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Show MINES AND MINING Wlunder fAMOUSDoNtraBs onMajor Leagul Diamonds yjintd iylfkidijy fihyen fa JOasrAa VOtlJ. fuilEVm By "DOC MILLER. Outsider Boston Nationals, Who la Considered On of the Most Dangerous Hitters In tho National League. to get writer's If ever I start to write the mistakes I've made in baseball games I'll ruin my throwing arm by paralyx ing 1L I've made enough to run In ten volumes and I don't think the Boston crowds ever huve forgotten one ol them. I'm glad- - you only want me to teli the worst one ever made I doubt II I picirthe riRht one, even then, but 1 remember one that couldnt be Improved upon much as to worseness.. It was so bad It was almost good, and, Do you want me cramp' ctally when his clients were of the poorer sort. He acquired a reiMita-tioas 'the broth of a boy;' he was a willing gamester, being always ready. If a game of cards was proposed. to cease work and reach over fur the cards, which were always kept on the top of the bellows, and continued playing as long as he found company He omitted no oportunitv of making himself known and liked, went to every fair, dance, wake and festival where people congregated. In the political life of the village he waa alwaya on the popular side in giving his opinions, and even his monHad be continued this gait ey he must have found himself in some public office. A Poor Law Guardian, or a Justice of the Peace he might have been if the plot had been allowed to develop ao far. "Of course, there were those who had their suspicions of young aBrt-ley- . Where did he come from, and what were his antecedents? When this kind of questioning got too close, he managed to turn It off In some adroit way. Beyond the statement that he had had some trouble with his parents, and that he had resolved to earn his livelihood awsy from them, he would confide nothing as to hts past. The old men shook their heads,, and warned the young men to shun him. One said n - often frigid and uncommunicative to natives, the policeman Is frpe enough 'with strangers, and his information ia apt to be reliable about the country generally, for, as he is never kept long at any one place, his local knowledge is extensive It is true that he is apt tj be biased against the peasantry, because, although a peasants son himself, his training and employment have made the people hate him, for the common people have no use for the peeler,. as the constabulary are contemptuously called by them. Imagine the policemen, the natural protectors of life and property, being hated by the people! That is the condition in Ireland yet, and has been so almost from the beginning. That does not mean that the Irish do not want to have life and property protected. It means that they have so seen the policeman Identified with the prolong tection of a particular kind landlord's and bailiff's, 1 proparty, the landlord's property In land, that they overlook his other useful public services. It Is a most unfortunate state of things The policeman has been made the buffer between the English Government and the Irish people, and the efficient instrument of coercion of the latter, and between the two his lot has not been a happy one. When home rule becomes an accomplished fact, the Royal Irish Constabulary will be disbanded. It will no longer be necessary to keep an "English garrison" in Ireland. The estrangement between the police and the In the lawless dispeople is indeed remarkable. tricts of which there are still too many, the people who could give information to the police will not do so. Hence, there is a good deal of unpunished crime in those districts. One of the woist counties In this respect is the county of Clare, the historic constituency that first elected O'Connell to Parliament. Here the old wounds of the agrarian war have never closed up. During my stay I saw in one of the papers a pastoral letter of 4he Most Rev, Dr. Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe, givdescription of outrages which ing a continued to be committed with impunity against life and property in Clare. I visited Ennis, the capital of the county. I was told that in one week no less than Jhree shooting outrages had been perpetrated on unoffending men. One of the victims was a a who was acting letter-carrieand who was shot in the highway in open day. Although many people passed his wounded body on the road, not one would comfort or relieve him till the police came several hours afterwards These passers by doubtless felt that if they gave any help to the victim they might meet the same fate as himself. So helpless has British law become In the county of Clare. Sauntering round the narrow streets 1 fell in with an old man who did not object to conversaThis He proved to be an tion. man did not mince matters in detailing his views "Clare was the most peaceable and experiences. county l,n Ireland, said he, when I Joined the force, but the cursed Land League came upon us. snd since then things have been different. Most f the men