The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1903-02-07

viii not be docked for the loss OF a
lew nours of time.
ROBERT Edgar Vance, an actor. 81
years Cf age, died recently at Saltl-
more, I'D, hospital. rive weeks ago
AIr. vance nose began 10 bleed anu
ne was IeuloS Cd 10 Iue hospital. Every
Anown remedy was trled Wy the pny-
sIclans ana surgeons to relieve the
sunsrsr without avail.
At Ambassador Meyers request,
queen Helena, making an eXcspLlOn IN
Inis case, as ner majesty 10 in mourn
ing Tor her grandfather. received in
private audience recently Miss Csrsw.
me Aisterln-law Of Prssiasnt koose-
Welt. The queen was very gracious
and expressed great liking for
America.
Word comes from the Little Horn
River country OF the death OF Spotted
Horse, one time chief of the Grow
tribe Of Indians.
The breaking OF an elevator cable
in the Joseph Creswsll building, at
Denver, recently, caused the manning
and bruising OF seven persons, enc
of whom may be crippled for life.
The date for the international Ep-
worth league convention, to be held
in Detroit next summer, has been
finally fixed. The session will begin
July 16 and continue through Sunday.
July 10.
News of the death at Garnet of
Jack Riley, a pioneer miner of Mon
cana is reported. Riley had been con-
cerned in the development of practi-
cally every mining camp Of Montana
and the Occur d'Alene district and
was well known among miners. His
death was sudden and probably due to
neart disease or paralysis.
A movement is on foot, according
to a Glendive report. for the forma-
ton of a new state to be called Mon
tague, and which Is to be formed by
separating that portion of Montana
east of the Belt mountains and that
portion of North Dakota west of the
Missouri river.
Recently occurred a grim tragedy
with dire results to the Finnish set
tiers on Maolcom island. some dis
lance up the coast from Vancouver.
In a terrible holocaust which broke
out while the men were at a meeting,
in a common living house In which
"a families were living, IL women and
IL injured.
Spy OAK" said to be the largest
tree In New York state. standing on
the Pelham road. Westchester. has
Oeen condemned as unsafe, and will
probably soon be cut down, 1t having
become hollow and In danger of fall
ing. 1t is said that many spies and
leserters we're hanged from this tree
turing the revolutionary war.
A sensation was created in politi-
cal circles at Helena recently by the
arrest of Miss Jessie Waters. who
vas brought to Helena from Butte
20 give testimony for the prosecution
IN the impeachment case against
Judge Harvey, now pending before
the judicial committee of the house
Miss Waters was arrested on the
charge that che 10 -y~-t-I - D-ss-
Tor having committed perjury In con-
lection with the Minnie Healy mine
litigation.
A shaft sunk on El Dorado creek
near Dawson struck second bedrock
SO feet below the first bedrock with
Fix feet of pay gravel running as high
rs $25 to the bucket. The strike was
not far from the famous gusher,
which is now about under control.
The new strike knocks all mining
.heories and opens a way to remark
lble possibilities. Other shafts are
low beink sunk. If lower bedrock
actually exists, the Klondike district
nay repeat itself, judging by the pay
IRE found. 1t is believed there are
till other strata below those found.
rhe gusher, when struck. ran
'tream three feet wide. seven inches
deep at the rate of "a miles an hour.