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The Florida star., 1909-09-24

Lucas ]. Reeves, of Pensacola, has
announced for the United States SEN
ate from Florida. He was born in
Alabama in 1861, land raised in Wal
ton county. He was state senator
for eight years and circuit Judge for
three years. He says he will wage a
vigorous campaign and goes in to
win.
The Florida star., 1909-09-24
Kills would-be Slayer

many victims. But DIR. Kings New Life Pills
kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate
the stomach, liver and bowels, preventing
that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing
constipation, biliOusness, chills, malaria, head
ache and indigestion. 25c at Banner Drug
StOra
The Florida star., 1909-09-24
Brevard County School Board

The board of, public instruction
met Monday, Sept. 5th, with full
board present.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
Treasurer's report for Aug. was
found correct.
The tax collector presented his list
of poll taxes received during the
month of Aug. 1909, same showing
$500 for 1908.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY.
Warrants outstanding last report 5 1885 81
issued this meeting--- 97665
$3.50. 81
Warrants paid in Aux $3.50
Warrants now outstanding s,l5O.s7
Total cash on hand ----------- 81
Deficit In funds ------ ----------- $4,000
The following preamble and re-
solution was offered by Mr.. Single
ton, seconded by Mr.. Carter, and
carried:
Whereas, So much of the county
is isolated, as regards schools, and
Whereas, The drain upon the
school finances, it its effort to reach
these children, has been so great, the
board has been compelled to rescind
the isolated pupil rule; therefore
Be it Resolved, That from and af-
ter this date no school will be operat-
ed in this county unless there be an
enrolment of ten pupils, and an
average the whole term of not less
than six.
The following petition was pres
ented and read to the board:
Eau Gallie, Fla, Aug. 25, '09.
A Petition to the Board of Education
of Brevard County, Florida:
We, the undersigned, taxpayers
and patrons of the public school of
Eau Gallie, Fla, are willing, for the
present, for the japanese to attend
tho ni1hlio cohonl.
The Florida star., 1909-09-24

Not minute should be lost when q child
shows symptoms Of Group. Chamberlan's
Cough Remedy given as soon IS the child be-
comes hoarse, or even after the crOupy cough
appears, will prevent the attack. Sold by all
dealers.
The Florida star., 1909-09-24

The board argued this petition pro
and con. The board yields to the
wish of the patrons, but is unalter-
ably opposed to making a precedent
of this kind. In yielding it is the
distinct understanding that as soon
as there are as many as ten Japanese
pupils of school age, separate
school will be provided for them. this
action does not affect or apply to any
other school in the county.
The board adjourned to meet at 9
o'clock, Tuesday, Sept. 7th.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
A petition from patrons of Eau
Gallie school No. 81, read and re-
ferred to the superintendent for dis
position.
A petition from citizens of Aurora
asking for school building and school,
read and discussed. The PRAYER of
the petition was refused, as the num-
Der of pupils represented were not
enough to maintain legal school.
Mr.. Gus Hunter came before the
board asking for school. The mat
ter was discussed and laid over for
future action.
The resignation of Mr.. F. A. Drake
as supervisor of school No. "a ac-
cepted, and Mr.. ]. F. Farley was
duly elected to the position as super
visor of same.
The resignation of Mr.. E. Vesey
Hall as supervisor of school No. II
accepted, and Mr.. R. c. Copeland ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy.
There being no further business
the board adjourned to meet the
first Monday in October at 2:30 p. m.
JNo. r. WALKER,
Sec't'y.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06

The new church is one of the hand
soonest structures of the kind in the
northwest. The cost of its construction
was $17,2ss, and it has a seating ca
pacity of $50 people. 1t is elegantly
finished on both the exterior and in
terror, and is luxuriously equipped.
Advices from Salmon, Idaho, tell of
the killing of Wiliia4n Verges, an old
time miner and prospector, at InJisno-
la, during quarrel with Charles Lay
ton, postmaster. The only eye witness
was Latyon's 10-yesr-old son.
The organization of the Idaho FEEDER
alton of Commercial Clubs, which seems
now assured, will mark the beginning
of spirit of cooperation which will
undoubtedly prove beneficial to the
communities interested. The clubss will
be assessed according to membership
and literature descriptive of the entire
district will be distributed over the
middle west.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
destroyed. The loss is estimated at

