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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-02-15
TESTS FOR TRUE
AND FALSE GEMS

contemplate purchasing, 1t 10 not
necessary to submit them to an ex.
pert--by studying the following
methods Of testing these gems you
may become you own expert:
For the first lesson, take a real
diamond aud an imitation. Drop
them Ia glasses Of wate-. The imi.
tation will blend with the water and
become almost Invisible. while the
real one will be distinctly visible,
shining out Whitley through the
liquid Dry aud clean the two
stones, and on the fat side OF each
put q tiny drop OF water. Ga the
real the do-p will hold It's Rlobular
form and can be led about with q pin
point. The drop on the glass ore
will spread.
Study the two stones with mag.
nifying glass. The facets of the false
one are even aud regular. On the
other they are ut varying ,izs. The
reason for this Is that a diam ono
cutter with a good gem will sacrifice
symmetry to weight, perferring to
leave some slight Irregularities Ia the
planes aud edges rather than to re-
duce the stones value. The material
in false stone being Of little value.
the cutter makes as finished a job AS
he can cf 1t, the appearance counting
for more than the stone itself.
II q real diamond be used az a
miniature reading glass, aided by q
large magnifying glass, q tiny dot on
paper appears clear aud clean. Sub
stitute the false stone and several
points, or one BADLY broken one, will
be seen, owing to the unequal re.
fraction.
Then you can try the familiar ex-
pertinent OF scratching sheet OF
glass. Because your stone will
scratch does not prove its genuine
ness, however. Try to break the
glass evenly on the scratch. No
other stone can cut through the outer
skin OF u sheet of glass and give
certainty to an even fracture like q
diamond.
Your true diamond Is proof against
the hardest flle, but the instrument
will essily scratch any imitation
that hss ever been made.
Having scratched your pretty bit
Of glass till 1t 10 worthless, drop 1t
aud the diamond into hydro6uoric
acid. Before long the glass will be
dissolved, but the diamond will
suffer not at all.
Then there ~ still another ex-
pertinent. Take a bit OF stuff with
red and white markings. pass the
stone to be tested over 1t, and
closely observe the result. IL the
stone be an imitation the colors will
be distinguishable through 1t; II IL
be q diamond no difference OF color
will be apprerisble.
A genuine diamond rubbed upon
wood or metal after having been pre-
viuosly subjected to the rays OF the
eiecrtic arc. becomes phosphorescent
in the dark; this cannot be said OF
any OF the limitations. II the stone
to be tried be covered with borax
paste aud after dropping into glass
Of water the proof will be instan-
taneous. The glass imitation will
fly into bits. while the genuine stone
will not be affected. Finally, try to
crush between two hard plates = dia-
mond and an imitation aud learn the
difference.
After the diamond, the sapphire
is the hardest stone; with her more
beautiful sister, she possesses also
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
From Far md Near

Lenders in Congress are discussing ths
advisability of putting small dufv on
coffee to overcome the deficit IN the cov-
eminent treasury
an extradition has been granted in tho
case of a. @. Swartz, alias Louis PRANK
of California, who is wanted on a charge
q embezziement and larceny.
Acting under authority of 4 sDec;sl
act of Congress, Gen. Ainsworth ~
Washington began the delivery ta the
Governors Of ali the Southern States
affected the Confederate battle favS can
tured by the Union forces during the war
of the rebellion.
The plant os the Virginia aroliua
Chemical Company at East Rome ca
was destroyed by FIRE. Loss $3.50 600.
insurance about half.
\ bomb was exploded on a street car
track in St Petersburg near the resi-
dence of NJ Pobledonostzef. procurator
OF the holF synod. Ne one was injured.
Mrs. Charles A. Sweet. wife of a ST.
Louis commission merchant. was restor-
ed to life by the infusion of a salt soIu-
ton, after having been pronounced dead.
The head camp. woodmen Of tho
World, jurisdiction c. whica Includes
Texas Arizona and New Mexico. has
postponed for two years action in the
matter Of erecting ssnitarinm-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
BANK OFFICER TOO LIBERAL.
Lets a Firm Overdraw 100000 and
His Institution Goes Under.


