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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07

GOVERNMENT QUITS TRIAL
AGAINST RAILROADS.
Chicago & Alton Railroad Was
Charged With Receiving Rebates
From Standard OIL Company-Judge
Lands Orders Grand Jury to In
vestigate Entire Matter.

1t is said in federal court circles of
Chicago that the Chicago & Alton will
receive the expected Immunity
bath" According to this information
the investigation of rebate charges in
connection with the Standard Oil case
will be dropped.
In spite of the demand of Judge
Lands for grand jury inquiry into
the acts of the Alton. it is believed
that the grand jury will be discharged
without making the investigation.
The full effect of the immunity
bath will be the dissipation of all
the evidence which the department of
justice has been gathering against the
principal railroads of the west and
south which are charged with having
given rebates to the Standard Oil
company.
Judge Landis' judicial indignation,
and his action in causing a special
grand jury to be impaneled to in
vestigate the entire matter, spread
CONSERVATION among the railway Of
ficials.
The courts plainly indicated deter
mination to send some of the mag
mates to Jail for criminal conspiracy
created CONSERVATION among the rail-
road men.
Judge Landis' action seemingly
placed in danger Of Imprisonment at
least so railroad men of all degrees
from freight clerks to president. The
ruling of the department of justice has
treasured the objects of threatened
grand jury inquisition and traffic
matters will proceed with undisturbed
tranquility after the decision is an
nounced.
Although it Is certain the Alton and
its officials will get an Immunity
bath" and almost equally certain that
the other roads and st. Louis bridge
companies will receive the forgive
pess of the government for acts in
connection with the Standard Oil re.
bates, there is still Slight fear that
adverse public criticism may cause
the government to select one more
victim rather than entirely wipe out
the result of its agents work.
In the collection of data the gov
eminent employed 100 men, inclui-
ing a number Of high class lawyers
and expert accountants.
The estimated cost of gathering the
evidence which is to be rendered
valueless, except as against the
Standard Oil company, is s25O,OOO
The appropriation for this purpose
was 100000 Despite the immunity
grant to the railroads, shippers
agents why may have entered Into
conspiracy to do an unlayful act
can be prosecuted and sent to prison.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
PLATFORM DRoPs-TEN KILLED.
Crowd Was Attending Lottery Draw
ing in Portugal.

Oporto, Portugal, Sept. Ia plat
form erected by local newspaper on
the occasion Of lottery drawing col
lapsed, hurting to the ground about
500 people, of whom 10 were killed
and 80 injured. Later it became
known that $50 persons were hurt,
many seriously King Charles tele-
graphed his coincidence to the mayor.
The city is in mourning.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07

Lowell, Mass.-Harry M. Maynard,
a young aeronaut, fell 400 feet to his
death late Saturday afternoon at Lake
View, pleasure resort near here,
while 1000 spectators held their breath
in sickening suspense. Maynard's
home is in Lynn. He was employed
to give an exhibition by the Stafford
Balloon club of Boston.
Maynard took two parachutes fer
1000 feet in the air he cut loose from
the balloon. He shot earthward like
bullet more than half the distance.
Within 400 feet from the ground one
parachute opened. Maynards employ
er, who had fired the shot telling the
aeronaut to cut loose, yelled, Hold
1t, hold it," meaning for Maynard to
use only one parachute, not to try to
cut loose from the first, depending on
the second to open in the short dis
lance he had to drop.
Maynard either took the risk or
failed to hear, for he cut loose. The
other parachute did not open, and his
BODY shot down, falling on the roof OF
the bowling alley. The sound was
heard above the screams of the thou
SANDS VINO had watched him fall. Every
lone In the mans body was broken.
Maynard was dead three minutes after
he struck
BaIIoonlst Is Lost.
Wlnsted, Conn.-Carried by a brisk
WIND lar out of her intended path, Miss
Carrie Meyers, a professional balloon
isO, mad nerve-racking experience
saturday night when she was dropped
IN half-submerged forest, inhabited
ny Wildcats, and was delayed for hours
IN nndlng her way out of the woods.
II was only by chance that she was
rescued this morning by hunting
party almost exhausted from exposure
and hunger.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
Strong Evidence Of Trust.