destroyed. The loss is estimated at
100000
The man who during the last fort
night has been delivering series of
attacks upon women on the streets of
Berlin has been captured
Skyscrapers in New York city are
not to be limited to $50 feet in height,
according to decision of the commit
tee of the board of examiners.
Last week Mrs. Elizabeth Brogett
Jones, who was born 1O5 years ago IN
Oxford, Green county, N. Y, died at
San Gabriel valley, California.
Delmonico s famous restaurant, New
York city, may pass into new hands.
Frank A. Arehambault, a Broadway
restaurant man, is the prospective pur-
chaser.
A recent fire in the funeral supply
company of Paxson & Co., Philadelphia,
did damage amounting to about $780,
900. The building is eight stories in
height.
Slowly but surely the Milwaukee
railroad is fast connecting the links
necessary to complete its line between
the great lakes and the waters of the
Pacific ocean.
The wheat market continued its
record breaking ascent at Chicago. May
selling at $1.19 and the July delivery
at $1.05 rs shortly after the session
of the board of trade opened.
A sharp clash of Representative
Gaines of Tennessee and Speaker Can
non occurred in the house Saturday, in
the course of which each claimed he
had been insulted by the other.
The general deficiency bill, carrying
appropriations approximating 70,O00,-
600 was reported to the house of con-
gress. Five million dollars for the
Panama canal is the largest item.
During last week II counties of In
diana voted against the saloon. Out of
25 counties one has voted for the
saloon. Three hundred and eighty
saloons will be abolished as a result of
these elections.
Five people were severely injured
and probably score were slightly hurt
Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, when a
cline car" on the Ohio Electric rail
way crashed into a car from Spring,
field, filed with passengers.
The Mexican Academy of Medicine
has offered $4,000 to the scientist who
discovers a means of preventing ty-
phoid fever. OF this sum $4,000 will
go to the discoverer of a specific to
cure the disease.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Congress has decided not to raise the
wrecked Maine, near Cuba.
Nearly rs per cent of the population
of Cuba at least 10 years of age can
read.
The Milk Producers association of
Chicago has boosted the price of milk
to 8 cents a quart.
The president has appointed Claude
1. Parker collector of internal revenue
for the sixth district of California.
J. o. Carter, for many years promi-
nent figure in the business and political
life Of the Hawaiian islands, is dead.
The butterine plant and storage house
of Swift & Co., in the stockyards, Chi
cage, was destroyed by fire Saturday
The neutral lard house was also partly
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
IDAHO ITEMS.

The Weiser high school girls basket
ball team has won the championship of
idaho.
The long delayed shipment of steel
for the roofing of the new administra-
ton building at the University of Idaho
has arrived.
Resolutions declaring in favor of the
Oregon plan for creating railroad dis
tricts to be bonded for construction OF
new railways were adoped unanimously
by the Oregon-Idaho Development con
'gress.
The annual meeting of the state en-.
campment Of Knights of Pythias will
be held in Wallace June 16 and prom.
Uses to be the most largely attended
meeting of the kind in the history Of
the order in Idaho.
An employee of the Potlatch Lumber
company's camp z, at Bovill, was struck
by two logs recently and covered SC
that one of the logs had to be sawed
in two to extricate him. The man
whose name is Sawyer, received only q
broken ankle.
The new Methodist church at Coeul
d'Alene City was dedicated Sunday
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Swindle Looks Gigantic.
Cannon Roasts Higgins.

Washington.-Incensed by an attack
alleged to have been made upon himself
and the rules of the house by Edward
E. Higgins, president of the Success
Magazine company, Speaker Cannon has
made public letter vigorously defend
ing the rules. The first paragraph of his
letter follows:
"The rules may not be ideal" he
writes, "but they have stood the test
among those who know them, in spite of
half century of denunciation such as
Mr.. Higgins puts forth. The foundation
principles were laid down more than a
century ago, under the leadership of
Jefferson and Madison. They have been
perfected from year to year to meet the
needs of growing representation of a
growing nation
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
OREGON SQUIBS.

