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, 1904-08-04
Dying of prouth.

Reports from various sections
in Northern Montana state that
the unprecedented dry spell has
turned thousands of acres of graz
ing lands into an arid desert and
that live stock is suffering in
tensely. In many places rain has
not fallen in weeks, streams and
wells have dried up, and it is i'm
possible to secure water for live
stock. On one range over 5000
cattle have been entirely without
water for nearly a week, and I'M
less rain falls within the next
twenty-four hours, thousands of
head will be lost. Cattle by the
hundreds are going blind and be-
coming ''lucoed," and it is impos-
sible for the cowboys to control
them.
, 1904-08-04
Rectory and Church Over
hau1ed and Presents a
Neat Appearance.
HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MUCH
Church Now on Solid Foundation New
Church to be Constructed at
Eneampment.

The work accomplished the past
spring by the Rev. Mr.. Watson in
the Episcopal church and rectory
deserves special commentator.
That church had been gradually
losing ground the past ten years
and year or two ago
was closed, the congregation hav-
ing lost all interest an account of
Il lack of efficient services. The
church building had been neglect
ed and the rectory had not been
painted since its erection some
twelve years ago. 1t was most
discouraging prospect for a minis
ter to tackle.
Rev. Watson agreed to take the
field and the middle of April the
work of r%enovating the buildings
and awakening new interest was
commenced.
The result speaks for itself and
is an excellent testimonial of the
earnest, untirins work of Rev.
Watson. The church and rectory
have been put in thorough repair
reprinted and repaired throughout
Some $500 WAS expended in this
work, of which amount all is paid
except Sl40 and it is expect
ed that amount will have
been subscribed by the last week
this week.
Renewed interest is manifested
in the church. Old members
have returned and new ones are
coming in. An excellent choir
has been secured and the church
is now on a solid foundation.
The church was recently newly
carpeted, and among the furni-
ture added is a hymn board. New
hyn.nals and service books have
been ordered.
+ While experimenting and as
sisting in the work here Rev.
Watson has spent part of his time
at Encampment in the field there.
After the morning service here on
Sundays Mr.. Watson takes the
stage for Encampment and holds
services there in the evening. The
work in that field has been very
successful and n church will be
erected there this fall.
, 1904-08-04
CAUGHT 6 Ia POUND TROUT
One Of the Largest and Best Proportionsd
Fish Taken From Platte Ri
yer This Year.

j H. Bemis caught a 81 pound
trout Sunday about a mile below
Saratoga, which for size and sym
metry is ahead of anything taken
from the river this year. 1t was a
perfect beauty and took some
thirty minutes to land it.
w. NJ. and j. H. Bemis are
great lovers of fishing, and are
experts. They are very much in
terested in trout and expressed
the opinion that the large number
of trout is responsible for the fish
caught this season not being so
large as formerly. They have
caught a number of trout which
we're % and y inches in length
and should have weighed six and
eight pounds, but they were poor
and weighed but three or four.
These larger trout stay in the
deep holes while the smaller fish
weighing from a half to two
pounds are usually found in shall
low water on or just below the
rifles and being spryer catch
most of the bugs and other food
that fall into the water, compell-
ing the larger fish to catch min
nows and whatever water bugs
come their way.
The smaller trout are usually
fat and much better proportioned
than the larger,
The Bemis brothers state how
ever that there are a good many
of the extra large trout still, but
that the old fellows are wary and
it takes a very tempting bait to
get a raise out of them. One big
fellow usually has run of a hole,
and rules supreme.
, 1904-08-04
Mrs. seribnsr Appointed.

Mrs. G. NJ. Scribner has been
appointed by the board of direc-
tors of the Industrial convention
to have charge of the ladies' ex-
hibit to be sent to the convention
this fall from this section. Mrs.
L.. G. Davis and Mrs. Gustav Jen-
sen have been appointed to assist
her. Anyone wishing informa-
ton regarding the nature of the
exhibit will please communicate
with Mrs. Scribner, or the other
members of the committee.
, 1904-08-04
Demand for Lighter Beef Cattle.

The demand for lighter beef
cattle is increasing abroad as we'll
as at home. The HOO or 1900 ID.
beef is preferred to the 1900 or
1900. This is due to the fact that
the meat of the heavy beef is gen.
orally tougher aud less profitable
than that of the lighter one, and
there is more tallow in them.
Men who produce beef cattle
claim that there is no profit in the
last 500 pounds that are put ON
, 1904-08-04
Casper Men Placed Under Bonds.

