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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
THEY SAW THE PARLORS.
Lady Visitors to the White House En-
ploY Ingenious Schemes.

The past week has seen large number
of visitors in Washington. and the ingenu-
ity exercised by some of the female visitors
to get a look into the private parlors of the
White House and other places especially at
tractive to strangers has been wonderful
The parlors at the White House are not
open to the public generally, the east room
being the only one of the historic rooms
that resounds to the tread of anybody and
everybody entering through the east ter
race. The parlors are. of course. reserved
for private and family USE but as much as
possible the public is admitted to them.
For number of years the admission has
been by private card issued by Secretary
Loeb, generally upon the request of mem
bers of Congress and persons having Off
cial and other influence. The visitors thus
fortunate are shown through the parlors
between u and l o'clock each day, when
the family is using the rooms least.
1t is great disappointment to bevy of
female visitors to be denied seeing the par
lors, especially when they get a glimpse of
a party going through the private rooms
and inquiry is generally started at once as
invent something about friends of the
family but 1t is often the case that the
visitors get an idea of how it is done and
proceed to the executive offices to look over
the ground and see what they can do.
A Star reporter was standing at the front
door of the offices, when party of fine
looking women walked up and smilngly
told the doorkeeper they would like to see
the three noted parlors.
But they are not open to the public" he
answered. courteously.
rs there no way we can see them? We
have come long way and would like to
see them so much"
Your senator or representative could ar
range it,.
Hes not here Is he? Why, didn't Con-
gresS adjourn a long time ago? If he were
only here there would be no trouble. Now
my husband is a personal friend of the
congressman from our district In fact he
is related to our family and would feel
greatly disappointed if he knew we had not
been able to see around"
This was well delivered and made an i'm
preston IN see what I can do the
doorkeeper suggested. He disappeared and
in few minutes returned with a card of
admission. The ladies thanked him heart
lily and quickly disappeared in the direction
of the main building.
When they were we'll away the leader
chuckled merrily and all the others joined.
Say. Nellie, what is the name of our
was related to your family"
Il couldn't tell you his name to save my
life In fact, 1 had forgotten we had a con-
gresham. l must find out about this when
l get home. But I was determined that we
would see the inside of those rooms and 1
struck 1t just right, didn't I?''
They agreed with great satisfaction that
she had.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Sheep Follow Leader to Death.

From the Baltimore Herald.
THE most striking example of following
leader into the jaws Of death 1 ever saw
took place In Kent county last week." said
a Kent county farmer.
"Ex-Sheriff Plummer," he continued
had flock Of seventeen sheep, which, for
some unaccountable reason, determined to
go from one pasture to another. To make
the journey it was necessary to cross the
creek on the ice. Sure enough, the old
buck of the flock walked cautiously out on
the weakened ice. When he was about
mid-stream it gave way and he plunged in.
The other sheep, instead of returning to
the shore, which they could have done, de-
liberately, and as the lawyers would put it,
with malice aforethought,' walked into the
hole in the ice made by their leader and
were drowned Nothing but sheep would
have ever been fool enough to be guilty of
such a performance There was possibly
some excuse for the foolhardy old buck
but can think of no extenuating circum-
stances in the case of the Others"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
RIPLEY NOT RESIGNED.
Says he is Tired Of Contradictine the
Story.

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, April Pre-
garding the published statement that e. P.
Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad would resign and that he would
be succeeded by President George B. Harris
of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy rail-
road. President Ripley today said:
Il have not resigned. have not been asked
to resign and have no intention of doing so
This report about my resignation crops out
every few months, and l am beginning to
get tired of contradicting it. l think these
reports are originated by the leaders OF the
mechanics unions There have been sew
eral strikes on the Santa Fe and these
labor union leaders start reports that OFF,
GERS of the road are about to resign from
office and new set of officers be appointed
in order to keep up the courage of the
strikers and make them believe conditions
will be changed and that they will get their
old positions back again"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
SEVEN PER CENT MONEY.
Thursdays Squeeze" in the Market
and Its Cause.
, III. New York Evening Post

