Galena Weekly Lever from Galena, Kansas • 1

DtVOTED TO ALL NEW5 THAT 15 MINING NEWS NINO TO THE dALENA EMPIRE DISTRICT VOL I. NO. l. GALENA, KANSAS, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1900. FOUB PACKS PERSONAL POINTERS.

LOCAL NEWS STRIKE IN K. C. LONDON IS GLUM Reports Irdicate that Boers are Doing Well. in John Grant and Clyde Greene are in Joplin to-day. Mr.

and Mrs. Will Ash are guests of Carthage friends. Miss Laura Barbee has accepted a A NEW COMPANY It is Organized to Mine and Prospect for Gold. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE IN IT Builders Want an Increase Wages. Get a hospital concert ticket.

The new Marshall mill building on the Galena ground is enclosed. Concert tickets cost fifty cents and each one sold will buy fifty bricks for the new hospital Call any week day between four and five o'clock at the Lever office i situation as bookkeeper for the Galena HAFEKING NOT RELIEVED GREAT CONVENTION HALL Beatty Bros, at Stotts City. The Beatty Bros, of Empire City are building a tailing and sludge mill at Stotts City. They have secured exclusive and valuable privileges for such an enterprise and now have their plant nearly completed. The ore at Stotts City is of very high grade and the material is well adapted to sludge concentracting machinery.

Their plant is of the Emmons type and will have a capacity of about 200 tons daily. It is the first mill of the kind in Stotts City. J. R. Wnitney Dead.

The friends of Mr. Whitney in this city will regret to learn of his death. He was found dead in his room on Sunday morning at Garnett, Kansas. Col. W.

O. Parke of the Banks hotel ami see from 1500 to 9000 Lk re bottling works. Charlie Harrison of Carthage visited friends, Mr. and Mrs. J.

F. Evans, in Galena this morning. Joe Ehart and J. J. McAndrews of Vincennes, are taking in the Brabant and French have Joined Forces.

Offer Przes for Quick Work to a Contractor. printed in less than an hour. It Will Not Suffer on Account of the Strike. An old gentleman named Chambers living three-quarters of a mile south of I sights of the greatest mining camp on Fishy Story About Gold in Chei Lowell, died last night of smallpox. He will be buried by the township.

okee Nation in a Joplin Paper. Great Demonstration in Chicago in Honor of Admiral Dewey. Lynching: in Dale Price report the sale of the Regardless of the adverse report 0. G. Proudy property on Kellar st re- i to Tom Clark of Euclid avenue, who made by the Kansas City paper rela tive to the existence of gold being found will improve the property and occupy it.

earth. George M. Canterbury of Canterbury Brighton, Joplin, was in the city to-day accompanied by Mrs. Canterbury. County Attorney Stevens is down from Columbus and is getting ready for court which meets in this city on next Monday.

Charlie Campbell and Mrs. Canard i a ii. una lUUl 1111111 llUlRllli; 3U1HC T-. r. i no jiy Smpps-MeRae Press Association 1 tTTI Boers Active North of Kimberly London Discredits a Report From the Front.

By Pt -s Asoriation. London, May 1. A report has revived that Mafeking is to be relieved by I eohimn advancing south. Simultaneously comes a report of increased Boer activity north of Kimberly. Ac.

art tilery duel hM been going on several days between Boers and the British force at Warrenton. in this district the Galena Gold Mining inquiries aoout ivir. wnitney wnne in Kansas City, May workmen the city While here he made his connected with building trades went George Rogers was lined $50 by company was organized this morning comprising the following named gen Judge Cnllison yesterday for receiving home at the Banks hotel and repre- out on a strike to-day for higher i -iii rr i tlemen: Messrs. McDougall, McLel-land, Scott and Overmeyer of Denver, sentea ine jvansas mutual insurance wages. Work on the new convention Co.

and was interested in a mining hall is not affected. Etheridge Son, Smith Brothers, The strike was brought on bv the OI avenue lett tnis morning tor lease on the mdsor tract in Empire City. Riley Robertson and J. C. unlock of hod carriers, who were getting twenty- Oswego to attend the commencement five cents an hour and demanded exercises of the Oswego college.

