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The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

Frank Bnrcham, the Genwood build
er and contractor, came in Wednesday
and will probably get the brick contract
on the new Meeker hotel.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

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Don't fail to see the Big Three
Clark, WILDER and Mootz-at the hard
times" ball.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

The floods Of the Tiber in winter
carry everything before them. The
most substanaiul wharves and docks
h~e been carried away by the mere
xbree Of the water.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

The dance given at the court house on
Tuesday evening, for the benefit OF the
sufferers by the recent mine disaster al
New Castle, was a great success Sixty
six tickets we're sold at 81 each. and the
ladies' of MeeSer furnished the dancers
with lunch, from which was raised
so3 10, making a total OF Sss.lO. Ihis
amount was forwarded to c. H. Noren,
of New Castle. chairman OF the re-
lief committee. Messrs. William H.
Clark, Ed Wilber and S. Mootz made
very efficient and popular floor man
ayers. and added much to the evenings
amusements. The committee in charge
desire THE HERALD to thank the musi-
clans and all who in any way helped 10
make the sufferers ball the success that
it was.
A telegram was sent from Meeker the
other day, to President Cleveland, which
read: "We have 800 cowpunchers'
ready at your call, for fight with the
cigarettes Reserve the right to fur
pish nnr own horses and grub. Signed.
Dwight Edwin Ryland, president, and
Harry French. secretary" That's the
way we do things here in Rio Blanco
county.
Meeker has really never experienced
anything in the nature of hard times, so
the base ball club is going to give what
the boys facetously call "a hard times"
ballnext Tuesday eyenin2-St. Patrick s
day-and it gives promise of being q
very ENJOYABLE affair.
Frank Burcham, the Genwood build
er and contractor, came in Wednesday
and will probably get the brick contract
on the new Meeker hotel.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14
THOMPSON. KERN 4 Schultz.

Above brand on left hip, side or shoulder.
Also own Circle 8 brand on any part Of
animal. Also own brand on cattle only on
any part Of animal. Horse brand Circas on
left shoulder. Range. Pice-ance creek, be-
tween White aver. Parachute and Roam
creeks. PostofScs address, Mic, Colo.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14
THE WABASH RAILROAD

C o. Taylor wh-kies fne as silk. Moderate cost
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

A strike is reported from Hahn's
Peak which is said to run from $50 to
500 to the ton in gold and silver-the
latter predominating. The strike was
made in the Great Eastern tunnel, own
ed by Messrs. Poulson, Smith and Nc
1ntosh. The ore body is said to be
thirty feet In thickness and everybody
at tho Peak Is wild with excitement.
This prospective bonanza is located on
the south side Of the Peak about 800
feet below the summit.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14
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A Rawlins dispatch to the Denver
Republican announces the sale of the
Timberlake placer grounds. at Four
mile, to company composed of Chi
cago, Des Moines and Marshalltown,
Iowa, capitalists. This sale, which has
been pending for some time, will turn a
good deal of development money loose
in the Fourmile region. The property
was owned principally in Rawlins.
The Meeker herald., 1896-03-14

G.o.Taylor whlskie, are not expensive. Good, to,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-11-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

LAND cTFIcE AT CARSON CITY RHvADl
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT :, 1SST 4
Az Following named settler has filed mod
OF his intention to mako final proof in n
port OF his claim, and that said proof 4
pc made before the County Clerk OF Il
County at Elko, Nevada, on November
1906, viz: Lee Scranton, Homestead ap1
cation No: 27t for the Mex, See. 90 T. Ri
r. 50 e. M. d. NJ. -
He names the following witnesses
prove his continuous residence upon,
cultivation of, said land, VIZ:
Edward @. Murphy. Archibald @. Dor,|
John Nj. Dorsey, barnes p, Gregory, OF Il
o. n. GALLUP,
oo.on 600, Regista|
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-11-09
October 3. 1895.
Notice For Publication.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFIcT

UNITED STATES LAND OFFIcHI
Carson City, Nevada. Dot 20, 1891
10 WHOM 1T May CONCERN:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THI
~ on the e6 day of November, 1895, the
lowing township plats will be filed:
Township, No. so N, Range No. So E.
Township No. 40 NJ, Range No, "a E.,
DIM. .;Ja'
5. Parties interested must fle their cl,l
within three months from said date to|
cure their perferred rfghts.
Application for entry OF lands in 4
township win be received November 20,
.. 81. GALLUP
Regists
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-11-09
Collection Agency.

