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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-01-05
LESSON FROM THE EXECITIoN
(llouSton, Texas Observer. J

(llouston, Texas Observer.
fnlrtccn members of tho oath In
lantry were executed in San Antonio
tuesday morning for their mutinous
demonstration in this city August %
Forty-onc were given life imprison
ment, four prison terms and five were
liberated
This was the result Of the court
martiars verdict which held forth I'm
that city for several days.
Ihose who believed that lenioncv
would DO shown those implicated in
the local outbreak had not taken into
consideration the gravity and ri.
BUSINESS or their offense and that dur
Ing the time OF war.
respect for constituted authorit
needs to be taught many other poonIo
IN this republic and If it takes the
stern hand OF the federal government
10 40 It, on with the job.
MOD violence should be supnrcssod
ana atoned for at any cost and that
despite the color of the participants
skins.
The American army has set an cx-
ample that the courts OF the South,
particularly need to emulate.
without discipline there can be no
army; 1t is nothing more than mob.
obedience, which Is better than
sacrifice, is an necessity, if the morale
of the army mistaken.
These troopers committed a breach
OF military discipline and for that
act the several penalties were melted
unto them.
They disobeycd military law and
FOR their diobcdience they received
Their senteces.
AS long as civilians are openly al
lowed and tolerated to commit muir
der by arson, lynching and other COW
ardly acts, there is danger of some out
break In our military establishments
FOR military organizations are com.
posed OF citizens from such mobocratic
communities.
.Regrettable as the affair is, it's
chances of occurring would have
been less remote, If discipline OF
democracy had not overstepped his
bounds in dealing with a race soldier
on August 90, which served as a
match to ignite the fuse
The Observer has no criticism to
offer relative to the punishment met
ed unto the soldiers Of the Oath In
fantry for mutiny. This paper believ-
es that they were punished for their
disregard Of military discipline and
not because OF the hue Of their physi-
ognomy.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-01-05
SURPRISED AT THE VERDICT.

In View Of the fact neither govern.
ment. state or federal throws around
the race any protection, it Is surpris
ing that such a verdict should be Civ
en- for selfprotection. and that too in
the lawless state Of Texas, the orr
g:nator Of hellish designs and mob
violence against our people.
While the proceedings were per-
fectly legal yet the ends Of Justice
could have been met with a less severe
punishment. The officials in charge
or the court martial were aware OF
the prosecutions endured by our boys
around that camp which makes the
whole affair look like play to the
sentiment Of the white toughs rather
than punishment for crime.
0tfchmond, Va, St. Luke Herald.)
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-01-05
HOUSTON INCIDENT CLOSED
NOT FORGOTTEN

Thirteen hanged, forty-one impris
oned for life nine for short terms and
five acquitted represent the summary
sentence passed upon the members
of the Oath Infantry who shot up
Houston, Texas on the night of Al-
gust 23rd last Thus Is closed anoth-
er dark chapter in the annals of
American Democracy. Closed but not
forgotten. It will never be forgotten
that these bold regulars, who broke
the law and merited the punishment
were the victims Of southern crackers
and coDperheads, who ba,tcd them on
and tainted them beyond human eli
'durance.
For the acquitted men, some Of
whom are said to owe their freedom
to tho fact that they turned states
evidence and testified against their
comrades or the non-coms Of the Gath
who left the Training Camp at Fort
Des Moines before receiving their
commissions in order to assist the
court martial is running down the
guilty soldiers and procuring their
confessions there will be no words Of
! praise. Promotions in the army may
come from their actions. but their
names will he writ large in the great
book as traitors to the traditions Of
the army and traitors to the race.
Guilty AS were those soldiers Of the
Oath. and as worthy Of punishment
as they are known to be, the country
stands aghast at these severe and
summary sentences meted out to them
If they ran wild and murdered and
terroriZed community, everybody
knows that they simply did what
lynching parties practice almost daily
on smaller scale in every Southern
State from Virginia to Florida and
from Missouri to Texas. Everybody
fcels-whether with full Justice or not
the fact remains.-these men OF the
oath were punished as much because
they were colored as because they
were guilty.
Indeed, Martha Gruening, who. dn-
,dSsstigated the Houston Uprising for
4 kAAsaA. c. P, fe!t that Houston
kampared to East st.
:! 6Snla III CODED
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Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13

