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Show A J, Jt IT Tjh TJ T.11 Edwarp B. Clark NEWS SUMMARY Utah's mining exhlbltat the Seattle A mob lynched will probably be the most Marshall, Tex, . c a' ScpTi Four people were klHed, at least During the first four months of this year set dnt) seven American metal twelve injured and great damage done mines and woik paid dividends ot by a tornado In- Goldije-- r A tail 29. - 21,479,427. la Tho Round Mountain Mlnlng'ootu-pancleaned up 40,00u pioflts during March, and it is believed when tha reports for April are in, increased profits will be shown A genuine gusher is said to have been opened in the llluff oil field by Thomas Brice Considerable new drilling has been started in various portions of the field Fifty least's on. Manhattan, Nevada, placers are being worked, the average production being about 1,000 a day and new strikes ot teh gravel are reported almost daily It Is announced that negotiations for the purchase of control of the Bingham Amalgamated Copper company have beenreopened, will), g&od prospects that a deal wlll be made ? Five iu e ta 11 u r gtc alw or k s , with an Isy tion of a part of the people w ho preferred death to ex- - to-da- He The ' e A- - s Cheyennes sued capitalisation of 210,169,250, paid to shareholders during the four months of Ihe year 4 656.044, and since organisation $87,638,293, a return ! equivalent to2 per cent. The sensation in southern Nevada mining camps ht this time is the broke Away; A 'battalion of Infan- try w as throw n across their yC tracks but the, wily agesrreluded allfsav-- a few who In of the soldier Hampton stope in Goldfield Consolidated, where the company has in sight 8,000,000 of ore, no portion of which It had three mouths ago. The biggest thing in & lease vacU. Bince the days of tb Mnnnette bonanza, ia the lease at Hawthorne, whl is producing high, gna ore at the rate of $10 ftofisZt 4 Word cornea from Western property at that the breast of f t vein ing a I fx t OW- - rich jck so two-foo- gold ore, about tb far found In this The again hopeler WaUasP Improved pr some mont closed ur made to age ayr ' -- ora At City, ssplte the es Installed if to remain eui,nts can be n adequate drain the Bullfrog district o new strikes, are re ne Btarllgat property, ported while the original Pioneer lease Jt greatly Increasing Its production, tie new mill at tne Mayflower" mine In """ proving a succeBB. Gold Circle, folot The rejuvenation lowing the recent disclosures of great bodies of rich ore In that camp, la Tww :maihffiT7y'Te7tTtr,coioonda, which la the nearest railroad iwint toj At I ot Ne Q O&WEl ) ft CHET T THE - Death j kf OF&rrm Sell rKjftLjp-psa- . the camp, aaya a camp correspondent of the Humboldt Start wW E The Seven Trough Merger Mining let te & Ray the contract to sink lOd'feSt In the shaft In the companys lease lyer A Leasing company has on the Therlen group. The ahartU now 135 feet deep. At T35 jfeet a! crosscut will he run to the vein. all Twelve Canadian properties, but one located In the Cobalt a wtlou, have during the paat four months-pai- d In dividend 2,591.429, and since Incorporation, but a few years ago, 9, 297,950, Nipt wring leads with J60Q,t)00 for the first four months of the year. N. F. Rasmussen, one of the own-F- s tvf the Lost Cave group of claims, lp Four Mile, district, Jieavbr county, reports the opening In the properly, of a vein which shows good valudsSJa gold, silver and copper. The vela Is jfn feet wide with values clear Across. The number of men killed In mine accidents in the- - United States, for each one thousand men employed, has been Increasing steadily for ten or fifteen years. During 1907, the last year for which complete 4 e cords have been killed reached received, 3.200, and about three times as many were Injured. The Humboldt Queen,. one of the e mines of the Humboldt range ot Nevada, is to have reduction works to treat the thousands of tons of ore blocked out and left In the stope by former operators, as well as the new ore that is being develx oped. The towns of Hawthorne and Lucky Boy, Nevada, a few miles distant, are both booming In consequence of the startling production record of the now famous Lucky Boy Mine, a silver-leaproposition. Leases are In great demand and much tew work has been VkT , t f the great S(ou,x chief., Philanthro- - , them at a distance . pints in the east ho never had seen an Indian , 'was the house of v' 1, ' instated WiMSltigT!uH was murdered and Sitting Bull, and In some of . front A.'tkaf 'the, blooft at thu a It the head of .the oaJkm.1 tttvos , bundredspjrards as 8 horde 5,lt was left to Col F,dward G. ecU'd,i now pro-1 aYajt feasor of military science at the Voivetslty of of ghost dancers en-t- t kaged in emptying Illinois. the truth of the shooting of 5lt- their rifles Into the" - ting Bull and jto give knowledge of jt;to the peolog building, from ECEErlEAf6 CMHmfHE ple. Col. (then captain) Fecliet mnde bne of the DEOHDEmms. 