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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
BODIES BLOWN FULL OF GLASS.
Chinese Have Narrow Escape From
Death in Dynamite Explosion.

SHiHCSC 0dVC NdTTOW ESSdPC TIS"i
Death in Dynamite Explosion.
Berkeley, Cal.-One man was killed
and a dozen seriously injured in an
explosion which destroyed the nitro
glycerine house of the Judson Dyna'
mite & Powder company at Point Isa-
bella Wednesday afternoon. Edward
Edris, foreman of the nitro-glycerine
department, lost his life. He was
blown into atoms with the building
where he worked.
The injured, who will all survive,
are Chinese who were employed in the
mixing room, 200 feet from the nitro
glycerine plant. They were stunned
by the force of the explosion, bruised
by being thrown against walls, and
suffered intensely from the myriad
slivers of glass blown into their bodies
when the windows of the room where
they worked were shattered. Their
room resembled slaughter house, so
badly did they bleed from the wounds
caused by glass.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
SENSATIONAL CHARGES
AGAINST M|Ll|0NA|RES
Wife Of a Milwaukee Automobile Man.
ufacturer Lays Claim to Large For
tune and Tells Strange Story.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Mrs. Frank G.
Curtis, wife of Milwaukee automo.
bile dealer, in substantiation of a
claim to share in a $1,5OO,O00 estate,
tells strange story, in which con.
spiracy figures, involving several multi
millionaires. She claims that her "a
ther, John Murphy, who was poor
prospector in Nevada in the early COS,
amassed fortune and was later
killed from ambush near Carson City.
Some time before his death he had
deserted his wife and two daughters,
leaving them in Chicago. They were
ignorant of the fact that he died pos
sessed Of considerable property until
it was revealed to them by papers
found in strong box in possession Of
a former body guard of Murphy.
Among the papers, it is said, is will
bequeathing the estate to the two
daughters. It is charged that a num-
Der of interested parties, some OF
whom are known nationally, have
kept the facts from becoming public.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
RAILWAYS MUST
MAKE ANSWER
Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion Has Ordered an
Investigation.
Collision With Private Lines Charged
and Roads Will be Required to Make
Answer by September 5.

Washington.-The interstate COM
merce commission on it's own initia-
tive as result of complaints against
private car lines, on Tuesday unex-
pectedly began an investigation of the
relations of railroad and refrigerator
lines, both of which. it is charged, are
violating the act regulating interstate
commerce in several specified particu-
lars. The complaint is directed
against the Armour car line, the Am.
erican Refrigerator Transportation
company, the Santa Fe Refrigerator
Despatch and eleven railroads, in
Guiding the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe and the Southern Pacific.
The railroads and refrigerator lines
are made respondents in proceedings
which require that specific answer to
allegations be made to the interstate
commerce commission by September
5. 1t is charged that by way of rebates
or other devices, the refrigerator lines
are acting for the railroads as author
lied agents, and the railroads, acting
through the refrigerator lines, are col
lecting and receiving for the refrig.
GRAFTON Of fruit and vegetables lower
rates for some shippers than they are
contemporaneously receiving for SIM
liar service rendered to other shippers.
This Is held to be in violation of Sec
tons and of the act to regulate in
terstate commerce.
Another charge is that failure and
neglect to publish at shipping sta
lions and file with the interstate COM
merce commission the rates and
charges imposed for the refrigeration
of fruits and vegetables constitutes a
violation of section 6 of the interstate
commerce act.
The commission alleges further that
the charges published jointly by the
refrigerator lines and the railroads for
the refrigeration of fruits in certain
| specified territories are unreasonable
and unjust and in violation of section
l. The territories described include
Indian Territory, Texas, California
and Kansas.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
Killed In Rock Slide.

Allentown, PA mass Of lime
stone weighing thousands of tons slid
from a side of the quarry Of mill A Of
the Lehigh Portland Cement company
at Ormond at noon Wednesday just
five minutes before time to quit work.
Twenty.seven men we're at work in
the quarry. Only nine of the men got
awav safe, four of whom escaped by
running upon a mass of rock at the
opposite side Of the quarry. Twelve OF
the men we're killed and six injured,
two probably fatally.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
CHARGED WITH GRAVE CRIME,
chicagoan Accused Of Murder Commit
ted Last November.

