davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Morris tribune., 1907-06-01
SAYS LAW IS MANDATORY.
New Ruling Creates County Super
intendents of Highways at Once.

CT. Simpson, asst. attorney gener-
al, holds that the new law for the
election of county superintendent OF
highways in counties of less than 200,-
900 inhabitants is mandatory on the
county boards, altho the legislature
only provided that county boards may
appoint such officials. He says that
any other construction would nullify
the purpose of the legislature and
make the law ineffective, says the
Minneapolis Journal of May 10Th.
The word "may," Mr.. Simpson holds,
here is to be construed as sshalp under
the general rule that the word "may"
in statute should be construed as
shall where the rights of the public
are involved, or where it is used in a
statute to confer power on public
bodies or officers to do thing and
the public have an interest that such
things be done.
He also holds that the other section
OF cnapter 400, aDohsh1ng ROAD over
seers and creating the Office of town
ship road inspectors to be elected by
town boards, went into effect April %,
when the law was approved. The road
overseers elected this spring have
Therefore no warrant to continue in
office, and township boards should
elecct the new road inspectors, as
soon as possible. They are to work
under the county superintendent of
highways.
The county boards may elect the
present county surveyors to be super
intendents of highway and
probably will in most cases, as the
offices of county surveyor is not
abolished, although the new official is
given the same powers and duties.
Morris tribune., 1907-06-01
Flax Tow Mills for Sale.

Mr.. V. r. Blehdon of Buffalo, N. Y.
owns absolutely, without any encum-
brance, the fax tow mills at Coopers-
town, Aneta, Finley, Mayville and
Armenia, North Dakota and is DESTROYS
of selling one or all of them cheap.
Will take partly cash and partly mort
gage, together with note endorsed by
good financially responsible party
For price and information inquire OF
V. R Blehdon, Buffalo, N. Y. or G. N.
Dean, Cooperstown, North Dakota.
Morris tribune., 1907-06-01
A Fortunate Texan.

Mr.. E. W. Goodloe, of 1O7 st. Louis
ST., Dallas, Tex, says: Gin the past
year I have become acquainted with
DIR. Kings New Life pills, and no lax
alive ever before tried SO effectually
disposes of malaria and billiousness.' -
They don't grind nor grippe. 25c, at
j. R. Krueger's, drug store.
Morris tribune., 1907-06-01
Chinese Famine Broken.

Shanghai, May 31.-The famine
which has prevailed for many weeks,
causing hundreds of deaths and great
suffering, has been broken. The crops
are still thin, but the hot weather OF
the past month has been favorable to
a good yield.
Morris tribune., 1907-06-01
Securities Representing 1t

and that in the consensus of opinion
of investors the total value of stocks
and bonds is greater than their total
face value, Notwithstanding the wa
TER that has been injected in partic-
ular places.
Ample provision should be made by
congress to enable the interstate COM
MERGE commission, by the employment
Of q sufficient force of experts, to
undertake the physical valuation of
each and any road in the country,
whenever and so soon as in the opin-
ion of the commission such valuation
of any road would be of value to the
commission in its work. There are
undoubtedly some roads as to which
it would be an advantage, from the
standpoint of the business Of the COM
mission, to have such a physical val
uation as soon as possible.
At the outset let it be understood
that physical valuation is no panacea;
it is no sufficient measurement OF a
rate: but it will be ultimately needed
as an essential instrument in admin
istrative supervision and will be Of
use to the commission in connection
with the duty of determining the rea-
sonableness Of future capitalization.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
In the Occur d'AIenes.

Mr. Ehrenberg has resigned as man.
ager of the Frisco mine at Gem, the
position vacated by him being temper
arily taken by Frederick Burbidge.
Work has been begun on a 500-foot
shaft on the vein of the Virginia prop
erty on Carbon creek.
w. r. Finley has purchased from A.
F. Sukoff one-eighth interest in the
Arrow lode claim in the Summit dis
trict.
The Frisco mill was closed down
last week. but a force of 80 men has
been kept at work doing development
work and opening up additional
Slopes.
The station at the 500-foot level OF
the Alice shaft is completed. and q
drift has been begun to get under the
ore opened in the upper levels. The
group, which consists of % claims
lies near Mullan.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
BROUGHT Results.

