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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-21
MURDER AT PORT HILL.
Tom Flemming Cuts John Keller
Throat,

we're neighbors living on ranches
near Port Hill. They attended a
school election in Port Hill on
Friday and both became intoxica-
ted. They quarreled over some
petty trouble and met later Just at
the outskirts of town. Flemming
attacked Keller with knife which
he used with deadly effect, cutting
Keeler's throat, severing the jugu-
lar vein, from which Keller bled to
death. Such in brief is the occount
of the terrible tragedy that shocked
Port Hill last Friday night.
What possessed Flemming to
commit the deed is not clear, unelss
it be the theory that he was crazed
with liquor and knew not what he
did, which is his defense. The two
had had some words about horse
which Flemming had rode to town
and kept tied to post all day long.
Keller had demonstrated with him
about his treatment of the animal
and is reported to have threatened
to turn the horse loose. This
angered Flemming. Later the
horse was turned loose, or got loose,
and it is presumed that Elem ming.
blamed Keller. Keller and a
neighbor named Wendell started
home about II o'clock at night.
When they reached the east end of
the overhead bridge over the rail-
road Wendell testified that Keller
was hailed by Flemming. Keller
stopped but Wendell walked on a
few PAGES. Just what trans pire1
when Flemming came up is not
known, as Wendell, the only eve
witness, does not talk good English,
and became so excited as not to be
able to give clear account of the
affair, 1t would seem though that
Flemming pitched onto Keller az
soon as he came up. Keller was
small in stature and was no match
for Flemming They went to earth
and Flemming used his knife with
the result and effect as stated. An
examination showed that Keeler's
hand was cut where he had attempt
ed to ward off the thrus e, but the
cash in the neck was not large, not
over an inch long, but had touched
the vital spot with methodical ex-
actness. Wendell interferred fin
ally to separate the antagonists, but
too late. When he took hold, he
felt the warm blood from one and
the knife in the hands of theother
He assisted Keller to arise, who
staggered about ten PAGES, gasped q
few words about being cut, and
sank down corpse. Flemming
appears to have returned to town
Immediately, where he was found
shortly after, appearantly in hal
dazed condition, and a CHASTITY
sight, covered with blood. He die
not appear conscious that he hac
committed any crime. submitted
indifferently 10 arrest AID gave az
the bloody knife without any
concern.
The first persons on the scene o
the murder were customs Officers
Jas. E. DolAn and Otis f. Warren
who heard the quarrel and fgh
from the customs office where they
room. BELIEVING from the sounds
that a crime was being com united
IL ey hurried to the spot and founC
Keller deah and alone, Wendell
having gone to arouse Mr.. Daniel
son, who lives near by, and Wilt
soon arrived. Other citizens wer,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
Furniture for Boys Room,

OF course, Johns room does NOT
want tea-table, but he does want q
desk and lounge as badly as his sis
ter. Not a lounge with an elegant.
dainty cover, ruff1ed pillows, etc.. but
leather couch Or rattan divan, with
cushions which have plenty Of feath-
ers, but no ruffles. This couch
would, fancy, have many a
tale to tell in after years were
it permitted to relate the number of
air castles built, surrounded by it's
cosy pillows, of what is to be done
when / am man." for boy has
just as many dreams as a. girl; they
differ from each other in quality ra-
ther than quantity. The desk,
too, should be there there
is no reason why it should not.
for the very thing he wants can be
bought for SIS or s10-for then there
will be a place for him to wrestIe with.
the composition fend," and a place
to keep his school notes and party in.
5. ,.=z 4.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05

twelve names have been called the
performer shakes the hat, mixing the
slips, and has one drawn by some one
IN the audience. The name is noted
and the paper burned. The ashes are
then rubbed on the performers fore
arm, and the chosen name is revealed
IN red letters. Before doing the trick
the performer writes the name of some
prominent. person, say George Wash
lngton, on his arm with milk. using
match or toothpick, or with a. piece
OF damp soap, pointed fine. "But how
does the performer know what name
Will be chosen?" you ask. Simply be-
cause only one name is used. On each
sllp' as the audience calls off the va
rlous names. he writes the words
George Washington" In a grouu of
celebrities the name of George Wash
lngton is almost certain to be men,
toned. AS the hat contains slips on
winch are written the same name there
is no question as to what name will
be drawn. The rest is easy. At this
time names of presidential candidates
might be called for. In like manner
names of animals, birds, trees, flowers
or the names of countries can be used,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
The Southern Girl Not Athletic.

/. The Southern girl does find time tic
read' and write,~ and talk, as we all
know, although she can not fence and
dive, and pays no attention to cricket
or polo. She is apt to take more in
terest in the little curls on her brow
the magnolia tint of her complexion
and the picturesque droopiness Of her
ST SHADY hat than a score in golf. a BIZ
cycle gynkhana ora rowing match,
These things necessitate inelegant
haste. and hustle and the raising of
voices, all of which the Southern lover
OF grace disapproves. Give her fan
and a pretty frock, red parasol and
young man to talk to, and the aver
age Southern girl is willing to let her
Northern sister take all the violent
sports and all the glories thereof. She
may fade faster than does her open-
air sister Of the North. and she nav
not have as sound constitution as
broad shoulders and as deep a. chest
out she keeps her hands small and
white and she doesn't learn how to
De rough in voice or .manner.-Nev
YORK commercial Advertiser.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
.tlr'ope in 1 he
'%=&ss @s5zSS s.< - - Il" - :.
aCin1C III r.

The Pacific ocean, westward of Ha-
wall and the Marquesas, is like a fed
GRAFTON of European nations on Asia
tic soil, united by the free commerce OF
the seas, says Ainslee's Magazine. The
nations vary in size, strength and i'm
portance, as the states of Europe or
OF the American Union. Great Britain
commands the field with landed area
of nearly 3,250,000 square miles. Poor
Spain's once magnificent empire is
shrunk to less than so square miles,
smaller total than belongs to black
King George of the Tongas. Holland,
the country from which emanated the
doughty Beers, owns over $4,000
square miles, settled with nearly eight
times as many people as inhabit the
larger area owned by Great Britain.
Germany, the new civilizer among the
nations, has dominance over more
than 100000 square miles, and about
as many people as there are miles.
France, with less than one-tenth of
Germany's land. is at some of the
most important points of strategy and
at the point Of greatest travel. Sew
eral independent states lie in the
midst of the federation, as Switzerland
does in Europe; several others in the
unhappy suzerainted position of the
Transvaal in South Africa.
. If all the islands could be put into
a continuous body of land they would
form most heterogeneous empire.
They would include, in addition to Eu-
ropean peoples with their various po-
litical and social systems, tangle Of
aborigines, a confusion of savages and
semi-civiliZed cultivators of the soil
and commonwealth; an emporium OF
products more diversified than bazaar
on midway plaisance, a mystery of
traditions as inexplicable as the origin
Of the American Indians. Profoundly
forested in the Dutch West Indies, the
islands become in western Australia
more barren than the lava beds OF
eastern Oregon, and more irredeema-
BILE than the uppermost wilds of Brit
ish Columbia. Fertile, balmy and
luxurious in the beautiful lands OF
New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa and Tahiti,
they are transformed into uninhabited
coral reefs or into hot and maiar1al
beds Of struggle in the guano-c covered
or lcopra producing dots on the map
north and east of the line drawn from
the Philippines to New Guinea and
through Samoa to the Society islands
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
WOMAN GRABBED SNAKE
And sawed Its Head or on a narbes

And Sawed Its Head Or on q Barbes
Wire Fence .
Genoa IN. V correspondent Chi
cago Inter-Ocean: Mr.. and Mrs,
James Bastedo of Syracuse are Wis.
ltlng Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Parker.
VINO reside on a farm near this Yil-
lage. Mrs. Bastedo started Sout to
gather red raspberries in the COW
pasture late last Thursday afternoon.
she did not return at supper time, and
an hour later Mr. Bastedo and Mr..
Parker started to search for her. When
they arrived at the pasture they shout
ed The pasture contains about thirty
acres. They heard her voice in reply
coming from the farther side Of the
held, and fastened in thatA direction.
Inc men found Mrs Bastedo backed
up III corner of the fence She cried
10 them not to come very near unless
tney were armed, as there was an inn
mense snake coiled in front of her and
watching. Each man picked up q
club and started for the snake. II
heard them approaching and made, a
rush for Mrs. Bastedo. Quick as a
nash it coiled around her and tried tc
strike her in the face. She caught il
by the throat and frantically sawed its
mead Off on the buckthorn wire fence
lhenf she tainted. The snake was
dragged to the house and measured
1t was a blacksnake 13 feet 9 inches
long. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Park,
er, Mr.. Bastedo and J. W. Shaw were
cutting wood in the same field. Mr.
wood was about, 100 feet from the 9th
ers when he gave yell, caught up
CLUB and struck at something in the
grass. The men ran to his assistance
Just before they reached him they saw
a large snake coiled around his legs
and body and trying to strike him il
the face. Mr. Parker caught the rep
Tile by the throat and held it while
shaW cut off it's head with an ak. It
too' was a blacksnake, II feet S inches
long
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
Horse Seized a Life Line.

From San Francisco comes a story
OF horse that saved its life by holding
to rope with it's teeth. At the time
of the incident the horse was being led
across a gang-plank to a boat. The
footing whistle of a tug caused the
horse to shy into the water. There
was no place for the unfortunate crea-
ture to get out, and it looked as if it
would have to drown. AS last resort
man threw a coil of rope out to the
horse. The line no sooner. struck the
water than the Intelligent animal
seized it between the teeth and held
on. In this way its head was kept
above water until boat came, haw-
ser was fastened around the horses
neck and the creature was towed'
ashore. The horse ;. was valued at
81 900, and after its unexpected plunge
was loaded aboard ship and went to
Tacoma. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
Japan Needs Foreign Canita1

The Japanese government has taken
one step which should have the ef-
tect OF introducing a little of the
m@uch-needed @ foreign capital. It has
granted permission for foreigners to
become owners Of shares in Japanese
railways. The treaties do not ex-
plicitly forbid such ownership. but in
asmuch as it would amount to an In
direct ownership of land the authori-
ties have hitherto hesitated to sane
ton the privilege. Moreover, the by-
laws Of many railway companies con-
tain a clause restricting the tenure
Of their shares to Japanese subjects
Within vi hi The last six months applica-
ton was made 10 have these restric-
tions removed, and the government
has granted permission in the case Of
tne prlnclpal railways of the country.
-. Rellamy Brown in Chicago Rec
ord 1Sss
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
De Reszkes in .sCoon" Songs,

The fellow-passengers of the De
! Reszkes on board the trans Atlantic
liner which carried these famoxs lyric
artists home after their season in
grand opera in this company had the
UNIQUE 11l experience of hearing. the mag
! snificent voices Of these twin brothers
sofsthe I opera in a repertoire of coon
songs. Two young American vaude-
Ayl1llists were on board, and, being ac-
quainted with Jean and Edouard, in
duced them to Join in the rendition Of
such classics as Ma Gal Is a. High
Born Lady, etc, greatly to the edifi-l
cation Of the other travellers.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05

l had been graduated two years, and
mad a practice sufficiently large, I
deemed, to warrant my taking apart
ments. Apartments surround young
doctor with an air of prosperity which
people like to encourage and add to.
A, month later I was comfortably. al
most elegantly, established on the first
moor OF a handsome north side apart
ment house, with careful middle-aged
woman to act as my housekeeper and
cook
pretty we'll fixed, old man, eh?"
said Jack Winters, my college class
mate and chum, who had come over
that evening from the west side to
make a houseWarming for me. "AIl
you need TO complete your happiness
IS to get acquainted with the pretty
widow on the floor above you. She's
John Redmond's cousin, you know, and
sWeeter little woman never
Thank you," I said, checking Jacks
enthuslasm-Jack always goes off on
a tangent when pretty woman is dis
cussed. Il am trying to get patients,
and have no time for social pleasures.
and, besides, don't mind saying it.
Jack, I'm not fond of widows"
-. All I have to. say to that u.s." said
Jack, you don't know Mrs. Traine."
however, my professional duties
were not so arduous that I did not find
time to notice trim little figure that
fitted in and out through the big en-
trance door, dressed always exquisite
ly, but quietly.
Ny interest in Mrs Traine deenenad
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
Sc ENE Ess n i
, CAPE NOME

widest, flercest gambling is, going
onsthese days in the wind swept camp
oIRo,0o0 men and 700 women on Cape
NoNme, q writes a correspondent. Vet
eran miners who have followed ethe
fitnpl beckonings Of fortune among all
Athe gold and silver camps from Chi
huRhua, Mexico, to Alaska, during more
than 40 years, say they never knew a
duplicate of Nome's saturnalia of gam
bling. HI. -
Virginia City's reckless gaming a
generation ago was decorous in com
parlhson; Tombstone's and Leadville's
plunges into faro andfkeno were puny
DyIhe side Of Nome's; Cripple Creeks
! noEeest and most dissolute era of
gambling was temperate alongside
: that OF Nome, and even Dawson never
nag anywhere near the capital invest
edrn big gambling halls and all man
neff5of games to seduce miners gold.
NO such large assemblage Of gamblers
OF many nations and all degrees of
proficiency Of was ever seen, at least I'D
and down the Pacific coast, like that
now gathered in Alaska's newest gold
camp. g. sz5 ss zs... -
other class of men is at all like
gold olltd 4 miners for mad, incessant gam
bling. The grim, primitive life among
the rugged hills and blasted gulches.
the hard lia manual labor, the absence of
softening influences Of home and civil
lzation, lead miners to seek recrea-
ton q in hard excesses and desperate
gaming. What most men do at Nome
maybe summed up in three words
mining, ing, gambling and drinking.
A multitude Of the miners work in
the beach sands !. and gulches like
henrds, live in dirty frayed tents and
vile huts, and gamble their every
speck Of gold dust at sitting. Day
and night, week after week and month
after month, with never a pause, the
Nome miners are CHANGING the dearly
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05

gotten gold. The faro dealers chips
are always clicking, the little balls
5ceaselessly rattle in the revolving rou-
lette wheels, the craps men are ever
throwing huge dice and shouting the
results, the stud poker tables shuttle
and deal at the little round, green
tables, and the policy men hold hourly
drawings -.s=
Sometimes the great, barn-like
gambling halls are each crowded with
4O0 and 500 absorbed, anxious and
desperate men and women toying with
capricious luck. Several times the
restless, eager crowds have fought
mortal fights for chances at the gam
ing tables. Time and again a miner
mas lost all his gatherings of gold
through whole season by a whirl of
roulette wheel, and men have wag-
cred pounds Of gold upon the turn Of
a card. Sometimes murders occur
among the frenzied players, and half
the rows of the crazy camp start in
the gambling halls.
Roughly estimated, some 800 men
are at Nome solely TO conduct gam
bling, and to concoct schemes for al
Turing gold dust and money from the
sWarming miners. The gambling fra
tern1ty has been recruited from every
city in America, from cities in Eu-
rope, from Australia and South Am
erica. Lucky" Baldwin is installed
there with, twenty salaried gamblers
| in the employ of a syndicate of men
who have made thousands Of dollars
in other western mining fields. Jacob
Westfall Of New York, is running a
fashy place, equipped with almost
every sort of popular gambling game
and device. Chicago, Buffalo, Pitts
burg, st. Louis and New Orleans each
has a quota of gamesters at Nome
While every community on the Pacific
coast has some representation among
! the fraternity gathered to feed upon
the gold diggers in the Alaskan camp
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
sweetheart aud Money Burned.

New York Correspondence of Pitts
ourg Dispatch: AS the ashes of the
burned piers at Hoboken are cooling
or romances of the fire are coming to
the surface. One of the burned sailors
on the Main, August stoltz, was to
have been married on Sunday. His
sweetheart, Annie Altz, who has been
employed as a domestic in South Da-
kota for two years, had come East last
week to see. her sailor lover, and after
their wedding on Sunday they intend
ed to go to their old home in GERMANY
and live there for the rest of their
lives He had shown her over the Main
and the girl had left him to buy her
modest wedding trousseau in New
YORK. She has been haunting the shore
opposite where the Main lies smolder.
ing ever since. Her iance had their
JOINT savings, amounting to $1,5Oo in
his belt when he came to his death.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
in Mrs. Traine deepened

when I heard her story. Her husband
mad been killed in railway accident
three years before. The insurance
money was almost gone, and the little
widow added to the income that must
support herself and invalid mother by
giving music lessons to a few wealthy
girls. r
daintier little rosebud of woman
it w2uld have been hard to find. Soft
brown hair, tossed in truant curIs
about the low forehead, a voice that
spoke always gently, blue eyes full of
. mirth, and complexion that looked
like it had been bathed in the morning
dew t~E - IL ..~~~
Once Or twice I held the big door
. open for her to pass out, and bowed in
response to the low thank you.'' Ear
" after my coming to the building a
boy on the top floor had been accom-
modating enough to get hurt in the ele-
vator, and had been called in as the
most available physician. Luckily, I
brought the boy through SO well that
his parents, as well as the youngster
himself, sounded my praises so loudly
that found myself with quite repu-
tation and incidentally practice in
the neighborhood. Still, / had not met
Mrs. Traine, and was beginning wick
edly to hope that some accident lever
SO slight a one, Of course night hap
pen TO her, sprained ankle or wrist,
that I might have the joy Of caring for
her. However, the fates preserved Mrs.
lTraine from accident, and continued
to watch for glimpses Of her from my
Office window,
u I had bowed the last patient out for
the evening and settled myself for
smoke before bedtime. My medita-
8tions, mingling with the blue curling
smoke, were INTERRUPTED by piercing
screams, and then another. i rushed
into the hall. The screams came from
the Traine apartment above In another
minute ] was knocking OH the door,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
Toll at the hour of prime,
5 Matfn and yeSper chime

Toll at the hour of prime,
Matin and yesper chime,
Loving old bells. from the steeple high:
Rolling like holy waves
Over the lowly graves,
Floating up, prayer fraught, into the sky.
solemn the lesson your lightest notes
teach: 3ssr.s .%s4a #
Stern is the preaching your iron tongues
preach, Il ,s.'% . x%
Ringlng in life from the bud to the bloom,
Rlnsing S the dead to their rest in the
>s.@' tomb. a%. - -'rSEIy
@ Peal out evermore, r = -.'* >-#
Zeal as We pealed Of yore, XII =
brave old bells on each Sabbath day; #
In sunshine and gladness, "a - X
" Through clouds and through Sadness
Bridal and burial have passed away; ~.
IeH US life's pleasures with death are
still rife; :&@l ->.,.',
Tell US that death ever leadeth to life.
Life is our labor and death is our rest;
II happy the living, the dead are the
blest. - - :
Dublin University Magazine. "
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-01-05
The Penetrating Co.

The Penetrating Coin.
. A trick that is very simple, requires
no preparation, and yet is remarkably
effective, is called "The Penetrating
Coin" A borrowed Derby hat is
placed on the mouth of an ordinary.
tumbler. Three half-dollars are bor-
,roWed and tossed into the hat, when
one of the coins is seen to penetrate
the hat, dropping visibly and audibly
into the glass underneath. To per-
form this trick you need a half-dollar
of your own, which, of course, is not
known to your audience While plac-
ing the hat on the opening of the
glass, secretly and noiselessly slip this
coin between the rim of the glass and
the hat, the weight of the latter keep
Ing the coin in position. The execu-
Ntion of this movement is simplicity
itself, as the coin is inserted on the
side of the hat that is farthest from
the audience; besides, you hold the
hat with both hands, and appear to take
great care that it should be placed
evenly on the glass. Two or three
trials will convince the reader that he
has nothing to fear in performing this
movement. Take your three coins
and drop them into the hat. The lar
releases the concealed coin, and it
falls into the glass. The illusion Gre
ated is perfect. In returning the coins
do not exhibit the extra coin. The
best way is to leave the fourth coin
in the hat until it can be safely re-
moved.