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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12

they travel from Maine to Texas they
can give locality but glimpse of
their mode of life. We are more or
less acquainted with the be-shawled.
bare-headed fortune-teller, that goes
from house to house, and with the
gypsy musician; many of the door-to-
door peddlers we recognize as of gip-
sy blood, also the keepers of small tin,
crockery and basket stores, and the
infrequent itinerant thinkers and cut
lery men.
1t is said that gipsies established two
villages in this country, one in New
England the other in Pennsylvania,
and that in these villages Romany Is
still spoken, though secretly. To con-
trovert this idea, some hold it proba-
BILE that there has never been band
OF genuine gipSies in America; but
the Gypsy Lore Journal makes the
statement that in IT'S nine border
gipsies. by names Faa, Stirling, Yors-
toun, Finneck, Lindsey. Ross and Rob-
ertson were transported by Glasgow
magistrates to Virginia plantations.
Mention has been made of the gipsies
sent over during our revolutionary
war, and there is record of the pres
ence of gipsies in New York half
century ago. Among gypsy names in
America we find those of the good old
families, that is, good old gypsy fami-
lies: Lee, Lowell, Cooper, Stanley.
Bosvills, etc. The gipsies take intense
pride in family" in spite of their
supposed democracy.
To go back to the European gipsies
They appeared in Germany some tint
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
CAN DRINK TROUBLE.
That's One Way to Get It.

Although they won't admit it many
people who suffer from sick headaches
and other ails get them straight from
the coffee they drink and it is easily
proved if they're not afraid to leave it
to a test as in the case Of a lady in
Connellsyille.
Il had been a sufferer from sick
headaches for twenty-five years and
anyone who has ever had a bad sick
headache knows what / suffered.
Sometimes three days in the week I
would have to remain in bed, at other
times couldn't lie down the pain
would be so great. My life was a tor
ture and if went away from home
for day I always came back more
dead than alive.
"One day l was telling woman my
troubles and she told me she knew
that it was probably coffee caused it.
She said she had been cured by stop
ping coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee and urged me to try this food
drink.
That's how l came to send out and
get some Postum and from that tins
w hO'SA OCCA W1luOuI lOT
my taste and has entirely cured all
OF my old troubles. ALI l did was tc
leave off the coffee and tea and drink
well made Postum in its place. This
change has done me more good than.
everything else put together.
Our house was like drug store for
my husband bought everything he
heard Of to help me without doing
any good but when I began ON the
Postum my headaches ceased and the
other troubles quickly disappeared. j
have friend who had an experience
just like mine and Postum cured her
just as it did me.
Postum not only cured the head
aches but my general health has been
improved and am much stronger
than before / now enjoy delicious
Postum more than ever did coffee. .
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Greek, Mich.
There's q reason and It's worth
6ndins out.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
An Effective Method

We are not told what the fumigation
corps that drove the mosquitoes from the
towns along the Rio Grande used in
their warfare, says the Chicago Daily
News. but presumably it camped in a
city or village and proceeded to smoke
q boxful of campaign cigars.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12


earth. Mere mention of the word gip-
sy presents this picture, and when we
read, as lately we did, that a band of
these more or less undesirable visitors
had been deported from our country,
sent back post-haste from Ellis Island,
we set to musing on the existence, the
persistence, in the strenuous tWenti-
eth century of the Romany
The recent deportation from our
shores of the gipsies brings up a
somewhat similar happening that &C.
Cured in 1886, when a company of
gipsies started from Corfu for New
York. The band, come together from
various parts of Greece and Turkey
succeeded in getting only as far as
Liverpool, for no steamship company
would take the gipsies aboard, the
United States being closed to pauper
immigrants. 1t was for fear the
bohemian gipsies, the ones just de-
ported, would eventually become pub
lie charges that caused the United
States officials to refuse them admis-
sion. The unlucky band of 1886, held
at Liverpool, camped there a long
while, but, year after year falling to
obtain passage, in time it was scattered.
An authority of gypsy lore declares
that there probably is not to-day a
circus or theater in the United States
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
A Chilly Cure.

