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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-02-02

Better remain here. insist upon
it. should not forgive myself II you
should meet with trouble on the way"
"What trouble?''
"Never mind that. We have a room
for you, and I shall expect you to &C.
cupy it."
This was spoken not in tone of in
vitation, but Of command. Coral was
more surprised than ever. Something
was surely In the wind.
Every we'll, general. Since you in
sist upon my remaining I will do 10.
But the president will be in his office
early In the morning. That means that
bis secretary must be there early also"
I'm that case you had better 60 to
bed early. I will show you tu your
room. If permit you to rejoin Inez,
there 10 no telling when you will tear
yourself away from her"
MAY ask, general, IL there II any
change IN you and Sonora Muuez 40 to
my union with 1nez?"
There u not"
"Very well. I will retire to my room
now
The general led the way to the Sec
ond floor, all the rooms Of which open
ed on a court. Throwing open the door
to one Of these rooms, the general set
the candle he held on the bureau and.
bidding his guest good night, left him.
Coral was puzzled. The general had
assured him TINT his devotion to lnex
bad nothing 70 do with the manner Of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
THIRSTY AUTO IN SALOON
Dashes Through Swinging Doors With
out the Least Ceremony, and OBJ
jects to Leaving.

Losing control Of the machine he
was driving Edward Frisby, nine
teen years old, of South Colorado
street, hung on to the steering wheel
while the car made a mad dash into
a saloon ON the corner of Broad and
Porter streets. Men who we're stand
ing at the bar scattered in all direc-
tons as the auto crashed through the
door, but no one was injured.
Frisby was arrested. He told the
district detectives he lost control of
the car and was unable to check it as
it dashed through the doors of the
saloon. 1t was with difficulty that
the automobile was dragged from its
wedged position in the place. The
front of the saloon was badly dam
aged.-Philadelphia Record.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
OBJECT TO CLOSED MUSEUMS
6rItishers View With DIsfavor >
Measure Of Economy Enforced
by the Government.

The closing of the national muse
ums and picture galleries of London
by the government in the interests
of economy has created an outcry
that it may be necessary to heed. 1t
is pointed out the closing of the Nat
ural History museum, in its incon-
venience to students, is out of all pro-
portion to the saving. The saving
resulting from the closing of this
museum and the British museum to-
gether is placed at $4,000, that is,
about seventy-fve thousand Yankee
dollars. The yearly attendance at
the British museum exceeds one mil
lion, and that of the Natural His
tory museum is almost five hundred
thousand. 1t is remarked that the
museums and galleries have been
great show places for wounded Brit
ish soldiers, and especially for Aus
tralians, Canadians and New Zea-
landers who are seeing London for
the first time. Sir Henry Howorth,
a trustee of the British museum,
says: "The government can do moth.
ing worse than create a feeling of de-
preston. Think of the thousands of
anxious women who must find COM
fort and consolation in visiting these
places; of the thousands of colonials
who are visiting London for the first
and probably the only time. For
maintaining that equipoise of mind
that is our greatest asset in the world
war, London's treasure houses are
doing incalculable good"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
HOW GERMANS USE ALUMINIUM.

Austria and Germany use more
aluminium for war purposes than all
the other warning nations combined
1t has been known, in fact, that Ger
many has for some years been col
Letting and storing the metal for war
uses.
The great majority of the drinking
mugs, cans and cups of the German
soldier are made of the light metal.
The frames for Zeppelins and the
fuses for shells are made from
aluminium.
One of the difficulties the Germans
have had to face is the shortage of
copper necessary for the rings round
shells. Many of the German shells
are now provided with aluminium
rings.
Although aluminium does make a
substitute, even in cartridges as well
as shells and fuses, it is not so good
as copper. The French authorities ex-
perimented with it some years ago
for artillery purposes, but rejected it.
The Germans are using it in such
large quantities because Of the short
age of copper-Pearson's Weekly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
Hardly Worth While Stalking.

