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Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

vestors are rewarded for their investments
when they are placed here. The wildcat
element is not found here and the man who
invests dollar is given show to get some
thing in return.
The people should see to it that the good
name earned is kept for it will mean great
deal for the future. 1t will mean that cash
will come in multiples and that mines will
be opened in multiples and that with the
growth and expansion of the mining indus
try every other business enterprise must
share in proportion.
There is the best of reason for the belief
that within five years the city will double
in population. Hundreds of big mines,
now going through the process of develop
ment will be opened up and the transforma-
tion scene, which is going on every day,
will come so steadily but so surely that we
will not appreciate what it means to the in
dividua1 citizen or to the district.
A little city like Idaho Springs with a
per capita deposit in her banks of better
than 81 so has something of which she has
reason to point with pride. Nothing can
prevent success in such a section. 1t will
come in spite of those who are fighting it
persistently but the thing to do is to quit
fighting it and help along everything that
appears to mean more development or that
means that it will contribute something to
the material prosperity of the city and
district.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
WHY NOT ADVERTISE.

A druggist in Minneapolis asks this ques-
ton; Everyone who knows anything
about mineral waters tells me just as you
do that the Idaho Springs product is the
best to be had in that line and similar to
the Carlsbad product, why do you keep it
all to yourselves? Why do you not bottle
it and place it upon the market by adver-
tising it in conjunction with the good re-
putation it has already obtained?'
These are questions that affect the future
prosperity of Idaho Springs. There is no
reason why the mineral waters of this city
should not be on sale in all the principal
cities of the United States. There is field
here for some good live man who will expend
considerable capital in advertising. Sue
cess will follow the expenditure for it is a
fact that wherever the water is known it is
favorite among mineral waters. This is
hint to some good company that desires
to open profitable field.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
A SEASON OF DEVELOPMENT.

The present year will undoubtedly be the
greatest in the history of the district, SO far
as development is concerned. As result
of the strike there may be temporary fall
ing off in the production figures but this
will be overcome before the totals are ready
for the opening of the next year. People
do not realize that at the present time more
capital is being invested in the district than
ever before. 1t is getting SO that the old
mines that furnished the record in years
gone by can close down now and still the
figures will reach the increases enjoyed
with each recurring year.
The Idaho Springs district is growing and
getting to be great big proposition. 1t is
attracting thousands of capital for devel-
opment because it has been shown that in
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
INVESTIGATED

We sometimes think that the continual
warfare waged against mining fakirs has
tendency to discourage investors. They
might be led to think that there is no way
to be safe. But there is. Investigation
solves the problem in most cases. Make
careful inquiry about the men who manage
or promote mining enterprises. Ask the
banks and business men who know them.
Send a representative to meet them and
look the proposition over. These precaut-
ions take only little time, and involve only
little expense, but will save costly mis-
takes.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
A GOOD, HEALTHY SPORT.

We do not believe it advisable to be too
strict in school matters and must differ from
a correspondent who writes this week to
find fault with basket ball and every other
sport enjoyed by students in school. The
essential portion of his letter contains this
matter:
boys and girls are sent to school for the
purpose of giving them an idea of reading
and writing and the other studies demanded
in after life. If we want to make sports
and prizehghters out of them we can send
them to some regular athletic school. The
school children at the present time are go
ing crazy over basket ball and soon it will
be football and it seems to be something all
the time except the very thing we send
them to school for"
1t may be true that occasionally a pupil
will become too enthusiastic and render the
idea of study void as result of this enthu-
siasm for something else, but we are inclined
to believe, that this is the exception rather
than the rule. Progress appears to be more
acceptable at the school this winter than it
has been before for years. Pupils report a
term prolific of excellent results in the way
are playing basket ball and we suppose they
will play foot ball, or at least the boys will
when the season opens, and if the girls de-
sire to there is no reason why they should
not.
"A1l work and no play makes Jack dull
II. l.. LA
1t is true. In order to place the mind in
condition to better grasp educational ideas
the body must be healthy and the blood act
i've. This condition of affairs cannot be
brought about by locking a pupil up in
school room or claiming him to his books.
Good red blood is obtained through good,
healthy exercise and activity. That which
is exercise for the mind is sometimes the op-
posite for the body. There can be ex-
tremes but we believe thatif medical science
teaches anything it teaches that an active
body conduces to an active brain and, as a
matter of fact, must contribute to it.
In this agew we are too apt to overlook
the things that we ought to have in con-
nection with our toll and the feeding of the
passion for gain. Let us have good healthy
sports. If we had boy we would prefer
to have him prize fighter rather than a
pinched-up, debilitated, hatched-faced
specimen of humanity. Give us reasonable
play and sport for the young. 1t should
not crowd out every other feature but it is
we'll to have it as one of the features incid-
ent to successful training of the mind.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
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1 am writing this from Minneapolis, and
am moved to do so as result of the receipt
of letter from my old friend John 7.
Mallalieu, who writes me that the flowers
are in bloom and that the wood ticks are
beginning to mate on Spion Kopje, Idaho
Springs, Colo, United States of America,
This Earth. This is a hot country for
cold country. It is land of big blonde
women and little weazen faced men. Beer
and ale are the favorite drinks. Water is
used for sewerage and other questionable
purposes sometimes for bathing although
the alcohol and massage baths are popular.
1t is strong union city and merchants who
sell anything but union underwear are not
patronized. 1 find great many people
here who know a great many people in
Idaho Springs. Minneapolis is city of
Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. am in
clined to think that so many blondes here
owe the color of their hair to the inter
marriage of the aces-occasionally one,
perhaps, has crossed a brunette crop of
hair with bottle of carbolic acid, or some
other chemical with a result that the pro-
duct is blonde. l am not an authority on
such matters but presume this to be the
case.
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07

