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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1905-10-20

all Deing present.
Bills allowed:
NJ G Markham sup ferry k'per : Is
Geo Niles road work dist SO 100
Paul Anderson 236 80 !
T S Campbell /" 345
II Halvorson ferry keeper La
clede 80 rs
Laclede Lbr Co road sup 63 10
G Heaney road work l3l 25
CGray I" 1853 25 |
Post Falls Mile Co road sup. 81 25
/" I" 4
l. Markham road work 100
Iner johnson :. 100
Jas A Foster deputy recorder 205
d T. Dandy " $50
Il Z Egbers sal and expenses 39l 35
j w Hart deputy sheriff $50
Jos Fisher sal and expenses PIT 25 |
WIN Ashley, Jr. blue prints 80
II Nj WarS St Maries bridge 393 SO
TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 1905.
Bills allowed:
Edgar Sheffield copyist 205
w c Quarles $50
Il r Whitla county attorney $50
Edwin Doust board'g prisoners 5S4 so
+ l. Coon work in recorders
x office aud expenses 239 65
d A Suter keeper poor farm l37 so
Geo H Ross sal and expenses 3SS 25
w Ii EdelbIute 80 264 35
Thos Braun witness jus court ii
/ K r. Whitla fling fees U 5 c'rt Is
T l. Quarles salary 500
K p Fulton witness jus court 50
A Christensen sal aud exp 2S4 20
G 0 Dart I" 24S 40
T M Connelly witne4s jus c'rt DO
A ] Kent justice fees l6
Il Nc Crary bridge work dist IS 3
Ed Johnston road g. 80
j A Boldly road work 46
! VIM Fitzgerald ). IL
| White Pine Lbr Co lmbr for r'd II
Wyman Hoagland road work l6
J o Housekeeper wlness jus c'rt
John Sabin salary coroner ll3 80
Il A Slater justice juror
Josephine Riley witn's jus c'rt 25
w A Hart rent OF offices 81
EN- NoSle road work o
A J Kent justice fee So
Geo Mathews constable fee II 90
VIM Paist justice juror 2
Z L Mutt justice fee SO
Earl Walters 3
r A Mcpherson justice juror 2 q
FFHull constable fees 80 81
John Dooley witness probate ct 10 g
Catherine Lawrence '' :" +" 10 IL
A v Chamberlin justice fee 90 81
j NJ Oritfith road work IA 8
w X Pettet road overseer disl0 90 81
: Edwin Doust salary 500
S II G Ferbrache salary ferrymn $50
= II Farrell supplies for road 8 o.
III Kellner janitor 60
+ NJ White carpenter work 81
= Warren Flint sal and exp 92l 9
Louis Offer coroner juror 22
r Goodwin road work
O G Edwards dist 40 35
e Humbd Lbr Co. lumber 12 3
e Jos Poirier labor and supplies IL 2
e Tull s. Gibbs carpet for judges
= room IA 9
r IRWIN Hodson Co sup to surt. 10
n Culp Bros
). Occur d'Alene Livery Co livery
S Z Beggs Co sup to courthouse o.
Jno Busby medical atten CO chg 40
Jas Jones nursing CO charge Al
Y S F Pollok sup CO charge 10
& l A Durfee witness jus court
is Geo Russell justice juror z
T E Hedal !" 2
Or L A Kenrud
ne p II Moran constable fees 26
r. Wilkinson justice juror 2
h Asheim .
Chris Howe road work ~
Ed Hamshar :, 81
Is Fred Leblanc +" 80
~ Frank Lillja I" 80
III, Dan Golden " 80
les a A Merritt deputy sheriff 25O
OF j p Fallun corOner's Juror ?
er, Chaw g. Rorflen SilpDlips 9
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Commissioners Proceedings

Fourth Quarterly Session.
MONDAY, Oct. 8, 1905.
The board met pursuant to law at
10 o'clock a. III. the commissioners.
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liner After he had clicked off the news
to the city he trained his glass on the YES
sci and let the unframed observer look
The latter could see nothing for half an
hour; even then the vessel was just misty
blotch on the horizon. When he handed
the glass back to the operator the latter
read her code signals correctly. So much
for the trained eye.
These towers give full and somewhat
disquieting view Of the whole beach OBJ
served from that height it Ia the veriest
little sandbar. Every rise Of the sr RI seems
about to sweep over il and carry it away
tower. cottages, lighthouse and ALL At
every blast Of the fresh breeze from of
the Atlantic. the tower bends and sways.
and a gust Of sand carried up all that dis
lance by the eddies, rattles on the win
dows.
