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Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-04-24
LIST OF STATE CANDIDATES
Time for Qualifying Expired on
Monday


The time limit for candidates for
state and National offices to oualiiy
by Sling notice Of caudidicy and pay
ing assessments has expired, and here.
WIN IS published complete list al.
th1oe..;aliy arranged, Of all candi.
'ales Tor nationaI and state Offices
whose name viii appear on the official
0"'oi TO DO used In the Democratic
p' Iu7i. erection TO pc helj ~ May 10,
l'l2'
.'f United states Secator-John S.
scare a. Is. Broward' D U Fletcher,
"l'lam b. Lamar.
OF Representative IN Congress from
lue second Congressional District Of
f.oHl'' frank ClafE
Lor 'orefNor-Jeferson 3. Browne,
-A'oett W. GIlchr'st John n c. Stock
.'I.
'V' 'Os''cs OF the Supreme Court eff
E!os''a Two 70 be nominated) Will
nam A. hooker Thomas III Shackle'
ioro'
for Secretary OF State-H. Clay
crawford
For Attorney General r William H.
bllls' Park Nj Irammell
For state ComptrolIer-Thomas j.
Appeyard, A. Church Groom, j W,
knight
For State Treasurer-W Wv Knott
For state superinlend 1nt OF Public
instructiou-WilIiam NJ. Holloway.
For commissioner o. agriculture
b. e. McLiu.
For Adlutant Heuerai--J' Clifford X,
Foster
For State Chemist--R' y. Rose
For Railroad Commis'ioner--Koyai
y Dunn' h W. lrylne, w h. JACKSON
julius Solomon
For Delegates to the National Demo
cratic Convention from che State-at-
Large -four 70 be elected James e.
Alexander, Basil @. Bowden, j. Hall
Brulnaey, Charles \ Earon Al 2.
Julian, Austin >. Mann James Hafvey
Wltberspoon Phillips, Frank W. Pope,
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-04-24
pnhllc speaklne al Ienssn.

The voters OF the south eld of the
county being DESTROYS of hearing from
the candidates for the various Offices,
have made arrangements for public
speaking at the Town Hail Of Jensen
on Tuesday night Of April the 2Sth
Speaking will commence promptly at
5 o'clock. All parties desiring to at
tend from points north Of Jensen, can
come down on the train arriving at
Jensen at 7;30 and return on the 1890
train. Candidates for the legislature
are especially requested to be present
as the voters are very anxious to hear
from them on the important issues Of
the day. Everybody including the Ia
dies are cordially invited IS there are
some strong issues ia the campaign,
and the men who are asking for the
votes Of an Intelligent people, must get
oua 10 the open and Leu the people see
and hear from them.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-04-24
For Campaign Purposes.

Governor Broward j., g5inl to bejoy
suit. against the Times Union beco, .
that paper said that he hsa .ggorod
the recommendations OF certain demo.
cratic executive committees. 1t SCENE
to us that ais actions would HE against
the committees. For lus.ause, ne vas
cansured by the committee in this
county the Time, Ch.oa printed the
resolutions Of censure, o 10 also orlnt
ed the resolutions Of the Democrat, Of
Hilisbogough county aud Of Dade and
other counties, Why not bring suit
against the committees, and why
against the newspaper tina, simply
printed the resolutions 10 persuit OF IA,
legitimate avocations of printing the
news? The democratic party is COIN
mitted 70 the policy Of free speech and
the tentative head Of the party Of Flo..
ida should ne, adopt methods to cur.
tai. this grea5 priv iiege. -OcaIa Baa.
ner.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-04-24

good start whether these cam.
naturally o. were introduced by sr,ie.
cial means, For general d!re,sor.
"ow'to mix and apply contsc, lpsecr.
cides, see bulletin 10.
Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1908-04-24

wednesday was regular fall day
aud gave us some October weather but
we are unable 70 tell whether 1t was
last fail or next falls weather.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

