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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

cellars. When the plot was REVEALED
by treachery the members of the plot
ting group were. in the pleasant manner
of the day, hanged. drawn and quar-
tered, Fawkes being the last to die.
Parliament then decreed that the 9Th
of November should ever after be kept
as a day of thanksgiving, because If
was on the 9th that the powder was to
have been exploded.
1t was the custom to build bonfres.
to ring bells, to foot horns and especial
ly TO rig up a fantastic figure in CAV
rags and hang it as an effigy of Fawkes.
This was paraded through the streets
and consumed. after it had been hung
up and well pelted, in the evening bon
fire. In time the custom was added of
selecting a party of young people TO
dress in ridiculous DISCUSSES to personate
Fawkes, lockwood, Winter and the
other conspirators-
Fawkes day has almost died out of
observance in England. 1t is curious
that its customs should live in this coun-
try by the mere accident that two ma
tional holidays come at about the same
time.
But, after all, 1t isn't necessary TO
have things explained. The boys pa
rade on Thanksgiving day, as the girls
do so many things, just "because"-
New York World.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
IDAHO NEWS.

Barney Hedican, one of the most no
torious rustlers in Fergus county, has
been convicted at Lewistown of horse
stealing.
H. C. Fenner, a well known con-
tractor of Nampa, was struck by a
train recently and received injuries
from which he died.
The funeral of Willie Veatch, the
young son of P. L. Veatch, who was
run over by an Oregon Railroad e.
Navigation train at Mace was held
Sunday at Wallace.
The Philharmonic Musical club of
the University of Idaho has issued it's
year book, giving officers, honorary
and elective members, together with
the monthly programs for the year.
William Dwyer was found guilty in
the federal court at Moscow on five
counts on the charge of subordination
of perjury. This is the second convic-
ton in the north Idaho land fraud
cases.
1t is reported that something like a
million and a quarter dollars were dis
tributed recently by Salt Lake and
Ogden offices of the Utah Sugar COM
pany, the Lewiston Sugar company.
the Amalgamated Sugar company and
the Western Idaho Sugar company to
farmers in Utah and Idaho for the Oc-
tober delivery of sugar beets.
Henry Carsaw, who was stabbed at
Fort Lapwai, by Lucy Allen during a
drunken brawl some time ago, died
Saturday. Lucy Allen is a powerfully
largest squaw On the Nez Perez In
dian reservation, and for years has
been noted for her gambling and drink
ing proclivities. She is now in the
county Jail, awaiting trial on the
charge of causing Carsaw's death.
Former Governor Fran. w. Hunt Of
Idaho died in Goldfelds, New, last
Sunday. Governor Hunt was governor
of Idaho from 1898 to 1900 Governor
Hunt served in the Philippines as lieu
tenant in the First Idaho volunteers.
and was decorated for bravery during
the campaign. His remains will be
taken for burial to Boise, Idaho. Gov
ernor Hunt leaves widow and daugh-
ter. The body will be met by Cover
nor Sparks at Reno and will be prop
erly received at Ogden and Pocatello,
going thence to Boise. Elkorah tenn
pie of Shriners and Elks of the Boise
lodge were represented at the funeral,
and W. c. Dewey of the Nampa Elk
lodge will accompany the body with
the Shriners and will be met at Yer
ington, New, by the brotner Thomas
Hunt
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

In ornamental writing that is almost like
engraving on the official blue paper of
that department The next thing needed
on the document is the great seal of the
government. This seal is kept by the
clerk of pardons and commissions, and it
Is very carefully guarded under lock and
key. Its keeper will not produce it with
out special warrant signed by the Presi-
dent, and an impression of the seal is
quite a ceremony in itself. When the
proclamation has been thus duly signed
ana sealed many copies are made of it by
cIerks' and one is sent to the Governor
OF every State in the Union. 1t is also
given out then to the press agents, who
telegraph it all over the United States.
Each Governor, as he receives it, issues
one himself for his State
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
MONTANA ITEMS.

