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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11
A Batch Of WondSr from Jefferson.
Editor Democrat:

Editor Democrat:
Is there any waytoexplain
the following wonders? When
they are explained to the sat
istactiou OF the public, then |
have a few more questions to
ask.
| wonder if Mckinley could
not protect us better with q
500 per cent. tariff horizon
tai? [ wonder If that would
not protect?
Wonder who will deliver let
tors in Boone? Also in Jeffer-
son?
Wonder who Marsh Dixon
voted for for U. S. Sena-
tor In the place ofZeb Vance?
Wonder why the press did not
report his vote?
Wonder who Tom Bing-
ham voted for. and why?
Wonderif Pritchard's ma me
was Pritchett over in 1ennes
see? Wonder why it W a s
changed?
Wonder if it is true + h a t
Wakefield voted for Pritch.
ard? Wonder how his wife
liked that?
Wonder il Pritchard will
ever come to .Ashe court and
stand his trial for killing the
Sniders? Wonder if he is gull
ty? Wonder what would be
done if he is?
Wonder if Linney was on
Lincoln's side at Boston?
Wonder what he is going to
do ahont it? Wonder if it
was a good speech?
Wonder if Linney will sue
the Washington Post T O r
slander in making and pub
fishing a picture OF what the
paper says IS Linney?
These and a few other ques
tions | want to ask to be
explained as they appear to
be wonders. But maybe this
will do for a few days till we
hear from Mckinley, etc.
j. W. TODD.
Jefferson, n. C, March 3.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

There is talk OF an extra
session OF the legislature.
Please don't, Governor Rus.
sell. We can en- lure famine
pestilence, drouth, war. but
don't infiict any prolonged
agony on the State; such as
an extra session. Ifthey don't
do anything let 'em 20 home
Progressive Farmer.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

AGENTS WANTED-For Warm
n Cuba by Senor Quesada, Cuban
representativein Washington En-
dorsed by Cuban patriots In tire
mendous demand. A bouanza for
agents. Only $3.50. Big book,
big commissions. Every body
wants the only endorsed, reliable
book. Outfit free. Credit given.
Freight paid. Drop all trash and
make $500 a month with War in
Cuba Address today the NAT
IoNAL Book CONCERN, 352-356,
dearborn St., ,hicago.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

uellDuTS N.CO.. lOr OOldItllIlk
money under false pretenses.
In. addition 10 the written
charges, a personal l,earing
was given by the Post Mus
ter General to the Commit
tee representing the Patent
Attorneys who signed t b g
charges.
II either Mr.. Cleveland or
Mr.. Olney can extract any
satisfaction from the part
they played In getting from
Spain the pardon OF Julio
Sanguily in order to h e a d
off the adoption by the Sen
ate Of q resolution directing
the President to demand the
immediate and uncOndltion-
al release uf Sanguily t h ey
should be allowed to do so.
The sentiment in Congress
was pretty nearly expressed
by Senator Morgan, when he
said in the course Of h i s
speech on the recent relations
of this government wit h
Spain: "Oh, what welcome
news was that pardon! to
that President Of course in
the White House, who 70 +
two yenrs has been down on
his hunkers before Spain.
How joyous his honest and
noble American heart must
be, and in what transports
Of Joy must be his magnlfi-
cent person when he hears
that by u combination be
tween the crown OfSpain and
the President of the United
States they have dragged out
OF a poor creature a comics
sion which enables them to
escape the danger of paying
damages and gives them the
liberty OF sleeping and snor-
ing like sluggards, W h i ! e
Americans suffer-"
1t is Il matter for all round
congratulatiOn that the Sen
ate Committee On = u b i c
Lands quickly investigated
the matter and unanimously
arrived at the conclusion
that, the land patent to Mr..
Perrine, the husband of Mrs
Cleveland's mother, was reg
ularly and legally issued.
The farewell address of Sen
ator Dubois was a little dis.
concerting to the republican
leading, who have been ex-
pecting that the republicans
would be allowed to reorgan
ize the Senate at the extra
session without any trouble.
Mr.. Dubois told them plain
and fiat the silver republi-
cans would not help t h e M
and that they would not be
allowed to organize the Sen.
ate. 1t will soon be S e e n
whether Mr.. Dubois spoke for
himself alone or by authori,
ty OF the other republican sll.
yer Senators.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

The tax on la wyers and doc
tors has not and will not be
repealed. The $40. 90 W i'll
have to come as usual.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11
Jefferson, n. C. March 3.
A Human Gift.

