Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 6, 1893, Page 13

e S POLITICAL PAGE OF THE PAST Btory of a Famons Dicker and How Oharley Foster Got Lefy, CONKLING DICTATES GARFIELD'S CABINET #e Makes an Effectonl Protest Against Morton's Appointment to the Navy Portfollo~Gosslp About Stan- dard Oll Magnates. New Yonk, Aug. 9.—[Special Correspond- ence of Tne Bre.|—Ohio is a great grave- yard filled with the corpses of the political ambitions of its prominent men, No state in the union has more hero worshipers, and no #tate has more ambitious politicians. There s searcely a man of prominence in the state who has not beon stabbed by his friends, and ex-Governor George Hoadley, who went to New York to make a fortune at the law after such treatment, once told me that a statesman never grew to be over two feot high in tho Buckeye state before there was & groat army of smaller men striving to cut Off his head. The only man who has held his own for any length of time in the state is John Sherman, and the other men of promi- nence, both democrats and republicans, have Thad to step to the rear with vinogar in their eyes and iron in their souls. The loaders fight among themselves. .‘There s npo harmony in either the democratic or republican party, and Ohio might have had two or three more presi- dents if her politicians had- worked to- gether. John Sherman would have had a seat In the white houso had it not been for his enemios in his own state. I remember recolving a letter from the Cincinnati Times Just before the nominating convention of 1880, suggesting that I throw away my Sher- man veil and buy a pair of Grant spectacles, @8 the Times thought that General Grant ought to be the nominee of that convention. The Clevoland Leader at this time was ‘wounding Blaine, and Sherman went to Chi- eago with the dissensions in his state and treachery in his camp. It was tho same with Allen G. Thurman at three or four different oonventions. He had several chances for the presidency, but Ohio knocked him out. Old Ben Wade had a shight chance at the convention which nominated Lincoln, but Ohio men spread scurrilous stories about * Chicugo concerning him, and he nover knew what 80 casily caused his defeat. Gosslp About Foraker, [ was rominded of this fact the other day s 1sat at breakfast with Governor Foraker atthe Fifth Avenuo hotel. His hair has turned from black to gray within tho last fow years, and ho tells me that he has left politics for good. He was very bitter in talling of Sherman and said that he wanted 0 assistance from him In any way. He ovi dently regrets that he ever ontered politics, and ho now intends devoting himself to money making and the law. He was, 1 am told, just at the beginning of fortune making when he nccepted the nomination for gov- ernor of Ohio, and the year before ho was nominated he cleared about $10,000. He can probably make two or three times that todny, and his carcer s o statesman has been, 80 far s inances are concerned, one of dend loss. Foraker is, perhaps, the’ ablest man in Ohio today, He may not have the financial ability and the pure intellectunl strength of John Sherman, but he 18 packed full of personal magnetism, and his friends aro tied to him almostas 8trongly as wefe those of Blaine to the great Maine states- man, There are today Foraker clubs scat- tered throughout Ohio, and he will again be pushed to the front. How Foster Lost the Senatorship. Speaking of disappointed Ohio men, ex- Becretary Foster is entitled to more sympa- thy than, perhaps, any other man in the state on account of his financial losses and on account of his disappointed ambitions, Foster has given more to the party in money nd time than any other man in Ohjo. His rains and money have done much in making many a campaign successful, and when Gar- fleld was made president every one supposed that Governor Foster would be the chief of his counselors and would be theleading Ohio man at the capital during his administra- tion. He had at this time almost a surety of being Garfield's successor inthe United Btates senate, and it was currently reported that he would either take this place or be one of the chiof membors of Garfield's | pabinet. { heard the other day the story of how he lost both of these positions. It is somewhat similar to that of his recent finan- clal failure, and his fault was that he trusted in his friends and they deceived him. [get the facts from Mr. Thomas Carron, who was at this time in the Ohio senate and who was for years one of the le: ticians of Ohio. He is now practicing law at Los Angeles, but his big interest in wines and lands keep him in the east more than half the time. Carrou was at this time liv- Ing at Cleveland, He was close in the con- fdence of Garfleld and Foster, and he was a part of many of the volitical trades that were made umong the statesmen at that Mme. We were sitting at dinner in a Mexi- ran restaurant in Los Angeles when the con- versation turned to Garfield, and I asked him why it was ti Chacloy Koster got othing out of the Garfield admnistration. e replied: ‘It was largely the result of Garfield’s wvacillating character. Ho was not a man of great moral courage, and “in his efforts to lcaso John Sherman and Roscos Conkling e rofused to pay his logal political debts to Charley Foster. Foster and Garfield were 85 closo us brothers at the time they went 20 tho Chicago convention, They slept to- gether at Chicago during the convantion, and Foster und Garfield rode together back to their hotol after