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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

duced 10 fight, unless under very
strong internal pressure.
Yet, as an industrious, persistent
worker the Yaki has no superior
among the Indians of the United
States. He is good farmer, cattle
man, horticulturst, chicken raiser,
carpenter, boatman, porter. and miner.
Indeed, give him chance and little
instruction and he will learn 10 do any
ordinary mental or mechanical work.
work that does not require too much
brain or mechanical skill--as well as
any workman in the world, and as for
reliability | would rather have a band
of YalSis than Irish, Italians, Portu-
guese, Swedes, Japanese or Chinese,
and know by personal experience the
working capacity and trustworthiness
of them all.
When they are compared with the
-Mexicans, who conformity occupy the
so-called Yaki country with them, the
comparison is in every way in their
favor. OF course / mean the lower
class working Mexicans.
The YalNi country is situated in the
Mexican territory of Sonora, and main
ly consists of fine bottom lands on the
YalSi river, which empties into the Gulf
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25
ARE TRUE PATRIOTS.
The Yaki Indians and Their Srug-
gle for Independence.
Personal Greed BACK OF nexico's nit
ter Warfare-Why Gen. Torres
In Determined 90 subtu-
gate the Tribe.
Especial Guaymas Ciex) Lottcr.I


The wild, irresponsible war CORE
spondent has again been at work, and
the American people have been stuffed
and stuffed again by the most out
rageous yarns ever foisted upon
an intelligent people. The Amer
leans desire for knowledge is such
that, to satisfy IL, he is willing to
swallow whole facts" that are not
facts; and the bigger the lie the easier
il Is swallowed.
After such Yaki food my truthful
narrative as 80 the life, habits and Gus
toms OF the Yakis and the source of the
present war win be too commonplace
to receive attention. All i can say is. il
Is good bread and meat, and IL my
reader must have IL highly seasoned he
must put in the pepper and tabasco
himself.
The Yaki is not-over-good imitation
OF the Apache, as far as his fighting
qualities are concerned. He lacks the
wild daring, the desperate valor and
utter recklessness of his northern con-
frere. No twenty of his breed would
keep an army hunting in vain for them,
at the same time keeping up active hos
tilities, as did Geronimo and his band.
Only when numbers seem TO be in their
favor, and chances of victory strong,
could the major portion of them be in
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25
THE STORY OF Coz
How Nature Produces This Rst
Valuable Of Fuels.
II Required Ages for the Formnson
and development of the Beds
and Mines which Are Now
being Worked.
Especial Washington letter.

Among the geological collectionsat
the National museum there are spci-
mems of coal of every variety from evry
part OF the world. From one of Die
scientific men of the National musam
the writer to-day learned many iner-
esting things concerning the black 5a-
mond fuel.
The old man, who seemed to hve
some accurate knowledge concerIng
every stratum of the surface of the
earth, spoke of the history of the oal
beds in the different parts of the weld
with as much familiarity as child lis
plHys concerning the alphabet. The
histories of the various coal fieldshr
as A b to him.
AS the reluctant householder shofels
itk regular stint of food into the GREEDY
NAV of the ogre in the cellar, otter
wise known as the furnace, ii is mar
velous thing for him 10 consider thd he
is keeping his dwelling warm blythe
heat of the suns rays which fell lpon
the earth millions of years ago. The
solar orb of that vanished epoch, big
ger than il is to-day and hotter, broight
forth even in this latitude TROPICAL
vegetation of wonderful luxurimce.
Plants of strange kinds grew up richly
from the clayey soil and formed oense
jungles in the vast marshes which COW
cred large areas Of the surface OF this
planet. Ferns, MOSES and the lmves,
branches and trunks of trees fel. and
decayed where they grew, only TO make
the soil more fertile and the next
growth richer and more luxudant.
Year after year, century after century,
the process of growth and decay went
on, until the beds of vegetable natter
thus deposited had reached great
thickness.
But the earth's body was still shrink
ing, and in consequence her crust at
times contracted and fell in. When 1t
did SO, the land sank throughout vast
areas, these beds OF vegetable matter
went down, and over the great marshes
the water swept again, bringing drift
vegetation from higher levels to add
TO that already buried. Then over these
deposits the sand and mud and gravel
were laid up anew, and the clay soil
from which the next rich growth would
spring was spread out on the surface.
This process was repeated again and
again-as often, indeed, as seams OF
coal in any coal bed. Thus the condi-
tions for the formation of coal were
made complete, atmospheric air being
entirely excluded while the vegetable
beds underwent the processes OF decom-
position. These processes went on UNI
der the water of the ocean, under the
sands of the shore, under the new de-
posits OF succeeding ages, Transforming
the wood of the carboniferous era into
the coal of to-day.
Nature is still making coal, though.
unfortunately, not at a rate anything
like fast enough TO make up for the
consumption of this product. The proc
esses may be watched from beginning to
end For this purpose one must first
go TO peat bed, which is simply an ac-
emulation of the remains of plants
that grew and decayed on the spot
where they are now found. When the
upper layer of this material is removed
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