An Omaha doctor successfully treats
lockjaw by placing his patients in re-
frigerator. 1t is the resultant chatter.
ing doubtless, says the Chicago Tribune,
that loosens up the jaw.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
English Walters ousted

The English waiter has been virtu.
ally ousted from English hotels. res,
taurants and boarding houses. Swiss
and Austrians have taken his place
They are found to be quicker, more
anxious 10 please. and more reliable.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
THE WIRELESS GUIDANCE OF
TORPEDOES BY ELECTRIC WAVES

(From the London illustrated News-)
The Orling- torpedo is not
projectile. 1t Is just dropped or slipped
Into the water, and Is then, without any
connecting wires, entirely subject to con-
troll, either from the bridge OF ship or
room on shore. The first picture shows
Mr.. Armstrong, the inventor, sending out
electric rays from a room on shore, to
control torpedo out at sea. Within
the torpedo itself Is the apparatus, SINH
lar to wireless telegraph instrument,
receiver and an arrangement called
transformer, which makes the fine i'm
pulses received act upon an arm, the
movement of which causes the screws to
turn. Every Quarterturn OF this arm
causes the screws to revolve differently,
and consequently makes the torpedo take
up a new position or course, it was
necessary to have some mark to show
the position of the torpedo in the water.
A flag was used at first, but something
had to be devised which could not posi-
bly, be shot down by an enemy. One
night Mr.. Armstrong dreamed the way
to get over the difficulty, and now there
Is an airpressure tank in the torpedo
which sucks In salt water and sends it
out again like the blow of whale. They
may fire at that forever without doing
any harm. The spray Of water at the
same time serves as an indestructible
receiver for the electric waves. On en-
countering a warship the torpedo first
travels towards the netting which sur
rounds it as protection against torpe-
does of all kinds. After it has struck
the net it goes back as shown by dot
ted lines in the picture, sinks, as indicat-
ed by the said line, and then blows up
the vessel.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
FOUR NORTHWEST STATES
LATE NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Choice Selection of Interesting Items
Gathered From Exchanees-CulIlngs
From Washington, Idaho, Montana
and Oregon-Numerous Accidents
and Personal Happenings Occur.

After being under surveillance for
five days, and after being trailed about
the main streets of Spokane for nearly
half an hour, H. L. Hackett and Chas.
Williams were arrested by Detectives
Burns and Briley in the act of holding
up lone pedestrian.
Senator Ankeny and Mr.. Jones call
ed on the president recently and pre-
scented him with an album of hunting
scenes taken in Stevens county.
BY defeating the University of Idaho
Whitman college won the intercolle
giate debating championship of the
northwest for 1904.
Four members of the First Baptist
church of Walla Walla, acting as pri
vate citizens, visited 40 saloons, cigar
stores and confectionery shops tonight
with notifications not to open Sundays
after the 10th.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
MONTANA NOTES.

Lee Dorsey, one of the old-timers of
Hamilton, is dead
Ranchmen in nearly all portions of
the state are busy with their spring
blowing.
There is little change in the condi-
ton of George l.. Wilson, the engi-
neer who sustained a fractured skull.
Thus far no Inflammation has set in,
and Wilson stands a good show for
recovery.
The annual report of Rev. Father
Victor Day, as administrator of the
Helena diocese, just forwarded to the
vatican at Rome, shows there was a
material gain in the Catholic pOpula-
ton of Montana during the calendar
year that ended Dec. 81.
The old soldiers are looking for
ward with a great deal of interest to
the Grand Army encampment to be
held on April 20, q and % in Missoula.
Charles Gunther. who two weeks
ago figured as the aggressor in the
shooting affair with Jerry Virgins in
the Exchange saloon at Missoula, es-
capped from the Parsons & Brown hos
pital, and his prese- whereabouts are
unknown.
Friday was the last day of school
in Missoula for 10 days, as vacation
has been declared for all of next week.
Spring work has begun among the
farmers in the vicinity of Havre. The
frost is out of the ground in most
places, and some are blowing for
oats.
The Big Timber chemical engines
and hook and ladder trucks for use OF
the fire department have arrived.
James Wall, an old resident Of Hell
ena, is dead The funeral took place
Sunday
c. B. Hoskins, the new exalted ruler
of the Butte lodge of Elks, has MADE
the following appointments: Esquire
J. A. Bryan; inner guard, w G. Nc
Intyre; Chaplain, David Meiklejohn.
The Anaconda high school basket
ball team now holds the proud title
of champions of Montana.
Mrs. Climena M. Putnam, probably
the oldest person in the state, diec
recently in Jefferson City. She was
90 years and months old.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15

