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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19

cline was not very apparent as yet), but also by Copenhagen. Brussels. The Hague. Lisbon, Bucharest, and even Athens. In fact. Washington was not even second-rate diplomatic post in the early nineties; it was distinctly of the third grade, and without much ap- parent probability of ever rising to better one
 This was so well recognized that mo- body, least of all no welr informed American. was surprised when reluc- tance was shown to accept appoint ment in Washington by any European diplomat of standing.
 It is only fair to say that one of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19

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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14
A GREWSoME N

The body of Charles Webb, who dig
appeared from Searchlight, Lincoln
county, May lib, was found on tho
LIST, inst. about forty miles from that
town. The finding of the body was a
rather sensational affair. Charles Lund
and partner left Searchlight for Good
springs. Near the old pass they lost
their burros and it was while searching
for them that they came across thu
body. At this time they had been
without water for some hours, and tho
grewsome sight unnerved them, for
they saw in it their own finish unless
they speedily reached a water hole.
Without stopping to investigate they
started for Cow Wells, but on the wa
became separated. Lund finally reach
cd the well, and then started fus
Searchlight after assistance. He ar
rived there carrying his shirt in his
hand, his tongue hanging out, and in
q demented condition. After resting
Lund returned with a party to the
well and found his partner all right
Appeal.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14

cost of over half a million dollars
1t was called Stewart's castle, and
was Occupied by Mr.. Blaine when he
was secretary of state, and afterwards
by the Chinese legation. The senator
is still hale and hearty and quite en-
thusiastic over the milling camps of
the south, and says Nevada is on the
eve of a tremendous boom.
Mr.. Casper says he found many
Salt Lakers in the camps mentioned,
many of whom have made comfortable
fortunes, and yet or his return here he
finds a lukewarmness toward those
districts. Salt Lake is ali the talk
over there and if the business men here
would get n "move on' they might
secure much of the business done here.
And so with the mining interests as
we'll. There is an abundance of CAPT.
tai here seeking profitable investment
and there certainly is no more promis-
ing field than southern Nevada in
which to take a "fiyer." 1t is true
there has been a good deal of "wild-
catting' done, but that is the case
everywhere and some of tho worst wild
cats in Cripple Creek developed into
paying mines.
There has been a good deal of sense
less boosting done, too, and by indi-
viduals who have never visited any of
the districts named. Articles have ap-
peared in the newspapers which were
the laughing stock of everybody. The
plain truth is plenty good enough and
exaggerated visionary fairy tales do
more harm than good.
Mr.. Casper says that just at pres
ent the heat down in the desert is in
tense and that many people can not
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14
ROBERT RoMER WE'LL PLEASED.

Robert Romer left the first offthe
We elk for his home in San Francisco.
Despite the fact that his firm suffered
serious loss during the FIRE, he is i'm
mensely pleased with his visit to Gold
field, the future of which he now sees
is wen brighter than he imagined.g
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14

stand it. He predicts lively times
there about September when the wea-
Their gets cooler, at which time he in
tends to join the procession again.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14

A large consignment of high-grade pianos
: just received. For sale or rens, at E. MarkssA.
CO.'S. fio-tf
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14
OTHER

