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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01

any equal in the history of
finance. By this system it is
said the brothers were able to
organize companies for any pur-
pose, and then by the use of hold
ing and agency companies to sell
stock equal to the total capitaliza-
ton of the original companies
and still retain control, at the
same time getting for themselves
a commission for the sale of the
stock.
The capital stock of these COM
panies ranged from $4,000 shares
to 100000 shares. and the par
value ran all the way from 81 to
500. The stock was sold from
5 cents to $25 a share.
More than 1000 persons had
bought stock in these companies.
The indictments charged fraud
in four separate classes of COM
panies-frst, the Nina Grande
mines; second. the Independent
Mining company and its offshoots
and the Guaranty Fund company;
third, the Central Life Securities
and the Mercantile Finance COM
panies. and fourth, the Bankers
consolidated company and its off
shoots.
Many witnesses were examined
by the grand jury, those named
beng Leo Viani and Daniel ].
McOsker, Chicago; Helen Mon
roe, Elgin; Herbert G. Denison,
Ormo. Wis; N. R. Chadwick,
Homewood. H.; Alexander P.
Huellmantel, Traverse City,
Mich; John ]. Suffer, Blufton,
Ohio; William Dassow, Sheboy-
gan Falls. Wis; Rudolph Dit
mar, Massback. H., and William
A. Bennett, Cincinnati.
The witnesses all testified to
having received letters from the
Rhodus brothers in reference to
their companies, and to having
lost money through investments
in them. One Of the witnesses
testified that he had lost 81,
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01
BIG REVIVAL IN
PLACER MINING

Spokane, April % Placer miners Ope-
rating on the old channels in northern
and central Idaho, southern Oregon,
northern California and other parts Of
the Pacific slope viii make a cleanup Of
from "a, 800, 900 to $4,000, 600 in gold
this season, thus demonstrating that
the placer ground, though worked more
than a half century, is far from pet
cred out" There is much activity this
season in several Of the old placer dis
tricts Ia north central Idaho.
Several companies have installed
dredges with which the gold ground is
lifted 10 scows and there washed for
eolors, and this operation has been so
successful that additional machinery
viii be installed. The ground in some
Of the old channels carries values Of
from eight ~ 80 cents cubic yard,
while the cost VI mining d with pipe
and giant ranges from Two 10 five cents.
Some u this ground was worked With
rocker sluice and shovel % years ago.
Water from the mountain streams
and the snog pa the high ranges Is nov
used Nith hydraulic apparatus ~ Tear
the pay dlri ~ bedrool usually SLATE
and the nugget afe found among Che
bouldels and heayy rock hlaek SAND,
carrying platinum ls also found op the
loser sFsta Jhe Nv coverings ave
usually clay
liandall A Kemp q Yetegan mlper NJ
spol,ene Hho has plQspeeied eitb sue,
eeaa ~ ssnoga palH NJ tpe eest flem
the hlaes ills ~ Alaas4 since lsi6
says the pme y noi faT distant shen
AZ plaeel mines ~ Idaho sill pfodgee
flem 2,boQ, oQo ~ f3lpp0.oo0 n gold q
sessep aadlAg ulere lfno pAsaf " mln
NJ "A phIeh ilf elemeai ~ ehsaee h
ia0seed ~ ~ small q piHlmsW ~ az
leasep iAai y ia,nel y alle ~ aele'mlne
8itH 3 ilsetQn NJ . qglla une gslse
~ az ground befelf siafilng aer
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01

4 ~ b. D. steam engine.
] II b. D. Zoos gasoline engine.
j Little Giant planer hatcher
and m0ulder
4 SET Of wood lathe Iron and
fixtures,
! l6-ineb cutoff saw, mandrels
aDd arbor
4 lG-lpeb rip saw, mandrels
and arDor
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lfubber) hrsi qualify
~ feet NJ slaitlng AID 4 bog
lngs for shaft
~ feei ~ drive beli ~ DlaDer
4 Crescent band saw
4 40 = Could roipy pamp,aDd
alI otler beltlng fof eo0neeung
naehlnely
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aOe fHm nlaelllneiy
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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01
Charged They Used U. S. Mail for
the Purpose Of Fraud.
OWN MOOSE CREEK MINE
Rinkles New in Finance are
Uncovered.

