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Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-31
VIII Give an entertainment.

The Pathfinder Cycle Club announces a
gymnasium entertainment for tomorrow
night. at its club, Ninth and Locust streets
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-31

Care. worry dread. anxiety, whiten the hair
too early Stop fretting. use PARRER's HAIR
BALsAN and save both life and color to the hair.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-31

Fifty-six Hours to Los Angeles.
The California Limited. via Santa Fe
Route Swift. safe and luxurious.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

in the mines of Leadville alone. Each
Of these tunnels is rooted and walled
with big pine logs. and the slopes, or
caves, cut away from the tunnels in
order to get the silver ont, have to be
almost filed with timbers. for fear
their sides may cave in. No one who
has not gone through great mine can
appreciate the amount of water which
flows into it. In the bottom OF the
Maid of Erin streams of ice cold water
flow through the tunnels like so many
mountain brooks.
Overhead are pipes for steam and
for compressed air to run the drills.
There is a railroad track in each tun.
mel and boards upon which you can
walk to keep out of the stream. The
water is taken out of the mine by
enormous steam pumps. Nine hun
dred feet below the surface of the
ground l found an immense engine
room, large part Of the machinery
of which consisted of pumps, which
work away there day and night. They
carry out of the mine 900 gallons of
water minute, or $4,000 gallons an
hour. If they were stopped for two
or three hours the mine would be
filled, and it would cost fortune to
open it again.
Standing on the dump of the Maid
of Erin you get good view of Lead
vile. 1t lies in a nest in the Rockies
and it is surrounded by some OF the
most picturesque scenery of the Uni
ted States. Imagine an amphitheatre,
the walls of which are snow capped
mountains, and in one side of the
arena there is a mass OF dust colored
houses. Let there be buildings of red
and yellow brick, log cabins covered
with dust, wooden shanties and com.
Portable homes, all busted with vel.
low, put mountains of broken rock
here and there through it and let i'm
mense frame buildings, which mark
the sites of smelters, show out below
it, and you have faint idea of the city
of Leadville as it looks to-day. 1t is a
city of schools and churches, a city of
wealth and manufactures, town of
gold and silver and lead. 1t contains
about IL, coo people, but it does more
business than town of three times
the size in the East. 1t is the highest
town OF its size in the Uuited States.
There are parts of it which are alive
with birthstone and when you drive in
the direction of the smelters you have
to cover your nostrils and mouth with
your handkerchief in order to be able
to breath. The birthstone comes from
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

carried oil over the world. Two
million and half dollars worth OF
gold were taken out Of this gulch in
1860. The men who panned IL noted
that there was heavy black sand
mixed with the gold, but they did not
realize that this sand was carbonate Of
lead until years afterward, when IL was
discovered that the lead was rich with
silver and the mining began which
made Leadville one of the greatest
silver camps of the world. One OF, the
first big silver mines opened was dis.
covered by the Gallagher Brothers,
two poor Irishmen, and another was
opened by Fryer, from whom Fryer
Hill, one of the most famous miping
districts here, was named. Fryer
lived in a squatty little cabin on the
side Of the hill, and he was looked
upon by his neighbors as utterly
worthless and good for nothing. One
day he went into the pines back of his
cabin and dug hole. He struck ore
almost at the grass roots, and opened
up mine which yielded more than a
million dollars.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

edge with narrow velvet binding, and
one large cluster of tall black plumes
at the side. More becoming is the
broad white crinoline hat shown here.
with this with an edge Of fancy black
and white crinoline. The brim may
be curved or bent, to suit the wearer,
but hats are worn quite straight and
very forward, and the back turned up
and filed in to meet the email coil OF
hair.
The hat shown in the accompanying
illustration can be kept to black and
white, with pink roses at the back; or
Q white hat is charming with dahlia or
heliotrope ribbon. black plume
paste buckle, and band OF black velvet
round the crown. A black hat with
white edge is also effective. with shot
rose and crimson ribbon, black plume,
and pink roses and the style OF the
trimming can be copied in any of these
combinations.
The band round the crown is cut on
the bias, and in forming the ribbon
loops each end 10 pleated up separate
ly and tied round with stout cotton or
Ane wire. The plume 10 sewn to the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
A CYCLING PHENOMENON.
The Remarkable Performance of q
Lady of Denver.