Topeka, Kansas.-The state finished
taking testimony in the case Of the In
ternational Harvester company, &C
cused Of violating the antitrust laws.
Attorney General Jackson says the
evidence is stronger than he had ex-
pected to secure.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
At the Spokane.

The following are the bookings for
the month Of September at the Spo-
kane theater:
September 3-Musicale, Sherman
Clay company
September e. alomy Jane"
September S-9-"The Isle of Spice"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
AFTER sULTAN's CROWN.
Europe Delivers Ultimatum to Abdul
Hamid.

Il Constantinople.-W amounts to
an ultimatum has been served upon
Sultan Abdul Hamid by the German
ambassador here. While couched in
diplomatic language, the message,
alton by the c. P. R. and Gand Trunk
Montreal is said to be under consider
coming straight from Prince Won Bue-
low, the German chancellor, warns the
Sultan that he must Immediately de-
eide upon program for reforms with
in his domain. Failure to do so, it is
broadly intimated, will cost him the
throne.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
EIGHTEEN DIE IN WRECK.
Sixty Others Seriously Injured in the
Crash

Charleston, H., Sept. Eighteen
people were killed and 60 more Sc
riously injured in collision between
a passenger car and express car on
the Nation & Charleston electric
lines. Crews of both cars say they
had orders to go ahead, and the two
cars crashed into each other one mile
from here. The road is operated by
telephone signal system.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07

Oran, Algeria, Sept. 3.-The trans
port Nive sailed for Casa Blanca with
a battalion of the foreign legion The
Shamrock left today with a battalion.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
Farmers Combine.

"A meeting Of the farmers has been
caiied Tor September to secure the
merging of the 200 farmers elevators
~ minnesota into a central organiza-
'lon. The object is to secure better
grading and marketing.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07

A lot OF men imagine that they know
all about the financial question he
cause they happen to know a man who
lives next door to bank.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07
THE WASHINGTON is FAST
One of the Best Second-CIass Ships
in the U. S. Navy.

In recent test of her speed and
batteries the cruiser Washington,
named in honor of the Evergreen
state of the northwest. proved her.
self, after being a year in commits
sion, still to be one of the crack
cruisers in the navy, outranking her
sister ship, the Tennessee, by more
than knot on her speed trial
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-09-07

~ Is awfully easy to be good natured
~nen things are coming your way.
, 1907-01-18
NAMED AS MEMBER
BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

DIR. Grace Raymond Hebard of this
city was notified this morning by Hon
"A ID. Cook Of Cheyenne, superintend.
ent of public instruction for the state
of Wyoming, that she had been ap.
pointed by Governor Brooks as a
member of the state board of exam.
iners, to hold office until the first
Monday in January, 1909. Mr.. Cook
enclosed a list of the other members
of the board, who are Prof. c. r. At
kinson, superintendent of the Sher-
idan schools, and Prof. w. S. Young of
Douglas, superintendent of schools
for Converse county. The retiring
members of the board are DR.. S. S.
Stockwell of Cheyenne; Miss Samp-
son, county superintendent of schools
of Laramie county, and Prof. Matheny,
superintendent of the Casper public
schools. The board will meet at the
office of State Superintendent Cook at
Cheyenne and r~eorgani2e shortly.
, 1907-01-18
Old Matter Revived.