Following these discoveries came the
National Bank, tho Laid & Benson, the
Denver, the Polaris, the Gold Bar, and
a number of others, all of which have
large bodies of ore which will run from
$50 to 5000 and more per ton, but
which with the present lack Of facili-
ties for transportation it would be fol
~ to ship. Furthermore, there is no
necessity for it. The Amargosa river,
situated at Beatty, is practically an
underground lake, and can supply wa
ter in inexhaustihle quantities for all
purposes. In the town of Beatty alone
there are not less than twenty wells,
zone of which are more than IS feet
md it is quite impossible to pump
them dry. The town of Beatty is
growing slowly and has a population
of 200 or 300.
MINES ABOUT RHYOLITE.
Rhyolite, 4 miles away, is situated
right in the heart of the mines, and is
a lively, up-to-date town. About six
weeks ago the real estate boom was at
it's height, and lots which could have
been bought three months ago for
from 800 to $500, sold for $4,000.
There has been a reaction from those
figures for the present year. Water is
brought from Beatty and is sold for So
a barrel. At one time there were 1000
or 5000 people in Rhyolite.
Bullfrog, it's neighbor, is only half a
mile away and there is much rivalry
between the two towns.
Bullfrog's pipe line was to be in
on the Fourth of July. Bullfrog
has q good hotel, a newspaper and a
bank, while Rhyolite already boasts
of a newspaper and three banks. A
strange sight in Builfrog is the venera
bIe figure of ex-U. 8. Senator VIM. M.
Stewart, who at rs years of age is con-
strueting a residence and office build
ing of adobe and intends to make it
his home. More than thirty years ago
he built the handsomest residence in
the city of Washington, ID. c., at a
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-14
SALT LAKERS IN 1T.

The famous Sandstone in which
Judge w. A. Sherman and Capt. A. H.
Mayne of Salt Lake are interested, a
few days ago struck another rich
streak of ore in running a crosscut
from their lower workings. Right in
this vicinity and between the Sand.
storm and Adams ON the south a new
find has just been made and several
feet of ore that viii pay to ship from
the surface have been uncovered. The
area of mineral bearing territory
around Goldfeld is broadening out as
was proven in the ease of the Gold Bar,
which is situated over two miles in q
direct line east of town.
Particulars of the strike could not
be ascertained, but the consensus of
opinion of conservative mining men
was, that it was a big thing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
Rockefeller Aid for COLLEGES.

President Harper of the University
of Chicago is trustee of the board
that will disburse the Rockefeller gift
to colleges, and he recently discussed
the subject in the course of an inter-
view published in the Chicago Tribune.
He intimates that comparatively few
colleges will become beneficiaries of
the fund. He says there are thirty
or forty" colleges in Illinois and Iowa
that do not deserve assistance from
the fund. 1.-THE number which will re-
ceive help" he adds, will probably be
SMALL"
He goes on to name the Rockefeller
qualifications, as follows: Colleges that
maintain high ideals, that have good
locations, and definite mission. Out
of-date colleges, and colleges unfor
tunately situated will got no Rookie
Teller money. III college," says Dr.
Harper, cannot turn out well-trained
men it doesn't deserve to benefit BY
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
SENATOR MiTcHELL'S CASE.

From the Dallas Morning News
While the conviction of Senator Mitchell
of Oregon and convictions of bosses and
boodlers in states and municipal offices
over the country disclose some shocking
practices and conditions in the public
service the results are not wholly dis
couraging. Some of the results are just
the reverse, because they tend to prove
that public opinion is growing better and
more exacting rather than weaker and
worse.
1t is said that the conviction of Sena-
tor Mitchell marks the climax of the
many cases which have come to light re-
Gently of moral turpitude on the part of
public officials, national, state and NUM-
cipal 1.-The shock to public confidence is
greater in Mitchells case than in the
others from the fact that it was a
cold-blooded conspiracy, covering long
period of time. to defraud the government
of millions of acres of land, by the gov
ernment's own trusted officials, headed by
a United States senator" This is all
quite true, and yet the very fact that
an offender whose crimes have covered
"long period of time" whim the prose-
cutors and courts have spared for these
long years, now finds himself, even in his
old age, confronted by the penalty of
his wrongdoing, is highly encouraging IL
we had not improved some in our exac-
lions of our masters and favorites in poll
tics Senator Mitchell would still be free,
and blindly worshiped by the voters OF
his party.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
Mavor Wards Sanitary Campaign.

