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The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

received an offer from another company which
accepted his record In the two recent positions
without questioning his past He made good and
is now drawing $4,000 year as sales manager.
He has nothing now to fear from the police for
he is new man. his alertness. his decisiveness
turned to
In the fifteen years of its existence the Central
Howard association has assisted 1857 men, just
emerged from prison. to begin life again,
acting as the mediator between the prisoner and
the rebuffs OF Outrageous fortune Most OF
them secured employment with broad minded
business men who were willing to give the man
an opportunity.
Eighty per cent of all the men who have come
to the association during the fifteen years OF it's
activity have made good. and thousands of them
established as useful citizens throughout
the country BY their own unaided efforts they
could scarcely have won. since they came in most
cases without money. experience or adequate in
itiative.
In 1914 the association assisted 1900 men at
an average cost of $549 OF this number. lat
were paroed to the superintendent and the earn
ings Of these men for themselves. given upon
the associations records of monthly reports.
amounted to $58,441.
The estimated earnings. upon the same basis,
of the 1900 discharged men brings a total of ap-
proximatey S8SO,OOO. Add to this amount of
earnings the 100000 that 1t might otherwise
have cost society to keep these men in prison.
and we have q net gain of 80 times the cost to
the public of maintaining the Central Howard
association.
The nationwide responsibility of the associa-
ton for the proper care Of the ex-prisoner 10
shown by its records indicating the nativity OF
each applicant From fourteen countries came
some $50 prisoners for whom q foster country
we have assumed the obligation of freedom and
Justice. Every state in the Union furnished one
or more OF these men who applied to the assocfa
ton for aid. Inasmuch not more than one
fourth of these men belonged to any one state
either by reason of nativity Incarceration, 1t
is apparent that the problem of caring for them
is Interstate and national No state assume
its obligation alone. since other states are neces
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

to the earth, and is broken down by
bacteria. causing decay and conditions
that make the material available again
for the production of crops.
Bacteria are the connecting links
between life and death. sustaining life
by producing death.
B. p. Smoot. a lecturer for the Mis-
souri, state board Of agriculture, sum.
marizes the works Of King. Hopkins.
Hall and others on this subject:
"A plant grows. dies and falls back
to earth. It has taken food from the
air and soil. This plant food is locked
up In the cells Of the plant Before 1t
can be used again In the cycle Of life
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

charged prisoners must swallow II unaided. a
potlon which turns many Of them to the under
world. in desperation He had not done az hei
nous thing that mankind should shun him as a
ioatnsome, dangerous. hunted thing He was
broke and hungry but he went on hunting for
Job until another man turned him down cold
ana added some singing words about convicts
That Is what goaded him. 1t goads Others
into following a desperate game when he met a
young fellow who also had served a bit in the
reform school.
They went in deep and the next sentence was
to Columbus That gave him q post graduate
course in the ways of the underworld. the tricks
OF the cleverest Of the confidence men and bur-
glars. With the and wiles of crime
open book. his active mind soon set him to
irving burgaries as the leader OF a gang. and
the disposins of the loot. He never tasted liquor
and was equal to any emergency. Crime became
an absorbing business with him, outlawed bust
ness filled with the everpresent dread Of capture
He saved money. but all that he had saved went
in the effort to save himself when he landed in
burly onicers arms He was sent to the pen
Tertiary in Kansas and there he did time" en-
dured the grinding monotony Of prison life and
prison fare a prisoner.
It certain that all that buried past would
be revealed II he applied for fidelity bond.
would be necessary, II he accepted the position
Of treasurer that had been offered to him. 1t
that which made him decide in q flash that
he could not be treasurer.
That night he did not go directly home He
telegraphed to Superintendent Lyon Of the Cen
tral Howard association in Chicago, using q name
he never before had used in that town-his own.
The association had found him the Job as book
keeper when he was about to be discharged from
the Kansas prison. In that case he had applied
without expecting anything but advice but he
discovered when his case was taken up that its
Affiliations and its system could help convict
when he needed It most. day or two later he
received a reply, crisp In its instruction to re-
port at once for another position
He got the new job, began again. and in six
years he receiving $500 a year. Then he
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
Some Sarcasm.

several Ohio lawyers once gathered
in Judge Wilson 8 room after adjourn
ment OF court. and were DISCUSSING
the retirement of a member of the
bar Among them was one whose
practice was worth $4,000 a year. He
said. i have been practicing several
years. and am well fixed. have
thought would like to retire and de-
vote my remaining years to studies
nave neglected" Study law" nsf
In Judge Wilson.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
Wyoming.

