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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-06-21
MAD RUSH OF HOMESEEKERS.

Exactly at noon Tuesday about 1000 people, men,
boys and Indians started in mad homes on
the Fort Hall Indian reservation Many good tracts
of lands and many disappointed. Great throngs
had gathered at Blackfoet to witness the stampede
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-06-21
Extracts From Glenn'S Great
Speech.


cellent speech in Congress last week on
the irrigation bill. Below we give few
extracts that hit the nail squa~e'y on
the hend.
The cost Of constructing rese voirs,
! should the Government undertake it is
SO to 81 ca making one hand wash the
! other, that Is TO say, the lands in The
arid belt must be the source from which
all revenues for the purpose of making
the improvements such as dams, reser-
. voirs and canals must be derived. The
bill under consideration prov ides that
tne moneys arising from the sale of pub
lie lands within he arid region may be
used for this purpose. Tt therefore fol-
lows that the arid lands NUT reclaim
themselves without depending on any
other source for revenue for said pur-
pose. Tnen il irrigation of the public
lands without cost to tn" government
will render millions Of acres Of land sus-
ceptible of being converted into beauti-
full homes, increasing the wealth Of state
and government, whv should any OBJ
obtain. This bill was formulated by
the members of both houses, represent
ing the arid states and territories. crit
ically examined and passed upon by the
committee of the Senate and agreed to
by that body, carefully examined and
favorably reported by the committee of
this house, recommended by the Presi-
dent of the United States and advoca cd
by both the Democratic and Republican
parties in national conventions as
sembled in the year 1900; the Republican
party adopting as a part of its platform,
the following sections or paragra phs to-
wit
In pursuance of the constant policy
of the Republican party to provide free
homes in the public domain. we recon-
mend adequate National legislation to
; reclaim the arid lands of the United
States, reserying control of The distribn
ton of waters for the irrigation OF the
respective states and territories"
} The language of the Democratic plat
form on this subject is as follows to-wit
I'VE favor an intelligent system OF
improving the arid lands Of the West
storing the waters for purposes of irn
cation and the holding Of such lands fol
actual settlers"
| These are the two planks respectively
contained in the platforms of sait
parties and promulgated to the peopl.
of the United States, and held out as tn,
, articles of faith of the respective parties
J advocated by the campaign speakers O
, both parties and adopted by the people
of the United States at the polls in No
vember 1900. Now each and ever,
, member Of this House, elected as Dem
! ocrat or Republican. or as an endorse
of said platform or either of them, from
d moral standpoint is bound to carr,
out the will of the electors, by who's
votes each and every one of us has tn
honor of being a member of the creates
legislative body ON earth, of the great
est country on earth and failure {
= stand by and carry out a principle s
clearly expressed in each of said plat
> forms, should meet with fitting rebuk
s at the polls at the next election.
It is also necessary to encourage th
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1902-06-21

