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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
NEW PENSION REGULATIONS.


In reply to an inquiry from Maj.
G. A. Manning, Commissioner War
ner of the pension bureau sends out
the following from the department:
In reply to your inquiry you are
advised that the rate of pension to
all widows. minors and helpless
children now ON the pension rolls at
a less rate will be increased to $12
per month under the act of April
10, 1908, from the date of the act.
No application is required to obtain
the increased rate, but the same
will be paid by the United States
pension agent at the next quarterly
payment upon receipt of the vouch-
er, properly executed. which is now
IN the possession of the pensioner.
The present pension certificate
should be retained until its return
shall have been requested by the
pension agent from whom the PEN
sion is received.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
BRICK PAVEMENT WOULD
INCREASE SUMMER HEAT
INTERESTING POINTS RAISED DISCUSSION or PAVING P10D-
LEMs-NoRTHERH PACIFIC OFFICIAL SHOWS rRElElzHW
FOR BRICK PREsDEHr HAMMER Raised SOME PxRrux1r
QUESTIONS IN CONVERTING ON THE MATERIAL usrp

The city council IL meeting this
afternoon for the purpose of discus
sing the pavement question and re-
ceiving the petition from the prop
erty owners who have signified their
preference for the brick pavement.
tn following letter, favorable to
the brick pavement was received
from Attorney James =. Babb, At
torney for the Northern Pacific
Railroad company:
Il am at noon today In receipt OF
q telegram from H. G. Mutt. general
manager OF the Northern Pacific
Railway company. In the matter Of
material for paving the streets,
reaing 40 follows:
Understand the city council
proposes to take action this after
noon toward improving streets with
wooden block pavement. The cost
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
NEW BunnrNa COMPLETED.
Handsome Addition to Hotel De
France Ready for Use.

Contractor ohm Halloran Is now
engaged In putting the finishing
touches to the new three-story brick
building at the Hotel De France.
and plans are being prepared for =
new brick building to be constructed
by Mr.. Holland and occupy the prop
erty on G street east of the build
ing now being completed.
The hotel kitchen will be moved
into the new building next week,
where spacious quarters have been
provided on the ground floor. The
two upper floors will be used for
bedrooms and consist of IA hand
somely-f1nished apartments.
The basement of the building will
provide the storage quarters for the
kitchen supplies, and large cold
storage apartment Is provided for
the meats and perishable goods.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
JAP CRUISER
HAS EXPLOSION

TOXIC, April 30.-While the
cruiser Matsushima was coming to
anchor In the harbor at Making ear
ly today there was an explosion OF
the stern magazine, Immediately
sinking the vessel and soon only the
bridge was visible.
Efforts at rescue by boats from
the cruisers Hashidate and Itsuku.
shima continued until q. m, saw
ing 141 men and officers. The ma
jority Of the officers were not saved,
and at the time she went down she
had a COMPLEMENT of 800 men. In
Guiding 6S cadets. among whom
were the sons OF Baron Chinda, vice
minister of the foreign ONCE, and Of
Prince Oyama. field marshal. who
are believed to be lost. The cause
of the explosion Is unknown.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

A party Of engineers In the en-
ploy Of the Spokane and Inland elec-
trio railway company reached the
city last night from Steptoe canyon.
where they have been engaged In
surveying line from the highlands
to the Snake river.
The survey provides for construct
ing line from Colfax to Lewiston,
and members of the party who were
In the city last night stated q 2 per
cent grade has been secured BY
keeping the line on the hillside for
q distance of three miles above the
mouth of Steptoe gulch.
It was stated ssthe party would
leave this morning for Hatwai cam
yon. whore survey would be made
and afterwards line would be run
from the highlands to the Potlatch
canvon. near Juliastta.
It was stated the three surveys
would be submitted to the board OF
directors of the company and den
mite announcement of the route se-
lected might be expected within q
short tim. II the Steptoe route d
chosen, the junction with the main
line would be At Colfax. while II
either Of the other surveys appears
to be the most advantageous the line
now being completed into Moscow
would be extended to Lewiston.
After the selection Of the route II
madA- agents 0f the cOmnany will
visit Lewiston and negotiate with
the people for rights-of-way and ter-
minals. It was stated that the
plans Of the company provide for
extending the line to Lewiston 40
soon as the necessary engineering
work and construction can be COM
pleted.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