you meet on the road are Fenians or Rlbbonmen, and many of them are criminals I told him I thought this was too strong a description of his countrymen. He. however, stuck to his opinion, snd took me to an elevated spot at the hack of the Court House, from which he pointed out the scenes of as many as seventeen assassinations, all more or less successful, but for which only one man was ever brought to Justice it is not alone the malcontents and the secret -society men that refus.Jo tell the police what they know about outrages. Even the relatives of the Injured pprsons are often known to. alopt a similarly uncommunicative attitude. To give inas an Is to branded be formation to the police informer. which ia the most offensive epithet in vocabulary, being worse than that " (he Irishman descend from father . The stigma f "hangman to sen, while there is any of the family left to friend told me that-- , endure R My be himself had heard a Clare mother, whose son was shot before her eyes, make the avowal that e ahe would rather see all her sons lying dead She her than become a hated "informer. "brought the secret to the grave with her I asked tny friend for his opinion as to wh the force was so unpopular. Tie laid the blame unhesitatingly upon the English Government The , Government have employed the police almost at evictions and other snch unpopular tasks, when they might hsve, employed the regular soldiers or the militia. The result is that the to-wl- t: blood-curdlin- and' g r, be-aid- 1 by the there are way, a lot of times when you can't tell whether a play Is good or bad. If it turns out all right it's good, and If not you're a John Anderson for fair. The mistake 1 made was about the most natural in the world, but f shudder to think what would have happened to me II luck hadnt pulled me through. The game was played in Boston last year, against Brooklyn, 1 believe, although I cant remember which team it was. Anyhow we both were slam banging the ball hard and going at top speed, piling up a big score, first one team leading, then the other. Along In the eighth inning we had two meg on the bases and I came to bat. I caught the first ball pitched and bit it several miles out to center. I thought it was going through to the fence, but the left fielder went out and after a long chase ha managed to make the ball hit his hands. I turned first base while the ball still was In the atr, and saw that he had a chance to bold to it If be made a sensational catch, and ' High Grade now contains a popula '.Ion of 300 people.'-- -- J" It Is reported that operations will be resumed at the Mendfra mine at iloche in the Dear future. Bingham New Haven la paying per cent dividend, amounting ; a total of $68,600 for thi9 .o ear, and $180,219 In ail The sale of 10.0oft.0o0 pounds of cop per on Tuesday was reported-fro- m the east, the price being 17A cents. for delivery as late as In September. Consolidated at The Byron Wyo, lias its 6' inch casing down 1260 feet This will be sent to the 1300 lpveldLonce. completing the well within the next 30 days The coal mined in Wyoming is bituMore than minous and half of the product comes from the Ktmmerer district, in Tlnta county, and from the Rock Springs -- field iu Sweetwater county. The geological surveys estimates give Wyoming credit for a larger original coal supply than any other state cxiept North Dakota, whuli is estimated to have contained originally 300,000, ooo.ooo ehort tons of coal Wyoming is the second largest state In the Kok mountain region, Colorado ranking fiist; and if production In Wyoming continues to increase within tile next few years as it lias done in the lawt twenty five, it will soon rival Colorado for the first vI rtah-Wyounn- place. The high price of zinc sulphide or in the Joplin camp during the past week was $63, the base per ton of 60 per cent zinc having been $34 to $60. Zinc silicate sold frpm $30 to $31 per ton of 40- per cent zinc The average price, all grades, of zinc, was $36 2 per ton. - Tho City of Mexico correspondent of the Boston Financial News states a well informed source has it that there will he not less than $100,000,000 of foreign capital Invested in the republic during the next few months. He believes the wars are a thing of the past. So far as known to the VnitdS States geological survey the only bismuth-bearing ore produced in this country during 1911 was in Ia Plata county, Colorado, which carried 6 to ThVi ore, how8 per cent of bismuth. ever, was wold for Its gold and silver contents. , The reorganization committee of the Nevada-UtaMines fc Smelting corporation ha acquired the property for $100,060. Stockholders were assessed 60 cents a share, fob which first mortgage convertible bonds, together with 200 shares of stock for each $100 subscribed were given. h value of ttsfr consequent enhanced tntne product itai rhawtel the plena Of TOany-Arteptopoeltteew . iwniiell In the Tlntic district, and Tlntic gives promise of being an Important contributor of this class of mineral wealth -- ... during the balance