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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
HER BABY THE PLEDGE.
She Left the Child With the Police TO
Gain Her Husbands Parole.

She Left the Child With the Police TO
Gain Her Husbands Parole.
Chicago, Sept. 27.-Mrs. Frank Selig
showed her love for her husband in a
novel manner yesterday. He had been
fined 50 for disorderly conduct. He
had no money, but said he could Dor
row the amount if allowed to go out
and see his friends. The police would
not allow him to go from the station
without security for his return.
"Here, take this as security" said
Mrs. Selig, as she placed her three
months old baby in the court baliff' S
arms. Mrs. Selig then hurried out of
the station, saying she would not call
for the baby until her husband had Sc
cured the money to pay the fine. She
did not return, and, as the baby began
to cry soon after, it was taken to the
orphans asylum. Later in the day
Selig's fine was suspended, and last
night he and his wife went to the asy
jun for their baby.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
A Seattle sbarper Caught.

Seattle, Sept. 26.-Charles Newman
was arrested today on charge of using
the United States mail for fraudulent
purposes. He inserted an advertise
ment in the ost-Intelligencer, an
nouncing that an heiress worth $40, 900
wanted husband, and asked for a
two-cent stamp with the reply. De-
tective Jack Mcdonald replied, and
then came a demand for $40 bill, and
for an agreement to give Newman half
the brides fortune. A marked $40 bill
was sent, followed by letter from
McDonald's daughter in seeming search
for husband. Then Newman's post
office box was watched. He got the
letter today, spent the $40 bill and was
arrested. He is in Jail in default OF
$500 hail.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
Contracts without Armor.

Washington, Sept. 27.-On consid-
Grafton of the subject, Secretary Her
bert today decided to abandon the idea
of advertising for proposals for build
ing the two new battleships with pro-
vision for the inclusion of the neces-
sary armor for the ships in one form of
bid Consequently, the advertisement
will call for bids for the ships without
armor, according to the existing prac-
tice, under which all of our new ships
were built The idea of permitting
shipbuilders to bid for ships with ar
NOR complete is still under considera-
ton, but even if adopted, it will not
apply to these two battleships.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
A CHOLERA SCARE.
Rumors OF the Dreaded Disease in San
Francisco Had No Foundation.

Rumors OF the Dreaded Disease in San
Francisco Had No Foundation.
San Francisco, Sept 27.-The warm
weather today must have been the
means of starting more than one unfor-
tunate rumor that cholera had broken
out in this city. The story doubtless
had its origin in some idle remarks,
such as regular cholera weather" 1t
was, however, sufficient to put both
the quarantine officer, DIR. Chambers,
and the health officer, DIR. Lovelace, on
the aui vive. They made inquiries of
a case that Policeman Mahoney on the
water front had heard of man ON a
steamer who had heard from somebody
else that somewhere in the city there
were three cases that Cooked like"
cholera. Mahoney said tonight:
81 first heard the rumor on the wa
ter front, and finally traced its source
to the ticket collector of the North Pa
cific Coast railroad at Sausalito ferry.
He told me that passenger on the
2:15 boat had remarked to him that
there were three cases of cholera in the
CITY, The ticket collector asked him
where they were, and the passenger
said he did not know. He had obtain
ed his information from a bulletin
board up town, and did not stop to read
particulars. When reported off al
the harbor police station some of the
men had heard the story, but the cases
had run up to four and six. This is
all know regarding the story"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
The Irish In Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Sept. az Representa-
tives of fifteen Irish organizations met
tonight to take action on the refusal of
the Irish convention at Chicago to ad.
nit delegates sent from Allegheny
county. A letter was read from Dele
gate Madden, who said he expected to
be refused admission because OF antag-
onism to the ring. A representative
from Belfast is in Pittsburg, and said
to the meeting that the men who CON-
pose the Chicago convention have no
connection with any organization in
Ireland. Several protesting kilograms
were sent to Chicago.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
Rebellion in TimOr.