A second oil well has been brought
in on the holdings of E. A. Orchard In
the Grass creek fields.
There is a deal on at Cheyenne that
may bring a 100000 concentrating
plant to the Silver Crown mine.
Mining Conditions are greatly i'm.
proved in the southern part of the
state. Many of the mines are running
full time now.
A pipe line thirty-four miles in
length from the Chatam to the Grass
creek oil fields has been completed
and is now running full of oil.
The Comstock Mining Company at
Silver Crown near Cheyenne is now
making rapid progress in driving
into the gold and siiver-bearing
vein.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
DEATH NECESSARY TO LIFE
Former 10 Declared to Be
Indispensable.

Paradoxical as it may seem. death
IN necessary to sustain life The com
plete dissolution and destruction OF
every living thing. both animal and
vegetable, lie required to produce and
maintain life. II 1t we're not for this
system Of an all-wise Creator the earth
would lose It's fertility. becoming ex-
hausted and sterile.
Everything now nnds its way oacA
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
These United States,

The United States has 100000
square miles of territory, 1903 900 900
acres of land. There are S78 100000
acres of land in the farms Of the coun-
try. but 478,0OO,O 900 acres of this area
are unimproved and unproductive.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

"eohiesS. ! spoke
to three doctors
about it and they did
not h clip her any.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V eg e table Com
pound had been Of
great benefit to me,
SO l decided to have
her give it a trial.
She has taken five
bottles of the Vege-
table COMPOUND &C.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28


como over him. His face was pallid and his lips
we're set. Yet he again had been offered a raise
not merely $500 year more. but double the
salary he had been getting. And instantly he had
refused 1t. There never a man more dumb
rounded than the treasurer by that refusal. The
tender OF his own position, which he was soon
TO resign. had been CURLY refused. And
enough It had been notice Of discharge the man
wnom he had promoted to the confidential set Of
books had served notice that he would leave
within the week. Time to quit" the man NUT
tered to himself as he finished his posting. put
tne books away in the private once and pre-
pared to go homo.
Once before. as he wildly recalled. It had be-
come time for him to make a sudden, iron resolu-
ton to quit When the last bar had yielded to
his saw he had heard the turnkey in the corridor
and abruptly he threw himself upon his bed
Here's q paper. the turnkey had said and
went on. The prison was just waking up; sum-
mer dawn was creeping through the grated win
dows. He left the bunk and took the paper to
the light. Soon his eye caught the dispatch
from Albany that announced that the New York
legislature had passed the habtual criminal act
He shuddered slightly and glanced toward the
nearly severed bars knowing that II he escaped
and was rearrested he would be likely never to
walk the streets again free 1t would be life
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
WESTERN
MINING NEWS
IN 3 r ! E :

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Metal Market Prices.
Lead, \. Y, $4.45.
Bar silver, $0.46A.
Spelter, st. Louis, $134S
Copper, casting. $17.12h.
Mining activities in the Warren dis
trict continue to keep up to their
wonderful pace.
Favorable reports are coming from
the tests now being prosecuted at the
Bunker Hill test mill on the hill in
Tombstone district.
An examination of the records Of
the county recorders office at Tomb
stone since the first of August dis
closes the fact that there is much ac-
tivity in the way of mining deals, de-
transactions and the loca-
ton of claims.
Another strike Of potential posi-
bilities has been added to the list Of
those already made in the Tom Reed
Gold Road Mining district. The scene
of this most recent of ore discoveries
is the Black Eagle workings of the
Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, a five
per cent per month dividend-paying
corporation.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
Good!

