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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19

express sled. which travels ninety five
miles a day all through the winter.
The reindeer was introduced into
Alaska only about Il dozen years ago
by the Rev. lr. Sheldon Jackson. who,
States government. brought Il small
herd from northern Siberia. Since then
DR.. Jackson has brought thousands Of
reindeer into Alaska. and they have
multiplied rapidly.
They are now very generally employ
ell in carrying the mail. in the trans
pOrtntion Of supplies and in carrying
passengers between the various min
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19

ing towns and camps. The native Us
kimos also find them very valuable as
"A food AMI clothing supply.
In late years the christmas tree has
bern introduced among some OF The
EskinuS where the christian religion
Is taught 10y missionaries. This makes
1t Very handy for Santa Claus, who
lives there, of course. but usually 1t Is
Il most difficult, matter to get the tree.
Sometimes Il poor little bush is carried
hundreds Of miles on n reindeer sled
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19
Only TWO Realities.

Billy-So Yer didn't get uuthin' but Il
jackknifc ANA Il sled fer Christmas;
Tommy-NeS. lot's all ! got worth
speakin' OF. Ne"r WIZ Il suit of clothes.
and Il o~vcrcoat, and a hat or two. and
some undcrclotheS. and 4 book of
poems. and some Stockin's and gloves.
and some collars and cuffs. and 4 few
of.-Men and Woutrn-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19
salvation Army as santa Claus.

The thousands of cents or nickels or
dimes dropped into the Salvation
..rmy'S iron kettles under the red tri-
pods ut the street in New York
city last nrcelnhcr provided Christmas
dinners Tor fully $4,000 poor people,
and i5o Vera supplied With clothing
with the money contributed by the
public.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19

Mr.. Righear Virgins, old boy, we
have raised $50 to get the boss a
Christmas present. and we want some
thin. that will make Il show for the
money-something that will look big,
you know. Can't YOU suggest ONE
thing:
WigginS-Sure. Buy 500 worth OF
rice and boil it.-Mcn and Women.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-12-19
Don't Let til" Ni.tlrtoe Drop.

1t Is very ualurhr # the mist!etoe
should fall FROM the place where it has
been hung NJ.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
How the Ontario Nine Was Found,

In the summer of 1882 l was
travelling through Sonora with
Mr.. George Hearst, when he told
me how, ten years before, he
found the Ontario mine. A pros
pector from Parley's Park, Utah,
had brought into Salt Lake City
samples of quartz mixed with
canary-yellow and bright blue
oxidized ore (the characteristic
surface-ore of the Park City dis
trict resulting from the oxida-
tion of mixed galena and Arsen-
ical gray copper, that assayed
100 to 300 OF. silver per tosl. The
vein, the prospector stated, out
cropped so ft. wide for hundreds
Eof feet along the mountain side.
Mr.. Hearst said: when 1 got
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
Crackerjack in Good Ore.

Word has been received that
the men who are working on the
Crackerjack mine are now rails
ing in rich ore and the indica-
tions are that the ore will be
much richer and more plentiful
as the workmeh ascend. The
vein is widening perceptibly and
the miners expect to soon reach
a large body of ore. The values
in this strike which was made
80 feet from the floor of the
lower tunnel, are exceptionally
kigh.-Lewiston Tribune.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
Script Was Not Legal.

The following is a dispatch. to
the Lewiston Tribune from Boise:
Stories of suits in the past few
weeks against Frederic A. Hyde,
John A. Benson and their asso-
ciates in the United States dis
trict court by District Attorney
N. M. Ruick are the Idaho end
of large number of similar suits
that have been started or will be
begun in all portions of the west.
The actions involve a very in
teresting, question, which per-
meates each Of the dozen suits so
far filed in Idaho. Hyde and
Benson, it, is charged, in some
manner either secured advance
information of the creation Of
forest reserves or used political
4 influence to get them created
where wanted and then located
right and left in those districts.
Upon the cgeation OF these re-
serves the conspirators were able
to secure lieu land scrip which is
transferable. Large tracts of
these filings, claimed by the gov
ernment to. be illegal, were made
in California and Oregon, practi-
cally all the illegal scrip used in
the filings concerned in these
cases having originated in those
, states. g
Both Benson and Hyde are now
under indictment in the district
of Columbia, according to Dis
trict Attorney Ruick, on the
, charge of fraud in obtaining this
, lscrip. Twelve suits in all have
, been started to set aside the
patents in Idaho, most of them
involving land in the Boise LAND
! district that had been filed witt
, Hyde-Benson scrip.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
there, I found an immense reef

