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These People Really Enjoy Winter Weather V Folk who live in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., know how to extract a lot of pleasure out of winter conditions. These photographs show horse racing on the ice; Bob Gray's motor ice boat making a turn at 70 miles an hour, and three daring girls who have hitched their toboggan to a fleet ice yacht. Once Owned the Greatest Mine Dapper Benny Hit Upon Six Claims That Now Produce $1,000,000 a Month. LADY LUCK TURNS HER BACK Benny, Saved by Philosophical Slant, Settled Down to Simple Life ? Heart Stops Beating While Saying a Prayer. i . Luck smiles on this man and * t then deserts him. What do you 4 # think of his philosophy? Timmons, Ont. ? The gang in the corner of the bar at Cobalt Camp was playing seven-up under a smelly oil lamp. Jack McMahon was mopping the bar and mentally calling it a bad night. Then the storm door opened and dapper Benny Ilol linger, the gen tleman adventurer, was pushed in by the north wind. " 'Lo everybody ? luck to you all," he shouted, as he peeled his macki rmw off and tossed it on the three legged chair. "Drinks for the gentlemen, Jack," he ordered, stepping over to the Em pire stove to thaw out. Jack walked from behind the bar and poured three fingers for each card player. Fifteen drinks had to come from each Quart, and he preferred to portion the liquid himself. But as for Benny, well, any one could see with half an eye that he was a gentleman, and therefore wouldn't take more than two fingers. So the bottle was placed beside a glass on the bar, and Jack said in his ingratiating manner, "Step up and pour for yourself, Benny." Benny Pours. Benny forsook the stove and poured. "Lucky, Benny," the gang wished, as the red-eye was; washed down. Benny leaned over the bar and whispered: "Jack, there's u gold mine waiting for you and me ? -up Porcu pine way." "So?" Jack queried. He had heard similar tales before. "Gold, waiting to be picked up," ? Benny continued. "And what is more, my luck's just right now." Jack had heard those stories of the Porcupine field, 150 miles north and 500 miles from Toronto. "But no body's found any real pay dirt that I know," he interjected. "Seems that it's all talk and no dust." . Benny talked on. He knew the land and he knew men who had found gold there. What was needed was $75 for a grub stake. ? "We'll share and share alike," lienny urged. Finally Jack gave In. It was hard to hold out against Benny. He was such a pleasant, per suasive talker. When' Benny walked out with Jack's $75 the gang in the corner roared. Benny had been grub-staked before and had never found his mine. They Joked McMahon so much that he became doubtful of the whole en terprise. But one couldn't take a grub-stake back. It wasn't done. But Jack McMahon had a brother in-law, In Labine. He told Jim of the PorcupIne'R richness. One-half of his * half in Benny's stake could be had for $75 ? because he was in the family. They all had better get rich together. Jim paid Ms $75. Benny Goes Northward. The next day Benny mushed north ward. Somewhere along the way he met Alex Gillies on the same mission. They joined forces as companions, not as partners. When they reuched the Porcupine section? a wild bush land with bits of swamp ? they found old Bill Davidson, veteran of British Co lumbia mining camps, panning gold. Yes, there was some gold there abouts. Of course the best land had all been staked out by Bill, but if the youngsters would go some miles ^hat way" they might find some quartz veins there. jjjjj^ J They found the designated spot, aT most lost in low-lying spruce swamps. They staked twelve claims. Then they tossed a coin to decide which should take the six east and which the six west claims. Benny got the western ones. , Benny found a prospectors forge, overgrown with dank grass, on his land. Someone had given up there, years before. By- the side of those claims ran the ? portage trail, over which hundreds had passed. No one had found gold there, but you never knew your luck till you tried. The dapper adventurer began dig ging, and he found quartz veined with what looked like gold. He filled a pack full, and started Cobalt way. Days later when he reached the edge of Cobalt he met Alphonse Tare, min ing engineer, and nephew of the flm mons Brothers, former storekeepers, who had made a little money silver mining around Cobalt. Pare stopped Benny and asked what luck. He had a hunch that Beuny's luck had turned after seven years of failure. Benny showed his samples. Pare decided there was no reason for Benny to visit Cobalt? the thing to do was to turn around and go back and talk business. Pare made quick work with his pack and the two headed northward. Snow began to fall before they reached the Porcupine lands, but a providential rain washed it away the day before they reached the claims. That was the fall of 1909. Gold Sticks Out Yellow gold of unusual richness was sticking out all over the white quartz. The rains had washed it dear. The two stood in