The results of the experiments Of
the State college at Pullman, in We
natchee valley, are now at hand, after
a years waiting, and they are very sue
cessful. Professors Melander and
Trumble have been conducting the ex-
periments, and they have been in the
orchards of men who operate fruit
farms in the Wenatchee valley.
In the orchard of q. A. Lanham,
where there were 5000 boxes of apples
that were wormy last year, this year
there were only six boxes found. On
examining the apples raised in the
Lanham orchard the two Pullman men
found only 10 boxes of apples out Of
II, 900 that had been even attacked by
worms
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
OREGON soulas

Charles Kinsel. aged 10, is dead as
the result of drinking carouse, near
Oregon City recently, In which 13 9TH
er boys participated. The youngest
OF the party was under 20 years old.
John Paul Jones, travelling passenger
agent for the Southern Pacific lines
in Oregon, and one of the best known
and most popular railroad men on the
Pacific coast, died recently from a
complication Of diseases. Mr.. Jones
had travelled for &c years for the
Southern Pacific. He was 55 years of
age.
The Rev. c. Anderson, a pioneer
Methodist minister, retired, living at
Salem, was instantly killed recently
when he was struck by an engine of a
freight train and hurled from a trestle
80 feet high to the tracks in Albany
He was 80 years old.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
MONTANA NOTES

| After a chase of nearly Is months,
covering half of the states in the
Union, Miller Mcdowell, wanted for
robbing box cars at Villa Grove, ILL.,,
has been captured at Trout Creek.
Alfonz Mongoet and his son, Alfred,
were asphyxiated while asleep in a
small room at Helena by gasoline
fumes. 1t is supposed a gasoline tank
sprang leak while they were asleep.
At Butte Willie Goggin, IL years of
age, who has been in Jail number
of times and bears the name of a
| lard character, recently fatally cut and
slashed Willie Berry, young fellow
two or three years older than himself.
One of the biggest prairie fires in
recent years in Montana is sweeping
the ranges in the eastern part of the
state, not less than 80 miles of choice
burned over in the vicinity of gilbert
son. Stockmen are making desperate
efforts to stop the spread of the fire,
but the flames, famed by the wind,
thus far have had little impression
made upon them. On the Fort Keogh
reservation many houses and buildings
belonging to the Indians have been
destroyed. The burning of the range
means serious loss to the stockmen
especially with the approach of win
ter
Mrs. Ambrose E. Hooker, the aged
widow of General Hooker of civil war
fame, lies grievously i'll at St. Peters
hospital in Helena. During the stress
full days of the civil war Mrs. Hooker
was one Of the leaders of Washington
society, and was admittedly one OF
the most beautiful women of the wal
days at the capital.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
IDAHO NEWS.

Paying with his life for rocking a
boat In lake Pend dOreille, Jordan
Strum, a railroad lineman employed
by the Northern Pacific railroad, was
drowned in about nine feet of water
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Rowley of Wardner is
said to have fallen heir to fortune
of about $4,000 by the death of an
uncle at Pueblo, Col. Mrs. Rowley
has gone to Pueblo to look after her
interests.
A Baltimore report states that the
Northern Idaho district of the Episco-
pal church, now included in the do
cese of Spokane, is to be taken from
this diocese and added to the diocese
of Boise. The latter diocese will
then include the entire state Of Idaho.
The associated student body of the
University of Idaho has voted to pur-
chase a tract of land for an athletic
field.
The plumbers of Wallace have de-
manded an increase in wages from
$3.50 to 81 day, and the master
plumbers have granted it.
A. L. Flewelling has purchased on
behalf of the Monarch Lumber com
pany S,5O0O0 feet of timber from the
Wallace forestry department for $34,
000 The price paid represents fiat
rate of 81 per thousand feet for al
kinds of timber, and the section from
which it will be taken is situated or
Clear creek. about IL miles from Taft
Mont A portable sawmill will be in
stalled Immediately.
The Lewiston fair closed Saturda,
and the management is pleased will
the results obtained
AS a result of the poultry exhibi
at the Lewiston fair an organization
of poultry fanciers is to be perfected
: A meeting has been called for Novem
Der IA, at which time a permanen
organization will be made. In tn
meantime new members will be sc
cured. 1t is the intention to max
& the association a strong one, as man,
) poultry raisers reside near here.
: An inspection of all sheep in Idah
5 trailing from the Gem state into Uta
will take place at the state line thi
I week. The inspectors attached to tn
t federal bureau of animal industry, i
: whose charge has been placed tn
s matter Of inspection of all sheep tina
trail from this state into adjoinin
e states, announce that so far as the
2 know there is no truth in the repol
that the federal quarantine agains
n sheep in Idaho had been raised. 1t
i presumed that the 100000 to 10000
; head of sheep will be inspected at tn
q state line.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
WILL RESIST WAGE INCREASE
Railroads Decide to Refuse Any Fur
Their Advances

