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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16

" . . .
Sin Wllfrid had not yet loft his study
retired. THIS was not unusual with him,
and the fact that he had remained for
more than two hours shut In by himself
without ringing his bell caused no un-
easness to his valet. whom Dcverill In
terrogatod on the matter.
But when another hour passed, and still
Sir Wilfrd gave no sign, Dcyeril deter
mined TO make one effort TO get at least
u word OF friendly farewell from the
only relation he had, and the man who
had stood to him In tho relation of guar
dian and father for many, years, went to
| the library door and softly knocked.
There was no answer, and after an
other unheeded tap, he opened the door
with certain ugly fears at his heart. Sir
Willrld had been much shaken BY tho
| events Of the evening, as his nephew
! knew; what the ultimate effect of these
might be upon man who was consid-
erably older than he looked or cared to
own he did not know,
| Sir Wilfrld WAS sitting In an arm
| chair by the fire, with his feet crossed
IN front, Of him, lie gave a sort of
sEunt when his nephew spoke to him,
but did not turn his head, nor give any
| Other sign OF recogntlon
| "Nnclc,' said the young man, tive not
! come to ask forgiveness, or anything OF
| that sort ] don't think ! have done
| much that requires 10 be forgiven bur
/ I've come TO tell you that It cuts me to
| the heart that we should have come to
THIS after all these years. after all your
| kindness to me. ] don't see how II could
| have been helped, but IT IL Just as aw
full, Just as pitiful all the same | WON'T
i trouble you any longer; but as | am
a IA In, h. ~ 80
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16

WI What DO you mean BY 'usrg''T' -- "a
why, your uncle will lind means of
revcnglng himself upon US for his dis
appointment. And, unhapplly. we're very,
very vulnerable" said she with sigh
injure you, now that your sister is a
member Of his own family" said Deverll Ii,
not, however, without conviction.
Sir Wllfrid had been nasty" over the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16
QUERIES AND LETTERS.
Lumpkin.

Dear sr,--Can you glve me any infor-
nation concerning the Lumpkin family?
Wilson Lunpkln, born 17Sj, was Gov
Mrs. Marian Lumnkin WILSON,, daughter
OF Hon. Henry Hopson Lumpkn and
Miss Lucy Nllner daughter OF Captain
John Miner, Of tho Continental Army).
She Is descended from william Pitt, but
cannot trace It up. Can you help me,
aud viii you give coat OF arms OF
Pumpkin family? 5i
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16

Claudia uttered a heart-broken sigh:
ITO get money By honest work Is only.
one degree better than getting It BY dis,
honest work! The only comfortable and
proper way Of getting money IS by open;
Ing your hands and letting money fall INTO
them! And that way you yourself have
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09

tomb and stepped down to the foot
lights OF the worlds stage rejuvenated i,
energized, bsauufied aud announced
herself to the first-nighters as LEAD.
VILE" the greatest silver camp, the
greatest lead camp. the greatest every.
thing on earth.
And the frst-nighters took her at her
word and swooned at her charms. By
1879 the whole world was wild over her
resistless destinations. Ii was al her
feet. She had kept her word. She
was outputting more silver aud lead
than any other camp in the world
and smelling most of it. as Eureka did
at first, in little stovepipe furnaces with
charcoal for fuel. which produced a
clean product at IN enormous waste of
metal.
There are fortunes locked up in Eu-
reka's mountainous slag-dumps to-day.
In Leadville such dumps have been
smelted over aud over till they now
contain but the most lnfinitesimal trace
of metal for L.adville finally got
cheap and cheaper fuel while i'll Eureka
the fuel of course got scarcer and
dearer up to the of collapse.
By 1888 the fall in the price of silver
from over-production and the fall in
the price of lead from under-consunp-
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09

ways her conditions and her history
coincide with the f~iuctuating fortunes
of our own and only Leadville, to-day
the greatest mining camp in the West
ern Hemisphere and o%utputting nearly
100, 900 tons of ore a month.
But is Eureka dead beyond all hope
of a happy resurrection
/ think not. / think it is only a case
of suspended animation through en-
ergies paralyz4d by o~ver-exertion and
pushed beyond human endurance.
No mining camp can be called dead
that lies in a tomb which contains an
estimated value of s4OO, 900, 900 III gold
and silver, aud over half the value III
gold.
1t appears to me that Eureka is only
waiting for Hope and Enterprise to
come aud roll away the stone from the
mouth Of her tomb and call her forth to
a new life.
Twice | have seen Leadville nearly as
dead as Eureka is to-day-,nd to-day
Leadville is beyond all dispute the
greatest mining camp i'll the Western
Hemisphere.
In 1859 Leadville first bloomed into
history as California Gulch, IA gold
placer camp. After a brief and swift
existence California Gulch was dead by
1864. She remained pretty lead till
1877, when Intelligence accompanied by
Science came along and whispered to
her in her coffin, AMI the stagnant hood
flushed through her veins and she arose
and shook off the OF the
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09

