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The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
IT CAN'T RR DONE.


nURING the last month we have been
IL quietly saving wood and watching
the movements Of the coterie headed
by Steve Draper. Steve is ambitious to
rattle around in our boots as mayor,
while John Glass wants ou- pl.ce az
postmaster. They have put in four
weeks Of hard work and made failure
Of 1t, and we hereby extend our SYM
pathy and coincidence. Al to any ring
downing us, it can't be done. We are
here to stay. We are the best mayor
this town ever had, and as postmaster
we hit the nail on the head every time.
We propose to stay right here where
We are. and we can lay three wires to
the opposition's one the year round.
We are aware Of the fact that there is a
great deal Of talk about our holding
four or five offices and running news.
paper at the same time. and several
newspapers in this great and glorious
territory have been impolite enough
to refer to us as an H. o. G. That's
all right, however. We know our gait,
and we propose to let nothing slip past
us. We want honor and riches, and
have cheek enough to believe that we
shall some day be the boss of the white
house,
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hold the bargain for you. but can't.
Our people won't let me block the
market, not even when it's to their in
terest to do it."
Philip saw his advantage and pushed
It. ~ can see the justice of such u rule,
and I'll not ask you TO make an excep.
tion in my case. ! presume you can
satisfy me as to the soundness of the
title: of course you have an abstract 2"
Feuch bounded from his chair with
something that sounded very Ike an
oath. Excuse me. Mr.. Tborndyke, I've
got an engagement at the bank, and
Ill have to turn you over TO Mr.. Sharp
less, our attorney. He'll give you all the
points on the-the title, and SO forth.
Just come with me. and I'll introduce
you."
Zone moment" interposed Philip. "If
we're to do business together, it's only
fair that you should know something
about me. II you'll write or telegraph
to Col. A. Nj. Van Cott, Temple Court,
New York. he will have my banker
wire you."
Quite unnecessary. assure you,"
objected the manager, who none the
less made q hasty note Of the address.
'.And you'll excuse my hurry, won't
you?"-pushing Philip toward the door
Of the inner office. u had plum, forgot
my sppointmeut - our Alabama
friends would say. Mr.. Sharp!ess, make
you acquainted with Mr.. Thorndyke.
Ne wsnts TO tsik title with you on lots
y and ~ block Ia
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
ALL THE WEEK.

nURING our temporary absence last
~ Thursday stranger called at the
Kicker Office with gun In each hand
and longing in his soul to remove III
from this earthly sphere. His disap'
pointment was % great that he shed
tears and went away in a detected
mood. He didn't explain why he want
ed to remove us, and we have no curl.
osity to crafty. We expect to be home
NIL this week, and shall be glad to
have him drop In on the date most con.
venient to himself. It's part Of our
business to be shot at now and then,
and we always strain point to accom-
modate strangers. Come early and
avoid the rush.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
FROM THE KLoNDikE
The Man from the Gold Mines Tells
About the Weather.

ABOUT tne ~entnef.
He had just returned from the top Of the
Chilkat pass and was apparently glad Of it:
How was the weather when you left?"
inquired a friend "Cold?"
yes, hut not SO bad as it will be along
in January. after the mosquitoes get out
OF the air and let the wind have n chance.
Then it gets good and cold. A man told
me who had wintered up there seven years
that it was so cold in January that they
froze the flames of their candles and sold
them for strawberries: He said they kept
their fires over night by putting them out
in the air and letting them freeze and then
thawed them out in the morning. He said
he had seen four men die Of collie from
eating whisky that. was. frozen SO hard il
to death. He said he knew clerk in
hotel on the Yukon that got rich selling
the diamonds he wore, said diamonds being
nothing. on earth but ice crystals that
didn't thaw till after the clerk had got out
Of the country. He said he had seen man
fall off the roof a barn and freeze 80
stiff before he lit that he broke in two
when he hit the ground. lie said he had
seen smoke freeze in chimney till the fire
wouldn't draw, and he knew of one case
where the smoke froze after it got 100 feet
up and fell back on the house, knocking a
hole in the roof big enough to drive yoke
of steers through. He said the reason the
nights were so long in that country was
that the dark got froze SO hard the daylight
couldn't thaw its way through in less than
six months. He said"
Excuse me" interrupted the friend, "did
this party have affidavits with these state
mcntsg
"He said he had, but guess he must
have froze to death hunting for them, be.
cause he never came back when asked
him to go after them for me- and the re-
turned Chilkater smiled smile that was
childlike and bland. Star.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

