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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

Out-of-Season Politics.

Politicians are talking about who
they will nominate for president.
The people will take a hand later,
but are now trying to carr an honest
dollar.
The president is seeing things
conspiracies and such.
When the time comes the people
will take care of any conspirators that
conspire against them.
The fractional fights between the Re-
publicans and the ambition of favorite
sons are a public pest, but the hot
weather is fortunately coming.
What do the people care for Taft
or Foraker, Root or Shaw, Cannon or
Cortelyou, and the rest of them? They
are all tarred with the same brush,
grating and CANNON stick out at
every pore.
Give the people a rest; they are
tired of your vaporings and political
mischievousness.
Who knows how any of these Re
publican politicians stand on the tar
iff, the protected trusts, the labor is
sues and home rule and the rights Of
the states and the actual regulation
of railroad rates?
The people know you favor plumber
ing them by protecting the trusts, sub
sidizing the ~shipowners, harassing la
Dor with government by injunction
with most lavish and extravagant ap
preparations and increasing their OWL
salaries, with land frauds, with scan
dals and corruption in high quarters
and all kinds of political %depravity.
Good Lord deliver US from such as
they!
The Republicans have already start
ed the amenities of their campaign
for we learn from Gov. Crawford Of
South Dakota that Congressman
Mann of Chicago IFS one of the hired
witches who stir the political stink
pot" There is no doubt the scandals
and corruption of the Republican party
are anything but sweet incense in the
nostrils of the voters in South Dakota
Illinois, or elsewhere, but to have one
of the party leaders of the G. o. P
declare the fact that that party is /,
political stinkpot' shows the awful
condition Of affairs,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

while Burns was whirling by in his
automobile.
Look at him!" he exclaimed. "He
is as placid and dignified as a lord
in his carriage"
MethodicaI in Everything.
What interests me most about
Burns is that he never misses a
meal" said Cobb, Heney's partner.
81 never saw him in too much of a
hurry to take his hour for dinner at
the regular time. He is methodical
in everything. 1t is all in a days
work with Burns, and when he turns
in at night he sleeps like a top"
"Yet he never procrastinates," put
in District Attorney Langdon. Il
asked him the other night If he
thought he could get a man we want
ed and bring him to the office in the
morning"
whats the matter with getting
him now?' said Burns. Taking down
the receiver from the phone he call
Gu up d odlOOu. Illo uidu Wdo IlClCs
Burns told him it would be better for
his health to surrender himself at
y our office without delay. The man
came at once"
What interests me about Burns"
put in J. Dryer, another of the at
torneys of the graft prosecution, lis
his personality. He gets the men he
is after to like him. Ruef likes him
now better than any of his own men.
Those two swap stories to each other
until you can't believe Burns is work
ing all the time to land Ruef in San
Quentin prison.
HE can mimic q Frenchman, an
Englishman, a Dutchman to perfec-
ton, and the stories he tells sound
like good fiction. | believe it is his
magnetism as much as his persist
ence that wins for him"
His First Important Case.
This Is the story of Burns first
important case, as told by himself:
1T was in 1890, in st. Louis. A mum
Der of firebugs had been burning
down houses for insurance money
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02
RECLAIM LAND WORN OUT.
Portuguese Hope to Restore to Guilt
walton 100000 Acres.

Portugal, according to Vice and
Deputy Consul r. II. Kinchant, of LIS
bon, has started in on a system of
land reclamation which, If as success
full as it promises to be, must result
In similar movements in various parts
of Europe. He writes:
in the south of Portugal a serious
attempt is being made, with some
chance of success, to bring back into
cultivation a large tract Of land. This
country being essentially agricultural,
any steps to reclaim land that has
gone out of cultivation, estimated at
H s14, 900 hactars (atSst 10000, 900
acres), " "A per cent. Of the total
asa of Portugal are a move in the
right direction.
Some energetic members Of so-
cicty In the district Of Serpa, In com
bipatlon with the municipal authori-
ties. have set to work upon 100000
E JL
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

