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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
PRESIDENT CASSATT
Or PENN, R. R. CO.
DIES SUDDENLY
Passed Away in His Home in
Philadelphia This Afternoon
With Heart Disease.
HIS DEATH INSTANTANEOUS
Had Been Ailing Ever Since He Came
From His Place at Bar
Harbor.
CAUGHT A VERY BAD COUGH
Remarkable Career of the Great Rail-
road Man-Head of Great Sys-
tenn Since 1S99-Born in Pitts
burg-Was Educated in
Germany.
CAUGHT A VERY BAD COUGH

The news OF President Cassatt' S
death came as a great shock to the
citizens of Philadelphia, among
whom he had lived for many years.
That he was so near death was not
believed by many persons who en-
joyed intimate relations with him or
his family, and few at first credited
the report. The best information
the public had as to his condition
was that he had slight cold and
was rapidly improving This infor
nation was given out last Monday.
Nothing further could be learned of
his condition until shortly before 2
o'clock today, when a telephone mes
sage was sent from his private Of
fees to the Associated Press an
nOuncine his sudden death.
PHILADELPHIA. December .}.-Presi-
dent Alexander j. Cassatt of the Pennsyl-
wanna fNdltipdh COMPANY ultO suddenly
this afternoon. The announcement of his
Z death was made from his office shortly be-
fore o'clock in the following bulletin:
Mr.. \. J. Cassatt. president of the Penn
sylvana railroad. died suddenly of heart
disease at l pm today. The symptoms
were those known to the profession as the
stokes-Adams synbrome, and. as is often
the case under these circumstances, death
was instantaneous"
Mr.. Cassatt died in his city residence at
2G2 West Rittenhouse square. surrounded
by the members of the family who were at
J. II. Husser of this city.
Caught Whooping Cough.
Mr.. Cassatt has been ailing ever since he
came from his summer home at Bar Har-
resort he contracted whooping cough from
his grandchildren and was still suffering
from its effects when he arrived home This
attack left him in a weakened condition,
Wand ne did not go 10 his office at Broad
street station, in this city, for several
Weeks put on Inc ADVICE or his physician
remained at his country home at Haver-
ford, near the city.
Early in October Mr.. Cassatt felt much
better and came regularly to his office for
several weeks. when he was again at
tackled by illness. this time with a heavy
cold. His exact condition was not pub
licly known, and this gave rise to many
of his serious il1uaSS Of I,i
sudden death.
Resumed His Duties
lie recovered sufficiently to resume his
duties, and was at Broad Street Station
regularly until December s, his birthday
That was the last day he at his Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Weather.

Cloudy and unsettled to-
night and tomorrow, POSSE
bly, rain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-28
Pressure on Jerome.

After the arrest of Mr.. Perkins several
months ago on a technical charge of lar
ceny pressure upon District Attorney Je-
rome to proceed against high insurance Of
ficials increased rather than diminished.
During the spring months the public de-
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
EVERY COUNTY A PRODUCER.


showing life and strength and getting
good values. BY the middle of next
year every county in the State will be
paying bullion tax.
"Silver Peak has most wonderful
showing They have railroad in there,
and by the second quarter of next year
will be great producer. Yerington has
a tremendous showing in copper, only
second to Ely. The four counties that
are producing this two millions a month
are Storey, Nye, Esmeralda and Lyon.
"Bullfrog, Rhyolite, Beatty, and Tok-
op and Gold Mountain. all have great
properties, and all are being developed.
At Tokop the principal mines are the
Nevada Goldfeld, to which the Clark
road is building spur line; the Bonnie
Claire, and the Gold Crest and another
property.
''These rank as the producers, and, as
l say, have every one of them made a
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

Guided Ramsey, Fairview, Wonder, Gold
Center, Round Mountain and Manhat-
tan, and in fact all of those camps are
at present Goldfeld is very busy and
busting. / don't believe there is a
buster place in America. Everything
along business lines is progressing very
nicely"
Mr.. Nevin has been in the southern
country about two weeks. He has ex-
amined all the mines around Goldheld
and declares the development work
around Tonopah and Goldfeld is some
thing wonderful.
"a particularly noticeable thing, said
Mr.. Nev!n, lis that the promoters do
not have to go outside to get capital, but
can get it in Nevada.
"All the new camps, where legitimate
mining is being carried on are making
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