The Moose Greek placer mines
in Newsome district, are listed
among those used by the Rhodus
Brothers, who were recently in
dicted in Chicago on the charge
of using the mails to defraud, ac-
cording to an article in the Chi
cago Tribune.
The two Idaho companies are
the Moose Creek Placers company
and the Boise King Placers COM
pany. The former company is
organized under the laws Of Idaho
but the latter is organized under
the laws Of Arizona. The desig-
nation Of Arthur w. Stevens of
Rocky Bar as agent for Idaho Of
the Boise King Placers company,
which designation was filed Nov
ember 10, 1903, is signed by K.
r. Steele, president, and Henry
Lichtig, as secretary, and is dated
at Los Angeles, though the COM
pany is an Arizona corporation
and bears an Idaho name. The
capital stock Of the company is
given at 100000, though the
Chicago paper classes it as a
$1,000, 600 company.
The Moose Greek Placers com
pany filed articles Of incorpora-
ton June is, 1903, giving its
principal place Of business as
Grangeyiile,and It's stockholders,
who are also directors, as Charles
j. Richardson of M00res Creek,
who holds 799, 996 shares Of Che
$500, 600 worth Of stock, William
Steinheiser, Martin Wagner, Fred
$. Bender and a. n, Bartlett, all
Of Grangeyille, who had each
subscribed for one share.
Concerning the indictments
and Che method Of doing business,
Che Chicago paper says,
-Four Indictments We're az.
turned against Che ilbodus broth.
ers, Birch ~, Thomas and VA.
ward ~, by tbe federal grand
july yesterday afternoon They
are charged viii using the
United States mails for the puf.
pose of fraud and the indiet
ments ace tle result of an M.
yesugation BY Assistant Dlstrlel
Attorney - ~ shlrU and VIZ,
Nedarls, mo 81 corporations has.
lnga combined capital ~ $40,
Nv, 900, Which tle bfolhols pa.
m0ted
Bonds Befe fKod ~ $4,000
each, buf none ~ tlle brother
hae been found laie lasi niglli by
United STATES mWshalg N y
efpeeied tlal tDey pill appo N
thlf moinlng ready ~ alYe benaf
1he Investigation feYealf9 4
system " aloeb selliag and com
pany plpmouDg inal Aaoly has
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01

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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-05-01
ELK CITY MINING NEWS
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY BY
GEO. E. HAMILTON. Publisher

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, 1909-05-01

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
JUSTICE AND THE LAW.

While we are people of reverence
for law, it must not be forgotten that
such reverence may be forfeited II
it come to be generally believed that
the laws Of the land are unjust. The
waning reverence for the courts is
not as serious matter as would be
the courts forfeiture Of mems rever-
ence. Most serious Of all it would be
IL the courts should cease to deserve
the respect of American citizenship
and yet receive it. A significant token
Of the disparity between law and JUS
tice Is the admission frequently made
that certain decision, it may be, or
line of conduct "is not just, but 1t is
the law" And yet 1 do not hold the
legal profession answerable for the
lawlessness Of injustice, seeing that
lawyers, after all, are only the agents
or instruments Of the tendency Of our
age, which represents a hyper-legal-
istic conscience. The lawyer ought
to be the lawmaker, the law inter-
prefer, the law expounder, the law
elucidator when, in truth, the law
yer does much to evade, befog, COM
plicate, eviscerate, the law.-Stephen
S. Wise, Phi. D., in the July Pacific
Monthly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
THE MICHIGAN SYSTEM.

