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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-28
THE RICHNESS OF THE GOLD DE-
POSTS SURPRISES ALL THE
EXPECTATIONS.
Almost Assured That 1t Will Rival
Any Strike Ever Made in
the West.

WELT ohI, oIt -S.-A lcuSo
of gold has been discovered in Jose
phine county, Ore, near the California
will rival if not exceed any strike ever
made in the west. More than $4,000
has been pounded out in an old fash
toned mortar in the last week by three
men.
The discovery was made by Ray and
Roy Bridges, twin brothers, IS years OF
age, who, while hunting deer at the
head of Thompson creek, accidental
ly found the ledge which carries values
of more than 60 per cent gold.
The rich streak is two to four inches
wide: the ledge matter proper is from
six to 300 feet wide and carries values
across it's entire width of more than
$50 per ton. Mrs. j. f. Fatk. sister
of the Bridges boys, PANIED out 500
on Tuesday in twenty-five minutes.
The family has been placer mining
in a desultory way for the last fifteen
years on Sucker Creek, the scene of
the earliest placer mining in Southern
Oregon. This creek yielded more than
$50, 100000 in gold in the sos.
Ledge Visible for Eleven Miles.
H F. King. who located the placer
claim in the gulch below the ledge,
PANIED out $50 in two hours. The
ledge cuts the country for a distance
of eleven miles. and is all highly min
eralzed.
ted this section and the discovery is
now bringing in hundreds of this class
of miners.
A. l.. Norris of Portland, state sec
rotary of the Oregon Miners Assoocia-
ton. has just returned from the scene
of the strike. He is man of long eX-
perience in the west. and in talking
Of the situation said today:
IF the strike had been made in any
other state in the west, there would
be thousands of people there at the
present time, but Oregon has been
noted for what old-timers term
pockets.
The ledge is easily traceable for
miles and the country is very regular.
The rich placer deposits are sufficient
evidence of the existence of gold. and |
believe that this will create in the
mining world a greater interest than
the celebrated strikes at Cripple Creek.
The gold is as fine free milling a prop
osition as | ever saw and there is plen-
ty of land vacant on the ledge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
DustIess Railways.

How to obtain dustless highways has
long been a problem to which munich
pal supervisors in all parts of the world
have been devoting a great deal of at
tentiou An official report Of the de-
partment of bridges and roads in
France show the continuance of good
results obtained in rendering roads
free from dust by coating the surface
with tar. The engineer for the Seine
and Marine departments reports that af-
ter an unsuccessful trial of mixture
of oil and petroleum. a coating of tar
was in the summer OF 1903 laid down
on seven different lengths Of road. At
ter carefully observing these roads dur
ing a period of twelve months. he finds
the dust and mud have wholly disap-
peared, and the cost of maintenance OF
the roads has been considerably reduc-
ed. Further comparing the previous
outlay on the roads with that of those
with tarred surface. he says:
1T appears that the tarring method
requires no greater outlay and at the
same time very considerably improves
the condition of the roadway. In La
Cher two lengths of the Chausee Ma
tionale were coated with tar in June
and August of 1902. Both these ex-
periments have been entirely success
full, the road now being covered with
an elastic skin. while the sound of foot
passengers tread is muffled and horse
and oxen require only one-half the eff
fort they put forth before The noise
and vibration caused by vehicular traf-
fic is much reduced and neither dust
nor mud is formed on the tarred sur
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05

