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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-02-02

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WO useful styles are illus
N(IAM trated here. both suitable
S1k for cloth. serge or tweed.
n(AN The first is a semi-fitting
SN)N coat for girl of fourteen
to sixteen years; 1t Is sim
gle-breasted and has wide revers and
collar trimmed with Russian braid;
the cuffs and pockets are trimmed to
match.
Hat Of stitched velvet swathed with
soft silk
Materials required: Four yards
cloth 4S inches wide, one dozen yards
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
THETELEPHONE CELEBRATES
AN ANNIVERSARY.

Just thirty-fve years have passed
since Alexander Graham Bell received
his grant of patent for the telephone.
first used to establish new conncc-
ton between Boston and the outside
world. Its range was small in the be-
ginning. extending first to Cambridge
and then to Lowell; but today the
telephone projects speech hundreds OF
miles, and not only from booth to
booth or desk to desk, but even from
ship to ship, and from the station to
the moving train. What the wireless
development will bring forth no one can
say in view of the prodigious devel-
Opmont the old telephone companies
show in their network of wires connect
ing the four corners of the country.
Aladdin and his wonderful lamp
alone can furnish a parallel to the
story of the wonders founded upon
Bell and his telephone. In the begin
ming the power of the telephone was
undreamed of: even Bell and his asso-
ciates never dared to predict anything
like the success that has been
achieved The story of how Bell, 60
ing back to Boston from Cambridge.
after his first successful LONG distance"
experiment, was looked upon as daffy
by his fellow passengers in the little
old Bowdoin square car when he tried
to let 90 of some of his excitement
by telling them what had happened is
no more amusing or incomprehensible
than the story of how telephone stock
went begging in the pioneer days; yet
out of these humble, common place ex-
perienccs has grown a service so use
full that today the world wonders how
people in the old days ever got along
without it.
And perhaps some of these new in
ventions will grow similarly. You
never can tell. No one ventures to pre-
diet how the telephone age is to ex
pand or emerge into another-for it
ONLY takes a short time for the fancies
of Jules Verne to become old-fash-
ioned realities.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
CAPTURE OF THE COVETED
MICHELIN PRIZE.

Something more than ordinary in
terest attaches, to the successful flight
OF Aviator RenauX, who has just won
the Michelin prize of $4,000. This
prize, which has been dangling before
the eyes of the airmen for some time,
was conditioned upon flight from the
neighborhood OF Paris to the summit
of Puy-de- Dome and the circling of the
objective elevation. The trip, which.
under the terms of the competition,
had to be made by the aviator with a
passenger, was to be completed within
six hours. RenauX made the flight in
five hours and eight minutes, and
maintained an average speed for the
2l7 miles of practically a mile
minute.
1t has been generally understood
that when the prize was offered
MicheIin little dreamed that it would
ever be captGred. Heretofore he has
not shown any disposition to waive
any OF the little technical provisions
with which his offer was hedged about.
In these circumstances it is somewhat
interesting that the aviator who in all
other respects has been successful,
circled the cathedral towers of Puy de
Dome from the left instead of the right
hand side, and it is not improbable
that he may have trouble in collecting
his prize. Nothing, however, can rob
him OF having accomplished a feat
which has been the envy of the aero
nautic world for a long time, and
which stands, in many respects, as an
unrivaled test of the adaptability of
the aeroplane.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
OF MR. STRAUS
MUST BE WEARING THIN.

Nathan Straus must be a man of in
finite patience. A year ago he said to
Washington:
'I'll put in pasteurized milk labora-
tory, provide pure milk for your sick
babies. demonstrate that | can save
their lives and make them healthy, and,
at the end of six months. turn the plant
over to you free of charge, provided
you'll maintain it,,
Washington told him to come on
down. He came. He provided the sick
babies of our poor with wholesome
milk. The babies thrived. Not one of
the 500 that were fed on milk from
his laboratory died of intestinal trouble
last summer and fall Then Mr.
Straus said
I've shown YOU what can be done
| haven't time to keep the plant go
ing, but I'll give it to you and you can
run it yourselves
The commissioners gave hearing
on the subject. A committee of physi-
clans and business men was appointed.
1t regretted that the District had no
authority or funds for operating the
plant. but it recommended that Con
gr"ss pass a bill directing the Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service to
take it and maintain it.
The bill passed the Senate and cx-
pircd in the House. Now Mr.. Straus
is about ready to give up. His repre-
sentative here has announced that the
plant will be closed He leaves us one
slender hope. If the new Congress.
which meets April 4, gives any init
nation that it will pass bill provid
ing for the maintenance of the labora-
tories Mr.. Straus will keep the plant
intact a little longer.
Before deciding that it's going to be
too busy with Canadian reciprocity
and direct election of United States
Senators to pay any attention to the
babies of the District of Columbia, the
new Congress should take a look at
the Washington death rate. The Ma
tional Capital enjoys the proud dis
tinction of standing third in the list
of American cities, and the District
Health Office statistics show that the
high infant mortality is responsible for
the honor.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

