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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-22

General" was two hundred and
/ dfty-0ve,
and they were given az follows.
viz: One hundred and eighty
votes c0ntained the words:
Amendment to the Constitu-
ti0n relative to tho salary Of
the Attorney Genersl-Yes."
And seventy i've votes con-
tanned the words amend ment
to the Constitution relative TO
the salary of the Attorney
General-N0"
The whole mum Der OF votes
given for and against tho said
proposed Amendment to pro-
vide for a Board of County Au-
ditors for the County of Kent
was one hundred and thirty
four, ]
and they were given as follows,
viz:ninetythree votes contained
the words Amendment to the
Constitution to provide for q
Board of Auditors for Kent
County-Yeas,"
And forty-One votes contain
ed the words "A meDdement to
the Constitution to provide for
q Board Of Auditors for Kent
C0unty-No,"
Total. 1
STATE OF MICHIGAN,
County Of Crawford, o. o.
WE Do HEREBY CERTIFY, that q
following Is correct sta temen { of q
votes given in the County of era
ford, and State of Michigan, for al
against the several amendments
the Constitution OF said State hero
before cited, at the General Eleetio
held In said County, on the flfth d.
OF April, In the year of our Lord ol
thousand eight hundred and ninet
seven.
WITNESS WHEREBY, we ha
hereunto set our hands,
duplicate, at Grayling,
IL. 81 said County and State, th
18th day of April, A.
1897.
JOHN J. NIEDERER,
THOMAS WAKELLY,
IRA II. RICHARDsoN,
Board Of Co. Canvassar
j. w. HARTwIcK,
Sec. Of Board Of Co. Can vassers.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-22
List OF Letter,

List OF Letters
Rem aiming in the Post ONCE at GRAY
ling for the week ending April 18th,
1897.
Isteed. w. S. EOS Box 1919.
Matteson. Jan. Wilep. JOHNNY
Woodland NJ T.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-22

Persons calling for any of the
above letters, will please say .Adver-
sised.'
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-22

WIN. BRADEN, p. M.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS.

The Fiji one pence has been changed
in color from black to lilac.
There are fully 10000 distinct varieties
of stamps, and this number could h
largely increased by including shade.
of color.
The obsolete Indian-nine pies STAMP
have been surcharged "Postal-One An
na-Servicc," in three lines, and thus
converted into customs revenue stamps.
Bundi, one of the native states of In
dia, has a stamp of its own. 1t is one
anna. gray-blue on thin wove paper, i'm
perforate.
From the Seychelles we are advised
that provisional 1S-cent and 36-cent
stamps will be prepared by surcharging
the Accent stamps. There will be "a,
500 1S-cent and Il, 400 36-cent.
y novel postal service will soon be es-
tablished between the Farallone Is
lands and San Francisco. The Faral-
lones lie some 40 miles west of the city,
and all outgoing and incoming vessels
pass close by. 1t is proposed to employ
carrier pigeons, and maintain hourly
service, if necessary, between the
Islands and the mainland.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
,UINED AS A HEALTH RESORT
:nciIil of Tubercuiosia Has Imprognste'
the soil OF Mentonc.

:nciIil of Tubercuiosia Has Inprognste
the soil OF Mentono.
Mentonc, France, is situated on IL
lore of the Mediterranean, Is mis-
orrheast of Nice. The ci.mA.e, 81.
re Journal of Medicine and Sticnt
) very equable and very mid. I.
can is about 81 degrees Fahrenht
he vegetation is almost trUp'cai; e;
II trees, olive trees and pics. ris.I'
DoIc carn other in successive st'.sc;
:!orn The surrounding sivi~s. I'll
Jwn, which has Il popuia .i< = abe
go, rises Ike an amphithrater c.
'omoBtory By wh.c. its se,hicircV.
~ is divided. OF late years Memo
account of its mild and even Jim
= become the Mecca OF .nyal.ds. .
ictiaIiy of consumptives. u
':..s ago thc inhabitants OF Nci
i She hcighborhood w,rc he
10y rice of splendid PIN. SOU
hcm consumption was absolute. a
rcNn.
When Mentonc became roIed rs
reat for those sick with cGrsump;.
ic ,casarts left their farms and t..
raNhy manner of living to wait on
oalthv invalids. Thousands Ct ca
n;rt!ves died there, imprcgnas:rg'
I ard the water with The germ
= disease. As II result she ca
= and water of Merto2e are infcs'
.th baciili of tuberculosis. End
re robust and healthy peasants ha
ecor2c consumptives almnss to e M;
md woman. No more complete {
startling proof of the truth of III
-erm theory of the disease could we.
be imagined.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
SLAUGHTER OF FELlNES.
Medical Students Are on u stiii Hunt for
Cats to BE Dlssecled.


