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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-06-10

The scheme so cleverly concoct-
ed by Attorney e. G. Hunter to
enable Mr.. Jack Corley to escape
the penalty of the law, has appar-
emily fallen through, and Jack has
very sensibly concluded to accept
the consequences of his sin, re-
NAMED in Jail, and learn healthy
lesson thereby. The point made
by Mr.. Hunter was that where a
fine is imposed and the accused is
poor and unable to pay, he can take
the benefit of the bankrupt act, and
on surrending his property to the
State is entitled to release. Judge
Wear refused to entertain this plea,
and, upon an appeal to the Supreme
court for a mandamus ordering the
release of the prisoner, that court
decided the Judge had no power
to order release until the meeting
of creditors was disposed of. Up
on an order for meeting of the
creditors being asked for, District
Attorney Milling filed a motion to
vacate the order, it being null and
void on account of the circumstan-
ces of the case. Thus the matter
rests, and the war of technicalities,
cut damon, in this inter-
esting case, seems to be drawn
light by common consent.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-06-10

The accounts of suffering and
destruction of crops by overflow
along the Mississippi appear to
have become mistaken by some of
our people as being in the Red riv-
er country. There is no need of
apprehension in this valley, unless
a great deal more water falls than
We now have any account of, Red
river being about on stand at
Fulton and Shreveport, with about
Z and 10 feet to spare at each
point before the danger line is
reached. The Shreveport Times,
of June. 9Th, says: 'sThe condition
OF Red river is favorable and high
ly encouraging. There are still no
indications of high water this year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-06-10

We guarantee &C. C. C.. Ger.
TAIN Cough Cure" 10 curo
coughs. Colds. LaGrippc, Group,
TMnOOplng Cough, and ali
AIrOat and Lung Diseases.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-06-10

The editor of the Boyce Enter
prise, after a three weeks visit to
the Worlds Exposition, returned
home last week in time to get out
an issue of his paper Having Sc
cured the necessary funds, he de-
liberately shut up shop and went
to Chicago to see the sights, very
convenient arrangement for him,
but somewhat out Of the usual or
der of things. However, if his
people stand it, and he makes all
shortage good, we don't know that
anybody has right to kick.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-06-10

Eo-JadicM advertisements must be paid
ioy IN ddrdace, or they wiH be discontinued
after the first insertion.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
HIS LIFE A TRAGEDY.
One of the Survivors of the Dome
Party and His Relics.

One of the Survivors of the Bonner
Party and His Relics
A gray bearded, weary-looking man
of giant size came down from Calls
toga lately. and registered at the Russ
house, in San Francisco. He had with
him a peculiar looking bag of buck
skin, which he handled carefully, as
though It's contents were of priceless
value, and did not rest con tented till the
yellow bag was in the safe. The old
man was w. &. Graves, and his life has
been an eventful one. He was one of
fhe celebrated Bonner party, who
were lost in the Sierras in the terrible
winter of 1867 while trying to reach
california, suffering unheard-of priva-
tions. Out of ninetythree people
forty-seven persisted from cold and
hunger The party came to a stop on
the edge of Bonner lake, November 1,
1916, and it was March ), or four
months and four days, before all those
yet alive started away. Mr. Graves
was at the time Is years old. He
started out about March l with the
first relief party His father had pre-
viously died while trying to get relief
Before his mother started with the re-
naming emigrants on March ) she hid
what silver money she had. Edward
Reynolds. a prospector for gold quartz,
found the silver coins two years ago,
after the long interval of forty-two
years. Mr.. Graves secured them and
those were what he had in his yellow
bag. They consist of over 100 coins of
the value of Sf54. \ majority are
fifty-cent pieces of the United States.
Besides these there are Mexican dol
lars, Bolivian. French, Belgian. West
Indian and Argentine coins. The old
pioneer told how his mother died in
the mountains on her way out and
alluded graphically to their imprison-
III ont in the snow.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