The Cheyenne Tribune of Wednes,
day reprinted a special dispatch from
Fort Collins to one of the Denver~pa
pers concerning the operations of the
Denver, Laramie and Northwestern
railroad, whose Wyoming offices are
in this city. The special was reprinted
in this paper several weeks ago, only
this time the new route is by way OF
Tie Siding. The local officers of the
company at the time said there was
nothing new in the matter, and that
much of the right of way to Laramie
had been secured. They laugh at the
assertion that the road is a Hartman
enterprise.
, 1907-01-18
THE SAME "OLE OLSON"
AT OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY

Ben Hendricks, one of our leading
character actors n singing comedi-
ans, has studied the taste of the public,
by submitting for their approval sew.
figure, and has found that "Ole Olson"
blonde of hair, rudy of cheek, ingen-
ious as to manner, unsophisticated in
worldly ways, but honest to the core,
and willing to incur any danger in be-
half of his friends n the triumph of
right, is one of the few stage charac-
ters that have retained their popular
ity despite the ever-changing tastes
of the theater-going public. AS a
play "Ole Olson lays no claim to be-
ing a masterpiece, but ii is perhaps the
best of the Swedish dialect series and
it possesses a popular charm. 1t will
be presented at the Opera House to
morrow, Saturday night, January 10,
by an excellent company, rehearset
and headed by Ben Hendricks and q
thoroughly enjoyable performance, en-
livened by song, dance and specially, i!
assured. The company to present tn,
play is the same that has played it thiI
season in New York, Brooklyn, Boston
st. Louis and other cities. Seats nov
on sale at Laramie drug store. Prices
rs, so and 80 cents.
, 1907-01-18
New Bills In the House.

Special to The Republican.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 1S.-The TO!
lowing new bills were introduced in
the house today:
H. B. No. 80, by committee No. 3,
providing for the reorganization of the
state militia.
H. B. No. 40, by Mr.. Hoge, relating
to the method of administering chloro-
form and other like drugs.
In committee of the whole, with Mr..
Brewster in the chair, the house con-
sidered, H. B. No. "a, providing a ic'
ense fee for the sale of cigarettes; No.
2s. transferring the deaf and dumb asy-
lum buildings at Cheyenne to the mill
tary department of the state, n NO.
30, by the Albany county delegation,
transferring the abandoned peniten'
tiary TO the university at Laramie.
Senate sends Back Bill.
House bill No. 6, the legislative meas
ure, was returned from the senate
that body refusing to concur in the
recommendations of the committee II
the matter of the reduction from $500
, 1907-01-18
THREE CENTS
IN COLORADO
LEGISLATOR PROPOSES REDUc-
TON OF PASSENGER FARES
IN CENTENNIAL STATE.
Says Action Is in Line With Similar
Action in Other States and Is Due
the PeopIe-SeveraI Accidents Re-
ported n Other Railroad Items
From Different Sources.
Three-cent Bill in Colorado

Senator Scott of Cripple Creek has
introduced a bill in the Colorado sen.
ate compelling the railroads of the
state to charge not more than 3 cents
a mile. He says they were charging
3 and 6 cents in the mountains, while
on the prairies and up to the Wyoming
line the fare was 8 cents, and it should
be uniform. The measure, he said,
was in harmony with legislation being
enacted in other states for the reduc.
ton of railway fares. The bill calls
for the new rate to go into effect
July l.
, 1907-01-18
PEOPLE OF KINGSTON AWAKE TO
NEW HORROR THAT BEFELL
THE SHIPPING ON HAIR
Dor LAST NIGHT.
Hamburg Steamer Goes Ashore and
Lighthouse Submerged From Wash
of Tremendous Agitation-Wire-
less Message Says School House
Went Down in Earthquake, Ninety
Children Being Among Victims.

Kingston, Jamaica. Jan. 1S.-When
the wretched people of the city awoke
this morning they faced a new horror
The tremendous ~upheavel of the ocean
had caused a tidal wave and the ship
ping in the harbor had suffered ter,
ribly during the night.
Steamer Goes Ashore.
The Hamburg steamer Prinz Waldo.
mere went ashore near her sister ship,
the Princess Louise, which was strand
ed on Christmas day. This new dis.
aster was caused by the submergence
of the lighthouse and the change of
the channel by the wave.
City May Go Into Sea.
The shores of the city are sinking
every hour and it seems almost GER
tain the city will soon slide into the
sea A feeling of awful terror pre-
walls and thousands are fleeing to the
hills.
, 1907-01-18
House Not Busy.

