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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

Now, if this is not sufficient
proof that my invention is long
distance catcher, l will at the End
seance call up Jonah and get the
true version of the whale episode,
for which there is another hun
dred million; and also interview
Noah about the flood and learn
how he managed to get so many
different pairs of animals and
things into the ark and feed them
during all that long voyage.
That is two hundred million
more. Besides, there are other
large offers on disputed points of
history that can be gathered in
later on.
The embalming process alone,
now in possession of the com
pany, will bring an immense rev.
enue. Think of it There are,
according to the last census of
the world. sixteen hundred mil
lion people on the surface of this
small earth of ours. The aver
age years of life are fixed at 40
years Tor was before war was de-
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15

clared between Russia and Japan
thus, 40 million people, on an
average, die each year. 1t is sad
to contemplate on this frigh tful
annual mortality of the human
family, land over two million M.
DIS. to prescribe for them), but it
is nevertheless true and cannot
be helped. 1t is safe to say that
all who can afford it will want to
be embalmed by our anti
freproof, Egyptian process-at
least thirty million bodies or
more every year.
1t will be necessary to estab-
lish plants at all favorable points
for the manufacture of the en-
balming material. AS asphaltum
dissolved in a certain powerful
liquid is one of the principal
component parts of the prepare
ton we should, on the quiet, lease
or get full control by purchase,
of the whole of the asphalt area
at the head of Great Salt Lake.
(before the Don Mcguire crowd
gets controD and erect the first
plant there. A great many peo-
pie die every year in and around
Salt Lake City, and they are all
well-to do and of course will
wish to be embalmed.
The Egyptians had a monop-
oily, by small royalty, on the
asphalt beds of the Dead Sea.
(This is no secret and is of rec
ord in ancient Egyptian history. J
We could buy or Lease the Dead
Sea and have monopoly there.
Monopolies and Big Trusts
should not be encouraged, as a
rule. They are all wrong when
in the other fellows hands, but
all right when they come our
way, and as matter of self pro-
lection we will have it our way
in this case.
Our INCORPORATION papers Zap
piled for) call for capitalization
of eleven hundred million shares
at par value of one hundred dol
lars per share. Dividends of one
thousand per cent. are guaran-
teed the first six months and two
thousand per cent. for the second
six mouths, and all the time
thereafter at same rate. The
Steel Trust with its one thous-
and million shares of stock, can
not begin to compare with our
company for dividends.
And now we come to the bust
ness point of the whole thing.
For the purpose of repairing the
dome of the Observatory and to
put in a few easy chairs and
lounges for the comfort of the
directors and stockholders at
their first meeting april 1st
next, one hundred million shares
(unassessable) of this most prom
Sing company, is offered at the
very low (cash) bedrock figures
of 90 mills per cent. per share.
This extraordinary offer is good
only till time of first meeting, as
above stated. Hoping that our
will see the point and en-
brace the opportunity to get in
early, the inventor and manipu-
ator subscribes himself,
Very Truthfully & Respectfully,
ANEAS GRAPH,
Historian to the Yankee Fork |
Observatory,
(Atids RdL KI0aOsOn). |
Mouth of Jordan Creek Shortest
and Best Route to Big Loon,
Little Loon, Middle Fork and
Thunder.)
March 1st, A. L. D. year of
Light and Democracy 1904.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1904-03-15
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Endless Wireless Telephone Co.,
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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-08
"sse fs only q Printer. +"

The following tribute to the noble
art preservative we find in contem-
porary, and We commend its strong
contrast to the intelligent reader; He
is only printer" Such was the sneer-
ing remark OF a leader of aristocracy.
Who was the Earl of Stanhope? He
was only printer. Who was William
Caxton, one of the fathers of literature!
He was only printer. Who were u.
P. Morsis, N. P. Willis. J. Gales, Hor-
ace Greeley, Bayard Taylor, Charles
Dickens, George D. Prentice, and Sem
ators Dix, Cameron and Niles? They,
too, were printers. What was Benla-
min Franklin? He also was a printer.
Every one cannot be printer-brains
are necessary.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-08
TO ASPHYXIATE
COTTON WEEYIL
An Indian Territory Man has
Invented Machine to Des.
troy Insect by Blowing
Poisonous Gas on Plant

