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THE ONLY COTTON PICKER.
Invented by Fort Smith Man and Patent
 Issued to a Fort Smith Company,

About q year ago Mf. James Neigh bors, of this city, conceived d nlanfor Il cotton picking machinC-One that will pick cotton-and he worked dil- igentlY to perfect 1t on lines entirely different from all others attempted. Many cotton picking machines have heretofore been patented, but none of them were ever of thoroughly practical use, as they utterly failed to gather the staple i'll n manner satisfactory to the grower, or in a condition to go directly from the field to the gin.
 This difficulty was sought to be over come by Mr. Ncighbors, and after
 many vPxatious delays and discour- agements, he today has he proud satisfaction of knowing that his in- vention has received the endorsement
 of the United States Patent Office and pAtcnt issued therefor. The patent was issued to George Sengel, Capt. John Matthews, Frank Nichols
 and James Neighbors jointly, all citi- zens of Fort Smith and widely known
 as men of progressive spirit and en- l terprise It is the intention of the gentlemen named to arrange at | once for the manufacture of these machines and be ready to supply the cotton belt with them when the cot ton picking season opens. The labor
 of gathering cotton will be com pletely reyolutionized by the intro duction of the late invention, and our people can view with no little
 pleasure the prospect for another big
 manufacturing plant i'll Fort Smith.
 The Developer joins the people in
 hearty congratulations to MT. Neigh
 bors and the gentlemen associated
 with him on the issuance of the pat
 ent for the only perfect cotton pick
 ing machine ever invented. and all
 hope that it may prove Q highly
 remunerative investment for them.- Developer.
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The Duke and Duchess or York.

LONDON, May 10.-rhe Duke and Duchess oi York arrived i'll Sheffield this afternoon and were welcomed by ?, GOO people. Under escort of q detachment of artillery the future oc- cupanta of Inc throne were driven to the country home of the Duke ofNor- folk, where they were given q rcccp. tion. Tomorrow they will make their public entrcc to the city.
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Philip F. Johnson.

Major Philip P Johnson is presid- ent of the American league, which was recently formed, it's object being to encourage and protect American sports. Major Johnson is one of the best known hOrsemen in the United States. He was born in Shiloh, Va
 B years ago, and enjoyed few educa- tiOnal aavantages. As q boy he be.
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"A New Labor Party.

NEW YORK, May IDA new Inde- pendent Workingman' party to be National in scope. will be launched this afternoon at a conference of the various local labor unions. The movement originated with the tin and sheet iron workers and the guid- ing motives are thus explained by the executive committee: "The mem bers of our organization have for the past few years been carefully review ing the actions of our courts, Ma tional, State, municipal and legisla- tive bodies, and the officers of the same. Our review has clearly dem onstrated the fact that no redress of the evils under which we labor may be expected from the officers who are nominated and elected by the old political parties. reform or otherwise. As an illustration we cite the Pfesi- dents action in the great American Railway Union strike in Chicago last summer, and the Mayors action i'll the trolley mems strike in Brooklyn this past winter. We tbink that it is now time through u united political organization to obtain laws that We are unable to attain through our trade combinations
 -~%
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Public Exercises of the Psi Upsllon.

CLINTON, N. Y, May 10.-Senator Joseph R. Hawley presides this after noon and delivered an eloquent ad- dress at the public exercises in con- nection with the sixty-third nation al convention of the Psi Upsilon. Charles Dudley Warner and others also made addresses. Theconvention then adjourned for year.
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Miss Edna Tucker is the guest of Miss Sue Knox on West Sixth.
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Major and Mrs. c. G. Newman re- turned home frome Searcy this morn ing. We are pleased to state that they are much improvedi in health.
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SPRING MILLINERY OP6NM WEDNESDAY, and Thursday MAR6H 81 and g.

