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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-07-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Ct the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting items Gathered from All
Dsrts of the World Condensed
yato Snail Space for the
Deneat of Our Readers.
Personal,

Irwin Miller. a son OF the late Asso-
ciate Justice S. H. Miller. OF the United
States supreme court. is dead.
Colonel Samuel Donaldson, who was
doorkeeper of the house Of represen-
tatives during Mr.. Carlisle's term as
speaker, died of heart failure at his
home in Washington.
President Roosevelt will review the
Atlantic fleet on September at Oyster
Bay.
William NJ. Clark, eastern freight
agent for the Missouri Pacific railroad
died at his home in Summit, n. j..
Of disease of the heart
Mai Alfred Dreyfus. who was recent
ly restored to his rank in the French
army, has been decorated with the
cross of the Legion of Honor.
Charles Bliss, known to circus goers
a generation ago as the human fly,
died at Madison, Wis, aged so years
Russell Sage, the veteran lnancier4
died at his country home near Law
renee, on Long Island. The immedi-
ate cause of his death was heart fail
ure, resulting from a complication of
diseases incident to old age. Had he
lived he would have celebrated his
Both birthday August 4.
Lady Curzon, wife of the former
viceroy of India and who was Mary
Letter daughter OF the late Levi
z. Letter, the Chicago merchant, died
Unexpectedly in London recently Of a
complication Of diseases. She had
never fully recovered from serious
tad
Washington in 1885, and leaves three
daughters.
Miss Grace Howe Mckinley, niece
OF the late President Mckinley, was
married recently at Fort Des Moines.
Ia, to Capt. Heidi. of the Eleventh
cavalry. Notable among the wedding
gifts was a mahogany chest of sill
yer from Mrs. William Mckinley.
John W. Gampitt. who helped to
defend Mrs Surratt following the
assassination of President Lincoln.
died recently in Indianapolis, Ind.
Frank 3. Fulkerson was renomi-
mated for congress by the Fourth
Missouri district republican conven-
ton at St. Joseph by aeclamation.
Benjamin T. Redman, said to have
compiled the first directory published
in the United States, is dead ut the
age of SO in Cincinnati. o.
Secretary Wilson has returned to
Washington from his western trip.
Many packing houses were visited and
much information obtained.
Archie Irvine and his son, Thomas.
OF Cestos, Ok, were recently found
murdered in Wyoming where they had
gone to visit relatives.
DR.. S. F. Neely, four times mayor
of Leavcnworth, Kan, and well known
throughout the state as an influential
democrat is dead. He was 10 years
of age.
A portrait of the late Secretary OF
State John Hay, personally selected
by Mrs. Hay, has been placed in the
diplomatic reception room in the
state department at Washington.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-07-28
Exceptionally Low
Rates to Brighter
Possibilities

The Southwest is the land of possibilities.
The opportunities for men of average
means are brighter here than elsewhere
investment. The opportune time is now
while the land is cheap. The country is
settling up. If you purchase land now you
will soon see grow up around you A com
munity Of prosperous energetic men who
like yourself have seen the brighter posi-
bilities of the Southwest, and have taken
advantage OF them.
Along the line OF the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
R'y in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas
vast areas Of unImpTOvcd land land
yielding the crops Of which it is capable. The
thing, in a different way, true of the towns.
Few lines of business are adequately represented.
There openings of all sorts for you. II you're
in any way interested in the Southwest I'd like to
send you copy OF my free pap.r The Coming
Country
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-07-28
August 9TH ar. 4 21st

you can make trip Southwest exception ally
cheap Round trip tickets, good thirty -5o-days,
will be sold by all lines in connection with the
NJ K. s. I. Ry at more than fare plus
e2oo; in many cases-!rom Chicago to san An
tonic, the rate is s2s. from ST. Paul sz7.
from 81. Louis and Kansas City, S7p oo-the rates
considerably lower. The tickets permit OF
stop-overs in both directions. M, k. & 7. Ry.
II your nearest railroad agent cannot give you
the rates, write me for particulars.
w. S. ST. GEORGE
General Passenger Agent, NJ. X. & T. R'y
Wainwright Building St. Louis, Mo.
G. A, McNuTT, Blossom House. Kansas City. Mo
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-07-28

