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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Liberty Bell Tunnel.

A. U. Mayfield, secretary and treas
urer of the Liberty Bell Tunnel and
Mining Company, was in the city re-
Gently completing arrangements for
more active work upon the property.
He gave instructions for the erection
OF shop buildings, etc, at the tunnel
mouth. Excavation for the buildings
had been made and the buildings will
he put up at once.
The tunnel enterprise contemplates
the exploitation of Lexington noun
tain by tunnel driven from the level OF
Soda creek. The portal of the tunnel
is located on the West branch of the
stream about a mile from the city linn
its. The site is well selected and
from the point chosen several import
ant lodes of the Soda creek section
may be reached at better advantage
and greater depth than from almost
any other.-Idaho Springs Mining Ga.
zette.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Goldfeld Finding Its Legs.

Goldfeld and the other leading Ne
vada mining camps that have suffered
from wind ice, labor troubles and
other setbacks. are beginning to re-
cover their proSeprouS standing. ac-
cording to a letter from former Judge
J. w. Deanc of Denver, who is now a
resident OF GOldheld.
We have had many setbacks." he
writes Charles II. Smith. proprietor OF
the American hotel, but We have ev-
cry reason to believe that the district
will shortly be free from all Difficult
ties. and it Will then forge ahead.
The great question in business is,
whether to 90 on and plan, as though
there is no uphcayal. VI to weaken and
bend to the storm? We are having
disturbances Of no UNCERTAIN character,
but fortunately We have had no direct
conflicts between employer and en-
ploye.
The business of Goldfield superb
cially is good. in spite OF the fact that
our main Industry languishes and the
mines are not yielding a profit.
Building is in progress. however.
ana things are doing in the town. The
street life is active But few miners
are working. Yet GOldhcld is singularly
orderly.
Nothing Is exhausted and not one
of our great properties has touched its
maximum. But little ground has been
opened, the future seems wonderfully
bright, and We are confident the pres
'nt cloud ~ill wear away and fade.
The bank business tells a story that
IS miraculous Contracts are being full
filled, oscrows are not permitted to
lapse. payments are met when due and
without default. and many properties
are changing hands. The stock market
is variable.
No one knows whore he can or will
be quartsred in Nevada. The towns are
all booming. hotels are crowded and
the Traveller may or may not receive his
mail telegrams and express pack
ages
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
THE LATE STORM.
Prot. W. II. Olin Says Snowfall Nest
Valuable in History Of Colorado.

Fort Collins. Colo.-The bench, Z
tie snow which has fallen during the
past twenty four hours will run up into
the millions OF dollars, insuring for one
thing the maturity OF 500. 900 acres OF
= heat, oats and barley that would 9th
erwise have been half crop or a total
failure.
Professor ". II. Olin. the grain ex-
pert at the Agricultural College, made
the following statement to-day regard
ins the heavy snowfall:
The storm has been general all
over the state. Its benefits have been
greatest in Eastern Colorado. whore
thousands OF new settlers are DEPEND
ing upon this years crop for their liv-
ing. II these people will smooth har-
row their grain fields. running cross
" Sc from the drilled rows, Just as soon
as the land is dry enough to WORK. it
will form a moisture-retaining mU,C b
which VIII be the maturing OF the
grain fields,
THE snowfall is Of tremendous ya'ge
to the farmers III the irrigated regions.
Thousands OF acres Of seed are in the
ground and there was not eno4-h
moisture 10 cause them to sprout, and
another week or two of such gry
weather would have meant the loss or
the time and investment inciden- 10
the planting Of the crops as well a
possible loss Of the crops next fall ON
early fEcst, owing to their lateness in
growth.
The reservoirs will catch an IN
mense amount of water as soon as he
snow begins to thaw, and taken all %
gether It is impossible to approximlte
the total value OF this snow storm -
Colorado believe 1t is the most val
liable storm that has ever occurred IN
the history Of :he state"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Laughing Herself to Death.

