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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-11

went 10 Great Bend Monday to visit
few days with her sister, Mrs. Bert
Hawkins.-Ness County Echo.
Marx & Berscheidt are enlarg-
ing their store room today by re-
moving partition that has been
across the rear of the room.
Mr.. aud Mrs. E W. Moses en-
tertained Judge and Mrs. E. c.
Cole, Mr.. and Mrs. Haslett and
Major Webb at dinner Sunday.
Prof. and Mrs. E. F. Ewing return.
ed this morning from a Christmas
visit in Great Bend, Topeka and other
Kansas Points.-Garden City Tele-
gram.
Albert Dotson, secretary of the
Kansas Retail Furniture Dealers
Association, will respond to the
subject, "Our First Meeting" at the
meeting of the organization in Topeka
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wood had the
families of NJ. B. Fits, c. A. Hooper
and L. c. Breeder as guests for dinner
Sunday. A splendid dinner was
served, and the afternoon was very
pleasantly passed away.
{. d. Spaugh and family left
Saturday evening for St. Joseph, Mo.
for visit with relatives and friends.
The RustIer will keep them posted on
what is happening at home during
their absence.
Al the meeting of the State
Editorial Association in Topeka
on January Dist and 22nd Will
Townsley of this city will be in
charge of the discussion on the
subject, Does artistic job print
ing pay".
Marker Brothers shipped fine
lot OF their fine White Plymouth
Rock chickens to the state poultry
show at Wichita, Mon. morning.
They have some very fine birds
in their pens and will probably
be heard from before the show
closes.
j. W. Soderstrom returned
Saturday morning from a trip to
Texas in the interest of the land
Co., represented here by Dennis
& Soders.rom. Sod says their
company is doing a big business
in land in that country. He also
visited a few days at his,sold.home
in Usage county, on his return
trip from Texas.
: The Ladies Aid..Society ItOt the
Congregational church held their
annual meeting for the::election Of
officers at the home of Mrs. W.
E. Stoke Friday afternoon. The
list of new officres is shown in the
complete church ..roster..pubIished
elsewhere.
Miss Lois Sans returned Thurs
day evening from a weeks visit
with friends at Dodge City.
Santa Fe No. s was reported
eighteen hours late that evening,
so a plug was made uD at Dodge
City and run east to accommodate
local travel.
There was a meeting Of the
Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School, Thursday evening for the
purpose of electing officers. and
resulted in the election Of: the
following: Supt., DR.. Addison
Kendall; Asst. Supt., flames
Clayton; Sec., Sarah Hammond
Asst Sect, Claude Barricklow;
Treasurer, Hazel Marsh; ,Librar-
ians, Hazel Clarke and ....EIva
johnson; Choirister, Mrs. ..Thos.
Milligan; Organist.., Gertrude
Nimocks. james CLAYTON re
sumes chlrre OF the Young nao. !
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-01-11
Joint Installation.

The Grand Army Post and Ladies
Circle of the G. A. r. held a Joint
installation and jollifcation meeting
Saturday evening. G. N. Moses did
the installing for the post and Mrs.
Martha L. Moore for the circle. After
the installation exercises coffee and
cake were served and packed away,
and a general good time telling
stories and making speeches was in
dulged in.
Both orders have done we'll the
past year. The post mustered eleven
members, and lost two by death,
which is pretty small loss when you
consider the age of the members.
The hall has had a new roof put on,
the interior has been fixed up nicely,
new carpet and other new articles
adding materially to the looks and
comfort. We trust the "Old Guard"
will live many more years to enjoy
what they so justly deserve.
A PaEnee Rocker Satisfied.
Aaron Sole, Robert Miller,
Robert Phillips, and Ernest
Powell. Of Pawnee Rock Work
man lodge came down Saturday
evening to visit the Great Bend
lodge, and to satisfy a banker the
first named had fer more initia-
tory work, he being a new men,
Der of the order. The local team
was called on. and when they got
through with Mr.. Sole, he was
perfectly satisfied. He was the
best candidate that has taken the
work in some time.
Lot EEalt's little one has been
qnite sick for fau dap<
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