In the Grey Eagle the crosscut through the vein was completed this week and the one is said to have a width of feet through the rich part of the vein and that the values were in excess of s7OO for the whole width. The shaft had been sunk on the hang ing wall of the vein and crosscutting was carried toward the Big Jim about a year ago, but nothing was done in picking up the vein and drifting on 1t until the past week or two. It is now contemplated to connect the entire working on the new vein with the old workings of the mine, and the drift is now within 100 feet of connection with the old Tom Reed works. This con- nection will be made and the property will later be opened by shaft to make possible the extraction of ore at min mum expense.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
STRIKES RICH
 ORE LIN THE
 4OO LEVEL

This week B. L. Vaughn and D. C.. Reed of San Diego, and George Kis- lingbury, the well known Los Angeles mining engineer, visited the mines of the Banner Mining company to look over the recent reported rich strike in that property. They passed through Kingman on their way to and from the mines, which are situated in the Union Pass section, and reported that the strike was one of the best ever made in the property.
 The ore body was opened in the west drift on the 400 level of the property and the whole face of the drift is said to run about $50. The drift has been in this class of ore for some distance and good progress is made in the driv- ing along on that level.
 The company is installing a new compressor and other necessary ma chinery and will soon be pushing the shaft to another level. So far all work done has been by hand, which has re- tarded the rapid development of the mine to a considerable extent. With the new equipment the mine should soon be in shape to maintain a mill ing plant of considerable capacity.
 E. Elmo Bollinger of Kingman, is the new secretary of the company, H. B. Benedict, of Needles, the former secretary, having engaged in war work. Mir. Bollinger has been identl- fled with the company as it's counsel for the past several years, the com pany having maintained an office In Kingman. The company is now well financed and the work mapped out can be carried through with little or no trouble. Mir. Vaughn was one of the original promoters of the company and has remained with it during all the wears of its diversity, and is now in position to felicitate himself on his good judgment ..4-----------
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS WILL BE PROTECTED
April 10. 1918.

April 10, 1918.
 Dear Sir: I am in receipt of let ter from the secretary of the treasury, and also from MT. John Lowell, chair man of the special committee for war service, of the American Bar associa- tion, in reference to claims under the 'War Risk Insurance Act" stating that interruptions claim agents and pension attorneys are notifying bene- ficiaries who have occasion to make claim under said act that they must employ counsel in order to be sure of obtaining payments from the govern ment. In many instances beneficiaries have been induced to advance substan- tial sums of money to these agents in return for the promise of a service which, in all probability, will be un- necessary.
 The activities are in direct violation of the spirit of the "War Risk Insur- ance Act" and are, in the highest de- gree, reprehensible and unpatriotic. Unless they are promptly and effect ively checked they will result in griev- ous abuse, and will produce the same undesirable conditions which brought such discredit upon our previous war pension system. I would ask that you give this matter such publicity as is possible, so that no beneficiary in your community in need of assistance will have excuse to seek it outside of our ranks. I would also ask that you aid gratuitously all beneficiaries un- able, without assistance, to prepare their claims, and that you continue such gratuitous service until circum- stances no longer require it. l would also ask that you send me the name of every claim agent, pension attor' ney, or other person known by you to be violating the spirit of the "Wal Risk Insurance Act" in the manner above described.
 Secretary McAdoo says in his letter that there is "no necessity for the em' ployment of claim agents or attorneys | for the collection of the benefits grant ed by the "War Risk Insurance Act because the process of such collection lis exceedingly simple, and the Burear of War Risk Insurance stands ready tt render any and all assistance required
 Yours, very truly,
 PAUL c. THORNE,
 Chairman Legal Advisory Board
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
BIG ORE BODY
 HAS BEEN OPENED