The Remarkable Performance of q
Lady of Denver.
Among the women OF pluck and en-
ergy in Denver is dainty little lady,
Mrs. Rhinehart, who is surprising the
world at large by her wonderful ex-
ploits upon the wheel, Mrs. Rhine
hart is the wife Of one OF Denver's lead.
ing photographers. She is native Of
California, having lived in Colorado
but five years. On September 20,
1895, Mrs. Rhinehart took her first
ride, and, finding that she enjoyed it.
che invested in wheel. December
ii she made her first century, and
when April arrived she had ridden
three centuries. and, in company with
her husband, had toured old Mexico
upon her wheel. Up to the present
date Mrs. Rhinehart has ridden forty
four centuries in all, and during July
gained worldwide fame by riding
ten centuries in ten consecutive days.
She followed that July % with double
century, which she accomplished in
twenty hours and twenty minutes.
riding the last forty miles in darkness,
mud and rain. Feeling confident that
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Not far from .Leadvllls is the great

Not far from Leadvllle is the great
mining camp known as Aspen. II is in
Pitkin County, out of which hos been
dug mora than $40, 900, 900 worth of
silver ore. Aspen produced, In 1891,
$40, 200, 900 worth Of silver. IL ia sit.
uatod on an enormous silver lode,
which is said to be from eight to
twelve miles long, and which, before
silver dropped, was producing tho
white metal at the rate of S1,000,-
600 n month. At Aspen is the famous
Mollie Gibson silver mine, the aver
age ore of which is worth 5000 n ton,
and of which single car loads of ore
have netted more than $50, 900. There
is one mine at Aspen which has taken
out more than S7,000,00O from an
area of about half an acre of ground,
the works of the mine going down
nearly 100 feet below thu surface.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

she could lower her record for 200
miles, Mrs. Rhinehart started out on
the morning of August at 1876 and
in seven hours and fifty minutes COW
cred q distance of 102 miles. After
resting thirty minutes she started
once more, and accomplished the
second 102 miles in nine hours and
forty-fve minutes, making the entire
20i miles in seventeen hours aud
thirty-fve minutes. Mrs. Rhinehart's
record is one that is not equaled by
many male bicyclists, and probably
by no lady rider in the country. She
rides purely for pleasure. She has
never cared to break any record and
has refused to enter contests. She is
an easy, graceful rider, averaging
thirteen miles an hour, coming out
fresh and untired at the end of trips
that few copld endure. Her fastest
riding is always done near the finish.
When she began riding Mrs. Rhine.
hart was an invalid. She is now the
picture of health, and laughs me st
heartily over the dismal prediction
that she is killing herself riding. She
is slight young woman, with large
brown eyes, golden hair. and is per-
feet gypsy in color. Her riding cos.
tune is short divided skirt, sweater,
golf hose and low shoes. During her
long rides she is particular that her
clothing shall be very loose, SO that
every muscle may have full play.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

skirt is to be braided; weight does
not mean warmth in cloth or WOODEN
materials, aud that we have only
learned, many of Us, through hard ex-
perience. In coats and tight-fitting
waists the smooth cloths are more be-
coming than the rough ones, for they
seem to fill the figure better, probably
on account of being more closely
woven. But this year it is not safe to
say arbitrarily that either one is the
only possible material. All the differ
ent shades of blue, brown, green and
gray, besides black, are fashionable,
but black leads ell in the smooth
cloths. In the mixed cloths there is
pepper. and. salt combination which is
immensely fashionable, but not be-
coming to everybody, as it really has
a gray shade which needs q pink and
white complexion to bear well. This
last material for hard wear is simply
unsurpassable, and is being used by
great many women for both bicycling
and shopping, made in one jacket
waist with two skirts, one short and
one lone-really two gowns out OF one.
--Harper's Bazaar.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

