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COLONlSTS OF GREENLAND.
~ IL Believed Lieut.. Peary May Hay
Found Their DESCENDANTS.

II Is Believed Lieut. Peary May Have
Found Their DESCENDANTS.
There is good reason to believe,
judging from the contents of papers
transmitted privately to my hands
some months ago-although have never
spoken of the matter hitherto-that
Lieut. Peary, in whose behalf rescu-
ing expedition is about to start for the
Arctic, has actually met with the fam
GUS lost eolonists of Greenland"
SO said one of the most distinguished
ethnologists in the government employ
at Washington. He added. s'You may
remember that the Norsemen estab-
lished settlements during early times in
Greenland. One off these colonies was
entirely cut of from civilization and
lost as is recorded in the sagas and
other traditional histories of those peo-
pie. Winters grew colder, and one I'M
precedentedly severe season following
another, the little gathering of squat
tiers in that icy region was shut away
from the rest of mankind by frozen
helds along the shore and the heaping
up Of mighty ice cliffs, through which
S-N~N~ '''N' A'o BeA''a'ett5V sbiet cNCI WliCl IL
was impossible to climb
THAT was six hundred wears ago
Since then expedition after expedition
has sought these lost settlers in vain.
Owing to geographical Indebtedness in
the original accounts written on the
subject not even the locality occupied
by the colony could be very nearly as
certained. am not at liberty Just now
to say more than that Lieut.. Peary has
apparently discovered the descendants
of these vanished Norsemen, somewhat
less than two hundred in number,
dwelling in n sort of icebound oasis,
without either entrance or exit, as they
themselves have so many generations
believed. To all intents and purposes
they are so many Rip Van Wrinkles
Peary is now at Whale sound. Next
summer he will strike northward, with
the intention to determine the coast
line as far as it extends. If the land
extends as far as the pole he may at
tain that longsought goal.
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FooLlNG TIE SNAKE.

Rats Construct o Barrier Against a Rep
tile Who Is Seeking supper.
Among the prickliest of the cacti OF
America is one called the toyo, which is
covered with spikes to an unusual ex-
tent,and SO sharp and easily broken are
they TINT one has only to touch them to
cause them to penetrate the flesh and
to separate from the cactus. There
seems to be a poison in the spines; for
this reason, says the Irish Times, snakes
and reptiles avoid it most scrupulously,
A party of rats was found building a
veritable fertilization of the togo spines
about their burrow: some were at the
thicket cutting the thorns; others car
ried them cautiously to the nest, while
others set them in point outwards and
very close together This went on for
several days, until circular line Of toyo
spines had been constructed from the
rock on each side of the burrow hole
Ono evening the rats were at play out
side, when u sentinel rat came running
UP evidently much alarmed. In mo-
ment the scene was changed and q
stream Of rats went leaping from stone
to stone. They had made series of steps
in the midst of the spines.
Then good-sized rattlesnake came
along, evidently in no hurry, and feel
ing sure Of good supper Arrived at
the fortifcation the snake attempted,
but Intellectually, to cross it. Several
times he tried, but at last drew back as
If satisfied that the fortress was impreg-
nable, while some of the rats ventured
out OF the hole and evidently much en-
joyed the discontinue of the enemy
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Notice of Forfeiture.

