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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28

1t Is reported a number of women
of Blackfoot incensed because w.
Earl Smith, editor and proprietor Of
the southern Idaho Mail and justice Of
the peace, had secured q divorce from
his wife and married again, rotten
egged him recently and ordered him
out Of town. His former wife is pop
ular and highly respected, and the
demonstration was due to sympathy
for her.
w. P. Hurlbut, president of the Lew
iston & Southeastern electric line, a
proposed road from Lewiston to
Grangeville, which is now in course of
intends giving Lewiston a street car
system in the near future, will rush
construction work on the electric road,
and will construct the irrigation sys-
tenn, which is intended to water 1000
acres of land on the bench just beyond
the city limits, before next spring.
Bids have been opened for the COM
pletion of the agricultural building Of
the University Of Idaho. The founda-
ton Is almost completed, and by the
time it Is in, the contractors will be
ready for occupancy by November /.
When completed the building will have
cost between Sac, 900 and $4,000.
Saturday was the hottest of the
/ year at Lewiston, the weather bureau
thermometer registering fraction
more than LOG degrees. Several Their
mometers in front Of stores on Main
street almost touched ITO.
Secretary Hitchcock has appointed
Caleb Jones Of st. Anthony to serve
on the board Of appraisers of town lots
under the Minnedoka project which
now consists of Jones and ]. H. Lowell
of Caldwell, Idaho, and Gerard H. Mat
thes of the United States reclamation
service.
| Charles Burns, a pioneer road con-
tractor, has been awarded by the state
intermountain wagon road commission
the contract for the construction of
four and half miles of the proposed
Rex-Raven wagon road. Mr.. Burns
contract begins at the Success mine
on Nine Mile creek and extends to the
opposite side of the divide between
the south and the north forks of the
Occur d'Alene river, near the Hercules
mine mill.
Michael Sweeney, brother of Charles
Sweeny, the Spokane millionaire. and
Andrew Porter, on trial at Grangeville
for the killing of Joe Mitchell, were
discharged and completely exonerated.
More than 20 witnesses were exam
ined, their evidence being that the
killing was in self defense and justi-
| fable.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
Trouble with Mexico Predicted.

E. ]. Mather of Ohio, an official Of
the Mexican National railroad says
war between the United States and
Mexico Is inevitable. Americans, Ger
mans and Englishmen holu the best
positions and have aroused the jeal-
ousy OF the natives. This hatred is
growing and the government is unable
to cope with the situation.
Mather declares these conditions
will cause war within six months.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
COMPUTES CITYS LOSS.
San Francisco's Ordeal Cost $780,
100000.

San Francisco.-Assessor Washing
ton Dodge has filed his annual report
with Mayor Schmitz. The assessment
roll shows total of s375,000,000, or
an excess of $7O,00O,OO0 over the
amount on which the revenue for the
ensuing fiscal year was estimated.
Mr.. Dodge stated that the roll shows
a loss of s149.OOO,OOO, or decrease
from last year of about 80 per cent
on account of the fire.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
MINING NOTES.

A crowd of Butte mill and Smelter-
men recently forced a body of rope
men from their work at the mines and
under threats of running them out of
town marched them to the hall of the
smeltermen's union, where they were
compelled to join the smeltermen's
union. Ropemen came to the rescue,
fists flew right and left, and but for the
quick action of the police a riot would
have occurred.
The mill and smeltermen's union de-
with them in accordance with the dec
laration of the Western Federation Of
Miners at Denver recently, when the
subject was brought up. The ropemen
declare they propose to go it alone, as
their union has nothing in common
with the smeltermen
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against the Montana Zinc COM
pany. 1t was alleged that the COM
pany was insolvent and had admllled
in writing its inability to pay it's debts
The company was incorporated to de-
velop the zinc industry in the Butte
district. A large construction plant
was erected at Butte costing $150,000,
and it was recently destroyed by fire.
The liabilities are estimated at $780,
900. The assets are about $20,250.
At Rossland recently Robert Inches,
a carpenter, was knocked from the
top of the shaft house at the LIE Roi
mine, and fell to the ground, 80 feet
below. He was instantly killed, his
face and head being crushed beyond
recognition.
A mining man from Wallace, Idaho,
affirms the report of an important
strike on the Callahan group located
on the divide between Nine Mile and
Beaver creeks. Over six inches of
clean shipping galena has been broken
into on the 300 foot level.
A strike of three feet of gold ore, as
saying between $40 and $3.50 was
made recently on the Camp Bird
property in the Pine creek district To-
Gated about eight miles north from the
town of Priest River. Idaho.
The output of the Boundary, B. c.,
mines for last week totaled 2O,605
tons; for the year to date, 682,544
TONS
Bar silver is quoted in New York at
65hc.
Hecla mine at Wallace, Idaho, has
declared its 37th dividend. 1t Is the
usual monthly dividend of $4,000. TIC
date $760,000 has been paid, of which
100000 was distributed this year.
The first official announcement Of
the eight hour day to be instituted In
the Occur d'Alene mining district has
been made by President F. w. Brad
ley Of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Min
ing company. 1t will begin on Aug
ust 1.
F. Augustus Heinze of Butte, Mont.
has purchased the Stewart mine neal
Wallace, Idaho, and he says he in
tends going in the Occur d'Alene dis
trict on larger scale.
1t is, understood that Mr.. Heinz,
bought more than 100000 of the 1
100000 shares for something lik
S40O 600
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
SPENT NIGHT ON MOUNTAIN.
Elk Excursionsts at Denver Delayed
by Broken Enqine.