Deer hunting in Panama is not pop
ular, for the animals are small and
the meat insip,d, and the dense jungle
makes hunting by stalking or hounds
impossible. The law forbids traps and
salt ticks. Only the method of wait
ing alongside some runway remains,
and swarms of mosquitoes, gnats and
other insects make it exceedingly
painful. The buck is about three feet
high at maturity and the doe 80 inches.
The close-woven jungle afforded a
home that was entirely secure from
hunters until the Americans came to
Panama, and even now the number Of
deer taken is small compared with the
many that inhabit the hills and val
leys along Gatun lake and near the
canal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
WHEEL MAKES LITTLE NOISE
Recent invention Practically Eliml
mates Racket That Has Long
Been Complained OF.

A silent car wheel has been de
signed by Edwin c. Madden, former
ly assistant postmaster general,
which is asserted to have a number
of important advantages over the
old-fashioned wheel. Ii is said to
consist of two wheels, one within the
other, and separated from each other
by means of rubber filling, and the
combination is said to take up all
vibration and shock, so that the noise
is reduced to almost nothing. Some
of these wheels have been in use on a
trolley line at Portland, Me-, for
nearly a year, and the degree of sue
cess which has attended their use
has resulted in declaring the inven-
ton a success, and factory is now
being reared where their manufac-'
ture on large scale will be engaged
in. Not only is the noise eliminated,
but the riding qualities of the car are
greatly improved and the life Of the
rolling stock prolonged. The tires
and cushions are renewed easily and
economically, and the life of the
wheel itself is far longer than that of
the ordinary cast wheel.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
Wealth of Nations

The wealth of nations is counted on
"true valuation of real and personal
property"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
AeREEA6LY SURPRISED.

~ ~" 81 80 NV -
motor car that you expected to get
out Of it?'
eyes, indeed"
"That's good" .ae
81 took it to pieces not long ago
and got dozens Of parts out of it that
l had no idea it contained"
.-..sr~ 80 y
WHAT SHE AMUSED HIM WITH.
'Where were you all day yester'
day?"
81 spent the day amusing a LITTLE
boy with bilious attack"
"Gee! Did that amuse hi"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
Remarkable Echo.

Among the most noted echoes is
that heard from the suspension bridge
across the Menai strait. The sound OF
blow from a hammer on one of the
main piers of the structure is re-
turned in succession from each OF the
crossbeams that support the roadway
and from the opposite pier at the dis
lance of 576 feet, in addition to which
the sound is many times repeated be-
tween the water and the roadway at
the rate of 28 times in five seconds.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
WHAT SHE AMUSED HIM WITH.
SKIPPED THE WIND PUDDING.

Bix-Have a good time at the BAN
quet last night.
Dix-Splendidl drank myself
into insensibility before the speaking
began. - s ,as,~
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
OVERHEARD IN PASSING.

81 cannot exactly say that fellow
is a lodge brother"
"Well?"
"Still, he gave me the grippe"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-05-04
WHAT CAUSED 1T.

Gibson--l hear Smith has SNOW
blindness, What caused it9
Fibson-He went out every nigh
for two weeks in full dress shirt.
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PROGRESS REPORTED AT TOWN OF
 AJO AND MINES OF COMPANY
(Continued From Page D

