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Show GOLD MINE IN MAINE. BIG DEPOSITS BELIEVED BY GEO LOGISTS TO EXIST THERE. Systematic Search of a Watchmaker of the State Have as Yet Proved Unavailing in Locating Treasure. Geologists have said so, and they They declare that ought to know. somewhere hidden in the wilds of northern Maine, is a gold mine which Hundred? of holds Immense wealth. prospectors have vainly searched for It. and its exact location remains a mystery Somewhere to the north and west ut the Canadian Pacific railway where It crosses Maine Is a granite, gneiss or mica schist ledge, holding one or more veins or seams of quart rock, which are rich in virgin gold. From the inability of the prospectors to make accurate measurements and draw reliable conclusions, the ledge which holds the gold may be 75 miles or 130 miles north and west from the railway, though the chances are that the distance Is in the vicinity of 100 miles. Reasoning from prevailing conditions in other gold mines, the chance6 are that the undiscovered source ui Maine gold is in a quartz band or zone which, in geological times far remote, was injected into a crack between the original granite and the later schist, and that when the mine Is discovered it will be found to bold vast wealth. In gold Prospectors have found Maine sands and gravels along the river courses for more than a century. Large quantities of the precious metal have been washed from th.e earth near Sandy river in Franklin county by three generations of Maine residents. From 1816 to 1820 It is estimated that fully $50,000 of dust was taken out and sold, and again, some ten years ago, the mining fever broke out with fresh vigor, and for six months or more there were men camping near the river banks and washing the sands, with results thai yielded from 75 cents to $1.50 a day to those who were diligent. At the request of enthusiastic miners and promoters skilled geologists have visited the place from time to time, all of whom have declared the output of gold. The trouble with the deposits It that nobody can find the parent lod trom wh'ch the grains of drill gok started. Charlet About seven years ago Holtz, a watchmaker of Danforth, be came so interested in tracing th treasure back to its starting poini that he spent three months in th woods digging and washing earth ir. the hope of gaining some definite in formation. The following winter while Mr Holiz sat in his shop and repaired watches and m tided jewelry h 7 ws (4 row k ? Map of the State and Possible Loca tion of Mine. thought out a plan for making a sys tematic hunt for the parent lode ot the fugitive gold that had been found in Maine. Running his base line at right angles to the direction of the glacier movement he secured a base 24 miles in length, and lato in the fall, having determined the angles of imaginary lines which should meet at some point he in northern Maine or Canada, went home to chart out the location or the hidden gold mine by trigonometry. As Mr. Holtz was not a mathematician his work was far from accurate, but in a clumsy and faithful manner he was able to reach the conclusion that a valuable deposit of gold exists. Mr. Holtz was obliged to abandon his quest after four years of search because of failing health. PEOPLE TALKED AbOVT 7 PRINCE OF PLUNGERS QUITS so high and the play less rapid. In a career comprehendins jverything from moonshinlng barb wire to dropping a million dollars on a horse race, John W. Gates has been acclaimed the prince of his peculiar profession. His is a phrase as well smiling known as the name of the nation's executive. miles from Chicago, and a pair Thirty-twof miles from what was then known as Turner's Junction, 111., John Warne Gates was born on his father's farm in 18 55. He married at 18 and kept a litt'.e hardware store at Turner's, which made him a scant living. His chance came when Isaac L, Kllwood persuaded him to sell barbed wire In the cattle country of the southwest. Gates sold his hardware store and hitched to the $100 a month job. When 21 he entered San Antonio, Tex., with a spool of wire and secured a permit from the authorities to erect a corral in the piazj.. His fence was the first of barbed wire to be erected in the Lone Star state and people came from miles around to see it. He hired 25 wild steers from the Panhandle ranges and penned them in his corral. He convinced the people by the exhibition that barbed wire fencing was the thing for Texas and he sold more in a day than Kllwood could manufacture in a month. From that time on his rise was rapid. At