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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
PECULIAR BELIEF IN JAPAN
Seems Strange to Our Western Ideas,
Though There is Much That Is
Pathetic About 1t.

Among the Buddhists in Japan 1t
is believed that the souls of children
go after death to Sui-no-ka-wara (the
stony river-bed) and there they re-
main until they reach maturity under
the care of Jizobosatsu, who is rep
resented as a priest with a long cane
In one hand and ball in the other.
He Is said to stand in the center
of the kawara, where he breaches to
the children as they pile up stones,
one for the salvation of their father,
one for the mother, the third for
brothers, the fourth for sisters and
the fifth for their own salvation.
When night comes on and the wind
blows hard a gigantic evil spirit APP
pears and with huge iron rod knocks
down the heaps of stones which the
children have made, and they are so
frightened that they run to Jizo and
hide themselves in the big sleeves Of
his kimono, which have a miraculous
way Of increasing in size according
to the number of children who seek
refuge. Then the evil spirit disappears
and the children begin again the work
OF heaping up stones.
Passing through cemeteries in
Japan one sees tombs that have the
image Of Jizo carved upon them, as
the parents take that way of gaining
the special favor of Jizo for their
children, and one will see little piles
of stones built up by the parents and
brothers and sisters of the children
with the hope of helping in the tedious
work of the little ones in the kawara
Christian Advocate.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Clothing Going Up, Too.

The price of clothes is going to be ad-
vanced next year. This increased tax
on the already high cost of living is
clearly indicated, merchants say today,
by the prices named by leading produc-
ers of cloth, who have lifted the prices
for the spring 1913 season from seven
and one-half to 20 cents a yard above
those which prevailed last year when tho
values for the past spring season were
announced, says Boot and Shoe Record.
er.
How much more the merchant tailor
or the retail clothier will charge the
consumer cannot be stated accurately
because there is every likelihood that
the quotations will be further advanc-
ed.
Prices are higher, agents say, be-
cause of conditions over which the man
ufacturers have no control. They say
that the domestic wool clip this year is
about thirty million pounds smaller than
a year ago. The price of wool has also
gone up abroad, while mill owners say
that the high scale of wages and the
shorter working hours will also have
their effect.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Gain in Loss.

Ever make money selling something
at lossf 1t is done every day. Why
don't you try it? The thing is simple
enough. Don It sell too much at loss,
and make up that loss and more on
something else. A good many mer-
chants figure they can give away from
2 to per cent of their sales for adver-
Using of this sort, says S. r. Osborn,
in Advertising World.
You have to have something to at
tract crowd, especially during the
dull summer months. Something for
nothing is sticky fly paper for humans.
Use a little of it. Lay aside from ,
to per cent of your sales for this ben
evolent purpose. Whenever you want to
inject new interest in town, put out
something in the window that is a bar
gain, a real below cost snap.
In times when business is booming
you will not have to do this sort of
thing. During the rush weeks you can
be piling up your fund. Then when you
feel you've got to do something or per
ish of WEAKNESS, dig into the fund and
sprinkle out the bargains. 1t is adver-
Using, and you must expect it to cost
If your annual sales amount to $12 900
you can spend between $3.50 to $500 in
this way. The difference between the
regular sale price of the sacrificed ar
ticle and the leader price must be charg
ed to this special fund. But be careful
not to be too generous with your Gus
toners. A good merchant can otter
save his something-forn nothing fund {
lot by picking out goods that look lik,
'below cost,' but aren't.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
MANY DEATHS INVADE CONGRESS
Vice President, Six Senators and 10
Representatives Have Died Since
Ii Convened.