there, I found an immense reef
of quartzite, with occasional
scattered nests of ore, and saw
at once that it was no good.
That reef is there today in Nc
Henry gulch, and has never been
worked, save in a small way.
While l was looking over the
ground, a miner told me that
about two miles west, just oyer
the divide, some boys had struck
a vein Of the same kind of Ore,
and he thought they had a good
show to make a mine. l went to
see it; they had two openings on
the vein less than 100 ft. apart
and a shaft down about so ft.
The ore, in the widest place
measured not more than 18 in,
but the vein had all the marks of
a thoroughbred; and decided to
buy it, if the ore assayed as we'll
as it promised. When I got back
to Salt Lake, my samples assayed
60 to 125 o.. silver per ton, with
an average of about 80 ounces.
Shortly after this, l purchased
the mine for myself and Mr.. J.
B. Haggin of San Francisco, for
$32, 800, and Mr.. R. c. Chambers
was appointed superintendent.
The Marsac' MILL. built for the
Flag staff mine, was leased, anc
we at once started to open up the
property
In it's early history the Ontario
never had. IAN assessment; the
mine paid for everything, repait
its purchase price and met, from
the output, the expense of ma
chinery and development. Th'
gross production to date is nearl.
$36, 000,0 and there has beel
disbursed in dividends $15, 900,
000.-W. P. Jenny in M. e. S
Press.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03

will resume his duties at the C.
r. M. Co., at once.
. A surprise party given in honor
Of Mr.. Peter Marren's birthday,
was largely attended and very
enjoyable affair
Steve Winchester came in from
Grangeville via of Buffalo Hump,
and will stay with us awhile.
Jack Hinton and Geo. .Ander-
son have finished their contract
on the Posey claim.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hedges have
moved to directly across Crooked
river from the mill.
Nick Bollman was in with a
load Of freight.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
Can Ship Liquor to Sites.

Instructions were received at
the Northern Pacific offices that
liquor could be received for ship
ment to points on the reserva-
ton, and the Wholesale dealers
were at once a notified of the
change. The railroads have had
the matter under advisement
since the decision in the Dick
case in the United States dis
trict. court Of appeals at San
Francisco and now feel secure in
making the order. Heretofore
the railroads have refused to
handle the goods. Teller.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
The COmSt0ck.

A writer in the Virginia Chron-
icle says that from 1870 to 1880
5000 men were employed on the
Comstock in the forty or more
mines along the lode, from the
Utah on the north to the Kessuth
Dayton on the, south, over five
miles l1 length. The. payrolls
during the years mentioned ag-
gregated $75O,OOO and 1000
stamps were in constant opera
ton crushing ore from the lode.
From thirty-six to forty-five
trains were running daily on'the
Virginia and Truckee railroad for
the transportation of ore to the
mills and timber and fuel to the
mines, representing 240 carloads
daily. One million feet Of luln-
ber for timbering in the mines
and 100 cords of wood were con-
Isumed every twenty-four hours,
Ethe Consolidated Virginia alone
requiring 100000 feet of timber
monthly, and the bullion output
from the mine and the California
frequently exceed $4,000, 900.
The Comstock is still produc.
ing over So, 900, 900 annually, anc
the work now in progress of re
covering the flooded levels .anc
sinking to a depth of 5000 fee
will, in the opinion of experts
result in the discovery of mucl
larger and more valuable ore
bodies than, have yet been found
as the lode shows q greater widtl
on the 5000 level than on thos'
, above
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
Letr;ck Committed,

