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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-03-18

layi zoe CAKE plates ~Oc,
Mount Vernon milk Toe can,
B4.75 a case, at q. B. Emery's Cash
Store.
We are specialists in fitting the
hard-to-fit. Come and let us prove |
it. J. A. Walden. The Tailor.
FOR SALE-Rhode Island Reds
and Tompkins Strain, IS eggs for
$100. Lee Fewkes, Moravia, Ida.
Miss Minnie Harvey, of Marshall
town, Iowa, arrived Thursday
morning for an extended VISIT with
relatives.
/ have four room house, lathed
and plastered in perfect repair,
which | will sell very cheap. W.
B. Hawkins.
FOR SALE or trade for stock
cattle, a four year old horse, weigh
ing 1900 pounds. Box 331, Bon
ners Ferry, Idaho 3S-3t
Mrs. l. f. Duncan, of Deer Park,
Wash, a sister Of Miss Beulah
MantoT is a guest at the Mantor
residence this week.
J. Edw, Feist has accepted the
agency for the Crystal Steam Laun-
dry and will ship laundry Mon
days and Wednesdays.
A shoe for all your pleasures
and a pleasure in itself-the Walk
over Shoe $3.50, $500 and $3.50
Moore Bros, Clothiers.
DWELLING house and quarter
of an acre of ground, ten minutes
walk from postofiice - $4,000
Why pay rent? Kootenai Valley
Reality Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Knox. O
Bemidji, Mimi, arrived in the city
this week and have moved into
one OF Geo. r. Gray's houses. jus
vacated by Mr.. and Mrs. VIM
Jarvis.
Harvey Cave and Pete Vinegar
of Standpoint, are surveying anC
establishing the grade for tn,
foundation of the new bank build
ing, which will soon he erected b,
the First State Bank, on the 10
recently purchased from Georg,
Alberts.
w. j Ludington arrived yester
lay from Onoway. Mich, for few
days visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Gee
r. Gray. Mr.. Ludington vii
leave Monday morning for Wenat
chez, to visit his son, Bert Luding
ton, who formerly resided in Bon
ners Ferry.
@. d. Rowell expects to leave TO
Spokane about April /, where h
has been engaged by the Ros
Investment Co., to superintend tn
construction of their buildings
Mrs. Rowell and children will re
: main in Bonners Ferry until tn
b close of the school term.
Mrs. Chas. O'Callahan enter
tanned on Thursday afternoon, he
guests being the members Of th
Altar Society, and the occasion
their regular meeting day. Mis-
Hannah MeVary was a guest an,
became a member of the society
Delicious refreshments were served
the hostess being assisted by Mrs
Thos. Hollinger.
r Mrs. W. p. Mahoney entertaine
: delightfully."- on Wednesday after
! noon, in honor of her guest, Mr.
n Patterson. of Standpoint. tn
q affair took the form, of a Kensins
i ton party and twenty guests wei
hidden. In a guessing contes
prizes were awarded Mrs. J.
e Monks and Mrs. G. e. Crocke
e Out-of- town guests were, Mrs. D,
u laney, of Occur d'Alene; Mrs. Wi
K son. of Standpoint and the guest
n honor, Mrs. Patterson. Dainty !
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
WORK OF THE HEALTH BOARD
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN MISSIs.
SIPPI THIS YEAR.
Splendid Record Made by the Organiza
tion Looking to the Bettering of
Health Conditions.

Jackson.-To the cooperation of the
press of Mississippi is in large measure
due any success attained by the public
health movements which have been in
augurated by the state board of health.
The papers have given material assist
ance, and frequently of their own in
itiative have published editorials upon
health matters. This active and willing
assistance is of immense benefit in rails
ing the health standard, and therefore
the business ability and progress of the
state.
The Mississippi State Board of Health
q year ago entered upon a new regime
OF public education, using every legiti-
mate means within their command to
eliminate disease. Adopting the theory
that successful public health work must
begin with public instructions, this work
was pushed day and night into every
corner of the state. With director
and five assistants constantly in the
field giving addresses and illustrated
lectures in schools, churches, halls and
even by the roadside, an immense
amount of good has been accomplished.
Up to July 1st there were eighty-one
addresses delivered to over 1O0,00 peo-
pie. Lectures We're delivered in 1898
schools to $4,000 scholars. The supply
for lectures has not met the demand so
many requests coming in for more lee
lures that some engagements are made
weeks ahead.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
MISSISSIPPI WILL SHOW.
Davis Prepares Exhibit for Chicago
Land Show,

