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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-16
Casualties Number 1926.

The interstate commerce commits
sion bulletin on accidents on railroads
of the United States during the year
ending last June. shows the total casu-
alties to be S1,2S6 or 5000 persons
killed and 1926 injured. This shows
an Increase of 1882 casualties or IT'S
in the killed and 9777 injured. as COM
pared with the previous year.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-16

How long will the world continue to
sacrifice her saviors?
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-16
SPORTING NOTES.

SPORTING NOTES.
i. c. Hull of Brazenose college. a
Rhodes scholar from Michigan, has
again been successful in field athletics.
He won the 100-yard dash easily, in
10%.
Twelve to eight and all field goals
was the result of the football game
Friday at Walla Walla in which Whit
man eliminated the University of
Washington from the championship
map.
1t was an even break between Multi
nomah and Seattle in the first inter
club boxing and wrestling champion
ship series which were inaugurated in
Portland Friday night. Seattle, Port
land and Spokane are entered in the
tournament.
The surprise of the evening was the
quick victory scored by Chester
Brown of Seattle. the crack weller
weight boxer, for he knocked out Jack
Walsh of the Multnomah club in l
minute and 81 seconds of the first
round
Ed Johnson, Multnomah's heavy
weight boxer, scored a victory by
clearly earning the decision over Sam
Peck of Seattle in their three-round
bout.
Idaho's varsity eleven. supposed to
be easy for the Washington State col
lege, Friday afternoon sprung a big
surprise and defeated their opponents
5 to A. before the largest crowd that
ever saw football game on the Idaho
field. Idaho worked the forward pass
successfully in the first half and sent
Savidge over for a touchdown, goal
being missed. In the second hall
Washington rushed the ball near
enough for Hardy to kick a goal from
the 30-yard line. Idaho won on its
merits. Its lighter team was the more
aggressive, its defense was magnif
cent, the generalship of the quarter
back, Rodney Small, was superb, the
team pulled together as one man, there
was never moments relaxation in
that desperate fighting spirit, and il
the end the husky eleven from Wash
ington State college was out-gameC
and played to a standstill.
Saturday Football Scores.
Spokane high %, Tacoma high O..
Nebraska sailors 9, Seattle A. c.
Seattle high 2S, West Portland
high 0.
Butte high %, Bozeman 0.
All-Stars 8, Multnomah O.
other Games Saturday.
Cambridge, Mass.-After II years o
unsuccessful efforts the Carlisle In
dian team succeeded in lifting Har
wards football scalp, defeating thu
Crimson eleven in the most brillian
game of the season by a score of q
to Is.
West Point, N. Y.-Playing the SAM
strong game that enabled her to de
: feat Princeton two weeks ago, Cornell
defeated West Point by a score of L
/ to 10 in the first game ever played be
: tween these two elevens.
: New Haven, Conn.-Yale was IL
against her hardest opponent of tn
, season, next to West Point, when it
: eleven met and defeated the stron
, Brown team % to 0.
In a hard fought football game a
= Cheney the team of the State Norma
school defeated the Blair Business co
? lege of Spokane by the score of to
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-11-16
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
And MONTANA ITEMS.

A Few interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-crop Outlook is Good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
The Size of Ocean Waves.

From the Philadelphia North American
 How big are ocean waves? Perhaps you have seen them as you stood on deck during storm. rolling and tossing like mountains of liquid glass-but did you ever learn how big they really were?
 It is the opinion of G. w. Littlehales of the Photographic department. Washing ton, that abnormally large waves are the result of the union of smaller with larger waves rising with simultaneous action. MT. Bertin, well known naval architect, records a wave 2590 feet front crest to crest with period of g seconds. Tn deep water long waves seldom exceed one fftieth of their length in height. MT. Bertin says an extreme height Is forty sometimes rise to the height of fifty feet. The length of waves usually varies from 320 to 520 feet lasting a period of from six to ten seconds. Thirty-five feet Is said to be an unusual height for a wave. In rising, waves describe the curve known as cycloid.
 During an ordinary trade wind. accord ing to Dr. Schott the height of the wave is only about six feet. According to a record of great storms in many parts of the world waves usually do not exceed roy, founder of the British meteorologi- cal office, is said to have measured waves exceeding sixty feet. Captain Riddle. of the old Celtic" observed waves more than seventy feet In height.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Ruvlnn an Umbrella.