In the past Oregon has had much
trouble in providing for its education
a! institutions. Legislators who have
known nothing about the schools and
have cared nothing about them have
objected TO the appropriations for the
university, the agricultural college and
the normal schools.
Sometimes, as in the case of the
normal schools at the last session, the
control of the situation has been held
by men who have been impervious to
all argument, however meritorious,
and the schools have been denied the
money to which they were entitled.
Then it has occurred that after ap-
preparations have been made they
have been held up under the referen-
DUN. This happened to the university
appropriation two years ago and had
il not been for hard and earnest work
on the part of the friends of o. A. c.
the appropriation made by the last
legislature for that school would have
been referred.
This state of affairs has caused
many to wish that some system could
be devised whereby the schools might
be taken entirely out of politics. They
would like to see adequate and per-
manent provision made for support
ing the schools so that the various in
stitutions may continue at work re-
gardless of legislative combinations.
In the state of Michigan a system
has been adopted that might work ad-
mirably in Oregon. Michigan has
levied a permanent tax Of one tenth
of a mill upon all the property of the
state for the purpose Of raising money
for the agricultural college. This tax
raises sufficient money to meet all
the needs of the college when used In
connection with the money received
from the federal government. So II
is only necessary to ask favors of the
legislature when new buildings are
desired. Upon this system the Michi-
xan aprinulturaI collage Is made inde-
pendent Of the politicians.
1t would be we'll for Oregon IL some
such system could be adopted here.
Il arrangements could be made for
permanet levies for the benefit Of the
university, the agricultural college,
and for the normal schools after the
status Of those institutions shall have
been determined, the schools will
stand to profit greatly.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30

land paper are amusing and do not
hurt. The East Oregonian is news
paper, not an antiquarian. The
greatness of the writers and states
men of the past is freely admitted.
But the men of the past were no bet
ter and no brainier than those Of the
present. If they were then civiliza-
ton is going backward rather than
forward.
In the problems which confronted
the English people during the 10th and
18th centuries the East Oregonian has
never been greatly interested, SO 1t
has neglected to an extent at least
the speeches of Pym and Burke. The
work of this paper has been with the
present. In the performance of its
duty it has worked with others for
the promotion of good government
within the state of oregon and for the
material development of this common
wealth. 1t has made a rather close
study of the forces that have blocked
the progress of this state and 1t says
now as it has declared before that one
of the worst obstacles to the political
and industrial advancement of Oregon
has been the fact that one of the big
daily papers of the state has been so
welded to the customs and ideas of
the past that It refuses to advance
itself and can see no good in the forces
that wish to take the state forward
This paper hopes to see the day when
the Oregonian will either retire COM
pletely into the past which it so dear
ly loves or else will drop the discord-
ant, dismal wall it now sends forth
and which is distressing alike to its
friends and foes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
HEARTS DESIRE.

God give you your hearts desire,
Whatever it be-" she said,
Then down the gallery's shining
length
Like a thing of light she sped.
Her face was strangers face,
Her name | shall never know,
But softly her benediction fell
AS the night winds breathing low
Who knoweth the hearts desire?
Its innermost secret dream?
Its holiest shine where the altar
lights
Forever and ever gleam?
Who guesseth the hearts desire?
All, neither you nor |!
1t hideth away in darkling space
From the gaze of the passer-by.
Who giveth the hearts desire
To the child that cries for the
moon?
Or the samite robe and the Holy
Grail
To the soul that was born too
soon?
Who giveth the hearts desire
To the lover whose love lies dead?
Or the priest who faces the silence
With the living word unsaid?
Who giveth the hearts desire
To the poet with harp unstrung,
When he droppeth the trembling Tyre
With his noblest song unsung?
Julia C. r. Dorr in the July Scrib-
ner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
COLUNIBIA'S FLAG.

