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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-09-30

Miss Ida Iverson went to Lake Ben
ton Saturday morning for a few days
visit with friends before proceeding
to Astoria, where she will teach again
the coming year.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
OREGON sQUIBs.

Alarming conditions are reported
from Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the
Columbia, where it is reported that the
whole of the peninsula is gradually sink
ing. Cracks have appeared in the ma
sonry work Of the fort, and the foun.
dation of one of the big guns is out Of
plumb.
After leaving word with a neighbor
to notify her brother, Frank Kulb, a
resident of Rochester, N. Y, in the
event of her death, Mrs. Mary Nichols
committed suicide by turning on the
gas in the bedroom in Portland.
Because his wife smoked a pipe in
bed, w. H. Weston of Yamhill county,
Oregon, has brouht an action for di.
vorce against his wife, Mrs. Bessie Yves.
ton. The husband says his wife has
many shortcomings, but he could put up
with most of them, but when it came to
her smoking pipe in bed before arts.
ing it was too much.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
ROOSEVELT AT NAPLES.
Great Reception to the ex-Preddent
by People Of Italy.

Great Reception to the ex-President
by People Of Italy.
Naples, Italy, April 5.-The steam
ship Admiral, which is to carry former
President Roosevelt to Mombassa, is
lying in the harbor,, decorated with
flags, and the special quarters set
aside for Mr.. Roosevelt and party are
showing evidence of the welcome await
ing him. Numerous gifts of flowers
have been sent to the ship, and today
the remembrance Of the German en-
peror in the shape Of great masses of
carnations, typical Of the German col
ors, were placed in Mr.. Roosevelt g
cabin. The Hamburg arrived at noon
and Mr.. Roosevelt was greeted on board
the steamer by the representatives of
the city council, who extended to him
official greetings, and party of women
strewed his path with roses. German
citizens extended the personal greetings
of the emperor and Ambassador Girls
com represented the hundreds Of Amer
lean who rave gathered at Naples.
While at Naples Mr.. Roosevelt had
luncheon with the duke and duchess of
Aosta and it is believed he will visitthe
Aquarium.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
IDAHO ITEMS.

The recent windstorms in the Morton
part Of the country felled several large
trees across the railroad, delaying
trains several hours.
The State Bank Of Kooskia will be
organized next week with a paidup cap
ital stock Of $4,000.
Deep interest attaches to the coming
Of F. Augustus Heinze to the Occur
d'Alene district, which is announced for
the latter part Of the month, when it
is said he will make a thorough inspec-
tion Of the Stewart mine in the Ward.
ner district, which he owns.
Civil engineers have been at work
taking grades and measurements of the
Snake river bridge, owned by the Lew
iston- Charleston company, and it is gen.
orally considered that work is being
done in the interest Of the Spokane &
Inland Empire railroad, which is me-
gotiating for the Lewiston Charleston
company project.
Charged with having obtained $780,
600 by false pretenses, while engaged
in business at Boise, Roy M. Wright,
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
MONTANA NOTES.

