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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-17

pays any such salaries as alleged.
The writer has been informed by a
prominent and well-known Boston
gentleman, who has been in position
to know, that the little that has been
made in Boston has been sunk on the
road, and that the rumor of the discov-
cry of gold mine was decidedly erron-
eous
1t is not matter of great
magnitude, either one way or
the other, except that the wild
boasting of some associations
writers needs checking a trife.
Figures are very stubborn little hero
glyphics and hard oget around Prior
to the year 1890 they generally spoke
the truth. IT war tactics have
been adopted this season and the at
tendance has been swollen, one can
readily see why the admission price
was dropped at the Hub.
If President Julian b. Hart would
adopt direct discourse, instead of
speaking in g nerally vague way
a out the success of the season. one
might have little more statistical in
formation from which to deduce the
truth. But President Harrison is as
slow in coming to the point as school
boys pencil.
Not satist ed with the experiment of
sinking some $4,000 in Cincinnati, the
= merican association is said to con-
template establishing club in Chi
cago. Perhaps no organization of an V
conspicuous notice in the country goes
on making mistakes with as much
freedom and abandon as the American
association. 1t is almost too
incredible too believe that men
VINO saw the utter folly of endeavoring
TO operate two clubs in the same CITY
in $50 will persist in repeating the eX-
pertinent in 1891 and 1892 A man with
any reputation for business sagacity
and sanity would never consider plan
which had at some time been demon
strated to be ruinous if he desired to
go in the same business himself. If
he did so his friends would be inclined
to tap their foreheads and look signifi
can't
The association could establish
profitable and well arranged circuit,
should 1t so desire, without In any way
conflicting with the leagne. 1t would
then enjoy a sea on of prosperity,
something that it has not seen since
1885 and never will see again until it
co-operates with the league on
sensible basis. The association has
never enjoyed a real good, free
for-all fight with the league. 1t has
danced along behind the latter, snap
ping and yelping somewhat as an irri-
table yellow pup endeavors to disturb
the calm complacency of a big New
foundland. Some Gay that Newfound-
land will wake up and its annoying
little pest will think it has come in
contact with an express train. In the
meantime, if the leaders of the Asso-
citation imagine that there is going to
be any unusual profit in a baseball
team in Chicago in 1898, let them
study up the statistics of 1876.
Worlds fairs and baseball pennant
races are not homogeneous,
j. b. FOSTER
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Two Miles a Minute.

Fancy travel at the rate of two miles a
minute over an incline of polished ice,
with an eighteen inch toboggan for a
carriage, pretty girl for bon comrade
and pair of electric balls hanging over
head like harvest moons. Recall the
sensations of being in love or a hot bath,
remember the details of your first merry
go round, the immediate influence of
champagne, chloroform or any other de-
hcious intoxicant, and you have a faint,
very faint idea of the positively delight
full sensation that fly down a toboggan
chute produces. In the decent one seems
to lose consciousness; the route lies be-
tween earth and sky; you have your
heart at your tongues end, and when
the bottom of the slide is reached it is
with shooting pulse, tingling blood
and flaming spirits. You feel as though
you had at last reached the acme of en-
joyment; that life was dream. earth a
vision and tobogganing the boss game
Inter Ocean.
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THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D. TAYLOR, Proprietor.