Nothing on earth can smile
but the race of man. Gems
may fash reflected light but
what is a diamond flash com
pared with an eye fash?
Flowers cannot smile. This
is a charm which even they
cannot claim. Birds cannot
smile, nor can any living
thing. 1t is the light in the
window of the face, by which
the heart signals to father
that a friend IS al home wait
ing. A face that cannot smile
is like a bud thai cannot Bios
som. Laughter is day and
sobriety is night and q smile
is twilight that hovers be-
tween both, and bewitching
is more than either.-Ex.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

The green peas on the truck
farms around Norfolk are
well mp and looking very
promising. The truckers ara
very cheerful over the out
look for the spring system.
The heavy shipments OF kale
continues, the Old Dominion
line alone carrying about g.
600 barrels a day to New
York.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11
"a field For The Miasionarles."
Morganton Herald.

"Ni b ohlOh iict Uiu.
/ The above issthe caption OF
an article in last Sundays
Pittsbnrg Dispatch from
which the following is taken.
"1n the western part Of
North Carolina there are sew
eral counties amid almostin-
accessible mountains tof
which there Is less known to
the outside world than there
is Of Central Africa. The cli-
mate'is uneqlaled in America.
The scenery rivals that of
Switzerland. Magnificent
bodies of marble, iron and
gold; thousands of acres of
the finest timber that ever
grew, beautiful valleys, where
cattle could roam the year a
round without need of cover
: ALI there exist. Yet the ma.
tives OF the ct untry are prob
ably the most ignorant in
the United States. They
have absolutely no knowlege
of the world outside of their
own communities The Nor
mons, at their worst, are
said to be- far higher in the
scale of morality. Polvgamv
is practiced with shameless
Openness, and the marriage
ceremony itself ls rare. Mis-
siOnaries are needed as bad
ly as in any district in the
world"
The Herald arises to saw
that the writer of tho above
happened TO he dead right
ais to- our climate, scenery
and natural resources, hut
as to the natives CT the West
ern North Carolina noun
tains being "the most igno.
rant in the United States"
and lower in the scale of NOR
: ality than the Mormons he
is dead wrong. In fact, he
don't know what he is talk.
ing about. If he will come
down Tor awhile we will show
him that it is quite different
from what he imagines. We
will show him culture and re-
: finement even in the coyes OF
the mountains. and churches
with their spires pointing
hea yenWard dotted here and
there, where the people wor.
ship their God on Sunday in
stead of attending a game of
baseball or the saloons or
other places Of worldly a.
musement. We will also show
him a people who make their
. own hog and homjny' and
do not depend upon the free
lunch stands for their daily
bread. We will show him the
prettiest women in the world
and women Of culture too.
J and as pure as the driven
: snow, and people who are
perhaps as high in the scale
: of intelligence and morality
as can be found anywhere.
Pittsburg not excepted. OF
q course We have some asigno-
. rant people as you will find
in the slums OF Pittsburg.
: This class is found in every
section. We venture to say
!, that there are people in Pitts
& burg who conld not tell the
/. difference between a crab ap-
1 pie and a June-bug.
n Brother, come down and
: we will show you around land
), then you can write intelli-
gently, Of this section.
The green peas on the truck
= farms around Norfolk arp
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent.

