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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-03-09

FRANK A. JOHNSON.
Commissioners.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
COAL LAND SCANDAL.
Probed by Interstate Commerce Com
mission at Salt Lake.

Salt Lake.-Before the Interstate
Commerce Commission at Salt Lake
Friday. George ID. Holiday testified
that after long persecution he was COM
PEELED to sell one bf the most valu.
able coal mines in Utah to a Gould
coal company. fer a fraction of its
value. Previous TO the sale he had
been driven from the land by armed
men. it had been jumped by an agent
of the coal company, and he had been
threatened by coal company officers
when he refused to give it up or
sell it.
Arthur A. Sweet testified that armed
men drove him from his coal claim
and he was prosecuted until he sold
at o paltry price to the coal company.
Later the coal company. he said. Sc,
cured his discharge by the Rio Grande
Western road.
The statement by Department Chief
George F. Pollock of the Interior De-
partment, which was given to the
press in Washington Thursday. was
read into the record of the commits.
sion.
Just before the evening adjourn
mont of the investigation, Attorney
Farley Williams. for the Union Pacific,
read newspaper clipping in which
Mr.. Pollock denounces as false the af-
fidavit of Special Agent Myendorff
that Pollock had been instrumental in
suppressing evidence against the
Union Pacific Coal Company. Mr.. Will
liams asked that the telegraphic state
ment be received as evidence.
Commissioner Clark assented and
]. T. Marchand. attorney for the gov
ernment, was also permitted to place
on record a raws interview in which
Mr.. Pollock is quoted as calling the
Interstate Commerce Commissions IN
vestigation piece of impertinence."
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
COURSE FOR FARMERS.
BY Colorado State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins

Fort Collins.-The ten days farmers
course of the State Agricultural Col
lege will be held this year December
10th to 21st, instead of the last two
weeks in January. This change has
been made to accommodate the farm
to take the practical work which this
course offers them
Farmers and ranchmen who have re-
Gently come to Colorado will find this
work helpful in making them familiar
with agricultural conditions in Colo
rado since representative farmers from
all sections of the state will be present.
Study of feeding, breeding, selection,
care and management of the different
types of horses, cattle, sheep and
swine, diseases of live stock, with sug-
gestive remedies, special grain and for
age crops of Colorado, the thorough
:tillage system for non-irrigated lands
of Colorado, farm motors; when and
how to use them, are few of the many
things which will be discussed by men
of experience and ability.
To assist farmers in developing, dis
tributinS and marketing desirable
types of acclimated grains, adapted to
Colorado conditions, a state grain grow
association will be organized Monday,
December 18th. Every grain-growing
section of the state is urged to send as
many farmers to represent them in this
organization as possible.
All railroads in the state offer one
and one-fifth fare for the round trip
for those attending this farmers
course, and the grain growers meeting
at Fort Collins. The special days of
the course will be:
Meat demonstration day, Saturday,
December 18th
Grain growers day, Monday, Decem-
Der 17th
Thorough tillage day, Tuesday, De-
cember 18th.
Farm machinery day, Wednesday,
December 18th.
Among the more important lecturers
and teachers who will take part in CIV
ing the course are:
d. y. Gammutz of the Wisconsin Ag-
.ricultural, who will conduct the block
tests for meat
H. w. Campbell of Lincoln, Ne
brasEa, soils and dry farming.
Professor w. NJ. Jardine of the Utah
Agricultural College, who will lecture
on Drought Resistant Crops" and
Utah'5 work in experiments along that
line.
j. \. Donahue of Denver and others
will tell of the demonstration work
now being carried out on the nom
irrigable lands of Colorado.
In addition to the class and lecture
room work, Dean Carlyle is preparing
program of popular lectures to be
given in the evening in the college
chapel from December 18th to 21st.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Holland Colony Coming.

Colorado Springs-A deal was
closed Saturday whereby half inter-
est in the Fountain Valley Land and
Irrigation Company was sold to Hol-
land capitalists for sl50,O00 cash. The
company, of which w. C. Johnson of
Denver is president, is an interest of
the Castlewood Dam Company. also
of Denver. The Holland capitalists
will next spring send 900 Holland set
tiers to the valley, which is south of
here. Several thousand more will be
sent out druing the succeeding years,
and colonization will start on a large
scale The irrigation company owns
1900 acres in the valley.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Lost Cabin Mine Redivivus.

