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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
MORE IMPORTS OF MATERIAL
Value in Seven Months Ending With
January, 1852 100000.

A statement issued Tuesday by the
bureau of statistics shows that the
importations of manufacturers mater
ials for use in manufactures in the
seven months ended with January,
1907, was $262,0O0,000, against $223,-
100000 in the same months of last
year, while manufactures imported for
further use in manufactured goods
amounted to $15S,000,000, against
1923, 100000 in the corresponding per.
iod of last year.
Crude materials formed 1922 per cent
Of the total imports for use in manu-
featured and imports for further use
in manufacturing 1876 per cent. Ce
ment imports aggregated $47,000,000;
copper, s29,OOO,OOO; raw cottons
$500 900; uncut diamonds, s7,000,000;
diamonds cut, but not set, nearly SIS,
100000; fiber, $24,333,OOO; hides ant
skins, $45,000,000; India rubber, 1872.
100000; pig iron, $780, 00 silks, i$44,
100000; pig tin, nearly S23,000,000.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
SERIOUS sTREETcAR ACCIDENT
Runaway on Tracks in San Francisco
Proves Serious.

San Francisco-A serious streetcar
accident resulted in serious injuries to
a half dozen men, while a score Of
others received sundry minor hurts.
An electric car packed with workmen
returning from shops halted at the bot
tom Of a steep grade in the vicinity of
Eighteenth and Connecticut streets. A
second car came over the hill and
slowly descended the incline, the
notorman expecting the car in front to
proceed Immediately, but there was
some delay. In the middle of the hill
the trailing car refused to respond to
the brakes and descended from the
grade with increasing speed. Before
The motorman in front could be warn
ed the rear car crashed into the car
ahead with terrific force. Dozens of
people were flung from the platforms
into the street, but fortunately none
were fatally injured. A number were
treated at hospitals.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
GARFIELD MAY COME WEST.
Pinchot Also May Journey to See the
Forest Reserves.

Governor Mead of Washington has
made public a letter received from
President Roosevelt. which says that
Secretary Garfield of the interior de
partment, Chief Forester Pinchot and
Judge Ballinger, commissioner of the
land Office, are to inspect some of the
forest reserves of this state during the
coming summer, especially the Olym
pia forest reserve The president
promises that if it appears that any
of the reserves that have been made
whether recently or of old date, in
clude agricultural land, that land will
be restored to entry.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Texas Law AnnuIs Train.

The Sunset limited of the Southern
Pacific was annulled recently because
it was so minutes late, the annulment
being due to the recent order of the
Texas railroad commission requiring
passenger trains to run within 80 min
utes of their schedules. There was a
large number of northern and eastern
tourists aboard the train going to the
Pacific coast, and they were compelled
to remain here IL hours.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
IROQUOIs THEATER CASE ENDS
Federal Judge Holds Chicago Crdin-
ance VOID.

Danville, Ill-In the trial here OF
Will j. Davis, charged with man
slaughter owing to the Iroquois the
alter fire at Chicago, in which nearly
800 lives were lost in 1908, Judge Kim
brough held that part of the Chicago
ordinance on which Davis was indicted
is void The decision ends the case.
Following his decision the court
directed the jury to return a verdict
Of not guilty, which was done, and the
court directed the sheriff to release
the defendant.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16

Employer-What, then, are your de-
mnnds? Committee Of Union-We want
more money and shorter hours SOS we
can have time to spend it-Puck.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
FOUR WERE BURNED TO DEATH.
Brooklyn Reports Two Fires With
Fatalities

Four persons were burned to death
in Brooklyn Sunday, three in a tene-
ment fire on Bushwick avenue, and a
woman in her home. One man was
fatally hurt in the tenement fire. The
dead: Ida Bingalli, Mary Bingalli,
Brigette Bingalli, Mrs. Annie Fischer.
The injured: Peter Banattro.
When the firemen arrived there
were more than 80 persons crowded in
the front windows. Ladders were
quickly raised and firemen carried all
to the street with the exception of Mrs.
Bingalli and her two children and Ban
attro.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Stockton's Big Fire.

