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The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
SHORT AND SHARP.

Any one can be successful as q hunt
er Of trouble.
Where do the Mexican factions get
al their money?
When a man borrows trouble, tmagi-
nation Is the loan agent.
n some people are busy they imag-
me they are overworked-
Happiness Is merely the art OF max
ing what we get At our destres-
When trouble calls we are more apt
10 be 6t home than when fortune
knocks.
~The sweet girl graduate" may be a
joke. but average American men can
take q joke.
II thu average bin OF fare resembled
the items IN the health food column the
b. c. Of L would soon be solved
Europe q making straw hats Of
wood The heads that wear them ap-
pear to be the only cheap material at
pressnt
Adversely d sometimes hard upon q
man. But for one man who can stand
prosperity there are q hundred that WIN
stand adversely.
Il isn't % much the amoznt oe the
indemnity 10 be demanded from tie
vanquishsd IN the var. bur hoW win
a. ez1h b ralsedf
h war has broashf ab0ut ths MIS-
eoxsfy 81 Iceland Whieh has nav a.
vsEssd its trade % u becan0es0f Aesr-
tAia equsamlshnezs against naxiEnllng
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
YOUNG TARS OFF
FOR TRAINING CRUISE
ShID VIII Take In San Francisco
Fair Via Panama Canal

Just recently the New York state
nautical schoOlship sailed away for
West Indian waters and started the
longest cruise in her history. She VIII
have logged 1885 miles before she
rounds Sandy Hook on the return voy-
age next fall The ITO cadets aboard
viii have then seen many points OF
interest In the western hemisphere.
Heretofore the cruiser has been to Eu-
ropean waters. This time the school
ship will touch at West Indian points,
then pass through the Panama canal
and head for Honolulu. On the return
from Hawaii the Newport VIII touch
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
Recent Inventions.

Electrical machinery has been IN
vented to reset the pins in bowling al
leys-
Shears Of a new design have no I'm
ger loops, a spring opening the blades
after they are pressed together.
For the aid Of cripples a Texas In
ventor has patented a crutch with a
folding camp stool between its sides
The outer walls Of a new safe are
perforated to permit the gases Of an
explosion to escape and thereby thwart
q burglar who tries TO blow II open
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
German GIeaningS.

An soldiers in the German army are
taught the history Of the Prussian roy
al family.
The latest fashion for German CHI
dren Is the "Hindenburg blouse
named after the famous general IL =
made I'm the German and Austrian nd
tional colOrs.
Berlin women are not worried by tne
servant problem. II a maid Is u
charged at 3 o'clock. at there VIII De
n dozen girls cIamoring for the place
Every servant has to carry a nlue
book. which contains testimonials rrOm
her various employers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
Base Hits.

II Is one thing to get to the tOp y
the league and another to stay tnefs
Detroit Free Press.
A writer complains that baseoah Ia. 49,
get no exercise. he forgets ABOUT -
vocal cords.-St Louis Glooe-Denoei--
How much more interesting : 49, 49,
ball when It Is played out OF uOOiS -.
when Il Is confined 10 court
Chicago News L.
II that Sing Sing baseball Deau I'D
YeIoped a $4,000 beauty there w." -
be no trouble getting a monster I,sr.
don Tor his pardOn.-Balhmofe A
lean
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
Pert Personals.

Chauncey NJ Depew has celebrated
his eighty-nrst birthday and Is now al
most as old as some of his anecdotes
Houston Post
The threat to investigate Mr.. Morgan
In England viii hardly bother him any.
He Is pretty well Injured to investiga-
tionS-Philadelphia Press.
Jack johnson has suddenly become
30 obscure that It may even be possible
for him to travel incognito and evade
the police.-washington Star.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
A WOMAN OF NERVE.

Mrs. carman Throughout Her Two
/ Trials Showed Remarkable Control.
Again Mrs. Florence Carman has
been brought into the fierce Hmelight Of
publicity through her second trial for
the murder Of Mrs Louise Bailey, who
was shot to death In the anteroom Of
DR.. Carman's office In Freeport, N. Y.
The first trial resulted In a disagree
ment tie second trial resulting In &C
QuittaL In the second trial Mrs. Car
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
The Royal Box.

