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The Western news., 1904-10-19
JAPAN'S USEFUL PAPERS.

House Walls, Rain Coats, Grain Sacks
and Tobacco Pouches.
From the bark of trees and shrubs
the Japanese make scores Of papers,
which are far ahead of ours.
The walls of the Japanese houses
are wooden frames covered with thin
paper. which keeps out the wind but
let's in the light, and when one COM
pares these paper-walled doll houses"
with the gloomy bamboo cabins of the
Inhabitants of the island of Java or the
small-windowed huts of our forefa-
theirs, one realizes that, without glass
and in rainy climate, these ingenious
people have solved in a remarkable
way the problem of lighting their
dwellings, and. at least In a measure.
Of keeping out the cold.
As a cover for his load Of tea, when
a rainstorm overtakes him, the jap
anese farmer spreads over it a tough.
pliable cover Of oiled paper, which Is
almost as impervious as tarpaulin and
as light as gossamer. He has doubt
less carried this cover for years neat
ly packed away somewhere about his
cart
The "rikisha" coolies in the large
cities wear rain mantles of this oiled
paper, which cost less than 18 cents,
and lasts for a year or more with con-
slant use. An oiled tissue paper, which
Is as tough as writing paper. can be
had at the stationers for wrapping up
delicate articles.
Grain and meal sacks are almost
always made Of bark paper in Japan.
for it is not easily penetrated by
weevils and other insects.
But perhaps the most remarkable of
all the papers which find common
use in the Japanese household are the
leather papers Of which the tobacco
pouches and pipe cases are made.
They are almost as tough as French
KID. so translucent that one can nearly
see through them. and as piable and
soft as calfskin. The material of
which they are made Is as thick as
cardboard, but as flexible az kid.-Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Mining Notes.

For the first time in many years the
famous old Monumental is again the
scene of great activity, only this time
the mine is being developed in a sys.
tematic manner by an experienced
mining man fully capable of bringing
the real merits of the mine to the
front, says the Sumpter american.
Knoxville, Tenn.-The miners of dis
trict No. IA have decided to accept
the Z per cent reduction in wages Of
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Spokane Retail Markets.

getables-PotatOes, 11ac lb; tur.
nips, 3@4c bunch; rutabagas, SC Id;
dry onions, 4@5c lb; cabbage, 3@4c
lb; celery. lunches SC; parsley, 80
SC bunch cucumbers, 5@10c each;
green onions, 10@15c doz; new beets,
3 lunches 10c; watercress, sc bunch; ;
fresh carrots, 2 punches SC; mint, SC
bunch; tomatoes, 5@6c lb; parsnips, 2
punches SC; cantaloups, S@10c each;
cauliflower, 10@15c bunch; green pep
pers, 1S@23c lb; watermelons, 25@4Oc
each; summer squash, 5@1Oc each !;
egg plant, 10@15c each; sweet pota-
toes, 4@5c lb; picking cucumbers, 25c
100.
Poultry-Dressed chickens, young
chickens, 1sc Id; hens, 1Sc lb; old roos-
ters, 14@16c Id; spring ducks, 1Sc lb;
goslings, 1Sc ID; spring chickens, zoe
Id.
Dairy Products-Butter, best cream
cry, 30@35c lb; common creamery, 20
@25c lb; best country, zoe lb; COM
mon country, 12h@15c lb; imported
Swiss cheese, 4Oc lb; American Swiss
cheese, 25c Id; cream brick cheese,
1S@25c lb; New York cheese, zoe lb;
Wisconsin cheese, 15c ID.
Flour-Eastern fancy patents, $1.65
@1.75 sack; local patents, $1.3O sack;
standard, $1.2O sack; lowest, $1.1O SIX !;
Washington wheat, $4.3O@5.35 bbl;
buckwheat, 40@5Oc 10 lb sack.
Grain and Feed-Timothy, $4,000
cwt; alfalfa, $4,000 cwt; oats, $1.4O
cwt; grain hay, $4,000 cwt; bran, IS
@90ct cwt; bran and shorts, 95c@$1
cWt; shorts, $1.25 cwt; wheat, $1.40
cwt; chopped barley, $1.35@1.45 cwt;
oil meal, 21sc lb; seed oats, $3.50 cwt; !;
Seed-Red clover, SIT cwt; alsike
clover, SIG cwt; alfalfa, SIS cwt; tim
othy, Sc cwt; best redtop, s12 cwt;
Kentucky bluegrass, SIS cwt; orchard
grass. SIS cwt; bronze grass, 50 cwt;
rye, 1925 cwt.
City hay market-Loose timothy hay
$14 ton; oat hay, $13; wheat hay, $14.
Wholesale Produce Prices.
New potatoes, $1.2O cwt; peaches,
50@75c box; tomatoes, 40@50c box;
onions, $1.75 cwt; cabbage, 50 cwt; ap-
pies, 50@75c box; plums, 5O@60c per
crate; peppers, 60c box; pears, SIG
1.5O box; crabapples, 81 box; Rocky
Ford cantaioups, $I25@1.5O crate;
Concords, 3O@35c basket; Tokay, $3.50
crate; Muscats, 81 crate; Hubbard
squash, 81 dozen.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $40 ton; bran and shorts, 500
ton; oats, $1.35 cwt; wheat, $1.35 cwt; j;
chopped corn, $1.6O cwt; whole corn,
$3.50 cwt; timothy hay, SIT ton; al
falfa hay, s13.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits-Root vege.
tables, 75c cwt; potatoes, 75c cwt; ap-
pies, 50@60c boy; pears, 75c@s1 box;
onions, $1.25 cwt; cabbage, $1.25 cwt.
Poultry and Eggs-Chickens, roost.
ers, 13c lb; hens, 12@13c live wight;
young chickens, 1904 dozen; geese
and ducks, lie lb; eggs. $7@S case.
Live Stock-Steers. $2.50@3 cwt;
wethers, $3.50 cwt; hogs, $3.50 cwt;
veal, $5@7 cwt.
Hay-Timothy, SIG ton; alfalfa, $12
ton; oats, s1.10@1.20 cwt.
Creamery Products, +. O. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat, per
h.. 24hc.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Attendance at Worlds Fair.

