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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
EXODUS TO rue METHow DISTRICT
Mountains Full of ProspeetOrs aud Every
Steamer Crowded.

Waterville. April THE anticipated
rush into the Methow. Squaw creek
and Slate creek mining districts is on
ia earnest. Work can be conducted ON
claims on the Methow and Squaw
creeks but the snow is yet too deep
to reach Slate creek. 1t is reported that
Colonel Hunt has given up the effort to
construct a road to Slate creek until
later in the season. The mountains are
already full of prospectors, and the
steamboat is loaded every trip with
freight and passengers for the new dis
tricts. 1t is safe to say that the popula-
ton that will be added to Okanogan
county this summer will far exceed the
most extravangant claims advanced
during the winter.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
Trunk LINE PEOPLE ARE WORRIED
Baltimore Il Ohio Southern Has Been
Making Trouble.

New York. April 9-The presidents Of
the various roads composing the Trunk
Lines Association held an important meet
ing today with the object of patching up
a peace that will induce the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern to reconsider its with
drawal from the presidents agreement
Unless this is accomplished the Central
Traffic Association may go to pieces. and
passenger rates will go down to hard
pan in the scramble for business on the
part of the roads. Representatives of the
Southwestern this morning declared that
at will not go back into the fold, and IL ia
reported that the Baltimore & Ohio proper
will also withdraw.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
TO PROPERLY TAX RAILROAD LANDS
Douglas County Commissioners Take
Steps in the Right Direction.


Steps in tho Right Direction.
WaterviIle, Wash, April AT the
meeting of the board of commissioners.
held during the week, it was decided to
systematically grade all the railroad
lands in the county. For that purpose
two crews of men, under experienced
deputy assessors start out this week
to view this property and give it just
and equitable grading. The railroad
owns over 100000 acres in the county.
ana even at a low assessment the taxes
that viii be derived from the company
VIII amply repay the expense of putting
So large a force of deputies in the field.
The new county commissioners believe
that good roads are conducive to the
prosperity of a farming community,
and at their last meeting took steps
to assist in aiding i'm constructing three
sorely needed public thoroughfares.
two of these leading to the Great North
ern railroad and supplying an easy
means of access to that road for a very
large scope of country thickly pOpulat-
ed. One thousand dollars We're contrib
uted toward one of these roads.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13

Pittsburg, April s.--The deputies at the
Jumbo mines at Mcdonald are guarding
the empty pits. Only one man reported
for work this morning. The strikers claim
both the fire bosses have Joined their
ranks, so the mine could not be operated
today even If they had men.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
Lhitral Garrison sare.

Calcutta, April S.--Dispatches from Sim
Ia say Uch and Kogala will be occupied
by British forces from the Citgit side OF
Chitral A report which reached Simla
confirms the announcement that the gar
rison of Chitral is safe. but attempts to
open communication with that place have
failed
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13

Wholesale trade has improved at To.
ronto.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
coATmAKERs' STRIKE IS SPREADING
Men in Kentucky shops Go ont in sym
pathy With Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, April s-The striking coat
makers held another mass-meeting today.
The total number out is over 5000. The
shops in Covington, Newport and other
Kentucky suburban points have Joined
the strikers.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13

Colon. April S.-The steamer DeLesseps
has brought from Costa Rica to this port
a number Of Colombian exiles.
The strike of laborers along the line OF
the Panama canal continues.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-04-13
SettIed the Strike

Perth Amboy. N. j., April 6.-The strike
in the terra Gotta works at Spa Springs
has been settled. The men are being paid
q portion of their wages, and the receiver
saws they will be paid in fun soon as pos
sibIe. No regiment will be sent now.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

arbitrary representative value established
by the Government is the only thing uni
versally recognized.
THAT there is need of money of 'ul I'll
mate redemption or base of issue is one
OF the many superstitions that are mixed
up with the money question.
1.-The nearest approach to this of which
there is any actual necessity, is the direc-
ton OF Congress to the Secretary of the
Treasury to go and do business for the
United States just as business men in their
senses usually do, namely, issue for SER
vice rendered or products supplied the
Governments memoranda of credit, which,
IN short, are treasury notes, and receive
them again from whomsoever becomes in
debted to the Nation"
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

