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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
The Notorious Kansas Magistrate Re-
signs Ills ONCE.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct 1.-THE resigna-
ton OF Judge Theodosius Botkin of the
Thirty-second judicial district was ten
dered to Gov, Humphrey to-day, and
William Easton of Hutchinson was ap-
pointed to succeed him. Since Judge
Botkin's appointment as judge in Jan
uary, 1889, his career has been a stormy
one.
At the first general election after his
appointment Botkin was elected Judge
for term of four years. At that time
the Stevens county war was at its
height. Col. Sam Wood was the leader
OF the Woodsdale faction against Hugo
ton. Wood supported Botlin, but
after the latter's election they had u
falling out.
The following June Colwood was
murdered in the entrance to Botkin's
court room by James Brennan, and
Botkins was openly charged with be-
ing the murderer's accomplice. Bren-
nan was acquitted because it was i'm
possible to find a jury in Stevens county
to try him.
In January last crowd of Botkins
enemies lay in ambush between his
home and Springfield to murder him.
Sheriff Dunn and n posse ran into the
ambush and Dunn was murdered.
None of his assassins have ever been
brought to trial. Botkin resigned be-
cause he had grown weary of the con.
tinued strife and turmoil.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

EEDLES AND PINS.

The magnifying power of water is
finely illustrated every summer by the
stories of big fish that got away.
Children who lisp in numbers are not
necessarily poets They may be re-
peating the multiplication table.
When our railroad into South Amer
lea is completed we may all go down
and take look at the revolutions.
When you see coun terfeit coiu on
the sidewalk, always pick it up. You
are liable to arrest if you try to pass it.
Statistics show that women live
longer than men. This gives the dear
creatures the opportunity to have the
last word.
Even the most punctlious person
doesn't object to house built on sand
if it happens to be a cottage at sea-
side resort.
Why under the sun should n girl
who has spent three years counting in
the dark get two dozen lamps among
her wedding presents?
Prodigal sons are not always fed up
on the fat of the land these days. If
they were they would run off and
c me back home every day.
The Puget sound oysters are the
largest known. being sometimes two
feet az ross and weighing, inclusive of
the shell as much as sixty pounds
A chemist advises that canned fruit
be opened an hour or two before it is
used 1t becomes richer after the oxy-
gen of the air has been restored to it.
Science is making rapid strides just
now. The doctors are discovering
new diseases faster than the patent
medicine bottlers can get the names
on their labels
Some S35, 600 have been expended in
the production of a gigantic saw for
the armor-plate department of the
Homestead mill, Pittsburg 1t weighs
40 tons, and will cut nickel steel
armor plate as an ordinary saw does a
pine plank-armor plates ranging in
weight from eight to thirty-eight tons
and sometimes twenty-nine feet long
and twenty inches thick. The saw
has blade seven and one-half feet in
diameter, geared from above and re-
volving horizontally, and with it an
angular slab of cold nickel steel,
weighing about dozen tons, is taken
of like the slab of pine log.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
The Military Leave Homestead

HOMESTEAD. Pa, Oct. l5.-The mil.
itary espionage that has been kept
came to an end yesterday. Almost the
entire population OF the town gathered
TO witness the departure OF the militia
but there was no demonstration of any
kind. At 10 o'clock every vestige OF
the camp was removed and the men
marched to Munhil station and board.
ed the soecial train which was in wait.
ing. After the departure OF the troops
the crowd dispersed ami the town took
on its wanted quiet General Wylie
said to reporter that while no fur
Their trouble was anticipated. the troops
would be held in readiness. and should
circumstances require, they would
quickly return to Homestead.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
breckenridge VIII NOT Ornte.