Dave Packard and c. V. Hayes,
the two alleged outlaws captured
on July 20 at their rendezvous
near Black mountains, l25 miles
north of Casper, and charged with
perjury i'll the case of Tom O'Day,
have been released under $1,000
bonds each. Pickard and Hayes
have gone back to their home in
the mountains.
These men are suspected of be-
ing the employers of Jim Nc
Cloud, the cattle detective who
killed Ben Minnick near Black
mountain two years ago.
, 1904-08-04
500, 900 Feet of Lumber
Sawed and Deliver
ed at Dillon.
HAS BEEN VERY BUSY CAMP
Mill May Close Down Unless Another
Large Contract can be
Secured.

The Elk Horn saw mill, which
is owned and operated by Baker,
Bremen d McAnally. has proved a
very successful proposition. The
mill was bought in last winter by
this firm, at the time Archer fail
ed, in order to protect themselves.
After looking the situation over
Baker, Brcnner & McAnally con-
clud9d to go into the saw mill
business, and took a contract To
furnish the Ferris Haggarty mine
with 100000 feet of lumber, tim
bers, etc. The mill was put in
operation about the middle of APP
ril and has sawed and delivered
all but a small amount of the lum-
Der, and the last will probably be
delivered this week.
Beside this large contract, the
mill has of course supplied lum-
Der in smaller quantities to differ
ent parties.
There has been about 100 men
employed at the camp the past
summer including choppers, saw
yers and haulers. Some forty teams
have been in use about the mill,
hauling logs delivering lumber and
repairing roads.
When the firm took charge of
the mill the roads from here to
the mill and also over to Dillon
were in bad condition, but they
were al once put in repair and a
first class road from here to Dill
Ion is the result.
While the mill has paid we'll
the probabilities are it will be clos
ed down now for a time as, with
the force of men and teams at
work, the company cannot afford
to handle small amounts of lum-
Der, and unless another large con-
tract is secured from the North
American Copper Co, the mill
will close as soon as the present
contract as fulfilled.
F. NJ. Baker has been manager
of the operations and while this is
his first experience with saw mill
work, he is much pleased with the
result of the summers work.
, 1904-08-04
the AJAX
In Slavery Country Has Good Lead Of
Gold, Copper, Silver and Galsna
Incline 60 Feet Long.

j. A. Rhone was in from the
Slavery country Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this week and reports
work progressing in his section.
Mr.. Rhone has been working on
the Ajax claim, a prospect located
last year, and is opening up a good
mineral lead in an incline 80 feet
in length. The vein is five feet
in width, with a two foot streak
of mineral which gives good as.
says in gold, silver galena and
copper.
The walls, which are well defin-
ed, are Strengthening up as depth
is gained. The foot wall is a
quartzite formation and the hang
ing wall is composed of granite.
The incline is run in on the west
slope of Dexter Hill.
This Savery country bids fair
to become one of the mineral pro.
ducing sections of Carbon county
with sufficient development. Mum.
erous placer claims have been 10.
Gated there at different times, and
good wages have been made pan
ming out gold, but for lack OF
funds extensive placer work han
not been done.
, 1904-08-04
Gets Married, Then Dies.

Benjamin c. Cartwright, Il well
known newspaper man, who was
reporter for the Denver papers
during the Tom Horn trial at
Cheyenne, was married to Miss
Laura G. Richmond at his home
in Long Island, and died within a
few hours. Cartwright had con.
tracted consumf nak, nd it was
known at the time Of his marriage
that he had but a few hours to
live.
, 1904-08-04
WEEKLY STOCK YARDS LETTER
Sufficient Number of Men Secured to
Handle Stock Prices Decline
10 TO IS Cents.