time imaginable. returning early in the
evening perfectly ecstatic over the splendid
time they had had.
In many respects yesterdays outing was
much quieter than former affairs of the
kind under the auspices of the Iroquois
Club, but it was probably more enjoyable
than any ever given before. To begin with,
there were no speeches on the tariff, or
object lessons on the innocuousness of
Grover; there was never row, nor the sign
of a row; no accidents marred the pleasure
of a single one, and the arrangements we re
simply perfect.
When the steamer Enclnal pulled out of
the slip yesterday morning it had on board
by actual count, just 760 people in the Iro-
quois excursion party, as good looking,
as ever journeyed forth on pleasure bent.
The band played, little knots of singers
here and there on the boat caroled snatches
OF popular airs to the morning, guitars and
banloes tinkled, and all was merry on the
journey to the mountains. Twenty cars
made up the train which pulled into the sta
ton at 12:10 O'Clock and every car appeared
to be crowded. The dining room of the Glen
wood Hotel was crowded again and again
with the hungry, basket-lunchers spread
out In all directions under the shady trees
in the glen, and the large, fat men who
presided behind the lunch counters, wore
off many layers of adipose tissue in an
effort to cater to the wants of the clamor-
Gus hungry.
Dancers crowded the big floor provided
for their accommodation almost immedi-
ately after reaching the beautiful glen and
enjoyed themselves for four hours to their
hearts content. There was no set pro-
gramme; the club merely provided the
place, the time and the refreshments and
the big crowd wandered at its own sweet
will whittier it listed.
1t was as perfect day in the sunlit
mountains as one could wish for, and dur
ing the four hours stay at Glenwood every
moment was enjoyed.
A small party of pleasure e-seekers from
Santa Cruz joined the excursionists in the
afternoon, as did a contingent of the unter-
rified Democracy from Watsonville. The
Santa Cruz people did plenty of missionary
work in the interest of the coming water
carnival in the beautiful city by the sea
and contributed their share to the general
enjoyment.
The excursionists broke camp shortly
after o'clock, boarded the cars for home,
arriving in the City at s o'clock, better a
hundred per cent each for the sunshine
the ozone, the atmosphere of happiness, in
which they had mingled during the day.
Louis MetZZer was chairman of the COM
mittee OF arrangements and Joe Coffey
acted as floor manager. The other mem
bers of the committee were: DIR. Bryant,
J. J. Flynn, L. " Merle, Fred Raabe, John
A. Wall, J. II. Zemansky, John Kreling,
Charles Ames and FL. d. Pratt.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
SINGLE TAX SOCIETY.
Clitus Barbour and President Reynold
Discuss the Money Question
at Length.

ClltuS BARBOUR ana freSIQenC Reynolds
Discuss the Money Question
at Length.
Money was the subject discussed by the
Single Tax Society last night. Clitus
Barbour, the principal speaker, advocated
the free coinage of silver, but admitted
that it was not the most important issue,
the deriving of revenue from land values
by the single tax being equally important
in his opinion. He urged, however, that
it was the duty of all who desired to i'm
prove conditions to join in assisting to
right the wrong of 1873.
President James S. Reynolds finally took
the floor and concluded the discussion
with an explanation of the nature and
purpose of money, in which he said:
ave must draw a clear distinction be-
tween money of account, money of ex-
change and commodity money.
s'Money of account is not tangible
thing, but an abstract idea. We call its
unit dollar, which in the realm OF
values is like the idea of number in
mathematics or that of point in geometry.
Our monetary unit only conveys any idea
of value when used to express the relation
between things in exchange with respect
to their comparative values.
"Money of exchange is merely mem
orandum of credit expressed in the terms
of the money of account.
Commodity money is simply the
material token upon which the Govern
ment has put its stamp OF value. The
idea of the intrinsic value of the metal OF
material Of the coin is lost, and the
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emphatically denies that he ever did more
than assist the woman home after she was
taken i'll, and what he says is borne out by
statements made by employees in the ceme-
terry.
The mystery here begins as to how Mrs.
Winthrop really came to her death. At
the Morgue there are no particulars to be
had, except that DR.. Barrett removed the
stomach and bladder from the body and
gave them over to chemist for analysis,
in order to discover traces, if there are any,
of poisoning. which might bear out the as
sertionn of DR.. E. NJ. Griffith, who last
attended the woman, that she died from
the effects OF strychnine. 1t was for
strychnine poisoning that Dr. Griffith said
he treated the sick woman. After
diagnosing the case when first called
in, he said he concluded that she
as suffering from the effects of the
poison and so administered chloroform,
bromide OF potassium and choral bydrate
as is usual in such cases. added the
:octor in telling of it. Whether DR.. Crit
kth was correct in his surmise that Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

