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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

The London Times says: THE trade
Of the Mexican republic is increasing
with considerable rapidity. Last year
the imports amounted to f9,395,54
against f7,249,009, while the exports
were Ell, 75O, 900. against ELL ESQ 900 the
previous year. The increase in Inn
ports was spread over all staples, but
was chiefly marked in the case Of iron
and steel and in machinery and imple-
ments. British imports were greater
In 1896 than in 1895. yet they only
amounted to II per cent OF the whole
Import trade in 1896, while they were
10 per cent the year before. The Inn
ports from the United States, on the
other hand, were 521s per cent Of the
Import trade Of Mexico, against As per
cent in 1895. This, our consul at Mex
leo observes, should warm British mer-
chants and manufacturers that unless
they soon make a serious effort they
win have to give up all hope OF profit
inR by the increase in the Mexican im-
mort trade. and may even lose part Of
fhe very limited share OF 1t they at
snresent enjoy The trade in textiles
generally. Ia which England has so far
held her own, becomes each year 9
smaller proportion Of the import trade.
so,rine 10 the improvement In domestic
,,annfactures; metals and machinery,
90. 81, Ana other hand. are every year
growing more important.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

The British taxpayer has learned
that he can not afford to neglect the
management of his city. He insists
that he get the worth of his money,
tion be conducted honestly and eff
GENTLY. For this purpose he selects
city officials on the basis of merit and
keeps them in Office as long as their
work is satisfactory-no longer. On
the other hand, the American citizen
mixes politics with municipal business
and intrusts the management of his
city to one or the other of the political
party machines organized for the BEN
eft Of their organizers and directors.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
FORTUNE FOR A NURSE.
Luck of q CASTOR Member of Lord
Dorby's Kin.

OOrOy0 Alns
Tossing on the ocean between Bos-
ton and Liverpool just now is Miss
Isabella Rosetta Farley, granddaugh-
ter Of Lord Derby, who is on her way
home to England to take possession
of fortune Of s25o,OO0. The story OF
Miss Farley's life is a romantic one.
She was born in Liverpool thirty-six
years ago. When 10 years old her
mother died and her father turned
her adrift when he married again.
She became a servant girl from sheer
necessity. Her employer lost what
money he had and she pawned her
jewelry and paid the expenses of him
and family to this country in 1888.
After serving two months as cook
at Mrs. Shaw's nursery, Al Holyoke
street, Cambridge, she was taken i'll
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
Tho Last Man on Earth

To rcclllessly experiment upon himself with
hope of relief is the dyspeptic Yet the nos
trumS for this malady are as the sands OF the
sea, and presumably, about as efficacious. In
digestion. that obstinate malady. even if OF
long perpetuity is eventually overcome with
HoStetter's Stomach BitterS. an apretiZing
tonic and Alternative, which cures constipation.
fever and ague bilious remittent, rheumutls m
kidney complaint and feeblcneSS.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
DO You Dance Tonight:

Shake into your Shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy Cures
Corns, Bunions, Chilblains and Sweat
ing Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, n. Y.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

complement to his Epic of Hades.'
He endeavors to do for the Christian
ideal in this work what his Epic
did for the pagan. The poet of very
recent years has been chiefly engaged
in collecting his old works rather
than in producing new ones. He is
now Ga years old. He was called tt
the bar at %, but never practiced the
law, preferring to devote himself quite
to literature, poetry especially, and to
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
Not Much Of n Loss.

A woman travelling from Bologna
to Florence. in Italy. recently had her
hair set on fire by a spark from a
locomotive. 1t turned out that the
hair was artificial and the loss was
not so grave as was feared
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

The annual report of Paymaster-
General Edwin Stewart shows that
during the past fiscal year the cost of
maintaining the ships of the navy in
commission was $S,938,549, and of
maintaining navy yards and stations
$3,568, $3.50. Repairs cost $1,773, 2O3, and
the Marine Corps cost $S36,713. The
total cost of maintaining the navy
during the year was $17, .231, not in
Guiding increases Of the navy and i'm
provements. The paymaster general
shows that, while there has been an
increase in expenditures for stores, the
purchases have been made with great
care and with regard to the actual
needs of the service, and that there
has been marked decrease in cost Of
supplies, as we'll as great saving in
acquisitions, etc, as a result of the
system pursued by the bureau. Gener-
al Stewart earnestly urges an increase
of the paymaster's corps by twenty,
and in support OF his request points
to the recent additions to the number
Of ships in the navy, each requiring
Its pay officer.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31
NEW K. OF L. CHIEF
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN
HICKS A CONSERVATIVE.
A Thorough Believer In tho Arbitration
Principle His Election Wild Re-
buke to Radicallsm in the. Great
Order,