ton had brought Leadville to her knees.
ont and the ore ran lower in grade and
the water drowned the mines. and half
the stores and more than half the resi-
dences of the camp were empty. u
stockholders would not put up for
necessary deadwork and heavy ma
chinery to pump and hoist-and Lead.
vile was pretty dead for awhile again.
But no community of human beings
is dead till it consents to be dead.
Eureka has more than half consented
that's the real trouble.
Leadville never consented-and to-day
Leadville is the greatest mining camp
in North America with four times the
wealth of ore in sight she eve had in
her booming days.
Leadvills sank pretty low from 1888
to 1887. but she got a revival of energy
and went at it again with hope in her
heart and had several years Of strug-
Cling prosperity of a sort, followed by
another sinking spell and despair after
silver was finally demonetiz'd. Then
combinations of SIN I'll holdings into
larger a9gregations for economy OF
working-;unnels 10 drain and reduce
expense of pumping and lifting. aud
railroad tracks to the ore bins to avoid
cost of haulage; aud at last. most in
spring the discovery of 1.-The second
contact another ore deposit at a
lower geological horizon-by the core
drill.
Lealville is now good for 90 straight
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09
EUREKA'S GOLDEN TOMB


'rado, Chleftaln by Fltz-Mac
price of silver rendered it impossible to
hold the swift an reckless pee set for
her when her great bonanzis were
pouring their wealth of silver and gold
into the Nations lap and silver was at
a premium over gold.
Dead with a railroad 50 miles long
to her gates connecting her with the
Central Pac fic at Palisade on the Hum
boldt river to the northward--a narrow
gauge railroad bui.t by ID. o. Mil S that
earned in net profits the whole cost Of
its construction aud equipment the
year it was finished, so great was the
passenger and freight traffic to the
camp and to distant surrounding camps
in White Pine (most Of them now like
Eureka, forgotten of the world of
which she was the natural ~entrepot.
Thus dead and given over to despair
and the accumulating dust OF the
desert. is the once ~opulsnt and SUBJ
stantial city Of Eureka which / call the
Leadville of Nevada because in so many
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09

Eureka is dead and all her opu-
lepce, all her glories, al the wild. fas.
c;nating, resistless excitement and en-
arpv of her wonderous youth are lost
and vanished.
Dead as the flowers in Aspas.a's hair.
Sepulchred centuries ago.
Dead, in poverty and rags, with $780,
oO0. 600 to her credit iii the gold n
silver coinage of the world.
Dead, with 800. 900, 900 in gold and
silver and lead ores estimated as the
wealth still locked in the idle mines
which crown the gray. verdureiess
hills that surround her tomb, with
gorgeous chaplets of red and yellow
mine dumps-the rock thus brilliantly
stained by the oxides OF iron so enor-
mously developed in the great bonapzas'
all carving considerable values III gold
and silver, but too low TO be handled
when the cost of local smelling ranged
from SIG to $50 a ton.
Dead with the ragged and topping
wrecks of four large smelling plants
surrounded by mountainous. black Stag
dumps standing as wretched ana as
heyeled mourners of her departed en-
terprise aud open-handed aud reckless
opulence-of days when the famous
bonauzis of Ruby Hill and Prospect
Maintain swarmed ike ant-hills with
sturdy miners and with rushing ore
teams hurrying the raw product OF the
mines TO their refining fres-ot lays
when long. hulking trains OF charcoai
wagons came trailing at funereai pace
over su rounding bare hills and noun
,ains from distant wood camps where
wood was to be had for charcoal to
SUNNY the fuel-smelters in whose I'M
fenced bullion.yards once stood acres OF
gold -silver.lead bullion bars to the
value OF tens of millions, corded up like
wood or pig iron.
Dead here in the heart OF Nevada
after having held for a brief space the
position of the greatest mining camp oil
the day i'll the United States, and for
nearly ten years the position of second
greatest, while the Comstock bonanzas
held first place. during which time,
from her own mines and from b dis
tant bonanzls in White Pine and Nye
Counties, over 5000. 900. 600 in ore values
passed through her gates.
Dead with an $50, 900 Court House,
containing the finest court room In Ne
vada, facing, on her principal street, a
$50, 600 Opera House on whose boards
the kings and queens Of the American
stage strutted before crowded audiences
of hearty miners who encored their
successes by showers of coiu flung from
pit and galiery-with the best. built and
most luxuriously furnished hotel OF the
day between ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco, aud the most subs antial CONNER
cial buildings of brick and stone and
iron anywhere 10 be found in an Ameri-
can mining camp, half OF them now
empty and staring across the street at
one another like empty eye sockets from
which vultures have plucked the orbs.
All standing in their raggedness M
dust and neglect to mock Eureka, the
once Queen CITY of Nevada. with men,
cries of departed opulence and vanished
enterprise, and the recklessness OF ex.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1905-09-09