Indoraed; by the Leading Firms Of
Coast.
What isf
The INTERSTATE CoMMERG
AND COLLECTION AGENCY.
Send your siow accounts to them fOd
cotton.
Cfiee, 9l0 z 18th, Street. Eacrameptc|
Don't delay. Gail st once and let US
your business.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-11-09
FILE Your HILLS.

BY order Of tho Board ofCounty Cor
s dS1s 81 hills sgsinst The CSp s,y
SS saRsSy iSsIa Sas p ntss|
ssS el fii I saF e hG sSsed
4sssst: JOIN RlfSbESsoels!|
BY w PATTERSON, Deputy.
oatcH March i90A
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
Smoked and Road Hsr bible.

1t was at country luncheon party
lately and they got on the subject OF
smoking among women. Opinions
varied greatly. IF / should find my
SELF" said one dignifled-looking ma
iron, bristling with Indignation, at
any social gathering where the women
we're smoking l should leave at once.
We want no Jardin Mabille manners
IN our drawing-rooms." IL know a
saint" said her neighbor, "a woman
whose life Is devoted to doing good,
who is in the north but not of it. and
she actually smokes big, fat cigars.
Her daughters disapprove of the habit
and she rarely does it in public, but
one day when there was house party
staying at her place over Sunday one
of the guests left the rest, who were
sitting on the bench, and went into
the house for wrap, and there,
placidly reading the bible, with frag-
rant Havana between her lips, was the
sweet-faced old lady enjoying the peace
and quiet OF the Sunday evening af-
ter her own fashion. "-Philadelp
Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
SLOWING AWAY.
A roolhard, Method to Get a, DC.

A Foolhardv Method to Get An Ocean
Voyage Rough Experiences.
In spite of the fact that the punish
ment usually meted out TO those who
try to steal free passage on a shin
Is several weeks hard labor, with the
option OF fine stowaways are even
more common today than they were
NIFTY or sixty years ago, says the Gin
cinnatl Enquirer.
Big passenger steamers, with their
hundreds OF passengers and their
scores OF stewards, sailors and stok-
ers, afford innumerable opportunities
Tor slowing away.
Three years ago a stowaway was dis
covered aboard one of the Allan liners
running between Liverpool and Mon
treal lie was shabbily dressed, but
being big, sturdy looking fellow. he
was put to work about the ship. When
the vessel anchored below Montreal
waiting for daylight before entering
the harbor, he, il was presumed,
slipped quietly overheard and swan
touched at Montreal and was overrun
by detectives looking for a notorious
jewel robber. IL Was Immediately sus-
pected that the stowaway was the rob-
Der and that he had escaped. taking
the jewels with him. He was captured
some moi.ths afterward and confessed
that when he swan ashore he had more
than $4,000 worth of Jewels on his
person.
The favGite hiding-places OF stowa-
ways are the coal bunkers and the
narrow passage left when vessels are
loaded with bricks, tiles, drain pipes
or other similar cargo. These places
are extremely dangerous and many
eases are recorded where the shifting
of the cargo has resulted in the death
of some unfortunate wretch in hiding
During the passage of a cargo boat
to this country from England the sail
ors were startled the third day by a
curious scratching. which was imme-
diately attributed to supernatural
causes. The scratching continued for
three days and then grew quiet and
ceased when the matches were lifted
at the end of the voyage the emaciated
body OF a man was found lying on
some bags of cement. The poor. starry
ing fellow had struggled frantically to
get out of the hold
As for our American liners, il is fol-
~ TO try slowing away in any of them.
The United States will not receive pau
per immigrants and captains are for
hidden to land stowaways in this coun-
try under penalty of $500. free
passenger" on one of these ships is
promptly clapped in irons and kept
there until the ship returns TO Liver
pool. when he is brought before the au'
thorities.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
Formidable Arctic Mo.ooito...

Some of the men who have gone to
Alaska have returned TO complain OF
the hard work, of the cold. the heat
the frost, or the snow, but the real dis
couragement which makes life in the
far North great burden Is the deadly
mosquito. from whose insinuating bill
there is no escape.
"They are there in such swarms tina,
sometimes you seem to be looking at
the sun through a snow storm" said
II. A. Fredericks of this city yesterday
Mr.. Fredericks has Just returned from
a long trip in the Yukon country, and IL
was in that region he had particular
reference.
"They are the worst thing in the
country" he continued, land beside
them the other difficulties amount to
nothing. In the settlements they do
not bother people much, but when a
man goes up one of the creeks pros
pecting he must envelope his head in
a mosquito frame of cheese cloth
their bills would 60 through netting
like a knife through tissue paper-and
must wear gloves and tie his trousers
and shirt sleeves close about his ankles
and wrists.
IT have come back not because l am
disguised with the country, but be-
cause l want to vote for Mckinley;
then will be ready to return and fight
mosquitoes until my work in the North
is finished. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
Mrs. Burnett ne q Ta,ker.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett gave
the Londoners a glimpse Of the Amer
lean authoress in new aspect--that Of
a witty after-dinner speaker-the Lon
don journals being full of praise of her
speech at the dinner given her by the
Authors Club. The Chronicle, indeed,
says that her remarks were so good
that "all question Of her sex was for
gotten for the moment" The Chron-
icle, however, regrets the "lamentable
taste" which led her to wear a plume
of aigret feathers in her hair. Mrs.
Burnett, while she lived in New York,
was never accused of good taste in
dress, and another Tennessee authoress
appeared at a reception here in a blue
bonnet. green costume. and purple
gloves. Each had been familiar from
childhood with the weird tints OF the
Tennessee mountains, and that, per-
haps, might be their excuse.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03

