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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
HOW SLATE is MINED.
Wonderful skill of Those Who Cut
I'D.

The manner in which slate is mined
and cut up for purposes to which it is
applied is a process that is known to
only u few people because slate is not
found in many places in this country,
its principle sources being in upper
New England and Eastern Pennsyl.
vania. 1t is not taken out of shafts
but it is quarried out OF big holes in
the earth. Some time ago when the
writer was at Bangor, Pa, he was in
vited to go down into one of these
quarries, about 200 feet deep. and over
hand on a rope, but he declined the in
vitatiOn, as | think most inexperi.
enced persons would do. The slate is
blasted out in huge blocks and is
hoisted out by steam and turned over
to the men who know how to reduce
it to the proper size. Huge blocks OF
it are taken in hand by these work
men, who cut notch into one end OF
each piece. Then they take chisel
and mallet, and they are so skillful
in directing their blows that they can
split the blocks of slate in almost any
way they please. If you watch the
slab on which one of them is working
you will see II little hair line running
through it, and presently the block
will part on either side of this mark
The workman will make this line go
straight through the middle or to
either corner just as he likes. ! do
not know just how he does it, but he
invariably accomplishes what he sets
out to do.
The smaller pieces thus produced
are taken in hand by another set of
men, who split them up into sheets of
the proper thickness for roofing slate.
This they do with long bladed in.
strument about the shape Of putty
knife, but many times larger, and if
you saw them do it you would marvel
how they got the sheets Off without
breaking them and also how they
could split them so thin. Some OF
these men can take sheet of slate
only one inch thick and split it thirty
two times. The usual number OF
divisions is sixteen. These sheets are
taken and cut into squares by machin.
cry.
Wherever there are slate quarries
you will find great many Welshmen,
Tor the best skaters come from Wales. |
Boys follow the trade of their fathers,
and there are whole families and set
dement's who know no other means OF
living.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
MEN AND WOMEN.

Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston,
the oldest living ex-Speaker of tn
House OF Representatives.
Muley Hassan, who was Sultan o
Morocco before his death, designated
as his heir Abdul ASH.
Mile. dArsailly. who has just mar
ried Count des Courtes, is a granC
daughter OF General Lafayette.
David Nathaniel Dill, of Truxton
Lincoln county, born in 1885, is be.
lieved to be Missouri's oldest man.
Professor Falb has made a calcula.
ton that a comet that will visit US
in 1899 will bring about the terrestrial
wind-up.
Leo XIII is the 25Sth Pope, count
ing from St. Peter. He was born on
March 2, 1910, and was crowned Popo
Maroh 5, 1878.
The fastest shorthand writer in the
world is IA young Dublin man, George
burberry. He can write 2j0 words
in minute.
John Kelly, Jr., son of the former
Springfield, Ohio, manufacturer, has
been found on the streets of Cincin-
natl blacking boots.
David X. Peck, aged seventy-four
years, died in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
recently, in the same house in which
he was born and had lived all his life.
The twin daughters of the late
General Phil Sheridan, are nuns at
Eton Hall, the convent school at
Torresdale, near Philadelphia.
Gladstone at the age of eighty-four
Is making an attempt to learn the
Basque language, dialect that has
long been a puzzle to philologists.
John w. Hutchinson, the late sur
vivor of the Hutchinson brothers, who
became famous as singers many years
ago, is now seventy-four years of age.
Ex-senator James w. Bradbury,
OF Maine, who has just celebrated the
ninety-second anniversary of his birth,
is probably the dean of American
statesmen.
John F. Andrews Of Rome, N. y;
now in his ninety-first year, claims to
be the oldest living ex-Consressman.
He represented the Steuben district
from 1887 to 1889.
Miss Mary l., Dobbey. whose death
has been lately announced, had
taught in the Webster School,
Philadelphia, fifty-one years. For
several years she has been its princi.
pal.
Here are the names and ages OF
four notable New York men: Ros-
we'll P. Flower, fifty-nine years; David
B. Hill, fifty-one; Edward Murphy,
tifty-six, and Grover Cleveland, fifty
seven.
Although Queen Victoria rules over
an empire that embraces possessions
in every part of the world she has
never travelled outside Europe. and
even there her trips have been short
ones to France, Holland, Germany
and Italy only.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
The Niagara Electric Power.

