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fear some enemy might possess himself
OF 1t 70 bewttch him. Some follow this
custom still
''One method employed by the x4zsnds
Is said to be TO make small images az
the people they wish to Kill. and TO Per-
form their incantauons over them. II
IS said that such images have sometiroe.
been found, either accidentally, or In
the house OF a wizard after his death
Should the finder burn them, the dAath
Of the wizard or witch is said TO folIozv
invariably.
The wizards. shamans. or medicine
men, by which ever name they nav ba
called, are nearly all doctors. An Indian
has but little faith In medicine, but much
more in the supernatural powers OF the
medicine men. It IS q fact that the lst-
ter use remedies made from plants "a
some extent, but they rely mostly On
shamanistic practices.
"One Of their methods Of treatment "a
to suck the part of the body affected.
ana pretend tc draw Out sonAthipeJ
Sometimes II VIII be q greenish or
blackish fluid, or perhaps a redish liquid
that they declare 70 be blood; at other
times beetles, lizards, or stones. al
Cahuilla doctor IS said TO have sucked 3
Tattlesnake about a foot long ont OF
q Woman's chest. They also doctor by
Blowing or rubbing on The part Of the
body which is palning The patient
Sometimes the rubbing is performed
with a stone of peculiar shape or color
They also use a bunch OF feathers to-
shake over the patient, also sOmetfunezt
q stick with a number Of rattiegnslyeS
tied on one end--Exchauge.
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Freida the First.

At last the story came out. She
had flown with the cuirassier whom
her fsther forbade her to see. The
convent never was the same there
after. The cIoistered walls seemed
like prison barriers to them all. The
weird pact was ever before their eyes,
and they would have rescinded it. but
it was too late.
Then one day the news came Of the
death OF Freida's soldier husband. and
a few weeks later they gathered in
the chapel TO pray for her soul. Gold.
en-haired Freida, she who had con-
ceived the idea Of the pact Of the last
survivor. was the first to go. And
then, Unconsciously. they waited TO
see who would follow her. They would
cit for hours before the big fireplace
willie the nuns prayed. and they shud-
dered as they looked upon one another.
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The First Death.

Among those sixty-fiye girls was one
named Freida. the burgomaster'
daughter. Although eighty years had
rolled past. making the memory OF
those happy school days DINNER and
DINNER. the memory Of FreidA was
always vivid with old Mrs. Castens,
and many a story she would tell about
the beautiful girl while a group OF her
grandchildren hung on her every word
Open-mOuthed.
Freida, she who was the most beau
tiful Of all the girls in the convent;
Freida who. disregarding the wishes
OF her stern burgomaster father,
ran away with an officer OF the
cuirassiers, a handsome. dashing sol
der, who two months later lay amid
the dead on the field OF battle. In
sane at the death OF her husband, the
blonde-haired girl died Of a broken
heart. And when she died. the first
Of the sixty-fve school girls who had
bound themselves together in the
strange insurance company, a shadow
of sorrow. OF intangible fear. pos
sessed all the others who heard OF 1t.
And they waited TO see who would be
the next to be called by the hand Of
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dugout or actually throwing a har-
poon
The bone caves OF Perigord are ap-
parently not all OF one period. but the
race or races who inhabited these cav
erns hunted the mammoth. the cave
lion and the reindeer, and they clearly
belonged TO the paleolithic or rough
stone age, though presumably not to
the earliest and most primitive part Of
that age, for, besides the harpoons,
barbed arrows. pins. and avis OF rein
deer bone are found IN some OF the de-
posits, whereas in the earliest cave
dwellings only flint arrow heads ami
axes of the rudest type are discovered
Edouard Lartet. who was a great cave
hunter and very acute observer. re-
marked that the remains OF fishes are
Iare or common in proportion to the
remote or recent date Of the bone
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= = PREMSTORIC WAN AND rs FzsHNG = :

Very early in the stone age the in
habitants in the caves on the banks
of the streams in Perig0Td now Dor
dogne, in the southwestern part or
France. caught great quantities Of
salmon. whose bones are found in the
caves. along with a sort Of harpoon
which probably served as a snatcher
10 drag the FISH oRt OF the water
Natural conditions being similar, says
the London Field and Farm. we may
assume that in those distant ages the
salmo salar at the time OF spawning
swarmed up the Dordogne, the princi-
pal river Of that department of France.
in serried masses, much as the sockeye
salmon now ascend the rivers of Brit
ish Columbia, and if so the fish could
easily be raked or snatched out by a
fisher from the banks without any
need for his either going aAoat in a
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Money Was Put Ama1.