brom the Bohemian for May.
 The following story is accredited to Miss Phyllis Rankin, who in private life is Mrs. Harry Davenport.
 My husband and l went Into a Broad way umbrella store few ,-ys ago." sa.s Miss Rankin. "A sign reading, 'Um- brellas, $1 up, was displayed in the win dow
 How much down?' asked Mir Daven- port.
 All cash down. answered the sales man innocently. This is not a credit house..
 But I mean how much do I have to put up for an umbrella put down? asked MT. Davenport.
 The salesman looked a bit perplexed We have them for $1 up.' he said.
 T know replied MT. Davenport, but l don't want to buy one up; l want to buy one down. I can put 1t up myself
 Oh said the salesman smIIing gent ly, you are speaking of the price,
 '' And now I understand, too, returned MT. Davenport, 1t Is the price that is $1 said?'
 Exactly. But perhaps you would like to talk with the proprietor
 The salesman hurried to the rear of the store and l overheard him explain ing to his employer; also I heard re- marks about an insane asylum. The pro- prietor came blindly forward and said, We storekepers have our ups and down. but At this we bought an umbrella and fed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
OCEAN CABLE cATHcEs WHALE.
Remarkable Accident Reported in
 South Atlantic Waters.
York Cor. Washington Post.

New York Cor. Washington Post.
 In November last an officer of the Cen tral and South American Telegraph com pany called on the director of the New York Aquarium with letter from the electrical engineer of the company, who desired to know to what depth a whale could descend and whether an air breathing mammal could stand a water pressure of nearly half ton to the square inch
 These inquiries were prompted by an Interruption of the submarine cable be- tween Iquique and Valparaiso. Chile which occurred on August IA last, and which was caused by a large whale that was afterward drawn to the surface by the repair steamer Faraday from a depth of 400 fathoms An article in the New York Geological Socfety's Bulletin for April, aquarium number, from which the above facts are taken, continues:
 The cable in which the whale was en- tangled weighed in air. while wet, 1715 tons per nautical mile, and had break ing strain of COG tons. The cables weight in salt water was 1O65 tons per nautical mile.
 If the whale came to the surface to blow he must have held two or three miles of cable in suspension. This, how ever, is unlikely. since it had four turns of the cable around it's body, one being in it's mouth.
 When the trouble with the cable was discovered tests from Valparaiso and Iquique placed the break about thirteen miles from the latter place. On August IS the Faraday left Iquique for the posi- ton of the break. and commenced grap- bling in 342 fathoms, with 800 fathoms of rope out.
 The cable was hove up, cut and tested to Iquique. The end was buoyed and the ship. grappling further out picked up the cable. which came in badly twisted and with increasing strain.
 A large whale wa5 brought to the sur face completely entangled in the cable. The stench being unbearable, the cable was cut close to the whale and the ves- sel mov ed to windward.
 Tests were made and Valparaiso spoken. The ship made four soundlngs in the vicinity which showed a death of 4l5 fathoms (249O feet nearly one-half mile).
 It is extremely doubtful whether the air-breathing animal can go as deep as 900 fathoms. and as that depth Is much below the limit of pelagic life, on which most whales feed, it is not likely that the whale would penetrate such a depth. Total darkness. moreover. prevails in depths of 400 fathoms
 According to the records of whalemen, whales have been known to stay un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

der water over an hour and after being harpooned to have carried out a mile of line before reappearing at the surface, although this does not necessarily mean that the line was carried down vertically.
 The Nalparaiso-Iquique cable was laid on January 27, 1906. At first sight it seems unlikely that the whale entangled in this cable could have remained eight months without complete disintegration or being gradually consumed by small forms of life on the bottom.
 The deep sea- however, Is intensely cold, the temperature being close to the freezing point of fresh water. and the carcass, unless actively attacked by bot tom life might be expected to last longer than in the warmer surface waters
 Since from what we know of air breathing animals. 1t Is unlikely that the whale would descend 400 fathoms of it's own accord, and as a deep-sea cable is not laid very slack, 1t is doubtful that the whale could have fouled it at the bottom
 The logical conclusion is that it became entangled during the laying of the cable, eight months before, when there was a considerable length of 1t in suspension. The twisted condition of the staff and heavy cable about the animal shows that the energy expended In the vain effort to free itself must have been enormous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Another Method.