Chicago.-A warrant has been Is
sued charging George Lawrence, alias
Bennett Marsh, formerly employed as
a chauffeur for various wealthy Chi.
cagoans, with the murder Of William
Bate, the young chauffeur whose dead
body was found leaning over the
steering gear Of an automobile at a
lonely spot two and half miles be-
yond Clement on the morning Of No
yember 10. 1904
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
Serious Street Car Accident.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Nine persons
were injured in collision between
Pasadena and Monrovia electric cars
near Oneonta park, east of the city.
DIR. J. w. Trueworthy, prominent
physician of this city and president OF
the city library board, was the most
seriously injured, sustaining concus-
sion OF the brain and other injuries.
The collision, which was rear end
one. was caused by the sudden stop
ming of the Monrovia car.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
CITY DIRECTORY.
SHIPPERS NOTICE.

Freight for the Mackay branch must
bs delivered before $50. Train leaves
ct 1880 q. m. on Monday. Wednesday
and Saturday
Freight for the south received till 2
p. m. for shipment the same day. Ship
ments north must be delivered the day
before.
Express office hours. 1880 to $780,
Sundays, 1880 to $40.
PosToFFIcE HOURS.
Week days. from a. m. till $50 p. m.
Money hours from . till $50.
Sunday mails are handled as usual.
Delivery window is open from 10 till
II q. m.
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.
Operators are on duty day and night.
The central ONCE Is open for business
from a. m. till 10 p. m. Persons de-
string long distance service out Of Of
Ace hours can get 1t through private
phones.
VISITORS HOURS AT THE IDAHO
ASYLUM.
Visitors are shown through the
building from II till 10 a. M. and from
| Q to 4 p. m. except Saturday. Sunday
and holidays.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Visitors are welcome in all depart
ments at any time.
CHURCHES.
Methodist Church: s.orning service,
1890; Sunday school, HAS; Junior
League, 400; Epworth League, TOO.
Evening service, 500. Prayer meeting,
Thursday, 500 p. m. Ladies' Aid,
Thursday afternoon. o. A. White, pas
tor.
Baptist Church: Morning service at
II q. M, Sunday school at 10 a. M; B.
Y. P. U. Of c. E. at p. m. Evening SER
vice at 8. Prayer meeting Thursday
evening, 8 p. M, and followed by teach
ers' meeting; Ladies' Aid Wednesday
afternoon. c. L. Custer. Pastor.
Tho L. d. s. Church will hold meet
ings every Sunday during the following
hours: Sunday school from 10 a. m. to
| IL a. M; afternoon services from p. m.
to $50 p. m: evening services will
commence at 8 o'clock. A general invi-
tation is extended to all. We have no
charges connected with our services.
BID. p. G. Johnston. Osmond Buchanan.
Eugene Kimball. Bishopric Of Ward.
LODGES.
with the total membership, times Of
meeting and the names Of presiding ON
Ger and secretary.
IN ID a ~ .
g. n. Holbroek. J. F. Kinney.
Masonic 50--Third Saturday; @.
| II. Holbrook, A. L. Fowler.
Knights Of Pythias organizing with
forty members.
Eastern Star S6-First and third
| Wednesday; Mrs. e. r. Chalmers, Mrs.
W. e. Barnhart.
| M w. A. 103-F1rst Monday; w
r. Harris, J. F. Kinney.
w. o. w. 86-Second and fourth
Mondays; w. e. Smith, G. w. Granville
Women of W. 5s-second and
fourth Tuesdays; Mrs. c. v. Robinson
Susie Stevens.
Rsbekah 5o-second and fourth
Wednesdays: Mrs. G. H. Holbrook; Mrs.
r. o. g. Showell.
Current Event Club 40-For ladies'
Mrs. Gagon, president; president OF
departments, Mrs. Ryan; historic and
literature, Mrs. Chas. Johnson; music.
Mrs. B. w. Holbrook; economies. Mrs.
| Givens. Kensington.
| Physical Culture Glass 2O-For lad
les only-Tuesday and Saturday from
4 to s p. m. at Armory Hall; Mrs. A. T.
| Ryan, Mr.. e. A. Barnhart.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
Raising a Boycott Fund.