Cats to lie Dlssecied.
At this period of the year each {
the medical students in Chicago is &
siuired TO dissect an animal and mou.
its skeleton. The animal preferred
cat. There arc some 200 medical
dents in Chicago IN their first year, !.
each of them is instructed TO keep
eye open for a cat, and they have h,
rowling down alleys in search of ;
lines, and perhaps half OF them ha'
l.ecn lucky enough to be successful
their search
l.. is not an easy thing TO find C:
when you want enc. Ordinary morta
see plenty of them as they SOU"
through the night outside of their W.
dows. But it is different with the me
zeal student. When he wants n cat
finds it very difficult to get one, a
therefore he is forced to make We
thorough hunt before bagging l.
game. On this account the medit
student finds it better to make the re
,lence districts his hunting g'rour
where he may be able to catch SOL
very +, me feline who has wandel
from It's house and home to sun itself e.
the steps.
The stray cats are much harder T.
capture, because they are not rs tar
and have been taught by sad eXperien.
to regard all men as their enemies. T.;
pct tabby is less suspicious ard falls
easy prey to the medical student WI
she wanders from her own fircs,
Hence it is that most of the cats wh.c
are being made martyrs to science A.
well groomed and high bred. Fully
score of beautiful Angoras and near'
as many Persian cats have BEEN capture
alive and chloroformed by the student
during Il recent week.
There is a student at one of the mel
ical colleges who has been so success
full in capturing cats that he has bee
making n business of it and is laying b.
n store of money to help pay his eN
penses through the college. lie has {;
winsome way of saying PUSSY. pussy.
which few cats seem able to resist, ans
as result has caught 1G during .
week, which ne has had very little diff
ficulty in selling TO less fortunate hum
ers of the feline pets.-Chicago Times
Herald.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

A story that possibly is more in
enious than new has just gained cir
ulation in Europe. 1t is to the effect
hat at the battle of Plevna Gen.
'kobeloff's life was saved by u young
'olc. The Russian commander, as rec
mpense, offered the man his choice
between 100 rubles and the Cross of
st. George. The Pole deliberated
while and then asked what the deco
alton was worth. When informed
hat its intrinsic value was about five
rubles, he said: ''I'll take the cross and
G5 ruhleS"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
ROYALTY OUT HUNTING.
Tame cartridges Killed by the Prince Of
waIcs-Game for william II.


walcs-Game for william II.
The prince of Wales is great hunter
of partridges, the hand raised birds
hat have to be dubbed up and stoned t.
make them fly from men. The way the
prince bangs over the soft birds is :;
caution, says the New York Sun. IL
has several guns and couple OF men iii
Il blind with him to load tie weapons.
Shooting in this fashion the prince
ills several hundred birds before noon.
.,eccntly he and party of friends sue
.eeded IN bagGing in a single morning
::,0G0 OF the cartridges, and in the aft
ernoon they got 1850 more.
Like the prince, the German emperor
does nothing in a half way. William
ii. has better opportunities than the
prince OF Wales. Instead of shooting
a thousand or so of little birds the en-
reror gees on n grand hunt after big
zane, and shoots birds between the
rushes of the deer and like beasts. The
emperor has the game laid out in lines
between which he may walk anu in
srect the carcasses, and the lines are
numerous. Three hundred or so of roe
deer, dozens of wild bears and stays,
and hundreds of birds make a respect
able bag
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
BLOODHOUND TRACED A BABY.
After Searchers Had Failed, the Animal
Led Them to Its Discovery.