The habit of turning up the trousers
an inch or two at the ankle has become
almost second nature among the mem
bers of a certain class of anglomaniaes
in New York. The condition of the
weather makes no difference with
hem One young man of uuinis-
taxable English bearing attracted an
unusual amount OF attention to him
self q a reception in one of the Fifth
avenue palaces the other night by APP
pearing on the floor of the ball room
with his well pressed black trousers
turned mp snurly around his ankles.
He subsequently explained that he had
turned them up from force of habit,
and had forgotten to turn them down
before descending from the dressing
room
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

hickory nuts and popcorn, who baked the
turnovers COR us, who hunted up fish lines
and let us put up windmills and scarecrows
and set the old steel trap on the roof of the
COW shed. All we knew about Faster sun
day was that it brought eggs which had
been dyed various coIors. That Saturday
afternoon Aunt Sally came out to the barn
where were turning somersaUlts off the
big BEAM on to the hay and said:
Boys, l want you to look about for hens
nests. l haven't got above three eggs in
the house, aud unless you find some I don't
know what we're going to do for tomorrow.
There goes a cackle no~l'
Jim and had the luck TO discover a full
dozen eggs, and after supper Aunt Sally
dyed them in an old kettle kept for no 9th
er purpose When we went up stairs to bed
that night, we found eight of the eggs on a
plate on the bureau. She had cautioned
us that the dye might strike in and poi
son them, and that we shouldn't eat them,
but the good old soul reasoned that tie
sight of them would please us when we
awoke in the morning just before we
went to bed ncle Joe came in from a visit
to the barn and said:
sally, | think | saw man dod &c around
the corncrib a> | came past
La me, But what would any one be
lodging around our corncrib for:" she re-
piled.
Dunno"
1T was probably one of the calves, and he
skeart at sight of you. Did he smell
calfyy"
Il didn't think to sniff"
That's what I'd have thought of the
first thing. Why didnt you go higher and
find out for certain
'Waal, l guess it's nuthin to worry
about" replied Uncle Joe as he reached for
the boot Jack
'Of course it amt. unless it's a pesky
skunk sneakin around to git up another
awful smell. Come boyS-time for bedt'
The window of our bedroom, one of its
three windows, looked out on the back
yard, and just below it was the roof of the
summer kitchen. Jim and | sat by the
window for half an hour to watch for the
strange thing uncle had seen. but as n mat
ter of fact the night was so dark we could
hardly see the ground below US. In those
days no farmer locked door nor fastened
window. 1t struc&sus that Uncle Joe felt
certain he had Seen a man. and that he
lacked the nerve to investigate in the dark
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

1t was half mile to the nearest neigh
bor's, and Uncle Joe didn't feel like asking
Us to go or going himself Neither did We
want to remain outdoors until daylight.
We solved the problem by dragging the
man into the kitchen. He continued ours
ing for some me after. but finding that lie
made no impression he finally cooled OF
and became quite civil. The hard boiled
egg had struc him right between the eyes
and raised "A big lump When we told him
what had hit i'm. he laughed heartily AMI
demanded that the reminder of the eggs
be turned over TO him. just at daylight IA
team passed by and we sent word to a con
stable, and on hour later the robher was o.
his way to tn rOunty jail. y hen Ee reached
that institution, be was identified as an t.
capped convict TOR whom u reward of 500
had been offered. He had, as he admitted
planned to rob the house, and by lis beiI- 2
armed il was reasonable to conclude that
he would not have stopped at murder had
he been interfered with. He had saddled
one OF the horses and led il into the road
before mounting the roof, and his escape
would have thus been assured.
When the case came to trial. the four of
US We're called a. witnesses, OF course
Uncle Joe wouldn't bear on bit, while
Aunt Sally tired hard to say something in
favor OF the prisoner and nothing against
him He got n sentence of 10 years. while
we got the $500 and made an equal divide.
jim and l took all the praise the public
wanted To bes,ow, but uncle and aunt never
felt quite right about it. Being honest in
nocent old souls themselves, they were in
rliucd to believe in the honesty of the whole
world They used to talk and guess and
wonder, and sometimes they almost made
themselves believe they had wronged the
man. Years after. and the last time i was
ever to visit them, the motherly old lady
observed:
Charles, s'posin that poor man wasn't
bad at all and was simply lookin for some
thin to eat? I'm sometimes almost con-
science stricken TO think you throwed that
egg before you asked him who he was and
what he wanted
well, / Dunno added Uncle Joe HE
only n boy then, and Of course he
couldn't be blamed if he made n mistake
If il had bin me, guess I'd have throwed
the whole eight eggs to onct but wouldn t
have yelled the shingles off the roof the
way him and Jim did. Geei but kin hear
'em hollerin yit as they rolled down stairs
and busted the door open!''
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
wouIdn't Have Relieved 1t.