The decision of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals at st. Paul
recently in the case of Asmus Boysen
against Harry Wadsworth, agent of
the Shoshone Indian reservation in
Wyoming. in which the injunction
granted by Judge Riner of the federal
court at Cheyenne was sustained, is
said to be exciting great interest in
Wyoming.
Boysen has been fighting for two
years to secure title TO piece OF min
eral land in the reserve that Is sup
posed to be fabulously rich. 1t is said
by some that Boysen secured from the
Indians inside information regarding
the location of the famous Lost Cabin
gold mine. and that as result he has
relocated the alleged bonanza on the
Big Horn river. where he has estab-
lshed a town called Boysen. Expen-
sive milling and mine machinery Is
now beieng installed to work the
ground.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
NEWS FROM THE Mines and MILLS
Cripple Creek Die.ric. Output.

Forty-five thousand six hundred tons
of gross bullion value OF 81 ,536,85 was
the Cripple Creek output for Novem-
ber. from data furnished by the mine,
mill and smelter representatives. In
addition, heavy tonnage, not yet
treated, was consigned to the Golden
Cycles new mill at Colorado City to be
held until the plant starts. No date
has been set for the opening of the
mill, but it is understood 1T will be be-
fore the close of the year.
Another feature of the month was
the commencement of operations at
the new mill of the Little Giant COM
pany. This plant, model one, is in
Pony gulch, three miles southwest of
here, a section in which but little de-
velopment has been prosecuted. The
Little Giant company has patented an
extensive acreage which is inter-
sected by huge mineralized dykes. Ex-
haustive tests of this low-grade ore
were made before the mill was con-
structed and it is claimed that the low
est grade of the ore, now being run
through the mill, more than pays the
expense of mining and treatment.
Excluding the product of the Little
Giant mill the small cyanide plants Of
the district during the month treated,
approximately, 5000 tons of low-grade
and dump ore Of the average value Of
$6.67 ton. These mills are operated
at profit and that the results have
been watched by the larger corpora
tions is better evidenced by the fact
that three companies, the Isabella, Vim
dicator and 10 Dandy, have already
similar. but larger, mills under con-
struction. The successful operation
of these mills and the handling Of the
low-grade deposits of the camp, will
not only largely increase tonnages, but
enhance profits to holders of shares in
Cripple Creek corporations. The fig
ures as secured are as follows
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Av. Gross
Sl,53G.So0
The Mining Excitement.

The country is in the midst of the
greatest mining boom in it's history.
The whole East is aroused to the pos
millions of dollars have found their
way from that section into the mining
camps of Nevada.
1t is due to wonderful discoveries of
gold ore in Tonopah, Goldfield and a
few other districts, joined to the fact
that the East has great surplus OF
money seeking investment. In conse-
quence of the interest awakened in
Goldfield and a few other places, ev-
cry prospect hole in Nevada has sud
denly acquired the proportions of a
mine. Men are willing to invest thou
sands of dollars in properties which
two or three years and would not have
attracted any attention at all. These
and the camps in which they are situ-
ateu are thriving in the sunshine OF
Goldfeld's prosperity. They may be
good prospective prices. but they are
no better than hundreds of similar
properties in Colorado. But Tonopah
and Gcldfield float them and carry
them along.
Colorado has not yet reaped the
benefit which Nevada has gained from
this excitement. but it is attracting
much interest throughout the East.
and, in the opinion CT men who have
studied the situation, II will be the
center of a similar excitement in the
course of the next twelve months
Denver Republican.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
RAILWAY COLLISION.
President OF the Southern Railway
Company Killed.