40 JOSEPH A. CLARK AND Russell Full.
4 LEk, YOUR GRANTEES, ASSIGNS,
heirs, exc, utors or administrator and all
parties claiming under, from, by or through
t EN-.
iou are hereby notified that the undersigned.
cc-oWner y 18th you in the mining claim known
as the "king Fisher" mine, situated in Jack
rabbit Mining district, Couny of Lincoln,
State Of Nevada, has performed the work al d
made the expenditures on the said mining
claim, required by section 1924 of the Revised
Statutes OF the United States, to hold the same
Tor the yesrs 1888. 1889, 1890, and 1891, and the
amount due from you, your ii antees, assigns.
or administrator, etc., on account of such ex.
lows.
Joseph A. clark-Twenty. six &c 100 (s26 &C.
1901 dollars
Russell Fuller-Thirteen 33-10O ts13.3s1oo)
dollars.
And II within ninety days after the putllca.
tien OF this notice, you fail or refuse to ron
tribute your said proportion Of such expendi-
lures sco-owner, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the subscriber
under said section 1924
JAS. McFADDEN.
Phoebe, New, Feb. 18th, 1892.
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THE POOR POSTWAR.
He Relates Seine OF The Trials He Has to
Undergo.

He Relates Some of the Trials He Has to
Undergo.
Il may be wrong remarked weary
looking mail-carricr. who was discuss
ing slab OF pie and cup of mystery
in rapid lunch shop, says the New
Advertiser, but it's my opinion that
we postmen are asked more fool ques-
lions than anybody else in this town.
Here's n few that / Just struck on
the block of my route:
What's the rate to Chippewa Falls
on two ounces and quarter?'
How often does the mail stage run
from SlSidgeville to Skippahannoclx?'
Wouldn'tit be quicker for you peo-
pie to ride around in hack?'
What's the best way to make a kick
to Wanamaler?'
When does the next mail 90 to
Alaslia? and Don't you ever get tired
wall,ings'
These are samples of the odd hun
dred on SO OF queries that every letter.
carrier gets fired at him in the course
OF day. When a mans new he tries
to be polite and answer, but got over
II long ago, It's too wearing"
Al this iancture man at the next Ia
ole leaned over and asked the complain
ing one to stop at his office when he
went out and get package of one hun
ored thousand circulars that couldn't
be left in the mailbox.
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oBEYiNo ORDERS.
4 Workman Who Put tiic Duke OF We'll
lington Out of Doors.

4 Workman Who Iut the Duke OF Wei.
lington Out of Doors.
The duke of Wellington was very
stringent in respect to obeying orders.
The Iron Duke as he was sometimes
called, was never disposed to be lenient
toward the slightest disobedience, but
could reward and appreciate a strict
fulfillment of directions. Lord Derby,
says the Youths Companion, was enter
tanning the duke at one of his country
mansions at a time when certain repairs
and improvements were going on. Some
of the walls We're to be decorated, and
the central hall was to be tessellated
In order to prevent injury TO the floor,
Lord Derby furnished several pairs of
slippers which were placed near the
door, and he directed young man who
was at work on one of the walls to order
anyone that came in to put on pair
before crossing the passage.
If anyone fails to attend to YOU" he
added, you must put him out"
Soon after party returned from
hunting, and Wellington, with his
splashed and muddy boots, opened the
door and rushed along the hall. The
young man Immediately jumped off the
ladder on which he was painting, and
Selling Wellington by the shoulder,
fairly pushed him out of the house.
In the afternoon Lord Derby sum-
moned all the household and men at
work into the study, and seating him
self beside the great warrior, demanded
to know who bad had the impertinence
to push the duke of Wellington out of
doors.
The painter all of tremble, came
forward and said: SIT was [, my lord"
'And pray" rejoined the earl, chow
came you to do it?"
The man then repeated the directions
given him that morning and said 81
was only obeying orders, thought,
SIR
On this Wellington turned to Lord
Derby, and smiling, took a sovereign
out of his purse, which he gave to the
saying: "You were right to
1bey orders y
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SENATORIAL FIGHTERS.
shoup and san'ters Have Had Experience
with Border ssunians.

