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ditch. Our men have been out for
three months and more, and when
man stays out that long with only
small funds being furnished it gets
serious. We could hold out couple
Of weeks longer OH nothing but en-
couraging talk about the result, but
the men of the weaker character
would be slowly returning to work,
while the stronger men would hold
out and suffer most, just because they
we're the most stAnch. There would
be no union left. .
'What II the locals decline to call
it OFF," he was asked. "Well, there
will be nothing to do but to keep
up the fight as long as they can, but
it will be up to them to provide the
funds. We have exhausted our re-
sources. The strike was irregular
from the beginning.
''Then the strike Is hopeless and it
might as we'll be abandoned. "That
1t 10, replied Mr.. Small.
al have no intention of resign.
ing" he said, when he could be
heard. "To resign is the last thing
that 1 will do, and want to tell you
that personal attacks on me won't
get you bread and butter.
"As for assessments of other labor
organisations, want to tell you what
they amount TO. The Order of Rail
road TeleRraphers, with member.
ship Of 10000, was assessed first 80,
then 81, and has turned in S32. 600.
From the 20, 900 locals of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, we have re-
ceived about $685. 900. have come
here to state facts and to tell you OF
your position. Do what you will"
REPLIES TO SMALL.
Daniel Russell, chairman OF the
local board of strategy, repudiates the
statement Of Small.
Sup to last night" he said, "thia
was Small's strike, and up to last
night he did everything he could to
lose. Today 1t is your strike. Keep
it up and we will win. He alone
brought on the strike and now he il
trying to repudiate II"
REPUOIATE BACKDoWN.
Chicago, Oct. l4.-National Presi-
dent Small of the Commercial Tele
graphers' union and his suggestion
that vote be taken ON the question
of calling off the strike were repudi
ated by members of the Chicago loca
union at a meeting yesterday. A
resolution that the strike be contin
ued was unanimously adopted. The
meeting was followed by a demon
stration of strength by the striking
operators before the officers OF the
telegraph companies. The mel
marched in double file in the streets
showing transparencies readinl
"Stick, stick, and otherwise demon
i Continued on page 6.
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ed on the card. 1t is presumed that
this lie a the letter in which ha made
his application to the Webster agony
for a commission as a detective, as the
date of the letter and the date on the
certificate correspond.
In addition to being suspected Of
being implicated in the Baker City
outrage, the fellow seems to know
considerable about the death OF the
Chiago physician who was supposed to
have been murdered by being thrown
from a bridge in Portland, Ore, sew
eral months ago. Whether this
knowledge Gomez from a connection
with the crime from having followed
the case as Il was detailed in the pap
ers. lie as yet simply a matter Of con
lecture, but the officers are going 10
investigate everything ia connection
with the man that they can possibly
get hold of, for they are convinced
that he is, according to admissions
that he lie alleged to have made to
parties at Riparia while he was under
the influence Of liquor, at least In
possession of information that Will be
valuable IL he can be prevailed upon
to talk.
Sheriff Ratiff refuses to make any
further statement in regard to The
case than what has already been
learned from outside sources. He
would only say that some new evil
dence In the matter might develop
when Captain Swain arrived.
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WOMEN HAVE FLowNs
Companions Of Holdup zen
Leave Town.

o. s. oaaood and q. A. YaFbFough
the men arrested on the charge ~
holding up Alfred Hallowa 90
Thursday evening Of last wssk,
were supposed 10 he keeping q room
Ing house at the Harvey place on
sherman street. Saturday evening
Chief Of Police Patrick Ao0ovsFn
demanded the marriage oeFslcIiats of
their alleged wives. Not long altar
the women took . rig for LaorOnas
whore they boarded an electric train,
since which time, they have not bsan
heaid from. They wers In a hurry.
II one may judge from the way the
house was left, not even locked.
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why couldn't we nay off here yester.
day. But there Is always talk of this
kind at the end of every strike. /
have been through about eight
months of this. ever since the strike
began in San Francisco last June,
and 1t don't bother me any more.
If Mr.. Thomas wants to prev ent call
ing of the strike, let him do so.
''GeneIally labor leaders advise
each other to disregard the offerings
of their men when a strike is on, but
l will not do that to the very last
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-10-14
MARY LOGAN TuCKER.

