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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-07
"The Tragedy of Mexico"
(st. Louis Globe Democracy

An extra session of the senate. call.
ed to gain time, would only waste II
by entering upon an Investigation
of Mexican affairs, and our relation
to them, as is now proposed. What is
there to investigate? The only mys-
FERROUS affair about our connection
with Mexican matters happened on
the night when the event cutter
bearing John Lind from Vera Cruz
cast anchor off Pass Christian, Miss
whittier President Wilson had gone to
meet him, and the president at mid
night and in a long cloak, put off In a
boat, boarded the ship and met Lind
below decks. That incident smacked
so much of corsairs and pirates in
general, and in particular LATTE, who
used to ravage those waters, that the
fact of 1t remaining unexplained
raises a question which the senate
might try to answer, were it really a
one.
Dul IL 10 W AlOdDs ld PClIp IL
ance was only a part of the opera
bouffe in which our Mexican policy
has been expressed. The rest Of the
play has been set on a stage where
everybody could see its often-chang-
ing scenes. For libretto, we can not
how better one could be writ
than has already been done by
Colonel George M. Harvey, in the Sep
North American Review. Col
onel Harvey, a friend Of the president
before and since his election, does not
bother himself about the music of the
piece, made by the administration or
He writes the story, which he
calls "The Tragedy of Mexico" as we
ike to see the libretto Of such an OPP
era bouffe written.
He omits nothing which is salient,
beginning with the statement that 1T
s a coincidence of unhappy augury
hat our present Intervention in affairs
If the Mexican republic marks the
second anniversary of our first inter-
yention," which he quotes the record
Ind the calendar for proving began in
August, 1918, when John Lind waited
lpon President Huerta with a plan for
! Mexican election, prescribing Huer-
a, head Of then de facto government,
rom the running. Other acts Of in
are cited as parts of the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-07
NOTICE.

TO All Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that the un,
designed owners Of the Snyder, Wood
Spider, Sidetrack, Tunnel and Right
of-Way lode mining claims, common
ly wn as the Terrible Edith group
situated in Summit mining district,
county of Shoshone, Idaho, will not be
%esponsible for any debts or obliga-
lions however incurred by any person
or corporation whatever, for any work
done upon, or for any machinery or
supplies furnished for or used upon
said lode mining claims, or for any
contract debt, lien or obligation made
or incurred in respect to said lode
mining claims.
Dated this 14th day of January, 1915
WASH SNYDER,
JAMES r. WOOD.
LYMAN WOOD.
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How Salt Lake Brokers Were Soaked
by Notorious New York Broker
Anaconda Standard)
(Anaconda Standard)

de-do. They had paid out their
money for these stocks. They tried to
find the men they had bought them
from. They had disappeared.
Then 1t dawned on them that they
had been played for suckers. They
had the stocks and the money was
gone. A little investigation showed
that these stocks they had on hand
were the Identical blocks sent on to
Mr.. Skinemup at q former date for
which he paid them 2 and 3 cents a
share. He had showed these stocks
back to a dummy of his and sold them
over at 80 cents and 81 a share Il
them and they had paid him the
money while he repudiated the second
buying order, or rather he had merely
refused to pay for the stocks.
Nov they are trying to collect.
They are swearing under their breaths
at him and some are making threats
OF an opel nature. But he is ENJOYING
life In New York. He has done Moth
Ing that would enable them to send
MIN to the ~pen!tentiary. In that re-
spect he was too wise to let them
catch him."
There is a sucker born every min
Ute" said a wise man. II might be
added that the biggest suckers are
times those who are trying to
play others as suckers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-07
VIRGINIA CITY, v A
Story That Tells How the Famous Old
Camp Was Named.