Garfield had been nom- inatod. Foster put & groat deal of monoy into the Gartield campaign, and he was one of Garfield's closest fri ‘The understanding was at that time in Ohio that Foster was to be the next United Btates senator. He was very strong with the people and the legislature, and there ‘was little doubt that he could have been elected. Sherman and Garfield, “Such was the situation (uring the sum- mer of 1880, and John Sherman, then at the liead of the Treasury department under Hayes, looked itover and became exceed- Ingly anxious. Ho had sounded Garfield as to the prospect of his holding him over as pecrotary of the treasury, and Garfield had given him to understand that ho intended to make his cabinet entirely new. He could not get back to the sonate with Foster's op gflliuun, and it looked as though he would e left out in the cold. Garfleld didn't want hiw in the cabinet. He feared him, and he thought that wilh nim as secretary of the treasury Sherman would be bigger than Gar- field and would get thecredit of the adminis- tratio; He did not want to displease Sena- tor Sherwan, however, and he wrote to Fos- tor asking him togive up the senatorship. I was at Columbus when Governor Foster received this letter from Garfield. It was the weakest thing of the kind I have ever soen, He described his relations to Sher- man, and he begged Foster for the good of Pty o stand aside and let Sherman go ack to the senate. He practivally got down on his knees to Foster and l!'nud him to write ut once letting him knoy! what he would do. He said in the letter that he would give Foster anything he asked if he nom?llod with his request.’” .sk ow did the letter strike Foster?” ed. *‘He was, of course, not pleased with it,” ‘was the reply. ‘It meant giving up the certainty of the United States senate, which had been bis ambition for years, for a presi- dential promise, which was, to say the least, aun uncertainty. Still Foster was a very true man himself. He always stuck to hi friends. He had great faith in other men, and he has ali his life been willing to ao great deal for his party and his friends. He showed me the letter as soon as he recelved it, and we discussed the situation. He slept over it and he finally rame to the conclusion that he would do exactly as Garfleld desired, provided he could have the Ohio patronage Tor the next NurH)'llrl to ala him in suc- cooding George H. Pondleton, whose term in the senate would oxpire by that time. The oarrylng out of this plan required ises @oul both Shermun wnd 'he next day General Jim Robinson was sent to Whashington to see it Sherman would agree 1o lot Foster have the patronage on this condition, and we condiuded to hear. from him before saying anything to Garfield about it. We waited a couple of days, and at last the dispatch came: ‘' ‘Al right at the Washington end of the line.’ 1 was then sent to Garfieid to tell him of the decision and to got his promise. 1 ealled upon him at Mentor. A crowd was in the room at the time 1 entered. [ could see that he was very uneasy about something. He talked to the other people, but glanced atme from time to time with questions in his eyes. At Iast he arose, and walking up and down the room got behind the others and crooked his right index finger at me, motioning me to come. I got up and he excused himself from the rest and took me into another room. As we sat down he put his hand on my knee and asked : ** ‘How about Charley Foster? How isthe feeling toward me and what is he going to do about that matter concerning which 1 wrote him?' “1 then told Garfield what Foster's ideas were, and that he would withdraw if he could have an assurance from him and Sher- man that he conld have the higher patron- age. (General Garfleld replied at once: He don't need to ask Sherman_ about that. 1 will promise to give him all that Ohio has to get during my administration, and I will take care of him myself.’ **‘But what will you do for him? I asked. ‘' ‘Oh, he can have anything he wants,’ re- sponded Garfiold. ‘I will put him in thecab- inet if he desires.’ ‘‘In what place in the cabinet? asked L. “ ‘What place does he want?’ said General Garfleld. ‘I think he would like to b"’Fo tmaster general,’ said Senator Carron. 'his would filve him control of the patronage and insure im his election to the senate.’ ‘Al right, he can have it,’ replied Gar- fleld, “‘and I took this news back to Foster. Garfield put Foster down on the slate as postmaster general, and there is no doubt but that he intended to give him the place up to until six hours of his innuguration. He even asked Foster to go with him from Ohio to Washington as a part of the presidential p.l:'rly. but Foster very wisely refused to do this,” How Conkling Made a Postmnaster General. “How did he happen to change his mind?" I asked. “'It was through Conkling and his desire to appease him. Had he begun to fight Conk- ling at the start and had taken Charley Fos- ter in his cabinet to help him Garfield would be alive today. But his will power was weak. He wanted to oblige every one and he was afraid of Conkling. Conkling had insisted that Lev1 P. Morton should be secretary of the treasury. Garfleld refused to give him this place, but offered him the portfolio of the navy. Morton, who wanted the place for social reasons, wrote to Garfield ac- cepting it. He then went to Conkling and told him what he had done. The lordly Roscos was uangry and he told Morton with a sneer that he must refuse the posi- tion. His power over Morton was such that he did refuse it and wrote Garfleld to that effect. 