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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
Utah Man Killed by pesper.does.

Nernai. March 6.-S. V. HOY. a
prominent stockman of Browns Park,
was killed today by members of a gang
of desperadoes who are surrounded by
posse. Reinforcements left here to-
night for the scene. 1t is not thought
the outlaws will be taken alive. John
son, the man who 50 cowardly MUIR
dered l7.year-old Willie Strang, a few
days since, because the boy teased him
while at breakfast, is in the band of
surrounded outlaws, and the killing OF
Hoy is the result of attempting his cap
ture.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
Federal Nominations

Washington, d. G., March 6.-The
president today sent the following
nominations TO the senate for confirm
alton:
Marshal !. King, to be collector of
customs. district Alexandria, va.
Edward A. Rosieree Of Missouri, to
be attorney for the eastern district Of
Missouri
Louis 6. Bozele, marshal eastern dis
trict of Missouri
William l. Avery of Montana, con-
sui at Belize British Honduras.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09

Key West, Fla, March Captain
Mark, before sailing on the Mangrove
with the Maine board of inquiry, re-
ferred to the statement that the courts S
investigation failed to prove that the
Maine had been blown up from the
outside.
That's all bosh,' he said. "Why
can't they stop theorizing until
we get ready to report? Then | assure
you we shall have some reading for
the American people that will be in
teresting."
'Will it mean war?" was asked.
"Tat's question can't answer now.
Wait
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
SPAIN PURCHASES WARSHIPs.
There May Not BE War But There is Prep
aration For IT.

n
aration ForIt.
London, March :. Further INQUIRIES
made on the subject confirm the report
of the sale of the two cruisers which
the Armstrong; have been building for
Brazil, to Spain. The inquiries further
show that representative of the Chill
can government has been negotiating
with representative of the Spanish
government for the sale of the battle
ship O'Higgins, built for Chile, and
that deal is practically completed
whereby this splendid warship passes
into Spain's possession.
1t is known that the Chilean repre-
sentative made an offer to Spain re
Gently, but the price was considered
too high, and Spain made counter
offer 1t IS now understood that they
have come to terms.
The ships which Spain secured in
France are too heavily armored coast
defense vessels which Brazil ordered
for service on the River Platte, which
have been building at the La Seyne
works at Havre.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
Embezzled Thirty Thousnnd.

Cincinnati, O., March Sherwood
s. Cunning, teller of the First National
bank, who was arrested last night for
embezzling S3o,o0o of the banks fund
gave himself up late tonight. He had
been released on bond last night, and
his bondsmen have since desired to be
released.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
SHIPS IN COMMISSION
Together With Those Undergoing Repairs
at Mare Island.

iogether With Those Undergoing Repairs
at Mare Island.
Washington, March GA commander
OF the monitor Minantonomah, which
has been ordered into commission, was
selected in the person of Captain Nor
timer johnson. Secretary Long saws
that the Miantonomah, with the ram
katahdin, will remain in the Della
ware for the present With the com
missioning of these two vessels, there
remain only the cruisers Columbia and
Minneapolis on the Atlantic coast for
immediate service, in case the depart
ment should decide to commission more
ships. The Atlanta, at New York.
could be made ready in four months,
and the Chicago in six months, in case
emergency orders for their repair were
issued. There are n number of good
ships on the Pacific coast, however,
whose repair is under way, such as the
Charleston, the Philadelphia, the York
town and others, and the payrolls of
the construction bureau at the Mare
Island navy yard amount to 500, 600 per
month.
The Montgomery and Nashville
have been selected by Secretary Long,
at the request of Admiral Sicard, as
the most suitable to go to Cuba to dis
tribute charity. Repairs are now be-
ing made for the required service.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09

Soggy Arabic Land-There are many
farms containing low places where wa
ter stands for one or two or three days
after every heavy rain. These spots are
planted and cultivated every year. but
the product is generally unsatisfactory;
and If rows cross such spots valuable
time is lost waiting for the soil to be-
come dry enough to plow, and in the
meantime other land on same rows be-
comes too dry. All such places should
be drained, In most cases such water
logged spots may be drained by sim
ply plowing furrow as deep as pos
sible through it and to the nearest out
let and scraping the furrow out with
hoes-perhaps a days work and an
acre or two of good land reclaimed The
writer once drained prairie pond by
digging hole to sand and filling the
hole with stones. The water was car
ried into the hole and drank up by the
sub-stratum. This was sub-irrigation
spelled with capital letters.-Texas
Farm and Ranch.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09
Death In Second Growth sorghum.

