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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
MINING NOTES.

The old Cariboo mine, the pioneer
gold property in British Columbia, To-
Gated at Camp Mckinley, will shortly
resume operations.
Grand Forks, B. C.-During last week
SPAS tons of ore were shipped to the
Greenwood smelters by the operating
mines of the Boundary.
A recent shipment of ore from the
Hampton mine, situated seven miles
from SLOGAN City, B. c., averaged 623
ounces of silver to the ton.
A company has bonded the Tiger
mine at Ainsworth, B. c., from John
Squires and his partner, John Wake
field of Spokane, for $4,000.
Eight feet of highgrade ore has been
struck on the Delta claim of the Silver
Horde group of silverlead properties
near Ainsworth, B. c., on the Canadian
Pacific.
P. II. Chesley, prospector on the
Skeena river, 20 miles from Prince Ru-
pert, B. c., reports. the discovery of
immense cement limestone lodges from
which ghgrade Portland cement may
be manufactured. The strata is five
miles long and from 800 to 500 feet
wide.
Of the total acreage of anthracite
coal lands under control of operators
in the United States in 1909, all but
$50 acres were in the state of Penn
sylvania. In 1909 the Pennsylvania
operators reported 274,01O acres of an
thracite coal lands, the increase over
1889 being 6o,o72 acres, or 20 per cent.
Goldfeld, Nev.-Fire originating in
the mill of the Florence Goldfield min
ing properties totally destroyed the
mill, machinery and the outbuildings.
The loss is estimated at close to $780,
900. An explosion of oil in the re-
finery caused the fire and no water was
available. 1t is understood there is no
insurance. The underground workers
ESCAPED.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Teachers Examined in Library Science

Mrs. 7. R. Brewitt, librarian at the
Lewiston Normal, in a recent interview
said: ''The law now requires candi-
dates for second grade certificates in
Idaho to pass an examination in Gaia
loguing and Use of School Libraries.
AS most teachers are not familiar with
library science, 1 have prepared a
pamphlet as an aid to those who will
take the examinations, as well as for
school library management. Upon re-
quest, this will be sent without charge
to any who wish it.''
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Government to Show Sheep.

Washington.-The department of
agriculture will be among the exhibi-
tors at the International Live Stock
exposition to be held in Chicago, De
cember ? to 0, and the National Mid
winter Sheep show in connection with
the National Wool Growers associa-
tion convention in Omaha, December
10 to 16. The government entry will
be two yearling sheep bred and owned
by the department.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Robber Shot Chicago Woman.

Chicago Kaufman and his
wife were returning after attending the
opera and were directly in front of
their home at 651 Roscoe street, when
an auto came up and stopped.
Three men were in the machine and
two of them got out. One commanded
the Kauffmans to hold up their hands.
Mrs. Kaufman, frightened, stepped
back and her husband moved toward
the robbers to protect her. Fearing an
armed resistance the robber fred twice.
Mrs. Kaufman fell to the walk, dead,
and the two men jumped back into the
automobile and escaped. Kaufman is
a commission merchant.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Cruiser Colorado Wins.

Washington.-The armored cruiser
Colorado of the Pacific fleet, has car
ried off the honors among the battle
ships and armored cruisers for the vari-
Gus forms of target practice in the
autumn of 1911, according to figures
completed at the navy department.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Steel Trust Awfully Kind.

New York.4The United States Steel
corporation joins with Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham in a desire to know If
it is violating, or has violated, the
Sherman antitrust law, and to that end
will aid in expediting the government 5
dissolution suit against it.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS
FROM WORLD over
SHORT ITEMS Clipped FROM
DAILY PAPER DISPATCHES
DURING PAST WEEK.