On the train between Council Bluffs and
Des Moines, met Mary Ellen Lease, once
famous as political orator. She knew
Steve Noyes back in Wisconsin and in
quired about him affectionately. when 1
first knew Mr.. Noyes," she remarked, che
was a very young man and used to play
postoffice at home. l knew he would some
day become postmaster as his leaning was
naturally in that direction
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, is here
for week. She knew Jim Lindsay very
well in childhood-I mean when Jim was a
child. She says she used to hold him on
her knee and acts like she would yet if he
were here. "He used to play he was
banker" she said, land on one occasion
he tried to have the groceryman arrested
who delivered the groceries at the house
and deposited them right down side of
Jim's little play bank. One of the articles
in the order was can of baked beans and
Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-03-07
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On account of the extreme cold at this
point great many ladies wear felt boots.
Of course some of them are not felt. Every
man is perpetual glacier until you begin
to talk to him about something in which
there may be coin attachment. Then he
begins to melt and before you get through
with him he is a hot spring. 1t is in every
sense a strenuous city. A few miles to the
North of us is the Dominion of Canada
the only thing, apparently, between us and
the North Pole. On the other side is St.
Paul. There is an intense rivalry between
Minneapolis and St. Paul. They tell me
that the people of Minneapolis will not read
the Bible because it mentions St. Paul Of
tener than it does Minneapolis. St. Paul
is on one side of the Mississippi and Min
neapolis is on the other The muddy con-
dition of the Father of Waters is due to the
fact that several baths have been taken
here during the past week.
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South of us is Iowa and when one passes
through Inal state ne IeelS as II any SOIl OF
a change would be beneficial. There is
something about Iowa that reminds one of
Central City. Oysters would not stay
there if they had legs to get out with.
The greatest evidences of life one can find
is among the cemeteries. There is plenty
of raw material in Iowa that comes up to
Minneapolis and by the time it is here a
few days it becomes the finished product
and it is finished, too. Iowa is a state of
farmers who grow corn in summer and
whiskers in winter. You can tell man
from Iowa as soon as he gets aboard the
train. He looks shop-worn and unkempt
and has the aroma of one who deals ex-
tensively in Limburger cheese. If all parts
of the state are similar to the one l went
through, the state of Iowa is rich for the
same reason its soil is-it has been fertil-
lied.
On the train between Council Bluffs and
Des Moines, met Mary Ellen Lease, once
famous as political orator. She knew
Steve Noyes back in Wisconsin and in
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25
BEHIND THE BARS

aluminium and includes papers, and
are very neat In appearance. They
are especially adaped to private
residences. 1t Is said the young
men had been operating In Mounds
Vile and Wheeling previous to
their arrival In this Ciry
Government Inspector Edward
Allen, of Grafton, arrived in the
city this morning and Is awaiting
instructions from the postofhce de
partment at Washington Inspec-
tor Smith, of the post Office depart
ment al Washington, was wired
Yesterday In regard to the matter
He sent a message back to hold
he parties until the investigation
could be made. The suspects were
In the city bastile when We went
to press.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

