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Show BUTTE BANKER JU'imbUc W. I. ROB m UTAH IDAHO .NEWS. r The school borxls of Boise and ..Mountain Hiiarfvot.ed a weeks salary to every teacher in their respective corps who attended the Siate Teachers association at Iliiley. The Blackfout and Chailis stare company have been awarded the contract tor carrying the mails betne. n the above nam . il places for the next beginning July 1, lS.iS. S ilmon City Recorder: About four iui!es of poll s have been placed in po.--i 01 from the pi w r plant in Tuscarora, Nev., across the va ley, and the wires strung thereon. fuu-year- s A movement is on foot to establish an electric light plant in Silver City. John Tardiffi. an exjeneneed electrician and engineer, is working the matter up, and we understand is backed by local capital. A Chinaman was held up on Idaho street one n ght last week by twohigh-waymchad no The Chinaman money and the robbers satisfied their rever gi on the celestial by sousing him in the ditch. Gen. John 15. Winters, of Boise who has been sick for the past eight or ten days was delirious last week, lie is suffering from sciatic rheumatism and is very low, as his heart action is bad. Two wild cats were killed last week by Thomas Mizer, within 2J0 feet of his farmhouse, about three miles north of Ilailey. They were so hungry that they refused to run when lie walked out to shoot tnem. Eggs are 75 ceuti a dozen in Elk City and scarce at that. Not many places can luxurate in luxuries of this kind at such eggshorbitant figures, but then Elk C tv is a prosperous mining camp, and wl.e i miners have money they will have what they want, and do not count the cost. The next meeting of the State Teachers, association will be held at Leviston. The new officers are: Miss Mary F. Galloway of Lewiston, president: Professor M. K. Hickman of Mrs. Preston, first 8. B Hawes, of Hoise, te ond e it; Mrs. Lotte McCmkey of Hailey, secretary; Professor U. U. Barton of Hailey, treasurer. James Raleigh, who has been a resident of East Fork for many years, aud at present is in the cattle growing buisness, was brought to Chailis by friends on the charge of insanity. On the 20th inst. he was examined and found to be insane on one certain hobby that being on electricity. He imagines people are trying to kill him by the use of electric wires. vice-pres- At Boise, one day last week, O. S. Herbert and William Dougherty were pardoned from the state prison. Herbert orTex as he is known, was convicted at lilackfoot, January 1802, for the murder of John Andrews, alias He was serving a Dutch John. term. Dougherty was serving twelve years for the murder of Ed Young, a saloon keeper, who was sent up in 1801, from Shoshone. The veterans at the Soldier's Home in Boise were given an elaborate oyster Supper one evening last week, and listened to an excellent concert by the sisters and three young ladies from Sisters Iilance and Salt Lake City. Bathama of the Holy Cross academy of Salt Lake and Miss Mae Kane, Miss Dora lvemiey, Miss Lulu Meistor, all of Salt Lake City, headed by Sisters Columbina and llildetta of Boise, visited the home and were well pleased, and think the old soldiers are well cared for under Commandant Clark and his corps of assistants. Will Hawkins was riding a spirited horse from Koitenai to Hope and started through the cut, following the track. The train was two hours late and came around the curve just ns Hawkins reached the middle of the cut. He tried to urge his horse forward, but the animal was excited and refused to leave the track. Engineer Cambell was unable to stop the train, and struck the horse just as Hawkins was leaving his back. The halter strap was wound around the young man's wrist, and when he jumped one of his feet caught in the throwing him t the ground. The snow pil t cut ih halter rope aud pitched Hawkins out t n one side of the track and the horse on the other, the horse being cut to pieces, but the rider was uniujured. W. J. L'tigdon met with a heavj loss by tire last week, in which his household effects were consumed. He had just moved to his new home on the reservation, and was getting settled down when the house caught lire, burning everything up. Mrs. Clark of Priest river, who has been declared insane has been taken to the asylum at Blackfoot. Samples of Idaho building stone have been sent to Governor Holcomb of Nebraska in compliance with the latter' recent request. sti-ru- p, Money Stringency In India. London, Jan. 11. Today the govern meut invited tenders for India bills to Befriended. the amount of 1.0io.