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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
MONTANA ITEMS.

On the same day that bandits at
tempted to secure $4,000 from the
Burlington railroad in Montana
through blackmail, an attempt was
also made to hold up the manage
ment of the Billings, Mont, sugar
factory for the same amount. Neither
scheme worked.
Mrs. william A. Clark, wife of the
Montana senator, has returned to the
United States with their 5 year old
child. This is the first time that Mrs,
Clark has been in the United States
in two years. She will go on to Wash
ington for the winter session soon as
conditions permit. When the session
closes he will return to Paris. The
senator said that they would enter
tain at their home during the winter
The trial of c. D. Schmidt at Helena
on the charge of killing his wife
which has just commenced, is likely
to be somewhat sensational, owing tt
the fact that letters were found or
the dead woman which indicated thai
she had soldier lover at Fort ASSN
niboine, who was the direct cause o.
the tragedy.
The Silver Bow Bar association, a
meeting in Butte, has agreed unani
mously on an increase of legal fees
The attorneys state that the increased
cost of living has made the raise il
their scale imperative.
Butte, Mont.-A sensation wa.
sprung recently when Mrs. George w
Bourquinn, wife of District Judge
Bourquinn, one of the best know
men of the city, began an action TO
separate maintenance, alleging in he
complaint that the judge had beer
untrue to her and bringing into thu
case certain pretty young woman
law librarian.
f. p. Smith has been arrested b.
the police of Billings on the charg
of attempting to blackmail the Bill
ings Sugar company of $4,000. l
was Smith who warned the police o
the alleged plot. He asserts his limo
cence, declaring that he simply over
heard tn conversation relative to tn
proposed dynamite outrage.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
INTELLECTUAL NEW YORK.

More Reading Done There Than ir
Any Other City.
Boston may claim the palm for intel
lectuality and real FLOODED baked
in the bean" cleverness, but there are
few persons who dwell more upon let
tiers or read more In lifetime than the
average New Yorker, says the New
York Press.
The New Yorker never stops read
Ing, from the moment he shuts his fat
door behind him in the morning until
he comes back and shuts it behind him
again at night. The moment he gets
downstairs the bellboy hands him his
mail or he takes 1t out of his Own
letter box as the case may be-. 1t may
not contain a personal letter, but there
is never a day that he does not receive
from one to three or four advertise
ments, booklets, pamphlets or circulars
He always glances over these at least
once, and by the time he has finished
he has reached the corner and is buying
his morning newspaper
| AS there Is a newspaper Issued about
every hour of the day in New York
City and many men try to devour them
all the New Yorker spends a good many
hours over his pink, yellow or burnt
orange sheet If he happens to finish
one of these while on street car or
elevated train he cannot glance up with
out seeing a dozen advertisements along
the line above the windows waiting to
be read These glare at him SO stead
lastly and furiously that he cannot fail
to read them sooner or later. But, If
ones eyes are tired and he shuts them
ward the street, the spell is still upon
him. Signs, big and little; quick-lunct
signs, hotel signs, tailor shop signs
bootblacks, BARRIERS, theaters-all have
their signs; millions of them, like mi
crobes
Then there are the names of the
streets on the lamp posts as he fiashe:
by. There is an almost uncontrollabl,
desire to read them as we'll as the mum
bers on the automobiles which glare a
you and the newsstand signs teemin;
with vari-colored ads and the billboard
, and the rubber-neck coaches and tn
, sandwich men. By the time the New
Yorker reaches his Office and begins t
open his mail his eyes and brain ar
tired but he goes on all day long, read
5 ing, reading, reading about baby pow
der and fancy preserves and came
soups and health foods and cold creaI
and hair reviewers, etc, and then tn
f BostOnian sneers because we have n
: time or inclination left for reading mel
hooks
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
a NATIONAL POLICY
CON BARTHOLDT FAYORS 1T
II FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
Makes an Address to Prominent Busi-
ness Men Favoring the Policy Of
Issuing Bonds-Woud Spend Five
Hundred Million Dollars to Improve
Our Great Waterways.

