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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Debated Venezuelan Question.

London. Dec. 1.-THE house was
crowded when the Venezuelan matter
came UP for debate. Mr.. SchWann, at
ter expressing surprise that the gov
eminent was anxious for another war
after the South Africa war, complained
of the paucity of information concern
ing the Venezuelan situation which has
been given to parliament. He said he
hoped arbitration would be accepted,
because, although President Roosevelt
is anxious to act correctly, the situa-
ton is full Of danger and the presi-
dents hands might be forced by poll
ticians.
Lord Cranborne spoke after Mr..
Schwann. He reproached the member
with a desire to discredit the govern
ment and explained that the papers
in the Venezuelan matter were very
voluminous, and that those issues to-
day were only summary. He said
that Great Britain had to perform po-
lice duty among the nations and had
to prevent Venezuela from breaking
the law Of nations. The United States
took the sensible view that Great
Britain's insistence that Venezuela
should meet her engagements was not
an infraction of the Monroe doctrine.
mo country has been more anxious
than Great Britain" said Lord Gran
borne, ito assist the American gov
eminent in maintaining that doctrine"
This remark was greeted with cheers.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Minority Report on Statehood.

WESTINGHOUSE Bates has
presented in the senate the minority
report of the committee on territories
favoring the immediate passage Of the
house omnibus statehood bill without
amendment. The report opposed the
uniting of Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory into one state. 1t shows minute
ly the condition of each of the terri
tories, and says these are such as to
call for immediate statehood.
1t shows that both the republican
and democratic parties in their last
national convention adopted planks
recommending each of the territories
by name for statehood. Such express
sions, the report continues, should be
respected by both parties.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Big Fire at LeadvllIe, Col.

Salt Lake, Utah.-A special from
Leadville, Col. says that fire in Mrs.
Dyer's lodging house spread to adjoin-
ing buildings and destroyed property
to the extent of $4,000 before being
brought under control. Among the
buildings destroyed was the Pap"
Wyman house, one Of the famous land
marks of the city.
All of the twenty dodgers in the
Dyer house, who escaped in their night
clothing, experienced great suffering
from exposure, the weather being ex-
tremely cold.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
lowed two years to complete

work.
A formal notification of the block
ade of the Venezuelan coast by the
war vessels of the allied powers has
Deen issued. 1t is understood that
ships of the United States will be on
precisely the same basis as of other
nations.
In the recent session of the SUI
preme court at Nelson, B. c., before
Justice Martin versus lie Roi No. .
Mining company brought in a verdict
OF $4,000 damages for the plaintiff.
Judgment was given with costs. The
case was raised in the death of Hos
kins, who was killed while working
in the lie Roi No. by an thrush of
water from a disused shaft in the
adjoining Josie mine, owned by the
defendants.
One of the best known landmarks
of northern California, located at
Gazelle, Siskiyou county. known as
the Edison hotel, the home of e. B. Ed
son, the railroad commissioner of Cali
fornia, was totally destroyed by fire
recently, involving a loss of over SIS,
600. Miss Elizabeth B. Foulks, aged
25 years, daughter of l.. M. Foulks
and a niece of Mr. Edison, was in the
upper portion of the structure when
the fire broke out and lost her life
in the flames.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The last foot hall game resulted in
Spokane high school 6, WalIa Walla O.
Alleged defects of roof panes is
the latest delay on the capitol build
ing.
Waitsburg academy beat Spokane
high school Saturday afternoon by
score of II to 0.
A bill for the division of Yakima
county will be presented to the legis-
lature by Senator A. J. Splawn.
The old switchback of the Great
Northern crossing the Cascade noun
tains is buried under eight feet of
snow.
The jelly factory established on the
Blalock fruit farm during the past sea-
son is one of the new industries of
Walla Walla county.
l.. H. Larson of Fairfield, who has
charge of the erection of the new beet
sugar factory at Waverly, will begin
work upon the building Immediately.
A verdict of $1625 was rendered
against the property of the missing
rancher, A. A. State, who disappeared
mysteriously from his ranch near
Waitsburg some time ago.
CHM Bros. have just madea large
purchase of land a few miles from Alto
for grain raising purposes. They
bought over 1000 acres, 400 of which
was purchased of w. G. Lynn Of Star.
buck.
Last week William Bentz Broomall
a deserter at Fort Wright, near Spo-
kane, was shot and killed while max
ing a break for liberty. Private Stur-
gill of Company K had the man under
guard.
A grand jury has been called in
Seattle. The grand jury will convene
January and will be taken in charge
by Judge Bell, who will at that time be
in the criminal department Of King
county courts.
The revenue cutter Bear, which
spent the summer in Alaskan waters,
has been ordered to the Puget Sound
navy yard for repairs. The revenue
cutter Manning, now at San Francisco,
has been ordered to Seattle.
At a meeting Of the State Y. M. c.
| A held at Tacoma last week the
worlds record for the long dive was
broken by Dave Grant of Seattle. He
established the worlds record of Is
feet inches, breaking the former rec
ord of IA feet inches by seven inches.
Owing to exaggerated reports of
the presence of small pox in Annie
Wright seminary at Tacoma, an Epis-
copal school for girls, Bishop Keator
and the trustees issued a statement to
the effect that a domestic came down
with the disease December 8 and was
removed to the quarintine station.
Fire totally destroyed the hotel
Ridpath at Spokane recently and
caused heavy losses to the Bradley Ma
chinery company, the Goodsell-Wilson
Hardware company and the Stude-
baker company, all of which occupied
the ground floor of the structure. The
damage may foot up 100000. No
lives were lost.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
MISCELLANEOUS MINING NEWS

