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Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
American Meat All Right.

In view of the temporary prohibition
of American meat for military pur-
poses in Sonth Africa by the British
government Consul-General Stowe at
oapetown has been making investiga-
tions with regard to the cause of the
restriction, and has submitted the re-
suits To the state department. The
British enlisted men, when questioned,
pronounced the American article very
satisfactory and their officers stated
that in many cases the men preferred
the timed meat te the poorer fresh
article. Improper care caused some ot
the meat to spoil.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
Death Lis. WIN Reach One Hundred.

Reports from the flooded district near
Bluefields, w. Va, leave no doubt that
the list of dead will exceed 100 Par
ties reaching Williamsburg from the
scene OF the flood state that conditions
are deplorable. The section visited by
the flood was thickly settled, but as the
population consists largely of miners
who were at work at the time the
large majority of the dead are women
and children
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
FIGHT INSPECTION Law
Colorado Statute to be Contested In High.
est Courts.

toiorado statute To De Contested In High
est Courts.
Judge Hallett of the United States
district court Friday granted writ Of
habeas corpus in the case of Edward
H. Reid, cattle shipper of Omaha,
who was convicted in the district court
of Arapahoe county of having violated
the Colorado statutes by shipping
cattle into Colorado from Texas with
out having a signed bill of health from
a cattle inspector, and was sentenced
to six months Imprisonment in the
county Jail.
Reid refused to pay state inspec.
ton fee after having received clear
bill of health from the federal iuspec,
tor, in order to fenable the National
Live Stock association to test the va
lidity of the Colorado law requiring
the inspection of cattle shipped through
the state.
Messrs Talbot and Denison, on be-
half of the association, made the appli-
cation to the United States district
court for writ of habaes corpus for
Reid Attorney-General Post appeared
on behalf of the state. The writ was
made returnable on Saturday at
10 o'clock. Should the United States
district court sustain the decision of
the state court, the National Live
Stock association will appeal the case
to the United States supreme court. In
an interview John w. Springer, presi-
dent of the National Live Stock asso-
citation, declared it was the intention
of his organization to test the consti-
tutionality of the Colorado state law
which requires state inspection of live
stock, Notwithstanding clean bill of
health had been granted by the Feder-
al authorities.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
miniature Cyclone at Denver Injures
Eighteen People

A miniature cyclone struck the roof
over the betting-ring at Overland park
at Denver Saturday afternoon. and.
hitting 1T from It's supports crashed it
down upon the crowd below, in turing
eighteen people. 1t was thought at
first that several had been killed, and
efforts were begun at once to clear
away the wreckage, but it was soon
learned that though several had been
severely hurt, none were in dangerous
condition.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04

Saturday was the hottest day of the
year for Pittsburg, the thermometer
registering "a at the government
weather bureau shortly after p. m.
Francis Mills and Mary Dermoo died
from exhaustion, and many prostra-
tions are reported. The mills and fac
tories lost many men during the day
because they could. not continue work
in the intense heat The Soho and
Eliza furnaces both had to suspend
operations, and If the warm wave con-
tinues, other plants will be forced to
close down.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
Millionaire Tortured by Robhars

Early Friday morning six mask ed
men entered the summer residence OF
Jacab l.. White at Brothers Station,
West Virginia, just over the Pennsyl-
vania line, overpowered, bound and
gagged the seven occupants of the
house and ransacked It, They secured
$1,000 in money and as much jewelry
Mr.. White and his aged wife and their
daughter were tortured by having
lighted matches applied to their
bodies and their skin lacas ated by
needles. White is a millionaire oil op-
orator,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
Iron Workers on a strike.