1 think Gurfield got this news just about the time he came to Washington. It worried him greatly and he asked Conkling to come to see him. He told Conkling he wanted to make a cabinet to suit him, and I think Conkling proposed that Folger put in. This Garflield could not well do, and Conkling asked to see the slate. The list of cabinet oficers was hapded to him. As soon as his eye met the name of Charley Foster as postmaster general he said that that ng— pointment would not do, and that New Yor! must have either the postoftice or the treasury. ** ‘Well, who do you want me to appoint as postmaster general? said Garfield. ‘‘ *Appoint James—Thomas L. James,’ said Conkling. ‘He has besa postmaster of New York and has a record for the place. I don't like him, but appoint him and it will be all right.’ And thus James became postmaster general. In the meantime Shorman had been elected to the senate, and four years later a democrat, in the person of Henry B. Payne, took the place of George H. Pendle- ton.” Gosstp About Standard O1l Magnates. Speaking of Payno brought up the subject of the Standard Oil millionaires, Senator Carron was brought up in Cleveland and he knew the most of them as boys. I asked him to tell me something about Rociefelier. He veplied : **I knew Rockefeller when he was a clerk at something like 50 a month. He didn't seem to be overbright. For a time he had made my house his lounging place in the evenings, and I remember he would sit and sit until I would begin to watch the clock and to wonder if he would ever go. He was a determined fellow, howover, and he had a wonderful amount of perseverance. He would stick to a thing long after other men would have given it up. You might refuse him again and again, and the third morning he would bob up again with the same proposi- tion. He had wonderful executive ability, and with all his apvarent dullness he is one of the shrewdest business men 1n the United States. Raokefeller's Milllon-Dollar Cheok, “Sam_Andrews was another queer char- acter,” Senator Carron went on. *‘Ho bogan life like Rockefeller, and the two went along neck and neck for some time, but now-Rock- ofeller is said to bo worth at least $50,000, 000 and 1 doubt whether Sam Andrews has as much as $2,000,000. It wasa funny thing how Rockefeller got Andrews outof the Standard Oil company. I was in the swim in Cleveland at that time and knew allabout it. “Andrews was very jealous of Kocke- feller's success. He tried to beat him in every way, and whenever Rockefeller did a thing Andrews would try to do a bigger one, Rockofeller was president of tho Standard Oil, and the jron went into Sum Andrews’ soul as hie sawshim gotting bigger und bigzer and hiunself remaming comparatively sta- tionary. He concluded that he would assert nis indopendence, and ho came down to the standard Oil oftices one day und domanded a look at the books. Rockefeller told him tnat the clerks were busy with them, but that if he would come in the next day ne would give him & statement. Andrews grunted and went out. The next day he returnod and again demanded the books. Ho was handed in place of them the statement. He cast it angrily from him and said : “I don’t want a statement. I want to see the books of this company. Iam inter- ested in i%asmuch as uny man connected with it, and if I can’t see the books I want to sell my stock.’ ** ‘What will you take for your stock?’ said Mr. Rockefeller, who was sitting at the desk. ‘*‘Andrews looked Rockfeller in the eye and hesitated, He figured up in his mind that no one would accept the Jlrupullllnn he was going to make, and he said: T will take just $1,000,000 cash, and I want the money now.’ *'All right, said Rockefeller, T will give it to you,” and he picked up his check book and Wrote out his chock for $1.000,000 and handed it over to him. Andrews looked at the chock. He didn’t want it and he doubted his cyes when he suw the smount upon it. Ho didn't suppose that Kockefellor had any- thing like this amount at his command, and he didu't know that Rockefeller hud just been scheming to get him angry and into Just this kind of a fix, Roockefeller thought he could doso, and he got his money, I am told, from Vanderbilt and had it lying in one of the Cloveland banks ready for the occasion. Andrews was ashamed not to take the check and he aocopted it. o worried himself almost to death investing the money, and ho put about half of it iuto_government fours, while a large part of tho balunce went into the building of his big house in Clove- land." Oliver H. Payne Worth 890,000,000, ““Who is the brainiest man in the Standard 0il company 1 1 asked. “T'hat is hard tosay,” laughed Mr, Carron. “One of the biggest, broaaest and shrowdest is Oliver H. Payne. He is s great organizer #ud he has wonderful inancial talent. He is worth, I venture, as much if not more than Rockefeller, and I understand that his assels amount to nearly $90,000,000. Heis o very quiet fellow and he makes no fuss about anything. He was iu college with William C. \\'hh.no{. and Whitoney, I think, cume home with him to Cievelsnd during one of his vacations and there fell m love with his sister aud married her. Oliver H. Payue is a great man, and he is great enough not to make a splurge about it. He seems to have no ambition in a political way, and the probability is if he lives much longer he may come the richest man in the United Stutes.” FRANK G. CARPENTER, ——— Tho pearl is ouly varbonate of liffie, but that doesn't lessen its value to the girl who has just gotone in a modest, bub wWost sig- b, Gugagement ring, THE _OMAHA DAILY B NEVADA'S BRILLIANT FUTURE A New Plant at Salt Lake Will Almost An- nihilate Gopper Ore Freights. WAKING HER COPPER MINES VALUABLE Rival Towns Aftor the Plant—The Ana- eonda for —Possible Combinations— Why Ne 's Copper Mines Ha: Lain Dormant. Saur Lake Crry, Aug. 4.