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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25
CHAMBER OF MINES NEEDED

The Miner has repeatedly urged
the formation Of It booster club OF
some sort to undertake the much
needed advertising OF the Occur
d'Alene district and its resources in
a systematic manner and with the
conservatism that goes with auth
GRITTY. Events Of the past few
weeks have, however, demonstrated
that such an organization, while it
would do incalculable good, would
not meet present necessities. Some
thing more than q booster club is
needed. The organization must
have the power to counsel, aid and
protect investors.
Such an institution could be in
corporated rs a Chamber Of Mines
and its membership should be open
to all mine or claim owners in the
district al well as to the share
holders. in all incorporated com.
panies owning and operating mines
in the Occur d'Alencs. The men,
bership and annual subscriptions
need not be large if the institution
is made popular enough to have
and retain large membership.
The association should issue an
annual report and have general
meetings at least once II year.
During the rest Of the time its bust
ness could be carried on by a duly
elected executive committee Of say
seven members Of whom not more
than two should at any time be
brokers, for it would undoubtedly
by an important function OF the
chamber to closely watch the stock
exchanges to prevent the harmful
manipulation Of stocks through the
agency Of false reports, wash sales
or any other improper means for
unduly enhancing or depressing the
price Of any local security.
No doubt when the Wallace
Stockholders association was organ
lied it was hoped and intended that
it would not only facilitate the pur-
chase and sale Of shares but that its
prices and transfers would be a safe
guide to the investor. 1t may have
facilitated sales though we do not
think it has increased them. On
the contrary we fear that its ten
dency has been to reduce the volume
OF business by creating want OF con-
fidence in all but few securities.
Far from being a safe guide to the
investor it has been a snare and Il /
dclusion to him, thanks to the un-
scrupulous tactics that have been
employed by some firms Of brokers. +
1t does not appear to be able Of
itself to check such conduct as each
week sees some other stock manip-
ulated to the great injury Of those
who have in good faith invested in
it and to the consequent detriment
Of the whole district.
Neither has the exchange done
material to advertise the
district except in an unfavorable
light. This would perhaps be the
Chamber Of Mines most important
junction at the start as its chief
aim should be to hasten the devel- 4
opment Of our mines and prospects
by aiding their owners to secure
capital at a fair price for
heir treasury shares and to insure
q the investor an honest run for ,
lis money thereafter. j
For some weeks the Miner has
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

For some weeks the Miner has
been giving its readers tips as to
which stocks it considered te be the
best buys. These tips are all based
.On one idea-that the stocks in
question are worth intrinsically
more than the present market price
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Let us organize Chamber Of
Minss at once and get busy adver-
tising the district. Ask anybody
who has been east trying to sell
stock il it Is not needed.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

A few crooks can do the Occur
d'Alenes a whole lot Of harm and
their work may temporarily delay
the development Of many properties,
but in the end the honest element
will prevail and the outside inves-
tor will get his just dues.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Our own opinion Of Harry l..
Day is that he is a humbug. When
he quits shipping Hercules ore to a
trust smelter and patnnizcs one Of
the independents we may revise our
opinion.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

When the Miner offered last week
to buy the cigars for anyone who
inspected the Alameda ore showings
and then said the stock was not
worth 30 cents a share it little sus-
pected that the ore bodies in ques-
ton were in the Success ground.
1t is compelled to call all bets of
now.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Soaring the investing public into
selling valuable shares for song is
bad enough hut we question If it is
as bad as selling stock in COM
pany represented to own shoot
Of shipping ore after the manage
ment Of the said company had dis
that the ore in question
did not belong to it.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