Three young men, who gave
their names as Ralph V, Santee, OF
Utica, N. Y, and Raymond Ruff,
OF Greensburg, Pa, and Walter S.
Muden, of Newark, at New York,
were locked up by Chief OF
Police Thomas A. Williams, last
evening, on suspicion of detrauding
the government.
The young men, who are well
dressed, genteel looking fellows,
we're canvassiug the city tor Mail
Receiving Boxes. They agreed to
furnish the device to any resident
for a term of FIVE years for IS cents
rhe property Is yours duling that
period and you can take it with
you In case you move within the
FIVE years. They are finished In
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25
RAILROAD
DOWN THE RIVER

We have mentioned the fact sew
eral times that the Ohio Valley
Electric Railway company was 60
ing to build road from this city
to Friendly, then to Bens Run and
later on down to St. Marys. We
recently published an account Of
the meeting of the stockholders, al
which meeting the sum OF fifty
thousand dollars was subscribed for
the purpose Of building the road at
once from this city to friendly
Since that time quite number Of
land owners have given the right Of
way for the road, Others
ask so much for a right
of way the company will
have to condemn a right OF way
through the lands of these unreaS
enable people. Condemnation pro-
ceediugs have been instituted and
when the Circuit court meets next
Tuesday commissioners will be ap
pointed to go upon the land ard
assess the damages. This week E
R B Martin, of the law firm of
Johnson & Martin, of St. Marys
has been at Middlebourne making
up abstracts to the title of the
lands through which the road will
run in this county In order to pre-
prepare a mortgage to raise the
money with or on to build the road.
It will take about ten days to COM
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25
WINDOW GLASS
MEN STRIKE

contract. Another clause in the
wage scale objected to Is that the
plant Is only 10 run until May 28th
1904 This Is less than a ten
months run and the company
having agreed with Mr.. Wells 70 run
ten month"; If possible and propose
carry out this contract If tEs
possible to be done This morn
ing the men refused to wo.k, the
glass In the pots was bailed out and
the factory closed, The men s-e
out on a strike ard the managers
propose to stapd by their original
contracts If the plant rots, We
understand the men offer suoter-
tuges by which they can get
round these two Objectionable
clauses In the wage scale but the
managers say they have made fair
and square contracts, propose to
carry them out and do not intend
to agree to do one thing and do an
other. There Is very little money
In the business now and we re
sorry the strike Is on. The work
ingmen have everything to lose
while the other stockholders have
their other occupatic rs and the
factory standing idle makes sub
staptiallv no difference at all to
them. Its certainly a silly move
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

plete this work. AS we have stat
sd,the money has been pledged and
promised and will be forth coming
and work will begin on the road
Just as soon as these preliminarieS
can be closed up. There seems to
be no doubt about the road being
Quilt and 1t will not be many
months until we can ride by elec-
{ i cars from this city to st. Marys
and up 10 Brooklyn and out
trough the country. Work on the
road to Middlebourne will begin In
January and pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible. There IS no
6oubt about these roads being built.
1t means a big permanent city
here forever. We know what a
road 10 Paden City has done for
our city. 1t made the business here
better than 1t has ever been.
A road down the river mears a
hundred times more business than
the road to Paden City has brought
us. AD other road through the
county means many more custom
ers for our merchants SIstersville
has had an oil boom bat that was
transient. A street car boom will
be permanent and we are going to
have it. 1t will not be many days
until the Dagoes will be here to
commence grading for the road 10
Friendly. Now Is the time to
move to Sistersville to get into the
boom and enjoy unprecedented
prosperity.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

The blowers. gatherers, suapoers
and cutters at the Tyler Window
Glass company went out on strike
this morning on their own motion
and without orders from the Off
GERS of the Glass unions The troub
lie Is over a new wage scale the
men want the company to sign. 1t
Is we'll known when Eph Wells
made a deed to the company tor
tine land on which tn glass plant
Is built, that the company was to
operate the plant ten months IL
year. The men employed IN
the plant subscribed for sixteen
thousand dollars worth of the stock
of the company of which amount
they have paid about one halt
They were to pay for this stock by
having deducted from their Wages
each month a certain per cent Of
their earnings to pay for the stock
they had bought. The new wage
scale provides that all the wages
are to be paid to the men and not q
penny Is to be deducted for stock
This Is directly opposite to wnat
was agreed to and the com
pany declined most emphati+
cally 10 change their Original
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

The Tyler Club will give their
semi annual banquet tonight In
their handsome quarters In the
Auditorium building. The occa-
sion Is being looked forward to by
the members of this popular organ
ization with the most pleasant
anticipations.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

The supply OF turkeys for the
Sistersvllle market appears to be
ample enough to permit of their
price being reduced to a figure
where everybody can have an op.
portunity to purchase one for their
Thanksgiving dinner.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-25

