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The Western news., 1907-06-19
UNGER's BODY CONCRETE BRICK
Boston Undertakers Refuse to Bury
PonderouS Bulk.

Unable to find an undertaken will
ing to bury the remains of Herman
Unger, the Pittsburg suicide, Unger's
brother Odd Fellows in Boston have
written to his home lodge asking them
to take charge of their embarrassing
bequest. The difficulty arises from
the fact that in pursuance of Unger's
dying request, the Odd Fellows of Bos-
ton had his body cremated and mixed
the ashes with cement, making a CON
crete brick weighing over 100 pounds
For several days now this huge brick
has been in the yard of the Water
Proofing company. Not only have un-
dertakers refused to handle it, but He
brew cemeteries have declined to re-
ceive it because Unger was suicide.
The Odd Fellows have burial certi-
ficate, however, and unless the under
takers make terms or the Pittsburg
Odd Fellows take charge, Ungers re-
mains are likely to bake in the sun
at the brickyard for an indefinite
period.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Servant Is Heir to Fortune.

London, June ia servant here
ever since she left her home by the
picturesque lakes of Killarney, Annie
Brennan today finds herself an heiress
to a fortune of $250,O00. Her aunt,
Mrs. Mary Clark widow of a San Fran
cisco man, has the money. For 20
years Mrs. Clark has been trying to
find her niece. Miss Brennan received
a letter today from her aunt, saying
she would come to England, take the
girl to the Irish exposition and Paris,
then to San Francisco.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
CONSOLIDATED SUGAR COS.
Idaho, Utah and Western Idaho
in the Merge.


Salt Lake City, Utah, June 19.-
Thomas R. Cutler, general manager of
the Utah Sugar company, the Idaho
Sugar company and the Western Idaho
Sugar company, announces that the
eastern stockholders in the three cor
porations have approved the plans for
their consolidation. 1t is proposed to
merge the companies under the name
of the Idaho Sugar company, issue
S1,000,000 preferred and $1O00,0O0 OF
common stock and exchange for old
stock on the following basis: Utah
Sugar preferred, $40 a share; Idaho
Sugar preferred, $11 a share, and West
ern Idaho Sugar preferred, $3.50 a
share.
After this distribution there will re-
main $1,900000 of the amalgamated
stock, which will be put into the treas
ury for improvements. A part of it
will be used to pay for new factory
at Payette, Idaho.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Bells Poe Never Heard.

Hear the telephone bells
Nickel plated bells
What a nervous agitation in their petU
lancy dwells;
How our tempers they excite
Through the day or in the night
As we hear the operators shouts and
yells.
Hello" he says, "hell-o,'
And we wish he'd thither go,
For no tomcat caterwauling to such help.
less wrath implies,
And everybody knows
BY the bawling
And the calling
How the conversation flows
As his thoughts into the instrument re-
peatedly he tells
As his thoughts with maledictions he con-
tinually tells
Tells, tells tells,
And again he rings the bells,
But the fellow at the other end is disin-
clined to go.
So once more he instills
Some hyph-ened syl-la-bles,
Like jackdaw in a panic
And with yigor quite satanic,
1t is wrong to tear your hair
And worse, they say to swear
By this or that or here or there or any
other where;
But that was said
Before were made
Those palpitating, fast-vibrating tele-
phonic BELLS
Bells, bells, bells, bells,
And the yells, yells, yells
Of the speakers and the hearers at thoss
bells.
Belfast Gazette.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
GREAT NoTHERN CARS BURN.
Seventeen Passengers Injured ir
Oriental Limited Wreck.

