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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
RUINS OF SOUTH AFRICA
Relics Found of tile Finest Nature
Worshiping Shrine Known to Man.

Relics Found of tile Finest Nature
Worshipfng Shrine Known to Man.
Richard n. Hall, who has given
eight years to the study of the ancient
monuments in southern Rhodesia, says
that none of the hundreds of ruins has
been more than partially explored.
Many important ruins have been seer
only by casual travellers, and the work
of unearthing only part of the Great
Zimbabwe area would be more than
the labor Of a lifetime. Still, researches
have made great progress in the past
few years. There are in Rhodesia no
less than 300 distinct ruins and groups
of ruins. Only a few scores of these
are entitled to rink as ancient" The
larger part of them probably do not
date back of the thirteenth, four
teenth and fifteenth centuries.
There is overwhelming evidence AT
the Great Zimhabwe of the ancient
civilization and arts possessed by the
builders of tho earliest period. The
Zimbabwe temple is the finest and
most Intact example of a nature-wor
Shipping shrine known to the world. It's
construction points Enthusiastically to
some knowledge of geometry and as
tronomy on the part Of the builders
1t Is quite certain that even the cruder
methods of Zlmbabwe of applying this
knowledge, which was common to the
ancient Semi lie peoples, were imported
from the neJr east and did not orig
mate In sou'heagt Africa.
The right ascension of the sun. tho
heliacal risilg and the meridian pas
sages Of stsrs, are believed to have
been noted at Zimbabwe. These an
Client builders were also past masters
In the scierre OF military defense. the
walls showing that the builders were
military stiategists of the highest Or
der. Their gold ornaments, finely de-
signed and engraved, could not have
been the worf Of an uncivilized people
and the hrndie of ancient gold minas
show that thfy were skilled In metau-
urgy and picked out rich shoots
patches End pockets with marveIo,,s
clevernesL II Is Estimated that From,
these widesI read mines they extra ctav,
S375,0OO,CO0 Of gold.-GeograpbicaI
Journal.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23

and tail out straight behind. We bad
little time to spare, so l eased the
engine off u bit, and finally the old
fool cut to one side and landed in the
ditch. We must have chased her for
a mile.
Il have heard of Western engineers
pursuing antelopes for miles between
the rails. 1t is mighty dangerous busi-
ness, l can tell you, especially in case
of big animals, for a killing may mean
a ditch for the engine and the cars on
top of yourself. It's bad enough with
small things like cats and pigs.
never yet ran down an animal but
that l fancied l could hear its death
cry under the wheels, and somehow
it would break me all up for the rest
of the rum
Other old-timers have tales like this
to tell. One of them gave this as his
explanation of the peculiar persistency
which keeps the frightened animals
between the rails. II think it's a sort
of hypnotism caused by the combina-
ton of fright, the straight level of the
track and the cleaning lines of the
rails marking out the course. To get
away is the animals first impulse. 1t
sees level path in front of it, bound
ed on each side by straight bars. Be
hind is the smoking, whistling monster
which it must escape. Consequently,
it goes straight ahead. Perhaps n mo-
ment later, if 1t lives, the idea flashes
thrOuQh ttS tarrOr- ct ri clren brain RI
jump to one side and it is saved. Too
often, however, the straight line of
its flight ends in miserable DEATH"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
A Considerable Judge.

Rarely does a judge show hesfta ncy
In the court room, or a disposition to
change his mind when he has once
publicly expressed 1T; but an account
of a refreshing exception is furnished
by Sir Henry Hawkins, Lord Bramp-
ton, the eminent English justice, in a
recent book of "reminiscences.
Baron Martin, whose native leniency
and sense of fun often placed him at
the mercy of the very men he was try
ing was once about to sentence an
old offender, charged with a petty
theft.
Look" said the baron, with an as
sumption of severity, II hardly know
what to do, but you can tax six
MONTHS
IT can't take that, my lord; it's too
much" said the prisoner, respect
fully but firmly. ST can't take 1t.
Your lordship sees 1 didn't steal very
much, after ALL"
The baron INDUCED In one of his
low, chuckling laughs before replying.
"Well, that's vera true; we didn't
steal much" he said. "WeIl, then.
We can TAX four months. VIII that
do-four months?"
NAY, my lord, but can't take that,
neither" said the witness, patiently.
"Then TAX three"
That's nearer the mark, my lord, -
the prisoner said. approvingly. But
I'd rather you made 1t two, II you will
be so kind"
"Vera well, then, TAX two," said
the judge, with the air of one who is
pleased to have done the right thing
at last. "And, mind, don't come again
II you do I'll give ye-well, it all de-
pendsr
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
FLEEING FROM TRAINS.
Why Frightened Animals Almost In
variab1y Keep Between the Rails.

