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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-02-12

BALTIMORE Md, Feb. 12-Sim-
pie but interesting ceremonies were
held at the general offices in this city
today IN celebration of the S0th birth
day of the BaltimNre a Ohio rail
road
1t WIS just so years ago today that
a group of .Rsltimore's foremost citi-
zens med at the residence of Philip
E. Thomas for the parncse of devils
ing a means which would enable in
tercourse between Baltimore and the
Ohio river, and thus overcome the
commercial advantages, line neigh
boring cities. Philadelphia and New
Work, enjoyed by reason of canals
The Baltimore IL Ohio is ,the Oldest
steam railroad in America. The first
stone in it's roadhed was la,iu in this
CITY on the Fourth of July, 1a2S, with
elaborate ceremony
Mules Were First Used.
sOVer its original length OF nine
miles mules dragged it's cars. Then
Peter Cooper, a manufacturer of New
York, brought to Baltimore a steam
engine-a curious concern something
like boiler with a stove-pipe IN 1t.
And Choppers engine broke down and
the horse express beat IT.
Then came the grasshepper engines
the embryonic germs OF fhe tremeD-
dous locomotives of today. So, his
torfca1ly the Baltimore & Onio is ex-
tremeiy interesting.
The road grew. 1t was the first to
cross the Allegheny mountains and tap
the great west. 1t grew, and thanks
to the energy. the executive ability,
the untiring labor of John w. Garrett
it thrived in time.
Many Early Vieissitudes.
But the story of it's early vfcissi-
tudes form the most interesting chap
ter in the roads career. Fhe original
project was to construct an all-rail
line from Baltimore to Wheeling.
The original company was capital
ICED at $5.00O,00o and was chartered
by the Maryland legislature. The cor
ner stone was laid by the illustrious
Charles Carroll. OF Carrollston, the
last surviving signer of the declara-
ZION OF Independence.
The line was constructed to Elliott's
Mills in 1880. and the company an
nomced to the Baltimore news, apers
that a brigade of cars" would run
three times each day between Balti-
more and Elliott's Mills, the fare Ting
twenty-five cents
Before the line had long bean in OPP
GRAFTON the motive power was changed |
from horses TO a sail car. built by
President Thomas brother. Evan !
Thomas.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
.$2,5oo,o0o FIRE AT
HEAD OF THE LAKES
ELEVATOR, 100000 BUSHELS OF
GRAIN AND OTHER PROPER.
TY BURNED.
HEAT DRIVES fIRtMtN AWAY
"
BLAZE HAS GOOD START BEFORE
DISCOVERED - ORIGIN: UM-yg
KNOWN. @@.1

DuAuth, Nov. 10. - Fire of an I'M
known origin last night caused the de.
struction of the Great Northern ele-
vator A in Superior, together with
600, 600 bushels of grain, principally
wheat, all of which was fully covered
by insurance. The elevator was own
ed by the Great Northern railroad.
but was leased to the A. D. Thomson
Grain company Of Duluth. The sparks
soon ignited the Grand Republic mill
on Tower bay slip, the Great Lakes
Dredge and Dock company dock, and
the Duluth-Superior Storage company,
which contained the finishing plant Of
the Webster Chair company.
Loss Will Reach $2,5oo,ooo.
1t is estimated that the aggregate
loss will reach $500, 900. The fire
started at the southeast corner of the
elevator A dock and before it was no.
tor. An alarm was turned in and four
fire tugs responded, but owing to the
intense heat they were driven out of
the slip and devoted all their energies
to saving the adjoining property. The
steamers w. A. Parent and w. A. Rog-
ers were in the elevator A slip load
ing wheat and the latter was to take
out 100000 of wheat to-day.
Steamers Towed to Safety.
The steamers Utica, Alva and Chill
were on the opposite side of the slip
at a merchandise dock and were pull
ed out by tugs to save them from de-
%struction. The Globe elevator, owned
by the Peavey company, was on fire,
and for a time it looked as though it
would go, but the firemen succeeded
in eXtinguishing the flames. The blaze
also spread to the sawmill property of
the Peyton, kimball & Barber compa-
ny, but this likewise was extinguish.
ed before any serious damage was
done.
Property Destroyed.
AT ! O'Clock this morning the fire
seemed to be under control. although
still burning fiercely in some of the
doomed structures. The combined de-
partments of Duluth and Superior are
combating the conflagration. The
property destroyed at this hour is as
follows:
One Great Northern elevator. Min
kota flour mill and elevator. Freeman
mill and elevator. Grand Republic mill
and elevator. Commander mill and ele-
vator. twenty dwellings and several
small warehouses lining the bay front.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
FINANCIAL SHY
IS CLEARING UP
GREAT CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
LOOKED FOR BY BANKERS
THIS WEEK.
ARRANGE TO MOVE The CROPS
NEW YORK SENDING ALL MONEY
THAT CAN BE SPARED TO
. INVEST. AND SOUTH.
o. Ea

