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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
COuPRESSFD Arr o CLEtNING.
The Idea l. Centuries Old Mexican women
Ise IhAI Methnd In Ma.hInR Ilnthns

y sometimes wonder" said the man from
the Southwest, whether the inventor who
turned compressed air to cleaning purposes
thought he had a brand-new idea. II so. no
was much mistaken. Is1w air usedfor cleaning
years ago. If ] numbered my years by cent?
ures instead Of scores. | think ] might have
seen it at my birth Just the same.
The older method Is primitive, Of course.
While the up-to-date system carries the air from
n central station 10 the point of use, the original
way Is 20 press II on the spot. It's less dangerous
j first saw air used for the next To godlv pur-
poses years ago down In Mexico. 4 crowd Of
women were scattered along the banks of a
Of the water. BY the side of each woman was
tho. pile Of garments 20 be washed. Each article
had been thoroughly covered with soap from
the, Soapwecd Nature is generous down there
and grows tho article.
The women took tho garments, one by ono
ana spread them out on the fat stones. Then
they tlirt"d and twisted and rIbbed them 10
take the dirt ont. Perhaps You imagine that
they used tho stone n "A scrubhing board. Not
~ aI. Mexican mutrons don't like 10 natoh
ana mend or 10 make new clothes any better
thar those north Oft he border
The washers took the woll-soaped garments
ana lung them over the stone with u nirt which
caught air underneath and puTod Thorn un. This
untlon Is similar 20 that Of the spoon rs the cook
boats M the white Of egg to makgit light Tho
nlt caught IN the wet cloth was kncadpd ont ne the
baker kncdds the dough. II carried with Il the
dlrti The act was repeated again and again
ana the results are rs good ! know, bccauso
] have worn shirts washed In that wav. And
TINS style, OF using air 20 clean was an old story,
they tell me. when Nero ruled.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
CARNEGIE PRIVATE BRIDGE.
One OF the Heaviest Structures in the World
Cars With Molten Metal 20 Run Over \,

P1TTsBURG, Pa, Sept, 2a-what is said n
be the heaviest railroad bridge in the world
Is now being built by the Carnegie Company
for its own private use across the Mononoa-
hela River, between the Braddock and Home
stead works, six miles above Pittsburp Tho
company has already two big bridges of its
own over the same river and the third is mad
necessary by It's constantly increasing busi-
ness. The bridge viii be used for the CONVEX
ance 81 iron ore, coke. limestone and hot mctGl
IRON the four blast furnaces of the company
Inc main span Of the bridge will be 500 feet
long and the bridge ?. 800 feet long. n vui
have a sidewalk and two railroad tracks One
OF the tracks will be- for hot metal cars and the
other for, iron ore trains. The floor of Inc
bridge viii be of fire brick. 10 prevent dam
age 70 river craft In case OF accident 10 the cars
containing the molten lead.
The bridge will contain some of the heayi-
est pieces OF steel ever put into a bridge. The
carrying power Of tho bridge will be practically
unlimited, FOR II Is probable that the struc.
ture VIII have TO support on the one track n
single train OF hot metal cars. containing M,
teen 70 twenty tons each, extending from
one end Of the bridge 10 the other. and on tba
other track a train Of iron ore and pig iron -
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30

From NE NCr Orleans Times Democrat
I've heard a good many stories about
hip shooting said a veteran hu inter- of this
city, but ! never saw but one man who pro-
icssed 10 be able to do the trick. He was n
physician named Webster. who came from
somewhere near Charleston. S. c. ! hunted
with him twice at Asheville, and on each oc-
oa~ion lie gave son remarkable exhibitions
of his skill.
lie used an old-faShionel Parker brccch-
loader, ~ bore, and when he shot from tho
hip he CRASHED the stock. Just behind the ham
mers Milh hiS right hand and held the bar
res nrnllN IN his lett, some eight or nine inches
below the mu2Zle. The fat Of the stock wa.
pressed against his right side al the ton Of
the hip bone and q little 10 the front. So he
dld not face me object be shot At. but had II
details, because ! watched him particularly.
The first thing ] saw him knock over was n ra6-
nv, whlch was looping across a Uloughcd field.
lie ~tcadled tho KUN for an instant with "A
gesture that reminded mo somehow Of a man
holding q billiard cue. and then blaZed away.
The rabbit dropped. Afterward | saw him
shoot n lark on the wing and two other birds
sitting. He afterward missed a connie Of
wing shots. but | saw enough to convince ma
that there was no accident about his FIRST work.
He didn't pretend To shoot as we'll from Tho hin
as from the shoulder. and admitted frgnkIy 10,
be couldn't bring down dinncult game, such,
Tor instance, rs snipe i can hit about three
9Mt oi I'VE. ne said. when ! pick my own con-
ditlonS; and ] believe he could do even better.
When | asked him how he did il he laughed
There, Is no mystery about hip shooting
ne sad. and II IS q great mistake 10 suppose
" necessary 10 look over the sights i'm order
20 htt things, How docs an archer bring dow,
iyiug BIRDS He doesn't look along the arrow
he shoots by ,enSe 81 direction. and / do tho
who possesses this sense Of direction. no Sddsd.
hut those who have it-perhaps one ont on
earn hip shooting easily
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
ENGTNEERS' HAUNTED HOUSE.
Railroad Men Affected by the Memory OF .
Dead Face az a window.

