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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05
MILLER FOUND GUILTY.
Harney County Man Alleged to Have
Killed His Neighbor.

Albany, Or, May 4.-Messrs Wealth
erford and Wyatt, the lawyers, re-
turned last night from Burns, Harvey
county, where they had been to con-
duct the defense of Geo. S. Miller, in
the trial for the murder of ]. W. Cur
tbs. In coming. out they rode 150 miles
on a stage to Ontario, and were nearly
five days in reaching Albany. Miller
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree. Four of the jurymen
voted not guilty, but public opinion
was so strong they finally changed
their vote, and the jury agreed on the
second degree. Caldwell, implicated
in the affair, will be tried in the fall.
The trouble was over a colt, the men
being neighbors. The court was three
weeks getting ury, nearly every
one of the 300 eligible men in the
county being examined. Then 1t took
nine days to try the case. Miller is a
nephew OF F. NJ Miller, OF Syracuse
precinct, and Curtis, who was shot
has a brother residing in this pre-
cinct
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05

cation; that is to say, how he can
make his living, how he must make his
living, how he must become an econ
omic entity, and economically indie
pendent. And by that guidance and
that leading, If it be done wisely,
the whole Indian problem will solve
itself. The work of the Department
of the Interior, through the appointed
special agent, Mr.. Mead, which has
cheered you all so very much, is, Of
course, the very definite, direct thing
to be done and the government must
see to 1t and We must see that the
sees to It, that this work
is done accurately and right.
1T is sort of dramatic thought
that just when we have come to ap-
ply the right principle to the training
of backward people-just when every
school is a workshop and every work
shop is a school-it is Just at the
time the Indian must be trained into
the new life of citizenship If we are
to save him. These two lines of act
ivity come together coincidentally,
and very fortunately for us, and very
fortunately for him.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05
MAKING
INDIANS
GOOD MEN
Industrial Education Will
Convert Red Skins Into
Desirable Citizens

4 was reminded by an old friend of
mine the other day, that this year
the North American Indian will make
what might be called his very last
spectacular rally-at the Worlds Fair
at st. Louis" said Walter H. Page,
editor Of The Worlds Work, speak
ing before the New York Council of
the Sequoya League. in New York
City, the other night. "In other words,
they are going to have there groups
Of Indians who have. the semblance,
at least, of their savage dress and
savage manners, and who will give
some hint of the Indian as he was in
the days of his savage glory Such
d show as that cannot be repeated
many times in the future, because in
1.-TWO years hence the largest body of
Indians in the Indian Territory is to
renounce its tribal relations; and then
the Shrinking of the great Indian area
viii have gone on until there are
simply little reservations. here and
there. but no great tract left given
wholly TO them.
There are two things-two lines
Of thought-that seem to me to con-
verge here in rather dramatic fash
Ion. One is this: 1t took us a long
time TO find out the real secret of
educating a backward people, or,
might say, educating any people in a
direct sense. Education as we have
conceived it and practiced it for many
years came down to us from the Mid
die Ages and, suppose, it yielded
less easily to change suggested by
common sense than any other insti-
tuition that we inherited. 1t meant
little or nothing when applied to a
backward people.
Most of us, ourselves, unless it
be the very youngest of us, suffered
In our formal education by the fact
that too much of it had to do with
LnlngS JnaI were ueVlSeu nunureuS
and hundreds of years ago. 1t is
not until our own day, until our own
time. we might say until the day be-
fore yesterday, that 1t really dawned
upon US that the secret of human pro
gress, the real economic secret of
human progress, was in teaching
man to do the thing that lay right
before him, the thing that he had to
do.
This is so simple that it is ludi-
crous to talk about it as a system of
education, for it is nothing more than
the application of commonsense.
we began first to work 1t out in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05