c. Y. Timmons, who killed his wife
by cutting her throat with razor
last October at Salem, was hanged Fri
day in the state penitentiary.
Ralph r. Bristol, a student of the
University of Oregon, is hopelessly in
sane as the result, it is alleged, of haz-
ing to which he was subjected late in
December by his fellows in the Uni
versity of Oregon.
Harold Smith, an s year old boy
was run over by freight train at Nc
Minnville recently, and will probably
die from frightful mangling and loss OF
one leg. His mother, Mrs. Ella Smith
is a widow, a recent arrival from Sc
attic.
Announcement is made by Hartman
agents that as soon as Secretary Gar
field approves the right of way, the
new railroad up the Des Chutes river
to central Oregon will be started. The
road will terminate at Bend, to which
point the Shasta division now nearing
klamath Falls, will be extended, thus
opening new route from San Francisco
to the Columbia river. Forty million
will be expended on the Des ChuteI
road.
Governor Chamberlain resigned Sat
urday to become United States senator
Secretary of State Benson will take
Office as acting governor Monday. Be
fore leaving, the governor appointed {
state highway commission to make in
vestigation preparatory to the construc
ton by the state of a railroad across
central Oregon. The members are A
H. Devers, Drake c. Oreily, @. F. swi
CERT, Portland; Julian c. Byrd, George
Putnam, Medford; G. w. Baldwin, Kla
math; William Grimes, Marshfeld.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Fire last Monday destroyed the Pal
ace hotel and gambling house owned
by Jim May at Reno, Nevada. Loss
800, 900, partly insured.
The senate of congress has refused
$25, 900, for the conservation commits
sion and the house did the same. 1t is
plan to revenge President Roosevelt's
conservation movement.
Blanche Walsh, the actress has re-
covered from her recen illness.
The cost of the executive establish
ment at the national capital last year
was 1914, 900.
DR.. W. M. Crum has resigned as col
lector of customs at Charleston, N. G.
No appointment made by President
Roosevelt has given rise to more dis
cussion than that of Crum, who is a
negro.
David Esler of Comox, Vancouver
Island, comitted suicide recently on
account of financial affairs.
The senate has passed a bill pension
ing at the rate of $12 month depen-
dent volunteer amy nurses of the civil
war.
Senator Knox will not sever his con-
nection with the congressional mone-
tary commission because of his trans
fer FROM the senate to the state depart-
ment. Provision has also been made
for the continuane of of Senator Teller
and Representative Bonynge and Rep
resentative Overstreet.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Spokane Wins
Rate Case

Washington, March 3 The railroads
rates involved in the famous case of
the city of Spokane, Washington,
against the Northern Pacific and other
railroads, were Tuesday held by the in
terstate commerce commission to be
inherently unreasonable. T"
The decision says the eastern rates to
Spokane were higher than to Seattle, a
more distant piont. The decision gives
Spokane the victory in the famous rate
case. which, for more than two years,
has been pending before the commits
sion. Tbs case was the most important
ever brought before the commissioners.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
MONTANA NOTES.

