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Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1883-04-05
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The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02
A BIG TERRITORY.
Alaska's Size, Extent of Coast Line.
and Wealth of Timber.

"Ruhamah," in st Louis Globe-Democrat.
The extent of this northwest territoI y and
the vast distances between points are more
than bewildering. Alaska itself is equal in
area to all of the United States east of the
Mississippi river. Counting the Aleutian
chain, the Pribyloff group and the 1000
Islands of the Alexander archipelago, the
total area of the Alnska Islands is 81, POS
square miles.
The island of Attu, the last of the Aleutian
chain, is as far west of San Francisco as
Bangor, Me-, is east of it, and the indented
coast line of Alaska, measuring over $4,000
miles, is even greater that the whole coast
line of the Atlantic and Pacific shores of the
United States put together. Southern
Alaska, as it is called, comprises the narrow
strip of territory that extends southwark
from Mount st. Elias to Dixon channei the
boundary line between Alaska and British
Columbia. This thirty-mile strip of land,
with its outlying islands, is the best known
part of the territory, and, with the exception
of Onalaska and the Seal islands, is the seat
of the only white settlements of any conse-
quence or promise. Dense forests clothe the
islands and mainland of southern Alaska
and "darken a region half as large as Eu-
rope"
Although the rocky foundations are only
covered with a thin, sandy soil, vegetation
fourishes with a rankness that can not be
surpassed in the tropics. The close forests of
yellow cedar, Sitka and Douglass spruce,
Jeffreys pine and balsam fir nave never been
devastated by fires, and for unnumbered ages
only glaciers or avalanches have interfered
with the steady processes of nature. The
Russians cleared q little ground about
their settlements, but later inhabitants have
made no efforts in that way, since crops
can not be raised with success and
there are not enough horses or cattle for any
one to direct their attention to grasses that
can not be dried in the constant downpour.
The stumps of trees will never rot in the
ground, and the fallen trunks in the forest
form a network like the corners of rail fences,
with each log covered with thick moses and
grasses, and bearing a dense growth of rank
ferns, bushes and small trees.
1t is wholly impossible to penetrate the for
ests without a path first being hewn through
the thicbly ranged tree trunks, and in the
wood paths about Sitka one frequently sees
trees two and three feet in diameter, growing
over the prostrate forms of pines of even
greater dimensions. If you step aside
from the path to force your way
through the underbrush to reach
clusters of crimson and orange salmon berries,
you may suddenly be engulfed, and sink two
or ten feet into a pitfaA of messy logs. Only
tho certainty that there are no snakes or
creeping things in Alaska encourages one to
venture aside from the narrow and graveled
paths that beneficent Russian rulers caused to
be made about Sitka.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

New York Dispatch.
The local article of confidence man is quite
meritorious in It's way, but hardly yet able
tn compete with the more scientific members
of the fraternity now rapidly arriving from
New York and Chicago to gather in the
country visitor crop.
Last Wednesday, as the overland train was
disgorging its passengers in Oakland depot,
a plausible looking young man walked up to
a grayheaded granger who was staring open
mouthed around him, and clasped him fer
vently by the hand. ''Why, how do you do,
Mr.. Guffy?n =
"H-how did You know my name was
GuffyF' asked the delegate from the foothills,
much astonished, and apparently oblivious
that Jas. Guffy, Ukiah,n was painted in big
letters on the valise he carried in his hand.
"Why, Jim, old man, you can't have for
gotten me-Tom Saunders, your old friend.
How are all the boys in Ukiahf'
"Glad ter sec yer, glad ter see yer. I've
got a powerful bad memory, but seems ter
me | do remember yer face, somehow said
the granger.
"Of course you do. Coming down for a
little look rounds ehl All right-where do
you put upi I'll meet you after dinner and
we'll take in the town together. Here's my
address"
God bless you, my boy" said the hay
seed party, much affected. ''Them's the fust
kind words Nv hearn since l left home,n
and with the honest impulse of his simple
nature, the farmer took the young man in
his arms and Rugged him. Then, arranging
where TO meet later, he shuffled along.
That afternoon the plausible young man
was down at headquarters complaining that
he had been robbed of his watch and pocket
book by a 'boodler," got up as an Did
granger.
'"fhere wasn't nuthin' particular in their
pocketbook, he Indignantly explained, and
the watch was oroide, but Pm blessed if l
want to be beat at my own game"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02
a Minneapolis Land Agent.

