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The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18

When he stripped to take his medicine
(and the $500, he hoped) he sure was a
corker. Zip. he came at me to get the
money quick. I let him have his way
for a while, slipping past his hardest
swings, and when he placea his jaw
proper let him have it. Down he went IN
a heap. He came back at me with fine
spunk until landed my right on his ear
When he came out of 1T, and it was
long time before he got on earth again,
he asked:
What place is this?" And then, did
l fall off'n the barn?"
Next morning he came around to see
me to show that there wasn't any hard
feelings, and he invited me to look
through the mill where he worked. Just
before we got to the mill there had been
an accident, one of the workmen losing
part of a hand in some gears. My oppo-
nent of the night before explained to me
how the accident occurred
He was showing piece of steel in
there when he rested his hand like that
and the poor fellow put his own hand
in the same gears and he fell fainting in
my arms with two fingers gone. If he
reads this want him to know 1 am still
sorry for him. 1 left behind enough coin
to make him think he'd won that $500.
A French Professors Opinion of His
Voice.
When was over in Paris I was taken
around a great deal and one of the places
/ visited was the studio of a teacher of
music There was in the place battery
of the finest pianos you ever saw. Think
ing it was good chance to have my voice
tested, so that if l wanted to go into the
ballet when / got old, I'd be ready, l gave
the keys of one of the pianos right
hook and roared out few notes Of
song.
coll xy<@fn
sor-tenor, soprano, falsetto or what?"
L asked.
The professor clapped his hands over
his ears and when the widows stopped
rattling he said:
Don't call it. Monsieur Sullivan, don't
call it; let it continue to sleep"
French army officer told me that if
I'd stay In France he was sure that they
could place me in the service as in
structor of punching.
Your way of fighting would be great
at close quarters" said this French army
officer. when we meet the Germans
again our men would be trained for close
quarters fighting so that, poof, We dis
perse them like thate'
During my visit to France as the ma
tives couldn't very well understand my
kind of French and their kind of Eng
lish was as easy to understand as the
veil of a Baltimore oyster man, we put
in most of the time sizing each other up.
Most of the natives had an idea l was
chief of a tribe of Indians in America
and when / went into the ring, after
training on raw. meat. painted my face
and wore ear rings in my nose France
is a nice country. but the food they give
You is favored with hairoil and they have
an idea that grown up has the ap-
petite of a canary bird
He'd Save Two Good Men From Going
to the Bad.
While in Milwaukee not long ago /
learned that Frank Craig, the Harlem
Cooler" was singing hash in a restau-
rant there. George Dixon is stranded in
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have front that makes my belt
wider than it ought to be, but I'm get
ting that reduced every day. My neck is
the same size 1t was in my best day. My
arms are the same size and as hard, and
my legs tell the same pretty and COM
Portable story.
He and Lillian Russell.
Since / stored away Jack Mccormick at
Grand Rapids some time ago all the
smart Alecks have been explaining it as
an accident The Texan thinks 1t was al
most a fatal accident for him. But there
was just as much heft in the swipe that
made Mccormick forget the Alamo as
there was in the one that persuaded Joe
Goss in 1880 that / was a conner. Here's
the reports from the Knockers Associa-
ton:
Jeffries-I won't fight John l.. because
it would be a case of assault and battery
on my part.
F'itzsimmons-Sullivan is an odious old
man, and l haven't time from my the
atrical engagements
Corbett-( Mostly bad language, and a
swift run for shelter)
They are making it appear that 1 ought
to be in some old ladies' home, and they
don't want to make some money anyway.
They are three of kind. and they are
afraid to see my bluff as they call it,
with my pair of dukes. Amt they the
limit? Jeffries said the others day that
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shot back Then a totterins step, a
hard, short, shallow breathing, and Ew-
banks voice in horror:
my God. Good Lord! What's hap
pened to you? You're bleeding like a
pig.
:" Not now,' came with grateful sort
of sigh.
But you have been! What's done it?
Bushrangers.'
Down the road?'
stree-cock shots-left me-bleed to
death
1.-The weak voice failed and the bare
poor devil had tainted. But could not
be sure. and there I crouched down be-
low in the dark, at the half-shut iron
door, not less spellbound than impris-
oned. 1t was just as we'll, for Ewbank
wasn't gone minute.
Drink this, 1 heard him say, and,
when the other spoke again his voice
was stronger.
Now 1 begin to feel alive
Don't talk
1T does me good. You don't know
what it was-all those miles alone, ono
an hour at the outside. never thought
/ should come through. You must let
well. have another SIP
Thank you. 1 said bush
rangers; of course. there are no such
tbinEa nowadays
w hat were they, then?
"Rank thieves: the one that had the
PCT slots was the s~rH brute drove
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out of the bank at Coburg with a bull
let IN him..
/ knew it,
"Cs course you did, Bunny; so did I,
dow II in that strongroom; but old Ew-
bank didn't, and thought he was
never going to speak again
You're delirious,' he says at last.
Who in blazes do you think you are?
Tho new manager
The new managers in bed and
asleep upstairs!
".When did he arrive
This evening.
'.Calls himself Raf1es?
Yes
wen. I'm damnedr whispered the
real man. L thought it was just re-
venge, but now 1 see what it was. My
dear sir, the man upstairs is an i'm
postor-if he's upstairs still! He must
be one of the gang. He's going to rob
the bank-if he hasn't done so al
ready!'
"If he hasn't done so already NUT
tered Ewbank after him: If he's up
stairs still! BY God. II he is I'm sorry for
himr
"IIis tone was quiet enough. put about
the nastiest ever heard. tell you.
Bunny 1 was glad I'd brought that re-
volver. It looked as though 1t must be
mine against his muzzle to muzzle.
"Better have a look down here frst,' ,
