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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

The telephone line along the P. & L.
N. into the Seven Devils, will stop at
Council until spring.
More men are at work in the Occur
d'Alenes than when the miners union
was in control.
The body of r. ID. Atkins, who was
drowned in the Snake river near Lew
iston October 2, was recovered last
week.
A contract for the completion of
IA miles of the New York Canal which
will water large tract of land south
of Boise, was let last week.
A powder magazine in the Lucky
Boy mine at Challis exploded last week,
doing considerable damage to the shaft
but fortunately no one was killed.
Sergeant Crawford, who was bribed
to let a number of prisoners escape at
Wardner, has been tried by court mar
tial and convicted. Punishment has
not yet been announced.
Supplies for the penitentiary have
81. 80 per cwt; beef. 4 80 per cwt; hay,
SO per ton; ham, IL cents per pound !;
bacon, 915 cents per pound.
p. z. Shelby of Parma, has sold his
hop crop to the Schlitz Brewing COM
pany of Milwaukee. On account of
their excellent quality he received
3 cents pound more than the market
price.
Miss Defonda Turner, employed in a
laundry at Boise, has been left $4,000
worth of Salt Lake real estate by F. B
Stamper, whom she nursed through
severe sickness last summer. Miss
Turner is 81 years of age.
Twenty-Five carloads of prunes were
shipped from Payette this season. The
cars net from $500 to 5000 each, after
paying $500 freight and allowing 5000
for putting the fruit on the cars
About $4,000 is the net proceeds fol
this year.
The authorities have received infor
nation which they believed was correct
that the eight men under indictment
for murder who escaped from the bull
pen two months ago were in the noun
tains on one of the headwaters of the
Clearwater.
Last week a suspicious noise abou
the storeroom at the pen at Wardnel
where lao prisoners are confined, led t,
the discovery of a trench through
which. during the night, all the pris
oners would have escaped but for tn
timely discovery. The trench was fill
ed with water and closer watch kept
The sheepmen who have driven thei
bands to the head of Willow Creek ar
about half through. They have dippe,
about 5000 head a day. To do this
or 10 men are needed, and as it is YER
difficult, if not impossible, to pick u
the number of skilled dippers wheneve
wanted, several sheepmen unite to dill
They get dipping vat rs feet long,
to 8 inches wide at the bottom,
, inches at the top, and about feet deeI
This is filled with sheep dip, a poison
GUS stuff that the sheep are very car,
full not to swallow.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Bring Home the Dead.

New York, Oct. 2s.-A special from
Washington says that d. H. Rhodes, an
employee of the quartermaster's depart
ment, who superintendent the removal of
the dead soldiers from Cuba last spring
has departed for Manila to make arrange
ments for bringing to this country the
bodies of the boys who have fallen in
battle or died of disease in the Philippine
islands
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Commission to the Pope.

Manila, Oct. 2s.-The Filipino congress
has selected commission of native priests
to proceed to Rome and explain to the
pope the abuses and iniquities of the friars
and ask for correcting Intervention.
Aguinaldo, in recent speech at Tarlac,
characterized the friars as intriguers and
abusers of honor, law and morality, and
declared they caused SPANS downfall in
the Philippines.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

Sunken ships can be raised with lit
tie effort by the use of an Ohio mans
apparatus, comprising airtight bags of
proper shape to fit the different COM
partments, the bags being inflated to
accomplish the two-fold purpose Of ex-
polling the water and increasing the
buoyancy of the ship.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
MED of His wounds.

Macon, Ca, Oct. 2s.-J. L. Robertson,
a prominent planter of Twiggs county,
died from the effects of wounds inflicted
by John COSBY, who was lynched by
mob near here for the assault.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

Forty live sea lions were captured at
the Santa Barbara islands recently for
the zoo at Antwerp, Belgium.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

Rider Haggard owns scarab he is
convinced brings him good luck. He
picked it up in Africa and wove q
story about it in "She."
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Hobart Is Better.

