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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

WASHINGTON Territory is woefully af.
ficted by the burning of it's most thriving
towns. Less than two months ago the en-
tire business portion of Seattle was de-
strOyed; this was followed by a similar
loss in Ellensburg, and now Spokane Falls
suffers in the same way, and is, perhaps,
even in a worse condition, since the resi-
dences seem to have been swept away as
we'll as the business blocks. There is no
mystery about the burning of these towns,
and no probability that it was the work of
incendiaries in any case. The cheapest
building material. and the one in almost
universal use in that region of country, is
fir and cedar, and except in towns where
earlier warnings have caused the fixing af
a fire limit, these woods are employed in the
construction of business-houses. When dry
they are as inflammable as tinder, and a
fire once started gains rapid Roadway, and
easily gets beyond control. These numer-
Gus CONGREGATIONS should convince the en-
terprising citizens of all the towns in the
Territory that it is the part Of wisdom and
economy to build of stone or brick, though
the first cost be greater.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

WORDS are queerly twisted from their
original meaning in these days. and none
more so than tournament" as applied to a
chess contest. A tournament is described
by photographers as mOck-fght in mill
tary sport, in which the participants dis
play their address and bravery. game of
chess may not always be devoid of warlike
accomplishments, and there are. of course.
knights and queens and castles in the field;
but the players are, as rule, the most
lamb-like of men, and the application of a
term of military significance to their exhi-
billions of skill is not happy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-06

IT will be remembered that when the ex-
Odus of negroes from the South was being
agitated portion of the Southern press
fiercely denounced the agitators as ineen-
diaries who were stirring up the colored
race, and made it so warm for them that,
through fear of the ever-ready rope and
shotgun. they were compelled to desst.
Now that it is allover the Charleston News
and Courier bravely cries:
Go in peace. colored fellowcitizens. and go in
haste. We would suggest that cOlored colonies
be formed in every county of the State and that,
with the opening of the next exodus season, all
the colored people will set their faces towards
the north pole and journey on by day and night,
until they reach the promised land in the great
North. where they can occupy the best seats at
the theater and dine in the same room with the
white folks, without prejudice ON either side.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
ANOTHER LEAGUE GAME.
In Which the Centurys v%anquished th'
V~oIunteers.

In Which the Centurys yanquished the
Volunteers.
The Volunteers and Centurys met last
night at Browns Court House alleys,
where the Centurys bowl. The home
CLUB was decidedly weak, and, with tho
exception of two men, rolled up a ragged
game. It would have been u banquet for
the visiting team had they been in luck.
They were not, and placed on record
about the poorest game they had rolled in
the series. ~ ~
well but the bull went wide of the mark
The steady men were at the short end Of
the list.
I1le Centurys made q fair start. They
had 1879 in the first frame. This WAS 81
better than the Volunteers. In the sec
ond frame the Volunteers put up 159 and
their lead went up to 40. They had agpod
show of credits in the third frame and
made 169.
The Volunteers put up a fair frame, but
were "a behind. In the fourth frame the
Centurys added only 132, which strange
to relate, was nine better than the visit
ors. who could not find the pins. The
Volunteers gained Is in the next frame.
At the half the home club had III, a
mark for a 1,400 goal. The Volunteers
had 647, and were journeying to the 300
In the last half the Centurys lost their
grip slightly as the Volunteers began to
close the gap in a lively manner on the
homestretch, but not early or fast enough
to overcome the lead OF their opponents.
The Centurys took the tape first with
/ Dab to their credit, which exceeded the
total of the Volunteers by thirty.
n,ha scnrp follows.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

