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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
HENRY G. PAYNE DEAD.
Postmaster General 10 Called After ILL.,
ness Of Several Years.

Postmaster General 10 Called Atuer stt
ness Of Several Years.
Henry c. Payne, postmaster general
of the United States, a member OF the
Republican national committee and o
stalwart Of his party, with whose his
tory he has been identified for many
years, died at apartments at the Ar.
lington hotel in Washington, D. c.,
at 6:10 o'clock Tuesday evening after
an illness of several years. He was
60 years old. The end was peaceful
The cause was mitral valve trouble
and dilation of the heart.
Mr.. Payne, in the capacity Of mem:
Der of the Republican national com.
mittee had participated in six presi-
Dental campaigns, and during the last
four of them was member of the ex'
ecutive committee of the national
committee. He was the acting chair
man of the national committee during
ZIG kpL6IlIu UcJWScl, IuC uCdIh VI oCA-
ator Hanna and the election of Secre-
tary Cortelyou as its head, and the
trying duties that then devolved upon
him, supplementing as they did the
strain Of the postal investigation
Slapped his vitality and led to his final
breakdown.
The last official caller to inquire as
to Mr. Payne's condition was Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and he had been gone
about ten minutes when the stricken
member of his cabinet expired. AS Mr..
Roosevelt was leaving he spoke feel
ingly of Mr.. Payne to the newspaper
men gathered in front of the hotel as
''the sweetest, most lovable and most
trustful man I ever knew" Mrs,
Roosevelt, accompanied by Captain
Cowles, also was a caller at the fam.
fly apartments of the Paynes during
the late afternoon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Man Hunt in Connecticut.

A man-hunt is on in East Glastoh.
bury. Conn. The state police force
headed by Chief Egan, and many OK
the residents heavily armed are
searching for John c. Whipple, who,
two weeks ago, shot and seriously
wounded a neighbor, James Starmer.
and last week shot State Policeman
Loukes, who was attempting to arrest
him for the crime. 1t is suspected also
that Whipple has burned two barns
and all barns are being guarded night
end day by armed farm hands
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Incident Is Closed,

Secretary Hays investigation has
resulted in the closing of the incident
growing out Of the arrest of Secretary
Quincy of the British embassy, at Lee
Mass. The secretary concluded that
entirely too much Importance had
been given this matter, and as Sir
Mortimer Durand, the British ambas-
sador, conceded in this view and let
the department know that the action
OF the Massachusetts authorities in
remltting the fine and extending an
apology was entirely satisfactory to
him, the subject was dropped.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
JAPS WILL ADVANCE
BROWN MEN ANXIOUS TO MOVE
FORWARD.
Activity Of the Japanese outposts i
Regarded as Intended to Screen
Movements of Their Armies E.

Official advices from the far east
given out Wednesday morning de-
scribes a series of skirmishes on the
southern front of General Kuropat.
kin's army, the only Importance OF
which lies in the fact that the Japan
csc are showing a disposition to press
forward and feel out the Russian
positions. General Mistchenko's cos
sacks in every case drove back the
opposing forces.
The activity of the Japanese out
posts is doubtless intended to screen
movements of their armies, ard there
lore may be regarded as lrecursory
symptoms of final preparations for an
advance, which probably will begip
within a week.
A special messenger has brought to
the emperor General Kuropatkin's full
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
I0AEC /1EKgZ2I2H

George Meredith, who believes that
contract marriages for limited periods
are possibility of the near future, is
/ celebrated English litterateur. His
mother was Irish, his father Welsh.
and he received his education in Ger
many. He was born in 1928, and pub.
Iished his first volume Of poems in
1851. Though he has written several
books, it is practically within twenty
years that Meredith has become ia.
nous. Critics have complained severe.
ly of his literary style
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Senator Laid to Rest,

The last services over the body OF
United States Senator George Frisbie
Hoar were held Tuesday in Concord
Mass, the place OF his birth, and sew
eral hundred of the senator's former
townsmen followed the body to the
place of it's burial in Sleepy Hollow
cemetery. In the first parish church
service was conducted by the pastor,
Rev. Loren B. Mcdonald. The pastor
spoke no words of eulogy, reading in
stead James Russell Lowell's poem on
Claiming. At the grave brief services
Of burial were held
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Floods in Oklahoma.