the height of the Gates success, in the days when he was taking a whirl in wheat, gambling big on horses, holding the strings taut, and having a good time generally, Edwin Lefevre left him into the "captains of industry" set and summed him up this: "His philosophy is the philosophy of America the philosophy of action. He does not love money. But money is the reward of action and $25,000,000 has been his reward. He is an interesting man whose life, if written in the form of fiction, would be the great American novel. A western hustler, breezy, shrewd, epigrammatic, lacking a certain persbnal polish, it may be but a stanch friend, a first-clashater, utterly withotlt fear, mental or physical, at home anywhere In the United States, a politician millionaire, optimist, a clear and vivid thinker, knowing his country and his countrymen better than most men, conscious of his ability and the soundness of his judgment, 6on of a farmer, organizer of trusts, successful operator In stocks,, overawed doby nothing and by no one and always working, always thinking, always ing, undaunted, imperturbably American." s How Morris K. Jesup Made It Possible for Mr Schiff to Honor Frankfort, His Native City. Germany is soon to receive the only dinosaur which has ever left (he United States, and this through the efforts of Jacob H. Schiff, the American banker, and the generosity of Morris K. Jesup, president of the HisAmerican Museum of Natural tory, who learned that Mr. Schiff had been requested by the citizens of Frankfort, his native town, for a rare specimen from America, donated and e The bones of the gigantic creature that lived so many centuries ago, were dug up in what is known as Bone Cabin quarry. Here about half of the mighty creature's form hind limbs, ribs and backbone was found in a natural position lying on its side. It required several months of laborious work to chisel and dig out the petrified bone from the rock and clay matrix. These were then carefully pro tected by layers of plaster, incased in further and wrappings, burlap strengthened by splints of wood fastened with rawhide to insure safety In transportation. In life Diplodieus was a bulky and creature, comparatively which is indicated by the very small brain. He was without armor or any means of defense. When pursued by the fierce, flesh eating dinosaurs living at the same time It is thought he took to the water as the only medium of escape from these enemies. The head was only two feel long, being astonish inch- small in proportion to the huge body. In life it is conjectured he would have stood In height far above the largest elephant. The monster stand ing at full length would have occupied the space of three street cars, ami when he rose on his hind legs, he was high enough to look Into the. window of an average three-storbuilding or Harlem flat. The body portion was astonishingly short. One of the most remarkable structural features of the animal was thr whiplike and powerful tall. "0 feet Ions over half the length of the body. This served the creature as a propeller, enabling him to swim very rap idly through the water, also as a a weapon Of defense on land and ready means of rapid escape by wa ter when attacked and pursued by the tierce carnivorous dlnoasurs of the pe Another peculiar function ol Hod. this ponderous tail was that it acted like a lever and balanced and support ed th" animal when he assumed an Upright position, which he is thought to have done both in water and on slow-movin- g old-tim- e kanga-ronlike- . of a Leg Bone, with School Standing by It. Part Boy had mounted the splendid skeleton which is now being perp n cd lor shipment. This dinosaur,, reconstructed from the original bones dug up In AIBM ica, will be onof the chief attractions of a new natural history museum which is soon to be dedicated at Frankfort, and which it is hoped will be in place at that time. The kaiser lias beer much Interested In the new Institution, and the presentation of the prehistoric skeleton Is as much a compliment to him as it Is to the city of Frankfort. Meaning Made Clear. The 250 pound heroine rushed at the villain with aims extended "I throw myself on your tiiercy." she gurgled. As he sunk to the stage beneath her avoirdupois, he gasped: the 09 meaning of the power I behind the t thrown" Chicago Oailv "N-no- New s Hit Excuse. Thirsty Thomas Bay, .youse git dat Huudwitcb? whe I. land. One of the ufclque features of thr specimen is the scheme of slab mount ing. This is a wooden framework Witt plaster for a foundation. It Is 56 feel long, following the curvature of