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Amador ledger., 1906-05-25
AWFUL BALLOON VOYAGE.
German Military Aeronauts Safe
Only After a Terrible Ex-
perience.
War Airship Was Driven Five Hun.
dred Miles Over Baltic Sea and
Dropped in Swedish Snow Bank
Barely Averted Drowning.

The progress of balloon experiments
in the German army has just received
a severe setback by the fearful expert
enceS OF two members of the Aero
static Corps, named Wolff and Brand,
who have returned to Berlin after hav-
ing been given up for dead, following
balloon ascension, during which they
completely disappeared. The two men
were blown all the way from Berlin to
the Baltic Sea, where they were driven
by a gale clear across that body of
water, and finally landed, half dead, in
little village in Sweden, travelling al
together more than five hundred miles.
The story of their fight is one of the
most thrilling in the history of bal
looming in Europe.
UNABLE TO MAKE DESCENT.
The two balloonists, caught in the
gale in the upper air, were blown at
terrific speed for three days, unable to
make descent without being dashed
to death.
AS the wind seemed to slacken, The
balloonists opened their valve, prepar
ing to descend. What was their horror
upon seeing as they dropped from the
clouds that the open sea was beneath
them. They tried to shut the valve,
but were only partly successful.
When within few hundred feet of
the water, the valve was closed by
Wolff, who climbed up to the cordage
surrounding the gas bag to do it. But
the balloon still dropped nearer the
sea. Finally, desperate, the balloon
lists climbed into the balloons rigging
and cut the basket from under them.
Clinging to the cordage about the
balloon, the two men hung between
hope and fear for few moments as
the bag seemed to hover uncertainty.
The thought came into their minds
simultaneously that one must drop off
and tighten the weight to save his
comrade; otherwise both must drown
But slowly the bag began to rise once
more.
CLUNG TO CORDAGE FOR HOURS.
After clinging for hours to the cor
dage, thousands of feet in the air over
the sea. the two soldiers made out the
land. AS soon as it was safe, the valve
was opened again, and the balloon was
allowed to descend slowly. The two
men landed in a snow bank within a
few miles of a little Swedish village.
They had to walk two miles, almost
exhausted, through the snow, and col
lapsed just as they reached the first
| cabin.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

Christianity was first taught among
the Cherokees. 1t is to Sequoia that
the Cherokee nation owes its splendid
system of schools.
While in search Of lost band OF
Cherokee Indians in 1874, Sequoia
lost his life
California has already honored him
by naming the big Tree of that
state "Sequoia gigatea" after him
England knows this tree as the
"Wellingtonia."
Thirty-two of the states Of the
union have adopted Indian titles. but
they are usually place-names; no
state commentaries in its title any
original American citizen. True wa
have Delaware named for Lord Da
le War;, Pennsylvania for the Quak-
er, william Penn. and one for George
Washington. but none 10 commemorats
IN Indian.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

sionary work, was born in Oxford,
Mass, in 1880. During the Civil War
she did relief work on the battlefields
and organized the search for missing
men for which Congress appropriated
the sum of $4,000. After the close of
that conflict she went abroad and car
ried on the Red Cross activities of the
Franco-Prussian war, following which
she did heroic work at the JohnstOWn
flood, distributed relief in the Russian
famine in 1892, and the Armenian mas
sacre of 1896, at the request of the
President of the United States carried
relief to Cuba in 1898, and conducted
the Red Cross relief at the Galveston
flood.
Americas most interesting repre-
sentative in the worlds group of grand
old women has been loaded with hon
ors by all nations, and her home is
filled with valuable tokens of esteem.
Chief among the treasures cherished
by this idol of conquering armies are
the Jewels and decorations rendered her
by the royalty of many nations, and
constituting unquestionably the great
est collection ever bestowed upon any
citizen of the United States.
GIFTS FROM ALL SOVEREIGNS.
Conspicuous in the glittering array
are the amethyst cut in the form of a
pansy, an inch and one-half square,
the gift of Miss Bartons personal
friend, the Grand Duchess of Baden;
the Servian Red Cross decoration pre-
sented by Queen Natalie, the Gold
Cross of Remembrance bestowed by the
Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, a
medal presented by the Queen of Italy,
an English decoration pinned on Miss
Barton's dress by Queen Victoria; the
Iron Cross of Germany presented by
the Emperor and Empress, the decora-
ton of the Order of Melusine presented
by the Prince of Jerusalem, Cyprus and
Armenia, and the brooch and pendant
of diamonds, the gift of the people of
Johnstown, in recognition of the great
service rendered by Miss Barton after
the famous flood.
Miss Barton's father was in boyhood
one of the soldiers of mad Anthony
Wayne, and Clarissa Harlowe Barton
as her name is inscribed in the family
Bible, came to the Bay State home as
human Christmas present. Like many
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