William Kemmenz, teamster of
Missoula, recently lost his two daugh.
tiers by pneumonia within four days
and his wife is dying of the same NAL.
ady.
William H. Lacher, years old, only
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Lacher
living 10 miles northwest of Kalispell
was almost instantly crushed to death
by the wheels of a heavily loaded grain
wagon.
Joseph H. Russell, who came to Mon
tana as a prospector in 1867, died in
Helena Sunday.
Civil engineers supposed to be in the
employ of both the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puget Sound and Great Northern rail-
roads are making every effort possible
to secure rights of way through sew
eral passes near Columbia Falls and in
the Swan river country, and the rival
roads are each trying to beat the other
to the territory.
AS the direct result Of quarrel over
the result of the recent school election
in district No. 80 of Ravalli county
c. E. Smith is in precarious condition
from being cut by ]. D. McGary, who
is under arrest to await trial in the
district court.
The school trustees of Missoula city
are authorized to raise $4,000 in bonds
for the erection of a new school build
ing.
Sunday at noon the first train passed
through the st. Paul tunnel at Taft.
Representatives of the w. A. Clarke
interests make the announcement that
i fa suitable right of way can be Sc
cured through the Bitter Root valley to
Hamilton Senator Clarke stands ready
to construct an electric line through
that important territory,
The jury in the case of Joe Brown,
on trial for killing Robert Gilruth, near
Lolo, March 1, found him guilty of
manslaughter and his Imprisonment was
fixed at maximum term of 10 years in
the state penitentiary.
Options have been obtained by an
investment company of Missoula on
lands in the Bitter Root, Missoula and
Paradise valleys, which are to be plat.
ted into ranch sections and townsites
for immediate settlement.
Judge Hunt has rendered a decision
in effetc that the title of the Northern
Pacific Railway company to 1900 acres
Of coal lands, valued at $4,000 an acre,
in Carbon county, is null and void.
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NEWS
SUMMARY
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED
FROM DISPATCHES.
NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

Wilkesbarre, Pa.-To make the usual
spring cut in the price Of coal and at
the same time cut the wages of the
miners is the latest plan of the mine
operators for dealing with the peculiar
situation which the coal industry is
facing.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining
and Concentrating company paid divi-
dend No. 139, of $4,000, Monday. This
makes the amount of dividends paid
since January 1, $255,O00, and the total
to date $40, 5000.
The immigration movement into Can.
ada from the United States for March
was the largest for many years, number.
ing 1000 persons.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
has won the noted church case which
the Tennessee supreme court has been
wrestling for two years.
"The Columbia river extension of the
Northern Pacific railway from Spokane
to Portland will be completed and
opened for through traffic within 60
days. said President Howard Elliott of
the Northern Pacific railroad Tuesday.
Ogden, Utah.-John Conlis, a wealthy
Greek merchant, was shot and killed by
one of his countrymen, proprietor of a
fruit store, named Nicholas vocas
Vocas walked into Conlis' place of bust
ness and, without saying word, shot
him through the heart. He escaped be-
fore the police arrived. The cause for
the shooting is not known.
It is learned that an investigation of
express companies as forwarders of
money will be undertaken by the inter-
state commerce commission on q COM
plant brought by the American Bank
ers' association. Testimony will be
taken in Chicago April "a.
Oklahoma City, Okla.-That Crazy
Snake, the Creek leader, has changed
his hiding place and in so doing success
fully eluded apprehension by the state
troops was made practically certain
Monday when a posse of officers from
Henryetta accosted party of the lead
er s scouts near Hoffman.
That James Bailey, the veteran circus
man, was wont to lock himself in pad
ded compartment in his private car
when he travelled is one of the allega-
lions made in the suit to set aside the
will which gave the circus man s mil
lion-dollar estate to his widow, Mrs.
Ruth Louisa Bailey. Suit was started
at White Plains recently by Anna E.
Robinson of Detroit, Bailey's niece.
According to the way James A. Pat
ten looks at it, his present bull cam
paign in wheat at Chicago has not only
enriched himself, but has also put near
y $100,Oo0,0o0 into the pockets Of Amer
lean farmers
Terrific gales swept all Italy Sunday
and the damage will be enormous. Re-
ports from the shores of the Adriatic
are to the effect that many wrecks have
taken place all along the coast.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president, who is visiting his son in Cal
ifornia, has not taken under serious
consideration the report that he has an
excellent chance Of being the next am
bassador to Great Britain.
Wheat for May delivery overtopped
the high point of $1.21k, reached dur
ing the celebrated Gates deal in 1905,
when it sold on the board of trade at
Chicago at $1.22 IA per bushel.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09

