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THE SILVER LANCE.
VOL. 5-
THE SILVER LANCE.
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Published hvhbt Friday at Crystal
GuHHiaoN County, Colorado. •
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Gbo. C. Eatoh, i Frank I. White, l
Editors and Publishers.
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Special ratal quoted on application.
Silver 00. Lead $3.50.
President McKinley has given the
populists some great campaign thunder
in his remarks upon the financial ques
tioD.
Packer, the “man-eater” has been de
nied clemency by the state board of par
dons, and will in all probability serve the
balance of his natural life in the peni
tentiary.
Illinois legislators have become hard
up and prevailed upon the governor to
call an extra session of the state legisla
ture. Now look out for some more Chi
cago franchises.
The injunctiou granted by Judge Hal
lett this week in the case of Stratton vs
a Cripple Creek mining and tunnel com
pany embodies a decision of great im :
portancc to mining men.
Silver has once more reached the 00c
mark, and it is to be hoped it may keep
right on climbing, but it will probably
have a fall taken out of its aspirations, if
the administration can devise any method
to do it.
An Aspen man who is in the Klondike
at Dawson, writes that men are as anx
ious to get out as some have been to get
in, because of the scarcity of supplies*
He also says there is more gold than he
had supposed.
The English and French troubles in
Africa will now be forgotten, since we
have troubles of our own: Congress is
in session again, and Jerry Simpson and
Tom Reed love each other with the same
old intensity.
In the late election the women gained
one more county superintendent of pub
lic instruction, and the brave men of
Colorado may have to organize a secret
combination to preserve a political heri
tage for their sons.
San Francisco and San Diego will both
maintain lobbies in Washington during
the first session of the 55th Congress. A
dry dock has been recommended for the
Pacific coast and of course, both ports
will strive to secure it.
Frank A. Tandv, charged with the
murder of Charles Pinger, was discharg-'
ed by the court at Aspen Monday, at the
instance of the district attorney, there
being no evidence against the accused.
This should have been done months ago.
The past summer Frank worked in the
Inez mine, and no more industrious, con
scientious miner ever worked in the
camp, and he made many friepds here.
The president’s message, as usual with
such thicuscents, uses a gie t deal of
space d'iy very little. It is states nan
like and the most comprehensive of its
kind since Cleveland’s first message to
Congress. The annextaion of Hawaii is
Advocated and in the case of Cuba ad
vises that strife be avoided if possible.
The president recommends extension of
the national bank system, and still has
confidence in the ultimate success of the
bi-metallic commission. He assures the
country that one dollar is good as anoth
-6r> noade so by the governments pledge.
The message in full appears in our sup-
Pkoisnt this week.
CRYSTAL, GUNNISON COUNTY, COLORADO, DECEMBER 10, 1897.
Paragraphs of Pioneers.
George Young, than whom no miner iu
Gunnison county is better known, is one .
of the old-time California pioneers, who
gathered his first knowledge of hunting
for the precious metals in the placers
where mining was first an attractive pur
suit in the United States. He was born
in Buffalo, New York, and spent his boy
hood years in northern Indiana, until the
spring of ’56, and then but a mere lad,
turned his steps toward the fabled land
of the setting sun.—A land, the name of
which had come to be regarded through
out the world as synomous with wealth,
—vast wealth for whoever chose to jour
ney thither to take from nature’s great
depositories, and free as God’s sunlight.
Thus it happened that the youthful
George Young took passage on the good
ship “George Law” in the port of New
York, for Aspinwall, Isthmus of Panama
and thence up the coast to San Francisco
on the “Golden Gate.” Both of these
ships were aftewards victims of the waves
they rode so gracefully.
When he reached California the young
man did his first placer mining on Rab
bit Creek, at Gibsonville, where he was
employed running a tunnel into a moun
tain of gravel, every foot of which had to
be timbered. The dirt brought out dur
ing the winter months washed out over
fifteen thousand dollars of gold dust for
the owners of the property. Part of the
same winter he worked iu partnership
with a shrewd Welshman, who had lo
cated some good placer ground, and the
two cleaned up about S6O a day. In one
instance he washed a bucket of dirt that
yielded $175 in coarse gold dust. Anoth
er time he was given permission to take
out all he could for Inmself by “crevic
ing” in the walls of an abandoned drift.
“Crevicing” consisted in using a silver
tipped iron spoon, which when dipped in
quicksilver and pushed into a crevice
and then carefully removed, would bring
out all the particles of gold which it
came in contact with, the gold adhering
to the quicksilver. In this manner he
succeeded in adding $3,000 to his bank
account in two weeks.
Later Mr. Young went north into the
mining regions of British Columbia, on
the Frazier and Caribou rivers, where
die spent one winter, amid hardships and
privations equal to the Klondike. We
shall tell more of this in another article
in the near future.
In 1867 Mr. Young returned to “the
states” to visit friends and scenes of
former years, and came back over the
same .route travelled on his westward
trip. “When about mid-way between
San Francisco,” he said, “I was shown
the masts of a vessel extending above
the water, and was told that it was the
wreck of the ‘Golden Gate.”
In ’56 the “George Law” was con
demned as*unseaworthy, but the owners
changed its name, calling it the “Central
America.” In ’57 it foundered in a gale
while on a trip north bound, with a load
of passengers, among whom were a num
ber of miners with whom Mr. Young had
worked at Gibsonville, and each of them
carried from $6,000 to SIO,OOO. The ship
went down in sight of another vessel, but
the storm was so terifle that the boats
were all sunk except one before the
friendly ship could be reached, and the
captain went down with his ship while
waiting for the life-boats to return.
The patriotism of the American people
is again chilled by the attitude of the
president upon the Cuban question. The
merit of conservatism may be claimed
for the message, but it does not voice
the sentiment of the American people:
”My country, ’tis of thee,
Rweet land of liberty,”
Right at our shore lies Cuba, wonnded
and bleeding, persecuted and punished
for daring to choose liberty to succeed
the despotism of Spanish rule. Battling
. for the same cause that inspired Ameri
can patriots when Washington crossed
I the Delaware: the same sense of justice
that dominated Patrick Henry when he
proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me
death.”
When you receive a map of the Klon
dike, you can tell whether it is a late one
or dates from the early days of the gold
epidemic: If the name is spelled with a
Y, it now belongs to the bargain counter
variety, but if it is spelled with an I; itj
has been issued since the United States j
Geodetic Survey decided it should be
Klondike.
! How people love to be humbugged! It
is difficult to say which has excited the
most ftttentiou and comment, the Bnc«
gold-manufacturing process, or the re
ported extraction of gold from the sea
waters on the coast of Maine, under the
direction of s Yankee preacher. Both
claims are greatly exagerated, and in all
l probability will prove failures. 1
An Ode To Odor.
Oh, I smell the politician’s
Odoriferous cigar,
A far more pungent odor
Than the smell of boiling tar!
Oh, I smell the rank bituminous
As the smoke floats to the sky,
And I also snuff the incense.
Of the home-made pumpkin pie!
Oh, I smell the last bud’s fragrance.
And the wintergreen in gum.
And the faint and powdery essence,
Of the big chrysanthemum.
But these do not speak as plainly
Of the passing of the fall
As the strong and pungent odor
Of the cast-off camphor balL
—Salt Lake Tribune*
Christmas Time.
Christmas times in Georgy; know it by
the way
The little boy is talkin’ ’bout the toys
every day;
For he’s seen ’em in the window wher’
his mother walked along,
An’ “What you goin’ to buy me?” is his
everlastin song!
Christmas times in Georgy! jest as sure
as fate:
Know it by the little girls that hang
aroun’ the gate,
Waitin’ with a kiss fer me when evenin’
comes along:
An’ “What you goin to buy me?” is their
everlastin’ song.
Christmas times in Georgy! ’Pears to ms
that they
Are in a powerful hurry for to ’mind you
’o the day;
As if the old time fellers that’s lived so
mighty long
Didn’t know the time o’ Christmas
’thought that everlastin’ song.
But—thank the Lord, there’s some one
in the homes aroun’ us yit
To kiss us all fer Christmas so’s we never
kin forgit!
An’ thank the Lord fer little ones that
think the time is long
An’ make us young forever with the mu
sic of that song!
—Atlanta Constitution
The Labor cannot refrain from noting
that the Gunnison News has entirely re
covered from campaign debilities, and is
giving its readers a newsy and bright
paper, creditable alike to its publishers
and Gunnison county.
Tuesday evening Judge and Mrs. T.
O’Bryan entertain the people of the
camp at cards: the event being compli
mentary to W. 8. Smith on the eve of
his departure, and all united in making
the evening very pleasant.
Counterfeit $lO bills are in circulation
at Rocky Ford, and the federal officers
are after the offenders who have dared
create a “flat” of their own. We pre
sume this is a case where it cannot be
claimed that the paper, in the bills is
worth more than the genuine, as the
eastern press alleges to be the case of a
recent counterfeit-silver coin.
As ws are laboring at about tbs asms
altitude it will be readily understood bow
completely the following from the bard
of the Crested Butte Pilot fits our case:
“To our subscribers—lf you please, the
Weekly Smiler’s needing grease, and we
have this to say, to-wit; Will those de
linquents please remit? And to assist
them we will say, we’ll take most any
thing in nay—for instance, wood, pdtatoes
oats, or even promissory notes, onions or
barley, root beer, pop, alfalfa, carrots,
eggs—first crop. Our cost is gone and
through our pants, the wind of autumn
sings and chants, and ever, ever, seems
to say, ’Why don’t the darned delinquents
pay?’ Oh, head our piss! Reject it—
nit! For God’s sake, reader, please re
mit”
There is some talk of the value of a
book on the Rock Creek distriht as an
advertisement of its resources. The value
of such a plan to make known the at
i tractiveness of the mining section around
' Crystal and Marble cannot be overesti
! mated. If some man having the exper
ience on work of this character, and if
the mining and commercial companies,
together with individuals, interested in
this section are favorable to such a pro
ject, could he secured to assume the
management of such an enterprise it
• can be carried to successful comple
tion. It is none too soon to begin, and
one not experienced in such work can
scarcely conceive the amount of time
and labor involved in an undertaking of
Atchison Globe Sights.
Did you ever know a good farmer who
waa a good politician.
Grover Cleveland and wife are what
the women call “old fashioned” Ruth* is
only 7, but there are three younger.
It ia a good deal harder to get a com
plimentary notice in a newspaper than it
is to get a letter of recommendation.
* When a man la paying his wife's bills,
he regards her with a clearer vision than
at any other time during their marriage.
Until the day he dies, every man thinks
he is fooling one or more persona, and
every woman thinks she is fooling four
or five.
A woman’s soul seems to be a great I
deal more valuable than that of a man’s,
judging from the frantic effort she makes
to save it.
Abe Lincoln’s picture is now used in
connection with “Uncle Tom” advertis
ing, almost as prominently as the picture
of the manager.
Here of late a simple suieide is not
much of an item: a man must kill three
or four others and then himself, in order
to attract attention.
Everyone occasionally longs for some I
friend to whom he could tell all his
troubles without eternally disgracing
himself by the recital.
An ideal wife is one who ia as pleased
with the beef steak her husband buys, 1
aa she was with the chocolates he gave
her before their marriage
When a woman pretends that ahe is
an angel, it ia as big a lie as when a man
says outright that he does all the work
where he is employed.
In trying to get to a man’s heart by
way of his stomach, a woman usually
gets his liver out of order before she gets
anywhere near his heart.
Times are so good in the Short Gram
country this year, that a millionaire out
there now has as much as eleven or
twelve thousand dollars. ,
No wonder our forefathers had no
misgivings about an annual Thanksgiv
ing day: In earning to this country, they
left all their kin behind them.
The day after s woman has spent s
great deal of money on foolishness, she
boils the potatoes with their jackets on,
in order not to waste the skins.
A woman cannot remain in the social
swim, nowadays, by simply giving one
party during the season: she is obliged
to give a “series;” one of every kind.
After a man has been out of “society”
three or four years, and breaks in again
he feels a good deal like a man who has
taken the Keeley cure, and lapsed.
Every once in a while some man gets
into trouble by kissing a woman against
her will. Why does he do it? There
are plenty of women who are willing.
People are growing so clever that we
anticipate before we die, learning of a
stove in which one little log put in in
September, will keep a fire lasting till
March.
Every man who gives a party feels aa
the hour moves around to the time ae if
he were going to have a tooth pulled,
but a woman feels more like a queen
every minute.
One of the greatest humiliations in a
society girl’s life is to be seen at an ev
ening pa rtj by her employer, after she
has been absent from work all day be
cause of sickness.
We hare always longed to be the agent
of a show, and go about the country
wearing a fur trimmed overcoat, but we
wouldn’t feel very proud if we were the
agent of an Uncle Tomer.