variab1y Keep Between the Rails.
Railroad men at Rochester, N. Y,
are still talking about the race for
life on recent Sunday morning be-
tween a horse and a freight train
across the long bridge which spans the
Genesee River at Charlotte. The bridge
Is nearly half a mile long, and the ties
are open, leaving six-inch spaces, be-
meath which CLEANS the slow-moving
river, but the horse galloped straight
across this nerve-racking path a few
yards in front of the locomotive, and
only sank down when exhausted by
fright and its efforts for safety. The
train was halted within ten yards of
the poor creature. The horse was
found to be uninjured, but every shoe
was torn from its foot. Another horse
which had started with 1t fell and was
cut to pieces.
What interests the railroad men In
the case, besides the battle against
such odds, Is that 1t furnishes another
proof of a pet theory Of theirs con-
corning the actions of animals caught
Oh bhS aoSho ~ loSt SpteUlu2 Trains.
Engineers and firemen have formu-
lated theory which, they declare, has
been so often proved that it might be
called law. 1t is this: They declare
that any four-footed animal, be IL
cat, fox, dog, squirrel, COW or horse.
which is surprised by a rapidly an
preaching locomotive, win seek safety
III straight flight between the rails.
when it could save its life by a sim
pie leap to one side.
81 have started up rabbits" said a
veteran engineer, land they Invariably
keep to the center of the track until
run down. Sometimes at the very Ia at
moment they will leap to one side, bur
not often. Cats, which are pretty
shrewd, in spite of assertions to the
contrary, will fee between the rails
In just the same way. Once, when l
was in the cab Of an engine pulling a
way freight between fast trains |
started a red COW, which had strayed
on the track through somebody's care
lessness in letting down the bars OF
her pasture. She had fair start, and
careered down the track about fifty
feet ahead Of my pilot with head down
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
AMERICAN WOMAN AND HOME
A Critic Says the Former Has Aboi-
ished the Latter.

ished the Latter.
1 have not seen a single home in
two great American cities, though
have visited many, says an oriental
writer in Public Opinion. The hearth
has been abolished, the radiator has
taken its place. The home is without
its presiding deity-the wise. affec-
tlonate, self sacrificing mother, the
true wife whose love for her husband
was her best jewel, whose devotion to
all around her insured peace and har-
nony, the very life of home.
And who has usurped the throne OF
this domestic deity? A lady partner
who has agreed, before church altar
or in a registry office, to live together
with the man of her momentary choice,
as long as it suits her or the man, In
q suite of rooms or a house for the
purpose of enjoying and hunting ma
terial pleasures. 1t is n lady who has
abolished the home as a relic of bar
barous age, and turned it into sitting,
talking and sleeping rooms with COM
Portable or luxurious conveniences,
who has made over the kitchen and
housekeeping to hired cooks and maid
servants or housekeepers to escape the
bother of worldly worries; in many
cases abolished it along with the
home, prefering to eat ready cooked
foods in hotels and restaurants. 1t is
lady who tries to expiate the sin of
her share in race suicide" by caring
more for a baby dog fed to square pro-
portions or a cat INDUCED out of all
proportions than for a human being
II is a lady who knows no more of
bringing up children than she knows
Of keeping a house or cooking, both
of which she hates. Hence children
generally are either trained by nurses
or governesses or allowed to grow as
wild as they can In character. their
young, tmpresslonable minds being de-
prived of the character building in
fuences of maternal love and its life
enduring lessons.
This lady, this newest feminine
freak of nature. is responsible for
much of the disastrous confusion in
human society in this land But who
is responsible TO-. her being so? The
member father and husband. The
father wishes her 20 eat well, look
we'll, sing well, be we'll educated and
healthy, and full of fascinating man
ners, so that she may catch a rich
husband who. the mother hopes, would
be as great a fool and as good a slave
as her own. And when the fool and
slave is secured, she has glorious
ride on her mental automobile, whose
wheels are her whims, whose steam is
supplied by her vanity and her hus-
bands indulgence, whose track is self
ishness, whose destination is moral
ruin.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
Popul e 8


