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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
MONTANA.

Professional men and merchants will
ask the legislature to amend the IL
rense law.
Poor house Of Silver Bow county had
nearly one hundred inmates on the 1st
If the year Is the doctors report.
The small pox scare is abating at
anaconda. Only twelve cases now re.
ire reported.
Mrs. Geo. II. Milburn. wife of the
new associate justice OF the supreme
,ourt of Montana, died in Helena last
week of pneumonia after brief Ill
nesa
Mr.. Walkers death at Salt Lake last
week, was received In Butte last week.
Walkerville was named in honor of
him. and his brothers, who owned the
famous Alice mine.
One of the most valuable contrlbu-
tions to the literature OF irregation,
especially for Montana, is the pamph-
let that Is sent out from the expert
ment station this month by Director
FOrtier.
December was a big month for the
Helena postoffice officials. In fact II
was a record breaker and the business
OF the last month Of the old year ex.
ceeded the usually large month Of De-
cember. 1899.
Several citizens of Beaverhead coun-
ty petition the governor to pardon
from the county jail A. W. Leslie, who
has already served 80 days. They con-
tend that the punishment inflicted was
too excessive.
That goats can be raised In Montana
with n substantial profit. Is clearly
demonstrated by the figures given In
the annual report OF the commissioner
of labor and statistics. J. II. Calder.
head, who IL now state auditor.
Ferdinand La Plate convicted of as
sault In Jefferson county and now ser
wing a term In the penitentiary, asks
that the governor investigate his case
and grant him clemency. He contends
that he was the victim Of conspiracy
a petition signed uy about $50 names
praying for the pardon OF Oscar Row
land, convicted in June. 1898, Of man
slaughter. for the killing Of Tom Nc
Cough at Red Bluff, has been sent to
Governor Toole. Rowland was sen
fenced to the pen for term Of ten
years.
A head end collision between two
freight trains on the Great Northern
at Essex last week, resulted in the
death Of two and the probably fatal in
jury of a third man. One of the dead
men is Harry Fritz. who has relatives
living at 215 Colfax avenue, Spokane
The other, Albert Werner. is from
Hope, Mich, where his parents reside
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
NORTHWEST NEWS ITEMS
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES
An Interesting Collection OF Items
From the -Four Northwest States
of IA MisceIlnn eous Nature Gath
cred the Past Week.
SuINGTON.

The North Yakima council will be
petitioned for milk inspector
The Waldron estate, consisting of
large tracts of timber land near Aber-
deem, has been finally adjusted.
1t is expected that the famous Usk
creamery will change hands soon and
become the property of Spokane
commission firm.
The Eastern Washington and North
ern Idaho Fruit Growers Association
will meet at Spokane January 81, for
a session of three days.
George Dow, aged %. student OF a
business college. in Spokane, died last
week as a result of undue excitement
brought on by a friendly boxing bout.
1t is said the Legislature will be ask.
ed to increase the Supreme Court from
five to seven judges, upon the ground
that the present membership of the
Court is insufficient to handle the
work.
Alfred II. Seymour who represented
himself as an insurance agent, and
who, the police say, has been victimiz
ing people in Seattle and Oregon
towns, and in British Columbia, has
been arrested at Seattle.
Next November Pacific county bonds
to the amount of $4,000 will be paya
BILE at the option of the county, or they
may run 10 more years. They draw 1
per cent interest. 1t is believed that
they can be refunded at per cent in
terest.
Theodore Cowall laborer at the
Tacoma smelter, was terribly burned
by molten Stag last week, and is now
at the st. Joseph hospital. Cowell
was burned in an attempt to relieve
another man who was endangered by
the Stag.
The biennial report of State Labor
Commissioner Adams has been filed
with the governor. The report is O
long one and deals with statistics and
other details of the various labor In
dustrles and labor conditions of the
state.
The Western Central Labor Union OF
Seattle last week passed resolutions
thanking Andrew Carnegie for his gift
to Seattle of 100000 Library build
ing and in suitable words expressed
deep appreciation for the generosity OF
Seattle's millionaire benefactor.
James A. Drain, formerly major OF
the National Guard, but recently ap
pointed adjutant general. has left
Spokane for Olympia. to assume the
duties of his office on the 10th of Jan
uary. His term of Office Is four years,
during which time the able and popu
lar ex-county clerk will live at the cap
ital of the state.
At Okesdale Frank Edwards. aged
90 years, while bending over counter.
shaft in the Touring mill in the act Of
oiling a journal had his clothing
caught in key and was instantly
drawn to the rapidly revolving shaft,
running at the rate of about 300 revo
lutions per minute, receiving injuries
resulting in his death within a few
minutes. He made an outcry as he was
caught, and the mill was Immediately
shut down. His body was found so
tightly bound to the shaft that his
clothing had to be cut to release him.
He was alive and asked to be taken
home.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
IDAHO.