Stockton, Cal.-An immense ware.
house fronting on Stockton channel,
which was filled with carpets, limo
leums and upholstered furniture,
owned by d. N. and e. Walters of San
Francisco, was destroyed recently by
fire. Loss, 100000.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16

William P. Letchworth, whose gift
of 1000 acres at Portage Falls, on the
Genesee river, for public park, has
been accepted by the state, is an
adopted member Of the Seneca tribe OF
Indians and bears the tribal name Of
Hai-wa-te-is-tah, "the man who always
does the right thing"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Iowa Editors Victim Dies.

Missouri Valley, Iowa.-M. Brund-
ridge, who was shot last Monday by
A. H. Sniff, editor of the Harrison
County News, during a dispute over
an article in the paper, died of his in
juries. Sniff is held in $4,000 bond,
charged with murder
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Father and Child Killed.

Michael Bowen, a farmer, and his
10-year-old daughter Isabelle were kill
ed and another daughter was fatally
injured today in a railway crossing
accident at Lancaster, N. Y.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
MONTANA ITEMS.

Patrick Jennings, one of the well
known saloon men of Butte, was ar
rested by United States Marshal San
ders on complaint from Seattle charg-
ing him with counterfeiting.
More than $4,000 worth of platinum
was taken from the assay offices of the
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Japan Withdrawing Troops.

Japan is withdrawing all her troops
from Manchuria except $1,000 railway
guards. The foreign consuls are
strongly protesting against the nom
settlement of the Likin question.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
California to Help.

San Francisco, Cal.-Governor
Gillette approved a bill today appro-
priating 100000 for California ex-
hibit at the Yukon-Alaska-Paci ex-
position to be held in Seattle.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16
Archie Roosevelt Better

Washington, March 12.-Marked i'm
provement was shown today in the
condition of Archie Roosevelt, the
presidents son, who is i'll with diph-
iberia.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-03-16

The first newspaper printed in the
United States was published in Bos-
ton, September %, 1890.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
A DIRE PREDICTION.

According to vital statistics in Chi cago during last year the ratio of deaths was five men to two women. The more dangerous. exhausting and life-shortening occupations pursued by the men Is given as one of the causes of their greater death rate. to which is added the habits of dissipation and debauchery in6slged in by the men. All these causes combine to render the death rate among the mon two and one-half times as large as it is among the women.
 The results here announced seem to be founded on, facts and the reasons given for the great disparity in the death rate are probably sound. but we cannot say as much of some predic- tions made by a writer in one of our contemporaries who takes Chicago as sample of all humanity and arrives at the disturbing conclusion that this disparity will continue. and that it will
 
 will be no men left The whole world, as he views prospects and prohabili- ties, will become vast Adamless Eden. with no men left to interfere with female supremacy. So far as we have observed this wise guy has failed to tell us how the population of the earth can be kept up. or how long before there will be no Eyes if the Adam crop is entirely exhausted. If he has any solution for that problem we shall be pleased to hear it.
 Che can only faintly imagine what sort of a world this would be if there were no. men in it. The other sex would have a gay old time-for a while running things their own way. They could run the earth their own fashion with no male person to get in the way and muss things. They would elect themselves to all the offices. pass all the laws, and perhaps execute a few. of them, and have all sorts of high jinks in meetings and assemblages. 1T that time ever arrives we are of the firm opinion that hair-pulling will be among the diversions at their soc.al and political meetings.
 The big mistake this man makes is in measuring the rest of the world by Chicago, in vital statistics or anything else. The figures and reasons given may be true. so far as that city is con- cerned, but we do not believe they will apply to the whole country or even to any sensible proportion of 1t. There will be plenty of men to sup ply the demand as long as there gre women to need them. Whenever any portion of this old world of ours runs entirely out of men there will be no women there-and they won't want to be there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
THE NOISE OF THE CITY.

