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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

A Number of Desirable Residences in Au-
gusta, Maine, varying in prices from $3.50 to
81 $50: also several 10 to 15 acre places in the
suburbs of this city; one two story house and
lot in Lewiston, Maine. A number Of farms
5000 to $1,000. Houses and tenemerts to let.
E. w. Whitehouse, Attorney, Augusta, Me.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

Persons to prepare for the Civil Service Ex-
aminationS to be held soon in every state.
1900 appointments made yearly. Particulars
free. National Correspondence Institute,
Wash, d. G..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

A housekeepcr for a small family; must be
good cook. Good pay and permanent situa-
ton. Address, giving references. Box 5s, Au-
gusta feb2dlw*
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04
E.oUN ID.
WANTED.
. Help Wanted.

Frame spinners, twister tenders, doffers,
reelers A good man that understands Foss q
Percy cards, and one that can fix Peter
speeders, 1881 make. also a good man to fix
Collins Bros frames and twisters. Southland
Mill, Richmond, Maine. E. S. Willis, treas.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

A girl to wash dishes. Mrs. G.. H. Ramsell
No 40 Grove street. feb4dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

People to call who have cash and want to OBJ
tain wonderful bargains, at my clearance sale
of stoves, for the next 80 days. 81 Cony ST.,
East side janl9dlmo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

a girl for general housewoTk. Mrs A. S.
Bangs No. 20 e. Chestnut St, Augusta, Ne.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

Two Fireman wanted. Apply at the Augusta
House. jan23dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-04

AGENTS and statesmen to handle all the
latest novelties out, the very latest in velvet
lined case mailed for 10c.; also our Cyrenne
Whistles, oh what a seller they are. Write at
once to Portland Novelty Co, 1901 Middle St.,
Room 5, Portland. Me. lan26d2w
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

crowd They closed the door beh,,A
him. Here was. at last, somebody On
whom they could blame their misfor.
tune. He was tho only agent Of the
company they knew. He was responsi.
bic for robbins them Of their dues and
for raising false hopes, which had
wrecked the camp.
Wright did not talk to any Of them
until he reached the bar. He hoisted
himself upon this emlnence and they
could all see that he was unarmed and
at their mercy.
"Boys," he said at last, "1've come
back to tell you that It's oil up with
us and the DemiJohn. The company's
gone. He skipped out on the last steam.
or, and now the men that put up the
works for him are coming to take their
machinery back. He didn't pay for
anything. I'm In the same boat 40 the
rest of you. only worse, because they're
going to arrest me in the city for being
a partner In the fraud. I haven't got
a cent. I haven't been paid any more
than the rest Of you, and II you want to
take 1t out of me, I'm here"
They couldn't lynch man after a
statement like that. 1t did not restore
him to their good opinion or their conf.
dence. perhaps. but they let him 90, and
soon Mammoth Bar camp was only q
huddle Of abandoned shanties. The
men who had supplied the machinery
came up and took what was worth car
rying away, and that was the last of 1t.
This was the story Peters heard with
many variations from the old miners,
who would never believe that the Dem.
John was barren. They told him how
the vein dipped and where the lode
tended. and talked porphyry and hang.
Ing walls to him until he felt he was
an encyclopedia of mining lore. That
Is how he came to be ut Sam NewtOn's
place that night. He wanted to look
over the old Demijohn.
II felt sorry for the chap" said old
Sam. "and told him the boys were stun.
Ing him for tendcrfOot, and told him
that since 80 a hundred men that knew
all about mines had fooled with the
DemijOhn and given 1t up as no good.
But he thought he knOwed more than
any Of Us and down he went"
Heads Peters found that the miners
had told the truth about hanging walls
and the way the vein dipped. and rea.
sOned that their yarns about the rich.
ness that was down In the earth some.
where thcreabOuts must be equally
true. And he moved the remnants Of
his good clothes over to the river and
started In as so many had before him
on the Demljohn.
Pretty soon Uncle Peters, the head OF
the Lincolnshire Petcrses. died and
Heads came In for nephew's share Of
his fortune. 1t was not as big as tho
pile that had gone with the sheep, but
It was pretty big and easily enough.
Peters thought, to be the foundation Of
millions. He had learned something
about mines by this time. and the
scratching he had done encouraged
him to perscvere. So another mill went
up on the old site, not 30 big and pre-.
tcntiOus as the one Cal Wright super.
intended, but quite bit Of mill.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