said the new manager.
"sWhile he gets through his window?
No, no: he's not down here
Its easy to have a look
Bunny, If you ask me what was the
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keep. the keys at night. OF course /
thought he would take them with him
to his room; but no such thing; he had
a dodge worth two of that What il
was doesn't much matter, but no out
slider would have found those KEYS in a
month OF Sundays.
Il. of course, had them in a few sec
onds, and in a few more I was in the
strongroom itself / forgot to say that
the moon had risen and was letting quite
a lot of light into the bank. l had, how
ever, brought a bit of candle with me
from my room, and in the strongroom,
which was down some narrow stairs be-
hind the counter in the banking cham
Der. had no hesitation in lighting il.
There was no window down there, and
though / could no longer hear old Ew-
bank snoring / had not the slightest rea-
son TO anticipate disturbance from that
quarter. ] did think of locking myself in
while l was at work, but, thank goodness,
the iron door had no keyhole on the in
side.
well, there were heaps OF gold in the
safe but / only took what / needed and
could comfortably carry, not much more
than a couple of hundred altogether. Not
a note would I touch, and my native eau
fion came out also in the way / divided
the sovereigns between all my pockets
and packed them up so that / shouldn't
Well, you think me too cautious still,
but I was insanely cautious then. And so
it was that just as ! was ready to go,
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UN HEN I met the present King
a / Edward VII, then Prince of
"" Wales. in 1887 shook his flip
per and wished him we'll He
struck me as a sport of the
right sort. and we chinned one another
for two hours
I'm sorry. Mr. Sullivan" said the King
0hen Prince that your people ever left
Ireland. You would be credit to the
British empire as one Of her Majesty's
subjects. as you certainly are to the
American republic, where 1 have many
true friends"
MY people didn't want to leave Ire
land, your Highness." said I, but they
couldn't stay, not with their appetites."
You mean"
4 mean that if 1 lived in Ireland a
year there'd be another famine there. that
there isn't enough to feed the Sullivans
in that country; that's why so many of US
had 10 vamoose the ranch
You Irish-Americans-if that is the
right way TO say it-are a fine blend.
fine blend" said the Prince, smiling cor
daily. You have caused us over here
some trouble which we would have been
better off without"
Yes. your Highness, il would have
been money in your pockets TO have kept
the Irish just plain Irish. AS plain Irish
they don't want much. AS Americans
they want everything in sight"
And We chatted as hail fellows well
met. l boxed at a private exhibition be-
fore the Prince. there being about $50 per-
sons present, and he admitted that he'd
got his moneys worth
When He Didn't Punch King Edward.
After my return home TO Boston 1 was
telling q few friends about my meeting
with the Prince. Ii was along about st.
Patricks day time when Irishmen feel
like doing" everything English and one
OF my friends. fellow who believes that
some day England will be used as
browsing place for Irish goats, got very
much excited.
tonne widdin arrum's reach OF the bloody
tyrarr?" he asked.
Sure i was Dinny."
"Oh. melia murther, what a chanst.
And ye let it go by?"
Let what go by?"
The chanst TO land on him. And Won
Wild the pounch that could git square for
slNen hunored years Of starvation and
misery my, o my Yez ought to he
ashamed to tell it. II Old been in yer
place I'd given it till him so he'd be willin'
to make Oireland free whin he kim ont
av Ut. tn robbin' invader"
Ny private opinion of the King is that
If he had his way he'd give Ireland free
dom, for he is pretty good sort and
would rather make friends than enemies.
But he has 10 keep his job by doing what
he's told. IL he tried TO get. gay with
things he wouldn't last as long in the
King business as ham sandwich at a
Hebrew picnic. He's only a hired man.
John LIS Marvellous Constitution.
As L sit here and tally the past I can
not but wonder what crackerjack of q
constitution 1 must have had to stand IN
under what I've been through Talk
about crowded hours and strenuous Nv-
ing, why, I've got the best of them
skinned a mile. A few years ago when L
was sick in New York, to the hospital for
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what He Said 10 King Edward-Regret
of Boston Patriot He Didn't "Put
Out" the British Monarch-Threw
Away Clutches 10 Whip kfIrain-His
Marvellous COnstitutfon-Says He's
the Same as Ever, Except His
"Front'-TO a Correspondence School
for DIR. Osler.
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President Roosevelt was good enough
boxer to get into the swing with some OF
the best of them to-day, yet the Presl-
dent, good scrapper that he is, and all
honor to him for it, is older than l am-
Fitz is 43, nearly as old as 1 am, and he
has the gall to put 'em up. Jem Mace at
40 and Joe Goss at 43 did some good work.
And John l.. is going to butt in to the
Knockers Association, and he's going to
make the motion to adjourn. They can't
come too fast for me and they can't lose
yours truly. Say, this Osler must be
horse doctor when he talks of 40 being
the time to dope out Me and Lillian Rus
sell are going to make him raise his fig
ures or well send him to some corre-
spondence school to learn his lesson over
again.
Patsy Cardiff had about as hard a head
as any sport | ever lambasted. broke
nv left forearm on his head in the first
round of a meeting we had in Minneapo-
lis January Is, 1887. A little thing like
that didn't stop the fight and l finished
it, finishing Patsy and getting the deci-
sion, along with rs per cent of the re-
ceipts.
..I'm sorry yer arrum is broke, Jawn,'
said Patsy" but I'm glad it isn't my
nut
Before daylight my arm had puffed up
till it looked like Jumbos hind leg. The
arm was set by some doctors. but 1T con-
tinued to bother me, and two weeks later
upon my arrival in little old New York
showed the bum fin to DR.. Sayers. This
Dr. Sayers had courage, though you'd
never guess it by looking at him.
He said the arm was not set right
that where the hand turned down it
ought to turn up. Calling in some as
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
IDAHO SOUIRBs.

