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BRIDGE CROSSING RAILROAD TRACK

the sward. The American hailed him
and with the usual freedom and in
Quisitiveness of his nationality asked
many questions as to the conduct OF
affairs in such an establishment 40
the gardener was connected with.
'"Tell me- he snid to the gardener.
"how do you make lawn like this.
have place In America and / am
trying to make lawn around the
house, but 1t doesn't seem to do well.'s
The old gardener scratched his head
and, looking doubtfully at the Ameri-
can, he said: You must have good
eu6soil, and a good surface soil and
the sod must be well laid. Then you
must roll It, and cut 1t and water It,
and keep on doing this until IT'S
right"
A CENTURY TO Mako A Lawn.
The American agreed with him
that the process was simple, and then
asked, "How long will I have to do
this before the lawn is like that one7''
The old gardener again spoke doubt.
fully, but finally gave 1t as his opinion
that II his directions were followed
for anywhere from fifty to hundred
years the results would be all that
could be desired.
This same idea might also apply 10
tne rOdOS anu Dr1QSeS throughout Eng.
land, for much of their excellence II
due to the fact that their foundations
were laid scores of years ago and
generation after generation of work
ers has been tinkerfng at them ever
since. In fact, the roads built by the
Romans now serve as the foundations
for some Of the best known English
highways, and to the south Of Lon
don, east and west through the beauti-
ful county of Surrey there Is a road
now greatly patronized by the owners
OF motor cars which In Its beginning
was the highway beaten hard by the
sandaled feet of the early Britons as
they toiled to the east coast from
Wales with their back-breaking bur.
dens Of tin. This same road was af.
terwards improved In Its texture and
grades because of its being the high
way for the pilgrims of western Eng
land en- route to Canterbury. It IL
still shaded in places by the yew trees
planted perhaps thousand years aR0
to furnish bows the sturdy British
archers.
ENGLISH ROADS VERY NARROW.
In the first place the English road
10 generally narrow, so narrow, In
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fact, that 1t is only in certain places
that one team can pass another with.
out considerable manoeuvering. If all
the labor expended upon an American
country road were to be concentrated
upon narrow track only wide
enough for a farmers wagon, great
improvement in results would be
noted. for 1t is of course much cheaper
to lay the foundations, build up the
body, and surface road fourteen
feet wide than to put into shape q
highway which, at Its narrowest point
the ambitious Americans have extend
ed to forty feet. This. in itself, Is
point which If intelligently adopted
would In many places solve the CUES
ton Of q practicable roadway upon
which In all kinds Of weather and al
all times Of the year a single team Of
horses could haul q profitable load to
market.
The English farmer uses cart up
on which single horse draws any.
where from one to two tons OF dead
weight. The tires Of the wheels are
from four to eight inches In breadth.
thereby cutting no ruts and each pass
ing vehicle adds to the solidity and
of the road in that its
wheels serve as effective rollers.
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Because of the comparative isolation