In that new banana which Burbank
has evolved the skiddy skin Is omit
ted. This may be a gain for the
banana and the public, but it's pain.
full loss for the professional funmaker.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundress
happy, makes clothes winter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

for him. He would spend the
rest Of his young life like a
ny in bottle. Time to quit"
he had muttered.
Better discipline at homo
when he was a boy would have
kept him out of trouble, but he
was sent up to the reform school
from Cincinnati. 1t was only
q short term. but when he went
back home he was branded as a
discharged prisoner of the state.
one of the fraternity against
which most police officers feel
that they are pitted in i'm
placable strife. When he fol-
lowed his determination to be
decent and get work. the first
man had said: Come around
q little later" It was not only
the reply. but the quizzical smile
that accompanied 1t which had
made him feel the gall and
NORWOOD which most dis.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

Some horses are better mud runners
than others. 1t is SO with human be-
ings.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
OrROoeRT hNOUCTON

E glanced up from his ledger and caught
the invitation OF the treasurer's index
finger. Once before that same signal
had meant q raise of $25 a monitor.
as he and his wife had put 1t. bal
ance in . savings bank.
He laid down his pen and walked
into the treasurer's office with an ex-
preston as nearly radiant as his IN
scrutably set face ever wore.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28
Mother OF
SCHOOL GIRL
Tells How Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound Re-
stored Her Daush-
ter's Health.

Plover, Iowa. From . small child
my ID year old daughter had female
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

Carpenters Wanted ii, ma sye nya p IS1la9,s
latest and best mosquito and ny trap. send tl0U fol
plans, etc FLY TRAP CO., LONGBEACH, CAL
Sore Legs Healed SRs saa Sens senea
you work. Send for book-Describe your case
A. c. LIEPE. las Green Bay Ave, Milwaukee Wis
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-08-28

engers OF the world and upon then
depends our welfare"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
VISIT TO EXPOSITION
IS FULL OF SURPRISES
W. G. WILSON TELLS OF TRIP OF
NEVADA DELEGATION TO
SAN FRANCISCO

w. G.. Wilson. travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific in this district, is in Gold
field today. He accompanied the
Nevadans to the opening of the ex-
position last week and is enthusiast
is over the wonders of the displays
and buildings. Speaking of the
trip Mr.. Wilson said today:
ION February 10 I had occasion
to visit the exposition at San Fran
cisco, having accompanied the Ne
vada special train leaving Carson
City the morning of February 10
at 7:15. On our arrival at Reno
the Southern Pacific company's spe-
cial train, consisting of seven cars
one diner, one coach, three chair
cars, observation and baggage cars
were ready. There were 200 in the
party. The trip was a success from
start to finish. The entire delega-
ton was than pleased. 1t con-
sisted of our legislators and state Of
~ficials, and many fom Reno. We
returned, leaving San Francisco on
Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock, reach
ing Reno at 1 p. m. the same day.
The fair is a wonderful success, the
most wonderful affair I w wit
messed. The state buildings are not
to be laughed at, especially the Ne
vada building, which is n that all
Nevadans may be proud Of. The
dedication Of the Nevada building
was held the evening of the 22d and
a large crowd was present, many
standing in line outside only anxious
to get within hearing of the cere-
mony. The transportation build
ing, varied industries, machinery,
arts, tower of jewels. ETC., are some
thing which in my estimation, we
never again will be able to witness.
Words cannot express my senti,
ments in behalf of this exposition
The Zone" as it is called, is ex-
ceptional. 1t is conducted in the
best possible manner, and there is
nothing there to offend anyone. AS
| was there but three days | had
only an opportunity to get an idea
of how immense it is. They say il
would take one person eighteen
years to see the exposition and make
a study of it. Rates at hotels and
restaurants r very reasonable
No n should hesitate to visit the
exposition"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
JURY SECURED FOR
TRIAL OF PAT finn
TWELVE MEN ARE ACCEPTED
AFTER TWO DAYS OF
EFFORT