being invited by Mrs. Townsend to meet
her. Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Moore are others
who have entertained Lady Wilson and
Mrs. Leeds during their stay here.
The English woman is an aunt of the
present, Duke OF Marlborough, and is
known in England as the Heroine Of
Mafeking." This title she woi during
the Boer war. when she remair ed with
her husband in Africa. She accustomed
herself to the hardships of q soldiers
life, and her ministratlOns to the sick
and wounded English soldiers made her
the idol OF the army there. During the
war Lady Wilson wrote from more than
one battlefield letters and stories to
some of the leading London newspapers.
In these she gave a record of passing
events from n wCman's viewpoint, the
viSidness and naive style of her writing.
as we'll as her social prominence. giving
an enormous circulation to her work.
Having dismissed the subject of ciga-
rette smoking, as she sat talking this
morning in a gold and rose bOudoir of
the suite occupied by herself and Mrs.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

to look something like the Valley OF
the Arno, but more like Paradise.
In community where distinguished
men are so common as to attract no
attention he will find the usual winter
colony. Perhaps the President may
play off that discontinued game Of
golf with Mr. Rockefeller, which had to
be interrupted some time ago. While
the United States army 'maneuvers"
along the Rio Grande, the Commander.
in-Chicf of the army and navy will
maneuver to put the commander-in-
chief of the Oil trust in the hole. Two
war games will be in progress at once.
In the classic shades which gave
Justice Lamar to the Supreme Bench
he will find a congenial environment
and a cordial welcome. The Nation
wishes him a happy stay.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
.BALL|NGER PLANS
SEEKING REDRESS
Will Bring Suits Against
Clifford Pinchot and
Others.

The famous Ballinger-P Pinchot contro-
versy will be threshed over in the courts
Of the District of Columbia fro1l start
to finish.
1t will be aired again In prosecutions
for damages which former Secretary of
the Interior Ballinger will bring against
Clifford Pinchot, and against other par
ties, whom he charges with having un-
justly assailed him. Mr.. Ballinger has
said he ifkprosecute the men who have
been following him with the assassin 5
knife"
The suit against Clifford Pinchot will
be for damages for a large sum. prob
ably a half million dollars. In addi-
ton to suing Mr.. Pinchot Mr.. Ballinger
is planning to attack some Of the pub
locations which went after his scalp the
hardest.
Mr. Ballinger Is understood to plan to
sue Mr.. Iinchot first, and then go on
the trail Of the offending publications.
The suit against former Chief Forester
Pfnchot will necessarily be at the home
of the defendant, which Is this city.
Some of the other suits will doubtless
be brought elsewhere. 1t Is expected
that many disclosures will be made on
both. sides pot made in the Congression-
al investigation, and that both Ballinger
and Pinchot will gather around them a
brilliant corps Of attorneys.
Reports are current Of a shake-up in
the Interior Department, as soon as
Walter L. Fisher. the new Secretary.
takes charge. It is believed these re-
ports are more or less speculative. AS
sistant Secretary Pierce has contemplate
ed retirement for some time, and he IS
expected to resign at an early date.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
BUSINESS-LIKE PARK POLICY
is NECESSARY.