A locomotive going at express speed
gives 1,056 puffs to the mile.
Glass bricks are coming into use,
and it is said that this material will
soon be used for making statues, us
1T resists the corroding effect of the
weather much better than marble OF
granite.
The belief that temperatures are
highest during sunspot minima Is op-
posed by A. B. MacDowall, who finds
evidence that during the last sixty
years sunspot maXima have been ac-
companied in England by the highest
temperatures. The same meteorologist
attempts to prove connection be-
tween barometric pressure and the
moons phases and between relative
humidity and the moons phases.
Mate, from which Paraguay tea
the favorite beverage among a popula-
ton of some twenty million-ls made,
grows wild in the woods Of the
southern half of South America. For
many years its cultivation was a lost
art Although large plantati lions were
planted by Jesuit missionaries more
than century ago, later attempts to
raise the plant were fruitless, and not
until recently have new plantations
been established in Paraguay. The
secret of cultivation, 1t is alleged, is
that the seeds will not terminate until
treated with a potassium salt
The example first set by the French,
and afterward followed in Germany
and other European countries, of en-
ploying automobiles for military pur-
poses, has this year been initiated In
the United States. In the war game
at Manassas General Corbin used a
steam car, and in the military maneu-
vers in California General Macarthur
employed a gasoline car. Both were
W ell pleased with the results. General
Macarthur rode all over the field, con-
sisting of stubble-fields, river bottoms,
and mountain slopes with grades Of
80 per cent, with no loss of time for
repairs. He said it would have re-
Quired four days of horseback-rfdln
to reconnoiter the ground that the car
covered in six hours.
One of the latest devices for apply
ing the three-color principle to the re-
production in a Photographic trans
parency of the hues of nature is the
Invention Of the Messrs. Lumiere of
Paris. Instead of using three separate
color screens to produce the negative,
they employ a single screen on which
the three colors are distributed IN
microscopic grains. For this purpose
they take potato starch granules, vary
ing from fifteen to twenty -thousandths
of millimeter In diameter, and color
separate lots of them red, green and
violet, respectively. When the col
ored grains are thoroughly mixed and
spread on a glass plate, they form a
triple-colored screen, having to the
eye a uniform gray tint The effect
of the screen on the light passing
through it is similar to that produced
by the use of three separate screens
Of different colors.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
OYerCOna
Journal,

T1mson-I never tainted awav hr+
once. and that was just a few DAYS
ago. Simson-What was the cansa3
Timson-My wife told me that ST.
had trained herself so she could walk
through store full of bargain counter
sales with her purse full of money and
never buy a thing.-Detroit Free
Press.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23
Dissatisfactio in the Kitchen.

do you think our new servant will
stay?" asked Mr.. Rooral.
~ am afraid not" answered bis
wife. "She says her family doesn't
like things we have to eat, and 1 don't
believe my clothes fit her very well"
--Washington Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23

The latest piece Of gossip Is so gar
bled that when it was repeated to the
man it is on, he didn't recognize it
and laughed heartily.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-09-23

1t is necessary to watch some PEG
pie every minute, or they will wall
over you
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16
The Growth Of RhyoIII.

So many new firms are opening Tor
business at Rhyolite, Nye county. tina, it
is quite difficult TO keep tab on them.
but the latest compilation OF business
interesis Is as follows:
Assay ottices5 5. barber shops 6, bak-
cries 4, butchers ., banks 3, building
contractors 8, physicians 5, dentists .,
brokerage firms II. furniture dealers Q,
jewellers 4, lumber yards 3, general
merchandise and groceries IS, drug
stores 3, restaurants lG, FALCONS 50,
gambling tables b, stahoners 3, l.. S.
deputy mineral surveyors IL, lawyers
10, lodging houses 10, stage companies 1,
liveries and coorrals 3, blacksmith shops
?, lAundries G. tailor shops ., public
stenographers ., undertakers ., one
each tuto office, telephone. newspaper
bottling works, hospital, bath house,
photographer and tin shop.-Herald.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16

inssesd az Aociay as thetT fGyorits Is!
for making way With H. nselyeE So
Tar a labot story tess go DR. Ellis says
that women are ENTHUSIASTICALLY superior
In general tactic sepsibihty and prob
ably superior II the discnuinatoo OF
tastes. With 10 advantage either way In
Tie case OF Tie other senses Women
have better memories, read more
rapidly, bear pain better, recover better
from wounds Ard serious ilr%as, axe
less changed By Old age and live logger.
FuIthernore. according 20 the came
authority. Women have relatively larger
brains, especially Ii the trootal region
Il has long been said thst aye
the more Ike eail5rec. bat DR.. Ellis
says that uen zre the nor Ike apes.
Women, II sbo:t. are more ciTiGzsd
thAr men, and Civilization Itself = but
the process O, MAKING the world lsdy-
ike IL fact. TIE OIL! thing left u
which nzn L srpsao- : muscle. Men
az ITO, three kod ever i0u. times
t-olse. than Ec-s1- and he occasional
exceptional EoDza ts,dl! reaches tie
level q the average EA,.
Even between the ages o! eleven ard
df:eea, when girls A.s taller ard heavier
boys vii retza thsi- single zGyaE;ac5
IN strength. Me-. :co, il slo~s. O: niLd
ard quicker OF body. tsye greater lung
capacity and mere blood o~7-pcz>!es srd
I eIhAls pesr!!y ;Iios 81 much carbon
G.o1i3s. Bot oer ar less able 80 Il
dure no1dasoeci AID bsd aI.. THIS
| physical superiority ~ shares with tie
usle= q al higher 4ciZzl=.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16

