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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
ImpractlcabIe Suggestion.

Robert Henri, the artist, was talk
ing at tea at Sherry's, in New York,
about the Latin quarter.
"In the Latin Quarter" he said, "in
little streets off the Boule Mich, 1t is
possible to get good dinner for Is
cents-and even at that there's many
Latin Quarterite goes dinnerless."
Mr. Henri smiled and sighed
"One spring afternoon" he resumed,
"as l was sketching the horses of the
green bronze fountain in the Luxem-
bourg Gardens, youth stopped and
talked awhile.
"The spring sunshine on the youths
coat brought out all it's shabbiness mer-
and l ventured to hint:
Look here, old chap, why don't you
have that coat turned?'
He smoothed the shabby sleeves
ruefully.
81 would, he said, II 1t had three
Sides"
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Wyoming.

The Miami Copper Company, Miami,
Ariz., is putting $500 tons per day
through it's concentrator and produc-
ing refined copper at the rate Of q
100000 pounds per month.
At Miami, Ariz., the Live Oak mine,
station cutting on the 900-foot level In
No. shaft is in progress, and drifts
and raises are being driven on ore at
the eastern end of the ore body
The Ray Eastern Copper Company.
Globe, Ariz., owning the New Era
group of ten claims on Mineral creek,
south of the Cole-Goodwin mine, has
been installing equipment at it's No.
shaft recently, preparatory to unwater-
ing 1t.
The New Keystone Copper Company
at Miami, Ariz.. is operating one churn
drill northwest Of the shaft, but
whether the ore reserve is being in
creased can not be learned. The ore
bearing schist on this property is over
lain by sheet of granite-porphyry.
Henry Krumb consulting engineer
of the Inspiration Copper Company. at
Miami, :.riz., estimates the company's
ore reserves of December 1st at 30.-
1890 tons, an increase of $4,000
tons over the previous report. The
same grade of ore, 1885 per cent, con-
tinues to be the average.
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The kinglet, smaller than any of our birds. save
the ruby throated humming bird alone manages
to live through all the cold Northern winter and
be all the while as cheerful a robin in April
The kinglet far the experience of one per-
son is concerned at least prefers to get his sum-
mer food in the thick bushes, and seemingly has
a preference for those which near clambering
vines The kinglets cast about for likely places
in which to pass the winter. As far be
ascertafned they simply get into the heart of some
thickly twigged bush through which run vine
branches and there all night long they defy both
cold and snow.
The great northern shrike which is due in the
northern states from its summer home In the
British possessions about October 1, spends his
nights close to the bole Of evergreen tree.
There is little cump of evergreens well within
the limits of the city of Chicago where half
dozen of these birds roost nightly from October
to March Inasmuch they live diet of
English sparrows and spend all the daylight hours
in the laudabe vocation of killing the imported
feathered pest the exact location of their roosting
place will not be given for fear some champion
of the sparrow might disturb the rest of these
feathered friends, whom many unkind enough
to call butcher birds.
AS matter of fact one need feel little anxiety
for the welfare of the birds that stay with us in
winter. The nursery ditty of What will the robin
do then, poor thing?" is tear-compelling, but the
robin. the buebird. the jay, and the chickadee
will all care for themselves and will feel envy
OF man in his steam heated fiat.
During the bitter weather Of winter while peo-
pie with hearts in the right places scattering
crumbs and seeds at their doorsteps for the little
feathered land visitors, the great city of Chicago
whole is doing its best to feed the storm
blown birds OF Lake Michigan. Not all the sew
age Of the city, notwithstanding the completion
Of the drainage canal is sent towards the Missis