Work has been resumed on the Wal
ter Scott property near Northprot. 1t
had been idle for two months.
The famous Morning mine of the
Occur dAlene district has resumed
operations with a full crew of men.
Importations of manufacturers of
iron and steel are larger this year than
at any time during the past decade.
All sorts of people are flocking into
The owners of the Summit and Sill
yer Hill properties at Keller recently
received a cash offer of 100000 for
the two groups.
the northern part of Mexico seeking
Investments in mines, cattle timber
Fifteen men will be employed at the
Yogo Sapphire mines all winter, pre-
pairing the material for next sum-
mers work,
The concentration plant being erect
ed by the California company in the
Cable Grove district of Oregon is
nearly completed.
The Homestake property in Evans
Creek district, nine miles from Grants
Pass, Ore, has been bonded to an
eastern syndicate for $4,000.
Saltese, Mont, expects boom very
soon now. The construction of
smelter has been started. A force of
men is eXcavating for the foundation.
The Banner and Bangle Mining COM
pany of Troy, Mont, has bonded its
ffN1s, 30 o.. Nrnn
ough. The ores are silver, lead and
zinc.
1t is stated on what appears to be
good authority that the Chico mine, in
Republic camp, is soon to resume work
and start shipping ore to the CRANKY
smelter.
The Calumet & Hecla company Of
Michigan, has just completed an i'm
mense plant and from now on all the
water used in the steam plant will pass
through filters.
The Big Horn group of mining
claims in the Cracker Greek district
of Oregon was purchased recently.
There are four claims in the property
and the consideration was $1,000.
The force in the big tunnel on the
Buckhorn property on Copper noun
tain, near Bolster, Wash, has been
laid off on account of bad air. An
air plant viii shortly be installed.
A tunnel has been run 20 feet into
the hill on the Growler claim at Re
public. The vein is reported to be
about four feet wide and carries val
ues of $40 in copper, gold and silver.
The new 20-stamp mill of the Green
back mine of Graves Creek district
in Oregon is now completed and the
property has added to the number Ct
men employed and work is goirs on
very satisfactorily.
George e. Roberts, the director in
the mint, in his annual report says
that the coinage minis at Philadel-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
MINES AND MINING NEWS
~ OF THE MINES IN THE
y" ,o.rAwEsT PROGRESSING.
- Interest of Miscellaneous
.,..,re Gathered During the Past
...L-.New Districts Brought to
!. Eront--Many Mining Accidents
and Personals.