His Institution Goes Under.
The Bank of Ladoga, Ind, closed its
doors Monday and the town is conse
quently in the throes of the biggest SEN
sati0n that has occurred there for many
years. 1t was charged that the failure
was not caused by any lack of business
management, but by the alleged manicd-
lati0ns of III. Il. Daugherty, assistant
cashier. 1t is said that he. without the
knowledge or consent of any OF the Off
GERS of the bank, allowed the Wooster
Novelty and Veneer works to overGsew
its account to the extent of S96,000 The
stockholders of the bank are nearly ali
wealthy turner's near Ladoga and they
announce that all the depositors will be
paid in full. The assets of the novelty
works will reduce the actual loss to the
bank to about $4,000. The cashier Of
the bank is Captain A. NJ Scott, well
known over the State as a member of
the Legislature in 1900 and 1902, mem
Der of the Lafayette soldiers home board
and prominent Mason. Scott is crush
ed over the affair and has the sympathy
OF the whole community. He has not
been in good health of late and left prac
tically all of the working of the bank to
Daugherty, who is his son-in-law. He
has given up everything he owns, even
his home, retaining only a little furni-
ture and a pension of ST. month. He
says that he will leave Ladoga.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
TOUR SLAIN IN WARSAW FIGHT.
Forty Others Wounded in Clash Be-
tween Mob and Police.

At Warsaw, in a battle between a mob
of Jews and police patrol in the streets
four Jews were killed and forty wound
ed. Two or more of the wounded may
die. Scores of arrests followed the CON
hict.
The trouble began in Dzika street.
when a crowd of 1000 persons, nearly
all Jews, and members of the socialistic
bund, gathered in the street under the
pretext of holding memorial meeting
for former socialist leader. As the
mob swung into the street, many bearing
red flags, it was met by mixed police
and military patrol of twenty men.
The police declare the socialists fired
revolvers at them, the leaders melting
the mob to attack the patrol, which there
upon fred several volleys into the crowd.
AT least forty-four persons were seen to
fall, but the crowd removed all exceu.
nine of the wounded, two Of whom were
women.
The assistant minister of the interior
in Moscow has forbidden the assemblage
OF congress 10 deal with the cholera
epidemic, because, according to official in
formation, the promoters of the congress
intended to give it the form of a DEM
onstration against the government.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
TO PAY INDIANS.
Millions of Dollars to Be Expended by
Uncle Sam in Near Future.


Uncle Sam in Near Future.
This year there will be commenced a
series of disbursements to Indians Of the
FIVE civilized tribes that will total up
way into the millions Tribal govern
Uncle Sam can close up the accounts
of the five tribes by that time.
With the funds on hand, the sale of
town sites, royalties and the sale of sur
plus land the total amount of property
TO be given to the Indians, not including
their allotments, will amount to about
$35,000,000 If all these funds were to
be disbursed during the year 1906, and
each Indian in the FIVE civilized tribes
should get an equal share ii would
amount to about $500 per capita, but
they will not share equally, as there will
be a difference in the amount of money
received by the different tribes.
In the case of the. Usage nation. for
instance, there is nearly $S,000,000 TO
their credit in the United States Treas
ury, the interest being sufficient to pay
each Indian an annual income of $l64.
In addition to this the tribe has 1900
600 acres of land, the sale Of which, Mt
a low figure, added to the funds on de-
post. would complete an average for
each of the 1913 0sages Of nearly 81
600
Despite these figures the fact remains
that many of the Indians are very poor.
1t is also true that these disbursements
may and probably viii be dragged out
TO cover months of time in the payment.
Indian payments usually are. BY the
time all the land and property is sold
and the funds disbursed among the In
dams. some of the thrifty ones will have
absorbed a great deal not due them. and
others will have become very poor in all
probability.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
TRIES TO KILL HOCH.
AN INSANE MAN SEEKS LIFE OF
KANSAS GOVERNOR.
Arrested While on His Way Toward
Capitol and Says He IL DivineIy Conn
missioned to Stay Self Made Men
Man Blown to Pieces.