shoup and Sander. Have Had Experience
with Border ssuni,ns.
The northwest has two senatorial
lighters. These are men whose live,
have been spent in the widest parts OF
the frontier and who have grown strong
with fighting among the Indians and
inc desperafloes. / refer to Senator
George Shoup, Of Idaho. and Senator
Wilbur L. Sanders, of Montana. saws a
writer in the indianapolis News. Shoup
IS tall, straight broad-shouldered
blue-eyed man. There is no hair on the
top of his head, and he has not even a
scalp lock- He lost his hair naturally.
however, and he has had q number of
scrapes where he might have lost it to
the Indians. Born in the east he started
out for Pixies peak when he was TWEEN
ty-two years old, and during the war he
was one of the Independent scouts of
the Colorado volunteers. A large part
OF his career during the war was as n
scout and he has known well the Indians
and desperadoes of the west. He is
now at the head of the Indian affairs
committee and he has been governor of
Idaho and left the executive chair to
take his seat in the senate
Senator Sanders is noted as having rid
Montana OF the noted gang of ruffians
which overran the northwest some
years ago. He was at the head of the
vigilantes and has number of times
looked death in the face. He has made
many speech in his state with his
pistol in his pocket, and while he was
speaking pistols have come out before
his eyes in the hands of his audience
During the rebellion he was in the army
as a soldier from Ohio and it was
through failing health that he had to
resign and go west. In the camp where
he settled there was band of southern
sympathizers, and these undertook to I
haul down the stars and stripes from
the iagpole in the public square with
the idea OF raising the stars and bars.
As they caught hold of the rope San
ders, who was standing near by, pulled
out a revolver and said to them: "No
one shall haul that flag down while
live" The mob looked at the flag and
then at the revolver and into the eyes
of the determined young man who held
t, and they decided to let the flag stand.
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PATENT NOTICES,
A Application for a Patent
No. 973.


Eureka, Nevada, November IL, 1891.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT gHR
~ Phoebe nsolidated lining and Redpc-
ZION company, by It's authorized agent Samuel
l oodoe, whose postoffice address is Phoebe,
Lincoln county, State of Nevada, has this day
MED his application for fifteen hundred tl5OOl
I'm ar feet of the Zero" mine or lode bearing
SILVER, with surface ground two hundred i2OOl
ieet IN Width, situated In Ely Mining district
county of Lincoln State OF Nevada and dasic
mated by the field notes and official plat on
ME in this Office as lot No 40 in township No
l: OF range No 81 of Mount Diablo Base and
meridian; said lot No 40 being described as fol.
lows, to-Wit:
Beginning at post marked Post No u a
survey No ~. whence Wheeler's U monument
pears 81 deg ees 90 minutes, 2546 2 feet
ane section corner common TO sections %. 49,
~ aud ~. township N II 81 E bears as de.
gr es and Sc minutes, z 1860 feet, thence run.
il1g, LIST course, N II degrees minutes. K
along the southern boundary line Of sur.
vey No 80, Panack-r lode, 200 feet to post No
survey NO A.. whence the mouth of the
zero tunnel bea,s 81 degrees so minutes
i6O feet, and the mouth of the mador tunnel
bears 80 degrees 80 m nu es 288 feet. and
the mou b .of the Zero incline on this claim
Bears b 70 degrees 20 minutes E 2s8 feet :thence
aauunning End course 81 degrees 81 Ii In utes
o95 feet to line between sections % and 81
1000 feet to post No 3 Survey NO 40; the nee,
3rd course. s II degrees minutes, W to post
NO U ,uryey NO 40; thence, 9TH course. N 81
beginning.
Containing 8 SO acres.
Courses expressed from the true meridian
WI magnetic variation Of Is degrees and IS
minutes east "
The nearest known location is the papacker
lode. adjoining on the north
Any and air persons claiming adye rselv anv
portion OF said Zero mine or surface eronna
are required to q their ad verse claims with
the egIster of the United States } and Office
az EUREKA IN the State Of Nevada, d, ring tho
period OF publication hereof. or INV VIII he
debarred by virtue of the provisions of the
Statutes. - 'A0
J. =. DUNKLE, Register.
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Inc loea OF an obligation to initiate
Christ has driven another man to cruel
fy himself. One Pnshka, of Pulock, on
the Russian frontier, nailed his feet to
the floor and, lying on his back,
stretched out his left arm and then
nailed his left hand to the floor. He
then took knife, by way OF Roman
lance, and opened his side. Yet he was
anything but satisfied, seeing that his
imitation was incomplete because he
could not nail down his right hand.
lie began sobbing convulsivcly until
the pain and loss of blood overpowered
him, when he became unconscious In
this condition he was found by his
wife, who had sense and strength
enough to withdraw the nails and place
him on bed, where the doctor found
him and pronounced his condition by
no means desperate.
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Application for a Patent

