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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
No Port1oIIo FOR cor.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA special dis
patch from Canton, o., to the Mail and
Express says: Judge Golf has written
to Maj. Mckinley a letter received
only this morning, couched in such
terms as to warrant the announcement
that he will not be. in the cabinet.
His name must now be erased from the
cabinet slate"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
Treaty Action Not LlkeIx.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The under
standing among senators at present is
that the general arbitration treaty Will
not come to a vote at this session of
congress- No one doubts that 1t will
be debated, but the opposition makes
no secret of its intention to consume
so much time in discussion hat a vote
cannot be reached.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
MT, Kerons Gives IA Dinner.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. S,-NationaI Commit
teeman Richard c. Kerens gave a re-
ception at his residence Saturday night
to the republican members of the state
Legislature and other prominent re-
publicaps of the state. Mr.. Kerens
feted the Legislators in appreciation of
the compliment they recently paid him
in making him the republican caucus
nominee for United States senator.
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WooDMEN.
s eeond biennial Convention Held at Mo
berly-Odicers Elected.

berly-Onieers Elected.
MoBERLY, Mo-, Feb. 4-The second
biennial convention of the Modern
Woodmen of America finished its bust
ness yesterday and adjourned to meet
at Springfield in 1899, The new state
officers elected are as follows: Consul,
D. l. Thornton, Kansas City; worthy
adviser, John II. DELANEY, JEFF
ferson City; head banker, s. c. Emer-
son, Pennington; head clerk, r, l..
Tudeman, Sedalia; head escort, j. II,
Hughes; head chaplain, William f.
Jones, Smithton; head physician, DIR.
J. r. Boyd, Springfield. Delegates to
the head camp were also chosen.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE republican
members of the ways and mean COM
mittee devoted their attention yester-
day to the schedule of wood and manu-
features of wood, and decided to re-
store the Mckinley rates practically in
full, with the important exception of
Nhife nine
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
A Position Asked for T~reloar.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Feb. 8.-Peti-
lions were in circulation among the
republican members Saturday asking
that w. NJ, Treloar, of Audrain, be APP
pointed fourth assistant postmaster
general. Treloar is the singing school
teacher who beat Champ Clark for on
gress in the Ninth district two years
non
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
Miscellaneous Pick.IIDs.

1t was the right kind of 81 Sabbatar-
ian who said that closing libraries on
Sundays Is the worst form of Sabbath
breaking.
Nevada Evening Post: a Kansas
City police Judge has lined Henry
Holden, a dairyman, $50 for ieal ing
his cows unshellered. The Humane
society OF Thai city is doing admirable
work.
\ Jury box still in use in Portsmouth,
n. II, bears an inscription irading.
s.Pruyin g of New Hamtp>hirr, Forts
mouth. May %, 1898. Pc,it jurors FOR
The inferior courts" the BOX Is OF
pine, aud his been in uninterrupted
nae sincc ih, date recorded.
The FANNY WAS seated ut The Sable
and the Father was carving a rich piece
Of bro:lod steak The youngest mem
Der Of the household, a child OF proba-
bly, 3 years, vas watching him inLentiy.
Papa" said she, suddenly. I'D like
to see Il real live becf>tcak.'
Cole County Democrat: 1t is n
great change to see the governor of
Missouri and his Christian wife occu-
plying a pew IN mi of the prominent
churches every Sunday IN this city.
Can it be that Jefferson City IL still in
the grand old state of Missouri?
1t is announced from Brussels that
on and after May l next the Belgian
railway, postal and telegraphic admin
hour system of reckoning time. The
system will probably be extended to
other governmental departments.
One of Joseph Jefferson's latest
stories is of a camp meeting on Cape
Ccd. The leader had forgotten his
Bible, and he was to have read the
chapter in Genesis telling of the eating
of the forbidden fruit. Not having the
book, he gave a free rendering of the
story: land the angel went to the
Lord and said: Governor, Governor,
I've got to tell you that them folks
down in Eden lots is at your green
ings."
Gov. Stephens has appointed the
Rev. w. q. Pike, n Southern Metho-
dist minister, chaplain of the peniten-
tiary. He will AXE charge March /,
1897, when the term of the Rev. w.
w. Warren, the present incumbent,
expires. Robert G.. Burdette, the
humorist, preached ut the Baptist
church in Liberty, Sunday morning,
January "a, and in the evening at the
Christian church. The Rev. DIR. j. T.
NJ. johnson, who for years has been
pastor of the First Baptist church at
Jefferson City, and for W terms chap
lain of the senate, is contemplating
accepting a call to preach at the Del
mar Avenue Baptist church, of St.
Louis. Forest j. Giles, a prominent
young member of the Christian church, !
was killed near Warrenton last Satur-
day by being struck by a falling tree.
" |
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sore eyes, no matter how severe or long
standing, are cured by DR.. Jackson's Eye
salye. It soothes and removes the in
fiamation and granuIation at once. Can
oe had at any drug store at twenty-five
cents a box. ~2-3-1year.
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Gowdy May BE Pension Commissioner.