Three Elks' excursion trains were
detained all night in the mountains
near Tolland on the Denver & North
western road by the breaking Of a
drivewheel on a locomotive. Great
bonfres were built on the mountain
sides and the jolly excursionists spent
the night in singing and dancing. They
were a tired but still good natured
crowd when they finally reached Den
yer during the forenoon today.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
Warner Moody Murdered.

Warner Moody, town attorney was
shot and killed Saturday night at Sho-
shone, Wyo. He was son of the late
United States Senator Moody of South
Dakota.
A homeseeker named Anderson was
killed while endeavoring to apprehend
the. slayers Of Moody. Several sure
thing gamblers recently deported are
suspected
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
Nine Loads of Booze Go.

Major General Greedy has ordered
an investigation into the disappear
ance OF nine wagon loads of whisky,
which disappeared while being trans
ferred from the United States stores
at the Presidio, San Francisco, to va
rious medical stores in the city. Col.
onel John P. Wiser was given the de-
tail to trace the missing liquor.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28
WONDERLAND-196.

No other travel-book tells as much
about the Great Northwest as does
Wonderland 1906. It's CHAPTERS deal
with Puget Sound. the Columbia Riv-
er, the Queniut Indians, theBitterroot
Range of Montana, the Yellowstone
National Park. There is nohing bet
ter as a guide to the splendil country
between the Mississippi AM the tide
water of the Pacific. Sendsix cents
for copy or send the six |ents with
the address of the friendlto whom
Wonderland 1906 is to behailed, to
A. M. Cleland, Gen. PASSENGER Agent,
st. Paul. MINI
The Northern Pacific Railway runs
three. trains daily in each direction
between st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and Superior, and the GRIT Pacific
Northwest.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28

An ordinary European railway en-
CINE Is equal in strength to 900 horses.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-07-28

Grass" widow means reality
courtesy widow, from Thy French
word grace"
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
HEARST GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Closing exercises were held yester-
day afternoon at the Hearst Grammar
School. A select musical and literary
programme was rendered. Thirty four
pupils were graduated and present ed
with their diplomas. The following
is a list of those who received diplomas:
Honoraries-Clinton Ingraham, Eleanor Halla-
han. Meta Mailer. Muriel Engelberg, Irene Can
tor. Isabel Sample. Alice Schmelz, Horace Hay
ward. Ralph Williams.
Regularly graduated-Gustave Aaron. Anna
Becker. Irene Bryant, Ida Casebolt, Victor John
son. Anita Kerner. Nora Kenney, Joseph Liv-
ingstone. Inez Calder. Frank Cameron, George
Cameron. Chester Gilbert, Orman Gladding
Gladyce Hartley, Leona Harding. Marguerite
Hutchinson. Mabel Landmann Ella McDermott
Ruth Num-, Hector Mcneil. Effe Ostlund
Mary Ross. Mabel Samuel, Francis Schrader
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
INDIAN GIRLS ARE
SOLO AS SLAVES
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

