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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
TRAINMEN KILLED
DOUBLE HEADER Freight Ran
into HERD OF CATTLE.
Both Locomotives and II Loaded Cars
Piled in a Heap Near Seaton, ILL.,
Wreckage Caught Fire-Engineer
Summers Was ScaIded to Death by
Steam.

Oskaloosa, Iowa, Oct. 16.-Five
trainmen were killed Sunday at Sea-
ton, ILL.,, when a heavy double header
freight train on the Iowa Central rail-
road ran into bunch of cattle on the
track. Both locomotives and II loaded
freight cars were piled in heap.
The dead: George A. Caffil, engi-
neer; Harry Summers, engineer; Har-
ry Barr, fireman; L. H. Bradley, fire
man; P. T. Morgan, brakeman.
All lived at Oskaloosa except
Bradley, whose home was at Mon
mouth, Ill.
The wreckage caught fire and the
mangled bodies of the trainmen were
only saved by the quick work of the
conductor and farmers living nearby.
Engineer Summers was caught in
the cab of his locomotive and scalded
by steam. He lived several hours, al
though large pieces of cooked flesh
fell from the bone.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
CAPT. TAGGART GETS DIVORCE.
Given Freedom from Wife and Custody
of Children.


Wooster, Ohio.-Judge Eason, who
heard the divorce case of Captain Ell
more F. Taggart against his wife, has
rendered his decision. The court grant
ed Captain Taggart the divorce and
the custody of the two children, Gull
yer, aged II, and Charles, Z. Although
Mrs. Taggart is denied possession of
the children, she will be permitted to
see them.
The case has been of exceptional in
terest because of statements during
the trial by Captain Taggart that the
use of intOXicantS in the army was so
common as to be almost the custom.
A number of prominent army officers
were named in Captain Taggart's Pc
tition as having been more or less the
cause of the domestic troubles between
Captain and Mrs. Taggart.
In the outbreak against his father
upon the streets, Culver7Taggart called
the Captain liar. The child openly
cursed his father, and said: 81 will
never go with you; you have lied about
my mother, and every witness who
swOre at the trial against mama were
liars" Then Culver burst into tears.
Judge Eason decided that "Tiddles,'
the youngest child of the Taggarts,
shall be left in the care of his mother
at Wooster.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20

Near the head of Black River Val
ley, in Windsor County, Vermont. ten
miles from the nearest railway station
at Ludlow, lies the hamlet Of Plym-
outh Union. What the population lives
on is a question difficult to answer
Fortunately, it costs very little to live
there. A majority of the population
are in one way or another supported
by Civil War pensions. A tidal wave
Of patriotism must have swept through
this section of Vermont in the early
sixties.
The most interesting inha bitant of
Plymouth Union is Aunt Esther
Damon, the last on the roll Of Federal
pensioners as widow Of a soldier OF
the Revolution. Aunt Esther" was
born in Plymouth township, not far
from her present home. on the first day
Of August, 1914. She was one Of
family Of eight or nine, born to her
itage of poverty. Her father is remem-
bered as stirring" man, who began
life with nothing, married premature
ly, and worked hard to provide for his
family. In cutting timber to build
them house he was killed by the fall
Of a tree. His widow was left with
out resources ana found 1t impossible
to hold her family together. One by
one they were bound OUT to service.
and were never reunited At tender
age Esther was thus put to work and
remembers this period chiefly as one
of neglect and ill-treatment.
By one kind Of work or another,
mostly domestic service, she made
shift to live, and finally drifted to
Tyson, which then had a charcoal
blast furnace and was something of a
center of activity. She is said to have
taught district school for one or two
terms. Her own education had been
very limited. and teaching could not
have offered her a successful career.
By thus doing whatever came in her
way, she managed to support herself
until she was 21 years old, when she
married.
Her choice Of husband was not
well considered. Noah Damon, whom
she welded after a brief courtship,
was a widower Is or 76 years old,
with adult children and a record of
good service as a soldier Of the Revolu-
ton in sundry Massachusetts, COM
mands. He is additionally remember
ed as an easy-going, honest, improvi-
dent man. and not inclined to be in
dustrious. 1t is said that Esther Sum-
ner was misled as to his ability and
willingness to support her. and thought
he had some property. whereas he had
none. Perhaps he was an optimist by
temperament Their marriage was eel
ebrated on the 9Th OF September, 1885,
The young wife soon discovered
that, for her, the marriage relation
meant not only supporting herself by
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Suicide Kills a Friend.

