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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
PAST WEEK OF THE WAR.
Another Death Struggle Most Likely
In Manchuria.


After a period of inactivity since
the battle of Mukden, the belligerents
in Manchuria are about to enter an
other struggle. The Japanese sue
cess at the last great engagement was
not followed up by the expected pur-
suit of retreating Russians and the
capture of Hardin. Instead, both ar
mics went into strong positions north
of Tie pass and have been recouping
and recognizing for another trial at
arms.
The Japanese are reported to have
taken the aggressive, their principal
activity being against the Russian left,
but Oyama himself is with the wing
that faces the Russian right, and it Is
believed that the main attack will be
made here Troops have also come in
collision at the center, so it is almost
impossible to determine the Japanese
plan of campaign or to predict the
point at which the stoutest attempt
will be made to pierce the Russian
line.
Both armies have recovered from
den fight, and the contest will no
doubt be sharp and severe. Each of
the great battles of the war has been
more sanguinary than its predecessor,
and there is every reason to believe
that the approaching conflict will out
rank the others in magnitude.
1t is believed that the Japanese are
better prepared than the Russians for
another struggle, for they have ex-
perienced less difficulty in filling up
depleted ranks and repairing the dam
age sustained in the last engagement.
Many soldiers have been sent to Cen
eral Linevitch and he is said to have
corrected many errors and abuses of
the past, but it has been more diff
cult for him than for Oyama to per-
feet his military organization. and in
both men and equipment the Japan
csc probably enjoy the advantage.
Little of note has occurred on sea,
and no one is prepared to say wheth-
err the meeting of Rojestvensky and
Togo is matter of hours, of days, or
of weeks.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
THEFT OF 100000 JEWELS.
Three Diamonds Stolen From a New
York Shop.

York Shop.
The New York World says: Three
diamonds, cut from the world famous
Excelsior stone and valued in the ag-
gregate at 100000. have disappeared
from the shop of Tiffany & Co, in this
city. The company believe that they
were stolen by somebody in their en-
ploy.
In all 10 diamonds were cut from
the Excelsior last fall, shortly after
its purchase by Tiffany from an Eng
fish syndicate.
The stone was found at Jaegersfon-
tein, South Africa, in 1898, and in the
rough weighed 974 carats. 1t was the
largest diamond that has ever been
cut up, and the total value of the 10
stones taken from it was 100000.
Five of the diamonds were sold to
New York customers last Christmas.
OF the remaining five the company
now has only two.
The robbery was committed in the
workshop on the fifth floor of the Tiff
fanny building in Union square on the
afternoon of May A.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Wealthy kentuckian Killed.

Glasgow, Ky.-News has just reach
ed here of the murder and robbery
near Burkesville, of James Skinner,
one OF the most prominent men in
cumberland county. His body was
round in lane. There was bullet
mole IN his temple and three in his
breast. His watch, a billcase contain
ing $4,000 in currency. and a small
sack OF silver he had with him when
ne lert town, and bundle of legal
papers, are gone.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Wireless Stations on Coast.

1t is proposed by the navy depart
ment to establish wireless telegraphy
stations at Point Iona, Cape Blan-
co, Cape Flattery, North Head, Point
Wilson and Bremerton. The estab-
lishment of these new stations will
practically cover the Pacific coast, and
they will be especially valuable to
warships carrying wireless instru-
ments. The weather bureau has Of
fered to turn over to the navy de-
partment some materials and instru-
ments.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
AROUND The WORLD
TELEGRAPH SHORT NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

