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Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
DEADLY WIND STORMS.
Town of Herman. Nebraska, Wiped
Ont.

Ont.
Omaha. Ncb.. June 13.-A tornado
struck the town of Herman. in Wash
ington county. this evening, ana wip-
ed the place out of existence.
Herman is n place % about 300 in
habitants in the extreme northern part
of Washington county. II Is on the
line of the Chicago. ST. Paul. Mime
apolis & Omaha railway. A conduc-
tor on the evening train from Sioux
City passed through the place not long
after the storm. ana he says that not
n building is left standing in the town.
He counted twelve bodies lying i'm the
streets.
The fatalities will undoubtedly run
up to hundred If not higher.
A special train has left Blair. the
county seat, for the scene OF the dis
aster. carrying surgeons and all need
ed supplies. Wires are all down north
of Herman and 1t IL not known how
much further north the storm went.
that n large portion of the country to
the north OF Herman Is laid waste.
The relief train from Blair arrived
about nm hour after the storm and the
work OF picking up the wounded was
begun. Willing hands did what they
could to help the injured and in the
course Of nn hour the tain pulled out
for Blair with % injured on board.
They were taken to Blair, ns there is
absolutely no place loft In Herman
,ut which treatment can be admins
tered.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
New Gold Fields in Lower California.

Within the last few weeks gold
fields have been discovered in Lower
California. one of the provinces of
Mexico, which fairly rivals the Klon-
dixie in richness. In one day Don
Emilliano Ybarra, Mexican, assisted
by number of laborers, took out gold
to the value of $150,OO0 The gold is
found in the Santa Clara mountains.
which lie twenty-four miles from the
coast. San Diego. Cal. is the point
OF departure for the new El Dorado.
Steamers run at regular intervals from
that city to Point San Rogue, n dis
tance of 450 miles. The gold placers
cover territory twenty-cight miles
long by sixteen wide. Some of the
dirt runs $50 to the yard and the gra-
vel is full of nuggets. The rush from
California to The new diggings has
commenced. several chartered vessels
having started with miners on board.
The greatest disadvantage in the new
fields Is the almost total absence of
water.-ChicagO Tribune.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
COPPER IN THE BLACK HILLS.

Tract of 700 Acres Transferred to
British-American Mining Company,
The largest sale of copper ground
ever made in the Black Hills has Just
been closed by the British-American
Copper Mining Company of Detroit.
Mlch.. j. Nj. Sweeney. general manag
er. The ground purchased consists of
siXty-seven claims. or over 100 acres of
land, located six miles west from Roch-
ford, on the Burlington 4 Missouri
River Railway, in Pennington county.
1t has been known since 1856 that cop
per veins existed on the ground. but
gold has been the leading metal in the
Black Hills, to the exclusion of copper
until the recent advance in the price
of that metal. A carload of copper ore
was shipped to the Chicago Copper Re
lining Company. which returned an
average value of 1851 per cent for the
carload. The Black Hills Copper Com
pany owns eleven claims on the south
end of the ground purchased by the
Brltish-American company. Two dis
tlnct veins of copper ore. ranging from
40 to 400 feet in width. have been
opened into and n number of places in
the ore have given from to 40 per
cent copper The shafts have been
sunk deep enough to show them to be
verticals.
The British-American company pur-
chased and made new locations of
body of claims mile and half long,
lying to the north of the Black Hills
Copper Company's claims. On the
north end of the British American
ground, two companies are taking out
ore from copper verticals which are as
large and contain the same values as
the ore in the Black Hills company's
ground on the south. The large cop
per veins are easily traced by large out
Groupings of copper conglomerate ore
clear across the British-American COM
pany's ground and chunks of the float
rock when aSsayed, average 10 per
cent. copper. Two reports of copper
experts have been made on the com
pany's proposition. one report pro-
nouncing it to be the greatest copper
proposition in the United States. The
report states that the average value of
the copper OutcrOppings of the ground
VIII be 10 per cent. which is per cent
higher than the average of the eight
dlvidend-paying copper mines of the
Lake Superior district.
1t is believed that the veins of copper
VIII turn out ore with depth worth 40
to 90 per cent copper. The British
American company has received deeds
Tor all OF the property purchased and
the new claims located have been sur
veyed and recorded. 1t is by far the
largest copper property in the Black
Hills and there are few copper COM
panies in the world with as large an
acreage of copper-yielding ground.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
Chance for Low Grad. Ores.

