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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-15
Miners ENTOMBED
COAL MINE EXPLOSION WAS
The CAUSE OF DISASTER.
Horrible Accident at Starkville, Col
orado Saturday Night-Was Heard
for Eight Miles-Aid Was Rushed to
Scene-One Report Says $50 Miners
Are Entombed.

Trinidad, Col, Oct. "a terrific ex-
plosion occurred at 9:45 Saturday night
in the big mine of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company at Starkville, seven
miles west of here, and according to re-
ports, 100 mines are entombed.
The mine is the biggest of the Col
orado Fuel and Iron mines in this coun-
,ry. Messages were sent Immediately
after the explosion to other Colorado
Fuel and Iron mines in this vicinity TO
rush all available physicians, nurses and
experienced miners to the scene.
The force of the explosion was so
terrific that it was distinctly heard
here.
One report from the scene of the ex-
plosion places the number of men sup
posed to be killed at $50. The ex-
plosion was so strong that it was hear
and felt at a distance of five miles
from the mine. Ambulances, nurses and
physicians are being rushed from every
section of the state from as far north
distance from Trinidad, which is close
to the northern New Mexico boundary
line.
Colorado Mine Disasters.
Crested Butte, Col, January "a, 1884
SO killed.
Como, Col, January 10, 1898, "a
killed.
Vulcan, Col, February IS, 1896, AS
killed.
Sunrise, Col, September 3, 1897, IL
killed.
Spring Gulch, Col, September 10
1901, six killed.
Bowen, Col, August z, 1902, /;
killed.
Torio, Col, October %, 1904, Is
killed.
Maitland, Col, February 10, 1906
IA killed.
Cuatro, Col, April %, 1906, 10 killed
Primero, Col, January 30, 1908, %
killed.
Primero, Col, January 81, 1910, los
killed.
Later Report.
Among the 81 missing men are five
Americans. They are:
Tom Upperdine, % years old; has {
wife and two children.
Luke Upperdine, aged so; has a wifi
and seven children.
Fred Leppe, 81, single.
Frank Greet, 10, single.
Wilbur Headquist, 20, single.
The other missing men are Poles
Mexicans and Italians. Most of then
have families.
Some who are familiar with thu
working conditions at the Starkvill
mine express the belief that the tota
number estimated by the corner is to-
conservative, and they freely state tina
their opinion is that when the list i
completed it will number nearer 81
than so.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-15

railroads, to discuss the question of
cheaper rates for carrying wheat east,
and the general wheat situation.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-15
COMING
THEATER ATTRACTIONS
AT SPOKANE

Have seats reserved by mail, sending a
deposit to manager and stating about where
you desire seats naming attraction and date
THE AUDITORIUM, H. c. Hayward
Post St., north of Riverside Ave. Mgr.
High-Class Productions
THE SPOKANE, Chas. w. York, Mgr.
Post St., south Of Riverside Ave.
Every Night-Popular Pros.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL S.

There is pending in the senate of
the United States a bill that ought
to become a law. 1t was introduced
by the late Senator Dolliver and its
object is to appropriate sufficient
funds to carry on Systematically yo-
cational instruction in the schools
and colleges of the country. Senator
Young, Senator Delivers successor,
is favorable to the measure and is
doing all he can to haze it favorably
considered. He has prepared synop-
sis of its salient points from which
it is learned that the bill provides for
state and federal cooperation in
maintaining courses Of study in the
public school systems throughout the
country in agricultural, the manual
yocations and home economics. Each
state will receive it's proportional
share OF five million dollars for agri-
cultural high schools, five million for
high school work ir the trades and
industries, one million to be used in
the state normal schools in preparing
teachers for these vocational subjects
and one million and half TO estab-
list extension departments in the
state colleges of agriculture and the
mechanic arts. The full appropriation
Of twelve million dollars will not be
needed for at least five years after
4 the passage OF the bill The normal
school fund alone, amounting 10 enc
million, is first made available in or
der that the training Of teachers
may begin at once, and the other
amounts are TO be provided as the
plan develops through cooperation OF
the states in furnishing buildings
and equipment
The bill has been pending in con
gress in one form and another for
several years and was fayorably re,
ported to the senate at the last seg.
sion. AT the recent convention of the
American Federation OF Labor in st.
Il Louis the matter of industrial educa.
n tlon was presented In a special re.
4 port by John Mitchell and the pend.
ing bill was endorsed. At the same
meeting 1t was announced that the
department of conr cree ana labos
has undertaken comprehensive fed
eral investigation OF the entire sub
Iject of industrial education. This re.
port Is about completed and will he
the best piece of work OF its kind ey
er produced in the United States.
i. With the large body Of organized
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

