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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-24
NEW MANAGER OF LOCAL
TELEGRAPH OFFICE NAMED

A. H. May, district commercial SUI
perintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph company, with h%eadquar-
tiers in San Francisco, arrived in
camp yesterday on business connect
ed with the change in the manage
ment of the local office of the com,
pany. S. j.. Mercer, who has had
charge of it for about two years, has
been transferred to San Jose, Cal,
for which city he will leave in the
next day or two to assume the duties
of his post. III. d. Jones, travel
ing representative of the company,
will arrive in Goldfield this morn
ing to check up the local office.
Mr.. Mercer will be succeeded as
manager of the Goldfield office by
Joseph Savant, who has held a sim
liar position at the Tonopah office
for the last nine months. Mr.. Sa-
want has been relieved in Tonopah
by Frank J. Laing, who has been
connected with the Tonopah office of
the Postal Telegraph cable company
for several years. Mr.. Savant will
today assume charge of the local
office.
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showing is now classed as good.
There is improvement also in stope
sos on the 600-foot level, and four
feet of good r is being mined.
In the past week the mill treated
a total of 1856 tons of ore, which is
an average of 222 tons per day.
Belmont
The report of the Tonopah Bel
mont company for September shows
a decrease of $7417 in the net profits
over those of the month of August.
This IA due to the fact that there
We're produced 61O tons less during
September-the grade of the ere was
fully as good. However, the profits
this month were s1S,S49 greater
than those for July and about the av-
erage for the past four months.
Profits for previous four months
We're: May, $152,411; June, $780,
$50; July, $102,316; August, $685.
$50.
Operations at the Belmont are 60
ing ahead with their usual smooth
ness and the usual good results. New
ground to the extent of $40 feet was
broken during the week.
The mill is being fed by ore from
something like II different workings
in the mine, and the quality of the
same varies from low grade mill ore
to very fine ore. As is well known,
the average is very satisfactory.
Jim Butler
The Jim Butler Mining company
earned net profits in the month of
September of $20,S42.2S from ship
ments to the old Belmont mill. The
total tonnage for the month was
3417, and the average profit per ton
was a fraction of a cent less than
500.
Although the total profits for
September We're slightly less than in
August, the profit per ton was $1.O9
more, due to the fact that a better
grade of ore was produced. The
tonnage for the month was 533 tons
less than in August.
The gross and net returns from
ore shipments continue to show a
satisfactory increase over last year,
and the physical condition of the
property shows constant improve
ment.
When the retimbering of the Wan
dering Boy shaft is completed, and
production from this portion of the
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in its various forms, and boxes for
such contributions are now promi-
nent on hotel desks and club tables
and other places f%requented by
smokers.
While all classes are helping Tom
my Atkins to get his smoke, temper
ance societies are f%ervently urging
him not to drink. These societies
want men to volunteer to do what
was made compulsory in the Russian
army by the cars anti-vodka decree.
One well-known Anglican bishop has
asked the men to pledge themselves
to refrain from drinking even beer
or light wines, although they may
know the water to be polluted. The
bishop himself is not joining the ex-
pediticnary force.
The lord mayors show, with it's
gilded coaches and Georgian liveried
flunkies in wig and cooked hats and
its historical pageant, is likely to be
abandoned this year when Sir
Charles Johnston is installed on No
vember 8. Nor is the famous ban
QuCt WhICh SuOu1u lOllOW III tuc eve
ming in the ancient guild hall a fav-
ored idea at this time. Thus the two
things that make it worth while t o
be lord mayor of London will not
take place, according to good author
ity.
This year the city is the saddest
part of London. The stock exchange
is closed, business disrupted and a
large part of it's young men have
Joined the colors. With money
scarce. distress widespread and men
being killed at the front, a show,
pageant and banquet seem both
waste of money and a lack of respect
for the fallen.
Owing to the wear anC teal of
campaigning, the war department
has had to send a complete new out
fit to the force at the front. This
and the clothing of the territorial
force has consumed the available
khaki. Uniforms of blue navy serge
are being turned out at the rate of
10000 a day, and the supply of the
historic jackets is also drawn on in
the clothing of recruits of the new
army. A shortage of army over
coats has forced the war office to buy
I'D civilian coats of various shapes
and colors.