Some houses are haunted to some people
and all right 70 others said an engineer on the
Ninth avenue elevated road. There is a house
on our line that is haunted to the men who have
been on this run for a few years back. Maybe
you remember the story. IL was printed when
the Incident happened. one of our mon noticed
q .tnau's face At the window overlooking Tie
road. Every time the train pas ed FOR three
days. | believe. the engineer saw the face. 1t
was AWAY. the same. Then no told somebody
else about 10 and on Investigation IL was dis
covered that the man at the window was dead.
He OCCupled the room alone. There was no one
else in the house. He had killed himself and in
atnote found on his table it was written that the
man was lonesome, aud that he had raised the
window Just before the act so that he might die
In the noise Of the city, That was all there was
20 the story.
Ever since that time every engineer and fire.
man on the line who was employed at that time
turns his face away In passing that house. l
have heard them al speak Of IL, aud 20 each of
them that house IL haunted, although IL is now
occupied. aud I don't suppose the people who
live there know anything about the story. [
know have tried % forget IL, but lust before
nv engine pesses 10 the recollection Of the
dead face at the window comes back 20 me- and
either ?ose my eyes or look In an opposite
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30

vegetables. which no American would think
Of allowing himself. while woman even eat
hem without thought Of the consequences.
A liking for them seems a less excuse than
that recently propounded by an Italian writer
on woman's beauty and its treatment. The
large. soft eyes Of the. Italian peasant woman
Is said to be a result Of their fondness for gar
lie and onions and their habit Of appeasing
that appetite without thought Of the conSe--
quences. Parsley Is said Ia have some eject
IN this same direction, although as a means Of
improving the beauty Of the eyes II Is not
nearly 80 effective "a the stronger onion and
garlic. But IL. greater suitability for mixed
society may compensate for. any inferiority.
The Italian women are said by this authority
20 acquire another beauty through one Of their
popular articles Of diet. Lentils are said to
give. them the abundant glossy black mar
which l. one OF their noted features. They
eat lentils more than any other vegetable and
attribute their glossy thick hair TO their eject.
Women with beautiful hair and eyes are al
ways TO be admired and no feature is likely TO
charm a man more than beautiful eye but
II is doubtful II men would demand them "a
the result OF a diet Of garlic or onions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
STOWAWAYS THAT WE'RE PETS.
An InterestinE Pair That Came Aboard the
City of Rome on a Recent Trim.

\ pair without money. passage iickc,s or
luggage boarded the steamship City NJ Rome
on her last trip from Glasgow to this port Just
n the closing hour for sailing. They did not
attempt to conceal themselves as stowaways.
but deliberately moved among the passengers.
A. night came on they failed to 20 into n state
room. They did not ask for a place at The table.
most Of tho passengers they Wed with ono
another IN making this pair comfortahle. As
7 grew darker they di-aI pearcd. but with the
brNak OF day they were found upon the deck
again. az happy .as could be-. and they did not
leave the shin the entire voyage.
Ihey were a pair of sparrOws. and they be-
came so tame that they would eat from the
hand Of a passenger while pcrchcd upon the
passengers other hand. The children Of tho
ship became fond of them. andiu-t rs the vessel
was. nenting port one Of the birds was Killed
by, tho fall OF n little girl who had II In hcr hand.
IN the excitement Of III" near approach to
Its disappearance was unknown.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30
BIcTCLES IN CEN ETERIFs.
Those Ridden for Pleasure Not Admitted
Plot Owners and workmen May Ride.

