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Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
HAYDEN BROS,
Tersely Told Tales Both Grim and Gay

Please remember, monsieur, that 1 am
reading this play to the committee in order
to get it's opinion. How can a man who is
asleep give an opinion?'
But the other answered gravely:
Sleep is an opinion New York
Tribune,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Gossip and Stories About Noted People

model hospital, which employs staff of
thirty-four physicians. lie gave much
money to the charitable institutions of
Philadelphia, including the Young Mems
Christian association, and all the Baptist
churches Of the city and the institutions
allied with them. lie was the founder OF
Deiand in Florida, and held controlling
interest in nearly all its industries and in
stitutIons, among which is the College
Arms hotel, which cost $2CO,OO0. He gave
$4Vv,OU0 to the university there, which took
his name, In 1902 Mr.. Ststson placed $780,
wv worth OF shares in mis- Philadelphia
Hat company at the disposal OF the board
OF directors, to be distributed among the
employees, according to merit the stock to
be paid for out OF the pronts. and at no
expense to the employees to whom 1t went.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Entertaining Little Stories for Little People

was never as bright as that. Why. that is
just like little light. 1t almost hurts my
eyes to look at it, she exclaimed. why,
IL is my penny. What makes 1t SHINE 50
brightly? It's as bright as"-then she
looAed up and laughed right out. ''Oh, i
know" said she, hts the sun. 1t maAes
my penny shine just as 1t makes the
school house windows shine sometimes l
guess the sun wanted to help Inc md my
penny. thank you, Bright Sun. Tor
sno"Ing me where my penny was hiding"
And away sne ran " the store to buy the
penny do.I.-hdndergarten Review.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
He ApoIOSized.

he has bright eyes. rosy cheeks
and an awful weighty estimate
of the proper confines of pro-
priety. 1t is an invariable rule
Of hers to observe thar sIlhtlA
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Great March Sale of Rugs

Of
stock Du
SAVING
OPENING SALE MONDAY SHOULD BE NEGLECTED. Read aeV
bargains in Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

Ava SO SAID Jonn Burns, the new
hEWSN president of the British local
49, government board, in chat with
l4e euIlor OF the Book Monthly. which took
place in Mr. Burns we'll stocked library
in the unpretentious house in Battersea.
With him, as with others, love OF books
mitigates the asperities inseparable from
strenuous life. Jonn Burns has always
been voracious reader, and he finds in
spiration we'll as pure pleasure from his
books. His library runs into thousands of
volumes "A stranger could tell at once"
says the editor OF the Book Monthly, that
he knows books intimately and is accus-
toned To handle them in his days work"
He is sure of the place of every book, the
infallible test Of a good loving bookman."
His greatest prize is a unique copy Of the
answer of King Charles / TO the deputa-
ton OF Parliament which waited on the
martyr-king with the grim demand Tor mis-
life An inscription SHOWS that II was
the copy OF the regiclde, Bradshaw.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

on dead issue. anyway. kansas City
Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Linens, MusIins and Sheetinqs
Laces and Embroidenies


yard
] % F MsGsy ain p:r sas and fancy
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

- ESSIE'S father had given her a
H bright new penny and had told
her that she might buy anything
fgstI3 she liked with it. 1t took but
Hl&&9 moment for her to decide how
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
John Burns and His Books.

1 BOOKS are part of myself, and
without them l should not be, p"
SO SAID Jonn Burns, the new
president of the British local
guYernment board, in a chat with
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Special Monday Bargains in Flannel DEPT.
GRAND PIC LACE SALE

Extra heavy Cotton Bed Blankets, E5C
tan and grey, at pair ~
72xS4 nearly All Wool, tan and 0Tl
grey Bed Blankets. at. pair........ A'A -
Regular S39S.
Full size la fancy stripe and plaids Cot
ton Bed Blankets, regular $150, ORc
at, pair, Monday. .........,...........| ~
Full size Bed Spreads, extra fine Zoe
Marseilles patterns, each. ............o
Full size extra heavy Knotted Fringe
MaTseile IS p pattern tern cut corners 1.25
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

