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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
Collision ON the missouri Pacific.

Kansas City. DeG "a special to
The Star from Pabla, Kan, says
head-end collision occurred between
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29

Two are company until they're made
one.-Baltimore American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
sultan Barrieaded In Palace.

Tangiers, Dec. 29.-The sultan of
Morocco Is said to have retired to the
palace at Fez with all his available
artillery and ammunition ana to have
strongly barricaded himself in conse-
quence of the threatened attack on
the part of the rebels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
Situation So Serious
That Spain Will
Send Troops.
SULTAN is SCARED
BarriCaded in His Pal
ace and His Sol
dierS Chased.

Madrid, Dec. 29.-The Spanish gov
ernment. preparing for eventualities
in Morocco, has ordered that troops
at Malaga, Cadiz and Algciras to be
held in readiness to promptly rein
force the garrisons at Ceuta and Me-
lila, Morocco, should the situation
require it. \ Spanish cruiser has
been ordered to Tangier.
According to dispatches from Tan
gier, the rebels chased the troops of
the sultan of Morocco to the gates of
FeZ. 1t is reported Europeans are
preparing to leave Fez.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
SUMMING RESULTS.
Of the Fearful Disaster on the
Grand Trunk Rail-
road.
COMPLETE LIST OF THE VICTIMS
Accident Due to CareIessness in
Train Or
ders.

London, Dec. 29.-The most fright
full railroad accident jim the annals of
the past decade happened a short dis
lance from the little lstation of Wan
stead. on the Sarnja branch of the
Grand Trunk railway Friday night
The trains iii collision were the Pa
citic express and a freight. The eX-
press was running nearly two hours
late, and was making fast time The
freight was endeavOring to make a
siding to get clear of the express. but
failed by minute or two There
was dreadful crash. the locomotives
reared up and fell over in ditch. the
baggage car of the express telescopcd
and in an instant the shriekS and cries
of the wounded and the dying filed
the air.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
Regulations We're Disobeyed.

In the system of the Grand Trunk
this order should have been duplicated.
copy being given to the conductor
and engineer of the express. Instead
of this the conductor of the, express
received a clearance order. telling him
to run right through. The freight train
meantime had stopped mt Wanstead to
side track. and was telescOped by the
express. The binding storm which
was raging rendered objects invisible
at the distance of a few feet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29
Twenty Eight Is the Death Roll.

The loss of life is twenty-eight The
injured viii number considerably
more, and some of these may die
Many of the dead We're terribly mutt
lated. Heads Were cut off. legs
wrenched from the bodies. and the
level stretch of SHOW became crimson
with the blood of the victims. The
responsibility for the accident has not
been fixed. but it is believed to
have been due to a telegraph operators
error. The operator at one of the sta
tiOns where the two trains stopped
gave an order to the freight to pass
No. ,. the Pacific express. at Wan
stead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-29

Caracas, Dec. 29.-There is no truth
in the report circulated in the United
States that British marines have been
landed at La Guayra.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
ITO Be Continued
IRISH ABSURDITIES.
Amusing Instances of the Extreme
Simplicity of Country Folk of
the Emerald Isle.

Here are few samples of the alb
surdities arising out of the extreme
simplicity of some Irish folk, says
the London Spectator. A young man
came to confess to an Irish priest in
London whose experiences of the hui
mors of his fellow countrymen would
fill a book. 'Well, my man." said
the priest, "and how do you earn your
living?" I'm an acrowbat, your river
ence." The priest was nonplussed.
"Ill show you what ! mean in brace
of shakes" said the penitent, and in
a moment was turning himself inside
out in the most approved acrobatic
fashion in and out of the pews. An
old woman who had followed him to
confession looked on Mortified. when
it comes to my turn, father" she
rasped, "for the love of God don't
put pcnance on me like that; it 'ud
be the death of mel" / think it was
the same good father, who, observing
that regular attendance at a Lent
mission had done nothing to reform
one of his pariShioners, told him so,
and asked him the reason of it. "Ah!
father" he replied, 81 can manage
the faith right enough, but the morals
bate me-" On another occasion this
priest was called upon to marry a
man of whom he knew nothing to
girl of his congregation. On investi-
cation he found the would-be bride
groom's knowledge of the Catholic
faith very limited. "Have you ever
been baptized?" he asked. ''Well,
father, l can't trust my memory to
that" care your parents living?"
"The mother is.'' LETS have her
address," This was given, and tele
gram dispatched to the old lady on
the spot, reply paid. The answer
came in due course: "Vaccinated, but
=, ~ baptized -
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

