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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
MRS. EDDY's WILL.
Her Estate Officially Valued at a
Million and a Half.

Unless the will of the late Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy contains the
name of some one of her followers
whom she wishes to succeed her as
pastor emeritus, there will not be any
successor appointed, according to Chair
man Alfred Farlow of the Christian
Science publicity committee. Farlow
pointed out that the founder of the
sect that has had the most rapid growth
of any in church history shrewdly pro-
vided for the emergency which she
knew must arise. She did this by hav-
ing incorporated in the constitutions of
the Science churches a law which bars
the directors from accepting appoint
ments to higher functions without the
consent of the pastor emeritus In this
way, Farlow said, the hands of the di-
rectors were tied, and the only posi-
bility of successor being appointed
remains in the will.
So far, there has been no indication
when the testament will be filed for
probate. It is officially stated that the
estate of million and a half, with
the exception of small amount, was
bequeathed to the church by Mrs. Eddy.
The amount not bequeathed to the
church was given to members of her
household, it is said. Many believe
that the will contains the name of a
successor to Mrs. Eddy as head of the
church
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
SEATTLE PIONEER
CALLED BY DEATH


Seattle, Dec. 10.-Mrs. deborah Will
son, SO years old, one of the 800 women
who came around Cape Horn as the
famous "cargo of wives for Seattle
settlers" in 1866, died at her home
here yesterday.
The "cargo of wives" was organized
by A. c. Mercer, then president of the
Washington territorial university. He
advocated the importation of New
England school teachers to Puget
Sound to make wives for the settlers
here.
His scheme was Endorsed by Gov
ernor j. A. Andrews of Massachusetts,
Edward Everett Hale and by others,
and resulted in the charteriug of the
ship Continental, in which the voyage
was made. Shortly before the CONT
mental sailed from New York Mrs. Will
son was married to John Wilson and
the couple made the voyage around the
Horn together.
Mrs. Wilson. is survived by her hus-
band and son, John H. Wilson.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
EDDIE ROOT WON
GREAT BICYCLE RACE
Covered Last Mile in Less Than Four
Minutes-C1arke, Last Years Win
ner, Half Wheel Behind

New York.-Eddie Root of the Root
Moran team finished first Saturday
night in the final mile dash that de-
cided the six-day bicycle race at Madi-
son Square Garden. His time for the
mile was 3 minutes Sc la seconds and
his distance for the six days 2,545 miles
3 laps.
Jackie Clarke of the Rutt-Clarke
team finished second by half a wheel.
Joseph Fogler of the Fogler-Hill team
was third and Patrick II. Hehir of the
Goullet-Hehir team fourth. By their
victory Root and Moran divide $1,000,
the prize for the first place.
The record is 2,737 miles 1. lap, made
by Mcfarland and Moran in 1908.
Notwithstanding there were so few
serious accidents there was much foul
riding and the judges imposed many
penalties for unfair jockeying, pocket
ing and reliefs.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
COAL Mine DISASTER
OVER 40 MINERS LOST THEIR
LIVES NEAR BELLEVUE In
ALBERTA District.
Rescue Party Consisting of 10 Men
From Hosmer and Frank Among
Killed-The Mine Employed 400,
Mostly Slavs and Italians-Govern-
ment Sends Aid in Rescue Work.

Fernie, b. c., Dec. ia disastrous
mine explosion occurred Friday night
at clock in the Bellevue coal mine,
three miles east of Frank, Alberta.
Fortysix men were on shift, and 81
were killed, Fifteen were rescued,
SEINE having narrow escapes.
Fred Anderson, among the dead, fire
boss at Hosmer mines and one of the
rescue party, who first entered the mine
aud the only man not in the employ
Of the West Canada Coal company.
A rescue party equipped with the
best aid is at work, and shaft reliefs
will keep up the work until all are
brought out.
The men who were in the mine res
cued by the party were the following:
@. August, A. Bassano, V. Doulaka, r..
Emerson, Il. Ford, j. Hutton, D. Hutton,
J. McGougen, A. M. Stone, Nick Ford,
Sam Patterson and ID. Roberts.
Most of the men employed in the
mine were Slavs and Italians.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
JUDGES ARE NAMED.
President Taft Sends Names to Senate
for Confirmation.