The volunteers are larger men
physically than the recruits of nor
NAL times, as the stock army sizes
!, oIotbinu GRO found too small as q
rule.
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ARE Fearful Of NIGHT
ATTACK ON London BY AIRCRAFT

will be guilty of a crime against mill
ished by the military authorities"
Transport Officer Ridley remained
several days in unquestioned COM
mand, when he became i'll. AS he re-
fused to have a doctor, the manager
of the hostel telephoned to the bar
racks. A real officer appeared, and
to enlighten him, Ridley produced a
note %purporting to bear a captains
signature. The officer left for furth-
er investigation, %whereupon Ridley
left the hostel and disappeared.
English and Russian civilians
caught in the German and Austrian
health resorts at the outbreak of the
war are not allowed to return to
their W countries, excepting able
bodied men of military age. Few
restrictions are placed on alien n
mics remaining there, who are al
lowed to travel short distances and
to remain outdoors until 9 o'clock at
night, which is the curfew hour.
These are the conditions reported
by a member of the American wom-
ans relief committee of London, who
has just taken over a party of Ger
man girls from England, returning
with English girls from Germany
and Austria. She also says that food
seems plentiful in the places visited
and life quite normal. The open sea
con ic on in FrankfOrt
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JAM SUPPLIED ENGLISH TROOPS
At FRONT TO PREVENT SCURVY

LONDON, Oct. 10. = The call for
contributions of jam, which is made
by certain British war relief societies
backed by the press, may lead strang-
ers to believe that Thomas Atkins is
the most pampered of fighting men.
But this is not true, since the hard
Egyptian campaign of 1884 proved
that jam is not a luxury out a neces-
sary preventive of scurvy. Millions
of pounds of jam were consumed by
the British troops in the Boer war,
and the army in France has been
kept well supplied with it in the
present campaign.
The British soldier is the best fed
in Europe. A force of 200, 900 men
is given four months rations on this
scale: 24,000.0OO pounds of hard
bread, $4,000, 900 pounds of beef, l.
100000 pounds of pressed vegeta-
bles. 720, 600 tins of condensed milk,
100000 pounds of salt. 100000
pounds of coffee and 400 900 pounds
of tea. 10000 gallons of rum, $4,000
bottles of port and $4,000 bottles of
whisky and 100000 tins of jam of
one pound each. Among the mis-
cellaneous stores used at the front
are tons of alum for purifying water.
chloride of lime and carbOlic acid
powder disinfectants. Hay, oats and
bran are also furnished on a gener-
Gus scale for the horses and mules.
The boycott of German and Aus
trian musicians. if employed to the
detriment of English musicians, has
been approved at a meeting of the
London musicians, over which Sir
Frederick Cowen presided. A COM
mittee composed of the chairman,
Sir Edward Elgar, Edward Herman.
Landon Ronald. Sidney Jones, HUI
bert Bath. Fred James and Gilbert
Webb, was appointed to circularize
the profession on the subject.
While English musicians should
not taboo good music from whatever
source it comes. Sir Frederick Cowan
declared, they must recognize the
fact that foreign musicians had for
many years usurped the places which
could be filled by equally competent
Britishers.
1T is not a question of animus,'
he said. ct is a question of our be
ing able to come into our own"
The prevailing opinion was that
the wal offered an exceptional OPP
p0rtunity for English musicians since
it also called away French, Russian
and Italian competitors.
Messages from the front saying
that tobacco is like gold dust to the
soldier has so touched the sympathy
of smokers that mail to the CONT
nent is now filled with cigarettes.
pipes and plug cut. Societies are
formed for the collection of tobacco
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REV. F.. X. SANFORD TO
GO TO COALINGA, CAL.

Rev. F. r. Sanford, restor of the
Episcopal churchs in Goldfeld and
TonOpah, has announced his inten-
ton of accepting a %partorate al
Coalinga, Cal. This decision came as
the result of the bad health of his
daughter, Miss Vina B. Sanford. who
is unable to stand the high altitude
and who is compelled to seek a low
er altitude for recovery. Rev. San
ford will take over the ~pastorate al
Coalinga on All Saints day. Novem-
Der I. Archdeacon Hazlett will take
charge of the churches here and in
Tonopah until a permanent appoint.
ment is made.
