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The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
GARDEN CITY DISTRICT
New Lodges Opening and Cyanide
Plants Going In.

Special to The Journal.
Lead, S. D., May 17.-Plans are being
made for a cyanide plant in the Garden
City district, which is rich in low grade
cyanide ore. Ernest Moy and associates,
of this city, own thirty-six claims in
one group, which have been developed by
a 25O-foot shaft, and about 200 feet of
crosscutting. A shoot of ore from two to
six feet thick has been encountered. which
is about 100 feet wide. The ore cyanides
we'll. A company has just been organized
to erect a cyanide plant and further de-
velop the property. A movement has been
started by half a dozen other mine own
ers in this district to consolidate five
groups of mining claims and erect a cyan
ide plant. The Garden City Mining com
pany is opening up ledge OF free milling
ore, which is supposed to be a continua-
tion Of the Homestake lode. The vein is
about twenty feet wide A shoot of cyan
iding ore has also been opened up. An
old chlorination plant in this camp was
recently turned into a cyanide plant and
exhaustive experiments were made on all
Of the ores in the mines, the results be-
ing entirely satisfactory. The camp could
supply a 200-ton custom cyanide plant
with ore at the present time.
Otto Grantz, the owner of the rich Hid
den Fortune mine in the North Lead dis
trict, says the Hidden Fortune company,
of Denver, will find the Homestake ore
lode by sinking on the ground that has
been bonded. GrantZ says that he has
often heard blasts from the Homestake
workings, which have sounded almost
beneath his own ground. The Homestake
company is taking out ore close to the
division line Of the two properties
Grantz asserts that he would not be at
all surprised to find that the Homestake
company has encroached upon his ground.
The Hidden Fortune company is a strong
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
IN A POOL OF BLOOD
Details of the Murder of Young
Ayers in Washington.
A WOMAN WAS SEEN ESCAPING
One of the Most Mysterious Trage-
dies the National Capital
Ever Witnessed.


Washington, May 1.-THE entire Wash
ington detective force is engaged on a
murder case which has all the contradict
ory and mysterious elements of the Sher-
lock Holmes stories. An uproar was heard
in a family hotel-the Kenmore-Tuesday
night about o'clock; three shots were
fired a voice cried twice for help; wild
commotion ensued; and in the morning
the police found in one of the hotel rooms
the dead body of James Seymour Ayers,
jr., young man q years old, of unof-
Tending disposition and apparently un-
blemished record. He had been shot three
times.
The only clue lies in the testimony of a
lneighbor, who states that he saw woman
leave the window of the young man 8
room, and in several bloodstains found on
the fire escape and along the corridor. No
arrests have been made. Every guest has
been examined. The neighbors have been
questioned. AS near as can be learned the
young man had no attachments of any
sort; there was no motive which could
reasonably prompt murder, and nobody
knows anything more than the meager
outline given above.
The victim was a clerk in the census
bureau and was appointed from Michigan.
His father. US. Ayres, sr., is an insur-
ance agent and lives at Grand Rapids.
The youth was a student in dental col
lege and had just passed his final exam
ination. He was known to the other guests
only through casual conversation about
the dinner table, and through their asso-
citation with him at the few dances given
through the winter. BY everybody's testi-
mony he bore himself with dignity and
kept entirely free from such alliances as
that suggested by the murder. Tuesday
night he returned to the hotel at mid
night, spoke casually to two or three
young men about the lobby, and retired.
The pistol shots and the cries for help
awoke nearly all the boarders. Heads
Eere thrust from all the windows at once
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17