Mr.. Iarkins dove headlong into his
garden patch and hoed vigorously to
distract his thoughts, and the widow
sat down on the edge Of her porch and
swung her neat little foot dejectedly.
L do believe I'm half-witted," said
she, under her breath. II dare say
I've lost as good a man as I'll ever
meet, and all because Henrietta Pod
derby told me to run after him.
needn't have run after him, but could
have thrown him away, and 1 amt
half as smart as 1 thought 1 was. I'm
lonely and miserable, woo-oo-oo."
Mrs Bittersweet ran into her sitting
room and cried as heartily as Mr.. Lar
kins hoed.
After that she smiled sunnily when
ever she met him. He smiled genially.
The widow daintily became more lone
some and more convinced that she had
discarded a congenial spirit.
HE won't propose again in a hun
dred years." she bemoaned herself,
'and no wonder he don't want to risk
another snub. He did tell me to let
him know If I changed my mind;
hate to, like fun, but"
One golden afternoon when both
were sitting, in an unusually pensive
mood, upon Mrs. Bittersweet's porch
the Widows heart suddenly prompted
her to a little prospecting.
Mr.. Larkins," she said softly, dc
you ever change your mind?"
NO" returned Mr.. Larkins plump
ly, mot without solid reason"
"We-ell." she continued. holding heI
breath at her own holiness, would
you still like me to-er-er-be-
| be"
Her meaning rushed through Mr.
Larkins like a streak Of electricity. He
sprang out of his lolling attitude at 4
bounce.
Polly, II you're asking me If IL
like you to be my wife, l say yes
yes-yes. l don't dare to ask yol
again, but you've a perfect right t
ask me, even If l hadn't told you to
for it's leap-why. Polly. love, whats
the matter? You're as pale as ashes
What is It. darling?"
why. I've actually as good as asked
you TO marry me-" gasped Polly, Jus
what I've always declared I'd die rattle
than do! Oh. WELL" as Alonzo's arm
stole protectingly around her waist 4"
guess l was excusable this time. But
Alonzo, listen. Don't you ever, tn,
longest day you live, let Henriett,
Podderly know I did twill your"
Never" vowed Alonzo, kissing her
San Francisco Call.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
OREGON ITEMS.

Portland.-William Mills, George
Willis and Hughes Carpenter, who
pleaded guilty to charges of raising
and altering postal money orders, were
sentenced to six years at hard labor.
A quarter of a million pounds of
wool has been bought by the Pendleton
securing mills from Yakima county
growers at from ~ to 1919 cents.
The sale Of the bankrupt Wade es-
tate personal property was largely at
tended in Pendleton. All the per-
sonal property, excepting Sc horses,
were sold, and netted $21, 66070.
Union county residents will have an
opportunity to vote on the proposed
relocation of the county seat at La
Grande at the coming general election
in June.
Strips of the tanned skin of Harry
Egbert, a murderer hanged in the peni-
Tertiary in January, are being sold on
the streets as souvenirs. The sale of
these grewsome relics is being made
quickly, and the authorities have been
unable to find the guilty persons.
Bound hand and foot by his divorced
wife, John Porter, a CASTOR, Ore.
blacksmith, was turned over to the
constable to be taken to the county
jail
The passage Of the bill appropriate
ing almost 100000 for the Lewis and
Clarke exposition by the house of rep
resentatives at Washington, carrying
with it, as it does, the Endorsement Of
the United States government, which
is of a far greater pecuniary benefit
than the amount of the appropriation
makes a reality of the plans of lnC
citizens of old Oregon to have a cele
bration of international proportions
commensurate with the Importance o.
the event it is intended to common
crate.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15