National Irrigation Mines containing
only low grade ore can not now be
profitably worked because Of their re-
moteness from food supply, would
under a development of the now arid
lands add CRAFTY to the output of the
mines, the annual product of which ac-
cordiug TO lares, althentic roper
amounts to i /, ,O00. .ODO, O00,40. This would
give employment to tn usands of now
idle men and would heoome benefit to
every other industry i'll the United
States in that these miners would con-
sume and necessarily have to purchase
the products of every other indus
try. s y ~ Y "
In the United s ates irrigation was
introduced by the uormons under
Brigham Young in l847 and the wisdom
and great business ability OF this man
as leader as evidenced by history, ia
demonstrated by the great state of Utah
in all her resources of every character.
Under his guidance and direction, the
sage brush plain and the rugged noun
tain side have been transformed into
beautiful farms, gardens, orchards.
homes and magnificent cities. and this
has been brought about alone through
the application of the methods 0f irriga-
: tion, and yet this great inland empire
: has hardly been touched. From Utah
this system radiated to the States of
} Idaho. Montana, Nevada. California and
! the territories, TO which system is due
I the wealth of said states and territories
but this has taxed the ordinary fowage
| susceptible to appropriation by the lu-
] dividual to it's utmost extent and fur
: ther development and improvement is
4 impossible without conservation Of for
est and stream 80 as to furnish addi-
: tional waters for extending To unre-
claimed lands the blessings of
Y ton. y n
Gentlemen may ask will the people
: purchase and settle upon these lands If
reclaimed. To this we answer that
twice the amonnt, nay. more than is
: susceptible to irrigation, would be eager
Q " sought after and fled upon immed-
lately upon it's being placed on the mar
: ket. Mr.. J. d. Whelpley states that on
the opening Of the Kiowa reservation,
! l87, 900 people filed applications, whereas
= only 1900 could be accommodated,
: thus showing that $4,000 people were
u turned away disappointed and made TO
follow, against their wills, business
y other than farming 1t is also shown
. by statistics within reach of every one
70 present, that about fifty per cent only of
70 the lands fled upon since 1882 TO date
;, have ever been patented. that is to say.
u OF 1,345, 900 filings only e37 900 have ever
% been carried into patents; the total
: number of acres covered by these filings
, is 10000. 900, whereas $4,000, 900 acres
only, have been patented; this is largely
. due to the fact that the first settlers
~ appropriated all of the available fiowage
y OF the various streams, thus exhaustina
70 the spring and summer flow of those
- streams, resulting in an abandonment
81 OF over 700. 900 filings. which would now
~ represent. had water been made avail
" able by the Government by conserving
80 the waste waters of winter and early
" spring, about 100000 farms, beautifu
ke
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
SHORTAGE OF $4,000
Charge Laid Against a Great Fall S
Montana, Bank
Cashier.

Helena, Mont, Jan. 21.-H. Herbert
III. Matteson, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of Great Falls. was ar
rested here yesterday afternoon on a
warrant issued by United States
COMMISSIONER Russell at the request
of District Attorney Rodgers, who
charged him with embezzling $4,000
of the banks funds Jan. Il.
1t is understood that Nlatteson's s
defalcation amounts to much more
than the sum named in the com
plant. The officer who accompa-
MED Matteson to Helena today said
that it is believed the total amount
of the shortage would reach $175,-
600. Speculation. il is said. was the
cause of the defalcaEQn. The bank
is strong financially, and is in no
danger of embarrassment. Matteson
was one of the best known men in
northern Montana. Until recently
he was the secretary of the honorary
commission appointed by Gov. Toole
to raise funds for the state exhibit
at the St. Louis fair. He resigned
this position Il few days ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
MAYOR LOW RAKED
BY no Less Distinguished Il Person
Than Reformer Park
hurst.

New York. Jan. 21.-The Parkhurst
society has sent to Mayor Low what
is interpreted as Il threat to proceed
either criminally or before the COVER
nor against the mayor and the police
commissioner if the police do not do
their best to enforce the Raines excise
law. The letter says there is not
much to choose between Tammany
administration that has bad principles
and reform administration that has
good principles but is afraid to use
them"
The letter was adopted by meeting
of the executive committee of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Crime on
Friday. This society says: We are
emphatic in our insistence that you
brace your administration into accord
with your oath; that you summon the
exceptional resources that are at your
command TO the work Of resolutely
suppressing open or clandestine viola
tion of recognized statutes. and thus
either dignity the law by the success
with which you enforce 1t, or by the
demonstrated impOssibility of enforc-
ing it convince the legislature of its
moral obligation to come to our re-
lief"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
A PRECIOUS FIND
Gold and Silver discoveries i'm In
diana That Will be DeveI-
Oped by a Company.

Columbus. Ind. Jan. 21.-Evidence
OF gold. silver and coal was discovered
recently at Waymansville. i'm the eN
treme southwest corner of this county,
and samples were sent to Professor ].
7. Stanton, principal of the miners
assay office. Denver. Colo. and GER
titicate from him shows an assay of
2.GO ounces gold and go of silver,
which viii yield $541O to the ton.
On the strength of this assay COM
pany has been organized to develop
the find. The find WIS discovered re-
Gently while cutting away hill for
pike road through the farm owned by
Henry POppenhOuse. The company
will begin developing the mine at once
and are sanguine of success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
HOW THEY GOT OUT BRED FOR BOUNTY
Details of the Escape of Eleven
Very Bad Citizens from a
U. S. Penitentiary.
BORED A HOLE THROUGH A WALL
Getting into Thick Woods Outside
the Pen Before Being Missed
Warden Puzzled.

