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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
THOUSANDS ARE KILLED
BY POISONOUS MEATS
General Miles Tells Again the Story of
the EmbaImed Beef Scandal
Meats Made the Soldiers Sick.

Kansas City.-General Nelson A
Miles, in an interview here, said:
1.-THE disclosures about beef and
other packing house products now be
ing exploited are no news to me.
knew it seven years ago. told what
| knew then. Had the matter been
taken up at that time thousands OF
lives would have been saved. The
adulteration of food products is the
colossal crime of the times.
Il believe that 5000 United States
soldiers lost their lives because OF
adulterated, impure, poisonous meat
There is no way to estimate the num-
Der of soldiers whose health was
ruined by eating impure food. l know
only of it's harvest among the soldiers
and can only guess how many lives it
has cost the republic.
II have barrel of testimony on the
subject in the way of affidavits that l
collected when l made my investiga-
ton seven years ago. The Investigate
ing committee closed the case and re-
fused to hear 200 witnesses whom
had ready. At that time could have
secured the testimony of 100000 men
that the canned beef sold to the army
was impure, adulterated and unwhole-
some.
"In my investigation of 'embalmed
beef during the Spanish-American
war | found that poisons were being
used to preserve meat. My first init
nation of the practice came to me in
reports from commanding officers to
the effect that the rations were not
wholesome and were making the SOL
diers sick. | ordered an investigation
and learned from the reports brought
to me that canned meat had been sold
to the army that had been for months
in the warehouses of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad and at the docks in Liv-
erpool.
"This meat had been re-labeled and
sold to the United States for soldiers
rations. | turned the reports over to
the war department and whitewash-
ing investigation was instituted and
successfully carried out. The official
report was that colossal error had
been made. AS a matter of fact it
was a colossal fraud and the persons
who perpetrated it and were interested
in it should have been sent to the pen
itentiary."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08

Immediately alighted and assisted
Queen Victoria out of the carriage.
Then they entered another coach and
were driven swiftly to the palace.
The place from which the bomb was
thrown is boarding house. The
chamber from which the missile was
hurled was taken May 20 by man
from Barcelona, giving the name of
Moral. When the police surrounded
the house the man attempted to flee,
but was captured. Another man es-
capped over the roofs of houses.
The Indignation of the people over
the tragedy was very great. Some
French detectives were almost lynched
merely because they had a foreign ap-
pearance. After the outrage a WIS.,
itors' book was opened at the palace
1t was signed during the afternoon by
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
DISCUSS PACKING
HOUSE SCANDAL
Secretary Wilson and Special Agents
Confer With President.

Washington.-Pre Roosevelt
late Thursday consulted with Secre-
tary Wilson of the department of ag-
riculture and Senator Beverage re-
garding the Beverage amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill. Spe-
cial Agents Reynolds and Commission
er of Labor Neill, who investigated
the conditions at Chicago and other
places for the president, and several
of the subordinate officials of the de-
partment of agriculture, including
Alonzo d. Melvin, chief of the bureau
of animal industry, also were present
There was a very full and free discus
sion of the probable effect of the OPP
erations of the Beverage amendment,
but none of those present was willing
to tell the details of the conference.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Accident in Tonopah Mine,

Tonopah, Nevada.-Vester Nor.
Jensen and Tony Heffstedt were
killed and G. Mayer injured by an &C.
cident in the Tonopah North Exten-
sion mine. Eight men coming off shift
were on a cage ascending the shaft.
Mortensen leaned out and his Shout
der struck timber, forcing Hoffstedt,
who was opposite to him, off the
cage. Mortensen caught the timber
and hung on till the cage passed him,
when he dropped to the first level.
HIS head was cut off and his body
badly mangled. Hotfstedt was
crushed.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
SPANlARDS IN THEIR GLORY.
Royal Wedding Festivities Wind Up
With Bull Fight.

