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Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25
Great Opportunity.
Every Farm Boy in Wayne County is In
tefested in This.
Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars in Cas- h
Prizes and Valuable Material Prizes Worth
Striving For-The Conditions.

the report sent to T. B. Parker, De-
partment of Agriculture, Raleigh, be-
fore November IS, 1909.
8. The Superintendent of Public In
struction in each county will coop
crate officially in these Boys Corn
Club contests, and will be the repre-
sentative of the Department of Agri-
culture, and as SUCH will appoint COM
mittees, give further information, etc.
Wayne County Boys.
Under the above regulations Colds
boro offers to the Wayne county farm
er boys who will compete for these
State prizes equal amounts with those
of the State, so that if a Wayne coun-
ty boy wins the first prize offered by
the State he will get 500; and, if
Wayne county boys win second and
third prizes they will get $50 and $40
respectively. ~e'
In addition to this, The Argus will
give to the Wayne county winner of
the first prize an additional $25, pro
vided the winner is a paid-up yearly
subscriber to the Weekly Argus from
April 1, 1909. So that if the first prize
| winner of the State be a Wayne coun-
| ty farm boy he will get $125.
Additional Prizes.
Furthermore, a large number of ad-
ditional prizes have been offered bv
Goldsboro merchants, which will be
! scheduled and published in The Argus
within the next few weeks; SO that it
will pay the farmer boys of the coun-
ty to watch these columns diligently,
and get their acre of ground in re4di-
ness for cultivation.
| These Goldsboro prizes will be
awarded for best competitive results
in Wayne county, whether the State
prizes come to Wayne county or not.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25

The State Board of Agriculture at
the December, 1908, meeting offered
s10O in prizes. First prize, $50; Sec
ond prize, $50; third prize, $780, to be
given to the three boys in the State
making the greatest number of BUSH
els of corn on one acre Of land, each,
in 1909, under the rules and regula-
tions herewith set forth.
Conditions Governing Contests.
l. The contestant must be between
IL and II years of age, and live on
the farm.
2. He must cultivate one acre in
corn, doing all the work himself ex-
cept he may have help In gathering
the crop.
8. The acre may be in any part of
the field; but preferably by the road
side.
4. The acre must be land that would
not make more than 35 bushels OF
corn without the use of commercial
fertilizers or other manure. Though
including cotton seed and cotton-see
meal, may be used up to $40 worth
and lot, stable manure, woods mold
ETC., without limit.
5. A record must be kept Of all fer
| tilizers used, kind and amount, work
done on the acre, and everything Of
the kind. Also of the weather, rains
| droughts, etc., and the condition Of
the soil when the crop is worked
the time of planting, cultivation, etc.
6. The land must be measured, tht
crop gathered and weighed or meas
as the Department of Agriculture o.
it's agent may select.
Z. The crop must be gathered ant
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25

with a knife lou must make one
$4,000 down by the foot of it. bury
it so it will not be found, by the
rong Party you can do as you please
about this but you better do it; for
if don't swear to you I will kill you
and don't mind it. il you refuse to
do this 1 will kill you and then make
your wife pay for it. You see after,
have killed you I will write her a
note like this asking for 100000 and
1 will get it too. But I am only ask
ing for $4,000 now so you can save
a lot of trouble now for l had a bead
on you the other night but one of your
girls got in the way So I have de-
cided to give you one more chance
You have heard about us enough to
know that we never give man up
until he pays or dies this is your
last chance put the money there be-
fore next Saturday IL o'clock Or 1
swear you shall not live to see the
month of March. Don't you know I
can throw one of our dynamite booms
through your window any night and
blow you all to He'll. be sure to cut
your mark on the post and you will
not be bothered any more. Do you
know why McKin1y was killed? one
of our men killed him because he
would not pay and you are not Me-
Kinly.
xxx
No. 18.
This is the letter that made Mr.
Cole ''sit up and take notice" and ''get
ousy.' He employed Mr.. Dortch and
lad him wire for a detective. In the
meantime, at Mr.. Dortch's dictation,
the following decoy letter was placed
under the marked cross-tie, and a
secret watch instituted:
Goldsboro, N. c., Feb. 10, 1869.
My dear sir: I have tried earnestly
to get all of the money you have asked
me to pay you, but did fail TO set il
today, but I will have It all tomorrow.
and will put IL where you ASKED -
to, il nothing happ-.
I ana yours very truly,
JRs: ". Ce4N
p. 8. mean Sunday At u S'c7aek
I will do what you have asked me -
do.
Saturday afternoon Charlie Wilkins
visited Coles store and talked to him
about what a nice store and home and
interesting children he (Cole) had.
Evidently this was to impress upon
Mr.. Cole that he would have to give
up all these by death from the BLACK
Hand if he failed to come across
with that demanded $100.
With this parting shot Wilkins
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25
JERSEY BULL.
ground,

