MINES AND MINING NORTHWEST NOTES UTAH The organization of a stock company at Weiser, Idaho, Is in progress. It being the intention to bore for oil in that vicinity. The rumor from Park City to the effect that the Daly Judge company would close its mine down within a few days has no foundation in fact. The Nevada Dredge companys dredge and property at Orovllle, Cal., was burned last week, causing a loss of $1,000,000. The fire started in the STATE NEWS SMALL BOYS LOOT DESK OF TEACHER NEWS SUMMARY There are corporate hankHigh waters in France have caused Fire broke out In the Hyde block ia banks three houses and considerable private ing damage to property. two of the largest and Fraternal halls, Mail advices from Batavia report buildings in Spokane occasioning a the state. The schools of Salt Lake City use be- the ambuscade and massacre of two heavy monetary loss. tween $10,000 and $13,000 worth companies of Dutch troops by natives The strike on the Tonopah & Goldcoal la the Celebes. yearly. field railroad is over and trains are L. C. Smith, a night watchman and Ogden's street car system is being again running as usual. The meq went back to work on the companys terms. improved, and a number of new cars pioneer of Fresno, Cal., was shot and killed by a burglar as the officer was John Healy committed suicide on a have been ordered. in saloon a A held lone bandit attempting to capture him. up Union Pacific train between Sherman week There have been 64 cases of bubonic and Cheyenne, while en route from San Salt Lake City one night last plague in San Francisco, there have Francisco to Fort Chester, N. Y cut- and got away with $90. transformer. Salt been 37 deaths and 7 recoveries, and Oscar Van Cott, a ting his throat with a pocket knife aftIf the United States is to produce er locking himself in the toilet Lake boy, was run down by an auto- 20 are now under treatment. On account of the illness of the emenough nickel, cobalt, and tin for its mobile and seriously injured. A man supposed to be Hjalmar Nills-soown consumption, new deposits must There were 220 marriage licenses peror of Austria the king and queen of Yacbet, Wash., committed be discovered, for those now known, in Portland by jumping from the issued by the county clerk of Salt Lake of Spain have postponed indefinitely while individually rich, cannot supply Ford street bridge into Jefferson county during the month of Septem- their projected visit to Vienna. the entire demand. Three trainmen were killed and much street, 117 feet below. His body was ber. During the past month the two mills reduced almost to a pulp. Niels Christensen, who was stabbed property damaged by the explosion oi of the Utah Copper company reduced Two large industries of Tacoma by A. J. Syndergaard during an alter an engine of the Central of Georgia, approximately 100,000 tons of ore to a were swept away by fire on the 10th, cation at Mount Pleasant, is now out which was standing near the station concentrate, and there Is of Reynolds, Ga. of danger. a property loss of about every probability that that figure will entailing Four young men, all residents of mill and plant of Two men and a woman were badly were the They be eclipsed during the present month. the North Shore Lumber company, and injured in a runaway accident in Og- Perth Amboy, N. J., were drowned in The output of the mines and leases the Llndstrom-BerCabinet Works, in- den, the accident being the result of a Baritan bay as the result of their boat of the Goldfield district for the week drunken carousal. catching on fire, the boat being over corporated. fifty-thre- e At that hour the lad appeared, carrying a i ai r of new shoes and a new suit of clothes under his arm. He was questioned by the policeman as to where he had been and ho nonchalantly replied: "Down to the lake for a MAKE THEIR FRIENDS HAPPY swim." To all questions about the missing Youngsters Give Away Bills of Large sum of money the hoy made evasive answers. Not until he was confronted Denomination with Reckless with the boy and girl to whom he had Now to Have Prodigality given the $.0 each did he confess and Pay the Reckoning. two youthful comimplicate his Chicago. Boys and girls of the panions. northwest side are reveling in the Then, witli Hie air of a millionaire, possession of unexpected five dollar the ringleader, with no more concern and ten dollar bills as the result of the prodigality of throe schoolboy thieves. The trio Edgar Hettinger, 11 years old; Frederick Clark, ten years old. and Eric Kell, ten years old pupils of the Richard Y'ates school, blew in $351 in a few hours the other afternoon and