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FARMHAND KILLED BY A VICIOUS BULL FRANK HALLMAN, ATTACKED BY ANIMAL, BATTLES VAINLY FOR HIS LIFE. AX HANDLE HIS ONLY WEAPON Is Trampled to Death as Help Arrives —Brute Breaks Out of Pen and Runs Wild Through the Fields. Chicago.—Armed only with an ax handle, Frank Hallman, a farmhand, fought for hi« life with a maddened bull on the farm of C. G. Healey, at Park Ridge, the other afternoon. For 16 minutea the unequal battle waged, both man and beast using all the cunning in their make-up to win a victory, and then the man. exhausted from exertion and loss of blood, fell unconscious at the feet of the animal to be gored to death and tossed over a fence at the feet of fellow workmen who had come to his assistance. Gladiatorial contests In the heyday of the old Hyman empire, when trained warriors went forth to do bat tle with wild beasts, were hardly more dramatic than this fight on the lonely farm, where the combatants were alone, each sparring for the telling blow, the bull charging, the man dodg ing, with horn and hoof pitted against human ingenuity and a hickory stick, and each contestant fighting to the death. The bull, a huge Durham, was known to be a dangerous animal, and was kept tied to a stake in a small in closure. The other day the hemp fell from the iron ring in the beast's nose, and with a rush he crashed through the fence that lay between him and liberty. Gaining his freedom, he ran ram pant through the fields, chasing cat tle. horses, and chickens to shelter, nnd destroying everything that lay in his path. Hallman, wearing a red flannel shirt, passed across the lot as the bull w’as bellowing in triumph on a little hil- Frank Hallman Fights the Bull. lock The bright color caught the ani mal's eye, and with tall In air and head to the ground he charged upcrn the farmhand at full tilt Hallman stood as If riveted to the sjmil. the ux handle poised over his shoulder. As the beast bore down upon him he jumped nimbly to one Bide and brought his crude weapon with all the force at his command down on the head of the animal. The blow served only to further en rage the beast, and. wheeling about, he again charged full upon Hallman. Another nimble Jump and unother fall of the ax handle met tills second on slaught. The man's aim was untrue and the stick only struck the tip of the animal's horn. The bull wheeled about, planted his fore feet In the soft earth, threw his head high In the air, bellowed a fierce challenge of defiant ruge. lowered his horns for the third attack, und again charged on the little man, who stood bravely awaiting the onslaught. <'barge after charge was repouted In those few minutes, until the man fell helpless to the ground. By this time other farm hands, at tracted by the bellowing of the ani mal, came to the pasture anil run to the assistance of Hallman, but before they reached the fence thnt separates the hold of combut Trom the orchard, the animal advanced to the prostrate innn, drove one of his sharp horns Into his temple, and then, toss ing the body at the foot of the would be rescuers, scumpered off across the fields. Hallman's body was taken to the letylum morgue ut Dunning, and the hull was corralled by live men and re turned to his i>en. Many "Friends" Left by Rich Man. M. I intuit, who died In Faria In 11*02, left a large part of his wealth to all those who could legally claim kin ship with him. The .ourt has Just rejected the claims of *.e seven hun dredth and seventh "friend."—Uradon Globe. Against Matterhorn Railway. The Swiss government has received • petition with nearly 70,000 name*, protesting ugalnst the building of a railway up the Mutturhorn. DOG WHIPS YOUNG LION; BEAST CAPTURED ALIVE TRAPPER FIND 3 ANIMAL UNCON SCIOUS UNDER TREE AFTER FIGHT WITH CANINE. Helena, Mont. —Frank Sedlak of Flathead county gives a most interest ing account of an adventure which his dog had with a mountain lion, and w'hich he managed to capture alive after a chase lasting three nights and two days. While going over his line of traps he missed one of his dogs, and after a long search he came to the con clusion that he had been killed and devoured by a mountain lion. While returning home he heard a howling quite a distance from the trail. He whistled and soon brought the missing dog to him. The appear ance of the dog at once indicated that A Battle Royal. something unusual had been going on wherever the dog had been. Instead of going home, he followed the dog over the trail the animal had made In coming to him after being called by the whistle. The dog led him to a big tree at which there was lying a young mountain lion with which the dog had evidently had a tussle. The lion had every appearance of being dead and showed the marks of the dog's teeth upon his neck. Sed lak supposed the lion was dead and was making arrangements to carry him home when the animal gave signs of restoration of life, and re covered so rapidly that he had to act very quickly in order to get a rope wound uround him. He at once conceived the idea of capturing the lion alive, and with this object succeeded in getting