Galena. General Overmever of the GETTING TOGETHER company is the present adjutant and quarter master general of Colorado, Lytle lease on the "Phebus" land was surveyed and staked off today into mining blocks 330 feet square and parties who have arranged to sink French and Brabant for Joining Mr. and Mrs. David Cullifer, who were married Saturday night, were tendered a delightful reception by thirty cents. Other workmen, notably the carpenters and bricklayers, have been demanding an increase, which in and one among the most prominent shafts are expected to commence work some instances has been granted.

The i their relatives and intimate friends mining men in that state. A contract was let for the sinking af an additional at once. Now comes the question as building trades stand very closely to- i last night at their home, corner Fifth hundred foot shaft on the Ritner to who will get the SoOO for the first gether and if the men now out do not and Short streets. ground, which will make five shafts the first five 5,000 pounds of lead or Greater Safety. Fiy Scripps-Mcllae Press Association.

Thaba N'Chu, May 1. Genera French is effecting a junction with General Brabant who moved south after the relict of Wepener. The Boers with three guns tired all day yesterday but their shells did small damage. LEAVES THE RESERVATION. get what they demand there will be a i general strike in sympathy with the THE HfKPITAI RFNFFIT tons of jack.

stolen property, George Britton being the complainant. Rogers appealed the district court. The preliminary hearing of "Pomp" Chester was concluded this morning before Justice Cullison, who bound the defendant over to the court of com -mon pleas in the sum of $10,000. Dr. L.

W. Clarke, an old citizen of Carthage and wealthy land owner had his right foot and ankle crushed while trying to board a moving train at Macey station Sunday morning. You should buy a ticket for the concert Friday night whether you go or not. The fact that it is for the hospital fund is reason enough why you need a ticket or two, or even a dozen. Frank Ellsworth of Wichita is in the city for several days and is stopping at the Century.

He represents the Massachussets Life Insurance and is meeting with some success in getting new business. Elmer Widener is bottling for the now in full operation. Each member of the company is sanguine of success in making Galena a gold producing jl iili mm i Wlniil lit point and in their enthusiasm each in dividual will make handsome dona THE ELECTRIC LINE A Viaduct Proposed for North ern Extension. Takes Place Friday ght at the Opera House. tions to the contractor to complete the present movement.

The convention hall is made an exceptional case by the union men. All contracts let by the directors specify that the work shall be done by union men and no fear is entertained that the strike will interfere with the work on the great hall, or that the work will be so retarded that it will not be completed in time for the democratic national convention. new shaft to the required depth if done in seven weeks. The offerings ranere Tickets Now On Sale Conditions Governing: Them. from a new suit of clothes to a gold watch and chain.

Let tne good work President Rogers Tells a Lever Reporter a Few Things About the Road. go on. GOLD ON GRAND RIVER. Rivera Will Scrap If Cuba Is Evacuated Next Year. Hy Scripps-McRae 1'ivss Association.

Havana. i 1 Gem ral Rivera late secretary of agi in General Wood's cabinet says the natives are organizing to resist the perpetuation of American reign after January 1, 1901, and are ready to make every sacrifice to plant the republic in Cuba which was promised at the time hostilities were suspended. SOCIALISTS QUIET Tickets are now on sale at the drug stores of the city, and solicitors will call upon citizens to sell tickets for the An Old Prospector Says It Exists in DEWEY DAY. concert to be given for the benefit of the Indian Country. the hospital fund.

The concert oc curs next Friday night in the opera house and the price of admission President Rogers of the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway company chatted pleasantly with a Lever reporter last evening concerning the interests of the road at this end of the system. Asked about the Empire franchise, Mr. Rogers said the matter was being held up by the diliatory aei ion of the Galena council. How is fifty cents. It is agreed and un understood that more tickets may be sold than there are reserved seats in Germany Enjoys a Rest From Slay That gold has been discovered in this section of the country is certain.

Assays of rock have proven it, and men of all stations in life have on different occasions asserted that they have found it. Whether or not it is present in quantities that will pay to mine still awaits a public demonstra -tion. The following story is taken from the Joplin News-Herald. It Admiral Took Part in the Great Pa-eade Great Enthusiasm. By Scripps-McRae Press Association.

