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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-06-16

From -Four to Ten Feet Under Water.
BoNNER's FERRY, Idaho, June 12.-The
cold weather which has prevailed
throughout this section for the past
few days has had the effect Of checking
the Kootenai river flood. But under
the most favorable conditions it will be
a week before the river is again in its
banks. The water comes from the
snowy ranges of the Rockies, travels
long distance and It takes several days
to check It. The river reached its high.
est mark Thursday, when it was forty
one feet above low water mark, the
highest In the recollection of the. Oldest
inhabitant. Chief Isaac of the Koote-
nais claims it has been as high only
once in his lifetime. This was when he
was little boy, presumably about sixty
years ago. ~-s.S = &
While the entire town of Bonners-
port, large portion Of Eaton, and the
Great No, bern addition~t t. -Bonner's
Ferry Is I der from fou: to ten feet of
water, the damage is much less than
would natur .ly be expected. The
river rose 50 gradually that it gave all
living in the flooded district ample time
to move their goods. At no time did
the river rise faster than an inch an
hour. The only building Of any imPor.
lance that foated away was the post
office building, owned by Richard Fry
aud Judge Carlton. 1t was occupied BY
Postmaster S. B. Wright and the Koote-
mai Valley Trading company. Every
thing except few tons of potatoes was
removed from the building before it
went. Fry's hotel, on old land mark,
was torn down and the material RATED
away. The Brant saloon building has
tipped over and lies on its side. The
trouble with all these buildings was the
river bank cutting in and undermining
them. A dozen OF more small shacks
have been washed of their foundations.
Fences, bridges and sidewalks about
the town there are none. Lawns are
ruined. The insides of the houses are
damaged more or less. I#f
General Fred Kaiser is the only man
doing business in Bonnersport. The
water Is waist deep on the first floor of
the Kaiser house, but the kitchen and
dining room has been moved into the
second story.
News in regard to the flood from
down the valley indicate serious state
Of affairs. The valley is flooded from
mountain to mountain. Crops are
ruined, fences are gone and some houses
are washed away. 1t Il impossible to
learn the extent of the damage yet, but
It will fall heavy upon the ranchers, a
majority of whom were just getting
their places improved to 4 degree to
make them self-sustaining.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE.

Hon. Edward Bermudez, afterward chief
justice of Louisiana. Admitted to the bar
in 1868, he was elected to the state senate in
1872 and appointed an associate justice of
the state supreme court by Governor Mich
OILS in 1876, remaining on the bench till 1879,
when the adoption of the new constitution
vacated all state offices.
Judge White managed the campaign
which resulted in the election Of Nichols to
another term as governorin 1887, and in the
following year he was elected United States
senator to succeed James B. Eustis for the
term beginning March 4, 1891, nearly three
years subsequent to the time of his cleo
ton. In the senate he took an active and
influential but not particularly prominent
part, serving on the committees on COM
merce, interstate commerce, Pacific rail-
roads and several others.
Mr.. White has long been a leader of the
Louisiana bar and has earned a comfort
able fortune from his legal practice. He is
said to have an instructive capacity for
grasping legal principles and a marked ap-
titude for Selling upon the essential point
of a cause. His knowledge of the Code Ma
poleon, the basis of Louisiana's civil law,
ought to be of especial value to the SUI
preme court judges, as there is none other
upon that bench who has had need to cult
vate that system so thoroughly as he.
In person the new justice is tall and well
proportioned. He is distinguished looking,
and his tanners are polished. His rudy
face is smoothly shayen, and he has a thick
growth of sandy hair and looks decidedly
like an Englishman.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Opium Selling Is Profitable.

