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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
THEY PRODUCE TEN MILLION DOL
LARS A MONTH AND HAVE Bill
LIONS IN SIGHT.

/, I said that I had seen thousand. "a
tons OF ore alleged to be loaded wi,,to
gold, but had yet to observe the a.,
CLINT of yellow or any sign OF tlsstn,,,e
golden thing.
EFF YOU have any doubts as 10 no.
reality of the gold here" said the sctsp-
fist. II can dispel them by showing yni,
some bricks, made here within tho iast
few weeks, which We are about ia, shj,,
to London s5 II
With that he took me into the back
room of his tin-roofed assay office. nnS
by tho twist of his wrist unlocked n
vault in the wall. He then touched an
electric button. swung, a combinatio,s
lock around five times. and threw omen
~ safe, out of which he pulled n great
brick of pure gold. He dropped If m
the counter and asked me to lift ii. +,
tried to do SO. but failed although
might have succeeded had the brick
been lying on the floor instead of at tho
height OF my waist. Il was u solid jlumn
of bright yellow metal shaped like
paving brick and perhaps two inches
thicker. He put 1t on the scales, and
showed ME that tawelghcd over 70
pounds. He saidss that its value was
s1S0.00D. In the same vault / was shown
other. bricks whiclirar up to more than
$1,000. 900.
During my conversation with the as
sayer 1 asked him how the gold was
sent 10 London. He replied:
1T all goes on the cars from here 10
Cape Town and thence by the mail
steamers to Southampton. The ship-
ments are made every Monday in order
that the trains may reach the Cape for
the ship sailing Wednesday. Each brick
Is put up in a separate wooden box.
which is bound around. with strap iron
and sealed. Tho banks do the ship
ping. and the railways are responsible
for the gold from here to Cape Town.
On certain Mondays of the month tho
shipments amount to $4,00O,O00, inclutl-
Ing about 25 of these big golden bricks"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
a GOLD SANDWICH.


The Simmer and Jack begins at tho
surface and It's gold bearing rock runs
down at an angle OF 43 degrees to no
3one know how deep. The gold Is in 4
great sandwich or rock more than a
mile wide and on the slant four-tiifths
of a mile long. Already tens of thou-
sands of tons of the gold bearing con-
glomerate have been taken out, and
sixty thousands tons are now being
raised every month. The sandwich
starts in a great plain. 1t leans, as
I have said, at a broad angle, and ono
can look down between the walls out
of which 1t has been cut and by hang
ing onto ropes can slide down inside
them for hundreds Of feet.
The manager of the underground
workings in the Simmer and Jack is
an American. He Is a California en-
.gineer named Seagraves, who has been
in Africa for some years. Upon my
telling him that / wanted to go into
the mine he said there were 60 miles
of tunnels and underground passages.
and therefore asked him to show me
as much as he could In one day. Before
descending we put on miners cloth
ing. We then entered a great skip, or
bucket which had just brought up two
tons of ore. Then signal from the
engineer dropped us down into the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

| darkness and another signal stopped
us at tunnel 900 feet from the sur
face. Here we left the skip and
walked through tunnel after tunnel cut
out Of the sandwich. now and then
stopping to look down the incline.
Imagine a mighty cave Just high
enough for man to stand upright
within it and running down at an angle
of 40 degrees for hundreds of feet, max
Ing flat. slanting hall covering acres.
There are rock walls above and rock
floors below and away down the slant
hundreds of feet distant are scores OF
yellow Chinese pounding the drills to
make holes for the blasting. These Chi
nese are bare to the waist and they sing
as they work. Each has candle and
the light from this gives him a weird
appearance as he slaves, away down
there In the darkness. The Chinese are
paid at the rate of 1 cent for each inch
of hole drilled, and an ordinary man
drills so inches or more In day They
are gouging out the holes for the dyna-
mite candles. AT certain hours the
charges are put in and several scores
of blasts are set off at once. After this
the ore. which has been blown out, Is
shoueled down into the cars in the
tunnels below. 1t is then carried to the
shaft. up which it flies In great iron
skips and on to the stamps which crush
the gold out.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
a BROKEN BACK