higher, for 1t was said that the bonanza ex-
tended over the Consolidated Virginia in
such a way as to give the California mine
the larger part. California share worth
$S7 in September rose to $50 in January,
1915 making the valuation Of that mine
Ssl2+100N The 1870 feet on the lode which
mad been valued 1--WE years before at $io,V"
oi "aS no" ~ "a ,'t ~ ,t'e sen enc ol M
Of +bo os+i,na+ad ,aIno of +ba orc
- gio1,t - 41,i-4 4.sS. A., e1,,.s, Sar,.s
,.,- ~
with The great rsH,s artir7ates of The sctlI-
al ore in sight began to be In order. have
alluded to the first newspaper estimate of
ABOUT Nio"V'Vpo Next came Mr.. DleGes-
tenn and one Of The most carefrI minira
engineers on the Pacific coast HaranorteG
to the directors that there was 81. 500 Gt0 700
in sight, ard added that each mine ought to
pay in dividends 5000 a share under prop
er MANAGEMENT. A little later he cave
proof of his faith in his own report by put
ting every dollar he could raise into shares
in the two mines at the highest price. Even
the director of the Carson mint with his
assistants. who examined the bonanza.
was unable to fix any definite limit TO its
yield and thought there was not less than
500 900 900 ALREADY in sjrht. Mackay how
ever, a miner of UNSURPASSED Judgment. nj
terlv refused 10 make any estimate ard
fatIy said it was an impossible tasI, he
cause barren masses Of rock, porphvrI. the
difficulty of obtainira, accurate aseavs e,'G,
many other elements of ,Incartai,,ty ,,,aTn
calculation absurd He 'praferrad n rnina
if out first and tLen taka The nifIfrtr re-
turns
but the Gays OF the great bonanza,
and, in fact. of the whole COmstocll
lode. are yirtuaIIv oyrr NocI,,v and
-.
ms "SSocldteS DecdHe m!l4lohalFes,
and he and James &. Fair have since
then played prominent parts in other
,,.oII. f 1;f M. "a - - ~
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

there amt lot fA<re 1ust like him."
said the detective, sententiously.
THAT is what | say" Bainbri"se
agreed. Then, with sudden twinge of
remorse for having told Griswold's
story to stranger, he changed the
subject with an abrupt question.
"Where are you headed for, Gritfin?"
The detective chuckled. you don't
expect me to give it away to you-a
newspaper man-do you? But L will,
seeing you can't get it on the wires. [
am going down to Guatemala after
Morrison"
"1he defaulter? BY Jove! you've
found him at last, have you"
Griffin nodded. at takes a good
while, sometimes, but | don't fall down
very often when there's enough money
in it to make the game worth the can
die. I've been two years, off and on,
trying to locate that fellow; and now
I've found him he is where hecan't be
extradited. All the same, I'll bet you
five to one he goes back with me on
the eneXt steamer. Havea fresh smoke
No? Then let's turn in; it's getting
late"
ITO Ra Copttpuad
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
VIRGINIA CITY. NEVADA.