OF Hawaii, its large foreign population
and the amount of silver in circula-
tion, it seems that the coming in
dustry has been active there. Chief
Wilkie Of the Secret Service has an
nounced that arrangements have been
made for the establishn ent of a branch
OF the service at Honolulu, where in.
dications have pointed to the develop
ment Of coming enterprises and it is
hoped that the contemplated measures
OF suppression may be effective"
Another reason why the past wear
has been difficult one with criminals
is that there has been an increase Of
cooperation between the police depart.
ment of the various cities, and gen
eral Improvement in criminal identi-
flcation and police work. As Richard
Sylvester. major and superintendent of
the police department OF Washington.
D. c., and president of the Interna.
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1t Is not due to any peculiar advan-
tage of soil, and certainly not to any
Advantages of climate that English
roads are better than American roads,
for II one leaves the highway in the
English country. the lanes will be
found, by travelling American, to
have q most homelike appearance In
great contrast in the matter of holes.
bogs and boulders to the highway left
behind. No climate could be- more
threatening to the solidity OF road
way than the moist and changeable
weather of the British Isles.
STURDY APPEARANCE OF THE
BRIDGES.
In the matter Of bridges. solidity
seems to be the purpose in view. The
arches and retaining walls are built
OF stone, approaches are gradual, and
when once the finishing touch Is put
upon one of these structures, 1t will
with little supervision and care out
last even to many generations the men
whose handiwork It ia The solid ma.
sonry arch. the heavy stone-capped
wall, and the gradual rise Of the road
way to the centre Of the bridge are
entirely utiitarian in the minds of
the Du1ldefs, but they possess Ger
tain sturdy character OF their own
which Is form of beauty welcomed
by the eye. Time softens the colors,
Ivy creeps over the stones and in
short space, even If newly built one
OF these English country road bridges
takes q permanent place in the land
scape giving the impression of always
having been there and Of intendins
always to remain.
THEIR VALUE TO THE TEAMS
TER.
Aside from the beauty, strength and
durability of these macadam roads
and stone bridges, they possess an
economic value which plays large
part in the conduct of an English
farm where the margins Of profit are
small, and there Is no reason to be.
heve but that the American farmer,
especially in regions where the cult.
vatdon Of the land Is more or less in.
tensive, we would find similar roads
and bridges Of enormous value
through an appreciable increase n
his ability to reach his market in the
shortest time at the minimum ex-
pense and with the least motive power.
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In some violin experiments IL It,.
menagerie the influence OF tue li,IJIs n.hiSs
ment was greatest on the puma Tr,J, ,,reI,
became much excited wheh ~ I'm, i,
music was played, but was SooLnsu Sooa nj Il
slower melodies. Wolves sho%ea s..,as
appreclative interest, lions ana hyen ,oau.
were terrified, leopards we're unron rOu.
cerned. while monkeys stared in "OA
der at the performer.
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ENGLISH LANDSCAPE.
stantial, Enduring and
Picturesque.

