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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-03-10

The reelection of James H. KYLE to
the United States senate from South
Dakota determines the complexion of
that body as it will appear when the
Republican party comes into power
March 4. 1t will be composed of the
following elements:
Republicans Silver republicans H. 4
Democrats .,..............33 Independent 49,. 1 /
fopulists................ Vacancies. .... 3
Never in the history of the nation has
the delineation of parties been so un-
certain as will be exemplitied by the
senate to be organized at the beginning
of the administration of President Nc
kinley. No party as control in the
upper branch of the national legisla-
ture, and although the Republicans
predominate in degree they are short of
majority, even after counting the
free-silver senators like Wolcott, Hans
borough and Carter, who are true to
the party, while differing with it on
the most important political issue of
the day.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-03-10

The proclamation Of the outg going
president, calling an extra session of
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-03-10
ELMORE BULLETIN.
v. N rAfSk' MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
Terms of SubscrIptlon

Une year by mail Invariably In advanced 81 90
81 81 not paiu IN 90
ok months by mail Invariably In ad Vance) so
5 1hree mos by mail Invariably in advance) 90
pnsie 10
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19

senate, and a local option feature added to
the measure. 1t provides that local option
shall apply to towns, townships and munic-
qualities. County option was defeated.
Senator Wyman introduced a bill provide
ing a bountyof 1 cent a pound OH g and
2cents a pound on syrup and molasscs
manufactured in this state. The liquor
bill was further amended, making $3.50 of
the county tax revert to tile general fund
of the state. The county tax is raised to
$500. Mr.. Anderson of Pennington intro
duced a bill providing for a uniform
non interest bearing state, county, mu-
nicipal and township warrants, to he
issued against taxes assessed but not
collected, and are made receivable for
taxes and all public claims except interest
on bonds and Indebtedness incurred prior
to the passage of this act. They are TO he
in denominations of s25, SIS, 81, S., So and
81 and so cents each, at the option of the
party receiving the This bill pro-
vides that the treasurer of the state may
issue such warrants in payment of claims
against the state or may place them upon
the market for sale. County and township
treasurcrs may issue under the same re-
strictions. Representative McWhortcr's
bill to tax professional men provides a tax
of $50 a year on physicians, lawyers and
surgeons, $25 a year on dentists and vet
Urinary surgeons, and $40 OH teachers hold.
ing q state certificate,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
WclncSlnY.

The twentieth ballot in the legislature
for United States senator resulted:
lcKlef
GOodNkOontZ 10
IIincl:ley O
Scattering. 3
Ten members were absent. 1Iinclley
secured the democratic vote.
y resolution was introduced in the senate
calling for an investigation of the charges
made by a local paper that Senators Morgan
and Denton had been Influenced by Mark
Ilanna's money and that $5O.OOO is being
divided among purchasable populistS.
senator Morgan demanded that.
the charges against himself and
Senator Denton be thoroughly i'll
vcstigated. He and Denton are the p
list members who on Tuesday voted for.
Picker. The Dowell- Sheldon contest.
which has occupied the session more or less
up 10 Wednesday, was disposed of in favor
of Sheldon, Republican, by a vote of 40 to
20. The senate is still working on the
liquor bill and in committee of the whole
have adopted the schedule of licenses,
which are as follows: For retailing brcwed,
malt or intoxicating liquors, $500 per an
mum municipalities to fix theirown licenses
U'tstieiois WI sciiiuS DeeF du WHOLESALE.
900: for selling sp%irituous liquors a,
wholesale, $1,000; for manufacturing
beer, 800; for manufacturing other in
toxicating liquors, $500. This license on
wholesalers will dcbar outside brewers
OF liquorhouses from establishing ware
houses in the state, and practically
gives the state brewers a monopoly of the
business. The warehouse bill was resur-
rected and passed shorn of all its objcc-
tiOnable features. Warehouses that store
grain are taxed $40 per annum, but ware
housemen say they will not store grain
hereafter, and this will compel the farmer
to either store his grain when he takes it to
market or take it home again. The fund
created by taxing warehouses now goes to
the state general fund, and it is not to be
used by the railroad commissioners to en-
ploy legal counsel, as the first bill pro-
posed. The regents of education bill was
reported favorably by the senate and is
amended SO that the members of the board
shall be chosen equally from each of the
political parties in existence at the time of
their appointment.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
ELECTORAL VOTE is COUNTED.
Formal Announcement Of the Result
In the November Election.