Not long ago a lot of Sea Island cotton
in bales was discovered to be on fire in a
New Jersey warehouse, and when the
flames Were extinguished in one spot,
they would Immediately break out in
another. An examination showed that
it was roller gin cotton; that is, cotton of
which the lint is drawn away from the
seeds by pair of rollers, set at such a
distance apart as to keep TIE seeds from en-
tering between them. while the fibre passes
on and goes into bag. In the present
case, more or less of the seeds had some
how got between the rollers and been
crushed, and had thus saturated the cot
ton with oil, which, in due time had
caused spontaneous combustion.
A still more curious case occurred in
Massachusetts factory. In the middle of
the room milling machine was turning
knife handles, the dust being blown up
through metal tube into the roAm above
and thence forced out of doors through q
wooden pipe. A spark from an emery
wheel, fifteen feet from the milling ma
chine, struck window, and rebounding,
entered the mouth Of the metal tube, set
the wood dust on fire, so that the flames
poured out of the wooden pipe in a stream
twenty feet long.
An engineer, cleaning up a mill, put
some cotton waste in front of the boiler
where it would be handy for the fireman
in the morning. During the night this
took fire spontaneously; the flames spread
to the kindlings under the boiler, and
soon raised steam enough to cause the
boiler to blow off, badly soaring the
Waterman, who knew, or thought he
knew, that there was no fire under it.
In another instance man drove nail
into the ceiling of jute mill. The nail
glanced off, was struck by the rapidly
moving heaters and caused a serious con-
fagration. Youths Companion.
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nouse ana Darn wrecked,
and the yard flied with debris
1t then zgzags to No. 8, where it
veered quickly North eastward leaving
scarcely yestige of the house but only
weakening the barn which was farther
over. Along ID it only strewed the de-
bris of No. -straining now and then
post till Il came to a pile of fence
posts at No Z. At once the whirling
motion takes place and the standing
fence is moved down by the loose posts
and all scattered for rods Southeast
ward. This DETECTION saved the house
at No. 8, only a few rods away. A tree
in the front yard being swept nearly
due Is qpt hRs Ht9 tRe @a sw taesk A9n
eighty yards wide of broken trees,
strained fences and the prass swept
along the line as with water o ID.
AT No 8 the tornado identity struck
the house first square on, and the
whiring motlon and deflect.ons were
secondary. The main part of the debris
is carried eastward, but the floor sys-
tenn was whirled north into the road,
back south and west into the ward
cutting double swath through fence
and shrubbery, and was dropped few
ANNb hOIlilNNob VI lbS original place
(see illustration), Thence blow went
northeast, loaded with loose things.
to the tall woods at +. The trees
here show less evidence of twisting
than of straight blow nearly south.
One tree lies southeast, but under its
top is furniture from the house. A
short distance northwest of f. the dis
turbance ceases abruptly. Thence the
storm went TO No. 10, forty rods south,
cutting only kitchen and leaving the
house unhurt There are signs that a
portion of the straight blow contin-
ued on directly eastward from No. 8,
and was joined by that from No 10
Immediately, for the hedge north of
No. l0is strewn with garments from the
latter At this point it first began
to plaster objects with mud Now
note its path over Nos. IL, IL, 10, IA |
and Is land there are others further
on, crossing roads and hedges wher-
ever an upright object stood Here
was lane of fifteen or more homes.
not one of which escaped damage.
The upward vortex motion of this |
storm continued long after it rose
again; for oil. ects as large as window
sashes fell thirty miles from where It
did its last damage, and lighter sub
stances bearing names Identifying
them were found much farther east.
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Newspaper ..NIght Owls

There Is always the proportion of night
owls, men who work when others sleep.
They have an air about them which is
unmistakable, for while they look tired
from the toll they have just left, it is a
different kind of fatigue from that which
one notices among those who are ''up
late. Many, in fact the majority, of
these are from the newspaper offices,
and they can always be known from the
shop talk they indulge in. Curiously
enough newspaper men do not talk very
much about their business in the day
time, not more, at least, than does any
other class of men.
But at night it would seem as though
their brains are SO full of the subjects
they have just left that their chat be-
comes of the shop, SLOPPY style. 1t is as
though surgeons had come from the
scene of some operation and were con-
strained to speak of the flap and the
drainage. Their talk is "caviare to the
general, 7 conveying as it does an odd
impression of inside information among
the speakers. Then, too, it is mostly in
the future; they constantly talk of that
which others do not know vet. Their
discussion is of what the papers will
speak tomorrow morning; the news of
the afternoon has already become ancient
history to them. That they deal in news
is recognized practically by others, for
nothing is more common than to have
some gentlemen apply for information
New York Press.
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Owing to the peculiar climatic condi-
tions of the country, the mountains and
valleys are green the year round; though
in the winter months the SUBMITS of the
peaks are often capped with snow, which
approaches closely the summer belt of
the low land, where the air is redolent
with the fragrance of the orange bios
SONS. While standing in an orange
grove have watched a snow storm COW
ering the dead yucca stalks and chapar-
raj, which was SO near by that l could
have sent a bullet from my rifle fairly
into it. Winter and semi-tropical sum
mer were face to face, yet so subtle were
the conditions that there was no en-
croachment, the snow seeming a veri-
table truce between the opposing forces.
&C. F. Holder in American Magazine.
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PRICE OF ADMISSION.
IS JUST NOW THE BONE OF
MUCH CONTENTION.
Reasons why the Twenty-FHve Cent.
Rate VIII Never Make Money
Harmony should Exist Between
the big Leagues.