Congressman Richard Bartholdt of
st. Louis declared recently in an ad-
dress before business men, bankers
and large shippers of st. Louis for
national policy of issuing bonds for
international improvements, especial
ly waterways.
''Since the civil war;" he said,
every great question which has di-
vided political parties has been bust
ness question. We have right to
conclude that the party is most likely
to succeed which is most willing to
champion the cause of general well
fare by promoting the most important
business policy ever before the coun-
try. The chairman of the committee
on appropriations, Congressman Taw-
ney, said in an interview at Chicago
the other day: international water
way improvements can not be expect
ed until our appropriations for the
army and navy are lessened or special
taxes are levied
IF our government is to enter up
on a policy favoring systematic in
ternational improvements a regular
annual budget would be necessary for
|
and navy Perhaps we shall live to
see the day when that will be done
under a readjustment such as will no
longer permit our military and naval
budgets to expend two thirds OF our
revenues. For some years to come, L
am afraid such a readjustment will
| be impracticable.
mo one will contend that it is any
thing but a question of money We
may well ask whether the project to
secure navigable channels from the
lakes to the gulf, from the upper Mis-
sissippi the Missouri, the Ohio and
the other rivers, shall wait until an
income tax or an inheritance tax shall
have yielded sufficient revenue to pay
for them We would say no.
} Gan issue of of per cent bonds
: to the extent of $5OO,O00,00O to be dis
tributed over a period of say 10 years
will suffice to complete great river
projects and solve the problem of the
permanent Improvement Of our great
waterways. 1t is my judgment that
, it cannot be done in any other way
and if. the gentlemen here think well
of it l will introduce a bill to that
> effect
mo American has dreamed of OBJ
jecting to the Panama canal, though
this is an enterprise for the whole
world. Why, then, should there be
any objection to an undertaking
which is of particular benefit to the
United States? AS matters stand the
: chances for the great and important
) projects are almost hopeless, and vii
remain so as long as we must content
: ourselves with the crumbs that fal
J. from the national table when the pie
e is being distributed to the depart
d ments."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
QUEER WAY OF SMOKING.
West Indians Put Lighted End of
Cigar in Mouth


Visitors to the West Indies and the
tive negro carrying a thin, dark object,
like very long cigarette or slender ci7
gar, In his mouth, and If these visitors
look long enough they would see smoke
issuing occasionally from between the
full, red lips Of a buxom matron or
dried-up granny, says the New York
Herald But even the most observant
could see no light on the end Of the CT
gar smoked by the natives of the trop
les.
That is not to be wondered at, how
ever, for the reason that it is the Gus
tom of the natives in that part of the
country to smoke with the lighted end
inside the mouth. That is curious, of
course, but not as remarkable as 1t
sounds Most of the women, who are
all great smokers, work very hard.
They coal ships, load bananas and do
the kind of work usually done by men.
When on the docks, where they make
hundreds of trips a day from the ship
to the coal yard or fruit cars, there is
generally a strong breeze blowing and
1t would be almost impossible to keep a
cigar lighted in the teeth of stiff
trade wind Besides, these hard toll
ers, who earn a few pence or a shilling
day, according to the amount of coal
or fruit they carry, could not afford to
| take the time to keep their tobacco
lighted, 50 they hit upon the scheme OF
protecting the light by keeping it in
the mouth and thus enjoying a smoke
without trouble or loss of time. They
have been doing this for so many years
that the older ones are experts an6
never burn their tongues or the inside
of their mouths and the younger WON
en- soon get the hang of it.
The cigars they smoke are usually
made Of native tobacco and fashioned
very rudely. They are about the size
of a lead pencil.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
swer to charge of murder in the first

