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TALKS ABOUT BLACK HILLS
Btory of Progresi is Told by a Prominent
Mining Mm from Petdvrood.
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN .MINING CIRCLES
C; i it I il- I'riMM'NN Huh Clinic Into Uen
crul I'arnr mill I'roiiilKei. to .Miil.u
flu Cotmtrj' Itlciier l.mv tJriulc
Ore Cnu Hi Mined lit n l'rollt.
"MlnltiR conditions In the Black Hills
woro never in a moro flourishing condition
tlinn they nro today," said John It. Wilson,
on attorney and mining man nt Deadwood,
who Is passing through tho city enrouto to
his home from n business trli to Chicago
und Minneapolis.
"Tho various mining districts In that sec
tion have, had a steady growth during the
last year. New capital has been produced
nnd property that has been Idlo for years
haB been developed. In nearly every In
Ktanco the development has been moro than
satisfactory. Tho cyonldo process of treat
In!; ores Is coming Into very general use In
the Dlack Hills and It Is going to mal:e the
country richer than It ever bus been.
"Tho existence of vnst bodies of ore that
ft 111 run from $5 to f 10 per ton In gold has
long been a mattcr'of common knowledge,
but tho owners of such properties consid
ered that their possessions were of llttlo
W.PIERCE'5
Favorite
Prescription
" I am so irratcful to you for vour ad'
vice," says Mrs. Sidney II. Oakcs, of
Whitmcll, Pittsylvania Co., Vn. " When
I cotnnrcncetl your medicines I had been
treated by different doctors for three
mouths or more, but would only receive
partial relief for a short while nnd than
would be worse than before. Was con
fined to my bed most of the time. At
the time 1 commenced your treatment
my left side was completely paralyzed.
Had no desire to eat anything; bowels
costive .all the time. Nerves were all
unstrung, so I could not bear the least
noise. I also sufTcred from diseased
ovaries and female weakness. Hut thanks
to my .Maker and you, after following
yoiir advice, I am able to do all uy wash
ing, sewing and house work in general.
I liaven't had a spasm in two months.
Left off medicines about one month
ago. Didn't think it necessary to con
tinue them longer. I have taken about
seven bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, seven of the 'Golden
Medical Discovery,' and two vials of
'Pleasant Pellets.' I heartily recommend
those medicines to all suffering as I was."
makes
weak women
STRONG,
sick women
WELL.
valuo because the oro could not be mined
and treated by tho then existing processes
ot a profit. SInco tho Introduction ot tho
cyanldo process, however, it has been found
that oro of such value will yield handsomely
to tho owners and many cyanldo plants are
being built.
Illlllll-Ktlllil In lllllllllllK.
"I.ven the Hoinostako company at Lead,
which employs stamp mills to separate the
gold from Its ore, Is building a big cyanldo
plant to extract whatever gold escapes with
tho tnllings through the mills. I look for
n great Impetus to bo given the mining In
terests of the Illnck Hills by reason ot thu
discovery of tho practicability ot using the
cyanldo process on low grade ores. Then
Is no question but that tho beneficial ro
eultR to a country arc greater whero low
grade ore Is mined than where tho ore
runs hundreds of dollars per ton. For In
stance, a man may own a mine from which
100 tons of oro will yield him $10,000. Such
a mine can bo worked by n very few men.
Take on the other hand n mine from which
1,000 tons of ore must be taken In order for
tho owner to rcnlizr a llke,nmount. It is
obvious that tho greater number of men
necessarily employed In tho mtlSlng ot ths
lnrger quantity Is the more to bo desired.
The pay they receive for their labor places
moro mcnoy in circulation.
"The roost of the hew capital that Is
being Invested In tho Black Hills comes
from Colorado. A Denver syndlcnto has se
cured a bond upon n largo nmount of prop
erty adjoining tho Homestake nnd proposes
to work It on nn extensive scale. One or
the first things will be the sinking of n
shaft 1,000 feet deep. The famous Jrhn
Pierce deal has also como tf light again.
A mining syndicate In Colorado Springs
has secured a bond upon some ot the
richest property In the Dlack Hills, All
of tho claims have boen worked and ore
has been taken from all of tbem that
reaches almost fabulous values. The prop
erty Is admirably located, being on th
outskirts of Lead, on what is designated
"South Lead Hill." Tho Colorado Springs
peoplo expect to Interest capital In this
property nnd It Is likely that tho mlnea
will bq worked for all they aro worth.