President T. j. Shaffer of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, Monday issued an order
calling out all union employees of the
various mills of the American Steel
Hoop company, known as the Hoop
trust. 1t is estimated that Is, 900 men
will be subject to the call, which, in
connection with the big strike of the
American Sheet Steel company, ordered
by President Shaffer on Saturday will
affect SO, 900 men.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
China Agrees to Pay More Than Powers
Demand.

curious discrepancy concerning the
amount of the Chinese indemnities has
developed, by which it appears that
China has agreed to pay about IS, ,oOo,-
900 taels, or S24, 500, 600 more than the
united demands of all the powers. Just
how this occurred is not clear to ofii-
cials, but it appears to have been an
error of calculation at Peking, in tie
first place by those making up the in
IDENTITIES, and later by the Chinese in
their hasty acceptance of the total, AS
finally made up, this total was $50, 000,-
900 taels, but the present calculation,
after taking in all of the demands that
are known, makes the total only 4l5,-
600, 600 taels. In the meantime China
has agreed to pay the larger amount,
so that the question now arises what
will become of the excess of 5000, 900
taels,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04

Harold 81. Pitt, former Salt Laker,
manager of Evans & CO., government
contractors, who has been on trial at
Manila On charges of improperly pur-
chasing government stores, was ac-
Quilted Wednesday. Four other pur-
chasers of commissary stores were
found guilty.
Pitt was acquitted by a military
court composed of volunteer officers
Provost Marshal Davis considered Pitt
was convicted on his own admissions
and ordered IA reconsideration of the
verdict
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04

To Use Wire.ess Telegraphy on Transports
General Greeley, when at San Fran
cisco, Investigated the operations of
the signal corps wireless telegraphy
plant at that place and gave orders
that au officer of the signal corps be
sent to San Francisco to co operate with
Colonel Long, qnartermaster in charge
OF transports, in utilizing the system
on the transports going from and ar
irving at that port 1t is believed by
the officers of the signal corps that the
transports on the Pacific can be sig
nailed from forty to sixty miles from
San Francisco by this system.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
KILLED eY PLAYMATE
spanish Fork Boy Shoots Little Cir,
While ut Play,

W ME ut RAY,
Archie Griggs, aged l2. shot and
killed Christie Greer, aged II. at Pay
son, Utah, Tuesday. The shooting oc-
Cured about 1870, and the little girl
died at 7:3o without having regained
consciousness,
Archie and Christie. with some other
children, were playing in an office
room at the residence of Mr.. Rockhill.
Christie held in her lap little babe Of
Mrs. Zina Garling. Archie discovered
22-ealibre rife in corner of the room
ana playfully pointing it at Christie's s
mead said, Look, Christie, will shoot
you and pulled the trigger. The gun
was discharged, the bullet striking
Christie in the forehead and crushing
the skull. The little girl fell forward
upon the floor, with the baby beneath
her and the blood streaming from the
wound, while the terror-stricken boy
rushed into the kitchen and told Mrs.
Rockhill what he had done Young
Griggs' parer is, as well as the parents
OF the little girl, are proslrated with
grief
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
Utah Woman Killed In wabash wrecs

Mrs. Joseph CRUZ of Castle Gate.
Utah. was killed in the wreck on the
Wabash at Peru. Ind, Tuesday morn
Ing, and her husband was injured.
Thirteen others were killed. All the
dead were Italian immigrants for Colo
rado and Utah, The injured number
fifty, seven of whom are railroad en-
ployes. One woman is missing aud not
accounted for. The wreck was caused
by the giving away of a trestle over
which the train was passing, precipi-
tating it down ten foot embankment
while running at a high speed The
hrst four cars in the train were de-
molished
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04
Christial
'hristiai rse Say Minister WI Aided
Boxers,

