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The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
NO SWEAT BOXES



Sweat boxes are not popular In the
internal revenue branch OF tho treas
ury department. A recent circular
from this bureau says: Il has come
10 the knowledge OF this once that IN
some instances write confessions OF
Violators Of law are secured from ac-
cused persons under duress, while in
other instances delinquents are In
duced by solicitation or by threats 70
make an ofier in compromise under
a section OF the revised statutes, which
authorizes the commissioner OF internal
revenue. with the advice and consent
OF the secretary Of the treasury. to
compromise civil and criminal oasoa
arising under internal revenue laws.
Neither the ends OF Justice nor tho
statutes call for such proceedings.
They are wholly unwarrantod by law
and the regulations OF this once. and
must cease At once. A treasury de-
eiHion says: mo solicitation n an
oner should be made and no delin-
qusnt should be induced by threats 10
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
u.s tor u. r.rrI, Mh.sL

Ferris big wheel As a locomotive
round house for some enterprising rail-
road company is tho latest novel pur-
pose proposed for the disposition OF
that piece OF gigantic machinery. The
originator OF the idea would have II
lad on It's side. rooted over in regula-
tion round house fashion, and yet keep
to tn business OF turning. thus receiv-
Ing aeventy-two locomotives. n neees-
saFy' from one single track leading to
us periphery. Frogs. turntables, and
switches would be dRne away with
Chloako Tribune.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
A Great Navy Yard.

The oldest structure In Charlestown
navy yard II the long white brick
building at the main entrance. the To-
cation OF many Offices and the naval
museum and library The next Oldest
ia the present commandments real
dence, The land and buildings at the
yard we're assessed a few years ago
by the Boston assessors at nearly 81
Twelve escaped their search. but these
were all scented out by four dogs.
which, on repetition OF the expert
ment. saved eighteen who would
otherwise have had no help. The dogs
are provided with a little box full OF
refreshments and packet Of band
ages. They are trained TO wait TIL
the wounded man has used these, and
II he Is too III TO do 80 10 run back
and fetch an ambulance officer. The
other services for which the dogs arc
trained are as sentlnels and scouts,
and. more important stlll, as ammuni-
tlon-carrlers between the wagons and
the firing line. II appears that the
German troops sent out TO China took
with them number of these faithful
and well-tralned recrulls.-l.ondon
News.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23

Perhaps you have Just returned from |
Paris. enthusiastic over the sights
there Here are some ot the things
you didn't sec. Seven great forts about
the rity. eight miles away from It's
walls Nineteen smaller forts, four
miles out. each contaiHlng three acres
and mounting two s5-ton guns. Great
stacks Of iOO-pound melinits shells,
ready for these guns to hurl. TWEEN
ty-one miles OF continuous foruheA-
tlons about the town-earthwork walls
100 feet thick at the base aud fronted
BY t5-foot meats, Three hundred en-
placements along this giant wall for
AZ many g5-ton cannon, kept free from
rust In the Champs de- Mars arsenal.
and ready to be swung Into place ~
any time So cleyerly are the forts
marked by long slopes OF green turf.
and the walls by trees and bushes. that
one can pass In and out Of Paris
dozen times and see scarcely "a trace
Of It's famous fortlncatiOns The range
Of the e5-ton guns Is over ten miles
some say fourteen. Beneath their, at
present. untenanted beds on the ram
part are stone classmates for ammuni-
ton. with small transfer wagons,
These classmates open upon the inner
base Of the wall. and set OF rails,
standard gauge. runs from the door
way to the top OF the fertilization.
I You must look for these rails In the
grass, the general stan IL 10 modest
Suppose war comes and the 300 guns
must be mounted. Well. the stan has
thought OF that The rails-standard
gauge-thnt lie ready for the ammuni-
tion wagons can be linked with tho
tramway system Of Paris. To work
these guns. were every man OF the gar
rlson drafted away. Paris has 10000
trained artillerymen among her re-
servists. She could man every gun
twice over, garrison all her forts with
infantry reserviats. and put a dozer
cavalry regiments into the field fol
scouting purposes. Every reservis,
whether Partisan. horn or provincial
immigrant, has a book containing hi
number. particulars Of his service. AM
memorandum Of the barrack 4
which he must repair upon the callinI
OF the reserves In ease Of war line
carefully maintained would be switch
ed into use. aud the trainway system
would be In communication with tn
enormous goods depots OF the Parl
termini4 Not rolilpg stock only. bu
horsefesh would be reduisiuoncd. Wy
r. cry horse over four years old Is regii
tered. together with his type. owne
= and probable utility. The general sta
could choose from some 100. 900 horse
q The military stores OF Paris al
: boundiess. In day she could cloth
" and arm 100000 lighting men. wit
i 100000 rounds Of mellnlte cal
u tridges. At the army bakeries Oh
IS reserves large stores OF grain. In ca'
10 OF siege the general stan has eenso
10 ship OF prices ready In the Paris mum
10 cipallty, which at all times fixes n
70 price OF bread and would do 20 OF oth'
7. staples. Paris has an invisible defeni
pt the submarine boats that patrol Il
90 Seine from AsniereH and lyry. -Boatc
q Post.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23


