The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
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CAPTAIN Bard came to town yesterday
Captain Bard is a miner who was in
Jured some time ago while thawing some
giant powder. He set three or four sticks
up against a brick in front of the fire
and then went out and curried a horse
and did some other chores. In front of
the fire was box of caps. One of the
sticks thawed and caught fire. Just as
Bard entered the cabin there was an ex-
plosion He doesn't remember exactly
what happened but when he came to-
ms clothes had been blown off and he
had several pieces of brick, old copper
and other material inbedded in his
muscular tissue. Since that time he has
engaged III picking them out when they
appeared on the surface, and has quite d
respectable collection. But there were
three pieces which he could not locate.
one was in the arm and the others in the
hand Harry Edwards is a half owner
in an X-ray machine, and took Bard up
yesterday and tried the machine. The
pieces were located. One is in the fore
arm, just between the two bones. and is
about the size of a dine, being somewhat
irregular in shape. The other is imbed-
ed in the flesh between the bones of the
thumb and Hager, and is about the size
OF the first. The third is in the thumb
just below the joint and covers about as
much space as pea. They were all seen
looking into himself to discern plainly
the bits of metal He wended his way 10
his physician TO tell him where they
were and have them cut out.
Now that the firemen fired by Devine
have been paid off for the time they did
not work il is coolly announced that
some of them will bring another action
salary will ha remembered that
a few were not reinstaIed and have since
been idle. These men will, so they affirm,
plant suit in a few days for salary for
the time which has INTERVIEWED since the
judgment ripened. Verify. a fire and po-
lice law seems to be a good thing-for a
man who happened to be discharged
wrongfuliy. For the balance of the year
the city will be in a. Dredicament. The
men put on in their places cannot be dis
charged without cause. for then they,
too. would have an action against the
city. The old men will bring suit. and i'll
all probability get judgment. While this
talk about IN increase in the fire depart
ment is going on, would it not be good
thing to restore these men for the term
which will end when the fire and police
board lays down its hand on Jan. l next,
and at least save costs and judgment and
get their services? This question is being
agitated among some of the city officials
and will bear a. little investigation.
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Talk about an increase of crime in this
y
day; Il cannot see it. Six YearS-yeS
FIVE years ago, all the papers were COM
PEELED to keep man on police work all
of the time He couldn't leave the place
for a half hour. The police reporter re-
manned late and arrived early. Now l
understand the boys have time to go
down to the county building; attend
meetings of the Municipal League, go to
boxing exhibitions and picnicS. You can
depend upon ii, when news is scarce
around police headquarters, crime is not
as plentiful as it was"
Hon. Thomas X. Cavanaugh, who is
interested in many irrigation and power
schemes in Utah, was in a reminiscent
mood yesterday. He has been and is yet,
for that matter. engaged in mining. L
never had a mine which didn't have
clouded title" he said. 1T has been my
luci- all my life. Even when | located
them myself there was always some man
to hob up when the property was proven
to be a good thing and claim prior loca-
ton.
Il have just completed a suit at law
in Washington, where l have been spend
ing money for four years. won every
time and made the other fellows do al
the appealing. however. 1t happened TINS
way: The old prosDectorS struck some
tnn,g. they did not know what, and be
gan having assays made. They were all
returned as not having any mineral ana
they as all prospectors are. We're sus-
picious that something was wrong; that
they were not getting the right returns.
They appealed to me and sent samples
all over the country. They were all re-
turned alike-no eiineral. But the pro
fessor of the University of pennsylvania
informed me there was plenty OF calcium
of a peculiar kind in the ore. and that
ii was worth more than some minerals,
so l bought them out for $4,000 ell,
sir no sooner had l bought that claim
ere two fellows moved their corner STAKES
to suit claimed the property and tied 1t
up. | have Keen at law ever since ana
have finally won.'
..Over in Colorado at one time I was
interested with some others in mine IN
which Senator Tabor attempted to puy
wanted to sell but the other fellows
would not agree to ii, and we went 1t
alone. After we had done a lot OF work.
we discovered that the attorney who told
us the title was all right had been mis-
taken. II was Frank Gowdy WHO gave
us the information. Well. we relocated 10
correct the title and then there was
trouble. Another crowd jumped our tun-
men were killed. two of our party and
FIVE of the others, and Is wounded. l got
out of that.
THE oldest thing that ever came to
nv notice was in Colorado continued
Cavanaugh. "A friend of mine ran a
mill and among the ores sampled was
some from certain mine which always
showed more in the mill run than the
assay gave. For instance the assayer
gave values of s. in gold. the stuff would
reason and finally we bought in. for the
sole purpose of seeing. We sampled the
mine and the best we ever got was So
The shipment of ore netted us S14 in gold
on the plates and then the tailings as
saved Sl5'' But here Cavanaugh an
nounced that he believed he would stroll
around to the hotel and get some lunch.
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The following is a sample of the stuff
which the New York Journal and other
eastern papers pay SO column for. Any
one having any in stock will please send
il there and not annoy the horse editor.
who is managing the poetical department.
pending the return of its conductor from
Florida, where he has been spending the
winter:
with a whish and whirr, Gentle Annie
And now we have poems on spring;
In a few days We'll hear the humble bee
bum.
And the grasshopper merrily sing.
Out on the prairie. the frolicsome jack
Is waving his long ears in glee;
The wild ducks are whooping a jubilant
cuack
At the thoughts of new familee.
The head of the household has bought a
new rake.
And is cleaning the yard of its leaves;
The housewife is giving the carpets
Old Towser's resumed fighting heas.
The kidlets are packing the rubbish out
side.
Or watching the stuff while 1t burns:
Or else contemplating on going for fish,
Are spading the garden for worms.