Snow furries tonight and Thurs
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-07

sketch books in its pockets, a pair of
spiked Swiss shoes a Venetian blind
straw hat and Dutch necktie. / was
hopelessly unfit to come before the eyes
of Il multitude, especially when it in
cluded my own country men who must
have been ashamed of me. Moreover,
what would the pope say? But it was
too late to back out now; had passed
beyond the great oak door and was in
actually in the beautiful Sistine Chapel
to the envy of the assembled nations
left behind in the anteroom.
1t was packed. Varicolored peasants
lined the walls all round six Deep with
the shaver heads of priests and white
bonnets Of nuns showing here and
there. Above, in temporary balconies.
sat the elect; and among these I took
up my position as inappropriately and
as complacently as Krishna Mulvaney
in the Indian Temple.
Everybody was talking and looking
eXpectantly at the big oak door, closed
and guarded. IT would not be long,
now. The guard was peering through
a little peephole and fumbling with the
heavy bolts. Finally he flung it open.
and directly out side framed up in the
doorway as in a picture wrapped in
most gorgeous of red robes, sat the
pope. lie was borne high above the
heads of the people in a gold throne
chair, carried by poles upon the Shout
ders of twelve stalWart chair bearers,
all i'll that same roSe-cOlored liVeries.
They began 70 march solemnly in, and
as the red-robed figure with it's vener-
able white head passed under the Intel.
tremendous cheer of Long live the
papal king!' rose simultaneously in
four languages and filled the air
On he came, smiling as a father
jsmles upon his children. holding above
our heads in benediction a trembling
! thin hand with a huge green seal ring,
and looking from side to side that his
eye might fall upon each and all of US.
| The peasants shouted and waved their
! colored ScarfS, the gentlemen in the
balconies forgot they were in conven-
tionai evening dress the fair ladies with
the lace scarfs and the lovely dark ewes
leaned out and stretched forth their
hands devoutly as he passed. The
priests and the white nuns bowed their
neads over their rosaries for a moment,
then looked eagerly in the old mans
race for some sign that he had noticed
them for they had come so far to see
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-07
Sending VaIuabIes by Mail.

The recent discovery of the post Of
nee inspectors of this city that mail
clerks nave been stealing letters bear
ing special delivery stamps, and that
many of these missives have contained
large sums of money, has revealed to
the department that there is, apparent
ly, pretty general misconception in
the public mind as to the function of
the special delivery system. The arrest
last Monday of one mail clerk in this
city, in whose pocket We're found sew
eral banknotes that had been marked
and placed in a decoy special delivery
letter was ground for a suspicion the
inspectors had entertained for several
months, and it is expected that other
dishonest employees in the postal SER
vice will be arrested in the near future.
The special delivery stamp placed
on a letter" said an official in the de-
partment yesterday, does not mean
any more security for the letter than
there is for any ordinary letter. Eco
pie seem to believe that because of the
chare for the same and for other rea-
sons varying with different persons. q
letter is guarded as closely when il
bears a special delivery stamp as when
| it is registered
This is not true. A registered let
ter is watched over during it's entire
| trip, from the time it is mailed until
! 1T reaches its addressee, each clerk or
postmaster receiving it into his custo-
dy giving a receipt and taking one
when he surrenders it to another. The
only receipt required in the trasporta-
ton of special delivery letter is from
| theSIddressee. IF the letter does not
reach him there is no means of tracing
it. The receipt he signs is not so much
to insure the safe delivery of the letter
as to furnish a record FOR the depart
ment. none being made when the spe-
cial delivery stamp is sold OF course
it serves, too, to keep a tab on the
special delivery mail carrier, the time it
Is given him. and the time il is deliver
ed at its destination being closely
marked. During the trip, each special
delivery letter is placed on top of 4
bunch of letters, and not buried in it.
ana each clerk must use all effort to
speed it on it's way.
! But this does not mean much addi-
| tional safety for the letter en- route.
The misunderstanding that it does has
led hundreds, yes, believe thousands.
to put special delivery stamps on val
liable packages, when such packages
should have been registered. In the
post office department, as We'll as in
IeVery other department of business.
mere is here and there a Crooked
clerk, and he has not failed to learn of
ms. The result has been that we have
mad hundreds of complaints IF tho die
appearance of special delivery letters.
we are conducting thorough investi-
cation. and hope to ferret out those
who have been robbing the mails. But
1t would be better to relieve the temp
tation and secure safety in the first
instance by inducing the people to re-
train from sending valuable packages
and letters containing money by spe-
clal delivery, but to use, instead, the
registry system. New York Times.