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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
news OF The WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
a Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

McInnis & Ross of Portland, Ore,
were the lowest bidders. at 7S,4S9,
for constructing the proposed hospital
at the Puget sound navy yard.
An order issued at the navy depart
ment detaches from duty Rear Ad-
miral s. w. Very as commandant of
the naval station at Honolulu and as
signs to that position Captain G. p.
Rees, now at Portsmouth, N. II.
A terrific fire recently burned the
Grand Pacific hotel, History build
ing, in Chicago.
Charles Jones and Charles Logan,
mounted customs guards, were shot
to death recently at Eel Paso, Tex.
Frank Hosford, a newspaper man, at
one time reading clerk of the house,
committed suicide recently at Wash
ington.
The Ohio river and all it's tribu-
taries are rising rapidly.
The health of Governor Curtis
Guild, Jr., Massachusetts governor, is
improved.
Although the last of the four Penn
sylvania tubes under the East river,
New York, was cut through this week,
it is announced the tubes will not be
put into actual service for at least
two years. No passenger trains will
be run through the tubes until the
entire system is ready
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, is
suffering a nervous collapse.
The American battleship fleet is to
visit Japan.
On the rocks within an eighth of a
mile of Busby island Alaska, the
steamship Saratoga of the Alaska
Steamship company went aground dur
ing binding snowstorm.
AT Globe, Ariz., Jerry Enright, aged
81, recently shot his wife and her sis
ter, Clara Dalson, aged 49, and then
committed suicide. Miss Dalson died
later
William Harmon, sixth vice presi
dent of the international Association
of Machinists. has arrived in Denver
and has been placed in full charge OF
the Denver & Rio Grande shopmen's
strike
Plunging into Stoney creek at Blue
Island, near Chicago, to escape several
policeman, after he had stabbed and
PROBABLY fatally wounded a girl who
had Tilted him and wed another man
Nicholas Fortune, 25 years old, was
taken with cramps and drowned.
Abraham II. Hummel the lawyer
who was released from the peniten
tiary recently after serving 10 months
FOR conspiracy in connection with the
Dodge-M Morse case. has gone to Europe
A band of night riders recently sho
and killed Harlin Hedge. prominen
farmer living near Carlisle, Ky.
A wholesale exodus of Polanders t
Europe will follow the 10 per cent re
duction in wages in the Chicopee ant
Holyoke cotton mills, in Massachu
sets. Seventy-five per cent of tn
$500 operatives affected are Polish.
Count Leo Tolstoi is very i'll.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota is t.
be the chief speaker at the Jefferso
dinner of the National Democrat
club to be held on April 10 in NeN
York.
Every branch of the army will TAX
part in the street parade which wi
follow the arrival of Admiral Evans
fleet at San Francisco.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Thieves Steal Rich Statue.

Rome.-At F'razci thieves broke into
the magnificent villa Aldebrandini,
which dates from the 18th century, and
carried off valuable bust in Corinth-
ian bronze of Pope Clement VII. The
thieves gained access by breaking a
window and removed the bust, which
weighs 500 pounds. from its position in
the central hall of the villa
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Taft in Moving Pictures.

The moving picture men, who sup
ply the ''Nickelodeons" throughout the
country with their miles of photo
graphic films, have triumphed. In
spite of all protests and the modesty
Of Secretary Taft, he has succumbed
to the camera, and within two weeks
his figure will be on view in 300 first
class vaudeville houses and 1000 scent
theaters throughout the country.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Ala Would Suicide.

Giuseppe Ala, the condemned muir
derer. made repeated attempts to COM
nit suicide by beating his head against
the iron bars of his cell at Denver. He
is to be executed during the week of
July IL He will be taken to Canon
City in few days, and there confined
in the penitentiary until the time fixed
for his execution.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Senate Gets Generous.

Almost the entire session of the SEN
ate was consumed with consideration
of the executive and judiciary appro-
priation bill. The bill, as finally
passed, carried an appropriation OF
$32, 945,661, the amount added to the
house bill by the senate being s642,-
71S.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Prince Manuel May Lose an Arm.

Madrid, Spain, March 25.-El Mundo
says that it learns on good authority
that the wound of Prince Manuel-now
king-received in the arm on Febru-
airy l, when King Carlos and the crown
prince were assassinated, has not heal
ed and has recently become much
worse. The attending physicians,
says the paper, declare that amputa-
ton is imperative.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Man 81 .nnn a. RnuIette.

Reno, New, March 26.--Riley Gran
nan. in Rawhide, recently broke the
gambling house of Carl Young, win
ming $4,000 at roulette. At one time
he had Young's roof tree in jeopardy
but on the next roll of the marble he
lost. This was his last bet.
Had Grammar won this wager he
would have been $4,000 better off, as
Young's saloon is valued at $1,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
Double Maryland License.

