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The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-10-21

more present, A. N. Tucker being
absent. At this time the board adj
journed as board OF commissioners,
to meet as board of health.
Board of health met at o'clock, r.
m. on this 18th day Of October, 1899.
Present, N. G. Sisson, L. T. Ditto
more, DR.. II. r. Elderkin.
Now at this time the board pro-
ceeded to consider a report Of the
county physician touching the ex-
istence OF contagious and infectious
disease at James Ardery's in Mark
ham precinct, Kootenai county. Up
on consideration whereof it appearing
to the board that an outbreak and
spread Of smallpox contagious and
infectious disease, is threatened in
the said Markham precinct in this
county and that there are at this time
two persons affected with said disease
at the said James Ardery's In said
Markham precinct.
1t is hereby ordered that quaran-
tine be declare against SAID place and
against all persons who have been ex-
posed to said disease at said place and
that said pers,n be confined to the
said house or place until further order
by this board.
And at this time the board ad-
journed as board of health sine die,
and met as a board of county counts
sioners.
The board at this time took up ac-
counts against Kootenai county, and
the auditor is hereby authorized to
draw warrants for the several amounts
allowed as follows:
H. M. Fitzpatrick for taking a
carcas from public highway
and burying same S S 90
II. M. fitzpatrick services in re-
latiou to indigent poor and
notifying commissioners of
smallpox 90
J. G. Brady salary as probate
judge third quarter 375 90
II. NJ. Fitzpatrick expenses in
investigating case at Port
Hill per order of county at
torney 90
George b. WEIGH for services as
overseer road district No. 10 10 90
Ed Bentley for work on road
in district No. 10 3 so
A. A. Green for work on road
in district No. 10, bill $1,000
allowed SO
Geo. ID. Barnard & Co supplies
for sheriff 3 OF
George Fry for interpreter in
justice court 3 0(
Pioneer Bindery Co. warrant
hooks for county for 1900 l2l 81
Wright Greenbery Co. books for
county Is 2;
Glass & Prudhomme, supplies
FOR county IT'S OF
Jno w Graham & Co, supplies
| f,,r onnpfv Al
Irwin Hodson Co. supplies for
county ~ Y
Glass & Prudhomme supplies
for county 3 81
Irwin Hodson ca. record books
for county "a 3
Pioneer Bindery Co. supplies
for county 20 .
j. M. Bradley service as justice
of the peace, bill S2l 40 al
lowed IL 4
w. j. Thompson's bill for SIS
being balance of bill rejected at Jul
! term, was then taken up and ON nj
tion rejected.
Report of George B. WEIGH as ros
overseer for district No. 10 was
motion duly approved.
u Report of J. G. Brady probate judi
u covering fees collected for third qua
ter was on motion duly approved.
u Bill of Ellen Baker for $l2 90 t
'e boarding prisoners in case OF State
Joe Coserio was on motion reject
IS for the reason that at the Janua
III session the board allowed a bill
- boarding the same prisoner at I
u same time.
W And at this time the'board adloul
d ed until Saturday morning, the IA
at 10 o'clock a. N.
:" N. G. SISSON,
Chairman of Boa
- JNO. G. CALLAHAN,
Clerk
m BY A. Cook, Deputy.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-10-21
COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL,
REGULAR TERM.

Friday, October ID, 1899.
There being no quorum preselio o'i
acco, mt If the absence of LIT. Ditto
more and A. n. Tucker, the chairman
adjourned the iieeVi"s u'''-
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-10-21

BoRN-To Mr.. aud Mrs. James
Dyer, today, "A nine pound boy
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
TWO FAST TRAINS COLLIDE
Three People Killed ana n Number
Injured-Due to Fault of East
bound Trntnmcn.

INLAY CITY, Mich, Feb. 6.-Chicago &
Grand Trunk passenger train No. L. west
bound. plunged full speed into passenger
train No. s, eastbound, while the latter was
standing at the station here today. The fol-
lowing were killed:
ENGINEER FAIRBANKS of westbound
train
EDWARD REID, Lenox, Mich, mail
clerk Of westbound train.
THOMAS STUART of Lansing, mail clerk,
eastbound
The injured:
Engineer Mahon OF eastbound train, sew
eral ribs broken.
- Burns of Lapeer, passenger eastbound
train, leg broken.
Ripley White of Lapeer, passenger east
bound train, ankle bruised.
English, Strathroy, Ont, slightly bruised.
Both trains were fast mail trains. The
eastbound was standing near the station
waiting for the coming train to pass it ac
cording to custom. The latter instead of
slackenng its speed crashed into No. 6. The
employees of the westbound train and the
passengers of the westbound suffered the
most. The locomotives were both badly
wrecked and the mail cars are jammed
across the tarcks All the passenger coaches
remain on the tracks. Why the westbound
train failed to stop is yet unknown.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07