The examination of Jack Let
rick, miner who was brought
from Elk City on q charge of in
sanity, was conducted before
Judge J. E. Jacques, and he was
ordered committed to tie insane
asylum at Blackfoat. He will be
held pending thR arrival of an at
tendant from that institution. =
Tribune.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03

is but 85c per capita; that of
India, with $4,000 miles Of rail-
way, is about $2.25 per capita,
and that of Japan; with 1850
miles of railways, is $3.50 per
capita. In other words, the COM
merce of China, without a sys-
tenn .of railways, is about one
third as much per capita as that
of India, and one-sixth as, much
per capita as that of Japan, each
of which has but one mile of rail-
way for each 10000 inhabitants.
But there is another feature of
this recent railway development
in the east which must be con-
sidered as likely to prove of great
importance in the future relations
of the Orient with the Occident.
China has 1000 miles of railway,
most of it connected with the
gaeat Trans-Siberian line, and
several thousand miles more have
been authorized or definitely
proposed. French Indo-China,
lying jus at the south of China,
has over 1000 miles constructed
and many new lines projected,
while the Malayan peninsula, still
farther south, has some 300 miles
Siam about $50 miles, and Bur-
man 1,500 miles, The French
| Indo-C China system is to be con-
nected with the. railways of
China by a line 2S0. miles long,
now under constructions atn a
prospective cost of some $40, 000,-
600. The railway, lines under
construction or projected in China
promise to extend to her south
west border, where a few hun
dred miles of railway would con.
meet them with the systems Of
Burmah, which in turn will con.
meet with that of India, about
%, 900 miles in length.
From India the RAILWAY system
again stretches westward into
; Persia, and the construction o1
but a few hundred miles woulC
put this great system into com
munication with the 2,000 mile!
of road in Asiatic Turkey, which
in turn connects with the rail
, ways of southern Europe, while
a comparatively short stretch O.
: road at the north of India woult
also connect the Indian railwa.
, system with that of Russia
While it is a fact that seriou
' political obstacles to some o
+ these unions Of railway system
: now exist, it is not unlikely tina
\ the demand Of. commerce will i
v time be sufficiently strong t
: overcome or sufficiently modif
: these political conditions and
: render possible a union of thes
4 numerous systems, great an
+ small, so far as relates to an ir
+ terchange of passengers, freight
h mails, and the establishment c
o other transportation systems bt
h tween the railroads of Euror
and those of Asia. = Mining an
q Scientific Press.
. How the Ontario Nine Was Foun,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
OROGRANDE ITEMS.

phyry dixie is being cross-cut on
the ]. P. Morgan claim. This
dixie, is full of phonolite boulders,
and the mass resembles plums in
a pudding. The rich J. P. Nor
gan vein lays in contact with this
dixie. On the; Butterfly claim the
fine tunnel being drove there, is
progressing rapidly. The mater
ial being mined is a lively look
ing prophyryetic granite, carry
ing considerable quartz with iron
sulphides.
The Thunder Mountain. Com
pany is operating its stamp-mill
steadily and successfully. They
are having great success with
the cyanide process. This COM
pany has an, enormous mass Of
mineralized zone material inter
spersed with high grade linses,
that closely resembles in appear
ance and values, the great Hogan
mineral zone.
The soft falling weather that
has prevailed recently, makes
the G. R. M. Co. people smile,
because of the increased water
supply. The, lowering of the
grizzlies in the glory hole is
about completed, and will make
available a large body of rich
pay ore.
Geo. Cooper came through from
the, Hump on his way outside.
He has been at the Jumbo for &
long time managing the ,chlor-
ination plant. He expressed
himself as very much astonisheG
at the magnitude of the opera
lions under way here. and pre-
dicted a glorious future for ou
district. -.
+, The Twin Butte Mining Co., O
, Orogrande, have been busily de
, veloping their extensive holding
, all winter. They are now driv
. ing two seperate., j, tunnels, an
, have developed some very fin
showings indeed.
$ Dave Filler was over to ge
: men for the Jumbo. On the &C
D counti of the extreme activit
: around. here, he, had great troubl
/. in securing the numbers h
e wished, but bE extending hi
e quest to Elk, the number wer
r finely secured. =.
e A. A. Drury, of Spokane, an
e S. E. King, M. e.. of Seattl
S and Nome. stopped with us owe
/ night. The gentlemen were O
IS their way to Big creek. The
l. secured the services Of Orr
j, Lamb to guide them over. >
e Eight thousand pounds of gr'
n ceries arrived this week and hay
1T been transported by toboggan
"a to the Umatilla mine. Th
splendid property is making fir
2 progress with their developmel
q work.
2, Mine Host,si Colgrove, is no
"a chef along with his other mar
81 fold duties. The chuck is no
s. and as it always has been bot
N abundant and wholesome.
- !, Mr.. O'Bannon, of Clearwate
~ was in with a sleigh load of egg
-, ~ but was unable to supply tt
- market. lie will return at on
with more.
There has been an epidemic
u colds, grira, epizootic9pr sor
nt malady going around that max
n fellow feel as if his time was
re hand.
% Five freight teams arrived Wi
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-03-03
THE ORIENT.
Interesting Comparisons Between
Trade and Transport.