Last week when Iowa City was all
torn up over saloon consent petitions
the people there were assured by
speakers from Muscatine that taxes
in the latter city have not been in
creased as the result of substituting
prohibition for the mulct law. More
recent developments are to the con-
trary effect. The situation is thus
stated by the Iowa City Republican:
IAN official report from the county
auditor of Muscatine county to the
mayor, shows that the taxes of the
next year will be $4,000 higher than
this year, without any increase m
valuations The Muscatine city coun-
Gil met Thursday night and voted 20
double the basis of taxation as 20
most of the funds This, the council
gave out. would mean another in
crease of $4,000 in taxation. The
street funds. the general funds. the
light funds and others are overdrawn
thousands of dollars"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
4ElNEr WRITING.

Over in London they do not seem to
be cured either of the Bernhardt idea
or the habit of indulging in what is
known as fine writing. A case in
point is supplied by Writer in the
London Academy. Noting that The
worlds greatest actress is again
among us. he proceeds after This
grandiloquent fashion:
.Autumns mists invade the streets
of our city; Nature is calm with the
chill repose which heralds her yearly
death; the leaves tinted with the
flush of dissolution. lie whitening IN
the streets, and the flowers turn pale
at the kiss of the bitter evening wind.
As night falls in the parks, a chill,
damp mist, Redeemed by the setting
sun, enyeIops the soot-black trunks OF
ing wreaths. As the last glow of the
sun dies out, the mist darkens TO a
sombre black and altogether envelopes
the trees, which stretch their branch
es towards the open sky like the arms
of a drowning man raised towards the
light. In this season, when a gentle
melancholy fills the soul and our
thoughts wander in the world of inl-
mortal tragedies, Sarah Bernhard
comes in the autumn of her career to
move once more our hearts by the
magic of her art.
1t is a question If cub reporter
writing his first account of fire ever
did better than that.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
YOUNG TO 4pRoeREsslvEs.e

In his maiden speech in the senate
the other day, in opposition to the
Cnmmins' resolution for revision
OF the tariff schedule by schedule,
Senator Young gave notice to New
England that IL 1t insisted on free
raw materials Iowa will demand free
manufactured goods. He also made
it clear that adoption Of the Cummins'
rule would take from the representa-.
tives OF Iowa weapon Of DEFENCE
against the attack from the east and
south upon the agricultural SEIZED.
ules Mr.. Young contended that the
use Of the word, progressive" was
inadmigsable. ITS an apology for
being caught with the gang" he said
Addressing the insurgents directly, he
added:
You've got to come back to your
fathers house. I'm the keeper Of the
Ark of the Covenant, and tell you
that when Democrats are elected tc
the seats of william Mckinley and
James A., Garfield the circumstances
should give YOU pause
Now. IL any progressive here
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
The MuIct Law.