M. Bompard, the French ambassa-
dor to Russia, has left st. Petersburg
for Paris.
An encounter between Greek and
Macedonian bands with a strong Turk
ish detachment is reported to have
occurred in the district of Langadina,
in Macedonia.
Judge Albion Vinegar Tourgee,
aged 67 years, of Mayville, N. Y,
American consul at Bordeaux, died
recently. He was born at Williams
field, Ohio.
The American Federation of Must
clans has voted to hold next years
convention at Boston.
1t has been officially announced that
the visit of the French fleet to Spit
head will take place during the first
week in August. According to pres
ent arrangement the Channel fleet
will meet the French ships in Middle
channel and escort them to the an
chorage where the Atlantic fleet will
be waiting to welcome them.
Sacramento.-Chr Christensen, a
few days ago released on parole from
an insane asylum, murdered his aged
mother by cutting her throat. Later
Christensen shot himself and cut his
own throat. His dead body was found
in his barricaded home.
Madrid.-Dispatches from Puerto de
Santa Maria. on the bay of Cadiz, an
nounce that experiments made there
with an invention of Senior Balsorak,
an employee of the telegraph depart
ment for directing torpedoes at sea,
by means of Hertzian waves, have
proved highly successful.
j. G. Eden. assistant traffic mana
ger of the Great Northern, has resign
ed Harry b. Adams of Portland sue
ceeds him.
With three heavy columns of Jap
anese advancing on the legions of
Russia under General Linevitch,
stupendous conflict is again seemingly
inevitable in Manchuria.
William ]. Bryan announces that he
will make a tour of the world for the
study of municipal ownership and rail-
way problems.
Advices from Hardin report a carni-
val of drunkenness and dissipation
among the hangers on of the rear ar
my. Champagne at $40 a bottle is
said to be flowing like rivers, dives
are abundant and multitudes of sharp
ers and gamblers are reaping a rich
harvest.
Johann Hoch has collapsed. The
convicted Chicago wife poisoner, who
all through his trial seemed to re-
gard the charge against him as joke,
has protested against conviction in
less than 80 minutes.
After an agitation lasting for sew
eral years the general synod of the
Reformed Presbyterian church decid-
ed that instrumental music might be
used in the services of churches of the
denomination. Each church is to set
tie the matter with its own people.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Dismissal for Reform Views.

st. Petersburg.-It is now under
stood that Captain Clado, who was Ad-
miral Rojestvensky's chief tactician
and who testified before the North
sea commission at Paris. has been
dismissed from the navy by imperial
order, for repeated and persistent dis
from the publication of his views on
naval reform.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
WIND STORM IN TEXAS.
Struck Fort Worth-Train Dispatcher
Young Killed.

IOuu9 NillCos
Fort Worth, Tex, May pa heavy
windstorm blowing at the rate of 70
miles an hour struck this city from
the southwest at $50 tonight. Part of
the west wall of the Texas & Pacific
passenger station was blown in and
John Young, a train dispatcher, killed.
The storm was most severe west of
the city and all telegraph and tele-
phone wires in all directions were
down. A passenger on a Texas & Pa
cifc train from the west reports that
the town of Mineral Wells was partly
blown away. One church building, be-
longing to the African M. E. congre-
cation, was demolished Many bust
ness buildings lost their roofs, includ-
ing the First National bank building,
seven story structure.
The Baptist and Episcopal churches
in North Fort Worth were badly
wrecked, while the roofs of the
Grand hotel and the johnson house
were torn away. Fifty dwellings in
various parts of the city were dam
aged. The Second ward school build
ing was partially wrecked.
Handley. seven miles east of here,
suffered much property damage. 1t is
not learned at this time if anyone was
killed outside of Fort Worth.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
SPOKAN E.
Wholesale Produce Prices.

Potatoes, $1.10 cwt; onions, Aus
tralian, 1925 cwt; cabbage, $3.50 cwt;
asparagus, 6@7c Id; rhubarb, 21s@3c
lb; oranges, $3@3.50 case; California
strawberries, $1.75 crate; local straw
berries, $3.50 crate; California cher
ries. 81 box; Snake river cherries,
$1.5O box; Newton Pippins, $1.50@
2.25 box; best apples, 1925 box; Ben
Davis, 50@7oc box; navel oranges,
$3.25@9.50 box; radishes, 25c dozen
lunches; peas. 10c lb.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
100000 Acres

The great and fertile Flathead Reservation
in Montana, to be thrown open to settlement
Choice agricultural and fruit lands. It,
Send SI.oo for the beautiful illustrated ,,oI.
ume Land of the Flatheads," by Major W II
Smead, for nearly seven years United States
Indian Agent in charge: Large maps of Mon
tana and the reservation. Full informat;on
relative to opening, land laws. etc a hand
book of useful information to homeseeker and
investor. All about Western Montana. anu
w. II. SMEAD co.
Cine, $4,000 CapitaD, Missouia, Montana.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03

How many fine thoughts
lie along that word of three
letters teal

Baroness Burdett Coutts, the
worlds greatest woman philanthropy
list, who has given away nearly $685.
100000, nearly all her possessions,
will on April 81 celebrate her 92d
birthday.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Asphalt Trust Made Loser.

