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Show THREE GOOD INDIAN PLAYERS Sockalexis, Jack Meyers and Chief Bender Only Onex to Be Rated m First Clata. Comparatively few Indians have made good in professional baseball. In recent years those who have suo ceeded to regular positions with either American or National League clubs can be counted upon the fingers of one hand. Athletic trainera and coaches have wondered at this. It is all the more surprising when one stops to consider that of all the nations there is none which can boast of more natural athletics than the aborigines Some mentors have tried to explain it by saying that the race has been retrogressing This, of course, may be in great measure responsible for the condition. Whatever the reason, it remains a fact that only Sockalexis, Jack Meyers and Chief Render have attained - fame as big leaguers Other Indians have made good in the minors and have been given rial in fast company, but they have Invariably fallen Just one notch shy in their major league ability Notable among these were Jude, a reservation Indian, and II Itoy, a Chippewa. They have alwajs ben among the beat in their respective minor associations, but have lav bed an indefinite something so frequently the caso with good minor leaeurs Now Jim Thorpe lias been added to the list, and in St. the Browns Of 677 hTTf JHEfim? may have an Indian plating shortstop for them Italenti. who had a trial EMORIAL DAY this year will witwith Cincinnati for a time, has been ness the perfecting of the nations turned over to George Stovall plans for honoring her military was Sockalexis regardd as one of dead It will see the final fruiting the best players of 1 s time about of a national, official sympathy with thirteen years ago He plaved for the bereaved who have lost sons, four year with Holy Cross arid then brothers and sweethearts In their played for about two seasons with Ice. It will witness the final results sen countrys was the Cleveland, but firewater of the nation's attempts to do all things possible cause of his downfall. for those bereaved and for the memory of the It Is a big task, and the manner of ita dead BOSTON VETERAN GOING WELL accomplishment la the story of a tribute paid to one of the noblest sentiments that has ever been Arthur Devlin, Formerly With New lodged In the breasts of a people. York Giants, Refuses to Be In that attempt, since 1900, for instance, the at Third. United States government has supplied free of 150,000 headstones to mark the graves of Arthur Devlin, formerly of the New charge soldiers and sailors who have done her service. York Giants, is filling the third base To the cemeteries of the great cities, to those Job for the Boston Braves Devlin la of the quiet hamlet, to those on the borderlands one of the veterans of the diamond, of civilization, these headstones have gone. This Memorial day they offer themselves to a scattered multitude as fitting places for the bestowal of floral wreaths. The unmarked graves, through the efforts of the government, are growing fewer. In the national cemeteries alone there are the remains of 154,000 unknown heroes who have met death in the defense of their country, and who must, because of the loss of their Identity, be denied Individual recognition. Yt the nation hae itawatw every "vcsoufte lif "attempting to Add the names of these heroic dead. The very futility of these deaths, from the standpoint of the credit received by the men as Individuals, calls forth a sentimental appreciation of their service that overshadows that accorded the men with the handsomest monuments. The unknown are being reinterred in sacred ground, their graves are being kept green and great monuments are being erected to them, collectively. Every effort is being made to prevent the recurrence In the future of the tragedy of the unknown grave. At the war department army regulations have been drafted and put into execution that are so rigid that In the future It will be Impossible for the soldier who fights for bis country to fall of identification wherever he may fall. Arthur Devlin. Above all thla, the government has developed bat Ib still able to play a star game a system of careful and geperous disposition of and keep the youngsters from forcing the remains of the dead soldier or sailor that him out of fast company. At one offers the greatest possible recompense to the time Devlin was considered about the aggrieved and the best possible chance for the perpetuation of the memory of the gloriously best third baseman In the land. dead, for the remains of any man who dies In the service, wherever his end may come, are PLAY BALL IN PHILIPPINES transported to any other spot on the globe that be designated by his family and there given bur-la- l Fourteen of Fastest Native Filipino with military honors. All this is at the expense of the government, for the glory of the Players Coming to Thla Coundead and the consolation of his family. try for Garnet. Finally, the government Is marking the graves baseball team and placing monuments over the remains of the A crack composed of fourteen of the fastest Confederate soldiers who died In the northern players in the Philippines, has left prisons and hospitals during the Civil war. Manila tor a tour of Japan and the Wherever any man dies for whom It can be United States. The team expects to shdwn that he ever served In the United States arrive at San Francisco about June army or navy, the Federal government stands 25. The aggregation of athletes is ready to furnish for his grave a headstone of under the management of