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Tage 6 EAST CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927 Lirdhergl'« and New York Officials Review Parade 4 JkJkVkN O W W W W VVN » FAMOUS MINING STRIKES By THOMAS E. STEW ARD Butte as a Gold Camp and Silver Uuttv 'M ont.) district Is known T HE to the present generation as one Colonel Lindbergh (marked by arrow) and New York city ollicints lu the reviewing stand ut the city hall, with mounted police trying to control the excited crowds. West Point Graduates Receiving Commissions Senvtary o f War Davis bestowing commissions on the graduating class of the United States Military academy at West Point. There were 203 cadets In the class. President Dedicating Wicker Park DRY CHIEF’S AID f Iiclung for Trouble Defect in Character A young man had applied for a cer tain position and Ills possible employ er was getting some sidelights on tlie applicant’s character. ‘‘ Why, he’s all right,” said those who knew him best, ‘‘ lie ’s young and sometimes foolish, but he means nil right.” “ That Is not satisfactory,” said the employer. “ What's the doubt ubout him?” “ Well,” was tlie hesitating reply, “ he rnther has a habit of defying aiithor- Ity, just for the sake o f defying it. lie doesn’ t care particularly about breaking the rules or the laws, but he seems to have a complex which makes him antagonistic toward anyone over him. lie will probably do his work well, but lie will always be Itching for an opportunity to sass you a bit.” “ Guess that's enough,” said the em ployer, arid he looked elsewhere for an employee.— Springfield Union. of the world's richest copiier miring region.- and probably the most produc tive Mining region In the United States. llut it wits the lure o f gold dust that first attracted to It that bnnd of hardy and adventurous souls who sv ept through the American West In search o f wealth In its most con densed and glittering form. Hold deposits o f tliu ftlaeer tjpe, dust ai d nuggets that could be washed from gravel, was discovered at llun- noek, Alder Oulch and Last Chance A sim p le ,-«Id -fash ion e d medicine, as prnod as in 1837, la compounded In W r ig h t's Qulch, Mont., In lht!3, and the usual today Indian ^Vegetable Pills. They regulate the rush of prospectors nnd their ilk fol ■toma.cn, -ilivor and bowels. Adv. lowed. They searched every gulch and creek hod, located numerous clulms, Not What It Seemed nnd w shed out, all In all, an Im The dancer, stopped anil watched pressive amount o f gold. ns a sunburnt niun crossed the floor The first strike In the actual en toward the host. Ills wliolo frame virons of ltutte was made by u pass shivered and shook. Then suddenly ing Immigrant lu 1804, who staked out Ills tremors censed nnd he was sur a cluini on the west side of what be prised to hear a burst of applause came Main street lu that city. Other from the guests. strikes followed In neighboring gulches, “ Welcome, old ninn,” cried his host, but placer mining seemed less re seizing the newcomer’s Inind, "and munerative here thuu In other parts congratulations. 1 never expected to of the state. The gold was Inferior see such an expert performer of the and brought only $11 to $14 an ounce. charleston straight out o f central A f Water was not available. At first the rica.” Ilutte ore was hauled by ox team to The traveler gasped. Rainbow creek for washing, but ditch “ Charleston?" he echoed. “ Thnt Hues were built eventually. It U esti wasn't the charleston, that was mated that $1.500,000 worth of gold ague.” was washed out at ltutte during three years of placer mining. Tree Preserved in Ice Butte's copper history will make a A Canadian government exploration separute story. The history of its rich party recently came ucross n sprute silver mines Is part of that o f the gold tree which had been preserved In the deposits. Ice o f the great North American gla Quartz veins rich hi silver existed on cier in Alaska. The glacier had re many o f the rocky hillsides around ceded anil left the tree exposed after Butte, but the ore was of a type not an Imprisonment estimated nt hun then recognized, although similar veins dreds o f thousands o f years. The In tlve Comstock lode were soon to spruce was npparently one hundred prove so valuable that the Butte mines twenty-four years old when the glacier were Immediately opened. A number enveloped It o f silver lodes were worked In the middle sixties, and It was the prospect Husband, 9, Is Divorced of rich sliver mining, rnther than gold, One o f the first cases heard under that led to the development which re sulted in the town’ s being laid out In Turkey’s new divorce law was that of 18d4). Butte reached the greatest pros a seventeen-yenr-old girl who divorced her nine-year-old husband to whom perity o f Its early stage In 181)7-08, her parents had wed her sight unseen then declined rapidly until about 1875, under the old law, says Capper’s when c o p p e r mining gave It a new Weekly. lease of life and led to Its tremendous later development. Bluebird Your Friend The climax of Butte’s silver period The bluebird can never have too was reached In 1887, when stamp mills grinding silver ore In that city were r.nny homes free from English spar dropping 21X1 stamps and the amount rows. In feeding. It Is his habit to of ore worked In the silver stump mills fly from a perch to the ground and return with leisure. He turns fly reached 404) tons u day. In addition catcher and adds winged Insects to his to this about 100 tons a day were be hill o f faro.— Nature Magazine. ing shipped out to smelters. 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FILIPINO LEADER Pi< ident Coolidge delivering his address at the dedication of Wicker park, the war memorial o f Lake county, Indiana, lie declared the park estaldished as a tribute to the war heroes o f the Calumet district "a real memorial and a true emblem o f our Republic.” “ America” Ready for Atlantic Hop Senator .Tuan B. Alegre, one o f the most prominent Filipino lenders, who Ins been conferring with federal ofll el a Is in Washington. denies, gold In tiny particles Is so plentiful in the soil that children fol low the workmen who are putting In telephone poles or doing any kind of digging, for the sake o f picking up the tiny flecks o f precious metal tliut are sure to be revealed. Writers on Brazil tell how miners seeking gold found a number of bright nnd attractive pehnles which had such an Individual appearance thut resi dents o f the village of Tljuca began saving them for markers In card games. 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