A Guthrie, Oklahoma, special says
the South Canadian river is higher
than in forty years, and in many
places wagon and railroad bridges
have been swept away. The river be-
gan rising Saturday and Sunday was
out of its banks at many points. There
have been no excessive rains in Okla
homa for weeks, and tie rise is due
to floods in Colorado. 1t is feared that
the loss to cotton and corn crops
bridges and other properties along the
river throughout the two territories
will be enormous.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Twenty Perish In Flood.

Reports received from different
points in New Mexico show that the
loss of life in the foods that have oc-
Cured in the past week is greater
than at first thought. At least twenty
persons perished and all sections
have not been definitely heard from.
Ten Santa Fee passenger trains are
tied up at Santa Fe, but passengers
are being sent east and vest over the
Rock Island and Southern Pacific
roads, connection being effected
through the Santa Fe Central, which
assumed operations Tuesday.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
People Are Becoming Sick of Blood.
shed and Slaughter.

The Novosti, of ST. Petersburg. has
the following pertinent paragraph:
"The present war is terrible object
lesson to the people of the world and
though nothing can prevent it being
fought to finish, the people of all ma.
tons are sick of b oodshed and
slaughter, and doubtless hereafter any
country will think long before draw
ing the sword. Any suggestion Of
peace. therefore, ought to be well
coined, and perhaps the nations at nc
distant future will be a'la to realize.
through the fundamentally of The
Hague, that universal disarmament
which was the emperor's motive in as
sembling the tribunal"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14

Flu Pass, which has become the OBJ
ject of attack by the Japanese, is in.
dicated in the map. 1t is located about
fifteen miles almost directly east Of
Mukden, and is but short distance
from the tombs Of the Chinese en-
perors. falling mot to be confound'
ed with Telling. north of Mukden)
and Sanlunku, whence the japanese
drove the Russians, also are shown.
They are about sixty miles northeast
of Lioayang. The operations there in
dictate a sweeping northeastward turn
ing movement on the part of the Jap
anese.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
Three Killed in Street Car Accident.

Three more names have been added
to the list of people who were injured
in the street car disaster that took
place Sunday at Eighth avenue and
Clement street, San Francisco, the
motorman being unable to control his
crowded car, owing, as he claims to
defective brakes Those who lost
tt cir lives were Frederick Fendsen
and Harry Curran. Fourteen person
are suffering from injuries, but no
further deaths are expected.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-10-14
NEGRO ENTERS RACE.
Will Oppose Democratic Candidate for
Congress In Georgia.

An Augusta, Ca, dispatch says: The
Republican executive committee of the
Tenth Congressional district has an.
ncunced the nomination of H. Porter
the only negro practitioner at the Au-
gusta bar, to oppose I. w. Hardwick
for congress. The negroes are very re-.
sentful of Mr.. Hardwick's attempt to
have the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution repealed. This is the first
negro to run for congress here since
reconstruction days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-05

stated that the United States was not a chivalrous nation. but one of shop keepers. Count Cassini did not know the American people. Thank heaven we have no Poland. no Finland, no Kishineff.
 The signers of the second New Ha- ven petition represent the general feel ings of the people Of the country. They represent that ail the generosity shall not be alone for the other countries. The suspicion of the siEners of the first petition that our honor must be smirch- ed was groundless. The government does not act by underhand means. There cannot be a stain of dishonor upon any member of our government. If the people had turned from Panama to the Nicaraguan route the country would have been irretrievably ruined. It is not denied by any one that if there was any justified secession 1t was jus tified by the people of Panama"
 The speaker then referred to the Monroe doctrine and spoke about the bearing it has had and is having on na- tional affairs.
 The last speaker was J. Rice Win chell. and he delivered an eloquent ad- dress.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-05
AJJTHOR,sHTp IN AMERrc,A