Another famous mine was known as
"Dead Mans Claim" and the man
who acted as grave digger on certain
occasion became its owner. A we'll
known miner had died, and his friends.
who wanted to give him good send
off into the other world, hired q man
to dig his grave for $50. It was in
the midst of the winter. There were
ten feet of snow on the ground, and
the grave had to go six feet below
that. In order to keep the deceased
in proper condition until the grave
was dug he was laid away in the snow
for the time. Nothing was heard of
the grave digger for three days, and
then the boys, wishing to carry out
the remainder Of the funeral, went out
to see him. They found him digging
away with all his might, but they
found also that he had put up the
stakes and gone through the ceremon-
les which gave him miners claim to
all the land about the grave. In 60
ing down into the earth he had struck
pay ore, and the rock which he got out
was worth about $50 ton. The
mourners at once staked out claims
adjoining his, and the deceased was
forgotten. He remained in the snow
bank until the spring sun thawed him
out, when he was awarded an ordinary
burial in another part of the camp.
Mining has never been done go care
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
LEADvILLE's ORE TEAMS.

handling and smelling, making the ore
in this mine alone worth at least 1884,.
600. Mr.. Moffat told me in my inter-
view that his best mine had been the
''Maid Of Erin." for which he had paid
about 800, 900, and out OF which him
self and his partners had made IS. 000,-
600. This mine is still being worked,
and there are other great silver mines
here which are shipping ore.
! paid q visit the other day to this
hve.million dollar maiden. The Maid
OF Erin silver mine lies ON the hills
just above Leadville. It is surrounded
by mountains of waste rock, and 1t has
immense frame buildings, something
like those OF q great factory. A look
at 1t gives you some idea ef the enor-
nous cost OF silver mining. The en-
gines which moves its machinery have
ten great boilers. and its furnaces are
20 large that ten men are constantly
shoveling coal into them to keep the
fires alive. They eat up from twenty
i've to thirI tons Of coal ! day. and
the coal bill for the furnaces alone
smounts 10 alba daily. Five hundred
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

dollars day is paid for wages to the
miuers, and the machinery is of the
most costly description. After dress.
ing in miners clothes went down in
to the shaft. Stepping on the eleva-
tor l was dropped hundreds of feet,
past tunnel after tunnel rupning of
into the vein, until I was at last more
than thousand feet below the surface.
Running off from the shafts are these
great pipes or stunnels, out of which
have been cut the silver and lead.
They are lighted by electricity. They
are driven this way and that, go that
they form a labyrinth like the avenues
in the Catacombs of Rome. You could
lose yourself in this mine. 1t con-
meets with tho great Henrietta mine,
and you might wander about from tun-
mel to tunnel without finding your
way to the shaft.
This is wet mine, and it takes an
enormous amount of money to wall it
with timbers. Many such mines con-
tain forests of great logs, and it is es.
timated that there is more than 81, ,000,.
900 worth of lumber and timber used
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

the sulphur in the ore, which is
liberated by the terrible heat OF the
smelling furnaces. Mixed with this
smell Is the dust. which, when the
wind blows, fills all parts Of the city.
The gold and silver ore is hauled TO
the smelters through the streets in
enormous wagons, each OF which Is
drswn by four horses. There is an
almost continuous procession of these
wagons going through from daylight
until dark, and the pr scious dirt under
foot is ground to powder.
Speaking Of gold dust, placer min.
ing Is still done near Leadville. This
has been ono Of the greatest placer
mining camps of the world. California
Gulch. which lies Just below Leadville.
has produced the enormous amount Of
835, 900, 900 worth of gold. This was
the great gold mining camp OF 1859
and 1850. when the words "Pike's
Peak or bust" should have been
"Oalifornia Gulch or bust" The work
was then done in old pans or rocking
cradles and the stories OF the gold
nuggets and the gold dust found were
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