st. Louis.-The following statement
of the attendance at the worlds fair
was given out Sunday:
Monday, October 10, 1858; Tues
day, 1881; Wednesday, 165,977;
Thursday, 1926; Friday, 1896;
Saturday, 1o4,261; total, 939,774.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Mikado Thanks His Troops,

London-The correspondent of the
Times at Toxic says tho mikado has
warmly thanked the Manchurian army
for defeating the offensive movements
of the Russians and driving them back
after many days of severe fighting.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Northwestern Wheat.

Portland.-Export: Walla Walla
SIC; bluestem, 85c; valley, 85c. For
eastern markets: Walla Walla, 83c;
bluestem, SEC.
Tacoma, Wash.-Unchanged; blue
stem, SEC; club, SIC.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Diptheria at White Horse.

Thirty families at White Horse, B.
c., are afflicted with diptheria. Sew
.eral deaths are reported. There are
no doctors to administer to the needs
of the sick. The unaffected portion
of the population is quitting the town.
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CHANGES IN OCCUPATION.

Women Taking q More Prominent Part
In the World's Work.
In less than generation there have
Seen some phenomenal shifts and
changes In the activities Of this coun-
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Until Then

"Do you honestly believe. Jonesly.
that all men are born free and equal?'
II certainly do, and that it holds
GOOD until a man is married."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
SANG THE HOLY CITY.
PECULIAR INCIDENT IN LIFE OF
MRS. MAVERICK.

Stephen Adams. Composer Of the Song,
Is Her Brother-in-Law, Michael May
brick = Fortune In the Semi.Sacred
Song and Its History.
The Western news., 1904-10-19
Had Reason to Boass

Had Reason 20 BOa0E
She-Why do you boast that you
have been so successful In lover
He-Because I am still stngle.-PhA
adelphiA Telegraph.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
He Knew a Hen.

A boy who was permitted to write
an essay on hens produced the follow
ing Hens is curious animals, they
don't have nose nor ears, they swallow
their %victuals whole and chew it up
in their crops inside Of EN-. The out
sile Of hens is usually put into pillows
and feather busters. The inside Of a
hen is filed with marbles and SIGH.
A hen is very much smaller than a
good many other animals, but they
will dig more tomatoes than anything
that amt a hen. Hens is very use
full to lay eggs for plum buildings.
Hens have got wings and a fly
when you brighten them. | cut a
hens head of and it frightened her
to death.-Ex.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
A Wild Village.