St. Paul, Nov. 12.-"Ihis week will
see a great change for the better in
the financial situation," said Judge j
| w. Lusk, president of the National
German-Ameriean bank, yesterday on
his return from the East. New York
and Boston bankers feel the trouble is
over.
The improvement is due to two
main sources the importation OF
gold, which for the two weeks ending
next Saturday night will aggregate
$50, 0O0, 900. it is estimated, and add
tional currency from the government
treasury.
Moving the Crops.
1--WE saw the president and the sec.
rotary at Washington, and satisfac.
tory arrangements were made to fur.
nish the money for the movement of
crops in the Northwest.
The country has outgrown the sup
ply of currency obtainable all at once
in the fall for the movement of large
crops" he added. present high
prices demand more currency than is
to be had all at once, with the banks
keeping at hand the legal reserve re.
quired."
Gold From Europe.
New York, Nov. 10. - The most
eventful week in the financial history
of the present generation closed on
Saturday with conditions much clear.
! er than a week before.
The restoration of comparative Sc.
curity in New York was obtained by
demands upon the money markets of
Europe. The demand for gold from
Europe came at a favorable time in
some respects for the outward move
ment of American products, of which
the leading ones are cotton and wheat.
Under the actual conditions Europe
must pay substantially in gold for the
balance.of exported products which is
being created in favor of this country
by every bale of cotton and carload OF
wheat placed on shipboard for export
Situation Cleared Up.
New York bankers are sending for
ward to the West and South all the
currency they a spare, especially
to those points where in their judg
ment it is most needed.
The new week opens with the bank
ing situation in New York cleared W
so far as any danger of further fail
ures or suspensions is concerned with
the banking reserves comparatively
intact and with more than s25, O0O, O0(
on the ocean to strengthen them dur
ing this week.
The steady Improvement in inan
cial conditions in New York was re
lected in strong closing quotations il
the stock market.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
$4,000 vANIsHEs FROM RIG.
Paymaster Is Robbed of Payroll While
on WAY to Paw Men.


Trinidad, Colo, Nov. IA. = Checks
and currency to the amount of $4,000,
intended to pay the wages of the Car
bon Coal and Coke company's miners
at Cokedale, were stolen yesterday
afternoon while in transit in a stage
from the Longsdale railroad station to
the camp, distance of only two miles.
Charles Macomber, driver OF the
stage, vas arrested on suspicion, but
he declares he knows nothing about
the supposed theft. The money pack
ages had been carelessly thrown with
other express matter into the stage.
Abraham Thompson, the paymaster,
accompanied by Jim Williams, a
guard, left here at dusk last night to
drive to Cokedale. The money, which
was contained in two canvas sacks,
was placed under the seat. According
to the story of Thompson, they en-
countered no one en- route to their
camp, but when they arrived at Coke
dale and the miners had formed in
line to receive their pay it was dis
covered that the money was missing.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
news of THE WEEK m fPII0ME
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.

Secretary Metcalf has issued a state
ment estimating that s125,041 1893 will
be required for the naval service for
the year commencing July 1, 1908.
Complete rural service m Carver
county. Minnesota. has been ordered.
effective on Dec. /. The total number
of routes in the county will be eight
cen.
Maj. Gen. j. Franklin Bell, chief Of
staff of the army, has resumed his du-
ties at the war department after a
months stay at a health resort in New
York state. He is in excellent health.
The comparative statement of the
governments receipts and expendi-
lures show that for the month of Oc-
tober, 1907, the receipts were $50 ,02S,-
945 and the Expenditures were $50, 554.-
357, leaving a surplus for the month
of about s434, 600. For October, 1906.
the surplus was about $500, 900.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Peonla Talked About.