The naming Of Virginia City, New,
Is related in the Saturday Evening
Post of July 81, 1915, in Charles E.
Van Loans interesting Installations of
his conversations with the oldest IN
habitant." In the autumn of 1859 the
town acquired a name. and there
was something queer about that" a Y
the Oldest Inhabitant. There used to
be an old prospector round here nam
ed Fennimore. They called him Fin
ney for short, and sometimes Ole Vlr-
ginny on account of his always talk
ing about his native state. Fnney
his liquor pretty well, and one
night he fell and broke his bottle. He
poured out the drop or two that was
left-poured it on the ground. The
boys asked him what he was doing.
Tn christening this camp says he.
It's time she had a real name and
from now on she's Virginia Town
When the postal authorities SEM out
the cancellation stamps, Town was
changed to read city Old Finney
made an awful row about that, but the
government outheld him and Virginia
City she was"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-10-07
CLARK SEEKS RADlUM.
Montana Magnate Secures Much
Ground in Paradox Valley, Utah.
(Anaconda CtandardN
anaconda Standard)

Two months ago former Senator W.
A. Clark went from Butte to Grand
Junction, Colo, and his private car
was left In the yards for several days
while the multimillionaire went by
automobile into the Paradox valley, a
narrow and rather desolate stretch Of
country out Of the Grand Junction dis
trict. The senator didn't tell any one
what he was doing there and Until a
few days ago there was a lot of specu-
lation as to what investment was un-
der contemplation. Now Grand june
tion knows that Senator Clark has
gone into the radium business and has
gone into 1t on a large scale.
The senator learned that there were
outcroppings In the Paradox valley
which indicate the presence of ores
which contain uranium and vanadium,
from which radium is derived. He sent
engineers there and they reported IA
vorably and then the senator took a
look himself. Then he authorized the
expenditure of sufficient money TO tie
up the claims which showed uranium
and vanadium, and today he controls
practically all such lands in that val
ley which have been suspected Of ION
tanning radlum material.
Some months ago Senator Clark
urged the Montana prospectors to get
out and hunt for radium. At that
time several districts in this state re-
ported that formations had beer found
which contained uranium, but the SEN
ator, 1t is said, thought that the Colo
RADIO deposits offered a better chance
for investment. 1t is said that the
.snator intends to push the develop
ment Of his radium properties.
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
Office of the Giant Mining & Dew

Office Of the Giant Mining & Devel-
opment Company, Limited, Wal
lace, Idaho, September Z, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting Of the board of directors of
the Giant Mining & Development
Company, Limited, held on the 18th
day Of September, 1915, an assess
,nent of three (3) mills per share was
levied upon the outstanding capital
stock of the corporation, payable on
or before the 7th day of october,
1919, to e. R. Turk, secretary-treas-
nrer, 415 Sixth street, Wallace, Idaho.
ANY stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 7th day
OF october, 1915, will be delinquent
ana advertised for sale at public auc-
tlon and unless payment Is made be-
Lore Will be sold on Monday, the Sth
gay OF November, 1915, at 1880 p. m.
OF said day, at the office of the COM
pany, 415 Sixth street, Wallace, Idaho,
70 pay the delinquent assessment
thereon, together with the costs of
advertising and expenses Of sale.
CO. e. X. TURK,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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tragedy" and more tragic than an,
other part is made rightly to appear
the tragedy at Vera Cruz, when Am
orleans slew and were slain In an in.
effectual attempt to get a salute from
an individual, al act not only of in
PREVENTION but Of invasion. Peace
must some time return to Mexico. Ex-
haustion and restitution will compel
1t. That time may be near a. hand.
But there is no need of an investiga-
ton to show how we have delayed 1t.
In The Tragedy Of Mexico" senator's
can find the story of the weakest.
most vascillating and tragically ridic-
ulous chapter in the history of our
foreign relations.
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To James Silk, his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that Ii ac-
cordance with the provisions of Sec
ton 1924 Of the Revised Statutes of
the United States and all the acts
amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto, requiring annual labor upon
mining claims, l your co-owner, have
expended in labor and improvements
for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914, the
sum Of $500 on the Okanogan No. 2
lode mining claim, situated in Placer
Center mining district, Shoshone coun-
ty, Idaho; and If within ninety (90)
days after the expiration Of this no.
tice by publication you fail or refuse to
pay your proportion of such expendi-
ture, amounting to one-sixth, or 1855
for each year, or a total of $50 for the
three years, your interest in said min
inging claim will become the property
Of the undersigned, your co-owner, ar
provided by law.
S9-D16-15t O. B. OLSON,
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

