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The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Washington, Feb. 13.-In the report
on the naval appropriation bill to the
House by Chairman b'oss of the naval
affairs committee, the gauntlet thrown
down by Senator German in his an
nounced policy Of internal improve
ments In place of naval construction is
taken up with vigor. The report says:
THE committee recommends the
construction of more than the usual
number of cruisers in view of the fact
that last year we provided for five large
battleships. This will give a better
proportion to our navy.
IF we judge public sentiment, it is
in favor of the continuance of the pol
icy Of building up our navy. If We
stopped now we would be left behind
the leading countries of the world.
The American people will not in
dorse the policy of sacrificing the
American navy for internal improve
ments, nor is there any such necessity.
Foremost and above all must stand
considerations of national defense, the
maintenance of our foreign policies and
protection of American citizens every
where. The American people are not
willing to lessen their influence on this
hemisphere nor forsake their interests
on the other"
The appropriation for new ships for
the navy, as well as for the completion
of those now under construction, is
dealt with in the report as follows:
ITO complete all the ships author
ized up to the present time. including
their construction and machinery, ar
NOR and armament and equipment, will
cost $50. .71S,659, which may be divided
as follows:
Construction and machinery, s46,-
532. .450.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
Woman Suffrage Meeting.

Washington. Feb. 13.-Reports of Of
ficers and committees and addresses Of
state presidents occupied most of yes
terday's session of the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage Association. At
the morning session Henry b. Black
well, chairman of the presidential
committee. reported that the attention
of the state secretaries has been called
to the fact that every state legislature
may at any session, by a simple change
in its election law, enable its women
citizens to vote in the presidential cleo
ton on the same terms as the male cit
liens or on any other qualifications of
education or property which it may see
fit to prescribe.
During the year federated Australia
has conferred the national suffrage on
all women of that continent, and over
100000 of them have just exercised
their right for the first time.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
HOUSE RUSHES
PENSION BILLS

Washington. Feb. 13.-Speaker Can
yesterday took the bit in his teeth
and ran completely away with legisla-
tive precedent in the House. Incident
ally he broke all previous records in
the dispatch of private pension bills.
Under his guidance 320 of these meas
ures of relief were passed by the House
in 155 minutes. Nearly the whole of
this time was consumed in committee
of the whole. The House passed the
bills 'enbloc" under unanimous con-
sent which the speaker asked for.
About half of the bills were disposed
of under this request, those without
amendment. When objection was tenn
porarily made, the speaker showed his
displeasure by dragging the proceed
ings. The objection was withdrawn,
whereupon the remaining bills were de-
clared passed without even the formal
ity of having the clerk read their num-
bers.
A tribute to the memory of Abra-
ham Lincoln was the burden of the
invocation of Chaplain Couden on the
convening of the House yesterday. At
ter referring TO the greatness of the pa
tion and its leaders, he said:
We are reminded to-day of one
of the greatest in the annals of our ma
ton who. great in his goodness. and
good in his greatness, bore the sorrows
OF his people East, West, North and
South. through four years of civil
strife, and died a martyr of his con-
victions."
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
Officers to View the War.

Mr.. Griscom. the American minister
at Toxic, has been directed to request
permission of the Japanese government
for the following army officers to ac-
company the japanese army: Colonel
E. H. Crowder, general staff; Captain
j. F. Morrison, twelfth infantry; Cap
tain Frederick Marsh, artillery corps,
and Captain A. E. Kuhn, engineer
corps.
BY direction of the authorities at
Washington. Ambassador McCormick
has asked the Russian officials to per-
init the following officers to accompany
the Russian army in the field:
Colonel John B. Kerr of the general
staff; Captain Carl Reichman of the
seventeenth infantry. Captain George
c. Galley of the artillery corps, Cap
tain William ]. Judson of the engineer
corps. Lieutenant Newton A. McCully,
U. S. N, will be attached to the Rus
sian fleet. If the necessary permission
is obtained from the naval authorities
here.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
NEWS FROM VARIOUS POINTS
SHOWS PROGRESS OF THE WAR