Mathews was suffering from the effects of
strychnine will not be known until the
dead woman's stomach and it's contents
shall have been thoroughly analyzed by
the chemist.
Captain Lees opinion is that death was
not caused by strychnine poisoning, but
that the woman had not received the right
treatment for the illness from which the
was suffering; that her illness in the
cemetery was really only violent hystiria
and that did not require extreme
remedies.
Still another theory which was discussed
was that of suicide, but what reason she
could have had for committing the act is
not known and the husband is positive
that such could not have been the ca Sc as
she had never betrayed any such tenden-
cles.
Mr.. Winthrop's statement as made to
the police is as follows:
Yesterday about 2 P. M. was driving to the
western end of the cemetery to look after q
grave that was being opened for a burial to-
day. Mrs. Mathews was at the south end of
the childrens plot, where she has couple of
children buried. She signaled for me to hold
up, as she wished to say something to me.
stopped the buggy and talked to her from it.
She, | thought looked little out of sorts.
she said: 81 have learned to ride bicycle
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
Priest in Confession" Among other things

Priest IN Confession" Among other things
he said:
"Not the least difficult part of the prac-
tice of confession is that which he who lis
tens has 10 perform. He is at once jury
and judge, while the penitent is criminal,
prosecuting attorney and his own lawyer
For the work the priest prepares by a
long course of study. He must be friend
of those who need it, kind to all although
severe. He must be prudent and careful
and as patient as he knows how to be.''
These points were developed at some
length. The results have been good which
have followed these Sunday evening in
structions, as numbers have been led to
investigate more closely the doctrines of
the Catholic religion.
Father Clark opens a mission for non
Catholics in ST. Helena, Napa County,
next Sunday, at the invitation of Rev. p
Blake.
Professor Scheel and his band of tai
ented musicians will give a sacred concert
at st. Marys on Tuesday evening, June 4.
The repainting and decorating of the old
church will then be finished. and the
effects under the electric lights, which will
be turned on for the first time, will be
shown to good advantage.
The famous painting of the Immaculate
Conception, brought from Rome by the
late Archbishop Alemany, ,..and the points
OF the CrucitiXion and the Blessed Virgin
have been reset in the sanctuary walls and
stand out in strong relief and harmony.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

Mathews, as we approached sitting on the cop
ing, in what appeared to be spasm or cramp.
| saw she was suffering, and Immediately got
fruit jar, which was in plat near by, filled
it with water, and bathed her face and famed
her with my hat. We were there ten or fifteen
minutes after got the water, and was tanning
her when she grabbed my coat in her spasm
A Mrs. Gedge came along and asked her to go
back little way and see man directed her
TO, and told her to send him to the Office for
the buggy. She went, and shortly after re-
turned, and two men came with the buggy.
learned afterward the reason the two me
came with the buggy. The first man. Benz
frage, did not know anything about horses and
he went to the Office and told Mr. Smith that
Mr. Winthrop wanted the buggy right away,
and asked Mr.. Smith to drive it back and the
two men came back. While waiting or it may
have been before Mrs. Gedge came, 1
asked Mrs. Mathews what she had eaten for
dinner, thinking she might have taken some
thing that gave her cramps. She told me she
had asparagus, carrots and bread; the child
instructed Smith to assist me to put Mrs.
could get up. She said she could not. said
"nonsense," whereupon she got up and
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
istered chloroform, chloral hydrate and
bromide of potassium to Mrs. Mathews, he