II Harry L. Day ID not trying to
sell out to the lead trust we miss
our guess. He has evidently taken
a leaf from Heinze's book. The
latter went after the Amalgamated
standard Oil he dubbed IT'D and
forced it to buy out his Butte prop
critics at a big price. Mr.. Day is
now assailing the Guggenheims in
the same fashion dead trust he
calls them), but, we fear, not 50
effectively 1t took lots Of brains
and nerve on Heinzc's part to play
his game through to a successful
conclusion.
The way Harry l.. Days paper,
the Times, is constantly yelping
about the so-called lead trust
because that trust is getting some OF
the money that he thinks ought to
belong to him, is getting triAc
tiresomc. II Mr.. Harry Day were
honest in his denunciation OF trust
methods he would not be practising
them himself on the Tamarack 4
Chesapeake shareholders. The Times
has nothing to say about what the
Day trust does. 1t makes differ
ence sometimes whose OK is gored.
Charles Swceny's reported big
losses on Wall street need not worry
his friends. Patsy Clark was there
all the time and he told the writer
that Sweeny never made q losing
that amounted to a row Of pins.
We would sooner take Patsy Clark .
word for it than either John L..
Wilson's or Harry Il. Days. They
are both politicians who are anxious
to see Mr.. Sweeny eliminated from
the politics Of their respective
states.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Nothing hurts q mining market
80 quickly as a belief or even a sus-
picion that the outsider will not get
q square deal. Nobody will 60
against brace game if he knows or
suspects it. 1t is therefore both
the interest and the duty Of the
mineowners and business men Of
the Occur d'Alenes to see that the
non resident investor gets absolutely
fair treatment and that his money
is honestly expended.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Ore showings are a most impor-
tant factor in determining the
worth Of stock, but investors
must remember than an honest and
capable management is equally
essential. Just compare the prices
Of the stocks OF those companies
which are known to be honestly
and efficiently managed with those
Of properties with equally good
showings whose arrangements have
achieved no reputation yet or else
have a bad one.
What President Charles Sweeny
Of the Federal company did or did
not do years ago is mighty poor
news'' to print in a Wallace daily
now. What Harry L. Day il now
doing would make more interesting
reading. Why does not the Times
publish that?
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

The public should bear in mind,
as the writer long ago advised them,
that Wallace is a selling market and
that therefore the honest conduct Of
a successful exchange, by which we
mean one that will not work injury
to development companies, is almost
an impossibility. A dishonesty
conducted exchange is a menace to
all property holders and investors.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Many people are saying these
days that the brokers have killed
the goose that laid the golden eggs. !"
This is hardly complimentary
way Of referring to the outside in
weston, but II the business men Of
the Occur d'Alenes do not take
some action to protect him they
will be just as guilty of short-sight-
edness as the brokers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25

Entered as second class matter March IA, 1907
ut the postofiice nj Wallace Idaho, under the
Act Of Congress Of March B. 1879
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1907-07-25
DIVIDEND RECORD OF coEuR sAlENE MINES

Of
! Earned by leasers Part Of II earned
I Old Gem mine e4s50O; Helena. .sNW0
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20
THE LIFE: OF M|DsH|P-
n MAN CRUISE GOES OUT.
r.
Tenth Victim Of the Terrible Bat
tleship Georgia Disaster.
.a... Ga:.3> j ,H.o7
Examining : Board Officially Gives
Cause a Delayed Flare Back.
CRUISE Is DEAD.

Boston, July 19.-The tenth victim
of the explosion aboard the battleship
Georgia last Monday was recorded to-
day in the death of Midshipman John
r. Cruise, who died at IL o'clock after
heroic fight of four days for his life,
in the Chelsea Naval hospital. Major
J. T. Cruise, U. S. A, of Omaha, Neb.,
was with his son when he died. as
was the midshipman's mother, brother
and uncle. Col. Hodgdon. L. S. A.
Major Cruise and party went to
Was ,hington, d. c., tonight and the
body of the midshipman will be sent
at Q o'clock tomorrow morning for in
terment with naval honors in the ceme-
terry at Arlington.
Midshipman Alfred w. Brown, Jr,
of the battleship Georgia will act as
honorary guard over the body on the
way To Washington. Brown was q
roommate of Cruise aboard the battle
ship. BY request of Major Cruise three
classmates of Cruise will be honorary
pail bearers with seven midshipmen.
At the United States naval hospital
ut Chelsea tonight it, was stated that
the condition of -Scamen Louis O.
Meese aud John A. Bush were eXtrom-
ly critical and not as favorable as ear
Tier in the day
The condition of the other nine mer
were favorable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20

bags. EiaEs: MINI, sacked bran. bag lots.
so NJ: winter wheat bran. car lots. 81
baP lots. S.5G3: brown middiiBgs. car
lots. s., 20
ORANGES 81 501i4 50
PEOElIrE- Beans. California; pea. 3 IS
yellow eyes. &Ood2.io. Red Kidneys,
s. 15n2 81.
POULTRY Chickens 1ff.llc: Turkeys
western. sefr:ic: fowl. I.ffi5c
PROV ISIoNS-pork. heavy. nS25. med
Ium. SIZE.
LARp-Pure tcs.. half bbls.. 10lIl0Lc.
cases, 1L-I1lAs: compound tcs.. half bar
rels. Gf9Lc.: cases. ska fDkc.
SUGAR-Ex. quality. bbls.. $50: small
bbis.. s. -: sacks. s. -. extra C., N90.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20
EDMUND J. WALSH.
Usual Naval Honors Bestowed Upon
the Dead Sailor At Salem.