Colony. Unfortunately, quite recently the news
papers chroniced the fact that a weequipped
expedition has started in search of it, conse-
quently this treasure cannot be considered open
to all comers But, lying farther north, on the
Tenedos reef off the coast of Zuluand, is So
250000. This stolen from the Rand
The thieves conveying it to South America
in an old brig, which went down on the reef
and lies there to this day with its golden store
intact.
Both Nelson and Blake were responsible for
some of the treasure-spots which exist today. In
Aboukir Bay lie four French ships which foun
dered beneath Nelson's guns, and which contain
cd hundreds of thousands in gold In Vigo Bay
twenty-eght millions, the contents of several
Spanish gaeons sunk in 1902, await anyone
who can get them. In Santa Cruz Bay, by Te
neriffe, lie the contents of sixteen more of the
Dons' ill-fated ships; while off Cadiz, two other
treasure yielding galleons lie fathoms deep.
VAIN SACRIFICES
But such treasure-Tounds are insignificant
compared with Lake Guatavita, in Colombia,
which is said on undeniable authority to contain
over hundred million dollars worth of gold,
precious metals, and jewels, How this fabulous
sum came to be in the lake is by reason of the
wild, barbarous inhabitants of Colombia, called
Chibichas, believing that their god resided in its
watery depths For years and years they flung
their precious offerings into the Sacred Lake,
where they lie to this day-a treasure worth
risking something to capture.
So much has been written about Cocos Island
lately that it would hardly be safe to say nobody
is attempting to recover the buried treasure
which undoubtedly exists there, This is be
lieved to be the real Treasure Island which
formed the locale of Stevenson's famous story
1t is not generally known that in 1880 a thirty
two-page pamphlet was published containing a
detailed list of the pirates gold hidden on the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

Geoff would get home early enough to take
me for walk before dinner, a lady drove up
the dusty, desert road in little dogcart and
announced that she had come to take me home
with her, and that to stay there until
Geoff should be relieved and go back to his
proper post in Dustypore.
She didn't seem to feel she doing anything
wonderful, or even unconventional, in thus enter
tanning two strangers, and actually put aside my
thanks to apologize for having been left in that
beasty hole so long," and to explain it was solely
because she and her husband had only returned
that morning from "ten days leave" and had
not known of our existence till her husband
brought Geoff back with him to "tiffan" as
they call a two o'clock luncheon in India. The
two men had been acquainted only few days,
and yet one might think that we life long
friends. But it is probably due to the fact
that here they are all in the same government
service
so DIFFERENT FROM HOME.
Fortunately for me, Mrs. Brown is renowned
as housekeeper-so that she is teaching me how
one manages out here. 1t is so different from
England!
know have said that before, but really it
is the only thing one can say.
To begin with, you are obliged to have so
many more servants. The Browns have eight,
all men except the ayah, yet couple of Eng
ish maids and a gardner-groom would do half
as much work again as the whole lot of Indian
servants. Here wages are very low, but the
cook would not for anything take duster in
hand and the man who announces dinner would
not for any consideration think of washing the
dishes or even helping.
And the worst of it is that, however hard up
you may be, you could not possibly lay the table
and wash up the breakfast things or clean the
silver yourself, or help in any of the hundred
other ways you might at home if you happened
to be poor and wished to manage with fewer
servants II you tried it, then you would close
caste" and your servants would leave in scorn.
and your husbands native clerks would openly
despise him, and the government would probably
come down on you for behaving vim a way in
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
TWO YEARS CAMPAIGN.

TWO YEARS CAMPAIGN
A map of the fire-swept workings was first ex-
amined and after much effort plan was evolved.
But the accomplishment was to cost over two
million dollars and take two years Work
started over year ago and, according to Presi-
dent Rlpleys report is progressing satisfactorily.
! Instead of water being poured upon it, mix
| ture of water and coal dust or cum has been
used. II has been found that this, in a certain
degree of consistency, washed into the workings
| is the most effective agent that has ever been
used in extinguishing the fire. The blaze is in
the pillars of coal at the side of working and
the wet culm smothers it wherever it touches.
The working was filed and the wet cum not
only cut off all air from the fire but dried and
became solid forming almost as good a support
to the roof as the coal that originally there.
Inch by inch the fire smothered, burned
out working was closed and a new support for
the roof formed.
AT the Greenwood this plan was followed on a
mammoth scale by the engineers Scores of six
inch bore holes were driven through the noun
tain from all angles upon the fire. These allowed
the gases to escape and carried the culm and wa
ter into the workings. At the edge of the Schuyl
kill River large boiler house sheltering four
100 horsepower boilers was built and they ran
two immense pumps. each with a capacity of 12-
600 gallons minute. These pumps sent, through
ten-inch piping, to the mountain top, distance
Of sixteen hundred feet, some three and half
million gallons of water day. At the top of the
mountain the water was turned into big troughs
and into these was also emptied the culm
brought by the train load from the big culm
banks at Hauto, two miles away.
THE END IN SIGHT
The mixture was then poured continuously
down the bore holes and gained foot by foot
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

