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SUMMONS.


TERRITORY or W WAsHINGToN,
County or SPOKANE. u.s.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE TER.
dicinl District thereof holding terms at
Cheney, spokane county.in said Territory.
JAMES d. NELSON, Plaintiff. }
vs..
SUSAN LIZZIE NEIsoS, Defendant
The United States Of America to Susan
Lizzie Nelson, defendant. You arc hereby
required 10 appear In an action brought
against you by James D. Nelson, plaintiff, III
the District Court Of the Territory Of WASH
ingtOn, and for the First Judicial District
thereof holding terms at Cheney, SPOKANE
county. In said Territory, to answer the COM
plaini Of plaintiff hled In spokane couhfy,
within twenty days after the service of1ftis
summons, exclusive Of the day Of service, n
county, but In said district, IN thirty days; II
served In any other judicial district In Tho
territory, In forty days; n served by publlca-
tion, within sixty days after the date OF the
nrst publication Of this summons, or the said
plaintiff viii take judgTcn against you by
default according 10 the prayer Of the com
plant.
The cause and gehcraf nature OF this action
Is to dissolve the bonds Of matrimOny b.
that defendant has abandoned plaintiff for
more than one year last past.
Witness the Hon. $. {. Wingard, Associate
Justice Of the supreme Court Of Washington
Territory and Judge 81 said COu {. and tho
seal Thereof affixed, this IN dHy.o August,
A. ID. 1851 A. REEVES AYRES, CLERK.
lsenl.l BY J. $. LOCKHART, Deputy
ANDREws & JONES, Plaintiffs Attorneys
First publi,atiLn dated August II, 1881
, 1883-09-29
The Mines.

We have had no particular fresh
news from the mining territory thi,
week. There is apparently no abate-
ment Of the excitement. A great
many people are going into the
mountains, or are now on the road.
1t is getting late for many fresh par
ties striking out, although farther
favorable reports would be apt to
stir men up to taking the chances OF
the climate. An old miner was in
the city early in the week, from the
mines, but he had not gone far
enough to express a decided opinion.
His object down here was to procure
provisions and: become posted on
the laws governing mining claims.
lie stated that the chances were that
a great deal of trouble would grow
out of the attempt to shold 20 acres.
He thought that the camp would be
a large and lively one next season,
and that the yield Of the mines
would be heavy.
, 1883-09-29

Pedtionsare in circulation through
out the easter and western portions
Of the county, appealing to the Leg
islature for division Of the county.
This movement has become a matter
Of necessity. The county as it now
exists is entirely too large and cum
bersomc, and the sooner it is cut up
the better. From a very small section
the proposition to divide is opposed,
but there is not a man in this part Of
the county who has refused to sign
the document. We have carefully
refrained from saying anything .on
this subject, feeling that a division
was inevitable some day, and that it
would naturally occur at the proper
time, and think THAI that time is now
ripe. We believe that a division will
be beneficial in many respects, and
will have more to say on the subject
hereafter.
, 1883-09-29

On HAND AND READY FOR BUSINESS
And the bottom knocked tout Of high
prices" We have car load Of nails we
must sell to make room for our Immense
Stock now en- route from the East. Pr.cc,
$500 per keg.
GEO. r. CRANE q Co.,
Spokane Falls.
, 1883-09-29

II you want good well at your house
call at the Employment Office, and leave
your orders. Competent men always on
hand to do the work in style. Next door
to thepostotlice.
, 1883-09-29

have on hand a car load Of the best
Shell Lime, which l sell by the barrel, or
in quantities to suit. II. W. SKULL,
Att. S. Kauiman's Real Estate Office.
, 1883-09-29

VIII you suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver
Complalnt2 shilOh's Nitalizer Is guaran-
teed 10 cure you. Al city Drug Store.
, 1883-09-29

That hacking cough can be soquickly cured
by shlloh's Cure. We guarantee IT, Al city
Drug store.
, 1883-09-29

Sleepless nights, made miserable by that
terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure Is the remedy
fQr you. ACClty Drug Store.
, 1883-09-29

President Cashier
, 1883-09-29

Oataarh Cured, health and sweet breath ses
cured by Shiloh's Cataarh Remedy. Price 50
cents Nasal Injector free. At city Drug
Store.
, 1883-09-29

