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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
NO HARD TIMES IN THE WEST

The slump in stocks which ended sc
dfsastrously to many operators on ex-
change had preceptable effect on
tightening the money markets in the
east and started the cry of coming
hard times.
Following the pinch on the stock
market has come retrenchments In
several lines of manufacturing. Nota-
bly, first in the cotton industry and now
In iron and steel.
How general or wide-reaching the
movement will be remains to be seen.
but indications already apparent show
that 1t Is merely temporary and limited,
and that the country at large will not
be effected.
where present conditions and future
outlook were never better. The farm
ers of the west raised a big crop and
marketed 1t at a good price. the money
for which is safely banked or invested.
Cattle. hogs. hay, grain butter. and
eggs, everything in fact that the farm
err has to sell is good price and in fair
demand. He can't exactly feel blue
over the prospect and certainly has
no reason to believe that the hard
times have touched him.
The real estate Market rs active and
western Investments have not slumped,
The banks show increased deposits and
an unusual demand for loans placed on
ilt-edged investments.
All that makes for wealth and pros
perity in the west is not touched by the
furry in the east. All values are good
and nothing Is on the toboggon slide.
1t matters little whether steel trust
stock is up or down as long as the
west has strong bank account and
bright promises for the coming year.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15

burger there is never any doubt about
its being there. Limburger cheese once
helped friend of mine out of serious
trouble. He had been out with the
boys and forgot to go home until nearly
morning. His good wife was alarmed
by his absence, and was wide awake,
awaiting to receive him. He didn't
have any better excuse to offer, and so
he told her he had been sitting up with
a corpse. One of his friends had
placed a chunk of limburger in his
pocket. The faithful wife accepted the
story without a murmur The linn
burger had done it's whole duty.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Cost Of Panama Canal
New York Tribune.)


It is estimated that 1t Will cost the
United States $184233,35S to acquire
and complete the Panama canal, be-
sides the amount to he paid to the gov
eminent In control of the isthmus for
the concession
Already there has been an immense
amount of money and energy expended
on the canal. 1t is safe to say that
sum more than sufficient to dig
waterway from ocean to ocean at sea
level has been collected from investors
at different times in it's history.
When De Lesseps organized the first
company in $50 for the construction
of the canal 1t started the work with
paid up capital of $60,O0O,O00 For
eight years the company toiled. en-
ploying at times as many as $4,000
men. Then care y necessity for
changing the plans and the company
failed, after having collected in round
figures from the sale of stocks and
bonds $3.50. 100000. OF this it was
shown that the expenditures actually
made on the isthmus amounted to
$l56, 400 900 and that the cost of exca-
walton and embankment proper was
$SS,600, 900 The ultimate cost was
then estimated at $174600,00o. For
several years an effort was made to
capitalize new company to complete
the work. and at last, in 1884, the pres
ent Panama canal company was or
ganized with a paid up capital of $13,-
900, 0o0 Since that time work has adj
vanced at the rate of about 100000
cubic wards of excavation each wear
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Notice to investors

We have investigated the fruit and
vegetable canning proposition for Lew
iston and find eminenuy rair and sat
isfactory and that the people of Lew
iston ought to put 1t on it's feet
We have subscribed for the stock as
literally as we could.
Mr.. George w. Morrison and Mr.. J,
B. McGrane will solicit subscriptions
for balance of stock necessary to put
enterprise on good financial footing.
C. w. COLBY, .
LEWISTON FUEL & ICE CO..
per o. NJ. I.attimer. Mgr.
c. w. BURDICK,
WIN. BOLLINGER.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Democracy's New Leader is Murphy
(Salt Lake Telegram.)

