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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-03
Weekly Bank Staten.

New YORK, Feb e5.-The weekly
statement shows the following
changes: Reserve. decrease, S4,221, l25:
loans, decrease, s2.974,7o specie. de-
crease, S2,74l.3oo; legal tenders. de-
crease, s4.2o6. 100; deposits, decrease,
$40, 9o5, 100; circulation, increase, $50
700. The banks now hold 50, 3s4, IT'S in
excess of the requirements of the 2s
per cent rule.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-03
Engineer Horribly Mangled

WMLoUGHBY, Ohio. Feb. ga Lake
,hore special ran into a light" en-
CINE at Wicl>liffe, killing Engineer
James Gill, of the extra. He was pin
toned in the cab with the lever through
mis- body and was otherwise horribly
mangled. His fireman has not yet
been found.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
e. p. WILBUR.

e. p. WILBUR. A. A. M'LEoD.
gineers locating the line of the North
Pacific. He soon showed unusual ca
pacity, rose rapidly through all the
grades and was made general manager
of the Elmira, Cortland and Northern
road in New York. In 1886 he secured
the same position in the Reading system.
Soon after he was made vice president,
and on June "a, 1890, on the retirement
of President Corbin, became president.
In little while the country was star
tied by the announcement that the COM
pany had combined all the anthracite
coal interests and all the roads by which
the coal reached the cities; that this gi-
gantic corporation, combine" or trust
therefore controlled some 5000, 000, 900 in
capital and 100000 employees, and that
the price of coal was to go up according
ly. The legal battle which followed is
fresh in the public memory. The New
England and other railway combines
thwarted the Reading combine, and soon
it transpired that the latters property
was in a wretched condition. 1t fell
with great ruin, and the highest esti-
mate now places its value away below
$500, 900 900 Monarchies of note have
fallen and caused less suffering.
Chief Justice Edward M. Paxson had
salary of $500 year, and his term
would have continued till 1896. His res
ignat4on to accept the receivership shows,
therefore, how important this matter is
to his state and city. He was born Sept.
3, 1924, in Bucks county, Pa, was adj
mitted to the bar there in 1850 and To-
Gated in Philadelphia soon after. In 1874
he was elected to the supreme bench of
the state for the full term of 81 years,
and in 1889 became chief justice by SEN
iority for the 7-year term.
The third of the receivership trio is
Elisha p Wilbur, president of the Lee
high Valley road, principal of the many
lines involved. The history is curious
epitome of railway development and
fuctuation in the. United States, as the
Reading system, so called, has twice be
fore been in the hands of receivers. The
original incorporation was in 1888 and
authorized the Philadelphia and Reading
company to construct a railroad be-
tween those two cities. Will it be be-
lieved at this day that they were five
years in doing it-not quite ~ miles a
year? In 1912 the road was paying well
and absorbed the lines to Mount Carbon
and Pottsville.
This was the beginning of long, long
career of extension and absorption of
coal lands, railroads and other property,
the coal and iron lands alone being val
ued at Sal, 1896, 250. May 81, 1880, began
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

Forks to Fort Totten. During this time
he took homestead and tree claim near
Larimore where he has since resided.
He was interested in Larimore. plated in
1881. and an agent of the Townsite COM
pany. which organized the city govern
ment in 1888. and was first mayor and
reelected for three successive terms. OPP
Grating his farm meanwhile.
The irony of the situation is consider
ably heightened by the fact that he was
a Democratic leader and candidate in
the times when men of that party were
distressingly scarce in Dakota, and was
elected a senator most unexpectedly and
by an Independent movement of the Re-
publican members of his own county
Grand Forks, after he had, as it were, re-
tired from politics In 1885 he was the
only Democrat in the territorial legisla-
ture. In 1889 he was defeated for gov
ornor by $4,000 votes. and in 1890 by
only GOO He married a daughter of DR..
Liebermauer of Washington in 1872 and
has three sons and one daughter. Mrs.
Roach died in 1890 Two sons are now
in Georgetown college. The senator is a
tall gentleman with iron gray hair, mus
tache and goatee, and presents very
dignifed and commanding appearance.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
The smallest Government.