Tho 1901 report of the United States
Geological survey shows that for the
se,andar year in round numbers the
sa,,e Of the gold product was $7S,OOO,-
ooo and CT the silver pr oduct ives ST.
OOO 900 as money (coining value), and
600 coo 400 600 as metal( commercial val
-, AS metals, then, gold ard silver
aroducts we're valued at a little less
hon $4,000 900; as money they were
worth s15OO00,00O.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20

phia, New Orleans and San Francisco
were in operation throughout the fiscal
year.
The first payment has been made on
1000 acres of placer ground on upper
Libby creek by the Libby Placer com.
pany. IA option was given to the new
company year ago for 100000 for
three years, payable in yearly install
ments.
The Tacoma Smelling company is
defendant in a $4,000 damage suit
brought by Mrs. Catherine Mclaughlin
in the superior court at Tacoma. Mrs.
Mclaughlin sues for the death of her
husband, who fell down an elevator
shaft.
lands and mercantile business, some
with money and some with nothing
but their gall. Recently the initial
steps of some very large mining deals
have been taken on mines at Parral,
which, if consummated will mean still
greater activity in that locality.
BY decision of the supreme court
the Boston & Montana Copper and Sill.
yer Mining company is given complete
ownership of the one-fourth interest in
the Comanche mine, at Butte, claimed
by Adolph Wetzstein. The lower court
declared the company to hold a lie.
gal title in the property.
Robert Neill, the Tyson mining man,
has started work on his placer prop.
critics in the Tyson district and will
work steadily as long as the weather
and supply of water permits. The suit
over the claims has been settled in
favor of Neill, and now the claims will
be worked steadily.
The mines of the Parral district,
Mexico, were first operated about 800
years ago and are credited with a pro
duction of $60,OOQ,OO0 and upwards,
mainly in silver. The deepest mine
has only reached 1000 feet, and all
those over 500 feet in depht have been
sunk in the last dozen years.
A. c.. Morrison, a prominent mining
man of the Hump country, predicts
that the Hogan property on Crooked
river, near Elk City, Idaho, will be
one of the greatest mines in the world
Twenty stamps have been pounded on
the ore during the past season and it
is proposed to install 100 more.
1t is claimed by Milwaukee chem
list is that he has discovered a process
to treat sulphide and telluride ores
at an extremely low cost and high
saving to contents. He is not ready
that Unatilla and Morrow counties
to give his discovery to the world yet
but hopes to be able to do so in very
short time.
"The ores in the Siegel creek dis
trict near Elk City, Idaho, are improv'
ing with depth" said ]. D. Boyer, who
is operating extensively in that dis
trict, and who was in Spokane recent
ly. ''The ores are mostly free and are
not becoming base with depth. In
the deepest workings of the district
they are found to be as free as on the
surface"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Mrs. w. A. clark, Jr., Very Low.

Butte. Mont, Dec 17.-Mrs. w. A.
Clark, Jr!, daughter in law of Senator
Clark, who gave birth to boy here
two weeks ago, lies very low and
specialist has been summoned from
Denver Great anxiety is felt The
boy, if he lives, will be the heir to
the Clark millions The Inter Noun
tain estimates that at maturity he will
be the richest man in the world.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Bradshaw Hangs Feb. 2.

Pasco, Wash. - Oscar Bradshaw
murderer of Peter Nelson, was sen
fenced to hang February 2, 1903, at
the state penitentiary in Walla Walla
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
Pullman Employees Organized.

Chicago.-The 5000 employees in the
shops of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany are preparing to take stand in
support of a demand for shorter hours
and no Sunday work. Foremen in all
the shops have been notified
dividually the men would n9i
tor Sunday work bereaffeT
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20

No doubt Noah regarded his ark as
gem of the first water.
AS rule it's a high flyer who goes
on lark.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
Ping-Pong: A Soliloquy.