The biggest man In the democratic
party today is Charles F. Murphy, the
Tammany ciiieftain. 1t looks now as
though Murphy will be the controlling
force in the next democratic convention
and that the man he names will be the
presidential nominee.
Democrats from all parts of the
country are saying that the man Tam
many wishes placed at the head of
the ticket is the man for them. Tam
many and Murphy are synonymous
terms just at this time.
Murphy's overwhelming of the re-
form forces in Greater New York made
him the idol of the men who measure
success in politics or any other line of
endeavor or by the so-called prac-
teal results.
Murphy Will not say who Will make
the best candidate. Hearst will be
regarded as a joke unless Murphy
takes him up. Therefore the only men
Murphy is probably seriously thinking
of are Parker and German. The lat
ter had a talk with Murphy few days
ago and this fact has been seized upon
as indicating that Murphy is thinking
very seriously about the Maryland
man.
There is no doubt in the mind of any
well-informed, person about the atti-
tude of German. He wants the nomi-
nation and will do everything possible
to get it. The same is true of Judge
Parker. German has been in politics
SO long he could fight Tammany by
appealing to those in the south and
west whom he has assisted in other
campaigns.
No one seriously asks what the atti-
tude of Bryan will be. He could not
again swing a convention against it's
will. so really all elements except
Tammany, are eliminated.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Score Que For Limburser

Edgar Howard in Columbus Telegram.
How many beers must a man drink
before he is able to eat limburger
cheese and call it good? You must
solve this problem upon the same basis
that you discover the age of Ann.
There is however no evidence that
Ann has been born yet, while with linn
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Notices:
O whom it may concern

To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that on and
after November l, 1903. all coal will be
sold for cash only. This rule will ap-
ply to all alike.
If LEWISTON FUEL & ICE co.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15

From Montpelier Examiner:
The proposition to sell only the tim
Der off from government lands allow
ing them to revert again to the gov
eminent to be used as agricultural or
pasture lands, looks good to us, and we
hope the bill will become a law.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
STATE PRESS OPINIONS


From the Owyhee Avalanche:
The beet sugar factory at Idaho
Falls recently turned out 100000 pounds
of sugar. Who said Idaho couldn't
grow. manufacture and brew anything
from hades to the brightest sunshine
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15

If you don't see il in The Evening
Teller tonight, the chances are that il
didn't happen today.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15

Pipes of all kinds at Ed. L. Virgins
Cigar Store.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
Estray Notice

One black COW and one red calf. no
brands visible; taken up by z. r.
Wills. one mile east OF Lewiston: owner
can have the same by paying damages.
Dec. Alan. 8"
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-15
WAGES IN ITALY
Skilled Laborers Generally Get Less
Than a Dollar a Day

Consul Pietro Cuneo, of Turin, Italy,
under date of October 6, 1908, writes:
Seeing some men and boys carrying
shoulders, with no further protection
than their shirts, up four stories to the
masons and bricklayers, and noting
how hard they worked, asked we'll
informed person how much they re-
ceived per day and he gave me the
following general trade figures as those
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Surveying I.niIrnnh-

The Southern Pacific Company has "a
corps Of surveyors i'll the Held south Of
Eureka and ii is said that they are sur
veying q route To run sonth. passing
through Tonopah.
Mr.. Abbott, Superintendent Of the
Eureka and Palisadc railroad. with head
quarters at Palisadc, stated a few days
ago that he had received orders from the
Southern Pacific Company officials to
furnish the surveying party near Eureka
with $1,000 which request he had com.
piled with.
Another surveying party is IN the vi,
cinity Of Massey, Churchill county
Much speculation has been INDUCED in
OF late as to the outcome {: this work
Some are Of the opinion that it is being
carried on by tho Southern Pacific Com.
pany, while Others believe that it is the
Clark p.Oplo putting n line through in
extension Of the rOad that Ia to come in.
to Tonopah from the SOuth,-S;nndard.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27

Three boys furnish the lemons, sugar
and water to make n quart Of lemonade
and agree to divide even up. James
drinks first aud passes the pitcher la
John, aud John well. John didn't tiud
any left. How many names did John
and Peter call James?
J. tramp has twelve feet the start Of a
woman who il armed with IA broom stick
six feet long. She moves eight feot
while he moves six. How far must they
run before shc can get u fair whack at
him,
Harold has two rabbits and james has
"a black and tan dog. The dog beng put
int the yard with the rabbits-But of
course You know that there was only
one left.
y plumber charges an icemnn with
forty.tivc minutes work at % cents al
hour. and the icemau is short thirty two
pounds Of ice at - cents a hundred.
Who is ahead 81 the game and how
much!
There are forty yards OF carpet to
be beaten. and Henry beats o%ne-fourth
Of a yard per day and then gets the
backache. At that rate how long will
he he at the job ind how many back.
aches Will he have?
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Harris Found Guilty.