&owdy May BE Pension Commissioners.
CANTON, O., Feb. 5.-Republican State
Chairman John K. Gowdy, of Indiana,
is here to talk over Indiana matters in
general. He blushed when asked II he
expected to be commissioner of PEN
stems, and said that that was a posi-
ton anV man should be proud to fill,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13

EXCUSE me-" observed the man in
spectacles, "but 1 am a surgeon, and that
is not where the liver is" "Never you
mind where his liver is" retorted the
other. "If it was in his big toe or his left
ear De Witt's Little Early Risers would
reach 1t and shake it for him. Crist &
Day. 1-25-1y
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mai. CIarkson,s OmoIal Trip.

OMAHA. Neb., Feb. Mai. T. s.
Clarkson, commandments of the g.
A. E., left yesterday afternoon for an
extended official trip to the eastern
departments.
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Some children while at play in Ne
vada, Mo-, found $50 worth of stamps
that had beer stolen from the Mound
Vile post Office u year ago.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13

4. v. VINSOR
Insurance
Real Estate
Loans.
Corn in Grill Insured at
Low Rates.
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Thomas L. Stramcke and Rebecca
W. Stramcke, his wife. by their certain deed OF
trust, dated the fourteenth day of August,
1890. and filed for record In the Office OF the
recorder of deeds in and for Lafayette county,
Missouri, on the fourteenth day of August
1890, and duly recorded In the said Office OF the
recorder of deeds of Lafayette county,, Mis-
souri,, in book 90, ut page 442. conveyed To the
undersigned, among other pieces. the follow
ing described real estate. to-wit; Lot mum,
bered 9, in block 30. in the first addition to the
town. now city OF Lexington, in Lafayette
county, Missouri, said conveyance being In
trust to secure the payment OF an Indebted
ness, evidenced by the pronissory note in said
deed of trust described; and whereas. default
has been made in the payment threof, now.
public notice is hereby given that
/, the undersigned, trustee. at the request of
the legal holde of SAID Indebtedness and deed
of trust, and in pursuance of the terms of said
deed of trust. and by virtue OF the power
vested in me by said deed of trust, will on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1897,
at the court house door, in the city of Lexing-
ton, in Lafayette county, Missouri, proceed to
sell and will sell the property herein before
described, or any and every part thereof, at
public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash.
between the hours of nine O'Clock a. IN. and
five O'Clock p, NJ, of said day, to pay the said
Indebtedness and interest, and the cost and
expenses of executing this trust.
l-23-tj WILLIAM AULL, Trustee.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13

Patronize home industry. Get your
meat Of 10 Long. He kills and cures a
fresh lot every week. 1-SO-4t
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13
OPEN LETTER

To the Citizens OF Lexington and Vicinity:
We take this means of announcing
that our mills are now in operation.
grinding ont the very best grades of
Flour, Meal and Bran, We have located
our mills here as a permanent LeXing-
ton institution, and expect to make it
one of our objects, L build up and add
to Lexington's commercial interests.
We shall not attempt to do business
solely on a local pride" basis, but pre-
fer that our products shall be judged
solely by the standard of merit. Appeal
ing to your local pride we ask you to
give our goods a fair trial. Should they
prove as good as other mills are making,
we hope and feel that you will be our
patrons.
TO the Farmers:
We will do an exchange business with
you and guarantee satisfaction,
Thanking the citizens for the encOur-
agement given our institution, and hop
ing to merit your confidence and patron
age, we are respectfully,
GRAVES BROS.
N. B.-Our goods for sale by all gro
GERS in city.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13

