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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
CAUGHT IN FRAME FIRE TRAP.
People Are Forced to Witness Hotel
Patrons Burned Alive.

Tacoma, Wash.-Firr at Shelton
Wash. at Las Thursday morning de.
stroyed the Hotel Webb, a three.
story frame structure, and other prop.
erty. At least eleven persons are
dead, several are, missing and one
more will die. Seventeen were in
jured.
The buildings burned in the block
were: Hotel Webb and annex, run by
Manager Henry Faubert; Bordeaux
Bros, Baileys saloon and restaurant,
Sam Hughes's shoe shop. Across the
street from the hotel J. e. Connelly's
residence was burned The total loss
is estimated at $4,000. The insurance
will only be $500.
Screams of pain and fright from the
imprisoned guests awakened many per-
sons in the neighborhood, and the
work of rescue began Immediately.
There is no organized fire depart
ment and no apparatus in Shelton,
and many persons had to stand by and
see people burning to death before
their very eyes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
FOSSIL FINDS IN WYOMING.
Animal That Became Extinct Millions
of Years Ago.

Cheyenne. Wyo.--Some valuable ad
ditions to fossil knowledge have been
made by Professor w. H Reed pa
lentologist of the University of Wyo-
ming, who has just completed extern
sive research in the "Hell's Half
Acre" district of Natrona county.
thirty-five miles southwest of Casper.
One of the largest fossils unearthed
by Professor Reed is the perfect skull
of calf titanotheium, an animal
which became extinct possibly mil
lion years before many of the oldest
known fossils were created. In con-
tIast to the skull of the titanotherium
is that of beaver which was found
near by and which is scarcely larger
than that of a modern mouse. In
every other respect the fossil beavers
skull is a counterpart of that of the
present day animal. One of Profess
sor Reeds most important finds is
the complete skeleton of a horse no
larger than a fox. Every bone of this
skeleton is present and it indicates
beyond doubt that the equine race or
iginated in Wyoming.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
1URBANk's THoRNLEss CACTUS.
Declares it Will be the Great Fodder
of the Arid Region.

acramento.-Luther Burbank, the
expert on plants, addressed the Ma
tional Irrigation congress Thursday.
He told the congress of his expert
ments in trying to produce thornless
cactus. He had all but succeeded, he
said, a lack of the nutrition desired
being the. only obstacle to be over
come. > He predicted that this thorn
less cactus would become the great
fodder, of the arid region, for all kinds
of sSNrH relish it and fatten quickly.
About.e00 tons can be grown per acre,
an extraordinary output compared with
other kinds of feed. The development
of the high nutrition is being assid-
uously pursued by Burbank and the
grazing men will soon have some i'm
portant news from the wizard. A dele
gate asked Burbank if he had secret
of developing plant life and if the
secret would die with him. Burbank
replied that he had no secret and that
he is always glad to assist others.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
EXPECT LONG SIEGE.
Striking Photographers Are Seeking
New Employment.

New York-The World says From
now on the striking telegraph opera
tors will seek temporary employment
in other trades. The 400 girls in this
city started Wednesday morning to get
employment in dry goods stores. The
summer vacations are over and they
say they can easily find other employ
ment They will also seek employment
as telephone operators Twenty Of
the men obtained other employment
Wednesday and on October /, next,
when the eight-hour law goes into eff
feet, compelling railroads to make
three shifts of eight hours each in %
states, GOO men from New York and
Chicago will become telegraphers on
railroads.
The railroads are gobblng up a lot
of operators and if the strike is settled
tomorrow, there would be thirty per
cent of the expert telegraphers MISS
ing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
FIERCE ATTACK
ON 0R|ENTALS
japanese and Chinese Looked Alike
to Frenzied Mob at Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Steady Stream Of Europeans Coming
Into the Pacific Northwest is Re-
scented by People Who Have
Long Been Residents of
That Section.