An insane man, who gives his name as
]. Everest Worthington, was captured
within block of the statehouse In To-
peka, Kan, where he said be was going
20 kill Gov r. W. Hoch. The man was
Enarmed, but he is Of powerful build and
might have handled the chief executive
roughly had be not been intercepted.
Worthington is now in the county jail
and will be sent to an asylum. Commu-
nication with him Is held by means Of
written questions and answers, as be
pretends to be deaf and dumb. In du,
swer to a question In regard to what his
purpose was with the Governor, Wor-
Ellington said: Il was inspired by Pyrus,
the god of fire, to come here and kill
Gov. Hoch. | have sworn eternal ven
geance against all statesmen who pre-
tend that they are selfImade men. II
1t hadn't been for his officer who cap
1ured me Gov. Hoch would have been
no more, for | was on my way to the
capitol to kill him when / was arrested.
One who has risen from obscurity to
high place is the worst enemy of the i'm
pecunious genteel. therefore, l hate
Hoch." Worthington 0fesses we'll and
has the appearance of man Of intelli-
geRce.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Interestinx News Items.

A passenger train on the T., w. & b.
railroad was wrecked near Northeast,
Md. Three persons were injured.
The steamer Spartan, bound from
Providence for Philadelphia, ran aground
on Block Island in a fog and is COM
plete wreck.
1t is said that the President has de-
cided to offer Edward Addicks a foreign
berth so as TO enable the Delaware Leg
islature to elect a United States Sena-
tor.
A carriage occupied by the Empress
of Germany struck a 6-year-oid boy in
Berlin and the Empress personally ex-
tended first aid to the injured and then
summoned the court physician.
The Common Pleas Court at Column
bus. Ohio, recognized the Jewish Sab
bath as within the meaning of the stat
ute relating to Sunday observance.
Henry II. Rogers Of the Standard Oil
Company presented high school build
ing to Fair Haven, Mass, the town of
his birth. This makes a total of $1,000
600 given TO Fair Haven by Mr.. Rogers.
Miss Rebecca Jones. who was sent to
JAIL III view 1Oih LntuA9 et1Ao as "
cause she refused to answer the judges
questions in the Gordon Hammersley biz
will contest, won by the present Lady
Beresford. is dead.
Isaac Selby, the aged preacher from
Australia, who several months ago shot
at Superior Judge Hebbard of San Fran
cisco, while the latter was on the bench,
was sentenced TO seven years in prison.
A scandal in the st. Louis fair man
agemcnt is to be probed. 1t IS reported
that property of the fair in which the
government holds an interest vas sold
at one-auarteF its value aud that the
transaction was secret
President II. H. Jesse Of the Uniyer
sity Of Missouri made an apology to the
students in agriculture because he or
dered them to leave the chapel Saturday
when they appeared attired in overalls
at the celebration Of farmers day.
William f. Treese. formerly a book
keeper in the First National Bank Of
Cleveland, charged with embezziiBg
about $4,000 Of the banks funds SER
eraI months ago. pleaded guilty in the
federal court and was sentenced 10 serve
six years in re penitenfIary.
In a sermon At Temple Emanuel. New
York. the Rev DR.. Joseph Silverman
has made a plea for the endowment Of
theater wherein the Actors Church ALI
ance may carry out its ideas Of high dra-
matte presen- ati0ns~ The stage" Con
tiuued DR.. S-lverman. -is an outgrowth
of the pulpit. part of the parzphs, ma
la that belonged originally 10 the Sra
matte presentation of religion"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
THERE'S MONEY IN 1T.
Why American ConsuIships Are So
Eagerly Sought.

why American (OnSulsn1pS Are so
Eagerly Sought.
Never before ct the beginning of an
administrat ton las there been such a
rush Of applicants for diplomatic and con-
sular places as at present, and never be-
fore have so few of these places been
available, owing partly to the fact that
the President has already promised many
of them to personal friends and part
ly to the policy of retaining in Office in
cumbents with good records. Ordinarily,
it Is said there are from ten to a dozen
applicants for each foreign appointment
at the beginning of an administration.
At present there are twenty applicants
for each job.
These positions, especially in the con-
sular service, are rendered attractive by
the fees for administering oaths, for ac-
knowledging deeds, ETC. These fees at
some posts amount to far more than the
salary. III. Clay Evans, our consul gen.
eral to London, receives a salary of So
600 per annum; but in 1908 his ''nota-
rial'' fees amounted to $10,3 Thus he
received a total of more than $4,000.
Consul General Gowdy, at Paris, realiz-
ed, all told, $13,976, $1,000 Of which was
salary. Consul Boyle, at Liverpool, re-
ceived $6,S4S in unofficial fees.
Men of wealth among the applicants
are many, Though they are not looking
for the money. The occupancy of an Off
cial post, even in the consular service,
gives a social standing abroad it is diff
cult to obtain otherwise. 1t is for this
reason that Americans with social ambi-
fiou and wealth 70 hack II nm are so
eager to get these appointments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
Rad Foop sLAUG HrERs CHILDREN
Twenty-Five Thousand Die in Sew.York
Mostly from AduIterants.

