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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW
ABOUT THE TARIFF?

There are those of an unshakable be-
lief that without a tariff protection
that falls little short of prohibition of
imports, this country would sink to a
level of social and industrial degrade
ton without parallel in the modern
world, and there are those who regard
protection in any form or degree as a
devilish device for enabling the few to
rob the many. These and all the in
termediate shades of notion, opinion,
and belief are prevalent, but what, after
all, do most of us, or perhaps any of
us, know of the facts of the matter9
The farmer is confident that without
a prohibitive duty on corn, on lard and
bacon, on cattle, vegetables, and dairy
products, our millions of fertile acres
would revert to their original condi-
ton of prairie and woodland, and that
millions of agriculturists would wander
in doleful poverty seeking employment.
The flock masters believe that free wool
would shortly make sheep in this coun-
try as much of rarity as are bison.
On the other hand, millions believe that
a Substantial downward revision" of
the tariff would greatly reduce the cost
of living, the prices of food and cloth
ing, rents and amusements, and enable
them to live well, pay their bills, and
put money in the bank. What, after
ALL do most of us or even any of us
really know about the possible or prob
able or certain influences of the tariff
on industrial conditions and the prices
of commodities9 Our present sources of
information and misinformation are linn
tied almost wholly to the outpourings of
political partisans and to the conflicting
assertions of selfish interests.-From
"The Need of Tariff Board, or Com
mission" by Albert G. Robinson in
the American Review of Reviews fol
July.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
The U. S. government SUR
PLUS WAS MORE THAN
$32,O0O,O0O. JULY |.
Better Off at End of Fiscal Year Than
Had Been Expected-But Less Than
Last Year-Failure of Congress to
Pass Appropriation Bills Helped to
Swell the Fund.

The federal government closed the
fiscal year June 80 with a surplus of
1872 100000, according to estimates
based on incomplete returns from the
various sources of revenue the country
over. This amount far exceeded the
expectations of Secretary MacVeagh,
who months ago estimated that the
surplus would be $10,250,00O.
The surplus at the close of the fiscal
year 1911 was $45,6S2, 900.
The failure of congress to pass gen
eral deficiency and other appropria-
ton bills which would have called for
large disbursements during the clos
ing days of the fiscal year helped the
government to pile up the surplus.
Another big element in the figures
was the corporation tax, which, it
is calculated, brought in 1900, 900
against 100000 last year.
Customs receipts totaled $4,000, 900
this fiscal year against $314,00O,OOO
last year, while internal revenue
taxes amounted to $780,, 100000, as
against $2s9,OOO,OOO.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
WASHINGTON BANKERS
ELECT OFFICERS
w. j. Patterson of Aberdeen Is Made
President


With the adoption of resolutions in
dorsing a number of national move
ments toward currency reform, election
of officers, and the spending of the
afternoon and evening in recreation,
the seventeenth annual convention of
the Washington Bankers association
ended Saturday at Tacoma. The con-
vention voted to authorize the execu-
tive committee to expend the necessary
amount toward education along agricul-
tural lines in schools and colleges, and
voted to ask the legislature to appropri-
ate additional funds for the same pur-
pose.
The officers elected are: President,
w. j. Patterson, Aberdeen; vice presi-
dent, w. Ii. Martin, Ritzville; secre-
tary, p. c. Kaufman, Tacoma; treas
urer, c. X. McMillin, Bellingham.
Executive committee. E. Chilberg,
Seattle; L. L. Crosby, Everett; R. r.
Rutter, Spokane; Ralph S. Stacy, Ia
coma; George p. Wiley, Waterville.
Delegates to the American Bankers
association-Miles C. Moore, Walla
Walla; George B. Burke, Tacoma
Thomas II. Brewer, Spokane; N. B
Cofman, Chehalis; l. D. Cornett, Top
penish; V. A. Roeder, Bellingham; w
G. Shuham, Waitsburg.
Alternates-W. R. Baker, Colville;
E. H. Haupt, Ritzville; H. D. Hopkins
Port Townsend; j. j. Rouse, Pullman;
j. H. Smithson, Ellensburg; P. M. Ser
ruvier, Lynden; f. L. Stewart, Kelso.
Second member executive counci
American Bankers association, w. D
Vincent, Spokane; vice president fol
Washington, A. B. A., NJ. F. Backus
Seattle; member nominating commit
tee, A. B. A., j. V. Spangler, Seattle.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
AUTO DAsHEs OVER HIGH BANK
At Los Angeles Machine Falls 100 Feet
One Woman Is Killed.