(By a Modern Hamlet.)
To ping, or not to pong; that is the ques-
ton;
Whether tbs, nobler for a man to suffer
The bangs and the buffets of tn out
rageous fashion,
Or to join issue 'gainst the multitude
And by protesting end them? To play
or not?
No more; and by firm refusal end
The headache and the thousand mon
strous shocks
The game is heir to. To play or not
To play; perchance be hit: Eye, there's
the rub:
For in that precious sport what knocks
may come
When once we face the ball of cellulod
Must give us pause. OH who would
racquets bear!
To grunt and sweat under a dining
table
In search of that COMPOUNDED bouncing
ball.
Whose undiscovered resting place. alas!
No man can find, provolles bad words.
Then rather should we play those games
we have
Than fly to others that we know not of.
S. j. X. in London Globe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
NH. ARMF1ELD FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICE,
ExCongressman Bower Advocates Nomina-
ton of Hon. Chas. Il. Armfeld.

To the Editor: 1 have noted with
pleasure the nomination of C. H. Arm
field, of Statesville, for the high and
responsible office of Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court 1t is gratifying
from a partisan and popular standpoint,
to reflect that it will be impossible to
make bad selection out of those, that
up to date have been suggested. But
even among the good things and people
of earth we must be allowed our prefer
ences.
Mr.. Armfield is perhaps the youngest
person mentioned in connection with this
office, but | doubt whether, taking it
ali in all, there is another aspirant so
we'll qualified for the place. He is in
the prime and vigor of life, and ambl-
tious of distinction in the line of his pro-
fession. He is by inheritance, as well
as by education and native bent, law
yer. He possesses the same broad mental
grasp and acumen for which his lam
ented father was distinguished And
like lis father he is imbued with uni
form never failing sense of right and
Justice.
Mr.. Armfield has never been an office
hunter. So far as l can now recall he
has never been elected to an office. The
law has been to him a most jealous and
eXacting mistress, making most siren
uous demands upon his time, his talent
and his energy. Patient and assiduous
study and reflection, together with that
readiness and adaptation that come from
an active and extensive practice, have
brought to him comprehensive knowl-
edge of the law, which will enable him
gracefully to fill and honor the position
to which he aspires.
If chosen he will start we'll panoplied
with the natural and acquired qualifi-
cations of a good judge, and with a ca
pacity. for labor and an ambition to ex-
Gel that must inevitably exalt him as an
Associate Justice. He has plenty of
what our western folks denominate
'horse sense" or natural judgment,
and plenty of old-fashioned common
honesty. His nomination would be 81
very strong and popular one, especially
in the western and Piedmont section of
the State. / think he would be accept
able to, or, at least. unobjectionable to.
all parties. However, l would not have
you infer from this that he would be-
long to the mon partisan judiciary"
Heaven forbid! According to my idea
he couldn't be mon partisan judiciary"
without being at once a hypocrite and
fraud. In the contrary he is Democrat
of the "straightest sect" He will be the
better judge because of his STRAIGHT
ness" in this respect. If nominated he
will be elected, and if elected he will
nf oil
and will so demean himself in this high
place as to reflect credit upon the office
and himself In common with many
friends in this section 1 shall be highly
gratified at this nomination.
w II. BOWER.
Lcnoir, N. c., March /, 1902.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
The Old Way Best.
Baskerville Citizen.)

Editor The Citizen: / may be an old
fogy, perhaps cruel, but observation
leads me to the conclusion that the gall
lows, the stocks, the pillory and the
whipping posts of our foTefathers, were
far ahead of the penitentiary as a means
of preventing crime. A pickpocket was
arrested on the cars between Garysburg
and Weldon before North Carolina had
a penitentiary, and when told he would
get his thirty-nine lashes for the theft,
exclaimed: what! am / in North
Carolina? 1 thought 1 was in Virginia
or would not have robbed the passenger
of his watch"
This occurred some forty years ago,
but is called to mind by the talk a Citi-
zen reporter had with Johnson, one of
the Emma burglars on last Saturday.
when he said: Il had no idea that we
would be convicted CT burglary in the
first degree. We ought to be punished,
but death is too severe for our crimes,
as no one was killed. The penitentiar5-
is hard enough"
1t is a notorious fact that no one was
ever reformed in a penitentiary. Num-
bers of released convicts commit the
same crimes for which they were incar-
cerated before they get out of Wake
county-some of them within sight of
the peritentiary. 1T has only been e
few weeks since several burglaries were
committed in Raleigh, by men whose
terms of sentence in the penitentiary
had been shortened on account of i'll
health or good behavior.
A reformatory might benefit youthful
criminals, but adults need punishment
not a good place to sleep, with plenty
of food and raiment, and but little work
to do, and the prospect of making their
term short by escape or executive
clemency."
j. w. ALBRIGHT.
Asheville N. c., Feb. %, 1902
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
Wouldn't Let Cen. Lee Pass.