The labor situation is causing west
ern railroad arrangements a great
deal of uneasiness. During the past
week the executive committee of gen.
efal managers has held several con-
ferences at Chicago to discuss the sit
uation. In various parts of the west
different labor organizations have
asked for increased wages, and on one
road, at least, there is danger of a
switchmens strike. The problem con-
fronting the general managers Is:
What is to be done with past demands
and future demands which seem GER
tain to come?
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
SPOKANE.
Prices to Producers.

The following list may be taken as
fair standard of prices paid to pro-
ducers by the Spokane city markets
for the commodities named:
Poultry-Live hens, 13c; dressed,
14c; old roosters, &c; dressed, 10c;
spring chickens, 13c; live geese, 12c
lib; dressed, 1870; live ducks, 13c;
dressed, 1415c; fancy live turkeys, 17c;
dressed 19c.
Eggs Strictly fresh, ranch, $3.50
per case, Csc per doz.
Stock-Live hogs, &c ID; dressed,
81a to 91sc lb; cows, live, $3.2503.75
cwt; dressed, Aye lb; steers, live 81
cwt up; dressed, &C lb; hides, to &c.
Mutton-Sc lb; dressed wethers,
lie; ewes, 10c.
Veal-Fancy small, to &c lb;
large, weighing from 200 to 800, SO
&C.,
Fruits and vegetables -Potatoes, 75c
cwt; new turnips, lie Id; lettuce, 10c
Id; string beans, &c lb; apples, 75c@
S125 box up; cantaloups, 81 crate;
pumpkins, Csc, 50@75c doz; peppers,
60@75c box; squash, 75c@S1 box; to-
matoes, SOC box; plums, 40@50c
crate; cabbage, lie lb; carrots, 75c
cwt; rutabagas, 1@1Ac lb; beets,
1Ac ID; dry onions, &c lb; crabapples,
81 box; cauliflower, 75c@$1.50 doz;
green onions, 10@1215c doz; green
corn, 75c and 81 sack; cucumbers soc
crate; home grown watermelons, lie
ID; grapes, 75c@$1, basket crate;
citrons, 75c doz; horseradish root, 15c
lb; celery, 50@60c per dozen punches;
prunes, 40@50c crate.
Wisconsin and Hazelwood,
lSc lb; domestic, zoe; Swiss, 5Oc ID.
Hay, bale-Oat hay, $14@15 ton;
wheat hay, s15@1S ton up; alfalfa, $12
ton up; timothy, SIT ton up.
wheat hay, SIS up; oat hay, $11@12
ton.
Oats-$1.25 cwt. up.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
Commander Briggs Insane.

Paris-The strange actions of Com
mander John B. Briggs, U. S. N, re-
tired, is causing alarm to his friends
here. He seems to be suffering from
the persecution mania.
John Bradford Briggs was acquitted
by courtmartial at Manila on April II,
1905. on the charge of running the
United States cruiser Baltimore ashore
September 10, and with failure to re-
port the accident to the commander in
chief of the Asiatic squadron.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
TWENTY LIVES LOST
STEAMER CYPRESS sunk IN
LAKE SUPERIOR.
All of the Crew of %, Excepting the
Second Mate, Were Lost-Believed
the Machinery Was Broken Down
Foundering Probably Due to Leak
Captain Had His Family Aboard.

