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The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-04-16
QUARTER OF FLOCK BURNS.


ings IN Strait.
Milaca. Mimi, Ar.I ?.--FiTe start
ing in Sjoblom Bros building. occu-
pied by AXel Johnson IS Il saiHAn and
hotel, destroyed nearly a quarter of a
block of tall wooden buildings. By
heroic effort the firemen got the
flames under control. The loss is S15,-
900.
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Cusick Items

The ranchers are all busy pre-
pairing to put up their hay. The
hay will be Of much better quality
than last year though the yield
will not be so large. There will
probably be four times the amount
of timothy on account Of the in
creased acreage.
Johnston Bros. have. purchased
two Osborne mowersnan Osborne
rake. and a:sstacker.
Mr.. Fitch left; Tuesday. for
Seattle and: from there. he will go
east. "
The Cusick Ball Team went to
lone Sunday on the Ruth and re-
turned Monday. While there they
scalped the lone boys ). to the; tune
Of 9 to g. The Cusick boys hit 4
two base hits, Marshall getting two
and Moses and Bach each getting
one: Stratton pitched a strong game
and was accorded good support.
The feature of the game was an
assist from Moses: from center field
to Bach at first on drive over
second which was a safe one with
anyone in center with an average
wing. ..
F.A. Purchase has purchased
the Chalenor PROPERTY across from
the Wetzler hotel and will erect
meat market on same. This is
something which Cusick has felt
the need of for some time.
There was dance I'm the :Cusick
hall Saturday. night given by Mr..
Richard Nolan in; honor of his
marriage to Miss Maggie '*Zigler.
Practically all Of the young people
OF the valley attended. Mrs. Wetz-
Ter served lunch at the Riverside
hotel.
The Cusick Ball: team goes to
Newport Sunday to go a round
with Newport Professionals. New
port plays the return game at Gu
sick Augu ST.:
The berry canning has just
started and fine crop is reported.
Wike Bros. are having their
store building repainted which
makes it look very neat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleye Sample are
visitors :in. Cusick this week.
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Mrs. Mary Brooks and Miss M.
Young, of the Metaline Hotel, left
this morning for Nanton, Alberta,
Canada, to visit Mrs. Brooks
daughter-in-law, who is very sick
at that place. They will also visit
Miss Young's father, who resides
in that vicinity. They expect to be
gone about ten days.
Mr.. Stearns is building a barge
for L. P. Larsen.
Mr.. Fiske, manager Of the Inland
Cement Co.. returned to Metaline
last night.
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instruments Recorded.

The following is from the daily report
OF the Stevens County Abstract Com
pany, Colville:
VIM Moeser to Chas P Moeser, Its IS,
Sec. 6. net of nw4, 1t /, 5-37-43. 81.
Dalkena Lbr Co to & " N: pit 1t 2-3,
27.32-44. 81.
J G Scott to D Caldwell, 1t 8, blk is,
Scott's 3rd add to Newport, $40.
Jessie c Scott to Mildred Swaggert, Ii
II, blk 20, Scott's 3rd add to Newport,
$l75.
Alkaline Gwynn to Panhandle Lbr Co,
sw4 OF set, 30-35-43, 81.
Ira Gwynn to Panhandle Lbr Co, sw4
of sw4, 3O-35-43, 81.
j W Cusick to l & W N, pit Its 1O-11,
1884, 81.
&c Grover to w Grover, e4 Of mel
22-31-45. $500.
Panhandle Lbr Co to D Roeder, 1t Is.
blk Is, 1st add to Usk, $3.50.
Panhandle Lbr Co to I & w N, land
oyer 1t -, 29-as-43, 81. -.
Dalkena Lbr Bo to l & W n, land
over nj of set, 36-32-44, 81.
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News OF OLD TOWN

