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Show THE COALVILLE ES. COALVILLE, UTAH AROUND THE MINES During the month of March, 1.196 feet of development wcflrk waa dona in territory at Park City, Daly-Judg- e ondd dulhor of ''The Sitter BtedeZ "The Paternotfk Etc. CZURGGc CQ , liked, wa on that mem- turned too much alcohol the ntg! cury biased at mid-daperhaps Rudolph Van Vech-.ten- s most noticeable physical char-orable occasion, if you have not for- fore. Then one afternoon the acterlstlc; for an Impassive face, and gotten this apocryphal footnote to L the ease of manner which customarily electrified. Tom Phlnney history. Certain It Is, at any rats, It Van staring unseelngly into the accompanies It, Is due to one of two Vechten had been anywhere else at things: Either a set of sympathetic .hla particular hour on this particular once that the windows and the 1 emotions that are sadly atrophied, or so habit8uoday morning, he would have door across the way were no k p 1 an acquired missed witnessing an Incident which boarded,. and that all tha witAi ual that every genuine feeling is per- presently was to Jar him from the wore bllnde; the red stone steps, y fectly masked. In either case haMt la not long In asserting Itself. And It lethargy of his ennui as effectively as ever, showed no indication of ki has been shown that Mr. Rudolph Van if the rotation of the earth upon its been recently cleaned, Vechten was capable of being startled axis were suddenly to be reversed. "I say, fellows, be abrtitiy sa: and astonished. And the Incident, but one of a startl- "thlrteen-thirteen'- s occupied!" On the present occasion, therefore, ing series, was not long In coming. There waa a concerted move he did not long permit hla amaxement Again from the ball floated the statel- toward the club's wlnddw; ever; to flaunt Itself. Quite soon he waa y, melodious chime. present left off whatever he hap; tha asms lm perturbed Individual whoae to be doing at the moment and Nine o'clock. With the first dulcet note. Van Vech silently gaping at' the gloomy pretence had surprised the club at" "Blinds tens regard fell Idly upon a man who tendant a few minutes previously. soa was passing along the farther side presently remarked. "Wonder wj It occurred to him by and by that Vf while he had missed witnessing tha of the street the first human being he can beT j had seen since taking up hie position What waa learned during tho strangers entrance Into the House of at the window. He was not at all in leas, curiour inspection waa aha Mystery, it did not necessarily follow tereated In the man, who was entirely the Information respecting Nu that he must fall to sea him when he unknown to, him; but the stranger bad 1313 that was to be vouchsafed emerged. Sooner or later the man advanced within hla field of vision, Ing the succeeding months. J must depart and It was much easier to follow him that time It was scarcely posslfel Van Vechten waa eminently well than it was to look away. So be con any person could bavo coma or qualified to wait since all hie energies, ttnued to watch him, albeit but haslly within the eighteen hours that and such ambition as he possessed, conscious of the tact, because his liveliest of tbo twenty-fouwere directed toward that moat laboritbottghte-we- re ous of all tasks, "killing tlma;" despite occupied with matters attracting aomebodya attention of vastly more importance to himself Powhatan. For as the weeks which, backed by a considerable ferThat Is to say, at the time be fancied and tha ahadea remained do tility of invention, most of the minutes of each passing day flitted by, they were of more Importance; subse- day, and the windows dark by quently his opinions on this score un- curiosity grew apace; tha h leaving him more bored than ever. 80 derwent a decided change. came more and more a fruitful to ho resolved to keep hla station at the window all day if necessary and satOnly a few seconds later, in truth, peculation; and with Its secret be regretted that be had not given the constantly atarlng one in the isfy hla curioaity respecting the man's man more of bis attention sufficient least sign of life or activity mtstjfcJ general appearance. at least to recall something of his been noted. Tha first twenty minutes or so were But even at that he alleviated b a lively anticipation that appearance. Why should anybody want fc never dreamed how nearly the epi- tain such persistent, unnatural the door would open almoet any mosode affected himself at the moment Ion? ment, and the man come forth; but nor did he have any premonition of the Inquiry at tha estata'a offlos idli- nothing of the kind happened. The extraordinary events that were to en- ng waa productive of no enllfwn-msn- ho'tse remained as still as it had been sue In the Immediate future. blind waa raised; fo months. Not Considerable difficulty The man was walking with a certain In gaining access ta he no sign of life waa manifest. siting, indefinite slowness, the while manager; then he at ones denlKxitn-be- r Then tha watcher