The matter of twenty-fve-cent adj
mission TO ball games has provoked
much comment since it was adopted
in Bost n. Friends of the association
In that city, or to be more accurate,
the hackers of the association, claim
that it has proved stroke of1are good
policy financially. Surprising such
to have been the case, the query then
arises how much was the Boston Asso-
citation club losing prior to the reduc-
ton in admi sion? For if the figures
of attendance at Boston, inclusive of
Saturdays, be correct, there is not
enough taken in to paw expenses when
but % cents is asked at the gate.
The attendance at Boston, with a
25-cent admission must always
be divided by two in
order to be compared on the same basis
as the League attendance, After such
division is made. and a comparison of
the figures is made with the totals of
attendance prior to the reduction of adj
mission, one must be led to the con-
clusion that the Boston Association
club has barely paid expenses all the
; eason, providing, of course, that it
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Peak railroad. in the Scientific Ameri-
can of January -, it was stated that
''all provisions, tools, and camping out
fits were transported by trail to the
various camps along the line on the
backs of mules and Durros," but, in adj
dltion to this general credit, we
now present a view, from a photo
graph, of one of the ANIMALS so EN-
ployed. Odd as the view must be To
most readers, it is by no means an un
common one to those familiar with
life at mining camps in the mountains
and in many other places distant from
the railroad lines. And, with varia-
tions in the character of the burdens.
these same sturdy. dlminutive equines,
which would generally be classed as
donkeys at the East or as bronchOs,
burros. or Indian ponies at the West,
have borne large part of the labor
attendant upon the advancing settle
ment of the plains
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Concerning the work at Tampico
harbor resident Engineer Wrotnowski,
in charge of the work, says the north
jetty is now $685. it. long and the
south jetty 1910 feet. When 1000 it.
long the jetties will be in "a feet of
water, which will be reached by Octo-
Der next. The distance between the
two ietties is l,u00 1T. The bar is of sand
and mud. The river when in flood has
force of 225,0OO cubic feet per second.
This enormous force of water will
quickly deepen the Tar to about 25 #.
when the jetty works are completed.
Work was commenced on June I, 1890
Since that time 1,40O fl. of beach have
been gained on each side of the ietties,
and from 1000 TO l,40O hands
are NOW engaged in the
work. About 70J cuDic yards of
stone are dumped daily. An inexhaus-
tible supply of stone is had about 81
miles from Tampico, in the State of
San Luis Potosi. The pilings are
brought to Tampico from Pensacola
and Pascagoula, Fla. The mattresses
of brush are from 70 to 50 feet at the
bottom and about 30 feet at the top.
The average current of the river
is five miles per hour. The Pa
nuco river has depth of twenty-five
feet distance of about eighty miles
inland to the town of Tamos. 1t Is
calculated by the engineers that yes
sells of the largest draught may enter
in the fall. When the work is com
pleted Tampico win be the onlv safe
deep water harDor on the Atlantic
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-17
OHIo'S FIRST LADY.


The wife of Governor Campbell, of
Ohio, has taken an active part in all
the efforts of her husband. She is~ a
handsome woman of about the medium
height, with very dark hair and dark
complexion Her face and ngure are
well rounded, and the years and trials
of motherhood have not aged her. She
wears glasses. and looks out through
them with shrewdness and quiclness
which her husband eyes have not.
She likes the game of politics and
knows its ms and outs thoroughly.
She has woman's instructive know
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PATH OF A TORNADO.
ASSISTS TO SOME SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES.
T'he Recent Tornado which swept
Mexico, mo., was the Best filmed
of RecOrd-ConsrOIIed by Electric
Forces Scientific News.

The recent Mexico, Mo, tornado
was, perhaps. one of the most accu-
rately timed storms of re, ord. BY the
station clock, at Mexico, il broke the
wires of the Chicago and Alton rail
road, two miles west of Centralia, at
exactly 1913 D. m, and broke the wires
of the same line, two and one-hal
miles east of Rush Hill, at 3:45 D. m;
time, ~ minutes; distance, twenty
eight miles. The storms general
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omitting the Sentimental.