Iowa City Republican: The mulct
law was enacted by Republicans, not
by the liquor interests. All the Demo
Gratis in the legislature voted against
1t, because they well knew that its
adoption would put the Republicans
back into power In Iowa and in most
of the congressional districts. When
the law was proposed by the Republi-
cans, the governor was a Democrat,
and the Democrats had six of the
eleven congressman. Three years lat
err the Democrats did not have state
officer, hardly county officer In the
state and not one of the eleven con-
gressmen. II 1t was to be crime tc
sign mulct petition, why did the Re
publlcans provide that way OF regulat-
ing the saloons? 1t put into the hands
of the people the means Of having law
and order In the state and it is pa
triotic duty OF voters to do what they
consider the best for all concerned.
In the entire history Of liquor legisla.
ton, the radical prohibitionists have
stood for just about what the violat-
ors Of the law wanted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
LINcoLn's UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.
Mayor Love Claims That Prohibition
Pays the Nebraska
CAPITAL.

Iowa City Citizen: Prohibition
pays the city OF Lincoln from busi-
ness standpoint This was the prin-
cipal point made by Mayor Don G.
Love. of Lincoln ,Neb., in an address
at Smiths Armory last night under
the auspices of the Civic League, a
good sized crowd beirg in attendance.
THE business men," said he report
increases in all lines of from ten to
fifty per cent, cash sales better, less
credit, collections easier, bank clear
ings fourteen per cent larger, postal
receipts twelve per cent larger, build
ing permits forty-o1e per cent greater,
rentals not decreased and taxes the
same rate as before, after nineteen
months as a dry town. In the spring
of 1909 Lincoln, with population OF
$4,000 10000 with the suburbs) voted
out the saloons by $40 majority. One
year later, in 1910, the vote was 1000
majority in favor of dry town"
1T is the largest city in the Unit
ed States said Mayor Love, that
has voluntarily adopted the dry policy
and has Leen nicknamed the Holy
City and the New Jerusalem a
name we are proud of and hope to re-
tain and deserve. The state university
of Nebraska has Increased its attend
ance from S611 in 1908 to 1000 in
1909 and this year will increase in
about the same ratio, in face of the
fact that every other university in
the Mississippi valley has decreased
in the same time. We feel that we
have no right TO accept tho custody
OF these students without throwing
around them all the safeguards we
can and we think the large increase
is due to the fact that Lincoln is a.
dry town.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
IOWA A HARD CASE.

In one of his sermons the other day
Mr.. Sunday said that the experiences
of all eyangelists in Iowa had been
that the state is filed with persons
spiritually dead. )" They are not
easily aroused. They have an indif-
ference that is alarming. The Cedar
Rapids Republican, taking note of this.
properly credits Mr.. Sunday himself
as being one of the few evangelists
who have succeeded in making an
impression on the states hardness of
heart toward things spiritual. 1t says
his success has been phenomenal But
he has met with much greater sue
cess, he says, in other states. In Iowa
we have no conception Of the inter-
ing makes in states like Ohio and
Pennsylvania and Indiana The peo-
pie of Iowa as a whole are not I'M
questionable. He thinks it may be
due to the general prosperity of the
people, the comfor,ableness in which
they find themselves situated. They
feel snug and safe. In the nlanufac-
turing states there are more persons
drifting betwixt and between and
they are more emotional. With these
things in mind the Republican goes on
to say:
There must be something in these
characterizations, for they have been
made by all the evangelists who have
labored in Iowa and who have been
able to compare conditions in this
STATE with conditions in other states.
Iowa cities are the despair of the re
vivalists. Mr.. Sunday has always felt
that way about Iowa and he felt es-
pecially that way about Cedar Rap
ids. Successful as he has been, he
still feels that the same amount of
work devoted to other states would
have yielded twice the results. But
he should not measure results by
what appears on the surface. Iowa
may be undemonstrative on religious
matters, but there is plenty of deep
seated religion among the people.
What appears on the surface is not
always religion, it may be hysieria.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

The new Navy Year Book just is
sued shows that the United States
will close the year still second in
naval strength, Great Britain being
first and Germany third. But when
all the ships projected by Germany
are completed she may have larger
number of war vessels than this coun-
try. But now in completed tonnage
and in battle ships complete, both in
number and displacement, the Amer
lean navy is ahead of Germany,s
Next in order of power after Germany
come France, Japan, Russia and Italy.
In the possession of dreadnoughts,
England leads with eleven while Ger
many and the United States haze
each for.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
ELvAsToN ILL.
) . . : . 8 : - = : I .