Minot, N. D.-Seventeen persons
were injured in the wreck of the east
bound Oriental Limited on the Great
Northern railway west of Palermo Sat
urday morning. Nine cars plunged
down a 20-foot embankment. and all
but the mail car burned. Engineer
James Longevan went down with the
engine, but escaped injury. Fireman
Nolan jumped and hurt his foot. The
wreck was caused by a broken rail.
The injured include:
L. G. Skull, Seattle, injured on head
and body.
William Johnson, Saskatchewan, in,
Iured on head and body.
Kawanish, a Japanese, en- route to
New York; injured internally.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
OUTLINE DEFENSE OF HAYWOOD
Richardson and His Associates viii
Set Forth Counter Plot.

Boise, Idaho, June 17-That Orchard
was a wonderful witness cannot be
denied and that all the cross-questlon-
ing of Richardson only helped to
strengthen the testimony of the state
is also true, but for all this there is
nothing but optimism expressed by
Haywood's legal regiment in the cele-
brated case on trial here. So far
these men hae been purely on the de-
fensive. Next week they expect to
carry the war into Africa and they
NJ omise a sensational campaign
The star witnesses will be put for
ward by the defense and the promise
is made that their testimony will be
TO less alient than that of Orchard
himself One of those men will be
Haywood and the other Steve Adams,
although Adams was first listed as
witness for the state. He made con-
fesison corrOborating Orchards story.
Then, as soon as he got an attorney,
he repudiated this statement abso-
lutely, declaring it was extorted from
him by Detective MCFARLAND, through
er he was taken to Wallace, Idaho, and
placed on trial for the murder of
Fred Tyler The jury disagreed, stand
ing seven for conviction to five for
acquittal. Detective MCFARLAND, how
ever, seems determined to have his
point if possible and it has been an
nounced that Adams will be taken to
Telluride, Colo, for trial for the MUIR
der of Collins, superintendent of the
Smuggler Union mine.
Adams takes his situation philosoph-
| ical1y. He feels that every public OF
| fcial's hand is against him and that
| the officers are determined to have
him dance on the end of rope in one
state or another, he docs not give a
-, but he will give them run fol
their money before they complete the
job"
| It was decided that Mr.. Darrow viii
make the opening statement for the
defense on Wednesday, and immediate
ly after the work of interrogating the
$50 witnesses called in Haywoods' be
half will be begun.
I'VE intend to uncover this bloody
trail which the mineowners have left
throughout the entire region. The jury
heard this man Naylor take the stanC
and recite how the militia had sho
up miners headquarters at Victor
how he had deported men without re
sard to their legal rights; how min
ers had been openly slain and thei'
murderers protected by the mineoWn
ers' association, and we will show be
fore this trial ends the reason the
Pinkertons and the mineOwners want
ed Haywood, Meyer and Pettibont
hanged and Orchard, the self-confesset
murderer of a score of men, set free.
This statement was made by one o
the leaders of the defense.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Start Open Shop Experiment.

San Franciscgo building interests
have brought about the organization of
a syndicate of outside capitalists who
will advance $10,0O0,0O0 within the
next month to be used in construction
on the open shop basis only. 1t is
said that few San Franciscans have
subscribed funds to the syndicate.
Another combination in the build
ing line is composed of contractors,
large construction companies and ma
terial men who favor the open shop
plan and agree to build or furnish ma
terial on that basis.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
LOWEST LAND IN COUNTRY.
Geographical Survey Determining
the Depth OF Death Valley.


