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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
THE CONFESSIONS OF A FAkIR.

! never even guessed that | was a
seer until the spur of poverty drove
me into prophecy. Then | happened
to light upon the advertisement of
Wholesal dealer in prophesying ma
chimes at an address in Broo<lyn--of
all places! and he sold me an outfit
for a low price. Advice he gave free.
Look wise" he said Hand 'em a
line of hot talk fun o. big words.
They'll fall easy"
The machine has been seen by mil
lions of Americans and trusted i'm
plicity by hundreds of thousands. 1t
is to be found at nearly every seaside
and mountain resort in the country.
What met the eye of the victim was
a sWarthy, hollow, bodyless head of
papier- machc, mounted on q tall tube
that sprang from a pedestal. The head
was wrapped in a turban, and the
dreamy eyes peered afar into the flu
ture over a Scrubby plantation of black
Oriental beard. That head was my
familiar and | was Abdul Aziz Kahn.
Had /, too. been of swarthy and ORR
entail appearance that fact might
have been some palliation of
around the cheat. But. far from sug-
costing the mysterious east | am a
blond. blue eyed thin, nervous Ameri
can. impossible to be mistaken for a
citizen of any land east of Cape Cod.
The stupidity of the dupes was gross
and objectionable.
Madame and | collected the nickels
and distributed the blank sheets of
paper among the dupes. asking each
jolterhead whether he or she wished
an answer in English. French. German.
Spanish, or Italian, and giving one a
sheet bearing the prophecy already
written in the language chosen. NV
partner permitted herself the luxury
Of a smile at the gross credulity all
around us. Each dupe wrote his in
itials with lead pencil on a proper
blank sheet of paper handed to him,
and when thirty or forty or fifty sheets
had been collected l put them in
solid block in the metal box, and
mumbed tumble of poly-sylables
at the crowds While the invisible
words We're stewing into visibility
This done, | tapped the box most
majestically. opened it to the accom-
paniment of an incantation and dis
tributed the sheets. each to its right
full victim. Shall l ever forget those
scenes, always alike, the quick gasps
of surprise. the CLEAN of staring eyes.
the Fastening off to remote corner
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
BATTLE ANNIVERSARY
F|TT|NGLY OBSERVED

Horseshoe Bend, Ala. July 3.-The
battle of Horseshoe Bend, which, in
1924 opened to the white men one of
the most fertile sections of the coun-
try, was COMMUNICATED here today
with speeches and an fashioned
barbecue. This battle was one of the
many stirring exploits of hardy Ten
nesseeans in their memorable cam
paigns against the Indians. In it 1900
whites, led by General Jackson, de-
feated and scattered a great body of
Creek Indians. 1t is proposed to urge
congress to set aside the picturesque
bend as a national park
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
SENTENCE OF NEGRO
PRISONER REDUCED

Helena, July 3.--Bccause he is suf-
fering from advanced tuberculosis
and is liable to communicate the dis
ease to other prisoners, Governor
Norris today reduced the sentence of
Amos Robbins colored, sent up from
Rosebud county for two years and y
half on robbery charge, to two
years. He has now served half of the
two years and is therefore within the
scope of the provisions of the parole
act, and it is expected that he will
be soon paroled. This course was
recommended by the prison officials.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

there to read i'm obscurity the oracular
hodgepodge [ had cooked for them?
Sometimes | could have sworn that
heard the papier-mache head laughing.
Poor old Alb! He did the work and
got none of the nickels.-James An
dreWs, in Harper's Weekly.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
IMPOSING MONUMENT
FORMALLY UNVEILED

Washington, July 3.-With imposing
ceremonies, the granite monument
erected in this city as memorial to
the founder of the G. A. r., Major
linois and to the organization itself,
was unveiled today All the regular
troops in and about Washington par
ticipated in conjunction with the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
Ladies' auxiliary.
President Tart was the principal
speaker and guest of honor.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

A German inventor claims to have
perfected non -inflammabe celluloid
by using acetly- celulose, made from
acetic acid. instead Of nitro cellulose.
and artificial camphor Instead of the
genuine.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