+ been taken out of The diamond pipes,
(which have described in u previous
letter. There are five such pipes at
Kimberly, and each contains pudding
currants of diamonds. The pipes
range from 500 feet to several times
that in diameter. Two of them the
Z Kimberley and the De Beers, have
already been excayated to a depth
ofsmore than 1000 feet and the three
4 others. the Wesselton, the Buifontein
and the Dutoitspan, are now be-
ing mined at 500 or more feet from
the surface. In every pipe the blue
I rock has been found continuous. aud
everywhere it is peppered with dia-
monds How far down the deposits
20 no one knows. In the Kimberley
they have been probed to depth
more than half-lnile, so that 1t is
no exaggeration to say that there are
hundreds of millions of dollars worth
@of@diamonds in sight.
As TO the origin of the gems, they
are supposed to be volcanic, and MT
Gardner Williams, who managed the
mines for 30 years believes that they
were shot up by mud volcanoes.
There is no doubt the pipes
were formed by some CONFUSION OF
nature, and that it was about the same.
time that the Jewels appeared.
H5i The mining as | have described,
consists or blasting out and raising
to the surface the blue clay contala-s
Ing the diamonds.
ON THE DIAMOND FLOORS.
Il have spent a part of this week in
going with the diamond ore to the.
fields or floors where it is left to
weather, and in following i TO the
washing machines where the Jewels
are finally won. AS the rock comes
TO the surface it bears no sign of them
have looked over several thousand
cars of 1t. but have not seen single
K brilliant Embedded in the blue, and
am told that the precious stones are.
seldom discovered, except when they
come out in the washing.
This blue ground is as hard as rock
can Just scratch it With my knife
Il Is so hard that You could drive q.
aall with chunk OF it. and il takes 4
heavy hammer TO break it. The ground
Is carried from the mines to the floors
md spread out there to depth of one
foot. all over the surface. 1t lies out
or about year. being plowed and har-f
owed from time to time. If the wealth
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
DIAMOND WASHING MACHINES.
Photographed for the News" by Frank G. Ca

guarded day and night by men who
%i1arcIl around them With guns in their
hands. They have electric lights which
keep them bright from sunset to sun
rise, and they are surrounded by high
fences of barhed wire, the strands be-
ing so close together that man can
not crawl through. and so5high that he
cannot easily climb over them There
are two Of these fences around every
field They are about 20 or 80 feet
apart, and the guards march between
them. If thief could crawl over the
first fence he would be sure to be
shot before he got to the second. and
so the diamonds are comparatively
safe.
WASHING OUT DIAMONDS.
This blue ground is brought to the
fields in steel cars. There are $50
miles of railroad track which run from
the mines to the floors, and from them
to the crushing and washing machines.
which handle the earth. after it's melt
ing. Over every car track is a steel ca
bic and the thousands OF cars are
moved by the steam engines of the five
central plants.
i saw the process of washing out
diamonds at the De Beers mine. The
rock was carried there a distance of
eight miles by the cable. In reducing
soft and one hard. The hard rock was
that which had not been affected by
the weather; and it had to be crushed
t6 n powder before the diamonds could
be taken out This was done in mighty
steel crusliars which are so made that
they VIII grind up the rock. and at
the same time not injure the still
harder diamonds within. After crush
ing. the coarSer pieces are crushed
again, and at the end it is all raduced
to about the consistency of soft ground,
made SO by the weather.
Both the soft and the crushed ground
arc then washed to getSrid Oft the waste.
and. as a result. out OF every hundred
loads Of the mixture comes one load of
gravel. containing the diamonds.
DIAMONDS SAVED BY GREASE.
1t used to be that all the gravel OBJ.
tanned in this way was sorted over by
men. Both natives and whites Were
employed. but the chances for stealing
We're great, and it was found that many
small stones We're lost. Indeed some of
the gravel which was sorted over in
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4i5f s} &
hair are examined, and If ne has q; any
sores on his body they are spropeq.
While the examining goes on the the iia-
tives have mttens Of sole letthe z.
their hands. These are so SUN tha.
they could not pick mp a diamond nd Y
one lay on the floor before them.
Al the same time the miners are paid
for being honest. Every man receives
s ST % per carat for the diamonds he dis
covers and hands over to the oVerseer.s
,rhe other day u negro lug out a gem
Us big as a walnut IT weighed more
than 100 carats. and he received q pre-
MUM of $3.50 for 1t.
1t used to be that many diamonds
were swallowed. About 10 years ago
one as big as n chestnut was thus dis
5p0sed of. and the negro kept 1t for more
than d week III 1895 about 81 900 worth
of stones wcra lost in Il miners stom-
ach ana afterward discovered. and the
same practise would 80 on today We're
it not for the Imprisonment IN J, a !, naked
state and the medical and dietary
treatment which all must. go through
before they are allowed to depart. As
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
ROCKEFELLER MAKES JOKES.