AID Wolgast, the champion, is improv-
ing from his recent appendicitis oper-
alton.
New York representatives will rec
ommend $1,OOO,OOO exhibit at the San
Francisco fair.
Honolulu.-The Pacific fleet has de-
parted for a cruise that will include
the circling of Oahu.
John Pierre Frieden, S.. j., 67 years
old, president of st. Louis university,
dropped dead recently of heart failure
The report that France has decided
to take strong diplomatic measures
against Spain to force the settlement
of Spain s status in Morocco is denied
San Domingo.-Congres has elected
Senator Eladio Victoria provisional
president of the republic, in success
sion to the assassinated president,
General Ramon Caceres.
Last Sunday was known in the
Christian churches as Christian Won
en- IS Board of Missions day and in all
the Christian churches of the country
women s mission was presented.
Hongkong.-Although the reign of
piracy on the West 7 liver has been
checked by the vigilance of the guards
on board the river steamers, the situa
ton on shore is literally chaotic.
Julian Morrell, who, according to the
police, is New York's worst "bad
man." lies at the point of death from
seven pistol shot wounds, received in a
dance hall there, where he went t,
smoke OUT
President Taft has confded t,
friends that he will veto bill to abol
ish the commerce court While not say
ing so directly, he declared it can mo-
be abolished without a two-thirds vote
which means his veto.
Dublin.-The marquis of Waterford
(Henry de la Poor Beresford) wa
drowned Saturday in the River Olodah
near his residence at Curraghmore, il
the county of Waterford. He was
nephew of Lord Charles Beresford.
Professor George Davidson, for 81
years head of the United States coas
and geodetic survey on the Pacif
coast and a member of the principa
geographical societies of the world
died at his home in Berkeley, Cal, re
Gently, aged SO.
Teheran, Persia.-The excitement o
the populace at the news of the Rus
sian advance on the capital is intense
The streets are filled with crowds. TIL
walls of the city and the legations ar
covered this morning with red placard
'death or independence.
An effort to bring about a voluntar
dissolution of an alleged combinatio
of dealers in hardware and plumbn
supplies on the Pacific coast through
civil suit and the termination of tn
grand jury investigation of the matte
at Los Angeles has begun at the n;
tional capital.
Sustaining the charge of bias again'
the grand jury which investigated tn
failure of the State Bank of Con
merce at Wallace, of which B.
O'Neil, now of Vancouver, B. c., wa
president, Judge Woods of the distriC
court set aside the indictments again'
six of the former directors. Immed
ately following this ruling he al
nounced that second grand jury woul
be held to answer to this second il
vestigating body. The $4,000 bono
under which the men were held wei
continued.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Pacific Northwest Wheat.

Tacoma.-Bluestem, s215@s9c; forty
fold, 'sO@s1c; club 791a@sOc; red Rus
sian, 7s@79c.
Portland.-Track prices: Club. RIA
7sc; bluestem, s1@s2c; fortyfold, rs
@79c; red Russian, 75@76c;. valley,
77@7sc.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Panama Canal Control a Problem.

Washington.-The control and the
operation of the Panama canal and the
method of governing the canal zone
are problems that will engross the at
tention of congress early in the session
that is to open Monday.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14

Though the cloud be black white
water falls from it.
Want of money is the root of much
evil.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14
Freed the Girl.

San Francisco.-Mrs. Anna Gaffney
Langley, the girl wife who shot and
killed her husband several months ago,
alleging that he squandered her earn
ings as stenographer for liquor, was
discharged from custody by Superior
Judge Cabaniss. She was to have been
tried for murder, but the district at
torney said conviction was impossible.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14

Who seeks friend without fault
remains without one.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-12-14

AID Wolgast, the champion, is improv
ing from his recent appendicitis oper
alton.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
FISHER FAVORS LEASING
OF ALASKA COAL LANDS
Secretary Says Controller Bay In NOT
the Only, Nor the Best Hurbor,
Ncnr Fields.

Seattle, Wash, September l0.-Sec-
rotary of the Interior Walter l.. Fisher,
at a dinner given here in his honor,
declared Controller Bay to be neither
the only nor the best harbor for the
output Of the Boring River coal fields,
and announced his policy to be the
opening and development of the fields.
but not under restricted private owner
ship. The plan of leasing the coal
lands. Mr.. Fisher SAID deserves con-
sideration. because 1t has the approval
OF the President"
He read extracts from reports show
ing the successful workings of this
system in Australia and New Zealand,
and also cited the leasing law Of Yukon
territory.
The third remedy" he continued, lis
that the government shall own and
operate the mines. A great many
thoughtful men in the United States
are of the opinion that the time Will
come when it will become necessary
for the government to regulate the
sources of power, fuel and waterfalls.
upon which industry depends"
or the coal lands he said: II am seri-
ously disappointed in what 1 saw in
the Boring River coal fields. Reports
of their extent and character have been
grossly exaggerated. I regret this
oxaggeration. because st may have
been the means OF loading persons to
invest in these fields However there
is valuable coal, and the district is one
OF considerable Importance"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
.DONS BROTHER
SUIT AND GETSJOB
Had Been chided by Parents
Wind Reveals Curles and
Betrays Her.

