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old PRESCRIPTION
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS

A medicinal preparation like DR.. Kill
mer's Swamp-Root, that has real curative
value almost sells itself. Like an endless
chain system the remedy is recommended
by those who have been benefited to those
who are in need of it.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root is a physi-
clans prescription. 1t has been tested
for years and has brought results to count
less numbers who have suffered.
The success of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root
is due to the fact that it fuflls almost ev-
cry wish in overcoming kidney, liver and
bladder diseases, corrects urinary troubles
and neutralizes the uric acid which causes
rheumatism.
Do not suffer. Get bottle of Swamp
Root from any druggist now. Start treat
ment today.
However, if you wish first to test this
Great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
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Colorado.

The Molybdenum Mines Company
has been incorporated at Denver.
Work on the Camp Bird tunnel at
Ouray has progressed over 1000 feet.
A 100-ton ore concentration plant is
under erection three miles north of
Minturn.
Ore shipments from Breckenridge
district are running from 115 to 120
carloads each month.
A strike has been made in the Red
mountain in the Leadville district as
saying $3,12O gold per ton.
Dividends of $4,000 month will
be paid to the stockholders of the
Cresson mine at Cripple Creek.
The Nelson mine at Ward, operated
by three men, last month produced
61A tons of tungsten concentrates.
The Revenue mining property in
the Mount Sneffels district has been
acquired by the st. John Mines Com
pany.
The construction of a 50-ton mill for
the Keystone Mining and Reduction
Company near Boulder has COM
menced.
Extensive improvements at the
plant of the United States Portland
Cement Company at Concrete are un-
der way.
Fred c. Wood, Stanley NJ Walker
and John H. Bender have incorporated
the Cadiz Mining Company with a
capitalization of 100000.
A bond and lease on the Bismarlz
mine near Caribou has been secured
by Fred Carlson and August Wilim-
xix. The lessees are taking out silver
ore that runs forty ounces of silver to
the ton.
A cleanup at the Livingston mine
at Sugar Loaf yielded thirty-eight
pounds of gold bullion and a twelve
pound brick of base bullion, bringing
the total output for the year near the
$4,000 mark.
The purchase of the new Mount
Champion mine in Lackawanna gulch
at Leadville is under consideration by
group of eastern capitalists who re-
Gently inspected the property. A val
uation placed upon the mine is said to
have been close to $1,O0O,OOO.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

Himalayas in their majestic height,
the Grand canyon remains the first
natural wonder of the world.
Natures Titanic Struggle.
While we may say that the Grand
canyon is truly canyon, it is rather
an intricate system of canyons, each
subordinate to the river channel in the
midst. The river channel, lying more
than 5000 feet below the vision, seem
ingly is a rather insignificant trench,
attracting the eye more by reason of
it's somber tone and mysterious sug-
gestion than by any appreciable char
acteristic of the chasm. 1t is perhaps
five miles distant in a straight line,
and it's uppermOst rims nearly 1000
feet beneath the observer, whose
measuring capacity is entirely made
auate to the demand made by such
magnitudes. Here some great, battles
of nature once took place, which has
left it's effect strikingly visible, yet Of
which we know nothing The sur
rounding country looks for all the
world like the mouths of thousand
still volcanoes, while the. coating over
the surface of the peculiarly shaped
depressions is like volcanic ash in tex
ture.
The Grand Canyon district lies in
northwestern Arizona and comedies
with a local uplift, or structural. swell,
in the Colorado plateau. It's area is
about 10000 square miles. Over prac-
tically all of this nearly level expanse
one geologic formation, the Kaibab
limestone, is surface rock. Along the
eastern border of the district a sharp
downward bend, known as mono
cline, carries the beds to a lower level,
where they resume their nearly hori~
zOntal attitude and continue eastward
beneath the higher strata of the pla-
teau. The upward edges Of these
higher faces are known as Echo
cliffs. ...': '. ,f
On. the north the district is walled
in by another line Of cliffs and ter
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races, running east and west along the
southern border of Utah. These have
been carved by erosion out of the high
er strata Of the plateau and rise in
huge steps northward to elevations of
II 900 feet or more. The southern bor-
der of this district is marked by an
abrupt descent to lower country
along series of cliffs carved from the
plateau strata.
The northern portion of the Grand
Canyon district is divided into five
minor platforms or plateau blocks by
great lines Of fracture or f1exure,
which trend north and south and are
roughly paralleled.
Long Series Of Canyons.
The Colorado river crosses the pla-
teau province from northeast to south
west. 1t has carved a series of can
yOns whose total length exceeds 500
miles. All these canyons are clear
cut, deep gashes in nearly level plat
forms and their step-like walls de-
scend abruptly by alterations of bold
cliffs and narrow lodges. The river
at the bottom carries the drainage
from the whole western front of the
Rocky mountains in Colorado and
southwestern Wyoming. Because of
the general impassability and inhospi-
table character of the bordering des-
erts, these canyons form barrier to
human travel more effective than the
Rocky mountains. The Colorado river
is unbridged for 700 miles, distance
about equal to the distance between
New York and Chicago.
In the high-blocked plateaus of the
Grand Canyon district the canyons
reach their elimination in size and
grandeur. The pathway of the river
across these plateaus is the most re-
markable valley in the world. The
section that traverses the marble plat
form is known as the Marble canyon,
being 60 miles in length. The part
cut through the Kaibab, Kanab, Uin-
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23
SPEEDING IS UNDER A BAN
Heavy Penalty Follows Reckless Driv-
ing in French War
Zone.

