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The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

from anyone other than the company, or
parties who buy direct from them, a crime.
For buying diamonds from the company
a certificate must. accompany the trans
action, and this the buyer must be able to
produce and show in case the Cape au-
thorities see fit to question him as to
where or how he obtained his diamonds.
To buy from a kopje waIloper, from one
who Is unable to furnish a certificate to
the effect that the stone was purchased
from the De Beers Company, is to lay one
self liable to detection and arrest. The
law provides a heavy fine and long term
OF Imprisonment for violations of this
character. Moreover, it is enforced to the
letter.
For all that the company has about
rooted out clandestine buying around the
mine. or at any rate has reduced 1t TO such
an extent that ii is no longer serious, still
the temptation remains as strong as ii ever
was, and far from relaxing its vigilance.
the company's detective force is constantly
on the alert to detect any new trick or de-
vice that may arise for stealing and SNUG
Cling diamonds out of the compound They
keep a pretty close watch on every new
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

venture to say there is nothing in the whole
of South Africa which the negroes dread
and fear quite so much as the De Beers
company's old brass telescope. / don't
know whose idea and invention it was;
whether it was another master stroke OF
the superior mind of Rhodes or the simple
device of some boss or guard but 1t GER
tainly does the work. There is, or rather
there was, about three years ago, fellow
who kept q hotel in Cape Town, who for
merly had been a guard in the companys
employ, and who took to photographing
the negroes in the detention house during
the telescope ordeal He had large scrap
book full of such pictures, and they were
the attraction of Cape Town. / never in all
my life saw such ludicrous expressions of
fear and terror on the faces of human be-
ings as upon those of the negroes shown in
these photographs, undergoing what the
guards used to call searching for the truth
with telescope"
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27
CLAIMED FOR NEW YORK.
Cheapest City i'm America 10 Live An
on n Moderate Income.
IIarper's Weekly.

Harper's Weekly.
1t is the general opinion in various Sec
tions OF the country that the cost of living
in New York city is much higher than any
where else in America. This is erroneous.
There is probably no place in the country
where a family OF moderate means can live
well and have such a variety 10 enjoy
at so small a cost as In New York. Cod
fish are cheaper along the Maine coast.
and chickens cost less In the South: but
as a rule in localities where the home prod
uct is cheap there is little variety in the
market. and foreign products cost much
more than they do In New York Last fan.
while in a Massachusetts city OF nearly
10000 people. compared the prices OF meat
and poultry which thrifty housewife paid
with those which / paid In New York. and
found difference OF 20 per cent. and even
more. / never paid more than l2is cents
for fowl, while she paid is cents. have
bought roasting chickens, ss-called. for the
same price. while the Massachusetts, house.
wife paid - cents. She paid Il cents for a
leg OF mutton, and never paid over III
cents. usually 10 cents, often 3, and on one
occasion = Rump steak cost her = cents;
there Is no such cut here, but sirloin aud
pOrterhouse are Is aud 70 cents, respective
" She also paid more for eggs. butter ana
milk and much more for oranges. lemons.
bananas, and similar fruit. And this NaD
ciiy within a. hours ride from Boston
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

conner in Kimberly. He may not be aware
of Ii, but from the day he sets his foot
in the town all his movements are known
to the company officials, and, in the event
they discover something in his manner or
actions which causes them to suspect that
he would, if he had the chance, buy stolen
diamonds, or that he Is there for that very
purpose, they send out shrewd kaffir.
who in the guise of a native whose term
of labor has expired, approaches the sus-
pected party, offering to sell him stolen
diamonds at low figure.
This young negro can impersonate
discharged laborer to perfection. and has
enabled the company to catch more ras-
Gals than any other member of its detective
force. He accosts the stranger, upon whom
the suspicious of the company have fas-
tened. telling him that he has just COM
pleted a years service in the mine and
that he got through the compound with a
fine large diamond. This he shows to the
suspected stranger, and IL the latter bites
the transaction is allowed to run on until
the stranger comes to the meeting place
with the money to buy the diamond when.
instead of the kaffir. several of the COM
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27
USE AN OLD TELESCOPE
HOW THE DE BEERS PEOPLE DE-
TECT THEFTs OF DIAMONDS.
Pretend to Examine the Interiors of
the kafiir Laborers-CIever De-
tective Work.
washington Post.

