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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

intimidated All the Employees and
Stole $4,000 RubIes

Our consul at Batum saws that
br1gandage in the Caucasus ia far f,o~,
being stamped out. A determined at
TACK was made last year on one Of tba
hquorlce factories standing within 9oo
yards or a railway station. The brio-
amos VINO were well armed, got with
IN the high wall surrounding the huiId
lnes, where work is carried on niche
ana day. The dwelling house Of The
owner and his European employees the
oTlces and the factory were ALI held
under hot fire. The owner of fha
factory went into the veranda and
called one Of his watchmen whar .
nail OF bullets whistled past his head
ana the watchman was shot dead. saws
the London Times. 9'Ss
a running fire on the railway static,
was also kept up. and a passencar
train, which arrived during the attsol-
was nred upon. The brigands enterad
the Office, and after three hours' ,To,.ie
during which they kept up q f,,r;e, :.
1usilade, succeeded In breakinq ona,s
the iron safe, from which thew o4" 49,
ABOUT $4,000 rubles. and then made ofs
one gang of these brigands was e..
tercepted by cossacks on the fol1oy,,,,r-
day, and five of their number ,,, t,rs
killed. Some of the cossacks aIso err
Murders and outrages are verv fire..
quent in the district, and brieanda &C.
In general Is more or less rife ali i', o1,s.
the Caucasus. over
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, Aug. ~
There are $4,000 men in Cripple Creek,
and fully 10000 of them are mourning
meet every day miners who will tell
you how near they came to owning
the Portland, the Independence, the
Victor or other big mines which are
now turning out tens Of thousands
of dollars a month. Some will whis-
per how they sold mines for song
which are now worth millions, and
Others will curse their luck as they
describe the fortunes which have
slipped through their fingers.
HALF A MILLION FOR GRUB"
L saw a man hauling logs at the
town of Victor, near Cripple Creek,
the other day who sold a million
dollar mine to pay a grocery bill of
$40. He was earning SO a day, and he
was working for the men who bought
his mine. His name is Jerry Wincheil.
Four years ago he owned a number
of the best locations in the Cripple
Creek district, but now he is not
worth a cent. The mine which went
for grub is famous here. 1t is known
as THE Last Dollar" Winchell To-
Gated it in 1891, and not long after
that, when he found himself in debt
to the amount of $40 to H. H. Mills, a
groceryman, he gave him the mine to
square the bill Mills was not salts
fed with the settlement. He objected,
but Wincheu had no money and he
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

fight hard to make a fortune and he is
not going to let 1t slip through his
fingers. know that he has refused
some big offers for the Independence
I once tried to buy it myself and failed
The offer came to me from. New York
parties. Mr.. Schley, of the big bank
ing firm of Moore. s. sSchIey, wanted the
mine, and Schley wrote me that
he had parties who were will
Ing to pay anything for it
up to three million dollars. He
wrote that if I could bring about a
sale, no matter at what price or on
what conditions, he would give me
$4,000 for my trouble. He knew that
I was acquainted with Mr. Stratton
and thought that I could succeed"
II don't wonder that you made the
trial." said 1.
mo, Of course not" replied Mr.. Col
brand. you can't pick up $50, 900
every day, even here in Colorado 1
was very anxious to make the sale and
I saw Mr.. Stratton at once The mine
had already paid considerable. It had
good prospects, though there was not
anything like millions of dollars yet In
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
NOT HIS IDEAL VACATION.
Boys Encountered bees and Fell In
the Brook While Rusticatine.

Boys Encountered Bees and Fell I'm
the Brook While frustrating.
You can have the country" said
Boys, as he leaned back In his office
chair and glowered at his partners.
TN give you my share of it. You told
me to go out, have a good rest, breathe
the scent from the hay fields, hear the
birds MARBLE, see the firef1ies swarm,
drink new milk, eat fresh-laid eggs and
draw on nature for q new lease of life, -
relates the Detroit Free Press.
What was the matter, Bogs?"
Everything. I thought I was going
to sweet little corner of paradise to
lie In the shade by a brawling brook
sleep on a bed Of wild flowers when ]
wanted to sleep by day, and in an at
mosphere freighted with clover bloom
by night. Look at my hands, my face
my neck, my ears and even my ankles
They look like a cranberry patch or the
measles
How do you account for it?"
Mosquitoes. More than a. million OF
mosquitoes have partaken of my blood
in the last three weeks. They fed or
me like vampires. When T got out
there nobody met me, and T. walked
three miles. The dust was four inches
deep. 1t was 100 in the shade, and nc
shade at that. When got in sight OF
the house I cut GROSS lots, and a bull
chased me half a mile. The only way
they prevented me having sunstroks
was by packing my head in cabbage
leaves and spring water. Next day
went. out on my own hook to see the
busy little bees at work One of the
buzzers got up my shirt sleeve, and
when I was through making g. fight
there was not enough shirt left to wac
gun. Next day 1 went fishing, fel
in the creek, never got bite, and had
to rub a sore throat with horse lini.
ment for a week."
But the living was good?"
Good enough for coal-heaver. The
beef was SO tough that the old farmer
had to carve it with an ak before hi
brought it to the table. They gave us
brown sugar, and I recognized our owr
brand of oleomargarfne. Even the on
ions had to be trimmed up before they
looked right Hereafter I take my va
cation at home. The country is al
yours, gentlemen
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

