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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

les per week. Mr.. J. V. Nesbitt is
the superintendent.
School opened Monday morning
with a roll of 25 scholars. 1t is
expected that shortly there will be
between forty and fifty on the roll.
The school is in charge of Mrs.
Ursula Musselman.
The N. P. has had two gravel
trains and bridge crew at work
here for the past month repairing
the damage done by the late high
water on the long trestle at this
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. We'll, accompanied
by VIM. Huston, have gone into the
Priest Lake country via Bonner's
Ferry to inspect the great Cont
mental mine which is largely own
ed by Messrs. We'll and Huston.
Gus Becken, our tonsorial artist,
has received some very fine ore
from his properties in the Bull
River of the north country. An
assay is expected in a few days.
County Surveyor VIM. Ashley
was here last Monday surveying a
piece Of land donated by Mr.. and
Mrs. Farmin for school building
to be erected thereon in a short
time. Jim Nelson has charge of
the work, which is temporarily
suspended, awaiting the return from
the Priest Lake country of Mr..
We'll who is one of the school
trustees.
Politics and matters political are
in a very undecided condition in
this part of the county and some
surprises may be looked for when
the ballots are counted next
November.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

will not be reached till laws are
made to keep both our money and
our work for the people Of our own
Country.
And SO repeat, facts such as
these lead me to believe that Mr..
Webster and Mr.. Clay and Mr..
Blaine were right in thinking there
was an important difference be-
tween protection and free trade, and
that Capt. Evans is all wrong.
B. S.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

OcKoNooK, Sept. 18.-Messrs.
Fritz q Billings came in today from
the Fort Shepard placer fields,
bringing in fine lot of nuggets as
trophies, in value from 50 to $25.
The yellow stuff is exchanged at
the general store of Maj Barnes for
provisions. John O'Neil is still on
the claims and proposes to stay
with them all winter. A company
has proposed to the owners, Messrs
Cameron, Clapp, O'Neil and Fritz
to put in hydraulic ma
chinery which will be accepted.
The machinery will be ready for
operation by spring.
James Crawford is showing pieces
of some of the finest copper and
gold rock ever seen in these parts.
1t was taken from the Ockonook
mine, a property owned by q. r.
Hill, situated about three miles
from the Kootenai River on Goat
Mountain. The mine was found
by Wild Lo uis, the same Indian
who discovered the President.
The editor has seen assays on
the above rock that ran, in round
numbers, from 5000 to $500 ton. |
Messrs. G. D. Porter, and J. HI.
Smith, guided by James Cameron,
will leave here toinvestigate several
gold properties. The party will
take in Fort Steele and the Crow
Nest coal fields.
The British Columbia Dyking
Company just across the line from
this place are pushing their work
very rapidly. Both dredges are in
full blast and Manager Alexander
has just ordered eight more scrap
ers and teams to repair the damage
done last spring by high water
These additions increase the pay roll
about $75 per day more than it has
ever been.
People are talking politics, more
or less, and would be glad to hear
some of the standard bearers tell
what they know.
Mr.. Hummer was down from the
Sea King and reports everything
looking well.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22
SAND POINT NEWS.
Crisp Personal, Political and Industri-
al Topics from a Live Town.

SAND POINT, Sept. 19.-Messrs.
Baldwin & Sadler, bridge contrac-
tors, of Sand Point have taken a
contract for constructing bridge
across Mill Greek at this place. The
structure will be built high enough
to be above the exceptional
high water Of 1894. 1t is to be a
pile bridge, sixteen foot bents, three
piles to bent and have five string
ers. The work is under the super
vision Of Road Overseer George
Holton, whose large experience in
such matters insures the erection of
bridge that will last for all time.
When completed it will be one of
the finest, if not the finest, bridge
on any of the county roads in this
county. 1t is estimated that the
work will be completed in about a
month.
The Fowle single mill is run
ming full blast with a weekly out
put of two car loads of No. shing-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22
Referring to Capt. Evans.
To the HERALD:

To the HERALD:
In his speech at Union Hall last
Tuesday Capt. Evans, the populist
speaker, discussed many timely
topics Of current politics but passed
over the tariff as one of no present
Importance. There are some facts
which lead me to believe that per-
haps Capt. Evans is mistaken in
assigning that subject to an inferior
place. That the greatest statesmen
Of this and Of every other country
have devoted years to the study of
its solution ought, at least, to i'm
press Capt. Evans in some slight
degree with the truth that there is
distinction between protection
and free trade. But there are 9TH
er facts besides that one.
From newspaper almanac in
my possession | find that there is
only one country in all Europe in
which the wages of laborers are
within half of what they are in this
country. That is England. This
statement has also the authority of
an aged friend of mine who has
worked for wages in Europe and
America.
One duty of government is to
protect labor. To omit that duty
is little less than criminal. Even
Republicans do not do their full
duty. Let US see. Last year we
imported into the United States
cheap foreign labor in the shape of
manufactured goods about $780,
100000. This was a great injustice
to American labor, and resulted
from the adoption Of some free
trade features by Republicans. Of
manufactures of cotton we import
ed upwards of 100000 and ex-
ported only about $13,OOO,OO0; of
flax, jute and hemp and textiles,
upwards of $26,OOO,O0O and did not
export as much as 100000; we
imported glass and glassware valu-
ed at nearly 100000, and did
not export shilling's worth in re-
turn; of hides and skins we import
ed nearly $27, 100000; of iron and
steel manufactures we imported
100000 more than our exports;
our importations of leather exceed
ed our expectations by over 1,0O0,-
600; we imported more than double
the amount of wooden goods export
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The undersigned hereby announ-
ces himself an Independent candi-
date for the Office Of constable of
Bonner's Ferry precint. If elected
will endeavor to the best of his
ability to serve the interests of the
Tom LOGAN.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

Editors Son-Papa, what do the
letters ''s-i-n-n-e-d" spell? Editor
We'll, my boy, reverse 'em al d
they spell the name of the mer-
chant who refuses to advertise "dur-
ing the dull season. Printers
Ink.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

The list might be extended indef-
finitely.
Although Capt. Evans says there
is nothing in the tariff, it is,
nevertheless, a fact that in this i'm
mense amount of imports permitted
by the McKinly law, insufficient
and defective, the labor of women
and children employed in English
and Scotch cotton mills whose wag-
es do not average $50 year came
into direct competition with the
highest priced labor of southern and
northern cotton spinners. In that
amount of imports was the labor
of German factory workmen aver
aging less than $115 year and
that Of women averaging less than
that of $50 year, to say nothing Of
the competition of half-starved
Canadians.
In Munich the very centre of
music and art, we are told, German
women with large families Of child
rem saw wood in the streets for Is
cents day, and yet with such com
petitors for our workmen, Capt.
Evans says the tariffs not an issue.
May merciful Almighty sink the
United States 10000 fathoms un-
der the sea before this hideous
spectacle shall be one of our every
day lifel
Think of it'll More than $780,
100000 worth OF starvation labor
of Europe, in the form of manufac-
tured goods brought into this
country in one year Such as left
Belgium for our shores in bales and
boxes represented the wages of %
cents per day for women, 40 cents
for lnen, and the highest priced
labor in loose cargoes of Belgian
steel and iron represented wages
less than 80 cents a day. | am
told that Captain Evans was for
merly an iron worker. He was
then protectionist and republican.
He is no longer an iron worker but
populist and therefore a free
trader.
Italian labor was imported into
this country last year in the form
of Italian merchandise, in compe-
tition with American labor at
prices that should fill sensitive
souls With horror, and alarm the
thoughtful for the future of the
country. The pay in cotton factor
les of Naples is 20 cents day; of
the Neapolitan stone and marble
workers from 40 to 80 cents a day;
of coachmen 80 cents. of women in
lace factories 10 cents and girls Z
cents; of soldiers in the army So
per month. OF the glass workers
in Italy only the experienced receive
as high as 81 per day, and farm
hands Is to IS cents, working from
sun up to sun down.
God save us from such a catas-
trophel
In the silk products Of Switzer-
land imported into our present free
trade country last year was the
skilled labor of men at Al cents a
day and women at 20 cents, both
competing with the silk weavers Of
New York, Patterson and Phila-
delphia and other American cities.
Glasgow in Scotland is the steam
ship factory Of the world and its
blast furnace owners and iron-rol-
lers howl for free trade morning,
noon and night. OF the families
of that city 41,000 out of 100000
live in one room and half the men
and women are chronically out of
wOrr That Ova room, fOr f,~,s -
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22
MORE RICH DISCOVERIES
Reported from Ockonook and
the Boundary Line.
1T is YELLOW STUFF