Washington Post.
Here in the United States We read and
hear a great deal OF the trouble expert
enced by the officials of the De Beers Con-
solidated Diamond Mining Company at
Kimberly, South Africa, in preventing their
negro (Safir) lsborers from stealing dia-
monds," said Captain Xzt, master OF a
large four-masted lumber ship now dis
charging a cargo of yellow pine at the
foot OF Eleventh street, yet in all that
has appeared on the subject L have never
read a description OF their most effective
method OF detecting diamond thefts. You
see have been making voyages to Cape
Town. of and on. for the past thirty years.
1 remember the famous rush to Kimberly,
In the '7os. when Cape Town was the OBJ
jective point OF thousands OF young Eng
lishmen and Americans, and still later the
rise to prominence of Cecil Rhodes and the
De Beers Company. When this concern
gained control OF the Kimberly mine. the
most serious evils with which ii had TO
contend were the thieving Kafir laborers
and the kopje wallpapers, a name given to
class OF men who purchased stolen dia-
monds from the negro mine workmen
II took nearly six years to check this
evil Nowadays the laborers of the De
Beers Company are locked into a compound,
where they remain for a year or two years
or whatever their term OF service may be-
This compound Is rooted over with net
ting, so that even II one OF the men were
to steal q diamond he could not throw
IL outside the compound Enclosure for a
confederate TO pick IL up as was formerly
the case In addition TO this the company
has an efficient detective force c. the out
side OF the compound, and circulating
nh
ing country. well as system OF detain-
Ing and rigidly examining the laborers at
the end Of their term OF service.
HAS ITS OWN LAWS.
Moreover the De Beers Company has
secured the passage OF code OF laws In
the British South Africa states. making
ne purchase or = diamond in TIC rough
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

panys detectives turn up, who give the
stranger to understand that he has been
a certain time in which to leave the colony
on the understanding that, if he returns,
he will be prosecuted.
SWALLOW THE GEMS.
"When the negro Iaborer has completed
his term of service in the compound and
is ready to leave he Is stripped stark naked,
his hands locked in pair of large, finger
less mittens, and he is placed In room
under guard. Formerly the negroes sought
to snuggle stolen diamonds outside the
compound in their boots, hair, in cuts in
the flesh, etc, but Of late years they have
taken to swallowing them. One negro, who
was detained two weeks, holds the record
for having swallowed the greatest number
of diamonds that ever saw the interior OF
one man.
From the outset it has always been the
policy of the guards to try and ascertain
as quickly as possible who of the negroes
have been guilty OF theft and who have
not in order not TO detain the honest ones
any longer than possible. After many tricks
and experiments had been tried and failed.
they hit upon scheme which has been In
constant use ever since, by which means
they In ninety-nlne out of every 100 cases
are able TO determine on the first of the
seven days of detention who have swallowed
diamonds and who have not. This device
fashioned brass telescope. The South AZ
rican negro, heather that he is, is the most
superstitious being under the sun. He stands
In fear and trembling OF the white mans
medicine, and. taking advantage of this
trait, the guards or the compound have sue
ceeded in making the negroes believe that
by means OF this telescope they are enabled
to see all that passes or lies beneath their
dusky skins. Therefore, the minute a lot
OF negroes have served out their time and
are brought into the detention house,
stripped as naked as the day they were born,
one of the guards, armed with the tele-
scope, starts at the head of the line, and.
applying one end of the instrument to the
stomach of the negro at the head of the
line. peers Ions and earnestly through the
other. frequently shifting the head OF the
instrument about as though bent on explor-
ing every nook and granny of the kaffirs
interior.
LIKE THE THIRD DEGREE
while this is in progress another guard
stands by watching intently the play of the
negro's features. IL is an ordeal somewhat
similar to what the police OF our large cities
term the third degree The negro is so
thoroughly convinced that the white man is
able 10 see every part of his interior, da-
monds and ALL that oftentimes he breaks
down and confesses then and there, while
III other cases, where guilty parties make
no confession, the guard who stands look
| ing on, while the other manpulates the tel
escope. Is able 10 judge who are guilty and
| who not by taking note of the fright
ened and terror-stricken expression on the
| faces of those undergoing examination. You
may talk about whipping and torture. but
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

pany's detectives turn up, who give the
stranger. to understand that he has been
trapped at his own game. He is then given
a certain time in which to leave the colony
on the understanding that, if he returns,
he will be prosecuted.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27
THE DAILY PAPER.