A down-river rancher claimed to have
been robbed of oyer 500, a watch and a
pair of gold spectacles in the Riverside
cribs on Sunday morning. He secured
a warrant from Justice Warmer. charg-
ing Jennie Doe with the crime The
warrant was given to Special Constable
Cleland to serve The constable arrested
the woman shortly after the warrant
was issued and also recovered the spec
tacles, but could not find any trace OF
the money or watch. The constable
took the woman to the Newport Hotel,
as he was without jail in which to con-
fine his prisoner. About $3.50 in the
evening he went to obtain something to
eat, and put party on to guard the
woman, The guard allowed her 10
escape. There is no question but that
there was conspiracy On tap to get the
woman out OF the state, as livery RIG
was ordered from one of the New Town
stables, and the constable saw it parad.
ing up and down in front of the hotel
early in the evening. The constable
could not obtain anything to EFT at the
hotel, the proprietor of the restaurant
not being allowed to furnish him food.
There is no blame attached to theofficer.
The rancher went to Standpoint on Mon
day, and it is understood that he has
appeared before the grand: jury regard
ing the affair. Mr.. Cleland also went
to Standpoint on Tuesday and will tell
the grand jury what he knows about the
conspiracy. The case before Justice
Warmer was dismissed and new COM
plant was filed before Probate Judge
Bandelin Tuesday.
Ten subpoenaes for residents of tho
Idaho side were served last week. The
bunch and one resident of Old Town
went up Friday night. 1t took all day
for one of the witnesses to tell what he
knew, so the balance OF the crowd had
to return home. They went back to
Standpoint on Wednesday, ~.
Frank Quick has gone to Sweet, Idaho.
In answer to telegram stating that his
mother was dying. Mrs. Anna Qnick,
the mother, was the pioneer hotelkeeper
in Newport, and built and operated the
Newport Hotel until last fall, when she
retired from active work on account of
sickness. She sold the property this
spring. and later went to Southern
Idaho to be treated by cancer special
list. Her friends here understood that
her condition was improving until the
receipt of the telegram.
Walter Shackleton has closed his pool
room and confectionery store which he
has been occupying in the Nagle build.
ing. 4
The town reminds one of a deserted
village in mining section. Near
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" all of the female residents have lett
town for other ports. The dance halls
are closed and the main topic of CONVEX
sation is about the doings of the grand
jury at the county seat.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cleland went to
Standpoint on Wednesday. They will
return by the river route from that place
to Priest River. This trip is becoming
popular with visitors from this place to
Standpoint. Capt. Jim Stewart, formerly
master of the Spokane, owns and oper-
ates the boat which leaves. from the
dock east of the N. P. depot at the
county seat.
: The l. 4 w. n. crossing on Third
street is being planked. The q. n.
crossing between Old Town and Pious
Hill will also be planked by the author
tiles.
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rs Fl. iP. Russell sawmill, boiler and
engine complete, No. % Hoyt planer
and hatcher. 3-saw Tower edger; all in
frst-elass condition; all smaff tools
everything ready for business Must be
sold and will he sold for less than one
third cost. This is good opportunity
for mill man to pick up a good mill
cheap and there is good. opening here
in the box business. 800 81 it. dry
lumber for sale also. Communicate with
Arthur B. Squire, Kettle Falls. Wash.
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$3.50

Down and monthly payments will
buy a.3 room house and ! acre Of
fine garden soil, all cleared. Price
$500,
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$500

Down and easy terms will put YOU
in possession of a neat fonr room
house in fine location, close t0
school and P. o. Price $500.
These are all bargains and now
is the time to buy as later in the
season the demand will be greater
and prices will go higher. | fur
nish and examine abstracts, write
fire insurance, do conveyancing
and notary work. Call on no
when you want good and quick
work.
A. M. HARRIS,
NEWPORT WASH.
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Use the local a4da lsaa 5sssance service:
OF the NeWportETel o. , #szl.s
.:Hdt coffee and fnniell atst be Hsaisae Il
Bakery ~. &: - sSlf =. +. TT. .s
Souoething4 NeAz=zAs -ae flasas44tt" chimney
with an air spaces. fine 81. ventilation.
These chimney blocks are inches,lngh
and l6 inches square, Charles F. Craig
The combination service will be obs
served at the NJ. f. church, beginning
next Sunday, July 49,. This combines
the church and Sunday school in one
service of one hour and thirty minutes
The service will open at 1890. The first
thirty minutes will be occupied with the
opening exercises of the church service,
or until IL a. m. Then thirty minutes
for the sermon, then thirty minutes tor
the study of the Sunday school lesson,
closing at IL M.
FOR SALE Man eor woman) 800
dCAO NOutt hAIASAIl tCtCfdn UUuuLy ldlu
certificate. issued by the department of
the interior, government of Canada,
Ottawa, under the volunteer bounty act.
1908. Good for 800 acres of any domin-
ion land open for entry in Alberta, Sas-
katchewan orr Manitoba, Any person
over the age Of IS years, manor woman,
can acquire this land with this certif-
cate WITHOUT, further charge. For i'm
mediate sale, $500. Write or wire L. E.
Telford, l31 Shutter street. Toronto,
Canada. +. ga
Fred Schade, Democratic politician OF
Spokane, was in Newport Wednesday,
renewing old acquaintance. Among
others he met was Albeni Poirier, after
whom the falls eastof town were named.
As result of his visit with Mr.. Peirier,
Mr.. Schade was convinced that he was
in position to decide a wager between
Spokane parties. some of whom claimed
that the Falls were named by New York
er after ALBANY. the capital city of his
state. Mr.. Schade said: "Some of these |
Spokane Holsters will recognize the
pioneers and their landmarks if they
stick around little
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Notice to Voters