erty values in the camp are solid aud
re~munerative. The mining in Lead
vile is now in strong and experienced
hands backed by large capital and con-
trolled by a system of economies In
handling, treating and marketing the
ore and saving the by-products to the
ultimate farthing, nowhere else to be
found in America.
The mine.dumps and the slag-dumps
at Eureka could with the same system
of economies) be handled to-day at a
greater profit than much of the ore Of
Lsadville.
One may wonder who does not hap
pen to understand the facts of the case
why / am drawing this series of paral-
lels between a live c,mp in, Colorado
and a dead camp in Nevada.
/ have a sound reason for it. "t''
/ believe Eureka is surely destined
to repeat the history of Leadvifle's ups
and downs.
1 am drawing the parallels because
the facts of the two cases are parallel.
The ore at Eureka occurs In the same
way as 1t Leadville-the same geo
logical condit.ons-and is the''same
kind of ore. 1t is found in the Silnrian
formation at the contact of lime and
quartzite. 1t occurs III immense
chambers in the lime that sometimes
produce millions in value. -,
Save for the fact the Eureka ores are
far richer in gold than those of Lead
vile, they are otherwise strikingly
similar in character-a lead-siiver. gold
ore. the lead being largely carbonated
wi h galena nodules imbedded in the
clrbonates and the whole accompanied
by a vast development of red and
yellow iron. and, in places, much man
ganese.
An ore is properly designated by Its
most valuable product, and when silver
was worth more than twice its present
value Eureka was properly called a
silver camp. To-day it must be called
a gold camp, because gold constitutes
the greater part of the value.
Anyone who knows the necessary
limitations of a newspaper article will
realize that l must touch upon the
great history of Eureka only lightly
and graphically or / shall not get my
story into print, and if printed it would
be too heavy to be read.
All the geological and metallurgical
parallels l have stated between the two
camps of Leadville and Eureka have
been drawn and printed by the United
States Geological Survey.
Eureka has beer almost as carefully
studied by the Survey Corps as Lead
vile and those beautiful studies will be
found in several volumes or contribu-
tons to volumes of the Geological Sur
vey in all the public libraries.
Clarence King, who was long at the
head of the Survey Bureau. was for
some time manager of the great Rich
mond bonanza mine of Eureka. which
has produced perhaps more than any
mine i'll Colorado, aud more than any
mine in Nevada (ontside the Comstock
b~onanzas) except the Consolidated Eu-
reka which adjoins it.
Most mining men of Colorado are
under the impression that the ''side-
line ISSUE" otherwise called the APEX
Issue - WAS first raise an S.ttled in
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15
FRANKFORT, JULY Is, 1905
DISGRACEFUD.

When Deputy L. S. Marshal EN-
mitt Orr took Mr.. Caleb Powers to
the Newport Jail, on Tuesday, tn {
Mayor of Newport Zone Helmbold
objected to his being placed in a
cell that his friends had made COM
Portable for his use.
An alteration followed, whic h
was a disgrace to the said Mayor.
He caught the deputy jailer by the
throat because he advised him not
to interfere with the L. S. Marshal.
He was promptly knocked down.
The Mayor had brought his police
along evidently expecting trouble.
All parties were arrested. the
taller and his men by the police,
and the Mayor and his police by
L. 5. Marshals.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15
HEAVY STORMS SUNDAY.
Great Damage Done to Crops
House Struck by Lightning.

