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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
VOL. XXI Ill,

In the excitement Of returning pros
,.erity and the departure Of the editress
fpr the Pacific coast, but more particu-
larry, perhaps, because we are gettug
old. we forgot the fact that on Saturday
last the TINES entered upon its Twenty
Iiyhth volume.
1t is customary on such suspicious
occasions to glance at the past, look up
uone for the good of tie constituency
We seek to serve, carefully, of course,
avoiding TO make any mention of our
Rms of omission AS for our sins of
commission, .hey have been of venial
,.aturc, more of the head than the heart,
the public against " hom we offended
freely absriyes us.
We shall not, however, attempt the
loii VI tue ItiFlDi idIly Jul FlHlplN NOtttttt
ourselves with saying that the history OF
tue TIMES Is, for the greater part, the
history Of Superior When builfrogs
peopled the marshy wastes where West
superior now stands, the TINES was.
When the mountain goat and the wild
chipinunk played leapirog on the slopes
of tire rocky prOmontory across the bay,
the TINES was. When Free Silver Will
lie played penny-in-lhe-hole "copper"
was goo! enough for him them, down
in his native Illinois, the TINES was.
When the boom struck Superior, the
TINES was, and when the boom collapsed
and the boys were all busted, the TINES
was; with revival of commercial life, it
j., and, with the blessing of Providence
and the prompt payment OF sunscrip-
tions, 1t will BE for an indefinite sub
scguent.
For the future, we will not make any
rash promises. 1t is good rule not to
make promises if you can avoid doing
20, then you will not be caught STUN
bling. However, We will make a pre-
mise, that is, to continue doing, accord
ing to our lights, the best we can for the
We cannot move mountains, SO to
speak, but we can help, and every lit
tie helps.
We are grateful to those who have
supported Us in the past. 10 our city
contemporaries " no have ever been UNI
nniallinglv courteous, and continue to
issue the TINES at the same old stand.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04

Mr.. VIM. Ogilvie, the Canadian GOV
eminent surveyor who has been in the
Yukon country FOR number of years
surveying and settling mining claims.
arrived in Seattle on Monday and Is on
his way to Ottawa. lie confirms the re-
ports as to the richness OF the klodike
country, but warns people against 60
ING there, particularly in the fall of the
year. Mr.. Ogilyie's report will be
awaited with much interest.
The Canadian premier has returned
to bis native stamping grounds, with
several prefiXcs and aliiXes to his name
and his breast covered with decorations
conferred upon him by his sovereign
and the president of France. He also
claims to have secured the Virtual indie
pendence of Canada, though it will
doubtless puzzle many Canadians to dis
cover what greater freedom CaDada en-
Joys now than it did before he went to
London.
The steamboat companies that took
tenderfoot gold hunters to Skaguav.
knowing we'll that they had no mules
or horses to convey their supplies over
land to lake Bennett, should be made
take care of them or bring them back
to Seattle. In their greed for money
they should not have been blinded to
the dictates Of humanity.
-Ifthe treaty Of alliance Just entered
into between France and Russia is to
be 10 more lasting than the one
made by Napoleon and Alexander L..
in 1907, then we may expect the eagle
and the bear to be clawing one another
inside Of four wears.
1t is estimated that the rich gold
bearing district of the kiondike covers
a zone of coo miles, and that it will Weld
not less than $4,000, 900. Think of 1t,
nearly a million a piece for each man
in the United States and Canada. And
yet we talk about hard times.
One Moore claims the land on which
Skaguay is being built: but perhaps his
title to that property will prov" about
as good as that VI the individual who
claimed klondike, bat who was not
within a hundred miles of that region.
We hope Dehs will not dam UP the
Mississippi or pull up the Rocky Noun
taims, or kick Jupiter in the eye. He
is a dangerous when he is excited.
The Canadian government Mil adj
nit ali miners outfits free of Iuty to the
Klon,like for six months. This seems
reasonable.
If Mr. Drbs really means what he
saws, what Will ever become of Us.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
The Labor Troubles.

