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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
FLAG To FLOAT
OVER THE ISLES
United States Proposes to Ac,
quire Title to Three Small
Pacific 1 lands.
Were Included in the Transfer of
Property to Uncle Sam by the
Panama Republic, and are
Held to be Part of Canal
Zone.

Observation-Disclosures r. Rogers,
general consul for the isthmian canal
commission, who started Saturday for
Panama with Secretary Taft and his
party, will investigate the titles to
the small rocky islands in Panama
harbor and recommend what steps
shall be taken for their acquisition
by the United States. The Pacific
Mail Steamship company is using
one OF the islands, having storehouses
and shops there, and claims title to
the property 6The Panama railroad
has also been making use of some or
the property.
These islands were included in the
transfer of property to the United
States by the Panama republic, and
are held to be part of the canal zone
and the title OF the steamship company
is questioned by the commission. The
title Is said to date back more than
fifty years, but there is some doubt as
to the original transfer by Spain.
The canal commission is anxious to
gain control of the islands and settle
all dispute as to Their ownership, be-
cause of their strategic position, and
the desirabliity of one of them as a
location for a quarantine station.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
EVERY STREET A RIVER,
Town of Stockton, California, Under
Water, and Damage Will be I'M
mense.

Stockton, Cal.-Water was running
through the streets of this city on
Wednesday like millrace. In some
places 1t was six feet deep, while in
others it varied from one to three
feet, the latter being the mean aver
age. All business is suspended as
most of the business houses are flood
ed and the people in many parts of the
city are afraid to leave their homes.
No portion of the town escaped. MAN,
the principal business street of the
city, is the high point, and even here
the water averaged nearly a foot in
depth. All the cellars and many Of
the first floors of the business houses
were submerged and the loss in the
city alone will run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
May Clear Up Mystery.

Elizabeth City, N. C.-Former State
Senator Beasly, for the kidnapping and
murder of whose son, Kenneth, the
Pasquotank county court on Friday
sentenced Joshua Harrison to twenty
years in the penitentiary, has re.
ceived from lawyer in Arkansas
what he regards as clue concerning
his boy, and has left for that state to
follow up the report sent him. Mr.
Beasley is confident that he is at last
upon the right track.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
REJOICING IN GOlDFIELD,
Peace in Labor Circles Assured by
Action of Miners.

Goldfield, Newly a vote of 1,12O
to 76S the miners of Goldfield and
Diamondfield have decided to hold
their meetings entirely seperate from
those of the Industrial Workers of
the World. This is really the first
step on the part of the Western
Federation of Miners of this district
to withdraw from the organization
which has been the cause of their
trouble. Among many the impress
sion is prevalent that the action of
the miners settles the strike. This
Is far from the truth, but it is a
most favorable sign as now, for the
first time in the history of the camp,
the miners will be allowed to meet
alone and discuss freely the questions
most vital to their interests.
There Is little doubt that within
short time this will mean the with
drawal of the miners from the |. w.
w., as the majority of the men are
satisfied with the pay and the hours
and are anxious to go back to work.
1t is estimated that their loss of
wages already through the closing of
The mines has amounted to 100000,
and the drain is beginning to be felt.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
An AMAZING AMOUNT OF
CORRUPTION UNtARTHED
Grand Jury Returns Seventy-Five In.
dictments Against San Francisco
Officials, and Abe Ruef, PoIiti-
cal Boss.