Los Angeles.-Mrs. Mabel Muir of
Denver is dead and four others, among
them Miss Ida Logsdon of Colorado
Springs, are more or less seriously
hurt, as the result of an automobile IS
plunging over a 10O-foot embankment in
Griffin park. Mrs. Muir was instantly
killed. Miss Logsdon may die. W. R..
Allen, one of the two men in the party,
is held in Jail and may be charged
with manslaughter.
John H. Sullivan drove the machine.
Mrs. Stella Gilbert, a cousin of the
dead woman, completed the party.
The death of Mrs. Muir is the seventh
recorded through automobile accidents
due to speeding here in less than a
week.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
ALASKA REDS DYING OFF.
Drunkenness, Disease and Debauchery
Killing Indians.

San sco.-Drunkenness, disease
and debauchery are decimating the In
dian population of Alaska and unless
steps are taken by the government to
bring about an amelioration of their
condition the native tribes will become
extinct, according to the statement
that has been issued by the Rev. DR.
condition the native tribes will become
extinct, according to the statement
that has been issued by the Rev. DR..
Peter Rowe, Episcopal bishop of Alas
ka. The bishop has appealed to the
women of California to aid him in Sc
curing governmental action.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
NO MORE TARIFF BOARD.
Lack of Necessary Funds Compels Its
Disbandonment.

The tariff board went out of exist
ence Saturday because congress had re-
fused further money for its work.
The uncompleted data was turned
over to the president for the use of
committees of congress or any other
tariff revision agency.
The board was formed in October,
1909. 1t has made comprehensive in
vestigations of the difference in cost
at home and abroad of wood pulp and
paper, wool and cotton; also compiled
glossaries of numerous schedules.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
New Jersey Republicans Kick.

Jersey City, N. 1.-The republican
county committee of Hudson county,
N. j., met here Saturday with the an
nounced purpose of indorsing President
Taft.
Instead of doing this a resolution
was passed by vote of 600 to 21 de-
claring Roosevelt the "only true re-
publican" denouncing the Chicago
convention and asserting that the
president gained his denomination by
fraud. The Taft men left and a Roose-
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
National Educational Association.

Discussion of the establishment of a
federal university to be supported by
government funds will be renewed at
the fftieth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Education association, which is
to be held at Chicago from July to
10. The National Education association
is the largest organization of its kind
in the world, and not less than $4,000
are expected to be in attendance at
this meeting.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
FROM THE MINING CAMPS