THE other day, when Mr.. Wharton,
of Chicago, left Giveadam Gulch
.or Grass Valley. after a stop of three
laws, we warned him that the people
over there were peculiar lot, and that
ne must not carry his handkerchief in
ais pistol pocket. He promised to heed
,ur admonition, but forgot all about 1t
within half an hour. He reached Grass
Valley all right and was introduced to
all the prominent citizens, but un-
for him was drawn into q
political discussion on the street.
While airing his views on the tariff
question he reached back for his hand
serchief. but before his fingers had
,lutched it, he received bullet in the
shoulder from the man he was arguing
with. 1t was all owing to his absent
nindedness, as he cheerfully admits,
and though the wound is painful one,
dr. Wharton is thankful that he still
ives. Any stranger reaching Grass
valley with handkerchief in his hip
pocket should either let 1t remain
here or announce to the crowd:
Gentlemen, I am now about to
brow my right hand behind me for the
purpose of drawing my handkerchief
Ind trust there will be no shooting
Our grand and glorious west has its
peculiar customs and idioms. and such
,trangers as observe them seldom gel
nto trouble Of any sort.
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could retire somebody hit us with n
brick-bat. We were quite willing to
call II even, but the other fellows were
not. They insisted on running us six
miles over the worst road In the terri
tory, and we were SO played out when
we reached home that we didn't leav.
our bed for two days. We like to make
speeches on railroads or most anything
else, but the sudden Interruptions and
after-claps characteristic Of the Pine
Killers are calculated to make an ora
tor tired Of life. Well send speech
over to be read to the crowd, and we'll
hope they get railroad. but our cheer
full and obliging spirit comes to stop
right there.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
Inappropriatc Music.

Speaking Of church music, there is nothing
which is SO frequent source of wonder to
me as the lack Of understanding some of our
church musicians display in their choice of
music. | have henrd the intermezzo from
Cavalleria Rusticana played as an organ
voluntary-that intermezzo whose story of
earthly passions is SO plain that it does not
need words. have heard the same organ
ist play Schubert's ''Serenade" on com
munion Sunday, but the most glaring exhi-
bition of bad taste have ever heard was
just few Sundays ago when a certain so,
prano sang an old hymn to that famous air
of Delilah's, Samson ct Delilah," the most
passionate music know She sang it beau
tifully. too, and was evidently utterly un.
conscious of the fact that the meaning of
| actually heard the superintendent of the
Sabbath school-dear, simple soul--con-
gratulate her on the success of her effort,
too.-Washington Post.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
nE,s A HusTLER.
CORONER STEVENS is fulfilling tn

NORONER STEVENS is fulfilling the
u prediction we made when he was
appointed to Office. Last Wednesday
he rode i2 miles, empaneled jury, in
quested on horse-thief, and had a
verdict inside of three hours. 1t would
have taken his predecessor at least one
full day to accomplish the same work.
Last week, when the boys on Big Four
Rancho lynched stranger Coroner
Stevens had his report ready in so min
utes. and there wasn't superfiuous
ord in it. Our county has struck the
right man at last to fill the position,
and Mr.. Stevens has only to keep on
as he has begun to win fame for him
self. The business-llke manner in
which he discovered that the man over
at Big Four Rancho had been hung by
the neck instead Of shot through the
henrt was q revelation to the lookers-on.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
XIII.
LOSS AND GAIN