alton, enclosing a t~bree-ooluun sheet OF
pres5 uolces which they wish published
In addition to this, Egan says they have
cuts OF each principal which they would
be pleased to mail this paper and have
them properly and prominently dis
played. For this he says they will be
glad to entertain the editor or sporting
writer in the prs stand OF the arena
during the fight.
The magnifcence Of the offer simply
knocks the wind ont OF the editor. Jus.
think Of the wealth he Reno Athletic
Association hopes TO pick up by the
fight and its magnificent plan to disttib'
ute it among the newspapers Of Nevada
AS We write, We can almost hear the
dollars jingle SIS they strike the bottom
OF our pockets.
Neither the editor nor the sporting
writer OF this paper wishes to be enter
tanned IN the press stand OF the arena
during the fight and pay for the same b,
giving away its space IL boosting a pine
light, by which the Reno Athletic Asso,
citation hopes to gather In a food o.
dollars.
As an example OF supreme gall this
proposition takes the whole bakery
delivery wagon AID all. In fact, il Is
peach.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16
Had Heart OF Gold.

Thomas j. Jackson, -S.ouewsU.- has
crossed over the trus river that needs no
rain to keep it flowing is resting under
the trees whose shade never fails, for
their leaves never fall but The God OF
Battles alone knows how many aching
hearts and tear. wet faces his victories
made, says a writer in the Los Angeles
Times. The failures excessively Of
Gibson Butcher and johnson Camden
at the examination for admission to
West Point made him iauous-Lee's
right arm.
Alex McLaiD, Who hunted ana tished,
danced and sang, went to corn-husk-
inGp, apple.peellnRs aud cuttings with
him; cleared land, rolled logs. cut brush
and grubbed with him when as a con-
stable he failed to do his official, but
nobly discharged his God.giren duty.
Tom had an execution against a
widow, whose husband had left her in
debt. \ debtor could by Virginia law
be IMPRISONED, and Us late RG lsi9 taer re
could be seen in the Lewis county
debtors prison at Weston, a gray-hAir-
NJ man. barred in. shut away from
home and Gods sunshine, because an
Old Dominion Shylock must have his
pound OF flesh That mans face at
the grated window, a nan clad in
thrssdbare black, made oue schoolboy
sad, and though tfty-Eve years have
HaaGAl DNar,nrv r.G,aaa y, 10. .,, A..
piteous picture.
CGder the law, one could take the
widows mite, her bed, her babe's
cradle.
To the widow OF this man were left
three tow-headed little ones, two cows.
a split.shinRled puncheon.hoored stick.
and-mud chimney cabin in the woods,
IL a clearing made by the husbands
and Si!e's hands.
As they followed tho path to tina,
lonely cabin, under giant oaks, poplars
and hickorIcs, McLaiD said Ton vac Us
wordless as a clam, aud when the wood.
en'hlnged door opened ior them, al the
table, on a slRb bench, sat the widowed
SAA VAIL C NlIcc lhLDc tlehS ultle
ones, eating mush, with milk warm from
the COVE, which she thought from his
coming she had MIXED for the last time.
She rose aud greeted him AS best she
could, but he. with bead down. stern.
faced, lips tightly closed, made no AN.
swer. He had a widowed mother, and
ae had heard the wolf howl at her door.
Again the trembling widow spoke:
Tom, | know what You have come for.
my COWS; with them | can feed myself
and babies; without them We must
star
Then the official died and the man
Tom spoke, McLain said, Us il he want.
Ell 10 tear 10 pieces her relentless cred.
itors; Yes, | came for our cove, FOR
your COWS for the Internal law made me
come. but It can't make me axe the m
lie went back to his Uncle Cummins's
mad from center to circumference, threw
up his commission, and only pacified by
a purse being made up that paid of the
execution.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16