Every one here IN town knows his
automobile. But. do you think if he
wanted you tonight he would stop
a block away and send his machine
back? No, sir. He would go straight
to your door. foot, toot, ana ring
the bell"
Never Wore a Disguise.
Burns himself has this to say about
his work as a detective:
people seem to think that there In
something uncanny about detective
work. They imagine we go around
held out promise of ultimate imms-
nifty every man Jack of them was will!
ing t squeal.
1t looked easy. All things are easf
to those who know how. Burns has
not been doing detective work for
nothing these 20 years.
counterfeiters Caught.
An illustration of careful detective
work is Burns method in running
down two counterfeiters from Cen
trail America. They were Gen. Freder-
leo Mora and Ricardo de Requisens.
| These two men had been making
counterfeits in the United States of
the 100 peso notes of Costa Rico. Our
government was asked to apprehend
the c~ounterfeiters, and Burns was en-
trusted with the job. Others had
worked at it before, but all Burns had
to start with was a sofa wrapped up
in burlap in which $4,000. 900 of the
counterfeit notes had been stuffed for
shipment to Costa RIGA. On the bur-
lap was the mark, Xxx 1884"
Starting from this, Burns found that
the burlap had been originally used
in packing a shipment of overalls from
a factory in Newburg. 1t was the
shipping number. In Newburg Burns
went over the books Of the factory
and found that those particular over
alls had been shipped to a dry goods
store in Long Island City. There they
told him that they had recently sold
a piece of burlap to an old lady by
the name of Mrs. Chevins. 1t did not
look promising.
But, when Burns learned that Mrs.
Chevins had a son-in-law, n Ricar-
do de Requisens, who hailed from Cos
ia RIGA, he thought the trail was get
ting warm.
De Requisens was living with a
young widow from Pittsburg at the
house of his mother, Mrs. Chevins.
Burns placed De Requisens and the
widow under arrest. Then he sent
one of his men to the Jail with an al
legged message to the effect that if he
would produce the plates of the coun-
terfeit notes the government would
abandon his prosecution.
After the messenger left, De Requis.
ems was visited by his mother-in-law.
When she left him Burns followed her
to her home in Long Island City,
Through a window he watched her en-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02
MAN WHO TRAPPED
FRISCO BOODLERS
HAS FINE RECORD
KING OF DETECTIVES

William j. Burns, Most Clever of the Secret Service
Agents Employed by Uncle Sam, Has Earned Proud
Title by His Many Successes in Running Down Often
ders Against the Law-His Methods Are ShrelOd, d.
rect and Straight ForDard, and He Has Yet to Record
Failure in Any Case in Which He Has Been Employed
Land Grubbers, BoodIers or Counterfeiters All One
to Him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

A reverend gentleman was address
ing a Sunday school class not long
ago, and vas trying to enforce the
doctrine that when peoples hearts
we're sinful they needed regulating.
Taking out his watch, and holding it
up, he said:
Nov, here's my watch; suppose 1t
doesn't keep good time-now goes too
fast, and now too slow-what shall I
do with it?"
"Sell it." promptly replied a boy
Harper's Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02
those who want to keen IN tou,

Those who want to keep in touch
with the wal Of the Republican fac
lions should remember that whether
1t is the Roosevelt faction or any 9TH
Or, they all. seem to rely upon the
contributions Of the trusts and D
porations to help them to victory, and
the exposure Of the corruption, wheths
Or the amount was $4,000 or Is IL
re $s,O0O,Oo0 makes no difference.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