That pain In, your back caused bv
iumbago, stiff muscles or n strain
IS an easy thing to get rid Of Bal
lardls Snow Liniment !, cures, ,rhe,,ms.
tism. lumhago. sore and stiff muscles
strains, sprains, cuts. burns, bruises
Sealas and al aches and pains
1on need bottle In your house. Sold
by z, gf MI; Drug Dept. liz and ia
South Main ST ''''u D IN
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
A PECULIAR WRENCH

Of the foot or ankle may produce a
very serious sprain. A sprain is more
painful than a break In all ,sprains,
Liniment Is the best thing to use. Re-
5leves the pain instantly, reduces swell
ing, is n perfect antisept,c and heals
rapidly. Price 25c. soc and Sl.00. Sold
by q. G. NJ. I. Drug Dept. liz and III
South Main st.
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Newhousc and Boston an;,d,,, ;.

Partitions now being placed. Parties
desiring space can have partitions
placed to suit their demands il arrang-
"a before Nov. 10. Applications re-
ce.Fed by B. B. Hall, agent. Both
phones AIS. sos Dolly Block.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
1s.5oo Men. Women and fh,,,,

who were hungry. in Salt Lake civ lac,
winter can now procure plenty IF frssb
and salt meat, poultry. eggs and butter,
for reasonab BILE prices at Rhnn's New.
np-to- date Market. Orders solicited
and promptly delivered.
address, 100 West LIST So, phone 1ss
Ind - ;. - w
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JOHN Bull
NEEDN'T BOAST.
Continued from page s,e:1------>A

ment. There Is no law which can pun
ish merely prospective" candidate
FOR spending as much money as he
likes in neighborhood. The conse-
quence Is that the intending candidate
often lays out as much as SIS 900 or
more in Sailing district before an
nouncing himself as Il candidate. HIS
opponent may try to drive him into
declaration which may be taken as an
official announcement in order to bring
a prosecution under the act, but, as a
rue, politicians on both sides are too
willy to be trapped, especially If their
election asent-or ward ..boss"--is q
good man. The most ordinary way Of
trapping an opponent into a declara-
t,on Is to have it announced publicly
mat the opposing candidate does not
intend to stand for election This ruse
however, seldom works.
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widening and now narrowing. Tt is a
blue conglomerate filled with pebbles Of
white quartz embedded In a cement
which Is impregnated with iron and
gold. The gold is in crystals and
flakes so small as to be invisible to the
eye. | could see RIO yellow metal what
ever, and the rock looked more like
limestone than anything else The min
ers disregard the pebbles. for they have
been crushed again and again and
found to contain no gold whatsoever.
The collaborating strata lies upon
granite. 1t is supposed to have been
deposited by means of water in sand
and clay. which In time has turned to
cement and which by volcanic forces
has been forced up into the slanting
ridge which now forms the southern
watershed of this continent. Indeed It
may be that the gold was once in the
water just as gold Is now said to be
In the waters of the ocean. Some sci
entists assert that there is about $40,-
00O. 900 worth of gold in every cubic
mile of sea water. and if this is so it
would only take three cubic miles of
the ocean to equal the present mighty
yearly output of the Rand.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
THE REAL THING.

Before. leaving l mentioned to the as
rsayer that l had spent a whole day in
the Simmer and Jack. and had been.
told again and again of the millions of;
dollars worth Of gold twas producing
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
SOME PRELIMINARIEs.

Hhen prospective candidate has
sPent as much money as he thinks nee
Gssary ne announces his candidacy and
neglhs 70 run in the usual way Aft
ei making the announcement of course
the utmost care Is taken not to exceed
the legal limit of expenses. Though tho
utmost care is taken not to exceed the
unit, his friends are at liberty to form
any number of fake. leagues and to
continue lavishing bounties on the dis
trict. IN many cases even where the
election expenses are exceeded.itis pos
siole To cook" the accounts by having
number of people working for YOU
as volunteer sub-agents.'' In the case
or the constituency of Thanet. for in
stance, the member had numerous per-
sons working for him as Clerks" who
Z appeared on the vouchers as drawing
SIMPLY $50 for twenty days election
work. and yet, after the victory. each
81 THESE clerks received q handsome
present one getting a purse contain,
ms ~. or $500, The purse was not
given, however, until long after the
poilihs and When, the corrupt practises
act could not be brought to bear The
present in this case did no. come
from the successful member who had
won his seat in parliament, but from a
local heasue' of his friends, over whose
generous action he could not of course
exercise any control, With volunteer,
workers acting as candidates sub
agents there is no way of checking the
money these men might spend In the
lhanct case, though about SIS 900 wa 3
spent. the actual accounts only showed
the legal sum of $3.50 for legitimate
election expenditure
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
THE DANGERS or MINING.

