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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15
HOT SPRINGS WORLDS
PLAY GROUNDS HE SAYS

what has been the worst detri-
ment and curse to this resort for 40
years. says the report, sis what is
known as doctor and hotel drumming.
Formerly it was not at all unusual
for 20 or 80 hotel runners to meet
the visitor at Little Rock or Benton
on everytrain, and frequently some
drummer went as far as Memphis and
st. Louis. The hotel drumming was
but a mere subterfuge in most in
stances, the real object being to place
the visitor in the hands of some physi
clan who would give half his fee to
the drummer. l am happy to be able
to report that since October Is, 1909,
when United States inspectors were
placed on all incoming trains to mott
fly the public what to avoid and to
give full information as to how to
proceed, the drumming on the trains
has entirely ceased, and the practice of
the doctors dividing fees for drummed
patients has been reduced to the low
est ebb ever known"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-"World's
pleasure ground and health sanator-
ium," is title that may we'll be be-
slowed upon Hot Springs, Arkansas,
according to a report just made by
Harry H. Meyers, superintendent, to
the secretary of the interior. ITO il
lustrate how widely these waters are
known" he says "a daily bath report,
selected at random, shows patients
here from seven foreign countries.
The past year was the most prosperous
ever known here. Every month of
last year shows more visitors than the
corresponding month of 1910, the total
number of visitors for the year being
approximately 100000. The total re-
ceipts of the lighthouses in 1910 were
$217,916 and in 1911 they amounted
to $253,314.'
The number of baths sold by "a
bath houses, named by Meyers, was
S7S,174 in the last year. The net
profit was $112,36S.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15

was necessary to coal the Burnside I'M
der an emergency without asking bids
In open market, coal was purchased
at $3.50 ton, for 400 tons. Previously
the army had paid $5.25 per ton for
the same grade of coal, under the bid
ding system. Four hundred dollars
was saved on the one purchase, and it
is estimated that by buying regularly
in the open market $4,000 year could
be saved in coal purchases for this
vessel alone. Similar conditions pre-
vail on the Atlantic coast and also in
the purchases of anthracite coal for
use in army posts.
General Aleshire asks that congress
give him authority to use his discretion
in purchasing fuel, SO that the govern
ment may escape the present system of
excessive prices. Such authority has
already been granted to officers of the
Navy department.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15
COAL AND OIL TRUSTS
HOLD UP UNCLE SAM

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.-That the
United States government is held up
and made to pay exorbitant prices for
coal and oil for fuel is the charge
made by Brig. Gen. ]. B. Aleshire,
quartermaster general of the army, in
his annual report now made public.
By law, fuel supplies for the army
must be purchased under the bidding
system, the lowest bidder getting the
contract. Gen. Aleshire says that I'M
der the present system, bidders COM
municate the amount of their bids to
one another and trade agreements
keeping up high prices are thereby
maintained
AS an example of the excessive
prices demanded and obtained under
the bidding system, Gen. Aleshire cites
the case of the transport Burnside, OPP
Grating between the Pacific coast and
the Philippines. On one occasion it
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15
WEALTH HE GETS
BRINGS NO JOY

WATERVILLE, Kan, Nov. 15.-No
Joy came to Peter Odell when he
learned today that he was heir to a
quarter million dollars He is 70
years old and is slowly dying from
an incurable disease. All his life he
had lived in poverty, earning his daily
bread by fishing and doing odd jobs.
The thought of sudden riches
brought terror to him. When he was
told that his brother, A. H. Odell had
been found dead in Los Angeles, leav-
ing a fortune of 100000, to two broth
ers, the aged fisherman cried out: "My
God, why could he not live to enjoy
it and not leave it to me? l do not
know what to do with so much money.
| am afraid of it"
Peter Odell has not seen his brother
since 1857. A third brother, B. B.
Odell, lives in New York
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15
COIL HODS
Csc
Fire ShOVeZS
SC and zoe
At
NELSON'S
BHZHHR
New Creidhf0n Bldg. e ard 81.
GLORIOUS HAIR
For Every Woman Who Wants It
New Creidhfon BIdd. e ard 81.