evening. The money was stolen from the locker of Mrs. Eva E. Clerc, teacher In the school. The small fortune was pilfered after school hours, and its disappearance was learned by accident. The boys, according to their confession, had been robbing teachers' lookers In the scheol for soino time. Mrs. Clerc had been given tills particular large sum by her husband to deposit in the bank. In her statement to the police she said she left her room for a few moments, carelessly placing her keys on her desk. When she returned she discovered the loss of her money. The boys had entered during her absence, the opened the locker, extracted money, and relocked the door. Half a dozen detectives were detailed on the case, with instructions than if he were reciting a lesson, reto corral every pupil who bad been in plied: Edgar, didn't I give you $50, the room presided over by the teach- and Eric, didn't a' o give you $507 er. Shortly after the sleuths bad Loth boys confessed the truth of the started out, however, a "tip leading query. to the identity of Hie culprits reached All three then related how they had the station. A man whose name could enriched acquaintances with five dolnot be learned visited Hanley, telling lar and ten dollar bills, bow they had him his little daughter and son had purchased new outfits, leaving their each given him $30, which they said old clothes in a convenient ash barrel, had been presented to them by Edgar how they had bought roller skates, visited every oonctvslon at a nearby Hettinger, Acting on the elew, a detective was amusement park, tipping the attendsent to the home of young Hettinger, ants latge sums, and how they had only to be told by bis mother, n ridden in automobiles until midnight. widow, that he was not at home and Then, proud of his achievements, Hethad not been home since he left for tinger told of tossing five dollar bills to the amount of $95 to the wind in school after luncheon. A guard was then plumed at the an alley. These bills, the police boys house. Shortly after two oclock learned, had been picked up the fol-- ' in the morning the long watch was lowing morning by a rag picker. The rewarded. boys will be prosecuted. FOR n buI-cld- e high-grad- e $125,-00- 0. g ending October 12 was 3877 6 tons, having an estimated value of $382,850. This is something like 100 tons more preceding week. t Vanadium, one of the rare metals, is used principally for hardening steel, especially in connection with chromium. This rare metal is to be found in small quantities in Utah and Colorado, as well as in some of the southwestern states. Four Utah mines posted dividends last week that will call for the checking out of $94,500. They were: Colorado, $60,000; Beck Tunnel Con., $30,-00Grand Central, $12,500, and Utah, of Fish Springs, $2,000. Rich returns were received last week from assays of rock sent from the Keystone mine, a property almost within the city limits of Vvelser, Idaho. A Baker City assayer found that the rock carried $174 to the ton, and the Boise assayer found $108. The average cost of copper production from Butte mines under the restricted output is today not less than 12 cents per pound. At Lake Superior the cost will probably average close to 10 cents. The cost of Calumet A Arizona is only 5.71 cents. Considerable excitement was developed in Logan, Utah, mining circles last week by reports concerning a recent find in Blacksmith Fork canyon, by Captain Silvey and H. J. Smith, two Ogden prospectors. The discovery is rich one. , said to be an extremely Two of the largest up to date and modern quartz mills in the state, with a daily capacity of reducing 250 tons of ore are now in course of completion for the big mines of the Monarch and Bagdad Chase Mining companies, in the Atlanta district of Idaho. The Record of Helena, Mont., publishes a story to the effect that numerous Montana and Washington investors have been mulcted to the extent of more than a third of a million dollars through the discovery that certain placer mines near Landers, Wyo., had been salted and that the property in question is worthless. It is learned that during the next few days there will be a number ov experts in Utah who represent great Ijondon operators who tackle the fields of the world in competition with the Standard Oil company, but who have not become very aggressive in American as yet. Their coming looks good for the Utah oil fields. George W. Boggs, one of the lessees and general manager of the Old Peacock mine in the Seven Devils dismen trict, states he has twenty-on- e ora is the at mine, taking employed from the new strike and has a number of