Amsterdam, Sept. ga dispatch
from Batavia, Java, reports that re-
bellion has broken out among the ma
tives in the Portuguese portion of the
island of Timor. Troops sent to quell
the instruction were repulsed and a
secretary and three agents of the gov
eminent were killed. The governor
has started for the interior with rein
forcements.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

Supposed to Be the Lord Downshire.
Philadelphia, Sept. 24.-It is now
generally conceded that the unknown
four masted steel ship, with which the
British ship Prince Oscar collided July
10 last, sinking her with all hands, is
the Lord Downshire, of Belfast, which
is commanded by Captain ]. g. Nc
Murray, well-known at this port.
This ship was known to have been in
the locality of the collision at the
time, homeward bound from Caleta,
from which port she sailed in May fol-
Hamburg, loaded with nitrate. Sc
positive are the underwriters of this
city, owing to her tallying to such an
extent with the ship which Captain
Henderson, of the Prince Oscar de-
scribes, that premium from 80 to 81
guineas is now being paid for her re-
| insurance. The Lord Downshire il
owned by what is known as the Irish
Shipowners' Association, of Belfast, o.
which Thomas Dixon & Sons are man
ayers. The Lord Downshire carried 1
crew of about forty men.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

Berlin, Sept. 26.-Dr. Henry Adolph
Berdelben, who was one of the sur
geons who attended the late Emperor
Frederick in his last illness, is dead at
the age of n years. DR.. Berdelben
was the chief of the medical and surgi-
cal staff in the wars of 1866 and 1870.
He was associated with DR.. Muller and
DIR. Virchow in several medical works.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
Ind emnitY Dennsiteh

London, Sept. ga special dis.
patch which was received from Shane.
hal today says that 10000, 900 taels in
silver have been deposited at Shang.
hal by the Chinese government with
which to pay the supplementary in.
demnity required by Japan as a consid.
Grafton for the evacuation of Lao Tung
peninsular.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
Graham Exonerated.

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 26.-The
United States grand jury made its re-
port tonight, and was discharged. 1t
found not true bills in the Chinese GER
tificates cases. These are the cases
wherein Register Graham, of the
United States land Office at Occur
d'Alene, and several others were
chrged with conspiracy in the prepare,
ton and sale of bogus Chinese certifi'
Gates. They were bound over to await
the action of the grand jury. The
cases excited wide interest, and the
friends Of Graham are jubilant tonight.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
British Demand Reiecteh-

Shanghai, Sept. 26.-It is reported
that China has rejected the British de-
mand for the Punishment of the ex-
viceroy of SEE Chuen. An imperial
decree, which has been issued, an
pointed Lii Hung Chang and all the
members of the tsung- li-yamen to
formulate an extra treaty between
China and Japan.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

London, Sept. 25.-A Berlin dis.
patch to the Daily News says the re-
cent arrest at Cologne of several French
spies has led to the discovery of com.
plete and far-reaching system of es-
pionage. Many persons, including
Germans, are involved. Arrests are
impending at Cologne, Magdeburg,
Brunswick and Essing.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
No More Raw Recruits.

Madrid, Sept. 27.-The government
has decided hereafter to send only vet
Grams to Cuba for the suppression of
the instruction there. Advices from
Havana report several skirmishes be-
tween Spanish and insurgent forces,
and the appearance of General Gomez,
the leader, in the province of Santa
Clara
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
Gold From the Swauk.