President Taft has sent to the senate
these nominations:
To be chief justice of the supreme
court of the United States, Associate
Justice Edward Douglass White of
Louisiana.
The appointment was ratified by the
senate.
To be associate justices, supreme
court of the United States, Judge Willis
vadevanter of Wyoming and Judge
Joseph Rucker Lamar of Georgia.
To be judges of the new court of
eommerce-Martin A. Knapp, now
chairman of the interstate commerce
commission, for a term of five years;
Robert W. Archibald, now United States
district Judge for the middle district of
Pennsylvania, term of four years;
William II. Hunt, now a judge of the
court of customs appeals, formerly
United States district judge of the dis
trict of Montana, term of three years.
John Eminent Garland of South Da-
lxota, to be judge Of the new court of
commerce for a term of two years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
OUR naval POWER
The united STATES FLAG ON
SEA NOW RANKS SECOND
AMONG NAVIES.
England's Navy Leads the Great Pow
ers and Italy's Navy Is Last-Ger-
many Is Building the Most Water
Fighters-Russia Next to Last as
Naval Fighter.

The United States closes another
year in second place among the world IS
naval powers. The great navy build
ing race between Germany and Great
Britain has not brought the former
country up to the United States in the
number of battleships afoat, but in
ships projected and in the total num-
Der of war vessels of all kinds Ger
many will crowd the United States to
third place.
These facts are shown in the new
navy year book. In armored cruisers,
although the technical division made
in the United States indicates Germany
to have more than this country, the
actual strength of the United States
exceeds that of its European rival.
The compilations show the world
powers to rank as follows as TO com
pleted ships:
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
WESTINGHOUSE ANNUAL
GRIDIRoN BANQUET
Club Held Big "Pow-wow' Saturday
Night-Taft Present.

Washington, Dec. 11.-Politics, past,
present and future, was the dominant
notes at the annual fall dinner of the
Gridiron club Saturday night. Presi-
dent Taft was there with members of
his cabinet; Vice President Sherman,
senators and representatives in con-
gress, latent presidential possibilities,
newly elected governors of states and
men of mark in various positions of
all shades of political belief and am
bassadors and ministers plenipotenti-
airy of foreign countries who were
numbered among the clubs guests,
heard with wonder the good-natured
grilling administered by the newspa-
per men to their victims. With tab
leaux and comedy sketch and topical
song, in clever speech and moving
picture, the incidents of the last cam
paign were recalled and grim forecast
made of the future.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
BRAZIL SHOOTS 200 MUTNEERs
Government Is Once More in Control
of Cobra Island Garrison.

Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 12.-Govern-
ment troops are again in control of the
garrison on Cobra island, and the sec
ond mutiny of the naval forces has
ended with heavy casualty list, but in
way that probably will prevent
further risings for some time.
The mutineers, who composed bat
talon of the marine corps, numbered
about 600 men. Of these 200 were
killed or wounded. The others were
taken prisoners by the destroyers while
attempting to escape from the island in
the night.
Two hundred citizens were either
killed or wounded while watching the
bombardment from the streets or along
the waterfront. Many government
buildings were damaged, including the
treasury, the foreign Office and the de-
partments of public works and tele-
graph.
Two land batteries, two warships and
several destroyers took part in the
bombardment, and twice in the engage
ment an armistice was allowed for the
removal of the dead and wounded
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17

In ships completed, building and pro-
vided for by various countries Ger
many's number rises to 255, with a dis
placement of 963,s45 tons, while the
United States has 177, with displace-
ment of s7s,152 tons.
At present the floating navies of the
leading powers have dreadnought type
vessels as follows: England IL, with
displacement of 2o3,1OO tons; United
States 4, displacement $4,000; Germany
4, displacement $4,000.
The year book shows that when YES
sells now being constructed and those
for which funds have been provided are
completed the dreadnought strength of
the three countries will be: England
27, with displacement of 55s,90o tons;
Germany II, displacement $4,000 TONS
United States 10, displacement 221,65C
| tons.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Later Report.

