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Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Claim peclsIon Saves Millions.


The Court of Claims on the 5th inst.
decided that duties collected on goods
shipped from the United States to the
Philippines after the treaty of peace
with Spain, and before the establish
ment Of civil government, were right
fully collected, although by military
authority and not by law. The deci-
sion follows the insular decision OF the
Supreme Court, that the Philippines
are United States territory.
The case decided was the claim Of
Warner, Barnes & Co., a British cor
poration, which sued the United States
for $81, ,126. Other claims resting on
exactly the same foundation aggregate
between $7,000,000 and $S,000,00O. BY
the decision this amount will be saved
to the government. Warner, Barnes
& Co. sued for tariffs collected at
Manila upon importations of mer-
chandise from the United States after
the treaty of peace with Spain. and 1t
was argued that under the authority
Of the insular cases lately decided by
the United States Supreme Court the
levy and collection of such tariffs was
illegal for the reason that at the time
Of such collection the Philippine ar
chipelago was not a foreign country IN
respect to the United States after the
exchange of ratifications of the treaty
by the governments Of the United
States and Spain.
Judge Wright, in rendering the opin
ion, followed the decision of the in
sular case and decided that the Philip
pine islands were not foreign country
in respect to the United States, but
distinguished the case from the insular
cases, holding that state of war ex.
listed throughout the islands between
the United States and the Filipinos to
the extent that the treaty with Spain
and all other merely civil law was for
the time being suspended and super.
seded by military law, until such time
as it might be possible to establish
civil administrative and judicial au-
thority to enforce the civil law, and
that during such period of suspension
of the civil law the power of the mill
tary commander was absolute and that
he might lawfully prohibit or restrict
trade or commerce. and, as condition
to commerce within his military dis
trict, might impose contributions to
assist in the expense Of the war and
such care to INDECENT non-combatants
as humanity might require.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
ON TO THE. GULF
LINe-oF COLORADO q SOUTHERN
viii Extend from Fort Worth to Hous-
ton and Galveston.-President
TrumbuII In New York to
Make Arrangements.

Denver. May 8.-The Republican
this morning says: The Colorado &
Southern railroad will extend its line
to Huston and Galveston, Texas, and
thus be in direct connection with the,
shipping trade Of the Gulf.
1t was learned yesterday that such
is to be the result OF the visit of Pres
ident Frank Trumbull and General
Manager ]. M. Herbert to Fort Worth
and Galveston, from where General
Manager Herbert will return to-mor-i
row to Denver. President Frank
Trumbull has proceeded to New York,
from Fort Worth to attend to import
ant matters regardiaS the contemplate
ed extension.
The news comes not Oh an entire sur,
prise to local railroad officials and It,
has been rumored long before now that
the Southern would acquire q line d.
rect to ther.Gulf However, nothing.
definite In that regard became known
until yesterday, and, In fact. the
Southern officials themselves had not
fully decided to recommend the ex-
tension until their latest visit to
Texas
At present the Southern ends at.
Fort Worth. All Gulf business of the
road to Colorado Is handled by 9TH;
er lines from Galveston to Houstonl
and to Fort Worth. The Southern has
been Handicapped not little in hav-
no terminal at the Gulf and has lost
much business to competing lines for
that reason.
From Fort Worth to Galveston is
about $50 miles. The lines which al
ready handle the traffic between the
two places are the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, the Houston & Texas Cen
tral. and the Santa Fe. 1t is the lat,
ter line with which the Southern Is In
greatest competition.
1t has not been learned definitely
whether the Southern will operate its
trains over leased tracks of one Of the
roads already running from Fort
Worth to Galveston, or construct its
own tracks. However. it, is believed,
that for the present the plan of leas-'
ing Is the more advisable. but should
the volume of business necessitate It
the Southern will, of course, not hesi-
tate to build.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
Ware Should Beware.

Commissioner of Pensions Ware is
guilty Of lese majestic according to
a Washington dispatch. His crime g
that he openly criticises the recent or
der of the President, issued through
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock.
creating service pension roll. THIS
is what he says:
Many veterans will refuse to avail
themselves of this means Of obtaining
a pension. One man visited me here
the other day and asked for particu-
lars about the order. When had
given him all the information he turn
ed around and said: That's pauper's
pension. I would not accept any mon
ey under It.
"A good many soldiers will express
the same sentiment"
Commissioner Wares comment on
the Presidents order as paupcr's
pension, came at an end of a review
work that has come to his bureau un-
der ruling that veterans who reach
the age of sixty-two should be paid
Sc a month with the provision that the
amount is increased with advanced
age until the pensioner at seventy
years secures $12 month.
Eleven thousand applications have
been filed in seventeen days, the COM
missioner said. Every application has
to be forwarded to the war depart
ment for comparison with the records
OF that department. It is hardly possi-
BILE that any of the pensions will be
paid until July 1st.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
Counterfeit Denver Bill.