after the scaips of the Phoenix Club. vf
Mott Haven. Each club had won a game
ion it's alley, and the Montgomery
alleys ut Newark We're designated rs the
place for the deciding contest.
Each club had u large following and
they had a chance TO shout and they did
it., The game was exceedingly close un-
TIL well into the homestretch, when the
Jersey boys drew away Inc went under
the wire the winner in Il gallop in hand
some time. They put up 1,646. A large
sum OF money was wagered on the result.
The betting was even. The Workers
were jubilant for the first two frames.
The Mott Haven bowlers held the lead.
They had ii by 5 in the first frame n
IA in the second. The Belvideres in the
third frame ran in a coPker. Their total
for the frame was 1879, and they snatched
the command by "a pins. My, how the
Jersey boys did yell. The next frame
closed with the Belvideres 20 ahead and
the Jersey contingent still shouting. The
nex frame ended with the Jersey boys
shouting not so loud and the Workers
doing q little yelling, for the Phoenix
boys had cut down the lead of the Jersey
City team to two.
Fine even bowling followed for two
frames. AT the end of the sixth the
Belvideres had the advantage of three
pins, and at the close of the seventh
there was q difference of only two pins.
The Belvederes made u brilliant squirt,
and their total for the eighth frame was
1875. The Phoenix team was weak and
had only 1877 This gave the Be1vederes
the lead by sixty pins.
They continued the squirt in the ninth
frame and added 1870, while the Mott
Haven bowlers found only $40. The Jer-
sey City boys thus clinched the game, as
they had a lead of 10. They let up in the
last frame, and the Mott Haven bowlers
made % slight gain and cut down the lead
OF the Belvederes to IS pins, a handsome
majority.
The score follows
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
THE INDEPENDENTS LEAD.
,1fTEF REAoHED FIRsT PLACE BY
DEFEazING the FAIRMoU UNITS.

A League Game Was Also Won by the
Centurys, WHO ~Yanquished the Vol
unteers-The Belyederes Victorious
Palma's New Tournament.
The Independents lead the race for the
trophy of the League. They captured 1t
last night on their own alleys at Green
vile by defeating the Fairmounts. The
game attracted "a large audience, as the
teams were a tie in first place, and OIL of
them had to go back. 1t is q noisy audi
ence and the young man with the fish
horn was there and gave his horn no rest.
The clubs produced the best ten.
regret to state that the Fairmounts
persist In stirring up strife as they again
defed the Board of Directors by playing
a man whose entry has been rejected
This rebellious attitude will not result in
good. to either the league or the club.
The latter will suffer most.l This fragrant
violation of the laws will affect seriously
the reputation of the club, and stamp 1t
as an organization that pays no regard TO
its obligations.
/ hope they will view the matter in its
proper light, and restore the harmony
they have attempted to destroy by treat
ing with contempt the action OF tne
League directors. / know this is the
wish of several members of the club. IL
should be the desire of all.
: The game opened last night with q
rush by the Independents. They put up
1853 in the first frame and their admirers
were enthusiastic. It gave them the lead
by forty-three pins. The total of the
) Farmounts for the frame vas 125. No
change occurred until the fourth frame,
when the Greenvillians made another
squirt and stretched their lead to seventy
five.
In the fifth frame the Independents
swelled their leadto lightweight.
They had a total of $50 n were NOV
ing toward a 1900 anne The Fair
u had 67S to their credit, a start for
a 1880 game.
che last five frames made little change
in the proportion. The Independents fell
just one pin short of a 1900 game, while
the Fairmounts were two short of 1,35O.
The home club with a rafting finish won
the game by ISL pins. Schmidt's bowling
was the feature.
He had a solitary break. a,split and put
up 1913. Dilloway. too, showed superb
command of the ball and swung up 176.
Three Of the Greenyillians reached the
fifty block, and two of them stopped near
the line. Four of the Fairmounts closed
near the average line. Murray and Green
went over it, and Fuessel and Dohrman
were Just under it. The others failed to
giage the al ,eys and had low scores.
I'ha fOureS follows
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
WATER IN THE E
Interesting Facts About Its Ownership
and Storage.