"Weli." said Sam Newton, in telling
the story. ut wasn't elk months be.
fore he was broke again. only he paid
what he owed bis men and stayed
there"
Like enough he couldn't have rot
away II he wanted to. BY and BY they
stopped Heads Peters credit over ct
Georgetown. and It was only BY occa.
sionally deserving his claim for Q day
or two and working for somebody else
that he was able to get bacon and nour
enough to live on. Even the remnant
OF his good clothes was gone now. The
light wo0lly trousers were patched up
with discarded overalls. Tho coat was
no longer blue; but Peters. with the
pity Of tho whole country on him. work.
ed along.
TITS awful the way them tenderfoots
takes 1t when they get the fever" said
Sam Newton, who had himself been
pegging away for thirty years at a
mountain Of rock that had barely paid
for his grub. "Peters was that sick
with his lungs most Of that time that
he wasn't ut to lift pint aask. let
alone pick. Me and Maclaren and old
Richards over the hill used to drop
down once In awhile to see II he was
dead. and forget bag Of hour or a
slab Of bacon at his place. We tried
to get him to so over to the poor farm.
but he wouldn't do It. and once We
about made up our minds to send him
to a lunatic asylum down at Stockton
Just to save his life."
Up In FL Dorado County they always
stop at this point of the story. The
proper behavior of the man who listens
to It Is to ask for the end.
"Well," I said, "what was the wind.
upY
"Well." said Newton, "you see that
smoke over yonder? That's from the
towns of Headsborough, the best little
mining town In the State. That be.
longs to Mr.. ]. Headsborne Peters. He's
the head OF the Lincolnshire Petereses
now. That cussed fool tenderfoot had
more sense than all California. He's
been taking a million dollars year out
of the Peters claim for ave years now.
and the last time he come over the '48
trail he had on just the same kind Of
clothes a. the ones first saw him In.
but these was new."-San Francisco
Call.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

that was going to turn the Dcmljohn
inside out.
For q short while there were great
times at Mammoth Bar. A road was
cut there from Georgetown, and the big
freight teams crowded the road, bring
Ing In machinery and lumber 70. hoist.
Ing works aud mills. Curly Cal wns
superintendent. And pretty soon the
steam whistles startled the deer In the
hills, and the American River was boil.
Ing md raging Mt the dump OF waste
rock that was interfering with It's
peaceful course.
This was after all the bars had been
worked out. There was no longer n
dollar to the pan In the bottom, and
the miners were glad TO take % a dry
that was offered for men who could
handle q pick or q drill. Gradually
the Demijohn absorbed all the working
population Of the neighborlhood. The
stamps chewcd up the hard quartx and
the slulces swept the powdery mud
away into the river. Everybody wait
cd for the first cleanup at the end Of
the month. The cleanup was made.
The results were forwarded to the COM
pany In San Francisco. The amount Of
the cleanup was not told, but the ru.
NOR passed around the town that with.
In thirty days the Dcmijohn had paid
its owners 100000. II hadn't, but
tho story went anyhow.
The works went laundering away on
the second months run. Nothing had
been said about payday yet, but 1t was
understood In town that the company
was only waiting to realize on the bill.
lion they got from tho mill to satisfy
the payrolls. It did not make much
difference. because Mammoth Bar
camp was proud Of its Demijohn. and
the saloon men and storckeepcrs sup.
piled oil demands and were content to
wait until the men got their pay for q
settlement Of accounts. II anybody
grumbled he was looked upon as q
traitor to the camp-a man who would
embarrass the great enterprise that
had again brought prosperity to Nam.
moth Bar.
There was another cleanup at the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

mill; another shipment to San Fran.
cisco. and Q rumor that the second
months run had been 20 successful
that the company proposed to buy up
all tho claims for q mile around and
increase IT. operations enormously.
There was also Q rumor that on the
hfth payday would come. and every
miner ran In debt Q little further at
the saloons and the stores In anticipa.
ton Of the two months pay which
would som be his.
On the fourth o messenger on horse.
back camo to the mine. and Curly Cal
conferred with him In the inner Office.
The miners winked knowingly. Three
hundred dollars apiece for 500 men was
q whole lot Of money. and It was obvi.
GUS that such Q fortune should be
brought into the Wild country with all
due precaution. Late at night Curly
Cal and the messenger rode away to-
gether.
In the morning the foreman went to
the office for orders. There was no one
there to give him orders, and no mes.
sage as to what should be done. The
foreman put the men to work and dis
patched messenger to make inquiries.
The man came back with the word that
tine superintendent and his visitor had
taken team Immediately on their ar.
rival at Georgetown and had driven
away toward Sacramento. The fore.
man thought good deal, broke into
the superintendent desk at last. scru.
tinized the records Of what the mill
had done during the two months, blew
open the safe aud took what was left,
and that night he, too, disappeared
from the vicinity Of Mammoth Bar
camp.
There were hot times for couple Of
weeks In Mammoth Bar. The other
men found out that, instead Of fortune
that the mill was supposed to have
yielded. the output had been miserab bly,
small. The 'saloonmen and sh0pkeep.
ers closed their places and Joined the
crowd Of miners that wrecked the sup.
erintendent's house and smashed the
machinery, because there was nothing
else on which to get even.
One day the crowd, realixlng that Ito
own necessities were stronger than In.
dividual rights. broke open the Al.
hambva saloon. appointed barkeeper
and q chairman and held q meeting.
In the midst Of II Z strange thing hap
pened. 4 horse galloped up to the
door. A man alighted, and Curly Cal
himself slbowsd his way through the
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21
The Best of Everything for Chicago.
The Civic federation
OF CHICAGO.
Telephone Main 2so2 517 First National Bank BuIdnu.
WILLIAM T. BAKER, President.
BERTHA h0N0RE PALMER, First President
JOHN J. Mc0RATh, Second Vice President.
RALPH M. EASLEY, Secretary.
EDWARD s. DREYER, Treasurer.
Tho Civic Federation Aims to Focaze All tho Forces Now
laborng to Advance the Political Municipal, Phan.
tropIc, Industrial and Moral Interests Of CHICAGO.
Bach Branch Of Work Placed Committee Of Socialists Con-
nihees Now Being Work The FoIowiss Lines:

1.-POLITlCAL.
The selection Of honest, capable men
to govern the city. State and munich.
pal legislation for Chicago. Honest
elections. A general interest In the prI.
marles.
2.-MUNICIPAL.
Clean streets and alleys-prompt re.
moval Of garbage - improved urban
tranic-less smoke-more water-hOn.
orable pollce-cheapcr and better &C.
commodations for the people Of Chica.
60 In all Observation-Disclosures Of rail.
road tracks, etc.
B.-lNDUSTRIAL.
Establishment of Boards Of Conclli.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

English tenors keep ell their humor
locked up In thas brsastA Hence thsE
chestnoteA
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-12-21

alton, Public Loan Bureau, Employ.
ment Agencies, etc.
4.-PHILANTHROPIC.
Development Of the Central Relief
Association to . thorough systemisa-
tion Of the organized charities Of Chi.
cago.
6.-MORAL.
The suppression Of gambling. obscene
literature. etc.
6.-EDUCATIONAL.
Ample school facilities - improved
methods In teaching, and the develop.
ment Of . greater interest In the
schools by the parents.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02

Explosion In a New Mexico Col
liery Kills Many.
Twenty-Five Dead Bodies So Far Taken
Out of the fit--severaI Persons Inn
prisoned and Prob
ably Dead.