Forty five bodies have been recov-
cred from the mine of the Canada col
liery's mine at Bellevue, Alberta,
where an explosion occurred Friday
night. These include 35 employees and
10 members of rescue party from
Hosmer and Frank, who went into the
mine at o'clock Saturday morning
and were entombed.
All the missing now have been ac-
counted for. 1t is thought several in
jured men will die. Hundreds of men
urived Saturday from adjoining camps
in the Crows Nest district to assist in
rescue work.
Three of the dead are Englishmen-
Joseph McDuf, Herman Tippo and
Isaac Hutton. The mine employed 400
men.
The British Columbia government
has ordered Inspector Evans, stationed
st Fernie, to proceed at once to Belle
vue, Alberta, with the government mine
rescue apparatus to aid in the rescue
work.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
AGED 81 YEARS,
WOULD go HOME
George Smith, Who Rode in the Charge
of the Light Brigade, Would
Go Home

George Smith, one of the immortal
600 that rode in the charge of the light
brigade at the battle of Balaklava,
is now at the age of "a seeking charity
from the Oakland (Cal.) board of
supervisors.
He is seeking sufficient funds to
carry him and his daughter to Brit
sh soil in order that he may revive
his claim to pension from the Brit
ish government.
A bullet wound he had received dur
ing the war of the Indian mutiny, while
he was rescuing his commander, Cap
tain Lyman, from a field where bull
let's were pouring like a hailstorm.
Hyman 8 leg had been carried away by
ball, and he was lying helpless when
Smith ran to him and carried him to
the breastworks.
For his bravery he was awarded the
Victoria cross and received a personal
gift of 20 sovereigns from Queen Vic
toria
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Engineers May Strike.

Backed by an almost unanimous
strike vote of $4,000 engineers on all
the western railroads, Warren G. Stone,
grand chief of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers, has arrived in Chi
cago to present a final ultimatum to
the railroad magnates. The men are
asking for an advance of Is per cent
in wages. The railroads, which have
been offered an s per cent increase,
probably will offer to arbitrate the
controversy under the Erdman law.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Important Decision Rendered.

Judge DIETRICH of the United States
district court for Idaho has just req
dered a decision which will affect the
school funds of every. state in the
northwest if sustained by the higher
courts. The case is one which was
brought as test as to whether states
could sell the timber on school sections
16 and Sc, where the territory had not
been surveyed, and was brought'against
the Boomers Ferry Lumber company,
which purchased some of this timber.
Judge DIETRICH holds that the timber
can not be sold for the school fund
on such sections until they are sur
veyed.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Railroad Paid for Bankers Death.

Announcement is made that the New
York Central railroad has settled out
of court with the estate of Spencer
Track the New York banker, for the
damages resulting from his death in a
railroad accident near Croton, N. Y,
a year ago. The amount which the
railroad will pay is $4,000. The sum
is one of the largest settlements ever
made in a case of this kind. His wife
says she intends donating the money
his home city and Episcopal church.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Deficit in Postoffice Department.

In the space of ~ months a reduc-
ton had been made in the deficit of the
postoffice department of 81, 100000, ac-
cording to the annual report of Post
master General Frank H. Hitchcock,
made public today. While year ago
the fiscal records of the postal service
disclosed deficit of $17,50O,OO0, the
largest in the history of the country,
the excess of expenditures over receipts
for the year ended June 80 last amount
ed to only $5,s4S,566
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
POPULATION RANK OF STATES
First Comes New York and tbs Last
Is Alaska.


Is Alaska
The states in their rank, according to
population are:
1, New York; ?, Pennsylvania; 3, H.
linois; 4, Ohio; 5, Texas; 6, Massachu-
sets; 7, Missouri; 8, Michigan; >, In
diana; 10, Georgia; II, New Jersey;
10, California; 10, Wisconsin; IA, Ken
lucky; IS, Iowa; 16, North Carolina;
II, Tennessee; IS, Alabama; 10, Mime
sofa; 20, Virginia; 21, Mississippi; %,
Kansas; %, Oklahoma; "a, Louisiana;
rs, Arkansas; &c, South Carolina; 81,
Maryland; %, West Virginia; 30, Ne
braska; 80, Washington; 81, Porto
Rico; 80, Connecticut; SO, Colorado;
"a, Florida; 35, Maine; 36, Oregon;
81, South Dakota; 3s, North Dakota;
80, Rhode Island; 40, New Hampshire;
Al, Montana; AZ, Utah; 43, Vermont;
"A, District of Columbia; AS, New
Mexico; 46, Idaho; AZ, Arizona; As,
Delaware; 40, Hawaii; so, Wyoming;
81, Nevada; SO, Alaska.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
MIME. TETRAzzINI AT SPOKANE.
Great Soprano Will Appear in Concert
at the Auditorium on Jan 8.

