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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30


at Fortress Monroe. II is a working post for
the officers and the enlisted of the garri-
son and for the officers of the artillery school.
The big-gun service of to-day is not the big
gun service of yesterday. The time has passed
when the loading of a great rife was simply
the rammng home of charge of powder and
a projectile of iron. In this day the loading,
the sighting and the firing are sciences, and
the who do the work scientists. Pro
motion comes only to the artilferyman who has
mastered his art and the work and the study
go on day after day through the years of
pertinent. keeping pace with progress in the
knowledge of warfare.
This Virginia garrison has the safety of sew
era American cities in it's keeping. It is the
outpost defense of Washington and Baltimore,
and, with Fort Wool, it stands aggressive
sentinel keeping watch over Norfolk and Rich
mond.
Across the mingling waters of the bay and
the ocean lies Cape Charles, the rough coast
of which is visible on clear days to the gunners
on Monroe's parapets but no projectiles which
their great steel-wall monsters can hurl ever
are likely to prove effective against battleships
stealing into the channel close under the
Charles promontory to make the run up the
waters leading to the capital.
There is plan to build another government
ratification either the cape itself. or, better
still on half-submerged island lying midway
of the entrance to the Chesapeake. As things
are to-day, foreign fleet, with pilot deserv-
ing the board the leading ship, could
while the shore artillerymen, no matter how
watchful would know nanght of the movement
until there was nothing to fire at but the broad
wake of the vessels.
Fortress Monroe is bulwark of defense in
itself but if the enemy's ships pass in the
night and steam for Washington the chances
are they never will get there. for doughty
defenders of the nations capital are ready for
the fight farther up the channel, and they
stand within deadly easy range of the places of
passage.
As far as Richmond and Norfolk con-
cerned they are cities that sit in conf
dence that foe come by water to their
troubling. The main ship channel at the
mouth of the James is within easy great-gun
range of the parapets of Fortress Monroe, and
the gunner VINO could not hit SO fair and com
forting a mark a battleship or cruiser at
double the distance would be discredited after
one pushing OF the electric firing button, and
his place would be taken in a twinkling by q
man able to drive every projectile home=and
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30

there many such men in the artillery
ranks. If the marksmen at Fortress Monroe
failed in their cunning there is little chance
that their brother artillerymen at Fort Wool
would fail in theirs for the enemy that would
attempt to force the passage of the James
would almost brush the muzzles of the small
forts guns.
Few of the modern 12-inch rifles that form
the armament of Fortress Monroe mount
ed the parapet of the ancient part of the
stronghold. The real Notifications are on the
beach hundreds of yards away The visitor
at the post luckily, during target prac
tice with the big guns-a practice OF too
frequent occurrence because of the great
pense.
From the hotel window at the breakfast
hour the visitor government tug towing
two red triangular pyramids made of cloth
stretched on frameworks of wood An hour
later the big rifles of the beach battery were
pegging away at these pyramids which were
drawn through the of fire at a ten-knot
gait by the tug, which had line enough
the stern seemingly to assure its safety.
though the work of the tugmen looked danger
to the layman
The targets were not hit and yet they were
hit at nearly every shot. and the conscience
isn't hurt in making this contraGcting state
ment. With their glasses and measuring in
struments, the officers with the firing detail
marked the place where the projectie struck
and If it hit within space fore aft of the
target not greater than the space that would
have been covered by battleshp hit was
credited. 1t is fair system of marking and
is the used by the land and artillery
men of the world.
The life of 12-inch gun is measured by a
little more than fve-score shots. Add this to
the expense of the firing. and you have some
of the reasons why most of the big-gun prac-
tice is confined to sighting without shooting.
II Gen. Crozier, the chief of ordnance, has his
way, the Pinch rifles will be superseded be-
fore long by rifles of 14-inch caliber. 1t is
barely possible that the increase recently in
the actual firing practice of the large rifles is
due a desire to hasten the day of the new
guns, for after many rounds. as already stated
the present ordnance will be useless for of
fensive purposes.
There is evidence at Fortress Monroe of the
quick passing of the glory and the strength Of
the artillery armament. Guns which not many
years ago marked the highest efficiency are
being dismounted by the hirelings Of the junl
dealers, be carted away to the ignominy o
the scrap heap The government reaps no
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30
Uncle Sam rejects own Stamps.