Ole Synness, one of the best known
ranchmen of Silver, died recently.
The senate has passed the house bill
authorizing domestic corporations to
hold stocks in other companies.
A. N. DAILY, carpenter of Shelby,
imprisoned for drunkenness, attempted
to break Jail and was fatally shot by
the IA year old son of the deputy
sheriff.
Postmasters have been appointed in
Montana as follows: Alama, Chouteau
county, Ina R. Keith; Trout Creek, San
ders county, Neros 1. Hart.
Robert Moore, pumpman of the city
water works at Glendive, whose duty it
is to turn on the water in case of fire,
was arrested recently charged with set
ting several fires in the town.
Arthur Carlson, and l1-year-old boy,
froze to death while crossing the prairie
near Glasgow. He had gone to a neigh
boris house and got lost returning home
in the dark. His mother was also lost
at the same time, and it Is feared will
lose her reason
The senate has passed a resolution
favoring Spokane as the headquarters
for thesnew postal district. The house
cut down the appropriation for the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition from
$50, 900 to $500.
Charles Stephens, aged II, of Butte,
was knocked unconscious recently in
row, being struck by Lionel Smith,
aged IA, and fears are expressed that
Stephens will die. The two boys had
crossed in love.
At Butte, Vivian Lagrange aged 25,
an actress of striking beauty, and for
merly member of Patterson s company
of "bronze statutes" which has been
playing on vaudeville circuits of the
country, committed suicide. It is a case
of dependency in love.
The jury in the case against Henry
Rheams, charged with the murder of
William Dempsey, who was mortslly
wounded in the holdup of the Shelby
train last May, returned a verdict find
ing the defendant guilty and fixing his
punishment at life Imprisonment.
County Attorney J. G. Huntoon of
Fergus county has filed an information
charging John A. Tabor with murder
in the first degree, and the trial will
be begun shortly. Tabor shot and
killed Daniel Rowan on the stage be-
tween Grass Range and Gilt Edge.
To avenge himself on the husband of
the woman for whose wronging he had
just completed five years term in the
penitentiary, Joseph Brown shot and
killed Robert Gilruth Sunday while the
latter, accompanied by his brother, was
walking along the road near CHECKER
man S mill, six miles west of Lolo,
Mont. Brown, who was badly cut, was
arrested in Missoula a few hours later
and the brother of the slain man is held
as witness. When arrested Brown de-
clared that he had been attacked by the
Gilruth brothers with an ak and that he
shot in self-defense. The brother of the
dead man fatty denies Brown IS state
ment and declares that he and his
brother were deliberately ambushed by
Brown.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Beach Hargis Now in Jail.

jackson, Ky.-The men on the bond
of Beach Hargis, charged with the muir
der of his father, Judge James Hargis,
have surrendered him to Breathitt
county officers and he was taken to jail
at Irvine to await his second trial in
April. Hargis' recent outbreaks, in
which he created a reign of terror, are
said to have caused his bondsmen to
surrender him. The youth recently went
to dance and attempted to murder his
cousin.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
YUKON EXPOSITION NOTES.
Interesting Facts About the Great
Seattle Fair

The largest fir tree in the state of
Washington will be brought to the
Alaska ukon-Pa exposition. The
tree is 225 feet long and IA feet in
diameter at the butt.
The question of wagon roads for
Alaska, together with other questions
of such vital concern to the North, will
be brought to the attention of the
world at large at theAlaska- Yukbn-Pa
cifc exposition at Seattle next summer.
Uncle Sam is taking a larger inter-
est in the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposi-
ton, which opens in Seattle on June
l, than in any other exposition ever
held.
Features of the Governments Exhibit.
Native bands from Hawaii and
Alaska.
Complete mint and assay Office in con-
slant operation.
Revenue cutter service and marine
hospital service exhibits.
One or more dirigible balloons.
Life saving station, fully equipped; ;
daily demonstrations.
Celebrated Philippine Constabulary
band which won world IS championship
at st. Louis World 8 Fair
Plate printer experts from bureau
of printing and engraving viii make
genuine bank notes daily.
Data affecting commerce and labor
from department of commerce and la
Dor.
Entire museum of the United States
postoffice department.
State and judicial documents relative
to the early organization of the govern
ment from the departments of state
and justice.
Models of all battleships and cruisers,
the dry dock Dewey, guns and ord
nance equipment; models of every type
of gun made for the navy since the or
ganization; relics of the Inflated Maine
and Dewey's entrance into Manila har-
Dor.
Biggest battleships in the navy will
be stationed in Seattle harbor during
exposition.
Biograph show, free daily, showing
army and navy in action and govern
ment operations of every kind.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Deadly Blizzard in France.

Paris, March Snow has been fall
ing almost continuously for AS hours
and blizzard of unprecedented proper.
tions prevails throughout France. Many
deaths are reported. Several inches OF
snow has fallen in the interior of the de-
partment of Alpes-Maritime and the
conditions at Cannes and Antilles are
very wintry.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
May Complete Canal in 1914.

lsham Randolph, one of the seven
engineers who accompanied President.
elect Taft to the canal zone, saws that
ne could see no reason why the Panama
canal should not be completed by 1914
-one year earlier than has been ex-
peeted generally. He declared that the
conditions in the canal zone were ex
cellent.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Castro Denies Conspiracy.