ORDER FOR CREDITORS TO PRESENT
CLAIMS.
State of Minnesota.-County Of Hennepin.-
Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Eliza Kiely,
deceased.
Letters Of administration on the estate OF
Eliza Kiely, deceased, late OF the county OF
Hennepin, and state of Minnesota, being
granted to William H. Webster, of said coun-
ty and state.
1t is ordered. that six months be and the
same is hereby allowed from and after the
date of this order, in which all persons nav
ing claims or demands against the said de-
ceased are required to file the same in the
Probate Court of said county, for examina-
ton and allowance. or be forever barred.
1t is further ordered. that the first Monday
in December, 1901, at 10 O'Clock a. M, at
general term of said Probate Court, to be
held at the courthouse in the city of Mime
apolis, in said county, be and the same IS
hereby appointed as the time and place when
and where the said Probate Court will ex-
anime and adjust said claims and demands.
And it is further ordered that notice OF
such hearing be given to all creditors and
persons interested in said estate by forthwith
publishing this order once in each week for
three successive weeks in The Minneapolis
Journal. newspaper printed and published
in said county.
Dated at Minneapolis this 18th day OF May,
F. C. HARVEY,
Judge of Probate
Cohen. Atwater & Shaw,
Attorneys for Administrator.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
FERGUS COUNTY MINES
Mill Likely to BE Built for the Wall
dOrf-Draper Group.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Livingston, Mont, May H. In the
North Moccasin mining district great
activity is still observed, especially on
the northeast slope of the range in the
vicinity of the Kendall mines. The syn
dicate that has lately bonded the Waldorf
Draper group of claims for $4,000 will
begin operations this week. This group
joins the Kendall mines on the north and
very encouraging showing appears for
the small amount of development work.
The bonding company has in v4eW the
erection of a cyanide plant as soon as the
continuation Of the ore has been verified
to such an extent as to warrant it.
The building of the mill on the Barnes
group, which joins the Waldorf-Drap
group on the north, is proceeding. This
plant when completed will have a daily
capacity of 100 tons and the mines from
which it will be supplied have an ore re-
serve of $1,000 tons of good grade cyanide
ore to work upon. Much difficulty has
been experienced in securing lumber and
the work has been somewhat retarded on
this account but Superintendent MCLEAN
is confident that the entire plant will be
ready to begin operations by July 1.
It is reported that the Finch & Campbell
company will soon remove the mill now
in operation at their mines and begin the
erection Of plant having daily capacity
of 800 tons.
In the vicinity of the old camp Of Maiden
in the Judith range, Fergus county, much
prospecting is being done, but there are
only few properties that are employing
forces of men. The famous old Spotted
Horse mine that produced several for
tunes, is being worked by the A. S.
Wright company, and employs twenty-five
men steadily. A new hosting plant has
been placed at the mine and the property
generally has been rehabilitated and is
in much better shapt than it has been for
many years.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17

and two or three men called out: What's
wrong down there?' A voice, evidently
that of a woman replied: 81 don't see
anything here" and a minute later, I've
heard some pistol shots" There was
some scattered comment the windows
began to close one by one and as no one
seemed inclined to investigate, no IN
vestigation was made.
In the morning, as Ayers did not re-
spond when called, policeman was sent
for. When the door had been broken
open the young man was seen doubled
forward in a pool Of blood near the win
daw. His undershirt, his only covering.
was stained by blood and powder He had
been shot three times-once just over the
heart, once in the left arm and once in
the left thigh. A report was made that
he had committed suicide.
With the arrival of the coroner, how
ever, the case took on a different aspect
A torn fan was picked up from the floor,
and the pistol found on a trunk within
about three feet of the body. Both the
barrel and trigger Of the pistol were be-
smeared with blood, but the handle was
quite clean. Three of its six cartridges
had been fired. Outside on the fire escape
two clots of blood were found in such
places they could not have been caused
by blood squirting from Ayers wound
Moreover the two shots in his left side
had entered from behind and inclined
toward the right. Detectives were sum-
moned to examine the hotel and question
the guests Down the fire escape, two
flights, were discovered several other
bloodstains, then two or three near the
window, inside the corridor, and then a
blotch such as might have been caused
by the brushing of a bloody garment.
OF the versions given by the young
mans fellow boarders, only two were
noteworthy. The young woman who oc-
cupied the room next his, Miss Kate Law
lus, an employe In the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing, claimed to have slept
throughout the whole disturbance, and
Miss Mary Minas, who is also clerk In
the census bureau, and has the room or
the other side of that occupied by Ayers
distinctly heard the shots and confusion
but was too frightened to make any out
cry. Thomas NJ. Baker, clerk in the
fish commission, has room in a house
near the Kenmore, from which he saw
more than any one else. He is confident
a woman in her night dress stepped out o1
the window in Ayers room, descended the
fire escape slowly, and left the iron stair
way at the point marked by the blood
stains. Mrs Warfield, wife of the hotel
proprietor, volunteered the theory that
Ayers had shot himself accidentally and
had then killed himself because of the
great suffering that followed. Both Mrs
Warfeld and her husband have left the
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
ACTIVE AT THE souDAN
Several Train Loads of Ore Shipped
Daily From the Hoist.