The new division town Of Montello,
New, which succeeds Terrace as the
division point next west of Ogden on
the Central Pacific, is in an interest
ing state Of growth. There are now
about $50 or 300 inhabitants, all rail
road men, in the town, but no houses
Of any description. The population
sleeps in the sagebrush and eat in
boxcars, except half a dozen favored
inhabitants who have put up a couple
Of tents. The population by sex is
pos male and two females, as the
railroad men have not yet summoned
courage TO bring their families into
the tJwn. A railroad hotel and res.
taurant viii be opened next week
and three saloons will be the first
three structures put up in the new
town. There are ten large freight en-
gines on the tracks and a large
amount of material which will be
used in the construction of the shops.
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INVESTORS.

3 claims in the Lone Mountain Dis.
trict, with ledge on every claim from
] to 10 feet in width, assays as high
as 800 90, So, 600. 90.
5 claims in Lone Mt. Dist, adjoin-
ing the General Thomas mine, show
ing fine values and good ledgea. AS
say from $45. 90 TO $500. Price,
easy terms, $40, 900. 90.
claims in Lone Mt. Dist, about
OF a mile from the Thomas ledge, 20
feet wide, assays as high as 487 ozs.
In silver, a fine proposition to float,
can be had on very easy terms, $l0,-
600. 90
Z claims near the pump station,
east of Tonopah, 3 II. ledge on sur
face, assays good in gold and silver.
49, 900. 90.
We have ore from each one Of
these claims in our office.
A group OF 6 claims about 2 and
miles from Tonopah west, good sur
face indications. The making of one
of the best mines in. the District.
These claims can be had for a song,
price 50, 500. 90.
A group OF II claims adjoining the
first above described claims, good
showings on them. A snap. 49,
900. 90.
Call and see us today, as these
properties are too good to miss. W.
can do business with you and give
you entire satisfaction.
Fraction Of a claim adjoining the
great Mizpah mine, 24l feet by 20
feet, The Mizpah vein cannot help
but pass through this fraction, This
is one of the very best pick ups in
the Tonopah Mining District. Can
be had very reasonable.
SCHELD g. CLAIR,
1913 Cutting Building, Tonopah, New.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14

L. S. Finnegan, townsite agent at
Golddeld. Write him for prices, y
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
TONOPAH BONANZA
GOOD ADVICE.
Buy "a Good Mining Stock, Buy
il Low.

II LOW
We quote the following from the
late Cecil Rhodes
II speak advisedly and say what
every man who has investigated
knows to be the truth, that less
money is lost proportionaley mining
and in investments in mining stocks
than in any other business or invest
ment on earth. A good mining stock
win pay the investor nor easily 20,
30, 40, 80 and 100 per cent annually
than muHicipal bonds, railroad bonds
and stock or government bonds a
possibly pay five per cent. Money
invested in good mining stocks is
safer than in a bank, than in mort
cages, railroad securities, municipal
or government bonds.
The security Of a good mining
stock is the raw material Of money
Itself; it is what we call in Africa the
stuff; it is the stuff at whose feet
governments, cities, banks, railroads,
mortgages, land corporations and all
forms of business kneel.
Il speak only of the gold and sill.
yer mines, from the metal of which
blooms and blossoms the everlasting
dollar; the crude metal in our gold
and silver mines is the first and best
security in all the world. This is
what makes banks and banking a
possibility, this is what gives legs to
a municipality, spine to a govern
ment, and creates the business of the
world into a living, breathing, active
creature of life.
buy a good mining stock, buy il
low; when it has doubled or quad.
rupled, sell il; buy another good
mining stock; pursue this policy, and
before you dream of 1t you will fine
that your dollars have increased tc
thousands, your thousands to mil
lions, and during all this time your
dividends have been 100 per cen
higher than they would have been il
any other investment you could have
made
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
LEGAL.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT
i COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA,
IN AND FOR NYE COUNTY.
In the matter OF the Estate
of
Robert N. Chrysler, Deceased
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been duly appointed and q~ualided by the
Third Judicial District Court OF the State OF
Nevada, in and for Nye County. as Administers
tor Of the estate of Robert NJ, Chrysler, late of
said county, deceased. All creditors having
claims against said estate are required TO file
the same, with proper vouchers attached, with
the Clerk Of the Court within forty days after
the first publication of this notice.
THOMAS TATE,
Administrators.
Date OF first publication April %, 1904. II
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
Cut-rate Artist.

