J FORTUNE'S I'REAKS. Romantic stories of 'men in tub colo ha oo uuld mines. Blanv Former Owner of raying Properties Are Now Poor t'pt And Down of ft Miner's Idle. THERE i pie Cr them fortun I are 12,000 men In Crip- i Crock, and fully 10,000 of i are mourning over the fortune thev have lout, writes Frank O. Carpenter in the Washington Btar. Yon will meet every tiny miners 'Who will tell yon bow near they enme to owning the Portland, the Independ ents, the Viofor, or other big mines which are now turning ont tens of thousands of dollars a month. Some Will whipper how they sold mines for ft song which are now worth million, and others willj-urno their luck as they describe the fortunes which have lipped through their lingers. I saw a man hauling logs at the town of Victor, near Cripple Creek, the other day, who sold a half-million-dollar mine to pay grooery bill of 940. He was earning S3 a day, and he was working for the meii who bought his mine. His name is Jerry Wiuehell. Four years ago he owned ft number of the best locations in the Cripple Creek district, but now he U is not worth a cent. The mine which went for grnb is famous here. It is known as "The Last Dollar." Win obeli located it in 1891, and not long fter that, when he found himself in debt to the amount of 810 to H. II. Mills, grooeryman, he gave him the mine to square the bills. Mills was not satisfied with the settlement. He objected, but Winchell had no money nd he had to take it. Three years later, however, he sold the mine for 975,000, and the purchaser resold it month or so after that to Senator Wol- BRINGING ORE FROM A MINE. " . ott and others for 9100,000. Now it is produoing quantities of gold, and no one knows what it will bring in the future. 1 sat at a dinner in Brown's Hotel, in Denver, the other day, beside a florid-faoed, long-beaded man from Colorado Springe. We soon began to talk of the mines of Cripple Creek. The subjeet of the Isabella Company came np, and I asked hint if he knew Anything as to the Cripple Creek mines owned by it. "Yes," said he, "I should say I do. Their best mine, yonr know, is the Buena Vista. It pays almost all the profits of the Isabella Company. Its veins has been traoed for three thou sand feet, and it has already produoed more than 9400,000 worth of gold. I bad ft chance to buy half of that mine for 9100, and did not take it. A man in my employ discovered it. He was one of those fellows who are always bard np, and one day he eame to me nd told me that hia family were ont of provisions, and that ho mnst have money. ' He spoke of the Bnena Vista prospect and offered me a half interest in it tor 9100. i told hint that I wonld give him the provisions, bnt I did not want the mine. I sa.d I did not be lieve there was any gold in the Cripple Creek region. The result was that he went away and sold the . interest to other parti es. Within two week those parties sold their half interest for 920, 000, and a month later my man got 910,000 tor his share. The Isabella mining stock at its preseat selling value is worth more than a million. It baa paid 9100,000 within a month it dividends, and I could have gotten one-half of it for 9100. Oh, Lord I it makes me sick when I think of it!" The Independence gold mine is said to be the richest in the world. It has, it is said, lrom five to seven million dollars' worth of gold in sight, and its owner, who was working at his trade - as a carpenter five years ago, would not now sell it lor 910,000,000 cash. And still the Independence has ev oral times been offered for sale and the offer refusod. This was in the first days of ita history. One. of Dave Moffat's experts told me the other night how ueur he eame to bnying it. Said he : "It was several years ago, before the Cripple Creek region was much devel oped that 1 cauie there from Leadville to see what 1 eonld find for Modat. 