The operator notices that the unframed
observer Is looking a little serious and
seasick, and smiles.
Wait until we get real gale down here.
he says Then you've got something to
be scared about -.-
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Manufacture OF Surgical Dressings.

From he NIWdukes Sentinel
Perhaps no variety OF business has made
such strides In the last ten years as the man
ufacture OF surgical dressings. said Charles
Edwin Wilson. who representa- a corporation
devoted exclusively TO the manufacture OF
surgical dressings 1t Is only within A
decade that the art Of surgery has taken its
advanced place In tho world OF science. and
the dressings used. IN that time, have ad-
vanced from the GUIDE and often unsantary
kind TO the chemically pure sntiseptic dress
lnPs OF to-day
An idea Of the magnitude TO which the
business has grown may be gained from
the fact that there are four factories in the
country devoted TO the manufacture OF
surgical dressings. Tho company which
represent has thirty-ave buildings in rs
plant. with floor area Of $4,000 square feet
or about eleven acres More than .0Od
operatives are constantly employed at the
plant
Last wear IN the item Of surgical gauze
alone our company manufactured 49, 900 .OO1
yards. We manufactured 100000 pounds
Of absorbent cotton and 2O.nOO. 900 porous
pasters which, while they cannot properly
be called surgical dressings are u1anufact-
ured by those who make these goods Ths
rhw cotton fibre consumed in Qur factory
alone during the year amounted 20 . little
more than. s. 900 900 pounds
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saeaked back and peeked into the cabin.
He'd gone TO sleep with the warmth, just
The way thought he would. Quiet as q
mouse, I cast Off, got up the sail and away
we went. BY the time the motion OF the
boat woke him up we were out in the chan
mel. with good breeze, me steering by the
compass and the Fire Island light He
swore awful and was for hammering my
face in.
Look here, mate says I, If ! take my
hand of this tiller to fight back, over we
go. and the water is awful cold
We'll after a while he saw the joke and
laughed | landed him oil right because
there was little cove on the shore that was
free from ice, but in the morning it was
frozen tight. 1t wasn't tight enough for
scooters at Lone Point. and he had to stay
here three days
II cost me nearly $40 TO send kilograms
10 his patients and 20 other doctors, besides
his fee, which was a whopper, The way he
spoke Of me in some of those kilograms
mat had to send myself was something
scandalous"
Another husband and father, trying the
passage at about the same time OF the year
was caught in the ice mile Off shore. II
was mushy ice and he had TO stay there.
Three days he was tied up. His anxious
wife assured herself Of his safety by climb
ing the telegraph tower and taking OBJ
servatious twice every day with the big
marine glass.
Learning their lesson by experience.
the wives OF Fire Island always lay In their
supply Of Christmas presents and Christmas
tree ornaments In the early autumn, 81 noe
children won't accept excuses for the alb
sence Of such an excellent Joe traveller
a. Santa Claus. There were Christmas trees
in all the homes this year. and 10 vary things
some Of the housewives made infrequent
visits and traded Christmas tree orna-
ments from last years stock.
These same children are an added bless
ing in that they give their mothers some
thing TO do besides homework in the long
the mothers have TO be the school teachers
for their own children. They hold regular
sessions with holiday and Saturday re-
cesses.
Hungry as they get for fresh meat, that
il said TO be nothing % the hunger that
sometimes comes over certain members
Of the colony for news from the outside
world. As has been said, the mails are
few and far between. on an average they I
get through once a month in the dead Of I
winter There nave been times. how
ever when hey haven't had mril for
nearly two months. Not q newspaper, j
not a word from home
II they know OF any great event that is .
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vile or Deadwood in the zippy and Isolated
carly days
1t is all right. though, and It can be all
| borne until they have 10 have the doctor.
Fortunately, they are a healthy lot. but nov
and then the strongest people will get a
touch Of rheumatism or something the mat
ter with their insides which mothers med
ioine chest won't cure. Then comes a
problem which taxes human ingenuity.
Through the approach at Quogue, as has
been explained before. connection can
always be established though at the cost
Of frightfully hard trip. II isn't 20 much
the question of getting doctor there "a Of
persuadng him TO drop all his other prac-
tice for two or three days and cajoiing him
into taking trip which il like a dash to
tho pole for hardship and all TO see one
patient.