Ye ships OF War. that ride the waves,
And strike with spurs OF steel.
Your eourrers CULVER meath the curb.
But heed the Iron heel.
You bear our hearts and hopes abroad.
Across the shorelosH sea.
While, acknowledging. ON your prows
Stands thundring Victory,
What though the eastern shy be black
with death for those that rove.
Though darkness OF the damned in
CULTS
Palm and palmetto grove,
Your fires flash along the shore.
Your searchlights food the bay,
And Liberty can enter where
Your great guns blaze the way.
when your traekless paths prove lone
ly.
And frlends are far and few,
Or In all the waste Of waters
None but the Lord and you,
To Him who shields and saves us ALI
Prayers rise from maid and man,
For you bear the nations banner;
You are the nations van.
Advance. " steel-elad Ships OF War.
DIspelling doubts and fearsi
Your bosoms hold precious freight.
The iates OF future years
High DER your conqnering coming
towera
The pennants ny unfurlcd:
The Stars and stripes above you are
The best hope OF ,he world.
james Eugens farmor in the
Bookmnn.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
CENTRAL OFFICE GOVERNMENT TELEPHONE SYST

actual receipts are Increasing rapidly
despite the fact that o telegram OF
twelve words costs the sender only
twelve cents.
II he manages his new telephone
business as well as he does the tele-
graphs, London will get a service al
cheap rates that may tempt American
cities 10 try the experiment, too, the
experience OF Stockholm TO the con.
trary Notwithstanding.
The present postmaster general Il
the rich and powerful Marquis OF Lon
donderry. one of the great coal MINE
owners OF England. He was put into
the place at tho beginning OF the
TransvaAl war.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23

There is = London parish which,
though iN electoral list must always
be duly signed. does not contain = ain
gle inhabitant, This is the ancient
parish OF ST. Christopher-le-stcck,
which extends over the open space in
front OF tho Mansion house and tho
Royal exchange. and includes the cor
ner OF the Bank Of England. Gene
ratons have elapsed since the parish
was anything moro than the shadow
OF q name.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23

invoke the pow OF The commissions
to compromise and no ASSURANCE
should be give me probable aotios
OF the commits oner u an offer ls
made. but whee The individual rs x
ponnt OF such a provision " law and
desirs to make bis appeal fur elem.
eney in the IanneT provided II is IN,
duty OF the c0liey'or to give him suit
ablo instructions" It lie not to be- un.
derstood from anything contained in
mis- circular that any statement o, che
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
BIC TELEPHONE UNDERTAKING.

insures lives. deals In government
bonds. manages messenger service,
and spends SS5 600 900 year In sala-
ries alone. His telegraph monopoly IL
run at n net loss OF about half mill
lion dollars year. on an average. but
the loss is due largely to the sums
spent In extending the service; the
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-11-23
Admiral Keep. Systematic Ksoords

Admiral Bradford. who is at present
chief OF the Bureau OF Equipment and
Supplies In the navy department. 10
known as a man OF system. In his
private oflce he has hanging on the
wall a bulletin showing the enact
amount OF coal available for purchase
by the navy at the different ports
throughout the world
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
LINK AND PIN.

