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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
PORTLAND oREeoN1AN AGED SC
Semi-centennial Celebrated by Big Ban.
uuet Sunday

Portland, Ore, Feb. 6.-The semi-cen-
tennial of the founding of the Morning
Oregonian by Henry L. Pittock was
celebrated by a banquet in honor of the
veteran publisher at the Portland Com
mercial club Sunday. There were gath
cred at the table 400 employees of the
paper, many ex-employes and a number
of invited guests. In responding to the
presentation to him of large loving
cup, Mr.. Pittock took occasion to allude
in a feeling manner to the passing of his
almost lifelong partner, the late Colonel
Harvey w. Scott. The guests included
Alfred Holman of San Francisco, editor
of the Argonaut and former assistant
editor of the Oregonian, who journeyed
from California to be present today.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Many Patents Granted in Northwest.

Patents have been granted to resi-
dents of the northwest as follows: Guy
Alloway, Seattle, sdrfacing machine;
Adolf Beckstrom, Lewistown, Mont,
electric incubator and nursery; Paul
Bickel and F. @. Pierce, Shoshone, Ida.
no, pump; Arthur W. Campbell, North
Yakima, Wash, pocketbook holder;
Lamech Harlow, Portland, Ore, gang.
edger; Fred Newton, Hubbard, Ore, bal,
ing press; Guy E. Stansell, Seattle,
Ioose-leaf binder.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Blow to Plush Kills Him.

At Union City, Ind, E. ]. Robe, 80
years old, is dead from the effect of
a fist blow on the head, and Ed Hyatt,
a wealthy business man of same city is
under arrest on the charge of murder.
Hyatt, it is said, struck Robe after Robe
had tried to force his attentions ON
Hyatt's married daughter.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
ANXIETY FELT FOR RYAN

Philadelphia, Feb. 6.-Showing i'm
provement throughout the day, Arch
bishop Ryan was not so well later in
the evening, and the opinion of some of
those near him that he might be able
to be around again was shattered by
new developments in the prelate's con-
dition tonight.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
MISSOURPS CAPITAL
BUILDING BURNED TO GROUND
CAUSED BY Tightening
STORM SUNDAY.
Fire Department Rendered Helpless by
Inadequate Water Supply-Convicts
Noble work-Governor Will Grant
Pardons to Those Who Risled Lives.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 6.-The Mis-
souri, capitol building was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Sunday night. The total
loss, including the building and many
records and state papers, is estimated at
$1,00O,000, with no insurance.
Lightning which struck the dome
shortly after z clock spread the flames
to the roof and in less than half an hour
it was apparent that the building was
doomed.
Because of inadequate water pressure,
the fire could not be reached, and no aid
could be rendered for some time by the
fire department. Governor Hadley per-
sonally directed the fight against the
flames, which, because of the building IS
age, rapidly gained Roadway.
The penitentiary fire department was
called to the scene and the convicts
worked heroically, scaling walls and TAX
ing dangerous chances. The local militia
company was called out and formed a
Gordon around the building, driving
spectators from dangerous places and re-
moving records. The fire soon spread to
the roof of the senate chamber, where
the efforts of the fremen to check it
proved unavailing.
Priceless Records Destroyed.
The records of the houses of repre-
sentatives were destroyed, while those
of the senate were saved. In the state
treasury Office more than $4,000 is in
the vault, supposedly fre-proof, and
may be saved when the debris is cleared
away. There was no insurance.
The capitol was erected in 1888 at a
cost of $350,0OO, and in 1887 remodeled
at cost of $25O,OOO. While it was built
of stone the roof was covered with much
infammable material which fed the
flames, which spread rapidly with the
falling of the dome into the main part
of the structure.
Legislature Is Homeless.
The legislature will determine tomor
row whether to continue it's sessions
here or elsewhere in the state. Some
members favor continuing the session
here, where smaller buildings have beer
offered by the business men, while
others are for the removal of the legis
lature. The loss of the house records
practically necessitates that the work Of
the present session be done over.
Governor Hadley says he would grant
pardons to several convicts who riskeC
their lives to save state papers.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
chinese Revolt In Batavia

Batavia, Java, Duetch East Indies
There has been a serious outbreak
among the Chinese on the island of Bill
liton. The capital, Tanning Pandan,
was looted and burned, and the chief
administrator and others murdered.
Troops have been sent to the scene.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Gladstone In Disfavor.

