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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-05-26

1t is impossible for one to realize the
rapid growth of the district OF Goldhelo
until he gets out among the hills.
To the eastward every hill is dotted
with the workings of various properties
upon which development is being pushed
energetically. On every side one sees
signs of the introduction of capital into
the district and more encouraging
state of affairs could scarcely exist. On
the roads wagons loaded with lumber
and supplies are to be met with and ma
chinery, whips, whims and hoists are
being introduced rapidly. Everything
noints to enlargement and permanency
and there is every prospect that Gold
field is destined to become the largest
producing camp the world has ever
known. The eastern section, newer and
less generally visited than the others is
showing up well and is commanding the
attention of the best mining men and
money
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-05-26
SOLD KA1rrucx" GROUP

On the Cottle and Grant lease on the
Economist claim of the Old Kaintuck
group sinking has been carried TO
depth of 200 feet. This shaft Is nearly
all timbered and is a fine piece of work
At a depth of 1875 feet the ledge dips
into the shaft and at that point gives
values of from s12 to s34 A crosseut
from the 6O-foot level encountered this
ledge at distance of 23 feet and the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-05-26

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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
A Public Bath.

tn HE nroiect Of q public all-the-yea round,
Il water bath in the city Of Minneapolis is re-
vived by a motion in the council by Alderman Rand
of the sixth ward who asks the council to pass mo-
ton calling for appropriation OF $2oOOO Ior tnls
purpose in the budget of 1907.
What is contemplated in the motion is probably q
shower or a combination shower and pool bath, the
former being regarded by the medical world as not
only the most efficient but demonstrated to be the most
economical the safest from possible disease contamina
tion The pool bath is, Of COURSE preferable as an
exercise while not SO effective in cleansing properties
as the shower
The city Of Minneapolis is wofully behind in the
matter of care of the public health in the provision
Of baths. The subject has been recognized in the
erection Of open air baths in two of the parks and IN
the projected river bath at what is now known as
Halls island. These attempts have been merely ef
forts to save the lives Of children by aHordng them
the dangerous open river They do not cover the sub
iect since they available only thru small part
of the year. The project under consideration is not
an ambitious to provide facilities for the whole
city. It looks rather to system OF neighborhood
lighthouses. This appears to be the policy of the
cities which have attacked the problem earnestly OF
late years. According to the statistics compiled IN
1902, Brooklyn has five floating baths, two indoor
baths with three in Of constructions Chi
cago, baths in different portions Of the city,
none Of which cost than $4,000; Milwaukee,
three natatoriums with average cost OF about
$25 900; New York, fifteen floating baths and con-
tracts let for three additional indoor bahs Philadel
phia fifteen pool bath costing from 900 to $l4
each.
The statistics show that the best equipped baths
can be made sefsustaining to current expense by
means of graduated fees of moderate maximum and
a minimum Of cent.
The movement for a public bath in Minneapolis
of the character described is timely. There vari-
Gus demands upon board Of tax levy yet 1t is diff
fcult to think of project which should more readily
appeal to the members than this.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
Creditable to the Students.

IT WILL surprise most of our readers no doubt, to
l. find that nearly onehalf Of the 1900 men in the
University Of Minnesota are working their way thru
college. Nothing could be significant as to the
serious purpose Of the student body Of state uni
versty Men do not do manual labor to support them
selves while in college unless they prize college advan
tages at their true worth Another consideration is
that the who eager enough for an education
to gain under such adverse circumstances are very
apt to be close students They not in the univer
sty for fun, and it is fair to that among this
number very high average Of scholarship develops
feature of the situation, one which may deter
mine for many the choice of the university place
at which to gain education, is the apparent ease
with which employment by the students may be OBJ
tained here. In this large city there chances
than there would be in the ordinary college town for
students to find such employment would correspond
with their limitations as TO time. ~>@ ID y z
1t appears from the statements given elsewhere
that these students have earned Approximately $4,000
or an average of about $100 apiece-during the
school year. and the list of occupations pursued shows
that there has been hesitation to accept any kind
Of work that might be offered, provided it were hon
orable.
This indicates the existence Of admirable spirit
among the Students especially when it appears that
who have pursued occupations usually regarded
menial have held the highest places of honor in
their classes. -. .-.:f '0> @'.'~
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
T1NKER's oR1cK