swer to charge of murder in the first
degree.
In such a terrible condition are the
streets of Lewiston that the city
council has decided to take up the
matter Of paving Main street. There
is also movement looking to the
metering the entire water system.
A. l.. Brown, a miner employed in
the Last Chance mine of the Federal
company's properties, was instantly
killed at Wardner, as he was going
off from night shift. He was struck
in the head by rock thrown from a
blast hole
Walter Chambers, wanted in Orc
fino on the charge Of assault with. in
tent to commit murder, was arrested
recestly in Lewiston. The warrant
was sworn to by Louis Jahnke. 1t was
issued last March, since when Cham
bers has eluded arrest.
| D. e. Thomas and H. w. Bidell, en-
ployes of the Spokane International
railway, attempted to cross the Pend
d'Oreille river, near Wrencoe, Christ
mas eve. Their boat was found over
turned in the river. The river was
dragged and the bodies recovered.
A burglary was committed at the
wholesale house of the Falk Mercan-
tile company at Boise recently, which
was probably the work Of profession
ais. They gained entrance into the
wareroom and cut into the vault
thu ugh a heavy wall, working from
toilet room. One hundred and
eighty dollars in cash was secured
and about $1,000 in checks.
The conference at the Office of Major
Fem, forest supervisor, with the
sheep men of Sawtooth reserve and
the south side of Payette reserve is
, closed and Major Fem has gone to
!, Weiser with the sheep men Of the
northern part of Payette reserve. The
establishing of corrals and herdins
grounds has been the only thing dis
posed if at this meeting. The mat
ter of alloting range will come up a
| a future meeting. Many conflicting
interests were involved in establish
! ing the trails and holding grounds
but after lengthy discussion all diff
| ferences were compromised and per
: manent trails and holding grounds es
: tablished.
r The state land board has made al
order requesting the segregation o
) 10000 acres of land on the nortl
r side of the Snake to be reclaime'
r from the proposed north side cana
system of the Twin Falls Land
;. Water company. The company pre-
n viously had 10000 acres segregate
r in the vicinity of its dam at Miner
making about 10000 to be reclaime
n on the north side of the river. Thi
= followed the compromise of the cor
e test between that company and tn
n Idaho Canal company over some 900
acres of this land, under which tn
S latter company agreed to take anothe
n tract of land which could be covere
l. from it's system. but could not
+ reached by the other.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
The Brass Ixnocker.

An editor looked up from his dog
cared copy of Lorna Doone."
s'I've read this book about eight
times" he said. what first attracted
me to 1t was a remark OF the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. In England
some years ago, 1 saw the archbishop
distribute some prize books to school
boys. One of the books was Lorna
Doone,' and as he handed it out the
archbishop said:
"I went to school with the writer
of this book. AS he was 4 little young
err than me, when he misbehaved
used to knock him on the head with q
GRASS hammer Washington Star.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
OREGON SQUIBs.

For the fourth time recently the
postoffice at Jefferson has been
robbed.
Bert Holman, age 13 has confessed
to the murder of his foster mother,
Mrs. Sarah Ayres, near Warren in
revenge for punishment. He shot her
through the head with a rifle. The
youth was adopted from an aid So
ciety.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05

come of $25,000,000 from railways,
river boats and forests Of India.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
SPOkANE'S ATTRACTIONS.
At tn G Spokane.

January and 10, Sergeant Kitty"
January IL and -, 1.-THE Heir to the
Hoorah.''
January 10, Human Hearts,
January Is, Schumann Heink.
January 25 and &c, 1.-THE Sultan of
Sulu."
January 27, East Mail"
January 81, 'Wm. H. Crane and Ell
lis Jeffrey's.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05

Rio De Janeiro-Lloyd G. Griscom,
United States ambassador to Brazil,
has paid his farewell visit to Presi-
dent Penna. He will leave here in
few days to become ambassador to
Italy.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05

In the last seven years the consump-
ton of beer has fallen from 120 to 70
gallons a head in Munich.
The suspension of the brokerage
firm Arnold. Leo & Company of
New York was announced.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
Durand Goes Home.

Sir Mortimer Durand, the retiring
British ambassador to the United
States, accompanied by Lady Durand
and their son and daughter Miss Jo-
sephine Durand, have sailed on the
Cunard liner Umbria for England.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05

The act Of forgiving doesn't always
take away the power Of memory.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-05
Ex-seator caffery pead.