(iu0 for the disButte. Moat.. Jan. 11. Patrick A. charge of hills payable on the 22nd. Largey. president of the State Savings The stringency in money in India is so bank, aud one of the best known citi- great that it is believed gold shipments Ilint ILF ORMt, FtUshm. NEFH1, KILLED. Dow i. by a Mendicant Whom He Had Flan. Discussed to I'rdte Sliver Leaders ol Washington, Jan. 10 the various parties advocating the free coinage of silver have been in the Jones ol zens of Butte, was shot and killed in will be necessary. Special allotments committee room of Senator Democratic the of chairman Arkansas, the bank building by Thomas J. of telegraphic transfers on Roinbay and there were were made today at 16:sd. per rupee. national committee, Riley. to Senator Jones, addition in Riley entered the bank five or ten So great is the urgency for money in present North Carolina, of Senator Butler He considminutes before the bloody act. India that the India council is of called Largey to the cashier's window ering plans to increase the supply of chairman of the national committee A. P. Towne, lion. the Populist party; and the two talked for five minutes or currency. In order to facilitate the chairman of the national committee of more. They were conversing in ordicoinage of silver against gold notes at the Silver Republican party; Senator nary tones, and there was nothing to the rate of 16d. per rupee, it is said the Indicate that their talk was otherwise council will receive, on behalf of the White, Congressman Bailey and Hon. than friendly. Suddenly Riley drew a India bankers or merchants in London, Matcus Daly, Democrats; Senators Cannon and Mangun and shot through the window at gold for deposit in the Bank of Eng- Teller, Pettigrew, Hartman, and tle, Representatives the struck latter land, against which orders or transfers Largey. The bullet Silver Republicans, and Senator Allen, in the left arm nnd shattered the bone. be drawn will enable silver coin to Later there was another d Populist. Largey stooped down, and had he from the Indian currency departments. which the Democrats did in conference in that position he might have A small lUd. charge beyond the rate of not as was he his with proparticipate. life, escaped will be paid to cover the cos, of the The principal subject discussed was tected by the counter. However, he transaction. is hoped that this It the devising of a plan for holding the rose partly, and as he did so Riley fired scheme, even if not greatly availed of, ilver forces Together for the congressa second shot. The bullet struck Mr. will relieve the tightness and avoid ional campaign next fall, and that Largey square in the forehead and he gold shipments to India. while no absolute conclusion was fell over on the floor dead. HANNA IS SENATOR. reached, it was decided that local silThe murderer then started for the' ver leaders of whatever party affiliato but stopped long enough itreet, HU SiicrctiHor la Fleeted Hanna lolda tion should be advised of the convictake a shot at the clerk in the front of Intll Ohio the Senatorship. tion of the national leaders of the nethe building, narrowly missing Frank Jan. 11. Senators who Washington, of maintaining a solid front Holmes. He was arrested soon after cessity have examined precedents say that the the Republican party as to the the street. against reaching of a senator by a goveradvocate of the policy of He fooled me too long, exclaimed appointment organized nor, as in the case of Senator ILnna, he when arrived at the Riley, county holds until the legislature elecis or maintaining the gold standard. The chairmen of the various parties are jail, and I killed him. He kept promadjourns. Congress having proHded said to be agreed as to the wisdom and ising me work, but he did not give me by law that a legislature cannoteleet any, and I could not stand it any until it has been in session two weks, Importance of concerted action. me longer. Now, if you want to hang would provide for a vacancy if tin apSTARVING CUBANS. for it. all right. Give me a quick of the governor held onljun-ti- l pointee trial and end it. the legisluture met. In the oast, Oxer Fourteen Tbonnand Persons Aided b) In contradiction of this statement it Havana Charities. senators appointed by the govtrnor is known that Largey helped Riley Jan. 10. Consul General Havana, have held their offices until the hgisla-ture- s often, hoth by securing him positions Lees representative in Havana prohave appointed their succesors. and with money. Largey 's interest in In one case a senator held throughout vince, Senor Adama Suirez. says that the man was because he was injured the entire deadlock of the legisliture, there were enrolled in the city up to in the great explosion in Butte in 181)5, and tried to retain his seat aftr