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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Banker Goes to Prison.

Benton, H., February A-Ransom A. Youngblood. until six weeks ago president of the Coal Belt National bank of Ben ton and the Salem Bank of Salem, Ark. pleaded guilty today in the circuit court to embedding s17,O00 of the funds of the Coal Belt bank and was immediately sentenced and taken to the penitentiary to serve an indeterminate term from one to fourteen years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Action on Tobacco Crop,

Lexington, Ky, February 24-The final action on the all-absorbing question of whether the 1908 crop of white burley tobacco will be planted will be taken to- morrow. when the district board of the Burley Tobacco society will meet in Win chester Action at this time is necessary owing 10 the time of planting seed being at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Ollie James Recoverina.

New York, February 4.-Representative James of Kentucky, who came to New York two weeks ago to enter the hospi- tai for an operation for an abcess over his right eye, is recovering. according to his physician, Dr. Robert c. Miles It Is expected he will be able to leave the hos pital in a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Torpedo Boats Move On.

Talcanuano, Chile, February 24.-The of ficers of the American torpedo boat fleet.
 which has been here since February 15,
 have been treated with marked attention by the Peruvian authorities. The torpedo boats will leave here tomorrow for Cal lao, where they probably will arrive March 1. ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Nine Indictments Found.

Savannah, Ga, February 24-The Chat ham county grand jury today returned nine additional indictments against w. G. Thompson, eight alleging forgery and one embezzlement of $12,5OO. Thompson was secretary and treasurer of the Palmer Hardware company of this city. His whereabouts are unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
Cannot Get Toqether.

Augusta, Ga. February 24.--A cou- ference was held in Savannah today by a committee of shopmen from all parts of the system and General Superintend- ent Noise and Division Superintendenr Gaines of the Central Railroad of Geor- pia. A proposed readjustment of the wage scale was discussed. It is an- nounced that the conference was not satisfactory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-25
TRIAL FOR
 PRIESTS SLAYER
Church Where Murder De-
 cured Is ReConSecrated
BELLS IMPLIED To KILL
Anarchist Says That When He Heard Church Sells He Remembered Sicily and Went Out to
 Commit Murder.

Denver, February 24-st. Elizabeths Catholic church. desecrated by the murder of Father Leo Sunday morning, was re- dedicated with solemn ceremonies this aft ernoon. The services was conducted by the Rev. Percy A. Phillips, chancellor of the diocese. The blessing today will be- followed by reconsecration services upon the return of Bishop Matz from Los An- geles.
 District Attorney George A. Stidger is arranging for speedy trial of Giuseppe Alio, who killed Father Leo, and who is now confined in jail at Colorado Springs under strong guard It is likely that Alio will be brought back to Denver the latter part of this week or tine first of next week, and immediately arraigned on a charge of murder in the first degree. Yesterday the murderer said his name was Giuseppe Guarnaccio. Later from papers found in his lodging the police were led to believe that his name might be Angelo Gabrielle, but today the assassin said his right name is Giuseppe Alio.
 Plot Is Alleged.
 A woman member or St. Ellzabeth church. who was present in the church yesterday when Father Leo Heinriehs was shot by Giuseppe Gnarnaecio, alias Alio, the self-eonfessed anarchist today told one of the priests of the church that a week or so ago she saw two Italians to- gether in front of the church, and that one of them was pointing toward Father Leo, who was standing near by talking to a church member. She said that one of the men was Alio and that he was the man who apparently was interested in as- certaining the identity of Father Leo. On the strength of this statement the police tonight again took into custody Mike Brunetti, the roommate and companion of Alio. and who was arrested yesterday but later released He is being held for in- vestigaton. The police are now working on the theory that well laid plot for the murder of Father Leo had been worked out by Alio and some of his as- sociates, possibly anarchists
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
WEEK CERTAINLY
LOST In THE DOLDRUMS

the cessation of the famous Engineers
leasehold.
Another black eye to the cheap stocks
is undoubtedly due to manipulation by
scalpers on the local exchange, who
take advantage of every bit of advance
information, whether favorable or I'M
favorable, and exc out their profits with
such capitalization.
The Mushett iasco, if such it prove
to be, has also caused the leasing stocks
to take suc,, a sharp downward turn
that nearly all of them are now capital
purchases.
But the greatest reason of all for the
slump is the period of awaiting the com
pletion of the Consolidated and Flor
! ence mills and the interim of low pro-
duction records. BY January LIST these
mills will be grinding out bullion at the
rate of many millions of dollars a year
and the same influences that brought
about the present depression will work
toward a strong uplift in the market
all along the line.
Goldfeld. has been in the doldrums
for the past several weeks, but there is
now a favorable breeze blowing.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