We should like to call the attention of home market clubs and infant industry nurseries to the condition of the author- ship business in the United States. During 1902 the total production of this hustling world was 100000 volumes. The output seems small enough in com parison with the worlds annual stock of other commodities, but so long as it is large enough to keep our evenings and holidays busy we have no general right to complain. The trouble comes when we analyze the figures. During 1902 the United States published but 7,S33 volumes, barely worsting England, which follows us with a total of 7,700, and losing to Germany's 26906 to the tune of 1 to 3. What becomes of our Ladies Literary leagues and Home Culture clubs in the face of hard figures. Where is Kentucky now, and where Indiana? Shall three Americans go down before one German? Shall each million Germans have 354 books each year while a million American are con- tent with eighty-one?
 Reverse the shield. Last year Germany published 8,049 newspapers and peroidicals. The United States 21,-
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of the railway station.

foundations of the railway station.
 It was now whispered and soon be- came known that the station had originally been built upon sort of shale, which came out of the mines in the near neighborhood years ago. These shale mounds have been known to take years burning through, and the stench from them is anything but pleas- ant.
 Now, when it became known that the fire referred to was gradually eating its way to the foundations of the station, a mild sort of alarm began to be felt, not only by the railway company but the aristocratic passengers who daily use this suburban station. For the mines have been worked out, and hundreds of beautiful villas have arisen out of their ashes-so to speak.
 The fire gained ground every day, un- til by and by it reached beneath one of the platforms, and any day tllere- after might be seen the novelty of a crowd of people waiting on a platform from the chinks and crevices of which were arising in many places jets of steam from the fire below. Such vol ume of water was kept continually playing upon it that actual flames were prevented from showing above ground; but any casual observer could see the evidence of the great heat below.
 In time it was observed that the foundations of the station were settling and cracking and twisting in many places, and'all sorts of efforts had to be
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-05

of only ss7s. $50. The plan for the voting trust has been abandoned and instead there will be a board of directors select ed by, the reorganization committee and the receiver. with the approval of the syndicate managers
 After Mr. Untermyer had received a copy of the plan there was a long con- ference over the telephone. which lasted till late in the night. At the end of this he announced that the plan had his ap- proval with one or two minor excep- tions
 Mir. Untermyer admitted that the fight in the courts was practically set
 tied and that it was dropped as far as ing the validity of the so-called fraud ulent'' bonds will be taken up in earn
 est. No mention of these bonds is made in the compromise plan. Mir. Cromwell
 refused to say whether this left assent ing bondholders free to attack their va lidity MT. Untermyer declared that it did. At any rate they may be attacked
 by non-assenting bondholders and some
 bonds may be left unassenting for the
 purpose.
 Attempts at settlement have been making for about three weeks. The fight of the last week or more has
 been over the control Of the new con- cern. Mir. Untermyer for the bondhold- CTS protective committee insisted that
 the board should consist of members se- lected by the reorganization committee by the bondholders' committee and by cfI T that the receiver should be the only one to select, outside the reorganization committee. MT. Untermyer held out till tonight on that point, offering to leave the whole matter to the receiver. After the concession of one member of the re- organization committee to him, with the other members representing what he considers the anti-Schwab clement in the reorganization committee excepting Messrs. Sheldon and Wetmore, and the absolute withdrawal oe Max Pam he agreed to the compromise.
 Whether this will settle all litigation remains to be seen. It was confidently predicted that the Commonwealth Trust interests would agree, but this is net a matter of certainty. There are also number of stockholders who have threatened to bring suits. and the upstate interests have just entered the field
 MT. Untermyer said tonight: 'Upon a conservative valuation of the new se- curities, valuing the preferred stock at 70 cents and the common at 25 cents, the present bonds will be worth about 50 cents on the dollar under the new plan as sagainst 12 cents under the Sheldon plan.
 The shipyards plants (not including the Bethlehem plant) have been esti- mated to be worth about $6,00O, ,0O0, which is 40 cents on the dollar for the first mortgage bonds, so that this plan to the first mortgage bondhold- CTS in new securities their full propor- ton of the properties in which the bond holders are interested. The adoption of this plan should not interfere with the continued effort by the receiver to de- feat the fraudulent bonds. Whatever is saved in that direction will go to in creassing the value of the valid bonds"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-05
A DROWNING WOMAN.
WIFE OF BARGE CAPTAIN RES - CUED FROM WATERT DEATH.

