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Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
P[k|N'S VIEW Of SITUATION !
LITTLE HAS BEEN GAINED.
mere j" Trouble AhrMd-NO Effort
mas heen Made tO Close ArsenalS
and fhctOrtea-CerrOri thu. Em
press and Controls the Movements
of Chinese Troops.

London, Dec. 10 \ Pekin Dispatch.
dated Decemb.r Il, says:
lhe situation has not improved by the
representatives OF the powers having
reached an agreement, ss the -coi x Of the
legations is limited and the cilett is neu.
tialized The allies have neglected to close
The arsenals and factories at Hah hkow and
Shanghai and have failed to check the
transmission OF supplies OF ANN inition Of
the Chinese
Lung -Fuh-Siang thus has every oppor-
tunily of rallying and equipping his army.
lie has secured the position Of dictator,
terrorize> the empress and controls the
whole movements OF the troops 1t will
be necessary to give the military opera
tions of the allies wider area.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
American Won.

New York. Dee. l6-Before nearly 90.
0n people, jammed into every available
corner Of the great Madison square Gar.
den. Harry Fixes Of Glenn's Falls, \. Y.
and Floyd Mcfarland of san Jose. Cal
the American team, won the six day inter.
national bicycle race by wheels length
from Burns W. Pierce Of Boston and
Archie McEachern Of Toronto the Ca.
madam team.
Caesar Simar Of Paris and Jean Goug
oltz OF Monte Carlo. the French Team
aere third, a lap away.
The distance covered by the winners was
2G2s miles and seven laps, this being l04
miles and seven laps behind the record ol
Miller and Waller made last year. kar
ka-er OF Berlin and Fritz Reyser Of her
lin, the German team. We're given fourth
place, 43 miles and three laps behind thu
leaders. they having retired from the track
about two hours before the close. Michae
Frederick OF Paris and Jean Fisher o
Paris took fifth place with 2523 miles
They drew out at o'clock. Frank Wal
lei of Boston and w e. Stin.on Of Bos
ton gave up just before 3 o'clock Saturday
morning, content with sixth position and
tier 23os miles and one lap. q. Y. Bah
cock OF New York and Louis Gimm o.
Pitisburg Who, after the accident TO Their
partners, rode for an individual score
were requested by the management te
withdraw from the track during the after
noon. Babeock was then at LOO mile,
and one lap, six miles ahead Of Gimm.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
.PERSv|I Of D[WET IS tNMD'
BRITISH GIVE UP THE CHASE.
borrs Take the A11 11ressiNe-Thrre
Thousand nWrw hers ttW>c Crossed
the Orange River Into Cape Col
o0y-DrWet threatening Mimburg.

London, Dec. aO.~-it is reported that
General Knox has been forced to aban-
don the pursuit Of General Deaet owing
To the situation created in Cape Colony
by the Beers crossing the Orange river.
i is said that 1000 republicans have en-
tered Cape Colony and similar number
have Reached Philip.town. The repor,
continues that Dewet with about 400 men
is northeast Of Ladyhrand and that AN
attack on Winburg is momentarily ex-
pected.
Dr. q. \. Miller instructor in mathe-
MATES at the Cornell university, has re-
c,i,,d a prize Of $500 from the scientific
academy of traoow, Austria, f"i hi, work
IN the theory Of groups. This theory is
one Of the most modern branches OF pure
mathematics
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Presidential Nominations.

Washington, dec. l6.-1he president to.
day sent the following nominations TO the
senate; Albert Wheaton to be register of
the land office at Pierre. 5. ID. Henry r.
Cutting to be- receiver of public moneys at
Pierre, ). D.: Second Lieutenant James
Hanson, Fourteenth infantry, 10 be frs,
lieutenant; james r. Boyd Of North Car
ollna to be United States district Judge
for the western district OF North Carolina,
which appointment was made during tire
recess of congress
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Train Ro.b~r Committed sa,c,a~.

