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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-08

whom honor is due. The ore shutc found
in the tunnel Is an independent n from
the ore shute in the incline SHIFT. and at
This writing Superintendent Maloney Is
irving TO find the extent Of the ore body
found in the tunnel. There has been
some rood mining done i'm the driving OF
the tunnel, ms the ground run through was
had ground 20 run and had to be breast.
boarded and Jagged close up, ms they had
q river Of water 10 contend with. The
timbering Is vel o
In relation to other mines In the Bar.
ker district, the 5ribune's correspondent
y There has been q four-foot vein OF
Ralena ore struck OH the Liberty d Wal
lace mine
The surveyors of the Great Northern
system have run q preliminary surveysup
through the camp. They ran their line
above Hughesville as far AS The Hunsber-
ger discovery or to the side line OF the
Defiance mining claim; then they went
back to Monarch N are now cross-scc-
tioning the line into the Barker mining
camp.
There is some improvement going on i'm
the old town of Hughesville in fix
ing up buildings for business pur-
poses. Mike Foley is hauling lumber up
to the place to fix up some good buildings
that he has there. All that Barker wants
in order to show up several mines equally
as good as the May q Edna, Barker or
Wright and Edwarts and Pride of the
West, is capital judiciously expended.
Poor men cannot do much development
work on q little ''sowbelIy" and beans, es-
pecially where they have to contend with
water and at times hard rock.
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CHICAGO. May 6.-Thc bucket shop sys-
ten OF $. :. Floyd d Co., with headquar-
ters i'm this city is being wound up. The
stoppage OF grain quotations and stocks
were too powerful "A combination for the
concern The system embraces agencies
throughout the entire South and West.
covering every important center. Floyd
says he has not yet figured out the re-
suits. He thinks losses To customers will
be small, but his own will be enormous.
LOUISVILLE. May GA dispatch an
the failure OF the Louisville
branch as a result OF the Chicago suspen.
sion,
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PARIS, May 6.-The report of the spe-
cial commission sent out by the Panama
Canal company to investigate the condi-
ton Of the canal estimates that Il would
cost AS. 000,O 600 frnncs to complete the
canal on the lock system. To this should
he added 20 per rent for unforeseen ex-
penses Of management and interest. The
total cost In fixed at 900,O00,O0 o francs.
The report further says II would take be-
tween seven and eight years to complete
the canal. The annual cost of the man.
agement is estimated at 100000 francs.
According to the estimates OF the COM
missioncrs the net receipts for the first
three years after the opening would be
100000 francs annually, gradually In.
creasing year by ear until twelve years
after the opening, when they would
amount to 81 COCOON francs. The mater
ready performed Is valued at 45O, OOO.OO
francs.
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MINERS AND MINING.
Reports Of Rich Strikes, Nov Prospects
and General 1inins News.

Or. George W. Moore is boring for oil
ON the lower part OF the townsite, I'M
aeines that there Is millions In it.-Red
Lodge Pickrf.
Oscar OliuRer and Horace Clark arrived
from the Sweet Grass hill yesterday. Mr..
Ol;uccr has discovered a new copper
silver lead in the east butte which,. judR-
inc from surface rock, appears To be m
Intensely rich.-Benton Press.
II is learned that the Great Falls smell
ter will have four stacks I'm full operation
about the first of next month, and II Is
expected they will he kept Tor
the rest Of the season. and perhaps per.
mapently. The smeltcr people are said
20 h., NEGOTIATING for ten thousand tons of
iron ore TO be used as a huN.-Monfdfd
Mining Rerier.
A placer miner from Indian creek was
in This week and says unless they have
some heavy rains to I'LL the ground full OF
water they have no hope OF doing any
thing this year, says the Townsend Neics.
The Indian creek placer mines are rich
i'm cold but they n never had enough
water to work them to their full capacity.
The Powder River Petroleum company
with a capital of s 3.5O0,000, has filed arti-
clex of incorporation with Secretary Mel
drum Of Wyoming. The new company
proposes to drill oil and gas wells, opcr-
atine extensively in the Wyoming helds,
where valuable properties are already
owned. Gienrock will be the Wyoming
Headquarters for the company, with ZONE
Office at Sioux City, Iowa.
The prospector of to-day after having
had so many of his pet theories OF the
past smashed beyond hopes of recogni-
ton by continued aud unexpected dis.
coyeries, is now prepared to lind mineral
wherever nature has chosen to place II,
i'm almost any formation and maybe
under new and strange conditions. IL Is
the mineral he is in search for and the
nearer 10 assisting capital and a market
for his ores the better for him.
Neal correspondence Gilmore, Idaho,
Buiietia: Every claim here that has been
worked looks well. Placer claims in
small gulches where there is but little
water 10 work with are paying IS and 81
per day to the man. A couple OF men
tried. as an experiment, some dirt from
the hillside below the Ella Hill quartz
claim. by carrying il To the creek and
panning Il out. and in three hours time
they panned out SSs2. Placer claims on
the creeks where there is plenty OF water
have not yet been tested tn see what they
would pay.
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The BARKER Mines.

