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, 1890-03-09
WHERE BILL NYE LIVED.
Twas in Wyoming, and He Loves
His Old Home Still.

lNbpN Ilsnltu 1871, Dy tlguf W. Nye.
Wyoming will be, in size, the eighth
state in the union. She has an area of
100, 900 square miles, 60, 0 of which is
underlaid with coal. She has a wealth
of 500, 600, 200 and 100000 population.
Wyoming is over ninety-seven times the
size of Rhode Island, and human life is
quite secure now in the larger towns.
especially during Office hours.
l do not see why Wyoming should care
to be a state and pay so large a price for
such an empty honor but 1t is thought
that more security for settlers and in
yestOrs is furnished by a state govern
ment instead of the imported federal
style of management generally furnished
by al administration which desires at all
times to reward its friends. A success
full ward worker from Mott street or a
heller from Hester street may do good
work in that line and still not be a salts
factory man for governor or secretary or
surveyor general of a new territory.
For this reason, If for no other. the
young territories look forward to the
time when they may not only select their
own officers, but also help to select the
president himself.
Few who have never lived in the terri
tories know how many people there are
on the frontier who can read and write
and eat pie with a fork.
There are quite a number of dress suits
in Wyoming, and a lady is safer in cross
ing the main street unattended than she
would be in crossing Broadway at the
corner of Fulton street.
1t is also estimated that the mineral
wealth of Wyoming is more than suffi-
cient to pay the national debt. although
the offer to do so has not yet been off,
cially made. This estimate OF the min
eral wealth of Wyoming is exclusive of
the Pauper's Dream, a very rich mine, of
which | hold the controlling interest. At
a depth or 10I feet we struck a pay
streak OF pure water, which rose to a
height of ninety-eight feet l n the shaft.
We were lust about to put in pumping
works when the COW, which my partner
was going to swap for the machinery, ate
a grown persons dose OF poison weed,
swelled up and expired. The mine has
since been idle.
Wyoming is rich in not only gold, sill
yer and copper, but iron, mica, ozone,
tin, cinnabar, sulphur, saleratus, salt, in
digo, soda, borax. vaseline, asphaltum,
tar roofing, gypsum, graphite, grass,
magnesium, linOleum, pyrites, asbestos,
kaolin and a red mineral paint which is
unexcelled both for general purposes and
, 1890-03-09

Two QUESTIONS were frequently asked
and discussed yesterday. The first was,
Why should the governor as a federal
Official get his rent free at the capitol
while the secretary and surveyor general
pay $50 month for their oficcs2' The
second was, IF it cost 81. 600 to furnish
offices for the governor four years ago,
where is all that furniture now and how
much more was required to place the
present Off gs in p~.esentable shape?"
These are plain. simple questions and the
Sun, which has had a good deal of OK
planning to do for the governor lately,
might tackle them for the public satislac-
ton.
1t might add a word or two as to
whether or not the secrctary's and sur
veyor generals Offices we're not furnished
by those gentlemen, irrespective of the
monthly rent which they pay.
, 1890-03-09
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Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plainfeld, Ill,
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she was
treated for a month by her family physi-
clan, but grew worse. He told her she
she was a hopeless victim of consumption
and that no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested DR.. Kings New Dis
coYery for Consumption; she bought a
bottle and to her delight found herself
benefited from first dose. She continued
its use and after taking ten bottles, found
herself sound and we'll, now does her own
homework and is as well as she ever was.
Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery
at B. b. David's drug store, large bottles
SOC and 81. 90.
, 1890-03-09
The Burlington Route.

Do you contemplate a trip eastward? If
not, then nave you invited you eastern
friends to be with you in Cheyenne with
in the next four weeks to review our state.
hood celebration.
The Burlington would not presume to
inquire this far into your business were
they not in a position to benefit you.
Their daily passenger train for Licnoln,
Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, St.
Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St
Louis, Chicago and intermediate points,
leaves cheyenne at s p. IN. Daily trains
leave the above cities for Cheyenne.
The Pullman and dining car service of
this route is the equal of any in the land,
and people travelling east or west may
lind It to their interest to write or call on
J. Francis, G.. 2. & 7. A, Omaha, Neb.i
j. +. McClung, agent, Cheyenne.
, 1890-03-09