The following letter from John d.
Rockefeller was read at the convention
Of American press humorists. held in
Denver recently:
Forest HILL Cleveland, Q.
3Gentlemen--With the pleasant memoir
les of an official call by the American
Press humorists, ] send you my best
wishes for n successful conventions.
The echoes at Forest Hill stili laugh
now and tllen over the quips sprinkled
through our quiet atmosphere by your
members, My own success in appreci-
ating those Jokes of yours ana in pass
ing them off as my own has made me
feel that | am almost entitled TO a
union card III your order. May you
always be able to collect for your
witticism on the union scale.
Speaking seriously, as one should to
professional humorists4 the rest of the
world owes you real gratitude and the
best Of good wishes, gentlemen. You are
the true specialists in dyspepsia Chart
ty is born of a good. hearty, honest
among mankind / wish You COLLECTIVELY
and individually all success am
sorry that cannot attend your ses :
sions. I hope TO receive you again
ono day at my home: E t,r,,,, al;
YOURS JOIN. d. ROCkEFELLER,.
The convention of American press
slumorsts elected J. Edmund Vance
Cooke Of Cleveland secretary-ireasurer
and reelected Frank j. Seabright OF
Los Angeles president.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

correspond to the stalls i'll which the
race horses are kept. The grand stand
is the public bath where the black boys
come, when fresh from the mines, and
wash themselves right out in the open.
They stand in the sunlight as naked
as Adam before Eve gave him that ap-
pie, and the water sparlkies like dia-
monds as it pours down in Il shower
over them.
i took a look at the rooms where the
mon live. They are walled with hunks
and about 30 natives sleep in each
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
Photographed for The News by Frank G. Carpenter.

The greatest care is taken by the De
Beers company to prevent diamond
smuggling. No man is allowed to leave
the mine until several days after the
completion of his contract. During this
time he is stripped naked and put into
a so warm that he. viii not catch
cold He is kept there for several days
and watched all the time. Every bit of
his person is then gone over by the
diamond detectives TO see that lie has
no precious stones concealed anywhere
in it. His toes. ears, teeth, gums and
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

room. While at rest, or loating about.
IN the. court, they take off their clothes ttfl
and frequently. have nothing but nlan-s
kets about them,
The men buy their own provisions rs,
and do theil own cooking, There ~,
furnish groceries, and butcher SHOPS.
where meat is sold lower than any i:',,
where else in. South Africa. Connected
with the buildings are the Offices of the.
managers Of the compound, a hospi5 y q
& for the sick and rooms for the Stlara ~
10 CATCH DIAMOND THIEVES.
The natives are carefully watched to
prevent them stealing the DIAMONDS
while they are working. Their rooms N II
the compound are built against a wall,
around which are marching guards,
with guns insthcir hands. One hundred
feet beyond this wall there is 9 tight.
fence of galvanized iron about IA feet
high, and outside that are other guards,
50 that it is impossible to throw ga
monds over the fences to confederates
outside
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

to5other smuggling methods, gems have
been found in boot heels, IN hollow
canes. and in dinner pals with false.
bottoms. The miners frequently make
gashes in their persons and try to car
ny away the brillants under the skin.
They put them in their hollow teeth,
able place The guard grows more
rigid from year to year, and the detec-.
tiNes have become so expert that they.
know just exactly which places to
search. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

