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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24

recently stood outside Of a saloon at
Frisco and fired three shots into a
crowd Of Firms who, Brannin claims,
were abusing him. John Rex was shot
in the stomach and fatally wounded
and another Finn received a bullet in
the leg. The shooting has created CON
siderable excitement among the for
eigners at the camp.
Oil properties, involving between So
100000 and $4,000 900, in the Trenton
rock fields near Laporte, Ind, are to
be transferred to a French syndicate
under deal just closed. The property
includes thousands of acres of leases
hundreds of wells and a production of
thousands of barrels, pipe lines, tank
cars, refineries, etc.
George H. Clarke, one of the owners
of the Josephine group in Metaline dis
trict, down the Pend d'Oreille river, in
Washington, will soon resume work or
the claims.
A mining man in from Bodie camI
reports that 80 men are employed a
the Bodie mine, near Republic, anC
the number may be increased to 81
soon. The men are distributed through
the mine, working from the SO TO tn,
450 foot level. About two weeks ag'
three tons of provisions were receive,
at the boarding house.
John Fitzwilliam. superintendent o
the Gala Consolidated, from the Sher
dan camp, says the mine is workin
satisfactorily. He is running tire
drifts southwark on the vein on tn
100, the 300 and an intermediate leve
and is preparing for stopping by sy'
tematic blocking out of ore and wi
be in good shape to break down an
ship ore rapidly from the LIST to tn
10th of May.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
MINING NOTES.

The zinc fields of Platteville, Wis,
are proving quite satisfactory.
1t is reported on good authority that
the Grangeville Dewey is to resume
work on an extensive scale.
The mines in the Clearwater country
and in the Hump are looking well, and
development work is being carried on
steadily.
Every mining state Should begin
making arrangements for a grand min
eral display at the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis.
1t is a well-known fact that less
than one-half of one per cent of the
known mineral ground in Montana has
ever been worked.
The several schools OF mines of the
western states are a blessing to many
worthy young men as well as to the
mining industry in general.
The Hecla, in the Occur d'Alene, is
making a steady and successful record
of shipments and it is likely that the
company will commence paying divi
dends about the first of June.
Charles F. o. Merriam of Murray
Idaho, reports that the Occur d'Alen,
Mining company, operating the place
diggings west of Murray, is making
extensive preparations for the resump
ton of work.
The Rimrock Gold Mining & Milling
company is being organized in Spo
kane, to operate the Rimrock group o
four claims, near Elk City, Idaho. TIL
purchase price of the property is sal
to be something over $4,000.
A deal is now pending on the Ever
green mine, near Grangeville, Idaho, t
eastern parties. The amount of tn
deal will be about $4,000. 1t is state
on good authority that there will be n
trouble in completing the deal.
A miner known as Red" Branni
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24

BY the breaking of a wheel on one
of the cars in the middle of a North
ern Pacific freight near Helena Is cars
in the rear of the train were piled up
in one mass, which caught fire. None
of the trainmen were hurt.
The verdict found by the coroner's
jury in the case of Lewis Jacobson,
the laborer who was killed at Gray
Cliff while running empty cars down
from the trestle at the top Of the
Northern Pacific coal docks, was &C
cidental death.
President Roosevelt has accepted
the invitation rendered by the grand
lodge of the Masonic bodies of Mon
tana to lay the cornerstone of the mag
nificent arch to be constructed by the
government near Gardiner at the en-
trance to the park.
Through correspondence received
from Kalispell attorneys the Butte po-
lice have discovered that James Cos
grove, whom relatives have sought
many years as an heir to an eastern
estate of considerable magnitude, com
mitted suicide in this city II years ago
several hours after he had murdered
his mistress in a fit of jealous rage.
Stockmen are taking no little inter
est in the sale and leasing of state
lands which will be held at the cour
house at Fort Benton on May IA, wheI
some choice pieces of state land VIII
be sold to the highest bidder.
Definite steps have been taken b!
the Red Lodge city council for the in
stallation of a proper sewerage sys
tenn in Red Lodge
The Grand Army of the Republic
department of Montana. recently elect
ed John S. Wisner commander; Henri.
N. Blake, senior vice commander; Wi
liam H. Black, junior vice command
err; and Gottlieb Stucke. delegate t
the. national encampment. Missoul
was chosen as the next place of meet
ing. Resolutions were passed in favo
of placing a statue of General Georg
, H. Thomas in the rotunda of the cap
! toll at Washington.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Oreqon Mininq.