Formal Announcement Of the Result
In the November Election.
The last formality incident to a presi-
Dental election occurred Wednesday in
the hall of the House of Representatives
in the presence of the joint assembly Of
Congress, when the President an-
nounced the electoral vote as shown in
the returns from the several States. The
ceremonies attending the count were sim
pie and mOnotonous. After an hour Of
routine business the House prepared for
the coming of the Senate by vacating
three rows of desks in front of the Speak
er, on the Democratic side. Promptly at
i O'Clock the sergeant-at-arms of the Sen
ute announced the presence Of that body,
which filed down the middle aisle. The
galleries had been crowded for several
hours by a curious throng, which obtained
admission upon the presentation of tickets
allotted for distribution among the MEM
bers Of Congress.
Vlce-Presidcnt Stevenson sat at the side
Of Speaker Reed and presided over the
joint session. Senators Lodge and Black
burn, ON the part of the Senate, and
Messrs. GrOsvenor and Richardson, ON
oehalf of the House, acted as tcllers. The
returns We're opened by the Vice-Presi-
dent M announced by the %tellers. The
reading of the certificates, long in VERDI
age, was omitted after that of Alabama
had been read. The totals were as fol-
lows: For President, Mckinley 271, Bry-
an 116; for Nice-President. Hobart 271.
Sewall LAO, Watson ~. The following
was the vote as it was announced in de-
fNil.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19

INV III III
the hosts knew the cNact number, but it
reached 1.SDo. because many of the cards
went abroad and to persons in this coun-
ivy at n distance from New York who
would have felt sighted if not invited, and
who would have overcrowded the ball
room had they all decided to come. Eight
hundred or 900 men and women, repre-
senting the world of wealth and society
in and about New York, constituted the
guests at the elaborate'social function.
The ball began at midnight and ended
at ) o'clock in the morning. Therefore
its pleasures cost Mt the rate of 100000
an hour. The cost to the hostess. was
about S125,OOO. 1t was. u superb specta-
Gle. which will go down in society's his.
tory as n riot of color and display. 1t
cclipsed all previous bal Mosques. 1t is
the browning glory of the social life of
New York of this century. 1t may not be
surpassed in another hundred years. II
was a gorgeous, superb and wonderful
spectacle. 1t was n monument to vanity.
splendid and ridiculous. The results Of
months of preparation and the outlay of
hundreds of thousands of dollars were ex-
hausted in five hours
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
a PREHISTORIC PEOPLE.
Remarkable Discovery by an Ameri
can Explorer In Mexico.

Remarkable Discovery by an Ameri.
can Explorer in Mexico.
The ruins Of a vast and populous pre-
historic city were recently discovered
by an American explorer, William NV
en-, in the State of Guerrero, Mexico. I
found, he says, in giving a report of his
discovery, the remains OF twenty-five
temples, all built of stone and lime and
occupying a space on an average of
about 10000 square feet, with altars
in the center Of all Of them from five to
twenty feet high and from ten to If
teen feet square. Besides these 1 rode
over the ruins Of tens of thousands of
houses from twenty to eighty feet
square. At every important point I
made excavations and invariably found
some image and curious objects. In a
deep canyon let the Canada de Top
ilote there vas a vein of human bones
about seven meters in length, and in
some places six inches wide. The skulls
could lot bear handling, crumbling to
dust on the slightest pressure, but the
teeth had not changed, and on examin-
ing the jaws the canine teeth were
found to be absent in every case, which
would indicate that they were a race of
great antiquity. Another very remark
able fact was noted, that in all the ex-
cavations made not an arrowhead was
seen, which might prove that they
were a peaceful people.
have no means, continues MI. Niv-
en-. Of knowing what prehistoric race
lived there, but I believe they ante
dated the Aztecs by thousands of years.
One thing is certain, that from the
great number Of temples and idols and
affairs Of worship they must have been
a deeply religious people.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19