Denver. May 8.-Counterfeit bills of
the $40 denomination. bearing the date,
of 1882, are being circulated according
to general notice issued by the Unit
ed States secret service officials. TheI
notes bear the imprint OF the Denveri
National Bank. although none have
yet made their appearance in the city.
Most OF them brought to light by the
secret service men were discovered I'M
Wisconsin and the middle western
states.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

In an interview with correspond!
ent, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie tells what
he would do If he were a newspaper
man. One thing he wouldn't do under
those circumstances is to give away
few millions every year
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A Connecticut man has invented n
machine which he claims will enable
him to fly like a bird. He refuses to
divulge the idea until the machine is
completed. but the village undertaken.
as well as his distant relatives. is
exceedingly hopeful.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A Wisconsin man ran away with an
Harmony Of souls wrought through
the medium of music" The super
fluous husband probably played the
same important musical part that is
enacted by fractured string.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

1t would be hard to convince a
young lady with pretty new bathing
suit that there was anything immoral
about taking sun bath on the sands
in spite of the Mortified exclamations
of foreign visitors.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A French scientist announces that
men may live to be hundreds of years
old II they will only drink plenty of
sea water. Unfortunately. however.'
he has neglected to explain whether ii
should be boiled or not.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The handsome young woman who
allowed hairdressers bill for dyeing
her tresses to get into the courts and
the newspapers must have the cour-
age Of her convictions.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A California expert offers to exter-
inmate the gypsy moth in Massachu-
setts for 100000, by importing para
sites from Europe. And then how
does he propose to exterminate the
parasites?
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

An unfortunate woman has gone
crazy through trying to keep secrets.
There seems to be no danger of an
epidemic of this sort.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The Patagonians object to being.
photographed. A glance at the pic,
ture of one explains why they should
entertain these objections.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

"Strikes are hell" says Bishop
Spalding. They are; they are. Any
good batter who has made three of
them when a home run was needed
will agree with the bishop.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

Sir Charles Dixie will now be voted
the loveliest man in all England. He
has come out flat-footed for the admis-
sion of women to parliament.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

II the South Carolina Supreme court
sustains the decision that woman
hugged on a railroad train is entitled
to damages from the company, the
tempting tunnel will have to be abol-
ished.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

That whirring sound that comes
from New Jersey is simply Hartman
grinding his tomahawk before once
more taking the trail after Jim" Hill.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The man who spends his time think-
ing what he would do if he had mil
lion dollars never gets million dol
lars.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

Dean Tufts of Chicago university
describes flirting as good mental ex-
ercise. Then the dean evidently fayors
coeducation.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

They are now teaching life insur-
ance in some Of the colleges-just as
II the agents were not already so
good that they write" for so much
that 1t leaves us all wrong when va
cation time comes.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

4 woman always thinks she could
save a great deal of money if the man
who earns it for her spent less
New York Press.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The other great American naHonal
game is now on. This one as no
kitty.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

1t was peculiarly appropriate that
an inventor of air ships should have
been blown up by an empty whisky
barrel.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A Chicago policeman was robbed Of
part of his uniform while he was at
tending church. No policeman has
ever complained of having lost any
thing in a saloon.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The st. Dunstan edition of Dickens
130 volumes, at $1,000 volume. will
hardly become popular in circulating!
libraries. l.r
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

An up-to-date Boston undertaken
now describes himself as "morti-
cian." His Latin is as bad as his
taste.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A New Jersey woman who wants a
divorce because her husband smokes
pipe indoors. might have broken
him of the habit, maybe, If she had
begun smoking cigarettes herself.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

Woman never wades around the
edges Of an argument. She dives in
and then swims out-if she can.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

With a capital of s5,OOO,OO0 the hero
business offers fine opening for
young men.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

A New York alienist declares that
Hetty Green is insane. Tut! Tut
Hetty hasn't been going around vol
unfairly to have her taxes raised. has
she?
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

For the District Of Columbia the
President has appointed to cadetsbip
at West Point Herbert Harries, son Of
General George II. Harries, with Logan
alternates. Cunningham is a relative
Of the late General John A. Logan.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
Would Decline Vice Presidency.

