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Singular Austrian Law.

From the Manchester Guardian.
A few DAYS ago the murderer of Mr. Reid.
the Paisley man who mysteIiously disap-
peared from Heidelberg last July, having
been arrested in Austria. was tried at Field
kirch and was convicted and sentenced to
twenty years Imprisonment
The case illustrates sngularity OF the
Austrian criminal law. Generally speak
ing, a premeditated murder Is punishable
by death In Austria but in cases where be-
tween the time of the murder ard the ar
rest the prisoner fhas been punished for
some other crime sentence of capital
punishment cannot be passed upon him.
In this case the murderer had served
weeks Imprisonment for petty theft about
January OF this year. and TO this circum-
stance alone he Is indebted for his life
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sheltered him were utterly destroyed men,
women and children being masSsacred at
ketchwayo's command.
Ketchwayo succeeded mis- father in 1877
He applied to he English government to
recognize him as king of the Zuus and a
Mr. Theophilus Shepstone as the queens
representative, crowned him. Ketchwayo
promised the Engishman 10 hold the lives
of his subjects in high regard
But agreement or no agreement Ketch-
wayo could not long keep from bloody
work.
When, after mobilzipg his army, he dis
covered it weak. because goodly number
of soldiers had pleaded sickness. he dis
patched a trusted regiment to the kraaIs
with orders to kill all absentees.
You sick men are of no use To the coun-
try. so l will save the doctors the trouble
of attending on you" he said. Thousands
Of men thus met death.
Defiance of the British
He ordered a certain regiment or class,
of women to marry the men OF one Of his
regiments The women demurred. saying
there were too few lnen. The king told or
another regiment SIN the women baked.
Then ketchwayo had a regiment kill most
of them.
4 true Zulu, Ketchwayo had no fear of
war with any tribe or nation. black or
white. and when he began to see signs
of trouble with the British. he forced some
of their ENJOYS to witness a review OF the
Zulu army, insulted and challenged them
TO combat. Either personally or through
his indunas Subsidiary chiefs he hurled
defiance at the British every chance he got
and heaped up insults on civil and military
authority. He forced the missionaries and
traders out of his realms. and stubbornly
refused all the demands Of the British
He was certain that his warriors would
be able to wipe out the British columns
with expedition. Had he not spent three
years in preparation, and were not his peo-
pie supreme over all the blacks round
about? Therefore his was a rude awaken
ing when his forces were shattered and
Ulundi proved his Waterloo
From that day until the rising of the
chief Barnhatta. Zululand has been COM
paratiVely quiet. Now that Bambatta has
been found dead on the field of battle, there
seems good reason TO believe that the re-
belltou5 forces VIII soon be quelled The
generalship displayed by Bambatta was of
no mean order, and for the sake OF Zulu
land 1t - good thing that the present Is
not as tho time of Chaka and Dingane and
Ketehwayo. Under such favorable condi-
lions Bambatta would probably have be-
come a terror In Zululand and all the sur
rounding territory.
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ts,stified the deed on the ground that the
Beers would have killed him had he not
killed them first.
Dinsane followed up this act Of treachery
by attacking the main camp OF the Beers,
some miles distant from his capital, I'm
kunginghlovu. At first the Zulu was sue
eessfel, but the Beers rallied and drove the
enemy of with O loss of at least 600 killed.
Ten OF the Zulu kings regiments took part
in this attempted massacre.
Thereafter thars was continual warfare
between Dinga le and the Beers. Dingans
practically wi,ed out two punitive expedi-
weeks after his second victory his regi-
ments ravaged the country far and wide.
Finally. however the immigrants routed his
army and took and destroyed his capital
But Dingane was not yet beaten. With
stubboraness that was all but sublime no
kept up the fight. and not until the Beers
made common cause with Dingane's broth
er Panda, IN rebellion against the king,
was Dingane overwhelmed and obliged to
foe to a neighboring tribe for refuge. Here
he died miserably little later. This was
In 1910.
Ketchwayo Wipes Out an Army.
Panda was succeeded I'm 1872 by Ketch-
wayo. who waged disastrous war against
the British In 1879.
Ketchwayo great warrior. His
fighting career may be said TO have begun
in earnest sixteen years before he succeed
| ed his father Ketchwayo and his brother
Umbulazi were rivals for the Zulu throne
| This rivalry became intense that there
