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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
BIC ROBBERY
OF j. S MAIL
OVER a QUARTER MILLION DOL.
LARS SAID TO HAVE BEEN
STOLEN.
NO CLUE TO ROBBERS
THEFT MAY HAVE OCCURRED At
UNION DEPOT IN DENVER on
ON THE TRAIN,

DEMONSTRATIONS in its audacity,
tremendous in it's financial importance,
pointing to the criminals Of national
disrepute, a robbery Of a quarter Of a
millions dollars from the United
States mails has astounded federal Of
ficials and has caused the starting of
an investigation by an army of gov
ernment inspectors, Burlington rail-
road detectives and bank officials.
Three mail sacks of registered pack
ages and letters disappeared from a
mail car en- route from Denver to
Omaha last Thursday night, the Bur
lington road carrying the shipment.
This is the assertion made from
Omaha.
That robbery of enormous size has
been committed is admitted by the
postoffice inspectors in Denver. who
differ, however, on two points in their
statements OF the remarkable crime.
These postoffice inspectors believe
that the amount of the loss is not as
great by far as given in the dispatches
and they add that 1t is possible from
evidence now on hand that the mail
sacks never left Denver, but were sto-
len at the Union depot.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Busy at Georgetown.

Georgetown. Colo--The mining sit
uauon in East and West Argentine
and the Peruvian districts is unusually
prtsk. and many properties are ben
developed extensively. Scarcity of
men has greatly retarded work. but
with top wages being paid. number
of miners from the lower end Of the
county are coming in and it is be-
1teved that within the next few days
the full quota OF workmen will have
been secured. An operator from Mot.
nezuma spent a few days In George
town endeavoring to secure men. and
offers of $3.50 day and board seemed
TO have little effect
AT the Sidney tunnel in East Argen.
tine another big strike was made. In
the west drift body of suiphuret and
lead ore two to three feet wide has
been uncovered. 1t ASSAYS into the
thousands of ounces in silver This
drift has been extended forty feet and
Manager Sidney expects to start sto-
ping soon.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
"Cherokeeeili" 10 Out.

Trinidad, Colo.-"Cherokee BILL
whose correct name is William Smith,
ouetime notorious outlaw III south
srn Colorado has just been released
rom the Leavenworth prison and has
returned to the scene OF his early ad-
ventures. Cherokee Bill served four
Years for the robbery OF pos office at
Carleton, Colorado. which is a small
city near Lamar The robbery occurred
IN 1902. and the men also had planned
to rob a Santa Fe express train. but
heavy snow storm forced them to
abandon the plot.
For several weeks following the rob-
berry Smith was a fugitive in the can
ons about Ration mountain and man.
aged to exist by killing cattle and cook
ing the meat in a cave. to avoid the
smoke from revealing his whereabouts.
He is now fifty-nine years OF age. but
appears much younger. He vows that
he has reformed and is now looking for
work.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Gilpin Mines Are Shipping.

Central City, Colo.-The last ship
nIent Of ore from the HilIhouse in Rus
sell district, ran well in gold. silver
and copper. the ore coming from the
stope above the east 2o0-foot drift.
Some milling ore is also being saved
for an early shipment The property
is owned by Providence, R. l.. people.
who are preparing for heavier work
Sinking has been commenced at the
Eldorado mine on a contract calling
for 125 feet, which will carry the shaft
to 500 feet Large bodies OF concen-
trating ore have been opened on both
sides of the shaft below $50 feet. and
with the shaft deepened. the company
Will have plenty of ground to block
out for large and regular production.
Ore of better than average grade is
being shipped daily. Pennsylvanians
are interested in lease and bond
proposition and figure on the erection
oil their own mill.
Contracts are being let for the de
velopment of the 200 and 400 foot lev
els in the Maine on German hill by
the Colorado & Southern Mining Com
pany. in which Denver people are
chiefly interested. A six-inch streak
of good grade OF copper ore has been
opened in the 400-foot east level, while
i'll the 20e-foot level there is four to
six feet Of concentrating and milling
ore. carrying average values. Tests
have been made giving satisfactory re-
suits. and Manager Shull expects to
soon commence regular shipments.
According to report from Idaho
Springs. good strike has been made
In the lateral from the Newhouse tun.
mel. being driven by the Great Nam.
moth operators.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
AlaskA's Coal Output.

