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Would BETTER PUPILS sPEEr.
Board 81 Edu-atton Name. Ia,-,-
for e3,aoo Job.

w';h Oily two sser:.-E vo...
board % Education a. "a -a-.-r
te-day asterroo7 Appointed F~
Martin director @. sre4.r ,--- ,s---
The appointment was orPcs.t So
by r- n J McDo-a!d c. - ID.
Thir;y-r!nth street. a r---h4- - 80
board, who asked TIA, a rec -.
be named u. Mcpo-a.d hAs -.
persistent worker n n. soa-t - -.
for the es~,ab!!shrnsn: = a
speech defects N Ire pu-.'- s-N-s
recently his Efforts resulted - s. "
pr'a,ion :or such a cure. ~ ~
has insisted tina; the vors -
by a medical man. a-t vAa- ~ 49,
was proposed by re eoa-t - -
'ntecden,s p- NcDo:a,d char
TIRE cho.ce as ridiculous
pr, James : Greene. a srA"
enid and = grai-z.- -
University n 1909. was g-ge1 =
tor by Or Mcdonald !: Was
several ba..o.s - tAe ~
that Mr. Martin. who has ha'
~ the speech improvement n
iese was nominated
After the nom nation n "
continued IN his e~0r.s 20 hssA
cal man appointed ara was s'+s+
Abraham Jacob who vrr'A 4 "
The board @: Superintendent .
appointment 0. pr. Greene -
SAID that the work was
could successfully be carried
by a specialist who sayNy
Or. Ira 5 VIE. Chairman
r'',tee on elementary s,-oo,s
nomination OF Mr.. Marin 81
question was put 20 4 SO
Whalen, vice-pres.ien.. pres
absence OF President VIII '.
were loudly IN favor q. :hA "
90 Mr.. Martin. Tn. NAY
fined 20 Dr. McDoralt al -~
man
A resolution was 'N.- -ssss'
mous!y app-op-!atirg $
Martins salary ard Al g.
each year until a max G-.
.s reached.
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His Square Jaw Ruled the weather

To THE Error - TIE SrS-Sy De-
troi- has a cola, r.v. rainy weather
.or tay~ :. r ca-A - town, and Sc
hold. -. skies were sE'cr Bat the
slo-y seemed 20 - Largely - ~.
H-av.-s. Cor s.r buildings carries 49,
s!En r, decoration li...- enthusiasm -
- street II wilson's words. re p-o-
re seemed - ia. rim - vacuo.
Ms qua .aT vas Sc. as re- yass..
n ere Afternoon ara iris der.aro. ev.-
IDENTIFY frightened tae sun under cover.
INV JOKER
prror, Mich. May -
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To THE FtlTos ~ TIE SvH-ST Can
any AZ your older readers tell TA
whether a Sam Ward Is roY oh,airah's
n any ~res.aLran, IN the city, Cu!IHar!ly
! an vel below the middle age ard rY
memories n: that delectah's dish date
back only % the S'rc,a,- House. demo-
iSlei not 50 long ago. Al Eighth stree,
and Broadway Is history nus, 20 back
further r tina, and perhaps 3, r
30 found IN sDme hosiery which kro >
10, the tango. (, such there n
EEx YORK. May - ~. T. p.
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NEWARK CHALLENGES.
Before a Pro.Ally Goes on on q New
Tack. Let Him sit on This One.

To THE Eu;Tos oP THE SvS-Sir M.
7. r. says what "a wanted II a straight
out American FOR President. and me
OILY man n We can be sure o: n the
whole United states s Theodore EoDs"-
welt Just think Q. i,-one In a hundred
Millions
THIS gentleman, before going on on
another tack, was ASKED the question
'INll! Envlands navy protect the United
States in case Of wal with Japan" He
made the assertion a few days ago that
the British navy was protecting the
United States Lc; him Answer.
r. J. BUTrEa.
NEWARK, y. J. May -
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Abnormal Conditions. sof prove Q hin
trsoce rather than a help.

