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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-30
DOC That Drums Up Passengers.

A hotel and livery man in St
Charles, Ill, makes use of a dog for
an odd purpose. It IS a peculiarly
marked coach dog. named Spot. and
supposed to be known by all of the
travelling men in the country.
When a drummer wants to go to an
interior town the hotel man drives for
him and takes the dog along. When the
town is reached Spot is allowed to
roam the streets. Another drummer
who wants to make the town where
the dog belongs knows him as soon as
he SEES eyes Or him and correctly sur
misses that the owner is in town with
his rig and will be going back, Forth
with he hunts up the dogs owner and
engages him for the ride back to the
railroad town. In this way the hotel
and livery man has a passenger each
way and, of course, doubles his
money.
Spot. seems to know what IS wanted
of him, and he goes nosing around
town as if he was hunting a custorne r
for his master. Mr.. Atwood, his
owner, says that he earns his board
good many times over by finding pas
sengers for the return trips Chicago
Daily News.
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THE REFINERY
A Million Dollars Has Been Set Aside
for the CoTeyviIIe Plant.

Coffeyville, Kan, Nov. s0.-W ].
Willis, manager of the new refinery
here for the National Refining COM
pany, with headquarters at Cleveland,
Ohio states that the capital stock Of
the company has been increased to
100000, and that $1.OOOOOo of the
stock has been set aside for the COT
feyviIle plant that is now being built
here.
A great quantity of supplies has been
purchased, including several cars of
pipe.
The work on the new plant is pro-
crossing nicely and as fast as the ar
rival of supplies and the weather will
hermit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-30

Missouri valley seems to be more bad
~ mixed up than ever With Wash
burn and Oklahoma in tie game,
Kansas and Missouri in the same fix
and the Rocky mountain champion
ship following suit where the Colorado
university tied with the School Of
Mines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-30

New York, Nov. 3O.-Adam Swop. 96
years old, who Joined Trinity Method
list church in Trenton. N J., on his
confession of faith week ago and who
said then that it was the first time he
had ever been connected with a church,
died here Wednesday night
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Little Dorrit' still Living.

11lV-1O A7OI11t 15tIII II FllIEs'
New York, Nov. 3O.-A Times Lon
Dorrit is still living at Islington, and
is "a years old. She will open a sale of
work at the BOYS Training school in
Islington next Thursday.
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There is also a Reason

Whv there are Parasites who attach
themselves TO the Healthy Body of Cascar-
cts success-Imitators Counterfeiters, Sub
stitutors.
They are Trade Thieves who would rob
cascarets of the Good VIII" of the people.
and sneak unearned profits, earned a nd
paid for by Cascarets.
A Dishonest Purpose means a Dishonest
Product and a Disregard Of the Purchasers
Health or Welfare.
Beware of the Slick Salesman and his
ancient Just as Good" story that common
sense refutes.
Cascarets are made only by the Sterling
Remedy Company. and put up In metal box
with the long-tailed c on the cover.
They are never sold in bulk.
Every tablet marked "CCC."
Be sure you get the genuine. ia
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TAYLOR AFTER MISSOURI PAC.
Gets MandaTnus Suits to Have Orders
OF Board Obcyed.

Carr Taylor. attorney for the state
board of railroad commissioners, has
filed mandamus suits in the Kansas SUI
preme court to compel the Missouri Pa
cif1c to obey various orders of the board.
The mandamus suits were instituted in
the following cases:
Frank X Wilson versus Missouri Pa
ciflc Railway company, establishment OF
depot and agent at Arnold Kansas.
The Hargrave Grain & Live Stock as
sociation versus Missouri Pacific Railway
company, order for side track to eleva-
tor.
f r. Hutchinson versus Missouri Pa
cifc Railway company. feopening Of
depot building and installation and main
tenance of agent at Amiot, Kansas.
c. A. Carlson versus Missouri Pacific
Railway company, reopening of depot
building and installation and mafnten-
ance Of agent at Fremont Kansas.
Railway company, reopening of depot
and installation and maintenance of
agent at Day, Kansas.
Washburn Lecture Course.
A lecture course, all of the numbers of
which will be delivered by members of
the Washburn faculty will be given at
the First Congregational church this
winter. The first number will be deliv-
cred on December 5.
The proceeds from the lecture course
viii be devoted to identifying the cam
pus.
The numbers are:
How Some other Folks Liver. S. Ma
gee.
Christmas Concert-Musical department
The Jury System-E. B. Conant.
Floral and Faunal Interdependence-C
The Florence of Art and the Florence
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c,hicaro and Return. s1e.OO. Sand Fe.