Thomas A. Daily. an indianapolis
lawyer, was laughing at himself the
other day for sending stamps to the
government at Washington in pay
Aent for patent circular. A few days
DER he received letter stating that
8amps could not be accepted.
1T never occurred to me they could
not use stamps" he said laughing.
But they use a frank, and of course
they wouldn't want stamps. All the
government could do would be to sell
the stamps over again, and it might
as we'll get the money in the first
place indianapolis Star.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30
HIVES OF HUMANITY
SOME DENsELY POPULATED PoR.
TIoNs OF THE EARTH.
China, England and the United States
Each Have a Strip Of Territory
Wherein the People Are
Closely Packed.

That the population of Berlin de-
clined 4,419 in 1908 is not a surpris-
ing result of financial depression.
Although the German empire has
81 100000 people in an area much |
smaller than Texas, no part of it is |
very densely peopled. The new
Greater Berlin" which is planned on
an area more than twice New York's,
will not contain so many people. The
center of densest population in Ger
many is not Berlin but Crefeld, but
The Industrial region of Rhenish Prus-
STA and Westphalia does not contain
more than 100000 people.
Belgium, with more than 100000
people in an area less than Maryland's s,
is considered an example of extreme
density She feeds 625 people to the
square mile by the aid of vast manu-
featuring industries. Java, with 20
100000 people in space less than
Iowa, supports 574 to the square mile
by agriculture alone. The Inhabited
portion of Egypt supports by agricul-
ture nearly 1000 to the square mile.
The Chinese province of Kangsu is
supposed to support 100000 people
in the area of Illinois, but there is no
exact census. Still, the portion of the
province running from Shanghai "
Marking along the railroad, the Grand
canal and the Yangtsekiang river, an
area like New Jerseys, is one of the
three great hives of humanity known
to the world.
The other two are English and
American. A strip of 220 miles BY
40 connecting London and the coas
north of Liverpool contains in less
than New Hampshire's area more thar
16,O00,000 people, nearly as many al
Brazil or Spain. In the United
States a strip 450 miles by 40 who's
central line connects Boston AM
Washington contains nearly 100000
people in space rather more than
third that of New York state.
This little strip of American so
includes Providence and the Rhod
Island valley towns. Hartford, Ne
Haven and the Connecticut manufa'
turing centers, New York, Newarl
Jersey City, Trenton, Philadelphia an
Baltimore. 1t has many ports and
growing faster than any other impo
tant population center of the worl
toward undoubted primacy.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30

ASHINGTpN. = Fortress Monroe
guards the western approaches to
Chesapeake bay and the broad
waters leading to the James river.
1t is the outermost of the defences
of the nations capital. The fort is
an ancient stronghold, but time has
not Slapped its strength. The old
smooth bores of other days have
given place to rifled ordnance, and
the pine signal torch has dwindled
it's beams under the piercing rays
of the electric searehlight. The
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30
4z1z1l<z42N4RY ln9c>>~Q

The stone walls of this
fortress-club are covered
with pictures. some OF
them being older than the
walls themselves. There
are, portraits of American
soldiers here who gave up
their lives for their coun-
try, and who are forgotten
by all save the faithful
few of the army. North
ern and southern soldiers
are side by side. The pic
lures of these men were
here or elsewhere in the
garrison before the men
themselves were driven
by a divided duty into the
ranks of opposing armies.
They were of the same
service in the older day.
and to-day the same flag
floats over the pictures of
both in the Virginia fort
ress. The army had rid
itself of resentment while
the politicians were still
fighting confederates in
the halls of the north
There is not much play
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30
Noted Cor Her COCO work.