James Nevin, State License and Bull
lion Tax Collector, has just returned
from his quarterly trip to the southern
part of the State, where he has been
looking after the output of the mines,
He states that the southern country is
in very hourishing condition. An in
terview follows:
"Conservatively speaking, l believe
the Mohawk is the richest gold mine in
the world. They have nearly million
dollars stored in the John A. Cook vault
at Goldfeld, which is full to its utmost
capacity, and they have also large
amount in the State Bank. They will
soon ship three carloads of ore, the value
of which will astonish the world.
The net output for the State will
amount to about two million dollars per
month. This does not include ores on a
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
MASON VALLEY
COPPER COMPANY

Reports regarding the condition of the
Spragg copper mine, the property of the
Mason Valley Copper Company, are
more fattering each week. A drift is
now being run on the contact where
the tunnel cuts the large 50-foot vein of
ore. AS before stated this large ledge
was cut at distance of about 4l0 feet in
from the mouth of the tunnel, which cross
cuts the formation. The drift is being
run to the west along the contact and is
now advanced distance of 40 feet from
the tunnel. At the 50-foot point another
crosscut will be run, and the ledge will
be crosscut at intervals of so feet as the
drift advances. In the drift the value
of the ore is increasing and the company
now has showings of to s per cent. ore,
and sprinkling of black oxides in it.
Further along in the tunnel, beyond the
big vein, there are also excellent show
ings, and kidneys of copper glance are
frequently encountered i'll good grade
of chalcopyrite ore. This is the first in
stance that copper glance has been
found in any of the properties in this
district.
The main tunnel is being advanced as
rapidly as possible, and but Is or 100
feet remain to be run before the point
under the incline shaft from the surface
is reached. The Mason Valley Company
is highly pleased with the property and
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
I'VE quit We quit! Don't shoot, Mr..
Crockett. Well come down.
THE NEVADA CON. OF ELY

THE NEVADA CON. OF ELY
The burst of laughter brought Joe
Phelby over from the billiard table with
the cue in his hand and the question,
Whats doing?'
Joe and his brother Fred have made a
big fortune over at Ely in the last year,
copper property there worth millions.
They own the White Pine County Bank
there which is growing one of the
strongest in the State. Both are gradu-
ates of the University of California, but
both were pioneers at Tonopah and slept
on the ground and cooked their own
grub and on Sunday mornings used to
take kettle and their big dish pan and
go up to the spring and build fire and
wash their own shirts and socks and
hang them on the sage brush to dry.
Joe is favorite at the Mizpah and
therefore everyone shouted. Oh, you go
way go way This is our fight. You
amt in it. You and your brother Fred
are an outrage-you' re beyond the pale.
You sneaked off to Ely last winter and
gathered up everything that wasn't nail
ed down without saying boo to your old
friends. Go way, go way from us and
talk to millionalreS. You re III their
class now. But don't come back here
and put on dawg'' for all of us remem-
Dor the times when you and Fred used to
wash your own shirts and socks up at the
spring like the rest of US.
Toe smiled at their chaf in that be-
nignant way that only man who has
made a couple of millions in twelve
months can smile, and he said:
81 overheard your talk. Now don't
try to dodge. Searchlight is great
camp and the Quartette is very great
mine. Bullfrog is great camp and the
Shoshone is great mine. Goldheld is
great camp and the Mohawk is great
mine. and right here you've got the To-
nopah mine, which you all know has got
more value in sight than any of them.
But YOU fellows have got used to think
ing in millions and tens of millions,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

put gentle flea in my ear by saving:
Now Fitz, you stand up for Ely, stiff,
or by the limping blue goose, I'll muir
der you in your tracks"
After the babel subsidized such babel
as this, all in one jumble:---" tell
me the truth Fitz eff you can, by some
cynic, soto voice.; isn't the Mohawk
the greatest mine in the State?'---Oh,
Fitz'll tell the truth, he knows it's the
Shoshone. IF he knows any more'n
burro about mine he'll say it's the
Quartette. "---"He does know mine
and he'll say it's the Tonopah. "---"I
said the Nevada Con. has got $500, O00,-
600 in sight, Fitz; now has it, or hasn't
it---say right out?'
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