Philadelphia. Pa, Oct. 17.-William
Vogel, baker, after a night of dissi-
patton, returned to his lodgings, at the
National Bakers home, and determin-
ed to commit suicide. By mistake he
went to the room of friend, Gotlieb
Burkhardt, but evidently did not no
tice Burkhardt asleep in the bed. Vogel
turned on the gas and lay down. En-
ployes Of the home, noticing the odor
Of gas in the halls, broke into the room,
and there found both Vogel and Burk-
hardt dead.
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PRICES AT SPOKANE
Wholesale Produce.

New potatoes, 60@65c cwt; onions,
75c@$1; cabbage, $1.25@1.50; oranges
1915 to Sc case; lemons, standards,
$550@6 case; seconds, $3.50 case;
pineapples, $3.50 case; bananas, $2.75
@3 bunch; dried figs, 7@S1ac lb; cram
berries, $1O@105O Dbl; huckleberries,
l2c Id; Salway peaches, S5c@$1 box;
four tier apples, $1.zo box; cooking
apples, 75@S5c box; ounces, 81 box;
green peppers, Csc box; cantaloups,
75c@$1 box; watermelons, 75c@$1.50
doz; beets, 81 cwt; turnips, 81; Hub
bard squash, 75c@s1.25 doz; tomatoes,
35@4Oc crate; eggplant, 75c@$1 doz;
sweet potatoes, $2.75@3 cwt; Concord
grapes, 35@4Oc crate; Muskats, $1.25
crate; Tokays, $3.50 crate; Blk. Ham
burgs, 75c@$1 crate; Idaho pears,
$1.25 box; eggs, s7.25@75O case; -four,
local, s4@4.25 Dbl; fancy hard wheat,
$5@65O Dbl; creamery butter, Csc Id;
celery, SOC doz; honey, $3.50 box, "a
cases; prunes, 50060c box.
Wholesale Feed.
Bran, SIG ton; bran aid shorts, SIT;
straight shorts, SIT; white shorts, $21;
corn, 80 cwt; cracked corn, $1.OO;
timothy hay, "a ton; alfalfa hay, $12
ton; oil meal, So cwt; grain hay, s12
@13 ton; rolled barley, 81 cwt; whole
oats, 1925 cwt; chopped oats, $1.3O
cwt; wheat, $1.15 cwt.
Paid to Producers.
Live stock-Steers, $2.5O@2.75 cwt;
COWS, So; calves, 81; sheep, $3@3.5O;
pigs, 1925.
Dressed meats-Steers, AZ @5c lb;
COWS, &c lb; veal, Az @7c Id.
Hides-Green steers, SIZE Id; COWS,
Sc: sailed, 1c higher dry hides, 151ac
lb; calf skins green, sc; kip, SC; sheep
skins, 75cA$1.
Poultry and Chickens, hens,
121ac lb live weight; large spring, 121s
Id: ROSTERS. &c; broilers, $2.75G3.25
doz; eggs, s6.75Q7 case.
Creamery products, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat,
261ac Id.
Hay and grain-Timothy, s11@12
ton: alfalfa, $1O@11 ton; oats, SIG
10.
Potatoes-4O65O soc cwt; cabbage, soc
6s1 cwt; cooking apples, 6O@S5c;
beets, coo; turnips, 6Oc.
Wheat Report.
Colfax, Wash-Firm. Bluestem,
e11hc. club. 5S1bc: red, 541bc.
Lewiston. Idaho.-Bluestem, 500
Gle; club, 55@57c; fax, &c.
Tacoma. - Unchanged. Bluestem,
75c; club, 72c; red, Csc.
Portland-Club, 72c; bluestem, 75c;
valley, 71@72c.
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Saturday Football Games.