teams hauling ore from the dump to Council, where it is shipped to the Sumpter smelter. T. N. Barnsdale of Pittsburg, the owner of the Monarch group of mine at Atlanta, Idaho, has expended nearly a million dollars in developing and blocking out the ore bodies of the Monarch mine alone before even placing a mill on the properly. This alone assures ns of his confidence of the great possibilities of the camp. There are millions of tons of ore of commercial value blocked out in the mines of the Atlanta district, Idaho, and the future of the camp has always been dependent on the successful working of these ores, which in the past has been a failure on account of the great loss caused by not having the proper process to treat the ores. Through a compromise reached out of court, civil actions involving $500,-00pending in the courts of Los Angeles, Boston, Duluth, Tucson and Tombstone, Ariz., have been ended, 'ihe actions involved large amounts oi stock in rich copper properties, nota. bly the Cananea Central Mines company and the Greene Cananea Copper company. The Minerva mine, in the Atlanta district, Idaho, for the past two years has been producing steadily and has inexhaustive bodies of ore in reserve. It is stated the company will enlarge the present 10 stamp mill, which is not of sufficient size to reduce the vast bodies of ore in sight. From $15,000 to $20,000 . has been pounded oui monthly by the present 10 stamp mill. The stockholders of the Blue Rock Mining company, at a meeting held in Nampa, Idaho, last week, decided to increase the capital stock of that corporation from $300,000 to $2,000,000 and made arrangements for poshing the work at the mine stronger than ever. A day and night shift are now em ployed at the Mint mine in the Pearl district of Idaho, and the tunnel is now in 1,050 feet According to measurements the vein should be reached at 1,088 feet. The vein is twenty feet wide on the surface and is a true than the output for the 0; . Ben C. Bellamy, of Laramie, Wyo., license has been granted a first-clas- s as a civil engineer and surveyor by the state board of examining engi neers, being the youngest engineer in the west. Mr. Bellamy is not yet 21 years of age. Frank Tucker has been arrested ai Granite, Ore., on suspicion of being an accomplice to the Harvey K. Brown murder at Baker City. Tucker made a statement while under the influence of liquor and this caused his being taken into custody. Judge Ira A. Town, a prominent member of the Tacoma bar, was stricken with paralysis in his office and is in a serious condition at his home. He came to Tacoma from Albert Lea, Minn., in 1884 and was one of the early mayors of Tacoma. The Jury in the Hines murder case, at Goldfield, returned a verdict of not guilty. Hines was charged with murder in the first degree for Killing Count Podhorski, a Russian nobleman, who had ruined Hines wife. The killing occurred in Goldfield, March 21 last. John McGum came into Carson City, Nevada, bedraggled and exhausted, and relates a series of thrilling adventures through which he declares he has He passed during three days time. says for hours he floated in the swamps of Washoe lake and escaped only by crawling through mud to dry land. The annual meeting of the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Growers association will be held in Laramie in January, and Colonel E. J. Bell, the vice president of the association, estimates that between 300 and 400 delegates ana visitors will be present, including sheep men from every county in the state. The chief of police of Salt Lake has ordered his men to engage in daily target practice, in order to perfect their marksmauship. well-to-da Peter Rasmussen, rancher of Granger, has disappeared, and his family and friendA fear he has met with foul play. The compulsory school law, for children between the ages of 8 and 16. went into effect in Salt Lake on- Monday, and will be rigidly enforced. At the meeting of the Utah Presbyterian synod in Salt Lake last week, the proposition of forming a new presbytery in Idaho was postponed for one year. Governor Cutler has named ten delegates from Utah to the tenth American Mining congress, which meets at Joplin, Mo., Nov. 11, and will be in session five days. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ward are both in a Salt Lake hospital as the result of their wagon being turned over, the horses becoming frightened at a passing automobile. Bishop Spaulding of the Episcopal church, who is attending the annual meeting of the house of bishops at Richmond, Va., has been reappointed bishop of the district of Utah. The state will not have a display at the Jamestown exposition, the appropriation of the legislature being limited to $2,000, which was regarded as insufficient for a proper display. James McNerney, found guilty of in participating in a saloon hold-uSalt Lake City last May, when the robbers secured $1,000 in diamonds to and money, has been sentenced o - p twenty years imprisonment Official building reports from fifty-fivof the leading American cities show some interesting data. In September, 1906, the valuation in Salt Lake was $209,150, and for the same month of the current year it was $207,-800- . e Montana railroads must obey the law relative to the posting of delayed trains and the reporting of accidents in which lives have been lost or property of the value of $2,000 destroyed, The Agricultural College is offering or they will be prosecuted. This is to the women of Logan a night course the essence of two ultimatums Just is- in scientific cooking. General instrucsued by the state board of railroad tion will be given in the principles of commissioners. The physicians attending John D. that the Ryan, in Butte, reported patient shows marked signs of improvement. Dr. Billings, the specialist who came from Chicago, expressed the belief that Mr. Ryan, while still dangerously ill, would recover. There are no great alarming symptoms, but the patient has become weakened by his long fight against typhoid. Colonel John G. Boyle, soldier, lawyer and Journalist, died at North Yakima, Wash., on Oct. 8, aged 62 years. Colonel Boyle was born in Ohio ana served through the civil war. After the close of the war he studied law. After being admitted to the bar he became assistant attorney general of Texas, becoming one of the editors of the Post. At the time of his death he was manager of the Daily Republic oi North Yakima. The house of bishops of the Episcopal church has created the missionary districts "of Utah, Idaho, Nevada, western Colorado and Wyoming, western Necomprising Kearney, braska. Bishop Spalding is assigned to Utah, Funston to Idaho, Graves to Kearney. President Fred A. Miller of the Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific, whose offices are in Laramie, Wyo., denies emphatically the report from Denvei that the Union Pacific has made an offer to buy the road to prevent competition. He says the story is simply hot air. The Great Western hotel, built in 1868, the oldest hotel building in Wyoming, has been condemned by the building inspector of Cheyenne and will be torn down. At the time of erection it was the finest hotel in Cheyenne, but for many years it has been an eyesore. The Union Pacific is rushing a spe cial train of canned salmon from San Francisco to Chicago in competition with the Santa Fe, which received a similar train at the same time. The distance by way of the Union Pacific is 2,338 miles, and by the Santa Fe it is 2,578 miles. The Christina saloon in Butte was held up and $419.35, together with three gold watches, carried off by the three masked men resembling the three men who held up the Cash sahours before. There loon twenty-fou- r were nine men in the place when the robbery occurred. Owing to the great number of sheep which have been dying on the range In Wyoming, an exhaustive diagnosis of the cause has been made, and in the heads of the dead animals have been found small grubs which were supposed to have caused death by boring into the brain. meal service, and food combinations suitable for breakfast, luncheon and dinner. Ogden, last winter went which through a most distressing coal famine, endured an ice famine this past summer and is now facing a shortage In coal, is threatened with another famine. This time it is a gasoline famine. Elvin Monrad suicided in Ogden, taking strychnine, as the result of being Jilted. A letter from a girl was found in his pocket in whlclj she declared that she could not marry him, although she held him in the highest esteem. counties In the Of the twenty-sevestate, Weber and Davis counties are the only ones that have no forest reserves. Forest reserves have been established in Box Elder, Millard, San Juan, Grand and Morgan counties during the past year. An unknown boy, about 17 years of age, was killed by a passenger train at Lemay, about eighty miles west of Ogden. It is supposed the boy attempted to board the train and fell underneath the wheels, both legs being cut off and both arms broken. George Nye now lies at his home in Ogden as the result of a collision with a telephone pole while on his way home to lunch. In attempting to avoid the attack of a vicious dog he ran the bicycle which he was riding