The duke Of Abruzzi denies the re
port that he Is engaged to Miss Kath.
crime E1kins, daughter Of Senator Ste.
phen B. Elkins.
Albert Trostel, one of the best
known tanners of Milwaukee and the
United States, died at his home in
Milwaukee after an illness of several
months.
G. w. Sanders, superintendent OF
construction n bridges and chief en-.
gineer for the Copper Range railroad,
ls dead Of pneumonia at Calumet.
Mich.
Rev. Daniel r. Lucas, a national fig
ure in religious and G. A. r. circles,
died suddenly at his home at %Indianap-
oils. DR.. Lucas was one of the foun-
ders Of Drake university.
Jefferson Polk, president Of the Des
Moines Pioneer Street railway and in
terurban magnate and multimillion-
aire, died at his home in Des Moines
after a two weeks illness.
James e. Maher has been appointed
deputy clerk of the United States SUI
preme court. Mr.. Maher has been con-
nected with the court for the last forty
years and for much of that time has oc-
cupied the position of journal clerk.
Daniel Carrigg, widely known to the
sporting fraternity throughout the
West, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, OF
Bright's disease. Twenty years ago
Carrigg was proprietor of a big gam
bling house and was wealthy, but lost
most of his fortune.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
BANKERS TO
SEND CASH TO WEST
SECRETARY CCRTELYOU EXERT
ING ALL HIS INFLUENCE TO
AID THE WEST.
HELP TO MOVE GRAIN CROP
ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE TO
PLACE TRADE ON A NORMAL
BASIS.

Washington, Nov. 14.-While there
is an increasing degree of confidence
among the officials of the treasury
that the situation in e'monetary
world is oon to improve materially,
they are not prepared to- demonstrate
conclusively that they have positive
assurances to that effect.
Secretary C%ortelyou is in constant
communication with the bankers and
leading %tinanciers of the East and
West, n yesterday he announced
that he is eXerting all the influence he
can bring to bear to induce banks in
New York to forward cash to no
Western banks, that their acquisitions
be honored out of their reserve on de-
post in New York.
Conditions Improving.
The secretary believes that condi-
lions have SO greatly improved that
the New York banks holding cash as
The central reserve agents of the
Wesetrn banks should be able to meet
requests for cash payments.
This is what the secretary is urging
shall be done and he is confident that
his wishes in this respect will be met
by the central reserve banks in New
York and that the banks in the West
ern centers where the tightness of
money is severely felt will be helped
out from his time forward. 1t is in
timated that the secretary has other
plans for helping to improve the situa-
ton, but he declines to discuss the
subject or to say in advance when he
can be expected TO make public the
details of any plans which he may
evolve to that end.
Help Grain Trade.
Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 14.-Grain
checks will be in circulation through
out the towns and surrounding coun-
try and will be accepted as cash by
jobbers. as we'll as merchants and
small business houses, beginning
Thursday morning. Thirty banks have
agreed to support the plan.
The plan has been in operation
four days in the Northern territory,
and the grain has started to move,'
said }. l.. MaCaull of Minneapolis,
chairman of yesterdays meeting.
" and there has been no complaint
from any quarter. We do not expect
that there will be any extraordinary
movement of grain as a result of his
plan, but we expect a normal market,
which will prove a great relief to the
! present financial situation"
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
BANKER WALSH ON TRIAL.
Defense Holds Good Securities Were
Substituted for Funds Used.

Defense Holds Good Securities Were
Substituted for Funds Used.
Chicago, Nov. 13.-John R. Walsh,
former president of the Chicago Ma
tional bank, was placed on trial yes
terday on the charge of misappropria-
ton of the funds of that institution,
in the United States distric court. The
indictment contained 100 counts.
The chief issue is whether or not
Mr.. Walsh used the funds of the bank
to aid his own enterprises.
The defense will be technical. The
government charges that Mr.. Walsh
substituted for the money it is alleged
he took from the bank securities that
were of a doubtful character. The de-
Tense will contend these securities
were good and that nobody ever lost
a dollar because of them.
The greater part of yesterday was
consumed in the selection of the jury.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
PRESIDENT HITS
AT PAPER TRUST
RooSEVELT'S AID ENLISTED BY
PUBLISHERS IN ATTEMPT TO
CURB COMBINE.
URGE ABOLITION OF TARIFF
Recommendation TO BE MADE
= TO coNeREss-BoNAPARTE
IT.: TO GET BUSY. g..
URGE ABOLITION OF TARIFF

