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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24

A Massachusetts man has declined a
politica. office that pays $4,000 year.
They that win glory on battlefields are
not the only heroes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24

A New Jersey correspondent OF the
Germantown Telegraph writes that he
has had much trouble in getting a catch
of clover, and in one field he had failed
several times to get catch of grass or
clover with wheat. One year he plowed
1T as soon as the wheat was off, and
mixing pound of fiat turnip seed with
the clover and timothy seed for an acre
he sowed the field with that combina-
ton and rolled it in without harrow
ing. The season was dry, but the fur
nips came up well, and when cold
weather came he could have harvested
n large crop. Most of them We're left
to freeze in the ground. The green
leaves nearly covered the ground, and
when snow came they caught it and
held 1t there effectually protecting the
clover and timothy In the spring the
turnips were decayed and furnished
much food for the grass and clover, and
he had one of the best stands that he
had obtained in many years.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24
MARTINEZ cAMPos.

He Was One of spain's Foremost Sol
diers and Statesmen.
Spain lost one of her greatest military
heroes in the death recently Of Marshal
Arsenic Martinez Campos. For the mast
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24

The life insurance companies must
have suffered severely by the Calves
ton disaster.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24

Few articles in the agricultural line
of writing have attracted more atten-
ton or perhaps done more to arouse
n determination to do better than those
of Mr.. George NJ. Clark, which we have
published this season, upon grass grow
ing. Many writer's before have urged
the need of more thorough fitting of
the land before sowing grass seed, of
using manure and fertilizers more free
ly, and Of seeding with more seed. But
with Mr.. Clark it is not matter of the
DRY. He has practiced what others
have preached, and he has practical
results TO show for what he has done.
Others may have grown MS tall grass,
but they guessed at the height, and did
not measure it. Some may have had
as much hay upon acre, but they did
not weigh 1t. 1t did not become a mat
ter of record, and a true statement of
facts would find many doubling Thorn
Cultiyator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24
Ice House of straw.

Ice House of Straw.
The Illustration, reproduced from the
American Agriculturist, shows how to
t:lrn to good account straw stacks
sometimes found on farms. The cheap.
est sort of framework which need not
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24

ance, nor can there be any, that the re-
cent disaster may not be repeated next
year or next month or next week. The
chances are against it, but it is the I'M
expected that happens. So far as has
been learned, it is not contemplated to
raise the general level of the city, nor
would such process remove the dan
ger, though it would diminish 1t. A city
built upon the sand of a peninsula, with
a bay on one side and the ocean on the
other, can never be accounted secure
from the ravages of floods and tidal
waves. Heaping up sand adds little to
the security of the situation. Neverthe-
less, 1t is clear that Galveston will
tempt fate again. Civic pride conjoined
with financial considerations will ig-
more danger which, though real, is re-
mote. The city will once more rise from
its ruins and may in time attain its for
mer proportions. 1t is safe to predict,
however, that a very large proportion
of those who endured the horrors of the
storm will never again be residents of
Galveston. The population of the re-
constructed city will largely be made
up of those who, not having faced the
flood, know nothing of Its terrors,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24


The newspapers cannot overcame
their tendency to treat jestingly the
process of naturalization. They repro
duce the absurd answers given by ap-
plicants to the questions asked them,
and record without reprobation the
high speed achieved by some courts,
which turn out new: citizens from the
naturalization mills" at the rate of
four to the minute. Non-performance
of solemn duty by the courts fur
nishes some justification for the flip
pancy of the newspapers; but courts
and newspapers alike ought to realize
that this Is serious business. The deg
radiation of citizenship is no subject
for jest 1t is not an amusing thing
when illiterate aliens, who know moth
Ing of our institutions and are with
difficulty coached through pnrrot-like
responses TO a few simple questions,
are given share in determining the
course of national policy, through thei1
votes for congressman, State Legisla1
lures and Presidential electors. There
are some encouraging signs. New York
now has law under which naturalza-
ton stops ninety days before an cleo
ton. In Massachusetts, politicians,
aware that the local courts have more
time to examine applicants and more
knowledge of their antecedents, have
been In the habit OF taking them, in
droves, before the Federal courts. But
new rules have been adopted by these
courts which are intended to detect i'm.
posture. These and similar measures
looking to greater stringency will be
generally approved. For temporary
advantage, politicians sometimes cast
scruples to the winds, in their desire
to get votes. But no man can seriously
and permanently wish to have Amerl-
can citizenship debased. AT present,
the tide of immigration is again ris-
ing, and n considerable proportion Of
the newcomers are wholly illiterate.
The social and economic evils arising
from excessive immigration are inten-
sified when ignorant aliens are en-
trusted with the ballot. The natural-
ization laws are so generous that there
is no excuse for evading them or turn
ing them into dead letter. Strictly en-
forced. they will not shut ont one man
who has in him the making of good
citizen. Public sentiment should be
quick to condemn any laxity in their
Interpretation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-24


one side of the frame and by slight
change in the type base the lettering
may be varied without limit. A full
font of rubber type is provided, and by
pressing the knob downward and lock-
ing the mechanism against revolution
the type-receivng plate is presented In
position to insert the desired lettering,
The device viii also be found con.
yenient In altering The dating stamps
In common use.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
That Alliance.