Prospecting on the Catherine mine, near Pyramid, has brought to light a great body of ore, the values running nearly S100 to the ton for eight feet of vein width. The work was carried along on the surface and resulted in the discovery of the vein below the fault, and sinking on it showed the vein to be very large and rich. The operators have begun the work of driv- ing a crosscut from the shaft at a depth of 100 feet and should this prove up the continuity of the vein another crosscut will be driven from the 400 level. The mine is badly fault ed at the point where the larger part of the work was done some years ago, but the prospecting beyond the fault failed to again pick up the vein. The fact that the vein could not be found outside the fault plane caused suspen- sion of work by the New Comstock company, the owners of the property. Only a small amount of work has been done on the mines in the past five or six years, and this really had no objective.
 Recently W. c. Howard took up the work of tracing out the fault and was successful in picking it up about 200 feet from the old works. It shows the vein, to be solid and gives evidence of permanency. In the old days the greater part of the ore taken from the mine and milled at Pyramid was from the Glory hole. At times the breast of ore in this glory hole showed big values in horn silver, some of the ore running as high as 900 ounces tC the ton. Machinery and machine drills have been put in and the worl of driving across the big fault vii be carried on with great rapidity.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
GOLD ROAD CRUSHER
 SOON IN OPERATION

The Gold Road Mines company has graded out site for it's big crushing plant below the Billy Bryan shaft and will soon be shining ore and sluicing it into the big tanks at the old mill for cyanide treatment. The company in this way will obviate the haulage from the mine to the mill. The company purchased the big crusher from the Union Basin Mining company and has it installed at its mine The mill will be electric driven and will crush the ore to 100 mesh or better and a big pipe line will carry the pulp to the tanks and dewatering plant used in the old mill.
 It is understood that the Gold Ore has a ninety-day lease of the Gold Road mill, and that after the expira- tion of the lease the Gold Road com pany will probably mill the ore from that property in conjunction with their own. The ore from the east end prop critics of the Gold Road are exposing so much ore that it has been conclud- ed to mill the excess to make room for further exploration. The new ore is rich, running three times more than the ore milled prior to the shutting down of the mill more than year ago The ore bodies insures to the big mil at least two years steady run.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
CHLORIDE WOMEN IN
 LIBERTY LOAN WORK

At the Gem theater at Chloride last Saturday night the Third Liberty Loan was launched by Mrs. c. B. Cravens, chairman of the Women's Liberty Loan committee of Chloride. Ad- dresses have been made by prominent women identified with the work each show night. The personnel of the com mittee is: Mrs. R. M. Tafel, publicity work; Mrs. F. c. Smith, chairman so- Hciting bonds committee, with Mrs. James Walker and Mrs. Tallon assist ants. This committee is right on the job and has about 5000 to its credit. Chloride has to date reached her quota of S2OOO and the people are sure that the amount will be doubled before the campaign is over.
 The people of Mohave county feel that the work of the Liberty Loan at Chloride is in good hands, the women of that camp being among the most in- defatiguable workers of the state.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
GRAND CHANCELLOR
 VISITS LOCAL LODGE

Grand Chancellor Fred w. Smith, of the Knights of Pythias of the Do main of Arizona, visited Western Lodge No. 12 last Tuesday evening at their regular meeting.
 This is the final lodge in the grand chancellor visiting tour of the state, he having visited all of the lodges of the order ill the state during the past two months.
 He reports the order in d flourish ing condition and many members be- ing added to the already large number of good knights over the state.
 Owing to a visit from his son, Al bert, now stationed at Camp Kearnyi he was forced to forego longer visit here and returned to his home at Flag staff Wednesday morning.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
WALKOVER PEOPLE
 IN KINGMAN