the Depth OF Death Valley.
Death Valley, California, is the low
est point in the United States, but to
the surprise of everyone acquainted
with the region the United States geo
logical survey has ascertained by the
use of line of spirit levels that the
depth Of that area is not SO great as
had been supposed The final compu-
tations have not yet been made, but
the preliminary figures give for the
lowest point a depth of 276 feet be-
low sea level. Benefits well, which is
near this point, is 266 feet below sea
level. These figures may be altered by
two or three feet on the final comput-
ing, but they are probably not more
than three feet in error. The geOlog-
ical survey now has elevation marks
on the highest and lowest points Of
dry land in the United States.
1t is a strange coincidence, says the
survey report, that these two extremes
are in southern California, and only
seventy-tive miles apart. Mount Whit
| feet above the sea level, while Death
Valley, as above stated, is 276 feet be-
| low. Before the Salton sink, also in
| Southern California, was flooded by
| the Colorado river it contained the low
est point of dry land in this country, a
spot 2S7 feet below sea level.
Previous estimates of the depth of
Death Valley, based on barometer read
ings, gave for the lowest point figures
varying from $50 to 450 feet below
sea level. The level line of the geo.
! logical survey Is believed to be the first
accurate determination of elevations
in that locality ever made.
California now goes on record as the
State in which extremes meet-the
highest and lowest points of dry land.
New York Sun.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Chicago Stock Yard Strike.

Chicago-Peace in the stockyards is
certainty. The teamsters' joint coun-
ell and later the packing house team
sters' union voted to accept the offer
made by the packing house employees
to arbitrate the demands of the
drivers. The men were in session six
hours before this decision was reach
ed. For a time it appeared as if the
packers proposition would be refused
The conservative element prevailed
however, and on the final vote a bic
majority favored arbitration.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
SPOKANE.
Prices Paid to Producers.

Live stock-Steers, $450@5 cwt;
COWS, S3.25@375 cwt; sheep, $4@4.25
cwt; hogs, $70725 cwt; mutton, SC
lb; veal 61s06%c lb; veal, fancy
small, No. /, 7@Sc lb; fancy large, SO
&C lb; pork, S1a @9c lb.
Poultry and Eggs-Live hens, 13c
lb: live spring chickens, 15@16c; live
roosters, 10c; dressed hens, 15c; ducks
live, lac; dressed, 16c; turkeys, live.
1Sc: dressed, zoe; fresh ranch eggs,
$5@5.5O case.
Hides-Green, &c lb; salted, 1c high
er; dry hides, 16@17c; calfskins,
green, S@9c; COWS, &c; kip, SC lb;
sheepskins, 50c@S1.25.
Creamery product, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat 25 1ac.
Feed Timothy hay, $20@21 ton; al
falfa hay, SIG ton; whole barley, 95c@
|$105 cwt; wheat, $1@1.1O cwt.
Wholesale Produce Prices.
egetables-Asparagu &c; green
onions, 25c doz lunches; turnips, 500
4Oc doz lunches; hothouse lettuce,
2Oc; tomatoes, $2.7503 crate; rhu-
barb, $125 crate; cauliflower, $3.50
doz; cucumbers, $3.50 doz; potatoes
$1.75 cwt; new potatoes, $3.50 cwt;
beets, $3.50 cwt; Walla Walla beets
4Oc doz punches; carrots, 40c doz; w
w. beans, 16c lb; radishes, 30@35c
doz; strawberries, $3.50; Hood Rivers
i SO crate; parsley, 40@50c doz; green
gooseberries, $2.50@2.75 crate; pine
apples, $3@3.25doz; hotbed lettuce
I121ac lb; Snake river cherries, S1.5C
crate; peaches, $2@2.25 a box; apri
cots, $3.50 box.
Oranges-$3 60@4.75; according tC
size; Seeding oranges, $3.75@4 case;
lemons, fancy, $6@7.50 case;' Calf
ornia cantaloups, $2.50@3.50 crate
grape fruit, $3.5004; dried figs, 80 q
9Oc; 10-lb box; figs in bulk, 7c lb
black figs, 10-lb packages, 90c; COLDER
dates, &c; bananas, $2,75@3.25 bunch
raisins, fancy, 12@13c; raisins, bulk
1Oc lb; currants, 1919 lb; cherries s
| o. box; pine apples, 1904.
Butter and Eggs-Local eggs, case
Sc; best creamery butter, 27c ID
Columbia Creamery butter 26c h.
cheese. twins, lie lb; Wisconsin loa
Swiss, 1Sc lb; limburger bricks, Is
lb; cream brick, zoe lb; Wisconsin
twins. 1Sc lb: Tillamook, TIC
egetables-Potatoes, $1.25 cwt.
| Sugar-s6.4O per 100 lbs; beet, $6.2s
Seed-Red clover, $15.50; choice
S16.5O; Kentucky bluegrass, s17@1
cwt; timothy, s6@6.50 cwt; whit
clover, $40; alfalfa, SIS; Kentucy blue
grass, 500.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
n. E. WeiqeI Suicides.