Madrid.-The royal bull fight Satur
day afternoon was the climax of the
spectacular magnificence attendant on
the marriage of King Alfonso.
For the time being Madrid forgot
the horrors of the attempt on the lives
of the royal couple, amid the brilliancy
of this national pastime. 1t was
feared that the event would give an
other opportunity for outbreak, but
everything passed off auspiciously.
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria be-
ing continuously the recipients of en-
thusiastic popular ovations.
Eight bulls were despatched, four
by cavaliers mounted on horseback
who were chosen from the first fami
lies of Spain, with the Duke of Medina
Coeli, the Duke of Alba and the Mar
quis of Tobar as their patrons. There
were at least 10000 people present al
the fight.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Receivers Will Mold On,

washington, D. C.-The house COM
mlttee on appropriations has reported
the sundry civil appropriation bill. The
principal item in the bill of interest to
the west is one providing for salaries
Oh receivers of public land offices. 1t
was expected that the committee. fol.
lowing the advice of the secretary OF
tne interior, would omit provision for
salaries of receivers whose terms OF
omce would expire during the coming
nscai year, but the usual amount was
included in the bill.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08

the foreign princes, ENJOYS, diplomats,
ministers and officials of all ranks.
As a curious coincidence it Is just a
year ago Thursday that bomb was
thrown at King Alfonso in Paris. AS
the king accompanied by President
Loubet was driving away from a per-
Torrance at the opera, May 81, 1905,
an anarchist threw a bomb at the
royal carriage. 1t struck a trooper OF
the curaisser escort on the shoulder,
fell to the ground ana exploded with.
out wounding the king or the presi
dent, who continued their drive to the
Palais D'Orsay.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Postoffice Bill Passed.

Washngton.-The senate has
passed the postoftice appropriation
bill, carrying an appropriation OF
$192, 4S5,000 An entire day was de-
voted to consideration of the bill as
whole and to special features of the
bill. The debate dealt with the ques-
tons of the fast mail train to the
south; second-class matter, including
the admission to the mails of the pub
LEGATIONS of colleges, universities and
charitable and educational institutions
as second-class matter; subsidies for
Pacific Mail steamships and questions
relating to the boxes used on rural
free delivery routes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Eleven Killed in Wreck.

Providence, R. 1.-Eleven persons
are dead, score seriously and many
others slightly injured as the result of
the overturning of crowded electric
car at Moore's corner, in East Provi-
dence, early Sunday morning. More
than 100 young men and women, who
had spent the evening at Crescent
park, six miles below this city, were
on a chartered car returning to their
homes in this city, Olneyville and
Thornton. 1t is believed that two OF
the injured will die The motorman
was unfamiliar with the road.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08

the buildings in the vicinity, stunning
large number of people and throwing
the cortege into inextricable confu-
sion.
The royal coach was brought to a
sudden stop by the shock, officers and
soldiers of the escort falling to the
ground about the :equerry and horses
that had been killed The screams of
the terrified multitude mingled with
the groans of the dying. It was i'm
mediately seen that the royal coach
was intact, except as it had been dam
aged by flying splinters. King Alfonso
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
STOCkMEN WANT SQUARE DEAL.
Sanitary Conditions at Packing Plants
Should be Above Suspicion.

Sanitary Conditions at Packing Plants
Should be Above Suspicion.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that the
stockmen of the northwest oppose the
bill now before congress extending
government inspection over domestic
and export meats, on the ground that
a more rigid inspection law would
mean a great loss to the cattlemen,
are repudiated by J. ]. Ryan of Fort
Dodge, Ia, secretary of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers association, and Muir
do Mackenzie, president of the Amer
lean National Stock Growers associa-
ton.
More rigid government inspection
will increase our export trade" de-
clared Mr.. Ryan here. I'VE manufac-
ture the best quality of meats in the
world and we should have no suspicion
cast on the sanitary condition of our
packing plants or that diseased ami
mails are used. Such suspicious have
already cost us much"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Gave Them a Scare.

