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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15
A CLEVER ScH-M-R.
How Bright ChprI, Got the De
ter of iier Lay Husband.


ter of iier Lay husband.
1t was 5lithc and com >ly chorus '-irl
who was talking, says the New Yer.
Journal. "Shoemalscrs arc mean M ~.
said she. my husband is a shoe
maker, but he doesn't work much. Net
he! AS long as turn in twelve dollar,
a week to help feed and clothe tie
babies he's willing to come up on SIT
urday night with a miserable three dol
lars, or less, as his share. Why, he
won't even mend my shoes for me. No,
| was six months trying to get him to
fix the soles of the only two pair of
shoes I've got in the world, but he
wouldn't do it, and went around with
my feet on the sidewalk.
well, about week ago | went to
him with bundle of beautiful shoes
that just needed a little mending.
There were four pairs in all. Here's Il
job for you says I. These shoes be-
long to the leading lady of the com
pany, and she's in great hurry for
'em. You must finish 'em up by Satur-
day and bring them to her at the stage
door of the thcater'
well, he brightens right up at that
and kisses me, saying I'm good wife
to him at times. See! lie saw lot Of
extra beer in that job, and was lovely
for about five minutes. didn't IN Ike
any more talk about the shoes, and he
went to work at 'cm. They were all
nicely done on Saturday night, and
round he comes with 'em in bundle to
the thcater.
81 met him at the door. Here's the
lady's shoes, said he, and | could sec
how he was thirsting for the beer he
was going to get on the pay for them.
Thanks said |, and took the bundle
away from him. well, said he, wien
he saw | was leaving him standing
there, Won't the lady pay for them to-
night? Not tonight or ever said |,
and you should have seen his face.
'Wha-wha-what do you mcan?' he
gasped. And then ] told him that
those shoes really belonged to the lead
ing lady, but she had given 'em to me,
saying they would do me nicely if | rot
'em mcnded. And said to her, says |,
that my husband was q lovely shoe
maker and would mend them for me for
nothing. And SO you have says /,
'and I'm much obliged to yea,'"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15
NEW ENGLAND HIRED MEN.

Treated by Farmers as Though they
We're Members of the Family.
The hired man" on New England
farm occupies unique position and in
many ways is a privileged character.
AS usual thing, says the Boston
journal, he is regarded, not as serv-
ant, but almost as q member of the
household. There arc New England
farmers worth their hundreds of thou,
sands of dollars who never sit down to
meal that they do not have their field
hands at their elbow. In the ordinary
household intercourse the workmen of
the farm are treated not as menials, not
as interiors, but almost, if not quite, as
equals. They are on terms of comradey
ship with the other members of the
household, young and old, and they
have their recognized place in ordina-
ry family gatherings. This relation of
the cmploye to the employer is phe-
nomcnon that is to be found In New
England only, or at least in the north
ern states of America, where New Eng
land customs largely mold the habits of
the agricultural population. The inti-
mate relation of master and man orig
mated in conditions which no longer
exist. In the old days, when the farm
er's 'hired man" was his neighbours son,
who lent his aid to help a neighbor
through the busy season, and often
spent the rest of the year teaching
school or pursuing his studies in a coun-
try academy, such an arrangement was
only natural and proper, and indeed the
only possible one, But the SHRED men"
of New England. considering them as a
whole, are now distinct and separate
class, usually of unknown and occasions
ally OF sinister antecedents. The old
familiar relations of master and man
are no longer desirable or safe. Yet
there are many farmers who persist in
going blindly Gu in the old way. A resi-
dent OF city who followed similar
line of policy with an unknown man
who drove his horse or built his furnace
fires would be deemed fit subject for a
lunatic aSylum,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15
TEA IN MONGOLIA.
Marketed In the Form of Bricks and Logs
by the Natives.