against the pole and struck on his head. Private J. S. Ramsey, of the recruiting service of the United States army, is a patient at the hospital at Fort Douglas, suffering from a fractured skull, and Walter Morgan and Gus n Hutchinson, motorman and conductor, are in jail charged with assaulting Ramsey. The Ogden Sewer Pipe & Clay company, whose plant in Ogden was destroyed by fire some time ago, have completed plans for a new structure work to begin soon as a few minoi details in connection with the insurance on the burned buildings have been adjusted. A practical demonstration was, on Sunday, made at the factory of the Utah Sugar company of the new smoke consumer, on which Walter Devey and William B. Wrichen of American Fork, and Thomas Yates and John Devey of Lehi, recently se- cured a patent. The grand jury will begin an investigation of the alleged food trust in Salt Lake City this week. The jury is expected to make- a thorough in quiry into the actual cost of production and freight rates and compare this with the price existing and ascei tain their reasonableness. - turned in an effort to subdue the flames. Jose Gutierez, aged 117, died last week at Ysleta, a few miles below El Paso, Texas. He drank whisky until he was 70, when he found it was not good for a man, and quit. Gutlere was never married. shot and Roy Reed, of Portland, killed his wife, Sylva Reed, in the office of the Hotel Havre, at Havre Mont., and before any one could inter fere turned the gun on himself and blew his brains out H. D. Reynolds, owner of the Reynolds bank at Valdez, Alaska, which closed last week, says the bank will be able to pay all claims. He says the liabilities are $55,000 and the assets, principally Valdez realty, $92,000 An order direc'lng Joseph D. Lee, a lawyer, to produce the alleged mar riage certificate and a letter in which his client, Mae Wood, alleges Senator Thomas C. Platt admits his marriage to her, has been made by the trial judge. John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, entered th6 hospital at LaSalle, 111., on October 12, and it is understood that he will submit to an operation for appendicitis when his condition becomes more fa vorable. The housing committee of the reliei corporation of San Francisco has filed a report showing that permanent and substantial homes have been built foi 1,382 refugee families, at a cost oi $512,667, during the past eleven months. Elkan Cohn, a once prominent banker and wealthy business man, was found on the streets of Oakland, Cal., last week, in utter poverty and in a dying condition. In the past eighteen months Cohn has been robbed of $150,-,09by swindlers. Joseph Wood, aged 16 years, who was arrested on fuspicion in connection with the murder of Ethel Nevlns, whose body was found in a thicket not far from her home in East Camden, N. J., admits having murdered the child. Plans that will convert Valparaiso, Chile, into one of the worlds largest and best ports have been accepted by 'a committee appointed by the president for the purpose. French engineers submitted their proposal. The work will take nine years. Twenty carloads of mustard seed, valued at $35,000, will be shipped from In Lompoc, Cal., to eastern points. each car there will be 900 sacks, each weighing eighty pounds. The shipment includes both yellow and red varieties of seed, and is the largest on record. The body of Frank Meakin, son, of the English millionaire chinamaker, James Meakin, is being held under police orders in the medical department of SL Louis university, pending communication with kinsmen of the dead man in England. Meakin died July 14 from injuries received by a fll from a window. Peter Murray of Buena Vista, Colo., at the age of 57, has gone to college. He is a student at Jefferson academy, Washington, D. C., and the teachers say he is one of their most diligent pupils. In bis youth Murray had to work for a living and sacrifice his schooling. Hundreds of lives were endangered, thousands of persons were thrown into panic, 125 electric cars used on several crosstown lines were destroyed,' and property loss to the extent of $400,000 was caused by a fire in the Fourteenth street car barns in New York City on Oct. 9. from The barge Saxon, lumber-laden- , Georgetown, S. C., to New York, stranded thirty miles north of Cape Hatteras at midnight October 12. The captain and two men of the barge were, drowned. One man, Fred Lunt managed to reach the shore and was picked up l5y life savers. Abraham Ruef appeared in Judge Dunnes court on October 9th at the time fixed for his sentence on the charge of extortion to which he pleaded guilty.' At