new process for the treatment of
low grade gold ores has Just had n
practical test at Colorado Springs. II
Is said to work satisfactorily and
profitably on ore running ns low ms
S.' ton. We don't suppose that means
that the mill would pile up n great
fortune for Its owner I'm few months
on S3 ore, but IL 1t Will work rocl,
carrying so low u value as that ana
not lose money by the Qperatlon. the
20 this section Of the country. because
there are vast 'Solufnes of ores in the
mountains Of New Mexico running
from 50 to $40 Il ton, but not being
free" ores they cannot be worked by
stamps. and the values are not suf-
iicient to pay for spelting. According
to this process, ns we understand H.,
all such ores can be worked on the
ground. and there will he nothing to
ship but the values. The new plan
seems to he very much the same MS
the cyanide process, which IL now
working satisfactorily wherever II has
been tried The new arrangement.
however has number of lmH$Dy Il
ments which. II IL said. render Il much
superior. In the main. however the
operation IL the same. The ore IL frse
pulvcrized very thoroughly. and placed
In vats In II chemical solution Cthe com
position Of which h .the real nven-
tom. and nfter II has been In this
bath foriy-elght hours II liz drawn Off
and passed over series OF copper
plates which. II IL claimed. retain prac-
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
HOT FIGHT NEAR MANILA,
Fiiipinos Use Battery Effectively for the
First Time.

First Time.
Manila, June 13. 6:05 D. m.-General
LawtOn unexpectedly stirred up one of
the livelieSt engagements of the war,
south of Las Pinas. this morning, up
on which occasion American field guns
We're engaged in the first artillery duel
against a Filipino battery, concealed in
the jungle.
Companies Il and l of the Twenty
first infantry were nearly surrounded
by Il large body of insurgents. but the
Americans cut their way out with
heavy loss.
The United States turret ship Mo-
nadnOck and the gunbOats Helena and
Zatiro trained their batteries on Bakoor
and the rebel trenches near Las pinas
all morning. Bakoor was once Oh fire.
but the natives stopped the spread of
the flames.
Their shooting was most accurate.
The first lot of canister burst directly
In front of Scott's guns. and another
shattered the leg of n private in the
Fourteenth infantry. Several shots
struck the edge of the town.
Manila. June 13. $40 p. m.-The
fighting at Las Pinas continued hotly
all day long.
General Lawton called out the whole
force of 5000 men. and at . o'clock he
was able to push the insurgents back
only 800 yards to the Zapote river,
where they are entrenched.
The insurgents resisted desperately
and aggressively. They attempted to
turn the left flank of the American
troops. The American loss Is conserva-
lively estimated at sixty. The battle
continues.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
Mr.. Hands Last Hour Seem. Near.

Lebanon. Mo-, June 11.-At 10
O'Clock tonight Mr.. Bland was report
ed as resting quietly, but wholly un-
conscious. The increased brightness
shown by him early in the day and
the seeming change for the better In
the condition of the patient has been
followed tonight by more pro-
nOunced state of coma.
As each alternate day is bad day
with him. the family fear the result to-
morrow. In his extremely weak CON
dition another sinking spell would
probably prove fatal, MS his recupera-
ative powers were considerably weak
ened yesterday, when he was revived
only by the vigorous use of the electric
brush on the cxtremities.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
POETIC RErRlnurror.
The English Waiter Gets E,sn with The

