his remarks were not personal the 
Senator recalled the fact that he had 
criticised both of the former presi- 
dents, Roosevelt and Taft, upon the 
e score. Senator John Sharp 
Yliams of Mississippi, and Senator 
Owen of Oklahoma injected them- 
ves into the controversy, and Mr. 
Owen referred to the reading of the 
president’s message by Mr. Wilson, 
as having been described by the press 
as a “message from the throne.” He 
“denied that the president had used 
“the big stick,” and characterized the 
position of Senator Cummins and 
others as actuated by jealous par- 
tisanship. Speaker Champ Clark of 
course, had to have his say about the 
matter, and issued a statement giving 
his O. K, to the man who beat the 
boots off him at the Baltimore con- 
yention. In all fairness to every- 
body concerned it is proper to recog- 
‘nize the fact that the leadership ex- 
ercised by President Wilson is direct- 
ly responsible for the tariff legisla- 
tion that has been enacted, and if the 
‘currency bill ‘‘gets through” at this 
session of Congress it will be because 
of “executive control” — or by any 
other name that would smell as 
sweet. 
SPECTACLE AS AN EDUCATOR 
After two months and a half of 
_ phenomenal success the sensational 
_ spectacle “America” will enter upon 
its eleventh week at the New York 
_ Hippodrome Monday afternoon. Ten 
_ thousands persons a day constitute 
the average attendance of those who 
are being educated concerning the 
wonders of their own land through 
the instrumentality of the scenic 
spectacle. That it is fulfilling this 
function is evidenced by.the attitude 
of transportation companies and 
other firm supporters of the ‘“‘see 
America first” movement who are or- 
ganizing large parties of their em- 
_ ployees to familiarize them with. the 
subject. 
_ ‘he out-of-town visitor continues 
to be the most ardent patron of the 
Hippodrome, for he is always sure 
to see there what he can never hope 
to see produced on the home stage, or 
any other, for that matter. The visitor 
from Bangor, Maine, and_ likewise 
Pasadena, California are as likely to 
find friends and acquaintances in the 
- house as the patron from Brooklyn 
or the Bronx, all of which goes to 
prove the contention of the manage- 
ment that the Hippodrome is more 
than a great theatre, in fact an insti- 
tution. 
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“Salting”? Mines, Catching ‘““Lambs 
9? 
Men Who Live by Wits Often Find Easy Pickings 
By M. J. BROWN 
1 can only think of one proposition 
that may be bigger than the mining 
gambling game, and I doubt if even 
Wall Street is greater. 
In Arizona and New Mexico it is 
simply a contagious fever, and it is 
generally epidemic. The big business 
man and the livery stable chamber- 
maids, both have it alike, 
There is a wonderful fascination in 
mining and mine hunting—prospect- 
ing—and I care not who the man is 
or what his training or education may 
have been, if he will listen, if he will 
allow himself, he will get the fever 
and will have to fight hard to break 
it up. 
1 have seen preachers, mining en- 
gineers, farmers, lawyers, men of al- 
most every pursuit, who have spent 
_years in the mining country, never 
made a dollar, but who keep at it 
year after year — always firmly be- 
lieving that “next year’ they will 
“strike, it.” 
“Hope springs eternal’ when one 
gets the gold fever. 
But this letter is to tell you a little 
of the “inside” bunco deals that have 
been and are being worked off in Ari- 
zona—the “blue sky’ games that 
hard-pressed prospectors and the 
shrewd bunco steerers frame up and 
often get away with. 
In every mining locality are plenty 
of men who will take a chance on a 
“prospect,” men of means who have 
caught the fever, and who “stake” a 
prospector to a “grub outfit” and 
send him out in the hills, under a con- 
tract for a half interest in any “find.” 
This grubstake proposition is a 
long chance, for it is simply a matter 
of honor with the man who is staked, 
but men in the mining game will take 
the longest chances. 
1 dropped into Williams, Arizona, 
for a few days, and looking for story 
stuff I mixed, or tried to, with the 
mining and railroad men. After the 
second day there was obvious indi- 
cation that something was wrong with 
my mixer, and all | could get out of 
anyone was simply a civil word, when 
I could get one to stand long enough 
to answer. 
‘he next day the hotel porter tip 
ped off to me why the boys were giv- 
ing me the shivers. I was a Santa Fe 
railroad spotter, and if there is ever 
a job and a man held in contempt by 
the sporting men and railroaders it is 
the spotter. 
I got next to a newspaper man, 
who put me right — after which the 
wind blowed from the south again. 
But the gold brick games: 
The hotel one night was crowded. 
A woman and two children came in, 
There was no room for them.. 1 was 
talking with a telegraph operator 
over the tip of my being a spotter. 
He asked if he might share my bed 
and give his room to the lady. : 
And sitting up long past the mid- 
night hour he told me stories of the 
fake mining deals he had seen work- 
ed, and had helped to steer. One of 
the most successful, but now an.ald 
one was this: 
well 
Some prospector, pretty 
known, would rig up for a _ three 
months’ trip in the hills, and the 
night before leaving he would make 
the rounds of the saloons and sport- 
ing places and advertise he was off 
for the summer, . 
In a week he would be back, and 
would give some weak excuse that he 
was taken sick, horse went lame, etc. 
He would sit around the saloons, 
refuse to drink, look wise, and refuse 
to talk about his trip. 
Then he would send a telegram to 
a “frame” partner in Colorado about 
like this: 
Bill :-— 
Struck it thick, Cut everything 
and come, Brink some kale. Al- 
falfa for us. Answer. 
; Sam. 
And here was where the operator 
came in for his part of the game — 
anda rakeoff if it went through. He 
goes to one of the men already spot- 
ted and gives him a copy of the mes- 
sage, with the understanding that if 
it should work out he is to get $100 
for the Western Union leak. 
The speculator falls for it. He 
hunts up Sam. He proposes to grub 
stake an outfit and both go out for a 
hunt. Nothing doing. He tries to 
draw Sam out, and finally gets him to 
take a drink. Another follows, and 
Sam loosens a little and drops myster- 
ious hints. More booze and_ ton- 
gues wag, and finally when the “con- 
fidence” stage of the jag comes, Sam 
tells his friend he has found a mir? 
of great richness, and as soon as hs 
partner comes with a little coin he 
will file the claim and open it. 
The speculator offers to advance a 
little money. Nothing doing. He 
offers. to buy a half interest if tue 