San Francisco.-The long.looked.
| for indictments in the municipal
graft cases were returned Wednesday.
Shortly before o'clock the grand
jury filed with Presiding Judge Coffey
OF the superior court seventy-fve in
dictments, charging bribery, which
were found on evidence presented to
the grand jury after six months prob
ing into the municipal affairs of this
city by Assistant District Attorney
Francis j. Heney and Secret Service
Agent William J. Burns, and which
reveal an amazing story of alleged
graft and corruption that surpasses
the Doodle cases of st. Louis, ranks
with the Minneapolis expose and is
only eclipsed in the amount of money
passed, but not in it's ramifications
and organization, by the famous Tweed
ring of New York.
OF the indictments returned, sixty
five are against Abraham Ruef. for
years the political boss of San Fran
cisco, charging him with bribing the
board of supervisors to grant fran
chises to the United railroads, the
Home Telephone company, the San
Francisco Gas and Electric company
and the so-called prize fighting
trust" Ten are against r. V. Hal
sey former general agent of the Pa
cific States Telephone and Telegraph
who is charged with hav-
ing bribed the supervisors not to
grant franchise to the rival com.
pany.
Several more indictments, the ex-
act number and against what person.
Heney and Burns refuse to divulge
Until the accused parties have been
arrested, were found by the grand
ury but not filed, Heney and Burns
lot even trusting the secret file.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
TWELVE MEN CAUSE STRIKE.
Not Single Street Car is Running in
Butte,

Butte, Mont.-The Butte street rail
way system suspended all operations
Tuesday midnight, in consequence of
Walkout of track and repair men
Thus far no negotiations for a settle
ment have been made One hundred
and fifty motormen and conductors are
thrown out by the strike of the barn
men, who number only twelve. The
latter ask an increase from SO to So. SO
per day for eight hours work. These
men belong to the Workingmen's
union, the strongest in the camp next
to the Miners. Their demands have
been granted by the telephone com
panies, by the waterworks, the lum-
Der men and by minor companies, but
the city, the gas company and the
street railway company will not pay
their demands. The membership is
mainly composed of common laborers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Little Marvin Boy in England.

Portsmouth. England. -- Enquiries
made here confirm the statement tel
egraphed from Washington that the
consular agent here, John Main, and
the local police were in receipt of in
formation which they hope may lead
to the recovery of the kidnapped A.
year-old son of DR.. Horace Marvin of
kits Hammock, Del. A boy answer
ing exactly Maxims description in
every detail was seen here March 10.
He has disappeared, but the police
are hopeful of finding him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
SAYS PRESIDENT WAS TO BLAME
Burton of Kansas Accuses Roosevelt
of Personally Prosecuting Him.


Abilene, Kan.--Joseph r. Burton
former United States senator from
Kansas, received reception more en-.
thusiastic than that given him when
he first returned as senator, when he
returned to his home town Saturday,
after five months Imprisonment at
Ironton, Mo.
At the theatre, at night the ex-sen,
ator delivered his expected speech
on the subject, 'Why | Was Prose-
cuted." The theatre, which accommo-
dates about 900 persons, was packed
to its capacity, many people standing
and many unable to gain admittance.
When Mr.. Burton, without an in
PRODUCTION or other ceremony, rose
to speak he was greeted by an out;
burst of applause, and his speech was
frequently interrupted by applause.
The ex-senator was much affected at
times, and once he broke down en-,
tirely and wept. On two other occa-
sions during the speech he was over
come by his emotions. His wife, who
sat on the stage, was the only woman
in the audience.
Mr.. Burton, during the course of his
address, charged President Roosevelt
with being guilty of personally per-
scouting him, because, as he claimed,
Of his acting independently of the
president, and charged that the pres.
ident has promoted about every man
who has helped to convict him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
A F|END|SH ATTEMPT
TO WRECK A TRAIN
T'sh Plates Removed by Unknown
Persons, But Straight Track
Proves Salvation of Pas.
sengers.

Plttsburg.-The Chicago Limited
from New York to Chicago nm tho
pennsylvania railroad, while running
about thirty-fve miles an hour. was
wrecked at Stewart, seventeen miles
east OF here. The engine and the first
hVe cars were derailed, but no one
was hurt
An investigation by the railroad
officials showed that the fish-plates
mad been removed at tie rail Joint
the bolts having been taken out and
the rails bent inward
ne 'raln was derailed on straight
track and to this was due, beyond a
doubt, the escape of the passengers
from serious injury.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
JEWS BEING MASSACRED,
Outbreak In Roumania ASSUMING
Alarming Proportions.