Jack Woodwork, the head postal oper-
ator lay on his back with rheumatism for
three weeks last year before they could get
a doctor through. Three or four years ago
Arthur Heruc the other man in the postal
tower. wanted a doctor for his sick wife
and wanted him in a hurry, He solved the
problem by kidnapping the medicine man.
It all happened at that time Of the year
when Great South Bay is not quite frozen
over, when there is a fringe Of ice on both
shores and many floating foes in the bay
and when a passage is dangerous, beset as
1t is with danger OF being caught and frozen
up for all winter or Of being carried out to
sea by shifting foe.
Herne made the passage from Fire Island
to the mainland-as Long Island is called
in those parts in little sloop. He found
his doctor, and painted an eloquent picture
OF suffering At last the doctor agreed to
take the risk mindful Of the Oath of Escu-
apius.
But when we got down to my boat.
says Arthur Herne. the blooming doctor
looked at it and said look here, NV
man, I'm willing 10 risk my life TO do my
duty. but Pm no fool. II you're going 10
take me across there tonight you We got
10 find a bigger and stronger boat than that
little oocl;leshell.
We'll l was up against It for fair.
shore that would risk trying IL that night.
Besides. nearly every boat was sewed up
tight in the ice SO / says to the doctor:
Well, this is small boat, for fair.
tell you what you do. You wait down
In the cabin where It's warm and III 20 out
and see what can do about finding another
boat
Thanks Believe | will go down in the
cabin says he.
$50 I wen. Of and made bluT ct hunt
ing for another boat. After while
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nit fishermen. who have burrowed out the
foundations for hut close 10 the point
In summer there is great deal doing
along this strip OF sand. The bay j. flecked
with pleasure craft There l. a blk hotel,
close to the light house and it Is itl.ed with
summer girls and summer men. This is
the same hotel, by the way which the Gov
eminent used as a cholera quarantine hos
pital in the days Of the Clam diggers' war. 20
A liue OF steamboats, makes regular two
hour trips from Bayshore or Babylon, the
nearest points on the Long Island shore.
1t is time Of p,enty-fresh meat, fresh
fruit and vegetables, daily newspapers
and regular mails.
Whom autumn brings the stampede back
to town there is still good deal Of traffick-
ing back and forth. Tho life savers have
their own little sloops, which can sail across
the % in an hour or so, and crab
fishermen have "a way OF dropping in With
uewspapcr7 and mail bags
The Blockade begins IN December. when
the icepack forms The bay at this point
never freezes clear ncross That danger
Gus millrace 81 a channel keeps the passage
free, but the ice drifts and packs along he
nay edge Of the island
On the Long Island shore they have their
way Of beating this game by the scooter,
craft which Is an iceboat on ice and a
water boat In wafer Even then. the only
way out would be thirty mile walk down
10 Quogue. where the sand spit comes very
close to shore.
BIT thirty miles over shifting sands, with
a whipping gale trying to low the voyager
of into tho bay, is Ike a sixty mile tramp on
the level earth So when -soooting- ia of
at Lone Point. the Fire Island colony sub
mits and regards itself rs frozen IN. When
that winter blockade sets in il leaves about
six families and a dozen single men on the
island shut in 20 live by their own devices
and TO subsist on preserved foods for
winter period Of at least three months
There are seven surfmen, two OF them
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FIRE ISLANDS
LONE COLONY
Shut In All Winter by the Frozen Deep, Yet With
Civilization in Sight.

When the citizen OF New York reads
IN his morning paper that tins Transatlantic
steamer or that tramp freighter ha7 been
sighted Of Fire Island he thinks Of Fire
Island only az the place whore they sight
vessels. II he were pressed to tax his mem
DRY further, he might be able TO add that
Is place where they have a lighthouse
ana life saving station. 1t ia only when
vessel Is wrecked there in midwinter.
as was the tramp freighter Drumel1ier
me other day, that he hears OF the winter
isolation Of the queer little colony which
exists there that the people Of New York
may know when the ships come in.
hardly forty miles from the Brooklyn
bndge by air line, and not more than fifty
n,y The ordinary routes of travel. the Fire
island colony lives from the first Of De-
cemoerto the middle OF March in a condition
almost as Isolated as that Of the polar OK
plorer shut in by icy seas. The colony gets
d newspaper now and then; once in a while
man Is carried through. somehow other
"lSe II il shut of completely for three
months from that world Of rapid transit
ana regular mails and quick communica-
non which it can see on any olea~ morn
ing from its own back yard
fire Island, so called. isn't an island at all.