Pittsburg September 1o.--Jessie
Jones, nineteen years old. was chidea
by her parents yesterday for some
trivial oftense. Worry indignant. she
told them that she would no longer
be dependent on them and left.
When the household was in slumbcr.
she returned. donned her brothers
best suit and his new straw hat and
started out to earn her own way in
the world. She visited several mills
and asked for a sob. She told tho
ioremen she was willing to do any
thing. no matter how laborious. She
mastered deep. manly voice and LETT
no suspicion in their minds as to her
sex.
She finally got Job in Hazelwood
mill as assistant furnace man, and
was to start to work Monday But
Just as she emerged. an exasperating
gust of wind blew off her hat ana
revealed her pretty golden braids done
up around her head. A policeman ar
rested her.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
WOMAN S LAWYER
. NAMED IN DIVORCE
Brought In as Night Visitor in
the Stansheld
Suit.

New York. September 1o.-A new
turn was given to the trial of the suit
for separation brought by Mrs. Eugenie
Stansfeld against Samuel B. Stansheid
before Justice Tompkins in the SUI
preme Court at White Plains.
During the presentation OF evidence
in behalf of Stansfeld. who is suing
for divorce on counter charges, the
name of Mrs. Stanshelds lawyer,
Humphrey j. Lynch. was brought into
the case as one of several men who
had visited Mrs S,ansfeld at her fur
aished apartments she rented in Man.
haitian without the knowledge OF her
husband.
stansneld is manager of the Water
house Worsted Mills. and is said TO
have large income. His wife was
formerly married. to George Flint. son
of DIR. Austin Flint, the alienist but
divorced him week before she mar
ried Stansfeld. She is getting alimony
of 500 a month pending trial of the
suit.
The manning of Lawyer Lynch star
tied the crowded courtroom. and he
flushed as witness identified him as
the man who had come into q grocery
store where the witness worked. near
Mrs. Stansheld's fiat. and purchased
eggs, cream and other groceries at an
early hour in the morning, telling the
clerk to charge them to Mrs. Stansfeld.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
strike seem. Certain.

san Francisco. September lO.-Un-
less Julius kruttschnitt. vice-presi-
ueht and director OF maintenance OF
| the Hartman lines, recedes from hi.
absolute refusal to recognize the Fod.
cratic NOT Shop Workers. or its COM
ini-tee. nthoso lines labor chiefs say
ne VIII be confronted with a strike.
No reason for believing that ne vii,
recede has been found by labor lead
ers here.
General advisory committees OF tho
Hve international shop craft unions
which are comprised In the federation
concluded to-day three days con-
ference with the International ofHcars
OF those unions. The general officers
were entrusted with full charge OF the
situation henceforth. and International
PRESIDENT J. w. Kline, OF the black
sihiehs ana helpers unions. their ap-
pointed Spokesman. said the general
officers had made UP their minds what
they would do
MT. kruttschnitt will have to mako
concessions" said Mr.. Kline. "or the
public. for which no has exhibited 30
much regard. probably VIII suner be.
cause he does not"
VIII the general officers ask for
another conference with Mr. Krutt-
schnitt?" was aeked.
That Is not in our present planan
he replied. We're going TO Los An
geles tonight and may find some way
OF approaching the subject again. but
none has occurred to us SO far. Re-
cognition of federation OF unions
Involves no principles that are not
included in recognition OF individual
unions, already conceded by the Har-
riman lines. and no principles not al
ready utilized in the formation of tho
Hartman system itself. 1t ts our
right. and we shall insist upon It."
Fair warning, Mr.. Kline said. would
be given to the Hartman officials in
case q strike is called
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.
HUGGED BY TEACHER
He Was Helpless. He Explains To
lnvestipnting Com
miffer