recently attracted so much attention
by her remarkable work in Mcclure
sits all day long, these scorching days,
perusing interminable "reminiscences.
letters OF counsel, OF grave caution, OF
suggestion, and of praise, from every
town and mail station in America. It
would seem that every man in the
country above sixty years of age en-
joyed personal and intimate acquain-
lance with Lincoln. Now and then
Mics Tarbell puts her letters and her
manuscript aside to welcome an an
cient visitor who has come all the way
from everywhere to have a little chat
about his old friend. However dis
piriting the weather, however long the
letter or the call. the patience and
pleased attention of this young woman
never flags.
Miss Tarbell refers to herself as an
old plodder. She looks upon her his
torical and biographical work as job
to be done thoroughly, and goes to her
labor every day very much as good
mechanic to shop, dinner-pail in hand.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03

railway theater as fine. although neces-
sarily on smaller scale, as any play
house in the country. At first glance
this changing appears TO be a work OF
no little difficulty, but, rs matter of
fact. It is very easy. The entire me-
chanism Is placed in one end OF the
car, and occupies very little room. BY
peculiar arrangement of double sides
and an extenslble roof the car can
be made twice, or even three times its
ordinary width and height. The ex-
ira walls, or sides, can be folded up
and when in transit occupy a very
small place in the car. The stage can
be similarly folded out Of the way.
while the scenery and stage properties
are handled In the same fashion. 1t is
necessary that two cars be used to
make a complete railway theater, and
when the company arrives at the town
where they are billed, both cars are
sidetracked on double set OF rails,
which are carried for the purpose.
These rails differ in no way from the
ordinary car rails, except that they are
laid twice the distance apart that ordi-
nary tracks are laid. After the rails
are laid. the two cars are run out on
them side by side, but almost the
length of an ordinary box car apart.
Then begins the actual transformation
of the two box cars into n complete
theater The sides of the cars are low
cred outward and downward, the two
sides nearest each other meeting and
forming the center of the floor OF the
theater. The roof of the two cars Is
raised to an angle, making steep
pitched roof above the flooring between
the two cars. A portion of the outer
sides of the cars falls outward and
downward. while another, a double por-
ton. Is raised at right angle to the
wing floor. making the outer wall OF
the theater. A portion of the double
-oof swings over and outward. meeting
the upright walls and forming roof
on either side Of the steep-sloped CEN
ter. Glass skylights. which when not
in use can be folded up out OF the
way. are set in spaces left for them In
tho roof and sides, and the framework
of the theater is complete. From the
confer of the roof proper OF one OF
the cars rises a conical tower con-
structed so that II can be closed or
extended In much the same manner as
n telescope is drawn out. This serves
the double purpose OF ornament and
ventilation. From the roof OF the OPP
posite car rise glass boxes which SINK
down one within the other. into the
car when the theater is transformed
for travelling purposes. The stage Is
so, nm beneath the high sloping roof
between the two cars and like every
thing else about this portable theater,
can be folded up and securely packed
within the box cars when not In use
Folding chairs furnish seats for the
audience. and there is an unobstructed
view of the stage from all parts OF the
structure. owing to the fact that there
ore no pillars or supports larger than
a steel chain or slender iron rod to In
,arfere with the view. Immediately
after the performance. the thsater, with
ali its furnishings, can within very
short time be taken apart, or more
nronerly folded together and securely
hacked for shipment within Itself. as
Il were.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03

| Every word of praise from tongue or
| pen awakens a momentary astonish-
| ment. She does not even now realize
that she is famous. and she never
would, however much the world might
| talk about her. She would simply
think that her circle of acquaintance
was growing unaccountably large, and
wonder how she would he able to best
serve all her friends. She is so thor
oughly broad and democratic in her
nature that even the most narrow
minded and bigoted person would never
suspect it. Life is an everyday matter
to her, but the most ordinary incidents
of its routine are too real. and full Of
significance ever to become common.
She has no pride in her success. She
plods persistently through any task be-
fore her. meeting every new emergency
with @ new resource, and when her
undertaking is finished she puts it
aside as q cooper does his completed
cask. She puts down simple realities
in simple words, strong and clear. She
accepts life as she finds it, without
theory or friction. She takes people
as they are, without prejudice. She is
both sensitive and sensible. Her
biographies are vital because they are
true. She does not idealize where she
admires, nor worship where she loves.
IL Is because she never invests her
characters with any thing not theirs.
and because she is never tempted by
sentiment to conceal or evade. that
even Napoleon and Lincoln. heretofore
mummies, are now before us, alive ard
well, raised from the dead by the pen
of a plodder.
Miss Tarbell was born on a farm near
Titusville. Pennsylvania. She spent
her girlhood among the mountains, in
the oil region, for her father was among
the first producers in that field. She
retains a vivid memory of those years.
They are full of dramatic interestto her,
as indeed they must be to all those
who passed through those exciting
times. Her school life was spent in
Meadville. From the seminary she
stepped almost directly into editorial
work, and II was largely dueto her in
dustry and judgment that Chautauquan
grew from pamphlet TO a well-edited
magazine. possessing an influence out
side of the organization on which II
rested. She left the Chautauquan to
90 abroad. and spent several years in
Paris. She lived in the Latin Quarter,
wrote articles for the American papers,
became acquainted with artists. must
clans. people of the pen. and people OF
all sorts She collected material and
observed She led a contemplative and
an active life and would probably still
be a contented student in the Latin
Quarter had not Mcclure whisked her
away in one of his whirlwinds back TO
America.
In the last year Miss Tarbell has
completed a Life of Napoleon" pub
lished in McClure's Magazine. life
OF Madam Roland" just issued by the
Scribners. the first half of a Life OF
Lincoln now running in McClure's.
and several short stories and syndicate
articles.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03

He came with his father TO Illinois in
1851. He IL called the swamp fox"
presumably because he Is naturally
shrewd and bccsuye he lives in the bot;
tom lands near East St. Louis. Nc.
Forman is lawyer, and he represent
ed his district aggressiyely and care
fully while he was member of con-
gress. Since the split came In the
democracy on the coinage question he
has been for gold money and has like
wise been opposed to Governor Alt
geld and the governors political asso-
ciates. lie was candidate for secretary
of the interior from the time that the
first rumors of Hoke Smiths retire
ment was published
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
Didn't Forget IL.

Counsel in a case lately pending for
trial in the New York Surrogate Court
had his question met with the answer:
THE matter slipped my mind"
I'm other words. you forgot such ar
important event?'
mo. 1 haven't forgot It,"
"Pray, sir, what difference is th~re
between forgetting matter and hay
ing it slip from your mind?"
swell, counselor. it is this way: 4
thing slips from the mind, but by aid
by you remember 1t. But il you for
get n thing 1t never comes back"
His honor made note of the distinc-
tion.-Green Bag.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
FENCING WITH IL HUNG CHANo
The Statesman wished to Negotiate .
Loan.

Loan.
Ii Hung Chang paid long visit
yesterday morning to the Credit Ly-
onnais and NJ. Mazaret, the director
general. had his knowledge OF the
bank severely taxed, says the Paris
Daily Messenger. There was no sim
gle detail in any department OF the
bank about which the Chinese envoy
did not ask questions. The whole per-
sonnel Of the establishment had been
stationed in the hall for inspection and
after reviewing them Ii Hung passed
on to the strong-rooms, at which he
was greatly struck. There is room
for four milllards of bonds herew was
his comment after looking around. On
being shown one OF the bonds of the
Chinese loan the envoy examined it
with great interest for some time and
finally asked leave 10 keep it as a
souvenir OF his visit. This was ex-
planned to him (all the conversation
being carried on through interpreters)
to be impossible, so he nodded grave
ly and returned the paper. Then came
some extremely delicate conversation,
which must have severely taxed NJ.
MaZaret's nerves and tact. The Chi
nese ambassador said that his govern
ment desired to negotiate a large loan.
but wanted to do it direct with bank
without the intervention Of govern
ment officials. Could the Credit Ly-
onnais undertake this? NJ. Mazaret
asserting and promising moderate
terms. Ii Hung Chang asked II BUSH
ness could be begun at once; but to
this the director demurred. He want
ed formal statement of the offer and
its terms. Ii Hung Chang expressed