sippi Some little of 1t still finds it way into the
lakes with its burden of garbage. and there the
gull scavengers. by eating much of the output that
from their point Of appetite is edible. do their best
to aid In purifying the water supply
In the dead Of winter when the cold is SO in
tense that it seems that exposed creature can
live the waste of water between Chicago and
st. Joe. Mich, is peopled with strange feathered
visitors. who shun the same water stretches when
the wind blows soft out Of the south. storm
which and preceded spell" of zero
weather brought with it from the north scores
of strange, beautiful arctic visitors known as
long tailed ducks. They may be seen all through
the winter well out into the open water of Lake
Michigan. They fairly revel in cold weather
and In cold water. 1t is highly probable that
they would never come to the great lakes at all
were 1t not for the fact that everything north
ward 10 frozen solid. The male "longtail" 10 a
beauty. with his strongly contrasted black and
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white plumage and the two great sweeping tail
feathers that give him his name. With his wife
he does not lack other Names and they are
known in various places as "old injun" "old
wife" "old molly" "old granny" "old squaw.
and ''old south southerly" Because of the oily
nature of their flesh these ducks unfit for
food, and yet the gunners on the Chicago break
waters and the government pier used to kill
dozens of them in the pure wantonness Of sport.
When the sloping stone abutment that pro-
tects the outer Lincoln Park driveway. Chicago,
from the waves Is piled high with ice during the
winter the venturesome person who will scale
the side Of the pile may in the dark water
only a few yards beyond one of the most beauti-
full ducks known to the bird kingdom The
golden eye. or whistle wing frequents the cold
waters of Lake Michigan all through the winter,
and comes close to the shore. 1t is seldom that
more than four five together, and
oftener a single pair will be found If the pro-
lection which the male apparently tries to ex-
tend to the female during all times Of the year
be basis for judgment, these birds remain
mated for life.
The golden eye almost Invariably places him
self between his gentler companion and danger
and when they are swimming or flying to new
foraging places he invariably leads the way.
The movement Of their wings is SO rapid that
it produces a musical whistling audible at
great distance. Because Of the rapidity of their
flight the Indians call them spirit ducks believ
ing that supernatural aid is given them to
add to the swiftness Of their journeyings.
allies OF the Chicago health department in win
ter the herring, the ring-bed gulls. The
herring gull is a big grayish creature almost
pure white II he is three years old, with black
tips to his wings. The young of the first year
are mottled gray, entirely different in appearance
from their parents The result of this difference
is that people looking at winter flock OF the
gulls think that 1t contains several species. The
lagoons in Jackson and Lincoln Parks are often
fairly covered with these birds, provided heavy
storm is coming in from the eastward.
A delicate-looking bird is the kittewake gull.
1t does not look as II 1t could stand the rigors
Of lake winter weather for day, and yet neither
storm cold succeeds in chilling its optimism
or in abating its industry. The kittewakes have
been in the lake of Chicago in winter. and here
they doubtless occasionally have remained until
March.
A bird lover considers It pathological
epoch when he sees grea, blackbacked gull.
The persistent and careful observer who cares
nothing for weather conditions may find this rare
creature, perhaps the largest Of our guls, II he
will but keep constant watch along the lake
front The bird has been here several
occasions in winter. Its name gives good de
scription of It. 1t is sometimes known grew
somely the coffin carrier
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The Connolsseur.