from building to building and street to
street, causing the area of burning
buildings to grow larger every minute.
AS the fire advanced the heat became so
intense that the fremen were forced to
retreat. The advance of the fire was
so fast that, in large number of cases,
hundreds of feet of hose lines were
burned before the firemen were able
to remove them from the path of the
flames. Thousands of homeless people
have been forced to seek shelter wher-
ever they are able to find it, while they
have seen their homes burn without be-
ing able to save their belongings.
A.. Call for Aid.
Wh&fthe Fort Worth fire department
saw that it would be unable to cope
with the flames a call for aid was sent
to Dallas. Within 20 minutes after tho
call was received Fire Chief Magee of
that city had fire engine and hose
wagon with 5000 feet of extra hose and
company of IL men on board a special
train on the Texas & Pacific railroad
and was speeding toward the burning
city. The train left Dallas at clock
and arrived at Fort Worth about one
hour later. The apparatus was I'M
loaded from the train in the yards east
of the depot shortly after the structure
had been burned.
Besides asking aid of Dallas appeals
for help were also sent to Waco and
Weatherford to send all the apparatus
which could be spared. Because of the
burning of thousands of feet of hose
extra hose was asked for to make up the
deficiency.
In order to lessen the danger of fire.
men being injured by heavily charged
electric wires, all the wires in the down
town district were ordered cut shortly
after the fire was seen to be beyond
control. AS result all the telephones
in the city and part of the telegraphic
service has been destroyed.
The Texas & Pacific estimates the
loss of the road at 100000, while the
damage to the church property is esti-
mated at 100000.
The burned district is under guard
of state troops to prevent looting. A
mass meeting of citizens has been held
and relief committees were named. The
fire originated in barn, where boys
were smoking cigarettes.
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aged SO, a railway postal clerk, has
been arrested at Washington, D. G..
Wright says the amount involved is
only 5000 and that it is just misun-
Outstanding.
The farmers of Nez Perez prairie are
organizing a Rochdale company, which
will build two big grain warehouses at
Nez Perez and at other points on the
Nez Perez & Idaho electric railroad.
Unless the buds are damaged by a late
frost Lewiston valley fruit growers will
harvest crop of peaches now estimated
to be one third Of full yield. The
buds are swelling rapidly and careful
inspection Of large number of or
chards shows that fully one-third Of the
buds are alive.
J. o. Kidd, well known pioneer of
Standpoint, died Of pneumonia recently.
The registration books for the Wallace
election closed with 1899 registered.
The sawmill of the Boomers Ferry
Lumber company burned recently. The
loss is $4,000. The property was in
sured for the full amount. The mill will
be rebuilt.
Secretary Ballinger of the interior de.
partment reversed his predecessor, Sec
rotary Garfield, by restoring to the pub
lie domain 10000 acres of timber and
grazing lands in the Salmon river coun-
try and Whitebird region of Idaho coun-
ty, which were withdrawn by Garfield.
These lands will become subject to set.
Element and entry.
Twenty-Five hundred voters registered
for the Occur d'Alene City election.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09

DaSSadOrS, ministers, c0nSulS, and other
representatives of foreign nations and
colonies and members of state, terri
torial and insular irrigation and forestry
commissions.
Name Your Delegates.
Governors of states and territories
are empowered to appoint Is delegates,
other officials invested with appointive
power being as follows:
Ten delegates by mayors of cities of
$4,000 or more, five in cities Of $4,000
or less, five by each board of county
commissioners or supervisors, five by
each national, interstate or state organ
ization interested in the work, five by
each state conservation, irrigation,
drainage, forestry, agricultural or horti-
cultural association, five by each state
association of professional, commercial.
fraternal, patriotic, religious or labor
organization, two by each chember of
commerce, board of trade, immigration
or commercial club, two by each regular
ly organized irrigation or commercial
club, two by each regularly organized
irrigation, agricultural, horticultural or
forestry club, two by each irrigation
company, two by each agricultural col
lege and college having chairs of n.y.
draulic engineering or forestry, and two
by each regularly organized society of
engineers in the United States.
DR.. James B. Angel, president of the
University of Michigan, will be among
the prominent delegates from that state.
Taft and Cabinet Invited.
President Taft and the following
members of his cabinet have been in
vited to be present: P. c. Knox, secre-
tary of state; Franklin MacVeagh, Sec
rotary of the treasury; Jacob M. Dick
inson, secretary of war; George w.
Wickersham, attorney general; Frank
H. Hitchcock, postmaster general;
George Won l.. Meyer, secretary of the
navy; Richard A. Ballinger, secretary
of the interior; James Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, and Charles Maggie, secre-
tary of commerce and labor.
Advices to hand from various parts
of the country indicate that the attend
largest in the history of the organiza-
ton.
The program gives promise of being
continent-wide in scope and action tend
ing to solve some of the problems of
irrigation, forestry, drainage, deep
waterways and good roads is certain to
follow, thus benefiting the whole coun-
try; and it is generally believed that
the resultant effect of the congress will
be the investment of much new capital
in Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Texas,
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Ari.
IONA and other parts of the country
where irrigation is practiced
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
FIRE IN INSANE ASYLUM,
Helpless Insane Persons Near Panic
When Flames Are Seen.