Quite another method of marking is, therefore, also employed in Germany. This Is marking to the touch The sim
 pie st way of imprinting these marks is by means of needle. The needle is pri e:sed into the back of the card not far enough, of course, to penetrate the face Of it. but just to effect a puncture ha.- through. This puncture is percept
 ble to the touch Some artists in swind- llng make the needle hot and dip it in white wax. When it penetrates the card a particle of liquid wax is on th- point of the needle. This not only fills the little puncture, but makes a tiny spot on the card. which the 6amester can feel with hi4 thumb. According to the distance of this spot from the narrow or long edge Of the card, he knows very well what card he has before him.
 The two gentlemen in the Berlin club hu employed a still more mperceptble way of marking cards to the touch by | Ing splinter of wood, which was made round at the point and only served to make a trlfling dent in the card. But this they were able to feel by the superb sensiblity of their thumb In order to train the thumb to an intense delicacy of touch they had adopted the method of other German gamblers who use a sim- lar system of cheating. For this purpose the sharper takes especial care of the inner surface of his thumb. He wears gloves. even in a room, at the risk of looking eccentric, and when he is at home he keeps finger stalls of india rub Der on his thumbs so as to keep the flesh soft. He scrapes with a sharp knife the sl1ln of his thumb, the epidermis, as it Is called till he has scraped it nearly all / and left the Ine sensitive skin ex- posed be- cath. In this way he can, nat urally. feel the speck of wax or other tiny marks on the cards to a nicety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
New York for Telephone Girls.

From tHe SEdan LanCe.
 A story illustrating the many impos- sible requests made of telephone girls Is one told of a Sedan woman who was going out shopping fora few hours, put her baby to sleep in its carriage, and, taking down the telephone receiver. placed it beside the sleeping child.
 Then she notified central of the arrangement and asked her to sing to the baby If it awoke and cried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
S14.5O to Richmond and re-

Sl4.5U to K1cnmOnd and re- turn, account U. c. V. Reunion. To give their patrons an op- portunity to visit the James town Exposition Southern Rail
 way will extend limit, and honor tickets for return trip from Norfolk. Through sleeper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Marking Cards.

Indigo ink is sometimes used in Ger many for the purpose of marking cards. and must be a very valuable aid to the cheat. because of the mottled and parti- coored backs of the ordinary playing cards, which make any such signs all most unnotceable. To such heights of refinement has this system been carried that the back of card is divided, in the lore of card snarping, into five or six fields q. e.. seetions), perfectly obvi- ous and recognizable even when at con- siderable distance.
 As there are only thirteen cards in suit, and four positions in the field be- token the four suits themselves a couple of marks on each field are sufficient to make the backs oi the whole pack as full of meaning as the front. The objee- tion to this metso6 of marking is that the gamester must always look at the cards of his opponent, and by doing so he may attract the attention of his fellow play CTS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
WORK IF GAMBLERS IN GERMAN EMPIRE Methods of Card SharpS Who
 Fleece Their Victims BACCARAT AND POKER
Detention of Two Gentlemen Card Sharks in Berlin Attracts Gen. eraI Attention to Tricks
 of the Trade.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 The detection of two gentlemen card sharpers in Berlin club who cheated the other players out of hundreds of thousands of marks has excited public attention to their methods of play which were so successful in defrauding others. The games they played were principally baccarat and poker, and their plan was to mark the cards. The marks were small round impressions of scarcely half a millimeter in diameter, which were placed on all cards from ace to nine, at a certain distance from each other. The backs of the ordinary German cards being of many oolors and labyrinthine patterns, lent themselves very easily to the operations of these knaves. But in some clubs, where high stakes are played for, cards with completely white or black backs are used to obviate the chance or the temptation of cheating.
 but even these the two expert sharpers managed to mark Their modus operandt was to take splinter of wood. dip it in water, and with the fine point imprint tiny speek of the fluid on the card. This close to the side meant one, further away two, and so on by various signs indicated by the distance or by a slight ascent or descent until the whole suit was accu- rately noted. Some of the Berlin card sharpers draw this mark with dry splin- ter, which leaves an almost impercept- ble line on the card-clear enough, how ever, to them. This line may be made to mean, after they have mastered the alphabet of cheating. almost any card in the pack, according as it is drawn long ways on the card or crossways, or diag- onally, or what not A clever but un- prncipled gamester has then only to look at the back of his adversary's cards to know accurately every card in his hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Extraordinary Values Makes Splendid Bargains

