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Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
HEAVY CUSTOMS RECEIPTS.
Two Million Increase over July of
1904


The monthly statement of the ma
tional government receipts and expen-
ditures which will be issued by the
treasury department on August l, will
show the receipts for July, 1905, TO
have been approximately $49, 180, 900,
and the expenditures about $780,
0O0, leaving p deficit for the month of
$13, $4,000. The deficit last July was
SIT, 100000.
There were no extraordinary re-
ceipts or expenditures in July, 1904,
and none will appear in the figures for
the present month. This decrease of
about $3,500,000 in the deficit for this
month as compared with that for
July, 1904, is accounted for by the ma
terial increase in the receipts, partic-
ularly from customs, and a slight de-
crease in expenditures. The receipts
from customs alone will exceed those
for July last year by about $2,000,000.
Those from internal revenue sources
will probably exceed those of a year
ago by about 100000.
The receipts this month will in
clude a payment of about 100000
from the Southern Pacific Railway
company on account of it's 18th semi
annual note due the government on
August 1. There was a similar pay
ment from this company last July.
The treasury officials regard the show
ing this month with satisfaction and
point to the $2,OO9,OOO increase in
customs receipts as an indication of
large increase in business during
the remainder of the year.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

An action has been instituted by
New York states Attorney General,
Julius Mayet in the supreme court of
WNew York county, in the name of
the people of the state of New York
against the Equitable Life Assurance
society, its officers, directors and mem.
beers of the executive and finance COM
mittee. all of whom are named sin the
complaint. The complaint contains 81
sections and covers 43 pages of type
written matter; refers OF the Prick
committee report and the investigation
made by State Superintendent of Insur-
ance Hendrick s; it is based on infor-
nation and belief, and Attorney Gen.
eral Mayer in his prayer to the court
says that the action was brought on be
half of the people of the state of New
York In the public interest and pur-
suant to the provisions of the law.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
COST OF CHICAGO STRIKE.
Lasted 1o5 Days and Cost an Enor-
nous Sum.

nous Sum.
The Chicago strike lasted los days,
and 1920 men were out of employ
ment, says the Minneapolis Times.
The long fight and the large number
of men engaged in it dwarfed the orig
inal cause OF the trouble. The team
sters selected as an excuse for strik-
ing the troubles of IL garment work
ers, who had been out many weeks,
and who have long since abandoned
their strike.
Now that the strike is ended, the
bill receipted and paid, it may be ex-
amined with reference to obtaining an
idea of the cost of the three months
of business paralysis, smuggling and
bossism. 1t is not officially exact as
to some of the items, which must OF
course be estimated, but in dollars and
cents the enort to secure the rein
statement of II garment workers cost
about 100000. The city and coun-
ty are out S406,500 for extra police
protection and some damage suits
for loss Of property and life are sure
to follow. The unions paid, out $3.50,
600 in strike benefits and the strikers
lost 100000 in wages. The employees
in conducting the fight paid out 49,
600 900, and experts estimate the
shrinkage in trade, freight business,
in and out, at $6,000,000.
But this is only part of the cost.
In this statement there is nothing that
shows the amount of human suffer
ing, of starvation and of the efforts
of honest workingmen to find positions
away from Chicago. Nothing of saw
ings used during the period of enforc-
ed idleness. Nothing of the sufferings
of strong men, loyal to their unions,
forced to see dear ones want for even
necessaries.
But there is another story. Twenty
one men were killed and AIS were in
lured, many of them being manned
for life. This is the worst feature of
the strike.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

Olympia, Wash, Aug. 8. - Judge
John L. Ronald, a prominent democrat
OF Seattle, has been appointed a mem
Der OF the board of regents of the state
university, succeeding George H. King.
who was regent a recent appointee of
Governor Mcbride and whose name
was withdrawn during the legislature
by Govrnor Mead. 1t is customary for
one member of the board to be selected
from the minority political party. The
governor also appointed John 81.
Powell regent, to succeed himself.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
British Watching the Kaiser.