For lame Back, Side or Chest use Shiloh's
Porous Plaster. Price 2j cents. AT CITY Drug
store.
, 1883-09-29

shlohs Cough and Consumption Cure is
sold byus on guarantee. II cures cOnsulnp-
tiOn. At City DRUGSTORE.
, 1883-09-29

Group, Whooplng Cough and Bronchitis
Immediately relieved by Shilohs Cure. AZ
Chy Drug Store
, 1883-09-29

LUMBER.-For bargains in lumber, call
at the Cash Lumber Yard at the depot.
l.. L. STONE. .
, 1883-09-29

The purest wines and liquors manufac-
tnred can always be found at J. N.
SQuier's.
, 1883-09-29

Traut & Chamberlain, late Of BOdie,
Cal, will open an exclusive boot and shoe
store, and manufacture the same line of
goods, in the new building on the corner
Of Main and Howard, being built by the
First National Bank, on or about the LIST
Of October. They will carry large
stock,
, 1883-09-29

Es-For Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Ammu-
milton, Fishing Tackle and all kinds Of
Sportsmens Goods go to Harry Hay
wards.-52
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
sketch or Soionrner Trmth.

The parents of Soiourner Truth we're
brought in a SLAYER from the coast of
Guinea to this country. Her real name
-or that which had been given to her
by her first master-was Isabella Har-
denbnrg, but, becoming dissatisfied
with It, it is said that she went out into
the wilderness and prayed TO the Lord
to give her an appropriate name. After
praying for some time she heard, she
said, the name s'Sojourner" whispered
to her, as she was to travel up and
down. and afterHard Truth was
cdded to it to signify that she should
preach nothing but the truth to all men,
Sojourner had q tall. notwithstanding
~fgure--she was almost six feet high,
and talked in a deep, gutteral, powerful
voice that made many people who heard
her think that she WIS a man, and was
imposing upon them by masquerade as
q woman. On her lecturing tours
she took with her
her grandson, who attended to her bug
mess affairs. Sojourner knew many
prominent member favorite statesman
being Abraham Lincoln-and her nara
ives and descriptions of those whom
slle had known shngad that she bad
Judged their characters exceedingly
well. During her later life, r for the
past ten years, her avowed object in
travelling around was to obtain names
10 q petition which she intended pre-
,enting to the Government, asking that
/ portion Of the pubic lands ofthe West
be set apart for the establishment OF a
negro colony, where she proposed that
The negro youth should be educated.
She owned q comfortable home at Battle
Creek, Mich, and q valuable farm q
short distance from thetown. Twoyears
ago she made her will, ~beoueathing
everything to her three daughters who
lived with her.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
ADe.erted city.

1t is not often that an American town
doomed to defamation, but Virginia
City. Nevada. affords one instance at
least. Eight years ago Virginia City
and Gold fill, adjoining each other and
practically one town, had 81. 900 popula-
ton. 1t was the largest community be-
tween Denver and San Francisco.
There were merchants doug business
with a million capital. There were pri-
yate houses that cost $iOO, 900 to bnild
and furnish. There were stamp mills
and mining structures that cost $500 900
each. There were three daily newspa-
pers, and a hotel that cost $780, 900. 1t
was q teeming, busy and money making
population, aud among the people were
"a score or more men worth from $780,
600 to $780, ZOO, 900. Mackey and Fair
both lived there. There were three
banks, a gas company, q splendid thea
ire and q costly courthouse.
Eight years have passed and the town
is a wreck. The 5000 people have
dwindled to 5000. The banks have re-
tired from business. The merchants
have closed up and left; the hotel is
abandoned: the gas company is bank
rapt, and scores of costly residences
have either been takea to pieces or
moved away or given away fsf taxes.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
The Gigantic Procession or Spots.
Which Crossed the Suns Disk.