Lewiston high school defeated Col
fax high school by the score Of to O..
California defeated Stanford in the
18th annual freshman game on Cali
fornia field by the score of 6 to 0.
In the biggest football surprise Seat
tie has seen in years Whitman tied
the University of Washington with the
score of 6 to g.
Outclassed, but fighting gamely for
every inch, the second team of the
University of Montana, at Missoula,
went down to defeat before the Spo-
kane high school at Spokane park by
the score of "a to 6.
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continued hard work for small wager
but supporting her husband as well.
He was quite willing to entertain her
with stories of the war, but these did
not seem to compensate for the added
burden she had unwittingly assumed
She insisted that Damon's children
should make some provision for MIN.
This led to misunderstanding ana
family quarrels. and they finally took
the old man to a farm in New Hamp-
shire, to which the young wife refused
to go.
No separation other than that de-
scribed was sought or desired. Damon
never ceased to crave his wife's COM
panionship; she, in turn, while unwlll-
ing to be a dependent upon the Damon
family, spared enough of her meager
earnings to keep him clothed. and m
other ways to provide for his comfort
In some way Damon got money to
make trip to Boston to visit some
friends, and from this outing he never
returned. He died on the journey,
which was probably too much for his
failing strength. but whether in going
to or coming from Boston is not clear.
After the death of her husband.
which In the circumstances cannot
have been a very keen bereavement
Mrs. Damon realized that she had
other duties than self-interest alone
suggested Her mother was then old
and poor and friendless. Esther took
her and cared for her to the end Of ner
life. To enable her to do this she
leased little farm near Reading, VT,
and worked it as we'll as she could
with the help of hired man.
After her mothers death she did not
feel equal to continuing this profitless
and unsatisfactory enterprise, and re-
turned to Plymouth Union to take up
her residence with an old resident Of
that place, Mrs. Snow, who had
house, but no income. In that house
she has lived for the past sixteen
years, and there she hopes and ex-
poets to remain for the rest Of her life.
During a period Of many years she
has been in receipt Of Federal pen
sion Of So per month, and this meager
provision had to suffice in large de-
gree for the needs of both old women.
The pension has lately been increased
to 1914 per month.
With the exception of slight deaf
ness. Mrs. Damon retains her faculties
remarkably.
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GRAND DUKE plsHoNoREp.
Car Vents DispIeasure Upon Cyril for
Recent MARRIAGE.

The Grand Duke Cyril has arrived
at Peterhof, having been summoned
from Germany to receive the full
weight of the imperial displeasure on
account of his marriage to the di-
vorced Grand Duchess Victoria of
Hesse, which occurred recently at
Munich, Bavaria. He will be deprived
of his rank as aide de camp to the
emperor, of his commission in the ar
my and other honors, and will be ex-
cluded from Russia.
Grand Duke Cyril will suffer more
heavily than the Grand Dukes Paul
and Michael Michaelovich, as he not
only defed the reiterated commands
of the emperor, but broke the canoni-
cal law in marrying a divorced woman
and his first cousin, and also because
the grand duke of Hesse is the en-
press brother.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
MINING NOTES.

Within few days another diamond
drill Will be in operation at Kendall,
ont. The Billiard Extension com
.-ny this week moved the machinery
- the ground and the drill is now set
NJ
EoSsland, 3. Cit is announced that
re lie Roi No. has obtained the con-
LII Of the management OF the lie Roi
lining company to extend the cross
c"t from the 1900 foot level of the LIE
a-ol into the Josie ground to prospect
he Josie at that depth.
August Paulson and E. H. Moffat Of
Wallace, AL Page of Wardner and l..
y. Steadman of Murray have been ap-
.olnted by Governor Gooding as dele
safes to represent Idaho at the Amer
lean Mining congress at Ell Paso, Tex,
november IA.
Mr.. Armstrong is working on a plan
TO erect concentration in the Bound
airy, B. c., district, to handle ores from
low grade properties. He says he now
has assurances of 200 tons per day
from a dozen or Is different proper
ties, and that he will shortly build a
100 ton concentration that can readily
be enlarged.
1t is practically assured that the
Federal Mining & Smelling company
will purchase the Morning mine at
Mullan, Idaho, from Peter Larson and
Thomas L. Greenough before the expi-
ration Of the option this month. At
100000 mining men believe the pur-
chase of the Morning will prove the
best investment made by the Federal
company in the Occur d'Alenes.
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RED FLAGS waved
GREAT CROWDS GATHERED LAST
SUNDAY In ST. PETERSBURG.
Were Driven Away by Cossacks With
out Resorting to Much Force-Large
Forces of Troops Held in Readiness
Pistol Shot Caused Panic at Fun
erai-Mourners Driven Away.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 16.-Red flag
demonstrations in the Nevsky Pros
pect Sunday afternoon drew out i'm
mense crowds of spectators, but
squadron of gendarmes and Cossacks
drove the demonstrators away without
resorting to force.
Large forces of troops were held in
readiness in the courtyards of the bar
racks and in the squares in various
parts of the city to deal with any dis
orders.
From the Nevsky Prospect band of
students and workmen carrying red
flags and chanting revolutionary
songs, marched across the river and
began an open air meeting in the
squares in front of the university.
While the speeches were in progress
the police again charged and dispersed
the crowds
The body of the late Prince Trou-
betskOy was conveyed to the Nocholai
station for removal to Moscow. A vast
multitude and Populations of students
followed the cortege. When the pro-
cession was nearing the station a
squadron of gendarmes appeared and
at the same moment a revolver shot
rang out in the crowd, causing
panic. The gendarmes drew their
swords and charged and dispersed the
crowd of mourners and spectators, who
departed quietly in all directions.
The students are exasperated over
the attacks by the police.
The serious feature of the situation
is that strike of printers has been
declared on political grounds, which is
to last for period of three days, but
it may be continued longer in case of
repressive measures or arrests.
The employees of several factories
are ready to follow the lead of the
printers, and the authorities are fully
alive to the danger that the strike may
become general one.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
SPORTING NOTES.