Ellensburg, Wash, Sept. 25.-
Charles Bigney came down from the
Swauk last night, bringing from his
mine sixty-tive ounces of gold nuggets,
the largest of which weighed twelve
ounces. Besides this he had one mug
get valued at about 81 900, the result
of weeks work. This makes over
$4,000 cleaned up by him since May
|. 1895,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

era MISREPRESENTATION
q L n T)f3 S6.-The Post Dis
afternoon declares that there
ltrike brewing on the Wabash
road. which threatens to tie up the en-
tire system from Toledo to Kansas
City. The paper adds:
"For several weeks past the COM
pany, through its officials, has been
quietly ferreting out the members OF
the various brotherhoods in its employ,
and one by one they have been as
charged. The reason given has usually
| been incompetency, drunkenness, pad
records or other causes equally as good,
and the discharged men had no re-
course. 1t is claimed, however, that
majority of the men discharged were
released because they are members OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi'
neers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, Order of Railway Trainmen, Or
der of Railway Conductors or the
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association.
These organizations embrace all
classes of men actually engaged on the
road in keeping trains moving, and
they are said to be well organized.
An engineer said today that the lodges
of all five orders at Decatur, Spring
field and Moberly would take up the
matter and demand the reinstatement
of all men who were not discharged fol
good and sufficient cause.
9" If they are not reinstated,' hi
said, there will be the biggest strik'
the Wabash has ever known, and WI
will make it cost the company NOR
than it could save on non-union mel
in hundred years. The st. Loui
lodges will also take the matter up.
President Clark, General Man
ager Chalres M. Hayes and Genera
Superintendent MCGEE are absent fror
the city Mr.. Logan, private secretar
to. Mr.. Hayes, said the Wabash roa
employs both union and non-unio
men, but prefers men whose allegianc
is to their employers, and not to an
.. brotherhood. He said he had II
= official information on the subject, bu
:, does not anticipate trouble.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
The Peary Expedition.

st. Johns, N. F., Sept. 27.-The
Peary expedition left here today on the
steamer Sylvia, bound for Boston.
One of the party admitted, before leav-
ing, that number of bones were found
near Greeley's camp, at Cape Sabine.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

<n he feared that Ene1 and will take |
away 4 vida b v j \ s. 81 d Wlaicln
no doubt properly belongs to
eminent George r. Tingle,
passed many years in Alaska, and who
was there ten years ago, says that all
the traditions of the oldest inhabitants
in Alaska, together with the knowledge
of the Indians, has been that the Rus
sian possessions which were sold to the
United States covered all that territory
which has always been considered as
belonging to the United States ever
since the Seward purchase. 1t is only
since the discovery was made that the
lands are valuable that England has
begun to reach out for them. Her sur
yevors, doubtless acting under instruc-
lions, have included in the territory to
be claimed lands which have always
been known as Russian America pre-
vious to the purchase, and since that
time as Alaska. Mr.. Tingle says there
ought to be little difficulty in estab-
fishing our claim to the territory as it
has always been known, but intimates
that it will take some stiff standing up
on the part of our government.
Mr.. Tingle has had great deal to
do with our seal fisheries, and for a
time was government agent in Alas
ka; afterwards an agent of the Alaska
Seal Company. He says that the policy
pursued by the United States has re-
suited in the loss of our seal fisheries,
and that British poachers have secured
the benefit of our sealing grounds.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
\ Browning has made his annual report
4 to the secretary Of the interior. 1t
hows progress in nearly all directions.
The only new important developments
curing the year was the trouble be-
tween the Bannock Indians and the
whites at Jacksons Hole, Wyo. Or
this matter Commissioner Browning
\ encloses a former special report h
made August II. Since the report
E however, the whole matter had beel
taken to the department of Justice, AM
the attorney general had reported tina
no Indians are confined in Wyoming
for violating the game laws of tina
state those who were held having bee
allowed to escape. The department {
Justice does not see how redress can b
obtained for the Indians who paid thei
fines. Commissioner Browning quote
from recent reports of Agent Teter
show that the Indians are still suller
and that they demand that the white
who wronged them be punished, an
the commissioner asks whether or NJ
the department of Justice cannot {
something towards Furnishing IL
offenders.
Secretary Smith has decided that IL
mineral land commissioners in MOI
tana and Idaho shall continue the wol
of making examinations of land in Il
Northern Pacific grants. The commi
sioners were stopped by reason of Il
appropriation being exhausted, but
has been determined that under Il
law the commissioners must continl
work even if a deficiency is created.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24
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Tacoma, Sept. 90. -.Ja = ~
this morning refused = s,h,r 4
Mayor Orr to appoint au''l M
torney than the pres,e,,n' 81. 800
James Wickersham. ne.nooi,>|
fuses to confirm the ,s J IA +
and Wickersham has helo Z
eral months.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-01-24

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the Oregon agriculture ,s. q
"dock" teachers wnen
absent.
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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
Wort md Huxley.