Everybody who watched the sun with a
telescope last Summer must have won
dered at the great belt Of spots lying
across the southern part of the disk dur
ing the last half of July. Several Of the
spots and groups were of extraordinary
size, and. their arrangement was very
singular. When the belt extended com
pletely across the sun, there was visible
at one time almost every characteristic
form that sun spots present. There was
the yawning black chasm, with sharply
defined yet ragged edges, vast enough
to swallow up the Whole earth, with
room to spare, and surrounded by a
regular penumbral border as evenly
shaded as an artist could have made it:
there was the double or triple spot.
whose black centers, though widely sep
arated from n another, were tangled
as it were in one twisted and torn veil OF
penumbra, or connected by long, shad-
IoWy bands: there was The monstrous
spot of grotesaue form surrounded
by a crowd OF smaller spots OF even
more fantastic shape, and enveloped In
q broad, irregular penumtira, as bizarre
and wonderful as the mighty su~n-chasms
inclosed IN it; there was the great spot,
often of singular outline. accompanied
ontside its shadowy borders by one or
more swarms of minute black specks
pitting the white photosphere In the
most extraordinary fashion; there was
the huge group, visible even to the I'M
assisted eye, and consisting of a half a
dozen or more large spots intermingled
WITH smaller ones whose nuEiber seemed
to defy counting, and enveloped in an
penumbral cloak Of becoming amplitude
there, near the edges of the disk, were
the crinkling lines and ll~eaped-up
masses of facuR, the mountainous hy-
drogen flames which marked the places
where the ~intenseSt solar action was
going ON. in short there was a panorama
in which every variety OF sun-spot
seemed to be passing insa gigantic pro-
cession across the disk. And what a,
procession it was. Long enough, near
ly, to reach from the earth to the moon
and back again three times!-Pon-
uiar Science.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
Wedding JOURNEYS.

The mystery attending wedding jour
neys nowadays is a new invention in So
cial etiquette. Tn old times it sgss the
custom for the bridal excursion to be
undertaken with much preparation and
fuss. The happy pair drove to the
steamer or the train that was to bear
them away from their old homes amid
showers of rice, old slippers, and other
heathenish tokens ofgood luck and good
wishes. And the destination Of the we'd
dug journeyers was duly printed in the
newspapers with the pomp of an adver-
tisement. Now society would be shocked
with SO n.uch publicity. The reception
and ceremony over, the newly married
cnllnle dart into q coach and, afte. the
bridegroom has este ntatiousiy ordered
the driver to drive to the New-York
Central station, for example, the cay fu-
gatiyes flee to some city hotel, and, next
lay1eludingt the social police sent on their
track, fit off into the mysterious I'm
known where they have secretly decid-
I'd 10 spend their honeymoon, So long
as the wedding journcyers fancy them.
selves secure from intrusion, and dis
guised as ''old married folks " they are
happy, and nobody need know where
they are. When Blair Scrihner, a no.
BILE young fellow, who died In the flush
and beauty of his useful life, went on
his wedding Journey, l remember that
he dated the only letter that his family
had from him during his absence, s'some-
where in paradise" Happy he whose
paradise long outlssts the weddins exv
80, rSiap ar1 ifc caclusiou
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28

Many Of the restaurants of Paris are
simply robbing-pens through p~oliteness
and false pretenses. A correspondence
describes the programme at one of an
honest class: .It is the establishments
de bouillon. The founder was q butch
er named Duval, and now Paris is full
ofthem. The exteriors are all painted
chocolate color, with gold. When you
enter you are handed q menu, which is
stamped with q number, and the prices
Of everything are opposite the name of
the dish--a thing very rare in Paris. A
charity girl, dressed in cap and apron,
takes your order, and serves you very
neatly. The portions are OILY large
enough for one person, and the prices
remarkably cheap. They charge Ave
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
..wHAT MIS-, mo 'BoUrITq''
The Chairman OF tile Committee on
Culture" Offers a Resolution.