The longer the strike Of the coal
cOntending forces would seem to be
from a satisfactory settlement. Indeed,
the more the question is considered dis
passionatcly the more we lean to the
view that settlement satisfactory to
the miners is impossible. Granting that
they are poorly paid for the labor they
perform and that they should receive
the increase they ask, the fact remains
that the distress among the miners is
due not so much to low scale of wages
per hour as lack of steady work, and
unfortunately, this lack of steady work
is owing to the fact that the demand for
coal is not more than enough to keep
the mines in operation half the time.
What is to be done about it? You can
not compel the miners to produce twice
what they have been producing until
YOU double the consumption of coal.
How is this to be accomplished. Ger
tainly not by stopping the mill wheels.
certainly not by olClile taIitaltHl " We
rye power and heat from other agen-
cics Every strike that has occurred for
a quarter of 4 century has only had the
effect of stimulating the production of
libor-saying machinery, and driving
tens of thousands out OF employment.
We see no solution for this difficulty
except by Mr.. Debs removing a few
hundreds of thousands of miners to
Utah to people his commonwealth
People do not burn more than they
need and mine owners cannot be COM
PEELED TO produce more coal than they
can sell. We are sorry for the miners,
but they should listen to reason.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
Wanted, Farmers.

Just now when most every other bust
ness centre IN this country is feeling
the direct benefit of the increase in the
price Of wheat, Superior more than ever
feels the want of few hundred indus
Irous farmers To- market their wheat
and other products at this point and
10 business with our merchants, trades
men aud others, for, after all, with a
lair harvest and fair prices, there is
no reward like the rewards that await
The horny handed tiIlers of the soil
Whenthey smile everybody looks happy
except the man who don't want a mort
sage paid of, and the hcartIess tax col
rector who is ALWAYS looking for an ex-
cuse to exercise his authority. These
men are like man who never pays for
his pauer. there is no sunny warmth in
their nature-thcy can t smile.
Douglas county being for the most
part heavily timbCrcd az well as very
uneven and wet. immigrants looking
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
The OvcrHroduction of Laws.

Evening Wisconsin: One of The most
practically suggestive Of the utterances
at the meeting of the American Bar
| association was that of Gov. John W.
Greggs, of New Jersey, whose theme
was The Overproduction of Laws. s"
He cited statistics, among others those
of his own state, Indicating the dizzy
rate at which lawmakers are adding to
the body of statute law, The general
statutes of New Jersey comprise three
large closely printed volumes and cover
| more than 1000 pages. More than half
of this body of statutory law has been
enacted within the past twenty wears
The legislature of 1893 required a book
Of over 900 pages to contain its enact
ments. New Jersey is by no meahs an
exceptional state. The statute mills are
grinding with equal energy in every
corner OF the continent. Coy. Griggs
summed up the situation as follows:
No age of English of American his
tory has ever seen such activity and
profuSion in legal enactment as now pre-
walls. With the Imperial Parliament at
Westminster and the Federal Congress
at Washington in almost continuous scs-
sion there are nearly thirty parliamcnts
III the British colonial system and lcgis-
latures of forty-tiye American states
holding annual or biennial sessions, all
engaged III experimenting and amend
ing the old laws and in deyising and
passing new ones. Besides these are
countless, cities. towns, and boroughs
each with legislative board exercising
the power of law-making upon many
important matters of municipal life and
government. The steps of the citizen
desiring 10 walk uprightly are brsct
that are intricate and confusing and oft
en- so conflicting that he nust stumble,
] turn which Nay he may. Volume after
volume OF new statutes Is issued year by
year in every state Of the Union, so
/ that it is.a heavy task for the lawyer to
/ keep familiar with the growing mass OF
statutory law e his own state; and no
lawyer who values his reputation would
j think OF giving an opinion upon the law
in sister state unless II might be upon
the construction Of some one particular
statute"
/ The speaker well said that interpre-
tation of law i a science, while law
making IL not. If it were there would
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
Harsh Pension Ruling.

4 ruling made a few days ago BY Pen
sion Commissioner Evans viii cause a
great deal of dissatisfaction among the
old soldiers. This ruling is to the effect
that in all cases where a pensioner Is
now receiving pension for one dis
ability and wants another for another
disa bilitv, the matter must be referred
to a special field examiner to corrobo-
rate the evidence of the applicant and
look up the credibility of his comrades
or neighbors who have acted as wit
nesseS.
1t will be seen that it calls in question
the credibilitv of old soldiers as wit
nesses, something was never done by
any pension commissioner since tie
war.
\ large percentage OF ali the new pen
sion cases are now new disability"
cases, in which claim on one disability
has been allowed and further claim for
other disability is made. These claims
have beeu coming in ever since the war;
but chiefly since 1880. When allowed
these claims carry tensions from date
of discharge, If they We're filed before
June %, 1880, ard from the date of fill
ing if filed since then. There are humid
reds of thousands of them. j soldier
in his first claim for a pension perhaps
alleged only gun shot wound in the
arm, and received only a pension for
that. Alter his first claim was granted,
he applied for a pension for rheuma-
tism contracted in the service. The
claim for the rheumatism pension is of
the class of nearly all those filed aud
granted in late years. The new ruling
is in relation to these cases.
Heretofore until within few days, if
allowed at all, they have been allowed
through correspondence, though some
of them were sent out for special exam
nation. Under the new rule every case
will be given to the special examiner
from comrades in the service, or neigh
bors, formerly sufficient, being thus dis
credited. No claim will be allowed
without a special examination. For one
thing, this will cause from three months
to one years delay in all cases. 1t Will
also prevent the allowance of thousands,
and not by any means necessarily be-
cause they are not meritOriOuS.
one good effect of this ruling is ex-
pected to be that some soldiers who
cannot now get their new disability pen
claims.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04