No announcement made in years has
aroused the interest and enthusiasm
which marks the assurance of the com
ing of Nine. Tetrazzini to the Audi
forum theater, Spokane, on January
6. The singer, who has been widely
hefalded as the greatest soprano now
living, will bring her own superb con-
cert company and will give one of
the programs which recently stirred
musical and artistic London.
The northwest tour for Tetrazzini
is under the direction of Lois Steers
Wynn Conan, Portland.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17

J. B. Diehl, travelling salesman for
Denver jewelry firm, reported last
September that he had been robbed of
diamonds in his room at a hotel in
Salt Lake City. He had passed a part
Of the evening with woman known
as Gladys Whitney and suspected that
she had drugged him. The stones were
valued at $4,000.
At Memphis, Tenn, a young woman
who gave her name as Gladys Doyle
has been arrested, charged with the
crime.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
DRINK HABIT GROWING.
United States Makes 3o,o0o,oo0 Gallons
More Booze-More Tobacco Smoked.

mOIt oOOIc--1uOAC LVbh>NO DAOt>S0s
The United States has just passed
through banner year for drinks,
smokes and oleomargarine. Here is the
nation IS record for the ~ months ended
on June 30, as it shows in the figures of
the international revenue bureau:
163,OoO,O0O gallons of distilled spirits
80, 10000 gallons more than the year
before.
/ 59,4S5,111 barrels of fermented liquors
An increase of 100000.
76oO,OOo,oO0 cigars-16O, 900, 900 more
than 1909
6,s30,OOo, 900 cigarettes, an increase
of solid 100000.
402 100000 pounds of plug, fnecut,
cube cut, graduated or sliced smoking
or chewing tobacco, or snuff 900
more than the year before.
141 ,s62,2s2 pounds Of oleomargsrine-
SO, 000,0 900 pounds increase.
Illicit distilling and manufacturing of
moonshine whisky-on the increase
especially" the bureau says, "where
there are statewide prohibition laws.
The internal revenue receipts on all
these things-and certain other things
such as playing cards and mixed flour
amounted to more than $3.50 900 900, and
Commissioner Cabell IS organization col
lected it all at a cost of about $4,000,
600. 1t cost penny and little more
than seven mills to collect each dollar
When the present year is ended mex
June 30, Commissioner Cabell estimates
his men will have collected at leas
$3O3,ooo,oOo at practically the sam
cost.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
1.-THE Chinatown Trunk Mystery

"The Chinatown Trunk Mystery
will be the attraction at the Auditorium
theater at Spokane Friday and Satur-
day. This play tells the story of the
life of Elsie Sigel in Chinatown, her
heroic efforts to uplift and better the
conditions of those she came in con-
tact with and her deplorable ending as
a victim of Chinese Jealousy and ny
pocrisy.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
CAST IMMENSE STEEL INGoT.
Homestead Steel Works Turns Out
Pillar Weighing 1875 Tons
for U. S.

At open hearth mine No. 2 of the
Homestead Steel works recently there
was cast what is said to be the largest
ingot of Krupp steel in the world. The
ingot is 10 feet 4 inches high, 10 feet
inches wide and feet inches thick,
and weighs 1876 tons. 1t win be taken
to the press shop of the Armor Plate
works and pressed into a plate is
inches thick. The ingot is one of a
pair ordered by the United States gov
eminent for land fort on the Panama
canal.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
England's Election Results.

London, Dec. 12.-It is said the gov
eminent will return with substantially
the same majority it had before the dis
solution of parliament and the future
course of the election has less interest
than the question of what will happen
when parliament meets.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
ARMY AIRsHIPs ARE NEEDED.
Secretary of War Dickinson Urges
Congress to Furnish Sufficient
Money.

AS might have been expected after
his personal flights in aeroplanes in
France, Secretary Dickinson comes out
in his annual report with a strong in
dorsement of the flying machine and
recommendation to congress for an
appropriation to provide the signal
corps with reasonable number of the
better type of machine for instruction
purposes and field work.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
january st. Nichols.