New Orleans, Dec. l9.-Deiective- yes
terday found the body of one Of the rObter.
who on last Thursday held up within the
city limits of New Orleans the Chicago
mail train on the Illinois Central, shot
Conductor kinnabrew and escaped with a
number OF registered packages. The watcn
of Conductor kinnabrew, found on the
dead man, leaves no doubt Of his identity
as the leader Of the gang who held up the
train.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

Whooping cough Is prevalent at Mos
COW.
Caldwell has voted to issue $4,000
Ia bonds.
November had twenty-five sunshiny
days for Idaho.
The codlfied laws OF the state, In four
volumes. will be ready for distribution
about the Goth inst.
Secretary Gage has decided to recon-
mend an additional $l25.O00 for the
construction OF q government building
at Boise
Beginning January Is the mail for
Nora. Anderson. Evansville and Collins
Will be carried from Troy instead Of
Kendrick. AZ II now ID.
Three highwaymen perpetrated q
bold robbery recently at the Hatwai
ferry, six miles above Lewiston. and
secured about 3225 for their work.
Duthie Z Corrin received 1900 boxes
Of apples In two days last week from
orchardists near Troy. These dealers
have an order from Winnipeg. Manito-
ba for a carload OF apples.
Professor Alfred Stanley Miller. who
Is In charge OF the department OF min
ing and metallurgy. at the University
Of Idaho, has published . handbook
called "A Manual Of AssAying."
At the live stock show in Chicago
recently In range cattle In carload lots.
there was u fierce contest between
Frank Gooding Of ShoshOne and F. l..
Oswald Of Salt Lake, Gooding winning
in ono class and Oswald In another.
A mail route has been established d.
rect to Elk City. by stage from Sites.
Idaho. This will make a days differ.
ence In the time It takes for the deliv-
cry OF the Elk City mall. A new post
ONCE has been established at Calender,
Idaho, in the Buffalo Hump country.
The mail will be carried to Calender
| by stage.
| Nothing has demonstrated moro en-
pha,ically the possibilities OF the coun.
try tributary to the Clearwater line Of
the Northern Pacific than the volume
of freight business that has been haul.
ed over It In the year that Is about 70
close. Yet this years business 10 only
considered the frst step on the rounds
OF the busines ladder.
| The property which Shoshone county
bought In for delinquent taxes hvs
years ago last July and which became
the absolute property OF the county ave
years after the date OF the sale. was
sold at public auction Monday by or.
der OF the board Of county comm ission-
ers. There were about 400 different
parcels OF II. scattered all over the
county. and 1t generally brought good
prices.
One hundred and twenty-one instru-
ments were filed for record at Wallace
last week. with an aggregate valuation
OF $71 ,5I67S. or the 48 deeds II were
for the nominal consideration of 81
each. There was one patent and nve
| mortgages fled. The mining locations
included IL quartz lodes. Ave placer
claims and three water rights. Five
new companies filed articles Of incor-
poration and three marriage licenses
were issued.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

Shelbyville, Ind, Dee. l9-Kennedy :
bank at Hope, south of here, wa4 entered,
the safe blown open with nitro dglycerine
and $4,000 carried off by two men, who
we're seen to leave the building by the
night operator in the telephone exchange.
The robbers had a confederate postei out
side with a carriage, in which all escaped.
4 posse has been organized by thk citizens
Of Hope and has started out after the rob
bers
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
santa re strike.

Topeka, Kan, Dee. lG.-Opinons con.
cernng the telegraphers strike have ma
terially changed. Instead Of the indifIer
ence which has been manifested by some
Of the railroad officials during the past
few days a disposition 10 he constantly
on the alert has shown itself.
The officials Of the Santa Re have "
las, become convinced that the strike
means something. The cause Of this is the
unrest prevalent among the engineers.
conductors and brakemen. Ii il regarded
almost certainty that some Of these
workers will 90 on sympa thetic strike
within two days unless the differences be
~ cen the company and the operators are
speedily adjusted. The reason Of the train
men taking this step is not thought to
comprehend so much sympathy for the
operators as il does their own interests
said a promineI. engineer today III
We suffer this thing to 60 by unque~tioned
the right Of the company to do as IT
pleises will be permanently established
and in spite Of anything we can do the
rights and privileges Of organized labor
will be lost. II is the principal We are
striving for, and come what may, the
principle must and will be maintained that
organized labor must have rights
A. far a. can b. learned there have not
yet been any conferences held bstw cen
the ,elegraphers and representatives Of
trainmens organization. There il an
apparent stsbiene~s in all the transactions
which makes it amount TO practical csr.
tainty that there will be something done
charity
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