while over at Ely we reckon values by
hundreds of millions and the Nevada
Consolidated there has got a greater
wealth of mineral in sight than the
Quartette, the Shoshone, the Mohawk
and the Tonopah all taken together.
It's got fifty million tons of ore in sight
good for so pounds of copper to the ton,
which, at 20 cents a pound, stands for
gross value of $500, 900, 0O0---and that
is not probably quarter of the value
the mine contains. That's only what is
in sight. And in conclusion, just allow
me, pray, to remark that it doesn't be-
come you fellows, it doesn't evince the
spirit of true Christian brotherhood
among you, to jump on me and Fred
the way you do for catching on at Ely
before you woke up. You all had the
same chance as We All of us read the
first story of Ely by Fitz-Mac right here
in this club year ago at the same time,
and that's what started Fred and me
over there across the country with the
fastest team we could get. You fellows
expect Fortune to come to you and pour
her treasures into your lap, but Fred and
bumped ourselves after reading Fitz-
Macs story and went out to meet For
tune half way"
"Aw-a-a! Fitz-M Macs newspaper story!
That was too big to believe!--damn a
newspaperman anyway"
Yes" replied Joe, 1T was a pretty
big story to believe, that's so, for fellows
of your small experiences in mines, and
to tell the truth Fred and didn't much
more than half believe it and were
tempted several times to turn back after
we started. But it turned out that Fitz-
Macs story wasn't too big to be true
actually wasn't as big as the truth---and
the theory of the ore deposit at Ely
which he propounded has revolutionized
the ideas of the camp and led to the To-
cation of thousands of new claims, and
he got the government to give US a
geological survey of the camp and it's
now being made---but Fitz-Mac is here.
/ saw him in the reading room studying
the geological survey of this camp
Bring him out!-bring him outl"
When Joe came to bring me out he
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

little camp and the Mohawk, no doubt.
is good little mine, but all the world
knows that the greatest mine in the State
is the great and only Montgomery-Sho-
shone of Bullfrog.
"Oh-o-o Well, I'd have cheap
opinion of the devil if he would't stick
up for his own camp; all the same, you'll
see Mohawk at 200 before the roses bloom
in the spring, tra-la."
Men from all the camps in the State
belong to the Mizpah Club, because the
renascence of Nevada, the regeneration,
begun with the discovery of Tonopah FIVE
years ago, and the Mizpah Club, named
after the Mizpah mine located by that
good and lovely woman, Mrs. Butler, is
great favorite throughout the State.
THE QUARTETTE
Just at this juncture in the amiable
disputation tall, spare, Lincolnish look
ing man from Searchlight, a really fine
camp down near the Colorado River, i'll
the southwest projection of the State,
who had drawn near and caught the
drift of the talk, leaned over and with
most amusing Texas drawl, remarked:
''You-all in these up-States camps are
the biggest lot of hot-air artists that ever
got loose all to onct. You talk just as
you ulster when you were in the asylums.
Each of you thinks your little camp is
the whole cheese, but if you want to see
a camp that hain't never known fail
ure, come down, when you get better IN
your heads, and look around Searchlight.
Maybe it amt gettin' out as much liter
atoor or running as many steam caliopes
as some camps, but it's got the stuff and
/ give you notice that it's sawin' wood
like farmers lovely daughter, and if
you want to see BIG mine, come down
to Searchlight, when you get better, and
look over our little ole Quartette.
don't want to hurt nobody's feelings by
making insidious remarks about indi-
vidual mines, but before you bust your
selves wide open Dragging about your
big upstate mines, come down, on my
invite, and look over Searchlight's little
ole Quartette.
Everybody laughed and all shouted:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
Entertaining Colored Friends.