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worked faithfully for him. it was with ,he knowledge that he was working for them. For side by side with his development of the mine he devoted his hest effort to promote the com fort and well being of its employees He strove that the hospitals, doctors and schools should be the best of their kind He saw that there were comfortable hOuees for all, he estab- lished an aid fund, and helped build the churches. It is due tC his efforts that the community is looked on as a model today wherever intelligent men are striving by sane methods to improve the conditions of Emerl- can citizens. Some years ago the gov ernor of Michigan, in speaking of the labor conditions of the state, said that Alexander Agassiz had done more than all others for humane and reasonable conditions of life among it's people.
 "One of the main objects of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the mine is to en- deavOr in some measure to recog- ii'Lt l4lt s.i tsl Pdll t-ies' titt ahSAl nav nlayed in it's successful development. The chief event is the presentation of commemoration medals to those who by long and faithful service have built the Calumet & Hecla.
 "A few decades ago this country was an unknown forest. At the fir tieth birthday of Calumet we see a DrosnerOus community of some fifty thousand souls dependent for their well-being on a wonderfully success ful mine. Such a change was not wrought by a party of sybarites who drifted into this district in Q parlor car. It was hewn from the wilderness by determined men. vEO. fighting through darkness and gloom, forced their way into the light, brought peace and plenty to thousands of working homes, and creareG one of the most famous m:nes known in the history n. iuduStrV."
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1911 it was hoisting fivetOn skips from a depth of 5000 feeti
 "Mr AgassiZ never hesitdted to spend money freely for a future re- .urn, and 70 build not only for the coming years. but for the next gen e,ation. A less enlightened method would neve. have enabled the com pany to handle so economically to- day such vast quantities of low grade rock as it is now hoisting from the depths of the mine.
 Such a policy naturally incurred great expense. and there has been no little criticism in the past of the extravagant management of the mine, by those who were unable to see the benefits ahead. It is worth empha- sizing that many of these complaints came from the very men who had previously declared that the Calu- met conglOmerate could not be worked it a profit.
 What Mr AgassiZ accomplished was in a great measur: duo to his ability to handle men, to make them like and respect him. Ard if they
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-30
B!SBEE-AJO
 COPPER COMP ANY

The development work on this prop erty is progressing at a rapid pace at this time from information sent in by MT. Ed Sweeney who has charge of the mining operations. He states that at one place a trench had been dug for a distance of 800 1t. (across the iormation) that disclosed ore for the entire length, and that ore had been uncovered in other places on the sur face that gives great promises for large ore deposit below, Sinking IS now in progress that will 10 doubt place this mine among the real pro- ducers.
 Any one who is desirous Of this stock at it's present price should se- cure it now, 25c per share. w. E. E,lm. sales agent. (25D
 (AdvertisemenD
Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-30

could get. As MT. Agassiz wrote years afterward: If Quinn had ever known when he was beaten we should never have pulled the thing off
 "All day long Mir. Agassiz rushed from one place to another. The thing I drive and look after is the only thing that goes he writes MT. Shaw. and just as fast as I pass from one thing to another, just so fast do things move. I ought to have had three good men instead of being com pelled to do all have to do myself There is not a thing. down to seeing that the cars get uIlOaded when they come here with materials, which l don't have, to look after myself, and some days I am in utter despair After such a strenuous day, he would sit at his desk far into the night writing business letters, straightening out the accounts ,and plannig how best to make every cent tell. Mir. Shaw meanwhile was financing the mines as best he could in Boston, and re- ceivig substatial aid from MT. John Simpkins, for many years the selling agent or Jne company.
 MT. Agassiz lived nearly two years at Calumet. During that time he sue ceeded in properly reopening and equipping two complete mines Tn the wilderness, besides building and fit i, ting out a mill at Calumet, fed by the little stream that flowed through the village, and a similar mill at IoI- e, ha Hnalo r,ainn Eoph mill was provided with two ball heads and the necessary foundations and provisions for installing two more. In addition he constructed four and three quarters miles of railroad through the forest to Torch lake, be- mines, and dredged a communication with the navigation of the Great Lakes.
 By the early summer of 1868 day light began to appear and the end less difficulties commenced straight ening out. The last serious setback was the cutting of the Calumet dam by some men in tha employ of Agas- siz's enemies. But by this time the intruder from the east had won the confidence and support of the com munity and willing crew was rushed to the repair of the dam, and all was soon running smoothly again. By the end of the summer two prosper ous little mines were producing be- tween about 25 tons of ingot month. And before the close of navigation the conditions were such tha, Mir. Aeassiz felt satisfied to leave the mines in char ye of Captain George Hard-c.
 ''It would be entirely outside the province of this little pamphlet to at tempt any description of the gradual growth of the mines from such com paratively small beginnings to the tremendous industry hat it has to- day become An industry which in some months handles the vast output of II .000 tons of rock | day.
 "Hecla paid it's first dividend on December IS, 1869, and Calumet fol lowed suit on August 5, 1870. In May, 1871, the Calumet mine. the Hecla mine and the Portland ana the Scott
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CHARGE GIVES
 C. & H. TO WORLD
tcontinued from Page D

