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Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
EMMET MINE SOLD ID CALIFORNIA
 SYNDICATE
(rrom Saturdays DailyD

Robert Burns. old resident of the Territory and veteran of the Civil War, came in yesterday from his camp at the Emmett mine, in which he K part owner. In conversation with Jour nal Miner man he said
 "The Emmct mno tx sold to Los Angeles syndicate, which has made n $iO.OO0 payment on the purchase price and bought j-stamp mill and new hoisting plant which will he erected as soon ns delivered on the ground. The work of rctimbering and repair ing the old shaft will Toe commenced as soon as the hoist is set up and the new concern will sink this shaft down several hundred feet deeper and open the vein. There is several hundred tons of good ore blocked ont in the mine, besides a large amount on the dump, and it looks now as if the old producer will he one of the busiest places in the county before summer,'
 Tho Emmct mine, a patented prop erty, is located in tie foothills of the Black Hills range, on the eastern boundary of Lonesome Valley, in the Mineral Point district, about three miles northeast from Yaeger station, on the Bradshaw Mountain railroad.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
PUBLIC RECORDS.
Instruments Filed As Reported by tho
 Prescott Title Company.

J. l.. Marr to C. ]. Babbii,-Hll of Sale. Sl00. Cattle, horses and range Verde Valley.
 Copper Queen Gold Mining company files affidavit of assessment work on four mines, Agua fria district.
 D. ]. Sullivan locates Reservoir site, Martinez district.
 A. F.. McGill locates one mine. Mar. tincZ district.
 The United States Gold Mines com. pany files affidavit of assessment work on nine mines. Martinez district.
 Louis Sinnctt and The United States Gold Mines company file affidavit of assessment work on one mine, Martinez district.
 Harry F. Moe locates Little Pearl mine, Walnut Grove district.
 l.. D. Hall locates Pittsburg Mayer mine, Agua Fria district.
 w. A. Dcaring locates Crystal mine, Thumb Butte district.
 Dominick Sanita to John Finato-M Deed. Two.thirds interest in Conso. lation and Comet mines, Martinez dis. trIct.
 C. F. BottsoG and W. l.. Fox locate Spokane mine, Turkey Creek district
 John Dick files affidavit of assess. ment work on four mines, Hassayampa district.
 A. R. Dickey files affidavit of as. scssmcnt work on six mines, Peek dis. trict.
 E.. II. smith and Geo. T. Young file affidavit of assessment work on Centi. pedc mine, lIassayampa district.
 Louis St. Louis ct al file affidavit of assessment work on two mines, Weaver district.
 Aug. Hcgcland files affidavit of as scssmcnt work on Hcgcland Group of mines, Castle Creek district. Antonio Rolctto locates Fair View mine, Weaver district. A. IT.. and q. F. White to IIaldar Gold Mining company-Q. C. Deed ss,OoO. Pittsburg. Idaho Falls and Chipaway mines, Blue Tank district.
 l.. F. Stoncr files affidavit of assess ment work on two mines. Weaver dis tric..
 D. F. Andrews to M. II. Whittier anc II. A. Edwards-Agreemcni Wiscon sin, Porphyry Mountain and Augusta mines.
 J. II. Sayrc files affidavit of assess ment work on two mines, Black Rocl district.
 C. C. and A. V. Miller file ailidavi of assessment work on White Rocl mine, Big Bug district
 r. l.. McCrosky and wife to O. Il W ilcox M. Deed. Mountain Queel mine, Big Bug district. | F.. C. Chandler files affidavit of as | Canyon district.
 W. A. Dcaring to Eldorado Mine company-M. Deed. Black Horse, Dew ey No. ?. Horse Shoe, Medlcr, Angel ous, Lead Duke, Connector, Wild Wcs ana Crystal mines, Thumb Butte di' trict.
 A. R. Dickcy to Mrs. Deniza II Gooch and Molic II. Neal-M. Deco sIGO. Oncfourth interest in Sprin Green, Gold Note, lIomeward Boun' and Arizona mines, Peek district.
 !. r. Wilson ct al incorporate ii Keystone Mining Development con nnny Capitnl stock SG0O,O
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
Goldheld Still a Mecca.