called ten-yenrs' war. when. in May,
1897, treaty Of peace was declared be-
tween ting lahis and Mexicans, have
the former ever conceded that the lat
ter had the slightest right TO occupy
their territory. IL Is useless TO ignore
this fact. Mexicans have claimed the
Yaki country the same as the United
States has claimed the Apache country,
but the lalxis and the Apaches, in both
cases, were no party 10 the claim. and
both resisted II. Md as in the latter
case the resistance was futile, and 10
the ken of the white rnce hopeless for
the Apache race from the start, go viii
the former case be futile.
The destiny Of the Yald is written.
The more powerful race demands his
land. He may resist, but the ultimate
outcome no one for moment ques-
tons. And this is the whole quarrel.
There may be incidental irritating
causes, but the deep-rooted, ineradic-
able difficulty is the old trouble between
possessor and coveter: "You have, L
want, and ! can and will get" The
weaker must go to the wall.
III sing Aai Hthnt, hoNtNtis TIC
quarrel is narrowed down to much SIM
pier limits. There is a somewhat ener-
getic sonora Development Company"
that has undertaken the task of render
ing the Yah country fit home Tor
colonists. Irrigation works on a large
scale have been commenced, fine stock.
introduced, fields planted, etc, just as
similar undertakings have been begun
and successfully carried out in New
Mexico, Arizona and California. Now
the head of this whole business is ex-
Gov. Luis Torres, and, strange to say,
he is the commanding general of the
Mexican forces of Sonora, and thus re-
quired to put a stop to the rebellion of
the Yakis.
Torres is a brainy man and fully ac~
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

cf black slate which form The roof Oh
coal mines. as well as the impressions
Of the leaves. nuts and seeds which fell
from these trees while they were liv-
ing. In some beds of camel coal whole
trees have been found with roots,
branches, leaves and seeds complete,
and al converted into the same quality
of coal as that by which they were sur
rounded.
Biologists are of the opinion that BIZ
luminous and anthracite Goals were
formed during the same period and I'M
der like conditions. Originally they
were all bituminous, but during the
violent contortions and upheavals OF
the earth's crust at the close of the car
boniferous age the bituminous Goals in
volved in that disturbance were
changed by heat and pressure, and .he
consequent expulsion of volatile mat
ter, from bituminous to anthracite.
Camel coal is variety of bituminous
coal which burns with great freedom,
the flames of il affording considerable
light. 1t was called candle coal" by
the English people who first used it, as
IL often served MS a substitute for cam
dies. The name became corrupted to
"cannel" and has so remained. 1t is
more compact than ordinary bitumin-
Gus coal and il can be wrought in lathe
and polished. A certain variety OF 1t
found in Yorkshire, England, is man
ufactured into a kind of jewelry known
as jet"
DR.. Homer Greene gives an interest
ing description of the climate of Penn
sylvania during the conforming epoch.
The most remarkable features of the
vegetation of that period were the size
and abundance of its plants. Trees OF
that time whose trunks were from one
TO three feet in diameter, and which
grew TO height of from 40 to 100 feet,
are represented at the present day by
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

