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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Trimming Down the Stock.

Go carefully through all departments.
First Gull out all lines that are merely
hindrances and drags on the business
small lots and big lots that are slow,
that take up valuable space, and tie
up capital which should be earning
dividends, says Southern Merchant.
These are the goods for low-price
sale quotations-th tremendous re-
duction" items, the goods to shout
about, and that must be sold "regard-
less of cost.'' The stock and the store
will be better when they are gone. And
customers will be benefited by the price
reduction.
Next put on sale price tickets on all
odd lots and broken assortments that
it is not desirable to recorder. These car
easily be dispensed with at this time
and should move quickly at a slightly
reduced price.
Then go over all conflicting lines, al
goods that are so near in price, style
weight or quality that the one would
easily take the place of the other. Put
these on sale; push them consistently
and see that salespeople do their par
in selling them.
With all these goods properly placed
for quick selling, how does the stool
look7
Lightened by perhaps one-half, ant
with a little judicious filing in Of
sizes, colors or weights it will be il
better working trim than it has beer
since the beginning of the season.
Little good, however, will be done i.
active work is abandoned right here
Here the work begins. 1t should let VI
only when the last piece has been car
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
REALLY WASTE OF SYMPATHY
No Cause for Serious Alarm on the
Part of the Duckling's Ad-
mirer.

Once upon a time, when Mark
Twain's favorite daughter was very
little maid, and was spending the sum-
mer in the country, 1t is related that
she propounded a question which no
one was able to answer. 1t seems
she had been deeply interested In
watching the brief career of the ducks
from the peaceful shadows of the pool
to Il cir appearance upon the dining
table, and so she said, Father, why
does God make so much ducks when
Patrick kills them?"
Apropos of 80 much ducks" there
is quite "a much" of them in a GER
tain florists window. With much in
genuity little lake has been built
into the window and a tiny mill in
stalled, and the clacking mill wheel
turns and turns all day, and far into
the night, and four exceedingly yellow
and very much alike ducklings paddle
around In the lake and splash the
plate glass to their hearts content.
There is Just one ugly duckling" in
the lot, and he was the hero, or, per-
haps, the heroine, of an amusing little
Incident
The ducklings were preparing to re-
tire for the night. They had taken
| their goodnight dip and were cozily
smuggling together in downy yellow
heap, there being no mother duck. be
1t known, to watch over their slum-
bers. Just as they were comfortably
arranged and their yellow bills all
carefully disposed of (and it is a prob
lem how four ducklings can get tucked
In and not leave some one of the four
bills out in the cold), a large, pros.
porous mosquito came around. evi.
IDENTIFY prepared to spend the night in
riotous biting.
The crowd on the outside of the
window hivered-"Oh, the poor little
ducks said one woman, that mosque
to will simply eat them up
Just then the ugly duckling silently
opened one eye, and he opened his
bill at the same moment, apparently
without the least exertion, closing II
with a snap. The mosquito was "in
side." and his obsequies were brief.
Well" said the woman. 81 wonT
waste any more sympathy on ducks
because mosquitoes are around
Il thought" responded her compan
Ion, that you had forgotten that ter
rible tragedy recounted by Mothe,
Goose about The frog who would a
wooing CO. and the fate that befel
him."
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
At the American.

The performances at the new Ameri-
can theatre for the week of February
IL will be given under the auspices of
the Spokane lodge of Red Men. The
Lawrence players will present Lincoln
j. Carter's great comedy drama in four
acts and seven scenes, "Alaska,v an
appropriate bill for such an occasion.
The play is scenic production from
beginning to end. A special feature
will be made of the scene showing
volcano just before an eruption, and the
thrilling escape of the heroine, Jess Dial
ton (Jane Kelton), on rope across
the very mouth of the crater.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16

BY System of Triplicate Reports, G. B.
Wilson Stole a Large Sum From
Government at Denver.

Denver, Col, Feb. Garrison B. Will
son, for 20 years superintendent of
mails at the Denver postoffice, is under
arrest upon the assertion of Postoffice
Inspector Waters that Wilson IS alleged
populations might amount to $4,000.
He was unable to furnish a $4,000 bond.
According to Inspector Waters, Will
son had two systems to beat the govern
ment. By one he made out triplicate
sheets in his own writing The original
containing the correct figures as to
weight of mail matter and amount of
check received by him, was sent to
Washington. Then he spread a piece
of paper over the duplicate and tripli-
cate sheets and made an entirely differ
ent record for the local Offices.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
The Plague of Rubberers.

