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4. Kendall,Montana, July 14, 1903 KENDALL CHRONICLE Published weekly where the big mines are situated. E. R. CLEVELAND Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.25 Pay in advance and avoid the digagreeable dunning letter. The Clairvoyant and the Miner Strange as it may appear, the clair- voyant is popular with the miner. One would naturally suppose that a man as thoroughly practical as 4 miner is .sup- posed of necessity to be, would be the last man in the world to seek fortune through the medium of the clairvoyant, the fortune-teller or the astrologer ; yet the miner is the constant prey of these \humbugs.\ The usual plan is for the .miner, or mine owner, to go to the clairvoyant—one who has an establish- ed \reputation\ preferred, one who has pointed out some of the richest mines in the country. The seeress—for they are usually women who ply this craft —takes the specimen of rock in hand and proceeds in a dieamy way to in- struct the client in the geology of a rich ore deposit. The country rock is described. The size of the %ein and _. _its_ value are unmistakably outlined, and the sort of machinery necessary for its beneficiation is made equally plain, and the miner goes away dazed, not so much at the magnitude of the fortune that awaits him as by the fact that he fancies the fortune teller has been able to correctly describe his prop - 1 erty in all its detail, and that her diag- nosis of the case agrees v-ith his own. He proceeds to follow the ghostly ad- vice as directed by the spirits, and about once in a thousand times he strikes it right. The per centage of success would no doubt be much higher if he would follow the dictates of his own common sense and experi- ence, but to these he gives little credit when dealing with the mysteries of that unknown realm so familiar to the clairvoyant. To recite the numerous disastrous failures resulting from blindly following the advice o lairvoyants would fill a c good -size book, for these instances far overreach the successes, and no one will deny that, in the case of the latter, success ra:Uuld have resulted without the aid or intervention of the fortune- teller. flow any one can be misled by this class of fakir passes understand- ing. The clairvoyant is bad, but no worse than the man with the \dowsing rod,\ tbe \gold finder,\ \divining rod,\ and other contrivances for befooling the credulous miner as well as others. There is no need to Say the \ignorant miner,\ for he is usually not ignorant, and it is a matter of constant surprise to find well-educated people, who would place no confidence in the clair- voyant blindly following the fellow with the \forked stir k.\ The \pro- fessors . ' of this \graft\ claim to be able to locate gold, silver, copper ; lead, tin, zinc, diamonds, oil and many other desit able things. In order to do this they have instruments shaped like the letter Y, in the end of which the par- ticular \battery\ for finding any stated mineral substance is secured. Then, with the forked ends in their hands, they walk soberly to and fro over the mineral ground. Suddenly they are observed to have a spasm—sometimes several—the nervous excitement is something pitiful to behold, but the work is done and the rich body of ore has been located. The \professor\ reluctantly permits a fee of $2o per day and expenses to be thrust upon him, and the client—well, he proceeds to put up \assessments.\ One \pro- fessor\ in the southern California oil fields had a \divining rod\ constructed with particular reference to the location of oil lines. This remarkable instru- ment was 'fitted with a hollow bulb containing an ounce of the \pi ofessor's'' blood. 'hen ready to undertake the difficult' task of locating the site .fora new oil well—for that it is a difficult task must be admitted—he filled his mouth with water and began his stren- uous work. Should he accidentally , stub his toe and swallow the water or otherwise discharge the fluid from his mouth, the search could not be resum- ed until the following day, as the \pro- fessor\ was completely prostrated by ieason of his strenuous, nerve -tearing experience with the \divining rod,\ but his pay was $20 per day and ex- peljgA . so the \professor\ managed to stand it. How any one can be de- ceived by such chicanery and fraud is past understanding, but the victims of this sort of thing are not by any means rare. There are others, who have other instruments, who work in a diff- erent but in one thing they are all alike—they all impose upon and swindle those who credulously employ and pay them for such servi.:es. There should be a law to protect the unwary from this class of sharks, and the law should provide a penalty which should be strictly applied.