Any woman who neglects her hair
cannot expect to have as lovely hair as
the woman who doesn't.
Wash the hair once a week, use Par
isian Sage daily-keep your hair brush
clean and in few days you will give
to your hair beautiful lustre that you
will be proud of.
Partisan Sage is a most reliable
hair tonic; so reliable that S. T. Willis
guarantees it to eradicate dandruff,
stop falling hair and itching scalp, or
money back.
1t should be used as a dressing by
every member of the family because
it keeps the scalp clean. prevents hair
from turning gray and badness. Large
bottle SO cents. You will have no use
for ordinary preparations after once
giving delightful Partisan Sage trial
1926
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15

been unsuccessful.
Treating the seed, such as dipping
seed corn in strong tobacco. has given
a slight measure of success, but its
benefits can hardly be measured.
Planting mustard in the fields has been
popular remedy, but when such an
experiment has been carefully follow
ed it is seen that the mustard does
not destroy the wire worms.
The life history of this pest shows
that after a year or two years spent
in the wire worm condition feeding
on the roots of plants, the insect
changes in the autumn to soft-bodied
''pupa" condition, in which state it
passes the winter The following
spring this pupa transforms to the
adult Click beetle, which lays it's eggs
for the next generation.
1t has been found that fall blowing
of infested plots will mash a great
wire worms were to go into pupa
condition each fall they could be
quickly worked out of the soil by fall
blowing, but where the species stays
for several years in the wire worm
condition, fall blowing will destroy
only portion of the insects-only
those that have entered upon the pupa
state. However, where thorough fall
blowing is persisted in year after
worked out of the soil AS a usual
thing wire worms are more destructive
in new field than they are in old, Gull
tivated land.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15

Wire worms are among the most
difficult of insects to combat. These
insects are the slender, cylindrical,
brownish grubs of the Click beetle
and are present throughout the state.
Their skin is so tough that they can
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15
WIRE WORMS FOUGHT
BY FALL FLOWING

hardly be mashed between the fingers.
In this way they differ from the soft
bodied cut worms and grubs. Many
experiments have been undertaken to
find something that will poison the
wire worm, but all such tests have
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1911-11-15

Stop coughing! You rack the lungs
and work. the body. Billiards. Hore-
hound Syrup checks irritation, heals
the lungs and restores comfortable
breathing. Price, Csc, SOC and $1.0O
per bottle. Sold by Owl Drug Store,
S. l.. Willis, proprietor. N
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
Bankers Quick to Detect Bad Money

The exact chance Of any one per-
i son having bad piece of money
is hard to determine, for the reason
that no one, not evensthe secret serv-
ice, knows at any one time just how
much counterfeit currency is in circu-
latfon. But from years of experience
the government agents at Washington
have figured out that in paper money
the proportion of bad to good is about
81 to 100000, and in coin somewhere
between 50 and SO to 100000
The larger the coin or bill to be
counterfeited the greater the danger
of detection and the need of more
expensive plant The commonest way
of making spurious money is the turn
ing out of base metal coins-but the
operation is expensive Silver, for in
stance, cannot be successfully cast.
Base coins with silver in them must
therefore be struck off in steel die
die representing days of work on
the part Of an expert engraver. Then
there must be powerful press to
make the impressions, to say nothing
of all the expenses of running chem
ical laboratory and keeping it Sc
cret.
In the counterfeiting of paper money
there are three methods used, copy
ing by hand, Photographic reproduc-
tion, and the raising of genuine bills
from lower to higher denominations.
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
Woman Soldier Now Seeks a Pension

listment. In the excitement and
hurry of the early days of enlist
ment, when there were thousands OF
applicants, the disguised girl was pass
ed and found herself a member of Col
McCowan's regiment, the Sixty-third
infantry. She was assigned to Com
pany G under Captain Richardson.
After drilling and being otherwise
whipped" into line, the Sixty-third
started south, and with it went the
girl soldier. For four years she stood
the strain of army aad camp life, TAX.
ing her medicine" as it came to her
and in all ways befag treated as
were the other soldiers of the regi
ment.
Just before the war ended the true
sex of the young soldier became
known to a comrade, and Immediately
after being mustered out of the serv.
ice because Of the termination Of hos
tilities, she married John Sibler, who
had served in the same company and
regiment with her throughout the
war.
Because Of her slight figure and ef
Terminate appearance Mrs. Bliss was
once chosen to masquerade" as a
woman and play the spy. This was
during the Vicksburg campaign, and
so successful was she in that role
that she gained extremely valuable in.
formation for her commanding officer.
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
| HITTING AVERAGES ARE BIG
Nearly Every Game This Season Hao
Been Noted for Many Long
Drives-BaII Is Lively.

