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Show MINES AND MINING NORTHWEST NOTES According to the Tonopah Sun, $300 ore has been discovered In the Pioneer lease, and the ore is being sacked foi shipment. One hundred thousand dollars wls taken out of the Eldorado mine at Allegheny, Cal., in sixteen hours, the richest strike In the history of the dis- Ijist year's census of Goldfield, vada, showed 970 children. This he number Is 1,041. n ' ft: than-rubbe- r, sessment statements recently rendered by the mines of the Coeur d'Alene district in Idaho, which produce practically 50 per cent of the output of lead in the United States. A streak of high grade silver ore, described as "almost native," has been found by the Mountain. Dell Mining company in the raise which is being driven to connect Its tunnel with its Inclined shaft at the property near American Fork, Utah. " The owners of the Big Giant Gold mining property, situated ten miles northeast of Boise, have recently closed a deal which means an addition of over $300,000 to the treasury, and It is the intertlon to at once put the mine in shape to make it a dividend 800-fo- payer. An organization to be known as the Homber Mining company has been formed by Salt Lane tapitailu lor the purpose of taking over and de veloping a group of claims in Box EI ler county. The group numbers fif teen claims carrying silver and lead values. A bilver nugget believed to be the largest in the world, has recently been discovered in tne Cobalt-Geproperty at Cobalt, Canada. It Is five leet six lnc'.ies long, two feet five Inches in width and sixteen inches thick, weighing 3,000 pounds. It is 75 per cent pure silver, and is valued at $16,000. That there has been a rejuvenation in mining operations, at National, the rich mining camp in northern Hum' boldt county, Nevada, is evidenced by the fact that a number of leases have been let recently,-an- d exeust: a id ing operations are in progress in that district. The Gila Copper company is another Arizona copper proposition which' it is confidently expected will make some honorable history for that state and for its sponsors. The property has low grade copper, but.it Is pre dicted that the deposit Is almost In exhaustible. A canvass of the situation in the Goldfield district by the Coldfleld mine operators' association, has resulted in a statement that there are in the neighborhood of 1.0G5 men actually employed in the mines of the camp, without taking into consideration th prospectors. P. A, Helnze'i On account of troubles, Ohio Copper was, on June 2, pounded down to $4.37V4 on the New York curb. That the potlble effect upon Ohio Copper of anything that may happen to lleln.e Is overestimated is the impression which prevails in the west. The Goldfield Consolidated Mines company has' recently declared a div idend of 30 cents a share, or a dlstrl button of $1,059,741 to the stockhold ers. Th ground, located five years ago, has paid, through leases and com pany operation, the magnificent total of $10,360,387. If the plans of the Northern Pacific railway are carried out, many miles of ammtmmtmmtm mm mm! road will be constructed In Montana aaa this year. Yellowstone National Park was thrown open to visitors June 3, for the season of 1909, when the train service the recently restored guillotine,' and over the Park branch was placed in whenever there la to be an execution effect. the Apaches flock from all districts of Owing to the recent heavy rains and the city to witness the ghastly sight. warm weather, the Elk river, whlcb Silently they stand, gazing at the runs through Crow's Nest valley, Britgrim Instrument of denth, until the ish Columbia. Is In flood, and train condemned Individual is brought foi th. service in that section Is demoralized. . Then Jeers and howls break forth son Bussey, the from the crowd, and as the knife falls of Harry Ed Bussey of Kendall, Mont, was the Apaches rush forward to dip their killed by lightning while plowing In handkerchiefs in the blood. These field on his fathers farm. He had they preserve as souvenirs, or sell three horses and one of these was them to the degenerates of the upper ki'led. . classes. A new ore tariff on the Great Strangely enough, the male Apaches nearly all look alike. They are Northern has been put Into effect, giving the rates from every mining hollow-cheekedark-hairefurtive-eyed- , on the line to the four smeltshambling of gait and sallow of camp ing Butte, Anaconda, Helena points complexion always easily recognized among the throngs on the streets. and Great Falls. In a letter to her mother at Oregon The women on the other hand, as a rule, are handsome, spirited and in City, Ore., Miss Mary Aflele Case telligent. They dress well and give makes the announcement that she is especial attention to the care of their engaged to be married to young Claus nalr, which they never cover