haze been in many. gold. mines, but
in noDs&hepci the dangrrssare great teri
than In these great slanting caves OF
South Africa. The walls so dip that
YOU have to take rope or chain to
hold, on to-, as you move through the,
slopes and; ;aS slip,wouId send you rolling
down over thesrocks for hundreds 81
feet Thenaccidents are so many that
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

LOOK AT THE ORE.
As went through the mine Mr. Sea-
graves showed me the collaborating
pudding. 1t lies here and there in
streaks or streams In the rock. now
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
CHINESE WAIST, SING WORK.
Phoogra phed for the "News'b FRANKIE

than four thousand Chinese, thou
sand black natives and the hundreds
of whites who act as skilled laborers
and as oyerseers and managers.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
PUTTING on THE SCREENS.

fpIliNG On THE SCREWS.
a election times in England consid-
cradle direct Influence is brought to
bear on voters through the channel of
patronage. Many customers of
tradAsrnen signify their intention to
Withdraw their orders If the tradesnlenr
do not vote in the right" nanner--that
is. according TO the ideas OF the partfc-
usar customer. II tradesn,an comes
cut INTO the open and displays any of
the handbills or literature of al, oppos.
ing candidate. the customers promptly
withdraw their trade. As conse-
ltahee You seldom tind shopkeeper
express openly at election times, es-
rectally If his views incline toward rad,
icalism. & -.
Not only are shopkaepcrs brough,
Under this structure. but large ia ctories,
gas works and other Institutions en-
ptoS1ng numbers Of men usually nai1-
age TO make it known that they expect
their enployes 30 vote o certain way
when the time comes. Foremcn usually
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07
ON THE GREAT REEF.

can describe this better BY taking
you with me on a trip over the reef and
going down into one Of the mines. vs.
might start at Johannesburg and ~
cast and west for 60 odd miles and see
nothing but mines all the way. We
get the train a Park station and are
soon flying by the great works With
their mountains of tailings. We can
see the black srnokestacks cutting the
sky 1t the front and behind us, and
we could throw n stone Into the great
hills of dazzling white sand which have
been left near the mine after extract
ing the gold. on each Of those hills
cars are crawling up and down. some
of them are attached TO steel cables,
which bring the refuseSfor several miles
and automatically dump II on the top
of the hill, crawling on without stop
ping until they are back at the works
ready to be loaded again. The cars look
like enormous ants Or bugs They are
going on the dead run over the white
sand, which shines out under the rays
Of the African sun.
AS we go the train stops every few
moments and at every stop is a nine
Think Of range OF sand hills the
material of which is as fine as that
you use for securing your floors. Let II
rise right out of the green hills ana
extend on for 40 odd miles. and you
have some idea of these enormous piles
OF refuse which have come from the
reef. Remember, as you look at it.
that every grain of that sand was once
part of rock containing gold. and
that hundreds of millions of dollars
WORTH of gold has come from It. If you
continue your ride you win find |
fence or iron sinokcstack along the
whole 40 miles, aud you Will never be
outside the din of the stamps which are
crushing the rocks to get out the gold.
IN A BIG SOUTH AFRICAN NINE.
1t is only one of these mines that
we shall visit today 1t is the sin
mer and Jack" within an half hours
ride by train from Johannesburg, COW
ering an enormous territory sprinkled
with gold. This mine has produced
more than five million dollars worth
of gold during the past year, and it
Yielded about five hundred thousand
dollars worth of gold last month 1t
is great gold factory, devoted to
taking the rock out of the earth and
reducing it to bullion. The ore CON
tains only $3.50 worth of gold to TIM
ton. and the profit Is not more than
81 cents on every ton handled. 1t has
the best mining machinery and 1t |
works between five and six thousand
men day and night. Sunday and week
day, all the year through. It has moro |
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