OF California, or that portion of Il To-
cally known as the Gulf OF Guaymas,
some so miles or SO below the Mexican
city OF Guaymas.
For 20 or so miles the Yalxi river is
navignble above its mouth, and for cen
turtles II has been used by the indus
trious, peace-loving Indians for the
transportation of their produce. When
the Spaniards first met these people.
just prior to the Arizona march of the
valiant Coronado, they found them a
yell advanced Indian race. inclined TO
Se peaceful. but stoutly resenting en-
cronchments upon what they deemed
their rights. They did not submit to
whatever conditions the strangers
sought 20 impose upon them. as did the
Pimas and Maricopas of Arizona. They
showed a love OF home 1.-THE home of
their ancestors and their own choice
and a sturdy independence that gained
for them-350 years ago--n bad name.
and this has never long left them.
Any people that did not Immediately
yield 10 the demands OF the naughty
Epaniard were contumncious and re-
bcllious. and the lald ranked them
selves in ibis class from the outset.
And pese.. until the close of the no
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

one finds peat with 80 to &C per cent.
of carbon, and the deeper one goes the
better in quality IL gets. 1t may be
cut out In blocks with sharp spades, the
water may be pressed from the blocks.
and they may be stacked up, covered
and dried and used for fuel. There is
a certain kind of moss called "sphag-
num-" which in large part makes up the
peat-producing vegetation. Its roots
die annually. but from the living top
new roots are sent out each year. The
worlSmen who dig peat understand that
IL this surface is destroyed the growth
OF the bed must stop; so commonly they
remove the sod carefully, replacing II
after they have taken out a stratum OF
peat. There is little doubt that II these
beds OF peat could lie undisturbed and
covered over through many ages they
would take on all the characteristics of
mineral coal.
The substance OF coal has been so
compressed that the forms of the plant
composing IL cannot usually he seen.
But when a piece of IL is made so thin
that il will transmit light, aid is then
subjected TO a powerful microscope, it's
vegetable structure may readily be dis
tinguisheL. Immediately under every
separate seam Of coal there is a stratum
OF what Is known as fire clay. This
stratum Is always present and contains
In great abundance the fossil impress
sions of roots and stems and twigs.
showing that IL was once the soil from
which vegetation grew !uxuriantly. IL
IL common also to find fossil tree stems
lying mashed Aat between the layers
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

One would need to be very hungry for
hsh TO eat humpbaclSed salmon after
seeing IL raw. These fish are at times
quite numerous in Puget sound and
occasionally large hauls are made in
seines or traps. They cannot be sold
for anything fresh. but IL Is said that
quantities OF them are sometimes
canned and sold away down south for
the benefit OF the colorcd population. by
whom they are held in as much esteem
as the calico salmon. Portland Ore
gonian.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

similar species whose stems are only
n fraction OF an inch in diameter and
but one TO two feet high. But at that
time all conditions were favorable for
n rapid and enormous vegetable
growth The air was laden with carbon,
which is the principal food OF plants
so laden, indeed, that man could not
have lived in it. The great humidity OF
the atmosphere was another element
favorable TO growth. Vegetation never
lacked an abundance of moisture either
at root or leaf. Then, too, the climate
was universally warm. Over the en-
tire surface of the earth the heat was
greater than il is to-day at the torrid
zone. With all these circumstances in
its favor vegetation could not help
flourishing. The fossil impressions OF
more than 500 different species of plants
that grew at that time have been found
in the coal beds.
The most abundant OF the plants OF
the conforming era were the ferns.
Their fossil remains are found in great
profusion and variety in most of the
rocks of the coal-bearing strata. There
was also the plant known as the tree
fern" which attained a height OF 20 or
80 feet. and carried a single great tuft
Of leaves at its top. Next in Importance
to the ferns were gigantic MOSES re-
sembling in kind the low club mosses
of the present, but vastly magnified.
They doubtless contribute the greatest
proportion OF woody material 10 the
composition OF coal. There were forest
trees. and their fossil trunks have been
found measuring from 100 to 100 feet
in length and from six 90 ten feet in
diameter. There were also pines, some
what resembling those OF to-day, which
probably grew on high ground. Be
sides these there were plants of the
horse-tail family which grew up with
long, reed-like, jointed stems 10
height Of 20 feet or more and with
diameter of 10 or IL inches.
IL is claimed that coal was mined IN
England before the Roman invasion by
julius Caesar. The cinder heaps founI
among ruins of the time Of Roman SUI
premacy in the island appear TO show
that coal was largely used by the people
OF that age. BY the end OF the thir-
teenth century bituminous coal was
burned TO a considerable extent in Lon
don. The oldest coal workings in
America are near Richmond, Va. IL is
supposed that coal was discovered and
mined there as early as 1850. Tradition
says that boy while hunting for craw-
fish CHANGED upon the outcrop OF coal
bed which crosses the James river X
miles above Richmond Mining was be-
gun and by the year l775 the coal war
in general use in the neighborhood. IL
played a part in the war for indepen
dence by helping to make cannon balls,
and by 1859 il was being shipped 10
Philadelphia and New York During
the late civil war these mines were
seized by the confederate government
for the purpose of procuring fuel, and
they are still largely productive. This
coal bed has an area OF about $50 square
miles and an average thickness of "a
feet. IL is supposed to contain about
50,0OO,000 tons yet unmincd. There IN
reason TO believe that the Indians knew
something of the use OF coal.
SMITH ID. FRY.
Case In Point.
fsIt a. freodful how fnucn elang Ia
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25
niscrref Silence