Special to The Journal.
Tower, Mimi, May 1.-THE Minnesota
Iron company is working 400 men at its
Soudan mines, shipping several trainloads
daily from the hoist. No stockpile ship
ments are made yet. The company is
working eleven diamond drills, of which
three are nearly 1000 feet underground
and are at the old Lee property south Of
the hill. An underground drill has found
good ore nearly 100 feet from other lenses
in Montana shaft.
Chandler Iron company at Ely has
about 100000 tons in stock and is hoist
ing 2.100 tons day, all Of which latter is
being shipped. But the day shift is worked
now, about 500 men.
Pioneer mine is operating 500 men and
expects to ship SOC, 600 tons this year. 1t
has not far from 25O.OO0 tons on the sur
face and is hoisting 1000 tons daily.
With boats running freely, the mine will
push harder.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
BALTIC IS GETTING THERE
Twenty-Five Pounds of Copper to the
Ton of Rock.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Houghton Mich, May 1.-THE April
record of the Baltic in making twenty-five
pounds of copper for each ton of rock is
very satisfactory. The first six months
run of Baltic rock at the Atlantic mill
gave only seventeen pounds of copper
ton. The experience Of the Baltic resem-
bles that of the Wolverine, which gave
less than seventeen pounds ton for the
first year, but is now running about
twenty-seven pounds ton. earning for
the Wolverine the local nickname of 'the
Little Calumet & Hecla.' The Baltic lode
is a new one never mined before the
opening Of the Baltic mine, and, conse-
quently, there was lacking the knowledge
of the characteristics Of the lode enjoyed
by many new mines opened on extensions
of lodes already developed by adjoining
mnies.
1t is expected that orders will soon be-
received by the local officials Of the At
lantic to begin exploring for the north
ern extension of the Baltic lode on Sec
ton sixteen, owned by the Atlantic COM
pany. The powerful new hoist at 'D''
shaft of the Atlantic went into commits
sion on Monday, giving perfect satisfac-
tion. The new hoist means larger pro-
duction of rock. secured at smaller cost
per ton.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
PLACER GOLD FOUND
WOOdchOppers Make Sensational
Find at Republic, Wash.

Special to The Journal.
Republic, Wash, May 1.-Two wood
choppers in the employ of Smith Bros. Of
this place, while getting out cordwood at q
point on Granite creek about two miles
west of town, near the old sawmill, picked
up some nuggets. One, it is said is worth
500.
The men Immediately abandoned work
on the wood contract, and selecting spot
close to the waters edge, sunk hole
about four feet square to depth of three
feet, at which depth they were on top Of
decomDosed bedrock, and, in the course
of this small amount of work. which took
but few hours, they took out nearly
500 in coarse gold.
Two hundred citizens left town at once
for the scene of the strike, and many
claims were staked.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
Copper Properties Under Bond.

Special to The Journal
Big Timber, Mont, May 17.-E. B. Witch
of Livingston has bonded nine copper claims
in the Boulder district south of town. He
represents an eastern syndicate which will
place diamond drill at work at once. The
bond runs for six months and is for $50 OOO.-
Frank Bliss has returned from his mine on
the East Boulder and brought with him sew
eral sacks of ore some of which assay 40 per
cent in copper. The tunnel is now in 1SC
feet and in a short distance more the main
ore body will be encountered.-George NJ
Hatch is at work at his mine on Big Timber
creek and has opened it up far enough to
show it is a valuable property.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17

this case, the decision Of which will be
rendered before the final dissolution of the
body on June "A. The sailing of the steamer
Itata from California with a cargo of arms
and ammunition for Chile and her subsequent
surrender to the United States cruiser
Charleston, constituted one OF the most stir
ring events OF the Chilean trouble Of 1891.
Out of this grows the claim.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17

concern and no money will be lacking to
make it another Homestake company.
The Belt Development company has its
shaft down 40 feet on the ground south
of this city. A first payment, amounting
to several thousand dollars, has been
made to some OF the ground owners in the
past few days 1t is practically certain
that the Homestake ore lode will be en-
countered in 300 feet. The Homestake
ycompany has a big ledge in the end of
the Savage tunnel, about 600 feet south of
the Belt Development companys shaft.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
A CHUEAN CLAIM.

Washington, May 1.-THE celebrated Itata
case, involving a claim Of SS2O,o00 against
the government of the United States, is about
TO be deteFmined by the Chilean claims com
mission, An adjournment has been taken to
Permit the exchange of briefs and the com
mission will reoonvene on June to consider
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
Manufacturing Industries wanted.

Substantial inducements are being Of
fered for manufacturing or other indus
tries at several points on the Iowa Cen
trail Railway where there are good ia
cilities and natural advantages. Parties
seeking new location should communicate
with George S. Batty, general passen-
ger and ticket agent Iowa Central rail-
way, Marshalltown, Iowa.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
ASHLAND NINE SOLD
Cleveland Cliffs Company Pays $2,-
100000 for the Property.

Ashland, Wis, May 1.-THE Clevelan,
Cliffs Mining company has just purchase,
the Ashland mine from the Haye
Brothers, the consideration bein
1880, 900.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
Trains to the Lake, Sunday, May Is

Leave Minneapolis & St. Louis depot at
GAS a. m, and 1870 p. N. Returning leave
Tonka Bay at 4:ho and 200 D. N. Round
trip tickets soc.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
MOTHERS BOOK.