Chicago.-Regina Alt, sixteen years
old. pretty and ticklish, has been gig
Cling intermittently for twenty-four
hours. Warrants have been sworn out
for the arrest of four young men who
are said to have tickled her under the
arms. not knowing what was going to
happen. Regina lives at 5642 State
street. She has always been ticklish.
Regina was sent by her aunt Sunday
night to the grocery store The grocer
says she suddenly started to laugh.
Her mirth became contagious. Four
men in the store also began to laugh,
and then began to tickle her under the
aims. Regina began to scream and
yell, and finally dropped in a faint
With return OF consciousness also
came a resumption of her laughing
spell.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Has Seventeen Wives,

Marshall, Mich.-Dr. John Carver,
alleged bigamist, who is said to have
at least seventeen wives, has been cap
tured at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Car
yer is charged with defrauding his
wives out of $150,00O.
The specific charge on which he was
arrested is that OF defrauding Mrs.
Lola Davis Of Battle Creek out Of S25,-
900. Carver married her on October
16, 1906, at Battle Creek. He went with
her to New York and they decided to
buy a boarding house. He told his wife
to go home and raise all the money she
could on her property and forward him
a draft and he would make arrange
ments to have her come on in two
weeks after all details had been set!
tied. He got the money, it is claimed
and disappeared.
Carver is wanted in Cincinnati
Pittsburg, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Nor
folk and Saginaw and officers iNel
been after him for three years. H4isI
a graduate of the Pittsburg Dental Col
lege, Is forty years old and procured
his wives through a matrimonial bu
re0u.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
SEES DEAD WoMAN'S FACE.
Strange Appearance Of Ghost Drives
Bride Almost to Insanity.

Philadelphia, Pa.-What is appar-
emily real case for the Psychological
Research Society has come to. lig
The reason for the serious illness II
Mrs. William Cabre, bride of
month, is disclosed as nervousness
bordering on insanity from what she
and her husband declare is ghostly
cause. At the same time the reason
for the hurried departure of the two
other families from the same place, a
beautiful little villa on Hill Crest ave
nue., near Wissahickon drive, at Chest
nut Hill, also came to light
The police, in consequence Of the
stories OF the Cabres, have made a pre-
liminary investigation, and will go
thoroughly over the place, digging in
yard and cellar At the same time
they are searching for George Fair, a
saddler, who, with his wife and child,
formerly occupied the house, but who
disappeared four months ago.
The Cabres took the house on Fri
day. That night Mrs. Cabre says she
was awakened suddenly and saw a
woman's face staring in at her from
the window. She woke her husband.
Cabre saw the same face and leaped
out of bed and rushed to the window.
AS Ic Cdule LOW dI u Ills SuOStly VlSllOIy
she shook her head, closed her eyes
and vanished. Astonished, Catre
turned to his wife, who was in hys-
terics. They could arrive at no rea-
sonable solution of the affair, but de-
termined to await further develop
ments.
Nothing out of the ordinary occurred
on Saturday until night. There is no
gas in the house, and as Cabre placed
the lighted lamb on the bureau in
their sleeping room, the bureau rocked
and the light was extinguished. Th6p
came peculiar noise, and at the 4
dow appeared the same ghostly face
The CabreS went at once to a neigh
bor's house. They will not even take
their furniture.
Four months ago the house was
taken by a family named Fair, a man,
his wife and one child about three
years old. The woman was a con-
sumptive. While many saw Fair leave
the house, no one can be found who
saw either Mrs. Fair or the child de-
part.
Cabre says there are several Pc
culiar looking places in the garden
that he thinks are graves. These the
police will examine.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
A DEADLY FEuDs
SIX MEN DIE WITH THEIR BOOTS
ON IN TEN YEARS.
ANOTHER DIES IN OPEN FIGHT
Edward Wilkinson Is Shot Through
Stomach and Dies in Great Agony.

