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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
STOCK BORN ON
TRAIN RIDE FREE
SO Rules Interstate Commerce Com
mission on Novel Question
Before 1t.

The interstate commerce commission
recently had an interesting question
raised by a western railroad. The road
recently hauled carload of household
goods for a farmer who was moving.
Under the road s tariff such shipments
are allowed to include 10 head of live
stock. This farmer had 10 COWS and
horses in his load. At the end of the
journey it was discovered that the num-
Der of livestock had been increased by
two calves. The railroad agent there
upon assessed a freight rate on the
calves, upon the minimum rate basis
of $500 pounds, as stipulated in the Of
fetal tariff. The calves probably
weighed so pounds but the agent could
only follow the tariff which was based
upon the assumption that full-grown
cattle would be carried.
The farmer paid the charge and pro-
tested to the road and the commission
The commission was asked by the road
whether it could refund the charge on
the calves without being liable to prose
cution for rebating. The commission
has not answered but it's officials say
there is no question that the road car
and should refund the excess charge OF
the calves.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
MONTANA NEWS NOTES

Hugo o. Paterson of Grand Forks
N. D., committed suicide at Butte Sat
urday. He was respondent over love
affairs. He leaves two children.
Ole johnson of the firm of Johnson
& johnson, railroad contractors, of Spo-
kane, died Friday of injuries received
in an explosion near Saltese, Mont.
Representatives of several banks in
Spokane will participate in the pro
gram at the annual meeting of the Mon
tana State Bankers association, in
Bozeman, August 30-31.
The provincial police at Victoria have
arranged for Los Angeles policeman
who knew William Heney, wanted for
the murder of Special Constable Decker
at Kamloops in June, 1909, to go to
Dillon to identify a suspect held there.
Little baby Viola Willard died Sat
urday in Butte from injuries received
when an automobile, owned by DIR. j.
r. E. Sievers and driven by his book
keeper, d. Clark, dashed into crowd
of people, knocking down Mrs. Hattie
Willard and her child. Mrs. Willard
will live.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt has arrived at
Glacier, in the new national park, in
company with her aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Osborne of New York. On
her way from the railway to the foot
of the lake, where the boat is taken
for the hotel, Miss Roosevelt drove the
horses, sitting on the front seat with
the driver.
The production of copper for July
shows less curtailment in the Butte
district than for the preceding month
of June by 3,97s,2s6 pounds. This in
creased production is due in no small
measure to the activity of a number OF
small companies and also to the resump-
ton of a 6-day week instead of five
days by the subsidiary companies OF
the Amalgamated Copper company.
Borrowing a revolver from Chief
of Police J. ]. Quinn at Butte to "kil'
dog" he said, Del Reed, a well known
cattle buyer, Saturday night walked NJ
to William Cohen in the midst of 8
crowd on Park street, and said: I'm
going to kill you now," and as Coher
made a dash into a nearby saloon, fireC
three times, one bullet blowing throug'
the latter's abdomen and the other il
his chest. Cohen will die. Reed mo
toned to a policeman on the corne
to take him into custody. He claim
that his wife has been untrue. Mrs
Reed is a dashing young woman O.
beauty. Cohen has figured before tn,
courts considerably of late in connec
ton with a horse stealing case.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
WILL TRY AND
PREVENT BRIDES
Gore Investigation Committee Will
Ask for Legislation From
Congress.