Bicycles ridden for pleasure are not admitted
to Woodlawn Cemetery. Al first no bicycles
whatever We're admitted. but with the increased
uss OF the bicycle came applications from men
for permission 20 1de their wheels on the
grounds going 10 and from work. and such apuli-
cations were granted. Permit, are now
bicycle In visiting plots. Bicycle permits NJ
Woodlawn are Issued by the superintendent
az the jerome avenue gate TO the cemetery.
although by going round through Williams
bridge and goins In through the sate by the
railroad station you may go in without a per-
init. The number OF permits that have been
issued 80 fpr do pot exceed $50.
Substantially tie came practice prevails ut
Greenwood, and Cypress Hills I'm BROOKLYN
mitted. ( bicycle per@it r. issued T 10 a sT,
plot owner Permitting him 10 visit Ills plot on
3 bicycle These permits are isued. either at
Evergreen CemeterY Ia Brooklyn. however,.
admits riders VI bicycles freq
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-30

Women usually shun onions and garlic more
carefully than men. who sometimes allow them
selves the luxury Of indulging IN one or the
other when they are not likely 10 meet women
or anybody else who might be fastidious These
two vegetables are almost barred from polite
society. although the prejudice against them
is stronger in this country than 1t is abroad
There men eat without hesitation highly
favored combinations Of these two lingering
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
MONTANA.

The roof of the capital building at
Helena is completed.
The cooks and walters of Helena are
about to organize a union.
Sam Fuller, aged 26, of Butte, lost
his life in the Little Joe mine last week
by cavein.
Lady conductors ran II street cars
in Butte all one day, Differed by ladies,
who worked for charity's sake.
Bids will be opened in Washington
November 5 for the construction of the
basement of the public building of
Helena.
ident and Lowell King secretary of the
athletic association of the Montana
State college at Bozeman.
The United States land office at Hell
ena disposed of 1851 acres of govern
ment land during the quarter ended
September 80. The receipts of the
Office amounted to SAL, 146.15.
Alderman S. c. Reynolds of Billings
has accepted an invitation to join the
party of the imperial potentate of the
Mystic .Shriners on a trip to Honolulu,
which leaves Chicago March 1.
L. ]. Schram, a Montana Central
brakeman, residing in Great Falls, fell
from the top of a freight train near
Big Sandy last week and was killed.
No one knows how the accident occur
red. He was a single man.
A case of smallpox was discovered
in Missoula last week on what is
known as the levee, ne district adjac
ent to the Northern Pacific station
The man, Henry Lauz, came to Mis-
soula three weeks ago from Butte
Thomas Hogan and Harry Hallup are
victims of an explosion which occurred
recently at a mine near Melrose, on the
Oregon Short Line railroad Both are
single men. They were blown high in
the air. The blast went off prema
turely
Frank Warner who is we'll known as
an old-timer and prosperous rancher
about Stevensville, has returned to the
Bitter Root valley, from where he has
travelled for the past two years in
South America, Cuba and over the
United States, and has decided to again
settle down.
Sister Batiste, a teacher in a Catho
lie academy for boys in Helena, wa:
accidentally killed recently by the dis
charge of an old musket placed on the
table by small boy pupil She was ?;
years old, and came to Montana three
years ago from Leavenworth, Kansas
Her family name was Flynn.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

Stewart with 40 men of the rifle brigade
went TO their support. The casualties, I'M
fortunately, were heavy. Stewart and one
private were killed, Captain Paget, Lieu
tenant Steubbs and five engineers were
wounded and Lieutenant Sewel and 10
of the rife brigade were made prisoners.
Gov. Richards, Wyoming's executive,
is in a Chicago hospital.
Fred Collins shot and killed Arthur
Dando at Peterborough, B. c., resulting
from a drunken row.
The navy department has been in
formed of the arrival of the transport
Westminster at Manila with subsis-
tence stores aboard.
The government authorities of Santo
Domingo report that the rebels are
surrounded and are asking for guaran-
tees previous to surrendering.
The Wisconsin recently completed
the most successful trial trip ever made
by battleship, and she is pronounced
the finest vessel ever turned out by the
Union Iron Works.
The coroners' jury of New York re-
turned a verdict to the effect that Kate
Scharn had come to her death by as
pf1yxia and strangulation at the hands
of some person or persons unknown.
Considerable alarm is felt at the
British embassy in Berlin, over the
condition Of Dowager Empress Fred
erica. A fortnight ago it was not ex-
pected she would survive the winter.
The ten men from Idaho, convicted
of selling a train near Wardner at the
time of the Occur d'Alene troubles have
just been released from the peniten-
tiary, in accordance with the recent de-
cision of the circuit court Of appeals.
They have railroad tickets for Moscow,
Idaho, and hope to secure work in the
mines.
1t is understood that the final dispo-
sition of silver, some $275,000 in
amount taken by the American ma
rines at the capture of Tientsin, may
be determined by congress. In the
meantime the silver is being treated as
trust fund, of which the government
is custodian until a determination is
reached as to its rightful disposition.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
IDAHO.