32 uen Smith was with me, and we bought the Viator mine for 905,0oo, nd nave, as you know, made about million ont ot it. Well, one day I was walking about Stratton's mine, when I saw miner wtom I knew hovelling out ore and rook. I avked bim whether toe mine was worth any thing, he said that be did not think that it was worth much, and that Stratton wonld never Ret anything ont of it. I went into the building, however, and ehijiped iff bit of tit ore and pnt it in my pneket. That night I had it assayed. It ran 9200 to the ton. I sounded Stratton and found I eonld get the mine for 910,000 cash at an option of 970,000. I replied that I could not make an offor until 1 eonld go through the mine and make a number of assays, and that while the first ore might run good, that which I got later might not be, worth mining. This Was agreed to, and I was just about to wire Kben Smith non woMAfK's cam, rovunxr on.cn. that we had better buy the mine, when I got a letter from bim, saying that the panic hail struck Denver. He said that everything wn flat, and that Mof fat had written to him to go slow, and not to buy anything for a time. He told me to break off anv negotiations I might have and go off fishing nntil the trouble blew over, I thought the matter would keep for a month, so I went fishing. Thirty days latter I earns back, only to find that Stratton had struck good ore, and that he would not sell at any price. He took ont several thonsmd dollars that month, and now well, now every one knows that the Independence mine is worth millions." As I have said, Stratton offered to sell out a number of times during the earlier days of the Independence, but at this time there were none who had enough faith to buy. Now it is said that he is making suoh improvements that he will in time be able to take a million dollars' worth of gold out of the mine in a single dav, and that one of his bouts is that he will soon ship a onrload of ore which will be worth at least 9100.000. He has already shipped 850,000 worth of ore in a day, and be is doing all he can to keep from allowing the mine to pay more than 8120,000 a month. The Portland mine was once offered to New York parties for 9200,000. But the experts who were sent there re ported that there was only 937,000 worth of ore in sight, and the New Yorkers refused the oner. The next month the owners of the Portland took out 940,000, and sinoe then it has produoed more than 92,000,000. It now pavs 900,000 a month in divi dends, and I am told that it will, not withstanding its enormous expenses, pay thirty-six per eent. this year. The Victor mine, whioh was sold to Freuoh parties for more than ft million dol lars, brought, as I have told you, the original ttuaers only SjO.ODO, and was refused by Wall street brokers at 9270,000.,, This mine pays two per cent a month dividends on ft eapitali zation of a million. Similar stories might be told as to other mines, and all abont me I see the funeral processions ol those who are mourning the "gold they did not get." During my ride to Cripple Creek I traveled with very intelligent dootor named McDonald, who is getting fat off the "one lung brigade who are marohing through different parts of Utah in searoh of health. He told me how be was otlered only two years ago a one-eighth interest in the Anohoria Leland mine for 9500, bnt bad not the nerve to buy. This is the mine ont of whioh Irving Howbart and others have made a fortune. Its stook is very val uable, and there is praotically none of it on the market. It was leased a little over year ago to T. J. Maloney, but the lease ha now expired. Maloney struck "pay dirt" as soon as he began working. Ho found one bodv of ore of 1900 pounds which yielded bim bjb.OUO, and he has taken out, 1 am told, more than $300,000 worth of gold. Had Dr. Mo Donald invested in the mine his 9300 would have made him independent of drug stores and patients for the rest of his life. Nearly every man who gets a mine at Cripble Creek has to fight for it Stratton has bad a number of law suits. The Portland mine was for ft long time in the courts, and nearly every good olaim is contested. One of the queerest stories I hear is toot of the Deer Horn mine, whioh now be longs to Stratton and others. It was located by an old carpenter named sterritt Sterritt had beard of Strat son's suooesp, and he knew that Strat ton was carpenter, so be thought if tbelnok was running with the cur pen ter trade be wonld drop bis saw and plane and go to mining. He was about sixty years of age, and he knew nothing about ore or prospecting, lie simply wandered about the hills in an aimless manner, breaking up ft piece of st jne hers and obipping off a bit of rook there. At last one day on Qlobe Hill, baok of Cripple Creek, be saw lying on the ground a deer's horn. He was a rather superstitious fellow, and he thought that this was an omen that he was to dig there for gold. He at oooe named his claim "The Deer Horn," and set ont tue sta ea whioh made it bis own. He bad no money, nd be was compelled to do all the work himself. He dug ten foot bole. ' and then making rale ladder, be 1 tul down with una sua labor ionsly carried the rook to the top. After