Of slate and in both slopes there are
places where the coke holds included
blocks Or stringers of the intrusive
rock" In another opening the
igneous rock forms the floor,
and it sometimes fills small
crevices in the coke along the line of
contact. But it is possible that the
change of the coal into coke is not
| wholly due to igneous rock for one bed
of coke has been found without there
being apparently any igneous rock
near it.
The occurrence of coal and coke in
the same bed has also been noted. In
| two cases the coal forms the upper
| bench and in the other the coke is on
top as described by Prof. Dumble.
The discovery was made while
| searching for coal-outcrops slong
Calera Creek. Fragments of coke we're
traced up to small bed at the
mouth of Ell Tren. One bed, sup
posed to be OF coal only, opened out
into q body of three feet of
good coke underlaid by two feet of
anthracite coal. About half q mile
west body of coke was opened up
which at the depth of thirty feet was
eight feet thick and over ten feet at
depth of one hundred and thirty feet.
Several deposits having a thickness of
from two to four feet have been located.
The coke is described as dark gray
in color, of even texture with small
pores (denser than most oven coke and
very firm). 1t breaks with even tract
ure but has in places the columnar
structure of oven coke. 1t is an excel
lent fuel, burning without sparkling or
deiagration. 1t burns well 10 an open
fire, in the forge and in the assay fur
mace. L he ash is white.
[ consider this discovery of the high
est value and importance to the south
west portion of the United States and
particularly to southern Arizona where
fuel is so scarce and where it is much
needed industrially, metsllurgicslly
and for transportation. The rapid de-
velopmept of this new source of coke
seems certain. 1t should add to the
value of copper deposits and the lead
and even possibly of the iron deposit
of Arizona. We should be grateful to
Prof. Dunn BILE for making this import
aut discovery. The deposits of coal In
Sonora have long been known. 1t is
now some twenty or thirty years since
attention was directed to them by the
late d. Boyler Blair and Jesus Anita of
Tucson, who long labored to enlist cap
tai for the exploration and develop
ment of this promising field.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
FOR Ell pASO JOBBERS.
Good Opening At Points On the
Silver City And Smaller Branch
eS-DeYelOpment There.

81 have just returned" said General
Freight Agent Houghton, of the Santa
Fe, this morning, from trip through
a fine mining country which is and will
be tributary to Ell Paso, and which is
going to throw an immense jobbinq
trade to this city. 1 have been up on
the Silver City branch, and adjacent
smaller branches.
From Deming to Silver City we
now have on a passenger crew and q
freight crew, and from Whitewater on
up to the mines of the Amale amated
Copper company, we have
found it necessary TO put on an
extra freight crew to handle
the business. The Fierro mines,
mostly producing iron, are owned by
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
aud the Santa Rita district of copper
producing mines is owned by the
Amslgamsted Copper company, in
which Marcus DAILY, of Montana, is in
terested.
I'm spite of the fact tina. the latter
company has not yet got down to any
thing like real work, we haul from
these two sources at least twenty-five
cars of ore day: and, during Deem
Der, a total of $4,000, 900 pounds of
freight was hauled.
when the Amalgamatad company
really does start in, the traffic will be
something immense, and all this coun-
try, fast building up and filling up, is
tribut 4ry to Ell Paso. AS to rates, in
this instance 7 think jobbers have no
kick, because freight is hauled cheap
err from Ell Psso than from any other
point near by or in the east
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
HAS GONE AT LAST.
Thirty-slx Cars Of ponderous Ma
Chinery Go Into Mexico Duty
Free.

The big lot of machinery at the
Santa -Fe yards at last crossed the
river yesterday, and is now on its way
to Torreou. There were thirty-six
cars in all, when the two delayed ones
arrived.
The reason of all the delay was the
slowness of the Mexican government
in granting concessions. The entire
because of the burning of the Britting-
bam-Terrazas factory, and the des-
Jruction of all its machioery which
this is destined to replace and we are
mighty glad to get rid OF it, said a
Santa Fe man il the yards this morn
ing.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
TO-LOSE A
RAILROAD
The Ell Paso And Rio Grande
Will Go Out Of Existence
SANTA FE TO COME
For the First Time In Its History
the Big System Will Have d Leg
al Entry Into FL paso-Who Its
Officers Are.