u
ton had any remainlg doubts
Uabont Mark Hanna being the
whole thing Under the McKln
ley administration, t b e v
must have been dissipated
since Hanna's arrival. He at
tracts more deference-from
repmblicans--than the { O u T.
members OF the Mckinley Cab
elnet who are in town combin
ed do, and accepts it all as
his right and speaks with an
ar Of proprietorship, notion
~ of the coming administra-
tion but of both branches of
Congress. So big has Han
mas head become that he is
6Sctually allowing himself to
think Of trying to take a fall
out Of Tom Reed, and is now
sounding Republican men,
bers of the next House in or.
der to ascertain whether it
\ will be possible ny the use Of
patronage to beat Reed for
the Speakership nomination
Sefore the republican caucus
with a Mckinley candidate.
Gen. Fity Lees friends are
mot talking for publication,
about Secretary Olney' s
threat to recall Gen Lee he.
cause be has shown the lack
of zeal on the part Of the ad'
0inlstration in protecting A.
,nerican citizens in Cuba, but
Mey are wishing that Olney
7 will have the nerve to carry
t,ut his threat, because they
know it would make Gen Lea
the most popular man in A.
merica.
while at the Capitol Mr..
I Bryan called on many of his
friends among the newspaper
correspondents and spen t
.ssnme time very pleasantly
with some OF those who serv.
ed in the House with him. In
company with Mrs. Bryan he
left for Nebraska on Tues
NV.
Ifsome of the approp:ia.
ton bills fail to get through
before Congress closes, as ma
ny are predicting will be the
case, it will be because a cote
srie OF Senators for reasons oil
their Own wish them to fail.
shout the smallest piece OF
businessfn connection with the
inaugural preparation was
the taking down of the white
and yellow decorations which
were being put on the Treas
ury building, beca lse some
body suggested that the col
Aor stood for bi netallism. 1t
~ erstood that the reno
the white and yellow
irect from the White
This decoration isn't
Dr by the Government
the clerks in the Trea
Iyartment.
} written charges have
ed with the Post OF
'artment.by fifty-five
gton Patent Attor
acluding four gentle
b have held the Office
missioner OF Patents
the firm known as
Iddenburg & Co., sui
Athe 1efunct ExamiI
Bureau and t h (
Iaims Co., in one
ht seems not in all
National Recorder
spaper published by tn,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

The legislature wants to
tax horse traders and it looks
now like the hill will pass.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11
Stormy Jordan's Saloon.

One Of the first sights that
greets the stranger as he a
lights at Ottumwa, 1a.. is the
sign over Stormy Jordan's
establishment. THE Way to
Hell" in what the stranger
reads. Perhaps he may pass
on with a shudder. II he en-
ters he will find signs on the
wall conveying further warn
ling. "Nose Painting" reads
one. Hell Fire on Tap says
another. "Beware the Drum.
kara s. death and Damnat ton
is the warning of the third.
Perhaps, too, an advertise
ment of the Kealy cure hangs
on the wall.
The customer seats him.
self at a table and takes upa
paper. 1t is quite as likely
to be a Temperance tract as
not. John B. Coughs Plat
form Echoes may be at one
elbow and Ten Nights in a
Bar room at the other. A Int
tie bit tiazed. the customer
marches up to the counter
and says:
Gimme the best :, ouve got
The man behind the bar is
Stormy John himself. He
draws down his hrows as he
looks at the customer, scan.
ming him closely from head
70 foot. Then, without say
ing a word, he walks over to
a water cooler and draws a
glass of the sparkling fluid.
He shoyes IT across the coun
Ter and says severely:
There, young man; that is
the best drink | know Of
Ii the customer does not
swear or laugh he probably
says:
Here, what yer givin' US?
| want some good whiskey.'
There is no good whiskey,'
answers Stormy with the air
of a Sunday school teacher.
We'll, some bad, then re-
torts the customer. Gimme
some hot stuff or III find a
Joint where | can get it,
You'll be hot enough some
day il you keep on this way
answers StOrny severely. "lf
you are bound to have it,
though, | had rs we'll sell it
to you as let some one
else do it. But it's
poison, | tell you, that'll send
your body to the grave and
your soul to perdition. Still,
it's as good poison az they
make and it your paticular
about the taste of you may
as we'll get it hele.'
Sometimes Stormy actual
ly converts a man to his way
Of thinking, though each con
version is u money loss to
him. No one seems to know
how he got his name. It's ap
preparedness was recognized
when he was figuring frequent
lv in stormy court scenes du-
ring the ten years or SO that
iowa had a law prohibiting
: the sale OF alcoholic drinks.
Stormy fought the law on
principle. 1T seems to him un
wise and unjust. He didn't
propose to submit to it. He
was wiling to Join hands with
: the temperance people, bu.
not with the prohibitionists.
ClaTkshurg. W. Va. is tn
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