Moresnet, which lies between Belgium
and Germany and has population of
1000, is the smallest government i'll the
world. There is a senate of 10 members,
who are appointed by the mayor. He is
appointed by two delegates, one from
Germany and one from Belgium. The
territory was made independent in 1915
to settle a dispute Germany and Bel
giuln both wanted it on account Of its
tin mines, but neither of them got it.
The territory contains a trife over two
square miles of ground.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

that the extension business mad been
overdone, and on the gath three receivers
were appointed. The assets were re-
turned at $l6l ,25s, O70, of which $40, 6OO,-
600 was in coal lands; the liabilities at
$l45, 320, Cos. IL 1884 the Reading was
again placed in the hands of receivers,
and soon after the great Drexel-Morgan
syndicate took it, with J. Pierpont
Morgan as the directing genius. His
name was power, and in 1888 the whole
system was returned to the stockholders
in fairly good shape. Austin Corbin be-
came president and gave place, as afore-
said. TO MIR. Mcleod.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
THE READING WRECK
MEN PROMINENTLY IDENTIFIED WITH
THE RECENT REIMBURSEMENT.

The Story of A. A. McLeods Career Reads
Like Romance I'm NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
thing About the Readings Receivers.
Justice Parsons Record.
The story of the Reading railroad is
one which might well furnish the basis
for sensational play or very realistic
novel. 1t was but few weeks ago the
greatest of all railroad combinations
and had at its head Archibald Angus
Mcleod, the most phenomenally sue
cessful of railway operators. Al at once
there was q change more startling than
any Kaleidoscope can produce, and now
the combined railways are in the hands
of receivers. and there has been fall
in the stock and convulsion in Wall
street which in a less healthful state Of
the market might have produced panic.
Ex-senator Thomas G. Platt of New
York, of whom the public has heard and
read since he event out with Conkling"
in 1881, filed the suit in the United States
court in Philadelphia, his right to do so
being as holder of $50, 900 of the COM
pany's preference bonds on which inter-
est had been refused. No denial of the
facts being made, Judge Dallas made the
order as of course, and on suggestion of
the parties appointed as receivers Chief
Justice Edward M. Paxson of Pennsyl-
vania, President A. A. Mcleod and E.
P. Wilbur. George L. Crawford was
named special master, before whom the
receivers must lay a completed account
each month.
Archibald Angus Mcleod, though but
40 years old, has had career which is 6
romance in railroading. Born in the
northwest and educated in the practica
school of life, his first appearance as &
railroader was as q rodman for the en-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
Good Looks.

Good looks are more than skin
deep, depending upon healthy
condition Of all the vital organs.
If the liver be inactive you have a
bilious look, if your stomach be dis
ordered you have dyspeptic look,
and if your kidneys be affected you
have pinched look. Secure good,
health and you will have good looks.
Electric Bitters is the great alter
alive and tonic acts directly on these
vital organs. Cures pimples,
blotches, boils and gives a good
complexion. Sold at Bishops
Drugstore, SOC per bottle. 80
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

erected, and this is to be paid for by $l
contributions from those who desire to
honor the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
At the main entrance to the tower Ii
granite columns will represent the orig
inal states. At the corners are columns
representing the new states admitted
down to the time of Lincoln's Inaugural
ton. Above in the turret are the proph-
ecies of the states yet to be and the ter
ritories. In the center of the space ele-
waited above this canopy is the shield OF
the United States, the bars of gothic
tracery and the field set with ID translu-
cent and glittering stars of Rocky noun
tains quartz crystal. Surrounding the
whole is a roof of metal in the form of
tents, as near as possible, as a sugges-
ton of the tented field.
This tower is to be upon the highest
plateau in the District of Columbia, and
from its top the view will extend over
the whole territory between the Blue
Ridge and the Atlantic ocean, Toward
the right rises the Sugar Loaf mountain,
and to the left are the windings of the
Potomac. beyond which are the historic
battlefelds. Massachusetts avenue, rum
ming through the very center OF the city,
and upon which stands many palatial
4 residences, opens up direct communica-
ton with the university. Every promi-
nent building of the city will be visible
from this elevation, and towering far
above them all is the beautiful vaulted
dome of the capitol and the shapely shaft
of the monument. And on this com
handing plateau the Methodists expect
to rear the American Oxford.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
Now Try This.

1t will cost you nothing and will
surely do,you good, if you have
Cough, Cold, or any trouble with
Throat, Chest or lungs. Dr. Kings
New Discover y for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
give relief, or money will be paid
back. Sufferers from La Grippe
found it just the thing and under
its use had a a perfect and speedy
recovery. Try a sample bottle at
our expense and learn for yourself
how good a thing it is. Trial bot
ties free at DIR. T. A. Bishops
Drug Store. Large size soc. and
S1.00
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
All Free.