Cape Town, So. Africa.-The new
governor, Viscount Gladstone, of United
South Africa, has aroused great excite
ment and resentment in Rhodesia and
South Africa generally by committing a
death sentence passed on native for
criminal assault on a white woman.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
R. L. MCCORMICK IS DEAD.
Tacoma Millionaire and Banker of Note
Succumbs to Bright s Disease.

Tacoma, Wash, Feb. 6.-Robert Laird
Mccormick, secretary of the Weyer-
haeuser company and president of a
number of banks and prominent business
companies in Tacoma and western Wash
ington, died in Sacramento, Sunday, fol
lowing two days of suffering from an
acute attack of Bright g disease.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Pension for Horses.

A Hungarian land owner, the late
Emil Bizony Of Miskolez, has left all
his fortune, amounting to $4,000, to
found an old age pension scheme for
horses. The testator named as his ex-
ecutor the Budapest society for proven
tion of cruelty to animals.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Religious Relations Strained.

st. Petersburg.-The relations be-
tween the Greek and the Roman church
es have become strained and the min
istry of the interior has dispatched a
circular addressed to all the Roman
Catholic bishops in Russia, informing
them that papal orders not passing
through government channels are "not
obligatory upon Russian subjects.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Rupert Nash Commits Suicide.

Rupert Nash, a young man of Eagle
Valley, Oregon, committed suicide in a
cabin on the west fork of Daily creek,
Saturday. When found, he was lying
on his bed with a revolver near his
hand and a hole through his head.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Black Snow Fails in Switzerland.

Geneva.-Snow which is black as SCOT
has fallen in the Emmenthal valley of
Switzerland and covered the ground to
the depth of IS inches. Scientists be-
Iieve the snow is mixed with dust blown
from Mount Etna
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Restriction Put on qarmbling.

To restrict race track gambling to
the wealthy classes, the Russian govern
ment has adopted new rules whereby
minimum stakes are fixed at IS. Club
bling and bookmaking are prohibited.
There is a movement afoot in the duma
to prohibit race track betting altogether.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Montana Women lose.

Helena, Mont.-The house, on tie
vote, refused to reconsider the vote by
which the woman IS suffrage bill was de-
feated Monday. This ends the question
at this session.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
DOCTOR RETRAoTs CONFESSION
Russian Physician Says He Confessed to
Secure Promised Immunity.

Secure Promised Immunity.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 6.-Dr Pantheon
sxow, who twice pleaded guilty to the
murder of Count Vasilli Bouturlin, and
who, prior to his appearance on the wit
ness stand, made an elaborate confession
of his guilt, later retracting parts of it
and modifying other parts, astonished
che crowd in the courtroom today with
a sweeping denial of his confession and
a statement that he had been induced
TO make the admission of guilt on the
promise that his mistress, Nine. Mura-
vief, would be freed from charges that
he himself would be released from Gus
cody.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
BURY OR BURN 5000 VICTIMS.
Plague Mortality In and About Hardin,
Manchuria.

Hardin, Feb. s.-Already nearly 5000
bodies of victims of the plague have
been buried or burned in the outskirts
of Hardin. Forty-eight hundred of these
came from the Chinese town and 1000
from the Russian quarter.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
John W. Blaisdeli, Actor. Dead.

Chicago, Feb. John w. Blaisdell.
veteran actor and matinee idol of a
generation ago, died here Saturday.
Blaisdell retired from the stage 10 years
ago, and since then has been living here.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
Oregon Farm superintendent.

John P. Irish has been appointed
farm superintendent under the agricul
tural department at klamath Falls. Ore.
at a salary of $3.50.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
General Cronje Dead.