Jackson.-Arrangem are practi-
cally concluded which will insure one
comprehensive and typically Mississippi
exhibit at the Chicago land show, ac
cording to Manager i. E. Davis of the
Land Development Association, who is
busy at work with view to getting a
start. Mr.. Davis has had a satisfactory
conference with one of the men of Jack
son whose name is known wherever Mis-
sissippi and her great timber and lum-
Der industry is known, and that man is
Isaac c. Enochs, head of the Enochs
Manufacturing Company of Jackson and
Fernwood. The plan is to secure among
the practical exhibits that may be ar
ranged complete display of native
woods, dressed and undressed, such as
used for structural purposes, box max
ing, cabinet work, furniture and for
every other purpose for which the prod
uct of the Mississippi forests can be
used, and this the Enochs Manufacturing
Company will be ready to prepare.
The promoters of the plan for a Mis-
sissippi corner at Chicago are working
away energetically to secure the coop
Grafton of other men who are leaders
OF the states industrial enterprises, and
hope to arrange a demonstrative exhibit
that will be Il credit to the state and
be followed by results which will be sat
isfactory.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
DOCTOR FEARS LYNCH!NG
Confessed Wife Murderer Covers In
Jail at Oregon, III.

Threats of lynchnig DR.. Webster. a
Chicago physician, who confessed that
he murdered his second wife, Mrs.
Bessie Kent Webster, whose body was
found III the woods near Dixon. Ill.
were made by mob of angry citizens
and farmers who surrounded the little
Jail at Oregon, Ill, where the physi-
clan is confined
Sheriff W. I. Delaney, after learning
Of the rage of the citizens aga nst the
physician, swore in a score of deputy
sheriffs and had the force surround the
Jail.
In detained confession made by DR..
Webster, which brands him a murder
er and bigamist, he told in detail how
he had s,ain his wife by stabbin-, her
many times with a knife, and then hid
ing her body in ravine near Dixon,
Ill. The prisoner exonerated Miss Ma
bel Sexsmith, the trained hospital
nurse, whom he engaged to obtain
evidence to be used in a divorce suit
against the woman he murdered
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
PRESIDENT TAFT IN WYOMlN G
Entertain With Wild West Show at
Cheyenne, Wyo.

President Taft faced his second
Wyoming frontier day. show at
Cheyenne.
Mr. Taft's stay in Wyoming was too
limited to permit of a very pretentious
wild west show, but what the cowboys
lacked in time they made up in varie-
ty. After the broncho show they took
the president for ride around the
town and country.
Mr. Taft made a speech at the op-
era house at Cheyenne on the tariff.
He was introduced by Governor Carey
Of Wyoming, who said sCme very COM
plimentary things about him. At the
governors meeting at Spring Lake, n.
J., recently those who polled the gov
ernors included Mr.. Carey among the
LaFollette adherents. The governor
stamped this as mistake He told
the president that Wyoming would be
for him, both at the convention and
in the election.
The president left Cheyenne at noon
and passed over the high point of the
continental divide into Laramie at 2
O'clock
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
PRISON FOR SLUGGERS
Alleged Labor Thugs Are Sen
fenced in Chicago.
Three of the Men Given Their Liberty
Until Writ of Supersedeas Can
Be Granted or Refused.

At Chicago Peter Gentleman
Edward Storgaard. William ("Red')
O'Connor, labor sluggers, who were
convicted some time ago for assault
inS Morgan H. Bell, steamfitter, at
the Hygienic ice plant on April 20.
We're sentenced by Judge Marcus Kav-
anagh to serve terms of from one to
fourteen years in the penitentiaiy.
All except Gentleman were allowed
their liberty until Saturday that their
counsel might go to Springfield in an
attempt to obtain a writ of superse-
IDEAS to keep them out of the peniten-
tiary until the supreme court has
either granted or denied new trial
Previous to the men being found
guilty of assaulting Bell Gentleman
was found guilty of attempted hnr-
glary and sentenced to Imprisonment
for from one to five years. On ac-
count of this he was taken back to the
penitentiary and his sentence will be-
gin at the termination of the attempt
ed burglary term.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
TWO DAMS Break
And FLOOD LAND
Great Volume of Water Sweeps
Black River Valley.
1atreld and Black River Falls, un-
prepared for Aqueous Visitation.
Suffer Severely-Hundreds Of
Houoes Washed Away.