French Mulls, hand embroidered, zSc
at, yard, $l.6O, down to $10O, and. AcS
Jaconets, hand embroidered, at, &c
yard, N.9S. down to 500, 75c and. WV
Silk Chiffons, hand embroidered, at On
yard, $3.50, down to $780, Is and NV
Broderie Anglaise, (eyelet hole embrod-
s ss, s ST. ya 7sd 20 and down to 39C
DRESS LINENS.
H .s dSnn to L1 ge Sc at yard 30C
w 7sa' sos. k sso ana at. yard $780, 25c
Dress Linens, at, yard, $500, down 0Ec
to 75c, soc, SOC and. ....................%c S
h safd E s5S down to neRS af z5c
We have now in stock all kinds of Waist,
Dress Embroidered and Colored Linens.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
Furniture Denarent China Cabinets Bufeis Book Cases

CHARTERED OAK CHINA
.CABINET-Bent glass ends,
size 3S inches wide and So
inches high, French pattern
plate mirror, 6x16, regular
price $3.50 .n "a a.
now, ....'..
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04

WE WILL HOLD FOR YOU ANY
SELECTION you MAY MAKE MON
DAY, PROVIDED A SMALL DEPOSIT
Is MADE AT TINE OF PURCHASE.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-04
White Goods and Dress Linens
In Main Wash Goods Department

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domestic white
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

were in the hills around Manhattan;
they knew the earthquake had not
shaken out the gold and sent it down
into the bowels of tie earth to be con-
sumed at a breath; they knew that if
they were patient, that if they worked
instead of mourning, they would re-
oeive their reward. OF this type were
the representatives in Manhattan of the
L. M. Sullivan Trust company, name
that is one to conjure with in the Man.
haitian of today. The Sullivan proper
ties were properly financed
Before the San Francisco disaster
shocked the world the treasury stock in
the Sullivan companies had been sold
and the work of developing the proper
ties begun. A dishonest promoter OF
mining corporations would, almost in
evitably, at this juncture pocket the
proceeds of the sale of treasury stock
and betake himself to pastures more in
viting. Not so the Sullivan Trust COM
pany. The money in the treasury was
regarded by ii as the money of the
stockholders, and properly so. 1t was
regarded as trust fund, put there for
a certain. specific purpose.
While the tide of fire was rolling I'M
checked across the city of San Fran
cisco, while battered ruins were rearing
their gaunt heads on every hand, while
d NiSt4 CI OeSOldlfOn SuCn as the WOElG
mas never seen was being unfolded be-
fore the eyes that were glazed with ter
ror, the Sullivan Trust company was
quietly opening mines in Manhattan.
There was no blare of trumpets about
the proceedings. There was only the
fulfllment of a solemn obligation
Money that had been given the COM
pany to be put in the ground was being
put in the ground. That was all. but
nan era of wild excitement anG wilder
speculation 1t speaks volumes for the
integrity of this Goldfield corporation
1t is not too much TO say that the L.
NJ. Sullivan Trust company has made
Manhattan what it is today, live camp
with a brilliant future Immediately
ahead of it. If the Sullivans had been
terror-stricken with the rest there
would have been no Manhattan Ihe
buildings would have been tenantiess
and falling to pieces; the streets, m
stead of being crowded with teams ana
the sidewalks with people, would nave
been practically stretches OF vacant SOIL:
In view of the fact that the principal
street of Manhattan is the old and much
Travelled stage road between Sodavilie
and Belmont, the latter being then the
county seat, it seems odd that gold dis
Icoveries OF Importance were not made
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Jumping Jack Manhattan.