Office Of the East Hercules Extension
Mining Company, Spokane, Wash.
July 6, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that at q
meeting Of the directors, held on the
9Th day Of July, 1915, an assessmen;
Of one and one-half Qh) mills pei
share was levied upon the capital stock
Of the corporation, payable on or be-
fore the 10th day Of August, 1915. t.
w. H. Macfarlan. secretary-treasurer
at the office of the company, room 8,
Sherwood building, Spokane, Wash.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 10th day
of August. 1915 will be delinquent and
.dvertised for sale at public auction
I the office Of the company, and un-
ess payment is made before will be
old on the 10th day of September.
915, to pay the delinquent assessment
hereon. together with the costs of ad-
rertising and expenses of sale.
EAST HERCULES EXTENSION
MINING COMPANY,
BY w. H. MACFARLAN,
y8-A5-ct Secretary-Treasurer
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Large Expenditure.

or before the 18th day of October, 1915,
to G. W. Dougherty, secretary-treas
urer, at the office Of the company, 703
Cedar street, Wallace, Idaho. Up. O.
Box No. 415.)
Any stock upon which this assess
ment remains unpaid on the 18th day
Of october, 1915, will be delinquent
and advertised for sale at public auc-
ton, and unless payment is made be-
fore, will be sold at the office of the
company, 703 Cedar street, Wallace,
Idaho on the 18th day of November,
1915, at 700 p. m. of said day to pay
the delinquent assessment thereon, to-
gether with the costs of advertising
and expenses Of sale.
G. w. DOUGHERTY,
Secretary Treasurer Sunshine Mining
Company, Limited, Wallace, Idaho.
-O1
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S2-N4-15t
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
OF STOCKHOLDERS.

Office of the Oreano Mining Company
Limited, Wallace, Idaho, September
Z, 1915.
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the Oreano Mining Company, Limited,
Will be held at the office of the presi-
dent of the company, to-wit: the Office
of II. ]. Rossi, on Bank street, in the
city of Wallace, Shoshone county,
Idaho, on Saturday, the 9th day of
october, 1915. at 500 o'clock p. m. Of
said day, for the purpose Of electlng a
a of directors to serve for the en-
suing year and for the transaction o.
such other business as may legally
come before said meeting.
H. j. ROSS,
President Of Oreano Mining Company,
Limited, Wallace, Idaho. S9-O7-5t
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NOTICE..
To Whom 1t May Concern

To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that Sadie
Allen and Ben Hammett, owners OF
undivided interests in the Virginia
lode mining claim. situated in Beaver
mining district, county Of Shosnone,
Idaho, will not nor will either of them
be responsible for any debts or obli-
cations however incurred by Patrick
Burke, or his assigns, or by any per-
son or corporation whatever, for any
work done upon, or for any machin-
cry or supplies furnished for or used
upon said Virginia lode mining claim,
or for any contract, debt, lien or OBJ
legation made or incurred in respect
to said lode mining claim.
Dated this 23rd day of December
A. d. 1914.
SADIE ALLEN,
BEN HAMMETT.
S2-N4-16t
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Salt Lake has some very bright men
in the brokerage business. But New
York has at least one mar in the same
line of business who has the SAT-
Lake fraternity of brokers entirely
outclassed. In fact he is entitled to a
niche in the hall Of fame along witt
some other noted and notorious char
acters.
lust at present it is said that a num-
Der of brokers who handle mining
stocks in the Utah city are attempting
to keep quiet the fact that they lost
something more or less than $4,000
by the New York party referred to.
A prominent Salt Lake man who is
conversant with the facts, or a part
of them, gave the following version of
what happened and how it happened.
"Mr. Skinemup, whose other name
is familiar in both the east and west,
came out to Salt Lake some months
ago. He made himself a good fellow
with all of us and he Is a very smart,
shrewd man. He got into the good
graces of the bunch SO easily that be-
fore he was to leave for New York a
banquet was arranged In his honor
and he was told how much we all
thought Of him.
But It's different now. He held out
glowing promises and told us how he
would, through his eastern brokerage
house, put Salt Lake and the Cotton
wood properties near Salt Lake on the
mining map in a way that would open
everybody's eyes.
well, we fell for 1t. Old companies
that had claims in that district took
on new life and new companies were
launched. Stock hat sold at l and 2
cents a share was in big demand.
"Mr. Skinemup had gone back to
New York and he was wiring to buy
buy-buy. He would send an order
for 1000 or 10, 900 shares to a broker
who would buy the stock at 2 or
cents a share for Mr.. Skinemup.
"'Just send the stock right on to me
with a sight draft and it will be hon.
ored promptly would be the tele-
graphic order.
1.-THE stock began to jump up in
leaps and bounds. Still Skinemup
bought. The Salt Lake brokers were
themselves on the back. They
saw these stocks going on to New
York and the money coming back to
them from eastern investors. They
bought the stock Of Salt Lake people
who had it to sell.
Stocks that had ben selling be-
tween 1 and s cents a share went to
90c and 81. There were rumors and
of great strikes Of ore and
profits.
"Buy me 10000 shares OF Henrietta
md 10000 shares Of the Lucky Girl
an order sent by Skinemup to one
broker. To another he sent similarly
orders.
"The brokers went on the exchange
some one who declared that he had
been keeping that stock hid away in
his stocking, ready to part with it,
But it was cash on the spot with him.
They paid him the money and took
he stocks.
1T was only a matter of forwarding
he stocks to Skinemup on his order
collecting the coin for the stocks
It the other end and their banking
connections readily handled the deal.
"Then something happened. The
began coming back and the
ranks notified their brokers that Mr..
skinemup had refused to honor the
light drafts, Here vas a pretty how
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Notice of PostpOnement.