Ladies' fine lace trimmed Corset t1EA Covers at EVG Ladies splendid quality of Muslin EfAn Ladies' extra fine Cmbric Understands beautifully lace and embroidery trimmed; extra deep dust rufhe and 00n founce worth $1.98 special price, only .VVO Another lot of dotted Swiss and woven Dimtes DE- short Kmonos; worth 50c at each G UG Big line of colored and white short Kimonos; TE~ splendid assortment worth $125 at ............ UC
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-01-22
VIRGINIA NEWS

state Highway Commissioner = St
Julien Wilson. Of Richmond. will address
u meeting at Orange Monday, January
%, in the interest Of good roads.
Mrs Martha Miller. Of Greene couI ",
died at the home Oh her roo .Jncob Miller.
near Stanardsvil = Tuesday night aged
81 years. She leavts pine children.
The engine Of the Warrenton Electric
Company was wrecked Friday night by
an explosion. The town was in total
darkness, and will continue ~ until
proper repairs can be- made.
W j Oliver, the railroad contractor
who duuble-tracked the Southern Rail
road from Alexandria to Orange. in one
Of the successful bidders fnr the constr ne
ton Of the Panama Canal -Orauge
Observer
From business STANDPOINT it may tie
interesting % state that IA careful ac-
count has estimated that the value Oi
hunters sold in Fauquier county during
the past twelve months aggregates
500, 600 Waricnton Virginia
Mr. and Mrs q. A. Davenport, OF Rirh-
mOnd. have issued invitations for tho
marriage Of their daughter, Miss Elsie
Davenport, To Harry b. Wayland. Of
Orange county. The ceremony will he
performed in the brides home, WedI es-
day evening, Jan. 30th, at $40.
Aspecial grand jury Richmond, indicted
.rnry Allen, alias Yauc Edith Vance
las Stein; and Il. l.. Lewis. alias Miller,
81 completely in tho trunk robbery, by
hich & o r. H.. Pennsylvania and
ther roads have lost half "a million dol
.rs in three Year. acquisitions have
oten issued for the people.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-01-22
LIFE CONVICT SAYS HE'S
RELATED TO WASHINGTON

IL am here to fll felon cell for life,
said John b. Lewis, q Ciucil matt convict,
who will appeal to the State Pardon
Board for release He processes 10 be a
DEFENDANT OF the family oil George Wash
ington, and adds: But am not a erin
inal. While In Cincinnati hospital for
inebristes. aud crazed with drink, |
assaulted and killed man who had in
fact attacked me. / am married and my
greatest sorrow is that my innocent wife
and two little children must suffer be-
cause CT my Imprisonment.
III am a descendant OF a family OF
which am proud, and for that reason,
feel specially Inundated by my cOndi-
ton here.
my great-grandiather's name was
John D. Lewis. de had five sons.
Fielding, William, David, Stephen and
John d.. Jr. All were born in Culpeper
county, Va, and grew up with the
Washingtons. Fielding, the eldest son,
married Elizabeth Betty Washington,
the sister OF George Washington. He
afterward became private secretary 10
Washington when the latter became
President OF the United States.
Lewis, who was received in prison in
1902, says Stephen Fielding was his
Observation-Disclosures, O., Telegram ii
n. Y. World.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-01-22
BOSTON VARIETY STORE
m the Clerks Office of the Circuit OF the
County of King George on the 18th
D dnr- nf Innnnru 1Nn1.

