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Lake of MANY Wonders.

~HIS years stagnation, dullness'
inactivity. or whatever else one
i may want to call It, which has
turned Wall Street into an ideal
location for the establishment OF sani-
tarium for those troubled with lnsoIn-
MIA. or nervous prostration, has MT no
one so hard as the semi-pro1esslolau
habitue of the brokers offices VINO plays
the market according to system
lust as there are always men VINO De
lIeve they can beat the roulette wheel
or any other gambling game the races
{rcIuded nv adherence to a system, so
there are men in Wall Street who are
convinced that they have an infalllole
source OF wealth in the shape OF some
system which enables them 10 sle c1iS1'e
with never-failing success
The number of these system players
is much larger than one might suspect
and many of them, though they may
have been following the turns IN the
stoclx market for years, know little
about stocks and really care less
Their dope sheet, to use racing par
lance. is the ticker tape, and they hang
over Il from dav 10 day. noting the
changes and figuring out their next play.
ssTrIcEeritis'' this sickness is called by
some for IL is a disease which means
slow but certain exhaustion 10 the
hank accounts of those who have been
infected by it, although there are rev
whose losses canrot be proved and
whose word as 70 their secure and
steady income from the system must
therefore be taken or doubted.
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An East Indian Ghost Story

father took him in his arms and carried
him away
~Carried 1t Home.
Maung Yum could make nothing out of
1t but that the child had been buried
alive and that somebody, attracted soon
after by the sounds coming from the
grave, had dug him out and placed him
in the zayat. Full Of JOY. he carried
his treasure home.
At the entrance of the town. and
about a calls distance from his house,
he met neighbor, Nah Sem Pwln
who, wondering at what she saw,
screamed out: rs that you 10 Yum,
carrying home your little SOM"
AS soon as the child heard the voice
he began moving about in his father s
arms. Nah Sein Pwin and another
woman came to take 1t. and a short
struggle ensued between them and the
boy. and Maung Yum suddenly lost his
senses and fell heavily to the ground.
The two women made a dash for the lit
tie one, but. 10! Nowhere was he to be
! found; he had disf ppeared completely.
leaving no trace behind.
Child a Ghost.
The unfortunate man was carried
home by some kindly neighbors, but he
was a long time in recovering his
senses. The child was a ghost. and the
man had been carrying nothing but an
apparition from the other world That
it appeared real enough the two women
are ready to swear, since they not only
saw. but touched II. 1t was no smoke
or vapOr, but seemed TO be flesh and
bone.
As soon rs Maung Yum was .yaIl
enough to explain how It had all hap
pened. a hurried visit was made TO The
! cemetery in the hope OF perhaps seeing
| the boy in the zayat. But they w,rc
disappointed; neither child nor cradle
was there. and the grave was exactly
| as Il had been left on the burial day,
not in the least disturbed.
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Curious Sensations That Bathers Expert
ence in This Water, Where One Can
not Sink, and Amusing Mishaps
of Newcomers.
t Newcomers.

The contents Of the lake were recently
estimated at 1.5N5. 433. $4,000 cubic feet,
and yet, in the opinion Of Prof. W J
MCGEE, OF this city. all Of this vast
body OF water viii have totally disap-
peared within the next twenty-three
years. Other biologists who have made
a careful study of Great Salt Lake have
estimated that from twenty-seven TO
thirty years will elapse before the last
trace Of this once enormous inland sea
shall have vanished.
So alarming, in a sense, has the dry
ing UP OF Great Salt Lake become dur
ing the past few years that at the in
stigation Of the Government the United
States Geological Survey, division Of
photography, has been making a thor
ough Investigation TO determine the
causes leading to the lakes disappear
ance, and the possible outcome after
the last trace Of the big inland sea has
been wiped out forever. A preliminary
report of the Geological Survey says:
People Are Uneasy.
THE decline in the surface OF Great
Salt Lake is causing apprehension
among the people of Utah This inter-
esting body Of water has been steadily
sinking for a number OF years
THE movements in the waters have
been thought to be related TO the de-
velopment OF agricultural and grazing
interests, which divert large quantities
OF water from the streams which feed
the lake for use upon the land During
mast years the cutting OF the timber
on the neighboring mountains has been
unusually heavy, practically destroying
the forest protection OF the head waters
~ a number of streams whose waters
foy into the lake. The cutting OF these
forests is supposed to have injured the
flow OF the streams, and thus TO have
affected the lake level
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tn HE latest ghost story is recorded
in the Friend of Burmah," and
L it is attested by several eyewit
nesses, who saw the ghost, not
during the night. as is usually the case,
but in broad daylight.
It happened in the Monyinzu quarter
quarter Of the town live a married
couple; the husbands name is Maung
Yum and his wife May Neain. They had
a little son two years old, who. after a
serious Illness. died.
The baby was buried in the cemetery
outside the totwn. his cradle serving as
a coffin.
The father was very much detected
at the loss Of his little one. and. unable
TO repress his grief. went TO the ceme-
terry two days after the burial. II was
about s o'clock IN the morning.
House of Rest.
At the entrance OF every Burmese
burial place there is a zayat, or rest
house. wherein people gather and chat
and smoke and take shelter from the
sun or rain whenever they accompany
a funeral.
On entering the graveyard Maung Yum
was not a little surprised to see his
son. or at least some one looking exact
l.. M -. 49,, ,,la,,t,0 q, the zax,a+ .aar
the cradle He was at first horror
struck; but, paternal affection getting
the upper hand, he approached the baby.
and to entice him gave him one pice.
The boy took the coin readily and Of
fered not the least resistance when the
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LIMIT" OF A MEAGER MEAL.