From the New York Evening Post.
There was much that was peculiar about
the sudden bidding up of call money TO :
per cent just before the stock market
close on Thursday. Cali money rates can
sometimes be manipulated as well as
stocks. by half a dozen brokers, who wish
20 put up the rat,. rushing into the loan
crowd" and bidding violently against one
another The operation is not expensive;
million dollars, borrowed at I per cent
costs only 500 per day. and to spectators
engineering a break i'll the market such
an outlay is a bagatelle. But the eXpedlent
cannot succeed if there is good deal OF
bank money available for stock exchange
loans. and ii such money can be promptly
offered TO the bidders. 1t might be easy for
the conspirator IN question to bid in mil
lion when il would be awkward TO care for
five millions. Therefore, such maneuvers
usually occur as they did on Thursday,
1ust before the market closes, and when
there is no time 10 get In touch with the
banks
Thursdays I per cent rate, however
stands as a record IL makes interesting
sore comparisons No such rate has been
touched on the New York Stock Exchange
since December b. 1903, when the rate
touched S per cent. In the fifteen months
since that date the highest price OF call
money has been the per cent rate at the
close of last December. The high rate AT
the close of 1903 was merely continuance
of that years disordered money market;
the per cent figure had been reached In
November. also when the collapse In
'SJeei' had almost engendered panic. Pre-
vicus high-money periods In recent years
were equally a result Of demOralized conf
dence. The 30 per cent rate of September
% 1892, when the Gates clique" was in
trouble. the - per cent rate of May the
same year. when the Webb Meyer" syndi-
cate went to pieces on the curb; the II per
cent rate of December u. 1901. when Anal
gamated Copper made its S-point break,
and the 10 per cent figure of the May .
panic of that celebrated year, were cases in
point.
A scare In stocks is thus a sure &C
compartment of such money rates, but a
low bank surplus Is necessary, too, for OBJ
vious reasons The May money squeeze
OF 1901 occurred with surplus reserves at
So 10000; that of December. with them at
s. 900. They were at So. 100000 when the
% per cent rate of May, 1902. occurred. and
the September crash that year happened
with a deficit of 81 100000. Even the per
cent rate in the fall of 1903 came with the
surplus down TO - 10000. Last Saturdays
sJ3Oooo0 surplus Is better than arr of
these, but 1t might be higher still.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23

than apprehensive when last years cotton
corner collapsed. The week of Sullys fail
ure was the week when financial recovery
really started. The failure of Joseph Letter,
in June 1898, hardly shook the financial
markets for day.
But there have been corners where conse-
Quences of breakdown We're more far
reaching. A notable instance when collapse
of a corner attended by great demon
alZation. in financial markets, came in 1887
Wheat had been put up at Chicago from
20 cents at harvest time to 94A the follow
ing June; it had reached 991a at New York.
Spectators a half-a dozen home and for
eign cities were engaged in the attempted
corner, but the burden of 1t rested on Chi
cago and Cincinnati. AT Cincinnati the
Harper crowd" had secretly appropria ted
it into their deal. The corner failed, partly
through suspicion of this performance.
partly from bad faith among the outside
participants, but partly also because of the
amazing quantity of wheat which the farm
ers poured into Chicago. In the second
week of June the wheat market fell s
cents; the next week 1t dropped 10 cents
further; the corner was broken.
Unfortunately, something else than the
wheat corner was broken. On June % the
Fidelity Bank closed its doors; in three
days there were fifteen failures on the Chi
cago Board of Trade. Cyrus W. Field, in
volved In the trouble, had to throw over
his Manhattan Elevated stock TO save him
SELF the price fell Al points in an hour on
the New York Stock Exchange, Jay Gould
taking Fields $1,000 shares around the low
est. Money was in such demand, for Chi
cago and for Wall street. that the rate on
call rose, before the end of the week. to "
of l per cent per day. Naturally, the whole
financial structure rocked and trembled.
1t is be said of these three instances that
results depended less on the corner itself
than on the financial situation when the
corner collapsed. That situation. in June.
1Ss7-with bank reserves low, several great
railways on the verge of embarrassment,
and yet with prices at unreasonable heights
was intrnsically rotten. The story of
1898 and 1904 was different.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
BALTIMORE TRADERS.
Great Interest Manifested in the Wheat
Slump.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special dispatch TO Inc star.
BALTIMORE. Md. April 2e.-Despite the
fact that local traders have been pursuing
a conservative course in transactions In
May wheat, great interest was manifested
on the floor of the chamber of commerce
this morning when the slump In prices was
posted from Chicago.
AS noon approached 1t was apparent that
prices were being beaten down by the
large quantity OF the cereal dumped into the
market, and the consensus of opinion on
change was that Gates was getting out
OF It,"
There was considerable trading in the
local market in wheat today, notwithstand-
ing the uncertainties of western conditions
These sales were officially recorded: 2O0O
bushels May at $i.o3; 300 bushels April at
H.0212; 10000 bushels April at 81 .021h; 1900
bushels July at SEC: 5000 bushels August
at SIC; LOCO bushels No red at 94Ac, and
LOCO bushels No. 2 red from SLOPPY to &c.,
incoming cargo.
The local sales in Southern were 5.5OS
bushels in prices ranging from 95c. 10 81 .02.
The local corn market was fairly steady
at prevailing prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Pneumonia in Infants.
the New York Medical Record.