Washington. - Mortality records
have been broken during the present
congress. Since the sixty-second con-
gress began Vice President Sherman,
six senators and 16 representatives
have died. One epresentative-elect
Joel Cook of Pennsylvania, died before
the congress convened.
The full mortality roll of the sixty
second congress follows:
Vice President Sherman, Senators
Frye, the president pro tenn; Davis OF
Arkansas; Hepburn, Idaho; Taylor,
Tennessee; Raynor, Maryland; Nixon
Nevada; Representatives Anderson,
Georgia; Bingham, Kipp. McHenry,
Pennsylvania; Cornell, Malby, New
York; Foster, Vermont; Gordon, Ten
nessee; Hubbard, Iowa; Latta, Nebras~
ka; Madison, Mitchell, Kansas; Lou
denslager, New Jersey; Utter, Rhode
Island Wedemeyer, Michigan; Wick
life, Louisiana.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Rented Weddinq Cake.

There was something wrong with
the cake, the baker said; it looked all
right and it smelled all right, but his
artistic sense told him it would not
taste all right.
Then fix it up with an extra coat of
icing, and we will keep it for renter"
said the proprietor
who in the world would rent a
cake?" someone asked
Wedding parties" said he. They
want a big cake in the center of the
table for show. but cake of that size
good enough for wedding would cost
more than they can afford to pay. so
they order fine cake put up in in
dividual boxes for the guests, and use
the brides cake just as an ornament.
They don't buy it, they rent it. Some
times a cake is rented a dozen differ
ent times. After each wedding it is
freshened up with a new coat of icing,
and looks as good as new for the next
occasion. A good renter fetches
about SO a wedding.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Improving 1t.

No ad, circular, or other piece of ad
vertising literature is so good or well
gotten up that it cannot be improved
upon, says c. F. Alexander in Adver-
Using World. The work of improving
is an art, and can be done in one way
by studying the letters in answer to the
literature. Study well the wording of
your advertising matter; cut your name
off the bottom and hand it to your
friend, sister, brother-anybody. Ask
them if they want to answer the adver-
Using. If they say no, ask them why.
They have a reason. Ask every particu-
lar, and then start in improving it by
eliminating, adding to or changing a
word here and there. Maybe the illus
tration could be improved, or a piece
taken off and the space filed with word
ing, or perhaps some point of the illus
tration, while plain to you, is obscure
to Others. Study other advertising lit
erature similar to yours. Do not copy,
but get all the matter together; pick
out the good points. Read and study it
over and over today, tomorrow, and the
next day. 1t will give birth to a new
thought bit of thunder for your OWL
advertising. After improving your
printed matter thus, note results, take
the new and the old and compare them
and you will be pleased with the accom-
plishment. By doing this, the adver
Using literature will in time reach thi
highest degree of perfection.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
The M ale Boy.

Governor Marshall of Indiana said
the other day that he who demands
special privileges of the government is
a beggar.
millionaire or not" said the govern
or to a reporter, afterward, 1.-The man
who holds out his hand for help begs.
The .act is self-evident. 1t needs no
proof Even to state it seems SUI
perfiuous-seems like the shout of
young Benedick. who entered his club
roaring:
"Hurrayl A young son, It's boy!"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
MILLINERS FORM COMBINE
Wholesale Business of Country to Be
Established on Systematic Basis.

Chicago-A secret meeting of whole
sale milliners was in session in Chi
cago Saturday, and it was reported that
plans were on foot for the formation OF
a gigantic combine, with headquarters
here Tentative plans were discussed
and a committee appointed to decide
on capitalization, it was said.
Fourteen cities outside of Chicago,
extending from Pittsburg to San Fran
cisco and from Louisville to st. Paul,
were represented. One hundred men
were present, representing Fl millinery
manufacturing and jobbing concerns.
According to the plans, it was said,
large warehouses and branches in each
city outside of Chicago would supplant
the present scattered method of con-
Quoting the millinery business by in
dividual concerns.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Chicken Race War.