A number Of actors were discussing re-
Gently the different boarding houses In
a Western city, says "Harper's Week.
~" and the comparative meaSerness Of
the table board provided by the various
Iandladies. One OF the party who had
listened quietly to the talk now spoke
":
IF any Of the fellows really want to
nut yourself on a rigid diet go TO Mrs.
rs boarding house I'm Cincinnati |
came down to breakfast there one morn
ing. and the servant waltzed up ana ask
ed me If I'd have ham or eggs I said
| didn't want to be gTas ping. and ordered
the yolk of an egg-said I'd have the
white Of Il for lunch.
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Bafled the New Yorker.

Within ten seconds he was ore Of the
most puzzled men I'm the world The
harder he kicked the quicker his head
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Pleasure Seekers

distinctly OF human origin. That they
may exist and that their rich tracts OF
land may continue to bear. the Mormon
settlers have cut of the sources Of fresh
water supply from the mountain sea,
diverting them for irrigation purposes.
And now. stagnant and helpless, the lake
is drying up. at the complete mercy Of
the pitiless sun.
Resorts Are Scattered.
With the retreat of the waters the IA
nous bathing resorts, the splendid piers
and pavilions which once jutted out far
into the lake are now being left stranded,
one after another. high and dry on the
barren shore.
Saltaire, one of the most popular lake
side resorts, is now practically deserted.
The magnificent pier erected at the enor-
nous cost of half million dollars pre-
sents the pathetic appearance Of having
been lifted bodily from the waters edge
and set back a mile or two from the
shore. Garfield. where another splendid
navilion stands. is doomed in like man
ner for within the next year or so there
will not be any water within re"
miles of the present bathing resort.
Exactly the same fate awaits many
other seashore resorts surrounding the
lake. Day by day the water is receding
from them leaving the corporations con-
trolling them the option of either clos
ing them up altogether or extending
the piers out into the lake at pace
equal to that at which the shore line
is retreating.
Lake of Many Wonders.
Without doubt the Great Salt Lake Is
the most remarkable body OF water IN
the world It is a lake nearly 5000
square miles in area. lying 1000 miles
inland. at an altitude OF 4,2So feet, and
whose waters are six times as salt as
those of the ocean
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sibly before 1880 the last drop Of the
Great Salt Lake will have evaporated
leaving nothing behind but a huge. bar
ren. salt plain capable of furnishing the
whole worlds salt supply for many CEN
turtles TO come.
The agency responsible for the rapid
disappearance Of the Great Salt Lake is
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appeared. They had pierced the crust
forming the lake bottom and dropped
through into whatever is below.
Fourteen Inches an Hour
At the persistent rate of fourteen and
n fraction inches every hour. twenty
eight feet five inches per day, or two
miles a year. the Great Salt Lake is dis
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appearing The shore lines OF this mys-
terious, tideless. inland sea, nesting
among Utah's hills 1900 feet above the
oceans level, are now contracting day
by day 10 their common center At a
speed visible TO the naked eye. and which
will mark the lakes total obliteration
within the next twenty-five years. Pos
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PLAYING Systems In Wall Street.