Some IL n. Offers en7mers.ed IN
IRE bill are essential 20 TIE coa11- o.
Tar. ID d; TIE military Authorities
s.o- Pr example. VIA. railroads
AMI hizhuays sho1ld Re uset 40 ren-
c~- pr~.iblA expeditions Concentration
T., t-oDps ard supplies q. points ..
fefenc~i Woglf the duty o. scrulr.
.nr such kno1le-1zs - taken from
,h~rn By Representative Hay. I. FMS.
aha, ia th@ p1rI..e o: imposing Il.
~ another t-ty;
4 tad BIZ. whatever i.s ,nsy.-a.
,.pn !, h~A-s every outward evld4nce
os being .he p-otgc- o. an amateur
Ia preparedness.
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lP~es Dsy.

t. TIE Ep,Tos ~ TEE SrS-S' We've
had our preparedness parade 20 show ths
world shat the American spirit s,i,. sx-
l,,s New le, Is Sc, ss!d. one day IN the
year 10 70 known as peace day. TO lie. ~.
nori know tia, We are very much In
favor o: peace. rot alone Cor Ourselves
-; FOR the entire vo..t
June, the month OF roses. Gems to Be
the appropriate tim. Tor tho observance
- peace day. lie; 4; Ia. upon the second
o. third sunday o: June, With special
services IN a. tn. churches Further
more. .et tho movement be genera. .1-
tending from she Atlantic TO n. Pac,nc
and from Canada 70 the Quilt. We could
even hsv. our prominent men. no, OF the
grape juice stripe. speak on the topic IN
run!,o places. D. I.
NEW YoaK. May -.
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WANTS POST OFFICE
FREED OF POLITICS
Civil Service Reform Assne',.
ton Hopes Wilson Will
Name Business Man.
REBCKES WAR VETERANS


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ANrmathf

P~reparsfres measures are expected ~
ANGUISH In Congress at least Gn'! after
he political convention. Wdstin9'or ds,.
p1trh.
AL listles,ly the banner. droop
In airs more l!fe.sss 81,
No lohssr now n. cohorts trooD,
Erprsssiye OF ths.r viii.
Come. lay N. aauntei fags VI
To mould In vain resre,.
II, reason calm resume n.r sway,
And let the land forget.
New York. peculiar 20 Itself.
May kick against the prcka.
Put preparation on the shsif.
And play st politics'
AAslscs Menus.
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New To-k hAs hA-o-e ~. or'y -.
'arzss. city but ire greatest. orrTAr-
c.s' p1- ~ re word. ore r~aso- wy
our state Department is having -
much -roIhls a: presen; - ira, the
who. world IL see,-g America Hr-.
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when Company Comes.

To THE EnIroR OF THE srS-Sr: A;
our house We usually have on the table
plain. substantial food. When company
cones We rave a great variety OF stun
almost sure 20 u Indigestion.
Also IN honor u the guests our regu-
lar towels. made 10 absorb. are SUPER
seeded by a highly c~alendered fabric tina,
will take ny moisture about like . piece
OF tin.
Can't We men get together1
p~AA0u1x. OoAas AAZ ~
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Priscilla asked John Alden Why h. t!1n't
speak Tor himself.
I'm trying tn. Hughes ;~se'cs" he al.
mlt,si
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IN >. .ar-y ~ ~---Ths vo!' -
Tdr F:-ss:
t.a-'s = a. aA-!-eN'. pa. "o-
sch "sAucy' .s"oTs as pAvE LANAI.
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Silver.

Silver.
xnicksr--Expensive times. thssA
boeksr-rvsu the cost Of elsr3 iinias
~ - -
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A. -f.r sT '.t.-, a. : -
r-a.s sag.4s % lass
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-10-20

