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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-12-27

The Woodman Of MohleF extends
an invitation 10 the public 10 attend
their grand ball on New Years Eve.
Mrs. John Olson and children left
Monday for Charleston where they
xill spend Christmas With relatives
There viii be a rare opportunity
10 secure FIRST class ihFeshing rig
at a bargain a. Fike Bros sale next
Thursday.
DR.. II. P. Carlson is spending The
holidays with friends and relatives
ia Fairfield. Washington. and Great
Falls. Moniana.
Herman Leopold. the machinis, has
returned 10 Nesperce and will aocep,
bis old position IN the Nerperoe
Machine Works.
Just received another shipment Of.
picture moulding in the la,ss, flashes.
Nov is the time 70 have your pictures
framed. Fink Bros.
II you want to buy complete
thFeshing ousti q any part thereof,
attend the FIkeF Bros. sale next
Thursday. January 5rd.
w. c. Foresman and family. Of
oroano. spent fev days 10 Nez-
percs the forePari Of the week re-
turning home yesterday.
RAScH FOR sALx-io0 acres
knovn as the Thomas ranch mile
cast Of Nesperce. Enquire Of c. J.
Fike. Nesperce, Idaho.
Harry and Andy Mitchell expects
70 leave in few days for Elk City
where they will run a 800 foot tunnel
on their mining property.
David B. coblc and wife are
s-ending the holidays With Mrs.
Cob es parents. Mr.. ard Mrs Theo.
b. Lands. near Fletcher.
FoR SALE The George Fuchs
place Of 100 acres OF nice land two
miles from Nesperce. Price only |
S6so0. EaquiEe at this Office.
Ed Hobers returned Friday 10 bis
home in Wilbur. Wash. after a two
weeks visit, TO Nezperce prairie look
ing after his property interests.
c. L. Ho,eling, living north Of
town. had the misfortune to fall out
Of the haymow Christmas and break
his left arm. DR.. J. L. Kelly is in
attendance.
Since the Dutch Butcher has re-
ceived his motor to grind up dogs
and cats he says he will retire from
active labor and will sell electric
stock al half price. 1
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-12-27

happy by the distribution of free
turkey.
John Magee was a Nezperce visitor
last Saturday. Mr.. Magee stated
that the Nezperce Cooperative
system nov have their line completed
into Denver. and il now practically
reaches to every town on canas
prairie.
Mrs. Anna Webster had the mis-
fortune 10 slip and fall while sweep
ing off the porch Monday and broke
the two bones in her left leg just
above the ankle. Dr.. I. J. Kelly
reduced the fracture and reports his
patient as getting along nicely.
Senator Elmer waldrip and wife
left yesterday for Boise where they
will remain until after the Legislative
session is over. They viii 60 by
way OF Portland where the senator
will attend TO some business matters
with the Russell Machinery Co.
Mrs. Anna Mockler and son. Joe,
Of North Yakima are spending the
holidays in Nezperce with relatives.
They arrived Monday and we're ac-
compained by Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Mockler's daughter. Miss Margaret,
who has been attending school in
Yakima for the past two years.
The funeral of the late c. A. Sher-
lin, in charge Of Deputy Coroner II.
L. Allen, of Lewiston, was held last
Friday and the remains were inferred
in the Nezperce cemetery. Chas.
Deschamp. Curtis Miller, Jas. Ken
nedy, Roscow Riggs, w. G. Nc
Lehman and J. L. Mowry acted as
palbearers. Rev. Light conducted
the services.
L. E. Correll who has sold out his
business inerests in Nezperce, in
forms the Herald that he will remain
with his successors for a month or
two after which be expects TO engage
in business for himself in some of
the large cities of the northeast.
Miss Lillian Correll will continue TO
work for the new firm for the present
and David Gorrell will leave after
New Years, probably for the east.
Notice of Methodist church SER
vices-Preaching services Nezperce
each LIST and 5rd Sundays at IL 100
A. NJ. and each End and 4th Sun
days at 7: so P. M. Preaching SER
vices at Mohler each 2nd and 4th
Sundays at ll:o 90 A. NJ. and each
LIST and 5rd Sundays at 80 P. M.
Sunday School every Sunday at
at 1000 A. M. in both churches.
Watch the paper for special an
THREE WHITE CATS WANrED-On
the 18th of January between 3 and 4
O'Clock p. m. / will give fifty cents
each for three white cats not over
six montes old, and for the largest
and best looking we will give heifer
calf worth Sl2.00. The cats must be
all named and all must come from the
None accepted from boys
and girls over ten years Of age. A.
Reach, Curtis Miller and Bob Allison
shall be The judges. w. E. Larson.
The following real estate sales
arc reported by w. &. Larson: J. |
Dagget to w. E. Larson loo acres
nine miles northeast of Nezpercc,
consideration 100000. W. &. Lar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
MODERN METHODS OF THE
SMOOTH HOTEL BEATS