The Gadsden Evening Journal says
Mayor Ward has succeeded in getting
Birmingham pretty well cleaned in a
physical sense, and he is now after
the dirty officials" Whatever he may
be doing in the latter respect, he has
certainly brought forth from dirty
streets, alleys and backyards clean
city.
Nor is this all, for he is maintaining
steadily and evenly the cleanliness he
at first secured, and the chances are
that he will hold his own in point Of
sanitation to the end of the hot season
at any rate. rhe typhoid cases that
appear here and there cannot be
surface, and the breeding places
o. the typhoid germs must be
looked for in the milk supply, the ice
supply, the well water supply-with
a chance that the open we'll and the
casual spring will have to bear the
brunt of the blame.
Mayor Ward is winning much praise
for his work in causing all to clean up
foul backwards, and in carting from
street and alley all filth. The receipt
acles for waste paper and other trifles
are adding not little to the tidyness
of the streets. Altogether our new
Mayor is keeping all promises, and
even going beyond them. II he keeps
on as he has begun he will go out OF
ONCE with the best wishes of the en-
tire city, and peoples good will and
wishes are better than laurel or other
official honors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
immigration Work.

]. M. Thornton of Talladega, field rep
resentative of the Immigration and Indus
trial association of Alabama, Is in the
city in conference with Frank v. Evans,
who Is in charge of headquarters in the
First National Bank building.
Asked as to the progress of the work.
Mr.. Thornton last night saidI
"a tour of four weeks through different
parts of the state and interviews with
many men who are interested in the
development of Alabama, convinces me
that there is room in this state today for
80. 900 working people. The work upon
which we have entered is not so much a
work for the future as 1t is work for
today, and yet the future Will win greatest
reward for our efforts.
"Only about four-tenths of the tilable
lands of Alabama are under cultivation.
We are rich in natural resources. We
want developments, and I am sure the
people are awakened on this subject. No
where have / met with strenuous oppo-
sition. Occasionally l find a man who is
opposed to the immigration idea, and
answer the objection with the suggestion
tnat We are all immigrants anu That 'he
best blood of the south springs from Eu-
| rope.
This new work." continued Mr.. Thorn
! ton, lis being done at the expense of the
great railroad systems entering Alabama
| They want developments and they mean
development. They want the waste places
built up. OF course these railroads have
an ultimate object in view. Population and
development of resources mean Tonnage
and passengers.
There is a great scarcity of labor witt
the manufacturing and agricultural insti-
buttons Of the state. The manufacturers
have drained the farms to an alarming
extent, and are now draining from each
other. Our purpose is to supply ALL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13

this bequest. If a college has been
unsuccessful, either in administration
or instruction, and lacks the proper
ideals, 1t cannot be considered as a
candidate for aid"
On the other hand, the universities
are to get none of the money, and the
colleges, loaded up of course with
ideals, will get all of it. The money
is. in short, to go to the colleges or
the better kind Whether DIR. Harper
will find any of that sort in the south
cannot be foreseen. He may look with
a favorable eye on those that feed MS
university, but then again he may
handle the fund with justice and I'M
partially. It is plain, however, that
the young college struggling to get on
It's feet will get none of it. Colleges
of the Vanderbilt OF Sewanee or Tus-
caloosa or Auburn class may get their
fingers In the pie, while Owenton and
Howard will be left to struggle on as
before. And yet Owenton and Howard
have as high ideals as any college pos
sesses. and they are turning out young
men well fitted for the battle Of life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
Should Build a New Capitol.

From the Huntsville Tribune.
The stale of Alabama it seems has got
ten into wrangle over the Improvement
of the state capitol About the plain fact
is, that no architectural design can be
constructed in conformity with senti-
ment. There is no artist living who can
add new and graceful wings to super
anuated bird, which has served its use
fulness and belongs to the things OF the
dead past. Things better forgotten by sue
ceeding generations than handed down by
Wondering objects. Alabama should be-
come practical should have new. up-to-
date capitol The state demands an up
to-date capitol While this sentimental
age may cling to the old, the succeeding
age of progress will lay aside things
which are old and reach out for things
which are new. When this time arrives
we will have a capitol building to either
| tear down or improve, which will be so
much patch work that 1t will resemble
in makeup an I'D negro's breeches, the
original identity being lost sight of in
the many patches. The original must
crumble like present sentiment 1t will
pass away. The next legislature should
settle the controversy by repeating what
has been done, and appropriating not less
than half a million dollars to remove and
build a new capitol for the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
IN HOTEL IoBBIES
Cotton Receipts Are Heavy.