onstrated that it is cheaper to install
water softeners than supply these To-
comotives with raw water.
On the middle division Of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe railway
system the sum of $27,875 is expended
annually for this purpose, the softener
being used at % water stations where
the water has been found unsuitable
for boiler purposes. The locomotives
passing these stations use, on an aver
age, about $4,000 gallons Of water
daily. The water from nearly all these
sources contains incrusting constitu-
ents; that is, the sulphates and carbon
ates Of lime and magnesium, and, In
many cases, corrosive substances, such
as chloride Of calcium and magnesium,
are present in troublesome amounts.
The incrusting solids contained in
900 900 gallons Of water used each day
in the year amount to over 1920
pounds. or, in the course OF a year,
nearly 500 tons. This amount of In
crusting material deposited in the boil
er would, in the first place, damage
the boiler plates and cause an enOr-
nous increase in the consumption OF
coal. The removal Of this scale would
cost probably from to 10 cents per
mile of distance run.
At these 20 water stations water
sOfteners have been erected at great
initial expense. The maintenance of
these softeners requires the expendi-
ture Of about SIT per day for chemi-
calls and an additional charge of about
500 per day for services of attendants
making total Of SIS per day, or ST.
375 per year The cost of construction
of these water softeners was not made
public, but, If the cost Of mainte-
nance represents per cent on the In
vestment, the total amount expended
for water softeners is nearly 100000
The same experience holds true OF
other railroads. At 10 water stations
along the Union Pacific 2,700 pounds OF
solids are removed from the water
each day, almost as much as Is re
moved from the water Of 20 stations
along the Santa Fe system, although
at the 10 Union Pacific stations, they
use about 80 per cent more water thar
at the Santa Fe stations.
The chemical survey of natural wa
ters which is being made by the dydro
economic experts Of the geological sur
vey is directed, in part, toward the 10
cation Of available waters which maI
be used for boiler purposes withou
treatment. II, by extensive surveys
such waters can be discovered an(
their location made known, the saving
of a tremendous amount Of money viii
be effected. In the case OF railroads
the cost of such great losses, as above
mentioned. is due largely to lack O
information concerning the sources o.
water suitable for boilers, and thel
will become the greatest benefciariei
OF this phase of the work Of the gov
eminent.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
AT BEDTIME

The oak tree spreads his mighty boughs
Above me where l lie,
The sleepy flowers kiss my cheek,
The wandering wind goes by.
Amid a shadowy mist of leaves
The shining stars are set;
I wish that L could pluck one Off,
Just like a violet.
If 1 were tall enough to reach
Beyond the robins nest,
I'd steal little baby star
And wear it on my breast.
Phoebe Lyde, In Lippincotts.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
WATER FOR LOCOMOTIVES.
Roads Crossing Plains Guard Against
Boiler Destroyer.

The annual expenditures OF railroad
companies for purposes, concerning
which the public takes little thought,
are enormous, according to the Wash
ington Star. One Of the items of large
expense is the softening of water used
In locomotives, experience having dem
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15

Owing to the completeness of the
canvass made, the volume of mineral
resources for 1902, which the United
States geological survey will soon have
ready for distribution. will be of more
than usual value to those interested
In the development of the country's
mineral wealth.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15

Queen Wilhelmina and her husband.
Prince Henry, started April for Italy,
where they will spend month for the
benefit of the queens health.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15

The worst fault of some people IL
telling other people theirs
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-15
Twas Leap Year

~ EPPERS and pumpkinsl A wild
II ow moved in right next door, anC
this leap year"
Arizona republican., 1904-06-29
WAS NOT A MURDERER
Victor Zapata Cleared of That Charge
 Yesterday.