New k.-Representative Mich
olas Longworth and Mrs. Longworth
sailed for England Saturday on the
steamer St. Louis. Just before the
Longworths sailed some excitement
was caused on the American line pier
by a drunken Italian declaring that
he intended to throw a bomb at the
Longworths. By the time police
squad arrived the Italian had disap-
peared. The incident caused some stir
for a moment 1t was believed that
the drunken mans talk was due mere
" to his condition.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Mob Killed Woman.

Gibsland, La.-Allan Turner, a
young negro, has been arrested at
Arcadia, La, charged with attempting
to assault Mrs. James Barron at her
home in Bienville parish. After fail.
ing in the attempt the negro escaped
to the home of his mother, where he
was trailed by posse of men. He
was called to come out, but refused,
and the posse fired and killed the ne.
gro's mother. He was then captured
and later turned over to an officer, who
succeeded in landing him in jail.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Killed While Celebrating King Alton.
SOS Wedding.

Havana.-Twelve persons were
wounded at Cienfuegos on Thursday
by the premature explosion of fire.
works at the celebration of King Al
fonso's wedding. At the Spanish ca
sine in Havana at night there was a
banquet in honor of the wedding. Pres
ident Palma was represented by Sec
rotary of the Treasury Sterling and
Secretary of Agriculture Castro. The
Spanish clubs of Havana and other
cities were decorated in honor Of the
event.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
RevoIutionists Massing on Mexican
Border.

Washington. - Dispatches received
by the state department from Mr..
Combs, the United States minister to
Guatemala, and Honduras, indicate
that revolutionists are still massing
near the Mexican border and prepar-
ing to continue the movement against
President Cabrera. 1t is also stated
in one of the dispatches that a filibus.
tering expedition has left Mexican
port, headed for one of the Guatem ala
ports.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Prominent ldahoan Dead.

Boise, Ida.-Former Attorney Gen
eral George M. Parsons died here Sat
urday of diabetes. He had been i'll for
two or three years with an acute at.
tack Deceased was Sc years of age
and was a native Of Indiana. He came
to Idaho in 1871 and settled on Wood
river. In 1892 he was elected attorney
general and served two terms. Since
that time he had made his home in
this city. He leaves widow, but no
children, excepting an adopted daugh-
ter.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
London Hears of Tainted Meat.

I.ondon.-At a meeting of the corpo-
ration of the City of London on Thurs
day reference was made to the meat
packing disclosures in the United
States, and the chairman of the health
committee announced that the commit
tee entered into communication some
time ago with the United States
through the local government board
relative to the American system of in
spection.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
WILL SAVE ALL THEY CAN.
Insurance Companies Will Not Pay
Losses Caused by Earthquake.

New York,-An important meeting
of American insurance companies was
held here June /, when resolutions
setting forth the position of the under.
writer's represented as regards the ad'
justment of liabilities in the San
Francisco conflagration were unani.
mously adopted, the rulings adopted
affect, it is claimed, not less than rs
per cent of the insurance carried by
American corporations and explicitly
deny liability for purely earthquake
losses.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
Packers Don't Want Inspection.

WaShlEgtOn.-NO appIlcat1On 70 De
heard on the Beverage beef inspection
amendment has Deen made to the
house committee on agriculture by the
packers, and no meeting of the com
mittee has been called to consider
this or other senate amendments to
the agricultural appropriation bill.
Members of the house, however, are
receiving protests by wire against the
inspection amendments from the cat.
tie raisers, and it has been suggested
that II the packers are opposing the
proposition they are working through
the cattle raisers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-08
CHICAGO INTERESTED.
viii Investigate Conditions at the
Stock Yards.

