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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

The construction If the great Cathedral of St ohn Tho Divine, Morning.
side Heights, New York, nov going II, is If the biggest architectur
tasks undertaken anywhere in recent years. N work is progressing slowly.
owing to lako of funds but even, if unlimited money were at the disposal
of the tustees the enormous building could not be constructed in less than
ffteen years.
Eight gigantic granite columns for the chor recently arrived in New
York; from Vinalhaven Me-, and attracted great curiosity while being a
ported from the dockt to the Cathedral grounds.
Each column is a memorial gift, and they cos about $4,000 each. An
ormou lathe "a built to turn them Unfortunately, they could o re
true monoths, as they broke in the lathe during the polishing operation,
I'M necessary to maxi the columns in w pieces. The larger section is
smaller section 4 feet long, 3 fet in diameter at smaller end. n
weighs from 40 to 10 TONS The columns were transported from Maine o N
a lighter, W columns being carried at N time. No very great difficulty
vas experienced in unloading hem,b but the carrying Of them to h Cathe-
dralg grounds a distance of VIC miles is proving a heavy task. A special
truck ws built Tor the purpose, which is n of the largest w constructed.
The frame of the true is 81 feetl long, n weighs 10 tons. The axles are 7
and 8 inches square, nd are made u of coldr rolled steel The wheels are
bl III OF. seven thicknesses Of 3inch white "a plank. There are four
5-nch tires on each wheel
A 40horsep power traction engine is used to transport the columns to the
Cathedral ground. Progress is If course rather slow; for instance, 1t re-
quhed nineteen days to AIRY thu first column from h dock 10 h Cathedral
grounds.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
Ancient Proofreadinp.

The editions Of books printed two
or three hundred years ago are almost
entirely free from typographical err
rors, which may be attributed to the
fact that early publishers were gener-
ally eminent scholars, and themselves
gave much attention to the revision of
their proofs. After reading the proofs
they frequently turned them over to
other scholars with the request to re-
wise and correct, and as the printers
time was then deemed a matter of
small consequence, a perfection was
attained which is seldom equaled by
modern printers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
WAY OF LONG AGO.

Last night 1 dreamed / was awakei
Then, waking up, l dreamed,
Ny mind just went without a break
To where the waters cleaned
And dimpled down beside the road.
1 saw the willows trail
Along the stream, just like | knowed.
l saw the teeter-tail,
And heard the bluejay call, and call,
And saw the eddies swing
In curves below the waterfall,
An heard the ribins sing.
And l was just a boy, and walked
The ways O. long ago.
The catbird came again and Knocked
Just like 1 used to know.
And in the orchard loaded down
The heavy branches swung,
And in it's coat of sober brown
The thrush it's mathis sung.
And breezes moved the ripenins grain
In pillows to and fro,
And 1 was just a boy again
In ways of long ago.
o, welcome dreams that take us bAcK
To ~childhood's happy days!
Along some aforementioned track
In pleasant woodland ways!
o, welcome song of orioles
And thrush's mathis clear
That bring us back the orchard knobs
And days of yesteryear,
Till we can hear the lullabies
And feel the rhythmic swing
That used to lull our tired eyes
When mother used to sing.
Houston Post.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

sessions consisting in copper mines.
cattle aid lands.
Orc Blanco is about the last COM
munity in the country where one
would look for the residence Of a
millionaire. 1t is a mere huddle of
one-story frame and adobe structures
dignifed by the name of houses. They
are built on the sunbaked earth and
there is not a wooden floor In the
hamlet. Two little stores. each with
a saloon adjunct. and a blacksmith
shop, make up the business section
of the town. The sparse population
is four-ifths Mexican, and the COM
munity is not at all American In any
of its ways. Yet Black Jim Robin
son, as he is known all over he re-
gion because Of his marked swartht-
ness, has made his home In Orc Blan-
co for thirty years and probably will
never live anywhere else. He is from
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and was on his
way with an ox-team wagon to the
Pacific coast by the Santa Fe trail
when the possibilities Of making
money in cattle came to him. Forth
with he abandoned the emigrant train
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