Those who have used DR.. Kings
New Discovery know its value, and
those who have not have now the
opportunity to try it free. Call on
the advertised druggist and get
trial bottle, free. Send your name
and address to HI. e. Bucklen & Co.,
Chicago, and get a sample box of
DIR. Kings New Life Pills free, as
well as a copy of Guide to Health
and Household Instructor free. All
of which is guaranteed to do you
good and cost you nothing. Bish-
ops Drugstore. 80
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
Eaton's to Move.

The general merchandise estab-
lishment Of William Eaton will
shortly be moved from it present
location in the upper end of Eaton
vile to the building adjoining the
Bonner House on the south. A
crew of carpenters are now at work
putting the building in shape. The
store room is-33x60 and will make
a good business stand.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Richard ofney Has Been Very Successful
at the Bar.


at the Bar.
Richard Olney. the new attorney gen.
eral, has long been known as leading
lawyer in Massachusetts. and, it might be
said as a lawyer only. Though an I'M
flinching Democrat, he has IRrsistently
declined office and was candidate for
attorney general of Massachusetts only
when the nomination was a mere compi-
ment, his party being in hopeless mi
nority. He has, however, served one
term in the lower house of the Massachu-
sets legislature.
He was born in Oxford, Mass, Sept. 10,
1885, and was graduated from Brown uni
versity in the class of SO. He studied at
the Harvard law school and entered the
law office of Judge Benjamin F. Thomas
in Boston in 1859 In his chosen profess
sion he advanced rapidly. He was for
many years counsel for the Eastern Rail-
road company and after the consolida-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
Disease sprend by Penclls.

Now they say that the free lead pencils
furnished the school children of Detroit
by the board of education are response
BILE for the epidemic of diphtheria in that
city. The children get a different pencil
every day, all the pencils being dropped
into box at the close of school. The
average child using pencil win put the
point in its mouth very frequently, and
it is ret difficult to see that the practice
,,sirlt become very dancerous.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
THE AMERICAN OXFORD.

Plans For the Great r3sthodist University
at Washington.
The great Methodist university at
Washington city is fixed fact. True,
the structures are yet to be built, and
even the cornerstone of Lincoln memoir
al hall will not be laid till next October,
but the ground is secured, the plans
have been enthusiastically approved by
the whole church. and therefore the uni
versity is fixed fact.
The site consists of 90 acres of wound,
beautiful for situation and the delight of
all who have seen it, in the famed north
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

was born Sept.
25, 1910, in Vir-
ginia, but in his
infancy his par
ents removed to
w a s hin gton,
where he spent
his early life. be-
ing educated at
Georgetown col
lege. He followed
mercantile pur-
suits until 1875,
when he went to
Dakota in con-
nection with mail
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
North Dakota's New senator.

William Nathaniel Roach, Democrat,
has been elected to the United States
senate by the legislature of North Da-
kota, though it has large Republican
majority. He is therefore an object of
lively curiosity to the whole nation. He
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

ton he was retained as counsel for the
Boston and Maine. a position which he
still holds. He is also counsel for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and
Chicago Burlington and Quincy rail-
roads He has twice declined place on
the supreme bench of the state, and it is
said that he has invariably supported
the Democratic ticket except when Gen
eral Butler was the candidate for gov
ernor, when he ''bolted with emphasis. "
His home is in Boston, but he has
summer residence not far from Gray
Gables, and is therefore a sort of sum-
mer neighbor of Mr.. Cleveland. from
which some people draw conclusions.
His income as a lawyer has for some
time been $50, 900 year, and he has late
ly completed a magnificent residence on
Commonwealth avenue, Boston. He
therefore makes a great financial sacri-
flee in entering the cabinet. but this is
only what many others have done.
Socially he and his family are well
equipped for the position they will be
called to fill in Washington. 1t is also
a pleasing fact that though his selection
was quite unexpected it is warmly APP
proved by New England congressman,
and it now transpires that his name was
urged upon Presinent Cleveland for the
place of chief justice of the United States
at the time Judge Fuller was appointed.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
why Smuggling Revived In Mexico.