Salem. Mass, July 19.-The funeral
of Seaman Edmund j. Walsh. one of
the victims of the explosion on board
the battIeShip Georgia last Monday,
was held here today. Following brief
private services at the nome of Walsh s
mother in Lynn. the body was brought
to this city in a hag-draped hearse.
The hear.;c was met here by n detail of
marines from the cruiser DcS Moincs
and escorted to the immaculate Con-
ception church. where a requiem high
mass was celebrated by the curate.
Rev. Father David j. Murphy. The in
terment was nj st. Mary'S cemetery,
the marines acting a; pail bearers.
The church was filed with flowers.
many beautiful pieces having been sent
by friends of the dead seaman. Among
the chief floral pieces We're gifts from
the Seamen of the Georgia. Vermont
Illinois and Dcs MoineS. Postmaster
General Meyer and the Ladies' Veteran
Navy Association of this city. During
the funeral the flag of Post "a. G.. A. r.
was at half mast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealing in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York. July l9.-The operations for
a rise in prices Of stocks were continued
today. The movement encountered less
active resistance than for several days
in the form of positive weakness in any
prominent stocks. There were apparent
difficulties in overcoming the inertia OF
the general list and this drag on the add
vance offered a passive resistance which
had a dscOuraging effect on the efforts
of the bulls at times.
consisted of vague limitations of some
Forthcoming favorable development re-
garding the Hill railroad stocks. Great
Northern preferred stock took the pre-
cedence in the movement from Northern
Pacific. which was the favorite in yester
days dealings. Other Northwestern rail-
road stocks shared in the strength of the
Hill group. The rise in the Harrimans
was more moderate. although Union
Pacific touched the highest price on the
present movement t,:;t
Substantial help for the rise In prices
was found in the better feeling regarding
the market for copper metal which pre-
vailed both here and abroad. Foreign
stock markets had report OF an agree
ment between the Amalgamated copper
and the Rio TintO interests on the price
to be demanded. The price of copper
In London advanced. The continuance
of call loans and the prospects for h
favorable bank statement tomorrow We're
elements strength
Sterling exchange rose higher today.
The activity of the market fell to small
proportions in the latter half of the day
and advances We're only partly retained.
break in the local traction stocks due
to the proposed investigation by the pub
lie utilities commission disturbed the lat
ter market.
Bonds were dun and steady. Total
sales, par value $685., 600 United States
IS, registered advanced u per cent OH
call
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A Strange Phenomenon.

q strange phenomenon recently &C.
rfed nj the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
vnehfy ort. near Lewiston. Pa, i'm the
f.ppearance Of the picture Of n dove
W plate. The Orts reside I'm a little
muse NJ the head OF Ort valley, which
H4s been their home for years.
me eighty sixth anniversary of Mr..
IT'S birth occurred March -. and
'Lt III" occasion might be properly
"ofated few friends were invited
dinner. The meal passed or
su'e'ly. Mr.. ort having eaten his meal
a''h one of the old-fashioned IRON
,s'he chinaware dinner plates with
sue Anchor brand and the English
.Oa'-of-arms on the back. common
ough To trade forty years ago. The
pate had been in daily use in the Ort
"',ne twenty eight years.
,o one noticed anything peculiar
apout II until after Mrs. Ort had
ahsed and placed it in its accustom-
:, pace in an old fashioned china
e' equipped with glass doors. This
user stands to the left of the entrance
V,n The dining room to the Kitchen
ropably an hour after cleansing the
MRS. Ort passed from one room
-. tue other. and her attention was
hacted to the picture on the plate
NV through the glass doors.
Ahe picture was in the nature of q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20