Notice.js hereby given that the poll
books for Newport precinct in the town
OF newport, county of Stevens and state
OF washington, are now open for regis
tration. All persons desiring to register
may do so at nay Office at the Idaho &
Washington Northern passenger depot,
in said town of Newport.
GlYen under my hand and the official
seal OF the said town Of Newport.
EDWARD BRlrroN,
Clerk OF the Town Of Newport.
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5000

Down and easy terms will buy two
houses, one four room, other two
rooms, on good 60 it. corner close
in. One rents for $40, one at Sc
per month, 1892 a year. After
paying taxes gives net return Of Is
per cent on the investment. These
houses are in good repair and have
not been vacant for three years. 50
the income is steady and the lots
are in location where they will ad.
vance in value. Property belongs
to out of town owner and | have
been authorized to quote this prop
erty at $1,000 for quick sale,
or $3.50 on easy terms.
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Notice of Election

Notice is hereby given that special election
will be held in the Town of Newport, Wash
ington, on the It'll day of Septemb Der, A. D. 1909
to determine the question, "Shall the Sale OF
Intoxicating Liquors Be Licensed Within the
Town of Newport, Washington"
Given under my hand and the official seal of
the Town of Newport, this 9Th day of July, A.
d. 1909. EDWARD BRITTON,
1882 Clerk Of the Town of Newport.
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as the surest and safest speculation
OF modern times----essecially if il Is
situated in a growing locality. If
you are looking out for q good
home to buy, I can show You lust
the property that will interest YOU
and even If you are only purchas-
ing for the sake of investment !
can still put you in touch with
some positive bargains where future
profits are assured.
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We Reach the People

frst-class equipment for frst-class
service. Try the local and long distance
service of the Newport Tel. Co. .
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e.
AdS!ertised Letters