~ on would scarcely take my daugb-
ter-Eaby, we cal her-to be twenty
one years CID. would your said fond
mother speaking of her spinstcr-look-
ing child. NO. indeed, 1 should not ="
was the reply so every one says.
But how old would you have imagined
her? oh, l don't know exactly,
though if | had been guessing her age,
should have said she was bout thirty
three and half. or may be three
quarters one can't always tell within
a month or two, you know.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
ELECTRIC SIGNALS.
ships at Sea to Communicate When FIJI
teen Miles Apart.

The progress We are making with
electricity in all directions ought to
make us stop and think said Arthur
Cooper. an electrical engineer from
Boston. There i no denying the fact
that we are making haste rapidly, and
yet none of rs can see the end. The
uses to which electricity can be put, and
with advantage, are wonderful The
latest, and perhaps. the best, invention
IS the telephotoes, the result of a num-
Der of experiments 10y o. V. Boughton,
a rather progressive inventor. The in
strument is to bring vessels at sea. on
dark nights. fully fifteen miles apart,
within speaking distance of each
other. In other words. it consists Of
electrical connections operated by
key board by which 100 incandcs-ent
lights are controlled and made to pro-
due the signals of the Morse telc-
graphic alphabet Mr.. Boughton. |
believe, claims that lamps of thirty
two candle power each can readily be
seen and the signals understood At a
distance of fifteen miles If the in
vention does all that he claims for it,
then every passenger steamer. as wei
as every war vessel in the world, will
soon be equipped with his machine.
and signaling at night viii be as easy
as talking across a table"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
IN OUTER SPACE.
There May Ee an Atmosphere Out There,
After All.

After All
That extreme cold paralyzes every
vital function Is. of course piece of
everyday knowledge. But it has been
left to Professor Pictet. who has been
conducting some experiments on this
subject, to discover that at a tenn
perature of $50 degrees below the
centigrade zero there is no chemical
action between nitric or sulphuric acid
and potash. between oxygen and
potassium. though under ordinary
circumstances the affinity of the
latter metal for oxygen is 50
great that it viii burn if thrown into
water. owing TO its combination with
the oxygen in that fluid. But if the
electric spark is played on bodies
which have thus lost the power of
chemical affinity. some new and curious
com binations result The latest in
vestigation. the conclusions of which,
however, have been theoretically
presaged for some years past, may
require rs to reconsider the question
of the temTcra turc OF outer space.
and the possibility Of an atmosphere
composed of gases in combination ex-
listing there.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
SET OF FuRs WORTH $4,000.
Value of Sable. Silver-Fox. Tiger and Sea-
Otter Skins.


skin of the sea-otter has been sold
for as much as S775. Sable skins, little
bigger than mans hand. have been
sold for 500 each. which is proportion
ately more expensive than the skin of
the sea-otter. A mantle of this valua-
bic sa BILE fur was gift to the present
empress of Russia on her coronation,
by the town of Vitouts<, in that coun-
try. 1t weighed sixteen ounces and is
valued at SiO 600.
The skin of an elephant, when
tanned, is very expensive, the tanning
taking abouts il months. Articles
made from elephant hides are costly
luNuries.
The skin of n silver fox, otherwise
called black fox varies in price from
$50 to $500. The whole number OBJ
tanned annually amounts to only 1000,
of which about l,6OO are imported into
England. La Hontan states that in
his time skin of the silver fox was
worth its weight in gold. and an un-
usually fine skin has been sold in the
London market for $3.50.
OF the species Of the marten WHICH
is distinguished as the Russian sable
the darkest skins command $3.50 each.
Inferior skins of the same animal fetch
as little rs from 81 to s..
A skin of the tiger of North China.
which has hair from two to three
inches long, and frequently measures
from ten to fourteen feet in length. is
valued at from $50 to SloO
Among expensive furs Mrs. Nacllay
owns set of black fox which cost
Sl4.tOO
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
SAID HER PRAY Frs.
4 Young Lady who Would Not Waste
the Time Between Acts.