1no nnBusn waiter 0ets Even with The
German Interioper.
At last the English waiter is avenged
upon his German rival, says the Lon
don Telegram. Not for the first time
in history has race of conquerors
suffered from their conquests and
brought back with them the seeds OF
servitude from the nations whom they
nave overcome. The housekeeping
countrymen of Hans and Fritz are feel
ing the consequences of the triumphs
OF their brethren in this country in a
very unpleasant way. Too late they
are beginning to recognize that the re-
fex influence of English manners Is
corrupting the native simplicity and
lettering the pristine freedom OF the
Teutonic race. Hotel and restaurant
Keepers in Germany have begun to in
s1st on their shaving off their mus
taches. and the demand has invoked an
indignant protest against what is de-,
scribed as "a custom imported from
England" I'VE are robbed" eXclaim
the walters, in 4 strain of impassioned
eloquence, "of our rights as German
men. Why does not the public inter-
fere? We claim to wear mustache,
like every other free man" The answer
OF the restaurateurs-a bald appeal to
convention-that 'it is the custom of
walters to be clean-shaven." Is de-
nounced as nothing but servile sub
mission to the English" and, no doubt.
to German waiter, accustomed to
society in which the wearing of mus
fanAn h,,n
domestic servants is not at all unusual.
the new prohibition might well appear
to be slavish following of the for
eigner. Here, however, the hotelkeep-
er's rule would be considered reasona-
BILE, and we are old-fashioned enough
to trust that it will continue to be up
held-if necessary, by judicial decision.
A clean-shaven waiter Is, to our think
ing, as Indispensable an adjunct of
refined repast as a clean napkin. and
their opposites are almost equally IN
appetizing. 1t is all very well to de-
scribe mustache as an Ornament" to
the face; but that depends. There are
mustaches and mustaches; and to sane
tion them in the attendants at din
ner table is to run an unnecessary risk
of the unsightly. In the razor there is
always safety. Besides. if a mustache
is to be allowed to waiter, why not
a beard-even the beard of old age?
Why not assent at once to the incon-
gruity of being waited upon by
patriarchs? True. it may be urged
that the same sort of objection was
raised to the wearing of mustaches and
L..
overruled. Yes; but are we sure that
the right cause prevailed? Is the church
stronger than it was when its minis
tiers could be correctly described by the
old appellation of "shavelings?" May
we not. on the contrary, attribute some
Of the present lawlessness and in,
subordination of the clergy to their
early beginnings of license?"
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
OUR MAN AT APIA.

Admiral Albert Kautz. who threatens
to bring on another Coghlan incident
with Germany. is the commander of the
American naval forces in Samoa. His
letters to his near relatives in this
country severely criticising the Ger
man consul general have embarrassed
the navy department. Kautz is one of
the Oldest officers in the service. He
entered Annapolis in 1854 and was
graduated in 1858. His record during
the war with the south is exception
ally brilliant. 1t was he who nego-
tiated the first exchange of prisoners
authorized by President Lincoln and
his cabinet. He served on FarraSut's
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15

STAFF and was in the thick OF the attack
on Forts Jackson and st. Philip, on
the Chalmette batteries. and in the
taking OF New Orleans. II was he who
hauled down the confederate flag from
the city hall of New Orleans and ran
up the stars and stripes In tnelr stead.
He was made commodore in 1897 and
an admiral since the outbreak of the
war with Spain. 1t is no. probable
that the mania with which he seems
to be afflicted will draw out more than
mere caution from The navy depart
ment.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
Mining Notes.

Work will he begun shortly on the
Gold Queen, near Amizett. This claim
belongs to Thomas Crow. and has pro-
duced ore which runs $500 to the ton.
The Holden lixiviation works ut As
pen, erected several years ago at a
cost of more than 100000. were sold
by United States Marshal Bailey.
Tuesday, to satisfy Il judgment In
favor of the receiver of the Union
National Bank of Denver. The prop.
erty brought only S1,150. just enough
to cover the Judgment and court ex-
penses.
An English company has reopened
some OF the ancient Roman mines in
the Monte Rosa district. In the South
ern Alps. These mines were worked
more than 5000 years ago. but have
long ceased to be profitable on account
of the expense of operating under old
methods. Ii IL thought that they can
be made to pay by the application of
modern innehlperys, They We're the
chief source of gold supply for the old
Roman republic. and We're operated by
the captivcs of the army and slaves
bought for the purpose. .--
The Home Mining Company of
Leadville has at last commenced ship
ments of the high grade ore which was
encountered some time ago The
streak of mineral when first entered
was only eighteen inches wide. but ns
dcvefbbhunt proceeded II opened out
to six feet, and during the past week
about 100 tons Of ore carrying fifty
otirrces silver and % Der. cent. lead
Inns. been hoisted. Tile, company ex-
poets to be able to ship from fifteen
to twenty tons day. Some of the
very rich chlorides is being sacked for
.nlspg'rntx
From'now on the Franklin placer.
three miles above Red River City, will
pay dividends. The propert v includes
COO acrcs. and has been worked every
summer since 1893. Among the iifl-
provements which have been made are
two and One-gunrter miles of ditchlng.
stG5O feet OF sluIce boxes. 800 feet of
fiume I'VE feet Wide. 200 feet two feet
wide and GOO feet of .twenty-inch pipe.
THkxH39, Inns u 2Dfoqs fn!K And, the
nS,,ds ns%Is Y .,lnsrxXxf ,, 'iss,y,foSr aaioroSr
and Pennsylvania capitalists compose
the company.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
To lBc Trusted.