upon the fire. In few months the engineers
calculate that the mine will be reclaimed In the
two years of flushing with the average of 30OO,-
600 gallons of water daily poured upon the fire
the workings will have been flooded with the
immense volume of 2,136O 0,0O0 gallons of wa
ter, besides the numberless carloads of culm
mixed with it.
As quickly as it was apparent that the culm
poured into bore hole had reached all of the
fire that it could, new bore hole was driven
nearby The chutes were movable and the pro
cess was repeated. This done over and over
again. There was no outward sign of the fire
except the gas or steam escaping from the bore
holes At places along the mountain side are
cave-ins where the fire has eaten the sur
face that the weight has crushed down the sup
ports and the surface toppled in. At other
places where the vein outcropped the fire ate its
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

compatible with the prestige of the Sirkar.
Mrs Brown said she was sure it would he
less difficult to persuade the butler of an Eng
lish Royal duke to scrub the palace doorsteps
than to induce the poorest native to do piece
of work it was not the custom for him to do.
SERVANTS PROVIDE THEIR OWN FOOD.
Fortunately however, you do not have to
bother about "the servants hal' you would
with eight Brtons. because there isn't such a
thing Each servant lives in his own little hut
in the garden with his wife and family They
would not dream of collecting round kitchen
table for their meals.
Even the washerwoman is a man out here,
and each family keeps one for itself, just as you
keep housemaid at home, and the little
dressmaker" is man too, but he usually comes
by the week. ] do wish Aunt Julia could see
him sitting cross-legged the floor of the
veranda, sewing backwards, and holding the
material stretched between his white teeth and
his bare toes when he wants to measure some
thing.
He really sews beautifully, and can copy any
thing and it is the greatest comfort to me tc
know there are such treasures to be had, for
forsee that my poor dear trousseau won't long
survive the dhobie's methods of laundering
he beats the clothes against stone.
Then the hot sun in which he insists on dry,
| ing your things-perhaps it isn't his fault, for
there are never any CLOUDY uays-Iaues every
color except pink that dainty colors in any
variety are impossible in India.
| | believe somebody once tried to start stean
laundry at Bombay, but nobody could afford t.
patronize it, as you use such enormous quanti
| ties of clothes in India
All through the hot weather gentlemen wea
washing suits, tussore, or cotton check, or whit,
drill-mostly white drill, especially for dinner
when it looks really lovely with red or blu
sash, and is so cool for dancing-and even i
they didn't you would have to be pretty rich t,
pay steam laundry prices for twenty-one shirt
a week and so on, so it is better to let tn
dhobie work his will and engage dhard to sew
ON new buttons.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

greedy way to the surface, leaving sullen gaping
mouths wide open for more fuel.
With the recaiming of the mine, employment
will be given to 1000 men and boys, and around
the base of the mountain will spring up mining
village while to the properties of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company will be added one that
is worth a million dollars
There are other mine fires in the anthracite
region. The Baltimore, the Empire and the Jer-
sey mines, near Wilkes Barre, have been burning
for twenty-five years, but one of them or per-
haps all three combined, are not of the dimen-
sion of the big fire that ragged in the Greenwood
colliery. A similar fire has burned nearly ten
years in South Russia. In 1897 an underground
conhagration took place in coal mine in the
Donets district. All attempts to extinguish it
proved frutless and there is raging furnace
still underneath the ground.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
Treasure T0Ve Everywhere