milwaukee, Sentinel.
While riding out across the unfenced prai
ries three miles beyond the city l came acroy,
two men. One had his pocket full of signs
and the other carried an ak and bundle ot
stakes. After pacing around for a time in
the tall grass. the man with the hatchet
drove a stake and the other man pulled forth
and tackled to it: "'This house and lot for
sale or rent on easy terms" Accosting him.
L exclaimed. Man alive, What do you mean
by putting up such a sign on an unknown
prairief There isn't n house or q street
within a milo of here Looking up pity
ingly, and drawing a roll of paper from his
pocket the agent replied: ''Here is the plan
for a seven-room house. This afternoon
twenty -four men will begin its construction.
Here is a contract for its lease already signed
at SIS per month, and a week from next
Saturday the tenant will move in. My maine
is Herrick. I'll sell you a lot fronting this
double-track street car line on this broad
avenue for 5000. Cheap as dirt. Next
week you can refuse $1,000 for your prop.
erty.n
Catching my breath, protested BROAD ave
nuel Double-treck street car Incl Great
king, this is an open prairie. 1t has never
even been ploughed."
But from the other pocket jumped another
roll OF papers. "Here is the plan of n street
l had recorded this morning, and here is a
petition for a street car line. In sixty days
you will have both. Here | have a deed all
filled out except signing, and | can make
this lot right over to you now. Well get
witnesses down town."
"Your lotF' 1 timidly ventured, "is small,
only sixteen feet"
"Small!n yelled Herrick in a tragic and
injured voice. "Do you call sixteen feet front
smalli Why, you can build a three-story
house on that lot, and that is large enough
for anybody" At this | cut the horse and
galloped away through the grass, lest | should
fall a victim to Herrick's Establishments aud
schemes
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02
Spending on Foreign Cranks and
Clowns.

III
Philadelphia Times.
1t is bad enough to run into book-fancying
merely for their covers and margins and to
fill gilded book cases and furnish clever chat
for a cunning tongue, while there is no actual
soul for literature itself or the thoughts hid
in it. 1t is still more ludicrous for padded
millionaires to spend ill-got fortunes on
chrome picture galleries which are an insult
TO art and a degradation of al true refine
ment, for there is no vice SO contemplate as
the vice of sham. 1t is still worse to waste
millions Of money in costly dresses for girls
Or women whose lives might be better
clothed in sackcloth and ashes, but the
worst American extravaganza is in the mill
ions we spend on foreign franks and clowns.
1t is not necessary to go into ancient his
tory or TO look back more than a year. Last
summer Mr.. Tug Wilson, a mere ignorant
British bruiser of the lowest type, came here,
got himself freely advertised, allowed him
self to be knocked down and pounded, as he
deserved, and started back to England with
something over $4,000 of American fools
money" A little later Lily Langtry, play
ing the same advertising dodge, appealing to
lower motives than the bruiser, came, and in
return for downright simpering Stiffness
sailed away with more than 100000 got
from the same general human species. Mr..
Slade is the latest attraction in the line of ap-
peal to our native instincts, and for a ten
minute exhibition of mere bestiality he is now
living like q native gentleman on thousands
of American dollars Some people have
thought that attending popular lectures
was somewhat demoralizing. But the new
American arena, for downright vulgarity,
beats the Roman gladiatorial shows and out
does the bull fights of Spain.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

A mar only arrives at a competency by
the work thai he does himself; if he acquires
riches it is by the work that he makes otben
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