Chicago, May 1 Geo. Dewey admiral of the navy, and victor of Manilla bay occupied the post honor in the great parade today, given in honor of the new National holiday. It was one of the greatest demonstrations ever witnessed in Chicago. The enthusiasm was unbounded and no one cared whether the Admiral was a republican or a democrat. the opera house, and that the holders Galena bottling works, in the absence of Geo.

Haysler, who will spend a few weeks with relatives in the east. Mr. Haysler thinks of visiting Harrison, with a view to establishing a bottling works. H. C.

Taylor has opened a meat market on Euclid between Eleventh and Twelfth. Meat markets habitually live a lifetime and die of starvation, all in a week's time, in that locality; but we hope Mr. Taylor's will survive, for a good market is needed. The Galena Ice company lias the foundation of the plant completed and of tickets shall be content with stand ing room or unreserved seat in gal lery in the event reserved seats are all taken when tickets are presented for exchange. Chart will be open at 10 NINETEEN KILLED.

a. m. Friday, May 4th, at Wells Co drug store. Joplin's Hospital. would seem that the gold follows the river, and Grand river is but a continuation of Spring river.

There may be some measure of truth in the stcry "Bushels of gold lie hidden in caves along the banks and in the bed of the Grand river, Cherokee Indian nation, T. W. Nichols, a veteran explorer from Indian Territory, said to-day, in talking of the west. "But the question to me and hundreds of other miners is, how to get at it? I know it is there, ever, ins company is in no great hurry to push the Empire extension, for it means the making of a death trap at the crossing of the Frisco tracks, and the Memphis as well, that would be likely to be an expensive bit of road increasing materially a feature which is already very troublesome-- that of litigation. The only way this difficulty could be obviated, the president said, was by means of a steel bridge or viaduct, extending from the present terminus on North Main across the entire Hat.

This seems the best solution of the problem, especially when we consider the increased trackage the build After more than a year's hard cam paigning the Sisters of Mercy in Jop lin have succeeded in getting $9,885.01 A ior cne new c. jonn nospitai in Blendville. Once Galena trets settled Day Disturbances. By AssiM-iation. Berlin, May 1.

Socialist May day is being celebrated in Germany less generally than in former yenrs. Authorities attribute this to the few labor strikes and the general condition of prosperity among laborers. CANNOT FIND HIM. Canadian Children's Sympathy for Aguinaldo Wasted. Scripps-Mcltaf Press Association.

Windsor, May t. The plan of the school children of Canada to send a message of sympathy to Aguinaldo has fallen through because the wily Filipino leader cannot bo located. Can't Get Mining- Concessions. P.y Scrlpps-McUao Cross Association. Yokahoina, Japan, May 1.

Dispatches from Seoul, Corea, says the t'orean government has refused to grant three separate American requests for mining in the kingdom. London Don't Believe It. Uy Scripps-JrtoBae Press Association. London, May I The war office discredits the report that Hunter, com because I have seen it; but to carry it away, I was afraid. The Indians guard Detachment of American Army Get the Worst of It.

By Scripps-McRae Press Association. Manila, May 1. Advices from the island of Samar say a detachment of the Forty-third volunteers was besieged by insurgents at Catubig for five days last week. The Americans lost nineteen killed and two wounded during the siege. Major Gilmore learning of the critical situation of the detachment sent a force which quickly scattered the insurgents and relieved the besieged force.

TO WORK A NIGHT SHIFT. their treasures night and day. A man simply puts his life in their hands mm down to work it ought not to take a month to raise $10,000 for our hospital, with the start of 81,000 we now have. Let us proceed to set our old Missouri sister a wholesome example on how to raise money for an eleemosynary institution. We can do it.

work has now begun on the superstructure. The two engines are in place and the immense iron brine tank is now under conrtruction. The south end of the frame for the building was put up this morning. The Galena Cornice and Roofing works, corner Fifth and Short streets, present their business card in the Lever to-day. The propriotere of this enterprise are recently from Canton, Illinois, where they spent many years in this work.