Since prices have reached the loc MAJ n
cotton has been coming on the local maj
ket at the rate of nearly hundred paies
ner dav.,, said Walter E. Gardner oil
Knight. Yancey & Co. yesterday
conditions this year are unprecedented
in the history of the cotton market he
eeipts in midsummer have never attained
the record of this july On nearly every
mast occasion the profits accrning rom
cotton held over were garnered pS '"s
sneculator. This year the conditions are
reversed. the producer is enjoying the en-
banced values. Nearly all of the cotton
cold here now is bought from the man
who raised it. The selling has been gen
eraI,over the cotton belt. From the caro-
lnas to Texas the farmers seem to nave
agreed upon 10 cents as an equitable price,
and sold without question when this price
was reached.
81 think the present market will be
maintained without much trouble. the
mills are buying brislkly and the demand
is quite strong for cotton goods. weather
conditions. too. the real arbiter of cotton
production, are not promising. the con-
sumption of the staple is increasing rap
idly. and prospects for the cessation OF
hostilities in the orient is suspicious for
the cotton market All conditions consid-
cred, the prospect for the cotton farmer
is brighter than in many months
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
In FLORIDA.

From the Florida Times Union.
The fact has often been pointed out
that a large number of people, whose
impressions of Florida are thoroughly
superficial, have somehow derived the
idea that our winter travel is by far the
most important item in the resources of
the state, and that the summer season
here is one of stagnation and financial
paralysis.
As matter of fact, nothing could be
farther from the truth, and to say this
is by no means to say that the tide of
tourist travel that every winter sweeps
over Florida has not a great and grow
ing value.
1t is simply to say that the resources
of the state are much more varied and
valuable than many careless observers
suppose, and the greater proportion of
those resources have no connection what
ever with either the winter attractions or
the winter travel of the state.
That this is fact is indicated by the
constant and unbroken growth of such
cities as Tampa and Jacksonville. and
we take it to be self-evident that moth
ing sho..sd be left undone that can by
any possibility promote the varied inter-
ests we have in mind.
Among those agencies may be numbered
the popular summer excursions which
in some of the adjoining states are SO
highly valued by the business men of
the principal cities. Such hustling towns
as Birmingham, for instance. set great
store by these excursions and we believe
it would be well for Jacksonville to adopt
the same means of bringing city and
country together, upon a more extensive
| scale than ever before
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
Mavor DUNES Plan,

After sitting on the subject over
three months, Mayor Dunno has
reached the conclusion that the inter-
yention of short-term corporation Is
all the municipalization of public utili.
ties he can at present afford. The
plan he has brought forth is, as fol-
lows:
l. That 20-year franchise be grant.
ed to private corporation.
2. That the dividends be limited to
6 per cent on the stock.
8. That If the stock be not taken by
popular subscription the directors OF
the corporation be authorized to
spend 21s per cent of the stock in
underwriting its sale.
4. No bonds. The stock to be placed
in the possession of trustee-not left
in the hands of it's owners. No water.
Stock to meet actual construction cost
only.
S. That the fare should cents until
6 per cent be paid on the stock. All
earnings above per cent to go to the
city.
All this is very WELL except that it
is far cry from immediate ownership
and operation of traction lines. 1t is
a postponement of the ideal of the
campaign twenty years, but Mayor
Dunno has concluded that the plan
proposed is the best the city of Chi
cago is capable of in its present con-
dition. He distrusts, it is plain, its
politicians and its political tendencies,
and he intends to erect wall of cor
porate ownership against its Hinky
Drinks. This will discourage all other
cities that are dreaming of municipal
ownership, for if Chicago after a cam
paign distinctly fought out on that is
sue, cannot secure it, what city, pray,
can?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
Don Cossacks are Not Fiuhters.