nent teachers, and will also receive med
ais.
The last and most important awards are
to be made by a committee of grandmoth-
ers. This list has been headed by Mrs
James P. Kernochan, the president of the
New York Chapter of the Daughters of
the Revolution. Mrs. Kernochan is show
ing much interest in the baby show, as
are others of the smartest matrons of the
Four Hundred She believes that tots
should learn while still in the cradle that
1.-The greatest of these is charity"
The object of the committee of grand
mothers will be to pick out the dearest
boy and girl babies in the exhibition.
Seeing that the show is to be made up of
dearest" babies, this will be no easy
task
Many mammas cannot find in their al
buns and portrait which they feel will
do their babies justice in the show so
they have engaged photographers to do
their finest work on New YOrk's infant
aristocracy. Among the foremost of these
is Mrs. Edwin Gould. She is having in
Vulnerable photographs made of her four
months-old baby. This little tot is being
photographed in every position possible.
To show his plum and pretty little form
he has been snapped nude. In direct con-
trast he has had his picture taken in the
most gorgeous little white gowns.
His cousins the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
George ]. Gould, are to be photographed
purposely for the bay show. Helen Vivian,
through just under three years of age.
strongly resemble her grandfather, the
late jaw Could She and her older sister
have lately been taken together, at the
| request Of their aunt, the Countess de
! Castellane The brothers of these little
girls have many portraits of themselves
/ taken before the age of FIVE several of
which are to appear in the exhibition
! The portraits of the sons of Mrs. Willie
Vanderbilt have been promised for the ex-
hibition and are to appear very handsome
! ly framed.
One Of the most beautiful picture por-
! traits sent in so far, is of the daughter of
! Mrs. Meta Crane This little girl is
! dressed in fancy costume and is seated on
| the staircase of an elegantly furnished
house
If there was to be prize awarded for
! the stoutest baby, there is little doubt that
! 1t would be given to Master Archie Ftske.
! In his portrait, which is TO appear at the
/ coming exhibition, the little fellow is por-
! trayed at the early age of three months.
! At this early period of his existence ne
weighed S1l2 pounds. lie looks as II ne
! stood a good chance for the prize awarded
| for the most perfect boy baby
! Some of the most artistic portraits are
! of the children of William NJ. Chase. The
! children have been posed by their father
! and the photographs lack nothing but
| color to make them equal to a Chase paint
| ing.
! Van Biel Berg. the son Of Charles /.
| Berg, the architect, appears among the
| children in fancy costume.
Portraits Of the Cleveland children nave
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cheapiy as possible If he was correct.
The vein was inspected. IL proved all
that Fritz claimed so far as the eye
could judge. and a l0-pound lump dug
out by Sabin assayed $542 to the ton. II
was tellurium in its purest state, accord
ing to the assayer, and Sabln saw millions
in sight. Fritz was got glorlously drunk
and sold his find for $4,000 cash. Some
thousands were spent in getting out ore.
and carload was shipped 10 Aspen. The
mill returns were: Gold, S1.60. The claim
had been sailed with a solution Of gold
injected with a spray syringe.
Some years later Fritz borrowed 81 GOO
on four ounces Of ore from Leadville
assayer, a college graduate from the
east. IL was free milling ore, In white
poFphyry, and, pounded up and then
panned out, showed fake gold in the
residuum. A duly recorded claim was
back Of the four-ounce piece. but Fritz
hadn't time TO run minute holes with
a needle-like drill and load the claim with
placer gold.
Charley Hegney-One-eyed Chick-was
another famous character in Leadville
days who made a speciality Of sailing
mines. He was the inventor of the shotgun
mode Of sailing. a tunnel was driven into
a hill until IL uncovered an ore vein, and
in the breast Of the tunnel this ingenious
shotgun loaded with fake gold. No less
than ~ mines were 80 salted by him and
sold He was reported worth at one time
$3.50, co., but he died in 1890 in a tent dive
in Cripple Creek, unUept and unmourned,
a victim Of starvation and exposure.
The Mrs Jacoby referred to In the OPEN
ing Of this article was a resident Of Vir-
ginia in the palmy days on the Com
stock Then she was known as Katy
didn't" Her venture at sailing a diamond
field was not her first in that line. II was
in Y, I believe, that she was the star
attraction in a Virginia City dance hall.
Her protector at that time was Big Bob
Simmons, notorious gambler and tough,
City in rs while trying to hold up a
mint messenger. There drifted into Vir-
ginia City via San Francisco, in April,
1872, a young man Of the name Of Clarence
W0olhngton, whose home was in Wheel
ing, W. Va. He seemed TO have plenty of
money and no particular business At the
Crystal Palace one night he met Katy
didn't" on the bills, however, as Mile.
lie VALERIE Her daredevil, handsome
face caught young Woolhngton's fancy,
and his whole time was spent In her COM
pany. Likewise his money. In the course
of six weeks he had run through $1,000
Of which he was possessed when he came 70
Virginia City and was contemplating sui-
eide. In his acquaintance with Katy
didn't" however. he had revealed to her
that he was possessed of Wheeling prop
erty worth 5000.
While in the frame Of mind bordering on
frenzy Katydidn't suggested a way out OF
his trouble that seemed easy, practicable
and profitable. She had among her admir-
ers, she stated, broken miner, who was
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SHARKS WHO SALT MINES.
THEY ARE THE sHREwDEsT SWIM
Oilers IN THE WORLD.

