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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12
GOOD HoRsEMANsHIP.
An Old Hunters Illustration Of me
Gift CT Hands"

An Old Hunters illustration Of the
Gift CT Hands"
Your heart and your head keep up.
your hands and your knees keep down
Aouf knees keep close 70 your horses
sides
And your elbows to your own.
This old bit Of advice for the would
be horsemaD is quoted by writer Ia
baily's Magazine and declared IL be
perennially sound.
He quotes another old hunter on the
subject Of what be calls 1.-THE divine
gift OF hands Id riding. This old
hunter John Darby. used to attach
Two pieces Of Irvine ~ the back Of an
ordinary chair and draw the same
tighter until the chair balanced on its
fore Or hind legs, according 70 his own
position
Then when balanced he would Keep
lt, 50 90 speak, on the swing by gently
manipulating the Irvine on reins he
Aeil ia his hand. A rough pull would.
OF course, have upset the chair one
Way whereas tie fact 0f not checking
in ils movements an all would have
az used total loss " control over IL
ln the opposite direction.
And that" when the exhibition vas
concluded Ae would ADD, rs hands,
gentlemen"
jogging % fhe covert, continues lie
writer sou may notice one due horse.
ile owner fully equipped, throwing rs
he'l up and down me pump handlo.
fi.finef sweating profusoly althoueh
lif pace Nns moi exceeded lYo miles
Aa l9lr since a left me stable Ind a
N''a sN'li'ng and praneing about aii
over ihe PLACID
NA} y ihia sof Simply llecause the
i'oef NJ pe'iAer " fleu b Possessed
bilp ipe divine gif III laaasp
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12

ION must fill the haft of her triple
blade with q subtle poison and so con-
trive Its sliding mechanism that the
same impulse which drives the points
successfully forward drenches the
whole weapon with a fatal juice
From '-The Lore of the Honey Bee"
by Tickner Edwardes.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12
10 FicIde ehopqer

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guessing SD tbe sroeery cierE NJ
fle went opr ~ ueyer oaD iel fll
fle .aat miale Ulaf sle y goue NJ
buy Jusi uDV sle priced fle c.noe.
I gave Aer t.e prices ~ cepis ~ ~,
30. ~
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good sho nftod ~.
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12

From the land Of the Moros a soldier
writes: "A Moro matrOn passed our
quarters this morning wearing a hello
trope jacket purple trousers with
large heart designs worked in yellow.
blue and pink embroidery, a red and
black sarong. yellow plush slippers
and yellow silk mantilia. The lady's
maid odd. In modest garb. walked be-
hind carrying a magenta parasol."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12
ELK CITY MINING NEWS

ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY
GEO. E HAMILTON. Publisher
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12

A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Inter
ests Of the Elk City, Red River.
OrOgrande. NewsOme. Dixie and
Buffalo Hump Mining Camps.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-12-12
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Entered at the Elk City, Idaho. Post
ONCE for transmission through the
mails as second-clsss matter.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
TARIFF TRAINERS HAVE
BIG TASK IN SIGHT
With Testimony Completed,
They Must Now Put the
Measure Together.

washington, Dec. 2S.-The tariff
trainers have some idea of the diff
cult and complex questions involved
in the problem OF revising the pres
ent tariff law. With over 5000 pages
of testimony, voluminous reports and
thousands Of letters giving informal
ton of great value in connection with
the tariff h subcommittee which will
draft the new bill will be occupied for
a number OF weeks in revising the
present schedules.
The tariff framing committee, which
consists OF the republican members of
the ways and means committee, held
two meetings today. Much routine
matter and details concerning 'isched-
ule A" of the tariff were disposed Of.
Schedule A" provides for duties on
chemicals, oils n paints and as there
were few requests for changes, this
schedule will probably occupy much
less time by the committee than some
of the others.
AS the members OF the subcommit-
tee have been sworn to secrecy posi-
tive information as to the conclusions
reached is hardly obtainable. 1t is
understood that the committee will
reserve for later consideration, those
paragraphs about which there Is n
serious difference of opinion and that It
will summon further witnesses when
ever it desires more information. The
general impression is that the COM
mittee will make few changes in the
chemical schedule. ...tar.. BE-
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
HOW TO KILL LIONS,
BY FAMOUS HUNTER