eruption. The waves passed over our
heads, the air in our streets, the air in
our houses, trembled from the volcanic
impulse. The very oxygen supplying
our lungs was responding also to the
supreme convulsion which took place
10000 miles away. 1t is needless to
object that this could not have taken
place because we did not feel it. Self
registering barometers have enabled
these waves to be followed unmistak-
ably all over the globe.
Such was the energy with which
these vibrations were initiated at
Krakatoa, that even when the waves
thus arising had converged to the
point diametrically opposite in South
America their vigor was not yet eX-
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

Miss Ottilie Guenther, who was recently given
private audience by Pope Plus X. is Chicago girl
and daughter of Otto Guenther of the firm of
Guenther, Bradford Co. This is not the first time
she has been honored by the head of her faith, Leo
XIII, having granted her special audience year
before his death. Miss Guenther has been taking a
law course in the University of Berlin. She has
done much philanthropic work among the poor
Italians of Chicago and will resume this when she
returns there next month. She will be graduated
from Northwestern University Law School in 1907.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

another New England girl Clara Bar
ton, when thrown on her own resources,
took up school teaching as a means of
livelihood, and when she was obliged
to abandon this because of failing eye
sight, she managed to secure position
in the Patent Office at Washington, and
here she continued her service until
the outbreak of the Civil War disclosed
to her lifework. Her advertisements
in the Massachusetts papers that she
would receive money and stores for the
wounded soldiers and personally dis
tribute them at the front brought quick
responses, and from this small beginning
the scope of her work. broadened. The
ministering angel of the Army of the
Potomac was present at the battles of
Cedar Mountain, the second Bull Run,
Antietam, Fredericksburg and the Will
derneSS
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

engaged in literary work, and has re-
sided in the city of Washington, max
ing her home in a quaint old house
filled with mementoes of her hero hus-
band. This residence is on most at
tractive little estate of about one-half
acre in extent, located on the brow of
a hill overlooking the nations capitol.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

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Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

"Thet there tree, Mirandy, reminds
me amazinly NV jay-bird."
"Look-a-here, 81, yew're gettin' dip
py. Haow on airth kin a tree fallen
acrost tn road put yew in mind Nv a
jay-bird?" Ssess
"Becuz. Mirandy, it hez blew daown.
Giddap, Nance"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25
WAS WITH THE VANGUARD.

In the Franco-Prussian war Miss
Barton was the first person to enter
Strasburg after the fall of that city,
and was instrumental in organizing
the relief. She performed a similar
service at Paris, which she entered with
the vanguard at the conclusion of the
siege. After her return to the United
States she directed relief work in addi-
tion to the instances above mentioned
during the Mississippi flood of 1882, the
overflow of the Ohio River in 1888, the
Louisiana cyclone of the same year,
and the Texas drought of 1885, ever at
the fore aiding, sustaining, and sup
porting by her untiring presence the
failing courage of those who in their
suffering learned to depend upon her
with passionate love and gratitude.
Mrs. John A. Logan MARY Simmer
son Cunningham Logan who appears
with Clara Barton in this picture, is
native of Missouri, but was educated
in Kentucky and married John A. Lo-
gan in 1855. Since his death she has
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

A Kansas woman was kicked by a mule,
causing her to bite off her tongue. She
realizes now it is bad business to talk back
to a mule.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25
SOUIBS

Recent events in Zion City make it ap-
parent that Elijah the third has gone up
almost as effectually as did the original.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-25

1t is hard for Russell Sage to understand
why people want to travel in air-ships when
walking is so much cheaper.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
Fifty Dollars Reward.