the Time Between Acts.
A pretty young lady who lives in
New Orleans is very religious, and
would not for the world got To bed
without saying her prayers. Also She
is very fond of the theaters, and never
misses n chance of seeing good play.
The other night ut the theater her es-
cort noticed that between the first and
second acts she was preternaturally
quiet. All his efforts at conversation
met with monosyllabic repulses, and
so far as pretty eyes can glare. her
eyes glared at him eproachfully.
He felt snubbcd and hurt. and when
the second act came things We're no
better Manfully, however, he tried
to thaw his icicle lady out. but even
reference to supper after the play had
an unhappy effect Every time he
spoke 1t seemed to break her all up.
Finally. fairly blazing with wrath and
almost crying, She turned to him. say
ing: For goodness sake keep quiet,
I've been trying to say my prayers be-
tween every act. / know ! shall be so
sleepy when l get home, and this
seems such a good chance" 1t IS
needless to say the young man sat
mute, dumbly hoping that in her sweet
prisons she would remember him.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
Six ways Around the world.

The time required for journey
around tn earth by man walking
DAY and night without rest would be
40 days; an express train, forty days:
sound, at medium temperature, thir-
ty-two and one-half hours; cannon
ball, twenty-one and three-fourths
hours; light. a little over one-tenth of
a second: electricity. passing over a
copper wire, little less than one
tenth of second.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
a prorressiza City.

A judge in a rough-and-ready but am
bitious town, had occasion. or thought
he had, to comment severely upon
the heinous crime of horsestealing, and
Numbered forth: For century after
century, that dread command Thou
shall not steal has rolled along the
ages. 1t is moreover, standing rule
of the court, if not yet bylaw of ~ur
progressive and soon to- be-incor Z
ed ethyl"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
Can "a Fish he Frozen

Somebody told DIR. w. T. Herring of
Georgia that it was impossible to
freeze a fish to death. but he was not
fully convinced and decided to test the
" alter. He tried il, putting two young
carp in a jar and allowing it to freeze
almost solid. except about n table
spoonful about the little fish. The fish
did not seem to mind it much, and as
soon as the ice thawed out they swan
around as lively as ever
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
The Newspaper of the Future.

Mr.. Edison thinks that eventually
all newspapers will be set up by a
combination of the photograph and
the type-setting machine. Editors, he
says. win read off into monographs all
the copy brought in. editing it rs they
go along. The compositor will put
the cylinder with his take" on an
other photograph. and, listening TO
the dictatiou of the machine. viii
translate it directly to the keys of the
mechanical type-setter.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

If possible, tradition and history
have told Us less bout the changing
Gardens of Babylon" than they have
about the other six or seven wonders
of the ancient world. HerodotuS does
not mention them; Pliny only casually
alludes to their former existence. and
the Scriptural account of the reign of
Nebuchadnezzar ignores the subject
altogether. Popular accounts. how
ever. would have us believe that they
We're made of huge baskets of earth
(the baskets themselves of iron and
brass 400 feet square, hung on gigantic
arches which We're erected for that
purpose near the royal palace at
Ba bylon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

a friend of mine is perfectly devoted
to music. She means to be an opera
SINGER some day. but n little while ago
she went to u store to buy some plain
thread to do some plain sewing. She
asked for white thread and then took
up n converse ton with an acquaint-
ance.
What NUMBER" said the girl.
"Eh?' exclaimed the comic opera
Anger. and went on with her talking.
What numbcr?" again asked the
girl.
"Oh, Opus fifty" was the reply.
Then she said If the clerks were go
ing to stare like that she wouldn't deal
there. and went to another store.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

ness II it was prowler, he would find the
house open to him. We got into bed with
the agreement that we would keep awake
until we heard the old kitchen clock strike
midnight. Wewere both awake at 10, but
that was the last knew until O'Clock IN
the morning. lust as l. was aroused heard
the clock strike.
What had disturbed me? Brother Jim
was snoring like a trooper. while WAS all
in q tremble The weather had cleared up
q good deal since we went TO bed, and
could discern every object in the room as
sat up and looked about The window l
have referred to was on thenorth side OF the
room, while the bed was on the south. All
ths curtains were mp. After minute
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