and buried the body in Such IL way that
n stream of trickling water would help
in its decomposition. But Capt. Weller
had friends; hc was missed; IL search was
made and it was not long before the de-
t~ectives discovered the grave and identi.
fed the remains.
Meanwhile, news had been brought 10
the Australian police that another man
named Preston had gone into the noun
tains II never returned. Next the body
of this Preston was discovered. Then it
was found that another man had disap-
peared under the same circumstances as
those surrounding the vanishing of We'll
Ter. Then another and another. and still
another. The news of these disappear
ances ran from end to end of Australia,
and the whole police system of the coun-
try was brought to bear upon the case.
Finally it vas found that Il man named
Lee Weller had applied to the Sailors
Home at Newcastle for a berth on a ship.
Seven days later this Lee Weller shipped
out of Newcastle before the mast on the
British tramp ship Swanhilda, bound for
San Francisco in coal. This was all the
detectives wanted to know. The man
calling himself Weller was Butler beyond
any doubt, suddenly grown suspicious and
ACSO1Ncu uI'Oll u UOll. DutlcC . photograph
was identified at once by the Superintend-
ent of the Sailors Home as the supposed
Lee Weller. 1t was out of the question
to overhaul Butler now, but two Austria
linn detectives, McHattie and Conroy,
took passage on n steamer for San Fran
cisco, where they arrived some three
weeks ago
They outstripped Butler and waited for
him AZ f1,o IN t;~,o ,uo%l,. J..,.
tive set out for London to obtain extradi-
tion papers. Upon obtaining these docu-
ments he crossed the ocean to New York
and Immediately departed. for San Fran
cisco, where he joined the other detec-
tives.
The detectives. rc-enforccd by others
nntil there We're seven in all, took I'M
their quarters in a room on Meiggs' wharf
at San Francisco to await the arrival Of
the S~wanhilda. The ship arrived Friday
and Butler. doubtless astounded To find
that he had been outstripped. w:s taken
into custody.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
THE STATE CAPITAL
WHAT THE LEGISLATURE is DO.
ING AT PIERRE.
An Impartial, Record cf the Work
Accomplished by Those Who Make
Our Laws Daily Report OF the
Proceedings.
Friday.
Tho ballot for United States senator ON
fhe Eth rosultai.

SsAO W St0tCS oClkAlUI Ukl
the 9Th resulted:
NAytS
S~j0Odykoontz. 81
10
&
scattering. 3
In the house the usury bill was passed by
q vote of ~ to 10. The bill provides for :
per cent. legal interest and 10 per cent. on
contract. On amounts less than 81, 900 there
IS no limit on the contract interest.
The bill to reimburse State Treasurer
Phillips for expenses incurred in bring
ing the state cash to the capitol for inspec-
ton passed the house. A new bill was in
troduced to define the boundary of Mead.
Butte, Stanley, Pennington and Lyman
counties. This bill provides for the abol-
ishmcnt of all u~norganizcd counties OH the
ceded lands and makes the boundaries of
the above counties include all of this land.
Bills were passed giving juries power to
set the punishment where fine and i'm
prisonment are penalties. A bill fixing the
salaries Of county auditors on a basis of
the valuation of the county, with $500 as
the minimum and $1,000 as the maximum,
was passed. Other bills passed were
to allow city councils to appoint
city officials in case of failure to
qualify and a resolution memoralizing
congress for taxation of lands of Indians.
In the senate the liquor license and the
state dispensary bills were up for debate.
and after an hour of tilibustcring, both
measures were made special orders for
Tuesday. Feb. 9. The valued insurance
policy bill was defeated in the house by
two votes, hut it is thought this action will
bereconsidercd.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
Saturday.