One of the acute problems now wor- rying engineers and municipal officials is to find some means of getting rid of the city noises. They are becoming such a nuisance in many of the larger cities of the country that some plan to abate them has almost become a neces- sity, but the remedy seems hidden thus far.
 That the substitution of rubber tires for those of iron or steel on many vehicles will be some relief is true. but it will help the case in only limited way. The cause of the increase of noise is manifold, one of the main causes. however, being the almost uni versal paving of the streets. There are many of us who remember when a paved street, even in cities of some importance, was almost unknown. Then the wagons. carts and other vehicles could pass along the soft and yielding earth with little or no noise, but that time has passed in the cities. Now the streets are paved with stone, brick or some other hard substance over which the vehicles rattle with a noise that is sometimes almost maddening to the nervous individual The only remedy in sight is the general use of horse less and rubber tired carriages for all purposes and thus get rid of the noises of horses shoes and metal tires. That
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
MONDAY, AUGUST sS, 1907.

There's some Old Harry to pay at the fashionable hotel at Port Huron. Mich. The visiting ladies had provided themselves with the most stunning bathing costumes obtainable, thinking to create a real sensation, but what was their disgust when they discov- cred that the hotel waitresses were handsomer and attracted more atten- ton than the guests did! They i'm formed the hotel keeper that if he permitted his hired girls to bathe along with them. they'd pick up their play things and play somewhere else--so there now. There's fun for you-and the mean men enjoy 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
NOAH WEBSTER.
was Not the Designer of the COnsti-
 fmtforn


 was Not the Designer of the COnsti-
 tuition.
 In an article which he contributes to the August 18th number of The North American Review entitled "The Design CT of the Constitution of the United States" Hannis Taylor endeavors to correct what he calls a common popu- lar error" to the effect that the cardi- nal features of the Constitution were sketched in advance by Noah Webster. port of the proposition that the proJec- tor of the Constitution was not Noah Webster, but Pelatiah Webster. and that the pamphlet by Noah Webster, out of which many suppose the Consti- tuition developed, was simply an echo of recommendations made by Pelatiah Webster several years before 1t was written. Mir. Taylor endeavors to ex- plain how the connection of Pelatiah Webster with the original projection of the general provisions of the Constitu- tuition has been overlooked He says:
 For this marvellous and cruel neg lect of such man, by patrlotlc peo- pie ever handy with monuments, only one explanation can be given. when the Convention of 11S7 adjourned, It's members seem to have been overcome at the close by the grandeur of an achievement they assumed to be all their own. When the masses of the people had the opportunity to examine its provisions, and to feel the practical benefits which 1t wrought In tnelr po- litical condition, they. too, became m bued with a spirit of intense admira- ton; they put it upon pedestal and made it a popular idol; as German historian has expressed 1t, the new Constitution soon passed through process of canonization. Tn that way the idea crystallized that the new idol was manufactured, out and out, in a convention of demigods who sat only four months and three days That Co ff,,l fu fa way before the Historical Method, which looks behind written constltu- tions in order to ascertain the genesis of the ideas that entered into them. When scrutinlzed by students of that school who believe that beneath every shell there is an ami nal behind every document there is a man. Pelatiah Webster's claim to the personal author ship of the scheme of Federal govern ment embodied in the Constitution or the United States presents no difhcui- ties whatever. According to all legiti- mate canons of criticism. his claim to the authorship of that plan. severed from details and considered as con nected whole is as clear as Jefferson to the authorship of the Declaration or Independence Let us hope that the day is near at hand when the claim or the New England patriot and phtloso- pher will be frankly admitted, and an imposing monument erected on some lonely eminence near the Capitol at Washington to the original designer of the unique plan of Federal government embodied in the Constitution of the United States"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
Governor Glenn, of North Carolina