in which there were RIFLES at inter
walls, and the sapphires and iron py-
rites, being the heaviest portion OF
the lead matter, caught in these riff
files and were recovered by the simple
process of taking the RIFLES out of
the sluice boxes and washing the riff
file contents with slight flow of wa
ter to eliminate as much light mat
ter that had lodged there with the
gems and the iron particles as pos
sible. Then the remainder was
shoveled into boxes with handles on
either end so that they could be car
ried to the panning tanks. Here the
sapphires were 'panned OUT in es-
pecially contrived sleeves. First, how
ever, the matter carrying the precious
stones was placed on a rocker and
run through graded sleeves so that the
different sizes of sapphires could be
taken out separately.
In the early days of. the industry
the washing was done in a careless
manner, with the result that consid
cradle percentage of the gems were
washed over the rifles on to the
dumps below. TO recover these stones,
as we'll as the many which also went
over the rifles in humps Of undis-
solved corundum and clay, dams
were built across the coulees which
retained practically all of the solid
lead matter. The following year,
when the corundum had had time to
disintegrate through the action of the
heat of summer and cold of winter,
these dams were slulced out and
many more Of the sapphires were
caught in rifles.
In those days an effort was made
to fork ont of the ground slnlce the
bigger Jumps of corundum and the
space between the sluice boxes and
the sides Of the cuts were usually fill
ed with these boulders, which, after
standing fo' year or two until they
had softened to a crumblin@ point,
were again shovelcd into tie rifle
boxes whore they readily dissolved
and dropped their sapphires into the
RIFLES.
In the course Of a few years the
available Hill sites for hydraulic min
ing had been exhausted, and IN the
meanwhile tunnels had been run into
the lead under the open cuts, and a
vast quantity Of sapphire ''dirt, "
was extracted from the lead in this
manner. But finally the available
tunnel sites were exhausted and 1t
then became a necessity to SINK a
shaft and follow the lead by means Of
drifts run at various levels from the
shaft.
Under this method Of mining the
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-10-20
0NE hot day in the middle '9O's,

0NE hot day in the middle zoos, a
~ sheepherder was lettering idly on
slope of the foothills Of Little Belt
mountains, some Is miles west of the
town of Utica, in Fergus county,
wlile his herd grazed in the rolling
country near him. He stopped to light
his pipe, dropped the match and
stopped down after it. AS he did so
his eye was attracted by blue, trans
parent pebble, which he took at first
to be piece of blue glass. He picked
it up, wondering how it came to be
there, but glance convinced him it
was not glass.
In that idle moment that flockmas-
ter had discovered the only sapphire
mine in the world; property which
in the twenty odd years that have III
tervened has yielded millions of dol
lars in values; mine with such in
exhaustable possibilities that it can
be worked for thousand years, turn
ing out enough to supply the world s
markets, without draining it dry of its
wealth.
A few weeks before sapphires had
been discovered few miles away in
Yogo creek, which, 1t afterward was
found cuts the lead that the sheep
man had found. The discoverer Of the
gems in the creek bottom was Jake
Hoover, an old-time hunter and pros
pector, who had been grub-stal1ed by
S. S. Hobson, now resident Of Great
Falls, to placer mine for gold in Yogo
creek.
Hoover, while panning along the
banks of Yogo creek, had found some
of the blue stones in his pan. He
showed them to Mr.. Hobson and told
him he thought they were gems of
some kind The latter took them to
Helena to Swiss lapidarian, who
went into transports of JOY when he
had examined them. He pronounced
them sapphires of the finest quality.
1t happened that Mr.. Hobson, to-
gether with DR.. ]. A. Bovett, a re-
sident of the Judith Basin, had just
completed the construction of a ditch
which carried water from upper Yogo
creek out onto the foothills which
were cut by the sapphire lead. The
ditch had been built for placer mining
for gold.
A thorough examination of the sap
phire lead showed that every portion
of it could be reached with the wa
ters from the ditch.
Mr.. Hobson and Matt Dunn of
Great Falls then proceeded to stake
out every foot Of the sapphire lead ex-
cepting one claim on the west end,
and buy the one or two claims along it
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that had been taken up by the sheep
man who first found the sapphires ON
the lead. They organized a company
to mine sapphires and sold some stock
to George Wells of Great Falls. Mr..
Wells went to London and interested
an English firm of gem merchants,
johnson, Tolhurst & Walker, who
bought a considerable block of stock.
The company was incorporated as the
New Mine Sapphire Syndicate.
Later Messrs. Hobson, Dunn and
Wells sold their interest to the English
people. The latter subsequently pur-
chased the ground at the western end
of the lead owned by the American
Sapphire company, and now every foot
of the sapphire ground is owned by
the Englishmen.
This is the only place in the world
where sapphires are found in the
ground. In the orient, where the
worlds supply previously came from,
the gems were found in the bars of
rivers.
The sapphire is the crystal Of corrn-
dunn, a substance which is used largely
in the manufacture of emery wheels
and emery stones for sharpening tools.
The sapphire lead consists of corun-
dunn in varying degrees of disinteera-
ton and deposits Of yellow and blue
clay. The stones are found scattered
through the corundum and clay.
The first method Of securing the
sapphires was an extremely crude and
wasteful one, and entailed a heavy
percentage of loss of the stones.
The sapphire lead runs through the
foothills for a distance of about four
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Montana Sheepherder Found Only Sapphire
Mine IN World; 1t Has Yielded Millions
GemP Wrkr sOewt
ed 1.-The Throw Away Oh Instruments