New York Sun.
Miss Chamberlain, of Cleveland, who Is
figuring in London as a beauty, is described
by Eliza Wethersby, who happened to meet
her in a gathering of the prince of Wales
set, as about as pretty as ten per cent. of all
American girls. She had rather a captivat-
ing way about her, '"oddly combining a
spirituelle, Marguerite air with the peculiar
dash and confidence common in Yankee
girls" 1t was evening, and the light was
electric, so that every bit of a~rtiiciality was
made clear by the glare. Her face was
painted like wax work. The red of her cheeks
stood out like daubs. Her features were
small and regular, her figure tall and well
shaped, and her benring free and uncon-
raine She was dressed in good taste-a
white Grape costume embroidered with silver.
~ heard her in conversation with the
prince" the actress adds, "and she was de-
l%ightfully free from any manner of toadyism
seemed to treat him with barely respectful
Difference. Her voice is musical, and she
manages it bewitchingly."
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02
THE FAMOUS BLIND POOL.
How President Willard Secured Con-
troll of the Northern Pacific Rail-

How President Willard Secured Con-
troll of the Northern Pacific RaiI-
%zoad
E. V. Smalley, who has devoted a good
deal of time to Mr.. Wizards affairs and the
affairs of the Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany, and who is now engaged in writing a
history of the road, tells the story of the
famous blind pool, I" as follows:
Mr.. Willard exercised every precaution to
conceal himself as a buyer, using exclusively
his private means and credit. In this way he
very quietly took out of the market large
lines of the desired stocks during the months
of December, 1880, and January, 1881. Hav-
ing thus obtained the virtual control of the
market, as regarded three stocks he was buy
ing, he felt sure that complete success was
only a question of further investment. Early
in February, 1881, he decided to call on his
friends for funds for further purchases
in such a manner, however, as would not
yet disclose the real object he sought to &C
complish. Having absolute faith in the
%soundness of his project, and feeling justified
in taking large responsibilities, as the as
sumption Of such was in the direct interest of
all concerned, and was the only sure means
of accomplishing his purpose, he decided to
make the strongest appeal any man could
make to the confidence of others in him by
asking his friends and followers to place their
money in his hands without telling them the
use to which he intended to put it. Accord
ingly he issued a private circular to about
fifty persons, informing them that he desired
them to subscribe toward a fund of IS, OO0,-
600, to which he himself would contribute a
large part, in order to enable him to lay the
foundation of a certain enterprise, the exact
mature of which he would disclose
thereafter. The effect of the announc-
ment was marvellous, The very mys-
terry Of it appeared to 10 an ire
sistible attraction. The result was that one
third of the persons appealed to signed the
full amount asked for before the subscription
list could reach the other two-thirds. Then
an eager rush of applications for the right to
subscribe ensued, and within twenty-four
hours after the issue of the circular more
than twice the amount offered was applied
for.
How much money was raised in this
wayr'
"In all S20,O0o. 900; the plan was disclosed
to the subscribers to the purchasing syndicate
June "a, and on the same day the new COM
pany was fully organized under the name of
the Oregon 81 Transcontinental, its object
being to unite the Northern Pacific q Oregon
Railway and Navigation companies"
"What is the present relation which this
company holds to the Northern Pacific COM
panyf'
Merely that as holder of its stock.n
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

Valentine, Neb., has become the widest
resort of the cowboy. He may be seen on
the main street at all hours, more frequently
at midnight, if the moon shine, than at noon.
Generally he is tall and bronzed, with mus
Giles of steel. He wears high boots, heavy
trousers, II blue shirt, a big white hat, and at
the hip a glistening revolver of the largest
pattern, always loaded and always accom-
panied by u belt filed with cartridges. This
is the cowboys toy. He plays with it as chill
dren play with toy pistols. and fires it off
whenever he feels like it. TIL night is merry
with its gentle fusilade; the cowboy shoots
dogs with it, shoots at stove-pipe hats if they
appear on the street, shoots at the ground in
front of the 'tenderfoot' and ~scatters the
dirt over his polished shoes; he fiourishes it
in the moonlight, he plays tunes On it, he
serenades with it. The wind blew off a
strangers stiff hat the other night, an urchin
caught it and tossed it into the air; twenty
revolvers were whipped out and the hat fell
to the ground riddled with holes. When the
stranger protested one could nave heard
their laugh half why to Omaha.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

