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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29
loHN GRAYoT's SPEECH


" had it., effect
JOHN GRAYoT's SPEECH.
Hon. John L. Grayot next took
the stand. At the commencement
Of his speech be was rather hosrse
but this gradually wore of and he
soon launched into one of his
characteristic rafting, roaring tor
rents Of argument aud eloquence
A large portion of his address WAS
devoted to the dastardly conspira-
cy 10y which Gov. William Goebel
was deprived of his life. He show
ed how the conspiracy had been
Matched by the leaders of the Re
publican party at Frankfort and
carried TO its fatal issue by the
bringing of those hordes OF wild
and dangerous mountain men to
the State capital, aud he descrlb-
ed IN pathetic language the track
Of the assassin's bullet AS ii sped
on its deadly errand from the win
dow of Caleb Powers office into
the vtas of lite distinguished vic
tim, and denounced the inhumani-
ty of w. ). Taylor, who, instead of
rushing forward to the assistance
of his fallen foe, as every instinct
of humanity should have prompt
ed, stood calmly and ooldly view
ing the bleeding human ruin.
Mr.. Grayot also paid his re-
spects to his young competitor,
Mr. Walter A. Black burn; said he
had never practiced law, never had
case in court, either as proseou.
tor OF defendant. and that under
the terms of the statute he was in
eligible to the office, even if elect
ted; that he had not been a prac-
tlcing lawyer for four years, as
the statute requires, nor for one
year, nor one month. He said that
Walter A. Black burn, in prosehut-
ing case with such men as Ollie
James or Allie Moore as his oppo.
nents, would be but a pigmy to
those legal giants.
Mr.. Grayot said he had defeat
ed such hrst-class lawyers as Allie
Moore and Charlie Gresham for
the office, and he hoped the Lord
has no such humiliation in store
for him AS a defeat at the hands of
such small potatoes as Wslter.A
Mr.. Grayot has made one of the
best and most successful Prosecu-
ting Attorneys the district has ev-
or had. He has fully equaled the
bright legal record of Henry Pow
ell, he is one of the most popular
men in the district, and you can
bet your last ten cent piece that
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

In prospecting on the Catharine
White property, controlled by the
Crittenden Mining company, a
body of surface hu0r spar more
than II feet wide has been uncov-
ored at the junction of two veins
near the zinc shaft on the same
ground. This fuor spar is of the
same makeup IN color and density
as the Memphis Mine product,
which is rated the best in the dis
trict. John Harpendihg, who has
prospected the district very thor
oughly, says that this is the Mem
phis vein, and Judging from the
several assures existing in this
ground an ore body of great mag.
nitude will be met with. At the
present time it looks as if this pro-
perry carried the initial or mother
lode of that portion of our mining
district. A rather odd feature is
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

Judge Gordon made many 9TH
er telling points which the limits
of this article preclude us from
mentioning The speech was we'll
received by the audience and sure
" had it, effect.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

Harry Watkins informs b o
PRESS that at the Davis coal pro-
perty north of Sturgis, where sew
eral of our local capitalists are en-
saged in erecting tipple, open
ing on coal vein and otherwise
putting up a Goth century coal
producer, body of natural gas
was struck in boring for water that
is the real thing The gas was
lighted and stream 40 feet high
was left burning for "a hours,
when it was capped off. 1t would
not surprise any one in Marion if
the Blue-N unn-Sayre-H a y n g.
Max we'll Gugenheim crowd that
own the coal property should
strike anything from fire. clay to
platinum. Harry Watkins would
make them a splendid advance
agent.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29
THE CR|TTENDEN
MINING COMPANY.
A Strong Showing For New Incorporation-FIuor
Spar and Zinc Ores in PIenty-Harry Wat
kins Natural Gas-Sale of
Lead Property.
THE JOPLIN LEAD AND ZINC MARKETS.