The trial OF j. II. b. Harris, ooh place
in the United States Court before Judge
Hawley this morning. MIR. Harris be.
ing charged with having used the mails
for the transmission OF obscene litera-
ture. The case was submitted to the
ton OF a short time they brought in n
verdict OF guilty.
The case was u somewhat interesting
one, and the facts appear to be about as
followe: 1t is alleged that Harris was
raising a disturbance about the post
Office at Silver Peak, which is presided
over by a young lady, and that John
Shirley elected him from the premises
II is further claimed that Harris there
upon wrote Il letter to Shirley, placing
il in the mails which reached its in.
tended recipient. This letter said
many things better left unsaid, and
among other statements was one that
Shirley had improper motives i'll eject
inR Harris from the presence Of the post
mistress.
The letter was handed to the postal
inspector, and he in turn gave it to the
United States District Attorney, with
the result that Harris was arrested
Harris appears to be one OF those unfor.
tunate mortals who during all OF their
waking hours are in trouble. lie will
be sentenced next Monday.-Carson
Newa.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
DEAD.

Champ Clark say in the New Age:
The Fifty-seventh Congress Is dead
dead us a doornail. dead as a smelt. dead
as Hector-and the people should rejoice
for, while its days were not fewer thar
those OF any other Congress, they were
full OF evil. That old, defunct Congress
Is perhaps the worst on record. IT has
trifed with the public interests; it has
played hide and seek with the trusts; it
has enacted into law many bad bills and
left buried in pigeon holes many good
and meritorious measures; IT has raised
the character OF the public service and
increased the honor and prestige Of the
republic not all, not even in the estI-
nation OF n hair. 1t is well that its
course is rum. Its treatment OF Okla
homa, New Mexico and Arizona Is one OF
the most shameful violations OF plat.
form pledges known to American poll.
tics.
The closing days in both House and
Senate were turbulent to extraordinary
degree, the turbulency being produced
~ HS h!Eh nduueu pTOct cNlHSs Oh Ne
politicians in both bodies. Perhaps the
most spectacular scene was the swearing
i'll Of the Hon. Gas" Addicks' two Re.
publican Senators from Delaware. The
Hon. @Gas" realizes no duubt, the fore c
OF the old saying, Hope deferred
maketh tie heart sick lie didn't get
it himself. but he elected two Senators
Of the United States, Que Tor two years
and the other for four, and it is stated
upon what appears to be most excellent
authority that the Hon. Gas" entry into
the most august Legislative body on
earth is postponed only two years.
When the Hon. Gas does enter. those
who pirate Of purity, sweetness and light
among Republicans should he com.
PEELED to precede him bearing flowers
and shouting: 40 triumphe! 10
,%uumPhc!- He is Il fine specimen Of
latter day Republicans. His whole
theory and plan Of campaign are to buy
somebody.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Wonders of l;ndinm.