CHICAGO. Oct. 15.-Congressman
w. G. 2. breckenridge will not deliv.
er the dedicatory GRAFTON at tue worlds
fair inauguration next Thursday.
In telegram TO President Palmer
OF the national commission, he posi-
lively declined. This decision on
the part OF Mr.. breckenridge was
based largely ! surmise. on the iuim~
ical attitude taken against MIN by the
Chicago press" said Major Handy,
''since the fight in congress over the
worlds fair appropriation in which
kcntuckians opposed the fairs re-
quest"
There has been some opposition to
him as the orator of the day, hence
his refusal to appear. 1t is hardly
thought probable that any substitute
will be made at this late day for Con.
gresham Breckenridge. the worlds
fair officials contenting themselves
with the eloquence of Chauncey De-
pew. who is on the programme for an
Grafton.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Prospective Indian Troubles.

WASHINGTON, Oct. l2.-The Indian
Office denies the stories 6f a possible
renewal OF the Indian troubles at Pins
Ridge. but DR.. McGillicuddy says that
he had a long talk with American
Horse, who thinks the situation war.
rants attention, and the Star, which
made great spread on the Pine Ridge
troubles last year, says: ''Inforrna-
ton received by the Star from private
and perfectly reliable sources is to the
effect that ghost dancing is going On
steadily in at least one camp on White
Clay creek. An effort was recently
made by the agency police to arrest
one Of the dancers out the effort was
a failure because lot OF the turbulent
bucks poked their Winchesters in the
poicemen's faces and notified them to
return to the agency as rapidly as pos
siole. Out of this incident has grown
much uneasiness SO far as Nebraska
and South Dakota are concerned The
dancers remember that their medicine
man forotold that the messiah would
come in 1898 and they are ready to
meet him and to assist III the conquest
of the white race, which they believe
will surely follow. In all about $S5. =
600 has been paid to Sioux who were
alleged to have been loyal but whose
property suffered in the outbreak of
lS90-Sl. This money has been ex-
pended principally in rifles. ammuni-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Exports, OF Oils and COTTON.

WAsHINGroN, Oct. 14.--According to
n statement made by the bureau of
statistics the exports of mineral or,
from the United States during the
month of September aggregated
IS, 9s3, 800 gallons, valued at 80, 500, 96s,
and for the corresponding month in
1891 they were so, $50, 1927 gallons, val
ued at SO, $50, sol. The exports Of cot
ton i'll September last We're 1s5, 2o6
bales, weighing 90, 2ss, 26o pounds, and
valued at s8,O43, o55, as against 227, 100
bales, weighing ll5,914,05i pounds,
and valued at si0s51Ss4, exported
during September 1891.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

The sinking OF sailing vessel by
a fast steamer recently has brought
out the fact that whenever on the high
seas Il collision is found to be newt
able. the fastest vessel always gets up
all the speed it can for the purpose OF
cutting through the other. 1t seems
like n cruelty but it is said to involve
less loss OF life and property than
would collision which destroyed
both vessels at the same time as
would result when each was moving
at the same rate.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Medals Awarded teahette ExpiorerA

WASHINGTON, Oct. d. The ill-starred
jeanette hrenic expedition was recalled
yesterday at the Navy department,
when there was presented Commodore
Melville, chief of the bureau of steam
engineering, one Of the medals awarded
b. vote Of Congress to the surveyors Of
the expedition. Bit one officer besides
Commodore Melville Is alive, II. S. New
comb, the naturalist of The expedition.
The six others are dead and ,neir med
ais have been sent to their heirs
About dozen of the Twenty-Five sail
ors of the party are supposed to be
alive, and their medals will be sent to
them when their addresses are known.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
-FOUR Persons Lose Their Lives in n Col
1ision at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct 14.-Four per
sons lost their lives in cable car ac-
cident here this morning The accident
occurred at the intersection of the
Santa Fe track and the cable car tracks
at the Fifteenth street station. A
freight train ran into the grip car of
the cable train, and four of the eight
persons on the grip car were killed, the
others escaping injury. The dead are:
WILLIAM BARBER gripman
CYNTHIA REVIS
ED MCKINLEY
JEFFERSON SECRIST, picture Trainer
The cause of the accident, it is said
was the absence from his post of duty
of the Waterman, who was attending
to his lanterns
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Peculiar Epidemic Among Stock.