and garden. II was amazing, however. how
so many toads could grow so fat and so
fast and still the place be so full OF insect
life OF all sorts. Next summer | shall try
to raise twice as many toads as did In IS9S,
For food | figure that they will cost me
about / cent per t,00O The actual value OF
the toad, from the standpoint of both nature
and man. has been placed at sl9.SS; that u.s.
for each individual member of the toad FAM
lily. Thus. my toad raising must be a won
derfuly profitable operation"
In saying that the value OF toad Is Sl9.SS
Or. Hodge was quoting scientist named
Kirkland who declares that toad who per-
forms the functions for which nature in
tends 1t, devouring insects and in this way
keeping plants. etc, free from pests that
would otherwise destroy them does that
amount OF valuable work each year. Just
as evidence of his belief that the toad in
stead Of being destroyed should be allowed
to increase and multiply. Dr. Hodge de-
clares that il the children OF Massachusetts
would stop killing toads 1t would be worth
81 900, 900 year TO the state.
There is no slug. worm or insect how
ever hairy or spiny, or prlclly, poisonous,
bad smelling. or so generally disagreeable,"
Or. Hodge continued, that toad will re-
fuse to take 1t. How many of each kind can
a single toad be depended upon to destroy7
Why, have seen one toad snap up eighty
six house flies In less than ten minutes. Nc
doubt toad with his home under the door
step will relieve family OF at least this
number daily and possibly many more This
will make no small item in the comfort ol
city family throughout the hot summer
Let anybody who is inclined to sneer at
toad farm remember that in England the
gardeners frequently pay s25 hundred for
toads All objections to warts being caused
by handling toads are mere fgments of i'm
agination Practically the same may be said
| about the supposed poisonous character of
the animal, Prof. Riley says that insects
destroy property in this country annually
to the amount of $4OO,OOO,Oo 900. Why then
not cultivate toad farm ?''
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
0STE0PATHY

The science of osteopathy was discovered
by DR.. A. 7, Still of Kirksville Mo- Dr.
Still reasoned that natural flow of blood
is health; and disease is the effect of local or
general disturbance of the blood; that to
excite nerves causes muscles to contract and
compress venous flow of blood to the heart
and the bones could be used as levers to
relieve pressure nerves, veins and ar
teTies.
A slight strain or sudden jolting may
easily cause displacement of bone, muscle
tendon or organ and a consequent pressure
on the nerves. thus breaking the nerve wave
between the brain and the part injured,
and we then may have as a result any of
the numerous ailments caused from lack
of nerve supply to parts. Seldom is there
a permanent cure until the machinery is
righted. Hence we treat headache TALL
kinds, weak eyes, catarrh, hay fever, en-
larged tonsils goiter, asthma. bronchitis,
deafness, Irregularities of the heart neu-
ralga or rheumatism (of any part, spinal
curvature (all kinds), dslocaton of joints,
all kind of stomach, liver, kidney, bowel
and spleen troubles, bladder and urethral
troubles, uterine, female Irregularities, as
painful, suppressed or excessive menstrual
ton, leucorThoea, milk leg. etc.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07

William L. Piper was taken into custody
Yesterday afternoon on a warrant Issued Oh
an information charging him with being
mentally deranged. The information was
filed by Rev. Henry DeLong, who had been
informed that Piper illtreated his children
and has threatened to kill them. The ea-
animation before the commissioners for the
insane resulted in Piper's discharge, as
there was no evidence to show that he Is not
in his right mind. Piper received para
lytic stroke some years ago and his wife
died recently leaving him with five children
10 care for, the youngest being but years
of age and the oldest 13. The only evidence
introduced to show that Piper threatened to
kin the children was the statement of a
neighbor, who had heard him say that 1t
would be better If he and the children were
all dead as their troubles would then be
ended. Piper informed the board that he
was unable to properly care for the children
and would be glad to get them good homes
somewhere. Rev. DeIong succeeded last
evening in finding homes for three of the
children, the two girls aged IL and 7, and
the youngest boy aged years
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
housekeeping MACHINE.
Novel Contrivance in Use In New
York bank,