tht spine of the animal, and Is 13 Vs feet high. Hungry Harvey I saw'd wood fei It. Thirsty Thomas I'm et shamed uv youse, Harvey. Youse air a disgrae f de union Hungry Harvey It wusn't my fault Da woman hlpnertlzed me Chicago l:uly News. Overlooked. Tlio umpir- - new auinu forth once niort In hourly "f lit" Wa rh. why are theft no medals for The real hero of thf Mrlfef vt imhington Star. n MEXICO'S GRAND OLD MAN "Into Good Jewelry or Diamonds. have It longer with you than any other way. This is the place to write. You will ij FOR HOGS. la ea r have a plan for making a for hogs which I think is different from anything that has as yet ap peared, says a correspondent of Prairie Farmer. It has a capacity of 250 bushels of shelled corn. 70 bushels of oats and is just right to feed one car load of hogs. think that this is one of the most profitable conven iences on my farm. As shown in fig. 1 there are two divisions, one be ing for shelled corn and the other for oats. Twelve on each spaces side are made foi the corn and four on each side fo Each the oats. . The space, whether foi corn or oats is II inches wide in tin clear, 22 inches high and 18 inchej I self-feede- self-feede- r 1 Back-Board- deep. At the end of each one of these stalls is a space exactly three Inches high, for pouring grain to feed dowr into the stall. As shown in fig. 2, a board is placed a few inches back of the opening so as to prevent six-inc- the corn and oats from getting out and under the feet of the hogs. In fig. 3 there is shown a front view assenacekj 170 AIN ST. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PATENTS Protect your idras they may bring you wealth. Marks and Designs Information furnished Free Patents, Civeats, Trade quickly obtained. upon application. Harry J. Robinson AT LAW AND SOLICITOR Of PATENTS BLOCK, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 102 MERCANTILE ATTORNEY An Arnbifcsador's Butler. The practice of tipping is not entirely bad; the recipients at least derive some benefit. A former butler of Mr. Choate, American ambassador to England before Mr. Reid, has built a large hotel on the coast on the tips he received from visitors to the American embassy, whose servants make more money than those attached to other embassies, chiefly because of the number of wealthy Americans who visit the ambassador and scatter tips with traditional generosity. Lottery Winner's Celebration. tells of aa banquet (eight p. m. to eight a m.) given to 100 guests by a Swiss commercial traveler, who has won the Italian lottery prize of 40,000. They put away 278 bottles of champagne between them, which is at the rate of two bottles and s per man. A A Home correspondent all-nig- three-quarter- iNtLLEO COAM SALT LAKE'S PLEASURE t i MM 1. Saltair, f Mi Ground Plan of Self-Feede- Utah's RESORT Coney Island, on Decoration Day. Opens Salt Lake Utah's City. Saltair, leading pleasure resort, will open foi the season of 1907 on Decoration day with better facilities for entertaining the public than ever before in its his tory. Many improvements have been made during the closed season, 20( new bath rooms having been added 20,000 feet of new platform built, new entrance and exit gates built, thus preventing delay of entrance and exit to the pavilion. The water is two feet higher this season than last year and the bathing will be all that could size. In the amusement fea. I have found that hogs fed in this be desired. tures will be found a new roller skat way will make money fast and easy. 100x150 feet, new World's It is important, however, to keep good Ing rink, Roller Coaster, Merry Car, Touring OJstS at one end and good shelled corn for the children, a fine new steamer carrying 200 people, gasoline launches, the finest dancing floof In the world, while a first class will satisfy the inner man. The rolling stock of the railway to and which conveys the crowds "rom the city has been improved and added to, and a service will be maintained every day after 2 p. m. A new depot has been erected on Second South street between Third and Fourth West. A trip to Salt Lake is not complete without a visit to Saltwhich Fiij, 2. One Side of air, Utah's "Coney Island," yearly entertains many thousands oi on the other and you can safely count pleasure seekers, and which promon getting one pound of pork for ises to break all records this season. every five pounds of grain fed. ProFirst Requisite for Success. viding you put this little building up At the properly any intelligent farmer can men of a annual convention of saleslarge corporation prizes were make a structure