The persistence of life in frogs is
very long. ~Spallanzani preserved
some frogs in n mass of snow for two
years. They became dry, stiff, and
almost friable, but a gradual heat
brought them back to life. Toads
have been shut up in blocks OF plaster,
and then, having been deprived Of all
air except what may penetrate through
the material, and of all sources of food,
rcsuscitated several years afterward.
Toads are said to have been found in
rocks. Such cases are rare. La Monde
de In Science.
, 1890-03-09

While l have never been hit SC
hard that ] did not come TO myself
within the ten seconds allowed me, ]
have been insensible for a few seconds
from a blow.
| have been dazed several times in
the ring. Once l was almost dead
from drowning. The feeling was al
most exactly the same as when ! was
hit hard.
1t is not at all unpleasant. l felt
ms if l were floating in the air, and l
didn't seem to care a rap what hap
pcned to me. l felt no pain, and, in
deed, felt really comfortable.
When n man is knocked out he
doesn't feel it at all. lie suddenly goes
to sleep and feels nothing. When he
RECEIVERS he is dazed for a time.-In-
teryiew in New York Sun.
, 1890-03-09

beautiful, though on the plains it is almost
odorless. Several kinds of cactus are
found, either of which, when 10 full
bloom, are very beautiful. THE Turks
head cactus is about the size of a base
ball, and is better fixed for protecting it.
self than any other plant that l know OF
except the electric plant. 1t has a purple
blossom about the sizetof a Canadian
quarter or an English bob. There is a
cactus also which looks like a green
waffle, set up on edge. 1t has a beautiful
blossom, varying from a blood orange to a
light ecru of straw color. and a big bed OF
of these plants look, when in full bloom,
beautiful enough for a bridal couch, but
it has not come into general use yet for
that purpose. A newly welded alligator
might fancy it, but other fauna do not
esteem it.
Francis +. Warren is the present gov
ernor Of Wyoming, and was not imported
for that purpose. He governs the terri
tory %forenoons and attends to a large and
%lourishing business in the afternoon.
Wyoming Is at present on friendly terms
with the United States.
Female suffrage has its home in Wyo.
ming, and people who write in a prolific
manner against it, without knowing any
thing about it, would do well to go there
and find out something about it.
There are thirty species of mammals
in Wyoming, outside OF the legislature
alone.
The prairie dog is gradually becoming
kline in Wyoming and giving place to
people who knows more. Washington
Irving. who was a good writer and used
good grammar all the time, in drawing
off pieces for the paper, made a fuke on
the prairie dog, | think. You can see in
a moment, if you are any judge of physi-
ognomy, that q prairie dog does not
know anything. His thought waves all
originate in the pit of his stomach. and
though of a social nature, he uses no
judgment In selecting his associates. He
is a thorough chump, and has lived so
long in the bowels of the earth that he
gives less attention to mental improve
ment and more thought to girth than
any animal hat moves IN our set. HIS
pelt is worthless; his tail is a humiliating
failure and his whole life is a fizzle. He
teaches no lesson of industry, economy
or morals, and his death brings with it no
appreciable shock.
, 1890-03-09

The Buddhists in Burmah do not con-
slider the question of expense in beau
tifying their temples. Here is n de-
scription of the new vane of the pago-
da at Rangoon: The vane is about
three by one and a half feet broad, and
thickly crested with precious stones
and lovely fans of the red Burmese
gold. One ruby alone is worth 5000
RUPEES, and there are several hundred
rubies alone on this beautiful thing.
On the tip of the iron rod on which
works the vane is a richly carved and
perforated gold ornament called the
Semboo. 1t is somewhat egg shaped
and a foot in height, tipped by an
enormous diamond encircled by many
smaller ones, crusted on like barnacles,
All over this exquisite oval object are
similar clumps of diamonds, no other
stones being used for this part.-Chi
cago Times.
, 1890-03-09

did the same, but it leaked out afterwards
that be had bought a ticket aud checked
his trunk to Washington, thinking he
was elected to congress. He had quite a
hard time getting his trunk back, but as
his whiskers we're quite long, the front of
his shirt did not show very much, and so
he got along very well till his other shirt
got back from Washington.
Irrigation is largely INDUCED in, espec-
tally Oh the eastern slope of the Rocky
mountaInsa and the Laramie plains. Ten
million dollars have been invested by the
people of Wyoming in irrigation alone,
and, of course, this is not included in the
assessed valuation.
L have never regarded agriculture on
the Laramie plains as a success. though
in other parts of the territory, where the
season is longer, it may be better. Few
crops can grow successfully at a height
of over 1000 feet on the coarse soil of
, 1890-03-09

