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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1901
Page
6
A column stitched from scattered curiosities and editorials notes Queen Wilhelmina's future obedience humored versus real sentiment in America. It highlights February births among notable figures, sunflowers in agriculture, East Africa’s Godjam king death, a New-Laid-Egg Society in Hogland, and a Brussels flower factory case on wages and efficiency.
Pennsylvanians have long valued Valley Forge. The state proposes selling 217 acres to Congress for a national park and military rendezvous with a $200,000 initial appropriation. Prominent Philadelphians pressed for the natural pleasure ground before House and Senate committees.
The piece argues that athletics, when a healthy passion rather than a fixation, foster honesty and vigor. It contrasts old Olympian ideals of endurance with modern worries about physical excess, praising strong, fair competitors who uphold integrity.
A critic contrasts valor in athletics with fear and argues that modern fiction elevates moral standards. He laments the rise of smug, punctilious villains in problem novels and historical romances, claiming today’s rascal is more depraved than the old highwayman.
O J Plumason of Laverne Minnesota owns Golden Duke a Buff Cochin rooster trained to trot to harness pulling a tiny cart with his baby son rider The freak bird is a prize winner in its class and has drawn attention at local fairs and shows The training by local boys built the unusual display and added to its fame
The Plumason family features a baby rooster harnessed to a small cart guided by reins held by a child. The bird performs walks, runs, trots, and stops on command, pulling its rider for long distances. Now exhibited at western poultry shows.
Captain Charles D. Sigsbee recalls the Maine disaster during a Washington entertainment. He admits his first reaction was to consider what the New York newspapers would say tomorrow, a candid remark about media interest amid tragedy. A separate remark notes a saying about men and self-destruction.
The Philippines commission reports about 1200 prospectors, mostly American, exploring Luzon and other islands. Lignite deposits appear across multiple islands with extensive fields near Mindoro and Cebu. Gold mining shows promise in Benguet Lepanto Bontoc with low grade free milling ore awaiting concessions and machinery.
Nebraska hotel clerk falls for a forged romance as Minnie Swift supposedly helps her invalid mother. The tale unfolds with a Cripple Creek man posing as her brother Arthur Swift and arranging a $250 draft, revealing a calculated bunko scheme amid a hotel romance.
Minnie protests a draft error and claims her brother is in Denver closing a mining deal. Weaver sends Clerk Crawford with the girl to find Arthur Swift and fix the error. Crawford proposes on the train, Minnie promises an answer at dawn, and dawn reveals a note. Police are notified as Crawford returns home.
The Belgica voyage notes over sixty aurora australis observations, most intense at equinoxes, with a resemblance to Arctic displays. Sir John Murray explains Black Sea circulation, a saline undercurrent into the Mediterranean, creating a lifeless deep layer beneath 100 fathoms due to hydrogen sulphide. Dr. Williams lists European death rates and life expectancy, while Dr. Howard notes mosquitoes persist in winter and disperse via railways and limited flight.
Attorney General Griggs recalled his first visit to the Supreme Court chamber years ago as a young lawyer with little Washington contact. A Congressman guided him to the court where he dreamed of addressing the nine justices on a landmark government case in a generation.
The Department of Agriculture in Washington is compiling a collection of new economic plants and vegetables to aid gardeners nationwide. Barbour Lathrop, once of Chicago, led the effort with two years of work and personal funding. He brought botanist David G. Fairchild from New York to oversee seed and plant introduction. Over two years they visited South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, along with island stops, gathering prospects.
Farmers nationwide have purchased 450 seeds and plants for trials by the Agricultural Department. Tests include Alexandrian clover from Egypt as a late fodder crop for irrigated California and Arizona, Padua seedless grape for the Colorado desert raisin industry, Egyptian cotton under 100+ experiments in the South, and superior East Indian yams noted for flavor.
The Philadelphia Times discusses beggar thieves and leper kings in Chinese cities. It details how clans in Nanking Pekin and Tien-Tsin control districts collect tribute and blackmail traders, fund lavish lifestyles, and employ brutal self-mutilations to elicit sympathy. It notes thieves know thefts and recoveries, leper houses near city gates, and the fate of vulnerable families.
A sailroom fire aboard the United States gunboat Petrel on April 1 killed Lieutenant Commander Jesse Mims Roper who died trying to rescue Seaman Patrick Toner. The blaze incapacitated twenty two crew members. Roper’s body was recovered to the deck and will be shipped to the United States on April 5 aboard the Buffalo.
A blaze at the Jacob Dodd Packing company plant on Eighth street near the Kansas line destroyed 200000 dollars in property. Five firemen including Chief Hale were injured by falling bricks and walls. Injured: Chief Hale, Ed Dyer, Mike Mahoney, Thomas P Considine, John Nolan. Cause under investigation.
Moscow Idaho March 31 The next Inland Empire Teachers' association annual meeting will be held in Spokane next spring on a date to be announced. Spokane and Lewiston were voted as potential sites with Spokane receiving more than three fourths of the votes.
Named It Spokane San Francisco April 1 The steamer Spokane of the Pacific Coast company was launched at Union Ironworks Saturday A accident marred the ceremony as John T Scott superintendent of the works broke his right leg and was stunned.
A New York woman newly settled in a Morningside Heights fashionable apartment house recounts a clash over gas fixtures. The janitor and assistants aided her maid, then a shirt sleeve laborer refused removal of an elaborate gas chandelier citing appearance and wall concerns. The owner, who preferred not to remove it, asserted control of the decision.
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