Notice is hereby given that by order
and resolution of the board of direct
assessment has been postponed to the
18th day of october, 1915, and the sale
of delinquent stock has been postpon-
ed to the 18th day of November, 1915,
at the same hour and place above de-
scribed.
w. H. MACFARLAN,
Secretary-Treasurer East Hercules
Extension Mining Company.
S23-O7-3t
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Military Training a Unifying Power
(Army and Navy Journal)

One feature Of general military sci
vice among the young men of tn
country is brought to the front at thi
particular moment because it fits |
so we'll with the loud talk about tn
likelihood that certain citizens of Ger
tain foreign ancestry will refrain fror
t assisting the government in the ever
or a war with the country from whic.
they emigrated or from which thei
immediate ancestors came, even /
they do not strive to further activel,
the interests of the enemies of tn,
United States. The anomaly Is pre-
scented at this time of thousands O
such citizens arraying themselves
against preparedness in this country
and yet at the same time working 70,
a fatherland whose success depend.
upon the system of preparedness.
which to them appears so distastefu
when 1t wears the American label
These foreign leanings indicate how
loosely the citizenship of this country
is knit and how necessary it is fol
some great movement to be begun
that will tend to unity the different
conglomerations of nationalities thai
go to make up the heterogeneous pop
ulation of the United States, We
have been too much disposed to feel
that a great common danger would
unite all u citizens of whatever RAJ
cial origin in one common army of de-
Tense.
Mutterings of DisIoyalty.
We have been perhaps too egotisti-
cally self-complacent in our belief
that Americanism is so powerful in
it's influences that 1t will soon master
all other racial tendencies and weld
them into one great sentiment for the
United States. The mutterings that
have been heard here and there about
what would happen to this country If
attacked by some great European ma
ton would indicate the faulty of this
dream of national unity and demon
strate the necessity of developing a
positive assertive force that would
make for a stronger Americanism.
Mere admiration for our political in
and our political liberty is
negative in a sense and may yield to
the pull of sympathies and feelings
associated with a mother country
across the water. What is needed is
something that will fuse these ele-
ments that seem to have in them the
Of apathy, if not of discord in
of national peril. This influ-
must be positive, it must have
something about it that will bring
men together in a common task.
Military Service Best Training.
Nothing can be better than univer-
sal military service for the young
men of the country, as this would in
a general enforced associa-
ion and instruction in patriotic eff
'orts whose common aim would be to
each participant capable of in
diligently doing his share toward pre-
the republic, it's institutions,
is homes and its wealth from preda-
DRY outsiders. There is no organiza-
ion of men that tends more strongly
o patriotic cooperation than that of
military organization. President Will
on has well said that the highest
,omradeship is the comradeship of
and that we know each best
when we know each other in a com
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mon cause. The realization that W,
have need of such universal service I,
develop a higher type of American
citizenship, a citizenship that shall
place the United States first, may no
be a pleasant thing to face, but tn,
sooner 1t is faced the better will 1t b.
for the country.
Who Oppose Military Service.
A hypocritical spirit is abroad In
the land that seeks to disparage mill
Itary training for the young while al
the same time seeking to give to
highly developed military agencies
abroad a greater power of effective
ness, We hear much about he sale
of munitions of war being "a traffic
in instruments of murder" but W.