Daughter Of General John A.
Logan, who is endeavoring to have
court martialed Lieutenant Colonel
William +. Tucker, her husband,
for alleged misconduct in the Phil.
ippines. Lieutenant Colonel Tuck.
or recently brought suit for di
Vorca.
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The Lake City Hardware Company
had some beautiful art oalendeFs ~
souvenirs for those attending the
sale Saturday evening. Thsy we're
very neat.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-10-14

The Canadians will meet this even
ing for the purpose of permanently
organizing.
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Continued on page c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
oorHAM's HOTEL POPULATION.
Six Times That of Paris and Some
timea Reaches $4,000 a Day.

Six Times That of Paris and Some
times Reaches $4,000 a Day.
The home spirit In New York has al
ready been 80 shattered by the gran
diose hotel that Al per cent Of the so
called Missionaries" now reside in
these bewildering caravansaries in pref
erence to dwelling beneath their own
vine and fig tree, says Success. The
latest edition of the Social Register
shows that 1900 families in New York
with wealth and aristocratlc pride have
given up their private homes to live in
hotels. An expert who has studied
the hotel business In every principal
New York cares for three times as
many persons as does London, six times
as many as does Paris and ten times as
many as does any other city that can
be named. There are 1873 large first
class hotels in Manhattan alone, more
than 300 including the smaller ones
and, at the rate of construction at pres
ent, the calculation has been made
that within twenty years there will be
on Manhattan island alone 3S6 hotels
of 400 rooms each, or Of greater size.
Graded wherever 1t may have been,
the hostelry art has surely found its
home in the American metropolis and
one needs no further figures than those
just given to furnish explanation of
the amazing evolution Of the hotel in
New York City. With a floating popu-
lation each day ranging from $4,000
to $4,000, according to the railroad
passenger accountants, for the various
seasons Of the year, there is little won
der that New York has become the
city of earth most conspicuous for Its
hotels.
| The word palace" has been applied
to hotels since the memory of man run
meth not to the contrary and good
natured world has always accepted it
as jestful hyperbole. But out Of the
New York conception of hostelry has
come a creation, In the description of
which palace" becomes a feeble mis-
homer.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Uses for cart-oR shneu.

What becomes of old boots and shoes
has hitherto been almost as puzzling a
problem as where all the pins 90 to.
The solution, however, is given in the
Boot and Shoe Trades Journal.
Old boots and shoes of leather are
cut up into small pieces and then are
put for two days in chloride of sulphur.
the effect Of which is to make the
leather hard and brittle.
When this is fully effected the mate
rial is withdrawn from the action of
the chloride Of sulphur, washed with
water, dried and ground to powder
1t Is then mixed with some substance
that will cause it to adhere together
such as shellac or other resinous ma.
terial or even good glue and a thick
solution Of strong gum.
1t is afterward pressed into molds m
form combs, buttons and a variety of
other useful objects.
Prusslate Of potash is also made ou+
Of old leather. It Is heated with nearl-
ash and old iron hoops in a largo not
The nitrogen and carbon form cvanooaD
and then unite with the iron and M
tassium. The soluble portions are die.
solved out and the resulting salt added
to one Of iron, produces the welI.knovVn
Prusslan blue, either for dyeing pur.
poses or as a pigment
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29

The number Of locomotives owned BY
railroads In the year 1904 was 1885,
and assuming per cent Of these to be
in the shop under repairs, there remain
37,5O8 engines in service, and this num-
Der, divided into 1O6,000,000 tons, gives
1926 tons as the average consumption
Of coal per engine year.
Coming now to something more def
mite, for a single road, we find from
the annual report of the Union Pacific
for the year ended with June. 1905,
that 1t paid for it's coal $780,, 1888, and
that the average cost per ton was $1.76,
so that the coal consumed by locomo-
tives on that line amounted to 1925
800 tons. The number of locomotives
then owned was 825, from which we
deduct per cent, leaving 767 In active
service; this figure divided into the
tons, as given, shows an average con-
sumption per engine year of 2,515 tons.
In the Chicago and Alton annual re-
port for the year ended with June,
1906, we find the coal bill was 1874, 900,
and the average cost per ton was $1.2O,
which corresponds to a consumption Of
62S,30O tons. The total engine equip
ment is $50, less s per cent, leaves 23O
in active service, which divided into
the tons shows a consumption Of 2,730
tons of coal per engine year. In the
Lehigh Valley report for the same
year there is a statement showing
that the locomotives on that road made
an average Of 34,921 miles per year,
and that the coal consumption per en-
CINE mile was 1924 pounds, The prod
uct Of these two figures gives 1921, 800
pounds, or 1906 tons per engine year.
This figure lies between those obtained
for the Alton and the Union Pacific,
and we may infer that the average
consumption Of coal by locomotives on
roads having modern equipment is
probably about $500 tons per year.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
CHAPTER XvII1

