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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
DIAMOND THIEF CAUGHT.
His Love for Girl in Denver Proves
His Undoinq.

His Undoing.
Locked up at New York police
headquarters is a romantic prisoner,
Louis Mochorosky, a youth charged
with the larceny of $4,000 worth of
diamonds several months ago. Mo-
chorosky, who is about II years old,
afforded the police of many states
of this country a vain chase and then
went to Europe 1t is only the love
for girl in Denver, whom he ven
tured back to the United States to see,
which led to his arrest.
The boy was employed by Isaac
Wolf, a jeweler in the Bowery. One
day last spring Wolf missed a num-
Der of diamonds from his stock. wolf
remembered that the young clerk the
evening before he had helped him
place in a safe the diahonds, which
had been displayed in the store win
dow.
The youth went to Russia, where
his parents live. After a visit, he
went to Germany Fro mBerlin, Wolf
AYERS, the boy wrote him, saying: II
took only my share of the jewelry."
The Denver police were specially
notified to keep lookout for the miss
ing clerk. About ten days ago Mo-
chorosky returned to Denver and i'm
mediately went to the home of his
sweetheart. He was arrested there.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
Posse and Negroes Battle.

News from Leonard, Harlan county,
kentucky, states that a pitched bat
tie occurred at a railway camp at
Crab Orchard, VT, near the Kentucky
state line, between an officers posse
and gang of negro workers. led by
T. F. Powers, a white man, in which
Powers and c. F. White were killed
and William Barker, a member of the
posse and three negroes were in
jured.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
AID FOR THE SUFFERERS.
Is Asked for in Proclamation by Pres
ident Roosevelt.

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ident Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation appealing for aid for
earthquake stricken Chile. The proc
lamation reads:
Proclamation: A dreadful calamity
has befallen our sister republic of
Chile in the destruction by earthquake
of Valparaiso and other localities. We
at this moment see the city of San
Francisco struggling upward from the
ruins in which like catastrophe over
whelmed her last spring. We keep
keenly in mind that half of the ap-
probation we then felt for the way in
which the people of Europe, Asia and
both Americas came forward with gen.
erous offers of assistance. In this
time of woe of our sister republic,
ask that our people out Of their album
dance now strive to do another, as
others last spring did to us. The
National Red Cross association has
already taken measures to collect any
subscriptions that may be offered for
this purpose. and trust that there
will be a general response. (Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
"Oyster Bay, August 25, 1906"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
WERE UP NEARLY "a HOURS.
Julian and jefferson Thomas Float in
Balloon.

Julian and jefferson Thomas Float in
Balloon.
New York, Aug. 27.-Dr. Julian P
Thomas, the amateur aerouaut, who
with his brother, Jefferson Davis
Thomas, of Augusta, Ca, made a bal.
loon ascension here Saturday evening,
has returned to his residence, after
having been in the air for nearly "a
hours and having passed through two
states and reached an altitude of about
10000 feet.
In relating his experiences DR..
Thomas said:
During the trip the propeller which
was carried for the first time, worked
nicely. 1 found that we were able
to go either to the left or right, and in
fact to turn the balloon completely
around. We went up among the
clouds and reached an altitude of TO-
900 feet. then slept for an hour.
When I awoke l discovered that we
were descending rapidly in fact we
were going down almost in straight
line. We made preparations to land.
In coming out of the clouds we found
we were over a forest. We put out
the guy rope and anchored to a tree,
and then finished the descent in safe
ty."
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
VALPARAISO Inss

A conservative estimate places the
property loss at Valparaiso, as a re-
SUIT OF the earthquake and fire, at
S2OGOOO,OOO. The loss in the rural
districts will be immense, as not only
the residences of the landed propri-
etors' but the huts of the laborers have
Deen completely destroyed and in
many places the bridges, fences and
telegraph and telephone posts have
been thrown down.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
on Horse Into Car Window.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 28.-In one
OF the most remarkable street car ac-
cidents that has been recorded in Los
Angeles, Edwin Suhre, an IS year old
boy, was dangerously If not fatally
injured on Euclid avenue when he was
hurled from his horse and through the
front window Of street car. The
horse, which was struck by the car,
was killed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
MINING NEWS.