NoRrHFIELD, Mimi, Oct. l3.-The
horses and cattle on the farm of p. l..
Becksted, three miles northeast of this
city, have been attacked by a peculiar
disease. The first symptoms are UNI
easiness and stamping with their feet,
refusal of food and believing. This
Continues few days and the skin APP
pears TO be affected and the animal
loses the use of its hind legs. In few
days after the animal dies. Four
horses and six head of cattle have died
on Mr.. Bccksted's farm, and he now
considers the trouble epidemic among
his stock
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

WASHINGTON. Oct 10. Prof. Wiley
OF the department OF agriculture, is
now visiting the sugar stations at Med
icine Lodge. Kan. and other places in
the west. His division is now receiv-
ing samples of the beets raised for
sugar purposes in the western states
and it is expected that every county in
those states will soon De represented.
At present comparatively few sam pies
have come in and their analysis can
not be taken as fair indication of
what will BIO the result OF the crop
this year. IL is expected, however
that the crop will average at least as
well as 1T did last year. Samples have
been received from only two counties
In Iowa. That from Clark county
shows % per cent OF sugar and that
from Lynn county 90 per cent. The
average from the state last year was
Ills, and it is thought that when the
other counties are heard from this will
be increased this year. In Nebraska,
Dodge county samples snow from 3. )
10 100 per cent; Holt county from 6
to 11S, while those from the Schuyler
experimental station run from Is. 5 to
1G per cent. In Indiana the samples
from Davis county analy2e 7.G and IL
per cent OF sugar; from Jasper county
from to 10. D per cent ami from Owen
counts 6. s per cent. In South Dakota
one sample from Brown county runs us
high as l72 per cent of sugar; those
from Clark county shows rs per cent.
A considerable increase had been made
this year In the acreage devoted to this
crop and the western farmers will op-
tam very snug sum for the sugar
from beets under the operations of the
bounty law.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
WHETHER or no his generation re,

WHETHER or no his generation rev.
erenced the father" for his sake. or
for the sake of Widow Cursis" he
has a multitude OF faithful admirers
in this present generation. Once a
week cart-load OF small pebbles is
brought up from the Potomac, and
dumped inside the iron doors that
protect the tomb OF Washington.
These are carried away by citizens
and tourists as relics and are sacred
to the memory OF tho country's illus.
trious father.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Ncbraska on Mherls.

HuNTINGToN. Ind. Oct l5.-Ne-
braska on Wheels No. exhibited to
a large portion OF the citizens OF this
city today.
The display OF Gage county at
tractcd the attention OF The manager
OF Huntington's lime works. who nv
once ordered IL quantity OF raw mate
rial from Nebraska. Informing the rep
resentative That if the consignment
STOOD the test his company was ready
to invest with ample capital for con-
Quoting large works
The advisory board decided today TO
keep the train out one week later, Wis
iting southern Wisconsin and southern
Illinois.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
WHETHER spending the day in the

WHETHER spending the day in the
open air. at active employment
would be better or worse mentally
for the prisoner we do not know. but
we can have no doubt OF its being
better for his physical condition. We
know that better roads are needed
and we know that there are n large
number OF able bodied men who owe
their services to the state as n partial
PREPARATION for their crimes. Whether
proper safeguards can be placed
around them to prevent their mutiny
and escape if taken out is n matter
for careful consideration before any
change is made.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
phenomenon usually occurs us large
cluster OF spots passing the center Of
the SUMS disk.
A MONSTER reptile,
II Carries or Sheep and Caves but keey
Itself Out of sight.