UNITED STATES COURT or Ap.
PEAIs PASSES on x0IIoN 10
Msllss IDAHO LAND FRAUD
CASES.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 3o.-A
motion was argued yesterday before
United States Circuit Judges Ross.
Gilbert and Morrow In chambers 70
have the appealed cases of suborna.
tion OF perjury against william
Dwyer. George Ksstsr. Clarence w.
Robnett and William r. Kettsn-
bach decided In accordance with thu
recent decision OF the supreme court
given In the cast Of Williamson
against the United States.
The appeals we're taken from the
decision Of the United States district
court OF eastern Warrington. and
the cases will not regularly como bs.
fore the circuit court OF appeals be-
fore the October term. In the mean
time the, transcript Of record from
the trial court has not been printed,
and It IL partly to avoid that Ok.
pense that the motion was offered.
Attorney J. n. Forney, from Mos
COW. Idaho, appeared for the appel
lants. and In support Of the motion
argued that the cases were identical
with the Williamson case, and asked
the court to make comparison and
render decision In accordance with
the decree of the supreme COURT.
The government was represented
by Miles 8. Johnson. The motion waa
denied. The cases involve alleged
timber frauds In Idaho.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
B.nd Concert for Visitors.

Director Karl Baumgaertel of the
Lewiston Military band has an
nounced that there will be no band
concert at the Fifth street park to-
morrow evening, but corcert will
be rendered Sunday afternoon at 8
o'clock In order that Portland Wis
itors who remain over Sunday in
the CITY will have an opportunity to
attend the concert.
Prof. Baumgaertel returned this
afternoon from Moscow, where he q
instructirg the Moscow band. The
Arst public concert was rendered
there lart e~e-ing and was largely
atf""aed by an .apo-eciative audi.
ence.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
HUGHES in RACE
TO THE Finish
HUGHES LEAGUE GETTING AC-
TIVE-NEW YORK DELEGA-
TON WILL PRESS HIS CANDI-
DACY FROM NOW ON.

NEW YORK, April 30.-The
name of Gov. Charles e. Hughes
will not be withdrawn from the
presidential canvass until the ma
tional convention at Chicago has
made choice of candidates, is the
statement made today by President
Woodward of the Hughes League of
the United States, who presided at
a conference of delegates elected to
the national convntion from New
York state. called for TODAY in the
interests of Hughes, candidacy.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
n. E. Lskin's Bond Approved.

The county commissioners today
approvei the bond Of D, E. Lakin,
who holds the contract for the con-
struction Of the Peck road from the
town to the river. This work was
commenced more than a year ago.
but the first contract extended only
about three fourths of mile from
the town The new contract calls
for a comnletion of the road, with
the execution OF short stretch
where the highway crosses Indian
land, through which the right-of-
vav has not been perfected.
The commissioners will conclude
the work of the term this evening.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

White Bros. q Crum Construct 1
Line to Their Orchards.

The nrm of White Bros. & Crum
10 now engaged in the construction
Of telephone line from Charleston
to Alpowa. where the Arm owns q
large fruit orchard.
The poles are now set and the
stringing of wire will be commenced
within few days. The lire will
be connected with the Pacific States
at Charleston and the service will be
appreciated by the Alpowa resi-
dents. who have heretofore been
without means Of quick communi-
cation.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

terest at the rate of 3h per cent
per annum. Under the depositary
law I am not obliged to carry that
fund In my safe. They are neither
Permanent Educational. Public
School nor University Land funds,
as excepted from deposit by the pro-
visions Of the law. The law does not
include the penitentiary funds, the
Insane Asylum funds, the Charitable
Institution funds, which today
amount to approximately $4,000,
which amount Is invested in IS
banks throughout the state and
draws interest at the rate of az
per cent per annum.
Under the state depositary law
these are not Educational or School
Continued on Page 81
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