Interesting Facts About Its Ownership
and Storage.
The laws of the Western States and
Territories everywhere recognize and
protect the rights of the first or prior
appropriator'' of water. If the first
settler on the banks of a stream draws
off, in his ditch, one-half or the whole
of the customary flow to irrigate his
farm, he has the right to take this
one-half or the whole flow forever, to
the entire exclusion of any subse-
uuent settler. But the same rule APP
plies to rivers of large size. As the
auick-witted Westerner stands by the
the side of one of the great rivers and
looks over thousands of acres of desert
land along it's banks. he sees a fortune
in the situation.
Only get capital enough together,
organize a great company. dig an inn
mense canal which will ''appropriate''
all the water in the river, and O
command the whole valley. 1T is the
position of the Western railroads re-
peated. Instead OF waiting for set
tiers to come and dig little bitches as
they need them, an immense capital
digs one huge canal watering thous-
anus Ol ldILlS, anu olACh Ot1WS SStbl6fS
by advertisement and boom. So all
over the West, throughout Colorado,
in central and southern California, in
Montana and Idaho, on the Salt and
ella Rivers in southern Arizona, there
are great companies, with capitals
running into the millions, putting this
IDEA into effect. The canals they dig
are twenty, thirty or even fifty miles
long.
The largest are a hundred feet wide
and ten feet deep, very rivers in them
selves. They follow the concur of
the country, running back farther and
farther from the river as the latter
falls away. The main canal gives off
lateral branches at frequent intervals,
and by an ingenious system of gates,
crossings and bitches sends water to
every foot of arabic grohnd between
it and the river. The land belongs to
the Government, and is taken up by
individual settlers at merely nominal
prices under the desert Land Act. .
But the water belongs to the canal
company, and it is this water that the
setllcr really pays for Walter Gillette
Bates, IN ScTibne9'.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

One hundred bloods from Elizabeth,
Staten Island, and the several sections of
Bayonne witnessed a savage dog fight
last night in the hold of a tow boat an
chored in the Arthur Knee off Elizabeth
port. The contestants were Grip, a vet
eran brindle bull dog owned by a we'll
known sporting man of Staten Island,
and Pete, the champion of Bergen Point,
q full blooded white bull dog.
Each brute weighed in at thirty six
pounds. An old cockfighter from Centre
Vile handled Pete and an Elizabethport
tank looked after Grip. The latter was
the favorlre, the betting being 10 to Z.
After a fierce fight of thirty-two minutes,
during which both dogs were badly pun
ished, the referee gave the battle to
Staten Island on a foul. The Bayonnese
dissented from his decision, but it had TO
stand. The dogs will probably be pitted
again within q month.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
Embarrassing ana Fashion.

Mrs. Harrison at the recent Presi
Dental reception of the knights
Templar at the White House wore hel
waving brown tresses dressed low on
the neck; the front couture a loose,
fluffy bang.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton has bIue eye
and dark brown hair, which is ar
ranged high on her head, with a fluffy
mass in front.
Mrs. William Aston, who has a dis
tinguished bearing, wore her hair last
summer for dress occasions on the
Directoire style, in which the front
hair is curled in rings and the side
portion is waved and then drawn up
to form many soft finger puffs.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet wears her blonde
hair a la Recamier style; that is, the
front is gathered together in little
curls, and a heavy coil is worn about
the head, with a few curls escaping at
the back.
Mrs. Edward Cooper's hair is ar
ranged every day by q hairdresser
who has been in her employ for many
years. Mrs. Cooper wears her hair
both high and low at the same time.
For instance, all the hair is first
brushed back and plated in one large
plat of three strands on the neck.
This done, the plat is turned upward
to the front of the head. where a bow
is formed with the ends of the hair not
plated. This bow is fastened in front
by means of q jeweled pin.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt consults
her own personal points, rather than
the prevailing style, in the arrange
ment of her hair. A h~airdresser visits
the Vanderbilt mansions every day,
and although much is left to her skill
and dizziness, Mrs. Vanderbilt chooses
the style most becoming. She has
studied the form of her head and her
good and bad points, until she thor
oughly understands the. style required
to bring out ratherthan to hide them.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord is a woman of
marked individuality, and in her COS
TUNES and coiffures displays this char
acteristic. She has bright blue eyes
and glossy black hair, rather an un-
usual combination. This hair is care
fully washed, brushed and arranged
every day. The Empire is at present
the style affected. Short curls are
arranged over the front, and Others at
the back are very short and thick.
Two bands of black velvet pass around
the head to hold the front curls flat
over the top of the head.
Mrs. Paran Stevens, a handsome
woman with dark eyes and hair to
correspond, is much given to elabor-
ate coiffures. She places herself every
day in the hands of a professional
~hairdresser, and as the fashions
change her style of couture changes.
At present she effects the low couture.
American HdirdqesSeg.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
. HEAD PIN TOURNAMENT.
The Latest Event to Delight the Palnii
W. Club's Bowiers

