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Show V f I tIie coaLVille tares, coalville. utah RECORDS AROUND THE MINES OF PLAYERS Abconda'aregular quarterly 15 To George Gibson of Pittsburgh Worksd In 140 Consecutive Games During Season of 1909 Othar In- taraating Figures. Each season ball players Individually and as a team start out with tha determination of smashing soma of tha old records and establishing new ones for themselves" Hera are a few of tha records taken from Spalding's 1914 Guide ahlch show tba rather husky task that con f rente the play-or- a of this era a ho have record-breakin- g athbltlons 1909 George Gibson, the Pirate catcher, worked In 140 consecutive games. In July. 1908, Roger Breana-bathen with the Giants, did not have an aasist or put out la a ten-lning game. An average of .99 far tba season was turned in In 1904 by Joe Sugden of tha Browns. In 1906 by Jack OConnor of tba Brown. In 1907 by Prank Bowermaa of New York, In 1909 by Forrest Cady of tba Rad Bos and also by Georgs Gibson of Pittsburgh, In tha pitching tine, Charles Rad bourne, jrlth Providence, la 1883 worked in 87 consecutive games and eon 28. In J884 he pitched 72 games In one season e retard that waa duplicated la 1889 by John Clarkson, then with Boston. Keefe, pitching for the Giants fa 1889 and VUrquard, pitching for the same team tn 1912, ara tied with 19 ceaaecaUes vlctoriea In one season. Charles Sweeney, pitching dor Providence against Boston la 1883, struck out 21 batsmen. Amos Rusle, In 1892, gave 281 bases on halts taone season la 1871, A! O. Spalding pitched 13 games and got aa average of .699 for the seaaoa. la 1964 Rubs" Waddell, then with the A thistles, struck out 243 batamea la on Season. Prank Chance, la 1914, while Brat basing for tba Cuba, took unto himself tke remarkable average of .998 for tha season. Jlggs Donahue, former Brat base man of the Whits Boi, holds tbd other three records In tha first basing line. In 1907 he accepted the highest number of chance 1.986, In 1908 he had 22 chaueee la one game, while In 1906 he has hat one chance In n. a the game aa assist Jn 190S Lajol of the Napa turned In the, record fielding percentage for second basemen .990. Cohort of the Phillies holds the third basing record, having acquired .976 In 1912. Turner g of the Napa grabbed .97? while la 1919. Lajoie In 1908 so, cepted 988 chances, OoRlaga of the Red 8ox accepted Ml "chances at short-stoppin- cnrrtAi oufifM orrcfokrATxm a wA3Hflarost, Dalmatian, dubbed ensue. seaman, Wby, certainly, help your-selglad to know you. sir. lh or anything else you I That about what you would say to anyone wbo stepped up to you on the street with s know.ng air and delivered bimself of tbs sbove quots Uon. There would be just a chance that be was kidding If he pulled It verbally, hut If be sent It to you via wireless well,' there would be but ane answer, bughouse.'' - At least that would be your natural surmise, and you little know how wrong you would be. Por Instance, the government weather bureau at Washington receives Juat such messages svery day in tha year. And tba know that these weather bureau are massages apparently dippy' realty an Important part of a great and Intricate system which Uncle Sam rapports to tell the people of As United States what the flay Is going to bring forth In the matter of weather. Aa a matter of fact, "Colic, Dalmatian, rta, grbea translated, signifies Ihat .th steamer Monterey Is saying that at 7 :00 a. m. on the seventh of the month, tbs Is la latitude 23 degrees 82 mloutea; that tha barometer la 20.04, the temperature 80; that tba wind la northeast, blowing 14 mllea aa hour, and that the aky Is clear. Rather aa original and unique way of eaytng It, la it aotT It Is a mighty slick little organisation, this weather bureau of the department of agriculture. It keeps a email army of experts busy from seven oclock In the morning until midnight every day in the year keeping track of Just what Old Man Weather Is up to, cataloguing all his AUasamMawMawaeeaewswg ul"WUar new caper hs laabout to cut up. No ghost of an atmospheric disturbance, no storm' wraith or cold wavs apparition cab stalk abroad In any cranny of the states, nowadays, without being Instantly pounced upon by the nearest bureau, and Ita would-b- e secret maneuvers spread broadcast to other stations that they may expect Its coming and set in motion their machinery for doping out the exact time of Us appearance. It waa odly comparatively recently that the efficiency of the weather bureau waa enhanced by an arrangement between ths department and many of the big steamship lines to send