A high license bill for Baltimore city
has been passed by the house. Under
it's provisions saloons and clubs which
now pay $3.50 annually will pay $500
next year, $3.50 the year following and
$1,000 the third year. The license will
then remain at $1,000. The act is ex-
pected to cause reduction of 20 or
80 cents in the city tax rate at the end
of three years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
WAR BUDGET WINS.

Fortifications Bill Goes Through Houss
Without Material Amendment.
Without being materially amended
in any form, the fertilization appropri
alton bill was passed by the house.
During the closing debate the war de-
partment was criticised by several
members regarding the money spent
on Notifications at Subig bay, which,
it was charged, was wasted in view
of later recommendation that the de
fenses at Cavite be strengthened. Crit.
icism likewise was offered to the
estimates of the department, which
recommended over $4,000, 900, which
it was claimed, could not have been ex
pended within 10 years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28
DESTROY THEIR TOBACCO BEDS
In Forty-two Kentucky Counties Farm
ers Ruin Their Crops.

Lexington, KY, March 25.-Because
of warning letters and visits from
night riders, many farmers in nearly
all of the AZ counties in the White
Burley tobacco district are busy des-
troying their tobacco beds, and at the
present time less than one-third of the
number usually planted have been
started.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28

A scientist looking for microbes
says there is absolutely none on the
Swiss mountains at an altitude of 1000
feet
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28

Olive oil is injured by being kept
in the light When used at the table
it should be removed to a cool, dark
place after each meal.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28

Holland butter is being imported
into Chile and sold at as cents United
States gold a pound, while the Chilean
product is sold for 60 cents a pound.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-03-28

Roumania is the most illiterate coun-
try in Europe. The last census shows
that in population of about 100000,
nearly 100000 neither write nor read
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
AUSTRIAN TROOPS
j ROUTED BY RUMOH

Belgrade, Dec. IA Servian off.
cial news agency has circulated an ex-
traordinary story from Cettinje, Mon
enesro. setting forth an alleged panic
and flight of a body of Austrian troops
that was stationed near the Montene-
grin frontier.
According to this recital, which per-
haps accounts for the condition of
panic observed yesterday on the
bourses of Vienna and Budapest, the
report was suddenly spread among the
Austrian forces to the effect that the
Austrian posts on the Montenegro
frontier had been attacked and routed.
The Austrian garrison at Avtovac
and Gazko, totalling some $4,000 menj
were at once thrown into a state OF.
panic. Officers and men lost their
heads and fed in terror in the direction
Of Nevesing, abandoning their artillery
ammunition and provisions.
The following day, according to the,
news agency, the falsity of the reported.
attack and the rout on the frontier was
shown, the panic allayed n the troops
returned to their posts. I
1t is added that two generals IN
command OF troops had been summaril,
retired.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
COL. COCKTAILS REPORTS
ON THE PANAMA CANAL

Washington, d. c., Dec. Geo. w.
Goethals. chairman of the isthman canal
commission. has submitted his report to
the president for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1908. He says among other
things:
Several changes in the organization
were made in the interests of economy;
the more important were the substitution
of monthly payments to all employees,
laborers formerly being paid sernimonth-
ly; preparation and checking of payrolls
in division Offices instead of the dusburs-
ing Office: and the eiilnination of duplicate
property records in the Hivision of material
supplies, this record now being kept by a.
force from the ~disbursing office located
IN the office Of the chief of division Of
material and supplies.
During the year disbursements on the
pay rolls of the commission amounted to
sis,s62,0N the average payment per month
to employees on the gold roll being S125 so.
and on the silver roll about $40 gold per
month.
An average of 742 employees We're car
ried on the rolls of this department., at
an annual cost of s43O, 343.7 10.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
lAMPHERE FOUND
!. GUILTY OF ARSON
Mrs. Guinness Hired Man Sent
to Prison for Not More
Than 81 Years.