A note of broad. common sense was
sounded by Engineer Commissioner
Judson at the Board of Trade last
evening, when he appealed to the busi-
ness men of Washington for strict ad-
herence to the Mcmillan park plan.
Washington should profit by the cx-
perience of London and Paris in the
purchase of park lands. Over there
the requirement of such property was
delayed until the lands suitable for
parks had been built up. Finally. a
few years ago. public sentiment reached
a point where big, comprehensive park
systems were demanded. The govern
ments yielded and are now engaged in
establishing park systems in those two
great capitals. But the expense of the
projects is enormous. In order to create
the parks desired it is necessary to tear
down large buildings in sections of
the cities. rip out pavcmPnts, and plant
trees and shrubs. In Paris the cx-
pense of acquiring land alone will he
S2OO.O0O.0OO. In London it will be as
much or more.
The keynote of Major Judson's plea
is that the park system for the Dis
,trict be established before the arrival
of such conditions as now confront
London and Paris If park lands are
acquired before d long period of time
elapses, the expense will be relatively
small, and in the meantime we'll have
the parks.
The Commissioners plea that the
Mcmillan plan be adhered to should ap-
peal to every citizen of the District
and to every member of Congress-
Certainly no better plan could be
evolved, and unless it is followed the
money spent i'll obtaining it will be
thrown away. As Major Judson says,
if all interests of the District pull to-
gether for the parks in the Mcmillan
project, all the parks will be purchased
within a few years. No one section
will have 20 wait very long.
This is a time 70 forget self-intcrcst.
1t is a time for the District to frown
down park schemes originating with
people who have land to sell to the
Government It is a time to get to-
gether and present to Congress a united
public sentiment for the park commits
sion's plan for the permanent beauti-
fcation of the National Capital. If
the citizens of the District seize this
opportunity, the Mcmillan project-a
seven years dream-can be realized.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
THE PUBLIC INTEREST TURNS
TO GEORGIA.

With the Nationals at Ponce de Leon
Park and the President holding forth
in the Auditorium, the Georgia capital
will soon look like the Capital of the
Nation. Were it not that the object
of his visit is clearly set forth on the
program of the Southern Business Con-
gress. one might suppose that the en-
thusiastic fan of the White House was
going to root for the home team.
From present indications the appoint
ment to miss the Colonel will be
punctually kept. unless the &atter at
tempts the automobile trip from Sa-
vannah to Atlanta, of which some
thing has been said of late, in which
event a breakdown on the way might
precipitate meeting. The mere men
tion of such a contingency, however,
smacks of politics, and on this trip
the President is TO rest and loaf his
soul. The golf links out on the Sand
Hills near Augusta were never in better
condition. The yellow jessamines be-
gin to kiss their own reflections in the
waters of Lake Olmstead. The view
from the quarters assigned to the
President, commanding the broad
sweep of the Savannah valley, begins
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
OWEN TO CONTINUE
STATEHOOD FIGHT
Will Oppose Admission of
New Mexico At Extra
Session.

Senator Owen, while at the White
House today, declared that the fight
against the admission of New Mexico
until Arizona is also admitted to the
Union, would be carried on in the
extra session with just the same vigor
that he had opposed one without the
other in the closing hours of the last
Congress.
Furthermore Senator owen explained
that his fight which developed into
the most picturesque filibuster of the
whole session was not an impulse. He
said that he had carefully planned the
whole affair because he knew that was
the only way in which he could bring
the initiative and referendum as an
issue, prominently before the country.
IF I can prevent it," said the Sem
ator, New Meyico shall not be admit
ted to the Union until Arizona is ad-
mitted. 1 may not be able to do this
but i shall try and shall try with all
the force at my command. I do not
take this stand because / want to keep
New Mexico out Of the Union-I think
that territory should be admitted-but
1 do 1t because 1 think Arizona is equal
ly entitled to admission
My fight against the New Mexico
bill was made primarily to bring the
issue of the initiative and referendum
squarely before the American people.
Half the states in the Union either
have now adopted that propaganda or
else are about to do so. This Is no
new issue. 1t is an old issue and it
has back Of 1t the safest thought of the
country.
The statehood fight will be one Of
the biggest in the next Congress con-
cluded the Senator from Oklahoma.
1T is bound. to come to the front.
And it will stay at the front until il is
met and decided squarely and fairly
to the people of both territories
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
Therefore, Ladies
Smoke Cigarettes.