Joseph E. Widener, being congraru-
lated at the Ritz-Carlton in New York
on the excellence Of his fathers pic
lures, smiled and said
Yes, my father has been discreet
collector. He is not like the New
York millionaire whom Sargent WIS.,
tied
Sargent was taken by this million
airs through huge gallery of dubi-
GUS Rembrandts, Titians. Raphaels and
Murillos.
Mr.. Sargent the millionaire said.
gazing pompously at the long lines of
vast, dingy canvases, I have decided
to leave my pictures to some public in.
stitution. What institution would you
suggest
."I suggest said Mr.. Sargent, an
institution for the blind"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
FIGHTS POSTAGE INCREASE
American Newspaper Publishers A.
ISOLATION Committee Attacks
Plan to Double Rates.

Washtngton.-A warm attack on
Hitchcocks plan to increase the Sec
ond-class postage rates is contained in
. bulletin Just issued by the postal
committee OF the American Newspa-
per Publishers association. Don c.
Seitz of the New York World is chair
man Of the committee. The bulletin
says:
The extent to which the post
Office department does not carry Sec
ond-class matter Is well revealed in
the following abstract OF inquiry OF
publishers conducted by house COM
mittee on expenditures in the post
office department (William A. Ash
brook. chairman) concerning the vol
ume. weight and handling OF the out
put OF publications entered as mail
matter Of the second-class for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1911:
Inquiry was made of all publish
ers. approximating thirty thousand. OF
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications
More than ten thousand returns
were received, embracing sixty-six
plus per cent of all tonnage of pub
locations.
The publications reporting repre-
sent an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies, the
weight of which was one and three
quarter billion pounds.
These publications delivered by
mail in such period weighed 633.012.-
902 pounds.
They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, and news companies
S40.466,574 pounds, of which an unas-
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They de-
livered by express, 202, $40 pounds.
and by other rail shipments 121.491 -
rail varies from u to l cent per
pound, but the bulk of these ship
ments went at a rate of 4 to ~ cent
per pound.
THE post office for the year end
ing June 80, 1911. handled 951, ,001.-
669, and excluding one-half million
pounds free In county matter. it re-
ceived one cent per pound
IAN this goes to add to the ab-
surdity of the proposed Hitchcock leg
islation doubling the second-class rate
from one to two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter as
they do advertising.
THE proposition was stupid enough
whom the DOSta1 deficit reached Sl7.-
100000 two years ago. 1t becomes
preposterous in face of surplus.
What business has a transporta-
tion corporation, which is all the post
Office is. to prescribe how business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers cannot afford to ex-
pand their columns beyond the call
Of the days news, nor can they be
expected to control the requirements
of their advertisers who have right
to reach the public as copiously as
they care to.
1T cannot be assumed that such
legislation will ever get by congress.
But publishers are requested to fight
the theory that the right to send their
output by mail is privilege" The
figures show 1t is not.
THE post office is badly man
aged business. That is all. We
should fight its dictation, its censor
ship and its ineff1ciency."
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a that they must be moving on
lhere Is puzzle for the scientists even more
peA .nan that offered by the spectacle Of migration
~ s 10 get the solution of the problem Of why some
orus with the recurring autumns invariably seek
warmer CHIMES while others apparently much moro
poorly ntted by nature to withstand cold weather
conditions. stay about the familiar nesting scenes
wnen the snow lies deep and cold is like that Of
"st. Agnes Eve"
Inc titmouse. the Concord chickadee Of Emerson.
ID NIUE 1eathered gem which looks though
Dreath or cold would Set it all ashiver. Yet this
niue Fellow sticks by his Northern friends all
through the winter. when bigger heavily feath
ereo and apparently more hardy species have sought
OUT 'he orange and the magnolia groves of the guf
mere are scores Of other birds which remain with
US 10 pipe cheerful over the snow wastes
wne their southern-fying friends are silent amid
their congenial surroundings
one OF the most interesting bird studies is that
~nlch leads to a personal knowledge Of how the
1eathered species care for themselves during time
when exposed man. even though heavily clothed. at
times freezes to dath. 1t is a question II many peo
PIE Know how the despised English sparrow, whom
we always have with u.s. manages to pull through
northern winter without offering himself up a
sacrifice to Jack Frost 1t Is matter Of but
mistaken belief among those who have noticed the
great bulky nests which the sparrows have built in
almost tree that these punches of straw dried
grass and feathers form the abiding places of the
sparrows during the coldwinter nights. AS mat
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
Turn to Wooden EloorIna.

The use Of wooden flooring is on the
increase In Italy. taking the place OF
the former extensive demand for mar
BILE. tling and cement. Oak, larch and
pitch pine are mostly adopted. and but
little, If any maple, birch or beech has
been brought to the market
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06

the woodpecker Is felt to
keep him as a companion
throughout the winter a
piece of suet bound firmly
to the limb Of a tree and
occasionally renewed will
insure his presence as a
guest as long as the snow
flies. and with him, tempt
ed by the suet. will be a
goodly company of jays.
chickadees. and golden
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ter OF fact. a sparrow sell
dom goes near a tree nest
In winter. II he has found
a lodging for his summer
home In a cornice of a
building he may go there
to sleep away the long.
cold nights. but the tree
nest Is deserted from the
moment the last brood is
hatched.
II one wishes to know
where thousands of the
sparrows sleep In winter
let him on some cold night
take a stout club and raj
with all his might upon al
electric light pole that
fitted with an overhangi1g 3
hood. There is a lit e
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
Arizona.

