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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

in it's place Immediately. Is Chief Bell,
of the local delivery tellseme he has
never expedited the official mail except
on one occasion. During the Hawaiian
difficulty he had Instructions to send
the mail for the secretary ; Of state to
the department as soon as it was re-
ceived, and whenever a letter for the
secretary appeared in the separa ton
it was sent by special messenger to
the state department and delivered into
the hands Of the secretary himself.
Of course q special delivery letter
would be delivered at the White house
or one Of the departments by one Of
the bicycle boys. but fithat is in the
regular course Of the ipostoffice busi-
ness IL
WHERE 1T MOSTLY COMES FROM.
The presidents mail does not fill a
very big bag, though it includes several
hundred letters a day. The biggest
mail is that which is received on the
early trains from the West and East,
which is taken to the White house by
wagon.
At the White house this mail is as
sorted by three clerks-Pruden. Cortel-
you and Young. They are all veteran
employees Of the White house. and the
routine Of executive business they
know much better than the president
Pruden is the gray haired, digniffed
man, with close cropped mustache,
who takes the presidents messages to
the capitol.
The first sitting process through
which the letters go is their assert
ment according to size and external
character. Big, fat envelopes which
look as though they contained petit
tons, envelopes from the departments
which contain only formal communica-
lions, envelopes whose addresses are
tlliterate or show in some way that
they are from persons. having no per-
scnal OF official relations with Mr.. Nc
Kfnley, are put in a pile by themselves.
Envelopes which bears the frank OF
congressman, or which show soma er-
fdence of being personal on from men
Of prominence, are laidI aside for the
personal inspection Of the president or
his secretary. But understand. IL you
are addressing letter to the president,
that Personal" or Private or Con
fdential," written on thu envelope, will
not be respected by the presidents
clerks The president haSsmarks by
which his personal mail As distin-
gufshed. No letter whfelr does not
bear q private mark gets past the
Presidents secretary. even IL It passes
the executive clerks. so;- IL you have
nythfnt o. Atrietly cenfid entlall
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
SWurnning
After Gold.
Tremendous Rush
to the Placer
Diggings of the
Yukon.

lar to the PAN Nothing like it has ever
been known In the history Of placer
mining California, in it's palmiest
days, never did anything like what the
Klondyke promises to do, and the Klon-
dyke is only a patch on the wonderful
placer diggings of Alaska. Everything
in sight of the Klondyke has been
staked out long ago, and the Eldorado
and other tributary creeks have been
prospected pretty we'll. Nevertheless
the great rush othe interior this year
is headed towards the Klondyke. Inc
report of the rich finds on the Eldorado
which got down to Circle City In jan
uary, set the boys wild, and everybody
who could get dogs started at once.
The animals were in such demand that
they brought almost any price their
owners were a mind to demand. Sew
eral sales are reported for various
prices, running from $4,000 for pros
pect up to $4,000 spot cash for an in
terest in a claim that has been opened
up ready for work. 1t is believed that
the Klondyke will produce more gold
this season than was taken from all
the other diggingS in the interior last
year.
Life in Circle City this winter diff
fered very greatly from that OF any
previous winter The miners are just
learning, how to work their claims in
the winter. InlS SedSVu 81 HietAy III
the men were at work that the town
was comparatively quiet. The winter
was unusually open: there was but
little snow. and up to January the
lowest temperature recorded in. Circle
City was As degrees below zero. At
Twelve Mile Post, station ON the
road to the mines. So degrees below
was recorded. Circle City is probably
the largest log town in the world.
There are now about 400 cabins in it.
Two variety theaters did what they
could to make life interesting for the
miners who stayed in town during the
winter, and there were sixteen saloons
and two dance halls. There is build
ing decorated with the name of Opera
house, where some kind of show was
given every two weeks, and the chara-
cters We're all taken by local talent.
If it were not for the shortness OF the
days. winter in the Yukon country
would be by far the most pleasant
season Of the year. as at that time
there are no swarms Of mosquitoes and
gnats, such as make life a burden in
the summer time. The health Of Yu-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
SEVEN TIMES SENTENCED.
Somewhat Famous Case Closed by
an Execution.