'A" hardest rides known to the troops of,, the plains vmencame a' feeble return fire, , . , , before he secured the facts in the base of the , ) , CapL Fechet had bis Hotchkiss thrown into to the- happy sharp skirmish .lost their eommandeilyMaJ- - Lewis passing of the great Sioux chief ' action-an' a shell in front of the The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of in hunting grounds w at thrown across their tracks but the wllj dancers, and then the command charged ghost fantry hul In a on was Bull's home the tog Sitting down the hill. eluded all save a few . ot the soldiers savages Standing Rock Indian reservation' of North The shell had Us frightening effect on the who in a sharp skirmish lost, their commander, Dakota. In. the, summer of 180, he gathsavages, who held aloof though still pouring in . ' x MaJ. Lewis. ered about .jbtm pf'"vhis--J braves many Aheir fire, which was answered by the soldiers trail led to one ibe' loW hills that chain The of and told them ip- picturesque Sioux Janguage as Fecliet himself a rapid course to the log the reservation. . Thfe had taken refuge that a Messiah was to come who would lead the house, with bis lifetook Cheyennes In his hands every step of near ths summit In a naqral follow. The, sides of .Sioux nation to victory; that the whites kould be the way, the hill rose sheer and slippery to the lurking annihilated i that the buffalo would, come back, Inside tbe hut were found' three of the Indian vf the savages. It whs a place admirably and that the red man would once mo te take pos- place policemen dead andHbree mortally wounded. The adapted tor defense. A tew mep. could hold It . session ot tho earths , wounded, resolved on exacting a price for their against a regiment. Through the medicine men Sitting Butt worked coming death, were Btill using their rifles against the superstitions of hia the besieging foe. The soldiers finally drove the .so upon the feelings-apCapt Vessels., in command of tbs alalry, saw the attempt to take the hilltop , .assault that ; warriors that they came to believe that by wear-ln- g savages to flight v would be to sacrifice the Jives of half' ofl his men certain garments which were railed ghost The few that were left living of the little force shirts their bodies would be safe from the bullets of Indian police told this story .X Lieut. Bull Head . He threw a cordon around the hill,' knowing that the warriors could not escape,' and trusting that , .. of the soldiers. had arrested Bull and had led the chief In a few hours hunger- - would force them to sun ' '""When Gen; VM lies learned of the teachings of from his cabinSitting only to be confronted by hundreds render. Meantime the Cheyeppes were active. r Sitting Ihifl'and pf their rapid spread, the chiefs of crazed savages. , and two of Sitting Bulls men, strode through They picked off many, a frocpqr., pud at noon on arrest was ordered. According! Indian police led by Lieut. Bull Head and Sergt. Shave Head' the Indian ranks, raised their rifles andx fired. the day following the night of their flight a bal! Capt Weasels in the head. The wound was Bull Head was shot through the body. were dispatched from Fort Yates to arrest the he struck D0 Berl0U8' but. Iu ffect wal to make captain chief at hls log hut miles away, Capt Fecliet of ; turned quickly and killed Sitting Bull. StrlktW and men eager for a charge, f Capt Wesseis went the Eighth cavalry was ordered xylth his com- - Kettle killed Sergt. Shave Head. Instantly Poto the front of hie troops and prepared to lead liceman Lone 5Ian killed tnand, consisting of two troops, anfi. if memory Then them bp the slippery hillside in the face of the serves, two light field pieces, to make, a night the surviving policemen sought shelter In the ths best Indian marksmen .on the great started. inarch to Oak Creek, about 18 miles from Sitting cabin and held off the ghost dancers as baa been fire of Shareholders of North Butte are deplains. told. when receive to there the ' Bulls house, prisoner All things were prepared for the charge, when manding that officials of the company With the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine he was turned over by Lieut. Bull Head. the amazement of the troopers, the whole band make an official statement In regard to who on went rendezSioux, Ridge the warpath !n Capt Fechet and bis men reached the stateof Cheyenne warriors, naked to the waist and to- - conditions In the mine a were a few stalwart warriors of the vous at 4:30 a. m. on one of the coldest mornings, than nature definite more of ment like . devils, came dashing down tho hillyelling of a Dakota December day. There was no sign-- tribe of the Northern Cheyennes. That the Cheywhich have comer from the dthose side straight at ennes limited the of braves were Indians The so In body cavalry. number was due of the Indian police, nor yet of the scout which disbad thrown away their rifles and were armed only irector, according to Boston to the fact that 12 years before the nation, exiled Bull Head was to send In advance to Inform patches. knives. with and longing for Us old home, had met with pracThey were going to their, death and the cavalry officer of his coming. Development work is to . begin at they knew