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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11

II the silly season could take it all
out in being silly 1t would deserve
praise rather than criticism. But when
it merges into the reckless and then
the criminal season it is time to start
al inquiry into underlying causes. Po-
lice returns from the summer months
compare unfavorably with those for
the three other seasons combined, with
such painful regularity that it may be
necessary to enact special laws for the
protection of the law-abiding during
the heated period.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11

Such accidents as befell Broohns, one
of the few America aeronauts expert
enough to have annexed a world
not retsrd the steady advance which
is being made in the art OF aviation,
but it may initiate against the
aviation meets as now conducted in
this country. Now that the coast re-
sorts have taken up the business of
holding such meets as added attrac-
lions, the problem of accommodating
the crowds, rather than safeguarding
them, seems the important one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11
THE EVIDENCE LOCATED.

did you sweep your room, Bridget
Faith an l did, mum. If yez don't
believe me, look under the bed."--Life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-11

WMEE
LESS STRAIN

LESS STRAIN.
I sometimes think I'd rather have
q foe
Who Plans somehow, sensswhsrets
lay me low
Than own q friend VINO oonstantfx
insists
On telling mo his every taas- Of w.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To VIM. B. Mcconnell, 625 New York
Life Building, Chicago, Ill.

To VIM. B. Mcconnell, 625 New York
Life Building, Chicago, Ill.
You are hereby notified that during
the year ending December 31st, 1908,
the undersigned has expended four
hundred dollars in labor upon the four
following quartz lode mining claims:
White Rose, Copper Queen and Wild
Rose No. ! and No. 3, situated In the
Montezuma mining district, Esmeralda
county, state of Nevada, for the pu-
pose of holding said claims under the
provisions of section 1924, Revised
Statutes of the United States, and, #
at the expiration of ninety days after
the date hereof, you shall fail to con-
tribute your proportion of the expendi-
ture required by said section 1924, your
interest in the said claims shall become
the property of the undersigned, who
have made the expenditure required by
law.
Dated. Goldfeld, Nevada, December
18th, 1909.
HARRY F. PARKER,
JOHN IRA PARKER,
GEORGE A SMITH
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
SOME "DON'TS" CONCERNED
WITH HANDLING DYNAMITE

end to be thawed, nor should dynamite
be stored so that the sticks stand on
their ends. Any method of thawing
that necessitates the standing of the
sticks on end should not be used.
Don't break frozen sticks of dy-
Mantle in your hands, but cut them
with a cutter used for the purpose.
Don't throw sticks of dynamite
about, whether frozen or not, but
handle them with the utmost care.
Don t use a penknife in placing your
exploders, but buy the tool meant to be
used for such work.
Don't use heated stones for thawing
dynamite by placing the stones and
dynamite in conduct. However, heated
stones can be used to heat a chamber
or box in which dynamite can be
thawed.
Don't use a pick or bar to open a
case of dynamite, but open cases care
fully. A wooden wedge and maui will
answer for this purpose.
Don't store caps and fuses with dy-
ramite, nor keep them in the same
tool box.
Don't carry caps in your pocket. A
number of accidents nave occurred in
this way.
Don't use an iron bar in tamping
your explosives.
Don't thaw more dynamite than you
need at one time, as every time frozen
dynamite is thawed it becomes more
dangerous.
Don't store dynamite that has once
been thawed with your regular stock of
dynamite, but put it in a separate
place so that those using it Will know
that it has beer thawed.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
;WINDLER DRAYTON NEARLY
WORKS $4O,O 600, 600 SCHEME
Prince of All Get-Rich-Quick Schemers Discov-
cred Just Before He Lands Enormous
Money Deal in Europe