IL Carries or Sheep and Caves but Keeps
Itsetf Out of sight.
A monster reptile. said to be from
fifteen ~ twenty feet in length. has
been seen by number of our people
who reside on Nova Scotia Hill. de.
clares the Waterbury American.
Some say 1t is thirty feet long. aud
it's home is somewhere on the sunny
side hill toward the center. During
the past few years it has been seen
several times. Bnd each time the mon
ster was beating il hasty retreat
toward its den under huge rock. At
FIRST littls attention was paid to these
stories. but later Oh. when some OF
our farmers. whose reputation for ve-
rac.ty is never questioned. told OF
having actually seen the monster rep
tile, people began to think there
might after ALL be something to It,
A short time ago III number OF
gentlemen took Il walk on IL Sunday
afternoon to investigate little, and.
to theft great surprise. they found
the skin 6f huge snake. about ten
feet long by fourteen and d half inches
id circutfifefence A little further
they found several more pieces and
When laid together 1t measured over
twenty-five feet Mr. smith. on
whose farm This monster ha, been
several TIMES. found While moving Id
one Of his lots. last years skin Of tho
snake. Unfortunately he did not dis
cover 1t till lie had cut il several
times with his scythe. Mr. Smith is
of opinion that tho shake is 1T least
twenty-five feet long. Sheep and
calves have disappeared at times and
no one has ever d scovered what be-
came Of them
Three years ago one Of our farm
ers. whose farm extends to Tiger
pond lost Il valuable yearllng hotter
1t was at first thought that some hum
ter had accidentally shot it. but it
turned out otherwise. as when Tho
poor creatufe was discovered Tiers
wasn't whole bone IN it's body.
every bone being crushed rs II il had
been through Il mill One Of DUR To-
cal hunters. while going through tho
Woodland east 6f h. Smiths farm last
fall was astonshed at seeing his dog,
well bred and trained animal act
very strangely. The dog paid not the
slightest attention to his muster and
started yelping for homo followed by
something that caused the branches
to snap like pipe STEMS. Occurrences
like this have been reported several
times. and hunters. as "a general rule.
have given these grounds wide
berth.
The fsell Telephones Telephone Belle
BESSIE" sad the young man.
pleadingly this is the fourth time |
have called at your home since saw
you last Is there any way which |
can always be sure Of finding you III.
or at least OF always knowing where
You are when call for your
You must ring me up you know,
responded the pretty telephone girl,
looking dreamily Mt her pretty
fingers.
And he went next day to the
jewellers. Chicago Tribune.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

A SOUND and strong statement of
what is right and why it is right Of
what is wrong. and why it is wrong.
is a most needful foundation for any
other moral or religious training that
may follow with the young. From
the lack OF this plain and reasonable
knowledge comes much OF the confus-
ion OF mind which fails to detect the
Sophistry with which self-interest will
plead against the calls OF honor and
of duty. People drift into wrongdo-
ing OF every kind far oftener than
they deliberately plunge into it and
the lack OF n clear conception and II
thorough comprehension of its nature
from the beginning is frequently the
first cause
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

Much is said about the extinction
OF the buffalo being national dis
grace. Doubtless it was in the way it
was accomplished. by a wholesale
slaughter. wasteful of the portions
that have since become valuable. 1t
would probably have been most
profitable Investment 20 or 80 years
ago to secure herd OF buffalo and
breed them in anticipation of the sure
coming demand. Yet none thought
OF this then. Breeding OF buffalo was
not attempted until the scarcity had
become so great that 1t was difficult
to secure herd even at exorbitant
prices Yet this breeding bids fair to
prove profitable and now, much
more certainly than when buffalo
were numbered by millions. their ex-
istence for the future is assured.
When the buffalo becomes "a part of
sivilization, its permanence is GER
tain. 1t was as a part OF savagery
that its existence was safe enough
while contending only against the
powers which savage men could bring
against it But it is more safe vet If
1t can secure the care that civilized
men will give it now that its exist
ence Is a necessity for civilization.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
Drought Killing CattIe.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. Is
Freight officials of the San Antonio &
Arkansas Pass railway say 300 car loads
of bones have been shipped from Alice
station, representing the death during
the late drought of $50, 900 head of cat
tie in that immediate vicinity. Similar
shipments have been made from other
stations on the road.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

THERE is IL great deal OF land.
chiefly profitable for timber purposes.
which exists in each state. and which
ought to be taken possession OF by
right OF eminent domain. il the inter-
ests OF the country are to be properly
protected; but the general govern
ment can adopt forest policy only
for lands that have not yet passed out
of its hands
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

