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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-11

before Farley sat up as one dazed ana
seemed to be trying to get on his feet
Twice and once again he assayed il,
falling back each time upon the bent
and doubled leg. Then he looked up
and saw the slag-car coming; saw and
cried out as men scream in the death
agony. The end rails of the dumping
track were fairly above him.
Gordon heard the yell of terror and
witnessed the frenzied efforts Of the
doomed man to rise and get out Of the
path of the impending torrent. Where
upon the murder demon whispered In
his ear again. Farleys foot was caught
in one of the many sears or seams in
the lava bed hit was only necessary to
wait. to withhold the merciful bullet.
to go away and leaves the wretched
man to his fate.
Like bolt from the heavens, into
the very midst of the cold blooded,
murderous triumph came a long-neg-
lected form of words. writing itself in
flaming letteds in his brain: Thou
shalt do no murder" And after it an
other: But l say unto you, love your
enemies. bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate YOU"
Something gripped HIM and before
he realized what he was doing he was
running, gasping, tripping and falling
headlong, only to spring up and run
again, with all thoughts trampled out
and beaten down by one: would he
still be in time?
There was something wrong with the
dumping machinery of the Stag car,
and two men were working with it on
the side away from the spilling slope.
Gordon had not breath wherewith 10
shout; moreover, the sa rety- valve was
still screeching to gulf all human cries.
Farley was lying face down and mo-
tionless, with the twisted foot still
held fast in a wedge shaped crack In
the cooled Stag. Tom bent and lifted
him; yelled, tugged, strained, kicked
fiercely at the imprisoned shoeheel.
Still the vise-grip held, and the great
Kettle on the height above was creak-
Ing and slowly careening under the
winching of the engine crew. If thu
molten torrent should plunge down the
slope now, there would be two human
cinders instead of one.
Suddenly the frenzy, so alien to the
Gordon blood, spent ITSELF leaving him
cool and determined Quite methodi-
cally he found his pocket-knife, and
he remembered afterward that he had
been collected enough to choose and
open the sharper of the two blades
There was a quick, sure slash at the
shoe-lacing and the crippled foot was
freed. With another yell, this time of
glad triumph, he snatched up his bur-
den and backed away with it In the
fitting half-second when the deluge Of
Stag, firing the very air with shriveling
heat, was pouring down the slope.
Then he fell In a heap, with Farley
under him, and tainted as a woman
might-when the Thing was done.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-11
Cost Of Living at cape COLONY

Stickin- to the cost of living sub
ject. in Cape Colony butter is from
35 to 30 cents pound; chickens. *
to So; ducks, 40 to bs; fowls, 80 to AK
potatoes, cents Ia pound; toma-
toes, 4 cents; flour, 1886 to 1920 .
hundred. Eggs are 20 to rs cents q
dozen. Bricklayers get 80 cents an
hour, and carpenters. SO; painters. 25
cents; plasters, Sc; plumbers, So.
stonecutters, $3.50 day; common la
lobers (native), 81 cents a day: farm
laborers (native), $3.50 to s26
month, with board.-New York Press.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-11
Had Ttme to Spare.

Passenger say, conductor, doe
your bus ever go faster than this7
Conductor-If yer amt satisfied you
can git aht and walk.
Passenger with sweet SMILEY
Oh, I'm not in such terrible hurry a.
that, You know@ExchanRe.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-11

At the memsnt of weapon passing
there came sounds audible above the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Lost in a Jungle

From Flushed" by Katherine Mayo, in
 June Scribner's
 l looked behind. Whence had corne7 No tunnel mouth was visible. The great. deep bush loomed vague and Sphyux- like, its sliana veil drawn full across it's face. Not a leaf hickered, not an in equality showed, not a hint, not a sign suggested any entrance. Ten steps in any direction and one would be utterly engulfed from sight and seeing. The jun gle light, always dim, was already near to waning. Even could recover the way by which I came, no time remained to fetranee it-and to pass that anti-hill in the duski Clearly the only thing was to go ahead, on to the Javanese hamlet. As to those leads beyond the little cir cle, were they fkal trails or only shal- low and accidental irregularities? One could only try and see. Choosing that Of the llkelier general direction, I hur- ried forward. Some solitary bird began to toll single, solemn, long-drawn note that echoed through the dim abysses deep and clear, like funeral bell. The ground grew soft and wet. The tangle wove closer and lower. till it was no longer. possible to stand erect Then, at one step. my feet sank anlxle-deep in bog. on the verge of a pool of water black and still, and the path ended. No hu- man trail, then. this but some big beasts burrow to it's drlnking-hole.
 Turning, I hastened back, saw another possible trail-mouth tending to the right quarter, and plunged in. The lead proved, for moment, clear as drill-hole through an at once condensed and mag nified bramble-patch, then persisted for rod or so in vaguer shape, only to break off short, like the other. at deep, steep pit, full of water black from sap and rot and seepage. Again and again the thing repeated Invisible creatures jumped and rusted and sithered in the smother all around At first I had watch ed the path for snakes; for the deadly fer-de-lance, the deaGlier bushmaster, and more than one kin of the kind haunt this bush. But one could not watch every branch and spray and foothold, and not a moment remained. besides, to take thought of the fading light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
CEREALS SCORE
 SHARP ADVANCE
Scorching Heat and Hessian Fly Damage Continue
 Influence on Wheat

