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Burroughs for recorder and Brown
for clerk are endorsed by the demo-
gratis.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-05-22

This paper Is a member OF and audited
py the Audit Bureau of Calculations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-05-22

Tonight fair and
warmer Thursday fair.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
Criminal Cases 10 Be
Tried Next Week

District court convened Tuesday
with Judge Harry S. Glass on the
bench. After disposing of routine
motions the cases against Oscar
Tilley and w. Munther, charged
with assault on Wing Wah, the
Georgetown Chinaman, we're set
for trial on the 14th, and the case
against Kelley and Smith charg.
ing theft was set for Monday, the
18th, at which time the jury is
called for service.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10

After having worked wi b
Arthur Carnahan for few days or
their ranch at Barr Lake last week
Mr.. Ballantine became i'll of ap-
pendicitis and on Friday morning
was taken to st. Luke's hospital,
Denver, where at noon he under.
went an operation. He rallied
nicely and was thought on a fair
way to recovery. Even Monday
night his case was thought favor
able but on Tuesday morning his
condition became critical and at
1920 he died.
James Balm Ballantine was born
at Kirkwall. Orkney Islands, Scot
land, July 30, 1868, and would
have been fifty years old next
July. He was educated at Glas-
gov as a gas manufacturing en-
gineer, and under the tutelage of
an older brother John, the leading
gas engineer of Great Britain at
that time, he became at the age
of 81 manager of the big Steven
son gas works in Ayrshire. He
came to America in 1893, his OBJ
ject being to take charge of the
gas works at Hartford, Conn, but
instead he associated himself With
Thomas A. Edison, the noted in
ventor, and was for twenty years
in charge of Edison's metallurgical
aud his chief expert
menter on physical problems.
He built the Edison iron re-
duction works at Stewartsville,
New Jersey, between 1894 and
1S9S-a two million dollar plant.
Lower iron prices caused this to be
into the Edison Portland
Cement works. He was sent to
Cumberland, Norway, north of the
Arctic Circle to superintend the
construction of a big iron reduc-
ton works and was on that job
eight yearsfor Mr.. Edison.
Soon after his return from Nor
way in 1912, Mr.. Ballantine was
sent to Silver Plume, Colorado, in
1918, to build a plant for a Detroit
syndicate employing Edison ore
reduction methods. It was in
tended to reap a fortune in the re-
covery of values from the ore
dumps of the earlier days, but suf-
iicent values were not contained
in the dumps to make the expert
ment profitable.
= Two years ago Mr.. Ballantine
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
Harvey Arrests Boys;
Receivers Over S4OO

Marshal Harvey made the ar
rest of two Denver lads last Friday
and recovered $4O3.54 stol e n
money. They were apprehended
near Floyd Hill station and
brought to the city. Saturday
morning Deputy Sheriff George
Straub took them to Denver and
turned them over to the officers.
Monday they were tried in the
juvenile court and sentenced to
from three to ten years in the re-
formatory at Golden.
The money belonged to John
Mathews in Denver, whose house
had been broken into by the boys
and the money stoten out OF his
trunk. Mathews felt grateful over
the recovery of his cash, and on
Saturday spoke of being willing
to give Marshal Harvey a reward
of $50 and expenses for its recovery
Monday, when Harvey went down
to Denver on vacation trip and
to see the man who had been rob-
bed, Mathews didn't want to talk
about reward or anything else.
The Denver Express printed an
erroneous story about the case,
conveying the idea that Harvey
was trying to keep the old mans
money and trying to hold him up
for big reward. The facts are
Harvey was not ordered to court
at all, did not see Phillips, an
officer in the juvenile court, and
did not ask Mathews for a reward
Mr.. Straub had merely suggested
to the old man on Saturday that
he ought to reward the marshal
who had recovered his money for
him.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
The Hudson Mill
Makes Improvements