Markcted In the Form of Bricks and Logs
by the Natives.
The cost rof common tea is about
three cents per pound The cost of
manufacture, export duty, packing,
etc, about double the price, SO that the
cost on board ship amounts to about
five and half cents per pound. About
three hundred pounds or four hundred
pounds of brick tea go to "basket,"
made Of light bamboo. Two baskets
form camel load. Brick tea is in
bulk about one-sixth of ordinary tea.
In Mongolia, says the New York
Ledger, where the nomad population
of herdsmen have little use for money,
their tents, clothing, food and temples
being supplied by their focks, brick
tea forms a standard of value and
convenient medium of exchange, as it
Is in universal demand for food. A
brick or half brick of tea is placed in
copper vessel and boiled up with
mutton fat and butter, and the food is
eaten hot in liquid condition. Lately
a new commodity has come on the
Hankow market to which the customs
give the name of log tea. 1t is an
inferior tea, with stalks, packed
in the shape of logs, which weigh from
eight pounds to eighty pounds each
log. The tea is wrapped in the leaves
of the bambusa latifolia and then re-
duced in bulk by binding round the
log with lengths of split bamboo. This
log tea is sent to the Chinese ports for
consumption and is packed thus from
motives of economy, both of packing
and of freight.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15
FUTURE OF THE OYSTER.
Its Extinction Threatened Unless New
Methods Are Adopted.

It's EXTINCTION Threatened Unless New
Methods Are Adopted.
A recent letter from General Bradley
I. Johnston to Baltimore paper pre-
dieting the extinction of the oyster beds
unless measures shall be taken to re-
plenish them is likely to bear good fruit.
President Tyler, of William and Mary
.lollege of Virginia, in letter to the
lichmond Dispatch says that this col
tcge would gladly undertake the trust
of experimental oyster culture. The
college is in the center of tide-watcr
Virginia, contiguous to the oyster-beds
of James and York rivers, and the Gift
toit OF a few thousand acres of oyster
lands would enable it to work out the
question of oyster-culture on scientific
asis The offer should enlist the ready
cooperation of the State.
1t may be true. as Florida papers
lay, that Indian river alone has oys-
ter-beds enough to supply the con
,inent for years, or, as one journal
uts it, that ''any settler along its
anli8 who wants a bed of his own
70 only to put few palmetto logs on
c bottom of the river, throw bushel
oysters upon-it and they Immediately
Il growing and multiplying indcf-
iy." Admitting this, it is we'll
yV,l fact that some of the most biph-
ri2ed beds in our neighboring waters
yc virtually become exhausted, so
the varieties Of oysters that made
= iamous are merely traditions now.
los. oystcr-culture has its scientific
AS, and irrespective Of results. the
ition of the Virginia college is
nn2adable as showing the practical
-nden y OF college work in these days.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15
Cut Glass for the WhIto House.

At the glass works in White Mills,
Wayne county, Pa, there is on exhibi-
tion what is regarded as the finest set
OF cut glass ever turned out in this
country. 1t consists of five hundred
and twenty separate pieces, and has
been ordered by the United States gov
eminent for the white house. On each
piece OF the set, from the mammoth
centerpiece and punchbowl to the tiny
salt cellars, is engraved the coat of
arms Of the Uaited States. This work
alone has occupied months of time.
The total cost will be in the neighbor
hood Of three thousand dollars.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-10-15

In an old geo -'Gphy printed in 1912
appears the foi.-N,l2.,; "Galiiornia is a
wlld and Ghnolt unknown land.
throughout the year it is covered with
dense foTs' as daap sunhcalthful. In
inc interior are volcanoes and vast
plains Of shifting snow, which some.
lines shoot columns T. great hci hts
ms would secn nearly incredible
were it not for the wcll-authenticated
accounts of Travellers
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
Rules the Pan Handle.

Mr.. VIM. H. Chambers, justice Of
the peace at Bonner's Ferry, has
been spending a few days in the
city. Mr.. Chambers is a pioneer
mining man in the northwest, hav-
ing mined in the Ceur 'Alene coun-
try in its early days and was mine
hunting in the Kootenai country
when the Silver King was the only
mine in the district and was the
first man to ship ore out Of that
country.
Mr.. Chambers has not prospected
in vain for he has valuable mining
interests and enjoys the distinction
of having the largest Jurisdiction of
any justice Of the peace in Idaho,
having authority over an immense
territory.
During the difficulties attending
the Italian outbreak at Crossport
he displayed sound Judgment and
nerve, and the disturbance was
quelled by those who worked under
his orders. He owns 100 acres of
land adjoining the townsite of Bon
ner's Ferry.-Spokane Review.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24