right. At anoth-r time | thought q
disguised in false whiskers and ear
ing blue goggles. / never use a dis
guise, except a change of clothes. But
| can take one of my men and let
you talk with him; then bring him in
tomorrow and let you see him and
you would not believe him the same
man. Here in San Francisco every
one knows meat least all the graft
ers do-so it would be useless to
try a disguise"
Burns methods all through the
Ruef case have been surprisingly open.
When he started out to capture Ruef
after. his friends, the sheriff and the
coroner, had been pretending to
search for him in vain for a week,
Burns assembled his posse in half a
dozen automobiles in front of Heney's
office; with Ruef's lawyers Offices but
half a block away. He had ten men
with him, but the open way with
which he went about the job made
the attorneys for the CRATER think it
must be all a ruse, and no effort was
made to follow the party. They went
straight to the resort at the Troca-
dero in the outskirts of San Francis
co, where Burns knew that Ruef was
in hiding. Burns had the house sur
rounded; then he walked in and sur
prised Ruef at dinner. He had his
man back at Heney's office within
three hours.
Surprising a Rribe-Taker.
Of his present work Burns himself
says: This San Francisco case is one
of the most interesting l have ever
had. OF curse municipal graft cases
are all somewhat alike. You know
who the men are who have got official
favors. The first thing to do is to
single out the official who you think
will accept a bride, and then get
at him by inducing him to accept what
he thinks is a bride. OF course your
money is marked. Then you surprise
him in the act. After that you have
him cold. Through him you get at the
bribe-givers.
when / started in on this work
in San Francisco l expected to gel
after each of the supervisors singly,
but one of the newspapers got wind
of it and published the story how we
were working on one man. That spoil
ed things for us, and l had to resort
to other methods"
What Burns had done was to induce
the proprietor of a skating rink who
had fallen out with Mayor Schmitz tt
have an ordinance in his favor intro
duced in the board of supervisors
Then he arranged to buy the vote Of
one of them-Lonergan by name-fol
$500. Burns was concealed in the
room when the marked money was
passed. He pounced forth at the psy'
c~hological moment when Lonergan
was taking the bride.
Take the money" said the trap
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

"WHhout hesitation I zVrae to thank
you for tie great reAefI haze found in
your vakuab6 medicine, PerunG, and
mil call the attention Of all my friends
suffering NTH eata,,h to that fact. Be-
sides I cheerfuAy recommend ii to all sNf-
fering wHh catarrA IN any form."-
Mss Dora Hayden, SI2 9TH ST., S. W.,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
A Case of Spring Catarrh.
Mrs. N. P. Lawler, 1888 N. Broadway,
Pittsburg, Kas., writes: "Last spring
caught a severe cold, which developed
into a serious case of catarrh. l felt
weak and sick, and could neither eat
nor sleep well.
IA member of our club who had been
cured of catarrh through the use of Pc
runa advised me to try it, and l did so
at once. expected help, but nothing
like the wonderful change for the better
l observed almost as soon as l started
taking it. In three days / felt much
better, and within two weeks l was in
fine health. Peruna is a wonderful
medicine.A
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

Mrs. Ida M. Won Claussen demands
the recall Of Mr.. Graves, Jul minister
to Sweden, because he would not in.
troduce her to King Oscar. Mrs. Won
Claussen should be CAREFUL what she
says and does or she may meet the
fate of other female diplomats, such as
dear Maria" or ever Mrs. Minor Nor
ris, who is still confined to her bed
from the treatment she received at
the White House at the hands of the
detectives and the negro porter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

AS the Republicans seem determined
to disturb business by their chickering's
about who is to control the party, we
shall probably all have to suffer more
or less in consequence. The corpora
lions and tariff protected trusts have
become SO used to depending upon the
Republicans to stand pat that now
they are divided in sentiment about
railroad and other legislation no one
knows what may happen.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02
IN WESTERN CANADA.
Delicate in the Old Home; Better
Health in the New.
Churchbridge, Sask.,
December list, 1906.