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BIG INCREASE IN
ASPHALT PRODUCTION

Although there was a decrease in
the production of natural asphalt in
the United States in 1913, including
all the varieties of natural asphalt
and asphaltic sandstone and lime
stone, there was a far greater CORE
spending increase in the output of
manufactured or oil asphale, accord
ing to the United States geological
survey. Oil asphalt obtained as a
residue from the distiilation of Mex
lean, gulf and California asphaltic
oils, and even from those OF the mid
die west, is becoming more and more
available. There is corresponding
ly less interest in the development
of new sources of natural asphalt.
The production of natural asphalt
in 1913 amounted to 92,6O4 short
tons, valued at $%75O,713, a decrease
from 95,166 short tons, valued at
$S65,225, in 1912. On the other
hand, the output of manufactured or
oil asphalt in 1913 vas 436,5S6
short tons. valued at $4,531,657.
against 354,344 short tons in 1912,
valued at ~$3,755,5O6. The total
quantity of asphalt imported into
the United States for consumption
in 1913 was 22S,17S short tons, val.
ued at $910,611. The island of
Trinidad furnished the greater part
of this-125,273 short tons.
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LONDON, Oct. 10. - Not since
the electric light supplanted gas has
London been SO sOmbre at night as
at present, when the German Zeppe-
lin fleet is not an unlikely visitor.
The illuminated signs of Piccadilly
Circus, the lamp-studded cafe-fronts
of Leicester square, have been ex-
tinguished. No more lights are al
lowed than is necessary to traffic.
Along the main ways of London,
Threadneedle and Fleet streets, the
Strand, Regent and Oxford streets,
comprising the principal financial
and shop district, only every third
street arc lamp is in use, and the
upper halves of these r masked
with black paint so as to throw down
a cone of light on the roadway. 1t
is on these lines that the Bank of
England, st. Paul's cathedral, Trafal-
gar monument, the National gallery
and the British museum lie. The
suburbs, where the restrictions are
easier. are now the brightest parts
of London.
The war has put a damper on
London's gayety in other respects.
The pubs" or saloons, must shut
doors at eleven at night, instead of
1890 as formerly. The liquor reg
ulation has also practically ended the
theater supper business of the no
tells. The restaurant habit has de-
clined in general. There are still
twenty-five theaters running. whose
business depends not on the state OF
the weather. but on how the war
news goes. Good news means good
business, while a bad rel to the
allies leaves stalls and gallery empty.
The people are not and trust
to the search lights which play over
London at night to save them from
the Zeppelins.
A rogue with a sense of humor has
played a double trick on a military
officer and on the landlord of a
workingmen's hotel at Sheffield,
which has made both men the laugh
ing stock of Yorkshire. The officer
in command of the Sheffield barracks
received one day recently an invita-
ton by telephone to billet 800 re-
cruits at a new workingmen's hostel
owned by a prominent citizen. The
offer was, of course accepted. The
manager of the hostel was then call
ed up by the same voice and ordered
to prepare quarters as we'll as supper
for 800 recruits under his majesty's
transport officer, Ridley. The men
arrived and so did the mysterious
Transport Officer Ridley" who there
upon chose one recruit to shave him,
another to clean his boots, while a
third was placed as sentry at the
door with orders to keep absolute
quiet in the hall while the command
err slept. Ridley's next order "a to
post this notice.:
This is a military institution, and
the men are under the authority of
Mr.. Ridley, transport officer. If he
calls upon any man to perform any
action he is bound to do so, else he
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"OChs
TOnOpah Elk.
The report this week from the To-
nopah Extension mine shows thai
the satisfactory conditions which
have obtained in hat property for
many months are still in existence.
The mill is being fed with ore
from the Egyptian, Lower Contact
and Murray veins on the different
levels.
Perhaps the most important de-
ylopment of the week was In the
1O1 Slope on the 102O-foot level or
the No. 2 shaft, which now shows 10
feet of rich ore. 1t needs no ex-
tensive knowledge of mining TO
know that money piles up rapidly
when production is being made from
a body of ore Is feet in width which
can be designated as rich.