CHICAGO anu f1GIuFIT' 71U'OV' s5-lllla Z 2
sale Dec. 1st to 4th. final limit Dec.
10th, but can be extended to leave. Chi
eago as late as Dec Slst-
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place for a Rough Rider.

washington, Nov. 3o.-Thei president
today announced the appointment. -ef-J.
o. McIllhenny of Louisiana to fill the
vacancy on the civil service commits
sion caused by the promotion Of A.
w Cooley to be assistant attorney gem
eraI of the department Of justice. Mr..
McIlIhenny was a member of the regi-
ment of the Rough Riders of which
President Roosevelt was colonel during
the Spanish war.
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York Sun.
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lea buy Cascarets as Fast as the
Il Clock Ticks.
Every second some one. somewhere. is
Buying little Ten-Cent Box of Cascarets.
10, 3. 4. s. go times to the Minute,
so Minutes to the Hour, $500 Boxes an
an Hour, 5000 Boxes Day of Ten Hours.
1000, 900 Boxes Month, and then some.
Think of it-22O.O 900 People take a Cas-
caret tablet each day. Millions use Cas-
carrots when necessary.
The judgment of Millions of Bright
Americans is Infallible. They have been
Buying and Taking Cascarets at that rate
for over Six years.
Over Five Millions of Dollars have been
Spent 0 make the merits of Cascarets
known, and every cent Of it would be lost,
did not sound merit claim and hold the
constant, continued friendship. Patronage
and Endorsement of well-pleased people year
after year.
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WIashburn Lecture Course.
Be Sure to Get What
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is a Reason
Why the Good People of Amer
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u Clock Ticks.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30
capacity for $4,000 tons Of ore.


capacity for $4,000 tons of ore.
The rapidity with which the develop
ment of the Missabe equipment has
been forced to it's present tremendous
capacity may be indicated by the fact
that a couple of years ago it was said
year or two the road would be able
year or two the road would be liable
to. take axe care of a half dozen million
tons of ore. That same season, that
record was reached, and last, year it
was able to handle eight, million, tons.
This year the total tonnage moved will
reach the immense total of II, 100000
tons, and now there is none so daring
as to put a limit on the possibilities of
further. development. 1t can only. be
said that it will certainly be proper
toned to the demand made on the re-
sources Of the railroad and it's docks
by the development of the new mines
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