Oliver Wendell Holmes: We nave n class
of critics dubbed smellers; they smell at q
book and write a notice of it
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

Boston Transcript.
A French investigator has discovered that
the character of a persons dream depends in
a great measure on which side the sleeper
lies. The dreams of a lawyer, then, who
habitually lies on both sides, must be very
much mixed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

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worms, constipation. 25c.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

Quick, complete cure, all annoying
Kidney, Bladder and Uriary Diseases,
81. Druggists
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-02

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies,
ants, bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks,
gophers. 15c. Druggists.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-11

He shoots Himself 10 Quiet n DisOr.
slc-cd RrRtu.

He shoots Himself to Quiet u DtsOr.
deTcd Bratn.
O. l.. Charley Strong, it will be re-
membered, superintendent the construc.
ton of the reduction works of the Geddes
Il Bertrand at Secret Canyon. He was an
old timer on the coast and was at one time,
in the early days of the Comstock, Super
intendent of the Gould g. Curry. He WAS
a man of great practical experience in
mineralogy and the reduction of ores, and
problem Of reducing rebellious ores SIM
liar to those Of the Geddes & Bertrand
mine. Last Summer he went away from
his supe%rinteadency of this mine, and it
was understood then among a few that the
cause Of his leaving was a mental de-
rangement, such as he had suffered at one
time before, and which was brought on
again by the perpetual and terrific noise
of the mill in which he had to stay most OF
the day. The sequel of the sad story is to
be found in the following special dispatch
to the SENTINEL received last night:
AUBURN, CAL, Feb. 10, 1888.
SENTINEL: This morning Charles l..
Strong, Superintendent and part owner OF
the Belmont mine and mill, committed
suicide at the mine, about eight miles
from here, by shooting himself. He was
the first Superintendent of the Gould d
Curry. At one time he was afflicted with
brain trouble to such an extent that he had
to have constant attendance, and 1t Is
probable that the mental worry and strain
on getting the mine and mill in shape
caused the old trouble to suddenly re-
turn,
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-11
COAST NOTES.

The Marysville levee system has cost
that city S408, 539.
Lumber is worth S35 per thousand and
wood SIS per cord at HALEY, Wood River.
One of the citizens OF Miles City, Mon
tana, does an extensive business shipping
buffalo bones East.
Five hacks are now running daily be-
tween Haley and Bellevue, carrying pas
sengers and express.
Horses recently crossed Snake River on
the ice between Silver City and Bodie, a
thing unprecedented in the annals of the
country.
Alturas County, of which Haley is the
county seat, is nearly as large as the State
Of Ohio, containing the famous Wood
River, Sawtooth and Smoky mines, and a
population Of 10000 people-one-ffth of
the entire population Of Idaho Territory.
The Southern Pacific Company has pur-
chased a lot in Evergreen Cemetery, Los
Angeles, and on Monday next will have
the unidentified remains Of the victims of
ths Tehachapi disaster buried. Each coffin
will have a number corresponding to that
on the box in which the remains were sent
from Tehachapi. Arecord will be kept by
Undertaken Brown of where the remains
are buried, and also showing the location
where each of the remains were found
after the accident.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-11
MIR. DENNIS BILL.
An Official Publication OF County
Expenditures Proposed.