New York, Nov. l.-Vice President Ho-
bart, in the opinion of his physician, may
survive several days.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

The Anaconda Mining Company has
commenced suit. against F. Augustus
Heinze to recover a seven-twelfths in
terest in all the ores extracted from the
Parnell lode claim and to compel the de-
PENDANT to permit the company 70 en-
ter into joint possession and occupancy
of the claim.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04

Pretoria, Oct 2s (via Lourenzo Mar
quez).-The bombardment of Mafeking by
Gen. Cronjes' command has taken place.
The women and children were given ample
time to leave the town.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-04
Under Martial Law.

Newcastle is under martial law. The
town is quiet. Farmers within radius
of three miles have been called on to give
an inventory of their stock in case it is
required, and citizens have been ordered
to give up their arms. About 300 have
comnlied
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

Angeles his home. the attention Of largs
fuel consumers was called to the most ad-
vanced appliances used in the East for
was made. The manufacturing interests
of San Francisco, ever alive to such ad-
vantages, investigated the liquid fuel
question, and many of them began to use
it.
Then came the wonderful oil dis
coveries down in Fresno and Kings
counties-discoveries that held out ab-
sOlute assurances of the permanency Of
the California oil supply in the develop
ment of wells producing 1000 barrels per
day; wells hat did not require pumping,
but poured out their Oleaginous treasures
spontaneously ike the great gushers Of
the Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and
received a most remarkable impetus. Out
Of a tract Of ground, barely $50 acres in
extent, there is now being produced 1900
barrels Of good fuel every day. All Of
this oil finds its way to the mills and
factories of San Francisco, and the cry
is still for more oil. But small per-
centage of the industrial establishments
OF this city are Yet using oil fuel, but
all are rapidly beginning to realize its
tremendous utilities. and IL will be long
time, even with a rapidly increasing pro-
ductton, before the manufacturing con-
Germs here will be fully supplied The
enormous advantage that a saving Of
over 90 per cent in fuel bills will give to
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

newed once a year. 1t costs about SEQ per
mile to sprinkle a road with crude oil, and
this obviates the necessity of using water
on it. Already most Of the counties in the
southern section of the State have begun
the work of making good roads with the
use of petroleum.
To return to the matter Of variations in
the character of the California oils, II can
be stated that there are certain wells in
what is known as the Kreyenhagen dis
trict, which lies south of Coalinga. where
a remarkably fine grade Of oil. rich in lu-
bricants, is produced. This oil when dis
titled will sell from 26 cents TO IS cents
per gallon, and, of course. the crude oil.
per cent Of lubricants, will naturally bring
an enhanced price in the market. To-day
the crude oil for fuel purposes sells at
about 81 per barrel at OIL City. In South
ern California the price at the wells IS
about 81 25 and higher, not because the
oil is better. but because it IS handy to
a market When the pipeline has been
built from the new northern fields to this
city the producers will be enabled to get
a better price for their oil.
When a well has once been drilled into
the oil sand its current expense is a very
small factor and its production is largely
a matter of profit The oil developments
down in the valley are rapidly changing
the desert wilds to well populated CEN
ters. and land that was formerly constd-
cred too poor to bear even the burden of
a perfunctory homestead location In many
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01
ASs CITY BLUE eoesE we'll ~ eoSEeouno "a

our manufacturers over Eastern COM
petitors can hardly be realized. With the
advantage of over 5000 miles in distance,
the day is not far distnat when 1t will be
a commercial impossibility for the East
to compete for the home market in manu-
factured products.
The petroleum found in California is as
variable IN its characteristics as the ell
mate Of the Golden State. While all of 1t
Is good for fuel purposes there are marked
variations in its specific gravity and its
qualities not TO be met with in the other
oil fields Of the world. The oil found in
the Coalinga district is not alone useful
for fuel. but it is also available for re-
fining purposes and with the proper dis
tilhng devices it will yield Illuminating
and Iltoricating oils equal to those of
Pennsylvania. The California oil differs
from Eastern oil also in the fact that it
has an asphalt base, instead of a paraffne
base, and with proper handling this as
phalt base can be made to yield by
products of equal value with paraffine.
There is no doubt that the day will come
when q large share Of the California pro-
duction will be used for refining purposes,
SO that the possibility of an over-produc-
ton is very remote and Ill founded one.
There is another use for petroleum in
it's crude state that will be found pecu-
narly acceptable to the ranchers Of Cali
fornia, and that is for sprinkling dusty
roads. Crude oil applied to g. dusty road
absolutely lays the dust, makes firm,
elastic roadbed and only needs to be re-
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