The enrolment at the university is
now 210.
John Larson has been appointed post
master at Hope.
The first snow storm of the season
visited De Lamar last week.
The district court at Lewiston has
adjourned until November "a.
The Idaho Industrial school at Wei
ser will open for scholars on the 23rd.
Walla Walla's band has been engag-
ed to furnish music for the Lewiston
fair next week.
The Idaho National bank has been
organized at Lewiston with capital
stock of $4,000.
During the year ending June 80,
25,413 acres of land in Idaho were pat
ented to the Northern Pacific railroad.
William H. Ridenbaugh and A. nossi
of Boise have been arrested on charge
of illegally cutting timber from the
public domain.
Dennis Dacey, an old-time resident
of Blaine county and one of Idaho's
pioneers, dropped dead at his ranch
near Soldier, Saturday.
The business of the first week OF
October at the United States assay of
flee in Boise was the heaviest of the
year. footing up to s90,91441.
The United States district court
which meets at Moscow November T.
will be a session of considerable i'm
portance. as some big mining cases are
to be heard.
AS a result of careless handling OF
giant powder in w. II. Mead's camp on
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
Prices Paid In Spokane.

Poultry and eggs-Chickens, old, 10
Ollie per h., live weight; springs, 81
@4.50 per doz.; ducks 81 per doz. {;
geese, dressed, lie per h.; turkeys, live
10@12c; eggs, fresh, S6@6.50 per case.
getables-Potatoes, coo per cwt. /;
onions, Soc per cwt.
Live stock-Beef, live steers, 81 %
4c; dressed, 6@7c; live cows, &c; dress
ed, 81 @615c; veal calves, dressed, To
&c; mutton, ewes, &c; wethers, 31Ac;
hogs, live, $4.75 per cwt.; dressed, 81
per cwt.
Sheep skins-Shesrlings 10c each (;
short wool pelts, 30@50c; medium
wool, 50@75c; long wool, 75c@$1.
The local mills pay the following
prices for grain, delivered: Club
wheat, 44c bulk, Acc sacked; bluestem
Ate bulk, 49c sacked red, 42c bulk, 44c
sacked
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
As to Chinese Arbitration.

Washington, Oct. l5.-The Russian
suggestion that the international court OF
arbitration of the Hague be given jul
risdiction over EMERGENCIES of views arts
ing on the question of Chinese indem-
mites was submitted to Secretary Hay
by NJ. DE Wollant, the Russian charge in
Washington, in a note on October 3. 1t
has received the adherence of the Ameri-
can, French and Russian governments
thus giving the suggestion the approval
of three of the foremost powers, and strong
assurance its general adoption.
M. De Wollant's note has not yet beer
made public. 1t can be stated, however
that it was the result of extended ex
changes between the French and Russian
governments relative to the six proposal;
in the French note. 1t expressed approva
OF the various proposals and then added
the new suggestion relative to giving the
Hague tribunal jurisdiction of indemnity
in case there should be divergence o
views.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
OREGON.

Baker City is to have an artificial ice
plant.
The shortage in six-room cottages
amounts to a panic in Portland.
The Woman's, club of Portland has
an enrolment of nearly 200.
The English partridges recently or
dered from England by Albany sports
men are expected to arrive in Novem-
Der.
]. w. Ingle of Corvallis, with a dried
prune product of 5000 pounds of Ital-
ians, has declined an offer of 81 cents
per pound for 30s and 40s, and "A of a
cent less for each smaller grade.
The property valuations in Clatsop
county show an increase of $112,976
over last year, principally from timber
lands that have been decided during the
past IL months. The gross value of
all property in the county is $s2,S22,-
019, with $136,003 exempted.
Mrs. Minnie Crockett has been indict-
ed by the grand jury at Pendleton on a
charge of numbering her husband. The
indictment is in the first degree. and
reads that Minnie Crockett on Oct. 2,
1900, in the county of Umatilla. with
deliberate and premeditated malice,
killed James M. Crockett, shooting him
with pistol.
A new industry has been developed
in Gresham as the result of the build
ing of silos. 1t is the cutting of green
corn fodder to fill them with, which is
being done by fully equipped steam
outfit that travels from place to place
and cuts about 40 tons of ensilage
daily. There are now six silos in that
neighborhood, and more will be put up.
The cutting industry will be as import
ant there as threshinS in year or two.
as about the same number of hands are
employed in one as in the other. The
corn is hauled direct from the fields to
the silos- the work requiring five teams
and ten men, all told.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