ENRY A. Hicks,
who was elected at
Louisville, KY, by
the General AS
sembly Of the
Knights of Labor
to succeed James
R. Sovereign, re-
signed, as general
master workman,
has been some
thing of a cOnSer-
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

A Springfield (Mass.) girl who ran
away from college wore "a black
skirt and black flat cap" Meager
though the description is, it is suff1-
Gent to enable anybody to identify The
girl.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale said
in lecture in Boston that he found
that nine out of ten in class of girls
in one of the city's public schools had
never heard of Noahs ark.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

the son Of Grover Cleveland is to
be congratulated that he was born too
late to be called the prince. That title
affixed to the name of young man
means the grossest of abuse on the
part Of the newspaper reporters. They
follow him wherever he goes. Let him
be wise and a good fellow aud they
grow humorous over him just the
same. Let him submit to interviews
and they misrepresent him. Let him
refuse to be interviewed and they in
suit him to his face and afterward in
print. He is marked man, and NAL
ice follows him as naturally as his own
shadow. Let the little Grover thank
heaven that his father is too old ever
to be president again.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

A paper in Havana wants somebody
to lynch few Americans in that town.
The man to do the business is not the
editor of the paper, we feel sure.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

If you'd have a ser want II at youlke
serve yourself.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

Mrs. Winslow's 500 hing Syrup
For children tcethng soften the gums. reduces nfan1
nation aayS pain, wind collie 25 cents bottle
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

He that pursues two hares at once, doe
not catch one, and lets the other go.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

The absent are never without fault nc
the present without excuse.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

Would you persuade, speak of nteres
not of reason.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarcts Candy Cathartic. 0c or CSC.
If C. c. G. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

Star Tobacco is the leading brand o.,
the world, because it is the best.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

It will be cheerfully conceded that
Banker Spaulding bore an unblemished
reputation until he was found out.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

Goes Cough I8alsAm
Is the oldest and best 1t will break up cold quicker
han any thing else. 1t is always reliable Try it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-12-31

The excelency of hogs is-fatness, of men
virtue.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
MOTHER, GIRL ANU LOVER DEAD.
Case of Unrequitcd Affection. Murder
and Suicide.

Fresno. Cal. April pa triple tragedy
was enacted today at Red Banks, a farm
ing settlement so miles distant from here
AS a result Mrs. John Quais ana her
daughter Lulu are dying. and their as.
sailant James Brooks. is dead. Crooks
was formerly employed as laborer on
Qualls' ranch. but was discharged for per-
sistently making love to MISS Lulu. much
to her annoyance. Finally Brooks threat
ened TO shoot both mother and daughter
unless the latter promised TO marry him.
For this Brooks was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail. but before the
expiration of his sentence he was released
upon bonds furnished by tho complainant,
Qualls, upon his promise not to trouble
the girl again. Brooks then secured woi k
at another ranch 10 miles from Qualls
but instead of going to his new place,
Brooks appeared at Qualls' today, armed
with a Ratchet and shotgun. Qualls was
absent in the mountains, and Lulu, hear
her to say her prayers, as she must die.
Her outcries summoned Mrs Qualls, at
whom Brooks fired, and the old lady fell.
shot through the breast He then snot tho
girl the discharge almost severing her
right arm from her body, and he proceed
ed to finish his work by killing his victim
with the Ratchet. The girl. however. Sc
cured immunity from further attack by
kiss, and Brooks left the house, after
setting fire to it, He then went to a
neighboring barn, to which he set fire,
went inside and was burned to death.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY GIVEN THEM
Governor of Alabama VIII Protect
Mormon Missionaries.

Montgomery. Ala. May 3.-One night
last week some religious partisans in
Jackson county carried into the woods.
stripped and severely whipped two Nor
mon elders. The elders subsequently ap-
pealed to Governor Johnson for protec-
ton. representing that they had been
threatened with death If they remained
in the state The governor has promised
to protect them and has notified the sher-
if of the county to make them his special
charge. The governor says the constitu-
ton of the state guarantees religious lib
erty and that the Mormons are entitled
to it; moreover, that the elders in this
state teach the Bible and refrain from
preaching polygamy and the fact that
they believe the Mormon prophet to have
been an inspired writer should not lay
them liable to persecution.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
THE o. r. G. MS GOOD SHOWING.
Year Ending March 81 the Best in Its
History.

