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Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-08
AMALGAMATEo COPPER.

New York-The declaration of the regular Anaconda dividend was not unexpected. and forecasts an unchanged rate for Amalgamated when the direc- tors meet this month.
 The management of the Amalgam- ated Copper Co and its subsidiaries are pursuing a very conservative poli' cy and 1t will be at least six months before stockholders can look for in creased dividends. The Amalgamated is desirous of replacing cash with drawn from surplus during the de pression to pay dividends, before in creasing it's disbursements.
 Amalgamated is now disbursing at the rate of a little over s3,0OO.O0 9 year to shareholders. and is adding at the rate of at least S2.500,O 900 a year to it's surplus
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THINKS BLACK MOUNTAIN IS
 A GOOD BUY
Graf Advises Purchase of This
 Stock Al Ifs Present Figure.
 Market Dull and FeatureIesS In New York Yesterday.
CBy Frank J. Graf)

Today's market was absolutely feat Hreless. trading being confined to few stocks only. Election seems to be the topic of the dave The stock market must wait till November 8. The out put of the c. & 4. for September was 20S1 tons. an increase of 632 tons over the same month of last year. For the first g months c. & A. has pro duced 1S,1l9 tons as against 14.930 cor responding date last year.
 Regarding the Black Mountain there has been great deal of bear talk going on for some time. more especial iy since the report that was issued in September. which we must admit was somewhat disappointing to stockhold- CTS. The Black Mountain is a large low grade property and will take time to get machinery to get the best re- suits. From a circular issued some time ago. through individuals that are in 8 position to know, we get soms very valuable data. which in my mird. is the best and most conservative that has ever been published With a daily production of 500 to 1000 tons per day. or an annual production of 30o.00o tons. with an average of gold and silver value of 4la give us an extraction value of BPS per ton, with a cost of 2.45 per ton for treatment gives us 8 net profit of S3 cents per ton which would give us S3.00 per snare per year on an investment of 2. to 3.25. If the production is in- creased to 100000 tons which can be done very easily and the cost under the new management will be put down to 200 per ton. it will give us a profit of f.20 per share or an investment oi 40 per cent on 300 to 3.25 cent in vestment. When we take into consid eratioh that the Homestake Mining Co. is making profit of 97 cents pc, ton and the Black Mountain under bis disadvantage, making a profit of S cents. and with everything in her favor to make at least 100 per tol profit, I do not hesitate to advise anr recommend this stock as an excellen purchase, either as an investment o esr.an4Tlaffnr
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THE 4Rosagas" GENEROSITY.
Hew They Secretly Helped Silly ts
 Go te the Picnic.

Say, Billy. 'rreciste ever so much your gettin' me in the band O Rob bersi'"
 ..Aw. don't mention it," replied the valiant captain of the Robbers; g" you're too decent a fellsr to be kept out of it."
 But although Billy Mumford ais dained to accept thanks, he was in- wardly much pleased with the grati- tude of Artie Cronan. latest recruit of the Bloody Robbers" Searching care fully la his pocket, he dug forth a rusty copper. This he proceeded to invest at Todd's grocery store, after which he and Artie shared the suck CT" which represented the purchase.
 Are you goln' to the picnic?" asked Billy. when, under the influence of the
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uIrAI BANK IssuEs.

Denver-At the American Bankers convention, President Gilbert Of the New York clearing house said:
 A wrong impression seems to have taken root with western bankers that we eastern bankers, especially in New York, during the panic suspended cash payments and refused out-of-town ac- commodations so that We could loan in Wall street at high rates. me checking of the panic was due not alone to prompt action of the New York clearing house, but to the fact that New York banks constitute the most powerful and conservative bank ing influence in the country. They were prepared for tn, Tanic-they saw it coming
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THE ELY COMPANIES.

Boston-The Steptoe Valley plant, owned by the Nevada Consolidated and Cumberland Ely companies, joint, Iy, was forced to shut down good part of September because of inability to get fuel. The actual production of the Ely Companies through the Step. toe plant for September was Se1,966 pounds for the Nevada Consolidated and 524 ,204 pounds for the Cumber' land Ely.
 Steptoe smelteF, however, is now producing copper at the rate of nearly 2,000,000 pounds per month, and its October production should reach that figure if there are no further nterup tions at the smelter.
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were in buckets didn't seem to impress Artie. Joyfully he filled his pail and hastened home to market them.
 Meanwhile. Billy and the other Rob bars," who had generously filled the buckets and placed them under the tree, were filled with delight at the success of their plan.
 But Artie's nice fellow, an he de serves to go to the picnic as much as any of us," declared Capt. Billy.
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e "a AIIrroN e co.

