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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-06-02
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-06-02

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1904-06-02
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27

The construction of the great Cathedral of St John the Divine, Morning
side Heights, New York, 10 going on, is O. the biggest architectural
tasks undertaken anywhere elm recent years. The work is progressing slowly,
owing to lack of funds. but even, if unlimited money we're at the disposal
of the trustees. the enormous building could not be constructed in less than
fifteen years.
Eight gigantic granite columns for the choir recently arrived in New
York ron Vinalhaven, Me-, M attracted great curiosity while being trans
ported from the dock to the Cathedral grounds.
Each column is a memorial gift, and they cost about $4,000 each. An
enormous lathe s built to turn them. Unfortunately, they could lot be
true monoiths, a they broke. in the lathe during the polishing operation.
ne of them fracturing within a few hours Of completion. Therefore it be-
came necessary to make the columns in two pieces. The larger section is
81 feet inches In length by g fee in diameter, and weighs 90 tons. The
smaller section is II feet long, 5 feet in diameter at the smaller end, and
weighs rom 4 0 to 40 tons. The columns were transported from Maine. on
a lighter, two columns being carried at n time. No very great difficulty
ws experienced in unloading them, but the carrying Of them to the Cathe-
rue a built fol the purpose, which is of the largest yer constructed.
Ihe frame of thu truck is 80 feet long, and weighs 10 TONS The axles are 7
8 inches square, and ire made out of coldroned steel. The wheels are
built up of sever thicknesses Of 3inch white oak plank. There are four
5-nch tires on each wheel
A 40horse power traction engine is used to transport: the columns to the
Cathedral ground. Progress is. O. course, rather slow; for instance. If re-
qured nineteen days to carry the first column from the dock to the Cathedral
grounds
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27
Ancient Proofreading.

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, 1904-02-27

request, John, promise me you will
heed it.
"Well, as you know, child, we were
married In June, although he is past
three score years and ten, and / was
seventy instead of twenty as it was to
have been. That is al dear, and here
is John"
Later, as I wandered in the glen, a
picturesque bit of rustic scenery, 1
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
1 n 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, 1904-02-27

sessions consisting in copper mines.
cattle aid lands.
Orc Blanco is about the last COM
munity in the country where n
would look for the residence of a
millionaire. 1t is a mere huddle of
one-story frame and adobe structures
dignified 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-fifths 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 the re-
gion because of his marked swarthi-
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, 1904-02-27
Her RefnrI-

He was explaining why he didn't
get home until an early morning hour.
"The fact u.s." he said, ian old COL
lege chum-a stranger in the city
came to the Office, and 1 felt as If L
ought to entertain him a little.
"Oh, 1t was charity" she interrupted.
"Why yes" he returned, Frightening
at the suggestion, you might call it
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, 1904-02-27

FED upon a yellow fever victim. The
health authorities were trying to dis
cover If the disease was carried by the
insect. and gave those submitting to
the test a reward Of 500.
Although she 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, 1904-02-27
WAYS OF LONG AGO.


Last night 1 dreamed 1 was awakei
Then, waking up, 1 dreamed,
My 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 l knowed.
| 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 / was just a boy, and walked
The ways O. long ago.
The catbird came again and Knocked
Just like l used to know.
And in the orchard loaded down
The heavy branches swung,
And in its coat of sober brown
The thrush it's mathis sung.
And breezes moved the ripening grain
In pillows to and fro,
And l was just a boy again
In ways of long ago.
o, welcome dreams that take us back
To childhood's happy days!
Along some well-remembered 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 iullabies
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, 1904-02-27

times a year. Besides, he owns q
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 was
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, 1904-02-27

as the half-breed
Mexicans a m o n g
whom h e lot is
cast. One Of these
is James A. Robin
son. whose home Is
in the little Mext-
can hamlet of Orc
Blanco, close upon
the boundary be-
tween the United
States and Mexico,
and who is worth
S1.SOO.0OO. his DOS
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27