"olDflELD, New. Jan. 3l.-Thous. ands of fortune hunters arc still pour. ing into Goldfcld, and this in spite of the severity of the winter, poor train service, snow, blizzar1s. and high prices of food and fuel. An inspection or many camps shows very widespread activity.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
LUMBERMAN RAN AMUCK.

wASHTUCNA, Wash. Jan. 3i.- Emory smith, a lumberman, tonight fatally stabbed his wife, from whom he had been separated, attacked his mother in.law. then killed himself, by cutting his throat. His wife will die.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
WILL BUILD SHELTER.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Jan. 90
 R. c. lIobson, recently of GoldGeld Ncv., left for Los Angeles, today, wherf hc will build n smelter for tho company of which he is general manager. Land hbs been secured between San Pchr' and Long Beach for the sncli.r si'c.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
MALAPAI HILLS MAY CONTAIN
 RICH ORE.

LAS VEGAS, New, Jan. 3l.-What is known as the Sunset district is prov. ing to he highly mincralized, having been the center of extensive volcanic disturbances in past ages, which pro ,uced enormous "blow outs' or chim. neys of rich ore. Mining engineer and gcologists who have recently ex' amincd the formation assert that the mineral veins have the so-callcd iron cap, n good indication of rich and perm ancut ore at depth. A range of lava covered hills surrounds the district, which has an area of about twcnty-one square miles. The region has hereto fore been stunned by prospectors, be ing known ns a range of malapni hills.
 Hunt Buried Treasure.
 VANCOUVER, B. C.. Jan. 3l.-Thc recent bonding by the Guggcnhcims of several copper claims on Socks Harbor nl Lccch River has revived n story of several years ago regarding large treasure said to he buried at Lccchton near the creek. It is suggested that if the Guggcnhcim prospectors should ovcrrnn the district they may yet stumble upon the treasure. lt seems that dying man in san Francisco
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06

confessed to q iailcr who had befricnd. ed him that many years ago he had stolen $60,000 and buried it in il spo, marked on n map of the Lccch River m British Columbia. All attempts ,o locate the treasure have so far been in ,.;.,
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
JUD BISHOP FOUND.

Word reached here last evening from Ash Fork that .ud Bishop. whose mys tcrious disappearance from that place one week ago last night. was the cause of SO much anxiety among his relatives and friends, has been found at "Lamc .Ioc's" ranch late Tuesday night.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
CORN GROWING CONTEST

The New Mexico Agricultural college is contemplating the holding of n Terri ,orial boys corn growing contest this year. Liberal cash prizes will he of fcrod for the best showing.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-02-06
E.E. BURLINGAME & Co. ASSAY OFFICE H.s .sSu S,,.M,SA, 1. HnSA

Es,ahlishcd iu ColoWdo. isss Samples by mai nr erpfos- r,c'ive prompt and caroful u',"ntion Gold And SiIv ' Fuiips Rehocl Melted snd A--sycd o' i'nfci,a-.d Couc.u "a ton Tets ioo h.. ut Coo iAHd tefs Write fr frt.ns
 r'.i-U f1yr.nr. Si nENNFR 'Otp
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-05

q
Vile, are among those visiting the
city from various sections o. the
county.
Col a S. Wooley has returned from
Stanton. where he has been looking
after his interests. Col. WoOley has
handsome grove in the vicinity Of
Stanton. and it is understood that he
has refused several very hattering
offers for the same,
Son Palmer, a young white man
from the West End. was yesterday
examined for lunacy by board com
prising Drs. c. l.. Carter and J, NJ.
Dell. and George Mason, and after a
thorough examination it was de
termined that the man was not in
sane.
Any ladies Of the First Presbyterian
church who have articles OF clothing
to send in the barrel which is being
packed to send to the mountain PEG.
pie of North Carolina, are requested
to send such articles to Mrs, Geo,
Doig as soon a. possible as the barrel
must be shipped very soon.
W. b. Holder, formerly of this city,
later Of Santa Fc. where he was en-.
gagged in the naval stores business,
but now connected with his brorhry
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-12-05
NEWS OF CITY AND
COUNTY CONDENSED.
w,,.,rs of General Iptsreat Gath
cred by Our Reporters
,-,sovAL AND SOCIAL ITEMS

c.'rc 10 Happen lo'u !" S''"t
-. ca That HE Who Runs May
Read" It in The SUM-
1,.n, 7,rsday'8 Daily Sun:
lin Luther Of Old Town was in the
c.,r yesterday
,r. ". Coulter Of Bronson, who
-. Leon here on visit to Mrs, j.
.... ras returned to her home.
.. .,j Mrs. Clarence Strouse have
rom points in Virginia, where
.,. ..., been for the past few
...l. of Miss Margaret Bell Tay-
.- ... regret to learn that she is
...... f. at the home of her parents,
y. .,l Mrs. A. w. Taylor.
,.. Nffo Adamson has returned
.. Norfolk. Va, where sne has
f... ..r the past month on a visit
p. .., aunt Mrs. Mamie McCaw.
Carter 4 Layton. attorneys, have re-
r...l rom their former quarters in
o.. "a house block to the Gaines
... National Bank block, where they
has. elegantly appointed quarters.
r.. lock is becoming quite popular
q. a. Office building.
~. lateral sewer connections are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-22