"A somewhat Famous Case Closed by
an Execution.
GREENVILLE, Miss, May John
Gibson, colored, was hanged here to-
day at 1890 p. m. This was the closing
chapter Of a somewhat remarkable trial.
Gibson was convicted Of killing Robert
Stinson, a white man. The two had
quarreled at Stinson's house over 25
cents difference in wages. Stinson Or
dered Gibson to leave, armed himself
and followed. A few moments later
three shots were heard at the front
gate. Stinson was found dying and
three chambers of his own revolver
empty. The trial of Gibson has been
one of almost national Importance, be-
ing a direct attack on the federal
courts and upon the validity Of the con-
stitution of Mississippi. The case has
been twice before the supreme court Of
this state and twice before the supreme
court of the United States, and the
sentence which was executed today,
was the seventh sentence of death pass
ed upon Gibson. Gibson's counsel con-
tended that the constitution Of Missis"
sippi excluded colored men from petit
juries and grand juries on account of
their color in direct violation of the
federal constitution. and that Missis-
sippi's representation in congress had
not been reduced to accord with the
fourteenth amendment, although the
elective franchise had been reduced by
the constitution in 1890.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

pockets and putting it in another. So
the penalty envelope" was provided
Only official mail can be sent in this,
and there Is no limit to It's weight or
character.
The mail going and coming at the
White house just now is greater, CT
course, than the normal business. You
know the letters received at Canton
making application for Office number
ed more than $4,000, and the local post
Office people say the mail coming to the
executive departments In the past
month has been heavier than for any
other month in the history of the post
al service. George Grantham Balm.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
BODY BECOMES PErRIFIED.
Spring Near a Cemetery at zBrOcktOn
Mass, Possesses Peculiar Proper

BROCKTON, Mass, May Last
autumn Mrs. Ella Ireland, the wife OF
a well known Brockton man, died after
a short illness of acute gastritis Her
body was buried in the family lot III
cemetery on the outskirts Of the city:
Near the lot a spring boils up whose
waters are strongly impregnated with
mineral substances. A few days ago
it became necessary to remove the
coffin to another lot. While this was
being done the cover of the coffin con-
tanning the corpse of Mrs. Ireland was
accidentally dislodged by the pickaX
OF a careless laborer.
The workmen who looked at the body
were astonished to see that decay had
apparently made no inroads. Mrs. Ire
land looked as though she lay sleeping
in the casket. Even the flowers upon
her breast seemed as fresh as when
they were placed there six months
ago.
Investigation showed that the body
had become petriied and was as hard
as though it had been sculptured from
a marble block There seemed to be
nothing that would prevent it's endur-
ing for hundreds of years without suf-
fering any change. The peculiar cheEii-
cal constitution of the soil in the ceme-
terry is supposed to be the cause of this
phenomenon.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
Epyvorth League to Toronto and Re-
turn.

The Grand Trunk Railway System
offer to all contemplating the trip on
the occasion of the Great International
Assembly and Conference of the Ep-
worth League of America, to be held at
Toronto, Ont, July 18th to 18th, 1897.
the shortest, best, and most direct route
over it's own Lines the entire distance,
passing through the world renowned
ST. Clair Tunnel. Its trains equal In
equipment and it's road bed superior
to any and all others.
Rates as low as by any other Line,
and time as short
Complete statement Of all details of
the trip, etc, will be published in
later issue Of this paper
For further information write to. or
inquire of l.. r. Morrow, City Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent, Grand Trunk
hallway System. 103 Clark Street, Chi
cago. Illinois.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
A Popular Resort.

Lake Park Hotel at Lake Mime
tonka is the most popular tourist re-
hours ride from Minneapolis, and
reached by frequent trains. The ac-
Communications are in every way Of the
best, and prices extremely reasonable
Good fishing, boating, yachting and
bathing Hotel will open for the sea-
son Of 1897 on June oath. For further
particulars, and a beautifully illustrat-
ed pamphlet, address
A. B. Cults. G. p. e T. A., M. &
st. l.. r. r. Minneapolis, MINI.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