Chicago.-The city has decided to
appoint commission to investigate
conditions at the stock yards with a
view to determining how far the re.
cent customs of methods employed in
the killing of beef and hogs is justi
fed. Mayor Dunno, after conference
with Health Commissioner Whalen
decided to ask the cooperation Of the
federal government and the authori.
ties will be asked to name several
members of the commission.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-11
MINISTERING ANGELS
OF THE GREAT CITIES
Women Who Devote Their Lives to Works of Charity
The Office Deaconess Old Christianity
Now Receivedn School of Greek and Cookery Litur-
gies and Laundering, Christian Eviiences and Book
keeping

New York, Jan. 9.-Hidden away in
a long row of conventional brown stone
houses in this city is school of Greek
and cookery, of liturgies and launder-
ing, of Christian evidences and book
keeping. The community sheltered
by the three plain city houses is an
association of religiously minded wom-
en-, but it is not a religious community
in the ordinary sense of that phrase.
The students of the school have not re-
nounced the world. Instead they are
preparing to play their own particular
part In the worlu-some of the scope
of which Is barely indicated by the
paradoXical curriculum.
The Office of deaconess. for whose
training ST Faiths school exists, is
almost as old as christianity ITSELF but
it's revival in this country is of com
paratively recent date. Since the in
stitution was founded in 1889, however,
by Dr. Huntington of Grace church, its
graduates have not had to look long fol
occupation. The duties of a deacon
ess are many and varied. She cares
for the dependent poor, teaches the
young and the old, organizes and CON
ducts clubs for those who are alone in
the world, makes addresses at mothers
meetings, leads mission services and in
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-11

submitted to congress yesterday let
ter from the Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson explaining an item of s135,000
under the appropriation OF expense
of the bureau of animal industry in
1906" Secretary Wilson states that
this item is not deficiency within
the meaning of the statute prohibiting
the cabinet members from exceeding
their appropriation. He says the
money is requested to cover extension
of the meat inspection service and the
conduct of the work to eradicate con-
tagious diseases of livestock.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-11

activity of every kind, to avoid the re-
proach cast upon many of the famous
structures Of the Old World-that they
are merely an impressive Suggesting
for SHINY attended services. The
move moreover, will serve to empha-
size the revival of this ancient order of
the diaconate.
In the early ages of the church the
diaconate existed as an ecclesiastical
office to which women as well as men
wede eligible, and in the fourth cen.
fury, when it especially fiourtshed,
many excellent women came into prom
'inence through their work as deacon
esses. One of them was the immortal
Olympias, nobly born and possessed OF
great wealth, who after her conversion
to christianity became the loyal friend
and supporter of st. John Chrysostom,
and on his account suffered persecu-
ton. ST. John. in one of his letters
speaks of the "coarseness" of her at,
tire, surprising that of the very beg
CARS"
The garb of the full-fedged deacon
ess today is unobstrusive, rational, and
.serviceable. Over the simple black or
blue dress a comfortable cloak is worn
on the street in the winter time. On
the hair but not covering it, cap of
folds of gauzy white. The distinctive
garb of the deaconess explains her
errand. As she is in the world and
must to some extent share in its social
functions, this garb solves the difficulty
of deciding how far to go in the way OF
fashion and at the same time to re
main within the simplicity that is ap
proprate to her office She preserves
the traditions of the past more faith
fully in her celibacy. She is not bouni
to this by vow, she makes no solemn
promises, but should she undertake
matrimony it Is understood that She
will relinquish her deaconship, just as
she would resign should any other
cause estrange her from her work.
The only experimental feature of this
reconstruction Of the ancient institu-
ton of deaconesses lay in adapting the
policy Of the fourth century to the
problems Of the twentieth. The six.
teen centuries which stretch between
have not lessened the demand for the
work that the deaconess is TO do.
From the far west and the far cas-
comes the summons: one Is booked for
China, one for hte Philippines. one for
local parish One field alone Of the
deaconess's activity, destined to be
come its largest local center-the mis-
sionary and settlement work of the
Cathedral Of St John the Diyine-is
expanding so rapidly in the plan Of the
cathedral policy that years before the
great pile on Morningside Heights Is.
complete ii would seem that force o
deaconesses equivalent to the elias
that graduates early from St Faith
must be pressed into service properl
to exploit 1T.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-11

