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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
IDAHO SQUlBBS.

Wardner and Kellogg have decided
to unite and give a Fourth of July
celebration.
Farmers say that everything points
to prosperous year on Camas prairie.
An abundance of rain has fallen.
The Kootenai county commissioners
have awarded contracts for building
two bridges across the Spokane river
at Post Falls.
The bank of Troy has been reor-
ganized as a state bank, under the
new law passed by the last legisla-
ture, and is the first bank to be in
corporated under the new act.
Bulletin No. As of the Idaho expert
ment station has just been issued. 1t
treats of raising calves on separator
milk, and is by H. T. French, director
and agriculturist of the station.
Suit has been filed by the govern
ment against Frank G. Ramsey for
SASH. Ramsey was United States
marshal from January, 1899, to Janu-
airy, 1902. 1t is alleged in the COM
plant that he received public mon
eys to the amount named.
E. E. Gapie, special agent of the
general land office, has made demand
upon the Barber Lumber company for
$4,000 for 100000 feet of logs cut
on the south fork of the Boise and on
Cottonwood creek. The claim will be
contested
A cloudburst in the hills above Boise
sent a flood down Cottonwood gulch,
through the military post and into the
town. So far as can now be learned
no serious damage has been done, but
the upper part of town is afloat, and
flood is pouring down all the streets
as far as Main.
Dividend No. % of cent per share,
amounting to $4,000, has just been
paid by the Hecla Mining company.
This is the regular monthly dividend
of the property and brings the total
amount of dividends paid to date up
to S360,000. The Hecla is a silver-lead
mine at Burke.
Clarence Anterior, the young crimi-
nal captured last week in Spokane has
confessed fully and completely to the
robbery of the postoffice at Troy, on
tue night of May l. George Bradley,
the man charged whit holding up the
Norden saloon in Spokane, was the
prime mover in the robbery and put
Anterior up to the job.
A good roads convention will be
held in Weiser June 8, under the aus
pieces of the commercial club. The
National Good Roads convention will
meet at Portland June %, % and "a,
and a special train conveying the par
ty will go from Weiser to that place.
Four cities in Idaho have been chosen
as places of organization, Weiser. Po-
catello, Boise and Idaho Falls. The
people of this section are enthusiastic
over the proposition.
Acting Secretary Reynolds has ap-
proved the recommendation of Acting
Supervising Architect Kemper with re-
spect to the Boise federal building con-
tract and H. A. Riddenbaugh, contrac-
tor. In this matter Uncle Sam has
been even more magnanimous than at
first reported. Riddenbaugh, accord
ing to Secretary Reynolds, will not be
required to pay $4,000 penalty the
actual loss incurred by the govern
ment while awaiting the completion
of the Boise federal building, which
was two years late in delivery.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
Vesuvius Active.

Naples.-Mount Vesuvius has shown
renewed signs of activity. Explosions
are heard 10 miles distant from the
volcano, while burning stones thrown
1000 feet above the crater produce a
magnificent spectacle, especially at
night.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
Ellen Lease Robbed.

Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, the lecturer
ana reform populist leader, was the
victim OF daring robbery in her room
in New York. While one robber held
a revolver with the muzzle pressing
against her temple and admonished
ner not to make an cutlery, another
went through her fiat from end to
end.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10