that way years agosis NOW being sorted
again and at a great profit.
4 To-day the diamonds are saved by Ia
sbles covered With a grease Just ike
axle grease The gravel isl run through.
what is known as pnlsator, consist
ing of a series of iron tables corrugated
like a washboard. These tableszlie at a.
slight angle, and the machinery snakes
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

as the gravel goes over them. They are
covered with this grease, and by the
shaking almost every stone at one tlthe8
or another comes in contact with the
grease.
Now. it is a curious thing that dia-
nonds will stick III this grease. and that
all the other stones will flow off with
out catching. Every few hours the TIA
bies are stopped and the grease Is
&scraped off. 1t is found to contain all
the diamonds and also small bits of iron
5pyrites, garnets and pieces of metal
from the miners boots and the copper
fuses used in the blasting. 1t is now
put in steel bucket which is perforat-
ed with holes, and this is sunk into
boiling water. AS the water touches
the grease 1t melts and goes to the top
and may be poured off, leaving only the
scraps of metal and the diamonds The
diamonds are picked out and cleaned
and sorted. after which they are ready
to be valued for the market.
SORTING DIAMONDS.
/ spent some time watching the dia-
mond sorters pick out the precious
stones after the grease was poured Off
Each man had on a table before him a.
handful of diamonds of all shapes and
sizes, and he was picking them UP one
by one with pair of tWeezers and
cost, | venture less than cents As
watched one of these men he lifted
up little white stone, saying: This
is worth $500. and then showed me
another, not much larger, worth double
that sum, The manager afterward pour
ed out Il pint Of diamonds on the t,-
BILE, showing me some that We're worth
$50 a carat and others much cheaper
He took up little scoop shovel and
With it threw the diamonds back into
the cup, handling them as though they
were peas
Later on ! visited the company's Of
fees in Kimberley itself, and was
shown quarts Of diamonds from the
various mines. The sorters can tell by.
its shape and color from just which
pipe each diamond comes. and / wa.
shown specimens from every nine [
had hi my hand a little bundle which
contained pint Of small stones, the
value of which Appropriated $50e,o00,
and | was shown other bundles contain
ing brilliants as big as the end of my
finger. Some of these rough stones had
smooth edges and they We're almost
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

to prevent them stealing the diamonds
and smuggling them to their Fellows.
Take for Instance, the Dutoitspan
Compound, which visited today It
contains about seven acres and looks
for all the world like q great racing
park walled With stables. Right in the
center of it is a platform which might
be compared to the grand stand, and
all around the walls are rooms about
90 feet wide and so feet deep which
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

The increase OF volume from the heat
ing and cooling of cast-iron has been
the subject of many tests, and 1t has
been shown that the swelling may
amountto as much as 40 per cent. Att
zer heating in a gas furnace 81 times
the highest temperature reached being
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

er is dry it is splinkled, and us a re-
suit 1t so melts or sofbens that the
diamonds can be washed out of 1T.
Every one of these great mines has
its own fields for such rock-weathering.5
There are at least 5000 acres in all. or
these, in the nelghborhood of 1000 acres
belong to each pipe. and all arc now
covered with this rock, containing dia-s
monds There are about lD,o00,ooo car
loads lying out under the sun. and l
am told that there. is something Hike
s $25. 000, 900 worth of diamonds III them.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

feet is suggested as an explanation of
the trouble given by cast-iron fittings
for superheated steam, which produces
The same alternate heating and cooling.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03

1850 degrees F., bar originally one
inch square and 14.S inches long. was
found to have grown to | * inches
square and 16la inches long. This ef-
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pecial Correspondence
r y I'M i3ERLY. Eleven thousand

sspecial Correspondence.
" ilNlBERLsY.- Eleven thousand
acres of diamonds!
Hundreds Of fields of blue
clay sprinlSled With jewels!
A mighty farm where the brilliants
lie out under the sun and the dia-
mondifcrous earth Is worked with
steam burrows!
These are some of the things you.
may see any day here nj Kimberly
Last year the crop from this yitst
diamond farm amounted to SELDOM
4 900. II is equal to more than $780,
900 for every working day the whole
year through. 1t was more than $50
for every tick Of the watch through
all the minutes Of all the hours OF
NIL the days of that year.
MINING THE BLUE
All the soil ofGthis mighty farm has
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
GUARDING THE FIELDs.