looked that problem squarely in the
face Nobody seemed to say: Here is
a human being. If he can be trained
right, he can adjust himself to the
civilization that is inevitably pressing
round him. But, If we leave him
alone, he will fight Finally, he will
be pushed to one side and extermi-
mated.
But, at last, we have been com.
ing nearer and nearer, after the fight.
ing period and through a period of
scandal to understand that by indust-
, rial education Indians can be made a
part OF the American democracy;
| can be trained Just as any other men
are; can take up the natural pursuits
for which they are fitted. They can
no longer hunt buffaloes; there are no
buffaloes, but they can grow their
corn and their beans in a greatly i'm
proved manner; they can do anything
that other men can do under similar
conditions; and we passed an act
permitting them to become citizens.
We have encouraged so many schools
(you know the statistics better than
! y; they now wear what persons
curiously enough call citizens clothes,
meaning clothes like our own, and
their school attendance is so many
thousand, and so on and so on--now
the point is this:
Under the present administration,
praise Heaven, there is a man in the
White House who knows more about
the Indians than any man who has
ever been there before. That is
very favorable fact; but 1t is not the
president who has this matter wholly
in charge, nor does congress have It
wholly so. Nevertheless, the curious
thing about the conduct of Indian edu-
cation, and the management OF In.
dians is that it is all centered in
Washington. But we have some
tribes of Indians in the northern part
Of our great western country, and
others in the south, who have not even
a common language, and who have
nothing to do with each other; and Il
is a sort of misfortune about the stu.
alton that all this machinery has TO
be directed from Washington, to ap-
ply to conditions Of one Indian tribe
living in a place where certain in
dustries only are profitable, and to
apply at the same time to a tribe
living far away under wholly different
climatic and Industrial conditions,
where other Industries are profitable.
Now nothing can be done with pre-.
cision at such a distance and with
such diversity, unless the admins
tration of the Industrial ends of these
schools is made a matter Of special
study and special interest by some
body Well. who is somebody. The
trouble about this whole Indian prob
lem from beginning to end Is. II has
been nobody's business. Now, you
have been patriotic enough. interested
enough, and generous enough to make
this our problem. The thing 10 do.
therefore. is to see 20 II, and TO in.
duce everybody whom you can IN
fuenee 10 see to il. that not a per
funetory school is taught here. there.
or elsewhere. in which an Indian gets
a certain amount OF boOk-knowledge |
and certain amount Of perfectly oh.
viOus and easy knowledge OF the use
OF a hoe. or a plane. OF a hammer;
but that bis nature is actually taken
hold OF by teacher who can show
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05

the neglected classes of people and
the backward races. was told the
other day that for the first time in
the history Of mankind, an opportun-
ity is given now at Pratt Institute to
teach any man to be a plumbers
helper. Not a plumber-there are
plenty of places where men could be
taught to be plumbers. But never
before had it occurred to anybody to
teach a man to be a plumbers he'll
per; and yet every plumber has to
have a helper, in order to make his
bill big enough, if nothing else; and
a man had no earthly opportunity to
learn that particular thing. And so
every day. am told by people who
know of educational processes, things
like this are going on.
ut is a familiar story to you all
and is little nearer home than the
Indian, how this method of education
applied to the negro in the south
really showed the way whereby the
man who had been a slave and whose
conditions in life and the life sur
rounding him did not give him an op-
portunity to profit by formal education
in many walks of life--how his whole
life problem was simply solved by it.
We have found it out-not only how
to train the neglected classes-and
we are now even becoming wise
enough to teach our own children
some commonsense.
Now all this time that education
meant some formal and formidable
process of training the mind almost
wholly by books-and books were al
most the only tools that we knew in
the training of the mind-all the time
that this was going on, we were 60
ing through a sort of mixed comedy
and tragedy in our dealing with the
Indian. We pushed him further and
further backward; and then, to crafty
his vanity, as well as to relieve our
selves of responsibility, we began to
deal with him as if he were a foreign
nation. And so we used to make
treaties with him, and go through
such formalities as if he were a real
foreign people. OF course, the neces-
sary result of that is story that you
know better than I-how it led to
fighting of him. Certainly, it is not
consolation to us, but it gives us
some respect for him when we read
in the official reports that so nearly
as can be calculated, in our wars with
the Indians fifteen white men killed
for every single Indian.
"And then we came down gradually
to the era when their hunting grounds
were taken away, and their old occu.
pations we're gone. We had, then,
no better judgment than to give a
dole of rations and fimsy blankets to
him, rejecting no credit upon our
judgment and certainly doing nothing
to build up his character II is a
shameful story, all that part Of it; but
think we ought to learn this from
it: it shows how we had not applied
commonsense to education. In all
those days, hardly man of influence
of national influence, at any rate
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05
We'll Stocked.