An Indian Territory man has invent
ed machine that promises to pull
down prize of 100000 offered by the
Government and the state OF Texas for
a remedy for the boil wevil, which
threatens more and more every year to
destroy the cotton crop. A. G. White,
of Ravia, claims to have invented such
a remedy.
1t is machine consisting of platform
mounted on wheels. A furnace contin-
ually famed by draft of air is placed
under vat containing chemicals. The
fumes from the chemicals are famed
into a cold air chamber. and forced
through tubes extending on either side
of row of cotton. The gas passing
through the meshes of limbs and leaves
is destructive to all insect life and
leaves the cotton plant unharmed.
Thorough tests of these machines
have been made. One machine will
treat twenty acres of cotton in one day.
A company has been organized, and
will manufacture machines and put
them on the market this season.
The boil wevil is the gravest danger
that now threatens the industrial world
in the south, and the man who can ex-
terminate it can command a fortune
from Government and State, and save
millions to southern planters.
If in this way the insect that threat
ems the cotton crop can be destroyed so
quickly and easily why can not the
same machine destroy the insects
which infest fruit trees and shrubbery
of all kinds. 1t would be well for some
genius TO apply this theory to the use
of destroying the many insects which
attack the fruit, The vapor would be
so much more effective in that it
would reach in the crevices and under
the bark where liquid spray will not
penetrate, besides being more insid-
iously deadly.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-08
wonders OF Nature

There is a certain little fly that
makes four hundred and forty steps in
running three inches, and all in one
half second of time. To equal this,i
proportion 10 his size, a map would
have to run at the rate of twenty miles
a minute.
The common flea leaps two hundred
times its own length. To show like
agility, man six feet tall would have
to leap distance of twelve hundred
feet
The cheese-mte is about quarter of
an inch in length, yet it has been seen
to take the tip of its tail in its mouth,
and then, letting go with a jerk, leap
out of vessel six inches depth. To
equal this, a man wonld have to jump
out of we'll from depth OF one hun
dred and forty-four feet.
Equally strange things are found
among the plants and vegetables. A
student of nature once tested the grow.
ing force of a squash. When 1t was
eighteen days old and measured twen-
ty-seven inches in circumference, he
fixed a sort OF harness around it, with
long lever attached. The power OF the
squash was measured by the weight ii
lifted. Two days after the harness was
put on it lifted sixty pounds. On the
nineteenth day it lifted five thousand
pounds.
The seed of the globe turnip is about
one-twentieth part of an inch in diam
eter, and yet, in the course OF few
months, this seed will be enlarged by
the soil and the air to 100000 times
it's original bulk. and this in addition
to a bunch of leaves.
1t has been found by experiment that
turnip seed will, under fair conditions
increase its own weight fifteen times in
one minute. Turnips growing in peat
ground will increase more than $4,000
times the weight of their seeds in one
day
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-08
THEY SAY