Dublin born, but had been in this coun-
try for a number of years, Is of which
he had spent in the mining camps of
the west.
At Virginia City practically all con-
ditions were against him, but he had
with him his own keen perception, his
industry and the good luck that some
times follows the miner. Within a
short time after the arrival of Mackay
William Sharon began the operations
that gave him control of virtually all
the paying properties in the Comstock
lode. He was backed by almost unlim-
tied means, and played the game with
all the audacity of the plunger, and
won. He controlled practically every
thing that was considered valuable IN
the mining districts of Nevada, and vir-
tuaIly manipulated the stocks to suit
his own convenience. His hand was
against all those who were not in
cluded in his combinations, if he
thought there was any possibility OF
their winning. He paid but little at
tention to Mackay and those interest
Ell Win nun, IOl LhC lN""''' 'i-''' .
did not expect them to win.
Passing over Mackay's early ven
tures and his work in the mines with
pick and shovel as an employe Of
others let us start him at the begin
ming of that venture which resulted
in the discovery of the Great Bonanza
and made of him a many times million
aire. With him were associated james
G. Fair, James {. Flood, William s.
O'Brien and j. NJ. Walker, though the
latter soon sold out his interests to
Mackay. The other four became the
four "bonanza kings" of the period.
There was one stretch of 1910 feet
on the lode that was believed to be
unprofitable. 1t had been operated by
assessable stock companies until the
Stockholders had refused to stand fur
fher assessments, and this could be
bought at a nominal price. Mackay
and Fair had both made considera BILE
money out of another venture they
had been interested in, principally a
matter of speculation, and they, with
the other three who became interest
ed with tneHl, cOulu pIoduCc Iufte d
sum of money. Together they bought
this tract of property, determined to
stake all they had upon its exploration
togreat depths The stretch of land had
cost them to secure control by buying
the majority of the stock in the mines
located upon it about 100000, but
this gave them three-fourths of all
the different stocks.
During 1872 they pushed drift
through at a depth of 1,167 feet, and
for months worked without finding
any trace of the treasure house for
which they were seeking. James G.
Fair was the uperintendent,a and at last
his trained eye discovered a narrow
seam of ore not wider than a knife
blade. He ordered his men to follow it,
and they did so. Overwork upon Fairs
part brought on a severe illness, and
during this illness the miners lost
trace of the narrow ore vein, but it
was found again when he returned to
his place in the mine. The work thus
far had cost many thousands Of dol,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

what l suspected. You couldn't keep
your peculiar views muzzled even
while you were writing bit of pot
boiler. That brings us back to the old
contention. You drop your fool So
cialistic fad and write book that
publisher can bring out without com
mitting commercial hari-kari, and
you'll stand some show. Light up and
fumigate that idea awhile"
Griswold took the proffered cigar.
at doesn't need fumigating; if could
consider it seriously, it ought to be
burnt with fire. You march in the
ranks of the well-fed, cambridge, and
it's your business to be conservative.
| don't, and it's mine to be radical"
"What would you have? The worlds
as it is, and you can't remodel it."
"Yes, / and my kind can remodel it,
and we will some day when the burden
has grown too heavy to be borne. The
aristocracy of rank went down in fire
and blood in France century ago;
that of money will come to its end here
when the time is ripe"
That's rank anarchy. didn't know
you'd gotten so far along"
Call it what you please; names
don't change facts. Listen"-Gris-
wold leaned across the table and his
eyes grew hard and the blue in them
was steeIy-"For more than a month
have tramped the streets of this ac-
cursed city begging-yes that's the
word-begging for work of any kind
that would suffice to keep body and
soul together; and for more than half
of that time, I've lived on one meal a
day. That is what we have come to-
we of the submerged majority. And
that isn't all; the wage-worker hims elf
is but serf, a chattel among the other
possessions of some fellow-man who
has acquired him in the plutocratic re-
distribution of the earth and the full
ness thereof"
cambridge applauded in dumb show
with his thumb-nails. Turn it loose
and ease your mind, old man." he said,
indulgentIy. Il know things haven't
been coming your way lately. What is
your remedy?"
Griswold was fairly started now, and
ridicule was as fuel to the flame.
"The money people have set us the
example. They have made us under
stand that might is right; that he who
has may hold-if he can. The answer
is simple; there is enough andto spare
for all, and it belongs to ALTO him
who has sown the seed and watered it
as well as to him who has reaped the
| harvest. That is violent remedy, you
will say. So be it; it is the only one
that will cure the epidemic of greed.
There is an alternative, but it is only
| theoretical"
"And that?"
"May be summed up in seven words:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy.
self When the man who employs
and governs-uses the power that
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