began to grow HxHd the house numbers, as If 1313's occupancy. Whssn restless. Aa the minutes ticked off. In search of a particular ona. Tom Phlnney felt that tho Powtmn'a and nothing occurred, ha glanced at All at once ha stopped stock-sttlcommittee waa not being treats 1 1th hla watch with increasing ' frequency. Van Vechten, as It chanced, failed to tha deference which It snqueatldly Presently he rose and went over to n observe this, for hla eyelids, hsavy deserved. upon which he pressed ; with loss of aleap, chose thla precise See here," he said, thnmplfchc with unnecessary violence, afterwards second to curtain the scene. Nothing desk under the manager's nose, four hastening back to tha window under a had yet occurred toj ick hla curiosity. confounded bouse la situated I (ht sudden apprehension tbst the man Hla lids droopej tor an Instant, across the street, from the PefKan might take advantage of Ain brief to be uroLi that brisf apace club" f to vanish as tha fellow the St For the first time . tiut fSneApsrs faring had aud-- 1 seugbt bias nappis Wwa Ms !JA contained a gleam of intarea A cocktail waa presently set beside e gone quickly up Interrupted. him upon a tabouret; he gulped it w the directly oppo "Isnt Mr. Farcy Bonner on down, then lighted a cigarette which site. Vau Vec-- . Venad bit eyas houae committee?" ho Inquired. he began to amok feverishly. But ha see him disaponly Just la time' Yea, !( la," returned Tom, not tossed It nway after a puff or two; he pearing through tbs doorway, and tbs ceding la the least from his data: had smoked too much tho night bedoor Itsolf awing stand. He waited a moment, but a fore, and tho tempered spirits could ahut,. Tbs Silent Housel The Houae of the gleam died In the manager not remove the furry taato from hla Myatery! Tbs houae wherein nobody proceeded. tongue. bad aven been seen to enter! 'Our body la select, yon ihnst be Another (lance at hla watch; near There waa no mistaking the fact aware, and we are proud of the quiet ly an hour had ha waited, tor It waa that Van Vechten waa galvanised into respectability of our nelghborhotd now ten minutes to ten. Would the an alertness which, bad It been almoet Theres enough influence In our mem fellow never appear? anybody elae under the same' condi- berahlp to run out anything eft a shady And then Van Vechten'a attention tions, would have amounted to excite- nature we wont stand for it, is waa all at once diverted. He had orment, ' abort". dered and consumed a second cock-tal- l, The manager acknowledged the J "Say!" be demanded of himself unand waa attempting a fresh cigarder bla breath, "la thla a T tlce of tple ultimatum, hut mersl; ette, when he paused, the biasing Or did somebody really go Into that aid: -- "If t you see or anythin match suspended In mid-aihouse And after a reflective pause-"No- . wrong, run em out; I dont care." Ha saw another and quite different I wasnt asleep,? be deliberate"Wa have a right to know who oo stranger approaching along the oppo-eit- e . ly settled the unwonted occurrence la neighbors are, insisted Tom. walk. He knew Instinctively that hla mind; "Uaaw the chap coming "Inquire of them, said tha mana- thla could not be the first man, but his at did ger; "I cant tell you." along tho walk. Lets t manner copied that worthy's so pre "Do you mean to say you don? ho look UkaT What waa ha doing? clsely that Van Vechten wae conWhat the dlckena does it mean, any- know?" lifpreduloualy. strained to watch him Inatead of main"Just that. The present tenant new taining hla unprofitable vigil. how?" There wae nothing or. nobody to an' er applied to us at all have never He lighted his cigarette, flipped the awer these punted Inquiries. He waa seen him. In fact. Occupancy of tha match away, and waited. convinced that he had remained house was arranged In quite another Thla second Individual was walking awake, although drifting along the bor- manner. Really, gentlemen, that is all hesitantly, just as the other had done, derland of alumber, because he dis- I am at liberty to tell you." and also seemed to be devoting hie atAnd the Powhatan's committee was tinctly recalled having heard the clock tention to thouhouse numbers. In the hall strike nine. He glanced at bowed politely out Ho paused before the house across It waa not for nothing that tha tb hla watch. Yes. only nine. 80 he way. There could be no doubt but could not have been asleep, even for house was called the Houae of which waa only Imperfectly outline! a second. 