who invented, or it-may be- rediscov-
cred, the second sight mystery where
with the namer of Robert Houdin
Originally Robert without the Houdin)
is connected This mystery is, in
other words, "thought-reading," and
the methods by which, for conjurers'
purposes, it is worked are not very
reconcile. a "code" is naturally the
basis. as it may have been the basis of
the oracles; and the mastery of such
a code makes the greatest demands on
the readiness, quickness. and memory
of those who undertake to practise it.
The mere list of common objects to be
kept in the mind and coded as used
by Heller, who followed in the steps Of
Houdin, is bewildering. To what per-
lection the curious art Of using such
code can be brought is well shown
by the record of one of Houdin's tri-
umphs. An old lady, bent on discom-
fitting The wizard. formed one Of his
audience, and had brought with her a
brown paper parcel. very carefully tied
and sealed. At given moment she
defied Houdin and his son. who was
playing the part of the "seer," to
describe its contents. Houdin held
her in conversation for n few min
utes. and then. speaking for the first
time to the blindfolded Seer" asked
what was in the still tied and sealed
parcel Young HOudin declared with
equal promptness and accuracy that
the parcel contained handkerchief
and a packet Of snuff.
| The most famous Of Houdin's
achievements in seeming "magic"-not
his only one, for he did WOndrous
things when he was sent into Algeria
| to overcome the magic of the native
sorcerers. and completely succeeded in
his mission-was the orange-tree trick,
performed at command" exhibition
before the King. Louis-Philippe The
trick is intricate. but the problem lay
in this-that the King, having chosen
one from many handkerchiefs, was
asked to determine it's temporary
abiding place. He chose the last
| orange tree on the right of the st.
Cloud avenue; he sent one of his
household to watch the avenue and
| the tree-box, wherein another atten-
dant presently found the handkerchief
HOudin added to his performance Of
the trick a flourish of reference to
CagliostrO.
| This, however, was what HOudin
| himself would have called a mystifica-
| ton. His finest merit as public per-
former lay in his mastery of "sleight-
| of-hand," science which, of course,
played some part in the orange-tree
| adventure.
Sleight-of- hand pure and simple has
| always possessed and always will pos
sess a peculiar charm. The only
thing to be deplOred about it is that
| it lends itself to exploitation by per-
sons of the bascr sort. whose bewilder-
| ing varieties of method have been we'll
described by Robert Houdin in "L'Art
Ge Gagner a Tous les Jeux," and by
Mr.. Maskelyne in "Sharps and Flats.
The real experts in these methods. the
hi%h-tofy men. tn borrow a metaphor
, from another branch of their trade
! might, one would think. have found
t their account in taking to honest con-
juriny as Vidocq did to 'detecting" ;
but that is part of a very big question.
st JamcS'S Gazette,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
Success Of Some Who Have Taken
Claims in the Northwest.

In the great Canadian Northwest,
where the erstwhile wilderness is wav-
ing with golden grain and towns are
springing up overnight! not a few wo-
men have gone to seek their fortunes
alone. A homestead grant Of 100 acres
is free, and any "head of family"
man or woman, may secure it upon
application to the Canadian govern
mcnt. Usually, of course. the apph-
cant is n man, but occasionally Il Wo-
man essays to make her fortune on the
prarirs without masculine aid.
Miss Marie Gilroy of Saskatchewan.
is one of the most famous woman set
tiers of the West. She put her last
shilling into prairie farm and spent
seven years in hand-tO-hand tuSle
with fortune sitting on her own bin
der, cutting her own grain. handling
the pillow in the furrOw and doing sta
bic duty In 1906 her holding excited
the admiration of young EnSlishman.
and Miss GilrOy was induced to hand
over lock, stock and barrel to him for
the round sum of $4,000. Today Miss
Gilroy is touring Europe on the pro-
ceeds of her original $4,000
Mrs. McGilvray, who came to the
Canadian West twenty years ago with
six small children, is another prom
inert woman farmer of Saskatchewan.
| beginning almost penniless. her 1G0
| acres of homestead have now grown
| to Al S00-acre estate. and her children
are settled round her in comfort and
afIluence.
| Salome Wertman came with her h;ls-
band and little family from Russia and
soon she. too. was widow. She still
kent on trying to earn bread" as she
says, and sixteen years later after her
absolute penniless start she stands as
one of the successful land owners of
Saskatchewan.
Mrs Ferris is known as the woman
! farmer" Of the Portage Plains. Left
with family Of young children, she
| has managed her farm most success
fully since the death Of her husband.
She comes from Belfast. Ireland, and
when she arrived in Western Canada
with her husband thirty-two years ago
| they had no capital at ALL She now has
an estate Of 100 acres. and her two
sons are settled near at hand. each the
owner Of a half section of land-about
| 500 acres.
| Mrs. Grant has beautiful farm on
| the banks of the Canadian Killarney,
| in Southern Manitoba. Three years
ago she went there from Scotland with
her son. a young man just out Of col
lege. and her daughter. A year ago.
just as they were preparing for spring
seeding, the son was stricken down
with appendicitis, and in twenty-four
| hours was dead. Filled with hatred
for the place. she decided to leave it.
but the morning after her sons flu
neral. when she was packing up. her
daughter called to her. Mother. come
| here. quick" She loked and saw that
men. teams ard plows. quietly and
without n word of explanation. were
| beginning work on the farm. The
, neighbors had decided to put in the
seasons crop for the two bereaved wo-
men. They actually plowed. narrowed.
seeded and reaped the entire crop. At
ter that Mrs. Grant talked no more of
going "hone" Her farm by the shores
of the Canadian Killarney was home
| to her.
Many women teachers, too. are
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Boston Market.