A few days ago Bertha, the pretty
four-year-old daughter of John {. Put
nam, of the little settlement of Mill
Village. VT, disappeared. All the neigh
bors joined in the search for her. Night
and day the hunt was continued, but
not trace of the little one could be dis
covered. the parents were in despair.
1t was feared that the child had been
kidnapped. Finally the father, in des-
peration. suggested that the state blood
hound Pilot could find some trace.
Anxious to do anything that would in
the least relieve the fathers mind, the
officials took the dog to Mill Village.
The dog was then given tiny shoe
that had been worn by the child the day
before she disappeared. This he held in
his mouth for minute. Thenhe dropped
it and shifted the air. He seemed puz-
lied, and the knowing ones were begin
ming to remark that they knew the
hound would not be of any use.
1t really seemed as if the animal
understood their words, for he sudden
" put his nose to the ground and was
off like n shot, dragging his keepers
after him. On he went, crossing roads,
fields and timber stretches, until he
-eached Devils Camp" a point about
4 mile below Rutland, where there is
mall mill stream. Here the animal
'uddemly brought up at the edge of
the water, gave one long bark, and re-
used to further.
Then the men got to work. They pro-
cured hooks and poles, and the bed of
he stream was thoroughly searched.
III this time Pilot stood by the water
de, though attempts were made 10
drag him away. For the first time since
he had been in the state he refused ia
2bey The voice of his keeper. Toward
night the body of the missing child wa
-1und. As it was drawn to the shor"
';lot sprang forward, took the slim
dress in his mouth and, raising tn
child rs t'nderly as though it had beer
Il its mothers arms, trotted back t
The honse. the long line of searchei
fnllowing.-N. Y. Herald.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

lie great chimney iijuring the meta.
The chimney's foundation runs 25 feet
into the ground and is built of concrete
into which a.e sunk, to Il depth of IS
feet, steel rods two inches N diameter
To these steel rods are bolted plates of
cast iron two inches thick, and to these
are fastened the steel plates that form
the chimney. The chimney is 90 feet
in diameter at the base, tapering at the
top to eight feet, and in high wind has
about eight inches sway. A brick
chimney has sway of from 10 to Is
inches.-N. Y. Journal.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
CHARACTER AND. HYPNoTIsM.
An Individuals Strength Is Power Against
All Control.


All Control.
There would he little indeed in hyp-
notism and the scientific world might
rightly ignore its importance as sub
set OF investigation if it were proved
have nothing more in it than the
sn..nance of one will over another
: the power of so-called suggestion
control human minds, says Harper's
,aZar.
But, as with any other subject worth
.vc:tigating, much more is revealed to
nc student of hypnotism than that
hich he at first sets out to discover.
o sooner, for instance, has he estab-
sle1 beyond question proofs of the
over CT mind over mind and of "sug-
astion" in control, than he is forced to
caognize how little potency lies il
.ither when compared to that great
'on,er Of resistance to them which is
enerated by an individuals OWE
trength of character.
No hyPnotism in the world, as great
uthority has shown, can make n real
Y temperate person, when under hyp
ot;c control, simulate or yield tc
ru"!;cnncss; nor can n truly modes
rson be induced 10 DO that whic,
ou!d, in waking hours, SAVIOR of in
odesty. The man with true dignit
soul keeps his dignity intact, and on
T real kindness of nature shows n'
l:nmcr of harsh feeling.
Arl tl,ue ne can readily he seen ono
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19
STATE RAILWAYS IN AUSTRALIA.
Problem Successfully Solved There with
Advantage to All Concerned.

Problem Successfully Solved There with
Advantage to An Concerned.
The problem of state railways seems
to have become successfully solved IN
New South Wales, where the annual r.
port of the railway commissioners
shows that the total traffic earnings
'Nrom the colonial railways and tran
ways amounted to 93,109,5oS, and t.,
expenditures to e1,7ss,171, leaving
balance after paying working eXpens
of 1,321.427. This, the commission;
state, makes an accumulated increas,
(cf 1882, 413 paid into the treasur'
during the past eight years to meet
the interest on capital. From that sur
however, there had to be dcducte G
G3T5,00O, instailments in repayment ~
the vote of e1,ooO,oOo made to the 10
partment for the reconstruction ans
improvement of the permanent WAY
the balance, e2,957,413 being the II
creased net earnings since the commit
sioners took Office. The yeur has bee
one of considerable difficulty, the col
tinuarce OF the commercial depression
the drought (Which has caused the 10
of 100000 Sheep and the Newcast'
coal strike having seriously affect
the traffic. Nevertheless, the revenu
for the railways alone during the pa,
year was G2,s20,417, and the worl<in'
EXPENSES c 1851, SsS, or $500 per Ger
Of the gross revenue, and return
f3 8 shillings, 10 pence per Ger
upon the total capital cost. Estima4
ing the amount upon which the ralwa
department has to pay interest at a.
per cent. the department would hGv
10 provide G ,295,590 to meet its ohlir
lions, and after paying the working =,
penses it had provided the whole of thn
sum except e27,061. which had to !
made up out of the general revenue. II
however. to the cost of e 24,G5o.oS'
were added f2.1os,211, provided out
the consolidated revenue. and the d.
bentures repaid. on which there VIZ
40 interest charge, the deficiency i
interest would be e10o.006. The ra,'
enue for the year decreased ej7.7S-
while the working expenses were r.
sluced e15.7O1. The actual decreas
was f13l 900. in the carriage Of woo
grain end flour. hides. skins ard tallo~
hut the increase N other branches. arr
ing out OF the improved condition OF II
colony, lessened it TO the amountstate'
At the same time the work Of impro'
ing the various lines. modifying grad
cnts and curves, ETC., has been syster
aticnlly carried on, the railways no"
being equal to any in the world. shov'
ing whit sliillful management CO.
1chieve under adverse circumstance
There are. however, numerous indie
tons OF improvement, and the commi,
sioners look forward to largely IL
creased revenue during the rreser
year.-John Plummer's Australian Let
tiers.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