That high water throughout
the central states is doing vast
amount of damage.
That free mail delivery is being
extended in all parts of the state.
Several new routes have recent
ly been established.
That a Kentucky wedding was
postponed until pair of gloves
could be made large enough to
to fit the best man.
That the naw mayor of Seat
tie promises to give the city a
clean and vigorous government
in the interest of law and moral
ity.
That a man by the name of
Brown is building a six-inch can
non at Reading, Pennysylvania,
which will carry a ball thirty
miles.
That the cattle men of the
Okanogan country will lose
heavily. The shipping in of
hay to feed the starving cattle
was delayed too long.
That the Commerce of the
United States with Alaska,
Sandwich Islands, Guam, the
PHILIPPINES and Porto Rico will
amount to more thap a hundred
million dollars this year.
That Apostle Lyman, of the
Mormon church, at the annual
conference, last Sunday, said,
"We are here that we may have
posterity. We are here that we
may multiply and aeplenish the
earth"
That interest in that unfortu.
nate affair in which General
Custer lost his life battle with
the Sioux, commanded by Sit
ting Bull, on the Big Horn, ip
1877, in which 277 men were
massacred and only one man of
the entire command escaped,
was revived recently, when Ser,
geant John Martin was place op
the retired list.
That D, E. Thompson, United
States minister to Brazil, was at
one time Q brakeman on the Bur-
lington road in Nebraska. He
was promoted from time to time
and being of thrifty habit ere
long gave up railroading to look
after some shreWd investments
he had made. His fortune ex-
panded rapidly under wise man
agement and now he is rated
we'll up into the millions.
That the negroes are to organ
ize a national party and Romi-
nate a candidate for president
and vice president. The nation,
al convention will meet in st,
Louis on July 9th. = The battle
cry will be government owner.
ship and a pension for former
slaves. To keep up with other
freak parties and the traditions
of their race they ought to put
plank in their platform de-
manding free chickens and
free watermelons.
That John F. Spencer, of
Grand Junction, Colorado, has
succeeded in perfecting seed
less apple. The apple looks like
a navel orange. Its inside is en-
tirely solid and there is de-
preston in one end, very similar
to that of the seedless orange,
Spencer began working for tho
seedless apple soon after the
seedless oranges were put on
the market. He is now prepar-
ing to graft his seedless buds on
every sort of apple tree and as
serts that he will be. able to de-
velop seedless apples of every
variety. He will not reveal the
secret of his budding and graft
ing. The tree on which /. the
seedless fruit grows is unusual
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-04-08

The farmers around Waverly. Wash
ington, where the big sugar refining is
located say that sugar beet growing Is
very profitable, and that land that has
been cultivated to sugar beets remains
in fine condition.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
BEGeARs IN ST. LOUIS.
Hordes of Dependents Cast on Public
Support, Lured by Glamour
of tho Fair.

st. Louis, Oct. 13.-"The exposition has
attracted not alone a horde of dependents
from distant parts of the world, but a
multitude of home grown pilgrims have
made of 1t a mecca with no precautions
as to keeping open their line of retreat"
says W. H. McClain. manager Of the st.
Louis Provident association. He contin-
lues:
The persistent tramp has not been so
much in evidence as the %incautious Oven
home and moderate income to come to st.
Louis and get rich quick by the imagin.
airy opportunities of the fair. Without
capital, without friends and unacquainted
with city ways, these have come by hun
idreds to find the fair a veritable Port Ar
thur, with every avenue tossuccess occu-
pied or blockaded, and restitution imrni-
'nent. With the close of the fair and the
beginning of winter, it is expected that
the call upon the st. Louis charities dur
ing the coming winter will be heavy. This
was the case at Chicago and at Buffalo"
I; Mr.. McClain gives some interesting
cases which have come to his attention.
lone was of a New Orleans Spaniard and
his French wife, who spent all his savings,
some $500, to take a pet sea lion to st.
Louis to exhibit. The husband ard wife
. and three children were soon out of money
and hungry.
, Runaway boys and young men who
spent their last cent to go to ST. Louis
in the belief that lucrative jobs are album
dant, turn up every day. OF these the
prize case was a young man with no bag
gage, but q $40 umbrella.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
DETECTIVES
One Is Severely Injured by Men Ar
rested by Them in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct. 13.-When released on.
bail, after having been arrested charged
with being implicated in a shooting at
fray which caused a panic among men
and women who crowded the corridors
Of the Merchants building In LaSalle
street. James Keppler, secretary of the
International Sheet Metal Workers of
America, and his two companions, Jo-
seph Alvin, a carpenter, n James
Papineau, assaulted the detectives who
arrested them, and one of the officers
was severely injured.
The attack vas so sudden that before
they realized hat the men who had
been heir prisoners a short time be-
fore We're about to attack them, the
three detectives had been struck on
the heads several times with clubs. A.
ter a hard fight, however, the three
union men We're rearrested and lodged
in Jail again.
A heated discussion over labor matt
tiers led to a fight which brought about!
the shooting in the first place. 1t Isl
not known which of the three fred
the shots. When arrested a revolver
was found in Keppler's possession.
Fully a hundred men and women
were within range of the revolvers
when the shooting began, but all ex-
cept one person, who was hit in the
arm by a bullet which rebounded from
the wall. escaped without injury.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
ARE JAPs WAVERINGg