Granite creek, the men and Mr.. Mead
narrowly escaped death from an explo-
sion, recently.
The star mail service from Juliaetta
to Nez Perez has been changed so as to
begin at Lenore, thereby emitting Ju-
liaetta and decreasing the route nine
and half miles.
. Fire destroyed the livery barn and
store rooms of Henry Scott at De La
mar last week, entailing a loss of
$1,000 on barn and contents, with
small insurance.
A new trail has been opened from
Dent, on the north fork of the Clear
water, Orofino, thus making Orofino the
supply point for the Swamp creek and
Burnt creek mining districts.
Ole Olson, a Swede farmer, while
shaking" limbs down the mountain
side, near Blaine, became entangled in
the brush and it is supposed was drag
ged to death by the horse he was using.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
Give News Too Soon.

London, Oct. l5.-No words can ex-
press too strongly the irritation of the
British foreign office over the latest de-
velopments in the Chinese situation and
its hopelessness of any settlement being
arrived at in the near future exceeds if
anything its irritation, the chief cause
OF which, TO quote an official, is the extra
ordinary and unreasonable publicity given
diplomatic communications even before
they are officially known to the other
powers.
America, according to the view taken
by the official, whose opinion may be pre-
sumed to be Lord Salisbury's, is among
the offenders in this respect. "How,' con-
tinued the informant of the Associated
Press, "can we be expected to arrive at
conclusions when the Chinese are given
the opportunity of knowing every step
in the negotiations, which in themselves
are as intricate as the world has seen. The
advantage which this unprecedented pub
Lefty has given the Chinese can not be
Over-estimated.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

Philipsburg, Mont, Oct. l6-AIiss
Amanda Fairman, a prominent young lady
here, was found dead in her room, having
been shot with a shotgun. A shotgun was
lying on the table. The suicide theory is
denied and it is believed she was murdered.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

Washington, Oct. l5.-The submarine
boat Holland was placed in commission
Saturday. She is to be sent to the naval
academy at Annapolis so that the cadets
may become thoroughly familiar with this
modern weapon of warfare.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
James Hair killed Himself.

Portland, Ore, Oct. l5-James T. Hair,
ex-captain of police of this city, and or
ganizer of the Woodmen of the World,
committed suicide, shooting himself at the
Nationa. hotel
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
KiIIed by a Traction Car.

Pittsburg, Oct. l5.-James L. Ran
kin, prominent in the American Tin Plate
company, was instantly killed by a Mon
ongahela traction car while riding his
horse along Forbes avenue.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

New York, Oct. l5.-The chamber of
commerce Galveston relief committee re-
ports additional contributions amounting
to S6304; previously acknowledged, $780,.
SOB; grand total, $ll5,99s.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19

A Dayton cigar manufacturer was
fined $50 and costs for violating the
child labor law.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-02-20

L'Eclair. of Paris, recently published
IN elaborate article, tires documente,"
signed Dagoubert, and concerning itself
NTH the discovery Of the south pole.
According to Dagoubert the region
about the pole is inhabited and organ
,zed as a kingdom, having the name
'L'Etat d'Adelie" It is said to contain
loo 900 inha bitants. of whom 600 600 are
French and 10000 Papuans. A trav-
eler who, Dagoubert says, happened to
each this country of the south pole
las lately arrived in Paris. He'is about
% apply to the ministry and proposes
protectorate of the country and sub
,idy for it of 100000 francs q year.
There is said to be much gold in the
country. which is jealousy guarded by
the inhabitants. Some notice is being
paid NJ. Dagoubert by scientific men.
aud he is likely. it is said. to attract as
much attention in Paris as Louis de
Rougemont and his Australian tales did
in London.