tv. One morning in April the lone tel
egraph wire brought in message that
made the operator who received 1t
gasp and turn pale. 1t said:
THE severest earthquake i'll the ms
tory of San Francisco was experienced
at SIS this morning. The water MAINS
are broken and fire that threatens to
destroy the entire city is raging. 1t is
believed that many hundreds of people
have been killed
The bulletin was posted in front of
the little telegraph office and within
few moments the entire abie-bodied
population of Manhattan was clamor-
ing for more news. Frantic men fought
their way in to the operator to demand
that he send messages of inquiry re-
garding the safety of loved ones in the
stricken city; weeping women wrung
their hands in anguish ard prayed that
they be given fullen information
The mines were forgotten, forgotten
was the pride in the rapid building up
of Manhattan, forgotten the dreams of
wealth, the creation of fortunes For,
be it remembered, that San Francisco
capital was largely interested in the
prospects around Manhattan, and every
other man one met on the street either
came from San Francisco or had rela-
tives or dear friends there. 1t is small
wonder that industry in the camp was
crushed, paralyzed.
And as the reports of the disaster
showed it's ever-increaSing magnitude
the panic in Manhattan grew. Every
stage out of the camp, every automo-
bile, every vehicle of whatever kind
was crowded TO it's uttermost limit
with passengers. 1t seemed certain that
the end of San Francisco would prove
the end of Manhattan. And yet, even
in this terrible crisis, there were men
whose hearts beat true and steady,
whose nerve remained mistaken, whose
faith in theIfuture of the camp was un-
conquered.
The prices of stocks fiattened out. For
weeks after the San Francisco disaster
nobody wanted any Manhattans, and
those that held them were extremely
anxious to get rid of them at any fig
ure But they could find no market.
However, a few remained steadfast.
They cared nothing about the stock
market. 1t mattered little to them
whether the prices of securities scared
or sank, though they would, of course,
have preferred the former.
Sullivan Company Kept Faith.
The reason for their attitude is not
far to seek. They knew the values
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at a much earlier day. This highway
was not in its palmy day merely q
trail through the desert place. 1t was
a smooth, substantial roadway, such as
one sees in thickIy settled communities.
almost as good, in fact. as some Of the
celebrated turnpikes of Kentucky.
Ground often Prospected.
Stages Travelled along it daily, loaded
with lawyers and litigants bound for
Belmont, Others besides those having
business in court also Travelled the road
There are tales of highwaymen, who,
masked, would suddenly appear from
behind a stunted pine and, with sawed
off shotgun leveied, compel drlVer anu
messengers to hand over their valuables.
indians. too. Piutes. were plentiful. The
ground must have been prospected time
and again. and very thoroughly, from
one end of the road to the other. The
story runs that some gold was found.
but not enough to justify any perma-
nent locations.
The story 1 have told about James
II. Sullivan's locations on Litigation
Hill doubtless contains the real reason
for the Iateness in making a town and
q mining camp at Manhattan. The
values were so small. the transporta-
tion so difficult that it was impossible
To omen and work a mine at profit.
Rut if is of the Manhattan Of today
that this story, altogether inadequate,
is to treat.
The first-comers to Manhattan had at
the outset to solve the problem Of
water supply. In the beginning water
was IaboriousIy packed in from San
Antoine, sixteen miles away. 1t sold
at 25 cents a gallon, and the man who
had all he wanted for culinary and
bathing purposes was regarded as a
plutocrat. IT was early foreseen that
unless this difficulty could be overcome
Manhattan could not grow and prosper
as its promoters hoped it would grow
and prosper
William Sperry put down the first
well near Manhattan early in 1906. AT
a reasonable depth he struck strong
flow of pure water in Tonopah canyon,
a mile from the main camp. Other
wells followed, and today there is an
abundance of water in and around
Manhattan, and it can be secured at
very moderate rates, everything consid-
cred. At the present time waterworks
system is being installed and before
long every one who desires it can have
running water in his home.
Continued on Page 3.
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Manhattan, Dec. 24.!The next boom
seen apparently fixed by the decree OF
ate as irrevocably as such DEGREES are
Ner fixed. The boom is scheduled for
Manhattan, and unless all signs fail il
sill begin. according to the men who
re best posted in such matters, shortly
liter the first Of the new year. The
loom is due because, thanks to the Wig
rous campaign of development con-
ncted by the l.. III. Sullivan Trust COM
,any on the Indian Camp, the Stray
Dog. the Jumping Jack and the As You
like 1t groups, the permanency of the
amp has been conclusively shown.
The use of the word permanency in
his connection does not mean a con-
snuance of existence merely. 1t means
hat Manhattan is about to experience a
lew and RAPID growth, O widening, a
preading out to an extent little
lreamed OF by those who are anfami-
ar with the existing conditions. No ore
bodies, however great. can be said to be
absolutely permanent. 1t is q mining
lxiom that the miner is constantly
trawing on his capital when he ex-
Tacts ore from his properties
But the Sullivan Trust company, In,
Is operations in Manhattan, has shown
hat there exist at depth in its own
properties. and perhaps in others. ore
bodies of immense extent and unques-
toned value. However rapid may be the
ate at which the ore is taken out ana
I Will be taken out very rapidly from
mis- timc forward, there is ore enough
n sight on the Sullivan Manhattan
groCnd to warrant the assertion thai
many years must elapse before the LAST
If il has been extracted.
These are the reasons why the WISE
men say that boom is due in Manhat-
an. Already experienced investors are
mrning their attention towards the
amp that lies out there across me
iesert from Toncpah, the camp that has
,rown up under the gravest discourage
neuts and difficulties, the camp that
rill soon be pouring out food of gold
nto the markets and the commerce of
he world In order to ascertain the ex-
lot conditions surrounding the camp
nle writer recently came over here from
soldfield.
The trip was a hard one, but it has
many cor1pensations. Manhattan is
sell worth the trouble involved in visit
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ing it. we'll worth any hardships IN
volved i'll the ride across the desert
either in winter or i'm summer. Let us
EOw chronicle the history of Manhattan
with some regard TO sequence.
Camp Less Than Year Old.
Know, then, that the camp is really
less than a year old. That is to say,
it has been less than a year since the
first rush into it. was begun, since the
first buildings were erected. Longer ago
than that the first claims were staked
out, but Manhattan is far from what we
are pleased to cali civilization, and the
news of its possibilities filtered but
slowly to the ears of the outside world.
1t was in July, of 1905, that two men,
Humphrey & Seylar, partners in the
cattle business, with headquarters in
the Smoky valley, were driving a bunch
of critters along the old SOdaville-Bel-
mont stage road Some of the cattle
strayed up on one of the hills and Hum
phrey went after them. AS he went he
noticed peculiar formations in the rock,
but, being no mining man, he paid but
little attention to them, for he was in
tent on recovering the cattle.
Finally, though he kicked loose a
piece of float and picked it up. The
rock was fiecked with particles of fine
gold 1t looked very good to Humphrey
and he called his partners attention TO
it. Both remembered that i'm the early
days there had been vague rumors that
the Pluto Indians, who knew the coun-
try from end to end, were familiar with
the fact that it contained gold.
But the Indians, with one exception.
had refused to divulge the location of
the precious metal The exception may
be mentioned here. In the summer of
1904 a Piute Indian, who had been be-
friended by James H. Sullivan, then a
resident of Tonopah, but now a pros
porous broker at Manhattan, came to
Mr.. Sullivan and told him that gold
could be found in the vicinity of what
is now Manhattan.
Sullivan believed the red mans story
and at once hiked across the long trail.
At the end of his journey he located
seven claims on what is known as Liti-
cation hill, and returned to Tonopah
with several bags of samples selected at
random from the claims Greatly to his
disappointment the highest assay values
were under so. The difficulties of
transportation were so great--it costs
$40 a ton now to get ore from Manhat-
tan to Tonopah-and the prospects of a
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mill for the treatment OF the ore was so
remote that Sullivan abandoned his
Claims He never even did any assess
ment work on them.
Not an April Fool Joke.
Humphrey & Seylar. however. staked
out their claims in 1905 and held them.
The group became known as the April
Fool, probably because it was consjd
cred a great joke that two cowrnen
should find gold where miners had not
been able to find it i'm paying ouanti-
ties The cowmen worked their ero,,na
and made considerable money out of II
Discoura cement came, though. with the
arrival of experts who We're sent in nv
eastern and western capitalists to Ioo,,
the ground over
The experts found that all the cor,-
try around Manhattan was covered
with lime Gaping The Gaping showed
gold values, true. but the wise men wore
a unit in declaring that it contained all
the values. That is; there was not and
could not be, any permaneney. for the
reason that when the lime Gaping was
pierced the values would disappear
The sinking of two or three shallow
shafts quickly disapproved the theories
of the experts. Instead of being an ON
the surface in the lime, the real values
were found to lie below the lime.
And the L. M. Sullivan Trust comma
ry, with shafts many feet deep on IFS
various properties, has shown that val
des increase with depth, for I'm thor
deepest shafts the highest values bove
been found. 1t was along in February,
Of 1906 that the rush into Manhattan he.
gan An old-timer--it seems strange n
call him an old-timer. because he is mn
der 80 years old-toh me that the town
practically as 1 sat it. was built in sixtv
days. Said he:
when l first came here there wore
only two or three tents. That was last
January. But the news had spread
throughout the west that gold had been
discovered i'm paying quantities in Mar
haitian, and. although 1t was the dead
of winter, with snow lying thick on the
ground, and the hardships of travel bit-
ter. a constant stream of people flowed
in from the railroad ct Toncpsn. They
came in all sorts of rigs. Some rode I'm
automobiles. some in stages, some in
wagons and buggies, and some were
brave enough TO make the trip on foot.
How the latter got through L have
never been able to understand, but per-
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Building the Town.