At a meeting of the Chinese Ameri-
can society held at Philadelphia Tues
day, resolutions were unanimously
adopted protesting against the selec-
tion Of Wu Ting Fang, Chinese min
lister, as orator of the day at the Fourth
OF July celebration in that city. The
resolutions allege that Mr.. Wu 'cov-
ertly aided the Boxers in their massacre
of the Christians in China" and has
been misleading the public by his
statements in regard to his position
toward them"
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-07-04


ireacherous Filipino Sentenced to Death.
The records of several court-martiais
OF tilipinos have been received at the
war department from Manila. A ma
tive sergeant of police, Pablo Tabares.
ordered two of his policemen TO induce
Private George O. Hill company II,
Eighteenth infantry, to enter the SER
geants house in the pueblo of Ca batuan.
Once in, Tabaras treated the American
with lavish hospitality and pressed
glasses of vino on him until the soldier
was badly intoxicated
The sargeant then ordered the two
policemen to take the Unfortunate man
outside the pueblo and kill him The
willy Tabares promptly sent his two
accomplices c n 10 the insurgent ranks
to get them out of American iurisdic-
ton, together with the dead mans
uniform and accoutremcntS. while he
remained discreetiy silent. He was
found guilty of murder and also of
arson, having caused about 100 dwell
lngs in Cabatuau to be burned. He
was sentenced TO be hanged.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
OUR BOYS, COMPANIONS.

With the rapid material growth or our country and with the deepening of separating lines between the differ ent classes, there has sprung into be ing q certain air of unfriendliness, writes Margaret E. Sangster i'll Good Housekeeping for November. Compass sion exists, and patroliage, neither of which is the same as simple, equal friendship.
 The mother. whose little son is her pride, clean, sturdy, refined, thorough bred. seeks for him companionship among his peers. Tn school and on the playground she cannot tolerate an ad- mixture of baser metals. her boy be ing. in her view. of the finest gold. No Brahmin, of the purest caste looks down from leftier height on the Pariah than many a Christian woman in America on the little Irish and It aEan and Swedish laddies whom her sons find charming comrades ill the street Her dislike and exclusiveness sometimes reach the point of absolute prohibition or She deprives her boy of the wholesome rough and tumble of school life, and shas him educated at
 
 may escape unscathed in the contacts inseparable from republican mingling of the mass; your boy. my boy, every body's boy. all reciting together. shout ing together on the ball ground, run ming races together ill the first con- tests of their careers.
 Now is it right to watch sedulously over a boy. A boy, in good clothes or in rags, should be fearless, brave, truth-telling, magnanimous and obedi- ent. The senator's son, or the presi- dents, may be this sort of boy. So may the washerwoman's and the day laborer's son. Every boy should be po- lite, lifting his cap to women, assist ing old age. defending the weak. I have seen newsboy, brought up in the slunls. who illustrated ill his com. monplace daily life this gracious cour- tesy and I have also found the same urbane and lovable demeanor in the child of a luxurious home It is a ques- ton, one sees, of the boy and the stuff that is in him.
 Boys are neither snobs or toadies unless they are made so, and left to themselves they have a democratic simplicity of nature, and a magical way of piercing through the surface and getting at the core of things. 4 boy trained in the amenities of q Christian home, and early taught the fearof God and the love of his fellows will intuitively choose his intimates from boys of his own kind. But he will receive no detriment from tilting in the daily lists of boys of all kinds
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
STORY TOLD BY FISKE,

Miss Morris repeats story told her by Jim" Fisk about himself and his wife. whom he seldom saw, but whom he often declared to be the best wo- man in the world
 A divorce case was before the courts, and it was much discussed everywhere. The wife had been jealous and sus- picious and blond hairstshe was very dark herself) and strange hairpins held q ludicrous prominence in the evidence. sAh!' said Fisk, that's not the kind Of a wife l hayeI Never, never does Lucy surprise me with visit, God bless her! No, she always telegraphs me when she's coming. and I--I clear up and have warm welcome for her, and then she's pleased and that pleases me. and we both enjoy our visit. Hang'd if we don't! And just to show you what a hero-yes. q hero-she is, and, talking of hair pins, let me tell you now. You know those confounded crooked ones, with three internal crinkles in the middle to keep them from falling out of the hair? Those English chorus girls wear them, I'm told. Well. one day Lucy comes to see me. Oh, she had sent word as usual, and everything was cleared up q supposeO as usual. and George, my man, was laying out. some clothes for me, when Lucy. smoothing her hand over the sofa cushion, picks up and holds to the light an internal crinkled hair pin. George turned white and looked pleadingly at me. saw my self in court fighting divorce like the devil; and then. after an awful per spring silence. my Lucy says-she that has worn straight pins all her life: James that is lazy and careless wo- man that cares for your rooms. It's three weeks to-day- since I left for home, and here is one of my hair pins lying on the sofa ever since'
 If she had put it in her hair I should have thought her really de- ceiyed in the matter. but when she dropped it i'll the fire. I knew she was just a plain hero! T walked over and knelt down and said: Thank you Lucy while I pretended to tie her shoe. George was so upset that he dropped the studs twice which he was trying to put into shil.t-front Oh. l tell you my Lucy can't be beatr'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
CAPACITY TO ENJOY LIFE.