VIII be paid for information
resulting in the arrest and con-
viction Of grand larceny or rob
berry of the party or parties who
forcibly broke into the cabin of
the Imperial Corona Gold Mining
Company at the Elk City-Dixie
wagon road, and near the bridge
over the American river, and car
ried away the mining imple-
ments, tools and supplies of the
company. An additional reward
will be paid for the recovery of
these mining implements. tools,
and supplies surreptitiously car
ried away.
Imperial Corona Gold Mining Co.
P. c. KULLMAN, Secy.,
68 Wall St., New York.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
CHANGE IDAHO'S
CONSTITUTION
Six Amendments win Be Voted On al
the Coming Election.

At the coming fall election the voters
of the state OF Idaho will be called upon
to vote on six Questions relative to
constitutional amendments. Secretary
of State Gibson is sending to the county
auditors of the state notifications. The
questions to be submitted, which will
be certified to the auditor of each county
at the time of certifying of the state
tickets, will be numbered and in form
as follows:
1. Shall section of article 8 of the
constitution of the state of Idaho be so
amended as to authorize majority of
the qualified electors of counties, cities,
towns, villages and other subdivisions
of the state to incur public indebted
ness?
2. Shall section of article Of the
constitution of the state of Idaho be so
amended as to permit counties, cities,
towns, villages and other subdivisions I
of the state to vote bonds in aid of rail-
roads and other works of internal i'm
provements?
8. Shall section 10 of article 19 of
the constitution of the state of Idaho
be so amended as to permit the county
commissioners to be elected for a term
of four years?
4. Shall section of article 18 of the
constitution of the state of Idaho be SO
amended as to empower the legislature
by general and uniform laws to provide
for county, township and precinct offic-
ers?
5. Shall section of article of the
constitution of the state of Idaho be so
amended as to permit exemption from
taxation Of lines of railroad hereafter
to be constructed for a period of not
exceeding ten years?
6. Shall section of article 7 of the
constitution of the state of Idaho be SO
amended as to limit taxation of prop
erty for state purposes to ten mills on
each dollar of assessed valuation except
by vote of the people?
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20

Ralph Middleton returned
Thursday from Dixie where he
has been employed all summer.
Mr.. Benedict, the we'll known
prospector, arrived Sunday from
Spokane to look after his inter
ests here. Mr.. Benedict recently
Joined the ranks of the other
benedicts, and he has established
his home in Spokane. The News
is one of his many friends to wish
him joy and happiness. Of course
he will prosper for he has become
interested in property in Idaho's
best and biggest gold camp.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20

COL, Dodge of, the Crooked
Creek placers at Dixie, was here
over night Thursday, en- route to
his home in Portland.
P. o., Ruen of Kenyon. Mime
sofa, vice president in the Twin
Butte company, left for home the
first of the week, after looking
over the company's property in
the Orogrande district.
At a meeting of the Spokane
Brokers' association one day last
week the stock of several mining
companies was dropped from the
exchange. The Jumbo was among
those dropped, there being little
or no call for the stock.
G. w. Widmeyer and E. Gavin,
who are doing development work
on their Little Butte property, re-
ceived returns the first of the
week on three tons of ore they
shipped to a smelter in Anaconda
a few weeks ago. They get
$408. Is out of the shipment. Mr..
Widmeyer says the ore on their
property is free milling and they
have a big body of it. The ore
they sent to Anaconda was not
picked; it was shoveled right into
the wagon from the tunnel. The
lower tunnel on the Little Butte
is in 470 feet and has 40 feet of
crosscuts. The upper tunnel is
in 102 feet. Messrs. Widmeyer
and Gavin are well pleased with
the returns on their Anaconda
shipment and are considering the
advisability of placing a mill on
the property next year. A
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
YOU MUST REGISTER NOW
If YOU EXPECT TO VOTE

To Voters:
You must register not vote the election this fall
The last legislature Of Idaho which
carried forward from carried forward
ene
this fall.
registration opened
Have then?
If you have not that Immediately
Have neighbor register
registration open Saturday the
Office of Elk City Ltd B. Elk City
Voters Dixie Ogande Concord Newsome Clearwater and
will have difficulty locating the registration books in
their respective precincts
Saturday Register Register Regsterl!l
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
STRIKES 1T IN ALASKA.
Cal Huddleston Finds Some Rich Placer
Ground in Far North.