They are competent workmen and will doubtless receive a liberal patronage. The A. O. U. W.

boys have secured over 100 new names for the proposed 200 addition to Number 9. They are when he goes searching around Grand river, but gold attracts nearly every tug of the proposed new roads will bring. While the first cost of the viaduct would be large, it would soon save for the company fees and damages sufficient to cover the amount. person. Many a poor devil has been killed while searching the hills for these treasures.

"In the first place, I want to tell vou why I know the gold is there. History proves it. In 1828, just about the time the Cherokees arrived in the Cherokee nation, a party of Spaniards passed through the country now occupied by the Cherokees. They stopped to rest House Is Considering the Nicaragua Canal Bill. By Scripps-McRae Press Association.

Washington, May 1. The house today proceeded under the special order offering special inducements to those in the Grand river bottoms. The Cher okees came upon them and slew the who want safe and cheap co-operative 1 1 looks as though both Galena and Empire could well afford to grant very liberal concessions, if necessary, not only in the interest of prosperity, but because the extension of the electric line into Empire wTould be one more step toward the consolidation of the two cities- and the creation of greater Galena. Difficulties in the securing of right of way are blocking the Riceville extension just now and it may remain as it is for some time. Mr.

Rogers said whole outfit. These Spaniards carried I to consider the bill providing for the Here It Is. A first-class opportunity for some one who wants to go into a paying business and make money from the beginning. Having other business in Galena which requires our attention, we therefore offer our store and entire business for sale. Respectfully yours, J.

L. Suppe Co. Spalding's base ball goods arc the best. A good stock of them at Ober's book store, Fourth and Main. Exhausting and varicocele veins cured and guaranteed by Dr.

D. B. Miller, rooms 14 and 15 Shoman-Moore block, Galena, Kansas. construction of the Isthmian canal. Burton, republican, of Ohio made a strong speech against the bill.

There will be a night session for the purpose of debating on the measure. THE GOLD HUNTERS. about $8,000,000 worth of gold. The Indians buried it in a cave, and the secret was given into the hands of the Kee-too-wahs. This is a powerful secret society.

For three quarters of a century they have guarded this gold. In 1898 a party of white men, twelve in number, learned where several pots of the gold were buried, and they attempted to steal it. Four of them were killed. "I have visited the caves and have seen the gold, but dared not take it away, for fear of being overtaken and killed." Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Bailey have added to the vast category of art pic manding the tenth division, now at Kimberly, is going to the relief of Mafeking. There'll Be a Hot Time. Uy Press Association. Cape Town, May I. The Cape parli-inent meets May 2.

A stormy session is expected on account of the dissensions between extreme anti-Boer party and moderates headed by Premier Sehreiner. America Is Away Up. Uy St-ripps-Mi Uae Pre-s Ass.viation. Paris, May 1. The American art section at the exposition was formally inaugurated today.

Next the French it is the most conspicuous of the exposition. DOWN-EAST NECKTIE PARTY. When you are in need of writiug paper or envolepes call and see our life insurance. No miner, or anyone else for that matter, who has a family depending upon him for support should be without such insurance. A special Pullman sleeper came in over the Memphis last evening and was set on the switch at Seventh street.

This morning it went out on No. 302, bearing Mrs. P. S. Dansingburg, her daughter Mrs.

Minnie Arions, and attendants. They will run without change to their destination, Rochester, whither Mrs. Dansingburg goes to recuperate her health. The Missouri Pacific has inaugurated train service between Pittsburg and Topeka. The train leaves Pittsburg every morning about 10 o'clock.

As soon as the Minden branch is connected up at Webb City this service will be extended to Joplin. and then it will be the Spring urove line was paying much better than he had hoped. One ear will be ample, he thinks, for the local work. The twenty minute service established Sunday will be permanent and the company is pleased with the appreciation expressed by the people of Galena since the new schedule went beautiful assortment. Ober's book store, Fourth and Main.

Just received a new line of silk First Steamer of the Season Gone to Cape Nome. By Scripps-MeRae Press Association. San Francisco, May 1. The Portland, the first big steamer for Cape Nome, sailed last evening with 200 passengers. Thousands of people cheered the departure from the wharf.