 Nothing contributes more to the highest success than the formation Of a habit of enjoying things Whatever your calling i'll life may be, whatever .misfortunes. .or hardships may come to you, make up your mind resolutely that come what may you will get the most possible real enjoyment out Of ey- cry day; that you will increase your capacity for enjoying life by trying to find the sunny side of every experience of the day. Resolutely determine that you will see the humorous side of things. No matter how hard or un- yielding your environment may seem to be, there is sunny side if you can only see it. The mirth provoking fac ulty, even under trying circumstances is worth more to a young man or wom- an starting out in life than q fortune without it. Make up your mind that you will be an optimist, that there shall be nothing of the pessimist about you, that you will carry your own sunshine wherever you go.
 There is longevity in the sunny soul that eases our jolts and makes our sides shake with laughter.
 There is q wonderful medicinal eff feet in good cheer. Good news and glad tidings have q magic effect even upon inyalidS.
 We often see q whole store or fac tory or home transformed by one sunny soul On the other hand. we have seen them bliglted and made dark by q gloomy, morose, fault-hnd- ing erSon-SucceSS.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
HEARD IN PASSING

Senator Frye may. object to having his subsidy bill tampered with by q Minor.
 In an editorial Herr Most referred to troubled waters It is safe to say he never troubled water much.
 The doctors forbid mans worry ing and then charge him fees that will keep him in debt for decade or two.
 Secretary Gage would make the na- tional banks the whole thing-but then the national banks made Secretary Gage.
 Albert Edward does not propose to have his coronation converted into q childrens party. No minors will be admitted.
 General Alger has refrained from trying to get his book adopted as q part of the West Point curriculum, which is something in his favor
 The California woman who has written q book containing 100 recipes for sandwiches deserves the support of the national association of sunday school superintendents.
 The millenium in oir large clues will have arrived when things are so ordered that victory in municipal cleo tions carries with it rio advantage Ill state or national politics.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
THE RENT RAG.

It was about 10 o'clock at night and on Wells street not far from Fourth that man saw q Chinese lantern swinging outside third-Sto window or building across the way. The building was a boX-like structure pre- maturely run to old age. and he knew It to be tenement house occupied al- most exclusively by poor colored peo- pie.
 In the day time the sidewalk swarm ed with black children, and there were dark faces peering over every sill all the way to the roof He knew the corner pretty we'll l,sbut he couldn't understand why a Chinese lantern should be hung out of a window It had little decorative, sya1ue, swinging against the lonesome front. and the man who saw it couldn't remember that the day was an anniversary call ing for any illumination.
 A policeman happened along and the man asked him about it.
 What is the meaning of that Ian- tern up there ?'' sgoff
 Don't you Know z, t
 Why, no. The windows up there are lighted and there seems to be something going on
 That's a rent rag.''
 Yes, but what is rent ragg'
 Well, when some man gets down on his luck and can't pay rent, he has a kind of benefit dance. The other tenants come to it and chip in 10 or b cents apiece. They get lots of fun out of it and he raises $3 or S4 to pay his rent. That's the rent rag.
 Whats the lantern got to do with it ?''
 That's the way a rent rag is ad- Veftlsed. When that lantern is out the colored people know that some one is giving a dance to raise rent money When some one else gives a rag he IS supposed to come around and put i'll his bit. It's a good scheme, only they say some of them try to work it too often. Milwauke Sentinel.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
A WOMAN IN THE KLoNDIKE.