fall.
Fire in Yokohama recently de-
stroyed 1000 Japanese houses.
An application has been filed in
the district court at Des Moines, Ia,
for a receiver for the Brotherhood of
American Yeomen, fraternal insur-
ance order operating in the western
states.
A treaty of peace was signed on
board the United States cruiser Mar
blehead between commissioners rep
resenting Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras which ends the Central
American war Resolutions were
adopted thanking the president Of the
United States and Mexico for their
Intervention.
Electricians employed on the San
Francisco street railway lines have
gone out on a strike.
The United States circuit court at
Boston has ordered that H. H. Rogers,
the Standard Oil magnate, pay over
to the Bay State Gas company ST.
500 900, which n half OF the profit
alleged to be due for the sale of the
Boston companies.
In the final battles Of the Central
American war Salvador was the VIC
tor, the Guatemalan army retreating
in disorder and leaving arms and am
munition in its Camp.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04

This appliance consists of two
coops, each of which is suitable for
the accommodation of hen and her
brood. They are set down on the
ground at any convenient distance
apart, say from three to five feet
asunder, and in such a position that
both fronts face the same direction.
extending from one coop to the
other there is light frame of wood
resting on the roofs, and this frame
supports an awning of canvas, un-
bleached calico, oilcloth or any SIM
liar material. The awning forms a
roof over the space between the coops,
and also extends to the ground at
the back and hangs over the edge a
few inches in front. Ample shade
and shelter are thus afforded the
chicks in both coops, the space be-
tween being common to both broods.
While the chicks are under week
old, if it is so desired, they may be
confined to this sheltered space by
means Of strip of wire netting
placed along the front, and thus a
convenient feeding and exercising
ground is formed at very little ex-
pense. This arrangement does not
suit very we'll when the two broods
of chickens are of different ages, but
when hatched at the same time they
fraternize in the most amicable
manner imaginable, and yet do not
make the mistake of returning to
the wrong COOP.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
Gapes and It's Treatment.

The popular fallacy that incuba-
tor chickens ere immune from gapes
doubtless arises from the fact that
they are usually kept from the
ground until past the stage to be
troubled. Turn an incubator chicken
loose on ground where chicks with
eapes have run within two or three
years, and they will soon be gaping:
keep the hen with her brood on board
'loors or ground not infested, and
they are safe.
Tho disease, as is generally under
stood, is caused by q small worm
which lodges in the windpipe. Some
adopts remove the offender with =
6kilful turn Of feather or loop of
s.orsehair. but the novice is apt to
add to the patients torture without
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04

The feeding block shown in an en-
larged form is round log hav-
ing a handle driven into one
end and to prevent the chicks
preching on the block and also
to serve for moving the block from
place to place. There is no possibil-
ity Of the food getting soiled which
is most important consideration,
for very many chicks are lost when
the food is thrcwn on ground which
is none too clean, and which is tram
pied on and fouled by the chicks.
The method here illustrated is one Of
the oldest and most common Of
French systems of feeding, and on
most farms in that industrial country
several of these feeding blocks may
be seen in the fields which are fre-
quented by chicks and fowls. For
feeding young turkeys, also, the
French feeding block is most valu-
able. as It IS absolutely necessary
that these birds should have clean,
fresh d.-Inland Poultry Journal.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
Treating Old Apple Trees.

German newspapers have been
publishing articles describing expert
ments looking to the improvement of
declining apple orchards of the Var
terland. A brief outline of the ex-
periments has been forwarded to the
department of commerce and labor
by Consul Mahin of Nottingham
OF five long rows of apple trees,
he writes, one row was left untreat-
ed and the other four had different
combinations of manurings. The row
left unmanured gave 104 pounds of
apples per tree during the five years
from 1900 to 1904, both inclusive,
and in the fifth year (1904), which
was the year of maximum yield for
the entire orchard, the weight of ap-
pies per tree was fifty-fve pounds
and the number 294. The best re-
suits from manuring were obtained
by complete manure, consisting of
i Is pounds Of sulphate of ammonia.
1 12 pounds Of basic Stag per tree per
annum, applied to the roots during
the winter. During the five years the
yield per tree from this dressing was
163 pounds of apples, while by the
fifth year the bearing increased to
4O1 apples weighing los pounds per
tree-that is, the weight of the ap-
pies per tree increased by manuring
from fifty-five pounds on the unman-
ured trees to los pounds on the man
ured trees, or 900 per cent; while
the number of apples increased from
294 to 401 per tree, or thirty-six per
cent. The increase in average size
OF the apples is remarkable. Those
from the unmanured trees averaged
2.sS ounces each, and those from
the manured trees 419 ounces each.
National Fruit Grower.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
Honey Bee Habits.