South Omaha, Neb., Aug. B.
The strike at the packing houses
or Chicago. Kansas City, South
Omaha and other points shows no
sign OF n discontinuance. How
ever, the packers claim that they
are in better shape than they we're
n week ago and hal they are now
able to handle without serious de
lay the moderate amount of stock
which is arriving. .
The packing houses r not in
n position to prepare all the stock
which normal receipts would
bring to them, hut each day a few
more men are added to the num-
Der of employed and they are
gradually getting back to their
normal capacity.
While the strike has extended
to the skilled trades employed at
the packing houses, enough ex-
perienced butchers are arriving
from country points to take the
places of the strikers, so that it
will be but a short time before
the plants at South Omaha, at
least, can be run at normal capa-
city.
Receipts of cattle run from 600
to 1000 head daily; hog receipts
have been fair, 14,S47 being re-
ceived last week against 1860
the week before. This is about
one-third of the normal amount
Sheep receipts have been very
huctuating, the small receipts of
one day enabling the packers to
catch up on the larger receipts of
the preceding day.
Prices show n sharp break, the
decline Saturday being 10 to Is
cents. Lightweights form about
the only class arriving and they
brought around $3.50 for $40
pound steers. Hog prices for
common grades have run about
So .05 to S5.07t.
In the sheep section prices fol
good to choice yearlings are run.
ming from S4.25 TO 81 70; good tt
choice lambs 50 80 to S5.75.
Marketing of livestock should
be done with a special view to the
strike situation. Shippers will dc
well to secure the advice of theii
commission men, or of the Union
Stockyards company, before load.
ing their stock. There are days
when stock receipts can be handl,
ed easily and at fair prices, and
the South Omaha dealers and
handlers of stock are always will
ing to offer suggestions AS to the
proper time to ship stock.
The packers are offering perma-
nent situations 10 men who want
work In
, 1904-08-04
To Overhaul Telephone Lines.

The repair gang of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Co,
started to work at Laramie Sun
day and will thoroughly overhaul
the main line through Encamp-
ment, Saratoga and on west. They
will also repair the line through
Pearl and other branch lines of
the com pany.
, 1904-08-04
CHOPPED HIS FOOT
In Telling Tree Fay Wright Cuts His
Right Foot Cutie Badly Works
At Copper Bar.

Monday word was brought down
from the Copper Bar mining
camp that Fay Wright, son of the
engineer at the Copper Bar had
cut his foot quite badly and a
doctor was wanted. Geoige Sis
son left Mt once with a physician
and the boy was found with a cut
in the ankle joint.
In Telling a tree Wright had
missed the tree and struck his
foot on top of the instep, the AK
biting straight into the middle e.
the ankle. ltSxAsss easy aud the
c4tykR64f be all right shortly.
, 1904-08-04

Il 1900 pound beef. The profit,
they claim, is all in the first 1000
pounds. w. j. Kennedy. who is
now abroad in the interest of the
agric ultural department finds that
HOO pound export steers bring
the fancy prices and the demand
for that class is steadily inereas-
ing.-Ex.
, 1904-08-04
Charged With Embszslement.

Guy G. Hazleltine, printer
was Sunday arrested ut Evanston
for embezzlement upon complaint
az Ross Draper, manager of the
Rawlins Republican. Hazeltine
, 1904-08-04
CASH PREMIUMS
List Of Prizes, as Far as Completed to be
Awarded at the Casper Industri-
al Exhibit.

The Industrial Committee hav-
ing to charge the premiums to be
offered at the Fourth Annual In
dustrial Convention at Casper,
met yesterday afternoon in the
governors Office and discussed at
some length the subject of cash
prizes. In par. the following
comprises the list of premiums
as far as has been completed:
THE GRAND swEEPsTAKE PRIZE.
Best general combined display
made by any county; First prize,
500; second prize, $50.
MINERAL.
Copper: First prize, $50; sec
ond prize, $25.
Gold: First prize. $50; second
prize, $25.
Iron: First prize. $25; second
prize, SIS.
Coal: First prize, $50; second
prize, $25; third prize, so.
Oil: First prize. $25: second
prize, SIS.
Soda; First prize. SO; second
prize, $500.
Graphite; Prize, $500.
Asbestos: Prize. So 90.
Mica: Prize, So 90.
Building stone: First prize
$40; second prize, $500.
AGRICULTURAL.
Grain best grown by an indi-
vidual, company or corportation)
First prize, S25: second prize, SIS
Vegetables: First prize, 1875;
second prize. SIS.
Grasses: First prize. S25; Sec
ond prize, SIS.
Best exhibit grown by any in
dividual: First prize, $50. Sec.
ond prize, S25.
Best exhibit of preserved fruits:
| First prize. S2.j.
, 1904-08-04
partment,to be classified later 800.
BEST POEM.

For the best poem on the Cas-.
per Collins Indian Fight: Prize
so.
, 1904-08-04


2:oo y Book to Head Silence
ana other Essays
1'oo 'uliAs caesar Act IL.
~ Question box.
H. poL,.,,
wrr>rsr,
A. NJ
'?oo opening Exercises
';i' supplementary reading
Dem. ~ orahoail
- Methods IN Arithmetic
pr' Roberts
,o ~ IN
Rev, Scotield
.Il:l5 Methods in Drawing
Miss Brown
NuON
ono Ri 10 Road ram
..ToILs ,o Taaohars"
, 1904-08-04
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SEVENTEENTH SESSION n
Of Carbon County Teachers rps.itpts =,
De Held in Rawlins From Aug
ust 29 10 September !st.

