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Smith Heard From.

Anent the proposition to move
the Soldiers Home from Cheyenne
to Fort Mckinney, johnson coun-
ty, Veteran Billy Smith of Red
water, who takes a lively interest
in public affairs and whose sug-
gests on this particular point are
usually pertinent, says that "when
it comes to the welfare and COM
fort of the few old veterans of the
late war the peoples representa-
tives should know that they are
doing the proper thing. A few
years more and there will be but
one soldiers and sailors home SO
far as the veterans Of the civil
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SARATOGA, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING, FEBRUARY 10, 1908.

war are concerned. From a bible
standpoint there may be two but
| doubt it, for l believe every old
soldier is booked for heaven.
They will not have to muster rolls.
| may be wrong but / shall label
my grip for that place when |
shake of this mortal coil; and i
shall expect TO meet all of my
old comrades on that bright, shin
ing shore, all of their raids or
chicken roosts and smoke houses
and melon patches and orchards
being entirely forgiven; and, rs
you know, if | get there all safe
and am allowed to remain, the
balance need have no fear-if one
tenth they say of my record as
army forager is true" Billy no
doubt would vote no on several
of the propositions which r APP
parently being railroaded through
the present legislature.-Crook
County Monitor.
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block TO see what was wanted, bu'
the boys gave him the name oil
one man they passed who never
turned around when be was call.
ed. Scott called two or three
times and rather than 10 be out
done, followed the fellow for a
little ways, calling him frequent
ly. The man never turned
around and when Scott went back
to the crowd it was his turn to
treat, for the man was deaf. He
tried it m time when working
for a family during harvest time.
Immitating the voice of a man in
distress, and had the entire family
out hunting with lanterns, OF
course they found no one and the
old man was in such distress over
it Scott thought it best to explain
matters. The old man wouldn't
believe him for a little bit, but on
SCOTS giving him an exhibition
of his power to throw his voice,
he bristled up and told him to
take a hike, that he "must be pos
sissed of the divil,' and Scott says
he went.
Mr.. Scott is an expert in the
art, and as as we went out the
door we heard someone over
across the river telling us good
bye, to come again.
, 1903-02-19
Saratoga ~skypilot.


The good fortune attending the
tendeafoot in western escapades is
seldom more apparent than in the
recent experience of the Skypilot
OF Saratoga. Some days ago a
youthful and beardless stripping
from the borough of Manhattan,
reached this city and wiggled
through the labarynthine wind
ings that led to the good graces of
the Rev. H. E. Brundage. Rev.
Brundage took kindly to the
stranger of howery name and invit-
ed him to fill his pulpit. This the
e%asterher did with due grace and
much to the delight of the audi
ence. In return for this service
Rev. ii. f. was to pilot his guest
thirty-hve miles south, to the vi
cinity of Beaver creek.
Now the fun began. The old
saddle master crowded his pilot
IN the fashion of a scalp seeking
redskin. Headlong through drifts
of snow, DER rise and ravine they
plunged in the mad race until,
b%reathless, the gospel gunner of
Saratoga flew for refuge To the
dinner table of the Peryam road
house. For a brief respite the
broncho buster relinquished his
, 1903-02-19
Third Industrial Convention.

The date of the third annual
Industrial Convention, which will
be held at Sheridan, has been fix
ed for October It'll, Sth and 9th.
1t is the intention of the commit
tee who have charge of the affair
to have on exhibit of minerals and
agricultural products, and no
pains or trouble will be spared to
make this meeting an even more
interesting one than the last.
Following is a list of the state
committeeman who will have
charge of the work in their res
pective counties:
Albany-W.. H. Holiday, w
E. Chaplin.
Big Horn. X. Calkins.
Carbon-W. II. Reid.
Converse-M. G.. Barrow.
Crook Joseph Lytle.
Fremont-Frank s. Smith.
Johnson-A. G.. Lucas.
Laramie-W. g. Deming.
Natrona-A. j. Mokler.
Sheridan-J. F. Mills.
Sweetwater-Dr. r. Harvey
Reed.
Uinta-George Pexton.
Weston-B. f. Hilton.
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work. The work now in progress
during the bitter cold weather de-
notes that the miners are persist
ent and confident and is a criter-
ion at all points to the fact that
when summer comes Battle will
be a scene. of activity heretofore
not experienced. Several proper
ties will be equipped with steam
machinery in the spring.
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One Little Day.

at is a blessed secret" says
one, shat of living by the day.
Any N can carry his burden,
however heavy, until nightfall,
and any n can do his work,
however hard, till the sun goes
down. Any one can live patient
ly, lovingly and purely for one
day. And this is all life means to
us-just M little day" Why
not try this Observation-Disclosures
North American.
, 1903-02-19
A ventr!l:quist.