island, amounting in all to the value of twenty
seven million dollars
Coming to treasure on dry land which nobody
is looking for certain gold-mine in the Rocky
Mountains can be recommended as offering scope
for adventure, with rich reward in the event
of success. In 1858 little band of men pene-
trated the desert which lies the boundary of
New Mexico and Arizona. Having reached a
spot called Yuma, in the Rockies, they embarked
the Gila River, and voyaged up it for nearly
four hundred miles. At certain point where
according to one of the party three mountain
peaks stood out in the shape of triangle, they
disembarked, pitched their camp, and commenced
to search for gold. AT the base of one of the
three mountains gold was found in large guam
titles
A DISASTROUS EXPEDITION
Six weeks suf6ced to put the party in possession
Of $250,0OO worth. In order to work the mine,
which stated to be of the richest ever
found, half of the party agreed TO go to San
Francisco for more tools, mining implements ard
provisions. No sooner had they started than
every man was murdered by Indians. Those who
had remained behind were also attacked and,
with the exception of one man. slain,
The man who escaped was named Adams. AT
ter encounterng terrible hardships he reached
Fort Bliss with his nuggets Many attempts to
locate this wonderful mine We're subsequently
made under Adams own guidance, but for some
inexplicable reason the exact god-bearing noun.
tain could not be discovered. Yet there it stands
to this day, awaiting to make rich beyond the
dreams of avarice the man who solves the mys.
terry of Adams diggings.
| But not to go far a6eld, it may be said
that records exist in Scottish archives of over
quarter of a million of money which was buried
! in the Highlands of Scotland during the hunt
for Bonnie Prince Charlie. 1t is still open for an
enterprising Scot to make systematic search
| for this treasure.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

Ee&-HM leave was recalled and he would have
&y&sSI to hurry off to Iandore, where he was
e--eAA~ to temporarily take the place of man
who had died. There was time to have
the wedding, but not honeymoon. Geoff want
ed me to stop behind because the place he was
assigned to was an awful one for a person to live
in, but | would not hear to it and | accom-
panied him. | do hope | shall make a success
OF my housekeeping when | have a bungalow
and servants of my own, but no one could i'm
agine how different the arrangements are in In
dia from those in mammals house at Kew.
Geoff has promised to get an English
speaking ayah Chats ladys maid and the only
female servant | shall have); but still L am be-
ginning to feel quite thankful that things hap
pened as they did, though veXed at
the time for if | had just had ordinary honey
moon with Geoff in comfortable hotel, and then
been planted down in his bungalow at Dusty
pore, / can't think what | should have done.
Geoff says / can leave everything to Abdullah
at first, and it will all come out right, but
don't feel bit inclined to do that. l did not
take two courses of scientific housekeeping, and
listen for hours to mamma and Aunt Julia, and
head volumes of domestic hints, to have my
house managed for me by even the best of native
servants in the snowiest of white turbans.
/ mean to do my own housekeeping, if / can
only pick up sufficient Hindustani before we leave
Dustypore to make myself understood
Fortunately we are longer in that odous,
dark bungalow. We were there four whole days.
and now that they are over, don't mind admit
ting that l never spent four such miserable days
in my life. Nearly all that time l was alone, OF
course and every minute it grew harder to ap
pear cheerful when Geoff came back, and to &c
on pretending that l found the novelty of my
surroundings amusing enough to keep me happy
when he wasn't there
1t seemed the most dreadful come.down after
my rose-eolored anticipations of India and OF
the honeymoon, SO that you can hardly picture
my Joy when, as l was sitting all alone in the
veranda on Thursday afternoon, wondering il
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