The Portland stopped after reaching the open sea and a search for stowaways was made. Six were found and landed in small boats. IN OLD KENTUCKY. guard chains. Newest styles.

W. Suppe, jeweler. into effect. We are now getting the tures a photograph of their little daughter, Rubie May, about one year old, in her bath. She presents a very beat service, and riding in the handsomest cars furnished by any electric line in the United States.

Wanted To SelL Complete stock of notions and fix tures, on north Main street. Good lo pretty picture, worthy to stand among "photographic studies from life" we find in the leading magazines. cation, low rent; doing excellent R. L. Foster returned to Washington, Kansas, having sold his and his Washington county associates' interests in their mine here.

It is not generally known, but it is a business. Owner has to leave city H. F. Weggener. possible to go from here to the state fact that this particular section pro- i without changing cars seven duces a greater variety of wild flowers Ume8 and taking a week for the Arguments in the Goebel Murder Case at Frankfort By Scripps-McRae Press Association.

Frankfort, May 1 The hearing This week only, I will sell eight day Seth Thomas clocks, for $3.50. Guar- man any oiner pan oi America ney Yankees Dispose of a Negro in True Southern Fashion. P. Soripps-Mt Kat Pivss Assin-iation. Gloucester.

May 1 Henry Radeliffe, colored, was hanged here by a mob last night. The negroes are enraged and retaliation is threatened. Radeliffe was serving a short sentence for shooting three men when lynched. Will Turn in $3,000,000. Soripps-McKae Press Association.

Victoria, B. C- May 1. The Yukon A new business block is to be en the west side of Main street, between Fourth and Fifth. clock made. W.

F. of mntinna for hail and phflnw ftf VPniiP ailteed the best Florida and the Pacific slopes produce finer and rarer plants, but not the variety. in the Goebel murder suspect case was Suppe, jeweler. continued today. Several witnesses The correcting oontinnpd todav Svpra witnesses The correcting: Dr.

Finis L. Anderson of Joplin will of defective titles be at the Century hotel, Galena, every testified that the chances for a fair trial and adjustment of taxes carefully at Frank Lane, a clerk at Phebus' store in East Galena, took two shots at a negro who attempted to hold him up at the crossing of the Frisco track at Seventh street about nine o'clock last night. The negro ran up to Frank and grabbed for bis watch. Frank pulled Tuesday and Friday from 3 to 6 this county are not more impossible tended to. F.

E. Colvin, bonded ab- I At a. "linr rM iM. "'trait 1 if I I A new gold mine will be found by all who attend J. Eibridge Butler's Great Fraternal Order Entertainment at the opera house, Thursday evening, May 3rd.

Admission 25c. p. prepared to mate examinations than in anv other county. stracter terns Er -mt i Sun of April 10 says the run of gold and treat all diseases of the eye, ear, I won't make any big talk, but I want you to know that I do good of Sulphur Creek will this season clean nose and throat also tests eyes for General Strike in Buffalo Tiv Srrinns-McRac Press Association. his gun and emptied two chambers as our the black rascal ran away, but he was This bright "Mayday," says Buffalo, N.

May 1. The railroad watcn repairing, guarantee it ana tnat i glasses. Genuine Holland herring 75c per keg at the Enterprise Grocery. I have the only complete line of watch strike situation here has been compli mine reporter, reminds him of bygone days, when his girl was "Queen of the May" and he was bull of the woods. so "excited" that his aim was not true and no blood marks were found along the ties.

up three million dollars. Mine Fire in Virginia. Bristol, May 1. The Pine Run mine in Wise county. is on fire.

Nine lives are reported lost. Chronic headaches cured perma materials in Galena. That's why I can do it right. W. F.

Suppe, jeweler. Have you seen my guaranteed dollar watch? W. F. Suppe, jeweler. cated by all freight handlers in the various freight houses going out this morning.

Prize coffee at Enterprise Grocery. nently by Dr. D. B. Miller, rooms 14 and For fountain pens see Frank Ober, book -seller and stationer Dr.

S. Baker, over Caples Jones drug store. Phone 166. Legal blanks can be had at Obers. 15 Shomon-Moore block, Galena, Kan..