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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Two boys were drowned near Van
couver, Wash, last Tuesday. Their
names were Winslow Haberernlcht,
aged 13, and Wilbur Frank, "a leaf and
dumb boy, aged 10 years.
The purchase by the government OF
the canal system of the Idaho Canal
andI Improvement company for $50 ,OOO
is announced from Washington by the
acting commissioner of Indian affairs
G.. f. LaIIabee.
w. Z Quinlan of Pasco has filed
with the county commissioners OF
Franklin county a report of his investi-
cations into the accounts of E. Z.
Crawford. county treasurer, and Quin-
lan's report shows NJ. Brayford to be
short $2344. Brayford has disappeared
from Pasco and from his home i'll Con-
nell, and no word of him has been
heard for over a week.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

1t was 112 in the shade in Pendle-
ton, Oregon, last Tuesday.
The unwritten law will be the de-
Tense of John Ennis, a shopman, who
shot and killed Evan Davies, a black
smith, the alleged betrayer of Ennis
~16-year-old daughter. All parties con-
cerned live at rocatello, Idaho. The
shot was fired W lille Davies was work.
ing at his forge.
The Cunard line steamer Lusitania,
recently broke the eastward record
from New York to Liverpool over the
long course. Her average speed for the
distance vas 24:32 knots an hour.
Nearly 40 persons were injured, and
IL so seriously that they had to be
taken to hospitals, in a head-on collis-
ion last Tuesday between two electrict
car at Lovedsle station, four miles
north of Aurora Illinois. The disaster
occurred when the coaches were each
running at a speed estimated at 40
miles an hour.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Cottonwood
Swept by Fire

Cottonwood, Idaho, July 81. An
early morning fire, which originated In
the Club saloon from an unknown
cause, swept the business district Mon
day, leaving only one small store. wip-
ing out banks, dry goods stores, hard
ware and implement houses, hotels and
dwellings, and entailing a loss of $780,
600, which is covered by sec 900 insur
ance. The fire broke out at 1890
O'Clock in the morning, and before the
sleeping population could respond to
the alarm the flames had gained such
Roadway that nothing could stop them,
although the men worked heroically,
some in scant night dresses, to save the
property, while the women and chill
dren stood by and saw the entire bust
ness district wiped out by the flames
which lighted the heavens.
This is the second disastrous fire in
this city in less than ID months, as
July 6, last year, a fire which origin
atedin the Modern furniture store
swept over a portion of the business
district, but was finally controlled by
the bucket brigade after a loss of
$25, 900.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
IDAHO NOTES,

Chairman Brady has gone to Colo
RADIO Springs to attend the transmits
souri, conference with Republican Ma
tional Chairman Hitchcock.
William Falconer, aged rs ear
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
DR.. Ward Butler, in Independence.
Ore, recently. Mr.. Falconer was one
OF the old-time settlers of the Occur
d'Alenes.
Rufus R. G. Smith, better known as
Windy Smith," is held to await the
action of the grand jury on a charge
OF introducing liquor on the Nez Perce
reservation, E. O'Neill placing Smiths
bond at $500.
One hour each in the county iaiI
and a fine of $50 and costs each were
the sentences imposed in Justice
Boomers court at Wallace on Jerome
Jacobs, and j.. H. Carter, charged with
violating the Sunday closing law.
Edward NJ. Hubbard, engineer Of
the Short Line passenger train that
ran over and killed Mellus Thrasher a
5-year-old boy, near Weiser three
weeks ago, was acquitted last night
OF the charge of involuntary man.
slaughter.
James H. Brady, president of the
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Bishop Potter
Is Dead