1t proudly floats on every breeze,
The flag of our affections,
Whose ripping folds of beauty wake
The fondest recollections.
Tis ours through hero-patriots
Who fell in battle CORY;
Ts ours through love and sacrifice,
Columbia's flag, "Old Glory"
It is the emblem, 10! of peace,
The symbol, too, of power;
1t speaks for truth and righteous
ness
With every fleeting hour;
The past is its proud history,
The future holds a story
To make its majesty supreme,
Columbia's flag, "Old Glory"
Dear flag of freedom ever,
Where hearts are joined in brother
hood
And love that faileth never!
Float on through all the ages float,
While Time grows old and hoary;
God lives in all thy star-gemmed
folds,
Columbia's flag, "Old Glory"
George n. LovejOy in Uncle Sans
Magazine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
NOT IN HIS LIFETIME.

A well known scientist was lectur-
ing on the suns heat. and in the
course of mis- remarks said: at Is
an established fact that the sun is
gradually but surely losing its heat
and in the course of some seventy
millions of years it will be exhausted;
consequently this world of ours viii
be dead and like the moon. unable
to support any form of life
At this juncture, member of his
audience rose, in an excited manner
and said:
Pardon me, professor, but how
many years did you say it would be
before this calamity overtakes us?"
The professor: seventy millions,
sir"
THANK God" was the reply. "I
thought you said seven millions!"-P.
Lloyd.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
PAST AND PRESENT.

The oregonian, of Portland, has
words Of blighting scorn for this pa
per because it has dared to suggest
that to the average man the works
Of modern writer's appeal more strong
ly than do some Of the musty volumes
that have been chosen by DR.. Eliot
for his Five feet Of books" 1t also
CONTEMPORARY insinuates that the ed
itorial calibre Of this paper is such
that the paper is disposed to follow
modern political reformers rather than
devote its time to the speeches Of
Pym, Burke, Hamilton and other
statesmen of the dim and distant
past.
Bnt the sarcastic wings Of the Port
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
OUT OF THE RING.

A little towhead at the gate
Stands with an oyster can Of bait;
The fish are biting early-late.
Why should l care who saves the
state?
Who runs for office tempts his fate;
Happier the towhead with his bait!
No hoodlums for my coming wait;
No bands Of brass predominate;
No ancient hungry voters prate.
Only be this my flowery fate:
A pathway to the river straight
A towhead following with bait!
Atlanta Constitution.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
THE ROSES.

= The sweetheart-roses linger and I
= smiling deck the sod
= And the world is like picture !
= where the green hills 1
= smile to God!
= And life's sweet in the living, !
= for no blessing He denies, ]
= And the souls divine thanks CIV !
4 ing floats in incense to !
= the skies.
= The sweetheart roses linger; i
2 Though we wander far 7
2 away
= God ever sends his roses for i
Z memory of May; +
: And the world is growing bright j.
+ or with the morning and +
+ the night i
= We're going on to glory in the =
= beauty of the Light! +
. Atlanta Constitution. j.
. + + + + + + + + + = + = + =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30

The fact that not single serious
auto accident has ever happened in
Pendleton although scores of machines
are owned locally is tribute to the
carefulness of Pendleton chauffeurs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30
DIR. ANGELS ADVICE.

During the commencement period
just closed much good advice was Of
fered the members of graduating clas-
ses. Much of the advice was trite and
commonplace, yet well worthy of con-
sideration. other addresses contained
fine gems of thought.
In his address to the graduating
class of the university of Michigan,
DR.. ]. B. Angel, president of that in
stitution. said some things that are
worth repeating. He urged that peo-
pie should be genuine and sincere and
insisted that genius is not necessary
to success.
IN the long run your neighbors
will take you at your true value said
President Angel,
ITO appear to be what we really
are is consistent both with modesty
and self respect.
"One must be brave in meeting
every duty. When calls to promote
civic Righteousness confront men they
lose their self-respect and the respect
of others if they don't meet them.
Men admire pluck and are moved
by it, but to have force it is not nec-
essary to be er-demonstrative or
spectacular.
Have some positive plans and pur-
pose of growth and stick to them,
Cherish your noble ideals"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30

Sometimes 1t becomes slightly warm
in eastern Oregon. But people never
die from the heat.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30