Ell Paso is to lose one of its railroads
Within a month tn FL Paso and RiC
Graude railroad company will have
ceased to exist.
But in its place. the Atchison. To
pelxa. aud Santa Fee will for the trs
time, in the eyes OF the law, enter
Texas and Ell Paso.
The Santa Fe has never had any
legal existence in Texas owing to the
passage of a law many years ago wh1ct
made it obligatory on every railroad
entering the state, aud running through
IL fer no matter how short q distance ,tC
have it's headquarters and general Of
Gees and officerssi i'm the state.
OF course the Santa Fe, ~han build
lag to Ell Paso, could not move the ma.
chinery of it's vast system of directing
brains to Texas simply for the benefit
of the 20 miles of road from here to
Anthony, OF the New Mexico boundar y
line.
Hence it was 4 at the Ell Paso & Rio
Graude road vas created, with all OF
It's executive officers except the presi-
dent. and with it's headquarters too
and general offices in Ell Paso.
The president of the road is also the
president of the Santa Fe system-mr.
Ripley. The vice-president is the
youngest railroad general officer in the
world. He is Mr.. r. B. Noodle. In
tdis capacity he cOnciliates eastern
stockh olders, and directs the general
policy of the road.
The general superintendent is also
tue Youngest official of his rank in the
world. He is Mr. r. B. Noodle. He
is twenty-five years old. He has super
vision over the men aud the general
management OF the road.
The auditor is q very young man,
for his position. He is MIR. r. B.
Noodle, and keeps all the company
books, and sudits the accounts.
Mr.. r. B. Noodle is general traffic
manager. and he has several other
titles. Under all these officials, and
subject to their orders is Mr.. F. B.
Houghtor.
Here's where the rub comes in. MIR.
\ Houghton IL general freight agent of
che Santa Fee. Mr.. Noodle is clerk
under him. Hence when General
Manager Noodle tells Houghton, as q
employe of his road, the Ell Paso nd
business, Mr.. Houghton. as general
freight agent of the Santa Fe, tells
Mr.. Noodle as clerk in the Office, to
go hump himself, and wash windows.
At least this is what he might do.
At the last session Of the state legis-
1sture, bill Mas passed by which the
Ia " which created the E. P. & r. G.
Tas made not applica BILE to roads in the
sta tie having length of less than thirty
miles, and making it possible for such
roads to be leased by an outside corpo-
ration. Accordingly the directors of
tue entire Santa Fe system will shortly
hold meeting, called for the purpose,
aud solemuly lease for term of years
the Ell Paso aud Rio Grsude railroad,
which they have owned all the time.
The revised laws applies especially
70 lis road here, and to a branch OF
the Frisco running down to Paris,
Texas.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
TRUCK FARMS FOR ALL
ing Lots Of Them At Alamo
QOrdO.

The White Oaks road management
has entered upon a scheme which pro-
misses to make Alamogordo the truck
growing center of the southwest. All
around the town they have laid out
symmetrically a border of one and five
and ten acre tracts which are especial
ly adapted for farm gardens.
"These are to be for sale, with water
rights" said General Manager Eddy
this morning, land we are going to Of
fer every reasonable inducement in the
way of long payments and easy ones, to
get good gardeners and experienced
ones to take hold. We want to make
this the garden spot, literally, of the
southwest.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
THIS MAY HELP.
Prof. Blake's Timely Article On the
Coke And Coal Fields Of
SnnnrA

