Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-07
SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ihV idtS i<uIu leighton personal
estate, appraised at 1926, 900. goes by
will to his two sisters
Il is reported that the Mammoth
mine in the Colorna Mont. district
| will resume operations July /.
Commissioner Eya Booth baptismal
name is Evangeline She was named
after Longfellows heroine.
The Cariboo Gold Mining company
! has paid its ninth dividend of $1,000.
making $4,000 paid in thirteen months.
The Cincinnati Iron oompany's mine
in the Mesabi Mimi range, has begun
operations with a small force. getting
ready for hosting
A streak of free gold and telurlum
was uncovered recently at the White
Cloud mine, at Boulder county, Col,
and shipments will begin at once.
The excitement over the gold discoy-
cries at Wilson Greek. eighteen miles
from Yellow Jacket, continues. While
most of the lodges are small. they are
very rich.
A very rich body Of gravel has been
struck in the Wildcat claim, at the
mouth of John Days creek, on Salmon
river This property has been fitted up
for hydraulic mining, and piping has
begun,
Seventeen mtn are employed at the
Chief Mine, on Raven Hill. Cripple
Creek district The apex of Il new vein
was recently found In the shaft at a
depth Of 100 feet and the prospects OF
this claim are bright
II Abdul Hamid Khan. sultan OF
Turkey, should lose his job. he could
probably get work as cowboy He
has stable of 1000 horses. and can
break a dozen glass vases with re-
volver while galloping past them.
The lessees of the Argus mine, in the
Zozel tMon,) district, are reported to
have struck twenty-eight inches of
high-grade ore. A road Is now being
built to the mine, and shipments will
begin as soon as it is completed.
Major General A. d. McCook, retired,
who is now in Paris, and Major George
p, Scriven. signal corps at present mil
itary attache at the United States lega-
ton in Rome have been appointed by
the secretary OF war to represent the
United States at the coronation of the
csar.
Worthington G. Ford, the chief of the
bureau Of statistics of the United
States treasury, has been elected an
honorary Fellow Of the Royal Statis-
tica Society Of Great Britain. The
only other Americans who have re-
ceived a like honor are Messrs Francis
A. walker David a. Wells. Carroll D.
Wright, Richmond Mayo Smith and
John S. Billings
When Paderewski was struggling
music teacher and got his first engage
ment TO play in a fashionable salon for
fee of 500 the hostess, who was de-
lighted at his playing said to him as
he was about to leave. You must al
low me to send YOU home in my car
riage." But Paderewsk would stand
no patronizing Madame" he replied,
my carriage is at the door"
It Is said that the attentions Of King
Leopold of Belgium to Emilienne
dAlencon and Mile. de Merode, two no
torious Partisan feauties whom he has
sumptuously established in Brussels,
drove his unhappy queen 10 attempt
suicide. Moreover she is terribly dis
tressed by the knowledge that her hus-
bend has squandered in his Congo en-
terprlse the entire fortune Of his de-
mented sister, ex-Empress Charlotte Of
Mexico.
Victor Hugo had an insane daughter
Adele, who Is still living in Paris She
eloped TO India with an English officer,
and was there married without the
French legal formalities. Her welded
life was unhappy, and her mind gave
way under her misfortunes. The hns-
band died at Singapore about fifteen
years ago A family gathering was re
Gently held in Paris to appoint guar
dian for her in place Of the late Au
guste Vacnuerie The trust fell upon
Victor Hugo's next surviving intimate,
Paul Meurice. and al his death George
Hugo vii! succeed him
AS TO BUSY BEES.