an infinite solitude be side the ground which in 1923 was to be hailed as the world's greatest gold mine, with an output of $1,000,000 worth of gold a month. Gillies was elsewhere, and the nearest neighbor was old Bill Davidson, laboriously panning gold beyond the hills. Pure's trained eyes told him of the find. But Pare played the game squarely. He sat on a boulder, looked across at Benny nonchalantly packing his pipe, and asked him if he realized what he had found. "I have found ? some gold," Benny answered, gazing ovei- the waste land. ,"You have found ? much gold," Pare told him. Pare opened his wallet, took out $2,000 in currency and laid it on the boulder. '?That's for the right to look in, he said succinctly. Benny accepted the money and continued smoking. Pare took his geological hammer and spent the rest of the day tapping rocks. When they started back to Cobalt Pare offered, in betyilf of the Tlm mons-McMartin-Dunlap syndicate, $380,000 for Benny's six claims if the samples assayed as high as he regard ed them. Benny was satisfied. To Give One to Pal. But Benny made, one stipulation. That sum would purchase only five of the claims, for he wus going to give one of them to his old pal, Barney McEnaney. Barney had befriended him, and it [was only fair that he should share his prosperity. McMahon had agreed to this when he grub staked Benny. To this Pare made no objection. Thus five claims would still be worth $330,000. When the assay was completed Pare called Benny in. The syndicate found it would require much money to de* velop those claims. Their original of fer held good ; they never broke their t Rano Town Fire Alarm J to Get His Witnesses J !n order to subpoena 1,050 J witnesses in the trial of two ' shop strikers who were accused ' of violating the Industrial court J law, the sheriff of Brown coun- # ty, Kansas, rang the fire bells J at Horton. Kan., where moat of # the witnesses live, and when the J crowd had assembled, virtually i every person in it was notified \ to be in court at the next see- # sion. _ f word. But would Benny like to Join the syndicate? He would be given some cash, and 50,000 shares ? a twelfth interest ? valued at $3.50 a share. Benny had dealt in shares before. He preferred all cash, but perhaps Jack McMahon^ might wish a say-so. Jack knew a nice piece of bar goods when he saw it, but little of gold mines. He decided that Benny should make the decision. Benny said, "all cash." Benny gave half of it to Mc Mahon. The syndicate eventually acquired Gillie's claims, but they couldn't budge Barney McEnaney. "Sure, it was Benny's gift, wasn't it? And its bad luck to give away a present, and that's what your asking me to do." Begin the Mining. Work began at the Iloiynger mines. Benny went to Point Alexander, on the upper reaches of the Ottawa river, and took his parents from there to Pembroke, a pleasant little town that had grown from a trading post. Benny had always loved Nellie Hill ; now he could afford to marry her. She had faithfully waited while he made his stake. They visited Toronto and other, cities, but the two decided that Pembroke was a friendly place, so they returned there. Word came that the Hollinger mine ? as they called the Porcupine claims ? had become a bonanza. So Benny hit the trail again. Maybe luck would strike the second time. The whole countryside was willing to stake Ben ny, but he needed nothing. A few miles from his great discovery he found claims that seemed ta have simi lar formations. He bought them from the discoverers, and organized a com pany called the Hollinger Reserve. But it takes money to do quartz mining. Money went and gold didn't come, though across the way the original noilinger was paying thousands of dol lars a day. Eventually the Hollinger Reserve was put up at sheriff's sale. Benny was flat broke again. But In the few years that had passed Barney Mc Enaney had been persuaded to sell his gift claim. He had received a price said to be $500,000. Barney was pres ent at the sheriff1* sale, and bid In the Hollinger Reserve ? for one good turn deserved another, you know. One couldn't see a pal go down In dis grace. McEnaney died a few days later. In Other Ventures. Benny went into other mining ven tures .with his retrieved stake. But lightning luck seldom strikes twice, he found. Finally he turned back to Pembroke. He had a pretty little home there, a wife who was a mate, and three youngsters who worshiped him as king of everything. He was happy. To while away the long win ter months he opened a bowling al ley ? dapper Benny's place, it was known throughout the country. Word came that the .Hoi linger mine was being called "one of the great gold mines In the world." "Don't you wish you had swung on?" he was asked. "I see the stock they offered you at $3.50 a share is selling for $G0." Benny smiled and shook his head. "I'm glad they are making It pay," he said. "They deserve It; they played square with me. And I'm happy here. Suppose we go deer hunting tomor row?" They did. That was in the fall ol 1919. A few days later