Washington, May 30.-Japanese Min
lister Takahira has received a dispatch
from Toxic saying, in effect, that the
fighting in the naval battle thus far
has been with favorable prospects to
the Japanese. The minister's dispatch
is from private sources.
dispatch was received at the state
department saying that the Japanese
government has made the announce
ment that it's fleet had engaged the
Russians in the straits of Korea Satur-
day and had held them. The report
ed sinking of the battleship Borodino
is mentioned in dispatch received at
the state department from the consul
at Nagasaki.
Following is the text of the Maya
saki dispatch to the state department:
The Japanese sunk the Russian bat
tleship Borodino and four more war
ships and a repair ship"
The other dispatch follows:
Japanese fleet engaged the Baltic
squadron this afternoon in the straits
of Tsushima, which was held. Can
nonading heard from Shore"
The belief in naval circles in WASH
ington is that the Japanese resorted to
a free use of their torpedo boats in
their attacks on the ships of Admiral
Rojestvenskys meet. The Japanese
have large number of torpedo boats
in their fleet, and they demonstrated
their effectiveness in the operations
around Port Arthur. Naval officials
here express the opinion that it was
unlikely that such serious losses as
those reported had been inflicted by
ordinary fire.
From information which has been
received in Washington it is believed
that two of the Russian ships reported
to have been sunk in the Korean
straits by the Japanese are the Orel
and her sister ship, the Borodino.
They are battleships of 1900 tons.
Three other vessels reported to have
been sunk are believed to have been
cruisers, the remaining one being a re-
pair ship.
The Orel and Borodino are of 1856
tons displacement each, heavily ar
mored, well protected and were de-
signed to make Is knots an hour. They
measured 397 feet by 76 feet, with 26
feet draft, and both have a lofty spar
deck fully 80 feet above the water
line, extending from the bow to the
quarter deck Forward is mounted a
pair of 12.4 inch guns in a turret pro-
tected by IL inches of Krupp armor.
Another pair of guns, of the same size,
is mounted aft. There are 80 other
guns of the intermediate battery, and
the vessels carry two submerged tor
pedo tubes and two above water A
special feature of the vessels is their
vertical longitudinal bulkheads, run
ming throughout the whole length of
the ship at distance of or 10 feet
inboard from the ships sides, designed
to localize the effect of a low from a
torpedo.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
Prolonged Engagement.

Tsingtau, May 29.-There is a run
ming naval engagement between the
Russian and Japanese fleets in the
strait of Korea, near the island of Oki
1t is reported that the whole Russian
fleet is not participating, all the slow
err vessels having steamed around Jap
an. The Japanese losses so far are
stated to be one cruiser and 10 torpedo
boats. The island of Oki is in the sea
of Japan about 200 miles northeast of
the strait of Korea, where the battle
between the Japanese and Russian
fleets is reported to have had it's be-
ginning.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
TOGO'S Big VICTORY
R0JESTVENSKY'S FLEET PRACTI-
CALLY ANNIHILATED.
Twelve Warships Have Been Sunk or
Captured and Two Transports and
Two Boat Destroyers Sunk-Battle
Occurred in Korean Straits-Com-
batants Lose Heavily.

Toxic, May 30.-It is officially an
nounced that Admiral Rojestvensky' s
fleet has been practically annihilated
Twelve warships have been sunk OF
captured, and two transports and two
torpedo boat destroyers have been
sunk.
The correspondent of the Morning
Post at Shanghai says that telegram
has been received there announcing
that Rojestvensky's fleet has been de-
feated and is fleeing northward. and
that four Russian ships, including the
battleship Borodino, have been sunk.
The Toxic correspondent of the Daily
Mail says that the Russian fleet has
been dispersed; that several Russian
ships have been disabled, and that the
remainder are in fight, with the Jap
anese pursuing.
According to the latest information,
the battle between the Russian and
Japanese naval forces for the suprem-
acy of the oriental seas. on which
hangs the outcome of the war in the
far east, has begun, if it has not ter
minated decisively. All dispatches re-
ceived by the Associated Press point
to a Japanese victory, though it is not
yet known that the full force of Vice
Admiral Rojestvensky's fighting ships
took part in the contest. which. &C
cording to the dispatches, took place
in the comparatively narrow waters of
the strait of Korea.
The first information came in a dis
patch from the American consul at
NQOQCQlxi IN RI of
Washington telling that the Japanese
had sunk one Russian battleship four
other warships and a repair ship in
the Korean strait, and this was fol-
lowed by dispatch received by the
state department, the date of which
was not given, that 'the Japanese gov
eminent has made the announcement
that it's fleet had engaged the Russians
in the strait of Korea Saturday and
had held them" The state department
also received information that two
of the vessels reported to have been
sunk were the sister battleships Orel
and Borodino, and that three of the
other ships were cruisers.
From Tsingtau. the German port on
the Shantung peninsula, came re-
poIl tudI d IuHnluS naval euBdSemeHC
took place near the island of Oki in
the sea of Japan, 1000 miles northeast
of the strait of Korea, and that the
whole Russian fleet did not participate,
the slow vessels having been sent
around Japan.
Russian sources give no news of the
battle, while the Japanese, following
their custom, are silent as to either
the battle or it's outcome.
Prolonged Engagement.
Tsingtau, May 29.-There is a run
ming naval engagement between the
Russian and Japanese fleets in the
strait of Korea, near the island of Oki.
1t is reported that the whole Russian
fleet is not participating, all the slow
er vessels having steamed around Jap
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10