The United States Geological eurvey
reports that tho total productioa Of
coal in Alaska In 1906 Vas s.S4l ahDrt
tons. having a spot value OF 1l7.S1a, an
increase Of l.767 short tons IN Quanuey
and sara Ia value over the 0SaraD
for 1905, when the production amount
cd to 3.77i tons, having . value OF
sl3.25o.
Prior to 1905 the returns from the
producers Of Alaskan Goals were very
incomplete. but in that year tho col
lection Of statistics on the subject was
undertaken by Alfred II. Brooks and
George c. Martin Of the survey di-
vision Of mineral resources OF Alaska,
and the returns obtained are believed
to be fairly complete The production
for 1904 was reported as 69i tons, and
for 1903, IA tons. but Mr. Martin
states that in each Of these years the
total output was at least 1000 tons
and was probably between $500 and
3 900 tons.
In view Of the quantity OF fuel con
sumed In Alaska and by steamers ply
ing between the territory and the ports
OF the Pacific states, the tafdy develop
ueut of the excellent coal beds in
Alaska is somewhat remarkable. The
consumption OF coal in the territory
appears to be about i4O. 900 tons, com
pared with which the local production
Is insignificant.
A report on the coal fields Of Alaska.
repaired by Mr. Martin, was pub
lshed by the survey in Bulletin No.
Sl4, and survey parties now In the
field are continuing Investigations,
An advance chapter from Mineral
Resources of the United States. Cal
endar Year 1906" on the production
of coal In 1906, by f W. Parker. of
the United States Geological Survey,
will be ready for distribution by the
survey in September
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Snake Causes a Wreck.

Waterbury, Gonna snake that fell
from a tree into a rapidly moving au-
tomobile near Pleasantville caused
Miss Anna Comstock, who was steer
ing the car, to faint and the machine
was wrecked by colliding with farm
ers wagon.
The party, five in number, Ralph F.
Comstock OF New York, F. G. Burton
of Boston, George Dillingham; of New
ark. Miss Comstock Of Springfield and
Miss Gould Of Philadelphia, were 60
ing at fair clip. Miss Gould was on
the front seat with Miss Comstock. and
the three men were in the rear.
None saw the reptile fall from the
tree. and the first they knew of it was
when Miss Comstock screamed and lay
back apparently lifeless in the cart
Miss Gould grasped the steering wheel.
but it was too late. The machine
crashed into wagon driven by Frank
Seville, upsetting 1t and its load Of
milk cans.
1t was not until Miss Gould climbed
from the machine that she saw the
snake at her feet, and then she nearly
tainted, too. The auto wrenched a
wheel and lost a mudguard Miss
Comstock, when she recovered con-
seriousness. became hysterical and is
now being cared for at a farmhouse
The damage to the farmers wagon
was settled for SEQ cash, and then the
young women discovered they had lost
some valuable jewelry in the wreck
The snake was of the harmless va
riety that abounds in the woods of this
section. 1t was about two feet long.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
0ubonie Plague Breaks Out.

San Francisco. Cal.-Twenty cases
Of Bubonic plague. four of which have
resulted in death, have been reported
to the health department The patients,
with one exception. were poor foreign
Ts, dwelling in the neighborhood -
the old Chinatown The exception was
foreign sailor from coastwise
steamer. Prompt measures were taken
by the local. state and federal author.
tiles to prevent spread Of the disease.
Both President Jules A. Samon of the
local health board, and Health Once,
James T. Watkins, stated tha. the stu.
alton ia well in hand.
The infected steamer was ordered
into quarantine with her passengers
and will remain until released by the
health department. The two shacks
Inhabited by the other patients were
fumigated and sealed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Cyclone Kidnapped . Child.

Des Kidnapped by . cyclone
eighteen years ago. to discover himself
snly within the past few days. Charles
Bonnet, OF Vdlisca. Iowa, has put tho
strange story OF Charlie Ross clear out
of commission.
Imagine a baby carried miles and
miles by a whirling. shrieking storm
eloud, deposited in . strangers ward
there found nursed into life and finally
discovering a thousand miles away the
real parents from whom as a babe he
sas separated eighteen years before.
There you have the remarkable tale
pf Charles Bennett Was ever Q story
stranger,
Benefits parents lived IN Harrison
county Missouri. Old settlers there
we'll remember that fatal cyclone which
swept over the county eighteen Year,
ago. II left ruin and disaster In its
wake
When the storm struck the Bennett
cottage II literally tore the house to
finders. The father and mother were
separated and the baby boy was picked
up by the storm cloud and let down In
the back yard Of T. W. Hudson. q far
mer. who was getting ready TO move
for Louisiana
Hudson took the youngster with him
TO Louisiana There he reared him as
bis own. And IL was not until the sup
posed father and son QuArreled the
other day that Hudson told Bennett
the remarkable story OF his life.
Bennett set forth to find himself. At
little town in Harrison county he dis
covered a clew TO his parents. There
an old settler named Hank" Barnes
told him the story He discovered soon
after a sister. Mrs. Benjamin Richard
son. at Vallisca, and a brother in Fair
deld. Nebraska. The mother, who has
long mourned the son as dead, is In
California, and thither the victim OF
The cyclone will betake himself
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Kills Two to Save Self.