Seattle, Wash.-A special to the
Post-Intelligencer from Vancouver, B
G., says: Following riot early Sat
urday evening, in Vancouver, in which
Chinatown and the Japanese quarter
were raided and damage done approx
lmating $4,000, a further deacon.
stration occurred in the early morn
Ing hours Sunday, in which Kiki Yiro
lshil, chief of the bureau of foreign
commerce and head of the Japanese
consular service, and Consul Saburo
Hisamidzu, of Seattle, were the cen
trail figures, and in which riot number
less people were bruised and injured
by broken bottles and flying brickbats
In the hands of mob in the throes of
frenzy. Baron lshii and Consul Hisa-
midzu finally made their escape
through the mob and the affair was
Immediately cabled to Toxic Coinci-
dent with the riot was the arrival of
steamship having on board at least 500
Japanese. With a common impulse
the mob surged to the water front and
as the Japanese came down the gang
plank they were met by the rioters.
Seven. or eight of the Japanese were
unceremoniously picked up and thrown
into Burrard inlet.
Still further rioting occurred Sun.
day evening about 10 o'clock, when a
crowd of about 1000 laborers again
started on the warpath, but were fin
ally quelled by the police after about
twenty successful arrests had been
made. Chinatown. is roped off and
the quarters of the orientals are guard.
ed by the police.
Baron Ishi gave out an interview
in which he stated that he had ca
bled to Ambassador Kaneko at Lon
don, apprising him of the stirring
events. Indemnity from the city to
the amount of $4,000 will be claimed |
Mayor Bethune declares the indem-
nifty will not be paid and the affair
will be taken up with the Dominion
government. The rioting was the
worst in the history of western Cana
10. International complications are
OOked for
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Soldiers Against Officers.

Junction City, Kas.--A mob of near.
ly so soldiers of the farriers' school
at Fort Riley came here about 1
o'clock Sunday morning for the pur.
pose of releasing comrade who was
confined in the county Jail. The sher.
If and city police force were mott.
fled of their coming and from posi-.
tons in windows above the Jail opened
fire that quickly dispersed the mob
as 1t sought to force an entrance The
authorities at Fort Riley placed guards
at the Jail and are aiding in the effort
to find the members of the mob. Two
arrests have been made.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
WOMAN PLANNED THE CRIME.
Count is Shot That Woman Friend
Might Collect Life Insurance.

Venice.-Count Kamarovzky, a colo.
mel of the national guard and council,
lor of state, who was shot at his resi-
dence here on September by Nichol.
as Naumoff, son of an ex-governor of
Perm, died on Sunday
Kamarovzky, who is Russian, was
dressing when Naumoff called to see
him, and was permitted to go to the
counts room. Immediately they came
face to face the assassin fired and then
fled. Although unable to speak, the
count sscribbled the assassin's name on
q nadfof paper. Naumoff, who is also
a. Russian and formerly lived at Perm,
was arrested several days later at We.
roma, and confessed that he had shot
Kamarovzky. He explained that he
had visited Venice expressly for the
purpose of@settling delicate personal
questions between himself and the
count. s. '.f..
Madame TaXnavoska, with whom the
count was acquainted and in whose IA
vor he mad insured his life for 100000,
was also arrested. Lawyer Prilukoff
has admitted that the murder of KAN
arovzky was arranged by Madame Tax
navoska, Naumoff being mere tool
The woman hoped to obtain the in.
surance on the counts life.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Roosevelt May Take the Stump.

Cleveland, O.-The content between
Mayor Tom L. Johnson and Congress.
man Theodore Burton for mayor of
Cleveland promises to be the most ex.
citing political event in the history
of this city. The endorsement of Mr..
Burton's candidacy by Theodore
Roosevelt, 1t is said, may be the
foundation Of speech here by the
latter during the campaign. The
Democratic executive committee has
called the city convention at which
Mayor Johnson and the ticket With
him Is to be named for Sept. 15
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
DRIVING H|NDUS
OUT OF COUNTRY
Citizens Could No Longer Stand In.
science of Invaders and Attempt
to Rid the Town of Them.
A "Drive of the Hindus" at BelIinq.
ham, WASH, Results in About Sew
en- Hundred Heading for Cana
.da and Four Hundred Seek
T Protection at Jail.