December lSt, l9U6.
To the Editor.
Dear Sir,
I came to this country from the
State Of Wisconsin three years ago,
and must say that I am greatly pleased
with the outlook in this western u
try. For my own part l am entirely
satisfied with the progress l have
made since coming here. have raised
excellent crops of grain Of all varie-
ties. Last season my wheat averaged
20 bushels Of wheat to the acre, oats
60 and barley 40.
we had a splendid garden this year,
ripening successfully tomatoes, musk
melons, water melons, sweet corn and
kindred sorts.
The country Is we'll adapted to
wheat growing and mixed farming, and
to my mind it is the best country IN
der the sun for a man with a family
and small means, as 1t Is possible for
a man to commence farming opera
lions with much less capital than is
required in the older settled countries.
The climate is all that could be de-
sired, being very healthy and inyigor-
ating.
My wife came out about six months
ago, and although inclined to be deli
cate in the old home, she has enjoyed
the bestsof health since coming here.
In short, / am more than satisfied
with the land of my adoption, and I
am also satisfied with the laws Of the
country.
Yours very truly,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

Why should the government come
10 the relief Of the stock gamblers?
When the farmers have hard luck b.
reason Of crop failures, you revei
hear Of the funds Of the United
states treasury being placed at thHil
isposal.Abbotsford Clarion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-05-02

(Signed) JOHN LANGDON.
Write to any Canadian Government
Agent for literature and full particu.
lars
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
Lake Mine to Resume

r. c. Biggar, of Littleton, Colo, ar
rived yesterday morning and will re-
sumo work on the Lake mine in Vir-
ginia canon. Mr.. Biggar has attended
to crops on his ranch, and will put in
the winter tuining on tina Lake claim,
He will work in the tunnel level
about 700 feet in from thu portal,
where there is a streak of ore several
feet wide which will run from S12 to
SIC per ton gross, and will yield a
profit of several dollars per ton,
under the present schedule of freight
and smelling charges. A lead ore
is also found in the stope which
when sorted separately from the cop
per-iron product, returns S35 per ton
net, in carload lots. AS soon as some
timbering has been done Mr.. Biggar
will put on a number of miners and
expects to be outputting not less
than a carload of ore each week. The
mine can produce a heavy tonnage at
any time as the streak of ore in places
is eight feet wide.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
DichlTn an.Dohler

The sequel of an interesting romance
occurred in this city at 9:30 O'Clock
last Wednesday night when Charles
DobIer, of this place, and Mrs. Angus
ia Diehlman, of Beaver Dam, Wis, were
united in marriage at the Methodist
church parsonage by Rev. Robert R.
Adams. The ceremony was scheduled
to take place at 7:3O o'clock, but ow-
ing to an error in the marriage license
delay of two hours was caused until
communication could be had with the
county clerk.
About three months ago the groom
answered matrimonial advertisement
IN Denver paper, which placed him
in correspondence with the then Mrs.
Dlehlman. The couple exchanged many
letters and the courtship by mail pro
gressed rapidly until a month ago when
the couple had decided by mail to get
married. Without notifying her
affianced husband of her intention Mrs.
Dlehlman came to Colorado and Idaho
Springs. 1t is said that she made in
quiry regarding her husband-to-be and
that she decided he was just as repre-
sented by himself.
Mrs. Doebler nee Deitman, is fair.
fat and forty. She was a widow
and has son nearly grown. Mr.. Do
bier was a widower and is several year
younger than his wife. For the pre-
sent the newly married pair have
have rooms at Mrs. f. NJ. Nelson's
on west Colorado street for housekeep-
ing. Mr.. Dobler is employed by Mos
cript Hassell and during his residence
in this city has made many friends,
who wish him and his wife hap
pness and prosperity in full measure.
Henry Batchelder is suffering from
blood poisoning, caused by cut on the
hand from a tin can which he re-
ceived at the city reservoir camp last
week
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
StanRier.PlnnK.

John Plank and Miss Rose Stangier
both of ellison gulch, were married at
o clock last Tuesday morning at St.
Paul church, the ceremony being per-
formed by Rev. Father McCabe in the
presence Of many friends of the con-
tracing parties. Miss Mary Stangier,
sister OF the bride, acted as bridesmaid,
and Dominic Anderley was the best
man. Miss Stangier is the daughter
OF Christopher Stangier, for many
years well known miner in Gibson
gulch. The groom is also well known
in that section of the district. The
newly married couple will make their
home for the present with the brides
father.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
Gun Play at Dumont.