Portland, Or, May 4.-The o. r. & N
has completed the report of its opera
ton for nine months ending March 81,
which is the best showing that road has
ever made. The report in detail is as
follows: Rail lines, gross earnings, 49,
1855, 7O4; increase of gross earnings over
previous year, $3.50, ISL. Expenses, $1,653, =
1894; decrease of expenses over previous
year, $413,347. Net earnings from opera
tions, 81, 512, 80; increase net earnings from
operations, $685., sos. Net earnings of wa
ter lines, $22,077. Total net earnings for
nine months, 81, 534, 3S7
The fixed charges of the company are
5000, 600 per annum, the whole taxes about
S175,0O0 making the total charges against
the earnings 81 ,075,O00. This leaves a sur
plus of 100000, which is more than suf-
ficient to pay the full per cent on the
preferred stock of the company.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN PORTLAND
Grand Jury Accuses Police Commits
siOner and Prosecuting Attorney.

Portland Or, May 3.-The grand jury
has made a sensational report accusing
Prosecuting Attorney Lord and Chairman
of Police Commissioners Davis of being
privy to a gambling and prostitution
trust, which it says exists in this city;
so conducted that all persons who are in
the trust are protected by officers Of the
law, and all who are without are pun
ished. At the head of this trust 5 Rob-
ert c. Smith, who collects from each
gambling house 25 per cent of earnings
without any money being invested by him
whatever. Chinese lottery games are
forced to contribute 81 for each drawing.
The money is collected by a Chnaman
and by him paid to Special Officer Charles
Hoxie. Constable W. H. Conner is also
said to be half owner in a gambling
house. The report concludes as follows:
1--WE cheerfully acquit John Myers, the
chief of police, of any completely in this
affair. He has at no time been a party
to it, nor has he countenanced it. The
officers who did the soliciting for the
trust were not doing it by his orders
They were acting upon instruction from
Napoleon Davis, chairman of the board
of police commissioners, and Charles
Lord, the district attorney, is responsible
for all the official corruption which ex-
! lists in this city today
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
uorors for Embassndor Hay.

London, May 4-CoIoneI john Hay, the
newly appointed United States ambassa-
dor to the court of st. James, received
unusual distinction yesterday while pre-
senting his credentials to Queen Victoria
at Windsor castle. During the morning
a royal carriage drove up to Colonel
Hays residence with coachman and
two footmen in the royal scarlet livery to
convey Colonel and Mrs. Hay to Pad
dington station. At the station they were
met by the marquis of Salisbury and the
master of ceremonies, Col. Hon Sir Will
liam James Colville, who accompanied
them to Windsor At Windsor station
Colonel and Mrs. Hay found a royal car
riage in waiting to convey them to the
castle, where luncheon was served.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Scene of Havoc.

Guthrie, April 30.-Daylight found doz-
ems of people still clinging to trees, over
turned houses or timbers in the perilous
positions which they had sustained all
during the weary night.
For miles along the scene of devasta-
ton 1900 people, homeless, III from cxDos-
ure and hungry. passed a miserable night,
and morning found most of them too
weak to be of much assistance either TO
themselves or others.
The work of raftsmen proved most ef-
fective, and one by one people were trans
ported from their perilous positions to
places of safety on land.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
CENTRAL WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
Final Decree of Foreclosure by the
Federal Court.

Spokane, May 3.-The Central Washing
ton railroad and all the property owned
by that company is ordered by Judge
Hanford of the United States circuit
court to be sold by Master in Chancery
w. ]. c. Wakefield at the main entrance
of the Spokane court house at a day TO
be appointed by him within GO days after
June Z, 1897. A final decree of foreclosure
was handed down Saturday in the suit
of the Knickerbocker Trust COMPANY
and others against the Central Washing
ton Railroad Company the Northern Pa
cifc Railway Company and the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
BIG FIRE IN PITTSBURG
LOSS OF OVER s3.OoO.OOO by THE
BURNING OF BUSINESS BLOCKS.
Flames Leaped Hundreds of Feet In
to the Air. Illuminating the
Surrounding Country.

Pittsburg, May 3.-The greatest fire that
has visited this city since the memorable
one of 1S49 started shortly after midnight
in the immense wholesale grocery estab-
ishment of Thomas c. Jenkins, on Penn
sylvania avenue and Liberty street. and
three large blocks extending from Lib
erty to Pennsylvania avenue and from
Fifth street to Sixth street, have been
reduced to smouldering RUNS. The loss
will exceed $4,000, and is well covered
by insurance.
Among the buildings destroyed are Jen-
kin's wholesale grocery establishment,
Horne's six-story dry goods establish
ment, Horne's office building the Du
Quesne theater and the Methodist book
concern.
The fire started in the cellar of the Jen-
kins building, in a pile of barrels filled
idly up the elevator shaft and an air
draught used to ventilate the great build
ing famed the flames.
When the Jenkins and Horne build
ings had become enveloped in the con-
migration, Pennsylvania avenue was one
mass of flames and sheets OF fire with
heavy columns of shoke running 200
feet in the air The glare of the flames
could be seen for miles, and the streets
for blocks around were brilliantly illum-
mated
AS soon as the fire attacked these
buildings several streams of water were
turned on them, but water had no more
effect that if it was not an extinguish-
ing agent.
Flames from the burning oil in the
Jenkins building rolled out against them,
and in five minutes the two beautiful
Horne buildings were burning brskly.
A number of firemen were injured by
falling walls and live wires, but none of
them is seriously hurt.
Fireman George Atcheson, who was
one of three men in Cecil alley when the
Jenkins wall fell, is missing, and is sup
posed to be under the debris. The names
of the firemen hurt are: Mike Daily, Ell
/ mer Grecow George Mekin, William Err
win and Robert Badger.
All were taken to the hospitals.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
killed His Second Man.