Director marble neatly inscribed with his name and IndiAlejandro Alberti Team Manager E. cating his military service. The government has F. Willets and Advance Agent Arthur a large contract with a firm in Massachusetts to E. McCann. furnish these headstones. Under the contract The program calls for about twelve 20,000 such headstones were delivered last year. games in Japan with the leading col- An average of 15.000 a year have been so delivleges. One game In Hawaii, en route, ered for the last score of years. Since this poland about fifty games In the United icy of marking the graves of the military dead States with class "C and D league was Inaugurated in 1873 there have probably teama, the fastest semlpros and col- been 500,000 stoBes that have gone forth and which are today standing over the graves of lege teams. The natives here have made won- men who once fought for their country. The naderful strides in the progress of the tion Is willing and anxious to continue their disnational game and the managers of tribution of monuments free of charge, with this team aro confident that their freight paid to any point It Is hoped that eventboys will make a creditable showing. ually every grave of every soldier will be marked -- Although the members of this team with a stone that will survive forever. The graves of all soldiers and sailors who are are all Filipinos, no two of them speak the aame language, so they are buried In national cemeteries are so marked obliged to speak In a tongue other when the Identity of the Individual Is known. than their own In order to carry on a There are some 80 such cemeteries with a total of 300.000 men burled in them- - But of this great conversation among themselves. aggregate of assembled dead of the military there are 154.000 buried beneath the slab of the unMathrwsons Record. There are acre and . acres of these Christy Mathewson has a wonder- known. ful record in regard to control. In his white headstones that mark the graves of soldiers twelve years In the majors Christy whose identity was never established. At Fredhas pitched in 515 garnet and al- ericksburg, Va., there is another 12,000 graves of lowed 775 bases on balls, an average men whose mothers never knew where they rested. There are 9,000 of them at Memphis; 12,000 f 1.6S per game. at Salisbury, N. C.; 5,000 at Richmond; 4,000 at Nashville, and similar and smaller numbers scatLeonard Shows Well. tered over the country as a whole. At the great-e- t Dutch Leonard, the recruit hnrler of of the national cemeteries, that at Arlington, the Red Sox, has been showing up fine D. C, there Is a single great opposite and it is most likely that he will be monumentWashington, that marka the burying place of 2,111 -retained by Manager Jake stahL unknown soldiers whose remains were gathered from the battlefields of Virginia. But the unknown copulation of the nations? Graney Recovers. Graney, the Cleveland outfielder, cemeteries Is to be prevented from largelTtn- who broke an arm last year. Is crcazlng, has mended. 'Bst Today when a man la Inspected for active duty atthffwayit tor tban ever, ha says. x metal tag of Identification is a part of hla Utah Copper company sold its cope-pe- r at 15.06 cents per pound in tb first quarter of this year. The big Ellerbeck clay deposits near Grantsville, Utah, may be utilized by a $200,000 brick and terra cotta panC The Bllver production of Utah in 1912 was 13,835,903 flue ounces, valued at $8,509,080, and showed an increase of 1,362,116 ounces, or 10 per cent. Production from the camp of Park. City for the week just ended amount ed to a total of 1,285 tons, valued at This Is about 350 tons lean $51,000. than for the preceding week. A movement Ja on foot to interest the people of east Juab county, Utalv In the building of a reduction work plant at or near Mona for the treatores of Nebo. ment of the The total quantity of ore soldier treated in Utah in 1912 waa 7,714,179 short tons, an Increase of 501,740 tomi The average total recoverable valu per ton was $5 52 In 1912, against. ' low-grad- e . $5.07 In 1911. The production of gold in Utah to was valued at $1,265,851, a decrease of $131,147, or 10 per cent, compared with 1911. The largest producer of gold was Juab county, which yielded $1,804,842, against $1,500,35 in 1911. The month of April with the big companies of the Tonopah camp was generally satisfactory, mine developments being extremely Important, on having of the happiest disclosure been achieved within the North Star boundaries. The production of lead in Utah In 1912 was 140,311,135 pounds, valued 1912 liut et-- whore under the Stars and Stripes on day there in an outpouring of those homage to the soldier dead Every where Is evidenced the thoroughness and efficiency of the nation's attempt to take care of its Memorial uho pay . d o VJ MINES AND MININO 3RAV& Of Off ftiU, fSHg&IDJlAr equipment. When men go Into fee field of active service each wears about his leek a piece of tape, and hung upon that tape Ihere is a metal tag which contains his name, tls branch of the service to which he belongs sad his particular This tig is made of regiment and company. aluminum and the lettering Is ghmped into It It la practically indestructible. If man is killed in battle he may always be identtted. When the identity of the indltldual has been established the department wil communicate With hit relatives.,- It thejr hie .remains, these Will "he ''prepaVed for flWB6oortatkn te 'the , old home. They will be. brought Ijack to his own people to be bnrled as they wish All expenses will be borne by the federal