when the First National bank here was
drawn upon by a japanese bank al
Toxic for $4,000 by "James j. Brown
the draft was honored without question.
Silverberg, in Japan, drew the money
from the bank there and disappeared
Brown had left the Nippon city and
when he arrived in Denver Immediately
repudiated the draft. 1t was not known
for some time that it was the man who
had posed in Denver as 81. Coleman
Drayton,' who had forged Brown Is
name to the draft at Toxic and collect
ed the money. The Denver bank lost
the $4,000.
Adopts Name of New York Millionaire.
When Silverberg came to Denver it
was as "Drayton," having adopted the
name of a New York millionaire about
whom little but his financial rating vas
known. He declared he had come out
for his health and was, of course, well
received in exclusive circles here. He
met Governor Thomas and proposed
that Colorado exhibit a gold statue of
a girl at the Paris exposition as sug-
gestive of Colorado mining possibilities.
The suggestion was well taken and
while he was preparing to go to Paris
as a representative of Colorado On the
state commission he borrowed sums rang
ing from cab hire to thousands of dol
lars right and left in Denver. Sudden
ly he dropped out of sight and then it
became known that his associates here,
including the governor of the state, had
been victimized.
From Colorado Silverberg went to
Montana where he became acquainted
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
A CAMP OF
GREAT POSSIBILITIES

rounding granite, offer natural water
courses for the drainage of the district,
and that in the ages past the values
have been carried from near the surface
down into the sulphides, which are
found at no great depth.
A great tonnage of ore has been ex-
posed with comparatively little work
on several of the claims in the district,
and though a party of ore-buyers was
in the district during the summer and
made arrangements for the purchase of
considerable of the product, little has
been shipped, owing to the long wagon
haul necessary to place it at a shipping
point to be forwarded to the market.
Mr.. White states that at a depth of
fifteen feet veins of good commercial
ore, ranging from two to five feet in
width, have been encountered on one
claim, and that from the shallow work
ings a carload of ore has been taken
out.
United States Busy.
On the property of the United States
Smelling, Refining and Mining company,
a force of men is employed in develop
ment work, and in their tunnel a face
of rich ore has been uncovered.
On the Bonanza group, owned by
eastern capitalists, work is also being
prosecuted, a big vein being the OBJ
~iective point in these operations. This
company has also ordered a hosting
plant, it is stated, and intend sinking
a shaft for the further development of
their ground.
Mr.. White is confident that with the
advent of the new railroad a great dis
trict will be opened up in and about
Contact. The assessment work per
formed by owners of claims in the Sec
ton during the year has resulted in the
opening up of some very promising
prospects, and all operators are so con-
fdent of ultimate success in their
ventures that they win install machin-
cry and equipment for extensive work
Just as soon as suitable transportation
for their product is assured.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
ROUND MOUNTAIN MAN
INJURED WHILE CoAsTING

Ed Johnson, of Round Mountain, who
was visiting friends in this city over
the holidays, met with a severe acci-
dent as a member of a eoasting party
in Cedar Ravine. The line of tandem
sleds was under the direction of Roxy,
the famous Austin pilot, who scarcely
ever goes wrong when ''frogging' for
a large party. This time, however, "a
slip happened somewhere and the bunch
was ditched. Johnson came out with a
broken collar bone and three fractured
ribs.-Reese River Reveille.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
NEW WORKERS PURCHASE
LARGE ACREAGE AT ATLANTA

Atlanta, in Lincoln county, Nevada,
is coming to the front, according to adj
v;.es received from there that a New
York syndicate, backed by powerful
eanitalists, has purchased from a num-
her of Greek mine owners, all of their
nronerties. for 100000. The first pay
ment of $4,000 was made last week, 1t
ia said. The Atlanta Mines company is
s.ia 70 have bought another group of
n,onerties with most promising show
mos at 100000, paying $4,000 of the
nnr.base price within the last 10 days.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
popular Mechanics.)