1t is understood that the British
government is closely watching the
scheme of the kaiser to make the
Baltic a closed sea. The forthcoming
visit of the Br4ish feet to the Baltic
is averred in London to mean that
Great Britain desires to convey a gen.
tie hint to the kaiser that the British
foreign office is fully cognizant of
what is going on, and that it intends
to check at the very outset anything
that might prove detrimental to Brit
aims power.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
CALLED ROCKEFELLER NAMES.
Gov. La FoIIette's Scoring of Standard
Oil Magnate.


Springfield, ILL.,, July 91.-"John D.
Rockefeller is the greatest criminal of
the age"
With these words Governor Robert
M. La Toilette of Wisconsin denounced
the richest man in the world in an adj
dress delivered Sunday afternoon at
the state fair grounds before the Illi-
nois Baptist Chautauqua. The declara-
ton was greeted with cheers.
Governor La Follettes address was
a stern arraignment Of corrupt polite
ians, state and national, and monopo-
lies that control the industrial and
commercial life of the United States
He scored the Armours and other
large packers.
Governor Deneen presented the
Wisconsin executive to the assem-
blage and occupied a seat on the plat
form. Later the two governors were
driven to Camp Lincoln.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
ACCIDENT ON SANTA FEE ROAD.
Four Lives Are Forfeited as Train
Jumps Track.

The California express on the To-
peka & Santa Fe road leaving Chi
cago at IL O'Clock, went into the ditch
at Lamont, village 30 miles south
west of there.
One man was taken from the wreck
crushed beyond recognition; three
others were so seriously injured that
their lives are despaired of, and about
20 others sustained slight injuries.
The man who was killed and the
three who are said to be fatally hurt
were riding in the smoking car and
the reclining chair car. Among the in.
jured is William McVey, a saloon
keeper of Joliet, ILL.,, one of whose
arms was crushed so badly that it
will have to be amputated.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
LAST STAGES OF STRIKE.
Chicago Men Applying for Their For
mer Jobs.

Applications for work by scores of
truck drivers marked what is believ-
ed to be one of the last stages of the
teamsters' strike. While few of the
men were told to report for duty next
Monday morning, there was no gen.
eral reinstatement of the strikers.
Many of the State street stores tried
making deliveries in the outlaying ter
ritory without police protection. The
plan generally was successful. AS an
evidence, however, of the precautions
still being taken against possible VIC
lence to the nonunion teamsters. AS
sistant Chief Schuettler reported 22O0
patrolmen still on duty.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
JAMES POPE CAPTURED AT LAST.
he Eluded Detectives and Express
AGENTS Over a Year.

After eluding private detectives and
express company secret service agents
Tor over year, James H. Pope. charg-
ed with the theft of package of mon
ey containing $4,000 at New Salem, Pa,
has been captured at Carlsbad, N. M.
Pope was agent of the Adams Express
company at New Salem, Pa, when the
package, which was consigned to a
New Salem bank, was lost on March
10, 1904, and he disappeared immedi-
ately afterward.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

That the 1905 wheat crop throughout
the Inland Empire promises to be the
greatest ever harvested since the coun-
try was first settled, due both to the
increased acreage of this cereal and to
an exceptionally large yield, is the con
sus of opinion of the grain dealers of
the country, arrived at after a careful
investigation of the situation.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
NEW ASSISTANT ATTY. GENERAL
w. A. Day Will Be Succeeded by M.
D. Purdy.

The resignation of Assistant Attor.
ney General William A. Day and the
appointment of Milton d. Purdy to
succeed him is announced by Attorney
General William H. Moody.
Mr.. Day resigns to become comp
troller of the Equitable Life Assur.
ance society.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

TERRIFIC THUNDER STORM AT
CONEY ISLAND, N. Y.
Lightning Killed Five People and
Injured Nne-One Killed at Grave
send Beach-Nearly so Frustrated
Various Points in the City Struck
by Lightning.

