
and to the engagement between Miss
Smith and young Mr.. Park, but the Judge
held that all the papers were forgeries
and dismissed the case. The plaintiff
had been engaged in many queer proceed
ings before this one, but never in any
thing.requiring such wholesale forgery and
perjury.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
TWO FEET IN THE GRAVE.

Likewise One Arm, and the Rest of
Him Sees That the Grave is Kept
Green.
from the st. Louis Chronicle.l
Just as day was dawning this morning
William F. Parkes, who is nearly seventy
years old, or that portion of him which
still lives, was found by Henry Murphy,
grave digger, lying unconscious upon
Parkes' own grave, in a remote part of
Calvary cemetery.
The unconscious man had but one arm,
no legs whatever, and a portion of his left
shoulder had been cut away by surgeons
knives. He had fallen from his little
wheel chair into his grave and had evil
IDENTIFY lain there all night. The dead por-
ton of Mr.. Parkes lay buried in rose
wood coffin in the grave upon which he
was found. He had come, as was his GUS
tom, to decorate and care for his own
grave, and had tainted while trying to
pull up very stubborn weed.
Mr.. Parkes was carried to the gate house
and afterward to a neighboring residence.
With the help of a physician he was re-
vived after an hours hard work. After a
his home, in humble little abode, hardly
half mile from the cemetery gate.
The story of Mr.. Parkes' life and his
queer mania is indeed q remarkable and
interesting one. Half of him is dead and
buried, but in the rosewood coffin, which
he purchased himself, there is still room
enough for the rest of him when life
passes away. He was his own undertaken,
and one shroud will suffice for him, yet
he will have two funerals.
Mr.. Parkes was born in a suburb of De-
troit, Mich, little less than seventy years
ago. His father was well to do. When
he graduated from school-the story is
told by himself-he refused to attend col
lege, and spent all his time breaking colts
and training trotters.
When but twenty years old he married
Bessie Woodruff, whom he had known
since infancy. This was but the COM
mencement of his matrimonial career.
Mr. Parkes lost his first wife q year af-
ter he married her, and shortly after her
death he met with his first accident
While riding alf-broken colt one day
the horse suddenly shied and threw him
to the ground, breaking his left leg The
surgeon who was called to attend him set
the leg wrong, and it was necessary to
break it again. The operation was not a
success and blood poisoning set in His
foot swelled and mortified, and in order
| to save his life the doctors amputated it.
They thought they had stopped the pro-
| eress of the poison, but in a few days ii
became apparent that 1t was extending
4 further up the leg. A week afterward
they amputated .he leg at the knee. Aft.
ter month of suffering the wound healed
up, and short time after that the deadly
poison again commenced to work. Aftel
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
How the Demand for Sensational
American Yarns is Met.

American Yarns is Met.
[From a London Cable to the New York
Times.l
Discussion of these lightsome matters in
the English papers probably impresses the
bulk of insular readers as another instance
of the debauching effect of American jour
nalism on British press standards. When
ever the average woolly-brained squire sees
anything he dislikes, he takes it for grant
ed that it is American. The other day the
Star was sued for libel by solicitor who
was arraigned in city court for cruel
sharp practice. The Star headed its re-
port of the proceedings, 'A Lawyer in the
Dock" and because the plaintiff proved
that he had been, by the courtesy of a
magistrate, allowed to stand just outside
the dock, the Star was mulcted in the sum
of $3.50 and costs. The fact that it proved
the entire accuaracy of its report went for
nothing. Its technical error in the head
line convicted it, and during the trial a lot
of offensive things were said sboutthe Stars
efforts to impart American journalism in
to England.
This special form of English philistine
cant is peculiarly sickening. Iran across
a most curious illustration of its insinceri-
ty the other day. Ever since Dalziers
agency obtained a foothold here, largely nv
its success in serving the London Times
with reports of the Burchali trial in Cana
de-, the London papers have been printing
daily long dispatches from America giving
details of some wildly sensational crime OF
freak from the West or South. Thi.
reached the climax Of absurdity the othe,
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19

NOTICE.
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Cd communications In all cases the name Of the
writer VIII be required, not for publication, but
sa guarantee OF good faith.
situations, Wants, Rents and other small ad-
vert1sements One Cent a Word each inser-
tion Five cents a word for full week (seven
hmes).
Display Advertisements-One square Gone
mch), one insertion, 81 30; each subsequent In.
sertion 40 cents; one week $3.50; one month $40.
Obituary notices, In prose or verse, Is cents
per line. Notices Of Births, Marriages, Deaths
cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
Immediate business Gall mat ter. to be unobJec-
Honable), and their contracts do not include
Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
yearly advertisements at the following rates:
year, $40; three squares, one year, 500.
Special rates furnished on application for con-
large space.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-06-19
No. i46

day in a third-of-s-column dispatch about
a negro woman cooking her child as veal
for party and then leading q cotillion Af-
terward, a story which the Times printed,
and Ihe other papers, which were not able
to afford the cable service, indignantly
commented upon.
Happening to meet Mr.. Dalziel, 4 referred
TO this as a sort of libel on American news.
He made the interesting defense that his
efforts to induce the English papers TO
take serious matter from America had,
with the exception of the Times, been 9
failure. They wanted that kind of story
and nothing else. For example, he said:
1--WE have what we call Sunday crime
which is sent each week in extenso to
American papers, they not caring TO have
more than one in a week, but We have also
what is known in the Office as daily crime,
which the English editors desire TO receive
six times 9 week from America" After
that We ought to hear less of this stupid
nonsense about American journalism