Outbreak In Roumania Assuming
Alarming Proportions.
Misunderstanding to a telegram re-
ceived here from Czernowits, an Aus
trian town close to the boundary of
Moldavia, Roumania, advices have
been received there from the Austrian
frontier police stationed at Itzkani and
Suczawa, that the anti-Jewish out
break in Roumania is assuming serious
proportions. Peasants have attacked
and plundered Jews at Burduzheni
who are fleeing over the frontier to IT,
kani. About 1000 fugitives, mostly
women and children, already have
crossed the frontier Other reports de-
clare that further serious disturbances
nave occurred at Botosahni, where the
peasants have set fire to the houses of
Jews, and as result almost the en-
tire town Is in flames. The Hebrew al
lance of Vienna is preparing to take
care OF the Roumania fugitives.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
LEVEES CRUMBLlNG AWAY.
Sacramento Valley Experiencing
Worse Floods Than That of 1904

Sacramento, Cal.-From all down.
river points comes alarming news that
the Sacramento river is higher than
ever known and that the situation all
along the levees is appalling. Every
able-bodied man is assisting in the
light against the water that is pour
ing into the branches and inundating
thousands of acres of the finest farm
Ing land in the state.
Special dispatches to the Union from
Freeport, CORTLAND, Walnut Grove
and Franklin state that the river has
reached the highest stage ever re.
corded and it is predicted that the
terrible scenes which were witnessed
during the tremendous floods of 1904
will be surpassed.
Standing on the levee near Court,
land one may look for sixty miles tc
the southeast across an unbroken sea
OF water which extends clear to
Stockton. Thousands of cattle are be-
ing sheltered on top of the levees,
as there is no other place for them,
and If the water does not fall soon.
an indescribable condition of disaster
is considered inevitable.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
irrigation In Egypt.

Cairo, Egypt.-The council has
adopted the proposition to increase
the height of the Assouan dam suffi-
GENTLY to raise the water stored in
that reservoir by nearly twenty feet
above the present maximum. 1t is cal.
culated that this will give sufficient
new water to irrigate another million
acres of northern Egypt which it is
estimated would yield an increased
cotton crop to the value of S17,5OO, 900
to $20OOO,O00 annually 1t is stated
that the work will take six years to
complete and will cost $500, 900.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Failure of Venezuelan Revolution.

Caracas, via Willemstadt.--It Is Of
ficially reported that General Juan
Pablo Penalosa, the Venezuelan revo.
lutionist, who with 400 men invaded
the state of Tachira from Columbia
March II, vas met by 1000 regular
troops under General Celestino Cactro,
brother of President Castro, and de-
feated. Details are unobtainable as
the telegraph wires are cut. Another
report says that Celestino Castro was
not engaged with Penalosa's forces.
but with band of guerrillas.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
WHAT STOLYP|N
PROPOSES TO Do
Freedom of Speech and of the.
Press, Liberty of Faith
and Other Reforms.
Declaration Read Before Lower House
OF Parliament Avoids all Refer.
ence to Drumhead Courtmar-
taI and Other Cases of
Contention.

st. PeterSburg.-The ministerial
declaration setting forth the program
for legislation was read Tuesday after
noon by Premier Stolypin before the
lower house of parliament
The declaration avoided all reference.
to drumhead court-martial and all
other cases Of contention and was re-
ceived in silence.
M. Stolypin at the clofm received
tives. v
The first speech, howevfr, that of
Prince Zereteli, in behalf Of the So
cial democracy, evoked an algry scene
between members of the right, md LETT
parties. in which such epithCts
liar" and murderer" were freely ex-
changed. The prince proposed reso-
luton arraigning the government for
violating all the rights of the people
promised in the imperial manifesto of
October 80, 1905, and concluding with
the declaration that the people can
liberate their friends, fighters for free
dom, only when they themselves are
free.
The projects of law enumerated by
M. Stolypin include:
Freedom of speech and of the press.
Liberty Of faith.
Habeas corpus on the same basis as
other states
Local selfgovernment
Reform of the zemstvos.
Responsibility of officials.
Agrarian reforms.
Abolition of free entry of goods into.
Iladivostok.
Completion of the trans Siberian
abroad in Russian territory.
Popular education.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Food for the Starvinu.