WThe Ore Plum pu
ding. with the Gold in The Dou-Unground the Biggest South African
Mills with Hundreds OF oam-A
Lookat Gold Bricks Worha Million gf Dolar.
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South Africa They are not like any
mineral region of North or South
America and / doubt IL they have their
counterpart on the face of the globe.
The country is half deserted and there
are no indications of minerals. The
gold is found in several great reefs OF
rock which runs through Il range Of
low hills for a distance of about 100
niles The land lisa mile 81 more
above the sea, and these hills run from
l0o to 300 feet higher. The reefs begin
at the surface aud extend down at 4
regular slope for no one knows how
deep into the earth. They are great
sandwiches Of goldbearipg rock, streak
ed here and there with a conglpmerato
or pudding containing quartz pebbles.
The pebbles may be called the raisins
IN the pudding They range in size
from the egg Of a swallow up to that
of goose. but they contain no gold.
The gold Is in the dough Of the
pudding. or the cement whcl, holds
these quartz and other rocks together.
Money Is often called dough in our
slang, but the dough Of the TransvaAl
is the Simon pure thing and is really
sprinkled with gold
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almost despair of describing these
caves of Aladdin on the highlands Of
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24
OKLAHOMA MURDER TRIAL.
Woman and Paramour Accused Of
Murdelng Her Husband.

oklahoma City, Okla, Feb. "a
What is likely to be one of the most
sensational murder tials in the history
of the new state is set for today in
the criminal Division of the district
court. Mrs. Lila Meadows and her
alleged paramour, Rudolph Tegeler,
are. charged with the killing of James
r. Meadows, the woman's husband.
Meadows disappeared from his home
in this city on the night Of June 4,
1907.
Tegeler and Mrs. Meadows were
suspected because they were known
to have been together a great deal.
No arrest was made until letters ex-
planning the crime supposed to have
been missent, were received by Chief
of Police Post and afterward known
to have been written by Tegeler, who
in turn admitted that he had written
them for another person, were pro-
duced. Tegeler was arrested and
Mrs. Meadows was taken into GUS
tody shortly afterward. 1t is expect
ed the trial will consume two or
three weeks. 1t is believed the de-
fense will try to prove that neither
Tegeler nor Mrs. Meadows, but an
other person killed Meadows.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24
WOEFU[ LACK Of
MERCHANT MARINE
DANGER LURKS IN PAUCITY
OF AMERICAN GOLFERS.
Not Enough American Sea- Going Col
Hers to Supply Fuel for a Single
Battleship Fleet Sailing Between
American Ports-American Mer-
chant Ships on Pacific Number Only
Eght-United States Shouldered
Out by South American Govern
ments.

Washington, Feb. 24.-"If we are
to have war instead OF seeking peace
our lack OF GOLFERS manned under our
flag might fatty delay or absolutely
prevent the transfer OF one battle
ship from the Atlantic ocean to meet
the enemy sweeping upon us from
the Pacific" said Senator Gallinger
OF New Hampshire today in a speech,
advocating an American merchant
marine.
He declared that there had been
great falling off in the American mer-
chant marine and that within the last
year American merchant ships on the
Pacific number but Is and now this
fleet had been reduced to eight
THE American merchant marine
does not contain enough ocean-going
golfers to provide fuel for a battle
ship fleet sailing between the Ameri-
can ports. Need we wonder that de-
spite the Monroe doctrine we are be-
ing shouldered out by South American
and other governments?"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24

Portland, Feb. 24.-George C.
Brownell, ex-president OF the Oregon
senate, and man who is generally
credited with being the political gen.
ius who made Fulton United States
senator, this morning declared that he
thought that Senator Fulton was out
of his head.
He must be-" said Brownell, "to
make such charges against me that
he does in his reply to Heney."
Brownell SHE'D his castor into the
ring in which the Heney-F Fulton con-
troversy is raging this morning in an
interview in which he makes a hot
reply to Fulton's charges against him.
Fulton charged Brownell with po-
lit cal duplicity and insinuated that
the one time republican boss gave
perjured testimony in the recent Hall
trial.
At the same Brownell intimates
that he does know number Of
things about the senior senator from
Oregon ths. sould make interesting
reading aiJ tat FIiiton will have a
setond dirty finen cleansing contest
on his hands unless Fulton ceases
using Brownell's name further in his
fight with Heney.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24