The men who will serve as the
jury in the second trial of Pat Finn,
charged with numbering Tom Jones,
postmaster of Ida, last March, were
accepted by both the defense and
prosecution at exactly 2 o'clock this
afternoon, each side exercising but
seven of their eight challenges. Judge
Quicker, Immediately after the &C
ceptance of the jury, dismissed them
until 4 O'Clock in order that they
might secure such articles as they
will require during the time they
are held on the case. The impanel-
ing of the present jury required but
a period of two days, while in the
previous trial fifteen days were
found necessary before the twelve
men we're secured. The Ease will be
in full swing tomorrow with the in
PRODUCTION of testimony.
The jurors as selected are: J. T.
Ong of Millers, J. s. Millett of
Millers, George Yount of Goldfield,
F. A. Barton of Millers, George
Wolfersberger of Millers. r. A. Bill
yeu of Millers, f. B. Cronin of
Goldfield, Mark Francisco of Gold
field, r. S. Wray of Millers, s. V.
Newell of Goldifeld, J. ]. Bergman
of Goldfield and Lee F. Hand Of
Millers.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
Undertaken Held

l.. d. Smith, the Las Vegas I'M
dertaker, who was arrested at hat
town a couple of weeks ago follow
ing an investigation which revealed
the fact hat the body of a stillborn
illigitimate child which had been
given to him for burial had been
held by him for what he designated
to be the Interests of science a
been held to answer to the district
court. The body of the child was
discovered hidden in a clump or
bushes, where it had been placed at
the direction of the undertaken after
he had found that it would be i'm
possible for him to preserve the
body any longer. AS a blind Smith
is alleged to have held a mock fun
eral, placing an empty casket in the
grave, and the affair probably would
never have been discovered had he
taken precautions in hiding the
body.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
PR|zEF|GHT BILL
IS INTRODUCED
1T WOULD ALLOW TWENTY
ROUND CONTESTS IN NEVA-
DA-OTHER MEASURES

CARSON CITY, New, Feb. 25.-
Twenty round glove contests for
wager or reward, with a license fee
of 500, are provided for in a bill
introduced this morning by Senator
Arnold of Esmeralda and referred to
the committee on public morals. The
bill also provides hat for contests
$50 shall be paid and for contests
not over four rounds a license of
$40. 1t also provides that five per
cent of the gross proceeds of such
contests shall be turned over to the
sheriff of the county in which the
fights are held.
Senator Lees high liquor license
law was taken from the table this
morning and made a special order
for next Thursday afternoon.
The bill fixing the salary of the
mineral land commissioner at $1,4OO
a year was reconsidered this morn
ing on motion of Bradshaw and
made a special order for tomorrow
afternoon.
The senate lodged the tax commits
sion bill this morning by arising
from a committee of the whole as
soon as the bill was received. A
large number of bills carrying APP
preparations were considered by the
committee of the whole and report
ed favorably, among them being the
bill appropriating $4,000 for the
Crittenden Home and the bill Great
ing a state auditor.
The assembly sustained Govern
or Boyle's veto of the bill limiting
the payment of salary of state Off
Gals or commissioners to funds spe-
cially appropriated for their main.
tenance this morning. The veto
message brought forth a warm de-
bate. Pitts of Humboldt made the
principal talk against sustaining the
governors veto. During the discus
sion 1t was charged that the bill was
aimed particularly at the tax COM
mission and if passed would kill tina.
commission. The vote was 81 to
sustain the veto and IA against.
The bill providing for the estab-
lishment of a school of mines at
Tonopah was passed by the assem-
bly, this morning. Although there
was considerable opposition to the
there were but two dissent
ing votes.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
.HERO|SM IS SHOWN
BY ALASKAN MINER