weather prevails. this work should
receive preference over other duties
Stack the small grain as rapidly as
possible as soon as harvested. This
is the only course to pursue. Well
stacked grain does not seriously
damage in the stack, no matter how
wet the weather, while the grain
standing in shock is more or less in
jured by every rain that falls on it.
The wet harvest weather of the
past three years has resulted in
heavy small grain loss, and injury to
quality of the product over large areas
of the Missouri Valley grain growing
country. The injury to this shocked
grain is not alone from the rain that
falls on the shock, but in the growth
of weeds about the shock and the
moisture they retain, which encour-
ages moulding and rotting of straw and
grain. Much of the grain left in the
shock for threshing has been kept in
the fields for weeks, thru rain. storm
and sunshine, until practically below
mercantile quality before it could be
reached by the thresher. This is bad
management and is due to the habit
or old custom of threshing from the
shock which should not be countenanc-
ed by the better class Of farmers.
Besides the risk of wet weather dam
age. there is a very important curative
process that all small grains should
be afforded while yet in the sheaf.
commonly called passing thru the
sweat" 1t is conceded by millers and
those familiar with the merchantable
grading of grains that there is no place
so we'll suited for this grain curing pro-
cess as that offered by stacking. Grain
that passes thru the sweat in the stack
is always preerable. The highest am
bition of the producer should be to
furnish the best in quality of all pro-
ducts sent from the farm. This can
not be done when grain is threshed out
of the shock, even If the weather con-
ditions should be favorable for the
lightest percent of damage from rain
and storm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
Makes Shredder Pay.

p J. c., Illinois, writes to a Chicago
market paper: My yearly crop of corn
is about 300 acres. In 1902 and 1903
1t averaged between eighty and ninety
bushels per acre. I have every stalk
from every acre cut UP and run thru
the shredder. I have kept careful
account of the cost of doing this work,
and am prepared to demonstrate that
the fodder does not cost to exceed 81
ton, after deductin the cost of
gathering and cribbing the corn In the
ordinary way Now, then, / have a
ton Of fodder that has cost me 81, and
Is worth at the least calculation about
half as much as timothy hay, which
in my section OF Illinois, is worth So
My fodder then, is worth 81 a ton. BY
the investment of 81 I have secured a
value Of 81. Now, by a proper COM
bination of this fodder with other kinds
of food, such as clover cowpeas or al
falfa, or grain. can double It's value
and make 1t the equal OF timothy hay,
and even better and more valuable ton
for ton. have first-cla stock food
that will keep in good conditions lots
of cows and their calves. I can raise
all the feeders for which the farm will
raise the corn to feed for the market.
and they will not cost me so much as
it would to go upon the market and
buy them, and, besides, I am the mas
ter OF the situation. as to the type and
quality of the stock I feed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
THE FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR.

The tolls which have been set
about Port Arthur are closing day by
day and the fall of the great citidel
that is the symbol OF Russian control
of the eastern Asiatic coast is ,onsid-
cred question of hours more than OF
days or weeks. It has been a great ag-
gresive campaign on the part of the
Japanese and has been defended with
desperate courage by the Russians. One
thing the operations in Asia have made
clear. The Japanese are the equals in
military skill and their armies equal in
soldierly essentials to any nation on
earth.
The taking Of Port Arthur was a
mighty task to require of an army and
the calm confidence with which the
Japanese board of strategy planned it's
downfall is one of the magnificent
things of the war. The place might be
classed as impregnable If any fortress
may be SO considered. Nature made II
a fort of strength. 1t lies surrounded
by hills 1900 feet high, crowned with
fort after fort, studded with masked
batteries filled with powerful modern
artillery. making chain of fortresses
that girdle the city with belt of steel.
Part of this work was done by the best
German engineers for the Chinese.
When Russia annexed the port. It's cell
ebrated military engineer, Vernander,
devoted all his genius and an unlimited
military chest to making the works as
strong as science and money could
make them. Well manned and defend
ed, exnerts pronounced it impregnable.
Ii is about such fort that the armies
of Japan are ringed, Tightening their
constructing coils hours by hour and
the Gibraltar of the east is doomed. 1t
is magnificent warfare.
Russian defense has been as des
perate as the Japanese assault. Large
ly outnumbered, with dissensions
among us generals, an uncertain UaSS
and effectively supplied, the Russian
army have proved their right to claim
descent from the heroes of Sebastopol.
Whatever the Russian oligarchy may
be its mujilSs are splendid soldiers and
sailors. If there has been Incompetence
there has been no cowardice. The fleet
and army at Port Arthur have stood at
bay like trapped lions. There is but
one thing for the fleet to do to COM
plete its story and this is to dash out
into the seaway as Cervera did at San
tiago and die like wolves with its teeth
bare. And when Port Arthur has fallen
and the army and navy that has de-
Tended it SO bravely have finished their
hopeless task they will have written a
new and glorious page into the annals
of military history.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
THE TORPEDO AlRsHIP.