the last night 521 women and 13,804 child of powder, in the warerooms of the ren who have been attended by the adjourned, but after the Butte Hardware company, ot which legislature matter was discussed in the sesate, various charitable institutions, in addiinstitution Largey was president. the seat was declared vacant on the tion to the 170 families, including 675 Riley lost a leg there and was one of a of the legislature of the persons who have had relief through uuinber who held unsatisfied claims adjournment other channels. He asserts that these state. for damages sustained at that time. are only a portion of the victims to It is alleged a conspiracy existed to Favors International Bimetallism. the policy of concentration. kill more than one of the managers or Senor Bruzon, governor of Havana, Washington, Jan. 11. Senator Ch owners of the company. had a conference with Iresidmt and Consul-GenerLee have appointThreats of lynching were so strong McKinley upon the subject of binut ed a committee of men to that Riley and four other murderers allism, and he said, after the close if distribute the provisions and other were taken to Deer Lodge and lodged the interview: relief received from the United States The president stands firmly in in the penitentiary for safety. They consulate. of international bimetallism, as were smuggled outof town in the poor Alive in a Coffin. promised by the St. Louis platform farm ambulance. He considers the negotiations with tie Excellsior, Pa., Jan. 10. Intense exEuropean powers only temporary citement i over the assertion of SEMINOLE VENGEANCE. suspended, on account of thepecul.tr Postmaster Giowa and other residents, condition of affairs in India, and l is substantiated Blood of Innocent Whites Most Pay For Inby their affidavits, to the the president's intention to again sfld effect that Lucas llomlak, an injured dians lturned at the Stake. Wichita, Kan., Jan 13. Reports have his envoys to Europe as soon as he had been shipped from reached here of the direst kind, of mas- conditions are favorable for contincng the Miners hospital at Ashland in an sacres of women aod children by a negotiations. ice box before he was dead. Senator Chandler added the option band of j Seminole Indians variously The signers of the affidavit swear estimated at from 100 to 300, wh'o are that the president is as earnestf!- in that when they opened the ice box at said to be avenging the death of Lin- favor of bimetallism, the use of both Homlak's home his lips twitched vior coln McGeisey and Palmer Simpson, metals, as standard money, as the lently, his body was still warm, and himself. the two Indians who were humid at they could feel the moisture of his To Refae Murderers. the stake for the outrage aud murder breath on their hands. of Mrs. Leard. Reports are contradicChicago, Jan. 11. Chris Merry and They admit that he did not recover womJame s Smith, tie potato peddlers ac- consciousness, but declare that he lived tory. The killing of twenty-fiv- e en and children near Maud postoffice cused of kickng and beating Mrs. for five minutes after the box had been is afliirmed and denied. Merry to.deati last November, and opened. The train from the east tonight who were captired in Kentucky after TO TRY WEILER. brought to this city a car containing eluding the poice for nearly a month, child Earlboio. woman and in were at Hortons every arraign'd Judge Will Have to Explain Derogatory Remarks A large crowd of The passengers confirm previous re- court yesterdy. About President McKinley. ports aud say a pitched battle between rough lookingfriends of the two prisMadrid, Jan. 19 The captain genthe Indians and the settlers took place oners filled th- eorriders of the court eral of Madrid has received documents this afternoon near Maud postoftice, building, but hey were denied admitnecessary for proceeding against Lieuresulting in the wiping out of several tance to the ourt room, and an extra tenant General Weyler for his conduct force of depub sheriffs was detailed with reference to the families. A later dispatch from Shawprotest against nee says: to watch theirmovements, on account President McKinley's message and as A message calling for men and arms of rumors of ai attem .it at rescue. to other matters to a fresh inquiry, has just been received from Earlboro, under the direction of the general California In Idaho. Caught a town of about 100 inhabitants, nine the first army corps, commanding 11. Sacramento. Cal.. Jan Sheriff miles east of here, saying that nearly whose station includes Madrid. There Jolu-oT. in is Frank telof a receipt 300 Indians have declared vengeance to the cfoct that Tom Lawton, is a possibility that a ministerial