Whatever opinions may be held respect
ing the effects of consuming opium, there
seems to be no doubt that selling it is a
profitable business.
Years & the house of Jardine, Mathe-
con & Co. was among the largest i'm
porters Of opium into China, and so
enormous were the profits that three of the
partners, by sheer force of wealth, expand
ed into baronets, while a fourth, the late
Mr.. James Jardine of Dryfeholm, became
one of the largest land owners in the south
of Scotland. Sir James Matheson and his
brother, Sir Alexander Matheson, spent
upward of 81, 200, 900 in buying land in
the highlands, and the latter left besides
over e640, 600. Mr.. Magniac, the ex-M.
P. who left 32O0 900. was also q member Of
this firm. Sir Robert Jardine of Castle
milk is the old head of the firm and prob
ably the w%ealthiest of them all. Sir Rob
ert does not only own Castlemilk, one Of
the finest residences and estates in the
south of Scotland, but 10 years ago bought
up the Rogersons of Wamphray for $780,
600 n later added the property of Ian.
rick castle, in Perthshire, to his already
great possessions. He could buy up u
score of such places if he so desired.
Dealing in opium is, of course. only one
branch of the great firms business, but it
is q most important one, and a trade
whether right or wrong which has such
potentialities of profits must, like Tenny-
sons half truth, be a hard matter to fight.
Scottish Lea der.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Policemen In Paris.

The Partisan municipal police, which
cost the city 200, O00, 900 Of francs every
year, number about 10000, besides 5000
gardes republicaines, horse and foot.
These are divided into 20 brigades, one for
each district of the city. There is a great
difference between the officers of the down
town swell districts and those farther out
and in less wealthy sections. In the Amer
lean quarter and along the Boulevard des
Italians and the Rue de Rivoli, so much
frequented by foreigners, most of the po-
lice understand English, and the befogged
and hazy individual who has been edo
ing" the sights of Paris in the evening,
and who cannot speak French, will not
find so much difficulty, after all, in max
ing his devious way back to the hotel in
the dawn. Very generally, too, the Pa
risian police are uniformly unobtrusive,
and unless needed attend strictly to their
own business. They are kind and polite,
always ready and willing to set one right
or to escort a m across a street, and
they all carry in their pockets street and
business directories for the strangers use
-Philadelpk4.. Press.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
The Canadian SIedge Dogs.

Mr.. Cameron, in his talk with a Courier
reporter, told of the dogs that are used for
sledging during the winter in the north
west territories of Canada.
Six or eight dogs are used on each
sledge. They are fed only once in "a
hours, and that is in the morning before
the start is made and after the dogs are in
harness. At that time about four pounds
of frozen fish are given to them. Every
thing must be in readiness for the start,
and the men must look to it that they are
at band to jump on the sledges, for at the
very instant that the last morsel of fish
disappears the dogs are off at a breakneck
speed. Strange as it may seem, the driv-
ers do not dare to feed the dogs unless they
are in harness. Otherwise they would
scatter, and nothing more would be seen
of them. They are driven with one long
rein attached to the leader. A whip with
a very short handle and a very long lash
Is used to urge them on, though in most
cases they need no urging, for they seem
to feel that the faster they go the quicker
they will come to the post, where food and
warmth and a lazy life await them. They
travel often as far as 80 miles a day
Buffalo Courier.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
EDITORS TRAGIC DEATHS.

Brilliant New York Journalists Whose
Passing Away Was Hinged With Horror.
When I began to work in 1S6O-and it
seems as though it were yesterday only,
partly because l have good health and
have always maintained a high moral
tone-the editor of the New York Tribune
was Horace Greeley. He died in a mad
house. The editor of the New York Times
was Henry j. Raymond, the best friend
but n l ever had. He was found dead
cold and stiff in the hallway of his house..
The brightest writer in New York then
was Charles G. Halpine-Miles O'Reilly
editor of the New York Citizen, He
suffered from a neuralgia tooth and went
into the Aston House one day, chloro-
formed a towel, put it over his head and
joined the majority.
era signed "a. D. RI A. d. Richardson
was walking along the street from The
Tribune office when a man slipped up be-
hind him, fired a bullet in his back, and
he died. The managing editor of the New
York Herald, Mr.. Frederick Hudson,
name is q living tradition in news
paper circles, having retired on a pension
of $4,000, which of itself is enough to
cess ohJ AoNopopeI "du, WeuG W live
with his family in Concord, N. H. Drove
across the railroad track in front of the
cars one day. All killed. The editor of
the only rival The Staats-Zeitung ever
had, the New York journal, DR.. Feodor
Meirson, of German birth, but American
in feeling, a great, good, loyal fellow, was
helping an invalid wife from a train.
Didn't see the other, lost his head and has
lone no work since.
The dearest newspaper working friend I
ever had, Stillman S.. Conant, managing
editor of the New York Times, walked out
on the sands of Coney Island one dark
night and never returned. The publisher
of The Daily News, whose name escapes
me just now, but a man whom everybody
in the profession knew, had melancholia,
s%uperinduced by neuralgia, walked to his
office one morning and blew his brains out.
The editor Of The Commercial Advertiser
drove along the beach at Long Branch.
Ran into a butcher cart. Killed instantly.
So, you see, it is not all funny business in
the professionalism Howard's Lecture on
Journalism.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
ST. GAuDENs, THE SCULPTOR.
He Believes the Best Things Are Achieved
Only by the Hardest Efforts.