strapped to q wagon in full view
of the troops for two hours a day, loss
of 80 days pay and loss to the wife of
the mans allotment" was the punish
ment awarded by field court-mar-
tial to driver for Every slightly ex-
ceeding the speed limit" Was Mr..
Lloyd-George aware of the case? Mr..
G. Watson asks.
The court martial was quite within
it's rights, is the reply of the war Of
flee. Very strict regulations have been
laid down to prevent reckless driving
in France, the authorities there hav-
number of cases where children had
been injured owing to that cause.
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Unsuspected Efficiency.

The bureau of plant industry is en-
deavOring to improve tobacco by scien,
tific study of the different brands. To
eliminate the personal equation in
smoking and to secure uniformity OF
conditions the bureau has a carefully
regulated apparatus for testing the
burning quality of cigars. The pull
on the cigar is secured by means of an
aspirator, which is filled by continu-
GUS inflow of water and emptied at
regular intervals by a siphon. The
pull" occurs at intervals of 80 sec
onds and lasts for a period of ten sec
onds. The apparatus smokes four
cigars of the perfecto type in about 80
minuteS.-TObaccO.
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karet and Sivwits plateaus is the
Grand canyon proper. This is about
220 miles long, and averages mile
in depth and aboutsten miles in width,
from rim to rim. The Kaibab and
Kanab divisions are each about so
miles in length, while the Uinkaret
is 25 miles, and the Sivwitz Is miles.
Home of Old Cliff DWeIers.
Evidences of former human occupa-
tion are found everywhere in the
Grand Canyon region, but as few of
these ruins are well preserved there is
nothing especially spectacular about
them, save as Of historic import. Here
at one time abounded crude stone
houses. Some Of these ruins are
perched high under Overhanging ledges
which still show the blackening of the
smoke from their fires; others lie
among huge blocks of debris that have
fallen from the cliffs; still others
stand in the open, away from any ma
tural shelter. The only well-pre-
served shelter are the old storehouses,
built high up among the crevices in
the canyon walls.
And into the depths Of this wonder
land plunges Bright Angel trail,
named by Major Powell. 1t is one of
the few trails that permit human be-
ings to enter the land of splendor.
Almost everywhere huge walls of rock
bar entrance to this cliff-protected
chasm, where natures God has
wrought such marvels, which no man
could annal
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OWN Bright Angel trail strag-
gle the hardy burros. Then
up Bright Angel trail they