Washington.-The United States ar
my transport Buford will take a load
OF provisions at once to China for
the relief of famine suffers. The war
department has advised the state de-
partment that this transport, which
Is now at San Francisco, is at the dis
posal OF the Red Cross for immediate
use IN the shipment. The transport
Will stop at Honolulu on it's way to
Shanghai and probably will carry
special party of congressman who are
10 visit Honolulu as guests Of the cit
liens OF the Hawaiian islands.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Laborers for Panama Canal.

Paris.--Leroy Parke, general agent
Of the war department, has been in
Europe for some months soliciting for.
eign labor for work upon the Panama
canal, and although he has encoun-
tered much opposition, he has succeed
ed since October in shipping $500
men, nearly all Spaniards or Italians,
and they are now going forward at the
rate of about 500 month. Notwith-
standing the inducements offered, both
the Spanish and Italian governments
were opposed to allowing their sub
jects to 60 to Panama.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
FIERCE RIOTS
IN ROUMAN|A
Soldiers Compelled to Fire
Upon Mob and Several
People Are Injured.
All the Army Reserves Have Been
Called to the CoIors to Restrain
Peasants and Suppress Agrarian
Troubles.

Bucharest, Roumania. -Plunderine
recommended on Friday at Vaslui
The peasant surrounded the admins
trative palace, intending to demolish
the building. Further plundering oc.
Cured throughout the town. Troops
interviewed and the major commanding
and several officers were wounded.
The soldiers then fired upon the mob
and wounded some of the rioters
Five of them were stabbed with bay.
onets.
Another collision occurred at Jassy
between troops and peasants trying
to invade that town. Major Colori was
wounded, two peasants were killed and
many were wounded
All the army reserves have now
been called to the colors with the re-
suit that the government has. plenty
OF troops to speedily suppress the
Agrarian troubles. Troops are being
hurried from all central points to
scenes of disturbances.
Large numbers of Jews from Jassy,
Vaslui, Botosahni, and other Moldi-
Wan towns which have been terrorized
by peasantry have arrived here. They
report that the Russian portion of the
population largely participated with
the peasants in the plundering and in
of Botosahni
The peasants succeeded in breaking
he Gordon and entering the town,
where they looted several residences.
A number of neighboring villages
were plundered
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Strike Situation Serious.

Hammond, Ind-The strike situa.
ton at east Chicago was intensified
on Wednesday, when $500 men, EN-
ployed by the Inland Steel company,
walked out. The reason for the walk
out was the demand of the laborers for
an increase of rs cents per day. Six
hundred men struck Tuesday at the
Interstate Steel company and 1,200
at the Republic Iron and Steel COM
pany, and the walkout of Wednesday
brings the total number of strikers to
over 5000 men.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Ex-senator Burton Out of Jail,

Ironton, Mo.-Joseph R. Burton, who
until his conviction in the federal
court was United States senator from
Kansas, was on Friday released from
the county Jail here, having completed
his sentence of six months imprison
ment imposed when he was fount
guilty of violating a federal statute
by appearing before a government de
partment as the paid representative
of an alleged "get-rich-quick" concern
of st. Louis. Burton entered the jail
at Ironton October 22, 1906.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Tranmen Reject Offers of the Rail
road Managers.

Chicago-Trainmen and conductors
On all railroad lines west of Chicago
have rejected the recent offer of the
general managers of the systems for
an increase in wages, according to In
formation reaching the Record Herald.
1t is stated further that the train
men have voted to strike IL their de-
mands are not granted. Unless the
railroads managers offer further con-
cessions strike of $4,000 men Is
likely to result.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Hash Nearly Killed Them.