An English chemist has made the
public oInccment that he is ready to
sell Radium at the rate OF S slill.ugs a
milligram, or at the rate Of -, 900, 000
FOR every two and tia ec.tonths pounds
in other words a kilo. He has made no
wholesale price FOR the reason that he
has only about one hundred milligrama
on hand. In the entire world there are
only about two pounds. ana the chances
are that there will not be An over.supply
before spring.
Radium is Il scientific STARTER. IT is
said t0 he the most important discovery
i'll the last generation and cpOchal in the
history Of science. Briefly described, il
is a powder, a combination Of metals,
which gives of IL light almo st
ns strong us the light of the
sun. 1t is almost rs far ahead of
Rocntgen rays, the scientific STARTER of
six years ago. us those rays are ahead of
twilight.
When with the so.calIed N.ray. sci
entists actually photographed the bones
ot living persons, lay men were awed,
This accomplishment would be the
merest child's play for radium. With it
"A photograph can be taken through
three feet OF IRON or a foot OF lead. lis
value to surgery, to medical science and
physical science cannot even be approx.
mated. To modern scientific research
it is what the discovery Of tho telescope
vas to astronomy.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27

Last Monday morning about 1880 ii.
IN, Sadie LcwIs, Il woman OF the half.
world. filled up III good old hug juice
and returned 10 her home. Immediately
after entering her abode she concluded
that her removal from the deserts
shores would he tho proper thing and
Selling the coal oil can cmptied It's con.
tcnts on the floor, lighted II match to tho
oil. and beirR too drunk to stand iopplcd
over in the flames. Her necS and face
was terribly burned. besides the fnoli=h
IL minus her golden ~,rcssca that
use to drOOp upon her shoulders. The
doctor eays Sadie will recover and Sadic
says she don't want tU attempt suicide
anymore. T"nnpah Hnnanzn.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
The Usual Why.

A man had a piece Of news.
a reporter heard OF it.
The reporter called on the man.
And asked hIm about the news.
The man played balloon with the re-
porter.
He swellcd noticeably and said:
You fellers never get anything right.
So / won't tell you."
The reporter did 10 get angry.
lie knew the man WA n fool.
He had seen him before.
lie knew the real facts coull be had
from no one else.
Yet the reporter did the very best he
could to get at the truth.
And published the story as he got it,
Then the man who had refused Ia
give the facts arose early and bought q
paper to see II the facts we're distorted
They wore.
And no said:
Il told you So"
Query.-With whom should the pub,
lie yearn to get even-the reporter who
did his best, or the arrogant fool, who
deliberately refused to help him.
Baltimore American.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Need NIaaIonarIrs.

II the story told by the ST. Paul
(Miup.l correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune IS correct, then there Is i'm
portant work TO be lone 10y missionaries
night at our W doors. According to
this correspondent. III tive counties OF
atively unknown, young men take girls
to WIFE without any ceremony whatever,
and the dead are buried without prayers
being said over the rough casket.-
This correspondent adds: -In a hay
stack on II farm few miles west Of
Brainard, in Crow Wing county. rests
the frozen body of "A t~wo.year-old child
and there it Will remain until the father
finds time to give it burial In aud near
the little settlement of Sylvan Lake.
Crow Wing county, are living several
couples Tor whom no marriage cere
mony was ever performed. In a hun
Of the northern counties repose the
bones OF men, women. and children over
whose bodies no prayers were said,
Near the little town OF Backus, forty
miles from Brainard. lives a woman who
married ten days after the death OF her
first husband, whose body she buried
without religious ceremony at her
kitchen door. There are no clergymeu
in these places. There are "a few o. the
things that have impellcd the Mime
sofa Sunday school association to put a
force Of missionary workers in the field.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Very sincerely Nonta.

Tho county clerk, recorder, mud ,lis.
trict judge havn discovered TINT they
are up pgaiGet h circumstance. The ir.
rigatiT act requires TINT within u Ger.
tan restricted period they must report
~ w0tor cases and water rights dating
hack INTO ancient history. Tho limo
has abont passed and thefo is nothing
doing, Either the law will not DO com.
plie1 with or the ro will be some tail
husilipg done by these officials within
tho next fow days. County Clerk Fogg
says II would require ten deputies to
comply with this provision. journal.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Funeral Of Henry MnuS.r.

