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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
FOR NOTIFICATION OF ROOsE.
WELT.
Preparations Practically Have Been
Completed.

Preparations Practically Have Been
Completed.
Oyster Bay, L. President Roose-
welt and Secretary Loeb are perfecting
arrangements for the ceremonies in
cidental to the presidents formal noti-
fication of his nomination, which will
occur at Sycamore Hill, on the 9th
instant All of the details have not
yet been worked out, but the prepare
tons practically have been completed
in a general way.
The ceremonies will not be elabo-
rate or ostentatious; indeed, they will
be marked by simplicity. About 100,
including the members of the national
committee, will be present. Speaker
Cannon, chairman of the committee,
will deliver to the president the COM
mittee's announcement. This the pres
ident will respond to at some length.
AS now arranged, the president and
Speaker Cannon will address the little
assemblage from the veranda of the
Sycamore Hill home. The ceremonies
will take place about 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. At the conclusion of his
| address the president will entertain
those present at luncheon.
After luncheon the members of the
committee will return to the village in
time to catch the. afternoon train foi
New York, as the accommodations OF
the village are not adequate for q
crowd of 100 people.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
HUGE RESERVOIR bURSTED
WATERS SWEEP WIDE PATH OF
RUIN.
Bursting of Reservoir Causes Heavy
Loss in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Warned in Time-Buildings Torn
From Foundations and Carried on
Crest of Mighty Wave.

Scottdale, Pa.-With the roar of Nj
agara the reservoir of the Citizens
Water company burst at midnight
Sunday, and more than 100000
gallons of water rushed down the val
ley sweeping all before it and mum
dating crops and wrecking buildings
in its path. 1t was discovered about
8 o'clock that the dam was in danger
of breaking, and messengers were sent
through the valley to warn the people.
Hundreds of lives were thus saved,
for few hours later the whole val
ley was under water.
The damage to the machinery and
reservoir alone will amount to $4,000.
When the torrent swept down upon
the valley, buildings were torn from
their foundations and carried on the
crest of the great wave like so many
washtubs. Crops valued at thousands
of dollars were completely wiped out.
Bridges were carried away. In the
gorge just below the dam huge trees
were torn out by the roots, weighing
tons, and overturned by the flood.
The new pump and engine installed
Saturday below the face of the dam
to pump the leakage back into the
reservoir were wrenched from their
foundations, propelled 20 yards from
their original positions and buried un-
der the mass of wreckage from the
wall of water.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

kan naval base and fortress, backed
by one of the richest-soiled valleys in
the world. bounded on either side by
the vast new OIL copper, coal, gold and
tin fields. Central Alaska is destined
to be the real empire of the territory,
having a very tropical foliage ana
wealth beyond conception. 1t is
clean, beautiful country, entirely sur
rounded by the loftiest mountains, the
sentinel of which is Mount Mckinley,
10000 feet high, having none of the
Alaskan pests such as mosquitoes
SHOWS, ice and cold weather. The ca
BILE will be landed there and be con-
nected with a new corporate network
of wires independent of the govern
ment system. Electricity at cheap
rate will be installed as the universal
motor-power from colossal waterfalls.
1t now requires twenty-eight days and
$685. fare to go from Seattle under IA
vorable conditions via the Upper Yu-
kon to the new goldfields recently
stampeded at Fairbanks on the Ia
mana River. 1t now requires thirty
three days and $500 to reach the same
place via the Lower Yukon route. The
new trip will take four days from
Seattle to Seward by steamer and
twenty hours by rail to Fairbanks at
cost of $145.
A feet of sixty steamers now oper-
ate on the Yukon. The salmon in
dustry ranks next to gold mining; furs,
oil, sulphur, and tin following. A big
sheep industry fiourishes on the Aleu-
tian Islands and agriculture is pro-
jected on a promising scale. The SUI
shitna and Copper River valleys are
marked for the future immense gran
airy. BY comparison 1t Is shown that
a 1OO-acre farm in Alaska produces a
larger revenue than 1,0O0-acre farm
in Wisconsin. The first horticultural
fair was held at Dawson In Septem-
Der. 1903. and astonished all the north.
land, particularly the Canadian gov
eminent. The oil district has been de
fined over an area $50 miles long and
80 miles wide. or $500 square miles
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
Four Drown in Blue River.