—[Speoial corre- spondent of Tae Bre.]— Poor,” despised Nevada is in a fair way to surprise every- body by her quick racovery from the effects of the slump in the price of silver and the depression incident to that branch of the industry. Although known pro-eminenutly a8 a silver state tne gold yield 1s bound to assume astonishing proportions even for the current year. But it is in the output of con- per that the most remarkable showing will be made. Montana will have to look to her laurels, for the so-called Sagebrush state will crowd closely for the rank the former now defends 80 notably. It is rather odd that the syndicate that is building the big coppor plant in this olty should have made its first purchase of cop- per mines in Nevada, That is & fact, how- ever. Forall that the projectors of this great enterprise have been quoted as de- claring that good copper tios are plen- Uful 1h Utah and Jn the territory immedi- ately tributary to Salt Lake City, it is known that they have boen unableto pick up good propositions of that character. The Copper company has had some of the most ablo exverts out on the hunt for copper mines or flattering pros cts, for months. Of tha latter ol umber of claims have boen secured in the “Big Injun" district of southern Utah. That section was described recently in Tix Bes. But real mines tho ox- perts could mnot get hold of. Proper- tios that were offered: for sale either were not_sufficiently developed to immedi- atoly enter the shipping list or conveniently handy to a railroad to justify shipments on the score of economical handling. That the copper syndicato should have made a beginning 1m Novada is significant as well as strango. The company was organ- ized and incorporated in Colorado. It was a close corporation, composed almost entirely of capitalists and operators who huve hitherto conflned themselves to mining in tho Centonnial state. A chnnge has beon made since the company started. Even now it is known to few that an alliance has been formed with a Montana outfit, which is one of the strongest rivals of the great Ana- conda company. The Parrot company of Butte, which has joined forces with Posey & Green, projectors of the copper retinery here, is controlled by the Farrell family of Con' nocticut. Franklin Farrell, president of the Parrot, is big brass founder of the Nutmog state and largely intorested.in the manufac- ture of copper. After Parrot Oapital. Great Falls and other ambitious cities of Montana, as well as Pocatello, Idaho, have been_pulling all the strings they could and the best they knew how to get the Parrot company to locate at one of these places. This competition was _excited, first the rumor and then the gen- eral impression, which has _developed into a oconviction, that either the big works would be moved from Butte, else the company would branch out and establish another plant at some other point. 1t looks now as though the boards of trade, chambers of commerce and citizens' committees of these expectant and hopeful cities would be disappointed if not fooled. Salt Lake City, which expected nothing, is to fits from the investment of the Parrot cafn.nl and the backing of that company. The Butte papers, which have stoutly maintained that there would be no diminu- tion in the lco}m of the company at that point und that future overations would be presented on a scalo as great as in the past, may be surprised later on. Hints have been dropped that the Anaconda company would buy out the Parrot and Moscow mines, and the extensive works of the company operat- ing them. Theories or rumors of this sort may be more than suppositions. he Auaconda company has been trying to create as big a monopoly as possible in the copper production of that section. An Option on Anaconda. It is an open secret here thata French syndicate of immense capital has an option on the Anaconda property and isready,when certain conditions are fulfilled, to buy out the whole thing—mines at Butte, works at Anaconda, railroad constructing between the two places and the townsite of Ana- conda. The only bar to a successful issue of negotiations is said to be the failure of Marcus Daly to locate the permanent capital of Montana at Anaconda. People have won- dered why there should be so great rivalry on the part of Anaconda to prevent Helena from being made the permanent seat of the state government since it has for so long been the temporary capital. The desire of the Frenchmen to own the capital site is assigned as the cause. In Butte, where the mines of the Ana- conda company arc located, there is no plant at which the ovtput can be treated, the com- pany’s works being at Anaconda. The water supply at the latter place is limited and op- erations thereby seriously mterfered with. To such an extent has the company been hampered that there has been talk of mov- ing the works nway to some other Montana point. By some it is believed that one ob- Jeet in building the new railroad from Butte and thence on beyond Anaconda, as planned, is to establish a new town, where the cop per ores can be treated. To carry out auy such project