Helpless Insane Persons Near Panic
When Flames Are Seen.
Woodward, Okla, April Six hun.
dred helpless insane persons were in
danger of death Sunday when blaze,
starting from a prairie fire, destroyed
several buildings Of the state insane
asylum at Fort Supply.
The fire broke out in the laundry
soon after the noon meal, when the
inmates had been returned to their
quarters. Every effort was made to
conceal from the inmates the fact, but
a woman, looking out of a window, saw
the fire and gave the alarm. The at
tendants rushed among their charges
and tried to pacify them, but a panic
was narrowly averted.
Ite buildings destroyed were the
stables, laundry, pharmacy and en-.
ployes' quarters. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
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GET YOUR DELEGATES NOW.
National Irrigation Congress at Spo-
kane, August 8 to a.

Apostles of irrigation, deep water
ways, drainage, good roads and conser-
walton of resources and recruits from
various parts of this continent, England,
Germany, France, Hawaii, the Philip
pine islands, the Latin republics, and
China and Japan, representative of for
eign nations and colonial governments,
officials of the federal reclamation, for
estry and agricultural departents, gov
ernors and members of state and terri
torial legislatures, railroad and bank
presidents and members of agricultural,
horticultural, commercial and fraternal
organizations will gather in Spokane
August to IA, where the National Irri-
cation congress will have it's seven.
teenth sessions.
"To save the forests, store the floods,
reclaim the deserts and make homes on
the land,' are the four primary objects
outlined in the official call, issued by
George E. Barstow of Barstow, Tex,
president; B. A. Fowler Of Phoenix,
Ariz., secretary of the national organ
ization, and R. Insinger, chairman, and
Arthur Hooker, secretary of the Spo-
kane board Of control, adding:
"We aim to demonstrate to the west
tHo WOuucTlul ucNclOpmOut pOooiuio
through irrigation, drainage, forestry,
deep waterways, good roads and home
building, and to show to the east the
economic Importance to the whole coun-
try of this development.
10000 Visitors to Spokane.
Arrangements have been made by the
| board of control for the entertainment
of 1000 accredited delegates, in addi-
ton to which it is expected there will
be between $4,000 and 10000 visitors
from the irrigated districts in Kansas,
North and South Dakota, Montana,
Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Texas, Ne
vada, California, Oklahoma, New Mex
leo, Idaho, Oregon and Washington and
the provinces of British Columbia, AL
berta and Manitoba, and from districts
in the middle western, southern and
eastern and New England states, where
forestry, deep waterways, drainage and
good roads are the chief problems in the
development of the country.
| The regular program will consist of
addresses by officials of the reclamation,
forestry and agricultural departments
of the United States, statesmen and
scientists, railroad and financial men,
promoters of the Carey act reclamation
projects and officials of private irriga.
tion enterprises. The call says:
| As to Speakers.
"Speakers will be allotted not to ex.
coed 20 minutes on any one subject and
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
Name It Monaghan.