In looking over these fields one sell
dom sees diamonds but the brillants
are there and they must be carefully
guarded Think of $25,00o.0oo lteing
scattered over the earth within easy
reach Of any town OF 30 900 in the Unit
ed States. and you have the situation
at Kimberley, You would imagine that
tk,s fields would be raided and the stuff
carried or. 1t is not. The fields arc
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colors. Some were as yellow as TO.
PAGES, others a. light blue tint and
others pure white.
BUYING DIAMONDS.
All the diamonds of the De
Beers company now go to the diamond
syndicate. This Is a sort Of trust
which contracts TO take the whole pro-
CUTS of the mines up 10 a certain point
for five years at a. time, ! agrees TO
take so many million dollars WORTH
of diamonds every yearsat a fixed price
and more If the demand iustiiies IT
The syndicate cannot take less than II
agrees. but il may buy more at the
same price if the demand increases.
One provision is that the DC Beers
company shall sell TO no one else dur
ing the term of the contract. Thls
syndicate is independent of the De
Tsgsrs company, although many men
belonging 10 that company are MEM
beiS Of the syndicate
on account Of this arrangement i i:i
not AN easy thing for u stranger to BUY
Il diamond in Kimberley and any one
who might purchase rough stone OF
a native would be6in danger of prison.
The laws here provide that he who
buys diamonds must first take out d
license and that all diamonds bought
and sold must be shown TO the gov
crnment officials in order that they
rnnv Ne valued far customs In fact
avs1sG nan Who takes a diamond out
#of Eouth Africa must have Il certifi-
cate showing where he got that dia-
n,onij ana MAT ne has Il right to It..
During nv stay | have bought Il
rough Stone Of a few carts at n cost
of about SIS a carat. / have been able
to get 1t through q special introduce
ton to The officers OF the diamond
sx.,,l,icatl and il was sold to me at
.,hnu, l+fe .;nme price that the diamond
,,oIfia l,nvnse,ost !, t Wholesale in Lon
5on ~ Mad 10 90 10 q half dozen diff
rr,.cnt otIicials TO secure the papers
showing that [ owned it and ! have
pnitl 5the5eustoms duty necessary to en-
abla nc to get il outsof CAPE Colony.
TEN THOUSAND NEGRO MINERS
,on- 40 ,,,i,,ns of
=. ,,o ,,e,,t some
NY De 5;s'I % nnp ,ne,nlarlv
l,lns ~ .GivVV mt Tho MIS- and
working the floors and Washing a ma,
HAN 4 ooof whites on account of the
zbarfs +jn,es in America which has seli-
n,,siv ic,,t lilo demand for diamonds.
49, N non az tha native miners
-, - hanm ,ocantlv discharged and al.
tis'N an ,,,t,;tas, ,rhara arc sin
- - o ~ 49, nnr,s ana III;
io'VVo q ~, -, III,
NUMBER VII pe ny 90 ~,
improves. i1'.Ne nav g
see the miners curing ny lips ane
himberley lheS aie haiila Iu1i'1ss
from the various tribes Oh 'oo. .!, Al
RIGA, the company preierrlns 70 nave
its men from as many dllferent local
q L
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HOW n EVEN THOUSAND ACRES NEAR KIM
RFpTFY ARE FLOWED AND NARROWED
FOR PRECIOUS STONES.

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YOgt.Muench.

Miss Irene, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Julius Vogt, Jr., and
Hubert Muench, were married
Sunday afternoon, September 6,
1908, at 8 o'clock; Rev. Brust Off
ciating. A nice wedding celebra-
ton in the family circle followed
the ceremony and everybody
present was nicely entertained
and all enjoyed themselves. The
happy young couple, which has
our very best wishes for their
future welfare, left on the night
train for Holstein Mo-. where
they visit relatives. Both, bride
and groom are well known here
and are highly respected. They
will be at home to their friends
after September 20.---Concor-
dian.
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