We wandered into Colts har-
ness shop the other day in search
of new worlds to conquer. We
had settled ourselves down in one
of the chairs which Golf keeps for
loafers and applied a force pump
to the proprietor is e what he
knew. Before things were in
good working order someone out.
side called us. With visions of a
prospective cart wheel or two in
mind We went outside. The street
was devoid of everything except
two dogs who had escaped
the %poisoner, but in order to make
sure We went out the back door,
with the same result. only there
wasn't even the dogs to break the
morotony. THIS happened twice,
and We suppose it might have
gone on indefinitely If they hadn't
taken pity on us and explained
that &. \. Scott, who is Mr.. Colts
harness makea, was "a ventriloquist
We aren't SO thick headed but
what we "A Z through a brick
wall if there is a hole in it, so of
course the whole thing was plain.
Mr.. Scott is an old timer in the
western country, having come to
Denver in '63, aud moving to En-
campment owe a year ago. Re-
Gently he and his family came to
Saratoga aud Mr.. Scott has been
in Mr.. Coils shop since.
In connection with ventrilo.
quism Mr.. Scott narrated some
amusing incidents which have oc.
Cured at different times. II
would take IA book to tell them all
but we give IA few that were par
ticularly amusing.
Mr.. Scott WAS working at New
castle in the Vulcan coal mine
when the explosion of gas which
killed some forty men took place
sever years ago. The bodies were
taken out MS rapidly as possible
and moved to n tent which was
pitched some little way from the
mine, where the coroner took
charge of them. Scott and a big
lrishmau were among the men
detailed to carry the bodies, and
after the work bad been carried
on several days the bodies taken
out Were i'll a badly decomposed
condition. They were carrying "a
body which had n decided odor to
the tent one day ard the Irishman
remarked, BE jasus. you do
stink The body Immediately
answered, "Well if you had been
dead AS long as l have, you'd
stink too The lrishman loosed
his hold and ran all the way back
to the nine and he couldn't be in
duced to 20 near n of the corps
es after that.
In Grand Junction one day Mr..
Scott was walking down the street
with II party of friends and would
get the name of some one they
met, and after they had gone past
call them. Sometimes the per.
sous would go back an entire
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Well Represented.

Representative Smiley is not
only one of the hardest workers,
but n of the most efficient mem
beers of the House. Nh. Smiley is
from Carbon county, which IS
strongly and ably represented in
both branches of the present
legislature. Tribune.
, 1903-02-19
Struck With Paralysis.

Last Saturday Jack Bohan was
stricken down with paralysis of
his right side. He was taken to
the Waterloo hotel, and DR.. Ellis
is in attendance. Bohan is in a
critical condition hut may recover.
, 1903-02-19
BOULDER CANAL COMPANY.
Have Finished Surveying and the Work
is Under Way to Secure the segrega-
tion Of the Land Covered by the Canal.