Only PrOtestants may sit on the
throne Of England
It Il said that the kaiser possesses q
large collection Of earicatures Of him
self.
King Haakon Of Norway b said 10
have easily assumed the free and cor
dial manners Of the Scandinavian
kings. he shakes hands with the
CLERGY at church. rgpeaks oftenest Of
Queen Maud simply as my wife" ana
does not seorn 70 walk down KarI
Jehans garden at CHRISTIANS duits ~
an ordinary citizen
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22
College and School.

A pharmacy preparatory course for
boys has been introduced into Chi
ago's public schools.
Wherever required New Zealand es-
tablishes schools for the Maori chill
dren- In 1912 there were 10s schools.
Barnard college, sister TO Columbia
university, recently celebrated the
twenty-nfth anniversary Of its founda-
don.
A travelling museum that goes to the
public schools with illustrative mate
rial at the time It Is needed Il success
fully used by the st. Louis schools.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-05-22

MA T1OEEsu oAnMAn.
nan appeared IN q measure 10 conduct
her own case She frequently Gzve adj
vies % her lawyer and even took q
hand IN the selection Of the jury
Throughout the two trials 1fEs- oars
nan showed 4 remarkable control over
hR sm0fious and seemed mors M IN
lntersstsd and intellsent speetztos
tan Ike one who Wns playlng the
uef roe - ths defendant N q trial
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
Would Handle Wheat In Bulk.

Australian wheat, at the present
time, is transported in bags, system
which involves not only a considerable
cost, but is also uneconomical in the
use of labor. In consequence, the gov
ernments Of New South Wales and Vic
toria are considering proposals for
handling 1t in bulk, based upon the re-
ports of engineers. who made inquiries
as to this method in Canada, the Uni.
ted States and South Africa The ex-
perts also say that the change would
result in large extension of the
growing areas 1t is understood, how.
ever, that the steamship lines, which
have been approached on the subject
are not agreed that under existing cir.
cumstances the shipment of grain in
bulk is practicable. though it is be.
lieved that if adequate supplies were
guaranteed the necessary space would
be readily forthcoming.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22

are ~ bad a. Weeterling and ! am
worse than either Of you! IL an
nounced the four hundred thousand as
il they were . score-A score in a
game In our favor. am helping.
Lanny? All my sacrifice isn't for
nothingr" she asked for the hun
dredth time.
"Immeasurably. You have saved US
many lives!" he replied.
And cost them many!" she asked
Yes. Marta. no doubt" he admitted:
but no more than they would have
lost In the end. II 10 only the mount
ing up of their casualties that can
end the war. Thus the lesson must
be taught"
And l can be Of most help when the
attack on the main defense In begun ?"
Yes"
And when Westerling finds that my
information Is false about Engadir-
then"
She had never put the question to
him in this way before. What would
Westerling do II he found her out?
MY God, Marital" he exclaimed. If
I'd had any sense | would have thought
of that in the beginning and torn out
the phone! I've been mad, mad with
the one thought OF the nation-inhu-
man IN my greedy patriotism. will
not let you go any further!"
1t was a new thing for her to be
rallying him; yet this she did as the
strange effect OF his protest on the
abnormal sensibilities that her acting
had developed.
Thinking OF me-little mel" she
called back "Of one persons com
fort when hundreds OF thousands Of
other women are in terror; when the
destiny Of millions is at stake! Lanny.
you are in blue funk" and she was
laughing forcedly and hectically. I'm
going on-going on like one in
trance who can't stop II he would.
It's all right. Lanny. I undertook the
task myself. I must see 1t through"
After she had hung mp the receiver
her buoyancy vanished. She leaned
against the wall OF the tunnel weakly.
Yes, what II she were found out7 She
was thinking OF the possibility seri-
ously for the first time. Yet, for only
moment did she dwell upon It be-
fore she dismissed 1t In sudden reac-
ton.
NO matter what they do to me or
what becomes OF mel" she thought.
I'm a lost soul. anyway. The thing
is to serve as long as l can-and
then don't care!"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22