In Comparison With American Rural
improvements They Convey The
Idea That We Think But Little OF
Posterity.
There Is an old story which will
bear telling again as it illustrates 70
well the disadvantages to be over
come in new country. It is Of an
American travelling in England who,
when out walking one day stopped In
front of an old English mansion to ad-
mire it and its surroundings. What
particularly impressed him was the
magnificent sweep of velvet lawn
which extended without a flaw or
blemish from the hedge along tho
roadway up to the very steps Of the
house. An old gardener was at work
on the place and at that particular
time was pushing lawn mower across
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BAD FOR COUNTRRPEITERS
Secret Service is Hard Pushine
this Dangerous Class of
Criminals.

Detectives Kept on Alert to Cope With
Clever and Brainy Schemes for
Passing Illegal Money-The king
| of counterfeiters.
This has been bad year for crimi
nails. This statement Is based on data
brought out at the convention of the
Police Chiefs Association of New York
State, an address delivered by the
president of the International Associa.
tion of Police Chiefs and by
the operations of the var ious police
bureaus of the United States govern
ment. The secret service division of
the Treasury alone caused the arrest of
532 persons charged with serious
forty-one were arrested for counter
feiting the currency, ffty-two for max
ing alterations In the currency, 344 for
counterfeiting coin and the remainder
for various violations Of the United
States statutes OF the 532 alleged Of
tenders. S92 were native Americans,
forty-two were Italians (some Of whom
were naturalized) and thirteen were
Austrians. The largest number Of ar
rests were made in Pennsylvania where
those apprehended numbered ninety
four. New York followed with seventy
seven arrests, Ohio with thirty-flve,
California with twenty-nine, Missouri
with twenty-three and in the remaining
instances every state and territory with
the exception of Alaska was represent
ed
As compared with last year there
was decrease in the amount of count
erfeit currency seized by government
officers and an increase in the amount
OF counterfeit coin conflscated. The
total face value of the notes seized was
s36.S34. against $44,350 the preceding
year, and of the spurious coin. $24,110
as against $16,419 the year before. The
number of plates for printing counter
felt bills captured by the government
was 165 and the number of dies and
molds for casting and stamping count
erfeit coins was asa. Nearly all this
stuff was seized by the Government
before it had been placed in circula-
ton. Nine classes of counterfeit notes
were placed in circulation and OF these
IN the opinion OF the Treasury Of
flcers only four were cleverly enough
executed to be called dangerous.
RAISING SMALL BILLS.
The feature of the work of makers
of false money this year was in raising
the denomination of bills. There was
rather a remarkable increase In this
Illicit industry and the raisers we're
particularly busy in circulating these
altered obligations in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and other states of the middle
west. 1t is believed by the officers of
the secret service that the leading Of.
tenders in this division of criminal
work were captured, though there is no
doubt that many altered bills are still
passing from hand to hand In the chan
nels of trade. Counterfeiters In the
United States do not restrict their
operations to the manufacture of Amer
lean money, and one of the sllillful
pieces of work done by the secret SER
vice men was the apprehension of
three groups of counterfeiters who
were issuing fraudulent obligations of
the Austro-Hungarian government.
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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-08-24
6. A. r. at Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, MINI. The Grand
Army of the Republic completed It's
40th encampment and has adjourned
to meet in Saratoga, N. Y, in 1907.
The encampment after an exciting
debate decided that protest against
the erection of a statue to Henry
Wire should be sent to General S. D.
Lee, the commander of the Southern
Veterans association. The PROPOSE
ton to deprecate the action of con-
gress in abolishing the canteen from
the old soldiers homes was laid on
the table without debate.
Just prior to the final adjournment
the new commander in chief, r. B.
Brown of GAINESVILLE, o., announced the
following staff appointments:
Adjutant general, Joseph W. Neal
of Ohio; quartermaster general, Chas
Burrows, of New Jersey; assistant
quartermaster general, HI. j. Holcomb
Of Philadelphia; chief of staff, ]. "
Winanes, of Ohio.
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stensIand Was Smooth.

Bank Examiner Jones, in his report
to the auditor of public accounts on
the Milwaukee Avenue State bank of
Chicago, estimates the total defalca-
tions through the manipulation of the
affairs of the bank by President Stems
land to be $1,0O0000 and possibly
more, He is of the opinion that Mr..
Aisborg, the chief clerk; Frank Kow-
alski, the assistant paying teller, who
has committed suicide; John Gillin.
ski and Mr.. Esdohr, the paying teller,
and without doubt, others of the EN-.
ployes of the bank, had guilty knowl.
edge of many things which were not
divulged by the directors to him.
Mr.. Jones declares that Cashier Her
ing, in swearing to the statement OF
January 80, 1906. perjured himself tc
the amount of $1s4,S39, and in the
April statement to the extent Of $202,
1913.
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OREGON NOTES.

The State Normal school will be
crowded.
William ]. Wilkinson, ex-mayor of
Athena, had botn bones of his right
leg broken in two places recently in
a runaway accident near Weston.
Coe D. Barnard, convicted of per-
jury as witness to the final home
stead proof of Charles A. Watson, has
been sentenced by Judge William H.
Hunt in the federal circuit court to
Imprisonment in the government PEN
itentiary on McNeil's island for two
years and pay a fine of $4,000.
The August excursion to the yell
lowstone National park by the North
ern Pacific company might well be
termed the Spokane-Butte excursion,
as nearly all of the 300 on the trip
represented one of the two towns or
neighboring districts.
The o. R. & N. depot at La Grande
is to be moved distance of 80 feet
from its present site in order to make
more room between the building and
the main track.
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NORTHWEST NEWS.