from the Mesaba range to the docks
it has been extended only upon lines
justified by the opening up Of new
mines and its equipment has been added
to- proportionately. There has been
nothing speculative about it or it's de-
velopment. It was not built with a view
to supplying transportation for future
development, but found Immediate de-
mand for its equipment as soon as it
was installed. The one thing that the
road has had to reckon with has been
to so adjust it's administration that it
would have the means Of handling the
freight that has increased in such huge
proportions from year to year. And
the operation Of the railroad has not
been the most important concern of its
chiefs, for part of it's terminal equip
ment are the great Missabe ore docks
the largest in the world with storage
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portation company-found that the
way to make the property pay was to
develop the mines as fast as possible
But, though the mining interests of the
connection were extensive-the owners
were more ambitious of carrying ore
than of mining it.. Closely allied to
the Missabe was the Bessemer Steam
ship company, then controlled by
Rockefeller, and it was with a view to
the development to the uttermost of
this transportation system that the
Consolidated Mines company turned
over its mining interests and left it's
representatives. free to devote. their
time. to the railroad administration.
In 1900 the road with, its docks and
equipment passed under the control of
the United States Steel Corporation
and became one of the operating com
panies OF, that corporation. ....-.
VAST SUMS SPENT - 49,
}..~1 q =, ON DOCK BUILDINGS
Since the first ore dock Of the Mis-
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near putting the range out Of business
temporarily because the iron masters
did not know how to handle the ore.
The difficulties which overlook thel
Merritts in their extensive operations
did not interfere with the development
eoofP the road in other hands; The pres
sent Missabe ore docks were started ito
handle ore from the railroad and the
entire plant fell into the hands Of the
Rockefeller interests when John D.
Rockefeller came. into the field. Since
that time there has been no halt made
in the progressive development of the
road in its extension, equipment and
terminal docks. The Rockefeller in
terests, which were represented in the
handling of the properties by, W. j.
eOlcott-who was one of the first to
recognize the magnificent possibilities
Of the range as feeder to the trans
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

was there, but nothing tangible for
Prairie river, and he did much work in
section 35, township Sc, range 25. He
remained on the range most Of the time
for. years. In 1883 he found Capt.
Griffith in 22-56-24 and the next year,
while he was exploring the Newcastle,
George c.. Stone made some explora-
tions in 1884, John Molman ex-
plored section II, in township 50, range
IA, and found the promise of ore in
1ss9-s1. Capt. Frank Hibbing found
the traces in 2o-59-14 which he after
ward worked out in wonderful mines
about the same time. In the fall Of
1890 Capt: Nichols, working for the
Merritts, found low grade ore on the
location Of the Mountain Iron mine.
The same year ore was found on the
locations ! Of the .Biwabik, by Capt.
sKehoe and the Merritts, and the Gin
cinnati by D. T. Adams. Still there
was not much faith in the range. There.
was doubt about the grade Of the ore
and that doubt lasted until one day
when Adams was working in a test pit
on the Cincinnati and Kehoe on the
Biwabik when they both struck what
proved to be high grade ore and in
great quantities.
It is not easy to tell whether the
first strike was made by Adams or the
Merritt outfit headed by Kehoe. Adams
was on his sway to the Merritt camp to
tell Kehoe that he had found the ore
when he was greeted by a shout an
nouncing that the other party had been
successful. !. .s
That night the gloomy recesses 81
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that are being opened up in the coun-
try into, which the line has been ex-
tended in the past year and which con-
tains magnificent potentialities in mines
Of known and unknown magnitude.
ROADS HISTORY OPENS ~ = ~
,*3' WITH THAT OF RANGE.
The Duluth, Missabe & Northern
road came into: being during the first
year Of shipping operations on, the Me-
saba range. u The Merritts had found
ore and they wanted to get it. to. mar
ket. There was no railroad to- per-
NIT Of it's transportation to Duluth and
they built the first installment of the
Missabe.7 That was fourteen years
ago and the first shipment was that
famous 1000 tons which was taken
down to the. Allouez bay docks and
shipped East-and which came very
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

