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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18

A total of 60 feet was run last month
on the Ben Hur. This work was done
on the 240-foot level.
There were but few days work done
in the way of developing the Republic
last month. The situation of the mine
was such that to have operated it would
have been at positive loss to the COM
pany.
The Quilp beat the Lone Pine by a
few feet in the record of the months
development.
There was but Is feet of development
on the North Star last month.
Thomas Stacey, from the Ignace mine
on the west fork of the San Poll, says
that the two-compartment working
shaft is down about so feet. 1t Is be-
ing sunk directly on the ledge, cross
wise of it, and so far no walls have
been found.
Returns have just been received by
the Zala Consolidated company from
small shipment of slightly less than IA
tons of ore recently sent to the Trail
smelter. The ore gave values of $134.93
in silver and 1912 in gold, total of
$14405 to the ton. The net return to
the company was $1SOS03, after de-
Quoting the smelter charges.
Everything at the Mountain Lion mill
is in fine shape.
The grading for the Republic mill is
nearing completion, but large force Is
still at work. The carpenters have
many timbers in place and many others
are ready.
The Republic Reduction Company is
making good Roadway in getting its
machinery into place. The boiler has
arrived.
The Princess Maud mine has been
seized by the Graves-Linnemann faction
and work has been stopped.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18

gitias to cancel all dates previous to
the 23d and left Buffalo for New York
to receive medical treatment.
The Ohio congressional convention,
after having cast 1851 ballots and fail.
ing to make choice for congressman
has adjourned to meet in Norwalk May
II.
United States Counsel Hay In an in.
terview says that the report that Cap
tain Reichman, the United States mil
itary attache, participated in the fight
near Sannas Post, is absolutely false
Admiral Dewey and William ]. Bryan
will meet May l, for the first time since
the hero of Manila announced that he
was a presidential candidate. All
doubt as to Mr.. Bryan's presence was
dispelled.
]. s. Simington of Denver, colored,
and her twin babies were burned to
death recently in their home at Lin
coin avenue and twenty-ninth street in
that city. The fire was caused by the
explosion of lamp.
The navy department has signed a
contract with the Holland Submarine
Torpedo Boat Company for the addit-
ion of some of it's boats to the navy.
By the terms of the contract the govern
ment pays $150,000 for the Holland.
Gus. Young, prominent young man
of Murphysboro, KY, shot and wound
ed Miss Van Klooster and then blew
out his brains in temporary fit of jeal-
ousy. Young was real estate man
and the lady is a member of one of the
best families of southern Illinois. She
will recover.
Two boilers in the furnace of the Riv-
erside plant of the National Tube Com
pany, of Wheeling, w. Va, exploded,
carrying the boilers hundred and fifty
feet and destroying three buildings and
boilers in the steel works and water
works. Several workmen were in
jured, two seriously. The tube works
were not effected. The loss is about
$4,000.
At the bottom of the sea outside of
Santo Domingo harbor the wreck of
the French steamer George Croise has
lain for more than two weeks. En-
veloped in the mass of her wreckage
are the bodies of four men. Her cap
tain, Francisco Cathrien, is alive but no
one knows of his whereabouts He
is said to have deserted the doomed
ship and nearly three score people
that were on board.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
IDAHO.

Edwin G. Davis of Malad, will gradu-
ate from the West Point military acad-
envy In June.
The Idaho Butter Company of Nam
pa has filed its articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state.
The new plan of water distribution
being put into effect under the Lemp
canal is likely to become the method
ON all such canals.
The Occur d'Alene Hardware Com
pany at Wallace. Idaho. is at work on
an addition to its machinery warehouse
which will make it about three times as
large as it is at present.
Dan Martin of Idaho Falls has been
surveying on the south side of the riv-
er to determine the feasibility and
probable cost of constructing a canal
for power purposes from the head of
the Birch creek canal to the bank OF the
river near the bridge
The report Of the Shoshone county au-
ditor for the quarter ending March 81
was presented to the commissioners at
their meeting last week. 1t shows that
at the beginning of the quarter there
were $84,36360 of warrants outstand-
ing, which amount has been reduced
during the quarter to 56,687.29, al
though the new warrant Issue during
the quarter amounted to sis, and
the payment of deferred interest on the
county bonded debt took $39,167.54.
Troy, Iraho owners of white pine
timber lands in the st. Maries district,
10 miles northeast of Troy, have sold
claims comprising in all 800 acres of
first class timber. This being the
first sale of Importance that has thus
far been consummated interest has been
awakened and timber land is being
eagerly sought for. It is conceded
by eastern lumbermen that Idaho has
the bulk OF the accessible white pine
timber Of the United States since the
supply Of the northern middle states is
nearly exhausted. hence the eagerness
70 secure claims by settlers and larger
holdings by men Of means.
Fire broke out in Chases' saloon, re-
sulting In the complete destruction OF
the following property in Hope:
Chase's saloon, Let's restaurant, w. j.
Quirks store and the postofice, Joe
Lawson's barber shop. AL Meade's res
taurant, Spence Mornings house, Mrs.
LemleY's house. Congregational church.
~ H'o7ink pp number Of adjoining
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
Oregon Mines.