laps it was because they deserved to
get through.
Building the Town.
1T is not very pleasant to recall
those early days. Nobody except those
that were here will ever know the
'hardships' Fancy a mere boy talk
ing about the Early days. But he had
a right to talk about them, because he
was a part of them Continuing his
story he said:
1--WE soon discovered that it would
not be possible to live always in tents.
At best a tent is an uncomfortable
proposition, but when fuel and water
are hard to get it becomes Impossible.
The real building of the town was not
begun until early in February. By
that time a good many of us had made
I'D our minds that we were going to
live here that we had a splendid OPP
portunity to make money, even TO get
rich. i'm Manhattan. So supplies of
lumber were ordered freighted over
from Tonopah.
''Soon IL began to come in in streams,
but it couldn't come fast enough for
U.S. We were very anxious to build per-
manent homes and business buildings.
I remember that the wagons as they
came in were met by men half a mile
from the TOWNSHIP. 1t did not matter
to whom the lumber was consigned
The first man to it simply tore what ne
could carry off the wagon and hur-
ried to the site he had selected for his
home or his place of business. Those
were certainly strenuous times.
This town grew up like a mushroom
i'm the night. One day, it seemed, there
was nothing here but the hills. the
next morning a town had grown up De-
fore our eyes. 1t had grown wniie we
slept. OF course it don't really do that.
hut it seemed as if it did. We do Things
i'm a hurry out here. The first thlng
anybody knew we had a town with
banks. a telephone ana telegraph sys-
tenn, electric lights, big stores, and the
Inevitable saloons and gambling houses
And all the time more people, attract
ed by possibilities of acquiring sud
den wealth, kept pouring in" Here the
young -old pioneer WIS called away, but
I got the rest of the story.
Effect of Earthquake.
The town of Manhattan was out of
its swaddling clothes and was learning
to walk alone. Day by day it grew
until it seemed that nothing could
check its progress to vigorous MATURE
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Effect of Earthquake.