Klorksdorp, Transvaal, Feb. 6.-Gen-
eral Piet A. Cronje, the noted Boer
general, died Saturday.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-11
TRI-STATE Meeting
OF FARMERS OF WASHINGTON
IDAHO AND OREGON AT
WALLA WALLA.
Demand the Parcels Post System and
Are Opposed to Ship Subsidy-Indorse
Plan to Give Whitman College Lands
of Abandoned Fort at Walla walla-
Terminal Warehouses Discussed.

Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 5.-The tri-
state mass meeting of the farmers came
to an end in a sunburst of resolutions.
There were resolutions by the mass
meeting and others by the separate
state delegations. The leading resolu-
ton passed by the general meeting was
one demanding the parcels post system.
Another asked for laws prohibiting gam
bling in cotton futures and those of
other farm products. Another asks for
direct election of United States SEN
ators and another for more stringent
immigration laws. They also went on
record as unalterably opposed to ship
subsidy.
A resolution of interest to inhabitants
of Walla Walla was one in which the
Legislatures of Oregon, Washington, Ida
no, received the Endorsement of the
farmers for the memorials of those bod
les recently sent to congress asking that
Whitman college be given the Fort
Walla Walla lands.
Frown on Crop Futures.
They passed resolution demanding
that the postmaster general close the
mails to matter referring to deals in
crop futures They urged the legisla-
lures of the northwest states to pass
laws making every threshing machine
operator file a report of the number
of bushels threshed.
Another resolution demanded that the
federal government observe the strict
est neutrality in the present insurrec-
ton in Mexico. George Beloit, of Sum
nit, Idaho, who introduced it, says it
will be forwarded to President Taft.
The Washington delegation adopted
resolutions favoring state inspection and
weighing of grain, the initiative refer
endum and recall, mill tax for the sup
port of state educational institutions
house bill No. 205, relating to township
organization, an amendment of the
present local option law making the
county the unit, and mine workers
compensation act.
Echo of Good Roads Meet.
There was an echo of the controversy
that tore the recent good roads con
vention here when the farmers further
asked for the repeal of the state aid Law
and recommended that the penitentiary
jute mill be reorganized on business
principles, and that it be operated al
full capacity to determine whether il
is financially profitable.
The Oregon delegation passed resolu
tons opposing the state aid system il
the concentration of highways. demand
ing state inspection and weighing Of
grain at terminal points and the es
tablishment of a number of one milling
grade for wheat testing over So pounds
The Idaho delegation passed reso
luton favoring the initiative, referen
dunn and recall.
The meeting Endorsed the movement
of the Washington state executive com
mittee to send G. w. Nelson of Tacoma
to Europe, to study the cooperative mill
there and make arrangements for direc
grain transactions with them.
The matter of a terminal warehons,
at Tacoma or Portland was discusse,
and there was also discussion of tn,
good roads situation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
INSURGENTS join
DEMOCRATS ON
TARIFF ISSUE
Wool Schedule Revision Bill
Causes Big Split Up
RECIPROCITY is IN DANGER
Penrose Says Finance Committee
viii Report Free List and Wool
Bill Adversely.

Washington, June 22.-The throw
ing of the Democratic wool revision
bin into the Senate today drove the
nsurgent Republicans of that body in
to an open coalition with the Demo
Gratis i'm a demand for a general revis-
ion of the tariff, and brought about
the threatened crisis in the finance
committees control of the Senate. At
the end OF a bitter fight the resolu-
ton by Senator Gore requiring the
finance committee to report back the
wool bill before July 10, was passed
by vote of SO to IS.
The fate of the Canadian reciproci-
ty bill was tonight in doubt as a re-
suit Of the remarkable developments
Of the days session of the Senate,
The ultimatums of the Insurgents
were invariably to the effect that be
fore the reciprocity bill is permitted
to pass, Republican Senate will be
! forced to undertake a revision of 9th.
er schedules of sthe tariff, including
much more than the wooden revision
bill and the free list bill which have
gone through the House of Represen
tatiyes
OF the affirmative votes cast for the
Gore motion overthrowing the finance
committee, sixteen were by Republi
cans. This included the full insur
gent strength of thirteen.
AS the result of the Senate's act
ion Senator Penrose, before adjourn
ment called a meeting of the finance
committee of which he is chairman
for 1880 tomorrow morning, and h
and other regular Republicans pre-
dicted that when the Senate convenei
at noon tomorrow the wool measur,
and the free list bill will be reported
adversely.
Today's fight began the instant tina
the wool revision bill appeared from
the House, Senator Gore apparently
with the approval of Democratic lead
ers, moved that the finance commit
tee be instructed to report the bi
back to the Senate on or before Jul
10. The admitted purpose of the mt
ton was TO prevent the finance con
mittee from holding the bill indef
nitely or from failing to report ii a
all.
The Gore motion disrupted so con
pletely the lines that have formed i
the Senate that IL cannot be foretol
now when a vote can be reached o
the reciprocity bill, or whethe
enough votes can be mustered
I pass it without amendment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
COMMISSION RULE IN TRENTON
New Jersey City Swept by New Idea
In Municipal Government.