Mrs. Clarence Burns of New York
city is president of the Little Moth
ers' club of that city, and has done a
great deal in the cause of philanthro-
by. She is recognized as one OF
the most successful club women in
this work for the lettering of chill.
dren.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30

the peaceful office
firing behind the breast
and
The of destitute of
gathered within cubrooms
antQua
VIII
trophies herefr manyba the bows spears
of the Apache the
oof the Chinese II
field + -
modern but
'front.' the
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-07-30

ABOUT inc dLIOUHI It WUuIu 49,
Uncle Sam to cart the guns from
the parapet to a deep-sea dumping
place In their old age the things
on which a nation once depended
for safety are given scant honor.
In case of war the defenses of
the Chesapeake and of the James,
would be REINFORCED by mines
planted beneath the surface of the
water 1t is part of an enemy's'
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
AUSTRALIANS OBJECT TO
USE OF TITLE ON COINS
Stricken from New Coinage of
Silver on Island Continent

MELBOURNE, Oct. 10-The Austria
liam parliament has a decided objec-
tion to the use of the word Emperor"
on the new Australian silver coinage;
which is to be issued at the end of the
present year. When the Deakin gov
ernment gave instructions to the I'M
perial mint to make the dies of the
Australian issue, it agreed that the
condensed inscription round the Kings
head should be ''King ad Emperor"
When, however, the coinage bill
came before the House of Representa-
tives the leader of the Labor party
Mr.. Fisher, led a campaign against the
word Emperor" He declared there
was no Emperor" of Australia. and
that. though his majesty might be
Emperor of India, his relationship to
this country was so strictly constitu-
tional that it was misleading to as
sociate the word in any way with a
democratic. governing community
like the commonwealth.
Ultimately this view won the day.
and the Treasurer (Sir John Forrest)
promised to have the dies altered so
the Kings title should be rendered
'King of the Dominions Beyond the
Seas" or king of All the Britains."
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Gold Roads Starts New Mill

Officials of the Gold Roads mining
company, which has Offices in the Sc
curity building, have gone to Gold
Roads to inspect the new 40-stamp mill
which starts up to-day.
With the installation of this plant
the Gold Roads mine will start on a
prosperous career, as the mine contains
a large tonnage of gold ore of good
grade.
The new plant will be operated by
electricity, a lire having been built
from Kingman for that purpose.
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thing but mule trail. making three
hundred pounds the limit of each
cargo.
With the Yaqui Indian trouble at
an end the vast mining region of
Sonora will make remarkable strides.
Being a border state it naturally re-
ceived the early attention of American
mining men and capital, until today
the entire state is, practically speak
ing, composed of American mining
camps, and yet the present is com
paratively nothing considering the fu-
ture possibilities offered by the min
eral resources of this state
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11

HNHE shaft of the Precious Metals
mining company, which is oper-
ating a lease on the Atlanta at
Goldfield, is down 565 feet, and is be-
ing lowered at the rate of five feet
daily. Barring accidents the big bore
will have reached the 700 foot mark
by November l, from where drifts
will be extended to the three veins
which were explored on the 425 foot
level.
The Precious Metals is a Pasadena
company, and has stayed with the At
lanta through thick and thin for more
than q year w. p. Garrison, the pre-
siding officer, to whom is due the per-
tinacity of the company, is working
along we'll defined facts of geologi-
cal nature, as set forth by the United
States geological survey. Briefly, they
are that The surface of the Atlanta,
unlike the Mohawk and other great
mines of the district, has not been
eroded away, and that the eXplora'
ton of the veins on that ground hith-
erto has been in the andesite, which
is not the ore bearing rock of the dis
trict.
Has Good Vein Structure
1t is Mr. Garrison's belief that in
the dacite the fissures in the Atlanta
will be filled with ore Of a good grade,
and it is to demonstrate this belief
that the shaft is being driven so deep.
1t has already entered the ore bear
ing dacite, proving the condition out
lined in the government reports on
the district.
The vein structure in the Atlanta
has no superior for regularity and we'll
defined walls, in the Goldfield district,
and the quartz in the near-surtace
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Tommie's Guess