Twenty-Five Thousand Die in NewYork
Mostly from AduIterants.
In New York last year out of 1900
deaths at all ages $4,000 children died
who were not over years of age. OF
those $4,000 were infants / year old or
younger. Health Commissioner Darling
tea said the other day: 4 cannot tell
how many children in this city die each
year by reason of improper or impure
food. But | do know that many things
which children eat and drink are danger
Gus to their health. Every day we re-
ceive complaints of children who have
been poisoned by bad food Many par
ents who have to go out to work leave
a few pennies with the children for them
TO buy breakfast. In many cases the
children buy candy or bananas instead.
do not believe bananas ripened off the
trees are good for anybody to eat They
are simply raw starch. The greatest
sources of danger to children are pre-
served or dirty milk and embalmed
meats. Milk is preserved with formal
dehyde. Meat is embalmed with borax,
with boric acid or with salicylate. Some
meat is arti6cially colored, too. The
cheap favoring extracts for soda water
are colored with aniline dyes. which are
coal tar products. Vanilla extract is so
eolored. Cheap candies are colored and
hayored with the coal tar extracts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
ROCKEFELLER IS DENOUNCED BY
THE CONGREGATIONAL CLERGY.

JOHN d. Rockefeller, the donor Of
500, 900 to the American Board Of For
eign Missions of the Congregational
church, is shown at the left of the pic
ture; to the right is the Rev. Washing
ton GLADDEN. of Columbus, Ohio, who OPP
poses the acceptance of the donation on
the ground that the money was illegally
extorted from tie people. Rockefeller's
gift has aroused storm of protests,
coupled with denunciations of the Bit
terest kind, from the Congregational cler-
gy. Below are two of these singing al
lusions to the Standard Oil magnate:
Rev. DIR. GLADDEN., pastor of the lead
ing Congregational church of Columbus,
Ohio, says:
The money preffered to our Board
of Missions comes out of colossal es-
tate, whose foundations were laid in the
most relentless rapacity known to mod
ern commercial history. The United
States government is now engaged in
strenuous attempt to ferret out and pun
ish this injustice. And the people of the
United States have a tremendous battle
on their hands with the corporate greed,
which has intrenched itself in this strong
/ A%Sto etAN nus AO1A hcO W uSE luC AdA1N ~ .
| for the oppression and spoliation of the
| people. And now, on the eve of this bat
| tie, they are asked to accept a great
| gift of money from the man who more
completely than any other represents the
system they have summoned to fight.
| hope Congregationalists are not mean
enough to take his money and then turn
around and fight him. l hope they are
not so faithless to their obligations as
to take his money and shut their mouths
or become his apologists.
| 1--WE do not want this mans money.
To accept it will be to earn the contempt
| of millions of honest men; to reject it
| will strengthen our churches in the affec-
| ton and respect of millions who are in
| clined to doubt whether the churches
| love God more than mammon. Our mis-
| sions will be richer and stronger without
| it than with ic, and we shall lose moth
| ing by our loyalty to the things unseen
and eternal"
In Brookline, Mass, Rev. II. G. Hale,
pastor Of the Congregational church,
says: "Mr. Rockefeller stands to-day I'M
der arraignment by the American people.
| He stands for a system which is among
the most pernicious influences in our
American life. He is teaching the young
men of the nation the doctrine of sue
cess at any cost by methods of competi-
ton which shoot to kill. tbs is the
grossest materialisr. In the nature of
! the case all money given cannot be in
vestigated. This is case of unusual
| transparency. My conscience is arrayed
| irreyocably on the side of the protest /
believe that the church has a rare oppor.
tunity to array itself on the side of dis
| interested righteousness"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick announces
that she viii write the true story of her
life, including her troubles and their
source.
James @. Ferguson was sentenced in
the United States District Court to serve
three years i'm the Maryland penifentiary
on the charge Of robbing the mails.
c. w. Marlatt. 30 years old, for sew
eral years settling clerk ON the Chi
ago Board of Trade. shot himself in
Toronto hotel while respondent. His
widow is in Chicago.
". p. Bogardns of Mount Vernon,
OLio, was reelected president Of the
National Retail Hardware Dealers As
ISOLATION at the closing session in Min
neapolis.
Charged with embezzing about 81 900
from the Funeral Benefit Association Of
the Patriotic Sons Of America. former
Secretary Wilson II. Lands was held in
81 800 bail ia Philadelphia, Pa. FOR
trial.
A resolution providing for legislative
investigation Of the lighting situation in
New York City because OK alleged extor-
tionate charges By the gas companies
was passed By the Assembly IN Albany.
y y.
Ananias Baker. the Hoosier reformer.
Tho exposed the Indiana Legislature ei-
gazette bribery plot, Is leading general
movement to sfrangie bribery wherever
found in the State.
The Fahrney Memorial Home FOR the
Aged has been incorporated in Maryland
for the purpose Of taking charge Of the
Samar property a Mapfeyille, donated to
the German Baptist church by the late
DR.. Peter Fahrney Of Chicago.
A spark from locomotive set FIRE 10
the Taylor Compress Company's plant
at Corinth, Miss. destroying the building,
800 bales of cotton, two cotton seed oil
mills and fifteen small dwelling houses.
LoSs 500, 300, insurance 10000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11
DIE In ZEIGLER MINE.
ThlRTv-FCuR MINERS KILLED
NINE EXPLOSIONS.
Men Entombed in Joseph Letters Coal
Shaft-work of Rescue Is Delayed by
Debris = Accumulated Gas Said to
Have Caused Trouble.