Trinidad, Colo.-To save himself
from the hands of an infuriated mob
of drunken Mexicans. Constable Fran
cesco Gonzales Of Weston, a coal camp
twenty miles west OF Trinidad fred
into the crowd, killing two. Cleois
Lucero and Cashmere Gomez were the
victims. The double tragedy followed
a dance at Samoa Plaza, four miles
above Weston. The guests had i'm
bibed freely of liquor and became bois-
ferrous. When Gonzales ordered them
to be quiet they attacked him. The
whole crowd made a rush for him, it
is said, but the officer, feet of foot,
succeeded in finding safe place back
Of wagon. He fired one shot into
the air In an effort to frighten his as
sailants. This failing to check the ad-
vance OF the mob. he emptied his gun
ar them. Lucero was shot through
the head and a bullet passed through
Gomezs heart
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Greatest Veterinary College in West

Fort Collins, Colo.-Probably more
interest center around the opening of
the veterinary department of the Agri-
cultural College than any other one
thing at the Agricultural College this
fall There have been appropriations
already for $4,000 for equipment and
All the arrangements have been made
Tor the preliminary work
DIR. George H. Glover. who is dean OF
this department, expects that it will be
one OF the greatest schools of yeteri-
nary science in the country 1t is one
OF four in America, which require a
hieh school graduation before en-
trance, The standard will be high and
VIII be maintained SO. This high re-
quiremcnt will no doubt keep out
number OF students, but the faculty
and DR.. Glover are determined that
they will keep up their standards and
turn out only men OF the highest ql
hcations. corps OF seventeen instNc
tors has been engaged. Of whom five
are veterinarians
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
$500 900 Building for Endeavorers.

Boston.-The National Christian
Endeavorer Society has planned to
raise half million dollars for build.
ing in Boston as memorial of a quar-
ter Of century OF Christian Endeavor
work
It IL planned that the building is %
be not only the Christian Endeavor
headquarters, but that parts OF it may
be rented to provide an income The
fund for the building has thus far
reached $50 1000. but the impetus given
the scheme at the Seattle convention
will, 1t Is believed, result in the COM
pletion OF the half million fund before
the next biennial gathering.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Situation In China GROWING Serious.

Berlin.-A special dispatch from
Shanghai says that the situation in
China, especially in the Yang-Tse val
ley. continues unsatisfactory. 1t r
impossible, the message adds, to sa3
whether general outbreak is impend-
ing, but the revolutionary movement
gains strength daily. and the secret or
eanizations are growing visibly. The
chinese officials say that thosuands of
r"volutionists are concealed in the for
eign quarters Of the cities, thus pla
eng themselves outside the jurisdic-
tion OF the Chinese courts. The revo-
lutionary agitation. recently was car
ried into the army. The provincial Of
ncfals are doing their utmost to sup
press the revolutionary movement and
promote reforms, but they feel them
selves helpless. Murderous plots
asainst the Manchus continue to be
discovered In Peking.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
TAFT FIRES
FIRST SHOT
TAKES ISSUE WITH coMMoNER
BRYAN AND BELIEVES RoosE.
vELT's POLICY RIGHT.
QUALITIES OWNERSHIP
WOULD HAVE CAPITAL ORGANIZE
TO PROTECT INTERESTS
SAME As LABOR.
TAFT LAYS HIS WIRES,