time he rigged np a windlass and thus hauled it ont. After some week he sent some of the rock to Pueblo to be assayed, friend advanc ing him the cash to pay for the assay. The report was that the best ore con tained eighty cents' worth of gold to the ton. In reading it, however, old Sterritt mistook the figure for 98 in stead of eighty cents. "Thst isn't at all Dad," said be, and be went on min ing. At last, however, he oamo to the end of bis "grub," and be walked off to hi home, thirty miles away, to work at hi trade as carpenter for ft week or so in order to save enough money to go on with hia mine. While be was away the owner of one of the stamp mills examined the mine, and when he came back they offered him dollar a ton for all the rock on the sur face of bis claim for a distauoe of 100 feet in longtb, twenty-five feet in width and six feet in dopth. This Sterritt aooepted, and he was soon making fromflO to 815 day. In the meantime speculator jumped his mine, and he had to fight for it iu the courts. The other miners, however, saw the injustice of the jumper's olaim and they burned him in effigy and Reared him so that be did not dare to appear at the trial. While the suit was pend ing Sterritt shipped more than 812,000 worth of preoious rock, and when he was offered 810,000 for his mine he took it and left for his old home in Indiana. During the same year that he sold it the Deer Horn shipped 9128,000 worth of ore. Within the past few month it ha been resold and it is now to be operated in con nection with the Summit mine, which adjoins it on the north. Its new own ers intend to pnt in the finest of ma chinery and they claim that the mine contains a fortune in its immense bodies of low grade ore. It is sad to know that those who do the most for the world often reap the least reward. Marshall, who discov ered gold in California, died a pau per. The mail who laid bare the riches of the oil field of Pennsylvania was in his last days dependent on charity, and Bob Womack, the proepeotor who first showed np the riches of this Cripple Creek gold camp, is now liv ing in little log cabin in sight of mines worth millions and straggling bard to got more than living. His story is that of many miners. For twenty years he haa been prospeoting, and now, at forty-three, having found millions, he is worth nothing. He came to this region ten years in ad- vanoe of any one else and staked out number of alaims, among others what is now known as the El Paso mine, which is said to be worth half mill ion. He owned this prospeot for some time, bat oould not get oth ers to believe in its riches. He 77 S . 4 A BKTORT OF CRIPPLB CRUBK OOLD. hsd no money to develop it and he finally sold it for 8300. A few months after he made the sale, one-third of the El Paso was sold for 935,000, and it is now considered a very valuable property. It was Womaok who first had faith in the Cripple Creek gold region. He held the El Paso for long time before he sold it nnd he worked on the lattle farm ot Bennett & Meyers npon which have since been looated some of the best Cripple Creek mines, in order to get the money to oontinne his prospeoting. He dug holes all over thia farm in hia searoh for gold. The owners ot the farm laughed at him and told him that be mnst cover np hia holes, as their oat' tie fell into them. He did this and went on. From time to time he took rook down to Denver to be assayed and he found that it ran as high as youu per ton. After the miners be gan to eome to Cripple Creek he gave away s number of claims whioh he had on Gold Hill, and some of these olaims within year afterward sold for 940.- uoo. By the time the camp was in fall blast he found himself worth nothing, and now he says of himself that hia old friends pass him by with sneer and those who have the most of the wealth whioh be has discovered do not even say "Have oigar, Bob I" Coal Deteriorates From Exposure. The result of reoent analyses show that the loss of weight suffered by coal ironi exposure to the weather is con siderable. In some oases it readies 33.08 por cent, while the deteriora tion in quality for purposes of fuel or gas making reached still higher .fig ure. Boston Jiudget. 