The heavy rain, wind and hal
storms of Sunday last did great
damage in this county. Lightning
had a hand in the damage also.
There were three distinct and
heavy storms. The first occurred
Just before ii o'clock and lasted for
something over half an hour. The
rain fell in torrents, and quite a
Number of persons, ell route co
church, were drenched.
The second storm came up about
! o'clock, and the heavy black
clouds were accompanied by hail
and lightning.
The residence of Mr.. r. G.. Tharp,
the Choateville dairyman, was
struck by lightning, which fol-
lowed the telephone wire.into the
building, burnt out that instru-
ment, tore down chimney,
shocked all who were in the house
severely, and scattered SCOT over
all the carpets completely running
them.
In the neighborhood of the Forks
of Elkhorn and Woodlake, the
growing crops and trees were badly
damaged. A house occupied by
scoiored tenants OH the farm Of Mrs.
Martha Black ,Wilkerson, near the
Forks, had the roof blown in. and,
{ but for an Old-fashiOned teaster
lbedstead (Which caught the roof
and held it up, the family would
likely have been killed.
Many beautiful trees were blown
down, obstructing the turnpikes
and other roads, and fields of oats
were leveled to the ground. Corn
was badly bent over, but will, prob
ably. recover from the blow.
At several points the hail ridded
the growing tobacco, and several
owners say that it is not worth any
further care. We hope, however,
they take too gloomy view.
The last storm was between and
! o'clock and was regular gully
washer.
Luckily, with all the wind and
lightning, no one was killed or in
jured 50 far as we could learn.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15
Worry
Almost Unnerved Me
Heart Pains.
S hort of Bre ath -,
Faint and Languid.
DIR. Miles'Heart Cure and
Nervine Cured Me.

ut has been five years since I was cured Of
heart trouble by your Heart Cure and Nerv-
inc, and l am just as sound as a dollar in
that organ today. For several years l had
been suffering with my heart Breathing
had become short and difficult at times,
short, sharp pains about the heart, sometimes
accompanied with 6uttering would make
me feel faint and languid. The least excite
ment or meptal worry would almost unnerve
me. l felt that the trouble was growing
worse all the time, and after trying many
remedies prescribed by physicians without
obtaining relief, was induced to give your
remedies a trial. l was relieved the second
day, and after taking three or four bottles all
symptoms were removed and have never
showed signs of returning. REV. GEO. w.
KIRAcoPE, Chincoteague, Va.
There are many symptoms of heart disease,
which so closely resemble those of more COM
mon nervous disorders as to frequently mis-
lead the attending physician. Often in cases
of heart trouble the stomach, kidneys, liver or
lungs become affected. Again the symptoms
may be those of weakened nerves, as tired
feeling, sleeplessness, timidty, the patient is
easily excitable and apt to worry without
cause. If you have the least suspicion that
your heart is weak study your symptoms and
begin the use of DR.. Miles Heart Cure, the
great heart and blood tonic, without days
delay.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie DR.. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15
WHERE HEROES SLEEP.

To the Editor of the Chronicles:
Tread lightly. You stand upon
hallowed ground" / write this
seated on a lovely terrace, 600 feet
above the Kentucky river, and in
the beautiful city of the dead,
where so many of Kentucky's
heroic dead now "sleep the sleep
that knows no waking" Imme-
diately in my front, lie the bone 8
of my hOnored father and mother,
my sisters, four, my two elder
brothers, and three brothers-in-law,
who were indeed my brothers in ali
that proved love and friendship.
One of them was for sixteen years
attorney general of Kentucky
John ROdman-and two, DR.. w. G..
and DR.. Lewis Sneed, among Ken
tucky's most noted physicians.
Twenty steps to the right, over
looking the Kentucky river, with
its romantic and picturesque
scenery. lie the bones of Daniel
Boone aud mis- wife, and upon
whose grave the State has caused
to be placed monument, upon the
four sides of which are sculptuIed
life-size pictures, showing the
deeds of this pioneer, in opening
up the dark and bloody ground
to settlement. On one side, repre-
sents Boone in deadly combat with
an Indian Warrior. On the op-
posite side the shaft portrays
Boone as a prisoner, bound for the
stake. Another side his escape
from captivity, and finds him lean
ing against tree i'm dense forest,
his trusty rife by his side.
Further up the hill, we come to
the beautiful giant shaft, 10 feet
high, erected by the State of Ken
lucky and dedicated to her dead
heroes who fell in her defense i'm
the war with Mexico, and the
names of all the officers with this
inscription: Kentucky erects this
monument, and has caused to be
inscribed thereon, the names of
her officers, who fell in defense of
their country in the war with Mex
leo. The names of her soldiers
who gave NJ t! e r lives is too great
to be inscribed upon any monu-
ment." Upon the dome of this
granite shaft, the angel of peace,
with outstretched arms, is stand
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15
State College Of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky.