Now that the prohibition made at
balloons as destroyers in war has lapsed
military experts and inventors are
considering the possibilities of the in
PRODUCTION of air ships as a means of
offence In the Japanese Russian cam
paigns. The agreement entered into at
The Hague was against the use of pro-
jectiles to be dropped from balloons or
of bombs which when exploded would
diffuse suffocating gases. The prohi-
bition was to continue five years and
has now expired.
Despite the prohibition inventors
have been busy. The dirigible balloon
now offers possibilities in warfare ter
rible to contemplate. One scheme Is to
operate in the air mechanism akin to
the Whitehead torpedo. The latter pro-
pels and steers itself after being
launched in the water. The aerial tor
pedo. IL designed for horizontal fight,
could be liberated from a captive ba-
loon or an elevated station on land or
from self propelled air ship of the
Santos-Dumont type. 1t has also been
proposed to drop torpedoes from craft
fthe latter kind, a convenient posi-
ton first being reached above an army
or a town, or even over ship at sea.
Were these torpedoes filled with dyn-
amite or guncotton, they might do
much damage, tho 1t is Impossible to
say how much. Santos Dumont has
pointed out that from one of his air
ships 1t might be possible to hit a
submarine boat, even If the latter was
submerged. The former, being more
nimble than the latter, could probably
maneuvre better, and hence would have
the advantage In such contest. mas
much as the blow would be delivered
with suitably weighted torpedo, car
.rying its charge in it's nose the one
',+Ea,s. - to success would seem to be q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05

ness of the horse. and no man who
has dealt in horses and experienced
difficulties in their management will
deny that theere is much room for inn
provement In that line. Every day
brings fresh Illustrations Of improper
breaking. Less than a week ago a
man drove down to the experiment
station barn, driving a horse that had
been handled for more than two years
that had not been taught to back. This
is only one of many similar cases.
Besides the losses resulting from inn
proper breaking thousands of dollars
are lost to the farmers every year by
selling horses that have not been prop
cry fitted for sale.
In breaking the first thing to be con-
sidered Is the nature of the horse. The
disposition Of no two horses are exact
" alike There is also a great differ
ence in the draft temperament and
those more highly bred. such as trot-
ting and coach horses. the former re-
curing much less preparatory handling
than the latter.
After studying closely the disposition
of the colt the next step is to halter
and in this, as we'll as all other periods
of the breaking, the person In charge
should exercise patience. The COLI
should be gotten into some shed or pox
stall, preferably one with ground
floor so there will be no danger of
slipping. Now with halter. to which is
attached 10 feet of rope. gentle work
around the colt, caressing him as much
as possible so as to win his confidence
and when he sees you are not going to
hurt him. you can usually put the hal
ter on without any trouble. Now, pre-
Stunning this colt to be one that Will
null on the halter, take the loose end
az the rope and pass 1t thru hole
IN the manEer or around a post. BACK
between the fore legs, around the girth,
and tie. The colt is now tied by both
head and body. Step back and let
hin, fight 1t out. which will take only a
sbort time. And when tied in this
wov there ts no danger IT injury, as is
sorretirnes the case whon tied by the
,a,,d only. AS soon as he gives UP
ling. go to him and caress him and
| by SO doing give him TO understand
| that YOU are his friend. 1t is well TO
leave him tied for some little TIME
| after which he NAV be isd.
Leading is very important part. A
I horse well broken to lead is more at
trnst;ve. easier to hae'''e. and VIII
command a higher price IN the marker
than che that is not In training &c
lead, ALWAYS teach tn. colt to Walk
| | cslde you, and never allow him to fot-
| low along behind. as IS Otter done.
rh;s can be done by tax NJ whip
in the left haild touching him up ut
lie rem behind. After being we'll
.rsined 70 walk beside you encourage
hin to trot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
EVER THINK ABOUT TIT
Many Resident Of Marshalitown Will
Tell You.