Kansas City.-Four persons were
drowned by the capsizing of skiff in
the Blue river at Sheffield, near here.
They were Miss Hester Howell, aged
20,and Miss Kate Calvert, aged 10, tele-
phone operators; A. R. House, aged
81, a railway clerk, and Elmer c,
Guild. Guild was the senior partner
in the firm of Guild & Loeb, brokers.
House and Miss Calvert were soon to
have been married.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
A Sum in Addition.

Mrs. Flaherty stepped off the scales
in the back room of the grocery store
as soon as she had stepped ON.
Sure, these scales is no gud FIR me-"
she said, in a tone of deep disgust
"They only weigh up to wan hundred,
an l weigh wan hundred an noinety
pounds"
ITS easily discouraged We are" said
her companion, Mrs. Dempsey, cheer
fully. Just step on to thin twict, me
dear. and let Jamesy, here, do tn sum
FIR ye."
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A duel was fought recently in Paris
by Francis de Pressense, socialist dep
uty. and Louis Lucien Klotz, radical
deputy, as the outcome of violent dis
pute. Neither deputy was injured.
Four persons, all of Pittsburg, Kan,
were drowned recently in Spring riv-
er, about Is miles east. The dead;
H. F. Stamm and wife, Katie Stamm
and Louis Meyers. They were rowing
and approached too near mill dam
which upset the boat.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

VI IIIo FuIIVN
chiefly Mexicans and Indians-form
little world by themselves. Each gen
Grafton swings around its cycle in the
steps of its predecessors; fills out its al
lotted span and makes way for its sue
cessor. Empires may rise and fall, but
these people know naught Of them. The
railroad and the telegraph are merely
traditions brought back by the few
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

portation lines, vast oilfields exploited
and connected with the markets by
tankships, mail routes everywhere per-
fected, coalfields tapped adequate for
its own fuel supply. goldflelds de-
manding 100000 additional miners,
copper lodges uncovered greater than
the worlds supply, tin lodges defined
larger than those of the South Pacific,
immense areas ready for the agricul-
turist, unlimited forests awaiting tim
Der operations. and a population of an
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
Mourns President Kruger.

Pretoria. Transvaal.-General Botha,
former commander in chief Of the Boer
forces, publicly requested all officers,
officials and burghers of the late South
African republic to observe July IL as
a day of mourning for the late former
President Kruger.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
Orchid-Growing at Home.

Some orchids are not the difficult
flowers to grow that many people sup
pose, says Country Life in America.
There are at least 90 out OF 10000 va
rieties Of these regal blooms that will
grow In the domestic greenhouse.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

whom the closing
days Of his life
were spent and
where the dust of
the great frontiers
man reposes. His
grave is in the
Taos Valley, New
Mexico, amid the
rugged Rockies.
The inhabitants
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
POLICEMAN'S AIM FATAL.

Kills Detective Who Fought in Self
Denfense.
New York, July 1S.-After shooting
William Gorricy and Alonzo Dorondo
of Manhattan during an attack upon
him Sunday by a crowd of men at
Schurer's picnic park at Corona, l.. l.,
Charles Conran, a detective on duty in
citizens clothes. sought refuge under
a dancing platform and was there shot
and killed by Policeman John P. Ger
rity by mistaking him for a murderer.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
BIG RUSH TO ALASKA.
GREAT INCLUSION FOLLOWING
BOUNDARY SETTLEMENT.
Uncle Sans For OFF Territory Has En-
tered Upon a Period of Great Material
Exploitation - Privations of tmmi-
grants Greatly Reduced.

With the settlement of the boundary
dispute Alaska entered upon period
of great material exploitation. Alas
ka has new telegraph and cable lines,
new railways in various progresses Of
construction. completed water trans
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

ject of interest to the American, Next
can and Indian, and he received many
visitors at his home. He is recalled by
the older inhabitants of Taos as
kindly old man who had come to be
known as Father Kit"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
Easy for Him.