1 fanlight Then pon the All of which may seem a ridiculousthat he was searching for the number, CHAPTER II. ly trivial matter to he the occasion of abruptly all signs of hesitation vanso much concern; but anybody acished from hla bearing; he went deOn tha Stroke of the Hour. the circumstances quainted with terminedly up the steps and rang the A perpetual mien of Impassivity would not have thought so. belt' To begtn with, there was something which effectively repulsed advancst at that very Instant tha clock In the positively repellent tu the very appear or familiarities on the part of fin ball began striking ten. ance of - the house serosa the way. strangers and persons whom he dia (TO BE CONTINUED.) Even the number on the fanlight by pure accident, 1313, for It waa an old. old number and not tits true one at all waa doubly and relteratlvely uninviting to persons owning superstitious weaknesses. And who of us, to some extent, doee not? Erected In the days when high, narrow brownstone fronts were, accepted as the of affluence. It still successfully resisted the encroachments of Improve- -' 1,000 in 1911. Tha cholera kept many roent which otherwise modernised and VENICE MUST BE ENLARGED arista from Venice tn 1911. entailing beautified the thoroughfare. ' At the ; time the Powhatan Club Accommodate of Increasing Poputa-..tlo- a loss of thousand! of dollars.' Last moved into Its nsw quarters Number Hat Bscoms Problem fee . year there were no such fears, and the biennial art exhibition and thededlca-tlo1313 was vacant, and had remained so Italian City to Solyo. of the restored Campanile brought up to something like three monthe Venice Is confronted by a serious a unusual number of visitors. prior to the opening of jthiatoryt that Iq-- to say,' not quite two yeats. problem. The city Is rapidly gaining ' Absurd Congresses. How toog previously to that It had tn population, and so tar no place has stood empty' no club member could been found to accommodate the InAndrew Carnegie, In' his advocacy y During slither period within their crease. There are now 30,000 Inhab- of universal peace, has no faith tn knowledge its begrimed facade had itants tn Venice tn excess of suitable half measure. been an eyesore and an object of exe-- l quarters. Among the many plans disThese congresses, he once said In r ration; somber and brooding. It waa cussed is the building of new quarters N'eW York these congresses that adsort of memento mori to the Idlers at the Lido Island. - Another plan con- vocate. not universal peace, butsmalk behind the big plate glaaa windows of templates an additional town at the er bullets, gentler bombardments and the lonnging-room- . n client hut per- mouth of IbcTBrenta river. To stud; less destructive bomba, annoy me. petual rebuka to the foljy of their the whole Rousing problem, as well as When we succeed, thanks to such lives; which attrtbutehad mors than other questions of local importance, congresses, in eliminating savagery once called forth a passionately resent- prominent cltliena hero organized a from war, then It will be quite in ful tired from some member who had society named "Pro Venezia." The order for ua to proceed to eliminate been unlucky at cards, or. had con- - resent population la 165,000, against tba darkness from tight V. y L The Silent House. CHAPTER I. Number 1)13. At Rudolph Vtn Vechten entered he outer door ay of hit club, tbo handrorae mltaloo clock In tho hall a ta chiming tbo three-quarthour self-contr- er after eight Tho young man' thin, sensitive 11 pa turned a rueful curvt and hla brow gathered la a tcowl. "Fifteen minutes yet until. nine," be muttered la a tone of complaint, star-In- g hard at the dial. "Whatever I shall do until night the gods aldne know. ITague on puck rotten luck!" And having tbua given audible expression of his feellnga, he dlsmtased the temporary Irritation with a resigned shrug and sauntered listlessly Into the luxurious but deserted Joung-laroom overlooking the street, where he dropped heavily Into a hugs, billowy leather chair which stood facing CM of the windows, lie Immediately discovered that thq chair was Insufferably hot. and bounding toBlsTeetr glared round tor aw attendant. None was to be seen; so he shoved the stuffy chair away It f was tbo heavy to kick and parked a cooler and more Inviting willow one Into Its place, wherein he once more seated himself. 'Homebody ought to kick me for having come here,", he feelingly remarked. Then he turned again to his Incipient' contemplation of the close-drawn,- g . r, hot-emp- ty street, Van Vechten might have told you. If he bad paused to analyse hla feelings eeepectlng the Powhatan, that hla attachment to his club was baaed upon soms sort of sentiment His slender, modlshly attired figure, and his finely features (which chiseled, high-brewere much paler than they should have been) were by no means strange to their present rich and elegant surroundings. In point of fact no member of the Powhatan more assiduously availed himself of the clubs exclusive privileges than did ha. Among the smalt coterie of his Intimates and friends, and the much longer list of ISien m.e Ue to share the closer relationship, nobody ever thought of calling for him at his own handsomely appointed bachelor apartments la the Kenmore until the Powhatan Club had first been tried, and even then not before noon. Because, prior to that hour, all at tempts to communicate with him so tu variably had been frustrated by bis diplomatic valet, Barnlcle, that everybody bad long since learned that he was not do the habit of rising before twelve