Opu M~ecudHlCS.J
1t is at this season of the veal that
those in charge of rock blasting should
see that the men under them handle
explosives properly. With black pow
der the care ordinarily exercised should
be continued. This explosive is not at
fected by cold weather, but with dyna-
mite and Judson powder extraordinary
care must be exercised, as these explo-
sives freeze, owing to the nitro
glycerine that they contain.
AS the percentage of nitro-glycerin
in Judson powder is small, the danger
from it is not so great as from dy-
Mantle, which contains 80 per cent OF
more of nitro-g lycerine. When Judson
powder becomes frozen it will cake IN
the sack, but it also cakes from other
causes. Only a little heat is necessary
to allow it to be readily broken up by
the hands and placed in the blasting
hole. Owing to freezing and thawlng
free nitro-glycerine can leak from the
powder, but not as readily as from dy-
Mantle.
In the case of dynamite this is the
great danger from freezing, and not
only should dynamite that is frozen be
handled with the Utmost caution, put
also that which has been thawed out.
The fact is that there is greater danger
from the dynamite after 1T is thawed
than in it's frozen state, for then the
nitro-giycerine leaks from the absorb
ent used in the dynamite.
Nitro-glycerine in dynamite freezes
at a temperature of from AZ to 40 de-
orees F.. When frozen it cannot be
easily exploded in the ordinary caps
used in blasting, but 1t is very seu-
sitiye to friction, cutting or breaking.
The thawing of the frozen dynamite IS,
however, more . dangerous than the
handling of it while frozen. When dy-
ramite is being thawed it begins, as
previously stated, to leak nltro-giyc
crime. This process is generally termed
by foremen as "%rotting.'
Whenever possible to do SO, dynamite
should be stored in magazines that are
heated to an even thawing temperature
If dynamite is exposed to the continued
high temperatures the nitro-glyeerin'
will also leak from it. On most con
struction work it is not economical t.
build a magazine for storage that !
heated, so the dynamite becomes froz
en- and has to be thawed out
There are a number of safe ways .
thaw out dynamite, but many method
used are exceedingly dangerous, an
every winter the public press report
numerous accidents and fatalities tina
occur from these wrong methods. Ac
duced are a few "don'ts' that shout
be- observed:
/, Don't thaw dynamite by an open mr.
or by a boiler or on a stove.
:, Don't use boiling water or steam I
!. thaw dynamite. Any water so use
, should never be thrown from the bucks
r or barrel, but should be poured gent
r into a hole and covered with earth.
o. Don't stand sticks of dynamite Q
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08

SALT LAKE, Jan. "A. H. White,
a well-known mining man of this city,
who has been operating in the Contact,
Nevada, camp for some months past,
has returned, and will remain in Salt
Lake for the remainder of the winter.
Mr.. White states, in a general way, that
the wear in Contact has resulted In the
accomplishment of a vast amount OF
prospecting and development work, all
of which has been of an encouraging
nature and such as to cause a prediction
of big things to come for the district
in the near future. The crying need
of Contact, which is situated about
ffty-fve miles northeast of Wells, IN
Elko county, is a railroad, and such a
high way has been promised the camp
and it's construction is already well IN
der way. Forty miles of this road, be-
ing built by the Oregon Short Line com
pany from Twin Falls, is already com
pleted, with thirty miles yet to go.
Work on the construction has been sus-
pended now for the winter, though as
surance has been given that it wall De
completed during the new year.
On the arrival of this road, Mr.. White
stated, depends the more actiye ana
more thorough developments of Contact.
To date, owing to the difficulties of
TRANSPORTATION over the crude roads, no
f, heavy machinery has been taken into
the camp, and what work has been done
has been of an exploratory nature, IN
large part, being sufficient to demon
~strate, however,, the immense possibili-
ties of the surrounding c~opper-bearing
territory.
Camp Growing.
Mr.. White states that there are now
about $50 people in Contact. The camp
has one general store, several saloons
and numerous new business enterprises
are expected to be put under way upon
the arrival of the railroad.
Mr.. White explains the formations ex-
listing in the Contact district as being
in the shape of a three-quarter circle,
the contact being between lime and
granite. extending around the circle,
while from edge to edge a number OF
porphyry assures extend these fssuEes
being about six miles in length between
the widest points. The theory advanced
nv Mr.. White, and one which is held as
being logical by other operators in the
district. is hat these assures, being OF
Ia more porous formation than the sur
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08