A correspondent of the Great Falls 7ri-
June in speaking of the May and Edna
mine c~orrects a statement recently made
regarding the original discoveries of that
mine as follows:
Frank Aldridge and PAT Monaghan
were out hunting horses when they found
the float Of the May and Ednalmine. They
brought some pieces Of the Loaf into
Hughesville with them. Next day Peter
May, Pat Monaghan and Y. Aldridge took
tools with them and in two days struck
the mine. J.. j. Murphy aud J. X. Cast.
ner were locators In the discovery. The
May and Edna was called after Pete May
and Miss Edna Waterman. Honor Ia
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senator Beck's Funeral.

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Under a drip
ping sky the remains of the late Senator
Beck were borne this:morning to the capi-
tol. Arriving at the east front of the sem
ate wing the casket was borne up the
steps into the marble room where Il was
visited by several hundred before its re-
moyal into the senate chamber.
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CHICAGO, May Ga farmer and his
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Wards, of
Lake county, were found in a room at the
lie Grande hotel this afternoon suifoca-
ted by gas. The man soon died and the
woman cannot live. In the farmers
pocket was n warrant committing the
wife to the Northern Illinois insane asy-
lum. II Is supposed he was on his way to
that institute and Il Ia thought the wonan
turned on the gas in q crazy freak.
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4 Placer Miners Good Luck.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, May &C.
jackson, one Of the oldest and most rcli-
able placer miners i'm Idaho, writes to
J.. II. Miller i'm Mountain Home: ~ have
been running my hydraulic to-day. My
claim is a bonanza and l have struck II
rich" This is in what is known as the
Neal mining district. Ii is about 10 miles
from Mountain Home and about the same
from Boise, IN most accessible from
Mountain Homo by daily stages.
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OF Interest 20 Miners.

A commission a. special agent Of the
census Office has just been receivedby me
from Washington, my duties being Ia
collect statistics of the mining industry of
Montana, Idaho and eastern Washington.
II il especially desired that full and com.
plete data be given upon this, our most
important industry, and a schedule of the
question asked is here appended. Proba-
bly, many mine owners n s~uperintcnd.
cnts have already received communica.
lions from my superior officer, Mr.. =.
Rothwell, special agent for the United
States, but in cases where returns have
not yet been made il il asked that they he
sent to me direct. Respectfully,
SpRuiLLE BRADEN,
L. =. Assay Office.
Helena. Mont, May =, 1880.
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New YORK, May Ga contract has been
entered into by the Wyoming q Pacific
improvement company by which $4,000
600 will be spent in building "a railroad
from Sioux City to Ogden, Utah. q dis
lance of 800 miles and MIR. Steacy has
been awarded a contract for the work.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 6.-The new
cruiser Philadelphia steamed down the
Delaware river to-day from Cramps ship
yard on her preliminary trial trip. She
will proceed to sea tomorrow when a test
will be made.
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LONDON, May 6.-There now seems nc
prospect of u settlement OF the coal
miners strike, and according to the
Ereaing Neus a general strike of 10000
miners is imminent. About twelve thou.
sand arc now out. The demand is for an
increase of seven and onc-half cents per
ton.
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An Embezxler Captured.