that he did not think that 1t was worth
much, and that Stratton would never
get anything out of it. / went into the
building, however, and Clipped off a
bit of the ore and put it in my pocket.
That night had it assayed. 1t ran 5000
to the ton. 1 sounded Stratton and
found 1 could get the mine for $4,000
cash at an option of $4,000 1 replied
that / could not make an offer until /
could go through the mine and make
a number of assays, and that while the
first ore might run good, that which
l got later might not be worth mining.
This was agreed to, and / was just
about to wire Eben Smith that we had
better buy the mine, when 1 got a let
ter from him saying that the panic had
struck Denver. He said that every
thing was flat, and that Moffat had
written him to go slow, and not to
buy anything for a time. He told me
to break off any negotiations l might
have and go off fishing until the trouble
blew over. l thought the matter would
keep for a month, so 1 went fishing.
Thirty days later / came back. only
to find that Stratton had struck good
ore, and that he would not sell at
any price. He took out several thou
sand dollars that month, and now
we'll. now every one knows that the In
dependence mine is worth millions"
STRATTON WOULD NOT SELL.
Mr.. Colbrand the manager of the
Midland railroad, told me the other day
how he tried to buy the Independence
and failed. I had asked him whether
there was any danger Of Stratton los
ing his property. He replied:
mot a bit of it. Stratton has had to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
HUNG THE FREE-TRADER

And None Have Since Been Heard OF
I'm That Country.
A well-known Washington politician
made a trip recently through south.
western West Virginia in order tc
ascertain the sentiment of that section
says the Washington Star.
In Logan county, on Panther creek
he found an old man. whom he inter
viewed as follows
Are the men here taking much in
terest in the campaign this year?',
fright smart
How are they going to vote?"
"Ag'in the fed'ral cot
How are they on the money ques-
tion?"
Don't know nothin' bout it. What
they want is ter keep thar lam In the
King case. Thet Teller King Is arte1
all tn Ian hyar. Amt never no money
here, an we don't keer much bout nc
questions as to it,
How about the tariff"
1.-THE what?'
Are there any traders in you,
DISTRICT"
mo. I reckon not. Thar was one
las var, but they cotched i'm. He'd
been tradin' bosses free all round
hyar. SoP one o. mine to a Teller dowr
tn crick. I foun' it an we hung the
free-trader right over yander on thei
big poplar. Hain't heerd O. none
sence."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