Senator Hepburn has been appealed
to by the prospectors on the North
Fork to stop alleged nroads of tim
Der companies on timber standing on
mining claims located in the forest
reserve. 1t is claimed that the forestry
department sanctions the cutting of
the timber The forestry people say
that the fact of only portion of
some of the claims showing mineral
on the surface invalidates the min
eral location for the entire claim in
each case.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
NOTES OF WALLACE

Wallace, July Developments have
been resumed at the Liberty group OF
claims adjoining the Amazon-Dixle at
Lookout on the north. A lower tun-
mel will be started to tap the ore en-
countered in the upper workings $50
feet deeper. Good copper ore is eX-
posed.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
dried grass are apt to result in
Il big financial loss.

The Wallace baseball team has ar
ranged games with the MiSsoula
Giants for July 81 and IS in Mis-
soula.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
WRITER Confident
OF AN ACQU|T7AL

New York, July B.. Broughton
Brandenburg, the magazine writer
who was acquitted last week on the
charge of larceny in connection with
the publication of a letter purporting
to have been signed by the la,
Grover Cleveland, was taken to st.
Louis today to face the charge of en-
ticing away his stepson, James Shop
ard Cabanne III. Brandenburg
waived extradition, and as he left the
Tombs today he said:
II will see you all in two weeks.
The case out there is frame up, the
same as the one here was.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04
Chamber
of Commerce
Hammond Block

Near the bridge. Phone 81
Permanent exhibits Of
western Montana products
wanted. All interests are
invited to bring products to
chamber headquarters for
display purposes; due credit
will be given all exhibitors.
Regular meetings second
and fourth Tuesdays at 8 p.
M. All hose interested in
the prom >tion and welfare
OF western Montana are in.
vited.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

An English clergyman, Rev. Patrick
Bell. is said to have invented the first
reaping machine in 1927, seven years
before Mccormick took ont his Amer
lean patent
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

MlSSOlfLIAN CLASS ADS
BRING QUICK RESULTS
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

Nine days illness a year is the av-
erage for the human being
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

A multicellular aeroplane invented
by f'renchman is so formed that
the machine will have the same
amount of supporting surface what
ever its lateral inclination may be-.
recent Improvements In machinery
Tor spinning asbestos have resulted in
the manufacture of thread from the
mineral so fine that a mile of it Weighs
but 3 pound and a half.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

The employees of all the producing
mines of the district will be given a
holiday Monday according to the an
nual custom.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

Japan has purchased complete gun
factory from England.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

TO protect its timber yards at
kingston. the Federal Mining &
smelling company. branch of the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany, will install a steam plant. In
connection with this work a water
sytem with greater pressure and ca
pacity than the Wallace system has
been put in. Millions of feet of stull
timber are piled up in these yards
and frequent fires caused by sparks
from passing engines dropping in the
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

The session of the stockholders of
the SnoWStorm copper mine on July
81 promises to be the most interest
ing and important annual meeting
held for years. The rates for ore
shipments are such that unless an
early adjustment satisfactory to the
company can be made the output of
the mine will be curtailed to a large
extent. The meeting will be in the
company's office in Larson, near
Mu,lan.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-04

The pay streak of the Holy Terror
vein at Murray, which showed a
width of only three inches at the
surface has widened out to three
feet at the bottom of the 30-foot
shaft. Assays give high lead and sill
YER values
The Silver state, adjoining the ia
NOUS Hercules mine. has struck an
ore body of exceptional richness.
Work to ascertain the size of the ore
shoot is under way.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
Len OhOy

Corner Beretania and Smith streets.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
Won MAY HAVE NOTICED

that your face gets red, you have a
fullness in the chest, breath comes
short and quick and feel sinking
sensation, when you walk fast, go up
stairs are excited or frightened.
This is the first stage of heart dis.
ease, and must have immediate atten-
ton. Don't delay. Take DR.. Miles
New Heart Cure. which viii strength
en- the nerves of the heart and re-
store it to health. Money back If
first bottle fails to benefit.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
Great Britain's Bill for Mail.