CERRILps, n. NJ, Feb. 2s.-One of
the most serious mining accidents ever
known in the territory is reported
Particulars are as yet meager, but
enough is known 20 show that num-
Der Of lives have been lost. The acct
dent occurred at 1880 a. IN. Wednesday
In the mines of the Santa Fe company.
IL was caused by an explosion, presum-
ably OF powder. At that hour the en-
ployes at the entrance 90 the
mine heard terrific roar, fol-
lowed by the ground trembling. A
dense volume OF smoke poured from
the entrance, making II impossible to
enter until II had partially cleared
There were fifty men in the mine
when the explosion took place.
Only eleven of these escaped alive,
and some OF them may yet die. TWEEN
ty-five dead have been taken from the
mine, and IL Is doubtful IL those re-
naming are alive. Relays OF men have
been working like Trojans to try
and reach those who are still
imprisoned in the mine, but little prog
ress can be made on account OF the
gas which permeates every shaft and
overpowers the workers in n short
time. Up 20 4 o'clock p. m. Wednes-
day those on the inside could be heard
trying TO work their way out from the
caYed-in mine, but as nothing has been
heard since then the imprisoned men
in all probability have succumbcd TO
the deadly gas.
The bodies recovered are horribly
burned and mutilated and difficult of
Identification. One Of the rescued,
John Stupes, says that he heard
the explosion and with five com
rades started for the main slope,
but could not get out and
went back into the mine 10 pool of
water, where they immersed them
selves and by agitating the water man
aged TO get air enough To live ON for
four hours, but when the rescuing
party reached them they were in the
last stages Of asphyxiation.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02
LATER.

AFTER the financial debate closed in
the United States senate on the 9th
work on the sundry civil bill was pro-
ceeded with, and among the amend
ments agreed 20 was one authorizing
the selection OF nine commissioners TO
represent the United states at the i'm
ternational monetary conference. In
the house the pension appropriation
bill was passed and the post Office APP
preparation bill was discussed.
FIRE that started in Deland's saw
mill and heading factory at Black
Rock, Ark, caused loss of 100000.
FRIENDS of Frank G.. Lenz, the Amer
lean bicyclist who was lost In Asia
Minor ten months ago, have organized
n search for him.
john BURKE celebrated his i03d birth
day at his home near Logansport, Ind.
FIRE destroyed the Kaestncr build
ing in Chicago, occupied by numerous
tenants, and several adjoining houses,
entailing loss OF 100000.
ALI. but three labor organizations in
Pittsburgh, Pa, seeded from the
knights OF Labor
highwayman, was shot with n com
panion in Havana 10y government sol
diers.
A CONCURRENT resolution striking the
word male out OF the constitution
passed the Nevada legislature.
The large -four mill OF Wilson Bros.
at Peabody, Kan, was completely de-
stroyed by fire. the loss being 100000
TuE resignation OF Postmaster Gen
eral IBissell, TO take effect I'm April, was
placed in the hands OF the president
FIRE which broke out In the govern
ment immigration building at Halifax
destroyed property worth si,oOO,OOO.
KENTUCKY prohibitionists in state
convention at Louisville nominated Il.
Is. Dcmaree, OF Louisville, for governor.
GEN. MASON BRAYMAN, ex-governor
OF Idaho, one Of the oldest masons in
the United States, died Mt Kansas City,
Mo-, aged 81 years
TwENTY-EIGHr men employed In the
mines at Cerrillos, n. NJ, were killed
by n gas explosion due 10 imperfect
ventilation.
MARY MARSHALL. aged los years,
dropped dead at her home in Port
Fulton. Ind. She was born in Virginia
In 1857.
The populists OF the Third Michigan
district nominated Robert MacDougall,
of Hillsdale county, for congress.
JONI NJ. HERREs. n shoemaker at
Hoisington, Kan, fatally stabbed his
wife, killed his 4-year-old daughter
Fannie and then committed suicide
he WA crazed with liquor.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02
pEasonAL ANo POLITICAL.

PRomBfTIoSIsTs of Rhode Island in
state convention at Providence noIni-
mated Smith Quimby, OF Warren, as
their candidate for governor.
THE funeral of Isaac Il. Gray. late
minister 10 Mexico, took place at Union
City, Ind.
ARsALoM STUBBLEFIELD, who had
lived on farm near bloomington, ILL.,,
since 1912. died from pneumonia.
GEN. JOSEPH Il. CARR, war veteran,
and three times elected secretary Of
state OF New York. died at his home in
Troy, aged sc years
GEORGE W. McBRrDe, ex-secretary Of
state, was elected by the Oregon legis-
lature on the thirtieth ballot as
United States senator 10 succeed John
Dolph.
SAMUEL DANA Horror, the distin-
guished writer on financial topics. died
in hospital at Washington, aged 81
years.
Mrs. HET-rY PARKER, Of Lancaster,
Pa. who was housekeeper for President
buchanan during his administration
and after his retirement To private life,
celebrated her Goth birthday.
FUNERAL services, attended by many
distinguished persons. were held over
the remains Of Frederick Douglass at
Washington.
DAVID A. BRowN, veteran of tho
Mexican war, died at Springfield, ILL.,,
aged II years.
JOHN X. BoLLEs, n well-lxnown poet
and author, died at his home i'm New
London, Conn, aged SIS years.
DAVID IRWIN, aged 81 years, was mar
ried in Chicago TO Mrs. Annie A. Nor
ris, aged Ga years. This is the groom's
third matrimonial experience and the
brides second
THE democrats of the Tenth Illinois
district nominated Fred X. Bastian for
congress.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02