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 21.-Eleven Of
the most desperate prisoners in the
United States penitentiary on McNeiFS
island made their escape between L
and p. m. Sunday and are still at
liberty. 1t was the most daring and
successful Jail break ever attempted
i'm this state. and the character of the
men implicated makes it doubtful
whether they will be retaken without
loss of life. The men at large are:
w. ID. Snyder. sent up from Idaho for
robbery; James Campbell, Nome, pick
pocket; Thomas Morton, Nome. burg
larry: Frank AinswOrth. Nome, larceny;
Mike Williams, Spokane, cOunterfeiter;
Harry Davis, Nome. cOunterfeiter;
Frank Moran 0rue name, Ed O'NeiD.
Spokane. counterfeiter; James Mori-
arity. Spokane. cOunterfeiter: J. Il.
Stewart. Idaho. cOunterfeiter; Bruce
Kenwright. Nome. manslaUghter; Jas.
Carroll, Alaska. murder.
How the Prisoners Got Away.
\ hole in the brick wall of cell No.
10, which was occupied by COnvictS
Snyder and Davis, revealed the means
OF escape. The wall is about foot
thick, and the floor of the cell is of
TIE same thickness. and is covered
with concrete. y tunnel was dug at
the junction of the wall and the floor,
sloping outwardly. until it formed Il
connection with the air chamber about
two feet below and Il foot from the
corridor wall of the cell. Through this
air chamber the prisoners crawled
forty feet to where it opened into the
boiler room, the opening being covered
by an iron grating. This obstacle was
overcome by the use of saws. and the
prisoners had then Only TO walk out of
the back door of the boiler room and
across the ward and scale the board
fence. \ few yards from the prison
grounds the dense growth of timber
afforded them 4 safe retreat tempo
rarily.
Chose Their Time with Judgment.
The prisoners took advantage of the
latitude allowed them during the din
ncr hour to carry out their plans. The
guards. with the exception of TWO who
We're on duty on the wall overlooking
the corridor. were eating dinner. The
tables were being spread in the cOrri-
dor for the prisoners dinner. it being
customary TO serve them Immediately
after the guards repaSt. y dinner
gang was ut work putting the tables
in order. and the other prisoners had
the privilege of the corridors. One 10y
one the men slipped into cell No. 10
and crawled through the hole I'M
noticed. When the guards came out
and lined the prisoners up for dinner
eleven were missing. y search result
ed in finding the hole in the wall. The
guards ran to the boiler room, where
the steel door swung on it's hinges,
showing that the men had flown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21

to contribute 10 the Mckinney AIOnu-
ment fund. and asks for resolutions
against government by injunction"
He further recommends that aid be
given the ~ = of l.. in its efforts to
secure a law limiting the power of fed
eral Judges.
The secretary-treasurer's report says
the total amount paid out last year for
assistance of men on strike was $2O2.-
926.O7. while but $50. $3.50 was re-
ceived for that account, the balance
having been drawn from the general
fund. The total membership, outside
Of strikers. numbers 232s329.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
Sycamore and De KaIb Have
Their Hatchets
Out.
AND ARE READY FOR WAR
How the Movement Begun to Re
move the Court
House.

yy camOre, Ills, Jan. 21.-The war
ring county seat factions of DeKaIb
county have unsheathed their swords
in what promises to be one of the most
bitter fights ever inaugurated within a
hundred miles of Chicago. The De
Kalb people who began the movement
to remove the county seat from Syca-
more to DeKalb have raised. il Is
claimed. a bonus of $4,000 to secure
the capital. OF this sum two citizens
Colonel Isaac EIlwood and Jacob
Haisa-subscribed $4,000 each, the
citizens raising the balance
Pitched Into the Fray.
After It was seen that DeKaIb was
raising the money Sycamore pitched
into the fray with unusual zeal. raising
$4,000 in two days. 1t is claimed that
the town will double it rather than be
defeated by its normal neighbor down
oil the Kishwaukee. some of the
wealthiest men of the county residing
here
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
NEwsBoYs ENGAGE IN RIOT
Sixty of Them Take a Hand over Labor
Union Questions.