The town of Manhattan was out of
its swaddling clothes and was learning
to walk alone. Day by day it grew
until it seemed that nothing could
check its progress to vigorous MATURE
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ing it, we'll worth any hardships IN
yolved in the ride across the desert
either in winter or i'm summer. Let us
Cow chronicle the history of Manhattan
with some regard To SenIIencf
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30

laps it was because they deserved to
get through.
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Sullivan Company Kept Faith.

The reason for their attitude is not
far to seek. They knew the values
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-20
MARRIAGE MADE KNOWN.
Mrs. Whitney and Har. Johnson Privately
 Married In Memnhls.

NAAEEtCU hM DANAAH1k4s
 Memphis, Tenn. Feb. 19.--Announce- ment was made this afternoon for the first time of the marriage of Mrs Fine Lyle whitney of New York. to Robert William Lee Johnson of Louisville, Ky, the ceremony having been performed by the Rev A. B. Curry. January 20. at the Second Presbyterian Church of this city.
 The marriage was kept $ profound secret for reasons not divuIged. No one was in attendance of the wedding ceremonies other than the families of the contracting parties. Mir. and Mrs, Johnson left this afternoon for Mexico, where Mr. Johnson is interested In mining. They were accompanied by Miss whitney of New York.
 Mrs Johnson. who was formerly Mrs James W. Whitney, Is widely known in the East and South. For maany years she has been a no.able figure In New York and Washington Society. She owns a residence on Riverside Drive in Manhattan and her winter home on 0 Street. Washington, has dgured as the scene of many elaborate social functions.
 MT. Johnson Is the eldest son of the late pr. Ambrose Marion Johnson of Virginia, who was a distinguished of ficer in the Confederate army.