of 19X2. Directors of Lower Mammoth Is-4 V. . , report to stock' pued a shown that dun In Is which It holders, Ing tbe past six months 2,000 feet ol drifting and 350 of raises have been accomplished, and that on July 1 there was an ovedraft of f5.091.75, with $9, I turned for second cursing tbe luck, 813.12 due on assessment No. 30. . for I thought sure he would grab it. .. With $8,000,000 of $8 to $10 gold ore tfm He didnt. The ball Just hit hla hands n the old Buck-borsight and estimated, Lanfler-Eurekfell. and bard enough to lose force, a near the mine I turned second, saw I couldn't reach on the Boewawe line below , he was too good to last long. Another said hs third, and slid back to second. Ths county latter forces are popular, or at least are treated looks Nevada in Pacific Southern them would who a A Government get be spy might ball came back, and we went on. with some toleration, whereas the police are deto to Wingfield George mass enough regularly minute later-- the pitcher let me get good all In trouble, That he went to tested. It may he that recruiting reasons were 3',000-foo- t funnel and to a commence remarked who some were was there but I admitted, ha and lead. back of Englands jgylicy of keeping the army thought away with a big n that bis manner Of blessing himself revealed ths wasnt watching me at all, and I slid begin the construction of a 1,000-toIreland militia out of Irish agrarian troubles. mill. he reduction might Into third base Just as hard as I could amateur worshiper. The conjecture that used to be a good recruiting ground for these latThe report comes from the Wilbert be a Government spy came to Bartley's own ears, plow through this dirt. I got up, shook ter forces, and it is Important to England that it that and at once be aet about to explode It should continue so. This consideration would dicand felt pretty good until I property in Domes district, 15Idaho, myself will tho The first thing Bartley did was to go to a saw a Boston runner skating up and not before about August tate the wisdom of keeping the military force at neutral In Irish Internal affairs liquor seller's and get drunk. When he was told down between third and home. I won- mill be completed knd operating to get out he became abusive, cursing everybody dered what he was doing there.'Jiut maximum capacity. The force of minOne of the allegations made by Nationalists Is From 4evels In authority, especially the Government, the Lord as be was driven back to third I ers is being Increased. that outrages have often been "manufactured by Lieutenant and the Queen. Rolling In the gutter, turned and ran back toward second, No. 1 and S most of the gnilllntt ores police agents at the instigation of the Government be called for three cheers for an Irish Republio lie got back to thir and I was trap- are coming at present The mill is itself, is wder to furnish an excuse for coercive ). 1 was and a Parliament ln College Green. When the ped between second and third and running in a small !! If laws. veteran there asked ttus Returns received from the .Selby polioe came. Bartley become more abusive. At they were chasing meup and down any truth in this statement. e ship(be stc"nn house be assaulted two of them, and when be made another break for the smelter at San Francisco But. he added, It is no longer true, he said. wore ever mine show a Sunshine that the hound mtserahie ment fwm I can well remember when there were some very challenged any The throw went htgli and wild, plate. the Queens uniform to a stand-ufight. When snd be slid over tbe plate with the net bullion of $3,194.54, says a Denver queer methods employed by the Dublin Castle before he the appeared Did magistrates he was fined run and I squltted on second. dispatch. This is the first shipment authorities to get evidence about outrages. heavily, and, in accordance with the part he was he All I had dona was to steal third from HighGrade, and It Is stated that you ever hear of the Tubbercurry conspiracy? pis j ing. would have gone to jail Instead of paying with a runner already there. I had it has proved to be 800 per cent more Inquired. tbe fine, had not a crowd of sympathizing Na- hit the ball so far I took It for granted valuable than the first car of ore I me had not. He thereupon told told him In the body of the court subscribed the tionalists the story of how a Government spy, disguised as both the runners on the bases hsd shipped from Cripple Creek amount of the fine between them. After giving scored snd never had looked to see. From a rich silver mine apparently In a Western town, got Ina blacksmlthr-settle- d this Incontestable proof that he was a genuine No wonder the pitcher let me get thst on the surface, with silver ore in Us to the confidence of the people, became sworn In Nationalist and no Government spy. Bartley's out of as a secretoclety man. and ended by making big lead. The runner who had been various forms fairly sticking reputation wai men so hundred hot one that young on second had figured that the left the