Dresden.-Cipriano Castro, late presi-
dent of Venezuela, has authorized the
publication of a declaration of his in
nocence of the charge that he had con-
spired to bring about the assassination
of Juan Vicente Gomez, the present
president Of the republic.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
GOES AFTER BILLY SUNDAY.
Witt a Horsewhip a Fanatic Makes
Scene at Springfield.

Springfield, Il.-Billy Sunday was
horsewhipped during meeting held in
this city. A crazed man named Sher-
man Potts jumped to the platform dur
ing short intermission and before the
audience of 5000 realized what had hap
pened struck several vicious blows at
the evangelist. Sunday clinched with
his man and the pair rolled on the floor
in front of the pulpit. Fred Fisher
started the choir singing and order was
finally restored. Potts declared he
would punish Sunday for criticising
women
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Hymnologist Midlane Dead.

London.--Albert Mjdlane died here
Monday. He was born in 1925 and was
a noted authority on hymnology. He
was awarded the distinguished service
gold medal by the Sunday school of the
union for services rendered to the
hymnology for schools.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06

A. Bobbitt, wealthy rancher and former
United States marshal in Indian Terri
tory, was shot from ambush and killed.
Bobbitt was prominent democratic
politician.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
wan Ask chicago fOr work.

Chicago.-A committee to wait on
Mayor Busse and ask for work was ap
pointed at meeting of 300 unemployed
Sunday. The Chicago Association of
the Unemployed was formed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
FARMER ON SIGHT"
New Honor for Taft, Who Is Also to
Be Made Booster Unseen

President-elect Taft, who recently
was made Mason cat sight" will
probably have new honors heaped upon
him upon his arrival in Washington.
The National farmers union is pre-
pairing to elect him a member of that
organization con sight"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Wheat Brings s1.1s.

Chicago.-Wheat prices advanced
Saturday to new high record marks for
the season, when May delivery sold at
$1.19 ard July at $1.05 rs.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
Quake KNOCKS Down Ruins.

Naples.-Violent earthquakes were
reported Saturday from Palmi, Calabria.
Many walls remaining standing after
the quake of December 2s were shaken
down
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1909-03-06
PAST WHITE HOUSE FAMILIES.
william Henry Harrison Had the Larg-
est, Consisting of 10 Children

There has been times in American
history when an advocate Of large
families could not have cited the house
hold of the White House as an ex-
ample, for small families have been
the rule in the White House, and the
census taker in more than one admins
tration would have been obliged to re-
port "No family
Yet only two bachelors have been
elected to the presidency, and one OF
these, Grover Cleveland, changed his
condition by marrying before COM
pleting his first term. James Buchanan
in his youth was party to romantic
love affair, and after the death of the
young lady he appears never to have
thought of marrying.
1t has been said that few presidents
had what President Roosevelt would
call large families. William Henry
Harrison had the largest; he was the
father of six sons and four daughters.
He was the Oldest man ever elected to
the presidency. Hayes and Garfield
had the next largest families; in the
Hayes family were born eight chill
dren, and in the Garfield family seven,
large number in each case growing to
maturity.
President Grant had four children,
three sons and one daughter, and one
of these sons, Frederick D. Grant is a
major general in the army. Abraham
Lincoln had four sons, Robert Todd
Lincoln, who became secretary of war
under Presidents Garfield and Arthur,
alone surviving to maturity Presi-
dent johnson had two daughters, Mar
tina and Mary, Martha presiding over
the White House during the frequent
illnesses of her invalid mother.
Two Were Widowers.
President Arthur was a widower
and his sister presided over the White
House. He had two children living,
but his first child, a son, died in in
fancy. President Van Buren, also was
a widower. He had five sons, two of
whom were Abraham, whose wife pre-
sided over the White House, and John,
who was known as ''Prince John. -
President Taylor had a son and two
daughters, one of whom married Jeffer-
son Davis.
President Pierce had three sons, two
of whom died in infancy, and the
third, a boy of 10, was killed in the
presence of his parents in a railroad
accident two months before his
fathers Inauguration as president.
President John Adams had a daughter
and three sons. President Monroe had
two daughters, ami John Quincy Adams
had several children. President JEFF
ferson had five children, two of whom
died in infancy. President Mckinley s
two daughters died while young.