Caracas.-The president Of the fed
eral court of cessation, sitting as a
tribunal of first instance, in the case
of the government of Venezuela
against the New York & Bermudez
Asphalt company on the Hamilton con-
tract, dissolved the contract and order
ed the company to pay damages.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Jap Laborers Are on Strike.

Honolulu.-Over 100 Japanese labor
ers on the Pioneer plantation, on the
island of Maui, have gone on strike
for increased wages. There are indi-
cations that the strike will spread. The
Maui militia, consisting of one COM
pany, has been called out.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03

Professor Stadelman, principal ply
stefan OF a great hospital in Berlin.
estimates that between one-quarter
and one-third of the diseases affecting
workingmen in the great and crowded
districts in the Prussian capital are
caused by the improper use of alco-
hol.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Wholesale Feed Prices.

Bran. $19 ton; bran and shorts, $40;
straight shorts, $40; white shorts,
$21; corn, $1.35@1.4O cwt; whole corn
S1.90 cwt; timothy hay, $14 ton; al
falfa hay $11 ton; oil meal, So cwt;
grain hay, $12@1S ton; rolled barley,
$125@1.3O cwt.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Prices Paid to Producers.

Vegetables and Fruits-Potatoes
S5c cwt; apples, 75c@$1.5O box; sec
ond grade, 75c@$1 box; Ben Davis
apples, 40c box. 4.
Live Stock-Steers, $3.S5@4 cwt;
sheep, $3@35O cwt; hogs, $3.50 cwt;
veal, 81 cwt.
Poultry and Eggs-Chickens, hens,
13c lb live weight; roosters, SC lb live
weight; geese, lie lb live weight; tur-
keys, 1Sc lb live weight; ducks, 12c
lb live weight; eggs, $5.75@6 case.
Creamery Products, f. o. b. Spokane
First firade creamery butter fat,
20 re lb.
Hay and Grain-Timothy $11@12
ton; alfalfa, $3.50 ton; oats, $1,000
1.35 cwt.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Howard E. Burton.
Asssyor and

silver, Zoe; Gold, SOC: Zinz or Copper. ii: OysY
test. Mailing envelopes and full price list sen
on application. Control and Umpire work .,
ucted; Leadyille, Colo. Reference Oarb
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03
Hunger Riot in Spanish Tour

49, 'ot Ut spanish Town.
maurlu.-A hunger riot broke out
at Cazarde Case de San Juan Sunday,
"orkmen attacking several -four mills.
Al this time a foreigner can not
ouy and hold land in Japan.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03

1t isn't merely the taste Of
tea; the taste is only the
foretaste.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03

All that is human must retrograde
il it do not ADMINISTRATION.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-03

American furniture shipped to every
country IL Europe.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01
BIC FRESH" CLASS
New Instructors Needed
at the University.
Executive Committee of the University
Met Yesterday in the Gov
errors Office.

There are now $40 students at the
University of North Carolina, or fifty
more than were enrolled this time
last year The freshman class num-
bers nearly 200-the largest freshman
class in the history of the University.
They are a manly set of young men
Of solid merit and have gone to col
lege to learn and they are studying
we'll II have never seen a finer set
Of young men" said President Ven
able They have gone to work IN
earnest and many of them give prom
is of becoming scholars of the first
order"
There was a meeting of the EXecu-
tive Committee of the Board of Trus-
tees of the University held in the Gov
errors Office Governor Glenn pre-
sided Those present were: Cover
nor Glenn, Richard Fl. Battle, John
W. Graham. Thomas S. Kenan and
President Venable.
The report of the President showed
pressing need for more instructors
to properly teach the increased num-
Der of students. The faculty has not
grown with the growth of the students
and many classes are over-crowded.
The matter is so imperative and so
important that the executive commit
tee authorized President Venable to
add to the teaching force the neces-
sary additions to prevent over-crowd-
ing in classes and to give proper in
struction to all the students. There
is need for more professors, but there
is not money to employ them, as the
committee feels warranted o0ly in
employing tutors and instructors to
meet the pressing needs.
There is need at the University of
more dormitories. Every room in the
University and almost every available
room in the village is occupied and
there is some crowding. There is
no gift that would do more good just
now than for some generous alumni
or friend of the University to erect Il
building something like the Carr
building on the campus. A building
of that character would cost about
SIS, 900.
1t is expected that the money will
be in hand next year to secure the new
library building and thus take adj
vantage of Mr.. Carnegie's offer. A
building committee was appointed,
ard H. Lewis and Josephus Daniels
on the part of the trustees and Presi-
dent Venablc, Prof. Alexander and
Prof. Smith of the faculty.
DR.. Venable returned to Chapel Hill
in the afternoon. He will go to New
York next week.
They are looking forward for a
great time at Chapel Hill on University
Day october 18th. The address this
year will be delivered by Major Rob
ert Bingham, of Bingham School. Of
Asheville. He also says something
that is fresh, original, vlrile and a
great treat is in store.
Work goes steadily forward on the
new Chemical building and it will be
ready for occupancy by Christmas.
DR.. Herty, the new professor of Chem
istry, is very popular and is maintain
ing the high reputation of the faculty.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01
DIVINE LAW OF GIVING.
y Tract Prepared by Rev. ID. A. Long,
ID. d., is Warmly Commended.

Rev. Daniel Albright Long, ID. D.,
pastor of the Christian church, has
prepared tract on THE Divine Law
of Giving-a Responsive Reading"
which has been warmly commended.
Among the many letters of common
dation is one from Rev. DIR. Alfred H.
Moment as follows:
REV. Daniel Albright Long, ID. D.,
has written Responsive Reading on
The Divine Law of Giving, that should
be in the hands of every Christian,
and occasionally read in all our
churches and Sabbath schools Moth
ing as thorough upon this subject has
come under my observation"
The tract was prepared at the re-
quest of the Executive Committee of
the North Carolina Sunday School As
ISOLATION, and was used as a Respon-
sive Reading by said Association when
last in session at the Presbyterian
church in this city.
DR.. Long gives one-tenth of his sal
AIRY to his congregation to be used as
it sees proper.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01
New western Writer.

Certainly Mr.. Will Lillibridge. whose
Western story, "Ben Blair" will be one
season. "a. G.. Mcclure g. Co, pub
fishers. Chicago will not be accused
of picking up his Dakota local color
by looking out of the window of the
overland train. Here is his autobiog-
raphy, which can be commended as an
example of brevity:
Probably if there were ever
one typical of Dakota and that for
which it stands, / am that person.
was born within the then territory
thirty years ago. During various
times between that date and this
have traversed it from north to south
from east to west, and obliquely. One
thing | know in life and know we'll
the fascination of the country and of
the life the country induces in the
prairie land of the middle west. On
it I've been rancher and herder, I've
sen it in all it's seasons and all its
moods. Frankly to EN- it is
'Godss country None other
to me in America or else
where carries its appeal / love the
country and the life. 1t is for this
reason that of it / write most. | tried
practicing in various places. but event
ually the prairie siren called me back
and / located in Sioux Falls. where I
have been six years and where / will
probably eventually die. Every sum-
rner / feel the restless desire for
change and HE me forth for strange
lands-but always / come back to the
old ground"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01