FROM the Zeal with which TIE LEADER
opposes making the payment of poll tax
a condition to voting, we infer that
Democratic voters generally neglect to
pay. 1t seems to us that it is fair to re.
qulre those who want a voice in the ad-
mlnlstration of the government to pay a
little something towards its support
Laramie Sentinel.
Certainly; require and enforce its col.
lection, but do not make it a qualification
necessary to voting for the moment
that you do you put in the hands of
politicians the power to d~isfranchise clti
zens of an opposing political party. The
legislature has acted wisely in wiping out
this provision of the election bill.
, 1890-03-09
N REFLECT
ONE MOMENT.

DIR. Wagner & Co., the most uniformly sur
cessful medical specialists OF the age, feel IL
orally and those who may be suffering fTom
loss OF manhood or any form OF nervous dir
eases In particular, against the numerous I'M
principled pretenders in various parts OF the
country who are passing themselves of upon
the people as experienced specialists to sex
ual disorders, whereas they are generally
frauds who possess nothing but a legal d.
ploma TO keep, them out of prison for their
iearIui medlcal malpractices.
We have had hundreds OF patients who
after being most shamefully robbed by these
medical pirates and their disorders greatly ag-
gravated and their lives endangered, have
come TO us In despair and TO be cured only
Remember that Il requires something more
than a plausible advertisement and a bogus
eases and only a physician specially fitted
and adapted TO its pathology and research by
long EXPERIENCE, scientific skill is capable OF
treating them successfully.
Many receive a mere temporary relief at
the hands OF these medical shams to find out
than ever; that instead of being cured they
have been spending valuable TIME AND
been swindled they often come to us in the
most hopeless condition imaginable.
Come at once, don't delay. Avoid these
shams. and thus save your time, your health
and your MONEY Make your case known to
us and you shall have the full benefit OF our
scientific advice, based upon a long medical
experience in sexual physiology. CONSUL.
TATIoN free OF charge. Remember this fact
DR.. Wagner & Co., always tell their pa
tIents honestly what their case will cost.
There are no extra charges and ~disappoint-
ments II their advice is followed, They give
their advice and sympathies to all who suffer
most freely and their long experience and
valuable medical discoveries enable them to
cure many cases, where all others
have utterly failed. Remember these facts.
Their charges are always very low for the ser
vices rendered and the benefits conferred.
Think over his, read and reflect, then give
us a call, 1t will cost you nothing, and re-
member you are at perfect liberty to decline
our professional services, II you feel disposed.
We deal honestly with all.
Tina host NIdnN In ~ ~ nj fhfa Gaaf 10
this notice: Our patients appeal to our Judg-
ment as a duty We owe suffering humanity TO
keep 1t before the public, for the benefit of
men suffering from diseases we make a spec
ialty.
Or. Wagner & Co., I4I4 Larimer st
Address p o. Box 27S3. DENVER Colo.
, 1890-03-09

Mr.. Nesbitt, the dramatic critic Of
The London Times, made a curious
statement the other evening. We were
discussing American humor and he
said: American humor has a sort of
stoical grimness, which can be traced
directly, / think, to the intermarriage
of the whites with the aboriginal In
dians."
Now what sort of answer is one to
make TO an argument of this kind2-
Eugene Field in Chicago News.
, 1890-03-09

In allowing inactivity of the kidneys to
to grow through neglect. The deadly
shoals of Bright's disease and diabetes
will wreck the Goodly bark of health If it
Is allowed to DRIFT rudderless upon them.
The bladder, too, if inactive, and judi
clous medication does not speedily direct
the helm toward the port of safety, will
be whelmed by the quicksand of disease.
In selecting a diuretic, let your choice fall
upon Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. which
stimulates the renal organs without irri-
tatlng and exciting them, two, effects to
be apprehended from the unmeditated
stimuli largely resorted to. These have a
tendency to react preiudicially. The
Bitters invigorate the kidneys and blad-
der, in common with the nerves and tie
digestive organs, and so afford lasting
aid. 1t also affords dual assistance in
preventing and curing intermittent and
remittept fever. Biliousness. constipa-
ton and rheumatism it also subiugates.
, 1890-03-09