"a sectional issue has arisen in our
town." said the commuter. Before
it is settled I am afraid the civil war
will be fought all over again. Any
how, our southern friends are sure to
indulge in some f1re-eating language.
"A resident of our village, who I'M
dertook to raise chickens, received
a crate of fowls from a South Caro-
lima farm. When the neighbors learn
they raised a row.
eff you must get chickens. they
said, get northern chickens. They
don't crow nearly so much as south
ern chickens There is something in
the climate down there that makes a
chicken crow four times as often as a
chicken brought up in any other part
of the country
THAT popularity of southern chick
ems was news to the amateur poultry
man. He noticed, however. that his
chickens really did crow more persis
tently and more vigorously than any
other chickens he ever had known
and when an experienced poultere,
assured him that they always would
because southern chickens always do
he sold them and bought New Jersey
chickens instead Now he is in ho
water with the southern families IL
our town, and heaven only knows
how the squabble will terminate
New York Times.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
REJECT MEDIATION OFFER
Garment Workers in New York Say
Proposed Plan is "Out of
the Question"

New York-The first week of the
garment workers strike in this city
came to a close Saturday with an an
nouncement by the chamber of COM
merce that its offer to appoint a COM
mission to investigate impartially
wages, hours and working conditions
in comparison with competitive mar
kets" in the clothing industry has been
rejected by the strikers.
Thomas A. Rickert of Chicago, presi-
dent of the United Mole Garment
Workers of America, says the strike
will be kept up until the demands for
better wages and reduced hours are
granted If those concessions are
made, he says, the strikers may con-
sent to modify their other demands.
Labor leaders estimated the number
of operatives out at about 100000, in
Guiding more than $4,000 women, here
and in Newark, N. ].
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Man Finds $37,50O in Gold.

Nowata, Okla.-George Hardsook, a
laborer, unearthed $37,500 in gold Sat
urday while digging a trench near the
village of Oglesby. Hardsook's posses
sion of the wealth, however, will prob
ably be of short duration, a state law
requiring that such finds be surren-
dered to the owner of the land. The
money bore evidence of having been
buried number of years.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
To Entertain Mrs. Cleveland.

Washington.-Mrs Grover Cleveland
and her affianced husband, Professor
T. ]. Preston of Princeton, are to be
the guests of President and Mrs. Taft
at the White House Saturday evening,
and will be guests of honor at a din
ner 1t will be Mrs. Cleveland's first
visit to the White House since she left
there nearly 16 years ago as the wife
of the former president.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
PAY for Privilege of Hunting.

Different German states have differ
ent rates for persons who want to
hunt. In Prussia, for instance. Ger
mans pay about $3.50 a year for the
privilege, and foreigners pay four
times that amount. In Wurtemberg,
native hunters pay about $3.50 a year
and foreigners pay twice that amount
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
THE 80 CONVICTED LABOR LEAD.
ERS NOW IN OPEN" AT
LEAvENWORTH.
THE COURT GIVES IT'S PERMISSION
Appeals Made for Money by Union
Officials to Enable Large Bonds
to Be Furnished Within Two
Weeks at the Most.

Indianapolis.-Alt the 80 con-
victed labor leaders now confined in
the federal prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, are able to furnish bond
to gain their freedom pending an APP
peal of their case, it may not be nee
essary for the men to be returned to
Indianapolis. This is the opinion ex
pressed by District Attorney Charles
w. Miller, who said he believed the
papers could be signed at the peniten-
tiary.
Appeal to Friends for Funds.
Late developments leave the ques-
ton of freedom for the labor leaders in
the hands of their friends, to whom
they have appealed for funds. Reports
from different sections Of the country
tell of amounts being raised toward
this end, and j. E. McClory, acting
secretary, and Edward Lewis, the only
executive board member out of prison,
express the opinion that they will be
able to secure the release OF all within
10 days or two weeks.
Although reports from Leavenworth
have said that no attempt would be
made to release Herbert S. Hockin,
former secretary of the union, his wife,
who is here, says that she has been
assured by the attorneys for the union
that he will receive the same consid-
GRAFTON as the other men.
Wife Loyal to Hockin.
Hockin has been referred to in the
trial as double crosser," as it was
alleged that while acting as secretary
Of the union and directing the affairs
of the dynamite crew" he was tipping
off the time set TO rexplosions, anc
later worked in connection with de
tective agency in procuring evidence
against union officials.
Mrs. Hockin, who has been his stead
fast champion throughout the trial
says that she never had been double
crossed" and would sacrifice he
home in an attempt to obtain bond
in case the union fails to look afte
the interests of her husband
Federal Officials Confer.
Government officials have conferred
concerning the expected results OF tn
action in Chicago of the United State
circuit court of appeals in granting
rights to bonds to 80 of the union labo
officials now confined in the fedora
prison at Leavenworth for complicit
in the dynamite plots.
District Attorney Charles w. Mile
returned from Chicago and talked wit
Federal Judge Albert B. Anderson b
whom the bonds must be approved.
1t was stated wide discretion reste
with Judge Anderson as to the kind {
bonds, although the amounts have bee
fixed by the higher court. The judg
may require bonds from residents {
the district of Indiana and insist tha
where real estate is the surety, tn
value of the property is each case sha
be twice as high as the bonds.
May Have Only Indiana Bondsmen
The court stated during the tri;
that Unidentified bonds or bonds
which the bondsmen are secure
against loss, are not acceptable.
was declared that if the judge insiste
upon the limitations he set in the tria
attorneys for the convicted men wou
be confined to Indiana in their scare
for bondsmen.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Wave Distress Signals.