The following telegram is handed in at a
station in Paris;
Monsieur X, Rome-Overwhelmed with
grief; uncle dead; come at once; division next
Thursday"
Operator-Makes two francs and forty.
Stranger after fumbling in his pockets
Sapristol have only two francs.
Operator-You can omit few words
Stranger-Very we'll; omit Overwhelmed
with grief. lie Figaro.
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a Cold Foot Rath.

''Three out of four colds are caught
through the feet" said DIR. Titus Munson
Coan in recent lecture, and the only
sound prevention is to take a cold foot
bath. Have it so cold that your bones
will ache. 1t hardens the nerves. Peo-
pie troubled with cold feet viii be cured
in a week if they take cold foot baths. I"
New York Sun.
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The Festive Drummer.

DeacOn-You man, think | will give
you an order, but much fear that you have
not told the exact truth regarding your
goods
Drummer-Well, sir, the fact is have not.
Why, sir Sinking his voice to a whisper),
were TO tell all the truth about those goods.
I'd be murdered for my samples before /
reached the next town. -Philadelphia In,
quirer
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The patient. tireless, hardy beast of
burden forming the subject of our
illustration has borne an extremely inn
portant if not always duly credited
portion of the labor of opening up our
new Western country, both on the
great plains and in the mountain
regions. In fully illustrated de-
scription of the building of the Pixies
, 1891-10-30
POINTS.

j. M. Fox of Iron Mountain is at the
Empire house.
B. B. Davidson of Iron Mountain is
at the Inter Ocean.
DR.. Hunt and family have returned
from Council Bluffs.
United States Marshal Rankin has re-
turned from Denver.
Geo. King OF the A~nheuser-B Busch
Brewing Association was here yesterday.
j. W. Collins. enroute from New York
to San Diego, remained over in Cheyenne
for a few hours yesterday.
John Doyle, Chugwater; A. G. Learcy,
Bitter Greek and NJ. G. Murphy Of Lara.
mic are at The Metropolitan.
W. F. Swan. who has been sick at the
Inter Ocean, left yesterday for Omaha
accompanied by DR.. Barkwell.
Thos. Reed of the engineers grievance
committee is sick IN Omaha but is ex-
pected to be able to travel soon.
Mrs. Caldwell. James Caldwell and
Col. s. W. Downey and wife Of Laramie
were passengers for Denver Yesterday.
, 1891-10-30
FROM BALD oUNrAIN
Ore En- Route to Denver to be
Treated.

Mr.. @. G. Walter of 935 Broadway
Denver, was in the city yesterday. Mr.
Walter is one OF the Denver syndicate
who are putting in the amalgamator at
Bald Mountain. He was on his way
home from the promising Wyoming camp
where he has been since last May. Mr..
Walter does not speak boastingly of Bald
Mountain but seems very much pleased
with the camp. About 5000 pounds (66
sacks) of dirt and c~onglomerate which be-
longs to the company, also passed through
Cheyenne yesterday for Denver. 1t was
hauled from Bald Mountain to Grin
Junction in agons and loaded on the
cars there. A thorough test of it will be
made in Denver, as the D pro-
pose to find out Just what they have got.
Mr.. Walter had some splendid specimens
of pure gold with him which was secured
in the camp. He says the nov is about
much can be done before spring
as it is not a quartz camp. Besides the
Denver syndicate other parties are pre-
pairing TO begin actiye operation IN the
spring. j. B. Dougherty, chief engineer
of the Bolivia railroad OF Bolivia, South
America. has been In the camp and is 80
well pleased that he will resign his posi-
ton and return in the spring. II. H.
Hawkins of Albany. N. Y, has organized
a company, the capital stock of which is
placed at 81, 900. 900. The company have
four claims now and a deal is under way
for 800 acres in the mining district. They
are trying to get claims by giving for
each one $4,000 of the c%ompany's stock.
There ara about thirty-seven houses in
Bald Mountain but only fifteen or twenty
men as most of them have gone out for
the winter. Active operations will be
resumed 10 the camp about May mex.
, 1891-10-30
LAST NIGHTS SHOW.
A Large Audience Completely Cap
tured by Kate CastIeton.