rock, to a gold proposition of good nearly things Work at tbe forge now became more brisk. fielder would catch the hall and had milling grade and large size at a depth bad to flee the country " But whereas previously the men brought spades, stopped at third Instead of going of fifty feet, Is the remarkable change "It waa, said be, in the early Land League shovels, snd plowshares to mend, they now home. So long as we got away with that has taken place at Swastika in days, when the famous, or infamous, Jimmy brought pikes and muskets. Bartley was trusted It, It was a good play, and we made sinking the Wingfield shaft and crossFrench was at the head of the detective departManas he had never been before. The week after his four runs ment In Dublin Castle. I was a recruit In the thatj Inning Instead of one cutting in two directions, says a encounter with tbe police be war sworn In as a and won the game, so that made It hattan correspondent. constabulary depot then. Tubbercurry Is a little In Its weekly review of camp operregular member of the secret society ready to four times as good. ,1 never tried It town in the west, and many outrages were coms take tbe field agalnat tbe Government when tbe again, and every time I make a hit I ations the Ely Expositor states that d man not a mitted around that spot, but rebellion was announced. He had, however, stipu- take a long look ahead to see if the the work on the for them, nor was any word of information (property of the Nebe tbe leave lated that to asked should clear not be or the fclock Is set ruled societies way at the big Copper ths to the Secret Consolidated vada signal given police forge until actual war .bad broken out. and hts before making any more smart steals. Flat pit and the Liberty pit has again place Gong among the raw recruits ons day. wishes wsre respected. Many firearms . were and questioning them, Jimmy French picked out and normal steam-shove- l resumed (Copyright, 1912. by W. O. Chapman.) mended and many pikes were made for the mema young man, named Morris, a blacksmiths son, churn-dril- l activities and the extraction ' bers of the revolutionary society. Bartley knew who had also learned the trade himself, and Inof approximately 8,000 tons of ore per Hogan Joins Lexington. the name of every member; the name of every structed him to repair to Tubbercurry, set up s Hogan, who . was day in addition to many times that Pitcher George man who bad a rifle; the name of everybody who blacksmiths forge there, make himself ppphlar the Cincinnati team of the tonnage In the removal of overburden. committed an outrage for five years previously, with the people, keep his ears and eyes operand W. D. Broaddus, a 'prominent mine L'nitetL States ..league, Joined Lexingand the name of every person on if he got any bit of important information, to take In the Blue Grass after the ton swner, writing from High Grade camp, was Intended to be corninitted ''Bartley ft himself to Dublin. ' He was not to divulge his says the Sunshine mine has California, made reports of these particulars to tbe centra) Identity to the local police, for this would ruin his of eight Inches of ore new a strike Dublin. office In He was thanked anjd told to chances They were to be kept ln the dark as a ton, with streaks of a Pitcher. $10,000 Gets Louisville assaying much as the peasantry. . Of course, Morris was to keep cool. When tbe Government thought the net The Morning Star solid a almost has secured gold. pitcher Louisville full was drew whole the they It for of out. tho job, but he was to Ind presto! have plenty money of ore assayIlliInches an from fourteen halls has who mine named Poelkei', town and district of Tubbercurry was thrown live poorly and dress poorly on the profits of the silver. and waa in the ton a gold semi-pr$600 team, signed by ing Into a stats of the Wildest confusion. Summonses nois forge. Almost a sensation was created in were issued for all the names on Bartleys list. St. Louis Browns and loaned to the "Morris carried out ..his Instructions to the Grand Junction yesterday by the anThose who felt that tbeir cases were light attend Colonels for seasoning. letter. He took the name of Billy Bartley. Bartsoon and became were fine. a leta off court nouncement of the sale of s vanad um rendezvous with ed for forge ths leys Stealers. Base Many took soon aa idle or half'ldle youth of the neighborhood. Dublin the first train for Ths and uranium claim near Gateway by Bartley The Giants ay still stealing ft few jung"and Loverldge, prospectors, to an kind young blacksmith would only charge a few as be heard that the first summons was Issued coppers for shoeing a bores, or mending a spade, Hsd be remained a . few hours later, be would bases. 8chaefer, Becker, Doyle and Ugh gyn(jicate for $9,009 In cash, .v Grand junction (Colo News, and smaller jobs hs often did for nothing, espe-Herzog are among the National have been assuredly assassinated. I league's ten best base stealers. h V semi-annu- w n on-th- p 1 pun-Igjie- whom-an"out-r- age o - e A |