Culture" Offers a Resolution.
There wa one colored member of the
Florida assembly who was the most Luz
dicrously pompous specimen l have
ever seen. He was short and very thick
set, large, gross features, lips like the
bumpers Of a railway car and had the
measured walk OF a militia veteran.
Withal he was 50 densely black that the
Encouragement, speaking of him once,
said he believed ''tlle cuss would sweat
ink" This fellow was profoundly inn
pressed with the belief tn It he was a
natural born statesman and nnlitieal
economist and used to talk very dispar-
agingly of Congressman w. ID. Kelley,of
Pennsylvania, considering him, he said,
a very much over-rated man. He had
an o~verweening ambition to be chair
man of something OF other and became
such a Nuisance with importantly that to
get rid of him he was at
once made chairman of the committee
on Agriculture. This at once gratifed
bis vanity and his ambition, and he
erected an extra spine in his back of
honor of the occasion, But he was igno,
rant oil the duties pertaining to his new
and important position, 80 he went to a
white friend in whom he had confidence,
and asked his advice. Said he; BOSS,
Use been 'pinted Checrman Of de Com
mittee on Culture; what mus / do,'bout
III" Who said his friend, who was q
we'll known practical Joker, ''you must
offer n resolution to the Legislature.
future means g~entleman'y conduct and
Clearly habits, and as chairman; of this
committee it is your place and duty 10
instruct the others in these highly i'm
portant points"
well, boss" said he, "you git me up
one jest about right and I'll present it TO
the Assembly tomorrow" So the day
following, when the Legislature had du'
lv come to arder our sable statesman
rose solemnly to his feet, fixing his
eagle eye glaringly on the presiding Off
Ger, with "Mistar Speaker, / has q reso-
luton, as Cheerman of de Committee on
Culture, to offer 10 dis honorable body
OF my friends and fellow citizens"
Amid expectant silence the Clerk, to
whom the paper had been handed, read
Is follows:
Resolved, That the practice of mem
bers of the Legislature only washing
their feet once in three months is a
rank offence against good morals and a
standing menace to the purity of the eff
ective franchise.
Resolved, That the Chairman Of the
Comilitee on Culture he authorized to
employ an Inspector OF feet, at a salary
OF 50 per diem, whose duty 1t shall be to
see that the pedal extremities Of the
members ofthe Legislature are kept in
q condition soothing 10 the peace and
dignity Of the state of Florida.
After the laughter had subsidized our
dusky legislator was informed that there
was no such committee as the Commit
tee on Culture, but that the Committee
on Agriculture was the oneof which he
was Chairman, and it's duties we're strict
ly confined to the farming interests of
his state. Correspondent Philadelphia
Times.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28

Of course he'll never forgive what | SAID
TO him when he was SO contrairy.n
"Oh, yes, he will, Aunt Mariar' cried
q hearty voice, as Bartholomew himself
burst ia, good-natured and manly, and
quite youthful looking for his forty.odd
years. And I've saved up a little
money, too, aunt; 80 you shan't ever
know want again, If you have lost your
fortune. And here's my vie, that ia to
be" he added, leading in a plump.
checked, rosy women, in a Mother
Hubbard cloak and a poke. bonnet, with
lilac ribbons.
"Why, its-its Feliclal' grasped
Aunt Maria, astonished, while the wild
ox,s black eyes danced with delight.
"Of course its Felicia" explained
Cousin Bartholomew. 81 met her on
the train, aud she's got the Christmas
dinner along, already cooked. We are
oil going to ear it right here, and then
have the wedding and 90 a house hunt
ing afterward. For this house is rather
small, for two families" he added, with
a glance at the barely furnished room.
but there is an need of house-hunt-
ing" smiled Aunt Maria. MY carriage
| will be here before long, and my house
is big enough for us all"
1t was the visitors TURF to be aston
ished now. af
your c~arriagew they stamnered, 81
AIM as poor us job's turkey yet, ii / did
lose a few thousand dollars when the
bank broke. And | mean to leave it all
to you two when | die. / shan't leave
Samantha Jane a red cent, for not com.
ing to me when she thought ] was
poor" she added emphatically.
And instead Of roast chicken for her
Christmas dinner, the Widow Daffy-
down partook of a bountiful repast of
roast turkey stuffed with oysters, and
the usual accomplishments of a Christ
mas feast.
. > =
"Why couldn't Aunt Marian hev said
she was a-goin' to invite Cousin Bar
tholomew" grumbled Samantha Jane,
when she heard the story. eff she he'd,
/ would hev gone, too, and tuck some
vittles and other truck along, an mebbe
I'd he, got him. But it's just like Aunt
Mariar, an / believe Felicia knew it all
the time, too. / see her cheeks a-getting
red when | was talking about Cousin
Bart. Felicia allus was as artful as a fox,
anyhow"
But the newly-made Mrs. Dildock was
too happy TO care what Samantha Jane
said. or anybody else.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
Lord ColerIdge's Entert ainment