Charles Baumgarten sat in his cham
bers enjoying an animated discussion with
his friend, Jephson, the great chancery
lawyer. About week had gone by since
Charles had come home from the circuit
and held that momentous interview with
Mary Dynevor which had been broken in
upon by the subdean. Mary had now
gone, with some friends, to Brighton for
change Of air, and Charles was, so to
say, q bachelor at large again. The
change from despair to hope had so elated
him that he had somewhat rashly likened
it to Elysium. But now a certain ugly
looking bill for eighty-one pounds, bear
ing Charles acceptance, had been pre-
sented to him for payment.
Charles declined to pay It, on the
ground that he had not accepted it. He
rcpudiated the bill altogether. 1t was
held by that eminent legal firm, Godfrey
& Herbert Jephson; the latter of whom
had now come to Pump Court in person,
bringing the bill with him.
II never saw it in my life until to-
day." protested Charles Baumgarten.
you have been imposed upon"
Mr.. Jephson laughed. In days gone
by they had been very intimate at the
university together, and had there formed
a close friendship; though Herbert Jeph-
son was the elder by some years. "Stur
and nonsense p quoth he, would you
deny your own signature2 Look at It,"
Charles had looked enough at it. but
looked again.
81 don't deny that it's a clever imita-
tlon, except in one particular. This IL
signed g. Baumgarten.' always sign
Charles in full. Look over my notes to
you, Jephson, should you have kept any,
and sec If / ever signed myself In any
other way"
IF you never did It before, that's no
reason why you might not have done Il
on this OCCASION" was the unanswerable
response.
How do you say It came into your
hands, JephsonT" he asked.
1--WE received It from White, the en-
graver and ieweler," was the reply. "Some
property White is entitled to got thrown
into Chancery, and We have been acting
for him. The expenses are draining him,
and he had some difficulty to pay our last
BIZ! of costs. My brother pressed for 1t ;
one can't work for nothing; and Mr..
White brought this bill Of yours. and ask
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
COURTESY SEEN IN SPAIN.
Travellers Get Best Idea While Jour
neying by Rail Third Glass.

| Travellers Get Best Idea While Jour
neytng by Rail Third Glass.
The stranger can not perhaps more
easily get a glimpse of the true and
ancient Spain that by acquiring the
habit Of travelling third class. The
seats, indeed, are hard, but the COM
pany is usually excellent, charming in
it's manners and not offensive in any
sense. Here a constant series of novel
pictures is presented to the traveller,
who may quietly study them at leisure.
Perhaps it is a dozen merry girls on
their way to a festival, packed tightly
together and laden with packages
some, the more sedate among them,
wear mautillas, some bright handker-
chiefs on their heads or go with hair
uncovered, but however they are dress
ed, to whatever class they belong, they
are all clean and sweet.
Or perhaps it is a less crowded car
rlage one enters; there are two mid
dle-class Spaniards and peasant
group Of three; fat, jolly, middle
aged man in a peasants costume, but
clean and new, almost stylish; a wom-
an Of like age-one of those free, ro-
bust, kindly women whom Spain pro-
duces so often, and n pretty barehead-
ed girl, evidently her daughter, though
the man seems a friend or relative
who Is escOrting them on their jour-
ney. By and by, when we have been
some hours on our journey, he lifts
from the seat in front Of him the large,
heavy, embroidered wallet-the alfor-
ia, which Sancho PanZa was always so
anxious to keep well f1lled-unwinds it
and draws out one of the great, fiat,
delicious Spanish loaves and throws it
on the woman's lap.
Then a dish of stewed meat appears
and the bread Is cut In slices which
serve as plates for the meat. But be-
fore the meal is begun the peasant
turns round with a hearty "Gusta 2"
1t Is the invitation to share in the feast
which every polite Spaniard must make
even to strangers who happen to be
present. and it Is, as a matter Of course,
politely refused: "Muchas gracias."
Before long the black leather wine bot
tie is produced from the wallet and
the meal proceeds.
At its final stage some kind of sweet
meat appears and small fragments are
offered to the two middle-class Span
iards, and then-with a slight half
movement, expressing a fine courtesy
restrained by the fear of Offering any
offensive attention-to the foreign ca
ballero also. 1t is not improper to ac-
cept this time and now the leather bot
tie is handed round and the middle
class Spaniards avail themselves of it,
though with awkward unfamiliarity.-
Atlantic Monthly.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
A Patented Plant.