Dir. d. T.. Bruton has been APP.
pointed county physician of Lander
county at a salary of $l5 a month.
This medico must be o cut.rate artist
and dear at any price.-Ex.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14

Sandy Mcdonald and John S. Stot-
Ter, formerly of Tonopah, have located
at S%earchlight, Lincoln county, and
are now engaged in the general
freighting business.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

COUNTY TREASURER OFFICE, NYE
COUNTY.
YOU ARR HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
/ your State and County Taxes, SECOND
INSTALLMENT, for the year 1903, are due and
payable.
II not paidb June 9Th, 1904, TEN PER CENT
and all costs will be added by law. Checks on
Bank OF Austin and Tonopah Banks will be &C.
cepted without discount, One per cent must be
added TO all other checks.
r. f. GILBERT,
Treasurer Nye County
Belmont, May ., 1904.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-05-14

Buy a lot in Goldfeld. Value in
ereasing rapidly.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-11-23

as many seconds. Just beyond the
center Of the fill was the passenger
tram which he had been gradually
overtaking, and it was stumbling still.
Three car lengths in its rear dis
placed rail broke the double line Of
shining steel, and hundred yards
nearer nagman was racing up the
grade, making frantic signals to the
onrushing mail.
What there was to be done was done
instantly and to little purpose. In the
turning of a leaf Harry had 1910 in
the reverse motion and had given her
the air. Then he realized that 1O10s
demon was once more In possession.
Something was wrong with the air
brake, and 1t failed to respond. With
quick yell of warning to his fireman
he gave the whistle signal which calls
for the application of the brake by the
train crew, and the result Of this was
immediate and logical. With the sud-
den checking of the train, brought
about when every mail clerk in the
five cars jumped for the cords Of the
automatic, the coupling between the
engine and the nearest car snapped
with a report like pistol shot. Then,
freed Of the train drag, the demoniac
! 1919 shot away joyously for the plunge
at the broken rail regardless alike Of
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"When she SmdSheS me, l'lt smash heT."
Lone Pine accommodation with the
$50, n Baldwin too light for the work,
and Of his own motion he went to the
superintendent, asked for 1910 and got
her. Thereupon the big flier seemed to
turn over new leaf. 1t was rs If she
had felt the degradation Of the freight
pulling and had revenged herself ac-
cordingly. That was what Harry said
when the men joked him and asked
him If he had ordered his coffin, laugh
ing as he laughed at everything. But
Amos Gilman shook his head and
prophesied.
"You wait" he said. "She's layin'
off to fool round till you amt watch
in her. Then she'll up an do you."
Whereat Harry laughed again and
swung up to the cab to move the big
engine slowly across the fitting turn
table.
"When she smashes me, I'll smash
her." he said. leaning from the high
cab window when you hear she's
killed me you needn't get out the wreck
train. There won't be enough Of her
left to make scrap out Of"
"Begorry, thin, I'm bettin' tin spot
We don't" retorted Carnahan, who was
just getting out after the scalping cpl.
sode. "Whin she gets good an ready
she'll make taty hash Nv ye an nivyer
turn wan hair"
we'll see about that" laughed Har-
ry, and in the fullness of time they
did see.
Notwithstanding the prophecies Of
evil 1t seemed for time us If 1019's
demon had been safely exercised, and
when Harry had paced the big tlier on
the accommodation for month or
more without mishap Of any kind the
powers began to talk of putting her
on the mail run for which she had been
purchased. AS to this Harry had moth
ing to say, rs n matter of course, but
when 1t leaked out that 1O10's engineer
was likely to be transferred with his
engine to the run with the fast mail
he took occasion to call upon old man
Bence In the lattcr's private office.
Just minute when you get time,
Mr.. Hardy" he said, and when the SUI
perintendcnt wheeled around in his
pivot chair: Its talked around among
the boys that Pm going to get chance
to pull the mail. If it's so don't want
it."
Now, Mr.. Benson Hardy was true
toro of the Spanish fighting breed in
the sense that be had his particular red
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l9Sss13
; THE WRECK
!, OF the 1919
BY FRANCIS LyNDE
Copyright, 1903, by Francis Lynde
A.A.A.A.a..Aa.A..A.A..A.A
NHEY began calling her an I'M
lucky engine before the facto-
ry shine was Off her tagging,