Despite the excellent showing made
by the leaders, the week just ended was
a hard one on the shareholders in min
ing properties, due to a variety of rea-
sons.
The newly adopted procedure of cea
ing to grant new leases in the proven
zone, or extend those already granted,
caused a considerable "~sloughing off,
of lease stocks, in expectation of even
more severe measures. This was in un-
justified procedure, as both the Con.
solidated and Florence arrangements
have expressed themselves as in favor
of protecting existing leasers to the ut
most.
II is undoubtedly a fact that many
brokers and purchasers forestalled the
result Of the election and bid in offered
stocks at the market during the two
two weeks preceding the battle Of the
polls. Now there is a period of wait.
ing, while the country recovers from
its lost equilibrium and begins to buy
again.
The leasing stocks were -bsdlysbroken
several days ago, as the result Of the
"petering OUT of several lenses and
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
]. M. KELLEY IN BIG LUCK
IN THE KLONDIKE DISTRICT

Joseph M. Kelley, well and favorably
known to older Goldfeld residents, has
apparently got a first class prospect in
the camp of Klondike, which will turn
into a big mine, with proper develop
ment.
MI. Kelley has a group of five claims
il the Klondike district, adjoining the
Klondike mine, which he calls the Seat
tie group. The Klondike mine has nine
sets of leasers at work, all of whom are
shipping or saving ore, and the ore
bodies pitch into the Seattle ground.
There are two shafts on the latter. One
is 81 feet feet deep and shows a highly
mineralized ledge, 4 feet wide. The
ore is mainly in silver values, while
there are good values in gold. Assays
at depth show $3.50 in silver and $45 in
gold. While there have been no
qualitative assays made, the quartz
has all appearances of carry
ing black tungstun, a metal more
valuable than gold. The work now
going on is under the super
vision of Lee Griggs, whose mining ex-
perienee has covered the Black Hills,
Randsburg, Cal, New Mexico, Tonopah,
and who sunk the first contract in Gold
field on the Combination mine. He says
that the Seattle ground is the chest he
ever stuck a pick in"
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

Ii is authoritatively announced that
the Nevada Hills Mining company, OF
Fairview, will soon declare its sixth
dividend of $4,000, making total dis
bursements of $45o,ooo since the or
ganization of the company, less than
two years ago.
The Nevada Hills has a fine record as
q producer and dividend payer, espe-
cially when the age of the mine is
taken into consideration. Up to Janu-
airy 1, 1908, the company delivered to
the Salt Lake shelters 4,053 tons of ore,
for which it received in settlements
$533,4sO net, equivalent to $l32.63 per
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
ANOTHER GOOD ORE BODY
IN the LUDLOW PROPERTY

Illustrative of the surprises that are
being met with in the process of devei-
oping the Ludwig portion Of the Ne
vada Douglas territory Of the fering-
ton, New, camp, is the find of a new
body of ore in an upraise from the 400
foot level of the mine. The manage
ment has developed the Ludwig by
means of a vertical shaft to the 400
foot level, from which level some dis
tance to the east IN incline has been
sent to the 650-foot level.
The officials some time ago deter
mined on continuing this incline from
the 400 level to the surface, and in up
raising, and after going a short dis
lance encountered an entirely new body
of copper carbonates. Superintendent
Arentz reports that the ore is a high
grade copper rock, but not enough worn
has been done on it as yet to allow him
to gather any idea of its real extent
This is surprise number two within the
month past, the first one being the nnd
ing of the new ore body to the west Of
the ehalcocite ore shoot on the 65O-foo'
level. There unexpected finds show the
possibilities of the property, and alst
that lin spite, of the resources salread,
brought into view only a small corner
of the group has been searched for it,
copper wealth.
The management has driven the up
raise from the south drift, 55O-foo'
level, for thirty feet, and the ore ha'
been averaging anywhere from 10 t.
Is per cent copper. In sinking thu
winze from the south drift, 55O-foo
level, the management has gone ffteei
feet, the copper contents of the or
ranging from 4 to 10 per cent. Worl
on the 65O-foot level has been resumed
now, the company ceasing effort Their
for a short time in order to install
pumps for handling the seepage water
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
FAMOUS MINE STRIKES
ORE WORTH THOUSANDS