Cooperville, N. Y, July2 2.-Henry
Goldman Potter, seventh Protestant
Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New
York died Tuesday night at Fernleigh,
his summer home here. after an i'll
ness of several weeks aged "A years.
The bishop was unconscious all day
and the end, which came at 8:45 in the
evening, was peaceful and quiet.
No arrangements for the funeral
have been made, but it is probable that
services will be held here and that the
body will be removed to New York,
where APP ublic funeral will be held at
Grace church.
Bishop Potter's illness first became
publicly known in the spring, when an
nonceument was made that he was I'M
ace to take part in the Easter service.
Antagonists showed that the bishop
was suffering from a stomach and liver
malady, and after it was given sout in
May that he would not be able to at
tend the Pan-Anglican conference,
June 81, arrangements were made to
bring the bishop here when his condi-
ton would permit the journey.
Henry Goldman Potter, a son OF
Bishop AlOnzo Potter, and himself a
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church, was born at Schenectady, N.
Y. May 20, 1885. He was educated
at the Episcopal academy in Philadel.
phia and the Theological seminary Of
Virginia. He was ordained deacon il
1857, priest in 1858, and was success
sively rector Of Christ Church, Greens
burg, Pa. U85O, st. Johns Church
Troy, N. Y, QS59), assistant at Trim.
ity church, Boston 1855 and rector Of
Grace church, New York (I868).
In 1883 he was chosen assistan
bishop of New York and on the deatl
of his uncle, Bishop Horatio Potter, IL
1887, he became bishop.
He has taken an active part in eff
forts to promote cordial relations be
tween employer and employed and hi
ability and public spirit have givei
him a wide influence which is no
bounded by UNCONVENTIONAL lines.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
MONTANA ITEMS.

A hearing is on at Kalispel on the
charges filed with the state officials
that the state lands board has disposed
of various tracts of land belonging to
the commonwealth to the detriment of
individual bidders and to the benefit Of
corporation lumber concerns.
Fire at st. Regis, Mont, Monday at.
ternoon destroyed four buildings, en-.
failing a loss of $12, 900. H. A. Nc.
Ginnis is the heaviest loser.
John ID. Ryan, who arrived in Great
Falls with John G.. Moroney and Super
intendent Gillie of the Amalgamated
properties, states that he and his as.
s~ociates, in the purchase of the Great
Falls Water Power and Townsite com.
pany, would expend 81, 800, 900 in the
development of water power at the
falls city.
The new battleship Montana has
been accepted by the navy depart.
ment. Captain Alfred Reynolds is in
charge.
w. A. Woods, master mechanic at
the Cary works on the st. Regis cutoff
of the Northern Pacific, was drowned
in the Missoula river recently. The
body has not yet been recovered. Mr..
Woods, with an assistant, was stretch.
ing a wire cable for a ferry when the
coil fell out and capsized the boat,
drowning Mr.. Woods. He was a single
man and about middle age.
James Hayes, a veteran of the Boer
war, made a statement at Missoula
to an official of the immigration Office,
in which he confessed to the murder
of a comrade In the British army IN
1900. A report will be forwarded at
once to Washington, it is said, and the
matter will be taken up with the
Canadian government. Hayes has
been found sane by a commission oil
Missoula physicians.
The supreme court has declared IN
constitutional the law passed by the
last legislature making it a mlsde'
meanor for non-membeTs of secret or
fraternal societies to wear badges, en-
blems or insignia of such fraternity
The case was on appeal from Helena,
where a colored man had been hned
$50 for wearing an Elk pin. The court
also refused to issue a writ of manda
mus compelling the prison board 10
award the contract for keeping prs
oners to the Butte firm which SUD
mitted the lowest bid, holding the
board had a right to take over the
institution and conduct it under Ie
supervision of a warden.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31

Idaho Consolidated Power CON,
Pocatello, and principal ownar pany Of
Gus irrigation and power pronos 'art
that section, including the ues IN
Light and Power company ba%a AOurg
a deal for the sale Of the To- 0iOsed
property to T. M. Hodguns Of D 1
for $65, 900. Butte
A large force has arrived a.
point to commence c~onstrncti S"nd'
the Northern Pacific shops On
There are about so men at go, Nuefe.
and the contractors expect 70 uOW
over 200 men employed in less nave
month. The crews are now nan a
the large tract of land to ba caring
by the shops. The plans for the ro.N eu
house call for a 2S-stall buildina
are drawn so that additions CO., Uu'
made. We
J. L. Campbell, a farmer liviDa
Lookout, during the hailstorm nor.ea
ly escaped electrocution of bio
and himself. The lightning struol
large pine + only three rods fro.
Mr.. Campbell, splitting it into sr,,u
tiers. On the same day a mara 90,
colt belonging to Pat Nugent NJ
Chesley were struck and inctontl
killed. The animals were runn,ra !,
an open pasture. Two weeks oaa
lightning struck a barn on the EdwaSS
Hollingsworth farm near Lenore ANA
killed three valuable horses.
Robert Roman, the bandit who bo,,
up the Great Northern train one and i.
half miles east of Naples. Idaho -
the afternoon of July 8, and wbo wo.
shot through the chest by a passenpor
is recovering wonderfully. He va,
given a preliminary hearing in his col
several days ago by Justice of tbf
Peace William J.. Costello and wa,
bound over to the district court III,
bail was set at $4,000. Roman fol,
Prosecutor Peter Johnson that he wa,
willing to plead guilty in the distric
court and urged the county attorne,
to have him sentenced in the comm,
term.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
eompers Aids Democrats.