are not told that the secret purpose
behind all this outcry Is to make eff
|~fective the instruments of murder
on the other side of the water. Such
a spirit of insincerity, to use no
stronger term, would not flourish hand
in hand with military training. There
Is something in the bearing of arms
that discourages such two-facedness
1t may not be wholly disadvantageous
to the plans now being urged for In
creaslng the preparedness of the re
public that much of the opposition to
increasing u army and navy has It
in such a n and duplicity, which
must in the end stand revealed to the
people of the United States.
The Boston Transcript pertinently
of this view Of military service:
For generations we have heard com,
military training cried down.
We were told that the peoples of Eur
ope flocked here for liberty and to
avoid the differing measures of mill
tary training required of them ~
home. Yet at the call Of an emer-
gency they go back in tens of thous-
ands to a service which they suppos-
idly had found irksome, while Others
Who had sworn allegiance to our own
lag organize to promote the interests
# a country which tomorrow we
count an enemy"
Return Home to Fight.
This return to the old countries of
thousands who sail from our shores
or the fields of death and danger with
song upon their lips attests the uni
ying, constraining power of military
and the patriotism developed
y that service. The wholehearted
,ay in which reservists of all the
ountries in which compulsory mill
ary service exists have sought to re-
urn to fight for their governments j
proof of the loyalty bred by service {
Nth the colors in time of peace. II
lay be asked whether the same en- s
husiasm can be found in countries in {
'hich compulsory training is lacking.
We do know that since the beginning |
the war the country in which ap- 6
calls to the people to wake and do I
heir duty to the government nave Is
cen made is that in which compulsory /
ervice has been lacking and in which
ne volunteer system has been held to {
able to meet all national crises. In c
ne countries where military training '
been universal such appeals have
OF been necessary, since the entire 4
lale population by the fact of their c
ervice with the colors in peace have 9
cen trained to understand their duty '
time Of war. Is
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

oHce OF the Sunshine Mining Com
pany' Limited, Wallace, Idaho, Sep
TENDER 4, 1915.
Notice'is hereby given that at a
meeting Of the directors, held on the
4tn day of September, 1915, an assess
Inent OF six-tenths (6-10) Of one mill
per snare was levied upon the capital
sVocK OF the corporation, payable on
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Notice Of Postnonament.

Notice is hereby given that by order
nd resolution of the board of direct
RS, the time for payment of the above
assessment has been postponed to the
9th day Of September, 1915, and the
ale Of delinquent stock has been post
oned to the 18th day of october, 1915,
t the same hour and place above de-
cribed.
w. H. MACFARLAN,
Secretary Treasurer East Hercules
Extension Mining Company.
A21-S9-5t
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Dartmouth Jack O. Lantern)
Calder (complacently)-Ah, Bobby,
| am glad to see my photograph in
your sisters frame on the mantel.
Bobby-Well, she had to rush some
to get 1t owe Toms before you came.
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With gelatine as a basis, a new mo-
ton picture screen has been invented
with which pictures can be shown in
full daylight, being projected from the
back through the screen.
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Production of Precious Metals in the
United States

A memorandum OF the revised statement of gold and slyer roducton in
the United States in 1914 was given in the Journal of septembe 4 The
n statement OF production by states as apporioned by the director of
the mint and the geological survey is shown in the table herewith The ae-
for gold are the value; for silver the quantity in fine ouncas