New ORLEANS, May 6.-The steamship
Stromah, which arrived here last night
from Central America, brought the news
of the arrest of Ward A. Crawford, who is
wanted in New York, where he embezzled
S45 600.
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Notices or Iocat ion.

Special 10 the Standard
MlssoLLA, May Otto Elliott and
Harry Underhill discovered April L. and
located April Il, 800 feet of mining land
situated I'm Spring gulch t~unorganized dis
,rict). Missoula county: filed for record
May B. in the Office 81 county recorder.
r. W. Wilson. j. NJ. Richards, 5. j.
Wilson. A. j.. Slatey and ID. Campbell
filed notice of location of the Silver
Glance mining claim May 8, discovered
April y. a vein OF lode of mincral-bcar-
ing rock extending along said vein l,J0O
feet In length and gu fect in width; situ-
ated in the unorganized district, Missoula
county. on the e~asterly slope of Park
mountain, joined on the west 10y the Cop
per Butte, in Spring gulch.
y. W. Wilson, j. NJ. Richards, $. J. Will
son, A. J. Slatey and ID. Campbell filed
notice OF location of the Copper Butte
ode mining claim May 3, discovered
April ,, a vein or lode of mineral-bcaring
rock, running in length along said. vein
LEO feet, I'm width GOO feet, situated
in the southern ~unorganized district. Mis-
soula county, southeasterly slope Of Park
mountain i'm Spring gulch, about seven
and q half miles from the town of Carter.
J. McElly, John w. Herman and John
Kerr filed OF May 9. notice of location of
mine named Atlantis, discovered April
%, situated I'm Thompson mining district,
about half a mile from Thompson river
and about one thousand fect from the
Tom Carter lode. This vein or lode runs
1000 feet in a southwcstcrly direction and
about five hundred feet in a ~northeasterly
direction. and Is about fifteen hundred
feet in length and GOO fee in width.
Frank y. Jameson, William 4. Burton,
John Shaffer and George o.. Reynolds
filed notice of location May o, discovered
April %. a quartz lode or claim known as
the Blue Jay, which is LOO feet in length
and go feet in width, situated in Eigh,
Mile mining district.
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Don't spoil pour clothing or soil pour
hands With paiat-pot and brush, but call at
the Z" Standard" Office and hare your Z" To
Rent" and [" For Sale" cards neatly printed
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Butte stock Market.
by the Standards Special Wire.

By The Standafu ; SUtcIsu Vic.
Butte, May Gable & Nichols stock
report says that the Poorman is active and
lower, other stock quiet. Iron Mountain
advancing. and Fourth of July steady at
so. Sales to-day were 1900 shares Of
Poorman at 81; 1000 shares of Poorman
at 49,; 1000 shares of Volunteer at l..
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Denied by tb. E,,,o,.r

LONDON. May 6.ICaptain Casate, the
African explorer, denies tina, he has en-
tered the German service.
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Racing In Mud.

~ELizABETH, May G.-Thc track was a
sea OF mud.
Five furlongs- Civil Service won, Young
Duke second, Soronto third. Time I :O5.
Six furlongs-Lcc Christy won. San Jose
second, Foreigner third. Time 1:2i.
Six furlongs -Shotover won. Matte
Lorain second. Puzzle third. Time 30.
Six acknowledgements won, Rosa Sec
ond, Lakewood third. Time l:19h.
Mile and IA quarter-Von won, Badge
second. Gray Down third. Time 2:l4h.
five-eighths of n mile-Youug Grace
won. Terrifler second. Kitty Is third.
Time I :05.
Mile-Sequel won, Sparkling second,
King Volt third. Time l:a9I.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30

