The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-15
Quantity of Ore Treated Was
Nearly 775,OOO Tons.
THOMPSON Is A THRILLER
Kansas Senator Relates Hair
Raising Experiences.
Other Items of Interest From
National Capital.

lie of the mine output of lead and zinc
in Kansas in 1912 was $1,6S0.700, COM
pared with $1,42S,3 ,31S in 1911, according
to a report made today by the United
States Geological Survey.
The quantity of ore or dirt treated
was approximately 774,0O0 tons. The
quantity of concentrates sold and the
value in 1912 were as follows.
Short tone. Value.
GaIena concentrates. 1908 $15S, 1893
Lead carbonate concentrate. 3S 1,SSS
Sphalerie concentrates. ...-.. 2125S 1OOo,oo
Zinc carbonate and sllicate
concentrates ..-............. 10 S,Io2
The recoverable metal content of the
lead and zinc concentrates was 2,371
short tons of lead, valued at $213,390,
and 1858 tons of spelter, valued at
81, ,467, ,354.
Many of the mines in the Badger
Peacock district were inactive in 1912,
and the production was small compared
with that of other recent years.
The Lawton district doubled it's 1911
output.
The yield of galena concentrates in
the Galena district was $50 tons less in
1911, but the sale of sphalerite concen-
the value was much greater because
the average price paid was about $11
a ton more than in 1911.
Inc new senator from hdnSdS, w III
lam Howard Thompson, is one of the
youngest-looking men in congress, and
any one not familiar with his face
might think him his own secretary.
With an almost boyish face the sena-
tor combines a happy disposition and
that rare quality which is supposed to
be long exclusively to the feminine
sex-intuition.
He tells himself of many remarka BILE
events which he has on several occa-
sions had narrow escapes from fatal
accidents.
Once. when travelling with his family,
he was detained in a small town which
boasted of a frame hotel Mr.. Thomp-
son felt that such a building was un-
safe, hired an auto, drove his family
forty miles home-and that very night
the hotel was burned to the ground
Another time he was boating with his
wife on Yellowstone lake, when the
boat caught in the strong current and
was rapidly floating toward the fam
Gus falls which have a drop of several
hundred feet-in fact, are higher than
Niagara.
Rv chance a log which was drifting
ahead of them, snagged in the piles of
a bridge and the boat jammed against
it holding them secure till persons on
the bridge above dropped a rope by
which they were rescued So Senator
Thompson is firm believer in his
star mail route has been estab
1ished between Folsom and Pierceville,
Kan, with a twice a week service.
Kansas postmasters appointed and
commissioned: Peter J. Paulsen, Kack-
lev: olive station, lexington; George
w Wingate, Liberty; George D.
I.unger. Mayetta; Jean Russell, Min
eral; Olive J. Waters. Oketo; Maud
Atkinson, Stone City; Ralph W. Graves.
sutton: Hardy J. Henley, Townsend;
Fred T, Kent, Uniontown: Herman
Swan. Crisfield; Leon c. Wilson, Den
mis-. Samuel A. Schmidt, Fisher; Moses
T. WeIch, Fullerton.
A bill pending in the house directing
tho secretary of the treasury to make
,,avnant of certain claims in accord
ance with findings of the court OF
claims includes ten Kansas claims as
follows:
To nav James P. Barnett, of Sedg-
wick county. the sum of $9En
To pay Samuel A. Shelton, admins |
traitor of the estate of Henry Bennett |
deceased, of Allen county, $S45.
To pay Frank Crathorne, of Wilson |
s201.17.
To pay Jane H. Haynes. widow of
Charles H Haynes, deceased, of Bour- !
bon county, $100.7O.
To pay Alfred w. Kent of Clay coun- |
ty, s664.
To nav B. c. Matthews, administra- |
tor of the estate of Fenelon B. Mat |
Lhews. deceased, late of Nemaha coun- |
ty. s550.52.
To pay to Florence NJ. Metz, widow |
IF Edmund Metz, deceased, of Reno |
county, S113.23.
To pay to Martin V. B. Sheafer, of |
Cloud county, S15276.
To pay to William II. Sparrow, of |
Labette county, s165.26.
To pay to Jacob Samuel Weaver, of /
Bourbon county, $50. .26.
Kansas visitors in Washington: NJ |
P Dillon of Fort Scott. F. D. Berry,
nan of Arkansas City. D. w. Williams
IF Olathe, Milton James Dent of Os-
Hego.
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