"This Pierce deal Is a matter of recent
history In tho Alack Hills. John Plerco
Becurod a bond upon this property which
I have mentioned nnd attempted to dlsposu
ot It to an English syndicate. Tho Eng
lishmen were well Impressed and pleased
with the outlook, but Pierce held the price
up too high and tho deal fell through. It
It had been closed Plerco and two or three
well known Bluck Hills men who wero
close to him would have been mado Im
mensely wealthy."
Mr, Wilson went to Minneapolis for the
purpose of closing a deal by which Minneap
olis capitalists will gain control ot the
Gilt Hdgo and Dakota Maid mines In Straw
berry gulch, "Both of these mines," sold
Mr. Wilson, "have been worked for many
years and ,aro very valuable properties.
We will consolidate them, put up a syanlde
plant and expect to work tho property on a
very extensive scnlo."
THESE FIGURES ARE PROOF
QUEER LETTERS REACH CROW
Psnneylrtnia Erangiliit IndeaTors to Make
Postmaster Matrimonial Agent.
ltevlctv if Jlnnlc ClriirliiKN Slum
tlilit Oiiiiilin I a rriM-
lKTOIIk,
Tho general prosperity of Omaha and the
Increased activity In local business circles
Is apparent In the clearing houso report
for tho past week, -tho average dally In
crease being over IHt.OWl
' The bank clearings for tho past week and
the corresponding week last year were:
1901 190.). Increase.
Monday ..il.SS.OJS tloi.9H .$123.02
Tmdny l.i:i2l 931. "IW 19J 12
Wti)ni't.day .... 1. Ill .'A3 A3,XS0 -67 70S
Th irsduy l.J.i:i 937,691 15J.4SO
Vrlday l.Ott.MO 1,(11.K3 91 r.M
Saturday 1,026X0 &W.6M 15,720
Totals ,720,i?J I5,$,m t67,37S
AFTER TEN-THOUSAND-DOLLAR WIP0W
I.itlr Hint Smeil to Curry Dentil
ullli It Wniiirii 'Who AuriTtur
A ill tIImciiiciiI f I'rnmlii
lent J 11 IT Cure.
Postmaster Crow has long been an In
formation bureau, but ho declines to be
come a matrimonial agency. He retuses to
play John Aldcn to the Miles Standlsh ot a
Pennsylvania healer. Uvangellst Walker,
whoso official title Is "One of tho Wonders
of tho World In Metaphysical Healing," de
sires to marry $10,000, A clipping In an
eastern paper concerning $10,000 which J.
W. Myers was supposed to have left to
Mrs. Emma Carglll of Omaha catne to tho
attention of Walker and prompted him to
send a letter to Postmaster Crpw. Walker
wrote from his home at Milan, Pa., and
used stationery which exploited In con
spicuous red letters his ability as a healer.
Ho enclosed (without postage) nn unsealed
letter that was to bo handed to the woman
who was reported to have fallen heir to
the money.
"If you don't happen to know tho laldlo
I refer to ploa30 ndvcrtlso ma among your
other laldlcs," was Walker's modest re
quest. Ilia message to Mr?. Carglll was as fol
lows: Dear Sister: As I read this article I
took you to bo 11 widow. If you nro not
Iiiearu excuse me. 1 ueg pardon or you
and your husband. If you nru 11 widow
nnd don't wish to llvo alone and would
like to marcy a good Christian man with
no uau iiatins una a gooa tram una witn
name property. I would bt glad to talk to
you through the malls. You will seo tho
business that I nm In. I represent a
science that lieajs tho soul ns well ns saves
tho sinner. 1 know what I nm talking
anoui, 1 nm proving my worus uy my
works. The blblo says. "Ask und ye tdiall
receive; ask anything In my name and It
win oe given." Tno tunic says: "it is not
well for man to )o alone." 1 Bupposo that
It Is his fault that so many of them Is
living alone 1 wish It was the custom for
women to propose Them would bo moro
mnreylng for women Is more prompt and
moro capable of proposing. 1 am & yearn
old. 6 feet 10 Inches tail, weigh 150 pounds
and am tho picture of health, Yours.
KVANOIJL1ST WALKER.
Letter iiM 11 Hoodoo,
Postal authorities nro not particularly
superstitious, but a letter passed through
tho hands of tho employes of the Omaha
olllco a few weeks ago which certainly woi
hoodooed. Tho fatal letter was written by
Prof. a. C. Knopfel. He was nn eccentric
German musician who was qulto well known
In local musical circles nnd was at ono tlnio
organist In Henry Ward Bcecher's Brooklyn
church. Late In January the old man died
undor unusual clrcumstnnces nt "OS South
Eighteenth street.