-
/, The Grangeville Free Press
last week printed the following
interesting item concerning Cal
Huddleston, a former well known
prospector in this district:
Cal Huddlestof, for many years
a prospector and miner in this
county, writes his former partner,
M. B. ,Geary, from Cooks Inlet,
Alaska, under date Of September
Is, saying he has struck it rich
in that country. He says: Il
have just got back to the coast
after having been out for a year.
l have found good diggings at
last, the best you ever saw. l
have panned out as much as $50
to the pan, and it looks good to
me, you bet. Three of us worked
one month with a Small head of
water and took out 200 odnces.
1t is the easiest thing to work
you ever saw. No rocks to
handle, no stripping to do, only
to clean the bed rock. l can sit
down and pick it up like corn,
most of it being coarse. 1t is a
hard country to get grub into and
takes two months to sled it in
with dogs. I will start back in
about two weeks with another
years supply. don't know if !
will get winter killed or not, it
gets. very cold up there. The
district lies on the southwest side
of the highest mountain in North
America. l wish you were here
with me. We could make a stake
now. There isn't many good
creeks in the camp, but a few
have made as much as 800 a day.
l think my outfit will make $50
or $75 a day next summer. l
will try to work out the best of
it next year and sell out and leave
the territory.
Game is very scarce in this
part of the country, and l lived
on pork and beans all the time.
l got very tired of it, but birds
were plentiful in some places.
There are lots of bear. but they
are not good to eat as they live
on fish. In the fall there are a
few moose and caribou, but hard
to get. Grub isn't so dear on the
coast and you can get a pretty
good years supply for 5000.
Il saw Lou Smiths brother
about a month ago. He is work
ing a lay in the mining camp.
got your letter written May IL
after it was on the road two
months. Give all the boys my
regards as | don't think | will be
out again for a year. Write and
let me know how things are run.
ming in old Idaho. Address, Ty.
onook, Cooks Inlet, Alaska.
Nrx.- - IL 4;.. II u..Less,.:l
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
At the Buster Mine.

The most important news from the
Buster mine since last issue of Mining
News is that the force has been in
creased by the adding of several new
men, and real development work on the
property has been started. The old
shaft on top of the hill is being cleaned
out and it will be retimbered. A force
of men are also at work on crosscut
about 200 feet back in the lower tunnel
The 40-horse power boiler is now on
the road. 1t was at Clearwater over
night Wednesday.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
The Mining News for 81.

Reno Hutchinson, secretary Of
the Y. M. G. A. in Spokane, was
shot and killed by highwayman
while walking in the best resi-
dence portion of Spokane, Mon
day evening about 8 o'clock.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
A BIG STRIKE
NEAR DIXIE
Three Foot Vein on Independ.
ence Goes $358--Two
Rich Strikes Made.

DIXIE, Oct. 19. Especial to Min
ing News]-A strike of three feet
OF ore assaying 1858 per ton, with
a fourteen inch streak panning
$500 per ton has been made in the
independence mine near this place.
A 5-foot vein of good looking ore
has been struck in the Snowstorm,
w
owned by the Pennsylvania Dixie
company.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20

For SALE Sixty thousand
shares of stock in the Imperial
Corona Gold Mining Company.
Enquire at Mining News, office.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
CLASSIFY THE LAND
Some Instances Where Government
Does Prospector Injustice.
DECISION THATwASMApE
Court Ddcided in Favor of Rancher
on Laid Clearly Mineral.