Freeport, N. Y. September TO-
Principal Arthur E. Barnes, of the
local public schools, says that when
one OF his school teachers sat IN his
lap. clnsped her arms about his neck
and kissed him. he couldn't help him
self The incident is said TO have oc-
Cured In the last school term. and
the young woman who took part in II
is now married.
Freeport residents are not alto
gether satisfied with the investigation
mnde by the Board OF Education, which
resulted in sustaining the superinten-
dent, and may take the case to the
State Commissioner
superintendent Barnes has declared
his innocence and his intention OF
lighting for his reputation and his
good name. 1t is understood that he
explained the circumstances OF the
school teachers affectionate enthusiasm
by tating that ne had gone into her
room after school hours to help her
NIX up her register record nc said
she was of hysterical type, and in
a Mt of gratitude embraced him.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
SPANKED BY SPOUSE;
ENDS DIVORCE SUIT
Threw Her Across His Imp and Applied
slipper With Telling
Effect,

Evansville. Ind. September 1o.-"l
don't need a lawyer to fight q divorce
case" said Frank Kuebler. when told
that his wife had sued him. He went
home, gave her second beating. MADE
her get in a buggy with him and came
to town and dismissed the SUI.
Kueblcr's wife filed the suit yestcr-
day morning AS he is q member of u
prominent and wealthy family, ne
learned of his wife's action In short
time. He lost no time in getting home
and found his wife had preceded MIN
According to what she told the neigh-
bors. he asked her one question, and
was told that she had engaged a law
yer to get IL divorce for her. Withou1
another word. he threw her across MS
lap and applied slipper With telling
effect.
The result was not long In doubt
AS meek as lamb and as mild as the
rentlest wife In Evansville. she came
to her lawyers office with her nus
band and directed him to dismiss al
once the divorce suit. Kuebler paio
the BILL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
WOMEN VOTERS IN OHIO
MUST TELL THEIR AGE
Attorney General Tells Leader Inv
Mikes No Sex Distinc-

MuheB NO sex DlStlnc-
tions.
Columbus, o.. September 10--"If wo-
men expect to assume the privileges
of man, they must also assume some
of his responsibilities. They cheer
fully should be the first to advance
ideas of candor, and not participate
in anything that might smack of illu-
sion"
So says Acknowledgement Timothy
6. Hogan, of Ohio, to women of Mans
field. who want to help elect the mem
bers of the Board of Education of that
city. but who do not want to tell their
ages.
Mrs Francis w. Letter. high in the
councils of the National Womau's
Christian Temperance Union and In
the Federated Women's Clubs of her
home city. asked the Attorney Gem
eral II women of Mansfield could not
be allowed to cast their ballots in
educational elections. under Ohio laws,
by simply affirming IT am OF legal
age"
Tho Attorney General said he gave
his unofficial holding with full con-
seriousness that 1t might cause some
embarrassment to many women who
wished to vote, and that. therefore, it
was with regret that he was compelled
70 hold that woman, like e man,
must give her age exactly, to her
nearest birthday"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
LEAVES DEATH FARM
FOR HER HONEYMOON
Brlde's Home Notorious for Myn-
FERROUS Fatalities
There.

Barre, Mass. September 1o.-Mrs.
Myra a. Bemis, recently in public view
by reason of mysterious deaths that have
occurred on her farm here. is off on
her second honeymoon with a bride
groom WHO is making his fourth voy
age on the sea 81 matrimony
The present husband is William A.
Bushnell. postmaster OF Floral City.
Fla. The marriage ceremony wos per-
formed at Mrs. Bemis's farm home
Wednesday afternoon.
Last month an autopsy was held on
the body of Frank Ceeley. who had died
at the Bemis farmhouse OF poison Mrs.
Bemis said Celey had taken strychnine.
and that she was with him when he
died.
John Hammond, another farmland.
died on the farm November 81, 1905. a
few day safer Mrs. Bemis had with.
drawn from g Ware savings bank 81 900
of the mans money, on an order signed
by him. Mrs. Bemis was arrested on
a charge OF the murder of Hammond,
but no bill was found
In 1897 Mrs. Bemis shot and wound.e
man. Tried for this offense, she
pleaded self defense. and was acquitted.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
CHINESE CRUISER HERE