Peculiar Ways in which They Work
Field of IA Decade AgO-HOsv sabin
Fell "a Victim.
Salt Lake Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
When Bret Harte made his famous com
ment upon the almond-eyed Celestial Of
the great west, he should also have in
cluded that peculiar western productive
prince Of swindlers-known as the bunco
mining shark.
For ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain" the "salter" of mines is pc
culiar. He is the peer of the green goods
man of the east, the confidence man of
the Middle states, or the genial all-round
thimblerigger at large. and many inter-
esting stories are told of the schemes
that have evolved from his fertile brain
by which he has entrapped the unwary.
1t was some ten years ago that the news
papers of the country were filled with
luridly- written articles setting forth by
the use of superlatives the Utopian posi-
bilities OF Arizona as a rival Of South
Africa in the diamond-producing business
Aldluen Lane III new 4VTk city, was sur
feited for the time being with a supply
of rough, uncut gems from the Arizona
fields They were of good ordinary quail
ity. and some half dozen gems exhibited
in Tiffany's were pronounced by experts
as being worth 5000 A stock company
was formed in New York to purchase
and work the new diamond field, and the
discoveries and promoters of the scheme
were given $4,000 as an evidence of good
faith or the part Of the buyers An ex-
pert was sent out to Arizona and, guided
to the spot by one Of the discoveries, he
dug up in the course OF few hours quart
measures of gems ranging in size from a
seed to two and half karats. He hurried
back to New York. and on his report the
two men and woman, the discoveries
referred to, were paid an additional $780,
OOO They disappeared in a few weeks, and
when the company sent men out to Arl-
IONA to develop the new bonanza, they
found they had been worked. In other
words, the rotten soapstone bed in which
the gems had been discovered had been
"salted."
The true history Of the greatest Of min
ing swindles has never been written, but
it is not my purpose to give It here.
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been sent for and If the lady of the white
house has a chance to have them pho
tographed between now and the time of
the opening of the exhibition there is
little doubt that their pictures will adorn
the wall space reserved for them.
To add to the general and artistic value
of the exhibition the managers have de-
cided to hold an exhibition of photographs
of the child in art, including reproductions
from worlds mas terpieces, representing
the Christ Child, cherubs, cupids and the
portraits of children done by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Perault
and others. There win also be an exhi-
bition of the portraits of famous and
royal children.
One of the unique features Of the exhi-
bition will be huge magic lantern show
of babies portraits. Members of the So
ciety of Amateur Photographers are now
hard at work making lantern slides of
well-known babies of to-day.
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merely refer to It because the woman.
in the case, a Mrs. JacobyS who was the
real originator of the scheme, has been
given bit Of notoriety lately by her con-
nection with the LexoW Investigation In
New York
From the earliest days of the world
down to the present time mankind has
loved to talk of, to read Of and dream OF
gold. Mention a gold mine of immense
riches and the Yertest pessimist Is inter-
ested. For ages the dishonest maa and
the rogue have taken advantage Of this
touch of nature and the Sailing" of
mines-that is. depositing gold in some
form or other in worthless ground-has
been carried on with more thought and
ingenuity than has been exercised in any
other form of thievery in this wild and
woolly west.
Every one who has heard Of the San
Raefel and of the Blue Mountains, on
the San Juan, knows Fritz Goetleibt, or
Dutch Fritz. He was a famous prospector
years ago, and when Southwestern Col
orado was the home of fresh mining
boom every day in the year Fritz was in
his element. AS a "salter' Of mines he
was the beau IDEAL or good family. a mag
nificent education and practi-
cal knowledge Of chemistry rarely
equalled outside Of col
lege profesOrship Fritz pretended
to be profoundly ignorant on all subjects
but two. He was a judge Of whisky and
an equally good Judge OF rock Old timers
will remember the deal Fritz put up on
the late Senator Sabin, when the famous
Minnesotian was in the prime Of his
worldly prosperity. Senator Sabin, who
was heavily interested with Senator Ia
Dor in Colorado mining property, was in
Durango, Quitting for a trip into the
San Raefel to inspect some promising
property. Fritz was engaged as guide for
the senator, and the morning they were
to start appeared at the senator's hotel
boisterously drunk and shouting at the
top of his voice.
The senator, already awake, objected
to going along with Fritz in that condi-
ton and wished to secure another guide.
He was assured, however, that once on
the road, Fritz would sober up and that
no better guide could be obtained He
finally consented to take Fritz, and after
breakfast the outfit as a saddle and pack
horse party is termed, pulled out. Fritz
proved himself an able guide. The prop
erty was inspected and various samples
of ore inspected and criticised in techni-
cal language. Fritz stood open-mouthed
and inane, a spectator and hearer. When
preparations were being made to return
Fritz produced from his saddle pocket a
bit of ore Weighing probably two pounds.
He showed this to Senator Sabin and in
timated that. in his opinion, it was good
rock, probably worth $50 per ton, and that
there was an eight-foot vein Of 70 some
ten miles Off the trail and about thirty
miles back. Sabin rather deprecated the
value Of Fritz's find for the reason. he
afterwards admitted. that he believed the
ore very rich and desired to secure it as
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A SWELL BABY SHOW.
INFANTS OF THE FOUR HUNDRED
IN COMPETITION.
PART TWO.