]. G. Harklerode reports striking
gold on the Toledo placer claim, near
Troy, Wash.
The Ozark is working a night and
day force, near Pierce City, Idaho. The
Wild Rose mine, owned by the Ozark
people, is also working about 10 men
Hal Shaw has been placed in charge
of the Idaho company's dredge.
That F. Augustus Heinze of Butte,
Mont, will probably control the Rex
mine, situated up Nine Mile canyon.
about four miles from Wallace, within
few days, is announced.
A cavein occurred on an upper level
Of the Bonanza mine, near Geiser, Ore,
killing two miners named Gunner Ket-
tleson and Allen Dillon.
Tom Beall, who was identified with
Pierce City, idaho, camp in the early
SOS, has gone to the country near
the summit of Bitter Root, where he
has some mining claims.
A so ton a day mill has been in
stalled on the Amiga mine, which is an
extension of the famous Gold Hill
at Quartzburg, in southern Idaho.
A large boiler, engine and power
drills have been ordered for the Mas
todon mine on the upper st. Joe river,
Idaho.
A new silver-lead district has been
found in Nevada, just east of the Cali
fornia line, in the White mountains.
A body of zinc-bearing ore, 80 feet
in width, is reported as found less
than two miles from Mazamas, in the
Mount Baker mining district.
The Quincy Junior mine, in southern
Idaho, has been bought by a mining
company of that name, the stock
holders of which reside in Michigan.
The Richard III mine, near Lady
smith, B. c., is considered more val
liable this week than it was last. The |
reason for the advance is that a seven |
loot ledge of copper bearing ore has
been cut in the lower tunnel. 1t is |
now thought the ledge of the famous
Tyee mine may cross the Richard III.
A shipment Of $50 tons Of ore has
been made from the Dominion Copper
Idaho mine at Phoenix to
he Boundary Falls smelter. An air
plant of rs drills has been
ordered for the mine and the large
hoist formerly on the Sunset is being
moved there.
The whole face of the tunnel in the
Reindeer mine near Mullan, Idaho, is
n rich looking ore that assays from
to 5 per cent copper.
The Formosa Mining company has
received patents to it's three claims,
he Formosa, John Gleason and the
Cd Desaulnier. The claims lie be-
,ween Wallace and Gem, and are
owned by Finch and Campbell of Spo-
Iane.
1t is reported from Burke, Idaho,
hat a vein of first-class milling ore
las been opened in the Ajax mine
n Gorge gulch.
Mark Cooney of Burke is reported
o have said that F. Augustus Heinze
S expected to arrive in the Occur
rAlenes within 10 days to purchase
he Cooney group, on which w. A.
lark recently relinQuished an option
or 100000.
d. G. Corbin has confirmed the re-
ort of the sale of the Iron Mask mine
a Rossland, B. c., district to the Con-
Mining & Smelling COM
any. The price quoted in Rossland
s having been paid was between $70r
90 and $4,000, but that this was be-
eved to be too low because of the
ichness of the mine.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
: Not From John RoekefeIler.

1t is authoritatively announced at
st. Petersburg that there was no truth
in the statement published by the
Paris Temps that John D. Rockefeller
at the beginning of the year offered
through Count White to advance $780,
100000 in gold to Russia in return for
a concession to build the Baltic-Black
sea canal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
DEADLY CARGO FOR CUBA.
Six GatIings and $4,000 Rifles on the
Mexico,

Arms and ammunition for the Gu
Dan government were shipped from
New York last Saturday for Havana
on the Ward line steamer Mexico.
the steamer had slowed away in her
mold $4,000 Remington repeating ri
fles, 100000 rounds of ammunition and
six Calling rapid fire guns for the
use OF President Palma's forces. The
shipment, it is said, would have been
larger but the vessel could carry no
more. The steamer Kansas, which
VIII sail Thursday, will carry 1900 900
rounds of ammunition and 5000 Rem
ingtons for the Cuban government.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31

appear at the surface without dimin-
ishing speed, and renders it matter
of extreme difficulty for an enemy's
artillery to bring their guns to bear
ON the attacking submarine.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31
More Earthuuakas

There were two slight earthquake
shocks at Valparaiso Friday night II
is believed that if the rain continues
much longer a serious epidemic is
sure to break out.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-08-31

Conferees of one mind have nothing
to do but divide the taffy.
The sun., 1906-12-26
Not a soithern Community.