Last year Great Britain spent &c.
$50, 1884 for ocean mail service and the
United States spent $2,734,655. One
of the principal objects and strongest
arguments in support of the British
subsidy policy is imperial defense and
commercial independence. The pur-
pose of paying subsidies in addition to
furnishing means of transportation for
British products to reach colonial and
foreign markets is to secure ships and
seamen adaptable to military pur-
poses for the support of the regular
navy in case of war
Although the United States now
ranks second to Great Britain in ma
val strength, our battleships would be
practically useless during time of war
at any distance from our own ports,
because we have no merchant marine
to furnish transportation for fuel, am
munition and supplies. When our
fleet of battleships recently made it's
spectacular cruise around the world
the Navy Department was compelled
to charter foreign steamers to act. as
tenders to carry the coal, the food the
clothing and the ammunition. The
helplessness of the United States as
a naval power because of this reason
is continually deplored by such naval
authorities as Admiral Dewey, Admir-
al Sperry and Admiral Mahan. The
latter, in his famous book, Influence
of Sea Power upon History" declares
that a navy without a merchant mar
inc lis like a growth which, having no
rnnt ennn urithnrs AWAY - Z
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24

Capital (Faid up. ...i.Yen $4,000 600
Reserve Fund. Yen 15,94O,O0O
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
The Yokohama Specie Bank Ltd.

Capital (Faid up .....i.Yen $4,000 600
Reserve Fund. ..........Yen 15,94O,OO0
HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.
The bank buys and receives for
collection bills Of exchange, issues
Drafts and Letters of Credit, and
transacts a general banking business.
The Bank receives Local deposits
and Head Office Deposits for fixed Pc
RODS
Local Deposits S25 and upwards for
one year at rate Of 40 per annum.
Head Office Deposits Yen rs and up
wards for one-half year, one year, two
years or three years at rate OF l-2@o
per annum.
Particulars to be obtained on appli-
cation.
Honolulu Ofice-67 S. King Street
P. o. Box 1853.
NJ. TOKIEDA, Manager.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24

Grand total .... $46,9O7, 22O
Several other governments in Cen
trail and South America pay small
subsidies, but none other than those
named above pays more than $4,000
a year. Both Australia and Canada
pay more for the transportation Of
their foreign mails than the United
States.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
and Trees
SALE

We are closing out our nursery at
Beretania and Smith SITS, and are sell
ing everything at very low prices, Cal
ifornia Roses, Asters, Pansies, Carna-
lions and all kinds of flowers, Chinese
Lichee trees, orange trees, Christmas
trees, maidenhair ferns, potted plants,
all kinds of young trees, shrubs, etc.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
c, BREWER & COZ
LIMITED.

LlNll LDs
QUEEN STREET Honolulu, T. H.
AGENTS FOR
Hawaiian Agricultural Company, Ono
mea Sugar Company, aonomu Sugar
Company, Waikiki Sugar Company,
Pepeekeo Sugar Co., Kapapala Ranch
Thomas Pineapple Co.
p. F. Bishop. President.
Geo. H. Robertson WIRES. & Mgr.
w. w. North. Treas & Secy.
George r Carter. ... Auditor
p. Q. Jones .....s.......D Director
G. H. Cooke ............. Director
]. r. Gait Director
r. A. Cooke. Director
All of the above named constitute
the Board of Directors.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
What Might Happen in War.