With two lines of railroad and a pos
sible third projected into Granite, the
Granite mining district is as active as
any in the northwest. 1t is not the
railroad probabilities alone, however,
that are responsible for the activity
in this camp and the boom of Granite.
Mining men are learning that large
bodies of ore and the most favorable
formations exist in the camp. This is
being well demonstrated by the Red
Boy, Magnolia, Little Giant, Ibex, b.
nanza, Pyx, Cougar and others, and
also by hosts of prospects in various
stages of development. Work has been
in progress on a great many properties
all winter and prospects are that a
ducers before fall.
The advance guard of prospectors has
arrived, though the mountains are still
covered with snow, the roads are al
most impossible, and the weather has
been cold and disagreeable.
1t is reported that the Magnolia mine
equipped with a modern 10-stamp mill
and only four miles from Granite, Ore,
has reverted to it's original owners, by
the failure of the purchasers to meet
the last payment when due.
Much work is in progress at the Red
Boy mine. A large force of men is
erecting a shaft house, ore bins, etc,
and about $4,000 worth of machinery
is on the ground for the proposed sink
ing operations.
..---Iifo it'll 80 yet Deing Zone on the
placer diggings in this vicinity, prepa-
rations are under way for much work.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
WASHINGTON.

The Spokane Chamber of Commerce
is working on the smelter proposition
Enrolment is the heaviest In the his
tory of the Agricultural College at Pull.
man.
Test of the Paramount cemetery au.
tomobile at Spokane, shows it to work
perfectly.
The heaviest rain storm in months
occurred here last week, over an inch
of water having fallen.
John Lee and Adolph Hand, both
aged 5 years, were drowned in Lake
Union at the Freemons mill recently
They were fishing from a log boom
A movement to hold fruit fair in
Walla Walla during September has
been started, and a committee is ar
ranging for site for the building.
Thomas Moore, one of the oldest citi
zens in Fruitville, is dead. He was
over 80 years of age, and one of the
most respected men in the valley.
The body of child apparently about
5 months old, was found in ditch on
the line of the Seattle & International
Railroad, near Ravenna park, Seattle.
The Suburb roller Mill at Marshall
has been sold by w. H. Wiscomb and
F. ]. Pierce to William and B. E. Amery
practical -four mill men of Wisconsin,
for $4,000 cash.
Company B, twenty-fourth infantry,
now stationed at Van Couver barracks,
has been ordered to Fort Wright as
soon as it can be relieved from it's pres.
ent duties.
Whitman college proposes to cele.
brate In an appropriate manner the
s0th blDthday of DIR. D. K. Pearsons,
wh1rgave to the college the Whitman
Memorial building and who gave alto
gether to the college some $114,OO0.
The S-year-old son of Fred Reisen-
eaur, farmer living one mile from
Cotton, was burned to death in field
near the house. 1t is supposed the
child lighted match in trying to burn
stubble when his clothes became
ignited.
SO promising. The warm days during
the fore part of the winter started wild
oats and weeds in profusion, which
were later killed by the frost. The re-
suit has been an unusually large acre
age of clean wheat.
BURGERS, evidently experts, did eff
fective work at Rockford last week.
Drills, chisels and other toole were TAX
en- from Bacons blacksmith shop, and
the Model Hardware store, owned by
d. G. Farnsworth, was robbed of about
$500 worth of revolvers, cartridges,
knives, razors and other goods.
A carload of thoroughbred cattle ar
rived in Colfax last week from Baker
City, Ore, and will be valuable ad-
dition to the stock industry of this
country. There were 81 head of cattle
In the car, of which six are thorough
bred Herefords and is thoroughbred
Short Horns. The Herefords belong to
]. r. Wicks, wealthy farmer and stock
grower of Onecho, about 10 miles south
of Colfax. OF the Short Horns, Henry
Larkin gets six heifers and one bull;
]. L. Strevey, one bull and one heifer /;
Champlin Bros, two bulls; and j. Ste
Wig one bull. All are yearlings but one,
which is 2-year-old bull. The cattle
are an exceptionally fine lot, all regis
tered and with good pedigrees.
D. B. Scheller, state forest superin-
tendent, has received authority to issue
permits for the grazing of not exceeding
25O,OOO sheep in the Mount Rainier
reservation, east of the Cascades, the
sheep to enter not earlier than July 1,
and to leave by September 25.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
GENERAL NORTHWEST NEWS.
BRIEFLY TOLD IN NOTES.
An Interesting Collection of Items
From the Four Northwest states
Of sfisceIIaneous Nature GATH
erred the Past week.
MoNTANA.