If you want to know what a woman’s
very beet effort is, happen around at her
house at dinner time on the day when
her ami, who ia working in another town
makes his first visit home.
George M. Pullman is regarded ae the
greatest friend the colored man ever had
If it were not for the position of porter
in a Pullman car, the colored man would
have a hard time to get rich.
Stealing Evangeline Cisneros failed to
be a cause for war with Spain; we won
der what would happen if ehe were re
turned to Cuba. If that wouldn’t causa
war, Spain will sand any indignity;
Aumnwto i. mil, ehnt, omr talk,
about time, being dull. If jour bull nm.
k dull, don't admit It; the raul clever
man .pend the dm. others devote to
whining, to attempts to improve (Ur
bUSUMS.-
If jou are determined to spoil any
children, spoil the girls. When a spotted
girl is grown, she gate msrrted. sad tbs
knowledge that eh. is .potted is confined
to her family, but if a boy ia spoiled the
j world find, it out, and It ruin* hi. bud
Make No Mistake!
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* White Owl Corn, 0 cans for 1.00 “ Apricofcs,6 *• .. 1.00
Empson Daisy Peas, 8 cans (or 1.00 “ Pears, 5 cans (or. 1.00
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’ 6 cans for 1.00 Apple, 5 cans (or 1.00
s N. J. Sweet Potatoes, 5 cans (or 1.00 Anderson’ Ass’t’d Jam, 8 cans for.. M0
Lewis Baked Beans, 4 cans (or 1.00 Hamburgh Gal. Apples, deans for.. MB
Van Camp Pork A Beans, 4 cans for 1.00 Ass’t’d Gal. Pie Fruit, 3 cans lor... IZ0
r Hub City Baked Beans, 5 cans for.. 1.00 Hals Gal. Regent Maple, psr can... JO
r Field Core Oysters, 5 cans (<w 1.00 Quarter Gal, Extra Fine Purs
1 Harrington 1 lb Salmon, 5 cans for.. 1.00 Maple Syrup, - per can, 45
2t> Rex Corned Beef, 4 cans for.... 1.00 Eagle Condensed Milk, 5 cans for.. 1 JO
b 31b R«x Roast Beef, 4 cans for 1.00 Crown* “ “ Seans for.. 1J0
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IUd Saul Lre, 4 cm lor • .CO Diwky Diamond Tor Soop. 10 bero.gUB
* While " *— Soap, 18 boro for ... 1.00 Sopolio, Largo, 8 boro tor 14B
* Dourer Boot Soop. 18 bon tor MX) 177«, Lorge alia. 4 boro tor JO
’• Ivory Soop—Large Sloe, 10 boro tor IjOO Scrubbing Bruohoo, aaeb J#
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Quaker Buckwheat Self Rowing Victor Boiled Onto (Tory One)
Flour. 28> pkgn., 7 for 11.00 21> package, 0 tor iMB
n Schumokero Buckwheat 8. R. Rolled Oete, (Bulk) 26Bw tor MB
* Flour, 28> pckge. 0 for MX)
* Navy Beane, lOgw for M Corlee Hominy, 8 Bo lor M
Lima Bean., 81b. for 80 Vermicilli, per bo* 88
* Pearl Barley, 7 lba for J50 Macaroni, per bo* V 88
Pearl Tapioca, S gw for SO A No - 1 Lard > 8 * !*“■ ®* ch M
* Saco, b gw for M “ “ 10» “ l-<»
» Rice, A, No. 1, 6 gw for f 0
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Evaporated Applee, 5 lbe for g fO McLaughlin*. XXXX Package
, Evaporated Poacheo, 4 lb. for A0 Coffee, 6 package, tor. 8MB
, Evaporated Plum., 4 lbe for AO Arbuckle*. Coffee 0 pkge. tor...... MB •
|* Evaporated ApricoU, 4 lbe for A0 Mocha and Java (e*t»u fine) 2)| lbe. MB
Evaporated Pear*. 4 lbe for fO B. F. Japan Tea, per lb 80
Prune, 4 lba tor A0 Gunpowder Ten, per lb .10
■ Sultana SeedleM Raiaina, 4 lbe for. AO Early Brqakfeot Ton, pea lb 80
- Three Crown RaUna, S lba for .60 PolongTea, per lb.. 88
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