1t is reported the British Columbia
Copper company's directors have de-
clared quarterly dividend of Is cents
share.
News of the death in Sonoma county,
California, of William Dixon, aged 70
years, pioneer mining man of the
northwest.
The annual report of the Rambler
Cariboo mine at Kaslo, owned and OPP
Grated by Spokane people, indicates
that the property will be on a divi-
dend-paying basis by next October.
In Voight IS camp in the British Co.
lumbia Copper company has fine dia-
mond drills at work. If the bond on
Voight's properties is taken up
smelter will be built at a little lake
about seven miles from Princeton.
Greenwood, B. C.-In an auto acct
dent Sunday, E. G. Warren, manager
of the British Columbia Copper COM
pany, suffered six broken ribs and a
rupture of the lungs. -Four others were
slightly injured. The auto rolled 100
feet down the mountainsde.
One hundred and forty ounces of
gold bullion, the semimonthly clean
up of the Elk City Mine corporation,
has been sent to the United States as
say Office The exact value of the gold
is not certain until the bullion is paid
for, but it will run considerably over
$4,000
The natural cave recently discovered
on the Dellie mine, three miles from
Ainsworth, B. c., owned by the Silver
Hoard company, will eliminate not less
than 100000 of development expense,
will save two years time, and has
proven the property, according to w.
S. Hawley, general manager for the
company.
Keller, Wash.-J. T. Pardee and four
helpers have arrived here from Wash
ington, d. c. Mr.. Pardee represents
the government geological survey and
will spend the summer on the south
half of the Colville reservation. His
work will be preparatory to the CLASH
fcation of government land as to min
eral and non-mineral bearing sections.
After spending a few weeks here Mr..
Pardee will visit Meteor, Covada, Mes
pelem and all the other points on the
reservation where mineral has been dis
covered.
That the high tide in the terrible
death rate in American coal mines has
reached and passed is the confident be-
bureau of mines.
Figures just issued by the bureau
show that 2,517 men were killed in the
mines last year as against 1884 fol
1910. This shows a reduction in the
number of lives lost of 317 in ont
years time. The death rate in 1915
was 391 men in every 1000 employed
The rate in 1911 was 3.74.
Compared with 1907, the darkest veal
in the history of American mining
when 3,197 men lost their lives, 1911
, shows a decrease of $50 in the number
of men killed. 1t was following thu
record of this year that congress au
) thorized the government to begin in
vestigations looking toward a reduction
in the death rate and this was supple
5 mented in 1910 by the creation of TIL
bureau of mines.
= New York.
Bar silver, 81 5-sc; Mexican dollars
: 4sc.
4 Copper-Quiet. Standard, spot an
= June, 1857 1-2@17.37 12; electrolytiC
4 II 5-sc@17 "a; lake, II 5-sc@17 Sac
r casting, II 1-sc.
Tin-Firm. Spot and June, $47@4S
Lead-Steady, $4.4O@4.5O.
Antimony-Quiet Cookson s, SIS.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

A bill pending in the New York as
sembly provides free spectacles or eye
glasses for the school children OF
Greater New York.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
TURKS ROUTED AT sIDI SAID
Leave 200 Dead and Many Wounded
on the Field.

Another severe battle at Tripoi on
June % is described thusly: According
to the message, whole division at
tackled the heights of Sid Said and
neighboring positions, where masses of
Arabs and Turks who had escaped de-
feat the previous day were lying in
deep entertainments, reinforced by a
heavy native contingent.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

The Alabama State Federation OF La
Dor passed a resolution declaring IN
favor of woman g suffrage.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

"Willie,'' said the mother sorrowful-
ly, "every time you are naughty 1 get
another gray hair"
"Geel" said Willie; "you must have
been terror. Look at Grandpa"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
Pacific Northwest Wheat.

Seattle. - Bluestem, 92c; fortyfold,
ssc; club, ssc; fife, ssc; red Russian,
SSc.
Tacoma. - Export: Bluestem, 92c;
club, ssc; milling bluestem, ssc; club,
see.
Portland.-Track prices: Club, 500
9Oc; bluestem, 93@94c; fortyfold, 500
9Oc; red Russian, soc; valley, 9oc.
Ritzville.- soc; fife, 75c.
Colfax.-Red Russian, CSC; club, zoe;
fortyfold, zoe; bluestem, Use; oats,
$1.65; feed barley, $3.50; brewing bar
ley, $1.65.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

Every barber in Corsicana, Tex, is
unionist.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

Almost 100000 workers toll in pack
ing houses.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11
LATE MARKET REPORTS

Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol-
lows:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-07-11

1t is reported the British Columbia
Copper company's directors have de-
clared a quarterly dividend of Is cents
a share.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
THE PERSONAL TAX

poll me O addition  hem o burden of nnth of
  is unjust is no of au who doesn denounc is hard to justice This is f h of cole be a  z-4
 