tSOulluucu HUT I dft tD
 he succeeded in interesting MT. Quin- cy A. Shaw in his project. MT. Shaw assisted him in buying from the St. Mary's Mineral Land company the land to the south of his original pur- chase. Finally Mir. Shaw and his friends acquired from Hubert a con trolling interest in these lands and further options on this property, which was already known as Calu- met
 ''The final settlement with Hubert came in the dark days of the hist ory of the mine, when he chose to exchange his Calumet holdings for an interest in the Huron mine. The latter went to pieces and other ven lures of Hulbert's were unfortunate But MT Shaw, with unusual generos- ity. pensioned him handsomely and he passed the last years of his life in Italy, where he lived in comfort to a good old age
 Let us now turn back to the af- fairs of the mine where we left them to follow Hulbert's fortunes. Shortly after MT. Shaw and his friends pur- chased Calumet, the same interest bought the adjoining land to the south. which was to become the Hecla mine It has not been possible to find any records of the exact dates of these events. Hubert went back to Michi- gan to develop the Calumet mine and began to make openings for the com pany early in 1866. Now work was done on Hecla until the fall of that year.
 Meanwhile Mir Shaw's brother-in- law, a young naturalist at Harvard university, was eagerly watching the course of these events. Alexander Agassiz, at that time barely turned 30, was educated as an engineer, but his inherited love of science had drawn him to his fathers museum, where he filled the position of an impecunious assistant In the sum mer of 1866 Mir. AgassiZ took a vaca- tion from the museum and came up to Michigan to judge for himself of the promise of the mine. On his re- turn he was made treasurer of both companies. T :-t1r ,,
 Toward the end of the year it became evident that conditions at the mine were unsatisfactory, that the local management was becoming in volved and was not able to make the Calumet mine pay. The openings on the Hecla property had only just been started The first rock mined was eX- ceedingly rich and the management seemed to have lacked the knowledge of how to mine the rock or to treat it after it was, mined, Large open pits on. 'tae lodeswere made which could not be continued for any depth and which would only permit of a very limited output. An attempt was made to smelt the rock; when this failed MT. Hubert leased a mill in Hancock, bought loo teams of horses
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Mining companies were consolidated into the Calumet & Hecla Mining company with MT. Shaw as it's first president. In August of the same year he retired to the board of di- rectors and MT. Agassiz was elected president, position which he held until his death in 1910 Mir Shaw and Mi AgassiZ directed the policy Of the mine until few years before the formers death in 1908. As MT. Shaw had no training as an engineer, the development of the mine itself fell to MT. Agassiz, who always visited the mine twice year, assured himself of the actual conditions there and the proper execution of all the work planned.
 "On Captain Hardie's retirement as general manager he was succeeded for a short period by MT. T. w. Buzzo. who gave place to MT. R. J. Wood, elected in the fall of 1871. The next man to fill this position Mir. James N Wright, served from his appoint ment in May, 1873, until his resig- nation on January 1, 1892. MT. Wright was succeeded by MT. S. B. Whiting, who resigned in 1901. Owing to his i'll health, work at the mine was at times directed by his assistant in charge. This position was filled by MT J. P Charming in 1S93-94, and by Mir. S. D. Warriner from 1897 to 1901. MT. James MacNaughton, the present general manager, who has grown up with the district, was ap- pointed in 1901; and the management of the Boston office has fallen on the shoulders of younger generation.
 "It is impossible to give here an adequate acknowledgment of the work of the many men who have helped to make the Calumet & Hecla what it is today And with full rec ognition of the able and faithful ser vices of others, it must be recognized that Alexander Agassiz's was the guiding hand that directed the evo- lution of the mine.
 "The growth of the Calumet mine was founded on his policy of look ing ahead to see what the conditions would be years later, to make ready for them far in advance, and to keep the mine opened up long period ahead of the work. For instance, the Superior an engine installed in 1883, was designed to hoist six skips, from a depth of 4000 feet, and also to run four Rand compressors. As the mine was then hoisting two and a half ton skips from an average depth of about 1900 feet, the engine was greatly in excess of the needs of tn eday, and was considered by many people white elephant. lT
