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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
NORTHWEST States
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
And OREGON news ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Outlook Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The town of st. John is experience
ing quite a business boom.
Rosalia will celebrate the Fourth of
July in an appropriate manner
The last spike on the Spokane &
Medical Lake electric road has been
driven.
John H. McGraw was unanimously
elected president of the Seattle cham
Der of commerce.
Spokane day at the Lewis and Clark
fair has been postponed from June 20
until September 49,.
The Northern Pacific will lay a dou-
BILE track through Spokane and on to
Yardley, distance of about five miles
Secretary Hitchcock has disallowed
the Washington state land selection,
comprising $1,000 acres in the Yakima
valley.
Gilbert, a capitalist of Lane county,
Oregon, has invested nearly 100000
in lands in Pullman vicinity during
the past three years.
The Goth annual meeting of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions will be held in Sc
attic September IA to 18.
Dolph Brice Hannah a pioneer of
Oregon, Washington and California, is
dead in Tacoma, aged SO years. He
crossed the plains in 1S45.
G. Leonard, an old settler living
five miles south of Ritzville, has sold
his ranch of 600 acres for $17,S00 to a
Mr.. Johnson of Douglas county.
The ninth annual encampment OF
the Veterans association of Latah and
Whitman counties last week was
voted one of the most successful in
the history of the organization.
South Bend.-The Simpson Lumber
companys new band sawmill has burn
ed to the ground. The loss is estimat
ed at 100000, with no insurance. The
fire started in the sawdust in the en-
CINE room.
The state board of control has
ton of the building for the new schoo
for defective youth at Medical Lake
and the new ward building for the
eastern Washington hospital for the
insane.
The Washington Water Power com
pany has decided to extend its electric
power and light line 100 miles soutl
of Spokane to Colfax, Wash, in the
Palouse country. The extension will
touch Rockford, Latah, Fairfield, TIE
koa. Oakesdale and Palouse.
The Snohomish electric light plan
was totally destroyed Sunday after
noon for the third time in two an(
one half years. The loss was caused
by fire in the Cyclone single mill own
by by the Mauglin Lumber company
Loss on the single mill and kiln, SIS,
600. Loss on the electric light plant
$4,000.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
MONTANA NOTES.

]. d. Drien, a miner, was fatally
shot Saturday night at Missoula, by
holdup artists who endeavored to take
his money. The bullet penetrated his
abdomen and came out at the base of
the spine.
Billings.-Louis Beck, son of A. A.
Beck, accidentally shot his sister, Mel
lie Beck, in the mouth with a %
caliber revolver The boy is IA years
of age and the injured girl is IL years
old The bullet passed through the
girls face.
The 4 year old daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Howe was bitten on the
hand by a rattlesnake near the Crow
reservation and is not expected to
live. The child was playing in some
sage brush near the house when she
was struck by the snake.
A rather unique wedding took place
at the state school at Boulder when
Miss Bessie May Harris became the
bride of Phillip Herbert Brown. Both
are deaf and dumb. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Dodds
of the Episcopal church. Both ques
tions and answers were. necessarily
in the sign language, but the custom
airy osculatory portion of the ceremony
was realistic.
The annual convention of the Epis
copal church of Montana convened al
Helena June Is for a four days SEES
sion. Added interest was given to the
convention by reason of the fact thai
it was the 25th anniversary of the con
secration of Bishop L. R. Brewer, ant
also because Bishop Daniel S. futile
of st. Louis, presiding bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church of Ameri
ca, was present.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
MAKING ARMY HoNoRs EVEN.
Generals Bates and Corbin to Advance
in Rank


An official announcement is made at
the war department that Major Gener-
al John C. Bates and Major General
Henry c. Corbin would successfully
serve as chief of staff with the rank Of
lieutenant general after the retire
ment of General Chaffee next April.
General Corbin becomes of retiring
age in September, 1906, and General
Bates in August, 1906, but the present
plan contemplates that General Bates,
who will be the immediate successor
to General Chaffee, will be retired in
advance of his regular time in order
that he and General Corbin, who will
succeed him at the head of the army,
may divide the time between the re-
tirement of General Chaffee and the
date of General Corbin's retirement
officially.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Gen. Maxine Gomez is Dead.