j. l.. Stockton & Co.'S store is well
stocked with SELF Shoes. Notice SELF
shoe ad in this issue.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05
What kind of shoes
wifi you wear?

YOu can take your choice of shoes:
you do take 1t every time you boy
pair.
You mean to choose the best shoes
fOur money wifi boy. Do you know
low to choose shoes?
Probably not. Wen give you a
simple role to go by. Find the name
Se1z Royal Blue, andIget the best shoe
made.
Regular styles and feathers, $3.50
Special styles, 400
SEMZ
Largest shoes In the world
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-05-05

Largest makers Of good shoes In the world.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
GET AN ORGAN
Opportunity to Get IN instrument
From Your Local Dealer at Mans.
facturer's Price.
A NEW DEPARTURE.

People have been accustomed 10
paying as high as $4,000 for an organ.
but under our present arrangement
we are now prepared to furnish .
brand new Kimball Organ. with stool
and book for $4,000.
Our manager while East last month
purchased 100 of thess instruments
and paid cash for them while in Chi.
cago. The result was that We Oh.
tanned the lowest price ever given on
an organ.
Everybody knows the Kimball Or.
gan. Been sold In Utah for 40 years.
Never was more durable instrument
made. Every instrument fully guar.
anteed for years.
This opportunity will positively only
last until this stock is exhausted,
which will not exceed 60 days. Prices
then will be regular. II you, dear
reader, are interested 1t would be wise
to send in your order at once. Terms
if desired.
We will accept cash payment Of
$4,000 with order and balance at the
rate of $500 per month.
Remember we furnish the above In.
strument in Walnut finish for $4,000.
II in Satin Walnut $1,000 more. Com.
plete with Stool and Book delivered
boxed at the Station in this city.
CLAYTON MUSIC CO.,
Leading Music Dealers,
100 Main St. Salt Lake City.
Please mention this Paper.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
BUTTERFLIES sRsp TO ORDER.
In Demand BY Rich Men 70 eeautIfy
Their Lawns.

.-
In Demand BY Rich Men 70 esautIfy
Their Lawns.
butterflies make IN admirable gar.
den decoration, and. therefore," said
q landscape gardener, they are being
bred for lawns the same ~ peacocks
are bred.
"You have heard. Of course. Of pea
cock farms. Their crops are pea
cocks, and the birds are sold to rich
men to decorate their lawns with.
Well. q butterfly farm IL one where
the crops are butterflies. Such .
farm has been get W In California.
and It II doing we'll.
1.-THE farm was started on q capt.
tai Of $500. A glass, house was put
up and 5000 caterpillars were bought.
The caterpillars In due time became
butterflies. The butterflies were sold
at fair profit to number Of mil
lionaires.
I'm certain millionaires' gardens It
was possible to see during the sum-
mer big flocks Of buttertlies-some
white. some blue and some iridescent.
These were a part Of the crop Of the
butterfly farm.
1.-THE California breeder got his
idea from London. There for some
years they have bred all the butter.
flies that decorate Battersea park
beautifully"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
An Honest opinisn.