bromide of potassium to Mrs. Mathews, he
said:
Why, don't think any strychnine, will be
found in the woman's stomach. AS I under
stand the ACTION OF strychnine it is almost i'm
mediate. If the facts are as represented 1t is
quite probable that the woman was killed by
DR.. Grifith's treatment. II Mrs. Mathews had
taken strychnine l think she would have been
think he mistook hysteria for strychnine
poisoning.
II he kept her under the influence of chloro-
form and gave her also bromide of potassium
and choral hydrate 1t is very possible that
these poisons stopped the action of her heart,
and if her heart was feeble one her death
could have been brought about easily. | do
not take any stock in the statement made by
the woman against Winthrop while in hvs-
terical condition. 1t might have been purely
imaginary, as similar cases have occurred in
this City There is really nothing to show that
Mr.. Winthrop was guilty of any wrong act
DR.. e. NJ. Griffith. who attended Mrs.
Mathews, and whom Captain Lees seems
to believe responsible for the woman's
death, has gained considerable notoriety
before in this City.
In October last he was arrested for brand
ing baby with hot needle.
A young woman had come to his Office,
which was then at 1850 McAllister street.
She was about to become mother. DR..
Griffith attended the woman, and on Sep
tember 80 the baby was born. Eleven days
later messenger boy appeared at the Re-
ceiving Hospital with the baby.
1t was soon discovered that on the baby's
leg the letter E and the figure l were in
delibly branded. DR.. Griffith was arrested,
and admitted that he branded the baby,
but claimed it was not cruel act as the
baby had not suffered any. The charge
against him could not be sustained and he
was released. DR.. Griffith created quite a.
sensation at the time on account OF his
erratic actions. 1t was learned that he
was heavily addicted TO the use of NOR
phine, opium and Intoxicating spirits.
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and want you to loan me $75 to buy bicycle"
l told her did not know why should do So
Even ii were willing L could not loan her six
bits. Whereupon she said 'You had better
give 1t TO me or you Will be sorry for it. You
can, because you are rich.''
She appeared quite angry and said: "Well
give my little girl Matte a ride" 1 said / was
going to the Office, and she said: Then give
her ride to the Office" I thought il an easy
way to appease her anger, and took the child
In the buggy and drove to the Office. 1 lifted
the child out and told her to GO to her mother,
she being at or near the grave. She said she
was afraid she would get lost and would not
be able to find her way back SO 1 told her to
sit down and wait until l came from the Office
and would see she went back all right
was in the Office about ten minutes, when 1
came out. 1t occurred to me had left a Miss
Corbett up in the cemetery, who was after net
ties. Taking the child l went to Miss Corbett,
excused myself, and directed her to man who
was pulling nettles, and told her to tell him
she was the lady who was to get the nettles L
told her was going to take or leave the child
with Its mother. After leaving Miss Corbett
we went to the Mathews graves. l saw Mrs.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

means freed from the elements of mystery.
Though the rawlings of the woman prior
to her death an injustice was inadvertently
done in yesterdays reports to Mr.. Crowell,
the superintendent of Laurel Hill Gene
terry.
To her husband, before she died, she
kept repeating the statement that the su-
perintendent of the cemetery had given her
pill which made her sick. 1t transpires
that Mr.. Crowell is away in Santa Barbara,
and could not possibly have had anything
to do with the case.
The person to whom Mrs. Mathews had
reference was Oliver W. Winthrop, the as
sistant superintendent of the cemetery,
but the statement that he gave Mrs.
Mathews pill in the cemetery rests only
upon her ante-mortem statement and the
testimony of her fve-year-old child, who
was with her at the cemetery. Mr.. Win
throp in a statement made to the police
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
RITES OF THE CHURCH.
Funeral Services Over the
Remains of Governor
Burnett.
A Requiem Mass at ST. Ignatius
and Interment at Santa
Clara.