Idaho's mineral product for 1899
was $14,150.000.
The total assessed valuation OF the
state is $47,451, ,113.
The production Of silver for the year
past is placed at s600,000.000.
The past year has proven the most
prosperous In idaho's history.
Public land entered in the Boise
land Office in 1900 totals 100,288,42
acres.
Idaho produced s6,OO0,000 worth OF
lead last year and copper to the value
of $15O,O00.
The average precipitation In the
state for a number of years has been
1882 inches.
Governor Toole has announced his
firm determination to keep out Of the
contest for senator.
The Occur d'Alenes shipped 10000
tons of lead concentrates last year
and handled 100000 tons of ore.
The eleven townships in Latah and
Shoshone counties The state has select
ed timber lands valued at sS92,191.
Idaho produced $2,000.000 in gold
during 1899, a decrease of half a mil
lion from the previous years produc
tion.
For the last decade Idaho shows a
greater percentage of increase OF
wealth than any other state in the I'm
ion.
The sleighing season has arrived In
Butte, and the merry jingle Of Ginning
bells is doing business at the old
stand.
The state land board last year leased
37,039 acres of land, deriving a revenue
OF $4,000; 10,509 acres we're sold fol
! $126,10S.
/ Three hundred cars of prunes and
apples were shipped from the fruit
growing districts of southern Idaho
during October.
Senator Shoup has introduced a bill
in the senate providing for an appro
priation of $25,000 to establish fish
| hatchery in Idaho.
The secretary OF the interior has ap
proved the patent to the state OF Idaho
OF a list of lands in the Lewiston dis
trict selected under the grant to aid
state asylum for the insane. II EN-
braces 3,2l0 acres.
State Auditor Sinclair in his blen
nial report gives the Indebtedness or
account of tie Coeur d'Alene riots al
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
PANIC IN CHICAGO THEATER
LARGE NUMBER WERE KILLED.
4 Man Cried FIre-Audience Was
Mostly Jews-Large Number Killed
and Many MIssing-It Was u False
Alarm.

Chicago Jan. l3.-Seven persons were
crushed to death and as many more Sc
riously injured in panic which followed
a mans cry OF "Fiie" in the West Twelfth
street Turner hall About 500 people were
in the place, gathered to witness the per-
formance of a play entitled "The Green
horn" The following were killed:
Rebecca Lindsey; Annie Goldberg, aged
!; Regina Mellenberg, aged 4; Annie Solo
mon, aged 3; George Shatrer, aged .. Mrs.
Samuel Mendelsohn, Birdie Xidmann
The injured: Bccke and Mamie Adler,
George Becker, Mamie Becker, Sarah
Bloomgarden, Rebeccs Bloomgarden, Mrs.
Sarah Cohen, Louis A. Freedman, Sarah
Goldberg, Mrs Nette Hirschberg, Minnie
Hoffman, injured internally, may die
Fannie Jacobs, Myer jacobson, Abraham
Zimmerman, Rose Zimmerman, Mrs.
Sarah Keal, Mollie Molli, Rcbecca Richter.
Annie G. Rossman, Mrs. Ida Rossmsn.
The missing: Frank Molli, Harry Hsr.
ris, Mary Lichtenstein, Fannie Quarles.
Samuel Mendelsohn and two children.
Frank Reuben.
The play was in Yiddisb, and the au.
liencc, comprising for the most part wom-
en- and children, were all Hebrews. The
hall stands in densely populated dis
trict. When the cry was raised it was
only five seconds until the entire audiences
was converted into frantic mob, every
member of which was fighting for the
safety which lay beyond the doors of
the building. As soon as the wild rush
toward the doors began chairs were
knocked down in every direction, the
aises disappeared and the excited people
ran climbed and stumbled over the chairs
on the way to the doors
The alarm Of fire was false, there having
been no fire at any time The building is
somewhat defective and at times sparks
pass up through the registers. 1t was the
sight OF these sparks rising into the room
that frightened the man who raised the
cry of fire.
The hall has several times been the scene
Of panics and ii is only few months since
d number OF children were hurt in q rush
for the doors during juvenile party given
in the place.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16