government. If the relatives of the, dead - soldier 'dr'Vailor prefer that he be buried in a national dAmetery they tnay so order, and the orders wlty be carried out to the letter. There are the menwho have died In the Phlllp-plne- for instance. None of these are left to rest In this foreign, tropic land. All are eventually sent back to the states. Relatives are informed of their coming. They may order the disposition of the remains as they see fit. In case there Is no call for the remains of the Philippine veteran, his body le Interred In the national cemetery at San Francisco and duly marked. During the Civil war there were great numbers of Confederate soldiers taken prisoners and held in northern prisons. Many of these died in these prisons, and many others, suffering from wounds and disease, died in the hospitals of the Union forces. Two years ago the federal government appropriated $200,000 to mark the graves of these Confederate soldiers. That money is now being expended. The task Is practically completed. The Confederate dead are thus being honored in the land from which came their enemies In the monster conflict. At many of the prisons the dead Confederates were burled separately, and their graves were marked with their names. In these eases the graves are being permanently marked with headstones of a design different from those used for the Union troops, but in no way less imposing. There is the ceraetvy at Elmira, N. Y., for instance. The resting place of the Confederate dead at that point is no less beautiful nor well cared for than are any of the national ceme- teries. But in most Instances It was found that the dead had been buried In trenches, as were most of the dead on both sides In that war. Here it is impossible to identify the Individual remains, but the names of all the men hurled in given trenches are to be found In the records of the prison. In such cases one Imposing monument ik erected over the spot and the names of all the dead resting there are Inscribed upon it. Such a monument hae been erected at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and upon It ere names of 4,275 Confederates. At Point Lockout are ths remains of 3,300 prisoners who died, and their resting place - lias been 'marked by a similar monument. The Is being followed at Fines Point, .. same course N. J.; at Alton, III.; at Camp Morton, Ind., and at Camp Chaae, Columbus, 0. All such burying grounds were marked by Jan,JL 1912, and the commission appointed for that purpose disbanded. The federal government has taken no action toward marking the graves of Confederate sol-- j diers other than those who died In northern prisons' and hospitals, But throughout the south the various organizations, such as the United Confederate Veterans and the Daughters of the Confederacy, have given ample recognition tb the men who died for the southern cause. Their bodies have been gathered in special cemeteries, monuments have been built in their honor and their graves have been appropriately marked. In the south on Memorial day there are often enacted scenes that are even more touching than - those In other eectione, for there the veterans of both causes, those who wore the blue and those who wore the grey, join hands Jn honoring the military dead. Oftentimes the uniforms of the two causes, worn by men In the very eventide of life, are In evidence and old animosities are burled lira reaTlzStlofi of the kkiorof hoth'cbm- batants and tho fact that each fought for a cause, " be deems the right -- dead and assure the perpetuation of the name and the credit of the martial hero Twelve freight trains of 25 cars each would be required to haul the money In gold pieces that this nation has paid out In pensions to the veterans of the Civil war Ten freight cars would he required to haul the money In gold that the nation pays lo Its veterans In a single year These amounts promise to be greatly augmented by legislation now pending before congress. The pension office in Washington Is" the primary monument in honor of the old soldier. was built with the particular Idea In mind of furnishing a clearing house for the gratuities which the government extends to him. It Is th largest building ever erected by the federal government. The maintenance of the pension service alone In Its handling of the sums that go to the pensioners cost the . government f 2, 850,000 last year. The net sums paid out In pensions has during the last few years amounted around 1160,000,000 annually. This appropriation would mean a couple of i contributes a couple of dollars to It The government has expended in pensions to date for all the ward of the past a little over $4,000,000,000. Of this $3 000.000.000 was received Four billion dollars Is an by Civil war veterans. enormous amount of money. There is at present In the United States, including all the gold, sliver and paper money in all the treasuries, banks, wallets and old socks, but $3,556 000,000. This Is to say, there Is not enough money in the United States today to pay, at a single time, the pensions that the Chll war veterans have received. So, in the course of drawing their stipends It Is evident that the pensions have at one time or another had all the money there Is. There Is but $1,750,000,000 In gold coin In the United States. There is not half enough gold coin In existence to have paid these pensions had ths call come all at once. The government has paid out altogether 250 carloads of gold coin in pensions. All Its gold might have been used two f times over In the process. If this and twelve trmlnloads of gold