Scaly eruptions on the head, chapped
hands and lips, cuts. bruises, sealds and
burns are quickly cured by DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is at present the
article most used for piles, and 1t always
cures them. Crist & Day. l-26-ly
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-02-13

Something for house keepers. 1t Will
do everything. Use it once. You will
never do without 1t. c. G. O., at Eggles-
ton q Ewing's. 5-16tf
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MONDAY MARCH : Iso7.

between the hours of nine o'clock i'm the fore
noon and five o'clock in the afternoon OF that
day, TO satisfy said notes aud interest due
thereon at date of sale, and also all costs of
executing this trust.
WILLIAM ]. BANDON, Trustee.
Lexington, Mo-, Feb. s, 1881. l-23-d
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-01-15

hall table and then dumped all the
oil from the callers bicycle lamp. But
Mr.. Blank never murmred while he
picked the stitches from his cap as he
said goodnight, and walked the two
miles and a half without complaint.
OF course, the pretty girl thought
that Mr. Blank would never show up
again and gave little brother half a
dozen bear hugs as reward for bounc-
ing him. But ten days later Mr.. Blank
appeared again as if nothing had hap
pened; this time in evening dress, with
q silk hat. 1t was am awful hot night,
but little brother was on deck just the
same, and thin slice Of Gmburger
cheese went under the lining of that
hat before the evening was over.
Mr.. Blank did not depart until 1880
that evening, but nothing was ever
heard of the cheese. This time the pref
ty girl and little brother made bets
at odds of sixteen to one that Mr.. Blank
would never call again. But Mr.. Blank
did call again, and with smile ON his
innocent round face. At about $3.50
little brother strolled into the parlor,
and, walking up to the clock, pushed the
hands around couple of hours ahead
and strolled out again silently. Mr..
Blank went early that evening, and has
not been seen since.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-01-15
PROTRACTED SLUMBER.
Peculiar Case of "the Sleeping Girl
Of Theneles."
For More Than Thirteen Years She Has
Been in Bed Without Awakening
Looks More Like Dead Woman
Than One Asleep.

There Is a sleeping woman in
rhenelles, in France, in the province
If Picardy, who bids fair, if she is fortu-
safe enough to live SO long, to rob Rip
IAN Wrinkle of the record for protracted
deep.
Compared with this woman. the hero
If Irving's famous tale, the hero whom
Joe jefferson has so well and so often
pictured, is not to be mentioned at all,
tor everybody knows that his sleep of
20 years was only a story book sleep,
born In the imaginative mind of prince
Of writer's. The sleeping girl of The
aelles is a matter-of-fact proposition.
She is in the flesh, and for 10 long,
lreamful years has been sleeping away
there in homely cottage about 20
miles from st. Quentin
All over France they Know her as
"La dormeuse de Thenelles" Sleep
ing girl of Thenelles-and Paris paper
says that since the original story of the
sleeping beauty in the wood there has
been no case so strange as hers.
The name of this extraordinary young
woman is Margaret Bayenval. The way
In which her siege of sleepfulness came
on is most interesting. She had a
nervous attack, which resulted in "a
fainting spell. In the midst of this
she fell just on the threshold of the
humble cottage where, with her mother.
she lived.
Half conscious, the poor girl was as
sisted to bed, disrobed and put to
sleep. From that sleep she has never
Weakened. Thirteen years and five
months have passed away. and still SO
deeply buried in sleep is she that the
people in attendance upon her are con-
sinced she will die without ever re-
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She is as well known to the Picard
peasants as Mollie Fancher has been to
the people of Brooklyn and New York.
Only, living in a more or less sparsely-
settled district, the marvel has lasted
longer. There have not been the multi
tudinous happenings of every day to
take the place of the sleeping girl in
public notice. The country people call
Margaret Boyenval La Carnotte, and it
is morning greeting Of the Picards:
II see it is you, and not la Marmotte
who has awakened"
Four times the world-renowned Char
cot has gone to stand and watch at the
bedside of this wonder. Bronardel and
Berillon were also among the visitors,
md every day in the last 10 years the
village doctor, who joys in the name OF
Charter, has knocked at the Boyenval
door and made medical notes of all facts
concerning the sleeper.
When first she fell into this mystic
rious sleep Marguerite Boyenval was
only 10 years old, mere child in her
looks and in her ways. She was pref
ty-the prettiest girl in the neighbor
hood-of fine, erect carriage, happy and
full of fun.
Now that the 10 years have gone, she
lies there, her head fallen over upor
her shoulder, her arms hidden under
the coverlid. her face pale and hollow
cheeked-more like a dead woman than
one asleep.
Says Journalist Chinchalle, of the
Figaro, who went to see the sleeping
woman; 81 have seen many things, but
never such a spectacle as this"
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PETROLEUM FOR FUEL.
How 1t Is Being Used in the United
States Navy.
An Importrrt rrol,em which Now Seems
to BE NerJ Near Solution-Advan-
tages Claimed for u New
Inyention.