John F. Peyton, prominent farmer
of the Ledah plains country, while
riding horse along the railroad track
near Eureka, was caught by a train
and instantly killed.
Edward Smith, a prominent sheep
man of Dillon, has received word that
his clip sold for rs 1-3 oenus. Mr..
Smith refused to sell his clip for 10
cents during the shipping season and
consigned it to Philadelphia. This isI
the record sale for the wool season in,
Montana.
The plan of building an electric
railroad between Lewistown and Ken
dali, which has been considered more
than once, has again been taken up,
and this time with every prospect Of
success. S. w. Gebo, the well known
coal mine operator, and the Butte par
ties connected with the Amalgamated,
who recently bought the Barnes-King
at Kendall for $1,200,000, are behind
the project.
The body of Neil Dougherty, mer-
chant and postmaster of Elliston, was
found recently in his barn with bull
let hole through his head. Near by
lay a revolver with which the deed
is supposed to have been done, giving
the act the appearance of a suicide,
but the fact that one arm of the corpse
still held the lantern which Dougherty
carried when he went to the barn
leads his friends to believe that he
was assassinated.
w. H. Lines was killed near Hunt
ley recenuy by two negroes, one wo-
man named Mile Miller. Griffin and
Lines left Billings late at night in a
wagon and, according to Griffin's
story, they overlook the negroes and
invited them to ride. In short time
they became involved in a quarrel in
which Lines was killed and his body
thrown from the wagon. The negroes
then unhitched the horses mounted
them and escaped toward the hills.
Griffin escaped in the darkness and re-
turned to Billings on foot.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
OREGON SQUlBS.

The town of Athena is short of coal,
according to reports.
A meeting of ranchers along the
Tum-a-lum river was held recently to
devise ways and means for combining
the Tum-a-lum river to its proper
channel, especially during high water.
It was decided to appoint committee
to arrange for dyking from the divis-
ion of the Tum-a-lum river and the
Walla Walla river at the Oregon Rail-
road & Navigation bridge.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
THANKSGIVING FANTASIES.
A Survival of the Guy Fawkes Day of
Old En- z and.

A Survival of the Guy Fawkes Day of
Old En- g and
Those who are not satisfied unless
everything is explained have puzzled not
a little over the growing custom of cele-
brating Thanksgiving day by parades
of curiously clad boys and girls, toot-
ing horns and accosting passersby.
The theory most favored is that the
custom is a survival of the English an
nual rejocings over Guy Fawkes day.
This is the explanation adopted by
Prof. Brander Matthews and other
scholars.
Guy Fawkes lived in the last years
of the sixteenth century and gained fame
by being the best known member of a
conspiracy which was formed to blow
up the houses of parliament by firing
nine barrels of gunpowder hidden in tn
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

The real origin of Thanksgiving as a
day specially set apart for prayer and
rejoicing must be attributed to Gov. Brad
ford the first Governor of Massachusetts,
colony. In gratitude for the plenteous
harvest in 1921, following upon a period
of great depression, he proclaimed a day
of thanksgiving to be observed on Dec. 10
Gold style) of that year. Four men were
sent out in search of game. They returned
loaded down with wild turkeys. Thus did
the great American bird make his first
appearance.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

treaty, which was held in 1884, the day
was allowed to lapse until 1879, when
Washington took his seat as President.
The idea in these early days was to offer
thanks on some special occasion. That
our ancestors could find eight such occa-
sions during the dark days of the Revolu-
ton shows that they were ready to be
thankful on somewhat slim provocation.
But it also shows that the gobblers shed
their blood for the country as well as the
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

chapel and pavilion, respectively,
Wednesday morning, January 9, the.
stock show and sale will be held.
Thursday morning, January 10, the
second wheat convention of the state
will open for three days.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

There is good deal of form and cere-
mony about the making OF the Ihanksgiv-
ing proclamation. 1t is composed by the
President himself and in most instances
written out in his own hand. When this
is done the document goes to the State
Department. where it is carefully copied
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01

ThanksgtvfnEs OF the Revolution.
There were eight Thanksgiving days
appointed by the Continental Congress for
observance among the colonies during the
war of independence. After the one called
for the purpose of celebrating the peace
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-12-01
The Modest Carver.