W. P. Northrup reports two cases of
pneumonia In infants in which the windows
OF the sick room were kept open day
and night: both children recovered He
believes 1t will become more and more
the rule to treat pneumonia in this way.
Cool, pure air. he says. refdens the blood
stimulates the heart. improves digestion
quiets restlessness and aids in overcoming
toxemia. He concludes with the following
prescription for killing a baby with pneu-
monia: Crib 1t in far corner of room with
canopy over 1t. Steam kettle. gas stove
Qeaky tubing), room at so degrees Fab
renheit. Many gas jets burning. Friends
in the room; also the pug dog Chest
tightly enyeloped in waistcoat poultice. If
child's temperature is 1O5 Fahrenheit make
a poultice thick. hot and tight. Blanket
the windows, shut the DOORS If these do
not do it, give coal-tar antipyretics and
wait.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
CORNERS AND MARKETS.
Wall Street and the Chicago Deal
Three Modern Instances.
e New York Evening Post.

From tie New York Evening Post.
Is Wall street right or wrong in the fear.
expressed this week. that awkward conse-
quences might be involved to financial mar
kets il the attempted wheat corner OF the
Gates clique were to break down disas-
trously? Precedent is not all one way.
Financial markets appeared more relieved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
Can Tell When It's Rough.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Patience-'Do you think you can tell
anything about a man by his face?"
Patrice-"Certainly; can tell il he has
shaved"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
FINANCIAL.
Rid gefy'S Forecasts.

Ii any one who reads my Daily Letters was
caught long OF stocks, he cannot blame me- I
stated q week ago that U. p, Paul, r. G. L and
Anal Copper We're oyerbought and a sale on an
rallies, Furthermore: that the market whole
was around top and that there would be a big
break toward the end of month. The one spe-
ciaity which named to buy has not gone down
Everything else has! Immediate fluctuations are
uncertain, but that the bull campaign Is over is
certain. That fact have endeavored 10 make
clear TO Subscribers for a week past. / don't adj
wise the sacrifice of long stock and short selling
on breaks for bear markets do not go STRAIGHT
down. There will be plenty of rallies TO sell on.
but cannot tell you HERE when the rallies
VIII come or how far they will extend or the
best stocks to get short of; you should not ex-
pect it. Tomorrow's Letter gives THAT intcr-
nation. and names one stock that will break 80
to 40 points. Also a Specially that will adj
vance irrespective of the general list Terms for
Daily Letter, So per month.
A. N. Ridgely, 20 Broad ST., N. Y.
1t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
12O Points for Investors.

Intended to answer questions asked that
should be asked by any present prospective in
weston in MINING. OIL OR INDUSTRIAL STOCKS
for the protection of their own interests. RE-
VISED EDITION will be mailed free request.
DOUGLAS. LACEY g. CO.. Bankers. SO Broadway
and II New ST., New York city. ap16S u, sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
S S S S

Money makes money these days. Do what Inc
successful ones have done and buy mining stock
at the ground floor price. We have property near
richest producers In the famous Goldfeld district
of Nevada. Development work now going on. The
new railroad from Goldfeld to Tonopah will pass
over property. viii be within half mile of rail-
road station. Shares only cents; easy time pay
ments finest bank references; monthly reports;
full information application. Write today.
GOLDFIELD GOLDEN HORSESHOE MINES Co,
7O3 Mack bldg, Denver, Colo. 1t
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
Wholesale Produce PrIees.