Slope $50, on the 5OO-foot Level
of No. / shaft now shows ten feet OF
good ore, which is not so a In
itself.
The lower contact vein has good
mill ore in the various slopes ana
drifts from the 500 to the 6so-1oot
levels. d.
In the 661 stope at the 66O-foot
level there is an Improvement over
last week and the four feet OF ore
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-10-24
Sugar Not Marketable

I. H. Kent, of Fallon, appeared be-
fore Judge Salisbury of the district
court of Washoe county recently and
secured a continuance of the receiv-
ership of the Nevada Sugar company
The company has about 10000 bags
of sugar On hand but because of spec
ulation in sugar there is no available
market.
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To Have Hospital

In accordance with a recommen-
dalton by the health department of
the India nservice. an Indian hospi-
tai will soon be built at Carson
City at a cost of $4,000. The site
has not yet been selected, but it is
probable that 1t will be located eth
er north or west of the Carson In
dian school.
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that separation. But one day as he sat
on his cot or paced slowly up and down
the hospital chamber news was brought
to him, bad news, news that his wife
had died Unexpectedly.
He survived il; some men survive
miraculously in prison. and some die
easily. Dennis had his daughters left
to him still, and the release was sure
to come now--thcy would not surely
delay it any longer.
He had been a tall, powerful
muatto when he first came to prison;
he was a gaunt, bent skeleton OF
man now, with great. bony, strength
less hands that closed round mine with
a sort of appealing, lingering pressure
when we met, as II he feared to let go
his hold upon man who was sorry
for him. The doctor knew-any COM
petent physician, at least, might have
known--that he could not last much
longer; but ne said nothing and did
nothing.
Then-for the stars in their courses
seemed to fight against Dennis-came
another piece of news for him; not
news OF parole, but news that his
daughters, both of them, had followed
their mother; they too were dead. Den
mis-, who had begun to plan out life
with them to be father and mother
both to them, to comfort them and
work for them, and to die at last with
their love and companionship comfort
Ing him, was now alone In the world
and still in prison.
Time had gone by; 1t was six months
since he had begun to look for Free
dom. What would freedom mean for
him now, with no one in the world to
go to or to be with? Probably he gave
up looking for 1t at this point at any
rate he spoke Of 1t no more.
He spoke very little after that, and
he very seldom rose from his seat on
the corner Of his cot or took notice
| OF any one or OF anything In the hos
pital room. He sat there day after
day. all day long, with his eyes fixed
upon certain point Of vacancy: what
he saw, what he thought, no one
knew. His hands lay before him on his
bony knees. lax and inert. Half life
time In prison. and now he was near
ing the end, mute and motionless. max
inG no complaint or protest; the power
for that had gone by. He no longer
spoke of parole, and no parole came.
No doubt the great officials were
busy, and what was Dennis that they
should remember him, and draw out
that paper from its pigeonhole and sign
It and send It to him? The world could
get along without Dennis.
SO one day Dennis died and after
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his body had been laid in its box the
old market wagon, with the old mule
between the shafts, was hacked up to
the door, and the box with the gray
old corpse In IL was showed in and
driven round to the prison burying
ground and dumped into its red clay
hole. There IL lies. but | am not sure
that that is the end of Dennis. A time
may be coming after this earthly show
Is over when persons who We're so
much pressed for time that they could
find no moment to sign n paper 10 save
fellow mans life may see him again
under awkward circumstances, and be
asked TO explain. Justice after all. is
an immortal, and belongs to eternity.
We should beware of measuring by the
apparent slowness of her movements
on this lower plane, the likelihood of
her final victory.
If YOU have some Imagination to
spare put yourself in the place of con-
Wet who finds himself to-day facing a
sentence of imprisonment for life. The
imagination Of it even is so appalling
that YOU will need more than common
courage to picture it to yourself. What,
then, must the reality of 1t be?
IL is nard 10 understand now any
human heart and brain can withstand
the prospect of it, If it has not stopped
your heart at once--if your brain has
not Immediately collapsed under the
shock-you will think of suicide. But
perhaps before You can find means or
resolution to seek that escape You will
| become conscious in the BACKGROUND of
your mind of a stirring Of that almost
ineradicable thing that we call hope.