DNh'h III SecDnu -GrOWth SOrg hum.
f. ID. Coburn, secretary OF the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture. writes
to the Breeders Gazette as follows:
1t Is evident there are many farmers
and stockmen who yet believe or argue
that because they have seen cattle
Craze on second-growth sorghum with
out any bad results ii is therefore not
dangerous. In spite of this there is
abundant and unquestionable evidence
that under some conditions, which no
one as yet fully understands, it is about
as certainly and quickly fatal as that
most-to-be- dreaded of all guns-the one
which its owner did not know was
loaded.
For example, l recently saw in the
newspaper that Mr.. A. L. Hackerott OF
Osborne county, Kan, lost thirty-one
head of Angus cattle from eating Sec
ond- growth Kaffir corn. | have inouir-
ed of him for particulars and he writes
that the statement was correct except
that it was second-growth sweet
sorghum instead of Kaffir corn, and
that it was not frost-bitten. He SAYS:
~ NutlIC N1lb uOL III Iue cane long,
er than fifteen minutes, during which
time thirty-one died, lying but a few
rods apart. Upon examining the cane
1t was found to be covered with very
small silver-colored bugs"
Such statements, says Journal of
Agriculture, should serve to make cat
tlemen extremely cautious about taxi
ing chances on these second growth
sorghums, however tempting they may
look as pasturage, as they do at times
when little else is so green and luxuri-
ant, and especially as to giving stock
access to them when hungry and liable
to eat rayenously and gorge them
selves. The same is in a large measure
applicable with reference to turning
hungry cattle on green alfalfa. II such
growths are wet with rain, dew. frost
or fog the danger is, if possible, much
Increased.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09

An Evansville, Wis, man was re-
Gently swindled out of 800 by two Chi
cago confidence men representing
themselves to be policemen. who ac-
eused him of being a counterfelter. To
prove his innocence he gave them 500
for examination, which they never re-
turned.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-03-09

Cynicus-Why was woman ever cre-
ated? Miss Caustic-So that man could
have some one to blame for his mis-
ortunes.-Standard
Why does lightning strike churches
oftener than saloons2
The herald., 1898-11-06

inspire him to desire for further knowledge
of similar events. thus arousing In him'
taste for good reading. The book Is one
of the best which the author has put forth.
O o O
STORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVO-
LUTON. Second Series. BY Everett
7. Tomlinson. Cloth; illustrated. Lee
& Shepherd, Boston.
These interesting stories of our fore
fathers are not the hackneyed ones which
have been used in the popular histories for
generations, but they are the result of DR..
Tomlinson's research among the archives
of revolutionary times. Like those in the
preceding volume, the basis of each story
is historically correct, and told in the au-
thor's attractive style, they are doubly in
teresting to the young reader. DR.. Tomin-
son says: There is no deep love of coun-
try without a thorough appreciation of
what it has cost to found and develop the
land we love"
This is the best set of historical tales we
have seen in many a day. They are not
silly; they are sensible and inspiring.
JOHN HANCOCK, HIS BOOKp BY Abram
English Brown. author of Beneath Old
Rooftrees," Beside Old Hearthstones,"
etc. etc. Cloth; gilt top. Lee 4 Shep-
herd, Boston.
This Is a unique volume, brim full of in
terest. To read of John Hancock, the first
governor of Massachusetts and one who
has written his name upon the rolls of a
nations honor and fame, is to read some
thing inspiring. Opening the book at ran
The herald., 1898-11-06