Work on the Sumpter smelter is
driving ahead satisfactorily.
1t is now definitely stated that the
Golconda dividend will amount to $751;
900.
The long crosscut tunnel in the Ore
gon Monarch property has finally cut
the ledge.
Placer operations are now in full
blast in several sections of the Stump
ter district.
At the Red Boy mine arrangements
are being made for sinking the main
shaft 500 feet below the present level.
contract has been awarded Walter
Crone to complete 500 feet of crosscut
on the Gold Bug property to tap the
ore shoot on the 250-foot level.
Placer operations at the Olive Creek
grounds are now in full blast. Another
giant is to be installed and will work
in conjunction with the two already
at work.
Patrick Clark and Major B. c. Kings
bury have bonded the celebrated Blue
Ledge group of copper and gold claims,
in Josephine county, Ore. consisting
of 16 claims, and have also bonded
II adjoining claims. The total amount
involved is about 100000 upon which
large cash payment has been made
The property is said to have the
largest copper showing of any mine in
the country. There has only been
about 200 feet of development work
done on the property, which demon
strates that at the depth of 100 feet
there is a continuous body of ore 81
feet wide, assaying about 50 in gold
and 43 per cent in copper.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Sir oliver Mowatt Is Dead.

Ottawa, Ont-Sir Oliver Mowatt.
lieutenant governor of Ontario, died re-
Gently at government house. aged SO
years. Sir Oliver had been in feeble
health for some time, but the accident
in which he broke his legs fastened
the end.
Sir Oliver was premier of Ontario
from 1872 to 1896, "a years, thus earn
ing the distinction of having had the
longest continuous term of Office as
premier ever accorded to any man by
the people of any province or colony in
the British empire.
In 1896 he resigned to become min
lister of Justice in the dominion cabi-
net. In 1897 he was appointed lieu
tenant governor of Ontario. He was
one of the fathers of confederation.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
IDAHO NEWS.

The village of Hope has been form
ally incorporated by order of the coun-
ty commissioners.
The anniversary celebration of the
Odd Fellows will be held on Monday,
April 81, at Mullan.
The little town of Emmett is great
ly excited over the disappearance of
a wealthy farmer named Kuckku, who
is missing.
At a recent meeting of the Nez Perez
County Sportsmen's association it de-
cided upon the program of events for
the tournament and pool shoot to be
held in Lewiston on April &c.
A voluntary petition in insolvency
has been filed in the United States dis
trict court at San Francisco by John
R. Sweetser, representing the firm of
Sweetser Brothers & Pierce, stock rails
ers of Idaho.
David A. Porter, Shoshone county
surveyor, was found dead in the New
Jersey mine clubhouse, three miles
below Wallace, last week. The cause
of his sudden death is not known, but
doctors believe it was due to heart
failure.
Gambling in every form was brought
to a sudden stop throughout Shoshone
county at midnight Saturday. The
sudden step has caused a sensation
There were five gambling joints in
Wallace, as many in Wardner, a mum
Der in Mullan, Murray, Gem. Burke
Frisco and the other places of the dis
trict
Last week Frederick Whitenack, q
rancher living near Athol, in a fit OF
insane passion, drove his wife from
the house and set fire to the residence
and barn, both of which were burned
to the ground. After completing his
work of destruction Whitenack fled t
the woods, taking with him his shot
gun The body of Whiteneck wa'
found on the river bank next day. 4
brother of the dead mans wife and {
neighbor discovered the body about 4O'
yards from where the barn stood
Whiteneck lay in thicket, bulle
hole in the temple, and a 80 calibe
revolver beside him. The position o
the corpse was very peculiar. The fac
was covered with blood, the leg
> straight out in line with the body fac
upward the left hand folded acros
the breast. A SLOUGH hat was draw
partly over the face. The revolve
was leaning against the mans shou
der butt on the ground, muzzl
straight up.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
MONTANA EVENTS.