Victor Zapata, the man who was ar rested at Five Points on Sunday night, and was later suspected of being Jose Sigala, murderer wanted in Mohave county, was yesterday found not to be the man. Deputy Sheriff Joe Gideon of Mohave arrived in town and went to the city jail and took look at Zapata. He immediately said that he was not the man for whom the Mohave author ities have been hunting for the last two weeks but he said that hc so well answered the description of the mur- derer in a general way that he might very easily have been suspected of be- ing the murderer.
 The deputy sheriff gave the murderer T very hot chase. As has been men toned the murder of the mulatto wo- man with whom Sigala had been living occurred at Sun Cloud two weeks ago last Sunday night. He immediately fled and some time was lost in getting
Arizona republican., 1904-06-29
FOR MURDER
The Hicklins To Be Tried for Killina Judd Mullins in Yavapai County.

Prescott. June 2S.-(SpeciaD A special grand jury today returned indictments against J. H. Hick- lin, Fred H:cklin and Florence Hicklin fer the killing of Judd Mullins at Dewey last week. The preliminary examination of the Hick- lins was concluded the day be- fore and they were held to the grand jury without bail. District Attorney Clark then demanded a special grand jury on the ground that before the reg ular sitting of the grand jury the wit nesses for the territory would prob ably be out of the country
 Neither the preliminary examination nor the investigation of the grand jury fully disclosed the circumstances of the killing. Mullins, who had re- gently come into the country from Texas, had been paying attention to Miss Florence Hickhn, daughter of J. H. Hicklin and sister of Fred Hicklin, He had been in her company the ev- eniEg before. On the day be fore Fced Hicklin, who had been at San Fran cisco, returned home. On the morning of the killing Mullins and two com panions rode by the Hicklin place. As | they came in front of the house Fred Hicklin appeared and pointed a gun | at the trio. Mullins and his friends, i thinking it was a joke, threw up their hands. Hicklin singled Mullins out and shot him dead. As he was slipping from his horse to the ground the girl | came out of the house with a shotgun and pointing if at the companions of Mullins told them that her brother | had done the shooting and that she would protect him. The Iicklin house was surrounded last night by miners in the neighborhood to prevent the escape of Hicklin, and the next day Sheriff Roberts arrested Fred Hick- lin and his sister. The father was not arrested until Monday.
Arizona republican., 1904-06-29
IS THERE A BATTLE?
The Japanese Must Lose No Time in
 Bringing it About.

St. Petersburg Jupne 2S.-The Mo- voc Vrenyra today calling attention to the statement that Don Jaime dc Bourbon was an eye witness to the kill ing of Russian wounded at Vafangow, declares that something must be done quickly to prevent the war degenerat- ing into senseless brutality which the Japanese practice indicate. The paper urges Russian newspaper correspond ents in the field to show up the authors of this brutality and secure the evil dence of eye witnesses, 9 hd photographs in order that the Hague convention may be invoked.
 The sudden cessation of newspaper dispatches from the theater of war tends to confirm the belief that the ar mics are about to engage. Most of the military critics take the view that a big battle is imminent though the No- voc Vremya's expert thinks that a pitch ed battle now is more attractive to Ja- ! panese generals than to General Kuro-
 patllin, saying that the latter does not need precipitapcy as Russian rein 1 forcements continue to arrive but if
 the Japanese want battle they must hasten as only fortnight remains be- ] fore the rains set in.
 | The army organ, whose comment
 was written be-ore the arrival of Lieu tenant General Sakharoff's dispatch
 last night, points out the difficult, mountainous country through which l General Kuroki's columns are going anG
 finds in General Oku's withdrawal southward either that the Japanese are
 trying to draw off a part of Kuropat-
 kin's army, or their decision, in view
 of the near approach of the rainy sea
 son to arrest their further advance Tn the latter case their armies would hold
 the greater part of the Liao Tung pen insula until the resumption of active operations in August.
 | All the papers consider almost mex , plicable the failure to receive further reports from Tokio of the sea/fght oii Port Arthur and are reproducing with 1 great prominence despatches from the |, German papers to the effect that Ad- miral Togo in his official reports diC
 not claim positively to have sunk 2
 Russian battleshio or to have c,qppl-
 ed two other vessels.