Potatoes, $1@1.10 'cwt; new pota-
toes, 50 cwt; onions, Australian, 1925
cwt; new onions, $2@2.25 cwt; cab
bage, $3.50 cwt; asparagus, 6@7c Id;
rhubarb, 21s@3c lb; oranges, $50
$50 case; Hood River strawberries,
$3.50 crate; Clark's Seeding strawber-
ries, $4,000 crate; California cher
ries, $1.50@1.75 box; Snake River
cherries, 25c@$1 box; gooseberries, 50
crate; plums, 81 box; oranges, $3.50
GA box; lemons, $4,000 box; rad
ishes, 25c doz lunches; green peas, sc
Id; cucumbers, $1.25@1.75 doz; new
beets, soc doz punches; turnips, Csc
doz lunches.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $18 ton; bran and shorts, $40;
straight shorts, $40; white shorts, $21;
corn, $1.45@1.5O cwt; cracked corn,
$1.55 cwt; timothy hay, $14 ton; al
falfa hay, $11 ton; oil meal, 50 cwt;
grain hay, $12@18 ton; rolled barley,
$1.45 cwt; whole oats, $1.55@1.6O cwt;
chopped oats, $1.7O cwt.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits-Ben Davis
apples, 40c box
Live stock-Steers, $S.35@3.5O cwt;
sheep, $2@2.5O cwt; hogs, $3.50 cwt;
veal, Sc cwt.
Poultry and Eggs Chickens, hens,
13c lb live weight; ROSTERS, 607c lib
live weight; eggs, $5.50@6 case.
Creamery Products, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat,
2015c lb.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
MONTANA NoTEa.

]. D. Drien, a miner, was fatally
shot Saturday night at Missoula, Dy
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 "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
Of the state school at Boulder when
Miss Bessie May Harris became the
bride of Phillip Herbert Brown. Botn
orc deaf and dumb. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr.. Dodds
Of the Episcopal church. Both ques-
lions and answers were, necessarily
in the sign language, but the custom,
ary oscuIatory portion of the ceremony
was realistic. MT,
The annual convention of the Epls'
- oh,,rob of Montana convened at
Helena June IS for four days SEES,
sion Added interest was given 10 tne
convention by reason of the fact tna'
II was the 25th anniversary OF the con,
81 of Bishop L. R. Brewer, ana
also because Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle
of St Louis. presiding bishop OF tne
protestant Episcopal church OF Ameif
ca. was present.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
Knows Frescoino Secret.

The lost art Of antique frescoing, the
perfected secret of which was ever
guarded by Michael Angelo and was
thought to have died with him, has
been discovered, and after 20 years of
study and pracuce is about to be re-
vealed in all it's original beauty in the
interior of church in Norwalk, Conn.
This will be the first church in 400
years to be entirely decorated in the
lost art of Angelo.
Macmillan F. Friederang is discov-
erer of the lost art. When searching
the archives Of the vatican library he
found Angeles diary in which was set
forth the secret process of antique
frescoing. After much study Friede-
rang has perfected himself in the lost
art and will practive it in the church
at Norwaik.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
Coming Events.