of this kind for $40, and will save him a great deal of labor to be awarded to those who submitted the best reply to the query: "What to feed. are you going to do to increase your Here is another strong advantage in sales for the ensuing year?" After If you have a feeder of this kind. numerous comments and remarks had some of that corned-to-deatland, been made, a telegram was received plant to clover and then 'pull this from the one absent salesman whose when empty to the place attendance had been unavoidably prewhere you want the land built up. vented by pressure of business. On is corn Next fall when the gathered being read to the assembly he was from this land you will find, if your voted first prize. The unanimously with that mine, experience agrees read: "Shall hustle like the telegran where you had your feeder you have dickens." your best corn. I do not have any hogs get sick "Pilgrim's Progress" on Stage. when starting them on feed. We pre A dramatic version of Bunyan'a fer starting pigs to feed when they "Pilgrim's Progress" has been presented at the , Imperial theater, Lonweigh about 150 pounds. don. The ten scenes, which are said to have been finely staged, were acSHEEP NOTES. companied by old English music, and Do not hurry sheep through doors the whole production was a great and gates so that they will crowd and get hurt. Had His Revenge. Grain should be given the ewes An English milkman named y twice each day. Hay in the morn was discharged by his emIng, shredded fodder at noon and a The next morning he ployer. 'eed rack of hay at night. distributed sour milk to all by his Sheet) should not be caught master's customers, thereby causclutching handTuls of their wool, as his ing employer to lose a large proto this injures the fleece, say noth portion of them. ing of giving pain to the sheep Catch them always as If they had no Measures for First Relief. wool. At the head of a hill at Alderly This Is the time of year when Edge, England, this notice has been as the for best feed, you will need "This hill Is considerately posted: the warmer weather comes the appedangerous. A stretcher may be obtite Is not so keen, and they will tained at Hurst Cottage, below, when also need a more succulent feed at required." this time. Karly lambs and their mothers as Ideal. well need to be kept warm for quite Few men succeed in living up to awhile. They will soon get a good their Ideals, but that Is no argument hold on life so that they will endure against the Ideals. almost anything. But they will do much better in return for good treat Suicide Followed Peculiar Whim. In London a photographer was called ment. When a lamb stands with Its back to the house of a wealthy man, whom bent up in the shape of a rainbow, he found dressed In the costume of He posed aud ordered you had better look after it. It is King Lear. not doing well, for some reason. Perseveral pictures to be sent to friends. haps the mother does not have Later the photographer learned the ,nough to eat; or It may be the mau had committed suicide. food of the ewe Is not nourishing Chance to Sell Corn Shelters. enough. Kaffirs in many districts of Africa Half the Living. till winnow their corn by beating It Those who do not have a garden with Rtlcks and throwing It In the air lose a great deal, for a good garden A simple corn sbafler would doubtlesi fuvnUhos half the family living. fU well if properly introduced. of this for $13,000,000 for a building that was put up for $6,000,000. In 1875 James Scarlet was known in Danville, He had other Pa., as an excellent blacksmith. ambitions, and spent his spare time studying law a practitioner before the in a local office. United States supreme court, he still can swing a hammer with vigor. As a trial lawyer of wonderful oratorical ability, the kind which makes a jury laugh or weep at will, Scarlet soon gained a reputation. But behind that were his quick Those who grasp of details and his matchless skjPts a he is without know Scarlet best say that as a master of his equal in his state. When Scarlet was proposed to Gov. Stuart as one of the attorneys to probe the $13,000,000 capltol scandal, the governor was informed: "If you can get 'Jim' Scarlet to take the case, that will be sufficient guarantee that the investigation will be thorough. Scarlet is the man who can get the facts, and he can't be called off." Attorney Scarlet has been chosen by Gov. Stuart and Attorney General Todd to take general chaige of all the proposed criminal and civil suits growing out of the capitol graft disclosures. with the stalls arranged for the