There's a quare thing about a
cousin O. NINE" said Barney O'Flynn.
HE has a great habit o. walkin' in
his Sleep"
Cant he be cured of it at all?"
Cured av it7 Shure it's the max
In av him. He's on the poliss force"
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
GRAVE OF KIT CARSON.

Secluded Valley in the Heart of the
Rockies Where His Ashes Repose.
The grave of Kit Carson, the famous
scout, is decorated each Memorial day
with tender care by the people among
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

in which besides the prolific oil-bear-
ing Pennsylvania sands are lakes and
springs of oil, one lake being of large
size"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

Strange to say, the world has never
produced deaf and dumb pugilist-
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22

Reference books contain everything
except the one thing you want to
know.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
COYNE IN JAIL CELL
Alleged Ticket Thief Held for
Preliminary Hearing

Joseph E. Coyne. accused of having
stolen number of tickets to the la
crosse game while employed at the
Pioneer Press job printing rooms, was
arraigned in police court yesterday and
held for preliminary hearing. Be
ing unable to furnish the $500 bail de-
manded by@the county attorney Coyne
was committed to the county Jail.
Robert Brody, John Williams, Charles
Johnson, Mrs c. Kelly, Miss r. c. Kelly
and Mrs. John German, accused of f1av-
ing received the tickets from Coyne,
were also in court. They will be wit
nesses against Coyne. According to
the information that has been gathered
by the police Coyne gave the other
persons the tickets, and they attempted
to use them believing that he was en-
titled to their possession.
When seen at the county jail Coyne
declined to discuss the case, but was to
all appearances much cast down be-
cause of his arrest and incarceration.
1t is stated by the management of the
Pioneer Press job department that
Coyne severed his connection with that
institution Saturday evening after nine
years of employment, and was given
letter of recommendation.
Although extra tickets of various
kinds printed at the institution have of
late been discovered by parties giving
the entertainments, Coyne was not sus-
pected until after his arrest, but it Is
claimed that he has admitted that he
has for long time been taking tickets
and giving them to his friends.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
BIG FAIR PROMISED.
Managers Are Busy Arranging
Amusement Programme

In eight weeks the forty-fifth annual
Minnesota state fair will be in full
blast. 1t is to open this year on Aug.
%, two days earlier than last year, on
account of the jump effected by leap
year." This shortens the time of
preparation-a fact which intending
exhibitors will do we'll to bear in mind
At this date everything points to a
very successful fair. President C. N.
Cosgrove who was at the grounds
last week, expressed himself as well
pleased with the outlook. He says that
the exhibitors who have already ex-
pressed their intention of being at the
fair are almost without number and
that the conditions in the rural dis
tricts of the Northwest are such as
to warrant the prediction that there
will be very large attendance from
the country. Crops look the very best
in all directions and farmers will feel
like taking a little vacation at the
close Of the summer and seeing what
the Northwest has accomplished during
the season.
First Vice President C. R. Smith and
l.. .. Baird, of the board of managers,
have recently made a trip to Chicago
and other points in the interest of the
amusement side of the fair, and report
large field of attractions under ne
gotiation. Mr.. Smith has closed a
contract for a grand production of the
Eruption of Mount Pelee," to be
given every evening of fair week.
On the grounds everything is pro-
crossing satisfactorily. The new man
ufactures building is well up and the
steel frame work which is to support
the roof will soon be In place. Grad
ing for the new street railway termi-
nails is making rapid progress and will
be completed long before the stipu-
lated time. On the south side of lang
ford avenue grading for the new Great
Northern terminal and unloading
tracks is about finished
Entries for the races Of the fair
closed last Friday evening and Score
tary RandalPs announcement will be
ready in a few days.
Tomorrow afternoon the board of
managers will meet at the fair grounds
for the consideration of current bust
ness.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05

