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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-09-19
BEEF TRUST PUTS UPI PRICES
SENSATIONAL ORDER ISSUED
FROM INSIDE OFFICE OF BIG
COMBINE.

Chicago, Sept. II. - A sensational
order issued Saturday from the in
side Office of the beef trust hoisted the
prices of all meats from 2 to 8 cents
a pound.
Price lists were sent out to all job.
bling houses in the agreement to main
tain the price schedule, every one OF
these being under a forfeit agreement
of $1,000 for violation, the money In
each case being deposited at the trust
office when the agreement is signed.
Cost 4 Cents More a Pound.
To the consumer the new schedule
means that meats Of all sorts will cost
4 cents more a pound across the
counter than at present.
Beef, pork, veal and hams were
raised from 2 to 8 cents in the price
list placed In the hands of all sales
mcnt for the jobbers Monday.
The wholesale price on 600-pound
cattle is now s IL cents, a raise of
2 IL cents; 100-pound pork loins,
IL IL cents, raise Of 2 1-2 cents; 100
pound calves, IL cents, raise of 3
cents; ten TO fourteen-pound hams. IA
cents, a raise of 2 cents.
Milk Also Goes Up.
Not to be outdone by the great pro-
vision trust, the milk dealers Of Chi
cago, the central market. added to the
cause for cereal alarmfi with the an
nouncement that milk, already at pro-
hibitiye price for the poor, will cost
the consumer / cent more per quart
and cream 2 cents more per quart the
first of next month.
The general provision dealers in
Chicago oined in with the assurance
that canned goods, both vegetables
and fruits, will cost the consumer
from 4 to 6 cents more per can than
formerly.
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BOIItRMAKfRS OUT ON STRIKE
GENERAL MANAGERS REFUSE TO
GRANT INCREASE IN WAGES
ASKED.

st. Paul, Sept. II. - B~oilermakers
and helpers employed by five roads op-
Grating out of st. Paul went on q
strike at s o'clock Saturday morning,
following the refusal Of the general
managers to grant the increase Of
wages demanded. The men walked
out simultaneously from shops extend
ing from Chicago to Montana, and the
men say railroad boiler shops as far
as North Pacific coast points will be
closed. The officers of the union in
st. Paul claim that $500 men are af-
fected by the order, while railroad Of
ficials place the figure at 1000.
The roads so far affected are:
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, 500,
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Chicago Great Western.
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Domestic.

The dental congress convened at
Norfolk. Va, with 500 delegates In at
tendance.
The cruiser Cincinnati has arrived
at Mare Island navy yard, where the
warship will go out Of commission.
John Bennett Harris. an English
miner Of Foster. Iowa, and his wife
are the parents Of twenty-three chill.
dren.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Bellingham Hall Manufacturing
company. makers of refrigerators, of
Chicago.
Gen. Mortezza Kahn, minister pleni.
~potentiary from the kingdom of Per.
STA to the United States and Mexico,
has arrived at San Francisco.
The fifteenth triennial convlave of
the German-speaking Baptists OF
North America was held in Buffalo.
Six hundred delegates were present.
At a meeting Of representatives Of
seventy-five carriage manufacturing
plants at Indianapolis steps were
taken to raise the price Of their out.
put 10 per cent.
c. M. Daniels of the New York Ath-
letic club swan $50 yards in one min
ute and thirty-three seconds at Liver
pool, making a worlds indoor record
for this distance.
C. II. Daniels Of the New York Ath-
letic club, in O race at Manchester,
lowered the worlds 100-yard swim
ming record two seconds, going the
distance In :55 2-5.
The board of police commissioners
Of San Francisco elected w. ]. Buggy
chief of police. For tn, past nine
months Buggy has been elisor of the
superior court, acting as custodian Of
Abraham Ruef. an important factor in
the graft cases.
A yearly chart Just issued shows
that there were 6.357 fires In New
York during the past year. It Is esti-
mated that fires started by carelessly
dropped matches and cigarettes eau
ed a loss Of $4,000. 900. The city has
an average Of twenty-five fires q day,
and ire losses In n year aggregate
$4,000. 900.
The will Of Anna Snow, . Scotch
girl who worked In the River Falls
mills, nled at Taunton. Mass, reveals
the fact that she and her sisterMarga-
ret saved 81. 900 from their wages a.
weavers N the mills IN forty-nve
ysars.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOMt
Digest OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED ron
DusY READERS.
Washington.