with a Spreckels, of San Francisco, son of the hat. All of them, men and women, millionaire sugar magnate. James J. Hill has been summoned to profess to follow some trade as a safeguard against the occasional appear before tbe Spokane county raids of the police on their haunts. grand Jury in the case of M. J. Gordon, Official Paris is somewhat dis former counsel of the Great Northern, mayed by the rapidly growing men against whom seven Indictment!) for ace of these Apaches bands. The embezzlement have been brought number of robberies and murders at George Budnash. a young man em trlbutable to them is increasing ployed in the Cottonwood Coal com monthly, and as the victims very pany's mine at Stockett, Mont, was often are travelers from foreign lands, killed and John Zastlko was badly hurt the crimes are having an appreciable as the result of rock white enfalling effect on tourist business. gaged in fixing a portion of the tunnel. Counsel for Paddy Rogers, now nerv "FLAG DAY." ing a term at Deer Lodge, Mont, for robbery, and twice acquitted of mur My Mrs. Edward Dunroy-Reed- . der charges in Montana, have given notice of a fresh appeal to the supreme The general observance of June 14 as "Flag Day" suggests the thought court, Rogers' first appeal having been denied. A new Indictment charge of per Jury against J. H. Schlveley, state In surance commissioner of Washington, was returned by the grand Jury last week. It takes the place of an earlier Indictment which was found to be defective. E. A. Haven, an aged mining man of Rhyolite, committed suicide by swallowing cyanide of potassium. He was despondent and not a cent was found In his pocket. He wrote a pathetic poem Just before he committed tbe rash act. It Is rumored that the .burning ot Colonel Davis' mill at Dayton, Nev., following immediately the burning ot the court ho'e at that place, is !lkely to result in the removal ot the county seat of Lyon county from Dayton to Yerlngton. Miss Fern Gramllng, daughter of a Butte and Helena mining man, has been awarded the diamond medal and world's scholarship at the Chicago Musical college. The class consisted of vocalists from all parts of the United States. Mrs. George Shea, of Duluth, Minn., has reported to the police of Seattle that she was robbed of $20,000 on the opening day of the exposition. She had brought a small fortune in bills to the exposition city with the intention of investing in real estate. Tbe Jury in the case of William Haniey, on trial at Portland, Ore, charged with unlawfully fencing government land In Haney county, returned a verdict of guilty. Counsel for Haniey were given thirty days in which to file a motion for new trial. A dispatch from Dawson, Yukon territory, says that Edward Hambiidgc beea and William Harvey have drowned In the Yukon river from a that "Old Glory" was mature at its birth. But email boat, which capsized In Five Its Infancy dates back to the earliest recorded Finger rapids. The men were traveling from Prince Rupert to Dawson. American history. John Hall, former United States disAt the time of the birth of "The Star Spangled Banner" tradition and verified history had marked trict attorney, has been sentenced by some 800 years since the advent of the first a Portland Judge to pay a fine of $1,000 European upon American soil. The Norseman and and serve sixty days' Imprisonment In the Danes landed upon the northeastern shores of the county Jail, for conspiracy to dethis continent several times between the years fraud the government in connection 986 and 1300, as Is proven by their own records with the Butte Creek Lumber company In 1492 Columbus planted the flag of Spain on cases A. T. Holllster, a brakeman, had his neck broken while coupling cars at Drummond, Mont, and lived until taken to Missoula, where he died in the hospital. Holllster was caught between two cars In such a manner thut his neck was fractured near tbe base of the brain. Edmund A. Smith, president or a machine company, and Incannery ventor of "the iron chink," a machine that revolutionized the salmon can- in' Itnslne'g. dlfd HI Seattle, ,!!;) 2, from burns received as the result of the explosl'n of the gasoline tank of tils automobile. Mrs. Ann L Chamont, a San Fran-Jlscwoman who received a decoration from the French government for First Flag to Float Over North American Soil. heroic services In Pekin during the "Uri Croiu of St. aorni" tha bnmr of Rlohard Boxer rebellion, was last week married Coii.t ill- - I. Ion In 1192. and planted lit Ijtbrmlnr by Cahnt In H! aa tha royal enalKn of Henry VII. to her former chauffeur. Mrs. Chamont was divorced from her husband one San Island of of the the Bahamas, three months ago. Salvador, and again in 1498 at the mouth of the Orinoco in W. S. Thompson, a stockman, comSouth America; but the first flag to float over the soil of the North American continent of which his- mitted