"I value these pines similarly. They
were my fathers. and he is dead"
What can we do. pa, dear?'
| IT don't know. Unless you take the
do What you please with that. Fifty
dollars apiece is what you've always had
And I'll double it. That's the best I car
"ohr said sophy, softly. And there
are so many things 1 want to do with
mine
II. too" said Rose
"Ob, I'd counted so on that 3d." said
Rose;
their. father. I've taken mine. shall
go without new overcoat and your
mother'n have to make her old sealskir
do"
'Im sure I shall be glad" said the
mother.
But you can't get coal. And it would
:. buy so little wood after ALL"
Because you can't stop some of the
suffering in the world is no reason YOU
don't care! It's wicked to be having
Christmas presents and all that wher
people are dying of cold. And it would
keep four or five families warm all win
ter
-Four or five?, said her father. "witf
economy. half again as many"
Done, then" exclaimed Katherine
And I see the gold chin and baroque
pearl was to have going up in smoke y
And my set Of Pater." rYeefulIy.
And my amethyst heart
"a real holocaust" said their father.
Father said Rob. I've an ides
worth two of all that. You know thai
piece of swampland Of yours up country
wood in that for fifty families-blacl
birch, gray birch, yellow birch, brown
ash--I don't know what-and-all-''
But, Rob, that's a splendid piece o.
forest. / should hate to cut it down."
even to keep fifty families, or maybe
100, 'frenn distress? The girls money vii
pay for cutting and hauling and kiln
drying -and distributing. and 1t can al
be done before Christmas-and there you
| are!''
"Rob," said Mr.. Champion. you're 6
! genius! There we are!''
There we are!' said the girls in one
brave breath. 1t will be a good Christ.
mas present for them, won't it, pa?"
1T makes me all of a glow now e
think Of it!'' said Rose. II wonder what
Donald will say. Fifty or a hundred
families made comfortable by going with.
out some trinkets-though I did want
that English edition of Pater. Why. we
don't know hundred poor families"
1.-THE GeneraI, Charitable does. When
shall we begin, father? III oversee 1t fol
| you" said Rob.
Tomorrow morning early" said his
father. There won't be an hour to spare
| If you want that wood delivered by OF
before Christmas. I'll have drains put
in as we go along and get a good piece
| of grassland out of it. Well, shall sleep
| better tonight"
If the people on the knoll had listened
that next day and many day thereafter,
they might have heard, or thought they
heard, sound Of chopping in the swamp
woods, faint, far-off, muffied On the rust
ling of falling leaves and the crashing OF
| branches. But the painting people were
busy with Old Purple at the back Of the
| little red house, and the Little Mother
was getting her mince meat ready for
| Christmas, and what with stoning raisins
and slicing citron and sitting spices and
boiling down cider, she was too much
| occupied to think of anything but her
work and of Asas and Laury's home
/ coming.
.'It seems to me the woodpeckers ara
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For my part, I shan't be happy again
till forget that scene with its blues and
green's and vapors and sunbeams. We
can't get down there to sketch in the
winter months
But we can find a great deal in Old
Purple. Come; it's a damp breath blows
over from that swamp. A good frost Will
make that right, however. Come in and
shut the door. 1 like to feel the door
shut you and me in from the rest of the
world
If there is no such thing as telepathy
there certainly ought to be, in order tc
explain some things. 1t was in this same
half hour that the Champion family dowr
in the port came in. one by one. shiverine
and Struggling their shoulders, and
Frightening at sight of the big fire theil
mother had had laid on the hearth of the
library, it's flames making the whole room
rosy.
Nothing beats a fire." said Rose Cham
pion. pulling off her gloves and holding
out her little hands sparkling with rings.
'Dante's conception of the deepest
hell as big block of ice just suits
mine" said Katherine.
One might as well starve as perish
with cold" said Rose.
THE English call perishing with cold
starving"
Il was thinking of the poor people
who cant get COAL"
Il myself believe the world will come
to an end with cold." said Sophy, land
not with fire. The sun will cool. and
the earth will freeze Minus 27O.''
We'll, that's a good way off, ! hope,
said their father coming in. Mighty
unreasonable weather" as they ran and
warmed him with their welcome. THE
first fire of autumn" he said, rubbing
his hands and taking possession of his
chair. 1T always has promise OF
cheer. Where'd you get this wood, my
love? 1t snaps like apple wood"
TT is; it's that old apple tree that
came ashore at the foot Of the garden
in the freshet," said Mrs. Champion:
Lucky fiotsam I wish there'd be a
freshet that would bring an old apple
tree to every family in town."
Il guess you'll be that freshet. pa
said Sophy
I'm sure I don't know what some
of them are going to do" said his wife
pulling up her shawl in sympathy with
her thoughts, with no money to buy
coal at present prices, and no coal to
be bought at any price"
Thank goodness. we filled our bins
in April But it looks now as If we
would have to go shares with those
who didn't"
why. how can we? We'd freeze our
selves
II don't know; but some way must be
provided. In this interior place people
would perish before we could get the
coal from abroad or from Nova Scotia
Il suppose they'll be glad even OF
woody said Mrs. Champion. ITS dread
full for them-and Christmas coming"
Poor sort of Christmas for them"
| Dreadful" echoed Katherine.
Il wish there were something we
could do
DO, To supply whole township
with heat?"
1--WE might cut down the oaks on thu
avenue
"Those magnificent oaks! guess mott
| said Rob, looking up from his book
why. it would ruin the whole place
Don't YOU let them, father!'
! i've no idea of it. Those oaks are a:
old as oaks can be and live. They arr
! full of history. No, indeed"
And you would rather people should
! freeze" cried Rose.
give them your rings to buy fuel
Rose" said her father.
, my engagement ring! And the rins
was Donalds mother's-and she dead!'
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= 7 A ROUND ROBIN OF A CHRISTMAS
Story Happy Blending Efforts
Harriet Prescott Spofford.