money gives him to succor his fellow
man, the revolution will be indefinitely
postponed"
cambridge looked at his watch. 81
must be going" he said; "the 'Adelan-
tado' drops down the river at eleven.
But in passing I'll venture a little
prophecy. You're down on your luck
now, and a bit hot-hearted in conse-
quence, but some day you will strike
it right and come out on top. When
you do, you'll be a hard master, or I'll
lose my guess"
God do so to me and more, if | am"
That's all right; when the time
comes you remember my little vatici-
nation. But before we shake handx
let's get back to concrete things for
the minute. How are you fixed for the
present, and what are you going to
do?"
GriswoId laughed mirthlessly. 81 am
fixed to run twenty-four hours long
er, thanks to your hospitality. For
that length of time | presume / shall
conform to what we have been taught
to believe is the natural order of
things. After that"
lie paused, and cambridge put the
question: "What then?"
"Then, if the chance to earn it is still
denied me, and l am sufficiently hun
CRY, shall stretch forth my hand and
take what | need"
cambridge fished in his pocket and
found ten-dollar bill. "Do that first" !"
he said, Offering Griswold the money.
The proletary smiled and shook his
head. "No; not to keep from going
hungry even to oblige you, Balm
bridge. 1t is quite possible that shall
end by becoming a robber, as you para
phrasers would put it, but | shan't be-
gin on my friends. Goodnight, and a
safe voyage to you"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
THE EXCITING DAYS OF
THE GREAT BONANZA MINE
Perseverance That Won Success and Fortune for the
Late John w. Mackay.

lars; stock assessments had been
made until it was thought the outside
stockholders would not stand another,
and the stock rapidly decreased, and
the daring operators were said by the
public to have come to grief. Sharon
and his followers were chuckling in
their sleeves at the seeming discom-
future of the men, who for a time they
feared might find the bonanza they
were seeking.
While matters were in this condition
the narrow metallic film so long fol-
lowed began to widen until it meas
ured seven feet across. A month more
of work, and the vein was 12 feet wide,
and a few weeks more saw the vein
40 feet wide. From this point a new
shaft was sunk $50 feet in a south
easterly direction, and the Great
Banana had been tapped; "the very
top had been pried off from natures
huge treasurehouse."
What had the daring prospectors
found? We will quote from Mr.. Shinn's
work to answer the question. First,
as to the rise in the value of the min
ing stock, which they held, and then
as to the value of the ore as estimated
by competent men:
g" The general public has been
reused to a sudden fever of excitement and
the value of the famous mines rose every
hour on the stock boards In December,
1874, Consolidated Virginia reached $lGo per
share, rising again In January to $700
which made the selling value Of the mire
$I5,6g5 ryJ. California stock went even
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
THE BAPTISM OF BELLS.
Religious Ceremony of the Roman
Church That Dates Back Many
Centuries.

Bells were solemnly baptized like
children-a custom which is still ex-
tant in the Roman church. This is
probably not a primitive practice,
and cannot be traced further back
than the reign of Charlemagne, says
the Geptleman's Magazine. 1t is first
distinctly mentioned in the time of
Pope John XIII. (0SS), when he gave
his own name to the great bell of the
Lateran church. SIeidan gives an ac-
count of the ceremonial to be OBJ
served. First of all, the bells must
be so hung that the Bishop may be
able to walk round them. When he
has chanted a few psalms in a low
voice, he mingles water and salt, and
consecrates them, diligently spring
ling the bell with the mixture, both
inside and out. Then he wipes it
clean, and with holy oil describes on
it the figure of the cross, praying
the while that when the bell Isl
swung up and sounded, faith and
charity may abound among men; all
the snares of the devil-hail, light
ming, winds, storms-may be rem
dered vain, and all unreasonable
weather be softened. After he has
wiped off that cross of oil from the
rim he forms seven other crosses on
it, but only one of them within. The
bell is censed, more psalms are to be
sung, and prayers put up for its well
fare. After this, feasts and banquet
ings are celebrated, just as at a we'd
ding"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
He Had Money.