Ensign Robert Monaghan, U. 8. N,
whose memory is honored by the war
department by giving one of the new
torpedo boat destroyers the name Of
was native of eastern Wash
ington, born at Chewelah, March 26,
1873, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Monaghan of Spokane. He was killed
in battle in the Samoan islands on April
1, 1899, as result of an ambuscade by
the natives from the rebel King Ma
taafa's forces on plantation owned by
Germans near Apia. Four American
troopers and three bluejackets from the
British fleet also lost their lives in the
ambush.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
Lumbermen viii Meet.

W. B. Greeley, district forester, sta
toned at Missoula, Mont, writes to j.
P. McGoldrick, chairman of the forestry
committee of the National Irrigation
congress, that Clifford Pinchot, chief of
the forest service, who will be repre-
sentative of the federal government at
the sessions, indorses the plan of a spe-
cial meeting with the lumbermen one
day that week to discuss the policies
and regulations of the forest service in
the administration Of government tim
Der affairs.
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No Doctor for 112 Years.

New York, April 5.-The death of
Mrs. Fannie Friedman, aged 112, was
reported Sunday. She was born in Hun
gary January 3, 1897, and had been i'll
only few days. 1t was her boast that
she had never had a doctor in her life,
and one was not called until Friday.
Five children, 81 grandchildren and IS
great grandchildren survive her.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-04-09
SWEPT
BY FIRE
FORT WORTH, TEXAS,
BIG LOSER.
LOSS FULLY 2,500,000-ONE LIFE
WAS LOST AND MANY
OTHERS INJURED.

Fort Worth, Texas, April 4.-Starting
in barn, presumably from a carelessly
thrown cigarette, fire has destroyed
property in the southern portion of Fort
Worth conservatively estimated at 3d.
500, 600, caused the death Of one person,
J. J. Newton Of Krum, Texas, and rem
dered several thousand persons home.
less
The fire originated at Jennings ave-
nue. and Petersmith street in the center
of a fashionable residence district, and,
famed by stiff wind, was beyond con-
troll within Is minutes. Spreading to
the south it burned it's way through 80
blocks and continued until it had swept
through the yards of the Texas & Pacific
railroad, destroying the buildings and
a large amount of rolling stock, after
which the fire practically burned itself
out.
The Broadway Baptist and Presby-
terrain and the Swedish churches were
among the buildings destroyed, as was
the Presbyterian sanitarium. The pa
tients of the latter institution were all
removed in safety.
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Ethan A. Hitchcock Is Ill,

Washington, April ETHAN Allen
Hitchcock, former secretary of the in
terror, is critically i'll at the home of his
sou in law, Commander W. 8. Sims,
u. s. NJ, and grave fears for his recov-
ely are entertained.
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EPISCOPALIAN SESSION IN APRIL
ALI Western States to Have Representa-
tiveS at Spokane,


Prominent clergymen from various
parts of the United States and COM
mission from the geenral board of mis-
sions of New York, including Bishop
Ethelbert Talbot of the diocese of cen
trail Pennsylvania, Rev. Reese F. Alsof,
D. D., special representative, and John
W. Wood, corresponding secretary of
the board of missions, will be among the
delegates at the second annual session
of the council of the Eighth Mission
airy department of the Protestant Epis-
copal church in Spokane, April 20 to
May 2. The department includes the
dioceses of California, Los Angeles, Sac
ramento, and Oregon, and the mission
airy districts of Arizona, Idaho, Nevada,
Olympia, Utah, Spokane, Alaska, Homo
lulu and the Philippines.
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Won sonnenthal, Actor, Dies.

Prague, April 5.-Adolph Ritter Won
Sonnenthal, the noted actor, died here
Sunday night Of apoplexy.
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Railroad Loss Heaviest.

The Texas & Pacific railroad suf-
fered the largest individual loss. Four
teen locomotives were reduced to
twisted masses of steel and iron and
several hundred boxcars, besides the
roundhouse and other buildings of the
road were destroyed.
The wind was blowing with such fury
that it caused the flames to leap wildly