Twenty years ago a London company,
known as the Hampton Plains Explora-
ton company, operated the Garfield
mines about eighteen miles west of
Nina. The property produced over
s 100000 as shown by the books from
the Anterior and Great Western veins,
but they lost both veins by reason of a
big fault, and spent large sums of
money in a vain attempt to locate
them, doing over 5000 feet of tunneling
in the search. Since then the property
has been idle.
Over a year ago E. G.. Minard, an
eastern capitalist, together with a few
associates, purchased the property and
employed J.. W. Chandler, superintend-
ent of the MacNamara mine Of Tono-
pah, to search for the veins. Chandler
is an expert in that line, and after hav-
ing read the signs on the rocks, he or
dered a tunnel driven in a certain direc-
ton, and picked up the faulted seq
ment of the Anterior vein in exactly
fifty feet. He got shipping ore almost
Immediately, and since that time has
been sending al average Of forty tons
of high grade lead and silver ore every
month. 1t is hauled to Nina, eighteen
miles, all down grade.
Two weeks ago Chandler laid out a
foot-wall crosscut, drove in twelve feet
and struck a vein fifteen inches, an as
say from which gave 1888 per ton in
gold without a trace of lead or silver.
He then ran a second crosscut thirty
feet further west in the drift, and Sc
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
aoLDFIELDER PURCHASES A
PROMISING LEAD MINE

James E. Keelyn of the Little Flor
ence has purchased a promising lead
property situated in Nye county about
$50 miles from this city. 1t is located
ten miles from the Los Vegas railroad.
According to- the purchaser, the prop
erty consists of a group showing a ledge
trend of fully $500 feet. The forma-
tion is a contact of lime and quartzite
and consists of quartz filed with steel
galena.
The vein has been developed to a
depth of thirty-eight feet and is from
three to four feet in width. The low
est assay thus far obtained was eigh-
teen per cent lead, 81 gold and $3.50
silver. A sample taken across a width
Of three feet at a depth of thirty feet
gave ~ gold, $2.75 silver and seventy
eight per cent lead. Mr.. Keelyn ex-
poets to start shipments without delay.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
MITCHELL q FAIRFIELD
GET DAISY rLoRENcv

The recently forfeited Daisy Florence
lease has been granted to Mitchell T.
Fairfield, who will immediately bey;,
operations. Yesterday they made !,
payment of 5000 on the hoist on N.
property and made other arrangements
for starting work.
The Daisy Florence is in the guleb
below the Florence mill and is in a vs,v
likely position to pick up a substantial
ore body.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
WILL SINK A SHAFT

A meeting of the shareholders in The
Washington Nevada Mining company
was held this week in GoldfeId and il
was decided to sink . shaft to a depth
of 100 feet on one of the claims of the
company east of Ida. C. H. Beesley
has been elected president of the com.
pany; N. b. Bertram, vice president; L.
E. Campbell, secretary and treasurer.
Robert Lanka and Louis Sweitzer are
additional directors.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

The first cleanup of the Goldfield
Blue Bell Mining company was made
this week at it's mill on the Stokes
property at Berlin, which was recently
purchased and is a valuable asset of the
Blue Bell company.
The cleanup amounted to $4,000
and was entirely from ore in the bins
and on the dump. The ore ran a little
better than SO a ton and the tailings
ran only from sixty to eighty cents a
ton. The cost of extraction was very
low.
Only twenty out of the thirty stamps
were in commission, owing to repairs,
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
GOLDFIELD BLUE BELL MILL
MAKES ITS FIRST CLEANUP

new battery blocks being placed under
ten of the stamps.
With the exception of half a day, the
mill has been running continuously
since it started. There is another
month IS run in the ore now on the sur
face and 1t is being broken steadily in
two levels of the mine.
Pumping is in progress and extrac-
ton of ore from the s0O-foot level, the
richest developed portion Of the mine,
will begin in a few Gays. Manages
Pearson is greatly pleased with the
first cleanup and believes that better
things are in store as o % as the mil
gets timbered up and the mine put In
shape for heavier extraction.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
PRECIOUS METALS COMPANY

w. p. Garrison, president and general
manager of the Precious Metals Min
ing company, is up from Pasadena,
California, superintendent operations
on the property. Sinking from the 800
foot point was resumed yesterday. The
lease has also been developed by about
600 feet of lateral work and presents
one of the best showings on the Atlanta.
The shaft will be continued down to
the 50O.foot point.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
ALMOST IN