"One plant at least has been patent
ed" said an inventor. ut is the Abrus
precatorlus, alias paternoster pea, alias
weather plant John Nowack took out
the patent. The weather plant is still
believed by many persons to foretelI
the weather. John Nowack was sure 1t
did so, and he put it on the market
along with an indicating apparatus,
guaranteeing it to foretell for forty
eight hours in advance and for fifty
miles around fog, rain, snow, hail,
earthquake and depressions likely to
cause explosions Of fire damp. Alas
for poor Nowack ! The experts Of the
bureau Of agriculture took up his pat
ented plant. They proved that the
movements Of the leaVes-to the right
foretelling rain, to the left foretelIlng
drought-were not caused by the
weather, but by the light. And they
proved that the plants famous down
ward movement, which was supposed
to foretell earthquake, was caused by
an insect that punctured the stem, caus-
ing the leaf, naturally, to droop. That
is the only patented plant I know of,
and Nowack lost money on it"
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
The Bird in Hand,

Instead Of getting angry, Clarkson
was rather amused at the actions Of
his pet waiter. For two years he had
dined at the same restaurant almOsl
daily and August knew his every Wish
and had always been literally tipped.
That day, however, Clarkson was
shamefully neglected. He had to ask
for butter, his napkin was damp and
soggy, the particular sauce he liked 50
we'll was not on the table, and, In fact
August was the antithesis Of q devoted
servitor. All his attentions seemed
concentrated upon a man at an adjoin.
In gtable. August lowered around him
like bee around a flower, anticipating
every wish and bringing him sundry
little extras
The customers was evidently a stran
ger. Clarkson could not recall having
seen him before, and from his long pat
ronage Of the place he had come to
know all the regular customers by
their faces at least. His curiosity got
the better of him and as he was leav.
Ing, after bestowing the customary tip
he asked:
"Why is 1t, August, that you have
been so attentive to that man and 50
neglectful of me? Is he in the habit
Of giving extra large tlps2"
"Oh, no, m'sieu'," said August. "He
Is a stranger. He has never been here
before" Then he added, apologetIcal.
ly, "And am sure of you, m'sleu'."
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
The Other Side.

Don't you get homesick for those
beautiful old Colonial mansions In the
South" they asked the Kentucklan ON
the night that the thermometer froza
''Not this weather." she answered. Il
haven't forgotten yet how the wind
used to blow through the cracks Of the
windows and doors of those beautiful
old Colonial mansions, and how we
used to sit in rooms about the size Of
bathrooms, huddled around a two-by.
four CRATE, our faces scorchlng and the
bitter blasts blowing through our back
hair.
"oh, no; in such weather as this the
steam heated luxury Of the Chicago Eat
for me-" she decided.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29

the first time, is to have a parliament.
Muzaffer-ed-Din was born on March
25, 1858, and succeeded his father,
Nazr-ed-Din, on May Day, 1896. The
Shah, who had six sons and twelve
daughters. showed himself a man of
ideas. This picture is a late one.
The late Shah is succeeded by his
eldest son, Mohammed Ali Mira, who
is in his thirty-tifth year. He is well
educated and in sympathy with his
fathers liberal Ideas Among the an
cient and enthusiastically Oriental
titles which he will assume are Shah
inshah, or King of Kings; I'll Allah,
Shadow Of God; the Kibleh Alum,
Center Of the World; the Exalted One.
Exalted as the planet Saturn the Well
of knowledge; the King Whose Stand
ard is the Sun, and Whose Splendor
Is That Of the Firmament.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
HUGE COAL BILL OF RAILROADS
Locomotives Burn Many Thousands
of Tons of Fuel,