'Bellingham, Wash.--Six badly beat
en- Hindus are in the hospital, 4OC
frightened and ,half-nakcd Sikhs are in
the jail and corridors of the city hall,
guarded by policemen, and somewhere
between Bellingham and the British
Columbia line are $50 natives of In.
dia, beaten, hungry, naked and halt
clothed, making their way along the
Great Northern railway, bound for Ca
madam territory and the protection of
the British flag. The long expected
has occurred, and drive out the Hin
dus" was heard throughout the city and
along the water front Wednesday
night and early Thursday morning.
The police were helpless. All au.
thority was paralyzed and for five
hours a mob of half thousand white
men raided the mills where the blacks
working, battered down doors of lodg-
ing houses sheltering the foreigners,
and dragging the invaders from their
beds and with beating started them
Aoi viz SiIy llLulIo Will tIucIS W Keep
on going.
All that the police could do was
here and there save a native from the
violence of the mob. Several were
pulled from the water, where they had
been chased; others were found naked,
covering beneath the docks on the
tide flats, others bruised and bleeding
and were picked up and sent to the
hospital
The city is quiet now, but there is
strong undercurrent OF opinion which
apparently approves the mob's action,
and it may be found impossible to pro-
secute the leaders.
Racial feeling has played but a
small part in the affair. Every day
whites are being replaced in the mills
by blacks. The invaders have be-
come bold and insolent, many in
stances of women being pushed into
the gutter, insulted on street cars,
etc., being reported, and general I'M
easiness being given as reasons for the
Jobs have been offered the Hindus
again by the mill men and protection
but the Hindus have been
80 thoroughly frightened that they are
drawing their pay under police protec-
ton and are disposed to leave for Van
cOuyer
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
JUDGE TAKES PRISONERS
AGE INTO CONSIDERATION
Louis Glass, Convicted of Bribina San
Francisco Supervisor, Sentenced to
Five Years Imprisonment.

! San Francisco.-In the presence Of
a small crowd, Louis Glass, the vice
president and former general manager
| of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company, was on Wednesday senten-
ced to five years Imprisonment in the
state penitentiary. The extreme pun
ishment under the laws of the state
for the crime which Glass was con-
victed is fourteen years.
The Judge, in passing sentence, said:
There are two general considera-
lions pressing upon the mind of the
court in determining the measure Of
punishment in this case The first
turns upon the situation of the defend
ant himself. A man we'll advanced in
years, he has appeared in this court
charged for the first time with the
commission of public offense. The
other consideration is the nature of
the offense and the effect Of such Grim
inal transgression upon the institutions
of the country itself. The certainty
rather than the extent of the punish
ment should control. Weighing both
of these considerations, l have
reached conclusion which l feel will
be both just and fair under all the
circumstances presented" go
The Judge then sentenced Glass to
five years Imprisonment at San QUEEN
tin.
After his attorneys had applied for
and been granted a thirty-day arrest
of judgment, within which they will
apply for bail and begin the prosecu-
ton of an appeal, Mr.. Glass was re-
moved by the sheriff to the county
jail, where he has been prisoner since
his conviction last week
The crime for which Louis Glass
has been sentenced to San Quentin,
and of which he maintains his inno-
cence, was the bribing Of Supervisor
Thomas F. Lonergan, in the sum Of
$4,000 to vote against the application
of the Home Telephone company for
franchise in this CITY,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Find Body in Mississippi

New Orleans.-When the river
steamer Trudeau arrived in New Or.
leans Friday, its crew told of finding
badly-mutilated body at Jamestown,
La, and said that the body answered
he description of Peter Lamana,
'ather of the kidnapped Lamana boy.
Persons at jamestown saw large box
loating down the mississippi Fri
day and when they went out in a skiff
and towed 1t ashore, 1t was found to
contain the body of a large, darkroom.
plexioned man who, to all appearances.
had been foully murdered.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
G0LDF|ELD MINING TROUBLES
ARE SETTLED FOR A Time
Employees Accept Change Rooms, With
Certain Notifications, and There
Will be No Strike at Present.