every morning, the system player VIII
then look Up his record OF the particu-
lar stock in question and If he finds that
It has already gone NJ a point he viii
give an order to sell q point above or
buy q point below the market price on
the assumption that no movement ex-
tends in one direction uninterruptediy
for more than two points.
Thus they copper the tip assuming
that when It is permitted to come out
by the men interested In a stock the
cream has been SKINNED on the mar
ket.
A very intricate system Is followed by
at least one man IN the street who
claims that IN the twenty years that he
has played IL he has made a very COM
Portable income out Of It
This man keeps track Of the main IS
sues which are dealt in on the stock
exchange through a chart Tor each
stock. He pays absolutely no attention
to movements of only half a point or
a point.
While a stock IS thus fuctuating up
and down within narrow limits he
leaves II severely alone except that he
enters each movement on mis- chart.
But as soon as this regular fiuctuation
is interrupted Dy an aoFs-iiCe OF Il Oe-
cline OF two points in succession he gets
into the market with the intention Of
securing the profit resulting from the
remaining points Of the movement
In Danger.
As. soon. as the decrease in activity or
any other sign indicates to him that
the movement is over he closes out the
transaction. This man in a dull mar
ket may not get one chance a week 10
play his system, which should make II
comparatively safe when the market Is
stagnant.
In a lively market this man Is likely
to get whipsawed, for a movement or
two points either way is then nothing
extraordinary, and the chances are that
he is buying or selling ct the very point
where the movement he counts on IS
over and turns against him.
Many Of the Spectators IN the street
are faithful followers of the tide. They
believe that il is safer 20 so with che
arlxet than TO buck against it,
They do not wait for any movement 20
get well under way. but they try 30 get
advance Information and If they cannot
get that they attempt 10 feel the mar
( 81 So TO speak They are as a rule sat-
isfied with small profits, and run for
! cover as soon as they ma that the mar
ket is going against them.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-16

pine post scribed 4-1S71 c. L., thence s. GO degs. 19 mins. w. 1895 it. to cor. No 3, identical with cor No. Fash ion lode Of this survey, a pine post scribed 3-5-1S51 GIL. thence S. IS degs. 3S mins. w. 13S2.S 1t. to cor. No. 1, the place of beginning.
 The presumed course of the vein on the Fashion is from the w. E. C.. N. 49 deg. 3G mins. E. 1497.7 ft, and on the Garfield from the w. E. C.. N. 49 degs. 33 mins E. 1900 it. Magnetic variation 12 degs. 30 mins. F. Con taiuing an area of 26.9S7 acres.
 The location notices of the said Mining Claim being of record in the office of the Recorder of Cochise County. Arizona, at Tombstone. m the County and Territory aforesaid. in Book IA, Record of Mines, pages 455 and 4S1 respectively. the presumed general course or direction of the said Fashion and Garfield veins. lodes CT mineral deposits being shown upon the plat posted herewith, as near as can be determiued from present develop
 ments. this claim being for 1497.7 and 1590 linear feet thereof. together with the surface ground shown upon the Of
 fcial plat posted herewith. the said vein. lode and mining premises he-a5y sought to be patented being bounded as follows. to-w.t:
 North. Well lode. Survey No. 17S2 Junction Dev. Co. owner: Guard and
 American lodcs. Survey No 1716. Ia ! cob Pirrung ct al owners: East Bay onne lode. unsurveyed Jos. F. Chis
 holm. ct al. owner; Eagle Eye lode unsurveyed. Jacob Pirrung. owner l South. Jcssey lode. Survey No. 1779 ] L W. Wallace ct al owners. West 1 Antelope lode unsurveyed. L. c. Shat l tuck ct al owners: Surplus lode. Nc ! 1872. Jacob Pirrung. owner.
 l The said claim being designated as Mineral Survey No. 1871 in the of1cia | plat posted herewith.
 Any and all persons claiming ad
 versely the mining ground. vein. lode i premises or any portion thereof so ce
 scribed, surveyed. plated and applied
 for. are hereby notified that unles! :heir adverse claims are duly filed ac :. cording 10 law, and the regulation hereunder. within the time presctb cd by law. with the Register of the U
 s. Land Office at Tucson. in the Terri
 tory of Arizona, they will be barred. il virtue of the provisions Of said statute MILTON R. MOORE. Register First Publication Nov i. 1904.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-16
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. e25.
Mineral Survey NO. 1901.