London, Dec. 2~9.-Selous, the lion kill
er, explained today that while he col
lected the other equipment for Roose-
yelt's hunting expedition and win go
with him to Mombassa, where they will
arrive April %, they will not shoot to-
gether in East Africa and Uganda.
President Roosevelt's party" said
Mr.. Selous, al his home at Worplesdon,
''will go one way. William Mcmillan
will join m in striking out another.
There Is no doubt, however, that we
may come into touch more than once
with the presidents party.
Nearly $50 native bearers will carry
the presidents equipment. They will
travel for a week or 10 days, making
for some point where game may be
found. There they will halt for a week
or even a month at q time. In East
Africa they should find plenty of
giraffes, antelope, buffalo and lions. y
I'm hunting lions you go out OIL
horseback early In the morning on the
high plateau In hope of catching q lion
who hae delayed too long feeding and
cannot get back to cover. When you
oyertake the beast he generally comes
to q halt and catches you growing. At
the first moment you slip off your horse
and shoot him. Sometimes the lion will
charge at you II he does you gaIlop
out OF the way and await another OPP
portunity. IL he charges while you are
on your horse and you fail to hit him
as he comes at you, 1t may not be q
delightful experience"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 29.-Andrew Car
negie was the angel who put up
about $4,000 to clean Pittsburg up
morally, according to a well defined
report here. This cannot be verified.
nor is it denied by those who should
know. Is
The story is told at the Duquesne
club and the Pittsburg club that the
same man who told the Pittsburg con
ditions to President Roosevelt also went
to Andrew Carnegie and laid the array
of facts before him. The result was
that he was authorized an expenditure
or $4,000 in detective work. etc.
Representatives OF the Voters league,
the civic reform Organization that pre-
.cipitated the municipal scandal, caus-
ing the arrest OF seven members OF the
council and two former bankers, today
announced that they have received as
OF federal government help
I'm the Forthcoming prosecutions. The
department OF Justice, representatives
OF the Voters league say, has already
taken steps to thoroughly investigate
all national banks serving a. deposito-
ries for city funds.
An air OF expectancy prevails here
as TO the nature OF the next steps TO
be taken in the investigation of the
graft scandal. From many umo 1t
IL believed the Investigation will be
thorough and widespread, and that
every person implicated will be In nj
toby by the first OF the year. Very lit
tie official information Is being given
to the public. Those interested in the
prosecution and defense are holding
numerous conferences, but these meet
ings are behind closed doors.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
SEVERAL RUSSIANS KILLED
IN BATTLE WITH POLICE

MOSCOW, Dec. 29.-Baron Cote, chief
of the secret political police, was killed,
and Colonel Murah was wounded, in a
fierce encounter today with revolution
lists entrenched in a suburban villa.
During the fight several policemen were
killed ard Others wounded. Troops were
summoned to aid the police. A regular
battle ensued.
The artilleryhad finally to be brought
up to lombard the villa before the rev.
o~lutionists were subdued. The occur
rence is the most serious since the up
rising in December, 1906.
The leaders of a revolutionary organ
ization were holding a meeting. The
police got wind of the affair and sur-
rounded the villa with the purpose of
making arrests. AS they approached
the house the revolutionists opened fire.
This resistance was unexpected, and
the police withdrew. Then the infantry
were sent for, and with this reinforce
ment a second advance was made. The
police and soldiers had to retire a Sec
ond time, and 1t was In this encounter
that Cote was killed and Muraki
wounded. When the artillery appeared
a few well directed shots put an end
to the trouble.
The losses sustained by the revolu-
tionists are not vet known, but they
were doubtless heavy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
LILLEY CAMPAIGN
CASE is BEGUN