Montrose, Colo-Edward Wilkinson,
one OF the best known residents OF
Paradox valley, who has been in the
cattle business there for years. was
shot and killed by William Young,
wealthy stockman at Paradox. as the
result of feud between the Wilkin-
son and the Young families which has
extended over many years. During the
last ten years six men have died with
their boots on. William Iouns's father
was killed five years ago.
Young came to Montrose TO give
himself up to the sheriff. and after
short consultation with the district at
torney he returned to Paradox. accom-
panied by Sheriff Taylor, Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Benjamin Griffith and
Attorney Thomas J. Black, whom he
lad retained to defend him.
Young told the sheriff that he and
his son met Wilkinson in n field and
that Wilkinson drew his gun, Young
says he and his boy pleaded with VIII
kinson to put his gun up. but that N
stead of doing so he slid from hN
horse, and using the animal as a
breastwork, pointed his gun at Young.
Young says he then slipped over tho
side of his own horse and fired. Will
kinSon'S friends claim that Young ana
his son covered Wilkinson and shot
him before the latter drew his gun.
\ number of years ago the Lambert
and Warford families were engaged in
feud with the Young family and sew
eral running fights occurred, although
no one was killed. This died out
through lapse of time and the removal
OF the Lambert family from this vicin-
ity. Last fall W. T. Pitts and Will
knson shot and killed Charles Will
iams, a relative of the Young family.
and about the same time William
Young was wounded.
The original cause of the feud is said
to have been the action Of Wilkinson
when he was serving as sheriff many
years ago. He accused Young of steal
ing cattle and rebranding them. With
some companions Wilkinson rode out
on the range 10 where Youngs cattle
we're grazing. Wilkinson examined
the herd, but 1t is said that he failed
to ind any which showed signs OF
having been rebranded or which bore
the marks of any other stockmen.
Young became indignant at the charge
and several bloody clashes have been
the result.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Russell Boles Seeks Pardon,

Denver.-Application for pardon has
been made by Russell Boles. convicted
two years ago for the murder of Har-
old Fridborn. and committed to the
State Penitentiary for life. The evi-
dence showed that Boles killed the
Fridborn boy because the latter at.
tempted to defend his sister against
the assault Boles made upon her in
North Denver nearly three years ago.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
Can't Beat Clear Creek.

Mr.. George W. Straub returned from
a trip in Nevada lasting several
months. He visited the camps of the
southern part of the state and spent
some time at Ely The latter place,
he thinks. has good outlook, and all
OF them have some merit. but all things
considered. Clear Creek is equal to the
best Of them.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27

murder mystery:
February 25, 1907, dead bodies of
Mrs Benjamin c. Wright and her D.
year-old daughter Genevieve found in
the Wright home. 31i South Pearl
street.
Benjamin c. Wright. the husband
and father, found in an apparently half
conscious condition, suffering evil
IDENTIFY from poison of some kind,
Wright taken to county hospital
where doctors, convinced that the man
was shamming illness. sent him to
police headquarters.
Sweated by Chief OF Police Delaney.
Wright confesses that he killed wife
and daughter.
February 81. 1907. chemical analysis
of bodies of Mrs. Wright and daughter
fails TO reveal least trace OF poison
Search for clew which would fasten
crime on Wright begins anew.
March ., 1907. Wright repudiates
confession which he formerly made.
Wright is examined by physicians TO
determine the extent of injuries which
he is said to have suffered at hands OF
police.
March 3, 1907, Wright is arraisned
In court. pleads not guilty and Is re-
mGnded to Jail for trial
From that time to this no progress
toward solution of this most mysteri-
Gus OF crimes has been made.
All kinds of suggestions as TO man
ner in which victims met their death
have been offered.
Wright himself holds the key to the
mystery, but his lips are sealed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27
WRIGHT MAY co FREE.
Strange Murder Case in Denver Nc
Nearer Solution.

have not the slightest doubt in nS
mind that Benjamin C. Wright is en-
tirely innocent Of the charges against
him. The evidence that has been sub
mitted to me impels me to that con
clusion.
| feel it TO be. my public duty. how
ever. to lay the case before the judge
and jury. | cannot take the responsi-
case.
| shall present to the court and jury
everything that has been submitted TO
rue, the chemists reports. the results
Of the examination OF the premis S
and all other matters My part VIII
be merely the formal execution of a
public duty.-District Attorney George
Stidger.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-04-27