He got no further. His words were
drowned by the outburst OF one OF the
younger members of. the stan, who
had either to laugh or choke at the
picture Of this deepeyed, spectral sort
Of man, known as a woman-hater. In
his revelation OF the farcical source
OF his suspicious.
why not include Clarissa Eileen!"
some one asked, starting a chorus OF
satirical exclamations-
How do they get through the liner
YES. past a wall OF bayonets?"
When not even a soldier In uni
form is allowed to move away from
his command without a pass?"
by wireless?'
Perhaps by telepathy!"
Unless" said the chief Of the aero
static. division. grinning. "Bouchard
lends them the use OF our own wires
through the capital and around by the
neutral countries across the Brown
frontier"
But the correct plans and location
OF their forts and the numbers OF their
heavy guns and Of their planes and
dirigibles-your failure to have this
information is not the result Of any
leak from our stan since the war be-
gam" said Turcas in his dry, pene-
trating voice. clearing the air OF the
smoke of scattered explosions.
IAN were staring at Bouchard again.
What answer had he to this? He was
in the box, the evidence stated by the
prosecutor. Let him speak!
He was fairly beside himself in a
paroxysm OF rage and struck at the
air with his clenched fist.
- Lanstron!" he cried.
There's no purpose in that. He
can't hear you'll" said Turcas. dryly a.
ever
"He might. through the leak" said
the chief aerostatic officer, who con-
sidered that many OF his gallant sub
ordinates had lost their lives through
Bouchards inefficiency perhaps Cla-
rissa Eileen has already telepathically
wigwagged 1t to him.
To lose your temper at stan coun-
ell is most unbecoming. Turcas would
have kept his II hit in the back by
fool automobilist Westerling had now
recovered his. He was again the su-
perman in command.
at is for you and not for us to
locate the leak; yes, for you!" he
said. That is all on the subject for
the present" he added in tone OF
mixed pity and contempt, which left
Bouchard freed from the stare of his
colleagues and in the miserable com
pany of his humiliation.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
Colorado.

So heavy has become the production
at the estate Of the Isabella Mines
Company, Cripple Creek, that Super
intendent Clark D. Mitchell put on a
night shift
Compared with 1912, when the AS
pen mines produced at the average
rate of 1850 tons CT crude ore each
month. the district showed gain of
Al per cent in actual ore shipments
for the month of April.
With the advent of State Mine Com
missioner Carroll, who has used oil
flotation at the Atlas plant for the
past two years, considerable impetus.
will be given to that process in Colo
RADIO camps.
The Rico Consolidated mine, which
is located about two miles up Silver
creek, east of Rico, has resumed ship
ments Of ore and has enough broken
down and in sight to enable the com
pany to ship two cars day during the
next six months.
For average daily gross value in the
output of ore the Vindicator Consol-
dated Gold Mining Company is the
largest and steadiest producer in the
Cripple Creek district and probably
in all of Colorado, being exceeded-if
it is exceeded-only by the Little
johnny" at Leadville, which is also al
most exclusively a gold-producer with
ore enough in sight to keep up for
many years it's present heavy output,
returning dividends of 100000 to-
$7s0,000 yearly.
The Margand Leasing Company,
controlling ground from the eighth
level down on the Mary Mckinney
mine at Cripple Creek. is prosecuting
an active campaign OF exploration.
Six carloads of ore, with an average
value of $500 a ton, was shipped to
the Golden Cycle mill from the Ores
son mine at Cripple Creek.
For the first quarter of the present
year the Isabella Mines Company
shows gross production worth $111,-
403.07 which is the largest in some,
years for single quarter.
Dredging for gold, which placed Cal
ifornia in front Of Colorado in 1913
as a producer of the worlds standard
OF value. will cut larger figure this
year in Colorado districts than at any
previous time.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE
Foolish 10 the Humorist Who Would
Insist That This HAS Never
Been Sprung Before"