Toxic, May 30.-In the battle fought
Saturday in the Korean straits the Rus
sian battleships Borodino and Alexan-
der I'LL, the armored cruisers Admiral
Nakahimoff, Dmitri Douskoi and Vlad-
imir Monimach. the coast defense IRON
olda Admiral Ousbakoff, the protected
cruisres Svietlana and Jemtchug, the
repair ship Kamchatka and the cruiser
Irtesin were sunk.
The battleships Orel and Nicolai 1.
and the coast defense ironclads Admir-
al Seniavin and General Admiral Ap-
raxined were captured.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10

you cant tell what woman thinks
OIL man by what she says about him.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10

No man is ashamed of his acts as
often as he should be.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10

Washington, May O.-According to
advices received by the navy depart
ment from Toxic, the Japanese, in adj
dition to the ships already named cap
tured the Russian battleship Sissoi
Veliky and the Russian flagship was
seriously damaged.
An official telegram from Toxic
states that Admiral Togo reports to
his government that the total losses
sutained by the Russian fleet Saturday
and Sunday are: Two battleships, one
coast defense armor clad, five cruisers,
two special service ships and three de-
stroyers, all sunk. In addition, there
were captured two battleships, two
coast defense armor clads, one special
service ship, one destroyer and over
1000 prisoners. Admiral Togo adds
that the Japanese squadron was I'M
damaged.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-10
SLAV WARSHIPSSUNK
JAPS Held RUSSIANS In The
KOREAN STRAITS.

Cannonading Heard in Tokio-Russian
BattIeships Orel and Her Sister
Ship, the Borodno, Reported Sunk
They Were Finest Type of Russian
Navy.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06
cities and Towns Linked.

Electricity has wrought tremendous
changes in street car travel. says the Bos-
ton Globe. BY means of it the much
taked-of rapid transit has been realized.
Now, with electricity as motive power,
citizens are conveyed swiftly in cars along
miles of streets and through subways. and
also in elevated structures. The suburbs
are quickly reached by the trolley systems
and the passenger traffic has increased
enormously in every part of the country.
The cost OF these electric systems has
been great. yet the distance one may ride
for scent fare is many times greater than
a few years ago. Before the consolidation
OF the railways in any large city II cost
two and sometimes three fares Of or 6
cents each TO go to points now reached by
a single scent fare.
This present rate OF fare has largely in
nuenced tho upbuilding of the numerous
towns adjacent to large cities. 1t may be
justly claimed that the trolley system has
had more to do with lessening the over
crowding OF our large cities than any other
agency, and that it will continue to have
that effect in the future cannot be doubted
by any intelligent observer. In fact, It is a
common observation that the trolley has
linked, or chained, as It were, our cities
and towns serving to bring communities
in closer touch for social and business pur-
poses All this tends TO the general pros
pcrity Of the places covered by the trolleys.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06

