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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
FLOODS CLAIM SIX HUNDRED.
Overflow Of River OtonashigaWa
Causes Terrible Disaster,

Victoria, B. c., Sept. 29.-Advices Of
a terrible disaster, due to great floods
prevailing in Japan, have been re-
ceived here.
In the overflow Of the river Otonashi.
gawa running through the town of Flu
kuchiyama. near Kyoto, more than 600
persons were drowned. The river rose
than fifty feet. The barracks Of
the Twentieth regiment and the Tenth
engineers battalion, situated on the
heights near the town. escaped damage
when the town was overwhelmed and
the troops were hurried out to render
what assistance could be given to the
survivors and to rescue downing peo-
pie. The population Of the town vas
over 10000.
Hurriedly fifty or more sailing
junks were dispatched to the scene,
soldiers manning the junks and saving
many persons. The police have re-
covered 800 bodies and others are be-
lieved to have been lost.
Gen. Kuroki and Gov. Omori Of Kyo-
to were in the city. the former being
engaged in inspecting the troops, and
are said to have narrowly escaped
drowning.
One Hundred Drowned In Spain.
Malaga Spain, Sept. pa renewal
of the rain yesterday caused fresh in
undations and a suspension of the res
cue work. The picturesque valleys of
a few days ago are now covered with
water and desolation reigns on all
sides. The bodies of about 100 drown
ed persons have been recovered here
and In the immediate vicinity Of Ma
laga.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
SECRETARY is GUEST OF MEXICO
Hospitality and Freedom of Nation Is
Formally rendered Root.

Monterey, Mexico, Oct. AT 3
o'clock yesterday morning Secretary of
State Elihu Root crossed the Rio
Grande river and became the guest of
the Republic of Mexico. The cere-
monies attendant upon the formal ten
dering Of the hospitality and freedom
OF the nation were simple and pic
turesque. The train drew into the lit.
tie station on the Mexican side to the
strains Of two military bands, which
played lively American airs. When 1t
zane to a halt, Gen. Bincon Gallarde
approached the secretary and in the
name of President Diaz and the people
Of the republic of Mexican rendered
the distinguished visitor the freedom
and hospitality of the country in the
following words:
Given Formal Welcome.
your e~xcellency, especially appoint,
ed for this purpose by the president,
In behalf of the government of the re.
public, we have the honor to tender to
.7ou excellency the most cordial vel.
come for your happy arrival in Mexi-
co, whose people of whom we must be
considered the faithful echo, pledge
the continued good relations with the
people of the United States. The re.
ception is a homage to your well
known merits and the people are anx.
ious to receive your excellency as their
illustrious guest and highly esteemed
friend"
When the general had concluded
Secretary Root made a graceful reply.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
JAIL SENTENCE BY PROXY.

Judgs Decides Parents Must Serve
Time for chiIdren's Depredatlons.
Chicago. Sept. 20. ITO Jail by
proxy" is Judge Mackenzie Cleland's
newest plan for che reform Of crimi-
nails. He launched 1t yesterday at the
Maxwell street police station when he
decided In the case Of three boys who
were before him on charges Of shop
lifting that their parents would have
to 80 to jail and serve the sentences of
the lawless trio in the event that the
latter again ran afoul Of Tie police.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
NEW WIRELESS RECORD.

Savannah (Ga.) Operator Picks Up
Message From the Pacific Ocean.
Washington. Oct. IA new rec
ord has been made in wireless telegra-
ply by the navy. The wireless tele-
graph station near Savannah, Ca. has
picket up a message from the cruiser.
Pennsylvania while approaching San
Francisco from Honolulu. The best
previous record was made by the
Washington navy yard station several
months ago, when it received a mes
sage from the naval wireless station
at Los Angeles, Cal. .
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
People Talked About.