There were quite a large number of
callers yesterday at the Burnett residence
at 1713 Larkin street, to view the remains of
!; the first elected Governor of California.
The body had been laid out in the drawing
room and the features were life-like and
natural. showing calm and peaceful end.
There were many and beautiful floral
tributes from the relatives and friends of
the departed pioneer and executive.
The funeral will take place from the fam
lily residence this morning. A solemn re-
QUEEN mass will be celebrated at st.
Ignatius Church at 10 o'clock, and the
mortal remains of Peter Fl. Burnett will
then be conveyed by special funeral train
to Santa Clara, where the interment will
take place in the Catholic cemetery.
Rev. Father Coltelli will be the celebrant
of the mass and Rev. Father Larkin will
act as deacon. Rev. Father Cottle will
preach the sermon. A male choir will sing
the mass and the solos will be by an espe-
cially selected quartet.
The following gentlemen will act as pail
bearers: Judge McKinstry, Senator George
G. Perkins, Captain James M. Mcdonald,
DIR. C. d. Cleveland. Christian Refs, Alex
ander Boyd, w. A. Piper and James r.
Kelly.
The gentlemen's sodality of st. Ignatius
Church will be present in a body and Gov
ernor Budd and staff are also expected to
be present. The Pioneers will also be rep
resented.
Among the mourners who will accom-
pany the remains to Santa Clara are the
following:
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Burnett of Vista
cion Valley, Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Bur-
nett, Mr.. and Mrs. c. T. Ryland of San
Jose, Judge and Mrs. William T. Wallace,
Miss M. Burnett, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph R.
Ryland of Los Ga.os, Miss Har-
riet Burnett, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Burnett, Mr.. and Mrs. John f. Sheehan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Burnett, G. T. Ryland
Jr., David M. Burnett, Miss Romie Wal
lace, A. Burnett, Peter Burnett, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sprague, John w. Ryland, Miss
Sarah Burnett, Miss Margaret A. Burnett
and Miss Mary Burnett.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
|ROQUO|S HAVE A picnic,
The Local Democracy Takes
Its Outing at Beautiful
GIenWOOd.
EVERY ONE HAD A GOOD TIME.
1t Was Much Quieter Than Former
Affairs, but Was Thoroughly
Enjoyable.

The glad slogans of Democracy resound-
ed through the fir-topped heights of the
Santa Cruz Mountains in triumphant peans
yesterday; the warriors of the Iroquois
Club, their friends, their wives and sweet
hearts wandered through the beautiful pic
mic grounds at Glenwood, and danced,
and lunched and had the most delightful
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
SHORT SERMONS.
Brief Discourses-A Recent Innovation
by Paulist Fathers-The Priest
in Confession

The tive-minutes sermons which have re-
Gently been introduced by the Paulist
Fathers at st. Marys Church on Califor-
MIA street is one OF the popular features of
the service. Rev. Father Arthur M. Clark
has been delivering a series of discourses
on the Confessional, always limiting
himself to few minutes, and last night he
closed the course. His subject was "The
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

Some idea may be formed of the cost of
accessories to billiard-table when it is
stated that it requires the tusks of three
elephants to furnish a complete set of
balls-namely, sixteen pyramid, twelve
pool and three billiard balls.
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20
HER DEATH A MYSTERY,
The Evidence Regarding Mrs.
Jennie Mathews Demise
Is Conflicting.
WAS THE WOMAN Po1soNED9
Captain Lees Statements
duplicating Secretary Croweu
Were Not True.

There were several new developments in
the matter Of the death of Mrs. Jennie
Mathews of 502 Broderick street, late last
Saturday night, but the case is by no
The San Francisco call., 1895-05-20

Macauley had good mother and revered
her memory. He said: ''In after life you
may have friends-fond, dear friends
fond, dear friends; but never will you have
again the inexpressible love and gentle
ness lavished upon you which none but q
mother bestoWs."
The Yale expositor., 1895-03-15

is as follows: "A short distance south
OF Castle switch myself and Fireman
House were startled by a man who
crawled over the tender and, pointing
a pistol at our heads, ordered us to
stop the train. He was masked. 1
stopped the engine and the fellow or
dered us to get of, which we did. The
other masked men were standing on the
ground ready to receive US. They or
dered us to walk back to the express
car, the men telling me to instruct the
messenger to open the door, as they had
dynamite and would blow up the car II
the door was not opened. L told the
messenger this and he opened the door
and then shut it again, after which he
fired two shots at the robbers. A pass
enger put his head out OF one Of the
windows and one of the robbers fired n
shot at him. The men again threatened
to blow the car to pieces with dynamite
II IL was not opened. and the express
messenger then complied with their de-
mands. The men got inside, taking us
with them, and ransacking the car. All
the money was in the big safe and they
did not try to open 1t. They got nothing
whatever. After satisfying themselves
that there was nothing of value outside
Of the safe, and that 1t had been Sc
curely locked, they jumped out of the
car and went ahead to the engine again,
taking US with them. Reaching the en-
CINE, the men uncoupled IL from the
train and, firing some shots at the pass
enger cars to scare the passengers, /
suppose. pulled the throttle and started
toward Lodi. A brakeman was sent
back to Stockton to flag the Oregon ex-
press, which was soon to come along"