A charming sketch of Southern life III
The New Idea Woman's Magazine for
December describes the visit of an old
black "auntie" and her granddaughter
to the white family of whom the old
woman had been slave before the war.
The situation is unique and is handled
with sympathy and humor by the writer,
S. B. Hackley The whites fortunes
have fallen and the ladies do their own
work" An excellent understanding of
etiquette, however, prevails, and while
the ladies wait on their black guests at
the little table for two in the kitchen,
Aunt Maria and Lizzie" appropriate
the subsequent dish-washing The en-
tertainment consists in Aunt Maria
hearing all the news of her beloved
white folks" and of all their collateral
branches; in being shown the gala frocks
and hats of the young ladies'; and finally
in the afectionate bestowal of manifol.
Pitts, broadly limited for by the guests,
from packages of coffee to hats, belts
and flannel skirts. The article, which
has the ring of truth more than of fc-
ton, is an interesting document at the
present juncture OH the Southern ques-
ton.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
\ r the Mizpah Club in Tonopah, the
\ assembly place the rialto of
mining men from all the desert,


mining men from all the desert
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from the fact that Nevada is very big.
State - fourth IN size and many OF the
camps are widely distant rom others,
and their characters diher so widely that
while the Judgment OF an educated and
experienced expert may be very valuable
on the camp with wiiich ne IS fainaiiar IL
may be OF no value at all, or positively
fatuous, on another I'll ne mas been able
TO make special study OF ITS intimate
. .
THE MOHAWK.
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ol'e saiu' Ia.hei s,Hy, ,ookihe up
ioii' ne"'PaPS' noeS N'oiu-
neiu fellows are iusnihs inc lioui heis'
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s'oeh WIZ SCH at S-oo siia 'ue W.
h""N 10 'he siea'es' nii'e III NeFaua'
THE ToNoPAH.
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ra,. have ,,,;,e for 500 ?
.!oi' 1911 ,a. II,
carry"
wen, then' IL swap you my i,uoo
shaFcs OF MOHAWK iot l'ovo s1aies Oh 10
noP1h -they are oo'h ABOUT 'he sai'ie
Price now. ,.,.
you rear - my heaI on man ea'en
gov 'ne I,oVO ,onoPaii Vi uuo 9"ioe
"a. "a" nSA !ei .ai nu. , ., ,,'.e
W sax YOU IN. vna., any wa. i'
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08

The date of entrance of the Las Vegas
railroad into Rhyolite has been set for
December Is. The Board of Trade of
that hustling mineral city are straining
themselves to make the coming of the
ra.l an, .4.a,,t nsxar to be foru0tte.,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1906-12-08
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

You forget, sir" said the Colonel,
drawing himself to his full height, as the
heroes and heroines all do, you know, in
novels - especially the heroine - and
throwing well-assumped stage sneer
of sublime but patient contempt into his
answer, ''You forget sir, that Goldfeld
is not the whole of Nevada. It's good
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-17
Real Estate
Bargains

S27OO buys fine siX-room house OPP
posite Long View park, on Fifteenth
street; has city water. sewer, gas. and
furnace; street paved with asphalt and
paid. No better location in the city.
We have a house on Seventeenth
street that must be moved off of lot
soon; will sell cheap.
500 down, balance $3.50 on time,
buys a house and three large lots in
South Rock Island; house six years old.
500 down, balance $3.50 on time.
buys a nice house five years old, lot
6OX150: has fruit of all kind on lot;
near street car line.
If YOU have property to rent or sell,
list il with us.
We have houses to rent in all parts
of the city.
We write all kinds of insurance in
reliable companies.
We are immigration agents for
Texas, North and South Dakota. and
have some good propositions in lands |
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-17
Real EState

S1,o25-Buys 5-room cottage on Fol
ty-third street, between Third ant
Fourth avenues
S1,4co-WIll buy Groom house,
rooms down, and up. city water, lot
55x1G2, Twenty-eighth street, near
Thirteenth avenue $500 down.
We have two small houses in Davenport
we will trade as part payment on good
modern house in Rock Island.
S1,4oo-Will buy a nice Groom cot
tage on Eighth avenue, near Twelfth
street, cistcrn, city water, and sewer:
$500 down.
S1,4oo-Wili buy Groom cottage on
Thirty-first street, near Fourteenth av-
enue.
S1,6o0-Will buy broom cottage on
Forty-siXth street, near Third avenue,
lot G0x120; easy payments.
We have two desirable lots on Four
tcenth-and-a-half street, near Tenth av
enue, city water, sewer, and gas, $725 |
each.
We build cottages on easy terms.
We loan money on real estate.
List your property with us.
Office open Wednesday and Saturday
evenings. 1870 to 9 o'clock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-17
LEGAL.
Publication Notice.