Painful diseases are bad enough, but
when q man is slowly wasting away
with nervous weakness, the mental
forebodings are ten times worse than
the most severe pain. There is no let
UP to the mental suffering day or night.
Sleep is alnlos. impossible and Under
such strain men are scarcely respor-
sible for what they do. For years the
writer rolled and tossed on the troubled
sea of sexual weakness until it was
question whether he had not better
take dose Of poison and thus end all
his troubles. But providential inspira-
ton came to his aid in the shape Of 4
combination of medicines that not only
completely restored the general health.
but enlarged his weak. emaciated parts
to natural size and vigor, and he now
declares that any man who will take
the trouble to send his name and ad-
dress may have the method Of this
wonderful treatment free. Now when
I say free I mean absolutely without
cost, because I want every weakened
man to get the benefit Of my expert
ence.
am not a philanthropist. nor do
pose as an enthusiast, but there are
thousands Of men suffering the mental
tortures of weakened manhood who
would be cured at once could they but
get such remedy as the one that
I can afford to pay the few postage
stamps necessary to mail the informa-
ton, but send for it, and learn that
there are few things on earth that
although they cost nothing to get they
are worth a fortune to some men and
mean a lifetime of happiness to most
of us. Write to Thomas Slater, Box
formation will be mailed in a plain
sealed envelope
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
Perfls of CelluiOid.

Miss Maud Parks, of Lock Raven. Balti-
more county, Md, was sitting near a stove
when a celiuloid comb in her hair caught
fire. Somebody present got bucket of water
and emptied it over her.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
Fame in France.

France has set about 500 monuments to
more or less distinguished Frenchmen during
the last % years. and there are now III
committees collecting money for more
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
Two Drowned.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May IA special to
the Wisconsin from Eagle River, Mich, saysi
Fred Nielsen, Oliver Berralault and Webster
Beauchamp left Eagle harbor in sail boaG
for their home at Copper Harper on Wednes-
day night Nelson reached there in an ex-
hausted condition on Thursday night and re-
ported that the boat with his companions
was lost in the storm. Beauchamp leaves Il
wife and family.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
After Dinner Cisars.,

Go TO Adam Fetsch's for your flne
Fey West and Domestic Cigars.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02
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Special Value.

80 Of these handsome quadruple sill
ver-plated Bake Dishes (same as cut),
FURNISHED tops, satin finished base, 70"
COCO border-with removable porce-
lain-uned painful size-guaranteed
value and never sold for less than $500,
go on sale today for 1878 each.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-02

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Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

This week we received a propo- sition to have furnished us weekly, free of cost, by the Reform Club, of New York City, full page of plate matter from the standpoint of the free trader and tariff reformer. The committee of the Tariff Reform Club is composed of the same gen. tlemen who furnished plate matter for weekly newspapers last fall favoring the gold standard. They assisted in electing a protective tariff congress and president and ought to take their medicine Traitors don't count in this west ern country
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

At last a legatee has been found who refuses to touch the money willed him because he thinks it rightfully belongs to others. A Miss Murphy, of San Francisco, died last fall and willed Father Smullen, a Catholic priest of Lon don, England, 3OO,OOO$. The wo- man died from the effects of chron- ic alcoholism. A former will di- vided the estate among relatives and the priest requests that that will be probated.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Carter H. Harri son, son of the late Carter Harrison, was elected mayor of Chicago last Tuesday on a silver ticket, defeating the other candidates. His vote exceeded the combined vote of three other candi- dates. Washington Heising, Gro yer Cleveland's postmaster at Chi cago. ran on a gold platform but only got a scattering vote.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Considerable comment is being made on the opinion of the Attorney General regarding the reinstate- ment of salaries bill in which he holds the law to be void. The tenor of his plaint is that it works an injustice on the people to now have to pay bills which they prop erly believed they had escaped
 payment. It did not occur to the gentleman that it was a greater in justice to the officers who were feeced of the bulk of their salary to have to lose it. To pay it is an item of small moment, but to lose it is a serious loss to the officers. In this county the parties who were to be the benefciaries of the act are not even friends of the MINER, but we think that simple justice demands payment of the accounts.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Monday last was another one of those days that it may be pleasant to talk about after it has passed, but is anything but pleasant to experience. It blew so hard, the dust was SO thick and so fine, that it entered every crack in a build ing We started to work early in the morning, but at nine o'clock were con- pelled to cover everything up the best we could and quit the premises for the balance of the day -Winslow Mail.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The levees along the Mississippi river are giving way and the floods are spreading over the country far and wide, and still the waters are rising higher and higher. Thou sands of families are homeless and appeals for aid come from every section of the flooded district.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The w. c. T. U. of Ohio is about to ship two hundred young girls to Arizona with the avowed inten- tion of getting husbands. Usually a young girl who will leave Ohio with such a worthy motive in view make sorry failure as house wife. Arizonans who want wives will find little difficulty in getting them in the good old way.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10
SAVE MONEY BY USING