A gun play occurred in Dumont last
Monday night and on Tuesday morn
ing there We're two less in the number
of residents of that thriving little min
ing town. A mild hammered duck with
the cognomen Montana Kid" and
Earl Nelson, employed as a mucker in
the McCleland tunnel, took exception
to the remarks OF a we'll known resi-
dent of that camp and the Montana
KID pulled a revolver from his pock-
ct, with the remark that he would
make sieve out of the resident.
Thomas Green. who was bystander,
knocked the weapon from the Mont
ana Kids" hand, extracted the car
tridges, and gave him back the gun,
with the advice that he had
better hit the pike. The two men de-
parted forthwith from Dumont and
were passengers on the Tuesday morn
ming train which pulled out of this
citV
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
GOLD, BY CAD!
TIMBE7MAN IN THE QUITO LOWER
LEVEL MAKES REMARKABLE
DISCOVERY OF ORE
DROVE STEEL INTO PURE STUFF
RICHEST MASS OF NATIVE FREE GOLD
EVER FOUND IN THIS COUNTY
OUTSIDE OF PLACERS

While engaged in cutting a hitch for
stull in the stope-raise from the lower
level of the Quito mine this week,
one of the timbermen working with a
gad. cut into solid mass of the most
remarkably rich ore ever discovered in
either Clear Creek or Gilpin counties.
The discovery was not wholly unexpect-
ed, as for some time past specimens
of pure yellow metal have been fire.
quently encountered and glistening
particles of crystalized gold were
common occurrence
The man with a gad, however.
drove into a nest of native gold,
scanned and plastered with wires and
leaves of most astonishing
richness and while assays are imprac-
probable that it is fully three-fourths
pure gold, and were a ton obtainable,
it is estimated it would return some
thing like $400, 900, or Sl2. 80 an ounce
The gold in the Quito mine is excep-
tionally pure, and retorts have been
marketed where the bars when tested
yielded $50 fine. Gold of this degree of
purely, when in its native state, is
brilliantly beautiful, especially when the
material is partially crystallized, as is
the case in the Quito gold.
The point at which the rich
discovery was made is almost directly
below the ore shoot which some years
ago yielded over 100000 from a stope
lS feet high and less than sixty feet in
length, and it is believed that the pre-
sent workings have reached a contin-
uation of this rich pocket. A ship
ment of six tons of ore extracted some
distance back of the rich strike, Just
settled for at the Chamberlain-Dilling
ham sampling works in this city,
gave returns of 1912 ounces gold and
ounces silver per ton, gross value of
S2l0.S0 per ton. Assays of samples
of the white SPAR in which no gold is
visible, gave returns of 219 ounc-
es in gold and 40 ounces silver, or a
gross value of 4,406. so per ton, or a
value of 50 pound.
The streak of rich ore is being taken
down with extreme care and sacked.
under guard and it is probable that
Manager Charles M. DeCamp will be
able to accumulate half carload for
shipment within the next few days
He has been considering the matter of
reducing the ore in mortar or one
stamp mill extracting the greater part
of tho free gold and marketing the tail
ings. High grade ore of the charac er
of the Quito product is hard for the ore
buyers to sample as it necessitates sew
eral sets Of samples and metallic assays,
and weighing of the pulp.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-10-19
Fall RiverGets School

Miss May0e Lalumander has been
engaged as teacher in the new school
on Fall rive, taking up her duties last
Monday morning, at which time she
had class of seventeen pupils. The
new schoo was established as the re-
suit of the efforts of w. S. Hobbs, of
Alice, a Volunteer agent of the state
bureau OF child and animal protection,
who Is also president of the Alice
school board The school was not es-
tablished heretofore because of the al
legged lack of funds, but arrangements
were finally made so that the children
of that section will not be deprived of
the school facilities for which most of
the parent are taxed and to which they
are justly entitled.