Portland, Ore.-The Telegram says;
Ten thousand dollars will be raised
by the Chinese of Portland to aid in
the boycott in China against American
goods. Two meetings of the local col
ony nave been held, at which it was
decided that each Chinese in Portland
should contribute at least 81 to carry
on the campaign. A local Chinese
merchant stated that every Chinese in
the world had been asked to contribute
81 to the boycott fund.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
Fed Her Husband Arsenic.

Pratt, Kan.-Mrs. Harvey Null,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree in having, it is alleged, poisoned
her husband, a well-to-do farmer, and
H. c. Kelly, a farm hand, charged
with aiding and abetting in the crime.
have been arrested here. Mrs. Null
was released on bond. Kelly, who Is
several years her junior, was unable
to furnish bond. Null died suddenly
on August 9Th, after eating supper
cooked by his WIFI. His stomach
when analysed, wal found to contain
twenty-four grains # arsenic.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
PREPARED FOR SIEGE.

Defense Works at VIadivostok Are
Now Complete.
London.-The Daily Telegraph's
correspondent at Moi, Japan, says
that military officers returning from
the northern front say that the Rus
sian defense works at Vladivostok are
complete and outwardly appear per-
feet. Many reinforcemehts have been
sent to that place. Provisions, how
ever, are scarce and the commandant
is securing quantities from Korea and
China. All the inhabitants in mari
time provinces and along the banks of
the Amur have fled to the interior Of
Siberia. The Koreans and Chinese
are leaving Vladivostok
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
TRAIN CRASHES INTO TROLLEY.

Three People Killed and Ten Injured
on a Crossing.
Cincinnati Through the mistake
or negligence of some one, fast run
ming through express from New York
to Cincinnati on the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern crashed into Winton
Place trolley car on the grade crossing
at Mitchell avenue, Winton Place, q
suburb of this city, Wednesday night
and three people were killed and ten
were injured.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
LOOMS WILL RESIGN.
Diplomatic Position Has Been Prom
ised Him.

Springfield, Ohio.-Francis B.
Loomis, assistant secretary of state,
was on Wednesday shown the report
from Lenox, Mass, that Colonel w.
G. Sanger was to be made assistant
secretary of state when Mr.. Root as
sumes the portfolio.
Mr.. Loomis made a statement in
which he, for the first time, indicated
his intention to resign. He also said
that upon leaving his present position
he expects to be\given a diplomatic
position and that at present he has no
idea of his successor nor to what
country he will be assigned.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
SPAIN GIVES NO AID.
Starving Peasantry Show Signs Of
Open Revolt.

London.-The Daily Nails dis
patches with regard to the famine con-
dition. in Andalusia, Spain, state that
the Spanish government has entirely
failed to give relief, and that as the
money grants are inadequate to meet
the necessities, the resources are ex
hausted.
Hunger deaths are of daily occur.
renee. Theft and pillage are common,
and it is impossible to maintain order.
Not drop of rain has fallen in that
district since March, and the summer
and autumn crops will be ruined un-
less rain falls soon.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-25
ARMY ANXIOUS FOR WAR.
Japanese Have No Faith in Success Of
Peace Conference.

LOndon.-The Times correspondent
with General Nogi's headquarters In
the field sends the following dispatch
dated August IL, by way Of Fusan:
"The Japanese army is anxious ia
commence operations. The higher Of
ficers do not believe that the military
progress has been sufficient to justify
the expectation that Russian will con
cede the terms necessarily required
by Japan.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11