One may hope, in spite of the meta
phorists, to avoid the breath of the
deadly upas tree; one may, by great
good fortune, succeed in backing the
eye of the basilisk; one might even
dodge the attention of Cerberus and
Argus, but no man. dead or alive, can
escape the gaze of the Rubberer.
New York is the Caoutchouc City
There are many, of course, who go
their way, making money, without
turning to the right or the left, but
there is a tribe abroad wonderfully
composed, like the Martians, solely of
eyes and means of ocomotion.-From
"a Comedy in Rubber" by o. Henry.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Novel Clock.

A novel four-dial clock has been In.
stalled in the United States postoffice,
custom house and court house at New
bern, N. G. The dial, which is 12h
feet in diameter, bears no numerals,
but is provided instead with twelve
opalescent glass disks, fifteen inches
in diameter These show white in
the daytime. but are Illuminated at
night by electric lights and refiectors
Each Of the hands is also Illuminated
by means of a red electric light near
the point. In order to provide access
to the lamps behind the disks each
dial may be rotated so as to bring the
lamps within reach of a window in the
tower-Scientiflo American.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Secret of Moraan,s Longevity.

When ]. P. Morgan was in his fif.
ties he had very poor health, and
went to a great New York physician.
who said to him.: stop exercise in
every form. Never even walk when
you can take cab. You have formed
the habit of living without exercise,
giving your energy to your brain. 1t
is too late to change the habits of a
lifetime" This advice Mr.. Morgan
followed implicitly. Since that time
he has absolutely Stunned exercise
has eaten heavily and smoked much
and has buried all his own business
generation, and remains robust at
seventy-three.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
OF FARMERS OF WASHINGTON
IDAHO And OREGON AT
WALLA WALLA.
Demand the Parcels Post System and
Are opposed to Ship Subsidy-Indorse
Plan to Give Whitman College Lands
of Abandoned Fort at Walla Walla-
Terminal Warehouses Discussed.

Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 5.-The tri-
state mass meeting of the farmers came
to an end in a sunburst of resolutions.
There were resolutions by the mass
meeting and others by the separate
state delegations. The leading resolu.
ton passed by the general meeting was
one demanding the parcels post system.
Another asked for laws prohibiting gam
bling in cotton futures and those of
other farm products. Another asks for
direct election of United States SEN
ators and another for more, stringent
immigration laws. They also went on
record as unalterably opposed to ship
subsidy.
A resolution of interest to inhabitants
of Walla Walla was one in which the
Legislatures of Oregon, Washington, Ida
no, received the Endorsement of the
farmers for the memorials of those bod
les recently sent to congress asking that
Whitman college be given the Fort
Walla Walla lands.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Only Two Kinds.

Little Lawrence's grandfather was
very Ill and trained nurse had been
employed to care for him. When he
became convalescent young woman.
who had studied in a hospital for a
short time, was secured In her place.
A sympathetic neighbor meeting Law
renee, the following conversation took
place.
How is your dear grandpa this
morning, Lawrence?"
"He is better"
"Have you the trained nurse still?"
mo, the trained nurse has gone
away and the one we have now is half
trained and half wild. Woman s
Home Companion.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
THE SPOKANE MARKET REPORT.
Prices to Producers.

The following list may be taken as
fair standard of prices paid to local
producers outside of the city market
for the commodities named:
Fruits and getables-Potatoes, $40
1925 cwt; apples, 75c@$3 box; beets,
$1.75@2 cwt; horseradish, 15c lb; cab
bage, 1 1-4@1 Lee lb; wax beans, lac
lb; leaks, 6Oc doz punches; red cabbage,
&c ID; huckleberries, 10c ID.
Butter-Ranch, 25c lb.
Hay-Baled oat hay, $40 ton; wheat
hay, $1,000 ton; alfalfa, $14; timothy,
No. 1, $23@25 per ton; No. 2, $2O@23
per ton.
Grain-Oats, $1.45 cwt; barley, So
cwt; wheat, $1.25 cwt.
Hay and feed prices are b cars,
Spokane.
Poultry-Live hens, 13c lb; dressed,
15@22c lb; live springs, 13c; dressed,
zoe; old roosters, &c; dressed, lac; live
geese, 13c lb; dressed, 15c; live ducks,
young, 1sc; old, 1sc; dressed, 1s@22c;
fancy turkeys, soc; dressed, csc.
Fuel Prices.
Fuel-Tamarack and fir, Aft wood
$6@6.5O; pine, Aft wood, $575@6;
Coal-Carney, Sheridan, Tabor, $S.7;
ton; Rock Springs, $3.50 ton; Monarch
$3.50 tom Roslyn, $3.50 ton; Lille, &c.
ton; Owl Creek, $3.50 ton; sawed tam
arack and fir, $2.75 rick; sawed pine
$3.50 rick.
Hides and Furs.
Hides-Green: Cows, sc lb; steers, 81
ID; calfskin, 13c lb; Salted Cows, q
lb; steers, &c lb; calfskin, 13c lb. DIR,
flint, $14@15c lb; dry sheep hides, SO
&c ID; bull hides, 4c ID; kips, &c lb; ligh
wool, 13@14c lb; heavy, merino, 10@13
per ID.
Wholesale Meats.
Steers, 1o@111ac lb; hobs, 1879 ID
short loin, 1sc Id; shoulder, 15c ID
kinds, 11@121s 1Ac1h; rump, 11@12h
lb; loin of beef, 13@16c lb; rib roast
15@16c ID.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Chicago