It's Official title IL Firs leland Beach. It
Is really 4O-mile strip Of sand. not half
tlie across in its widest part. which rises
al southampton, on the Long Island shore.
ana stretches out 10 form one fringe Of
GREAT South Bay. The Fire Island colony.
as II Is called. lives on the seaward point
OF THIS sandspit, close up to Fire Island
met that rough and dangerous bit Of
WAFER which connects the sea with Great
south Bay Across the inlet Is Oak Island
'eaeh' with its own life saving station
me tlre Island colony is composed Of
.ne keepers Of the lighthouse, the life saving
Sne"' the two operators Of the Postal and
estern Union telegraph towers, and in
eilehtal families. Besides these tho only
permanent inhabitants are two hardy her
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with families; there are four keepers. two
Of them family men, at the lighthouse,
and there are two operators at each Of the
telegraph towers. These four operators
are all married although one Of them keeps
his family on the mainland during the
winter, while his children 60 to school.
The observer from New York would sup
pose that this isolation would draw the
families close together and that there would
be all kinds Of devices to while away the
Time pleasantly in company. The fact is,
that the women Of the colony seldom visit
one another
Il have been here four years. said one OF
them last summer, "and in all that time
have never so much as spoken TO two Of the
women here Why? Oh, no particular
reason We just never happened to get
around TO calling on each other"
There are none Of the ordinary activities
which bring women together, anyway,
There are no churches and there are no
schools
Regular heather we are" said another
woman. Though + for one, don't see just
how we could have a church over here,
for no two of the women are Of the same
denomination. There are Catholics and
Epscopalans ana Unitarians and Baptists
I'd like to know how you could get further
apart on religion.
NO, / don't see how we could have a
church; if we did, there would be sewing
circles and things that would bring the
women together. / suppose We are a little
ofish'
She went on 10 make mention ofsone pair
Of young girls, daughters Of a widower
of the island who lived to II and IS
years respectively before they ever saw a
tall building, trolley car or the Brooklyn
Bridge. They spent their early childhood
in Babylon. on tho Long Island shore, and
Babylon people are hcmestayers, so they
never visited even Long Island City or
Jamaica before their father moved to Fire
Island Last summer. however, they made
a trip TO Harlem, and there gazed on tall
buildings 10 their hearts delight.
Housekeeping on the island in winter is
like housekeeping in the Klondke. minus
the fresh game. Salt meat mostly ham
and bacon-are the staples. Then they
have beans and bread and canned stun.
But you get sick Of canned stuff soonest
complained one good housewife. Their
only fresh meat is chicken. for most Of the
houses have a hen roost in the backyard.
'sessrs ~ COW in the settlement, so the
,s.sssSzS - the children's diet, as it used
- r. esElo.- mining camps Of the Far West,
ssss 80 x is now in Alaska. is condensed
e4ts y zee domestic details win seem
9'SisSSfS people who have lived at Lead
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pres sed by il as n provision OF security
for the lives Of the children against fire
and panic. Most of the schools claimed
the practice Of this important drill at regu-
lar times
The grades and courses Of secular studies
in the parochial schools are made TO con-
form az nearly as possible to those of the
primary and grammer departments OF the
public schools About one-half hour each
day Is devoted TO religious instruction.
Many of the schools have well established
and thoroughly equipped kindergartens,
from which excellent results are obtained,
according TO the superintendent
large proportion Of the schools take
the regents examination in arithmetic,
geography, grammar and spelling also the
examinations for entrance to the Normal
College and High School. proposition 10
establish an additional grade for the teach
ing of algebra, geometry, German, Latin
and stenography ia now under consideration
by the parochial school board.
OF the 800 teachers in Manhattan and The
Bronx vast majority are nuns or Christian
Brothers The lay teachers number about
go and they are mostly young women.
manual for their guidance has been issued
by tne tdtnOUC SCHOOL boaTHi WHICH pre-
scribes a. definitely as possible The amount
of work TO be accomplished In the various
grades Teachers must have certificates
from the school board before they can
begin work No teacher may inhct cor
pora punishment.