with the son of Senator Clark. OF his
experiences with the senator's son and
later happenings in new York Silver
berg once wrote:
Entertained by King Siam.
"sThis was an event in my life, and L
might have made it a stepping stone to
honorable achievement. 1t was the one
opportunity of a career. Every favor
was showered on mo and l had things
my. own way until an expert went over
the books and reported me too extrava-
giant aver for Montana. L need not de-
scribe my leave taking. l landed in
New York with some $4,000, the re-
mains of my Montana and Colorado fin
.aneial round up.
81 took rooms at the Waldorf and
cut a wide swath. 1t was easy to ar
range a plan of campaign, for | knew
the principal men of the west. l con
tracted with certain gambling houses to
introduce Westerners. In bringing this
about / gave sumptuous dinners and
made a great impression on visiting
miners and cattle kings
He next appeared in Calcutta where
a characteristic exploit replenished his
fortune. From Calcutta Silverberg
went to Siam, where he was entertain
ed by the king. From there he went
to Toxic and recouped his fortunes by
means of the forged draft on the Dem
yer bank.
Where Silverberg will mex appear
there is no telling. Rnt wherever it
may be it is certain those who live in
the neighborhood will be sorry for his
appearance.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08
LEGAL BLANKS, LOCATION NO
TICEs, PROOF OF LABOR AND ALI
OTHER LEGAL BLANKS AT OF.
FICE OF THE NEWS.

Get prices and samples of work 1t
The News Job Printing establishment,
first.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08

sl.25 PER WORD INSERTS CLAS-
sifed ads in SO leading papers in
u. s. Send for list. The Dake
Advertising Agency, 427 South
Main street, Los Angeles, Calf.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-08

FOB SALE-Location notices, proof
Of annual labor and ali othe-
legal blanks, at The News oaaee.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
A Losiaq Game.

By having "a record kept at the
cashiers desk of pay checks which
patrons fail to turn in | sometimes
make up my LOSSES" said the proprie-
tor Of large restaurant. To-day
man got "a check for 80 cents. 10 the
cashier he presented one for - cents.
The latter, glancing at his missing
check card, discovered that it was one
Of the listed ones. OBTAINING the man,
he notified me. After being confront
cd with the waiter the beat wanted to
pay both checks. I ordered q police
man summoned The mans pleading
led me 10 show him the list Of missing
checks, which amounted 90 something
like $50, saying that didn't know but
that hc was the cause Of them all lie
offered 10 pay the lot II the matter
would Dee dropped. and this proposition
/ accepted New York sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
1l1e Glcrt Mn

"Calmness IS Il fine trait" said Mr..
Bliffiy, but does it always get there!
You take the case Of two men stand
Ing up in car holding on TO straps.
both the same age, but one of tAeu
quiet and the other quick. and now l"t
the man they are standing in front e..
get up TO leave the car at station.
and suppose these two men are l.-,-
at exactly the same distance from the
seat, each with the same chance as the
other for seiZing it. which would gt.
that seat? Would it he the calm. co,:
man who moved deliberately and q.
ways with some thought for others. 81"
would it be the ever alert ma. ts-.
TO move and always on the lo..,,G,.
not caring Il continental for Whu, any
body thinks and always r"aGy 90 iuuIr
in any seat he can nab: Why. win
the calm man is thinking it over abC,.
what he shall do and beginning 10 tur.
that way the alert man is in the sn.,t
l certainly do admire the calm. tran.
quill man and his good manners, but it
is the man ever on the alert that gets
the seat in the car-and other things
New York Sun.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09

There are few things more amusing
than TO watch a toad submitting to the
operations Of a back scratching. He
will at first look somewhat suspicious
ly at the twig which you are udyauc-
ing toward him, but after two or three
passes down his back his manner un-
dergoes marked change, his eyes
close with an expression of infinite
rapture, he plants his feet wider apart,
ana his body swells out To nearly dUu-
bic its ordinary size, as if to obtain
10y these means more room for enjoy
mcut Thus he viii remain until YOU
make some sudden movement which
stortles him or until he has had as
much pettiug as be wants, when, with
IA pun of rcgretful delight, he viii re
duce himself TO his usual dimensions
aud hop away, bent once more on the
pleasures OF the chase.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
Fashions In Borneo.

According to the rules of BUrueoan
fashion it is deemed necessary to mold
ones limbs into more shapely form
than that bestowed by nature. This is
done really effectively by winding
strong brass wire round the ankles, the
wrists. under the knees and above the
elbows Of children. Growth at these
points IS, in consequence. greatly ham
pered, with the result that the limbs
come TO be deformed or, according to
Dyak ideas, brought into proper shape
The hcaddrcss consists of a curious
headwork cap, and around his neck
bridegroom to be wears bangles OF
plated fiber and strings of cowrie
shells. These shells, by the way, as in
other parts Of the world, are used as
currency. \ yard of fiber or twenty
To thirty cowrie shells represent the
value OF a penny. The white armlets
are made Of another species of shells.
Wide World Magazine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
A Custom of the Balkans.