ANCW lOAhy July lJul q
thunderstorm of terrific intensity
which passed over New York Sunday
afternoon, five persons were struck
by lightning and instantly killed, and
nine were seriously injured at the
Parkway baths, Coney Island.
AT the same time one man was kill
ed and three others Frustrated at
Gravesend beach.
The Dead.
George Denwitta, Brooklyn.
Jacob Frankel, Manhattan.
Robert Wasch, Bronx borough.
Charles Bennerle, Brooklyn.
Frank Bennerle, Brooklyn.
Harry Ransweiler, Brooklyn.
The intense heat of the morning at
tracted a great multitude to the shore
resorts, and late in the afternoon when
the storm blew up from the westward
the park and beach was thronged with
bathers and spectators. The rain de-
scended in torrents and hundreds of
men, women and children sought shell
ter under the big bathhouse, which is
elevated above the sand on piles. The
lightning was incessant and terrific
thunderclaps shook the bathhouse to
the terror of the crowd huddled to-
gether beneath it.
A few minutes before o'clock a
bolt struck the Flagstaff and grounded
in the very thickest of the crowd
Nearly so persons were Frustrated and
| CT, cd f,,fA Oh
Those who had remained in the water
we're also panic stricken and ran in all
directions, not daring to enter the
bathhouse, which appeared to be on
fire.
Ambulances were summoned from
all the nearest hospitals, and on their
arrival five persons were found dead
and nine unconscious in the bath
house. The bodies of all were scorch-
ed by the electric fluid. The nine in
jured were removed to the hospital,
where it was said that some probably
would die. Many persons less serious
ly hurt were taken home by friends. A
slight fire in the bathhouse was quick
ly eXtinguished by the rain.
About the same time Henry Rams
weller was struck and killed while
sheltering under a tree at Gravesend
beach.
Lightning struck at various points
in the city. A store in Flushing ave-
nue.. Brooklyn, was burned, and a car
in Sixth avenue, Manhattan, was set
on fire, but the occupants escaped I'M
hurt. The electric light and the tele-
phone wires in Bellevue hospital were
struck several times, extinguishing all
lights and causing much alarm among
the patients.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
ROYALTY WILL TAKE A TRIP.
Prince and Princess Will Leave Lon
don October 1S.

1t has now been definitely arranged
for the prince and princess of Wales
to leave London for their tour in In
dia on Wednesday, October IS, and to
join H. M. S. Renown at Genoa two
days later. Their suite will leave
Portsmouth on the battleship on Oc-
tober 10, their royal highnesses being
accompanied on their departure from
London only by an equerry and the
princes private secretary.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04
TELEGRAPHERS
LOCKED OUT

A general lockout of all telegrapers
on the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern roads is threatened. Three
HUNDRED and fifty photographers employ
ed on the Wilmar, Fergus Falls and
Breckenridge divisions of the Great
Northern are already out.
Bny noon WEDNESDAY, it is believed,
every telegrapher on both systems who
is member of the order will be asked
to vacate his post. At least 1000 men
will be directly affected by the strike,
and general tieup of the business of
the two companies is predicted.
1t is stated that a great many of the
offices on the Montana division of the
Great Northern are already closed.
The telegraphers are preparing for a
struggle, and they claim they will fight
to the last ditch.
Unless telegSaphers employed on the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
agree to the new scales which have
been submitted by the two railroads a
general lockout will result.
Officials of the railroads are now
gonifg from one end of the road to the
other talking to the employees and ex-
planning to them the meaning of the
terms offered. On the trip westward
each employee will be asked to decide,
and no the return trip of the officials
his decision will be asked for.
If the telegrapher decides to stay
with the union the office will be closed
at once.
If he agrees to accept the terms of
the company the office will remain
open.
Later Report.
| Spokane, Aug. 2.-Railway tele-
graphers on the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern were ordered on
strike Tuesday night, and practically
every one of the operators here and in
the stations on the Spokane divisions
responded at 1885.
Advices indicate that the strike was
general over the lines from st. Paul to
the coast, and President Perham of the
Order of Railway telgraphers in St.
Paul, who ordered the strike, declared
that by noon Wednesday 80 per cent of
the operators will be out. From 1910
to 1000 telegraphers are involved. The
railway officials maintain that they
will be able to fill the places of most
of the men and that they will suffer
nothing more than a temporary incon-
venienoe. Pending the filling of the
places of the strikers they will try to
operate on the train right system,
which means running by. time card.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

The polite preacher may be very
popular, but he will never be profit
able.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

All gain that costs character is an
undesirable loss.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

The upright man always leans on
God.
Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-08-04

