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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
THE YEAR IN BUTTE MINES
During the gear They Have Gone Down Mile and Half
Deeper Than They Ever Were.

W MILE and a half of additional
depth of mine shafts sums up
n the progress of mining in Butte
Il \ this year.
That does not tell all the story of
Butte's progress in mining, but a good
idea of the development work that has
been going ON is obtainable from the
fact that the shafts of Butte's mines
are down 7.405 feet further than they
were year ago, and that nearly
fifth as much has been sunk the past
year as was sunk in Buttes previous
history.
The story of mining in Butte has been
recited so often that to tell it again
in detail would be perhaps an unwar
ranted repetition. 1t may, however, be
stated that the figures ofythe past year
show that mining in Butte'is progress
ing. During the past year there has
been more progress than in any pre-
vious year. Both the Anaconda and
the Boston & Montana mining COM
panies have employed more men and
taken out more ore than ever before
in Butte's history, while the other min
ing companies, with the exception of
the Butte & Boston, have been en-
ploying full forces of men. The Butte
4 Boston has notified its leasers of a
withdrawal of all leases after Jan. /,
which signifies that the company will
the coming year be very active in the
development of it's mines.
The additional depth of shafts added
to Butte's mines during the year indi-
Gates the progress that has been made,
but does not tell of the work that has
been done in levels and crosscuts, etc.
The mines have been correspondingly
developed in all respects. The best ma
chinery ever brought to Butte has been
installed during the year.
Out OF 30 mines which have been in
active operation in the camp the past
year IL have sunk their shafts to addi-
tional depth. No account is taken Of
mines which have been idle or of many
mines which have been operated on a
small scale by leasers
Besides many prospects on which
some work of exploration has been done,
six new mine shafts have been opened
TO considerable depth. They are Sill
Yer Bow shaft No. 3, which has been
sunk to depth of 275 feet; the Grant
extension, which has been sunk to a
depth of 800 feet; the Ella, which has
been sunk to a depth of $50 feet; the
Only Chance, which has been sunk to a
depth of 220 feet; the Blue Jay, which
has been sunk to a depth of SIS feet;
and the Combination, which has been
sunk to 40 feet.
The following figures, furnished the
Standard by the courtesy of Deputy
Mine Inspector Frank Hunter, show
the depth of each of the operating
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19
4 small Boys Revenge.

He was a small boy-not such a very
small boy-in an out-of-town school.
h had written a composition. il was
upon the subject OF dogs. Now. thf.
teacher # the school was man. and
h., was not popular. He was what
the boys called mean They disliked
him thoroughly, from the tips of his
shining shoes to the ends Of MS plmuas
daui sanbed hair. In the composition
thee Aas story Of a dog II was tne
story - a very mean dog. and as the
composer Of the literary effort came Ia
thu last line h. read it emphati,aIly
ana H5tu great distinctness ur utter
araH. auJ the hearts NJ an tn. nthsr
-waE UHES in the room as .fhty listened
gu4HzH half with delight and half with
fsr. knowing what was Ia fellow. and
=. zsns fascinated at the upright colt
f.Hr=#= tHe master as the reader ended
and hat dng was So mean that ass
rsFr stood I'D end.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19


The total depth of the above operat-
ing mines-the shafts of the idle mines
not being included-is 47,7S4 feet, or
about nine miles and a half The depth
acquired the past year is 7.405 feet The
total number of men employed in these
mines is 5,402, or about one-ninth of
Buttes entire population.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

Your pass is all right said the cor
puraI as ne approached the man on
horseback. who was SO well mufiied
against the storm that his eyes and
nose We're all that could he seen of his
face. Taking the paper which the cor
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

mines in Butte. the number of feet sunk
this year, and the number of men en-
ployed:
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

Jamaica, Dec. "A, 1776.
Permit Isaac Bennett TO pass
and repass without molesta-
ton. WILL ERSKINE.
Brigadier General.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-19