fully as to-day, and science has never
done so much to make the production
of gold and silver cheap. Take the
Creede camp, which has made so many
men rich. Creede was a poor pros.
pector when he discovered the "Holy
Moses" which, in 1892. netted more
than one and one-half million dollars.
Creede sold it for $4,000. He made
other strikes, and he has now IN in
come of q thousand dollars a day.
Still he tramped the mountains for
twenty years before he made his big
strike, and he was fifty before he be-
came millionaire. He made the bulk
Of his fortune out of the Amethyst
and other mines. and the great re.
ceipts of the Holy Moses went to
Dave Moffat and his partners. A man
named Renniger was riding through
the mountains about Creede on one
of these little donkeys known as
burros. He had another burro to
carry his pick and prospecting tools.
He was q grub stalker, that is, some
man had furnished him. tools and gro
ceries for certain time with the un-
derstanding that the capitalist should
have half what he discovered. One
night, when Renniger camped, his
burros strayed away. and he spent
days in finding them. When he did
find them he looked at the rocks upon
which they were standing and saw
that they contained silver. He located
on that spot what is known as the
"Last Chance" mine. which paid
$3.50, 900 in dividends from its surface
production, and which has produced
fortunes. Near this mino Creede, now
q partner of Moffat, discovered the
"Amethyst" mine. which. in 1892,
produced 81, 400,00 worth of silver,
and which is now capitalized at $5.-
900, 200. This mine now belongs to
Senator wolcott and others II il
very rich.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
back and the crown, and should be
high and stiff. Home Queen.
pnoApc1oru or 1Aprrs' otoru.

Broadcloth or ladies' cloth is always
in fashion when braiding is revived,
and. as has been already stated, braid
ing is very largely to be used. Even
on velvet and camels-hair serges,
there are rows of braiding, while The
smooth cloths are fairly covered with
1t. From 81 so upwards ladies' cloth
can be bought, which is wide, and IL
we'll sponged, is most satisfactory
material but in buying any of these
smooth cloths IL is well not to choose
too heavy weight, particularly II the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

on the edge of the town, tie ore Of
which averaged 100 ounces of silver,
with now and then jump to as nigh
as from 800 to 1000 ounces. It has
been found that this vein extends right
under Leadville, and it is question
now as to whether Leadville can hold
its silver or whether it is to go to
others. If Leadville gets it it will be
the richest city in the world, and sim
gle pockets of ore under the streets
will probably pay more than the city
debt and leave big surplus in the
treasury. Leadville claims that the
streets were dedicated to the munich
patty, and that all that is under them
belongs to the city. The original own
ers of the land are now claiming that
they gave the ground only as right
Of way, and SO the question hangs in
The courts.
Many of the silver mines of Lead
sille are so rich Chat they can be
worked at a profit, Notwithstanding the
low price of silver. In the Moffat and
Smith mines there are $50 men on the
pay roll as miners. and it takes about
three men to handle and care for the
ore to each miner. There are 5000
men at work in the Leadville mining
district, and laborers get from from 50
to So per day. The Wolfton mine has
recently struck an immense body of
ore, neither end of which has vet been
found. but in which 10s, 200 tons of
silver-bearing rock have been blocked
out. This, it is estimated, will pay at
least IS ton above all expenses of
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
AN ELDORADO.
LEADvILLE THE CENTER OF
THE MINING INDUSTRY.
Millions Have Been Produced
Strange Tales of the Finding OF
Unexpected L ortuncs py impc-
cunious Prospectors.