II would perhaps conduce to more in
telligent discussion of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry aliGir if the various statesmen,
orators, politicians and writers now
engaged in handling il so vigorously
would discard tho postulate Of race an
tagonism and inherited prejudice.
Brownsv vile is not n Southern commu-
nity7 in any proper sense of the term. OF
course. the numerically prepondcrating
element is composed of Mexicans; but
Of the whites 1t can safely be alleged that
they are almost wholly of Northern
birth or extraction. As "A matter of fact,
there are very few born and bred South
ernrrs in Brownsville. nor can il be said
with truth that those few control the
sentiment or dictate the actions and
expressions of the population.
As a rule, the men who represent the
financial social, and material impor-
tance Of tho town are old soldiers Of
the Union army and their descendants.
Considered in mere numbers, the South
erners making their homes in Browns
vile represent n very small minority.
Considered in respect Of their influence
upon the city's character, attitude, des-
tiny, they cut no figure worthy Of 4
second thought If Brownsville objected
TO the location there of negro regiment.
certainly the objection was not inspired
by Southern prejudice" or actuated by
inherited animosty.
No good can come Of clouding the real
Issue with false hvpotheses and neces-
ssrile misleading arguments. The as
sumption that Brownsville is n typical
Southern community, where everybody
hates the negro and delights in subject
ing him 70 injury and humiliation will
not bear a moments honest and enlight-
ened inquiry. The truth is that Browns
vile, SO far as concerns the character,
influence and importance of its con-
stituent elements. is much more North
ern community" than is either Chicago
or New York
The Brownsville incident. if the dis
cussion is to serve any useful purpose,
must be divested of all confusing and
meretricious complications and subjected
TO the white light of we'll informed and
candid investigation.
The sun., 1906-12-26

and throwing her down stairs. These
luxuries are naturally expensive. How
is a good man TO sustain life ON 81 800
salary when his tastes and inclinations
call for such sumptuous outlay?
None Of tie clerks seems to have con-
sidered the expedient of retiring from
an occupation which is 80 loathsome as
regards its duties and 50 contemplate
in respect Of its compensations. Oppor-
hinity and rich reward await brains.
energy and courage in every nook and
corner of the land. Why, IL these indus
trious and talented persons are starved,
oppressed, i'll treated. do they cling TO
their three legged stools and hug TO
noble diaphragms the gnawing fox OF
martyrdom?
This is a conundrum which we refer to
the taste and fancy Of the individual.
The sun., 1906-12-26
Trade Balances.