his sleepy eyes, What in the name of
mercy are you doing?' For she was
kneeling. at the window with both hands
clasped, her hair falling about her, her
face shining with ecstasy.
Come and seei" she cried, ooh, Eu-
gene, the miracle has happened, Oh, can't
you buy the place? Come, come and see!
The swamp is gone all gone, What am
doing? 1 am looking into heavenr'
For there, all the soft rusts and rus
sets yelled and glowing under a trans
lucence of violet vapors smitten with
the sun, lay the long intervale, the river
sparkling through it curve after curve
alive with light; beyond. it the, pine-clad
hills, their black-green depths casting pur-
pie CLEANS across them, and a great pale
heaven, still with a flush of rosy sunrise
in 1t, soaring overhead.
1t was at the same instant that Laury,
having helped her mother, rolled in
blankets. into her chair, had. with Asa'5
and her fathers help, pushed it to the
window and pulled up the white shade.
The Little Mother looked out bewildered.
mo snow?" she said. Then she looked
back at her husband. at the others. and
looked out again. Have / died?" she
whispered hoarsely.
'Oh, mother. mother don't you see
what's happened?" cried Laury. Fathers
KEEP it for a surprise. It's the dear
Lords Christmas gift to your
OH she said, clasping her little thin
hands, sit gives me youth again. It's
what 1 had, so long ago, with health
and stren'th an love. oh, father dear.
think heaven'll look jes' SOL You don't
suppose it's a dream, vision-that it
won't last?"
"Last?' said her husband. They've
dreened the swamp, and are goin' to lay
it down to grass. An there'll be no
more damps rising to make rheumatlcs.
An you'll see 1t every day of your life
as long as we live, Little Mother
Its too good, it's too good" she said.
II must be goin' to die. I've heern tell o.
folks dreaming dreams an SEEM visione
wen they was goin' to die. Well. WELL,
don't deserve it. but what Christmas
mornin'. You, and the two children here,
an the Detachable Country there. Oh, its
beautiful! 1t makes the world seem fit
place for Christ to have been born in. T.
hope the Lord knows how thankful be-
And all day long they heard her singing
softly to herself part of an old commu-
MON anthem F'Oh.taste and see that tho
Lord is good %
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-eHE little mother. as her husband
/" called her, sat in the porch
where the vine leaves fiuttered
down. whsle her husband gath
tered the over-ripe grapes from
the treIlis. She was old now, but still
fair With a beauty of the spirit blossomed
out ON the pale face whose smile was
sweet as ever Her husband. tall and
thin and brown. glanced at her now and
then as n he sun saw the loveliness she
wore whe1<he brought her home. his Wife
And as she 10oked up at him he was still
the stalwart youth, the touch of whose
strong hand once made her heart beat
so madIy. Their children were all gone;
some to the further life, some returning
for a holiday.
ITO think" she said, that the day you
fetched me here I could sit in the door
and see the river loopin' along all blue an
s,lver and the low hills beyond, with
their black pine woods an the sunshine
falling through, and all the wide ma sn
am the haystacks, an the colors cnahsih
on 'em. 1t seemed to mel DO no VIVA.
II seemed to me, Oh, heaven TAM De no
more beautiful than that WIS: iookin
down this side the knoll-there's Dig
bunch most beyond your hand 1es Grip
pin 18th juice. .
so there is. little mother.
81 mind wen the swamp down there,
that used to be full o. runnin fire this
time o. yea, begun to darken, she went
on. IAN the alderbushes come In an
groved up, an then the naples come and
the brown oak, an the horhDeans' an
wear BY year shut ont the pictur. Ut made
me dretfie blue; an you went down an
cut out a lane so't l might see the river
still" t, -,
agin in no time"
I'm no time felt as If I'd done wrong
somehow an was being shet out o
heaven. an the house seemed to git
narrer an dark. an my soul got narrer