As THERE doesn't seem to be any par
ticular necessity for maintaining a capitol
commission alter the expiration of the
present legislative session the building
might be placed by law in charge of the
auditor and the grounds given to the care
of the territorial engineer.
, 1890-03-09

How INSIGNIFICANT is the much
berated Democratic partisanship in Wyo-
ming when compared with the partisan
ship of the United States senate commit
tee on elections which is about to report
in favor of seating the two Republican
senator's from Montana.
, 1890-03-09

Bobby-How is it you don't get kept
in any more2
Johnnie-I gave more than any
other fellow in the class to buy n pres
ami for teacher.-Epoch.
, 1890-03-09

away, | think. and so, along toward noon,
he gave it up. On the way back he came
to a little irrigating ditch, when a cowboy
discovered him removing his clothing and
getting ready to swim across. w hat are
You going to dor asked the cowboy. I
an getting ready to swim this river the
Englishman replied straigLtsway. You
can't fool me any more with your in
fernal optical Illusions
1t is a good story, and designed. as l
Judge, to illustrate in a forcible manner
the extreme rarity of the air more than
the extreme rarity of the story itself.
The fora of Wyoming is diversified and
, 1890-03-09
Have you tried secale Flakes?

Lots, blocks and acre property in DIFF
terent parts OF the city for sale by V.
Baker, real estate agent.
, 1890-03-09

Or. Wagner & Co., I4I4 Larimer st
Address p o. Box 2S3. DENVER, Colo.
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ITO be continued
A Petrihed Giant.

Joseph Sweshenger, who resides near
Stanford, writes to the RiUer Press par.
ticulals of wonderful discovery he
recently made in an unfrequented
mountain near his residence. The dis
covery consists of petrified man, with
all his limbs in perfect state of preser-
walton. The body stands by massive
bowlder, of which 1t seems to have
become part, and can not be removed
without considerable labor and expense.
A tiny stream of water flowing from a
spring above falls directly upon the
head of the body, after passing over it
loses itself in the surrounding rock. The
body measures s feet and 9 inches from
the crown of the head to the soles of
the feet, and is well proportioned. the
chest and limbs being of ponderous
width and size. The features are of a
severe Roman type, surmounted by a
broad, high forehead and luxurious
growth of hair, which is as firm as
rock itself. A beard reaching to the
waist completes picture which inspires
a feeling of awe and reverence in the
beholder. Certain hieroglyphics are
cut upon the rock, true copy of which
Mr.. Sweshenger promises to send us.
Thus far he has kept the discovery a
secret, but will in due time divulge its
locality. It is, indeed, wonderful
discovery, indicating as it does that the
first inhabitants of this country were
giants.-IdcOnaG NeWS.
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CbiCaGo. Rock island B Pacific RV.

Including Lines East and West Of the Eisgcur:
River. The Direct Route to and from CHI IA00
ROCK ISLAND, DAVENPORT DIES MOLNEA
COUNCIL BLUFFS, WATERFOWL G10U1
FALLS MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL. 81. JOE.
EPH ATCHISON, LEAVENWORTHs kANBAA
CITY, TOPEKA, DENVER, COLORADO SPNGe
and PUEBLO. Free Reclining Chair Cars 90 anc
from CHICAGO, CALDWELL. HUTCH1NSON
and DODGE cry and Palace Sleeping Cars be-
tween CHICAGO, WICHITA and HUTCHLNsON.
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Plain Living.

''We've got to watch the corners
mighty closely this year and retrench
in every direction possible, said Mr..
Bixby the other morning after break
fast of porter-house steak, Mocha coffee,
honey. and rolls, and | think, my dear,
we'd better have little palmer table
hereafter. never did believe in this
thing of putting so much money in
ones stomach in the way of rich and
expensive food. Plain living and high
thinking ought to be our motto, sc
we'd better have palmer table after
this
"All right" replied Mrs. Bixby, 81
am quite willing" And when Bixhy
came home to dinner he sat down tc
dried beef in milk batter, boiled po'
tatoes, and dessert of boiled rice.
Harriet Amanda Bixby!'' he said
sternly, what in thunder does this
mean? Do you suppose I'm going tG
work. like slave and then be fed Oh
such fodder as this? Not much
won'tr
You said this morning that you be-
lieved in plain living and high
plain fiddlesticks! People who wan
to make starved jackasses of them
selves on the tom-fool principle can az
it! I believe in good living. It's abou
AL the comfort man gets in this life
anyhow. Tn going down to the hote
for my dinner now, and it'll cost me
$1.5O, and I'll take all my meals there
If you ever try to come your plain-liv'
ing and high-thinking dodge on me
% er0;ra ~ T5oe1o
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CnLID vESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS

Of Through Coaches. sleepers, Free Aechnlna
Chair Cars and EAST Of Mo. River Dining CaEe
daily between CHICAGO, DIES MONIES. COUN
CIR, BLUFFS and OMAHA, with FEE 1ecl1n:
ing Chair Car to NORTH PLATTE QNeb.l an
befween CHICAGO and DENVER COLORADO
SPRINGS and PUEBLO, via st. Joseph. or Kan
gas City and Topeka. Splendid Dining BoteI
west Of St Joseph and Kansas City. ExcurStonE
daily, with Choice Of Routes to and from saV
Lake Portland, Los Angeles and San EfHhc1sce
The Direct Line to and from Pixies PeaAs nam
r1onrrz n
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embarrassed and set at liberty, Nadege and
Ladislas were placed in one OF the nartas
and well covered with its felt cloth. To the
chief of police-in consideration of his wound
was assigned the other marta. They
wrapped him up warmly in it. Yegor and
the Partisan rolled themselves in their
furs. As to the Yakoutes, they scarcely
took the most simple precau tons against
the cold, iustifying the title of ''men of IRON
bestowed in Siberia upon their race.
The next day, at an early hour, the fugi'
tives were to continue their journey.
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Both the method and results wher
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
'duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
'ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
ito all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
snd 81 bottles by all leading drug
gSsts. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
JESrlLF, ky. NEW YORK. nv
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Save $3.50 f r. xGq T. California.

.JUDSON & CO.'S personally conducted Cali
fornia Excursions in broad gauge, Pullman Tourist
Sleeping Cars, via Denver & Rio Grande Il. T., (the
scenic line of the world) leave Chicago via Chicago
& Alton r. r. 1900 noon Saturday of every week,
each excursion in charge of efficient and gentle
manly excursion manager. Pullman tourist sleeping
crs @ M 1o 6 anu retaS resaryStion OF
berths, etc., call on or address, ]. C. JUDSON &c.,
1876 Clark Street, Chicago.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-17
GOT THE WRONG MAN
Laughable But Natural Error Of Deputy
Auditor Hollis

G.. Bianchini. accompanied by Anton
Antemcich, asked Deputy Auditor Hollis
for license TO marry Jacobina Vincetich
this morning. All parties were Italian
and Deputy Hollis was at loss TO under
stand Just who was to be married, but
owing to the very superior activity and
interest of Mr.. G.. Bianchini, he supposed
that it was he who wished TO wed the
fair Jacobina. He accordingly fixed
out the license and the trio departed
happy.
An hour afterward the air in the audi
tors office was filled with the faint,
sweet odors of sunny Italia" and the
stronger flavor of the dago dialect, as
three very excited individuals rushed
into that office. protesting with native
eloquence against the exchange Of BRIDE
grooms that had been made. II was
developed that Anton Antemcich was
the favored sutton, and that Bianchini
was only filling the kiddly Office Of best
man" They also brought with them "a
paper with their names correctly spelled
so that the officer had no further difficulty
in STRENGTHENING out their difficulties
Tacoma NewJ
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-08-17
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

For the Improvement Of Mckenzie dpenue from
West side of SiJteenth street 10 West side Of
Tloentpfrst street.
Bids will be received at the office of the
city clerk Of the city OF Fairhaven until p.
m. on Wednesday, August Goth, 1890. Plans.
specifications and profile may be seen at the
Office Of the city clerk. Work must he COM
pleted within one sixty days of the APP
prevail OF bonds by city council. aud each
bid must be accompanied by a certified check
for one hundred dollars. payable To the city
clerk. which check shall be forfeited to the
city In case the person TO whom the contract
is awarded fails to execute contract, Sc
cured by bond In the sum of tive thousand
dollars with two bondsmen who shall each
Justify ia the sum OF FIVE thousand dollars
within five days from the date when the con-
tract L. awarded by the city council.
Bids shall be marked Bids for the Inn
provement on Mckenzie avenue
The city reserves the right TO reject any or
AN bids
Dated August 49, 1870.
ALFRED RIEDEI. City Clerk