Strong Party Favors Abandoning tho
Aggressive at Port Arthur.
Toxic, Oct. 12.-The geenral staff is
not satisfied with conditions at Port
Arthur. There is no Disgusting the
fact that the operations against the
Russian forces have been a disappoint-
ment. 1t was believed that long be-
fore this the place would De in the
and of the Japanese. The desperate
defense of General Stoessel. while call
ing for admiration on the part of the
japanese war office, has caused more or
less disarrangenlent Of the plans. The
question which is now given careful
consideration is whether 1t is better to
undertake the reduction of the place by
regular siege operations and by d.
Verting ali the men not necessary for
the purpose to the carrying out Of 9TH
er parts of the general plan of cam
paign, or to continue the efforts to
carry the place by assault and send
whatever reinforcements in men and
guns which may be necessary to the
kWan-tung peninsula.
Importance Of Vladivostok.
The best information obtainable is
that the majority of opinion favors a
continuation for q time of rigorous op-
erations. Japan undoubtedly realizes
the Importance of taking Vladivostok,
Nor at least investing that place when
the time comes to talk of peace terms.
1t was the intention to begin the at
tack on Vladivostok when Port Arthur
had been captured. Plans are now
complete for the undertaking of this
work without waiting for the fall of
the southern stronghold.
1t is known that at least two pro-
tracted assault on Port Arthur have
been made by the Japanese and re-
pulsed with enormous loss of life. The
Japanese took several forts and i'm
portant positions and even fought in
the Russian trenches. but We're driven
back. There is much dissatisfaction in
Japan at the %protracted operations and
a strong party opposes the majority
and advocates stopping all attempt to
capture the fortress. They say that
the best method is t. leave just enough
men to keep General Stoessel busy and
concentrate every available soldier on
Kuropatkin.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
ST. PETERSBURG is ELATED.
Confident That kuropatkin Will Soon
Deliver the Promised Victory.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 13.-The cloud Of
,pessimism which has hung over st. Peters,
burg has vanished. 1t has been replaced
by an elation which shows how strong has
been the feeling CT the country during the
months of reverses and retreats. Today
all Russians say Kuropatkin's advancing
must surely mean victory, remembering
the commander said that once the ad-
vance was begun it would go rapidly. h
is confirmed by news that the Russian
forces have crossed the Hun river and
.sappers have rebridged the Sakhe, while
General Misthenko, with his famous Cos
sacks, has occupied Yentai.
Russian cavalry forces have also crossed
the Taitse, the Japanese hastily retreat
ing. thu stopping their attempted west
ern thanking movement. This necessarily.
according to military opinion, will cause
General Kuroki to stop his thanking move
ment to the east with az alternative OF
exposing himself to the liability of being
cut off. In the meantime the bulk OF the
Japanese army Is reported to be massed
in positions occupied by them after the
battle of Lao Yang. There the big battle
will surely take place.
Interest runs to the highest pitch. Ev-
cry one is feeling that the next engage
iment will be of Importance to the issue
of the campaign.
The fact that Viceroy Alexieff had
a long conference with General kuropat-
kin is taken to be extremely significant,
a upsetting the rumors of his disgrace.
1t is further stated that viceroy Alexieff
is accompanying Kuropatkin's advance.
The correspondents and military attaches
left at Mukden are following the great
general movement southwark.
= The japanese. in view of this situation,
are %redoubling their efforts at Port Ar
thur. They nave again taken a high hill
-etk;o- $50 ,ro ,l1o11{r~ TN, uyo rc1tpS
while Admiral Togo is waiting in the Off
ing In case OF a SOrtie.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
COMMITTEES DIVIDED
Divorce Question Before Episcopal
General Convention May Cause
Trouble.