DR.. III. M. Beck, fifty-two years old,
one of the best known physicians in
Wisconsin, died at Green Bay a. ON
ANGER of the stomach.
George w. Harris. a former slave,
died at Rowlandsville. Md. at the age
of 113 years, / month and IA
days. Harris maternal grandmother
vas III years old when she died.
Miss Virginia Lee. daughter Of the
late Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, was married
at Alexandria, Va, to Lieut.. John Car
ter Montgomery, Seventh United
States cavalry.
Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Americas old
est actress, will retire from the stage
with the celebration OF her seventy
second birthday, Nov. -. The honor
Of being the grand old lady of the
native theater" fell to Mrs. Yeamans
upon the death Of Mrs. Gilbert and
the retirement of Mrs. Sol Smith
Russell. Mrs. Yeamans has been be-
fore the public sixty-two years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
crimes and Criminals.

Lawrence LAWS, a farmer, shot him.
self at Lemars, Iowa. The bullet lodg-
ed over his heart, and he Is In a criti-
cal condition at the city hospital.
DR.. Peyton Randolph Henderson. a
prominent physician. committed sui
eide in Louisville. Friends are unable
to furnish any theory as to why he
should end his life.
An unknown mar entered the Swan
son Music company's store at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and at the point Of a
revolver cleaned out the cash drawer
in the safe. getting away with $50 In
cash. Many people saw the deed per.
formed, but dared not interfere be-
cause of the gun in the mans posses
sion.
Because, he said, he was sick and
hungry Frederick Goodwin of New York
city, a youth of twenty years, broke
into the home Of a prominent citizen
at Des Moines and stole two mando-
Inns. He pleaded guilty to burglary in
the district court and was sentenced
70 six months Imprisonment.
Abraham Ruef is NO longer confined
IN the former residence Of Former
Mayor Schmitz, on Fillmore street. In
San Francisco. Ruef has taken up his
abode at Pacific and Fillmore streets.
IN I private residence, where he IL re
aaSsSh~s css- HIS srs=as=vsss
also cuk down to two.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
IS TIED D A
Dock Guard at Duluth Victim OF Dla-
bolicaL Assault.

Duluth, Sept. %. - Albert Sullivan,
one of the men employed as dock
guard here during the strike, was as
saulted last night, and while uncop
scious was tied to the track under an
ore train with straps torn from his
shirt and left there by the men who at
tackled him. He is now in the hosital,
but has not recovered consciousness
sufficiently to describe his assailants.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
SKULL CRUSHED IN.
Body Of Unknown Man Is Found on
Fort SneIIinq Track.

Body OF Unknown Mar Is Found on
Fort Smelling Track.
st. Paul, Oct. 1.-The body of an
unidentified man was found about 3
o'clock yesterday morning on the car
tracks on the Fort Smelling reserve
ton. The top Of the head was crushed
in, n leg was broken and the other
crushed, the clothing was torn .hi two
Of the mans pockets were to- and
pulled inside cut. No tic y nor pa
pers were found on the body. The
Minneapolis police, to whom the mat
ter was reported. believe taat death
was due to accident.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
OH ExpIosion Kills Three Men

New Jersey, Sept. 29.JThree men
were killed instantly yesterday by the
explosion Of an oil tank in the Bronx
from which they were drawing crude
petroleum into a sprinkling cart for
use on the Morris Park race track.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
GREAT DISTRESS IN SPAIN.
Damage Done by Flood Is Placed at
S3, 800, 900.

Malaga, Oct. l. - The greatest dis
tress everywhere is prevalent as a
result of the storms and floods of last
week. The governor with difficulty is
preventing famished people seizing
and eating decayed foodstuffs that
have been thrown out by storekeepers.
Many bodies have been found. The
damage done by the flood is placed at
$3,S00,00 Fifteen thousand stores
were ruined.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
Fall Is Fatal.

Escanaba, Mich, Oct. 1. = Capt.
James w. Nicholson, aged sixty-two.
of Buffalo. fell through an open hatch
into the hold of his boat, the Caledo-
MIA Of tie Corrigan-McKinney feet
and was instantly killed yesterday.
His neck was broken.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
Mnkmen Raise Prices.

Faribault, Mimi, Sept. 20. - The
milkmen doing business in this city
have decided to raise the price of their
milk from s cents per quart to 6 cents.
They also have raised the price OF
cream to s cents q pint.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
ACCIDENT AT BENSON.
Mrs. christopherson, an o~etogenarian,
Crushed Under Car Wheels.