we have seen in many day. 1t tells how
two little New York girls grew up. even
unto their school days at fashionable
city school. They had, however, one great
trouble. They wanted to be twins but as
there were more than two years between
them this was really out Of the question,
but they dressed alike and made themselves
as much alike as was practicable. 1t was
a cross not to be like the other or to have
what the other had. or its equivalent For
instance, Jane had Inflammation OF the
lungs which gave her much distinction. but
for poor Me just getting run over by a
carry-all was all that happened the whole
year. For young or for old 1t is a very
bright book.
Lamson, Wolfe and Company announce
for immediate publication a translation in
blank verse of Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano
de Bergerac," the play which Is creating
so much interest both in America and
abroad at the present time.
Elizabeth Glover's 1.-The Gentle Art of
Pleasing" In press at the Baker & Taylor
company, gives the authors impressions
of association with young people, laying
particular stress on the Importance of gen.
tleness and cheerful dispositions.
An important book on British politics
from 1850 to 1895 is in press at Longmans,
Green & Cos. 1t Is by J. X. Laughton, and
is entitled Memories of the Life and Corre-
spondence of Henry Reeve. c. b.. late edi-
tor of the Edinburgh Review, and Regis
trar of the Privy Council"
We have had several books of college
stories for boys, descriptive of undergrad
uate life al various great American univer-
stiles. A. c. McClurg & Co. evidently be-
lieving that the girls should be represented
also, announce In press little book enti-
tied, "Three Freshmen" which narrates the
life and adventures of three girl students
at Smith College.
Aspirants for journalistic honors will
read with interest William Farquhar Pay
sons new novel 1.-THE Copy Maker" de-
scriptive of journalistic life in New oYrk
with side views Of literary Bohemia in the
great city.
Lady Hamiltons full correspondence
with Lord Nelson. including the letter in
which Nelson admits the paternity of Hor-
alta, her daughter, is now published for the
first time in Lady Hamilton and Lord Nell
son." by John Cordy Jeaffreson.
O o o
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
Not vet 1900 a new Woman'S born:
The herald., 1898-11-06
NOTES OF THE DAY

The wood sawyers of Atlanta, Ga, 200 in
number. have formed a trust and have
raised thu price of saving stove-wood from
20 cents to 81 per day. Every member of the
organization Is blind man or cripple.
The Savoy theater in London has been
deii5erately reviving the charming operas
or GILBERT and Sullivan, and finds It's re-
Waru IN as great a popularity as attended
their first presentation.
Multnomah lodge of Free Masons has
Just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in
oregon City. 1t is noteworthy because 1t
was the first Masonic lodge established
west OF the Missouri river.
A 9-year-old boy who placed stone on
an English railroad track and nearly
wrecked an express train has been pun
ished with six strokes with the birch and
one day in prison.
1t is said that % per cent of the applica-
tions made for divorce In North Dakota
this year were made from New York state
and most of these from New York city.
Among the many mysteries of bird migra-
ton Is the fact that oversee journeys are
generally conducted in the darkness and
invariably against head wind.
The British museum will provide accom-
modations for the wheels Of bicyclists who
visit the colossal institution.
Chinese coinage in the shape of knife
has been traced back as far as 3240 B. c.
The herald., 1898-11-06

by those who have to meet them. There
are twenty-eight chapters. and among the
suggestive titles are these: THE Home
Relation" about Father Mother"
Friends" beginning a Christian Life"
about Prayer conversation, Con
troll of Temper" Social Duties, " THE Use
of Time" Honor THE Blessing of
Work" Learning Contentment." Dr.
Miller talks in such a sensible, appeal
ing way that no one can fail to be con-
vinced of his wisdom. 1t is evident that
he is aiming to help, not like a dogmatic
preacher, but like congenial friend.
@ O o
GREAT BOOKS. By the Very Rev. Fred
erick W. Farrar, D. D., Dean of Can
terbury; gilt top, s1.25. T. Y. Crowell
& Co.
Dean Farrar, like many other wise men,
overwhelmed at the enormous productive
ity of our time. feels that the average
reader, and particularly the young, needs
a guide and helper in the choice of what
is best. He advises not to attempt to read
anything that comes in ones way, but to
make reasonable choice. "Indiscriminate
reading" he says, should be resolutely
abjured." But there are certain books that
should be made the very founda ton of
decent literary training, and some of these
Dean Farrar takes and analyzes with con-
O O O
IN THE NAVY; OR, FATHER AGAINST
son. BY Walter Lee Goss 1893 pp u
full page illustrations by NJ. j. Burns;
CLOTH $3.50. T. Y. Crowell G. Co.
This is stirring "story of naval adven-
lures in the great civil war" by the au-
thor OF jed" one of the most popular
books for boys yet written. The scenes are
laid principally on the inland waters OF
Virginia and North Carolina, in that net
work of rivers, bays and canals which,
leading far into the country. enabled
blockade-runners to carry supplies to the
confederacy.
1t Is volume of real merit, with a his
torical basis, and a most wholesome tone
ana moral. The volume is sure to be a wei
come one. In fact, it is not easy to find
more promising book for young people In
all this seasons lists.
THE BOYS WITH OLD HICKORY. Bv
Everett 7. Tomlinson. Illustrated. Lee
x Shepherd, Boston.
we nave heard it doubted if there would
be at once worthy successors to Abbott and
Kellogg and "Oliver Optic" hut the doubt
is at least partly removed, for in this au
thor we have a really interestin writer of
boys books, as the 1912 series all through
atteSts. In TINS volume we have the fur
ther adventures of the Field and Spicer
boys and Captain Jim. and make the ac
quaintance of "Old Hickory" and Jean
l-ahtte, the leader of the Baratarians. The
heroes have their first experience on the
ocean, taxing passage on a privateer for
the Gulf of Mexico, and after MANY ad-
ventures take part in the battle of New
orleans OF which vivid description is
given.
Inc events presented are stirring enough
to interest any boy, and the readino of ~
book can hardly fail to arouse true spirt
of patriotism in the reader, as well as to
The herald., 1898-11-06
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS

take pleasure in announcing that the same
publishers have issued a fine new edition
of Looking Backward"
O 0 o
STORIES OF THE CHEROKEE HILLS
BY Maurice Thompson. Houghton, Milf
fin & Co.
These are tales of the south and Of the
colored people, and they are exquisite in all
ways. Our author is both story teller and
poet, as our readers all know, and he has
given us here series of stories and
sketches of rare delicacy of touch. There
are seven in all, beginning with Color
Line Jocundities,'' and ending with "The
Balance of Power" bit of rollicking wit
and humor that sets off pleasing moral
after the ways of the world. "A Race Ro-
nance and "A Dusky Genius are very
excellent pieces of literary work. The vol
ume is literally illustrated.
O O O
YOUNG PEOPLES PROBLEMS. BY the
Rev. ]. r. Miller, d. d. Cloth. rs cents.
T. j. Crowell & Co.
This is an attractive as we'll as useful lit
tie volume. 1t treats with great serious
ness and dscriminat ton the problems of
young people. The author makes no pre-
tense of considering all these problems
but by taking up some of them. he believes
that others will be more easily answered
The herald., 1898-11-06

dom, we come upon his first message as
governor and read these lines concerning
the old-tme Sabbath: "A due observance
of the Lords Day is not only important TO
internal religion, but greatly conducive to
the order and benefit of civil society. 1t
speaks to the senses of mankind, and, by
solemn cessation from their common af
fairs, reminds them of a Deity, and their
accountableness to the great Lord of ALL"
There was something fine and strong in
the good old lives of which that of Cover
nor Hancock was a type, and it is good to
get hold of a volume like this, which makes
us familiar with them. The book is full of
the most important matter and is needed
to complete the history of this famous man
and his times.
COASTS. BY Frank R. Stockton. Il
Illustrated by G. Varian and B. w. Cline
d1nst. The Macmillan company.
Stories of the rise and decline of bucca-
neering and piracy in our West Indian
waters. Spanish exactions grew so mon
strous in the seventeenth century that
English, French and Dutch combined and
buccaneers came into being. From bucca-
neers with a moral purpose rose the pi-
rates, whose greed was merely for private
gain. This is the latest volume in the sto-
ries from our history which the Macmillans
have been publishing. The topic is one not
often taken up, it being on the borderland
between history and romance But it is
tit topic and an important one. These
sketches show the use of piracy, substan-
TALLY how it came into existence as an
other step beyond privateering and old
fashioned ocean ventures generally. 1t is
written in charming vein, of course and
is exceedingly refreshing in its frankness
ana dlrectness. TO most young people the
career of William Kidd, commonly known
as Robert Kidd, is perhaps the most inter-
esting chapter in the volume
O O O
THE ISLAND OF THE ENGLISH. A
STORY OF NAPOLEON'S DAYS Bv
Frank Cooper, M. A., author of 1.-The
Hunting of the AUX" etc.
This story, half English and half French
beautifully illustrated by Mr. George
Borrow, is made especially attractive bv
its pretty binding and it's excellent print.
But, outside of all this attractiveness il is
a volume that all young people, especially
boys, will give a warm welcome to- No
more exciting story has made its appear
ance during the year and the adventures it
relates are the best sort of romance. On
the whole, 1t is a sturdy, virile volume, that
one makes no mistake in buying.
O O O
II - II I4NT- DRAMA, l. III Il MAN1F'ES-
TATlON OF GOD IN THE UNI
VERSE. By Rev. Granville Ross Pike.
The Macmillan company.
Nothing is lost to religious faith by anv
change going on in the world. The Divine
lmminence is more and more apparent and
effective as we consider God in all things.
His purpose, his WILL cannot be lost sight
OF, for 1t is goodness and truth operating
on human hearts-and the heart never
grows old. The entire sweep of life is
brought under the sweep of God in his
world, and not out Of it, as much Of old
The herald., 1898-11-06