1t is probable that the select COM
mittee of the house of representatives
which is conducting the charges made
by Senator Gore will require another
week to complete the gathering of evil
dence. The report to congress will then
be formulated.
This report will deal with two SUBJ
jects. The first of these will be the
charges of Senator T. P. Gore that he
was offered $4,000 bride to withdraw
his opposition to the McMurray con-
tracts which provided for the sale of
the 100000, 900 to $50,00O,000 worth of
Indian lands on a 10 per cent contin-
gent fee basis to private attorney.
The other features of the report will
be in the form of recommendation
to congress for legislation to prevent
any further conditions similar to those
which brought about the present in
vestigation. 1t is the belief that the
government hereafter will take a more
arbitrary hand in enforcing its treaty
with the Indians.
Lyon Above Board.
"I told Secretary Garfield that my
employment in the matter of the. first
McMurray contracts was to be open
and above board, and that if there was
anything not proper about the con-
tracts would have nothing to do with
them," testified Cecil A. Lyon before
the congressional investigating com
mittee.
Mr.. Lyon is the national committee
man of Texas, and before the McMur-
ray Indian land contracts were disap-
proved by President Roosevelt, he had
been working in their interests as a
member of the McMurray firm. 81
took up the McMurray contracts purely
as a business DEAL" said he. After
they were disapproved 1 had nothing
further to do with the matter. I have
nothing to do with the present con-
tracts that McMurray has,
The present contracts, if approved by
congress, would allow McMurray
$3,Oo0,000 attorneys fees, and they are
the object of the investigation which
was instigated by Senator Gore when
he said an attempt had been made to
bride him in order to get him to with
draw his opposition to them.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
BOILER BURSTS ON BOAT AT SEA
Four Men Are Killed by Explosion Of
Coast of California.

Point Arena, Aug. 15.-Four men
were killed Sunday night when the
boilers of the steam schooner Phoenix
blew up at sea about 10 miles north of
Point Arena lighthouse, off the Men
docino coast. Two of them, Chief Engi-
neer Thomas Houston of Berkeley and
Second Mate Andrew Rasmussen of
San Francisco, reached shore with the
survivors of the vessel, but died this
morning from their burns and other in
juries. The mangled bodies of the other
two men, Fireman Christ Hansen and
William Nichlson, of San Francisco,
ride ntoight in the demolished engine
room of their water-logged ship as she
floats at sea, derelict.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Building Operations Gain.

Building operations in 1913 cities of
the United States during the calendar
year 1909 represented expenditures
close to billion dollars-or to be ex-
act, according to statistics compiled
by the United States geological survey,
$3.50, 520,713. That result is taken to be
one of the principal indications that
during 1909 the country recovered from
the financial panic of 1907 and 1908,
for the building record of 1906 was
beaten 10 per cent.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
HE is ATHLETIC CHAMPION.
F. G. Thompson of Los Angeles Beats
ellis of Vancouver, b. G.

F. G. Thomson of Los Angeles is
champion amateur all-round athlete of
the world for 1910, winning that dis
tinction at the annual tournament on
Marshall field in Chicago Saturday. His
score was 6991 points, 400 less than that
which captured the championship last
year.
His nearest competitor was John H.
ellis, Vancouver, B. c., policeman,
who rounded up 5000 points. ellis
fought Thomson for the first place
through every event. A large crowd
watched the bronzed followers of Her
cules test their vitality, agility and en-
durance in the various tests.
The field and the weather were per-
feet. No world Is records were made
nor were any of the existing records in
danger in any event.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20