crisis on the town, and are moving toward egram be averted. of one the gang that murdered old man may thus the place, declaring that they will Tullis, in 1S, lias been located in burn the place. Important Discovery. e: be arrested as soon as Grave fears are entertained for set- Idaho, and New Jan. 10. Nikola Tesla York, tlers on the border. A special train requisition p vers are received. Law-to- announces that he has perfected vacum isthethi sof the Tullis murderers, tubes of such was made up from here and 150 men, high illumination power Tr j Dye ami Edward Anof which armed to the teeth, left for the scene. both whom were hanged for that they may be used in lighthouses, derson, The trouble was caused by farmers i the others. In their and that they will enable photograthe crime, to work by night as well as day. burning two Semitioles who ravished confessions. Ie and Anderson impli- phers and murdered Mrs. Leard last week. cated Lawti but he which Mr. Telsa has atThe results escaped. The whole country is aroused. tained has been achieved by the use of Big l liming CBt'Is Deal. his vacuum tubes and his oscillator. Fort Wo1 t Tex., Jan. 11. The The light which he is able to produce Idaho Judge Censured. Un Beef company has just by this means is as bright as that of Boise, Jan. 12. The supreme couit Western st s sold off its west Texas the 8,000 has reversed Judge Stockslager in the noonday sun. By Its use every line case of Work Bros. & Co. vs. P. II. ranch toClic - i Anderson of Wyoming. of the object photographed may be The conside- on is said to be $175,-00made to stand out clearly and disKinney, as sheriff, and his bondsmen, The W ern Union company is disfrom The sheriff tinctly. Hailey. appealed of its stock and property posed of a 80,000 lot of attached dry- disposing A Gelding Is Not a Horae. located in T( s, Colorado, New Mexico goods, crockery, boots, shoes and groWash., Jan. 10. Sheriff Davis Colfax, and Montai: will and retire from ceries under the perishable act, making of Carbon county, Wyoming, has left the i business, comcattle largest no return, and the district judge hed for home with William Herbert, who ted States. pany in the he did right. The supreme court rewill be tried for shooting and robbing verses him nnd says: d Stol of Ore. a Mexican Dear Rawlins last July. It is not often, we are glad to say, M' 11 Herbert was under arrest hereunder Jan. Hutte, Filing-es- t Elling that we are i ailed upon to pass upon son is undii Mur-oand when a and Phil here charge of a record which shows such a complete to trial the question was raised in He', the of steal phy charge brought and inexcusable abrogation, nut only f ore from the Golden a carl that although the information charged . oo of the plain provisions of tiie law, but. ing Chief liHec. efferson county. the evidence showed The also, of those ordinary' rules of justice ore vvhii worth $0,000, was ship-rad- o that the animal taken was a gelding. which are supposed to be inherent in smelter here for The judge decided that a horse was not ped to the judicial minds. a gelding, and dismissed the charge. treating j Butte Man Killed Over Cards. Bets Fifteen Years. Lynching In YY aldington. Rutte, Jan. 12. Martin OConnor an. 11. Mrs. Augusta was shot and instantly killed about 0 M. Colfax, Wash, Jan 10. Chadwick w" o'cloik this morning in a card room in Naek, snd charged with Martin Marshall, the suspected murderer of e murder of William the rear of the White Metal saloon. Tllorn to Haydon, near Farmington, on bath rubber. Rt Wood young Bob Shadwell, the murderer is in cus- Gulden It the night of October 22, was han ged nne of last year, was tody. Both men were gambling, and side. Ij cut, a mob at 2 ocl o k this morning. need to fifteen years in by O'Connor caught Shadwell cheating there was a suspicion that u at Auburn. The good Yesterday and warned him. Shadwell went out the sta was but the officers mob a attainable would re-- o made no collecting, to resist it. A and got a gun and returned and insisted time a preparation ten years, five months, As he grab- duce t) on continuing the game was tied around a beam in his irned states evidence rope bed the cards O'Connor snatched them Mrs. cell and he was pitched head first out at his trial recently and from him. Shadwell drew bis gun again of a window, where he hanged until ed to electrocution. he wa. and shot O'Connor in the heaii next morning. well-know- n mine-worke- r, - sen-vto- n ' n i 0. Car-loa- horse-stealin- n horse-stealin- i ; 3'tr Xi Oklahoma Men lev Coogre'itionikl Flections NORTHWEST NOTES. BURNED AT THE STAKE. FREE SILVER CONFERENCE- - Ravl-h'-r- a Meet Am f cl Death. O. T., Jan. 10 Swift an mob