The Hudson Milling company
have just completed the installa-
ton of new Sterns- Rogers Ball
Mill for regrinding middling pro-
ducts, and a complete hydraulic
classification system for the table
feeds. They have also added au-
tomato oil feeders for flotation
machines, as well as number of
minor improvements.
The ore shippers of Clear Creek
and Gilpin counties are fortunate
in having SO thoroughly an up-to-
date custom mill ready to serve
them.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
A Good Stunt"
for Idaho Springs

The collection of used rubber at
Boulder for the benefit of the Red
Cross amounted to over three tons,
of which the bulk was automobile
tires and tubes, while number 2
rubber, solid rubber tires, rubber
hose and brass bumpers made up
the balance. The lot was Jumped
to a junk man at price per
pound which amounted to 1921 OF,
he giving his check for an even
$500.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
Veterans Getting Ready
For Decoration Day

1t has been decided by the local
Grand Army Post to have no
street prade on Memorial Day this
this year.
On Sunday evening. May 26, all
Civil War veterans, Spanish War
veterans, sons, daughters and other
relatives, as we'll as the general
public, will assemble at the Meth
odist church, where at 7:3O O'Clock
Memorial Sunday exercises will
be held Rev James J. Fleming
will preach the G. A. r. Memorial
sermon, and others will assist in
rendering an interesting program
of singing and other exercises.
At ] 30 p. IN. on Thursday, May
80, Memorial Day, the veterans and
their relatives and friends will
assemble at the City Hall to go to
the cemetery and decorate the
soldiers graves with ceremony.
The Boy Scouts, piloted by
Comrade Frank Doherty, will care
for the graves west of Center ave-
nue., while twelve school girls,
piloted by Comrade O. N. Mari
hugh, will care for the graves east
of Center avenue.
Owners of automobiles are re.
quested to be generous in report
ing to Comrade Burger SO that all
who are to take part may be pro-
vided with transportation.
Comrade Benjamin A. Holley
will have charge of the firing over
the graves.
Flags will be at half mast be-
tween sunrise and noon on Dec
oration Day, and then to the top
at l2 o'clock. The marshal will
toll the city bell for five minutes,
during which time everybody is re-
quested to stand with head un-
covered, in memory of our honored
dead.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
Death Removes Our
State Representative

Following a long indisposition
from asthma, Donald J. Mcdonald
died rather suddenly at 7:45 Sat
urday evening MAY 4, at his home
on Colorado street, the immediate
cause of death being pneumonia.
Friday evening he had visited at
the Bruce home, and Saturday
morning had dressed himself as
usual.
Mr.. Mcdonald was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, January Is,
1868, and at the time of his death
was IS years of age. The family
came to America when he was a
baby. Here the father, Rory Nc
Donald, fought in the Revolu-
tionary war, after which they re-'
moved to Canada, where Donald
was educated in Jesuit college.
Mr.. Mcdonald came to Leadville
in 1879, when that city was in the
making. There he belonged to
Tabor guards and was once called
out to fight Indians. There he
also joined the fire department,
which entitled him to membership
in the state organization formed
a few years ago, of about twenty
pioneer firemen.
In 1892 Mr.. Mcdonald came to
Silver Plume, where in 1900 he
married Miss May Bruce, and has
since been a resident of Clear
Greek county. There were no
children. and no brothers or sisters
living. Only the widow survives.
A niece and several nephews re.
main, three nephews having en-
listed from Canada early in the
war.
Deceased was past state presi-
dent of Stationary Engineers, and
Past Great Sachem of the Redmen.
He instigated the Redmen's band,
which was a dream of his life, at
one time fully realized. He repre-.
sented Clear Greek county in the
1917 state legislature. his pop.
ularity in the Democratic party
was marked.
The Redmen will conduct their
house service at the Elks' Club Sun
day afternoon at 1:3O, and later at
the Catholic church Father Nc.
Cabe will officiate. Interment will
be at Idaho Springs cemetery.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
City Proudly Floats
Honor Loan FlaQ