—Mining and Scien- tific Press. Fred Cook, a Flathead county poli- tician, married the same woman three times and then committed suicide. Pity the man who cannot live happily with his wife and is in perfect misery without her. Although Bob Fitzsimmons was plunged into the deepest Ariet at the recent death of his second wife, he lost no time in looking for another. This time he will cast his fortunes with Miss Julia May Gifford, an actress, and who, he says, is the sweetest girl he has ever seen. People quit growing old at forty half a century ago. They quit it when they ceased thinking themselves old at forty, ceased dressing old at lofty, not to speak of drinking themselves old at forty. The young man of fifty or sixty years now wears . the natty sack tweeds that his son or grandson wears, tipped off with a jaunty hat. He goes to base- ball, the races ; he keeps up with the procession and- is all in for a good time in moderation, healthfully. The young woman with him 'in white, or colors, with the gay hat, who has the manner of a youthful, but self-respect- ing girl of twenty in the last century, is his wife, perhaps a grandmother, but none the less happy yet. They feel young, they dress young, they believe themselves young — by the Great Horned Spoon, they are young.—Ex. Evansville, Ind., is the latest scene of riot and bloodshed. Because a negro killed a patrolman of the town a large mob gathered about the city jail and demanded the murderer's life. The militia hastened to guard the jail and they performed their duty, although it cost the lives of to people and about 20 were injured. This is an age when barbarism is supposed to be extinct in the United States, but just think of a mob of several thousand people in a modern American city demanding the life of one negro. It shows the animal nature in mankind to be stronger than it is gerierally given credit for being. Man's thirst for Wood is still prevalent in'a Strong degree and it -may take years of educating and training the finer senses to conquer the morbid and vicious nature that so frequently breaks out in mobs -like the one in Evansville. Perhaps the most effective and quick- est cure is the one applied in the In- diana town—guard the prisoner in a determined manner and kill, if ne:es- sary . , to uphold the law. It had a t‘holesome effect with the Evansville rioters. Unless the unexpected happens in ThiTs - ea - son will be -one of . the most prosperous the ranchers and stock men of Montana have ever ex perienced. Lewistown Hotel Telephone 58 CHAS. E. WRIGHT jt Proprietor .4 .0 The Best Hotel in the Judith Basin TO! MAJ(STIC LEWISTOWN MONTANA YOUNG & WYDERT, Proprietors LEWISTOWN'S SWELL BUFFET Join Your Friends at the Majestic Bowling Alleys Sole Agents for Hamm's Velvet Bottled Beer Geo. R. Creel Main Street, Lewistown Licensed Embalmer and Undertaker Local and Long Distance Telephone Calls Answered W. J. Wells & Co. ecte eAte The Only Exclusive Men's Clothing and Furnishing Goods House In• the Judith Basin. OA W. J. Wells & Co. LEWISTOWN, MONTANA. Judith Steam Laundry LEWISTOWN, MONT. - .0 Strictly first-class work. Particular attention given to Kendall and outside orders. SMITH BROS. Agents in Kendall. Harry Smith Frank Smith J. E. WASSON Attorney at Law GILT EDGE, MONTANA Mining Law a Specialty Judith Basin Bank Lewistown, Mont. Incorporated Under the Laws of Montana Paid=Up Capital $75,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits $30,000 HERMAN fITTEN, President. DAVID HILGER, Vioe,-President GEORGE J. BACH, Cashier. W. B. MINER. Ass't Cashier DIRECTORS: Herman Otten, Louis Landt, David Hilger, Matthew Gunton, H. Hodgson. John Laux. H.M. McCauley, W. B. Miner, George J. Bach. A general banking business transacted. including the purchase acid sale of State and County Warrants. and Bounty Certificates the selling of exchange on Nil the principal cities of the United States arid Europe; the transfering of money by telegraph. Careful attention given to collections, arid the refs keeping of valuable papers Interest equal to that paid by any Bank in the State allowed on Time Deposits Day or Night CHRONICLE $ 2 . 00 A YEAR