OPPOSES Bill

WASHINGTON, April 30.-The
committee on banking and currency
held brief meeting today. They
declined to proceed for the purpose
of taking up the new vreeland cur
rency bill. The vote for adjourn
ment stool IL to 3, the negative
votes being cast by Burton. Weeks
and Mckinney.
It Is supposed to represent the
strength of the new bill. and It is
inferred the measure will be tabled
as was the first vreeland bill y 1t
ever reaches vote in the commit
tee.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
ONLY EIGHT
ARE REGISTERED
THE REGISTRATION BOOKS WILL
CLOSE TOMORROW AT 8 P. H.,
AND MANY INTERESTED CITI-
ZENS CANNOT VOTE.

The citizens of Lewiston who ex-
pect to participate In the coming
city primaries must register at the
city clerks ONCE before o'clock to-
morrow afternoon or be debarred
from exercising their rights under
the terms of the new city charter.
The registry books have been
open to the public since January I,
and for the past several weeks the
notice Of the city primaries has
been published daily. but up until
noon today only eight voters have
registered. and unless the people
ere particularly active tomorrow
the privileges of the city primary
will be enjoyed by the exclusive
few.
The section Of the charter gov
erning the holding Of city elections
provides that no person shall par
ticipate IN either the primaries or
CITY elections who has not register
ed his name with the city registrar
at least 10 DAYS before the said
primary or citv election IL held.
THE c'tv primaries will be held
on Nav ~. and under. the terms. of
this act tha re9iatrar'a books will
close tomorrow evening at O'Clock.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
FIRE RESTRICTED DISTRICT.
Indignant Citizens Burn Disorderiy
House in La Crosse.

LA CROSSE, Wis. April 3O.--In-
dignant residents of Shelby are sus-
pected early today Of setting nre to
large disorderly house. Sixteen
women narrowly escaped death, and
number of lives were saved by the
flremen.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

Of this 10 only about 10 per cent leoo
than brick. and its life 70 short
compared with brick that ! ~
they would make serious mistako
to pave with wood. and II they a.
eide to do 20 we will contest tn
Improvement to utmost, while II
they will pave with brick we VIII
cooperate with them la every way
We can. Think the improvement :
desirable one. but will illo vieos4
Gus protest against wasting money
ON wooden block pavement, ana
wish you would appear beforo ~
council and uss al the influence ~
have to induce them to use briGk
instead OF wooden block.
II. Q. MUTT.
The railway company has eoI6
thing like 800 fset wltbin the ~.
ing district On Main street, ~ ~
the district extends - the prooont
station grounds thsy will haye y
large frontage there. - that 49,
are . much Interested IN this nnats
ter O. any other property ownsr.
v "0ne reflection you viii oboorso
that the comna ny.s' railvay slinea .S..s
tend through Z ereat may laSII1
cities and that IT. clncers havo ~
deal with tho question cf pavtnU
material frsQusntiy. ana tAe3 -
therefore necessarily wsll iufofnDoD
q TO the selection of material.
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that an able q pIaos tAeIr vierT1
before yo,, b1f0ra maj aNtiom r {
tsken. n
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,s,.. 9. -. 80 -. 'ss.I @ -
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' =,
naVs .penl conslderapIe fi1ee
..au sAad Hammer, Viii
"ssunk ~ tne pavement queses99s
snu sne eApeFience q the citleg 0k
n'uIupe snows Sne Wood Diock paw
'uon. - De ene Dest suited Tor ~
noeus. me CITY of Philadelphie
sent ensaheers 20 nurCpos
y. tney spent months "a stu0y-
~ eue .treet pavemnt Quesftens
~ e.r recommenoatlons A.
s.t0ns ~ IAv0F 81 tne WOOD block
pavcn.. ~
ons Ics.ure tnst snouiQ parfieu~
= .as Z. appea. 9 the c'ty OF lewiston
= u. .ac1 Anat YOU nave very hc@
all nere au!ihe the summer
V0IAOUp 00u the l4yl0R or a 0TYGk
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