II told Bunks a story and il didn't re-
mind him of another"
Perhaps he was afraid that II he
told one IL would remind you OF an-
other" Chicago Daily Record.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25
Suburban snnrt..

Those people next door evidently
have never lived in the country before
What makes you think 500"
II heard them wrangling last night
both wanted to milk the cow Detroit
Free Press.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

1T is better To laugh than TO cry"
said the young girl, brightly.
"Not II you are trying TO manage q
husband" said the woman Indianap.
oils Journal.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

1T is dreadful how much slang Is
spoken and written nowadays"
.'You bet that's no dream. &C biaago
Record.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1899-11-25

An axiom goes without saying.
Would that all earthly bores we're ak
ioms.--Chicago Daily News.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
!. ANACONDA NEWS.
DAY WITH The POLICE
What the Boys With the Blue
Coats Did Yesterday.
DRUNkARDs AND VAGs
Half a Dczsn Fellows Tell Their Troubles
to Judge Fitzgerald : Joe Wilson
Gets 80 Days-Fighters Fined.
A Woman With Jag.

+ In police court yesterday Clarence
Leland was brought UP on a charge of
8vagrancy. He was accused Of being a
{ secretary and living off the earnings of
woman named Tess;e, Leland, wo-
man of the town. He was fined $40.
Alice Doe is a woman of easy virtue
who lives in the Delmonico lodging
house on lower Main street. She gos
drunk on Wednesday night and raised
/. a big row down there. whereupon she
was arrested and locked UP In Jail. Yes
sterday she was brought up in police
court and charged with drunkenness
and disturbance. She was fined $40.
Joe Wilson was arrested for stealing
sclothes. The specific charge against
him was that of vagrancy, and yester-
for 30 days. Wilson is the fellow ar
rested Wednesday by the police in the
western part of the city, where he was
found with lot of clothing in his pos
session. Part of the clothes had been
hidden in the railroad yards, but all
were found by the officers. When ar
rested he disclaimed any intention of
theft, but could give no good account
Of where he got the clothes. The po-
lice had no case against him on the
charge of larceny, as they were not
aware of where the clothes came from.
For that reason Wilson was charged
with vagrancy and was sent up by the
police judge for 30 days.
II John Quinlan and John McKeim got
into a fight last Tuesday at the corner
Of Main street and Commercial avenue.
They pummelled each other right well,
but an officer came along and took them
to Jail. They told their respective sides
of the story to Judge Fitzgerald yester-
day. The court fined Quinlan $40 and
McKeim So
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
AMUSEM ENTS.
"a Midnight Bell"