Elections occur on November 3
in Iowa, Ohio, New York, Massa-
.chusetts and other states. The
elections are Of more than usual
Importance in an off year, as the
result will very nearly determine
the issues and the candidates in
1892.
All the above-named states went
Democratic in the elections last
year, though with the exception of
New York they are usually Repub-
lican. The indications now are
that New York will 90 Democratic
and Ohio Republican, with Iowa
and massachusetts very close.
1t will be necessary for Major
Mckinley to carry Ohio by a larger
majority than is ordinarily given
Republican candidates, or his ideas
of protection will receive a serious
setback. On the other hand, if
Campbell should carry the state by
the narrowest majority, he would
undoubtedly be made the Demo-
cratic candidate for president.
Some of the Republican papers
of the state accuse the Boise ring of
drying to kill the Republican party
of the state. They point to the
penitentiary scandal, the teachers
bureau scandal, the mistakes of the
first legislature and the bitter fac
tional fight between Dubois and
Claggett. They claim that this is
enough to pave the way to Demo-
cratic success in the state. The
HERALD Is of the opinion that the
dead beat state Democratic commit
tee is too dull-eyed to take any adj
Vantage of the situation.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24

y
= Mr., Fry went to Spokane this
week to attend an IMPORTANT meet
ing Of the bonner Townsite Com
pany. Since it is now known that
the Great Northern viii have in
terests here we looK for a city to
compete with Kalispell in the next
year.
Mr., /. J. Brantis new home in
Fry is about ready for the plaster
ers, and the new hoel Of Smiths is
well under way,
Although we are late in reporting
the dance at S. w smiths hotel in
Eaton, we will state that the affair
was a complete success and passed
off in very satisfactory manner.
Some of the couples danced until
the "wee small hours"
The steamer Spokane will now
make regular trips, leaving Eaton
every Monday morning. She has
been having considerable passenger
traffic Of late.
Mrs. E, I. Preston is enjoying a
few weeks visit to friends in Mar
Gus, Wash, while Division Engi-
neer Preston is kept busy up and
down the line attending the num-
erous matters connected with the
construction of a new road, which
are handled on this division as we'll
as any on the road.
DR.. Wilbur A. Hndryx and Mr..
Stinson, accompanied by their
wives, came in to take the steamer
last Monday. The doctor is now
busy with the smelhr construction
at PllOt bay.
Considerable pleasure and profit
is to be gained at the Lyceum Soci-
ETY., which meets in the school
house on the north side every Fri
day evening.
Sunday school has been organ
lied, with Mr.. w. R Smith super
intendent. Meets at Eaton in the
forenoon and in the school house on
the north side in the afternoon Of
every Sunday.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
Notice of application 10 cut Timber.

Notice is hereby given that in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the
rules and regulations prescribed by
tho Hon, Secretary of the Interior
on May 9Th, 1891, at the expiration
Of twenty-one days from the first
publication Of this notice the un-
dersigned, Samuel w. Childs, whose
postoffice address is Fry, Kootenai
county, Idaho, will make written
application to the Hon, Secretary
of the Interior for authority to cut
and remove timber for merchandise
and sale from the following unsur-
veyed and unappropriated public
lands of the United States situated
in Kootenai county, Idaho, and de-
scribed as follows:
Beginning at a point on the north
or right bank Of the Kootenai
river on the east boundary line Of
the state Of Idaho; thence north
along said east boundary line a
distance Of one mile: thence west
erly on line parallel with said
right bank Of the Kootenai river
and one mile north Of same about
eight miles to a point within one
half mile of or one-half mile east of
the Yahk river; thence northerly
twenty-five miles on a line parallel
with said Yahk river and one-half
mile east Of the same; thence west
one mile; thence southerly on a
line parallel with said Yahk river
and halt mile west Of the same
twenty-five miles to a point one
mile north of said Kootenai river?
thence westerly running parallel
with said river and one mile north
of the same about twenty miles to
a point one-half mile east of Nova
river; thence northerly running
parallel with said east bank Of the
Moya river and half mile from
the same a distance of five miles:
thence westerly one mile; thence
southerly running parallel with
said Moya river and half a mile
west Of the same a distance Of six
miles to the right bank Of the Koo-
tenai river; thence up or easterly
along said right bank Of the Koo-
tenai river, following the bends or
curves thereof about twenty miles
to the place Of beginning of the ex-
terror boundaries Of this tract, con
tanning about thirty-fve thousand
acres of land; and there being grow
ing upon said tract about twenty
five million feet Of pine timber and
about ten milliun feet of fir and
tamarack timber. The land in this
tract is rough, broken and noun
famous. The soil is sandy, rocky,
barren and unfit for cultivation
and agricultural purposes, and is
non-mineral in character.
The purpose for which the tim
Der is to be cut and used is for the
manufacture of lumber, shingles
and other merchantable lumber, to
be used for mining, building and
other useful. and beneficial pur-
poses. SAML. w. CHILDs.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
Queen Of tie 1urf.