ol chained Lincoln j thirty white settlers MeGelsv and another Seminole halfbreed to a tree near Maud postotfiee. Seminole nation, and burned them tc death, for the murder and outrage oi Mrs. Frank Leard, whose husband hai land leased from the Seminole. The sight of the charred bodies is at awful one. The flesh is burned froit the bones, and lies in greasy and particles in the ashes on tht ground. The fingers and hands are burned from the frames, and the ghastly skeletons, bereft of feet ant ankles, stand on blackened bones in th ashes on the ground. Every vestige oi hair and flesh are burned from the heads, and the clinched teeth of the dead men show the great determination to endure their awful punishment in silence, in which condition the red men died. The scene is a fascinating one for the curious, and has been visited by Earlboro. A j many people. The men implicated three other Seminoles, and squads of white settlers are hunting them through the country around Maud. The mob declare that the burned bodies of McGelsy and his confederate shall not be removed from the tree until the others are caught and pay the lame penalty for the brutal murder. Swindling Railroad Companies- - Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 10. A conspiracy has been unearthed at the Kansas City stockyards by which, it ie alleged, railroads have been robbed oi thousands of dollars on live stock shipments. False affidavits of live stock received have come to the claim department of the Missouri Facifie, and shippers have, it is said, been paid foi the number of head of stock reported to be missing. The robbery has been going on systematically for years, and nearly every railroad entering Kansas City is said to have been victimized. The amount paid for fraudulent shortage claims during the last five years will run up into the thousands of dollars. Railroad men refuse to talk, furthei than to say they have been victimized out of thousands of dollars, and that arrests are expected within twenty-fou- r hours. The robbery is laid at th door of the local yard employees and the shippers. KING ON CUBA. Utah Congressman Describes Conditions m Awful Beyond Expression Tampa. Fla., Jan. 10. Congressman King of Utah is back from his trip of investigation to Cuba. Speaking of his trip, he said: I made it to learn just what conditions were, and I found that no one has ever half depicted the avvfnl horrors of the reconcentrados. These people naked and emancipated, are s' ill dying like sheep in tie streets of the towns where they are still huddled. To realize just what this means, one must see j A Butte paper, reviewing the year, avs buisness was splendid twenty-- , seven suicides. Mrs. Kate Pluto, the mother of tliir-tee- a children, was fined $13 for adul-- ! tery recently iu Rock Springs. While scuffling with his wife Ed. Thorn, of Boise, fell on his leg. break-- ing it, also dislocating his ankle, Arrangements have been made for the erection of a steam flouring mill at Coder City, Wyo., as soon as spring opens. Two hundred and seventy men are now employed in the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne, and are working 40 hours a week. Laramie (Wyoming) contractors will make an effort to have Laramie sandstone used in the new building at the state capital. The receipts in the office of Miss Reel, register of the Wyoming state land board for the month of December, amounted to $4,818.12, The report of the Wyoming state coal mine inspector shows that the coal mines of the state are in excellent condition, and are efficiently managed. Grand Master Rohrbaugh of the Masonic lodge, has granted a dispensation to a number of Wheatland Wyo., Masons to organize a Masonic lodge at that place. One of the best mares of her weight in the country, owned by a gentleman In Silver City, Nev., an 1 a Nevada-raise- d horse, has been ruled off the Oakland track. James Sloan a sheepherder, is supposed to have been drowned in the Missouri river at Great Falls, Mont. A dog owned by Sloan was found standing around a hole in the ice. The stock owners of the Big Horn, Mont., basin report great destruction of their animals from wolves, and are raising a generous bounty by private subscription for the destruction of these pests Work was resumed in the Union Pacific shops at Rawlins, Wyo., after a ten day lay-of- f. Master Mechanic Neland says that the hours will remain the same as before the reduction eight hours a day, four days a week. Gus Kochen, driver for Ilugus & Co. at Rawlins, Wyo., attempted to step from his wagon to t ie top of a fen.