The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-02-10

OF the district court, which sits March
20. Benjamin e. Smith and BENJAMIN
Walls of Boston were accepted as sure.
ties. Cole was brought here early In
January from Los Angeles, Cal.
After q joint conference lasting near.
ly two weeks at Indianapolis, Ind, the
delegates from the United Mine Work.
ers Of America and the Interstate Op-
orators Association finally adopted a
scale which Is compromise between
the first demand of the former and the
first offer of the latter. The scale adopt
ed Is general advance Of 2.21 per cent
and is satisfactory to miners and oper.
ators Of Ohio. Pennsylvania and In
diana and will be accepted by the I'LL.
nois miners and operators.
In the great rush to Cape Nome peo-
pie from Dawson will travel 26OO miles.
The transport Indiana with the bodies
Of 200 dead soldiers has arrived from Ma.
nila.
Mrs. John Tenny. lady formerly Of
Seattle shot herself while In Juneau re-
Gently.
The recent storm in the Palouse was
the most violent disturbance of the kind
this winter
The gasoline schooner Nettie Lowe was
capsized off Bowlinas, near San francisco,
during northwest gale.
In fire at Tampico, Mexico, recently IL
retail houses and one wholesale house
were destroyed; loss, $lyO0O,OOO.
Mrs. N. w. Harrison of Spokane, Wash,
was recently robbed Of l.4OO by d bell.
boy by the name OF Frank Roberts.
The report from Major Taylor, chief
military surgeon, says the bubonic plague
in Hawaii is getting very serious.
Mrs. Lambert Of Winona, WASH, re-.
Gently horsewhipped w. E Wilson, the
schoolmaster Of that place, for slanderous
remarks
The mortality one day in Bombay was
unprecedented, there being q total Of 4Os
deaths. The situation is aggravated by
the advent Of famine refugees.
The White Pass Yukon railway has
resumed through train service between
Skagway and Lake Bennett January 81,
after blockade Of more than two weeks
Colonel Richard w. Thompson, ex-sec-
retary Of the navy, is critically i'll at his
home. Unless the invalid rallies the worst
is feared. Colonel Thompson IL 81 years
| Id.
The Indian government has arranged to
recoin half crore of rupees and has also
bought enough silver to coin crore Of
new rupees. These operations are expect
ed to meet all present requirements SO
that no further coming is contemplated.
The silver was purchased quietly without
disturbing the market.
| During the big fire in Dawson January
IL Robert b. Switzer, clerk Of the court,
was assaulted and robbed Of 81 ,545 court
funds. No clue has been found to The
perpetrator.
The Pendleton (Or.) Commercial asso-
citation has inaugurated a movement to
build a railroad from Pendleton south
through the Camas Prairie region and the
John Day country to the mining district
OF Granite.
| An unknown man was found dead in
a cabin at Kent, Wash. "A bullet hole
through the stomach told how he died.
The cabin is known to have been the
rendezvous for band OF crooks who op.
Grated in Seattle.
According to advjces received at the
democratic national headquarters there ia
a strong disposition among the leaders
Of the party, including William J. Bryan,
TO settle upon June q as the date for the
national democratic convention.
Senator Shoup has introduced an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill ex.
tending the time of payments due from
settlers on Indian reservation lands pur-
chased by the government from Indians
and sold to settlers, for another year. OF
until July l, 1901.
Only delay will result is the opinion
Of leaders of the senate on the canal treaty
but it will finally pass. Opposition comes
from Observation-Disclosures, headed by
Mason. Senator Morgan says there are
men in the senate who would offer amend
ments to the ten commandments.
The text Of the canal treaty secures to
every ship equal rights at all times and
to have no forts near by; when the Mica.
raguan waterway is built its safety is rs.
sured. 1t contains an ownership clause
saying America may collect the tolls oI
may allow private corporations that privi'
lege.
1t is generally believed in Pekin that
the dowager empress win not attempt the
formal deposition Of the emperor at the
present moment, though that this was ne,
first intention there is little room to doubt
1t is gathered from credible Chinese
sources that the dowager intended to car
ry out her plans during the first days o.
the new year.
The insurgents have been driven out o.
Legaspi province Of Albay. The rebels o.
Tayabas province were conveying som'
300 Spanish prisoners to Ebmanan AND
on arriving the prisoners, exhausted ant
starving, revolted and dispersed thei
guards with stones and clubs. They sls<
captured few rifles and barricaded them
selves at Libmanan, where they are await
ing the arrival of American troops.
Gums to the Front.
Cane Town. Feb. THE Argus an