According to report just made by a
navy, the ancient problem of using
crude petroleum instead of coal as fuel
for vessels is very near solution, if not
already solved.
Experiments have been in progress
for more than year, chiefly in the
Hudson river, with torpedo boat No 2,
belonging to the Maine. They have re-
suited so happily that the engineers
have made a report favoring the
adoption of the fuel under given condi-
tons upon certain minor craft, such as
tug boats and torpedo boats. If the
results foreshadowed in this report
shall be realized revolution is at hand
in the fuel for war ships and all ocean
going craft.
The experimental board of naval
engineers consists of Chief Engineer
II. S. Ross, of the Massachusetts,, and
Chief Engineers Lewis j. Allen and
George Currier, Jr. They were de-
sgnated about year ago by Chief
Engineer G. W. Melville, engineer in
chief of the bureau Of steam engineer
ing, United States navy, to experiment
with an invention submitted by j. S.
Zerbe, chief engineer of the Consoli-
dated Gas company. They have sub
mitted the apparatus to the severest
possible test.
The tests of new fuel for steam YES
sells are cheapness, ease of operation,
economy of room and general efficiency.
The board reports favorably upon the
Zerbe apparatus in respect of all these
points. The evaporation was found to
be II. IS, 10 and 20 pounds of water, at
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structed some sluice boxes from the
mountain pines and began the work Of
washing gold from the sand. In less
than week the man and the boy re-
turned without their pack mules,
which had been stolen by the Indians,
but with two sacks, weighing IS
pounds, filled with native gold.
The gold treasure was delivered to
Young, according to contract, and
Knowles was made to swear that he
would never again enter the canyon eX-
sept with the consent Of the governor.
Years passed, and Knowles died with
put revisiting his rich deposit of pre-
rious metal. When brigham Young
passed away young Knowles, feeling no
further restraint, decided to find the
golden canyon. Accompanied by
young man named Enoch Davis, he
started for the place where he had be-
held the glittering nuggets. They
camped beside the old sluices, and be-
gan making preparations for taking
out the gold. A band of Indians, see
ing their territory being encroached
on, fired into the camp and killed young
Knowles. Davis escaped.
In a few months after making the
first attempt Davis tried, with the aid
of map, to locate the precious can
yon. All efforts proved futile, as the
Indians drove white men away from
the treasure field. AT last Davis re-
moved with his family to Vernal and
worked at the trade of blacksmith,
thinking that some day the Indians
would be compelled to surrender their
claim on the mountains, and he could
then locate the gold placers. Years
passed away, and Davis became a
drunkard, and abused his wife and
family. In one of his drunken brawls
he murdered his wife and east her body
into potato pit. A trial ensued, and
Davis was convicted and sentenced to
be shot.
While the doomed man was lying in a
cell awaiting the executioner, he de-
termined to unfold the mystery of the
Knowles mine. The old nap was pro-
duced, and the prisoner related the his
tory of the rich placer fields. His life
vas spared for season, while pros.
pectors were sent into the mountains
to follow his directions and discover
the golden treasure. After many weeks
Of diligent search the miners returned
with a sack of ore, which upon being
assayed showed only trace of gold.
The search was given up. and the pris-
oner was speedily executed. An artist
friend received the sketch of the mine
and for time all thought of wealth in
the Uintah mountains seemed to be
banished.
AS the SHOWS Of spring melted away
and made the high canyons accessible
some daring prospectors attempted to
enter the forbidden gorge to locate the
Knowles mine. Two companies pitched
tents near the supposed spot. An I'M
pleasantness was created by the fac
lions failing to agree on the division OF
the property. The desperadoes impris-
oned in the Utah penitentiary, accord
ing to the evidence produced in court
were employed to assist in BUSTING one
camp of prospectors from the canyon
A morning attack resulted in a pitched
battle, which ended in the killing Of
two and the wounding Of another.
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=
Girl shoots a Wildcat.

Miss Olympia Arrambide, of San
Francisco, has made herself heroine
In the eyes of the people about Men-
deirhall's Springs. One night recent
ly number of fox hounds "treed" \
wildcat in the canyon near the springs.
Miss Arrambide mounted horse, and
armed with rife of light caliber, Went
30 the assistance of the dogs. She
reached the scene just as the freed cat
crawled out on limb as if preparing to
jump. The young woman was tired, but
she took hasty shot, and luckily her
aim was true. The cat crashed into the
brush below. but to make assurance
doubly sure she sent home another
bullet
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-01-15
THE DEAD MANS MINE.
TWO Utah Conviots Expect to Los
cate It Sometime
rhoy Are Only Waiting for tho Expiration
of Their Terms to Open the Richest
Gold Deposit Ever Found In
the United States.

In cells of the Utah penitentiary two
men sit and think Of the opening of an
Dther Monte Cristo when their terms
expire. The men are Known as Matt
Warner, alias Ras Lewis, alias Ras
Christensen, and William Wall. A
charge of manslaughter was proved
against the two convicts and they were
ordered imprisoned for term of five
years.
Nearly half century ago. according
10 Utah legends, great gold field was
discovered in one of the hidden canyons
Of the Uintah mountains. The claim
was operated for one week, and by or
der of Brigham Young the owner left
the mine, which he never again beheld.
EARLY in the fifties, so goes the story,
one Thomas Knowles, an old California
miner, came to the city of Salt Lake.
He called upon President Young, who
then acted as governor of the State Of
Deseret. The Mormon received
Knowles IN very hospitable manner,
ind before the interview endeda bargain
was made by which the miner was to
deliver his weight in gold to the Nor
mon president within three weeks from
that date.
On a bright June morning old man
Knowles and his son, a 14-year-old boy,
started from the Mormon city for the
deep canyons of the snow-crowned
Uintah mountains. Man and boy, &C.
companied by train of bnrros or little
pack mules, Travelled for five days to the
southeast and camped at night on the
banks of small ripping noun
tain stream. When daylight dawned
they discovered in the water
Mt their feet large nuggets
of shining gold. They soon con-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-01-15
HOW THE OIL IS SPRAYED.

various pressures, to one pound of oil
or more than double that of the best
coal with the same boiler. The pressure
OF steam was constant, which means
economy of fuel and equalization of
pressure upon the machinery. There
were no ashes nor dirt to injure the
fine mechanism, and no stokers were
required. The fuel can be put on board
at sea.
Other important advantages are
claimed for the new device. 1t is said
to be as safe as coal and to occupy SC
much less room that vessel having
steaming radius of 1000 miles with
coal would be able to steam 1000 miles
with the same bulk Of petroleum. The
waste space now devoted to water bal
last forms, it is said, a perfect petrole-
UNI bunker, to be reoccupied by water
as the oil is consumed For the COM
mercial marine this would mean cubic
foot available for freight for every
cubic foot of coal bunking space saved.
The equipment of the fire box con-
stitutes the most important departure
in the new invention. The CRATE bars of
the ordinary furnace are utilized for
the purpose of forming thereon brick
bed. This bed is composed of bricks
which have grooves partially across
pne face. They are laid on the CRATE
bars at an angle of As degrees. thereby
forming air ducts over the entire sur
face of the bed and also making a cor
rugated surface.
Instead of injecting the oil through
round iniectors fan-shaped spray is
distributed over this foraminous bed,
which bursts into flame on striking the
bed, heating up the latter to incandes-
cence. The air pressing through the
grooves and uniting with the carbonic
gases generated by the contact of the
ell spray with the heated brick makes
a perfect oxy-hydrogen flame.
For injecting the oil and breaking 1t
up compressed air is utilized.