semi-dail.weather reports from vessels at sea beyond a distance of 75 mllea from pu port apex. A series of wfmtn? RuntAUHtrc MnmjKCQiram mmuMfUT ATrACHFD 3tD JH OOTAKX In tracing the track of a storm Is applied In determining the arrival of rroats. ' Flood forecasts are made In much the same way. Information as to the' amount of rainfall at the head waters f streams that cause floods are covered by telegraphic reports sent by local observers. Aa this rain reaches the main channel, the height of the water in the channel la determined by Past successive gauging stations records establish how much a height, UPPtn AVI TVAffTrA7VAf$ of arrival of some storma can be 8 told ten days In advance. The forecasters watch for the glon of low barometer, which la storm center around which the whip 6 blow. Tbia whirl or eddy moves ily forward with ths general east) 4 drift of about 680mlles a day lit x latitudes. As the lines of equal pi sure (Isobars) around the low cet t crowd closer together, the winds V tending the storm Increase In foe a Tha forecaster determines tbs dlx tton of movement of the storm and lit 1 velocity. When weather say of 20 feet disturbances are ported, the forecasters know from experience about bow long It takes tie a to reach our Pacific coast, and tk a how long after they will reach Atlantic coast For example, 1( i storm coming from Siberia drifts ea ward around the North pole and t appears In Alaska, It should appear! i Washington and Oregon In about b days; should get to the great lake six daya and to the Atlantic aeven or eight days. Unexpected conditions storms or divert , the: straight track Just aa car may be thrown off li -- bashloped-hx-aeclde- ati road. Soma of these at themselves hy running of high barometer which er magnitudes extern storm Itself Some of them,1 travel completely around the To keep tab on cold waves come Into the United States frta Canada and Alaska, ths weather studies the Canadian weather England sends reports has Iceland, the British Islands and eon$ nental Europe, and daily reports com from 8L Petersburg on the conditio In Russia and Siberia. ; The same businesslike system us at Dubuque, Iowa, will produce at 'Davenport, another station 80 mllea down the Mississippi. This plan Is followed all the way down the river, and at each point full allowance Is made for the effects of water from tributaries, and from additional and local rainfall Aa a result of these observations in the recent flood, the people of Cairo had warning a week or ten days In advance. The Pittsburgh district can be given only 12 to 24 hours notice, because a flood Is upon them within 24 hours after a heavy rainstorm. To carry on this work of forecasting storms, frosts and floods, there are established throughout the United States 200 branch bureaus, each with for measuring rainfall, apparatus wind, eta. and with a circulating system of information between them that twice every 24 hours awapa obeerva-on- s, each with the other 199. VMefly, forecasting of the modern l is resolved Into watching the of great disturbances and cal their probable movements time It will take them to But then given distance. deal of the forecastre la s' Work more subtle than this. For stance, it recently has been dlscov-ththere la a remarkable atmospheric phenomena The in widely separated regions state of the barometer In Siberia In winter Is found to be related In an Intimate way to the existence and progress of storms In tbe United 8tates at the same time. And now the modern forecasters are reaching out Into other continents for their storm warnings and prognostications. at Inter-betwee- n u George Gibson, Veteran Firsts Catcher. In 1899 and Allen, accepted 986 sho?tstop, 1892. the Phillies chances In In the , outfleldlng line. Prank Schulte of the Cube bung up n record of J92 In 1908 In right. Patsey Dougherty of tha White Sox (1906) and Fred Clarke, Pirates (1907), are tied with .987 at left fielding, while Harry Bay, Cleveland (1904); Amos Strunk. Athletics (1912), and Tommy Leach, Cubs (1913), are tied with .990 at center fielding, Clarke of the Pirates made four assists from the outfield In one game In g 1910 and had ten putouts in one game In 1911, both being record George McBride, the performances. Washington shortstop, enjoys the die? tlnctlon of being the only lnfielder who ever went through n game without having had one chance to dutch nlne-innln- 4 the balL LOTS OF BUYERS LIKE THAT j Many people have an Idea that there la something mysterious and occult about the work of the weather bureau In .forecasting the coming of storma. frosts and Hoods. Not a law think that