| Goldfield Nev.-The employees of the
Mohawk and Combination mines and
the Combination mill returned to work
Sunday morning and everything is
now serene.
The agreement between the union
and the Consolidated company states
| that the men are to have two lockers,
side by side, one for street and one
Tor mine clothes; that they shall take
off their street clothes when going on
shift, put them in the locker and lock
the same before donning their other
garments, the operation to be reversed
when going off shift. The company is
privileged to have timekeeper and one
more Waterman in the ROOM who are
to be neutral and not required to be
members of any labor organization,
but such membership is not to disquali-
fly man for such position. It is
agreed that no man who is particularly
obnoxious to the union for good cause
shall be employed as Waterman. Mine
managers and superintendent, assay
ers, chemists and all men employed
in the furnace, parting and weighing
room or labortory, mine surveyors and
civil and mining engineers, watchmen
and employees Of Independent contrac-
tors engaged in the placing of ma
ehinery, delivery of supplies, erection
of buildings or other surface work
not directly mining in character, are
not required to belong to the Western
Federation, it being required that the
company insert in all contracts a
clause, requiring the contractors to
pay the the established rate of wages
and to employ none but members of
a regular labor organization.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Disastrous Gasoline EXPLOSION.

New York.-An exploding tank Of
gasoline in the cellar of a burning
building on Havemeyer street, Brook
lyn, on Wednesday seriously injured
hve fremen. Two of the firemen, John
Kennedy and James Smith, probably
Will die OF their injuries. The fire
broke out in a tenement house cellar,
wnere there was stored quantity of
paint and oils. The firemen who had
NODDED the cellar with water were
rolling out tank of gasoline when it
exploded. Kennedy and Smith were
knocked down by the explosion.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
EXPLORERS REPORTED LOST
IN LAND OF SNOW AND ICE
Three Members of the AneIo-Amerlcan
Arctic Expedition Left the Ship in
February and Havs Never Re-
turned.

Athabasca Landing, Canada.
of the probable loss of the schooner
Duchess of Bedford, the ship belonging
to the Anglo-American Arctic expedi-
ton, which had hopes to find a new
continent north of the Mackenzie river,
was brought here by Alfred Harrison,
who has been beyond the Arctic cir.
Gle for two years and who came here
on the steamer Midnight Sun. Mr..
Harrison says Ernest Stefansson. of
Harvard university, after whom the
expedition has been called, himself
brought the news of the loss of their
boat to Herschel island. He also
brought the news of the disappearance
of three members of the party and ex-
pressed the fear that they had met
death in the frozen north.
The missing men are Captain Mix
keson, Dane, Ernest Leffiingwell of
Chicago and ]. Marks. They left the
ship in February, with sixty days
provisions, for the supposed land of
the north, and had been gone seventy
days and no news had been received
from them.
One of their teams of dogs had re-
turned and it is feared the party will
never be heard from again. The
schooner Duchess of Bedford, Stefans-
son thought, had probably sunk. The
ship had filled with water, probably
from the ice strain, but they had been
able to remove everything of value to
the main shore
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
PLAGUE SITUATION.
Conference Of Boahd of Health and
Physicians at Sian Francisco.

San Francsco--A conference of the
board of supewisorsA the board OF
health and many PROMINENT physicians
of the city and state was held Friday
night to discuss the plague )situation.
Much discussion was had onl the ques-
ton of whether or not thief city and
county hospital should be /destroyed.
1t was finally decided that fall inmates
should be removed from the building
and sheltered in various places.
The non-contagious patieh hts may be
sent to other hospitals ara the sus-
pected patients put in other districts
after proper arrangements are made
for comfortable keeping.
The details were left with the board
of health and the federal government
representatives When this action is
taken then the matter of the future
of the old hospital will be decided.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Train Wrecked by Anarchists.

Berlin.-The Prussian railroad ad-
ministration has offered reward for
the discovery of the persons who
wrecked the st. Petersburg-B Berlin
express between Strausbourg and Reb-
feldt. near Berlin, shortly before mid
night Wednesday, resulting in eleven
persons being injured. Presumably
1t was the work of anarchists or Rus
sian revolutionists, who hoped to kill
member of the imperial family who
was said to have been ON the train.
The train was derailed and several
ears telescoped and caught fire.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Strike Practically Settled.

Reno, Nev-At a conference here
between George Wingfield, United
States Senator Nixon and Attorney
Bryant, for the Consolidated Mines
Co, and McKinnon, Vice and Ham.
ilton for the Goldfield Miners union,
an agreement was reached for the ter
mination of the strike in the Mohawk
and Combination mines of Goldfeld,
which is believed will end the strike,
as it is thought by both sides that the
union will ratify the action of its CON-
mittee. The best of feeling marked
the conference.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Brewers in Kansas Are Giving Up
the Fight.