Benny returned with a buck's antlers for the children. They saw him afar off, and ran to meet him. His wife came to the doorway, smiling. She had cooked J^st what he wanted? it was ready him. Benny, in the prime of health feeling that the good God had kind to give him so much happiness, went in and sat down at the table, lie bowed his head in prayer. His heirt stopped beating before he could re open his eyes. They have taken $50,000,000 outloi the Hollinger mines. General Mana ger A, F. Brighara announced tjila week that $40,000,000 worth of ore h ad been charted out for the next thi-ee years. Experts say there is another $400,000,000 worth of gold waiting to* them. A million dollars wortL of ore, is being taken out each month, apd one-half of that is net profit. Some of the members of the original syndi cate 'are receiving dividend! at th t rate of $6,000 a day. It is the wort i Pi greatest gold mine? New York World ?EMM HEME PASSES i f ? ?J? .1 -i J' SENATOR PARKER ALONE VOTE8 AGAINST TH? GENERAL REVENUE BILL. I ? f ? ' ? ' f ' I^USE PASSES GRIST BILL ' ? ? ? 8 Provides Fop Popular Vote ofr! $2,000, 000 Bond Issue for Ex? Service Men. j. % Raleigh. Voting down an amendment propos ing a referendum to the people at the next general election, the senate pass ed thei Bowie railroad bill on its third reading and the measure will be rati fied and become law. It provides for $10,000,000 for the construction of a trunk line railroad through the ex treme northwestern counties and, in addition, for the participation of the state to the extent of 49 per cent of the cost of the building of five branch railroads in the northwestern portion of the state. ' Shorn of all amendments which mem bers of the senate sought to attach to the general revenue bill, the measure passed its second reading in the upper house by a vote of 47 to 1. The single negative vote wis by Senator Parker, of Wayne, who stated that his vote was " a protest over the defeat of the Var ser amendment," which would have destroyed the exemption from taxation of stoqk in foreign corporations held in this state. ; i Disposing of the first of four spe cial orders the house passed on second reading the Grist bill which would provide aid for ex-service men of the world war towards the owning and es tablishments of homes by a vote of 91 to 13. The bill would provide a vote of the people on the Issuance of 12,000,000 In bonds from which sum derived ex service men would be entitled to loans, after proper investigation, to an amount not to exceed $3,000 on interest of six per cent. ? . u. The bill was expliined by Represen tative Grist, and after Representative Pruden, of Chowan county, opposed the bill, Representative Connor of Wil son, chairman of the house finance committee, pleaded that itf, be sub mitted, to the people, said he thought the people were entitled to vote on the issue and predicted an overwhelming majority for it at the polls. Representative Parser, of Alamance, also supported the bill and Represen tative Parker, of Halifax, attacked the measure^ declaring it dangerous and likley to set a precedent which would pave the way for raids on the state and national treasuries. The record, in the first division of the regular army, of Mr. Grist, author of the bill, was cited by Representative Gaston, of Gast(?n county who declared Mr. Grist was one of the greatest sol diers North Carolina gave to the world war. Passage In the senate of the bill to make the state laws of prohibition con form to the Volstead act, with certain special North Carolina provisions re tained, made this measure law. The senate action followed brief debate, started by a motion introduced by Sen ator Squires, of Caldwell, to re-refer the bill with instructions to the com mittee to draft it in exact conform ance as the Volstead act. The house passed a bill sent over from the senate repealing the Long usury act which the lower branch made a law. Representative Warren, of Beaufort, announced that Senator Long's bill went through the house without discussing and without having been referred to the proper commit tees and the repealing act was drawn by Senator Long who, Mr. Warren said, did not want legislation spon sored by him on the books of the state without first having followed the regu lar course to get there. v The farm loan bill, by consent of the author, was amended to limit the ap propriation It carries to $800 000, A re duction from $2,500,000 originally pro vided for, and from the $1,500,000 writ ten into the, committee -substitute. By unanimous vote the house passed a resolution introduced by Speaker John G. Dawson, which would provfde for the reimbursement of A. D. Watts, former commissioner of revenue, in the amount of $5,200 which Mr. Watts paid into the state treasury on failure of the Commercial National bank of Wilmington where Mr. \yatts had de posited that sum of state money. The general education bill passed its third reading in the senate and be comes law without having been sub jected to amendment. Employment Bureau Placet 580. Five hundred