College, Kentucky
following ural
Classical
Mechanical Engineering
Mining
leads degree graduate
degree Each organized a
faculty The general faculty number nearly fifty
County apponees receive tuition rent in dOmor fuel
light and if they remain months travelling
laboratories
hensve
appropriated
gymnasium for Roth
completed Military are
fully provided for required by
Graduates the several readily
positions liberal The
the ability of the College
each
pedagogy engineering instruction
College
college," the only in
university
The completion of the College home
facilities lodging
convenience including bath
1t is heated by and lighted electricity.
An is thus afforded young
thorough education in classic modern language literature science
mathematics logic metaphysics history political economy
OF all comparable those
Kentucky
For catalogues method of obtaining appointments
garding of study, and of admission
-.- JAS r. PATTERSON, Phi. d. IL. D.
ID. G. FRAZEE, Business Agent, Lexington,
Fall Term Begins September IA,
49td.
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TEXAS LETTER.
Lufkin, Tex, July 8, 1905.

Lufkin, Tex, July 8. 1905.
To the Editor of the Roundabout:
Jupiter Pluvius seems to have
opened wide the flood gates of
heaven and turned the waters of
the imperial kingdom down upon
this sin-cursed world of ours. AS
] write this article, seated in the
telegraph office of the Cotton Belt
Railway at Lufkin, at 10 O'Clock
the night of Saturday, July the
Sth, thunder, with the most vivid
lightning accompanied by torrents
of rain and almost hurricane of
wind, are everywhere in sight, and
the train I am waiting to meet two
or three hours late. Crops of all
kind are literally ruined, cotton es-
pecially so, the grass and weeds
having taken possession of the
fields, and what the grass leaves
will be devoured by the boil weevil
pest. 1t looks as if the farmers
everywhere here in Texas are
doomed to an almost total failure
of crops. Even corn is having too
much rain and weeds, wind and
grass have utterly ruined some of
the largest plantations in This sec
ton. Sawmills are at complete
standstill. Woods so covered with
water that logging the mills is an
utter possibility. AS / write /
hear message after message flying
over the wire to the general super
Intendent's Office, stating every
creek and tributary out of their
banks and still rising, and the end
is not yet. r. l.. RUSSELL.
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STORAGE WAREHOUSE TO BE
REBUILT.

The Frankfort Broom Works will
build new warehouse on their lot
.on Barrett Avenue to take the place
of the one burned on the morning
of July 4th.
The company has been paid their
insurance, $50, 800, i'm full.
The new warehouse will have
Ci nensiOns of l25 by 60 feet and
will be made as near fire proof as
it is possible 10 make such build
ings. \ switch viii be run from
the F. d c. r. r.. yards to the new
building.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-07-15

ing, while beneath, facing the four
corners, are two crossed cannon,
and around each n pyramid of cam
non balls. At the foot of the mon
ument and at each OF its four cor
neTs stands bronze cannon,
mounted. as if ready to be fired.
Around the mound upon which the
monument stands, lying in circle,
are the graves of the officers who
participated in the battles of the
war with Mexico, with the name
of each inscribed thereon. One in
particular / shall mention, as he
has national reputation, and who
also served with me on the staff of
General John G. Breckenridge in
the Confederate army, and often
times shared the same blanket with
me on the tented field-COl. TheO-
dore 'Hara-the author of that
deathless poem, 1.-THE BivOuac of
the Dead, "in which is that stanZa.
for rare beauty aud pathos will
never be eXcelled, and reads
ION Fame's eternal camping
ground
Their silent tents are spread,
While glory guards with solemn
round
The bivouac of the dead"
Brave, gallant, gifted O'Hara.
Green grow the grass, and light
rest the turf that covers your noble
breast.
r. L. RUSSELL.
Frankfort XIV