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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-21
CITY In RRIEF.

Two teams, first class work horses
or sale by American Trust company,
The warm weather has brought the
price Of eggs down to 40 cents.
a big slump In price is looked for in
the next few weeks.
Ladies', Gents and children's rub
bers at Il. B. Keller g. Company.
The Woodmen of the World will
visit the Spokane camp next Wednes.
day when that order will hold a social
session.
We give voting coupons with pur-
chases at City Meat market.
Mr.. r. P. Bangs. Of the Press, re
ceived box Of oranges and pecans
from Port Orange, Florida, a present
from his mother. Both nuts and
fruit we're raised on her property.
Gus Blenz. of the Occur d'AIene
Meat company, spent the day In Spo
kane on business.
Sixteen inch and 4.foot dry wood.
thinner Fuel company.
e. A. Allen Of the Beaver Dam
Mining company formerly Of the e.
A. Allen Drug store is now located
In Standpoint.
To make good bread use Ceretana
the hard wheat -four. Il. b. Keller 4
Company
The matter Of the selection Of an
assistant or substitute librarian has
not been settled and any person de.
sirous Of becoming an assistant OF
Of learning the work, should apply al
the library this week.
just received-another car of bran
and shorts and rolled barley. Can
now supply your needs. Winn. Barr.
Chalney Go.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Barnes, former
residents Of Occur d'Alene, and for
the past three years, residents Of the
vicinity Of Pullman, Wash. have re.
turned to the city and will locate.
Fine shoe repairing at moderate
prices at the Idaho Mercantile com
pany.
A Washington Birthday Dinner
will be held at the parlors Of the Bap
list church from Ave to eight o'olocl
tomorrow evening, being served By
the ladies Of the Christian church
A good dinner Is promised.
Girls bring your doll and get
Munsing vest for her free. Saturda!
morning at 0 o'clock. Idaho Mer
camille company.
This morning a meeting of tn
creditors In the Lanler bankTuptc.
case was held in the office of refers
@. II. Potts, at which the bankrup
was examined. The meeting wa
continued until Monday morning.
The fremen's dance tomorrow
evening is attracting much attenti On
It will be held In the Blackwell pa
vilion. Nauholz orchestra will fur
nish the music while an excellen
luncheon will be served by the ladie
of the library department of tn
Woman's club at 80 cents palte.
Tomorrow being Washington
Birthday and legal holiday, ia
public library will not be open, hu
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-21
In different Patterns and shades
of upholsterinq.

The white shades predominant popularity season but the
shades popua The mechanism of all very
and be operated allow the lowered or
and the brake locked ON the levers the back of the
We will be glad and with our large
please purchased the factory in large
titles and and
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-21
The Occur d'Alene.
Furniture Co.
have complete line of strictly uP-to-date
GO=CARTS

In ordering these carts paid strict attention to s
strength and to the babys comfort Baby is the most mp
tant member of the family, requires the greatest
spring and summer come they require fresh air and suns
The a little bodies susceptible to the sudden chang
that you cannot pay too much attention to them The doc
tor will always tell you to give the baby plenty of pure w
air. 1t is more essential than anything else to make then
strong and healthy leave the baby home when you
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
TELLS OF FUTURE
OF ROOSEVELT
Representative of Missouri
Delivers Address ON the
River and Harbor Bill
HOUSE HOLDS DEBATE

WASHINGTON Feb. 1.-Appropria-
tions for rivers and harbors again oc-
cupied the attention of the House to-
day. The speeches dealt largely with
the proposed canal from Chicago to St.
Louis and the deepening of the Mis-
sissippi River from st. Louis to the
gulf to fourteen feet
Representative Clark of Missouri de-
livered a characteristic address in be-
half of the Mississippi River project
and referred to the Presidents possible
future in the following words.
MANY suggestions have been made in the public
press as to the career of President Roosevelt
after his term expires 1t has been suggested
that he be elected to the Senate of the United
States. ] not the adviser OF the people OF
New York. but IL they are TO continue in the
unhappy habit of sending Republicans TO that
body my voice Is for Roosevelt for that posi-
ton. The subsequent proceedings would be de-
Only two ex- Presidents have returned to Con-
gress. John Quincy Adams servedS seventeen
years in this House. dying with the harness on
to do had he been consulted about his exit
from this world
Another suggestion is that President Roose-
Welt shall be made president of Harvard Uni
yersity. a tempting position for man of schol-
arly tastes.
Another suggestion Is that Colonel Roosevelt
tribunal, and another Is that he be made man
ager of the Panama canal-the most splendid
suggestion of all. The man who achieves the
never be forgotten. why %wallace- or Shonts
or any man who had any chance TO conect
his name with that undertaking would relin-
olish it for any financial consideration what
soever. like the peace Of God, passes all under
standing.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
BILL ON COLORADO
RIVER APPROVED
sPEC1AI, pIsPArCH TO THE CALL