The indications are that the open
season for placer mining will begin
early this year.
The Bohemian postofiice has been
placed in the classified list In the rank
Of Offices entitled to one additional
clerk.
William Harvinson. a well known Pic.
neer of Montana, was found dead in his
bed in cabin in Colorado street alley
at Butte.
At the coming school election the peo-
pie Of Silver Bow county will have their
first chance under the new law to elect
road supervisors.
Mrs. Cora Howard, of Butte, aged 80
years. committed suicide recently by
swallowing the contents of half-ounce
bottle of carbolic acid.
The side wall Of the two-story brick
lodging house on West Broadway,
known as "The Paragon, or "The Port
land" collapsed last week in Butte.
1t is now certain Senator Clark will
not resign. The pressure from his
Montana friends and legal advisors is
all in favor Of contest to the finish.
It is reported that L. d. Pugsley, of
the Marias, has bought about $500 mix
ed yearling sheep from c. H. sPaddley
Of Dillon, at $3.50 per head, delivery to
be made after shearing.
President James ]. Hill and numer-
GUS other officials Of the Great North
ern was in Butte. The whole party
was ditched six miles west Of Silver
Bow and were shaken up considerably
but no one was hurt,
A recent cattle transaction is the
purchase Of about 100 head by H. Bes-
settle OF the Marias from Joseph STREET.
Of Highwood. The outfit included
cows and steers and is said to have
changed hands at about $50 per head.
Fred Doyle, at Butte, convicted Of
forgery, was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary. Doyle was one of
a gang Of four which manufactured
forged checks by the wholesale. One
Of the men escaped and the other two
turned states evidence.
A report of more than ordinary inter-
est Is current to the effect that before
many moons Senator Clark Of Montana
will lead to the altar as his wife Mrs.
Clover, who was before her marriage,
Miss Patton, one of the daughters of th,,
late Mrs. Patton. Of San F. sisco
The latter left fortune of,ySf 600 900 to
pc divided among be- five daughters.
Duncan McGTss6r's pet bull dog al
@2st teust his masters lite in Butte at
hands of Freeman Quinn. Quinn
Ut at McGregor with Winchester
he at uncomfortably close range. The
billet that was intended Tor McGregor
passed through the sleeve of his jacket
cutting several holes In the garment,
hut McGregor was uninjured.
G.. w. Hartman, of Butte, has COM
menced suit against his partner Mich
ael Jennings to have an agreement for
dissolution and transfer of his interests
in the business set aside, for the reason
that he was induced to sign them up
on fraudulent representations made by
the defendant. He alleges that his
partner fraudulently drew checks to the
amount Of $4,000 In excess OF what he
was entitled to.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
MINES and MINING NEWS
OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES
Items Cleaned From Late Reports
All Districts Are Being Developed
"A Prosperous Year Is Predicted
Mining Notes and Personals.