they are expected to continue this sx-
ercise at home. One of these exercises
consists In the usual exhaling and In
haling. but the method of accomplish
ing it is novel. The children are ranged
In rows, with their hands on their
hips, and each child puts a quill tooth
pick in its mouth. Then, at word OF
command, they inhale deeply through
the nostrils and then exhale slowly
through the toothpick, this device
making the exhalation slow and avoid
ing all chance of strain.
The fire drill is another important
exercise in the development of lung
power. AS the little arms and legs get
hard and the chests are developed the
more advanced pupils are taught to
take the weaker ones across their
shoulders and carry them out of the
reach of the fancied flames. But the
ideal Of all the children who belong to
these classes is to develop strength and
skill enough to join the trick team, for
when the danger OF disease has been
banished and the puny little figures
with narrow chests and round should
Clio hdNC DCch OtfclOPcu lhlO cIttt,
sturdy bodies, then the gymnastic
feats of the more pretentious athletes
are attempted and achieved before ad-
miring public audiences.
The development of muscle is at
tended with a similar stimulation of
the moral side of the child, and it Is
to accomplish the latter that the penny
weekly fee is charged giving the chill
dren sense of membership and right
full claim to the advantages OF the
club, which is lacking In the mere
charitable work, which does not per-
NIT even the slight contribution of the
children themselves. The results OF
this physical training are striking.
Children who. when they Joined the
club, were too weak to endure even the
least firing Of the exercises, under this
regimen develop strong, healthy and
even athletic frames. Moreover, the
tendency to consumption Is checked,
and with the increase of physical
strength there is a corresponding men
tai and moral development. Finally,
the lessons of the gymnasium, the
knowledge of the proper method of
breathing and of walking, are remem-
bered long after the actual class work
has ended, and serve to keep the
health the exercise has won.-New
York Tribune.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
TO SAVE CHILDREN.
Physical Culture a Means to Ward
Off Tuberculosis.

An athletic club, which fixes its dues
at the extortionate figure of one cent a
week, suggests an unusual departure
In the world of clubs. Moreover, for
many other reasons, the Children's
Athletic Club of Philadelphia, COM
posed entirely Of the children of the
poor, organized to fight by physical
training the ravages Of tuberculosis,
marks an important innovation in the
charitable work of that city. Mrs.
Florence L. Williams, the founder of
the club, has certain definite objects
to accomplish with the sixty little pu-
pills under her charge. That she is
able not merely to bring muscle and
health in place of weakness and even
disease through a careful system OF
physical culture, but also to develop a
trick team capable of performing aero
batic feats of no little difficulty, proves
the efficacy OF her methods.
For her clientele Mrs. williams de-
ponds entirely upon the children of the
crowded quarters of the city, where
poor food and unhealthy surroundings
render child life unwholesome and
make physical development impossi-
BILE From the children of these quar-
ters of the city Mrs. Williams has or
gained her classes, the membership
of which has grown from three to six
ty. But even here the selection of
members Is made from the weaker and
the more anaemic; from the children
who already show signs of the inva-
sion of the great white plague"
whose tiny arms and hollow chests In
dictate lack Of vitality.
With such subjects it is natural that
at the outset the exercises of the class
es should be OF the mildest sort-hve
minute drills with the hghtest of
dumbells, interspersed with frequent
rests Special breathing exercises are
prescribed for the new members, and
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
THIS CAT is A PARADOX.
Adopted Four Mice Instead of Making
a Dinner of Them.