was no waiting to fight IT out after the
| fathers death. and after ketchwago had
| driven his brothers army into the Tugeia,
| where most of those who had escaped on
| land persisted. the succession was decided
| in Ketchwayo's favor. Later on. however,
another brother. Umtonga. showed signs OF
disputing KetchWayo's rights Umtonga
! fed, and thirty kraals of the tribe that
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color. They are found on our Atlantic
shores and are scattered here and there
ell over the country. There are many OF
them in the west but there, mixed with
them and often In great beds apart from
them. are found deposits OF black sand
There is so much OF this black stuff along
the Pacific coast that the seashore is dark
and not white when viewed from the ocean.
This is the case from Cape Flattery on
Puget sound down TO San Diego. As one
comes closer shore he often sees great
masses Of black rocks and headlands. the
latter made up OF layers of black ami
white sand. one running through the other
somewhat like marble cake. These mead
lands sometimes result from the dropping
OF the shore. through an earthquake ONE
what like that Of San Francisco.
This black sand IS also found along the
bic western rivers. The Columbia has many
such deposits. and The Snake river is es-
pecaily rich. Black sand is TO be found
in every mineral region. and II Is more
or less connected with every placer mine.
When Director Walrott began TO investigate
the subject he sent out letters to eight
thousand placer miners scattered all over
the United States and asked each to send
I'm "a little bag OF this black Sand with
which he was working. More than a thou
sand of the miners responded and the SAM
pies came from thirty-ave different states
and territories, including the AppaIachians
nrG tho Rockies and all parts Of the Pacific
coast even to Alaska. The samples were
analysed ard asslyod for the gold and plat
mum they contained and also for the nu-
ncrous other minerals In them which our
scientists thought might be OF Industrial
value. AS q result of tie assays and the
experiments made II the reduction OF these
sands at the Portland exposition. II Is
known that they can be made Of enormous
value 10 the country. and that they may
brrg IN millions OF dollars OF a product
every year.
David Day rs. ling Saul.
ytlyo Soul fbA SON IF Kish I start
Cd out TO hunt my fathers asses and 10!
I found Kingdom"
Dr David T Day. the chic: OF the mining
and mineral resources division of our geo
Io~icaI survey, might well have made the
above remark as to his work in the black
sands, although ne did not. called upon
him at the survey the other day and bad a
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long chat with him about his experiments
He has been chief investigator OF the biack
sand minerals and the principal discoveries
are due to him.
DIR. Day is one of our best known seoio-
gists He has been connected with the sur.
vey for almost q quarter OF century, ana
has been in charge OF the government mn
ing exhibits at our national expositions
from the worlds fair at Chicago to Port
land. 1t was at Portland last year that the
most important OF the black sand expert
ments were made.
the investigation originated. He told me
it was through a search for platinum, q
metal which I have referred TO above as
Saul's fathers asses. and IN the hunt Tor
which he discovered vast quantities OF mag
netio iron, chrome iron, zfrcon and rare
minerals valuable in the arts. Chrome iron
is used in the manufacture Of paints,
chrome steel and bichromate OF potash.
Zircon Is valuable In making fncandescent
gas and electric lights, and monazite and
other metals for the same purpose. In-addi-
ton to them DIR. Day found titanium and
other things of which l write further on.
The Hunt for Platinum.
The beginning of the hunt was for p1hu-
mum and it was the direct outcome OF the
Japanese Russian war. The chief platinum
mines now known to the world are in the
Ural mountains on the borders of Siberia.
1t is from there that the most of the world s
supply comes, and the supply Is controll-
ed by trust which furnishes our american
markets with platinum at It's own prices.
When the war broke out our manufacturers
were greatly alarmed, and they sent in Pc
titions to Congress to have the geological
survey look up platinum in the United
States. It was known that the metal ex-
listed in small quantities in many localities,
and the object of the petitions was to have
America furnish It's own supply of this
metal and thus beat the trust. The geolog-
icaI survey asked for an appropriation, and
got 1t, but they worded their request SO
that the work covered all the metals in the
black sand.
Worth More Than Gold.
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A Treasure in Pop Bottles.