The Crittenden Mining Comps-
NY was incorporated on the 18th,
with capitalization of 100000
Its object is TO mine and market
huor spar, zinc and lead ores. as
well as clays and earths. The pro-
perty already owned by this COM
pany consists of 80 acres of we'll
developed mining land. Some ff-
teen prospect shafts have already
been sunk, more than two.thirds
Of that number being in tluor spar
and zinc ore The mem beis Of the
company are as follows Mrs Ma
ry Ida Pierson, of Sturgis, KY;
Frederick Haag and +. ). Haag,
proprietors and publishers of the
Daily Cleaner" of Henderson,
KY, Joseph Clore, of the Hender-
son Lumber Co., Isaac Mann, of
Mann Brothers, dry goods, etc, of
Henderson, Col Startling, the we'll
known newspaper writer, d. c..
Roberts, Marion, Ky, Mr.. f.
Hsag is President, with George
Roberts, Secretary-Treas rer.
Eight men have been at work for
some two months on this property
and the number will be increased
from now on. Mr.. John Harpen-
ding Is the mining boss.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

Lawrence Cruce tells a story
about digging we'll in the ex-
tremely billy county of Hopkins
that coming from most anybody
else would be considered-remark-
able. Mr.. Cruce says the land
there is so blamed steep that when
he dug the we'll down sixteen feet
and in a moment of absent mind-
edness let go of the side of the
hole, he promptly fell out from the
bottom of the we'll
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

1t is reported on very good au-
thority that the Haureys-father
and son-of Marion, have purch-
assd the Boynton lead property in
Trigg county, mentioned in the
Press last week.
As a purely lead proposition the
nearly 200 acres comprising this
property carries heavier body of
galena in a well defined vein thsn
the same class of property does in
this district; that is, it is neither
mixed with zinc ore or huorspar,
and for that reason is a much cas-
Ter and more profitable ore to han
die, as it is worth $50 per ton.
Good mining work there will like
ly develop great property,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

Mr. Press Max we'll the President
of the Kentucky Fluorspsr COM
pany, has not laid any eggs on the
Editors table for several months.
Ever since Mr.. Maxwell took hold
of that coal deal at Sturgis he has
been more or less naughty in his
actions towards people who are not
stockholders in coal mines, and
passes them by with a sort of
supercilious below zero look that
means 10 cents a bushel for coal
this winter. We used to think
we'll of Mr.. Maxwell.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

The highest price paid for zinc
at Joplin last week was $3S per
ton with the assay basis resting at
$33 to $34.
The assay basis mentioned here
is for so Ter cent metallic zinc in
the sulphide ores. Lead ore re-
NAMED firm at $50 per ton.
Carbonate of zinc ore is not
produced at Joplin and is. rarely
quoted there. The PRESS last
week gave the carbonate prices,
and how they were arrived at.
The sales of zinc for the entire
Missouri Kansas district amour.
ted to $126,935 for zinc and $32,
$50 for lead for the week ending
Oct. oath.
Strenuous efforts we're m ade at
meeting of the Joplin zinc pro-
ducers on Saturday last to further
curtail the output of ore. En- )ugh
signers to this movement have
been secured to cut off at least t.
900 tons. These mines will shut
down on Oct. % for one week and
the probabilities are that at least
30 per cent. of the usual output
will be lacking.
The reserve in the I Kansas Mis-
souri, district has dwindled to g.
800 tons, a trifle over 80 per cent.
of the amount at the same period
last season, and with this ourtail-
ment IF output of 1000 tons the
market is very likely to go back to
it's normal condition.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-10-29

CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
A TRAGEDY OF MINING.
Bones of Noted Prospector Found IN
the Devils Playground.