request, John, promise me you will
heed it
well, as you know, child. we were
married in June, although be is past
three score years and ten, and 1 was
seventy instead of twenty as 1T was to
have been. That is all dear. and here
is John"
Later, as I wandered in the glen, a
picturesque bit of rustic scenery, L
found them sitting in an ideal spot at
the foot of a beautiful waterfall, the
grand verdure-covered hills towering
above them Dear old people; young
in their hearts as on that spring day
when they plighted their troth beneath
the blossom-laden boughs of the old
apple-tree.-Waverley.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

Ted upon a yellow fever victim. The
health authorities were trying to dis
v If the disease was carried by the
insect. and gave those submitting to
the test a reward Of 500.
Although h had nursed two Span
iards who subjected themselves to the
test and died, Miss Mas offered her
self as a sacrifice. If necessary, to sci
ence, and fell a victim to the disease
as a result Of the bites OF the mos
quito. She was taken to the yellow
fever hospital. and her sister, Miss So
phia Mas, started from home to reach
her bedside, but death won the race,
and she reached there only to hear
that her sister had passed away.
A bill has now been introduced In
Congress for a pension for the mother
Of the girl.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

smaller mine In Yuma County, for
which he has at present a standing
offer of 100000, which yields several
thousand dollars profit every month.
The rise of Watson to wealth vas
as unusual as 1t was sudden. Five
years ago he would gladly have sold
all his mining interests In Arizona for
a few thousand dollars and have for
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

ever quit work. He
used to go about
Phoenix and Tue
s o n i~mportuning
everyone who had
any interest in
mining to give him
an offer for his
copper and let him
have a little money
with which to take
care of his invalid
wife and a Grip
pied son. A little
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

as the half-breed
Mexicans a m o n g
whom their lot is
cast. One of these
is James A. Robin
son. whose home is
In the little Next
can hamlet of Orc
Blanco, close upon
the boundary be-
tween the United
States and Mexico,
and who is worth
$1,000, 900, his pos
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
Her RRfOrr

He was explaining why he didn't
get home until an early morning hour.
1.-THE fact Is" he said, IAN old COL
lege chum-a stranger in the city
came to the office, and L felt as IL L
ought to entertain him a little"
"Oh, 1t was charityI' she interrupted
why, yes" he returned, Frightening
at the suggestion, you might call 1t
charity to spend a little time and
money ON a lonesome"
But charity" she interrupted again,
begins at home"
Then he gave up the explanation
business.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

Miss Clara Louise
Mas. who died In
Cuba In 1901 as
the result of an
experiment made
for the of
advancing science
in the treatment of
yellow fever. She
went there on re-
turning from a
hurry call to the
Philippines a n d
permitted herself
to be bitten six
times by a mos
quito which had
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
why They Are Vegetarians.

Vegetarian-Don't you know that the
strongest animals are all v~egetarians,
the elephant being the most powerful?
Carnivorous Friend-That's all right.
If they weren't so strong they never
would be able to stand a vegetable diet.
Boston Transcript.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