The Latest Event to Delight tho Palma
Clubs Bowiers
The Bowling Committee of the Palma
Club is determined not to allow the in
terest in the sport now at fever heat TO
cool. They have arranged another
attractions head pin game, open to all
members. The notice of the event was
posted last night, n The committee
Issued the following rules today
The competition will be held on Dec ember
&c. o.. %. 30. 81. January 2, B and 4.
The prizes will be awarded to the winners on
The last evening of the contest.
judges will be appointed by the Bowling Com
mites to supervise the competition, ana their
decision will be final.
The contest will be connned 10 the heau pm
Each competitor will be allowed TO roll six
alley.
Six balls will constitute a game.
Inc head pin must be hit first ia every in
stance, OF the bail goes for narght. When the
suit Of that lsI llrS Viii IL be e ere to the bowler.
a palk line will be drawn on each alley sixty
fee1 from the head pin, and the rules and rega-
Amateur Bowling Association for the American
len fIn uame. will govern in this competition.
Five games must be bo,yled 10 qualify for the
prizes.
The person securing the highest aggregate
number q pms n FIVE games, will be awarded
first prize: -Four other prizes will oe awarded =
one 70 eacn Oh the competitors making the four
next highest scores respectively. No contestant
can win more n thas one q, prize.
Included N me nxe ~ prizes above offered is a
special prize TO De bowled for by members who
have never played, on the club team in League
games. Any such q member making s%ufici lent
then to be awarded to such member of this class
making The next highest number of points.
There will pc no restriction as to the number
bowl.
Bowling Committee~t. S. Carter, chairman;
R. s. Ross, J. F.. Rich and S. Hathaway, Jr.,
secretary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

quisite neatness. Now. Amy, | had
always been under the impression
that neatness, like cleverness and q
love of plain sewing, was n OF those
respectable qualities that are excel
lent for making cages after marriage,
but not of the smallest use in the
manufacture of nets in which TO
ones prey beforehand. You see. l
was wrong, or else this case is ex-
ceptional.
Our friend proceeded to say that he
was sick and tired of untidy girls,
with nothing dainty about them, and
no white lace, or linen, Oh tape. or
whatever it is called, round the necks
of their dresses. Taper Dead tired
of girls whose gowns dipped into the
mud or dust of the street at every
step. Sick of girls with loose bags in
the front of their bodices, which al
ways reminded him of pelicans.
Weary of girls with no neatness OF
finish either to themselves or their
sleeves and with hair like haystacks.
Even il all wrists were white as snow
and rounded to perfection, he said,
he could not admire them if they
emerged from sleeves that ended in
hard bands of stuff with no relief from
the color of the gown itself.
| never thought that men noticed
these little things much, but l sup
pose they do. The lady of his choice
is certainly one of the neatest OF
human beings. Some people are born
neat; others achieve neatness. Lucy
belongs to the first category, and with
constant practice she has achieved
perfection in the art. She ear her
hair coiled in the glossiest brown folds,
with a little babyish fluff of fringe in
front, each individual curl of which
has its brilliant CLEAN. We have
often asked her how she manages to
keep her hair so beautifully, and she
always laughs and says, "Yolk OF egg
once a fortnight, and a good brushing
every night
Hers is one of those delicatelytinted
skins that convey the idea of purity to
the mind, but she is not otherwise
pretty. We often call her Jane
Eyre because she makes us think OF
Charlotte Bronte's heroine. do not
know what Jane wore round her neck,
but | am sure that whatever the ar
~rangenlent was it was neat almost to
prilnness. Lucv's collars and cuffs are
always immaculate, glittering with
the CLASSY gloss of ironed starch.
never saw a button missing from her
gloves.-L0Rdon Truth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
Tell.

N- EL"r
Tell it if you want to, but if you do,
don't for decency's sake say, Don't
tell.n Some women and men will un-
bosom themselves to a friend, will tell
a tale so hair bleaching and blood
chilling that even to have listened to
it was a proof of friendship most gen
uine and most magnanimous. They
will pour into your unwilling ear all
sorts of woes. personal and otherwise.
they will tell you things about their
private lives which they have no bust
ness to breathe, they will break the
sanctity of the home, of friendship, OF
| everything that should be sacred; and
then after laying bare the inmost
secret Of the most secret places, they
will look you in the face and in a
threatening tone forbid you ever to
breathe that TO a living soul"
Colossal impertinence, | think this
is. That which the teller of the Sc
cret is not fine enough, not strong
enough, not brave enough to keep to
herself, she expects you to cherish
and guard for her; and to hold close
to Your breast the very things she
carelessly filings to the breezes. How
can we expect that Others will cherish
| what we ourselves hold lightly? Keep
it to yourself, | tell you, or trust in
the friend in whom you confde, and
don't insult her by asking her not to
tell.-Iot9do Journal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
Tried to Snatch His watch.