5.7SS5Sz3 mine, near Tamaqua Pa, in the
SstnRJ Schuykill district, for forty-seven
years, are at last meeting with
cess. This mine blaze has baffled
perts for almost half century, during which
time 1T has destroyed hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of coal and has prevented the min
ing OF large body of coal which is worth ac-
cordlng to estimates, two million dollars and per-
haps more, as coal companies are not garrulous
about their property values.
In 1888 miner, hurryng out of the coery
after days work, allowed his lamp flame to
touch oilsoaked timber He did not notice
that little spark remained and that the current
OF air blowing into the mouth of the mine fan
ned the spark until it blazed and began to eat
its way into the snoring.
The next day when the miners went into the
colliery the gangway a mass of fire Water
was turned into the shaft without effect The
nre grew and spread and the mine was aban.
doned 1he vein of coal in the mine was sixty
feet In thickness on an average and the abandon
ment OF the operation meant heavy loss to the
owners.
Many of the best engineers in the country have
studied the problem of quenching the Greenwood
flames and after years of effort they confessed to
finding themselves bafhed.
The coal below water level was saved by the
millions of gallons of water kept in the mine, but
above water level and into the heart of the great
mountain honey-combed with veins of coal, the
fire ate and gnawed and advanced.
The time when the company was anxious
to get at the vast quantities of coal below the
water level, but before this great protecting food
can be drawn off the fire must be extinguished
In his last annual report President Lewis A. Rip
ley, of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company,
announced that efforts to this end were meeting
with success.
Modern mine fre-fghting methods are as much
an improvement over the old as are the modern
methods of mining over those of fifty years ago,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

4
PNsSN,5N2 very moment in different parts of the
S=@-sSJ world which have been fitted out with
lavish liberality despite the great risk
attending the hunting for something the exist
ence of which is more or less of an uncertainty
and the possibility of there being no return for
the funds invested.
AT many points over this great globe are there
supposed to rest, under the water soil, great
treasure which is almost within the reach of any
one who would go after it..
On the outward bank of the Fly Island Pas
sage, off the coast of Holland, there is million
in cold cash lying in the hulk of an old frgate
called the Lutine She sailed from Yarmouth
in 1T90 for Holland, and wrecked off the
coast, only one member of the crew being saved.
At low tide the hulk visible, and the Dutch
fishermen got out 100000 of the bullion with
which the Lutine was laden. Then sand drifted
over the hulk, and she lay submerged for twelve
years
At this time enterprising Dutchman spent
900 in searching for more of the million and
n half with which the vessel left Yarmouth, but
he found nothing. In 1857, however, some un-
derwriters from Lloyd's made a third attempt,
and brought up $250000. Although they ceased
their efforts after this haul, they maintained EN-
phatically, that there was still million in the
hulk.
FORTUNES WAITING-NO COMPETITION
On the rocks of Portland there is 81, 900, 900.
In 1920 a richly-laden East Indiaman, the Earl
of Abergavenny, was wrecked here, with this
amount ON board. Nobody is looking for it, OFF
Wrangle Island there is half million in gold
which went down in the steamship Islander five
years ago Then again, there is the $5,O00,0OO
which lies in the hulk of the East Indiaman GroS-
venor, wrecked off the coast of st. Johns, Cape
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

yet the engineers of the company and the fire.
fighting experts of the region faced a big prob
lem when they were ordered by the company to
devise some means of quenching the fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
4 Bride in Bombay

JST as we were about to be married in
London, Geoff received word that his
leave was recalled and he would have
to hurry off to Tandore, where he was
to temporarily take the place of a man
,,bo bn1 IioJ rrha,o ,,,o, 4;.,,o l,,,o
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27
kNfhjIbS
Observation-Disclosures Il AINu1N

to extinguish the great fire
which has ragged in the old Greenwood
mine, near Tamaqua, Pa, in the
Schuylkill district, for forty-seven
years, are at last meeting with sue
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-27

HERE are number of treasure trove
hunting expeditions at work at this
very moment in different parts of the
world which have been fitted out with
lavish Ehnrnlitu desnitn thn nreat riSk
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-13

The district fair management to-
day appointed d. C. Sanderson, ed
itor of the FreeVater Times, and
Mayor Fred Evans of Freewater, as
commissioners to have charge Of the
collection and display of the exhibit
from the Freewater district, at the
fair.
The largest space yet assigned to
any locality in the county has been
assigned to the Freeweter-M Milton dis
trict, and that rich section is expect
ed to have the largest display of fruit
at the fair ever exhibited in eastern
Oregon.
The fruit and vegetable crops are
excellent in that section and will be
just at the proper stage for display
at the time of the opening of the
fair.
The Freewater-Milton exhibit will
be the most diversified, perhaps, to
be seen at the fair, for irrigation has
developed every imaginable variety
of fruit, vegetable, grass and grain
in that section. Last year that dis
trict captured several first prizes on
flowers as well as on fruits, and will
perhaps have even a better exhibit
this year.