fX&$tAX ~$&I@ yt&0
wife and a Grip
WILLIAM soea'' pied SOD A little
later copper began to appreciate and
old developed copper mines began to
reopen all over the Territory. Pres
emily all the old copper mines were
booming. and with the price Of copper
at 10, II and 18 cents a pound, there
was nothing more profitable in mining.
A New York syndicate gave Watson
$4,000 for a half interest in his Dur
ham mine, which he would have sold
in 1893 for $1,000, and then went
ahead with the development of the
property. At Al he was poor, and at
30 he was easily worth 100000. Such
are the marvellous transformations in
some mems fortunes in the mining re-
gions the world over.
To e him one would never sus-
pect that the Goddess Fortune had so
much as glanced at him. He rides
about Globe on a scraggy old bay
horse, with a bunch of greasy, tat
tered blankets for a saddle A short,
black clay pipe is generally between
his lips. He sleeps in a blanket on
his cabin floor. He never reads, never
goes anywhere except to a saloon.
he dresses like a ranch laborer, but
wears an elaborate Mexican sombrero
with a gold and silver threaded band
about it That Is the sole personal
indication of his rise In the mining
world.
Never Entered a Church.
Still another man to whom wealth
has not brought corresponding com
forts is William Soggs, a Texan and
a cattle king in Yavapai County. He
Is worth half a million. He cannot
read or write; indeed, be cannot do
any sum in arithmetic that involves
more than plain addition or subtrac-
ton. His success Is an illustration
Of what ceaseless devotion to one pur-
pose may accomplish. There is prob
ably no one who knows cattle rang
ing in Arizona better than Soggs. HI
has a wonderful memory, an iron
sion of business propositions in the
line of cattle growing and profitable
ranges. Since he became a cowboy
on the Texas Panhandle, when less
than Is years old, he has given every
day of his life to cattle raising. II
is said he knows at sight more than
1000 cattle brands. and there are
some he does not see once in five OF
six years.
He was reared on the border Of civ
ilization. His mother was a Greek
| squaw. He never had even one lesson
in school. Had he had a common
school education, the Arizona cattle
men say, he would have been the
greatest cattleman In the whole West
He has a wife and five children. The
family live in a log cabin forty-fivt
miles east from Jerome. with no neigh
bors nearer than six miles. Every day
is like every other in the Soggs home
The wife works like a poor settlers
wife, the boys are out on the range
with the cattle and the girls help a
times at branding the cattle, and a
other times work about the home. Sun
days. holidays and all the work goe,
on steadily.
Neither he nor any of his family
ever has seen a drama, ever heard {
concert or been in a church. Som,
years ago the Soggs family went to
circus in Prescott, and to this day tn,
events of hat visit are related as en-
Enthusiastically as If the family haC
peered into the open gates of heaven
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

to California, and has been living in
Arizona ever since. He was blessed
with a wonderful constitution and
nerves of iron. He has been through
Indian campaigns hat would have
killed most men, md has had fights
for his life and property with Next
can vacqueros and with outlaws hat
would make h~air-raising narratives.
All the financial ups and downs of
frontier life have been his.
Chief Luxury Is Plug Tobacco.
For twenty years Robinson has been
having an average net annual income
of $40, 900, while he and his family
have been living On less than $500 Of
1t each year. He has a Mexican wife,
whom he married thirty years ago.
There are -four young men and five
girls in the family. but only three of
them remain at home. All the others
have married into Mexican families
and gone out to live in shanties and
mudhouses among the cattle along the
border. Just like the sons and daugh-
ters Of the poorest cowpunchers and
sheep herders in the region. The home
of this millionaire from New York
would be dear at $3.50. All the furni-
ture and household effects in it could
be replaced for $500. The floors are of
hard-packed adobe, the windows and
doors are of the cheapest, crudest pat
tern, and a drop of paint was never
applied inside or out. The old couple
dress in the same coarse, rude garb as
of old. The old nan wears overalls
and a "hickory" shirt all the time, ex-
cept occasionally when a buyer for a
Chicago or a Kansas City packing
house journeys from Nogales railroad
station. thirty miles across the hot.
dusty plain, to talk over a 10000 or
$4,000 cattle transaction in the kitch-
en- Of the old house. Then Mr.. Robin
son may put on a threadbare and
faded coat that he bought twenty
years ago in Tucson. There Is not a
book in the house but a Cattleman's
Guide and a volume of recipes for cur.
ing horse and cattle diseases. This
~millionaire's family never takes q
newspaper. buys no furniture, never
tastes such things as ice cream, candy
fish or fancy groceries. The old man
saw a panama for the first time a yea1
ago, when he was in Nogales. His
only luxury is plug tobacco
Sleeps on the Floor.
Another millionaire who lives IN
what may be termed squalor is JOIN
M. Watson. of Globe, in ella County
He owns a half interest in the Durham
mine along with a syndicate Of New
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
Why II Passed BY.

did Opportunity never knock at
your door, my good man?' asked the
kindly lady.
Il dunno, ma'am." replied Berry
Bill; "mebbe so-but I never pay no
attention to Knockers" - Cincinnati
Times-Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
TO PENSION GIRLS MOTHER.