Benson, Mimi, Oct. IA great
Northern freight train while switch
ing in the yards ran over and killed
an old woman named Rebecca Christie
pherson, known for years as Becky
She lived alone in a little house given
her by the village. She was picking
up coal along the tracks and started
to crawl under the train. The wheels
started and ran yer her body. She
was nearly eighty years old.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
Finds s.bv Dead at Her Side.

Appleton, Wis.,, Sept. 20. - When
Mrs. John Graesang awoke yesterday
morning she found her s~ix-weeks-old
daughter lying dead at her side. Death
was presumably due to heart failure.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
cHINKs TO BUY WIVES.

celestials Go to Native Land for Help
meets at $500 Each.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, Sept. 29.-Yep
Lee and Yep Lang, two Cinnamon, left
this city yesterday for Hongkong.
China, where, they said, they would
purchase wives. They have about s4,-
600 between them, and claim that they
viii pay about $500 each for a wife.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
Dies In the Woods.

springfield, Mimi, Oct. 1.-Wil.
liam Register. sixty-ive years old, was
fomd dead n mile east OF town. In
the timber. He left home Friday to
gather grapes.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
GIRL FIGHTS FOR BANDIT.
Says She Wants to Go to Prison With
Her Lover.

Belgrade, Oct. IA girl of seven
teen was one Of the fiercest resisters
in a gang of bandits recently overpow.
cred near Jojarevats, Servia. She has
fed from her home to join her sweet
heart, who was one of the band, and
declared she fought so stoutly in or
der to make sure of being sent to pris-
or with him.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
From other shores.

from Otner onores-
Five men were killed and four men
and FIVE women were injured through
the explosion Of q shrapnel shell while
q quantity of ammunition was being
unloaded In the artillery depot at VIII
helmshayen, Germany.
The imperial troops have repulsed
an attack made on the city Of Yochow,
o. the Yang-tse. kiang river, province
of HUI Nan, by 1000 rebels. The reb.
els stormeG the city and scaled the
walls, but after some sharp fighting
were driven off.
A conspiracy to start a revolution
airy movement In Cuba has been dts
covered. Under instructions Issued by
Gov. Magoon a number Of suspicious
persons have been Swallowed for sew
eral days. 1t is said that the move.
ment is backed by New York capital
lists.
To the first Swedish newspaper men
who interviewed him after his return
to Stockholm, Prince Wilhelm said his
visit to America had been very pleas
ant and that he had learned to know
one OF the worlds mightiest nations.
He expressed his regret that he was
unable to visit the West.
A band of robbers made a success
full haul from a railroad train near
Ekaterinodar, Russia. They had in
formation that a third-class passenger
was carrying $3.50 They surround
ed the coach In which he was riding
and MORALLY wounded hiM and then
escaped with all his money.
LANG Tin Yam, who had been select
ed to succeed Sir Chentung LANG
Chang as minister to Washington, has
instead been appointed assistant &c
rotary OF the board Of foreign affairs.
It is understood that the determine
ton has been reached to send WI
Tingfang back to Washington.
Additional reports by mail and by
coast steamers from remote points
show that sixteen and possibly twenty
four lives were lost along the New
foundland coast during the equinoctial
gale of Thursday. Seventy-ive fishing
vessels were wrecked and much dam
age done to wharves and fishing gears.
The financial loss is estimated at a
quarter Of a million dollars.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-10-03
KELLOGG ON TRAIL
OF MISSING BOOKS
INouIsIToR SAYS HE is CLOSER
TO LoNG-soUGHT STANDARD
BOOKS.
TRUST NEVER WAS DISSOLVED
GOVERNMENT ATTORNEY SHOWS
UP SOME MORE ENORMOUS
PROFITS.

