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The oasis., 1908-07-18
BIG COPPER STRIKE
The -Four Metals Mining Company
 Making Good"

seems to be what the Four Metals Mining Company have cut into in the Red Hill, in the Mowry dis trict. It is by far the largest cop per strike ever made in this sectior of Arizona. Showing up broader and richer with every days work, if promises to prove one of the larg- est copper veins ever developed in Arizona-this land of big copper mines. And the copper values have been encountered in various forms, so far, but always in granite.
 The country rock on both sides of the Red Hill is granite, through the center of which, across the top of the butte, is great blowout of oxidized quartz porphyry. Surface samples from the blowout run high in gold. To tap the vein that shows so prominently across the top of the butte, the tunnel was started well down the hillside, at point that will give depth of six hun dred feet under the cropping on top. When in 250 feet 4-foot streak of rusty, decomposed granite was encountered, which banned copper, fine as sand, passing again into the solid formation. In 3S7 feet the granite changed from the darker rock to a reddish, mineral stained rock, with small streaks of copper sulphides. There were more than fifty feet of this rock, samples of which assayed five per cent copper, showing a possibility of concentra- ton to twenty-four per cent copper.
 Four hundred and forty feet from the mouth of the tunnel, the gran- ite again changed, this time to a soft, dark rock, thoroughly impreg- hated with copper sulphides. Here, too, water was encountered in liberal quantities, as the sulphide vein was cut into. This vein was cut on the foot wall side and though now in a distance of 5l2 feet, having cut through more than seventy feet of the sulphide ore, the ore is growing richer every day and no hanging wall in sight. Samples taken as- say twelve per cent copper, S4.oO gold and eight ounces silver.
 Monday, July 12, a directors meeting was held at the office of the company at the camp on Qua jolote flat, at which plans were dis cussed for the development of the mine. There were present at the meeting President c. H. Gardner and Treasurer A. J. Wilson, Blan- dinsville, Illinois; w. H. Black, a director, from Macomb, Illinois. and $. F. Johnson, secretary and general manager of the company As a result of the meeting the working force of the company will be soon materially increased.
 The tunnel will be continued til the contact is reached, after whlcf drifts will be run, blocking out th' ore. Negotiations will be at once commenced for the installation o lO0-ton concentrator and It | expected that a large block of or' can be blocked out ready for pro duction by the time the concentra tor is in place. An assay offic' will be built and an assayer put il charge, to make daily assays of th' ore.
 The concentrator will be placed Tn the gulch, below the mouth 0 the tunnel, where cars can be run right out of the gunnel into tn,
The oasis., 1908-07-18

eheHplg, a second f1nnel can he driven into the hilI ifom Goo emeh below attaining dopib m pefDm three hundred feet lower fhan thr tunnel in which the work is noa being done. making it possible c. work the first eight hundred or nine hundred feet without the sink ing of shafts or the hoisting oi buckets, skips, or cages. The one will be mined down to the turnels and run from the tunnels to the concentrator.
 But the Red Hill tunnel is not the only. scene of activity at tue Four Metals mine. In the shaft on Guajolote Flat, about half d mile from the Red Hill, drifts are being run on the vein, and some rich ore, but not yet in paying quantities, has been found. Greater depth, however, must be acquired to thoroughly prospect the vein at this point and the sinking will be continued.
 On the New York claim, half a mile beyond the Red Hill, work will also be commenced. A new tunnel site will be selected and two shifts will be worked. The New York is across the gulch, samples taken therefrom showing good values in copper, gold and silver. A United States mineral sur veyor has been engaged to survey the claims for patent, there being twelve claims in the group. As soon as the survey is completed the new tunnel site will be selected at the New York claim and work commenced at that place.
 There are now about twenty men employed at the Four Metals, but the development work as mapped out by the directors at the meeting held Monday will result in an early increase of that force. When the contact is reached in the Red Hill tunnel, the work of blocking out ore which will then be com menced, will give employment to a force much larger than that at pre- sent employed. Added to that will be the work at the New York claim, the excavating for the con- centrator and the grading of a wagon road to the works, the Four Metals mine will have probably one hundred men on the pay roll in few months from now.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
MINERS WILL
CEASE THEIR WORK
Old Contracts Under Which
They Are Working .Ex-
pire at Midnight.
THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK.
FULLY 25o,ooo ARE AFFECTED BY
THE DECISION TO CLOSE MINES
-PiTTSeURG HAS FEELING
AGAINST MITCHELL.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 31.-That ev.
cry coal mine in the Pittsburg district,
with its immense annual output of 81 >.
OONOO bituminous tons, will be closed
down at midnight. is the assertion
made by every operator, who Monday
met in hard clash with the miners.
The miners express themselves as
willing to accept several concessions
but they claim these have been denied
them by the operators, who seem deter
mined to force a shut down of mines
for a time. at least.
Elliot Thomas Lewis, president OF
the United Mine Workers of America
was appealed to by the Pittsburg dis
trict mine workers.
Lewis will assume the reins of gov
ernment in the Pittsburg district to-
day in spite of President John Mitch
ell. and will make an effort to avert
the impending strike or lockout.
There is much bitterness displayed
against Mitchell here. His term OF
office expires at the same moment the
Pittsburg scale of prices runs out. and
this, the mine workers claim. has left
them practically at the mercy of the
operators. This was the reason Lewis
was asked to come here one day before
he really becomes the head of the ma
tional organization, to see what he car
do with the operators.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
TRACTION LINE
NORTH ASSURED
Only Preliminary Work on the
Road, However, Will Be
Attempted This Year.
MEETING NEXT MONDAY.
ALL COMMITTEES REPRESENTING
TOWNS ALONG THE PROPOSED
ROUTE WILL ASSEMBLE AT
WINCHESTER.