Cries for Help Last Night Arouse
 wasehmen on Belle Dock Who Find
 Woman struggling in Icy Water
 Rescue Enecred oaIy After a Hard
 straggls-nusbAnd Asleep In Cabin
 Uaeon.cious of Peril of Wife.
 That a woman did not lose her life in the icy waters of the harbor last evening is due to the heroic work of three men employed on Belle dock. About 8 o'clock Special Constable Hen ry Mack, special constable and night watchman, on duty at the do.k. Charles Mason and R. Houston, heard agoniz- ing screams for help coming from along side of the barge Charles McCaf- frey, which was moored along side of the dock. Running to the edge of the dock in the darkness they perceived a form struggling in the water, the cries from which were becoming weaker and weaker. There was nothing available at hand by which rescue could be ef- fected but after a hurried search a thirty foot coil of rope was found and this was thrown to the struggling wo- man. After a iong effort she was hauled to the top of the dock, where willing hands hauled her to safety. She was very nearly unconscious when res cued and a delay of few minutes would have meant her death.
 She was taken to the cabin of the McCaffrey and there revived. Upon in- vestigation it was found that she was the wife of the captain of the barge, who was asleep in the cabin of the boat, unaware of the peril of his wife.
 Just how the woman happened to fall overheard could not be learned from her in her dazed condition. but it is supposed that she missed her footing in the darkness and took the icy plunge.
 The prompt work of the rescuers was the only thing that saved the woman from watery death and great praise is due them for their presecne of mind. Officer Mack has officiated several times before in rescuing persons from drowning.
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A FIRE THAT WON'T GO OUT.
Phenomenon Exhibited at Railway

Phenomenon Exhibited at Railway
 Station in Scotland
 It is not generally known that in Scot land, not more than three miles out of Glasgow, there is fire raging at a rail- way station, which has beer, going on for months, and, notwithstanding that tons of water have been poured upon this insidious fire, it cannot be put out.
 It seems incredible, but it is neverthe- less true. The details are as follows:
 Several months ago waste piece of ground close to the station was wanted by the railway company as a siding. The level of this ground was too low, so truckloads of refuse were "dumped'' on it to bring 1t to the necessary level. A large proportion of this refuse consisted of rotting vegetation, and iii the course of little time it heatedstossuch an ex- tent that combustion set in and started not only a smoldering fire, but flames actually burst through the ground.
 Attempts were made to quell this fire, and it was thought, after several weeks of hard work and tons of water, that it had been put out. What was the sur prise, however, to see it break out afresh in another place and nearer the station. Fears then began to be felt for the safety of the station buildings es- pecially as the main double line to i'm portant coast and country towns led through it.
 Fresh energy was then brought to bear, and much more water was poured on this fir, which seemed to have its stronghold in the bowels of the earth, but from the volume of steam and smoke issuing from innumerable ere vices it was seen that the fire demon was resisting all efforts and was slowly creeping nearer and nearer to the
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DECIDE TO END LITIGATION