I'll bet you that the hills green and that the sky
is blue
Above the fields where Tinkers Crick goes ca 'mly
windin' thru;
I'll bet the orchards the slopes out there pink
and white
And that the blossom scented air aint blowin Just
for spite,
And can almost seem to hear the water roarin still
The way it used to the dam below the MILL
I'll bet the fish are bitin' where the old crick sort
of rests
And azes just before it makes the bend by Deacon
West IS;
And then old willows 1eann' out, yet clingn there
as tho
They'd like swim but didn It have the courage to
And, further down, the covered bridge- see it in
my mind
AS plain as if twas yesterday I'd left it all behind
The city lively and it IS big, and there IS lot see,
And ain It claimn that it haint been mighty good
to me;
I like the chance it gives man, like the noise
and crowd
The boys are getting famous here--they make me
mighty proud
But long about this time Of year it's kind of hard
to stick,
When things are as you know they out there by
Tinker's Crick.
Chicago Record Herald
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
The Hero of Kimberley.

~ EORGE F. LABRAM an American mining en-
~ gineer, is given tardy recognition as the real
hero of the siege of Kimberley in the current issue or
the Century. The article Is written by friend VINO
passed thru the siege, and talked with Laoram only
few minutes before he killed by a Boer shell.
While giving all due credit to Colonel Kekewich, who
commanded the garrison, it tells of the wonderful
service rendered by this American who after service
in Mexico and Arizona mines, had come to South
Africa but short time before the outbreak OF the
war, chief engineer of the De Beers mines.
Cecil Rhodes and several thousand other non-com-
batants were immured in Kimberley, which was in
vested by the Beers about four months and defended
by $500 men, twothirds of them civilian volunteers
The besiegers had siege guns, and Kimberley's de-
fenses mounted only field artillery. The ammu-
milton low and Labram, who had been giving
valuable aid and counsel, called in. He picked
up shell and looked it over, saying as he walked
away: IT guess l make one of those things"
He invented shell that could be made with the
erials hand and kept the guns supplied thereafter
Later the Beers mounted heavier guns and with this
advantage against them the condition Of the besieged
became desperate. Labram devised and built Big
Cecil, siege gun with 41anoh bore and made the
ammunition for it. AS the event proved, this gun
saved the day for Kimberley.
In this and dozen other emergencies the genius
of the American engineer to the OCCASION and the
garrison honored him the real savior of the city
He did not live to the relief column, and when
killed by Boer shell the garrison paid him the highest
military honors
Labram is type Of the men being turned out by
American technical schools masters Of what they
know, but not limited the beaten track. The char
acteristic of technical is resourcefulness.
Any seeming impossibty only invites them to greater
effort Necessity spurs them to invention, and every
year progress in their achievements nature.
Labram the of the hour for Kimberley, but
there many Labrams winning victories under less
tragic and historic surroundings. :
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
Changes in Directories.