I have a thoroughbred Jersey Pull,
three years old-milk record Of moth
er 5 gallons day-that I am serving
on my farm only, at $1.0O insured.
P. s. Will sell same for $500.
JOS. e. ROBINSON,
Goldsboro, u. G..
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25

if you want to live and do well you
put this money there at IL O'Clock
Saturday & don't be one second late.
You will never be bothered by us any
more but if you fail I will certainly
ruin you first & then kill you. if you
try to communicate with the police it
will do you no good G you certainly
seal your doom this no chils play just
as sure as your God is you will die
if you don't do just as I say We meyer
call on a man but once but when
once we call on him we never let up
until he either pays or dies.
remember IL o'clock & come alone
if you slow this to any one you sea.
your doom.
THE BLACKHANDER,'
No. 18.
The above letter failing to Gauss
Mr.. Cole to respond" as directed
therein, he received the second let
ter. which read as follows.
Letter No. 2:
Goldsboro, N. c., Feb. 18, 1909.
sent you last week I, have been to
busy to- tend b you, I had some
other men here to collect iron be-
side you and they have all paid up
So now I can turn my atbention to
you. Now I have NOT got much time
to fool with you. I know you got
my note telling you the great order OF
the Black Hand has called on you to
contribute $4,000 to their cause.
tell you again for the last time. be-
tween now and next Saturday II
o'clock you must go down below the
coal shoot to where the rail road
crosses the big ditch you will see on
this side one of the posts under the
trussell has cHpss marks on it mad.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25

rons that filed by the Mayfower to-
day and saluted the Presidents Tag
at the main Of the graceful little crnl-
ser yacht, there were represent ID
$40, AGO tons of water displacemenf.
Every battleship in commission In the
navy had a place in the long line.
There were twenty of the heavily
belted vessels, fifteen being among the
original sixteen that sailed away four
teen months ago. The only vessel
from the line today was the
Alabama. She came home with the
Maine last October, and both of these
ships had the distinction Of going at.
the way around the world, even If
they were excluded from the feet it
self. The Maine served today as flag
ship Of the squadron of vessels sent
to meet the incoming feet, and as the
wireless dispatches already have told
she was greeted at sea with all tie
enthusiasm of an old friend. The Ala
bama is in reserve at the New York
navy yard.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25

There is no grace in a benefit that
sticks to the fingers. ....s
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25
BLACK HAND" CASE
wilkins Given a Hearing Be-
fore j. S. CoTRnis-
siOner Today.
Committed to Raleigh Jail Until
United States Court in Default
OF $500 Justified
Bond.

Postoffice inspector, Mr.. T. H.
Mitchell, arrived in the city on the
early train this morning, and at II
o'clock today Charlie Wilkins, the
BLACK Hand" artist, was given
hearing before U. S. Commissioner
Ives, on the charge of using the Unit
ed States mail for "blackmailing.
The prosecution was conducted by
Mr.. w. T. Dortch, and Wilkins was
represented by Mr.. F. A. Daniels.
Mr. Jas. W. Cole, the recipient Of the
letters, and the mail carriers who de-
livered them were examined as to
these facts, and the letters we're in
troduced, which are as follows:
Letter No. /;
Feb. 5, 1909.
Jim Cole:
You are chosen by the great order
of the "Black Hand" to pay tribute.
have been commanded by the chief
of our order to collect one hundred
dollars from you, $4,000 years ago.
when your store was burned up I
guess you don't think any one saw
you, but I have got people who will
swear, when tell them to, that they
saw you go in & come out of yo'1r
store about 20 minnits before the fire
broke out. Now if you don't come to
time, I will put this evidence in the
hands of the proper ones, & when the
time comes 1 will not be liking FOR
vuif 7 oil T K,
can all so fix it so you will never no
who I am. Everybdy all ready thinks
you done it anyway. And can bring al
least 4 good witnesses to swear they
saw you, so you can see what your
case will be. 1 belong to the grand
order of the "B1aek Hand" & being
told to collect $4,000 from you OF
any one else, if I do not either gel
the money or kill the man I will be
killed myself. So you see my posi-
ton, if you refuse to pay I will either
4 have to put a rifle ball in you some
night or throw dynamite boom un.
der your house, which will probably
kill some of the rest of your family
then I would make the demand o.
your wife & by that time she will
know I mean what 1 say. tomorrow
which is Saturday, just at II O'Clock
you will go alone down below the cole
shoot, to where the big ditch runs
under the railroad go down on this
side of the trussell G you will fine
one of the post have 3 cross mark:
on it dig down or inches & bury
| $4,000 at the bottom of this post i
has crosses cut with knife lik'
this x Xxx
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25
Ships Immaculate.