statement of the untimely death of
Mr.. John Barrnger, at his home in Lock
Vile, has already appeared in these col
umns. He was faithful and true man in
every reltion of life. He was an earnest
Democrat and took deep interest in the
success of his party. This paper had no
truer friend than honest John Barringer
and records his death with deep regret.
The Chatham Record pays his memory a
deserved tribute, saying:
"Mr. Barringer was a remarkable
man. Born and reared in Germany he
came to this country soon after becom-
ing of age, and found employment in the
service of the Cape Fear and Deep River
Navigation Company at Lockville. AS
soon as the war began he promptly vol
unteered and was the first man in this
county to enlist ''for the war; the other
volunteers at that time being only for
twelve months He served in Company
e. Tenth regiment artillery and was
brave and faithful soldier during all the
war While standing as sentinel on
one occasion he would not allow Gen.
I zee to pass because he could not give
the countersign, so faithful was he In
obedience to orders not to allow anyone
to pass without the counterSign.
After the war he went into business at
7 ,ockville. where by his industry and
energy he was very successful and be-
came one of the most prosperous citizens
of this county. He was strictly honest
and honorable in all his dealings, and for
many years had been steward IN the
Methodist church. Both in war ana IN
peace he was true to every trust ana
faithful in all things
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
TILLMAN-McLAURIN DRAMA.
Presented in Four Scenes With Few Com
ments Thereon.
To the Editor:

To the Editor
Scene t.-Senators McLaurin and TIL
man engaged in a fight in the Senate
Chamber. They violated the law and
were guilty of breach of the rules OF
the Senate This was done in the best OF
passion. Apologies were Immediately
made.
Scene "A great State was deprived
of representation in the U. S. Senate by
the unauthorized act of an officer of the
Senate and two Senators representing
that State were denied their legal and
constitutional rights by the same illegal
act of this officer of the Senate.
Scene 3.-The President of the United
States hastily and without due delibera-
ton ratified and affirmed the illegal con-
duct of this officer of the Senate and
offered an insult to a United States Sena-
tor and through him to the State he
represented.
Scene Am officer of this insulted
Commonwealth. at the instance of cit1-
zens thereof, withdraws courtesieS that
had been proffered the President.
| think the South Carolinians did right
! think the President of the United
States and the presiding officer of the
Senate owe the State of South Carolina,
as well as the Senators of South Caro-
lima. an apology.
The South Carolina Senators did wrong
Their offence was petty msdemeanor
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-02
A PARODY ON THE "OLD OAKEN
BY ]. T. ELLINGTON.
Asheville, N. c., Feb. %, 1902.

BY J. T. ELLINGTON.
childhood,
For Science and Progress have asserted
their sway,
And have taught us to shun the deep,
tangled wildwood;
Where the mosquito huns his funereal
lay:
And the wide-spreading pond that we
Z once held so dear
They say that in it's waters the ''yaller
chills" dwell:
That there's tuberculosis in the dairy
house near.
And microbes in the bucket that hung
in the we'll.
The old messy bucket, the worm eaten
bucket, a
The germ breeding bucket that hung
in the well.
Once gladly from its green, messy rim
did we drink,
Feeling that twas almost the elixir of
life, & i.
Till science and the microscope made us
to shrink
From the deadly bacilli with which it
was rife;
And now far away from that old habita-
ton,
What sigh of relief from our bosoms
doth swell,
To think we've escaped from Dads poor
old plantation,
And the dangers of the bucket that
hung in the well.
The old messy bucket, the worm ca ten
bucket,
The germ breeding bucket, that hung
in The we'll.