A reader of the Docket in New York
city cut out the item relating to the
dissolution Of partnership, in which
one partner makes the statement that
those who owe the firm will settle
with him. and those that the firm owes
will settle with Mose." and sends 1t
back to US with this notation This
was an old chestnut when l lived in
-, which was in 1855"
To this charge we enter a plea of
confession and avoidance. We con-
tend that the courts will take judicial
notice OF the fact that there is nothing
new under the sun, and in our judg-
ment the jokesmith Is we'll within
his rights in resurrecting a joke
which was old in 1855.
The incident brings to mind the fol-
lowing story: THE editor of a Mime
sofa newspaper back In the SOS con-
cocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put
four sticks of dynamite in the stove
last Sunday to thaw them out. The
handles were nickel plated and only
cost S10." A professor of English
literature in an eastern university
wrote a very interesting article on
this joke. claiming that it represented
distinctly American brand of humor,
and that it could not have happened
in any other country or at any other
time
But alas for the professor of Eng
fish literature-for there is nothing
new under the sun. Reference to II
Chronicles. Chapter 16, Verses IL and
49, produces the following:
IL. And Asa in the thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased
in his feet, until his disease was ex-
ceedingly great yet in his disease
he sought not to the Lord, but to the
physicians.
1S. And Asa slept with his fathers.
Vests Docket
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
Wyomlnq.

More than sixty wells have been
drilled in the Basin and Greybull oil
fields
Shell creek seems suddenly tct
have doomed into prominence as an
attractive field to oil men.
State Geological Bulletin No. 10 on
the Basin and Greybull oil and gas
fields Of Big Horn county says: The
productive areas of the Basin and
Greybull oil and gas fields comprise
but few square miles situated in
townships 81 and 50 north and ranges
80 and SO west Three anticlines, all
relatively small, have been found to-
contain gas and oil in commercial
quantity. The most southerly Of
these, the Torchlight Dome, is located
about three miles east of Basin. The
most northerly one occurs just south
east of Greybull and is commonly
known as the Peay Hill dome. The
third one, usually referred to as the
Lamb anticlne, is smaller than the
other two and lies between them but
nearer to the "Torchlight dome
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
New Mexico,

A sum equal to 100000 will be
spent in working the placer mines
near Elizabethtown.
Cimarron reports that wealthy ST.
Louis brewers are the men who are
planning extensive placer operations
in the Elizabethtown district
w. II. F'rantz has made rich plac-
er strike and is working force OF
men on the ground that yields IS
pan. The strike is at the famous
Animas placer field.
Drilling will be resumed in the oil
well sunk at Artesia which has at
tanned depth of 900 feet The in
dications for a producer are unmistak
able in that section OF the state
Henry R. Oliver OF Denver holds,
most of the stock in an enterprise
lately incorporated at Santa Fe for
the purpose Of developing oil land in
the vicinity of Dayton, Eddy county.
Superintendent Sully of the Chino
Copper Company and an engineer
were at Hillsboro looking over some
copper properties in the neighbodhood
which resemble the deposits at Santa
Rita.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
SYNOPSIS.

Al their home on the frontier between
the Browns and Grays Marta Galland and
her mother. entertaining Colonel Wester-
ing Of the Grays. see Captain Lanstron
Aeroplane Ten years later. Westerling.
nominal vice but real chief OF staT, re-efl-
forces South La Tir and meditates on war
Marta tells him Of her teaching children
the follles Of war and martial patriotism
and bess him to prevent war while he Is
chief OF stan. Ilanstron calls on Marta
At her home. She tells Lanstron that she
believes Feller, the gardener. to be a spy
l-anstron confesses II Ii true and shows
her q telephone which Teller has con-
for use to benefit the Browns in war
emergencies Lanstron declares his love
for Marta. Westerling and the Gray pre-
m!er plan TO use trivial international
AFFAIR 70 toment warlike patriotism and
strike before declaring war. Partow,
Brown chief OF stan, reveals his plans to
Lanstron. made vice chief The Gray
army crosses the border line and attacks.
The Browns check them. Artillery. in
fsntry. aerOplanes and dirigibles engage.
modern, cold, scientific, murderous bru-
taIlty The Browns fall back to the Gal
land house. Marta sees a night attack.
The Grays attack In force. Teller leaves
his secret telephone and goes back to his
guns. Hand to hand fighting. The Browns
fall back again Marta asks Lanstrpn over
the phone to appeal to Partow to stop the
nghting. Vandalism in the Galland house.
Westeriing and his star occupy the Gal
land house and he begins to WOO Marta,
the Grays and offers valuable Information.
She calls up Lanstron on the secret tele-
phone and plans to give Westerling fnfor-
nation that will trap the Gray army.
what he learns from her The Grays take
Bordr
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22
ESTE r N
MINING NEWS
IN REF
IN B r E =