+ Favors tariff revision, but
+ would postpone action until after
+ presidential campaign to avoid
= cry Of political capital.
= Declares greatest present evil
+ OF country is in management OF
+ railways. Favors government
+ supervision, but not government
= ownership.
= Says interstate commerce
= commission should have power
= TO classify merchandise for
+ transportation
= Justifies radical measures In
= railroad legislation.
= Sympathizes with Bryan in
= latter's wish that some OF the
= magnates connected with un-
+ lawful trusts be sent to prison.
= Declares attitude OF govern
= ment should be same to combi-
4 nations OF capital as to combi-
nations OF labor formed for bet
: tering conditions OF wageworker.
: Believes graduated federal in
+ heritance tax useful means of
!. raising funds.
= Defends Roosevelt's policies
= and declares charge Of Social
= ism against them absurd.
: Says Bryan's proposed ma
+ tional referendum absurd. and
: that commoner seems to favor
+ law to convict peaceful wealthy
7 and pass by lawless poor.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Shipping Cattle.

Cheyenne, Wyo.-Although the hay
ting season Is at its height, shipments
OF Wyoming grass cattle already are
going to market and the eastward tide
OF local beef will be at its height with.
In the next few weeks. Wyoming
range stun Is IN topnotch condition
this year, conditions having been IA
vorabls during the winter and sum-
meS.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-08-24
Supports RooseveIts Ideas

government the best possible one for
us, and In every way adapted to the
genius of our people. He has the ut
most confidence in the capacity OF the
people through their representatives
and by the means provided in the con-
stitution by our fathers to remedy the
evils that arise in our material prog.
ress.
mfr. Bryan's whole system OF RENE
dies, on the other hand, for the evils
tfat both Mr.. Roosevelt and he and
many others recognize. Is based on his
distrust OF the honesty. courage and
impartiality OF the individual as an
agent on behalf OF the people to carry
on any part Of government and rests
on the proposition that our present
system OF representative government
is a failure.
He would have the government
ownership of railways. because he does
not believe It is possible to secure an
interstate commerce commission that
the money power cannot and will not
ultimately own.
MT. Bryan seems to be seeking
some system OF adminst ering law nm,
der which tho rich wrongdoers shall h.
certainly restrained, while the Iavl,ss
poor shall escape, Hc would have his
judicial machinery adjusted TO restric,
the violations OF law by a corporntior
but would give freedom OF action tn ,h,'
iawless members OF n labor union In.
deed, In the constitution OF Oklahomn
which no says In the grentcst constitu'
ton ever written. this anomaly nro.
vailA ''o
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-02-22
GRAPHIC
School Notes.

Miss Gray was back at her post
Monday.
Is pure honey vegetable or
an animal product?
Prof. German, the county
superintendent, visited the school
Wednesday
Are all the children making
the most Of their school privi-
leges this winter? A day well
spent in school is worth $500 to
any bright, active boy or girl,
and there are five school days in
the week.
Education is capital that pays
q big rate Of interest, but you
must look after it the same as
any other investment. A college
man who has gone to seed be-
cause Of laziness is a discredit to
his family and a damage to his
alma mater.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-02-22
STOCK NOTES.

J. H. Van Meter has sold 100
head Of steers, Is, Is and IS, at
prevailing prices.
Grass and weeds are springing
up, and are already affording
much good grazing.
The Department of Justice is
about to proceed against several
railroads for violations of the
law relating to the shipment of
cattle.
Heavy shipments of sheep are
being made faom New Mexico to
Arizona to take advantage of the
rich feed on the southern desert
ranges, caused by the unusually
early growth of the grasses.
Sherman Crump, of Douglas,
Arizona, is in town this week buy
ing beef cattle for a Douglas par
ty. Mr.. Crump is a nephew Of
L. S. Marshal George Crump, of
Fort Smith, Arkansas, an old az
quaintance Of ours,
J. H. Howells, cattle and
sheep dealer of Minot, N. D., in
Denver last night en- route south,
stated that q loss of no less than
81, 900, 600 will be suffered by ca.-
tlemen of the Northwest as con-
sequence of the continued sever
ity of the winter. He has Just
made a trip along the trans
continental lines of the
United States and Canada, and
says the losses will not be so
great in North Dakota as in the
Alberta country and in Montana.
In the Alberta country, where
thousands of cattle huddled to-
gether along the railroad tracks,
carcasses were to be seen for 100
miles, lying in some places TWEEN
ty deep, while in Montana condi-
tons are almost as bad. How
ellis stated that while at
Havre, Mont, last week he was
offered 10000 sheep for $1,000,
the same band of sheep for which
he had offered $4,000 last fall.
The sheep were dying by the hun
dreds for the want Of food
Denver News.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-02-22
WlNGLEss BIRDS.
Some Animal oddities THAT Are
Eoond la New Zealand.