hogs. As already suggested, similar stalls are made on the rear side. By this method I wish to say most emphatically that hogs cannot and do not waste any feed. They feed quietly and profitably, but I do not recommend that any feeder attempt to use a of this kind with mixed grade hogs. Arrange to feed an even car load and I believe that it is more important that they should be even in self-feede- r self-feed- d res-taura- Self-Feede- r. Not a chance traveler who visits this country but must write a piece about Mexico's Grand Old Man. He is lauded as the savior of a nation, as the soldier who brought order out of chaos and established a republic. Intimacy mostly dims hero worship somewhat, and certainly we who have lived in Mexico for years, know that the republic is still something of a form. Yet when we begin to analyze the things that have brought her out of a chaos of riot and revolution that lasted for almost of a century, this one figure stands out so prominently that we can only join the chorus of universal praise and concede that the soldier has mown into the statesman, that the iron hand has relaxed as circumstances warranted. Porfirio Dial is practically an absolute ruler in Mexico yet cerfact has been the of his evidences that, character of one the strongest tainly during all these years that his word has been law, he has promulgated that word through the channels of a regularly organized Republican government. He has never sought the name and appearance of a dictator; on the other hand he has endeavored to accustom his people to the machinery of a democracy, if it appear at times that the machinery is working backward, the time will come when the machine will in reality be turned around and worked the other way. Igjr - by Which the Work Much Simplified. Fig. "'Jim' Scarlet; who is he?" was the question of the Pennsylvania public when Gov. Stuart named the Danville lawyer as attorney for the capltol investigation commission. In a few weeks Scarlet has wrung from reluctant witnesses the astounding story of how the state was held up ifltil Arrangement i BARED STORY OF GRAFT cross-examine- SKELETON OF DINOSAUR GIFT OF JACOB SCHIFF. my SELF-FEEDE- John W. Gates has quit the speculative field. The story goes that the financial harpoon has been so deftly and effectively driven into the picturesque plunger that he has been obliged to forsake the turmoil of Wall street for a more simple speculative life, one in which th'; chips are not To-da- y FOR GERMAN MUSEUM. mmm Put Your Money ip three-quarter- s INVITED TO AMERICA Antonio Fogaitaro, the Italian author whose work lias won the praise of President Roosevelt and an invitation to visit this country, has in the last few years wrested from Gabriele D'Anunzio the position of premier novelist of Italy. Ills latest novel. "II Santo" (The Saint i. has made a h self-feede- r Win-penn- y great sensation throughout Italy. This great religious novel, which, though written by a devout Roman Catholic, was promptly condemned by the Vatican and placed on the "Index" of forbidden hooks, has run through edition after edition in Italy. In other Kuropean countries it has been the most discussed romance of the past year. Unlike most of the Italian novelists. Antonio liiin. ill luiui, mam POgaZZUlO is ail iWiM'Hiai in the gifted youth flnlshel his studies, graduating as a lawyer, but he never Hi d in any way to practice his profession, flitting about from one thing to to find his proper sphere. A poem. "Miranda," met great gaothei in literature he and adopted praise The youth of the poet and novelist was influenced by his father towards Ptei .'tire and study and by his mother towards art and music. He is now In his mature age, a passionate lover of music, playa feelingly himself, and I; so dependent upon it tlmt he - lay to It he owes much of his political inspiration and certain); half his delight in life. Fogazzaro has had one great grief in life the death of his only son at the age of 20 but even this he has overcome, and now, at. the age of 64, lives at his native Vlcenza, surrounded by his daughters and their children, his wife still at his side, and a group of old and tried friends to grace hie Poetry he has written all his life, but he was 39 years old leisure moments out his first novel, which begHn a series of hooks ending with before bringing Two of his The Saint,'' which haa brought him a worldwide reputation. were by a kind Inspired dl "Notte and "Iila." known poems. b.st whom Ue had nevei of spiritual love roused by thr piuuxe ut a r"ead (uuwu or seen in his Uf Pas-don- irl |