After thirty-seven years of mystery
the strange disappearance of Abner
Lee, the notorious old prospector who
discovered the famous Lee silver mine,
seventy miles northeast of San Bernar-
dino, Cal, has at last been solved.
Lee was the most famous prospector
of his time. In 1865 he located those
claims known as the Lee mines, Which
subsequently brought a fortune of s.
900, 600 to Governor r. W. Waterman,
of California 5000 after discovering
these rich silver properties he disap-
peared into the desert and was never
seen again A great deal of excitement
was occ3sioned by Lees withdrawal
from the world, and It was suggested
more than once that he had been foully
done away with by INSCRIPTIONS per
sons Who wished to gain possession Of
his property. Others thought the Pfute
Indians, who then raided the desert
had killed him and burned the remains.
Now the riddle has been solved and
the skeleton Of old Abner Lee, the bones
of his burroS, his ''washpan" and an old
mining pick bearing his name on the
handle have been found in the Devils
Playground by Jim Moran, a desert
freighter plying between Fenner, on the
Santa Fe road, and Resting Spring
Branch, at the head of Death Valley
The shifting sands which covered Lee
have given back their dead, the miners
are cleared of obloquy and the bones of
the prospectOr have beer given decent
burial on the crystalline shores Of Soda
Lake.
According to Lees story at the time
(and this was subsequently VERIFIED,
there were vast lodges of surface ore in
sight of precisely the same quality as
the ore which from time to time he
brought in on his burros. He was very
secretive about the location of his mine,
and those whom he took into his con-
fdence were under strict pledge to re-
veal nothing.
Among these were r. w. Waterman,
who afterward became governor OF
California Mr.. Waterman was at that
time a struggling lawyer For ten
i years after Lees disappearance nothing
was heard of the properties Then a
4 big expedition was organized IN san
I Rernardino to search for the abandon
ed claims. Under the guidance OF Two
tprospectors who claimed to know some
thing of the locality and who had heard
where lay the Lee silver, the party
went almost Immediately to the mines.
But upon their arrival they found
Waterman guarding the property with
! a winchester rife. He had been in pos
session for two hours. He had driven
out to the claims in a blackboard For
more than fifteen years Waterman held
/ a controlling interest in the Lee mines.
/ and it is estimated that during that
time more than 81 100000 in ore was Ia
ken out
! Dark hints were cast in regard to
Waterman by those who considered ne
must have known the locality Now
the finding of Lees body clears the ar;
/ The ex-governor has been dead several
wears Since the depreciation OF silver
/ bullion the mines have been idle, but
the old story of Abner Lee is often re-
Deated by the desert prospectors.-San
Franciso Examiner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
Home of the Silver Dollar.

The home of the silver dollar IS the west
An eastern tenderfoot can always be pick
ed out in a western town by his look of
surprise or annoyance on taking handful
of silver dollars in change Out in the
wheat section a country merchant careful
~ scrutinizes a silver certificate to see if
it is real money. As a matter of curiosity,
1 once searched an Oklahoma town for 4
two dollar silver certificate. L discovered
one finally in a drug shop Il was a very
dirty piece Of money and the shopleeD r.
was glad to get rid Of it in exchange for
two silver dollars All the way from Chi
cage westward to the coast the silver dol
lar is the every day coin OF the people
No one can blame a Westerntr for prefer
ring bright silver dollars to the torn, dirty
paper money that ciTculates beyond the
Mississippi But as the west comes mere
in touch with the east, silver dollars are
bound to disa ppear gradually from circula-
ton. When it is considered how common
IS the use of silver dollars in the west. Tire
small quantity of silver in circulation is
amazing. Although there are five hundred
and fifty million silver dollars outstanding.
and the minis are sending out fifteen hun
bred thousand month. there are only
about seyenty-five million outside ohe
treas ury. The treasury vaults are glut-
ted with them. The space these unused
silver dollars occupy equals @ tunnel seven
feet in diameter and mile long OF this
this great mass of silver four hundred and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
THE STORY OF DICK.
& seagull Who Kept Trust for "A
Consecutive Years.

Out in the ocean, about four miles of
the shore of Rhode Island and Just
south of Nara anSett Bay, IS anchored
Brentons Reef Lightship. Some %
years age the lonely watchers on the
ship had their attention attracted by
seaguu that so far put aside his Wild
nature as to swim close to the vessel IN
search of food. The friendhness and
trustfulness of the bird Immediately
won the hearts of the keepers, and soon
he was supplied with all the food he
wanted. Not only this, but every day,
without a break, the bird, which by
this time the men had named Dick, "
came back, and just as regularly was
he supplied. This soon grew into a
habit; and the preparation of Dicks al
lowance became one of the cooks liked
duties.
There would have been nothing very
remarkable in a wild sea fowl follow
ing an instinct that led it to repeat a
search for food so regularly and so
bountifully successful We're it not for
IFS later history One day near the first
of the first April following Dicks ap-
peaarnce at the lightship he was miss
ed and was not seen again until about
the first of the next October when the
same program of daily feeding was re-
sumed and kept up during the previous
year Then. as the first of April drew
near. Dick would again take himself off
to his summer home. wherever that
might be, only faithfully to return With
the following October.
This repea ted going and coming with
the constant round of daily feeding,
was kept up for tWenty-four consecU-
tive years; and Captain Edward F'o-
garty. in charge of the hghtship, writes
to us that the last seen of the old fell
low was in April 1895, when, according
to his custom, he left for his summer
vacation but, for the first time in
twenty-four years, failed to return the
next October
What became of him no one knows.
His great age may have so enfeebled
him that he was unequal to the long
fight to and from his unknown sum
mer home. He may have chosen to stay
there. or he may have died cf old age
1t was noticed by the ships keepers
that during his last visit Dick plainly
showed the effects of his increasing
years, and that he vas no longer able
to hold his own with the other gulls IN
maintaining his exclusive right to the
bounty thrown out from the lightship-
The Smithsonian Institute knew the
history Of Dicks visits and was desir-
Gus of obtaining his remains when he
died, but. while it IS possible that IN
his later life he might have been cap
tured and forced to end his days on
shipboard. there was not one on board
the lightship so base as to make the
attempt or to permit it in others
The reports Of Dicks arrival and de-
parture were faithfully recorded by
the captain in his ships records as if
they were an important item OF marine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
CURES CHRONIC CATARRH.
5yomei Cures Worst Forms of This
Disease in any Part of the System.