and eighty persons were placed In positions in North Car olina during the week ending Febru ary 24, by the State and Federal em ployment bureaus, according to the report of M. L. Shiftman, commission er of labor and - printing. Wilming-: ton, with a total of 140. led all other bureaus In the state, while Charlotte was second, with 113. The preceding week showed a to tal of 5 SI person* placed ife positions, with Wilmington and Charlotte, each with 10S, tied for the lead. / i State'? Fire Lota In January. North Carolina's flre loss In January was $828,579, as compared with $1,080,' 325 for the corresponding month of 1922, according to the official report of Stacey W. Wade, state insurance com missioner, made public. The total number of fires was 236 against 217 in January, 192^ "The ralue of property immediately at risk by flre last month was $3,878,-' 875 with insurance aggregating $2,382, 356," it was stated. "Of the 2&6 flres reported, 141 wero in dwellings, the total loss being bttf $92,395, with values at $626,579 and having Insurance of $373,895. "The bulk of the big fire loss for January came from only 22 towns and county flres, amounting to $780,555; the other 214' flres totaling $48,024. "Defective flues and shingle roofs caused 109 . flres, with origins unde termined given as 49. With the ex ception of Fayetteville, Raleigh, Wil mington, Winston-Salem, Durham, Salisbury, Reidsville and Kinston, no other of the larger towns had as much as $5,000 damage in a single flre. - "The total loss for Greensboro was $3,125; Asheville, $1,888 r Charlotte, $3,635; Elizabeth City, $3,045; New Bern, $2,040; Monroe, $130; High Point, $906; Hickory, 105; Gastonla, $56; Rocky Mount, $20; Lexington, $25; and Washington, $10. "The January fire loss for the Unit ed States and Canada is computed to have been $36,614,850 as compared with $38,6(8,000 for January, 1922. "The following towns in North Car olina reporting no flres, or no damage from flres, are placed on the depart ment's honor roll: , Bessemer City, Forest City, Pinehurst, Concord, Beth el, Pinetcfps, Mt. Olive, Carthage, Gra ham, Beaufort, Kernersvllle, Farmville and Huntersville." Crippled Children to be Examined. The inauguration of a systematic examination of approximately 658 crippled children in North Carolina by the clinic of the Orthopedic hospi tal. at Gastonia, under the direction of Dr. Oscar Miller, superintendent, was announced by Miss Emeth Tuttle, of the bureau of child welfare. Dr. Miller first Is taking twelve counties west of Raleigh and will ex amine cripple children in these as rapidly as possible. Fifteen children in Cabarrus and sixteen in Gaston al ready have been summoned to appear at the clinic through letters written parents or guardians by hospital au thorities. Whenever it is found a child may be relieved through treat ment, it will be received in the institu tion as soon as possible. The names and addresses of the cripples were obtained in a recent cen sus conducted by the bureau of child welfare. Miss Tuttle stated that she did not believe* the 658 cripples re ported were one-third of the actual number in the state, but with present accommodations at the orthopedic hos pital, the list now available will con sume three years of the: institution officials' time. She Is writing county superintendents of public welfare to assist in securing further names and addresses of cripples and in seeing that children summoned are carried to the clinic for examination. Two clinics, established at strategic points in eastern North Carolina, prob ably at Wilmington and Wilson, it was stated, are being planned lay the de partment of public welfare to examine children in this section of the state. Eastern Training School Approved. Establishment of an "Eastern Caro lina Normal and Industrial Training School fir Delinquent Boys." similar in scope to the Stonewall Jackson Training School at Concord, was ap proved by the joint committees of the House and Senate on appropriations. The bill, which was introduced by Representative Fountain, of Edge combe, carries an initial appropriation of 550.000 for permanent improvements and $5,000 a year for maintenance, but it is proposed that the institution shall eventually equal in scope the school already established at Concord. 'r : Bill to Cut Pav of Officers. Adoption of-khe Bowie resolution to provide for ;the extension of the legis lative investigation of the state tuber cular sanatorium which, he said, would extend until after the general assembly has finished its work; passage of a mass of local legislation, and consider ation of public bills, with the passage of several, was the record of the house here in a long session. New legislation introduced brought forth a bill by Representatives Sutton, of Wayne county, and Thurston, of Johnson county, which would provide for the reduction of the salaries ot. state officers and employes. The re duction would range on a scale pro viding that salaries of $6,000 per year b? reduced 20 per cent, salaries of from $4,000 to $6,000 per year be re duced