Fire which started in the planning
mill of the Lamb Lumber company
at Spokane burned an entire block,
doing $4,000 damage. Only $4,000
insurance was carried.
A man whose name is supposed to
be d. A. Smith of Seattle attempted to
board moving car at Portland and
was thrown under the trucks and kill
ed.
A note by his side in Swedish say
ing: Unhappy for 80 years. For
what I do may God forgive me-" the
body of Alfred Johnson was found in
cabin No. in Reeder's alley at Helena
recently. 1t is presumed the man took
poison.
Bimbo, the monkey aeronaut at the
Columbia gardens, Butte, for the past
few weeks, was instantly killed re
Gently. He dropped from a height OF
nearly 1000 feet as the Mortified spec
tators watched. Bimbo accompanied
Professor" WILDER in his ascent to the
clouds. the exhibition being a para
chute race.
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REVIEWS 5000 SOLDIERS.
Grandest Ever In Northwest Was Seen
at Camp Tacoma.

at @dHp tdCoH0s
Camp Tacoma, Wash, Aug. 2O.-Be-
fore 5000 to 10000 spectators, Briga-
der General Funston Sunday reviewed
the troops of his command in Camp Ia
coma. The soldiers, consisting Of cav
airy, artillery and infantry, regulars
and militia, to the number of about
5000, passed in review before the gen.
eral and his staff at noon.
The review provided one of the fin
est spectacular affairs ever witnessed
by the people of the Pacific northwest.
The troops were in khaki uniforms and
light marching order. They were re-
viewed in brigade formation. It took
just one hour for the five brigades to
march past. The review was most sue
cessful In every way. The troops were
in fine condition. The civilian crowd
was as orderly as the soldiers them
selves.
This review closes the first week OF
the encampment and the state troops
will return home tomorrow and Tues
day.
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FORTUNES QUICKLY MADE.
Hartman and King Edward Made a
CLEANUP.

Hartman and King Edward Made a
Cleanup.
Immense fortunes were won In Wall
street Saturday in the remarkable rise
in Hartman stocks, Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific, following the an
nouncement that for the first time In
the history of the road dividend had
been declared in Southern Paodfic,
and that Union Pacific common stock
had been placed on basis of 10 per
cent. e. H. Hartman and King Ed
ward of England are named as the
heaviest winners. Others who made
tremendous profits in the bull move
ment today were: John w. Gates,
James r. Keene, John d. Rockefeller,
William Rockefeller, H. HI. Rogers,
James Stillman and Daniel Guggen-
helm.
The Journal credits e n. Hartman
with a profit of $10,000,000 and the
king of England with the same
amount. It Is known that when J.
Pierpont Morgan met King Edward
in Europe some months ago he inter
ested the king in Southern Pacific
King Edward bought through Sir Err
est Cashel, his New York representa-
tive, and is one of the largest holders
of securities. He cleared $25 a share
on his Southern Pacific and $50
share on his Union Pacific stock.
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IDAHO NOTES,

Few residents of Lewiston or Nez
Perez county were too poor to pay
1906 taxes, according to the final re-
port of the county auditor
Mrs. Agnes Staples, aged 40, wife
of Clifford Staples, who lives near
Forest City, may die from the injuries
received by being dragged down the
mountain side by one foot, which had
caught in the stirrup of her saddle,
and lying exposed for "a hours before
being found.
The assessed valuation of the state
outside of railways, telegraphs and
telephones is $6S,500,0O0 in round fig
ures, an increase of $6,500,0O0 over
last year. The railway assessment last
year was $10,678,000, and the tele-
graphs and telephones 100000. The
latter will not be increased.
All Sing, the only Chinaman in Oro-
fino, is minus his queue, and the citi-
zens of the Clearwater town are now
hoping that he will leave the COM
munity. He lost his hair by imbibing
too freely of whiskey and while la
boring under the delusion that If he
cut off his queue he could secure a
white wife.
The Indians about Spalding are
about all gone to the mountains for
the summer hunt or to Yakima to
pick hops.
The state board of equalization has
fixed the valuation of railways for
purposes of taxation. It increased
main lines in some instances $500.
others $500 a mile and sothers being
left without change.
While on a camping trip under the
auspices of the Baptist church of Idaho
Falls. Harry Williams was shot in the
back by Roy Heller and instantly kill
ed. 1t was purely accidental. and no
blame attaches to the young man who
did the shooting.
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American Girls in Paris.