Sakata "a port on the northwest coast
of the mainland of Japan were fired
on February 1lth by four Russian men
of-war off the coast of Aimoripore, and
the Naku Maru was sunk, while the
other steamer had narrow escape.
"The Russian men-of-war are still
seen off the western coast OF Zeyo ISL
and. They were supposed to be first
class cruisers which have been SHUT up
at Vladivostock and which tried some
time ago to join the main squadron at
Port Arthur"
London. Feb. 13.-Possible action by
Germany is regarded here as a factor
in the Far Eastern situation and is
causing some apprehension. The st.
Petersburg correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says:
81 have unimpeachable authority for
stating that If the fortunes OF war
prove adverse to Russia, diversion
which may tend to far-reaching results
is confidently expected from Germany.
ALREADY proposals are affirmed to
have been made by the chief of that
state which, If accepted, Will consider
ably complicate matters.
The German government is especially
bitter with England and will support
Russia automatically in any action
tending to bring the evacuation of
Wei-Hai-Wei before The Hague tri-
bunal.
"Germany's fixed resolution is to
avail herself of the present crisis to
win back Russia's friendship and oust
France from favor, but the proposals
which have emanated from Berlin are
definite and concrete and if accepted
are likely to interest Europe more
keenly in the Far Eastern war"
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
HOUSE NAVAL COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDS LARGE OUTLAY

"Armor and armament, $35, 1856, ,2O9.
Equipment, 100000.
"Of this sum, we appropriate in this
bill 19.S26,S60 for construction and
machinery, and S12,O00,00O for armor
and armament, making a total of $31,-
S26, $50, which leaves balance of $780,
s91 ,699 to be appropriated hereafter.
The ships authorized are:
One first-class battleship of 10000
tons, cost S7,775, 900.
Two first-class armored cruisers Of
1890 tons, cost (each) s6,505, 900.
Three scout cruisers of not more
than $3.50 tons, cost (each) $2.200,OOO.
Two colliers, to be capable of ac-
companying the battle fleet, to carry
5000 tons of cargo coal. total cost OF
each to be S2,l00,0O0.
The total cost of the above program
will be $2S, ,SS5 900.
1t is left within the discretion of the
secretary of the navy to build any or
all of these ships in government navy
yards in case 1t shall appear that the
concerns have entered into
any combination or understanding to
deprive the government of fair and un-
restricted competition in letting con-
tracts for the construction of any of
these vessels.
1t is stated that the greatest naval
problem of the day is the training of
men for the navy. An increase of g.
900 men is provided for, and training
station on the great lakes is recon-
mended. When this station is COM
pleted and the facilities for training
men large yearly increase will be de-
manded.
The total amount appropriated by
bill is 500, 1888 ,O3S.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The Senate passed the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill without de-
bate.
A bill was introduced by Representa-
tive Emerich of Illinois appropriatins
S1.000,000 for the relief of sufferers
from the Baltimore fire.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the setting aside of 81, 25O, ,OOO
of the reclamation fund for the irri-
CATION project on the north side of the
Shoshone river, in the Big Horn basin
of Wyoming, provided that satisfac-
tory rights to land and water can be
secured. This project provides FOR the
construction of the storage reservoir
in Shoshone river and q canal head
ing in the canon above Cody. 1t will
provide water for approximately 9O,-
900 acres on the north side of the river
in Big Horn county. The entire dis
tance from Garland to Cody station
will be under the canal system adjacent
to the Big Horn basin extension of the
Burlington & Missouri River railroad
The Senate committee on agriculture
on the 9th inst. gave a hearing to
Senator Teller's bill appropriating
$3.50 900 to conduct experiments to nom
-
the breeding and feeding of the various
classes of live stock for market and in
growing crops and forage plants adapt
ed to these purposes. w. l.. Carlyle,
professor of agriculture in the college
at Fort Collins, Colorado; l.. II. Grubb,
a member of the board of regents of the
same college, and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson all spoke in favor of such
a bill, The committee favors the meas
ure, but it is agreed that the amount
asked for is far greater than will be
appropriated as a preliminary move
ment.
Complete investigation of the pro-
tests against Senator Reed Smoot re-
tanning his seat in the United States
Senate will begin March LIST before the
committee on privileges and elections.
The committee agreed to this date at
a meeting held February 9Th and
Chairman Burrows was given unlim-
tied power to summon witnesses If
such a course shall be found to be
necessary. A list of twenty witnesses
was submitted by the protestants and
most of these will be present soon af-
ter March 1st. 1t was determined that
the hearing of the case shall be public.
The protestants who are now organiZ-
ing to make the fight against Senator
q
Smoot have declared that it is not
their intention to enter into what are
known as the Leilieh charges. For
mer Representative r. w. Taylor has
announced that it is the intention of
his clients to try the case as respects
the relations of the Mormon Church
to the United States government and
the intrusion of a great hierarchy into
the political affairs of the nation. The
witnesses to be summoned are for the
most part members of the Mormon
Church. Among them are children al
legged to be the offspring of polygamous
marriages contracted since the mani
festD of 1890. 1t is not determined
whether such witnesses will be per-
mitted by the committee to give tes-
timony. as each question of the ad-
INSTABILITY Of testimony will be de-
cided as II IS reached in the hearings.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
Renuhlican Club Rooms.