Mrs. Timmins ! hear your cook has
left you. What was the troubIeo Mrs.
Rockweil-Our kitchen is so small chat
she had to put her bicycle in the cellar
and she thought the dampness wasn't
good for it-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let ii stand twenty-tour hours;
Il sediment or settling indicates an un-
healthy condition of the kidneys. When
urine stains linen it is evidence of kid
nev trouble Too frequent desire to
urinate or pain in the back, is also con
vincing proof that the kidneys and
bladder are ont of order.
WHAT TO Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that DR.. kilmer's
swamp Root, the great kidney remedy
fultills every wish in relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and
every part OF the urinary passages. 1t
corrects inability to hold urine and
scalding pam in passingit, or bad effects
following usn of liquor, wine or beer,
and overcomes that unpleasant neces-
sity of being compelled to get up many
times during the night to urinate. the
mild and extraordinary effect of swamp
Root is soon realized. It stands the
highest Tor its wonderful cures OF the
most distressing cases. If you need 4
medicine you should have the best.
Sold by druggists, price fifty cents and
one dollar. You may have q sample
bottle and pamphlet both sent free by
mail. Mention SUPERIOR TDIEo and send
your address TO Dr.. kilmer q Co., Bing-
hampton, \. Y. The proprietors Of this
guarantee the geuuineness OF this offer,
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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-09-04
Notice OF N.Iriug.

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

rowing by degrees the area within which
Kagube was able to move
During al these months the allegiance
of the Mashonas to their false prophet was
gradually slipping away. At first he was
able to account for the reVerses sustained
by his people by announcing that the Man
doro was angry with this kraal for appro-
priating some of his loot, or with that kraal
for their half-heartedness at the com
mencement of the war and he displayed an
admirable fertility Of resource in inventing
Notions to explain away the doubts wifi
which he was assailed. What lent color
10 his plausible excuses was the adroit-
ness with which he eluded capture and in
spite of all The misfortuncs which heir
adhereAce TO kagube had brought upon
them the natives up to the last believed
that ne was divine being, unassailable
and invulnerable and that in the end he
would emerge Triumphant
This superstition has prolonged the war
long after it should have died out. and has
/ rendered the task of reducing the natives
10 subJccticn far harder in MashonaIan
IMAM IN Mataboleland, where they are
more reasonable, and, if prone at times
10 tahatlcal outbreaks, know, at any rate
when they are beaten. on several onca-
sions native Prisoners have revealed 70
! the authorities the hiding place of Ka-
CUBE, bht, such was their superstitious
| dread of him, that nothing would induce
them TO conduct our soldiers to it. or to
lay violent hands on him themselves. He
has proved a most elusive enemy. and on
more than one occasion when Sir Rich
| ard Martin the commaudant general. and
his troops thought they had laid hands ON
HIM, they have captured a nest of rebels
| only TO find that their bird had flown
| This happened in May, at Matshapangom-
bis kraal, in the Hartley district where
Kagubes original headquarters lay and
also in June at his own Kraal. in the Sal
isbury district. Now, however he has
evidently realized that the game is up.
and, with his old astuteness, has judged it
to be safer to throw himself on the elem
ency of the white men than to run the
risk of being shot The Mashonas will
now recognize that they have been de-
ceived. that the being in whom they have
! trusted so long. and who has led them
! into all this mischief. could not carry out
his promise to them-could not even save
himself; and there is no doubt that a re-
action will set in throughout the country
that all who have not yet done so will
surrender, and that the reign of witch
craft in Rhodesa viii soon be counted as
thing of the past
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05
A RECORD BREAKING GUN.
COULD DEFEND NEW YORK HAIR
BOR FROM WEST POINT.