If we were to have a war with Tur-
key, Chile, China or any distant pow
er our fleet of battleships could not
reach the scene of hostilities without
asking help from some other nation in
carrying their coal and other supplies.
The laws of neutrality would make
our humiliation as a sea power pitt
able. Congress appropriates a million
dollars a year to keep our militia in a
state of readiness to respond to any
need for reinforcements on the part
of the regular Army. And we have
an admirable Naval Reserve from
which our warships may obtain train
ed recruits whenever they are needed
but there are not more than a dozen
steam vessels sailing under the United
States flag that would be of any serv-
ice as auXiliaries or tenders to our
fleet The American Steamship Line
has four, the Pacific Mail has four,
and theer are three or four ships sail
ing between New York and Cuba and
South American ports. When the
Government wanted ships to carry
supplies to the Isthmus of Panama it
was compelled to accept the only two
that were available.
At the same time we are paying be-
tween $25O,OOO,OOO and $3OO,0O0,0OO a
year to foreign shipowners for carry
ing our freight and our mails. The
manufacturer and the merchant con-
slider it economy to haul their own
goods. 1t is cheaper than hiring
teams and that principle in business
economy will apply in the same way
to our foreign trade. Last year we
imported and exported more than
three billion dollars worth of freight,
and we paid tax upon almost every
ton of it to the owners of foreign
ships. It is scarcely worth while to
discuss the possibility of recovering
the transatlantic trade which was
lost to us when the merchant marine
changed from sail to steam. There is
now an abundance Of vessels, more
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24

than are needed, in every Atlantic
port, and they are being built of such
size and are managed with such
economy that the cost of transporta.
ton is decreasing annually. 1t would
be useless to offer inducements sufi-
cient to justify any company to build
a fleet of steamers to compete with
the Cunarders in carrying the mails.
It costs one-third more to maintain a
ship under the American flag than I'M
der any other, because of the differ.
ence in wages. But there are mar
kets which are not accessible and
transportation routes which might be
supplied greatly to the advantage of
our farmers and manufacturers, as
well as the public generally,
Mr. George Marples of the Cudahy
Company of Omaha writes: "You
must be aware that the United States
Government at present is paying the
few American steamships which car
ry the mail three or four times what
it pays foreign vessels for the same
service"
That is not true. Under existing
laws our expenditures for ocean mails
are about equally divided between
American steamships and steamships
of the great maritime powers 49,. Eng
land, France, Germany and Japan
which, in some cases, by the very
terms of their mail contracts, are con
stituted parts of their respective ma
vies in the event of war. Thus we
are backing up the navies of other ma
tions and assisting to support their
national defenses while we are doing
nothing for our own.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
QUESTION OF
SHIP SUBSIDY
Continued from page nine.)

crease of 263 vessels and 1910 TONS
This improvement is scarcely worth
mentioning, because the additions to
our merchant fleet averaged only a
little more than twelve tons each,
which represents a very small canal
boat.
There has actually been a falling off
in the number and the tonnage of our
ocean-going ships. We have not add
ed a single ship to our transatlantic
trade since 1905; Notwithstanding the
fact that for military and commercial
reasons the United States has more
need of a complete ocean mail service
under its own flag than any other ma
ton except Great Britain.
Whatever may be the opinions of
individuals upon the subject and what
ever the relative advantages of high
or low tariff may be, the United
States for many years has been the
leader among nations in the applica-
ton of a protective tariff for the pur-
pose of creating industrial enter
prises which would not otherwise ex-
list. AT the same time our Congress
has refused to do anything for the en-
couragement of a merchant marine in
which the products of those enter
prises and the products of our soil and
mines and forests shall reach foreign
markets.
On the other hand, Great Britain
has been the most consistent, contin-
uous and comprehensive exponent of
ocean mail subsidies, for the purpose
of extending her foreign trade, her po-
litical influence, and her military pow
er. At the same time she remains the
only nation of any Importance which
adheres to free trade.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-24
What Uncle Sam Pays.