Mineral, Idaho, Nov. 14th.-tSpe'
al.)-That 4 sure cure has been
discovered for those sciatic pains that
make SC msny lives miserable. Is the
Arm opinion Of Mr.. D. s. Colson. a
we'll known resident Of this place.
and he does not hesitate to say that
cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills. The
reason Mr.. Colson Is SO firm in his
opinion is that he had those terrible
pains and Is cured. Speaking OF the
matter he says:
Il am only too happy to say Dodd's
Kidney Pills have done me lots OF
good. had awful pains in my hip
so I could hardly walk. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills stopped 1t entirely. ! think
they are grand medicine"
All sciatic and Rheumatic pains are
caused by Uric Acid in the blood.
Dodd's Kidney Pills make healthy
Kidneys, and healthy Kidneys strain
all the Uric Acid out Of the blood.
With the cause removed there can be
no Rheumatism or Sciatica.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
NINE PERISH IN WRECK.
Terrible Accident on the Union Pa
eifIe Near Granger, Wyoming.

Terrible Accident on the Union Pa.
eIne Near Granger, Wyoming.
A Union Pacific passenger train.
running at q high rate OF speed.
crashed into fruit special, which was
endeavoring to make up lost time.
about five miles east Of Granger, Wyo.,
Saturday night, which resulted In one
of the most terrible wrecks which
has occurred for . number Of years
on this road.
Both trains, with the exception OF
a few cars, were reduced to kindling
wood and the engines stripped. Nine
persons were killed and ten or fifteen
injured.
The wreck was caused by the negli.
gence Of the operator at Granger, who
gave the freight crew the wrong or
ders. The operator has skipped out
and cannot be found.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
CHARGED WITH
NUMBERING FAMILY.

California Boy Accused OF Killing
Father, Mother, Sister and Brother.
Adolph Weber has been placed I'M
der arrest at Auburn. CAL. charged
with the murder Of his parents. SIS
ter and young brother and with having
set tho family residence on fire after.
ward to conceal the crime. Weber
took his arrest coolly, but was alive
to what he considered 70 be his legal
rights.
The arrest took place Immediately
after Weber had left the witness
stand and after he had rather re-
luctantly answered the questions pro
pounded to him BY Coroner Shepard,
the district attorney and several OF
the jurymen.
Tho latest theory in tho Weber
murder case is that the murderer shot
the father first, then, as his sister ap'
peared in the hall, he shot her. and
then the mother, seeing what had
been done. screamed and started
from him, when he shot her. She
continued on across the room and
raising her left hand, took down the
telephone receiver to call for help. al
which time she received the second
shot, which penetrated the body just
under the left arm.
The child being the only one LETT
the murderer struck him over the
head and felled him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
TILL NOON.
Hhs oimpis Dish That Keeps cns Wig
eroaas and Well Fed.

dhs oimpls Dish That Keeps cns Wig
crews and Well Fed.
WAea Ne doctor takes kls own
0sllsias aai the grocer eats the food
he reoonneads some cea1dooce comes
- tAe observer.
A Greer OF Ossian, Ind, had q
Draseical experience with fosd worth
aAyons's attention.
He says: ''Six years ase I became
- weak from stomach and bowel
Ssoubie that I was finally compelled
. sivs up Ill work in my store. and
q fact all sorts of work. for about four
years. The last year I was confined 10
he bed nearly al Of the time. and
much Of tho time unable to retain
food Of any sort on my stomach. MY
towels were badly constipated con-
anually and l lost in weight from
TO pounds down to S3 pounds.
when ut the bottom Of the ladder
( changed treatment entirely and
started In on Grape-Nuts and cream
Tor nourishment. used absolutely
aothing but this for about three
nonths. slowly improved until .
got out Of bed and began to move
about.
II have been improving regularly
and now in the past two years have
been working about fifteen hours a
day IN the store and never felt better
IN my life.
During these two years have
never missed a breakfast Of Grape
Nuts and cream, and often have Il
two meals a day, but the entire break
fast is always made Of Grape-N1- 3 ar !
cream alone.
"Since commencing the use Of
Grape-Nuts have never used any
thing to stimulate the action Of the
bowels, a thing l had to do for years
but this food keeps me regular and in
One shape. and am growing stronger
ana heavier every day.
my customers, naturally, have beer
interested and am compelled to an
swer great many questions abou
0rape-Nuts.
"Some people would think that ,
simple dish Of Grape Nuts and cream
would not carry one through to tn
MONDAY meal. but It will and In tn
most vigorous fashion"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battl
Greek. Mich.
Look In each pkg. for the famou
nittlo book. 'The Road to WellvilleL"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
AVOID SUN OF INDIA.