Henry, at our next little dinner we
won't have any carving done on the
table"
Good, That's where / generally do
t."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
PICKED AGAIN FOR A WINNER

From his home in Ireland, Rich
ard Croker, once the Tammany
boss, is quoted as saying: II think
Roosevelt is bound to be renomi-
mated and re elected. His actions
show that he is more in the fight
today than he ever was, Nothing
can get him out of it. If opposi-
ton arises to him in the Repub-
lican party | should, if were at
home, favor his nomination by the
Democratic National convention,
as the situation stands today. -
Mr.. Croker evidently puts little
faith in the solemn and emphatic
declaration of the President made
on the evening of Nov. s 1904
when he said: fUnder no cir
cumstances will | be a candidate
for or accept another nomination. +"
He repeated that declaration in
Chicago months afterward. No
President of the United States
could afford to make such a state
ment and then repudiate it by word
or action. 1t is beyond recall and
binds Mr.. Roosevelt as effectively
as if it were a constitutional pro-
vision.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
r ALL w AY.
Schedules Effective, June 3rd, 1905

Arrival and departure of trains at Anert
Gus, Ga.-Central of Georgia Railway Pas
senger Station. Goth Meridiap.Time
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
THE PoPULlsrs TO ASSEMBLE

III, Holloway, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Peo-
pies Party of Georgia, has sent out
a call for meeting to be held in
Atlanta on Thursday, June IA.
The call goes on to say that "mat-
tiers of vital importance to our par
ty will be considered" 1t looks
as if there is to be state ticket
nominated. Former State Senator
Yancey Carter was in Atlanta a
short time ago. He said it looked
as limo self respecting man, who
was not bound hand and foot by
the old party could vote the Dem
ocratic ticket with the conditions
imposed. At that time he threw
out the hint that a full ticket
would be nominated and put in the
field. He expressed the belief that
the Populists would be victorious.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
HORSESHOE NAILS.
The Way They Are Turned Out b
Expert Workmen.

The Way They Are Turned Out by
Expert WOrkmen.
Three million separate shoe nails are
often cast from ton of metal. OF the
smaller sizes 1000 nails are nodded in
single mold, and an expert workman
will make eighty molds in an ordinary
working day, thus turning out 100000
separate nails.
When the metal in a liquid state is
| poured into the mold it runs through
| the sand in passages provided in the
mOlding process. The whole of the
| nails are cast together and are, when
removed from the sand, connected by
| Il network of iron one with another
In this condition the iron is as brittle
as glass, and very little force is lie
quired to separate the nails from the
network which holds them together.
They then have to undergo the proc
| eSS known as annealing They are
| mixed up with hematite iron ore, which
IS in a powdered state, put into iron
pots and. placed in an annealing fur
| mace, a sort of kiln. Here they remain
| for some days, care being taken to so
regulate the heat to which they are
| subjected that the iron will not be re-
| melted, but brought very nearly to that
condition The action of the raw iron
ore upon the brittle casting is marvel
ous After cooling it can be bent with
out risk of breaking, and it becomes q
| useful and serviceable article.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
TED AND The BAD, BAD MAN