BY Photograph Only GOuIds, VAN
derbiits and other Smart Infants
Entered for Unique Prizes-AH for
Sweet Charity.
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by Photograph Only GOuIds, Van
derbiIts and other Smart Infants
Entered for Unique Prizes-AH for
Sweet Charity.
Copyrighted.
New York, March 16.-Gotham is to have
a swell baby show Not on the order
of the time honored exhibitions where
the crying infants were arranged in lines,
dressed in their best embroidered skirts
and tucked waists. but a show of babies
photographs in which the little tots may
be seen at their best. smiling. laughing
and growing to their hearts content.
The exhibition will be held at the rooms
Of the New York Society of Amateur
Photographers. April 4, 3 and 6.
The announcements and lists Of the
awards have been out for week, and
the photographs are beginning to pour
into the rooms of Mrs. J, Wells Champ
ney, who has offered to house them until
the committee on hanging has been ap-
pointed.
The proceeds of the exhibition are for
Inc Messiah Home, a "Childrens Charity
Tor Children" The home was founded by
group Of little girls and has been largely
aided by little ones from its start This
year the managers have conceived the
IDEA of forming league of junior patrons
and patronesses, and to celebrate the in
auguration of the league they have de-
Oiaed to hold prize exhibition of photo
eFpahs of children under five year of age.
Ihirty-eight handsome medals have been
struck off by well known silver house,
and win be awarded during the exhibit
ton
Members attending the exhibition will
De requested to vote for the most popular
Dahy, and the infant receiving the largest
humber of votes will secure the grand
medal of the exposition.
The most perfect boy and girl baby will
each receive a silver medal, which will be
awarded by a committee of eminent physi-
A committee of artists will be asked TO
eide upon the prettiest boy and girl baby
''ll 10 award them each silver medal
o the jolliest boy and girl baby will be
SVEN silver medals. These are to be
aMarCed by a committee of well known
he two brightest children exhibited are
" he picked out by committee Of promi-
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the owner Of rich claim. To her alone
has this friend confded the secret of
the value Of his claim, and a sample of
the ore. She alone could wheedle him into
selling It. IL Wellington would mortgage
his Wheeling property they would pur-
chase the claim and their fortunes were
made Woolhngton made an Investigation.
Big Bob, who posed for the occasion as a
mint superintendent, offered to show him
the ground. The reputed owner, a "boos-
ter in gambling den. consented to its
inspection, but II was no use looking at
II, he wouldn't sell-no, not II they Of
fered him a hundred thousand dollars.
Wellington took out samples OF the ore
and had them assayed. They ran $67i In
gold, 38 ounces in silver and 26la per cent.
copper He mortgaged his Wheeling props
erty for 5000, gave the money to Katy-
didn't and in one night, by getting the
owner drunk she secured a deed 10 ths
ground The next day Big Bob. Katys
didn't and the owner disappeared.
Woolnngton found his mine had been
safed with chemical solutions, and It sent
him on the down-hill road at lightning
speed. Some years later he gained no.
toriety by killing a man In Leadville to
whom he had sold a sailed mine and gave
the victim bullet instead Of the money
he had demanded back.
The latest venture in mine sailing was
tried In the now famous, or Infamous.
Dead Man" mine. IN the Uintah Noun
tains. on the edge Of the Indian reservation
about TO be thrown open.
A trio Of men ran a sixty-foot tunnel
into a hillside, saturated a body of spar
and clay with chloride Of gold and ems
deavored to sell out to Salt Lake and east
ern capitalists for s1.750,C00. Their assays
ran $3.50 gold to the ton, but the fraud
was discovered before they had got over
$4,000, and they were all indicted. The in
dictments were afterward quashed on
some technicality and they escaped pun
ishment
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-Twenty-four carat gold is all gold:
twenty-five carat gold has twenty-five
parts Of gold one of silver, and one Of
copper; eighteen carat gold has eighteen
parts Of pure gold ard three parts each
Of silver and copper IN its composition;
twelve cart gold rs half gold, the re-
mainder being made up of three and one
half parts Of silver and eight ana one
half parts of copper.
"A Michigan newspaper, in recording a
marriage the other day added that the
bride is a member OF eight secret socie-
ties several clubs and one or two mis-
sionary hands,
One OF the curiosities Of the Sinking
water Canon, Wy, IS the alum cave. The
cave appears to be an extinct geyser, and
Is about fifteen feet across and easily
accessible. The alum is along the sides
and about six feet in thickness.
--Lawyer-How do you know that the
prisoner was an habitual drinker?"
Witness" Because once l heard him
tell a barkeeper that he would take just
thimblefui Of brandy and the bar.
keeper filled up a goblet and he emptied
iL"-Somerville Journal.
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RUBINsTEIN'S PLAYING.
So Frequently Damaged the Pianos
That Two Were Always Ready for