List: otletters: remaining uncalIed for
in the Newport; Wash:P, 0. to date. are
as follows: - -.
ByrRe, Miss Ruth Butler Miss Ruth
Claire. Miss Roxiei 4 Donaldson, Leon
canon, !; A Eaton, Chas
FObb, Robert Gould Mrs Frances
Harrington, Miss Stella JULIUS, Harry
holland, john Mcdonald, Frances
Nilsson. 9 Peterson, Fred
Roades, Cecil 80 Rowland, Dee, 2
Roberts. THOSE Saunders. VIM
Seiden burg, John Trumbull, Julius
Washatkoi Ghas H Wright, Geo, 2
Register.-
HelmansG W :. 49,
When Calling for the above please say
"advertised. a. R. /. Town. P: NJ.
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tempt were one Hewitt OF ne" 1oih' ohe
John Breckenridge, a junior member oi ina
famous family, one Fairfax Montague "hose
name savors of Virginia, and one other CADET
whom n,odestv REQUIRES shall be nameless.
The penalty at West Point for going ON
limits is dismissal, and the same dose is CIV
en- TO the unlucky cadet who is found TO be
absent from his quarters for more than ~
minutes between taps and reveille. A young
woman living in Newburgh,o one of West POINTS
summer girls knowing these rules and pen
aIties. loosely asked several first classmen
to be present at a party to be given at hef
home, ~ miles up the river, on thanksgiving
evening. They resolved to accept. 1ney sue
ceeded in getting hold of some money and in
bribing a steam launch captain to agree to
take them TO Newburgh after taps, when there
was an inspection, and to get them back IN
time for reveille roll call.
Many a cadet from the period of Lee had
been to Benny Ravens, a mile away from the
post, time after time, but such a trip as the
one proposed was daring beyond all prece-
dent. The chief danger lay in the POSSIBLE
ity of a dark-lantern inspection of quarters
while the runaways were absent. There had
not been such an inspection for some little
time, and this fact made the %plotters bold.
Mcdonald finally evolved a brilliant
scheme. It was to get certain other cadets to
sleep in the absentees' hunks and to pass for
them in the necessarily hurried lantern in
s~pection. This plan would, of course, involve
the substitutes being found absent from their
own quarters, but it was arranged, through
means unnecessary to state, to have them
awakened at once in case an inspection took
place, and hurried back to their hunks. When
a cadet is found absent he is inspected for
every Is minutes until he returns.
Under the arrangement made, of course,
the runaways would be supposed to be sound
asleep and their substitutes absent, and 1t
was for the latter that the later inspection
would be made. 1t was figured out by the
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ing query of all who suggest that the
idea is absurd.
On the other peak is the cemetery
in which are buried the poets mother,
his daughter, several old friends of
the days of 40, whose dying wish was
that they lie in the little brush
fence plot watched over by Joaquin
cats and dogs.
Towering up beside the cemetery,
and a landmark that can be seen
20 miles off down in the valley,
is the great funeral pyre Of rough
stone Joaquin Miller fashioned with
his W hands. 1t is hollow and the
top is covered with iron grill work.
Inside this hollow space is piled sew
eral cords of oilsoaked wood. At his
death the poets body will be placed
on top of the pyre and the ashes that
remain will be scattered to the four
winds"
In dedicating his autobiography to
the memory of his parents, Joaquin
Miller asks permission to introduce
himself, "for it really seems to me
that from the day / was suddenly
discovered and pointed out in Lon
don 1 have been an entire stranger
in my own land; the land l have
loved, lived for, battled for from
the first. AS for that %red-shirted
and hairy man bearing my name
abroad, and standing before kings
l never saw him, never heard of
him until on returning to my own
country | found that this unpleasant
and entirely impossible figure aver at.
tended and eve overshadowed my
most earnest work"
So much doubt has shrouded joaquin
Miller's parentage that his own state.
ment of his early history has peculiar
interest. my cradle was a covered
wagon, pointed west" he writes. 81
was born in a covered wagon, am
told, at or about the time it crossed
the line dividing Indiana from Ohio,
wherein my mother was born. MY
mothers people were Dutch, not Ger
mans, as has been so often said. and
they were the oldest Dutch in the land.
My grandfather Miller, of Scotch
stock, from Kentucky, fell at Fort
Meigs on the Maumee river. have
read he was an officer, but hope and
believe he was of the ranks. Please
let the dead patriot escape the perse.
cution of idiots seeking an ancestry"
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POET OF s|ERRAs'
Famous Old Joaquin Miller Busy
Compiling His Works.
Patriarch Explains Why He Has Re-
fused Tempting Offers to Lecture
Lives on Mountain Top Over
looking Frisco Bay.