Boston, Mass, Oct. 13.-The pro-
posed new canon on marriage and d.
vorae was up for discussion before the,
general convention of the Episcopal
church today. The committee on cam
ons submitted a lengthy report. The
present canon on the subject permits
the remarriage of innocent persons in
divorce cases wherein a decree was is
sued by the civil courts on the ground
of infidelity. The majority report fa-i
vors a new law to prevent the remar-
riage of any divorced person while the.
former partner is living. The minority
report leaves unchanged that part of
the old canon permitting the remark
age of an innocent person in case of
infidelity, and provides for greater
safeguards in the shape of the civil.
court testimony.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14
A GREAT BATTLE is SURE.
Both Sides Equally Confident of Win
nina the Comma Conflict.

Both Sides Equally Confident of Win.
ming the Coming Conflict.
Mukden, Oct. 13.-What is expected to-
prove the greatest and bloodiest battle of
modern titmes has been begun. The Rus
SLAMS are the aggressors. Already they,
have %recaptured one important position.
Bentziaputze.
But while General Kuropatkin is strik-'
ing the Japanese south of Mukden and,
endeavoring to cut their line of commune
cations. two mighty Japanese f1ankingi
columns are rushing north on the east
and west In an effort to converge north of,
the city and cut off the Russians from
their line of communication. Kuroki is on
the east, Fushima is on the west. He is
marching up the valley of the Lao river
and is only twenty miles from Sinmintin,
almost due west of Mukden
Both Expect Decisive Battle.
Before taking the offensive General Ku,
ropatkin issued an order to the Russian,
troops in which he said there would be no.
more retreats, that they were strong
enough numerically at last to defeat the,
combined armies under Oyama and that
they were going forward to victory and,
ultimately to the relief of Port Arthur.
1t is reported that the Japanese leaders,;
Oyama, Kuroki, Oku n Nodzu. are,
equally confident of their strength, that
LlGy 0AptCI u SuIIOulu huIOpalkJH y
army and infl1ct on 1t a defeat that will
decide the war.
Two days ago the Japanese had ten d.
visions confronting the Russians north OF
the Taitse river. Their left flank, consist
ing of two divisions, was on the railway
at Sandiapu. thirty miles southwest OF
Mukden and close to the Hun river. Their
center, comprised of our divisions, occu-.
pied the railway between Lao Yank and
Chandiayudmi, twelve miles north. Two
more divisions coupled the extreme Jap
anese right along the road between Bent
ziaputze and Bensihu. Their front extend
ed about frty-two miles.
Russians Weak Spot.
The position at Bentziajutze was strong.
ly fortified and Intended to withstand at
tack. 1t is reported that General Kuroki
was there in person. The Japanese had
omitted to fortify one hill, which was the
key TO the position. The Russians, aware
of this omission, made c wide detour east
ward and seized the hill with little opposi-
ton.
The hill once occupied exposed the whole
Japanese position to a heavy f1anking fire.
The Russians also turned the Japanese
right, and, the fortified positions thus be-
coming ~untenable, the Japanese We're
forced to withdraw hurriedly from Bent
%ziaputze, fighting a rear guard action in
which they suffered heavily. The Russian
loses throughout were small, although Sc
we're opposition had been expected.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-14

ing today, but a portion of General Ku-
ropatkin's dispatch, dated last night.
was given to the public and shows that
his army is steadily pushing forward,
and that the Japanese are gradually!
Withdrawing their outposts, which were
only at c~annon-shot distance. There,
have been almost constant skirmishes
which at any moment may develop into
a battle. There is no confirmation of;
the Japanese evacuation of the Yentaf
mines. but h report is credited at the!
war Office.
Oyama's front has been rapidly mar
rowing during the last few days, I'M
der pressure of the Russian advance,
and does not now exceed twenty miles,
extending from the Yentai mines west
ward beyond the railroad. When Jap
anese concentration is effected a coun-
ter attack is likely to be the signal for
a series of battles. If the Russians
are victorious the ultimate issues are
expected to be decided between the
mountain Businesses about Yentai,
Lao Yang and sykwantun, which con
stitute the fortified Japanese position.