From the New York Herald.
k(Ir is only with some new trick which
displays especial ingenuity that a
hotel beat can hope to prosper these
days." remarked a Broadway hotel clerk
recently, land even then his chances of
escape are small. The strength of many
of the schemes resorted to by this class of
swindlers lies in their being so devised
that a hotel man will give them the bene-
fit of the doubt for fear of offending a
regular patron. Take, for example, the
game of the torn note. 1t is played some
what as follows
"A gentleman, dressed in the height of
fashion, accompanied by a lady, arrives
shortly after luncheon on Saturday after
noon, and the manager summoned by one
of the officials. is informed by his guests
that they only wish to stay until Mon
day, but would he, in the meantime, re-
serve the best suite of rooms for Them
This is, of course, done, and on the Mon
day morning the gentleman presents HIM
self at the bureau with a letter, in which
is enclosed half on a one hundred dollar
bill Only half, the manager was told,
had been posted-merely for safety's sake
but as he would see In the letter, the
other half would arrive in the afternoon,
but he found he had to leave by an early
train to keep an important appointment.
THE bill amounts, say, to $40 for the
two days, but the manager courteously
agrees to accept the half note and give
full change for the value of the whole
note on condition that he be permitted
TO open the letter which is to arrive in
the afternoon; and, of course, permission
is at once granted. 1t is scarcely neces
sary to say that the other half note
never makes its appearance, and the
6windler moves on to some other hotel
to repeat his ingenious trick once more.
The adventurer is able, if his plans work
out well, as they seemingly frequently
do. to obtain good board, the while in
creasing his capital.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
NERVY MINER
staked 81 In a Poker Game and Took
Out S5o0,00o.

From the Kansas City Times.
Many stories have been written about
Henry C. Cutting, the man who went into
the Tonopah mining camp in 1901 with
81 In his pockets and made $500,0O0 In the
next two years. When man does a thing
like that people are bound to talk, but
seldom do they tell the real inside details
of how the wonder was performed. Some
writers have described Mr.. Cutting as
having discovered a hole full of gold,
something like that which "Scotty'' is
said to have, and while this may literally
be true, he didn't get his start that
way.
1t all came about through a game of
poker, and after that plenty of good hard
work and much anxiety. Mr.. Cutting was
at the Coates house yesterday with Mrs.
Cutting, whom he acquired some time sub
sequent to the poker incident. He wasn't
inclined at first to talk about his adven-
lures, but after while he did tell enough
to show that the success he achieved was
due entirely to the fact that he wasn't
afraid of work and that the American dis
position to keep everlastingly pegging
away was strongly developed in his make
up.
ut was In the very first days of Tona-
pah," Mr.. Cutting began. II reached there
when the population numbered about 80
persons, all men. | had just 81 in my
pocket Strolling about the camp found
a poker game, and, deciding that l might
as well be broke as bent. l sat In with
two stacks of whites-it wasn't a high
price game. you see. The man opposite
me owned the one boarding house in the
camp and l played to win his money be-
cause / needed ii. There were no re-
markable hands dealt. nothing exciting
about 1t. but when I got up I'd won
enough to pay for months board-which
did, on the spot-and had $3.50 left.
Jim Butler was king of Tonapah then.
He had staked out the whole camp.
went to him, after the game, and got a
verbal lease of a claim and began work
that minute. You can just bet it was
hard work, the hardest kind. There were
times when I wanted to quit, but 1
wouldn't Men came along and l put
them to work. 1 stood good for their
board with myyfriend of the poker game,
and we pegged away at that hole for
q month. We struck the right stuff l
shipped my ore. l got returns in six
weeks and I paid my men. My mine?
had the first lease on the Mizpah
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04