Topeka, Kansas.-Seven brewing
companies on Friday afternoon gave up
the fight in Kansas, agreeing to pay all
the costs of the cases against them in
the supreme court and move out of the
state. 1t is understood that the seven
companies must pay costs amounting
to $500 and $4,000 to be divided
equally among the three receivers of
the court When Attorney General
Jackson started his fight there were
sixteen big companies doing business
in Kansas. All have given up but four.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Pckpockets Begin Operations on Pas
senger Train.

Omaha.-Three armed crooks who
had picked the pockets OF a number of
Rock Island passengers at the station
in Lincoln, and attempted to continue
their game on the train, engaged in a
desperate encounter with Conductor
Henry Duval on the Rocky Mountain
limited, near Alive station, about l
o'clock Friday morning. After stand
ing off Conductor Duval with knife,
the men leaped from the moving train
over a slow piece of track about eight
miles west of Alive and escaped in
the darkness.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
FAMOUS CLIFF HOUSE BURNED.
Was One of Americas Best Known
Resorts,

San Francisco.-The famous Cliff
House of this city, San Franchises
first attraction for tourists, was burned
to the ground Saturday evening This
was the second Cliff House to be de.
stroyed by fire. The building which
was burned was erected about thirty
years ago by Adolph Sutro of Sutro
tunnel fame. 1t was owned by the
Sutro estate and was valued at $4,000
TAFT estimates his loss at $4,000. on
which there is $4,000 insurance. The
Cliff House was ranked as one of the
best known resorts of America.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
SENSATIONAL TURN IN TRAGEDY.
Widow of Man Supposed to Have Been
Shot by Burglar Under Arrest.

Cleveland, acknowledgements in
the investigation into the death of John
J. Phillips, coal operator, broker,
banker, and clubman, came thick and
fast on Wednesday and took a sensa-
tional turn late in the afternoon when
Mrs. Phillips, widow OF the deceased,
was taken into custody by Chief of
Police Stamberger of the aristocratic
suburb East Cleveland. Mrs. Phillips
has been in highly nervous state
since the tragedy early Monday morn
ing, after which announcement was
made that her husband had been shot
and mortally wounded by burglar.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Discord Over Moroccan Situation.

Madrid.-The Globe leiterates that
'discord exists between King Alfonso
and Premier Maura regarding SPANS
Moroccan policy. The paper adds:
Senior Maura intends to ask the king
whether he has confidence in the min.
istry which involves the possibility OF
a ministerial crisis, which would put
the liberals in power. Ii the sentiment
in favor of Intervention in Morocco was
stronger in Spain the government
would dispatch 1000 men and a mum.
Der of warships to Morocco"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS.
New York Dressmakers Couldn't Fool
Custom Officials,

New York.-Foreign gowns, laces
and lingerie, the value of which is said
to be 100000, were seized by customs
inspectors on Sunday on the arrival
of French liner La Savoie. Most of
the goods which were contained in
thirty trunks were the property of a
number of dressmakers returning from
Europe. Practically all of the trunks
seized bore inspection labels which
the customs officials declare were
either forged or stolen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
IDLE RUMORS AFLOAT.
Reported the United States Has Leased
CoaIing Station in Norvik Bay.

Misunderstanding Secretary New
berry of the navy department on
Thursday said there was no truth
in the Shanghai report that
the United States has leased for five
years coaling station in Norvik bay.
Regarding a report from the same
source that the United States had
leased for next winter the floating dry
dock at Vladivostok, Mr.. Newberry
said that would be just as much use
to the navy as a canal on Mars"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-13
Salt Lake, Man Attempts His Life in
Fit of Dementa.

Logan, Utah.-Robert S. Campbell,
formerly general manager of the Utah
Light & Railway company at Salt
Lake, in fit of temporary dementia,
Sunday afternoon, attempted to take
his own life by cutting his throat with
a clasp knife, and only the most des-
perate efforts of his wife and son Leo
prevented the accomplishment of his
purpose. He now lies in a precarious
condition in the local hospital, al
though the physicians hold out hope
that he will recover.