The first word of the disaster came
when F. w. Taylor of Imperial beach
telephoned to Sheriff Jennings in San
Diego that sloop was reported ashore
several miles south of Imperial and
that five men were frantically waving
signals of distress from the wave-bat-
tered craft. The sheriff at once sent
three men, but they could accomplish
nothing.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
War Nav Be Resumed.

London.-Unless Turkey or the Bal
kan states can be prevailed upon to
recede from their present stiff-necked
attitude, the peace negotiations have
arrived at a deadlock.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Strictly Vegetarian.

DO these people keep cowr
asked one city girl.
NO." replied the other. They don't
have to. They have a fine patch at
milkwssd growing back OF the barn"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
German Field Marshal Dead

Berlin.-Field Marshal Count Alfred
Won Schlieffen, formerly chief Of the
general staff of the German army, died
Sunday, aged 80 years.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16

Edward II. issued a proclamation
against a game very much like foot
ball.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Sherman's Will.

Albany, N. Y.-State comptroller
Sohmer has received a check for
$6632.10 In payment for the state in.
heritance tax on the estate OF the late
Vice President James 8. Sherman.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
Thousands at Jeff Davis Funeral.

Little Rock, Ark.-The funeral serv-
ices of United States Senator Jeff
Davis were held here Sunday. Be-
sides the congressional delegation and
men prominent in the affairs of the
state several thousand persons at
tended.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-01-16
GREATEST MARINE DISASTER IN
VICINITY OF SOUTHERN CAL
lFORNlA CITY.
THREE SHIPS WERE WASHED ASHERE
Seven Lives Reported Lost in Gale
Several in Employ of U. S. Marine
Service-High Winds and Sea
Wreck Boats.

San Diego, Cal.-The greatest ma
rine disaster in the vicinity of San
Diego in many years occurred Satur~
day night at Point of Rocks and I'M
perial beach, when three small vessels
were swept ashore by the high winds
and raging sea and dashed to pieces.
They were the United States immi-
grafton inspectors launch Elizabeth,
the fishing power boat, Old Nick, Of
San Diego, and an unidentified sloop.
Seven men are known to have been
drowned, while two after battling
bravely with the surf, succeeded in
getting ashore. The total loss of life
may not be learned owing to the fact
that the number of occupants of the
third vessel, the sloop, is unknown.
The seas removed every trace of the
wreckage of the sloop with the excep-
ton of the rudder and part of the up
per works.
The Known Dead.
The known dead are:
United States immigration Inspec-
tor Gus T. Jones.
OnlIeU OLdteS lulullS TdtlOu luSpSCtOI
Daniel Kuykendall.
G. Gorolami, engineer of the immi-
grafton launch Elizabeth.
Anton Basil, local fisherman.
Clarence Hill, Pacific fleet boatman.
Tim Good, engineer of the Old Nick.
- Pete, a friend of Good.
The known saved, are Frank Stout,
partner of Hill, and Nick Demiteff,
owner of the Old Nick.
The scene of the wreck is about Is
miles from this city. The sloop was
wrecked about mile north of the
other craft and is supposed to have
had a crew at least of three men. 1t
is probable these were lost.
Wave Distress Signals.
The first word of the disaster came
when F. w. Taylor of Imperial beach
telephoned to Sheriff Jennings in San
Diego that a sloop was reported ashore
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-17