It is the height of folly to continue
doctoring a catarrhal disease by stom-
ach drugging, when the whole trouble
lies in the respiratory organs where
nothing can reach the germs but a local
direct treatment by inhalation. Hyome.
is natures remedy for the cure of ca
tarrh. Just breathe it few times daily
and it viii effect cure.
You may have catarrh of the stomach,
liver or kidneys and Hyomei will as
surely cure it as it viii catarrh of the
head and throat. The catarrhal germs
are in the mucous membrane or tissues
and Hyomei not only kills the germs
along the air passages but enters the
blood with the oxygen. killing the germs
in the blood.
The medicated dry air that goes
through the air passages, and into the
lungs when Hyomei is breathed through
the inhaler that accompanies every out
1T. is rich in ozone, purely vegetable
and filed with marvellous healing and
strengthening qualities.
If you are tired of stomach drugging
and seem to grow weaker all the time.
throw physic to the dogs and get well
with the health giving Hyomei treat
ment that is natures own method.
Rev. J. B. Cook of Holliston, Mass,
says: My wife has suffered greatly
from catarrh for fifteen years. Nearly
four weeks ago she commenced to use
Hyomei and the beneficial effect was inn
mediate. 1t is very seldom that she
needs to clear her head and throat and
she is able to rest quietly at night For
years past she had been troubled with
pain in her limbs which we supposed
was rheumatism, but since she has used
HyOmei that affiiction has disappeared. .
Geo. w. Stansfield, druggist, 632 Kan
sas avenue. will return your money if
Hyomei does not cure you of catarrh-
This shows his faith in the remedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12

IN the. city yesterday and called at the
local ticket offices.
1t was announced yesterday that the
santa Re Colorado flyer Nos. and 10 viii
be put in service between Kansas City ard
was To have commenced the season on
June 4, but the floods prevented this
]. NJ Bradley, chief clerk in the passen-
ger department of the Colorado Midland
at Denver has been visiting in the city
since the first Of the week. Mr.. Bradley
was formerly employed IN the auditing de-
partment of the Santa Fe in this city.
Merle King of the office of the auditor
OF disbursements resigned his position the
Ilrst of this month on account of his
health He is now in upper Sandus1y, o.
He viii be succeeded by Allan Lauck, who
IS employed in the office of the store ac-
countant.
On Saturday afternoon the baseball team
n the ticket auditing department at The
Santa Fe general offices Kill again try
their luck with the asylum team. The last
game that was played between these two
teams resulted in score of II to in IA
vOr of the latter The game viii be
played on the asylum grounds.
The new Harvey dining room and lunch
counter at the Santa Fe depot are now in
fun swing Several more names have been
added to the pay roll in connection with
those who were formerly emploved AT the
lunch counter in the depot The new I'd
dition to the depot is equipped with every
thing that is essential to good service and
is undoubtedly one of the most attractiv
dining rooms for its size on the Santa Fe
line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
COST A MILLION DOLLARS.
Estimate on the Damage Done to
Union PACIFIC BY Flood.