FINANCIAL changes Of a year and the moving in
and out Of control Of individual and corporate
interests the shifting direction Of vast
aggregatons Of capital, the passing Of men and
the rise of Others all find illustration in the new
volume of the directory Of directors New ork and
the country at large had stirring up in the past
Twelve months that sent many high hnanclers TO
limbo There was the regular working out OF corpor-
ate change seen every year, but investigation OF
irregular methods, to use stronger term, resulted
IN the scratching out OF many name and the supstl-
tuition Of another.
All the country knew that Chauncey M. Depew
was the champion all around director, with seventy
four memberships Three Of these boards have since
dropped his and while he has been losing ground
William ii. Newman, whose found place on sixty
boards moved up by leaps and bounds and today holds
hrst place with membership in JOG companies. How
Mr. Newman finds time to attend to the meetings OF
these corporations and do his full duty director
opens up interesting question If he is able to
make good the born contention that director
should direct and not be fgurehead dummy, he
is a busy ,sE..I. ..a&@ ~ II
James II. Hyde, who director In forty seven
companies year ago, finds twenty-th as many
as he can conveniently attend to and still set the
pace in Paris. The McCurdys have dropped almost
out OF sight, and Mccall is dead and out Of it entirely
From the Minneapolis end of it there are two
highly interesting features One is the remarkable
rise OF our former genial citizen and present day
eastern magnate, Fred D. Underwood. year ago
Mr. Underwood had his the boards Of seven
teen corporations, and today he is represented IN
seventy-two He has passed Chauncey Depew
with his years Of Vanderbilt backing, and stands
second on the list. This certainly is what may be
called coming to the front with !. rush. William H.
Truesdale another former Minneapotan, is climbing
the ladder Of financial prominence, for he holds mem
bership today in thirty boards, against twenty
two year ago. e.~H. -. 49,
In the general view Of it, however, the feature Of
the list is the Rockefeller position It is unique, and
illustrates how misleading might be the lineup with
reference to indication Of actual power to reader
not otherwise informed for John D. Rockefeller is
director in corporation. He director in
year ago. He has neither fallen out taken
That apparently Is enough, for it is Stand
ard Oil. But if thru the list, with knowl-
edge Of the Rockefeller family and business relation
ship and the representative of Rockefeller
directorate membership stands for than any
other that may appear in so 100 different
places. .:.-
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
C. B. Shaw on the Doctors.

HF ANYTHING were needed to fulfil the measure Of G.
4 Bernard shaw's inadequacy serious critic
his ampoon of the medical profession would furnish
it. The assault is in substance that the doctors are
like the police for intimidation; that they are always
threatening that if do not do they say we shall
surely e that physicians create that there are
fashionable operations brought about by the general
discovery from time time of the useessness Of GER
tain organs formerly the tonsis, now the appendix
and tomorrow probably other. The remedies Of
the profession he also attacks, such formain and
other alleged assailants Of bacli in the system
It is unnecessary to notice the attacks of Mr..
Shaw upon the integrity Of the medical profession
involved in the charge that physicians threaten their
Respectable doctors do not predicate their advice
the determination that either health or death will
follow it's acceptance rejection The doctor does
not know whether his patient will live die. He
only knows what the Materia Medica and experience
of other similar cases have taught him. He knows
also that his work is to assist nature and applying his
experience recommends course of conduct which In
his Judgment will help natural processes Of relief
In nine out Of ten the physician freely credits
nature with the cure reserving to himself only the
credit Of having commended his patient to her remedy
AS to threatening DEATH, nothing could be farther
from the professional ethics the material
interest Of the fraternity. patient sentenced to
death by his physician is well the road to the
death when the physicians material we'll pro-
fessonal credit is bound up in the recovery Of his
patient. - a.z.
Undoubtedly there are fashions in surgery there
in dress Point is given to the criticism of Shaw
by the ridiculous number of operations for appendicitis
Fashions in dress and go, but there remains
always the substantial substructure of clothing. 1t
scarcely changes So it is in medical science. While
it may from time to time be brought to the verge Of
rdicule by prevailing operations popular remedies
for popular ailments, the substantial substructure
medicine based upon study of laws of nature is
unharmed.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
An Anti-Conversation Partv.