He Believes the Best Things Are Achieved
Only by the Hardest Efforts.
Augustus st. Gaudens, the sculptor whose
design for a Worlds fair medal failed to
meet the approval of Secretary Carlisle and
the senate, is a New Yorkerin everything but
the actual accident Of birth. He was born in
Dublin and brought to the United States
when only 6 weeks old. His mother was an
Irish woman and his father a Frenchman
who had to work hard. for the support of
his family. Neither of them ever gave any
evidence of the possession of artistic talent,
though their son showed his at a very early
age. The first money he ever had he spent
for a box of colors.
The sculptor's life is an inspiration, con-
sidered entirely aside from the impetus
which his success has given to the divine
art of which he is a devotee. He is a living
exponent of the efficacy of the gospel of
work. He began practicing it's precepts
when he was but a child, and at the height
of his fame he has not forgotten the ladder
by which he climbed up. He believes that
the best things are achieved only by the
hardest efforts, and he lives up to his belief.
Work to him was a necessity. At 10 he
had to leave school and was apprenticed to
a cameo cutter. He spent his days at the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
SELF PRESERVATION.
The Iastinct Proves Stronger Than Reason
and Will Power Combined.

The Iastinct Proves Stronger Than Reason
and Will Power Combined.
II never realized the strength of the in
stinct of self preservation in man." said
John F. Thompson, ''until I witnessed a
test of it on a steamboat. Among the pas
sengers was a man who had a black rattle
snake in a box with a glass top. The
snake was a very vicious one and would
strike the glass whenever any one ap-
preached. The owner of the reptile chal-
lenged any one in the crowd to hold his
finger on the glass and let the snake strike
at it. There could not be any danger, and
there was not a man who did not think it
an easy thing to do. One big fellow, who
looked as if he never knew what nerves
were, tried it first, and after repeated at
tempts gave it up. Then every passenger
on the boat attempted it, and failure fol-
lowed in each case. It simply could not
be done. Instinct was stronger than rea-
son and will power combined.
II witnessed another illustration of this
in Paris. A young maj had lost his last
sou at a gambling table. Not only was he
without means, but he had lost a large
sun belonging to his employer. He start
ed for the Seine to drown himself. On the
way there was a great %commotion, caused
by the escape of a tiger from a strolling
menagerie. The animal came down the
street, and people fed in every direction.
Instantly the man who was seeking death
climbed a lamppost and hung on to the top
of it, trembling in every muscle. When
the animal was captured and the danger
was over, he went to the river and CON-
mitted suicide. was interested in the
account of the suicide, and prompted by
curiosity went to see the body, instantly
recognizing it as that Of the young man
whom I had seen make so frantic an effort
to escape death evidently but a few min
utes before he sought it and at the very
time that he was seeking an opportunity
to end his existence. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Mrs. Stocking Fatally Burned.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Mrs. Pattia
Miller Stocking was so badly burned by
the overturning of a lamp as she was
lighting it that she al scarcely survive.
Mrs. Stocking was the widow of Colonel
Stocking, n of the heroes of Anderson
vile, and daughter of the late Associate
Justice Miller of the United States
AuDrema A-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Mayor Schie:en Overruled.