FERNIE, B. c., Dec. 19.-Comment-
ing on the fact that an Indian girl
has just been sold for $400 at King
combe Inlet, G. w. Rebeck, an Indian
agent. says: TT is and has been for
years the custom among these Indians
to make slaves of their women, buying
and selling them a white man
would a dog or a COW. In early days
when women were not so valuable as
they are at present, the girls were
kept on hand until they were IL or 13,
but of late years, owing to the fren-
Zied state of finance among the red
skins caused by the potlach they are
sold as soon as buyer can be found.
1t is seldom that one reaches the age
of II without being turned into cash.
With regard to this child that has
just been sold, nothing can be done.
1t is too late, but there are hundreds
of others who will certainly share the
same fate unless some pressure can be
brought to bear to induce those at
the head of the Indian affairs to take
some action. / would suggest that
the superintendent of the Childrens $
Aid Society collect all the evidence he
can and place 1t before Sir Wilfrid
Laurier himself"
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
PLOT TO G0bbLE
CABLE LINE
California Street Stockhold-
ers to Fight Vaccinations
of the United Railroads
DENOUNCE DIRECTOR

Organizations of the smaller stock
holders of the California Street Cable
Road was effected yesterday to prevent
the looting of their treasury and to
save their property from being dragged
into the capacious, greedy maw of the
United Railroads.
The attempt of the United Railroads
to gobble the California street line at a
wrecking price will be- fought to the
bitter end by the angry stockholders,
who yesterday denounced the conduct
of some of their own larger stockhold-
ers, accused of playing into the hands
of the street car monopoly
Yesterdays meeting of indignant
stockholders brought to light pretty
little plot to sweep the California street
cable line into the Calhoun company at
a price far below its actual value and
the alleged double dealing of J. Henry
Meyer, a director in the California
street company, who occupies similar
relation to the United Railroads, be-
sides being the representative of An
ton Borel, large stockholder in both
companies.
The alleged plot to secure control of
the California street line, according to
President Stetson, dates back to the
fire. when Borel hastened back from
Europe to learn the fate of San Fran
CISCO ana tnen turned a Wiling ear 10
Calhoun, whom he met in New York,
and who suggested the purchase of
the California street stock at S100 r
share. Such an arrangement could
work no harm, but on the contrary a
gain to Borel and Meyer, who would
profit at both ends of the deal by vir-
tue of their interests in the United.
Before the fire the California street
lines stock, of which there are 10000
rl,- 90
to $3.50. the price being based on the
dividends paid by the road President
Stetson told the stockholders yester-
day that there is $3.50, 900 in the treas
ury; that on last Saturday, with only
fourteen cars in operation as against
thirty-nine operated before the fire. the
receipts were but $40 short of the best
day in the history of the company. and
that dividends would be paid early
next year.
The latest proposition submitted by
the United Railroads was unanimously y
rejected yesterday. This proposition
was for the purchase of 1000 'or more
shares of the capital stock at $3.50 a
share with cash payment of s25 and
the remainder in installments covering
period of ten years and bearing +
per cent interest, immediate control of
the road to go with the stock The
/ amount of money now in the treasury
would make this proposition amount
to substantially the same as the S100
share offer made after the Borel-Cal-
houn conference.
1t is claimed that the United Rail
roads has options on 1900 shares of the
stock, as follows: John c. and Edward
Coleman, 1000 shares; Fireman's Fund
] Insurance Company. 1900; Anton Borel.
$50. and the holdings of one Bart,
ESQ. There were 3S43 shares repre-
sented at the meeting yesterday and a
committee of three will be appointed
! to warn all the small stockholders ot
the plot against their interests.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
DIPL LOMAS REA DY
FOR GRADUATES