AT Stockton, California, last Tues
day, Senator Stanford's 5-yeat-old
mare Sunol beat the worlds trot-
ting record, makingamile in 2:o84,
eclipsing the record of Maud S. by
one-half a second. Maud S. has
been queen Of the turf since 1885.
She is now seventeen years old, and
her best days are over: Sunol's
driver remarked after the race, in
speaking Of Sunol's time, that "they
will hammer at that figure for a
long time" but this is not SO sure,
as Robert Bonner's 5-year-old mare
Nancy Hanks has record Of 2:09,
and Allerton, another 5-year-old,
has a record of 2:094.
Sunol has had remarkable ca
reer. She beat 2:30 as yearling.
As a 2-year-old, 2:18; as 3-year-
old, 2:103; as a 4-year-old, the same
record; and now at 5, she makes
POST, the fastest trotting time on
record.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
Not Houses ENOUGH.

There is not vacant house in
Kootenai at the present time. Sew
eral persons have been here this
week looking for houses to rent for
business purposes, but they could
not be accommodated. Kootenai
is by far the best town in Kootenai
county.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24

SATURDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1891.
eessrai RettiPs Surveys.

SsBefui FSttH oWHeIS
Last week the HERALD gave Sur
veyor General Petit all the space
he required to have his say in re-
gard to the surveys in the Pan
Handle. General Petit confined
himself entirely to the subject OF
the survey of the Boise Meridian.
This was very proper enough as the
other surveys can not proceed until
the prime meridian is completed.
The substance of General Pettit's
communication is that the people
of the Pan Handle should be indul-
gent, owing to the misfortunes Of
Engineer Mills, the contractor.
The HERALD would inform General
Petit that the people up this way
have been very indulgent with his
department. They have been prom
Used these surveys this long time
and the results have only been
hopes deferred. If Mr.. Mills is
entitled to sympathy, what is to be
said for the patient settlers who
have cut the trails into this north
ern country and endured the hard
ships of pioneer life trying to de-
velop the country? Are they not
entitled to some sympathy? What
Us the misfortune Of Mr.. Mills, as
compared to what the hundreds of
settlers have suffered by the lack of
these suryeys?-to say nothing of
the loss of taxable wealth to Koo-
tenai county.
All the vexed questions about
boundary lines, government or rail-
road ownership, etc. could be
quickly settled if the land was sur
yeyed, and the settler could make
permanent improvements and build
habitable houses. The land would
double in value in a day. Yet all
General Pettit's sympathy goes out
for poor Engineer Millsl
There is something rotten about
the Surveyor Generals Office. 1t
may not be dishonesty. 1t looks
more like it was ineficiency. When
Mills took the contract for $500,
that it will cost four or five thou
sand dollars to complete, that is
prima facia evidence that he was
not a proper person to entrust with
such important work.
If General Petit can not secure
these surveys for the people Of the
state he ought to resign and not be
an obstruction in the path Of pro-
gress and civilization.
The tidings from the Boise office
that the survey Of the Boise Merid-
ian would be completed when MIR.
Mills made a stake over in Montana
is the saddest piece of irony yet
perpetrated on an innocent and
unoffending public.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Messrs. Hummer and McKinnon,
of Wisconsin, were in town this
week. These gentlemen have be-
come interested in some of the best
claims on Goat river, B. G.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
BORRER'S FERRY
The Gateway and Business Center of
the Great fOctenui Country.
Some Interesting items of Its Early History
ITS Natural Advantages Mineral
Wealth, Timber, Water Power and
Unsurpassed Heaifhfuf Los
cation.