New Haven, Conn. Dec. 29.--The
election court to inquire into the cam
paign and election expense OF Go W
ernor-elect George l.. Lilley, opened
here today upon the application of
George L.. Fox, a schoolmaster of this
city, under the provisions corrupt
practices act passed by the general
assembly in 1905. The sitting Of this
court is of exceptional interest, not
alone to politicians, but to the legal
fraternity as IL Is claimed this Is the
first election court to set up in this
country.
AT the November election Mi. Lii
ley was opposed by a faction in his
own party. The strength OF this an
tagonism was shown by the fact that
while Taft carried the state by over
$4,000 plurality, Lilley had slightly
less than 10000. The present inquiry.
should 1t reach the stage to taking Of
evidence. is expected to go back into
the canvass for nomination in the
spring and summer.
The campaign expenses of Mr.. Lii
ley were returned In a certificate to
the secretary of state at $23, 900, those
of Judge Robertson, democratic NOM
inee for governor, at $4,000, while
the anti Lilley republicans spent over
SIS 900. ....
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
PRISON CONGRESS
BEING PROMOTED

Washington, Dec. 20. - Secretary
Root, in the best sense OF the word, Is
an international promoter. He has pro-
NOTED the cause Of peace and arbitra-
ton; he has promoted friendly and
commercial relations with the South
American republics; not by letter
merely, but by making a tour of that
continent In person. And now he il
the natural and Official promoter Of
another great international enterprise
which is philosophic and human. The
International Prison congress, an or
ganization as wide in it's scope as the
international Tuberculosis congress
which met In Washington in the fall
is coming to this country in 1910, and
Secretary Root has asked congress for
8 10000 to show the European delegates
some OF the best things achieved In.
the United States in improved methods
OF dealing with crime. It's an inter-
esting history. that OF the International
Prison congress. ..s T..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
CHRISTMAS TREE
CUSTOM UPHELD BY
FOREST SERVICE
Pinchot Sees No Way 1000
600 Trees Can Be Used to
Better Advantage.

Washington, Dec. 29.--The country's
forests again nave been called upon to
supply about 1900, 900 Christmas trees
and again many persons have asked
themselves and have queried the
United States forest service, is the
custom a menace to the movement for
forest preservation? 2"
In the millions of happy homes over
the country where the younger genera
ton has made the Christmas tree the
center or play since early Friday
fathers who have given the question
more or less thought. From Sunday
schools and other organizations also,
which hold an annual celebration
around a gayly trimmed evergreen
for the benefit of the little ones, has
come the question whether IL is CON
sistent to urge conservation of forest
and then to cut millions of
young trees every year TO afford q
little joy In the passing holiday sea-
son
They're for Use.
Eyes. It is consistent and proper
that the custom should be maintained"
has been the answer of United States
Forester Clifford Pinchot in every case.
Trees are for use, and there is no
other use to which they Gould be put
which would contribute SO much to
the joy Of man as their use by the
children on this n great holiday OF
the yea
The number OF trees cut for this
each ear Is utterly insignificant
when compared to the consumption for
other purposes for which timber is
demanded. Not more than 4,000,0 900
Christmas trees are used each year.
one In every fourth family. II planted
four feet apart they could be grown
ing OF an area equal to a good sized
farm Zach Christmas should not be a
subject of much worry, when II Is
remembered that for lumber alone II
is necessary to take timber from an
area OF more than 100, 900 acres every
day OF the year"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
STEVENS ASSASSIN
Is FOUND GUILTY

San Francisco, CAL, Dec. '2S.-In
Whang Chang, the Korean. who shot
Durham White Stevens, the Ameri-
can diplomat and adviser to the Ko-
rean emperor, In this city on March %
of this year, resulting in Mr.. Stevens
death two days later, was found guilty
OF murder In the second degree by a
jury In Judge Cooks department of
the superior court. ..
The trial was concluded shortly after
8 D. m, and the jury returned a YER
dict a few minutes before midnight.
The entire day and part OF the night
session was taken up with arguments
by counsel for both sides. Sentence Will
be passed December 20. The minimum
penalty provided by law is 10 years,
and the maximum life imprisonment.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31

