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Show MINES AND MINING NEWS SUMMAKY Mrs. Emily 8. Nettleton, a George Wlngfield and associates "reaj daughter" of the revolution, died at have secured an option on the big Sioux City, Iowa, May 14. Nevada 11111b property at Falrview, train ran through an open bridge into Dull creek, near Randolph, Mo., and several tra'nmen art' missing. A. P. Riddle, former lieutenant-governo- r of Kansas, waa killed near Kans., May 14, In an automobile accident. Fifteen families have been burned out In the Rush lake, Saskatchewan district, by prairie fires, two children losing their lives and others being ' badly burned. Salvator Rtzzo, fruit ' dealer, who died suddenly at his home in Cincinnati, having received threatening letters from the "black hand," Is believed to have been poisoned. A dispatch from Tangier says it is reported from Mega dor that a party of American tourists has been captured by natives near Agadlr, which Is the most southern part of Morocco. Henry Good ale was fatally burned and his son, Thomas, badly injured at St Joseph, Mo., by an explosion of gas, caused by lightning during the worst electrical storm of the year. Rev. W. Q. Barber, superintendent of the Iowa league, an nounces that the league has decided to abandon the fight for the re submission of constitutional prohibition In Iowa. Roosevelt, In the current number of the Outlook, combats the statement credited to Count Leo Tolstoi that Bryan represented the party of peace in the lust presidential campaign Wjhlle clearing a lot In Burnaby, a B. C, suburb of New Westminster, workmen found the body of a woman in an advanced stage of decomposition, death having occurred at least six months ago. Five persons, four girls and a young man, members of a party of eight, were drowned when a boat in which they were attempting to cross the river at Hackensack, N. J., during a storm, capsized. Fire accompanied by an explosion in the big general storehouse of the' Seaboard Air Line railway at Portsmouth, Va, entailed a loss of from in $200,000 to 250,00O and resulted the Injury of four men. Miss Clara Cooper, of Montaur, Iowa, was suddenly stricken blind on the eve of her dcoirture for Iowa, after a visit to friends In Redding. Cal. Miss Cooper had never bad any previous trouble with her eyes. George Hall, aged 21; R. ft. Sweet, aged 45; Sweet's wife and four children were drowned In Chippewa river at Eua Claire, Wis., when Hall's gasoline launch capsized in midstream upon striking some sunken piling. The mangled body of James Moore a waiter of Butte, was found lytns beside the tracks of the Oregon Short Line, several miles south of Silver. Bow. Moore Is supposed to have fallen from the southbound passenger train. In an explosion on the quarter bor-t-, No. 3 at Codjoes Key, about twenty miles from Key West, Fla., on the Key West extension of the Florida East Coast railway, three men were Instantly killed and twelve badly Injured. By a vote of 74 to 104, a resolution by Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee, directing the bpoaker forthwith to appoint a committee on insular 'affairs to consider the president's Porto Rican message, was defeated In the house on May 13. A large "rat" In her hair saved the life of Mrs. Richard Frost In an automobile accident at Jackson, Mich. Mrs. Frost and her baby were both thrown from the machine when it collided with a telephone pole. Mrs. Frost struck on her head. Julius Meyer, for many years a pronilnei.t figure In business circles of Omaha, 'and president of the Metropolitan club, committed suicide at Hanscom Park, April 10, by shooting. Despondency on account of 111 health Is the supposed cause. The war department at Washington bas awarded to Amos Weaver, of Dunkirk, Ind., a medal for conspicuous bravery In the Philippines. Weaver, on November 5, 1899, alone routed a band of fifteen Insurgents, killing four and wounding several others. Because his August Loss, would not pier a furrow the way he wanted It, Herman Rabner, a wealthy farmer, living near Des Moines, Iowa, shot and killed the young man, and then burned his body. Rabner. who was 70 years of age, then killed him-aelA passenger Sa-Un- Anti-saloo- n son-in-la- f. The Kochnlsche Zeltung semiofficially announces that the German banks will not deliver up deposits of the former sultan of Turkey, unless he voluntarily renounces them or a law court ordors their delivery to the representatives of the new Turkish government. Rats gnnwlng at matches in a snml. store at Maturana, Mexico, started a fire. The fire reached a quantity of gutipowdcr and the resultant explosion caused the fire to spreal to other builAlmost the entire village was ding. burned, ono mun was killed in the explosion. With Impressive services the pulillu funeral of Helurlch Conrold, former director of the Metropolitan Opera company, was held May 13 In the build, ing