and Superintendent Benson
Hardy - "old man Bence." the men
called lin when they felt good hui
mored-was wrathful a-plcnty. He had
railroaded too many years not TO know
that an engines reputation is as much
matter of good report us a woman's,
and that it is good bit easier TO set
accusing tongues uwag about either
than to stop them. None the less, 1t
was true that engine 1919 began TO
make n record for deviltry as soon as
she was out of the setting up shop.
Though she was Il passenger ma
chine, built to pull the fast mail on
mile minute spurts, they put her on
n freight run TO break her in, and Lar
ry Canadian had her. On her first trip
she foamcd like IL soda fountain, kept
Larry running Il foot race between the
two injectors to keep water in her and
came in covered with alkali and igno-
miny. On the second trip she went in
to the ditch, and Larry was brought
back In the caboose with broken arm,
an eye gouged out and good third of
his scalp gone.
They picked her up with the derrick
car, rebuilt the side she had torn off
in the plunge down the embankment
and sent her out again, this time with
Amos Gilman at the throttle. Amos
was New Hampshire man of the cool
blooded variety and born man ham
| dler of machinery. For time 1913
flirted with him coyly, dropped n link
block nut on one trip, slipped an &C.
centric on the next and broke spring
hanger on the third. Then, after few
days of good behavior to lure him on,
she smashed his record In rear end
| collision. Amos was man of few
words and he took his medicine, thirty
days vacation without pay. with true
New England stoicism. But to us in
the roundhouse he contided the facts
| in the case, facts which he had not
thought 1t worth while to mention in
the carpet session with old man Bence.
| "See 'em, in broad daylight, with
nothin' in the way? OF course saw
'em. But couldn't choke that big
mule off no more'n cd fly. Throttle
was jammed tighter N the bark to n
tree, and when l hossed her over She
jes' growled back at me an slid into
'em us If the track d been creased
a-purpose."
Gilman's lay off and 1019's second
rebuilding were accomplished in the
same thirty days, but when the I'M
lucky engine was ready to go out the
men were shy. No good man cared to
risk his record ON her, and tramp engi-
neers, with everything to gain and
nothing to lose. were not plentiful on
the G. and G. r. In old man Bence's
time. The superintendent made his
fight against superstition, like the stub
born old industry colonel that he was,
but he was fairly beaten. Given a
chance to redeem himself and 1919 at
one and the same time. Amos Gilman
promptly asked for his time check. and
when three other good men chose like
hard alternative 1919 was run in on
the dead pit, and her fire was banked.
1t was at this stage of the battle that
Harry Spencer came to old man
Bences rescue. Harry was pulling the
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reversed steam and Harry's frenzied
efforts to make the driver brakes take
hold. He desisted when he saw it was
no use and looked up into Priscilla's
face with smile that for all her icy
terror she saw and remembered.
shes going to kill u.s." he said cool
ly. but If you love me us much as
do you well fool her and go together"
She was too terrified to speak, but
her answer was In her eyes and in
quick outreaching of her arms to him.
He saw and understood, and at the
catching of II breath snatched her from
the box. backed out of the cramped
cab to the running board and leaped
with her out into space what time the
car length away.
1t was the rear brakeman of No. 2
who witnessed the subsequent events.
Say. 1t looked to me like she was
hittin' 1t mile Il minute when she
struck the break. but l guess was
some ratified. She histed up on one
side when she found the rail gone, give
an Ntut uoMh luSu
there thousand feet o. dump with her
drivers n-spinnn' in the back gear like
Fourth o. July fireworks.
NO: there wasn't much left o. her
worth pickin' up when she landed
'mong the rocks Mt the bottom o. that
gulch. you bet, an when we'd all swal-
Tered once r twice we looked to see
what had come O. Harry an his girl.
Say, they wasn't hurt no moren was,
ner half so bad scairt. The dirt train d
been workin' on their side O. the dump,
an it was all soft an slidey-like where
they hit it.
Harry helped the schoolma'am up,
| an they stood an looked down at what
was left o 10. The girl sort O. shiv-
cred, but Harry jest laughed an said,
4 told 'em I'd smash her If she ever
tried to kill me. an guess I've done it
right. An she didn't get the mail, ner
she didn't get us. Old man Bence III
give me thirty days for it, on gen'ral
principles, s'pose but don't care,
Prissie, If you don't. I'll put in the
time goin' back home with you an get
tin acquainted with your folks.'"
And that is precisely what he did.
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The. Romance Taken Out of 1t.
"iou don't mean to tell me you res
cued young lady from drowning and
didn't even stop to learn her name"
That's what | did. My wife was
there when got the girl ashore."-Chi-
cago Record Herald
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-11-23

81 was troubled with constipation
and stomach troubles, lost flesh, my
complexion was ruined; HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea brought back
my health and complexion. Mary
Allen, st. Louis. IS cents.-Denton
& Ward.
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