conferred lasting benefit upon science and
humanity by his ingenious detector. the
liquid barretter, an instrument that In Its
sersibility, it's ruggedness and its simr licity
is second only to the telephone receiver of
Bell.
With these improvements, chiefly made
within the past five years, wireless teiegra-
ply is all that the most exacttng critic
could hope for, il we except select-vity, and
in this especial branch of the work there is
Yet unlimited opportunity for the wireless
inventor TO exercise his ingenuity
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Broadway, while groups of men stood at
the open ends of the curtains hung behind
the carVerS and watched. Hard stone
granite; but the pneumatic tools, making
hundred strokes where a man with a NAL
let and chisel could have made one bit
INTO 1t all. the same. AS the lookersor
stood and watched with interest the man.
ner or handling the tools and listened to
their tncessant purring they could see the
carving grow
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Racial Differences in India.

From the Calcutta Country and People.
The attitude and behavior of the so-called
europeans, whether black or white, are
distinctly imperious. Both the rulers and
the ruled are governed by the law of mu-
tuai concession and the spirit of give and
take. There is consequently no legitimate
ground for one party to look down on the
other India was won for England with the
corporation of the Indians. Above ALL
polh the indians and the Europeans are
the subjects of the one and the same soyer-
eign-
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Horse Not Done Yet.

From Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.
We hear a good deal about the passing
OF the horse. but that noble animal has
not gone yet, nor has the price OF good
hunter been reduced by motor power. On
the contrary. weight-carrying hunters were
never In greater demand. and prices were
never higher We have not yet attained to
following the fox across country propelled
either by petrol or electricity. 1t may
come In time, but the horse win last our
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No Danger.
Ne Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Gayboy (about to start on business
trip)-sI'n try to write to you every few
days, Maria. but IL / should be busy and g
week or more pass without your hearing
from me you needn't be alarmed"
Mrs Gayboy--"I shan't. I'll take the
children with me and hunt you up"
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Road to Health.

From Food and Cookery.
For the average man and woman the roy
al road to health is moderation In every
thins-eyen In being moderated
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shown that We shall supply large part
.: our own platinum, and that our miners
In some localities Will make a great deal
from this metal in addition to the gold
which is almost always found in cornec-
ton with 1t. Platinum is a silvery white
metal as hard as iron and very nlalIeable.
1t Is with one exception the heaviest metal
in nature and still 1t is so ductile and
workable that wires have been made Of 1t
which are one-tweive- hundredths of an inch
In diameter
This metal is of great value in the arts
It Will not amalgamate with quicksilver
and 1t is about the only metal which can
be used in carrying the electric current
through the glass Of the incandescent
lamp. Every electric globe or bulb has
two fine platinum wires running through
the glass by which the electricity goes to
the flament within. 1t is used in all kinds
of electrical machinery 1t Is also used in
dentistry and especially for the pins
which attach O brand new porcelain tooth
TO an old snag of root.
Platinum is used in laboratories for
crucibles and other utensils, as 1t Is no.
attacked by acids, and 1t - also alleged
with many other metals for various pur-
poses. 1t has at times been used In Rus
money, and, indeed, it is almost always
worth more than its weight in gold. 1t is
now bringing upward of $50 per ounce.
A Treasure in Pop Bottles.
DR.. Day tells me that there is regular
search going on along the coast of Ore
Son for a hidden treasure of platinum
somewhat the same as the hunt for Capt
Kidds pirate hoard off the coast OF the
Atlantic. AS the story goes, this treasure
is contained in SIX pop or ginger beer bottles,
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A SOURCE OF WEALTH
Black Sands Found to Be OF
Great Value.
PRECIOUS PACIFIC PLATINUM
How Electric Shelters May Develop
Western Industries.
NUGGET AS BIG AS SUPERIOR
What Uncle Sans Expert, DR.. David
T. Day, Has to Say About Waste
Product Values.
PRECIOUS PACIFIC PLATINUM
NUGGET AS BIG AS SUPERIOR