Eddie Santry was given the decision
over Eddie Kenny in six round bout
recently at Chicago. 3
W. 7. hipp of Spokane has pur-
chased lie Roi, the PAGER with a rec
ord OF 2:lO12, from N. X. West of La
Grande, Ore.
Russ Hall will probably manage
next seasons Seattle team, though no
Official announcement to that effect
has been made by the directors.
A. +. Wieseman of Spokane is plan
ming field trial for setter and pointer
dogs of eastern Washington which
have never taken part in such a meet.
In the $500 trot or pace at Kalis-
pell, Mont, Gold Dust, the local horse
driven by Kelly, won three straight
heats in spite of efforts to pocket
him.
Martin ]. Sheridan of the Irish
American Athletic club, all round
champion of America, beat all records
at throwing the discus recently, by
establishing a new worlds record of
1873 feet, 3 inches.
Beldame has been shipped to Ken
lucky and her future home will be at
August Belmont's nursery stud. Bel
dame retires close to a 100000 win
ner on the turf and one of the most
popular mares that ever raced in this
country.
After being apparently beaten,
Farmer Burns came back and Won the
last two falls and the match from
George Baptiste of st. Louis recently
at Des Moines, Iowa: By doing so he
settled the dispute regarding the mid
dleWeight championship of America.
Amid the frenZied plaudits of more
than $4,000 baseball enthusiasts, the
New York National league champions
won the worlds professional baseball
championship by defeating the Phila-
delphia American league team in the
fifth game of the post seasons series
by the score of to O. Of the four pre-
viOus games New York had won three
and Philadelphia one.
kid" Egan, formerly press agent
for Jim Jeffries, is arranging a match
between Battling Nelson and Jimmy
Gardner, to take place at Goldfields,
New, in the week before New Years
day Egan says that a bank at Gold
fields has taken up the proposed match
as business venture and will offer a
purse of $4,000, the sum of $4,000 be-
ing already deposited. Gardner has
|agreed to sign at 1873 pounds. Nelson
is now on the road with a theatrical
show and Egan is seeking to locate
him.
At the Spokane Amateur Athletic
club George Peterson, who is to meet
Honey Melody October 20, is diligent-
ly training for the contest. Since his
stay here he has increased the re-
|spect of the sporting fraternity for his
prowess as fighter There is nothing
of the dainty boxer about Peterson.
He is of the rugged, bulldog class, al
ways boring in and willing to take hard
blows for the chance of landing his
punch. For the last few days he has
been doing the customary road work
and boxing with local pugilists. He is
a few pounds over weight, and expects
to be at 145 pounds just at the right
moment.
The 20 round contest between Billy
Honey Melody of Boston and George
Peterson of San Francisco, has been
postponed one week and will not be
held until Friday, October 81, at Spo-
kane.
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fashion welcomed it as a new means
OF recreation. 1t made a national SEN
sation, favorable and unfavorable. Az
1t whirled along the country roads. like
a smoky monster from some subterra-
mean world of fire, horses leaped over
hedges and the terrified peasantry fed
to hooks Of safety. Compared with it. a
modern motor car is a thing of peace
and gentleness.
A dozen or so of them were run in
London as Omnibuses, but the high
fare-a shilling a ride-and the omin-
ons aspect OF the vehicle. scared away
passengers. Ladies disliked the steam
carriages because of the grease and
scot that soiled their dresses; and so.
little by little, they fell into disfavor.
The railway, with its closed coaches
cheaper rates, and smooth rails, drove
them from the roads into the muse
ums.
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SEVENTEEN ARE INJURED.
Spreading Rails Cause Missouri Pa
cific Train to Be Ditched.