Ever since the season opened tho
fans around the National and Ameri.
can league circuits have been noting
with much surprise the big increase
in hitting, and the number of long
drives made in nearly every game has
been particular source of wonder.
Even the players have complained of
the way the new ball shoots at them.
Now 1t develops that the unusually
hard hitting is not confined to the big
show, but Is also in evidence in the
minors. Fans declare that there GER
tainly is something the matter with
those balls that have been bounding
into the bleachers miles away and
sailing over fences with startling regu-
larity.
The results of each days games, in
this and any other old league shows
that home runs are common and that
each team is using three or more
pitchers in order to stem the tide of
defeat
What's the matter? The answer:
The balls are too lively-the manu-.
facturer of the little spheres that
bring big money to the players and
gloom at other times has loaded them
down with cork, rubber and other
things that make them sail by an in.
fielder like a Mauser bullet. Little,
thin, consumptive nuts" who couldn't t
tear the shins off a third baseman
last season are chasing the outfielders
to death this season.
'It is going to be tough season Oh
pitchers-it is already tough on ours
said Manager Shay of the Kansas City
team. '1t is going to be great sea.
son for the batters. The balls arc
much livelier than they were last sea,
son or even before. see players
hitting them to the fences that don't
hope to do much better than a Texas
Lacquer However, it will all break
even. l have no objection to the live.
ly balls, but the pitchers are mourn.
ing. This is no alibi for our buncE
that have been getting their jolts.
Poor pitching has lost us all tho
games in the bad column. An iron
ball wouldn't have helped us. One dap
stage philanthropist and the next
day l discover one who is a groove
hero. There is nc doubt about the
ball being livelier, but as l said be.
fore, it will all break even on the
season"
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

M OF many men have had the varied
~ and adventurous life led by Mrs.
Louise E. Bliss of Sheridan, Wyo., who
has just applied for pension on the
grounds that, dressed as a man, she
served four years in the federal army
as member of Company G, Sixty
third infantry, from Illinois, from 1861
to 1865. Mrs. Bliss is now an old
woman, with white hair and wrinkled
face, and is almost destitute. In one
cheek she bears the scar left by bull
let fired at Vicksburg; long cash
ecross the upper left arm is a me-
mento of Corinth and Confederate
Raber.
According to the story told by Mrs.
Bliss to the pension agent, and
sworn to by her, she was living in
Illinois at Jonesboro, when the war
broke out. She was enthusiastic and
patriotic and wanted to join the army,
but of course could not do 80 in skirts.
60 she cut of her hair, obtained suit
of mems clothing and applied for en-
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
Uncle Sam Warns Against Mosquitoes

w AR on the mosquito as well as on
w the house fly has been declared
by the department of agriculture. AS
a disseminator Of disease the mos
quito is branded as being as great a
menace to humanity as the fly. L. O..
Howard, chief of the bureau of ento-
mology, has issued bulletin on the
protection of communities from mos
quitoes. He lays stress on the ne
cessity of abolishing breeding places
of the insect pest.
Where the rain barrel and rain wa
ter tank are necessary they should be
screened. The waste places in the
immediate vicinity of a house should
be carefully searched for tin cans, bot
ties and wooden or tin boxes in which
water can accumulate. and all such
receptacles should be destroyed or car
ried away. The roof cutters should
be carefully examined to make sure
that they are not clogged so as to al
low the water to accumulate.
1.-THE chicken pans In the poultry
yard, the water In the troughs for do
mestic animals, the water cup of the
G,fpdstone are all places in which
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