Chicago, June 3.-With scorching heat in Kansas and Nebraska and with Hessian fly damage spreading through Indiana, all price. Wheat led all the way and finished strong. 15sc to 134e higher than last night. Latest trading left corn 7s@1c to 11sc up, oats dearer by 7sc to 1c, and provisions unchanged or costing 214c to 5c more than before
 In contrast with previous days the strengthening and expansion of the wheat market was nearly uniform instead of being confined to single option. An other noticeable feature was the fact that the damage reports from both Indiana and the west were accompanied by orders to purchase wheat Foreigners also were active buyers in Chicago.
 A good deal of the time the market was entirely bare of offerings. Cash wheat rose with the futures.
 ! The big owners going sharply after the car-lot arrivals and paying stiff rates for the privilege. Hot. dry weather re- ported In Russia and Roumania fur. nished additional incentive to the bulls so that the market mounted almost in q vertical line from the opening till the close. For July the top and bottom fig ures for the day were 9Sllc and 915sc, with last sales 931sc. a net gain of 1%c.
 Lightness of country sales had consid- erably to do with the advance in corn Improvement in the eastern shipping call was partly responsible, and so, too was the wheat strength. July ranged from 537sc to 54s4c, and closed firm 7s41c up at 5424c. Cash grades were in favorable demand No. yellow finished at 55Q 55Ac.
 Complaints were numerous that oats had been heading short In many phases of the leading states. Decreased acreage cut figure also and there was growing anxiety in regard to scantiness of the hay crop. In consequence July oats, after fuctuating between 36c and 37Ac, closed M@D1c net Higher at 37c straight, almost the record price thus far during the crop year.
 Despite slow trade in provisions the market could not wholly escape the bull fish spirit of the neighboring pits. Pork was chalked a nickel higher at the end after the day, and there were lesser gains put to the credit of lard and ribs.
 Flture quotations were as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Mystery of "Hogback" Tombstone


 "Hogback" tombstones, which number but half dozen or so in the whole of England, constitute one of the mysteries which archAeologists are ever attempting to solve More thought perhaps has been expended on the 'hogback" at Hoysham, for instance, than on any other one tomb stone in Christendom, and the problem in- volved is by no means elucidated. J.. Home Nicholson, president of the his torical section of the Archaeological m stitute, thinks that the basso-relievo sculpture on this singular tombstone, which was unearthed in the Heysham churchyard, near Morecambe, some eighty or ninety years ago, refers to Scandina- vian legends. Another scientist holds that the figures represnt an animal hunt, prob ably owing to the fact that one of the sculptured beasts is a stag. One man imagined he had found a clew to the meaning of the carvings in the legends or the saints in the apocryphal gospels. But on hearing this a fourth savant stated that, in his opinion, religion had nothing whatever to do with 1t; the tomb was merely that of an ancient huntsman. as the hounds heads at the ends clearly showed. -s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
New York Cotton Futures
Daily Cotton Movement