The Indians will celebrate the fourth
this year with stereopticon lectures.
Ugh!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-06-30

The summer resorts are daily be-
coming more and more alluring.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
LEAGUE OF JUSTICE URGES
ALL CITIZENS TO REGISTER
Issues Proclamation Calling on Men
to Prepare for the Coming
Municipal Election

The League of Justice has issued a
proclamation calling on all citizens to
register in time in order that they may
be able to vote in the coming municipal
election 1t is as follows
Mr.. Citizen: Are you registered for
the coming municipal election? Regis
tratton closes October Is, and those
whose names are not already on the
great register should see to it that they
are registered before October IS or they
will not be allowed to vote. There will
be no general registration before the
coming election, and you must go to
the county court house in order to
register
do you like Los Angeles and do you
want to make it better city in which
to live and bring up your children? If
so, register and vote.
millions of dollars of the peoples
money are to be expended on the
owens river aqueduct project. Do you
want these millions spent wisely and
honestly? If so, register and help to
elect honest and efficient public Of
ficials.
Immediate Action Urged
"Ten millions of dollars are to be eX-
pended by the people of Los Angeles to
make San Pedro harbor a great sea-
port. Other millions are to be spent
there by the federal government for
the same purpose. snail the pubic
derive the benefit from the expenditure
of these millions of the peoples money,
or shall private, predatory interests
receive the benefit? Protect your
rights in the free harbor by register
ing and voting for an honest and eff
ficient city administration. 1t is to
your business advantage and it is your
public duty to do so.
THE citizen who, through neglect or
indifference. fails to register and vote
is not true patriot. By his failure to
vote he is guilty of a negative wrong
to the community greater than the
wrong done by the man who votes for
an evil purpose. The man who neglects
his public duty, refusing to make the
slight sacrifice of time necessary to
register and vote, is lacking in that
spirit of public morality which is vital
to the perpetuation of the democratic
form of government.
1--WE appeal to every citizen to
REGISTER AND VOTE ACCORDING
TO THE DICTATES OF HIS CON
SCIENCE for the men he believes to
be the best for office. If you have not
registered DO so AT ONCE, and then
vote for the better city of Greater Los
Angeles-a city to be governed by and
for it's citizens.
LEAGUE OF JUSTICE"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26

WOMAN BITES THUMB
OF WOULD-BE THIEF
Sudden Attack on Japanese by Bur-
gIar Is Terminated and Latter
FIees Without Securing
Any Booty

Struggling desperately with an in
truder who entered her home, threw a
coat over her head and attempted to
subdue her, Mrs. H. AtkugaWa of 832
Santee street, as a last resort seized
the mans thumb between her teeth
and bit so hard the robber screamed
with pain and jerked his wounded
thumb loose with such violence as to
dislodge two of the woman's front
teeth.
The attempted robbery occurred
shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. H. Atkugawa and his brother,
Auki, left the house at 4 o'clock to go
to work. Shortly afterward Mrs. At
kugawa awakened and saw the dim
figure of a man of short stature pend
ing over her She attempted to scream
and the intruder quickly jerked off his
coat and threw it over her head. she
succeeded In partly eXtricating herself
and again attempted to scream when
the man thrust two neckties in her
mouth.
With rare presence of mind she bit
his thumb and her teeth penetrated to
the bone. This was too much for the
robber, and he ecitted a shrek a1d
made frantic efforts to eXtricate his
imprisoned digit. The woman retained
her hold on the thumb from which the
blood was flowing freely, but the rob
ber, unable to endure the pain, Jerked
with all his strength and loosed his
thumb, also two of Mrs. AtkugaWa' S
teeth.
The intruder then escaped through a
window, and the police have in theiI
possession a coat, two neckties and
two teeth, which they hope is clew
enough to enable them to capture the
burglar.
The man is supposed to be Japan
ese and the officers are notified to look
out for a small Japanese with a lacer-
ated thumb.