which had been the scene of his 'labors and many triumphs In the years of his directorate. The auditorium Iteld a great throng. . world-widquad1 The twenty-fiftennlal conference of the United Ircthrtn church began a twelve days' kekilon at Canton, O., May 13, Bishop p. 8. Mills, of Pennsylvania, presiding. mere is an attendance of BOO dele- kites and visitors from all parts ol the United States. e - Nevada. , Under the Block-Wallolaw passed by the last legislature, the famous coal camp at Hanna, Wyoming, will soon be a dry town, as no new liquor license will be issued except in Incorporated towns of the state. In the Black Horse mining district of Nevada, the Ohana company is sink ing a shaft, and at a depth of 100 feet a ledge is exposed, over two feet of which gives average assays of 84.4 ounces silver and 5.91 ounces gold per ton. The Jack Pot Mining company, whose property is situated at Her cules, In the Wonder mining district of Nevada, is to commence active work within the next thirty days, and a number of improvements will be made. , Goldfleld has gone Cripple Creek, Colo., one better on gold production An official report of the April production of the mln.es of the Cripple Creek section gives tue total at $1,354,525 Goldfleld produced during the same period about $2,536,725. John D. Ryan, president of the In ternational Smelting and Refining company, In an interview published in a Denver newspaper, emphatically de nies that any rate agreement has been entered Into between the International and American companies. The great coal merger In the east has been completed, five big companies having been merged into one. The com panies have a combined capital stock of $37,650,000, and own and control 200,000 acres of coal landj in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The old Highland Boy Smelter at Murray Is being rapidly razed to the ground by the big force of steel work ers who are now on the Job. All the steel Is being shipped to Tooele as tast as torn down, where the International smelting plant is being erected. A mill of 250 tons a day capacity Is nearly ready to be placed In operaConsolition at the dated mines, at Austin, Nevada. Exhaustive tests show that the ore can be milled for $1.40 a ton. The new company has expended about $600,000 getting the mines ready for production. Indicative of the present copper situation, some figures on the recent copper sales In the east will be of Interest. Since May 1 there have been 125,000,000 pounds of the red metal sold, one firm alone selling about pounds, the average price received for which was 13 cents per . pound. Lorenzo D. Cunningham, a negro employe of the United States mint at New Orleans, was arrested as he was exhibiting a real gold brick. Cunningham confessed that he had stolen the gold in granulated form from the separating division of the mint and then moulded it Into the oval shape In which it was found. The Golden Reef mining stock was listed last week on the Salt Lake exchange. The company Is capitalized for 500,000 shares of stock, par value 20 cents. Of the original 51,000 shares of treasury stock, 26,000 shares have been sold. There is the sum of $2,100 In the treasury, and the debts of the company amount to $1,400. Because of the demand of the west and southwest for precious stones the prices of diamonds and pearls are to be increased soon. Prosperity in those sections is credited by the Maiden Iane dealers with causing them to do more than 100 per cent more business in precious stones last April than during the same month last year. According to assayers and others of a mathematical turn of mind, the atmosphere in the building used at Cananea, Mexico, one night last week as a theater, was worth nearly $10,-00A traveling Italian opera company was billed for a performance, and an old ore house, the largest building In town, was fitted up for the show. Before the performance was over the stamping of feet by peo ple in the audience had set the gold dust flying from the cracks and crevices of the old ore house. The gold laden dust was so thick it mado people sneeze. The monthly statement of the Copper Producers' association for April shows the stock of marketable copper of all kinds on hand In the United State April 1. 