Leavenworth, Kan.-More than 1000
veterans at the National Soldiers
home here are suffering from ptomains
poisoning, the result of eating meat
hash at breakfast. No deaths were re-.
ported. The first symptoms Of
trouble was manifested shortly after
breakfast. Soon the home hospital
was crowded with sick veterans, and
ambulances were rushing in from the
barracks with loads of them. All the
patients will recover.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
opening of TransvaaI Parliament.

Pretoria, Transvaal- THE first mar.
lament of the Transvaal colony un.
der the newly granted constitution
met here Thursday morning in the
hall in which the late President
Kruger presided for so many years
over the sittings of the upper house
or the erstwhile South African repub-
lie. In a speech at the opening of the
legislature the Earl of Seborne, high
commissioner for South Africa, dealt
with the all-important question of
Chinese labor.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
Seized Police Station and Directed
Arrest of Saloon Men.

New York.-A sensational series of
raids upon alleged violators of the
excise law was made Saturday under
the direction of Charles S. Whitman,
president of the board of city ma
gistrates. The magistrate forcibly
seized the West Forty-seventh street
station in the upper tenderloin, de.
posed the sergeant in command, di-
rected the arrest of several violators
of the excise law and then held an
improptu session of court in the police
station.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
TO EXPLORE THE CONGO.
Expedition Planning to Discover New
and Great Gold Fields.

Brussels.-After consultation with
the delegates of the American finan.
ciers who are interested in the enter
prise, the International Forestry com
pany, in which Messrs. Guggenheim
and Ryan of New York are largely in.
terested, has decided to send out
mineral prospecting expedition to the
Congo country, where it is anticipated
that great gold fields will be discov.
cred.
r. Dorsey Mohum, the we'll known
explorer, has been appointed to lead
the expedition. 1t will be composed
of Americans and Belgians and will
leave for Africa about May Is.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
ADMITS MANY MISTAKES.
Russian Government UphoIds consti.
tutional Democratic Party's Plans.

st. Peterburg.-After a long debate
in the lower house of parliment on
the formation of famine relief COM
missions, as proposed by the constitu
tlonal Democrats, Premier Stolypin
announced that the government fully
joined in the proposition and would
give full assistance to the work
OF the commission. The premier ad.
mltted the government made MANY
mistakes.
This announcement was the first ap.
prevail by the government of the policy
OF the constitutional Democratic party
The proposition was carried unani
mously.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
SERIOUS CHARGE MADE.
Peasant in Russian Parliament Says
Famine Relief Funds Are Stolen.

st. Petersburg.-Wi any fur
Their allusion to the ministerial declara-
ton of policy, the lower house of parli
ament on Wednesday began the actual
work of the session, with the organiza-
ton of committees, which, in Russia,
are elected instead of appointed. A
peasant deputy boldly charged the
government with stealing the money
intended for the relief of the famine
sufferers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
INCREASING ARMED FORCE.
RiotousIy Inclined Peasants of Rou.
mania Will be Suppressed.

Vienna.-The Austrian minister cf
the interior has ordered a considerable
increase in the number of gendarmes
upon the Roumanian frontier in order
to prevent riotous peasants from cross.
ing the frontier and starting disturb
ances in Austria. The opinion is ex.
pressed at the foreign Office that I'm.
less the Roumanian government
promptly suppresses the agrarian
movement in Roumania, 1t is liable to
soon get beyond control. 1t is be-
lieved here that the Russian agents are
responsible for the recent anti-Jewish
riots, their object being to inflame the
antisemites in the southern provinces
of Russia.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29
PLAN TURNED DOWN.
Roosevelt Doesn't Favor Conference
of Governors.

st. Paul.-Governor Johnson has re-
ceived letter from President Roose
welt in reply to the governors propo.
sition for conference of gvernors
and the various state railroad com.
missions to consider railroad ques.
tons. The governor said the letter
was personal and added: II have
nothing to say concerning it except
that President Roosevelt says there
will be no conferece of the governors
of the states"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-29

True polteness requires more at
tention to the feelings of others than
TO mere forms.