UErrED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Eureka, Nevada, July 8 1891.
NOTICE Is hereby GIVEN THAT THE
~ Phoebe consolidated Mining al d Reduv
mon company, by its authorized agent, San uel
!: Godbe, whose post office address ia Phoebe.
Lincoln county, State of Nevad., has this day
filed Its application for one thousand four hun
dred and eighty.eight t!4ss) linear feet Of tbs
Rainbow" mine or lode, bearing silver, with
surface ground two hundred 1900 feet in width
situated In Ely Mining District, county
OF Lincoln, State of Nevada, and designated
by the field notes and oficiai plat on file in this
ofhce 40 Lot No At IN township No N Of
range 81 east Mount Diablo Base and .;eridtan.
said Lot No. AZ being described as follows to
wit: ~
Beginning at post marked Post No us
survey No At, thence running, list ,our, g. s
~ degrees 40 minutes. " 2sl feet to Iost No 2
: survey No Al, whence the mouth of the
schwabe tunnel bears 3 So degrees 20 minutes
l92 feet: thence. and course, N 1910 8 feet TO
the line between ctions 20 and al I'D /, N
81 E, 1883 feet to post No 8 U Survey No AZ.
degrees % minutes, W 1922 9 feet, and the sec.
ZION corner commf n to sections 20, 81. % and
29. TIP !, R87 ,bsars Q deg ees u miprtos.
2973 feet: thei CO, 3rd course, " so degrees AZ
minutes mi 2sl ftetto post No4 U Survey No
1888 feet to the place Of beginning
Containing GIT acres.
Courses expressed from the true merid;an
minutes east 40 y"
Inc nearest known location 10 the lisa Belle
lode q m on the south,
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion OF said Rainbow mine or surface
ground are CURED to Ale their adverse claims
with the Reg ster of the United States Land
once ut Eureka, In the Stat OF Nevada. dur
ing the period Of publication hereof, or they
VIII De debarred by virtue OF the provision Of
the statute.
Up. DUNKLE. Register.
1t 10 hereby ordered that the foregoing no.
tice of application for q patent be published
In the Phoebe RECORD, Q weekly newspaper
published at Phoebe, Lincoln county. Nevada.
for the period OF sixty avs item consecutive
we eks). ], P.DUNKLE, REGISTER.
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Notice of Forfeiture.
rI,o cHARLEs MoIron H1s anAnrrrs AZ

ITO CHARLES MCLEOD, HIS GRANTEES. AS.
l. signs, heirs. executors or administrator,
and all parties claiming under, from, by or
through him.
You are hereby notified that the undersigned,
co owner with you In the mining claim KIN wn
as the 'Mendha No. q" situated in Highland
Mining district. County Of Lincoln, State of
Nevada has performed the work and made the
expenditures on the said mining claim, re.
CURED by section 1924 of the Revised Statutes
OF the 7 ntted States, to hold the same for the
year 1881, and the amount due from you, your
grantees assigns or administrator, ETC., on &C.
count OF such expenditures on said mining
claim is the sum of nifty $50 COZ dollars.
And II within ninety days after the pubiics.
tion OF this notice. you fail or refuse to con.
tribute your said proportion of such expenai.
ture as CO owner, your interest In said claims
VIII become the property of the subscriber
under said section 1924.
PANEL 3 BAKER.
Phoebe. New, Jan. 7, 1892.
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A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE,
now Letter Brought Back It's Own
Answer.