The American girls sent to Paris
by newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio and
California, and popularity known as
peaches" have come and gone. Re-
ally they captured not only Paris but
all France. One French newspaper
made a canvass and discovered that
the members of the party had already
received over 1000 offers of marriage
1t may be taken as indicative of the
good sense of the average American
beauty or peach" that up to the pres
ent time none of these offers has been
accepted.
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Miss Reqan Killed.

San Francisco.-The blowing out of
a fuse on Market street car caused
the death of Miss Jennie Regain, sis
ter of Detective Sergeant Regan of the
local police department. The young
woman was so badly frightened by the
loud defamation that she fell of the
omen car. Her neck was broken.
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Struggled From Mexico.

Discovery has been made by James
R. Dunn, immigration inspector in
charge at st. Louis, of a wholesale
smuggling of immigrants from Mexico
into the United States. Every one of
the immigrants was barred by the law
from entering the United States be-
cause of trachoma, contagious dis
ease of the eyes.
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Is Friendly to Lelshman.

John G. A. Leishman, the recently
appointed American ambassador to
Turkey, has been received cordially
by the Turkish minister Of foreign at
fairs. and there is no disposition OF
the Turkish government not to recog-
nize Mr.. Leishman as ambassador, &C
cording to dispatches from Leishman.
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In the squares of the city. The seis.
mograph was rendered useless by the
violence of the shocks.
Madam Civ


A Modern City.
Valparaiso, which has recently been
destroyed by earthquakes. for a long
time was only small village, exposed
to the attacks of Corsairs. In 1873,
when it had a population of but $50
souls, 1t was rillaged by Drake, and
again in 1894 by Sir Richard Haw-
kins.
Valparaiso is a fortified seaport Of
Chile, and the most important COM
mercial town of the west coast Of
South America.
1t has a population Of about 150,-
600.
1t is the capital of the province Of
that name and is situated on a large
bay in the Pacific ocean, rs miles west
of Santiago, with which it is connected
by rail.
The bay of Valparaiso, which is we'll
sheltered on three sides, is bounded
by ranges of hills rising to from 1900
to 100 feet high, on the slopes of
which a considerable portion Of the
On the south side of the bay are the
spacious suburbs Of Neuvo, Maelcon
and Gran Avenida, from which pass
out on the finest thoroughfares of the
city the Avenida de las Delicias. The
lower central section of the city is con-
stituted by the Almendral having
regular and attractive streets and
containing the principal business
houses, the Plaza Victoria and the Ma
| tional theater.
To the northwest of this section, in
| the quarter of the city known as the
| Puerto, in which are situated the
greater number Of public buildings
and the vast warehouses which line
the quays and docks. In this portion
of the city, however, narrow and
crooked streets are still feature, but
the newer sections Of the city have
an attractive modern appearance, the
buildings being massively built. t
The city has various academic and
collegiate institutions, naval school
school for marines, museum of natura
history, photographic bureau, ETC., ant
it's industrial establishments comprise
foundries, railroad and machine shops
sugar refineries, large bottling works
and factories of all kinds. Elevator:
connect the lower parts of the cit!
with the villa section on the heights
The port of Valparaiso is the terminus
Of many important lines of steamers
for Europe via the straits of magellan
and Panama, and is the center of th'
South American coasting service.
contains a numerous foreign colony
composed chiefly of British, Germal
and French merchants. There is ;
custom house wharf alongside o
which steamers of any tonnage cal
moor, but most of the loading Is don
by lighters from quay surrounding
the town. The harbor is defended b,
modern, we'll mounted batteries. Sc
we're storms and tidal wave at Va
paraiso June 80, 1899, wrecked the raj
road and did great damage to tn
city.
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Tidal Wave.

Observation-Disclosures reports from
the islands of Hawaii. Maui, HiIo. re-
mort a tidal wave. the general height
IF which was five feet. It then closed
the bay of Maalaea. IT'S height was
estimated to be IL feet. where It car.
ried away wharf and its superstruc.
ture.