Pittsburg, Jan. l3.-J. M. GuTy has
made the most important oil discovery of
the past 10 years. Recently he drilled into
a mighty gushcr in southeastern Texas,
located on "A 1900 acre tract, ls miles from
Sabine Pass, on the Sabine river, and Ia
miles from Port Arthur, in Jefferson coun.
ty. The well is flowing the full capacity
of the six inch casting, at a rate estimated
at 1900 barrels per day. This well is
located about 240 miles southeast Of the
Corsiana field, and the oil is the same in
specific gravity, about 81 degrees, but was
reached at depth Of less than 1900 feet.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
OREGON,

Albany had ouly four fire alarms last
year.
Andrew John Welch an old resident
Of Astoria died last week.
The Marshfeld light plant was
slightly damaged last week by light,
ening.
The Baker City Chamber of Com
merce gained 81 new members last
week.
F, f, Dunn, of Eugene. sold 81 bales
of 1899 hops to San Francisco buyers
recently for s cents per pound.
The Treasurer Of Grant county had
about $4,000 last week for distribution
among the schools of the county.
Fred Walters, of the Farmers Gus.
tom Mill. has purchased the Cheape
mill property at Pendleton for $500.
The telephone Office at Sumpter has
abolished its telegraph Office, and mes
sages are now transmitted by telehone
to Baker City.
Since the 18th of December the I'm
bier Lumber company has received or
ders for 35 cars Of lumber. 25 of which
go to Salt Lake City and other Utah
points.
The steamer Blanco has been tow.
ing rock for the Southern Oregon
Lumber Company to Empire. The rock
is being used to build bulkhead to
protect the piling from teredoes.
l.. Oldenburg's fruitdryer and fruit
house, north Of La Grande. was total
ly destroyed by fire recently. Practi-
cally nothing was saved. The loss In
cludes the dryer and fruithouse. $4,000
pounds of dried prunes, $4,000 pounds
% dried apples, $500 pounds Of dried
pears, and 1900 pounds of apples. Mr..
Oldenburg carried $4,000 insurance.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16

$59,549, and suggests that Shoshone
county. where the trouble occurred be
required by the legislature to pay a
portion Of it.
One Of the biggest timber sales In
the history of the northwest is about
to be consummated. The property,
which is white pine land, is in north
Idaho, in Latah and Nez Perce counties
and the consideration If the deal is
consummated, will be more than half
a million dollars. The principals are
the state and the Hines lumber COM
pany of Chicago, one of the biggest
concerns of the kind in the United
States, and others.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
Public schools I'm Manila.

Manila, Jan. l5.-The first public dis
cussion of the bill to establish a depart
ment of public instruction developed O
contest on the question of religion in pub
lie schools. Interest centers in the sec
tion permitting priests and ministers tc
teach religion for half hour weekly out
side the schools at the desire of the par
ents for such instruction, and prohibiting
teachers from conducting religious exer
cises OF discussions on religion.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
Report Denied.

Pekin, Jan. l3.-M de Giers, Russian
minister 10 China, denies the current re-
port that Russia is endeavoring to make
a special agreement with China iTespect-
i've Of the other powers. With reference
to the claim made by some Of the other
ENJOYS, that Russia violated her word in
taking a concession at Tentsin, NJ. de
Giers made a denial.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16

POSTOFFICE.
u Open on week DAYS from a. m. to s
p. m. Sundays mails open one hour, from
8, to 10 a. m. Money order department
closes at p. m.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
Put Your Monty y IN q Home.

It's the best savings bank on the sartA.
will never go out OF business" You've
got It right under your thumb-no one car
take It away from you. There II ts-s
shelter In the time of storm. You'll have
thing to eat-and surely that's better thsa
haviay no place to sleep and nothing to
eat. II 10 always something o. which you
,an realize ready nensy.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
SOCIETIES.

r. AND A. M.-Ritzville Lodge r. & A
M. No. 101, meets In regular communica
ton on the second and fourth Saturday.
In each month at 7:30 p. m. All brethrer
cordially invited to be present.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16
NeeIy Goes Hack.