The Spokane high school team is the
champion school football team Of the
northwest. She won her title Saturday
bv defeating the Seattle high school to the
tune Of III to IL. The teams wG', 40 even
IL matched. however, that wer they 10
nIav the game over il would be a matter Of
conjecture which team would win.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Pae1ia su e mt AdlOura ..

London. Dec l6.-Parliament WAS dis.
missed until the middle Of February with
the reading Of the shortest Of the queen =
speeches. II was as follows:
any Lords and Gentlemen: | thank
you for the liberal provision you have
made for the expenses incurred by the
operations Of my armies in South Africa
and China"
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Dr Ingalls, Dead.

Chicago, Dec. l9.-Dr. Ephrism ingalls,
one of the founders of the republican party
and during the early days OF that political
a leader in its councils, died
at his home in this city Tuesday, aged 's.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Henry VI. Hunt II Dead.

Washington. Dec. l6.-The state depart
mept has been informed of the death of
Henry NJ. Hunt, United States consal al
antigua. W. |. He was an experienced
newspaper man and was appointed from
Chicago in 1898.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. l6.-Advices
received here from Demarars, British Gui-
ana. under date of December 5, announce
the arrest in Caracas, venezuela, OF 30
prominent citizens on the charge OF plot
ting new revolution. The arrests, IT Is
added have created great excitement.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

New York, Dec. ia dispatch from
London says:
Ambassador Choatc will, il is said. sail
either on Saturday or the week afterward
for the United States, the death Of his
partner, Charles e. Beaman, having rem
dered his presence in New York necessary.
Ii is believed here that Ambassador Choate
will not return to London.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
Training Ship FOundered.

Madrid. Dec. 17.-The German train
ing frigate Gneisenau has foundered
off Malaga, northeast OF Gibraltar. Pri-
vate dispatches say that 40 persons
were drowned.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

Sioux City, Dec. l9-Fire at Elk Point,
S d., yesterday destroyed the entire busi-
ness portion of the town, involving a, loss
OF about $l5O,O00.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21
yoh, Addison Porter De ad.

pamfret Conn. Dec. lG.-John Addison
Porter former private secretary TO Presi-
dent Mckinley, is dead.
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-12-21

Wichita, Kan, Dec. l9.-An Eldorado
tkan.) dispatch announces that Miss Jessie
Morrison has been admitted to 5000 bail.
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to the late Austin Cor