He or she who enters a house for the
first time is supposed in the Balkan
countries TO bring it good or bad luck
for the whole twclyemOnth This be
lief gives rise 10 curious observance.
The visitor before crossing the thrcsh-
old picks up stone token Of strength
or q green twig (emblcm of health and
fruiulumeSsl and lays it on the hearth.
lie also brings with him some grains
Of salt, which he casts into the flames
ana then. squatting by the freside,
wishes his hosts n prosperous year,
plentiful crop and many blessings"
Then as the grains Of salt burst and
crackle i'm the fire he uttcrs the follow
ing quaint formula AS / ann sitting,
even So may sit the hen and warm the
eggs. As this salt splits, even So may
split the eggs of the cluckiug hen and
the chickens come forth"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
The Sunny Side of Superstition.


That there is anything genial, cheer
ing or therapeutically valuable about
superstition may seem n tall state
ment. The adjective generally associ-
ated with it is dark" On the> con-
trary, there is something very bright
ening about a four leaf clover. Who
is not little more of an optimist for
picking up Il horseshoe? What lone
ly farmers wife, stormbound on a
winter afternoon, with unwelcome lei
sure on her hands, but feels little
quickening of the pulse as she drops
her scissors and beholds them sticking
up in the carpet or discovers that she
has laid an extra place at the table?
Company signs are the commonest and
welcomed Of all superstitions. The
scissors, the needle, the diShcloth, the
fork, the Saturday sneeze, all inculcate
hospitality and reward it by an uneX-
pected visitor. If the needle SlantS as
it stands up in the crack of the floor
it fOretells a gentleman. Run, young
daughters of the house, and put a
blue bow in your hair! - Atlantic
Monthly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
Working II Out.

The following note was delivered to
a schoolmistrcss recently:
Dear Num- am sorry that John
ny won't be able TO come TO school to-
day. He has gone with his father to
act as timekceper. The sum you gave
johnny last night was, If the road is
one and quarter miles long how long
will it take a man to walk that dis
tanCe twenty-siX and half times, his
average rate of progress being three
and three-quarter miles per hourF
Johnny amt a man yet. SO as dads
the only man in this house he had TO
go. They started at o'clock this
morning. and dad said he'd finish the
sum in one day if he could manage it,
though it would mean hard going
Dear mum, next time you want any
information please make it woman
then | can do the sum and dad can go
to his work. London Scraps.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
The Back of a Glove,

The meaning of the three marks on
the back of glove and the clocks on
a stocking We're two of the little mys-
teries of dress explained at a lecture
on clothes in London. The lecturer
said that the three marks on the back
Of Il glove correspond to the fourchette
pieces between the fingers, and in old
en- days these pieces were continued
along the back of the hand, braid be-
ing used to conceal the seams. n
somewhat similar origin was assign
ed to the ornamental clock on the
stocking. In the days when stockings
We're made of cloth the seams came
where the clocks do now, the orna-
mentation then being used to hide the
seams. The useless little bow in the
leather band lining mans hat is
survival of the time when Il hat was
made by taking Il piece of leather. Dor
ing two holes through it and drawing
it up with piece of string.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-06-09
The Old lime ENGLISH School.

Until comparatively recent times
public school boys in England had
many hardships to endure. As late as
1884 II writer who spoke from expert
cnce said that the inmates of work
house or Jail were better fed and
lodged than the scholars of Eton"
Boys whose parents could not pay for
private room underwent priyutiOns
that might have broken down cabin
boy and would be thought inhuman If
inflicted on a galley slave.
They rose at >, winter and sum
mer, ana breakfasted four hours later.
the interval being devoted to study,
after they had swept their rooms and
made their beds The only washing
accommodation was pump. The diet
consisted of an endless round OF NUT
ton, potatoes ana beer, none of them
too plentiful or too good.
ITO be starved" says this writer,
frozen and logged such was the dai-
ly life Of the scious of Eng!aud's no
blest families"