by locating great beds of ore about the
present town of-Hibbing ~, 1T .
D. T. Adams located part Of what
is now the great Fayal group in the
winter Of 1928, finding the ore on
the old Neil McInnis exploration. Later
John Uno Sebenius and Louis Rouche-
leau found vast deposit on the east
side Of the Fayal. =.
All Of the early discoveries were
made by the aid Of test pits put down
on surface indications. The equipment
consisted Of a primitive ewindlass and
bucket, with two men to do the work.
When taconite was found the test gen
orally stopped, and it was not until
drills were brought into use that ex-
plorations became easy and certain.
The taconite, which had been assumed
to indicate the uselessness 9of further
work, was frequently found to fold
over big ore bodies. I'LL
With the certainty that there was
plenty Of ore, exploration went on
apace, and there were more discoveries
than can be enumerated here, and it is
not possible within the compass of this
article to tell of the great number Of
men who underwent the vicissitudes
then incidental to life on the range in
the development Of the deposit.
Under the mineral lease law passed
in 1889 none was too poor to acquire a
valid right to take out and sell the
ore he could locate on public lands, but
under the natural and economic condi-
tions there were scores Of men who
owned the mining title to millions OF
tons Of iron ore and who were very
likely to starve to death if their chances
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the range rang with the rejoicing Of
the explorers The exploration at that
point had been kept on with in the face
Of, disheartening experiences so far as
the Merritts were concerned, and upon
one occasion Lon Merritt was disposed
to give the search up. The rich ore
was found when Capt. Kehoe moved
down off the ledge where he had found
the first traces and dug a test pit into
what proved to be one Of the richest
ore beds Of the range. The Biwabik
has yielded over seven million tons Of
ore since it was opened. Adams was
not so fortunate with his first strike.
The lines according to the survey stakes
located gave him plenty of ore on the
Cincinnati, but when the lines were
verified it was found that most of the
ore body Of the Cincinnati lay within
the ground claimed for the Biwabik,
and q million and half tons Of ore
were lost to the Cincinnati and its own
ers. But If Adams was out Of luck
with the Cincinnati he was distinctly
fortunate in his other explorations.
After these first locations there was
found in rapid succession, on ground
that had been explored, the great Hale
mine, by Judge and Ben Hale, and the
Kenawha by Adams. The latter was
associated with A. F. HUMPHREYS in the
exploratory work, and they and the
s5Mterritts were very active. They To-
Gated first the town Of Virginia in the
great group Of mines that surround it,
and then Adams located Eveleth in an
other immensely rich group.
In 1892 Capt. Frank Hibbing proved
that be was right in his original work
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

the realization Of their value an i'm
possibility to the individual. How the
question was solved, what forces were
invoked to turn the iron into current
coin is another story that is told else
where in this paper.
HOW SOME OF THE
MINES WE'RE FOUND.
While this question was becoming
ominously imperative in it's demand TO.
solution-even before it became as i'm
minent as it did later--the woods were
literally full Of men looking for iron
ore. .&e
The Merritts and D. T. Adams and
the men working with and for them had
obtained somehow-probably by intui-
ation-an idea Of how the riches lay in
the ore pockets. They had been obliged
to evolve new thories in geological
science and then they had to prove the
theories. Nothing but the development
Of that sense that sometimes comes to
the rescue of men confronted by an ut
terly new condition could help the men
who were cropping on the range-and
that there was such a sense developed
IS absolutely certain. In the vast
amount Of prospecting that was done
wholly in the dark there was some that
was guided by this intuitive sense.
There was an abandonment Of the early
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

for getting the; wherewith to eat de-
pended 7on getting their iron to; market
Besides the mineraElease holdings there
were many men who had absolute title
to hundreds Of acres of land that was
very near to being solid ore, and which
: they had got for little or nothing. Much
aof the land was covered by forest
very nearly all Of it. This land had
been regarded as good investment for
its timber value, and had been taken
up or bought in considerable, tracts by
men who had no idea of the mineral
wealth concealed by the timber growth.
The lumbermen were not thinking of
what there might be under the surface
of the earth in those days-all they
desired was the privilege Of clearing
the timber off the surface, and they
cared very little about what became
Of the land or what value there was
left in it. And fortune played some
strange tricks with her children and
her stepchildren. Those whom the
tickle goddess favored were made rich
in spite Of themselves, and others who
stood outside the pale Of her favor were
permitted to walk past without sharing
in the largess that was being dis
tributed. It is true that in many cases
even generally fortune favored the
brave and the wise, and little bit of
foresight exercised in the eighties and
early nineties was easily negotiable at
the bank Of futurity. Fools had little
chance in the ultimate scramble. TssIt
might be worth while to recall some
Of the caprices Of Dame Fortune.
In 1882 the lumber barons were feels
ing their oats and developing keener
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MINES OF THE p: >: >..= ~. II: z.> Il:
IRON RANGE