New York, Sept. 29.-Frank B. KEEL
logg, conducting the suit of the United
States for the dissolution of the Stand.
ard Oil Company of New Jersey, made
another hunt yesterday for a trail to
the long-sought books of the Standard
Oil trustees and liquidating trustees.
When the hearing was concluded Mr..
Kellogg said that he was closer to the
books, from which he hopes to prove
that the oil combine never underwent
a legal dissolution.
Charles White, assistant secretary
Of the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, said on the witness stand that
when he went to the secretary's Office
there were two steel safes in the Of.
fee.
Mysterious Safe Disappears.
One of them contained the books
and records of the Standard company.
What was in the other safe he did not
know. Mr.. White said no n told him
the contents of the second safe, which
was removed two weeks after he had
been there. From whom the order
anne or where The safe was taken the
witness said he could not tell. Mr..
White said that he had never seen the
records of the Standard Oil trustees
or the liquidating trustees, showing the
various transfers of stock in the trust
liquidating period. He said that he
had hunted for records recently, but
vas unable to find any.
More testimony was taken to show
the profits Of some of the Standards
subsidiary pipe lines, which the gov
ernnient's counsel declares are exces.
sive and maintained to prevent ship
ments of crude oil by independent pro-
ducera.
More Big Profits.
George Chesbro, controller of the
several pipe lines, testified that the
Southern Pipe Line Company of Penn
sylvania earned $4,376,6 1 o In
1890, and that the operating expenses
were only $316,522. The balance sheet
of the company for that year showed
the net plant investment to be $2,215,-
666. The company's balance sheet
showed an item of 81, 607,8 1856 as a pay
ment to j. p. Trainor, charged to op-
Grating expenses. Mr.. Chesbro said
that he could give no information
about the Trainor account. In 1900
the balance sheet showed $4,599 1888
paid to Mr.. Trainor..
The Ease was adjourned until next
Thursday in order that John G.. Mil
burn, n of the defendants counsel,
might attend the Mckinley monument
dedication in Canton, Ohio.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
OYERTAXED
Hundreds OF jackson Readers Know
What 1t Means.

The kidneys are overtaxed;
Have too much to do.
They tell about it Is many aches
and pains
Backache, sideache, headache,
Early symptoms of kidney ills.
Urinary troubles, diabetes, Bright's
disease follow.
A jackson citizen tells here a GER
tain cure.
Mrs L. j. Seymour, living on Pitt
St., Jackson, Cal, says: my hus-
band suffered much from kidney
trouble, the result no doubt of his
work. He often came home so lame
and stiff that he could not rest. He
tried many remedies, did not succeed
in hnging relief and was ready to
give up when Doan's Kidney Pills
we're brought to my attention and l
procured box for him at the City
Pharmacy. They helped him almost
Immediately, he continued their use
and at last received complete cure.
l never hear him complain Of kidney
trouble now, and know Doan's Kid
ney Pills to be a reliable remedy.
For sale by all dealers. Price SOC.
Foster Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New
York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan 's-and
take no other.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
HUNTING MISSING LINK.

DIR. Max Moskowski, a German
scientist, has arrived at Java in
charge of an expedition sent out to
find the "missIng link" between man
and ape. The expedition is being
financed jointly by the Royal Prus-
sian Academy of Science and the
Dutch Government, and DIR. Mos
kowski. who is zoologist. He is
accompanied by biologists, engineers
and an escort of troops provided by
the sDutch authorities. Java was
chosen as the destination of this expe-
dition because a Dutch scientist,
Prof. Dubois, said he found the
missing link" there some twenty
years ago. In the course of his
excavations in Java Dubois unearthed
the remains of savage being which
could have been neither man nor ape
but something between the two.
These remains showed a striking re-
semblance to those of primitive man
belonging to the Neaderthal race
found in Wurtemburg. DR.. Mos
kowski will begin his excavations in
the valley of the Solo River, near the
volcano Lavu, and will carry on the
work for at least year in the hope
of finding the lost link.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
Land and Mineral Decisions.

Coal Lands. -PrIor possession, with
out filing, will not avail as against
an adverse claimant who has COM
piled with the law.
Contest, Practice. The withdrawal
of contest leaves the issue as be-
tween the entryman and the govern
ment.
Entry-Tracts of land cornering on
each other are not within the rule of
contiguity.
Final Proof. -Subm ission of fraud
ulent final proof, conclusive of rights
under the entry.
Homestead EntrY.-ln determining
whether homesteader is disqualified
by the ownership of land, the grant
of railroad right of way across the
same connot be regarded as diminish
ing the areage held in fee by the
homesteader.
Mineral Character. agricultural
entry Of land returned as of the
character subject to such entry, and
shown to be such by final proof, is
not affected by subsequent survey
in which the land Is returned as
mineral in character.
Practice. In matters of procedure,
decisions of the department impart
judicial notice equally with the rules
of practice.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
Meaning of the Mother Lode.