Galveston: Holiday: net receipts, 1045 gross receipts. 1o45; stock, 24,215 coast. wise 424.
 New orleans: Quiet; middling + 7-16c; net receipts, 4s4; gross re- ceipts, 494; sales. 254; stock, S1,350; to Great Britain, 15.
 Mobile: Quiet; middling, IS H c; stock, 70S2; coastwise. 19.
 Savannah: Holiday; net receipts, 1256: gross receipts, 1261; stock, 14,660; continent, 4901.
 Charleston: Nominal; middling, 15% c; stock, 9117.
 Wilmington: Nominal; stock, 3653.
 Norfolk: Quiet; middling, 15%c; net receipts, 407; gross receipts, 407; sales, 23: stock, 14,430; coastwise, 359.
 Baltimore: Nominal; middling, 15Bc; stock, 2906.
 New York: Quiet; middlng. 15.s0c; net receipts. CT; gross receipts, 1732; stock, 129,0o2; to Great Britain, 1000; continent, 1882.
 Boston Quiet; middling, 15.75c; gross receipts, 3266; stock, 12,921.
 Philadelphia: Quiet middling, 16.o5c; stock, 1925. Jack sonvile: Net receipts. 165; gross receipts, 165; coastwise, 165. Brunswick: Stock, "A. Total today at all ports, net 3434; Great Britain, 1915; continent 6233i stock. 301, 1885. Consolidated at all ports. net s4S4; continent, 6233. Total since September 1 at all ports, net S,376,004; Great Britain, 3,219,612; France, SSS,654; continent, 2,906,S63 Ja- pan, 145,749; Mexico, 2025.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Fireless Cooking for Docs

From Country Life in America.
 Cooking the dogs food had been rather difficult problem in our household. either because the kitchen range was otherwise occupied or because the cook was. and the long, slow cooking neces- sary for cereals and tough meats was sell dom accomplished without friction. Now we put the meat and bones, with enough water to cover them, in a fireless recep- tacle, bring the contents of the poet to
 the boiling point in about five minutes.
 and then pack the kettle away in the fireess cooker for five or six hours. The
 meat is then tender enough to peel from the bone and more water is added, and whatever cereal we wish to use. The
 whole mass Is once more brought to the ] boiling point and put back in the cooker l In another four or five hours we find a
 supply of richly favored food that keeps l fresh in cool place for several days 1 The dogs seem to enjoy the food prepared in this way, and we are sure of its being thoroughly cooked, and never scorched,
 and the time occupied in the kitchen is
 minimized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
A Sherlock Holmes

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 ''Hah!" exclaimed Sherlock Holmes Jr.
 Very we'll Sheri' said Doctor. What son, If you wish it I will hah!
 Have you noticed that man with ths grayish hair and the important man ner?"
 "Of course. I coudl not very we'll hell doing so. He would attract attention anywhere
 He was born in the country and spen his boyhood either on a farm or in { small town"
 What is his name?"
 T don't tknow.''
 "If you don't know his name, how have you found out that he was once coun try boy? There is no hayseed in his hair and I can see nothing about him to indi cate that he has not always been used tt city ways"
 'Of course you can't. There isn't any thing of that kind about him. But didn' you hear that man who pointed him ou a moment ago say he was the greates man in this great citN?"
 "Ah, Sherlock, they can't beat you, al deducer. Since you explain it the who'll thing is as plain as day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Montgomery Markets

Montgomery, June s.-(Special. .)-Spot cotton was quoted in Montgomery today as follows: Middling. 15Ac; strict mid ding. 15asc. Eggs are quoted at 15c wholesale and 20c retail Chickens and hens are rating from 20c to 45c. Potatoes-Seed per bushel, s1.25. Lemons-M -Messina, per box, $6.50.
 California black-eyed peas, 6c per pound.
 Onions, s1. 80 to s2 per crate.
 Peaches California. g to g. 20 per crate.
 Bacon-Ribs, SAC; bulk, 9c.
 Lard-Pure, 9Ac basis; fancy cotton oil lard, S1hc; packers compound, Sc.
 Butter-Creamery firsts, 26c and ZIG; country, 11c and 15c; renovated, 200 to 21Ac.
 Fiour-Fancy, nominal, straights, s3.S5 to 8. 90; patent, s4.6O to s5; extra fancy patents, $6 to $6.25.
 Meal-Standard 96-pound bags, S1 40; per lection waterground, S1.45.
 Coffee-Ordinary, 141ac to 15iac; prime, 16c to 1Sc: fancy 200 to 22c; peabery, 221sc; Arbuckle's, $2210 per case. New York basis; Mocha and Java blend. 2719c.
 Sugar-Granulated, 5Ac; Y. C., 5Ac; fancy Y. G. 5lsc.
 Full creame cheese. daisies. 171ac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04