worth or precious rock, and when he
was offered $4,000 for his mine he took
1t and left for his old home In Indiana.
During the same year that he sold it
the Deer Horn shipped $126.00O worth
or ore Within the past few months
1t has been resold and 1t is now to be
operated in connection with the Sum-
NIT mine, which ad5oins'it on the north.
It's new owners Intend. to put in the
finest Of machinery and they claim
that the mine contains a fortune In it's
immense bodies of low. grade ore.
FOUND MILLIONS: WORTH MOTH
ING. q
1t is sad to know that those who do
the most for the world often reap the
least reward Marshall, who discovered
gold IN California, died a pauper The
man who laid bare the riches of the
oil fields of Pennsylvania was In his
last days dependent on charity, and
Bob Womack, the iprospector who first
showed up the riches Of this Cripple
Creek gold camp, is now living in a
little log cabin in Sight Of mines worth
millions and struggling hard to get
more than living. His story is that
OF many miners. For twenty years he
has been prospecting, and now, at
forty-three, having found millions, he
is worth nothing. He came to this
region ten years in advance of any one
else and staked out a number of claims,
among others what is now known as
the Ell Paso mine, which is said to be
worth half million He owned this
prospect for some time, but could not
get others to believe in its riches. He
had no money to develop 1t and he
finally sold it for $500. A few months
after he made the sale, one-third of
the Ell Paso was sold for 5000, and
1t Is now considered very valuable
property. 1t was Womack who first
had faith in the Cripple Greek gold
region. He held the Ell Paso for a long
time before he sold it and he worked
on the cattle farm of Bennett & Meyers,
upon which have since been located
some Of the best Cripple Creek mines,
in order to get the money to continue
his prospecting. He dug holes all over
this farm in his search for gold The
owners of the farm laughed at him and
told him that he must cover up his
holes. as their cattle fell into them.
He did this and went on. From time
to time he took rock down to Denver
to be assayed, and he found that it ran
as high as $500 per ton. After the
miners began to come to Cripple Greek
he gave away number Of claims
which he had on Gold Hill, and some
of these claims within year afterward
sold for $4,000. By the time the camp
was in full blast he found himself
worth nothing, and now he says Of him
self that his old friends pass him by
with a sneer, and those who have the
most Of the wealth which he has dis
covered do not even say Have
cigar, Bobp' Frank G. Carpenter.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

sight. 1 told Mr.. stratton that I had
some Eastern parties who wanted to
buy his mine, and that they would pay
a big price. did everything could to
induce him to sell. I said:
Now, Mr.. Stratton, here is a chance
to make yourself Independent from
now on. You have been a poor man all
your life and you can now assure your
self Of riches beyond the shadow of a
doubt. Your mine, 1t is true, promises
well, but 1t may play out These men
will give you the cash. You can put
1t in government bonds and have more
money than you can spend for the rest
Of your life. What could you have bet
ter than that?'
ct think the mine is better than
that replied Mr.. Stratton; at least.
these capitalists seem to think So
Yes said I, but you have got to
work 1t to get the money out. 1t is not
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

was about sixty years of age. and he
knew nothing about ore or prospect
ing. He simply wandered about the
hills In an aimless manner, breaking
up a piece Of stone here and chipping
on q DIT or rock there. AT last one day
on Globe hill, back Of Cripple Creek,
ne saw lying on the ground deer's
horn.
He was rather superstitious fellow
ana ne thought that this was an omen
that he was to dig there for gold. He
at once named his claim .'Tbe Deer
horn, and set out the stakes which
made 1T his own. He had no money
ana he was compelled to do all the
work himself. He dug q ten-foot hole
ana then making a rude ladder. he
Went down with bucket and labor
!ousiy carried the rock to the top. After
q Tune ne rugged up windlass and
thus hauled it out After some weeks
ne sent some Of the rock to Pueblo n
pc assayed. a friend advancing him
the cash to pay for the assay. The re-
port was that the best ore contained
90 cents worth of gold to the ton. Tn
reading it, however, old Sterritt mis-
TOOK the ngures for So instead of SO
cents That isn't at all bad" said
me- ana he went on mining. At last
aoweVer, ne came to the end of his
thirty miles away, to work AT hia TIE =
as carpenter for week or so in order
TO save enough money to go on with his
mine. While he was away the owners
OF one OF the stamp mills examined ths
mine, and when he came back tfev or
fered him dollar ton for ali the
rock on the surface Of his claim for q
distance OF 100 feet in length, % feet
IN IN Wiotn and feet in depth. This
Sterritt accepted, and he was sonr
making from $40 to s16 a day. In the
meantime Spectator jumped his
mine. and he had to fight for it in The
courts. e
The other miners. however, saw the
injustice OF the jumpers claim and
they burned him in efagy and scared
him 50 that he did not dare to appear
at the trial While the suit was pend
ms SterriH shipped more than Sl2, ooo
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30
Would Ell the anI

church Progress.
..lls dis where dey want boy9"
utters an untruth and does not nse sias sr
or swear. and never speaks unless b s.sn y
i'm round" eo' n send
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