and sending the pupils to the Wallace
high school for the coming year.
Governor James Brady has wired
Governor Hay of his desire to attend
the conference of governors in Salt
Lake August IS, to discuss western
unity on conservation.
E. M. Heigho, president of the Pa
ciic & Idaho Northern railroad, has
been held for manslaughter by a court
at Weiser, in connection with the death
of Mrs. Sylvia Riegleman of Omaha.
The Idaho State Nursery association
met in Nampa last week. Emmett will
have the privilege of entertaining the
tree men the next time. The officers
of the association are Charles II.
Hawkes., Caldwell, president; c. E.
Wright, Kimberly, secretary and treas
urer.
Pointing out that the United States
supreme court has already ruled it IL
legal for one state to divert water
from the streams of another, Senator
w. E. Borah of Idaho has written to
the Lewiston Commercial club, pledg-
ing his support in the Clearwater
basin controversy.
The decision of the supreme court in
the Lockman case, sent up from Cald-
well, in which it was ruled that "near
beer" is within the scope of the local
option law defining intoxicants, and
that it is consequently illegal to dis
pense the beverage in prohibition ter
ritory, has resulted in the suspension
of the manufacture of the article by
the Weisgerber brewery.
The plans of the new sewerage sys-
tenn for Standpoint may yet have to be
| changed, as it is claimed that a lum-
Der company has made complaint to
State Pure Food and Sanitary In.
spector Wallis protesting against the
| 1owage of the sewer in the Pend
Oreille river, which is navigable
stream. 1t is claimed that Mr.. Wallis
will compel the city to take care of the
flow from the sewer in septic tanks.
Dean Hallowell of the Lewiston State
normal says that the coming year viii
be the best in the history of the school
An enrolment of 375, or a total, includ
ing the training school, of SIS is ex
pected. Five new instructors have beer
added to the faculty which now mum
bers twenty-five. Three new building
have been completed during the year
Two new courses will be given this fal
one for the training of students Il
teach domestic science, the other 70
the special training of teachers for tn
rural schools of the state.
The supreme court Saturday place,
the seal of its disapproval upon Sunda.
moving picture shows in a decision i
which it declined to disturb the jude
melt of the lower court, which, as tn
, result of a test case, sentenced tn
owner of Boise show house to Jail fo
one day and to pay fine of $50. TIL
| case went to the higher court on habea
corpus proceedings. The action will pu
, an end to the Sunday moving pictur
shows at Boise and no doubt all owe
/ the state.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Dynamite Makes Rain.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE DIES.
In Her Ninetieth Year, Passes Away in
London-Was Famous War Nurse. b

London, Aug. 14.-Florence Nightin-
gale, the famous nurse of the Crimean
war and the only woman who ever re-
ceived the Order of Merit, died today
at her London home.
Although she had been an invalid for
a long time, rarely leaving her room,
her death was somewhat unexpected. A
week ago she was quite sick, but then
improved and on Friday was cheerful.
During that night alarming symptoms
developed and she gradually sank until
2 o'clock this afternoon when an at
tack of heart failure brought the end
Her funeral will be as quiet as pos
sible, in accordance with her wishes.
Florence Nightingale was born May
10, 1920. She was the first woman to
follow modern army into battle as a
nurse, and in the Crimean war gained
the title of CANCEL of the Crimea. -
AT the close of the war she was enabled
| by testimonial fund amounting to
| $3.50, 900 to found an institution for the
training of nurses, the Nightingale
home at st. Thomas. She was also the
means of calling attention to the insani-
tary conditions of camp hospitals.
| In 1908 she received the freedom of
the city of London and King Edward
bestowed upon her the Order of Merit,
the most exclusive distinction in the
gift of the British sovereign. The mem
bership of the order is limited to "a,
and it includes Lord Roberts, Lord
Wolseley, Field Marshal Kitchener,
James Bryce, Prince Yamagata and
Admiral Toga.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Taft Will Speak.

President Taft has decided to accept
the invitation to address the National
League of Republican Clubs at Car
negie Hall, New York, on September 80
There is likelihood that this will be
the president one speech of the cam
paign and, as he will be surrounded by
political atmosphere, it is probable
that politics will enter largely into
what he has to say.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
IDAHO NEWS ITEMS

The sale of lots on the government
townsite near st. Maries, Idaho, brought
approximately $4,000, or an average of
about $45 lot.
Fall wheat in the neighborhood of
Clifford will yield from 3S to 4s
bushels per acre, according to esti-
mates made this week.
The Burke school board has declined
the proposition of abandoning its school
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
GENERAL VILJOEN rf-
OFFERED POSITION

General B. J. Viljoen, who gained his
title in the Boer war, and who is now
farming near Las Cruces, N. NJ, re-
Gently received cablegram offering
him the post of assistant minister of
native affairs of the South African
Federation. The offer came from E.
w. Book, secretary of the prime min
lister, and General Viljoen is consid-
ering it.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
IN FRENCH WRECK 80 DIE.
Fast Train With 1900 Passengers Hits
Another

Royan, France, Aug. 15.-An ex-
cursion train from Bordeaux, with 1900
passengers, and running at speed of
so miles an hour, crashed into a freight
train at Saujon Sunday. Thirty-two pas
sengers were killed and 100 injured.
Many of the victims were schoolgirls.
Several of the passenger cars were torn
to splinters.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Cannon Only Smiles.