m the Clerks Office of the Circuit OF the
County of King George on the 18Th
day of January, 1907:
ATLANTA Brown, plaintiff, against
Hattie NJ. FitZhugh, executrix of Sarah
n. Mcclure, and A.F.Turner, defendants
In chancery.
The object OF this suit is for specific per.
formance of contract for conveyance OF
land And an affidavit having be-n
made and filed that the defendant, Hattie
VI. Fitzhugh, executrix OF Sarah n.
Mcclure, cannot after due diligence be
found within the jurisdiction Of thec court
it is ordered that she do ape here
within IL days after due publication
hereof and do what may be I ecessafy
to protect her interrs in this suit. Aud
il il iurther ordered hat a copy hereof
be publish, d Lhce "a week Tor four weeks
in The Free Lance, a new spaper pub
lished in the city Of Fredericksburg, Va,
and that a copy be posted at the front
door OF the courthouse OF this county on
or before the first day OF the next rule,
1907, that being the next succeeding
Monday after this order was entered.
A copy-Teste:
+. l.. Hunter, Clerk.
Chichester and Goodrich WIN. K, q.
i22w4W
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1907-01-22
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS
The Latest Closing Prices In the
Princinal Markets.

PHILADELPHIA - FLOUR firm
winter extras, s2.65 a 2.S5; Penna
roller, clear. $2900310. city mills
fancy. S440G45O. RYE FLOUR firm
at 1910 per barrel WHEAT steady,
No Penna. red 741aG7jc corn
STEADY; No. yellow, local, 49d49iIc
OATS steady: No. , white. clipped
4likc.: lower grades. 39lac HAY
steady; No timothy. large bales
S2l BEEF steady, family. per barrel
$3.50. BEEF steady; beef hams. per
barrel. $40 POULTRY: Live steady.
hens. ia l2Ac.; old ROSTERS, 81
Dressed steady. choice fowls. l3iac.,
old ROSTERS. 9hc. BUTTER steady.
selected, 500 32c.i nearby, 21c.i south
ern. 24G 26c. POTATOES steady; p.l
bushel. 55N 5Sc.
BALTIMORE-WHEAT firm; No .
spot. 7Sn7SAc.. steamer No. , SPIT
liz IN 7iAc; southern. 70R q 76c
CORN firm: mixed spot. 4SI5d 1850:
steamer mixed. 46A n 46lRc; soutl
ern. 45lbG4Sc. OATS firm, white
No. 2. 43c.; No. 3. 42m42l9c.; No. 4
39ihG 40c. mixed. No 2 40A a 40Hc.;
No 3. 39la a 39%c., No. 1. 3Su 3SR We
BUTTER firm, creamery separator
extras. 30n31c.; prints 32H33c.. held
24G25c.. Maryland and Penna- dairy
prints. 20021c. EGGS firm; fancy
MARYLAND. Penna. and Virginia, 20c.;
West Virginia. 24c.; southern, ga 23c
NEW YORK-BUTTER weak; com
mon to extra creamery, goa 28c.' do
do. held creamery. l9421i2c.; state
dairy. common TO firsts. goa 26c.; reno
waited. common to extra, 1914 "a 231sc.
western factory. common to firsts II y
d20Ihc.; western imitation creamery
firsts. 21622c. CHEESE steady.
state full cream, fancy, l4lAc.; skins,
2G11c. EGGS steady; state, Penna.
and nearby fancy selected white, -
G34c.; do. do. choice. Soc; mixed
extra, soc. western firsts. ga p lsc.
POULTRY: Live dull; western chick
ems. lie; fowls, 1S1zc.; turkeys. 13c.
Dressed steady; western chickens. y
615c.: turkeys. 13G17c.; fowls S
1910. POTATOES steady; Bermuda
per barrel. S365.25; Maine. per bag
SI.5061.6O; state, western and Jersey.
Der sack. $3.50 $50. Sweets steady;
Vineland. per barrel. S250@5; other
Jerseys. $1.50m2.50. CARRIAGES firm;
white Danish seed. per ton. $l4q Is.
red cabbage, per ton, s20qS0.