Puck
absolute rest n' needs rest
me. doctor. "on listen to
- Doctor-You must appeal to her. made J.
the interest OF her complexion. Aaoana' In
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

had to take it, Three years later,
however, he sold the mine for $4,000,
and the purchaser resold it month
or so after that to Senator Wolcott
and others for 100000. Now it is pro-
! ducing quantities of gold, and no one
knows what it will bring in the future.
5 SAVED 500, LOST A MILLION.
1 sat at dinner in Browns hotel in
. Denver the other day beside forid-
faced, long-bearded man from Colora-
do Springs. We soon began to talk
of the mines of Cripple Creek The
J subject of the Isabella company came
up, and I asked him If he knew any
Z thing as to the Cripple Creek mines
Z owned by 1t.
YES" said he, "I should say 1 do
Their best mine, you know, is the
! Buena Vista. 1t pays almost all the
profits of the Isabella company. It's
vein has been traced for 5000 feet, and
: 1t has already produced more than
$4,000 worth of gold. 1 had a chance
I TO buy half of that mine for 800, and
; did not take 1t. A man in my employ
discovered 1t. He was one of those
s fellows who are always hard up, and
one day he came to me and told me
that his family were out of provisions,
S and that he must have money. He
Z spoke of the Buena Vista prospect and
+ offered me a half interest in it for
800. l told him that would give him
: the provisions, but I did not want the
mine. I said I did not believe there
was any gold In the Cripple Creek
3 region. The result was that he went
away and sold the interest to other
parties. Within two weeks those par
4 ties sold their half interest for 500. 900,
and month later my man got $40, 900
s Tor his share. The Isabella mining
stock at Its present selling value is
worth more than a million 1t has
paid 100000 within a month in diyi-
dends, and I could have gotten one
half Of it for 800. Oh, Lord! it makes
me sick when l think of it,
THE INDEPENDENCE
. The Independence gold mine is said
TO be the richest in the world. 1t has,
1t is said, from five to seven million
dollars worth of gold in sight, and It's
owner, who was working at his trade
as carpenter five years ago, would
not now sell 1t for 10000. 900 cash. And
still the Independence has several times
= been offered for sale and the offer re-
fused. This was in the first days Of its
history. One of Dave Moffat's experts
told me the other night how near he
came to buying 1t. Said he:
1t was several years ago, before the
Cripple Creek region was much deyeI-
oped that I came here from Leadville
: to see what I could find for Moffat.
EbeD Smith was with me, and we
bought the Victor mine for $e5 900. and
have, as you know, made million out
s of It. Well, one day I was walking
about Stratton's mine, when I saw a
miner whom l knew shoyeling out ore
and rock. I asked him whether the
mine was worth anything. He said
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1896-04-02
0 inkOrpOracyi zwiazko-
wei.