A civil service examination will be
held in Missoula May 2, for postoffice
clerks and carriers.
Montana is still in the lead as wool
producing state Four million and a
half of sheep gave a product of nearly
100000 pounds.
Recently William H. Charlebois was
drowned in the Kootenai river at a
place known as China rapids, about
seven miles below Libby Greek.
At Butte last week Aurelia Herrera
put Jack Richards to sleep after 15
seconds of fighting in the fourth round
of what was to have been 20 round
go.
Teddy Roosevelt Smith and ]. H
Donnelly, awaiting trial for robbing q
Missoula hardware store, made sen
sational escape from Jail at Missoula
last week.
They were captured later at Arlee
a station west on the Northern Pa
ciic. by Deputy Sheriff Addison Ster
ling.
Jack Madden, of Brooklyn, ex-cham
pion bantamweight of America, anC
kid" Oglesby will fight twenty rounds
in Helena the night of April "a.
The strike of the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone girls at Butte has beer
settled. All the former employees were
taken back by the company withou
prejudice.
Martin Zidmair has been convicted
of murder in the first degree for kill
ing George Reider on Trail creek oil
April 10, 1901. The crime was not dis
covered until few weeks ago.
Deputy Sheriff George Rich of Hay
den has arrested a man named HaI
rington, who, it is said, cracked tn
lumber office safe at Boomers Ferry
Idaho, several weeks ago, securin
$1,000.
e. w. Stetson, clerk at the Florenc
hotel and one of the best known hote
men in Montana, was probably fatal
injured in a runaway accident whic
occurred a few miles from Missoul
recently.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Montana Mines.

Things are rather quiet at the FL
bow Creek coal mine
The development of the oil lands in
the Kintla lake region will be pushed
with energy this spring.
Amalgamated Copper company has
granted the request of hosting engi-
neers for increase of pay from 81 to
$3.50 a day.
A company composed of Montana
people will drill a 1000 foot well on an
oil bearing shale ledge in the Swift
Current fields Of the north.
About a mile above Pony, p A.
Gamer, of Butte, and others, have
been driving a tunnel during the past
winter on a ledge near the Strawberry
mine
The supreme court has declined to
grant a rehearing in the celebrated
Pennsylvania mine case, but made 4
redivision of the mine, whereby F. A
Heinze gains about IS feet additional
in the vein.
The time when Arthur P. Heinze
brother of F. Augustus Heinze, will
be required to pay $4,000 for the ex
penses of the Nipper receivership ha:
been extended by Judge Williams
Clancy two weeks.
Sapphires from the Burke & Sween
ey mines at Yogo are to be cut at thu
mines by expert lapidaries, and here
after Montana sapphires will be PLACED
on the New York and other market
ready for sale as soon as received.
The Cottonwood Coal company, o
which James ]. Hill, president of tn
Great Northern and the Northern Sc
curities, is the principal stakeholder
has acquired 1000 acres of coal Ian
near Stockett, according to deed file
with the county.
The Michigan & Montana Silver
Copper Mining company has dispose
of it's group of 10 claims in the cede
strip of the Blackfoot reservation
Brown & Plat for $250,000. The va
ues of the claims are principally
copper, with varying amounts of gol
and silver.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The Palouse country now enjoys
the sudden days of sunshine.
Last week 400 tons of timothy hay
was sold at Ellensburg at $40 per ton.
A lodge of Free and Accepted Ma
sons has been organized at Kettle
Falls.
At Davenport last week Mr.. and
Mrs. N. T. Cation celebrated their gold
en- wedding.
81 Victor, who has been under sus
picion for the murder of G. F. Then
mis- at Govan some weeks ago, has been
arrested.
Water has been obtained by the
The Yakima County Horticultural
union has dissolved and the Yakima
County Horticultural union, incorpo-
rated, succeeds it.
we'll drillers working on the well for
the Cornell Land & Improvement COM
pany at Cornell at depth of 267 feet.
The annual session of the Inland
Empire Teachers association at Walla
Walla closed last week with an eXcur.
sion to Whitman monument. Pendle
ton was chosen for the next meeting
While driving a seeder on the ranch
of j. H. McCully, six miles from Day
ton, Grover McCully fell off and was
dragged 100 feet, being probably ia
tally injured. The boy is II years old
On the connecting line now being
built by the Northern Pacific from
Coulee City, the terminal of the Wash
ington Central line, to Adrian, on the
Great Northern, the laying of rail-
has commenced.
M. N. Knuppenburg, secretary of thu
Yakima Land & Live Stock company
has finished a preliminary survey TO
a high line ditch to water the land II
the Mckee, to the north of Sunnysid
and on the Columbia slope. This com
pany owns about 10000 acres in tn
Mckee country, but the total amour
of land that will be watered by thi
ditch is 100000 acres.
A heavy purchase of timber Ian
was made by Spokane investors re
Gently and as a result a new sawmi
will be erected this spring on Newma
lake to cut the lumber. The transfe
is of 2700 acres scattered around New
man lake, upon which 100000 fee
of timber is standing. The consider;
ton is $4,000. The purchase is mad
by Dorlon Mihills and d. T. Ham froI
the Inland Lumber company, Mil
nesota concern. The timber is of
fine quality of soft yellow pine.
Nicholas de Jasserand, marine el
gineer, shot his wife twice throug
the body and attempted suicide on
street in Seattle recently. Both Wi
recover. The desperate act of the hu
band was a result of domestic trouble
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Farmers Phone Worked.