Nhite Men Return From That coun.
try With PaIior.
The missionary was so pale that
us friend exclaimed:
"Have you had spell of sickness.
aakef"
mo. have been to India" the
ether answered.
"IndiaI That sunny, sizzling
Dlacei Hew is 1t you are not brown.
tAen1"
IT II plain to be seen that you
don't know what you're talking
eboat" said the missionary. "White
people that 60 to India, don't come
back brown. They come back paler
tAaa ghosts. India fades white peo-
pie cut thought everybody knew
hat"
r didat know It. Jake. What IL
eAs philosophy Of 1T"
the philosophy IL that the Indian
sun ID - deadly that we whites have
- keep out Of It. In the sun. in In.
Ola. tho thermometer will register 16o
degrees. Well with the Thermometer
et leo can you imagine . white man
busting about in the glare? He il ly.
1ag o. . dim piazza with an iced
drink beside him and Q fan stirring
the CIR above his head.
"Yss," said the missionary, white
nsa In lHdis avoid the sun a young
Glfls ct homo avoid mice. White
inca RETURN from India rs pale as yor
80 ns. The Indian pallor.' v,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
OPPOSED VACCINATION.

Fierce Riot In Rio de Janeiro In Which
q Dozen Are Killed.
The opposition 10 the compulsory
vaccination law led to fierce rioting
In Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The
troops repeatedly charged the mob.
barbados were erected. water and
gas mains were cut plunging this city
into darkness. and street cars were
burned. The demonstration has every
characteristic Of revolution. Tho
presidents palace was strongly guard.
Cd until midnight It Is rumored that
q dozen people were killed and that
sixty were injured. An intermittent
lusillads continues.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25

Tanks wers badly swollen. One doctor
oolA ne It would hnally turn to
Oright's disease. l was laid up at
enc time for three weeks. had not
eaksn Doan's Kidney Pills more than
three days when the distressing ach.
)ng across my back disappeared. and
I was soon entirely cured"
Pr sale by all dealers. Price so
ooats. Foster Milburn Co., Bu6alo.N.Y.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
Explanations Later.

An elderly clergyman was recently
seeing his wife of from Euston Sta
ton. London. He handed her into Q
carriage and q porter followed her
with baggage. Then the clergyman
gave his wife twopence, kissed the
,orter and departed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
ATTEMPT TO MURDER MAYOR.

Home Of Minnesota Official Dynamited
by Unknown Enemy.
A terrific explosion occurred In the
rear OF the residence Of Mayor Fay
Of Virginia, Mimi, early Sunday morn
Ing, and the handsome building 10
mass Of ruins.
Fortunately NO one was injured. but
II would seem that dynamite was
placed in the rear of the house with
the intention of killing the mayor ~
well as wrecking his dwelling.
For some time past the mayor has
been waging q vigorous warfare upon
the violators Of the saloon law. and
many threats have been made against
him. There Is no clue to tho perpe
traitor Of the crime.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25
Several Persons crsmated.

80VeraJ PersoUB CFUWdIeUs
A ire broke out Sunday morning IN
4 row Of houses in Washington. D. G..
Two bodies have been recovered. One
was that Of . man and tho other was
burned beyond recognition. It Is
thought several dead bodies are in the
ruins, al the inmates not having been
accounted for. A man jumped from
q second story window and broke both
legs. and two women who Jumped
each broke q leg. The IRE spread
with great rapidity, several occupants
of the building barely escaping with
their lives.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-11-25

MI" county.
says: II sui
fered with kid
ney complaint
for eight years.
It came ON me
gradually. I
felt tired and
" 9 . k. " Q s
short OF breath
and was trou.
10 4 " 1T h
bloating after
eating. and my