Copyright. 1905. by Frank C. Carpenter.)
Within the past year experiments have
been made which will revolutlonize placer
mining all over the world, and add millions
to the wealth of the United States. They
may build up a manufacturing industry
on our Pacific slope. and populate re-
gions in the northwest which are now as
Wild as any part of the Rockies. Based upon
them, syndcates are already forming and
they will give small or large fortunes to
q great number of people. 1 refer to the
experiments which, at the direction of Con-
Eress, the geological survey has made and is
making as 10 the minerals found in black
sand.
Fortunes in Black Sand.
Every miner knows what black sand Is. 1t
IS the heavier particles which come from tho
wearing away Of rocks containing certain
minerals. All sand comes from rock and
tie sreater part OF 1t from quartz The
quartz sands are white or light brown IN
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Worth More Than Gold.

The results of the Investigations have
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17
The Best Guaranty Of Merit
Is 0pen Publicity.

Every bottle OF DIR. Piercs's world
famed medicines leaving the great labo-
ratory at Buffalo, N. Y, has printed
upon its wrapper all the Ingredients
entering into its composition. Ills 1act
alone places DIR. Pierce's Family Medl-
cincs In a cl,tss all bD Themselves. They
cGrN0t be clasSed with patent or secret
medicines because they are neither. This
Is why so many unprejudced physicians
prescribe them and recommend them 70
their patients. They know what they
are composed of, and that the ingredients
are those endorsed by the most eminent
medical authorities
The further fact that neither Dr.
Pielce's Golden Medical Discovery, t.
great stomach tonic. liver lnvigoratCr,
heart regulator and blood puriileT. nor his
vEayorite Prescription for weak over
worked, broken-down, nervous women,
contains any alcohol, also entities them
to a place all by themselves.
Many years ago, DR.. Pierce discovered
that chemically pure glycerine. Of proper
strength, is better solvent and preserV-
ative of the medicinal principles restd-
ing in our Indigenous, or native. neal
cinal plants than is alcohol; and, further
more, that it possesses valuable medicinal
properties Of its own, being demulccnt,
nutritive, antlseptic, and most efficient
antlferment.
Neither of the above medicines con-
tains alcohol, or any harmful, habit
forming drug, as will be seen from a
glance at the formula printed on each
bottle wrapper. They are safe to use and
potent to cure.
Not only do physicians prescribe tho
above, non-secret medicines largely, but
the most intelligent people employ them
people who would not think of using
the ordinary patent, or secret medicines.
Every ingredient entering into the com
position OF DR.. Pierce's medicines has
the strongest kind of an endorsement
from leading medical writer's of the
several schools of practice. No other
medicines PIT up for like purposes has
any such professional endorsement.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation. Constipation is the cause of
many diseases Cure the cause and you
cure the disease. One "Pellet" is gentle
laxative. and two mild cathartic. Drug
gists sell them, and nothing is 'just as
good" Easy to take as candy.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17
INDEPENDENCE NOTES

Mrs. Oris Robertson and little
daughter are at Nye Greek.
Rev. J. R. N. Bell, of Baker City,
visited here last week.
The Oberer mill is being prepared
for removal to near Falls City.
D. A. Hodge was an over Sunday
visitor at Newport, with his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. N. Cherrington, of
Dallas, were Independence visitors,
Friday.
G. A. Wilcox and family are moving
into their elegant new home on Rail
road street.
Mrs. M. W. Wallace and daughter,
Miss Grace, visited near Corvallis
during the week.
Miss Helen Cooper returned We'd
nesday from Albany, where she visited
for a week.
Miss Inez Stark returned from a
weeks visit with friends in Salem,
Tuesday.
Mrs. Fred Hooper and Miss Leora
Shank went to Newport. Saturday, fol
a few weeks stay.
Large numbers of pleasure seekers
are returning from their summer out
ing, and hop picking is now the center
of all interest.
Mrs. q. W. Conkey, Misses Emroy
and Opal McDevitt and Miss Ruth
Leach have returned from a three
weeks stay at Newport.
Independence was without a city
city marshal several days, through
the resignation of Avery Murphy.
Saturday, Mayor Paddock appointed
r. j. Taylor to fill the place until the
next meeting of the city council.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17
SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTION
Director VIII Be Chosen to Succeed
/. N. Woods, Resigned.