The steel steamer Cypress, owned
by the Lackawanna Transportation
company and on her second trip down
the lakes with a cargo of coal, was
wrecked in Lake Superior, 20 miles
from Grand Marais, and all OF the
crew, Of %, excepting the second
mate, were lost.
He was washed ashore near Deer
Park, dashed to life raft and barely
alive.
He has suffered terribly from cold
and exposure.
TWO bodies have been washed ashore
at Deer Park.
The Cypress was new boat, 44O
feet long, with capacity of 740O tons
1t is believed that the machinery was
broken, as the northwest storm was
not severe enough to wreck such
strong ship.
The indications are that the founder
ing was due to leak. The steamer
George Stevenson reported that she
had passed the Cypress. A red streai
was distinguishable in the water pc
hind her, indicating that her plates
had been sprung and that the iron orr
with which the ship was loaded wa
discoloring the water. Captain Har
botelle of the Stevenson says he pass
ed so close that he could see that tn
matches of the Cypress we're not Gov
ered A heavy sea was running an
the decks of the Cypress were continr
ally awash with the combers tina
broke over the rails. Late in the nigh
the lights of the vessel near Dee
park were visible to the crew of tn
Stevenson and then suddenly disal
peared.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
WHEAT is BOUND TO GO UP
Price in England and France Is Still
Rising.

hioiIiSs
Paris. Oct. 16.@The Action of the
London Flour Millers association in
raising the price of flour six pence
az cents) a sack win be followed by
similar action on the part of the asso-
citation of French milling interests,
which are about to meet to consider
the situation, resulting from the fact
that wheat has now reached an ad-
vance never before realized since Joe
Letters corner in 1898.
M. Carnu, secretary of the general
association, as well as a director in
the most important periodical devoted
to the same interests, told CORE
spondent recently that this week
would see rise in price in France at
least equal to the English rise, which
naturally would cause higher price
for the actual loaf. The higher price
will come to stay. declared the man
ager of the Great Corbeil -four mills,
because it is not due primarily to spec
ulation.
The fact is that the population OF
the world is getting beyond the supply
Of wheat. and this, as it was predict
ed by the German professor. Pohle
some years ago, is thing that must
happen. AS one of the Paris papers
puts it this morning, the total wheat
bearing territory under cultivation OF
present is sufficient to feed about $50,
100000 persons, while the population
of the world is less than 100 900 00(
under this figure.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
Mas 1t a Fake?

Sensational stories originating at
Helena, Mont, coming from reports
made by Speaker E. w. King of the
Montana legislature regarding the
supposed sailing of the 22,000-acre
placer ground recently acquired by
the Greenough interests, located near
Lander, Wyo., have grain of truth in
them" said Wilbur D. Greenough of
Spokane, when seen regarding the re-
ported betrayal of Spokane and Mis-
soula men into buying heavily of the
stock of the Wyoming corporation, and
the supposed sailing of the placer
ground before being purchased by the
Greenough interests.
Not one share of the stock in the
Red Canyon placer mines has been
sold or issued to any one outside OF
the few original locaters," he contin
ued. 1.-THE company has no outstand
ing holders and if the sailing proves
true the Greenough brothers and theil
associates alone will be the losers. We
have spent approximately 100000 ii
prospecting the property alone, aside
from the original purchase price ant
the work already done. Because of the
inclement weather in Wyoming we
have called off nearly the whole force
of workmen, aside from the three en-
gineers engaged in ascertaining the
truth of reports in circulation. Worl
on the property has been discontinued
until next spring, when we will renew
! investigations and resume work on thu
3000-foot tunnel through which waite
from, the Little Popo Agile river is tt
be taken to the mines. If the satin,
reports are truthful, the people VIII
misrepresented affairs are liable to |
penitentiary sentence"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
MINES IN MANY CAMPS.