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
WASHINGTON. Feb. SENATOR
Flint's bill dealing with the Colorado
River break finally escaped the objec-
tions of Senator Clark of Wyoming to-
day and came over to the House with
the Senate's approval 1t will proba-
bly, go to the irrigation committee
also, though the public lands commit
tee wants it. Asked today for state-
ment of his position concerning it, Rep
resentative Smith>said:
THE Flint bill will suit me fairly
well If amended in several particulars.
/. shall seek to amend it so that the
Imperial Valley settler who has en-
tered land under the desert land act
and reclaimed it under the existing
water system of the California Devel-
opment Company: shall have the right
TO. irrigate his full tract of $50 acres.
Under the reclamation service I think
a general amendment of this character
to the reclamation act would be a
good thing.
/. 'The Flint bill ought to be further
Nservice its unquestioned right to ac-
quire existing water systems and
works in Imperial Valley
Senator Flint today secured passage
by the Senate of the Smith bill. ex-
tending the time OF entry in Imperial
Valley to two years from next spring.
The measure was amended so that an
nual proof as well as final proof need
not be made, also SO as. to include en-
tries under homestead as. well as des-
ert land law amendments, making it
necessary to send the. bill to the House
public lands committee. The latter
will doubtless agree to the amend
ments. and then the House will concur
in the Senate propositions.
IMPERIAL, Cal, Feb. 1.-While the
country is talking of the possibility of
controlling the Colorado River the sus-
pense at the scene of the break has
ended and the affair is considered
closed by the people most affected.
The former break in the bank was
closed on November 6 and the present
break occurred on December s. More
than half the rivers flow is now
turned and the critical period has
passed. BY February s the remainder
of the current will be flowing down.
the old channel. it now being but a
matter of dumping sufficient rock to
make complete the closure of the
break.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
NEW PAPER TRUST
TO BE CURBED
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALI


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Once more
are to be placed upon the grill by the
Federal Government The judiciary
committee of the House will report
favorably the resolution of Represen-
tative Williams directing the Commits
sioner of Corporations to make a
thorough investigation of these con-
Germs.
The investigation will not affect
newspapers. which pay $4,000 900 an
nually for the paper they consume, but
book publishers and boxboard, writing
and other paper manufacturers, who
consume at least ST., 100000 worth of
paper.
The General Paper Company of Chi
cago. which was a selling corporation
organized under the laws of the State
of Illinois and owned mills scattered
among Illinois and other paper making
States Of the West, was dissolved some
months ago as result of Judicial pro-
ceedings instituted in Minnesota The
institution of the suit was followed by
a reduction in the price of paper to
newspapers by 80 per cent according to
Information given to the Attorney
General.
Now the Department of Justice has
been informed that the price of paper
has gone up again and that a new COM
binatfon or association has been or
ganized which takes the, place of the
trust declared unlawful. In this con-
nection the attention of the authorities
has been called to the report of the
Incorporation of the Kimberly Clark
Company by the Secretary of State of
Wisconsin. The officers of this com
pany were the officers of the old trust.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02