presidency as successor to the late Austin Cor.
bin. on September 8. 1896 the youngest
railroad president in the East, being then only
thirty-three years old. He came to the Long
Island from the Southern Railway, of when ne
had been second vice president for about year.
having been promoted on September ~, 1872
from the third vice-presidency, which he had
held since July H. 1894 For the eight years
preceding 1894 Mr.. Baldwin had been engaged
in railroadng in the West. his first service nav
ing been with the Union Pacific. year or two
after his graduation from Harvard Under Mr..
Baldwins presidency great improvement has
been made in the physical condition and the
efficiency of operation of the Long Island sys-
tenn.
Long Island Railroad stock showed marked
activity again yesterday. going as high as ~
and closing at S612, as on Friday. Four months
ago January t. the stock sold at 4I1s. Dur
ing the succeeding three months it slowly ad-
vanced TO -. and hen a period Of activity car
ried it to TO1a on April % the high level Of the
month. On May I. Tuesday OF last week, Long
Island opened at G61&. and closed I11a. maxi
ing net gain for the day of 1Ola points. ON
Wednesday it leBped upward another q points.
on Thursday and on Friday ii gained ] u points,
and. as already noted it closed yesterday at
unchanged from Friday
The unified per cent bonds of the company
We're strong and active yesterday, around 9S,
and sale of per cent gold bonds of the com
pany was made at the record price of loo7s.
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trotter logged right along about her business.
just though she had been raised among
street2ars.
Lawson n. Fullers turnout was a picturesque
affair The veteran road rider drove his old
brown trotters Fleetwood and Fleetwng to a
high wheel road wagon, weighing 40 pounds.
that was built twenty-se years ago Fleet
wood and Fleetwing were the wheelers in the
sfx-horse team that Mr.. Fuller drove to a record
of 300 Whereabouts at Fleetwood Park few
years ago
DRIVEN BY ROBERT EDWIN BONNER.
Robert Edwin Bonner drove of the most
attractive trotters in the parade: large, hand
some. blood bay stallion with black points, that
caught the eyes of all the critics. The horse
was Highland Baron 80 the son of Colonel
John E. Thayers great trotting sire. Baron
Wilkes 2:1S. David Bonner sat beside his
nephew in the road wagon. Later in the day
Mr.. Bonner drove double team belonging to
Frederick A. Hammond, of the Plaza Hotel.
The programme was handsome affair in the
matter Of Illustrations containing photo-engr
ings OF fifty or sixty we'll known Speedway fly
ers. with portraits of Cobwebs, David b. Swift
and Honor Bright, Mcmillan, Kingwood, Will
lam E, Daylight and the PAGERS Robert J.,
Darrell, Jack. Little Gem, Laura. W. and many
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STRIKER ATTACKS SUPERINTENDENT.
MORE RIOTING AT STANDARD OIL COM
PANY'S REFINERY-COPPER WORKS
TROUBLE SETTLED.

Bayonne. n. J.. May 5 (Special).-The striking en-
ployes Of the Standard Oil Company's refinery at
Constable Hook offered more violence to-day. The
establishment when the day force went to work
About three hundred Of the striking boiler makers
fremen. coopers and laborers assembled in the
lane leading the gates and lay in wait for the
workingmen. A fierce battle with sticks. stones
and other missiles ensued Several pistol shots
fired but wounded by the bullets.
The riotous strikers were finally forced to fee, a
strong force of police having been summoned.
During the skrmish Superintendent George II.
twenty-five years old of No. I'll East Twenty-sec-
ond-st, Bayonne. assailed him with stones and
club Dulik overpowered and arrested. He
held for the Hudson County Grand Jury.
Other arrests made by Detectives Griffin and
Foley The prisoners Daniel Firenz, aged
thirty years. of No. 107 Avenue Ii, of the lead
among the strikers, and George Katko twenty
six years old, of East Twenty-sixth-st. They
were taken into custody on bench warrants issued
by Judge John A. Blair. of the Hudson County
Court of General Sessions. Frenzi was charged
with having atrociously assaulted Joseph Mitch
eski. one of the foremen, who would not join the
strike Both prisoners committed the
Hudson County Jail.
1t is expected that by Monday morning some
settlement will be made with the strikers.
The strike at the plant of the Oxford Copper
Company practically settled to-day More
than two hundred of the $50 striking employees
turned to work, having agreed to accept the offer
OF Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson, the president of
the company to grant further increase Of 10 per
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-06
A MASS OF LEGISLATION
GOVERNOR COMPLETES HIS WORK ON
-, THIRTY DAY BILLS.
IBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE. ]

Albany. May 5.-Governor Roosevelt completed
to-day the task of examining some $50 bills left in
his hands by the Legislature The total number OF
laws this year is 10 In 1889 the Governor signed
TAI laws. Memoranda giving the Governors rea-
sons for declining to approve of large number Of
bills to he printed Monday.
The Governor to-day signed Assemblyman O'Con-
nelrs bill prohibiting the sale of trading stamps
Since receiving the news of the decision of the
Rhode Island courts declaring a somewhat similar
bill in that State unconstitutional the Governor
has had Attorney General Davies and Judge Lin
coin his legal adviser go the decision and the
bill and they decided that the decision does not
fully all of the legal points in the bill. For
this reason the Governor decided to sign the bill
The statement that the bill signed on Wednes-
day due TO the fact that the Governor an
nounced that day that ne would sign 1t then.
Senator G. A. Davis's School Furniture bill
which gives schools the right to purchase furniture
outside of the prisons. permitted to die, and
Governor Roosevelt will file a memorandum on it
later.
Assembyman Platt's bill exempting the Soldiers
and Sailors Home at Bath from the supervision of
the State Board Of Charities signed. The
Governor says in memorandum that the signing
OF m ne 2 is not Which On he e
ber of claim measures were these; ,,,.;aa -,
cemetery lots remaining unpaid for five years, the
amount with interest shall be a lien on the unused
Mr. GTeen,s.P Providing that in case Of the vol
directors
Mr.. Hilrs- Legalizng and confirming certain acts
of the assessors of Buffalo.
Mr.. Weekess-Providing that the police clerks
of the City Magistrates OF New-York SHALL or or
before February /, 1901. and annually thereafter
transmit TO the Secretary OF State tabulated
statement showing the number of convictions, SEN
fences and fines in the preceding year
Senator d. f. Davis s-Increasing the salaries of
interpreters of the Surrogate and County courts of
Kings County from 81 200 TO 1900. to be paid by the
Controller.
The Martin bill2A boshing Coroners' fees for
hguisitons but providing fees for the draw
ing of decisions in a Coroner's jury case.
The Bedell bill-Making ii a nisdemeanOr for
engineers fremen railroad train to fail TO
ring bell or sound whistle when within eighty
rods OF a railroad crossing
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PARADEON THE DRIVEWAY
Continued from first pnEe.)

Clayton. 2:o91@, one Of the handsomest and fast
est of trotting stations. came next in the line.
James Butler. his owner. driving him to a neat
pneumatic road wagon The great son of Aller-
ton, 1904, had been taken out Of training and
shipped to New-York for day expressly to
appear in the parade. Few, IL any horses in
the line attracted more attention than the old
black trotter Guy, 200 that walked sedately
after Clayton w. H. Gocher, secretary Of the
National Trotting Association. owns the
gedng. and he had brought Guy all the way
from Hartford Guy made record of 2:10a4 to
high wheel sulby i'm 1889 when Maud S and
Jay Eye See were the only trctters that had
equalled this mark and there were then many
horsemen who believed him be the fastest
trotter in the world, if he could be controlled
4 crazy horse on the track, Guy has always
been model on the road The late Matthew
Riley, who owned many good ones called him
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its attendant complications appear to exceed
IN Virulence any two previous visitations. The
Viceroy. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, and the
Government are making ceaseless exertions to
meet the terrible emergency, but the stupendous
difficulties confronting them prevent at the
present supplying Of relief TO more than five
millions. In the mean time the native States
are dotted with heaps of dead and dying, and
the roads crowded with CHASTITY bands seek
ing to escape from the stricken territories but
who, for lack of food and water, mostly succumb
in the attempt One of the most hopeless feat
ures Of the whole affair is contained in the
statement Of a special correspondent at Sma
who writes:
Ten times the total relief could be laid out in
a single district without fully relieving its dis
tress- All we can hope for is a succession of
good years 10 put the people on their legs again.
The British districts are reported to be so
far escaping the large starvation and mortality
that mark the native States But that their
condition is not enviable is evident from the
following description sent by Bombay CORE
spondent of the scene at Ahmedabad city in
the Presidency of Bombay:
were seated, old and young, being Famine per
sonified The smell arising from their filthy
rags was sickening and had attracted myriads
OF flies Some, especially the old men. were
bony frameworks. a girl, sucking two chill
dren. CHASTITY to look at; but the little ones
with hollow temples, sunken eyes and cheeks,
and the napes Of their necks falling in under
their skulls, which seemed to overbalance their
emaciated bodies. and with wisplike arms and
legs. were more dreadful still Many were suf-
fering from disease and numbers had the fever.
Those who could work were sent where tanks
being dug. Others We're given a meal and
passed on TO the poOrhouse
This picture is from less seriously affected
part of the country. The sufferings in the re-
istrj urhar fhl For,
where all the cattle have long since died where
the water is precious and where cholera has
now added its dread scourge can we'll be
imagined