to the outer conditions that demanded
one concentrated toe in the place of five.
In the same way woman Is being swept
along in great, vague, Irresistible wave
of economic change, when she turns her
face down town in the early morning.
Sne will pass an alarmist uttering his
dismal note on every corner; his warning
is prophetic of lost charm, lost power
and lost position. One declares that pres
emily man will cease altogether to support
woman, if this things goes one increasing
and then how about home and mother?
The answer to that-not new, but worth
repeating-is that man never has sup
ported woman. To support means to pro-
vide with the necessaries of life Who
was doing the larger share of this. the
man who raised and sheared the sheep or
the man who carded and spun and wove
the wool and cut and sewed the clothes p
the man who shot the bird, or the woman
who plucked and cooked it?-the man
who provided the yarn. or the woman who
knit the stockings? 1t is a fairly even
matter this support" in the days when
most of the human needs were worked
out under each individual roof.
In humber homes, where the neces-
saries are bought instead. of made and
yet there is but one source of money, we
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
CAMELS ONCE LIVED
In CALIFORNIA
SCIENTIST, EXPLORING CAVES,
DISCOVERS PROOF OF THEIR
PREHISTORIC ExlsTENcE-oTH-
Err RELICS FOUND IN COUNTRY.

Berkeley, Calm a geological bulletin
, issued by the University OF California
there is described absolutely new mann
malian remains found during the eXplora-
ton in the "Quarternary' caves OF North
ern California during the last three years
The writer is William J. Sinclair, a young
/ scientist, who spent one summer IN eXca-
waiting the Potter creek cave in Shasta
county The specimens studied were most
of them obtained from this cave, al
though much new material was also found
in MERGERS cave situated near the town
of Murphys, in Calaveras county. The
fossils are not complete, but the bones
are well preserved in the limesone, and
their study has been a comparatively easy
task.
Perhaps the most interesting discovery,
from a popular standpoint, is that of
camels teeth. Sinclair, in speaking of
his find. says: "Camels were abundant
in California during the Quarternary pc
Rod. but they did not play very nm
portant part in the fauna of the region
about the Potter creek cave. Three mo-
lars of q camel were found in this cave,
but their fragmentary condition makes 1t
impossible to determine their genera
Sinclair states in the text of his report
that the cave explorations conducted by
the department of anthropology OF the
State university have opened to the pale
ontologists a new source of information
regarding the Quarternary vertebrate
fauna of this state. While occasional
scattered teeth and bones from valley al
luvium, clay beds, stream grayels and as
phaltum deposits of the Quarternary age
occur in various mammalian species, 1t
has been impossible to group them into
a fauna which might be regarded as a
chronologic unit, owing to more or less
variation in the age of these beds.
The agencies involved in the accumula-
ton of most of the bone bearing deposits
have proved destructive to all but the
larger forms On the contrary, the caves,
having acted to a greater or less extent
as receptacles for the accumulation of
surface materials, afford a more complete
faunal record, as the condition govern
ing preservation are more favorable.
Besides the remains of camels, above
mentioned, Sinclair found large number
of species of the Quarternary mammals.
The greater number of the species were
found at the Potter creek cave. but some
new material was also secured from the
Mercer cave, situated near the town OF
Murphys in Calaveras county.
list of the species found and de-
scribed by Mr.. Sinclair in the bulletin is
as follows: Thomamys microdon, closely
resembling the Thomamys mazama, Pot
ter creek cave Shaster county; Aplido-
nita major fossils, numerous lower jaws
found In Potter creek cave; Tenoma
seplaea, somewhat resembling the Teo-
nina cinerae, Potter creek cave; Platy
genus, three specimens found in Potter
creek cave; Euceratherium collinum, Pot
ter creek cave.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
TO SOLVE PROBLEM
OF PIRELESS STOVE
CLUB WOMEN AND UNIVERSITY
PROFESSOR COOPERATE IN
TRYING TO PERFECT AN ECO
NoMIcAL DEVICE.