The Bell-victory Mining and Milling
Company has filed articles Of incor-
poration in the office Of the secretary
Of state OF Wyoming, capitalized 81
S2,000.0 900.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
What Wa. In Her Heart

Tell me-" he sighed-"tell me,
beautiful maiden. what is in your
hearth" The girl gave him a look Of
icy disdain. and then vouchsafed the
monosyllable. Blood"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-01-06
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w VyT1N!FlEl&&& Z&}AEaMSqr$ EDWARD 80 5 CLARK

HE greater battalion Of the army
OF the birds is in the southland for
the winter. The warblers wero the
pioneers In the march to escape tho
cold. The naturalists Of the world
would give much TO know what 1t was
In the torrfd time which told these
oalnuest of the feathered creatures
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
BANKS ASKED TO AID
MeAdoo's Plans 10 to Have Institution,
Forward Money.

New York. N. Y. - Banks and tn,
trust companies throughout the coun
try are asked by the Democratic ma
tional committee to receive and trans
NIT subscriptions to the campaign
funds not only of the Democratic, bui
Of the Republican and the Progressive
parties.
The plan is in pursuance Of the pop
ular subscription idea Acting Chain
man McAdoo made 1t known by Civ
ing out statement embodying a let
ter which he announced he had SEM
to every bank and trust company in
the United States requesting Their
to agree to receive and forward sub
scriptions to each Of the three partie,
named. He accompanied his letter &c
the banks with a letter from Gov
Woodrow Wilson. who declared tina,
to bring about the election of a pres
ident through a campaign financed By
popular subscriptions would be a dis
tinct and gratifying triumph"
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
MAY INVITE EDITORS.
May Meet With Governor Wilson at
Sea Girt.

Sea Girt, N. Y. - Democratic edi.
tors throughout the country soon may
be requested to gather at Sea Grit
for conference with Governor Wood
row Wilson.
Josephus e. Daniels. national COM
mitteemen from North Carolina and
chairman of the committee on publici-
ty, had a long talk with the COVER.
nor. In which he preached the plan
for meeting of editors of democratic
and Independent papers. the time to
coincide with the annual meeting Of
tho American Newspaper Publishers
association in New York next month.
Il like the idea very much" Cover.
nor Wilson said. in commenting on
Mr.. Daniels scheme.
Governor Wilson said he was much
interested in dispatches from Califor.
MIA telling Of the speeches in his be-
half by Mrs. Gertrude Anterior.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
TURKS MASSACRE CHRISTIANS
REPORTED THAT MoHAMMEDANs
DID KILLING.
Ottoman Empire Faces Trouble 40 Re-
Suit fthe Out
break.

Cettinje. - The recent massacre Of
Christians at Bessana makes the sec.
ond outbreak Of this nature In the
Balkans within q fortnight and may
have an important effect upon the
already strained relations between the
Ottoman empire and its neighbors to
the north.
On Aug. 2. last, a massacre OF Bal.
garians by Mussulmans. lasting sever.
al hours. followed the explosion of a
bomb In the market place of Kots.
chana In European Turkey. The in.
furiated Turks who suspected Bull.
garians Of perpetrating the bomb out.
rage. in which IL persons were kill
ed. are reported to have slain no few.
er than 140 Christians, besides wound.
Ing several hundred others.
According to reports received here.
the massacre was perpetrated by Mo.
hammedans. and besides a number of
people being killed. a number of girls
were taken captive.
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contended, to increase the efficiency
Of the government service. No com
petent clerks would suffer In any way.
but 1t would give heads of depart
ments power and opportunity to drou
incompetents from the federal pay
roll.
Washington. d. c. - Repeating IL,
action OF Tuesday. when 1t passed the
wool tariff bill over President Taft's
veto. the house repassed the steel and
iron tariff bill. within two hours after
II had been returned from the white
house with the presidents veto mes
sage. The vote was 173 to So, q
margin Of only two votes over the
two-thirds necessary to override the
president. The senate at almost the
same time was engaged in passing the
democratic cotton tariff bill, sent them
a week ago by the house. Senator La
Follette's substitute, which represent
ed the views of the tariff board, was
voted down, 46 to 16. and Mr.. La Fol-
lette and eight other progressive re
publicans later Joined the democrats
and passed the cotton bill, SO to 10.
An amendment was attached repeal
ing all but the pulp and paper section
OF the Canadian reciprocity law. The
repassed steel bill was sent immedL
ately to the senate and reposed with
the wool bill among the papers tech.
nically on the desk OF the president
OF the senate. Both measures will ba
called upon at once by Senator Sim
mons and an attempt will be made to
repass them. But the democratic lead
ers have little hope that they can
obtain the necessary twothirds vote
In the senate as they did in the
house.
lnsurgent forces in both the house
and senate contributed to the success
OF the democratic tariff program. In
the house the 16 insurgents who voted
with the democrats Tuesday AGAR
Joined them In overriding the presi
dents veto. while nine insurgents in
the senate Joined them In the passage
Of the democratic cotton bill
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
KNOX OFF FOR JAPAN.
Secretary to Represent United States
At Funeral.