Tell You.
We are living in a very rapid age.
Few Of us bother our heads about small
things and so many persons look upon
pain, ache or lameness in the back
as a small thing. They wait for It TO
pass off, giving no thought to the
cause. Remember these important
facts, take a mental note of. them for
future use and when the time comes
use them. The kidneys are the sewers
OF the system; they carry of the im-
pure matter but sewers sometimes be-
come clogged up. So do the kidneys.
The Kidneys are located near the small
of the back hence any stoppage affects
the back. This means backache. lame
back. weak back, and many other dis
tressing symptoms. There is lots more
to tell on this subject, but we woat
do 1t here for we want to show you
how to keep the kidneys SO the back
will have no cause to ache. You might
not believe US. so we will let one Of
your own citizens tell their expert
ence:
Henry Olson, shoemaker. II East
Main street eays: when / learned Of
Doan.s Kidney Pills was laid up with
very severe pain in my kidneys. took
the advice of friend. procured box
at Mcbride & Will Drug Company's
store. corner Main and Center streets.
used the remedy. was cured and have
stayed cured. have absolutely had no
trouble with my kidneys since"
For sale by all dealers Price 50
cents. Foster Milburn Company. Buff
falo, N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's and take
no substitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
ruBLlc GETS THE WORST OF IT.

1t is a hard situation that confronts
the striking packing house employees.
They are out of work. out of money,
and dependent upon relief fund. Per-
haps the packers are losing money.
but they are at least not juggling with
their prospects of food, and shelter for
theil. families and the integrity OF
their homes. The condition of the strik-
ers was bad before they went out. To
live on low wages in city is to live
next door to starvation. To be without
any income at all is starvation. 1t is
bal state of affairs.
But the public is too busy with
troubles of its own to offer much SYM
pathv. Whatever the causes or the
outcome of the strike, the innocent
publ, like the innocent bystander, al
ways gets the worst of it. 1t costs the
publ, more than it costs the unions
or the capitalists. The workingman
gets another job and the employer finds
new men, but whichever wins the con-
sumo. of their products pays the cost.
They get it back out of the public.
Just at present thousands OF feeders
are straining their credit and facing
future loss thru inability to market
their cattle and hogs. The man with
a debt to pay is begging an extension
and borrowing more money to buy high
priced corn to carry along the cattle
he meant to sell at once. If forced to
ship them he must take his chance of
a market SO oversupplied as to drive
prices down to a sacrifice. There have
been thousands of fat steers sold 90
cents hundred below what they would
have brought under ordinary circum-
stances, and so cents hundred means
a loss OF from SIS to So on each steer
Consu mers Of packing house meats are
paying: cents a pound more on ac-
count Of the strike, and cents pound
SIS to $50 per steer. The public in
variably gets the worst of it."
1t is time the public ceased legislat-
ing for classes and begun to protect
itself. There is need Of broader un-
Outstanding of public rights when OPP
posed to private interests. The people
should refuse to pay the penalty. 1t
is time they refused to be fined for a
breach of the Industrial peace by
which they suffer and of which they
are gIIiltlesS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
Gixe Stock Good Water.


Some men who think they are good
summer from any old pond that hap
pens to contain enough water No
matter how filthy it is, or how warm
or contaminated by vegetable growth,
or droppings from the animals them
selves, so long as 1t is water. A great
error is made. You cannot get good
milk or butter from dirty pond water.
The COW is wonderful milking ma
chine, and she often transforms some
pretty poor stuff into good milk. but if
she is given nothing but dirty, stag
nant pond water all her powers OF al
chemy cannot turn it into fluid fit
for children to drink.
There is one way, however, in which
pond water may be used to advantage,
but it is not to allow animals to go in
to 1t or drink from 1t direct. A pond
at the Oklahoma station farms holds a
million gallons and supplies 100 head
each of cattle and hogs. 1t drains a
large area of grass lands. which are
kept clean. The water is piped from
the pond to the barns and feed lots. AS
it runs from the faucet it is as clear
as the average well water and 1T tastes
good The cost of building the pond
and of piping the water to about one>
third OF mile was about $500. Barr
ing usual accidents 1t should cost moth
ing for repairs, and it does not cost a
cent to operate it.
The idea of thus providing water is
we'll worth considering. There are
many localities where the ground is
more or less hilly where this system
of supplying water could very easily
be adopted without great cost.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
Grain Should be Stacked.
Manson Journal.l