The surgeon general Of the marine
hospital service has decided to add
four men to the force Of government
plague experts at San Francisco. max
ing q total Of seven.
The famous gold service Of the
White House will be cleaned and re-
paired at a cost OF $1,000. jewelers.
Of New York, Philadelphia and other
cities have submitted bids.
The president has committed the
sentence of James Bradford. who was
convicted Dec. %, 1905, at New Or
leans Of conspiracy to defraud the
United States out of public lands and
sentenced to two years imprisonment
and 70 pay a fine Of $500. The SEN
tence has been committed to four
months imprisonment, which will ex-
pire Oct. 20, on condition that he pay
the nne imposed.
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Crimes.

Masked men bound and gagged the
Missouri Pacific railway agent at Ell
dorado, Kan, robbed the safe Of $1,30t
and escaped.
NJ. Borodulin. superintendent Of the
Akalui political prison In Trans-B aika
liza, was assassinated by an unknown
person ON the streets Of PakoR.
Rather than take up a course Oh
studies in the Colorado Springs high
school Hazel Specknell, aged nine
teen, shot and fatally injured herself
Following the accidental shooting OF
his companion, Robert Ramsey, Jr.
Howard Riley committed suicide by
jumping in front of an express train
on the Pennsylvania railway near his
home at Graf. Pa.
Allison jenkins, stock broker, wa,
indicted by the grand jury In Washing
ton for a violation OF the gambling
law. II being alleged that he conduct
ed places there where gambling on
the ctock market was permitted.
Foreign gowns. laces and lingerie
the value of which Ia said to be $40,
600. were seized by customs inspect
ors In New York on the arrival OF the
French liner La Savoie. Most OF the
goods, which were contained In thirty
trunks, were the property Of a number
Of drsssmakers returning from Eu
rope.
Mrs. Charlotte Phillips, in an invalid
carriage. with a nurse and physician
at her side, was arraigned before Jus
tice Brown at Cleveland on the
charge Of killing her husband, J. j.
Phillips, q week ago Monday. She
furnished bond and the hearing was
set for Sept. 20. Mrs. Phillips plead.
ed not guilty and waived examination.
Bound. gagged and tortured by tive
masked robbers, who demanded their
money, Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Mundy,
an aged couple of considerable wealth
living In Logan county, ILL.,, were
compelled to reveal the hiding placs
Of $3.50 after five hours of agony. The
robbers applied lighted matches to
the barred feet of Mundy and his wife
until the hiding place Of $3.50 was re-
vealed.
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BOTH LOSE CHILD.

Parents Sue and Are Declared UNIT
for Her Custody.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.-De.
Gliding that both Mrs, Alfred w. Colt
and her divorced husband, William
MCGOWAN, were unfit to have the Gus.
tody of their twelve-yearold child
Bernice, Judge Charles f. Templeton
yesterday awarded the child to Mrs.
Grace Lloyd, the widowed mother Of
Mrs. Colt, who resides In Grand Forks.
MCGOWAN failed to show that he
was not guilty Of contempt of court in
taking the child to Canada for a year
and three months, In defiance of the
courts order that she be kept in this
jurisdiction, and the court fined him
$40.
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Struck hX Train.

Tomah, Wis, Sept. Nv. Barry Of
Tarr Valley was brought to the Tomah
hospital Thursday. He had been at
Sparta and in alighting from Train
No. 6 at Tunnel City was struck by
the train, sustaining a badly cut head,
besides other bruises. His condition
Is not serious, however.
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Wrono Bottle Fatal.

Deadwood, s. D., Sept. 17.-Word
has been received here of the acciden-
tai death of N. B. Cameron, a rancher
living on upper Redwater, near Farrell,
Wyo. Cameron had been Ill. While
taking a dose of medicine he got hold
of the wrong bottle and swallowed
carbolic acid.
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BATTLES FOR r

Farm Hand Wins In Test Of Strength
Against Shaft.
Grand Forks, N. D., Sept. 15.-A test
of strength which meant death If he
lost was INDUCED In yesterday on the
farm OF Robert McGroch, near Devils
Lake, by big Gus" Olson. In charge
OF the separator. In working around
the separator his coat cleeve caught
in the set screw on a rapidly revolving
pulley and his arm was being wound
into the gearing. With all his
strength he resisted the strength Of
the shaft and pulled so that his coat
was torn from his back. He escaped
with a ~dislocated shoulder and several
slight bruises.
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Bio Machine Falls.