1t Is said that Arrangements have been
made to Commence Hydraulic Work
at an early date. Assays on Hil's
Discovery run very high.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22

All questions arising under the Homestead Pre-empon Timber
Culture Desert Land Timber Land Laws all
disputes concerning Railroad Land Grants Indian
Mineral Lands Swamp Lands Forest Reserves every complication
OF whatever nature affecting the rights settlers public domain
are handled with the utmost possible skill by corps
experts versed in all the intricacies Land Laws
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08
AN IMPOTENT CAUCUS.

The House caucus yesterday was a
very tame affair and no conclusions
were arrived at, and the conference
committee will drag along its work of
trying to arrive at satisfactory agree.
ment. The only possible agreement
seems to be an abject yielding of the
President and the House to the German
element. II is either this or
no bill, and Mr.. Cleveland NAV
take his choice. Whether Gorman
will carry out his free sugar threat is a
question that the next "a hours will
determine. While ostsnsiblv
aimed at the Louisiana Senator's il was
notice to Mr.. Cleveland that he must
keep his hands off or his friends in tho
Sugar Trust would pay the penalty for
his interference.
1t is delightful to see brethren
iwelling together in harmony, even
'hough 1t may be tough on their friends
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08
Justice, Aug.


The assistance of all who sympathizo with
struggling humanity is invoked for the strik-
crs mt Pullman Ill. Their case Is a desperate
one. They arc opposing one Of the riches,
corporations In America. and should not be
permitted to carry on the fight unaided.
Every unions no matter how small, can con-
tribute something to the support of these
people. Promptness of action is absolutely
essential. Send all contributions direct to d.
V. Gladman. 2sl Watt avenue. Pullman. Ill.
Bernard McCulla's dinners at the National
Hotel are becoming famous for their quality
and their quantity. The next time you are
hungry drop In. He also keeps Union cigars.
1t is a good thing to have pure. bottled lou
ors In the house In case of sickness, and VIM
Edmonds, 20 Dyer street. makes speciality
OF those goods.
The committee from Pawtucket reported
that they were progressing fayorably In the
matter Of removal Of baseball bulletin boards
Of the scab NEws. similar committee was
appointed for Providence and although the
season is far advanced II Is thought they viii
meet with success.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Waiting, Weary Waiting.

'The dry goods trade, which is the laruest
business In the country, has been waiting from
day to day, from week to week, for Congress-
TO act finally. In one way or another. upon IN,
tariff question. The importers have
brought over heavy stocks and placed
them In bond preparatory to taking advan.
tage Of the new rates Of tho Democratic tarifY.
But until Congress pulls itself together. and
either passes or drops the tariff bill. they are
unable to fix prices upon these goods and con-
sequently they are unable To sell them
For tho same reason merchants out of
town are unprcpsred 20 buy their stocks for
the fall and winter trade. Manufacturer arr
equally at n loss to determine the prices Of
their goods or to dispose OF them. Everybody
In the dry goods trade is cropping In the DARK
and unable to forecast the future condition OF
business. Trade is at n standstiil At a time
when ordinarily very great activity prevails
Day after day passes and nothing is done
at Washington. The deadlock tbere
proiongs the mercantile stagnation here
and In all large cities. Men In the dry goods
trade have nothing 10 do. They are waiting
Tor Congress 10 settle the tariff question. and
they have ample leisure and the strongest
provocation for swearing roundly At the
Democratic party"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08
A CRY OF DESPAIR.

