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Show MINES AND MINING CABRERA Nine eets of leasers are operating at Gold Circle, 2.500 feet for which crops Nevada, through the companys possessions. Child, Cole & Co., the Salt Lake brokers, are getting out a new map of the Park City, Utah, district, which they declare will be up to date In er I STIES on the Gold Crown vein President of Guatemala Takes De dsife Action in Dealing With Band of Conspirators. Have Eighteen of the Ringleaders Been Shot to Death and More Executions Will Probably FoU low Military In Control of the City. . President Cabrera authority for the statement that eighteen of the ringleaders In the conspiracy against him already hare been shot to death and that Guatemala City. himself Is probably more executions would follow. President Cabrera, against whose life an attempt was made by students on Monday, received the representatives of the varlotrs powers on Thursday and made a lengthy statement to them that he had unearthed an extensive conspiracy against him that led up to his attempted assassination, lie declared that eighteen of the leaders had been killed by his orders, and that the death penalty would be meted out to others at the hands of the military. Among these are the men Imprisoned a year ago. Having been Implicated In a plot to assassinate the president, they were sentenced to death, but sentence had not Wen carried out. President Cabrera said that he h3d proofs that a majority of these prisoners were Implicated In the new attempt against his life and that they would be executed without delay. Although there Is a surface tranquility here, conditions really are serious. The military is in control of the city and a partial suspension of business has resulted. The revolutionary feeling is strong In many quarters and there are those who will not hesitate to go to any length or face any danger in their efforts to make away with the president. cry particular. Thirty thousand miners employed In the Pittsburg, Pa., district resumed work last week, In accordance with the agreement reached at the Toledo" joint conference. Salt Lake City has at last received ,a patent to Its asphaltuin mine at Thistle, Utah. The mine was pur chased by the last municipal admlnls tratlon for JC.000. The Shenango valley steel plant, operated at Newcastle, Pa., by the Carnegie Steel company, resumed operations last week with a full force. About 1,200 men are affected. The president of the University of Idaho Is looking for a graduate who Is capable of holding the chair of as sociato professor of mining and metallurgy, at a salary of $1,SOO a year, Tbo Virgin City oil district Is sit uated In the southwestern corner of Utah, near the eastern boundary of The region is the Basin ranges. drained by Virgin river and Its trlb utarlcs. Reports from Silver City, Idaho, concerning the PotosI mine are very being encouraging, the statement made that over 20,000 tons of ore are in sight, and the ledge is constantly improving. Development work Is being vigorously prosecuted in the Commonwealth mine, in the mountains near Milford. The shaft is now down 500 feet and the indications are bright for the future of the mine. The shipment of gold from the United States to Europe ha3 begun, much to the satisfaction of the mining men of the west. When Uncle Sam can spare gold for Europe, better times are in view for the miners. The Nipisslng Mines company has issued Its annual report, covering the period from February 1, 1907, to December 11, 1907, which shows a .total income for that period of $1,320,702, and net profits of $923, 7S8. Among the improvements that are in contemplation for the CYCLONE KILLS THREE. mines in Pioche, Nevada, is a smelter plant, which will be constructThurston County, Nebraska, Visited ed at Bullionville, the company hav by Destructive Windstorm. ing plenty of ground and water for an Bancroft, Neb A tornado swept ideal site. The recent big strike made by leasthrough Cummings county and into ers in the Golden Treasure property Thurston county at noon Thursday, and three people are known to have at Seven Troughs, Nevada, has been been killed, a number injured and a hailed with joy by the owners, mostly Utah men, who expect to begin develnumber of houses destroyed. opment on a large scale as soon as of The tornado struck the house Ohio-Ken-tuck- John Mangleson, near Pender, Neb., and then swooped up into the air, taking the wreckage of the house and the leases expires. y The news comes from Ely that at the recent trial run of the first secboth Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson. Both tion of the big McGill plant everywere killed, their bodies being carried thing worked much better than had a mile. The plant is to be been expected. at were and Wacker in family George placed regular commission during lunch when the twister struck their the coming month. house. Three of the family were seriA Butte dispatch says: Butte ously injured. a large body of has Coalition opened The dead body of a little baby was copper glance in the Rarus mine on picked up in the public road ten miles the 1,700-foo- t level. It is from two to trom Bancroft. four feet wide and 100 feet long and is estimated at 1,000 feet high. EngiLYNCHING BEE IN CALIFORNIA. neers estimate that this body of ore Gambler Murdered Butcher will have a gross value of nearly Who $30,000,000. Hanged to Telegraph Pole. Fully two hundred people went Rhyolite, Nev. Shortly aftqr dusk from Ely to witness the concentrating Wednesday night a small band of cit- of .the first copper ores at McGill from izens at Skidoo, a camp in California, the big mines. Many had never seen fifty-fiv- e miles south of here, ore treated in this manner before, the sheriffs guard in charge while many more went for the pur,of Joe Simpson, the gambler who shot pose of satisfying themselves as to and Idled James Arnold on Sunday, the complete success of the latest ma:and hanged the prisoner to a telegraph chinery in handling Robinson ores. The news comes from Newhouse, ,pole, where his body dangled in the as of the the citzens camp Utah, that conditions are much immorning arose. The lynching was accomplish- proved at the mines. They are added quietly and no one in Skidoo will ing to the ore reserves at the mine acknowledge having any information each month, and are making headway relating to the affair. Simpson walked in opening up new ground that is exinto Arnolds butcher shop and shot pected to add to the wealth of the Arnold through the heart, without