for many years. Then came the develop
ment of the oilfields Of Ventura County.
and they have been equally profitable 4
few years go Mr.. Doheney and other gen
tlenen familiar with oil interests sank a
test well in the heart of the city Of Los
Angeles. They struck oil at about 500
feet, and it was not long until the Sec
ond Ward in thai city was covered with
derricks. Oil was found everywhere along
q strip OF territory running northeasterly
through the city. and in a short time
there were nearly 1000 wells. Oftentimes
there were two and three wells on a lot
50X150 feet and what had been a quiet
residence district was soon converted into
a typical oil field.
In the first stages OF the development
of the oil industry in the South, there
was much luctuation and variation in
the prices of the product. 1t was gener-
ally known that oil fuel was much
cheaper than coal ct IS per ton, but the
appliances for using the liquid fuel at
first were crude and unsatisfactory As
q consequence many who started in to
use the oil abandoned it. as they were
unable to get full equivalent in heat
units. As matter Of fact, The Santa Fe
which now operates sixty engines on the
southern division at a net saving OF 50
per cent in fuel bills, at one time was
ready 10 give up the use of oil and go
back to coal. But through the instru-
mentality Of r. H. Herron veteran
Pennsylvania oil man who made Los
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sections IS now selling for gilt-edged
prices, with a constantly increasing de-
mand.
1t is a story in the valley that when Joe
Chanslor and Charley Garfield came to
the site Of what is now Oil City they had
lowered their finances to SIS These gen.
tlemen to-day have an income Of over
$1,000 per day each. In addition to their
splendid holdings at Oil City they have
quietly picked up thousands Of acres OF
land along the valley hills, where the ''ou
signs" tell plainly of the hidden treasures
below, and the day is not far distant
when these gentlemen will count their
wealth by millions; and all this stirring
story of financial enlargement is spanned
by but a few months time. Such are the
possibilities OF oil. It is not essential to
go to the Klondike when such opportu-
mites are so near at hand.
Investigation has shown that the great
oil belts Of California extend from San
Diego County in the south 10 the Oregon
northern section Of Fresno County to the
McKittrick and Kern River fields in Kern
County is the active center of interest
among oil investors. and daily immense
tracts Of land are changing hands. The
California Oil Exchange is closely follow
ing all these lines OF development and Is
preparing an elaborate system Of maps
on a large scale that Will enable the pub
lie TO keep thoroughly informed regard
ing all developments and thus insure that
the investing public will have clear light
on the subject before putting up their
money to acquire sudden fortunes in oil
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01
Literary Notes.


Admiral SIMPSONS generous tribute to
the victor of Manila Bay appears in the
October Century under the title Of "Ad-
miral Dewey as a National Hero"
new and cheaper edition Of The Let
ters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning" ed
tied, with biographical additions. by Freti-
eric G. Kenyon, will be published during
the month in one volume by the Maomil-
Ian Company.
The @. W. Dillingham; Company will be
the American publishers of the long-ex-
pected Memoirs OF Victor Hugo" which
promises to form one Of the most impor-
tant works Of the coming season. These
memoirs, which will be translated by
john W. Harding, begin with the year
1875, when Hugo witnessed the coronation
o. CHARLES \ at Rheims. Like Daudet,
Hugo dld not admire the Academic Fran
calse' "hlc4 rejected him when he be-
came candidate for one Of its fauteuils
for the first time. The result was a sar-
castle chapter on the institution that will
work also contains the hitherto IInpube
lished details of the execution Of Louis
XVI, which were recounted to Hugo by
an eye witness.
Little, Brown & Co. will complete this
autumn their Centenary edition OF the
Wormeley Balzac in thirty-three volumes,
dy, Pratt & Co. The set will include a
new volume, the Personal Opinions Of
Balzac, compiled and translated by Kath-
arne Prescott Wormeley. The new IL
brary edition of the Works of Edward
Everett Hale will also be completed; and
a number of new volumes Will be added
to the uniform library edition of Daudet.
among them Kings in Exile and the Tar
tartan series, translated by Katharine
Prescott Wormeley. A new series of Lee
ver's novels is also announced. They will
also publish an interesting series of
Juveniles known as the Childrens Friend
series. Louisa NJ. Alcott. Susan Coolidge,
Nora Perry, Helen Hunt Jackson, Laura
Z. Richards, Juliana H. Ewing, A. G.
Plympton and other well-known writers
for children are represented.
It is announced that an English trans
lation OF Les Romanesques," by Ed
Mnrd 10 De p PuoSneG by tine
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