Observation-Disclosures no other
w building in America is so we'll po-
Iced as the White House. 1t takes
AZ men to do it daily. If any mis-
chievous stranger should seek en-
trance, he would not get far. Twenty
four men guard the outside of the
building and 13 the inside. Eight are
in the executive Offices. Fourteen
guard the White House within and
without at night. The number of men
enumerated does not include the Sc
cret service men who guard the per-
son of the president and who are some
times in service to guard the mem
bers of the presidents family. Every
door in the White House has its po-
iceman constantly on guard.
There are always two in the base
ment OF the executive offices, where
there Is a large door leading from
the street for the reception of sup
plies. There is always policeman at
the kitchen entrance. Two men in
livery, not policemen, guard the main
entrance into the White House at the
north portico. In the daytime there
is policeman in the east room and
one each at both stairways that lead
to the private apartments Of the
president and his family on the upper
floor.
There is a policeman always in the
basement, the entrance to which is
from the east wing of the mansion.
At night policeman guards the base
ment corridor of the interior, another
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
The White House Is Closely Guarded

the corridor of the main floor and an
other the corridor of the upper private
floor
in front and in the rear, if the White
House may be conceived as having
any rear. The south front is as beau
tiful as the north front and indeed
more so. A policeman is always on
guard at the south portico, and espe-
cially so at night. One parades with
the regularity of sentryman the
half covered corridor leading from
the White House to the executive Of
fees.
That the White House should have
to be thus carefully guarded may seem
strange to Americans whose chief ex-
ecutive is after all only a democrat
who is citizen temporarily, holding
a high public office. But it is neces-
sary. Three Presidents have been
assassinated, although none ever at
the White House. It. would seem
none ever could be because of the
vigilance kept there. But a fierce
light plays upon the White House and
the occupants of it, especially the
president. 1t attracts all kinds OF
people, and cranks are ever danger
GUS. Many is the one apprehended
before he has gone far. And in this
land of liberty there are also other
people who have dangerous ideas CEN
tering on the life of the chief mag
istrate
Besides, Americans, and especially
American women are very inquisitive
and given much to vandalism. They
come in shoals to Washington, and
their first thought is the White House.
They want to inspect 1t from bottom
to top. They want to miss nothing,
and many of them would like to take
away mementoes. Their audacity and
lack of manners and observance Of
other proprieties is amazing.
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

in great numbers at any one time. De-
fense was not the primary motive
that led the sedentary people of this
canyon to utilize the caverns for shell
ter Again, the inroads of enemies
never led to the abandonment of these
great cliffhouses, If we can impute
valor in any appreciable degree to the
inhabitants. Fancy, for instance, the
difficulty, or, rather, improbability, Of
a number of nomadic warriors great
enough to drive out the population of
Kitsiel, making their way up Cataract
canyon and besieging the pueblo. Such
an approach would have been impos.
sible. Marauders might have raided
the Kitsiel cornfields, but they could
not have dislodged the inhabitants.
Even if they had succeeded in cap
turing one house, but little would have
been gained, as it was custom of the
Pueblos to keep enough food in store
to last more than year. In this con-
nection the question is pertinent.
While hostiles were besieging Kit
siel how could they subsist during
any length of time? Only with the ut
most difficulty, even with aid of ropes
and ladders, can one now gain access
to some of these ruins. How could
marauding parties have entered them
if the inhabitants were hostile? The
cliff dwellings were constructed part
ly for defense, but mainly for the
shelter afforded by the overhanging
cliff, and the cause of their desertion
was not due so much to predatory
enemies as failure of crops or the dis.
appearance of the water supply.
'The writer does not regard these
ruins as of great antiquity; some of
the evidence indicates tAat they are
of later time. Features in their archi.
lecture show resemblances derived
from other regions.
Ruins Not of Great Antiquity.
"The Navahoes ascribe the build
ings to ancient people and say that
the ruined houses existed before their
own advent in the country, but this
was not necessarily long ago. Such
evidence as has been gathered sup.
ports Hopi legends that the inhabi
tants were ancient Hopi, belonging to
the Flute, Horn and Snake families.
"There is no evidence that cliff
house architecture developed in these
canyons, and rude structures older
than these have been found q this
region. Whoever the builders of these
structures were, they brought their
craft with them. The adoption of the
defector in the rectangular ceremo.
nial-rooms called kihus implies the
derivation of these rooms from cir.
cular kivas, and all indications are
that the ancient inhabitants came
from higher up San Juan river.
MANY of the ruins in Canyon de
Chelly, situated east Of Laguna creek,
show marked evidence of being mod.
ern, and they in turn are not SO old
as those of the Mesa Verde. If the
ruins become older as we go up the
river the conclusion is logical that the
migration of the San Juan culture was
down the river from east to west.
rather than in the opposite direction.
The scanty traditions known to the
author support the belief in a migra'
ton from east to west, although there
were exceptional instances of clan
movements in the opposite direction
The general trend of migration would
indicate that the ancestral home OF
the Snake and Flute people was in
Colorado and New Mexico"
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
JOE TINKER FOOLED MATTY
Clever Little Chicago shortstop Meets
Christy's Low Curve With
Nice Long Bat.