Monday night there will be a meet
Ing of all the committees appointed
by the towns and cities along the pro-
posed route of the Ft. Wayne and
Springfield interurban line at Win
chester. At this meeting it Is quite
probable that a stock company will be
organized to build the road from De
catur to Richmond. The new line
will be subsidiary to FIT Wayne and
Springfield traction company and the
capital stock will be 81 100000. OF
this amount the FIT. Wayne G. Spring
field traction company will subscribe
$4,000. The remainder of the stock
will be placed in the various towns and
cities along the proposed route
No effort has been made as yet to
place stock in Richmond, nor will it be
made, until after the Winchester meet
ing. 1t is probable that the local
mmittee. as soon as the new cOmpa-
ny is organized. will ask the CONNER
cial club to sanction the movement.
Then a canvass Of the city will be
made to place the stock here.
Only the preliminary work in con-
Meeting Richmond and Decatur by
traction will be attempted this year.
The Ft. Wayne and Springfield trac-
tion company will extend its line this
year from Decatur to Berne. Ind
which is twelve miles south of Decatur.
sCOa as the preliminary work in
organizing and financing the Rich
mond & Decatur traction company has
been completed. the work of building
the line from Berne to Richmond will
begin. This work will, it is thought,
not be attempted until next spring. A
dispatch from Decatur speaking in
regard to the proposition. says:
A meeting between the officials OF
the FIT. Wayne & Springfield interur.
ban and the Decatur Commercial club
was held last night for the purpose OF
furthering plans for the extension of
the road to Richmond, going through
Portland, Winchester, Fountain City
and several other small places between
here and that city. The meeting was
spirited. and all present favored the
project. 1t is now all but an assured
fact that the line will be extended as
proposed. as the people along the route
are willing to assume the necessary
amount of stock TO pay for its con.
StruCtiOn,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
CONTRACTS EXPIRE.
$500 Miners Will Lay Down Tools
at Midnight.

Indianapolis, March 31.-The union
miners in most of the soft coal fields
of the country will lay down their
picks and shovels tonight. About
250,000 of them will stop work in
Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Missouri,
Iowa. Kansas. Oklahoma. Arkansas,
Texas and probably in Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan. West Virginia and
Kentucky. The mining contracts un-
der which they are now working ex-
pire at midnight and. except in Cen
tral Pennsylvania and in the Indiana
block coal district, no new contracts
have been made, nor have the miners
and operators yet entered into district
agreements providing for the opera
ton of the mines after April l pending
agre ement.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
Indiana Railroad Commission
Jars Companies Which Have
Been Charging Too Much
For Transportation.
RAILROADS CONTROL BIG
GER SHARE OF STOCK.
Furthermore the Commission
Shows That Rates Today
Are About the Same as They
Were Years Ago.