Administration officials are circum.
spect in discussing the statement made
by Lord Rosebery that Great Britain
In December approached the United
States and Germany in regard to the
advisability of forming an alliance. Fl
is understood, however, that intima.
tions were conveyed to this government
by the British authorities of their de.
sire that the relations between the two
governments should be closer and in
the nature of compact, but the ad.
ministration turned a deaf ear and
made 1t plain that the United States
could not abandon its policy of non
ENHANCEMENT in European affairs, It
Is stated that the overtures were not
In the form of formal suggestions, but
If they had been 1t is unlikely that they
would have met with cordial response
from the president.
Considerable curiosity has been
awakened as to Lord Rosebery's rea-
son for making public the fact of Great
Britain's desire to enter into an alli-
ance with the United States and Ger.
many and the steps she took to that
end. It Is thought by some that the
statement was determined upon by the
British cabinet as an answer to Mr..
Macrum's statement that he "did not
know that an alliance existed between
the United States and Great Britain"
and to dispose of the charges made by
anti-administration politicians that
such an alliance does in fact exist. The
suggestion that such statement be
made certainly did not come from
Washington.
The house. committee ON election of
president and vice president submitted
a report in favor of a joint resolution
for a constitutional amendment dis
qualifying polygamists as senators or
representatives in congress and prohib-
iting polygamy and polygamous asso-
citation between the sexes. The report
says this amendment to the constitu-
tion is designed to remove all doubtful
construction of the law and to effectu-
ally provide means of extirpating the
evils of polygamy by making it unlaw-
full in any place. 1t refers to the Rob-
erts controversy and says that while
the decision of the house established a
precedent it is not one of absolutely
force, so that constitutional
Is desirable,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23

go-as-you-please race. Following is the
score for the six days: Cox, 545; Day,
$40; Barnes, $50; Campana, $50; Ora.
ham, 425; Dean. 41S; Hegelman, 412;
Hart, 800; Click, 1886.
The government lighthouse board is
making every effort to establish a num-
Der of light and fog signal stations
along the Alaskan coast before the end
of the coming season. A bill has pass
ed the senate appropriating 100000
for this purpose and 1t is expected that
the house will take favorable action
on the measure very soon.
Frank G.. Simmons, postmaster at
Seward, Neb, was arrested and brought
to Lincoln, Neb., recently charged with
shortage Of $3.50. Simmons, who
has long been prominent in state poll
tics, admitted the shortage. David
Figard, one of Simmons bondsmen,
when informed OF the shortage and
asked to take charge of the office,
dropped dead.
Advices from Atlin report great &C.
tivity in the northern British Column
bia gold fields. On many of the creeks,
notably on the Spruce, good sized
Jumps are being taken out. A syndi-
cate has taken out several leases upon
Weight creek and has given a $1,000
contract for lumber to be delivered
there for use in the hydraulic opera
lions of the coming summer.
In response to a resolution of the
senate, the secretary of war sent to
the senate a statement showing the re-
ceipts and disbursements of public
funds in the island of Cuba for the
year 1899. The report shows receipts
of $16,346,015; of which $15,011, OS9
were from customs, $244,000 from the
postal service, $7S7,592 from internal
revenue and $303,331 from miscellan-
eous. The expenditures were s14,O85,-
0S5, leaving $2,260,209 in the hands
of the treasurer.
Two men were instantly killed and
three frightfully injured by the ex-
plosion of locomotive boiler in the
Santa Fe roundhouse at Topeka, Kan.
The dead are: John Heustin, boiler
maker; Nels Linden, fireman. The in
Jured: j. l.. Beardsley, will probably
die; Arlie Saylor, bruised and badly
shaken up; Bert Shields, face cut and
one eye injured. The explosion was
caused by compressed air, which was to
be used as motive power in the
Midget" locomotive, small switch
engine. Beardsley was letting air into
the boiler when the explosion occurred.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
MINES AND MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES.
TEENS Cleaned From the Late Reports-
All Districts Are Being Developed-A
Prosperous Year IL Prsdictsd-lGining
Notes and Personals.