1 Taken at His Word. He "How would yon like to own ft er little puppi f " She-"On, Mr, ttotly, this it so saddtuP FASHION OLIO. SOME OF THE NEWEST FEAT 'RES OF WOMAN'S WIJAR. A Handsome and Serviceable Cape Blade ot English Covert Cloth A Stylish and Fanrlrul Waist With llodlce Effect. Sy ENUINE English covert cloth I in an exquisite shade of dove VT 'or ith velvet in a darker shade, is efleclivoly combined in the deoidedly'correct garment shown in the first large picture and described by May Manton. It is suitable alike for comploting a visiting, catling or churoh toilet The cape of becoming length is mounted over short yoke lining of circular shape, thus insuring perfect adjustment ihe shaping is accomplished by eight gores, and may, therefore, be out economically. No better design can be suggested in re- CAfE OP ENGLISH modeling one of last season's modes. The npper portion of the cape fits closely to the depth of the shallow yoke. From this point the additional material is laid in deep underlying plaits, providing the fashionable flare at the lower edge. The olosing is ef fected through the center front by coat books and loop. An interlining of lightweight orinoline gives body to the wrap, while pretty lining of two toned ailk is pleasing addition. Fur ther decoration is afforded by the or namental atrapa that extend from the collar to the shoulder, and are decor ated with bijou buttons. A distinc tive feature is the high flaring collar, faoed with velvet, that will prove both protective and beooming. All regula tion oloakings are adapted to the mode, such as Melton, covert, whipcord, bill iard olotb, broadolotb, etc., while peau de soie, rich brooade, aatin or heavy cloaking silk will make np pret tily in conjunction with velvet or fur. The quantity of material 41 ioohes wide required to make this oape for lady having 86-inoh bust measure is two yards. A STYLISH WAIST. The newest feature is the bodice ef feot introduced in the stylish and fan ciful waist depicted in the seoond large engraving, and Also described by May Manton. In the present instanoe the material chosen is plaid ailk, the ground of deep indigo bine being de lightfully blended in colors of dahlia, green and gold. The bodice, fanciful STYLISH WAIST oolor and lower portion ot sleeves are of dahlia-colored velvet, outliuud with galloon bands, studded with jewels of irridesoent hue. The full waist is ar ranged over glove-fitted linings that close iu the center front Tue back fits smoothly serosa the shoulders, the fullness beiug drawn to the center by gathers st tho lower edge. The point ed bodioe closes at the left under arm seam. A stylish aooessory is the hand some collar oat in deep pointed tabs, flaring at the lower edge, falling deep ly at front, back nnd well over thetnll Ended sleeves. The neck is finished y a stan ling collar, beneath ft tie and oravat bow of white tulle. The sleeves are close fitting to above the elbow, being one of the newest models, with deep ganntlet cuff facings of velvet The design affords ample opportunity for stylish decorations and combina tions of material. To the observant woman its possibilities are apparent. Fine French plaid, melanges, feather mixtures, Scotch plaids in rich tones, with velvet or silk trimmings, may be employed, or figured and striped ma terials combined with plain goods. TIIR LATEST I BATS. The fashion of wearing the large hats low over the forehead, nntil they seem ready to tumble Aff, milliners say is going otit, though there are some widely-trimmed shapes, turned np at the back, that will need to be adjusted in pretty much the old way. But other large hats are runuing to ft COVERT CLOTH. slight lifting of tne left brim, whiob gives them ft cooky side tilt when posed ; and even when not turned np there is a tendenoy to mass the trim ming of the back more toward the left than evenly in the middle, as formerly, Most of ths small, round hats, and espeoially those on the raffled order, will be worn squarely on the head, or else little back, to show an elaborate arrangement of the hair in front. But this arrangement will be the despair of women with high foreheads and straight hair; pompadour, with short, soft ourls escaping at the templos, is the proper style, and this style, though very charming, is unfor tunately beooming only to low tore heada and crisp, wavy looks. THK "NEW 8LEKVB." There can no longer be any donbl that the balloon sleeve is qnile passe. as the fashion scribes say. But how it is passing we will let onr reader gather from this dainty analysis of the Washington Star s New York fashion correspondent: "It is one thing to tell of the new sleeve, its shape and form, bnt quite another to see how the transition is managed; by doubled shoulder capes of satin in self colors ; by wreaths of tulle or veiling hanging abont the arm ; by little ahouldor puffs whiob mark the vanishing mode as the proieotious above the. horses hoofs retain the memory of hia prehistorio toes." We should say it is simply A small sleeve with little bulge At the shoulder. WIlH BODICE EFFECT. wirjj mtnoMS popular. Corded siiks and ribbed woolen and veiVets will be exiretnelv DOpuUi for handsome gown-", entire street ootu uds, and elegant wraps this winter. The Congressional Library at Wash inaiton haa received valuable ftddi tion to itsoolleotion in the shape of tue letter oi Washington ooueoied VJ i i. ....... 