TWO big dams on the Black river
near Lacrosse, Wis, have broken
and Hoods have swept the entire ter
ritory. Hundreds Of houses have been
washed away, their occupants have
fed to higher ground to save their
hves, and it is feared many are dead
But for a warning sent out earlier
In the day it is declared the loss OF
NE would have been terrible. The
towns of Hatfield and Black River
rails suffered most 1t is the worst
disaster in the Black River valley.
Men on horseback rode ahead of the
waters after the dams broke and
warned citizens to fee to the high
lands. Black River Falls was least
prepared for the catastrophe. Many
houses went cut there as soon as the
torrent struck. 1t is net known. how
many of their occupants were carried
| away.
Reports from Hatfield indicate that
all there probably escaped, although
residences and business buildings
were carried down the valley.
At 2 p. m. the Hotel fremont. a
three-story brick building, the leading
hostelry in Black River Falls, and a
half dozen other big buildings in
which the principal businesses of the
city were housed, were washed out.
They were undermined and COLLAPSED
The east side Of Water street has
heen swept away by the current pass
ing around the west side Of the CON
crete dam. Tie soft ground on which
the business portion of the town
stands, is being cut away and there is
no telling what the result of continu-
Gus feeding will be-
AT II clcck the telephone operator
at Black River Falls. city of 1000
people, the county seat of jackson
county, ten miles below Hatfield, re-
ported to headquarters here that wa
ter was surrounding the telephone
building, that people were moving cut
Of houses in the lower part of town
and that it was dangerous to remain
longer. Thereafter it was impossible
TO raise Black River Falls on either
telephone line connecting it with La
Crosse.
Relief parties are being hastily or
ganized here, scouts are being sent
out among the farmers warning them
to take to the high lands and prepara-
tions are bsing made to combat the
higher waters expected at all villages
along the Black river, North Bend,
Melrose, Holmen, Onalaska and La
Crosse are placed where the effect Of
the sudden rise in the narrow chan
mel of the Black river will be felt
today.
Two are known to be dead, rumors
are reaching here hourly of other
casualties, and one report is that there
are forty dead Confirmation of this
report is impossible, but while there
have undoubtedly been many fatalities
the number Of dead can hardly be so
large, for it was known at daylight
that the Hatfield dam was imperiled
and the people through the valley
were warned Only those who re-
fused to hear, can have perished.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
ARE ONLY PARTNERSHIPS.
$50 Mississippi Concerns Have Acquired
Mistaken Idea.


Jackson.-There are three hundred
and fifty concerns doing business in
the state of Mississippi, the owners and
promoters of which think they are char
tered corporations
There are banks and warehouses and
mercantile establishments. There are
gin plants and railroads and planting
companies.
They obtained their charters all right.
1t will come as shock to great
many shareholders in what they thought
We're corporations to find that the cor
porations are not corporations-they are
partnerships.
And this by reason of section $50 Of
the code of 1906.
That section declares that "every cor
poration organized under this chapter,
shall within thirty days after such or
ganization, make report thereof to the
secretary of state, who is required to
furnish blank forms for that purpose.
The secretary of state shall enter each
report and index the same in record
Should such report not be made within
the time specified, the charter granted
shall be null and void, and all persons
doing business Hereunder shall be
deemed and held to be partners in the
business and liable as such.'
Secretary of State Power has made up
a list of the charters granted since the
code of 1906, in which the foregoing
section was inserted for the first time.
Then he has checked that list with the
list of those reporting as required by
law.
The result is three hundred and fifty
business institutions doing business in
the state of Mississippi without char
ters, although their promoters and own
ers fondly imagine they have.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
STATE NEWS NOTES
weekly budget OF News Items Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Jackson
REINFORCEMENT OF STATE
Section of Constitution Providing fol-
Same Overlooked.