La Port, Ind, Nov. So.-Ray Ian.
phcre, charged with the murder q
Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three chill
Jren by setting fire to the Guinness
house April 2S, was found guilty OF
arson by the jury.
Within five minutes after the verdict
was reported, Judge Richter had SEN
itentiary at Michigan City for an in.
determinate term Of from two to IL
years.
Judge Richter expressed his thanks
to the jury for It's careful and con-
scicntious consideration OF the case.
Prosecutor Smith also thanked the
jury.
Following the withdrawal Of the
jurors. Judge Richter instructed Lam
phere to stand UP. The prisoners face
still looked haggard and his eye were
downcast. He held his hands before
iii the city We're ringing, Judge Richter
asked him If he had any reasons to-
give why sentence should not be pro-.
nounced. He replied slowly, b dis
tinctly: 4 have !,
With that. Judge Richter sentenced
him to the state prison in Michigan
City for an fndetermjnate term OF
from two to 81 years, fined him
$1,000 and DISTINGUISHED him for
five years. The court then instructed
the enerllT TO return MIN TO MS cela.
Mrs. Guinness Dead.
All the members OF the jury made
the following signed statement:
1--WE, the undersigned jurors. impan-
eled and sworn In the case of the state
of Indiana VS.. Ray Lamphere, hereby
say that 1t was our Judgment in the
consideration OF this case that the
adult body found in the ruins Of the
fire was that of Mrs. Belle Guinness,
and that the case was decided by us
ON an entirely different proposition"
LaPorte, Ind, Nov. 3o.-Befere Fay
[Lamphere, under sentence from two to
q years, today was taken to the states
prison in Michigan City. to begin his
term, he received a visit from his aged
mother. Though not with him during
the trial, she came here from South
Bend this morning In order to say
good bye to him and to cheer him up. )
The meeting Of mother and son was
a pathetic one, the mother breaking
down and crying as she clasped her
son in her arms. The prisoner bore up
we'll, though there was q mistiness
about the eyes which he could not keep,
back.
Attorney Worden announced this
morning he would make a motion Mon
a before Judge Richter for q new
trial. II upon the same being denied
he expected to perfect an appeal.
The transcript alone in the case will
cost over $500. n as Lamphere's fam
lily has no means, his friends by sub
%scription have provided his defense.
The general opinion is that the appeal
will never be perfected.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
so LUCKY
He FEARS SOME
GREAT DISASTER
IF I Had Not Gone to the Phil
ippines, I Should Not Now
Be President Elect"

Hot Springs. S. D.. Dec. William
III. Taft, sitting in a swing or the porch
of his bungalow. said:
"When / consider all that has come
to me 1 wonder, with trembling, il
there is not to be some great misfor-
tune to offset it all. We have our.
health and our children. with never a
loss of a child. NV parents are dead,
put they lived to a honored and a
peaceful old age. 1 have not a any
g%rievouS sorrow.
Then, politically. there were the,
Philippines; it was the turn of the
hand whether I should go there. If I
had not gone I do not suppose that I
should be the president-elect at this
time. 1t might be said that opportu-
nifty comes to every man, and that 1t
is to the credit Of the man that he
seizes it. Yet, looking back, 1 cannot
see that I exercised any shrewd dis
elimination. / cannot persuade my
sell that it was my own wisdom that
led me into the work.
"Afterward came the offer Of a place
on the supreme our bench. This offer
was repeated later. My inclination was
to accept it. 1t was not due, really, to
my own judgment that / did not ac-
cept.
Il have much for which to be thank
full. and 1 cannot help wondering if
there is not to be some compensatory
SORROW
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03

Jury Returns Verdict OF Second
Degree Manslaughter in
Clark Murder Case.

ver1nillion, S. d., Nov. 2s.AsWe, tfs
jury find the defendant guilty OF n1arl-
slaughter In the second degree
h is the verdict rendered thia
had deiiberated since s osclock yester-
day afternoon In the Clark murder
case This is the mildeSt degree 81
crime which the jury could determine
under the Indictment, and carries with
It q penalty from 10 days to four years.
imprisonment, at he discretion Of the
court. The usual notice was given for
q motion for q new trial
While practically nothing is known
OF what t~ranspired In the jury room
during the night, the act that the
deliberations covered q period OF II
hours indicates thai there was q ma
terial difference OF opinion that had to
be h~armOnized. It Is rumored thai q
number OF the jurors stood out for q
heavier degree OF crime, fnclining to- q
first degree m~anslaughter verdict. Such
q verdict would nave been more in
harmony with the opinion and temper
Of the community in which the horris
bic tragedy occurred.
Story Of Tho Crime.
The crime shocked the people OF Clay
n adjoining counties. It occurred On
the afternoon OF August 10. 1t Is uns-
disputed that when the deed was COM
mitted, Clark sat In q chair In the home
Of his former wife. reading q paper
OF which he had given her q part, while
she was lying on the couch. She got
up deliberately n went to her bed
ROOM, secured one of her revolyers and.
returning to the room where her di-
vorced husband sat. shot him In the
side. He made his way to a neighbors
and died there the following morning.
The defense was that he had Just a
few minutes previous to the shooting
violated her person. Clark's ante-mor-
tenn statement was that, while this was
true, there had beer no resistance on
her part n that the act had taken
place repeatedly since his return to her
home. about the first OF July. IN
the trial, illusions were made to
insanity of the temporary kind on
the woman's part, but expert tes-
timony was not utilized to prove it.
Sentiment in the locality where the
principals lived n where the crime
start strongly in favor OF the victim
and against the defendant.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
WAGAR UNDER BONDS
FOR EMBEZZLEMEN1