Thirty years ago we hated the sun.
1t might not touch with its rays tho
checks OF our daughters nor the car
pets OF our parlors- Students dreaded
to have healthy color on their
cheeks lest it should cast suspicion
upon their scholarship while clergy
men shrank from the least appear.
ance OF tan on their faces lest it
should not merely lessen their inhu-
ence among their flocks, but even i'm :
peril their chances of receiving IA
higher call in the line OF churchly
preferment A bronze-faced dominic
in a pulpit would have caused re.
ligious rot in the pews thirty years
ago.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

CERTAIN it is that in the last CEN
fury the average age OF man has ma
terially increased. There isn't>~a
clever actuary Of any insurance COM
pany who.w not say that the insur-
ance companies have advanced the
average age in the last century from
five 10 ten years. Washington states
men. however live no longer than
they did in the time OF the Jeifcrsons
and Adamses. The Potomac fats no
longer threaten their lives for the
flats have been cleaned up. and MAS.
ma is nearly as much OF rarity In
the capital city as it is on Mt Wash
ington. tbs probable that tho reason
can be found in American habits not
in the American climate.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
melting tho Indians to RIood,bea

FARGO, n. d., Oct. Thames Cavan-
augh, trader on the Cheyenne river,
reports the old war chiefs among the
Indians on Cherry creek melting them
to another outbreak in order that the
will allow them claims for
damages, as was the case two wears
ago. Cherry Creek Indians are the
ones who figured principally in the
Wounded Knee fight.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

WASHINGTON, Oct. l3.-No informa-
ton of threatened trouble at the Pine
Ridge Indian agency has been received
by the Indian officials here and they
express the opinion
that there is absolutely no foundation
for the alarming stories that have been
published to that effcct
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

WASHINGTON. Oct l5.-Delcgate
Harvey OF Oklahoma will leave WASH
ington for home tomorrow. He is not
u candidate for reelection. We are
opment OF the territory than we are in
politics" he said. at may give you
some idea OF tie value OF property in
Oklahoma City 10 know that a corner
lot upon which national bank is TO
be located recently SOLD for $40. 900.
The city is only about three years
OLD.
''Will you press the statehood bills"
al shall learn the wishes of the peo-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Grateful for the sympathy Expressed by
tho Episcopalian Convention.


tho Episcopalian Convention.
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. To- AT the be-
ginning of the business yesterday of
the house of deputies of the tricnnial
general convention Of the Protestant
Episcopal church short letter from
President Harrison had a very general
reading by members. It rah II have
received and very gratefully nppreci-
ate the expression of the house of depu-
ties of the general convention of the
Protestant Episcopal church of its
sympathy with this afflicted household
from the serious illness Ut Mrs. Harri-
son. 1t has been very pleasant and
helpful to me to notice the prayerful
interest of all the people In the recov-
cry of Mrs. Harrison and their sympa-
thy with my family"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

CARTHAGE, ILL.,, Oct. 15.--It has been
discovered that the wecvill in count
less numbers have invaded the wheat
bins of farmers in various portions of
this county and as result thousands
of bushels of wheat have been thrown
upon the market by them at reduced
price
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
THE BEET SUGAR CROP
PROF. WILEY ENGAGED IN MAX.
ING AN ANALYSIS.

indications that the crop This Year
Will Average as Good ms Last season
-COngressmnn breckenridge OF Ken
lucky VIII Not Orato at the WORLDS
Fair DedicatiOn-Judgel Botkin,ythe
Notorious Kansas Magistrate Re.
signs His once.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28

pie when 60 home. and set accord
ingly. Our population is now larger
than necessary. and the territorial
form OF government 10 rather calling
to It's. We already have bill in con-
etess providing for constitutional
convention, and suppose it will DO
pressed next session"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-28
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
BANKER MONTGOMERY'SS SLAYER
APPEARS IN COURT.

Written CohfesAioh OF tho wife OF
the Condo nsned -nisn point TIM nt
Tor Those Waiting for salaeious be.
tafls-- Winter Puts In Appearance in
Wyoming with Disnstrous Effects
Progress of NEBRASKA On WAeelso
Through Indiana.