Berkeley, cal.-Prof. NJ e. Jaffa. the
fornia, has begun experiments with a
'hreless stove" the results of which
are expected to be of unusual interest to
housewives, and incidentally to heads Of
families who pay the fuel bills.
Cooperating with the university scien-
fist Is the Town and Gown club of Berke-
ley, an. organization sometimes desig-
mated as fashionable" but whose mem
bers extend their interest to such purely
domestic problems as cookery and meth
DDS by which the art may be improved
and its expense lessened.
Mrs. F. c. Torrey of the Town and
Gown club read paper before the or
ganization dealing with the subject Of
fireless stoves after consulting with Prof
Jaffa and the study of experiments made
by the United States army department
and some civic organizations of Germany.
The fireless stove principle is explained
by Professor Jaffa to be merely the ap-
plication of the idea that non conductors
of heat utilized to retain the heat of the
body In cold weather may also be used
to retain heat generated in pot of boil
ing water, wherein meat or vegetables
have been placed to cook The "freless
stove" really is a box, upholstered in
some instances and in other instances
made up OF boards In which hay is kept
around the boiling pots, all kept as air
tight as possible. The food to be cooked
is first boiled over a gas or coal stove
for about five minutes and then the boil
ing pot is transferred to the f1reess stove
and there kept for several hours.
Neither Professor Jaffa nor the women
Of the Town and Gown club claim any
credit for the discovery of the idea of a
fireless stove it being understood that the
United States army Is working on the
same lines to test the merit of the in
vention If that can be called an inven-
ton which is not patented or monopolized
by a corporation.
United States Consular Clerk George Fl.
Murphy of Frankfort, Germany, has
transmitted a valuable report on hreless
stoves as used in Germany to the depart
ment Of commerce and labor at WASH
ington, and upon receipt of the report the
commissary general of the war depart
ment sent instructions to the post COM
missary at Fort Riley. Kan. to have ex-
periments made in the school of bakers
at that post to ascertain how far the
claims put forward in Mr.. Murphy's re-
port could be practically sustained.
Professor Jaffa explains that the fireless
stove cannot of course, be used for beef
steaks. outlets. pancakes and other artl
cles whose attraction lies in the crispness
resulting from rapid cooking on hot fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
Paradise and He'll Divorced.
From the Denver Post.
whats in a name?"

From the Denver Post.
whats in a name?"
What you have got you don't want,
and what you don't want you are sure
to get. Not more days ago than one can
count on the fingers of ones two hands
man and woman named Paradise,
whose marriage may be supposed TO
have been made in heaven, came be-
fore the bar of the county court and
asked to have the celestial knot sew
cred by the terrestrial judge because
their married life was too much like
the opposite of Paradise.
The deed was done, and Paradise en-
duo was no more.
Yesterday Justina and julius He'll
appeared in court and announced that
heaven was wiped off the map for
them, since they were suffering from
an overproduction of the other place.
julius, so Justina charges, notwith-
standing his marital vows, duties and
obligations, has refused to make rea.
sonable provision for her, although he
is able-bodied and strong and in the
enjoyment of perfect health.
The Hells celebrated their nuptial
vows before high heaven in George
town in January Of 1905.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04

ledge When the term on that lease end
ed l had so men working and was TAX
ing out thousands of dollars every day.
as the history of the camp shows. That's
how 1 made my pile"
With his future assured, Mr. Cutting
married a San Francisco girl who had
been waiting for him. and the honey
moon trip was a stage ride to Tonopah.
ut is, and always has been an excep-
tionally quiet camp, morally" he said.
For eight months after the discovery
we had no justice of the peace or any
other law officer. All the leases We're
verbal agreements, and yet there were
no fights and no quarrels. The first two
men who died there were victims of
heart disease and pneumonia l preach
ed the funeral sermon for both because
the boys said some one had to do 1t.
and we had no sky pilot. l also led the
choir. and we sang Nearer, My God, TO
Thee, and no one ever heard it sung
with more meaning or more earnest
ness"
Mr.. Cutting is now erecting the first
steel building in Tonapah; 1t will cost
$4,000 The population of the place is now
5000 he says and the town has electric
light and good water and sewerage sys-
TENS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN.
To What Is Their Competition With
Men Leading Us?