According to information at the ma
tional capital, President Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor and
his aides are bringing strong pressure
on their followers to prevent organized
labor elements from joining the indie
pendence league movement, and being
instrumental at Chicago July 81, when
the convention of the league will be
held, in taking a stand antagonistic
to Bryan.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
OREGON NEWS.

The funeral of Thomas NJ. Britten'
who died of paralysis recently was
held at Baker City. Thomas Bril'en
was one of the pioneers OF eastern
Oregon. He was born December ~
1889, and when young located in ldano'
A few years following he moved u
Baker county.
David Coneli, an Italian, q yea''
old, Sunday night shot and killed MIS-
Dolly Sharp, with whom he was ehams
ored, and L. Peterkin, whom he lounu
in company with the woman. kunnino
to his room, he bolted the door haSIn!
scrubbed two notes d%isposing Oh US
effects, and then blew out his o"s
brains with the one shot that ne o
left. .
The heirs OF William Could VIM
died intestate, leaving an estate woLn
$4,000, met recently and divided uN
property by mutual agreement
The remains of a man whose n'~s
was evidently E. Perdue OF SpohJ
and who was murdered in colu p'OC %
in a lonely place in the mountains -
miles northwest Of Hillsboro' "''
found by a 15-year-old boy. &C
William Wardell, better known :,
Professor Hicks, an aeronaut' IN
Baker City hospital, suffering md
three broken ribs, internal injuries n
a badly bruised head, as the resu an
a fall from a balloon while glVins
exhihition
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Al JOHNSON LEADS EDITORS.
Seattle Man President of State Press
Association.

Seattle Man President of State Press
Association.
Resolutions adopted by the Wash
ington Press association favor letting
the newspaper clause of the direct pri-
mary law stand as it is, with the eX-
ception that charges should be per-
mitted for candidates announcements.
matter was left in the hands OF
the legislative committee.
Included in the resolutions adopted
are clauses favoring changes in the
probate laws of Washington, the enact
ment of a law requiring publication OF
insurance reports, the publication OF
notices of a legal nature, and a reduc-
ton in the legal rate of publication.
Officers of the association were
elected as follows: Albert Johnson OF
Seattle, president; F. A Hamilton oil
South Bend, first vice president; M. Il
Randall of Ellensburg, second vice
pesident; T. Lee Odgers of Davenport
secretary. The next meeting will be al
Seattle.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
PUTS BAN OK NEGRO ELKs.
New York Judge says They Must Not
Use Title.

Supreme Court Justice Morschauser
of Poughkeepsie, n. Y, has made per
manent an injunction restraining the
Improved, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks of the World from using
its present name and title.
The order is composed OF colored
men of the lodges in Brooklyn and
other places. The application for the
in function was made by the Benevo-
len and Protective order of EIks
through a committee appointed by the
grand lodge for the purpose.
The decision says the defendant
seems to have practically appropriated
the name. title, seal, card, emblem and
colors and nearly everything else used
by the plaintiff in its corporate al
fairs.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
TAFT MEMBER OF UNION.

Steam ShoVelmen Elect the Repub-
lican Nominee.
Hot Springs, Va, July 22.-When
Judge Taft goes to Cincinnati to get
notified of his nomination for the
presidency by the party he will re-
ceive notice of his election as a men,
Der of a labor organization. He has
been elected a member of the Inter
national Society of Steam Shovelmen,
of which T. j. Donlan of Chicago is
president. Mr.. Taft has a good deal
to do with the steam shovelmen at
Panama.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
THEIR STRIKE LAW is SUCCESS.
In Canada Settles % of 80 Industrial
Disputes.