Lynchburg, Va.-Samuel Spencer,
president of the Southern Railway
Company, and recognized as one of
the foremost men in the development
OF the Southern states, and six other
persons were killed and eleven more
injured early Thursday morning in a
rear end collision between two fast
passenger trains. the Jacksonville ex-
press and the limited, ten miles south
of Lynchburg and a mile north of
Lawyers depot.
Philip Schuyler. a retired capitalist
Of New York, was among the killed. to-
gether with other guests of Mr.. Spen-
Ger.
OF those on Mr.. Spencer's car, only
Mr.. Spencer's private secretary. E. A
Merrill of New York, and one of three
porters survived the accident.
The Jacksonville train came to a
stop at the crest of one of the heaviest
grades on the road between Lynch
burg and Dapville. If the trains had
come together a mile further south it
is believed that hardly a person on
either train would have come out of
the wreck alive.
Ten minutes later the speed would
have been upward of sixty miles an
hour. and the incoming train. instead
OF plowing only through President
Srencer's private car. probably would
have gone through the entire train.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
LEGISLATORS ovsrEp.
New Election Ordered to Be Held In
Cuba

Havana.-"By a decree to be issued
soon under specific authority of the
President of the United States, the
seats of all members Of the second
series of the Cuban Congress elected
in 1905 will be declared vacant"
This was the announcement made by
Governor Magoon Sunday to twenty
five senators and members of the
House of Representatives whom he had
invited to attend a conference in the
palace.
After reviewing all the facts devel-
oped by the peace commission sent TO
Cuba by President Roosevelt in re-
sponse to President Palmas appeal for
intervention, Governor Magoon called
the attention of the members to the
fact that the determination as to the
status of the Congress had been re-
served by the peace commission for
consideration at Washington.
He then communicated to them the
final determination of President Roose-
velt that the seats of all senators and
representatives elected in 1905 shall
be considered vacant from October
18th, 1906, the vacancies thereby Gre
ated being filled by an election under
the provisional government in accord
ance with the proclamation of Secre-
tary Taft.
The first series OF senators and rep
resentatives elected in 1904 will be con-
tinued in office IL moral peace, tranquil.
lily and public confidence be restored
to such an extent that an election for
the vacated seats may be held during
1907, and there may be at the same
time an election of the successors of
representatives whose terms expire De-
cember 81, 1907, without shortening
these terms, thus avoiding the neces-
sity for two elections. The salaries of
the ousted members will be paid to Oc-
tober 18th, the date fixed by the peace
commission.
General Ruis Rivera, formerly secre-
tary of the interior, said to the Asso-
ciated Press that he realized the decree
merely carried out an obligation of in
terest to the peace commissioners, but
he greatly deplored it, believing it's ef-
feet would be disastrous.
He said he was firm in the belief that
the only means of establishing peace.
full conditions consist in the election of
an entirely new Congress, whereas the
proposed election, which would result
in turning over the government to Lib
eral control, could result in a new in
surrection the moment the American
troops were withdrawn from the island.
The fact was, said General Rivera,
that the United StsSes had ignored
this, which was patent to all Cubans.
and pointed irresistibly to the conclu-
sion that If the United States withdrew
1t would be with the full recognition of
the necessity for speedy return and
the consequent extinction of Cuban in
dependence.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Looking Into Car Shortage.

Washington. - The car shortage
throughout the United States will be
investigated by the interstate COM
merce commission. Commissioner
Franklin X. Lane. who has been look.
ing into this subject. said that the
commission would first take up the
situation in the northwest among the
wheat carrying roads. Farmers in
many states complain they are unable
to get their grain to market in time to
share in the high prices now being
paid IN Minneapolis and Chicago.
The commission has issued a circu.
lar asking grain growers to submit
specific information regarding the
amount of freight offered for shipment
and the reasons given for not trans.
porting It.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Wife pesertion Alarms.

So many Cincinnati wives have been
deserted by their husbands of late that
the city council has taken steps to-
ward putting check on such run
aways. 1t has been found that mort
gage loan sharks are contributing fac.
tors in a great many cases. A mans
ability to mortgage his furniture with.
out the knowledge of his wife is a
strong temptation to husbands of weak
will An ordinance has been intro.
duced making such mortgage of nc
avail unless they bear the signature OF
both husband and wife.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Shooting ARRAY at Salida.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Salida says: A shooting ARRAY at the
smelter Wednesday night resulted in
Andrew Lesmick being fatally
wounded. while John Kocherer was
badly beaten by an officer. Jake Pate.
the officer. was also badly cut The
trouble was between the officer and
Kocherer. and Lesmick. an innocent
spectator. was accidentally shot by
Frank Mucella. who was manipulating
shotgun in an adjoining room, hay.
ing gone after the weapon with the in
tehtion of assisting the officer. The
shot went through board partition
and then into tho body of the victim.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
HIS TROUBLE WAS INTERNAL.
Indian Chief Had Peculiar Ideas About
Hydrophobia.

Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City was
describing the cosmopolitan throngs
that visit his famous and gay resort.
Every nationality comes here" he
said. Greeks, Turks, Hindoos, Chi
nese, Moors-they all come.
Il was talking the other day to one
of the physicians of the Pasteur In
stitute-the hospital, you know, for
the prevention and cure of hydropho-
bia. The Pasteur Institute reminded
me of Atlantic City, it's visitors seemed
to be of such a diversified character.
The physician told me about an In
dian chief who had come to him for
treatment last year.
My name,' said the chief, is War
Eagle. Please take me in hand.
fear | am getting hydrophobia.'
Have you been bitten the physic-
ian asked, by mad dog?
Not exactly bitten War Eagle
answered, but l have the gravest sus.
picions about black poodle that was
served to me in a ragout last Friday
afternoon
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Pledqed for Deep Drainage.

A Colorado Springs dispatch of No
vember 2Sth says: At an enthusiastic
meeting of the mine owners of the Grip
pie Creek district to-day the sum OF
sS00.00C was practically pledged to-
ward the support Of the deep drainage
tunnel at the samp. The mine owners
decided TO abandon the intermediate
tunnel at the camp. The mine owners
Window Rock tunnel originally recon-
mended by Engineer ID. w. Brunton,
who drew plans for both bores, The
mine owners will hold another meeting
December 11th to perfect plans and
formally ratify to-days action. 1t is
hoped to start work shortly after the
first OF the year.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Bio Wyoming Oil Strike.

A Garland. Wyoming. dispatch says:
The oil strike made near here ten
days ago promises to result in vast
benefit to this section. An expert
from the Beaumont fields has exam
ined the well, investigated conditions
here, and is of the opinion that the
Garland fields will within short time
eclipse the Beaumont fields. The To-
cal oil carries the highest per-
centage of kerosene and gas
'oline OF any brought to the sur
face in the West, and 1t is said to be
worth seven times as much per barrel
AS the Beaumont product. Indications
are that Garland is located over vast
lake of oil, which will require the
steady flow from hundreds OF wells
years to exhaust.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Gold Strike In Canada.

A rec, mt dispatch from North Battle
ford. Canada, says: Gold In what APP
pears to be immense quantities has
been discovered Mt Blrling, AZ miles
west of here The discovery was made
by an old prospector named Hughes,
who sent samples taken at random
over n square mile Of territory. to an
assnying Office at Ottawa. The report
came back that his dirt had cssayed
$55 "A ton-a vein of immense richness.
According to Hughes, the vein extends
for ten miles and is over mile Wide.
The rock lies about ten feet below the
surface So rich in metal is the ore
that yellow fakes sprinkled through
the rock can be seen with the naked
eye.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Oklahoma Constitution.

Guthrie. Okla.-The actual forma.
ton of constitution for Oklahoma
WAS inaugurated November 80, when
propositions were introduced in the
constitutional convention for two
planks. providing respectively for rail.
way regulation and separate coaches
for whites and negroes. The rail.
wny regulation bill introduced by
Delegate Clint Graham, is summarized
as follows: Railroad. express, sleep
ing car and oil pipe line companies
shall be declared common carriers; to
provide for stock inspection, to pre-
vent consolidation and prohibiting
free passes.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06

An Idaho Springs correspondent
says: The Newhouse tunnel has been
maxim, good progress the past month
in its big bore into Gilpin county. The
tunnel is into the great mountain range
over three miles. and is now penetrat-
ing ,he edge of Quartz hill-known the
world over as the richest square mile
on earth" Through all this distance
the tunnel has demonstrated the con.
tlnuoUs character of the fissurc veins
in that locality. and proven the success
of deep mining. In a short time the
tunnel will be under the great proper
ties of Quartz hill. and there can be no
doubt that vast bodies of ore will be
uncovered. The Newhouse tunnel is no
longer an experiment, but is IL Ger.
tainty. Its admirers are looking for
ward to still greater things to be dc.
velopcd under Quartz hill
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
Thanksgiving Day Near Pixies Peak
IN 1906