The self-willed are but weak-willed-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16
BUNKER HILL
DAY OBSERVED

BOSTON, June 17.-Boston and
vicinity today celebrated the 129th
anniversary of the battle of Junker
Hill with more than usual enthusi-
asm. Charlestown was the center
of the festivities. Thousands of
sightseers from all parts of the state
witnessed the great parade this after
noon. In line were scores of patriotic
and civic societies, companies of
state militia, regulars from Forts
Strong, Warren, Revere and Win
throp, sailors and marines from the
navy yard and jackies from the sew
eral warships now in the harbor The
marchers were greeted with cheers,
mingled with the blasts of horns and
the sounds of firearms on all sides. A
magnificent electrical parade under
the auspices of the Carnival associa-
ton concludes the celebration to-
night.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16

some private individuals.
The farms have soil adapted to
raising apples, pears, grapes, peaches,
berries, wheat, oats, potatoes, sugar
beets and alfalfa. The government
has a particular interest in this first
of its irrigation projects, and will
try to see that the best kind of set
tiers have a chance to take up the
lands.
No one can get more than so acres
of the irrigated land for a homestead
and the purchaser is required to stay
on the land and improve 1t. There
are some fees to pay. and 1t will take
year to make the farm bitches and
raise a crop. The proportionate cost
of irrigation is paid back by the
settler in 10 annual installments,
without interest. 1t is estimated that
the payment to the government In 10
years will be s20S0, and that the
farm, judging from the value of other
irrigated land, will then be worth at
least $4,000. If the settler at the end
of the 10 years can show that he has
reclaimed at least half of his entry
for agricultural purposes, the land
and water supply are his property
perpetually.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16

the fiat, dry areas about the Sinks
is the task to which the Oovssnmsnt
sagtDsoss -. themselves iva years
ago. oinss then 1877 miles Of canal
have been constructed. The main ca
nal taps the Truckee river a few
miles below Reno. 1t carries the
waters south to a natural reservoir
site, which the engineers discovered
on the lower Carson, some 80 miles
distant. Into this same reservoir the
waters of the Carson are also to be
diverted and stored. From this reser-
voir the waters of the Carson are also
to be diverted and stored. From this
reservoir il Is but a short distance
to the wide, fiat lands about the Car
son sink" and the way is down a
gentle incline, which lends itself to
the construction of the network of
distributing canals.
Elaborate drainage works are in
cluded in the general scheme, farm
boundaries have been laid out, and
the plats are ready for the formal
approval of the secretary of the in
terror. About 70 per cent of the irri-
gated land belongs to the govern
ment The remainder is in the hands
of the Central Pacific railroad and
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16
TRUCKER CARSON IRRIGATION
ENTERPRISE IS OPENED TODAY

| waters, outside of 10000 acres al
! ready under cultivation in and about
Reno, as a result of private irrigation
enterprises, comprise a total area -
about 100000 acres.
The Truckee-Carson project, which
is the official designation of the un-
dertsking, which has produced the
town of Hazen, and will soon be the
creator of some 1000 farms, is one of
IA principal projects" to which the
government has set it's hand. The
others are in various less advanced
stages of progress The problem in
volved in this Truckee-Carson pro-
ject was to find some way to save
the waters of two rivers of import
ance, the Carson and Truckee which
flow from the SHOWS of the lofty
Sierra Nevada mountains, on the
border Of Nevada and Cali
fornia, and plunge into a mysterious
pit on the borders of the desert. This
pit, in which the waters disappear
into the bowels of the earth, just
when they are most needed to irri-
gate the plain, is known as a sink
To divert the waters of these
rivers and lead them into canals, and
storage basins for distribution over
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16
BY JAMES J. HILL,
President of the Great Northern
Railroad.