lows:
Chicago.
Timothy seed, $1O.50@1O.6O.
Clover, $14.75.
Mess pork, per bbl., $2O.25@2O.5o.
Lard, per 100 lbs, 1907 12.
Short ribs, sides (loose), $9.S7 100
1880; short clear sides (boxed), $10.25
@10.5O.
Butter-Steady; creameries, 17@25c;
dairies, 16@22c.
Steady; at mark, cases in
cluded, 16@1Sc; frsts, 20 lie; prime
firsts, 21 1-2c.
Cheese-Steady Daisies, IA 34@15c;
Twins, 13 1-4@13 1-2c; Young Americas,
Is 1905 3-4c; Long Horns, Is 100
Is 3-4c.
Cattle-Market 10c to Csc lower.
Beeves, $4.sO@e.sO; Texas steers, $40
5.25; western steers, $4.30@5.50; stock
ers and feeders, $3.7O@5.6O; cows and
heifers, $2.6O@5.sO; calves, $7@S.75.
Hogs-Market slow, sc to 10c lower.
Light, $7.35GD7 65; mixed, $7.25@7.65;
heavy, $7(07. so; rough, $70D7.15; good
to choice heavy, $7.15@7.50 pigs, $40
| GD7.s5; bulk of sales, $7.30@745.
Sheep-Market steady. Native, $40
| 0D430; western, $2.25@4.30; yearlings,
$4.4o@5 so; lambs, native, $4.25@610;
western, $4.25@6.05.
New York.
Standard copper quiet; spot, Febru.
airy, March, April and May, 1900
12.s71-2; electrolytic, 1927 1-2@
1859 1-2; casting, $12@12.25.
| Lead-Dull, $4.4O@4.50.
Spelter-Dull, $5.35@5.45.
Iron-The market was quiet. No.
foundry northern, $15.25@16.25; No. 2
$1475m15.75; No. southern and No.
southern soft, $15.25@15.75.
Portland.
Wheat-Track prices: Club, so@s1ci
bluestem, S20S3c; red Russian, 7Sc
valley, soc; fortyfold, S0@s1c.
The cattle market for the week ha.
been easy in tone and prices have
sagged from Csc to soc from the higl
point of a week or two ago. There
was nothing of extra quality in the of
ferings and the top price was mo-
tested.
The hog market also shows weakness
in sympathy with eastern points. Sup
plies were made up equally from Mis-
souri, river and Portland, and the quail
ity aside from contract deliveries wa
not such as to bring out the full
strength of the market. The top pric
was $3.50.
Good quality sheep brought GOO
prices. One lot of wethers brough
1925, and ewes sold for $3.50. Mos
of the sheep offered were not fat AM
with the heavy supply to choose iron
buyers were Indifferent to everything
except the best.
There was some business in tn
horse division, and in keeping wit
the sales made quotations are abou
as follows: Drafters, extra 1900 t
LOO lbs, $165@350; drafters, fair t
good, $125@2oO; chunks, $1o0@15o
chunks, medium, $50@100; drivers
medium to good, $4o@11o; plugs, 81
@40.
Representative sales are as follows
Steers, $595@6.35; cows, $4@5.25
calves, $6.5O@s.5e; bulls, $3.50; stag
$4; hogs, $s.4o@s.65; wethers, 1925
ewes, $3.50.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Mary Mannering, February 1415.