Ho carao homo one night when It was
sifowlng hard, and, whllo trying to unlock
the front door, sllppod from the front porch
nnd fell to the ground several feet below.
The- fall stunned, the man and bo lay there
all night. In the morning a faithful St.
Bernard dog found him lying under a heavy
coating of snow Life was almost extinct
nnd tho talented old German died a few
hours later.
But to return to the letter.. It was
written a few days before tho old man died
and sent to a brother, J. H. Knopfel, who
lived In Los Angeles. Although the musician
was in straitened circumstances and
earned a llvlne with difficulty, be enclosed
a $1 bill In the letter for the Lcs
Angeles brother, who woo even moro un
fortunate. Dut tbat dollar never readied
tho needy man. Ho died while the letter
was In transit. In two weeks tho letter
was returned to Omaha, but It was Im
possible to place It In tho hands ot the
generous-hearted old German. He had gono
to his reward a few days before. A friend
Informed the postal authorities that tho
dead man had n brother somewhere In Iowa,
but they sent the letter to Washington
without making any effort to find another
member of tho family.
"That Iowa Knopfel's life Is worth
moro than a dollar to him nnd tho letter
would surely be his death sentence," re
marked ono of tho postal clerks, as be
started the fatal missive on Its way to the
dead letter office.
After Secret Jiiht "Cure.
A woman In a certain city not far from
Omaha Is advertising a drink euro which
may bo given to patients without their
knowledge and Is guaranteed to banish all
desire for alcohol. Investigation on the
part of the postal authorities proved that
tho woman's remedy Is a fraud and all re
mittances sent to her aro returned to the
offlcos from which they wero mailed. Per
sons who have tent money to the tem
perance promoter are then notified. Cards
requesting patrons of tho office to cull and
identify letters do not bint that letters
wero sent In answer to a fraudulent ad
vertisement. It is a surprised lot ot
women who call at tho Omaha office and
discover that they bavo been buncoed.
Nono of tho women was getting tho remedy
for members of her own family.
"It was a neighbor," a well dressed
woman -remarked blushlngly, as her re
mittance was handed to her yesterday.
"Her husband Is n terrible drunkard and I
feel so sorry for her that I determined to
get tho cure."'
Another woman was getting the cure for
her coachman and a third woman wns bent
on freeing her washerwoman's husband of
tho rum habit.
Money AVItliout Owner.
The postal authorities bavo $5 and a very
plcturesquo letter which Y. Mania tried to
send to T. Smayawa. At tho tlmo tho letter
was mailed In December the writer was In
Kcmmcror, Wyo., nnd Smnyawa was sup
posed to bo In Itock Springs, Wyo.
Tho Bock Springs postmaster could not
locate the man to whom tho letter was ad
dressed and It was sent back to Kemmerer.
Tho writer was unknowu to Kemmerer
people, so tho missive found Its way Into tho
dead letter office with an explanation to
the effect that tho men wero probably
among the Japanese laborers who wero em
ployed by the Union Pacific railroad.
Trom tho dead .letter offlco tho queer
Japanese letter was mailed to Postmaster
Crow with the request that he consult tho
officials of tho Union Pacific In tho hope of
locating tho man to whom It was ad
dressed,
Such Is the care exercised by Uncle Sara
In delivering all matter which Is entrusted
to his mall carriers.
OMAHA PLAYERS TRIUMPH
Wlilnt Cluli VI11 Troiiliy lu State
AVlilNt Troiiriiumcitt nt
Lincoln.
Tho Omaha Whist club was represented
at tho third nnnuul state meet of the Ne
braska Whist association, held nt CJrand
Island Thursday anil Friday, by Messrs.
Hogers, Scrlbner. McNutt and liurness.
They wero successful In winning tho stnto
trophy, a loving cup presented by tho Com
mercial club of Lincoln in ISOS. for the
highest score In tho team of fours. Tho
teams represented In this contest and the
order of their finish were: Omulia, Aurora,
l.lncoln, lira ml Island and Greeley.
Tho pair contest resulted In u draw be
tween two nt Grand Island's pairs. Friday
evening the frcu-fur-all contest, with thir
teen tables In pluy, was 11 spirited nffulr
and resulted In Aiken und Ackerinan of
Lincoln winning out on tl.e North ami
South sldo by tho hnudsome score of lf7,
plU3 15. Itogers und Scrlbner of Omahn
wero tnira witn n score or puis 3. i'or
tho East and West side. Miller nnd I'rlnco
of Grand Island wero high with 177. plus
11, McNutt nnd Burness being a good sec
ond witn lib. plus :.