New York, Dec. SO.--"Come back to
Venezuela and help Gomez to rule
Venezuela, for Venezuela. and not for
Gomez is the message that has come,
in almost so many words, to several
Venezuelan exiles In New York.
They look on II as their Christmas
gift, the finest they have known since
President Matos failed and Venezuela
became a prison or a grave for those
who braved the dictator.
They are going, the most notable OF
them, by the steamship Maracaibo RAJ
mon Ayala, who thrice cast aside high
place as a protest against plans for
self perpetuation OF Venezuelan presi-
dents in whose cabinets he served, Limo
Duarte.
From Europe General J. M. Herman
DEG, 'Ei Mocho," Is going back TO Ven
ezuela. He has received a similar SUM
mons. The Venszuelans in New York
are tubilant. Castro, they say. win be
soon denounced by the supreme court
OF Venezuela as a Violator OF the con-
stitutfon and an enemy or the state,
ard his arrest for treason viii be or
.Gered.
In Gomez they have great confidence.
AS Vice president he succeeds lawfully
rider their constitution TO the presi-
1ency, and his present term has until
october, 1911, 70 run. They hope for
great things before then.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED
p. IN CANADA, SAYS LEADEF

Montreal, Dec. 28.--Alphonse Yer
vile, M. p, president Of the Dominion
Trades and Labor congress, says Cana
dian labor is thoroughly disappointed
at the outcome OF the Buck conspiracy
case at Washington.
Sentencing Gompers and his asso-
ciates to prison for carrying on q boy
colt by publication could not nave hap
pened under the laws Of Canada" says
Mr.. Verville. Not because our laws
are less stringent than those in the
United States, but because our ju-
dietary has a wider conception OF
equity, due to our of British fair
play. American capital has decreed
that Gompers and his associates shall
suffer ignominy and Imprisonment and
will succeed soone or later In placing
them behind bars, but when this hap
pens it will make some issues in Amer
lea which will threaten the peace of
the republic itself. The conviction of
Gompers will create more friends for
organized labor than anything else
could possibly nave done. Americans
in bulk will not stand for persecution"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
STANDARD REPLIES
IN own DEFENSE
Advertises in New York Paper
That ION Crowd" Is Being
Abused.

New York, Dec. 29.--Under the cap
ton, standard OIL Company--A Pro-
test and a Warning" the following is
printed in the advertising columns of
the New York World:
rs Broadway, Dec. 10. I908.-To the
Press and Public: Moved by many re-
cent publications. of false, misleading
and injurious statements regarding its
acts, motives and associations in bust
ness and otherwise, the Standard Oil
company, at the risk of firing the pub
lie by reiteration of a well-founded
complaint, hereby enters a protest and
a warning against all such unauthor-
lied and ~unfounded publications.
1t has, for instance, been widely
stated OF late that the Corn Products
Refining company and a proposed cor
porate body to engage in the smelling
industry are either directly or indirect
ly related to or financed by the Stand
ard Oil company. These and all such
statements are untrue. The Standard
Oil company Is interested in its many
Industries growing out of the pro-
ducing, manufacturing and marketing
OF Oil and it's products, and In no 9TH
ers.
Another branch OF misstatement
lightly INDUCED in is of the kind attrib-
uting outside commercial and specula-
NANS aANASAA ~ NhV SShaRSlAy IA NAAV eoAoo
OF standard OIL interests" The
Standard OIL crowd" 1.-THE Rockefeller
interests" "the Standard OIL banks
and so on, often backing up these in
MENTIONS by secalled statements OF "a
Standard Oil Official (unnamed), ''ons
close to the Standard OIL" and so
on, through the various shades OF
anonymity.
Against these and similar inventions
we take, then, this means OF bringing
the matter before the public, for the
public's as well as for the company's
protection, and respectfully insist, as
we have lone before, that no credit
whatever be given to any statement
regarding the Standard OIL company's
views, acts or Intentions unless the
same be duly vouched for by an exec
utive official OF the company or by it's
designated attorneys.
Chas. T. White,
Asst. Sec. OF the Standard Oil Company.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
SAYS CASE MUST
TAKE ITS COURSE