Quite a surprise was sprung on
their Elvaston friends when Mr.. Earl
Ellison and Miss Nellie Bird HE'D
AWAY to Carthage and were married
In Carthage at the parlors OF the M.
T.. parsonage on Saturday. Neal At
kinson and Miss LESSEE Harrison act
1 ed as groomsman and bridesmaid.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Ewing were
surprised on Monday evening by a
host OF their friends entering their
home with mirth and good cheer, 1t be-
ing Mrs Ewing's 41st birthday. She
was made the recipient of library
table and rocking chair to help her
to remember thn good cheer OF her
friends and we'll wishers.
The Royal Neighbors of Elvaston
Camp. NJ. w. A., held their election
last week. Mrs. Olive Stone was elect
led Oracle; Mrs. Amelia Roas, Past
oracle: Mrs. Emma Lewis. Vice Or
acie; Mrs. Tisie Wallace, Chancellor;
Miss Olga Rousa, Recorder; Mrs.
Jennie Finley, Receiver; Mrs. r.
Grauf, manager; VIM. Pomroy, or
ganist and Miss Jennie Braet, sentin-
ell.
The venerable Dr. j. R. Miller Is
very poorly.
Hiram Ingersoll has been suffering
with lumbago the last ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Grauf were Keo.
kuk shoppers Tuesday.
Misses Ella Fisher and Elsie PEN
nington drove to Keokuk Wednesday,
also Miss Greta A.unyon was shopping
| in Keokuk.
d. w. Shriyer and wife we're in Car
thage on business Thursday evening.
Mrs. Ida Balelon and son Waldo
and Mrs. Lou Day we're Keokuk shop
pers Thursday.
Our grain buyer here has taken in
several thousand bushels of corn this
week, but cars for shipping hay and
grain are hard 20 get.
George Greenslaugh moved on Fri
day to David Bakers farm in Som
ora Township.
Miss Ida Pomroy had some of her
old Kahoka neighbors and friends Wis
lifting with her Saturday and Sunday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
HIGH COST oE DYING.

AS protest against the high cost
of dying, a Missouri man proposes to
open a cemetery in the community in
which he lives where burial will be
free, the only condition imposed on
those who accept his offer being that
no costly tombstones shall be erect
ed and that nothing shall be planted
at the graves that will require the at
tention of caretaker. He has lived
in their sorrow for the loss of dear
ones are led into extravagances that
cripple them all their lives; tnat they
spend money for stones that would
better be saved for bread, or at least
put TO some use for the living who
need and merit helping hand. He
feels that it is no discourtesy to the
dead that their remains are inferred
decently and Elodestly in some quiet
spot of natures own adornment. An
Ohio paper, the Columbus Dispatch,
has a word on the subject that is en-
tirely apropos:
This Missourian is woefully I'M
fashionable, but who shall say that
he is not right? Costly funerals are
a tax upon the living that the departed
would not approve. Even the CON
tinuin., extravaganza of sorrow is in
consistent with the belief that death
is but transition to happier
sphere; and it smacks strongly of
selfshness to be thinking constantly
OF what the living have lost and to
think nothing of what the dead have
gained. The Missouri man has an
idea that is worth while
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
WORTH READING AND NEEDING