The theory that the valuable ore
bodies of Rossland camp would be
found only upon Red mountain and
only within the triangle formed by
the converging Josie and Center Star
dykes, a space only 5000 feet across,
has been entirely disproven by an i'm
mense strike made last week In the
Idaho mine. to the east of the big
Center Star dyke.
Work at the Buster nine at Elk
City, which has but recently been pur-
chased by F. w. Bradley and asso-
ciates from s. w. Smith, for 20 years
owner of the mine. is being pushed
preparatory to the installation Of 20
stamp mill. the machinery for which
is now en- route to the mine.
CRANKY smelter at Phoenix. B. c.,
made new record last week, treating
more than 5000 tons Of ore each day
of the week.
Efforts to check the fire which start
ed in the coal mine Of the Northwest
ern Improvement company at Ravens
dale, Wash, last Sunday have failed
and the fire is still raging The mine
has been sealed up and a constant
stream Of water turned into 1t, but
even this has failed to check the
flames. Manager Charles Claghorn Of
Tacoma is on the ground, and said thai
if the fire Is not under control Sunda,
the mine will again be sealed and the
fire let burn until it exhausts itself,
J. M. Miller, union miner who wal
deporued from Cripple Greek during
the recent strike of 1903 by the mine
owners, has discovered a bonanza cop
per and gold mine on Muskrat creek
Is miles south Of Lusk, Wyo. Mile
received his tip from an ignorant Mex
lean sheep herder whom he once be
friended. At a depth of % feet tn
ore shoot is two feet wide and run
S1O0 in gold and 16 per cent copper t
the ton.
: Coroner A. s. Black empaneled
, Jury to inquire into the death Of Ale1
ander Dawson, who was fatally crust
| ed in the Rawhide mine in the Phoeni
camp recently. The jury returned
t verdict that the unfortunate youn
t man met his death through disobeyin
r orders.
2 The recent cuts in the price OF dea
: are said cut down the profits of tn
St. Eugene mine in British Columbi
by about $4,000 day or $370,00O
year. This huge decrease in earning
4 has much to do with the drop in tt
price of Canadian Consolidated stoc
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
Clark and Hill.

1t has been said that back OF Jesse
Knight, the wealthy Utah capitalist,
with whom David H. Moffat, the Den
yer banker, lately made arrangements
for building the Salt Lake end of the
Denver, Northwestern & Pacific. are
James j. Hill and Senator Clark.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
Eastern OREGON Mines.

T. s. Van Vleet Of Sumpter has re-
ceived final payment on the purchase
Of the Gold Bug mine. The property
has been decided to syndicate Of Mar
shalltown, Iowa. people.
Norborne Berkeley Of Granite has
purchased from Donovan and Melon
nell their lease on the Buffalo Moni-
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19

The police have rescued so bodies
have a good time without getting in
to trouble
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19

Too many men imagine they can't
end many others are said to have
been lost
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19
Wife and Sons With Captain.

jamestown, N. Y.-When Captain
Huyck of the Cypress left his home
here for his present trip he was &C
companied by his wife and two sons.
1t is generally known here that they
were still with him on this trip.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19

going a general overhauling, was
launched at the company's shipyards
in Wenatchee recently.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19


The former owners will have charge
of the management of the mine.
Copper Outlook.
A further decline in the price
of copper metal in New York
Saturday left lake quoted at lax
cents bid. Even at the price
no sales of importance we're re-
ported. The copper metal market is in
condition of absolute chaos. Ten-cent
copper would not surprise anybody
now If the United Metals Selling COM
pany had let the market take normal
course copper now would have been
selling freely around IA cents pound
and there would have been universal
confidence, but the absurd trade meth
DDS adopted by picnic stricken copper
merchants have reduced the price to
IA cents without making any sales of
Importance. H. H Rogers is officially
on his deathbed, according to the
sworn evidence of his business asso-
ciates. The copper situation has driv-
en- John D. Ryan, president of the Ana
conda Copper Mining company, to a
sick bed and it is worry over the
chaotic condition of the copper metal
market that is causing his trouble Mr..
Ryan's condition is very dangerous and
his doctors are terrified at every add
tional decline in the price of copper
metal. The strange fact is that Mr..
Ryan's friends are blaming those who
report facts about copper, utterly ig-
noring the culpability of the insiders
of the Amalgamated Copper company
who caused the collapse.
The surplus of copper metal has
now grown from 250,000,000 to away
above 300,000,00O pounds. 1t is possible
that there is as much as 400,000,00(
: pounds of copper metal on the surface
| of the earth in the hands of producers
!, The net exports for nine months have
, been only 6O,O0O,OO0. The condition O.
the American Smelling & Refining
company is becoming serious.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-10-19

tor mine. The rich ore discovered in
the property few weeks ago still con-
tinues to show in the Slopes.
Cincinnati capitalists have purchas-
ed the Bi-Metallic mine in the Green
horn from s. G. Richardson and An
drew Larsen, and are preparing for ex-
tensive development work. Ore will
be shipped to the Sumpter smelter.
The former owners will have charge
of the management of the mine.