With appropriate ceremony last
Sunday afternoon, and before a
large gathering of citizens, Idaho
Springs honor flag was proudly
hoisted and unfurled to the breeze
The city went "over the top nobly
on the Third Liberty Loan, and the
flag was presented to the city by
the United States government in
recognition of the loyalty of our
citizens.
In a brief address Rev. McCabe
presented the flag to Mayor Mos
cript, who officially presented it
to the city. Mayor Moscript said
he felt proud of what the city had
done on the first, second and third
Liberty Loans, and on the Red
Cross, Y. NJ. G. A., and every other
war appeal, and that we would &C
right on doing the right thing as
long as it is necessary.
Every citizen is proud of the
honor flag aud particularly SO if he
purchased a bond AS nearly every.
one did. John G. Meyer, as chair
man of the bond-selling committee
was one who never surrendered
the idea that we would go "ovel
the top" and when the goal was
reached and safely passed he re-
joced with his co.workers in the
SUCCESS of the campaipn.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
IDAHO SPRINGS, COLO, FRIDAY II
CITY SUFFERS LOSS IN DEATH
OF JAMES B. BALLANTINE

became interested in the develop
ment OF mining properties at Alice
and Idaho Springs. and despite
the hindrances of war, large oper-
atlons at Alice were soon to be
under full headway.
MIR. Balantine was a man among
men, friend to everybody, always
kind and considerate, and a power
in any community in which he
lived.
He was an associate member of
the Institute of Mining and Met
allurgy of London, also of the
Electrical Engineers of Great
Britain. the latter membership
proposed by the Lord Kelvin, who
as William Thompson was consid-
cred the formost electrical engineer
of the world-the man who made
the Atlantic cable practical prop
osition. Mr.. Ballantine was made
Mason in Scotland and held a
life membership in Rose and
Thistle lodge of Stevenson, Scot
land. He frequently visited Kill
winning lodge No. l, the oldest
in the world.
Mr.. Ballantine was married in
New York City in 1894 to Miss
Elizabeth Macnab who came from
Rothsay, Scotland. The wife died
la 1902 in Scotland while Mr.
Ballantine was in this coutry.
On Sept. 20, 1914, Mr.. Ballan-
tine married Miss Marguerite
Callaghan, who came here from
Glasgow, Scotland.
Besides the grief stricken young
widow, Mr.. Ballantine leaves a
daughter, Miss Elizabeth, who
was born in New York City, educ
ated in Scotland and England, and
who has been living with the
family; also a sister in Australia.
Another sister, Mrs. THOMAS Mac
Williams died a year ago in Orange,
N. j.
Mr.. Ballantine was greatly in
terested in the war and proudly
displayed a service flag with 20
stars to represent that many rel
atives having engaged in the con-
flict.
The funeral was held from the
Presbyterian church Thursday
afternoon, Rev. c. W. Sprouse,
pastor of the Episcopal church,
officiating. The local Masonic
order was in charge of the funeral
and the remains were laid to rest
in Idaho Springs cemetery with
Masonic ceremony.
The pail bearers were E. M.
Moscript, d. G. Holland, R. r.
T. j. Garrett, w. E.
Renshaw and Robert ellison.
The remarks by Rev. Sprouse
at the church were most approp-
riate and comforting. A male
quartet sang most beautifully and
Mrs. Zisch sang a beautiful solo.
The floral tributes we're grand.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10

Robert Macnab, assistant naval
constructor and experimenting
engineer Of the naval yard at Sorel,
Quebec, ia & brother-in-law of the
iate j. B. Ballantine. Mr.. Mac
nab has had a meteoric career 10
his profession. He is now only 81,
and has been for four years ad-
visory engineer to the Can adian
Government.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10

When cruel death removed
James B. Ballantine, Idaho Springs
and Clear Greek county lost one
of their best and most useful cit
zens and the loss will be keenly
felt.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10

The coming state Sunday School
Convention in Denver, May 14-15-
16, promises to be a great occasion.
Registrations are pouring into
the association Office from all parts
of the state, and it is evident that
far more than one thousand from
out in the state will attend.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10

Arthur L. Carnahan. business
associate OF the late ]. 3. Ballau-
tine and intimate friend of the
family, became seriously i'll Thurs
day of acute indigestion and was
unable 10 attend the funeral. He
has since fully recovered aud will
return to his ranch at Barr Lake
Saturday afternoon.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
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Hatters' Plush in VOGUE.