San Francisco.-Sitting on the door
step of his cabin home, The Hltes,
1000 feet UP in the mountains behind
Oakland, Joaquin Miller, the Poet OF
the Sierras," explained the other day
why he had refused an offer to tour
the United States and England as a
lecturer.
1t was neither because the patriarch
poet is averse to revisiting the scenes
of his first triumphs as an exponent
of the native wonders of the country
to the west of the Rockies, nor be-
cause a money! inducement was lack
ing. The nature lover won't come
down out of his mountain home until
he has finished his work of compil-
ing a combination autobiography, his
tory and all his poems he believes are
worth perpetuating. There are to be
six volumes, and proofs of the first
volume have just been delivered to
the author.
For many years, how many no
on the mountain side or in Oakland Is
able to say, Joaquin Miller has made
his Headquarters on the big sweeping
table land on the very top of h noun
tain overlooking San Francisco bay,
and as far back as the Oldest inhabit-
ants memory goes he has always sup
ported one or more youthful. aspiring
artists and poets. To house these pro-
teges the poet has built from time to
time replicas of his own cabin, until
to-day there are a dozen little, odd
shaped buildings, each one containing
only one room and all with high
peaked roofs and stained glass win
dows.
On one of the two peaks rising above
the table land, 1000 acres in extent,
and all of it the property of the ven
cradle poet, is a great stone monu-
ment, erected by Joaquin Miller him
self, and marking, SO he declares with
apparent sincerity, "the grave of
Moses
IF Moses isn't buried here, where
is he buried?" is the poets never fail.
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and entered by the one door which had been
left unbarred. The cadets in barracks had
fastened every other door and every window
on the ground floor, effectually barring the
officers from entering. Within three minutes
of the first crash from Battery Knox officers
began to swarm out of their quarters to head
for the area of barracks, where they found the
officer of the day lodging the fiery balls OF a
score of Roman candles.
Gen. Schofield, reused from his slumbers,
hastily dressed and trotted across the parade
ground in the wake of his juniors. The gen
eral howled an order at the officer in charge:
Sound the long roll"
The officer in charge replied: Cant do IT;
they've stolen the drums"
All this while the night was full of noise
and the air was full of fire. Finally every
thing burnable was burned up and the cadets
had tired of the task of carrying round shot
I'D the stairs only to roll them down again.
The enlisted drummer boys found their in
struments and it may do no harm at this late
day to say that they had known where they
were all the time. Long roll was sounded. the
barracks doors were thrown open and the
cadets fell into line and answered to their
names.
Every privilege was taken away from the
cadets for three months, but not one was dis
missed, for if the guilty had been punished
not a boy would have been left to the service
of the corps of cadets.
Mai. Lyman Watson We're Kennon OF the
infantry, who is the man who built the Ben
guet road in the Philippine islands, one of
the most remarkable examples Of engineering
skill and of quick construction performance
of recent times.
Col. Kennon Che is a major of regulars, but
was a colonel in the volunteer forces) went to
the Philippines early in the war game, and he
asa a-14 lo,xyo mill he hoH r1cuod hic hand
for six years, and there are few officers of the
United States army who have a like record to
their credit. Kennon was an aid on Gen.
Crooks staff in all his western campaigns, and
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consplrators that nothing worse could happen
to the substitutes than being reported for 10
minutes absence, which meant nothing more
than a few demerit marks.
Silence and sleep reigned through the old
stone quarters. Far away up the Hudson
speeded the steam launch bearing the pleas
ure-seeking cadets, in whose hunks, with their
heads we'll covered with blankets, lay their
self-sacrificing comrades. There was an in
spection that night. 1t was made by three
ers-Le M. Walker, Benjamin Ran
dolph and E. j. McClernand. Randolph and
Walker found two empty hunks and ordered
the officer of the day to inspect for the alb.
sentees every Is minutes. He did this duty
and found the empty hunks filled. Two of the
cadets dancing way up where the Newburgh
lights twinkled were safe.
McClernand found in. his division of bar
racks one empty bunk. 1t was that of Fair.
fax Montague. McClernand knew a thing or
two and was a disciplinarian. After finding
Montague absent he turned every cadet over
in his bunk, threw the light of the lantern full
in his face and then looked at the name over
the alcove to see if face and name conceded.
Mcdonald and Montague-McDonald on the
printed alcove slip and Montague in the bunk
did not agree.
The Virginian was ordered back to his
quarters in arrest, and Mcdonald, waltzing
away all unconscious under the shadow OF
the flag pole at Washington's headquarters,
was inspected for every Is minutes until he
reached his quarters six hours later. He was
saved from the extreme penalty for his Of
tense, but he had six months confinement in
barracks in which to think over his part in
an escapade that brought about nightly in
spection of barracks for years thereafter. Pos
sibly McClernand when in the Philippines and
meeting Mcdonald was glad that for once
military discipline miscarried.
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Diplomatic Lions. ,

Lions are said to walk abou. the
palace of Emperor Menelik or ,Abys
sinia and injure no one, and are do
cile at the least sign from their mas
ter. A Russian visitor demanded OF
Menelik how it was that his gentle
pets respected such and such a yisi.
tor. They have scent" replied the
emperor. They know the smell OF
an ambassador. They know they must
not cause trouble between me and
the foreign power. They are diplo.
matte lions" The queen added. "They
once devoured before me an Italian
consul. 1t was afterward found that
he had not his letters of credence.
He was not in order and / excused
the lions"
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else for it's own sake is harmless, for
it is well to be prepared for the meet
ing of life's little emergencies as well
as its ordinary and daily demands, but
it probably is true that, the emergen-
cies apart, every mar does enough in
going. about his customary business
and pleasure to keep himself in the
condition which that business and
pleasure demands, and that anything
besides is superfluous or Injurious. That
athletics take one into the open air
is less commentator of athletics than
an Indictment ct Jul houses. offices
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-01

Statistics compiled by a technical
journal recently show that in Europe
one physician can care for 1000 of the
general population. If such a proper
ton holds good for Europe, it is rea-
sonable to suppose that a similar pro-
portion would be sufficient for the
United States. And yet, according to
the census of 1900, WI had one doc
tor to every 5O4 of our population.
1t is estimated that the 1910 census
will show at least 154 900 doctors in
the United States. 1t is stated on
authority that we are IS years in adj
vance of the natural requirements.