Teacher-B-a-i-t; what does that
spell?
Tommy-Don't know, ma'am
"Why, what do you catch fish With"
"Oh, worms. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11

proposal, and the details of the scheme
are to be worked out at once. AS tho
state will naturally make a charge for
its guarantee, the lucky minister Of
finance has doublY scored. He de-
lights winegrowers and he rakes In
money for the treasury.
Trade unionism is once more can
vassing among ballet girls. The Ma
tional Spectacular federation, which in
cludes syndicates of musicians, choris-
ters, actors, stage carpenters and stage
hands, invited all professional dancing
men and women to meet this week In
a cafe to "lay the foundations of a
cboregraphic syndicate" But canvass
ing among "choregrap piers" does not
seem to have been a success, for twelve
women and twenty men of the graceful
profession turned up, and 1t was not
at all clear that even that small num-
her took the proposal in earnest. The
women seemed more amused than eX-
cited by the idea. Some of them re-
membered a union of ballet girls start
ed six years ago, and thenFaffiliated to
the labor exchange, where navvies,
bricklayers, grocer boys, plumbers and
so on hold their meetings. The ballet
girls syndicate did not last long. The
women found. the comradeship of nav
vies and plumbers trifie oppressive.
and soon fed back to the more polished
where opera subscribers are admitted
as guests.
One most imposing matron, who said
she had danced all her life and knew
all the hardships of the profession, and
who looked as if she would be match
for two bricklayers at least, took the
lead of the movement" at the meeting
Just held, and called authoritatively
on the half dozen other ballet girls"
present to elect her president. At the
close the meeting voted the principle
of a choregraphic syndicate" When
the corps de ballet will get beyond the
principle of the thing cannot be fore
seen.
A statistician has figured out that
there are 5000 woman writers in France.
Fifteen hundred of them are novelists,
300 write school books, and 300 are po-
etesses. The remainder are miscel-
laneous authors. Among them are $50
journalists, of whom, however, only
twenty write on other topics than
fashions. Fifteen hundred women be-
long to the French Society Of Authors,
and sixty to that of dramatic authors.
The statisticians discovery does not
seem a very alarming one. Three hum
dred poetesses, it is true, is rather
high figure, but only 1900 woman nov
elists for a population of over forty
million seems quite moderate.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
BIG RUSH is ON TO THE
NEW STRIKE AT BANNER
Seam of Gold in Lease Sets Men
WiId-Autos Reapine Rich Har-
vest-5uiId TeIe phone Line
Especial Correspondence.)

RENO, New, Oct. s.-The rush into
the new camp of Banner, fourteen
miles south of Battle mountain, con-
tinues and prospectors and mine oper-
ators are coming from everywhere,
the former to locate and the latter to
investigate. A telephone line is being
extended from Battle Mountain and
autos are hurrying there from all
parts of the state to reap the harvest.
One car is reported to have taken in
$1,000 in ten days, carrying passengers
from Battle Mountain, the station on
the Southern Pacific.
A seam of almost pure gold found
on one of the leases is what set the
country wild, and with the memory of
Charlestown hill at National fresh in
their minds, men are offering large
sums of money for leases. Town lots
have quadrupled in prices in a few
days, and all sorts of outfits are be-
ing rushed in.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Prospector stampedes Town

TUCSON. Ariz., Oct. 9.-The friend
shin OF an unnamed prospector TOT
one of John Perkins bartenders at
Courtland has caused stampede lIolii
that town into the Chiracahua noun
tains. at a point near Dos Cabezas. :,
The prospector came into Courtland
for provisions and. after wetting ms
throat time or two he eXhlblte1
chunk of gold quartz to the mixologlst
which sent the latter flying from be-
hind the mahogany, apron and all; The
latter was discarded in the stable
yard, where the two men secured an
outfit and left for the rich tnd.
In the mean time others had scented
the find and followed, and late in the
night Bob Fortune loaded his auto
with a quartette and took up the
trail.
Dos Cabezas is in the north end of
the Chiracahua mountains and the tide
of travel is usually by way of Will
cox, on the Southern Pacific.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
ROMANCE OF EARLY PART
OF CENTURY CAUSES SUIT
Descendants of Runaway Marriage
Engage in Contest for English
Titles and Peerage Rightl