Charles Emory Smith, in Good Housekeep-
ing.
The interrelation OF journalism and home
life has undergone complete revolution
with our modern conditions. Half a CEN
political pamphleteering, with a few scraps
of general news. When Horace Greeley
began the New Yorker, when Thurlow
Weed was the great Whig editor, when
Edwin Croswell spoke for the Albany re-
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

Moreover the De Beers Company has
secured the passage OF code OF laws In
the British South Africa states. making
ne purchase or diamond in TIC rough
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

100000. The young speculator Is said TO
have operated on margins, with capital Of
$2,000,000.
Everything that the young man touched
seemed to turn his way. Several millions
were realized in Chicago & Northwestern,
and he turned the money into Brooklyn
Rapid Transit and Southern Pacific, which
yielded him the largest profit.
In his operations Cornelius Vanderbilt
was aided by his uncle, William h. Wander
bilt, who brought him in close contact with
the John ID. Rockefeller interests.
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27

this great store obtaining and presenting styles racc
conceptions
and that is uad the State
The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-27
Cornelius VanderbiIt's Winnings.

New York Letter.
Among the heaviest winners in the recent
bear raid in Wall Street was Cornelius
Vanderbilt, and many brokers declare that
his profits amounted to no less than $10-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Billiard PLAYERS.

The game of billiards has grown in
popularity of late with the fair SEX
According to Shakespeare. Cleopatra
played billiards with her favorite.
Charmion, in the year 80 B. c. At
present the best women players are
the French, who frequent professional
games and eagerly follow the billiard
news of the day. Patti is fond of the
game and had a table made in this
country TO take to her Welsh castle,
for which she paid $4,000. Among
American billiard players of reputs
are Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Edwin
Gould, Mrs. Almeric Paget, Mrs.
Burke-Roche and Lillian Russell. Bill
lizards are said to afford excellent ex-
ercise.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05

Old Sofas, Backs of Chairs, etc., can
be dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS
DYES
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
and English Railways.

The reasons urged in explanation OF
the great number of persons killed and
injured Or American as compared with
British railways are: We have more
than eight times as nay miles OF
road; Great Britain las but 5000
miles of single track, while we have
10000 miles; in Great Britain roads
can pay interest on an investment In
construction of 100000 a mile, but
many American roads built to develop
sparsely settled districts fail to pay
an investment of 10000 mile; heavy
traffic in Great Britain justifies the eD
pense of block systems and interlocb
ing switches.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
se,rch for PrehistorIc Horses.

For two years past agents Of Will
liam c. Whitney have been searching
the western plains for relics of the an
cestors of the present breed Of horses
So far many interesting bones have
been resurrected from their burial
places in the rocks Of the pre-Adamite
ages. The horse, In its origin. had
several varying prototypes. The Ma
tional History Museum in New York
already specimens. Last autumn the
fossil remains of small herd of the
species called the hipparion were dis
covered in Nebraska. From them 1t is
believed that complete animal can
be mounted.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Stops the Cough and
Works on the Cold
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.
Where to AppIv.

Dear Miss Scrubbins,' wrote the
wise mother to her sons teacher, "it
you want an excuse for Willie's alb.
sence from school, ask him for one.
He's the best boy for excuses that
lives. He gives them to me dozen
times day He can give an excuse
for anything that happens, whether
It's rip in his trousers or fight With
a neighbours boy. AS long as you have
him in your room, do not see why it
should be necessary to apply to me
for an excuse at ALL"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Halls Catarrh Cure
Cause for ThankfuIness.
Is a constitutional cure. Price. 7sc

Senator Blackburn tells of Ken
tuckian holding the Office Of trial JUS
tice in the Blue Grass state. His own
son was brought before him on a
charge of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. His honor listened gravely to
the evidence, which established clear
case against the young man, and said:
"The court will now render sentence.
You're fined one cent and costs. The
court VIII remit the costs. and you
may go home and thank God that your
father is the judge"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Matches Eight Inches Long.

The latest luxury for the smokers
tray is the new English match that
measures eight inches in length. Fifty
of these fit a sumptuous silver and
leather box, which, with the cigars, Is
set upon the table at the conclusion
of a dinner party. One match Will
light from ten to twelve cigars or
cigarettes. Sometimes. for the use
of feminine smokers, these matches
are made of Syrian cedars or aromatic
East Indian woods and burn with the
most delicious perfume.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
CUTICURA SOAP
The Worlds Greatest
Skin Soap.
The Worlds Sweetest
Toilet Soap.
Sale Greater Than The Worlds Product
Of Other Skin Soaps.
Sold Wherever Civilization Has
Penetrated.