Juliet Wilbor Tompkins in Success Maya
zine.
Nearly five million women go to work
every day in the United State-go to paid
work, whether the returns be two dollars
a week or ten thousand a year Sixty
years ago Harriet Martineau, while visit
ing America, declared that she found here
but seven occupations for women-teach-
ing needlework, taking boarders, type
setting, employment in cotton mills, book
binding and domestic service. Now there
are scarcely seven occupations closed to
them: they are pouring out into the
world of activities, and the five millions
will be six al the next counting
Whether or not you or they like the
change is wholly unimportant. As some
one has suggested, the early eohippus
may have resented changing into a horse
and his neighbors may have greeted his
development in the matter of hoofs and
legs with acidly critical comment, but
when once started horseward nothing
could stop him; he had to adjust himself
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04

Another plan is for three confederates
to take up their abode at the same hotel,
and each engages a room in close proxim-
ity to his fellow travellers. They all, how
ever, contrve to make a display of lug
gage, and are invariably well dressed, for
a prosperous exterior is half the battle to
the hotel adventurer.
"Once comfortably installed, one mem
Der of the party regularly takes his
meals with one of his fellow travellers
with the result that at the end of a
weeks stay his bill merely amounts to
the cost of his bed room while his COM
panions' accounts are naturally consid-
erably larger, as between them they in
clude the cost of living for the trio. The
day before the hotel accounts are due
to be sent in, the three conspirators hold
a conference, which Invariably ends in
the same way-the man with the small
est bill agrees to leave att once, always,
however, beforehand taking the simple
precaution of packing his fellow swindlers
belongings in his own trunks
Now, as he invariably settles his ac-
count, no suspicion is aroused, for the
special staff of detectives who patrol
large hotels day and night, sending in at
frequent intervals reports of the lug
gage brought In by visitors, still see that
the willy rent free swindlers' compan-
Ions have their luggage in their rooms.
The luggage-that is to say, the boxes
and trunks-is there and weighs a consid-
cradle amount; but all valuables have
been carefully extracted beforehand, to
be replaced by all sorts of heavy and
worthless objects, such as bricks, stones,
or Jumps of lead, fastened to the sides
of the boxes to prevent any fear of them
being displaced by shaking.
1.-The two other swindlers shortly after
ward stroll out of the hotel, ostensibly
for a short walk, but in reality never to
return And the weeks expenses of the
willy trio, which are invariably considera-
BILE merely amount to the cost of one
bedroom for a week and two second
hand and inexpensive boxes, which can
be bought for a mere song"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04
Getting at the Facts.

From the Chicago News.
Maude-Did young Sapleigh get down on
his knees when he proposed to you?
Clara-Really I can't say but he al
ready had down on his upper lip.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-04

often get picture of shrivelng. care
worn father staggering under weight of|
stunning, embroidering, spending
daughters that makes us rejoice in that
swelling five million at their gainful oc j
equations. How can they do IL, these
kindly, careless girls, and what will be y
come of them when they have worked
their victim to death? Surely some1change
in system that allows such uneven bur-.
dens need not make us fear a lessening
of woman's intrinsic value; she will have
gained in every sense when she becomes
ashamed to rest her healthy young
weight on overworked shoulders. That
by going to work she completes with
man and reduces his earnings is a prob
lem for professional economists to- strug-
gle with, though it has been suggested
that as a producer she always has CONF
peted with man and reduced his earnings,
whether she wove her own clothes or
earned them with a typewriter.
They tell me the peace of Europe is
the stake at Algeciras.'' a.
That's not the worst of it,
What could be worse?'' 81
why the Kaiser wants to be the stake
holder"