the early history of the placer dig
dings of Wild Horse creek in Brit
ish Columbia in 1868.
Since 1920, when the Hudson
Bay voyageurs explored the wilds
of the Kootenai country and laid
their wealth Of furs at the feet Of
their managers, this point has been
known more or less as trading
post. During the time between
1920 and 1860 the country only
knew the footprints Of few white
men and was populated entirely by
the tribes of Indians bearing the
name Of the river. They were not
Of a savage nature, and only now
and then were any depredations
committed on the then early pio-
neer. In 1868, when the rich gold
discoveries in British Columbia
brought a crowd of prospectors, the
reign Of the noble red man in this
valley was at an end.
Among a number Of prospectors
from Walla Walla was E. L. Bon
ner, who established ferry and
store at the point which has since
borne the name of Bonner's Ferry.
Mr.. Bonner did an immense bust
ness at this point for several years,
and made the beginning Of a fort
une which has since grown to be
one Of the finest private fortunes in
the western country, For the last
twelve years Mr.. Richard Fry has
held the place Of Mr.. Bonner at the
trading point and Ferry.
Bonner's Ferry possesses the fin
est natural advantages for a city
that can be found anywhere in the
west. AT the head Of navigation
Of great river that can on its
broad bosom bear innumerable yes
sells loaded with the rich ores of the
Kootenai Lake country, where I'M
told millions are awaiting the magic
touch Of capital to furnish modern
methods of working mines, and
through which point is the most
practicable route for the outlet oil
the ore. Here it is that the Great
Northern Railway, now pushing its
way westward to the Pacific, touch
es and leaves the deep water of the
river, thus possessing facilities for
cheap transportation of ores to the
great smelters on either side. With
the finest valley, equal to any in
the country for the raising of cereals
and vegetables Of all kinds, and the
finest timber right at her very door,
she can command the attention Of
everyone who wishes to find per-
manent home in the west.
Its healthful situation is GER
tainly one Of great Importance to
the home seeker. This valley is
known as the most healthful in the
country. No fevers or malarial
diseases have ever been known.
Winters are mild and summers
pleasant, with cool nights, which
make them delightful for the health
or resort seeker.
The town, situated on broad
fiat Of some 900 acres on the banks
of the river; with slight timbered
benches above the town, affording
the most elegant sites Of fine resi- |
dences, with the Great Northern
main line passing through, and the
probability Of division point; the
Northern Pacific terminus of the
branch from Kootenai, Bonner, as
the town will be called, should in
the near future shine as the bright
est city in the Gem of the Mount
ains-Idaho.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24

Kinnear & Williams, of Bonner's
Ferry, have received a full line of
cook stoves and heaters. If
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26
THE CHILD Is BORN
And His Name In PETER.
The Iridescent Dreamer May
Dream On.
A Grand Victory for the People.

The agony is over; the deed is
done, and the people rejoice over
the election of John j. Ingalls, sue
cessor as United States SENATOR.
Judge w. A. PETER, editor of the
Kansas Farmer, is the man upon
whom Ingalls, mantle has fallen.
We shall not try to give history
Of the new senator, for all Kansans,
and many others are acquainted
with him-if not personally, through
his paper. Judge PETER is MAN
every inch of him. He will fill the
office of United States senator sat-
isfactorily to the people of the great
state he represents. Our predic-
ton is that we will never regret the
choice made by our representatives
in the Legislature. Nothing more
need be said of him,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26

jist bin reserved frum Topekey, an
he dident no until then he wood hev
tn ask fur tibet kind ov assistance.
We ginerly rely altogether on mum
ey an promices, but l am afrade tina
hev both outlived Their usefulnes in
our bizness.
Yourn truly,
Sylvester WEDGE,
Hipnotizer.