CTS. s9.s5q5.65; cows and heifers. $2.40Q 5.S0; calves, $525Q7.75.
 Hogs-Receipts estimated at 5000; mar ket slow at yesterdays average. Light, s3.7506.12; mixed, s5. 7Od6. .05; heavy, $5.5 Q6; rough, s5.55@5.75 good to choice heavy $5.75Q6; pigs, $5.30q6; bulk of sales, $5.9046
 Sheep-Receipts estimated at 5000; mar ket steady; native, s3@4.45; western, $Sd 4.50; yearlings, s4.25QG5.15; lambs, native, s5 4596.90; western, s4.25@7.T.
 Kansas City June .-Cattle-Receipts, 300, including 200 southerns; market steady. Dressed beef and export steers, $5 7516.35; stockers and feeders, s4.25@550; southern steers, $4.10@5.60; southern cows, s3a450.
 Hogs-Receipts 20O0; market steady to weak. Bulk of sales, $5.S0@5.90; heavy, $5. 5.S095S5; packers and butchers, $5.S0Q 5.90; lights, s5.S0@5.9O.
 Sheep-Receipts, none; market steady Lambs, s5.5oQ7; yearlings, $4.25q5; weth- CTS. $s.75@4.2 251s ewes. $3.4Oq3.so; stockers and feeders, $2.5003.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Food for Man

From the New York Press.
 People in general eat a sensible mixed diet, and change it to suit the taste, hav- ing a wide variety of wholesome food
 from which to select a few substantial dishes for each meal. Experience of the ages has taught that to get all the ele-
 ments necessary to the maintenance of
 the body in perfect health and vigor only certain foods must be eaten. Some of these foods supply energy, some make good the ldaily waste of the system, while others again are merely heat producers. But humanity is made up of all sorts, and while in some parts of the earth men are still eaten, in others birds nests are a dainty, and in parts of Africa and Asia the elephants foot Is considered one of the finest of all dishes. The foods are few that can supply al lthe elements nec-
 essary to man, so variable and changing
 diet of meat eggs, milk, fish. fruits, ce-
 reals and vegetables has to be used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
PRICES STEADY
 AT NET ADVANCE Holiday in New Orleans and Liverpool Tend to Re-
 strict Market

New York, June 3.-While the holiday in Liverpool and New Orleans tended to restrict business in the local cotton mar ket today there was a moderately ac- tive trade and prices ruled generally steady to firm with the close very steady at a net advance of to 19 points. Oc- tober contracts sold at 1337c or even with the high level reached on May IS, and new crop months were relatively firm during the entire day on reports that gov ernment experts were finding the boil weeyil numerous in Clarke county, Ala bama. and rumors of hot winds in Ark ansas.
 The market opened steady at an ad- vance of 3 to points on overnight buy 1 ing orders, which were supposed for the most part to reflect covering by shorts who were disappointed that the high con- | dition report of the government had not exerted a more depressing influence | on the market yesterday. Right after
 the opening there was a little irregulari-
 ty and the old crop showed momentary weakness with August easing off from | 1h .20c to 15. 14c under scattering liquida-
 tion, but the new crop barely responded
 to the old crop setback and the entire
 list soon flrmed up on buying on both
 accounts inspired by the continued dry
 weather in the south and the boil weevll
 rumors mentioned above. Last prices
 were within a point or two from the top on nearly all the active months. The weather map showed temperatures of 100 to TOT degrees at 3S points in the cot ton belt and there was nothing in the forecast to indicate any relief from the drouthy conditions complained of beyond the possibility of occasional showers in extreme south Georgia and west North Carolina. Old crop bulls were buyers of new crop positions on the advance and the fall months continued support from leading spot interests.
 The weekend figures showed rather smaller spinners' takings than for the same week last year, but owing to the small into-sight movement the decrease In the supply of American cotton was 127,353 bales, against 122,095 last year, making the present visible 1,S27,9S2, against 1S50.560 last season. Receipts today S434, against 4450 last week and 4573 last year. For the week 22,000, against 27.724 last week and 41,7O1 last year. Today's re- ceipts at New Orleans 494, against 1862 last year and at Houston 54, against $50 last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
STOCK PRICES \ MOVE UPWARD
Trading Is Unusually Ac- tive Among the Leading
 Issues for Week-End

New York. June 3.-The advance In nrices on the stock exchange was con- tinued today and trading was unusu- ally heavy for the weekend session. A majority of the leading issues made new high records for the year and the movement comprehended number of minor specialties. After the move ment had carried prices up point or more in some cases the pressure of proflt-taking sales caused some reces- sions without, however, impairing the markets appearance of underlying strength. Realizing was especially heavy in the Hill stocks by reason of the extent of their recent rise and they Jagged behind other railroad Is sues. Canadian Pacific and American Telephone showed some heaviness.
 One of the most interesting features of the brief session was the sale soon after the opening of block of $l,o0o,- 900 Atchison convertible As at 105. This is one of the largest transactions in railroad bonds within the memory or Wall street traders. The bonds were sold to banking house, which recent ly took over by direct purchase some s12,OoO,0o0 OF these securities from the roads bankers.
 Increased activity In movement ot freight was indicated by the fornlghtIy report on idle cars, showing decrease in the number during the last period,
 The weekly bank statement showed an increase in loans for the first time in about two months. In the actuai statement the increase was $l2,60o,ooo with a cash loss of nearly $6,3OO,O00. Loans of non-member banks and trust oomranies fell $4,500,000. The exhibit as a whole was well within expectations, the important changes reflecting It, tle more than syndicate bond purchases, together with June interest and div idend disbursements.
 The bond market was irregular. American Tobacco As fell off but lit file later effected a full recovery; total sales. par value. sS,249,0oo. United States government bonds were un- changed on call for the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Algebra Taught to Tune