, To THE EDITOR OF TIE Sun Si-. Dark.
ness, cimmsrisn in intensity. encompasses nv
soul, small though my intellect is even tat
smallness isshrouded in gloom. Your editorial
Of Monday, December u, on the trade OF France
has a positive relationship to IT, You saw.
speaking OF the Gsllic nation: Prior 10
her adoption OF the present policy her annual
trade balance ran heavily against her. Since
its adoption the adverse balance shows
persistent reduction until 1905, when for
the first time in many years the balance
stands in her favor
Let me explain the working Of my intellect.
the mechanics Of my ignorance. as ! milht
say, as applied TO the problem.
Pierre Jacques sells to Yankee good, vor,a o1on n
Jean Nlmport buys Of Brtisher shoot,
Ergo. France Is poorer by ,.o,O'T.
Now. the above is az clear as mathematics
can make il. What fail to grasp is that
Pierre and Jean persist thus in carrying
on q losing game. | strongly suspect that Il
their intellectual nyocesses could be sub
jected to confessional process as clear as
that to which | am nov srbiectinE myse!
II would be found that both would believe
they were better OFF instead Of poorer such
is the obstinacy of the Gallo middle class
Talk of the woman in the Hindu folklore
story SO contrary that when she drowned
she foated up creek | note with pleasrrs
what you say about the new policy which
has supplied the Gauls with brains and kpcvl-
edge of their own business 4 statIte ia
certainly cureall.
But this amt the worst oft!
Another nation, calling iteelf enligt'elsd.
Great Britain mean, is submittine Q eNsry yesY
to a loss of the kind described. Her adverse
trade balance" is hundreds of millions every
twelvemonth. Worse even than individual
Gallo obstinacy, however, is that of the Eng.
lish, for the French Legislature is a. east
wise enough 20 prevent the people collect
lively" from doing what each man wants 70 DO
singly: in England YOU cant drive il into
their thick skulls with q sledae and spike
that they are losing money so enormously
every. year by their policy. The fellows
actually insist that they are getting richer
Now why in the name of mathematics sense
and reason IL IL so? We do things bett or in the
United.Ststes. that's one comfort. G. IB
BRoOKIYN Decemhe- 20
The sun., 1906-12-26
Woes Of the Government Clerk. T..

In the intervals Of the Presidents
| special messages to Congress the Wash
ington newspapers take up the haroships
Of those overworked and underpaid vic
tins the Government clerks. This SEN
! timental agitation is not as prevalent
this winter as it has been heretofore,
chiefly because the intervals above re-
ferred TO are steadily diminishing in fire.
quency and duration; but our excellent
contemporaries console themselves by
making really brilliant play with such
opportunities as NAV be vouchsafed
, them.
The general complaint is that the Gov
eminent clerk in Washington has to live
on starvation pay He exhausts the
resources of human ingenuity in the
effort to make both ends meet; is nearly
always in debt or on the brink Of penury;
cannot afford to go TO the theatre, or ride
in automobiles, or acquire indigestion
at the fashionable restaurants. And all
this time callous and cruel Government
keeps the clerks hard at work, often to
the extent Of eight hours a day, giving
no heed to their piteous remonstrances
nor yet to their indignant protests. Ex-
actly to what extremities of persecution
the slave drivers venture we have no
means Of knowing. Whether the clerks
get less than they are worth or are re-
quired TO do more, work than would be
fair at any wage has never been made
entirely clear to the dspassionate in
quirer The air is full Of vague and bit
ter lamentation, but facts of specific and
convincing quality are in the class with
the great aux and the commercial flying
machine. Maybe these clerks are robbed
by their taskmasters; maybe they get
reasonable pay. but are subjected to un-
reasonable burdens; maybe not, but the
localnewspapers dilate upon their wrongs
with great and painful volume. and il is
worthy Of note that no Government
clerk has ever yet come forward with a
declaration Of contentment or q hint Of
gratitude. Evidently the clerks regard
themselves as martyrs and hail with joy
the exhibition of their wounds.
Semi-occasionally one obtains ma
terial for calculating thought through the
medium Of an accidental demonstration
For example, il happened a few days ago
that one of the clerks in the War Depart
ment felt it incumbent on him TO assault
female person OF his acquaintance. and
incidentally to kick her down a fight
Of stairs. Among other narrowing de-
tails, as given in the Washington news
papers, there was one 10 the effect that
the strenuous clerk has been receiving
from a cheeseparing Government the
miserable stipend OF 81 COO per annum
Specifically this salary may be re-
garded as a fairly practicable bridge for
the chasm which yawns between neces-
sity and extinction. Really profound
thinkers, however. will in time conclude
that 81 800 year is not enough, or even
nearly enough, for the support Of high
class department clerk, who includes in
his philosophy Of the simple life the
privilege OF occasionally beating woman
The sun., 1906-12-26