She's doughty and dangerous. daring am
deep.
And you. little boy, are fast asleep.
Little Boy Blue, come toot your norn'
or masculine attributes you'll be shorn.
If you would any or all Of them Keep
Little Boy Blue, you must cease your sisep.
o o o
The Ladies' Home Journal and McCiuro's
Magazine have just formed unique ntet-
ary partnership. by which they Will pup
lish, through the Doubleday & Mcclure
company, several sets Of books at ex-
tremely low price. The two magazines
have together probably five or six million
readers and the first editions will be about
ten times as large as usual, in view OF this
enormous audience. making 1t possible TO
sell the books at remarkably low prices.
The publishers have now read "Fiction
Library of three volumes, by Miss Will
kins, Hamlin Garland and Caroline A.
Mason, and Domestic Library" COM,
prising Good Cooking" by Mrs. Rorer.
The Inside of One Hundred Homes" by
william Martin johnson, and Model
Houses for Little Money" by the Ladies'
Home Journals architect
The herald., 1898-11-06

The above portrait of the author Quo vad other
face The popularity the Polish writer continues in this Book
Meanwhile authorized publishers
issuing popular o
at handa
Polish
The Duge Swed
original The books though well and bound sold
= volume
The herald., 1898-11-06
LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER g. 1898

brave company, who sighted Florida on
Whftsunday In 1889, Is q wonderful story
and most skillfully is 1t told. Miss King
has been able to tell us little that Is new
in the way of actual history, but she has
done what no history has done-she has
formed the original version of De Soto
expedition into one natural and continu-
Gus narrative. with as little alteration of
language and spirit as was possible All
the deeds of daring on the part of the In
dians and the Spanish cavaliers have been
recorded with due emphasis, and the thread
OF adventure has not been broken through
out. 1t Is most fortunate handling of a
theme that is full of danger to an author.
but Miss King has held herself to the task
of making book that would balance it.
self, and not grow too much on one side.
In her preface she says that 1t did not
seem to her necessary ito confute and re-
fute. sift and weigh evidence, when the
question Is only one of mere human char
acteristics, exaggerauons and discrepan-
cfes, which are the ear-marks after all, of
human experience, varying in detail, but
agreeing in the main essentials"
The rationale of the mission of De Soto.
VINO sought the land of the fountain of
youth quarter of century after Juan
Ponce de Leon has christened it 1.-THE
Land of the Flowery Feast" is candidly
set forth. 1t was the work of a shrewd
venture. and the reader follows the narra-
tive feeling all the while that he Is being
fairly dealt with, however rosy some Of
the pictures are. 1t is indeed charming
volume.
O o O
A WORLD OF GREEN HILLS. By Brad
ford Torrey. Houghton. Mifflin & Com
pany.
This volume comprises four papers con-
corning the authors recent travels In North
Carolina to add to his stock Of bird craft.
and two that describe curious journeys into
the heart of Virginia. Our readers know
so well the flavor of Mr. Torrey's work in the
realm of nature, that 1t seems out of place
as well as unnecessary to attempt to tell
with much definiteness the contents of
this exceedingly handsome and delightful
volume. Nobody since Thorean has been
nearer to the heart of nature than Bradford
Torrey.
o 0 O
THE STORY OF LITTLE JANE AND
ME-. BY NJ. E. Houghton. Griffin &
Company.
This is altogether the cutest little book
The herald., 1898-11-06
(Edited by Enoch Knight.)

THE REQUIEM OF THE SEA
Fear not to sleep
Thy shroud is woven of heavens tears,
The tall stars
Are the blessed candles
Burning at thy head;
The drifting mist of ocean,
The incense, the holy song,
The wind that whistles its responses
To the deep intoning of the sea,
The stars, and winds, and waters
Say mass forever for thy soul.
Fear not to sleep
These waves were once
The pathway of our Lord.
Paul Kester in The Bookman.