rich strike IN Goldheld, Nevada. He
says he sold his claim for $4,000 and
wants to share this wealth with his
friend.
Unless present plans miscarry, the
American Beet Sugar Company will
have at least one more factory in the
Arkansas valley to handle the immense
crop OF this section. The steel frames
for the limehouse and the boiler rooms
have been put in place for the factory
at Las Animas and the work is rapidly
getting under way, with the prospects
for completion in time to handle this
years product. The smokestack is
completed to a height of eighty feet
and will reach 175 feet in the air when
the last brick is laid.
The knights OF Columbus organized
a council at the Masonic Temple in
Fort Collins and concluded the exer-
cises with a banquet. The charter list
contains sixty names. The following
officers were elected: Grand Knight,
James W. Feeney; deputy grand
knight, Charles McGinnity; chancel-
lor, d. NJ. Mayer; financial secretary,
James H. kneumeyer; recorder, Ed
ward F. 1ivernash; treasurer, w. A.
Ryan: warden, John Mackin; lecturer,
Rev. Father J. Lajeunesse; advocate,
Charles Duncan; outside guard, F. J.
kneumeyer; trustees, NJ. J. Fitzpatrick
and E. ]. Livernash; representative to
state council, c. J. Mcguire. Two hun
dred knights were in attendance from
Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and
Cheyenne. The third degree was ex-
emplified under the direction Of Dis
trict Deputy NJ. w. Purcell Of Denver.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-24
HOW LEvEES ARE MADE.
Important Changes in the Methods
of Building Them.

From the World To-day.
The modern method Of levee building
IS nowhere more scientifically demon
strated than In the ST. Francis district
In the early days of Ievee building it
was thought that any pile of dirt approxi-
mately so high and so wide and running
approximately parallel with the river
was good enough.
The delusion cost thousands of dollars.
To-day the site Of the projected levee
IS carefully cleared of ali trees, the very
roots being grubbed out. because these
would decay otherwise, leaving chan
nels through the soil under, the dyke
through which sipe water would quickly
undermine the structure.
Down the center of the cleared site a
trench, called technically a muck ditch
is dug, and in this puddled clay or buck
shot is filed Upon this the earth dug
from barrow pits adjacent TO the levee on
the landward side is placed.
II Is not dumped helter-skelter. but
carefully spread in layers, giving the
finished mound the maximum strength
and soiidity. These layers extend both
laterally and longitudinallv across the
levee. binding it in every direction.
The work of placing the dirt is done
principally by means of wheelscrapers.
operated by mules Under some circum-
stances small flatcars are used. propelled
by a locomotive and bringing the earth
from a greater distance. This is not Of
ten done except when continued rains
have made the ground too soft for sue
cessful work with the teams.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-24
SCHOOLGIRLS COULD SWIM.
when Boat sank All StrncIz Ont for
Bank and Landed Safely.

When Boat sank All strncI< Ont for
Bank and Landed safely.
From The Maeclssaeld Times.
Thirty schoolgirls from the Wyeombe
Abbey Private School were the heroines
of a thrilling adventure at Bourne End,
near Matdenhead, on a Saturday after
noon recently. All we're In danger Of be-
ing drowned in the Thames, and owe their
lives to the fact that they mad been
taught to swim.
The ages of the girls rangcd from
twelve to eighteen years. On arriving az
Bourne End they ran down TO the river
side and crowded into the ferry punt
mocrCd at the Downshends Wharf for
tae purpose of crossing the river. When
at last the punt was pushed of Il was
noticed to be per.lously low IN the wa
ter, and hardly had II got out into mid
stream when its overladen condition
caused the water to rush in over the
side
There were shouts from he spectators
on the bank and the merry laughter Gf
the girls was quickly changed 10 screams.
But before anything could be done the
boat sank, and all its occupants were pre-
cipitated into the deep. ice cnid water.
Although the girls were all terribly
frightened at their sudden immersion in
the water, not one Of them lost her he;td
the lessons they had learned in the High
WycOmbe public baths stood them in good
stead, and quickly ali were striking out
for the bank
When at last al the thirty girls had
safely reached tho shJTa they presented a
very wOebegone appearance. They we're
hurried or 20 hotels, and within a few
minutes the girls had discarded their wet
clothes and were comfortably seated
around blazing FIRES. wrapped up In warm
blankets, apparently none the wotse fvg
their impromptu and chilly baths.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-24

that girl should be able to make her
own career, 60 out into the world. and
live her own life as freely as the son.
And it Is 10 these reasons that she owes
the fact that she is never fettered by
sense of being the superiuous girl, and
can afford 10 be charming and merry
while she is young, and agreeable and
cultivated when she IS older
But although the English woman has
been weighed down by traditions which
have s0rely told against her culture and
her success in social life, she has attri-
butes which are often absent among
Americans. Her sense OF duty has given
a ballast TO our national life, for self
sacrifice. although sometimes it tells bad
~ on those for whom it is made, Is never
lost in the grace Il gives to the character
Of all who have been willing 20 make It.
The Englishwoman is habitually reserved,
and such reserve has its merits. There is
no doubt that the continual exposure of
feelings has "a tendency 10 make them
shallow and the diagnosis OF every mental
symptom impairs the healthy life OF the
mind
The Washington herald., 1907-03-24
HOW TO CARE FOR The BABY
Some Useful Hints Given by an Au-
thority on the Subject.
Danger in overtaunE "a ChiId's
StreHgth-Lfyes of Diseased
Babies Worth Saving.