W MILE and a half of additional
depth of mine shafts sums up
n the progress of mining in Butte
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
PROSPERITY IN KANSAS.
Banks show an Increase of Abou
$1O,OOO,OOO in Deposits,

o&AAAo SAO" IN 1ucrcu3e OF ABOUT
$1O,OOO,OOO in Deposits.
4 Topeka, Kan, Oct. 25.-Three hun
dred and seventy-four out of the 3s2
private and state banks of Kansas have
made their report to Bank Commits
sioner John w. Breidenthal, and thew
have verified his prophecy that the in
crease in deposits would amount to
$7,0oo,000. This is an increase over last
year of As per cent. Mr.. Breidenthal
attributes it to the wonderful cleaning
up of private indebtedness under the
squeeze of money loaners during the
past five years, thus leaving the people
with surplus when their stupendous
wheat crop was marketed. The ma
tional bank reports have not been
made, but it is estimated they will
show an increase of $4,000, 900, making
the entire increase in deposits nearly
$10,O00,O00. The entire deposits of the
state are estimated at $42, 900 900, which
means $50 per capita in available cash.
condition unprecedented.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
THE HAMMOND AFFAIR.
Inquiry Into His Brutal Treatment a
Fort Sheridan Ended.

Inquiry Into HIS Brutal Treatment mt
Fort Sheridan Ended.
Chicago, Oct. 25.-The military court
inquiry which has been investigating
the alleged brutal treatment of Pri-
vate Hammond at Fort Sheridan on Oc-
tober concluded the taking of testi-
mony' Saturday evening. The, testi-
mony is yet to be tabulated. The court
will then write an opinion on the case
which will be returned to Gen. Brooke,
commandant of the Department of Mis-
souri,. Gen. Brooke will forward the
report to the war department at Wash
ington, and its contents may possibly
never become public. The testimony
corroborated the reports of methods
nsed in enforcing the presence of the
obstreperous prisoner before a sum-
mary court on October 9. Col. Robert
Hall, commandant. of the post, was al
most the last witness called. He said:
IF it was necessary to prod Hammond
with sword or to kick him in order to
compel him to obey an orderI regard it as
perfectly justifable. There might come an
occasion when it would be necessary to
run him through with a bayonet. No man
who has the slightest idea OF military dis
cipline or what military discipline means
could for moment unfavorably criticise
Capt. Coverings actions. I approved his
actions then and l. shall approve them
now" =. -; - w
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

Mark Twain's remark about the perils
of going to bed because statistics prove
that more people die there than any
where else is.recalled by the annual re-
port Of the interstate commerce COM
mission. which shows that last year
American railways carried 511, ,772, ,737
passengers, and that of this enormous
number only 1s1 were killed, or only one
in 1882, ,474. When it is considered how
complicated the business has become,
low numerous the trains are, great
speed they maintain, and how the fate
OF those aboard them depends upon
sobriety and faithfulness in railway en-
tployes, this record seems wonderful.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
Bicycle Firm Assfrna.

Chicago, Oct. 23.-An assignmentwas
made Friday by the Fowler Cycle COM
pany, one of the largest bicycle con-
Germs in the west. The officers OF the
company are reticent regarding the
amount of assets and liabilities, but the
best information obtainable gives the
liabilities at $400, 900; assets much less.
It has been rumored for some time that
the company was in financial difficult
ties. The action taken Friday was pre-
cipitated by the employees. A commit
tee OF the men called on the treasurer
and asked It they would be paid to-day
wages due them up to week ago to-
day. which were due last Wednesday. or
whether they would be paid to date.
The difficulty of raising another weeks
pay roll decided the officers of the COM
rany to assign. The firm employed 500
men
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
ADOLPH L. LUETGERT.

haggard-]ooking set of men. Several of
them were collarless. and the eyes of all
of them were swollen and red. The
jurors took the seats they had occupied
daily for over two months.
In reply to question by the judge.
Foreman Heickhold said that the jury
had not agreed upon a verdict, and
that it was his firm belief that there was
no prospect of an agreement. The jury
stood nine for conviction and three for
acquittal,. and had: stood that way for
80 hours. and there had not been a
solitary change in the vote within that
period.
Points of Disagreement.
When the jurors had received their
vouchers, they were taken down to the
basement in an elevator and left the
criminal court building by way of rear
entrance to the Jail yard. The jurors
left in squads of four. They did this
to avoid the great crowd that had col
lected in front of the criminal court
building and also to get away from re-
portcrs. But the latter gentlemen were
fully posted on exists and entrances to
the big building and met the jurors as
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

A valuation has been fixed at last on q
masculine heart when trifled with by
one Of the softer sex. In Maine jury
awarded damages amounting to $1,7se
against a young woman who disap-
pointed an expectant bridegroom at the
last minute. The amount asked was
$4,000. Why it was scaled down to the
nice figure of 81, ,7se is not explained, but
the award is at least an assurance that
the male cardiac muscle has value, and
that everything is not fair in love when
the victim is only man. The damages
are large enough for Klondike grub
stake. and may lead on to fortune anda
girl who will stick.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