Is Under way 10 secure q SegreBh-
ton Of the Land Covered by the Canal.
w. s. Adams and e. B. Stead
man returned from Green River
Sunday, having finished survey
ing the canal and laterals and the
land which is covered by the
Boulder Canal.
The land which the Boulder
Canal Company intends to irri-
gate, is at the foot of the Wind
River Mountains, in Fremont
county, and is about 100 miles
from the railroad. Boulder creek,
from which they will get their
water supply heads in the Wind
River mountains and carries n
large supply of water until late in
August or the first of September.
The Canal Company have located
Boulder Lake, a beautiful body of
water a mile in length and vary
ing from a half to three-quarters
of a mile in width, as a reservoir,
and by building a dam some 300
feet in length and four feet high
in the highest place, they can in
crease the depth of the lake three
feet, which means an enormous
body of water. The water supply
is unlimited, and the canal will
cover some of the finest benches
of upland in the west. Mr.. Stead
man says that at least three sec
tions i'll the land to be segregated
are so level that water can be run
three directions from the center
or from the upper edge. Sage
brush as high as a horse covers
some portions of the land, which
is an indication of the very best
of soil.
Among other things, the ranch
men in that region cut three tons
of timothy hay to the acre, and
while the country is comparative
ly new, an excellent quality of
grain is raised.
The canal will be IA miles in
length and will cover from 5000
to 5000 acres of land. Just as
soon as the spring opens up the
company will commence work and
it is intended to have water in the
canal in less than a year.
The company is composed of
W. S. Adams, E. B. Stead
man, L. S. Trapp, w. Fl,
Butter, and Jack Adlett. All are
men we'll known in the valley, w
S. Adams having been elected
county assessor last fall. The
company do not intend to sell any
stock but will own and control
the entire business, the members
of the company furnishing the
capital to do the work. 1t is a
good strong organization and can
be depended on to do whatever it
says it will.
The Green River country is
just beginning to be settled up,
and is one of the best in Wyo-
ming. 1t is handicapped by the
distance from the railroad, but
there not much question but
what the North Western will
build into that section the coming
year, and an immensely rich ag-
ricultural country will be opened
up The elevation is about the
same as this and there is compar-
atively little wind. The Wind
River range extends along on the
west side of Boulder creek, aud
Fremont Peak looms up in the
distance.
Wyoming has any rumber of
ideal farming districts, which are
comparatively a wilderness at
present, but if taken hold of by
companies that will build canals
it will develop into a veritable
paradise.
, 1903-02-19

Once more we have been i'm
pressed with the terrible danger
from a fire starting in our town.
The fire Of last Monday morning
was most fortunate, first in the
building being somewhat isolated
but especially in their being little
wind. But who wants to make
the safety of themselves or neigh
bors depend on the absence of a
Wyoming windY Yet that and
good fortune is about all the pro-
lection we now have. There have
been several small fires started i'll
town since the Hot Springs Ho-
tel burned last spring and only
quick and heroic treatment has
prevented conflagrations. After
the unfortunate Hotel fire there
was some talk of organizing a fire
company but there was not
enough energy and animation
among u citizens to carry the
matter through. A single small
stream at the start would have
saved the property of last Mon
day morning mishap. Neither
water bonds nor water works will
put out a fire of themselves. A
company would have to be organ
lied anyway and this should
be done at once and then
when the water works do come
there will be all the better prep
paration to take advantage of
them. In the mean time, howev-
err, a hook and ladder company
supplied with good ladders, axes
and ropes, buckets and other APP
paratus would be a long step in
the right direction. An engine
and hose company having an s
man force pump and 200 feet of
hose could do more than 100 men
with buckets for it would carry
mor water to the fire and go
where men with buckets could not.
This hand engine would by no
means be useless even after the
town vas supplied with water. On
the premises or neal to every
place in town are wells and the
suction supply hose could be
dropped down any convenient
well and thus water secured for
most any fire. This is the way
fires have been successfully
fought in towns all over the
cuuntry and if some such compa.
MES ere once started here we
believe they would meet with the
hearty support of the citizens.
We are in mutual and needless
danger as matters are now-in-
surance is high, lives, and prop
erty are risked aud there is no
question but financial and person
al support will be given to any
few citizens who will make a start
in this matter for our mutual well
fare. Let us do something of
of this kind and do It at once, for
this cold windy season that is up
on us and before us-is a season
of hot fires and grave risks and a
contlagration once started in the
right place would paralyze the
enterprise of life of the town for
years, Let us be up and doing.
, 1903-02-19
MINING NEWS.
We Clip the Following Items Concerning
i, Work on liHerent Mining Propertiee,
From the Enoamrment Herald.

The Elkhead is showing some
nice copper r in a new shaft
which is being SINK under the di-
rection of John Mackey. The
Elkhead is close to the Lizzie, be-
tween Pearl and Big Creek.
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Unclaimed Letters.