Gaia piekielna ozereda zlych duchow
zerwala sic, skoro wyszlo ma jaw, IL ten
cd lat omawiany, lyle razy rozpocze-
ty, nigdy niedokohczony ,,oharter"
wreszcie dai naszemu Zwiazkowi Mar.
Polskiemu byt prawny, a jego czion.
kom pewnosc wypaaty posmiertnego ma
przysziosc. Z}osliwe krytyki, nikczem-
ne podburzanie ogo}u ma Rad Central
ny, ktory W dobrej wierze i uczciwie
wypelnia swoj obowiazek, stanely ma
porzadku dziennym trzeba sic ope.
dzac tel zgraji niby to Zwiszkowyoh i
ME Zwiazkowych, jak czeredzie psow,
ujadajacej "a p}otu. Starry Gonta
zwarjowal do reszty. Nagabywany przez
ludzi, ktorym pieniadze winien, a kto-
rzy jeden po drugim biors ma niego wy.
roki sadowe, cboia} ratowac op}akany
swoj stan majatkowy przez wkrecenie
rudery Zwiazkowi. Me udalo sic,
wiec zemsta ma noAe "a jego ciezka
krzywde! Prawa jego reka W tel szla-
chetnej pracy destrukcyi jest jakis po.
katny doradzca, szcjster, jak to tn W
Ameryce nazywaja, majacy tyle pole.
cia prawie, 90 wilk o astronomii. Ale
cato kretacz to niepospolity, idscy
zawsze z zasody krzywa droga, wtedy
nswet, gdyby bez kretactwa mogl sic
obyt, ot tax sobie przyzwyczsjenia j
passyi. Me tax dawno t.mu przybyl
swista do Chicago - wkrsoii sic do
kilku towarzystw, ale dla je,'o intryg
gaigahstw, ma ktorych potrs6ono sic
jakos predko poznac, wyrzucono go z
z nich hahba. Pomimo tego ! dzi.
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wyrzuoony drzwiami, zaglada do okna,
czy przez ME ME moanaby wles6 b
lie handel szedl - oto drugi osobnik,
Praoujaoy swym bosom dld dodrd
Z,oiqzkuW Wiarus. ..... coz tn po
wiedziee? jak Ryozywole przejdz.
my mad MIN do porzadku dziennego!
Do tego grona kawalsr6w nadobnych
przysuwa sic wstydliwie o niezniesio-
nem jajku kokoszka: nWiara Ojczy
zna" cieniutkim dyszkantem wywodzi
trele swej syozliwosoi dla tego bic
dnego, zbiakanego Zwiazku! Mocno
jestem przekonany, Re to sa jeszcze po-
zosta2osci po owym ma poly obiakanym
trAf.zcis, ktory nigdy ME wyleozya sic
zupelnie skutk6w zadanej ru pred
kilku laty W domu rozpusty W Detroit
truoizny, o ozem swego czasu szeroko
rozpisywa1y sic dzisnniki angielskie.
Bo gdyby miaio bye inaczej panom cd
,Wiary Ojozyzny" rzeczywiscie cho-
dzilo wojne, to i'm pos}utymy gu-
stem, ale zachodzi pytanie, ozy i'm to ma
zdrowie wyjd.ie!
Taz to wiazanka poboznych, szataf-
skich szubrawskich dusz stanela pred
flarami gmaohu Zwiazkowego - pod
stawila pod ME swe barki i chcialaby
odegra6 role Samsona druzgocacsgo
gmach filistyhski! Przyczepili sic do
pewnej nieformalnosci W uk}adaniu a.
plikaoyi na tenze ,,oharter" juz spie-
waja piesh zwyciestwa, ze pognebili
ten znienawidzony i'm Rad Centralny
- ba groza kryminaiem, ca}y Rad
Centralny jus widza po "a kratami re-
laznemi wiezienia, przestraszonych
Zwiazkowo6w upadsjacyoh ma kolana
przed ich potega! A jednak strachy to
na Laohy, bo ,,charter" stoi jak mur,
aadna ziosc ludzka go ME obali, gdyz
jest ugruntowany ma prawie, a ME ma
chimerach jakiohs narwahcow! Co zas
do wspomnianej przezemnie nieregu-
larnosci, to je niniejszem tlomacze.
Otoz kiedy chodziio nazwisks inkor
poratorow, bylo mojem najgoretszem
zyczeniem, azeby to byiy nazwiska tych
samych osob, kt6rym sejm ostatni po-
wierzy} kierunek navy Zwiazkowej ma
przyszie diva lata. Rozumowa}em tax.
ze, ze W obeo rozprzestrzenionego az
do niesmaku warcholstws W posrod
pewnych Zwiazkowyoh, zerwa sic krzy.
XII lekcewazeniu przez Rad Central
ny Szanownego naszego Cenzora, gdy-
by jego nazwisks nieznsleziono pomie
dzy podpisami - boo nieraz juz pre-.
chodzilismy podobne rzeczy, kiedy
najlepsze checi nsjpoczciwsze dzisis
MIA przez przekrecanie faktow maple.
tnowano mianem zdrsdy ! nieuczciwo
Sol nieraz dlugiego potrzeba byio
czasu, aaeby przekonac wreszcie obasa-
mucony ogol o bezpodstawnosci fai-
szu zsrzutow. A wiec skoro komiss-
rzowi W Springfield przed}ozylismy
nasz projekt, opari sic zrazu temu, ale
skoro wyiuszczylismy mu nasze
powody, gdy zwrooilismy jego u
wage ma to, ze ME jestto nowo
zskiadsjscs sic inkorporacys, ale istnie-
jsce juz Stowsrzyszenie, pragnace tyl-
ko byt swoj uprawnic, ze wreszcie ma.
sze zyozenie ME Jest ugruntowane ma
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1896-04-02
Wesofych SWAT! Alleluja!

rreSc: Artykuf wstepny. - o inkorpora
cyl Zw.-Notatki-W sprawie oswiaty
Posef DIR. Lewakowski - Kofo pol
skie. - Wiadomosci zwiazkowe. - No
wy dar dla Muzeum.- Cyrkularz VIII
- Lista nowoprzyjetych czfonkow. =
Sprawozdanie Rzadu Centr. - Zamacl
ma Ostra Brame. Poszukiwanie odezw
- Kleska Wioch6w W Afryce. - koi'
polskie - reforma wyborcza.- Kore.
spondencye. - u ziemi ojcZystej. - Ii
sta grup zwiazkowych. - Wielki Rok
- Kronika miejscowa. - Zawiadomie
MIA, podziekowania, pokwitowania o
gfoszenia.