Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-20
KOREAN IDOLS MADE
 FROM LEAD B|-PRODUCI
Man Comes From Hermit King dom to Missouri for Car
 load of iltiff,n

J. Kayanaugh has travelled all the ] way from Korea to Missouri to get
 carload of tin" a mica-iike forma- | ion found in large quantities in the the lead and zinc fields of Missouri and Kansas. and in doing so has de yeloped a new industry.
 Kavanaugh intends to use the tiff
 In making idols and seals for the
 Koreans
 A few months ago Kavanaugh was employed by the emperor of Japan to manage a big coal mine in Korea
 While thus employed he noticed that every Korean carried constantly a small god and a lucky seal to ward
 fl disease and disaster of every kind.
 hen what he believes will be a money
 making scheme was formed in his mind. He determined to supply the demand for Korean gods.
 KaYanaugh studied the requirements of the people in regard to material and wearing qualities. He learned that almost anything would do for a Ko- rean god that was glittering in appear ance like glass, and, having travelled extensively, decided that tiff would fill the bill.
 He was on the point of starting to California, where he once lived, and where the new tiff could be found in abundance, when he met a woman mis- sionary engaged in teaching the KC- reans to abandon idol worship and adopt the Christian religion. This missionary is Mary Oglesby, formerly O. Kansas City, whose brother is a roommate of Charles Perry, employed in the Fred Harvey house at the Kan sas City union depot, and himself em- ployed by Harvey. Without explain ing his purpose he told the young wo- man that he was going away. and that he was in quest of a supply of tiff. She told him of the tiff to be found in the lead and zinc district and gave him letter of introduction to her brother at Kansas City.
 When Kavanaugh reached Kansas City he met, instead Charles Perry, who sent him with a letter of intro duction to Judson Jones at Webb City, Missouri, and learning from him that .tiff was more plentiful in the mines at Joplin and Galena, Kansas. than in Webb City, he went there to secure a carload of tiff. When 1t goes out it will be the first shipment of this by product of the mines ever made.
 Kavanaugh's knowledge of the tiff found in California caused him to stop there to investigate. It is, he says, unsuited to the making of Korean idols and seals, because 1t crumbles too easi- ly, and is so brittle that it cannot be fashioned into the popular shapes to command the fastidious Korean idol purchaser. The great requirements of the idol, within itself, he says, is that it must be a pretty bauble, be fairly well shaped and have wear-resisting qualities, because the Korean god is worked overtime and subjected to all kinds of abuse. The Korean, he adds, is perfectly contented to replace a broken idol with another purchased at the shop counters, but those that are made of destTuctible materials are not in great demand because of the con tinuous expense they entail.
 MT. Kavanaugh proposes to ship a carload of tiff to Pingyang, where he was located, and where Miss Oglesby unwittingly aided his idol-building plan. and there establish a factory to manufacture little gods and seals. He has no lack of confidence in the finan- cial success of the undertaking, and expects, if the first shipment proves profitable, to regularly export tiff from Missouri to his Korean god factory.