w. II. Newerf, of Buffalo, N. V,
tells the San Francisco Call that the
great electric supply from Niagara
Falls will be opened to Buffalo about
July l. The contract is fox $4,000
horsepower, that being half the total
output. A private Buffalo company
is now constructing another canal
which will have a capacity of $4,000
horsepower. Mr.. Newerf, in speak,
ing of the possibilities which this
enterprise will open up for Buffalo and
that vicinity, said that he did not
expect to see many old established
manufactures move to either Buffalo
or Niagara Falls, on account of the
cos: which would necessarily follow.
and that no new ones would be started
until the tariff question was settled.
In Buffalo the power will be used en-.
clusively by the street car companies
and in lighting the streets. 1t is pro-
posed to furnish the power at 80 per
cent. less than present prices, which
are lower than in almost any other
city in the United States. Expert.
ments are to be made in the canal
with trolly line with power from
this source, and if successful a bill
will be introduced in the Legislature
to build line.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
A STEEL SAFE.


Against Burglars.
The shoemaker can with certainty
guard against some OF the burglars
modes of attack by making his safe Of
manganese steel, says the american
Mdchinist. The burglar can draw the
temper of any common steel plate, or
Of any composite plate, by simply ap-
plying blowpipe, such as he can buy
At any hardware shop. The temper
drawn, he can drill it as if it was so
much soft iron. But he cannot draw
the temper Of manganese steel in any
way, for neither heat nor any other
thing will soften it. Let him heat it
with his blowpipe and as soon as it is
cool enough not to draw the temper
out of his drill it will be hard as ever.
Some OF our SAFE makers are now ex-
perimenting with this material for this
reason.
1t is not only so hard that it cannot
be drilled, but also so tough and due
tile that it can neither be broken nor
cracked by sledging. Moreover, no
matter how thick the plates which the
shoemaker uses, they are uniformly
hard clear through, unbreakable and
undrillable from one face to the other.
A five-inch plate of manganese steel
has five solid inches of undrillable
metal. As it can be cast readily, safe
or chest can be made in a single
piece, and walls absolutely of any
thickness, a foot, or even two feet
thick, can be made readily at moder-
ate cost.
Finally, once a burglar is incarcer-
ated behind bars of manganese steel,
he cannot escape, for he can neither
file nor mash them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
BITS OF INFORMATION.
There are 81 metals.
There are Gas OOO OOO Enddb

There are 81 metals.
There are GAS, 600, 900 Euddhists.
Denmark's dikes are over seven
centuries old.
In Canton, China, 100000 people
live in house boats.
The area of the Yellowstone Park
is 1915 square miles.
The alphabet was invented about
800 B. G. by the Phwnicians.
The Moslems believe in the exist
ence OF Seven Great Hot Hells."
A scientist has said that there are
one hundred different kinds of sugar.
Vaccination was first practiced in
1876 by Edward Jenner, an English
surgeon.
Hindoo mythology is we'll fixed for
gods. There are said TO be over g.
OOO, 900 OF them.
The highest peak of the Rocky
Mountains, is Mount Brown, in Brit
ish America, 1890 feet.
Newfoundland is without reptiles.
No snake, frog, toad nor lizard has
ever been seen there.
In 1880 only twenty cities in the
United States had a population Of
more thon 10000 persons.
A bill TO abolish bull fighting in
England was rejected by the House of
Commons in 1902.
A statistician says that more than
four-fifths of last years murderers
were men OF no occupation,
Germans are the most prone to sui.
eide. The Irish and negroes seldom
resort to self elfdestruction.
Paraguay is governed under a con-
stitution which is strikingly similar to
that OF the United States.
An object which weights 1000
pounds At the sea level would weigh
two pounds less on mountain four
miles high.
The largest mammoth found in
Siberia measured seventeen feet long
and ten feet in height. The tusks
weighed $50 pounds.
There are millions of people on the
face OF the globe who don't know what
soap is-not including the various in
dustrial armyists.
In Europe during the early years of
the Middle Ages no woman was al
lowed to appear in church unless her
face was covered with veil.
1t is about 30 miles across town in
London, and for that entire distance
there is said to be an unbroken line OF
residences and stores.
Venus and the moon are exactly
alike in one respect, at least, each re-
volving on its axis in the same space
OF time taken to complete its orbit.
The expressions "Hallelujah" and
Amen" are said to have been intro
duced into Christian worship by Je-
rome some time about the year A. d.
800.
June was named in honor of Juno,
Roman divinity, who was worshipped
as Queen Of the Heavens. 1t is called
"the month of marriages and sui
cides."
Watches first came into fashion in
the year l477, at Nuremberg, and on
that account, and because of their
peculiar shape, they were known as
" Nuremberg eggs"
Quito, Ecuador, is the only city in
the world in which the sun rises and
sets at 6 O'Clock the year round. The
reason of this is that it is situated
exactly OIL the equator.
One OF the oldest tunes in the world
is said to be the air sung to the words,
1--WE Won't Go Home Till Morning"
1t is known to date dack to the time
OF the Crusaders.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
The Strike That Debs Built.
Chicago Evening Post.