Danville, Ill.-Speaker Cannon smiled
when he was asked to comment on
rumors that he, Senator Aldrich and
Secretary Ballinger were to be placed
in less prominent positions in repub-
lican national politics. 81 am quite
willing to abide by the vote of the ma
jority of the people in November" he
said.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
LOST MONEY; THEN
KILLED HIMSELF
Leader Among Socialist Democrats of
Wisconsin Takes Own Life.

Kenosha, Wis, Aug. 15.-Frank w.
Nohling, AZ years of age, president of
the Kenosha Mercantile company and
leader among the socialist democrats
of Wisconsin, committed suicide in his
office. He cut his throat with a knife,
severing the jugular vein. Mr.. Nohling
left a letter which indicated that he
had lost money through speculation
and had betrayed others who had given
him the use of their money.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
MIR. ROOSEVELT WON'T TALK.
But He Is Interested in Taft s
Rumored Changes in the Political
Situation.

Ex-President Roosevelt had no com
ment to make on the dispatches from
Beverly, Mass, to the effect that Presi-
dent Taft had decided on a readjust-
ment of conditions within the interior
sphere of the rpublican party.
He was greatly interested in the re-
port that Senator Aldrich and Speaker
Cannon would be relegated to lesser
positions in the councils of the party
that Secretary Ballinger would retire
on September Is, and that Senator
Crane would assume a more important
role in his relations with the admin
istration.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
BEST BIBLE STUDENT
LIVES IN ST. LOUIS
Miss Lois Torbert of That City
Won First Prize at Winona
Conference.

st. Louis was declared to have the
most thorough Bible student in the
annual world Is contest held in connec-
tion with the Winona assembly pro-
gram. The first prize was awarded to
Miss Lois Torbert of that city. Mrs.
Anna Fitch of Troy, Ohio, won second
honors and Miss Eliza Chase of Winona
Lake third.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Great Floods in Japan.

Hundreds of persons are drowned,
scores entombed under caved embank-
ments or pinionned under fallen tim
bers in the path of the rising waters
and 'one-third of the city of Toxic is
flooded, from constant rains.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Billy Sunday Tours Oregon.

"Billy" Sunday, one time left field
er for the old Chicago White Stock
ings, later known to fame as an evan
gelist, and now owner of an apple or
chard at Hood River, will stump Ore
gon for the prohibitionists.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Chokes Two at One Time.

Edwardsville, ILL.,, Aug. 15.-John
Burton of Alton admits that at Marine
Saturday night he choked to death in
a hand-to-hand struggle Leo Wentz and
Lewis Welbrecht.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
Thieves at Work.

The fire was finally under control.
The Belgian and English sections are
in ruins, while all the other sections,
including the American, were partly
destroyed.
Bands of thieves engaged in pillage
and soldier was stabbed while ar
resting three men whom he found riding
a jewelry exhibit.
The aggregate loss will be enormous.
The diamond exhibitors are heavy suf-
ferers.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
BRUSSELS Big FIRE
Destroyed BELGIAN'S GREAT
EXPOSITION BUILDINGS.
Loss Is Over 100000 o0O-Fire Started
in Telegraph Building, Driven by
High Wind-Belgian, English and
French Sections First to Go-Over
100000 Persons Were On the Grounds.