~ OWN Bright Angel trail strag-
gle the hardy burrOs. Then
up Bright Angel trail they
scramble again. Part of the
way their saddles were empty, where
the trail clings so closely to the pre-
cipitOuS wall of the Grand canyon Of
the Colorado that there is no room for
a rider to stick on. Winding it's tor
tuous way upward, twisting about
rocks, clutching the mountainside by
inches, the trail gradually climbs the
steep ascent from the river bed Of the
rushing Colorado to the heights above,
5000 feet above, mile straight up in
the blue from the dark depths Of
earth's most wonderful treasure
chasm of beauty.
You have not seen America until you
have descended Bright Angel trail in
Arizona, writes Earl William Gage in
the Utica Saturday Globe.
Nowhere else on earth exists such
a depression into the surface of the
earth, from 1000 to 5000 feet deep.
The canyon of the Yellowstone is tri-
fling in comparison with the Grand
canyon of the Colorado river in Ari-
zona. The great gorge is 217 miles
long, varying from to 13 miles in
width, the maximum depth being g.
600 feet. Here the tourist stands at
the top Of the mountain peak at the
start and to gain the victory land
must descend 5000 feet of sheer rock.
Elsewhere, we stand at the foot of the
mountains and must ascend. At
Grand canyon the rules that regulate
tourists are reversed in everything.
"The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
is the greatest thing in the world, I"
says one writer. It is absolutely un-
paralleled and it's beautiessand grand
eur are far beyond the grasp of the
writer or the artist. More command
ing than Yosemite or Yellowstone,
more beautiful than majestic Niagara,
more mysterious in it's depth than the
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Wyoming.

oil per day. The hole will be put on
down to the sand which the drillers
expect to reach in less than 1900 feet.
Estimates made by State Land
Commissioner S. G. Hopkins of the
productivity of state school lands for
oil places the total acreage at approx
imately 1900 acres
The Rocky Ford Oil and Develop
ment Company, recently organized by
Sundance men to operate in the
Rocky Ford district is ruaking rapid
progress in the sale of it's oil lots.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23
Red Cross Bag Blue makes the laundress
happy, makes clothes winter than snow.
All good grocers. Adv.
Loading Guns With Air.

Jack Tar knows what it means to
tote heavy shells around ship, but Jack
Tar will not need to worry about this
duty longer, according to the Popular
Science Monthly. Ammunition is now
loaded by pneumatic tube straight
from the magazine to the firing turret.
An intricate mechanism prevents the
shells from entering the breeches of
the guns at great speed and also pre-
vents any mistake in firing.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23
New Use for Puimotor.

The latest brand of fish story comes
from Bethel, Me. On invitation of
Mr.. Bingham, a party left for Pennes-
seewassee lake for a days fishing. The
members got so many fish that on
their way out they were stopped by
the commissioner. They had more than
the law allowed, so they turned back
and resuscitating the surplus with a
pulmotor put them back in the lake.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23
FIERY RED PIMPLES
Soothed and Healed by Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

Smear the affected skin with Cuticura
Ointment on end Of finger. Let it re-
main five to ten minutes. Then wash
off with plenty of Cuticura Soap and
hot water. Dry without irritation.
Nothing like Cuticura for all skin
troubles from infancy to age.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23
Cold SnatcherS.

Teacher-Johnny, can you tell me
the function of the pores of our
bodies?
Johnny-They are the things we use
to catch cold with.-ChriStian Reg
lister.
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Save the Babies.

fgf We hardly realize that
Of all the children born in civilized countries twenty-five per ns
before
than oneh before they dv and half before
a. ffteenl
hesitate that timely Of Castora would save
Neither
deaths occasioned by the of narcotic
less opium morphine They in considerable quantities
In
congeson Sickness operates exactly the but
of Chas H. Fletcher Casoa
the to
alays fever ~ <UHNA-A
the signature Of I<2X /<c<W
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Who Said hash2

Bacon-A museum of the horse, pre-
senting complete history of that ami
NAL from the earliest known period to
the present, has been established in
Paris.
Egbert-Well, from all reports, Paris
is a proper place to look for the re-
hash of the horse.
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Help to Indians.

Bacon-I see ChOctaws and Greeks
living in Texas have scarcely anything
traditional left except their speech,
and many of them can't speak English.
Egbert-Well, / know lot of wOm-
en- who can tell 'em where they can get
more paint and feathers.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

Instead of running away from your
work try to find more efficient way OF
doing it. That is the secret Of sue
cess.
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Cheap.

''How did you make out with your
garden this year?"
"Fine. / raised so many vegetables
that the exercise l got out of working
in it cost me hardly anything at ALL"
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Just RiQht.

"A penny for your thoughts, dear"
Il was thinking of that exquisite
perfume and it's COST
"Ah! l knew your thoughts were
about scents worth"
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

David Cline of Philadelphia has COM
pleted without an accident 45 years as
railroad engineer.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

A henpecked man is a silent partner
of his wife'S woes.
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His Meal Ticket.