Mr. Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell is to be
presented at the Margaret tonight by
L. r. Stockwell the very funny come
dian, and his own company. The fol-
lowing is taken from the San Francisco
Post of Dec. Is:
"Hoyt's "A Midnight Bell charmed as
many people as could be accommodated
It the Alcazar yesterday.
tThere was appropriateness in the Sc
lection of this play for a holiday at
traction. Its New England winter
scenes, its merry school children, it's
sewing circle, its church choir, it's whole
rural environment and atmosphere of
domesticity find peculiar apprecia
ton.
THE production was worthy of the
appreciation it received from the
packed audience. Stockwell, who Gre
ated the character of the Deacon, took
the role again and made it just as
amusing as it was in the years agone
Mr. Fairbanke assumed his old charac-
ter of the Squire, and played la admir-
ably. Henry Napier was well suited as
the lawyer, and Scott Seaton did very
well as the young parson. The bad boy
presented by Augustin Tate was as
funny as the bad boy portrayed by
Eugene Garfield, it was an amusing
the schoolmarm, Miss Stafford as the
minister's sister and Jennie Weidman
as the village spinster carried the femi-
nine leads"
When will the time come when
Uncle Toms Cabin will lose it's
charm to the rising generation? Judg-
ing by it's present freshness, it's allur-
ing powers will be perennial There is
something in the skillful combination
of the pathetic and the humorous that
never fails to fascinate, and the story
that it tells of the suffering of the poor
slaves appeals directly to the finest
sensibilities of the human soul. Such
plays are better than sermons. They
point a moral and adorn a tale.
They teach us lessons in thoughtful
ness and charity. They impress on our
minds the precepts of the golden rule.
Mrs. Stoves book is one of the great
est books of literature, because it deals
with questions of immeasurable human
import, and the play itself is one Of
those simple master pieces that can
never die. If it does no more than, to
keep alive the memory of the rise and
fall of one of the greatest iniquities
that history deals with, it was not writ
ten in vain.
Ed f. Davis colossal "Uncle Tom S
Cabin" company will appear at the
Union Family theater for three nights,
beginning Monday, Feb. 81
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
RELEASED.
Two Runaway Helena Boys Turned
Loose.

Two Runaway Helena Boys Turned
Loose.
Roy Bailey and Bob Huffer of Hell
ena, the Is and ID year old boys ar
rested on Tuesday night by the sheriff,
were turned loose yesterday. The lads,
as will be remembered, We're picked up
by one of the watchmen at the upper
works, where the boys came for en-
ployment The Waterman turned them
over to the sheriff. who locked them
up for the night and wired the chief
of police at Helena with reference to
their disposition. The boys were given
a good bed and a couple of square
meals, after which they were released
no word having been received from
Helena as to what their parents want
ed done with them. The boys said they
ran away from their homes at Helena
a week ago yesterday. From Helena
they went to Butte, where they sold
newspapers on the streets for time,
and after which they came to Ana
conda.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Street Car Comes Within an Ace of Run
ming Over a Man.

Street Car Comes Within an Ace of Rum
ming Over Man.
Last evening at $50 o'clock, as the
street car from Carroll was passing
along Main street a man ran in front
of it and but for the quick action of the
motorman he wauld have been run
down and doubtlessly seriously injured,
if not killed.
The car was just passing the corner
of Main street and Commercial avenue
and was just attaining a good speed
after rounding the curve when a man
started from the east side of the street
and attempted to cross the track di-
rectly in front of the car. The man was
evidently drunk and when he reached
the side of the track he seemed to Stun
BILE in the slippery snow and fell directly
in front of the approaching car. The
motorman reversed the current, applied
the brake and succeeded in stopping the
car within six inches of the PROSTATE
mans head. The fact that the motor
car carried three trailer cars added
to the impetus given the motor car, and
the man who fell in the snow may CON.
slider himself mighty lucky that his head
is not mashed to jelly.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24

ing-Padre Jose, 106; Ballister Lomo,
Sierra Blanco, Durward, Crawford,
Green Hook, Baliverso, 1903: Gracias,
Corriento, Bessie Lee, Wild Flower,
Jerilderio, Urdow Jones, Jennie Glib
101.
Second race, one mile. selling-Joe
Mussle, Rroadrunner, Dongara, Billy
McCloskey. los; McFarlane, Ricardo
105: Mel Burnham, Henry c., 1903; None
Such, 100; Rosemaid, Colonial Dame
Glen Ann, 9S.
Third race, three-quarters of mile,
selling-Dunpraise. Faversham, III;
Con Dalton, Sir Urian, Goal Runner
Stromo, Garuba, 100.
Fourth race, -eighths of a mile
selling-Satsuma, 1903: Eddie Jones, 10s;
San Mateo, 105; Montallade, 101: Ear
Cochran 90; Guilder, 81; Melkarth, So;
Espionage, 80.
Fifth race, one mile, selling-Wyo-
ming, Meadow Lark, Lamar H.. Whit
comb, 1O5; Sly, Lord Marmion, 103
Sixth race, five-eighths of mile. sell
ing-Schnitz, 106; Tony Licalzi, Eakins,
AL, Socialist, Espirando. George H.
Ketchum, Potente, 1903: Calm, February,
Spry Lark, Carrie M, 101.
Weather clear; track fast.