it, hut death was better than a return Fecheta soldier Instinct told him at once that tical annihilation In the attempt to regain It. on the Western Utah , Copper once to the reservation which they hated. The Northern Cheyennes had been sent to a there must be trouble. His men bad had the of Weasels and bis' troopers of the Third cavalry property in the Deep Creek region reservation in the Indian territory following one hardest kind of a night ride, but they were willwork has been Utah. Development to of spare the Cheyennes, but the warriors the uprisings against the whites. The! hearts tried In this property for the ing, and he pushed forward rapidly." After ha left behind them In thejr old home and the would have death at any cost. With their knives abandoned had made several miles he was met by A scout they two years, although it le known past warriors earned to into plunged return. tho a conflict with they who was riding like mad The runner told Fechet there are vast bodies of ora awaiting troopers and before they were slain they exacted the owners. Late In the fall of tlmyear 1878 the Cheyenne that all the Indian police who had gone to arrest for a price their dying. braves, taking advantage of the temporary abThe Pioche, Nevada, Record anSitting Bull had been killed by the ghost dancers, ' sence When the time came for the burial of the In- nounces that the Salt, Lake Route has of their soldier; guardians, gathered toand that there were thousands upon thousands dians, Tea Kettle, a chief, was found to be alive, decided to haul to the Tintlo or Salt of them fully armed and in their war paint ready, gether theiriomen and their children and dashed northward in the direction of the land where but unconscious. Tea Kettle waa carried back to Lake smelters all ores for L75 per i T for battle. the fort and there made comfortable. Fechet looked over his small command and tbeir fathers had lived from the Ume back of the ton, whose precious metallic contents of tradition. beginning A squssr sought the ''wounded warriors couch do not exceed 5 per ton. This la a want ahead at full gallop, his only thought being They had been told by the Indian aients and and handed him a pair of scissors which he instant- direct helping hand to ail the mines to save such of the policemen as might be alive, - the soldiers, who acted under orders, that they ly plunged Into hia heart. He spurned life In the la that district, by that other thought to the heed and giving no never could take the trail back to the knowledge of the fact that hia brother braves were "Beaver county, Utah, never had aa north, ahead of him might be overwhelming numbers no heed to what was told them, but dead. - ' . many men working as at the present of thq savages and the fate of Coster. It was but they paid their gathering possessions they set out. on. time Bioux nation heard Of the bravery of the time, nor, were there so many differThe a terrible ride from that , i, -counted among the The Cheyennes' love of home, natural and When the morning was a little advanced the Cheyennes end they adopted the women and chlh ent" properties -compelling seemed and the results undoubtwhich to and ones, active heard to everyone come firing, command men of the of the boys, grown to manhood, except those who dren, thought that an Indian should have naught to do went with the Sioux on the warpath in their last edly are beter than they have ever to come from different points. On they went unwith been," is the statement 'of a wall was the cause of the destruc- great uprising. til they came to the brow of the hill. Beloyr known 'Operator. the-oat- pon j tiv-iui- trrtf ' ed -- , , the-num- ber - old-tim- low-gra- Catch-the-Bea- Strlke-the-Kettl- ' e, ' d Catch-the-Bea- - hand-to-han- i d sympathy- home-sicknea- , s, 1 II saloons in Muncie, Ind , are to be closed as the1 result ef the v letory at the polls last week of the Eighty-tw- The Croesus mine at Hailey, Idaho, prepared to ship between 600 and 700 tons of ore as soon as the roads are in good condition. V arinv who toed 'danger alter danger and withstood hardship after hardship With precious ht -- Ue hone of anv reward sate the consciousness ot duty well done It is probable that not one person i a hundred can name the battle Inught only IS jeara ago add in which the casualties to the small force of the regu lar a rm j engaged amounted to ldi men Killed and wounded That battle was the battle of y Wounded Knee and it is - nearly, dost to the recolley tlon of dhe masses There are several ofhmrs now stationed In Washington who Itd a part Jn that Dakota hglt The tight between Col Forsythe's tn erf of The Kexontli cavaTry and t lie Tio nd of Dig Foot, the Sioux, was the result-o- f the ghost-danccraze which had been started and fosteied by the gieat thief Sitting Hull, on whose hand s the blood of Cutter and his jnen Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police chile resisting arrest, but he was killed too. late, to prevent tha aptead of the doctrine which lie preahhed and which had run like ptaine fire among the men of his nation There were all sorts