1t was early in July when Philip
began the campaign of restoration. He
made up his mind in the beginning
that IT was to be race with death.
and, believing this, he did not spare
himself, though the heat during the
weeks that followed was terrific. 1t
was dry summer, and in a drought
the climate of the Chiwassec valley is,
to say the least, something less than
invigorating. For the first fortnight
Philip went about with the feeling that
the next day would finish him. Then.
as the barriers hedging him on the
side toward accomplishment grew into
respectable mountains of difficulty, n
winged spirit of energy, which was,
perhaps, only an unused heritage from
his hard-working father. began to pos
scss him, breaking the bonds of habit
and lifting him out of the rut of in
trospection. One morning he forgot
to count his pulse, and the daily analy
sis of his symptoms was omitted for
the first time in weeks; and that night
he slept with open windows, through
which the cool breeze from the noun
tain blew across the bed, and no harm
came of it. He was too busy to think
much about his infirmity at the time,
but week later he stepped upon the
patent weighing-machine in the ro-
t,lnda of the Johannisberg, and when
the pointer failed to record the usual
decrease he went to his room AMI
dropped the half-used bottle of hypo-
rhosphites into the CRATE. That was
the turning of the tide, and by the
time his fellow-migrants in the exotic
city were beginning to wilt under the
fervid summer sun, Philip was growing
stronger i'll body and saner in mind;
finding certain tonic in series of de-
feats which were sharp enough to stim-
ulate without being heavy enough to
crush.
And while he wrestled with the DIFF
ficulties of the legal problem, the fire
burned within him, consuming some
rubbish and shedding new light into
the dusky corners of the soul-chamber
hitherto obscured by the shadows of III
health and morbidness. The light was
not altogether welcome, though it ma
terially lessened the distance between
the ostensible Philip and Philip the
real. For one thing, 1t belittied the mo-
live which was responsible for his
work. Allowing the promptings of
common humanity their full weight,
the fact remained that his enthusiasm
had for it's starting-point desire to
win the approval Of Elsie Duncan.
That was the new ideal, and his saner
thought told him that 1t was wTetched-
ly inadequate; that 1t sprang from i'm
pulse and was degruded in the hour
Of its birth by unfaith. Unworthy as
1t was, It was still an ideal, and Philip
lashed himself into small fury OF
self-contempt when he discovered thai
it was NO longer the motive for his
exertions; that EIsie's appreciation and
Kilgrow's wrongs were secondary con
siderations In comparison with the
strenuous urgings Of a newly aroused
ambition spurring him on to wiring VIC
tory out Of defeat for victory's sake.
fro BE coNTiNuED.l
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
ClIps Their wool.

A clergyman. famous for his begging
abilities. was once catechizing Sun
day school. When comparing himself
the pastor Of church-to shepherd,
and his congregation to the sheep, he
put the following question to the chill
dren:
what does the shepherd do for the
sheep?"
To the amusement OF those present
a small boy in the front row piped outs
"Shears themi"-Tit-Bits.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
A Candid Tale.

"Can see the lady of the house?" asked
the eanyasser, with candor.
Yes" she replied, candidly, ".you can ii
you are not political candidate"
"How can your" said he. mo, madam,
am selling can opener which can't be
beat. 1t can open any can that can be
opened by any can opener, and any can can
opened BY any can can opener, and ii. Il you u" can an
show me a can, can"
"What can't" cried she. ~ wish had
a cannon, and I'll bet you'd canter."
Then she slammed the door in his face
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
DIerURnING THH PnACn,

A 7 A late hour Tuesday night Mr..
"A John A. Clark encountered Capt.
Whipple on the street n both were
wobbling homewards with jag on,
and after they had called names for =
fewrminntes both PULLED their euns and
began shooting. 4 dossn shots Ma
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
rhs oreatsst 81 rnen I'M,

The 0reaso1t 81 Them All.
He 10 great who wins In battle.
Likewise he that rules the statsj
He is great whose lore and logic
Help him conquer in debate:
He y great who. with his peneil,
Holds old nature up to Wow
But the greatsst Of all nertals
II the nobis fellow who
Can lose bis collar button
And not lose HI temper, teel
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
A FALSE ALARM.