Millions of the worlds best people
use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuticura
Ointment, the great skin cure, for pre-
serving, purifying and beautifying the
skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts,
scales and dandruff, and the stopping of
falling hair, for softening, whitening
and soothing red, rough and sore hands,
for baby rashes, itchings and chafings,
for annoying irritations, or too free or
offensive perspiration, for lucrative
weaknesses, and many sanative, anti
septic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women, especially moth
ers, as well as for all the purposes of
the toilet, bath and nursery.
Cuticura Soap combines delicate
emollient properties derived from Cuti-
cura, the great skin cure, with the pur-
est of cleansing INGREDIENTS and the
most refreshing of flower odours. No
other medicated soap ever compounded
is to be compared with 1t for preserv-
ing, purifying and identifying the skin,
scalp, hair and hands. No other for
eign or domestic toilet soap, however
expensive, is to be compared with 1t for
ali the purposes of the toilet, bath and
nursery. Thus it combines In one soap
at one price the most effective skin and
complexion soap, and the purest and
sweetest toilet, bath and nursery soap
ever compounded.
Sold throughout the World cnticur. Resolyent, se.
I'm form of Chocolate Coated Pills. 25c per visl OF 6u
Ointmsnt &c.. Soap. Sc Depots London, Charter
houss Sol aris Rue de Ia Psr Boston la Columbus
Ave Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props
- Sand for All About the Skin, Scalp and Hair.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
international Telephony.

Great activity is now being dis
played in the extension of information
al telephones. Brussels and London
and Paris and Rome are already con-
nected Negotiations are now in prog
ress between the Russian and Ger
man governments still further to en-
large the area of international tele-
phones by direct line connecting ST.
Petersburg and Berlin.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Costly Bric-a-Brac.

The details of the purchase of the
Earl Of Yarmouth have been completed.
Mrs. Thaw finally raised her bid to
100000 a year, which the earl accept
ed, though contending that he was dirt
cheap at that figure, and the marriage
dianapolis Sentinel.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
The Travelled Widow.

The Sunday scnool superintendent
was quizzing a class of small girls the
other day. And what was the widows
cruse?' he asked. There was a mo-
up timidly. Please, sir" said the
youngster, the widow was one Of the
people that went with Noah in his
yacht"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05

am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life three years ago.-Mrs. THos. ROBBINS,
Maple Street. Norwich, N. Y. Feb. IL, 1900
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05
Serious Trouble.

10 you experience tits depression with restsnes alternating
easily affected SO that minute laugh and the fall into
vulslye weeping?
Do feel something like ball rising your
ing choke YOU all the senses perverted mordy sensitive light
sometimes loss OF voice. dyspepsia and almost continually
and with tendency the
Ii so your shattered condition. threat
ened with prostraton
Undoubtedly you but nine cases out ten this
caused by uterine disorder cene
organs which make woman influence entire
Something must be done
WILL Frustrated for weeks and months perhaps suffer untold
misery.
Proof is monumental that nothing
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sands and thousands of women have written
How rlrs. Holland, of Philadelphia, suffered
among the finest physicians in the country, of
whom could help her finally cured by Lydia e.
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DEAR Mrs PINKHAM For years suf-
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taking Lydia Pinkhams Vegetable Compound began
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Another of female trouble cured by
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Compound will help just surely as has others
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-06-05

1.-THE Klean, Kool Kitchen Kind" of stoves
keep you clean and cool. Economical and
always ready. Sold at good stove stores
Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-13
ORDINANCE NO. 28.
An Ordinance Creating the Office or Plumbing Inspector. and Prescribing His Duties and Powers.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Bisbee, as follows:
 Section l. That the Health Officer If said city is hereby constituted Plumbing Inspector in and for the said City Of Bisbee.
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of said Plumbing Inspector to examine and inspect all plumbing now existing pr hereafter constructed in said city, and see that the same is in such condi- tion and so constructed as to insure the best sanitary condition possible.
 Sec. g. If said inspector shall find any plumbing now existing in an un- sanitary condition, he shall notify the owner of the premises on which the same is situated of such fact, and re. auire him to place the same in sani- tary condition.
 See. 4. All plumbing hereafter dore or constructed shall be with the ap | proval of such inspector. Sec. 5. Any person failing to com ply with the demand of such inspector as mentioned in Section 3 hereof, ol who shall hereafter do or construct my plumbing without first obtaining he approval of such inspector, shai be guilty of a misdemeanor. and shal be punished by a fine of not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars.
 Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and afte, it's passage and publication as require' by law.
 Passed and adopted by the Common Council this 4th day of August, 1903
 Approped:
 J. J. MUIRHEAD, Mayor. Attest: W. D. KINSEY, Clerk.
 First pub. S-13.
Bisbee daily review., 1903-08-13

Some wise owl in the east has in- vented the pork-and-beans tablet, a concentrated food tabloid that may be eaten as you walk along the street or ride in the street cars, or any old place that will not interfere with the stren uous habit of rushing business. Now if. another wise owl will only invent tablet that will dispense with slee' we think we may be able to pull through this world comfortably, with out neglecting business.