You cannot quite bring yourself to
believe that your entire earthly future
is to be passed In prison cell, Some
event will occur, some beneficent freak
Of destiny some earthquake or light
| ming bolt, some national revolution or
| catastrophe, some belated sense OF
| humanity in your brother man, some
new law repeating the impious cruelty
Of the old law that will break your bars
! before the end can come. You cannot
believe that you will actually live and
die In jail.
Thus you are tided over your first
hour and days, and with each new day
| that you survive the chances OF your
surviving altogether increase. BY and
| by you fall into the prison routine and
your existence becomes mechanical and
automatic. There will be occasional
Trainings out Of rage and despair, but
they pass and become progressively
more infrequent. You have slipped
down into merely animal stratum OF
existence; you live to-day because you
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lived yesterday, and ycu do not forecast
tomorrow.
Perhaps you learn 10 assuage and de-
ceive the hunger of your immortal soul
by forcing your attention upon the
petty ripple Of daily events and duties
until You present To the outsider the APP
pearanCe of a commonplace, non-tragic
person. bearing no noticeable scars of
the crime which society pcrpetrated on
YOU. You perhaps lose at last the real
iZation of your own inhuman plight and
are received unaNares into the gray
prison prutoplasm no longer really SEN
sitive to impressions though presenting
the scmblancc Of human reactions,
You drift down the stream, passive, in a
sort Of CHASTITY contcntment. You have
FORGOTTEN that you ever were a man.
But | am merely specializing in the
direction of truths that ! do not know
and cannot reach. The lifers themselves
whom | knew could tell me nothing.
They were less demonstrative than the
men of five or ten years sentence. We
can never fathom the dealings Of the
Almighty with His creatures, and they
perhaps can fathom them as little as
we can. In ways inconceivable to US
they are supported.
There was a little old man known
as Uncle Billy. II the parole board
has kept faith with him he should have
been set free on December 49,
Uncle Blly's right arm had been am
putated at the shoulder. the result Of
| IA shot through the arm from his own
gun while he was getting out of a
buggy. He lived in Oklahoma-Indan
Territory at the time of his story. Billy
was married to woman who must
have had some attractiveness, for a
journeying pedler who periodically
passed through the region formed n
liaison with her. There was at thai
| time a daughter who had just reached
marriageable age.
The pedler was wont practically to
put Billy out of his own house during
| his sojourns and usurped his place as
master Of the household. At one time
he secured Billys conviction on some
minor offence and had him jailed for
six months. What Billy thought OF the
| situation I don't know. He was a
small, slight man. under s feet inches.
and of an intellectual cast. But he
seems not to have attempted active
measures until one day he discovered
that the pedler, not satisfied with the
wife, was attempting the seduction of
the daughter likewise.
Then one night Billy came to his
house and founc that going on which
| his patience CO. lot tolerate. He got
hold Of an axe 40 stealing into the
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room struck the pedler with his one
arm as he lay in bed and split his
head open. What passed then between
him and his wife is not known. BILLY.
| believe. was for giving himself up tn
the authorities at once, but the woman
prevailed upon him to conceal the deed.
She tied the body to the tail of the
horse and dragged it across the fields
to ditch. where she covered il with
dirt and rubbish.
There il lay for some weeks until n
couple of men out hunting saw AN end
Of Il suspender sticking out of the
ground and pulling at it discovered the
murdered corpse. Billy confessed and
he and his wife Were lodged in Jail
pending their trial. The woman died
there, but Billy was tried ana convicted
and in consideration of the peculiar cir
cumstances was "let off, with life
sentence. When ] knew him he had
been in a cell nearly fifteen years.
The weather was chilly; some ~ the
prisoners We're let out in the yard every
| day at / o'clock Ia pace round in a ring
| for forty minutes. ! saw the little. bent,
thin old man with one arm hobhling
| round and round with his cane. con-
| versation was not permitted under the
rules. hut the rule was often overlooked.
| After | had gained an outline Of his
story from some old timers ! spoke to
him and he looked up at IN" with pair
Of singularly intelligent brown eyes and
with a kindly expression on his meagre
| little face. We Conycrscd a little on
general subjects and ! found him we'll
educated, obscrvant. thoughtful, with a
| distinct vein Of suhlucd humur. After
| ward | saw him in his cell though there