an dark. too. I took to Twin in the back
o. the house. and had a dour time till /
made up my mind to think o. the blessin' s
! had in you an the other children-twas
the time just after Johnny ana FREDDY
was taken, you know.
II know"
And one day you cut down the big
elms at the back there
HATED to. A tree allus seemed to me
10 have a life of it's own most as much
as a man has. don't feel no assurance
amt settin' sperrit free. But there,
who knows? Anyway IT cleared slightly
spot fo- you on 'tother side.
II hadn't thought of 1t. I'd gone
down to port to take some eggs an git
some callker, an when l got home an
stood a miSute on the porch. sort o
sighttn'-them grapes are sweet as sugar
and went in and OFT to the buttery. was
all took aback I didn't sense where
vast was all so light, an shinin', an
the sky was great soft blue hill. chain
OF hills like velvet clouds. and j jes' fell
onto my knees an thanked God. II seemed
az II I'D jes got out O. prison. But
though that was good-oh. that was good
II never was quite SO good as the sight
we lost"
THAT'S the way O. thin's. we know
little mother"
An sometimes wen We are out here
on a summe- night now / would SO like
10 see the stars shinin' In the river dowr
there And all the time l think IL on'y
Asa an Iaury could see how twas w'er
you an me come home, wy I'd be mos
content
You allus was a little notional. wife.
Not but that I'm content, anyway.
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Something in the commanding tone of
the mans voice made them feel that
mutiny would be suicide.
ut looks mighty dangerous. boss NUT
tered the chief oarsman. THAT why the
boys are so slow"
'It is mighty dangerous" retorted
Kelly That's W.T. 1 want the boys to
be quick
They started off with a VIII. the tur-
bulent waters dashing over the sides of
the boat and splashing the faces of the
passengers Kelly Tuit- tr-''
of crossing the river on such n bad night
but his fears. If he had any, were kept
quietly locked in his own breast. A sec
ond boat followed Immediately after the
first In it was a detail of soldiers un-
der the command Of a commss:- ned Of
ficer and these were all subjet- t" the
orders of Detectives Kelly and Brooks.
Kelly was in the first boat and he en-
couraged the lusty oarsmen to do their
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the oarsmen could scarcely follow their
course. Kelly pointed to the light in the
window of the deserted house.
Boys" he said, keep your eye on
that light"
X X
They did so, pulling away against great
odds. Once the boat sprung leak and
there threatened to be a panic among
the frightened passengers, Kelly with adj
mirable presence of mind quelled their
fears. Bits of sticks were whitfield am
plugged into the holes. Several of the
secret service men with sponges and tin
cans prevented the boat from accumu-
lating apy great quantity of watt With
these expedients they managed to pro-
gress fairly well. Suddenly the chief oars
man pttered cry of dismay.
..What's the natter" asked Kelly.
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the man in the house have been attacked?
That was possible. At any rate t.:ey con-
tinued their journey to the other side
1t would not do to weaken at this stage
of the game no matter what the con-
sequences. The boat rocked dreadfully
at this point. They were scared. Indeed
it is no exaggeration to say that for many
minutes they feared death. but finally
they reached the other ide Of the stream.
The messenger from the deserted house
awaited them on the bank. To their de-
light he had not met with any difficulty
beyond that which came with the storm
and the rain. A sudden gust of wind had
blown the lantern out, and as all of his
matches were wet, he was unable to re-
pair the misfortune.
Kelly and his companions prepared for
the still more serious part of their ed
venture fine mist was now falling; 1t
was dark and disagreeable. The wide
banks OF, the great river were overlooked