demand that somebody be held re-
sponsible for this latest addition to
the number of great fatalities. And
in this, as in the General Slocum disas-
ter, there will be- an attempt made to
fix the blame on the unhappy men
who were directly charged with the
safety Of the ship.
There is almost no excuse for the
instantaneous laundering of passen-
ger liner, if the vessel be properly
equipped. The watertight bulkheads
with which all passenger ships should
be fitted in these days absolutely pre-
vent the immediate laundering of
ship that is preached, unless, indeed,
the entire bottom is ripped away. We
know certainly that the Norge went
down by the head; she therefore struck
stem on. If the ship had been properly
equipped with watertight bulkheads,
and those safeguards ready to be used
in an emergency, it would only need
the issuance of an order the pressing
of button, to put the vessel in con-
dition to float many hours, even many
days. Nuniberless instances have oc-
CURED recently in which ocean going
vessels have. had great holes torn in
them below the water line, and yet
have been safely navigated hundreds
of miles.
The Norge was an old ship; her
consort, the Thingvalia, was long since
put into the freight trade. The trans
atlantic lines have been competing
very sharply for traffic at rates that
allowed very little margin of profit.
There is room here for an inquiry that
will at once. and forever put stop
to the practice of sending unseaworthy
ships, crowded with human beings, to
sea to the end that shipowners might
prosper.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
Contemporary Comment
Truth About Colorado

~
eastern papers should inform them
seiVes concerning the facts of the stu
atlon In Colorado before advising the
PRESIDENT to stretch his constitutional
prerogat1ves to the utmost in order to
InterJect himself into the settlement
OF afTairs which the citizens of Colo
rado and their government are fully
capable of settling for themselves. Be-
Tore passing snap judgment on Colo
rado officials these Eastern critics
shouid also take note of the fact that
Fresldent Roosevelt has some personal
knoWledge of the situation in the Grip
PIE creek district. 1t was in that dis
tflct That mob tried to break up a
meeting which he was about to adj
Dress in the campaign of 1900, when
ne was a candidate for the vice presi-
dency Doubtless he has not forgotten
the laWless character of the men who
took part in that disgraceful proceed
ing and who belonged to the class
winch since has caused so much trou-
pie IN this district.-Denver Republic
can.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
A STUPID INVENTION

1t would be interesting to know who
ris responsible for the apocryphal story
that former Mayor Van Wyck, of New
York city, has been post haste to Wan
tage, England, to get the consent of
Mr.. Croker for Tammany's support Of
Cleveland for the presidency; and al
most as interesting to know by what
means it was foisted on the great news
Saturday the newspapers of the coun-
try had the story that Van Wyck
would discharge this mission on Sun
day. Monday morning they heard that
he had done SO. And the whole thing
is such palpable rot that the search
for motive stimulates curiosity.
The stupid invention repels credulity
at every point. Mr.. Cleveland does
not desire the support Of Tammany,
nor does any friend of his. He was
nominated and elected over its oppo-
sition. He does not want the nominal
ton now; but if it were the one re-
naming desire of his life, he would
go to the grave without it rather than
ask a favor of Croker. Further, the
control of Tammany is now in the
hands Of Mr.. Murphy, and Murphy
would cast its vote solid for Mr.. CIeve-
land if he-could. This is not because
he loves the former president, but be-
cause he hates Hill. To wrest control
of the state organization from his
enemy he would vote for almost any
candidate; that being the sole reason
for his opposition to Judge Parker.
Croker is absolutely without infiu-
ence in Tammany as at present con-
stituted. A few years ago, just after
his exile began. he was still the boss.
and his orders We're sent across by
cable. 1t is so no longer. There is a
new Tammany and new leader. The
organization is led by Murphy, led
with sagacity that it has seldom
known before, and Richard Croker has
no weight with it even in an advisory
capacity. Thus. from whatever point
we view it, the tale is supremeIy. in
credibly silly.
That it has been set afloat during
these last days before the national con-
vention for purpose is obvious. That
purpose would seem to be, first. to.
create the impression that those who
desire the nomination of Mr.. Cleye-
land want Cookers help. That is
lie too palpable for anybody to swal-
low, even if Croker had any help to
give. Second, and more probable, the
IDEA is to countermine the efforts of
Mr.. Murphy at st. Louis, by putting
him in the attitude of a puppet which
cannot be moved unless the strings are
pulled from Vantage. And that also.
in the light of recent events, is sim
ply preposterous. The yarn ought not
to deceive anyone, but it's invention
and circulation are none the less dis
creditable.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
A COMMEMORATE UNDERTAKING