Sioux Falls, s. D., Nov. 28.--More,
trouble is in store for Ansen Wagar.l
former United States commissioner at
Dallas, who early in October vas re-,
moved from that office by Judge GAR
land. of the United States court In this
city.
Wagar at that time was charged
with having used his commissioner
postal frank on postal cards containing,
printed matter of a private nature.
'orina charge was made against him
by the United States authorities andi
recently he entered a plea of guilty and,
was compelled to pay q fine OF $500 for
the ~offense.
Wagar was re-arrested yesterday by
Deputy United States Marshall Ed
wards on the train in the southern
part of the state and brought to Sioux
Falls on a charge of embezzlement OF
funds belonging to hoInesteaders in the
coded portion of the Rosebud Indian
reservation in Gregory county.
Crime Against Claim Holders.
The funds alleged to have been en-,
bezzled by him in the aggregate
from $4,000 to $4,000 and had been
placed in his hands as commissioners for
the purpose of enabling him to pay
the purchase price of the land for the
hornesteaders and also final proof fees.
Wagar, when taken before United
States Commissioner d. j. Conway this
morning, waived his preliminary hear
ing. The bond for his appearance be-
fore the next federal grand jury was
fixed at $4,000.
Wagar disclaims all intention or re-
tanning the money placed in his hands
as an official OF the government. al
leging that there was delay in COM
pletinB he proofs and turning them
over to the United States district land
office. He further claims that he was
on his way to the land office at Mitchell
with a number of the proofs when hi
was arrested.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03
PRESIDENT FAURE
VICTIM OF POISON?
Paris. Dec. 1.-The prevailing
belief In Paris today is that
Madame Steinheil deliberately
had her husband and mother as
sasSinated.


Paris, Dec. Paris, with Nine.
Ste1nheiPs confession IN connection
with the mudrer of her husband and
Japy, is in the maelstrom Of a
more exciting to h volatile populace
than the Humbert, Dreyfus and Syve-
ton affairs combined.
The mysterious death Of a president
of the republic, the late Felix Faure,
Parislans believe, is about to be solved,
high government officials tremble lest
he new day reveal them stripped of
the last official shred Of responsibility,
prey for the tongues of France.
President Faure died suddenly in the
house OF M. and Nine. Steinheil, Feb
ruary l6, 1899, and no arrests ever were
made. lat Sunday night, May 80,
1908, Adolph e. Steinheil, a rich and
famous painter, n his highly re-,
spected and esteemed motherinlaw,
Mime. Japy, We're strangled to death.
The artists beautiful and accomplished
wife in the next room escaped I'M
harmed.
AT least one newspaper in Paris OPEN
~ accused Nine. Steinheil with admin
istering poison to President Faure.
One man in Paris, high in the conf
dence of the government officials, gives
a story of President Faure's death.
hitherto untold. This man said Presi-'
dent Faure visited Nine. Steinheil Sc
cretly on the afternoon of February is.
1899, at her home, 1913 Rue de Van
Girard. Paris.
Dead at Steinheil Home.
The president had an engagement for
the afternoon at the Elysee palace, and
when he did not appear, Mile. Faure,
his daughter, searched for him, finally
going to Nine. Steinheil's home in the
Rue de Van Girard. There she found
her father seated in an armchair, dead.
President Faure's hands were clutched
in Nine. Steinheils hair.
When the household had recovered
from the shock, the body of the presi-
dent was conveyed from the house
through the back streets of Paris to
the Elysee palace, and there the formal
announcement was made Of death by
apoplexy.
Nine. Steinheil confessed that her at
tempt to find the assassins of her hus-
band and Nine. Japy, and the in
Vulnerable fantastic clues furnished the
police and the newspapers. were only a
desperate farce to conceal the real au-
thor of the crime, whom she knew.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-03

New York, Dec. There are the
things that President Roosevelt advo-
Gates in reference to the sea fighting
branch of the military arm of govern
ment.
Until they are done the United States
will remain unprepared for war and
countless thousands will be charged
annually to the navy appropriation.
while greedy politicians will be the sole
benef1ciaries.
These points were made by the presi-,
dent in an interview to be published
in the December Pearson's magazine
from the pen OF Henry Reuterdahl, the
Journalist who criticised the navy's
style OF construction and ack of ef1-
cheney.
Admiral's Must Be Quiet.
Washington, Dec. l.-That there
shall be no further public discussion by
naval officers concerning the Newport.
conference without permission of the
president, is the purport of an order
Issued by Secretary Metcalf by direc-
ton Of the President. On October 80
the department issued a permit to Off
GERS to discuss the work of this con-
ference except SO far as it applies to.
changes to be made on ships to be au-
thorized in the future. The president
has now concluded that public discus
sion of alleged defects in battleships
will not serve any good purpose.