Denver, Feb. 13.-The spacious
rooms of the Colorado Republican Club
were packed all the afternoon yester-
day on the occasion of the first recep-
ton, or dedication of the new home of
the Republican party of the state
Probably 800 members of the party from
all over the state were in attendance.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The husband of an actress assaulted
an eastern critic the other day for
saying she couldn't act The husband
was justified. The lady being his sole
support. he might have been compelled
TO work for a living If the critics
charge had not been disproyed.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17
rro,,bIe in Honduras.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE State De-
partment is informed that revolution
is Imminent in Honduras. Martial law
has been proclaimed and number OF
arrests have been made. A warship
will be sent to Honduras to protect
American interests.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Two men died of heart disease in
New York the other day, after running
upstairs to catch elevated railway
trains. And the world is going on
Just the same as if they had made
connections and got there right on
time
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

President Loubet of France attrib-
utes his good health to taking long
walks every morning between G and s
O'Clock. But some people would rath-
er have poor health.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

J. The New England milk producers
union is to be capitalized for s1.0o0,0oo
The capital stock would have been
larger. but the springs have been low
this winter.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

A Berlin laundryman offers to buy
shirts for his customers If they will
let him do their washing. That Ber-
liner must be a yankee.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

English scientists have discovered
n new poison, one Whit of which would
kill whole roomful of people. Why
should scientists devote valuable time
to the making of that kind of discov-
ery?
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

One visiting scientist is of the opin-
ion that the boil weevil can be eradi-
Gated by more careful culture of cot
ton. This is like trying to get every
body to agree to go to church on Sun
day morning.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Men representing four billions of
dollars inspected the1Eew York sub.
way recently. Ii it 1f caved in. the
life insurance companies might have
had to go out of business.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The fact that composer has gone
crazy while trying to write a popular
song may have saved the sanity of
other people.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

A Utica man has been arrested and
fined for snoring in church. People
who can't sleep noiselessly should
stay at home on Sunday.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

President Wilson says the typical
American is the man hundreds of
miles away from the big cities and
unspoiled by them" And we may add
that he is getting to be rather lone
some
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

While ii is proper that churches
should conform with the law in the
matter of exits. most ministers find
their greatest difficulty in getting men
TO patronize the entrances.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