Fleet En- Route to Monterey.
SANTA BARBARA, Cal, April
SO.-The Atlantic battleship fleet
sailed at this morning for Monte
rey. where the anchors will be
dropped tomorrow morning at Z.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

The Ease of Nett'e Moore vs. =. q.
Ellsworth 70 on trial today before
the district court. This action Ia
hrourht tn determine the rights ~
snripes and rieht-of-way across
the plaintiffs land.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

=. ADplestone arrived In the citv
yesterday from portlard and VIII
srend a few davs on business here.
Mr. Aprlestone conducts the Watson
& Co. store at Pullman
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
KILLED 1T Political Uprising.

FORT DE FRANCE. April 30
Several. including the mayor Of
Fort De France. were killed in the
political disturbance here yesterday.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

ST. JOSEPH. Mo-. Apri 30.-A
heavy frost last night did much
damage to the fruit in northwestern
Missouri and northeastern Kansas.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

A. ]. Showalter has returned from
a visit to the st. Joe country.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

LA CROSSE. Wis, April 3d.
Frost last night in western Wiscon-
sin and southern Minnesota damag-
ed the fruit and vegetables.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April 3d.
A windstorm few miles east of the
city today razed the tobacco sheds,
barns and other wooden structures
and did considerable damage to the
crops.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

z. H. Libby returned Yesterday
from a business visit to Spokane.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30
STORM DAMAGES
EASTERN fruit
HEAVY SNOW I'M OHIO-BAD
FR0STS IN MISSOURI AND WIS
C0NSIN-WIND STORM VISITS
OTHER SECTIONS.
PITTSBURG. April 30.-There
was snow today and the tempera-
ture was only two degrees above
freezing.

CLEVELAND. O.. April 30.-
There Is heavy wet snow practi'
cally over the whole state.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

DES MONIES, Ia. April 30.-A
killing frost In several sections o.
the state last night damaged ths
fruit ana vegetables.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-04-30

LEXINGTON, KY, April 30.-A
storm Is raging in eastern and CEN
trail Kentucky. 1t is believed nc
great damage is done. The races
here today have been declared OH.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-27

him back seven years and plotting out
all memory of what had happened
between his fourteenth birthday and
his twenty-frst. And so it happened
that when, with his twenty-eighth
birthday, came memories of the
twenty-frst, he remembered his bride
and went to take her the cake and the
wine. and behold! there, meath the
wedding veil, lay the bones and the
dust of her whom his retainers had
sought for weary months.
Then there is Sir Gilbert Parker's
"The Right OF Way" the tale of the
Young lawyer who, struck on the head,
roamed among the loggers, his brain
a blank, until another and an equally
great shock restored reason. And to-
day Booth Harrington is contributing
TO Everybody's in The Guest of CUES,
nav" a story on precisely the same
line. of a brilliant mind stricken and
then restored in both instances by
shock.
And if the alienists now studying
Mrs Balls case decide that shock
alone will restore her reason and pro
vide the key to the mystery Of the two
lost children, will the law permit
them to apply the test, to administer
the shock?
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"PRANkS" PLAYED IN YOUTH.
Children Of Other Days Were Not as
Good as Supposed.