Kansas City, May S.-BilI -.dler, one of
the most notorious characters of ;he city
last night committed his second murder
within two years and was himset shot
and perhaps fatally wounded. Adler
"mixed" with the negro keepers of a
crap game and when the smoke cleared
away it was found that Adler had shot
and killed William Johnson, negro, and
that Adler had been shot in the side by
James Gordon, colored. In 1894, during
the street masquerade which concluded
the fall carnival. Adler killed Postofiice
Inspector Jesse Mcclure.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Caotbipu Compnny Assigns.

Kansas City May 4.-The Joseph CAIN
Clothing Company, one of the oldest
wholesale houses in the city, has failed,
giving a mortgage to secure an indebted
ness of $3.50, 600. Later the Swofford Broth
ers Dry Goods Company applied for the
appointment of a receiver, and one was
appointed. The liabilities are placed at
$50, O00 Assets are not stated.
Beet Sugar Promoters Fail.
Milwaukee, May AZ. Richter a. Son,
foundry and machine shops, have made
voluntary assignment to T. II. Mar
burg. The bond is in the sum of $150,00O.
They were the original promoters of the
beet sugar enterprise at Menomonee
Falls, which failed Saturday
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
meet sugar Promoters Fail.
Postal Congress Delegates.

washington, April 5O.-PoslmdsIer IeH-
eral Gary has appointed the following
named delegates to represent the United
States at the international postal congress
to be held in this city next month; Cen
eral George S. Bachelor, New York;
Hon. Edward Rosewater, Omaha; Gen
eral James N. Tyner, Washington, d. c.;
General A. d. Hazen. Pennsylvania.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
EnrthnunIse in Virginin.

Richmond. Va, May 4.-Salem, Rad
ford, Pulaski, Blackburg, Christianburg'
Roanoke, Wythesville, Fincastle and 9TH
er points in southwestern Virginia report
having experienced earthquake shocks
yesterday. At some places there were
two shocks one Immediately after noon
and the other about p. m. Bricks were
thrown from chimneys and plastering
knocked down. The reports indicate that
the shock was southeast to northwest.
AT several points in the southwest there
was snow last night.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Gold Imports and Exports.

For the eight months ending with Feb
ruary last the imports of gold into the
United States was valued at $40 729, 95z,
and exports $14 756. ASS. For the same
period ending with February. 1896, the
imports were only $29, 1856. sol, against ex-
norris of $50 $50 764
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
officials short in Accounts.

Cincinnati, Ohio, May 4.-John e.
milestone, secretary of the waterwroks,
and Albert L. Ensline, one of the receiv-
ers, are reputed short in their accounts.
From the investigation in progress it is
said 1t already appears that MILESTONE s
shortage will reach Sl5.OOO.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
sedro Lumber Mill burned.

Sedro, Wash. May 4.-The Montborne
Single and Lumber Company's mill and
dry house burned Saturday. Neal and
Nelson, who were operating the MILL lost
$4,000. The company will not rebuild.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08

Washington, May 4.-Yank Yu, former
ly Chinese minister to the United States.
has left here for New York en- route for
his new station at st. Petersburg.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Forest Fire. in Wisconsin.

Ashland. Wis, May 4.-Forest fires are
starting up again around Ashland. a
big fire is raging across the bay and an
other is threatening Brule on the North
ern Pacific
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Mortgage for Three millions.

Dayton, Ohio, April 3O.-The Central
Union Telephone Company has filed a
mortgage here to the Illinois Trust and
Savings bank for 5000 000.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Joe Patchen Chnnged Hands.

Chicago, May 5.--Joe Patchen has been
sold for $4,000 at auction. His purchaser
was j. W. Marks. Chicago.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Trotter AItno Is Dead.

Portland, Or, April S0.-Altao (2;O9%D,
the fastest trotting descendant of the
great Altamont, died here yesterday.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-08
Had silver for Europe.

New York. May 5.-The American liner
St. Paul. sailed today carrying $4,000
ounces of silver.