From Idaho comes a plant that
the government is not sufficiently
circumspect in granting patents
on parcels of the public domain,
and as result valuable mineral
land is being taken up as timber
claims. under the timber and
stone act, says Mining Reporter.
The subject has agitated other
districts than those in Idaho, and
will probably always be the cause
of more or less dissatisfaction
with the administration of the
land office.
The contention is made that
mineral-bearing land covered
with timber is too often taken up
as timber claim, without due
investigation on the part of the
government as to the true nature
of the land. This is likely to be
true in many cases where no
trace of mineral has ever been
discovered, for many of our best
mineral fields have been develop
ed from practically no surface
indications. One of the latest
examples of this fact was the
discovery of the Cobalt, Ontario,
silver fields. The first discovery
Of the mineral was made in a
railroad cut, where cobalt bloom
was found. This led to prospect
ing of an exceedingly difficult
country covered with timber and
underground that made progress
slow and tedious. Here was
land, unclaimed either as timber
or mineral, and subsequently de-
veloped into enormously rich
mines. The geological conditions
are such that no veins outcrop.
They stand vertical and the sur
face of the earth must be literally
scratched to discover them. What
would have been the logical OBJ
lection to locating this land as
either timber or agricultural, and
what government could legiti-
mately have refused to grant
such a patent? Surely the agents
of the government could not be
expected to go out and search for
mineral to determine it's nature;
they would then be performing
the very service which the gov
ernment relies largely on the
prospector to render; and in the
n absence Of which the timber To-
Gator receives favorable atten-
ton, all in good faith.
The particular case complained
Of in Idaho has a better basis in
fact than the one just mentioned.
We learn that the land in ques-
tion is located in a known min
eral area and that mineral claims
almost bound it on some sides.
From the evidence submitted it
would seem that possibly a mis-
take had been made which for
the best interests of mining in
Idaho is to be regretted. 1t is
improbable that a similar error
will be again committed in that
region.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20
COMPLY WITH LAW
Claim Owners Not Careful Enough
in Making Location.
ONE CASE IN MONTANA
Failure to Comply Strictly With Law
Lost Claim to Locator.

A decision rendered some days
ago by the Montana supreme
court carries a note of interest
and warning to prospectors and
locators of claims generally. The
necessity of explicitly obeying
the statutes is the lesson which
the decision carries, says Mining
Reporter.
In the case in question the ap-
pellant located ground subsequent
to the time the same ground was
located by the appellee, but
claimed title thereto on the score
that the declaratory statement of
the latter was not worded in COM
pliance with the law, and did not
show that within ninety days
after his discovery appellee had
performed the necessary work.
Section 3612 of the United States
statutes provides that the locator
or locators must sink a shaft on
the lode or claim to a depth of at
least ten feet from the lowest
part of the rim of the shaft at
the surface or deeper if necessary
to show well-defned crevice or
a valuable deposit. AS an equiva-
lent, a cut, or crosscut. or tunnel,
cutting the lode at the depth of
ten feet below the surface, or an
open cut for at least ten feet
along the lode from the point of
discovery is deemed sufficient.
The declaratory statement must
show the dimensions and location
of the discovery shaft or its
equivalent.
The declaratory statement of
the appellee in this case contained
the following: "For the purpose
of perfecting the location of said
claim as required by law, the
undersigned have heretofore and
within ninety days after posting
notice of location, dug a tunnel
at the point of discovery of the
following dimensions: about II
feet long, 6x4 1-2, cut 3 feet
deep, 6 feet wide, wherein is dis
closed well-defned crevice and
valuable deposit Of ORE" The
court held that this statement did
not meet with the requirements
of Section 3612 mentioned above,
in that it did not appear that a
vein or lode was cut at a depth of
ten feet below the surface; for if
instead of sinking a shaft to the
depth of ten feet in the clear upon
, the vein, the equivalent work is
done, it must be either by cut,
crosscut or tunnel cutting the
vein at a depth Of at least ten
feet, or by an open cut at least
ten feet in length along the vein,
and it must appear from the rec
ords that this has been done. A
failure to observe these require
ments is fatal to the location, for
the record cannot be supplements
ed by proof of what was actually
done. The notice of the appellee
should have contained the words,
and which cuts the vein or lead
ten feet beneath the surface be-
low the lower rim, etc. "
On what thus appears to have
been an oversight on the part OF
the original locators of the claim,
! title was given by the Montana
a supreme court to a subsequent
locator whose declaratory state.
Continued on page 81