Special 70 The Republican.
cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 1S.-In the
house yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Sam
mons house bill No. 5, providing an in.
crease OF the salary of the state pure
food commissioner from $1,000 to
$4,000, and Mr.. CAROLS bill, No. IA,
providing for the withdrawal from the
state treasury of $3.50 now on deposit
as insurance money, for the mainte,
nance of the hospital at Sheridan, were
dnced a Dill pTuyrunns rr ~-
ton OF an elevator at the capitol build
ing and for such other improvements
as are necessary.
, 1907-01-18
SENATOR KE|STER IN
SERIOUS CONDITION

TO 1920 of the appropriation to nav the
ehlet clerks of the N and house
lor preparing for the printer the Jour.
nails of the respective bodies.
Bills On Second Readina.
The following bills were read sec.
ond time and referred to appropriate
committees; Joint resolution No 1
and house bills Nos. 29, 81. 26 and 90.
! h bounty bill, house bill No. 2, was
passed by the house, with one vote
against. The wolf bounty was raised
from 81 to IS, otherwise the measure
was as it came from the committee.
The Liability Bill.
Mr.. Kinney's bill, house bill No 70
repeating the law regarding the limit
Ing OF damages in case of death by ac.
cident, was passed. This bill amends
section 3449, Revised Statutes of Wy
omtng, 1899, as follows:
Every such action shall be brought
by and in the name of, the personal
representative of such deceased per.
son; and the amount recovered in ev.
cry such action shall be distributed to
the parties and in the proportion pro-
yided by law, in relation to the dlstriyn.
ton Of personal estate left by persons
dying interstate. In every such case.
the jury shall give such reasonable
damages as they shall deem fair and
just, n the amount so recovered shall
not be subject to any of the debts or
of the deceased"
The house then took recess until 9
this afternoon.
, 1907-01-18
Oraanizina GRADING Outfit

Fitzpatrick Bros. & Collins, who Sc.
cured the contract for the grading of
the Athol hill cutoff and the forty
miles of double track between Raw.
Inns and Wamsutter. are organizing a
grading outfit at Lincoln, Neb., con
sisting of 200 men and more han a
thousand horses. which will be brought
to this state. The horses will be in,
spected by a state deputy veterinarian
and again at the grading camps. The
work on the two jobs will be rushed
, 1907-01-18
A HUGE FORTUNE
FOR LEASE Of LIFE
CARNEGIE TELLS DEAN OF CLIO.
YER CLUB THAT HE WOULD
LIKE TO BUY TEN YEARS.
Colonel Mcclure Says He viii Not Be
Afraid When Message Comes
From the Other Side and He Be-
lieves Carnegie Feels the Same
Way-Hersey Going to Pole.

New York, Jan. 1S.-The Sun today
says that at the dinner of the Clover
club Colonel Mcclure, the aged editor
and dean of the club, made a speech
aecrying fear of old age, saying:
When death calls me shall no be
AFRAID. Mr.. Carnegie, how ever, said
to me recently that he would give
SZoo'oOO to have a lease of life, and
not for SO very long. He would give
1t for ten years only. don't think
Carnegie is afraid of death, but he
clings to life
, 1907-01-18
ORIENTAL
QUESTION
JAPANESE MATTER ON PACIFIC
COAST DISCUSSED IN LIT
ERARY CLUB MEETING.
Principal Speakers Are Lewis Tyvold
and Frank Spafford, Two Sides of
Proposition Being Presented-Ma-
ny Ladies Present at open Meet
ing of the Club.