Use.
From the Fortnightly Review.
Anything more weird and terrible than
Rubinstein's playing never heard; the
despairing cry of the child as the fearful
Fri King rode with it through the forest,
the crashing pace, the awful calm Of
death as the whilrwind of struggle dies
away, and all this coming out Of the dark
ness and filling the room with thunder
and melody, concord and discord, and the
ceaseless galloping of the death steed
through the forest. 1t was an experience
never to be forgotten. In the silence that
followed the summer moonlight seemed
to fall more softly; not one of us spoke,
a little night wind whispered in the trees.
/ believe the next day it was found
that a couple of hammers had succumbed.
People used TO say that Rubinstein broke
strings-others that his touch was so fine
and elastic that even when strongest. he
never broke anything. Neither statement
is correct; what he broke was not strings,
but hammers There were always two
grand pianos on the platform whenever he
played, and there was usually some dam
age found after a recital. but playing as
he did, condensing the whirlwind and i'm
prisoning the thunder, the wonder is not
that he broke hammers, but that he did
not break all the hammers-when, for in
stance, he played a Chopin polonaise, or
LISTS arrangement of the overture to
"T&nnhauser"
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An actress appearing in Johnstown,
Pa. recently, was referred to by the locad
press as a favorfte in that city. The pa
per remarked She appeared here Just
before the food" The actress has erased
Johnstown from her map.-Dramatic Mir