Like Huxley. his English proto.
type, Vogt was also an admirable
lecturer. Vogt never allowed the
opportunity of a pun to escape him,
and his bonmots were at times
hardly more elegant than they were
appropriate, but. for all that, no was
very popular, and equally so with
the few women students of his class
as with the men. He spoke in
French with a decided German in
t~onation, frequently relieving him.
self Of a sigh brought about by an
uncomfortably asthmatic condition.
His powerful bodily frame, dispro-
portionably shortened through q
generous development of tissue
about the equatorial region, was in
marked contrast to the tall and
nearly upright carriage of Professor
Huxley, whose slightly stopping
head and shoulders reduced some
what what might otherwise have
been considered a more than average
height. Huxley never entered tho
class lecture room except in a dress
In which he was Immediately pre-
pared to go to the street; Vogt rare
ly appeared without a coat which did
not in m or nor places show visi-
BILE signs Of underlying shirt sleeves.
Popular Science Monthly.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
The Fate of q Message.

We weighed anchor on Oct. 81,
and when close to the south shore
sent off two boats in search of seals.
On this occasion one of the boats,
being swamped in the surf, was i'm
mediately crushed against the rocks,
it's crew having a rather narrow es.
cape from drowning. One of the
men fought bravely in the breakers
for half an hour, without relinquish.
ing his grasp on his rifle.
With scrupulous care We now
composed a letter upon which each
of us carefully inscribed his sigma.
ture. Having placed it in "a small
bladder which had been given to us
for the purpose by the Norwegian
consul in Melbourne, we consigned
it to the waves and leaned over the
bulwarks to see the mail depart.
Much to our chagrin, a large alba.
tross hove in sight, and before our
message had gone many yards the
huge bird gobbled it up 1.-THE First
Landing on the Antarctic Cont
nent," by c. E. Borchgrevink, in
Century.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
Charles Dickens, Christinas.

l think that the pleasantest, as
we'll as the most vivid, of all my rec
objections of him arc those which
i connected with Christmases at
Devonshire terrace, at Tavistock
House, and ut Gadshill. Indeed, /
have him always before mo at
Christmas time, and can see him, as
it it were yesterday, looking around
the dinner table, with the first glass
of wine in his hand, waiting that we
might all drink to one another in
Bob Cratchit's toast, "A merry
Christmas to w all, my dears, God
bless u.s." or, standing on New
Years v at the stroke of midnight,
with his watch in his hand, to listen
for the nearest chimes; or playing
with extraordinary keenness and en-
ergy at the games, some of which
r recorded In the description Of
Scrooge's nephew's dinner party,
and in the pursuit OF which he took
never ending delight; O presiding
over the birthday children's ball,
which we had for SO many years on
twelfth night, himself the most
eager, the brightest, and the cheer
lest Of all the merry party. There
was nothing unreal about the "Dick.
ems Christmas at home, l can testi-
fy.-Charles Dickens the Younger in
Good Works.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
A Bit of Human Nature.