The staircase, elevator and athletic managers
office project into the main floor, but by an
ingenious arrangement the running track is car
ried back of these on the gallery hoor. giving
unbroken stretches of 100 feet for running As
the gallery widens to embrace the staircase, IL
sweeps around in curve forming platform, from
which every part of the gymnasium can be seen.
This will be favorite spot from which to watch
the rcd-ribboned athletes perform their graceful
evoutions on bar, rings and trapeze.
In the fitting out of this beautiful gymnasium
the architect, building committee and furnishers
worked together to produce harmonious whole.
and the club is to be congratulated upon the
results There are slarng contrasts of cheap
woodwork and nickel trimming, and hctero-
genous mass of machinery, looking, as if it had
been collected from a dozen sources. but uni
formity of design and careful selection OF
material and finish that make the apparatus seem
to he made for the gymnasium and the gymnasium
for the apparatus, the whole making an advance
in gymnasium fitting that other clubs will do we'll
to study In rooms adjoining the gymnasium are
sos standard lockers with oak exterior finish
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liquors. is sufficiently large to serve refreshments
for l,oo0 guests The sleeping rooms are fur.
nished to the taste Of those taking long lease and
are superb IN every particular. The dining service
glassware, cniha and cutlery have upon them tne
well-known Cherry Diamond" and are of the
finest quality. The kitchen is furnished with the
most modern appliances and is in charge OF q we'll
known chef Everything about the building Is
rstclass in every respect, and 1t will be the aim
OF the governors OF the club TO make the house
so attractive that members Will be eager to avail
themselves Of the many advantages it affords
While the younger members were devotlng thelr
attention To the athletic fixtures in the building
their seniors we're ENJOYING themselves alieIfy n IN
the comfortable parlor syty-two and one-hait 1eeo
long by thirty-cight feet wide, with five windows
in II opening IN Madison-ave. The smoking ana
card rooms, perfect pictures OF beauty ana decora
ton, were also well filled with appreciatlVe mem
bers, and by the time supper was served the
Cherry Diamonds had seen the whole building ana
were ready to toast the Building Committee, the
president, the secretary and everybody ana any
thing that was proposed. George W. Carr, the
president Of the club, was complimepted in sew
eral informal speeches at the banqu.t. Mr.. Carr
has been the right hand of the Cherry DIAMONDS
through all their career, an untiring worker apd
an athlete. lie is ever in touch and sympathy
with the workers in the gymnasium ana on the
cindcr-path while his manly, genial frlendlinessS
makes him splendid representative OF social
Walton Storm was also toasted by his fellows
Mr. Storm has been the great financial backbone
Of the club. especially In this their last and
proudest achievement. Being man Of ample
means and credit, he secured advantages for the
club that without his aid they could never have
secured and the Manhattans feel deeply indebted
TO him in consequence.
The Building Committee came in for its share Of
appreciation, and jolly and lively evening was
spent. There was eatin' and drnSin and music
galore" the music being furnished by A. Young's
orchestra. which played among other pieces The
Cherry Diamond Schottische, composed by Francis
Myers.
The Manhattan Athletic Club is an ambitious,
aggressive, enthusiastic organization. and its mem
bers quickly become instiled with its spirit. The
athletes of the club aa always pushing past all
competitors and even in n novice race lad with.
the Cherry Diamond on his breast Is expected TO
do something and regarded as q formidable rival
before he has shown his powers at all. An anus
ing instance of this sort is told of young fellow
who was being abused by his trainer for giving
ont in race. "Well," said the young fellow
it is no use talking, l cannot run when those
fellows with that red cross are chasing me. y
Many more have been like him. prominent
member of the Pastime Athletic Club once said !:
:" It seems to me as if it is only necessary for a
fellow to put that mystic emblem on his breast
to become o Champion
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CORNER OF ROOF RINK.