Washington, Feb. 24.-The conten-
tion of the Standard Oil company as
to why it should not pay the s29, ,OO0,-
600 fine assessed by Judge Landis,
was given a death blow today by the
United States supreme court when
that tribunal decided that the Elkins
trust who have ben cropping for any
act.
The case in which this most i'm
portant decision was handed down was
the Great Northern, which was re-
Gently found guilty OF rebating to the
w. P. Deveraux Co., of Minneapolis.
The learned attorneys Of the oil
trust who have been grouping for any
technicality that might save them
from paying the big fine and pinned
their faith to their contention that the
Elkins law was repealed by the Hep
burn act.
1t was under a provision Of the
former that the trust was fined. Now
that this position is declared untena-
BILE the Standard Oil legal sharps are
left high and dry.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24
Land Fraud "Dignitaries" Meet.

Stephen A. Douglas Puter visited
Horace Greeley Mckinley in the lat
ter's cell at the county Jail yesterday
afternoon, says Portland paper. The
cell was the one which Puter occu-
uied while serving his sentence for
conspiracy in the I'll case. Puter is
the ony visitor Mckinley has had
since he was placed in jail yesterday
morning to await sentence. Numbers
of people have applied at the county
Jail to see Mckinley, but under In
from the United States
they were turned away, no
one being admitted without q permit
from the marshal. All the numbers
then applied to the marshal for per-
to visit Mckinley, but only
Puter was given permission. They
spent half an hour together in secret
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24
To Die In Electric Chnir.

Trenton, N. j., Feb. 24.-Gilbert
Maddox, convicted of the murder of
James E. Camm, an aged watchman
in a Bridgeton factory is under SEN
tence to die in the electric chair this
week. The keys of the old watchman
were found on Maddox when he was
arrested. The murder was committed
with an axe. with which Maddox had
afterwad tried to break open the fac
tory safe.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24
AGE FOILS SCHOOL LAW CASE.
German Girl Passes Compulsory Ed
ucational Age During Pending of
Sniff

German Girl Passes Compulsory Ed
ucational Age During Pending of
Suit.
Through the fact that the non-at-
tending pupil has become past the
designated age the first attempt at
prosecution under the compulsory law
has been frustrated and the story is
one that has humorous side. Mary
Hesser. is the name of the pupil in
question and she arrived but recently
from Germany. She has been maxi
ing her home with her sister, Mrs.
Louis Grossmuller of Helix and ac-
cording to the story OF the case Mrs.
Grossmuller believes that her house
hold work furnishes more suitable
entertainment for her emigrant sister
than does the public schools of Helix.
When school commenced at Helix
last fall an effort was made to have
the Hesser girl entered. She herself
was willing to attend and Mr.. Gross
muller was also agreeable. but Mrs.
Grossmuller said no and her word
was law.
After many vain efforts to compel
the child's attendance at school with.
out resorting to a criminal charge the
Helix people and Superintendent
Welles were preparing to file a COM
plant against the Grossmullers This
morning 1t was learned that in the.
meantime the girl has become is
years of age.
Under the law child over Is may
not be forced into school if regularly
employed. Young Miss Hesser Is said
to be very continuously employed as
a housekeeper by her sister and con-
sequently the Helix school will have
to do without her smiling face.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-24

Tacoma, Feb. 24.-Reeling back
ward to the edge of the roof just as
he was crawling from high ladder,
George Hill, fireman, fell from the
fifth story of the Davis-Smith build
ing this morning and his life was
dashed out upon the pavement be-
low.
The fire started in the building oc-
cupied by the Davis-Smith Furniture
company and by 1920 had made heavy
headway. The flames were supposed
to have started from electric feed
wires.
Several firemen had ascended the
ladder before Hill and as he neared
the top he was lost sight of N the
smoke.
Hundreds saw his twisting body
shoot downward to the asphalt. Life
was extinct before medical aid could
arrive.
The fire interfered with the power
wires of the interurban line and de-
layed traffic. The fire was still burn
ing at 1915 a. m.