The following sermonette, from the
Toledo Democrat, ought TO be repro
duced In every paper in the United
States and made the daily Bible
readings OF each of several millions of
parents in this country. There is not
a town. large or small, where the
little sermon is not applicable to pa
rents, and the larger the town the
more parents its message applies to
directly. Here 1t is:
1T is just as we'll to begin looking
after that boy now. 1t is SO much
easier to keep him home and train
him into habits of home study now
while he is small than to wait until
he has crossed his teens 1t may
mean that the club will be sacrificed
for the sake of the home, but IL faith
er spends all his evenings down town,
he may expect his son to become an
early and apt imitator. Night air
isn't the best in which to exercise
and the way travelled may be danger
GUS 10 morals. The future farm
owner, Judge, or artisan isn't gradu-
ated from the out at night crowd
no matter how long the years. FIX
perience is dear teacher and what
parent SO dislikes his son as to per.
NIT him TO pay the price,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

The weather is so dry that fires
are source of annoyance On We'd
nesday night the T. P. & w. train
set fire to the meadow north OF the
depot in Mrs. Ellisons field and it
was hard work to stop it. AS 1t was
it came near getting beyond control
and if it had been farther from
town where help could not have come,
much property would have been de-
stroyed. Last evening 1t was set on
iire by the same train in Mrs. Gal
braith's ned and destroyed quite lot
Of corn.
J. c.. Duncan attended the horse
sale of Hull Bros. in Keoknk Satur.
day.
John Garvey has a position as OPP
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

SANTA CLAUS is COMING

SrNi - S6fNSS 10
He comes in the night; He come il
the night!
He softly, silently comes;
While the little brown heads on the
pillows so white
Are dreaming of bugles and drums
through the foam
While the white fakes around hin
whirl;
Who tells him l know not, but he find
eth the home
OF each good little boy and girl
His sleigh it is long, and deep anc
wide;
1t will carry host of things,
While dozens of drums hang over the
side
With the sticks sticking under the
strings.
And yet not the sound of a drum is
heard,
Not a bugle blast is blown.
As he mounts to the chimney top like
bird,
And drops to the hearth like a stone
The little red stocking he silently fills
Till stockings will hold no more;
The bright little sleds for the great
snow hills
Are quickly set down on the floor.
Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof
like bird,
And glides to his seat in the sleigh !;
Not sound of a bugle or drum is
heard,
AS he noiselessly gallops away.
He rides to the west and he rides to
the east,
OF his goodies he touches not one;
He eateth the crumbs of the Christ.
mas feast
When the dear little folks are done,
Old Santa Claus doeth all he can:
This beautiful mission is his
Then. children. be good to the little
old man.
When you find who the little man
Is
Author Unknown.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

II is given out from Washington
that the department of agriculture is
preparing to issue bulletin on the
value of cheese as substitute for
meat. Secretary Wilson has been
making elaborate experiments for the
past year, by means of sort of cage
which he calls respiration calor-
Inter. and in which subject is con-
fined and then fed on cheese, for days
at time. The cheese experts think
tney have exploded the old supersti-
non about cheese dishes, including
welsh rabbit, and are about to issue
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19

orator for the Wabash at Valley City
and has gone there to his work
Mrs. A. J. Newman is quite III at
her home in this city.
Miss Velma Wells recently visited
with friends in Mason City.
Miss Mary Watt of Elderville visit
ed from Friday until Sunday with
friends here and attended the special
meetings at the Baptist church.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F.. Newman and
children of Tioga, visited with the
family Of Geo. Newman over Sunday.
Rev. Boggess and Mr.. Samuel Har.
nest OF Carthage called on friends in
this vicinity Thursday evening and
attended the special services being
held at the Baptist church.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-19
a cookbook with government recipes
for making cheese dishes.

Five prominent women of Olympia,
Wash, sat as members of jury for
five hours one day last week, hearing
evidence in a small damage case
brought by milk man against a con
tractor whose engine had caused his
horse to run away. The women after
being out one hour gave the milkman
the damages asked. This is said to
be the first instance of jury of WON
en- drawn entirely from venire of
women.