"At one time during the administra-
ton of President Diaz," said Mexican
gentleman in Chicago, 1.-The smugglers
became so numerous that the president
issued a proclamation stating that all
smugglers who would put themselves
in the hands of the revenue department
would be forgiven for past offenses and
be given profitable employment in the
custom house. Many Of the smugglers
took advantage Of this offer and were
given good positions under the govern
ment. This plan was successful, and
smuggling was becoming rare along the
United States border until the Mexican
government reduced the salaries of the
reformed smugglers. Then one by one
they deserted their offices and engaged
in their old customs. They, are now
fully organized along the Rio Grande
and conduct their unlawful business
most proftably."
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

Do not keep ON scolding about the
badness of the bad. 1t makes people
tired Praise the goodness Of the good
awhile for change.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08
leased the Bonner House,

Mr.. HI. P. Green has secured a
renewal of his lease on the Bonner
House for period of six months.
He is repapering it and renovating
it through out. He has also reop-
ened the bar. We are glad to note
that there will be no change in the
management Of the Bonner, as Mr..
Green has proven very satisfac-
tory landlord.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

west section, BIZ
sected by Massa-
chusetts avenue
extended, and is
now worth about
$780, 1t was
presented to the
trustees by the
citizens of Wash
ington, and al
ready one may see
there indications
of the rising city
which is to be
from the start
consecrated to pi-
ETY. and sound
learning. With
in a few years
the d denomination
which had its
origin at ancient
American Oxford
memorial hall, as
he first structure
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

List your property with John G.
Callahan, real estate and collecting
agent. 36tf
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-04-08

contracts. ouerating route from Grand
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-13
Made NapoIeon Tired. :.

The Emperor Napoleon expressed him. self concisely and liked others to do the same, but he enjoyed listening to the French naturalist. Cuvier, when the scientist would state his important con- clusions without too elaborate explana- tions.
 One day Cuvier was a member of an Academy deputation which visited the emperor at St. Cloud. The emperor greeted him cordially.
 ''M. Cuvier, am delighted to see you! What did you do at the Academy last week?'
 We studied the beet sugar question" :"
 "Ah, and what is the opinion of the institute? Does it consider that the soil of France Is suited to beet culture?"
 The question was simple, but Cuvier answered it like Q true savant. He be- gan with dissertation on the geological formation of the ground, then he consid- cred the natural history of tho beet, and when finally he drew his conclusions the emperor had long since ceased to listen.
 When Cuvier had finished, the en- peror hurriedly reused himself from fit of abstraction into which he had fallen.
 Marvellous, NJ. Cuvierr' he said. "But does the institute consider the soil of France suitable for beet culture?"
 Cuyier, imagining that Napoleon's at terftion had been distracted in some way, began his argument again and went through with it to the end. The empe- TOT did not consider his question an- swered any better this time. When Gu vier had finished, he said:
 II thank you very much, sir. The first time I see your colleague, Bertho- let, I shall ask him if the institute con- siders the soil of France suitable for beet culture. Youths Companion.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-13
A Grea, Sal. Lakc In Siberia.

The great salt lake at Obdorsk is c miles wide and r miles long, yet except in a few places it is solidly roofed over with deposit of salt which is getting thicker and thicker every year.
 Our guide, who is an old man, said that he could remember when the salt crystals first began to gather upon the surface of the water. Year by year, owing to the evaporation of the water, the crystals became more numerous and then caked together till this great roof formed.
 In 1878 the water beneath this salt crystal roof found an underground out let into the River Obi. This lowered the lakes surface about three feet, leaving that distance between the water and the roof.
 Looking down through one of the openings made for the purpose in the roof, we saw a low sided small boat. Our guide put us one at time into the boat. We lay flat on our back and looked up at the curiously beautiful salt ceiling overhead. Wepropelled the boat by pushing with our hands against the irregularities of the roof.
 The guide held a long rope attached to the boat to prevent our going too far and getting lost-a thing he said it was easy to do.
 Many springs surround this lake. Their water flows over the roof and evaporates there, and thus continually adds to its thickness After many years the springs will probably become choked with their own deposits, and then the whole will gradually become covered with earth, and so a great salt mine will be formed-a treasure for the Siberians hundreds of years to come.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-11-13
The Value of a Little Thing.

In a little volume of lectures by Henry Irving, just published, is story which illustrates the actors motto, While trifles make perfection perfection is no trifie." This lesson was enjoined on me when l was very young man." he says, ''by that remarkable actress, Charlotte Cushman. I remember that when she played Meg Merrilies I was cast for Henry Bertram. It was my duty to give Meg Merrilies a piece of money, and did it after the traditional fashion of handing her large purse full of coin of the realm, in the shape of broken crockery, which was generally used in financial transactions on the stage. But after the play Miss Cushman said to me: Instead of giving me that purse, don't you think it would have been much more natural if you had taken number of coins from your pocket and given me the smallest? That is the way one gives aims to beggar. and it would have added to the realism of the scene have never forgotten that lesson"