bureau of statistics, has made
certain interesting comparisons
between the trade and trans
port of the Orient. He said:
The population of Asia and
Oceania is $50 millions, while
that of all other parts of the
world combined is but about 750
millions. Its land area is 18|
million square miles, and that of
all other parts of the world "a
millions; yet it's commerce is
slightly less than three billions
of dollars, and that other parts
of the world 10 billions. This
gives an average commerce in
the entire Orient of about So per
capita per annum, while the
! average in all the rest of the
world combined is $27 per capita.
Thus the Orient, which has more
than one-half of the worlds
population and more than
one-third of it's land area,
has now but one-ninth
the average per capita in all
other parts of the world. That
region which we term the Orient
while it has more than one-half
of the population and one-third
of the land area of the world,
has but one-tenth of, the worlds
railways and less thaneone-tenth
of it's telegraph lines. The people
of the orient are, as rule, in
Austrious, painstaking, and now
disposed to commercial inter-
cqurset withitthe Qctident, but
without facilities for transport
ing their products from the in
terror to the seaboard, where
they may selF or exchange them
for product Of the other parts of
the world, they are powerless to
develop commerce.
China, India and Japan have
about nine-tenths Of the popula-
tion of what is generally known
as the Orient, and the relative
development of commerce to rail-
: ways is most suggestive. Rail
way construction in India began
about 1853, but did not make
rapid development until more re-
GENT years. Ina Japan. galway
building began about 1872, but
most of the development has oc-
cured during the past decade. Ir
China nearly all Of the railway
now existing has been construct
ed since 1900, and under aircum
stances which have not per
United as system which woul(
have material effect upon com
merce inthese three great Orien
,tal countries, two of them will
young but rapidly developing
railway systems, the other witt
practically none.
The foreign commerce eof Chin
with it's 4OO,OO0,OO0 industriou
people, but no railways, ha
grown but $3.50, 100000 SING
1870; that of India, with 300, ,00Q,
600 people and a SYSTEM, of raj
ways, has grown $258, 900, ,0O(
sand that of Japan, with only 45
100000 and a system of railway
has grown 100000. Tn
Chinaman is known by thos
familiar with the conditions !
the Orient as a natural trade
and business man. A larg
sshare of trade in the Orient is
Chinese hands, and the position
of trust in the great bankin
establishments are largely he
by Cinnamon; yet, despite thes
: commercial characteristics of tt
.Chinamen, the foreign ycommert
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
PERJURY IN PIG KNUCkLE CASE.
Now AIieE I'd That Marshal Pagin was
Saved by False sw earing.

CINCINNATI, June 1.-The criminal libel
suit OF United States Marshal Vivian j.
Fagin. who seeded from the followers Of
Boss George B. Cox and allied himself with
the R~oosevelt-Ta wing Of the party
against members Of the Pig Knuckle Re
publican) Club, was enhvened to-day when
william Maher. a Fagin witness, was placed
under arrest by Magistrate John NJ Smedes
for contempt for oonfeseing In open court
that he was guilty Of assaulting s. NJ. Ram
say, a member Of a prominent family, about
two years g and that he had never been
punished for it.
When Ramsay was assaulted he wrote
President Roosevelt and said that Marshal
Fagin had struck him. Whena Secret Ser
vice man investigated the assault Maher
assumed the responsibility and made afi-
davit to 1t.
In the trial a few days ago Attorney
HatliY, for the defence, said he intended
to hold Fagin for alleged subornation Of
perjury In another instance and this alleged
second attempt caused a sensation in court
to-day. g,
Maher turned deadly pale when informed
that he was under arrest. He will be tried
Monday.
County Treasurer R. X. Hynicka, chair
man of the Republican finance committee,
testified that in 1908 he gave Fagin from
5000 to 81, 900 to spend in the Fourth ward.
mo questions were asked and none
was asked last year when Fagin had 81 900
to send to his ward. Hynicka's testimony
Is supposed to show "pernioious activity in
politics. and this charge is now on file
in Washington against Fagin.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
LOCKOUT.
Union's Last Chsnce TO Return to work 10
Tuesday Morning.