Washington. d. c. - Secretary Of
State Philander c. Knox. for the time
being special ambassador Of President
Taft to Emperor Yoshihito Of Japan.
has Just left. accompanied by Mrs.
Knox and Ransford s. Miller. chief of
the far eastern division of the state
department, on a journey half way
round the world to personally repre-.
sent the president Of the United States
at the funeral ceremonies Of the de-
ceased Japanese emeror. Mutsuhito. at
Toxic. Sept. Is.
. The party travelled in a special car
by way Of Chicago. st. Paul and then
to Seattle, where they win embark
upon the armored cruiser Maryland.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
Wife Leads Soldiers.

Juarez. Mexico. - Clad In Q mans
khaki riding suit the young and
beautiful wife of the rebel. Col. Lazro
Alanis. put herself at the head Of Q
band Of insurrectos and after COMPEL.
ing contributions Of arms. horses and
supplies. rode OF to Join her husband.
Colonel Alanis is operating in the vi.
cinity of Palomasit. It Ia said Sonora
;Alanis rode from store to store and
dismounting. STROBE in and demanded
what she needed to outfit her follow.
err. None Of the shopkeepers resisted.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
Believe Mrs. soaaes Drowned.

st. Louis, Mo. DIR. John 8.
Bogges, of the marine hospital service.
who il investigating the disappearance
August Q. of his wife. Mrs. Ethel Keat.
ing Bogges. has learned that the miss.
ing woman was in Crystal City the
afternoon Of Aug. 4 and departed down
the river in the ski6 Spot" which
was found next day containing Mrs.
Bosges' hat. purse. glove and q new
night gown. The fact that she II
known to have left Crystal City In the
skin confirms their opinion that she
later drowned herself
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
GENERALS EXECUTED.
Alleged Heads OF Plot Of Or. Sun Vat
Sens Party.

London, Eng. - The dramatis ar.
rest and execution Of several Hupeh
generals. including Chang Chen wn,
alleged to be the head Of a plat re-
Gently unearthed at Hankow have
caused intense excitement at the Chin.
ese capital.
The generals were seized In the
night and the two leaders of the Wn
Chang outbreak were shot. The other
officers were executed. The men be-
longed to the Tung Men Hui. DR.. Sun
Vat Sens party.
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FreIahters' Strike UnsettIed.

Buffalo. N. Y. - VIM. ]. Connors
made an unsuccessful attempt to set
tie the strike Of 1900 lake freight
handlers who went out Thursday fol
an increase In wages and bettermeni
Of working conditions. Mr.. Corners
was ready to concede every point de-
manded except the advance in wages
from 80 to IS cents an hour. his con
tracts with the railroads and the lake
lines making that impossible. he de
clared. Another meeting has been ar
ranged.
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Scored by Colonel.

Oyster Bay. N. Y. Aug. 21.-"The
more suits against the trusts that ara
brought to successful conclusion, the
way Mr.. Wickersham brought the
Standard Oil and American Tobacco
cases to q conclusion. the better n
will be Tor the trusts" said Colonel
Roosevelt In commenting on present
trust prosecutions. If Mr.. Wicker
sham will conduct to a similar conclu.
sion q few more suits of the same
kind. he will confer benefits upon the
trusts such as all Of them put together
cannot confer upon themselves"
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-08-23
Preparing Nsw Court Rules.

Washington. D. c. - With the aid
Of an elaborate card index system.
three members Of the supreme court
Of the United States are laboring this
summer over q new set Of rules for
equity practice in federal courts. which
are expected to almoet revolutionize
the work Of these tribunals. The
three are Chief Justice White and As
ssciats Justices Burton and Var de
venter. They expect to be able during
the next term Of court 10 lay before
the full court the result Of their u
bogs.