The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-12-16
The victim was probably intoxicated
when it occurred,

The victim was probably intoxicated
when it occurred.
A syndicate IL farmers unloaded 90 |
900 bushels Of wheat the other day at |
Uniontown, Wash, selling 1t to Mr..
Covert, manager of the Tacoma Grain |
company. at 3S1a cents per bushel.
In the Walla Walla land Office for the
month Of November 100 homestead en-
tries were made covering 1906. 78 |
acres. In this month more entries were
made than in any one month since the
establishment Of the land Office in Wal
la Walla.
The sugar factory at Waverly has
begun work. The enterprise is ready
for business after several years of ef-
fort. As it is a well equipped plant,
four hundred acres of beets were raised
and one hundred and fifty men will be
employed.
There has been shipped to the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington q
large bundle Of wheat ON the stalk,
which is to form the center piece of the
American grain display at the Paris ex-
position. The grain was raised on the
o. R. & N. experimental farm near Wal
la Walla, under the supervision Of the
United States department of agricul-
| ture.
MONTANA.
It really looks now as II brand new
smallpox epidemic had started in at
Butte.
A. H. Benkendorf, of Smith Valley.
has lost his residence and household
goods by fire.
John Bigando. an emplcye Of the Bell
mine, at Butte, was painfully injured
while at work in the mine.
A. w. Swaney has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Kalispell to take the
place Of Laban Thompson. resigned.
will Engle. Of the lower valley, lost
his granaries and grain by fire the 9th
er day. About 1900 bushels Of wheat
and 1000 bushels of oats were burned
The loss is partly covered by insurance
G. M. Weidemann of Butte has been
arrested for not remitting SIP he re
ceived for the Colliery Engineer com
pany of Scranton. Pa. This is q com
pany which teaches engineering by cor
respondence.
This year the payment Of tax none,
has been heavier than ever before II
Butte. Out of the $4S5,000 due, abou
$472, 900 have so far been collected
leaving less than $4,000 to which tn
10 per cent penalty must be added. Yes
terday, the last day to escape the II
per cent addition. over $4,000 was pail
in, keeping the clerks busy.
Three mining accidents which, Will
. not fatal, are very painful. occurred Il
the mines in Butte recently. P. J. Ho
:. land, was thrown backwards against
timber, injuring his back seriousl,
J. John Mccarthy, station tender at tn
Bell mine, had car fall on his lei
leg, crushing it horribly. John Hare
at the st. Lawrence, was setting up
'' machine drill when the machine fel
catching him underneath it. His lei
leg was broken.
The police of Butte have receive
some information which Is to them on
and all disquieting. It Is stated ths
Jew Jess, the mistress Of Robert Sha'
we'll at the time he murdered he
O'Connor, has returned to Butte, an
is in hiding. She was wanted as wi
. ness, but kept away until sentence WI
pronounced. And worse still, she
:, accompanied by the equally notorio'
- and dangerous Black Pearl, who d
parted from Butte last spring after ro
bing a we'll known business man
10 $1,000.
Professor Malachy DwyeT, an old n
n ident Of Butte. formerly Of Ogdensbur
~ N. Y, during heated religious discl
-. sion with ]. s. Charlebois, the "divin
=. healer, attempted to strike the latt'
and Charlebois called on God to pl
N ~ tect him, and Dwyer dropped dea
=: ~ The men were in the public library
M the time. Charlebois, who Is from n
- 80 ena, and once lived in Spokane, Is
' aa religious zealot, with reputation az
divine healer. and is editor OF PUT
cation called "The Living Truth" d.
ne ing his discussion with Dwyer he ma
10Y the statement that he had read the
ures 1865" which were marked on
-. ~ forehead of the pope. Dwyer said II
'n' had an anti-Christ significance. q
:. called Charlebois a liar and made
rush for him with upraised hand
'"e strike him. Charlebois says he stt
up and called on God to protect n
nse and before Dwyer could strike he or
y ped dead. Dwyer was 68 years
The coroner's inquest this evening
.eo veloped the fact that death was
10 to heart failure. produced by exc
o,,- ment.
IN OREGON.
low Judee Fraser has decided that
liam A. Storey was legally elected n
w. or of Portland by the city council.
de. Multnomah Athletic club and Vi
tab. MICS of San Francisco proved eve
matched in a recent game OF footl
NJ. A young man named Willard Al
tied was drowned in the Grand Ronde r
an last week, while helping to ford 8
Dolic cattle across.
DR.. L. Irvine, who was second
waa a,c,an at the Oregon state insane
10 IN INN under DR.. Lane, has again
. -. ipr Of nf that 1