The vote on the sixteenth day of the bal
loting for United States senator resulted:
llckler.. so
Kyle 81
Goodykoontz.
Liowlhah III
RAINIER ............... ................ ]
Thu new legal rate of interest bill passed
the mouse on the 5th. 1t provides that the
highest rate of interest which it shall be
lawful for any person to take, receive, re-
tain or contract for in this state shall be 10
per cent. per annum, and at the same rate
for a shorter time, except when the
amount involved is over $1,000, when the
rate may be any rate agreed upon in writ
ing. n action or proceedings at law"
says the law, ''or otherwise shall be MAIN
tanned upon any contract for the payment
of money in which it is agreed to nay a
higher rate of interest than 10 per cent.
per N when the amount is 81, 900 or
less. Unless within the above limitations
there is an express agreement in writing,
fixing a different rate. interest is payable
on all moneys at the rate of Z per cent. per
annunl after they become due on any in
strument in writing, and on money lent or
due, Or any settlement of accounts, from
the day OH which the balance is ascer-
tanned. and on moneys received for
the use of another and detained
from him. Nothing in this section
shall he construed to prevent the
maintaining of all action in the courts by a
bonatile purchase of negotiable paper i'm
good faith before maturity for a valuable
consideration and without notice of a de-
Tense as to usury." The valued insurance
policy bill after being killed in the house
OH the 18th by a majority of i've was resrr-
rccted and passed by is majority. Aside
from the legislative appropriation bills and
the Joint resolutions to congress-, the fol-
lowing bills have been signed by Gov. Lee
and arc laws: Senate bill No. 1. regu-
lating railways: senate bill No. 4, forbid
ding appeals where the amount involved is
less than $50.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19

ing officers overcont. The colonel was
with the lieutenant's wife ut the time.
These eases. together with an odd MUIR
der OF two among the privates and some
other evidences of ~disorganization mt the
post, excited the Indignation of the Secre-
tary of War and the President to the ut.
most degree. Col. Crofton is one of n lit
tie company of foreigners who were jump
ed into the regular army early i'll the wal
in pursuance of Il wcll-maturcd plan by
President Lincoln looking toward the nc.
ccptance of the services of foreign SOL
diers who could be depended upon to be
without bias in the sectional strife then
beginning.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
Current condensations.
[r. and Mrs. Noise are Jasper Coun-

Mr.. and Mrs. Noise are Jasper Coun.
ty, Missouri, musicians.
A license is required in England to
sell ginger beer after 10 o'clock at
night.
In the domains of the British empire
alone some 5000 individuals vanish
every year.
Tw%enty-three hundred and seventy
two employees are engaged in handling
the annual output of Chicago's post.
office.
No tree has yet been measured which
was taller than the great eucalyptus in
Gipsland, Australia, which proved to
be $50 feet high.
The early Japanese swords were en-
pccted to be so keen that a blade sus-
pended horizontally beneath u tree
would sever any falling leaf that might
strike upon its edge.
Belgium's revenue from the drink
habit has grown in forty years from
100000 to 33,OOO,OO O francs, crime in.
creasing 200 per cent. at the same time
and insanity lbs per cent.
1t is said that the highest point ever
reached by oil was in January, 1860,
when it went to $50 per barrel. The
lowest point, 5 cents per barrel, was
reached in November, 1861.
Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer royal
COR Ireland. is said to believe that the
ne is approaching when posterity will
be able to construct machinery that will
be operated with heat obtained by the
direct action of the suns rays.
MaXim's cavalry gun, which fires 700
shots a minute, weighs but thirty
pounds, and can be carried strapped to
a soldiers back. The gun he made for
the Sultan of Turkey fires 40 shots u
minute, but it Is a field piece on wheels.
An experienced whuler is authority
for the statement that the Greenland
whale eve has more than one set Of
teeth. These teeth are milk teeth and
when the young whale is weaned they
do not fall out like a baby's milk teeth,
but disappear by absorption in the jaw.
and instead of being replaced by per-
manent teeth plates of baleen or whale
OOAC akS SuOoSltukCO 1OI lueLls
At a recent State fair an inventor ex-
hibited a machine that lie had construct
ed for converting grapes into sugar and
| syrup. Experts who witnessed the op-
Grafton and others affirm that the pro-
cess is a complete success. The expert
ments We're mostly confined to Muscat
and other sweet grapes known to carry
II large amount of s%accharine matter.
Heretofore the difficulty has been in
FORMULATING grape sugar. But by this
new process it is claimed that grunula.
ton is perfect.
Musicians in the United States navy
are u fairly well paid class Of enlisted
men. Only %flagships have Il band, but
something in the way of official music
is provided on board all ships. Band
masters r%eceive$25 per month: first lnr.
sicians, 500; musicians of the tirst-class.
S3S22; second-class. $50; drummers. S13 to
$50. The members Of the Marine band.
by provision of an act of Congress. now
almost forty years in operation, receive
in addition to their pay an allowance of
81 per month for playing ut the White
House.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19