As il is with the individuals so it is with the
club that has by this last movement placed itself
first among athletic associations the world over.
The tide of athletic fervor now spreading over
the land has been drawn by the magnetic power
of this club more than by any other, ana us goou
influence in arresting the dcterioraung uehuenc!
Of sedentary occupations among tiie young III si''
cities will entail lasting benefit upon the people
A short history OF the club is as follows
On the It'll day of November, 1877, at hnlcKer-
hooker Cottage No ass Sivth-ave., In the CITY
NJ New-York the club was organized. -FOUR
persons only were primarily responsible for the
clubs origin. s.on
In the spring Of 1877, as result Of an after
dinner talk between two Of the gentlemen mere
after named as to their respective abllltes as
pedestrians five-mile walking race was arranged
by one of them, and took place at the American
Institute Fair Building, between MessrS HecsIe
w. Thomas William 5. Ridahock, Jr., Robert Is;
C,ulbcrt and GEORGE W. Carr. and so much pleased
were both the victor and the conquered in ms
race that they looked around for opportunities
in which 10 show thcil athletic ability. Previous
to this race. except that Messrs. Thomas and Rlda
bocl, were intimate friends, these men were not
we'll acquainted with one another. Having nNed
upon n night for holding meeting, they gathered
some thirty or forty young men. ana on the nign'
of the date above given held their trst meeting.
After considerable discussion as TO name for the
now organization and desiring that it should sug-
rest the site of the club, and there was then no
athletic club which bore the name afterward Sc
Iccted, they deciicd TO name the club after Man.
haitian Island, the Manhattan Athletic CluD VI
the number present al this first meeting only
about twenty signed the roll, thus constituting
themselves members, and with that number the
club was stared.
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their names with honor its every page. But COM
Ing down TO the present. you all readily recall the
men which, that recent september day, caused his
tory to repeat itself and again ailxed opposite INC
n SSss s aaa ~ s Of @
beautiful plaque Is the emblem. tChcers
An athletic club solely without gymnasium or club
house for ten years the management three years ago.
stepping stone In It's AMBITIOUS way. acquired
possession Of the clubhouse we have Just quilted.
Never numbering more than two hundred, there were
1875 names, and Of these only thirty Ave answered the
club call to assume the additional obligations which
the occupancy Of No. SEA Ffthave. entaed.
then really began. Three years finds US with house
fit for royalty and 800 members and many knocking
at Tie door, tApplause.)
Ny glance Is no longer backward, but at the pres
emit second goat in the clubs history may be sald
TO have been reached, for to is athletic supremacy IS
h0nors with all clubs OF social character. zap
planse) Your arrival at this point of progress calls
forth my congratulations and in your twoiold super,
iority and in behalf of the governors BID you
hearty welcome TO your new home
To me the ntterance of those words are peculiarly
significant With uncommon meaning and with much
feeling declare this to be the proudest moment OF
my life and for this night will forever be held In
blessed memory for II will be the anniversary I've Oh sne
OF my birth. Cheers.) -
Throughout it's career this club has diligently aimed
to elevate and purify athletics, stated more plainly
to make good athletes better men. Let the high
standard be maintained In the future and TO perfect
physical development may there be added all the
OF social intercourse Let this building be Dedicated
70 sport heah,. horest honorable sport to phys al
II remains for You TO say il such results shall follow
You are to answer the question whether we shall as
club remain for all time In the ownershlp ana pos
session of this grand acquisition. You can do so II
you will. You will do so II you are true TO the
principles Of the past. ! cannot believe That in
lieve that always there will be found among You the
needed number Of active men who will push forward
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handsome and appropriate altar. But in time the
church had be enlarged, though the membership was
somewhat thnned by the establishment OF Grace
Church and Holy Trinity. Harlem. sunday school
building was built. and then one night IN lo!1 tho
church burned. A handsome stone church, how
ever, erected. and until DIR. Drapers death
In 1876 the growth OF the church was steady, though
slow. After the brief rectorship OF the Rev. samuel
carp, the Rev. Francis Lobdell was called who did
much to restore the parish from the bad condition
into which it had fallen, and 1t was with great re-
grct that the people received his resignation In 1887.
1t has been impossible. in this BRIEF sketch even
to indicate the many trials and trbulatlons through
which this parish has passed. Humanity speaking,
a magn fate seems to have pursued II, put al last
new and happier page IN It's History seems
TO be opening. lis rector, Or. Van de weter, Is
of brilliant abilities preacher pastor ana
organizer. His personal magnetism and the charm
of his manner have attached everybody 10 HIM, and
all the old enmcs and discussions that so weakened
the parish have disappeared. since DR.. Van do
Waters succession to the rectorship; on JANUARY I,
1888 there has been most remarkable growth III
the church membership and the new church, large as
Il Is, will be none large to accommodate the regu
lar attendants. There has Been ii marked increase
in the offerings for general and local objects, and
all the parshoners are cooperating with The rector
In the various guilds and societies NJ the parish.
W,:an such q rector. and in such complete and we'll
appointed church, the future Of old ST. Andrews in
the village of Harlem looks most bright and promis
ing.