Kate Csstleton and talented company
of artists kept a large audience in the best
of humor for several hours at the opera
house last evening. The play Is called
The Dazzler. There is no plot to bother
the audience with and nothing to interfere
with the fun making capabilities of the
company. Kate Castleton has the SAINT
winning ways as when she first sung and
danced herself into public favor. In ad'
dition to her talents as an actress she
a company made up of some of the best
talent of the day. The next attraction is
Skipped By The Light Of The Moon.
, 1891-10-30
TOWN TALK.
Gossipy Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Abont the CITY.

Oysters in every style at Gcrmania hall.
First-class dress making done at 600
West Sixteenth street.
The supreme court met yesterday and
adjourned till Nov. 4.
-Four car loads of horses were shipped
East over the Burlington yesterday. The
horses were brought here from North
Park, Colo.
Skipped By the Light of the Moon has
played more successful engagements in
every large city than any tarce-comedy
ever written.
Handsomely furnished rooms at the
Whitcomb house aud Whitcomb house
u Castle Dare). Best dining room
in the city. Corner of Ferguson and
Twentieth streets. CHARGES moderate.
, 1891-10-30
Iowa viii Go Democratic.

A Cheyenne Republican who has just
returned from Council Bluffs thinks Iowa
will 20 Democratic at the coming election.
Boies. the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, is a shrewd politiclaa and a good
speaker. Wheeler, the Republican can
didate, cannot make a speech, The Re-
publicans are in favor of prohibition and
have lost by it. The excitement is great
and both there and in Omaha men stand
in groups upon the street and talk OF
nothing but politics.
, 1891-10-30
CALLING Down SHEEP MEN.
They Must Pay Taxes for Grazing
Their Herds Here.

County Treasurer Stone and Deputy
Assessor Joe Fisher (who was deputized
for this purpose) loaded themselves INTO a
buggy Yesterday and started on the trail
of a band of sheep which were being
driven through the county. The sheep,
which numbered 5000. are owned by a
Denver man named Owens. The band
was one of several very large lunches
which had been purchased in Utah and
were being driven from there across Wyo-
ming to points in Colorado and Nebraska
As these bands practically destroy every
range over which they pass and thus do
infinite damage to Wyoming stock
growers who pay taxes here. the Off
cials determined hat these sheep should
also contribute something to the county
The taxes amount to q trife over
5 cents a head.
Stone and Fisher followed the trail I'M
til they reached a point ON the Cheyenne
side of Organs ranch house. There
they found about four panels of wire
fence down, having evidently been laid by
the sheep men to afford a passage as well
as good grazing across the pasture. The
sheep owner was overhauled and the sit
uation explained to him when he paid $40
as the amoun OF the taxes assessed against
him.
Various parts of the state have suffered
very much in this respect. Utah sheep
have been grazed for years with immunity
in Uinta county. this state. They always
avoided both the assessor and tax col
~lector, aud while they enjoyed all the
benefits OF resident sheep raisers they PAID
nothing for the privilege. This count,
has suffered greatly from such incursionl
not only from sheep being trailed through
the state but from CoIoradoand Nebraskl
sheep which have been sent IN here &c
save their home ranges. The officials are
now determined to put a check on these
incursions, but if the sheepmen of adjoln,
ing states still desire to enjoy the advan.
tages OF the Wyoming ranges they must
pay for them just as the residents of the
state are compelled to do.
About 60 900 sheep, owned by men
living outside the state. have been levied
upon thus far this season.
, 1891-10-30
Arrested For a Board Bill.

j. o. Roberts was yesterday arrested
on the streets by Pete HANNA, whom he
had bilked out OF a board bill, and taken
to the city Jail, where he was incarcerated
Roberts thought HANNA had no author
ity to take him, but he was taken just the
same. He and three others belonged to
a company OF magicians which quit bust.
ness and dispersed at Greeley. They
came here and after boarding at the
Leighton house as long as they could
changed hotels.
, 1891-10-30
The World Enriched.

The facilities of the present day for the
production of everything that will con-
duce to the material welfare and comfort
of mankind are almost unlimited and
when Syrup of Figs was first produced
the world was enriched with the MY
perfect laxative known, as it is the only
remedy which Is truly pleasing and re
freshing to the taste and prompt and
effectua1 to cleanse the system gently in
the Spring time or, in fact, at any time
and the better it is known the more pop
ular IL becomes.