c. s Land Office.
 Tucson. Arizona. October '. 1904
 Notice is hereby given that l.. c. Shattuck. whose Dostofice address is R.sbee. Cochise county. Arizona. has this day filed his application for a natent for 905.4 linear feet of the John Daisy mine or vein bearing copper and other minerals with surface ground 500 feet in width, situated in Warren mining district. County of Cochise. and Territory of Arizona. and desig- hated by the field notes and official plat on file in this office as Mineral Survey No. 1901 approximately in Township 23 S, Range 24 F. of c. and 2. R. B. and meridian unsurveyed. said Mineral Survey No. 1901 being described as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning at Cor No. 1. the SW. cor. pine post scribed 1-19O1 J. D. L. Whence U. s. NJ. NJ. No brs. N. "A deg OS min. W. 2S26.2 1t thence N 34 deg. 37 min. F. 1867 1t to cor. No. 9 Identical with Cor. No Cumberland lode. No. S62. thence N. 43 deg. 14 min. W. 1246 1t. to cor. No. 3 thence N. 46 leg. 45 min E 203.6 1t. to Cor. No. to the NV cor, thence s. 70 deg. 57 min. E 94S6 ft. to cor. No. 5 the NE cor thence s 4G deg 3S min w HOS fl. to cor. No 6, Identical with cor. No. Come by Chance No. I643. thence s. 45 deg. 5S min W. 1896 1t. to cor. No ', thence s. 46 deg. 45 min. W. 3753 1t. to Cor. No 8 the SEE cor. thence N. 50 deg. S6 min " 70S.5 fl. to Cor. No. the place of be- ginning. The presumed course of the vein on this claim is from the E F. C. of location N 70 deg. 57 min. W. $50 ft, thence N. 45 deg co min. W. 355.4 l.. Magnetic variation. 12 deg. 90 min E.; net area 9.640 acres.
 The location of this mine is record ed in the Recorders office of the County Recorder of Cochise county, Arizona. at Tombstone, in book II, at Page 3S6 Record of Mines. The adjoining claimants are North. York State. No. 1928. NJ Denn. owner, east, Ophir lode, unsurveyed, J. NJ. Mu- helm, owner, Come by Chance No. 1643 Erie Cattle Claim No. 1464, Junction Development Co.,, owner, south. Julia No. 17s0. l. ". Wallace, owner. West. Cumberland No S62, Copper Queen Con. Nj. Co.,. Rio Tinto unsurveyed. s. Wood Grier. ct al, owners.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- veTsely any portion of said John Daisy mine, or surface ground, are re- uuired to file their adverse claims with the Register of the United States land office at Tucson. in the county of Pima and Territory of Arizona during the sixty days period of publication hereof, or they will be barred by virtue of the provisions of the statute.
 MILTON R. MOORE.
 Register.
 First publication October IF. 1904.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-16

Copper is now above the 14-cont price and is still advancing. George L. Walker says thai unless there is some cessation in the foreign demand it may go to It or even IS cents a pound. Home consumers are now com ing into the market as they have not heretofore. As natural result of higher metal the stocks are showing more ac,- ivity Walker says:
 Copper prices have scored a further advance cur.ng the present week. Lake Is now quoted at 14 IS cents. Electro lytic is selling at IS 7-S to IA cents and casting at 13 1-2 to 13 3-4 cents per pound. Home consumers, who bought only from hand to mouth when prices were a cent and a half lower, are now making contracts for deliveries as far ahead as January They aIe. indeed, afraid that they may not be able to supply their wants at any reasonable price after the first of the year Unless there is some letup in the foreign de- mand soon copper will sell al 16 to 1S cents per pound.
 Exports during the month of October exceeded my early estimate of 25,00O tons. reaching total of 26,332 long tons, which constitutes the second highest monthly record in the history of the trade. At the moment it would seem thal the only thing likely Q check the heavy export movement is Q scarcity of supplies. Or course, it Is to be hoped that the high prices will tend 10 curtail consumption and pre- vent a runaway market; but as the de mand is partly for war supplies. the question with buyers is not one of price. but of getting the copper
 There can be no question as to the legitimacy of the market. Londou's prices have kept ahead of ours for months past. precisely as they should in an advance that is chiefly due to the growing foreign demand. Best selected copper sold as high as e66 los in Lon don this week, equivalent to a shacc above If 3-S cents per pound There continues to be every prospect that copper will sell at least as high as 15 cents. ana also that the average price of the year 1905 will !, be at least 14 cents per pound.
 Speculative activity in copper stocks is steadily increasing. The best stocks are ;n excellent demand, anu The low-priced prospects are gaining new friends every day. The advance that has taken place in share prices is not discourasing buyers. it being req soned that the rise in the metal has increased average profits sufficiently to more than warrant the higher range of quotations Ali developments market wise tend to show that the situation is healthy. Except in a few stocks no considerable inside liquidation is noticed. CopDers as a who'e are well held, and as long as metal quotations continue 10 work firmer stock market prices should steadily advance
Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-16
MINERAL APPLICATION NO. e47.
Mineral Survey No. 1871.
United States Land Office, Tucson. Arizona. November 2. 1904.