Masonic grand lodge Of Washing
ton, Bellingham. June 13; Eastern
Star, June Is; Royal Arch, June IS;
Knights Templars, June 81.
Washington State Bar association,
Spokane. July 6-8.
Whitman and Latah Veterans en-
campment, Pullman. June 1916.
Idaho Women's Relief Corps. de-
partment convention. Occur d'Alene,
June 81.
Montana Press association, annual
convention, Billings, July IS.
Montana state convention Epworth
league, Missoula, June 1913.
Idaho F1remen's state convention,
Lewiston, September 5-S.
Idaho Baptist Young Peoples union,
district convention, Occur d'Alene,
June ~.
Washington State Pharmaceutical
association, Long Beach, July Is.
Lewis and Clark centennial exposi-
ton, Portland, June to October is.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA,
and OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few interesting Items Gathered
From our Exchanges Of the sur.
rounding country-NumerOus AecI.
d.nts and Personal Events Take
pIacs-outIOOk Is Bright.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The town of st. John is experience
inc ouite a business boom.
Rosalia will celebrate the Fourth OF
ruly 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 -.
The Northern Pacific will lay dou.
be track through Spokane and on to
Ysrdlgy, distance of about five miles.
Secretary Hitchcock has disallowed
tbe Washington state land selection,
comprising $1,000 acres in the Yakima
valley.
Ebbert, a capitalist Of Lane county,
oregon, has invested nearly 100000
lands in Pullman vicinity during
the past three years.
The 96th annual meeting Of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions will be held in Sc
attic September IA to 10.
Dolph Brice Hannah, pioneer of
Oregon Washington and California, is
dead in Tacoma, aged SO years. He
crossed the plains in 1916.
G. Leonard, an old settler living
five miles south of Ritzville, has sold
bis ranch of 900 acres for $17,80O to a
Mr. Johnson of Douglas county.
The ninth annual encampment Of
the Veterans association of Latah and
Whitman counties last week was
TOted one of the most successful in
The history of the organization.
South Bend.-The Simpson Lumber
Nmpany's new band sawmill has burn
Cd to the ground. The loss is estimat-
ID at 100000, with no insurance. The
fire started in the sawdust in the en-
CINE room.
The state board Of control has
lEarded contracts for the. construc-
ion Of the building for the new school
Tor defective youth at Medical Lake
and the new ward building for the
EASTERN Washington hospital for the
insane.
The Washington Water Power COM
any has decided to extend it's electric
power and light line 100 miles south
I Spokane to Coltax, Wash, in the
slouse country. The extension will
ouch Rockford, Latah, Fairfield, Te-
a, 0akesdale and Palouse.
The Snohomish electric light plant
NS totally destroyed Sunday after
Don for the third time in two and
ne half years. The loss was caused
fire in the Cyclone single mill own
' by the Mauglin Lumber company.
0Ss on the single mill and kiln, $751;
w. Loss on the electric light plant,
10000
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
OREGON NEWS.

The funeral of Reuben ]. Oliver
Is conducted in Echo last Friday.
The management Of the Lewis and
ark fair has set aside August is as
4As day at the exposition.
Inc United States cruisers Chicago
10 Boston are anchored in the Will
llette, in front of Portland.
number of farmers north and east
Milton have binders at work bind
their grain, which is almost ripe
lough to thresh.
cloudburst south Of Vale, on Camp
'eK, has drowned a sheepherder en-
ged by Isaac & Gwinne, the Owy-
and Malheur sheep kings, togeth-
TI'n number of sheep.
Two men who refuse to give their
ueS nave been arrested and are be-
neld at Pendleton on suspicion Of
s murderers Of the man found
~ near Hilgard along the railroad.
Neultors of the Bank of Sumpter
Oeing paid their pro rata of the
yunt realized from the assets of the
'anct institution. The sum paid to
creditor is S615 cents on the dol
william Lamb and L. Boche, who
seriously injured by the explo-
VI a blast at the Citizens Con-
~S'ed mine near Sumpter, are yet
Tery
ue massachusetts building, one of
most beautiful and substantial of
sa'e structures on the Lewis and
s "a exposition grounds, was formal
'Ilcated Saturday in the presence
large gathering of distinguished
~ rom all sections Of the country.
'pse w. w. Cotton of Portland
ueen appointed to the vacancy on
r ~s'rict bench caused by the death
use Charles B. Bellinger Of the
~ ol Oregon. Judge Cotton will
required to qualify until Sep
~ | as he has important cases to
|, W before entering upon his new
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-06-23
MAKINo ARMY AoNoRs EvEN.
Generals Bates and corbln to Advance
IN Rank

SSherats Sates ana Sorpin 70 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, 1905, but the present
plan contemplates that General Bates,
who will be the immediate successor
to General Chaffee, win 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.