Every copper company in Butte has
increased its production during Janu.
airy. The Anaconda company during
January produced about 100000 lbs.
of copper, an increase Of about 4,000,-
900 lbs. over the December output. This
makes 100000 lbs. of copper produc.
ed by this company during the past
four months, but in this connection it
should be taken into consideration that
in all probability the Parrot output is
also included in this estimate. The De.
cember output from the mines of the
Boston & Montana was 100000 lbs.
Butte & Boston, which has not been on
the producing list for number of
years, Is making an excellent showing
and has prospects Of paying a small
dividend this year. With copper at Is
cents it is estimated that it will pay at
least So per share by the end of the
year.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
OREGON.

Baker City's high school now has an
enrolment Of 100 pupils.
M. Stroud, at Cottage Grove, has sold
"a bales of hops at 6h cents a pound
In Camas swale, Douglas county, a
mammoth tooth has been found by
Robert Veatch.
A telephone line will probably be
built the coming summer from Ana.
tone, Wash, to Paradise, Ore.
klamath Falls people offer to donate
$15O,OOO to secure railroad from
Klamathon, Cal, to that place.
The Illinois has selected Portland
as Pacific coast terminal, and there
fore has a Cotton Route to the Orient.
Six cowboys have already taken $500
head of klamath cattle from near Mer-
rill to the summer range on the lava
beds.
The Scottish Rite Masons of Port
land will build magnificent cathe-
drai on the southwest corner of Towns
dale and Morrison streets.
Hon. e. L. Smith of Hood River
states to the Northwest Pacific Farmer
that he has succeeded in securing 95
per cent. clean apples in his orchard,
which is affected by the Goblin moth,
by the use OF the following spray: One
pound of white arsenic, two pounds of
sal soda. boiled thoroughly In two gal
ions OF water. One and one-half to
one and three-quarters pints of this
solution is then put in so gallons of
water, to which is added six pounds of
pure lime, which he bought unslacked
and slaked himself, He knew of af-
fected orchards producing as high as
W per cent of clean fruit by regular
spraying with this mixture.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
E1plo.ion at waraner. Idaho.

Wardner, Idaho, Feb lS.-At 9':45 last
evening the powder dryer of the Empire
State company Last Chance mine) blew
up, and all that remains is hole in the
ground 20 to 80 feet deep. In the build
ing, which was a small one, were 500
pounds of powder. In an unaccountable
way the building had caught fire, and
the flames soon reached the powder Mi
raculously, no one was hurt. Every win
dow within 200 yards in Last Chance
buildings was demolished and huge houl-
ders were started down the side of the
hill toward dwelling houses. Window
glass in a score of small buildings on upper
Main street of Wardner suffered. Bust.
ness houses quarter of a mile from the
scene of the explosion also lost their win
dow glass.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
MINING NOTES,

Work is to be Immediately resumed
on the Buckhorn mine in Flat Creek
district, on the reservation. Men have
left Spokane prepared to resume de-
velopment. 1t is a copper property
with good surface indications.
A report comes from Seven Devils
district that the Mineral World, in
which Spokane capital is said to be in.
terested, is showing up remarkably
well. The shaft is down so feet. An
assay of 300 pounds of assorted ore is
said to have run 324 ounces silver and
10 per cent. copper.
Recently John M. Burke, the mining
man of Spokane, who is the owner of
the Chloride, IL miles from Baker City,
Ore, on the east side of the Powder
river range, and near the Pocahontas
Belle, received word of the opening of
a vein of exceedingly rich ore-free
gold. When asked about the matter
Mr.. Burke simply said: II would not
now exchange the Chloride for any
mine in this whole region. She is a
big winner"
The great strike in the Flagstaff
mine, seven miles from Baker CITY
Ore, to the east and near the celebrated
Virtue property, has again called wide.
spread attention to that district This
new body of rich ore, which runs over
800 per ton, was found in the third
level. 1t is reported on good author.
ity, that the Flagstaff has been bonded
for $125,0O0 to a Boston syndicate
which will at once put in a cyanide
plant when they take possession of the
property.
A remarkable development that is
puzzling every engineer and mining
man of any experience in the Cripnle
creek district who has heard of it has
occurred on the Clara D. claim belong.
Ing to the Lexington company. The
lessees operating on the south of this
property have disclosed a freak forma.
ton which is the first of its nature IN
De found In this district, or in fact anv
other district, as far as known. The
strike was made in the bottom of a
l0o-foot shaft and is an irregular vein
OF quartz in the country rock which is
andes1te. The vein fills the bottom
OF the shaft and runs from 500 to $500
according to the assays. The peculiar.
lty Is that the quartz vein is composed
Of nodules of quartz which are about
the size OF pea which when broken
open are impregnated with fine mar
-lcleS OF free gold. These nodular oro
scattered through the andesite as
'lums are in a pudding.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
IDAHO.


