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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-11-22

Yesterday our literary club dis
cussed Conversation as Lost Art. "
"What was the final decision ?" "Oh,
such hubbub arose that nobody heard
what anybody said"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-11-22
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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-11-22

The fund for the Elks' carnival which
is to be held in Tacoma next year, has
already reached nearly $4,000.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
LIKE DIAMOND WALLS.
The Beautiful Appearance of the In-
 terior of Nevada Cavern.


 On the north side of the Osgood range of mountains, about four miles east of Eden creek, there is a natural cave of quite large dimensions. It is in the limestone formation and has the appearance of an old worked-out mine with it's stopes, raises and winzes. It is almost impossible to find the entrance, as it is covered with a growth of underbrush. The first thing that a person notices is a small crevice in the rocks, but as he crawls into the crevice on hands and knees he finds that it widens as he goes down. About fifteen feet from the entrance a man can stand up and walk down the gradual incline, which is at about 60 degrees. At place thirty feet from the mouth there is a raise some thirty feet high and drift forty feet long. The sight which meets the cave seekers gaze at this point is most beautiful. On the ceiling large stalac- are decorated with crystals of lime in .ermingled with drops of water, giving it the appearance of being set with millions of diamonds. Farther down the cave widens until a chamber is reached which is over sixty feet across and over fifty feet high. There are numerous other passages or caverns, and on the left there is a passage big enough to admit the body, that opens into a second chamber which is about twenty feet across and ten or fifteen feet high. In the main chamber, some twenty feet high can be seen the open ing of another chamber, but as there is no timber near to make ladders the upper cavern has not yet been explored. There are, no doubt, other large chambers which could be found were closer exploration to be made. Stalactites and stalagmites can be seen in all directions. Water is dropping continually, and the light of candle shining upon these crystals and drops of water gives the cave very en- trancing appearance. This cave is the home of the wood rat, and there are indications that there might be thou sands of the little animals which make this natural wonder their home.-Win- nemucca Silver State.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
FORTUNES IN HARD WOODS.

Big Advance in Their Values During
 the Past Year.
 The hardwood business mas increased 10 such mammoth proportions in the last decade that Chicago is unquestion- ably the largest consuming market in the world. The receipts so far this year indicate that by January there will have been placed in the forty diff ferent yards fully 1,200, ,000,000 feet, valued at upward of $30,000,000 The largest consumers of this vast amount of hardwood are the BIO furniture fac tories, the many piano and organ makers, the agricultural machine man. ufaeturers, the palace car works and the building interests. An inventory completed a week ago showed 30,000,- 900 feet in stock at the Pullman yards. European demand for black walnut takes nearly all of the limited supply of that wood, leaving only enough to meet the piano and organ require ments. Indiana and Ohio, the best forest states in the country, wasted more of this valuable wood in rail fences and in fires than the value of the remainder of their trees, and those states are now being secured for the rails, which can be made into table legs and similar pieces. One tree near Goshen, Ind, recently sold for s5,000, and eighty trees brought $20,000. Four trees shipped to Europe sold for s10,- 900. The Indiana sycamore is valuable, finishing in bright red with bird 's-eye dot. It is used mostly for small fancy boxes. White walnut is used mostly for carvings for churches and finishing for expensive residences. Butternut and chestnut form most of the cofins. Chicago Chronicle
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
POINTERS ON MOSQUITOES.
Male Is Musician, but Female ls
 B1oodthirsty.

B1oodthirsty.
 When man hears for the first time that it is the female mosquito that does all the biting it makes him feel right glad. Further comfort is afforded hy the knowledge that the male mos quito has probably the keenest musical sensibilities of any of his class of in- sects. He has quite a brush of hairs on his antennae, and with them he hears. Mayer stuck one of his kind on glass plate and sounded tuning forks about. When one tone was made certain hairs would vibrate, while all the others were still. Another tone would start another set to vibrating, and so on. Also, if the tuning fork were at one side of the mosquito, the hairs on that antennae trembled most violently, so that when the male hears or, rather, fesls-the voice of his be- loved in one antennae, he wheels about SC that vibration is equal in both and flies straight ahead to meet her. That Is about all there is to the male mos- quito, though, except that he cannot bite, for the sufficient reason that he has no apparatus with which to saw through the skin. So to speak, he has the pumps, but no drill. But the fe- male is thoroughly equipped for get ting through even a politicians hide. The only mystery is what possesses her to want to bite at all. How did she come by her harkering for blood? The scientists give it 2p. If she laid her eggs in the wound, like tke carrion fly, it would be easy to answer the question, but she doesn't. If she stung to defend herself, like the wasp, it would be easy. It must be her brutal passion for blood that prompts her to attack helpless human beings. She cannot get this craving by inheritance, Tor the chances are that none of her ancestors as far back as William the Conqueror ever had taste of human blood, and yet sit out on your front stoop of an evening, and a mosquito, not half an hour out of the water, will make as straight for you as if she had been born for that purpose. When one thinks of the great clouds of these torments that live and die in swamps Where no warm -blooded animal ever comes, for fear of being mired, one can easily believe the estimate of entomol- og1sts that not one in a million ever samples red blood.-Ainslee's Maga- zine
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
INSECTS TO IMPROVE FIGS.
They Have Been Introduced in califor-
 mia After Many Trials