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-17

after brief illness and was buried In
Union cemetery yesterday. Mrs. Davis
Ia survived by her husband and six
children. She was So years old. 4
Prof. Orley II. Truman and wife left
this week for Iowa City where Mr..
Truman will teach mathematics in the
state university the coming year.
Carleton Burlingame and Wendell
Carleton leave this week for FartbAult.
Mimi. where they will continue their
studies in Shattuck Military School.
Harold b. Hall. who has been substi-
tute city carrier for several years. has
been appointed regular carrier to sue
coed Walter Schofeld. who was re-
Gently transferred to San Diego. Cal.
George s. Forest. Of Portland, Ore,
who formerly operated the gas plant
here. Is in the city to attend the case
pending in court in which e. II. Lundy
Is foreclosins or the plant here. Mr.
Forest Is guarantor on the bonds OF
the comany. which are now held In ST.
Paul.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-17
HOUNDS PICK MAN IN CROWD.
Dogs Trailing Burglar at Albrunstts
"Mark" Citizen

''Mark" Citizen.
Waterloo, Sept. 17.-Singling out one
Of the 200 spectators eagerly watching
the work Of the Waterloo bloodhounds
at Alburnette last night. the dogs re-
fused to follow the trail further, which
had been picked up at the c. E. Hense
general store, robbed on Sunday night.
The hounds marked" one OF the men
in the crowd and refused to leave him.
The mayor placed him under arrest
charged with burglary. The accused
man Is 40 years of age and is said to
haSe been in trouble before. Ear! Yordy
returned to Waterloo with the hounds
Sugar barrels had been lined up
around the basement window to pre-
serve the scent and warning sign pre-
vented trespassers from walking across
the trail which led from the store.
Mr. Hense. who is mayor Of Albur-
nette, small town on the Cedar Rap
ids Manchester line. fourteen miles
north of the former city. called Sheriff
F. NJ Shores blood hounds to trail
someone who had entered the basement
of his store during Sunday night. The
dogs picked up the scent at the base
ment window and followed trail thru
corn field onto the railroad tracks
and then down a country road.
Practically all of the inhabitants OF
the village We're out to see the excite
ment. Both dogs suddenly came to
halt on the roadside after following the
trail out OF field to point where two
automobiles were standing surrounded
by curious townspeople who gathered
to witness the event
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-17
ALL LyLEs SUITS DISMISSED.
Two Remaining Cases For Damages
Abandoned BY Plaintiff.

Aoanoon0d 6y rIaINt'U.
Council Bluffs. Sept. 1.-two dam
age suits growing out Of the charges
against Rev. c. S. Lyles. formerly pas
tor of the. Methodist Episcopal church
at Logan. which resulted In his suspen-
sion from the ministry. were dismissed
in federal court These We're actions
for $4,000 each brought against Rev. j.
S. Bicknell Of Lovington. ILL.,, and Rev.
B. F. Shipp, of Paris, III.
Rev. Mr.. Lyles, who Is now a lee
turer with the extension department Of
the state agricultural college at Ames.
was suspended from the ministry by the
Des Moines district conference at
Boone year ago. Prior to this time
he was tried before a Jury of ministers
here. securing a verdict of acquittal,
and 1t was then that he filed damage
suits against his three accusers.
With the action of the Boone con-
ference on the charges. 1t was prob
lematical whether the suits would be
tried. From the fact that trial notices
were filed In the federal court suits
some weeks ago. 1t was thought that
possibly one or both Of these might be
brought to trial. A similar suit in the
state courts against Rev. A. d. Davis,
Of Glencoe, Okla. was dismissed a week
ago.