Brussels, Aug. 14.-Fire swept the
great Belgian exposition tonight. The
flames were driven by high wind and
soon destroyed the Belgian. English
and French sections. Two are dead and
80 injured.
The white city of the world s fair,
as the Belgians have called their 1910
exposition, is tonight mass of flames
and smoldering ruins. A spark falling
into inflammable material in the tele
graph building burst in to flames which,
driven by high wind, swept rapidly in
all directions.
Soon the Belgian, English and French
sections were destroyed. The fremen
and detachments of soldiers called to
the scene found themselves baffled by
the gale, which carried the burning
embers to all parts of the grounds. The
loss is estimated at $100,000,0oo.
Vast Crowd Panic Stricken.
At the time of the outbreak not less
than 100000 persons were circulating
in the grounds and the Kermesz.
Troops were ordered out and came at
double-quick to aid the police in clear
ing the great grounds. This was ac-
complished in fair order except within
the limits of the Kermsz, where the
vast crowd became entangled in an al
most inextricable mass, fighting des-
perately to find an escape from the
flames which swept viciously through
the tinder-like structures.
Soon the enormous facade tumbled in
ruins. Considering the rapidity of the
confagration, the small loss of life il
marvellous. So far as it is known, uI
to a late hour tonight, only two are
dead. The injured, as officially an
nounced, number 80, but probably many
hundreds received minor hurts. AS tn,
flames reached the menagerie it was de
cided to shoot the beasts, but the hea
drove back the soldiers and the animal
were left to their fate. The multitude
of people were driven back to a SAT
distance and watched the thrillin,
spectacle of the destruction of tn
White City. Tongues of fire mounte'
high into the heavens and flaming EN-
bers were carried off by the wind an
fell upon the residences beyond, settin
them on fire.
Thieves at Work.
The fire was finally under contro
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20

France has 5o,ooo,ooO head of cattle,
worth $s00,00,000.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-08-20
RAINS AROUND WALLACE.
Came Sunday Night After Forest Fires
Ragged All Day Amid a
strong Wind.

Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 15.-Fanned by
a stiff mountain wind all day Sunday,
fires at Avery on Big creek, tributary
of the st. Joe and along the main st.
Joe river have broken away again and
reports reaching Supervisor Weigle of
the Occur d'Alene forest reserve say
that canyons Saturday untouched by
flames have become roaring furnaces
and that the blazes will not be checked
by human hand, only rain being able to
stop them.
One bridge on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & Puget Sound was burned, tying
up all traffic.
Two companies of colored soldiers
from Spokane are on hand.
Three hundred men are fighting fran
tically to save homes of homesteaders
and timber in the st. Joe region, work
ing almost against hope.
Reports from the Pine creek, Placer
creek and other fires near Kellogg say
that forest rangers and their hundreds
of helpers have them under control.
Elk City Center of Fire.
The whole country in the vicinity of
Elk City is ablaze. The telephone line
is burned down for several miles and
the town is cut off from communica-
ton.
Dynamite Makes Rain.
Hundreds of pounds of dynamite hung
to the limbs of trees on the high points
surrounding Wallace and exploded Sun
day afternoon in the hope that the
effect might produce rain to check the
devastation by forest fires is said to
have had result, for at midnight Sun
day rain began falling for the first time
in two months. The fall has been heavy.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-04
THE FAMILYNcoW

1 sing about the stately cow with
antlers growing on her brow, a tassel
on her tail; no other animal can put
so well, and skilfully, it's foot inside a
six-quart pail. My old COW prods me
with her horns, and puts her Trilbys
on my corns, and fills my soul with
grief; but she consoles me with some
milk that's smooth and white and fine
as silk and rich beyond belief The
city-dwelling modern man goes to the
grocer for a can of milk made by a
trust; or from the dairyman he'll get
a pint of something pale and wet, in
which to soak his crust. And all the
people of that ilk, who live on canned
or doctored milk, are gaunt and sad
of face; while I. who keep a large red
COW, could polish off Jack Johnson
now, and vindicate the race You
trample on my toes; and when 1 come
with shining pail, you slug me with
your muddy tail, and nearly break my
nose. And often, when I'm in your
stall, you jam me up against the wall,
and break three ribs or four; and when
the buckets nearly full of milk as
white as carded wool, you kick it
the door But then that milk
is just a dream, and when it comes to
thing cream, a man must have a
COW: and so I'll gladly overlook the
passing kick, the playful hook from
those spikes on your brow!
WALT MASON.