Tho funeral 81 The late Henry Maus
or took place yesterday afternoon from
Masonic Temple on q street, and wna
n Of the longcat funcrnln hero IN spmo
time Tho members ~ ne Ma,ous. \.
o. u. W. and 10. O. f. lodges ;tsrrcd
the hcarse on loot. Numerous friends
OF tho deceased in CRrrinVcs, followed
the remains to the Masonic cemetery.
whore the burial took place. I,cv. Mr..
Ramsay conducted the funeral cere.
monics Virginia Chronicle.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27

How is thiR for high class criticism IN
q well known human warbler:
"tlcr "D;:c was IL cross between the
hum Of u cyclone and the arrcrch 81 u
locomotive unle, fuil steam. II trgm.
blrd away IN rat like cadenrcs and q
again like the wall 81 II hound in die.
trcss. Again il rose III mellow tones
not unlike the wind hallviug over the
month Of nm empty jug. Stepping long
enough tn take wind, che rose slowly 10
her tiptoce. aud with gyratiug arms aud
hcaving cheat gave u lair imitation Of
the roar that fOrctClls II Dakota blizzard.
Old Jim Bakers panther chained 10 a
post in u yard at the back 81 the opera
house heard some ~ her high notes aud
they skcarcd the poor brnst ont Of a
years growth. II il the first time our
town has boon visiic cd 10y II genuine
fcmnl" cnlliopc aud we h"po she'll come
again
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27

y Jefferson CITY. Mo-. dispatch oi the
10th puys: Tho Armour. Cudnhy, Swift.
llRmm0pd aud the SchwnriizchulI- aud
Sulzcborgcr rHritruR C"munrica. tho
five defendants ia "ui.iI" proc, Cd ~.
brought 10y IL" Attorney General of
Missouri ngaiust 'hr alleged h"cf com
hin" lnn. summer, were iiuod $4,000
each ~ the Missouri Supreme Court
today md ordered to pay tho costa u
the cascs which amount Ia 5000. Tn.
less the iinca aud costs "rc paid within
thirty days the defendants will DO
onstcd from the state. 40 The Court
orders.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
Iowa's Liquor Law.

Iowa has gone one better than the
British liquor law and condemns hab.
itual d%runkards to %lunatic a%syIumns.
When the measure passed it caused but
little stir, but within eight months three
hundred alcoholic patients were under
restraint and treatment. An Iowa dis.
patch says that inehrintes continue to
flow into the state asylum Mt The rate of
about fifty n month, and that an Iowa
court has just ruled that their cOnstitu.
tional rights are no: violated 10y their
detention. Some Of the inebriatcs don't
like to be shut up. but the treatment
they get seems to be humane and saIu.
tary. Their liquor is stopped. and they
have to work ON farms, and are encOur-
aged to improve their habits. When
they seem to be cured they are discharg.
ed, and reports say that, so far, about
10 per cent, Of the cases have go result
ed,
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27
\ Mid

Washington, ID. c., March u, 1903.
DR., Joseph Il. Stubbs, University Of
Nevada, Reno, Nevada. My dear
doctor:
! have received notification from the
Navy Department that | am entitled to
appoint n midslipman. Tho cxamina-
tion will take place in Reno on the third
Tuesday in April. | desire to submit
thisa appointment 10 competitive exam
ination nud will be very glad il you will
associate with Yourself such persons ns
you deem desirable M nh examining
board, and give notice OF the COMPETE
tive examination for some day IN iiie
early part Ot April. enclose herewith
the notification OF the Navy,Dcparlment
for the appointment 0i u principal and
three alterDates. You can ill IN the
blanks after tho competitive cxarninn.
ton and for ward TO tho Navy DEPART.
ment.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANCIS G. NEwLAaps.
In accordance with this request mn cx.
animation for tho appointment Of n
naval cadet will he held Mt the Uuiver.
city on Tuesday. April 18th. beginning
at . o'cIoct II. ~.
j f.. STuBBs. President.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1903-03-27

lie" h""' place 10 get yrur work
Don" In nj 'h" Golden Rulr Shutting
thrlors 10y j.. e. Baycr. First clnea ok
to all. Next door to the BAKERY Saloon.