Moorhead, Mimi, Sept. 1.-THE I'M
loading machine In use at Northern
Pacific construction work, while un-
loading a lot of cars. keeled over and
went down the ffty-foot embankment,
landing upon the surface track used
by regular trains. No one was hurt.
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NOT TIMBER THIEVES.
indictments Against Forty Indians
Are Nolled.

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. II. - Indict-
ments against forty members of the
Stockbridge tribe of Indians, charged
with cutting reservation timber, were
nolled Saturday by Judge Quarles In
the United States court. This action
is due to a ruling by the United States
supreme court In the action brought
by the Paine Lumber company of Osh-
kosh against certain Indians, in which
it was held that the cutting of stand
ing timber from the reservation lands
by the Indians belonging to tribes
which own such lands is not a viola
ton of law.
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TRAIN RUNS AWAY.
Ore Cars Dash Down Mountain Side
and Arc Smashed.

Deadwood, S. d., Sept. 1.-THE Bur
lington railroad had a freight wreck
OF its Bald Mountain line near here,
when a train of four cars, loaded with
ore from the Ben Hur workings to the
Mogul mill at Puma, got beyond the
control of the crew Inc dashed down
the mountain side. The crew jumped
and escaped unhurt. The engine and
cars jumped the track, the former
turning turtle and the cars being re-
du2ed to kindling wood. T.
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House and Barn Burned.

Kimball, Mimi, Sept. IT. - The
house and barn Of David Brown burn
ed last night. One team and a few
other articles were saved. He carried
a small insurance. The cause OF the
IRE Is unknown.
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Prominent 81. Paul pocto, Dead

st, Paul, Sept. II. - DR.. Gottfried
Stamm, aged s.xty-four. one of the old
est and best known physicians in the
city, died at his home at 11:45 last
night, after an illness of more than a
year. Death is believed to have re-
suited from a cancer of the interes.
tines.
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Liahtnlna destroys Barn.

Faribault, Mimi, Sept. IT, barn
belonging to Mrs. Thomas Jackson at
Cedar Lake was struck by lightning
and destroyed with its contents-hay,
cattle. tools and a large amount of
poultry. The loss is about ] 800.
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DRAGGED BY HAY RAKE.

FARMER raiis Ohoer Macnine IN Kun.
away and 10 Badly Hurt. .
Sioux Falls, 8. d, Sept. 15.-John
vanecek, a farmer residing in Bon
Homme county, was seriously injured
as the result Of a runaway while en-.
gagged in raking hay. The farmer lost
his balance on the rake and fell un.
der the machine.
One Of vanecek's ribs was broken
and his body was covered with cuts
and bruises. The physicians who are
caring for him have hope Of saving
his life.
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FIRE At RED LAKE FALLS.
Blaze Starting In Meat Market Does
$500 Damage.

Red Lake Falls, Mimi, Sept. IT,
Fire last night started in the Office Of
the Sauer meat market from a heating
stove. The loss is as follows: Duffy
building, $500; Sauer building, con-
tents, $500; Spillane building and con-
tents, $4,000; Majerus feed store,
$4,000.
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TEN-FooT FALL KILLS BOY.
Lad Of Ten Walks Wall When Daree
by His Mates.

Sioux Falls, s. D., Sept. 15.-Manuel
Athanus. ten years old, is dead as the
result of walking the foundation walls
of the new Congregational church
building on a dare. The little fellow
missed his footing and plunged head.
long to the bottom of the basement, q
distance OF between eight and ten
feet. It IL supposed that his head
struck some brick which were lying
on the ground where he fsii
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Fire Damp Exploslon,

Forbach, Germany. Sept. 17.-Four
persons were killed and three danger.
ously injured in a fire damp explosion
in the Merienbach mine at midnight
last night.
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$4,000 Pounds Of Powder ExpIodes.

Alton, ILL.,, Sept. Fifteen thou.
sand pounds Of powder exploded at the
Equitable Powder works at East AL
ton, killing Charles McGinnis and
shocking Charles ellison SO that his
mind is temporarily gone.
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Killed at Same Moment.