oclock. Familiar, therefore, as his appearance was to the astonished and discomfited club attendant (In season). It wee associated reluctantly as the fact myst be admitted only with lata ' vljx-pertence- , L push-butto- , )i ' itep'v pipe-drea- Jar r r. 1 eeo-t-wh- r 53' At That Instant the Clock 4 In the Hall Began fitriklng Ten. the hours, poker or bridge table, and a multitude of cocktails whose number was known by no man save that miracle of divination. nhe Powhatan's stesard. He carefully Indexed and preserved all the checks which Van ' Vechten so promptly forgot, Without spending! too much time, or t ry 'os Jo interpret too mahy words, let ua endeavor to make the situation clear; for It was all very strange, the msnneMnjvhtch the commonplace mlt- nation dtocrlbed Interlaced with what Immediately followed. Here and thla la the point to be brought to the front and borne In mind was a concurrence of time, place and individual which had never happened btfere and In all likelihood would lever happen again, but which wora every outward aspect of one of thoee rare and Inexplicable tricks on the rare and mysterious part of Fate, as mushrooms, freakishly contrived to Lmj wne poor mortal plump In the mtdet of a troublesome predicament IP Napokons star at Waterloo. Mer-- a' d hall-mar- k - Utah. Shipments from Park City Mine for the past week amounted to 1.225 tons estimated at 949,000 The week before the total was 1,254 tons In the King's River district, seventy miles north of Wlnnemocca, Nev., and In the vicinity of Disaster Peak, it Is declared that some good bodies of gold ore are being opened np. miners There are about seventy-fiv- e employed on the Jarbldge properties The active properties include that the Success, Haile, Alpha, Pick and Shovel, Bluster, Little Devil and Longhike. The Tonopah Belmont Development company has declared an extra dividend amounting to 150,o00, aa a result of the enormous earnings of the company during the past three months. What is believed by oil experts to be the largest and most lucrative oil field yet opened in Wyoming, la being rapidly developed In Big Horn along the line of the Burlington railway between Basin and Greybull. The big Snake Creek tunnel, d signed to unwater a large area of the 10-ce- southwestern part of the great min- eralized region about Park City, m&dd an advance of 293 feet In 28 V4 working daya of two shifts each In the month of March. The Pine Dome Oil company, owned by a number of prominent Salt Lake people, drilled in its first well In the Salt Creek field, forty five miles north of CSaper, Wyo, recently, and pumping proves its initial capacity to be 200 barrels a day. In the tunnel of the Red Elephant Consolidated Mining company last month, an unusual advancement rewarded the efforts of the miners, says 1x7 feet in the dear and the heading the Wood River Times. The tunnel ia was advanced over fifty feet It la reported that some ore carrying aa high aa 79 per cent load and 90 American Fork canyon. This is the ounces silver has been struck by the leasers on the old Miller Hill mine In mine out of which the Tyngs years ago extracted a. million or more. The new strike in the Pearl mine on Berryman ft Parent's ground Is Improving as the development work proceeds, says thq Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel. At present they are sinking on the ore, which continues to hold Its dimensions and is Improving In values. Of the total production of pig Iron In 1913 over 37.4 per cent was Bessemer and low phosphorus, as compared with over 39 per cent in 1913; over 16.8 and per cent vas foundry, ferro-alllcohigh eijlclon. agkiuatvovor 17 in 1913; over 40.4 per cent wae basic, against over 88.4 per cent in 1912. The annual mineral production in Canada has more than doubled during the laat decade, says the Engineering and Mining journal. The total estimated value of metallic products In 1913 ia 981.671.404, from which is deducted $15,543,583 for pig iron made from imported ores, leaving a net value of J jereL $66,127,821. Liberal quarters and abolition of the compounds for the Kafir miners were among the most important recommendations mMe by Colonel Gorgas after bla recently completed Investigation of the Industrial diseases to which the native workers In the mines at and around Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, were subject News Is received in Challla, Idaho, e of a big lead strike made near last week by Fabio Pedrlnt, says the Chains Messenger. It is a new discovery and it waa struck on the surface by prospecting a big Iron ledge. The new discovery la a short distance this side of what ia known as Bayborse High Grade. WAen the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Schou, of Mines of Columbia university .Is celebrated on May 28 and 29 at the university the greatest gathering f engineers in the country will probable be seen. Dean F. A. Goetx of the school is now in the west meeting the graduates, and great interest has been shown In all the cities he has visited. By the last of thla month it