II met Mr.. Blinks at the Van Gelts'
dinner last night. Isn't he a most faS-
cinating man?"
''He has to be. If Blinks didn't get
invited out to dinner three or four
times week he'd starve to DEATH"
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

B. H. Foster owns 1900 acres OF
wheat near Smith Center, Kan.
The Benson signal., 1916-09-23

But you can't get rid of your stenog-
rapher by marrying her.
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WESTERN
MINING AND OIL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Metal Market Prices.
Spelter, Denver-$S.26.
Copper, casting ng-$26.62h.
Lead, New YORKSHIRE.
Bar silver-68Ac.
Boulder, Colo.-Tungsten concen-
trates, 60 per cent, $1S to $23 per unit.
Crude ores, 60 per cent, SIS to $23;
25 per cent, $9.4O to $40; 10 per cent,
$3.50 to $500 per unit.
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Its PURPOSE.

$50 this is the prison laundry?"
eyes, ma'am."
Il suppose you wash and iron the
.OnvictS here"
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OF Course Not.

VI NOUIS SC bNOks
1.-THE engineers Of both trains lost
their heads"
'Then it was not a head-On col
lisiOn."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
LARGE CATCHES OF
TROUT REPORTED

Bennington, April 16.--Because of the
backward spring the anglers in this
vicinity have been predicting that there
would be but little good trout fishing
before the first Of May, but these pre-
dictiors, like weather prophecies. failed
to materiaize, for not in n number of
years have the catches been so large ON
the opening day. The most frequented
stream was Furnace brook. Dozens Of
fishermen We're seen on its banks dur
ing tEc day AMI all of them. even the
small boys. reported trout Edwin u.
Moore secured q trout that weighed
within Il few ounces of the days limit.
The stream has been annually stocked
for number Of years by the Benning-
ton County Forest, Fish and Game assoc
citation and the results to-day show that
the work of the association is beginning
to turn back results.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
TURKEY ADMITS
SINKING HOSPITAL
SHIP PORTUGAL
Declares Vessel Carried No Sign
of Her Character as PrOvid-
ed by Hague Con-
ventiOn.

Berlin. April tG. tby wireless to Tucker
on)-Announcement Is made by the Tur-
kish government that the Russian hospi-
tai ship Portugal sunk in tho Black sea
last month, was torpedoed by a Turkish
submarine. The statement was given out
to-day by the Overseas News Agency al
follows:
The Turkish government publishes tho
following report Of the commander Of the
Turkish submarine which sank the steam
ship Portugal:
"'The ship was sighted on the night OF
March $3.50. It was steering toward
landing place. When day break came II
was ascertaned that the shin was laden
heavily and that It was towing severa!
heavily loaded punts with numerous cc-
cupants The commander and other Of
flcers Of the submarine were justified in
believing the shiy was transport which
was on the way to land troops and sup
plies The ship was painted gray. with
n small red line and flew the Russian
merchant flag. No Red Cross flag was
flying aud the name OF the ship was in
visible.
"'rhc first torpedo did not hit. After
the explosion of the second torpedo
which struck below the bridge, violent
explosion occurred within the ship. This
explosion undoubtedly was due to large
quantities of explosives stored in the
ship. Immediately after this destroyer
attacked the submarine.
THE Russian affirmation that the ship
was struck by two torpedoes is untrue
The Turkish government regrets II per-
sons exclusively in the Red Cross serv-
ice persisted, but the responsibility rests
on the Russian government, which trans
ported these persons on vessel which
was being used for war purposes against
the Turks.
"Provisions of the conventions adopted
at The Hague stipulate that hospital
ships must be painted white. with green
or red stripe one and one-half meters
long and also must fly the Red Cross
flag"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
WAR HITS HAT INDUSTRY.