The general lockout OF the Master Car
penters' Association against the 1000 men,
hers Of the Brotherhood Of Carpenters
| unless the strike Of the carpenters In Brook
Ign is called of will go into effect IN Wednes-
day. The Greater New York district coun-
Gil Of the brotherhood was notified yester-
day that the strikers must be at work on
Tuesday morning to head of the lockout.
The executive committee Of the Master
Carpenters Association met yesterday
afternoon in the Building Trades club. After
the meeting President Lewis Harding made
the following statement:
In going on strike and refusing to obey
all orders to call the strike of, includin g
an order from their own district council.
the carpenters are not only violating the
arbitration agreement but also violating
an agreement they made with us by which
wages were to remain as they are unit !
July /, when they we're to be raised 80 cents
a day. The agreement referred at first to
the Manhattan carpenters because we had
at the time few carpenters working In any
OF the other boroughs.
Later we had men in all the boroughs
and a conference took place which was at
tended by representatives Of III oarpen-
tiers from the other %boroughs. These car
penters said that they would get into trouble
II they went back and reported that the
Manhattan carpenters only were getting an
increase Of wages. 1t was then agreed
that the carpenters in the other boroughs
should get a proportionate increase. The
wages were $3.50 a day in Manhattan, 81 in
Brooklyn and The Bronx and SO. so in Queens
and Richmond. After an agreement to
this effect was made the carpenters in
Brooklyn wanted to jack up the wages to
Manhattan rates before the increase went
into effect in July and demanded $3.50 a
day, going on strike when the demand was
refused.
The matter was referred with the CON-
sent of both sides to a special committee
composed Of employers and employees,
who failed TO agree, and by the consent Of
both sides Justice Gaynor was chosen um-
pire, his decision to be final and binding.
The carpenters, however, refused to accept
his ruling, which, briefly was that wage
should remain as they were until July /,
when the increase would go into effect
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
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fs1ilef afsuad4'ad pu, ~ hfabrs hu' IN
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\ p%uliF~fnsr sbc spf~ared tni asfes'ei
Johnson Hsepvefmi w ruesns ~ . sr"cial
~roitensn's bsder ~ the boslv tha, The
dead man saa Fua~ns Ctishtnaai Tifetina
iHndeHi N uen~uso,pi Ceinetefy for hfieen
Veafs nui 4 msruhet NJ IN rrnp,ent Ath
Irtio Che IRE hcfs waa tsksn ~ thu
Fpft Hanliton station. and Johnson wwnt
thers oharRri With homicide
tohnsun tokt f~tNc,ivss White and
%lIenncv ~ he To6 Hamilton station that
NJ ttishnan wsa undoubtedly unconscious
before tho ear got IA him, The detectivrs
found Sao IN oash, . aold watch and chain,
= diamond ring and a Masonic min IN tho
body, They didn't beIisvs, therefore, that
Mr. Ciahman had beeh murdered and then
thrown on the track. ne was suggested by
some 81 Mr.. Cuahman's friends.
Mr., Cushmah lived at igB Third street,
Brooklyn Friday hls wife n children
went TO tho Adifondacka 10 spend = few
weeks Friday night Mr. Cushman went
"a thu country houss ~ the Crescent
Athletio Club az Eighty fourth street and
the shore road. He stayed thera until
about II O'clock and then went Will mein-
bers ~ he Toronto ~lacroees team to Fort
Hamilton and Ulmer Park. fla remained
with tho Canadians until about midnight,
when. presumably, he started for home.
That h. the last definite information the
police we're able to get a. TO his whereabouts
Friday night.
The DO ice Of the Fort Hamilton station
said 10 would probably be impossible to
show by an examination Of the body whether
Mr.. CishmAn had been injured or killed
before tho trolley car ran over him. A
lawyer for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company ga d the company expected to
show hat Mr.. Cushman was dead before
the car reached him
He was 81 years old. johnson, the motor
man, lives at 255 Ffty-eighth street He
was held In 81 900 bail for examination