Havana.-General Maxine Gomez
Fdied at O'Clock Saturday evening.
General Gomez leaves a widow, five
sons and one daughter. Only today
the secretary of the treasury deliver
ed to one Of General Gomez's sons a
check for 100000, which has been
voted by congress for the generals
benefit and approved by President Pal
ma. This was in addition to the $780,
600 previously voted by congress.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Crisis at Madrid.

Madrid.-A ministerial crisis is be-
lieved to be imminent The govern
ment candidates for the presidency of
the chamber of deputies were defeated
on Saturday and other government mo-
lions were rejected. There is much ex-
element in political circles.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Bugle to Replace the Drum.

Paris.-After a record of five and a
half centuries the French army drum
has had to give way to the bugle as
being handler, smarter and easier to
carry. The minister of war has issued
an order to this effect, which has
evoked such deep feeling in the army
that he may be induced to revoke it.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

Of all the Norwegian born ENJOYS
and consuls who resigned, only one,
Minister Grip, minister at Washing
ton, has telegraphed King Oscar that
after 40 years service he would be
glad to serve his majesty. The cor
respondent says that this created a
sensation in StocKnolm and Christi
ana.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
IDAHO SQUIRBS.

IDAHO SQUlRBS.
Boise will have two additional letter
carriers.
Idaho Falls reports heavy ship
ments of wool and hay to eastern mar
kets.
People Of st. Maries and Santa will
hold a joint celebration on the Fourth
of July.
William Campbell, an employee of
the Tiger-Poorman mine at Burke, fell
40 feet down the chute in the mine
recently and was severely injured.
Francis Steele, who spent the past
winter teaching school at Mount Ida
no and Clearwater is believed to ne
lost in the mountains in the Salmon
river country.
Ray Sanborn was shot and instantly
tender in Hailey's saloon. The men
quarreled over a dice game and the
shooting followed.
In desperate quarrel at Sites over
Miss Maud Mcmillan, Ed w. Williams
was shot through the abdomen by H.
F. Schissler, and 10 minutes later he
died. Schissler, shot in the abdomen,
is badly wounded.
Fred Bradley, executive head of the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan, operating the
great silver-lead mines at Wardner,
has been made general manager of the
Federal Mining & Smelling company,
owning a group of properties in the
same district.
Nearly 4400 acres Of public lands
will be offered for sale at Twin Falls
city July 5. Nearly all these lands
are included in the selection for pub
lie buildings and the proceeds of the
sale will be devoted to the erection OF
a new capitol building at Boise.
Suit is brought in the United States
circuit court by the Federal Mining
& Smelling company against the Bun
ker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concen
trating company to quiet title to the
Republican fraction claim with apex
alleged to be worth $1,700,000, and
for an accounting for ores already TAX
en- from the property worth $4,000
Judge Beatty of the Idaho supreme
court has refused to grant the in
junction asked for by large number
of farmers on the Occur d'Alene river
against the mining companies of the
Occur d'Alene The injunction was
sought on the ground, as alleged, tina
the tailings from the mills were de
posted on the lands of the plaintiff:
at high tide, poisoning the grass ant
hay and causing great loss.
: Tom Fields recently made a com
plete confession of the killing of Free
Fields at Freese. At the beginning O
, the examination Fields declared hi
innocence, but when the prosecuting
= attorney began to question him abou
ms actions he became badly mixed ant
lost a whole day that he could no
account for He tried to straighteI
himself out several times and then thu
prosecuting attorney demanded t.
know why he had told the sheriff tina
he was four miles away when tn,
shooting occurred and now told thu
story that he was only one mile ava.
and heard the shot. He failed to &C
count for this discrepancy and showed
himself in a bad predicament. HI
braced himself up and made a decla
ration as follows: "Now, if you wan
to know the whole and honorable
truth, l shot him because my min'
worried me so that l had to-"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Wants Open Door.