Pueblo, Col, Oct. 17.-Seventeen
persons were injured. one perhaps IA
tally, by the wrecking of westbound
Missouri Pacific train No. at Kilburn,
60 miles east of Pueblo, at $50 o'clock
Monday morning. The accident was
caused by spreading rails. The last
three cars of the train-Pullman Sleep
er, tourist sleeper and a day coach
were overturned.
All the passengers were brought to
this city and those whose injuries are
severe were taken to hospitals here
for treatment.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
Great Britain for Treaty.

The London Observer says it I'M
derstands Great Britain has agreed to
maintain the treaty of 1855, which
guarantees the integrity of Scandina-
Via, SO far as Norway is concerned,
on condition that monarchy be estab-
hshed. The paper adds that the can
dldature of Prince Charles of Denmark
10 the Norwegian throne has been vir-
lually accepted by all parties.
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Chicago to Coast CheapIy.

OfhcIals of the Union Pacific, South
erh Pacific and Oregon Short Line at
recent conference agreed that here
alter the regular one way second class
passenger rate between Chicago and
al Facltic coast points shall be S33
1of lour months of every year, spring
'iu lall, September l to October 81,
anu from February l to April Z.
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Throws Himself Under Car.

Long Branch, Cal, Oct. 16.-Wor-
rying over his lapse of memory, which
he believed an indication of approach
ing insanity, Warren Henderson, an
inmate of the soldiers home at Saw
telle, threw himself in front of a
rapidly moving electric car at Six
teenth and American avenues, just be-
yond the city limits, and was instant
" killed.
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EVOLUTION OF The MOTOR CAR.

A Frenchman named Cugnot, an En-
glishman named Trevithick, and an
American named Oliver Evans had all
been experimenting with steam car
riages in the eighteenth century; and
in 1929 Sir James Anderson. British
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20
Storm Sweeps Berinu Sea.

a severe storm ragged in Boring sea
recently four days.
Ex-President Cleveland has survived
ms entire first cabinet, with the ex-
ep'ioh OF Mr.. Villas. who presided
.e' me convention which nominated
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CURE CANCER WITH RADIUM.
Five Persons Cured Of Disease at the
Flower Hospital.

New York.-That five persons have
been cured of cancer at the Flower
hospital by the use of radium coating
on celluloid rods inserted into the
diseased parts was the substance OF
paper read recently by DR.. William
H. Dieffenbach, United States delegate
to the International Medical congress
at The Hague, before the Homeopathic
medical society of the county of New
York.
In only one of six cases which he
treated, Dr. Dieffenbach said, his eff
forts met with defeat. In that case
the disease was far advanced.
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Nansen for Minister.

Christiania-The Politiken says it
learns that Fritzjof hansen, the Arctic
explorer. will be appointed Norwegian
minister at Washington.
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Nome, Alaska, is 800 miles west OF
Honolulu. Alaska has almost two and
a half times as much coast line as the
rest of the United States.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20

t"o earthquake shocks of unusual
90 0ence and affecting the whole island
Gently.
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nobleman, had one built which was
conspicuous success. 1t carried fifteen
passengers. and attained a speed of If
teen miles an hour. The steam car
riuge was such a vast improvement
upon the dandy horse and the veloci-
pede that capitalists began to build
them by the score. They were inva-
riably shaped like stage coaches, each
with a clumsy, putting smoking engine
fastened on behind. Nothing so fast
as the steam carriage had ever been
invented, and every idle gentleman Of
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20

Some people, when they own a dog
that would peacefully sleep around
the yard and make no trouble, tie IL
up, to insure that it will howl.
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This Is about all the attention some
men attract: When their procession
goes by, people inquire: Whose IT,
neral to-dayTs
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-10-20

The average tax for each French
man has risen from $1525 in 1879 to
more than s25 year at present.
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Flags at Half Mast.

Flags are halfmasted over the town
hall and other public buildings at
Bradford. No definite funeral arrange
ments have been made but the family
is understood to desire to have them
as simple as possible.
That the body of Sir Henry Irving
should find resting place in West
minister abbey appears to be very
general desire.