182,279,902 pounds. The stock of surplus copper was Increased during the past month by 918,171 pounds. What has turned out to be one of the most severe accidents In the history of the Consolidated MercurGold Mines company at Mercur was that of last week, when eight leaching tanks settled to such an extent that their valuable contents were lost to the company. Mining companies operatlngjn Nevada will not have to file or send to stockholders their first report, as required by the new "wildcat" bill, until June, 1910. according to an opinion Just written by It. C. Stoddard, attorney general of Nevada, In response to ninny requests. For the first time since the severe winter season Interfered with active ore transportation, the leasers on the Ruby Pioneer property In Nevada have found the roads In such shnpe that shipments can begin again. Two shipments from leasers arrived In Salt Lake last week. The American smelter at Murray Is gradually getting back to Its old form again. The American employes ar almost all back In their old position, and the number of men working at the plant on May 17 was placed at 150. The striking element, however, Is still active. TEMPLE JAIN MAGNIFICENT . INDIA. IN 'xj, I; p Great Boston Water Basin Covers Thomas Homestead. of Publication Started In 1792 and Long Familiar to All New England Got His Idea Founder from Arithmetic. six-fo- Austin-Manhatta- n HAG HE OLD ' " I if i ! tr a n sm-- 1.,'. ., t J i i '"'"m'a,T!it' 1 rtftmiKiHr'ifiiiiwwim-r- t- i T'1""""""""il'" ' : ; a. vt v . 4 - i fcSjitiwifijiii.TiV,i'"-'-'. f v v. An absolute gem of Indian architecture U this temple of the Jains on Mount Abu, In Rajputana, India, and its deep and rich carvings of white marble are miracles of elaboration.. But beautiful as the shrines are, there Is a certain monotony and "vain repetition" about them, not untypical of the religion In whose honor they were erected. The origin of the sect Is placed at about 500 or 600 B. although the Janis themselves claim that their religion Is eternal, and that in old days the whole of India was under its say. They live a remote and contemplative life, and carry thi horror of taking life to an extreme point. Hence they encourage vermin, and would rather die than destroy a microbe by washing In water. They care for no luxuries, and give all their possessions to the church hence the temples art the 'most elaborate In India. C HOW TO LIVE LONG Nuts and Pie May Insure 1.003 ty. The shock was felt, however, on that day by Forest Ranger Bald, who was on duty In the region. Years on Earth. On April 12 Superintendent Steckel of the water company began to complaints that the water runDress in White, Sleep In Draught and ning In the town supply pipes was Forget About Death, Says BosThe superintendent started muddy. ton Savant Suggestion for out to find the cause of the trouble. Menu. g Daily Boston. Dr. John Fair, head of Boston's newest cult, the "New Life," is certain that be has discovered the secret of how to laugh at old age, and bow to exist not only for 100 but for 1,000 y ears without pain, evil or sick- MSS. He .ys 250,000 people have enlisted und.jr his banner. Here are his rules fa; living to be 1,000 years old: "Dresi always in white. White is the price principle of life. I believe there should be a universal law making It I crime for any person to go attired id black or dark apparel. "Do iwt think of death; do not be lieve In Jeath. "Live principally upon vegetables and nuts. Abjure meat, milk, oil and flesh of at! kinds, as well as all stim ulants. '.'Sleep eight hours daily, exercise eight houis and work eight hours. "A roan s most critical hour In the day is the 30 minutes before and after meals. He should absolutely stop work a Iwlf hour before each meal and must not resume work until a half hour fter each meal. "Each ptrson should be alone for a half hour each day, not necessarily to sleep, but to get his mind In a condi tion of natural and perfect repose. "Sleep with your bedroom window open every night all your lifetime. Always have draught In your room. "A dally menu I would suggest would be as follows: "Breaktasi Honey, toast, rarely coffee, and at long Intervals an egg. "Dinner A bowl of soup made from nuts or celefy or potatoes, preferably nuts; an apy-l-e or an orange, with, for variety, letUre or radishes. "Supper Apple pie, fruit. "I offer to every one who accepts my faith not 100 or 200, but even 1,000 more years of life If It Is EARTH SLIDE FORMS His Journey led him to the sources or the town's supply, and he found a new country altogether. The entire mountain on the noith side of the canyon at a point 12 miles from Santa Paula had slipped down across the stream. The creek must have been a couple of days in rising and making Its way over the dam; then when the water came down Into the town's reservoir It was more than half mud. The region in which this, occurred Is the wildest part of the Ventura county mountain country, and so there will be no damage to property. Has Read Bible 23 Times. Ithaca. N. Y. "1 think 1 will stand on my record; I won't try to read It again," said Mrs. Sarah Harty, a woman 93 yeare old, as she closed her Bible after she had finished reading It through far the twenty-thirtime. Mrs. Harty Relieves that she has the record for Mble reading In this part of the country and that she Is too old to try again. The old woman can quote and rclte many hundred of verses from the Scriptures. Rheumatism, which bas Impaired her otherwise excellent health, has kept her In the house of