Boise will have two additional letter
carriers.
Idaho Falls reports heavy ship
ments of wool and hay to eastern mar
kets.
People OF St. Maries and Santa will
hold a joint celebration on the Fourth
of July.
William Campbell, an employee of
the Tiger-Poorman mine at Burke, fell
40 feet down the chute in the mine
recently and was severely injured.
Francis Steele, who spent the past
winter teaching school at Mount Ida
no and Clearwater. is believed to De
lost in the mountains in the Salmon
river country.
Ray Sanborn was shot and instantly
killed at Haley by Roy Cooper, bar
tender in Hailey's saloon. The men
quarreled over a dice game and the
shooting followed.
In a desperate quarrel at Sites over
Miss Maud Mcmillan, Ed w. Williams
was shot through the abdomen by H.
f. Schissler, and 10 minutes later he
died. Schissler, shot in the abdomen,
is badly wounded.
Judge Beatty of the federal court
has handed down an opinion holding
that timber purchased from the state
but still standing on state lands is SUBJ
ject to taxation.
Fred Bradley, executive head of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan. operating the
great silver-lead mines at Wardner,
has been made general manager of the
Federal Mining & Smelling company,
owning a group of properties in the
same district.
Nearly 440O acres Of public lands
will be offered for sale at Twin Falls
city July 5. Nearly all these lands
are included in the selection for pub
lie buildings and the proceeds of the
sale will be devoted to the erection of
a new capitol building at Boise.
Suit is brought in the United States
circuit court by the Federal Mining
& Smelling company against the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concen-
trating company to quiet title to the
Republican fraction claim with apex,
alleged to be worth s1.7OO,OOO, and
for an accounting for ores already TAX
en- from the property worth 5000, 900.
Judge Beatty of the Idaho supreme
court has refused to grant the in
junction asked for by a large number
of farmers on the Occur d'Alene river
against the mining companies of the
Occur d'Alene. The injunction was
sought on the ground, as alleged, that
the tailings from the mills were de-
posted on the lands of the plaintiffs
at high tide, poisoning the grass and
hay and causing great loss.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
KILLED In A WRECK
EIGHTEEN PERSONS DEAD and
MORE THAN 20 INJURED.
Passenger Train Crashed Into Double
Header Freight on Western Mary
land Railroad Near Patapsco-En-
gines Reduced to Scrap Iron-All
Fatalities Were Among Workmen.