SnlcaSO Evening POst.
This is the strike that Debs built.
This is the train that was stopped
in the strike that Debs built.
This is the car attached to the train
that was stopped in the strike that
Debs built.
This is the man who rode in the car
attached to the train that was stopped
in the strike that Debs built.
This is the job that was lost by the
man who rode in the car attached to
the train that was stopped in the
strike that Debs built.
This is the cash that went with the
job that was lost by the man who rode
in the car attached to the train that
was stopped in the strike that Debs
built.
This is the wife who wanted the
cash that went with the job that was
lost by the man who rode in the car
attached to the train that was stopped
in the strike that Debs built.
This is the Judge sought out by the
wife who wanted the cash that went
with the job that was lost by the man
who rode in the car attached to the
train that was stopped in the strike
that Debs built.
Here's the divorce allowed by the
judge sought out by the wife who
wanted the cash that went with the
job that was lost by the man who rode
in the car attached to the train that
was stopped in the strike that Debs
built.
And here's the But what worse
do you want, anyhow!
OF Walla Walla's 1888 registered
voters 1902 were born in the United
States Most of fhe forcipnprs arc
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
WAuTfn representative for our
NAM lEUl Family Treasu the great.

WAMTe0 representative for our
U6W 6Og Family Treasury, the great
est book ever offered to the public.
a Christmas Present for both old and
young.
Our coupon system. which we use in
selling this great work, enables each pur.
chaser to get the took FREE, SO every
one purchases.
For his first weeks work one agents
profit is $l68.00 Another $l36. A lady
has Just cleared 1920 for her first weeks
work.
Write for particulars, and if you can be-
gin at once send 81 90 for outfit. We give
you exclusive territory, and pay large
commissions on The sales OF sub-agents.
Write at once for the agency for your
county.
Address all communications to
RAND, NIcNALLY Il COS
Chicago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

GRANT Copeland picked twig laden
with Royal Ann cherries from his Or
chard seven miles south of Walla
Walla. The bunch measured three
inches in length and numbered 1877
cherries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

HAY harvest has arrived on the Still
laguauish and . big crop delights 'he
farmers hearts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

AT the Colfax celebration there was
an old-fashioned liberty car. There
is SO much more liberty now in this
land of the anarchist and home of the
boycott that it takes 4S young ladies
to represent the states of the Union
instead of 81.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

THE Whitman county editors write
very poor hands. The Palouse News
therefore adyertises squirrel bombs as
squirrel balms," and the Colfax Ga
=ette gives an account of lady's being
thrown from hack and dragged along
barbed wire fence for 80 years! OF
course the errors are laid to "the
types."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
Bnsiness Garas.
Capital National Bank,
OF OLYMPIA, WASH.
Capital. 100000.
Surplus. 81, 900.

SurpIus so ,0OO.
President .................. .......... C. ]. LORD
Vice President ...N H. OWINlS
Cashier ......--.... .....W W. J. FOSTER
DIRECTORS.
F. K. Brown. Louis Bettman, Robt. Frost
\. ii Owings, O.C. White, Geo. A. Barnes
G. J. Lord.
TTansacts general banking business. For
gn and domestic exchange bought and sold
TelegIaphic transfers made on all principal cit
les Collections q specially.
Olympia. Jan |, 1884.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

THE State Bar Association meets at
Seattle July 20.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13

OF Walla Walla's 1888 registered
voters 1902 were born in the United
States. Most of the foreigners are
Germans.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-07-13
.. s. 3. HENRY,
u s. DEPUTY SURVEYOR

Aesidencs, sixth Street, swans Add.
tion to Olympia, Wash.
SURVEYING Of all kinds promptly at.
y tended to. The re-establishing OF old
Government lines specially. TOwnsites
surveyed and plated. Railroads located,
and levels run for drains. Lands exam'
ined and character reported.
OLYMPIA April 1e, 1894.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
A Nava.iO's Trip.