NEW YORK, March 14.-The green
flag of Ireland will, = :er all, wave over
Brooklyn city hall on st. Patrick's day,
the board of aldermen having authorized
it by a vote Of S yeas and I nays. Three
aldermen, Hess. Coleson and Cohen.
would not put themselves upon record,
refusing to vote although their names
were called repeatedly by the clerk,
Mayor Schieren is thus overruled,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Given Possession of an Island.

KANSAS City, March 14.-Judge
scarr1tt has confirmed the report of Ref
cree E. K. Stiles in favor of the plaintiff
IN the suit of Bugard and others against
Simeon Howe, involving the possession
OF the island in the Missouri river, op-
posite Armour's packing house. The
island contains 80 acres of valuable land
and was washed up several years ago
by the changing channel of the Missouri
river. Bugard had riparian rights to
the land and Howe was a squatter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
JUDGE BLATcHFoRD's SUCCESSOR.
Justice Whites Father and G%randfatlle
Were Judges In Louisiana,

Justice Whites Father and Grandfather
Were Judges In Louisiana.
The new associate justice of the United
States supreme court. Edward Douglass
White, appointed to succeed the late JUS
tice Blatchford Of New York, is a native of
Louisiana and was born in the parish of
La Fourch in 1845. His grandfather, James
White, went to Louisiana while it was still
French territory and was one of the first
parish judges elected after the United
States obtained possession. His father,
also named Edward Douglass White, was
also a Judge, served for many years in con-
gress and was governor of Louisiana.
The present justice received his early ed
ucation at the Jesuit college in New Or
leans and also attended Mount st. Mary's
at Emmittsburg, Md, and Georgetown col
lege, District Of Columbia. He left college
to enter the Confederate army and after the
war was over studied law in the office of
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

bench and his evenings at the Cooper Union
art schools. Within three years he had a
reputation as one of the best cameo cutters
inthe city. At 10, having saved some money,
he went to Paris to perfect his knowledge
Of cameo cutting. But he had an ambition
to be an artist in a larger way and entered
the studio of Jouffroy, the sculptor, where
he worked with an energy that made him
a favorite with his master.
The war with Germany interrupted his
studies, and he went to Rome, where he
opened his first studio. There he modelled
"Hiawatha" which Ex-Governor Morgan
Of New York admired and had cut in mar
BILE. Then his success began. He made a
bust of William NJ. Evarts, and after that
orders fairly flowed in upon him. The
Farragut statue in Madison square, New
York city, was his first great public com
mission. The critics at once pronounced it
q masterpiece, as they afterward did his
"Lincoln," his pilgrim" and his ''Sher-
man." Everything from his hand shows
the touch of a masterful genius, and even
the rejected medal is admitted to be ad-
mirable from an artistic point of view.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Met at Full Sneen.

BOSTON, March 14.-The Montreal ex-
press, northbound, and the Quebec
express, met in a head-end collision at
Capleton, near ~Sherbrooke, Que. The
engineer of one of the trains and a train
hand who was in the cab with him.
were killed. None of the passengers
were seriously injured and none of the
cars left the rack.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
Refused a Commission.

TRENTON, N. j.. March 14.-Governor
Wertz has refused to issue a commission
to George B. Swayne, elected state
treasurer by the Republican legislature.
Mr.. Swayne's next move will be to ,le.
mand possession of the office from State
Treasurer Gray.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16
about an hour after retiring andreported
a verdict of not guilty.
For Over Fiftv wears

For Over Fifty Years
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething. It
soothes the child, softens the gums, al.
lays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the
best remedy for diarrh@a. twenty-five
cents a bottle. Sold by all druggists
throughout the world.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

The capitol at Hartford is of marble, and
local engineers claim that it expands one
inch to each 100 feet, being three inches
longer in summer than in winter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

The Fargo Sun has changed hands
and will hereafter be run as a daily and
weekly, with F. G. Hendershott, l.. @.
and others as it's operators.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