Don't do as | do; do as l say to
do" is the advice which nearly all
parents could give to their children
for. verify. the pranks of father and
mother in the telling sound very much
worse than anything of which the mod
ern child is capable.
Here are a few stories which a GER
tain well-known doctor tells to his
very dignified little daughter-who by
the way, listens in establishment, dis
approves entirely, but recounts to her
friends with a disappearing pride, IL
such a thing is possible, in the whole
affair.
1--WE certainly must have been rath-
er bad children, my sister and L."
prefaced the gentleman the other day
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in telling of those ''pranks" played In
his youth Il remember on one occa
sion we broke up dinner party by
sending plate warmer changing down
the steps. Another time we succeed
ed in ripping open every feather pill.
low in the house and playing snow
storm with the feathers before any.
body caught us. | stood at the top
of the stairs and showered down the
feathers while the other children held
umbrellas over themselves down
below.
But the best thing we ever did
was when my sister and l decided we
wanted to collect some money. | got
an organ and she took a plate and we
went out to collect the shekels. We
must have found the Job very pleas,
ant, because we got out into the sub
urbs, and then somebody recognized
the crest on the plate my sister was
carrying and took us home Then
there was the time"
And judging by all the stories told,
these children of some years ago were
by no means good as gold, who al
ways did as they We're told" and
nothing else.
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Shock May Restore Reason.

Her present condition in nowise re-
sembles her former unfortunate state
Then she was violent and noisy. Now
her mind is simply a blank. And DR..
Goss. superintendent of the asylum,
who has been studying her case, be-
lieves that unless her brain receives
some terrible shock her memory will
never be restored. Her recollections
of what happened between the time
she took her children under the shell
fer of her cloak and reason resumed
its sway in ward of the asylum will
be aroused only by shock as great
as the one which robbed her of rea-
son.
And what shock was that?
This is the question which is baf-
fling physicians, detectives and rela'
tives of the unhappy family.
Did Mrs, Ball accidentally set her
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-27
Resembles Famous Stories.

Who does not recall Julian Haw-
thorne's great story. Archibald NAL
maison," whose hero, from brain
shock. reverted every seven years to
the mental state OF seven years be
fore, recalling in minutest detail every
thing that had happened when this pc
culiar psychological and mental par
oXysm had overtaken him? And poor
Archibald, when he was %, remem-
bered that on the night when he was
Fl he had hidden his bride of an hour
in dungeon, where none of the merry
wedding guests might find her, while
he went to bring her wine and cake
from the wedding feast. And as he
went down the winding stairs the
hand of time had touchsd him, setting
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-02-27
eulLr ON coNceRTlNA PLAN.
Llahtkeeper Measures six Feet Six
lnches In His Stockings.

Like the towering pines that fringe
the North Carolina coast, upon which
he was born, in sight of dreaded Hat
teras, Fabius Evans Simpson, the as.
sistant keeper of Lazzaretto light
house, at the entrance to Baltimore
harbor, can lay claim to be the tallest
lightkeeper in the Fifth lighthouse dis.
trict, If not level with the tallest in
the service from Maine to Rio Grande.
He is only 90 years old and is built
on the concertina plan. When he
rises from a sitting posture one won.
ders how much more remains to be
unfolded before he is Strengthened out.
He is six feet six inches in his stock
ing feet.
His parents were reared alongside
the sea, and he comes of a family that
has figured in the annals of the light
house service. Alpheus W. Simpson,
father Of the young man, was keeper
of North river light station, and his
uncle, Fabius Evans Simpson, is now
in charge of the exhibit of the light
house board at the jamestown expo
sitioH' AnOtner uncle, "A. y, SlnlpSOH
Is keeper of Southwest Point light, all
in North Carolina. Young Simpson
says he will stick to the business, be-
lieving he has inherited an ambition
for the service in which his family has
figured for many years.
He could not furnish a full length
picture of himself. He said he tried
to get a photographer in North Caro-
lima to take all of him, but the artist
said he could only do 1t in sections,
and then paste them together, which,
he thought, would give an idea of his
clients towering figure. To do so
the photographer wanted to charge
extra for the second section. and the
picture was not taken.
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house on fire, and then, in spasm Of
terror race away with her children
from the results of her carelessness?
And II so. at what psychological
moment was her reason destroyed
at sight of the flames, or when she
found herself alone in the woods with
her children?
Or did she feel the approaching re-
turn Of the dreaded malady, and. fear
ing for the future of her children with.
out her care and oversight, spirit them
away? And, II SO, where did she
leave them?