in the possession Of Queen Victoria has
been valued by experts at much over
quarter OF a million dollars. And yet
there are only a small number Of pieces;
these are displayed at Windsor Castle, in
the long gallery, where her Majesty usu-
ally receives her guests before dinner.
One and a half million dollars is said to be
the value Of the Queens porcelain.
The value OF old Sevres porcelain is en-
hanced by the fact that ever since the
foundation>of the factory an exact regis
ter has been kept Of all sales. Probably
the most extensive sale ever made was
that in 1778 to the Empress Catharine Of
Russia, who paid for a service of 754 pieces
a sum OF $50 900, which Is equivalent to
$500 600 at the present day. One hundred
and sixty pieces of this service were sto-
len during a confagration Of the palace
and found their way to England, where
they were purchased by the famous coll
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01
and
spFirk1irS
Roads,

was received with great cordiality by the
press Of England and America, but failed
to attain the remarkable popularity or
the book Of which 1t was the forerunner.
The new edition will contain two entirely
new chapters, apropos of recent, events
IN France, It has been revised through
out, and will be prefaced by new In
PRODUCTION.
Just what has made Point Lace and
many a much doomed novel has always
been something of a mystery to its pub
lishers; but they are content to know
that the demand for it is perennial, and
they announce a new holiday edition Of
this volume Of vers de societe with illus
trations by Louise L Heustis and with
remarkable cover.
George A Baker Jr., the author of this
successful little book, mysteriously dis
appeared from New York some years ago,
and his publishers and others interested
In him have never been able to ascertain
what hacama Of him.
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

Since the Spaniards relinquished their
sovereignty over Cuba. and the American
military forces assumed temporary pos
session the sanitary condition of Havana,
as we'll as that of other cities Of the Gem
of the Antilles, has been raised to a high
modern standard. The work of disinfec-
ton and sanitation which was effected
under General Wood has been the subject
of many articles and a tribute to the
talents of that brave and wise. soldier
and surgeon.
AS In the case of Santiago, Havana has
been thoroughly cleansed. To-day she is
one of. the tidiest cities of the Western
hemisphere, which is saying a deal for
the genius of the Yankee
To the United States the labor OF sani-
tation In Cuba has been of great value
and to the inhabitants OF the isle 1t has
been, of course, g still greater blessing
A. Z. Woolf, who has devoted MANY
years Of his life to the study OF combat
ing disease germs, and who discovered
the combination of sea water and eIec-
tricity as a valuable disinfectant, re-
turned a few days ago after a six weeks
tended the erection of disinfecting plant,
in which his germicide is made.
This plant was placed in operation ct
the beginning of last July. It has a ca
pacity of 1000 gallons per day. The cost
was about $4,000 1t was erected after an
investigation by the American military
authorities. Lieutenant D. Gildersleeve
of the United States Engineer Corps had
charge Of the work.
Sea water is pumped into the vats of
the plant. 1t is then subjected to cleo
trolytfc action, which produces such
changes in the water that it becomes a
germicide. The germicide is sprinkIed in
streets and in houses wherever disease
germs lurk. The American military au-
thor11es are generous with the germicide
They give large quantities to all persons
who ask for II IN Havana
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

edition aud its one hundred and thirtieth
peared in the Baltimore News is going
the rounds about its author. It reminds
one of the old Quaker who said nobody
in the world is quite right except me
and thee"
A little old Irishman, seeing the pic
the window of a Baltimore bookseller,
inquired of bystander whom it repre-
sented. Winston Churchill was the reply
Where Goes he preach" Being told
that Mr.. Churchill was not a preacher
he asked: "Ain't he? What did you say
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