Mrs. Hedwig A. Mas, of East Or
ange, N. j.. is to be recompensed by
Congress for the loss of her daughter
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

It's awfully hard on some mems eyes
when they look for perfection In them
selves.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

There are several rich men in Ari-
iona, some of whom far exceed the
million mark, who live lives as plain
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

1t is easy to induce a friend to laugh
at your jokes, but he doesn't always
do 1t In a satisfactory amer
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20

The Woodworking clerk Is usually
working for a raise.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
WEALTH is USELESS.
MlLLIONAIRES OF ARIZONA WHO
LIVE IN SQUALOR

"copper" King Who Sleeps on a
on the Floor Of His Cabin-Another
Millionaire, Whose Chief Luxury Is
Plug Tobacco.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-20
Sleeps on the Floor.

Another millionaire who lives In
what may be termed squalor is John
M. Watson, of Globe, in ella County.
He owns a half interest in the Durham
mine along with a syndicate Of New
Workers, and his dividends from the
property come from the company's
office In New York every ninety days.
They vary from $1,000 to $4,000 four
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-23
LOCAL TIPS.

July 4th program next week.
Cold Wave was in town this morning
but it promises hot day all the same.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Wilson, of
Red Key, Ind, son, Mrs. Wilson was
formerly Miss Bessie Hammock, of this
city.
Prof B. f. Barton has been engaged
as principal for the public school. His
home is Wartrace, Bedford Co., and he
taught last at Manchester, Coffee Co.
Work is being done making some i'm
provements to the stage in the Town
Hall this week. The front Is being
practically rebuilt and will present an
exceedingly tasteful appearance when
done. II. Kent is the architect.
Isham Hammock, who has been visit
ing here, returned to Chattanooga last
Tuesday. He is contemplating re-
lnoval to this place this fall, provided
he can secure a farm Of 80 or 100 acres
We should like to see the Hammock
family back with us.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-23
Notable Wedding.
sectarian purpose
Adjourned.

On Thursday evening at the
home of the bride Miss Lima Horn
ed and Mr.. Edwin Pryor were mar
ried, Rev. NJ. A. Hunt officiating.
Miss Florence Horned was brides
maid and Mr., VIII S. Pryor, best
man. 1T was a pretty home wedA
ding and the contracting parties
stood within floral horseshoe dur
ing the ceremony. Many friends
and relatives were present
Mr.. and Mrs. Pryor will reside in
Sequachee
The News tenders its best wishes
to the newly married couple and
wishes them unalloyed happiness.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-23
DUNLAP
SteciDl 10 the Mas.