ate. TN other words" adds the Electrical
Review, I'VE must have a cold light. We
must so use the electrical energy as to pro-
duce light without converting 1t into heat"
However:
The idea of using prosporescent bodies is
old. The problem, of course is to obtain
lamp which can be made to phosphOresce
at will, and which will give sufficient light
for practical use. DR.. Flemming's plan is
based upon the following idea: 1t is thought
by some that the luminous energy radia-
lions which we recognize as light are pro-
duced only by vibrations Of the corpuscles
themselves. The longer or so-called heat
rays are due to vibrations of the atoms of
matter as a whole. II we can cause the
corpuscles to vibrats without setting the
atom as a whole into motion. we should.
according to this idea, be able to produce
a cold light This does not mean that the
radiations do not represent energy, but
merely that there are none of these lower
vibrations which we usually class as heat
We are, of course. long way from this
idea. At the present time we are, for
lack of better method, forced TO produce
light through the medium OF heat-that is
70 say, according to the newer idea of the
method OF producing luminous rays to make
a body luminous, we simply by heating It,
set its atoms into such violent motions as
to get corpuscles of the atoms themselves
into vibration. The useful work done Is
then only that which sets the corpuscles into
motion. The movement OF the atom as an
atom gives rise to the heat rays. and ex-
cept in so far as it brings about the more
rapid vibrations Of its corpuscles. is useless
and presents waste of energy. We are
probably as far from this ideal lamp as we
are from what might be described as an
ideal telephone.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06
Carpenters Letter
and skill that one who has not been bred
to it is likely TO fail"
Crop from One Farm.
CONTINUED from Page Five

Since l had this talk with Mr.. Book
have made some inquiries into the cost of
tobacco farming. 1t is enormous. Some of
the farmers spend $500 an acre for manure,
fertilizers and tents. 1t costs 500 or $500 to
roof an acre with mosquito netting or
cheese cloth, and there are places near
Havana where 500 worth of manure is an
nually put upon tobacco lands. Down in
the Vueta Abajo 1t costs In the neighbor-
hood Of 5000 a year to run tobacco farm
Of thirty-three acres and At the crop for
the market. II the crop is a good one It
should yield profit of 5000 or 50 900. and in
some cases the yield is enormously greater
One OF the most successful farmers here is
Louis Marx, an American. who has some
thing like 100 acres Of shade tobacco, sit
uated within a short distance Of Havana.
His receipts from his tobacco last year
were something like $1,000 an acre, or in all
S247,OOO. How much Of this is profit l am
unable to say, but the farm must pay eX-
ceedingly we'll.
Speaking Of the tobacco lands of the
Vuelta Abajo a curious illustration OF their
value was seen in the recent extension OF
the Great Western railway, which goes
down through Pinar del Rio. When this
was planned it was found almost impossible
to get the right-of-way. The farmers
would not give up the tobacco lands and
one Of them agreed to let the road cross his
, farm only upon the payment OF a good
price and the condition that he should be
allowed to scrape the soil to the depth Of
one foot OF Of that part taken by the road.
This was agreed to, the railroad hauling in
other earth 10 fill up. The tobacco soil is
shallow, but It's constitution is such that
with the proper treatment II continues 10
produce year after year.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06
An Acre of Cigar GirI..

Leaving these rooms We entered what
might be called the cigar factory proper.
I mean the rooms where hundreds OF men
and women were making cigars. The first
hall was large. If you will imagine an
up to the elbow, her head bare and her
arms moving like lightning. you may have
some idea Of what saw in this hall Every
girl had a barrel between her knees with
tobacco leaves laid on the top. She picked
up leaf after leaf and tore out the stem,
putting the rest of the leaf into the barrel.
The girls were OF all classes, colors and
ages. Here was a negress as black as
your boots. there Chinese as yellow as
gold, and at the next barrel a Cuban OF a
rich Jersey cream. Most OF the girls were
young and not a few pretty. Some were
humming, some singing and others chat
ting as they went on with their work.
There were about 400 in the room, and they
were the most strenuous women workers /
have ever seen. ! asked as to their wages,
and was told they were paid by the piece,
and that they made from Sl.75 10 $3.50 a
day The total wages OF these 400 girls
are more than $500 a day. They are among
the highest paid women laborers Of the
world
The work was dirty, but the girls were
surprisingly clean. They have dressing
rooms with all toilet conveniences con-
nected with the factory. and they powder
and primp every day before leaving. In
deed on the street one would not imagine
them the same girls he had seen stripping
tobacco.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06