Don't you think the American
masses can be trusted to think out
problems for themselves and arrive at
sensible conclusions?' There cant
be any doubt OF IT," said the office
aolder. $50 far as the American masses
in my own locality are concerned,
they have been voting for me for
years. s."-Washingto Star
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
His Real Reason,

Am to understand that you in.
troduced this ordinance because you
are OF the opinion. the question ought
to be settled?" asked the railway OFF,
ciai. THAT was the way put IT,"
-eplied the alderman. "but reilly In
troduccd It because I, thought It was
about time for n settlement. t."-lndiau-
spoiia Journal.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
Buffalo Strike stin Spreading.

Buffalo, N. Y. June 1.-THE strike
of the freight handlers at the Erie
docks for an advance of 1 cent an
hour was considered at meeting of
the Freight Handlers union this af-
ternoon and n sympathetic strike of
the inside workers or house men In all
OF the freight houses was ordered.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
: The Conference c-or oovcrnor,. ~

Houston. Texas, June Ex-Governor
Snyers, has received acceptance of his
Invitation to attendann antitrust con.
yentIOn at St. LOUIS September 2Oth
from Tanner OF Illinois. Shaw OF Iowa.
Bushnell f Ohio, Plngree OF Michigan.
Thomas OF Colorado. Poynter of Nc.
brnska' and Bradley OF, Kentucky.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
NEW MEXICO'S VARIED
) MINERAL RICHES.

tically all the gold. If 1t is found able
to do what is claimed for it there is
no reason why there should not soon
be scores of such plants in successful
operation. The matter is one that
concerns all of us, as well as the mine
owners, because the establishment of
such an industry would mean n great
measure of prosperity for the town.
Journal Democrat.
Gilpin observer., 1899-06-15
NJ. ninnd.. Cnnai,io.

.b'h"nopf No. .t""c to-Mr. Riand's
condition tonight Is encouraging. His
puise Is stronger tllan for several fllys
and he has taken more nourishmcnt
Than during amy day since his collapse.
ten days ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
A CORK SINKS IN THIS FLUID.
From The American Machinist.

From The American Machnst
Now that hydrogen has been liquehed, there
seem to be no more worlds TO conquer in that
special direction. 1t u remarkable cOinci-
dence that the first public exhibition OF this lat
est wonder made in connection with the CEN
tenary Of the Royal Institution Of Great Britain.
Professor Dewar, in opening the exhibition,
spoke Of liquid hydrogen as new instrument OF
research, which it eminently is by virtue Of the
extremely low temperature at which alone it can
exist and which low temperature it, by its pres
ence contact, enables other substances APP
proximately to reach. The liquid exhibited
in state OF gentle ebullitiOn in a vacuum tube
immersed in liquid air, the latter serving to i'm
pede the access Of heat The hydrogen is a
transparent liquid. and besides being the cold
est, is also the lightest liquid known. A cork
drops Immediately to the bottom of IT. AT the
bottom Of the vessel containing the liquid there
appeared a whitsh substance. which was in
fact solid air. or air ice 1t is impossible to avoid
the air ice in the bottom Of the vessel az the air
at the surface of the liquid is, by the intense
cold, condensed, liquefied and subsequently
sOlidifed, and, being so much heavier than the
hydrogen 1t sinks and accumulates at the bot
tom.
To show that the liquid was really hydrogen.
a light was applied to a small quantity which
at once burst into brilliant flame. Solids inn
mersed in the liquid long enough to attain the
same temperature were, upon being taken out
covered with liquid air. which would run down
and drop of.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16