Gwen at the risk of being accused
of declining that which l probably
could not get If l desired it, answer
most unequivocally that if the nomina-
tion were rendered to me would not
accept it under any circumstances
whatever"
Thus strongly did Speaker Cannon.
in an authorized interview emphasize
his determination with reference to
the vice presidency. AS he concluded
debating what he had to say the
speaker added: .t.
''If there is any language which can
be more decisive, write it in"
what are your reasons for such
statement" he was asked.
II have been for almost thirty years
q member of the national House OF Rep
resentatives. I may say my life work
has been in connection with legislation
IN the House. l have been nominated
by the Republicans of the congress-
tonal district in which resided, and
have accepted the nomination. l have
every reason to hope I shall be re-
elected"
"If the Republicans have majority
in the next House of Representatives,
of which, in my opinion" he concluded
"there is no reasonable doubt, l will
be candidate to succeed myself as
speaker. If, perchance. however. the
Republicans should not have a major
ity in the next House. l will take my
place on the floor and give the best
service in my power to the minority.
Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12

The treasury warrant for $40.000,000
on account Of the Panama canal pur-
chase was delivered to ]. P. Morgan
Co., by Secretary Shaw at the sub
treasury in New York May 9th. Secre-
tary Shaw made the following state
ment as to the transfer: -. P. Morgan
& Co. were this morning formally ap-
pointed special distributing agents and
their security fixed at $25.000,000. AS
soon as this security was approved, the
warrant for $40.OOO,000 was delivered"
The President has made the follow
ing appointments at large to West
Point: ]. L. Glen, Jr.. son of Colonel
John NJ. Glen, quartermaster; William
H. Emery, Jr.. son of Captain Emery,
u. S. NJ; Jack w. Heard, son Of Cap
tain Jack w. Heard, U. s. A.; jeremiah
brennan, son of Ordnance and Cavalry
Sergeant brennan, deceased; Garische
A. Ord, son of Captain E. A. Ord, U.
s. A., retired; Horace Hayes Fuller,
son of Major Ezra B. Fuller, u. s.
A.
The platform to be adopted by the
Republican national convention has
been among the topics discussed at
the conferences which have taken
place recently at the White House. in
committee rooms at the capitol and at
different residences, where a number
of Republicans have been assembled.
Senator Lodge, who is slated for chair
man of the committee on resolutions
at the convention, has prepared pre-
liminary sketches of various topics
that he thinks should be treated and
has submitted them to senators and
others for their approval or suggestion
as to amendment. 1t is expected that
before the convention meets COM
plete platform will be prepared which
will have the approval Of the Presi-
dent.
Republican leaders in Washington.
who are engaged in the work Of franz
ing a platform to be submitted to the
National convention are said to ex-
perience difficulty in finding the proper
wording for reciprocity suggestion.
Nearly all of the senators who have at
tended the recent conferences have
contributed their share toward keeping
the reciprocity treaties negotiated by
the Mckinley administration closely
confined in committee pigeon holes.
Reciprocity has not been popular in
Congress-, and 1t was with a great ef-
fort that the Cuban legislation was
passed. Senator Aldrich announced
when the Cuban bill was under consid-
Grafton that there would be no more
tariff Legislation by treaty. If anything
is said about reciprocity 1t will be SO
worded as to mean that reciprocity
shall be confined to such articles as
are not in competition with products OF
the United States.
An important meeting Of special
arbitration committee on Red Cross
affairs was held May Sd in which the
charges affecting Miss Barton's use OF
the funds of the association occa-
stoned much bitterness No settle
ment was reached. The plan Of reor-
organization was submitted, and met
with favor on all sides. Senator Proc
tor stated that 1t had been prepared
by General John w. Foster, after con-
sultation with ex.Secretary Of the
Navy Hilary A. Herbert. Il
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24
EUREKA! EUREKA!