Washington, Nov. 9. - President
| Roosevelt yesterday indicated to mem
bers of the committee on paper of the
American Newspaper Publishers as
sociation that he will recommend to
| congress the abolition Of the tariff on
press paper, wood pulp and the wood
that goes into the manufacture of pa
per; also that he will make a recon-
mendation to the department of JUS
tice that 1t take Immediate steps to
ascertain whether the antitrust laws
are being disobeyed by the manufac-
turers of paper.
Shows Combine Exists.
The promise Of the recommends.
tons by the president was obtained
after he had listened to the representa-
lions of the members of the committee
and to a petition from the national or.
CARNATIONS of printers, stereotypers@
pressmen and etchers. all of which set
forth the evidence of a combination on
the part Of the manufacturers of pa
per for the purposes of controlling the
output, regulating and greatly increas
ing the price and otherwise making
hindersome regulations governing the
source of supply and delivery of pa.
per.
The appreciation of the association
was expressed to the president at the
action by the federal government last
year in ordering the dissolution of the
General Paper company. His atten
ton was then called to a conspiracy
by which it was alleged the manufac
turers OF news-print paper have ar
ranged for an advance of s12 per ton
upon the supply of that article for the
current year, and an additional ad
vance next year averaging $40 pei
ton.
Imposes Big Burden.
This, 1t was explained, means a bur
den imposed on the printing industry
of the country Of $40, 900, 600 for the
present and $40, 600, 900 for the coming
year.
The excuse for these advances or
the part of the p~apermakers is the cost
of wood and labor having increased
This excuse was met in the argument
to the president by the statement thai
the published report Of the largest
manufacturing plant of news print
paper gives the increased cos of ma
terial n manufacture, including the
expense Of administration and sales
as about GA cents per ton.
Appeal to the Courts.
The committee on leaving the White
House seemed highly gratified by the
assurances from the president. Evi
dence, 1t was said, for the action o
the department of justice is being sup
piled and it is believed that the meth
DDS of the paper combine may soon be
tested in the courts.
The history and facts which make
up the protest were presented by Mr.
Mccormick. after which the presiden'
indicated the action he would take
An investigation OF the ~so-called pap
trust has been in progress for some
time by the department of justice, ant
1t is understood that the presiden'
will Immediately call for the facts
which have been ascertained up to the
present time.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Domestic.

Domestic.
Benjamin n. Tallmadge OF Denver.
tried in the federal court at Roswell.
N. NJ, on the charge Of land fraud. has
been acquitted.
Gray Gables. formerly the summer
home of Grover Cleveland at Buzzard's
Bay, has been sold to George D.
Flynn, a brewer.
Henry II. Warner OF Boston has
been appointed receiver for the Arnold
Print works at North Adams. 1t is
understood that the cause of the en-
barrassment was the inability Of the
company to renew maturing loans held
by savings banks.
The Japanese cruisers which were
sent to the jamestown exposition have
arrived at Manila on their way home.
A series Of entertainments have been
planned for the officers and men and
every courtesy will be shown them by
the insular army and nav
Senator Bourne Of Oregon is trying
to have Archbishop Ireland OF st. Paul
act as n OF the judges of essays to
W buDIIIiSlCu vi IuG SuDJcCL Oh why
President Roosevelt Should Be Re.
nominated" Bourne has offered a
prize Of $1,000 for the best essay and
has invited two other prominent men
to act with Archbishop ireland as
judges.
While. searching among old papers
in the attic Mrs. M. X. Covington of
Huntsville, Ohio, discovered what pur-
ports to be the last will and testament
of John Bunyan, author Of "Pilgrim's
Progress" The document Is OF parch-
ment, yellow with age. and is dated
Dec. %, 1905. Mrs. Covington's ances-
tors came from England many years
ago.
Mrs. George Osborne died at Seattle
and the attending physicians assign
the cause Of death to bubonic plague.
There have been three deaths in her
family ! two weeks, one Of which was
caused by the plague.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Crimes and Criminals.