One OF the most pathetic incidents
tnat has occurred in New York, fertile
as 1t is in pathos and poverty, was tn,
explanation given by aged Anna Church
ward to a policeman who found he,
sleeping on doorstep the other morn.
ing. II am too old to be of any further
help to my children, and this is why
am here. l am 70 years old, and have
lived for the past three years with my
daughter in Iowa City. She found me a
trouble and decided to send me back to
England, where I was born, SO she
bought me ticket to Southampton. |
reached New York Saturday and got
lost trying TO find the steamship. Some
body told me to go to Harlem and / did
SO. / am lost"
She had lived beyond the allotted time
OF man. Three score and ten years and
more had whitened her hair and ell
feebled her frame, when the daughter
she gave birth and tenderly reared
turned her adrift in her helpless old age
TO return to her abandoned home across
the seas and pass the few remaining
years of her life in public poorhouse.
The sacred ties OF motherhood were
ruthlessly broken by heartless daugh-
ter and like worn out shoe that mother
was cast of, to face the buffets of a cold
and unsympathetic world all alone.
The unccmplaining statement, pathetic
In its brevity Il am too old 10 be any
further help TO my children" contained
columns of reproof even though words
OF condemnation were absent.
What the feelings of that poor old
mother were as she stood on the deck of
the steamer bearing her rapidly away
from the land where her ungrateful
child had abandoned her, may be i'm
agined but not described.
The English language contains no
more sacred word than mother. and no |
person on earth has greater claims on a |
'hild than the one who brought her into |
he world, cared for her with loving
iindness when helpless babe, watched
~ her bedside when sickness had laid
Is hands upon her, reared her up to
and guided and cared for
'er as long as the lamp of life burned
trong enough.
lam too old to be of any further help
my children" was the cry torn from
he lips Of deserted mother reused
rom her sleep on the inhospitabe door
tep OF New York tenement house.
nd one cannot help the thrill of indig-
alton that shoots through the heart
the pitiful cry goes up to heaven and
ne ingratitude of that heartless
aughter is forced upon the mind. It
'as the momentary lifting of the cur
lin upon the underside of life, reveal
g depths that even hell might shudder I
perceiving.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08

Mrs- sAsah Howard Of Houlton has two
queer pcts-a couple Of muskrats that
came mp the drain into her cellar and
themes even into the kitchen. They have
now got - tame that they eat out OF the
cats saucer and show no fear of that In
dividunl, who on her part dcss not dsign
70 notice them, though her kittens some
times cum the rata Ono 0ay they got
straw and pieces Oh che broom ana made
ncst under the cupboard They will
come close 10 ones chair aud smell ons's
band when reached down % them. when
eating milk, they sit beside The saucer,
thrust both paws into the milk and then
Zap 10 from their paws, sometimes taking
bali hour - consume . email ssueoe q
0th--ISWigoea Jcurpea
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08
a duty to society and that duty Is not to
interfere with the workings of justice.

No yacht came up to the scratch
when the Vigilant sailed up to the line
this morning and SO the race was de-
clared off. The Britannia was repair
ing the damage done by her attempt to
pocket the Vigilant, and the Satanita's
owner refused to enter because of
personal feeling against the yacht club
under whose auspices the race was to
have been sailed. Bnt there will be
plenty of opportunities for the vigilant
vet.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08

DO You advertise on the backs of res-
taursnt bills of faref DO you put . card
In the book "for the benefit OF the are
departmentw Do you subscribe to the
industrial Progress" book, and have
your picture in 1t ~ prominent business
manf
Does the society" program catch you?
Are you susceptible to the blsndis hments
OF the gentlemen who puts beautiful
charts in all the railway stations?
DO you take q space-the only one
left," in the thousand and one schemes
that come around every yesrf Do you
suppose you ever got . cents worth of
benefit out Of any go you ever spent that
wsyf
II all the dollars that are diverted from
the newspapers into these and similar
channels were used for buying space IN
the best papers in town, there would be
fewer merchants VINO say that ADVERTISING
In doubtful undertaking.
There is nothing doubtful about IL. II
is ss sure ss any other business transac-
tion. The funny part Of 1t 10 that IL a
generally given less attention than any
other department. Of business.
The contract once made and the spsos
decided upon, tho advertisers interest
seems to die. Even neglected ad in q
good paper will do some good In spite of
The advertisers apathy.
4 good sdvsrthsment win always bfins
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08