The regiments of Cossaeks that were
sent to the Far East have proven to
be despicable warriors AS mounted
soldiers they have accomplished moth
ing and when they are fought dis
mounted they are Enthusiastically. AS
scouts for the securing of information
they have been proven inefficient and
practically worthless.
The Cossack is fighter only when
he can assail a crowd with little or
no chance of being assailed in return.
His speciality in Russia has always
been the charging upon unarmed
masses upon whom he could use sword
or loaded whip, knowing that retalia-
ton was practically impossible.
When the autocracy goes down the
worthless and cruel Cossack will go
also AS a soldier he stands proven
failure in the far east The japanese
are not good cavalrymen, but they are
good enough horsemen to drive the
Cossacks pell-mell before them. No
Dossack regiment has been known to
sand before the charge of Japanese
cavalry, and the Japanese admit that
their men are not accustomed to the
use of horses. The Cossack will be
dismissed with the despotism that dis
covered him, and has ever since util-
lied him in suppressing the Russian
people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-13
THE VULGAR TALK ABOUT
MONEY AND HIGH OFFICE

in its pursuit but relatively to the stand
ard of expenditure it was as much If any
one of the secretaries of state we have
named had set himself to the task of mon
ey-malxing he could have got an income
greater than the salary Of his office. Why,
then, do we not hear Of the sacrifice
made by them in taking that distinguished
office?
Mr. Root is a lawyer or consummate
ability, and as such this professional in
come Is large-how much is nobody's bust
ness except his own. 1t is private mat
ter purely; a matter of no great impor-
lance except to himself. Nor does the
magnitude of his income constitute
measure of his legal abilities, and he
would feel insulted if there was such an
assumption. In New York there are law
yers whose learning in the raw is slight
as compared with his, who are not COM
parable with him in strictly intellectual
superiority. yet who make as much money
as he and even more. He cannot enjoy be-
ing classed with the mere money-making.
commercial lawyers. of whom there are
so many in New York.
ambitions is to insult him. OF course. he
has them. He belongs to the class of really
great lawyers. who give dignity to their
profession and who have rendered illus
trious services to- their country since the
foundation of this republic. since the days
of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Ham,
ilton.
1t is said that the expenses of the Sec
rotary of State at Washington far ex-
coed the amount of the salary paid him.
Very likely. but not necessarily. II he
| is a man who thinks the dignity CT his
office requires him to keep up a great
state his pay by the people will -rdly
| be enough for his house rent; but even
| if it was doubled it would be small as
| compared with the expenditures of hum
dreds of rich men in Washington. But
| does he need to keep any such state?
/, Is it not optional with him? Speaker
| Reed lived on his official salary, and
| his dignity did not suffer. Very few OF
| the senators and representatives in Con-
gress have any, or any considerable, pri-
vate incomes in addition to their official
salaries.
| Undoubtedly the bill increasing official
! salaries within moderation ought to be
passed. but not to enable servants of the
people in high places to compete in lux
kury with the very rich men of this Pc
Rod Modesty and simplicity Of living
comport with the theory of this demo-
cratic republic. AS it is. there is toe
much profuseness in Washington. Pri-
| vate luxury encourages public proc gal
| ity If there is any place where the
| simple life" ought to be illustrated
practically, it is at the seat of the fed
/ eral government.
| This talk about money as If 1t consti-
! tuted the only great prize of life is vul-
| gar and sl.obbish. If anybody feels that
| way in this republic, let him follow his
! impulse and go ahead in his mone-- maxi
| ing. He does not belong in public Office,
! and the people do not want him there.