as that requires time, and even to a rich combination tike J. B, Haggm, Lloyd Tevis and Marcus Daly it is not an eany matier in theso times to vaise money for railroad construction. The Parrot Works, The Parrot company has reduction works in the valley immediately below its mines, which are very complete. It would be easier to0 enlarge this plant than to build others, Iiven now large quantities of ore are bought from other mines, for although the output of the Parrot and Moscow mines is great, the capacity of the works is groater. The cop. per mutter turned out is of unusual fineness, averaging 98¢ percent pure metal. The base bullion 18 shipped to Bridgeport, Conn,, where it is mude up into copper sheets and wire. 1f the Anaconda should buy outthe Par- rot, the Farrels, would have to find some other producer to supply them with raw material for their eastern factories. Just at present tho Parrots’ profits are not nearly 50 great as they were prior to the fall in the price of silver. While the output of the plant has boen upwards of 250,000 pounds of copper a mouth, the corresponding silver output has been nearly 100,000 ounces of silver. Ore from the company's mines carries higher values in the white metal than those of the Anacovda, Therefore it would pay better to work the latter's output and take things easy on the Parrot und Moscow until silver's status was fixed. S. M Green, president of the Salt Lake City Copper company, holds a similar posi- tion in the works at Durango, Colo. The copper output there has been whittled down 10 next to nothing because, in Colorado, cop- per ocours in comjunction with silver in & more marked degree than in Montana, O. P. Posey, associated with Green in both the Durango and Salv Lake City works, is, next to “Dave" Moffatt, the most extensive mine operator in Colorado as well us one of the shrewdest. His associates are all farsighted men and Posey at least anticipated just what has happened. He looked for a fall in silver and argued that with the closing of so many miues in Colorado and smelting opera- tions curtailed, there would be a big falling off in copper production. ‘The price is bound to rise within a few months, When it does go up the Salt Lake City plant will be turning out refined copper. 1f the Farrels part with.their interest in the Parrot company they can get all the copper they want from the works hare. A dirong Combinstion, These are some of the reasons, probably, that brought about an ailiunce between the Co orado ani Montana men, It is certainly @ very strong combination now, but in the Lozinning Green, Posey Otto 'Mears, pro- vrietor und builder of the Rio Grande South- crn railway and other rail and woll roads EE: among the clouds in Calaeado, stood alone so ! far as capital was con. od. A shrewd young Yankee established and sot in successful ope¥ition a remarkably- economical electrolytia process for the Bosy ton & Montana company. at Great Falls, by which copper is refiied. This compane isn't exactly 8 rival of the Anaconda, sinc - both are presumed to be in the copper comd bine manipulated in France. The upper an o wrnu at Meaderville and near But te have practically been abandoned by thg Boston & Montana, the outbut of its minog being handled at Groat Falls. There wa talk of tho Anaconda company going ther® too, some time ago, bwt nothing has yet materinlized 1o Indicate that there was any basis for such rumors. It looks as if the Montana cupper busiftess was to become a trust in more sense than one. The only other factors not provided for are the Butte & Boston company and Clark brothers’ in- torests. W. A. Clark, & demoerat, whom Daly prevented from being elected United States senator by a legislature of the same Iml(timl faith as Clark and himself, is cred- tod with avintent to remove from Mon- tana. His most exiensive copper interosts are now in Arizona. How the Clarks and the Butte & Boston will operate aro matters which have not yet come to the surface. ‘This summer the Butte & Boston has had men examining and reporting on undevel- oped copper properties acquired in Utah, That may be suggestive of an alliance of that company with the Salt Lake City com- pany. A Possible Triumvirate. Little by little it has gradually dawned on minfag men that the attempt is to be made to corral the copper production of the inter- mountain country by two, or possibly three, Rigantic combinations, which will concede territory to one another, but in all other re- spects are to be rivals. Montana and the northwest is to be manipulated under the genoralship of Marcus Daly; O. P. Posey is the Napoleon of the central belt, which in- cludes Llnho. Utah, Neyada and Colorado. Early in the spring San Francisco papors had a ot to say about the plans of William Selover and a syndicate that proposed to e: tablish a copper refinery near the Gold Gate to control the business of the Pacific const and Arizona. Nothing tangible has as yet been seen or heard that such a program would be carried out. Great confidence was expressed in the Selover syndicate when its lans were broached for the reason that it d beon successful in starting and running reduction works at Portland, Ore. When times liven up more may be heard of the San Francisco project. Work progresses with due diligence on the plant here. It will be ready for business be- fore many months. The enlarged use of copper, which is constantly increasing owing to its utility and demand in connec- tion with electrical applianoces, inclines to the belief that