A crutch supported him rs he
stood on the rear platform of a street
car. His checks were hollow, and a
hacking cough escaped him at times.
Just in front stood a hale young fell
low smoking. The fumes seemed to
aggravate the cough. Finally the
invalid nudged the offender and
g%rulnbled:
Young man, you oughtn't to
smoke"
The young man puffed violently
and then retorted, "Whose business
is it anyway-yours Or mine?'
There was no response, but a fec
Bile "hack, hack!" from the sufferer.
Once again it sounded, and then the
smoker wheeled about. "Oh, / beg
pardon!" as he surveyed for the
first time his invalid fellow passen-
ger. Certainly! and he threw the
cigarette into the street."
For q dozen blocks the car jingled
on in silence; then the whilom
smoker swung off. AS he started for
the curb the invalid peered out and
shouted in conciliatory voice, Good
night, young man.
GOOD night. pop!' was the
CHEEKY response, and the hack,
hack!" was lost in the darkness
New York Mail and Express.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
A ROYAL Editor,

One Of the most interesting of
newspapers Is the New Zealand Te
Pakio Matariki, or Pleiades, or Seven
Stars. 1t enjoys the distinction of
having IL king for an editor. His
royal highness Tawhiao is not, it
is true, An independent sovereign
IKE Emperor William, but when he
descends from the royal throne to
the editors easy chair then, in.
deed, is he monarch of all he sur.
veys, even of that otherwise indie.
pendent parsonage, the printers
devil
The Pleiades is a small eight page
paper, three columns on a page. 1t
is printed in the English and native
tongues. Sometimes the translation
is in the center column, sometimes
III n of the outside columns.
The Maori language is a Polyne-
sian dialect. 1t closely approaches
that of the Sandwich Islands, of the
Navigator's group and of Rarotonga.
Natives of these mutually under
stand one another. Strand Maya.
zine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
Russian Beggar Associations,

OF all the artels, or associations
the beggars' r the most interest
ing and--the most immoral. In no
European country but Russia would
such institutions meet with tolera-
ton. But there begging is a recog-
nized profession. In many villages.
as soon as the harvest is in, the
whole population forms itself into a
huge artel, which is split up into a
number of parties. The halt, blind,
manned, etc, are divided out equal
ly among the parties, SO that each of
them may have an equal claim on
public sympathy. They then start
off on a begging tour, in the course
Of which they sometimes go 200 or
300 miles away from their homes.
During the day they go about in
different directions, no two parties
being allowed to enter the same viii
lage, but at night they all meet to-
gether, and then, if all tales be true,
they have thigh jinks." They put
everything they receive into q COM
mon stock; they eat the food and
sell the clothes, dividing the pro-
ceeds.
During three months expedition
they often clear enough money to
keep them in idleness for tho six
months that follow. Some of the
beggars' artels I permanent insti-
tutions, the members of them doing
nothing but beg from n years end
to another. They are said to have q
fairly pleasant life, on the whole.
and to be better fed and better cloth
ed than the majority Of those who
give them aims. Chambers Jour
nal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
Yankee sleds Beat sw,.. C~oss,.r..

The original 'otobansk' has for
long remained sufficient for Cana
dian tobagganers, probably because
the pastime with them is hardly
more than the original means of To-
oomotion it provided for the Indians,
and competition in speed was never
a successful possibility. The primi-
tive Swiss coaster was destined to a
far shorter supremacy when put to
the keen tests of the racing that de-
veloped it. Men soon got all that
was possible in the way of speed out
of sitting on a wooden framework
balanced upon fat iron bars. And
Mr.. l.. P. Child of New York sup
piled the want by producing in the
winter of 1887 an American clipper
Sled" which beat every rider in
Davos out of sight, whether native
or imported. He rode it lying head
first on his side, steering with one
m~occasined foot swinging out be-
hind, after the method familiar on
the chutes of Montreal.
Owing to local prejudice and hab-
it, this head first position had not
penetrated to Switzerland till long
after it had been well known else
where. But even the introduction of
the new position was not SO essen
tial IN advance as was the long
spring runner of Mr.. Child's ma
chine, by means of which steering
was made far more accurate and
easy than with the old fat runner
of the "sohlittli." Mr.. E. Cohen,
another American, by winning the
best race at ST. Moritz, sitting on
n of the new clipper sleds, proved
conclusively the merits of the right
machine, even when it was ridden
in the wrong way, and showed that
on hard ice as we'll as on the snow
of the postroads the new machines
and methods were a great advance.
-Scribner's.