it to his cabin, at which place he made the lion fast in the stable. For four days the lion refused to eat anything and evidently rebelled at its captivity. However, on the fifth he ate everything which was given to him. and has apparently recovered from the fight with the dog. From the indications around the tree Mr. Sedlak thinks the dog had been fighting with the Hon which he captured alive and also that there was another lion In the tree during that time, and that as soon as the dog left to answer the call of the whistle the lion which was up the tree came down and got away. This is one of the few instances on record where u live lion lias been taken, and if the dog had been en gaged In the struggle as long as his master thinks he had been, it must have been a battle royal. GUARDS HUBBY WITH GUN. Bride of Seventy Defies Her Relatives to Separate Them. Meriden, Conn.—To prevent her rel atives from separating her from her husband, who Is 20 yearn her junior. Mrs. Samuel A. Mallory, a bride of 70. baa intrenched herself In her farm house at East Lyne. with a shotgun trained on the approach to drive back constables who are seeking to serve papers In a suit for the annulment of her marriage*. So far none of them bus tempted fate by crossing the line, and Mrs. Mallory Is In possession of her husband. The annulment suit was brought by Fred Leeds of Preston, who alleges Mallory became the fourth husband of his slßter. not because he cherished any affection for her. but became be lind n covetous eye on the $25,000 for tune she possessed. When it became known that Mallory and the widow were to marry strong efforts were made to prevent It. hut without sue cess. Although the prospective hrldn was nearly twice as old as her prospective husband, both of them declnrcd the af fair was a love match, pure and sim ple, nnd that they would brook no In terference with their planß. So they were married nnd would he living hap pily were not so much of the bride's time occupied In defending herself ugntnst the constables. Girl Strips as She Skates. Pittsburg, Pa. —Pearl White, 16 years old, one of the heHt roller skitters In the country, created a sen sation on tho north side the other morning by racing through tho streets pursued by a policeman with e. war rant. Pearl waß disrobing us she ran and was down to her underskirt when the blushing cop overhauled her und stopped the disrobing. The skater tamo here from Monon galielit City some time ago and Is thought to have become deranged by overwork. NEWS FROM THE MINES AND MILLS Improved Copper Market. New York advices state that the most favorable feature developed lln the coppfer industry during the first quarter of the year was the renewal of buying by domestic con sumers in March, although very mod erate in amount. It Is estimated that contracts for about 20,000,000 pounds were placed by wire drawers, electrical companies, brass founders and other manufacturers for delivery during April, May and June. The domestic consumption of copper, which it. is esti mated went as low as 15.000.000 pounds in January, increased to about 20.000.- 000 in February and to about 25,000,000 pounds in March. The improvement in domestic business has been largely in the brass Industry, according to recent reports, it being estimated that such consumers are now nndfing 15.000,000 pounds of the total 25.000,000 monthly, the increase in consumption by wire drawers having been relatively light. There has been some improvement also with electrical companies. The total domestic consumption for the first quarter of the year is estimated at 60.- 000, 000 pounds, which is less than the consumption during a single month in the most active period. This is an av erage of 20,000,000 pounds per month. The exports of copper have been very heavy during the first quarter, as compared with previous years, but since January, when 33,019 tons were shipped, there has been a reduced movement The total was 79,279 tons during the three months, or making a moderate allowance for shipments from Southern and Pacific ports during March not yet re|>orted, a total of about 178,000,000 pounds. The production of copper in the I’nited States during the first quarter of the year is estimated at about ICO,- 000.000 pounds The principal increase has been in Utah and Arizona thus far. but we are about to realize the increase from Montana. It is thus expected that about 10.000.000 pounds more will be added to the United States output by the end of this month. During rtie sec ond half of the year a further heavy increase is anticipated, so that by the end of the year we will be producing at the rate of 90,000,000 pounds i monthly if not more. Concrete Mine Supports. What promises to be an Invention that will make its designer wealthy, is the concrete mine support recently pat ented by D. W. Shepard of Denver, ways the Denver Republican The nar row concrete pillars with which it is hoped to supplant the ordinary mine timber, are reinforced with steel bars, cleverly placed so as to direct the lat eral pressure upwards, toward the apex. Owing to the peculiar require ments of strength