Omaha. Neb., Jan. PA riot Oc-
Cured at Fifteenth and Farnam
streets Sunday between union and non
union venders of newspapers. in which
sixty newsboys Were engaged. The
fight was being desperately waged and
many small combatants showed cuts
and bruises when the patrol wagon ar
rived All who could not escape We're
taken to the station.
The fray was brought on by pla-
card on which a newsboy had daubed
In shoe backing a request that certain
papers be boycotted. The unions dis
pleasure was directed toward a ct.
Louis and a Chicago paper, which had
raised the newsbOys' price from 31&
to 4 cents a copy. The small standard
bearer excited the ire of +. c. Smith,
23 years old. captain of the non-union
clan. and the row started.
.'Mogy'' Bernstein, known as the
''King of the Newsboys," appeared just
as his unionlst followers were being
overcome by their opponents, with the
bulky Smith at their head Mogy soon
turned the tide of battle, and each
union lad was sitting astride of his foe
when the police arrived. No settle
ment has been made, and the fight will
be renewed next Sunday. -----.4..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
CREAMERY COMBINE
starts in Kansas, But is Said to
Have Fallen
Through.

Topeka. Kas.. Jan. 21.-It is learn
ed that the Continental Creamery
company. known as the Kansas
Creamery trust. has organized gi-
gantic trust to take in all the cream
cries of the country.
The new corporation will be named
the National Creamery company with
a capital of $S.OOO.OOO.
President Parks. of the Continental
Creamery company, said today that
the negotiations looking to Il com
bination of the creamery interests of
the country had fallen through.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
NEW BANK TRUST is FORMED BY NEW YORK
INSTITUTIONS.

of
of of
Among those the Western National Mercantile
be in the The banking
y
directory.
The of the the NewY with
National
held following of
North America Root.
F.
Henry F. Dimock MahIon D. Thatcher,
Z.
Thorne NJ. Barney,
w. II. William mt Lewis
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
HAD A VERY BRIEF START
May Prevent the Fugitives from Leaving
the Island and Capture Them.

May Prevent the Fugitives from Leaving
the Island and Capture Them.
Warden Palmer does not consider 1t
possible that the prisoners obtained
more than fifteen or twenty minutes
start of the pursuers. He at once
sent out squad of guards and made
Il tour of the island, informing farmers
of the escape and asking them to oguard
their boats carefully so that no OPP
portunity would be given for escape.
Marshal Ide and Warden Palmer are
eXerting all their efforts to establish
a perfect Gordon around the boats, be
lieving that if they can prevent the
prisoners from leaving the island un-
der cover of darkness they will be able
to capture them. With two launches.
three row'boats and thirty men guard
ing the shore line it is believed by the
officers that if the men We're still on
the island ait 9 o'clock Sunday night
their escape is blocked.
Warden Palmer has not Lad time to
make n thorough investigation, but is
unable to realize how the work could
have been done without detection. I'VE
inspect the cells each week." said the
warden. THE last inspection was
made Saturday. The work must have
occupied several days. and how the
men could have concealed the brick
and dirt they took from the wall until
they reached the air chamber is more
than L can understand" He believes
the prisoners used a spoon and wood
en- wedges to burrOw through the
brick.
The plan which it is most feared
will be pursued by the convicts viii be
10 raid some of the numerous farm
houses on the island. secure guns,
clothes and boat and then row to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
FIND OF PREHISTORIC BONES
Pottery, Ornaments and War instrument:
Found in the Grave.

Found in the Grave
Clinton, Ia, Jan. 21.-The discovery
a day or two ago of tie remains of
one of the aborigines of the Mississippi
valley in one of the numerous mounds
along the Mississippi banks across the
river has been the subject of consider
able comment, as it was supposed all
of the mounds had been robbed of
their dead.
However, while deepening an out
side cellar, which had been made in
one of these mounds, Harvey Tucker
unearthed the bones of a prehistoric
man, who had been buried in the
mound undoubtedly many centuries
agO. Lying near the remains were
pottery. ornaments and instruments of
war. There are about thirty of these
mounds. all OF which are of large size.
some being nearly fifteen feet in height
and twenty-five feet i'm diameter at the
base.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
SPEAKS OF MACHINE MINIsG
Figures Showing It's Growth-WOuId Have
but One Mine Organization.