Trenton, N. j., June 21-Commis-
sion government swept Trenton Tues
day. The majority in favor of the
adoption of this form of government
was 1902 in total vote of 1852. The
vote cast at today's special election
was about &c per cent of the total
vote cast at last falls general cleo
ton
The commission government move
ment was fathered by the chamber of
commerce and received its greatest
impetus through a speech delivered
in its favor in the Trent theatre last
week by Gov. Wilson In the cleo
ton all party lines were broken and
the opposition, although favored by
the leaders of both political parties,
was thoroughly lacking in organiza-
ton.
With Tuesdays adoption of the
Walsh act, Trenton will hold a pri-
mary election on July IS and a gen.
eral election to choose five commits.
sioners on August 10. The commits
sioners will supercede the mayor,
common council and the various ad.
ministrative boards on August %,
at which time all present city officers
and employees are legislated out of of.
| dce.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
HOUSE AND SENATE
DISAGREED ON
AMENDMENT
Representatives Refuse to Con-
cur on Direct Elections
DIVIDED ON PARTY LINES
Resolution Goes Back to Upper House
Who Have Chance to Reverse
Former Action.

Washington, June 22.-The House
of Representatives Wednesday, by a
vote of 172 to liz, practically a strict
party vote, refused to concur in the
Bristow amendment adopted by the
Senate to the House resolution pro-
viding for the direct election of sena-
tors. The Bistow amendment leay-
es with Congress the power to regu-
late the time and manner of holding
these elections, while the resolution
passed by the House during the early
days of the present session will
change the constitution so that the
times, places and manner of holding
elections for senators shall be as pre-
scribed in each state by the Legisla-
ture thereof"
The resolution now goes back to
the Senate for reconsideration by
that body as to whether 1t will re-
verse its former action.
The Democrats protested that the
people of the states could safely be
entrusted with the power of control
ling the elections of their senators,
while the Republicans contended that
such delegation Of authority would
take from Congress power which it
should retain.
Representative Rucker of Missouri,
in charge of the resolution on the
Democratic side, declared that it was
the command of the American people
that the election of United States sen
ators be taken out of the market. Il
have no fear of the people," he said,
but of the combination behind clos
ed doors which trample on the most
sacred rights of the people. Give the
states Just little more power and
we'll take the lumber trust, the sugar
trust and all the other trusts out of
politics"
Representative Mann, on the other
side,- asserted that this was an at
tempt of the Democrats to accomplish
Indirectly what they had been unable
to directly. you are afraid" he add
ed, that your grandfather clauses
will be declared unconstitutional"
The resolution is expected to pre-
cipitate a lively discussion In the
Senate, but it is expected that it will
go to conference in the immediate
future.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
DAY
F|NDSLONDON|N
GAY ARRAY
King and Queen Kept Busy by
Numerous Festivities.
ENGLISH LOYAL TO CROWN
Devotion to Monarchy Still Manifest
Among British PeopIe-London's
Streets Crowded.