Hatters' plush, always a becoming
material, is employed on some of the
smartest models. Panne and Lyons
velvet are used, silk duvetyn as soft
as baby fur is made into hats and into
trimming for hats. And to further en-
phasize the general softness and f1ex-
Utility of the millinery of the coming
season, beaver is used very much in
combination with other materials. 1t
is used on hatters' plush and on vel
vet to form bands and brim tops and
brim facings and even in the form Of
flowers. 1t is of such a new softness
that it is hardly recognizable. One
of the new long side models in dark
blue panne has round sort Of folded
in crown with a twO-inch band of
beaver and brim edge of beaver. The
only trimming on it is very hand
some tassel attached to small round
silk ornament placed at the right side
swinging out on the long side of the
brim, but not extending over it.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
New Mexico.

Indications point to resumption Of
operations on the Confidence proper
ty at Mogollon, formerly heavy pro-
Queer that now has considerable ore in
reserve. The Oaks company is pro-
ducing from the Pacific mine.
At Mogollon the Socorro Mining and
Milling Company has reached the 400
foot level on No. 1 shaft in the John
son mine. This will be sunk an addi-
tional 100 feet, where 4,000-foot cross
cut will be run to connect with the
main shaft of the Fannie mine.
The old Ivanhoe mine, which ad-
joins the estates of the Chino Exten-
sion and the Chino Copper companies,
is being operated by w. H. Janney of
Hurley and George E. Coke of Han
over are shipping to smelter a carload
of silver-copper-lead ore per week, and
have been doing so for several months
It is said that the Ivanhoe has recently
developed large ore deposits. Being
on the Santa Rita branch of the rail
road the cost of hauling and freight is
remarkably low. Years ago smelter
was erected.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
Colorado.

The Lone Pine Oil Company filed
Oil claims on 1,760 acres of land near
Maybell.
Operations on the Malmo tunnel at
Brainerd camp in Boulder county have
been resumed.
New machinery has been installed in
the Ten Brock mine in the La Platas,
near Durango.
The Twentymile Oil Company has
purchased machinery and will soon
commence drilling.
Five tons of concentrates were ship
ped from the Lamartine' mine in the
Idaho Springs district
1t is reported that Joseph Wolf of
Creole has sold three sulphur claims
on Trout creek to Eastern capitalists.
James McNally is driving an incline
tunnel for the extension. of the Penn
sylvania vein on the Susquehanna
mine east of Gordon gulch.
Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining
and Milling Company declared it's reg
ular monthly dividend of 10 cents a
share, payable Oct. 10 to stock of rec
ord Sept 80.
1t is estimated by the financial ex-
perts in London, New York and else
where that the gold output of the
world in the present year will show a
decline-measured by gold-of 35 per
cent compared with 1917, or close to
$55, 100000 for the calendar year. If
this. estimate be accepted as correct
the Cripple Creek district exclusively
gold-shows thus far better than the
average fixed for the world at large.
In 1917 the bullion value of Cripple
Creeks ores and dump material, as
tested by mint purchases, was SILL
4O2,968. For eight months of 1913 the
bullion output-allowing 10 per cent
deduction from the assay value for
moisture and other losses-reads &c.
664, 41O. Two-thirds of the 1917 output
reads $7,601,97S, or 1897, 1858 in excess
of the present year.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
Montana.