property. ' provocation. ovre-ipowere- ap-paer- d THE RACE AGAINST TIME TROOPER LOST OPPORTUNITY NARROW MARGIN. SUIT S Two Hundred and Fifty Residents of Alabama, Louisiana and Mis- sissippi Meet Death. BY William Kerr One of the British Sot dier Who Reached Fatal Spot Just Too Late to Save Prince Imperial. Digging In a mine In Joplin Is William Kerr, who narrowly escaped famous. He ran a race against time and failed, says the Kansas City Ihv-roml- Mc:t of Those Killed Were Negroes, Journal. For years Kerr was a resident of Kansas City, but It was not until a short time ago. just when be was on the point of taking his departure for the zinc fields, that he divulged hit Atlanta, Ga. Reports Indicate that history. Day after day, seven year, at least 250 persons were killed and for one plumbing firm ahme. he haj about 400 Injured In storms of great dug. Neither did that concern care to violence whch passed over sections of rart with his services, for Kerr, more Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on generally known as 'Scotty,' was a Friday. Several towns were almost valuable man In his way. totally swept away and the property New' polalers In the art of digging damage will run into large figures. trenches came to Kansas City with Most of those killed were negroes, Kerr. His was none of the slow shovwhose' cabins were, swept away Uko eling which usually obtains. When he so much paper. went Into a trench the dirt flew in a Natchez, Mis., reports that of sixty-fou- r constant stream. He had a peculiar persons killed In that section only manner of handling the shovel which two were whites. brought three times as much work In Late reports from Amite, a small a day as the average digger could detown In southeastern Iiuisinna. say liver. Of course, this ability brought that the town was almost entirely de- bis extra wages, hut even at that he stroyed and the estimates place the was a valuable man. No doubt he will number killed at between twenty-fivmake good In the mines. and fifty, while at least seventy-fivBut this story Is to tell of the race were injured. made by Kerr as n British trooper on At McLain, Miss., eight are reported his good mount, the goal being farce. to have been killed: at Vidalia, La., The opponent was Father Time, boastone white woman and six negroes are ing of no other conveyance than an dead; at Quitman Landing eleven ne- hour glass and scythe. Yet Kerr and groes were killed; at Purvis Landing, the horse lost. Miss., three whites and nine negroes France was not safe for a Bonawere victims of the storm, and reports come from parte after the Prussian invasion and of from one to five deaths storm over the commune. Napoleon III., dying the many towns scattered In 1873, left little but swept area. In Louisiana It is estimated that a his son, a delicate youth of 17. In score of small towns wore destroyed England this lad attended Woolwich, or partially wrecked. They include the famous military school, fitting himAmite City, Arcadia and Independ- self out to become, when times should ence, while Belle Grove, Yelton, Lor be a better, reigning IjouIs Napoleon. man, Pine Ridge, Quitman Landing, School life and inaction palled when Lum Fairchild's Creek, Purvise and 1S79 in caine the chance which he had berton, Miss., are reported seriously damaged by the storm. hoped for. England was at war with In Alabama, Dora was the chief suf- the Zulus. Grudging permission was ferer. This town is also known as granted the young prince to go to the Bergen. Four or more persons were front, but not as a combatant. lie killed. Fifty persons at the lowest was to bo treated more as an observer estimate were injured. Those most and as a guest of the English nation. carried to hosseriously hurt So read the instructions to Gen. pitals in Birmingham, Ala. a column. Whose Flimsy. Cabins Were Swept Away Like So Much Paper. Property Loss Enormous. o e heart-broke- n e New-digat- Richland and Lamourie, La., were struck by the storm and nearly a fifth of their population injured. Winchester, Miss., a small town, is reported wiped out, though only two persons are known to have been killed. Mobile reported nine dead in Hat- tiesburg, Miss. What appears to have been two different tornadoes also struck western Alabama, one claiming six victims at Bergen and Thomas sawmill, small places, and another striking Alberville, where thirty persons are reported have been killed. Abandoned Attempt to Hold Up Train After Stopping It. Butte Another attempt to hold up the north coast limited train, westbound, the crack overland flyer of the Northern Pacific railway, was morning at a point between Welchs Spur and Homestake, fifteen miles east of Butte, the scene of the recent hold up of the north coast, when Engineer Frank Crow was murdered and his fireman shot through the arm. Several torpedo explosions brought the train to a stop in a very rough portion of the country. Engineers Hanscomb and Gear suspected something wrong in the stopping of the train in that locality, and both men observed extreme caution in alighting. Evidently the nerve of the would-b- e bandits failed when they was suspected, as a saw that hold-uin their with four the men, the hands, disappeared among made-Thursda- p s In the direction of Butte. ro' e, commanding When there was chance to do some scouting with a small party the prince imperial, as he is known to history, went along. Apparently the venture was destined to be harmless. In fact, the party had dismounted for rest when a band of savage Zulus rushed upon the soldiers. Those who managed to reach their horses in safety escaped. The prince might have escaped also had not his horse became unmanageable. lie was thrown and was killed by the Zulus. The troopers as they fled were joined by tke riderless horse. Shortly, too, as they fled they were met by a relief party sent as soon as the princes absence was discovered. These troopers of the relief spurred back to the place where the fight had occurred. In this party was Kerr. Spur as they would, death outstripped them. When they came upon the scene of the convict the last of the Napoleons was last aid. Kerr himself tells how an aour or two might have altered everything. An examination of the place of ambush revealed the body of him who by he imperialists of France was termed Napoleon IV. The Zulus had stripped t of everything save the famous amu-e- t of Charlemagne suspended by a chain around his throat. So the thanks of France were not :or William Kerr, once trooper for her majesty. The man whom fame passed by is digging zinc ore in Joplin |