ths observers must necessarily get their data by reading the moon. As planets, the stars and-th- s a matter of fact tho forecaster of ths bureau forstalls ths coming of disturbances In a businesslike way, very slmt lar to that in which a man wby has ordered a shipment of good w3uld eetlmats ths data of Its arrival 8uppoas a business man had ordered a carload of pineapples from the Hawaiian Islands He would know the average time It would take the steamer to make the trip to the Pacific port, the average time for unloading and loading Into refrigerator cars, and the average number of daya to be allowed these cars tor their trip serosa ths continent to New York-Hi- t estimate, however, would be subject tor error, because the steamship might be delayed by tog, or the cars aa accident might meet-wl- th Storms, like pineapples as a rule do aot originate In the United States. They come to ua, some from the Phil lpploes Japan, Siberia, Alasks Canada or the Gulf of Mexico. The weather bureau gets cable, telegraphic or wireless notice of a foreign storm. Ststlon after station, or vessel after vessel reports the storm's arrival In Ua neighborhood, ao that ths gsaeral direction and rata of progress can be determined very early. In fact, tha Man's Complaint That Ha Naver G Quits What Ha Wanta la a Pretty General One. in "1 never 'buy what I want!" u plained Traxzler to his friend, Ebeaa "Every time I buy anything, no matter what. I hardly get home before I think of something else that 1 seed won and that I cotild have bought with the same or less money. Some times I can figure out three or four tbtnga I really need that the money would have bought There Is the library table that 1 have needed so long. The time for It never, comes yet I paid 818 for phe tographs the other day. 1 could have bought the library table for that Inoney. ! could have paid the laundry bill with that 18." "There la truth In what you say murmured Ebsan sadly. "I went without a phone la my house for eight years and spent the money could have used to pay phone rent la making monthly payments on aa encyclopedia! Can you beat that! "Many a time 1 hurried over to the neighbor's phone in my bathrobe and slippers when 1 could have had a phone right In my own bathroom, and ao could have gone along with my ablutions while the boo Complained over the phone about mv lateat blunder." -- Jin your bathroom!" ....... ... , "Sure. I never took a bath In my life without some one calling n on In the clubDlng llne, llugh Duffy's aome urgent matter. So my record of .438 for one season, made In phone 1 1894, la the mark the star batters must shoot at Ty Cobb of the Tlgera made 248 hits la 191L Brown, playing -- EXTRAORDINARY-DISHES with Louisville In 1892, was at bat 888 times In one season. The Phillies, Mrs. Dan Cranford, whose book. monel, which a chief provided as a Back In the late 90s, made 26 hits In "Thinking Black." has created consid- state delicacy, of a mess of thoug off Wadsone John gams erable controversy, mentioned some sand! of white ants. Misled tte,r worth of Louis villa extraordinary Central African "dishes" own fat like a sort of Central Afri-cain the course of a recent lecture. whitebait Also there was a spaRussia Plans Big Chaas T sums meat, These tndnded stewed elephant's tial dish, much favored, of starchy Eighteen masters hava been Invited roast rhinoceros foot boiled boiled grass, "green and glutinous ito compete In tbs International chess trunk, - 41 bourn to Mm. Cranford also told cf tha Can. tournament to be held at St. Peters- hippo tongue (stewed make It tender), roast wild donkey, tml African "knots." Tbs youn. burg this year In celebration of the stewed monkey, roast water rat bridegroom wore a necklace of teeth ten years' Jublles of tho St. PeUra-burxnd" luscious and and tall a' (he bead, hairs of tbs elephant's tan, sad Chess association. nlne-lnnin- n g MS WAna-CtT- UTAIt Do not be a talkative nuisance because yon are sure that you are- right the j y third la tke April hiftiwetone. Particularly used for enSemen rings. Our SamraJ are famous for higk eualMy and low price. If your In. tontions ere eenoua, dray e lute ta us. We oen kelp you. share U pay able stock of record April 2. April During tbe week just ended the total shipments of ore from Tintic district was 134 cars This is approximately 6.700 tons estimated at ft 75,000 'Some exeltement was caused few daya In tbe western part of Box Elder county, Utah, by the discovery of a ledge 40 fe.et wide In The Clear creek section. r"Te Battle Mountain gold placer fire upw attracting the miners The various districts now contain about 4it0 