MELBOURNE, Oct. 10-The Austria
legality of a Gretna Green marriage,
will shortly be heard in the Scottish
courts. 1t will be brought at the in
stance of Alexander BosvilIe of Thorpe
Hall, Bridlington Quay, Yorkshire, who
challenges the right of the present
Lord Macdonald, otherwise known as
the Lord of the Isles" to his peerage
and estates.
The origin of the dispute goes back
to the opening years of last century,
when the third Lord Macdonald made
a romantic marriage with the daugh-
ter of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady
Almeria Carpenter, daughter of the
last Marquis of Tyrconnel. Lord Mac
donald and the lady fled to Gretna
Green, where they were married. They
had two children, son and daughter
The daughter became the Countess Of
Hopetoun, and was the great-grand-
mother of the present Lord Linlithgow.
After the birth of her two children,
Lady Macdonald acquired religious
struples and insisted on being remar
ried in the church in England. BY
some curious legal bubble this action
apparently caused the former marriage
to become null and deprived the two
elder children of the advantage of
having been born in wedlock, The
elder son, Alexander Macdonald, took
the name of Bosville on inheriting
from relative large estates in York
shire.
The second son, Godfrey, who was
in 1909 after the marriage in England,
succeeded to the peerage and the es-
tates in Skye. He was succeeded by
his eldest son Somerland, on whose
death in Edinburgh thirty-hve years
ago. the title passed to his younger
brother, Ronald Macdonald, who now
holds it.
The claimant in the case now to be
heard is the grandson Of the disinher-
tied Alexander Macdonald of Bosville,
and he raises the question whether the
second or religious marriage ceremony
did indeed deprive his grandfather of
the right to be considered the eldest
legitimate son of the third Lord Mac
donald. A very interesting case is
looked forward to.
The sisters of the present Lord Mac
donald are Lady Napier of Magdala,
Lila Countess of Cromartie, and Mrs
Anthony Abby Lord Macdonald mar
ried Miss Louisa Ross, daughter of the
late Colonel Ross of Cromarty. and has
family of three sons and one
daughter.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Company Quits ereenwater

The Greenwater copper mining and
smelling company, the last of the ac-
tive companies operating in the Green
water section, is said to have con-
cluded to quit work in that district,
after driving to a depth of 143O feet.
The management still believes that
ore will be found at some great Depth
but expresses the belief that other
places afford a better chance for sue
cess, at smaller cost.
The company has yet S150,000 left
from the magnificent sum contributed
to its treasury, and is said to be in
a receptive mood as to where to ex-
pend this money.
Frank Mannix has sold the Bull
frog Miner to Earl Clemens of the
Rhyolite Herald and the two publica-
tions have been combined.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-11
Mining News Of the Southeast
METALS LEASE ON THE
GOLDFIELD ATLANTA GROUND
= is SINKING A DEEP SHAFT

levels carries some values, with oc-
casional splotches of the real high
grade. 1t is evident, howver, that
the later enrichments which have
made the mines of that locality fa
nous have not penetrated the andesite
to any great extent
The Precious Metals mining COM
pany was reorganized recently, un-
der the laws of Nevada, and is the
first company operating in the Gold
field district to adopt the assessment
system, which worked so satisfactorily
in the Comstocl1 and in Utah. An as
essment of 1 cent per share was levied
recently which provides the company
with $4,000 for operating expenses.
The lease is we'll equipped, a heavy
electric hoist having been installed
two months ago.
Clay Tallman and Sam Davis have
made strike of very rich ore on the
Original Bullfrog ground, which was
the first discovery in the Bullfrog dis
trict.
The vein is entirely independent of
the original strike, and is on the far
end of the claim, several hundred feet
from the main workings of the prop
erty.
Ta1lman and Davis have lease on
this portion of the Original, and are
saving the ore which they take out
in prospecting.
Douglass White of the Salt Lake
route is reported by a Manhattan, Ne
vada, paper to have purchased for him
self and associates valuable placer To-
cations while in attendance on the
mining congress in Goldheld.