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The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
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Gates Iron Works, of Chicago, Ill.
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The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
sIinnetOnka Trains via "The MIL
Uaukee."

Commencing Monday, May 1S, cottagers'
train, Minnetonka to Minneapolis and re-
turn, daily except Sunday, Will be run as
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17

Kenmore and gone to another hotel under
their management-the Takoma Park
house. in TakOma Park, Md.
The Minneapolis journal., 1901-05-17
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
FIRE DESTROYS A TRAIN.
Two Men Killed and Three Badly
Hurt as the Result of n Collision at
Coal VALLEY. PA.

Pittsburg, March 1.-Two men
dead, three badly hurt and n passen-
ger train burned is the result of a
head-on collision between passenger
train No. 16, southbound, and local
Charleston railroad last evening at
Coal Valley, Pa, five miles from Nc
keesport. The dead are:
Frank White, engineer, of Union
town, horribly mangled
Milton S. Thompson, mail clerk, of
Brownsville, leg burned off, hurt in
ternally, died on the way to hospital.
The injured are:
{. Shaver, fireman, Uniontown, bad
ly scalded and bruised.
Charles Stroud, baggagemaster,
bruised and burned.
Michael Kulik, Schoenville, a pas
senger, back hurt.
Immediately after the collision the
passenger cars took fire and were
soon totally destroyed, only one car
escaping the flames. The trains in
collision were the Uniontown express,
southbound, and the local freight
coming toward Pittsburg. The local
was standing on a siding between the
north and south bound tracks deliver
ing freight at the time. For some
reason, as yet unknown, the express,
instead of keeping to the main track,
shot off into the siding and telescoped
the other train. All of the victims
were on the express train, which car
ried between so and 60 passengers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
WILLIAM M. EVARTS DIES.
Famous Lawyer. Statesman and Poll
itician Has Crossed the Divide.

New York, March William NJ.
Evarts, the celebrated lawyer, died at
his home here Thursday, aged SO
years.
In the impeachment trial of Presi-
dent Andrew johnson, in 1868, Mr..
Evarts was the leading counsel for
the defendant, and from July, 1868, to
the close of Mr.. Johnson's adminis-
ration, he was attorney general for
the United States.
In 1872 he was counsel for the Uni
ted States in the tribunal of arbitra-
ton on the Alabama claims at Gene
va, and in the celebrated Tilton-
Beecher case in 1875, he was at the
head of Mr.. Beecher's counsel.
He also argued the republican side
of the case before the electoral COM
mission in 1877. Upon the accession,
in March, 1877, of Mr.. Hayes to the
presidency, he was made secretary of
state. position which he retained
until the close of Mr.. Hayes term.
in 1881 From 1885 to 1891 he was
United States senator from New
York,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-03-07
THEY'RE EMBARRASSED.
Constitution Builders Try to
Find Where They are At"
WOOD GIVES GOOD ADVICE.
The Governor General Urges Mem
bers of the COnsIitut utiOnaI Convention
TO Go Slow and Not Take Amy Rash
Action.

Havana, March 2.-Senor Capote,
president of the Cuban constitutional
convention, called upon Gov Gen.
Wood yesterday and informed him
that the convention felt itself in an
embarrassing position, owing to the
vote in the United States senate. He
said the delegates had not decided
whether to continue the sessions or
to dissolve.
Gen. Wood advised him to urge the
convention not to take any rash ac-
ton, but to complete it's work as
originally outlined, drawing up the
electoral law.
Friday afternoon the delegates
held an informal meeting and. after
some discussion, agreed to wait until
congress had acted upon the Cuban
amendment.
The full text of the amendment
was received by Gen. Wood Tuesday
night and was given the following
morning to Senor Tamayo, chairman
of the relations committee. Senior
Tamayo said at the time that the
committee had reached it's conclu-
sions, but he was urged to withhold
announcement of those conclusions
until the proposed amendment had
been considered, in order to avoid the
possibility of radical changes of
opinion if the amendment should be
adopted.
The convention, nevertheless, in
sisted upon announcing its views pub
licly and Immediately, before present
ing them to Gen. Wood, who did not
receive them in official form until 20
hours later.
The conservative element feels that
this act coupled with the conven-
tion's ignoring the views of the ex-
ecutive department at Washington,
has placed the Cubans in an unenvi-
able light.
Several Delegates on hearing that
congress had adopted this amend
ment said this would not affect the
attitude of the convention, as it's
members would not agree to the
scheme of relations suggested in the
amendment.
When the attention of Gen Gomez
was called yesterday to statement
cabled from New York that he was
very angry over the report circulat-
ed in the United States, that he had
expressed himself against the with
drawal of the United States troops
at present from Cuba, he informed
a former staff officer that he had
made the statement and that any de-
malls were immat aterial.