The Union Dime Savings bank of New
York has a wonderful bookkeeping machine
now in daily operation, which promises to
reyolutionize methods of recording large
part of bank accounts, 1t is the invention
of Leicester Allen and was designed by that
genius In mechanics at the request of the
banks president, Charles e. Sprague. There
are really three machines, one to keep
record of the deposits of men patrons, an
other for women depositors and third for
keeping accounts of the drafts on the bank.
The teller sits at a table with the apparatus
at his right hand, The depositor's bank
book is placed in the machine and the
amount pulled forward from keyboard OF
figures something like the keyboard OF the
typewriting machine A lever is pressed,
the mechanism buzzes, and the sum de-
posted is printed in the book and also on
a tape in a box above the machine. An
other cylinder Is automatically set In motion
and the new amount is added to the total
of the banks deposits since It's foundation.
II is practically impossible for the machine
to err. If a mistake be made by the teller
the mechanism refuses to work. Al the
end of any days business balance may be
struck In a few minutes and the figures must
always be correct. The machines are placed
in a sealed glass case and are open to the
view. BY a simple glance at the totals the
official sof the institution can tell just how
the bank stands with its 10000 depositors.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
HOG FANc1ERs COMPARE NOTES
Poland Chinn Record Company Meets
at Cedar Rapids.

Poland China Record company MeetS
at Cedar Rapids.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Feb. 6.-(Special)-
The twenty second annual meeting of the
American Poland China Record company
will be held in this city on Wednesday. The
Board of Directors will meet at the Clifton
hotel at o'clock in the morning for the
transaction of the business before them, after
which the association meeting will be
called.
On Thursday the breeders institute will be
held and the following program will be car
ried out:
$50 a. m.-"1S98 and Its Lessons to Swine
Breeders" Ed w. Monuier, Elizabeth. III.
1915 a. m.-"The Bacon Hog ID. p Nc
Cracken, Paxton, Ill.
II 100 a. m.-"Expansion Applied to the
Hog Industry b. L. Maxwell, La Porte
City la.
100 p. m.-"our Hog" L. N. Bonham,
Oxford, o.
las p m.-"Feed and Care of the Pig
Crop" Theodore Louis, Louisville, WIS.
2:30 p. m.-'The Future of the Hog Busl-
ness; Some Needed Reforms" A. Nj. Cold
we'll New Holland, Ill,
3:15 p. p.-"The Science of Breeding j..
V. Wolfe, Lincoln, Neb.
discussion will follow the reading OF
each paper.
The Western Passenger association has
granted a rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip on the certificate plan,
and it is expected about 100 members of the
company will be in attendance.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
CONTEST OF COLLEGE ORATORS.
Participants Chosen on Merits from
Number of Institutions.


CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Feb 6.-(Special.)--
The executive committee of the State Ora
torical association met in this city, ex-
amined the markings of the orations from
the different colleges in the state and an
nounced that the following eight out of
thirteen will be allowed to participate in the
annual contest which will be held at Mount
Vernon on the evening of February %:
Image of Faith" Iowa Wesleyan, Mount
Pleasant; twentieth Century Politics"
Simpson college, Indianola; "Inhumanity in
Corrective Methods" Iowa college, Grinnell;
Under the Banner of Freedom Parsons
college, Fairfield; National Growth Des
Moines college, Des Moines; ''Weal of the
Future" Upper Iowa university, Fayette;
civilian E. Gladstone Iowa State college,
Ames; I'm Hoe Signo Vinces," Coe college,
Cedar Rapids.
In Judging those who shall be admitted to
the annual contest the orations are marked
on thought and composition and the eight
best are chosen. The members of the State
Oratorical association are Simpson college,
Indianola; Iowa Wesleyan university, Mount
Pleasant; Coe college, Cedar Rapids; Lenox
college, Hopkinton; Drake university, Des
Moines; Central university, Pella; Penn
college, Oskaloosa Parsons college, Fair
field; Iowa State college, Ames; Upper Iowa
university, Fayette; Iowa college, Grinnell;
Cornell college, Mount Vernon; Des Mones
college, Des Moines
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
DIR. HODGES TOAD FARM.
He Says that Each One He Raises is
Worth $40 to the World.