W. N. Wallace, of Durango, known
throughout southern Colorado and Ari-
zcna as "Navajo Bill" has gone to Wash
ington, d. G., to attend the annual con-
vention of the Knights of Pythias to be
held in that city August 26. Accompany
ing him were Capt. Sam, chief of the
Navajo police, and his young wife, Pin
Zes-Bah, "Fleet as the Fawn."
This is the first time that either Capt.
Sam or his wife has ever been off the
reservation, and they go to Washington
by special dispensation of the govern
ment authorities. Capt. Sam carries with
him his commission from the United
States as chief of the Navajo police, also
a typewriter letter from Lieut.. Plummer,
in charge of the Navajo reservation, au-
thorizipg his journey to Washington in
charge of "Doc" Wallace. These papers
he proudly displays to all with whom he
comes in contact.
Capt. Sam enjoys the distinction of
possessing two wives, both of whom he
provides for as becomes a faithful
spouse.
According to the laws of the traditions
of the Naval tribe, brave is entitled to
as many wives rs he can take care of.
Acting on this custom, Sam has taken
unto himself two partners, one of whom
is the mother of Pin-Zes- Bah. She was
a widow when he married her and among
his tribe he is regarded as model hus-
band to both. He is A years of age and
has always been a friend to the whites
and "good Indian"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
COCHITI NOTES.

Banker Ford, of Kansas City, is highly
pleased with Cochtl's mineral showing.
Some good gold ore has been found in
the drift which is being run in on the
Corena.
Strong & Hesselden have bought the
Empire prospect adjoining the town site
on the south.
The Crown Point mine will make final
proof for patent before the U. s. land
office at Santa Fe in a few days.
A survey is being made of Gold Hill for
the Bland Tunnel company and work on
the tunnel is progressing nicely.
The Call says Denver company has
been formed to put up mill that will
treat 100 tons of Cochiti ore daily.
DR.. Penrose, of Philadelphia, who last
year delivered series of scientific lee
lures before the Leland Stanford univer-
sity, has lately inspected Cochiti's mines
and declares them wonderful in their
richness.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
IMPORTANT WITNESS.
Manager st. John. of the Rock Island,
On the witness Stand-Sl,-
OOO,OOO Loss.

Chicago, Aug. 23.-Genernl Manager st.
John, of the Rock Island road, was before
the strike commissioners to-day and gave
history of the strike.
He was asked if his company had black
listed the striking men.
"Not in the sense the word is generally
UNDERSTOOD" said the witness. "When a
man is discharged from one of our divi-
sions we send statement to the other
divisions that he may not be again re-
employed, but no such 81 temeut is sent
to other roads unless they request it,"
"Can you show us copy of your con-
tract with the Pullman company" asked
Commissioner Herman.
81 can show you the contract if you will
regard it as private"
Mr.. St. John was asked if tho contract
compelled his company to haul Pullman
cars on all its passenger trains.
NOT COMPELLED TO HAUL pULLMANs.
"No," was the answer. "We can haul
Pullmans on any trains we choose and
need not haul them unless we wish.'
"Then you were not compelled to haul
Pullmans during the strike" "No."
He was asked as to the number of
strikers that his road had taken back.
''Most of our men," he said, "quit work
through fear, but of 522 actual strikers
only seventyfour have been taken back
ROCK ISLAND SUFFERED $1,OOO,OOO LOSS.
Elbow much did the strike cost the
Rock Island road" Commissioner Ker-
nan asked.
~ can not give the exact figures but I
should say between $S00,000 and $l,000,-
OOO."
Mr.. st. John emphatically denied that
the U. s. marshals were controlled by the
railroad. He said that many of the riot
ers who overturned and burned cars were
also strikers.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
'CHE MARK ETS.