was in the habit of charging for switch
ing where he did no switching.
IF the railroad rate is made up as a
rate competitive to the water rate and
includes such charges as marine insur
ance, liability to sea damage and wharf
age tolls, why is 1t that your bills only
mention the one item of toll?" asked
Mann of Traffic Manager Luce, who re-
piled. somewhat evasively:
That is a matter of bookkeeping"
And the amount you collect for toll
is not divided with connecting lines?"
: No"
But you do. divide the amounts
which are supposed to offset the cost
of marine insurance and all the other
elements which the marine carrier has
to meet?"
':Yes."
Mann showed from the witness that
an order had been sent out on January
from. his Office that eastbound freight
leaving San Francisco should pay the
same toll, but that this order had been
countermanded on January %.
at was error of clerk" ex-
OF it l ordered 1t countermanded, as
mence.
H. Rising, the clerk who had sent
out the first order, Luce said, had no
authority at all to do so and had
given as an excuse that he had mis-
understood his directions.
Lane then asked if the toll was coll
.lected by the railroad before the State
took the management of the harbor
front; and was told that it had not
been.
Then 1t was added at that time be-
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
DAVIS IS PRAISED
BY PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Feb. LIN uneouiy-
oca1 terms President Roosevelt today
approved Admiral Davis entire action
in connection with his visit to King
ston, Jamaica, and requested the Sec
retary of the Navy to express to Ad-
miral Davis his heartiest commendation
of all that he did. The long-expected
report of Admiral Davis of the circum-
stances leading up to the withdrawal
of the fleet from Kingston reached the
Navy Department today and was at
once laid before the President Inas-
much as the President has already an
nounced that the diplomatic phase Is a.
closed incident. the report itself will
not be made public. However, Secre-
tary Metcalf gave out the letter of
Admiral Evans, commander in chief of
the Atlantic fleet, warmly commencing
Admiral Davis for his conduct of a
situation which was, to say the least
somewhat embarrassing
ThG correspondence is supplemented
by a strong letter of commentator of
Admiral Davis by the President and by
Secretary Metcalf.
The letter from Admiral Evans, dated
January %, says:
Respectfully forwarded. approved to the Sec
refary Of the Navy through the Bureau of Nayi-
CATION, the report and Its appendices made by
officers who were the spot and therefore best
situation very clearly.
The commander in-chief feels be cannot too
highly commend Rear Admiral Davis for the
very dignified and mastery manner in which he
conducted situation, which was to saw the
least somewhat embarrassing, and he deems II
particularly fortunate that there was at hand
an officer such as be to deal with the problem
The commander -in-chief heartily approves the
commendatory remarks relating to the officers
and men of the ships who accompanied Admiral
Davis but they did. no more than is expected
of officers and men In the navy and no more
than would have been done by officers and uan
of the other ships Of the feet. and indeed the
ships sent were not chosen above those OF Others
of the feet for any other reason than that thew
were more nearly ready for steamfng when the
news of the disaster was received.
The President wrote to Secretary
Metcalf as follows:
have read carefully the report of Admiral
Davis. submitted by you, together with the
report of Admiral Evans commencing the az.
tions of Admiral Davis at Kingston. I return
them herewith and desire that you tell Adj
miral Davis of my hearty commendation of all
upheld the best traditions of our navy IN fins
rendering distinguished service to humanity
Secretary Metcalf, in his letter to>Ad-
miral Davis. says:
The department has carefully considered your
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02

cause it was an additional charge that
had to be paid?'
This apparently went far, to settle
the whole question.
DISCRIMINATIvE RATE
On the point that the San Fran
cisco rate, taken as whole, was un-
just, Luce was asked why it was that
he did not charge the Sacramento
shippers toll, as their rate was also a
coast terminal one, made on the same
basis as the tariff to San Francisco.
1T would be hard to make the Sac
ramento people see why they should
pay it, responded Luce.
And San Francisco claims that it
is very hard to understand why it
should pay the railroad for State toll
which is not toll and never goes to the
State" was the retort.
To enforce this point. A NJ. Sutton of
the Hawaiian line was called.
He testified that his company had to
pay toll at San Francisco on freight
which came around the horn for Sacra-
mento. Thus, according to Dunno S
theory, the railroad should have added
toll in it's bill for Sacramento rail
rates.
There was more talk-three hours of
it-but in the end there remained the
fact-apparent in the beginning-that
the Hartman people were collecting a
their kindness to their competitor the
Santa Fe. which has no peninsular line
and has to bring all it's freight across
the bay to San Francisco.
The commission adjourned and will
hold session at Santa Barbara on
Tuesday and convene in Los Angeles on
Thursday
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02