I have rambled for years Ger this land
of the west,
And traversed it's mountains and
planes
In search of some spot where labor is
blessed,
And peace and tranquility reigns.
In Clifford the crack of the outlaws gun
Never breaks my quiet repose;
Here the people are jolly and ready for
fun.
But few knows the meaning of booze.
| see not den of pollution in town,
No gossip, no tattlers, no hoboes al
lowed;
OF slang and profanity I've heard not
sound
From the elite and refined to the
humblest crowd.
They haven't an officer here in the town
And really don't need one it seems;
stand in amazement while glancing
around
And wonder if I'm in dream.
They seek not each others downfall or
disgrace,
Or offer the slightest abuse.
I'm told they've not had scrap in this
place
Since old Nez Perez was tinny pap
poose.
l have. stood on the beautiful school
house knoll,
And viewed the fine landscape below,
Till could not refrain from taking a
That Teddy would envy, l know.
The wiring of the sickle on the neigh
boring slope,
Proclaims than it is now harvest time
And the eye of the farmer is beaming
with hope,
For he knows that his crop is sublime,
Ills OICildIu anu Sdlucii hS fiSWo Will
delight, -
While considering how well they've
produced;
He says they're not damaged by flood,
drouth or blight ),
This really excells the Palouse.
While walking the street if the dinner
bell rings, q.
know that it's limiting to me
To come and partake of the many good
things
Produced in this land of the free,
One sound of that bell is sufficient for
I refuse not the staples of life;
When the smiling young waitress is
serving the tea ~,.
regret that haven't wife. 70,
Here my thoughts wander back to the
land of my birth;
Then fit Ger my rambles and strolls,
And l wonder if I've found heaven on
earth =.
Away down in these Craig Mountain
knobs.
]. H. WOOD,
The Rambling Baird of Idaho.
Clifford, ID, Sep. Ia, 1904.
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Annalgarn
BEING BRIEF PARAGRAPHS
Church makes photographs.


Frank Duncan of Dixie was
visitor in Elk this week.
A fresh supply Of Palm Choc-
olates and Bon-Bons at Baskets.
Mrs. w. r. Bullock left last
week on a visit to Hood river, Ore
Thornton keeps Key West and
all the best brands of domestic
cigars.
For a good drink of Three
Mile or Rocky Ridge whiskey go
to Thornton's.
L. P. Erickson of the Erickson
placers paid Elk City one of his
rare visits this week.
French Nongat, Butter Cups,
Caramels, Taffy and Stick Candy
at Baskets Drug Store.
DIED. S. J. Mcpherson, aged
SO years, at his home on Clear
Creek, September 81, 1904.
% E. M. Aldrich returned to Spo-
kane this week after exploring a
new section of this district.
Go to Whitakers and look over
his fall and winter samples of
clothing. a fit guaranteed.
E. F. Gordon returned from
Lewiston Thursday, making the
ride through from Sites in a day.
Sailed Almons; Sailed Peanuts,
Ice Cream Chocolates and Brandy
Cordials at Baskets drug store.
]. Mcpherson, a freighter, was
thrown from his wagon while
coming from Dixie Thursday and
sustained painful injuries.
The fall and winter term of
school began Monday, the 18th,
with a full attendance. Miss
Anna Mclaughlin is in charge.
w. Y. Williams, formerly super
intendent of the Cranky smelter
mines of Phoenix, B. c., passed
through town Friday on his way
to Dixie on business.
Mrs. Parr has purchased the
Foulkes lot and building on lower
Main street. The building, which
is dilapidated affair, will be
torn down and used for fuel.
The Kamiah Mining company
will resume operations, on their
property west of town today
under the management of Minor
H. Kline. They will start with
two shifts.
Frank Steckner returned from
the Hump where he has been
doing his assessment. He bro't
his horses out for the winter and
will return there in a day or two
to complete his work.
Dan A. Mcdonald is a visitor
from Concord this week. He is
here to start men to work on
the Erickson Reef, an immense
dyke in which he and H. D.
Poyneer are sole owners.
0. L. Smith, superintendent of
the Bead Lake mine at Newport,
Wash, and an extensive claim
owner on the Crooked river Sec
ton, came in on the 18th inst. to
represent his claims, which are
said to be above the average both
in size of lodges and values.
DR.. Parks returned Thursday
night from the lie Roy where he
has been fighting fire for several
days in an effort to protect the
LIE Roy mill. In this he says he
was greatly aided by the rangers
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24
New improvements.

Among the new Improvements
of the grounds of the Lewiston
Interstate Fair association at
Lewiston, Idaho, is. a new grand
stand, much larger and more
modern than. the old one. A new
paddock and jockey house. A
new coat of whitewath for all
stables and stalls and. paint for
other buildings. Additional sta
bles to accommodate the large
number of horses that will be in
attendance from all over the
northwest. Several hundred of
race horses are expected to
attend the meeting October IL to
% inclusive. Good early closing
stakes have been offered includ-
ing four $500 stakes for harness
horses and several for runners.
The association will give good,
liberal purses for at least six
races daily. No entrance fee will
be charged for any except early
closing stakes.
Robert Leighton, secretary of
of the North Pasific Fair circuit,
and a thorough horsemen, will be
at the meeting and act as judge.
Horsemen in the northwest sho'd
not overlook this meeting.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24

Good work is guaranteed al
Church's studio, Elk City.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24

Dufield has Smoked Hallibut.
Try it.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-09-24

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