Governor Glenn, of North Carolina. is eminently correct in saying that if railroads earn 10 per cent upon their legitimate capital it is enough. The trouble in Alabama is that certain laws fix the rates and without giving the whether or not under the rates, they can earn a reasonable return on in vestment. If the roads enter the Fed eral Courts and seek to have the mat ter of earning tested they are penal ased by State statute.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
Making n Spectacle.
Greensboro Record.

oISeHSDOTO INSCOEQ.
 What a spectacle and what will it lead to? The Lieutenant Governor of the great State of Alabama givingg out an interview in which he not only ridicule, a Federal Judge, because of orders issued by him Here we have a man who has sworn to support the Constitution and laws of both the United States and of Alabama. doing all in his power to bring into con- tempt of the people a Federal court. He does this, too, in a matter when able lawyers have given opinion that the court is right and he Is not a law yer. What is apt to be the result? Let the people of Alabama get con tempt for one court and its orders and 1t will soon follow that they will have contempt for all courts and their orders, and then for all laws. Then anarchy.
 suror and the consured. The first we find a man who at about the age of manhood adopted Alabama as his home; one who was born too late to be the 60s;" one who. through his wealth. is able to ride into office on new wave.
 In the censured we find an old man; :; one whose body is covered with scars from service for his State and country in the bloodiest of all wars one who, upon by his country to do service time and again when leaders among men were needed. Which do you think loves his State the more?
 If not respect for the man surely respect for the position the man held should have caused our Lieutenant Governor to have refrained from such criticism as he made. But we heard it suggested that he might have made this criticism with the hope that Judge Jones would issue bench warrant TOT him for contempt and he (Gray) have a chance to pose before the people as a political martyr. and thereby secure their votes for the Governorship.
 But Judge Jones treated the critt- cism in silence. or at least taking no public notice of it; and the sober sec ond thought of the people will con damn rather than approve of criticism
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
The Presldent,s Blunder.

New York Times
 It was enough to have the monu- ment at Provincetown a hundred feet higher than anything in Plymouth. But the President of the United States came with fleet of iron -clads, landed, mounted the rostrum, and called the Mayflower band Puritans. That Is enough to make Colonial psychologists and the New England historian turn thing that the Mayflower descendant abhors 1t is to hear the Pilgrims called Puritans. Here Is the President speak. ing; in great public address re of tanism" and of the people as sons or Purtsnsi d5 lIss,o9, Q ye shades of Brewster
 Plymouth has now suspicion that unassailable on all historical and lit- erary matters. He has violated their sanctuary; he is ignorant of funda- may say about the Irish Sagas will no longer interest them; no partisan feeling will they show about nature stories, and pr. Long may be right not some question about what did and did not happen at San Juan Hill?
 The distinction is an important ence and not a mere verbal one. The Pilgrims and Puritans represented two distinct tendencies. The Pilgrims were sepsratists from the Church of Eng in Holland, whence they came to America. The Puritans tried to purify the English Church; they failed and came from England to New England. The Pilgrims settled in Plymouth; the Puritans in Boston and Salem. The Pilgrims never persecuted persons for differing religious beliefs Miles Stand ish was said at heart to be Catholic. The Puritans were religious bigots and carried their fanaticism into their pol itics. The compact that the Pilgrims signed in the Mayflower cabin in the harbor of Provincetown is model of liberalism. How did the President dare to make a speech at Province town and not know these facts?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
THE RULER OF CHINA.