Washington, Jan. l5.-The United States
supreme court today rendered decision in
the Neely cxtradition case. The court
held that Nicely was subject to eAtndi.
ton and must be surrendered TO the Cuban
authorities.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1901-01-16

The man who measures the profits OF
religion in dollars and cents will never
strike q heavy balance.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20
Executors Norice.

In the United States court for the Indian
Territory, northern district, at Vinita.
In re last will and testament of Will
lam ]. Overton, deceased. J. G. Gray, ex-
ecutor.
To BERTHE Overton, William ]. Overton
and Elbert Carlin his curator, Daisy
Overton and &c. Gray her guardian.
You will take notice that on the 2sth
day of May, 1901, or as soon thereafter
as the same can be heard, will apply to
the Hon. Joseph A. Gill, holding United
States court for the Indian Territory,
northern district at Vinita, for an order
of court to pay over to BERTHE Overton,
William J. Overton and Daisy Overton
their distributive shares of the estate of
William J. Overton, deceased pursuant
to the terms of his last will and testa-
ment, as the same appears in the third
annual and final settlement of said estate.
JOHN B. TURNER, ]. c. GRAY,
81 Atty. for Executor. Executor.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20
A Deep Mystery.

1t is a mystery why women endure
backache, headache, nervousness,
sleeplessness, melancholy, fainting and
dizzy spells when thousands have
proved that Electric Bitters will
quickly cure such troubles. Il suf-
fered for years with kidney trouble, -
writes Mrs. Phoebe Cherley, of Peter
son, Ia, "snd a lame back pained me
so I could not dress myself, but Elec-
trio Bitters wholly cured me, and, al
though % years old, / now am able to
do all my Homework" 1t overcomes
improves appetite, gives
perfect health. Only soc, at Peoples
aud A. W. Foreman's Drug stores. DIV
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20

J.D. Cox, the Claremore lawyer, has
a book on the market that is full Of
useful information for the homeseek-
er ia the Kiowa and Commanche res
ervations soon to be opened TO settle
ment; price 75c. 95p
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20
Sunday Excursions

The Katy road has inaugurated the
regular Sunday summer excursion
rates to and from al points on their
road.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20
IN mEnoRlAn.



appropriate adjectives in the lex
icon with which to pass an encom.
ium ii could not equal that which
is contained in these Ave words,
HE was an honest man." and
this is true of him.
And now that he is gone from
among us, believe he has gone
where the just are made perfect.
He is entitled to the grandest of
all human rewards, "of we'll done
thou good and faithful servant" I"
Man that is born of woman is of
few years and full of troubles.
We all shudder at the approach
of death; we shrink at the weird
and solemn footsteps of those who
bear the bodies of our departed
friends to the grave.
trust and believe that we may
be benefited, in no small degree
by the good examples Of our de.
parted brother.
| tender expressions Of condo
lence 10 his bereaved family and
all OF his relatives.
He died in the zenith of his life
and when the sun setting of his
life left its rays to mingle with the
shadows of approaching night he
passed from among US and feel
assured that our good Father above
will extend to him the right hand
of fellowship and say to him,
Burckhalter, thou hast been faith
full over a few things, l will now
make thee ruler over many.
II the Court please, heartily |
concur in every sentiment con-
tanned in the resolutions presented |
by your honorable committee of
this bar,
The country that receives his
ashes is indeed to be envied.
"If the Father designs to touch
with divine power the cold and
pulseless heart of the buried acorn,
and make it burst forth from it's
prison walls, will He leave neg
lected in the earth the soul of a
man who was made the image of
his Creator? If He stoops to give
to the rose bush, whose withered
blossoms float upon the autumn
breeze the sweet assurance of an
other spring-time, will He with
hold the words OF hope from the
sons Sof men when the frosts of
winter come? If matter, mute and
nanimate, though changed by the
.orces of nature into a multitude
If forms, can never die, will the
'pirit of man suffer annihilation
lfter it has paid brief visit, like
royal guest to his tenement of
layY
"Rather let us believe that He
Who, in his apparent prodigality
wastes not the rain drop, the
'lade Of grass, or the evening's
inging zephyrs, but makes them
Il carry out His eternal plans,
as given immortality to the mort. :
|, and gathered to Himself the :
enerous spirit of our friend"
In ordering theresolution spread
pom the records of the court T
udge Gill paid high tribute to
ne memory of the deceased, speak $
lg feelingly of the high regard in
hich Mr.. Burckhalter was held
y the court.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION.