Guy Condit, cashier of the First Ma.
tional bank at Kingfsher, Okla, at.
tempted to kill himself by slashing his
throat. He will recover. His accounts
r correct.
Rev. d. w. Thompson. until recently
pastor of the lie Grand Christian
church at Marshalltown, Iowa, was ar.
rested at Truro, charged with using
the mails to defraud.
six men were arraigned in the police
court at New York charged with rob.
berries from the Adams Express com.
pany, which 1t is alleged will aggre.
gate between 100000 and $4,000.
j. b. Cartwright. a liveryman OF
Culbertson, Mont, committed suicide
by swallowing carbolic acid. He was
Respondent. His uncle and father had
set the example several years ago.
Following an indictment on a charge
Of attempted criminal assault, Alex
johnson, a negro, was taken from the
Jail at Cameron, Tex, by a mob of 500
men and hanged to a tree in the cour
house yard.
Marie Carmella Mongolluzzo, an
aged Italian woman, was murdered and
robbed Of $500, the savings OF her hus.
band, while she was at work in a shed
In the ear Of her home in Southwest
Philadelphia.
Emmett Dalton, the noted former
bandit, has been pardoned by Gov
Hoch of Kansas. Dalton was sentenc
ed to the %penitentiary for life for TAX
ing part in the Coffeyville bank rob
berry in 1892.
Arthur Rogers, a wealthy farme,
living two miles from Bancroft, Mich.
cut his wife's throat with a razor and
then committed suicide with the same
weapon. Rogers is supposed to have
been demented.
Yielding to the strain under which
: he had labored for several days, James
r. Boyd. cashier of the Huntsville
Bank and Trust company, killed him
self at his home at Huntsville, Ala.
firing a bullet through his brain. Init
mate friends of the dead man sa,
that he labored under high nervous
strain for several days and feared tina,
q run would be made on his bank ant
that there would not be enough none,
to weather the storm.
Abe Sumroll and Hank Lucas. ne
groes, lynched at Vinegar Bend
Ala. Sullroll murdered Jules Boaz, q
young Cuban, on Monday night las,
while he was trying to arres him TO,
burglary. Lucas crime was the pro
tecting Of Sumroll from a police posse
Joe Dean, an eighteen-year-old boy
called Julia Johnson, a girl ins hel
teens, to the door OF her boarding
house at Norfolk, Va, and shot her
through the abdomen. He then sho,
himself IN the temple. Both will die
Jealousy IL said TO have been the
EtS4Eatl fraRfA5<E fFtGHaf -
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
NO DINNER READY; TRAGEDY.
crazed Man Kills Wife and Fatally
Shoots Her Sister.

Wilmington, Del, Nov. 12.-Crazed
with jealousy, Fred NJ. Underhill last
night shot and killed his wife and
then turned the revolver upon her sis
ter, Rachel Nelson, firing five bullets
into her body. She is also expected
to die. After committing the murder
Underhill walked to the home of Mag
istrate Robertson and gave himself
into custody.
Returning home and finding no neal
awaiting him, Underhill secured his
revolver and going to the home Of Vii
liam Nelson, he found his wife and
her sister there. Without a word he
fired two bullets into his wife's head
and then turned the revolver upon the
sister.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Mrs. Josie Smith, aged twenty.n,ne,

Mrs. Josie Smith, aged Twenty-Five,
committed suicide at her home in
Kansas City because, as she stated in
a note, she was homesick to return to
her parents in New Orleans and be-
cause Of her intense love for her hus-
band, which she said made her jealous.
United States District Judge Garland
at ST. Louis sentenced N. B. Rogers,
formerly postmaster at S%teelevtlle,
Mo-, to six months at hard labor In the
Iron county Jail, following a plea of
guilty to a charge of embezzlement Of
s54. In addition Rogers was fined
the amount of the shortage.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
1000 HOMELESS.

Seven and a Half Blocks Burned Over
at Iquique, Chile.
Iquique, Chile. Nov. 12.-This port
has been visited by a fire, the biggest
since 1882, which has entailed losses
amounting to over 81. 900, 900. Seven
and a half blocks were burned over.
The property destroyed was mostly
dwellings and no less than 1000 peo-
pie L homeless.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Indicted for Lynchino.

Guthrie, o. T., Nov. IA. = Mike
White, c. A. Green and Frank Will
liams, charged with leading the mob
that lynched a negro murderer at
Usage Junction two months ago, were
indicted for first degree murder by a
federal jury at Pawnee yesterday.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
Killed in Fight at Dance.

Cambridge, Ohio, Nov. 12.-Char1es
Caldwell of Byesyille was killed and
several others seriously injured as the
result of a fight at a dance at Tra;,
Run. a mining camp near here. last
night.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-11-15
URGE SETTLERS TO DAM.
Reservoir Provisions to Solve Waite
Question is Needad

Pierre, S. D., Nov. 10.-1f the new
settlers west Of the Missouri do not
build dams this fall to store the wa.
ter which pours down the little
draws on their claims while the
snow is melting in the spring and the
spring rains are on, it will be only
because they refuse to take advice,
which every paper printed in this part
of the state is pouring out to them
every week. The water question in
that part of the state is one which will
have to be solved, and for the present
dams are the most convenient make.
shift.