On one occasion we asked the
President, writes John Burroughs
in the Atlantic Monthly, if he was
ever molested by any of the chad
men" of the frontier, with whom
he had often come in contact.
"Only once" he said. The cow
boys had always treated him with
the utmost courtesy, both on the
roundup and in camp; 'and the
few real desperadoes | have seen
were also perfectly polite.' Once
only was he maliciously shot at,
and then not by cowboy nor a
bona fide "bad man." but by a
broad hated ruffian of a cheap
and commonplace type
He had been compelled to pass
the night at little frontier hotel
where the barroom occupied the
whole lower floor. and was, in CON
sequence, the only place the guests
of the hotel, whether drunk or So
Der, had to sit. AS he entered the
room, he saw that every man there
was being terrOrized by a half
drunken ruffian who stood in the
middle of the floor with revolver
in each hand, compelling different
ones to treat.
~ went and sat down behind
the stove," said the President,
''as far from him as [ could get;
and hoped to escape his notice.
The fact that I wore glasses, to-
gether with my evident desire to
avoid fight, apparently gave
him the impression that I could be
imposed upon with impunity. He
very soon approached me, flour
ishing his two guns, and ordered
me to treat. [ made no reply for
some moments, when the fellow be-
cams so threatening that | saw
something had to be done.
"The crowd, mostly sheep herd
ers and small grangers, sat or
stood back against the wall, afraid
to move. I was unarmed, and
thought rapidly. Saying, "Well
if must, [ must, got up as il
to walk around him to the bar
then, as got opposite him,
wheeled and fetched him as heavy
a blow on the chin.point as / could
strike. He went down like steer
before the ak, firing both guns in,
to the ceiling as he went. Jumped
upon him, and, with my knees up
on his chest, disarmed him in 9
hurry.
"The crowd was then ready
enough to help me, and we hog
tied him and put him in an out
house." The President aIludes to
this incident in his "Ranch Life
but does not give the details.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
THE PLANET MERCURY.
Like Venus and For Like Cause, 1t Is
Now Dead World.

Like Venus and For Like Cause, 1t Is
Now IA Dead World.
Mercury is ii body devoid, practical
ly if not absolutely, of air, of water
and of vegetation. Consequently it is
Incapable of supporting any of those
higher organisms which we know as
living beings. Its surface is a vast
desert 1t is rough rather than smooth.
Whether this roughness be due to
mountains proper or to craters we are
too far away from it to be able
yet to say The latter Is the more
probable. Over the greater part of it's
surface change either diurnal or sea-
Sonal is unknown. Three-eighths of its
surface is stepped in perpetual glare,
three-eighths shrouded in perpetual
gloom. while the remaining quarter
slowly turns between the two. The
planet itself. as a world, is dead
Interesting as Mercury thus proves
to be, the interest as regards the plan,
ct itself is Ct Il rather corpselike char
acter Less deterrent perhaps is the
interest it possesses as a part of the
life history of the solar system, for
tidal friction, the closing act in the
cosmic drama, has brought it where ii
is. The machine has run down.
Whether it ever supported life upon its
surface or not, the power to do so has
now forever passed away. Like Venus
and for like cause, 1t is now u dead
world And it was the first thus to
reach the end of its evolutionary ca
reer, earlier to do so than Venus, in
asmuch as tidal action was very much
greater upon it than on Venus and con-
sequently produced its effect more
quickly Mercury has long been dead.
How long, measured by centuries, we
cannot say, but practically for very
long time. Venus must have become
so comparatively recently. Both, how
ever, now have finished their course
and have in a most literal sense enter
ed into their rest.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
MORE MONEY WILL BE NEEDED

According to the news dispatch
es from Washington the Confeder-
ate roster committee of Georgia
has run into a Stonewall in Wash
ingtOn. In the effort to get the
completed rolls from the govern
ment war department, Governor
Terrell wrote to find out the cost
of securing some 40 companies.
No one is allowed to 60 into the
record departments and copy this
work, but it is done there, and
charges made by the department.
| When the reply came back that
the 45 rolls would cost Georgia
$11, 800, the committee almost
tainted. Then they cut the list
down more than half, and asked
what would be the price on just
the more important ones. When
the answer came back that this lit
tie job could be done for the re
markably cheap price of $1,000
the commission had a fit. That il
as much as it has cost for all thu
work done on the Confederate rec
Ords of the state to date, The rOs
ter commission Will meet thi
morning when the matter will b,
discussed. They haven't thu
money to do this needed work nov
and if the records are secured from
Washington special appropria
ton will have to be secured from
the general assembly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