forms Many of the men who rode
at night ploughed or hoed all day ana
there was a good deal of drinking of
corn Whiskey, chewing of tobacco ana
country side swearing, and the Khan ON
an expedition was sWeaty, hot, reeking
and intent. Some of the more el2bor'
ate DISCUSSES were made by the women
of families and occasionally one was
really ingenious1 but they expressed
even in these cases crude fancleS ana
unframed tastes and the purpose was
TO terrify SUperstitiOuS negroes fatit@'
than to be becoming or effective as
parts Of a public spectacle. Ihe mer-
chant and his clerk, the landlord ana
his tenant. might ride in the same Khan
and while they might suspect each
other, neither would know; ana the
clerk or the tenant might be late 10
work in the morning and the employer
would discreetly ask no questions
even if he was not personally d mem
Der. Livery stable keepers in small
towns and villages would receive lntl-
nations and their white helpers would
be alert and busy saddllhg ana
bridling horses for unknown men at
late hours of the night, but NOBODY
knew anything. sometimes lhe rdlu
was largely a frollc ana at olheiS IL
had deadly purpose. 1t executed in a
rough way and on broad principles of
public policy the laws which State
and local governments were. too vi
cious, weak or ignorant to enforce. 1t
made itself terrible and by SO doing
maintained order. peace ana measure
of safety. When gin houses were burn
ed evidence was not awaited, but the
worst NEGRO leader in the neighbor-
hood was visited But the Khan did
not drive out the radical governments
or restore white supremacy. 1t had
degenerated to rowdyism and in places
to a means of private malice and
neighborhood feuds and brawls EefQre
its collapse. in 1869. Even the United
States government was powerless
against il until it was swerved from
the purposes which gave it dignity and
force and traitors were developed
within it's own ranks In South Caro-
lima the radical government was not
even brought into order by the Ku
Kmx IIare On the contrary it made
the existence of the Khan the excuse
for renewed outrages and imposts on
the people TTeH and for arming more ne
groes If Mr.. Dixon intended his play
to- teach history he should have
studied history. In South Carolina the
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01

in various books, giving actual facts
and figures and~nOt the fancieS OF a
playwright of novelist. Mr. Dixon
contends that his book and play are
answers to Uncle Toms Cabin but
Uncle Toms Cabin did its work tif-
ty years ago and it is not regarded as
useful or instructive in this day III
Mrs. Stowe saw fit to invent facts and
to distort actualitieS hideously to fire
the Northern heart for a political pur-
pose, what is the sense of Southern
people encouraging a similar perform
ance now for no purpose at all but
to make some money for Mr. Dixon
and some actors and theatrical specu-
lators?
The play itself is melodrama. 1t is
strong in some respects because II
deals with a strong and stirring time
of which little is known and with aW-
full and horrible things. The pubic
loves the morbid, the tragic, the mys-
terious, the thrilling and the unusual
If Mr.. Dixon could arrange to nave
man actually lynched on the roof
of the capitol here, he would fill the
square with people at two dollars d
head Crowds will linger for hours,
fascinated by the grewsome remains
of a man cut to death by the wheels OF
q train 1t is mo tribute to the merit
or the usefulness of a play that people
rush to see it, In Texas last year eX-
cursion trains were run, crowded WIN
eager citizens, to see negro burned
to death. The chamber of horrors
at the Eden Musee is the most popu-
lar feature of that entertainment. MI.
Dixon has struck a new vein OF sensa-
tionalism for this part of the coun-
try; but we doubt if The Clansman
will succeed better in the North than
Uncle Toms Cabin" with its blood
hounds and whipping-post would DO
in the South The two things attract
the same interest in the respective sec
tions-w hippingpos bleeding back
and bIoodhounds on the trail Tor one
side. lynching, the Ku-KluX, negro su-
premacy and miscegenation on the
other; "Topsy" and some frightened
negroes for the humorous touches,
little Eva ascending to Heaven and
little ..Flora" leaDing over bluff to
ESCAPE a horrible negro pursuer-and
there we are: one against the other.
each containing some elements of
truth and many of falsehood and
SANDER. neither a beautiful. poetic
nor an improving line nor one thing to
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-01

Iy was and as it is presented on the
stage The Ku-kluX Khan sprang into
life mysteriously and spread silently
and in darkness. 1t was what &c call
ed itself, an Invisible Empire, born
suddenly, obediently to a great stress
of necessity. 1t was huge, hidden,
in many respects beautiful, conspiracy
of a whole people against a govern
ment attempting a grotesquelT impos-
sibe. a tragically absurd experiment.
1t was largely composed of rough,
rude men banded together for rough.
stern and necessary work. 1t included
every class and condition of life in
the States where it was strong, and
those who were not in active member
ship were in close sympathy. There
were no elaborate white linen robes
with red crosses and suggestions of the
milliner's art worn by fancy youns
men with stage accepts and infections.
1t was intended for ugly business and
it was an ugly outfit. a handkerchief
more or less soiled with Sits cut for
the eyes was the mask. probably in a
maiority of cases, and there was more
cotton bagging than muslin in the uni