L e. ! - 4 AA1 = ~ Atte
that brother Jim
and | We're at Aunt
Sally's when Eas-
ter Sunday came.
We always spoke
of ii as going to
Aunt Sallys, in
stead of going 10
Uncle joe :" al
though he was a
kind hearted old
man and always
gave rs a warm
welcome. 1t was
Aunt Sally, how
ever. who put us
on track of thu
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
GGhhiieGag0, Rock Island & Pacific RI,

The Direct Route TO and from Chic,so, Jo.s' oTi'l
oeoria La Sale Moline, Rock Island. n ILL-S'-'
davenport, Nuscatine, Ot;umws, csEEl'o" .
Noines winterset Audubon. HSrlsn sri t9sl-1
Bluffs, in IOWA; MInneapoli. and ST Paul, 4 -
5ESOTA; WATERFOWL and Sioux Falls, IL D'Ay.A
Cameron, 81. Joseph and Kansas Ci'y. In Ni>>'-.-
Omaha, Lincoln, Fairhury and Nelson in NA.'!-A>AA
Atchison, Leavenworth Horton, Topeka, Hum
Wichita. Belleville. Abilene, Dodge City, ta-Nt- =
KANSAS; Ringfsher. FL Reno ard Aineo IL So
TERRITORY: Denver, Colorado Spring AID ! = r..
"a COLORADO. Tr-yer-es new areas OF nh i..I--'
nd grazing lands. afording the best facilities o. -
communication TO all towns and citie- ta't sal
southwest and southwest Of Chicago sat 70 tae.a -
rams oceanic sesporiA
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

In one county in England they have n
custom of throwing apples into the church
yard after the Caster service. Those lately
married throw three times as many as the
others
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
MAGNIFICENT
VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS

Leading all competitor, in splendor u tTI,s-,
'>tween CHICAGO and IaS NOME 49,,
3LUFFS and OMAHA, and between tfii'Aul I,
DRIVER, COLORADO SPRINGS snd ItELLL, -
KANSAS CITY and TOPEKA and via 81. 5''- 80
-irst Class Day Coaches, FREE EECLIN4N' - -.
AIRS. and Palace Sleepers, with Dining az -
lose connections at Denver and Colorado = 11ts -
,lveTging railway lines. now forming ne "s
IIc;uresqus
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
THE TRAVELLERS, gI-;n.

{ IhIcASg; HoCK BLAND 4 pst.,,rc -
~aJ-DepOt corner sifth a,sr-.'tc tAu
-rst street, Frank II Plunmer ard Tim,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30
AN EASTER INCIDENT.
BY CHARLES B. LEWIS

Copyright, 1881
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-28

The following extra-judicial decis-
ION is said to have been delivered.
|ome years ago by Judge in South.
I'm city, A man had been brought
before MIN on warrant for vagrancy.
The evidence was unmistakable, and
ihe young lawyer defending the man
'aw that the case was hopeless.
While badgering his wits to know.
what to say, however he noticed that
ais client was fairly well-dreSsed, and
,alled The attention of the court to
!hat fact, declaring that no man who
wore good clothes" could with pro-
priety be considered a vagrant, as
that word signihed a ragged, dirty
vagabond. Observing that the court
made a memorandum Of "gco1 clothes,
he wisely sat down without further
remarks.
When the prosecuting attorney had
finished what he had to offer, the
Judge, who was blessed with fine,
rich brogue. said: "The cart, having
Ittintively hard the ividince and the
remarks av COUNSEL, is ay the opinion
that, inasmuch as the prisoner wears
good clothes, he cannot properly be
considered a vagrant; but, as he has
not shown to the satisfaction Of the
cart, how he obtained thin clothes,
I shall bind him over for simple lar
ceny!"
He was so bound over, and the pa
pers are on record In the County
Clerks Office.