Last Monday Walter De Liere, J. D. Loper, William Carney and pr. Connors, of the Walkover Mining com pany, were in Kingman, arranging campaign of stock selling for the fur ther exploration of the mines. MT. Lo- per was in Oatman the past week sell ing shares in the company and is said to have been very successful.
 The Walkover is one of the best looking propositions in the east end of the county and every dollar obtained from stock sales is going into the ex- ploration of the mines. The shaft IS well timbered and in shape to be car ried down 70 indefinite depth. The men in charge of affairs are honest and conscientious and no one should hesitate to take stock in the corpora tion, as they are assured of a run for their money"
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
VISITS STANDARD
 MINERALS CAMP

A camp committee consisting of E.. E. Bollinger, R. H. Blakely, w. L. Lin vile, J. H. Ware, R. L. Anderson and c. A. Warren visited the Standard Minerals camp in the Wallapais yes terday in the interest of the Liberty Bonds and report having met with great success, every man in the camp having been induced to purchase a bond
 E. E. Bollinger, W. L. Linville and R. H. Blakely addressed the boys on the Liberty Loan.
 The entire party were treated to a spread by the management of the camp, after which they were shown over. the property, including the many new pieces of machinery being em- placed thereon.
 They were greatly impressed by the showing there and all feel that they have a splendid chance to become one of the camps of this county.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
BLACKBERRY MINES
 RECEIVING MATERIAL

The Blackberry mines are now be- ginning to receive material for the new milling plant and within the next forty days it is expected that an ma chinery for both mill and power plant will be on the ground and in process of assembling. The company has ob- tained assurances from all the manu- lecturers of machinery that record time will be made in the delivery of the different machines.
 F. W. Sherman, who has been in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the in terest of the company, returned home this week, after having assisted in the placing of the orders for machinery and further mapping out the mill ne cessities.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
BIG LEAD DEPOSIT
 IN GERBAT CANYON

James Kane and partner have open ed a splendid vein of lead ore on their property south of the Nigger Head, in the upper Sart of Cerbat Canyon, where they have been driving tunnel to tap the vein. The ore body that has been drifted on for long distance, shows width of from 8 inches to 30 inches of solid galena. This is said to carry better than 40 per cent lead and about 50 ounces silver to the ton. So far the owners have taken out and sacked a carload of ore that will soon be sent to the shelter.
 Some years ago Morgan Jones, Sr., discovered this vein and shipped sev- eral cars of rich lead ore from it. The opening was high up on the butte and the ore pinched out at that point. MT. Kane and partners drove in from the lower part of the hill and struck the vein at a depth of more than 100 feet below the old works. They now have many carloads of ore ready for sto- ping and expect to make big stake out of it.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13

The Tom Reed has picked up the ore in it's east drift where the fault bi- sected the big vein. The fault plane was followed 60 feet and the vein en- countered. The vein at this point is said to be feet wide and to carry un- believable values. At the point where the vein was lost the values had be- come very high and the management was anxious to find and take up it's further exploration. It was thought that the throw would be found toward the Grey Eagle and it was in that di- rection that the work was taken up. It would now appear that the total length of the great ore shoot would be in excess of 1000 feet and that the values would be unprecedented in the annals of gold mining in the United States for such width and length of ore body.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
GROWING GREATER DAILY--
 TOM REED |S IN RICHER ORE

In the lower part of the field the work is being carried on to such an extent that the entire geological structure of the veins will be an open book to the management. The dike system as well as the faulting and throw of the veins has been worked out through the picking up of the big vein at the point of the break and the ore may continue far to the east beyond the point of development on the Grey Eagle and into other ground.
 While we have confidential reports of the values found in the ore recently cut in the Grey Eagle and the faulted part of the vein, we are not at liberty to give them, although it has been given out by the management that the values were in excess of $450 for width of 8 feet. This is really im- mense values, but the real values are unbelievable.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
KEYSTONE CON. GO.
 IS ID OPERATE