Our children's children will expel night
with bright efiuence derived through the
medium of an exhausted glass tube contain
ing q small body which can be made TO
phosphoresce when bombarded with cleo
irons. That is the gist of a study of the
lamp of the future by DR.. J. A. Fleming in
the Electrical Magazine But the author
gives rein Is his imagination" AYERS the
Electrical Review, which, az the same time
finds the plan worthy of serious consider
alton as an Idea OF the ideal lamp toward
which we should strive" Placed at suit
able points about the small body in the ex-
hausted glass tube Of DR.. Flemings ny
pothesis will be electrodes arranged so as
10 project the electrically charged matter
leaving their surfaces upon the body, and
thus bring IL into brilliant phosphorescence."
The substance which phosphoresces viii be
selected so as 10 produce, II possible, only
luminous rays. or II this cannot be done,
the luminous rays must greatly preponder-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06
Recent Progress in Field OF Electricity

as follows: The transversal field at right
angles to the primary field, which occurs
in every ordinary dynamo, is rather a
cause of disturbance owing to the deforma-
ton it produces and is therefore, in the
case of ordinary dynamos counteracted by
giving the magnet system and the armature
special dimensions. or else 1t is avoided by
the use OF special auxiliary devices But
by adding second pair of brushes, this
tTansversal field has been utilized by the
inventor, while the brushes corresponding
to those of an ordinary dynamo have been
short circuited. AS regards the magnetical
conditions Of this machine, its original field
the fiux Of which leaves, the lower pole
travelling upward through the armature to-
ward the upper poles-can be very small in
the event of the machine running at full
speed; in fact, II suffices to induce small
tension in the armature. to throw the nor
NAL current, or part of the same, through
the armature, while the brushes are short
Gil Quilted, The armature current will pro-
duce a transversal field of much greater in
tensity than the primary field, which is dis
placed by 30 degrees in the direction Of ro-
tation, its axis of symmetry being hori-
zontal AS is well known, the armature re-
action will always weaken the field inten-
sity at the front edge of the pole shoes,
Wnlle reinforcing IL at the rear cage. lneIe-
fore. IL the machine be rotated to the right
there IS always superimposed a north pole
above the left hand half Of the upper pole
shoe and a south pole above the RICH hand
half, while above the right hand half of the
lower pole shoe a south pole and north
pole n are superimposed above the left
half. The polariIies due to the first field
will be combined with those of the trans
versaI secondary field TO form one result
ing field.
The auxiliary brushes in the vertical
axis are influenced only by the horizontal
secondary neld, and, as this field becomes
inverted with opposite rotation, the brushes
will yield current Of constant direction.
The amperemeter, or volunteer OF a sim
liar dynamo which has been connected to a
resistance, the angular speed Of which is
regulated from the maximum limit down
to the smallest values, Will remain nearly
immovable especially IN the event OF the
machine working at relatively small ten
sions. The machine accordingly regulates
itself TO a practically constant current in
tensity. II the external circuit contains a
constant resistance. a tension of nearly
constant value will be obtained from a
given minimum number OF revolutions,
while In the event OF a storage battery
being inserted in the external circuit the
tension will depend on the number Of cells
and the charging condition OF the battery.
The dynamo tension adapts itself 70 the
tensions in the mains.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-06
worlds Biggest Cigar Factory.

The United States annually smokes 49,
10000 or 100000 Havana cigars and also
vast amount Of Havana smoking tobacco
and cigarettes. No chewing tobacco is
made here and the Cubans seldom smoke
pipes. one Of the chief industries of Ha-
vana is cigar making The city has more
than 200 cigar and cigarette factories, en-
ploying in the neighborhood OF 1000 hands.
Some Of these are enormous and one
which 1 visited is by far\the largest cigar
factory Of the world. II is known as the
Cabanas factory. and II Is situated not far
from the Prado and near the sea and the
harbor. The building is one Of four stories
and il consists Of great rooms running
around a central court, so that everything
is flooded with light and fresh air. In this
factory only the choicest tobaccos are used.
Much Of the wrappers cost S and upward a