sapphire bearing matter is brought
to the surface and run out on tiessels,
forming a dozen or more dumps, and
these, according to the hardness of
the part of the lead matter that is be-
ing worked, are allowed to stand until
they have had time to disintegrate
from the action of the weather Then
they are run through sluice boxes
and over RIFLES as before, but in a
thoroughly precise and scientific
manner. so that there is today prac-
tically no loss of stones as in the old
days.
The sapphire brine is under the
management of c. ~. Gadsden, who
has had charge for Is years.
Mr.. Gadsden has made exhaustive
experiments with the processes of
recovering the sapphires, and has
worked out the detail of the equip
ment so carefully that practically per-
feet results are obtained in the min
ing and washing of the stones
In the first days of the sapphire
mining all stones classed as culls,
IIiSll we're UcIculll IL certain SIZE ana
weight, were thrown away as value
less. Years ago, however, these We're
all gathered up again to be used for
watch jewels, mechanical instrument
manufacturing and other purposes,
gcturning a big revenue to the com
pany. Some years back Mr.. Gadsden
installed a concentrating plant on the
property which eliminates most of
the matter which is caught in the riff
files with the sapphires. After the
gravel containing the tiny sapphires
has been washed and put through the
concentrators, it is shipped to Eng
land and sold there.
The larger sapphires are picked
from the gravel by hand, and these
also are shipped to England. None
of the precious stones arc marketed
in the United States by the company
Those that come back to this country
to be made up into jewelry in one
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miles, appearing at the eastern end
on one side Of a coulee and running in
a westerly direction to Yogo creek.
The lead is we'll defined all that dis
tance, averaging perhaps dozen feet
in width. In some places it widens
out and in others is narrower. There
is nothing on the. surface of the
ground to tell the casual observer of
the presence of the sapphire bearing
lead beneath, but careful inspec-
ton makes the lead easily traceable.
as the gophers' holes at intervals
along the surface show, where the
ground is disturbed, a different char
acter of soil on the lead from that
along the sides. In places, also, a
slight depression in the ground shows
where the lead runs.
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No Dead Ones Need Apply.
A. G. M. EARNING
LARGE DIVIDENDS;
S5O,0OO,O0O THIS YEAR

Butte. Up to the end of this
year the Anaconda Copper Min
ing Company will have paid out
in dividends $l6,318,750, COM
pared with S4,662, 500 disbursed
in 1915, and S5,838,l25 in 1914.
The dividend paid out this year
is on basis of $500 per share
on the outstanding 2,33l,250
shares.
Production of copper, which is
sold up to the end of 1916 is
running at the rate of about
34O,OOO,O00 pounds annually.
The company is earning at the
rate of between S45,000,000 and
S50,OO0,000 a year, or we'll over
$4,000 per share.
Anaconda, according to the
best information obtainable,
stands an excellent chance to
earn over $4,000 per share in
1917, with metal selling at or
above rs cents per pound. This
would mean earnings of some
thing like 100000, 900, or about
$4,000 per share in two years.
On this basis Anaconda may
pay as much as $20,000,000 in
dividends in 1917.
The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1916-10-20
HOW MANY STEPS DOES
A MAN TAKE TO A MILE?

London How manv steps does the
average person take to the mile? The
pace Of British infantrymen is said
to be the longest of any infantrymen
in the world. The Russians pace is
the shortest, being but 2712 inches
the French, Italian, and Austrian
pace is 80 inches, and the Germans
do 81 inches.
But your own pace, what of it 7 1t
depends on your height, say scien-
lists. Take your eyebrow height,
halve it, and that represents your
pace. You will find it to be some
where between 80 inches and 80
inches, so that you will need between
1900 and 2,100 PAGES to the mile.
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ONE IN THREE FOR WAR.