late, and she had plenty of time to pusue ber studies. SPECIAL PHYSICIAN V. Boston. In the picturesque village of West Boylstou, which was swept away by the great storage basin of the Metropolitan water board, was the bouse in which lived for many years Robert B. Thomas, founder of the original Farmers' Almanack. The old homestead where Mr, Thomas lived the greater part of his lifetime, and many other homes, churches, stores and shops were destroyed. Practically all the town was offered up to the sacrifice, and over the site of the hamlet now spreads a silvery stretch of water. Upon its placid page the records of the changing seasons the sunshine, the winds and storms the courses of the sun, moon and stars, which the old almsnac maker loved to follow, will be written for countless years to come. The Farmers' Almanack Is the oldest in this country, and the name of Robert Bailey Thomas has become familiar to New England ears through his connection with this unpretentious iittle annual, and bis example still governs the purpose of the book. He was born on April 4, 1766. His grandfather was a Cambridge university man and bis father was very fond of books. Robert grasped every opportunity to Improve his mind. It Is rather curious to notice that he had uo instruction In mathematics until ' he was 20 years old. The study of arithmetic seems to have had a determining influence on his caieer. His father had many books, and be read them assiduously; "Asamong them was Ferguson's "he be from this and says tronomy," Imbibed the Idea of calculating an almanac." He taught school for a few winters, short terms that left the remainder of the year free for the study of astronomy. In time be became Interested in bookbinding, then in bookselling and finally, after studying mathematics for a time at a school In Boston, kept by Osgood Carleton, he made calculations for the first number of the Farmers' Almauack. He published the first number In the latter part of 1792 for the year 1793. It was a significant time in American history, only a few years after the constitution of the United States had gone into effect, and wes an era of energetic and Intelligent in all directions. The development of a century ma; be followed step by step through the pages of this little book, and a file of these old calendars woutd afford an abundance of curious information and prove most Interesting reading. One of the notable things about the Farmers' Almanack is that from the first It has excluded from its pages the picturesque image known as the Man of Signs or the Moon's Man. The figure of a man. surrounded by the 12 signs of the zodiac, each referring lo some part of his body by means ol a connecting line or a pointing dag ger. Is still seen in some almanacs and was vnce regarded as Indlspena able. (it-fo- Wire'ets 'Phone Is Success. Portland, Me. For the first time In tho history of the new science a wire lets telephone station was thrown or.en to the general public the othet day In till city, and many local bust ness men used the Instrument and tound It successful. This was only a test planned by A. Frederick Collins Inventor, of Newark, N. J., to con vinoe the public that the wireless tele phone Is a practical commercial con venlence. Telephonic messages were transmitted across the harbor from Portland to 'he South Portland shore a distance of one mile, aerials being erected on tie roofs of the building In which the two stations were lo cnt4. TO PRESIDENT TAFT. j A LAKE Mountain Top Thrown Out of Place Changes Surface of a Canyon in California. Ventura, Cfcl. The slide of the top of a great mountain of the Sisnr range, In this county, has changed the entire surface of Santa Paula canyon, dammed the Runts Puula canyon, and made a luke In the South Fork canyon, six miles back from Ferudule ranch equal lu size and beauty to Tahoe. The heud of the creek has been raised 200 feet above Its former level, and the water pours out from over a magnificent fall 200 feet high. The earth slip that threw the mountain out of place occurred on April 10. It was local In character, caused by excessive moisture In the hill, as the shock was only noticed locally. The tremor did not extend to Santa Paula nor to any of the towns of this coun JVC. 1'koL rawrlitM ,f ciiiwIiMt, Wwfcinctaa, U C Col. Guy L. Edle, U. S. A., will look after the health of the president and the ether occupants of the executive mansion during the present sdmlnlitra tlon. Col. Edle was assigned by the war department to accompany the "Tart party" on their trip around the world a few year ago as phyilclan In charge He Is well known In the medical profession and well liked In military circles. NORTHWEST NOTES Governor Charlea E. Hughes, of New York, has formally accepted an Invitation to visit the exposition. He will comelute in July or early In August. Orvllle Kyle, who shot and killed John Wilkes, manager of the Cow