the request of Assistant District Attorney Cook, Ruefs attorney consenting, the date of sentence was postponed to Oct. 23. Assistant r Secretary of State Adee characterizes as an absurd canard the report from San Francisco that Honduran land forces had captured a portion of Acajutla in September after a battle with the army of Salvador. Mr. Adee said that Honduras and Salvador are on friendly terms. The American Woolen company of Boston has bought about 20,000,000 pounds of wool, about 20 per cent of its annual requirements, which will cost, cleaned, $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. When the companys new worsted mills are in full operation, Ihe annual requirements will reach 125,003,000. A BRIEF TIME LEAVE REC-OROF COAL OIL JOHNNY FAR BEHIND. 1 i FOLLIES OF FASHION STARVED IN CITY STREETS. 0 DENOUNCED BY PRIEST Unfortunate on Verge of Death Picked Up in New York, IN FATHER VAUGHAN STRONG PARABLE SCORES WOMEN WHO GAMBLE. New York. After reeling along Amsterdam avenue like a drunken man for blocks George Chester fell in a street. limp heap at Sixty-seconDublin. Father Vaughan, brother of Policeman George Fox seized the prosthe late cardinal, who has been trate man by the collar and demanded: preaching against the "sins of society in London, addressed a fashionable auCome, now, get up and go along dience at the Mansion House here the with me. The policeman other evening. Among other things, he and the curious told the Btory of a dream that he had crowd that had gathered were surprised when Chester opened his eyes and shook his head after a feeble effort to rise. "I'm alralij I can't officer, he said weakly: I haven't got any strength left. I'm starving. An ambulance was called and Chester was taken to Roosevelt hospital. Its a plRin case of starvation, said the doctor. Milk was given the starving man. The physicians did not dare to put even broth or soup into his weak stomach. Chester said he was 49 years old and had no home. His clothes were of good quality but well worn. He said his family was h Since he had good clrcuinslfluces. been In New York, he said, be had been unable to find permanent employment and was too proud to beg. For bIx days he had eaten nothing but occasional scraps of food. LOSES HAND FOR LOVE. California Ranchman Shows the Spirit of Chivalry. Santa Monica, Cal. When. John the night of his arrival in Dublin. Campbell, a bean rancher, 3i) years He fancied that he saw a well old. living between Morocco Junction known gambler pacing to and fro in and Sawtelle, left for a visit to his old single loneliness in one of the outer home in Ohio three months ago, he courts of heaven. When he could stand was a well nigh perfect specimen of his solitude no longer the gambler aprugged manhood. Wednesday he came St. and confessed Peter that to Santa Monica, where former proached he had secured passage to heaven by at once noticed the absence friends of his cheating, and begged for permission to left hand. After to evade attempting descend to the infernal regions to see inquiries, Campbell what his former friends were doing that he had been out finally explained driving with his down there. St. Peter consented and at the old home. His left furnished him with a return ticket. hand was scratched by a belt buckle In the Inferno be found an enorwoin by his companion. Blood poisonmous crowd of fashionable men and ing followed and, to save the mans woman, all being forced to play lile, the member was amputated at the bridge without stakes. He watched the on swec-ihear- i , ( i I play with mingled feelings until, overcome by his former passion, he drew forth his return ticket to heaven and staked it and lost. A society woman secured it, and clutching it tightly, she at once made her way to the gate, where Satan congratulated her upon her success, but pointed with a smile to a legend on the ticket, Positively not transferable. Thereupon she screamed and tore the ticket to shreds, and the devil led her back to resume her everlasting play in the Infernal drawing room, over the portal of which was All written, hope abandon, ve who enter here. t wrist. After passing a month In a hospital, Campbell returned to his ranch. Yes, its tough luck, he declared, as he looked ruefully at the stump where the hand had been, but I don't mind so much an neither does she. I tell yer, young feller. Id lose my arm to win that girl, and I'm going back to get her for keeps before Cali-toml- long. Waiter, these eggs ..re stone cold complained the indignant diner. Yes, sah." replied the dusky waitt we always has to keep de eggs on lee before we cooks 'em, sahl i a