How Letter Brought Back ITS Own
Answer,
Among the stories of extraordinary
condolences, writes London CORE.
spondent OF the Leeds Mercury. not the
least curious is the history of % letter,
"A short time ago lady in London
wished to write to friend in America.
whose address she did not know. The
only means she had of procuring the
address was to write to mutual friend.
who also lived in America. This she nc.
cordingly did, and the letter was duly
dispatched. The ship which carried
the letter was wrecked and the mails
Tor time lost. They were eventually
recovered and brought back to England,
the letters, now much damaged by sea
water, being returned through the
dead letter Office to the senders. The
letter in question was sent back to the
lady, who naturally examined it mi
nutely. To her surprise she found that
another letter had become closely stuck
to It, Holding up the two-fold missive
TO the light, she deciphered the address
on the one which was stuck to her own.
II was letter addressed to the friend
70 whom she wished to write, and to
discover whose whereabouts her own
letter had been dispatched. Her letter
thus literally brought back its own an.
swer.
superstitions About Snakes.
The ancients firmly believed in mon
ster serpents of oil kinds and of both
the land and marine species. During
the wars with Carthage great snake is
said to have kept the Roman army from
crossing the Bagrades river for several
days.
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Notice Of Forfeiture.

ITO D. r. CALDWELL. HIS GRANTEES, AS
signs, hoirs, executors. or administrator
ana all p.rties claiming under, from, by or
through him:
lou are hereby notified that the undersigned
co-owner with you in the aiming claim known
as the NORTH Star" mine situated in Ely Min.
ing district, County Of Lincoln State of Nevada
has performed the work and made the expendi.
lures on the said mining claim, r. ouired BY
section 2324 OF the Revised Statutes Of he Uni.
ted States, to hold the same Tor the year 1891
and the amount due from you, your grantees
assigns or administrator etc, on account Of
fuch expenditures on said mining claim 10 the
sum OF Th1rty-three SO 100 1888 33-l00I dollars.
And If within ninety Gays after the publca.
hon OF this notice, You fail or refuse to con-
tribute your said proportion of such expendi.
tnre as co.owner, your interest In said claim
VIII become the properly of the subscriber
under ssid section 1924.
P.QUIGLEY.
Phoebe, New, Jan. 2sth. 1892
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No 976.
UNITED STATES LAND oFFIcx.

Eureka, Nevada. July s, 1891.
NOTICE IL hereby GIVEN THAT THE
~ Pioche Consolidated Mining and Re-
duction Company, by its authorized agent.
samuel I. Godbe. whose postoffice address ia
Phoebe. Lincoln county, State of Nevada. has
this day filed his application for one Thousand
Jour hundred and eiehty.eight u4ss) linear
feet OF the War Eagle" mine or lode. bear.
ing silver. with surface ground two hundred
l200) feet In width, situated in Ely Mining
District, County Of Lincoln, State Of Nevada
and DESIGNATED by the field notes and official
plat on file in this office as lot number 48. In
township number / rorth, range 81 east of
Mount Diablo Base and Meridian; eaid lot No
~ being described as follows, to.wit:
Beginning att post married Post No. / U. 8.
Survey No 10. thence running. LIST course. s
" desrees Is minutes, W 1904 feet to Post No
2, .. Survey No. ~, whence the mouth of
the Horgan tunnel bears N 10 degrees 50 min.
utts, COO feet; thence. End course, "a de.
H Bas. ss minutes z. lass feet to
cour %, N. 80 degrees, a. minutes x, 2SO,4 feet
to post No 4, q. 8. survey NO. "a, whence u, g.
Mineral MonuWent No. beara s. 81 degree 90
minutes, W. 1883 feet, and the section corner
common to sections 30, 81. az and 90, T. IN,
n, 61 e. bears 4. degree IS minut, E.
22ee feet thence. 4th course, 8 81 degre, 8 SO
minutes w., 1888 feet to Post No. at the
place Of beginning.
Containing 8.76 acres.
COURSES expressed from the truo meridian
with magnetic variation OF is degrees and Az
minutes east. The nearest known locations
are the Bryan Lore on the north and the Es.
senSal lode on the south
Any and all persons claiming adverse, " any
portion OF said War Eagle Mine or turface
ground are required to Ale their adverse CLAIMS
with the Register o the United tates Land Office
at Eureka, in the State of Nevada, during the
period OF publication hereof, or they
VIII be debarred by virtue of the proyisions Of
the Statute.
p. DuNxLE, Register.
1t 10 hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF application Ter patent DO published in the
Fiocne RECORD, weekly newspaper
published at Phoebe, Lincoln county, Nevada,
Tor the periodf sixty days item conse cutiye
weeks).
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SUMMONS.
In Justice Court of Virgin Township, of the
County of Lincoln, State of Nevada.
Robert Logan
Plaintiff,
Summons.