indianapolis. Ind, March 31.-The
Indiana Railroad commission Monday
handed down an opinion declaring a
sweeping reduction of from 10 to II
per cent in the rates charged by ex-
press companies in this state. The
opinion is said TO be one of the most
complete of the kind ever given by a
railroad commission
1t was written by w. J. Wood and
concurred in by Union B. Hunt and c.
V. McAdams, the other members. The
commission has been investigating the
express business for several months.
but it declares that it has had much
difficulty in getting accurate informa-
! ton from the various companies as TO
| their earnings and the actual money
! invested in their business.
During the he airing" says the opin-
ion, the question constantly recurred
| What have these common carriers in.
vested in their business?' In many
ways We endeayored to elucidate this
subject, but were left, so far as the
evidence is concerned, practically un-
| informed. We frankly say to the re-
| spondents that the general impression
| is that they put up originally or at any
| time. very little money to carry on
their immense business: that with
their earnings, mostly, they have ex.
| panded their business, and we know
| from the direct evidence in this cause
/ that additions TO their equipment have
| been charged to expenses. The start
| ling inquiry recurs. Is il possible that
| these carriers have taken from the
public in earnings the money on
which they do business?' 1t is certain
/ that they received from the public the
| money with which they have not only
paid large dividends. but have pur
chased new equipment and set aside
a surplus"
| New Schedule.
| The commission has made a new
schedule .e,nst. so Of rates to become effective
| The commission went into minute
| details Of the history of the various
| express companies, showing how they
were organized and what dividends
| they have paid
| Regarding the Adams Express Com.
pany the commission says:
| The original capital stock, il Is
Continued on Page Two1
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
CUPID SOJERED
ON JOB IN MARCH
Only Twelve Marriage Licens-
eS Granted.

Cupid sojered on his job in Wayne
county during March. In fact the lit
tie warrior was a RANK deserter and a
gutter Of the worst sort Rheuma-
tism must have effected his arm or his
bow broke, for IL failed to work in this
county except in twelve cases The
aim was true in this dozen attempts.
however. and application was made at
the county clerks office for a license.
Twelve is the smallest number Of II
censes issued in this county in any one
month for many years. There ap-
pears to be constant decline of the
nasrinoniaIly inclined in this counttx,<
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
THE POLICE ARE ACTIVE.
Are Doing Everything They Can, to
Locate Man and Have Idea He is
Same One Who Has Been Nor
ryins Others.

About s o'clock last evening, Miss
Katherine Mckone, a well known
young woman residing at 232 S. Four
teenth street. was brutally assaulted by
about to step on the veranda in front
of her home. Today Miss McKone Is
confined to her room. but her condition
is not serious. Her assailant has not
been apprehended. Ii is thought that
robbery was the motive of the attack
George Mckone, a brother of the VIC
tim of the assault, stated today that
last evening his sister went down town
to do some shopping. She returned
home about I;45. While she was walk
ing south on South Fourteenth street
between A and B she noticed a man
watching her closely. Before passing
him she placed some small packages
inside her jacket. The unknown man
followed Miss McKone and she became
alarmed at his actions. When she ar
rived in front of the home of a neigh
Dor. which is just north of her own
home, she hurried up the steps which
lead from the sidewalk to the veranda.
The man followed her up these steps
and Miss McKone, by this time thor
oughly alarmed. made no effort to gain
entrance 10 the neighbor's house, but
started TO run across the lawn toward
her own home. Just as she reached
the steps of the veranda her assailant
struck her back of the ear with his
fist.
Brother to Assistance.
As she fell her head struck on the
side of the veranda, cutting a cash
along her forehead. She screamed
loudly. and her brother, as quickly as
possible. rushed out of the house, bur
by the time he got to his sisters side
her assailant had completely disappear
ed. Mr.. Mckone assisted his sister To
her feet and then helped her into the
house. He states that she told him that
after she was knocked down her as
sailant stood over her for an instant
to see what the effect of his blow was.
Miss McKone describes the man as
short, slightly built, wearing a dark
suit OF clothes and a slouch hat. She
said that he had heavy black growth
OF beard. During the time he follow
ed her and after making the assault,
the man spoke TO her at no time.
Two or three weeks ago people re-
siding In the east end OF the city in
the neighborhood of Glen Miller park.
reported to the police that an unknown
man was following young women about
he streets. and in some instances had
chased them. 1t is thought proba bic
that this man was the same one who
assaulted Miss Mckone. The police
are making vigorous effort to appre-
hend the man. Miss Mckone is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nc
Kone. She is empolyed in the office
of the Starr Piano company and Is q
very popular young woman.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
TOWNSHIP TICKET
Stotlemeyer to Lead Hosts in
Jefferson This Year.