United States Land Office,
 Tucson. Arizona. November 9. 1904.
 Notice is hereby given, that in pL7- suance of Chapter Six, of Title Thirty two. of the Revised Statutes of the United States" Frank s. Douglas and Thomas II. Collins. whose post office address is Douglas and Bisbee. Arizo- na. respectively. claiming 14977 and 1900 linear feet respectively of the Fashion and Garfield veins, lodes or mineral deposits. bearing copper and other minerals, with surface ground 4SG.7 and 325 feet respectively in width. lying and being situated within the Warren Mining District County of Cochise. and Territory of Arizona, are about to make application to the United States for a Patent for the said Mining Claim. which is more fully de scribed as to metes and bounds by the official plat and field notes of survey thereof. now fled in the office of the Register of the District of Lands, sub iect to sale at Tucson, Arizona. which field notes of survey described the boundaries and extent of said claim on the surface. with magnetic yaria- ton at 12 degs. 90 mins. east, as fol- lows, to-wit:
 FASHION: Beginning at cor. No. 1. the N. W. cor. identical with COTS. Nos. s and 2 respectively of Surplus and We'll lodes. Survey No. 17S2. a nine post scribed 1-1S71. F. L., whence Y. s. NJ. NJ. No. 1. bTs. N. 49 degs. 22 mins. W. SO31O. thence N. 49 degs. 36 mins. E. I4977 1t. to cor. No 2, identical with cor No. 9. American lode. survey No. 1716. pine post scrib- ed 2-1S71 F. L., thence s. 8 degs. 16 mins. E. 1925 fl. to cor. No. 3. the s. E. cor. identical with cor. No. , Gar field lode of this survey, a pine post scTibed 3-1S71. F. L.. thence s. 48 degs. 3S miDs. W. 13S2s ft. to cor. No. 4. a pine post scribed 41S71 F. L.. thence s. @ degs. II mins. W. 1173 1t. to cor. No. ,. the S. ". cor. identi- cal with cor. No. :. Surplus lode. Sur vey 17S2. pine post scribed 5-1S71 F. L., thence N. 35 degs. 16 mins. W. 1867 it. to place of beginning.
 GARFIELD: Beginning at cor. No. 1. the N. ". cor. identical with COTS. No and the N. F. cor. respectively of Fashion lode of this survey, and Ante lope lode, unsurveyed, a pine Iost scribed f11S71 c. L.. whence T. s. NJ. M. Nc. 4 brs. N. 49 degs. q mins. W S491 it.. thence S. fl degs. 51 mins E. 300 1t. to cor. No. 2, the s. W. cor. \. W. cor. respectively of Jessey lode. Survey No. 1779. a pine post scribed 2-1S71 G. L.. thence N. 49 degs. 33 mins. E. 15OO fl. to cor. No. 8, the s. E. cor. identical with N. E. cor. and N. W. cor. respectively of Jesse lode, Survey No. 1779 and Eagle Eye lode, unsurveyed, a pine post scribed 3-1S71 G. L., thence N. 41 degs. 51 mins. W 300 1t. to cor. No 4, the N. E. cor, a
Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-16
IMMENSE SHOWING OF
 GREAT CLIFTON COMPANY.

The Boston News Bureau says: Al though the stock of the Arizona Cop per company is practically all he'd in Scotland. considerable interest al taches to the company in this country owing to it's prominence as a large and p-oftrble producer of copper. There are good grounds for the statemen, that he Amalgamated Copper people have been securing secret reports as to this company with the view 10 pur- chasing. The stock, however, is well Iscat tered abroad and unquestionabiy Amalgamated would have 10 pay large price for it. On a capital of S3,500,000 it is paying dividends of over S1,000,- O00 per year. The mines of the Ari- zonA Copper company, ali located in the Clifton district, furnished last year 5OO,00O tons of ore, from which it re- covered 2S.0000O0 pounds of refined copper. This production is being maintained th.s year, last months pro- duct being 2,4OO,OOO pounds. The Ari- zona Copper company works the same character of ores as the shannon and the Detroit copper companies. Its mines adion those of the Shannon company. Its shipping ore. last year averaged about per cent copper, and it's concentrating ore (nine-tenths of it's prcduc) about 3 1-2 per cent copper. There are no gold and silver values
 to speak of in the Clifton ores.