Much interest was displayed last
night in the meeting of the Literary
club at the Carnegie library, when the
subject Of the Japanese controversy
was discussed.
The meeting was an open one and
there were a number CT visitors pres
ent including several ladies. E. N. Rog-
ers presided and appointed DR.. H. G,
Knight as critic for the evening and
Rev. Lansdell as president.
Tyvold on Japanese Question.
The presidents side of the contro'
versy vas presented by Lewis TyVoid'
who related the events which led up 10
the exclusion of the Japanese from the
public schools in San Francisco and
the placing of them in a separate
school. He spoke Of the storm or pro
test which arose in California as to inc
result of the references to the matter
in the presidents message,and the lac
that the Californians had entirely mis-
taken the purport of those messages
Mr.. Tyvold was of the opinion that th'
state of California has been at leas
morally guilty of an insult to the jap
anese nation and Of placing he teael
al government in a false position.
Japanese as Menace.
Frank Spafford then took up IN
side Of the controversy as 1t present
itself to the Californians. He sal
that the people of the western coas
are the pest oble to judge of what
best for themselves. The state Is owe
run with Japanese, who are able l
work for much less than Is the whl'
laborer because Injured by centur'
Of hard living to sustain life on niue
less than will satisfy the white ma
In pla ,es in California the Jap has .
ready supplanted the white mar ai
has orientalixed the towns. The Js
has a different standpoint OF mora
, 1907-01-18
NORTH PARK CATTLE
TOPPED THE MARKET.

William Kerr and his son, Bruce
Kerr, of Walden, returned this after,
noon from South Omaha, where they
had been with a shipment of two car
loads of cattle. One carload consisted
of thirty-six head of 2-year-old steers
averaging 1902 pounds for which the
owner received $500, the highest price
of the day. The cattle were a splendid
lot and the feeder was warmly con
graduated. The cows sold for s3.S5
Mr.. Kerr and his son will leave tomor
row for their home at Walden.
, 1907-01-18
TIDAL WAVE CAUSED
BY GREAT UPHEAVAL

The city of Kingston is in bad shape
and is still s~mouldering, with about
500 people reported killed and injured
Shifting of Channel.
"The channel in the harbor of Kings
ton has shifted. This cannot be
vouched for. The battleships Missouri
and Indiana entered the harbor safely,
Foul hundred are dead and 500 are in
the hospitals. Indications are that
many were slightly injured"
Another Shock Felt.
Another severe shock occurred to-
day and considerable damage was
done, but no particulars were given.
There is nothing like order in Kings.
ton and one flash read: Half the
town dead and the other half crazy"
, 1907-01-18
Reported Favorably.
Special to The Republican.

Cheyenne, Wyo,, Jan. lS.-The bill
by the Albany county delegation, pro
viding for the transfer Of the old peni-
Tertiary buildings and grounds al Lar
annie to the University Of Wyoming
for the use of the experiment station
and agricultural college, was reported
favorably by the house in committee OF
| the whole, and it is believed 1t Will
pass. Practically the same measure
passed both houses at the last session
Of the legislature, but was vetoed b!
the governor because of some defec
in the title.
, 1907-01-18
FIRST NEW CITIZEN
UNDER NEW STATUTE.

Fred Matthes. a native of Germany,
who came to this country fourteen
years ago and who took out his first
papers in February, 1905. was today
made a citizen of the United States,
the first under the federal act of Sep
TENDER &c, 1906. F. w. OFT and Rich
ard Eberhardt were witnesses in the
case.
, 1907-01-18
Chief Killed By Mob.

Smolinsk, Russia, Jan. 1S.-The
chief of the rural administration, Krol-
lau, was killed Thursday night by a
school boy named Boriookoff, as the
chief was leaving a concert hall. The
boy, who fired five shots from a re-
volver at his victim, was Immediately
shot and killed by an officer. who was
in attendance upon NJ. Krollan.
, 1907-01-18
Enuineer Injured.