a larger production of that metal will be encouraged. Last year it was necessary for the Anaconda and other big companies to close down at intervals to pro- vent too large stocks from acoumulating. Suspension of work this summer in so many silver mines in which copper was a product will hardly balance supply and demand for 1803. The old producers will either get higher prices for copper this season else the development of other properties will be stimulated. Doubtless copper will be higher. That and the prospect of a shortage in the aver- age yield, or what will meet the require- we do not quick. intend re-ordering. THE END OF ENDS. Our new building is promised for next month, and before moving we shall close out every remnant and piece that Ends of Matting. Ends of Brussels. Ends of Ingrains. The prices will be fixed Monday and they will be low enough to make them go Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co., Douglas, Between 14th and 15th, ments, will encourage dctivity in new flelds or those hitherto neglected. This will be Novada's opportunity. Why Copper Was Backward. The state is rich in copper. No attention has been paid to vhis matallic resource for and sufficient cause. Two considera- tions militated to detdr capital from invest- ment in copper claims in Nevada—la~k of railway communication and consequent ex- orbitant transportation churges by freight teams and rail to remeéte ‘points where ores could be handled. The new plant here anni- hilates distance. to a certain extent. The Stallman process, which s to be used in the works in Salt Lake City, by which copper can be ‘‘thrown down’ ina comparatively short time at an economy of cost,is a perfect Godsend to the owners of copper properties in Nevada as well as [daho. Good copper mines-are harder to find than thoso that yield the precious metals. There must be a big ‘deposit of mineral to make a copper proposition protitable. As a rule, it is quanllty not quality or high percentage of the metal that pays for working. A pop- ular fallacy ascribes to the Lake Superior region and Covper Canon, Arizona, the credit of having the only mines in this coun- try where native copper occurs. Within ten miles of the line of the Southern Pacific railrond in Lander county, Nevada, are de- posits from which thousands of pounds of vure metul have been extracted. There are numerous other promising copper dis. tricts in the United States. Fortu- nately some of them are too far from the only railroad in the state to warrant shipments of ore. Others are near-enough to pay for hauling to points along tho line of the road. A demand for copper, such as is anticipated, will most likely tend to interest capital to the extent of investing in water jacket, furnaces and comparatively mexpen- sive plants to treat the output at the mines. Then 1t would prove profitublo by shipping tho matter to Salt Lake City. This would open up a new industry in Nevada that would give employment to many of the idle miners, create a home markot for the products of the ranch and range and help out the peoplo of the stato mightily. As before stated, the Salt Lake City Cop- per company has selocted a group of Nevada miues as the most promising of any that could be found in all this region for hundrods of miles around. Work has just been started on the propertios, and they ‘will be put in shape 80 that large quantities of ore can be extracted when the new plant is about ready 0 Btart up. Locatlon of the Mines. These mines are located in the Portos dis- trict 1n Elko county, on the Salmon river, They are about forty miles northwest from Toano, a station on the Southern Pacific railroad, 170 miles west of the junction of the Southern and Union Pacific” railroads, William Hanks, who located the claims and developed them into mines, was an_old-time Comstocker. He was a good miner and willing to back his judgment with such money as he had at his command. When he died scveral years ago his widow, left with a number of children, was anxious to go to some place where she could educate them. To carry out that plao it was neces- sary to sell the mines. The price set on tnom was somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000. It wasn't easy to flnd & customer, W. B. Lawler, one of the best known miners of White Pine county, had so much faith in the properties that he agreed vo take an interest on condition ~ that Poey went in, The latter's expert reported so favorably that a bargain was made. After the papers were siguod, and during tho closing days of July, Posey himself won ' out with a party which included Luwler, President Farrol of the Parrot company, and Supermtendent *‘Ben” ‘lbbey of thul company, who is one of the best miners in Mentana. A plan of action was arranged on that trip and a start made. Posey’s agents are paying a great deal of attention to Nevads those days. Other sales may be expected. When capi- tulists get over their fright they are likely to invest. All these things encourage claim owners to develop their properties, especiall those who would otherwise be unemployed. AdEORGE K. CaNs, No Anti-Pyrine in Bromb-Seltzer. Cures all headaches—trial bottle 10 ots, i A LESSON LEARNED, — 0 w’u‘h(vww‘v[ s;w. 8ald ho, “This is my Biisy day, Lo work 1 will contiba) My offorts; 5o I'll here display ilut handy 1eelo sign. And by and by the ldlors came And smilod und sat thom down 6 talk ubout the base ball game And all the nows of town, Since thon when labors him (nclino To drive the world uwiy Within the safo he locks that sign, “This 18 my busy duny." S Busy peop.e have no wume, and sens ble people have no inclination to use pills that make them sick a day for every dose they take. 