Following We give the program
for the teachers institute to be-
held in Rawlins tins fall.
Miss Roberta B. Robnett. coup.
ty superintendent of schools has
secured the assistance of Prof. F.
II. IL. Roberts, the mos, able and
interesting director in the west. AZ
Instructor, and the session will b..
a very interesting one
, 1904-08-04
PROGRAM


A. NJ.
300 Organization aud OPENING
Exercises.
9:l5 Address DIR. Roberts
9;45 Psychology DIR. Roberts
1870 Recess
1915 Methods in Fractions
Flora Kruger
ll:lo Physiology and Hygiene
X. ID. Stearns
, 1904-08-04
LIVE STOCK

HORSES.
Best individual horse: Prize.
S25.
Best five horses: Prize, S25.
SHEEP.
Best ram: Prize. S25.
Best ten sheep: Prize, S25.
Best wool sheep: Prize SO.
Best mutton sheep: Prize $40.
CATTLE.
Best ten white face: Prize,
500.
Best individual white face
Prize $40.
Best ten short horn: Prize 500
Best individual short horn:
Prize 800
Best ten polle,i Angus: Prize
500.
Best individual polled Angus
Prize $50.
, 1904-08-04

z. M.
200 A Book to Read-Brig-
ans Geography.
2;30 Julius Caesar, Act /. Inhu-
ence in American History.
3:30 Question Box.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 80.
A. NJ.
900 Opening Exercises.
9:l5 Helpful Thoughts,
Rev. Clifton
$40 Psychology DR.. Roberts
1910 Recess
lO:43 Grammar DIR. Roberts
ll:l5 Methods in Drawing
Lille Brown
, 1904-08-04

MISCELLANEOUS.
WOOL.
Best fleece: Prize So.
Best exhibit; Prize, S25.
BRICK
At least twenty-five: First
prize, So.
woMAN's DEPARTMENT..
The committee has appropriat-
ed for prizes in the women's Dc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
MRS. RAULSToN TO
 GO ABROAD IN OCTOBER.

Mrs. J. B. Raulston, the celebrated rose painter will go abroad in October to be absent several months She has engaged her passage and expects to sail on Octo- Der direct for England Her studios in the Watts building will remain open through the months of August and Sep tember and she will continue her class until few days of her departure.
 Mrs. Raulston will spend the autumn at the English country seat of some of her relatives and will hardly reach Lon don before December. She will spend a greater part of the winter In London and the early spring in Paris. In all travelling In Italy.
 Mrs. Rauston was asked yesterday If she was going abroad to study or for rest
 My visit abroad will combine both rest and study" she said
 ''I do not feel that I could lose such fine opportunities for study or that I could give all my time to a pleasure trlp. The first few weeks will be spent with my relations in England and these weeks will be delightfully."- idle ones. When I 80 to London and Paris-well, l shall study of course. It has been several years since l was abroad, and next to the pleasure of seeing my relations 1 am anticipating the opportunities 1 shall have for study"
 Mrs. Raulston was asked if she had thought of closing her st"dio in the Watts building and being associated with the Misses Allen'ss school on Highland avenue a contemplated change that has been discussed In art circles.
 ''The Misses Allen and myself have ccn- sidered the matter of my opening a cer- annie studio in connection with their school" said Mrs. Raulston. but as I am going abroad for a stay of several months, no change of the kind will be made
 Mrs. Raulston will be greatly missed this winter both in the art and social life of Birmingham Few women have her universal personal charm and her work has placed her in the front rank of women portrait painters. Her many friends and admirers will be delighted to know that her visit abroad will be only of a few months duration and that not even London and Paris and Nice will claim her definitely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
Dress by Despotism.