Odin. ILL.,. Sept. 16.-Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Pool, ifty-six and ffty-two
years old. were killed at the same mo
ment, the husband by an explosion in
q coal mine and his wife in the rail-
road yards at Csntraiis, IL
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Hunters KIN Valuable Cow

Faribault, Mimi, Sept. Hunters
shooting in the fields of Anton John
sons farm, west Of here, killed one Of
his valuable cows and escaped.
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Crushed Under Wheels.

st. Paul, Sept. 17.-Thomas McDon-
ough was run down in the Great
Northern yards and was crushed to
death. His body was mangled by the
wheels OF several freight cars.
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Bolt Kills Bow In Bed

Brainerd, Mimi, Sept. 17.-Clarence
w. Holt, the fifteen-year-old son of Ed
Holt. a farmer residing In the town Of
Plat Lake, was killed by lightning
while in bed with two brothers.
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CAUGHT In Cave-jn.

Chaska, Mimi, Sept. II. - Ernest
Zamjah of this city was caught in a
cavern of a clay bank in one OF the
local ~brickyards and was seriously in
jured.
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Alcoholism Partly Cause Of Death,

E'So"o'ss" rsTtiy Saus OF Oeatn.
East Grand Forks, Mimi, Sept. IT,
Death from alcoholism and exposure
was the verdict Of Coroner Chester
mar In the case of John Lyons, who
was discovered dead back Of a saloon
ON the Red river bank.
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FIREBUG ~SUSP
Loss on Glenns Ferry (Idaho) Hotel
Is $4,000.

Boise, Idaho, Sept. IA special to
the Statesman from Glenns Ferry, Ida
no, says that a fire which originated
at the Overland hotel Saturday de-
stroyed business buildings and
inflicted a loss of $4,000. Incendiar-
ism is suspected.
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BALL PLAYER IN LUCK.
inherits $4,000 Estate Through Death
of Brother,

Deadwood, S. d., Sept. 17.-Charles
Swing, a local baseball player, has
been notified from Sheridan, Wyo.,
that he has fallen heir to an estate of
nearly 10000 through the death of an
only brother. Swing Is a member of
the Deadwood hose company baseball
team. He says he will continue on the
diamond.
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OATS A BURNED.
Set Afre by Sparks From ThreshIng
Enqine.

EngIne.
P~aynesville, Mimi, Sept. IT. - Fire
destroyed five stacks of oats upon the
Gallup farms just north of the village,
the fire being set by sparks from the
threshinS engine, while the grain was
being threshed. The ~threshing crew
was able to get out the separator. The
loss Is estimated at between $500 and
$500. .
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From other shyrse.

Mshemed All Boy has been appointed
Turkish minister TO the United States
and Will shortly leave for Washington
Gen. Weyler has finished writing
his memoirs Of the time when he wal
governor general of Cuba, according
10 an announcement just issued.
The bishop Of Chichester, England,
Rev. Ernest Roland Wherefore. D. D..
died at Ssmbridge, Isle of Wight. He
was the son Of the late Rev. Samuel
Wilberforce. bishop Of Winchester.
There are no signs Of abatement In
the smallpox epidemic at Vienna.
During the last few days 166. 900 per.
sons have been vaccinated. Public
meetings and professions have been
forbidden.
The governor general of Canada has
received from King Edward the fol-
lowing cable: please offer my con.
gratulations to the United States team
on winning the Palma trophy with
such a record score"
Or. Haler. an eminent physician Of
Budapest, has secured beneficial re-
suits In cancer cases through the uses
Of an injection Of gelatine. In forty
cases 80 treated DR.. Haler was un.
successful In only three.
A royal proclamation has been is.
sued In London by which New Tea.
land is advanced from the position OF
. colony and will hereafter be known
~ The Dominion OF New Zealand"
sharing with Canada this title.
The sentence of q weeks imprison.
ment imposed on Matthias Erzberger, q
member OF the German reichstag, for
~calumniating ex-Colonial Governor Won
Benningsen. has been rescinded, after
Herr Erxberger made . public apology
10 Won Bennington.
Florencio Morales and Bernardo
Mora, who on June 6 were convicted
and condemned to death for the assas-
sination Of Former President Bariilas
Of Guatemala at Mexico City April z,
have been executed. This ends an In
ternational episode which at one time
threatened to bring on war between
Mexico and Guatemala.
Casualty.
Eagle Temple. the home of the Phil
adelphia aerie of Eagles, wal destroy
ed by fire. Loss. 100000.
Fire in Chicago destroyed the plant
and lumber yards Of the North Branch
Flooring company, Loss, $4,000.
Twenty members of a wheat thresh.
ing crew north Of Manson. Iowa. were
poisoned by eating chicken sand
Wiches. A number are desperately
sick. but the physicians believe all
VIII recover.
Matajirp Taukuno, president Of the
Oriental American bank and president
o. the Oriental Trading company OF
Seattle. and one OF the wcalthiest ana
most ~infsuentiaa Japanese residents Of
the city. was Instantly killed by being
bit ~ : switch engine.
Daring the electrical storm that
poooed over Southern Indiana light
ulng struck the barn on the farm In
ODon9of county owned jointly By
=Hn&&ea 4<a4a8 Senator James Nam.
away and Joseph q. Cannon. speanrer
~ - Mr. 4 representative. Il
~ praetieal'y Destroyed, the loss BE-
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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-28
]. d. Watts spent Sunday at