Jaokson.-ln all that has been said
about a constitutional convention, no.
body has thought of looking at the con-
stitution of Mississippi, and at section
256 in particular.
That section provides that "the legis-
latlne may at the first session after the
federal census of 1900, and decennially
thereafter, make new apportionment of
senators and representatives" There
was no action taken under this privilege
III 1900, but that does not prevent it
from being done under the census of 1910
and this apportionment can be accom-
plished without resort to a constitu-
tional convention, it seems.
Also the same section divides the state
into three divisions, and provides that
the northern division shall never have
less than fifty-four representatives; and
the middle and southern divisions forty
four representatives each; and that any
reduction of senators shall be made uni
form in each of the three divisions 1t is
further stipulated that the house shall
not contain less than 100 representatives
nor more than 1876 representatives, nor
the senate less than thirty nor more than
forty-iive senators.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
NEGRO KILLS TWO WHITE MEN
After Declaring He Would Surrender,
Negro Killed the Marshal and Then
Shot Jackson to Death.

J~ShooA " Otdtu.
oumner.-After declaring that he
would surrender, Zeely Butts, a negro,
suddenly brought his shotgun. carried
behind his back, to his shoulder. fired
and instantly killed w. II. Bridges. mar
shal OF Webb, near that place. Bending
over the marshal's PROSTATE body, the
negro seized his pistol and fred upon
viii jackson, a bystander, who had
come TO Bridges rescue. jackson fell
mortally wounded and expired few
moments later Brandishing his shotgun
and pistol, the negro disappeared,
threatening to kill any one who APP
preached him and declaring he would
never be taken alive. A posse headed
by sergeants from the state farm at
Parchman here is securing the country
for the murderer.
The tragedy, which has created intense
feeling in this vicinity, occurred OH the
railroad tracks south of Webb Butts,
who has been section hand here for a
number of years, had cruelty beaten a
negor woman several hours previous to
the tragedy. Marshal Bridges was no.
titled and Immediately began Il search
Tor the negro, coming upon him near
the place where the tragedy occurred.
Bridges called upon the negro to sur
render, but the latter, who was armed
with shotgun, refused and retreated
down the railroad tracks. Bridges rea-
soned with him, and the negro consent
ed to give up, and approached Bridges
with the gun behind him. When within
a few feet of the marshal the negro
raised his gun and fired the fatal shot
The tragedy was witnessed by several
to make it impossible to prevent either
death.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
BLOODSHED I'M RAIL STRIKE
Striker Is Shot and Killed at McComb
City, Miss.

At McComb, Miss, Wednesday Lee
Haley, age forty-five, striker was
shot and killed shortly before o'clock
in the morning near the Illinois Cen
tral shops. Two bullets entered his
back, either of which would have been
fatal. One bullet went through his
ear. He leaves a widow and two
children. His slayers are unknown.
An explosion said to be of dynamite.
occurred at 1870 o'clock in the mo n
ing in the railway shops, in the vicin-
ity Of which 100 or more strike break
ers are quartered.
State troops patrolled the stree,s
following a pitched battle between a
trainload Of strike breakers and citi
zens and strikers of McComb City. A
special train bearing 450 strike break
ers, was ridded with bullets and sew
eral citizens of this town bear dan
gerous marks of the thrilling encount-
err One of them may die.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
LANDS ARE NEVER EXEMPT.
Land Commissioner Sustained by Attor-
ney General.

Jackson.-An opinion from the at
torney generals department has been
sent Acting Land Commissioner Smylie,
which entirely supports the holding of
that official i'll connection with with a
land tax case which has peen the sub
ject of rather extended correspondence.
The matter arose over communication
from Attorney j. B. Chrisman, of Pasca-
goula, representing T. G. Hibbler, of
that section, who appears to have bought
certain parcel of land, which he
claimed to be exempt from taxation.
Maj. Smylie looked carefully into the
matter, and found that there were no
receipts for taxes for 1908, 1909 and
1910.
The fact of itself settles the point
that Mr.. Hibbler cannot be exempted
since the supreme court has declared that
while great many of assessments have
been void and great many acts of the
legislature have been held unconstitu-
tional it has never held that there was
any law whereby a single acre of land
owned by individuals or corporations
could be written off as exempt from
taxation.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
STEPHENSON UNDER PROBE
Third Hearing of the Bribery Charges
Against the Senator.