No school director was chosen at the
board meeting Tuesday evening to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of l. N. Woods. When the officers ex-
amined the law, they found that a
recently enacted section had taken the
power to fill vacancies out of the hands
of the directors and placed that duty
upon the voters OF the district The
board then decided TO call a special
election for Monday, August 27, and
instructed the clerk to issue the neces-
sary notices.
Besides electing a director at this
meeting, the voters will be asked to
vote small tax for the purpose Of
furnishing a room for the use of the
recently-established Tenth Grade
This additional grade was authorized
at the annual school meeting in June
by practically unanimous vote, and
the directors are preparing to carry
out the wish OF the voters as expressed
at that meeting. 1t is hoped that a
good attendance will be s cured for the
special meeting, as both the election Of
a director and the vote to maintain
the tenth grade are matters of great
importance to the welfare of Dallas
excellent public school.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17
QUIET HOME WEDDING
Miss Pearl Walker Becomes the
Bride of John p. Van Orsdel.

A quiet wedding was solemnized in
the parlors of the Hotel Gail last
evening, at o'clock, when Miss Pearl
Walker became the bride of Mr.. John
p VanOrsdel. Rev. d. Julian Becker,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, was the officiating clergy
man. Only the members of the
families Of the contracting parties
were present to witness the interesting
ceremony.
Mr.. VanOrsdel is the oldest son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. VanOrsdel, OF this
city, and has been resident OF Dallas
about eight years. He is a competent
surveyor and civil engineer, and is
serving his second term as County
He has had valuable ex-
perience in railroad construction work
throughout the Northwest, his most
recent employment being with the
Dallas and Falls City railroad.
The bride is IA sister of Mrs. J. B.
Thompson and Moss Walker, of the
Hotel Gail, and formerly resided in
Lebanon. She is a most amiabIe
young woman, and has many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Orsdel will go to
Newport today for a ten days stay,
and, upon their return, will make
heir home in the Byerly residence at
,he corner of Mill and Jefferson
streets.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17

The action OF the American Angora
Goat Breeders Association in appro-
priating the sum of 5000 for premiums
to be awarded at the next annual Goat
Show in Dallas will be deeply appre-
ciated by every breeder of fine Angoras
10 Oregon. From small beginning
a few years ago, when a half dozen
high bred goats were exhibited in a
private stable, the Dallas goat show
has steadily grown in importance
until it is now looked upon as one Of
the principal events of the year in the
livestock world. This desirable result
has been brought about by the efforts
of the enterprisiDg goat breeders of
Polk county. unaided by any financial
support from outside sources. 1t is
highly gratifying to note that this
good work has at last been recognized
by the prominent goat breeders of the
United States and that powerful in
tiuence has been pledged to the
permanent support and success of the
The Dallas goat show was
first Polk county institution; it was
next made state show, and the time
may soon come when the exhibit will
include Angoras of high degree from
every goat breeding state west of the
River.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1906-08-17
Lively Times In Coos.

p A. Finseth arrived home the last
of the week from North Bend, Oregon,
where he had charge of his store
while Manager Wes Craven was visit
ing in Polk county. Mr.. Finseth says
business in all lines is lively in the
Coos Bay country. The merchants
have been buying all their supplies
in Portland since the San Francisco
disaster, and the boats have been
taxed to their capacity in handling
the freight. Mr.. Finseth is of the
opinion that Portland can hold a
large share of this trade if her mer-
chants will only provide suitable
transportation facilities until the
railroad from Drain to Marshfield is
completed. Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Reid
are running a boarding house in
North Bend, but are making arrange /
ments to return to Dallas. Henry 1
formerly Of this city. is work /
ing in large sawmill in North Bend. /