people, and new arlvals are coming in daily. $60 a Discovery of ore running pound or $120 000 a ton in the Workman 3,000 foot tunnel on Charleston hill In National has caused a sensation In the rich gold camp of northern Nevada Recent developments on tbe Wilson Consolidated Mining company's property In Deep Creek, western Utah, have shown the vein to b ous for something like 700 dend of Upjcegts HUSKY TASKS THAT CONFRONT AMBITIOUS YOUNGSTERS. , TheDiamolid divi- my bathroom now. I stopped payment on the encyclopedia and had a phone put in. "But It haa turned out now that I need the encyclopedia worse than I do the phone. Thats the way It always is. Every time 1 go to take a bath now toms neighbor la stricken with paralysis or some other calamity Cud the family haa to use my phone Inatantly. So I have to don my dressing gown and duck Into my room while the family's representative telle doo-tornureea and relatives about It" Even so, why do you need the en' cyclopedia "To HU up the bookcase that Uncle Hltbottle gave me tor Christmas." r Banded Against Napoleon. One hundred yean ago Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia concluded the treaty of Chaumont. so called after the French town where the allied sovereigns then had tbelr headquarters. Fearing the disputes might break up the coalition when Its object 4he overthrow of Nopolean was all but accomplished. Lord the British plenipotentiary, proposed to conclude a treaty among the four great powers which should bind them solemnly to one another, at first until the conclusion of the ex toting War, and then for 20 years afterward. Tbe treaty of Chaumont. how-tvewas soon after succeeded by that of' Paris, signed April 11. 1814, by which Napoleon renounced hla r, tests of the FieldfSntl-smelte- r smoke process hae Ibeen made at Redding, Cal , In the f past week, and results have been decidedly encouraging, says the Mining A Engineering World It is announced, officially that the first person wbo makes a discovery e of radium bearing ores, such as or pltchblend, within the confines of Canada will receive from the government a reward of $5,000. A concentrating plant is being ingrade lead ore has just been encountered to tbe south of the shaft on the 800 level of the Dragon Consolidated mine la the south end of the district, according to the Eureka Reporter. Africa's output of gold last Tear was 9207,643,000. This compares with from North American 8124.000,000 sources. Next In order in Australasia, which seems to be diminishing gradually with the progress of agriculture Makes your whole meal taste good J PERA POSITIVE MANENT CURE FOR car-notlt- there. a tkLcr. nvatS u n tkur smuts, sit w TWt WAITED J i Liquor and Drug Addictions Uiw tmt4 kine hum. THE KEELEY stmt. Sail Ukt Cr MEN AND WOMEN to Irani barber trad, jLxceile8toppruiQit)e C4r you. Tools furnished i eon miMioB pftki while ierumig. ouiy eight week AJtll or write for partieilr4 and cat required aiog . 18 Commercial Street, Salt Lake City Learned to Us Hi Eyes. "Be observant, my eon." said Wll-lie- 's father. "Cultivate Abe habit cf seeing, and you will be a successful man." "Yea," added his uncle. "Don't go Ch'ough the world blindly. Learn to UBe your eyes." "Little boys who are obaerv a great deal more than those who are not," hla aunt put In. Willie took this advice to heart. Next day he informed his mother that he had been observing things. "Uncle's got a bottle of whisky hidden in his trunk, he said: "Aunt Janes got an extra set of teeth in her drawer, and fathers got a pack of cards behind the hooks In his desk." The little sneak! exclaimed the members of the family indicated. The export movement of copper continues on an enormous scale. Dur-inthe first eleven weeks of this year there were cleared through the New York custom house, according to returns made to the Boston News Be reau, 159 881,172 pound of copper. A serious mistake that has been made altogether too often is to erect a milling plant on a prospect, says the Engineering A Mining World. This is done sometimes by promoters to give the properties they are boostappearance of a mine ing at least-th- e Pays Interest The Last Chance property, owned , "Dis ain't de same umbrella I lent chiefly hy M. J. Daly and Utah has been shipping some ore you. said Uncle eff $5Stti the TTohse It aint, replied Mr. Eras-tuthat gaver mile northwest ton. It is thirty-fiv- e Pinkley. "Wlf all dem umbrellas of Reno, just over the California tine to pick f'um, you didn't s'pose 1 were A concentrating plant is being In- gineter bring you back you same ol' stalled. cotton rain-roodm you? When I I pay interest. Two