mia After Many Trials.
 The larger part of our fig supply comes from Asia Minor, the Spanish peninsula and the south of France. Those of Asiatic Turkey are considered the best. Certain insects of the genera blastophaga and syeophaga which ire eIent the wild fig enter the minute ori- fee of the receptacle, apparently to de- pos1t their eggs, conveying thus the pollen more completely to the stigmas, thus insuring the fertilization and eon- sequent ripening of the fruit. By some the nature of the process has been questioned and the better maturation Of the fruit attributed merely to the stimulus given by the puncture of the insect, as in the case of the apple. but the arrangement of the unisexual flow CTS in the figs renders the first theory most probable. A year ago the depart ment of agriculture began series of experiments on the introduction of the insect which fertilizes the Smyrna fig; an agent was sent to Europe to obtain cuttings of all varieties of the wild fig and to send over the fruit containing taa 1Ye insect. By good fortune some Of the insects succeeded in penetrating tne closed flowers of the Capri figs and laid their eggs and really established themselves in California. It is now be- lieved that the insects will continue to breed and that in the near future a fig will be placed upon the market which possesses the same superior flavor as that which has given the imported Smyrna fig it's present popularity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
SHE cHoKED A LYNX TO DEATH
Arizona Girls Brave Battle with a Brute
 That Attacked Her.

George J. Manassa of this city, who has been spending the past two months at Kingman, Ariz., tells an interest ing story of case of heroism in a young girl that came under his obser- vation, says the Kansas City Journal He said that one day while there a ranchman, J. A Carrow, brought into the town for medical treatment his son Murray, years old, and his daughter IF years old, who were frightfully la cerated by the teeth and claws of some animal, and the rough usage showed upon the boy in wounds upon the arms, hands and the breast and shoul- ders. Upon inquiry he learned that MT. Carrow was wealthy ranch owner living about twenty-five miles north of the place and that the two children had been lacerated by a lynx that had attacked the boy and had been strangled to death by the girl "The boy" MT. Manassa said, was playing in a swing in an almond CT chard near the house, when a fero- cious lynx sprang upon him and pulled him to the ground. A life and death struggle then took place between the little fellow and the animal. Taking the lynx by the ear and one leg he succeeded in throwing it to the ground and holding it there, screaming for help. The lynx was biting his hand in a horrible manner, but with Spartan courage he held on until his sister came. The animal had got the bet ter of the boy when the girl, with only her naked hands as weapons, gave battle. She struggled with tie in- furiated brute and. although he clawed and bit her, she, never released her hold until she had it pinioned to the ground by her knee and a death grip on it's throat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
This Is the Field of Naturalist's
 Work


 Theodore Holm, Dane, for many years botanist in the National Museum at Washington, concerns himself only with things above the clouds. lie makes it his business to probe into the mysteries of nature fn the remote heights of the earth. How plants and lichens grow in rigorous climes, on the windy rocks of the snoW-capDed mountains and in the arctic circle IS the special object of his research, and the comparison between plants at the poles and these on the tops of peaks IS his special delight. His search for in- formation has carried him into all parts of the world Three times he has gone into the arctic circle, many times to Greenland and Iceland, ano times without number to the North cape and the Lofoten islands. He has climbed the Norwegian mountains and has strange things to tell about the plants that grow on our own Pikes peak. T have for long time been studying the subject of arctic flora, said MT. Holm at the Grand Central hotel, and during my studies have been in great many parts of the globe. On several occasions I have been a member of polar expeditions Tn 1882-3 I was with the Danish ship Dymphna, which took part in the in- ternationa1 polar expedition, in which you will remember Gen. Greeley took part. Andre Hangaad was our captain, and for two years We drifted about the polar seas, caught in the ice foes. The Dutch ship Varna, which we met, kept us company, sank at the end or the second year, but we saved the 2 crew. l began then, as the agent Of the Danish government, to pursue the studies of cireumpolar botany and since then I have followed the work in Greenland, Iceland, ,America-in fact, all over the world. What has most interested me has been the comparison of plants found in the polar regions with those found on the mountain tops. My work lies wholly above the timber line, and you will be surprised to see how many plants are to be found there. There are at least twenty species of towering herbs o1S the rocky and snow covered peaks, some of wonderful beauty and color. None of them grow higher than an inch and most are only half an inch high, but they are perfect in their minuteness and of the most vivid hues. There is the Arctic pink and the Arctic dryas, both of exquisite shade and form. The Arctic poppy is another flower worth hunting for on the treeless slopes, and so is the Arctic willow. The little lycapod is series of plant that is found in both high and low places. It is said by most bot anists not to grow higher than 5000 feet have found it on the top Of Pike's peak, 14,0O0 feet. There it is half an inch high. In Florida it grows eight inches tall. There is miniature clover also to be found above the tim- Der line, and flower resembling the forget-me-not, so you see that the rocks which you are used to consid- er1ng barren are by no means so to one who has the eyes to look for the beauties that are there. ."-Denver Re- publican.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
A Rise in the Social Scale,