The batt1eships picked up their reg
u1ar cruising speed of ten knots an
hour early this morning after night
polished to a degree of unequalied
brilliancy and wherever painfwork
had been marred on the journey home
fresh coats of white and buff applied
to sides and superstructure during
yesterdays wait off the Capes made
ance as they were on that beautiful
| day in December, 1907, when they
sailed away on a cruise that was to
set a new mark for the navies of the
| world to strive to attain.
When the battleships pointed their
prows at daylight for the gateway of
the roads, the Mayfower, with the
President and his party on board was
lsteaming down Chesapeake bay to the
anchorage ground at the Tail of the
Horseshoe channel way leading
around Thimble Shoals-where four
teen months ago the President had
stood on the bridge of the same trim
| llILl0 N0SS0k CC REVIEW lie Outgoing
feet and bid it godspeed on it's epoch
making journey. On that occasion
the President said the sailing Of the
fleet meant simply the sending of a
homogeneous body of warships on an
extended practice cruise. It was a
matter of ordinary duty, he declared,
and while he was present to witness
the sailing in his capacity as COM
mander-in-chief of the army ant.
navy, he did not consider the event
one of sufficient Importance to re-
quire a speech or other special cere-
mony.
/ Today, with their splendid record OF
achievements and victories OF peace
behind them, the sixteen battieships
came home TO q welcome and 10 q
tcepemonious greeting which could
herdfy have been moro tubdlant and
sincere IL the f1eet were retnrHans v4c-
toFious from some famous bdttae-
ground.
Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-02-25
Two Strange Warships.

Two Strange Warships.
The two strangers in the fleet today
were the Nebraska, which replaced
the Maine, and the Wisconsin, which
replaces the Alabama. Both of thest
vessels were built in the Pacific, botl
Joined the feet at San Francisco, ant
today made their first appearance i
an Atlantic port. The battleship fee
and its escorting squadron OF fou
battleships and five cruisers, arrive
at the southern ocean drill ground
fifty miles off the Virginia Capes yes
terday, and while there made rea l.
for today's review and inspection. TIL
news that the fleet was almost withi
sight off the shore caused intense ex
citement in all cities bordering Hamp
ton Roads and today with the frs
streaks Of the coming day residents @
Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton an
other nearby places began to max
their way to some previously selecte
point of vantage along the borders {
the ocean or bay.
Virginia Beach offering one Of tn
first opportunities for a glimpse c
the incoming squadron, was sought
| thousands. At Cape Henry and a.
| along Lynhaven and Willoughb
shores great throngs were gathere,
On this opposite shore of the roas
stead the crowd was densest here, {
Old Point. The ramparts of Fortres
Monroe were black with spectator
and wherever a place could be foun
along the water front the eager or
lockers gathered.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12