The German emperor, it is under
stood, declined the offer on the ground
that he had encouraged the sultan to
invite the powers to a conference, and
also because what Germany wanted
was not special privileges in Morocco,
but the open door and strict adher-
ence to the Madrid convention. The
acceptance of such a proposition, the
emperor held, would be violation OF
that convention. Since the emperors
refusal to participate in any arrange
ment involving the establishment OF
anything like a sphere of influence in
Morocco the negotiations at Paris have
not progressed very rapIuiy.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Death of General Wagner.

General A. l.. Wagner, U. S. A, Of
Washington, d. c., went to Asheville,
~ c., about six weeks ago in search
of health, and died suddenly Saturday
of tuberculosis. General Wagner had
just been advanced from colonel, his
commission having been signed Sat
urday.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Chicago's Own Railway.

Mayor Dunno of Chicago on Monday
asked the city council to authorize the
commissioner of public works to ad-
vertise for bids to construct and fully
equip 100 miles of street railway to
be operated for and by the city of
Chicago.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

The closing day of the annual con-
vention of the Episcopal diocese of
Oregon was devoted to the election of
an assistant to Bishop B. Wistar Nor
ris. Rev. f. e. Lloyd of Uniontown,
Pa, after several hours discussion of
the merits of other candidates. was
elected, with the title bishop coadju-
tor of Oregon.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
lid" Raised in ST. Louis.

After being partly on for one Sun
day, the lid was lifted in st. Louis
Sunday, and the saloon men did a
rushing business. No arrests for viola
ton of the Sunday closing law were
made.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Pest of CaterpiIIars.

Throughout eastern and southeast
ern Texas there is a pest of caterpil-
lars and reports indicate that they are
doing great damage to fruit trees, corn
and truck gardens.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Strike Soon to End.

1t was freely predicted by both the
members of the employers associa-
ton and labor leaders that the team
sters' strike in Chicago will be a thing
of the past before the end of the pres
ent week.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

Count Niddo has been expelled from
Kassel, Germany, because for weeks
at a certain hour every day. he prom
enaded the streets scattering gold and
silver coins. In consequence there
were wild mobs scrambling and fight
ing for the money, until the police
got disguised.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Wholesale Produce Prices.

Potatoes, $1@1.10 cwt; new pota-
toes, 81 cwt; onions, Australian, 1925
cwt; new onions, s2@2.25 cwt; cab
bage, $3.50 cwt; asparagus, 6@7c lb;
rhubarb, 21a @3c lb; oranges, $50
$50 case; Hood River strawberries,
$3.50 crate; Clark's Seeding strawber-
ries, $4,000 crate; California cher
ries, $1s0@1.75 box; Snake River
cherries, 25c@s1 box; gooseberries, 81
crate; plums, So box; oranges, $3.50
"a box; lemons, $4,000 box; rad
ishes, 25c doz punches; green peas, sc
lb; cucumbers, $1.25@1.75 doz; new
beets, soc doz lunches; turnips, 25C
doz punches.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, SIS ton; bran and shorts, $40;
straight shorts, $40; white shorts, $21
corn, $145@1.50 cwt; cracked corn
$1.55 cwt; timothy hay, $14 ton; al
falfa hay, $11 TOM oil meal, So cwti
grain hay, $12@19 ton; rolled barley
$145 cwt; whole oats, $1.55@1.60 cwt
chopped oats, $1.7O cwt.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits-Ben Davis
apples, 40c box.
Live Stock-Steers, $3.35@3.50 cwt
sheep, $2@2.5O cwt; hogs, $3.50 cwt
veal, Sc cwt.
Poultry and Eggs-Chickens, hens
13c Id live weight; roosters, 6@7c Il
live weight; eggs, $5.5O@6 case.
Creamery Products, f. o. b. Spokan
First grade creamery butter fat
201ac lb.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Grows Rubber Plants.