II have used Ayers Hair Vigor for a
number of years, and it has always given
satisfaction. It is an excellent dress.
ing, prevents the hair from turning
gray, insures it's vigorous growth, and
keeps the scalp white and clean."-Mary
A. jackson, Salem, Mass.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

"March to search" is the old adage. It
searches out any weakness Of the sys-
tenn, resulting from impure blood. Those
who use Ayers Sarsaparilla find March
nc more searching or even disagreeable
than any other month. This medicine
is a wonderful invigorator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-03-16

ALFRED D1oKEY is having printed his
report to the governor of the North Da-
kota Worlds Fair managers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-10

DENvER, Col, May 10. The Gale
donian club of Chicago has secured
5000 acres in the San Luis valley to
parcel into forty acre farms Hamil-
ton White, president of the Epworth
league of Iowa. and Mrs E. McMur-
ray, state president of the w. G. T. u.
of Iowa, are interesting themselves in
u protector colonizing 5000 acres in
the valley. A Swedish syndicate pro
poses to locate about 1.5OO families,
and John IL. Copeland of Chicago,
ide ntified with the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Is organizing a colony
on the CO. operative plan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-10
Father and Son Swung from a
Bridge
BY Lynchers for Numbering
sCharles Curlay.
THE BOY CONFESSES.
The Lynching Done at Sharon
Springs. Kas.

SHARON SPRINGS, Kan, May To- One
OF the most determined mobs that
ever congregated in this portion of
the state on Monday lynched William
Mckinley and eldest son. Lewis, for
the murder of Charles Carley, com
mitted one week ago. The news of
the double lynching reached the outer
world for the first time yesterda y
The crime which led to the lynching
was cruel and revolving. About a
week ago Charles Carley, a sOn-in-law
of William Mckinley. was murdered.
An investigation revealed the fact
that Fred, 17-year-old son Of McKin-
ley. ST., committed the crime The
boy when arrested made a confession,
stating that he had been induced to
kill his brother-in-law by his father
and older brother, Lewis
The motive for the murder seemed
principally revenge and hatred. The
murdered man had only a few weeks
: before married McKin1ey's daughter.
1t had been stipulated before the
marriage that the groom was to pay
the brides father $500 for the priv
refused to pay this money after he
was safely married and thus incurred
the enmity of his wife's father and
brothers. The boy surprised CarIey
while asleep, cnttlng him horribly
with a garden hoe He was found
dead and horribly mutilated-
On Monday the three were ar
raigned in court when Fred pleaded
guilty as charged, but his father and
Lewis pleaded not guilty, waived
trial and were placed in the county
Jail Late Monday night a mob of
several hundred men took the old
gentleman and Lewis to a railroad
bridge about half a mile west of town
and lynched them They both begged
piteously for mercy
Fred would probably have been
hanged with the others, but instead
of taking him to the Jail he was kept
under guard at the hotel from which
place the sheriff expected to take him
to Trego county for safe keeping The
people of the county are aroused at
the disposition juries have shown to
turn criminals loose and say they in
tend that justice shall be done in
some manner if not by the proper
course of law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-10
IKIRT'S RESOLUTION.
He Asks for Committee of Five to Re-
ceive the coxey Leaders.

He Asks for a Committee of Five to Re-
ceive the coxey Leaders.
WASHINGTON, May 1O-Representa-
tive Ikirt yesterday introduced the
following, which was referred to the
committee on rules:
Whereas. In view OF the fact that American
citizens, however mis- suided in the methods
they employ. are reported coming 10 Wash
IN &ton IN the belief that by SO doing they may
Whereas. the right of petition is a cons THU
tional risht that no one has assailed, there
fore
Resolved, That a special committee OF five
representatives Ito inc ude the chairman of
the commit ee on labor and the chairman OF
the committee on banking and currency be
appointed to hear the request Of the leaders
receive their petitions and report as promptly
as possible, with such recommendations as
they may deem proper either to the commit
tee on labor or the committee on banking and