 
  essary. .s D. is not Nothing in should It will by ssenbly The conditions
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Alcohol will clean piano keys.
 Be sure to boil soda in the coffee pot once a week.
 An excellent cleaner for a tailored suit is dry bran
 White faces should be laid away in blue or yellow paper.
 To remove hngeGx marks from war; nished furniture, use sweet oil. A little good candy. is a very well come addition to a school chfld's
 Oranges, bananas and figs cut up together make avery delicious des- sert
 Celery roots, boiled, cooled and cut into. dice, make a very acceptable
 Lace continually cleaned with gaso- line or naphtha will turn yellow quickly
 Use very little bIueing in washine faces, for the lace absorbs a great deal of blue.
 To smooth an iron, plunge it while hot into cold water with a little soap in it.
 Use bankers pins when cutting ouy ordinary pins.
 To keep lemons. put them in a stone jar of clean, dry sand. so that they do not touch.
 A pretty and novel idea is to serve hot biscuits, folded in napkin, in lit tie sweet grass baskets.
 Wipe vanished wall paper with a damp cloth. Other papers are best cleaned with soft bread.
 Every kitchen should have among it's supplies 9 saw for trimming meat and some larding needles.
 It will save fine hose is a piece of velvet is glued inside the heel the moment the shoe begins to rub. Silk dresses should always be rein forced with silk under the arms, where the most wear comes. Cheap handkerchiefs for Schoo children can be made Of sheer lawr or India linen dresses. tiny piece of garlic laid On th4 'ettuce half an hour before serving will give a slight savory flavor The cloudy look on a piano can b, ,enoved by g. cloth dipped in soal nd water and wrung very dry. Curtain pins that have been b1acl 1-ey- be fresh ened bv boiling in vine
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
MONDAY, OCT. 21. 1si2.
Tarifr revisiop, sneuld begin with

Tariff revision sRsQnlds begin with the schedules yyha lzzle ssesla sznost obviously used t0z donl 5stition, and to raise prices in the United states. arbitrarily and without regard to the prices pertaining elsewhere In the markets Of the world: and 1t should. before it is finished OF inter ,nftted. be extended to every item in every schedule which affords any s,pportunity for monopoly, for special mdvantaRe co limited groups of bene- f,riaxies. or for subsidized control of xny kind in the markets or the enter- nrises Of the country; until special farors of every sort shall have been absolutely withdrawn and every part of our laws of taxation shall have been transformed from a system of governmental patronage into system nf just and reasonable charges which shall fall where they will create the least burden. When. we shall have done that, we can fix questions of revenue and of business adjustment i'm n new spirit and with clear minds. We shall then be partners with all the business men of the country. and i. day of freer. more stable prosperity will have dawned.-Woodrow Will son
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
EASTON

Mrs. Edward Freeborne and daugh- ter. Miss Helen, are spending a few days as guests of Mrs. Freeborne's sisfer Mrs M E. Godfrey, in Wes- ton.
 The committee of the Union ceme- terv have decided to appoint Wednes- day Oct 23 for all who own lots or are interested in the cemetery, ana aii friends to meet for work on the piece of land recently given to the assocla- tion. to cut the bushes and also to build the drive through the cemetery At 12 o'clock the ladies will serve re freshm ents in the hall. They are re ouested to come early and assist with th4, dinner If Wednesday should prove stormy the meeting will De post poned until the next fair day, so that
 Mrs. Sylvanus Mallette of Sweet Brier'' is having large Fireplace built in her large Veranda. Also she Is having a laundry built in her eel lar.
 Miss Hazel E. Sherwood has return ed to her home after visit of few days as guest of Mrs. Clarence An drews at Rock House.
 John Sherwood, John H. Wheeler, Stanley Bibbins, Charles S. Everetts and Willard $. Gillette spent Saturday at the Baptist parsonage! digging a trench and making necessary repairs Mrs ETbert Nichols and daughter, Murie1, of Sport Hull, are spending 8 few days as guests of MT. and Mrs John Broadbin in Bridgeport. MT and Mrs Willard FHanton oif East Orange N. J., have returned home after a short visit with MT. anG Mrs Iverson Fsanton-
 Mrs John H. Summers of Newtowl ] has been recent guest of Mr- alad
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
Don't Be Pussy
 About Eating
Your Stomach Will Digest Amy. Kind of Food When Given the
 Proper Assistance