The Boston Journal rightly declares
that, race and religious divisions have
no rightful place in the Republican
party. The white Republican move
ment in Texas is blunder. and it will
fail as every such enterprise has failed
in every Southern State where it has
been attempted"
The Republican party is the party of
the people, for the people and by the
people, and any att empt to introduce
race or religious prejudices into the party
should be and is promptly condemned
by the leaders of the party.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08


Hs encouraging TO note that there are ~
many Is SIX bills before Congress for tho fur
therance of the Nicaragua Canal enterprise
uhaer the protection Of the national govern
ment. The Nicaragua Canal ought to be
pnht; tne United states must control IL: and IL
can do so most effectively by aiding In its con-
s'ruc'ion. Both the national plat
forms of tho two great political
parties declared In favor of the enter
prise In lS'z, and an interstate conventio
OF representative citizens. appointed as such
oy the Governors of their respective states,
made still stronger declaration in favor of
national aid. II Is pretty well known by this
time that the commercial interests of Great
Britain are coqustting with this project. The
spread of British railroad systems in Costa
hica and Nicaragua, the republics of the right
ana ieft. banks respectively of the canal
route as It follows the San Juan River bed
down from the Lake to the Atlantic; the at
temps at British control OF the Mosquito
state, and the reports of attempts to effect a
sale Of the canal concessions to a British
syndicate. all 60 to show that Great Britain
has her eyes on the canal. II Great Britain's
eyes arc on 1t the United States should 20
further and lay hands upon 1t.
Senator Morgan of Alabama the author of
the leading bill for the reorganization of the
Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua
has made q careful and thorough study OF the
canals prospects. and he declares that II the
United States guarantees the construction
bonds It is entirely improbable that the treas
ury viii ever DO required to advance any
money either for the construction of tho canal
Or for the payment OF interest on the bonds,
sven while the canal is building. In this he
IS corroborated by Others who have gons
over the ground and who know the physical
features OF the route. the trafYic conditions
waiting the canal and the money market.
The governments guarantee of tho bonds
would make II possible 10 place them at a
much lower rate OF interest than otherwise. |
md this would moan low enough rates for
'assage through tho canal to attract traffic
nd to pay the fixed charges within q short
line after completion. The supreme import
nee OF the canal, commercially and strategi-
ally, to the United States ought to cause il to |
e regarded as the National Nicaragua Canal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-08

posed provisions would bs saccsptsd by
them. as II they constituted . fourth depart
ment OF the government when word d
nroughs OF their displsasurs the proposition Z
thrown sways and the negotiations bsgiu
where they were bofore tue luckless suGres-
tons were made. The exuberant announce
nent which was made last week that an
agreement was At last In sight was occasioned
o. tie expectation that the in,r ass in the
dinerential would BE- acceptable to the Trust.
hut In their zsai 10 piacate tho trust the
compromisers forgot the Louisiana Senators.
who also require % be conciliated, and the
pain Language which this proposition ELECTED
from them knocked the an ticipated agreement
into smithercens.
The best thing that Congress can do 70
serve the country IL to give up tho whole
miserable business and 90 home. The
continuation Of the existing uncertainty is
ruinous to business. No one dares to buy or
SELL to import or TO manufacture beyond
the most pressing necessities while these con-
ditions last. Tho adjournment OF Congress
without action on the tariff bill would i'm
part new life 70 business. IL would signify
that there would be no disturbance Of pres
ent tariff rates before the December session,
ana the vote OF the people in November Is
ieasohaoiy certain TO prevent any destructive
Dill at that session. The people who have
been injured by the Democratic attack on the
tarin' the business men who have suffered
heavy losses. and the wage earners who have
been thrown out Of employment have only TO
rally at the polls In November and rout the |
Democratic candidates. and Congress. when |
u reasscmbies In December. will be In a |
chastened mood and indisposed TO rash legis- |
lation.
Damage enough. and more than enough,
has been done already. The country does not
look TO the Democratic Congress for wise or
constructive Legislation. That. 1t knows, Is too
much to expect. But II does very strongly de-
sire 10 DO let alone. There is no excuse for
proionging the existing distress. Let Congress
put the finishing touches on the appropriation
bills and then adjourn and 20 home. and the
voters will do the rest