of stories circulated concerning t exposition 0ykMrftr BATH Memories of In d.an wars fade rapid! v from the miiid- - of a!t persons who weie not aitnely eugaged in the hos tiliues In the east the troubles in - ,e past oil the frontier held and the attention the interest bnt for No moment the easterner ever gave full tudit to the ot Hi t rs am? the men of the I mted s SHIGTON w MINES ANDJLINING BY o dry Fourt een pet sons were injured, two seriously. In a tornado at Knoxville, 1 enn , April 29Many houses were w reckefl. The (womans sufTtage bill, which pawed the Wisconsin senate some time ago, was killed in the assembly last week CJprlnno Castro, deposed president of Venezuela, announces he will wait in Faria thl coming of his wife from ihe wlestyidies. an , FonjC'workmen were killed-bexplosion in the glycejlne packing house of the PotiFbwder company . ' at ReynoldsPar. new a waa refused Hargis pecch trlaHat Irvine,' Kyand Judge Adams, directed that Hargis be Taken to the penitentiary at once. A cyclone struck Horn s Lake, Miss , April 29. killing three white men. Horn s Lake is a small town 15 miles below Hemphls. In a fight caused by an election day arrest at Talequah, Okla., John Taylor was shot and killed by Peter Smith, a special election policeman. Henrich Copreld,' former director of-tMetropolitan Oplra house In New York, who suffered a stroke of apoplexy at Meran, Austria, died April 27. - The German crop ceport for April 15 shows the condition of wheat and e to he conslderabiyworse this year a for the ctjprtspondlng period of y -- he An explosion on the submarine boat oca at Naples killed seven men and Injured several. The boat waa sunk at her dock to prevent further explo' sions, 3Tx Furious because hia sweetheart, Modest Fuentea, refused to elope with film without a wedding certificate, Pe--dBecundino of TolucfcTexaa, stab-- " bed her to death, , By an official tnawrlty of 768, Tippecanoe county. In (film &, last week voted "wet in the coitttty option eleo tlon,1 Jefferson; Marlin and, Washington counties voted "dry,! A verdict of guilty ot criminal libel wastound against the publishers of American by the Jrwy the New-Xo- rk In the trial charging the publication of an nirtle libeling John D. Rockefeller. Because fhf bad not been Included in a Ashing trip,, which her husband had planned, Meg-- Anna Fry, aged 24, of Los Angefea, laced jtaro! mouth and fired a s&ot whtclTlmme- lately ended her life. Chartes iC Shu,, probably the first Chinaman to W made a Justice of the peace of this country, has been invested with that, authority by the common afaxith of Massachusetts. " Shu I a native of Seattle, Wash. , A bill has 'been lntfoduceu in (he Hawaiian legislature prohibiting women from, wearing sailor blouaea, military h$tp, h?tp!ns made of, military or naval buttons, warship ribbons, or other naval Of mnitaryMnslgnla. -, Eleven men were killed and eleven wounded aa a result of-- the explosion q,t Naples on board the Italian subma- rine Foca. The American gunboat Scorpion, although only ninety feet distant- - from the Fooa, suffered ' no damage. . , f Charles Warren Fairbanks, former ro b$ conciudecthrough agents, a deal for the purt$hif a 130,000 residence In one oIwm: lonabe districts of Pasadehx It is said be will make PaaadenVb r future home j A pttcbvf battle at Asher, OklA horn a, between ihe families of Stanley Ware and Perry Brewer over rent due Brewer from Ware, resulted In - the killing of Wate. Brewer was perhaps son, fatally, and Jesse Brewer, hi seriously Injured. j Brooding over a quarrel witl his Alexand r Jennings, . 21 sweetheart, years old, He eon of walthyparents, threw tecoggregatlon at a crowded country church at Little Hickman, Ky., Into a panic by flrlng a bullet Into hie brain. He died shortly after. The secretary ot agriculture has lent to the senate tbe information regarding the beet Industry for which he waa asked in a resolution. The data shows that the production of su-- ; gar front beets, has increased from 42.Q00 Anns In 1896 to 125,000 tons in 1908., .federate Memorial day was observed at Atlanta, Ga., April 26,. with ail the dignity and reverence that has characterized this occasion for several years. The graves of the Confederate dead were decorated and the houses were schools and business closed. Official reports of the recent rioting at Velardlna, Mexico, following the stopping by the municipal authorities of a religious parade, show that he Teas than twenty-fiv- e men were executed. for participating In the riotlng, and seven were killed, during the , rioting. A special gTfted jury has been or: dered by GoyArndr Haskell to Invest!- gate the lynching at Ada, Oklahoma, on April 19, of James Miller. Jesse W, T. BurWest, Joseph Allen-a- nd rell, cattlemen, tor the murder of A. A. Bobbitt, a United States deputy marshal. In the United States court at Tombstone, Arizona, Ricardo F. Magon, Antonio J. Villareal and Librado Rivera were arraigned April 26 on Indict-ment- o for having violated the neutrality Jaws and abetting a revolutionary movement against Mexico, The trial " has been postponed. tr , ! |