Figures Showing Its Growth-WouId Have
but One Mine Organization.
He declares that the time has come
when the national officers should be
elected by direct vote of the local
unions. He says coal prices have been
very stable this year. and urges the
run-of-mine basis for all agreements in
all districts this year. Then he says
of machine mining: ''In the fOrma-
tion Of our next national agreement it
is imperative that the machine mining
scale in the states of Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania be revised. The
basis of machine mining in the dis
tFicts above enumerated is not only un-
fair but is also fundamentally wrong.
In 1891 the machine mines Of the
entire country produced 6,211.T32 tons;
in 1896, 1924 ,932 tons; i'm 1897, 22,-
G49.22O tons; in 1895. 81, ,413.144 tons:
in 1899. 43. .S63, 1913 tons, and i'm 1900.
81 19O.523 tons. During the same per-
iOd the number of mining machines
has increased from J45 In 1891 to 1907
in 1900.
"The necessity of our organization
exercising Jurisdiction over all men en-
pIoyed in or around the mines has been
more than emphasized during the past
year. l strongly recommend that thd
executive board be empowered to ADJ
NIT the coal hOisting engineers in a
body and grant them a district char
fsr-their district to cover the United
Sfates-and that they be given the
same rights and privileges as are now
vested in our various district organ
izations."
President Mitchell asks the conven-
tion to empower the executive board
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
In Two Different Places
Down in West
Virginia.
MANY LIVES ARE LOST
ShinntOWn and Davis
Believed to be
Doomed.

Wheeling. w. Va, Jan. 21.-The
town of Shinntown, GO miles down
the state, is burning. From last ac-
counts the town seems doomed.
y big fire is also reported at a
lumber camp at. Davis, w. Va. Seven
bodies are reported to have been talk
en- out.
Relief Sent.
Although the camp is cut off from
communication. a letter report says
II lives were lost and many injured.
Relief parties have gone to the scene
of the holocaust.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
Four Escape in Alabama.

Birmingham, Ala. Jan. 21.-Early
yesterday morning Frank Duncan, a
notorious safe blower under sentence
of death for murder, and three other
priNoners made their escape from the
Jefferson county Jail by saving through
bars and cutting the lock from the out
er gate of the prison yard. The escape
was discovered at 6 a. IN. and officers
in every city within a radius of thou
sand miles have been notified. Duncan
was murderer, as was George Bul,
lard, another of the fugitives.\ The
other two were thieves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21

Des Moines. Jan. 21.-At this af-
ternoon both houses of the Iowa leg
islature voted separately upon Sc
lecting two members for the United
States senate. The vote was strict
party one. In the senate William B.
Allison. of Dubuque, and Jonathan
p. DoIliver, of Fort Dodge, republi-
cans. received 30 votes. +. II. Thayer,
of Clinton. and John j. Seerley, of
Burlington, democrats, l. In the house
Allison and Dolliver had 81 votes and
Thayer and Seerley 16. Tomorrow
a joint session will be held to ratify
the selections.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21

mainland. Among the escaped prison.
ers are many deSperadOes who would
not hesitate at murder to accomplish
their purpose. With so many ut large
the farmers would be at their mercy.
and should they once get possession of
weapons. it is believed by the officers
of the prison that they will fight to the
death before they are captured.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21

Niles. Mich. Jan. 21.-Judge W. o.
Coolidge. of the Burrien circuit court.
has handed down decision unfavor-
able to the respondent in the case of
the attorney general of this state
against the League of Educators, of
Chicago. In this case the attorney
general seeks to prevent the league
from doing business on the ground that
it Is doing lottery business, in viola
tion of the law OF this state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-21
BREAKS WITH MARCONI
j Josephine Holman Announces That
Her Engagement is
OFF.

New York. Jan. 21.-Mrs. IL. Il. Hol-
man announced today that her
daughter, Josephine, had asked Will
lam Marconi. developer of the wire
less telegraph, to release her from
the engagement to marry him. Mar
conf complied with the request.