Mrs. Castens' first husband VS.
named Edelfson. and they came 70 Ehis
country shortly before ths ctvu war
and settled IN Allegheny. Pa Har
husband died and shs married agu4a.
and when she was eightY-fye ysaEs
old he died. and left her comfortable
for her remaining years. So Il Was
that when the pact money Camn. baaE-
ing with It the message thss al hsT
schoolmates had passed aWSy. Ehs "a
lady, whose mind stiu hazzrod baek e
the convent days. did not wz1z % &Aks
the money,
She remembered her fEmny. hOz-
ever, and It was only through ths a.
ing OF her VIII after she had guns %
Join the others that the fun dstails
about the money became known.
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caves. In the earliest caves dn France)
which are distinguished by the finding
only OF unbarbed arrows. no fish bones
have been discovered, and NJ Lartet
was inclined TO think that the earliest
cave. dWellers either had no tackle suf-
nclently perfect to procure fish or that
they ate on the banks the raw fish lust
caught. But in caves of more recent
date, where barbed arrows and har-
pOons are found remains of fish ara
abundant. 1t is somewhat remarkable
that all the species OF fish identified IN
the cave deposits are still extant.
though one Of them has now disap-
peared from Europe.
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Mrs. MaTgaTetta Castens, the last
sRTpipor was laid to rest in St.
Louis. She mas the last of the
sixty-tfpe girls, enrolled in a Ger
man cOHpeHt eighty years ago, to
aHswey the call Of the grim reaper
and she had attained the ripe old
age Of HiHety-fOHT years.
With her death is revived the
story Of the remarkable pact en-
tered into by these sixty-tfpe girls
and Which came to an end three
years ago when the Sxty-fourth
member of the insurance COM
.paHy' died. Just as soon as Mrs.
CaSteHS became the last surpipor
a German bank located her in St.
Louis and forwarded her the sum
Of $4,000 as the principal and in
tereSt due her BY the terms of this
somewhat HHcaHny agreement
made eighty years ago.
Mrs. CaStens had forgotten all
about the schoolgirl pact and the
draft was to her like a shower of
gold from the heavens. Al her ad-
VaHced age she had but little use
for the money and it was put in a
bank. Upon her death last week
il mas divided among her numer-
Gus children and grandchildren.
The story of the agreement made
in that far away convent early in
the nineteenth century reads like
chapter Of romance.
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occurred 10 Mrs. Castens when she
told the story of Freida to her, chill
dren and grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
And when one day she received from
Germany the letter which informed
her that she was the only survivor
Of the sixty-five girls. and that $4,000
would be sent to her, she was loath to
believe H. The money was sealed with
the death Of sixty-four girls, who four
score years ago had sat with her
around the fireside in the old convent
in Germany.
Before succumbing TO her last illness
Mrs. Castens told her daughter, Mrs.
Christiana Smith. of ST. Louis, Of the
pact entered into eighty years ago.
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their thoughts reverted TO the sad fate
OF golden-haired Freida that they re
called IL. The association OF the two
was too painful 10 ponder on. All
went their divergis.g ways. to love and
marry and live aad die. The thought
Of securing money from the pact never
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WATERf

How did that No. furnace happen
70 60 cut? No excuses n0wF' below ID
the Hades Head Stoker.
We threw IN High Ftnancier," the
Imp explained, and neglected 10 take
out of his pocket a huge bunch of
stock that he had. Puck,
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backoning them over the river Of
death
As the years went by the girls for
got the pact, and it was only when
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r. OUR score years ago this wrin-
kled and gray-haired old lady,
L who Aed to gather her great
grandchildren around her knee
and tell them the tales OF the father
land, OF the Rhine. OF the Black For
es5s, and Of the knights Of the olden
days. was a fair-haired school girl.
Her father was Senator Peter NageI,
Itziheo. one OF the smaller lords Of
the empire. Margaretta was his pride,
ana SO. like all young girls OF the day.
whose 1ather could AFFORD it. she was
sent on to the convent 10 learn good
ness and manners. and the other things
that 90 to make & woman of culture.
Education in those days for the girls
did not consist OF language and math-
ematics. but Of the things that would
make them excellent fraus.
Thrift and economy are two OF the
characteristics OF the Teuton woman,
and even in her early years she is
taught to look TO the coming years,
the years when she is no longer. able
TO work, and her sons and daughters
have gone their ways with their own
Troubles and their own children.
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They never referred to It among them
selves. They felt it was a living
thing, something weird and ghastIy,
that was taking them, one by one and
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Each Girl Contributes.