Hagerstown. Ind, March 31.-At the
democratic primary election held here
yesterday. DR.. c. l. Stotlemeyer was
nominated for trustee of jefferson
township. The following was the vote
for trustee. Stotlemeyer. 103 Thomas
B. Allen, 50. Robert Dick was nom
mated for township assessor The
vote for this office was as follows:
Dick %; Sol Copeland, 81: Clinton
Martindale, As; and Mont Miller, IS.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
.BtRKMAN SAYS BOMB
THROWER ESCAPED
Also Makes Charges Against
Police.

New York, March 31.-Alexander
Berkman, the anarchist leader, declar-
ed today that the man who threw the
bomb in Union Square had escaped
and that Selig Silverstein is not the
man and that should he recover he
will be defended by the anarchists S
federation. He claims the police are
malicously falsifJng the whole case.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
John Gehring, His Wife, Says
Just Couldn't Stay Away
From Her, Notwithstanding
All This Punishment.
CASE MORE PATHETIC
THAN HUMOROUS.
SquaIor in a North End Home
Brought to Light by Tes-
timony in Case Heard in City
Court Today.

In the city court this morning, Judge
Converse fined Mrs. Anna Gehring 81
and costs for living with John Gehr.
ing, the oneriest man, white, black or
green, in Wayne county" according to
Prosecutor Jessup, although Mrs.
Gehring put up d vigorous plea that
she did not welcome his attentions and
that in order to drive him away from
the house, he had been ordered to va
cate by herself and the members of
her family, that the police had been APP
pealed to, that he had been scalded.
that her son-in-law, Earl Breese, had
given him a good whipping, and that
her first eX-husband, Jim Kidwell, had
not later than last Saturday night.
stoned him from the house. Mrs.
Gehring stated that all these attempts
to disodge John from his former right
full abode were of no avail. He per-
sisted in making his home with her.
Judge Converse fined Gehring So
and costs. After he has served out
this sentence he will again be arrested.
this time on d charge of assault and
battery, which affidavit was filed
against him by Mrs. Gehring.
The case heard in the city court this
morning was more pathetic than hui
morous, despite the fact that there was
much comedy to be CLEANED from the
testimony. The home that Gehring
has been persistently forcing himself
into is that of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Breese. Mrs. Breese is the daughter
of Mrs. Gehring by her first husband.
Jim kidwell. The home consists of
two second story rooms in a house in
the North End. In these two rooms
Mr.. and Mrs. Breese, Mrs. Gehring and
her son Johnny, sleep and eat. Ac-
cording to the testimony, Mrs. Gehr-
ing's two divorced husbands, John
Gehring and Jim kidwell also sleep
and eat there a greater part of the
time. On these occasions the two ex-
husbands sleep together on the floor
of the room used for the Kitchen ac-
cOrding to the statement made by Mrs.
Gehring.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
FATAL EXPLOSION.

Chattanooga, Tenn, March 31-An
explosion Of a gasoline stove today.
fatally injured Jas. F. Barnes, a news
paper man and his little daughter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
BROODED OVER FRIEND,

New York. March 2S-John Milton
Stanaland, the broker. who shot him.
self last night, died today. Brood
ing over the tragic suicide of his friend
Ernest G. Stedman. three months ago
IS the supQnsed causA
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
Politicians From All Sections
Are There to ''Whoop-' -'em-
up" for Watson, the Old
Burnt's Choice.
LOCAL MEN WILL BE
WELL CARED FOR.
Have Entire Top Floor of the
Hotel Campbell Will Be
Conspicuous Tonight and
Tomorrow.