London, June 22.-The British ma
ton shows not the slightest sign of
diminishing favor towards monarchi-
cal government. A half century OF
quiet life under Queen Victoria has
been succeeded by stirring decade,
which has seen a coronation and two
state funerals. Yet the public appe-
tte is unsated, but rather augmented
in its enthusiasm for royalty and
kingly display.
Never before has this enthusiasm
reached such a high pitch, and the
ceremonies attendant upon the coron-
alton of King George V. tomorrow
appear likely to be attended by de-
gree of excitement and public feryor
unrlvaled in any great state ceremon-
les in past times.
The King and Queen, although
they have long and exhausting cere-
monies confronting them, spent a
busy day receiving coronation yisi-
tors, attending TO matters OF state
and dropping in on the horse show
at Olympia Wherever they appeared
in public they were the objects OF
unbounded enthusiasm.
The eve of the coronation finds
| London at fever heat. Immense
crowds became seething masses, all
determined to secure vantage ground
from which to view the royal process
sion. The streets in the West End
were almost utterly impossible, but
everybody was thoroughly good
Ihumored and ready to cheer at the
slightest provocation. Myriads pro
lceeded around the route to watch the
brilliant decorations, which were IL
Illuminated until long after midnight
Late Wednesday night a strong es
lcort of Life Guards reached West
minister Abbey, conveying grea
wagon in which the royal regalia wal
carried, and handed over the historic
crowns, scepters and swords to thu
dean and canons. who placed then
for safe custody in the jewel chamh
er, surrounded by an armed guard o
eight tower warders.
King George and Queen Mar
passed the evening alone with tn
i, Prince of Wales in Buckingham pa
ace, before which multitudes waite
patiently, hoping to obtain a sight o
their majesties From time to tim
the people sang the national anther
: and other patriotic songs.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
POWDER TRUST HIT
Circuit Court Declares Combination
TO BE a Monopoly

Wilmington, Del, June 22.-The
United States Circuit court for the
district of Delaware Wednesday
handed down a decision declaring
that the alleged powder trust, which
is dominated by the E. l. Du Pont De
Nemours company is a combination
in restraint of interstate commerce in
violation of section one Of the Sher-
man antitrust law; declaring that 1t
attempted to monopoliZe and has
monopolized a part Of such commerce
in violation of section two OF the
same law, and decreeing that the com
bination shall be enjoined from con
tinuing this violation and shall be dis
The action against the powder
solved.
trust was begun by the government
in 1907 and was directed against 43
corporate and individual defendants.
The suit against 10 of the defendants
was dismissed because some of the
concerns are out of existence, or it
was not shown that they were parties
to the combination.
The court IN an interlocutory de-
cree today fixed October 16 as the
date to hear both sides in the action
as TO the nature of the injunction to
be granted and to consider plan
for dissolving said combination,
which shall be submitted by the petit
toner and the defendant or any Of
/ them, to the end that this court may
I..fr L..
or method for such dissolution which
will not deprive the defendants of the
opportunity to recreate out of the
elements now composing said combi-
nation, a new condition which shall
be honestly in harmony with and not
repugnant to the law"
This follows to some extent the de.
crees issued by the Supreme court OF
the United States in the Standard Oil
and tobacco cases.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-22
COL. PHILLIPS PATHFINDER
A Book That viii Be Appreciated BY
Tourists in This Section.

A Book That viii Be Appreciated BY
Tourists in This Section.
Visitors to the Berkshire hills and
particularly automobile tourists will
appreciate the value of the "Pathfind-
err to Greylock Mountain, the Berk-
shire Hills and Historic Bennington"
issued by Col W. Ii. Phillips of Am
herst This book of about 15O pages
contains excellent maps, valuable de-
scriptiye and historical matter about
various cities and towns and points
of interest and is illustrated with
about 100 half-tone views of places OF
special interest. Col. Phillips has
made a study of Berkshire history
and the book contains much that will
be of great interest to those who are
desirious OF seeing historic places as
they pass through region that is
rich in history Greylock, the highest
mountain in Massachusetts, its trails
points of special interest and ways OF
reaching ii, are considered in great
detail, a number of the opening chap
tiers being devoted to il. There is
much worth knowing in connection
with the mountain to which the visi
tor will find his attention directed il
Col. Phillips guide. The book covers
comprehensively the whole hill reg
| ion of Berkshire and southern Yer
mont from Great Darlington to thu
Bennington battle-ground, The guide
can be obtained at the principal new
stands.-Springfeld Republican.