The nuns arrived before they could
execute the plan, but within few
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NLOSES IT'S LAST
POLICY HOLDER"

the faces OF the girls. they spoke 20
one another OF the future. That day
the good sisters had impressed upon
them the necessity OF providing for old
age. Many plans were talked about.
but such topic was not one to keep
three score girls interested. and after
a while they sat still, most OF them
with their elbows on their knees and
chin resting on their hands. looking
into the glowing fire-dreaming.
4 have a plan," spoke up Freida.
I have plan. girls, by which one
OF US. probably the one who will be
most in want. may be provided for"
Tell us cried the maidens. for
when Freida spoke. they listened.
And then Freida. she Of the golden
hair and the deep blue eyes. unfolded
10 her astontshed schoolmates the
plan that awaited eighty years for
It's elimination.
Let each girl" she said, put into
a common fund a small sum OF money.
and let it remain in a bank, there TO
accumulate until all but one OF the
girls had passed TO the great beyond.
The last one would thus be provided
for"
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lat is without
d o II BIT tn e
StYdHgeSt in
SuTQnce COM
paHy the VOrId
has ever kHOUH
came to an end
last week HheH
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and OF the thousands she had reosfvsd.
None OF the family had known thaa
she received the money, and they were
astonished when the story Of Freida
was connected with II
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were kneeling IN prayer in the chap
e. the girls sat before the big fire
place and wondered who would be
the first TO go the road Of the in
evItable
Thereafter the school never seemed
the same. Something had crept In.
something insidious, some ghastIy
thing that made one girl shudder when
she gazed upon another. Where they
had talked Of gallant knights and la
dies fair. deeds Of chivalry, and sto-
ries Of love, there was now an intense
silence. Freida seemed changed. and
she avoided the other girls.
Then one day Freida did not come to
breakfast, That was not strange. But
she did not come to the class room.
and even her roommate had not seen
her.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
GAME FOR
THE BUNkO Man

LOS ANGELES, June 1S.-The
new gold brick is made of paper. NJ.
c. Lorenzen, a wealthy mining oper-
ator and land owner. complains 20
the police that he is the unfortunate
possessor of it. He says he made the
acquaintance Of a Jolly good fe.-
low" named Harry Huron. The two
men passed several days and nights,
having a good time generally, until
day before yesterday Huron became
confidential and told Lorenson lie
had the secret of making banknotes.
He showed him some splendid speci-
mems.
Yesterday Huron said he had -
hurry to Tulare to put through q
land deal and borrowed $4,000 from
the mining man on the stl ".-yh II
package supposed to conta:4, $4,000
in bank notes. When Huron lid l.o
renzen a fond goodbye, he said h
would be back here today. This AT
ternoon Lorenzen opened the pack
age. 1t contained only blank paper
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
BY The
THOUSANDS GOING

NEW YORK, June 1S.-More than
thousand persons holding steerase
tickets for European ports were left
behind by the steamer Pottsda:n
when she sailed today with her steer
age quarters filled to their capacity
of 1000. The 1000 who were un-
able to find accommodations on the
ship were assured that they would
be taken on the next outgoing steam
er, but many of them made deter
mined efforts to go on board the
Pottsdam. They were neid in check,
however, by large force Of police
men who had been summoned to the
pier
AS early as last evening the steam.
er's steerage quarters were filled. but
every train from the West brought in
scores of homeward-bound foreign
ers who had purchased tickets
through the company's. Western
agencies. The police had consider
able difficulty in holding back the
crowds of newcomers who attempted
to force their way on board the Potts
dam, and several times clubs wer
used.
Many of the prospective passen'
gers have little or no money beyond
| - 70 oil
homes, and it is likely that they vii
remain in one of Hoboken's parks
where they are now camped until thu
next steamer sails.
The great homeward rush of fot
eigners is believed to be largely du'
to the extremely low rates now Of
fered for eastward-bound steeraS
passengers.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
CLEVELAND BAKER
ASPROGNOSTICATOR
HAD SEVENTEEN GUESSES ON
THE OUTCOME YEsTER-
DAY.