The business of braiding palm hats,
which is carried on in and around West
TOwnshend, is in danger of being
wiped out as a result Of the European
war. That locality is one of the few
in New England where palm leaf hats
are braided in the homes, and although
the business is much smaller than for
mcrly 1t Will surprise most persons to
know that not far from 100 persons de-
vote n part of their time to this work
under the direction of Charles II. Grout
who maintains the business in connec-
ton with his general store in West
Townshend. For several months, Mr.
GrOut has been unable to get the palm
leaf, which comes from southern Eu-
rope. The leaves come to this country
folded like closed fan and are bleach
ed and split to the desired width befor.
being sent to the localities where the
hats are braided Back in 1850 from
1,600 to 1000 persons In and around
West Townshend devoted their leisure
hours to braiding for ]. II. Fullerton.
who shipped from $4,000 to 10000 doz-
ems a year. There was profit of
eight cents to the braiders. hut II is
much less now. The work OF braiding
is always of much curiosity to city
visitors. 1t is done very rapidly by
skilled persons.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
RICH CASE ENDED.
Hardest Fought civil Case In WASH
inEtOn County Court in Several Ycnrs.

Montpelier. April l4.-Aftcr o trial OK
tending over week the case OF Seth
G. Rich. aim. VS. George q. Cross, n
death OF Mrs Margaret VI. Rich as the
result of injuries received last August
In al automobile accident went TO the
iury late this afternoon. The argu-
ments. commenced early In tho fore
,ioon, lasted uE;n after three o'clock
and judge Buffers charge occupied an
hour. The plaintiffs contention, boiled
down, is that the defendant was guilty
OF gross negligence in driving the auto
mobile, OF which Mrs. Rich was an occu-
pant, Mt high rate Of speed on a darl,
and foEgy night over n DANGEROUS piece
Of highway. The defense cndeavored to
prove that the machine was going
slowly and gradually went down the
cmbankment because of soft soil, tho
driver turning out because he thought
he sighted another machine coming
toward him.
Tho case furnished one of the hard
est fought legal battles witnessed In
Washington county cour. over a civil
case In some years, due probably to the
fact that Mr.. Cross is under indictment
fcr manslaughter because OF the acct
dent and death Of Mrs. Rich. The
plaintiff wns represented by Attorney
the defendant by Attorneys Franl
Plumley of Northheld. j. Ward Carver
Of Barre and w. c. W:.te Of Mortified
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
Vermont Notes
News of the State Gathered
Here and There.
Rupert Family in Possession Of Farm
AZ Ycars--Pittsford Family Has
Record Of 1871 Years.

Since the publication of the record
of the Bickfords' possession of the
family farm in Danville, others have
come forward to lay their claims to the
State championship regarding the CON
secutive occupancy of farm by sue
cecding generations of one family.
Thus for instance, appears Ernest
Hitchcock of Pittsford, whose great
grandfather, John Hitchcock, went to
Pittsford in 1885 and after temporary
location on Corn hill purchased the
farm where his son, his grandson, and
now his great grandson. have resided.
A portion OF the present house. (still in
use). was built In 1897. Comes now
else M. c. Burden Of Pawlet, telling Of
a family record in Rupert that goes
the Bickforda three better" as he
puts it. This is it: The descendants
of Marin Smith, Jr, have lived on the
same farm in Rupert for 147 years.
The place was settled in 1863 by Mar
tin Smith, Jr., who went there from
Hadlcy. Mass, and since then there
have been seven generations of the
family living there.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

quarters of a supervisor or district rang.
err TO talk. one end of the emergency
wire is thrown over the telephone line'
the two ends are connected to the portable
instrument, and the instrument Is con-
nected to the ground wire, the end OF
which must be thrust into The damp
earth or in water. Contact with the line
wire is made possible by removal of the
lrsula lion from a few inches or the
emergency wire,
The Adams instrument does not ring
the lell of the receiving telephone, but In
stead causes n screechins sound from
n small northumberland apparatus de-
scriptively known as a "howler." This
instrument II installed at the ranger sta.
tiou telephone and IL said 10 give effec-
tive notice that some one is on the WIRE.
If the field man needs to talk with soma
one elsewhere on the line. the ranger sta
tuu instrument can be used to ring up
tive ucrsnn wanted when the conversa-
tiou can he carried on.
Forest Officers say that these portable
phones are especially valuable in report
iul, fires and other emergencies with the
least possible delay, and also III sending
Instructions To field men and keeping the
district rangers informed as to the prog
ross of work going on In the field. thus
s,pnlementiug the regular telephone sets
installed at lookout points. ranger sta
tons. and at convenient intervals along
forest service roads and trails.