Especial Wire to l.. ]. overlock-l
 NEW YORK. Oct. While tne market gives evidence of m uncertain trend at the mome-1t we believe 1t to ha a resting point merely before fur finer activity and higher prices. How ever scne care should be exercised in buy,ng on fair setb2cks only.
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HoaNeLowER 6 WEEKS.
(special wire to [. J. overloel

Special Wire to L. J. Overlock)
 BOSTON, Oct Told Dominion was the main feature at the opening today Arizona Commercial and aPrrott were also active and each advanced a couple of points. Trinity was about the only exception to the general strength, this issue losing over a point on the unfavorable showing by the report just issued. The close was steady and with no stock pressing for Ga1a
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WALKER BROS.

Special Wire to L. J. Overlock.)
 NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Tae market today was very irregular and feverish. After early weakness prices began to advance and strength in Steels was the feature. The trading was in large lots and prices advanced stead fly. Erie was well bought before the close and prices eased of, but the advance was well sustained for the day. At the close the market was nervous and sentiment mixed
Bisbee daily review., 1908-10-08
TWO LIttle Mothers.

'Pu just as worried as I can be About my dollie," said little Marie. q think she's a fever. her cheeks are red. And that's sure sign. the doctor said" :" zee my poor dolly. she's very sick, too: think she's the sicker," said Jamie
 Lou. .cNo. nine" said little Marie. ifs the
 worst.
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CALUMET & HEcLA WINS
 OSCEOLA DECISION

