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NEWS OF THE MINES AND OIL FIELDS
OUTPUT OF THE OPHIR
MINE SHOWS INCREASE
Extraction Largest for Several
Weeks. Ore Averaging Bet
ter Than $50
OOLDFIBLD, Dec. 25.— output
from tho Ophlr mine this week will |
fully equal that (if a week ago, when
the extraction was the largest for sev
eral weeks, duo to the excellent grado
ore taken from 11).• stopo in the Hardy j
vein on the 2100 level, says the Virginia I
Chronicle. This week tho values con- j
tlnuo to average bettor than $"'0 to the |
ton and practically the name tonnage ]
will bo hoisted as for the previous six j
days. The vein In "the slope maintains .
about the same width and length. Tho
management last week started west
crosscut No. 3 on the 2100, which '
Is being driven from a point In tho |
main northeast drift -•>- feet north of
No. i crosscut, through which the
present extraction work la being car
ried on. The new crosscut la expected
to cut tho Hardy vein at still another
point, the latest ore development prov
ing that tho vein has been thoroughly
prospected on this level. On the 2300
understoping Is In process of prepara
tion On this level, but the output will
be small from that point this week.
The main south drift continues in a
stroni? vein formation with small val
ues, and is now approaching the Con.
Virginia north line. On the 2100 the
southwest drift continue* In the vein
formation, with low assay returns.
Good progress is being made this week
sinking tho three-compartment winze
below the 2400 level.
in tho con. Virginia mine little of
Importance is reported with the ex
traction Of tile low grade ore under
way as usual. Further work on the
1650 irfcthe old Bonanza country shows
that thi' drifts are partially closed and
in reopening this Interesting territory
it is being found necessary to do much
rei imhei'lng. The crosscuts on the 1700
and 17fi(i levels show no changes. At
Hie ('. dfc C. shafts repairs to one of
the Soldiers was necessary last week.
but only a short delay resulted in tho
He of the pump.
PROSPECTORS STAMPEDE
TO ARIZONA MOUNTAINS
Important Strike of Gold Reported
in District Eighteen Miles
from Parker
PARKER, Ariz., Dec. 26.—Down In
the Riverside mountains about eighto* a
mill's from Parker, there in Inti nse ex
citement over ii wold strike which is
said to iio tiii' most Important made in
that section in yours. The property is
owned by tho Calsona Mines company,
of which company a. w. Martin is „'"
oral manager.
There is ,i crosscut of seven feed still
In ore. An assayer declares the aver
age for the seven feet will run $168 in
gold to the ton ami about -" per cent
copper. Another asaaycr makes it ten
• Minces of gold and 14 per cent copper.
one hundred and thirty-eight s;ieUs or
ore have, been taken out. and it is said
that the above figure* are about right.
THREE SHIFTS START WORK
AT KIMBERLY MINES TODAY
KIMBERLT, Dee. ».—Three shifts
will start to work on the three-com
partment shaft or the Klraberly Con
solidated Mines company, and from
DOW "ii there will be no delay on this
particular part of the consolidated
workings. It is the intention of the
management to sink this shaft uoo feet
before any crosscuts are made, but it
may bo decided to crosscut at the 200,
800 and 4'iO-foot levels, on account of
veins which \\ ill lie encountered as
the shaft goes down.
The long delayed hoisting machinery
has arrived, but on account of some
important parts being short and a
damage to the engine, same cannot be
used until the milling parts arrive.
The missing parts have been ordered
by telegraph and should arrive by the i
middle of next week. The engine is
being entirely overhauled by the black
smith department and is about ready
for work.
When work was discontinued at the.
72-foot level in this shaft a vein of
ore was struck which assayed $7202.46.
While the vein was a small one, still
it proves conclusively that as more
depth is attained larger and perhaps
richer veins will be encountered.
This shaft will bo the main working
shaft of the upper workings and will
take care of all the ore from the Hill
Top No. 2 claim, on which the Inde
pendence tunnel No. 1 is located.
MORE ORE FOUND IN THE
FAMOUS 'GLORY HOLE'
UHYOLITE, Dec. 25.—An uncovering
of ore within the week has added per
haps sixty days if not a few months
to the life of the Montgomery-Shoshone
as a producer. The famous "glory
hole," which has yielded thousands of
tons of Commercial ore, has sprung an
other surprise'by suddenly showing up
additional ore in quantity.
A big explosion of giant powder, set
off the middle of the week, brought
down a large quantity of good ore at
Hie westerly end of the big pit, the ore
thus broken and exposed bring suffi
cient for perhaps two months' run.
The uncovering may lead to further
ore exposures, and there is no telling
lit this time what the life of the prop
erty will be.
It has been talked on the streets this
week that a big body of very rich ore
li.ill been opened, but there is no con
firmation of this story.
The official report for September
shows a profit of $4790.51, out of a
gross production of $25,010.82.
OIL MEN WILL DEVELOP
HOLDINGS NEAR NOGALES
NOGALES, Aril.! Dec. 25.—Two cars
of timbers, consigned to persons who
will develop the Mascarenas oil hold
ings, east of Nogales. arc in the locul
yards awaiting transportation across
the line. The drill and other material
to be used in boring the first well i.
expeoted to arrivo daily.
Much interest Is being taken In the
new grounds and II "M la found In pay-
Ing quantities there promisee to be
"aomethlnc doing" around tho border
city
NEW ORE DEPOSITS
ARE FOUND NEAR
RIEPETOWN MINES
BIiT, Nov.. Dee. 2B.—Two church
drills am boiiiß operated hy the
GMroua company west or tho village
of Riepetown and nonr thn eastern
pnrt of tho gnat mining cstatn.
While no official Information has
bean Kivon oui it is understood thai
the drilling operations on this part
of the property have resulted in lo
catlm good ore deposits said to bo
Loo fi ot thick and of the average
commercial grade that is holnff
mined from the pit of the Nevada,
Consolidated al '"'upper Flat. An
other drill Is working On the Tay
lor claim near (he northern ex
treme of tho property, a shaft was
sunk several yean ago on tills
claim where some very good ore
was found containing ratlve'copper
and tho northern area belonging to
tho Oiroux promises to prove a
I'orv profitable ono when active pro
duction work commences.
COMPANY AT HOT GREEK
PLANS EXTENSIVE WORK
Superintendent Blackburn of Ton
opah Takes New Position
with Consolidated Mines
TONOPAH, Nw., Dae. L's.—J. M.
■ [ X"X, who for years has held the posi
iltlon of assistant superintendent or tin
Tonopah Mining company, rendering
Superintendent Blackburn efficient ser
vice, will on January l next sever his
connection with that company to ac
cept the position of superintendent of
tii. Hot Creek Consolidated Mines com
pany, owning twenty claims in tho
well known Hot Crook district.
Tin Hot Creek company lias decided
to begin active operations on the valu
able group of claims which has been
partially prospected by several shaft*
ami considerable surface work, tho re
sult being th.it a showing has been
made that warrants operations being
started on a large scale.
RICH OHK BODIES 1 Ol Mi
A portloln of the ground owned by
this company has been prospected iii
an Intermittent manner for many j
years, ami many of the old-timers of •
this section well remember the activ-1
Ity shown in tho Hot Creek district in
tho 'TO.-i and 'SO.s. At different points
"ii this group of claims ore bodies have
boon uncovered ami partially developed
showing considerable strength. They
carry good values in silver. lend and
copper, and it is thought that system
atic development will result in the
[opening of a good paying proposition.
The Hot Creek Consolidated Minos
company has been financed by the White
Investment company of Philadelphia,
with which company >Ynnk A. Keith,
formerly general manager of tho Tono
pah Mining company, is closely asso
ciated. The company has ample funds
to carry work ahead on a largo scale,
[and before spring arrives tho Hot
Creek district will be the .scene of much
I activity.
ARIZONA EASTERN LINE
TO CONSTRUCT CUTOFF
Engineering Crew at Work Fifty
Miles North of Tucson Relocat
ing Right of Way
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 2. r >.—Under the
supervision of 1.,. H. Long, chief en
gineer of the Arizona Eastern lines,
an engineering crew with complete out
fits and tents is working between Hay
den and Winkelman about fifty miles
north of Tucson, providing for a ma
terial cutoff by relocating the line. The
west end of the cutoff will start in
the vicinity of Burns station, and the
new line will be located some distance
back from the Gila river, and well up
int.) the hills. Just where it will in
tersect the main line of the Phoenix
& Eastern has not been determined.
It is presumed, however, that it will
verge back" and connect at Winkelman.
The cutoff is being designed to fur
nish means for handling the tailings
from the Ray Consolidated reduction
works at Haydpti which, it is expected,
will be in operation by February 15.
NEW ORE DISCOVERED IN
THE LITTLE DAISY MINE
PRESCOTT, Deo. 25,—Remarkable.
determinations continue to be made on
the Little Daisy mine at Jerome, and
the discovery of another body of sul
phide ore In the lower level a few days
ago is reviving Interest in the prop
erty. It is reported one of the largest
bodies of ore yet uncovered in tin:
mine.
Work was suspended on the 800-foot
level a few weeks ago, owing to the
flow of water being too heavy to con
trol with the limited facilities, and j
after the new electrical pumping ap
pliance was installed, development was (
resumed. Within a few days after op
erations were started the drift was con
tinued west of tho first sulphide body,
and a 45-foot vein of ore, carrying
gold'! copper and silver, was cut. In !
addition to the high grade of tho ore.
the mincralogical characteristics of the
none are reported satisfactory, show
ing a splendid smelting product.
Another electrical pump is to be
placed on the lower level immediately,
to assist the other one In keeping the
heavy flow down, that work may con- |
tinue uninterruptedly.
General Manager Fisher, who left for
the property yesterday, is pleased over
the conditions, particularly so from tho
fact that the new ore body was struck
in the deeper workings, in a new and
unexplored zone, and from the further j
fact that the product is a desirable one
for smelter treatment.
ARIZONA COMPANY'S COPPER
OUTPUT SHOWS INCREASE
cananea, Dec. 25.—The November
output of the Greene Cananea company
was 8,658,000 pounds of copper, as com
pared with 8,678,000 pounds in October.
Beside* the copper there were 113,
--372 ounces of silver and 428 ounces of
Sold.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MOKMNG, DECEMBER 20, 1010.
DIVORCED WOMAN SUES
FOR COSTLY OIL STOCK
Action Brought by Mrs. Thomas
in Alameda Is Transferred
to Kern
BAKERSFIELD, Doc. 23.— Tim legal
papers in the suit of Mrs- B\ J- W.
Thomas against .t. \V. Thomas ot al.,
whh i was started In the superior court
of Alameda county, have been Bled In
the county clerk's office, having be< n
transferred to the superior courl of
Kern inty-on a change of venue. 'n.'
suit was started to recover a one-hall
Interest in 2005 shares In the T. W,
company and 200,000 shares in tho Wi
T. A M. company, which the plaintiff
alleges are community property.
In <iie amended complaint the plain
tiff alleges that she was given an In
terlocutory decree of divorce from
Thomas <in April L'. 1;. L 909, and a Bnal
decree on April 28, 1910; that before
the Interlocutory decree whs rendered
an agreement was entered Into a.s to
the division of the property; that thh
property was not mentioned by her
husband when he gave her a statement
of all the property he owned; that on
April 21, L 909, he transferred tho stock
t . one T. M. young, to be held in trust
by him. she alleges that the stock was
community property and she should be
awarded B half interest in them. Two
local hanks arc mentioned In the com
plaint.
PRELIMINARY WORK AT TARR
MIME DRAWING TO CLOSE
GRASS VALLEY, Dec. :•:,.—A largo
number of laborers have been laid off
from W ik by the Taw Mining com
pany, operating in the Bmartsville dis
trict, during the past week. Trie pre
liminary work at the mine In rapidly
drawing to a close and consequently
less men are needed. A great amount
of initiative work has been accom
plished by the Tarr company during
(In- past year, costing over $200,000. An
expenditure of many thousands of dol
lars more will be necessary before
active mining operations begin. Tho
prospect, however, is a. good one and
the company is very confident of real
izing largo returns for the capital in
vested.
WEAVER MOUNTAIN CO.
PROPERTIES ARE SOLD
I'FITCSCOTT, Aria., Dec. 36.—The
formal taking over of th<> properties
of the Weaver Mountain Mining com
pany by Oscar A. Knox and A. P. An
derson was consummated Tuesday,
when an agreement was recorded. Riv
ing the latter possession. One of the.
conditions is that the property is to be
taken over for a considerable sum,
and during the period of operating a
monthly payment is to be made.
Messrs. Knox and Anderson are now
in charge of the property, known as
the Rincon, and are repairing the mill
and performing development work.
Both are practical miners, and have a
large force employed.
Shipping News
SAN PEDRO. Dec. 25—Arrived: Steamship
Harvard. from Pan Francisco; steamship
President, from San Diego; steam pchooner
I Nome City, from Portland via San Francisco;
schooner Ludlow, fourteen days from Seattle
.Sailed: Steamship President, for Seattle, via
Redondo Beach and San Francisco; steamship
Dear, for Portland via San Francisco;
steamship Yale, for San Francisco.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
The Etoamer Harvard, Captain Jepsen, ar
rived at 11 o'clock this morning from San
Francisco with passengers and freight to the
Pacific Navigation company. Many of th«
officers and crew state that the new steam
ers are as staunoh and comfortable as any
In which they have ever sailed before. A
stiff swell was encountered by the Yale,
when coming out over the San Francisco bar
on Friday night but the steamer rode It
beautifully and it was not even necessary to
close the side ports and dead lights on the
main deck.
The steamer President. Captain Hannah, ar
rived from San Diego this morning en route
to Ban Francisco with passengers and freight
Ito the Pacific Coast Steamship company,
and preceded. The President will go out of
■ commission tomorrow for the annual over-
I haulm* and repairs and will pall from Fan
Francisco for this port again on January 26.
The steamer Governor will resume service,
leaving San Francisco north bound on Jan
uary 3 at 11 a, m., having been under repair
since December 2.
The steamer Nome City, Captain Hanson,
arrived this morning from Portland via San
Francisco with passengers and 930.000 feet
of lumber to local yards. The steamer will
< finish discharging and sail for the return trip
on Thursday night.
The steamer Redondo, Captain Hansen, will
finish discharging on Tuesday and sail for
j Coos Bay via San Francisco.
The steamer Bowdoln, Captain Tibbetts, ar-'
rived this morning from Eureka with 714,000
feet of. lumber to the National Lumber com
pany.
The schooner Ludlow, Captain Anderson,
arrived today from Seattle with a cargo of
900,000 feet of lumber to the San Pedro Lum
ber company.
The steamer Bear, Captain Kopander,
sailed for Portland via San Francisco today
with passengers and freight to the San
Francisco-Portland Steamship company.
Arrived—Steamer Harvard from San Fran
} Cisco; steamer President from San Diego;
steamer Nome City from Portland via San
Francisco; steamer Bowdoin from Eureka;
steamer Ludlow from Seattle,
Sailed—Steamer Yale for San Francisco;
steamer President for San Francisco; steam.
er Bear for Portland via Sun Francisco.
PORTUGUESE JESUITS
TO SETTLE IN AUSTRIA
Exiled Priests Acquire $60,000
Estate for Monastery
VIENNA, Dec. 24.— The foundation of
two more monasteries for Portuguese
Jesuits is reported. Tn Moravia an
estate worth $60,000 has been acquired
for the purpose near Neutitsehein, and
the castle of Leopoldskron, near Salz
burg, has been sold for the same object.
A large number of Portuguese Jesuits
have already arrived in Salzburg,
where they are at present being housed
in the monasteries in the City. German
Liberal deputies intend to bring In an
interpellation in an early sitting of the
Austrian parliament, raising the ques
tion of the settlement of Portuguese
monks in Austria. Meetings of protest
have been held in various parts of tho
country.
JACKIES CELEBRATE ABROAD
BRBBT, Dec. 2B.—Chrlctmai day was
celebrated by tho sailors of the third
division of tho United States Atlantic
fleet With elaborate festivities. They
were guests at dinner of the sailors of
the naval depot.
Toil can buy It, perhaps at many places, but
there's one MOST place to buy it—and that
i'lace advertise*.
TRADE OF WORLD
FOR 1910 HEAVY
Reports Show Both Imports and
Exports Are Larger Than
in 1909
MONTHLY AVERAGES HIGHER
Total Value of International Com
merce Will Reach Thirty
Billions of Dollars
(Special to The Herald)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 25, The world's
International trade promises to make a
new high r rd In the call ndar year
1910. Figures received by the bureau
of statistics, department of commerce
and labor, - how that In nearly ■ ■•, i ry
coui try of the world both Imports and
ixports are larger than In 1909, and the
reports thus far received Indicate that
the grand total ol the world int< <■-
national i ommerce in 1910 « ill i
a higher figure than < ver before.
Thi ■ <■: thi bureuu are drawn
, from the official publications of the
principal commercial nations of the
world, and include something more
than tv ty-flve leading countries. The
number of countries for which thi bu
reau receives official publications la
much greater than this, but for many
of the less Important counl rl< no fig
urea for any part of the calendar yeai
1910 have yi t boen re ■ 'ived. Takii
of those tor which figures are at hand
for any part of the present calendar
year, the bureau finds that In practi
cally every case the imports In 1910
show a higher monthly average than
those of 1909, while the exports are,
with very few exceptions, also higher
in 1910 Hum In 1909.
The countries tor which the bur iv
of statistics lias reports covering a part
of the calendar year L9lO are twenty
seven, and Include among the more Im
portant, Argentina, Australia, Austria-
Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Egypt, Kcance, Germany, India
(British), Italy, Japan. Mexico, Russia,
Spain, Switzerland, the United King
dom and the United States. The por- |
tions of the calendar year 1910
covered by the reports of tha
various countries reaching this
bureau are not, of course, idi n
tlcal, since pome of the countries issue
their monthly statements much more
promptly than others. As a rule, how
ever, the reports in question cover from
fix to ten months of the calendar year,
I and in all cases the, bureau states not
only the total for the accumulated
months, hut also the monthly average
of both imports and exports of each
country during the portion of the year
for which the totals are presented. The
figures of imports show In every case
larger monthly averages for the respec
tive countries named than In the cor- :
responding period of 1000, while on the
export side the monthly averages are
also larger except in case of Argentina
and Bulgaria.
FIQCTRBfI ABB HIGH
Taking the more important countries,
a comparison of the monthly import
and export figures during such portion ,
of the calendar year 1910 as are now
available with the corresponding peri
ods of 1909 indicates distinctly the up
ward trend of international trade. On
the import side the average monthly I
importations are: For the United
Kingdom, ;n 1910, 2fi. r > 1-3 million dol
lars, against 244>' 2 million in the similar
period of 1909; for Germany, 170' i mil
.ion dollars, against 172 :i-4 million In
the corresponding period of 1909; tho
United States, 129% million In 1910,
against IIOU million for the same time
of 1909; France, 103 1-4 million, against
9^ 1-3 million for 1009; Belgium 62W
million dollars In 1010, against 56 H mil
lion in 1909; Italy, 49 million dollars in
1910, against 4>'i million in the similar
period of 1900; Austria-Hungary, 4">U
million in 1910, against 43% million in
the same months of 1909; Russia In j
Europe, 40V2 million dollars In 1010.
aga!"St 32>i million in the same period
of 1909; Canada, 88^ million dollars In
1010, against 25% million in the corre
sponding months of 1009. and Japan I
19 l- r > million dollars In 1910, against 17
million in 1900.
On the export side the figures of the
United Kingdom show an average of
173 1-8 million per month in 1910,
against 151% million in the correspond
in? period of 1909; Germany, 150' i mil
lion dollars per month in 1910. against
132 million In 1009; the United Stales,
143 million dollars per month in the 1910
period, against 13t> million in the corre- i
sponding period of 1000; India, 65 mil
lion dollars per month in the 1010 peri
od, against 4T> 1-4 million In the similar ■
period of 1909: while Argentina shows
hut 31 1-4 million dollars per month fot
the tirst half of 1010, compared with
40>2 million per month for the corre
sponding period of 1909.
Taking, the entire number of coun
tries for* which figures covering any
portion of the calendar year 1910 ara
available, the monthly imports and 1 X
ports for the entire group shows an in
crease of about 9 per cent in both im
ports and exports, as compared with
the corresponding periods of last year,
thus suggesting that the world's inter- I
national commerce in 1910 will prob
ably show between 14 and 15 billion
dollars' worth of exports, and gome
thing more than 16 billion dollars'
worth of Imports, and that the total
value of the world's International trade
will reach 30 billion, assuming that the
average price level on which the final
valuation for 1910 in the principal
European countries will be based, decs
not differ materially from that of 1909.
IF YOI INTEND GOING BAST
We wish to call attention to the
excellent service of the Salt Lake.
Route, with its Los Angeles Limited.
Xhis train is equipped with the finest
electric lighted Pullman drawing room
and tourist sleepers, dining car with
a la carte service, ami observation car
with library and buffet compartment.-.
No finer train is operated by any
Western railway. The Los. Angeles
Limited leaves Los Angeles daily at
10:30 a. m., and runs through to Chi
cago via the Salt Lake route to Salt
"Lake City, Union Pacific to Omaha and
Chicago and Northwestern to Chieacro
—a delightful Journey of only three
days, with all the comfort and luxury
of a high class lintel or a pa la tin 1 home.
The train also has a through drawing:
room sleeper from Los Angeles to Den
—only two days en route.
Second class tickets to eastetrn points
are good for passage in 'the tourist
sleeper on the Los Angeles Limited,
enabling travelers who so desire to
make the trip in limited time with less
expense than for llrst (lass.
it' you contemplate an eastern trip.
Suit Lake Route agents will bo pleased
to furnish all desired information as to
rates of fare, train schedules, *>tO,
Los Angeles offices are at 601 South
Spring street and First Street station.
Phone, Main BWB and Home 10031, to
cither ofllee. *••
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DISORDER IS RAMPANT
IN PERSIAN PROVINCES
Turks Are Trying to Gain Foot
ing in Azerbaijan, Once
Their Territory
PARIS, Dec. 25.—The Temps pub
r letter from a correspondent at
Taurls, In which the situation m the
Persian province of Azerbaijan Is de
scribed The Russians, says the letter,
still occupy Taufis, and It is fortunate
for the inhabitants that they do ho.
fer were it not for the presence of the
Cossacks they would assuredly bavi
been pillaged' by the Shahseven tribe.
] which has advanced I" within twelve
miles of the city after plundering a
i number of towns. The governor gen
eral dispatched .1 small body of Per
sian troops against the tribesmen, who
quickly put them to (light and con
tinued their incursions. Tic road from
Tauria to Teheran has been cut and
the couriers plundered.
So much, says the Temps correspon
dent, for the eastern portion of tho
great province of Azerbaijan, the most
important In Persia, for which, rince
the proclamation of the constitution,
nothing has been done, and where dis
order and anarchy are rampant. Iv
the west of the province the Turks are
steadily encroaching, and there is con
tinual fighting between the Persians
and the Kurds. The Kurds, urged on
by the Turks, have attacked over and
over again the new governor of Urmia.
The loss has been considerable on both
sides, but it is difficult to say what the
situation exactly is. As for the Otto
man troops, they arc continually oc
cupying fresh villages and continually
receiving reinforcements. The Turkish
consulates at Urmia, Saudj-Bulak and
Khoi ha^e a military guard.
Jt Is clear, says the correspondent of
the Temps, that tho Turks are trying
to gain a footing' In Azerbaijan, which
formerly belonged to them. The opinion
here is that they are urged on by
Germany.
Tho Provincial club at Tauris, con
tinues the writer, telegraphed through
out Persia a, manifesto calling on the
Persians to resist the foreign invasion,
and concluding with the words, "Our
last remedy is union."
A chamber of commerce and indus
try, the first ill Persia, was recently
created at Tauris with the co-opera
tion of a few European merchants.
"But how," asks the writer, "are
European merchants to enter into re-
I lations with it? The Tauris trades-
I people owe enormous sums to European
manufacturers and to commission
agents at Constantinople. H.m- are
they to be compelled to pay when
1 there are neither laws nor courts'.'
Turkey is apparently about to send a
consular judge here. This gives an
idea of the existing disorder."
RUSSIAN INCOME TAX MAY
LESSEN BURDEN OF POOR
Proposals Show an Estimate of:
$35-000,000 Yearly Revenue
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.—The
proposals for an income tax In Rus- j
sla have been estimated to bring 111 I
about $35,000,000 per annum. The num
ber of persons In the Russian empire
with an income from all sources ex
ce ding $500 per annum is less than In
the kingdom of Prussia, being 695,700
only. Jn the higher incomes, especially
In Incomes exceeding $10,000, Russia
shows to much better advantage. The
tax on incomes of $300 works out at !
I about 5 per cent, on incomes of $25,000 '
I and upwards at IB per cent, reckoning
together the proposed Inci tax and j
all other forms of direct taxation now
in force.
If the proposed income rax becomes
law a number of existing taxes, su. ;>
as the lodging tax, personal trade ci r
tlflcates, and similar taxes on Industry
and trade' will probnbly be abrogati I,
SINGERS IN PASSIVE
STRIKE ARE DISMISSED
Men's Chorus in Vienna Opera Is
Summarily Discharged
VIENNA, Dec. 26.—The whole of the men's
chorus, numbering forty-eight singers, of the
Vienna Imperial opera. have summarily been
dismissed by the management In punishment
for a so-called passive resistance demonstra
tion.
'lii ■ men's chorus hud applied several time's
lately for increased pay. As this was re
fused, they resolved to draw public) atten
tion to their troubles. Curing last Saturday's
performance of "Lohengrin" they demon
strated by slnginlg llttlo louder than a whis
per, despite the frantic efforts of the con
ductor, who was taken by surprise. The
public hissed the performance and the man
agement decided on vigorous measures. Bo
sides the dismissals, the week's program was
rearranged, opera* were cut where the chorus
plays a considerable part and replaced most
ly with ballets, Th« soloists formed the
chorus here required.
It lias been decided also, if necessary, to
close tho opera two or three days a week.
A chorister's pay Is 1100 yearly, up to three
years' service, rlHlng to $250 In nine years*
service. The emperor has asked for a full re
port from the management. The Imperial
opera shows a heavy deficit yearly, which la
made up from the emperor's privy purse.
It's as easy to secure a bargain in a used
automobile, through want advertising, as it
used to bo—and still is—to secure a horso and
carriage.
BERLIN POLICE CHIEF
MAY LOSE HIS OFFICE
Arrests Made in Moabit Riots
Prove to Be Unfortunate
for Authorities
BERLIN, Dec. 25.—The C
Volkszcitung, a loading organ of the
r p irty, learna from a ri
source that the ;" 1 Itlon of Herr yon
chi the Bi rlin polii o,
Is so seriously shaken by the trial of
the Moabit rioters that it i.s expected
he will be removed to another poßt on
its conclusion.
The proceedings in this trial have
revealed the faci that the police were
unfortunate in the arrests they made
during the riots, for the maj irity of
tin; evidence goea to prove that most
of the accused were victims of <
of zeal on the part of the police, par
ticularly the journalists who were sa
bered. The attempt to prove that the
i riots wen; instigated and furthered by
I the Socialist party or by organized
I workmen also seems to have failed.
The removal of Herr yon Jagow at
this present Juncture would be claimed
as a victory for the Socialists; if only
for this reason these n ■ papers are
perhaps right which declare that there
is no pro.upr.rt of his retirement, iin
the other hand, the Cologne Volks
zeitung Is not a newspaper which
would make such a statement as it
doos without Rood authority, and the
circumstance that the Center party la
a prominent factor In the present ma
jority in the relchstag gives it an op
| portunity of knowing the views pre-
I vailing in government circles.
ii .-hould also bo mentioned tliat sev
eral newspapers state that the police
authorities a [opted a course of proce-
In connection with the trial of the
Moabit rioters rliat was in full 0 t i -
ment with prompting's received from
| higher circles.
The Berlin city council has arrived
[at the important decision to construe!
■ a "north and south" railway across
Berlin. The proposal was adopted
unanimously, although it has taken Its
authors twelve years to carry it
through. It is tiopocl that work will Ijp
, I■<■ _;tin Immediately. The line will be
.only about four miles long, uith all
'■stations, hut as it is the first genuine
transverse lino, with its middle point
In the very important and very badly
served Priedrichstrasae, it may be
the bi ginning of a revolution in Berlin
communications.
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HAUGHTY MEXICAN
EXILE IS 'NEWSY'
Castilian, Once Wealthy, Sells
Newspapers on Streets of-
San Antonio
LANDS IM TEXAS PENNILESS
Aged Spaniard Forced to Leave
Mexico Because Sons Are
Revolutionists
(Special to Tha floral.i)
w a.- ,1 ••."•>. T< sa i Dec. 2:..—0n
in Aliimo
plaza ii. Mil, erect, white haired Span
iard, wit li ;< face betokening a station
in life i!i" very antithesis of ins pres
ent occuu i>' ■■ r ci ntly at
-11. Ri i upulously riput,
though !:;s garments are threadbare,
i svspaper« for
sale, jlc is Prospere Vlllareal, and 05
years old, ,■). J,:"i:; holar, to whom
French is also familiar, un«l until re
cently ci wealth and distinction In
i. He was forced to hurriedly
the country where his soils joined
the revolutionists.
Senor Vlllareal landed In San An
tonto with little money and no knowl
edge <M English. Selling papers ap
i to lilm as tiio quickest way of
ad ling to his resources until such time.
as ho Is pi rmittod lo return to Mexico,
or his property is restored. Undaunt
ed, he asked help from no one, but
n attending the free night school
maintained by the public schools on
South Alamo street, liis is the study
of English, and nightly, with more
than i hundred others, all of them.
young men or women, no lines up at
the call of the teachers. Vlllareal la
not discouraged, though he admits it
will be a long time before he knows
the lani • fluently. He has ad
■ d to the point where he can read
English and understand it to a marked
• . but cannot yet put into prac
■■ languagi the learning ho h;u> ac
quired. His Latin, he says, helps him
mightily in his English, since much of
the tongui he I learning is derived
from Latin. He risea before dawn to
sell papi rs and works until dark. Then,
at 7:30 o'i lo k be goea to the niKlit
school, spending two hours trying to
grasp English. The appearance of the
Ifled newsboy and his story, which
Is beginning to be known, makes tlio
newi paper prosperous.
Another example of a San Antonian
"making good" In education is that ot
young Joseph Mayer, who in six years
has riei i] from the position of a -wrap
per in a department store to a success
ful competitor for the Rhodes scholar
ship at Oxford university, England.
lie is now assistant, professor of math
ematics and physics at trfe Southwest
ern university, Georgetown, Texas.
Compelled to support his mother and
young brother and sister at an early
age and denied the opportunity for a
high school education, the plucky la<l
di termlned to remove the handicap.
He took a correspondence course in
mechanical drawing and secured a di
ploma. This secured him a position
with .1 machine supply concern as a.
pattern maker. He studied by himself
and entered the University of Texas,
and. appointed student assistant In
mathematics and physics, by this
means he supported himself at thu
ersity, leaving there after gradu
ation to go to Georgetown.
BULGARIANS FIGHT TURKS
ATHENS, Dec. 88.—Enoeuntera have taken
place betwen Uulgarlan bands and Turkish
troops near LJskub and live Bulgara have been
killed Owing to the setting: In of severe win.
! ter weather the activity of the- bands is ceas
-1 in{r, but the inhabitants are certain that a
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