Winks-I understand that Jenkins has inherited $1O0,000 Binks-Yes, and he is putting on airs already. Every August since have known him he has haes cold in the head. This August he says he has hay fever.- Somerville Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
In the Absence of win.

If the will, which is the law of na- ture. were withdrawn from our mem- ory. fancy, understanding and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spirit ual being, what we should then feel from anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness-a horrid thought.-Miltor
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
spain,s Only Naval Victory.

Only once in their history as na- ton have the Spanish achieved naval victory. That was at the battle of Iepanto, in 1571, when, with the aid of Venetians and Genoese, they annihi- lated the Turkish fleet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-08
THE HINDOO.
Generally Knows When His Elephant Is
 Planning Murder.


 Few more impressive condolences can be imparted than one in which Hin- doc describes how he knows his ele- phant intends to destroy him. It is all so seemingly trivial, and yet in reality of such deadly significance. His story is so full of details that prove the mans profound understand ing of what he is talking about, that one remains equally amazed at the brute's power to dissemble and it's in- tended victims insight into the would be murderer's character. And yet, from psychological standpoint, an elephant never gives any other such 1n- dication of mental power as is exhib- ited in it's revenge. That patient. watchful, implacable hatred, often pro- voked simply because a man IS in at- tendance upon another animal (for It is the rule with tuskers to detest their next neighbors), speaks more conclu- sively of a high intellectual guide than all stories. true or false, that have been told of their ability. Such concentra- tion and fxedness of purpose; such CdIGIul, uuTSldA6O VISlidnCC, oaSh PSA feet and consistent pretense and, when the time comes, such desperate, unhesl- tating energy as homicidal animals ex- hibit, are more impossible without an irregular development. No one can deny that if this creature is great at all its greatness shows itself in it's crimes. These have caused it to be worshiped in the east, where men venerate nothing but merciless, ire sponsible force, and where an exhibi- tion of those qualities and traits de- scribed fully accounts for the formula. My lord, the ephant!',-Outing.
 Rosa Bonheur Ae . Child.
 The late Rosa Bonheur was head strong romp in early childhood. The only way to keep her quiet was to give her a pair of scissors and paper to cut out silhouettes of the cat. the dog, or the horses at the neighboring cab stand.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
Witnesses Tell of Life in
Wardner Bull Pen.
THE PERMIT TO WORK
Copy of It Placed in the Hands of the
Ommittee-Man Arrested in Mon
tara Who was Here When the
Trouble Occurred.

Washington, March 21.-The examina-
ton OF Mr. Gill was continued before the
Occur d'Alene investigation committee
today. In response to a question he told
of visit to the "Bull Pen" At that
time prisoner CHANGED to put his fingers
through hole inside the prison. There
upon, witness said, a colored soldier on
guard on the outside showed his bayonet
at the protruding fingers, inflicting
bloody wound.
A copy of the permit required of those
seeking work in the Coeur d'Alene dis
trict was introduced. 1t recited at
length the facts concerning the holder,
that he was not member of the union
and that he took an oath to obey the law,
Witness said he had not taken out q
permit, regarding it as a badge Of servi-
tude and un-American to require an oath
to obey the law.
Representative Lentz made the point
that the law presumed that a citizen
obeyed the law until otherwise proved.
The cross-examination was directed to
showing that the permit system was de-
signed to secure an orderly force of work.
men in the mine. The witness MAIN
tanned, however, that it's effect was to
blacklist those who did not take out a
permit and also to make an oligarchy
or aristocracy" of those in control Of the
permit system. He said the class Of
miners had deteriorated under the sys-
tenn SO that now women did not take
night trains, as many drunken men car
rying dirks in their belts We're on board.
Lentz produced a form of warrant,
which the witness identified as the one
In general use. 1t was in typewriting
with blank spaces for the insertion Of
names, and directed that the person NAM
ed be taken and held for violating the
proclamation of the governor of Idaho,
declaring martial law and rules and reg
u1ations of the military district estab-
lished thereon.
w. r. Shields, a commercial traveller.
testified to being at st. Regis, Mont.
some distance from the Occur dAlene
trouble when miner named Francis was
placed under arrest by soldiers. Shields
said the towns people stated that Francis
had worked there for many months in
cluding the time of riot but he was new
ertheless arrested and taken to the
Pen Witness also testified to the
harshness of the soldiers. A recess was
then taken until 2:3O p. m.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
NEW SURVEY OF THE
POSSESSIONS OF THE
UNITED STATES.

New York. March 21.-A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: The su-
perintendent of the coast survey appear
ed before the naval committee Of the
house in opposition to the proposed ap-
preparation to enable the navy depart
ment to continue its survey of the new
insular possessions. Last years naval
bill approved by the president on March
3, authorized the navy to make surveys
of the imperfectly known parts of the
coasts and harbors of the Philippine ar
chipelago and the islands Of Cuba and
Porto Rico. with their bordering keys
and waters and minor outlying islands. :"
On the same day the president signed
the sundry civil bill, which provided for
the coast survey OF the. treasury depart
ment, with an appropriation" for every
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
Plan Of Pacificati0u.

New York, March 21.-A dispatch to
the World from London says: 1t is said
in London that the plan likely to be
adopted for the further pacification Of
South Africa will be to disfranchise all
rebels Colonial Dutch). Free Staters and
Transvaal Beers found in arms, captur-
ed or accused of rebellion, thus throwing
the two republics and all the colonies in
to the hands Of the English and the
Rhodes syndicate. ~,s-.
This would break the power of the At
rikander Bund in Cape Colony and at all
other points. When the British army
evacuates the conquered territory the
governing power would be with the Eng
lish and the only military strength with
the Rhodesian IL field force and the artil.
lery promised by Cecil Rhodes for Kim
berley and at Capetown and Durham
and perhaps at Pretoria.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
Removing the Wounded.

New York, March 2.-A dispatch to the
World from Pietermaritzburg says: A
temporary bridge across the Tugela at
Colenso is now open for traffic and there
is at last a direct railway service be
tween Durham and Elandslaagte. The
first train to cross the bridge was the
Princess Christians hospital train. This
magnificent train has been badly wanted
in Natal since the beginning of the war.
Major Brazier Creaghs improvised
hospital train has removed about 1000
wounded. though every care was taken
the narrow doors of the carriages and the
humping and shunting has caused much
pain which with appliances now at hand
may be avoided. There are still over
1900 patients in the Ladysmith hospital,
81 the train is not too late.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-21
ONLY SLIGHT FIGHT
IS REPORTED OF late

expenditure requisite for and incident to
the survey of the coasts of the United
States and Of the coasts under the juris-
diction Of the United States" Both de-
partments were thus authorized in direct
terms to enter the same field of work
which they proceeded to do.
The navy now has two vessels making
surveys in Cuba, one in the outlying
islands and one at Guam, and orders
have been issued for the preparation of
six of the naval vessels in Philippine wa
ters to begin the surveys of those waters.
The coast and geodetic survey has one
vessel engaged in making surveys on the
south coast Of Puerto Rico and one in
the Hawaiian islands. Thus far no case
has arisen in which vessels of the two
departments have surveyed the same
ground and there has been no actual du-
plication of the field work.
But under the provisions of the reyis-
ed statutes, sections 431 and 1872, the navy
has been for years surveying in all parts
of the world and has been issuing charts
of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and
the Philippines, while the coast survey
has been limited to the shore line of the
United States. However, in 1898 the
coast survey published chart of Cuba
made up from Spanish sources, which
had already been made available to- the
government and the people of the United
States In navy department chart years
earlier. About the same time and before
the treasury department had done any
surveying in the West Indies the coast
survey chart No. 80 of the island of
Puerto Rico was published in practical
duplication of navy department chart No.
1,OO1, which has been on issue by the
photographic Office since 1897 and had
the latest information Incorporated into
1T. In the same year and before the
treasury department had done any sur
veying of the Hawaiian islands, coast dur
vey chart No. 400 of the Hawaiian
islands was published duplicating navy
department chart No. 1858 which had
issued by the photographic Office since
1893; and, again in 1900, and without ever
having done any surveying whatever at
the island of Guam, the coast survey re-
published in chart No. 1902 the informa-
ton that Is reported in navy department
chart No 1,74S which the Hydrogra phic
office has been issuing since 1896 and
which is now subject to extensive altera-
tions found necessary through recent ma
val surveys.
To avoid further duplication congress
will probably confine the operations of the
coast survey to the mainland of the Unit
ed States. 1t has been found that to en-
able the coast survey to do the work
will compel the repair of the older ves-
sells OF the coast survey, the building or
purchase of new ones and large sums to
man them, as the work is essentially ship
work