1t appears that our exports to Scot
land are growing and in a few years
we will be sending golf clubs and kits
to the land o. cakes.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

In Detroit a boarding house lodger
secured hot water by waving a re-
volver around his head: and then he
got into it, for he was arrested.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

A woman's idea of becoming hat
is something that looks like flying
machine that has been struck by light.
ming.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The dove OF peace can scarcely be
expected to nest,in either the Russian
whiskers or the stewpan hat of the
willy Jap.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

1t looks now as If the United States
would beat the rest of the world in
the production of radium. as it does
in most other things Industrial.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

1t was an incident powerfully remi-
niscent of Dickens Our Mutual
Friend" when in Cambridge, Mass, a
moor and friendless old woman died
lust as she was being taken up the
steps of the poorhouse.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The United States is not afraid of
Gen. uribe-Uribe. Shafter is as big
as both of him.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

pretender to the throne OF Corea
is hiding in this country. He's foolish.
He might pretend just as well in some
dime museum and get good big sal
airy for it.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

The whalebone trust has advanced
prices 90 per cent. This is palpa-
BILE conspiracy to squeeze the con-
sumer.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

One man has served the Massachu-
sets senate 25 years as chaplain and
still has faint religious glow left.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Whitaker Wright was an example of
that kind of success" which the young
man would do well to study carefully
before emulating.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Somebody has written book en-
titled How to Sleep" That's easy.
Get an alarm clock.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

Corea is about the size of Kansas.
Well, then, what's the matter with
Corea?
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

NO friendly intervention" say the
Jap and the bear. Each has had
enough of 1.-THE bear after whipping
the Turk and the Jap in the Chinese
affair.
The Lamar register., 1904-02-17

1t really looks as If Russell Sage
has retired at the age of 81. Are our
young men getting indolent?
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11
Senator Vest no More.

Sweet Springs. Mo-, Aug. 8. =
After lingering for weeks between
lite and death, former Senator
George Vest passed peacefully
away today. He had been 50 near
death that the end came without
His wife and children
were at the bedside when the end
came The remains will be taken
to St. Louis this evening for inter
ment.
September Sth, will be the big
Woodmen day at the St. Louis
Every Woodman who
can arrange to do so should make
his visit 10 the st. Louis exposition
some time during the week com
nencing September 4th. All the
week will be Woodmen Forester
l;ncampment week. Sept 1th will
be ROYAL Neighbor day and Sept.
Sth, Modern Woodmen dav.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11

Tariff was the real cause of his
overthrow. 1t was the Mills bill,
which never passed, that laid out
Cleveland in 1888. The Republi-
cans do not need the Tariff as an
aid in 1904, but they will accept it
if the Democrats are obliging
enough to furnish it. Under Re-
publican Tariff OF 1897 the country
has had prosperity almost without
example in its annals. If the
Democrats want to assail this act.
the Republicans would very cheer
fully meet them on that line. If
the Democrats make an attack on
the Tariff this year they will be
comforting very great favor on
every Republican candidate, from
President Roosevelt downward
st. Louis Globe Democrat
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11
D. & R. G. Meets With Disastrous
Wreck Caused by CIoudburst.
hurst Causes the Giving Way of Il Bridge Letting
! Engine and Three Coaches Crash to the Bottom
ithout Moments acknowledgements Of One
Lndred People Meet Instant Death.

