Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-28

Anaconda Copper Mining company, en-
ploying $50 men, is shut down. The
shutdown was made necessary by dam
| age done in the shaft and engine room
by slide of earth, a displacement of
1 fully seven inches having occurred in the
last few months. The foundation of the
big hosting machinery, which was put
down at cost of $4,000 has been
broken and has showed out of place.
| The gasoline lamp under one of the
! linotype machines in the Anaconda
Standard office at Anaconda exploded at
$3.50 o'clock Monday afternoon, starting
fire that temporarily put the plant out
of service All of the machines were
more or less damaged, as much by water
as by fire. The press, however, escaped
injury. The fire got into the double roof
of the Standard building, where it did
considerable damage to the structure.
Five masked men entered the saloon
and gambling room belonging to C. L.
McGinnis at Pendleton, Ore, at 1920
Monday night and took about $500.
Fully 20 persons We're in the room at the
time. The robbers waited until the bar
tender left the bar with drinks and then
rushed in, telling the crowd and dealers
to Hold up your hands," One guarded
the front door, two covered the crowd
The other two went through the faro and
roulette banks and commanded McGin-
mis- to open the safe.
Fully 5000 people saw w. NJ. Ross of
Phoenix, b. c., and G. S. Mcleod of
Sandon, B. c., break a record in the
drilling contest at the big tent ON the
Elks' jubilee grounds at Spokane.
They drove 81 inches in hard granite in
Is minutes. Miners declare that this
forms new worlds record. The previ-
Gus record, they assert, was that which
was made in Spokane by Freethey and
Davey on October 8, 1896, when they
drilled 40 3S inches.
There were three teams in last even
in9's contest They were: Frank Stevens
and Peter Spaulding of Murray, Idaho,
James Davey and II. Stephens of Marys-
vile, Mont, and w NJ. Ross and G. S.
Mcleod, known as the Rossland team.
The record made by each team was as fol-
lows:
Rossland team, 81 inches.
Marysville team. As 27-32 inches
Murray team, AZ 1916 inches.
Butte team, 55 inches.
Osburn team, AZ 3-4 inches.
The prizes given for the rock drilling
contest at the Elks' carnival at Spokane
have been won as follows:
First prize, $500-Walter Bradshaw
and Joseph Freethy of Butte, distance
drilled 55 inches.
Second prize, $30O-W. NJ. Ross and
G. S. Mcleod of British Columbia, dis
lance drilled 81 inches.
Third prize, SOON. NJ. Cummings
and C. NJ Patterson of Osburn, Idaho,
distance drilled AZ "a inches.
Fourth prize, $50-James Davey and
Henry Stephens of Marysville, Mont,
distance drilled 40 1882 inches.
Walter Bradshaw and Joseph Freethy,
the Butte team, smashed all known rec
ords and distanced state records by many
inches in the second day of the rocs; drill
ing meet. At 81 inches tn~.- broke
through the bottom of the block, and
taking dulled starter they run new
hole down three inches before the Is min
utes elapsed Their record of So inches
raised the record made the night before
by Ross and Mcleod of British Columbia
four inches.
The exhibition was without doubt one
of the most remarkable ever made in the
whole world. 1t is hard to compare it
with records made in other parts of the
world, as granite varies in hardness, and
the Spokane is rather soft on account of
its low percentage of quartz.