New Orleans. Dec. 31.-Former
United States Senator Donelson r.
Gallery died Sunday night. The body
will be taken to his home in Franklin,
La, on a special train.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-30
FORUM OF THE PEOPLE
Claims 1t Is an OUTRAGE.
OPEN TO ALL,

Editor Palladium think / am
drawing it mildly when | say that TO
subject property owners of South
senseless expense of taking up a good
brick sidewalk to make room for one
of cement, is nothing short of an out
rage. 1t is still in the memory of
said property owners that not long ago
they were ordered to take up said
walk and relay it. which they did at
considerable expense. Very recently
they were treated to the expense of
cement curb and gutter, all of which
seems to make room for the marvel
GUS executive ability for municipal i'm
provement which siezes upon some of
the city officials upon being elevated
to position where they can exer-
size little brief authority" This
way of managing our municipai at
fairs has brought the city debt up
to the legal limit. so something must
be done. A plan is said to be already
on foot to circumvent the law meant
to guard against such action The
tax rate has. made the longest lean
1t has made at one time in twenty
years. and 1t is likely to make another
soon If the present policy is continued.
No stronger evidence is needed of
the disastrous effect of such policy
than the recent failure of the board of
works for the second time to float
bonds for a needed Improvement
Such a condition as this is a serious
menace to the prosperity and growth
of the city. Capital will be driven out
and building improvements remain at
a comparative stand still
Y. Y. T.
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nesee mountaineers that depicts with
graphic fidelity conditions of life in
the still" country, and the terror and
devastation caused by a revenue raid.
Montague Glass contributes an ac-
count of his experiences with that
presiding genius of the business
world, the office boy.
1.-The Wireless Telegraph Bubble -
by Frank Fayant, with it's dramatic
exposure of the operations of the men
who have made this great discovery
a byword of reproach, is concluded in
this issue. Henry Beach Needham' S
history of baseball is continued with
an interesting account of some of the
trick plays that have of late years
been developed in baseball science.
"A Quart of Turquoises," by Henry
Miner Rideout; THE Perambulating
by Elliott Flower, and Rob
ert Gallahue Todd by Wilbur Mes
bit. are fiction features for summer
reading Ghosts of the Ditch" is
bit of Kiplingesque verse on the woes
of Panama Canal workers, by Alfred
Damon Runyon. There is other verse
by Edna S. Valentine, Roy Farrell
Greene and Nixon Waterman.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-30
ATTACK ON WINDOW
To PROTECT MATE
Robin at Whitewater Mistakes
His Reflection for a
Rival Bird.
NEST Is NEAR A WINDOW.
ATTACK WITH PERSISTENCE
AND THE OUTCOME is WATCH
ED WITH INTEREST.

Whitewater, Ind, June 29.-Some-
thing a little out of the ordinary
among the bird kind has been noticed
in the rear of the Pyle Mercantile Co. S
store. A pair of ROBINS have built a
nest near a window and the male re-
Gently discovered that in a certain POI
sition there was another robin this re-
flectionl and he at once began striking
the glass with all his might This he
has kept up for hours at time until
exhausted, then flying away for time
until rested. He then returns to the
attack. His idea of protecting his
mate and the nest. is very highly de-
veloped, but his knowledge of natural
phenomena is limited.
The result of his persistent attacks
is watched with much interest.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-30
The Magazines.

When the editors of Success Maya
zine served up in their July issue a
most interesting and Illuminating ar
ticle on the free and easy ways of the
President. they could find no more
appropriate nor timely title than
Observation-Disclosures Mr. Roose-
welt has been for some time referred
to as an ideal Democrat in politics.
and this article, a series of incidents
prepared by Robert Lee Dunn. who,
rs a campaign photographer, accom-
panied Mr.. Roosevelt on many of his
trips. shows the real unaffected dem
ocratic spirit that has made him the
most popular man that ever occupied
the White House.
the various efforts that have been
made from time to time. by noted
swimmers, to swim the English Chan
mel. are touched upon by W. c. Fitz-
Gerald in his article. An Eighteen
Hour swim which describes chiefly
the attempt made last year by Bur
CESS, the Englishman. who failed only
after having swum forty-two miles, in
the face of great obstacles
The Moonshiners.' by II. s. Coon
err, the first chapters OF which appear
this month, is romance of the Ten
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-30
WRITE INTERESTING
LETTERS FROM NOME
Mrs. Jennie Liebhardt and
Daughter Now in That
Far Away Country.
MANY UNUSUAL THINGS.
DID POSITION IN THE BEST
BANK THAT is CONDUCTED AT
HOME.