Perhaps nothing could prove more
timely than sciep ti6c explain nation of
the geological conditions existing in
the region where Morgan Jones and
Britton Davis are supposed II be hunt
ing for coal.
Prof. W. P. Blake, of the Arizona
University, recently contri buted to
the Tucson Citizen the following COM
meuts upon the paper read at the Anne
rican Institute of Mining Engineers
me citing, held in san Francisco. by Prof.
E T. Dumble on the natural coke
found in Sonora.
The coal field lies in the neighbo
hood of La B Arranca,s small town nine
Gy-Gve miles northwest of the station
known as Ortiz on the Sonora railway.
The be1s are exposed to view in the
drainage basin OF Cslera creek, small
stream which empties into the Yaqui
river opposite Toniche. The ole min
ing town of Tsrahumsri is near the
center of the field.
The coal is found in a series OF inter-
hedded sands and clays in the upper
half of the sedimentary triassic rock
formations which are sometimes
called the new red sandstones. These
formations have q dip or inclination to
che horiz IN Of about thirty degrees, and
in d southessterly direction. The out
cropping edges of the beds therefore
trend northeasterly. But this dip and
che direction of out-crop are often dis
Jurbed ano changed By iutruded igneous
rocks by which the beds have lifted up
aud brok en-. The beds have also been
folded and fsulted. The dip and di &C.
tion of the coal beds have thus 'peen
modified and changed.
It is TO the interjection OF the igneous
or volcanic rocks we appear TO owe the
presence of coke. Passing upward
through the sedime ntary beds these
hot, semi-fuid, lava-iike rocks oc-
casionslIy spread out between the beds
like great blankets and being in paral-
lei layers with the coal beds the coal
was changed to coke by losing its
volatile portions. In this way the coke
appears to have been formed, for in
every instance close relation hip of
position has been noted between the
Intrusive rock aud the coke. "In the
two principal openings the igueous
rock either forms the roof, or is separ-
ased from the coke by very thin band
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20

"They wouldn't let Bill in the army
jest kaZe one arm WIZ shorter thar
t'other, an he'd lost his left ear an
couldn't hear out O. the right one. an
he wuz bowlegged on one side an
knockkneed on t'other, though the
cap'n said his gin'rul health wuz amaz-
in good, An Ihs whole community
has passed resolutions that this here
government is down on patriots an
orter be cussed outr'-Atlanta Consti-
tuition
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20

| New men are being daily emplOyed
at the railway shops.
The Office of landscape gardener has
bean abolished by the Santa Fe.
| Sam West, scale inspector for the
Texas & Pacific, is in town today.
Frank Sawyer, connected with the
Texas and Pacific Auditors Office in
Dallas, is in Ell Paso checking up to-
day.
j. A. Eddy, of the White Oaks, back
from up the line, says that every
| thing Is in good shape and that the
weather is fine.
Hereafter, ten days stopover will be
allowed on tickets cut of FL Paso over
the G. 81. for Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and Washington.
j. 81. Loomis went north on the
Santa Fe last night with the body of
his son who died here. His destina-
ton was Hillsdale, N. Y, his home.
The Santa Fe-Mexican through Pull
man was loaded to the guards this
morning. The pas sengers included q
party of eight from Terre Hsute, Ind.
Last year 1000 tons of steel rails were
delivered in Calcutta from the United
States, and large number of Ameri-
can engines have been contracted for
by various roads.
Conductor T. J. Murphy OF the Santa
Fee had his right ankle frac tured at
Gardiner. In jumping from one car to
another, he stepped on q lump of coal
which turned under his foot.
An idea of the passenger busip ess
over the G. b. and S. p. may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that Harry Turner
took in at the depot ticket office, in
oue day, as much as $1,000 recently.
Tom Heustis, in charge of the Pull
man which carried the officers on yes
Jer6 avs soldier train, was on the pol
ice force here several years ago, and
WAS later deputy collector in the
customs service at Demirg.
The Santa Fe city Office will be NOV
ed into the new Mills building office
about February /. Mr.. Houghtou and
his assistants are going over old papers
aod debris and having a general house
cleaning preparatory to the move.
Supt. Randolph notifies trainmen
that the new box and coal cars sent
out as having 50-ton capacity, are to
have load limit of 10000 pounds onlv.
These are the improved giant cars, the
first Of which passed through Ell Paso
over month ago.
c. a. Norman, in the shops at Ration,
met with quite Il painful accident q
DAY or two ago. In stepping from the
cab of an engine to y ladder, the lad
q er slipped and fell, throwing him into
the pitt breaking his right collar bone.
He was sent to the Las Vegas hospital.