(Continued from First Page.) be sold to the. syndicate at S75 per | 1,000
 Former Secretary of War Elihu Root i is counsel for the syndicate managers. the litigation is hostile to MT. SchwaO. | Mir Schwab will not be called upon to testify. The pending case will have to go on formally, and the matter of test The new reorganization committee will consist of George R. Sheldon, chair man. Charles s. Fairchild, John E. Berni, Pliny Fisk, Charles w. Wet more and Max Nathan. Other terms of the compromise to which both sides gave up many things which have been ! fought for up to the last moment in- clude provision that the expenses of the fight of the bondholders' protective committee shall be paid as part of the expenses of reorganization. With the reorganization plan there was made public circular from Harvey Fisk & Sons, offering the new issue of bonds. MT. Crmowell announced the retirement of Max Pam.
 In giving out the new plan Mir. Crom-
  on after having been submitted to all the parties interested. "It has not been sprung suddenly on anybody. They have all seen it." he said. Tt is now out after all interests have been con sidered, but without consideration for any opposition that may arise.
 "The new plan provides for the level ling of all existing mortgages. No pro- vision is made for the old preferred and common stock, which, as is now appar- ent to all has no possible value.
 MT. Schwab and the first mortgage bondholders come in on an equal foot ing. His prior lien on the Bethlehem plant has been given up by him as well as twenty millions in the stocks of the 1 company.
 TsThe plan places the new company on strong footing with fixed charges
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restorted to to keep the buildings from being permanently injured. At this present moment, as these lines are be- ing penned, the fire has reached under the main line of the track and it is one of the curiosities of the neighborhood to see the jets of steam and smoke issuing from between the sleepers.
 It is now a foregone conclusion that the fire cannot be extinguished and it is being left to have it's own sweet way and burn itself out. When this will happen nobody knows, as there is a large part of the foundation of the station not yet reached; and as this has been going on for many months, it is quite probable that this fire in the bowels of the earth will go on sapping under the station untils the buildings tumble about the passengers ears. Tit Bits.
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Continued from Firist Page) The Novoe Vremya to-day publishes a long editorial article on it's Port Ar thur correspondence of yesterday. The views of this correspondent may ap-
 pear fantastic, but the paper says, nev- ertheless, that America is the real foe
 screened behind Japan. The British
 the paper continues. have assumed the
 task of betraying Europe by trucking to the United States, and speeches al the recent banquet of the Pilgrims so- ciety are cited as examples of British servility. In conclusion the Noyoe Vremya says:
 When Great Britain has quite gone over to the United States the rest of Europe will realize the urgency of unit ed action against America"
 A telegram received here from Port Arthur says there Is no announcement there of the mobilization or the calling out of the reserves, but that everything is in readiness and that there are all most half a million troops in Manchu- ria.
 The message adds that the mobiliza- tion of the Japanese forces has not produced a deep impression in Port Ar thur.
 The figures given in this message for the Russian troops in Manchuria are considered here to be exaggerated by at least half, but it is understood that sixty thousand Russian soldiers are on tbeir way or under orders for the Far East.
 The war office and the admiralty minimize the significance of Russias preparations in the Far East, the war office declaring that the movement to- ward Antung has no connection with the opening of Antung as a treaty port but is a precautionary measure to safeguard Russian interests on the Yalu river.
 London, Feb. 5.-The news that Rus sia already dispatched her reply to Japan has not yet reached the English. newspapers, which are beginning to be- lieve that Russia has no intention of sending a reply. The most pessimistici views are taken of the situation, but no further news has been received.
 Reports are current that prominent commercial houses having relations with Japan have received private dis patches intinating the belief that a rupture of relations between Russia and Japan is imminent. but nothing of an official character is obtainable, the alarmist views of this morning being based solely upon the reports of yes terday of the sailing of the Russian fleet from Port Arthur and the rumored Jap anese move on Corea, which are repeat ed from different points in the Far East
 The correspondent of the Daily Mail at Che Foo says a Russian fleet com- prising all the battleships, excepting the sebastopol and six cruisers and two destroyers, is cruising along the coasts of the peninsula.
 The Seoul correspondent of the Daily Mail says in a despatch that Russian army is moving south from Mukden, while the correspondent of his same paper at Port Arthur says that both Russia and Japan have placed an er1- bargo upon coal shipments.
 A telegram received here from Copen- hagen declares that eighteen foreign steamers have just been chartered by Russia to convey war material from Odessa and Ldbau to the Far East.