Milton, Ind, June o9.-Mrs. Jennie
interesting letters from Nome, Alaska.
TO their Milton friends They sailed
from Seattle June first on the Ohio. :"
which was originally government
transport. There were 104 persons on
board including the crew The sea
was smooth most of the way and the
trip much enjoyed After some DAYS
out they came to the ice fields which
formed a great picture Nome was
reached on June 10th. The town is
small place on the Behring Sea. with
mountains sloping away There are
no trees or shrubbery there and the
streets and yards are of Tundra. a
black mold. which was beginning to
thaw. Dogs were everywhere as It
was their season for rest, the shedding
months having passed. The cabins
are shaeks. which rent for s15 per
month unfinished. while the furnish
ed ones bring $50 TO $50.
For several months there will be no
darkness there, the sun setting only
for q couple of hours during which
there is twilight which permits one
10 read paper anywhere At 1890
p. m. it is light as day. Rooms rent
for 50 per day and good board is s.
day While expenses are high the
wages are in proportion Cooks get
$3.50 per month and found Nurses
get $40 per day. They have met some
very pleasant people and expect to en-
10y the months which they will spend
n the far north. Miss Ina has a fine
position in the best bank in Nome.
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The Cuban matron has little TO say
In the management of her own house
hold. as thefamily literally board with
their cook. who has sole control of the
cuisine. When a cook is engaged. she
is paid so much per month-$10. SIS or
so, as the case may be-for her work.
She at once inquiries how much is al
lowed for the marketing, which she
is to do each morning. On being told,
she figures out how much she can save
from the amount, and IL the graft
amount to say 10 or 20 cents per day,
she is likely to accept the position. She
rarely sleeps at the house and usually
has family of her own who are fed
from the larder of her employer. Early
breakfast is iight-fruit. rolls and cof-
fee-and at noon there is a meal known
as late breakfast. which resembles the
American luncheon. When this is fin
ished, the cook spends few hours at
her home and returns ut s O'Clock in
time to prepare dinner. A half grown
girl Is employed to wait on the table.
answer the doorbell. etc. In some
families male cooks are employed. IL
the meals do not suit the master Of the
house, he adds more money to the mar
keting allowance.-Mrs.C G. II. Miller ia
Leslie's WealSIy
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-30
ONE REASONABLE MILLIONAIRE.

II is very refreshing in this day and
age TO have at least one multimillion-
aire to come forward with good words
for President Roosevelt and his poll
cies. Andrew Carnegie, at the Hague
Peace Conference, declared that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's rigorous dealing with
corporations counted very little for the
recent decline in stock values; that the
president is truly conservative man
who remedies abuses; that he Is the
best friend of the railroads and far
from lowering the value of their bonds
and shares. will enhance their value
and give to investors an element Of Sc
curity hitherto lacking.
Andrew Carnegie is one millionaire
in a thousand. His millions have not
destroyed his common sense. They do
not cause him. in a lust to obtain more
money. to shout for a return to the
safe and sane" kind of a candidate.
On the contrary. with the shrewdness
anu iOitSiSnL nave 0eiDGu HlIl
gain his millions, Mr.. Carnegie sees
that President Roosevelt's attitude to-
wards offending corporations and rail-
roads is the surest way to preserve the
rights of private property. By fore
ing them to higher standards of bust
ness ethics. the president causes the
corporations to be more careful of the
rights of others. and in this way is do |
ing the corporations a real favor. /
For when the people find the corpora
tons are being mindful of their rights
they will be more mindful and broad
to the rights of the corporations