Grand Rapids. Mich-JudgeKnappen. of the United States Circuit court has decided in favor of the Calumet x Hecla CO. in the suit brought by A s. Bigelow to restrain 1t from exercis- ing control of the osceoia Mining Go.
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lns...a waat Aas brlng results.
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which is row being pushed on toward
Lake Tansanyika 1t will go to Tabora.
and from there probably on to CJiU,
with a branch to the Victoria Nyanzn.
The shipping of Oar es Salaam 10 rapidly
increasing. That port has good haT-
Dor, and the largest steamers are now
calling there.
their colonies, and they are nnding some
strange things away out here. In the AZ
rican wilds. They have altogether seven
or eig. million of these natives their part
of the white mans burden; and they are
divided up into many nations ana trioes:
Some of the most intelligent are about
Tabora. and it is from there that the col
ony expects to get the labor to cultivate
the plantations along the seacoast. Tne
natives of that region have KING ano
subordinate chiefs; and women are 90
highly regarded that they are sometimes
elected as the chiefs Of their respective
villages These people believe In spirits.
and they think that the dead live again,
as spirits. Every chief has a hut in
which the spirits are supposed to dwell.
They have medicine men and witch doc
tors: and they think that a good medicine
man can change himself into wild AMI
NAL at will and thus torment his enemies.
The Germans are ruling these people 10
some extent through their chiefs ano
they are establishing schools to teach
them The missionaries are also at work
in different parts of German East Africa.
and the government has high schools ana
manual training schools with European
teachers who use colored assistants. This
work is just in the beginning. but IL prom"
ises to grow. Fifty-two colored teachers
are already employed and the schools nave
several thousand pupils.
There are but few whites In the interior
of that colony, and almost none excepting
officials In Tabora there are eight for.
eigners, of whom six are military ofh-
GERS In Till. on Lake Tanganyika,
there are only four white men; two
are civilians. enc being doctor anc
the other a trader. At Csamturu. al the
head of the lake. there are four Euro
peans and at Bismarckburg on the south
ern end there are only two, both Of whom
are officials. At Mwanza. on Lake VIC
toria ] found about twenty Europeans
equally divided between the military ano
civil branches of the government.
There Is a queer town on Lake Vic.
toria belonging 20 the Germans which
I called there during my tour around the
lake. II is known as Shirati, and IL lies
near the boundary of British East Africa.
The country about 1t Is beautifully rolling.
The hills slope gently up from the laae.
and upon them stand hundreds of thatch-
ed huts. an Indian business section and
fort belonging to the Germans. The
people are somewhat like the kavirondo
and a little like the Nasal Thew are
dark brown in color. are well formed ana
of a good height. / talked with one chief
who was fully seven feet tall. standing
like a giant above his fellows. who aver.
aged, l judge. about five feet six.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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l am told that it is so tender that 1t
can be scooped up with a spoon. The
ordinary elephant steak is black in color,
and when cooked it looks and tastes
little like corred beef.
The European nations which have COL
Onies In Africa are trying to keep the
elephants from being destroyed. This is
especially so OF Belgium. which hopes
some day to form an ivory monopoly. \
great part of the elephants still living
are in the valley of the kongo, and SO
MANY have died that it is expected that
ivory will grow more valuable from year
to year. AS 1t is now the amount sold
brings in millions of dollars. and most OF
this comes from the auctions at Antwerp.
In that city there are several hundred
thousand pounds of ivory on hand. and
sales are made about -four times a year.
These sales are duly advertised and buy
ers from everywhere come In to attend
them. The other chief markets are Liver
pool and London.
During a recent visit to the Colonial
Museum at Brussels l saw one of the
heaviest elephants tusks ever found. 1t
weighs over go pounds. and as l stood
beside it it reached high above my head.
The biggest ivory tusk ever discovered
was brought to Tabora. in German East
Africa, in 1856 and was shipped from
there to Hamburg. 1t was almost ten
feet in length.
The ivory dealers here tell me that the
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hest Of the ivory goes to America. and
that Lie seco-I and third class tusks
are consumed in Europe. The fourth
grade ivory is sent to East India for
fligree work. and the poorest of all goes
to China. where 1t is used for inlaying
furniture ard boxes. The very best
quality of ivory IS employed in making
plano keys and fan sticks, and also for
the little statuettes cut out by the Jap
anese. Much of the product goes into
billiard balls. knife handles. combs and
fancy articles. During a visit l once
paid to Sheffield England, / was shown
about $1Go,CO0 worth Of ivory which had
been brought thare to be used for knife
handles, and l saw them saving up the
tusks into strips for this purpose. In
such work every scrap of the material is
saved the shavings and dust being valu
able for making ivory black or artists
pigments.
Some of the most remarkable ivory
used within recent years is that which
has come from the mammoths found in
the tundras of Siberia. This is from
huge animals which lived ages ago. but
whose bones. protected by the frozen soil
OF northern Asia, are as good today as
when the animals died. 1t is even said
that In some cases the entire carcasses
of the mammoths have been found, their
frozen flash. skin and hair having been
thus kap; for these thousands OF years
The first Of this frozen ivory was found
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u
quite impossible 70 keep men and women
even comparatively healthy under the
conditions which prevail in many Russian
prisons. Only five minutes. exercise is
allowed daily TO the inmates. and this is
taken in close prison yard surrounded
always sitting and the space is crowded
with the prisoners and their warders.
Petty Prison Prosecutions.
The prisoners are submitted to all sorts
of petty prosecutions. In Charkow prison
several inmates were fairly well of and,
by means of bribing the warders, man
aged to smuggle in tea and spirit lamps
on which to boil water. For some time
they were allowed to make their tea In
peace; then suddenly one of the warders
was offended by some of them and order
ed the spirit lamps and tea to be con-
fiscated at once. The governor of the
prison was appealed to. but in vain, be-
cause he did not care to come and visit
the cells and, therefore, expressed com
plere confidence in his warders. The
whole prison responded by organizing
hunger strike and refused to eat any
thing. This became troublesome to the
authorities because the strikers fell Ill
by the hundred The prisoners them
selves. when asked why they ''cut off
their noses to spite their faces replied
that it was the only form of protest they
had and that they were SO miserable
that to fall i'll sooner or later did not
much matter.
1t is only fair to record that some
humane governors of prisons do all they
can to alleviate the sufferings of the un-
happy people in their charge. But they
complain that they are as much victims
of a bad system as the prisoners them
selves. They can do nothing to enlarge