Santa Rosa, Cal.-The rubber seeds
recently planted by Luther Burbank at
his home in this city are coming up
nicely, and experiments with these
plants are now actively under way.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

In certain quarters at st. Petersburg
envy and jealousy of the United States
are i'll concealed. The entire collapse
of the peace negotiations was predict
ed yesterday and there was almost
open exultation at what was declared
to be rebuff to Roosevelt"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

Henry X. Bradbury of Hollis, Me-,
who recently died after practicing law
for over half century, is said to have
had the distinction of being graduated
from Bowdoin college at a younger
age than any other of its alumni. He
entered college at 10 years and was
graduated at II in the famous class
of 1874.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

One room at Tsarskoe, the cars
palace near st. Petersburg, has walls
of lapis lazuli and a floor of ebony
inlaid with mother of pearl Another
has walls of carved amber, and the
walls of a third are laid thick with
beaten gold.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

Botanists look upon the immortelles
and other flowers of the order Com
positae as fadeless flowers because
they suffer little change in appearance
in drying and may be kept for many
years without much diminution of
beauty. Recently Luther Burbank has
succeeded in adding to the list of fade
less flowers.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Webb-Pulitzer.

The engagement is announced of
Miss Frederick Vanderbilt Webb, only
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Seward
Webb, to Ralph Pulitzer, Oldest son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
To Purchase Gonzales Ranch.

Gladstone Dowie, and Judge Barnes
of Chicago have practically completed
the deal for the purchase of the Con-
zales ranch of 100000 acres, in the
state of Tamaulipas Mexico, where a
tropical Zion city is to be established
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
Five Hundred Persisted.

An explosion has occurred in the
Ivan colliery at Kharsisk, belonging
to the Russian Donetz company. 1t
was reported that 500 persons perish
ed.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

The building occupied by the F. c.
Ayers Mercantile company at Denver,
wholesale dealers in grain and hay,
and the contents were destroyed by
fire today, entailing a loss of 100000.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

He is happiest, be he king or peas
ant, who finds peace in his home
Goethe.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24

An unsuccessful man has more con-
fidence in others than he has in him
self.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
MOROCCO TROUBLE
GERMANY, FRANCE and GREAT
BRITAIN In A MIXUP.
Germany's Policy / oward France Indi-
rectIy Directed Against England
Trouble Dates with AngIo-French
Treaty-Madrid Convention Agree
ment Violated, Says Germany.

London, June 19.-The crisis which
Germany is forcing upon the nations
will soon assume a new phase. Every
move thus far made by the kaiser has
been aimed at France, although chiefly
designed to damage British interests.
The government of this country has
not the slightest desire to shelter itself
behind it's more exposed neighbor.
There is reason to believe Lord Lans
downe will soon take measures to
make our position clear and the issue
direct.
The policy Germany is pursuing to
ward France, if directed against Eng
land, could have but one result. The
British government is by no means un
willing to put the genuineness of Ger
man aggression to test, and oppor
tunity to do so is likely to arise il
the near future.
1t is understood that France, reply
ing to Germany's demand for an in
ternational conference on Morocco
will consent, with the proviso that M
existing agreement to which France l:
party shall be interfered with. Thi:
answer, of course, is equivalent to
declaration that the Anglo-FTench
Spanish compact must stand. Ger
many can not accept it without aban
doning her chief contention.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-24
The Kaiser's Visit.

The next development was. the en-
peror's visit, which, it is said, was in
tended to impress not only the sultan
and people of Morocco, but also the
powers with the seriousness of Ger
many's intentions.
Germany made no Roadway, howev-
er, at Paris, and there is official au-
thority for the statement that at the
time of M. Delcasse's resignation the
relations between the two countries
were far from satisfactory, and had
already caused considerable anxiety in
London.
From Information reaching here to-
day Berlin has been put in much
better humor by the retirement OF
M. Delcasse. 1t appears that some
sort of proposition was made to Ger
many suggesting the development OF
her interests in Morocco along lines
which would be acceptable to France
and England.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
Mnral MagaettHttt
nj Jeaua OlrrtHt
By DIR. GEORGE BAILEY,
Presbyterian Pastor. Washington, D. c.