Graduating exercises will be held to-
day and tomorrow in the five high
schools throughout the city. In all,
125 pupils will be rendered happy by
the presentation of diplomas. Among
the graduates are three Japanese. The
names of the graduating pupils are as
follows:
Commercial High-virgnia Dolores Bell Clara
agan. Ethel Lacey Edith Libby. Ethel North
Esther Paulson, Myrtle Strohmeier. William c.
Emil zwieriein. Ernestine Lacomey. Nellie
Lochart. MurieI oatman, Hazel Ralston, Alma
Stolzenwald. Mary Dwyer, Mary Fort, Ellen
Louise Gustafson, Miriam Label Celia Laser,
Agatha. Macdonald, Alice c. o'Rourke Agnes
Polytechnic High-Edouart Bryant, Paul H.
Dewey. Mario J. Martina, Aranoski Nomoto.
G. Levy. Maud Thompson, Armin Graf, Kat
Prince, Archie D Tiddy. Gladys Lamb. Grace
Charles b. Moores, H. Mayne Patterson EIvida
c. Antonovich, Virginia Lamb, Claudia Russell
Lowell High-willamita B. BayIe Samuel O.
Hoffman, Elmer Thing Cunningham. Henry En-
lers. Rose Gardner, Edith A wilkins, Noble
Hamilton. Hazel Martineau Congdon, Harold
Z Laehman, Robert Lorentz Jr.. Henry Gabelle.
Katagihara, Thomas Ernest Pring. George E.
Sperbeek, Lewis Earl Gruwell, Florence Eliza
Girls High-AdeIe Baderous. Viola Bennett.
Hazel Leonore Lang. Emelia Marguerite Lu-
cnettl, Emma Isabella McG1lVery. Bessie Culley.
Essae Lyle Dalton, Glenna de Witt Elsa Bertha
Dietrich. Ida May Finney Mildred Hamilton
Gorham. Hazel Leonore Carrau, Lucie F. Jacobs
Amanda c. Jacobsen, Virginia Grace Lloyd.
Lucy Irene Corbett,. A. Etoile Millar. Nora
O'Connel Corinne Plumbe, Mary Frances Riley
Anne Cecilia Rourke, Bertha Trathen Mabel
Wollenberg. Lillian Agnes Hanson. Elizabeth
Ellsworth Huyck, Marguerite Louise Bannick,
Florence Hutchins Block, Helene Beatrice Bred
hof. Elizabeth Eleanor Clayton. Elzie Elizabeth
Northrup, Geneyieye Louise Fenkhause Alma
Summerfeld. Almeta Sutclfe, Freda Anita
Fuendeling. Margaret Elizabeth Gowan
Mission High-North Agnew Bells, Edgar Dale
Downing. Mary Margaret o'Sullivan Frances
Nevada cohn, Mary Eveleth, Maud Louise Per
ley, Howard James Swift, Milton Lloyd Dean,
Charles Patrick Fahey, Lillian Annabell Middle
ton. Alice Violet Swanson, Hulda May Hunde-
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.

BERKELEY, Dec. announcement
exercises for the graduating class of
the High School are TO be held at the
First Congregational Church to-mor-
row afternoon. Rev. w. II. Hopkins.
pastor Of the church, will deliver an
address to the class. Diplomas will
be presented by President W. K. Weir
of the Board of Education to the fol-
lowing pupils: Alena Bailey, Earle
Batdorf, Edith Batdorf, Della Bayley,
Arthur Bell, Helen Bixby, Grace Chubb,
Edith Holland. Herbert Johnson, Louis
Joubert. Lucille Kistler, Ernest Mentz.
Josephine Montague, Esther Sadler,
Nelson Sco6hler, Edward Solinsky,
Robert Whitelaw, Gertrude Whiteside
and Roswell Wilder.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
FUNERAL OF ALBERT THOMAS

OAKLAND, Dec. l9.-The funeral of
Albert p. Thomas, a young newspaper
man, who was accidentally electro
cuted, was held today at his late home.
1902 Seventh avenue. Rev. L. L. Loot
bourOw, pastor Of the Eighth avenue
Methodist Church, ofhciated. The fol-
lowing members of the Emersonian
Club were the pail bearers: George
Hardy. Clyde McGiIl. Norman Grant,
Chester Darling, DR.. Dudley Smith.
Rev. Owen Hottie. Harold Dick. Harold
Graham, Jay Cosgrove. Clarence Welsh,
and Charles E Lombard. The body
was cremated.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
CONCERTS ron NEW YEARS

OAKLAND. Dec. I9.-John F. Con-
ners, treasurer of the Oakland fiesta
committee, has commenced a canvass
for money with which to meet the ex-
pense of giving open air concerts New
Years eve in the downtown districts.
The plan calls for eight bands to be
stationed at prominent corners to play
fran s o'clock until the advent of the
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
cALrFoRNIANs in NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-The following
Californians are in New York: San
Triest, Miss D. K.
Triest, Marie Antoinette; V. McGilly-
sudde, Imperial Hotel. Santa Barbara
IS. E. White, Broztell. Los Angeles
w H. Cheatham, Latham Hotel; Rev.
W. r. Cowardin, Marie Antoinette.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
pIEHN INsTRUCTS
ARBITRATORS
Professor From Berkeley Is
Before Board to Tell OF
Increased Cost of Living
l3 PER CENT CHANGE