THE popular impression that most people talk too
Il much receives endorsement from the advice of
eastern physician Of considerable activity among
people who afflicted with Fnerves'' who recon-
mends his patients to: observe hour Of silence
each day. = .~5
An hour Of silence in twenty four, even from a
we'll person with normal capacities for conversation,
would be acceptable, but from Of those semi-l
persons who is constantly rehearsng the drama Of his
or her nerves it would be boon. III;
There be question but that the advice of the
physician is correct and yet it INJUSTICE that
his patients and the neighborhood in which they live
should have the exclusive benefit Of this boon to tired
humanity. His system should be incorporated in an
This official should have an adequate salary and a
proper number of helpers It should be their duty to
visit domciles at stated intervals and take samples
OF the air to determine whether it had been banded
about in conversation, illegally, feoniously and with
malice prepense. The city should supply an efficient
laboratory in which these samples Of air could be
tested being taken that they be not contaminated
with the conversational drppings from the council
chamber or the whispering gallery where the mayor
makes his promises. -. ..-.-... .
Talk about your smoke nuisances the danger of
baclli from the whiskers Of DOCTORS milk men and
piano tuners-they not circumstance to the de-
structlon stalking abroad in atmosphere which has
been vitiated with small talk especially from persons
kept to themselves, g off their feed 49,. s
BY all means let have an inspector Of converse.
tion and if the republican or democratic parties will
not put the lid the takers us organize at once
an anticonversation, public ownership initiative and
referendum antmonopoly party which will give the
people who merely wish to admire the world in bovine
silence and solemnity chance.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
Voluntary Life Insurance.

IFE insurance without solicitors as general propo
~ stion is about practicable as revival without
an eXhorter resolution without mover, a REFER
endum without initiative.
Of course there are exceptions There is a British
company which employs only secretary and office
force People to the office and wait their turn
to be insured. They largely people who have been
stirred the insurance question by some one COM
pany employing solicitors.
It is proverbally difficult to bring people to the
point of ually taking insurance because it brings
them always face to face with the assurance that
time they going to die. The average man,
when this idea is presented to him, is at first mad,
then sad and finally filed with personal animosity
against the individual who brought him the news.
The majority recover from their insane hatred OF the
solicitor and take Insurance. The rest go they
and when they die the insurance agent, if he
still survives, uses them as warning.
AS a. employing concern the life insurance
pany is composed largely of the agents and it is this
class who are very likely back of the movement in
Massachusetts prevent the issuance Of charter to
company which proposes to sell life insurance with
out agents. They probably base their opposition
except what they stirred up. It might work out this
way: A. is solicited to take insurance. He is con-
vinced that he ought to have it but instead Of taking
It with B.. who solicited him. he steps around the
and takes it from the company which,
having agency expense deliver the goods to
him cheaper.
This indispositon Of one man to work for another
IS natural and yet there ethical why
the insurance should not be compelled to
this burden. In other competitive businesses the
public is entitled to the advantage Of the lowest bid
if the high bidder has large expense account
and has made the business what it is The prestige Of
his past cannot insure him contracts unless
he continues to conduct his business to be able
to give the public the lower prices and good values
as his competitors.
In all likelihood, however, the writing of insurance
without soliciting would never prove going concern
unless it drew upon selected constituency like the
Presbyterian Minister'S Fund.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
A BREAK IN THE DRUMBEAT
New York Sun.

= New York Sun. ~ So
The royal engineers and the royal garrison artillery
marched out of their barracks, Victoria B. c.
on May IL and entrained their way to England
Some of them have withdrawn from the service and
have joined the Canadian forces which will form the
garrison but they remain soldiers of Canada
and not of Great Britain Hereafter all Canada's
military stations will be garrisoned by Canadian troops
long and wonderful experience is closed by this
event. Volumes upon volumes have been written with
out exhausting the story of the work of the British
army in America. 1t is tale of thrilling incidents
and bitter hardshps, of gallant victory sore de-
feat. It's closing chapter may be written
BY the departure of the last of the British forces
Canada takes another step toward nationhood She
assumes her own military defence
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
EXPORTS FROM GULF PORTS

st. Louis Republic.
The growing Importance of the gulf ports for the
shipment of western produce is gathered from
statement recently issued by the department of
For the ten months ending with April, Gal.
weston, New Orleans and Mobile exported $4,000 600
worth of breadstufs, against $50, 100000 worth for
all the Chesapeake ports, including Baltimore, and
$37,0o0,0oo worth fer New York. New York lead
is readily accounted for by the advantage it has in
the cheap water route thru the lakes and the Erie
canal which also give her not little wheat from the
Canadian fields. With deep waterway from Chicago
to the mouth of the Mississippi New Orleans which
600 for the three gulf ports would in all likelihood
excel New York in the shipments of breadstuffs and
other western produce.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
The Presbyterian Union.