'l‘\mr have learned that the use of De Witt's Little Early Risors does not in- terfere with their healih by causing nauses pain or griping. These little pills ure per, fect iv action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels so that headaches, diz- ziness and lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the blood, clear tho conplesion aul oue up the systear Lots ol baalta ia shoass lutlefellows. ATRU Home NIZE B¥ purchasing goods made at the following Nebraska a ctori es. If you cannot find what you want, communicate with the manufacturers as to what dealers handle their goods. —_—e——— AWNINGS., | FURNITURE. Omaha Tent-Awning | Chas. Shiverick & Co COMPANY, Flags, hammooks, oll Furniture, earpets and and rubber clothing. | draperies. Fend for eatalogue. 1113 Faroam st. 1208 Farnam st. BREWERS. Fred Wl(g:ygh x!!:ewlng Omaha Brewing Assn Our bottled Cabinet | Guarasteed te equal beer delivered 10 any | outsidobronds. Visana part of the elty. 17 |expors bottled beer de- Jeekson sa Uvered to fanmilies IRON WORKS. Paxton & Vierling | Industrial Iron Works. 1BON WORKS. Manufaoturing and re- Wrought and cast tron | pairing of ail kinds of wullding work, eagiass, | machinery. 1eeh brass work, stn & Telayhons 144, | e FLOUR. S. F. Gilman. Omaha Milling Co, 1013-15-17 N. 16th st. Office and Mill, C. B. Slack, Manager. 1818 N. 16th ss. PRINTING. I SOAP. Reed Job Prlnflng| Paga Soap Co. COMPANY, Manufacturers of Unies Beo Bullding. | soap. 115 Hickory st | WHITE LEAD, Carter W hifeLead Co um 8ir ity pare riotly pure Bast Omake THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Mamma—Now, Johnny, tell me the truth, You have been eating too much of something on the sly. What was it? Johnny (suffering horribly from indiges- tion)—Haven't been eating anything, mamma. “Don’t try to deceive me, dear. What have you been eating?” “Nothing, mamma, honest. I—I drank a bowl of milk that was in the pantry. That was all.” - *That bowl of wmilk? Why, Johnny, there was nearly a quart of it, Are you sure it wasn't sour?” Yes'm. [t was—boo-hoo!—it was all right when—when I swallered it!" " A gentleman living it Macon, Ga., 18 train- ing his children to exert their imaginative powers and roquires each child to “make up” a story and relate it every Saturday. Recently his youngest boy told ‘the follow- ing: “Onco there was a little boy and he made him the biggest kite anyboay ever snw, and it went higher and higher tll all the 'string was out, then it was gone from sight; the little boy'was so scared ho did nou know what_to do. He was looking for the kite, when he heard a great, deep voice from heaven saying: ‘Littio boy; oh, little boy, if_you don't take your old kite down from bothering my stars I'll take it and throw it in the horso lot,’ . ' One of the profossors at Harvard has a little boy named Christopher. The sayings and doings of the son haved passed into col- lefe history. One day the professor was lying on his sofa after a hard day’s work in philosophy, and while in a state of uncon- scious cerebration suddenly caught sight of Christopher on the door. The professor gazod ot tho boy In deop silence. Then he sald: “What would you do, Christopher, in case your father should die?” Christopher thought for s moment. Then he lifted his eyes. *Oh, don't worry, father, there's time onough to' think about’ that when you'ra dead.” . \“That's & 'pretty big buckweat cake for a boy of your size,” said paps at breakfast to Jimmie boy. “It looks big,” said Jimmie boy, ‘‘but really itisn't. Iv's got lots u.{ porouses in it,” . “gorge washington,” "sald Tommy. in the course of s regular Friday *‘composition,” *‘was & mun who, if he pointed a guu at'a man and told the man it wasn't loaded, the man would not got bit scared.” you had a gdod time this summer, roplied the young man, Do you miss your school " “Not much. Bub 1 guess mother doos.” Little Dov—1 don't sée how cows can eat russ. 8% Atklo Dick—I s'pose when thoy is young the mother cows keep sayin' to their chil- drens, “If you don't eat grass you shan't have any pie.” IMFIELLES. A young lady organist in a church in Col- orado was somewhat captivated with the young pastor of a church 1o the next street, and was aelighted to hear one week that by an exchange he was to preach the uext Sun- day in her own church. The organ was pumped by an obstroperous old sexton, who would often swr when he thought the organ voluntary had lasted long euoagii. This day the ur)‘nulnl was anxious that all should go well and as the service was about to begin she wrote i note intended solely for the sexton's eye. He took ivand in spite of her agonized beckonings carried it straight to the Wiat was that gentleman's as- ent when he resa: blige me this worning by blowing away il I give you the b[!ll:ll o stop.” — The Christian Advocate tells this story: VAL the Americau chayel ab Luwrue @ Protestant Episcopal minister from this country (Low church) read the lessons with such naturalness of manner and propriety of emphasis as to elicit the admiration of & vis- 1tor, who afterward romarked, ‘How delight- ful 'to hear the scriptures read with such sonso and feeling? She was surprised to hear the sister of a (High church) rector, American also, exclaim, ‘I can’t agree with you. Tthink itamost blasphemous for a man by such stress and omphasis to im