The honey bee has numerous hab-
its, some of which are good and 9TH
ers not quite SO good. Still 1, for
one, am glad that every female bee
is equipped with a good sharp sting.
IL 1t were not so, how could such
small, helpless creatures protect
themselves and their homes from
man and beast? The race would
soon become extinct. for the honey
bee has many enemies.
1t would be necessary for the keep
er OF bees to keep constant watch
on his hives to prevent them from
being looted, says the New York
Farmer. AS it is, the bees them
selves do their own sentinel duty,
and no one yet has come around and
found them all asleep. After a hard
day OF toll the beekeeper can lay his
weary self down to rest and feel
quite confident that the bees will
hold the fort until morning.
Probably the thing most annoying
to the beekeeper is the swarming
habit. IT the bees did not persist in
dividing their forces so frequently
much more surplus honey could be
obtained, and the beekeeper would
feel more easy about his bees.
In producing comb honey in one
pound boxes it is necessary to crowd
the bees into the section boxes, for
they seem loath to begin work in
such small divisions, and this crowd
ing is one of the incentives which
creates the swarming fever. When
producing extracted honey, abundant
room can be given, and the swarming
impulse is greatly checked.
Therefore, if bees are to be kept
Tar from the house and cannot have
much attention it is advisable to pro-
duce only extracted honey, which is
done by giving the bees large combs
and plenty Of room, for it matters
not whether the combs are entirely
complete or not, as the honey is
taken from them and the combs re-
tanned to be used again.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04

b ar the case, while the widow wer
and abused the cause of her SON.
death. Loo, ing sternly at the tige
and pointing to the old widow. tn
magistrate thus addressed the FOR
mer:
"This poor old widow depends
for support on her son. He has beel
devoured by you. You beast of II
omen! On whom can she now rel
for a livelihood? Even IL you ar
condemned and put to death, how cal
that compensate the widow for he
loss?"
Hearing this the tiger dropped hi
head and seemed to be thorough.
repentant. The magistrate, observ
ing the change in the tigers demean
or, continued:
As now see you fully realize tn
enormity OF your crime and are sin
cerely sorry for what you have done
! grant you pardon, and decide tha
you shall henceforth act as the son o
the old widow, whose wants, both a
regards food and clothes, it will b.
your duty to supply"
The tiger looked much relieved ant
at once nodded a ready assent. HI
was then released and scampered OF
ito the hills. The same evening he re
turned carrying in his mouth deer
which he placed at the widows door
after having scratched it with hi
paw to give information of his ar
rival. The widow at once came ou
to see Who was there, and beholdin,
the deer realized that it had beel
brought for her by the tiger. Sh'
sold the deer, and from the proceed
of it's sale she was able to live com
fortably for some time.
These attentions on the part of thu
tiger became quite regular and wer
faithfully carried on without inter
ruption for more than ten years
Then the widow died, much to thu
grief of her officially appointed son
the tiger, who had found great pleas
ure in making the old age of thu
widow much more comfortable thar
it would have been had her own sol
been alive.-East of Asia Magazine,
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
! THE CiIIPMUNK.

Here BY this rock, beneath this moss, a
hole
Leads to his home, the den wherein he
sleeps;
Lulled by near noises of the cautious mole
Iunnelling his mine-hke some ungainly
Troll
Or by the ceaseless cricket there that
keeps
Tuning above him it's monotonous lutte;
Or slower sounds of grass that creeps
d. and creeps,
And trees unrolling mighty root on root.
Such is the music of his sleeping house.
Day hath another: 'tis melody
He trips to, made by the assembled flowers,
And light and fragrance laughing mid the
bowers,
And ripeness busy with the acorn-tree.
Such strains, perhaps, as filed with mute
amaze
The silent music of Earth's ecstacy-
The Satyr's soul, the Faun of classic days.
Madison Cawein, in Harper's Magazine.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
A SCHOOLGIRL PITCHER.
Pennsylvania Girl Who Plays Ball
With the Best Of the Bows.