And with a little wave OF the hand
and a dazzling smile. she dismissed, as
if satisfactorily settled once and forever
the much mOOted question:
Can perfect lady smoke a cigar
cite and still be perfect LADY,"
Lady Wilson, who is the wife of
Major Gordon Chesney Wilson, Nj. V. o.
(meaning Member Victorian OrderD, of
the British army, with Mrs. William b.
Leeds. OF New York. has been the toast
of Washington's smart set during her
three days stay in the Capital, en-
route from Palm Beach. Miami, and
other Florida resorts, to New York
Escorted by Postmaster General Hitch
cock, she was received by President
Taft at the White House, and has been
honor guest at breakfast given by
Mrs. Richard Townsend, a distinguished
company of diplomats. statesmen, and
members of Washingtons resident set
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

is evident from the interviews which
appear in The Times today that the
indictment does not apply to the prac-
titioners in the District of Columbia,
nor to the hospital nurses, who were
included in DR.. Boos' sweeping state
ment.
1t would be an appalling situation if
it were really true that the seductive
and destructive drug habit had caught
the medical profession in its coils
Life and health are so peculiarly in
the keeping of the learned profession
which works with drugs and at the
same time is charged with RESPONSE
bilities which the layman does not
even pretend to understand that
a period of general decentralization
would ensue if once the popular mind
became imbued with the idea that the
family physician might be a secret
user of drugs. 1t is reassuring to be
told, not merely that the indictment is
false, SO far as Washington is con-
cerned, but that even if one physician
should become addicted to the habit
it would at once be detected by the
medical profession. In that event, it
is presumed, the profession would take
appropriate steps to protect itself
In the light of the evidence brought
out today, DIR. Boos' sweeping charge
may be safely dismissed as mis-
statement born of feverish imagina-
ton.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
Warned Before Coming to
America of Distaste for
Habit Here.
DISCUSSES MEN AND
SIGHTS OF CAPITAL
81 Think Americans and Their
Ways Are Delicious" She
Exclaims on Visit.

Maybe some Of you American women
can tell me where its going to lead
this question of votes for women. or
course they want votes. I can under
stand that in the working woman.
Woman's suffrage is a working woman's
cause. and 1 don't suppose any one can
blame them for wanting the ballot. But
where is it going to lead them. / won
der? Do they want representation
in parliament, or in your Congress? And
when they get busy with their constitu-
encies, who is going 10 rear the chill
dren? Indeed, / may ask, who is going
to have the children
From women in general, the converse
tion here turned to the woman who is
ct present most in the public eye in
England-Queen Mary.
New Queen a
Pretty Woman.
''She is such a pretty woman" de-
clares Lady Wilson, this new Queen Of
ours. Her most decided characteristics?
Well. it is hard to tell just yet for what
things her public life will be distir-
guished. You see. as Princess Of wales,
she was In the background, so to speak.
She was the model mother, the perfect
domestic type dear to the heart of eng.
land, and she will always be these
things to the English public. But what
more she will be, one cannot tel. But
she is very, very pretty,-tall, and
blonde, with lovely coIOring, and with
the most gracious manner You IAN con-
ceive."
During her visit to America this sea-
son, Lady Wilson has been the guest
of Mrs. William B. Leeds, Of New
York She has seen, on this and former
occasions, into the inner circles of
the most exclusive society o. Washing
ton and New York. And this society,
she declares, is remarkable for its ele-
gance, its beauty, and its taste. It's
servants are properly trained, declares
Lady Wilson (than which. from the
viewpoint Of the average high born
English woman, there could be no high
er praise), and its men as intelligent
as its women are well gOwned. The
vulgar display which many foreigners
come to associate with the words
American Society" Lady Wilson has
found lacking in the entertainments
given in her honor here and in New
York
washington is a beautiful capital,
she declares, land the vastness and
beauty Of its public buildings has quite
taken my breath away. And, oh yes
happened during my visit to America
was my meeting with President Taft,
that most delightful. of Americans.
felt so honored."
And she smokes only ten cigarettes a
daylight or ten!
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
F nous Englishwoman
Never Exceeds Ten Gig
arettes a Day.
TOO EXPENSIVE
TO BE A LUXURY
On Account Of the Cost of Tobacco
She Condemns the Habit of
Using 1t.
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

"Smoking?" asked Lady Sarah WILL
son, daughter of the seventh Duke of
Marlborough, and beauty, wit, and
leader In the exclusive court circle of
England. And she tilted her chin in a
the defensive.
Smoking, did you say? Well, II is
q bad habit, | admit But for myself,
| never smoke over eight or ten cigar
cites a day. You see, l am not an ex-
tremist in any sense of the word.
AT any rate, | congratulate myself
that | have had no embarrassing eX-
periences in America Just because 1t
happens that ! follow the English GUS
tom of putting a dainty cigarette now
and then. My American friends were
good enough to warn me of the preju-
dice which exists in the American
hotels against a woman's smoking. And
so | have been careful.
But l agree that It Is a bad habit,
Tor the simple reason that II Is expens-
i've frightfully expensive. ! am willing
to admit that We women Of the higher
classes in England, and that the
very rich women of America. would do
well to follow the example of women
who forego the cigarette. For It really
IS frightfully expensive, don't you
know.
AZ any rate. don't blame me for the
habit. Blame custom. Blame the COM
plexity of modern life. Blame the
strenuOusness OF the London season or
some of the other things that get upon
a womans nerves. until she finds 1t
necessary to take a few soothing puffs
now and then. But do not blame me,
as I have limited myself to
q L
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

Leeds at the New Willard Hotel, Lady
Wilson turned to the defense of the
down-trOdden American man.
American Men
Charming, Delicious"
why, he is charming He is dell
Cious," she said with great enthusiasm.
Il had expected. from all description of
him, to find the American man a crea-
ture who could talk nothing but busi-
ness. Why, they know art, and books,
and music. just as other people do
/ have met some charming men here
Why, they don't come over to Europe
this type-I can't know. There must
be something in the statement that they
have to stay at home, and make money
for their wives"
Lady Wilson, unlike many of her
Countrywomen of wealth and promf-
nence, has escaped the woman suffrage
craze. She does not lay claim TO ever
having been arrested for sake of the
cause, or even to have attended a street
meeting of English suffragettes. With
regard to the woman suffrage question
she observed:
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
Mrs. Turnbull's Daughter
Not Lucky" Baldwin Heir

Anita Baldwin Turnbull is not legal
heir to the estate of the late Elias ].
Baldwin. called Lucky" for there was
never any marriage between. Beatrice
Anita Turnbun, said to be her mother,
and Baldwin. This is the verdict that
the jury has returned in the suit brought
brought by the seventeen-year-old girl,
claiming a share of the $1,000 left by
the famous plunger. The jury, was in
structed to return the verdict and an
exception was noted and announcement
made that appeal would be made to the
Supreme Court.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
PHYSICIANS SCOUT THE DOPE
FIEND CHARGE.

If DR.. William F. Boos, expert toxi-
cologist of the Massachusetts General
Hospital, was looking for notoriety
when he made the statement that
10 per cent of the members
of the medical profession are
dope fends, he has not been disap-
pointed. Whatever may be the condi-
tions in those sections of the country
which have come more Immediately
under the observation of DIR. Boos, it
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
History Text Book Barred
From Roanoke College

ROANOKE, Va, March 9.-EIson's
History of the United States, said to
represent the South unfairly in it's ac-
count of the civil war, is barred from
Roanoke College. The board of trus-
tees has voted unanimously to discard
the textbook.
Prof. Thortenburg, teacher of history,
provoked the discussion of the book,
which. he says, is manifestly prejudiced
and unfair.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
Capital 7 ales

What do intend do after March when out of the Senator
to in in
OF
o
hell
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

The peace movement ought to be help
ed along considerably by the decision
to destroy the little brown dog of Bat
tersea." around which so many vivi-
section wars have ragged.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

The Green Spring Valley and other
hunt clubs which stand for the tradi-
tions should look into this report that n
New Jersey woman recently caught a
fox with her hands, and beat him 10
death with a broomstiCk
The Washington times., 1911-03-09
Dismissed Teacher Sues
For $4,000 Damages

BUTLER. Pa, March 9.-Miss Kath-
crime McCandlesS has sued the school
board for $4,000 damages for being ex-
PEELED from her teachers position for
alleged "tomboy'' actions in playing
with her pupils.
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

in
matter he
is
but Ito
campaign for reelection last he got into fight for the
The Washington times., 1911-03-09

If the Berlin press thinks that the
present "maneuvers" can bear but one
Interpretation" it should take a hasty
glance over the American newspapers
for the past few days.