suicide at vhis ranch on Half Mreeil creek, In llow;tof county, tory tells was planted on the shore of Labrador in Montana, by shooting himself with a 1497 by Sebastian Cabot. rl fie. He tied a string to the trigger, The first stage of evolution was marked two ran a cord around a post and sent the before when of the settlement years Jamestown, bullet completely through his body, James I. of England, in honor of the union, placed causing instant death. the diagonal white cross of St. Andrew with the of MonState Treasurer red cross of St. George, both upon a blue field. tana, has submitted Esselstyn, for May his report This Is tbe first blending of the American national to Gov. Norrls, which shows that the colors known to history. The red, white and blue are In ex is therefore as old as the country, as It appeared commonwealth's finances balance Is cash condition. cellent The In the flags which floated over the Virginia settlebond Investments ment and was the flag of the Mayflower and of $455,651. and Its resources well $2.773,. above 931, making Plymouth. the three-milliomark. a"--" trict. A standard custom mill for the camp of Ramsey, Nevada, has been decided upon, the plans and specifications for unit now being in the first 100-topreparation. A strike has been made at Frazer wells, north of Tonopah, in a forty-foo- t shaft, that runs as high as $70 in gold, the assays running all the way from 10 to $70. Gold is being taken from the Round Mountain mines in Nevada at the rate of $35,000 a month, and the chances are that this total will be greatly increased this month. Editor Branson, of the Tonopah Sun, who recently visited Manhattan to Investigate Its placer workings, declares that it is another Klondike, with some advantages In favor of Manhattan. A new Insulating material discovered by an English scientist, in a coal tar product, is said to be stronger to stand a higher temperature and to be unaffected by most chemicals. . Gold mining in Georgia, first atthe Spanish by explorers who tempted learned from thr Indians that nuggets were to be found in the streams, has been carried on continuously since 1825. A New English blast furnace for the manufacture of pig iron is said to utilize 81.7 per cent of the heat, whereas a common coke crucible furnace employed in making steel uses but 1.43 per cent The first recorded use of the word kerosene was in a United States patent issued in 1855 to a man who claimed to have invented and discovto ered a new liquid hydro-carbowhich he applied the name. A valuable placer strike is reported to nave been made seventeen miles south of Tule and six miles from Eureka valley, a feeder to Death valley. A quantity of the surface stuff showed upon assay $9.25 to the yard. The Piodhe (Nev.) Record announces that a smelter with capacity to meet the requirements of producers of the camp will be built at or neai Pioche, the enterprise being backed by men with ample means to carry it to a successful conclusion. The present bullion output of the mills of Nevada indicate an increased production over that of any previous year, and an Increase above the estimate of $18,000,000 placed upon the gold and sliver production for 1909 by the state bullion tax collector. A decrease in profits ranging from 40 to C5 per cent is shown by the as- Ne year m gig NE morning not long ago a foreigner, evidently an American tourist, was found dead on the pavement In a side street of Paris. Twisted about his neck was a well-dresse- d dirty . handkerchief with which he had been strangled; he had been brutally kicked and beaten, and in bis chest were several knife wounds, any one of which would have killed him. The unfortu nate man had been stripped of all money, jewelry and other valuables. "Les Apaches," said the police,, stolidly. "He should have known better than to go prowling about alone at night." And In the police records another murder was put on the score of the thugs of the "gay capital." Paris is not proud of her Apaches, and the rest of the world has known little of these criminal bands, though theatergoers in many American cities during the last season were given a glimpse of one phase of their life in the skillful but revolting "Apache dance"imported from the French music halls. Yet the story of the origin, development and deeds of these outlaw gangs is fascinating, if not edifying. Nearly ten years ago there appeared suddenly in the underworld of Paris a young woman so beautiful and animated that she at once attracted general attention and admiration among Its other denizens. Her head was crowned with a hair, on acgreat mass of lovely reddish-golcount of which she was promptly nicknamed "Casque d'Or." or "Golden Helmet." Suitors quickly flocked about the girl and in time she selected from among them as her protector one Lecat, known among his comrades as a clever thief and a bold fighter whom