ST. Louis, April 22.-By means OF
the rural telephone service in the vi
cinity of Edwardsville, ILL.,, Is miles
east of here, a posse Of farmers were
quickly summoned to capture two sup
posed robbers and in the fight that fol
lowed Frank Charles of Mobile, Ala.
one of the two men, was probably fat
ally shot. and his companion escaped
after a three mile chase.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The CRANKY smelter has blown in n
fourth furnace.
This week work will be commenced
at the Orc Denoro mine, Summit camp.
AS the spring approaches unusual
activity is being shown in the Wild
Horse creek placers.
Smelter returns from q tons of ore
from the Providence mine give about
$24O ton, or $4,000 for the carload.
The Crows Nest Pass Coal company
has set Friday, May l, for the opening
of their new townsite on Morrissey
Creek. 1t is to be called "Morrissey
Mines"
Ore shipments last week were:
CRANKY mines, 5423 TONS Mother Lode,
1410 tons; total for the week, $3.50
tons; total for 1908, 142,297 tons. The
CRANKY smelter treated $751; tons, max
ing a total of 1907 for the year to
date
There are now so men on the payroll
of the New Fairview corporation at
Fairview, in the Okanogan, at work
and cyanide works. 1t is stated that
all the 46 stamps in the mill are drop
ping.
With the resumption of operations al
the Boundary smelter, which is ex
pected to take place early in May, now
that the coke troubles are settled
early dividends are promised by the
Montreal & Boston Copper company
owning the smelter and the mines il
the Boundary.
RossIand.
The Giant announces a resumption
of shipments ten days hence.
The recent strike in the 600 cas-
level of the Centre Star mine is re
ported to be much more importan
than was expected. The statement i
e made that the drift is still in ore run
ming over $40.
A review of mining matters in Ross
= land camp discloses several importan
developments. The White Bear con
pany has commenced the constructio
of ore bins at the mine as a prelimiI
airy to the shipping operations to b
started as soon as weather condition
{ permit
Official confirmation of the recer
strike in the lie Roi is contained in tn
following cablegram from Manage
Parish to the London office: "Ore ha
? been found 1850 feet level west of tn
. shaft, probably Mulligan shoot; gol
1 assays average SIG per ton of zoe
+ pounds, copper $3.50, small amount {
= silver; extent at present unknown, bl
+ present appearances most encoura
ing"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Prices Paid to Producers.

Poultry and Eggs-Chickens, roos-
ters, 12@13c; hens, 12@13c per Id live
weight, turkeys, live weight, 15@16c
per lb, dressed, 10000; eggs, fresh
IS per case.
egetables-Potatoes, 35@40c per
cwt; onions, 50@75c per cwt.
Live Stock-Steers, S4Q4.50; cows
$3.25@4; mutton, ewes, $3.7504.25
per cwt; wethers, $4@4.50 per cwt;
ewes, dressed, $S.5O@9; hogs, live
Sc 50@7; dressed, 10c.
Eastern Dressed Meats-Steers
Sssc; cows, tx @7%c; veal, 10@12c;
hogs, 10c; chickens, Ice; turkeys. 23C
Id.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
MINES Of THE NORTHWEST
SNOW RETARDS ACTIVE WORK IN
SOME PLACES.
Items of Interest of Miscellaneous
Nature Gathered During the Past
Week-New Districts Brought to
the Front-Many Mining Accidents
and Personals