SbedOl 10 the Mt5o5.
Mr.. Editor, as my last Communication
missed the waste basket am encourage
ed to come again.
This community was blessed with a
most welcome rain Monday which some
what interferred with the wheat har-
vest which is in full blast and the crop
is considerably better than was antici-
pated few weeks ago
Corn crops are in fine condition and
are growing rapidly, and with good
season from now on, corn will be fine.
Henry Hice and family left on the
the train Monday for Durham, Ca,
where he has secured work with the
Durham Coal Co. Also Frank Long and
family left on the same train for Coal
City, Ga. So one by one the miners
have about all left Dunlap.
The shutting down of the mines
makes Dunlap seem rather dull just at
present.
Our progressive and public spirited
townsman, W. T, Alley, who is now en-
gagged in tan bark business on an eX-
tensiVe scale, has erected a mammoth
tan bark shed beside the tracks of the
N. G. and st. L. Ry,, just south of the
-four mill. Win never does anything
by halves. He will rent portion of
the shed to other bark men.
The familiar figure of DR.. A. w. Hill
lizard is to be seen on our streets again
during the cool hours of the day.
DR.. s, Il. Smith visited his daughter,
Mrs. j. M. Barker, al Pikeville Satur-
day and Sunday.
Work on the Baptist church is pro-
crossing as usual and judging from the
past suppose it will be ready for occu-
pancy some time in the near future.
j. s. Hoffecker left on the train Mon
day morning,
We are all very much interested in
the biblical controversy going on
through the columns of your paper by
Mr.. Griffith, Uncle Joe and st. John.
Uncle Joe gets quite poetical in some OF
his communications. l am afraid, bre-
rem, that neither one of you will con-
vince the other that he is right. Sc
there will be considerable talent vast.
ed.
The committee on arrangements fol
the Masonic celebration of st. Sohn's
Johns day, June "a at Dunlap are get
ting everything in good shape for the
occasion. Let everyone come and
bring his wife and daughters, and those
who have neither wife nor daughte
be sure and bring his sweetheart A
bove all bring well-flled basket 0
that which makes such an occasion {
success. Past grand master Ingersol
will be present anb alse the tall syca
I more of Jasper, j. A. Darr and others
So, brethren, as this is the End occasion
of the kind held here let US have
good turn out of the brethren of GU
noble institution and manifest TO tht
world our sturdy and devoted attach
ment to one of the noblest institution
of the world whose object is the eleva
tion of its voteries.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-23
TRACY CITY

Special to the NeVs.
j. c. Smith of Beersheba Springs, is
in the city.
John Haskins of Red Oak, Tex, spent
few days of last week with relatives.
j. l., Oliver, and Miss Elizabeth Rob-
erts were quietly united in marriage
last Sunday evening at the home of the
brides parents at Roddy's Spring, Rev,
Il. l.. Moody officiating.
Miss Ida Oliver, of Estill Spring, az
tended the Oliver Roberts nuptials last
Sunday.
Tracy City is to have a new bank, the
First National Bank of Tracy. Prof.
Dillon, who for the past twelve years
has been principal of Jas. X. School,
has been elected cashier.
Sheriff Sam Meeks started to Alta
mont jail last Sunday with a prisorier,
Joe Eddy whom he had handcuhed.
When about six miles from Tracy Eddy
leaped from the buggy into the woods
and disappeared among the dense foli-
age Of the mountain shrubbery, and at
this writing has not been apprehended,
E Pluribus Unum,
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-06-23

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Capt. and Mrs. G. H. Crozier, Misses
Lily and Laurel Crozier, and Master
Ebert Crozier, enjoyed a fishing outing
on the banks of Little Sequachee Fri
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P. S. Mcclure, the optician, dropped
back to our city Friday to enjoy fish
ing trip to Little Sequachee. Accom-
panied by ye editor pleasant day was
spent on the banks of the creek, but the
fish we're very wary and the catch was
limited. However they had fish for
dinner, and the intelligent public can
decide what brand of fish it was.
A gentleman the other day speaking
of progress of church work in this sec
ton remarked: Il don't know much
about Rev. S. P. Angel as a preacher
but do know that be is a hustler. His
efforts in church building in the sect
ion are remarkable and successful The
building of a church in Coppinger cove
is one of the best things that ever hap
pened in that place, and the people
there have something which they seem
to be proud of and thoroughly appreci
ate" The gentleman spoke the truth,
and Rev. Angel deserves commenda
ton for his enterprise. just at present
we understand that he is Interested il
scheme for the location OF a Summe'
school and Camp Ground here for th'
NJ. E. Church, also in advocating anc
working for the erection Of churcI
at Whitweu.