He Says that Each One He Raises is
Worth 80 to the World.
In the section OF Worcester, Mass, called
the south end is the most interesting colony
to be found In all New England. 1t Is com
posed exclusively OF toads The director of
this hopping settlement is DR.. c. II. Hodge
of Clark university, scientist who believes
the toad to be a much abused creature and
that it should be cultivated and caused to
multiply in great degree. DR.. Hodges colony,
while a very populous affair, Is principally
confined to his garden. relates the New York
World and this last summer the doctor
succeeded In raising 10000 toads in one pan
and an old sink which he had set in the
ground. That seems great many toads,
but 1t is not such large number after all,
when the fact is considered that the average
number OF eggs laid by mother toad each
year is 1900. Dr. Hodge says about his
colony;
"The simplest device for colonizing toads
is to provide them with artificial shelters
made by digging shallow holes In the ground
and partly covering them with bit or board
or fat stone. tried this with success, SO
far as the board shelters are concerned. but
the toads in my garden refused to stay under
fat stones to any extent. ] also tried the
plan of making an nclosure or wire screen
a foot wide, two feet long and a foot high,
the top of which was left open or closed as
preferred. When open II was only necessary
to put in Two or three toads, provide them
with shelters. dish of water In one corner.
and then to keep the toadS, or, rather, their
living place, supplied with small bits OF raw
meat and any other refuse matter calculated
to attract flies or other insects. I found that
sugar solutions should not be used. on ae-
count of the danger OF attracting money
bees which toad will eat In great num-
bers let the bees sting as vlciously as they
will.
"The little toads that ] raised ! fed on
dog biscuit, putting in the water where they
lived pieces of considerable size-about the
size of a walnut-so that could easily re-
move any OF the bits not eaten. To raise
them II took me practically no time at all and
1t was great fun 10 watch them, both while
in the water, swarming In black masses
around each piece of dog biscuit and, after
they left the water, hopping about the lawn
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07

Special Meeting is Held and COnsid-
erablc Business In Transacted.
At a special meeting of the Merchants
and Manufacturers association last night
Leonard Everett was elected president in
place of i. r. Hill, who had been forced to
decline the position owing to pressure of
personal business. The meeting was well
attended and much interest taken in the
proceedings and discussions. The president
secretary and Chairman Test of the execu-
tive committee were appointed a committee
to draft rules and bylaws for the associa-
tiOn.
Secretary Judson was instructed to write
to both the democratic and republican state
central committees with a view to try to
secure the holding OF the state conventions
of both parties this fall in this city.
The secretary reported that creamery
package supply house was looking for To-
cation in this part of the country and he
had opened up correspondence with the
company with view to bringing it, If pos
slble, to the city.
ii. a. Searles of the Monarch Manufacture
ing company gave an interesting talk on the
advantages of Council Bluffs as a manufac-
turing center and distributing point for
southwest west and northwest territory.
He said no place in the United States Of
fered the advantages in this direction that
Council Bluffs did. Many of those present
were of. the opinion that Mr.. Seares' ad-
dress should be printed and distributed by
the association.
Chairman Test OF the executive commit
dee was instructed to confer with the officials
of the Motor company, as complaint was
made of the congested condition of the cars
between the hours of and s a. m. and $50
and 80 in the evening on the Omaha line
Complaint was also made of the service al
noon on the Main street and Fifth avenue
lines. II was also suggested that the com
pany be asked to provide books of commuta-
tion tickets to be available on the lines In
the city.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
MINOR MENTION.