That the Canadian Industrial dis
putes investigation act for the pre-
vention of strikes affecting public in
terests has justified the main purpose
for which it was enacted was the con-
%clusion drawn after a special investi-
cation of the workings of the law by
DR.. Victor H.. Clark for the bureau of
labor in a recent report made public.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Rain Saves Woods of Maine

Portland, Me-, July ga sue
cession of drenching showers have put
a stop to the great fires which have
wrought damage amounting to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in the
Maine woods during the last two
weeks.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Crowds Greet J. w. Kern.

Kokomo, Ind, July 21.-John w.
Kern, democratic candidate for the
vice presidency, was given a reception
here. Mr.. Kern was greeted at the
interurban station by a crowd esti-
mated at 1000. The republicans, pro-
h%ibitionists and socialists Joined with
the democrats in extending a welcome
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
OVER 1000 DIE IN FLOOD.
Prisoners in Cells Among Victims in
Turkey.

urkey.
Three hundred prisoners, helpless in
their cells, were among he 1000 vic
tins of a food that has swept Sivas,
Turkey, in northern Asia Minor, news
of which has just been received here.
At the first intimation of danger the
jailers fed without making any pro-
vision for the prisoners.
The flood is the worst in the his
tory of that part of the country. The
loss of life, coupled with that at Lokat,
So miles northwest of Sivas, four days
ago, sets a new record in disasters.
The Yeshil Irmak is far over its
banks, and is ravaging all the sur
rounding territory.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Big Damage in Valley of Spain.

Madrid, Spain, July 21.-Violent
storms which have been raging in the
valley of the Ebro have done enormous
damage.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
is SHOT DEAD FROM AMBUSH.
J. w. Chapman, West Virginia, Vic
tim of an Old Feud.

John w. Chapman, one of the
wealthiest and most prominent citi-
zens of Hampshire county, West Vir-
ginia, while standing in front of his
store at Slanesville last night was shot
from ambush and instantly killed. The
murderer, standing under the cover of
some bushes so feet distant, emptied
both barrels of a double-barreled shot
gun into his victim and escaped. The
shooting is said to have been the out
come of an old feud, and sensational
developments are looked for.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
Educate Shippers.

A campaign of education among
shippers and the public looking toward
a readjustment, of freight rates
throughout the country was decided
upon at a meeting of the executive
committee of the national association
of railroad agents held in Chicago re-
Gently.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
w. &. Hearst Home.

New York, July 25.-William R.
Hearst, who will preside at the ma
tional convention Of the independence
party at Chicago, has arrived home.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31
At HONOLULU.
SUNDAY A QUIET DAY FOR THE
AMERICAN JACKIES.
Were Well Supplied With Iced Fruit
Reading Matter Was Sent to the
$50 Men of the Nebraska Who Are
in Quarantine-The Maine and Ala
bama Near Manila.