The Keystone Consolidated Mining company has levied an assessment of two cents q share on all it's issued stock for the purpose of securing enough money to begin operations. So far nearly all shareholders have come through with their assessment and nearly all oelnouents are expected to pay up before sale. The company will sink the main shaft to a depth or about 700 feet and there extend the drifts into the ore bearing ground. The mill will be put in commission as soon as possible ard the lower grade ores treated by a new oil Notation process, while the richer ores will be shipped direct to the smelters.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13

 ESCAPE FROM
 AWFUL DEATH

J. D. Loper had a narrow escape from death on the Gold Road noun tain Sunday night when his automo- bile went over the grade at one of the worst places on the scenic drive. MT. and Mrs. Roper were motoring to Gold Road and had reached the big cliffs on the west side of the summit when their lights went bad and Mrs. Loper considering it too dangerous to ride, got out of the machine to walk down the dangerous part of the grade. MT. Loper also got out and the brakes failing to hold the machine started backward down the road. Loper jump ed into the moving car and tried to stop it's progress, but it gained mo- mentum and ran off the grade. The first part of the descent was sheer 20 feet and it is supposed that Loper was thrown out, the auto going to the bot tom of the canyon, 500 feet below, where it was smashed into flinders. MT. Loper was thrown onto the rocks, but aside from a wrenched back his injuries were slight. That he escaped death is one of those remarkable oc- currences that passes understanding.
 The place where the accident occur red is one of the most dangerous parts of the mountain grade, the descent into the canyon being fully 500 feet, over boulder-strewn hillside.
 MT. Loper is president of the Walk ever Mining company, operating mines in the Wright Creek section, east of Blackberry.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
THIRD LIBERTY
 LOAN RALLY SERVICE

The churches throughout the United States have been requested to hold one service on Sunday, April IA, in the in terest of the Third Liberty Loan. A Liberty Loan Rally Service will be held in St. Johns Methodist Episcopal church on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. w. S. Linville and Mrs. H. H. Watkins will represent the Women's Liberty Loan committee of Mohave county and addresses will be made by the Rev. T. H. Dodd and Joe H. Rosen- berg.
 Special patriotic music will be rem dered by the large choir under the dl- rection of E. w. Mattoon and the of fering taken will be given to the Red Cross.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
FoUR-NINUTE SPEAKERS

Last Monday night E. Elmo Bol- finger delivered a four-minute address to a large audience at Lang's theater that was really one of the best we have ever listened to. Into his four minutes he crowded more good things than the average human being would think that it was possible to say. And the way he walloped the Huns and loan slackers was good to hear. Mir. Bollinger has beeL giving of his time and energy to the Liberty Loan and Thrift Stamp campaign and his work is fully appreciated by the patriotic people of the county.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
BIG GENTLEMAN
 VISITS KINGMAN

Will F. Grounds, one of the largest breeders of cattle in the southwest, ac- companied by his family and Mir. and Mrs. Blaine Crozier, were visiting in Kingman last Monday. Mir. Grounds was on his way to visit his ranch in Nevada, where he is associated with Frank Crozier and others. He recent ly came down from Colorado, where the Clay Springs Cattle company has a magnificent cattle ranch. Walter Brown, formerly sheriff of this county, and T. J. Murphy of Needles, are asso- ciated with MT. Grounds in all his en- terprises.
Mohave County miner., 1918-04-13
ST. LOUIS MAN HERE

A. E. Stocking, a well known St. Louis mining man, is in KingmaR look ing over the mining section in eom7- pany of George W. Mark. The gentle4 men examined the property of the Missouri-Mohave Mines company, at Cerbat, early in the week and yester- day visited the famous old Tom Reed. MT. Stocking was so taken with the Reed that he ordered>a large block of stock in it at the market.