" A Man S World,'' in which Mary
Mannering has achieved her greatest
success, will be seen at the Auditorium
theater, Spokane, on February IA and
IS. Her Interpretation of the charac-
ter of Frank Ware, a successful author
ess, is the embodiment of naturalness,
with variety of expression and feel
ing, and in the critical scenes she
brings eloquent emotion, true pathos
and fine womanly dignity to the inter
probation.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Soldier Won't Work on Saturday

Berlin.-The kaiser and his army have
run up against snag in the person of
a private soldier named Naumann, who,
for religious reasons, will not do any
work on Saturday, and who is in danger
of spending the rest of his life in prison
for his principles.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Grant Moler Killed by Fall.

Seattle, Feb. 6.-Grant Moler, a
wealthy Alaskan miner who made for
tune in Klondike in 1897, fell down
stairs at a local hotel Sunday and sus-
tanned a fractured skull, dying a few
hours later. Moler had valuable real
estate holdings in Seattle, Tacoma and
Standpoint, Idaho.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
For a Standard Apple Box Kept.

Members of the Washington State
Horticultural association are asking for
changes in the horticultural code, and
have prepared a memorial to congress
not to pass any law which will inter
fere with the standard apple and pear
boxes used in this state and made legal
by present state laws.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Pension for Horses.

Hungarian land owner, the late
Emil Bizony of Miskolez, has left all
his fortune, amounting to $4,000, to
found an old age pension scheme for
horses. The testator named as his ex-
ecutor the Budapest society for proven
ton of cruelty to animals.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Young Bride a Suicide.

San Diego, CAL, Feb. 7.-Overcome on
learning the disgrace of her husband,
Chief Yeoman Jackson of the cruiser
South Dakota, who is under arrest on a
charge of embezzlement, Mrs. Edna
Jackson committed suicide by taking
acld.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
TAENATIOALGRANGE
WOULD DEFEAT PROPOSED
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY
TREATY PROGRAM.
Because, 1t Alleges, the Interest of
Farmers Is Greatly Ignored-Planned
Organized Fight By Telegraph Urges
Members Over the Whole of u. s. to
Notify Members of Congress to Oppose

New York.-The machinery of the Ma
tional grange, an organization claiming
a membership of 100000 farmers in
30 states, has been started to defeat
the ratification by congress of the Can
adam reciprocity treaty. The legisla-
tive committee of the grange, at a spe
cial meeting here, adopted a resolution
protesting against the enactment of the
reciprocity bill, called upon the mem
bership to exert pressure upon con-
gressmen from their various districts to
vote against the measure, and decided
to go to Washington to map out cam
paign there.
The legislative committee is compos-
ed of former Governor Nahum j. Bach
elder of Concord, chairman; Aaron
Jones of South Bend, Ino., and L. C.
Atkeson of Morgantown, w. Va. AS
soon as the terms of the proposed treaty
became public they exchanged tele-
grams, agreed upon New York as a
meeting place and left their homes with
out delay to head off any campaign that
possibly might be started for the bill s
enactment.
"We are not opposed to a general
reduction of the tariff Mr.. Atkinson
said, "but we are opposed to any ar
rangement which will make fish of one
industry and flesh of another. Revise
the tariff-yes, but do it all at once,
and not by reciprocal treaty with a
country which exports agricultural pro-
ducts almost exclusively.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Not Fair to Farmers.

'Remove the tariff ON steel and iron
and manufactured articles along with
farm products, and we won't object.
But we do not think it fair to compel
the farmers to compete with foreign pro-
ducts and allow the manufacturer to
derive the benefit of high protective
tariff.
Acting along these lines we have
decided to oppose the enactment of the
bill. The committee issued a state
ment which will be sent to every one
of the $500 oranges in the organization
These have a membership of from so
to 1000 farmers each. We shall ask
every member to write his congressman
urging them to vote against the bill
think we can defeat it in this man
ner, but we are not going to take any
chances and the committee has decided
to go to Washington and work for that
end.''
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Rev. E. L. RAIDER Dies.

Portland, Ore, Feb. REV. E. l..
RAIDER, editor of the Pacific Christian
Advocate, and prominent temperance
worker on the Pacific coast, died at his
home here Sunday, the result of an
apoplectic stroke. DR.. RAIDER was born
in Jackson county, Missouri, August 81,
1850.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Mine Owners Blamed.