A correspondent asked the editor
OF the American Mining Review Tor
some information regarding the
mother lode, Its significance of value
and whether or not the best mines
are always on the Mother Lode. be
received the following interesting
reply:
The term Mother Lode originated
in California with the pioneer miners
of the early days. 1t was a name
given to a succession of large out
crops of white quartz which were
found occurring at intervals under
varying geological conditions for
about 120 miles through the counties
of Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras,
Amador and FL Dorado; many of
these outcrops we're found to be gold
bearing, but some of the most i'm
portant and richest mines of this
great mineral belt were not character
lied by huge outurops.
The Keystone mine at Amador City,
which has produced over SIG, 900, OOO,
has only small outcrop, and the
Eureka mine at Suffer Creek, with a
record of s1S, 900, 600, merely showed
a small outcrop of quartz-not more
than four or five feet wide. The
Empire and Pacific at Plymouth,
which produced about 10,000, 600, and
were at one period the most pro-
ductive mines in the state, are OBJ
scure at the surface.
The Kennedy and Argonaut at Jack
son. which have turned out nearly
$40, 900. 600 in gold, have a compare
lively small outcrop, eight or ten
feet wide. The Utica.at Angels Camp
was not characterized by bold out
groupings, nor was the Princeton in
Mariposa county. On the other
hand, there are score or more of
mines on the Mother Lode having
huge outcrops, 100 to 300 feet Wide
and standing prominently above the
surface, that have been extensively
developed, which have never proved
profitable.
The name, however. has Income
famous and in almost every mining
region Of the world the miners usual
ly fix upon some lode or vein which
they call the ''mother Iode." The
idea seems to be that this main lode
is the parent vein of the region and
that it Is in some manner responsible
for the other veins of the vicinity.
1t merely represents the miners
fancy, and from any standpoint the
''mother lode' is without particular
significance, for as in California,
good mines are found in isolated
position and in no manner connected
or identified with the principal
mineral lode or belt of the country.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
Costly In Lives.

In ancient times the great engineer
ing works we're costly IN human lives.
The making of the Red sea canal is
said to have involved the loss of no
fewer than 10000 Egyptians.
Buckles examination made him be-
Iieve the number to have been some
what exaggerated, but he gives 1t still
as guide to the enormous waste of
human life in those days. The men
who kept 1000 slaves engaged for
three years bringing single stone
from EIephantine to the pyramids did
not care a great deal so long as in
the twenty years in which one of the
pyramids was building there we're
forth coming the 300, 900 men requir-
d for the work.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-09-27
Scarcity of School Teachers.

Reports from school trustees and
superintendent in all parts of Cali
fornia indicate serious shortage in
school teachers, although salaries are
good and living conditions attractive.
Ihe five normal schools of the state
have placed all their graduates and
are entirely unable to meet the de-
mand. This shortage in the teaching
force of the state, outside the cities
and towns, has been growing for the
past three or four years.
Not only are teachers scarce for the
country schools. but the figures, as
noted by the California promotion
committee, would seem to show an
impending shortage in the supply of
city pedagogues as we'll. In years
heretofore the number of applicants
for the civil service examination Tor
teachers in San Francisco, has run
from two hundred and fifty to thu go
hundred. This summer, however,
there we're only about ninety in spite
of the fact that no examinations were
held year ago. which circumstance
naturally should have increased the
number of applicants this year.
Teachers salaries have been very
largely increased throughout the
state, but notwithstanding this fact
the number of teachers seems to be
dwindling. The minimum salaries
in San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton
and Los Angeles have been increased
in sums ranging from five to fifteen
dollars a month. In the rural schools
very general advance has been made
from salaries of sixty to seventy
dollars month to from seventy to
eighty-f1ve.
The rural teacher in California
finds more attractions and fewer draw
backs about her work than character
ize similar employment in the East.
The charming climate, the opulenoe
of surrounding nature, and the free
dom of Western life, all combine to
lend attractlveness to the work.