were loaded at once it would require but nine additional trainloads to haul the balance of the gold coin of the world. These pensions are paid quite cheerfully. Ther Is hardly a dissenting' voice In congress when a proposal to Increase pensions Is Introduced, The people approve of the action. They worship at the shrine of the martial hero and are willing at all times to be taxed that he may be given further pittances. The pension appropriation Is the largest Individual Hem when, each year, congress makes tin the list of governmental expenditures. Yet scarcely a voice Is raised In disclaimer. Administrations may lay heavy stress upon the prt granr-o- f economy, but no suggestion Is ever made that the pension roll be cut. When measurer of pension Increases are brought before congress not even tho Democrats vote against them. When Investigating committees go roaming through government departments In search of financial leaks the pension office Is clear-listeand no questions a re asked. The veteran snd his pension are held sacred. When the question Is raised as to who shall secure posltlfm under Uncle Sam. the veteran Is again given the advantage. In the civil service. In the first place, tfie age limit Is removed from the old soldier Be his age what It may, the positions are all open to him. In the examinations that must be taken under civil service rules the veteran need secure an average of but 65, while the civilian must rate at least 70. one-hal- t. - - 136,496.750 $6,314,001, against 1912 Of the In 1911. output, 21 pounds per cent was derived from mine in the Bingham district, which produced 43,822,495 pounds, against 46.57443T pounds in 1911. Poducers of copper for the past few months have been increasing their output steadily, the April production so far known being much in exceen greater of March, and considerable than April of the previous year. Thin Is due In part to the Improved copper metal market. The copper production of Utah in 1912 waa 137,307,485 pounds, valued at $22,655,735, and decreased 9,653,341 pounds, caused largely by the strike of the miners in the Bingham district. TUe district prodtaced pounds of copper in 1910, 92460,350 pounds in 1909. There were 207 mines in Utah ducing gold, silver, popper, lead, OC 40-da- p 93 Ths number of producing mines in thw Bingham district waa 32; Tlntic, 40; Big and Little Cottonwood, 15; Farit City, 18; Stockton and Ophlr, 2. News of the. most important rtrf k in a year at the Steven Troughs Conation property of Ndvada, the thlrA strike in the past few weeks, has bee made public, the management, on th tenth level having encountered an or whlcM body eighteen Inches In width to th $200 than gold better averages ton. The zinc production of Utah was 17- -. 067.177 pounds, valued at $1477,(35 ha-191- pounds 1 against The Park City mining regto 17,842,261 1911. alone produced 8,001.512 pounds- oC zinc, In 1912, against 8,596,564 poaad in 1911. The yield of. this region te 19J2 was about 47 per cent of th total zinc production of Utah. Two hundred tons of ore worse shipped to market last week by th North Star company- - of Tonopah, the importance of tho r cent ore discoveries about have been hearing. , It I logical to expect these shipments te b increased steadily, for undergroun condltlons are extremely favorabl.. Production of feldspar hi the United States In 1912, according to Frank? J. Katz, in an advance chapter on feldspar and quarts from ."Mineral Resources'' for 1912, Just issued by th United States Geological Surrey, warn 86,572 short tons, valued at $536.5(3 a decrease from 1911 of Lift short tons In quantity and of $58,446 fas value. Word just reclved from Ihe'CnrdifT in Big Cottonwood Is that the narrow vein of ore making on 'the limeston footwall Is of sufficient size to permit of some sacking. This is In the new lower tunne!. wtl:h now has Si length of about 1,000 feet. has bee A large body of high-grad- e struck in the National Mines eens-pan- ys No. 5 tunnel about 9041 feet-sout- h of the Stall Incline ag National, Nevada. The ore looks tne and r ana-ver- y - which-shareholde- in high No Escape. again on account of that auto remarked Mr. Cbugglns. I got arrested mobile of mine, "Exceeding the speed limit? "No. t)n the contrary, it wouldn't move,, and a policeman overheard what I aald about It, Indsflnltsly Postponed. "Pop, what's the millennium? "It's a time coming, my son, when there win be jobs enough in every administration to go around among those who wsnt em., - - . The Trouble. "What was the matter with the old fellow who wao alwayo arguing with everybody?" "The doctors seemed to thnk it was dlscussloa on the brain. Llkoo at te Dine. "Who Is Gorgits dofiTTniow what his name is, but 'he's ths ms bo makes out ths carts de Jour at Oorgltr favorite restaurant" and silver. Th company baa been making "prepsura-tio- ns for some extensive saining durthe last month. ing Work la to be resumed at (be M5 Vulcan mine at Hunter, sue ef th old camps in White Pine eomoty mm. the west side of the Egan rang ahead halfway between Ely said Cheny Creek, Nevada. Renewed interest is being ekwn t mining circles In Owykee wssty, Idaho, on account et a report Just-madth public of a rich strike 1 Banner property at Silver City. According to statements of officer of t vela mi goeC the company a milling ors has been opened ep. . Ths oil well that is being west of Brigham City, Utah,' Is rrenginn vcrr nicely. Last . wee , lev and was near the 300-fogoing through n strata that was ver gaseous. Something important is look JlJUJ9ex(.Jtew days... e five-foo- I v gold ' . V, |