Baltimore. June 1S.-Eighteen per-
sons are known to have been killed
and a score more injured in a train
wreck on the Western Maryland rail-
road a quarter of a mile from Patap-
SEQ, a small station between Westmin-
ster and Finksburg.
Passenger train No. westbound
speed when at the point named it
crashed into a double header freight
running east. All three of the en-
gines were reduced to scrap iron, two
express and baggage cars smashed
and number of the freight cars de-
molished.
The passenger coaches sustained lit
tie injury, and almost without excep-
ton their occupants escaped with
nothing worse than bad shaking up.
The fatalities occurred among the
crews Of the engines and workmen
employed by the railroads. The work
men were on their way to their homes
in small towns along the railroad to
spend Sunday. Not being regular pas
sengers they had boarded the baggage
car and engine. The baggage cars
were badly damaged and crews of all
three engines were killed outright.
The Dead.
Those known killed are:
George c. Covella OF Hagerstown,
engineer of passenger train.
John Grouse of Tarrytown, engineer
ger train.
Shoemaker of Hagerstown, fire
man.
White of Hagerstown, engineer
of one of the freight engines.
John Grouse of Tarrytown, tngineer
of one of the freight engines.
DER, conductor of freight train.
The following workmen:
James Johnson, Charles Kelly, Will
liam Sweeny, McCIelland Sweeny, Har.
ry Sweeny, Frank Sweeny, Charles
Miller, all of Thurmon; Guy Lynn, OF
Middlesburg; l.. d. Rite, Hagerstown
and T. c. Lynch, Middlesburg.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
japan VIII be Easy.

st. Petersburg. June 81. - Japan s
terms of peace, according to an inter-
view had by a correspondent of the
Novoe Vremya with a member of the
Japanese embassy at Vienna, will
prove 10 be more moderate than had
been expected, and will be based on
the propositions made in the japanese
note on the eve of hostilities, with the
addition of an indemnity covering the
cost of the war.
Jarsn will not insist on humilating
terms such as the cession of the island
of Sakhalin, the disarmament of Vlad-
ivostok, or the limitations of Russia s
naval rights in the Pacific, but will in
sist on guarantees against the renewal
of the war for half a century at least.
The diplomat is quoted as saying
that Japan wishes TO live on terms of
friendship with Russia in the future,
and is not disposed to make overharsh
stipulatiors.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
PAST WEEK OF WAR AND PEACE.
Big Battle Is Delayed Awaiting Peace
Negotiations.

The week has seen no important en-
gagements at the seat of war in Man
churia, where Oyama is gathering
large reinforcements from Japan, but
is apparently delaying his forward
movement in hope that further blood
shed may be ayerted by the adoption
OF an armistice as the first step in
peace negotiations. Interest in the
war situation has therefore centered
almost entirely in the efforts Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to bring the bellig-
erents together in a sincere effort to
establish peace.
The week has made it palmer that
Russia has been forced to recognize
the hopelessness of further fighting,
and that she is ready to end the war,
provided favorable terms can be OBJ
tanned from Japan. The cars gov
eminent has assented to the proposals
for a conference, which may be held
in this country after the signing Of a
truce by Generals Linevitch and Oya-
ma. The summer is likely to be well
advanced. however, before the two
powers will be able to agree to terms,
if, indeed, agreement be possible.
Russia, with her usual policy OF
brave bluff, is stoutly affirming that
peace is out of the question If Japan
demands an indemnity. Japan is sue
cessfully keeping sercet her terms of
peace, but it is believed that she will
demand the cession Of Port Arthur
and perhaps Vladivostock, with large
area of Manchuria, the virtual control
of Korea, and an indemnity to cover
her war expenses, amounting probably
to more than CJv,000,0OO.
There is thus ample room for fall
ure of the negotiations, when they
shall have at last begun. This will
not be for several weeks.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
Proved a Good Floater.