There is a palpable abuse
growing up in the United
States court here of the priyil-
eyes allowed under the rules of
selecting trial juries. 1t is not
the fault of the court, but of
certain attorneys, that a large
class of respectable citizens are
disseminated against and dis
qualified from sitting upon ju-
ries in the trial of larceny
cases. The Chieftain has re-
peatedly observed that when
the defendants attorney asks
the question, "Do you belong
TO the Anti-Horse Thief associ-
ation?" or to the "Cattle Pro-
tective association that the
honest farmer and stockman is
forced to stand aside and his
place filled, oftentimes, by the
professional juror, who don't
belong to any Of these organic
ations. This is an unjust dis
elimination and ought not to
be allowed. The best class of
farmers throughout the coun-
Try have been forced to organize
Bhese associations to protect
themselves against the maraud- I
ing bands of thieves that infest
she country, and with few ex-
eeptions the man who can say
he don't belong to any Of them
has been refused admission for
some good reason. We have
seen men ordered to stand
aside during the present term
Of court, whose integrity could
not be assailed on any grounds.
who take this adj
vantage of honest men are maxi
ing a mistake, and the logical
conclusions of honest men is
that they have client who is
b thief, and whose trial they
dare not trust in the hands Of
men who are known to be op- |
posed to thieving Of all sorts. {
II the courts of the country al
Ow this thing to 60 on unre- :
the ends of justicels :
yill be thwarted, and thievesl
urned loose upon the commun- '
ty instead of being sent TO the v
'enitentiary wherethey belong. b
Many of our readers are anx-
ously waiting to hear from the ! !
ewly created commission Of nine
elected by the council to nego-
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20


Many of our readers are anx-
5Ously waiting to hear from the
newly created commission Of nine
selected by the council to nego-
iiate another treaty with the gov
eminent. Nothing has been heard
Of the bill since it was sent to
president of the United States for
approval. AS soon as it is sign ed,
which no doubt it will be, the
commission will organize and pre-
pare for work by so announcing
10 the Dawes commission who will
arrange time and place for the
meeting. The old treaty, it is un-
derstood, will be used as a basis
Tor the new treaty, and such por-
hons as were most objectionable
will be left out Of the new treaty.
The general sentiment Of the Cher
Okee people is favorable to a
treaty. but an unfavorable treaty
Eouid receive fewer votes now
ihan formerly. Notwithstanding
ihe great anxiety for a final set
ilement there is a strong senii-
ment in favor Of not yielding to
What may be considered injustice.
The best wheels in town can be
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-05-20

The best wheels in town can be
found at Relneke's shop See them.
Prices, the best. l95-a-w-lw
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-06-27
THE JUDGES SAD PICTURE.
With Shameless Perfidy," He Says
America Took Possession OF
Other Lands.

Before the graduating class of the
law school OF the University OF Colo
RADIO, at Boulder on the 9th inst.
Moses Hallett, dean OF the law facul-
" and United States Judge at Dem
Yer, delivered an address in which he
criticised the present attitude of the
government with regard to the Phil
lppines, closing with these words:
And SO 1t appears that the powers
OF earth and air are again arraved
as they have always been arrayed.
against the cause OF civil liberty.
The spectacle presented is that of a
nation in rebellion against absolute
power and achievingits independence
OF such power 10y force OF arms. after
ward q government established in
protest against absolute power and
processing torule only by the consent
OF the people and according to their
VIII, an autonomous government.
which claims only the right of self
rule for the people and disclaiming
authority in other lands and over
other people. Such was the United
States OF America at the end of the
eighteenth century. One hundred
Years later the same nation and gov
eminent in total disregard of the
on which it was esta blished. |
repudlatine every declaration of au-
thorlty upon which it came into
power, with shameless perfidy takes
INTO It's possession other lands and
peoples with intent to rule them alb
Solutely and with the power of the /
-wc-d.
SO fleet the works Of men. Back
70 earth again.
This nation, baptized inthe blood /
Of freemen a short century back. and /
dedicated to the cause OF liberty for
men. now crumbles into the slough
II despotis1n. another ruin on the
sands OF time TO mark the course OF
nan. : inhumanity 70 man.