The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-01-15

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ment.-Double Standard.
There is food for thought, for others
az well as preachers, in the action
Of Brooklyn minister who has an
nounced his intention to give up a
church which pays him a salary Of
10000 year and go into the country to
preach for nothing, in order, he says. to
be rewarded in future life. That min :
lister ought TO come west.--Nampa '
Leader.
There are lGt OF IDIOTS oyer in the
western part OF the Panhandle" who I
are naming new places Dawson City,"
SKiOndike." etc. 1t was bad enough to
get "New Denver" over there by some
enthusiastic pumbskulls, but when it
comes to duplicating prominent Yukon
towns the people should rise up and
send the christeners to Blackfoot.-
Cnur d'Alene Sun.
Senator Shoup, in an interview with
the Salt Lake Herald's Washington cor
respondent, proclaimed his intention to
continue to walk in the middle Of the
goldbug corporation-trust road to the
end. lie said: Il have heard nothing
whatever OF any determination on the
part OF any western senators to leave the
party. For one. do not believe that
there is any truth in it. l am s,ill a
Republican. just as l was at the ST.
Louis convention, and l expect to re-
main. Idaho Reeorler.
The employees in great shoe factory |
at North Brookfeld. Mass, have just |
been informed tina, after Saturday last |
their pay would be cut down. The only |
reason assigned by the manufacturers 10
that they are losing money and cannot
continue in business unless they rednee
the wage aeconnt. The Dingiey tariff
put tax on hides, the raw material OF
the shoe factories. and the only way to
meet this is to reduce wages. The duty
was imposed against the earnest protests
Of shoe manufacturers, who insisted that
it would seriously injure their business.
Spokane Chronicle.
4 After two weeks Of patient waiting il
is said that Governor Steunenbery has
awakened to the fact that another peace
able citizen in the pursuit OF an honor
able avocation was taken from his bed
in the Ceur d'Alenes and after being
driven through the town was shot in the
back and left to perish from cold or to
die from the wound inflicted by mem
bers Of the Murderers' Union, and is
now going to raise the wind" II be
will bring the guilty to Justice, even if
he has to hang half the miners in that
country, every Law abiding citizen will
approve Of his action, bot if he don't it
will be taken for granted that he 10 in
l sympathy with that murderous gang
Moscow Mirror.
There has been another lynebing Of n
suspected murderer in the Palouse Sec
ton OF Washington. A few years ago
there was such q crime committed and
it was boasttd that II was done ito cave
the county expense" The Palouse is
covering itself with ignominy in permit
ting these crimes. Something is wrong
in aeomnunity where such things are
possible. There are sometimes extenu-
ating circumstances. II criminal is
caught red handed in the commission Of
some atFocious deed, condemnation of a
mob lynching him is necessarily modi-
fed by the Circumstance Of the case
But there is no possible excuse when q
man who is merely suspected is taken
out and killed.-Idaho Statesman.
The tempest in a teapot" which has
no doubt been brewing for some time in
the Democratic party, came to a focus
this week when Sheriff Peas dismissed
James Judge, his chief deputy. Sheriff
Teas justifes his action by THE
claims to be good reasons, while Mr..
Judge denouDces the same upon what
he considers good grounds, and from this
the public will probably have to form
their opinions. Tie Silver Blade has
no desire to probe deeper into this mat
ter for the reason that ii it is a political
affair it il among Democrats who are no
doubt abundanlly able to settle the diff
ferences among themselves, and if it is a
personal matter we have no desire to be-
come mixed up in it.-Silyer Blade.
The murder OF Whitney at Gem by
masked men few days ago is one OF the
most atrocious crimes yet committed in
that region of violence, and it 10 to be
hoped that the perpetrators will meet
their just punishment. Ordinarily we
find circumstances associated With the
commission Of murder which, while not
, justhying the crime. are more or less
} extenuating but where twenty or more
cut,hroats, masked, deliberately take a
man out OF his room and mercilessly
shoot him down, the act fills fair minded
people with horror, and unless every ei-
, fort is made to bring these Williams to
justice condemn alton should rect on the
community in which the crime was com
mitted Florence Miner.
: The notorious Bob Browne, one Of the
"sound money" leaders OF this state, but
whose peculiar fnanceering is said to
have caused him to leave this state
rather suddenly 4 few months ago, was
in Washington few days ago and stated