Fe, by landing freight in San Francisco
cents ton less to. the shipper.
Commissioner Lane ruled in the end
that the attorneys might proceed with
their case without stopping to deter
mine which was the point to be proved,
and that the commission should decide
that later.
This leaves two issues. First, is the
State toll which the railroad collects on
peninsular freight and keeps an unjust.
charge? Secbnd, is the toll unjust in
both cases. as it discriminates against
San Francisco?
on the first point Dunno had claimed
with righteous indignation that it was
ali a matter of competition with the
around the horn steamers that have to
pay this toll to the. State. and that the
railroad made its tariff on basis of the
individual items of expense which the
steamers had to meet. Thus the toll
had nothing to do whether freight real
iy crossed the bay or not.
This argument was punctured by the
commissioner when he brought out
from G. W. Luce the information that
the. Southern Pacific had never thought
of adding this toll charge to its tariff
until long after the rate in competition
with the ocean lines had been made. 1t
was added at the time the State assumed
ownership of the narbor front. Before
that time the steamers paid for their
wharves, but the railroad never thought
Of adding the item TO its expense bill
for overland shippers.
TESTIMONY. OF LUCE:
Mann contended that the toll charge
was terminal expense, similar to
switching charges, and asked Luce il he
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
Final Juror in Thaw
Case Is Obtained

the opinion that the cross-examinat
of the States witnesses to- the actual
events associated with the tragedy may
not be very extensive.
From the questions which have so
persistently been put to the talesmen
by Thaw's attorneys as to any preJu-
dice against "a defense of insanity, 1t is
of emotional insanity will be the main
reliance Of the young defendant. This
probably will lead to a question
ing of the States witnesses as to any
popularity they: may have noticed in
Thaw's conduct the night. of the trag-
edy, in which event the. conclusion of
the States direct testimony may take
longer than is now anticipated
Thaw seemed to be in the best Of
spirits as the last juror was sworn.
Forty talesmen had been examined in
Gerstman declared that he had no such
opinion in the case as would prevent
his rendering a fair and conscientious
verdict and that he was not preJu-
diced against any line of defense and
would give the prisoner the benefit of
every reasonable doubt.
But" suggested District Attorney
Jerome. would you go further than
that and require the State to remove
every possibility of doubt?"
II would certainly want every doubt
removed, replied Gerstman, before
I would vote to convict In a capital
case
The District Attorney challenged the
juror for cause.
Thaw's attorneys were not content
to let the talesman go. and on cross
examination they brought his answers
within the legal requirements, Gerst-
man replying to Hartridge that he
meant by doubt any doubt that a.
man might entertain.
Justice Fitzgerald held this to be a
competent answer and overruled Dis
trict Attorney Jeromes challenge.
The people are content" announced
Jerome, and the juror was sworn.
Thaw smiled in evident satisfaction.
Rumors were in circulation today
that one. and possibly two. more jur-
ors were to be excused from further
service. There were several confer
ences of the attorneys and it was stat
ee that Thaw's counsel refused to con-
sent to any further removal. At the
noon recess Jerome made another un-
successful effort to gain his end.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
HONOR MEMORY OF SENATOR
Statesmen Laud Qualities of Arthur
Pue German of Maryland

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Senators
paid tribute today to the memory of
Senator Arthur Pue German of Mary
land. All business for the day was
suspended at 2:30 o'clock, according to
a special order. and eulogies were de-
livered expressing the profound sorrow
and regret of the Senate at the death
of the Maryland Senator.
Previous to this order many bills of
minor Importance were passed. One
of the measures increases the pension
Of all Indian war survivors from So to
$40 per month.
Consideration of the Indian appro-
priation bill is to begin in the Senate
tomorrow.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02