New York Financial Bulletin says
of the Anaconda Copper Company:
Anaconda is now engaged in widely
diversified lines of business undertake
ings. It is the worlds larges produo
er of copper and is also producing
gold, silver, zinc and manganese, oper-
ating smelters and refineries and
manufacturing. copper wire and rods
1t is also mining for it's own use and
selling a considerable tonnage of coal,
and is cutting, finishing and marketing
a large footage of lumber. Nothing is
allowed to interfere with it's mining
program. 1t is preparing to develop a
big porphyry copper deposit in South
America and is buying mines wherever
favorable opportunities present them
selves.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28

The bureau of aircraft production
Of the war department has requested
the Red Cross to give publicity to the
vital need of walnut for use in MAX
Ing airplane propeller blades and gun
stocks. All chapters in central divis-
ion are requested to see that this need
is made known as widely as possible
by posting this notice on their bulletin
boards and including this item in the
Red Cross news printed in local news
papers.
Walnut has been found to be the
best wood for propeller blades and gun
stocks. Trees are found throughout
the United States, usually in small
groups, and the government wants in
formation as to their location, to give
the owners an opportunity to demon
stTate their patriotism in a practical
way.
A part only of the lumber from each
tree can be used and the government
cannot buy the trees direct from the
owners. The trees should be sold to-
sawmill having a government con-
tract for lumber for propeller blades
and gun stocks. If owners of trees
dc not know of such mills, they may
write to the Ordnance Department,
Procurement Division, Small Arms
Section, Washington, D. c., giving mum.
Der and location of the trees, and they
will be notified how to dispose of them.
Emphasize the fact that information
in regard to small number of trees
is most valuable. The government
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
Raise Rabbits for Meat.

Rabbits, which have proved valu-
able food source in Europe during the
present war, may well be raised more
extensively in America to reduce the
drain on the the ordinary meat sup
ply, according to biologists Of the
U. S. department of agriculture. The
animals may be raised in back yards
of cities and towns as well as on
farms.
The Belgian and Flemish giant rab-
bits are recommended for meat pro-
duction, as the ordinary tame rabbit
is smaller and develops more slowly.
Rabbits are easily kept. They eat
hay, grass, lawn cuttings and green
vegetation of many kinds.
The department has published bull
letin on raising rabbits, which will be
helpful to persons who wish to engage
in this pursuit.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28
Scarfs.

Already there are indications that
scarfs will be an accredited part of
next winters suits-that is, wide
scarfs that are wrapped around the
neck as part of the suit. We had
some of these scarfs last winter,
sometimes coming from only one part
Of the coat collar and wrapping we'll
around the throat. Sometimes, too,
they were the ends of skating cap
that were wrapped, scarflike, around
the throat. In the new suits they are
sometimes separate, but of the same
material, and sold as part of the
frock. Sometimes they are fastened
to the coat, under the collar.
The Benson signal. [volume] (Benson, Cochise County, Ariz.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-28

In the light Of experience the tail
ored suit of wool cloth has proven that
there is nothing to equal it for giving
general satisfaction. Some other fab
RIGS make suits as durable and as
good looking but they do not seem to
fit in everywhere and against any sort
of background as wool does. How
ever, there may come q time when
there will be no wool to spare, after
the needs of the army are supplied.
and we will be obliged to wear some
thing else. Manufacturers are already
experimenting with other fibers and
have turned out few new fabrics that
look practical.
The most noteworthy of these mate
rails is tricotine or tricolet, woven of a
heavy, silky fiber that is strong and sup
ple. It has the brilliance Of silk and the
strength of wool and is especially
handsome in black and in dark tones
of brown and blue. 1t is used for
gowns and suits. For the first, hand
some fringes are wonderfully effective
as a trimming, while braiding seems
the best finish for suits.
The suit at the right in the picture
is conservation tailleur" of trico-
tine with collar and tunic waistcOat
OF crepe. 1t earns it's patriotic title
because it is not wool and compels en-
tlIusiastic praise because it is hand
sCne and cleverly designed. The col
lar and waistcOat are braided and
might be embroidered, for both these
ecorations find themselves against
.,ust the right background in tricotine.
The coat fastens across the waistcoat
at the front with two diagonal straps
chat button at the left side.
There are still plenty of wool suits
to be had-just how long the supply
viii last nc one can tell. One of the
best of those shown for fall appears
a. the left of the picture. 1t is taupe
broadCl1tb with convertible collar and