Little Tommy sat way back in
church with his mamma. 1t was his
first experience. Everything was
wonderful to him. BY and by the
collection was taken, but imagine the
surprise of Tommy's mother, when
the usher passed the plate, to hear
Tommy say: mo, thank you, I've got
some money of my own."-Detroit
Free Press.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
His Parting shot

The Actor (about to leave the one
night stand)-That sign on the wall
reads: Accommodation for Man and
Beast" doesn't it?
The Landlord (of the Mansion house)
That's what she doexl
The Actor-Well, I'd advise you to
obliterate the man" if you don't want
to be arrested for swindling, some day.
-Pnck
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
Libel on ATnc.

Clara-Oh! I'm really learning
great deal about baseball. l found
out what n base hit means without
asking George.
Mabel-Did you, really?
YES, the paper said McGraw hit
the umpire with bat and in the
score he is credited with a base nit,
so that must be the onC."-Chelsea
Gazette.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
RerIIn's Hack UOoIx.

Berlin's black book. the criminal
record kept by the police, now con-
lists of 81 volumes, containing 21,0OO
photographs of criminals of all
classes.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

=sSas wildly to mind the exciting
days of the discovery of the
great Bonanza mine in the Comstock
lode at Virginia City. 1t will be many
year hence before those days in the
early seventies will be forgotten by
the mining interests of this country,
and, while equally as great deposits of
metal have since been found in many
places, and especially in Montana and
the placer mines of Alaska, none have
produced greater upheaval in finan-
cial circles than did the discovery of
the Great Bonanza.
What is without doubt the best and
most interesting record of the dis
covery of the Bonanza mine is given by
Mr.. Charles Howard Shinn in his vol
ume entitled "The Story of the Nine"
issued by d. Appleton & Co., as one of
their STORY of the West" series. 1t is
from this volume that we quote much
of the following article, with the kind
permission of the publishers.
Among the hundreds who were at
tracted to Virginia City in 1860 was
Mackay. He had been placer mining
in California since 1852. In that state
he had experienced the ups and downs
that come to virtually all prospectors,
and with his last stake he removed to
Nevada to try his luck in the new dig
gings in the Comstock lode. lie was
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
Knows by Experisnce

When a town man makes n little
garden, he thinks every farmer ought
to be the happiest man on earth
Washington Qa.) Democrat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21
CHAPTER ii.

The fruit steamer "Adelantado," >"
outward bound, fell away from he1
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-21

He recent death of John W.
Mackay, and the recording
of his will which disposes
of his vast fortune, bring
wildly to mind the exciting
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-02
Omcers, Diniculties.

An inexperienced military officer Is
sure to encounter grave difficulties In
the practical management of soldiers
in the field. A reporter represents a
scene at a general inspection Of a vol
unteer battalion, in which Lieutenant
Tompkins-an excellent fellow, but a
poor soldiers called out TO show the
general and the British public what he
knows. Says the General:
Now, sir, you have the battalion in
quarter-eolumn. facing zsdtI. How
would you get it into line. In the quick
est possible way. facing northwest =
well. sir" says Lieutenant Tomp-
kins, after fruitless consideration. do
you know, that's what I've always won
deredi"
This officers ingenuity was not equal
TO that Of Abraham Lincoln. when he
was a captain Of Illinois volunteers In
the Blackhawk war. 1t is related that
during this campaign Lincoln once had
his company marching in a column
twenty men wide when be was sudden
~ confronted with high fence with
an open gate through which only one
man could pass AT a time. He had no
idea Of the proper way to get his men
into siEcle file. so be halted tie CON-
pany and said.
This company is dismissed But Il
win come together Immediately after
getting through that gater'