A Philadelphia firm has just given an
illustration of the advances made in
building operations by erecting a steel
chimney 2l7 feet high, in the remark,
able time of ten weeks. This steel
chimney has been erected at the Ridge
wood pumping station, East New York.
and can be seen for miles as it rears its
slender stem high above every other OBJ
ject in the vicinity. WorSmen are az
present engaged in filling the big steel
tube with brick. 10 prevent the heat OF
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

Gabc Snodgrass recently applied to
Rev. Whangdoodle Baxter, of the Blue
Light tabernacle, for some pecuniary
assistance.
81 jess kahn do HIT" replied Parson
Baxter. 81 has ter sport my pore ole
mudder."
"Dut yer pore old mudder says yer
dom do muffin for her."
"Well, den, eff don do muffin fer my
pore ole mudder, whut's de use oh an
outsider like you tryin' ter make me
shell out ?'-Texas Sitter.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

Trained nurses and their field OF work
were being discussed by a prominent
club of San Eransisco a few days ago,
and one of the ladies', in demonstrating
the care of infants, held up chamois
model of a baby's stomach about as
large as q good-sized oyster, and ex-
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

aimed for her climax: Now, what be-
ones of all the quarts of milk that are
CURED into that little stoniach?"
There was n startled silence, broken Ey
young woman in a rear seat, who
lnurmured, lugnbriously: well. most
Of it goes into your lap"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

Say, my memory is dreadful. When
read good thing I can't recall it,"
"Well, you expect too much. I am
satisfied when 1 can simply remember
that have read a good thing."-Chi-
cago Record.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

Deacon Yallerby with austerity)-
see dat yo' had chickens fo' dinnah
las Sunday, Br'er Blaclsie, though yo'
am so long out O. work.
Nose Blackie-Ya"as. deacon; 1 got
or little job round a hen-house late
Saturday night!-Texas Siftings.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-02-19

In Germany the star group which We
cali the big dipper" is known as "Karl's
vagon."
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-02-11

he dismounted. So all he could do was
to cling to the animals back and
await an opportunity to escape. But
1T was not until the herd had run fully
two miles that he saw the least chance
OF leaving the back of his novel Steed
and escaping alive, Fortune at last
favored HIM, and the animal ran for
some distance along deep, narrow
washout with almost perpendicular
sides reaching to a height OF fully
twenty teet. Here Frank sprang from
his seat and slid down the bank of the
depression Just in time to escape being
trampled upon by the closely following
herd.
Meanwhile Myrtle had lassoed her
companions horse and was hurrying
after the rapidly retreating buffalo.
She reached the spot where Frank had
dismounted just as he was climbing.
dirty and bedraggled. to the top of the
ravlne. The cowboy did not feel very
proud of his exploit, but nevertheless
the little episode had touched Il tender
spot in the girls heart, and Il short time
ago the bells of the Cherry Greek mis-
sion church announced the wedding of
this typical frontier couple.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-02-11