the heels OF this announcement comes
that of the first English translation Of
La Princesse Lointaine," by the great
be by Charles Renauld, whose English
version of ''Cyrano de Bergerac" was
perhaps the best CT the translatlons OF
cesse Lointaine' is play of four acts and
is practically an exquisite poem having
for It's subject the undaunted pursuit Of
the ideal
This translation is, we believe, the first
made into English, and II is TO be accom-
panied by a portrait of the author and to
be issued at the low price of 80 cents
partly in the hope Of large sale, partly
TO shut off competition. The author. is to
receive a royalty from the sale of this
edition
The Century Company announces for
publication in October a new edition Of
1.-THE Island" by Richard Whiteing, au-
thor of mo. John Street" This story
first annaarad snnna tan yaarz ainna. and
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

@HE Rothschilds. the Queen and
Lord Dudley own between them
most of the finest Sevres ware in
England.
The most famous of Lord Dudley's
Sevres is a garniture de cheminee,
for which he gave $4,000; it is said that a
housemaid broke one of the pieces the
day after its arrival at Dudley House.
Lord Dudley few years ago had a sale
of some of his porcelains.
The collection of Pompadour and Du-
barry Sevres, as it is sometimes styled,
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01

~ ETWEEN the rising and the set
ting Of every, sun 1900 barrels Of
X. oil spurt up out of CALIFORNIA;
~ | soil, and for the mills factories
~ and workshops the great fuel
pr6blem-a problem that has stood
like a. Hon in the path of the manufactur-
ing enlargement of the Golden State for
many years-=is being effeCtually and prof
f-ably solved. Hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars are being. invested in the new in
dustry. and every train brings fresh CO.
horts.of skilled labor from the East 70 en-
ter this new and rapidly growing field Of
enterprise that California. the land of
surprises; offers 10 the world. This is
the story Of oils
Hardly decaLa has passed since Cali
forRia oh became a factor in the COM
merCial utilities Of the State, yet in that
time California has produced 100000 bar
reIs Of petroleum, valued al $l2,I9000 In
1859 the production only amounted 10 500,-
90 barrels; this year II will not fall far
short. Of 100000 barrels. It was in
Southern California that the first devel-
opments We're made. While the Spanish
fathers were well aware Of oil seepages
in various sections Of the State, and the
. Old. maps show oil and tar" springs,
and what were called deposits Of brea
were utilized by the early settlers for
various purposes, nothing was done in a
practical way until the LaCys Of Los An
geles. began the development Of oil at
Puente in Los Angeles County. The
wells there have yielded golden harvest
The San Francisco call., 1899-10-01
IS FORTUNES III CHINA. 2&5

china The latter is only shopping
English, and when you become q coll lector
and can talk intelligently on the subject
you fOrsWear china and say porcelain al
together and all the time; 1t is more ar
tistic and esthetic.
OF Dresden ware Mrs. Joseph DrexeI
has a fine collection, including many
specimens of the Marcolini period-about
1886. Chocolate pots of different shapes
are among the choice bits of the collec-
ton.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton IS said TO have one
of the most expensive dinner services OF
Dresden in this country.
Roses and forget-me-nots are the usual
Dresden patterns. The mark is two
crossed swords in blue.
There are but four places in the world
where one can be perfectly safe from
deception in buying Dresden porcelain.
the factory. the royal porcelain depOts in
Leipsic and in Dresden and a small shop
also in Dresden, which is permitted to
keep defective specimens for sale. Once
a year there is an auction somewhere IN
Saxony, where defective specimens
"schintz" can be procured, in all five
places where you are sure Of what you
are purchasing.
In regard to the White House china.
that ordered by Mrs Hayes in 1879 was
the most elaborate and expensive, costing
ment A few duplicate sets were made Of
this china. During Liucoln's time two
sets of china were made for the White
House SiXty-one pieces of one service
now belong to Mrs. Dickins. Pieces Of
both sets have been scattered among
public and private collections throughout
this country and in Europe.