I'VE are placed in this world to pro-
tect the baby. not TO kin IL, and 70 kill
II is murder" said Or. Thomas NJ
Rotch, at the Harvard Medical School.
in his lecture on THE Care of Healthy Ia
fants and the Prevention of Disease in
Early Life" as reported ia the New York
Herald.
Infants" said he, should not be
Jumped together as members Of a class
ia the treatment Of disease-they should
be dealt with as individuals. If this rule
were followed the death rate Of human
beings could be brought down TO a mini
mum.
Among the acquired diseases are those
which result from the mismanagement
Of the child. Sometimes its functions are
exercised at too early a period; sometimes
the uHdeveIoped functions are 0vertaxed.
People try to make the young baby sit
up before its cartilaginous spine has stiff
fened into bone II we continually put
the young baby on its legs, it will ac-
quire bowlegs. There is an early period
when bowlegs are natural to it. but az
ter that they are a disease. Hundreds OF
babies, again, all over the world are dy-
ing because their digestive functions are
overtaxed.
THE health of babies depends not only
on the quality. but also on the amount OF
the food you put into their stomachs A
great deal of Indigestion comes. not from
the lack Of quality in food, but from
want of knowledge Of how much food to
give.
@'The nervous system IS also played
upon in the rudest way, whether the
children be Overtaxed at school or
through being taken 20 theaters. Thou
sands of lives could be saved if people
only had common sense, and for common
sense only little study and knowledge
are needed.
Il have been asked" said the lecturer.
whether il is worth saving the lives of
diseased babies, who seem TO have so few
chances in the struggle for existence. I
reply that no baby ought to die. Il is
the brain, which, after eil. does the work,
better or less well, according TO the physi-
cal development We cannot judge be-
forehand at birth what the individual
may become later
some say that as enc child in g home
has scarlet fever or measles. why should
not all the children in that home have
the disease? 1 say that IL is a crime TO
let a second child have the same disease
in the same home. TO say nothing of
spreading the infection 10 other homes"
DR.. Rotch said the whole animal king
dom must kill 10 live. and be killed TO
let others live. Life is, properly speak
ing. Il condition OF health which not only
means physical happiness. but also the
greatest productive power Of the brain.
The Washington herald., 1907-03-24
FIRST COTTON MILL.
PhiladeIphIan Started in south In
dustry Representing s65O,OOO, 900.

PhiIadeIphIan Started in South In
dustry Representing se0O,OOO,oOO.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Apropos of the coming national meet
ing of the American Cotton Manufac-
turers Association. which will be held In
this city next May, it is interesting TO
note that the man who constructed the
first cotton mill in the South was a Phil
adelphian- Though born in Lancaster
County ne spent a good part OF his life
in this city In the tailoring business. It
Is appropriate therefore. that the Manu-
facturers' Association should select this
city as its meeting place
Michael Schenck is the pioneer manu-
facturer who started in Dixie an indus
try that to-day represents an investment
of about $3.50 200, COO He was born in
Lancaster, February Is, III, having been
descended from a Swiss Mennonite family
which emigrated 10 this country in the
latter part of the seventeenth century,
after making an agreement with William
Penn for the purchase of land In Ian
caster county. He came TO this city early
in life and entered the tailoring business.
in which he spent several years. His
health failed him, and he went to Lincoln-
ton, n. c.. with his two brothers.
Schenck built a factory one and one
half miles east of the city, in which he
put seventy-two spindies. which ne oper-
ated by water power. His goods were all
purchased in this city and Lancaster.
and were brought to Lineolnton in
wagons. Sehenck's little factory. which
began in August, 1915, proved so profit
able that four years later he Installed in
It S,eo0 additional spindles. Out OF 1t has
grown the great factories that are now
turning out millions OF dollars worth OF
the fieeey staple and shipping it to ev-
cry part of the civilized world.