dred and twenty-nine by the rural COM
munes, and seventy-two by the general
class. From what we have here set
forth il will be obvious that the electoral
system from which the inhabitants OF
Austria have at last been delivered was
incomparably intricate. II was a puzzle
TO most Of the Austrians themselves, and
perhaps no American has understood it,
with the exception OF Mr.. A. LAWRENCE
LOWELL, TO whose work on Governments
and Parties in Continental Europe" We
are indebted for our facts.
To appreciate more thoroughly the
labyrinthine regulations which will be
abolished at "a stroke by the new uni
versal suffrage law we should recall that
the franchise varied materially in the
various classes. In the general class It
was enjoyed by substantially all men
not in domestic service. and it was
computed in 1896 when this class was
created, that the total number of voters
would lie increased thereby from some
/, 100000 TO about $500, 900. In the classes
of cities and rural villages the franchise
could Re exercised by all municipal
and communal voters who paid five
forms, or about two dollars in annual
taxes. For the class of great land
owners the qualification was the pay
ment Of a tax ranging in the different
provinces from fifty to two hundred and
fifty forms, and except in three prov
inces assessed on land held by a noble
or feudal tenure. II is an interesting
fact that in the class of great landown-
ers women could vote. SO also could
men in active military service who belong
to that class, though these were excluded
from the franchise in the other classes.
One more difference between the classes
was that only in the rural communes was
the election indirect; there il was carried
on by means of intermediate electors,
one of whom was chosen for every five
hundred inhabitants. Curiously enough,
although such rigorous class distinctions
were maintained as regards voters (ex-
cept in the general class created in 1890,
these were all efiaced with respect TO
candidates. Every man who possessed
the franchise in any class was eligible
SlOiCl ny ihdt CidSS VI any b'iNis iHd'
is to say, the class of great mobiles might
elect a peasant to represent them, or y
rural commune might return a noble.
As members of the Reichsrath are
paid, there is no reason to doubt that
under universal suffrage the working
class will be very largely represented
1t remains to be seen whether the as
sembly which will he the outcome Of
electoral reform will be more orderly
than its predecessor, and whether it will
obtain complete control of the Cabinet.
a control which hitherto has been so
far from perfect that the Herrenhaus,
or House Of Lords, has not felt obliged to
give way in case of disagreement.
The sun., 1906-12-26
MIR. Bryce and Brownsville.

To TIVE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir The
great purpose Of a constitution il to protect
the minority from the aggression OF the ma
jority Majority rule beyond constitutional
limits is mob rule. An Executive, a Con-
gress, court. which exceeds constitutional
limitations al the behest Of a majority be-
comes to that extent tool OF the mob. The
rights under the law Of a single negro soldier
should be more sacred than the cIamor of
millions. II is a strong Executive who can
stand upon the Constitution against the
crowd weak one who follows the crowd and
deprives some poor devil of a constitutional
right. One may do injustice By using uncon-
stitutional power in attempting to admniste
justice.
James Bryce. in his American Common
wealth" Second Edition. Vol. /. p. ST., says,
Although recent residents have shown no
disposition to strain their authority 1t is stn the
fashion 10 America be Jealous OF the Presidents
action. and to warn citizens against what is called
the one man power" General Ulysses s. Grant
was hardly the man to make himself q tyrant. yet
the hostility to a third term Of once which moved
many people who had not been alienated by the
faults OF his Administration rested not merely on
reverence for the example set by Washington. but
also the fear that President repeatedly chosen
would become dangerous to republican institutions.
This particular alarm seems TO a European ground.
less. II there be any danger u would
seem to lie In another direction. The larger a
community becomes the less docs It seem to respect
assembly. the more h It attracted by an ind
vidusl man. A bold President who knew himself
to be supported by majority IN the country might
be tempted TO override the law and deprive the
minority OF the protectIon which the law affords
It. He might be tyrant, not against the masses.
but with the masses But nothing IN the pIescnt
state Of American politics gives weight to such
apprehensions.
Among those who aided Mr. Bryce in pre-
pairing his work was Theodore Roosevelt Of
New York That was twenty years ago.
Do not some things in the present state OF
American politics give weight TO such appre-
hensions1 G. VS..
JAMAICA, y. V. December rs.