The New York Sun Of Jan. II
prints a story from Fairbanks, Alas
ka, showing what an Alaskan miner
can do when ne has to. 1t appears
that Manley Mayhood and John
Parquette were operating a drift
mine as partners. Early one after
noon just as darkness was falling
and rushed out to find that his part
ner and the bucket had fallen down
together. The shaft was As feet
deep. Parquette tried to climb up a
rop- but it slipped off the sheave
and let him down again. He tried
it with another rope but this un-
coiled from the drum. The shaft
was lined with glace ice several in
ches thick. Parquette began shout
ing, but the shaft was off the main
road and he was not heard. He saw
he would have to adopt some desper-
ate measure. First he went to the
end of the workings where the
steam points had left quantities of
warm earth. brought this back and
packed ii around his unconscious
partner. after having wrapped him
in his Jumper and overshirt. Later
he changed this as it became cold.
A half inch steam pipe ran up one
corne of the shaft, but he decided
it wouldn't hold him so he brought
up from the drift an inch board
which he had heen using as a Wheel
barrow runway. He took everything
heavy out of his pockets but left on
his shoes so as to get a better foot
hold. At a point about half way up
the shaft narrowed from IL feet
eros to eight feet. He climbed up
to this point by cutting notches in
the ice over the timbers with his
knife, and then descended and car
ried up one of the steam points. He
inserted one end of this in the hitch
and let the other catch against the
other eide of the shaft. With the
other point he repeated the opera
ton. Meanwhile his candles were
getting short. Using the steam
points this way Parquette finally,
after hours of hard labor and freez-
ing cold. won the top of the shaft.
He got to a road house about half
= mile away. and started a rescue
party back to Mnlev, whose life,
from last accounts, was hanging In
the balance. Parquette himself, es-
capped uninjured.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
YELLOW JACKET STRIKE

On the grounds of the Yellow
Jacket Mining company, operating
at Pioneer under the management
of J. d. O'Brien. recent prospecting
has developed a heretofore unknown
lead of fair size and high value. The
finding of a rich piece of float in the
debris of a gopher hole led to more
intensive prospecting and the start
ing of a shaft upon the lead uncov-
cred. The shaft is now down "a
feet. the rock panning freely all OF
the way down-Carrara Obelisk.
JAKE GOODFRIEND, who has
been absent several days on business
in Salt Lake City, returned to camp
this morning, coming in over the
T. & G., railroad.
M. H. COHEN of st. Joseph. Mo-.
is a guest of the Goldfield. He
arrived in camp yesterday.
]. H. BROWN of San Francisco
arrived in camp this morning. He
came in over the T. & G.. railroad
and registered at the Goldfield.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
Silver Pick Consolidated
Mines Company

incorporated under laws of Nevada.
Authorized capital $1.500.000 Out
standing $955.000
General office, Goldheld, Nevada.
Transfer office, Registration Surety
Co. 265 Russ Building. San Francisco.
Cal. Property consists Of Silver Pick.
Silver Pick Fraction. Pipe Dream.
North End and Deserted claims. pat
ented, situated in Goldfeld mining dis
trict, Esmeralda county. New. and the
Webfoot claim. held by location, In the
Low Slate Range. Esmeralda county.
New
OFFICERS and Directors: Herman
Zadig, president; Edw. 8. Van Dyck.
vice president and general manager;
Chas. d. Olney. secretary and d.
rector; o. A. Newcomer and A. 8.
directors
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
PLATINUM EXTENSION SOLD

Mr.. Stansbury has just returned
from Los Angeles where he and as
sociates sold the controlling interest
in the Platinum Extension Mining
company and the Boss townsite to a
company of Los Angeles and San
Francisco capitalists. They received
a neat sum of cash and retained IL
per cent interest in the stock COM
pany. The Boss Extension Is incor-
porated for $1,0O0,OO0 under the
laws of the state of Nevada and
owns valuable property nea the
famous Boss mine, as well as a town.
site. adjoining Boss, all in the new
platinum district-Las Vegas Age.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-02-27
Jumbo Extension Mining
COMPANY

corporate under the laws Of Ari-
IONA. Authorized capital $1.250.000.
all of which is outstanding.
General office. Goldfeld. Nevada.
Transfer offices, Security Transfer and
Registrar Co., sc Broadway. New York
City; Registration Surety Co., 265
Russ Building, San Francisco, Cal.
Properties consist of Poloverda, Dick
Gold Coin. Saddle Rock. Three
Friends. Three Friends Fraction. Black
Butte No. /, Deserted Fraction and
Velvet claims. in Goldfeld mining dis
trict. Esmeralda county. Nevada. all
patented.
OFFICERS and Directors: H. Schwai-
kert, president: Charles S. Sprague.
vice president and treasurer; Ben Gill,
secretary; j. X. Turner. consulting en-
gineer.