Petaluma, Cal, June 19.-"Now I'll
take a nice, long Sleep" remarked
Harry E. Weigel getting out of bar
Der chair at the Petaluma hotel. He
went to his room, drank the contents
of a two-ounce bottle of laudanum and
died before a doctor could be sum-
moned. Weigel came here nine weeks
ago from Seattle and had been drink
ing heavily.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Aoki NAV Be Recalled.

Toxic, June 19.-The Hochi says
sador to America, will probably be re-
called and that he will probably be
succeeded by Baron Kaneko.
The HOchi Shumbu is the organ of
Count Dkuma, leader Of the progress
sives, and therefore voiced antigovern-
mental opinion. The paper is decided
ly anti-American.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Champion Sleeper Is Dead.

Kansas City, Mo, June 19.-Thomas
C. Webster, aged 60 years, of Horse
shoe Bend, Idaho, who began to sleep
on a train between Kansas City and
Denver on April 1, and who did not
open his eyes thereafter for II days,
died at the General hospital Sunday.
A committee of doctors who examined
Webster said his sleep was feighned,
He was suffering from acute melan-
chOlia.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Storms Cut Off Black Hills.

Deadwood, S. D., June 17.-The
Black Hills have recently been cut OF
from communication with the outside
world since June H. A rain and hail
storm lasting six hours washed out
railroad bridges and tracks and des-
troyed telegraph wires. Three peo-
pie are known to have lost their
lives.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
ASK HELP FROM PRESIDENT.
Chicago Board of Trade Is Worried
by Action of Teleuraphers.

The Chicago board of trade has ap-
pealed to President Roosevelt and
Robert G. Clowery, president Of the
ed strike of telegraphers.
Business interests of the entire cOun-
try forsee paralysis of interstate COM
merce in a gigantic operators strike,
and wish to prevent such a disaster.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Lisbon Explosion Kills 80.

London, June 20.-A dispatch to the
Standard from Lisbon says that an eX-
plosion of dynamite at Covihilo, a
manufacturing town, killed 80 persons.
1t is believed the explosion was caused
by dismissed workmen, who sought
vengeance.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
His Second Book.

"Your first book, If it Is a success,
generally leads to the success of the
second" remarked a rising author.
Eyes, indeed" said another, 1T was
the success of my first book that made
my second. My second book" he add
ed. "was q bank book"
The Western news., 1907-06-19

Montgomery, Ala.-Governor Com
mer announces that he will appoint
John H. Bankhead as United States
senator.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
WILL KEEP OUT OF IT
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL
NOT MIX In THE STRIKE.
Government Could Properly Take Ac-
ton Through Bureau of labor-Chi-
caao Union Votes to Support Ma
tionaI Officers-Vote $4,000 to Strike
Fund.