Elaborate Program of Entertainment
Has Been Prepared.
New York. September 10.-For the
first time in history. a Chinese naval
vessel tonight entered American
waters. The naval visitor from the
Orient Is the cruiser Hal Chi, with
Rear-Admiral Ching Pin Kwang on
board. which anchored off the entrance
to the harbor late tonight. The war
ship took part in the Spithead naval
review in connection with Kins
Georges coronation. She will anchoa
in the Hudson River tomorrow.
The Hal Chi brings full compile
ment of Chinese officers and ~ sea-
men. and an elaborate program u en-
tertainment has been arranged fer the
visitors by city. state and nation.
After week or more in New York,
the Hal Chi is expected to visi. Bos-
ton. Newport. Philadelphia, Annapolis
and other places
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
GIRL HORSE THIEF STILL
ELUDES HER PURSUERS
Farmers Fire Upon Her ms She Ride.
Toward Pittsburg-Police
Nynrued

Warned.
Ptttsburg, september 1o..-Foiice here
we're notified to-day that the daring
eighteen year old girl horse thief, who
has been leading posses and the State
police a merry chase through Fayette
and Westmoreiand counties, had cross.
ed the Allegheny county line and was
now In this vicinity. The news caused
much excitement among the farmers.
and they have formed a posse which
is in readiness TO toxic up the chase
when the woman bandit puts In hSr
appearance.
Mount Pleasant farmers chased the
girl over the county roads until last
midnight. Several shots were fired at
her. and on one occasion It was be-
iieved she had been wounded A farm
er who knew nothing of the woman
gave her shelter early this morning,
and later told the posse she did not
seem to be hurt
AT 10 o'clock this morning a woman
reported to the police that she had
met the girl riding on the road, and
that she inquired the nearest route
to Allegheny county. It is reported
that the girl entered the stable of VIII
liam desmond. near the Fayette county
line, last night. and stole the best
horse in the stable. and also a bag of
oats
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
COUNTESS LEARY TO
FOUND BIG UNIVERSITY
VIII He Assisted by Hetty Green In
Memorial to Column


New York. September 1o.-The
Countess Annie Leary. one OF those
who made Newport a resort OF fash
lon, who was given her title by Pope
Leo and later adorned with the re-
newedohonor by Pope Plus, Is to found
great university on the hiyhes. point
OF Staten Island in memory OF Chris
TOPPER Columbus, and she Is to be
aided in her ambitious project by Hetty
Green.
On the eighty or more acres near
castleton, which are to be donated by
the papal countess there will also be
erected a gigantic bronze statue Of
the discoverer.
The movement Is already under way.
and the countess and Mrs, Green are
confident they will easily succeed in
inducing their wealthy friends to con-
tribute toward the statue, IL not for
the university.
The countess. who has been the In
sttgator of and contributor to many
charities. talked to reporter OF her
plans the first time in her eighty years.
regard as the elimination of my life
time of charitable work 1t will be,
indeed, the elimination of my whole
life.
II have talked with the repres enta-
tives OF the Pope about the project,
and the Pope knows 1 have the thing
in hand, and he expects great things
OF me. 1t goes without saying that
shall not disappoint him.
"Hetty Green Ia the oldest friend 7
have on earth, and she Will follow mo
into everything I undertake, and to
the extent that I may ask her"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-11
WOMAN BRUTALITY SLAIN
Her Husband is Being Held Pending
Investigation.

Fort Worth. Texas. September 10
A special to the Record from Brown
wood Tex, says:
Mrs. Brown, wife OF George Brown.
wealthy farmer, living seven miles
southwest of Brownwood. was brutal
y assaulted and mortally wounded
last night while asleep on her bed
on the front porch of her home. The
assassin used a blunt iron, an inch
in diameter and two feet in length
with which he crushed the woman's
forehead and spattcrcd blood and
brains over the bed clothing and wall
The husband. man of middle age,
has been arrested and is being held
pending the death of the woman and
the coroner's verdict According to
Browns statement he and his wife
were asleep on tn porch and ne
awakened suddenly TO see man
standing over Mrs Brown and strik-
ing her on the head with an iron
club. He said the intruder then
struck at him and he lodged and ran
TO the door for his gun, but that the
man, whom he took to be burglar.
grabbed Browns trousers from OFF "A
chair and fled into the night.