An average of 1000 barrels of oil
a day was pumped in Pennsylvania last
month.
George W. Boyer, of Harper's Ferry
is the sole surviving member of the jury
that served in the trial of John Brown.
w. H. Lever, the great English soap
manufacturer, has come to America to
establish soap factories in the United
States and Canada.
Relic hunters have so defaced the
tomb of Daniel Boone in Frankfort, Ky,
that the letters of it's inscription can
hardly be deciphered.
Tom Paugh. of Backbone mountain,
the snake hunter of Harrison county,
w Va, claims to have killed 1e2 rattle
snakes the past summer.
David D. Dana, brother of the late
Mr.. Charles A. Dana, of the New York
Sun, is living on farm in West Lubec.
Me-, at the age of 70 years.
A. J. Ropes, of San Francisco, has just
made a good photograph Of Cape Horn
and is said to be the only man who has
ever accomplished the feat. -.
Ex-President Harrison is well on
toward the end of his much-talked-of
book and expects to have it in the print
er's hands early in the winter.
The will OF, former Senator John. r.
Mcpherson was filed in Jersey City, n.
J. The estate amounts to several mil
lion dollars, and all is left to the widow.
Commander A. B. Bradford, chief of
the bureau of equipment, has suggest
ed to the navy department that torpedo
boats be placed to prevent f1ibustering.
John Bowie Strange camp of confed-
crate veterans, of Charlottesville, Va,
have perfected plan for the erection of
an equestrian statue of Stonewall jack
son.
+ at state convention of Alabama
miners it was decided to affiliate with
the United Mine Workers of America,
thus adding IL, 900 men to the organiza-
ton.
The longest stretch of straight rail-
road line in America is on the Lake
Shore railway, beginning at q point
three miles west Of Toledo, O., and run
ming 60 miles without a curve.
Judge Hanford, of the Seattle federal
court, made decision in a Chinese case
in which he holds that the wives and
children of Chinese merchants doing
business in the United States do not
have to have certificates from the Chi
nese government to entitle them to en-
ter this country.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
THE JURY DISAGREES.
Celebrated Luetgert Murder oAse
Results II q Mistrial.
After Being Out Sixty Six Bours
Jurors stand Mise to Three for
Conviction-To Be Tried
- Again

Chicago, Oct. 22.-The grny light Of
q cool autumn morning struggled,
through the big windows Of Judge Tut
hills court Thursday as Adolph L.
Luetgert, the man who has been on
trial on the charge of numbering his
wife and boiling her body in a vat,
heard from the foreman of the IL men
who considered his case for 66 hours,
the words: I'VE are unable to agree
upon verdict"
He stood up. and with only good
natured smile in his swarthy face,
shook hands with his son Arnold. his
counsel and business partner. William
Charles, in less than five minutes was
led back to Jail, the jury was dismissed
and the great trial was over.
Divislon of the Jury.
The ~ men were divided as follows:
For conviction and the death penalty.
Heickhold, Boyd. Bibby. Mahoney. Beh
miller. Hosmer, Shaw,-Rransen and Fow-
ler.
For acquittal-Harlev. Holabird and Bar
ber.
AS the jurors filed into court about
1o:4o Thursday morning they were
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

1t Is announced that the fortune left
by Fair, the bonanza king, has so
shrunk since his death that it now
amounts to but $15,OOO,O00. This sum
should suffice to keep his three children
in bread and butter for the remainder
of their lives. But as dozen or more
eminent legal gentlemen are still at
work energetically upon the estate the
heirs may be in luck if they receive
enough from it to cover the cost Of
bread and oleomargarine.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

The annual report of Gen. Sternberg,
surgeon-general of the United States
army. shows that alcoholism among the
regular soldiers is slowly but surely
decreasing. There was time when
Uncle Sam found it difficult to obtain
recruits unless he took residents of
city slums, more or less addicted to
drink. But the personnel of the army
is improving, and for the past few years
greater proportion of country boys,
who make the best soldiers, has been
secured for enlistment. In the course
of time, it is to he hoped, the "bum-
mers" will entirely disappear from the
ranks.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

The Piute Indian in Nevada is said to
be thinning out rapidly, due to the
deadly salaratus biscuit. The Piute
squaw got the idea of throwing hand
full of salaratus into the flour and for
the last year every buck on the reserva-
tion has stuffed himself daily with the
seeds of indigestion and intestinal dis
turbance known as saleratus bicuit.
The next census reports will find what
is left of Lo pasturing on patent medi-
cine and pessimism.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