Oyster Bay, June 17.-President
Roosevelt has referred to Charles
F. Neill, commissioner of labor, with
out comment the various appeals
which have been made to him by wire
and mail to intervene to prevent the
threatened telegraphers' strike. The
position is taken that no emergency
exists such as obtained at the time the
president intervened in the anthracite
coal strike, but, on the contrary, the
situation presented is one where ac-
ton by the government, if taken at all,
may properly be initiated and directed
1 by the bureau of labor, of which Mr..
Neill is the head
Attention is called to the fact that
Mr.. Neill has on his own motion acted
with more or less success in several
recent strikes simply by making an in
vestigation and bringing to light the
salient facts in the controversies, his
reports being the basis on which set
tlement was later reached. Whether
he will feel justified in pursuing the
same course in the present instance is
, not commented on here, as the presi-
dent has given Mr.. Neill no intimation
Of any kind.
At Chicago.
Chicago.-Fifteen hundred tele-
graphers, members of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union, at meeting here
Sunday afternoon, voted to support
( the president and executive committee
of nj in,
they deem necessary to bring about an
adjustment of the operators griev-
ances. Those present were chiefly en-
ployes of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies. Separate
resolutions were passed by each group
of employees, the Postal men advocat-
ing drastic measures" to enforce
operators serving 10 days notice on
the officials of the company in New
York that they must meet the en-
ployes' committee as represented by
the Commercial Telegra piers Union
of America, for discussion and adjust
ment of grievances or bear the respon
sibility for interference with public
y DuSlllSoo "ilibll "ottiN AcAiS"
that will be incumbent upon the Chi
cago local union"
A $4,000 strike fund was voted. Rep
:. resentatives of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers assured the commercial
operators of the support and sympath!
of individual members Of the railway
union, but took no official action.
In New York.
The Commercial Telegraphers' unlo1
has not yet received an answer to the
demands on the Western Union com
pany. according to President S. j
Small of the union.
4 President Small notified all the
unions that the statement that the ad
justment of grievances had been post
poned was untrue, and directed then
to hold themselves in readiness TO
important information.
At San Francisco.
At a meeting Sunday of 200 mem
mers of local No. "a of the Commercial
Telegraphers' union a resolution wa
passed leaving the matter OF securln
an adjustment of grievances in tn
hands of the national president an
tiITn
The Western news., 1907-06-19
Eastern Oregon Wool Sales.

The fact that some people believe
in themselves doesn't prove much but
their credulity.
The Western news., 1907-06-19

When you meet a man who has the
itch for Office it is a good thing to
scratch.
Every defeat develops lot Of new
excuses.
The Western news., 1907-06-19

If a woman spends more than ten
minutes in arranging her hair, the
result is a coiffure.
The Western news., 1907-06-19

Stage fright Is one thing on the stage
about which there Is no sham.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
The Specific Charges.

Guy L. Wilson. upon whose testi-
mony one of the yerdicts of guilty was
reached, was the first witness called
in the case. He said on the witness
stand that Dwyer promised him $3.50
for filing on a timber claim and that
he drove through the desired land with
DWyer at the latter's expense. He filed
on it some time later, as DWyer told
him that the land was not yet ready
for occupancy. AT the time of the IA
nous lineup in front of the Lewiston
land office, Wilson testified that he
was unable to be present and that
Dwyer hired a boy to substitute for
him. The witness also said that DWyer
coached him on the answers he should
make at the land office and gave him
his filing fee and SAIL to pay on final
proof. After deciding the land to Ket-
tenbach and Kester he received a
check for $l3S.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
COMING EVENTS.

Western Oregon Teachers associa-
ton, Salem, July 1-3.
National B. Y. P. U. convention,
Spokane, Wash, July At.
Summer school of agriculture, Mos
COW, Idaho, June 15-July 27.
Pacific jurisdiction Woodmen of the
World, Seattle, July "a.
Washington State Press association,
Everett, July 1927.
State college summer school, Pull
man, Wash, June 24-August 4.
Teachers summer school, Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, July 15-August 27.
Southern Idaho Methodist confer
ence, Boise, August 81.
Eastern Oregon Wool Sales.
,Pendleton, June z. Heppner, May
1929; June IS. Shaniko, June 10-11;
June 26; July 16. Condor, June 81
Baker City, July 9. Elgin, July IL.
The Western news., 1907-06-19
GUILTY, AS CHARGED
is The VERDICT OF TIMBER
GRABBERS In IDAHO.
w. F. kettenback, G. H. kester and
w. DWyer Charged With Conspiracy
on Five Counts, Guilty of TWo-Vic-
tory for Prosecution-Cases Will Be
Carried to u. S. Court of Appeals.