Pennsylvania Girl Who Plays Bal
With the Best Of the Boys.
Miss Carrie Meyer, the seventeen.
year-old daughter of Victor Meyer
OF Macungie, is living refutation oil
the charge that when woman
throws a ball or missile the one
point of safety for any human being
is directly in line with what she aims
at.
From her earliest childhood Miss
Meyer, who is now winning fame
twirling the spheroid across the
home plate, had deep love for base.
ball. When other girls were Jump.
ing the rope and trundling the hoop
Miss Meyer was playing baseball and
handball with the boys in the neigh.
borhood, and every juvenile captain
of the diamond contested fiercely fol
the honor of having her on his team
for even at that tender age she could
line them out" at rate that made
every youthful batter sore in the
shoulder blades tanning the empty
and inconsistent atmosphere, and il
is confidently predicted that If she
keeps on pitching ball she will yet
make Rube Waddell sit up and take
notice.
While Miss Moyer has been fond
OF all kinds Of athletic sports ''since
childhood's busy hour it was not
until she was q student at the Kutz-
town Normal School, few years ago
that her great ability as pitcher
came into observation.
She there played upon the regulal
school nine and helped win many 9
victory. While she prefers pitching,
as being most scientific and AFFORD
ing greater opportunity for display
OF skill, she is able to I'LL worthily
any position on the diamond.
Her style Of pitching Is puxzline
proposition. IN 4 recent game Ia
Bethlehem she struck out i've men.
Apparently. she pitches slow ball,
but It SO very elusive that not one Ia
three is able to lind It when Il
reaches the plate Allentown (Pa.) }
Corresponds Washington POST
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
Hog Cholera.


The Department of Agriculture has
made many successful tests Of the
following formula in cases of hog
cholera. Of course no remedy was
ever found to save in every case, but
If successful in many it is well worth
trying. Here it is:
Wood or cob charcoal. L lb.
sulphur. .... .... .....2 lbs.
Sodium chloride Common salt) 2 lbs.
Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda 2 lib.
Glauper salts. --...l ID.
Cor EPSON salts, lbs.)
Anthony sulphide. -. ......1 1b.
Pulverize each Of the ingredients
well and mix them together thor
oughly.
The dose IS a tablespoonful for
each 200 pounds weight Of the hogs,
given twice day in shorts or bran
slop feed.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
"A Free Country.

A characteristic and striking In
stance Of the Observation-Disclosures which
England always shows to her sub
jects, whatever be their race or color,
is the fact that Mustafa Kamel Pacha
organizes In London in broad day
light the movement destined, II his
hopes are realized, to give Egypt to
the Egyptians and to drive away the
English offic:cls, Geneva Journal.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
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removing it's cause. Chicks are rare.
ly affected until several weeks old.
Rainy weather favors the develop
r1ent OF The disease, and the first pre-
monitory snoeze should be q signal
to commence treatment.
! Sometimes little kerosene or tur-
pentine in the food or drinking water
(being careful tc only slight taint it
or they will not touch IT'D is sufi-
cient. Kerosene in which little
camphor gun has been dissolved,
forced down the throat with a medi-
cine dropper or feather. is one OF
tnc best remedies, two or three drops
being given at time, repeating the
dose several times day if necessary.
'Turpentine used in the same way is
q other standard remedy. The medi.
cine dropper, which can be bought
for three cents, will be found a great
convenience in administering medi-
cine to chicks. They simply can't
dodge taking the dose presented in
this way, and it is milder treat
ment than the feather.-Bessie L..
Putnam, in the Tribune Farmer.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
:, TRUTH ABOUT TIE FLY,
Some Crimes Of the Commonest Invader
Of Your Home. :. :. :.