Creek Sheep company, at Wamsutter, Wyo.,. about three months ago, baa been convicted of murder la the second degree. While engaged In mixing a flashlight preparation In his apartments la a Butte hotel, C. A. Bousset of Seattle was terribly burned about the face and hands, as the result of the explosion of the mixture. The new plant of the Astoria and Puget Sound Packing company, ou Chuckanut bay, three milea south of Belllngham, Wash., burned last week, causing a loss of $50,000. The plant was well Insured. William McGregor, aged 28, a young business man of Vancouver, B. C, met death while cleaning a rifle which he did not know was loaded. He was the son of a prominent insurance man. John Kaln, aged 33, was killed at Goldfleld, Nevada, In a runaway. The. team ran close to a trestle of the Consolidated Mines company and on of the timbers came Into contact wtt'li Kain's head, fracturing his skull. When the legislative committee that Is Investigating state offices met at Olympla, Wash.. May 12, sealed charges against State Land Commissioner E. W. Ross were filed. All the state offices are to be Investigated. J. E. Allen, who Is In a hospital at Ely, Nevada, became suddenly Insane, broke a window pane and cut his throat with the glass, also hacking Al1.1s body In a score of places. though badly injured, It is believed he will recover. In the arrest at Reno, Nevada, of Frank Webb, the police believe they have secured the Hammontree livery stable holdup desperado who relieved A. L. Hammontree and M. Victor of $85 and wantonly shot Jack Monroe through the bowels. The state council of the Knights ot Columbus of Montana met at Butte, May 11, In annual session, State DepreOfficial uty Jackson presiding. ports show a gain of 800 In membership during the year, the councils now aggregating a total of 2,000. The big Casino dance hall at Tono-pah- , one ot the largest resorts of it kind in Nevada, and made famous as the training place for Marvin Hart, Mike Schreck, Joe Cans, Jack "Twin" Sullivan and other prize fighters, waa partially destroyed by fire last week. Harry Beebe, a Lander, Wyo., cowboy with Buffalo Bill's show, died lo New York on May 14, from paralytic, rabies, a rare form of disease, Beebe's bruised great toe was . severely by being stepped on by a horse ridden by a fellow cowboy. Partial paralysis developed and death followed. Charles L. Gustafson, an electrician, died at Anaconda, Mont., from the effects of burning oil. Gustafson was at work on a switchboard at th substation of the Washoe, smelters when a short circuit caused a blinding flash of electricity, exploding a can of oil which the elect rlcan had in his hands. ' ' Officials of the state of Wyoming are preparing elk hunters' licensee as usual and will Issue them to applicants before and during the big; game hunting season next fall. The technicality In the new game law, forbids th which unintentionally hunting of elk before 1912, will not be regarded. Broker C. W. Cockrell, who had been confined in Jail at Butte two weeks, because of Inability to satisfy a Judgment had by A. W. Dea-vlt- t, has been discharged from custody by Judge McClernan of the state dls-- ' trlct court. An attempt was made, under an old law to keep Cockerell Imprisoned for debt. That William Garrison, whose body was found near the river at Cheyenne-wita bullet hole through his head; and a revolver lying near by, was! murdered, is Indicated by further In-- , vesication of the case. It was believed at first that he had committed suicide. j A Ore that started in the California, beer hall at Rawhide, Nevada, at midnight, which threatened a repetition ot the disaster of last September,! when the town waa reduced to asies ( was controlled after It had destroyed, the beer hall and several buildings; adjoining. The po8tofl1ce at Bremerton, Wash., situated close to the Puget Sound navy yard, was entered by profes-- . slonal cracksmen, who drilled the safet and took sway Its strong box con! talnlng $9,000 worth ot rtamps, a diamond ring valued at $250, and nearly $200 In cash. Arthur George, a clerk, aged 40. hot and killed his wife, Elizabeth, ftt her home In Brighton Bench, near Seattle, and then, taking their two children, boarded a street car and went to Mllee headquarters, whero he announced the crime and surrendered himself. Surveyors moving mysteriously tit Cheyenne have resurrected the old report that the Burlington Is preparing to make a construction dash through the city, seizing a street or alley for t of way. The Union Pacific Its hits taken the report sufficiently serious to set guards. The Christian Endeavor organisations and similar organisations of Cheyenne have decided to Join tho broader organization of such societies In Colorado and New Mexico, and It l expected that all such societies lr Wyoming will also become afflllntei. with this organization, Alaska-Yukon-Pacffl- well-know- : tfi.-'h- |