Moscow, Idaho, June 17.-William
F.. Kettenbach, George H. Kester and
William .Dwyer, the first named the
Lewiston bankers, charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
timber land entries, were found guilty
on two of the counts in the federal
court Sunday evening and acquitted on
the remaining counts. The jury sud-
denly reached a verdict at o'clock,
after having deliberated 81 hours.
Each Of the three defendants was
charged with conspiracy on five
counts, each representing a quarter of
section of land, the tracts being Sc
cured at an average price of $500 each.
The particular counts under which
they were convicted are believed to
be counts and the first one being
known as the Charles Carey count,
the second as the Guy l.. Wilson count.
The jury reached verdict shortly
before bedtime, the bamff notifying
the court officials, who instructed
them to report Immediately at the
courtroom.
At S:45 o'clock the jury filed slowly
| into the box with the exception of J
w. Robinson, who was carried on a
cot, his aged form covered with blan
kets, his head being swathed in ban
dages, which completely covered his
snowwhite hair and beard. Judge
| DIETRICH ascended the bench and or
dered a poll of the jury. In low tones
he inquired if the jury had reached a
verdict and was informed they had
Taking the closely written document
be scanned its contents in aSDOluatf
silence Addressing the spectators
Judge DIETRICH requested that no dem
onstrations be made when the verdict
was read.
The verdict is considered q victory
for the prosecution in almost every
particular. The stubbornly fought case
has occupied four weeks.
No indication was made by attor
neys for the defense as to the likeli
hood of appeal, but it is considered
certain the case will be carried a
least to the United States court of ap
meals
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1907-08-17
SUCCESSFUL CORN GROWERS
Western Seed Introduced into this
Section with Promising Results

On Friday afternoon oi last
week Mr.. u. j. Cmstens called
our attention to some splendid
specimens OF corn. which were
raised in this Immediate section
from imported seed. The Golden
Beauty variety was grown by
Christ typp, in the 'th Ward of
this parish. IIr planted ! acres
Of this particular variety aud got
q beautiful stand. II f,uited
heavily. averaging about 2 ears to
the stalk The ears on exhibition
measured l inches in length and
were heavily laden with the gold
en- grain. SHeh corn az this, will,
such results, would go a long way
towards making a corn state Of
this section Of the country
Mr.. .Jno Curtis, .jr, just south
OF this city. gave his attention to
the planting Of the "Iowa Silver
Mine variety. The ear is not 80
long ~ that Of the Beauty" but
it is greater in diameter anu rs al
soa heavy frnI,er IT was u
beautiful gram. almost pure
white, and one would Judge, of
steady market demand.
One unfortunate feature Of both
these varieties was apparent in
the fact that by the time the grain
is matuIed it il being attracked
by the corn weevil. It seems to
be more vulnerable to the attacks
of this pest elan does tho smaller
flint hard gram Of our well known
creole corn.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1907-08-17
A MAD DOG
Bites two Children Severely Out
In Pralre Gregg

Last Saturday morning the in
formation came to this office that
a mad dog had inflicted serious
bites upon two white children. out
in prarie Greigg. 1t was a strange
dog in the vicinity and it had
done the harm before its presence
~as generally known.
In this case it is reported a little
boy had discovered the dog under
theh0use. In his efforts 10 drive
the strange dog out the derangcd
animal attacked the child and be
was severely bitten.
The animal then found it's way
to another habitatiOn and there
attacked y babe. The terrified
mother rushed to the rescue and
her first efforts were to pull the
brute off the child; but failing in
this, she GRABBED the child into her
arms aud fairly tore It's arm from
the jaws Of the enranged dog.
Both children were promptly
sent to the hospital for treatment.