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the overcrowded prisons. and the funds AZ
their disposal are quite inadequate to feed
the prisoners properly. As to the beat
ing and other forms of barbarisrn which
prevail. they are powerless to prevent H.
Soldier Uses Rifles Always.
A Russian soldier will use the butt end
of a rifle as a man in a civilized country
uses his tongue-without thinking. and
because it is always at hand.
The coroner, whose duty IT is to pre-
pare cases for the public prosecutor. has
to start with the supposition that the
Therefore. all sorts of persuasive
methods" such as thrashing knouting
and flogging with long India rubber cords
are used to make prisoners confess. Their
teeth are knocked out and their faces
beaten to a jelly. This procedure Is sue
cessful In many cases, and the victims
make a clean breast of II and give the
names and addresses OF their accom-
plices
BY the barbaric methods are men and
women tried in Russia. And SO hardened
do all those about the law courts get 10
it that even lawyers. humane men In all
other respects, shrug their shoulders with
What is to be done?" The victims OF
this treatment sometimes avense them
selves by smashing the doors and win
dows of their cells and Selling the ward
ers and strangling them. But such
.'bunt." as a mutiny is called, always
ends In the arrival of company CT
soldiers. who shoot some. beat the others
and restore order.
Only the combined public opinion Of the
civilized world could make any impress
sion. and that is a very difhcult thing to
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over 300 years ago, and about seventy
years since the annual output was esti-
mated at over 100000 pounds. 1t is said
that more than 1000 mammoth tusks
were sold in the year 1872. At present
the greater part o. said ivory is going to
China. 1t does not compare in quality
with our elephant ivory. the greater part
of it being poor, while some is absolutely
worthless.
The Germans are now competing with
the British for the transcontinenta |
trade O. central Africa. The old slave
route began at Ujiji, on Lake Taugan-
yika. and came across German East
Africa to Bogon6oyo and thence by boat
to Zanzibar. The slave traders loaded
their slaves with ivory tusks and made
them carry them across country. When
they got them here they sold both
slaves and ivory to the Zanzibar mer-
chants. In such cases many OF the
slaves were females. and were used to
supply the harems Of Arabia. Syria and
Turkey. as well as of Egg pit and other
Mohammedan countries of North Africa
Such merchandise was known as black
ivory, in contradistinotion to the ele-
plants tusks, called white ivory
Since Germany has gotten possession
of the mainland opposite Lere the ivory
trade has been diverted TO Oar es Sa-
laam. and a large part nj the product
now goes there. This trade will in
crease with the building Of the railroad.
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ordered the soldiers to beat them with
their rifle butts. These facts have leaked
out, but there are many more bad. If
not worse. which are hushed up by the Of
fcials. OF course, some of the prisoners
are released. sooner or later, and 1t is
from their lips that tales of cruelty, neg
lect. disease and starvation are heard.
A typical case of which l have just
heard is that of one Szymanski, a brass
worker of Warsaw. He was a respecta-
bic. Woodworking man, with large fam
lily. and was spending the evneing with
some friends when the police entered the
house and announced that he was under
arrest. He protested that he was ignorant
of any charge which could possibly be
made against him and that he never occu-
pied himself with politics.
He was carried off by force to the town
hall, where 400 prisoners are put Into a
space designed for fifty and was thrown
into a cell filled with thieves. vagabonds
and bandits of the worst type.
Prisons Are Filthy.
There is no need to describe the filth
and discomfort OF such a cell where four
teen men live eat, drink and sleep in a
room built for two. Happily. he had a
little money In his pocket and bribed one
of the soldiers to give him something pal
atable to eat. But for the whole of the
six weeks he was there all his efforts to
see higher official or to learn the cause
of his arrest were in vain.
After his small stock Of money ran out
the soldiers frequently used their rife
butts upon him and he soon became a
mass of bruises and cuts. At last. after
d month and half, a warder told him he
could go.
But now, perhaps, you will tell me
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why I was brought here" queried Sly
manski.
THAT is no business of yours; so if you
don't want to be shut up for another six
weeks make yourself scarce" Which he
did. He arrived home, much to the joy
of his wife and family. who thought he
had been taken from Warsaw. having al
ready been told at all the prisons that no
man named Szymanski was there
Some weeks after he was called to the
local branch of the Azov Bank to make
some brass rods. The porter eyed him
with interest and when he was going out
beckoned him aside.
Reason for One Arrest.
You look thin and hard-up since you
were here last" he began. Has any
thing happened to your
I've been In prison and don't know
what for" was the answer. Perhaps
YOU can tell me-
The porter nodded. We'll, you see.''
he said. ut was like this. The other
porter. who lives here. used to keep
bombs in an attic under the roof. When
some of them exploded. just six weeks
ago. the police came and searched my
lodge Among other papers they found
your telephone number and your name
on slip of paper If You remember 1
wrote ii down in case We should want to
get you for a job. They asked me
where you lived and what you were and
when l said / didn': know, beat me till
remembered. They must have arrested
YOU the same night"
This sort of thing-the police call it
people will not leave their cards in other
peoples houses. or their addresses either.
It is by following this system that the
prisons are crowded with men and women
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ask questions, arrested Elm lie TN
lucky man was In prison for three days
before anybody would listen to him. The.
then discovered that he was a servant OF
curt explanation of "pomililis' eve
made mistake.) They had beaten him
we'll before arriving at this conclusion.
Shot Dead without Reason.
But worse things than this happen. A
boy named Adolf Abramowicz was in
prison at Bialystok awaiting trial on
charge of plundering a government spirit
store. He was put In a cell on the first
floor overlooking the street. His sister
used to walk up and down in the street,
hoping to be able. now and then, to ex-
change a few words with him. They
did this for several evenings, the brother
appearing at the window whenever the
warders outside the door were doing.
One evening they were talking and did
not notice that a soldier was on guard
at the corner of the street. The man
came up. pushed the girl aside and shout
ed to the prisoner. IF you don't go away
from the window I'll give you taste of
my rifle Adolf answered him. You
expect l shall be hanged before long.
anyway The soldier fired and the
prisoner fell back dead, shot through the
brain. The soldier was not even repri-
manded.
In Kieff the unhappy prisoners are be-
ner. During the month just past 500
have fallen i'll Of prison typhoid" and
200 CT that number died. The sick are
not always separated from the well, be-
cause the hospital is overcrowded, and
very often patients are not visited by a
doctor until they are past all help. OF
course this typhoid is only.a result of bad
treatment, starvation and filth. 1t is