The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-29

fail to provide funds necessary, he will
use his own private fortunes to carry
on the contest.
1t is reported that Grobelar's COM
mando succeeded in surrounding and
capturing q British force OF 100 railway
pioneers. Subsequently Col. Ryming-
ton came up with achievements, and,
with heavy fighting, compelled the
Beers TO retire and release their pris-
oners. The British losses included
Major Fisher killed and three officers
wounded. The casualties among the
men have not yet been reported.
Sunday while party of Portland
men were duck hunting ON Columbia
slough, six miles from Portland, Sid
ney Spreadborough was shot in the
head and instantly killed by S. b.
Banks. A flock of ducks approached
the blinds" where Spreadborough and
Banks were hiding, and both men rose
simultaneously to shoot. Banks fired
in a straight line, and the charge of
shot struck Spreadborough, with the re-
suit indicate above.
News has just reached Denver of the
suicide of Judge NJ. A. Rogers, former
ly of the supreme court of Colorado,
and one of the ablest lawyers in the
state, at Steamboat Springs, Col. The
manner of the suicide was unique.
Judge Rogers laid down on the ground
with a stick of dynamite under him,
lighted a cigar and with it lighted the
fuse which caused the dynamite to eX-
plode. Judge Rogers has been at
Steamboat Springs all summer with his
wife. No cause is known for the sui
eide?
DR.. William Duane, professor of ply
sizes at the Colorado state university,
has just been granted a patent for an
invention by which large number Of
telegraph messages can be sent over
one wire and return at the same time
In the physical laboratory at the uni
versitv Il is said he has had as many
as eighteen circuits working on the
same wire and retire all at the same
time. On any of these circuits the
Morse instruments can be placed and
used exactly as with the single wire
now in use. DR.. Duane's invention is
based on the principle of synchroniging
motors.
The application of the Chicago Union
Traction company and the Consoli-
dated Traction company for an injunc-
ton restraining the Illinois state board
of equalization from assessing the cap
ital stock of those companies for 1900
was denied recently by Judges Gross
cup and Humphrey in the United
States circuit court. The temporary
injunction issued by Judge Grosscup in
Chicago Tuesday was dissolved. I'M
mediately after the decision it was an
nounced assessments aggregatfng $751;
100000 and involving over 81, 900, 900 in
taxes were made by the board of equal
ization as the fair value of the capital
/ stock of the traction companies over
here and above the assessment on their
tangible property. The s75,O00,0OO val
uation takes the place of $4,000 valu-
alton made last year, as representing
the fair cash value of the property as
sessed. The teachers federation esti-
mate was S25,OOO,OOO No written opin-
ion in the case was filed.
James Seeley, of the secret service
of the Yukon, who is in Victoria, B.
c., says the conspiracy formed in Daw-
son was discovered by the police there
in September. 1t was an organization
known as the Order of the Midnight
Sun" founded at Dawson by some
American Fenians, and a branch was
formed at Skagway. but the order did
not extend south. The plan was for the
cOnspirators in Dawson to rise, when
the word was given. after the Yukon
had become unfit for travel, sieze the
barracks of the northwest mounted po-
lice, while their Skagway conferees.
after cutting the wires, were to sur
prise the mounted police patrols along
the river. There are about $50 mount
ed police scattered through the dis
trict, and as there are few in Dawson,
the scheme was thought to be feasible.
The papers of the association were
seized at Skagway, but the seizure be-
ing made in United States territory, is
held by the American officers. The sec
rotary of the order has fed to Seattle.
Turkey Is Broke.
Constantinople, Nov. 25.-Never has
the Turkish Government hean in sucb