Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1903-08-05

$500 to be paid each widow, with $50
additional for each child in the family.
The coroner's inquest over the remains
Of the victims Of the explosion will be-
gin Monday. It will be several weeks
before 1t is concluded.
The Mountain Lion, in Republic,
which has been closed down for over
a year, will be started again about the
middle of the month under the new
Of A. E. Palmer.
The nine mines of the Amalgamated
Copper company, which suspended
July 1, because of the incompletion of
the gigantic flues of the Washoe smell
tiers at Anaconda, by which 1t is
planned to remedy the smoke nuisance,
will resume the hosting of ore about
August 20.
Patrick Clark has suspended opera
lions on the Blue Ledge mine in Siski-
you county, California, on which he
has a bond for $250,O00. Mr.. Clark
says: Have stopped work on the
property. Development is not salts
factory for the price asked"
G. B. Dennis Of Spokane has Sc
cured control of the famous Muscovite
mica mines, Is miles from Vollmer,
Idaho, and he expects to start opera
lions again within a month.
I'VE shall work about 20 miners and
about 40 girls" said Dennis recently.
There is a ready market for our
mica, and believe that the Muscovite
mines will be in position to produce as
much high class mica as all the rest of
the quarries in mines in America put
together. The mine was worked regu.
larly until 1896, when it came under
the influence Of the mica trust and was
closed. Two years ago l operated II
for time with about 10 miners and
20 girls. Now that have secured com.
plete control I shall push operations
steadily.
Suit was brought in Spokane recent
ly by the Lucille Dreyfus Mining com
pany to cancel $4,000 shares Of false
and fraudulent certificates and raised
certificates held by about $50 people
The complaint makes 1856 persons de
PENDANTS and sets out in detail 1,109,
900 shares of false certificates, raised
certificates and stolen certificates
upon which the court is asked to pass
judgment. The action is brought to
secure legal solution Of the Difficult
ties caused by the criminal acts Of
Howard ]. Kressly, the absconding sec
rotary Of the company.
Bringing 1923 passengers and $3.50,
900 in treasure, the steamship Roanoke
arrived in Seattle from Nome last
week.
The owners of the Barnes-King mine
were made jubilant when returns from
their assay Office showed that the
north drift from the 200 foot level was
all in ore Of high grade, says the Ken
dali Chronicle. The whole face of the
drift averages $12 to the ton, and
which can be treated at profit Of $1(
per ton.
Leroy Masterson, foreman at the
steel works, Pueblo, COL, was muir
dered recently while lying asleep. Sus
picion rests on members of a gang oil
laborers of which the dead man has
charge, and 16 of them have been ar
rested. Masterson had, the night be
fore, discharged three men. The weap
on used in the murder was shovel
and his skull was fractured.
Development of the noted Liverpool
mine, in Lump gulch, about ten miles
from Helena, gives indications that
that old time producer will soon rival
its former record. Over half mil
lion dollars was taken out of the mine
about the 400 foot level-in early
days.
James H. Chaffee, one of the heroes
Of Bret Harte's story, "Tennessee's
Pardner," is dead in Oakland, CAL, al
the age Of so years. For 45 years he
and his old partner, Chamberlin, lived
and mined and trusted each other, nc
shadow ever clouding their friendship
and it was the chivalrous affection
which existed between the two meI
which Bret Harte painted in his in
comparable manner. The partners
lived for years at Second Garrotte,
40 miles distant from Yosemite valley
and thousands of Americans and PEG
pie from all parts Of the world who
have visited the valley have met the
old pioneers. Chaffee was born at Wor
cester, Mass.