Christy Mathewson, writing for
Pearson's magazine, says of Joe Tink-
er:
'The clever little shortstop of the
Chicago club is man with whom l
have fought many a battle of wits
and am glad to acknowledge that he
has come out of the fuss with flying
colors on many occasions. There was
a time when Tinker was putty in my
hands. For two years he was the
least dangerous man on the Chicago
team. His weakness was low curve
On the outside and 1 fed him low
curves SO often had him looking like
an invalid every time he came to the
plate.
Then Joseph went home one night
and did little deep thinking. He got
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

1t takes a good man whole day to
change one bill. Fives raised to tens
are the most frequent offenders of this
sort. The workman thus makes SIS
a day.
And yet in spite of all care and all
precautions, counterfeiters are event
ually run to earth. Why? Three rea-
sons: Bank, secret service and system.
In the long run most money in circu-
lation comes into the hands of some
bank And there the counterfeit,
good or bad, eventually meets its
downfall. Tellers and cashiers han
die so much currency that they seem
to be gifted with second sight.
If he cannot tell at first glance
whether the money is bad, he consults
two monthly counterfeiting magazines
and usually finds what he is after.
The magazine people cooperate with
the secret service. And the next tell
er or cashier who gets the mate of
the note knows right off what the
counterfeit is.
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

these pests of mosquitoes will breed.
I'm slightly marshy ground favor
lite breeding place is the footprints of
cattle and horses. In one country
village, which contains many small
vegetable gardens in clay soil, during
a rainy season mosquitoes were found
breeding abundantly in the water ac-
cumulating in the burrows.
Even in the house these mosqui-
toes breed in many places. Where the
water in flower vases is not frequently
changed mosquitoes will breed. They
will breed in water pitchers in unused
guest rooms. Public dumps are great
breeding places, because here accumu-
late old bottles, cans, boxes. bits of
tin or iron vessels and other objects
In which water may accumulate for Q
time"
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

Safer looks better every time he
plays.
Frank Schultz has forgotten how to
rap out the homers.
The Athletics gradually are working
their way toward the top.
Young .Corban seems to share the
favcritism of the fans with Bodie.
Teams may win and teams may
lose, but the Tigers go on forever.
And like Ingerton, Luderrus is smit-
ing the sphere most Justify for those
Phillies.
In spite of Meloan's refusal to sell
the bat with which Brodie made four
hits in one game Ping keeps on ping
ing"
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02

nice long bat and took his stand
at least foot farther from the plate,
after that night of meditation, and
then he had me. If kept the ball
on the inside of the plate he was in
splendid position to meet it, and if
l tried to keep my offerings outside
he had plenty of time to step into
'em. From that day on Tinker became
one of the most dangerous batters 1
ever faced, not because his natural
hitting ability had increased, but be-
cause he didn't propose to let the
pitcher do all of the outguessing."
The Ely miner., 1911-06-02
New Plan for Princeton.

Princeton is to institute new sys
tenn of football coaching mkt Septem.
ber. The plan is to have q graduate
board of five members, who shall have
full authority in all football matters
except finances. w. w. Roper, direc.
tor of all athletics at Princeton, will
be chairman of this board, but he will
no longer be head field coach, the po-
sition he held last fall. A field staff
will be selected later and will get its
orders as to policy from this board.