The people of the Fourth con-
gressional district appreciate fully
the services rendered by their rep
resentative, Hon. W. G, Adamson,
and, on Saturday next, at Warm
Springs, will nominate him for an.
other term. Congressman Adam
son is one of Georgia's ablest rep
reSentatives and will continue to
represent the Fourth for many
years yet.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

The Times-Recorder is the
ohictal Organ of theICity of Americas,
ondctal Organ of Sumter County.
onclal Organ of Webster County
Onacial Organ of Railroad Commission Of
Georgia for the Sd Congressional Dis trict
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06
AMER1CUS, Ga JUNE 6, 1909.

The Macon News thinks that to
man up tree it would seem that
the packing house scandals are do
ing great deal towards vindicat-
ing the position of General Miles
in regard to embalmed beef during
the Spanish war period.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

The Waycross Herald says that
a four PACED Democratic paper in
South Georgia publishing eight
columns of Tom Watson's rot is a
sight it never expected to see.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

Candidate Hoke Smith has &C.
cepted the invitation of Candidate
Clark Howell to a joint debate in
Atlanta on Friday night next, and
the "Second Battle of Columbus"
will thus be fought upon chosen
ground familiar to both combatants
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

1t will cost Colonel Gaynor and
Captain Greene over 81, 800 to have
their writ of error transcribed Sc
that it will be in shape for the
circuit court ofappeals. The pub
lished statement that this work
would not be undertaken is un-
founded.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-06

Daily Except Sunday.
Sleeping cars between Americas and Az
Ianta on train leaving Americas l0:25p m :,
ana arriving Americas $40 a. m Connects
AZ Fort Valley with sleepers to and from
Savannah.
Parlor car for Atlanta on train leaving
Americas at 1:46 p. m. ParlOr car for All.
Dany on train leaving Americas at 2;O7 D, M.
r'or further inform alton, apply 10. - -
j. e. HIGHTOWER. Agent, Americas. Ga.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
NEVADA MINE IS RICH.
Large Tonnage Blocked Out in tho
Timpauite Property.

II. L. Berkey. manager of the Timpau-
lite Mining company. operating In the
Timpauite range in Lincoln county. New,
is in the city waiting for Eastern capi-
tallsts. who are Interested In this prop
osition and who are due In Salt Lake
Sunday. The Tlmpauite company is one
of the old organizations OF Nevada. whose
deposits of silver and lead have enabled
the organization to make numerous rich
shipments TO the market, Before Mr..
Berkey took charge OF the mine, 1t had
a record OF having netted the company
the sum OF 100000 and during the four
years he has been In charge there has
been developed one OF the finest tom
nages of high-class ores In that State.
Mr.. Berkey stated Friday that the main
workings had reached a depth of ATS feet,
and recently prominent expert reported
to the effect that there was an enormous
tonnage Of ore In the mine which would
average 1924 per ton. Mr.. Berkey states
that development work has disclosed a
fine tonnage OF milling as we'll as ship
ping ore.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
Boom in San Francisco.

James A. Pollock Co furnish the
following San Francisco news. received
over their private wire;
"A genuine bull movement In Nevada
mining stocks is in full swing. Higher
levels are being recorded daily The
forced liquidation Is over. and no one
need be afraid to take hold of these
stocks at this time. There has been more
buying orders in evidence the past week
than any time since the exchange re-
sumed business after the earthquake The
bulls have the situation we'll In hand, and
while there may be some reaction, il is
the consensus of opinion that stocks will
continue to advance. The decline In the
Nevada stocks today from the day of
the San Francisco catastrophe averaged
about 81 per cent, while the mines have
improved at least 20 per cent on an
average. 1t will be seen from this that
the Nevada stocks should be. good for a
general advance averaging from so to 75
per cent A word TO the wise ls sufficient
These stocks are selling ridiculously
low"