Locomotives Burn Many Thousand
of Tons of Fuel.
/ The bill for locomotive fuel Is the
largest item Of expense for materials
incurred by railroads and 1t averages
about 10 per cent of the total oDerat-
Ing expense. The annual reports Of
railroads give a few figures relating
to fuel which help in forming an idea
Of the enormous consumption Of coal
by railroads in the year covered, SAYS
the Railway Age.
Thus the report Of the Rock Island
system for the year ended with June.
1906, when 1t operated 1887 locomo-
lives, shows that the coal bill was
nearly 100000. On the Chicago and
Northwestern for the same period.
when 1t operated 1.342 locomotives, the
cost for fuel for them was S5,362,OOO.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion statistics for the year 1904 shows
that the locomotive fuel bill for all the
railroads In the United States amount
ed to S159,OOO,0OO. If we take the
average cost of coal at $3.50 per ton.
which Is probably high for the whole
country. this would represent a con.
sumption of 1O6.OOOoOO tons of coal.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29

A great deal of harm is dona
drugglng for the relief Of varIo5.
or imaginary ills.
There Is nothing easier. Tha n,
lection to the plan is that what
fer the cough may be bad 4,
cougher.
So 1t is with a headache. Almo.
pain in the head not due Il
brain disease may be moderated
relieved temporarily, by some ~.
headache powder; but a freouss,
course to this means of cure M.
tally weaken the heart. When
stops beating the headaches can,
trouble, but the patient Is not n
dition to know or care.
Every man, Of course, believes
self a doctor, and often thinks 1.
better able to attack a cough or
of rheumatism or a headache, VIVA
1t be his own or another's, than 4
who make the cure of disease A sn.s
study. All he has to do is to NAB.
his mind what the trouble ls-and /.
one can tell a cough when he has 4
and then to take something tbst
good for a cough"
Less serious, but not much 30 |.
abuse Of tonics. A true tonic il !,
thing that promotes the nutrition a.,
body. This may be done by Incr
ing the appetite and improving d,
ton, which is the function Of the
ter tonics; or by improving the con
ton of the blood by adding to II
llor 1t has lost; or by supplying
system with some needed substa,
such as fat in cod liver oil; or lin,
by stimulating the tissues to incres
absorption, an action which is ascri
to arsenic, mercury and others Of
mineral tonics.
But these are not the ''tonicsp
which people are apt to resort W
they run down. They take to sti
lants, alcohol usually, and think /
are getting strong because they
better after each dose. The ale,
in the "tonlc" Is often disguised,
the user, perhaps a conscientious
totaler, would be shocked to learn
what he was taking to give
strength had more alcohol in It I
has the strongest whisky. If the sys
is seriously run down, a physl,
should be consulted, who will be
to give what is needed, whether
or bark, or gentian, or cod liver
to correct the underlying condition
causes the debility.-Youth's Conn
lon.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
LATE SHAH OF PERSIA.

The Shah Of Persia, Muzaffer-ed-Din,
died recently, in the ffty-fourth year
of his age and the eleventh Of his reign.
He was a student Of philosophy and
literature, a patron of the arts and a
progressive ruler. He was familiar
with Western institutions, and made
several visits to European capitals for
a closer study of them. One Of his
last official acts was to sign the new
constitution under which Persia, for
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Proof Positive,

Bertha-But, papa, what have you
against Charles9 Wouldn't he make .
good husband2
Father-He's a fool, and besides he's
only after your money.
Bertha-Oh, papa, know he would
marry me without a penny.
Father-You sect He's even more
of fool than I thought PelS-
Mele.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
Embarrassing Attention..

"a dog" said meandering Mike, ais
one o. the few animals dat'n foller a
man."
Flooding Pete seemed to consider this
statement for a moment, says the
Washington Star, and then answered:
That's so. One was following me
yesterday so fast I could hardly keep
ahead of him."
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29

For every ton Of genuine ivory i'm.
ported into Great Britain there are i'm.
ported three tons Of vegetable ivory.
The latter comes chiefly from the re-
public Of Colombia, in South America
1t Is obtained from the seeds of the
ivory-nut palm.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29

Paraffin oil is about to be tried as
the motive power for herring fishing
boats on the Moray firth.