EADVILLE, writes Frank G..
/ r Carpenter in the Washing
ton Star, is one of the great
treasure vaults of the United
States. Within the past seventeen
years Uncle Sam has drawn upon il to
the extent of more than 5000, 900, 900,
but it has to-day more than one hun
dred producing mines and its unde-
veloped riches are incalculable. II
contains some of the richest gold and
some of the most wonderful silver
mines of the world. The territory
surrounding it is being reprospected,
new mines are being opened and some
of the old mines are so wonderful in
their production that their owners do
not want them mentioned in the news
papers. Such a one is the 'Little
Johnny" which now has an output of
$4,000 worth of gold day, and
which, / am told, could he made tc
produce, If the owners wished il, $780,
900 in gold daily for years to come.
In one of the banks there there is about
peck of specimens of the pure gold
which has been taken from it. The
gold in the vein is in the shape OF or.
dinary gold ore, but in places there
are flakes and scales of pure metal.
and every now and then rich pocket
is struck in which 1t lies in Jumps. The
daily output of the Little Johnny"
is now about 200 tons, and the aver
age value of the ore is nearly $50.
There are now six shafts on the prop.
erty, the two deepest of'which are 750
feet. Gold is struck about 300 feet
below the ground, and it is said that
the whole area OF more than 100 acres
is mineralized.
Leadville is one of the greatest sill.
yer camps of the United States. Mill
ions upon millions have been taken
out of the earth back of the city and
scattered broadcast over the world.
The city itself is un1erlaid with pre-
cious minerals. About year ago
Major A. V. Bohn struck silver mine
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Tricks Of the Rifle.

A well.known rifle shot says: SIT is
not generally known that an orange
hit in the exact center by rifle ball
will vanish at once from sight. Such.
however, Is the fact, and that is my
way of making an orange disappear
shooting it through the center. which
scatters it into such inanitesimal
pieces that it is at once lost to sight"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
A MANIA FOR "BUScHrSEss.

Fashion designers seem to be afflict-
ed with mania for lace, loops. lap.
pets, bows, bouquets and bunchiness.
Wherever fabric can be putfed up or
looped up, or wherever there seems to
be an excuse for massiug in material.
there are rufiies and puts and pompa-
dours gathered together. OF course,
il depends much on the artist whether
or not these things are beautiful or
otherwise. It requires great skill to
create really elegant things, even
though one may have fino materials to
work with.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
NEW STYLES IN PrrTrcoArs.

The petticoat of lawn, cambric or
batiste, which for while has been
rather under cloud, has come back to
fashionable favor, and that this should
be carefully chosen to harmonize with
all else that Is worn is proof of the
growing thought and taste of modern
dress. Some very we'll dressed women,
however, never wear anything but
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

white petticoat OF very fine fabric,
fearing the effect that the greater
thickness OF a satin or glace taffetas
might have upon the close ft below
the waist Of the present fashionable
skirt. The petticoat of white or
colored cotton is best suited to wear
under light dresses, with frills or
hounces around the bottom.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

crinoline with irregular scalloped edge.
There is new shape, with round
brim and high "iam rot" crown, which
is very striking when sparingly
trimmed, and this is favorite IN
white chip, with broad band of black
velvet, and big buckle in front, the
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
MODES OF THE DAY.
LATE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
WORLD OF FASHION.
Fashionable Shapes and CoIors In
Miliinery-Broad Hat of White
Crinollue-ISroadc dcloth and
Braiding-A New Veil.

ARGE hats are very general,
r. and the generality of these
I are wider from side to side,
and rather shallow in front,
and the back is invariably turned up
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

Ribbon is used as ,tiFt trimming
this fall.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-11-12
Dreadful
Rheumatism.

No disease has puzzled the doctors
so completely as rheumatism-tha de-
plorable condition of the blood which
so often renders the strongest man as
helpless as babe. Their mercuriaI
and potash remedies may in some
cases inpart temporary relief, but are
sure to ultimately result in wrecking
the entire system.
Rheumatism is deep-seated blood
disease and only a real blood remedy
will have any effect whatever upon
it. Most of the so-called blood rene
dies are at best only tonics and cam
not reach an obstinate blood trouble.
One of the most frequent symptoms of
rheumatism is a tingling sensation of
the parts affected, generally brought
about from a lack of free circulation
of the blood through the very small
blood conductors. This trouble is al
ways eliminated by the use of s. S. s.;
it thins the blood, gives it free and
forcible circulation, destroys the pois-
onous microbes and restores the circu-
lation to its normal condition.
Mr.. Robert Fl. King, a prominent
and influential citizen of West Point,
Va, writes of his experience with this
dread disease:
''About five years ago / was a great
sufferer from rheumatism. was
treated by all the leading physicians