In the Lincoln mine at Pearl, Idaho.
the richest strike in the history Of
the district and one of the greatest
in the state has just been made. Thir-
ty inches of solid ore that carries
values, gold predominating. ranging
from 5000 to $500 ton has been shot
into
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24

New York, April ga gentleman
close to ]. Pierpont Morgan has ad-
mitted that the combination era is
practically over, that with possible
suits confronting various mergers
which have already been put through,
and threatening to undo some of the
great industrial mergers, it was idle
to organize any more. He said the
attention of the financial leaders dur
ing the last week had been devoted
to finding their way out of a bad job
in hope of saving, as far as possible,
what had already been accomplished
and keeping together the equities in
volved. But as for the future, no more
are to be undertaken, at least not I'M
less some new legislation is passed
which will protect such transactions.
Nothing of this kind is thought pos
sible.
AS for the Northern Securities
merger, it is assumed that it will be
finally knocked out by the United
States supreme court. Some sort of
trusteeship will be devised to save the
pieces of this combination. They will
have to do something, since it would
be manifestly impossible to return the
equities and dividends to the proper
persons. One shareholder might de-
mand Great Northern and another
Northern Pacific, and there would be
too little of one or too much of the
other required. A trusteeship will
solve the problem. That is, the Great
Northern stock controlled by Northern
Securities may be held so that the
combination will in sense be kept
together, in which event present share
holders would get a proportionate
amount of those of each subsidiary
company, the management being con
= trolled by the same group of men. Thi'
would violate the law in spirit, but
it is thought, the scheme could not b.
upset.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
MODERN MERGERS ARE PAST
UNDER PRESENT LAWS 1T is IDLE
WORK TO ORGANIZE.

Financial Leaders Are Devoting Their
Time Finding a Way Out of Their
Dlemma-lt Is Believed That North
ern Securities Company Will Lose
in Higher Court.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
Community of Ownership.

Although no new mergers are to be
put through, the highest authorities
said that the benefits of community of
ownership would remain. They regard
ed it as certain that there would be
no more rate wars, such as devastated
the resources of the railroads a few
years ago. The, benefits derived from
cooperation have been strikingly IL
Illustrated by the Northern Securities
group. The earnings of the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific and Bur
lington last year increased IA per cent,
compared with the previous year. Of
ficials of those companies said that
undoubtedly so per cent Of the in
crease was directly due to the fact
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific and IA were run in close har-
mony. instead of trying to injure one
another as much as possible. The
benefits of cooperation have been too
striking, they declare, for them TO
throw away the lessons which have
been learned. There will undoubted-
| ~ De clOSc COOpSlaNlOH DSN"COH hh1n
cial heads of corporations in future,
whatever may be the fate of existing
mergers They will find some way
so that each may get the greatest net
results, as they are doing at present
A parallel was drawn with the gloom
of railroad officials when the decision
of the supreme court in the transmits
souri, case pronounced all traffic asso-
Citations illegal and compelled them to
disband. Serious rate wars were pre-
dicted, but nothing of the kind oc-
Cured. The railroads went about
their business as heretofore-they
even did better.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24

An order has been duly entered de-
claring the town of Newport incor'
porated as a municipal corporation OF
the fourth class.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-24
THREE NORTHWEST STATES
LATEST NEWS OF THE WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered Through the Week-Most
Every Section Shows Prosperity
Many Accidents and Personal Hap
penings.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24

terfeiting gang that has engaged the ef- forts of William c. Flynn. Chief of the New York division of the secret service, for more than year. Madonia's broth er-in-law. De Prima. was also of the crowd but is now serving four years sentence in Sing Sing.
 There Madonia visited him recently and learned that the $l 900 raised to help De Prima had been appropriated by the gang" Enraged at this breach of hon or in the Mafia, Benedetto Madonia came from his home in Buffalo to demand the return of the fund. His wife implored him not to visit New York, But Madonia swore on the brass crucifix about his neck that he would compel the Mafia to accede. The threat he probably used was a promise to betray the whole gang and take his punishment with the rest. So futile was his errand that but for secret service vigilance, it is extremely doubtful whether Madonias body had ever been identified. If the Mafia is mysterious to the point of uncanniness in its operations hardly less so are those men employed by the government to hound its members.