Advertised at Saratoga, Wyoming, Feb.
18th, 1903.
Hunter, Jake. Day, Jno.
Lazier, j. NJ. Taylor, Jarome.
Lavato, Juan d, Vineyard, Emmett.
Smith, Jas. A. Zimmerman, Mrs. f. G.
Smith, W. L.
When calling for any Of these please
mention advertised.
0usTAvE JkTsEs, p. ".
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rection of John Mackey. The
Elkhead is close to the Lizzie, be-
tween Pearl and Big Creek.
The tunnel at the Ferris Hag-
garty has been run another hun
bred feet beyond the point from
which the upraise to the old
Workings was made, and the work
of driving is being continued.
The upraise has been widened to
the proper proportions, and some
fine sulphide ore has been expos.
ed.
At a meeting of the Golden
Edge company last Friday it was
voted to increase the number OF
directors from five to nine, and to
begin work upon the property
April l. The company has plac-
ed considerable treasury stock in
the East and is financially able to
prosecute a vigorous and long
campaign during the present
year.
The contractors on the Bon
bright, owned by the Illinois COM
pany, have sunk the shaft twenty
five feet, and have fonnd the ore
continuous 80 far. The bornite
extends over two feet of the vein
and appears in better quantities
as depth is gained. T. r. Smith
has a box of the ore on exhibition
at the Encampment Mercantile
Cos store.
A contract has been let for
sinking i'll the Wine from the
tunnel on the Kearns Consolidat-
ed property. The new machinery
will be brought into service and
extensive work will be done. The
bottom of the winze is already
showing considerable copper sui
!. phides, and shows a steady im-
provement. j. G. Denton is in
charge at present and he expects
excellent results at an early date.
Secretary w. A. Stoddard, of
the Rambler Mining and Smelt-
|ing company, Tuesday morning
received the preliminary state
ment from the recent shipment of
five carloads of matte and high
.grade ore from the Rambler niue
Ito the Chicago Refining company,
Showing satisfactory returns.
The smelter of the mine is work
my to the satisfaction of the par
lies concerned, and the conditions
pit the mine are very favorable for
p brisk spring campaign.
The tunnel on the Beaver prop
erty has cut a big vein of quartz
carrying considerable copper
<Rlance. The tunnel has been run
b Thousand feet and has cut three
veins of quarts, all showing some
"copper" values. The third vein
has been explored for eight feet
and driving ahead is being con-
tinued. 1t is the intention of the
management to extend the tunnel
at least another hundred feet.
when the main contact will be
reached. The vertical depth now
secured is fully 500 feet.
w. M. Malody is doing a fine
piece of work in the new shaft on
the Independence. The shaft is
4tx9 in the clear, two compart-
ment, and is timbered with square
sawed SxS timbers. The depth
secured is sixty-fve feet and sink
ing is steadily going IN. The
work will he continued until
spring when a new shafthouse will
be built and new machinery in
stalled. The Independence is
owned by the Savage Copper Min
ing Co., of which Governor Saw
age, of Nebraska, is presideet.
Although there are not as many
families at Battle this winter as
there have been in previous win
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The tunnel at the Ferris Hag-
garty has been run another hun
bred feet beyond the point from
which the upraise to the old
Workings was made, and the work
of driving is being continued.
The upraise has been widened to
the proper proportions, and some
fine sulphide ore has been expos
ed.
, 1903-02-19

Although there are not as many
families at Battle this winter as
there have been in previous win
tiers, yet the amount of actual
work going on among the proper
ties is now greater than ever be-
fore during the camps history.
There r several outfits working,
at least twelve, and there are no
idle men in the town who are idle
because Of lack Of opportunity to
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SALEMS OLD MEETING HOUSE.
Structure That Has Becn venerated for
Years Found Not Entitled to BE.

SALEM. Mass. April H. Probably before
another Sunday one OF the most noted Of
the historic relics Of Salem will have
disappeared. The building is the little old
First Church Meeting House, in the rear OF
the Essex Institute. which has been pre-.
served with care for almost half a century.
For a generation. thousands Of pilgrim,
to the historic shrines OF Salem have sought
out this little edifice.
On next Wednesday the special COM
mittee of institute members will report TO
the directors on the authenticity Of the
building. While the committee has in no
way made public it's findings, IT Is pretty
well known that it will be strongly adverse
TO the claims heretofore get forth for the
building. The committee has been unable
to find that the claim as To the building
being the identical old First Church has
any Arm foundation, but on the contrary
the evidence il decidedly adverse. Tho
first meeting house in Salem was built about
1886. 1t was enlarged later. Then 1t
disappeared from view for century or
two
In 1850 it was believed that the frame OF
the church had been discovered. A COM
mittee of the institute was appointed to
investigate and finally reported in 1895
that 1t was probably the true frame. The
frame was taken to the rear OF the insti-
tute patched up and covered. and has since
been preserved as the probable frame OF
the first church built In Salem nd one OF
the first in the country.
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FURRY IN DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
Names OF visitors 10 Embassies Appear
In the Diplomatic List.