Dinner of Them.
Busy Body, a big Maltese cat who
makes her home at the Indianapolis
Union Railway shops, and is the pet
of every one from the president down
to the humble employe of the road,
after establishing a record of killing
more than 10000 rats and mice, has,
with charming feline inconsistency,
adopted four tiny mice.
The case is one of the most remark
able on record and it is doubtful If
scientists or menageries can point to
like one.
Three weeks ago Busy Body gave
birth TO four kittens and with them
seemed in an element of happiness.
But the little fellows required such
a large amount of nourishment that
she began to look emaciated and
good rat or mouse diet was suggested
for her.
Thursday afternoon workmen about
the shops discovered a nest of six
mice In a sawdust pile, and, thinking
of the faithful "tabby," caught them
for her. They were alive and thrown
into her box and the men expected to
see an immediate slaughter.
Imagine their surprise when Busy
Body merely looked up rather sleepi-
ly, took a look at the mice, carefully
licked them over and then as they
nestled beneath her, went back to
sleep. Since then she has looked after
them tenderly, as much as she has her
kittens, and the kittens and mice take
their nourishment side by side.
One Of the mice died and another
lost its life through an experiment.
The men thought that II a cat would
act so remarkably with a mouse that
dog would surely do likewise. One
of them was carried to Fanny, a dog
who is nursing a litter of pups, for
her inspection. The inspection was a
brief one, and before the men could
prevent her Fanny had swallowed the
mouse whole.
1t has not been decided what will
be done with the mice, should they
grow up, nor are the men about the
shops sure that Busy Body will not
regain her old appetite for rodents
and eat her adopted babies.
Busy Body belongs to Master Me-
chanic Q. II. Jackson and is years
old. She was taken to the Union rail-
way shops three years ago after she
had lost an eye which disfgured her
countenance The shops were former
ly overrun with rats and mice, but
she has gained a remarkable record
for killing them and 1t is asserted that
no less than 10000 is the number of
| her victims.-Indianapol Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
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A color scale prepared by ]. F. To-
cher, f. 1. c., for classifying hair. rep
resents % different colors OF human
hair.
To prevent train derailments a Ger
man railroad official, Herr Gehricke,
has invented an adjustable rail, to be
attached to the trucks of cars parallel
with the axles, and carried about an
inch above the track rails. II the
wheels jump the track the cross rails
just described will Immediately rest
upon the track rails and prevent the
wheels from touching LIE ground, and
the car will slide along, borne by the
cross rails. To diminish the jar the
cross rails are supplied with springs,
and projections beneath them are cal
culated to prevent the derailed car
from swinging aside from the track.
Not all fishes are dumb, but many
species emit sounds and few give re-
markable concerts. Instances of the
latter have been collected by Henri
Coupin, French author. On the
western coast of Borneo, Prayer one
night heard musical sounds varying
from the resonance of an organ to the
soft tones of an Aeolian harp; and in
the China Sea, United States naval
officer was struck by an extraordinary
blending of the low notes of an organ,
the noise of bells and the sounds of
great harp, the intensity causing the
vessel to culver. The pogonias or
tambours of the tropical western coast
of the Atlantic sometimes congregate
about vessels, producing a maddening
chorus.
The destructive power of naval
guns becomes every year more terrible.
The latest type of gun introduced In
the British navy Is remarkable for its
great length, over 81 feet, combined
with it's relatively small diameter, SO
inches at the breech and IS inches at
the muzZle, and its comparative light
ness, % tons. It's bore is 90 inches,
its projectile weighs $50 pounds, and
at 5000 yards this missile can be driv-
Ell through II inches of Krupp steel
The barrel is made up of an inner
tube, enclosed in jacket of wound
steel wire. This gun is reckoned equal
in destructive power to the 131a-inch
bore guns that preceded it, which
have more than double its weight. The
muzzle velocity of the projectile Is p
300 feet per second.
The success of the ostrich-farm in
California has recently led to the es-
Establishment of a similar farm in Ari-
iona and another In Florida. 1t is said
that the feathers of these American
raised birds are actually of better quail
ity and command higher prices than
those of South African ostriches. The
birds on the farms are larger than
those seen in travelling menageries,
their weight running from 200 to 40
pounds, and their full height, with
head appraised, from 6 to feet A
blow from an ostrich's foot is danger
Gus, but 1t may be avoided by STOPPING
low, as the birds cannot deliver an
effective kick under a height of three
feet. For this reason they are easily
driven by dogs. In Florida team Of
ostriches, broken to harness, is said to
have paced mile in 2;30
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-02-11
The Personal EQUATION.

Mr.. Ames entered with his nose IN
equivocally turned up. Those people
in the fiat below are cooking onions
again." said he. Mrs. Ames lowered
one of the windows before she replied.
Il wish you wouldn't say those PEG
ple,'" she said. Their name Is Wat
SON."
"Phewr' said Mr.. Ames, lowering
another window.
81 don't think the odor is so very dis
agreeable" she said, cheerfully.
Mr.. Ames looked at her amazed.
why, thought you couldn't bear the
smell of onionsr'
II don't really like 1t, OF course, but
it is such little thing to be dis
turbed over"
Mr.. Ames looked indignant and in
jured, and felt so; he could not I'M
derstand his wife's attitude. ST wish
you had felt that way sooner" he said,
dryly. Last week you made me tell
the janitor that If those people didn't
stop cooking onions every night we
should move"
Eyes, 1 did" said Mrs. Ames. can
didly; "but that was before 1 knew
Mrs. Watson. We have exchanged calls
this week, and like her very much"
Mr.. Ames made curious noise
which his wife was able to interpret.
IT expected you'd take it that way"
she said. But even you must adj
NIT that there's a great difference be
tween the smell of a friends onions
and those of people we don't know"