Some Animal oddities That Are
Eoond Ia New Zealand.
An official Of the Smithsonian lnstl.
tuition was recently speaking OF some
OF the wingless birds OF New Zealand.
Those wlngless birds have always
been OF especial interest to me-" he
said. Nowhere else than In their
native land could they have survived
for that Is the only land In which no
destructive animals are to be found.
Being unable TO hy, they could not
have escaped from swift hunting ani.
mails, II any there had been. And In
this connection II is interesting to note
that in all probability the kaknpo, or
great ground parrot, once had the use
OF Its wings, but, being grass seed
feeder and finding no enemies on the
ground. II In process Of evolution lost
It's ability to ny. though able to run
very swiftly. These birds are so gen.
tie and 30 unconscious Of having any
enemies that II a person sit down near
one II viii presently tuck Its head un.
der Its wing and 90 to sl.ep. They
only breed once In two years, and the
mother bird carefully hides the nest
from her mate, though why Is not
known.
"The weka, or wood hen, is another
specially interesting species OF tho
wlngess birds. These birds mate for
life and take turn about IN Matching
and watching the brood. One of the
pair Is never absent from the nest. tho
one on duty being supplied with food
by the other. There Is something al.
most human In the sight OF a male
weka leading his family out for Il
stroll on the beach when the tide Is
low.
Another Is the ron, which Is d!stln.
gulshed 10y a remarkable beak, long,
slender and slightly curved. The roa,
like the kakapo, Is night bird. md ~
chief food Il carthworms. It, sight "
very poor, and Il may often bc seen
standing In the moonlight with the tip
" It's beak resting upon the ground,
apparently listening or feeling for TIE
vibrations OF worms movements.
The male II the roa does all the hatch.
Ing. and the young birds come from
the shell with all their feathers. mini.
aturcs OF their parents and with mp.
parcntly all their Intelligence. rs they
at once start out to search for food
and seem 10 require no instruction us
10 the best places to find it"--New
York Herald.
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Massacre of the Mule-ears.

Marshal Foulks, Olney Billings
ly and Lakin Hightower, three
of Deming's most aspiring school
laddies, took out their last Sat-
urday's vacation in shooting jack
rabbits with their target rifles on
Rev, Foulks' place, two and one
half miles out.
The rabbits have been about to
take Bro. Foulks' place, and he
had just had the fence enclosing
forty acres of it repaired, so that
they could no longer get in or out.
A field full of the mule cared
things were thus enclosed. and
the slay ing Of them was sport ex-
traordlnary, since all there was to
do was to corner them and shoot
them down provided they were
not so tough as to turn the bullets.
The boys made about a half a
dozen drives, and cornered in all
about fifty and killed all but about
thirty seven. Several of the rab-
bits killed themselves in butting
against the wire, trying to get
out, and several had to be run
down and caught, The boys
were too much excited to keep
count Of the number of shots
fired, but there We're as many
as there We're rabbits killed, they
didn't kill them two at a shot.
Harvey Blankenship was along
to see that the boys didn't shoot
themselves or one another instead
of the rabbits.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-02-22
Neighhors Cot Fooled.

II was literally coughing myself to
death, and had become too weak to
leave my bed; and neighbors predicted
that would never leave il alive: but
they got fooled, for thanks be to God
was induced to try DR.. Kings new Dis
covery. 1t took just four one dollar bot.
ties TO completely cure the cough ant
restore me to good sound health,
writes Mrs. Eva Uncapher, of Grover,
town, Stark Co., Ind. This King Of
cough and cold cures, and healer Of
throat and lungs, is guaranteed by al
druggists. soc, and Sl.0O. Trial bottl,
free.
Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1907-02-22
Common Colds Are the Cause Of
Many Serious Diseases.

Physicians who have gained anational
reputation as analysis Of the cause Of
various diseases, claim that If catching
cold could be avoided a long list OF dan.
gerous ailments would never be heard
of. Everyone knows that pneumonia
and consumption originate from cold,
and chronic catarrh, bronchitis, and all
throat and lung trouble are aggravated
and rendered more serious by each
fresh attack. Do not risk your life or
take chances when you have cold.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy will cure
it before these diseases develop. This
remedy contains no opium, morphine or
other harmful drug and has thirty
years of reputation back Of II, gained
by It's cures under every condition. For
sale by all druggists.