doubt.
Over half ton of bullion, repre-
senting between 100000 and $35,-
900, was shipped this week from the
property This shipment is made up
of about 20 per cent gold and the
balance silver. 1t is the monthly
cleanup from the zinc boxes, and is
the largest gathering made in that
department for several months.
There are, it is estimated, $4,000
tons of broken ore in the two upper
shoots of the Montgomery Shoshone.
One man will frequently quarry out
several hundred tons a shift. While
reporter was on the ground re-
Gently, one shot broke down seventy
five tons. "It is just like the grain
bins in fathers barn back home. )"
You cave in ore from the surface
and then go down to the 200-fOot
level and let it run through into the
cars.
Il With the quantity that has been
milled during the last year and that
which is now broken in the hole, still
little impression is noticeable on the
amount of ore in the place. Only
when you stand on one side of the pit
and try to throw a stone across the
chasm do you realize the magnitude
of the proposition. All of the sur
face improvements on that part OF
the hill within square of quarter
of mile are being moved to enable
the miners to get at the or beneath
Polaris ore, taken through the
400-foot level of the Shoshone, i.
being milled steadily. On the 50v
!, foot level crosscut is being run tt
, tap the same ore body at the in
creased depth.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
RICH IN COARSE GOLD.

RICH in COARSE GUILD.
These diggings have produced eX-
cellent returns by pipe and giant for
a number of years. The ground is
rich in coarse gold, and carries val
ues all the way from the grass roots
to bedrock. Some exceptionally large
nuggets have been taken from the
diggings.
J. D. Mennach and Maxim Schu-
mann of Seattle, who recently pur-
chased group of iron quartz claims
near Gold Hill, are preparing to
equip the properties for operation
The showing is such as to warrant
them in beginning the construction
of a steel plant at Gold Hill. Men
mach and Schumann will install a
single unit plant as beginning
which will be increased, unit by
unit. as the development and show
ing of the properties demand The
furnace will be of the latest type
and oil and electricity will be used as
fuel and power.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
KEANE WONDER
MAKING bullion

A bar of bullion valued at little
over $4,000 came in this week from
the Keane Wonder. This amount
represents the December cleanup
from the plates at the company mill.
Things have been a little upset out
there this month due for the most
part to trouble with the water sup
ply. Two days were lost at one.
Safe figures at the present time are
$500 a day while the little mill is
busy.
Mr.. Wilson reports that the ore
being put through now is little I'M
der standard, but that he had to get
it out of the way. The outlook in this
respect is remarkably good for the
coming year
part of the cyanide appliances
for the new addition to the mil
have reached the property, and the
bulk of the rest are en- route. 1t i:
believed that the new department
will be put in working order thi.
month The efficiency of the plan
should be doubled with the use O
cyanide-Bullfrog Miner.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12

TENDERFEET MAKING FORTUNE
When the owners brought in a big
buckskin fat with yellow nuggets to
exchange for coin of the realm over
a local bankink counter this past
week it leaked out that placer
claim on Briggs creek, west of
Grants Pass, which has been quietly
worked for several months past by
w. j. Mellow and his son, is giving
fabulous returns. The rich claim is
located well up on the coast range in
what is locally known as the Swede
Basin district. The gold taken from
the diggings is coarse, many of the
nuggets being large in size, running
from $40 to $40 each. mellow and
his son have been working the claim
by the old time method of sluice and
shovel, and although the equipment
is crude the rich ground has paid
them from $40 to $45 day. Neither
the father nor the son are expert
miners or prospectors; they are ten
derfeet in fact, having wandered into
the Swede Basin district last August
and took up a claim that had been
prospected and abandoned by profess
sibnal prospectors.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
MINING NOTES
OF INTEREST
TENDERFEET MAKING FORTUNE

plant will be installed.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
The Montgomery
ShOShOne Nine
Increasing Output

The Shoshone put on a third shift
in the crushing department of the
mill ON January 6. This means that
the big mill is now running up to
speed, and the quantity of ore handl-
ed will from henceforth be increased
at least SO per cent over what it has
been for the past year of operation
Improvements have been going for
ward steadily and will continue to
do so, but the change here reported
is the most satisfying improvement
since the plant was started.
The forces employed in all of the
various departments of the mine and
mill have been guaged by the crush
ing capacity of the latter They will
all be more or less affected by the
new arrangement.
A new department has been added
for the purpose of treating the con-
centrates on the ground. 1t is a
cyanide bath arrangement. mechani-
cally new in most particulars. The
distinguishing characteristic of this
treatment is the cyanide strength Of
the solution, together with the re
duced mesh of the concentrates them
selves.
The concentrates, when coming
from the tables, are allowed to DIR!
for a time, and then they are pull
verified. Then they go to the tanks
prepared for them and are subjected
to a prolonged cyanide bath in ;
strong solution Gold and silver il
recovered.
This being but the first week 0
trial, results can not yet be had, blu
the efficiency of the method ha
been previously demonstrated beyon
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
Rich PlaCerS
Open Up in the
Oregon Country