My son follow not in the
foot Steps Of a loafer, and
make no example OF him who
is born tired for verify | say
unto you, business is over
stocked, the seats on the cor
ners are all taken, and the
whiting places are all occu-
pied. 1t is better to saw
wood at two bits a cord
than to whittle at a loafing
match and cuss the govern
ment. My son while t h o IL
hast left in thy skull t b e
sense Of a Jay bird. break a.
way from the cigarette habit
for thy breath stinketh like
a glue factory, and thy whole
appearance is less intelligent
than a store duHmy.-Ex.
CAsTORIA..
a:s.'s;, = Eli; 4; ~,
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

ClaTksburg, W. Va. is to
have an ordinance requiring
boys to get off OF the streets
by $50 at night. The bell
will be rung at that hour as
a signal for the streets to be
cleared, and after that hour
any boy found on the streets
will have to give a proper &C
count of himself.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1897-03-11

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Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14

The Age of Steel says: The revival of public interest in the mining indus tries is not likely to diminish, as fresh discoveries of minerals are cropping up the world over. We are probably entering on mining era that in its scope and duration has had no prece- dent in the history of man. In Africa, Australia, Corea, Siberia, South Amer iea and beyond the northern spurs of the Rockies to- the terminal of the Andes and the Straits of Magellan the pick of the miner and the hammer of the geologist and explorer are being heard. What this will bring about in the peopling of what are now the waste places of the earth, in the fusion of races and the expansion of industry it is impossible to foretell. It seems, however, to be movement that, like a tidal wave, is not to be arrested until it has reached its limits. The next century may make some surprising disclosures not only of what is hidden in the vaults of the planet, but of what will be accomplished by the bipeds on it's crust.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14

All the gold mined in the world from the date of the discovery of America to the close of the fiscal year of 1895 is placed by the statisticians of the various governments at SS, 7S1, ,S5S, 700. It is interesting to know that nearly half of this total for over 400 years has been taken out of three countries in less than 30 years. Since the days of lS49 California and the contiguous gold fields have given up S2,O35,- 416, ,000. Gold was discovered in Aus tralia in 1851, in New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and western Australia, and the total output to date is Sl.655,- 7l3, ,000. Gold in the South African Republic has only been of importance since 1890, and the total at the end of the first six months of 1896 was little less than S212, 100000. The precious metal is today yielded at an annual rate of S36, ,OOO,OOO in the United States, S35, 800, 900 in Auetralia and $50, ,000, ,O00 in South Africa.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14

There is one medicine which every family should be provided with. We refer to Chamberlain's Pain Balm When it is kept at hand the severe pain of a burn or scald may be promptly relieved and the sore healed in much less time than when medicine has to be sent for. A sprain may be promptly treated before inflammation sets in, which insures cure in about one-third the time otherwise required. Cuts and bruises should receive inn mediate attention before the parts be- come swollen, and when Chamber lain's Pain Balm is applied it will heal them without matter being formed and without leaving scar. A sore throat may be cured in one night. A piece of flannel dampened with this liniment and bound on over the seat of pain will cure lame back or pain in the side or chest in 2i hours. It is the most valuable, however. for rheama- tism. Persons afflicted with this dis ease will be delighted with the prompt relief from pain which it affords, and it can be depended upon to effect a complete cure. For sale by II. c. Hitchcock, druggist.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14
THE VERDE CANAL.