-eHe slipped and fell ast ide the fence. Inflicting a serious injury from which he will be laid up for some time. The doctor says his recovery will be slow, and that he may be permently injured. A letter from Hanna. Wyo., states . that duiing a quarrel between two brothers named Rairaey, one picked up a pistol and shot at the other, the bullet striking a button and glancing off without doing any damage. The one shot at then took the pistol from his brother and shot him twice in the head and leg. The injured man will recover. The aggregate increase of the coal for himself. I found that the Spanish people production of the state of Wyoming more in 1897 than in 1896. It have evidently very little faith iu the new autonomical government, for they is reasonable to expect the tonnage for are strongly in favor of annexation, 1898 will exceed 3,000,000 tons. The and want it at once. General Blanco coal mined was 2,613,133 tons, not has not succeeded in his efforts to counting about 50,000 mined in places alleviate the suffering, for he has not not coming under the inspector's jurishad financial means to carry it out. diction. The number of fatal accidents repored was five; number of non-fatKidnapped by an Insane Man. accidents, thirteen. Cedar Rapids, la., Jan. 10. Earl The three J hnson brothers, living Coleman, 13 years old, son of Presiding near Agusta, Montana, who have been Elder E. M. Coleman, was today kidwith charged insanity, told the officer napped in front of his father's residence by Fred Champlaiu who started they would accompany him to Helena towards the woods with him. Cashiei as soon as they could arrange ranch e Miller of the First National bank at- matters, and did. Owing tothepromi-rencof the brothers, they being quite tempted tq rescue the boy, but Chamstockmen, the ease has attracted plain drove him back with a revolver, large considerable attention. They claim and before a posse could be organized that they are perfectly rational, and the pair had disaopeared. The alarm was at once given and a attribute their arrest to spite work on the part of neighbors. party began scouring the woods. At Who are the two most beautiful 11:40 tonight Champlain was discovered in the basement of the opera house, women in Wyoming? This question and for a long time he held the excited is to be settled by a committee of excrowd at bay. He was armed heavily, three at the and as he was apparently insane, it position. The management intends to was feared that he had killed the boy, issue a souvenir medal with the probut shortly after midnight he came file view of a woman's head cn one from the basement and was soon in side. This head will be a composite the city jail. The boy was not in- made from the photographs of the two most beautiful women in each jured. state. The commissioners Provisions arc High. of ea.-county will send the photoVancouver. B. C., Jan. 10. J. A. Me graphs of the most beautiful women Eacof this city has just received letter from his brother, Archie McRae, of their county and it is within the in Dawson City, in which he states range of probiblities that a Wyoming profile may be selected by that he refused $1500 for 200 pounds of womans the judges at Omaha. It is this provisions. Flour will probably be scarce before possibility that has caused many hearts to flutter in this state. spring, but fresh meat is plentiful at has $1 a pound. Investigation developed He reports that claims worth work- that V. A. Rogers, the old soldier ing are selling for $5000 for 20 square who died recently at the county jail feet. In one day three men shoveled at Anaconda, Mont., was A. J. Lingle, into sluice boxes of a claim on Bonan- whose people in the east have been za creek $29,000. endeavoring to find him for some months. N'o Burial Flare for John Morton had a very narrow Dumuit. San Francisco, Jan. 9. No while en route from liis sheep escape resting place has yet been provided for the re- camp to Douglas, Wyo. His horse fell mains of Theodore Durrant. No buria' with him, and he was unable to get permit has been issued or applied for, his feet out of the stirrups before the and interment having been refused bv animal was again on its feet, bucking several cemeteries and the crematories and kicking at every jump. After behaving declined to receive the body, ing dragged some distance, during the bereaved parents seem at a loss tc which time the frightened horse playknow what to do. It is probable he ed some lively tattoo on Morton 's ribs will be buried in some Roman Catholic with his heels, his heavv overshoes cemetery, as Father Logan, who ad- finally slipped oat of the stirrups ministered to Durrant on the scaffold, and Morton hoofed it to town, has taken the matter in hand. distance of about thireen miles. Trans-Mississip- Trans-Mississip- pi ' |