Inc two greatest sufferers among the
leillIoaqs We're the Union Pacific and
santa re me former runs beside the
kaW and its tributaries for two hmm
dred miles west from Kansas CITY
Much of this distance it runs along the
very brink of the shallow and quiet
river, and only when some stream da sh-
edout OF the Mills and washed away a Gull
vert or bridge, was any particular dan
ser apprehended from water
But when this flood came it was diff
Ierent, everything was different The
flrst serious overflow was when the
break came in the Union Pacific tracks
noFth OF Lawrence. says the Lawrence
Jeffersonlan Gazette, and the waters
dashed around in the old river bed and
breaking from there overlooked the
whole country north of Lawrence. That
was the beginning of the wreck and
ruin for the Union Pacific in the lower
kaW country. And for hours and then
for days, the destruction went on For
two hundred miles west from Kansas
City the loss to the Union Pacific will
be an average of $4,000 a mile, or an
aggregate loss of one million dollars
to the road. This, of course will not
begin to cover the losses on account of
1 business, and the delays incident to the
work of rebuilding This loss estimate
is not guess; 1t is very close to the
present estimate made by the head Off
Gals of the road.
The work that has been done on
Union Pacific is phenomenal. The con-
struction train will soon be running
through to Leavenworth, and a gang
Of about two hundred workmen are
putting in twelve hours a day at pile
driving and repair work The hardest
job the road has is to the north and
west of Lawrence, where the tracks are
practically annihilated for a distance
of three miles.
On account of the topography of the
country on the south side of the river,
the losses of the Santa Fe viii not be
nearly so great. In the first place. the
only cut off that the waters made
across the tracks and over the bottom
lands that amounted to anything was
I between Lawrence and Eudora. and of
course the waters that went in there
were not so swift as those that went
across the bottoms on the north side
and did not create the havoc the latter
did.
And again. the Santa Fe runs only
sixty-six miles along the river, and
/ its tracks are for the most part built
| against the high. rocky bluffs that face
the north. and in many places were en-
tlrely above the highest waters. For
/ these reasons. the losses of that road
are small compared to those of the
/ Union Pacific About 1900 mile
viii cover the damage to that road be-
/ tween Kansas City and Topeka, a total
I of about 500. 600 But at the best, both
/ are bad enough
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
aHEoroRY was AF1RE.
Pullman Sleeper on Santa Fe Nearly
Burned at the Depot.

noon in the linen closet of the Hector. .
a Pullman sleeping car on westbound
Santa F'e train No. 5 and if it had not
been for the quick work of the yard
men who were working on the car it
might have resulted seriously. It is not
known how the fire originated but it IS
thought by some that spontaneous COM
bustion was probably the cause. The
closet was packed with bed linen at
the time, most of which was buried.
At the time the fire broke out there
was no one in the sleeper, all of the
passengers being at dinner in the depot
The car was taken off of No. 8 and
sent back to Chicago on No. 6 yester-
day evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-12
RAILROAD NEWS.
New Rock Island Official LOcat-
ed at Topeka.
j. G.. Bloom Appointed Princi-
pal Assistant Engineer.
COMES FROM THE B. 4 o
New Position for r. II. SubIette,
Resident Engineer.
Is Made Division Engineer for
Kansas Division.

The headquarters of another Rock IS
land official have been located at To-
peka A circular was issued yesterday
from the Office of the general superin-
tendent stating that J. G. Bloom is ap-
pointed principal assistant engineer for
the western district OF that road. with
headquarters in this city. The appoint
ment is made by j. NJ. Gurber. general
superintendent and is approved by c.
a. Goodnow. general manager. 1t is
effective June IL. yesterday.
Until lately Mr.. Bloom has been en-
ployed in the engineer department oi
the Baltimore & Ohio at New Castle
Pa. He is now in Topeka having arriv-
ed here on Wednesday night. He will
assume his new duties Immediately. Mr.
Bloom is a married man and just as
soon as he can prepare a home he will
bring his family to Topeka.
The position which is now filed by
Mr.. Bloom is practically d new one
having ben created lately. Mr.. Bloom s
duties viii be about the same as those
OF "A resident engineer "A resident en-
gineer was formerly on the pay roll OF
the Rock Island. but in the reorganiza-
ton OF tnat road this position was abOl-
ished about six months go. and j. +.
Carey, who filled that position, was sent
10 Texas where he is now engineer OF
construction on the new line the Rock
Island is building from Amarillo. Texas,
to Tucumcari. n. NJ. Since then r. "a
Sublette has been acting in the capacity
of resident engineer but now that the
new position of principal assistant en-
gineer has been created and filed he
viii assume the duties of division en-
gineer for the Kansas division of the
road to which position he was appointed
on May is.
90 al
will report TO the chief engineer at Chi
cagO.