over the boundary line by arbi-
tratlon, and the two countries
will at once resume diplomatic re-
latlons. Secretary Olney is very
proud of the part he took---really
the leading part---in bringing
about this treaty.
Arbitration seems to be IN the
air these days, even if the senate
isn't i'll any hurry about ratify1ng
that Anglo-American arbitration
treaty, which has been amended
and favorably reported by the
committee on foreign relations.
The latest advocates of arbitration
are the Carnegie and Bethlehem
steel companies, both of which
have been charged by the secre-
tary OF the navy and others with
wanting to gouge Uncle Sam in
the price charged for armor plates
tor naval vessels. They have
proposed to the senate naval COM
mittee that the question of what
would be a fair price for them to
receive for armor shall be sub
m1tted to arbitration. Secretary
Herbert recommended S4O0 a ton
as the price to be paid, while
Senator Chandler, who was once
secretary of the navy, thinds $3.50
a ton would be ample. The two
companies claim that the ar1nor
can lot be prohtaqly made for less
than $3.50 a ton, but say they ere
willing to abide by the decision of
an arbitrator.
The populists in congress do
not take kindly to the suggestion
that the party abandon silver as
an issue and that a national con-
ference be held to define their
policy. They say that the plat
form adopted by their national
convention last July is all the
definition of policy they will need
until the next national convention
assemblies.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-02-11
FAMOUS COWGIRL WEEDS.
Miss Morrison Finds Her Ideal in a Part
Blood Sioux


| Chamberlain, Feb. 5.-The recent
wedding of Myrtle Morrison, the fa-
NOUS Nowln county girl broncho
buster, and Frank Dupree, part blood
sioux, created d sensation among the
aristocracy on the Sioux reservation
and in adjacent territory Miss Morrl-
SO MS handsome young cowgirl, noted
tar and near for her proficiency in the
art OF horse training. She has had
many admirers among the frontier
beauX. but always declared that She
would never marry any man who could
not not ride, shoot and throw lariat
better than she could. and us such men
are extremely scarce it appeared prob
able that Miss Myrtle was doomed to
lead life of single blessedness. How
ever, last fall, hay being scarce on the
upper Bad river range, her father
removed his family and stock to Big
Plum creek, a tributary of the Chey-
enne river. Here Myrtle first made
the acquaintance of the good looking.
daring young half breed who has since
become her husband
Frank Dupree is a splendid horse
man, a thorough cowhand, and appar-
entity devoid of fear. The Duprees are
among the wealthiest stockmen in the
state, counting their cattle by the
thousand, and Frank, like many other
half blood in that section, has received
very fair education. Still. Myrtle was
not very much attracted toward the
swarthy youth until one day they nap
pened to be riding together. and came
IN sight of q herd OF sixty or seventy
buffalo. which the Dupree family had
raised on their own range from a few
calves caught years ago, when buffalo
meat was the principal article of diet
for the entire Sioux nation. Although
this herd is kept from straying far
from the home ranch by "Old Man,
Dupree's cowboys. they are fully AS
wild as their ancestors who once
blackened the prairies west of Cham
herlain with their shaggy bodies.
The young couple rode up quite close
to the herd before the animals were
aware OF their presence, and Frank, in
a spirit of brayado, urged his hroncho
of huge bull buffalo. and
sprang from his saddle to the animals
back. In an instant the herd was stam-
peding madly across the prairie, with
the old bull leading the van. Dupree's
fooihardlness had placed him in an ex-
tremely dangerous predicament. If he
or tell from the butfalo's back
he would certainly be trampled to
death by the pursuing herd, and if he
retained his seat until the animal be-
came tired and sulky. it was equally
certain that the brute would make a
furious assault upon him the moment
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-02-11

Alexandria Herald; In conversation
with a lady from the country one dav
recently the writer asked why she
didn't save her eggs when they were
cheap and sell them when they were
dear. She replied: 81 tried that last
summer. wrapped 300 dozen, each egg
in newspaper, and put them in the
cellar. The cellar was pretty we'll
ventilated but a little damp. Finally
the clocks got to stopping. Each made
a trip to The jewelry store, jeweler said
they ran all right, brought them home
and they would stop Finally my hus-
bands watch got to stopping. We be-
gan to think we were bewitched. This
continued until one day / heard a
popping noise in the cellar. Investi-
cation showed that those eggs / had
been saving to sell for Is cents dozen
were spoiled and that they had tried to
give warning of their condition by
stopping the clocks, failing in that
they had gone TO firing by platoons to
attraot attention to their unfortunate
condition. took my turn firing and
since then have sold 'em while they
were fresh and at the market price"