Washington, Dec. 29.--In an Official
statement issued at the White House
today regarding presidential interior
ence in the cases OF Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison. OF the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, now under sentence for
contempt of court, attention is called
to the fact thst cases are still before
the courts; that no matter what the
presidents opinion may be as to the
justice OF the sentences imposed, he
cannotstake any action looking to par
don, or express any opinion as to the
merits Of the cases.
Text Of Statement.
The text of The statement follows:
Various appeals have been made to
the president to interfere by pardons
in the case OF Mr.. Gompers and asso-
ciates. Those making the appeals are
unaware OF the fact that the matter is
still before the courts. 1t is q civil
suit between private parties. There
has been no way by which h govern
ment could have interfered, sven IL IL
had desired to do So Whether the SEN
tence OF Mr.. Gompers and associates
is excessive is not at present OF con-
sequence, because he cannot take n
action or express IN opinions while
h case is pending before the courts.
When the decision is made. then the
president can promptly consider wheth-
CT TIC L6TIlS OF impTlSOIIneHL are OK
cessive or improper, but II Is OF course
impossible for the president TO act
while the appeal is pending; for he has
nothing whatever to act about. The
courts must finish with the case first.
The defendants are at the present mo-
ment at liberty on bail.
Ia Watching Gaze.
IF the defendants, see fit to abandon
their appeal the matter will then, of
course, be, brought before the executive,
In which case 1t will receive immediate
n most careful consideration. The
defendants have a perfect right to
prosecuted their appeal and IL unsuccess-
full in the final court then to ask for
pardon or Communication, but as long as
they are prosecuting the appeal the
president has nothing to do with the
matter.
The president has already instructed
the department OF justice to keep him
fully informed as to the progress OF
the case so that In the event of 1t be-
coming proper for him he may have
at his disposal all the facts which will
enable him to decide whether there was
justification for the sentence, n
whether there was just occasion for
some punishment. But at the present
the president mas no more to do with
the case than with the S29, 000,0 900 fine
imposed by Judge Lands on tho
Standard OIL company, which is also on
appeal and concerning which the presi-
dent has also been repeatedly asked 10
interfere by well meaning persons who
did not know that he could not inter-
fere while the matter was still before
the courts on appeal"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31
WIZARD OF FINANCE
RETIRES FROM GAME

New York, Dec. 28.-Broken in health
at although a giant in stature--un-
der the tremendous strain of financia.
responsibilities, accompanied. as they
have been, by strenuous publicity,
Thomas F. Ryan today announced that
on h advice Of his physicians, he had
withdrawn from official connection
with all but three of the corporations
with which he has been identified
These are the Morton Trust company.
the National Bank of Commerce., n
the American Tobacco company. He
steps out from active management Of
"a corporations. Ua
This wizard Of finance once said he
would retire from business life when
he had made 800, 600, 900. Estimates as
to his present fortune differ greatly.
though a common guess in the financial
district hangs between $50,000,O00 and
500, 000, 900. 80.
Eight Big Deals.
He concentrated his energy On eight
big deals, which together completely
develop corporation history and con
/. The acquisition of the Broadway
Street railway franchise, after Jacob
Sharp had been sent to prison. This
was the corner stone or n present
Metropolitan system.
2. Gathering in the stock Of the Third
Avenue TaliTOdu COlnpdHJ dIiu SuEhAiB
II over to the Met"
3. Formation OF the Metropolitan
Securities company.
4. Obtaining control OF the State
Trust company, which loaned Ryan's
secretary $4,000. 900 when funds were
needed. inc the key Of many funding
operations.
5. Development of the socalled to-
bacco trust
8. Getting control Of the Seaboard
Air Line railway. a
7. Formation OF the $25, 100000 Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce.
s. Getting control, by the purchase
of James Hazen Hyde's stock, of the
Equitable Life Assurance society, With
its $3.50, 900, 900 assets.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-31

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. 29.-Claus
Spreckels, the famous sugar million
aire. died today from pneumonia, aged
so years.
Mr.. Spreckels recently returned from
New York. On his arrival home he
was suffering from the effects of, a cold
which developed into pneumonia.
He was born at Lamsted, Hanover,
in 1928. Coming to the United States
in 1S47, he vas employed at Charles
ton, S. c.. and New York. He went to
San Francisco in 1856, where he on
Quoted a store and later a brewery. He
established the Bay Sugar refinery In
1868, procuring the raw material from
Hawaii. He invented new refining pro-
cesses, out OF which he grew rich. He
acquired properties in Hawaii
and was largely interested in sugar
beet raising in California. He was a
large owner in the Oceanic Steamship
company, plying between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu.