Rampart, March 22.—Latest
teports from Troublesome creek
and its tributaries are to the ef
fect that a good paystreak has
been uncovered. At this time
we cannot learn any of the par
ticulars, and do not know just
which one of the tributaries of
Troublesome this discovery has
been.found on, but will try to be
more definite and certain in our
next letter.
Swanson & Ott, on 12-a. Hoo
sier creek, have all their holes to
bedrock but two. So far they
have found nothing but pros- j
pects, and are drowned out of
the remaining two holes, but will
stay with them and try to freeze
them to bedrock.
Doffenier, Wilson & McCabe,
on the bar between Little Minook j
Jr. and Hoosier creeks, are at
work on their ninth hole, and re
port that they have enough in
sight to keep them sinking. I
There was a very pleasant
dance here on*the 17th, and, con
sidering that a petition of our
population had gone to the
| Springs to attend the dance
I there, the attendance was some
what surprising. Everyone had
a good time, and the lunch pre
pared by the N. 0. Co. chef was
all that could be desired. .
Our citizens are hoping that
Judge Reid will soon make us
the promised appointment of a
commissioner, for it has been
demonstrated during the past
week that the presence of both
a commissioner and a marshal
are needed here badly at this
time. During the past two weeks
four cabins have been broken
open and the contents carried
away. Besides these depreda
tions, Sam Heeler’s chicken
house was entered last Saturday
and he is now loser by eight fine
chickens.
DELAWARE LARGEST
BATTLESHIP AFLOAT
The great battleship Delaware has
been successfully launched from the
yards of her builders at Newport News,
Va.
Compared with the battleships, com
pleted or under construction, of the
navy of any foreign country, the Dela
ware surpasses all. She is one of four
■sister ships authorized by congress,
which will form an indomitable squad
ron. The other vessels are the North
Dakota, being bnilt at Quincy, Mass.;
the Florida, which will be built at the
New York navy yard, and the Utah, to
be built at Camden, N. J.
The Delaware is to carry as heavy
armor and as powerful armament as
any known vessel of its class; will have
a speed of 21 knots, w hich is believed
to be the highest practicable for a ves
sel of this type and class, and will have
the highest practicable radius of ac
tion. The arrangement of her main
battery guns is such as to permit a
broadside tire of 25 percent, greater
than that of the broadside fire of any
battleship now built, or, so far as
is known, under construction. Her de
fensive qualities, other than those de
pendent upon armor protection, are
such as to give the maximum degree of
protection to a:l the vital portions by
means of unusually effective compart
mental subdivision, so that in conjunc
tion with her armor protection, the de
fensive qualities of this vessel are be
lieved to be distinctly superior to those
of any hattleship heretofore designed.
The hull is protected by a water-line
belt of armor 8 feet in width, whose
maximum thickness is 11 inches. This
armor belt gives effective protection to
the boilers, machinery and magazine
spaces. The side above the main armor
belt is protected ‘by armor 7 feet
inches wide, and of a maximum thick
I
ness of 10 inches. Above the main
casemate armor amidships the side is
protected by armor of 5 inches thick
ness, which affords, protection to the
smoke pipes, the major portion of the
secondary batteries of 5-inch guns and
the hull structure.
The contract for the Delaware was
placed August 6, 1907, at a price of $2,
987,000, to b<5 built in accordance with
th« department* design fear both hull
i and reciprocating machinery. Her keel
was laid November 11, 1907.
The Delaware is 510 feet in length on
load water-line, 85 feet 2 inches in
breadth, and her mean draft to bottom
of keel at trial displacement about 27
feet. Her coal bunker capacity is 2500
tons, which is sufficient to send her at
a 10-knot speed a distance of G720
knots, or 28 days’ steaming. Provision
is also made for iho storage of a.large
amount of oil fuel without in any de
gree reducing the capacity of tho coal
bunkers. She wiH'have triple-expan
sion reciprocating engines, and will re
quire over 900 men to man her.
Her armament will consist of a main
battery of ten 12-inch breech-loading
rifles, and her secondary battery will be
fourteen 5-inch, rapid-fire guns, four 3
pounder saluting guns, two 3-inch field
pieces, and two machine guns of .30
caliber. She has two submerged tor
pedo tubes. The Delaware will have a
displacement on trial of 20,000 tons, or
2100 tons greater than the British
Drcadnaught, and 750 tons greater
than Great Britain’s latest vessel of
that type, the Vanguard.
“Pop” Anson
“Gone Broke”
Chicago, March 19.—“Busted” is the
financial condition of Adrian C. Anson,
former baseball leader, as expressed by
himself in Judge Fry’s debtors’ court.
Mr, Anson was explaining why he
could not pay a bill of $111. He ad
mitted the possession of a baseball bat,
a first-baseman’s glove (relic of other
days), and two or three baseballs, but
for these he claimed and received ex
emption. His income, he stated, dc- i
pends on the success of his semi-pro-;
fessional team, “Anson’s Colts,” which
he said, will be in uniform next season
Easily Replaced
“George,” said the bride of a year,
“you have broken every one of the j
good resolutions you made during cur
[courtship.”
! “Well, don’t let a little thing like
! that worry you, dear,” replied her hus
band. “I can make others just as
good.”—Chicago News.
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IMPROVEMENT ON
WIRELESS SYSTEM
London, March 15.—William Mar
coni is engaged in perfecting an im
provement in his system of wireless
telegraphy, whereby it will be possible
to send and receive messages simultan
eously at the same station. This inno- j
vation will be introduced about the 6nd
of the present month, when the com
pany expects to be able to give a ser- j
vice at least equal to one duplexed
cable, \ccording to the London man- j
ager, Marconi has iilcd his patent* for
this duplexing process, and with an im
proved installation now being fitted up
the capacity of the station will bo con
siderably more than doubled. The
next thing they have in view is the es
tablishment of a direct line between
Clifden, in Ireland, and London, and
also of one between Glace Bay and
Montreal, and probably the latter will
be extended to New York.
BACHELOR GIRLS’
PICKLE SOCIETY
The bachelor girls of Gillespie, 111.,
have effected a unique organization to
be known as the Pickle Club, which^s
creating much interest in the society
circles of that city, There will be 57
degrees administered, each represent
ing a different variety of bachelor girl.
The first degree begins when the
candidate is just blossoming into bach
elorhood, or when she is too old to be
lfi and not old enough to be a full
grown bachelor girl. The degree con
ferred in this case will be designated
as the sweet pickle. The chow-chow
degree is the next, and the girls who
have to ask their mamma are to re
ceive it. The red-headed girls are to
have the distinct honor of pickle pep**
per degree. The mixed pickle degree
is to be reserved for the girlsgof the
[snapping turtle variety. The little
1 girls, those of slight stature, will have
the midget pickle degree conferred
j upon them,'while all those who assume
i the role of wallflowers at public gath
- erings will take the Indian relish de
gree. The bachelor girls of many,
many summers will receive the degree
of the sour pickle, and the man-haters
will have their hair streaked with
gray and also be supplied with small
hatchets with which to attack the
hated man. The degree just named
will be the last and 57th.
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