s-onfipued from Page j, Column z
court until 1880 o'clock Monday morn
ing.
That the defense is to build its case
on the theory of temporary or emo
tsonaI insanity is no longer seriously
5o,,hted The most important question
nuf 10 talesnen today, and those TO
+rbscb counsel for both sides were most
,nsistent in demanding explicit an
suers were directed toward revealing
The talesmen's state of mind toward
;7san,tv as a legal defense and their
,,r,derstanding OF what the law required
as the only kind Of mental unsounoness
which may excuse homicide
T,ss+rict Attorney Jerome, who has
been contending since yesterday after
noon for the removal of one Of the
mon now in the 5ury-boX, but who has
failed to gain the consent or the de-
fendant's counsel TO q change, was still
reluctant as court ADJOURNED tooay 10
begin the actual proceedings without a
further opportunity TO plead with
Thasw's attorneys. At his request, there
fore Justice Fitzgerald ordered all
tslesrnen who have not yet been exam
sne6 TO be in court Monday morning,
ready for jury service IN case any are
needed. Mr. Jerome then announced
the situation in the meantime the
state would proceed to place all its di-
rect testimony before the jury at the
Monday morning session. The defense
was notified to be in readiness to pro-
ceed by Monday afternoon
I'VE are entirely satisfied with the
s-,r,y.D said Clifford w Hartridge,
Thaw's leading counsel, tonight. and
he. added the intimation that he would
not consent to any further alterations
Of the personnel
THE defense. viii be ready to pro-
coed the rninrte the prosecution has
fuished its case" declared John 3.
Gleason. another Of Thaw's attorneys.
Assistant District Attorney Garvin
gwll make the opening address for the
Htrosecution. His remarks viii be brief.
The State viii then introduce such VT
nesses as are necessary TO prove that
stanford White was shot and killed
by Harry x Thaw on the Madison
Square roofgaroen the night of June
25 last IN announcing that the intro
duction viii not require more than one
session of court, Jerome is evidently Of
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02

report and of your subordinate officers on the
aid rendered by your squadron to the people of
Kingston, Jamaica, after the disastrous earth
quake and conhagration- The reports, with Ad-
and praising your able performance of duty in
the face of so much confusion and difficulty
have been submitted to the President.
The President desires the department to ex-
press to You his heartiest commendstion of all
YOU did at Kingston. In his note to the depart
ment he states that you upheld the best tradi-
tions of our navy in thus rendering distinguished
service to humanity and approves your entire
its approval and commendation of your able
services and those of the officers and men un-
der your command.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02

by the railroad In the beginning the
testimony had been taken with view
to showing that the toll on the penin-
suIar freight only should be dfscontin-
ued. Dunno had replied that the toll
charge on the peninsular freight was
merely IN equalizer and that the whole
rate must stand or fall as a rate. Then
Mann. following a suggestion from the
commissioner. had addressed himself to
proving the injustice of the entire rate
in that it was quarter of cent a
hundred higher than to other Aacihc
coast terminals.
7 have succeeded in smoking my
friend Mann out" exclaimed Dunno. and
the two attorneys fell TO arguing on
what the argument was really about
Dunno said the press shared the gener-
al ignorance on the subject in that the
newspapers had not discovered that
what the railroad was really hghting
for in the matter was the dearly be-
loved principle Of through coast rates
as fixed by water competition.
KINDNESS TO SANTA FE
During the whole hearing no one al
luded to what is generally accepted as
the true cause for this strange charge
for wharfage toll on freight that never
crosses the water front, when is that
the southern Pacific agreed to keep this
.s,s-eJe on All freight after the compile
+son ~ the coast line, so that ii might
-. rrass its competitor, the Santa
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
SAN FRANCISCO MEN LOSE
Committee Frovvns on Claims of the
Local Liquor Dealers

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-The House
committee on claims today Informally
discussed the request of San Francisco
liquor dealers, indorsed by Secretary
Taft, for reimbursement for the value
of liquor destroyed under. military or
ders as a public necessity during last
April catastrophe. The amount of the
claims is. $4,000. The committee thinks
that favorable action on them would
create bad precedent. for II liquor
men could recover from the Govern
ment for liquors on which internal
revenue taxes were paid. dry goods
men might ask for reimbursement for
stock destroyed because they paid du-
ties on it. The committee will prob
ably not even give a hearing to- the
liquor mems representatives.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-02
BILL INTERESTS CALIFORNIA
Contains Appropriations for Light and
FOG Signal Stations

WASHINGTON, Feb. .1.-Representa-
tive Mann of Illinois today reported
that the House omnibus lighthouse bill
contained the following items of inter
est to California;: A relief light vessel
for use on the Pacific coast, s130.000;
a light and fog signal station at Car
quinez Strait, between San Pablo Bay
and Suisun Bay, at a cost of $4,000;
light and fog signal station on the
north shore of Molokai Island, Hawaii,
at a cost of $4,000.