GONE critter. who probably thirsss
y to see us weltering in our gore,
started the story the other day that we
had received from Denver and were
wearing a shirt which buttoned be-
hind. At two o'clock yesterday after
noon a crowd Of 30 men, headed by
cid Jim Hewson, entered the Kicker
office in u solemn, earnest why, and
we were invited to pull off our coat
and vest. AS we did SO. there was an
ominous click! click! click! us the
guns were made ready to shoot the
shirt off our back. A brief investiga-
ton satisfied the crowd that we were
still loyal to Giveadam Gulch and her
idioms. Ours was an old-fashioned
shirt, with pins in place Of most of the
buttons, and several old tears and rents
repaired with our own darning-needle
aud twine. The crowd apologized and
invited us out to drink. and the affair
ended in good feeling all around. We
have seen the shirt which buttons be-
hind. We admire it, and would like
one, but we are no jackrabbit. Give
adam Gulch has set its foot down on
such innovations. and we don't propose
to try any game of bluff. Fifty years
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
No Rneee

Patieut-But suppose your dIngnosis
should prove incorrect7
Physician--Oh, well. that would have
no injurious eftect ON the diseapN Up.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
NO, THANK you.

YESTERDAY we received an invita-
ton from the leading men of Pine
I'LL to come over and address the cit
.zens on the subject of railroad
through that locality. The said lead
ing men have our thanks, but we must
decline the honor. The last time we
spoke in Pine Hill it was on this very
railroad question. and we were two
weeks getting up something fowery
Two minutes after we began speaking
the carcasses of jack-rabbits began
showering down on US, and before we
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

There is nobody who can splurge equally
with lot of boys from small country
town when they come to bigger one
Washington Democrat
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

A good thing gets little better every day;
poor thing, a little worse.-Atchison
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
spesLs with Authority,

Depend upon it, where there's smoke
"Why do on say that"
Tive proved it, 1t was against the rules
to smoke in our office. ] smoked, and was
fired philadelphia North American.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

Check Colds and Bronchitis with Iiale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in on. minute.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

Piso's Cure is wonderful Cough medi-
cine.-Mrs. w. Pickert, Van Siclcn and
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

= Clutches and cruel pains from Seiatica.
From st. Jacobs Oil the cure OF it..
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

Nothing makes worthless husband oh
ject to divorce as quickly as decree for
alimony.- Washington Democrat
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

We wish somebody would invent suspend
ers that never wear out.-Wa ashington
Democrat.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

hence, If alive, we may reach over our
back to button our shirt, but we shall
patiently wait for that time to come.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31
The Poker variety

DsLew--See any sharks coming over?
Dspond-Yes; played with couplc.-Up-
tot ate.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

How to cure rheumatism Use st. Jacobs
Oil. 1t subdues. 1t cures.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

The absence of soft water is some mems
excuse for drinking hard.-Chicago News
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

A girl stands before mirror while dress.
ing so she can see what is going on.-Chi-
cago News.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

When man begins to move Others. he is
generally called Crank. Rams Horn.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

been fred when both were arrest-
ed, and next day each was fined IS for
disturbing the peace. This is as 1t
should be. Such men might shoot ali
day and only hit each other BY accident.
The captain is the better shot Of the
two, yet our local readers will remem-
ber that he fired six shots at us in the
post Office last winter and never touched
hair. In fact, we did not know he
was shooting at us until SO informed by
bystander. There should be Law
making IT a penal offense for man te
carry gun who does not know how tt
use it, Such affairs as took place tn.
other night bring the town into con
tempt and cannot be sat down on toa
severely.
The Holly chieftain., 1897-12-31

1 y
was at fault; he had acknowledged so
many papers for the town company
that he could not be expected to recol-
iect the details of any one transaction.
Thorndyke called attention to the fact
that the older deed antednted by sew
eral years the beginning of the rush of
business brought by the transfers of
the town company; whereupon Prag-
more took another tack. 1t was too
long ago. He had doubtless acknowl-
edged Kilgrow's signature, but he
could remember none OF the circum-
| stances.
Thorndyke was baffied again, but an
other clew came to the surface when he
reached the hotel and found note
from Sbarpless asking MIN to call at
the company's Office. He went, was re
ceived with cordiality born of the fa-
sorable answer TO the telegram sent by
Fench to Col. Van Cott, and was shown
the missing deeds with an air of re-
proachful frankness that almost dis
armed him.
"Since you made . point Of It, Iwired
our secretary to send them down"
Sbarpless explained; and as Philip Rad
them he thought he could never be suf-
ficiently grateful for the impulse that
had led him to make the copies from the
records. In porting over them he had
well-nigh committed them to memory,
and . single reading Of the pretended
originals convinced him that thaao
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-12
SETTLERS AND
SHEEPMEN FIGHT.
Had Pitched Battle In Long VAL
ley, Colorado.
Three Of the Settlers and One of the
Sheepmen Were Killed.