James Mannion and Thomas Kil.oy,
two 'lads'' who assaulted MachinisJ
John Duffy. of Warren street, on the
highway early Sunday morning were
both committed for trial by Justice Still
sing for attempt at highway robbery. Mr..
Duffy showed a watch chain in Court this
morning which he said had been broken
in the efforts of the young highwaymen
to snatch his watch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
strikes, spares and nreaks.

The recently organized "Nameless
Bowlers" will practice on the Metropoli-
tan Hall alleys this evening.
The Independents are ''cooing'' over
their victory of last night, and one OF
them declared this morning that they
have a first mortgage OF the League
Championship.
The alleys of Stentzel's Atlantic Gar
den will be the scene of prize bowling
this evening.
John Smith may become a member of
the Palma Club.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

At the Scotch Presbyterian Church, on
Mercer street, near Varick, there will be
a Christmas service tomorrow at eleven
H. M. The Rev David Mitchell will
officiate. The collection viii be for the
poor.
The annual Christmas entertainment
will be given in Trinity M. E.. Church, on
York street, tomorrow evening.
A special service will be held at st.
Paul's r. G. Church, Greenville, tomor
row morning.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
kicked by a Car Horse.

William Anderson age fourteen. of No
the street on Linden avenue, was kicked
in the head by u horse owned by the the
j. G. and B. r. r. company. Thomas
Mccarthy was in charge of the horse.
DR.. Stegmaye dressed the boys wounds
which were quite serious.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

Indepnt B. G.. .1Gs 1902 $50 600 100 9sf 1O71 1917 1855 1883
Fairm't Z. G. .l25 $50 46 534 67S III 955 1911 1915 1S4S
Umpire-H. Hermann.
ScOrers-W. Hermann, for Independent u. B., and
Mr.. Cassele for the Paramount +. c..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
BELgIDEREs DEFEATED PHOENIX.

II Jersey City Boys nowSed a Big
Game.
The Belvidetes went to NeNark last
night with their war paint on and Il keen
edge on their fomahawks. THY We're
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24
Corporation Notice.


NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN Il ON THB
IN 2lst day OF October. 1889. application was made
to the Board OF Street and Water Commissioners BY
ia4inch oval Brick Sewer in
sCHHARLEs STREET. ss34
from
10 a point 460 feet east thereof, in the following
man ner, viz: OF suitable dimensions and in accord
ance with the established plan OF sewerage. to
gether with all the necessary manholes. receiving
Notice is also given that on the 9Th dayo OF Deeem-
Der, 1883, the Commissioners OF Assessment hied
with the Board of Street and Water Commission ora
their preliminary sketch showing what property
will probably be assessed and the probable amount
of benefit to each lot or parcel OF land. also the
probable amount of assessment per foot OF 'front.'
age for the SAID improvement, and the same snow
open to public inspeetioni in the 0fiice OF the Clerk
OF the Board OF Street and Water Commissioners
or avenues or particular sections thereof are In
Guided III said assessment. namely
STREET, f
from
SUMMIT AVENUE cs. taaF4f
to q point about AS feet east thereof.
And that on the 18th day OF january ps4 ~
10 O'clock a. M, aud the meeting room OF Che boar9
OF Street and Water Commissioners are hereby hkel
as the time and place when and where the boara
OF Street and Water Commissioners Will meet 20
hear parties interested In said application and AL
"Reminiscences against the said impr0FetAeHt that
may be presented in writing.
By order or the Board or Street and WaReF GenF
GEORGE 7. BouroS
patecJsgsss City. December 10 1884 lux
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-24

Dear Mabel, did you see those sensible pre- s
ents for Christmas at c. j. McCabeis, No, 81
Montgomery street, II is the safest place in the
city 10 buy smokers favorites.