The entire Pctlatch country is enjoy
ing sleighing for the first time thi
winter.
B. f. Morris has been elected. pres
dent of the Commercial Clue at Lewis
ton.
A postoffiee has been established a
Minidoka, with William H. Winter a
postmaster.
During the month Of January Their
were 587 permits issued at Wallace an,
at Wardner.
Treasurer John w. Eagleson of AID.
county paid out $6S,96s during Janu
airy on SIT warrants.
There is nothing now to show but
that Idaho has entered upon the mos
progressive year of its history.
The agricultural department of thu
university announces farmers insti
tute at Lewiston on March 2 and 8.
The students at the university hav.
organized pro-Boer and pro-English SO
cieties. and some lively debates are ex
pected.
Charles S. Mcconnell has been chos
en- clerk of the court and auditor and
recorder of Ada county, to succeed Geo
w. Lamoreau.
The postoffice at Border, Bear Lake
county, has been discontinued, and mai
SO addressed may be obtained at the
office at Moscow.
AS result of the recent snow great
deal of log hauling is being done on the
upper Palouse. 1t Is said that nearly
l2,OO0,000 feet Of logs have been cut.
A postoffice has been established at
Magnolia, Nee Perez county, with a
special service from Lapwai, II miles
northeast. George Green has been ap-
pointed postmaster.
Pearl Martin, the 19-year-oId son of
A. M. Martin, of Couse creek, about II
miles above Lewiston, accidentally
shot and killed himself last week while
duck hunting on the Snake river.
An order disseminating the postofice
at Blackbird, Lemhi county, was subse-
quently rescinded, and a commission
issued to Isaac M. Dean as postmaster.
to succeed Harry G. Weidner, resigned.
Indians are catching large number of
fiue salmon in the Clearwater. So far
white fishermen have failed to land a
fish, although their canoes dot the river
In numbers equal to those of the noble
red man.
lightweight instruments were fled
for record with the county auditor last
week at Wallace. OF these "a were
deeds. One mortgage was released.
The new locations included "a quartz
lodes. four placer claims and one water
right.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
BRITISH COLUMBIA.

1t is said the SLOGAN Star offered the
present rate before closing down.
The stringing of the wire for the
North Star tramway has been com.
pleted.
The Silverton mines are now resum.
ing and bigger forces than eyer will
probably be employed.
The mine owners and miners at Ross
land are alike pleased with the out.
come Of the big strike.
Eight months Of trouble ends at New
Denver and the union grants it's mem.
pers permission to work at ss.25.
boundary was pleased with the re-
cents news Of the settlement and saws
that.po woFe mines win suspend work
in ti'at,district. -
The big strike IS settled and the labor
troubles IN the SLOGAN are at an end
The big mines are resumsng. Dissen-
sions which began last July are finally
satisfactorily compfemised.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23

in gold for vein matter, when they have
been informed by two eminent experts
that the formation through which the
veins cut will pay a.profit exceeding
81 per ton and that 1t can easily be
treated with a cyanide process. The
minimum cost Of mining and treatment
is placed at 75c per ton, and maximum
at 81. The ore, being entirely free
from copper, brings cyanide treatment
to its lowest cost. These values, it
should be borne in mind, come from
100 to 1850 feet depth.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-02-23
Buffalo HUMP

Buffalo Hump camp was, thrown into
a Juror of excitement byFa big strike
on the Fortune claim, one OF the prop
critics of the Buffalo Hump Develop
ment Company of Spokane. For sew
eral weeks past drift has been adj
vanced off of the lead, but recent
crosscut opens UP large and rich ore
body. The grade Is much higher than
any heretofore encountered in the prop
erty. No assays have yet been had,
but from the character of the ore 1t will
unquestionably average over 500 per
ton in gold, and with 12-foot vein of
this grade it places the Fortune almost
on a dividend paying basis. Explora-
ton work has heretofore been done
and wherever the lead has been I'M
covered, it has been of uniformly high
grade. Work has been progressing for
the past six months with varying re-
suits, and the management can now
congratulate itself on having one Of
the best properties in the Buffalo
Hump district.
Eight men are at work on the Big
Buffalo tunnel, under Superintendent
Gilpin, and rapid progress is being
made, and it is confidently believed
that within rs or 80 feet further their
first big lead will be cut The X. l..
G. r. and /. Y. L. claims of this COM
pany adjoin the Fortune on the north,
and show the Fortune lead, which con-
tinues through to the Ohio. Mecca and
Idaho, all owned by this company;
thence through the Vesuvius, showing
on the surface continuous ore body
Of something like 5000 feet.
The Observation-Disclosures Company
is pushing work on the ST. Louis, and
grading out, preparatory to the cree
ton of hosting plant.
The Broadwater and Broadway
claims are looking first rate, and are
supposed to be the north extension of
the Vesuvius lead.