IA true incIdentl


She h,d not mourned like us OF ripper years:
Fer days had been for laughter. not for tears;
Few were her kindred In the better land.
Yet death was drawing near. with outstretched
hand.
on. for some dear one on the other side
To lead her safely DER the darksome tidei
We watched hor fading daily from our sight.
Until. at close OF q long summer night.
As the frst rays OF daybreak III the gloom,
She asked: who are these people IN the
roomf'
Then on her features shone a Frightening
change.
As II the faces were no longer strange:
Soon as the angels were familiar grown.
Rejoicing she departed gtth her oirA
No aliens come to meet us when at last
The weary pilgrimage OF life is past;
As tender love as waits us at our birth
Attends the parting from our homo on earth
Frances l. Mace. In Youths Companion
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02
BIG lire lN CHICAGO.
Manufacturing Embellishments Burned
Loss About sebO.OOO.

CHICAGO, Feb. Is. -Four girls were
hurt, one of them seriously, property
valued at 5000 destroyed and six
lines of street ears tiedup for over three
hours by fire which originated on the
top floor OF the Charles kaestner
building Wednesday morning. The
girls hurt were employees Of the Lam
caster caramel mandatory, situated
several houses away from the kacstner
building and never ut any time
in danger from the flames Some.
body shouted Fire and panic
was the Immediate result, the fright.
ened candymakers tumbling over
each other in their haste TO get down
the stairs and thence into the street.
Ethel Goldman was taken TO the coun-
ty hospital and IL is feared was seri-
ously injured internally. Emma Cusicl'
was badly bruised, rs were two other
companions whose names are not
known.
The building Of the Crane Elevator
company was saved with difficulty.
The loss ON this building will amount
90 $4,000 Besides this the entire
stock OF the wire department Of the
company which was in the Kaestner
building adjacent was destroyed.
Others in the Kaestner building who
suffered were: The Charles kacstner
company. milling and engineering ma
chincry, Worthington Pump company,
Andrews ~ johnson, sheetiron work.
ers, and Friedlander, Brady a Co,
knit goods The aggregate losses OF
these firms were S250,O0O All were
fully insured.
The falling of wall Of the Kaestncr
building created panic in the big
crowd of spectators and several were
slightly hurt by falling bricks, but
none seriously.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-03-02
FOREIGN.

THE attempt In the British house OF
commons 10 overthrow the Rose berry
ministry on the question of the Indian
cotton duties was an inglorious failure.
FIVE grown members of family at
Brampton, Ont, became insane and
were sent To an asylum for assaulting
their mother.
TWENTY-FIVE of the leaders of the
recent black flag riots in Formosa were
beheaded 10y order OF the emperor.
THE town OF Koutchal, near Astra-
bad, Persia, was swallowed up by an
earthquake and several thousand per-
sons persisted.
REBELS entered and looted the city
OF Morocco, many persons being killed
and hundreds wounded in the fighting
NATIVES attacked the British expe-
dition on the Brass river i'm Africa and
were defeated and several OF their
towns burned.
FIVE HUNDRED men were imprisoned
I'm mine at Normanton, England,
through an accident in the cages.
EMPEROR MENEIEK killed 1000 Gallas
and captured $4,000 slaves in battle
at Vallamo. He lost 900 men.
SEVENTEEN THOUSAND Chinese, sup
ported by twenty guns, attacked the
Japanese position at lIai Cheng, but
were repulsed
SEVERAL outbreaks having occurred
at Cienfuegos and Matanzas martial
law was declared throughout Cuba.
THE British legation at Lima was
advised that Peru would allow no i'm
reference in her national affairs.
Feeling against the British was very
sirnnr