wife and a GRIN
WILLIAM soess' pied son. 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 16, IL and IS 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 At he was poor and at
90 he was easily worth $500, 900. Such
are the marvellous transformations in
some mems fortunes in the mining re-
gions the world over.
To see 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, he 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 n who knows cattle rang
ing in Arizona better than Soggs. HI
has a wonderful memory, an iron
constitution, and quick comprehen.
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 thar
1000 cattle brands, and there are
ONE 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-fve
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 n
with the cattle and the girls help al
times at branding the cattle, and al
other times work about the home. Sun
days. holidays and all the work goes
on steadily.
Neither he nor any of his family
ever has seen a drama, ever heard a
concert or been in a church. Some
years ago the Soggs family went to a
circus in Prescott, and to this day the
events of that visit are related as en-
Enthusiastically as If the family had
peered into the open gates of heaven.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27

ever quit work. He
used to go about
Phoenix and u
s ~importuning
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, 1904-02-27
Why They Are Vegetarians.

Vegetarian-Don't you know that the
strongest animals are all v~egetarians.
the elephant being the most powerful?
C~arnivorous 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, 1904-02-27

Miss Clara Louise
Mas, who died in
Cuba in 1901 as
the result of an
experiment made
for the purpose 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, 1904-02-27

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 that would have
killed most men, and has had fights
for his life and property with Mexi-
can vacQueros and with outlaws that
would make hair-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 $4,000, while he and his family
have been living on less than $500 of
it each year. He has q 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-
tiers 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 1t 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 man 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 100000 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 banana for the first time a year
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 John
NJ. 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
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27
Why 1t 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, 1904-02-27
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, 1904-02-27
WEALTH is USELESS.
MILLIONAIRES OF ARIZONA WHO
LIVE IN SQUALOR
Copper King Who Sleeps on a Blanket
on the Floor of His Cabin-Another
Millionaire, Whose Chief Luxury Is
Plug Tobacco.

There are several rich men in Ari-
zona, some of whom far exceed the
million mark. who live lives as plain
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27

1t is easy to induce a friend to laugh
at your jokes, but he doesn't always
do 1t In a satisfs Glory manner.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27

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, 1904-02-27

The Woodworking clerk Is usually
working for q raise.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-02-27
HIS WIFE

OONOOOOONOO

~ 1T down, dear, and while 1 am
~ waiting for John, 1 will tell you
- all about II. know DeODle won
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25
ATTACK ON BENCKENDORFF
 AGGRAVATES THE SITUATION

Aa 4 s sI a
 London. Oct si.--Count Behekendorff. the Russian Ambasssdor. returned to London tonight from celebrating his silver wedding ~ with his wifA,s fela- ti1es in Sifceia and baras eScaped as-, sault from crowd at the Victoria station, which followed hiin almcst in- to the Embassy.
 Fortunately for the issue of peace or war. hothine resulted. Yet throughout the night special force of police was compelled to guard the Russian Elm bassy.
 Count Benckendorfr has been always regarded in official circles here as Q friend of peace; and he was as much opposed as was Count Lamsdorff to the Russo Japanese war. Indeed, he is a1- most an AnElophile in sentiment. There is no doubt that Count BenckendorR's g feelings were deeply wounded by to- nights deinonstratlons.
 After escaping, from the hostile crowd that met him at the station. he drove at a gallop to the EmbasAy. Half doaen rowdies followed, but the Ambassador arrived unharmed. His noisy puhsuers encountered q cordon of police that had been hurriedly dis patched to guard the Embassy.
 Russsnh EmbassadSr Guarded.
 After singing, Rule Britannia" the disturbers disperbed. no arrests beir@ made: but the police continued to guard the Embassy as If it were British fortress. With such vigilance did they carry out their task that when Prince Sviatpolk- Mirsky. a cousin of the new
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25
ENGLAND DEMANDS PROMPT APOLOGY <
 FOR THE OUTRAGE IN THE Ncc<.TH SEA
RUSSIA AS YET HAS NO
 EXPLANATs>N TO OFFER