Take the grain business going to
the seaboard from north of St. Louis
and as far west as grain grows in
the Platte valley. and it would not
be difficult to see it leave and seek
the sea by way of the St. Lawrence.
If the Georgian bay canal is built
AS l believe it will be-from
Georgian bay to the eastern portion
of Lake Huron, UP French river, up
the Divide to the Ottawa system of
lakes, it would involve the construc-
ton of 80 miles of canal with a
depth of 20 feet of water on the sill,
and 20 in the reaches. Only 80 miles
of actual canal to build, and for the
remainder of the distance existing
waters could be used with some
dredging in the Ottawa river The
distance from Chicago or Duluth to
Montreal is, think, Is miles shorter
than 1t is to Buffalo. going around
the state of Michigan
If they build that canal grain could
go from Chicago or from Duluth to
deep water at Montreal for 21a cents
a bushel. Refrigerator ships could
load direct from the packing houses
in Chicago and sail from there, draw
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16
o0e0s0ooaoeao:yoos

II was the old Erie canal which first
brought the great grain traffic of the
west through New York state and
cI'y' 1t was permitted to become
ANTICIPATED.
ne cities of New York and Ruf-
lalo nave most to lose by the con-
Suuction of the proposed Georgian
oav snip canal. Buffalo handles 49,
"oo'ooO bushels of grain annually
most of II bound for foreign exnort
and it is to eliminate the heavy ter.
mlhal and elevator sharges and the
cost or breaking cargo that this new
water route is chiefly desired The
cost or carrying from Buffalo to New
1ork is greater than the freight from
New York to Liverpool.
II is impossible to saw inst how
much export traffic New York citv
mas at stake, but it is known that
the region tributary to the Great
Lakes develops 100000 tons of
lreleht a year, a large portion OF
which is destined for export and ulti.
fhately finds its way out through the
hafbor of New York.
The Canadian promoters do moi
hesitate to claim that they would ge,
''ooo,000 tons for their new canal
at conservative estimate, durina
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16

state department from consular
agents and others confirm the pre-
diction that the canal is likely soon
to be authorized. The cost, which
seems trifing when compared with
projects like the Panama canal, is
even less than it was first supposed
and it has been estimate that the
5000, 900 so invested would earn by
tolls at least per cent, If no more
than 100000 tons of freight per
annum were ever carried.
The Canadian parliament is in SEES
sion; the Laurier ministry is in high
favor, and the men upon whose in
f1uence the prime minister relies are
strong in their belief that the country
would approve most cordially this
scheme for opening an all-Canadian
road from the west, and grasping a
huge share of the trade of the
states"
Canada is prosperous, but recently
has undergone general commercial
awakening, as an evidence of which
the Georgian bay canal is but one in
stance. American capital Is pouring
into the Dominion, even as are the
wheat farmers from the northwest
and all parts of the United States.
A new nation to the north is de-
veloping fast.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16


the largest going vessels, and
from these ports freight would move,
not only abroad, but up and down
the Atlantic seaboard; and, when the
Panama canal is completed, even to
San Francisco and the Pacific ports.
Lake vessel owners would welcome
a canal which would permit them to
escape during the winter months
when nacigat ton is closed. Three or
four months Of every year this great
fleet, representing millions of capital
invested, is forced to remain idle.
If they could get to the ocean they
would always find profitable employ
ment in the coastwise trade.
person not familiar with this
geography would undoubtedly be sur
prised to learn that the distance from
Chicago to Buffalo via the Great
Lakes is practically the same as the
distance from Chicago to Montreal
via the Michigan, Huron and Georgi-
an bay canal route. The former is
900 and the latter 905 miles. 1t is
estimated that "a hours will be suffi-
cient for a vessel to pass the 3S locks
of the canal and river, so the VOYAGE
would be made to the seaboard in
nearly as short a time as is now re-
quired to reach Buffalo.
All the reports received by the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-06-16

WASHINGTON, June 17.-Today
the third anniversary of the passage
by congress of the irrigation law, is
to be signalized by the formal open
ing of the first great government irri-
cation work The Nevada town of
Hazen, which owes its existence to
the government irrigation project. is
TO be the scene of the opening, and
dispatches received here by the Of
ficials of the reclamation bureau
state that the event is to be accom-
panied with interesting ceremony.
Water will be turned onto $4,000
acres of land which never has known
the taste of water. 1t is a rich, fiat
soil, needing only moiture to make 1t
the most productive in the world
Before another three-year period has
passed, 100000 additional acres will
be brought under water and made
to the same general system.
the government has spent
81 100000. The entire project con-
templates an expenditure of $1,000
600.
The irrigable lands within reach
Of the Truekee and Carson river