London, EngzThe inquest into the
Prestaria mine, near Balton, where 1888
lives were lost, shows that there was
criminal neglect on the part of some
one, and it was not that of the work
men.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16

This is the 29rd week at the Spokane
theatre by Mr.. George L. Baker Is fam
GUS Baker Stock company, which pre-
sents Z. H. Sothern IS dramatic classic,
eff L Were King" by Justin Huntley
Mccarthy, the most beautiful play ever
written. Prices: Csc, soc, 75c. We'd
nesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees,
25c.
To follow, GA Bachelor Romance. :"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
COMING
THEATER ATTRACTIONS
AT SPOKANE

Have seats reserved by mail, sending .
deposit to manager and stating about where
you desire seats. naming attraction and date
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
General Cronje Dead.

Klorksdorp, Transvaal, Feb. 6.-Gen.
eral Piet A. Cronje, the noted BoeI
general, died Saturday.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
OTHER MARKETS.

Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Frown on Crop Futures.

They passed a resolution demanding
that the postmaster general close the
mails to matter referring to deals in
crop futures. They urged the legisla-
lures of the northwest states to pass
laws making every threshing machine
operator file report of the number
of bushels threshed.
Another resolution demanded that the
federal government observe the strict
est neutrality in the present insurrec-
ton in Mexico. George Beloit, of Sum-
NIT, Idaho, who introduced it, says it
will be forwarded to President Taft.
The Washington delegation adopted
resolutions favoring state inspection and
weighing of grain, the initiative refer
endum and recall, mill tax for the sup
port of state educational institutions
house bill No. 2O5, relating to township
organization, an amendment of the
present local option law making the
county the unit, and mine workers
COMPENSATION act
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-16
Echo of Good Roads Meet.

There was an echo of the controversy
that tore the recent good roads con-
vention here when the farmers further
asked for the repeal of the state aid law
and recommended that the penitentiary
jute mill be recognized on business
principles, and that it be operated at
full capacity to determine whether it
is financially profitable.
The Oregon delegation passed resolu-
lions opposing the state aid system in
the concentration of highways, demand
ing state inspection and weighing of
grain at terminal points and the es
Enlistment of number of one milling
grade for wheat testing over So pounds
The Idaho delegation passed a reso
luton favoring the initiative, referen
| DUN and recall.
The meeting Endorsed the movement
of the Washington state executive com
mittee to send G. w. Nelson of Tacoma
to Europe, to study the cooperative mills
there and make arrangements for direc
grain transactions with them.
The matter of a terminal warehous,
at Tacoma or Portland was discussed
and there was also a discussion of thu
good roads situation.
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-03

penings, and returned quickly WI /
dummies, representing injured mer
An ambulance was in waiting, and
they carried the Unconscious" victims
by the presidents box. He applauded
the realistic scene. At the close of
the experiments he went to a stand,
erected in the field, in company with
Secretary of the Interior Fisher, Gov
ernor Glasscock, of West Virginia, and
a number of other distinguished
guests. There he made a brief address
and presented the winning teams with
the trophies they had won
Milford chronicle., 1911-11-03
REDDEN.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pritchett and
children, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Hrs. Alfred o Day, near Chaplains
Chapel
f. G.. Hummer has been on the sick
list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dots, of Wilmington,
have been the guests of Mrs. William
Dutton
Mrs. R. {. Hill and son, Clark, spent
Saturday and Sunday in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Lynch, is OIL an extended
trip to New Yorl, and Buffalo and Niagara
Falls.
J.. P Duttou lost a porker this week.
One of our old friends took his first
ride in an automobile SUNDAY evening
He rode about two miles and walked
back. Ask him which he enjoyed most
his ride or walk ha ha
Mr.. and Mrs. Brumbley, spent sun
day at Laurel.
+. ]. Hardesty, superintendent of
Sussex County public schools was the
guest of A. T. Dutton and family last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Locates, Of
Georgetown, spent Sunday with A. Z.
Hinman and family.
Mrs. A. T. Dutton and Mrs. Jane
Donovan were the guests of Mrs. VIII
7iam ]. Dutton Sunday.
Mrs. Lille Coffin, of Georgetown, is
visiting her father, Mr.. George Dicker-
son near here.
R. c Hill, is having new stable and
carriage house built.
4 number of our young folks attended
the Hallowe en- celebration at George
town.
A. T. Dutton, made business trip to
Georgetown Monday and Tuesday.
Prayer meeting every Thursday even
ing at McColley's at 7.3O. L. No.