Two explosions, one following al
most instantly upon the other, so that
they appeared to have been simulta-
neous, killed thirty-four men and in
jured eight in JOSEPH Letters mine
In Zeigler, ILL.,, Monday morning. The
first explosion was in the air shaft,
followed by ths greater upheaval III
the main shaft
Forty men of the day shift, ten on
each of four cages, had gone to the
bottom. They were there when the
explosion took place. Supt Hurd de-
clared the dead numbered thirty four
and may number thirty nine. The
majority OF the dead are Greeks and
Athuanians who went by numbers.
Besides the thirty-four dead, three
taken out have fatal injuries and may
syyell the death list.
Among the dead is a workman who
had been employed in the tipple, forty
feet above ground. Three near him
received probably fatal injuries.
In the effort to recover the entombed
men FIVE rescuers were overcome by
afterdamp. All the searchers were let
down by hand. In two instances the
men above were nearly overcome by
gas.
The explosion was heard twelve
miles away and crowds rushed TO the
mine mouth, but rescue work was pre-
yanfcd fban nv tba Aar,oc c,,,o1.o 80
suffocating gases arising from the
mine. Women and children, relatives
Of the entombed men, crowded about
the mine, crying to know of their
loved ones, but not until night were
the rescuers able to secure any of the
bodies.
Explosion Caused by Accumulated Gas.
The belief is that the gas which ac-
cumulated over Sunday, owing, it is al
legged by W. d. Ryan, secretary of the
United Mine Workers of America, to
the fact that the miners did not know
how to deal with fire damp, and that
the mine was full of it.
A cage was resting at the mouth of
les TO enter the mine j. L. Wood of
| Cleveland, Ohio, was stepping on the
cage when the explosion occurred. He
was killed outright. The flames, leap
| ing out of the shaft, burned several
others, all of whom may recover, An
! cvercoat worn by one of these work
men was torn from his back and car.
ried to the top of the tipple, 100 feet
away. A six-ton cage was blown SOC
feet from the bottom of the shaft IL
the tipple.
A miraculous escape from death was
experienced by workman on the ali
shaft. The concussion hurled him six,
| ty feet into the air, and he fell outside
the stockade, seyenty-iive yards away
Besides a few slight bruises he was
not injured.
The rescue party found it difficult to
work owing to the absence of a proper
fan to purify the mine air. Al The
bodies found, except two, sho, ed no
marks of injury, indicating death by
asphyxiation. Both the main and ali
shafts are badly wrecked 1t is i'm
possible to learn to what extent the
mine is wrecked below. Employees at
Zeigler say that the larger fan, upon
which the circulation of air mainly de-
ponds, had not been in operation since
Friday, and this permitted the accu
mutation of gases