general dedicates herself to beneficence
at large. In the church itself she may
assist at baptlsms and prepare com
municants for confirmation and she has
the altar linens and vestments under
kor especial care.
But the lot of the deaconess Is not
always cast in quiet places, with the
whole charitable machinery of great
city to support and encourage her. AS
missionary her work at many lone
ly post may consist of the entire minis
terial charge of it, from giving religious
instruction to fighting an epidemic of
disease. Two of the graduates of the
New York school who are now living
in log house on the Indian agency of
Lemhi, in Idaho, found so much to do
when they arrived there that their ex-
perience in settling down was like that
of colonial pioneers. Even today each
girl is caring for her own horse, sad
ding it herself and riding off in the
early morning to execute her daily pro
gram of mercy.
With duties which may take her to
the ranches of Idaho or the slums OF
New York, which range from cooking
meals for the sick and the poor to
keeping track of the large expenditures
of some great parish, the deaconess
must not only be trained in the most
opposite accomplishments but she
must also be furnished by nature with
an extraordinary mental equipment,
The age limits for admission TO the in,
stitution have been fixed at twenty-one
and thirtyfive, and a certificate from
physician is as essential as one from a
clergyman. Indeed the routine of life
at St. Faiths is not for fragile women
The day begins at $780, with break,
fast at 7;30 after a short service in
the oratory, For an hour after break
fast the future deaconess learns by
personal experience something about
practical housekeeping and then the
| rest of the morning Is devoted to men
tai training, lectures being given on
the old testament, the life and works OF
/ our Lord The Epistles theology, chris.
/ tian evidences, church history. litir.
/ GIGS, missions the arr Of teaching, and
4 hyeiene The afternoon is about even
4 ~ divided between the abstruse elec,
i tive4 Of Greek and ecclesiastical music
ana The commonplace subjects of
cooking, bookkeeping and laundry
work. The academic subjects are for
/ the benefit Of the deaconess herself.
4 thu practical work enables her ia are
for others and to teach them how 10
care for themselves.
In the afternoon and the early avon
/ Ing the deaconess has an opportunity
10 practice her attainments. In some
one Of the many squalid districts of
New York she has actual experience in
parochial or city mission work, does
something in the clinic, the guild or
the club. BY nine o'clock, however.
she Is back at the school for the even.
ing service in the oratory, which closes
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-01-11
ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION.
Jumping Sparks Will Flash Across
the Chicago Coliseum.

Chicago Chronicle.-What promises
to be the most startling result of
modern electrical invention will be
used as an exposition to attract at
tention to the Coliseum for the electri-
cal trades exhibition to be held next
January, for which plans are now
under way. The Frank s. Belts com
pany will furnish the machinery for a
jumping spark, created from the
largest number Of amperes and the
highest voltage ever produced.
The spark will flash back and forth
across the entire length of the Coli
scum, high above the roof, upon a
spiral coil connected with two big
electros. This demonstration will
have the appearance Of a huge and
magnifcently brilliant flash of light
ming.
For the electrical show many other
features are being planned, some Of
which will be quite sensational, and
posed to have the various telegraph
and cable companies race around the
world with messages, some going by
way of San Francisco and others via
New York. These messages will
leave the Coliseum at the same hour
each day the contest is on. The
wireless telegraph will have daily de-
monstrations, inaugurating the series
with a message to President Roosevelt
announcing the opening of the most
up-todate exposition in the world.
There will be wireless telephoning
in fact, it looks as tho the avail
able $4,000 square feet will be too
small to accommodate the applicants
for space. Edison, the wizard" may
be here, and during the progress Of
the exposition many of the technical
clubs aud associations from the vari-
Gus parts of the United States will at
tend, as we'll as organizations repre-
senting affiliated interests.