From the Louisville Herald.
 IL is reported that a French teacher has invented a system for teaching al- zebra in poetry. This may be intended as joke. but 1t Is a fact that about DO years ago there was an educational sys- tenn in vogue by which considerable share of the academic curriculum was set to music and sung by the teachers and classes. Even the multiplication table was one of the song with the five column ss chorus sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle" AS there was no such thing as music teaching in the schools at that time the resultant discord may be im- agined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Hubbard Bros. & Co.'s Letter

New York, June Sour market to- day has ruled firm, closing at the best prices, due to fear that the present warm weather in the south will in- jure the young plants, especially in the southwest and in the Carolinas. There was at no time any great demand Tor the summer months, which were for sale on strong periods. The distant de- liveries were being bought largely for Wall street account, based on the idea stated above, which is an indication Of the point of view that the crop will be watched for the entire season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04

Cash quotations were as follows:
 Flour-Steady winter patents, $3.9oq40o; straights, $3.7oq4. .25; spring straights, $4.lO GA. .25; bakers, s. 4oa4. 50. Rye-No. 2, 92c. Barley-Feed or mixing, 6oQ7Oc; fair to choice malting, 750SSc. Flax Seed-No. 1 southwestern, nomi- nal: No. northwestern, nominal. Timothy Seed-s12 Clover-s15.75 Mess Pork-Per barrel, S14.S71sq15. I.ard-Per 100 pounds, $S.021a. Short Ribs, Sides-Looses $7.S71aQS.
 Short Clear Sides-Boxed, s .121sqS 25. Butter-Weak creameries. 17@21c; dairies, 15Aa19c.
 Eggs-Weak; receipts, 14,466 cases; at mark, cases included, 11Q111sc; firsts, lSc; prime firsts, 14c. Chcese-Steady; Daisies, 1l1a@l1%c; Twins, 10%@11c; Young Americans, 1ls@ 11&c; Long Horns, 111z@11Ac. Poultry-Steady; turkeys, live 12c
 Potatoes-Steady; new, s1.1oa1.12; old 3s@40c. 4 fowls, 121kc; springs, dressed, 22d26c.
 Veal-Steady; 90 to 60-pound weights, 7q 71hc; 60 to S5-pound weights. sq9c; S5 to 110-pound weights, 9q10c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
London Stock Market

London, June 3.-The stock exchange was quiet during the week, but on the whole cheerful, the easy carry-over giving decidedly better tone The American market, however. was the center of real activities. British gilt edge stocks ruled strong early owing to the weakening of money. rates, but consols deprecated at the end of the week on the cessation of government buying and after allowance for the dividend showed a loss of 1sd on the week.
 Although the American department hung fire early in the week in conse- quence of the holiday in Wall street and the anxiety over the tobacco de- cision, trading subsequently, became quite brisk and closed buoyant with values generally net A d to hd higher. Canadian Pacific was especially strong, showing a gain of 4ssd.
 The monetary situation remains easy, being influenced by the gold arrivals from south Africa and Paris and on the exception that in the absence of foreign demand the Bank of England will secure the gold arriving from South Africa and elsewhere for some time. Discount rates continue steady
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
Elour and Enodstuffs

Corrected by Tennessee Mill Co.) Self-raising flour, 8. 70.
 Nellie King flour. per barrel, A.75. Bolted meal per 96-pound sack, $l.42. No. corn, per bushel, kiln dried, 7Sc. Pure wheat shorts, $50. Pure wheat bran, 50. 1Oo-lb. C. S. hults, per ton. SIP. Prime c. s. meal per ton, s3S. c. S. feed meal. per ton, $25. No. 1 timothy hay. per ton, $23. Mixed alfalfa and Johnson grass, y1s. Corn chops, per 10o-lb. sack, s1.15. Flour in wood, 15c higher. White oats, DOC.
 Choice pea-g green alfalfa. S25.