Denver. Col. Oct IA special from
Pocatello. Idaho. says: News just renched
here from Long Valley, in Washington
county, saying that there has been a
battle between the settlers and the shep-
herds in which three men were killed and
one dangerously wounded. Details are
meagre but IL seems that fifteen Of the
settlers warned the sheepmen to leave
tho valley and when they refused. made
an attack upon the camp. Thirty shots
were hred BY settlers and man named
Barber was killed. The sheep men then
returned the fire. killing three of the
settlers. The rest of the attacking party
led. The trouble is the outgrowth of the
strained relations that have existed in
that section between the settlers and
sheepmen for some time. 1t is not ON
uncommon thing for stock to be manned
ana haystacks 20 be burned and even
settlers and sheepmen to exchange shots.
but no ore has heretofore Eeen killed.
Oiilcers have left Weiser for the scene of
the trouble.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-12
HID $4,000
In BUSTLE.
Mrs. Perham, Supposed
to Be Poor, Died Rich.
PROPERTY WORTH $4,000
Found in Various Hiding Places
After Her Death.
PROPERTY WORTH $4,000
HEIRS WILL DIVIDE THE WEALTH

Boston, Oct. 12 The late Mrs Almira
nj. Ferham of the South End was "a
woman OF not q few eccentriGities. She
died April IL, 1885, out no one ever
dreamed that she was worth penny
She had then attained the age of 20 years
lived humbly in a single room by herself
and from her close way of living excited
the pity rather than tho envy of her
neighbors.
she had been widow some 20 years
when she died, and her nearest relations
were nophews and nieces They mum bered
about 16, and were widely scattered
throughout tho country. They will be
surprised TO learn that thoy are the heirs
to Sj4, 900.
The amount of the falling fruit was not
half so interesting as the places in which
it was hidden. For instance, $24, 900 was
found in the late Mrs. Pcrham's bu ,tle.
The hustle was carefully laid to one side,
and the finder began To search further.
The closet was ransacked from tho sugar
bowl down TO the bread can. The bed
wns turned topsy -turvey, the pillows " ere
shaken up and shaken down, and the
tick likewise. The stockings and the
shoes were turned inside out. The trunk
ard the old chests were turned upside
down. All in search OF mere. The nro
of hope had been kindled nigh by the sur
prising evolution of thesbustlo.
The search was COMPLETED. The find
was rich-gilt-edge bonds, savings bank
books, cash-everything together figured
up to S6i, 600.
Mrs. Perham evidently liked odd things.
Tho trunks End chests she owned, and
which contained the bulk Of her treasure,
were odd They contained false bottoms,
and her valuables were not easy To ind
except by herself, and Mrs. Perham lived
In such "a manner that she was thoughs
TO be in poor circumstances No will was
to be found, and her property fell to her
relatives by force Of law. An admins
TRAITOR was appointed by the Suffolk Pro-
bate Court. William Il. Frothingham
was given the position, and he has been
engaged in settling up the estate with tho
aid OF his counsel, Hon. BushrCd Morse.
Mrs. pcrham = relatives bong scatteren,
living in Maine, New York, Illinois ard
California tho task has been an arduous
one. Questions Of relationship have frv-
quently arisen.
Monday morning Judge McKim was
asked TO allow the administrators to make
"a partial distribution of her estate anon G,
her next of kin entitled 10 it. This 6is
tribution will entail about Sl5 200, and
Is about quarter of the net amount of
the estate. A brief hearing was held up
on tie petition, in view Of the surety
company who went on DIR. Frothingam's
bond obiecting to distribution at this
time. Ihe company thought tho distri.
bution should wait until after tho admin.
istrator had been appointed two years TO
avoid possible legal questions
Judge Mchim took the petition undor
adyisemont