The arbitrators who are to pass upon
5be contention between the United Rail
roads and its employees heard more or
the science Of statistics as applled TO
the roast beef and house rents from
Professor Carl c. Plehn of the Univer-
sity of California yesterday. The pro-
fessor had in his class, besides the
srbitration board, the counsel in the
case. superintendent Hibbs and half a
dozen carmen. Assistant TO the Presi-
dent MuIIally and Manager Chapman
were absent.
The burden of the testimony of the
professor, both typewriter and oral
was that the cost of living in San Fran
cisco had increased 101a per cent since
the fire. This computation took into
sonsiderat tion the price of food and
rent alone. but neglected clothing, fuel
light and all sundries. The professor
stated that he had used as the basis of
his computations what he called the
normal family" and that economists
assumed the normal family" to be
composed Of "one husband, one wife
and l96 children"
1t was later admitted that if it
had been possible to obtain figures on
those articles Of family supplies which
lad not been taken into consideration
The result would probably have shown
an increase Of 13 per cent.
Counselor Moore proved the refrac-
tory pupil in the class, and insisted that
in real life" the result would have
been different.
THE PRUDENT HOUSEWIFE
Isn't it true" he asked that the
prudent housewife accommodates her
purchases to the prices?" And then
he went on 10 explain to the professor
that if in any month the prudent
housewife observed that the price OF
roast beef was up and the price of
feather busters down, she would con
fine her purchases that month to
feather busters. He averred that in
his opinion the increase which the
carmen were paying would probably be
explained by the fact that they We're
now living in more fashionable neigh
borhoocs
Plehn, however. stuck to his figures
and submitted that the proper way 10
live on $500 a year. before and after
The FIRE. was TO divide it as follows:
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20

new year. The fiesta committee will
be enlarged and permanently organized.
Work on great floral festival to be
held in the spring will be commenced
at once.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20

Aolais ----------.----- SSpV-eo SSOO-OO
This the professor said was the cor
rect table worked out on the accepted
theory OF weighted averages" He ad-
mitteo, however, that the price of fuel
and clothing had increased consider
ably. while his table represented them
as stationary. and there had been like
increase in sundries which We're repre-
scented in the table as considerably
cheapened to make the totals agree.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
SHAREHOLDERS OF THE FIRST Ma
TIONAL BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
IF0RNIA =

cf1AhEdOLDERS OF THE FIRST Ma
TIONAL BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
IFORNIA.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the call
OF the president Of The First National Bank
Of San Francisco, California, and pursuant to
The call OF three stockholders of said corpora
tion, special meeting of the shareholders OF
the said corporation will be held at the place
OF business of The First National Bank of San
Francisco. California. in The First National
Bank building. on the northwest corner Of
Bush and Sansome streets. in the city and
county of San Francisco. State of California
on TUESDAY, the sth day of January, 1907.
at the hour of o'clock p
Said meeting is called for the purpose and
object Of considering end voting npon prop
osftion to increase the capital stock of said
The First National Bank Of San Francisco
California. from 81 500, 600. divided into fifteen
drsd dollars each. to $, ooo, 900, divided into
thirty Thousand shares Of the par value of one
hundred dollars each, thus increasing the
capital stock of the said corporation in the
sum Of $1,000, 900; and also for the purpose
and object OF considering and voting upon a
proposition to change and amend the ar
ficles of association of said corporation that
the shall provide for a board of fifteen
directors, instead OF nine.
Dated San Francisco, Dec. 9. 1905.
J. K MOFFITT
Cashier OF The First National Bank of San
Francisco, California.
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20
TABLE SHOWS INCREASE

For the purpose of comparison, the
professor introduced what he called an
average bill of supplies" This amount
of meat and groceries could have been
bought at the following prices at the
stated times: January, 1905, S266:
April. 1906, S2s4-37; August, 1906.
S2S2.fT. and September, 1906, $2SS9s
This represented the increase of prices
for these commodities in San Fran
cisco. He compared this with the in
crease in other cities by the following
table, using 100 points as a basis: New
York 1908; ST. Louis, l01; San Fran
. cisco. 1913; Chicago. 1882
In the afternoon Albert johnson
proved himself the precocious student
of the class. He took the professor in
hand and lead him in peripatetic wan
derings through the theory of econom-
les until the witness forgot that he had
been called by the United Railroads to
prove that an employe of that company
{ ought to live on his $500 a year and be
contented.
Counselor Moore became fretful and
1nterposed an objection.
1t is easy to see," he protested.
that they are now boldly entering on
{ the question of the company's ability
10 pay an increased wage. To this we
object" Then addressing himself to
, his professor, he said: of course You
Will 90 a Won nlaaSe
The San Francisco call., 1906-12-20

Mariners Benevolent 6
Association.-Special meet
ing will be held at 1898
21st st. THURSDAY. Dec.
20. at 2:30 p. m. sharp: all
members are requested to be
present. for the purpose of
attending the funeral of our ,
deceased brother. c. F. Stran
residence, 1888 21st ST., near
der Of the President.
L. TRAUNG. RECORD