PlalntlH,
VS.. Summong
George W. Rogers,
Defendant
The State of Nevada sends greeting to George
W. Rogers. Defendant
You are hereby required to appear In an &C.
ton brought against you by the above named
plaintiff. Robert Logan in the Justice court OF
Virgin township, County OF Lincoln. state of
N.vada, to answer before the Justice at his
ONCE In said township, the complaint herein
hled. at O'Clock P. NJ. on the eighth day OF
April A. d. 1899.
The SAID act on Is brought to recover judg.
ment against you for the sun: OF Two Hundr.
and Forty and sixteen hun 1redths dollars (s24O
l6-lo0) due him. said plaintiff on an imp liz d
contract as more fully appears by the com.
plant on file herein to which you are referred
and you are hereby notified that if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint as above re-
CURED. said plaintiff will take Judgment
against you by default for the sum of Two
Hundred and Forty and sixteen hundrerhs
dollars t$240. 10 1907 together with the costs
make legal service and due returns hereof.
Given under my hand this twentieth day of
February. 1892.
Charles O. Ronnow,
Justice of feace of said township.
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FREE TO THE AFFLICTED.

All who ore suffering from the effects
o. Youthful Errors, Loss of Manhood,
railing Powers, Gonorrhoea, Gleet,
structure, Syphilis and the many troubles
which are the effects Of these terrible
disorders will receive, FREE on CHARGE.
JaH directions hoW to treat and cure them.
'e|ves at home by writing to tho CALI.
'oRSIA MEDICAL AND SURGICAL Isy1RM.
AIRY, lo2ea Market Street. San Fran.
olsce, California.
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It Is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
OF Application for patent be publishtd for the
period OF sixty days It, n consecutive weeks) in
the Phoebe Weekly RECORD, u weekly newspa.
vada. J. DIINKr n Eaa.y, Ho'
Nv l9.10t NNo'''oA'
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Notice to Creditors.
Estate OF Wiley Townsend,

Estate OF Wiley Townsend.
Deceased.
Notice 10 hereby given by the undersigned
Administrator Of the Estate Of Wiley Town
send, deceased. to the creditors Of, ard al
persons having claims against the said dec eased
20 exhibit them. with the necessary vouchers
within four months after the FIRST publication
OF this notice, to the said Adminiltrator. Al
tn law once Of Geo. 8. Sawyer, at Phoebe. In
the county Of Lincoln. ~
Dated at Phoebe, April 18th 1899
o GELApERT.
Administrator OF said estate.
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NOTICE.

All parties indebted 60 mo ara hsrahv vo,,-
NED to make payments to N. p Dooiey. who
VIII aot as agent for mo during my absence.
IA. eAMMON.