 Just at dark we made a landing on the banks of the Yukon, directly in front of the little town of Dawson. and, pntching our tents in the snow, we camped for the night under our first shelter, even of q tent. for ten days All were so pleased and happy that good fortune had enabled Us to escape the Derils which threatened. as well ais the danger of an ice-block in the river that the men proposed a celebration of their good fortune. They were going uptown. but I told them it was not right to leave me alone the first night i'll strange place, and that if they would remain i'll camp I would pay for enough for them to drink and have their celebration in their tents To this they agreed. and one of them went to the town and shortly returned, stating that whiskey, Canadian case goods, was ten dollars quart. I sent him back and purchased a couple of bottles. which the men drank with out becoming boisterous. I then went to my. war-sack, and taking out my guitar, which I had carried over the summit. We sat on the ground around the little tent stove and all Joined in singing the songs of home Emma l.. Kelly, ,t in November Lippincott's Mag aZine.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31


 In the state department at Washing ton somewhat important change is to be made in the appointment of Herbert H. D. Pierce of Massachu- setts to be third assistant secretary, vice Thomas W. Cridler. resigned. MT Pierce is now first secretary of the American embassy at St Petersburg, and is protege of Senator Lodge. MT Cridler's resignation was requested by Secretary Hay owing to difference of judgment between MT Hay and himself and is mo reflection on his ability and integrity" Mir Pierce was first appointed to the diplomatic ser vice by President Cleveland.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31
REAL PYTHON FEAST
Why Lieut.. Smith and His Ser geant Espoused Vegetarianism.
They Appeased Igorrote Etiquette by Eating Two Portions of Roast Snake-Didn't Like It's Taste
 or Smell.

'sEver eat any snake ?'' asked Sergt. Bill Hunter in the Annex grillroom last night of Chicago Post man who was sitting across the table hearing how L company, Seventeenth regi- ment, had suppressed the insurrection in Luzon. The newspaper man admit ted that he had never eaten any ser pent. Sergt. Bill then told him what he knew about boiled python as en- tree.
 We did harder things than kill nig- gers over there," said Bill, and this was one of them. Lieut.. Smith-Ern- est G. Smith, Yale man and a good soldier-with a squad of men was building bridge somewhere i'll Tarlac. was cutting mahogany trees on a mountain side when I saw a big python swing down out of tree and glover at me as if he didn't like me. He was 16 feet hong and as, thick as my waist. We shot him nine times before he died.
 ''As we dragged him into camp that evening to show him to Smith whole village of mountain dwarfs trailed be- hind. When we reached the lieuten- ants tent the chief, with much cere- mony, asked for the carcass, saying that his tribe had watched and waited on the snake month. He told the lieutenant he wanted to give python feast.
 Just at that time those Igorrotes were good people to o.stand in with. If they took dislike to you they could hide their little bodies in the trees and plug away at you with their bows and arrows and do much damage. So the lieutenant said they could have the snake. The chief then invited him to the feast.
 .sThis was trife more than Lieut.. Smith had bargained for, but to de- cline meant to offend the chief. He ac-
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-31

Ex-Governor Thomas Waller can dictate to the New London democrats what to do. and when to do it, per haps, but the republicans of that city will not have any of it. The ex-gov- ernor said he would take a nomination to the constitutional convention if both parties gave it to him. The dem- ocrats got in early and tried to have the republicans follow. but they re fused, and last night nominated a straight republican for the place. Wal Ter now has chance to throw down the democrats again, as he has been doing for the past five or six years.