Hamilton's shoe store, 4i2 Broadway.
Davis sells glass.
Moores food kills worms and fattens.
c. Il. Alexander e. Co.. picture frames.
Dartel 4 Miller 100 Bway, give stars
Iowa Furniture e Carpet Co.. 4O7 B'way.
J. c. Blxby heating. plumbing. Tel. 1873
j. L. f. McGee returned yesterday from a
trip to Nebraska.
Miss Knowles Of Deadwood, S. d., Is visit
ing friends in this city.
G. b. Jasquemin & CO., jewelers. and OPP
tlcians, u South Main street.
Attorney w. C. Hendricks has gone to
Joplin, Mo, on a visit to friends.
Get your work done at the popular Eagle
laundry 724 Broadway, phone 157.
Nels II. Jensen took out a permit yester-
day to build barn at the corner of Fif-
teeuth avenue and Sixth street.
The st. Agnes guild of st. Paul's church
will meet this evening at the home of Miss
Mabel Thompson, 1917 South Eighth street.
Mrs. Harriet Dement, Packard OF the
Blatchford- Kavanagh Concert company was
the guest yesterday of Mrs. L. e. Gavin and
Miss Maud Gavin of Park avenue
The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Axelsen
will be held this afternoon at o'clock from
her late residence 1886 South avenue. Inter-
ment will be in Fairview cemetery.
j. A. Reiner, another deaf mute, was ar
rest ed last eening on suspicion Of being i'm
pIcated with Farmer in the burglary at
William Browns house last Thursday night
The participants in the trade carnival TO
be given by the women of the Firth Avenue
Methodist church, February "a, in Odd Eel
lows hall, held their first rehearsal yester-
day afternoon
The private ward at the Woman's Chris
fian Association hospital, which has been re-
modelled and furnished througho by Mrs.
Horace Everett in memory of her son, Ned
Everett, was opened yesterday.
The Blatchford- -Kavanagh and "Roney' s
Boys. concert attracted an audience last
might that completely filled the large audi
aorium Of the Broadway Methodist church.
THE concert was a musical treat.
Four new cases of measles we're reported
10 the Board of Health yesterday: Ruth
Lewis, 623 Sixth avenue; Irene kintz, 715
South Sixth street; Thomas Holder, 412 Har-
mony street; G. Wesley, 625 Ninth avenue.
City Clerk Phillips was wearing several
broad smiles yesterday. The committee on
bridges and public property put new clock
in his Office and Mr.. Phillips now feels that
any danger of his working overtime will be
pbviated.
Leila the infant daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
L. S. Ridele, S25 Fleming avenue, died Sun
day night of pneumonia, aged 19 months.
Funeral viii be held this morning at IL
O'Clock from the residence. Burial will be
in Garner cemetery.
The case of II. L.. Farmer, the deaf man
charged with breaking into the house OF
William Brown, another deaf man, last
Thursday night and stealing $685. was con-
tinued in police court yesterday until this
morning. Brown has not yet filed an in
formation against Farmer and the latter'e
friends are trying to dissuade him from sc
doing Some of them have even gone so far
it has been reported to the police as tc
threaten him with personal injury If he per-
Bists in prosecuting Farmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
Davis sells drugs.
DOYLE is NOT IN 1T THIS TIME.
Burns Faction Controls Election of Of
nces Of Portland Mining COmpanN.

Burns Faction Controls Election of Of
fees of Portland Mining Company.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Portland Gold Mining company, one
of the many Colorado mining concerns in
corporated under the laws of Iowa, was held
Monday morning in the office OF Ross &
Ross. None of the officers or directors of
the company were in attendance and but
three of the stockholders were present.
Thomas F. Burns, a brother of James f.
Burns, the president; A. T. Gunnell and T.
M. Patterson, the three stockholders pres
ent, held proxies for practically all of the
stock and the election Of directors was a
purely cut and dried affair The directors
elected were: James F. Burns, f. G. Peck,
w. S. Stratton, John Harnan and Irving
Howbert.
James A. Doyle was unable to be present,
having been committed to Jail in Colorado
for contempt of court in proceeding with
his action against Burns in the courts here
In opposition to the injunction Issued by the
court in Colorado Springs. He was repre-
| sented at the meeting by George S. Wright
| one of his local attorneys who held his
proxy of 500 shares of stock.
| 1t is believed that the reason ]. r.. Burns
and f. G. Peck, president and secretary, re-
! spectively failed to attend the meeting was
for fear that Doyles attorneys might make
| some new move and effect service of sui
on them as was the case at the meeting last
year when Doyle secured service on Burns
in the action in which the former last No
vember obtained a judgment for $717 900.
Service Of notice OF the the new suit com
menced yesterday in the district court by
Doyle was made on Thomas f. Burns anC
| W. l.. Ross during the meeting.
| The annual rpnOrts filed AT the meeting
show that the Portland Gold Mining com
pany made s1,OOS. .SOS.2S net profit in 1891
and paid out in dividends s570,00O anC
s77,453 on account of new acquisitions. TIL
output for 1898 showed an increase OF S,94
tons over 1897 and the average values in
creased from $52.7O in 1897 to s67.61 in tn,
! last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-07
MRS. HUGHES ALSO DRINKS SALTS.
HarmIessIy Partakes of Draught
Mhich is sniI 10 Contmim POisOn.

MASON CITY, Ia, Feb 6.-(special Tele-
gram -Four witnesses have testified in the
Hughes murder trial that Patrick Hughes
had said that he saw Mrs. Hughes mix
the salts on the kitchen table, give some
to her husband take the balance herself
and that there was apparently nothing the
matter with the salts This Hughes posi-
lively denies The statement is very i'm
pOrtant one, as the state bases its case
on the fact that the strychnine was given
with the salts at this time.
The same witnesses testified that there
was no door between the dining room and
parlor OF the Thomas house in which Jesse
Goude had his important interview with
the defendant. The state counsel say they