st. Petersburg, oct. 2t.-(Midfiieht ) ---No oficial or uhofhciai Russian ex- plantation of the Unfortunate affair off Doeger Banks is forthcoming lip to Ethfs time, and the world must wait dntil tomorrow to hear vice-Admirai Hojesvensky's version Of the firing upon the British fishermen.
 Rojestvensky has communicated direct to the Emperor. but at 11:30 o'clock tonight the admiralty announc- ed that 1t had not received report. At the same hour, the foreign ,ofice issued statement expressing the re- sret of the government for the depiora- ble incident. but explaining that no formal action is possible until the of fieial report of the affair has been re- ceived.
 Deep Regret is Felt.
 While no formal action has been taken, the deepest regret Is expressed in ali quarters. and the purpose of the govAffifnent to make amends If Rojest- venskyi is found to have been at fault is proclaimed in every governnient de- partmeht. ~
 Emperor Nicholas himself was great ly-asRrisved when he heard the news. while he was inspecting the cruiser Olee at Cronstadt this aftcrnoon: and Foreign Minister Lamsdorff exprsssed to Ambassador Hardinge his deepest personal regrets.
 The Russian Embassy at London also has been directed to convey similar ex- pressions to the government of Great Britain. It is felt that this is all that can possibly be done pending the re- ceipt of Admiral Rojestvensky's state ment.
 That horrible bluhder has been committed Is recognized and deplored everywhere. and nowhere has attempt been made to Justify the firing upon innocent fshertnen. It is felt that Roiestyensky is too good a man and officer to be summarily condemned It is agreed that hsis entitled 10 a hear ing, but even the admiralty regretfuily admits that 1t is at loss to under stand what explanation could justify such an apparently cold blooded act as the affair is made to appear by foreign reports.
 Fear JapaneAe Terpedoes.
 It developed during the day that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25
MAKES FOR CONsTITUTrONALISM
RussIan Writer Says the War Is Bound
 to Have Good Effect.

Russian Writer Says the War Is Bound
 to Have Good Effect.
 st. Petersburg Oct. 24.-(S:21 p. m.)-- A remarkable study of the war and it's problems by NJ. Petrousskevltchs a well known writer appears in The Pravo. & weekly paper, and Is attracting good deal of attention. Nj. Petroussketvltch boldly maintains that Russia's reverses are due 10 the restrictions placed O.: the liberties of the nation. declaring that whatever the outcome of the struggle with Japan. Russia will win victory for constltutionalism. HC adds
 "The war has glaringly revealed the cause of the evil and has showed the hopeless condition to which a great nation may be brought by the depriva tIon or all freedom of thought. feeling and action. The bureaucracy. possess- ing all the strings of Irresponsible pow CT keeps the people under a tutelagt. which has never attained such propor. lions has never with such arbitrars methods houted the law and never made the country feel it's power so painfully as during the past few years"
 Such outspoken criticism would nev- CT have been permitted under the voii Phleve regime. The newspapers which discuss the article have not a word ir. defense of bureaucracy. but they do not endorse the prospects of a constr tuition. The Sviet pointing out that Elm peror Nicholas's manifesto formally de- clared his intention of upholdinR ati- toeracy and that Interior Minister svia- topolk Mrsky is pledged to the mani. festo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25

their duty to nnd who were the rnur: derers of the dead men. After the Identification of the bodies the inquest adjourned to November ?.
 The ofieials of the Admiralty say that the captain of the Magpie did not exakgerate the situation in the state Tiefit he gave yehtArday.
 What Is pus2iinR them most Is that the Russian torpedo boats dld not board nor approach within hAiling distance of one of the tfawling fleet. At the Russian EfnbasAy 1t was suggested that the Russian squadron steamed away believing that no darnAee had been done but this. with tfany other suggestions, finds little cradencs and fails to lessen the irritated afnasemert with which all the officials here re- gard the affair. which was aggravated later by an allegation made by the fishermen at. the foreign ofice to the effect that the Russians detatched a ship from the sduadron and that she remained watching the trawlers until 6 o'clock on Saturday morning without lowering a boat or rendering any as- sistanee.