Careless methods of handling grain
in the harvest field are responsible
for immense loss turnout the
grain growing districts Of the west
ern country" says the Farmer. The
thre shing out of the shock plan OF
economizing labor is at fault for
much of this loss and damage of the
small grain crops. Shock threshing
grew out of presumed saving OF
time and labor in handling the large
crops of small grain grown in the
newly settled districts Of the west,
when labor was scarce high priced,
and hard to get at any price.
The risk of permitting grain TO re-
main in the shock for an indefinite
period. while other harvest work IS
being done is too great to be encour-
aged on any farm. Every day or half
day after the shocked grain Is ready
to go intopthe stack and suitable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
1ura Friday ugust s. 1904

act and put stigma on such disloyal
practices. II it could not punish them
So far no proof of the allegation has
thought to have some foundation in
truth. The journal de St Petersburg"
the official organ. takes this view of
the case, fact which is looked on as
more startling than the original asser-
ton. The controversy is still going on
with no end of epithets on both sides
and no visible sign of cessation.
The Health Food Man.-"Tell me
what you eat and I'll tell you what
you are" said the seer.
The man told him what he ate. :
You're a blanked fool" said the
seer.
Wonderful Wonderful" exclaimed
the man.--Puck.
One hundred and thirteen new doc
tors, enough to give every county In
the state a new one and leave fourteen
over have just been awarded state GER
tificates to practice medicine in Iowa
by the state board of medical examin-
ers. 1t is hard to see what the state
will do with them, as the field seemed
overcrowded before the new hatch
came off. The profession is being over
done and is certain, sooner or later, to
suffer from excessive additions to its
already large number of practitioners.
One of the most recent developments
Of the strike is that the lunch counter
and restaurant keepers find it cheaper
to use chicken and veal in their chick
en- salad sandwiches.
a prominent physician in France
paints a gloomy picture of the preva-
lence of certain forms of disease in that
country. He writes that alcoholism is
making deplorable ravages. while tub
erculosis carries off more than 10000
victims every year, and saps the
strength of 100000 in addition. He de-
clares also that, whereas in other CIV
ilized lands, smallpox is not prevalent
in France there are still many cases.
while typhoid fever, dysentery and 9TH
err maladies are distressingly frequent
Traditions have been widely accepted
that the excellence of Gallo cookery
lessened the multitude of the sick in
our sister republic in comparison with
those of other nations. 1t would be
interesting TO know whether the ma
jority of medical men between the
British channel and Italy take gloomy
and pessimistic views Of the future Of
France.
Drama.-"Your race is run" Kissed
Harold De We're in the last act.
The villain drew large bottle from
his pocket.
Think not I am unprepared." said
he.
"Poisonw
"Sterilized dust" exclaimed the
whetched man, with emotion. and
poured out quantity which he bit at
the crack of the avengers pistol
Puck.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
neWitt is the Name.

When you go to buy Witch Hazel
Salve look for the name Dewitt on ev-
cry box. The pure unauthorized witch
hazel is used In making DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve which is the best salye IN
the world for cuts, burns, bruises, boi,s,
eczema and piles. The popularity Of
DeWltt's Witch Hazel Salve, due to it's
many cures, has caused numerous
worthless counterfeits to be placed on
the market. The genuine bears the
name OF Z. c. Dewitt & Co., Chicago.
Sold by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-05
Have a Smoke.
Philadelphia Record


1t is said that Kink Edward tells
with great glee that when he went IN
the west of Ireland last year, he one
day went into cabin whose only occu-
pant was an old woman, who sat by
the turf smoking an old clay pipe.
The old lady welcomed the king and
asking him to sit down wiped a three
legged stool with her apron. The king
did SO and said:
do you know who / am, ma am 2"
"Begorra, / don't" was the reply.
well, am the king of England"
''D'ye tell me sa,' said the old lady
in tone of surprise, and then remem-
bering the rights of hospitality, She
took the pipe out OF her mouth, wiped
the shank with her hand, and, passing
it to the king said:
"Will yer honor shmoke?"