I We wond.T hASv many Of our readers
noticed the vlocAtion from Lieutenant
Pixies diary Of one hundred years ago
which was printed on Tuesday, says
the Colorado Springs Gazette Thanks
giving day. That was Thursday in
1906. He and three of his men had
come up the Fountain valley, lured ON
by the sight Of the Grand Peak as he
calls 1t, and hopeful of being able to
ascend it. The winter was bitterly
cold. Their clothing was nearly worn
out His men, he writes, had "only
light overalls on, and no stockings"
Iney found no game, and were without
any food at all for forty-eight hours.
The thermometer fell to four degrees
below zero. They were middle-deep in
snow. When on this day they reached
the top of this chain," they saw tha
summit of the Grand Peak apparently
at nfteen or sixteen miles distance,
entirely bare of vegetation and covered
with eternal snow. 1t would have takeD
whole days march to have arrived at
Its base, and it is no wonder that he
went on to say, 81 believe that no hui
man being could have ascended to its
summit 1t is no wonder that they
turned back, and were thankful, after
their forty-eight hours fast, to make
" hCdi-tho lOuI Vi LHeIu- On OnQ
partridge and pair of deer ribs which
the ravens had left u.s."
Ruxton had much the same expert
ence when he Travelled in these partS
four decades later. The winter he
came over the Greenhorn range and
up the Fountain valley from 'the Pu
eblo' was also bitterly cold He was
caught in a snowslide and barely eS
capped with life, and many time he
had his hands and feet and parts of his
face frost-bitten; and the region, even
In better weather, was full of wild In
dians and wolves.
1t was through such trials and trou
bles that this region was won for civil
zation. Doubtless the settlers of thirty
five Years ago, when the city was first
founded, can also tell of trials and
trihulations. Whether the weather has
mitigated, along with the other discom
forts, as the years have passed, we can
hardly tell; but we can certainly give
thanks to-day that this day is not like
the one hundred years ago when Pike
despaired of reaching the Peak that
now bears his name and will carry hir
fame to the end of time.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06

Sheer white goods. in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much OF
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory II proper attention WIS
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch. which has sufficient
strength to stiffen. without thickenlng
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
LIKE A FAIRY TALE.
The Story Of Postum Cereal In Words
and Pictures.

The growth Of the Postum Cereal
Co. is like fairy tale, but it is true,
every word of it.
"The Door Unbolted" is the tile of
charming little booklet just issued
by the Company which tells, and il
lustrates, the story of this remark
able growth. 1t takes the reader from
the little white barn in which the
business was started Jan. 1, 1895,
through the palatial offices and great
factory buildings Of the white City"
that comprise Postumville, Battle
Creek, Mich.
The little white barn, so carefully
preserved, is a most interesting build
ing, for it represents the humble be-
ginning of one of the country's great
est manufacturing enterprises of to-
day. an enterprise that has grown
from this little barn to whole city
of factory buildings within but little
more than ten years.
No less interesting is the quaint Of
fetal home of the Postum Cereal Co.
T general Office building of Mr.. Post
a. his associates is reproduction of
the Shakespeare house at Stratford-
on-Avon, and upon the house and its
furnishings has been expended vast
sums Of money, until the rooms are
more like the drawing rooms of the
mansions of our multi-millionaires
than like offices.
That Mr.. Post has believed thor
oughly in the idea of giving to his
employees attractive and healthful
work rooms is proven not only by the
general office building of the Company
and its furnishings, but by his fac
tories as well, and of all OF these
things this beautiful little booklet tells
the interesting story. 1t will be sent
to anyone on request.
Gilpin observer., 1906-12-06
Chickens Fought an Owl.

An nouslal three.cornered battle
was fought at Basin, Wyoming. when
an owl visited n BARNARD and at.
tackled the chickens. No one saw the
conflict. or heard the notes that rlret
have accompanied 1t. but the next
morning the owner of the barn found
a dead owl, one dead pulet and one
dead fat hen in the yard. The ground
was covered with feathers. and the In.
dicatlons were that the chicken and
hen had battled with he owl until
both fell, the owl being Unable to leave
the scene Of the conflict and later dy.
ing beside the bodies OF It's foes.