Honolulu, July 20.-A feature of the
entertainment of the feet Sunday was
the presentation of hundreds of tons
of fruit and ~delicacies of all kinds to
the various battleships. The great
store of good things was loaded on a
lighter, which was towed to each of
the II ships in turn, the Hawaiian
band being aboard also and playing
native and American airs as the dis
tribution proceeded.
A generous supply of iced fruit and
plenty of reading matter was sent to
the island, where $50 men of the Ne
braska are in quarantine, the enter
tainment committee being determined
not to forget anyone.
Monday a party composed of Is Of
fcers from each of the ships were
taken to Pearl harbor, where they had
an opportunity TO see what sort of a
place the naval station is to have. A
part of the entertainment Sunday con-
sisted of sports at Waikiki beach. The
old Hawaiian surf riding was the
feature of this program.
Sunday has been a quiet day with
the men of the Atlantic battleship
fleet. Outside of the various games
which took place at the league grounds
and which hundreds of sailors attend.
ed there was little in the way of
formal entertainment except eXcur,
sions to Pearl harbor, many of the
men taking advantage of the oppor.
tunity to inspect the site of the naval
station that is being planned.
The officers were privately enter
tanned at many residences, and there
was hardly one of the residences thai
did not offer retreat to the white-clad
visitors.
The men, too, sought amusement in
many parts of the city, and the streets
of the downtown section, as well as
the tree-shaded roads and lanes fur
Their out, were popular throughout the
day. On every hand they were wei
coined and found hospitality wherever
they sought it.
Out on the big %battleships hundreds
/ Vi NlSlDOIS MGlS hlduO "CASChAS' oHN
every yacht and private launch in the
bay was pressed into service to carr!
parties of pleasure seekers in and GU
among the anchored warships.
Battles ships Near Manila.
Manila, P. l., July 21.-Wireless com
munication has been established be
tween this city and the battleship'
Maine and Alabama, composing the
special service squadron, which lef
San Francisco June 8 in advance of thu
Atlantic fleet.
Later Report.
By the bursting of a steam pipe of TIT
forward starboard boiler of the battle
ship Kearsarge of the fleet, five of thu
fireroom crew were injured, three o.
them seriously. The pipe which burs
was sever inches in diameter. 1t burs
directly under the ~ventilating shaft
and rent the upper side, thus permit
ting the steam to escape through thu
ventilator.
The quarantine has been lifted from
the Nebraska.
In a letter from Brother Dutton a
the leprosery on the island of Molokai
he expresses the thanks of the unfor
tunate residents on the island for tn
opportunity given them to view tn
fleet as it passed ON the way to Homo
lulu.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31

Plans are making for supplying Cal
70, Egypt, with a modern sewerage
and drainage system in the near fu-
ture.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-31

The giant bees of India build combs
Is feet high.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-01-01
Boozes-Mo Morrsll.

AZ marriage of much interest to Lex.
ington people was that of Miss Mamie
Boozer and Mr.. Howell MorreD, which
occurred in Columbia last week. We
copy from The State:
cat the residence OF Mr.. A. M.
1Boozer, No. 1902 Hampton Avenue, q
very pretty home wedding was solem-
nized Thursday afternoon, when his
eldest daughter, Mamie, was married
to Mr.. Howell Morrel, OF Horrell
Hill. Rev. W. w. Daniel, D. D.,
president of Columbia College, of
which the bride is q graduate, perform
ed the ceremony, and only small
gathering of relatives and friends
Witnessed the impressive service: The
rooms were tastefully decorated In
Christmas green's, palms and ferns.
The BRIDES two sisters played the
wedding march on piano and violin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morrell are spending a
part of their honeymoon in Florida
and on. their return will live at the
groom's home, in Horren Hill. The
bride is q popular and much admired
young woman and will be missed in
Columbia bKa large circle Of friends.
Mr.. Morrel b a well known citizen of
( the county, formerly a very useful
teacher, and is a/member of the
house Of representatives"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-01-01
Turuer-scomll.

Amarriage which called forth many
sincere congratulations on account of
the very wide popularity of the Icon-
tracting parties, occurred in Colum-
bia last Thursday, when Miss Sallie
Turner became the, happy and lovely
bride of Mr.. John w. Scof1n of Pc
lion, this county. The State reports
the happy nuptials this wise:
IAN interesting wedding of Christ
mas week was that Of Miss Sallie
Turner to Mr.. John w. Scofill, sol
emnized at 2 o'clock on Thursday
afternoon at the home of the, BRIDES
mother. Mrs. S. A. Turner, No. zoos
Taylor street. Rev. Dukes, the
groom's pastor, performed the cere-
mony and Mrs. w. P. SWygert played
the wedding march and accompanied
the impressive words OF the marriage
service with sweet, soft strains of
music. The rooms were beautifully
decorated Ia green and white apd
there were gathered the two families
oftheyonng couple and g few of theis
intimate friends. The bride we'd
ding gown was OF cream Japanese
silk with appiqued embroiders and
her travelling costume was smart
suit of garnet breadeloth. The couple
left at $3.50 for their home near Peion,
where Mr.. Scoffn has q very large
plantation, being one Of the most
successful young planters OF that sec
tion. The young bride hassfor q NUM-
Der of years been the efficient and at
traetive head of the Women's suit
department at Mimnaugh' g store and
sshe has scores Of friends in Columbia.
They were the recipients of great
number Of handsome wedding pres
ents.n