settled i'll the quicksand until the
wheels only are visible, and has
resisted all efforts to right it or
gain entrance to what is thought to
have been trap in which may be
found several bodies. Mayor Brown
has issued proclamation calling
public meeting this morning for
the purpose of starting an organ
lied movement to patrol Fountain
and Arkansas rivers in the hope OF
finding more bodies. Hundreds of
men responded promptly. Relief
funds were started today and sew
eral hundred dollars subscribed to
the relief of needy families and to
aid in the recovery of the other
victims. Dr. f. c. Stimmel, den
tist of Pueblo, reported lost yester-
day, escaped by leaving the train
at Colorado Springs. The railroad
situation is materially improved.
Wrecking crews are at work and
today will probably wipe out all
traces of the horrible catastrophe.
Railroad officials do not care to
give estimates of the financial loss,
saving they had taken no notice OF
pecuniary affairs i'll a time like
this.
The body of 4. NJ. Schnitz OF
Denver was found six miles down
the Arkansas river this morning.
Coroner Fugard has enpaneled d
jury Which began an inquest this
afternoon.
The body OF q young woman
about twenty-five years old, was
found twenty-five miles down the
Arkansas river today. :. 1t was
brought to this city but has not YET
been identified. She was we'll dres-
sed, wore diamond ring and
watch. She was decided blonde,
very handsome. I.eona Thomas
daughter Of J. Q. Thomas, CONNER
,cial agenr of the Santa Fe at Pueb
10 has been added to the list o1
missing.
Complete returns from ala under
taking establishments OF the city
up to two this afternoon materially
reduces the death list, which now
shows sixty three identified ant
two unidentified dead bodies
These figures will not be material,
increased as the finding OF bodie
has practically ceased.
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11
The Tariff And 1904.

Seine of the Democratic leaders
say they will attempt to make the
Tariff the leading issue in 1904.
1t is safe to say that the Republi-
cans will be glad to assist them in
this endeavor. II there is anything
that the Republicans would be
grateful to the Democrats for i'll
1904, it is for bringing the Tariff
question to the front, if they do
this. Two or three Democrats i'll
Congress have been making anti
Tariff addresses recently, with the
intention of using them as campaign
documents. The Republicans will
be glad to assist the Democrats i'll
disseminating all of that sort of
Literature that they will want to
send out.
The Traiff is a pretty old issue
1t has been talked about i'll many
canvasses. In several campaigns
it has turned the scale.
For great many years the Re
publican party has stood out
sturdily for a Tariff which will
give adequate Protection to Ameri-
can interests. For many of those
interests the Republicans have been
able OF secure considerable Protec-
ton. All the interests that deserve
aid of this sort at the custom house
the Republican party will defend.
Let the Democrats be under no
illusions on that point. The Re
publican party would be very glad
to see the issue of Protection
brought to the front by the Demo
Gratis. The wiser members OF the
Democracy know there is peril for
their party in assaillng the Iarlif,
but perhaps some of the tendertoot
, leaders oi 1904 may be deluded INTO
making an assault on this system.
Several excuses were MADE Tor
Hancock ) defeat in 1850, but the
The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-08-11
Will Build Through Jackson's Hole, Teton
Basin and St. Anthony.
Proposed Northw estern Railroad From Casper, Wyo
Eureka Bay has Been Financed-Win Give Boise "A
Through Line and Will Arrive There About August
10Th, From Present Information Given Out.

arrive i'll Boise about August Is to
formulate plans for the completion
of the preliminary survey. The
project has been considered in all
of its details by the promoters and
the very fact that active work is to
be started at once is considered an
indication that a determination has
been reached to build the road with
all possible speed. 1t has been
generally known for long time
that the Northwestern has been
seeking Pacific coast terminus
1t is stated the road will be built
into San Francisco, although the
coast terminus will be at Eureka
bay, where over $1,000, 900 has
been expended in harbor improve
lnentS.
1t is estimated the preliminary
survey will require the expenditure
Of $40, 900, which amount has been
set aside for that purpose. f. E.
| Forshay will have charge of this
work. He is making arrangements
to employ large force in the
survey. The road will involve the
investment of from $50, 900, 900 to
$50, 600, 900 i'll construction and
equipment. As stated its i'm
portanCe to Boise and the Gem state
| is beyond computation as it will
solve the problem of transportation
for the mineral and timber area of
southern Idaho and provide Pacific
coast outlet to the products OF the
state. Capital News.