Nothing that the Commercial club
has done recently has accomplished
more for the future of the city or
given as much satisfaction in the pres
ent as the celebration which it pro-
vided for the children of ST. Paul on
Harriet island yesterday.
Thousands of children were provided
with the means of observing indie
pendence day under conditions calcu-
lated to appeal to the youthful heart
and inculcate lessons in patriotism
that will not be lost on the future cit
izenship of ST. Paul. The project was
happily conceived, literally supported
and sensibly carried out. The parade
of five thousand little ones in the fore
noon had in it suggestion of the ear
lier days Of the Republic, when more
heart and less of .artificiality went into
the celebration Of the Fourth. And the
day. with it's joyously noisy concomi-'
tants, spent in sylvan surroundings
furnishing all that goes to make a
child happy. will leave memories that
should and will survive.
The undertaking of the club was an
innovation, but it should be made an
institution. Its cost was trifing and
the expenditure of energy ON the part
of the committees who made it sue
cess had it's compensations, and those
of a most tangible character. The
municipal celebration of the Fourth
has rather gone out Of fashion, but
the experience of yesterday goes to
show that it is quite possible to in
dulge in a public celebration of the
right sort which will at once fur
nish holiday and honor the best ira
ditions of independence day.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
lie. If. Ii

The truth is that the denomination of
MI Roosevelt was bitter pill for most
OF the leading Republican politicians.
AS class, they dislike him and writhe
under his vigorous control Many of
them would be secretly pleased to see
him defeated. If Senator Hanna had
lived, these dissatisfied captains might
have dared to make an open fight
against Mr.. Roosevelt, but with the
potent Ohioan gone they had no leader
whom they felt safe in opposing to the
Rough Riders furious impact.-Norfolk
(Va.) Landmark.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
Vindicatino the Coroner

The New York coroner who is con-
Quoting the investigation into the Cen
eral Slocum disaster has shown HIM
sef an efficient, honest and painstak-
ing public official. From this fact SO
rare IN the history of the coroner's
system in that city, people are already
talking about abandoning the cam
palgn to substitute the medical exam
liner for the coroner. New Workers
forget that Coroner Berry's case is
about the only one in recent years to
winch they could point with pride.
Many of the others have been charac-
terized by fraud, scandal, bribery and
intimidation which led to the move
ment for the abolition of the coroner's
ONCE before the last legislature.
ton Advertiser.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
Wanted, a Democratic Antithesis

There is no escape from the logic Of
the proposition that the Democrats, if
they expect to win, must nominate as
their leader for 1904 the very antithesis
of Mr.. Roosevelt As we have already
shown, the so-called platform is mere
unmeaning jargon, of which no serious
person takes a serious thought The
question is whether Theodore Roose-
welt shall or shall not govern the Unit
ed States in his own way for the imme-
date and indefinite Misunderstanding
ton Post, ,s.,., 80
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
SAYS DRUGS MADE HIM
ASSAULT HIS WIFE
Judge Ignores Excuse and Man Who
Kicked Better Half Suffers

Charlie Fred. living on Sibley street.
near Tenth, attempted to convince the
judge in police court yesterday that
somebody had drugged him and that
this caused him to assault his wife
and stepdaughter, but the court was
far from convinced and sent Fred to
the workhouse for thirty days. After
imbibing more than he could well carry
Fred went to his home, kicked his wife.
and because she interfered threw
bucket of Stops on his stepdaughter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-05
cIeveIand's Friends Will Stop the Game

Of course, there is talk of Cleveland.
Ihere will also be talk of him so
long as he lives. So great a person
atty cannot hope to escape the talk
There will always be those who regard
him. as the greatest living private
citizen in the world" and there will
always be those who would rather vote
Tor MIN than for any living man; but
he positively declines to be considered
IN any event, and his real friends, if
they cam prevent it, will not permit his
name to be banded about the conven-
ton hall in sleight- f-hand maneuvers
by those who were not his friends when
he needed friends.-Macon (Ga.) Tele-
graph. Jre.