The delay in getting the Florence
mill in readiness for operation was due
party to a fault in the general
structural plan of the mill and arrange
ment of machinery and secondarily to a
defect in the pipe line, both delays be-
ing aggravated by sidetracking of ma
chinery and material along the line.
Now all the tangled threads have been
disengaged and the mill mill be in
operation within thirty days.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
HILLS SOON TO
DECLARE SIXTH DIVIDEND

ton-an average of ~$3.94s.6O DER 80.
for l35 cars of 80 tons each. -,
smelter officials state that these To-
ears hold the record of being the O,s..
est consecutive shipments of high GRAD.
ore ever delivered to the Salt Ia
shelters.
Contracts for a mill, to be erected :.
the mine at Fairview, will soon be Ia,
and will probably be in operation early
next fall. Thorough tests of the ora.
have been made, and the pro,o.
method of treatment has been dete,
mined upon. 1t is estimated that tho
ore reserves in the mine are worth mo,.
than s., 100000.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

cured from twelve to fourteen inches
of ore of the same character.
Since then he has been drifting both
ways on the vein, the lowest assay be-
ing 500 per ton, and the highest $4,000.
He expects to make a small shipment of
high grade ore in about a week. This
gold vein was out about 100 feet below
the old workings.
The company expects to install a
hosting plant this month. 1t will be
an underground gasoline plant.-W West
ern Nevada Miner.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
KINKEAD MILL CLOSED

Having outlived its usefulness, the
Kinkead mill has been closed. For tbs
past several months it has been used ia
treat Combination mill concentrates bv
the Hutchinson process. This process,
will be used at the new Consolidate
mill and, until such time as the new
plant is in readiness, the concentrates
from the Combination mill will be AL
lowed to accumulate.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
IN DAISY

Ore worth $40 a pound has been
found in a pocket about thirty feet
above the 3OO-foot level of the Daisy
in the stope from which the ore now be-
ing shipped is extracted. The high
grade is in the form of sylvanite. A
large hunk was shipped this week to
the coast, a present to Frank Horton,
one Of the heaviest shareiIolders'in the
company.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
C AND PERSONAL

Mrs. 8. w. Smith is visiting friends
in Los Angeles.
Fred j. Siebert has returned from a
trip to Fairviev.
Work has been tempoassisyessspcnded
on the Frisco lease on the Booth.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Jones have gone
east for a few weeks.
Homer Wilson is in from the Death
Valley Keane Wonder mine.
Mr.. and Mrs. "Tex' Richard are
here from Rawhide.
Frank Golden, the Reno banker,
| visited Goldfeld this week.
Benny Hazeltine, an old timer Of
| Goldfeld, is up from the coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Hall are here
from Reno.
Will Virgin is here from Carson Val
ley ON a business trip.
District Attorney McCarren of Nye
county was in aoldfeld this week on
legal business.
Jack Reynolds, formerly a Goldfeld
ENY
broker, hut now operating in Rawhide,
! is spending a few days in this city.
j. +. Douglas, manager of the Hotel
Goldfeld, is spending a few days in San
Francisco.
Frank L. Reber, editor Of the Gold
Circle News, visited Goldfeld this
week.
w. w. Cahill, superintendent of the
Tonopah & Tidewater railroad, is here
from Ludlow on official business.
There are 400 boys and 406 girls en-
rolled in the Goldield public schools, a
total of SIS.
Augustus Tilden, district attorney
elect, has returned from Carson City,
where he was called on legal business.
J. +. Meikle, superintendent of the
Baby Florence and the Mohawk Ledge,
left this week to visit his family in
Oregon.
w. W. Keith, general manager of the
Tonopah & Tidewater railroad, has gone
to Los Angeles, where, it is reported, he
will shortly be married.
George Devefe, a Goldfeld gambler,
who shot himself through the head.
after sustaining heavy losses at the
gaming tables, died this week after a
week Of sem Inconsistencies.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. LOTUS and Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. r. Davis arrived in New
York this week after a tour of Europe.
They are expected back in Goldield the
latter part of this month.
G.. 8. johnson of the Goldfield Brok-
erage company spent a part OF the
week in Salt Lake City attending a
meeting of the Bullfrog West Extension
Mining company.
! In view of the excellent work of the
Goldfeld fire department, which hal
caused a material reduction in insur.
ance rates, the salary of Chief Schaffnit
was this week raised from 5000 to 1925
a month.
John j. Sheridan, a barkeeper, while
in a drunken frenzy, stabbed his wife
to death Sunday evening. He is now
awaiting preliminary examination. The
funeral of Mrs. Sheridan was conducted
under the auspices of the Daughters of
Pccahontas.
The annual meeting of the Goldfeld
Chamber of Commerce has been called
by President Sprague for Thanksgiving
day, at which time a new board of di-
rectors will be elected and Immediately
thereafter a secretary chosen to sue
ceed the late w. T. Bailey.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