aerator through which the fresh mill
was passing as covered with flies.
Now, II these flies had just had &C
cess to matter infected with typhoii
enough colonies could have beer
started in that good culture medium
to cause an epidemic Of the disease
and who but this observer would
have guessed its source.
What, then, is to be done to pro
tect our food supply from this dis
gusting and dangerous insect? L
will be well to note, first, what ha.
been accomplished in the extirpatior
OF other insect pests.
"A year ago New Orleans learned
at heavy cost that If the city was tt
be freed from yellow fever the mos
quito must go; and in the space of {
Jew months, so vigorous was the
campaign, the now famous stegomis
or yellow fever mosquito was nearl,
exterminated. and a price is now Sc,
on its head. / am informed that
scientists who went to study the in
sect were obliged to leave becaus.
they could find no material.
This result was brought about b,
covering their breeding places Will
Kerosene and by the thorough fumi.
cation of houses.
Is it too much to hope that in the
small town and the farming commu.
nifty this pest may be somewhat
abated2 In France during the pas,
winter jury of scientific men award.
ed prize Of 10000 francs to thu
author OF a memoir which outlined
a method for the use of "residun
oil' in the destruction of the egg,
and larvae of the fly. Two litres OF
OIL to every square metre of surface
OF pit or manure pile was found tt
make a protective covering which
killed the larvae and prevented the
entrance of flies and the Matching OF
eggs.
Visit in summer any suburb that
Is frequented by picnic parties. A,
the rear will be found piles of tir
cans, papers and fragments of rottins
food. Here feed swarms of flies that
have found their breeding ground
further on where the horses were
tied, and these unclean insects are
ready to descend on the food laid oui
by each party of picnickers. 1t is b,
no means impossible that an un.
noticed fly speck on the cake may bt
responsible for sporadic" case 81
typhoid fever or intestinal tuber
culosis.
And this insect, born in a dung
hill and feeding on what is foul ant
diseased. is a daily household guest
as witness its very name, 1.-THE com.
mon house fly"
l have sought in vain for any
proof of good to man that can be
credited to this insect. When I wa.
child I used to hear it said that
flies were our friends because they
were scavengers-th they con.
sumed what would otherwise be 8
source Of danger to us. For the same
reason, great should be the debt OF
the New Orlenas marketman to the
buzzard, that street cleaner who
works for his board. But we have
found better ways Of cleaning oul
markets, streets and houses, and car
well dispense with the services of un.
clean beasts and insects, who may
leave behind them far worse things
than they carry away.
The housewife who gives frenzied
chase to the intruder is not puttins
in her work at the most promising
end of the line. The fly, like the
mosquito, is only to be destroyed by
allowing it no breeding place. The
Delineator.
The Brandon news., 1906-10-04
ROMANCE OF DESERTED DYEA
The Once Famous Alaskan Town Nov
Has Single Inhabitant.

Has Single Inhabitant.
1t has been just ten years sine,
George Carmack, a ''squaw man.
and his two Indian companions
''Shookum JIM and "Tagish Char
lie." discovered gold on the rim o
what is now known as Bonanz;
Creek in the Yukon territory.
There was but one way to reacl
the gold fields, and this was over
land from the head of the Lynn
Canal. On each of the two tongues
of this canal and only a few mile
apart, the owns of Dyea and Skag
way sprang up and competed for tn,
trade of the treasure seekers.
The name Skagway means "Hom,
of the North Wind" 1t opened tn,
White Horse route, shorter, but NOR,
dangerous, to the goal. Dyea, an In
dian word, meaning to pack or t,
load, was the headquarters for tn,
Chilkoot Pass.
Tickets were sold from all points
to Dyea, and as early as May 1, 1897
more than 1000 people were in tn,
little Indian town preparing to pacl
over the mountains. Soon a stee
cable tramway was built over tn,
Chilkoot Pass, the main Office o.
which was in Dyea.
Then the tents gave way to sub
stantial frame buildings. Numerous
hotels, stores and banks opened fol
business, and the once Indian villag,
became a thriving city of 5000 peo
pie.
Skagway also continued to grow
but, says Leslie's Weekly, from a diff
ferent cause. The White Pass was s
failure during the summer of 1897
Scarcely ten per cent. of the men whs
used it ever reached Lake Bennett
Hundreds gave up in despair and re
turned to their homes in the States
while many settled in Skagway and
engaged in various business enter
prises.
Finally the railroad was projected
built and is now being operated from
Skagway to White Horse-a distanc,
of 112 miles. The fare is somewha
startling-$20 one way-the tril
from the terminus of one steamship
line on the Lynn Canal to the begin
ming Of another just below the Whit,
Rapids is made in fewer hours thar
it took weeks in the days of 1897 ant
1898.
This fixed the fate of Dyea. tt
struggle against the city with tn,
iron horse was brief. Thousands O.
dollars had been invested in land
buildings and merchandise; a few
saw quickly the impending doom ant
sold out at small loss, others lin
gered in the hope that something un
foreseen might happen to turn tn,
tide OF fortune, only to be over
whelmeG in financial disaster.
The end soon came, and Dyea. will
its former streets dimly marked b,
indentations in the sand heaps, it
warehouses still bearing names o
merchants, hotels, banks and dwell
ings slowly yielding to the ravages O.
the elements and the vandalism O
the Skagwayans, its wnarves. onct
laden with produce of immense value
fallen to decay. is to-day absolutel.
deserted.
Its name remains on the map. ant
IS mentioned in the Alaska director.
as a discontinued post Office will
telephone communications with Skag
way. The telephone communica
tion1 belongs to man who has
homestead claim in the suburbs o
the deserted city, and who raises
few vegetables for the Skagway mar
ket.