and the shipping to Selby, California,
for reducing it, it pays. Much of
this ore gave returns of $40U a ton;
very little of that shipped run less
than 500 a ton. Several Portland
men, with ample capital at their
command, recently took an interest
by purchase in the Creole, and these
gentlemen are now preparing to
adequately equip the property both
for deep development and extensive
operation. compressor, machine
drills and steam power plant will be
placed; later on a mill and reduction
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
NEARLY HAD A
KILLING over
At MANHATTAN

Deputy Sheriff A. G. Martinson OF
Manhattan came in from the north
last night, bringing with him Jack
Donahue, who attempted to take a
shot at Jack Humphreys in saloon
there Saturday night. Donahue
pulled the trigger of his revolver but
the cartridge snapped, which probab
ly saved Humphreys life. Donahue
will have his preliminary trial in the
justice court here.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE
To PIONEER BULLFROG

"Alkali BIZ Brong has establish
ed fast passenger and freight auto
mobile service between Springdale,
on Tonopah and Tidewater line, and
the famous Pioneer-Bullfrog and
Mayfiower mines. Fifteen minute
service. All trains met. Auto fare,
$ each way. 1-12-10t
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
WANTS LETTERS ON ESTATE.

G. L. Milward of Rhyolite yester-
day filed petition asking for letters
of administration in the estate of
Richard w. Gorrill who died last
November in Rhyolite. The estate
consists of real estate in Rhyolite and
considerable mining property in the
Bullfrog district.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12

GRANTS PASS (Or.), Jan. IL
An important mining deal was con-
summated here few days ago, when
the famous old Black Channel placer
diggings and hydraulic mines OF
Foots creek, in the Gold Hill district,
were purchased by Wilson and
Brown Of Portland The former
owner was N. H. Latimer of Seattle.
The price paid was $4,000. The
new owners have taken charge of the
properties, and will at once over
haul and re-equip them, putting
them in shape for larger operations.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12
THE OREOLE PROPERTY !.

Few mines in southern Oregon
have made better showing this past
year than the Creole. OF Calico dis-
trict. This property. under the
management of j. C. Mattison, has
been under development for the past
sour wears and is now opened up by
several hundred feet of tunnels and
drifts The ledge has width OF
from four to six feet and carries ex-
centionally high values in free gold.
shipments have been made regularly
and though the mine Is Isolated re-
curing the hauling OF the ore oy
wagon over a rough mountain road
10 Merlin. distance of twenty mics
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12

Ed Rotholtz returned yesterday
morning from a visit to San Fran
cisco.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-12

Nothing finer in the country than
the Toggery underwear
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-04-23
STATE-OWNED TIMBER
ESTIMATED AT S58, OOO. OOo

Olympia, April 1.-THE state Of
Washington today owns $58, OOO, 900
worth of timber. Such is an estimate
made by and Commissioner Ross at
the request Of Senator Piles, who de.
sired the information in connection
with the debate over the lumber tariff.
The text Of the telegram follows:
Gin an estimate made of the stand
ing timber upon state school and
granted lands, it appears that upon the
common school lands of this state not
less than Is, 600, 00O, 900 fet of timber
remains uncut and unsold, which is
worth, at a very conservative estimate,
at least $40, 600, 600.
"In this same estimate it appears.
that upon the selected granted lands
II, 600, 600, 900 feet of timber remains
as yet uncut and unsold, which is
worth at least $18, 600, 600.
This would make a total of 81, OOO,.
600, 600 feet of timber upon school and
granted lands, worth at the present
time at least sos, O0O, 600. The state
will still own title to the vast area of
land upon which the timber now
stands as the same is sold and remov-
ed. This estimate has been made
from cruises made and bids received
from sales of timbered lands situated
in the following counties:
"Chehalis, Chelan, Clallam, Clarke,
Cowlitz, Jefferson, King, Kitsap,
Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Mason, Pa
cifc, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Sno-
homish, Stevens, Thurston, Waikiki
KUN and WhatcOm."