New York, Aug. 23.-Money on call, l
per cent; prime mercantile paper, 8 q 515.
Silver, 6424; lead, $3.15.
Kansas City.-Cattle, market for best,
strong to 25c higher; Texas steers, $2.4O
g $3.45; beef steers, 1925 a $500;
native cows, $1.25 q $500; stockers and
feeders, $2.20 @ 1926. Sheep, market
steady; good to choice natives, $2.75 "a
$S.25; good to choice westerns, 1926 "a
$500; common and stockers, $2.O0 "a
$500; good to choice lambs, $500 a
$4.25.
Chicago.-Cattle, market active, firm
prices 10 and Is cents higher; natives,
$1.25 q $3.50; westerns, $l.5O q $4GO;
Texans, $1.25 q $3.50. Sheep, market
strong.
Chicago. - Wheat, easy; August, 81;
September, 541 q 555s; December, 5758
Corn, lower; August, 5424; September,
53B October, 5338. Oats, easier; August
3o1a; September, 305s, nominal; May
35l1,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
CHINESE WAR.
Minister to C0rea Killed by His Own
COuntrymen-The War Loan a
Japanese Ordered to
Return to Japan.

London, Aug. pa dispatch from
Shanghai says the japanese minister to
Corea has been killed by his own coun-
trymen. The Japanese government has
declared rice not to be n contraband of
war.
The attempt of the Chinese govern
ment to float loan of 100000 tales,
guaranteed by the Chinese merchants,
has proved failure.
The American consul at Shanghai has
ordered that the Japanese living in that
city discard Chinese customs and ad-
vises the majority of them to return to
their native country.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
Territorial institutions.

The governor to-day made the follow
ing appointments:
James F. Fitch, Of Socorro, regent of
the New Mexico School of Mines, vice Z.
W. Eaton, term expired; appointed to
serve for five years from September 2,
1894.
W. B. Childers, regent of the University
of New Mexico, vice NJ. S. Otero, term eI-
pired; to serve five years.
Demetrio Chavez, of Las Cruces, who
was appointed to fill the vacancy in the
board of regents OF the Agricultural col
ege caused by the death of Col. Ryner.
son, was re-appointed to serve on such
board for period of five years.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
Labor Dinicuity.

Nelsonville, Ohio, Aug. 23.-The miners
and the American railway union gave
President Waite until midnight to decide
whether he would meet the old commit
tee of railroad men or not. He did net
respond and all trains are stopped on the
Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo
railroads except the passenger trains.
The miners say they will refuse work un-
til the trouble is settled.
Glasgow. In connection with the
coal strike serious rioting has occurred
and several of the pits have been wrecked.
Donaldson, who is leader of the strikers,
and five others have been arrested.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
DR.. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World 8 Fair Hishest Medal and Diploma.
important Decree.

Denver, Aug. 23.-Judge Ryan has made
a final decree fixing the amount that the
Wood heirs are entitled to recover from
the Aspen Mining & Smelling company
and Jerome B. Wheeler at $685., 9,99366, a
reduction from the original finding of
more than $250,000. The court holds
that numerous charges have been al
lowed by the master in chancery which
were not warranted by the testimony.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
A Suicide.

Chicago, Aug. ga. s. Tucker, prom
lnent board of trade broker, shot and
killed himself in Washington park to- day.
Shortly before the news of his death was
received at the board of trade a notice
was posted announcing that he had failed.
The amount of his indebtedness is small,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
SMALLPOX in London.

New York, Aug. 23,-A London dispatch
says: "The authorities are seriously
alarmed over the outbreak of smallpox
in Marylebone, St. Pancras, Hampstead,
Shoreditch and other thickly populated
sections of the city. The first cases were
discovered about three weeks ago, and it
is reported that over $4,000 people are
now afflicted"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
Abandoned In the Arctic.

Aberdeen. Aug. 23.-The yacht, Saxton,
has arrived at Peterhead, returning from a
scientific expedition to the Arctic regions.
She landed Prof. Aubrey Batty, ornitholo-
gist, and one companion on the Kolqueve
island, 100 miles from the Russian coast
on June 2, and was obliged to abandon
them on account of heavy seas and ice.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-23
Highest of all in Leavenng PowerLate u S Govt Report
@H!A!:'!;!! 9! Bski9g BSxd:3
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A Big Sale.

Chicago, Aug. "a special to the
Chicago Times from New York says Fl.
Fl. Kohlsaat, of Chicago, before sailing
for Europe yesterday purchased the New
York Times at price said to be between
$225,OOO and $250,000. The property
was sold about two years ago for 81 ,OO0,-
600,