Engineer James Rasmussen was
burned about the head and face TINS
morning by the explosion of some car
bide in the cab of his engine. Mr.
Rasmussen had reported for duty to
take his engine out and was carrying
a torch. which came in contact with
the escaping gas. He was treated by
n surgeon and will be laid up for
few days.
, 1907-01-18
THERMoPoLIs PAPER
HAS NOVEL SCHEME

The ~Thermopolis Record, one of the
brightest papers in the state, by the
way, has had photographs taken of a
coasting party on a hill near that city
and offers a copy of the picture to one
child in each family in the village
The children and grown people as well
were invited to the hill on Sunday
when pictures were taken of the coast
ers and the other members of the
party.
, 1907-01-18
Fell Under a Train.

C. E. Davis. a fireman, was taken
with a fainting fit this morning. about
5 o'clock, falling under a train. The
train was standing still for a moment,
which prevented any further serious
accident than a severe cash in the
back of his head. He was picked up
by friends and treated by DR.. McCol-
lum.
, 1907-01-18
Part Of City Under Water.

Havana, Jan. 1S.-Rear Admiral
Evans, in a message to the cruiser
Columbia here, states that a huge tidal
wave has changed the coast line of
Jamaica, leaving the entire south side
of Kingston under water. No bay is
reported left and the whole coast line
is reported sinking.
, 1907-01-18
MAY NAME ~BALLINGER.
Seattle Man Likely to Succeed Commits.
sioner General Richards.

washington, Jan. 1S.-It is under,
stood that the president will send in
the name of B. A. Ballinger of Seattle
to succeed Mr.. Richards as general
land commissioner Senator Warren
urged the appointment of John w.
Springer of Colorado, but before the
senator presented his name Mr.. Roose-
welt had offered the place to Ballinger.
, 1907-01-18
ILL IN NEBRASKA AND PHYsI.
CLANS DECLARE HIM UNFIT
To UNDERGO OPERATION
FOR APPENDICITIS.
Sends Telegram of Thanks to Senate
For Message of Sympathy Yester.
day-Albany Senators Have Meas
ures Introduced, One BY Mr.. Ath.
erly Providing Funds for Monu.
ment to Indian Woman Guide.


Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. lS.-A tele
gram was received this morning from
Senator S. A. d. KeIster of Fremont
county, who is i'll in Nebraska, thank,
ing the members of the senate for their
sympathetic telegram sent yesterday
A letter was also received from C q
Scovel Of Chadron, Neb., cashier of the
First National bank of that CITY. in
forming the members of the senate
that Senator Keister is in a critical
condition and that the physicians dc
not believe he should undergo opera,
ton at this time. The letter was read
in the senate and expressions of sym,
pathy made by the members.
Schwoob Gives Notice.
Several of the senators were absent
at the morning session and the chap
lain was also absent.
Senator Schwoob gave notice that
he would introduce a bill relative to the
dividends Of certain corporations and
the salaries of officers thereof. He did
not say just when the bill might be
looked for.
Atherly's Two Bills.
Senato Atherly this morning intro
duced senate files Nos. 6 and Z. The
first provides an appropriation of $500
to erect a monument over the grave OF
Sacajawea, about whom considerable
has been said lately, and whose grave
lates to the pure food law and pro-
vides for the creation of the office OF
state chemist and fixes his compensa'
ton.
Crumrine's Library Bill.
Senate file No. 5, by Senator Crum.
rine, concerns the maintenance OF
county public libraries.
The committee on finance of the SEN
ate reported that it would not favor
recession from the position taken by
its members of the conference com
mittee on the legislative appropriation
bill.
In committee of the whole, with Sen
ator Schwoob in the chair, senate file
No. 2 was reported favorably, with the
recommendation that it do pass.
The following house bills were reat
in the senate and referred to appro
pirate committees:
House hill No IA by Mr.. Carroll