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and proceeded to haul the rock in wagons about 13 miles. Such meth ods began to bear their natural fruit; things went from bad to worse. The hard, tenacious and finely subdivided conglomerate was found to be a very different thing to mine and mill from any rocks hitherto worked in the dis
 trict. The best experts of the day
 declared that the lode could not be operated at a profit, and the enter prise threatened to end disastrously for all involved. But there was one
 man who insisted that it could be
 made to pay, and that he could do it: this man was young Mir. Agassiz. Finally. when affairs looked very bad. the management in Boston decided to give him a chance, and sent him to the peninsula to relieve Hubert in the management of both mines. MT Agassiz reached Calumet early in March, 1867. The camp consisted of a collection of shanties, and the so-called hotel in which he took up his headquarters was little more than a cabin on the edge of the forest. Mrs Agassiz, who joined him later, wore a pistol when she went out walk ing with her little boy. When she left, the baby's perambulator was passed on to the younger brother of the present general manager. Her youngest son, now at the head of the company, was not then in existence.
 Tn order to fully appreciate what Mir Agassiz succeeded in accomplish ing during his residence at Calumet, it is well to remember that the Ke- weenaw peninsula was in those days as inaccessible in summer as Alaska is today; and after the close of navi- gation the region was practically cut off from the rest of the world. For Green Bay was then the terminus Of the railroad, from where it was trying sleigh ride of many days to Calumet
 MT Agassiz found on his arrival that practically nothing had been done to develop either mine along legiti- mate lines What little had been done had been done wrong. In one of his earliest letters to MT. Shaw he com plained that there seemed to be no supplies of any kind on hand except hay and oats.
 Under such trying circumstances,
 with many hands against him, and looked on with distrust as an ineX- perienced outsider, all things had to be started afresh. and the mistakes of the former management corrected. The old letter books, with their fad ed copies of the correspondence be tween MT Agassiz and MT. Shaw, re-
 veal in some measure the gallant teamplay of the two men. as they strove against what seemed hopeless odds to get the mines on their feet. MT Agassiz. with insufficient means, was trying to establish order out Of chaos at Calumet; MT. Shaw, in Bos-
 ton, loaded with debts, and saddled with the collapsing Huron mine, was
 struggling to obtain funds from community that had lost confidence in the enterprise. On more than one occasion they appear to have been on the point of being forced to give up the fight and sell out for what they
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-29
FIRST M. E. CHURCH

Sunday Church Service Il a. III. and 7,30 p. Ill.
 Thursday Prayer Meeting 8:SO pm
 Friday Choir meets at 8:00 p. m First and Third Wednesday after ...sons at 2:30 Ladies Aid Society.
 H. ". MICHENER, Pastor
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-29
MILKING THE GOVERNMENT.

A short time ago, came across an issue of the Congressional Record a publication authorized by congress and distributed broadcast, and the most
 less publication that government has ever devised full of speeches that uttered but written by clerks and entered of record emenang from the brains of the Honorable 50 and However, this is not the point The point Is this; in that issue just by way of fair days work, 123 members of the house of representatives introduced in one day 22Ss private pension bills One representative alone introduced 210. It of those days that the stock phrases were: Granting pension Granting an increase of pension" Authorizing the payment for damage etc, and so expressing in various ways the individual desire put his hand in the public. purse In other words. milk the government. How ever it is readily conceded that every such bill in trodueed is not eventually claim paid; does 1t
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-03-29
AT THE CHURCHES

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska Regular Services Sunday Il am. Wednesday evening reading and Song Services at 7;30 p. III.
 Subject for April ?, ..Unreality." !"
 ALL ARE WELCOME.