his own_interprotation on the word of God. The scriptures should bo read in mono- A . Rev. Mr. S— is pastor of a congrogation in the Midlands, says a London paper. Some of his hearers are the richest people in town, but not celebrated for generosity in support- ing the church. The good preacher has been trying to got the poor people to come to his church, and recently through the col- umns of the local papers extended to them a cordial invitation to attend. At the close of the service lately he said: “Brothren, I have tried to reach the poor of our town and induce thew to come to our church. I iufer from the amount of the collection just taken ~15 shillings—that !h.ny have come.” Usher—I am sorry,” sir, but T shall have to seal you near the back row. Gallopin’ Jack (with his eye on the choir gallery)—Look here! I'm willin’ to whack up fur the best you'vo got. Is the grand stand all sold? . o~ The daughter of a country rector taught the cholr boys n new tune at & Monday eve- ning’s practice, to bo sung the following Sunday. Sunday morning came. ‘‘Well, Johnny,” said Miss X, “I hope you haven't Torgotten the new tune, for we dopend much on you.” “Naw, mum, not a bit. Why, I've been a-skoerin’ the crows with it all woek.” “What made you thilk the collection was taken up to get the minister & new suit?” ““Becauso so many of the congregation put in buttons. —— CONNUBLIALITIES, Aristotle fixed the proper ages for ma riage at 87 for the man, 18 for the woman, Plato made the ages 80 and 20, The Oklahoma divorce courts “are sdomng a phenomenally heavy business. Oklahoma is upparently trying to demonstrate that she is as well qualified for statebood as South Dakota. ‘The supreme court of Georgia has decided that if a husband discovers bis wife's lover in his house, and attempts to kill him, the intruder is warranted in taking the wronged man's life. “Who giveth this woman away?” inquired the clergyman. “No one,” rejoined the groom as there flashed upon'him a recolleo- tion of the allowance he haa settled upon his bride's paren If the men were called upon to keep all the promises that they make to young women fore marrisge, cases of complete bank- ruptey would be even more frequent than vhey are now. She—It 1s true that Miss Richleigh has money, but she is also very exacting. If you marry her you will huve to give up smoking and drinking. He—If I don't marry her I shall have o give up eating. *¥ou wouldn't be base cuough to mu girl for money, would you, Charlie?” “No, indeed, Minnie; but I would not be mean enoughl to condemn a girl to a single life if [ could prevent it, simply because she was weaithy." Rev. M. M. Vancleave, pastor of the Bap- uist ehurch at Crawfordsville, Ind., has the enviable ministerial record of having ried 760 couples. This venerable clergyman has preached the gospel for nearly eighty years, and the good, old-fashioned ceremony with which he ties a nuptial knot neatly and with dispatch makes the ordeal & pleas- ure even % the most bashful swain. Hayden Edwards, the United States con- sul general at Berlin, is said to have fallen heir to an estute valued at several millions, aud is about to marry a Germau lady of title. Kdwards Las been fortunale over siuee be first went to Washington, a poor country boy from the prairies of the west, and when he went to Berlin his friends predicted thay he would come back with a baroness on his arm and a baronial estate 1 prospect. He seems to have fulfilled their predictions. Bishop H. M. Turner of the African Meth- odist Episcopal church of Atlanta, Ga., was 1ast week married 1o Martha E. Do Witt of Bristol, Pa. Bishop T'urner is looked upon 88 one of the ablest colored preachers in the United States, and has recently returnsd from his third official visit to Africa. He and his bride, who, by the way is a native of Georgia and is his second wite, journeyed all the way to Xenia, O., that thoy might be married by Bishop Payne, who is the oldest bishop of their church. Gotting married in England, to people who are not able to buy a license, is a very em- barrassing matter. A license is oxpensive, while s marriage by banns costs only a fow shillings, 80 _most prefer the banns. You have to be cried three timoes on three sopar- ate Sundays, and if a follow happens to make a mistake and go to church on the Sunday when his banns are cried he finds the procli- mation of his matrimonial intentions to bo very embarrassing, for of course he is un- mercifully grinned at by the rest of the audience.” Couples having their banns cried usually stay away from the morning_service or provail ‘on the clergyman to procl.im the banns at an afternoon or evening service when fow are present. Very often, how- over, the parson refuses to o’ this, arguing that as the bauns are dosigned to give publicity to the occasion the most publia time of proolamation should be chosen, so the afilicted man and his unfortunate com- panion that is to be are forced to bear the gibes of their acqualutances for at least three weeks, e DHero is the war cry in Arizona: “‘Study the anatomy of the gold bug and lay your blows into his weakest point. The more you sniffle the tighter the hands of the devilfish grip. No compromise; up and at them; war to the knifo hilt; silver men nover sur- rendor; give them h—1 and comwenco at home.” A Full SET $ 5 OF TEETH oW oo naorsd uA T e day, antood. Dr.R.W.Baley Brd Floor, Paxton Blook m Stroot. “Telephone 1045 WITH YO U NewYork Hospital TREATMENT. 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