The Salvation Army in California has
touched the heart and pocket of the
sugar king. Claus Spreckels. He has
bought large tract of land in Mon
terey county and leased it to the army,
advancing money until the Salvation
beet growers are self-supporting.
When they begin to make money they
are to be encouraged to buy ten acres
of ground apiece on ten years time by
installments. Mr.. Spreckels agrees to
buy their beets at good prices.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
MARKETS..
Ninrooro1;,

minneapolis, Oct. IS.
Wheat-No. l northern. new, 9lh to
92c; No. , northern, 81 to s7]1; De-
cembel, s936.
Corn-No. 3, 244c.
Oats-No white, 20 to 21c.' :
Cattle'-Steers, $500 to S.75; cows,
$2.6
Hogs-$3. 25 to $50.
Sheep-Muttons, $3. 10 to 450; lambs,
1925.
Butter--Creamery, extras, 81 to 22c;
creamery, firsts, 20 to2 &c; dairy, fancy,
10 to zoe; dairy, choice, Is to 16c.
Poultry-Turkeys, to SC; spring
chickens, z to Sc.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
MRS. LOUISE LUETGERT.
THE Missing Woman.1

they emerged from the Jail yards. It
was reluctantly admitted by several of
them that the disagreement was
brought about by wide difference Of
opinion regarding the rings. found in
the vat, the testimony of emma and
Gottlieba Schimpke and the testimony
of Kenosha witnesses who positively
testified that they saw Mrs. Louise
Luetgert alive in the Wisconsin town Oh
May 3, 4 and $. Juror Harley did not
believe the rings found in the middle
vat of Luetgert's factory were Mrs.
Luetgert's rings. Holabird was in
clined to believe the story of the Keno
-sha witnesses despite the impeaching
evidence introduced and Barber would
not believe the strong evidence given by
the Schimpke sisters. These were con-
sidered the strong features of the trial
by these jurors. - : d.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

The reign of the present czar will
probably be marked by the completion
of the great Siberian railroad and the
construction of thousAnd-mile canal
from the Baltic to the Black sea, to cost
q hundred million dollars. That would
do for one monarch's share ofinternal
improvements.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

RESOLUTIONS declaring the saloon the
greatest evil confronting the church
and civilization at the National Chris
tian Missionary convention in Indian
apolis, were adopted.
The democrats of the Sixth con-
gFessional district of Illinois nominated
Vincent H. Perkins and the populists
nominated George A. Laudgren.
Flames wiped out the Office of the
Daily Whig at Jackson, Tenn.
Fire destroyed Y. L. Murden's livery
stable at Peru, Ind, and IL horses were
cremated.
The greatest observatory in the
world was presented at Williams Bay,
Wis.,, by Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago
to President Harper, of the University
of Chicago.
The doors of the bank of Lodi, Wis.,,
were closed.
At Madrid, Mo-, George Westerman,
80 years Of age, killed his stepdaughter
and then shot himself.
In the Exchange bank at Wakarusa,
Ind, three robbers blew the safe and
secured 5000.
The supreme court of Iowa says that
speculation in grain, where no delivery
is intended, is gambling, and that such
contracts are void.
Charles NJ. Woodman, of Chicago, ex.
congressman, has become insane.
In Chicago the Fowler Cycle company
one of the largest bicycle concerns in
the west, failed for $500. 900.
Advices from all portions of the coun-
try say that the volume of business con.
tinues of large proportions.
The doors of the national bank OF
Asheville, N. c., were closed.
At Decatur, ILL.,, Henry Hunsley and
his nephew, Ray Hunsley and Miss Ber.
tha Davis were killed by the cars.
Ex-Gov. Altgeld spoke in favor of free
silver at the meeting in Chicago of the
Democratic Editorial Association OF
Illinois.
Unknown fiends shot j. S. Parkhurst
and his aged wife, living four miles
from Biloxi, La, and cremated their
bodies.
John G. Brady, governor ofAlaska, in
his annual report estimates the pres.
ent population at 80, 1000 natives and TO-.
900 whites and recommends that $780,.
600 be appropriated for government
buildings and 100000 for schools. He
says the gold seekers as a class rank fa1
above the average manhood of the coun
try.
1t has been decided by States Attor
ney Deneen to put Luetgert on trial fol
the second time in a few days in Chi.
cago.
BY the wreck of the schooner Caspe,
near Port Arena, CAL, ~ of the crew
were drowned.
Near Mahomet, ILL.,, Mrs. A. L. Han
nah, wife of a farmer, was resuscitateC
"a hours after having been pronounced
dead.
For the city of Hamilton, O., a receiv'
er was asked. 1t was said corrupt mis-
management had brought the town te
insolvency.
In a fire that destroyed the Hote]
Brooklyn at Kelletville, o., three per
sons were burned to death and sever
more severely injured.
Many homeseekers from eastern
states are now encamped in the Ashlo,
valley in Utah waiting for the opening
of the Uncompahgre reservation in
April next.
At q crossing at Oakland, Ind. the
Tuttle brothers, of Mohawk, Ind, and
j. NJ. Butler were killed by the cars.
Searchlight broke the worlds pacing
record of 2:09A for three-year-olds al
Los Angeles, Cal, going the mile IL
2:O7. js
In we'll on Moons farm near Derby
Kan. the dead bodies of Frank Moor
! and Jane Wells were found.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
LATER MEMS.