the same house makes what is called "evapo-
rated" cream.
This company does not own the dairies from
which il gets its supplies. but ii has an elao-
crate contract with every farmer from whom
1t buys This agreement relates to the cleanli-
ness Of the stables, the cooling Of the milk, the
feed which the cows shall have inspection for
possible disease ard variety Of other details
affecting the quality OF the milk. In any
such malady as typhoid fever should break out
in the family of the farmer who is furnishing
the company with milk, it is the custom Of the
latter to pay him for his milk, but to throw it
away. Thus the farmer is encouraged to re-
port illness OF this character. which he might
be reluctant to DO otherwise.
1t will be noted that two general methods are
In vogue to insure a good quality of milk in
this city. one is to treat the milk after it gets
here. and the other is to exercise special care
the dairy farm Each system has its adj
vantages. and these are so obvious that no
tended discussion of them here is necessary.
II is sometimes objected that milk which has
been boiled is unpaatable All people do not
find it so, however Then it is alleged that the
cream does not rise readily on it, But in many
households milk is used before the would
have time to rise. The complaint is occasion
ally heard moreover, that boiled milk Is not so
digcStbc as other milk. This statement has
some foundation in fact, but it is largely mat
ter Of the Imagination. Those who complain Of
Indigestion usually persons with whom
unbocd milk does not agree, perhaps because
Of the hasty way in which they drink it. II any
one who has trouble in digestlng milk, boiled
unboiled. will sip it slowly and will add a pinch
of salt to it, he will be astonshed at the differ
ence In the results However, If milk Is heated
to only the Pasteurzing stage and not boiled.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16

theatrical centre for the town. especially with
the help Of the Union Square Theatre. around
the corner Afterward came the irresistible hoT
OF theatrical enterprise uptown. The groups in
the neighborhoods OF Twenty -fourth-st and Of
Thirtieth-st. drew the centre OF affairs away
from the older Fourteenth-st. group and In the
midst OF the one furthest uptown stood a
new Wallacks. Again there was an upward
movement and now Fortieth-st- Is regarded rs
about IN the midst of things with advance
guards as far as Forty-ffth-st., and nobody
knows where the theatres will go next SO any
body who is half a BIOGRAPHIES will see how the
Star, the old Wallacks, a house that has stood
through so much theatrical history, is the mid
die link between the oldest and the newest
When the overworked word "Rialto' was first
applied to New-York theatrical topography Il
meant the region of the Star and the Union
Square theatres. That was the centre OF actiV-
ity. 1t was there that the actors chiefly OBJ
structed the sidewalks. 1t was there that the
gossip was supposed to be constantly on tap
Wallack's Theatre near Broome- st opened
on September s. 1852. under the management Of
James William Wallack, the father OF Lester
Walack- Theodore Moss, the present proprietor
OF the present Wallack's Theatre built the the
atre which is the Star for James william
Wallack. and 1t was opened on September 70
1851, with Tom Taylor's play. 'The New Prcsi-
dent" IN which Lester Wallack played the part
Of De La Rampe. lie was really the manager az
the theatre from the beginning and he sue
ceeded his father as proprietor on the death OF
the latter in 1864 He collected company
about him which won deserved fame. Among tho
actors in II at different times (and many of theIn
at the game tim0 were Charles Fisher. Marx
Smith. John Gubert Edgar L Davenport Fred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
DISAPPOINTED CADETS.
THE CRUISER ANNAPOLIS SENT bA'h ~
NETWORK FROM WEST POINT.

It would be difficult to find less jolly io' Oh
tars than those who came to this port oh
Wednesday evening on the United States cruiser
Annapolis They were the members OF the hrst
class Of naval cadets who had MADE piahs ioi
a three days spree with the cadets at west
Point, and had reached the Academy reserve"
ton only to be told that scarlet feVer hau
broken out there and that the naval CAUCUS
would not be allowed to land.
It was the first time in many years that ar
had been made for meeting pe-
tween the coming men of the Army ana OF the
NAVY. and the occasion was to be MADE MEM
orable by a series Of land and water entertain
ments. in which the officers were as deeply
interested az the young men. The SAIL up the
river on a bright, clear morning and the san
back were all that the young men got out OF
the elaborate programme while the officers were
only slightly more fortunate. Thinking them
selves immune they accepted the invitation OF
Colonel and Mrs. Mills for dinner, and that
function and the formal visit Of the Military
Academy officers on board the Annapolis were