! Milwaukee, Oct. 3. = For the third
time since the campaign which result
ed in his election to the United
States senate on March 4, 1909, Sena-
tor Issac Stephenson of Wisconsin had
| to defend himself against charges of
bribery, when subcommittee of the
senate committee on privileges and
elections began an investigation.
The hearing is being held this time
in Milwaukee.
Under resolution adopted Aug. Is,
with the investigation of Senator Lori
mer of Illinois still under way in
Washington, the subcommittee wss
authorized to inquire into charges pre-
ferred by a committee Of the Wiscon-
sin senate.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

Jackson.-Associate Justice w. d. An
dcrson, of the supreme court, has ten
dcred his resignation to Gov. Noel, eff
fectve at once
Justice Anderson states that he re-
signed for personal and family reasons
and suggests that in view of the fact
that his term would expire May 10, next,
that Gov. Noel consult Gov.-clect Brewer
in making the selection to obviate an
other change on the bench in few
months hence.
Gov. Noel announced the appointment
of Judge w. G. Mclean, of Grenada, to
fill the uncXpired term.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

, GREGORY, S. D. = 1t is estl-
mated that there are 10000 persons at
the four registration points, Gregory,
Dallas, Rapid City and Chamberlain,
for the last Of Uncle Sans big draw
ings in the Rosebud country, the regis
tration for which began at midnight.
Sideshow workers, takers gamblers
and red hot" men are to be seen ply
ing their trades at all of the four To-
cations. A mammoth wild west circus
and Indian show has been located at
Gregory in the city park, and the pro-
prietor, Dakota homesteader, is reap
ing a small fortune. He got up the
show with home talent from the res
ervaticn ard the ranges, and has the
place packed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
ADMIRAL SCHLEY DEAD
Falls LfeIess from Heart Disease in
New York City.

Winfield Scott Schley, retired rear
admiral of the United States Navy,
and one of the heroes of the Spanish
American war, dropped dead in New
York city.
Heart disease was given as the
cause of his death.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
FIGHT ON COAL ROADS
Wickersham Files Suit Alleging Vic
Iation of Antitrust Law.

Attorney General Wickersham, by
filing a brief in Washington, D. c., in
the supreme court of the United
States, began his fight before the trib-
unal to have the principal coal carry
ing railroads and coal owning compa-
MES in the anthracite coal regions ad-
judged to be in violation of the Sher-
man antitrust law.
An entirely different attack was
made on the corporations from that in
Pennsylvania, where the government
ost on nearly every point
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
HILL DRIVES GOLDEN SPIKE
Marks the Formal Completion of Ore.
gon Trunk Line at Terminal.

At Bend, Ore, Friday James J. Hill
drove golden spike to mark the for
NAL completion of the Oregon Trunk
line railroad to this city
That Bend, however, would not be
the final terminal of the line was in
timated by Mr.. Hill. In time, he said,
it probably would be made to Join the
Pacific and Eastern, the western ter
minal of which is Medford, Ore.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
McCcmb Boy Harvard Professor.

McComb.-An assistant professorship
at Harvard within year after his grad
uation from the academic college of
Tulane University, is the honor won by
Charles L. Dunbar, Jr., young man Of
this city. DR.. Dunbar was awarded his
A. b. degree at Tulane in 1910, at the
same time being appointed by vote of
the faculty to the alumni scholarship
vacant at Harvard.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13

; CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
J Observation-Disclosures

NEW YORK-An autopsy just per-
formed by the coroner revealed that
the death Of Edna Steurer, little daugh-
ter of Dr. Charles Steurer, was caused
not by spinal meningitis, but by a
tiny splinter of glass which had pen
etrated the spinal cord and worked in
to the brain The child's head had
struck against tumbler on the table.
The tiny particle of glass entered be-
tween the first vertebra of the spine
and the base Of the skull The wound
was so small it hardly could be de-
tected
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
SHOTS IN RElCHSRATH
Four Bullets Fired from Gallery To
ward Ministerial Benches.

In Vienna, Austria, four shots were
fired from the gallery in the lower
house of the reichsrath in the direc-
tion of the ministerial benches, where
the ministers of justice and edu cation
were seated.
No one was injured. The man who
fired the shots was arrested
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-10-13
DELTA PLANTERS WRATHY.
Claim English Syndicate Interfering
With Their Labor

Jackson.-Some of the Bolivar county
planters are complaining considerably
that there seems disposition on the
part of the managers of the English syn
dicate which acquired the Scott interests
and plantations, to induce the labor to
Jump" the other planters and go to
work for the syndicate.
Some of the planters are very much
incensed at the alleged methods of the
Syndicate" in inducing labor to come
to its plantations and propose to show
the Britishers that Mississippi planters
will not "stand for that sort of COM
petition.