tons of bullion baa just been Washlngtok shipped from the plant of the Mines gtar. at Park City, Operating company Gregarious Man. Utah, and It is expected that this will He had beeq calling for aome time bring In $5,000 to 6,000. The plant is handling J25 to 150 tons of ore and she thought she would give him dally from some of the old Ontrario a gentle hint "It is not good for man to lhe Mining company stopes. The greatest developments of the alone," she said. "That's why we have clubs," he re-f- t week have been in Willow Creek, which recently arrived Alaska placer sponded calmly Loulsv ille Courier-Journadeclared will yield miners have many millions of dollars will oinror Climbing. many millions of dollars, says the "You folks are being taken up by Rattle Mountain Scout. The gold is aren't you? being found in rich deposits every-- society, Well, we dont believe in braghere. Arizona Copper company profits ging, but we know three ladles who , smoke cigarettes. NewarfoNewa. during the fiscal year ended September 30. 1913, amounted to The Frame-up- . aa compared with "$2,403,875 in the is a frame-up- . what Father, previous year, which was tbe best In "Frame-up- , la what a man my child, the company history. Copper prowas 34,230,000 duction pounds, yells when the case against him look too complete to be stood off with an against 38.15Q.QQ0 pounds in 1912, ordinary denial." New York Press. which was constituted a record. A number of Ely mining men have Begging the Question. visited the Bald Mountain section in I have come to consult you,' she of full returned and all have Nevada, said to the prominent lawyer. , predictions that when the necessary "What la the trouble?" capital la secured to take hold of the "I have received three proposals ol Pine mines on a large Scale White county w ill aee another great produc- marriage, and do not know which to ing district developed within its bor accept" man Which has the most ders, from which great wealth will be money?" taken. Do yon Imagine, she asked, that Coal briquets to the amount of 181,-85short tons, valued at the plants If I knew I would consult you or any at $1,007,327, were manufactured In other lawyer? 1913, according to Edward W. ParWould Stick to 'Em. ker of the United States geological Nell She Is one olthose womin surrey. The figures for 1913 show a decrease of 17 per cent In the tonnage who are positively unhappy- - -- vjjnltss " of briquets manufactured, but an in- they are miserable. Belle Yea, she Is thoroughly cen crease of over 5 Vi per cent In value vlnced that ' a thorn in the flesh Is over the figures for 1912. Revised bullion shipments from the worth two In the bush. Philadelphia Cobalt camp for 1912, as prepared by Record. Arthur A. Cole, mining engineer ol Wherr-H- e Belongs. the Timiskamlng A Northern Ontario ol a General total butchWeyler, the railway commission, shows er, la dissatisfied with the Job 9,873,480 ounces of a value of $5,893,-sied him by the King of Spain. There 2i. Tne total shipments Cobalt since 1910, when the first ail seems to be an opening for a gentle-maver brick was sent nutria 20,041.535 of Mr, Weylers talents In Mexounces, of a value of $11,747,799.59. ico. has a new The Florence-GoldfieiDiscrlminatiny. l strike that rivals tome of the "Does your little bor aye sy In developments of early days. his prayers before he goes to sleep?" a raise from" tbe 200-folevel, follow"Yes, 'And he has ns all at hts beck ing a good mill ore, a seam of high-grad- e and call for fear he'll omit us from waa picked up and now shows his list of people for whom he inveki s for a considerable distance a width of eighteen Inches to two feet of ore particular blessings." As It May Be. that is liberally sprinkled with free gold, and yield assays serosa the We suppose that when universal vein of from $350 to 21.3SQ per ton. mffrage arrives the women wQl Insist Nevada Consolidated produced 4c that the names of the states be writ588,243 pounds of copper In February, ten thus; Callle Foral,. Della Ware compared with 5,791.112 in January Florrie pa, Ida Ho, Loulsl Anna. Marj ' and 8,343,862 la December. Land. Minnie Sota. Columbus Slats. lug-kno- aaso-elates- s ber-roa- f, l. , 9 n d a fur boa, which any West end lady would envy, of squirrel skint, gray and white, the toilet being completed posgarments sibly for all European were fashionable by one of Mrs. Dan Cranford's skirts specially lent for tbe occasion. Underworld Assure nee, We have a number of blue laws In this tows, said ths police officer, wafnlngly. "Blue!" exclaimed tbs slegaat crook. color!" "My favorite Ulb sens-Uona- - 7 U ' |