Every case in which such punishment
appears necessary" say the rules OF the
board should be referred TO the principal.
who will dispose Of it only after long, calm
and serious consideration
Much attention is given to the study Of
music, physical culture. drawing and pen.
manship In ilany Of the schools special
instructors are employed to teach these
branches
Il listened TO an excellent exhibition Of
musical training by the pupils Of ST. Pat
rick's School and Our Lady Of Loretto
school both for Italian children" says
Father Thornton IN his last report
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going TO happen they can send a simple
inquiry over the telegraph wire and get a
laconic response. Charaoteristcaly. nine
tenths Of such inquiries follow this stereo-
typed form:
How did the fight come out?"
When the simple answer comes back
Britt wins or Jeffries in the eighth, -
it is passed all along the Government tele-
phone to the life saving stations up and
/ down the beach.
| But most OF the great news OF the world
comes without previous announcement.
| 1t is Of record that these Fire Islanders were
among the latest OF English speaking
people TO know Of Queen Notoria's death
| and the outbreak Of the Oriental war, both
these great events having happened In the
dead Of winter.
The island telephone. by the way, ia a
great foe to ennui 1t is all on one circuit,
with separate calls. one long for Fire Island
station, one long two short for Oak Island
station. and the like When any one ia
talking any ono else on the line can listen
to tho conversation by simply taking down
the receiver and applying it 10 his ear
In some circles Of society this would be
regarded as discourteous but in place
where 30 little happens as on Fire Islam d
beach. the privilege Of listening at the
phone is taken as a matter Of course
Everything said over that telephone is
common property. The circuit COM
prises all the life saving stations which
stretch along the beach from Fire Island TO
Quogue. the tel egraph towers and the
lighthouse.
word about the telegraph towers.
They are maintained by the two rival tele-
graph companies for the sole purpose Of
reporting vessels They rise ninety feet
straight in the air. and are topped by a
little room with big glass windows and
narrow, wind guarded chutes on all sides
for the accommodation OF six foot tele-
scope. The operators are furnished by
wire with a daily list OF all vessels due
together with descriptions Of their appear
ance.
When the vessel is within sighting dis
lance Of the island. she is supposed by :
night to burn the coiored fires which indi- /
cate her line, and by day 70 hoist the code /
flags which together with the flag OF her |
nation. form the index to her name in the |
Marine Register As a matter Of fact. the /
observer in the telegraph tower in nine /
cases out % ten can make an almost certain /
Identification as soon az her masts and /
tunnels are visible to his glass above the !
horizon.
AZ that stage OF the game the unframed .
eve could not see her at all! The writer :
stood in the Western Union tower with the /
operator at the time he Identified /
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200. -Four other schools are given up TO
Italian children. These Eve schools have
a total registration of nearly 5000. and
siyty-niue teachers are employed in them.
st. Stanislaus's in Seventh street, il an
evening school for Polish children Il is
held in the basement OF the church. In
the school Of our Lady OF Guadaloupe, ia
West Fourteenth street. the pupils are
mostly Spanishand Cuban
There is one Catholic high school in the
city. IL is supported by st. Gabrieis
parish OF which Archbishop Farley was
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for examination for admission 10 the New
York Training School for Teachers.
The paroohia school system is governed
by board of which Mgr Mooney is presi-
dent. There are two superintendent, the
Rev. Thomas A. Thornton and the Rev.
Joseph F. Smith. Between them they
make two personal visits 10 all the schools
every year examining the pupils and
noting in general the manner in which the
classes are conducted In schools OF more
than 900 pupils the examinations are con-
tinued for Ave or six days. The marks given
for Various studies are excellent very good
good, fair and failure. The examinations
are made as thorough as possible and in
nearly every case a tabulated report Of
the results obtained Is sent to the rector Of
the school
In his last report 70 the school board
Father Thornton said:
Il made no regular inspection in regard
10 the sanitary regulations OF the school
buildings. But l observed, in passing
from room 10 room, n general regard for
cleanliness in the halls and starways
Some clnssrooms were overventilated.
In nearly all class rooms "A scrupulous
cleanliness prevailed in regard 10 the floor
furniture and books This cleanliness was
displayed also in the dress and person Of
the pupils especially the girls.
Everywhere ] found the children well
supplied with books and all necessary school
utensils This is proof OF the attention
of the reverend rectors and principals to
their precious charge.
THE general discipline maintained in all
tho schools examined was excellent The
mental attention of the children was splen-
did. The graceful politeness and respect
manifested for the examiner by pupils
and teachers, together with the kind and
courteous reception extended to him by
the reverend rectors OF the schools, made
the hard work Of the examinations real
pleasure.
only one school Of the thIrty-six ex-
amined gave an exhibition fire drill-St.
Pauls, in listh street was much i'm