/ Five dead bodies, four men and one
woman, were stolen from the morgue
at Dunning, Ill. The bodies were
those of paupers at the county asylum.
The robbery, from all indications, had
been carefully planned and done in a
deliberate way.
High winds drove the sea inland
along the coast of New Jersey and
Long Island, doing great damage. The
village of Bowers Beach, DEL, was in
undated and several houses swept
away.
The Spanish soldiers at Santander,
Spain, have refused to don the colo
nial uniform, and say they will not
embark for Cuba.
There were two deaths from yellow
fever at Memphis. Tenn. the 25th. =;
A case of yellow fever was diseov:
cred at Cincinnati.
VIM. Mathews was arrested in Bos-
ton, charged with robbing the mail
boxes in that city and in New York.
In an engagement in the outskirts of
Havana, General CASTILLO, command
ing the insurgents, was killed.
Over 800, 600 fraudulent warrants on
the q. S. treasury on account of the
Creek Nation Indians in Indian Terri
tory, have been discovered by the au-
thorities.
Justice Beach. of the New York SUI
preme bench, has enjo;ned the United
Portable Hosting Engineers union
and it's walking delegate, Peter Glib
bons. from interfering with Benz. P.
Davis, a non-union man, and also Or
ders the defenaut union to pay Davis
$500 damages for having kept him from
working from June, 1895, to August,
1896. -.
The international seal conference
met in Washington. D. c., in the state
department building. The proceed
ings were secret.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

Sir Edwin Arnold, whose sojourn in
Japan caused him to entertain and ex-
press such favorable opinion of the
natives of that country, has married a
japanese lady. BY thus uniting himself
with "Pitty Sing" he has shown his
faith by his works. "The Light of Asia"
will now shine more refulgently than
ever on the enraptured vision of the
poetic Sir Edwin.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
Pullman In Dead.

90 Chicago. Oct. 20. = George NJ. Pull
man, president Of the Pullman Palace
Car company, died at $3.50 o'clock
Tuesday morning, at his home, 1929
Prairie avenue. Death was sudden, and
is attributed to heart difficulty.
Mr.. Pullman's fortune is variously
estimated at from 81, ,0oo, 900 to ST., ,0o0,-
coo. He had factories in many cities,
yet he had maintained practical con-
troll OF every detail to the very day of his
death.
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
Fatal 1: Floods in Ital,

ROME, Oct. 25.-The river Tronto, in
central Italy, which enters the Adriatic
east of Ascoli, has overfowed, flooding
the plain of .Ascoli. At Chiaravalle a
bridge has been swept away; several
persons have been drowned at Forlin
and near MENDOZA a house collapsed,
bIrying nine persons in the ruins.
Floods are reported in various other To-
calities. lItl-- =
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28

Henry o. and James NJ. Neville, twins,
were born in Kentucky in 1915 and the
similarity of their careers is something
marvellous. Both married sisters and
each is the father of seven children,
each lost a child, each was a county
judge, each entered the federal army as
a captain and was mustered out of serv-
ice as colonel. Their father, James
Neville, Virginian, served as private
through the revolutionary war and died
in Fauquier county at the age of 80
The Worthington advance., 1897-10-28
Rains Cause Henvv Loss.

San Francisco, Oct. 25.-Reports
from the interior show that the heavy
rains which fell last week all over the
northern part of the state have caused
immense loss to farmers and vineyards,
and will in all probability put an end
to the shipment OF grapes, to the east.
The total loss exceeds s., 1,0OO, 900.