Boston, July -. lWI.
FLnrIR.Mih shipment spring patents
per bill, s5.3ei5.-0; winter patents, mil
shipmcnt, per Dbl. A15@5.O0
sSn;NMEAi-s. 7s6I2 ~ per hbI: bags
s. 2tIl &c: graduated. $3.25G35o; bolted
50 ~: 30
"r"N Steamer. yellow, spot. 64Nc.
:" r'''" 6 M. > yellow. all rail
Il" GIs'd e: No. 3. yellow. all rail
Eyr. i'LOUR-Pcr Dbl. 81 25Grs= 90
&C; Srps sF All S.! !os sSss'so0'
OATS+No. l. clipped. white spot. SIC
- to 40 his. all rail. per bu.. &c: fancy
40 to ~ TBS, all rail, 55kc.
rR0vISlONs-Pork heavy backs. p,
Dbl. 49, Is: medium backs. yer bill. $500
long cuts. $50 80: loose. per ID: 1oMc.; ribs
13AGl3Ec.: hams, regular and small. 146i
1GHc.: lean ends. 236r2i: shoulders. 10Ec.
lard, rendered. per H.. l1% C.: lard. pure
BEFE.Cboice kinds. 1sh@l2:4: choice
' CANES s't ANH MurroN-1.amb. spring
14N115c.: yeatlinGs. g1Oc.: mutton, s19c
Po paHr cbicken a,e' western hro,,ers
per H.. 22G24c.: western fowl. i+nt4zc.
Pt'TTER-North Creamery, Z7KH2SHc.
western creamery. 25ef27c.; north dairy
cHEEsEzyork state. leA@isNc.: Yer.
E!iGs-Eas.ern. 2,aes: western. lc0lsc
hm.: 81 7om1.!5: medium. $L65GL7O; Red
Kidnevs. SAME 90
Al PLES-Enssets. per tbl, $sOoff7. 90
HAY AND STRAW-No grade
s24: No . grade. $90ei2l: No. 3 grade
s12M!9: rye. per ton. 81: cat straw. so.
S!TG AR-CGt loaf and crushed s.. 20
Standard powdered. $50: graduated
POTATOES-New. per BILL, $2.5O@2.75
old, per bu., 25Q4Oc.
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photograph or shadow. pearl gray In
color and perfect in details. Every
feather may be counted without the
aid OF n glass. The claws are drawn
ND close to the breast feathers. and the
small scales on the skin about the toes
nre discerniblc with the naked eye.
The figure IS" appears plainly marked
on the breast of the bird.
Hundreds have visited the farm
house. confident that after seeing the
p;ate they could offer theory that
would solve the problem. but after
close examination they cannot. Their
theories are exploded by the fact that
the picture is too perfect In detail for
the work of human hands. Those
versed in science say 1t was probably
photographed by nature by some
process unknown to man.
Mrs. Ort will simply explain now
she discovered the plate. but VIII
hazard no guess as to how the picture
came there. She is somewhat worried
over it's appearance on her husband
birthday, and so soon after his having
eaten from the plate. but thinks II II Is
an omen of nature ii must be n good
one. as the dove is the harbinger oil
love and peace.