1A T ..I.I " tue Mie vr, tfosepn, igunerftj THE TURKISH POKIER. The Hercules Whose Place of Busi ness Is on the Street. The Turkish porter is one of the most interesting object seen in ft tour of the Orient. Of Heronlean atreegth and power of enduranoo, he is usually prompt ana obliging, also honest so A TURKISH PORTER. ' far a in bim lies. He oannot speak the truth, and would not respect him self it he oould for that is virtue of the Frank. Hia place of business is on the streets of his native town, where he ean be fonnd at all hoars of the day, clad in loose soiled jacket usually gray, with gray gaiter, Turkish shoes or sandals, the inevitable fez and neokerohiet that makes bim look as if he were strangling. - All the burden of oonveying large or small articles falls upon bim and be will for gratuity carry piano as easily as trunk. He is the most oon tented of the working fraternity one meets abroad, whether be is fonnd in the street of Constantinople or in those of Stamboul, and the tourists make much ot him because he is inter esting. His occasional smoke under the shade of a mulberry tree, or his lazy sips of sherbert, being treats that renew hia strength for the hard work by whioh be mnst live if he is net able to sell merchandise. Being sturdy and industrious, the traits of the Turkish porter commend him to the public benoe A picturesque descrip tion of him by one traveler who named him the "Quaker ot the Ori- ent." BALLOONS FOR HAKUOR DEFENCE. A Frenchman's Plan to Hitch Them to Submarine Boats. Muoh more ha been done in Franoe than in any other country to perfect balloon which oan be propelled horizontally and oan be steered. Ex periments in that line have long been conduoted under the auspioes of the Frenoh Army, and with suoh snocess that an airship of this class oan be made to travel at a rate ot fifteen or twenty miles an hour for a short time. A new ose of the balloon is now sug gested in the oountry where it had its origin and has reached its greatest development M. Pesoe thinks that it might be employed for harbor defenoe in co-operation with a submarine boat. The latter oould tow the balloon about easily, be thinks, if no attempts were BALLOO AND 8CBMABIHB BOAT. made to secure speed, and, oonre qnently, there wonld be no- kecessity ior equipping the airship with pro pelling machinery or with rudder. Moreover, the oooupanta of the two vessels oould be plaoed in teleDhonio oommnnioation with eaoh other. The Frenchman proposes to ase the bal loon as an observatory, whenoe the position and strength of the enemy oould be more readily peroeived (he imagines) than from the oonning tower ot a submarine boat, and he wonld have the operationa of the other twin direoted from his aerial post Only enough men to manage the boat and its torpedoes would be pnt inside ot the submerged oraf t If the balloon kept At a sullloiont elevation to, pre vent its being hit by any ol the guns of the enemy's fleet, and did not oouie within range of the marines' rifles, it might prove a useful adjunot of ita marine oonsort in oll'ensive as well as defensive warfare. Build Up tho Svslem. Dr. S. Weir Mitohell has just pub lished a pamphlet, in whiob he takee the ground that not only the use ot glasses, but the general building np of the system is necessary in most oases where the oculist is called in. A prominent dentist follows in the same -lines, and says that the best way to . onre constitutional and regular tooth ache is to strengthen the entire sys tem and increase the bodily strength. ' In all the treatment ot such cases great advance has been made ot late in the skill 'of the ophthalmologists uud ooulist. Philadelphia Times. Paprika is Ked Pepper. , "Paprika," so often referred to in ruo.ieru eookiog reoipes, is Hungarian pepper, a red pepper that ia more pleasant to the tasie of many persona than cavenne, whote place itia taking. It is quite as pungent, but not reall o bank sad strong.
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