feverish method of driving prospects
and method began to mark the work
Of the explorers. Strikes were made
that indicated rather certainly the gen
eral trend Of the drift. Of course, there
was much prospecting that was fruit
less, but the territory that was de-
veloped into the mine groups Of today
was sought out by calculations.
FINDING THE BEDS OF
MERCHANTABLE ORE.
Almost from the very first the men
who explored the Mesaba range went
directly to the ore, though they did not
recognize the value Of their finds or
turn up what was obviously merchant
able ore. Perhaps the first practical
man to explore the Mesaba was Capt.
Griffith, Of st. Paul, who made close
examination Of the western range, be-
lieying, as did all the early explorers,
that it was continuation Of the Yer
million. He actually found what was
afterwards located as the Diamond
mine. That was in the middle Of the
eighties. d. 7. Adams, who was one Of
the most successful Of all the early ex-
plorers and who realized largely on his
discoveries, went on to the Mesaba in
1886. He went in from the Vermilion
for Myers Brothers and he found many
evidences Of the mineral wealth that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

and larger appetite for timber limits.
They made such a e1amor for oppor-
tunity to take off the hands of the GOV
eminent the timbered lands in the wild
country to the north Of Duluth that. ar
rangements were made for a sale Of
these lands. The sale was scheduled
for Duluth and it might have been
made to appear to any other than gov
eminent officials that there was some
value attached to these lands that did
not appear on the surface, for the big
men and the men who were just bud
ding into bigness were on hand to- re-
ieve the government of the incubus
of carrying them. By way of allow
ing the man with small capital to get
a bit Of timber the lands were, as they
are, sold In forty-acre tracts, and it ,was
not an unusual thing for the big fell
lows to hold off in the bidding and
allow little fellow to have a forty
or two-or even three. Generally there
was an understanding among the big
fellows that they must not interfere
with each Others game, and it was
rather unusual fol-. bidding to get SO
very spirited that more than the mini
mum price was offered for tract.
ONE LUMBER CRUISERS
NARROW ESCAPE.
In those days Alonzo J. Whiteman,
who has attained an unenviable fame in
later years, was in the heyday Of his
glory smart young fellow was White
man, with keen eye for deal and not
averse to turning an honest penny in
timber lands. On the occasion of the
particular sale referred to he madsS
little combination to get possession of
~
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IE Duluth, Missabe &
Northern Railway COM
pany, will bring to Du-
luth during the present
year close to eleven mil
lion tons of iron ore.
1t is probable that for
it's mileage it is the
heaviest freight traffic
road in the world. For
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-30

the seasons work this year it will
have moved enough ore alone to fill
above 100000 cars, which would make
train long enough to cover it's whole
trackage several times over.
The position Of the Missabe road Is
unique among the railroads Of the coun-
try by reason of the immense tonnage
Of freight produced in the country in
which it operates. Built primarily for
the purpose Of bringing the ore down
The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-02-24
Death os Mrs. Sallie Mercer.

Mrs. Sallie Mercer, wife of Mr.. Joe
Mercer, died at Greenville, Tuesday at
10.l5 a. IN. from pneumonia, aged A
years.
The deceased was Miss Sallie Liv-
erman, and married to Mr.. Joe Mercer
in this city December 22nd, 1885; re-
sided here up to about seven years ago
when they moved to Greenville. Joe
Mercer is one of the oldest engineers on
M. X. & T. road between Greenville
and Shreveport.
There are left husband, four child.
rem, mother, one sister, two brothers
Geo, Liverman of this place, and Joe
Dick Bradley at Terrell, all were with
her when she died, She was a lady
highly esteemed both at Greenville and
here at her former home. The remains
reached Jefferson at lilo Wednesday
for burial, and funeral took place from
M. K. & 7. depot on arrival ST train.
Many relatives and friends attended,
We extend sympathy to the bereaved
ones in this sad hour.