from 10 per cent and salaries ranging from $110 per month up to $4,000 per year be reduced by tlx per cent. . Employment Conditions Better. Employment conditions In North Carolina during January and February have shown a distinct improvement over the same period in 1922, chiefly because of Improvement in business and a decrease in the number of per sons from other States asking for jobs here,, according to a statement * ' by M. L. Shipman, commissioner of labor and pointing. ? . , Building operations are expected to absorb a large number of persons duz* ing the next several months, he said. CONDENSED NEWS I] .THE OLD NORTH STi SHORT NOTE8 OF CAROLINIANS. Oxford. ? The, three auction houses of Oxford have sold ;? potJfrd?0, of .tobacco average of $27.72. It is expec^ the t#ta! for the season will ver> reach nine million pounds. Dunn. ? Duncan J. Parker, ?. Harnett county's oldest and most inent citizens, died *t his honH Dunn following an extended n His widow, who is also i^rio^, and- several children survive. Greensboro. ? A gage deed of trust was filed ia. here of the Guilford county ^ of deeds from the Armour Fp? Company to the Chase National of New York and George A. fc trustees. Hertford. ? T. B. Lockhart, ag fireman on Norfolk Southern f, train No. 80 from Marsden, X.r Berkley, Va., was instantly kill, cars rolling down grade on the; track while the engineer and fig were switching cars from the track. Dunn.? For the fir?t time sins cotton sold on the Dunn mark* thirty cents the pound. Appro^ ly twenty-five thousand bales o! ton have been sold on the Dunn ket from last year's crop and it tinues to come in at the rate of j twenty-five bales each day. Kinston.? Two instead of out school building will be erected, this spring to care for the ov? from existing buildings, accordi^ new plans of the board of trc$ They will be of modern constna and well equipped, according to r officials. Charlotte. ? Fire discovered ' by ployes of the Charlotte Waste i pany, on West First street, that c nated from sparks from one of cleaning machines in the build;:: from $20,000 to $25,000 dama?* building and stock of the concer. fore it was brought under control Winston-Salem.-f-Election of ot clinics and the reading of papen tured the closing session of theSs District Dental society. Dr. C C ger, of Charlotte, was elected? /.snt; Dr. G. C. Bernard, of Kannij vice president; Dr. J. M. Hollaai Statesville, secretary and treas While invitations were extend* both Charlotte and Statesville. place of meeting n*xt year was arith the executive commitUe. Durham. ? Moses Levy, a local: chant, was placed under arrest! charge of attempted arson, pros ovt of a fjie which occurred 2: Biore one night last week. He ra leased under $2,000 bond. Wilmington. ? Truck grower? New Hanovtr county will reala profit of $500,000 on their sS crops, according to estimates 3 by J. T. Herring, county farms: after a careful survey of the sift* at the request of the railroads. Washington. ? The Washirf Chamber of Commerce will holt annual banquet 0* the even!."? March 5, according to arranpeM completed by a comimttee of th* ganization. J. H. Cowan, mayor Wilmington, will be the pr&} speaker. Greensboro. ? The suit of Mrs. u Morgan against the city of H| Point for $25,000, because of death of her five year-old son] June, 1921, who fell from a fcsj over a stream there, was comprormi In Guilford Superior court for k| Asheville. ? G. W. Justice haslj appointed forest warden of Hen son county, heading a force of men. The appointment was made) the county board ' of commissiojl following conference with C. HJ| rage, of this city, Asheville. ? The action of pian cw es men, Hume Haris and Sam Jn* in searching the apartments of "| Ethel Wilbanks for whiskey belie' to have been stored there in 1920' approved by a Superior court when it brought in a verdict in i of the defendants. Kinston. ? Prohibition officers raided a monster still at Wyse'fl battleground. The plant u'as | Jones' county soil near the In line. It wy in a building: 25 by feet, apparently built for the Pur^ Woods surrounded the distillery- * kettle was of 200 gallons capa Six thousand gallons of mash * found. Ahoskie. ? Superintendent of F. G. Hines has begun graveling ? first section of roads to be comp*' in the county under the half dollar bond issue voted 1H ago. The Harrellsville-Cofield ^ reading to the county seat, ^ surfaqed with the best available ft el. Several carloads have alr?^ arrived at Cofield, and the road " has begun to spread it on. Winston-Salem. ? Fire was disc<> ed here in the yards of the ^ Bound railroad as a result of more than a dozen freight (>ars practically destroyed, one car & loaded with tobacco and two ^ loaded with coal being entirely c sumed by the flames. Kinston. ? Nine arrests have ^ made in connection with the wholesale larceny of automobile H and elsewhere in Eastern Carol!?4 was stated by George A. EverttjJ chief of . police here. Everin^ said a number of other persons ** under surveillance.
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