IT HE union of the Cumberland Presbyterian church
l. with the Presbyterian church in North America
is notable example of the get togeher' spirit pre-
vailng in the churches today Doctrinal differences,
which few decades ago insuperable barriers to
common action, have faded into innocuous shadows.
Work and not words is the motto Of the time and
Christians find it less difficult to normal rea-
tions Of cooperation than did their forefathers.
+ The Cumberland Presbyterian church received its
first impetus from great revival of religion in the
states of Kentucky and Tennessee nearly hundred
years ago. AS result of that activity in religious
! matters, unusual demand for preachers to serve
newly established churches This led the Presby
terry of Cumberland to license and ordain a number
of young who had not received the required
classical and theological training for the gospel min
istry The synod Of Kentucky refused to confirm the
acts Of the presbyte This led to the withdrawal Of
the dissatisfied and the formation Of the indie
pendent presbytery Of Cumberland -.'
The new church took occasion to modify Of
the statements of the Westminster confession of faith
particularly those which called fatalistic. It
had rapid growth particularly in the belt Of states
in the latitude Of it's origin In 1908 the Cumberland
churches with value Of 5,O00,O00 and contributed
for all purposes 1928 1t had schools and colleges
in the states of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Texas and Missouri besides home and foreign mission
societies, boards Of educaton ministerial relief and
young peoples societies.
The union Of the two churches means that the
Cumberland Presbyterian church will hold no more
general assemblies of it's own but will submit it's pres
byteries to the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States and send it's delegates
that body. ...a,. .."
The union is of Importance in the economies of
management of mission efforts, educational and publ
cation interests it makes possible but doubtless its
chief significance to Chrstendom at large will continue
to be the example gives of the absorption of doc
trnal differences in the zeal Of practical evangelism.
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-27
Editorial Section.
Henrik Ibsen.

IN ENRIK IBSEN the preface to that school OF
\ dramatic writer's whose tail piece is G. Bernard
Shaw. All their work is based upon magnlfy1ng OF
the individual The ego the all and end all ana
there recognition given Of the duty and the
uplift of service.
The hollowness Of this creed is such that even now
it is passing Ibsen had passed during his Lifetime
from passion to fad and from fad to negligible
quantity. His work lacked the spontaneous element
of view of the beauty and diversity of lfe 1t was
monotonous protest His dramatic characters harped
one key and his dramas instead Of being pan
Of life, shrewish lectures upon human i'm
perfections
Ibsen, however, had taste which many Of his imt-
tators, particularly Shaw, have not. Had he had
poet Is vision, seers wisdom, he might have lived
tho he could never with his principles have moved the
world.
Shaksperes free play Of fancy, his inconsisten-
cies his throwing together in marvellous confusion
pie in different walks of hfein Short his untamed-
repugnant to the very souls Of the 1bsen-
ties. They welcomed Ibsen giving them something
logical, pruned to their Of fitness But it was
pruned until it was dead rs. 45
As play constructor Ibsen takes high rank
But the high rank in play construction is not an evil
dence Of genius. 1t is trade which may be learned
The best evidence Of this is that the modern drama
Is pastered with of the Belasco, Fitch, Plnero
stamp, who make plays other make engines, by
rule. Many Of them delightful to the eye and ear
but leave impress upon the mind OF soul than
the sudden feer of the wind. Ibsen was far above
these machine play makers. He sought for but failed
to reach the soul of his time.