The smelter combine of Salt Lake
has refused to grant demand for in
creased wages at the Germania smelter,
and the $50 employees are out on a
strike,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18

Trouble at Rossland, B. c., has been
settled. Last Tuesday the Miners
Union voted to accept the mine man.
ayers proposition. The mines will be-
gin operation at once under contract
system.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18

In considering how we shall treat
the Porto Ricans, the country must
decide whether it is to be our treat or
theirs. vat VI
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
FINDING 4 FOUR LEAF

clover is good luck; so is finding our laundry To be rated as a winner, look spic and span. Fine linen has long been assiociated with elegance in attire. We shine in our work, and the best dressers in Alabama are witnesses of the. fact.
 AvONDALE STEAM LAUNDRY,
 "Old Reliable" 10S N. 18th St., Phone 10ei.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
COACHED A COWARD
How Gen Chaffee Encouraged Soldier
 Overcome by Fright

It was at Fl Caney. Several companies were detailed to dig trenches and the Span ish sharpshooters were poping at them from the treetops and clumps of bushes on the hillsides Presently the firing became so severe that the men were ordered to drop their tools and return along on foot looking over the situation. In the bottom of one of the trenches he saw a soldier ly- ing fiat on his face, while the man next to him kicked him in the intervals of firing says the Philadelphia Times.
 What is the matter with that man?" asked General Chaffee of the speaker. 'Is he wounded?"
 NO, sir,' said the soldier, saluting. The prostrate man made no motion
 Sun, then?' asked the General for there were many cases of collapse from afternoons.
 "I don't know sir," replied the soldier in embarrassment.
 All this time the bullets were whistling around and the soldier had risen from his crouching posture, and was standing at salute.
 Don't stand there and expose yourself, my man." said General Chaffee, kindly. al- though he himself had been standing in full range all the time. Now he walked ever to the groveling soldier, took him by the col lar and hauled him to a sitting posture.
 What do you mean by lying there?" he said, sternly. Get up and fight with your company"
 No, I can't" whined the fellow.
 Can't" said the general. Well, you re a fine soldier! What business have you got here? Whats the matter with you, any way?"
 I'm afraid; that's what's the matter with me-" said the soldier. doggedly, try ing to wrest his collar from the grasp of the other and trying in vain, for General Chaffee has muscles of steel.
 Beg pardon, sir,' said the mans neigh bor saluting again. q think the kids been sick, sir"
 He twisted his captive about to get a good look at him, and his face, which had
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
Broken on the Wheel

From the New York Journal.
 There is a new force in the political field that is working for Bryan and against the trusts, which in 1896 was almost solid for Mckinley. In this new force there are fourteen thousand active, intelligent and aggressive men. They are constantly in touch with the public. They meet more people in twenty-four hours than any oth- CT class of men in the country. They talk with more men in an intelligent way than any other like number of citizens. They are arranging to contribute more than $100000 to the Democratic National Com mittee. They are in earnest in advocating the election of Bryan, and In their opposi- ton to all forms of trusts, because their incomes have been affected to a greater degree than those of any other class of employees by gigantic trust. Their in- comes have been cut down 50 per cent, and their work has been in no wise de- creased.
 This new force is the coupon ticket agents of the United States. There are thirty-one thousand railway station agents, fully one-fourth of whom are cou- pon ticket agents-that is. they sell tickets over other roads than their own. In the larger cities there are five thousand ticket agents, and, including ticket brok- CTS, the total number reaches fourteen thousand. All these men are suffering large decrease in their incomes solely be- cause the rallWayS or the united States have formed a gigantic pool or trust, and Fave discontinued paying these agents a commission for selling tickets over the various railways.
 In the states of Illinois, Indiana Michi- an, Wisconsin and Minnesota, which gave Mckinley majorities in 1896, there are 3,253 coupon ticket agents. In Chicago alone there are 553: not a large number when compared with the total vote in those states, but they are a powerfully aggres- sive force. with hosts of friends among all classes able to argue inteligently, and with the sympathy of railway men at large they will control vote out of all propor- tion to their numbers
 The ticket agents and the drummers are thoroughly awake to the advantages of McKineys era of prosperity.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS
Field Looked as if it Was Moved by
 Streaks of Lightning