Lid c min near Ash Meadows. 49,,
probably from there on 10 the H,-n,~
mining district, thence Ia GoIds.ld '"s
Tonopah.' o"u
President F. NJ. Smith OF the p,,,s-
BorGI Company, controls the boz
market OF the world, and has ma.
millions out OF his enterprise, Nes, IL
Meadows he has Il mountain OF ho,.-
The greatest deposit oi the kind kro.l
on the Globe. In order to pe, oha"1
transportion from the Lila c mine ,hir
railroad is being built.
Ash Meadows is about 40 miles sor,h
east OF Beatty. The Lila G min. !.
probably 80 uiles south OF Ash Meade.
on the rim Of Death Valley.
Besides the hundreds OF men who u;u
be employed at the boraI mines ON tho
completion OF the railroad. hund rod.
more will develop the great golden ledy,
es in the Funeral range, Furnace cteeL
and Echo Canyon. The railroad will
afford transportation facilities for the
Chloride CiH and other mines south o,
Beatty. The great warm springs At
Ash Meadows will become p resort O.,
importance, where the dusty pilgrims
can find retreshment. Here many deep.
warm eprings flow thousands OF inches
OF water, and vegetation beauties the
desert.
To avoid rough grade the railroad
liue for Beatty and the north will leSys
the boraI road in The canyon or rasroxs
known rs Point o! Rocks. ten miles
northeast OF Ash meadows, and follow
the mesa route about 10 miles in a north.
westerly direction to. Beatty. The borsr
line Will bear southwesterly thirty miles
to the mine from the junction at Pom,
Of Rocks.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16
Started on Time.

Rev. George n. Greenfield and Jud
Dskin LETT Elko Wednesday afternoon at
20o O'Clock, railroad time, 10 drive to
Wells 4 letter from Mr.. Greenfield TO.
day states that they resched Wells at
$40 p. &C., railroad time, being siI hours
and forty minutes on the road. As they
changed teams but once, the time made
shows there was DO lettering by the
~syside.
The cause OF all this haste WEI q young
couple AZ Wells who desired to start
LIES journey il double harness last
evening at 5 o'clocs. and wanted Rev.
Greenfield TO tie the matrimonial knot.
IL the young people we're content 70
start by sun time. tie patsoa was In tune
20 start them.
The young people we're Alexander
Mcdonald and Miss Aruetta Florence
Steele, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Steele Rev. Greenfield writes that the
knot Vas properly tied in the presence OF
ID guests. He also gives an elaborate
sceount Of the wedding, which vs have
not time 70 decipher and put in print
tbs afternoon. We have d~eciphered
enough VI If, however, 10 learn that the
Knot was securely t!sd and that the
bride vas handsomely dressed and prom
SD 10 love, hUso: and obey the groom
IS Ell brides q We also figured on,
mat The room 10 which the cerenon
w@ reformed was Handsomely and
a-aeucLly decorated with California
flowers
From What We are able to pick out Of
the letter, ve learn that the cereuony
SIS very elaborate and that Us guests
sat doSn TO the Wedding feast. Also,
iha; Nj. and Mrs Mcdonald lei, OF No.
. last hight 10. a tEip to Po.tl. and and
CalI:orci {.
May happiness De with the u always.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16

by Ge-usay VII be ais per 100 kilo,
grams CAAi PouudsI as against 50
cents In 1901. At the same tine wheat
from Russia and Hungary will
pay only SLID Per 100 Kilograms. Corn
re1s year zn pay sl.lo per loo kilo.
grams. as sssins: 5 cents IL 1904, while
corn from the special treaty countries
may eater at 81 cents. American
apples, heretofore admitted free. Will
pay double rates under the Tex Law
and dr@d Fruit more than double the
rates o: the favored countries. Ger
-Aa experts 10 the United States are
now 1O-e i5za doubled by our exports
to Germany. l. Is stated tia, Germany
would Ease concessions TO the United
States = 7eicrn Tor similar Concessions
20 Ge-czo operations.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1905-06-16
Scottish Lack Of Sentiment,

lar MacLaren recounted this story
In a lecture on Scottish humor: In a
dull Scottish village. on a dull morn.
ing. one neighbor called at another's
house. He was met at the door by his
friends wife, and the conversation
which ensued was thus: "Cauld."
"Ay." Going to be weety (ralny),
I'm thinkin'." Can see him?'
Ma" But a wanted tae see him"
"Ay, but sc Gamma see him. Johns
dcid." 'Deid?" "Ay." SUDDEN"
"Ay." Vera sudden" "Ay. vera
sudden" "Did no say onythIng ABBOTT
a pot o green pent afore he deed"