The west crosscut on the 450-foot
level of the Red Hills Leasing and
Mining company is showing improved
conditions iaily. This is one Of the
most actively developed leases on the
southern trend of the great central ore
zone.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
CONNECTING UP WORKINGS

The Florence Goldfeld Mining com
pany is connecting up the 300 and 500
foot levels of the Engineers lease with
the company workings. When the 500
loot crosscut reaches a point directly
beneath the Florence shaft, an upraise
will be run.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14

Captain T. w. Webb is in from In
dian Springs.
Miss Ferne Willard of Carson City is
a guest Of her sister, Mrs. Will Wilson.
Congressman George BARTLETT was
over from Tonopah this week.
John Buser is in from the Sylvania
district.
William Martin of Seattle is a guest
at the Goldfeld hotel.
Tom Keane has returned from a trip
to Los Angeles.
George Holesworth, the builder of the
Goldfeld Hotel, is over from Tonopah.
James +. Keelyn is back from an
auto tour of southern Nye county.
Walter Stone is back from San
Francisco.
George Naylor, sheriff of Inyo county
is here on official business.
r. G. Virtue, a mine manager of
Rawhide, is in Goldfeld for a few days.
Mr.. Virtue formerly resided here.
DR.. McNcw, a physician and mining
mar Of Rawhide, is spending a few
days in Goldfeld.
J. M. Healey, mine manager for the
Round Mountain Mining company, is in
town.
A. A. Gold has returned from Look
out, near Fish lake, where he inspected
a mill.
Judge Massey of Reno is at the
Hotel Casey. He is here on legal bust
ness.
c. H. Shipway is in from Pigeon
Springs. He reports a rich strike on a
property in which he is interested and
has rock and paintings to evidence it.
w. P. O'Meara, formerly principal
owner of the Silver Peak Valcalda, was
in Goldfeid this week. He was on his
way to Los Angeles to visit his family
Justice Henley has left Goldfeld OF
a health seeking trip. His office is be
ing filed by Justice of the Peace Nc
Connell of Millers.
The Combination Fraction was out Of
business for several days this week OF
account Of a break down in the hoist
ing machinery, necessitating the send
ing to Denver for a new part.
A. E. Wing of the Goldfeld Cole
Mountain Mining company, which form
erly owned a one-half interest in thu
Mushett lease, has returned from Z
visit to the Pine Forest range and Other
mining districts in Humboldt county.
Local underwriters have received no
tice that fire insurance rates on frame
buildings in the business section OF thu
city will hereafter be one-third lower
due to the improvement in water supply
and efficiency of the fire department.
f. E. Pomeroy, a resident of Holyoke
Massachusetts, is visiting the mining
camps of Nevada and has been spend
ing several days in Goldfield, where hi
has made a thorough study of the dis
trict and is greatly pleased with its
showings and possibilities.
The following were arrivals at The
Angelus, Las Angeles, from Goldfeld
and other Nevada points, the past
week: c. z. Trouse, Goldfeld; H. B
Mcdowell, l.. v. Roberts, Rhyolitei
Lucian d. Noel. Reno, Nevada.
S. III. Harris has returned from Seven
Troughs. He reports great activity
there and says that when the two Gus
tom mills that are now under construe.
ton there are completed the camp will
have a wonderful production.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
BLACK BUTTE BONANZA

After a brief shutdown the Black
Butte Bonanza is hammering away, ex-
tracing ore and developing new lodes.
A thirty-fve ton carload was forwarded
this week. The ore averaged $55 a ton.