From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
 This Is one of Big Ben Chadbourne's lat est He says 1t happened in Oxford not so very many years ago.
 There's a farmer up there by the name of Braster. Braster is a good enough fellow to work for, but he's bit cranky at times and one of the things he is down on is a hired man "thet's alluz stckin' his nose in where it ain't wanted"
 One summer he let man go because he was too blamed interested in the why and wherefore of the things he was asked to do. The next day a stranger came along and said he was looking for work. He was good husky looking chap and Braster was pleased with his appearance, but he wasn't going to take any chances and get caught as he had the last time.
 'Kin ye do what we're told without askn' any durn fool questions?' he querled peer ing out at the fellow from under his bushy eyebrows.
 The fellow allowed that he could do that to the queens taste, and they struck up trade.
 Well" said Braster, after the agree ment was reached, take that air scythe and foller me down to the field and I'll show ye what I want done." They went down to the field and Braster gave his orders.
 You now that field, an don't ye ask any fool questions tell ye to mow it, an thet's all there is to it. You pull off your coat an pitch right in. I'm goin up to the house an leave ye.'
 The fellow pulled off his blouse and got a grip on the scythe. Any particular way you want it mowed?" he said as he poised himself to start.
 Thar ye go,' snorted Braster testify, thar ye go askin questions the fust thing. Didn't I tell ye I wanted ye to mow thet field without askin any questions? Can't ye hear or are ye deaf? Ye thet val Ter dog out by the fence on tother side of the field? Well, ye mow right fer him an don't ye let me hear another yip out of ye."
 With that Braster stalked off to the house, swearing softly to himself about the ways of hired men.
 At the end of about three hours he went back to see how the new man was getting along. When he got to the field he the most extraordinary sight that a man ever saw in a moving field. There were cleanly moved paths all through the stand ing grass, some of them fairly straight, others that looked like the reverse curves of railroad going through the noun tains, and others that resembled the path a fellow makes when he has been looking on the cup that cheers and also inebriates. He looked at it in speeches. wrath for several minutes then he haloaed at the top of his voice to the new man, who was circling over the back part of the piece.
 Come here, ye crazy galoot!' he yelled.
 The fellow came and leaned on his scythe, calmly waiting for the storm to begin.
 What in the name of the seven hot ovens of h-l and all the devils that tend the fires dc you reckon you've been doin', gallopin' over that field like loonatic?" he sputtered.
 What ye told me to-" answered the new man. steady clock. I'm one of them Message to-Garca' fellers. Ye told be to mow fer that yaller dog an not ask enny
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
LOW RATES

To Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt
 Lake City and Ogden, Utah. On July 31, August and 21 the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad will sell tickets to above points at the very low rate of one fare for the round trip plus s2. These tickets will be limited to october 3l, 1900. Stopovers will be allowed at Colorado common points, such as Dem yer. Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Con- tinuous passage on return trip will be re- quired.
 The Kansas City, Memphis and Birming- ham Railroad has a train consisting of Pullman Buffet Sleeping car, Free Reclin- ing Chair car and elegant day coaches through from Birmingham to Kansas City without change.
 This train leaves Birmingham at 12:10 noon. arrives at Memphis at 500 D. m. and at Kansas City the following morning at 9.45. making close connection with lines to the West and Northwest.
 For further information apply to
 c. M. BILLHEIMER, c. P. A,
 Birmingham, Ala. CHAS. JONES, T. P. A.,
 Birmingham, Ala. No. 1914 Morris Avenue. Telephone No. 974.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
Roosevelt Predominant Trait
from the Boston Herald.


 Prof. H. F. Peck, in an article in the August Bookman, in which he under takes to explain why Governor Roosevelt strenuously declared that he would not be a candidate for the Vice Presidency and then unstrenuously yielded and ate his own words, cleyerly analyses a con- spicuous feature in the candidates char acter. He calls Roosevelt "the grown-up boy of American politics. and further says of him: If he has boys frankness and bluntness. he has also a boys in- discretion. If he has a boys audacity, he has also a boys recklessness. If he has a boys freshness of feeling and wholesome ness and energy, he has also a boys love of appreciation and a boys self-conscious- ness and vanity. The latter qualities in him are not displeasing, for they are ex- ceedingy naive and inoffensive in their manifestation, and in many situations they may even be regarded as attractive. Yet Professor Peck thinks that 1t cannot be said that they are altogether harmless. He regards them as out of place in poli- tican, and likely to get him into trouble. Boyishness at Roosevelts age, and un- der his responsibilities, has the effect, it is thought, of being a little bit bizarre"