'T'he unwritten history OF Lord Cole
ridges recent tour.in this country would
probably be far more interesting than
the daily chronicles which were fur
nished by the press. The following is
told in confidence and with bated breath
by the inhabitants of q furnishing city
IN Western New York. The Chiel JUS
tice was entertained at dinner n even
ing by q local magnate. A caterer well
known in that part Of the state furnished
the refreshments and the china on which
they we're served, which by the way,
was q new and hand-painted set. Dur
ing the course Of the dinner it is related
that Lord Coleridge said 10 his charming
,ostess: You will excuse the comment
mt I really must compliment YOU on
The exquisite beauty of your chine MY
lady calmly appropriated the compll-
nent, and gracefully replied. THANK
YOU, my Lord. 1t is used for the first
time i'm your Lordship's honor Then
the dinner moved on to a successful close
Judge OF his Lordship's surprise when,
at q breakfast given next morning by q
legal luminary, he was confronted with
the same beautiful set ofchina. But his
surprise wa augmented when, on the
following day, the banquet in his honor.
given in a rival city, ninety miles away,
vas graced with the hand-painted china
used for the first time in his Lordship's
honor,
WA
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28

Nothing can be sold that will cost ITS
worth TO move away. The rich men
have all gone. Those who remain are
the miners, their superintendent and
the saloon men and gamblers. The lat
Ter ARE usually the first 10 come 10 a
mining town and the last to leave.
The capse OF this decadence. which
has Swallowed up millions of capital and
wrecked the worldly ambition of thou
sands Of persons, is The failure CT the
Comstock mines to turn out additional
wealth,
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28
The Washington Monument.

Correspondents OF the L liimore Sun.
The monument last Monday reached
q height of 40 feet. Withall its enor-
nous weight it is but the one-sixty-
fourth of an inch-the thickness of a
sheet of stout writing paper out of
plumb. Our party went up in eight
minutes from the base to the top in
an Otis elevator, taking up two of Hugh
Sisson'5 marble blocks for the last
course OF stone laid this season. 1t was
a tremulous ascent up the dark marble
alley with those heavy stones, the eleva-
tor quIyefing as it went along, and as 1t
reached sunlight at the top, audible
breathing indicated that relief from the
suspense was a boon to most of the par
ty. The ascent could have been made
by stairs which are constructed along
the inner walls to the top.
Around the monument at the present
height are swung excellently contrived
hempen hammocks from all four sides,
so in case of fall no danger would en-
sue TO the workmen. These tumb.es are
not dreaded, and are said to be frequent.
| A week since q Baltimore beauty so
dazed a workman that in lifting his cap
| and stepping back TO let her pass he ieii
| ONCl, ntJO W Az iitAlttAONn TObI CObt tCOhC
| terra firma continued his adnIiring gaze
I with his cap still in hand. The superin-
tendent says that in five years the most
serious accident has not been more than
a mashed finger among his masons and
laborers. The height now is l45 feet.
| Tile base of the upper platform will COM
mence when 500!feet is reached. This will
be as high as the visitor can 90. The inte-
| rior of the monument is twenty-five feet
| square, which continues to q height Of
$50 ieet. Its dimensions are then in
creased TO II 5-l2 feet by the width of
| the walls being reduced; from that point
| to the top the inner walls are perpen-
dicular. The. outer face of the has q
batter or slope of ene-feust inch
to the foot until they will reach
500 feet.
AS before said, the ascent is made by
| an elevator. one of the Otis patent. It
has a carrying strength of seventy-tive
| tons, and the wire cables would break
| only at a test of $50 tons. Even with a
| break the safeguards are such as would
| prevent q rail- Of oyer ten inches. Yet
. the superintendent says he has FREE
| quently bad to stop, return and put men
| of, whose fears were such as to compel
| relief. He added he v knew q lady
| to be unnerved in that direction.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-28

centiraes "a cent? for your napkin, ana
8 small amoEnt-two or three cents-for
service. When You have finished, the
waitress takes your menu card, and
makes raddltion on it. You take this
card TO the cashier. She receipts it,
stamps it again; and, on leaving the res
taurant, you baud it to tho girl sitting at
the door, who gave it TO You first. 1t is
remarkable nat q cheap meal you q
m Ike st one OF these restaurants, and
the excellence of the food"