In 1905 we paid $2,565, 2SO for the
transportation of our foreign mails. Of
this sum $1666,116 went to American
ships and 1899, 164 to foreign ships
In 1908 we paid $2,695, 2S7 for the
transportation of our foreign mails, of
which $1,467,25 went to American
ships and $1,22S,O32 to foreign ships.
In 1909 we paid $2,734,665 for the
transportation of our foreign mails,
of which S1,127,245 went to American
ships and $1,6O742O to foreign ships.
Thus you will see that the amount
paid to American ships has fallen in
four years from 81 ,666,116 to $1,127,-
225-a difference of $56S,S91; while
the amount paid to foreign ships has
increased from $SS9,164 to $1,6O742O
"a difference of $712,25G.
In other words, American ships
have lost more than half million dol
lars annually in mail pay and foreign
ships have gained nearly three-quar-
tiers of a million in mail pay annually
from our Treasury in four years.
Mr. MARBLES also asserts that "out-
side of a comparatively small sum for
the construction of ships which can be
used in wartime, the British Govern
ment pays nothing in the way of sub
sides, and fully 80 per cent. of British
shipping receives no subsidy in any
shape or form"
That is not so. The Cunard line
alone receives an annual subsidy of
$1060,7SS from the British Govern
ment, and the Peninsular and Orient
al receives $1,4S4,l3O. The North Ger
man Lloyd receives $1,3S5,1G0 from
the German Government. The Mesa
geries Maritimes receives $2,54G,95G,
and the Compagnie Generate receives
S2,215,254 from the French Govern
ment. The Nippon Yusen Kaiska re-
ceives 1851, 487 and the Togo Kissn
receives $1,6S5,599 from the Japanese
Government The Austrian Lloyd re-
ceives $1,S25,OQO from the Austrian
Government The Companie Transat-
lantica receives 81 ,629,92S from the
Spanish Government, and the Naviga-
zione Italiana receives $1,S15,774 from
the Italian Government.
Millions for Carrying Mail.
Thus these ten companies alone re-
ceived the sum of $1I5OO,OOO from
seven different governments for carry
ing the mails without reference to
bounties on construction, bounteis on
cargo, naval reserve subsidies and 9th
er forms of encouragement that have
built up their merchant marines.
Mr.. Chamberlain, the commissioner |
of navigation, has prepared an elabor-
ate table, showing that almost every |
civilized nation except the United |
States pays subsidies for the encour-
agement of it's merchant marine, and
the following are the amounts for the
latest year for which returns have
been received:
France .....'............ Sl3, 423,(3( |
Great Britain and colonies $685. 1884 |
Italy ................... 3,Sl2,9l( |
Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1909-02-05
GREAT RESOURCES Will Be
DEVELOPED BY RESERVOIRS
near HUMBOLDT STATION
Besides being conserved for Irrigation
Rivers Waters will be Harnessed
and Great Power Developed

Plans for the building of water stor-
age reservoirs, at Humboldt House, to
impound and hold the winter and the
spring foods of the Humboldt river, for
use in the irrigation of the rich lands
of the Lovelock valley during the crop
growing season of the summer months,
are being put in shape, and in the near
future the Tribune hopes to give out
some news in this respect of vast inn
portance.
The work of securing a plat of the
valley lands, including all lands to be
irrigated by the waters impounded by
the reservoir is now under way This
plat with other data must be submit
ted to the state engineer s office, be-
fore the permission for the construction
of the reservoir can be secured. The
plat also according to Il state law must
be on the scale of two miles to the
inch, which will require a map about
eight feet long.
1t is said by those in touch with the
big project that ample capital to begin
to rush them to completion could be
secured without any difficulty for the
entire feasibility of the scheme, and
the big returns it would yield to invest
Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1909-02-05

ed capital are apparent, on the face
OF the proposition. The intent and
desire of the promoters of the project,
to have it entirely Lovelock institu-
tion, owned and operated by the farm
ers of the great Lovelock valley, has
been the reason why this big venture
has not long since been put through.
An interesting feature of the big
reservoirs and one which enters largely
into the plans for the reservoirs, is the
fact that the waters conserved and i'm
pounded can also be harnessed and on
scientific calculation it is estimated
that 800 horse power can be developed
the year round through the fall of
water of 35 feet from the first reser-
vOir into the second reservoir and the
added fail oil fifty feet from the second
reservoir into the river This great
force would be sufficient to develop an
electric supply sufficient to the needs
of city many times larger than Love
lock.
Truly did the tribune state in its in
itiatory article on the subject, that the
building of the Humboldt reservoirs
will be the greatest and most impor-
tant event in the history of Loveloek.