We are prone to fall into the error of singling out some article of food and soundly berating the fiend who first invented the dish. The habit grows with some people till almost all food is put on the blacklist. This is all wrong. What is requred is a Iit- tie assistance with those agencies up- on which scientific students for many years have set their seal of approval because they have become absolute all stomach disorders are recognized; they have fine record; they are rat ed reliable, dependable and worthy of confidence just as the president of a big bank puts his O. K. on deposi- tors check. And so you can eat what you want, whatever you like, knowing well that should indigestiin, sour ris- ings, gas formations, fermenta tions or any other stomach distress arise, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in a few moments will put you right.
 Coated tongue, bad breath, heart burn, belching, fatu1ency, bIoat-al tre symptoms of digestive troubles disappear quickly when these tablets anything but dyspepsia and kindred complaints. But they have brought relief to rnire sufferers from digestive diseases than all the patent medicines and doctors prescriptions put togetn- CT.
 The stomach does the heaviest work of any of the bodily organs, yet ItS the one we treat with the least regard; We eat toonrnuch of the wrong k1nd of food at any time. The patient stomach stands such treatment as long as it can and then it rebels. You get notice of the rebellion in the shape of the gases and pains caused by un- digested, ermenting tood;
 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are solo and recommended by all druggists at 50c a bOX.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
THE STOCK MARKET
!. Watsons & .Co.)

CT. L. Watson & Cop
 The week closes with the restoration of peace between Italy and Turkey but with nostilities actually under way in the Balkan Penins ula. The former is a most important develop ment while the indications still exist that the latter conflict will be local izeG and the European concert pre- served. In the latter case there would be a rapid recovery in temper on the foreign Bourses and the buying back of American securities would be in or der. Meantime we can await deVel- op1nents with great confidence after the remarkable demonstration of vii tality our market has shown in the crisis. The anchor to windWard is conser vatisnl, but even if meet with opposing currents at times, the ultimate course of the business ship Is toward more prosperity and better values
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
FINANCE AND WRECKS

Coroner John J. Phelan appears to be making an exhaustive investigation Of the wreck of the Springfield Ex- press. His scrutiny of the evidence should result in a finding that will be highly beneficial to the community. Unfortunately the limitations of a coroner's hearing are such that the re- mote causes of the wAek cannot be reached.
 A given wreck is caused by proxi- mate conditions, such as poor road bed, short cross overs, high speed, lack of automatic devices for stopping trains, and when an accident takes place more may be killed or injured because the cars are old and rotten, or be- cause wood cars are used instead of steel
 These neaf causes of disaster a .-col . oner's inquiry may ascertain and de- fine
 - But tie constitutional causes of a wreck, the things which are respon- sible for many wreeks, are beyond his reach.
 The coroner cannot inquire into the physical value of a railroad property. He cannot compare the physical value with the value of the property ex- pressed in securities. He cannot ascertain if hundreds of millions in securities have been issued that should not have been issued. He ic 1,at a11tboriZed f0 measure the strain to which the railroad company is subjected in it's effort to stretch it's income so that dividends and in- terest may be paid upon enormous in f1ations
 It is not his province to measure the results of bad finance as they appear in many parsimonies which affect the operation of the railroad such as schedules which cannot be maintained
 at safe speeds, and too few men to do the work, and road beds not prop erly maintained, and equipment that is not modern nor of the best. The railroad wrecks that are occur ing in this country have scarcely a counterpart in European countries. The numbers of killed and injured here, srelative to persons carried, and those employed, are much greater than
 broad.
 The clue to the difference is to be found. and only found, in the methods of wild cat finance which are tolerated in the United States
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
- a.aa ma+er ba1f and ba1f

gar anda water, half and half.
 If you mix plaster of Paris with vinegar instead of water, it will be like putty and will harden slowly
 Instead of throwing t newspapers away. collect and sell them to a paper factory if there is one within reach
 A little jar of salad helps out, school child's lunch greatly: Choose the lars with covers that screw. on.
 The French have a great prefer ence for plain salads of ronaine, en- dive or chicory, as well as lettuce. Watercress is another good relish. benae peas, fish or asparagus may be served On lettuce leaves with simple dressing.