State of Illinois. Rock Island Coun-
County Court of Rock Island County.
ton to Sell Real Esnte to Pay Debts.
]. w. Simonson. administrator of the
Tvs; Calista Whitesides. Joseph G. White
sides, John w. Whitesides, Emmons II.
hares E @sI M da M9 ssodss
ihery James Clyde Tando, Mary l.. Tam
do, Sadie May Tando. Homer c. Bruner.
Affidavit of the non-residence OF Ca
Ilista Whitesides. Joseph G. whitesides
John w. Whitesides, Emmons r. White
Whitesides. Ida May Stodesbery. james
TTl Inho Ta I3d. Mary L Tando' Sadie May
above named, having been filed In the
office of the clerk of the county court
of of, Rock Island county. notice is here
sides, Joseph G.. Whitesides, John w.
W White I'D yr, Emmons r. Whitesides,
sides, Ida May Stodesbery. James Clyde
Tando. Mary L. Tando Sadie May Tan
piaintm, J. W simo nes administrs stor
of the estate of Samuel Whitesides, de-
ceased. has filed his petition in the said
court of Rock Island county, for
an order to sell the premises belonging
10 the ., estate ), OF SAID deceased. or so
debts of said deceased, and described
shepherds subdivision of outlot num-
Der twenty-one (21), of section number
va township numDer
lineteen G9), north range one % east
4 the fourth ca principal meridian.
county of Rock Island. state of illinois,:
also, lot ten (10), block sixteen (16), old
own of Port Byron. state of Illinois,
Rock Island county.
And that a summons has been issued
tut OF said court against you, return
bile at the April term, A. ID. 1906, OF
aid court, to be holden on the End day
April. A. ID. 1906. at the court house
n Rock Island, in Rock Island county.
illinois.
Now, unless you, the said Calista
Joseph C. Whitesides. John
V. Whitesides. Emmons X. Whitesides.
ames w. Whitesides, Charles i. White
ides. Ida May Stodesbery, James Clyde
'ando, Mary L. Tando, Sadie May Tan
o. Homer g. Bruner, shall personally
9 and appear before said county court
Rock Island county, on the first day
T a term thereof. to be holden at Rock
sland. in said county. on the End day
April. 1906, and plead answer or de-
lur To the said complainants petition
led therein, the same and the matters
nd things therein charged and stated
ill be taken as confessed. and "A de-
rec entered against you according to
he prayer of said bill.
Rock Island. III. March q 1906.
II. II. HUBBARD. Clerk.
Harry NJ. McCaskrin, complainants
Ilicitor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-17
LEGAL.
Petition to Probate VIII.

State of Illinois, Rock Island Coun-
| ty-ss:
County Court. Rock Island County,
March Term, 1906.-ln Probate.
In the matter of the probate of the
last Will and testament OF Hugh Raj
ston, deceased.
Germ, including the unknown heirs
at-law of Hugh Ralston, deceased,
Notice is hereby given, that on the
ton, was, filed in the county court of
Rock Island county, Illinois. asking
that the last will and testament of
Hugh Ralston, deceased. be admitted to
states that the following named per-
sons are all the heirs-at-law and lega-
tees: John RalstOn, Miss Jane Ralston,
Robert Me Win, Mrs Lizzie McMeekin,
John RalstOn, Mrs. Lizzie Caughey,
Robert Ralston, Hugh Ralston, Mrs.
Agnes Miller. Mrs. Belle Kelly. Mrs.
Ralston. Frank Ralston. Dupree Raj
ston, Matte Ralston, Jennie Ralston,
Mrs. Mary Larimer, Mrs. Agnes War
mock, Mrs. Jennie McKOwn. Mrs. Mar
Ralston, Hugh w. Ralston, Robert Raj
Ston, Agnes X. Hill, and the unknown
heirs of Hugh Ralston. deceased GfI
any. the residence and. postoffice ad- |
You are further notified. that the |
hearing of the proof Of said will has |
been set by said court for the goth day |
Of March. A ID. 1906, at the hour of |
o'clock in the forenoon. at the court |
house, in the city of Rock Island, in
said county. when and where you can
appear, If you see fit. and show cause.
f any you have, why said Will should |
not be admitted to probate.
HENRY Il. HUBBARD,
County Clerk.
Dated at Rock Island. Ill. March 3.
jackson, Hurst & Stafford. collectors.