Weiser, Idaho, June 21.-Monday a
ternoon Ed Peak, a carpenter, said to
have been intoxicated, climed upon the
guard rail of the bridge across the
Snake river at this place and fell into
the swollen river. He was about 400
feet from the Idaho shore. In that
place the river is about 20 feet deep
and running like mill race. He at
tempted to reach the piers of the
bridge, but being unable to do so swan
down stream a short distance and then
turning on his back fioated down
stream for nearly mile and merged
on the Oregon side more dead than
alive. Peak fell into the river at the
same place where workman ON the
bridge was drowned last fall.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
Arrested Presidents Chauffeur.

Washington, June 81. 1t has devel-
oped that President Roosevelt's chat
feur was overhauled for speeding while
carrying the president, his son, Theo-
dore, and two of the latter's friends,
along the conduit road TO Grea Falls.
Two policemen, considering that the
chauffeur was going at speed greater
than that allowed by law, gave chase
and overhauled the automobile. When
they learned who the occupants were
they hastily withdrew after the presi-
dent had cautioned the Chauffeur to slow
up little.
The two policemen had persued the
automobile for half mile and ON cat
ching up with the it,charged the chat
feur with running at the rate of 20
miles an hour when the police reguls-
tions allow but 10 miles. The police
men notified the Chauffeur that he would
be required to appear in the police
court, when the president, who was in
the rear seat, inquired the reason. The
latter's identity becoming known, the
matter was dropped. When the police
Linen started after the automobile the
Chauffeur, it is thought, probably con-
cluded it was part of the program for
the protection of the president.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
Knows FrescoInu Secret.

The lost art Of antique frescoing. the
perfected secret of which was ever
guarded by Michael Angelo and was
thought to- have died with him, has
been discovered, and after 20 years of
study and pracuce is about to be re-
vealed in all its original beauty in the
interior of a church in Norwalk, Conn.
This will be the first church in 400
years to be entirely decorated in the
lost art of Angelo.
Macmillan f. Friederang is discov-
erer of the lost art. When searching
the archives of the vatican library he
found Angeles diary in which was set
forth the secret process Of antique
frescoing. After much study Friede-
rang has perfected himself in the lost
art and will practive it in the church
at Norwalk.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
Escort of Paul Jones, Body.

Rear Admiral Sigsbee's squadron,
which was detailed from the North
Atlantic fleet to bring the body of John
Paul Jones. the first admiral of the
American navy, to this country, start
ed on its voyage to France today. The
squadron, consisting of the flagship
Brooklyn and the cruisers Chatta-
nooga. Tacoma and Galveston, arrived
at the anchorage off Tompkinsville
two weeks ago and remained there
pending the arrangements by the
French authorities of the ceremonies
incident to the embarkation OF the
body of the admiral at the port of
Cherbourg. The squadron will proceed
from Cherbourg to Annapolis, where
the final interment will take place.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-06-24
MUTINY ON sLAV SHIPS.
Crews Displayed cowardice When En-
emYs Presence Was Known.

Crews Displayed cowardice When En-
emy's Presence Was Known.
Many tales of mutiny during the
battle Of the Sea of Japan on the part
of the seamen of Russian ships are
told with other incidents of the battle
in Japanese newspapers received re-
Gently at Victoria, B. c., by the steam
er Athenian.
Two gun crews on the Dimitrl Don
skoi, which had been torpedoed at
night, mutinied when the presence Of
the enemy was suspected, and were
only kept at their spiritless task under
threats of being shot down. A petty
officer of the Donskoi said the atti-
tude of many on that vessel under fire
was cowardly in the extreme. and
when the facts were known officially
many prisoners now in Japan would
not seek to return to Russia at the
end of the war.