Cleveland Baker, the eminent
young barrister and astute politician,
came in from the Coast yesterday,
where he had gone to confer with
some of the big men in California on
matters pertaining to certain inter-
ests here. He is flattering himself to-
day on having predicted the nominal
ton of Taft, Cleveland having made
seventeen guesses, contending thae
ir Taft was not nominated it would
certainly be Roosevelt, and If it were
not Roosevelt the mantle might fall
upon Hughes in the event that Joe
Cannon failed to connect, and If by
some hocus pocus Knox should have
lost the Pennsylvania delegation 1t
might be some one of the half dozen
Others. AS political prognosticator
Cleve has them going south.
Speaking of financial and business
conditions on the Coast, Mr.. Baker
SAYS that matters are getting in much
better shape There is considerable
| talk about Nevada, as many Coast
people are interested here, and as
silver is soaring up Gf he had been
here there is no doubt but what ne
would have given us tip that silver
was going to jump nearly point)'
they look for good year in this
State.
II have returned with renewed
health, said Mr.. Baker, though
never really knew that anything
allied me, and shall give coat OF
paint to my political fences that viii
nut the binding flash on any one
having the hardihood to enter the
field with me. l think that the pc
litical pot will begin to boil shortl!
and things will soon be sizzling. A
to matri--well, let that go until thi
fall"
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
SALESMAN ACCUSED
OF DIAMOND Theft

CHICAGO, June 1S.-Maintainins
the utmost secrecy, the Grand Jury
today returned an indictment against
James Nenamin, one of the mos,
widely known and expert diamond
statesmen of the West, charging him
with the theft of $4,000 worth Of
gems from the wholesale diamond
house of NJ. S. Fleischman & Co.,
Hayworth Building, Madison street
and Wabash avenue, According to
the testimony which was presented
before the Grand Jury today by wit
nesses introduced by the States At
torney, Nenamin had been in the EN-
ploy of the company for several years
and travelled over Pacific territory
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
LOOK AROUND
YOUR OFFICE

For ledgers, daybooks, In fact for
anything that may be lacking in
your office, go to the Bonanza bind
cry. We have samples or the style
of work which is turned out. but for
the matter of that one does not have
to visi. the bindery. There are
samples OF our work in nearly all the
offices in the city.
Our work stands as the best rec
ommendation of the character OF the
stun that we turn out We can do
anything In our line that can be done
In any OF the big cities. can do it as
well. and, give better service in the
matter of prompt delivery thar any
other institution OF the kind In the
State.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
one WOMAN in
The CONVENTION

CHICAGO, June 1S.-The only
woman who has seat on the floor
of the Republican Convention as a
regular delegate is Mrs. Lucy A..
Clark, Of Bingham City, Utah. Mrs.
Clark came to the city merely as an
alternate delegate. Three hours al
ter her arrival, however, the Utah
delegates went into caucus. Then 1t
was found that one OF the regular
delegates, c. E. Loose, of Provo City
would not come to the convention
Thereupon the vacant position was
allotted to Mrs. Clark as regulal
delegate. Mrs. Clark is the daugh
ter of one of the early Mormon pho
neers and is an ardent woman sui
fragist.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
;ROME FILES
HIS ANSWER

NEW YORK, June 1S.-District
torney Jerome's answers to the
zee additional specifications in the
argos filed against him by a COM
ttee headed by William F. King
re sent to Governor Hughes at AL
ny today. The specifications
arge that Jerome threw dice for
dollar a throw and the drinks"
ring the closing hours of the frs
1aw trial; that he advised E. X.
nomas, while under indictment 3!
re banking cases, to get another
.wyer in place of the one who was
presenting him, and that he Offered
immunity to William r. Montgomery
banker, under certain considera
ions. Jerome's answer is VERY
1ngthy,
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
PERSONAL MENTION