la the expectation of the management of the Silver Island Consolidated Mining com' pany to forward to the Salt Lake markets Its Initial shipment of Ore from Bay-hors- its old Carrie Maclf property in western Tooele county. This will consist to thirty tons of ore. It of twenty-fivIs estimated it will average $100 n ton. Conditions in the' Stockton, Utah, mining district are better at the opening of the spring this' year than for some time, with the New Stockton The Advantage of Buying Your Diamonds of us are ietttnS, Ymi Iumw what There are aa vague term la our rur-inter- , but M slam tnglub the terms re e We've demonstrated our eipll'-itbj 4 rear ol rvllubilitr. Bur ol ua sod be eure. yu fuar-otee- salt iana orr, utai Crowning Insult. hurt anSometimes one can other's feelings worse by a slight a tlon than by any number of word. Thera la an example of this In thq young married woman who went home to her mother 'and aobbingly declared she Juat couldnt be happy with her husband again. 7 wouldn't have minded It so much, mother," she sobbed, If Charlie bad answered me baek when I scolded ktm, bn bu but he did something worse! Her mother was duly shocked at this. she exMercy! my dear child, He struck you, then! claimed. "No, worse than that, mother!" and the young wife sobbed afresh Tell me at oiice! Indignantly de manded her mother. He Just yawned." Llppincott'a. Didn't Want Much. in the far south.' "Hows times? asked the tourist. "Pretty tolerable, stranger, responded the old fellow, who was sitting Idly on the stump of a tree. "I had a pile of binsh to burn and the lightning aet fire to It and saved me the trouble of burniug it up. "That was good. "I had some trees to cut down, but the cyclone leveled them and saved me the trouble. But what are you "Remarkable! doing now? Waiting for an earthquake to come along and shake the potatoes out of tha ground It was Insufferable. "80 you broke your engagement with him? "Yea. "What for? . Hes a conceited thing. I simple couldn't stand him. I never heard him brag. What makes you think him conceited." All the time we were engaged he never once told me that he was unworthy of my love, Detroit Frea Frees. Want Ona Bstter. r yws aaaawsalr tmanrtUi en. undeniably from the Emerald Isla, ware conversing on the corner one afternoon. rOTm declnded from Brian Bonn ma'am Ol'd hav ye know, declared Mra. Flynn, haughtily. Is that all indade, replied Mra. RUey, the humble lady of the corner fruit stand. ' Faith, Olm a decindent of Eve, the first apple woman. How to Beat the Ta?l, Doc(at doctor night-beltor, how much are your charges at Man l) the hpuse? Doctor (through Two dollars. speaking tube) Man All right Please come at once. (As they arrive in the doctors automobile) Heres your fee, doctor. A taxi coats twice as much. Judge. Opposition. to give a rose tea. everything scented with rc&es. "A delicate conceit "Yes; but things went wrong. The' people in the next fiat took that 00- caalon to have onions and cabbage. "My wife waa r" Honorable 8care. - - late Justice of the supreme court was with great difficulty persuaded by bis family to alt for hla photograph. When the proofs were submitted the photographers assistant said: "You see, Mr. Justice, we re move all these lines from the face. A "Remove all those lines, stormed the Irate pld gentleman. "Remove all my wrinkles? Young man. It has taken me more than seventy years to acquire thoee lines. If yon remove one you may keep every picture The Goat Waa Ignorant boy, accompanied by hla a belligerent mother, encountered To looking goat in a narrow path. the boys terrified objections to going forward, hla mother replied: Alining company shipping regularly, "Why Willie, dont you. know that the old Hidden Treasure in Dry can- there is no auch thing as bodily pain, tonnage for and that It is foolish for the yon stacking up a goat. market, the old Honorine extending its 10 try and hurt you?" xone and other properties development Atlhat the boy rejoined , threatening to break lntb' the ihlpplng "Yes, mother, I know it and yon list in the near future. know it, but the goat dont knpw it! Three mining men and owners of The Basis of Hla Belief, the Redbird Mhjtng company were at Clayton last week, says the Challla, ' Mrs. Hall. I wonder if our new Idaho, Messenger. It la the intention neighbors have many cnliaren. of the owners to start np the new Mr. Hall I guess not; I undersmelter Just as soon aa.lt la com- stand (bat they have always moved pleted, which will be within the next in the best social circles. Birmingham sixty daya tine of the largest radium ore beds Dread Circle of Adversity.-in existence has been discovered at the woman whose pastor asked aftei very doors of Cheyene, saya the Leader. The exact location of the new field her health refilled dolefully: "I feel very well, but I always feel of radium ore has not be.-mad when 1 feel well, because I know bad ia within a.r but it mfiu known, m going to feet. worse afterward."' of CLcytnne, and la easily accessible. - Exchange e A little -- Age-Heral- |