indianapolis, md, March 31.-The
Sixth district in general and Wayne
county in particular shows up we'll in
the preliminary skirmishing incident
to the republican state convention
which will open tomorrow, continu-
ing over Thursday.
Ed. NJ. Haas. of Richmond. district
chairman, reached Indianapolis this
forenoon and made a bee line for the
Claypool hotel. where he became part
and parcel of the Sixth district Wat
son "boosters," who seem to have all
the advantageous points within the big
hostelry. Under the guidance of
Chairman Haas. the friends of Mr..
Watson made arrangements for the en-
tire top floor of the hotel in addition
to Mr.. Watson'ss campaign headquar-
ters. On the top floor quarters for
800 persons are provided, which means
that every delegate from the Sixth dis
trict, and many of Watson's close
friends and boomers will be taken
care of in the height of style.
Every political leader in the Sixth dis
trict. who cares to call himself re-
publican, is doing duty in these ad-
vance moments in behalf of Congress
man Watson They recognize that
there is a fight brewing against their
idol. but they are positive that when
the show down comes that much OF
the opposition will proceed to melt
away like snow bank in April sun
shine.
There will be a meeting of the
Wayne county delegates tomorrow
forenoon. Immediately following the
Sixth district meeting.
Boom Receives Attention.
Most of the WayEe county delegation
will reach Indianapolis tomorrow
morning. but one-third of the mem
bers are here now and all are quarter.
ed at the Claypool. The Rev. J. O.
Campbell, Wayne county's candidate
for congress. will be conspicuous in
the hotel Hobbies tonight and tomor-
row. His congressional boom is re
ceiving much attention just now, not
alone from his friends in Wayne coun-
ty. but from many admirers who hail
from other parts of the district
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
HILL WILL co
TO GERMANY Y
He viii Succeed Charles
Mayne Tower.

Washington, D. c., March 81
David Jane Hill. was nominated today
as ambassador to Germany, to succeed
Charles Mayne Tower. resigned.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
Jessup Dragged In.


In the course of her testimony Mrs.
Gehring stated that John had told her
that she could not drive him away
from her because Prosecutor Jessup
had told him that she was not legally
divorced from him as she did not pos
sess her divorce papers. Prosecutor
Jessup denied that he had ever made
such a statement and Judge Converse,
who obtained for Mrs Gehring her di-
vorce, without any cost to her. in a
final effort to settle the domestic
troubles of this strange pair, stated
from the bench that Mrs. Gehring was
legally divorced. He said that he had
told her after she had been divorced
she would have to keep away from
John, and that if he attempted to force
his attentions on her she should appeal
to the police. The court stated that
Mrs. Gehring had not complied wifi h
these instructions and that he would
fine both John and herself So5 and
costs. Attorney Henry L. Johnson
asked the court to reduce Mrs. Gehr-
ing's fine stating that there was no
his attentions on the woman. and that
because of her weak will power and the
fact that John had assisted her in
making a living, had influenced her
in permitting him to live with her. He
vigorously arraigned Gehring. as did
Prosecutor Jessup. Members of Mrs
Gehring's family testified that she
had never had improper relations with
John since their divorce.
Gehrine Persistent.
Mrs. Gehring testified that the day
after she had secured her divorce John
had come to the home and proceeded
| TO demolish it. He was then arrested.
! A short time after this. she said, he
met her on the street and tried to in
| duce her TO go to Ohio and marry
! him. She said that every time John
! got drunk he would come TO the house
/ She claimed that he told her that as
! long as there was a shack there he in
| tended to keep on visiting it. becau Sc
| he just couldn't wean himself away
| Mrs. Gehring stated that she then told
him she didn't see WHAT benefit she
had obtained by securing a divorce
Saturday night he wanted her to go to
a five cent show. She refused and
| then he began 10 whip her. accusing
her of wanting 10 be in the company
of old Jim kidwell.' Last Christ
mas eve. she stated. Earl Breese had
to black Johns eyes before he could
be driven out of the house. but bright
and early Christmas morning. he again
put in an appearance with a Christ.
llS present he had purchased for her.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-03-31
ASSAILANT ESCAPED
IN THE DARKNESS.
When Young Woman's Brother
Ran to Assistance of His
Sister After Hearing Her
Screams, Attacker Fled
SHE WAS PAINFULLY HURT.

WAS KNOCKED FoRcIeLY TO THE
GROUND AND AS she FELL HER
HEAD STRUCK THE VERANoA,
CUTTING 1T.