The announcement that the dowager empress of China is about to abdicate in favor of her son who is now only Emperor in name, reveals some curious features of that queer government. The son Is a weaklins, unftted to rule such a country, and it has been sup posed that his mother, Tsi An, was the real ruler, but now we see the state ment made that the actual power be- hind the throne who has directed and controlled affairs is the son of a cob scurity to the position of confidential adviser to the throne and the actual director of affairs.
 China Is a peculiar country. whether we regard its size, population or -a peculiarities and characteristics of its people. There is perhaps more of mystery in connection with it than with any other nation now existing. It is difficult to learn with any ac- curacy the age or history of 1t and it's people. They have records. or what purport to be records, running back beyond any known history. They lay claim to some of the inventions and discoveries which are~usually regarded as modern, and assert that they were in use in their country many centuri .s ago.
 If the present Empress, as she may well be termed, abdicates, and if her son is the weakling that he is said to be. and if it is further true that this son of a poor cobbler has dominated the throne and its occupant it may not be impossible that he will so take advantage of his opportunities as to depose the young Emperor and him self mount the throne. Stranger things even than this have happened in mon archies as well as in other forms of government, and if this comes about it will not be without precedent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
time may come in the future and prob

time may come in the future and prob ably is bound to come
 Another cause of noise that has come to us in modern times is the street cars. They are a comparatively new innovation. and we fail to see any practicable remedy for their din and racket They cannot be equipped with noiseless rails and tires. nor can we moderns do without them until some thing better is offered The paving of the streets and the multiplicity of the street railways furnish two of the main causes of city noises and we see no way of abolishing either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-26
Freight Reductions Go To Enrich
 Manufactures.

| Thomas E. watson, in The Weehls l Jeffersonian.
 l Why is it that. the Chambers of Com. merce and the freight bureau and the lahor unions refuse to help the people | secure flat two-cent passenger ratel | Here is food for thought, my son I You don't need to be told that when 2 I railroad is made to lower its passenger rate. everybody gets the benefit, Ricr and poor, black and white, country l and town, they all share and share | alike" Whosoever rides on rail road. pays less. The manufacturers the merchant. the laborer; the farmer leach saves one cent a mile when pas | senger. fares droo from three cents 10 ] two cents per mile. That's plain proposition isn't it, son2
 To he surei
 Listen With all of its shortcomings our railroad commission has reduced freight rates about $2.o00,000 during the last few years Consequent, the consumers of manufactured goods ought to be able to buy those goods at least as cheaply as they dsN few years ago But can they do so? Not at all. Not at all. In spite of freight rate reductions. the farmers and other con sumers are paying more than ever.
 Why the manufacturer and the city iobber have simply pocketed the $2,- GOO. .000i And more besides.
 Just as soon as our supreme court decided that the order of the railroad commission, reducing the freight on stoves, must be obeyed, the price or stoves immediately advanced.
 The stove which was costing you $10 in 1905, was costing you SIS in May, 1907. Then came the, supreme court decision in favor of the lower freight
 And the jobbers of the cities at once put a five per cent increase to .ne price of the stoye-making tne % in June, 1907.
 These are facts, my son. Chew on them. and Boston to Atlanta were seaucea req r carload of 30,000 pounds, on hats. mems clothing. blankets, drygoods, etc. on iron ware, flour, bedstead, ana many other articles, material reduction in freight were made. consumer. can bu-- a hat cheaper than before the freight reduction ot 19O5Y Who can buy suit of clothes cheaper or a calico dress or pair Of shoes or harness. bedstead, chair, or barrel or
 The manufacturers and jobbers made the railroad reduce freights on Inese goods to the amount or CWo iHAAi"A OSA lars. s, Al farmers and other consumers getT
 Not a red cest!
 Think 1t over, my son. H-i-E
 shoes are classed among the neces. saries of life." The manufacturers Of shoes has always been a governmental bet. Special priviledge extended It's protecting care to the shoe-makers of Lynn, Mass, before 1t did to anybody else. .x,. industry has been built up at the ex- pense of others. Foreign competition has been made practically impossible Therefore, the trust was easily organlz- ed In 1905 the freight on shoes com ing into Georgia was reduced SS7 per carload.
 vanced the price $S,375 per carl
 Hence, the people who buy shoes not only failed to get one cents beneftt from the reduction in freight. but are having to pay nearly three thousand dollads per carload more for boots ana
 TougH on the shoe-buyers-isn't 1t. sonP
 other "necessaries of life"