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Some comment
has been made by members OF the diplo-
matte corps in Washington over the APP
DE- arance this winter in the diplomatic list
Of the names OF visitors at Embassies and
legations, and while many thought this
perfec CITY proper, others thought the list
should be composed OF only the direct
r, prt ~ natives OF eign countries, their
wives. sons and daughters. with such at
taches az might he accredited to the office.
thus giving the list an official and not
social status.
Protc SITS against such names appt airing
in the list were made to the State Depart
ment. with the result that the Depart
ment holds that il has no supervision over
the matter of supplying names for the dipio-
matte list issued from it's Office each month,
the lists from the various foreign repre-
s,ntatives bling prepared in their own
Offices and sent to the Department.
For years several of tho South American
republics have put the names Of their near
RELATIVES who visited hero along with the
names of their own families. and no COM
ment was made.
Mr.. Leger, the Minister from Hayu
has always included the names OF the Misses
Bourke, his nieces, along with that OF Nine
Leeer i'm the list sent TO the State Depart
| ment. whenever they CHANGED TO visit here
But no comment was made until the ap'
pearance Of the name Of Miss Langham
sister-in-law OF Baron Won Sternburg, the
| German Envoy, in the first list issued after
| their coming TO Washington.
IL has been understood, but not confirmed
| that Count Cassini the Russian Ambas'
| sador. protested. or at least strongly com.
| mented upon the matter, as the name OF
| Mime. Pavlow, who a. Nile des Planque'
| spent the entire winter at the Russian
| Embassy previous 10 her marriage to NJ
| Paylow' Russian Minister TO Corea, and fol
| some time afterward was not included
| However, according 10 the Information
| from the State Department, this non
| appearance OF Mime. Pavlow's name wa
| wholly the fault Of the Ambassador. who
did not have IL included with the names Of
his household.
Baron Won Sternburg's action in inciud
| ing the name Of Miss Langham in the hist
| sent TO the State Department is only
| noticeable from the fact that his is the first
Embassy to make the departure. the Aus,
| TRAN Ambassador even declining TO send
| the name of his niece, Baroness Won Palm
| who spent part Of the winter as his guest
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SALARY $40: WILL BE $4,000.
Telegraph Operator Has Been Appointed
Port warden OF New York.

Port warden OF New York.
PORT CHESTER. N. Y, April i2.-Richsrd
O'Brien, the telegraph operator in signal
tower No os on the New York. New Haven
and Hartford Railroad. between Rye and
Port Chester, who has just been appointed
Port Warden of New York, at 5000 a year.
with expenses, has been receiving scores
of kilograms Of congratulation upon his
appointment. Mr.. O'Bien says his success
is due to hard work, perseverance and wait
ing for a chance for promotion. He num-
beers among his friends many prominent
politicians, who aided him in getting his
new position. He has been drawing a
salary Of SEQ a month as towerman.
L MIR. O'Brien is 40 years old, is married and
cottage at so Washington street, Port
Chester. He says he has worked for a
living ever since he was a boy.
All the engineers on trains passing the
tower to-day saluted the signalman, and
tranmen and conductors waved their
past Gov Odell was urged to appoint
Mr.. O'Brien by Hamilton Fish, Lou Payn
and ex-Congressman William l.. Ward,
who are personal friends and who desired
for him recognition Of his influence In labor
organizations,
conversationalist.
Il have been employed on the New York.
New Haven and Hartford Railroad for
eighteen years as telegraph operator
said Mr.. O'Bnen. Il have many good,
influential friends in the Republican party
/ have a brother who has been associated
politically with Lou Payn for many years
| read a great deal about politics when l
am through with my days labor. ] have
not yet made any plans for the future. !
shall continue TO work in the tower until
my appointment by the Governor ia con-
firmed by the Senate