NMR@y9a'j

Ouida never shakes hands. She declares
it to be the most vulgar form of saluta-
ton.
President Cleveland will he GO years old
two weeks after the expiration of his
present term of Office.
Capt. Mallan. the celebrated naval his
torian. just relieved from active service,
is an enthusiastic hicyclist.
Gov. O'Fcrrnll of Virginia has declined
an invitation TO address the Young Mems
Democratic Club of Boston.
The first negro to be admitted to the
bar in the State of Illinois WAS floyd G.
Wheeler. who was admitted in 1850,
: Gov. Morrill, of Kansas will confine hla
European trip next snmu,er to n three
months o of England. Ireland aud
Scotland.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
F,eNolsA MURDERER CAUGHT.
Lured Victims Into the Mountains of
Australia and Killed Them.

w . tA1 o8
Australia and Killed Them.
The story of the crimes. flight. pursuit.
and capture of Frank Butler. the Aus
tralian murderer. who has been caught ut
San Francisco as he was ahout to land
from the sailing ship Swanhilds, is IL re-
markable one.
On the Dist of November. in tho year
1896, appeared in one of the newspapers
of Sydney. Australia. an advertisement
to the effect that one Frank Butler
mining prospcctor, was in search of a
partner with whom to engage in a vertain
mining venture. 1t was stipulated that
applicants should possess ut least ten
pounds and come well recommended.
Capt. Lee Weller answered the adver-
tisement and accompanied Butler to the
Blue Mountain mining region. in what is
known as the Glenbrook district. There
Butler shot him in the back of the head
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
Notes of Current events.

Count Cassel!a. the l'ope's private cham.
berlain, formerly of Denver. died at
Rome. He was horn in London in 1879.
Edward w. Emerson. of Concord. son
OF Ralph Waldo Emerson, has been no.
sen as poet for Phi Beta Kappa day at
Harvard. next June.
1t is scmi-oilicial!y stated that ncgotia-
tons for a treaty of general arbitration
between France and the United States
We're commenced about IL year ago. but
We're only resumed when it was annonnc-
ed that the Anglo--American treaty hnd
been definitely concluded.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
COL. cRoFToN's RETIREMENT.
President clevc-aad's Action crcatcs
a Sensation in Army Circlca.

1rcsfucHt OIcHC aIu's ActiOn Irc0tC1
a Sensation in Army Circles.
The retirement of Col. Crofton. of the
Fifteenth Infantry. by order of the Prcsi-
dent. has created Il sensation in army
circles. Col. Crofton refused to accept
an invitation to voluntarily retire. While
he was in command at Fort Sheridan
there We're several sensational affairs.
Lieut.. Nancy killed Captain Hedberg.
Crofton was struck in the face by Lieut..
Welsh during Il dispute in the %cplonel's
ent. Lieut.. Samuel 7. Paguc. of Com
pany II. fired three bullets ut Col. Crofton,
IL of the missiles going into the ground
and the other two piercing the command.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-19
Thursday.
thursday.
The vote for senator in the legislature re-

Inc vote Tor senator in the legislature re-
suited:
i,ickler AS
hyle %
...22
lhckl q
iloWihai 3
2
aiiiict j
nccNS i
The Dowdell-Sheldon contest after being
settled in the house OH the 10th in favor of
Sheldon, republican, vas brought up again
on a motion to reconsider on the 1ltll. a
motion to adjourn was Their made, but the
chair ruled the motion out of order. An
appeal was taken, the chair overruled II,
and the house adjourned. This was sup
posed to dispose Of the contest but the Dow
dell faction announced that they would
make another effort Friday to seat Dowdell.
a bill to restore 10 Mrs. A. G. Mel.
lette her Watertown home, which was
turned over to the state by ex-Gov. Mel
lctte, was introduced in the house. The
liquor bill was further considered in the