umphs of Christianity connected with the far-reaching labors of the
apostles there succeeded a period of severe stress and trial The Ro-
man civil power took alarm at the rapid spread of the new faith, and
ten cruel and systematic prosecutions were inaugurated against the
Christians, with the view Of crushing out the movement. The most
horrible barbanties were visited upon the Christians. Legs were bro
ken; finger nails torn off; ears, noses and hands cut off; sufocatior
was visited upon them by hanging the head downward in a smoky
fire.
In all history no other widely dhfused religion was ever put to such
test. Yet Christianity survived; nay, it triumphed after three centuries
of suffering unutterable. The proud eagle of Rome was driven to
flight and the peaceful dove of Christianity enthroned.
The spiri of our age is markedly materiaEstic. We are engrosseo
with the things seen and felt. Men are impatient of everything other
worldly. That which cannot be turned to immediate and practical gain
is not worth a second thought. The very blessings of genius are made
ministers to the god Of Mamnon. The unparalleled achievements o
invention and science are often prosdtuted to the furtherance of the
reign OF the prince OF darkness. Yet, in spite OF all, Christianity tn-
umpfs. There are more Christians in the world to-day than ever be-
fore. The ideals Of the Man Of Ganee are surely permeating the civ
iization of east and west. The principles of His religion are domi-
nant in Tapan as well as in America. The enthusiasm for humanity as
expressed in the activity OF modern missions is the marvel OF the CEN
turtles. In art, literature, poetry, science and citizenship Jesus CHRIST
is being crowned king. As before, SO now it is goriously true: The
world is gone after Hin"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
3~ahuatral Uratntt1g
If City Ghtlhrfn
world is gone after Him
BY DIR. LUTHER HALSEY GULlCk,
Director of Physical Training for Public Schools
of New York City.

without marrying country stock.
Not only the necessity but the possibility OF handWorK mas gone
f-on,o ur cities. Children sit for FIVE hours a day at a desk, crowd
:sm4bs heart and lunos. causing poor blood supply to the brain and re-
living the abdominal muscles. Whether children like 1t or not we
have got to fight the school desk. No child should sit at a desk for
hour consecutively. So we have introduced hve-nninute hourly ex-
ercises in New York.
Put a more important, a moral change should take place in our
.;tes II the old DAYS YOU worked on the farm beside your father.
Sister faced hard work in the house.
With te demands of school and social life on girls today in our
cities even in families Of moderate means, it is impossible tor them
- work in the house. Children's help is not needed. Business is too
.aa,lev > allow te son to work alongside his father in the city.
Somewhere children must be able to do the thing they please,
before they are moral. Only one thing is offered-athletcs.
The fire drill in city schools is a new form of athletics. A new
kind of obedience, the obedience of the mass, the lock step, is needed
RIA tame IS needed in a building of 5000 children and a school system OF
100000.
A dead level of ~mediocrty is established, but | am reconcied tc
" Orderly lives do not make, however, for the morality Of individual
w1l IL here. and here il where athletics give the chance.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-12-08
CHEAP WAY TO SHOW OFF
osteatation That Was a Makeshift
to Lend an Appearance
OF Wealth.

The portly woman in the cross seat Of
a subway car was contiding in her thin
friend in n voice which was heard above
the rattle OF the train, relates the New
York Press.
81 had Just picked out the table ! want.
ed-a trim little thing 10 fit in a corner of
my parlor-w when who should come in but
that Eorrid Mrs. Shoddy. | wouldn't have
her know, for the world, that | was pay
ing only $3.50 for the table, so | turned
to one marked SIS before she saw me.
Buying a table, she asked, with that
deceltful smile Of hers.
Yes l said, coolly. 4 have almost
decided upon this one | said, pointing
out the expensive affair,
You should have seen her face,
Isn't it rather expensivey' she said.
ooh, no, | said, You can't expect
to get good things for nothing. Send
that table to my address, | said to the
salesman. III pay for II on delivery. ;
Then | walked out. | waited outside un
I'll Mrs, Shoddy went away, then ran
back to the store, c~ountermanded the or
der for the SIS table, and took the one
for $3.50. i was sorry afterwards that |
hadn't selected a table worth about 500,
Just to spite that woman