Western Newspaper Union News Service
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22

was in dying condition when We
picked him up, and, as he was speak
ing with the last breaths in his body,
naturally his account of what he had
seen was somewhat incoherent. 1t
would be OF use however, if we had
plans OF the forts that would enable
US to check of his report intelli-
gently
Yet, what evidence have We that
Partcw or Lanstron has done more
than to make fortunate guess or
show military insight" Westerling
asked There is the case of my own
belief that Bordir was weak. which
proved correct"
Last night we got a written tele-
graphic staff message from the body
of dead officer of the Browns found
in the Twin Boulder Redoubt," said
the vice-chief. which showed that in
an hour after our plans were transmit
ted to our own troops for the first
attack they were known to the en-
envy"
That looks like a leak!" exclaimed
| Westerling, "a leak, Bouchard. do you
hear?" He was frowning and his lips
were drawn and his cheeks notified
with red in a way not pleasant to see
Stiffening in his chair, a flash of
, desperation in his eye, Bouchard' 8
bony, long hand gripped the table
edge. Every one felt that a sensa.
ton was coming.
Yes, have known that there was
| leak" he said with hoarse, painful
deliberation. II have sent out every
possible tracer. l have followed up
| ferred a dozen men. | have left moth.
ing undone!"
With no result?" persisted Wester.
| ling impatiently.
| Yes, always the same result: That
the leak is here in this house-here
! in the grand headquarters of the army
under our very noses. know 1t is not
! the telegraphers or the clerks. 1t is
| a member of the staff!"
| Have you gone out of your head?'
| demanded Westerling. What staff.
officer? How does he get the infor-
nation to the enemy? Name the per.
sons you suspect here and now! Elk.
plain, II you want to be considered
sane!"
| Here was the blacklist accusation
that could be made against an officer!
The chosen men Of the staff, tested
through many grades before they
reached the inner circle of cabinet Sc.
crecy, lost the composure Of council.
All were leaning forward toward Bou.
chard breathless for his answer.
There are three women ON the
grounds" Daid Boucha:d. II have been
against their staying from the FIRST
L.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-05-22

suggestion q criticism by repeating
that the defensive always appeared to
the offensive to be better informed
than itself But this time Westerling
let the conversation run on without a
word Of excuse for his favorite.
Each fresh reproach from the stan.
whose opinion was the only god he
knew. was . dagger thrust to Bou-
chard. At night he had lain awake
worrying about the leak; by day he
had sought to trace II, only to find
every clew leading back to the stan.
Now he was as confused IN his shame
as a sensitive schoolboy. Vaguely.
in his distress. he heard Westerling
asking a question. while he saw all
those eyes staring at him
What Information have we about
Engadir?"
Il believe 1t to be strongly forth
fed" stammered Bouchard
You believe, You have no infor
mation?" pursued Westerling.
No, sir" replied Bouchard. Moth
ing-nothing newt"
We do seem to get little informa-
ton" said Westerling. looking hard
at Bouchard in silence-the COM
bined silence OF the whole staff
This public reproof could have but
one meaning. He should soon receive
a note which would thank him politely
for his services. in the stereotyped
phrases always used for the purpose,
before announcing his transfer to
less responsible post.
Very little, sir" Bouchard replied
doggedly
There is that We had from one of
our aviators whose machine came
down In a smash Just as he got over
our infantry positions on his return"
said the chief aerostatic officer He