In tho election of officers for tho ensuing
year Charlie Itogcrs was honored with tho
vice presidency, and Mr. Durness was
elected as one of the directors.
"Wo had an elegant time nt Grand
Island," tmld Mr. Itogers In speaking of
tno tournament, .coining was too goou
for tho vtsltliiK whist nlavers. and the meet
ing was a great success. Of course, we aro
proua o: the snowing the umaha players
made, but it Is no moro than natural that
this city, the metropolis of tho state, should
excel In whist playing, as In everything
else. One of tho mont enjoyable Incidents
of tho meet wns tho banquet, which brought
1110 tournament to a ciot-e. upo association
ndopted a vote of thanks to the Grand
Island club for tho able manner In which
It entertained Its guests."
quieter tones. Both tho satin and sill:
finish aro worn and are In stylo, but the
former means an additional touch of clo
gauco and Is, perhaps, slightly moro smart.
The dainty costume, illustrated is mado of
tho material In a delicious sbado of violet
with figures of white, is trimmed with
panno velvet In n slightly deeper shade,
with tiny rhlnestono buttons, and includes
n full front and underslcevcs of whito
mousscllno with collar nnd stock of cream
clcny lace. With It Is worn a hat of white
straw with palest crush roses and violet
tulle, and white glaco kid gloves, but tho
design Is appropriate to many combinations
and to a variety of materials. Veiling,
barege, albatross, Loulslne silks, melroso
cloth and a host of similar fabrics arc
equally In style and could any one bo
substituted for the foulard with equal suc
cess. Tho foundation for tho waist Is a fitted
lining that closes ot tho center front. On
It aro arranged tho plain back and tho full
fronts. The full, soft front Is nttached
to the lining at the right side, being In
cluded In both shoulder and neck scams,
and Is hooked over onto the left side. The
fronts proper are finished with a big orna
mental rover collar extending to tho waist
with the popular vest effect, and close In
visible at tho center. Tho sleeves aro novel
and a feature. The upper portion Is plain
and fits smoothly, but tho lower edgo is
slashed to form straps, between which the
undersjecves are seen In soft, full puffs,
! Fashions for the Season
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Decorators,
PITTSBURG, Mnrch 16. Unless the con
tractors discharge all non-union paper
hangers and decorators at once there will
likely bo a general strike of tho allied
building trades In Pittsburg and Allegheny
on Monday. The paper hangers and frea
cocrs struck recently for an advance In
wages, and their places were filled by non
union men. Tho edict haB now gono forth
that no union men will be permitted to
work on any building or In any shop with
non-union workmen after today.. The trades
Interested are carpenters, plasterers, steam
and gas fitters, electricians, marblo work
ers, painters, tile setters nnd a'ructura!
iron workers.
3731 Fancy Wlat,
32 to 40 in. bust.
3747 Flvo-gored Skirt,
22 to 30 In. waist.
Fancy waist No. 3731, five-gored skirt
with circular plaited flounce No. 3747.
No material makeB a moro serviceable or
moro fashionable gown for spring and
sununer wear than foulard la one ot the
whllo tho extreme edgo Is finished with a
band of lace
I Tho skirt Is cut In flvo gores nnd fits with
perfect smoothness nt tho upper portion,
I tho fullness at tho back being laid In nn ln
I verted plait. Tho plaited llounco of slightly
1 circular shaping lengthens tho skirt and It
j is seame'd to tho lower edgo of tho sldo and
. back gores, tho straight front edgo being
Joined to that of tho front goro.
I To cut this garment for n woman of mo
diura sizo I3?i yards of material 21 or 24
Inches wide, or VA yards 44 Inches wide,
with "n yards of chiffon for full front and
underslceves, and yards of velvet to"
sailor collar and stock, will bo- required.
To cut tho waist alono 3i yards 21 or 21
Inches wide, or li yards 44 Inches wide,
will suffice; to cut the skirt nlono 10 yards
21 or 24 Inches wide, 0 yards 44 Inches wide,
or 4?i yards 50 Inches wide.
Tho waist pattern No. 3731 Is cut In sizes
for tt 32, 34, 36, 38 ami 40-Inch buBt measure.
Tho skirt pattern No. 3747 Is cut In sizes
for a 22, 24, 20, 28 nnd 30-Inch waist
measure.
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