Senator Dennis has introduced a bill to
compel tho County Commissioners to ad-
~vertise their expenditures. 1t has met
with opposition, the nature Of which is
thus discussed in the Carson Appeal:
The opposition is made under the usual
mask Of economy, and comes as a matter
of course from what is generally known as
the Courthouse rings" 1t is claimed
that this advertising will drag vast sums
OF money out of the treasury and dump
the same into the Golfers of the newspapers.
1t is urged on the part of the economists
that it will cost ten dollars a square and
all that. Now the fact is that no news
paper can charge more than 50 80 a square
for advertising under the law, and the law
also compels the papers to use the smallest
type found in d newspaper ~oAice-nonpa-
reil. The object of the law is to allow tax
payers to see each month just where their
money goes, and if this bill becomes a law
John Doe cannot slip in a bill of SIG per
cord for wood which a rival dealer would
be glad to furnish for So. 1t will show
taxpayers who are being favored by
the Board, and in many counties prevent
an extravagant waste Of county money.
In some portions Of Nevada these Boards
have held secret meetings and filed the
purses OF their pets from the county treas
uries, oausea their relatives TO tatten ST
the expense Of the taxpayers and feathered
their own nests beside. II they are COM
pslled each month to advertise q sworn
statement OF expenditures as ars the Board
OF Capitol Commissioners there would DO
a check to Courthouse rings. Each conn
ty officer should be compelled to spread
his records before the public once a month
IN the columns OF a county newspaper.
Take o recent instance, In storey County
the experts have found o deficit Of Sill IN
the County Clerks Office. When the ooun-
ty gets through paying the experts II will
cost 1000. Now, we hold that Slpa a
year expended in the proposed advertising
would have saved all this, rs no man will
take the chance on a stealing proposition
when his accounts are scrutinized monthly
by intelligent taxpayers. The Dennis bill!
should become e lazy at ones.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-11
PRISON STATISTICS.
The Kinds and Causes of Crimes
Committed In Nevada.

Committed I'm Nevada.
At date of report, Dec. 81, 1882, there
were 113 convicts in the Nevada State
Prison, the several counties being repre-
sented as follows: Churchill, 1; Douglas,
4; Esmeralda, 10; Elko, 5; Eureka, 6;
Humboldt, II; Lander, IA; Lincoln, 2;
Nye, A; Ormsby, 4; Storey, 10; Washoe,
Is; White Pine, IL. The crimes of which
they were convicted are: For assault with
intent to kill, s.; assault with intent to do
great bodily injury, 2; assault with intent
to commit robbery, a; arson, 4; admins
tering poison with intent to cause death Of
another, 2; attempt to commit burglary, /;
burglary, 16; grand larceny, IA; house
breaking, s; jailbreaking, l; murder in
first degree, 4; murder in second degree,
25; manslaughter, 10; robbery, 10; rape,
2; forgery, 2; felony, 1; enlightenment, L;
incest, 1. Four have been sentenced to l
year imprisonment; 4 to l year and 6
months; 6 to 2 years; 6 to 8 years; 10 to 4
years; s to S years; 8 to 6 years; 8 to 7
years; 2 to 7 years and 6 months; Q to 8
years; 8 to 9 years; l to 9 years and 6
months; 10 to 10 years; 1 to II years;
2 to IL years; 2 to IS years; 8 to IA
years; 2 to Is years; l to 1G years; / to
II years; 1 to 18 years; 6 to 20 years; 1
to 81 years; 1 to % years; 1 to 24 years
and 6 months; 8 to 25 years, and 16 for
life. Sixty-seven are natives of the United
States and 46 foreign born. The previous
occupation of the inmates of the prison il
given as follows: One amalgamator, 8
blacksmiths, 8 b~artenders, 1 bookkeeper, /
barber, 2 bakers, l butcher, 1 brickmason,
l carpenter, 1 collar-maker, IA cooks, 2
clerks, 1 engineer, 8 farmers, q house
keepers, 18 laborers, 2 laundrymen, 10
miners, 2 machinists, l merchant, l physi-
clan, 2 printers, l saloon-keeper, l stage
driver, 5 teamsters, 7 yacqueros, 8 walters,
1 whitesmith, 10 no occupation, l glass
blower, l cowboy, l Snowman, 1 joiner, 1
steward, 1 matchmaker, 2 stockmen, l
horse trainer.
One hundred can read and write; 1 can
read only, and IL can neither read nor
write. Thirty-one claim to be temperate;
81 drink moderately, and 20 drink to *
cess. Eighty-six are single, 25 married
and 2 widowers.
There are two women in the prison
Mary A. Boynton, sentenced to one year
from Washoe for arson, and Annie Peter
on, sentenced to II years from Lander for
arson. There was only one death at the
prison in the years 1881 and 18S2-that OF
James Crawford, who was sent from White
Pine County for assault with intent to
commit robbery.