S. R. H. Robinson, president of the Minnesota and Arizona Construction company, passed through Stafford Tues day en route from Globe to Phoenix. He informed us that the contract is made for the finishing of the Verde canal, and that parties have gone to England to secure the money for the enterprise. which will take two years to complete. The construction work of the canal and dam will be under the immediate care of Mir. Robinson him. self. He will send at once to Missouri for 400 head of fine mules and these, together with the POO head he now has, will make 300 teams with which to do the work.
 The Verde canal will, when com pleted, be 21O miles in length and will cover hundreds of miles of the best land under the sun, where many set dement's will grow up and thrifty farmers will make "the desert bloom as the rose" and smile Tn contempla- ton of drawing profits from their toll.
 The dam whore the water is to be diverted from the Verde river is just above old Ft. McDowell, while the main storage dam is at the head of the Verde valley, about % miles farther up. At this point tunnel will be cut through the point of mountain through which the water of the river will be converted during the construction of the immense dam. Where the water emerges from the tunnel Mir. Robin son will set up the machinery that will be used and will use nothing but the falling water to run it.-Graham County Guardian.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14
GiLA VALLEY. GLOBE q NORTHERN R. \.

TIME CARD NO. fl, CANCELLING
 TIME CARD NO. B. Taking effect Monday, June z, 1897, at l o'clock A. M., Mountain time.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14
Notice of Forfeiture.

T. s. Klein and F. D. Block; or whom 1t may concern:
 This is to notify you that I, a co-owner in the Fame mining claim, situated in the Territory of Arizona, County of Gila, and more particularly described in Book No. |, page 2s9, of Gila County Mining Records, have done and performed the annual work on said claim, as required by law, for the years 1895 and iS96
 This, therefore is to notify you that if you do not pay your full proportion of the costs of said work. together with the cost Of this ad- vertisement, within ninety days after the ex- piration of this notice, your interests in said mining claim, as co-owner, will utterly cease and by operation of law, become the property of the undersigned.
 CHARLES DENNHARD. Globe, Aria. Sept. 9, isaS.
 (First pub, Sept. 9-9od)
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14
Notice to Creditors.

E STATE of Dominick Banchc. deceased. - Notice Is hereby given by the under signed c. T. Clark, administrator of the estate of Dominick Banche, deceased, to the credit ors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit them, with the nec- essary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice to said admins trator at his ohice in the town of Globe, Gila County, Arizona the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate. Dated this 9Sd day of September, A. D. 1897. titl c. T. CLARK,
 Administrator.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14

sDining station.
 The scenic line of Arizona. The best route to Cali fornia The only nsrth and south line in Arizona to the Grand Canon of the Colorado. petrifed forest. grea. pine forest cliff dwellings great Salt River valley and other points of interest.
 Through tickets to all points in tho United States Canada and Mexico.
 Nos. and connect at Jerome Junction with trains of U V. F. Ky for Jerome
 Connecting at Prescott with stage lines for all prn cpal mining camps; at Congress Junction with Con eress Gold Co Ky. for Congress and stage lines for Harqua Haa station and Yansll; at Plosuix with the Marioopa and Phoenix By for points s. P. Ky. Trains for California leave Ash Fork a, 60 and 720 D arriving in Los Angeles next afternoon at Iio and San Francisco second morning l045 Train for the east leaves Ash Fork at 6.25 .. m.
 r. N. MURP3Y, GEO. NJ. SARGENT. Pres and Cen. Mgr Gen. Fgt and Pass Agt.
 Prescott, Anz. Prescott. Ariz. ER WELLS. w. S. GOLDswoRTHY.
 Asst Gen. Mgr, City Ticket Agent,
 Prescott. Ariz Prescott, Ariz
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14

Trains Nos. and run daily except Sun. day.
 Trains Nos. and 2 connect at Ge- ronimo with stage from and to San Carlos and Globe
 Trains Nos. and make close connection at Bowie with Southern Pacific trains Nos. l9 and 20 for all points East and West. +Stations have no agent. Telegraph Station. The Company reserves the right to vary from this schedule as circumstances may TO quire.
 Employees will destroy all time cards of previous dates.
 WM. GARLAND, President B. JONES, Superintendent.
Arizona silver belt., 1897-10-14
EASTWARD
WESTWARD

So. ls arrives Bowie at 100 B. In, leaves 7.2o m. T. U. GOODMAN. c. P. & T Agent San Francisco Geo. L. Bucbce. Local Freight and Ticket Agent Bowie. Arizona.
 T. E. Hum. Commercial Agent. Fl Psto. Texas.