Arthur Krnze is in this city.
John Gregovich returned yesterday
rom Reno.
l.. L. Mushett came over from
ioldfield yesterday.
A. G. Scott, of the Mining and Sci
,ntific Press, is in town.
Malcolm Macdonald returned yes
terday from Goldfield
f. b. Cushman returned yester-
day from a business trip to Blair.
Mrs. Ed J. Roberts is expected To
arrive this morning from Oakland.
Frank Keith came in from the
coast yesterday morning. He in
company with Dr.. Ntapes made trip
in Mr.. Keith's auto to Santa Cruz.
r. r. Cornforth, the mining man,
came in yesterday from Bellehelen,
where he has extensive mining inter
este.
Walter Trent, of the l.. G. Trent
Continuous Filter Company, whose
headquarters are at Reno, is in this
city.
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Kirchen will
leave this afternoon for Rhyolite.
They expect to be away for several
days.
a. G.. Claypool, of the American
Smelling and Refining Company, is in
Tonopah on business connected with
the big corporation.
Grant Crumiey, Dick Watson, Ma :
tin Effinger and julius Smith left
yesterday morning for Blair, where
they will inspect the Pittsburg Sill
yer Peak property there.
P. J. McGrath and family re-
turned from Carson yesterday morn
Ing. They had been in the. capital
city to attend the funeral of Mrs
McGrath's sister, Miss Josephine
Roberts.
Superintendent Brady of the Bel.
mont, Superintendent Johnson, o.
the Jim Butler, and Attorney FREE
Berry leave this morning for Midas
where they go to inspect mimi.
properties.
Frank j. Solinsky, prominen
attorney, of San Francisco, who Il
retained by the West End Mininl
company in its suit with the McNd
mara, is in this city.
r.. II. Halle, who has been wit
the Tonapah Bonanza for the pas
year, goes to the coast this mornin
for the purpose of looking after bus
mess interests which he has in Sa
Francisco. He will probably retur
in several months.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
WORTHLESS MONEY
ORDERS CASHED

SALT LAKE, June 1S.-Merchants
OF Salt Lake City and Murray are b.
waiting the coming and going of
swindler who signs himself, or rather
impersonates "Joe Burns" and who
has victimized them to the tune OF
$475 by passing fraudulent post
Office money orders. The swindles
were perpetrated Saturday night, and
only some eleven victims have been
heard from, representing the amount
quoted above, but one hundred
money order blanks are missing IF
the two hundred stolen from the post
office of Schurz, New, and it is pc :
sible that the amount involved may
total into the thousands, and that
the swindles may extend from Neva-
da to Zion.
G. d. Low, post office inspector in
charge of this district. has the case
in hand. and a rigid Investigation s
being pursued, but so far as know.
no clew has developed.
The authorities believe that tn,
money orders have been scattered al
over Nevada, and that Goldfield ma!
have a large crop of them.
When the merchants here sent tn
money orders to their respective
banks, they were. of course. accept
ed, but now they have been returned
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
NOTICE TO sToCKHOIDERs.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Booth Mining Com
pany of Goldfield, will be held, a.
provided by the bylaws, at the office
of the company in the Lothrop-
Davis Company building, in Ton
opah, on June list, 1908. at 3
O'Clock p. m, for the purpose of elect
ing a board of directors for the en-
suing year and the transaction OF
such other business as may properly
come before the meeting.
]. w. STEWART,
Secretary.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-19
MARRIED in The
COLLEGE town
GEORGE G. JONES is welded TO
MISS RUTH GREEN OF
BERKELEY.

The San Francisco Chronicle has
the following account of the marriage
of George Campbell Jones to Miss
Ruth Green, which took place at
Berkeley Tuesday evening.
Friends and relatives from many
parts of California attended the beau
tiful home wedding of Ruth Van
Kampen Green, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adam T. Green, and George
C. Jones, young mining man
and graduate of the University in
Berkeley, last night. The house on
Dwight Way was decorated VITA
ferns and white stor flowers for the
ceremony, which was performed o.
Rev. Edward Lamb, of the st. Marks
Episcopal Church of Berkeley.
The wedding was quiet affair,
only the close friends and relatives
of the two being among the guests.
| Miss Mabel Jones, a sister OF the
groom. and who is to become the
bride of Percy r. Keatings, of Palo
Alto, this week, attended the bride
as maid of honor. Katherine and
Elizabeth Bixby, little nieces of tn
bride, acted as flower girls. The
groom was attended by his friend
Lieutenant Robert Fletcher, of the
Preside of Monterey. Mrs. Jones
was among the most popular maids
In the University of California, being
a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta
society. She graduated from tn
, Berkeley High School and is promi
nent in social circles of the colleg-
community
Following the wedding supper Mr.
and Mrs. Jones left for their hone1
moon in the southern part of thi
State, after which they will max,
their home in Tonopah, New, where
e the groom has mining interests
4 Among the guests at the wedding
p were the sisters of the bride, Mrs
Howard Huntington and Mrs. Fred
/, erick Bixby, of Los Angeles and Pasa
!, dena, who will remain for some tim,
: as visitors.