the police would be glad to have behind the bars. All went well for a time, until there came on the scene a more attractive scoundrel, named Manda. Pretty, fickle Golden Helmet promptly transferred her affections to the newcomer, and then the trouble began. Lecat, the forsaken, rival and vowed vengeance on his successful summoned his followers to his aid. Manda also had no lack of friends, and soon all the thugs in the district of the Halles or markets had ranged themselves on one side or the other. Many a bloody battle was fought In the streets between the two bands, cheered on by their female friends, nil lets. and not a few men were slain In thfc. Finally in one of the fiercest of the encounters Lecat himself was killed, and Golden Helmet shouted aloud in Joy. But her triumph was short-lived- . Another leader for Lecat's band, known as "Le Manchot." sprang up and the feud was continued with Increased fury. One night Le Manchot caught Mand off his guard and plunged a knife deep into his back, and for weeks the stricken leader lay In hospital near to death. He recovered at. last and was being taken in an ambulance to a cell when the bloodthirsty Le Manchot, seeing his victim escaping from his vengeance, broke through the police guard, leaped into the vehicle and stabbed Manda to death. For this murder Le Manchot Is now serving a life sentence. Golden Helmet, made notorious by the succession of battles and crimes which her attractions had instigated, now sought other conquests, and decided that the drama was ber forte. Only the intervention of the police prevented her exploitation by an unscrupulous variety hall manager. Golden Helmet then speedily sank out of sight, but the rivalry for her favor had lasting results. Always the Apaches have one "queen" whose One rule over them Is absolute if temporary. of the most notorlousof these was "Chlffonnette," who reigned last year. She was 23 years old, tall and graceful, and would have been a beauty d . save for the loss of one eye and the presence of many scars, the results of her numerous boulevard battles. She was elaborately tattooed and was mighty proud of that adornment Chllfonnette's career came to an untimely end last New Year's day, when she engaged In a desperate with another fight woman whom she hated. Cheered on by a crowd of her, male and female subjects, the queen finally stabbed herantagonlst to death with a stiletto, and now she is a prisoner . St Lazare. This year's queen of the Apaches is Pepe. She is only 18 years old and as pretty as a picture, but as fierce as a tigress and a fit leader for the wretches by whom ' she is adored. The comparative imfrom arrest munity and punishment n. Joyed by the Apaches Is due to their really organization. They form a community by themselves, apart from all the rest of Paris, with their own laws, courts and executioners; their secret passwords, and almost their own language, for the argot they use Is practically unintelligible to others. Merciless toward their victims, they are no less merciless in punishing those of their own number who are convicted of in won-derf- treachery. A few years ago one Palnblanc was accused of being in league with the police. He was formally brought to trial, the Judge being a leader known as TEspagnol." The charge against Palnblanc was not fully proved, but his loyalty was so doubtful that he was sentenced to exile. Rising from his chair in the obscure dive where the trial was being held, he hurled his knife at 1'Espagnol with unerring accuracy, and the Judge fell dead with the blade In his heart. The police rushed in and carried Palnblanc to prison, the. Apaches making no effort to save hlra. Another alleged traitor was Albert Durin. He was condemned to death and two Apaches tied him to the rails of a tunnel of the Belt Line railway of Paris. He was found before a train How many traitors have passed and rescued. been executed by their comrades It Is Impossible to know, for only In such cases as the foregoing do the police learn about the operations of the "tribunals." The Apache highwayman operates swiftly and skillfully, and lone strangers In the streets of Parts are never safe from his attacks. His favorite method, known as "le coup du Pere Fran-cols,- " Is to strangle his victim by twisting a handkerchief about his neck. After robbing the senseless man, the thug frequently will kill him with the knife, for the Apaches seem to delight in wanton murder done In what they choose to consider an "artistic" way. If the criminal Is arrested, a score of Ms companions spring up apparently from the very pavement, and unless the police are in force they are speedily routed and the prisoner is rescued. An observant visitor In Paris may see Apaches, male and female, on almost any street, but it Is in the Place de la Roquette that they are to be found In crowds on ocaston. There Is set up o "'3 n |