This January number has the first of
a new st. Nicholas serial, "The Forest
Castaways," by Frederick Grin Bart
lett, a story for both girls and boys of
life and adventure in a Maine winter
camp. And "Andrew Hastings, Avi-
ator, - is new kind of adventure story,
ga perhaps-not-impossible story of the
not-distant future. -
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Charlton Gets Delay.

Judge Rellstab in the United States
circuit court has granted writ or
habeas corpus in the case of Porter
Charlton, who is accused of having
murdered his wife, Mary Scott Castle
Charlton, in Italy. The court also
granted writ of certiorari for the
bringing of the case before him on
December 49,
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-12-17
Trained Union Soldiers.

At WATERFOWL, N. Y, he trained re-
cruits for the Union army in the civil
war. Later he became an American
citizen.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-23
star or AFRICA
NOW IN SCEPTER
Other Part Of CuIIinan Diamond
AdOrnS British Grown.
QUEEN MARY MAY WEAR BOTH.
Famous Gems Can Be Removed From
Emblems of Empire and Used as
Pendant-Finder OF 3,o24 Carat Stone
Thought Himself Victim of Joke Un-
ill His Prize Was Appraised.


The two great Cullinan diamonds
now shine dazzingly in the crown and
scepter of King George of England.
The larger, the Star of Africa, which
weighs 51614 carats, has been set in
the kings scepter; the smaller gem,
weighing 800 3-16 carats, finds place in
the imperial crown and on state occa~
sions sparkles and burns Immediately
above the ermine band which circles
the crowns base.
The diamonds can be removed from
the British emblems of power and
worn jointly as pendant. Thus they
may adorn Queen Mary, who can have
the satisfaction of knowing that no
woman on the civilized globe possesses
their equals.
The setting of the diamonds in the
crown and scepter and as n pendant
was intrusted to Messrs. Garrald, the
crown jewelers.. London. 1t WAS diff
cult to prepare the scepter to receive
the Star of Africa, for the general
ornamentation of the regal bauble had
W hGpt luttCl--ll HIS ueEdlulC
nificance.
kohinoor Small by Comparison.
1t gives a better idea of the Star Of
Africa's size to state that the Kohl
moor, which to the popular mind is the
ideal big diamond" weighs after sev
eral cuttings 10G 1-16 carats.
The Cullinan diamond was named
after the head of the company which
owns the Premier diamond mine in
South Africa, where the diamond was
found in January, 1905. The original
stone, by far the largest diamond ever
found, weighed 1924 carats, or nearly
one pound six ounces avOirdupois.
At that learned mineralogists and ex-
perts on gems believe it was part of a
still larger diamond which was cloven
when a volcanic eruption hurled it
with titanic force from the molten
depths where it was formed. No less
an expert than DR.. George Frederick
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-23
YOUNG MEN WANTED.
Government Pays Railway Mail
Clerks $500 to $1,4oo a Year.
Free Scholarships Are Offered.

Unule C;.ln holds examinations for
railway mail clerks, postoffice clerk or
carrier. custom house and department
tai clerks. Prepare at once for the
coming examinations.
Thousands of appointments are to
ne made. Common school education
is all you need; city and country peo-
pie have equal chance. Start to pre-
pare now-free scholarships this
month. Write Immediately to Central
Schools, Dept. A-12, Rochester, N. Y
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-23
GET THE GENUINE ALWAYS.

A substitute is a dangerous make
shift especially in medicine. The
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs and colds quickly and is IN
yellow package. Accept no substi
tutes. Roberts Pharmacy.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-23
-
Ptwlte' CONS.

The dou3lcon. that famous coin OF
romance, is still in circulation The
Isabella doubloon, worth $5, still re-
mains current in Cuba. The doubloon
is so called because when first coined
it was double the value of pistole
that is, it was worth So. The name
current in the West Indies. Pieces Of
eight, with which every reader of
Robinson Crusoe" is familiar, are also
in circulation. They are simply Span
lsh dollars of eight reals. A doubloon
dated 17S7-there are said to be only
six Of that date In existence-sold a
year or six ago for $6,200.-N New York
Press.