From the Palisades 1t Could shoot n
PrOjecuIe Over New York and De-
mOlish a Hostile Fleet on the Bat
terry.
New York, Dec. 81. Armstrong of No.
q East Fourteenth street. New York. has
written letter to the ordnance officials
of the war department advising the de-
tense of New York harbor from West
Point. This is the text of the letter:
New York, Nov. 27-To the Honorable
the Secretary of War Washington D. c.:
Dear Sr-The subject of coast defense
for Greater New York seems to me in
tensely important in view of possible con-
flict between the United States and foreign
powers superior in naval equipment.
Allow me to call attention to the seem
ing feasibility of equipping the West Point
Academy grounds with new 16-inch guns,
now used at Romer shoals, New York har-
Dor. These guns are powerful enough to
shoot over sky-scrappers of Manhattan
Island from West Point and would prove
formidable aids to the defense of our chief
sea board city.
1t would also seem that it is advisable
TO familiarize our artillery cadets with the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05
Lifc-Insurance svvindIes.
From Leslie,s Weekly


1t may be set down as automatic that NV
life insurance business cannot be done on
any plan which does not provide LOT IN. ~
future as well as for the present. VIZ
has not been victimized by some oil .ns
brood of mushroom companies that spI uus
up a few years ago, Offering to pay ~ I.a
$1C0 or 81 GOO dollars in cash to meiilO'i y
who would contribute few dollars ~
monthly, bimonthly, or annual payilei.taa
OF course, if the membership were suln -
GENTLY large a few could receive the pon
eft al the expiration of the benent telins
but as soon as the roll of benellcld III. ~
grew large enough to deplete the tfeds 49,
all the late-comers who were not on -
roll We're left to whistle for their mo ~ y,
The promoters made the profit ana '"'
members were the dupes. las
| doubt if any swindles an the "ollI '
history have been worked more sucCe9
fully, more generally, or to greater 20
tent than the crafty schemes WhlcH no
been put forth in the United states =. ~
the guise OF insurance and life-beneHt ~
ders. What has become Of all the Idi
full endowment and benefit orders tnaD , W.
have heard of in the past, whose MAJ ~,
prosDectuses were scattered broaucae'
entice the unwary--who were taught ~ Is
lieve that the regular insurance comp, IVA ,,e
were charging too much and that al ,,n.
old-line companies were swindlers anu
posters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05
WITCHCRAFT OF TO-DAY. |
STRANGE sURVIVALs OF SOME AN
GENT SUPERSTTTIONS.

Nineteenth Century AnachrOnisms.
Queen Medicine Men in RhOdeSia
FOrfune-TeIIing Sticks, Evil Eye
AmuIets, and Charms Against Bull
Iets-StOrics About the Mashona
Lion God.
From the London Standard.
The civil commissioner and magistrate
at Salisbury, Rhodesia, who is at present
in this country, has made the following in
teresting statement:
The surrender and Imprisonment at Sal
isbury of Kagube, the notorious witch doc
tor, or Lion-god, of the Mashonas, which
was announced on Saturday, is one of the
most prominent episodes of the tedious ma
tive war in Rhodesia and will contribute
more than any Of the events which have
perceded it to the entire pacihcation of that
country. Eighteen months ago hardly any
one except the native commissioners knew
this Kagube, even by name, but during this
year much time and many valuable lives
have been sacrificed in futile efforts to eff
feet his capture. He is such a remarkable
man, has fomented so much trouble, and
has baffied the British South Africa com
pany's troops for so long, that 1t will be
interesting to record what is known of him
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

Klondike. Wells completed within a month
have started off at a thousand barrels a
day, and in six months this new pool has
produced more than 800, 600 barrels of high
grade petroleum, and the production is
to-day four times as large as the high
water mark achieved by the famous
Chipmunk Run pool in Cattaraugus
county which created a furry in the oil
trade a few months ago.
The new strike is known as the Watson
vile pool and is situated in CorydOn and
Hamilton townships in the northwestern
corner of Mexican county, 16 miles south
west of Bradford, the center of northern
oil field of Pennsylvania. The only reason
why there has not been a rush to the
Watsonville district is the fact that the
Oil-producing territory is in the hands of a
few large operators and there is no oppor-
tunity to get a lease.
The Watsonville pool is a peculiar one.
The oil is in a white pebble sand that is
not found in the wells drilled in other parts
of the county. The famous Bradford field
miles away and the oil produced by the
jacksonville gusher is of a higher grade
showing that the pool is a new one and
not connected with the Bradford field.
White sand pools usually flash out in
few weeks, but jacksonville is an except
ion. A well drilled on the Mallory
lease eight months ago is still
flowing at the rate of 100 barrels a day
and has has already produced about 75 900
barrels of oN.
During the past fifteen years wildcat
wells have been drilled on every side o.
the new pool, some of them within
stones throw of the edge of it, DIR. E. A.
Van Scoy of Bradford had been trying to
locate it for a dozen years, believing all