]. D. Watts spent Sunday at
Boise.
S. P. Noble and wife of Bruneau
were in town Sunday.
Ross F. Slack of Bruneau was a
Mountain Home visitor Saturday.
Fred T. Smith, Bruneau, regis
tered at the Hotel Evans yesterday.
Banker G. w. Corker and wife
of Glenns Ferry were in town Sat-
urday.
Mrs. B. II. Smith Of Boise paid
the family of Auditor Smith visit
last week, returning Saturday.
WANTED TO Stude-
baker wagon for a lighter one.
Call at Idaho Commercial Co. ATT
We acknowledge the receipt of
a very fine photo-engravure picture
of Senator Hepburn.
Carl Lindquist returned last Fri
day from Ord way, Colorado, where
he attended the funeral of his
/ father.
G.. w. French, for a considera-
ton Of $4,000, has secured the 28o
acre ranch of w. G. Corker on Can
yon creek.
Warren S. Ingram and VIM.
Galloway were fined ten dollar:
each and costs by Judge Manior
last week for rustling coal.
FOR SALE-10 mich cows, a
prices ranging from $40 to $50
Can be seen at Hines & Chattin''
ranch. AIT
Prof. Porter and Mrs. SmithsoI
furnished the music for the big bal
at Glenns Ferry last Friday even
ing.
} Don't forget that the Dunba
Male Quartette and Bell Ringer
will be at CARROTS opera hous
next Tuesday evening, March tn
You will be surprised at tn
; beauty of the special $500 ovs
: panel photos made by Helm. Ca
at the studio and see samples. 40t
The editor assisted the Caldwe
band in furnishing music for a bi
masquerade given at the skatin
5 rink in that city last Friday even
ing.
The second of the series of Ler
, ten teas given by the Episcop'
t Ladies Guild will be held at TT
D home of Mrs. ]. d. Watts ne'
Tuesday afternoon between tt
hours of three and five.
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Do not forget to attend the NEE
ing of the Commercial club tomor- /
row friday night.
Mrs. r. A. Sears of Weiser, who
weeks at the home of her daughter,
Mrs ]. H. Hawkins, returned to
her home Friday evening
Another Iowan, Albert Oberlin,
has concluded this section is good
enough for him and entered a home
stead claim. He halls from WASH
ington county in the Hawkeye state.
]. B. Stokes, who came here re-
Gently from Iowa, has purchased the
c. E. Porter residence, and we un-
derstand the latter contemplates the
early erection of commodious new
home near the one just disposed of.
Don't forget for a minute that
the terpsichorean event of the sea-
son occurs at CARROTS opera house
Monday evening, March 16, when
Mountain Home Lodge No. 10,
Knights of Pythias, gives its great
/ ST. Patrick ball
Harry Watkins last Saturday
bought r. B. Hilborn's farm, tive
miles south of town for a consider
alton of 500 an acre. Mr.. Hilborr
is anxious to get away, but the
railroads are not accepting freight
or passengers north of Butte on ac'
count of snow blockade.
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Thomas anc
baby returned from Cashmere
Wash, Sunday night. Mrs. Thoma
was on her way to visit relatives
but the train she was on was de
layed for a week by reason of wash
outs. Their situation was becom
ing extremely critical, and as sooi
as he heard about it the husban
and father went to the rescue.