From the London World
 In England we try the suaviter in modo when we seeek to induce women to give up fashion which we consider danger ous or disagreeable. In Silesia, apparent- ly, they believe In the fortiter In re method. For thence comes the news that an edict has been passed forbidding wom- en to appear In the streets in trailing skirts under the penalty of a consider able fine. Naturally trained gowns will at once become the height of the fashion No woman was ever persuaded to deny her allegiance to Mime. La Mode by such drastic means. Rather would she pay fifty fines-or compel her husband to do so. Imagine the effect of making it ille- gal in England to wear hats beyond cer- tain dimensions or of limiting by act of parliament the size of parasolsl The Silesian authorities are perfectly right so far as their intentions are concerned, and 1t Is not so much what they say as the offensive way in which they have said 1t. No woman wants to trail her gown in the street, but 1t is best to make it absolutely demode-and worse, if possible to do so. A woman will defy the law but rarely fly in the face or fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
The French Sardine Cron

From the New York World.
 During the years 1902 and 1903 there was an almost complete failure of the French sardine catch, an industry of which the center of trade Is Nantes
 This year the indications point to fine catch, and the packers and exporters are hopeful for the first slime since 1901. AL ready small sardines have appeared in great abundance In the well known fish ing grounds at Les Stables d'Olonne, on the western coast 'of France.
 It now seems certain that the absence of sardines last year and the year before was due solely to the cold and boisterous spring This spring, which has been a normal one up to date, finds the smaller variety of the famous little fish already on hand in abundance, and the packers look forward to an excellent catch This information will doubtless be of interest to American importers. who were com pelled last year to place many orders for sardines in Spain and Portugal from which countries they received a product much inferior to the sardines of France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
Weather Is Ideal.

This has been ideal weather for outdoor life, and luncheons at the Grecian Gar dens and the Casino at Narraganset have been quite in vogue The cottage colony have interchanged engagements, both dinners and dances, either at home or at the Little Casino. The tennis en- thusiasts go in for round of work each morning before the bathing hour, and the courts back of the Atlantic house are much in demand. Conspicuous among the devotees are Harold Roberts and Dud- ley Penney who hold the records for brilliant individual work. The grounds of the old Casino have been converted Into two tennis courts, and Ned Gray, L. Har- rison Dulles, Edward Browning and Wil- liam c. Marrow can be seen each morn ing serving the little white sphere with nerve and precision. After their strenu- ous efforts a dip in the surf cools them off for lunch at the Casino.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07
MISS KATHARINE MackNleHT.

Miss Katharine MacKnight of Birming- ham, who has been in St. Louis since May, returned on Thursday. She ac- companied her father, MT. J. A. Mac Knight when he went to St. Louis to take charge of the Alabama exhibit, and she has assisted him in doing the honors in the Mines Palace where the Vulcan statue is exhibited. Miss MacKnight Is a young woman of unusual beauty and she has been greatly admired at the sev- eral receptions given in the state and foreign buildings. occasions that have as- sembled the most distinguished people in the country.
 MT. and Mrs. MacNight have taken an attractive house on Aubunt avenue and will remain in St. Louis until December.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-07

1 nothing that would give Birmingham as much social prestige.
 MT. MacKnight is considered by t.-e commissioners here to be oI of the most public spirited and capable men in the country. A commissioner told me today that he thought MT. MacKnight could put through the most stupendous undertakings. As an instance of how his work Is regarded the commissioner said that meeting was held recently to discuss the best methods of getting the exposition advertised The attendance IS deplorably small and the question is how to arouse the nation to q proper ap- preciation of the greatest enterprise yet undertaken In this country. press com- mittee of three was appointed and MT. MacKnight is a member of the commit tee. In fact he was asked to write descriptive article of the Louisiana Pur- chase exposition which is to be published in practically every newspaper in the country and probably in several Euro pean papers.
 I really believe that foreigners appre- ciate the educational value of this won derful exposition more than Americans.
 Speaking of foreigners, the negroes in St. Louis act as if they were in a foreign land. There is no color line drawn, that is they sit where they please in the street 
 eternally bringing up the race question: because we southerners are so tired of it. but l was surprised at the turn conver- sation took today In a discussion l had with a bright woman who Is interested in humane education, as applying to the care and protection of children and ami mals. She gave me a great deal of in- formation about legislative laws and told me much of the custom of the Olympic games which she witnessed in Athens. We talked of various phases of the subject. and finally she asked me if l could possi- bly, get some literature distributed in the Booker Washington school
 Negroes, she said, had some cruel in- stncts, and she thought If the teachers that are sent out from the Washington school would direct their attention to- wards humane education among negro children that a great deal of good could be accomplished. She said she believed that Booker Washington would take up this special work, that she had met him and that he was very polite.
 T do not believe" she said quite seriously. that if you mentioned the sub ject of humane education to him that he would say a word about lynchings, be- cause you know, he is really very polite"
 l did not know this, but if you are not hopelessly stupid you will learn many things at the Louisiana Purchase expo sition. Faithfully yours, A. K. W.
 St. Louis. Mo.