Ottawa. -Four hundred thous-
and Canadian soldiers are eth
err fighting in France or are
ready to go to war. The domln-
ion government plans to raise
another 100000 men.
When it is considered that
there are less than 100000
male adults of all ages in the
dominion, and this number in
cludes the physically unfit,
some idea of Canada's magni-
ficent aid to Great Britain may
be had.
It means one man in every
three for war.
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The country through which the sap
phire bearing dyke runs is rolling in
character, the lead crossing a number
of fairly deep coulees with steep sides.
The first method of mining was to
carry water to the highest elevations
and by hydraulic pressure wash the
sapphire bearing lead matter down
through the narrow cuts which were
formed The sapphire "dirt" in this
process Travelled through sluice boxes
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form or another are bought in Lon
don by American gem merchants.
Due to the war in Europe, the mar
ket for sapf hires liz England, France
and the other European countries has
been temporarily wiped out, so that
aside from the gems purchased for the
United States and South America,
very few sapphires are being sold to-
dav. For this reason the famous
Fergus county sapphire mine has been
worked very little for two years.
No Dead Ones Need Apply.
An Astoria, Ore, undertaken adver-
tises for an assistant, who, he says,
must be an all around live man.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-09
SEVERAL TRENCHES
WERE CAPTURED
BY GERMANS
Berlin War Office Also Claims That Over
1900 French Were Taken Prisoners
in Great Gain on Hill No.

Berlin, May 9.-The capture of several
French trenches on the Verdun front
south of Haucourt was announced by the
war office to-day.
Berlip's statement yesterday declared
that the operations west of the Meuse
during recent days have been carried out
principally by Pomeranian troops. "Not-
withstanding the tenacious defense and
furious counter attacks of the enemy,
the Germans took an entire system of
trenches on the northern slope of hill
304. The German lines reached the top
OF the height. The enemy suffered ex-
traordinarily heavy losses. so that only
40 unwounded officers and $50 soldiers
were captured by MS.
East of the Meuse, on both sides of
Thaumont farm, there was bitter fight
ing. The enemy, along with other troops,
employed negroes in the fighting east of
the farm The attack broke down and
300 men were made prisoners. In the
engagements mentioned fresh French
troops we're recognized"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-09
WILSON FLAYS
BRANDEIS' FOES
Declares They Hate Nominee Because
He Refused to Promote Their
Selfish Interests.

Washington, May 9-President VII
sons letter giving his reasons for nOn,-
mating Louis D. Brandeis for the SUI
preme court and urging confirmation.
was read to the Senate judicial commit
tee yesterday by Chairman Cu'5erson.
but no vote was taken. as had been e1-
pected, and no time was fixed for one.
President Wilson characterized the
charges against his nominee as "in-
trinsically incredible 20 anyone who real
ly knows Mr. Brandeis," and declared
they proceeded for the most part from
those who hated Mr.. Brandeis because
he had refused 70 be serviceabIe 10 them
in promotion Of their own selfish inter.
ests and from those who had been pre-
iudieed and misled The president an
nounced that the propaganda in this
matter has been very extraordinary and
very distressing to those who love fair
ness and value the dignity Of a great
profession"
The president wrote that he believed
the reports II the sub committee which
Investigated the Braudeis nomination
had already made it plain that the
charges we're unfounded. The presideTt
Mr.. Brandeis ss q friend
u al Just men snd a lover Of the right
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-09
German Effort to Advance
Near Scissors Was Also
Put DOwn-Next Point of
Infantry Movement by the
Germans May Be in Sec
tors of Elk and ChatillOn,
Where Artillery Has Been
Active

Paris. May 9.-After a violent bonn
bardment of French positions on hill No
304 on the Verdun front. the Germans
attempted to advance at 3 o'clock this
morning The French war Office an
nounced this afternoon that the attack
was repulsed completely and that French
counter attacks east of the Meuse drove
the Germans from certain positions they
had captured. These positions consisted
of some parts of trenches northwest of
Thfaumont.
An intense bombardment was conduct
ed by the Germans in the sectors of Fix
andA Chatillon and between Douaumont
and Nsux. There was grenade fighting
at Apremont and in the valley Of the
Fecht. Near Scissors the Germans at
tempted an attack but were repulsed
Last nights official statement was as
follows:
"On the left bank of the Meuse the
bombardment continued with the same
violence against Avocourt wood and the
whole region of hill 304.
a German attack, launched during the
course of the afternoon against our posi-
tions at hill 2s7, west of hill 304. was
stopped by our curtain of fire and the
fire OF our machine guns.
"0n the right oank and in the Woevre
our batteries effectively cannonaded en-
envy encampments northwest of Euvezin
and south of Thiaucourt.