in a mine timber, I 'he ordinary method of strengthening | concrete pillars by straight rods of I steel would not suffice for the purpose ! the inventor had in mind, and he was I compelled to devise some other means of reinforcement. The scheme he fin -1 ally hit upon confines the supporting members to a small space and at the ' same lime increases the breaking point of the pillar far beyond that of the or dinary timber of the same size. The advantages of a concrete sup ported mine are obvious. Danger from fire is almost entirely done away with: the materials for constructing the sup ports, with the exception of the cement, are right at hand: the supports, unlike wooden timbers, become more firm with age: and finally, according to the inventor, the cost of installing concrete supports is from ten to fifteen per cent, less than of ordinary timbers. The concrete supports come in sets, according to the size of the cut intend ed, and are arranged so that they may he fastened together at the ends, the projecting steel bars from the uprights passing through the holes in the ends of the cap pieces. A company capitalized at SIOO,OOO has been formed to market the inven tion. and a large sale throughout the country is anticipated by the men in terested in it. German Zinc Miners Unite. ronsul-Gctieral Richard Guenther of Frankfort reports that the mine own ers and producers of zinc in Germany have recently combined in a syndicate which for the next three years is to control the production of the German mines aud fix the prices of the metal and by-products. The principal Ger man metal dealers are also members Of tin* syndicate, which purposes to make agreements with the principal zinc producers of Belgium aud other countries fot the protection of their common trade interests. Up to last year Germany wus the largest pro ducer of tills metal, and still is the chief user of it for ordinary and artis tic purposes. The United States now leads in the production of raw zinc or spelter. Statistics for 1907 furnished by the United States Geological Sur vey, show that this country produced 225.000 tons, Belgium standing second with 1 (18,000 tons, and Germany (.Si lesla) third, with 150,000 tons. Zinc Ore at Rico. The Denver Republican prints the following from Rico, April sth: The commercial demonstration of zinc blende ores wus actively begun today, when the Pro Patria mill of the United Rico Mines Company was started on ore from the Alluntlc Cable mine. The product will later be put through mag nolle separators and is expected to realize $5 u ton in the crude. The magnetic plant is now working i on conceutrates from siliclous ores from the Ute mine. Two products ure obtained, a lead product at sixty-three per cent, lead and twenty-eight ounces silver, and a zinc product of forty-six per cent. These are claimed to be the best results ever obtained by milling in this camp. The strike of lead zinc ore in the Shamrock, owned by the United Rico Minos Company, is claimed to he one of tho largest made in the state. All of tho workings are still In ore without finding the width or depth of the de posit. Colorado Non-Metallic Minerals. As evidence of the rapid increase in the uses of cement and cement con crete, says Capt. T. J. Smith in The Denver News, word comes from Colo rado Springs that the Beaver Land and Irrigation Company, composed largely of Colorado Springs capitalists, and operating in Fremont county, proposes to construct its reservoirs, ditches and laterals of cement, after a practice adopted to some extent in California and Utah districts where water is scarce and valuable. It Is estimated that this cement construction will save twenty to sixty per cent, of the water supply. The Engineering Record, a new* York publication of the highest class, pays Denver a notable compliment by devotinu eleven columns of Its space to an illustrated description of the new concrete bridge over Cherry creek at Bannock street. Ideal Portland ce ment (Colorado manufacture), two parts sand and five parts gravel, with crushed granite and steel framework, constitute the material. But cement is only one of the twenty five non-metallics now established in this state on a producing basis, and which alreadv surpass in value the me tallic output of the commonwealth, de spite the present revival and expan sion in mining lor gold and the very recent additions of several rare min erals to the established metallic list. The greatest of all the non-metals is coal, winch, with coke added, reached $53,000.000 :n Colorado last year, al lowing $1 per ton as the retail price of the coa; and $9. 000,000 for the coke. The Geological Survey has recognized the importance of Colorado as a coal state, and of Denver as an industrial center lor the adjoining states and ter ritories. ly establishing in South Denver, at the foot of West Cedar ave nue and on the tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, an elaborate fuel-testing plant, which continues the experiments inaugurated at St. Louis in 1904 in connection with the Louisi ana Purchase Exposition. A. W. Bel den is the engineer in charge, assisted in the coke and washing sections by W. E. Vickers and H. L. Gardener. The chemical laboratory is controlled by G. A Burrell. Coal washing ma chines of the most up-to-date pattern have been installed. The plant is equipped with four of these washing machines, four different specific grav ity solutions being used with each size of coal tested. The Colorado list of non-metals, al ready formidable in value aud enorm ous in promise, grows wider month by month. It includes at present s.uch valuable factors as sulphuric acid, coal, cement, coke, brick clay, fire or refrac tory cla> kaolin, fuller's earth, fluor spar, garnet, gypsum, lime, manganese ore, mu a (both ground aud fiake), mineral waters, precious stones, petrol eum, pyrites, silica (glass material), soda, limestone, grindstone, building stone, paving stone, marble and sul phur. Since the first of the year the oil industry in Boulder county has ex panded rapidly. The Boulder oil belt produced last year 77,880 barrels, worth $97,000 at an average price of $1.25 per barrel, which is higher than the average in the eastern oil fields. Last week the Inland company shipped in one day sixten car tanks of refined oil. According to the Boulder Miuer, the product of the Boulder City refin eries now exceeds that of the Florence plants, although the latter field was exploited as early as 1882. The build ing of the new refinery of the Inland company is being rushed to completion and the sinking of additional wells is set for the very near future. The Dal ton Oil Company, another Boulder cor poration. has declared a quarterly divi dend of two per cent . payable April 15th This is notable as the first an nomeed dividend in the non-metals of the -tale, as the coal and cement com panies. . while generously profitable, are of the close corporation class, keep ing their dividends to themselves. Clear Creek Tunnel Progress. The total footage made in the prin cipal cross-cut tunnels in the Clear Creek district during March was 095 feel, which exceeds any month in the last year and a half. The McClelland tunnel was driven 215 feet} making its length G. 785 feet April Ist. This is the greatest monthly footage in cross-cutting in the district in seventeen months, the last record having been made in the New house in October, 1900, when that bore was ex tended 230 feet. The McClelland tunuei is upproach ing a point directly under the gulch in ili»> upper end of the town of Freeland. The next best footage was made in the Marshall-Russell tunnel, at Empire station, which was extended 151 feet, making the length of that bore 1,413 fee \pril Ist. • The Metropolitan tunnel, being driven south from the mouth of Trail creek b> Contractor Knowles, was pushed 134 feet, making its total length *551 feet. The Central tunnel, being driven by the Big Five, broke the ice in March and the conductor made 101 feet, which is the best since February, 1907, when the tunnel was driven 127 feet. The total length April Ist was 6,444 feet. The big Seemann -tunnel from Fall river, which Is pointed directly to wards James peak, was driven ninety two feet during March, making its to tal lenth 1,771 feet April Ist. As the cost of driving and equipping cross-cut tunnels Is at least S3O a foot, more than $20,000 was expended In this form of development during March. Union Mill Again Closed. The Union mill of the United States Reduet ion uml Refining Company, which resumed operations last Novem ber. w ill be closed this week, owing to tin* scarcity of ore from Cripple Creek, says the Florence correspondent of The Denver Republican, under date of April (sth. The plant has a cupuclty of 400 tons dally, and for several weeks lias been receiving only eighty tons dally. This ore will be diverted to the Standard mill of the company at Colo rado City. Most of the employes were paid off today, but many f them will be transferred to Canon City, where the company’s smelter will resume at once. MINOE PIE PARTS COUPLE. Mamma Gave It to Children Against Papa’s Wish. St. Louis.—Henry J. Pierce, owner of the Pierce skyscraper here and for mer president of the International Street Railway company of Buffalo, N. Y., and his wife, Violet E. Pierce, filed evidence in his divorce suit here. Alexander Hellrung, styling himself a medico gymnast, deposed that while Pierce w'as convalescent at Little Boarshed, N. H., Mrs. Pierce appeared and talked so excitedly and persistent ly that Pierce fainted, and it became necessary to order her to leave the resort. Robina Swetman, trained nurse, testified Mrs. Pierce refused to kiss Pierce at breakfast, and insisting he was not to be cheated out of his kiss he seized her hand and kissed it. Mrs. Pierce claimed he refused to receive her and her five children when they returned from Switzerland in 1907, forcing her to go to her former home in Yonkers, N. Y.. where she now resides. Her refusal to receive Pierce once until he “looked less like a shorn sheep” was in jest she al leged. Mrs. Pierce wouldn’t let Pierce walk with his sister's husband, his sister testified, and gave her children mince pie when he objected. NINE HER UNLUCKY NUMBER. That Figure Recurs In All Mrs. Wein stein’s Misfortunes. Philadelphia.—How much the figure 9 can affect the life of a woman was shown when 9-year-old Yetta Wein stein died of convulsions at the Penn sylvania hospital. Her mother, who w'as Jennie Silverman before her mar riage, is one woman who does not be lieve that the figure 9 is lucky, and the story of her life seems to prove her belief. Her maiden name contained 9 let ters and she was married to a man named Weinstein, which also contains 9 letters. She was born 39 years ago. on the 9th day of the 9th month and is 4 feet J inches in height and weighs 99 pounds. She was married January 9. 1889, and her husband died 9 years ago. October 9. 1899, leaving her the infant child, Yetta, who was 9 weeks old. Mrs. Weinstein was taken sick with fever 19 months later and after 9 weeks of serious illness recovered, but with the loss of her eyesight. With the death of her 9 year-old daughter at 9 o’clock, she was left without rela tives and few' friends. She lives at No. 533 South street, and in her blind ness is dependent upon charity. MOTOR CAR OUTKICKS MULE. Jury So Decides Because a Farmer Flew Thirty Feet. York, Pa.—Something on the morn ing of October 15. 1907, hit Farmer Leander Blouse of Chanceford town ship amidships as he was driving along the Chanceford plk* near York before daybreak with a load of pota toes. He was propelled over the fence for a distance of 30 feet. It was left to a jury in Judge Wan ner’s court to decide whether the I great injury to his person” was in flicted by an automobile driven by Arthur Geesey or by Farmer Blouse's own mule. The jury, after deliberat ing for a quarter of an hour, decided that It was too good a kick even for a mule, and awarded the farmer $739 damages. Geesey. who had been making an early start to open the rabbit-shooting season, insisted that he had been on the right side of the road, that Blouse was driving on the wrong side, but that he turned his auto in time to avoid a collision. His theory of how Farmer Blouse came by his grievous injuries was that the farmer’s own mule must have in dieted them. JOKE FEEDS HUNGRY MOB. Rich Church Makes False Report Good by Real Breakfast. Pittsburg. Pa.—Some enemy of the fashionable Second Presbyterian church played a Joke with surprising results, by circulating a story that at the Sunday morning service a good breakfast would be served to 150 for the city's needy. Long before the time set for service the vestibules and halls of the big church on Eighth street were crowded with the worst looking lot of people who had ever been Inside the doors. They were hungry and bad come to be fed. though neither the pastor nor any of the flock knew what wus expected. The pastor, Rpv. S. Edward Young, soon found out, however, und starting the collection with a dollar, which he said would And breakfast for ten men, he went through the church and soon had enough to feed every one nnd ha\e a surplus for permanent Sunday morning breakfuHts. Now every one Is Invited each Sunday morning to eat In the basement at the expense of Pastor Young's llreukfast Brother hood club." 2,135 Farms for Public. Washington.—Tho government on May 1 will pace on the market 2.135 farms nnd will allow purchasers ten years to pay for them. The area of the farms will range from 10 to 160 acres and they nre made available by tho completion and development of the Irrigation project* In the went. The farina are In Ne vada. Oregon nnd South Dakota. In South Ilakola 175 farms will be available In tracts of eight acres, and In Wyoming 200 on the North Platlo project and 200 on the Shoshone pro i> ct costing from 2600 to (1200. The Wrong Time. Mias Jackson —Mr. Johnsing, Ah have fln’l’y decided to be yo’ wife if KO’ wants me! Mr. Johnson (unaffeotedly)—Dis am de unsuspicious time to impose yo’self to me. Ah understand yo’ Just lost yo' lob! Didn’t Marry Him. Howell—When I began courting the girl who is now my wife she said that she wouldn't marry the best man who ever lived. Powell —It isn’t every woman who keeps her word like that. Grass Widow Defined. Presiding Elder G. A. of the Macon district, says the Macon Herald, tells this story of the late Bishop W. W. Duncan of the Methtodist Episcopal church: When Bishop Duncan first went to Texas to preside at a state conference there he was suffering severely with hay fever. He was of a nervous dis position and referred to his malady with such frequency that It became a bit tiresome to the preachers. A brother got up to make a report and In the course of it he used the term “grass widow.” "Grass widow!” cried the bishop. “I’ve heard that expression used half a dozen times since I’ve been here. I never heard it before. Will you pleass tell me, sir, what a grass widow is?'* The offending brother looked as calm and as serious as an undertaker dur ing the storm of laughter which the bishop's speech had developed. When things quieted down he said, very gently: “A grass widow, bishop, is a woman whose husband has died with hay fever!’’ A Terrible Appetite For Chicken. Henry E. 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