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 We guarantee our Engines to work perfectly on California Crude Oil, or Distillate, or any of her kind of gaseous Oil; we however prefer CALIFORNIA CRUDE OIL, from COalings, Fresno county. for the reason that gas from Crude Oil will produce more power from the number of feet of gas used than from any other oil, and it is also a natural lubricant as well, the valves being always fabricated sufficiently to prevent them from sticking, thus assuring greater dura bility of the working parts than it otherwise would be in using dry gas. And an other advantage we claim is, that danger from explosions is reduced to a minimum, there be- ing no accumulation of gas, but is used by the Engine as fast as 1t is generated and hence Is absolutely safe. The following is test that we made with one of our Five Horse Power Crude Oil Engines running ten hours on the different gas oils:
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 We manufacture all sizes from twO-hOrse power up, and will guarantee that our Engines will run cheaper and are more simple in con structiOn, have fewer parts and hence are more durable than any other Gss Engine on the market. Seeing is believing; don't take our word for it, but come and Investigate for yourselves You can always see one in opera ton at our works. We will be pleased to see you and will at all times take pleasure in showing them up. Our engines are especially adapted for running well and mining ma chinery-in fact, for any kind of power de- sired. We are the pioneers and first inventors of Crude Oil and Distillate Engines. We al- ways lead and never follow. Send for Cata- logue and Price List of the only genuine Crude Oil and Distillate Engine made.
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Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Governor Leedy, of Kansas, be- ieves that charity begins at home. The Christian Herald wired him asking how much corn Kansas would contribute to relieve the Indian famine. He stated that England should care for India and that Kansas would contribute her quota to the relief of the sufferers in the Mississippi valley.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The Cuban question again caused a tumuIt in the senate last Tues day. Morgan, of Alabama, and others referred to the butchery of men, women and children by Spaniards and made the statement that the Spanish prisons were fast filling with Yankees who were held without trial.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The Phenix Republican is now the only paper in the alfalfa city taking press reports. It holds the associated press franchise and the united press has gone glimmering.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The big strikes in Yuma county are attracting the attention of the mining world. Some day our pre- diction that the country bordering on the Colorado river, from the mouth of the Grand Canyon to the Gulf of California, is the greatest gold belt on the American conti- nent, will be realized.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Little Greece is getting warmed up and the whole kingdom is arm ing to battle for the right. AS soon as war is declared the powers will have to withdraw and then we may witness a grand European war.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Bar silver is ranging close to the 61 cent mark while pig lead is quoted at 3.35. A few months more and lead will be on top. The big silver mines are shutting down one by one and soon all will be as silent as the grave. In Mohave county our silver mines carry gold in paying quantities, which assures the working of properties indefinite lY.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Los Angeles is preparing for a grand time during La Fiesta. One night is to be given over to wild and exhuberant riot and will be known as All Fools Night. Any body who can afford it should not miss La Fiesta.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

The superior court of San Fran cisco has made an order fixing to- day as the date for sentencing Theodore Durant to hang for the murder of Blanche Lamont.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

It is thought that Richard J. Sloan, of Prescott, will succeed Judge Hawkins in this district Judge Sloan is a learned gentle man and an able jurist. His ap- pointment will be hailed with pleasure.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Southern California is awakening to the fact that there are rich gold mines within her borders and ad- jacent thereto. The country will soon have a mining boom that will outrival anything in the worlds his tory,
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

The Washington Post says that Dr. Evans, of Phenix, will be ap- pointed governor of Arizona. Dr. Evans is pleasant gentleman and would make an excellent executive.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

Ham Light, one of the best known freighters and mining men on the Pacific coast, died last Mon day from the effects of burns re ceived while endeavoring to save valuable papers from a burning house at Gila Bend.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10

According to the Butte (Montana) h. ter Mountain, it is reconed that every cent decline in silver entails a loss of 30,000$ year upon the Anaconda Cop per Mining Company
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10
Notice.

NEEDLES, CAL Feb. 25th, 1897.
 Notice is hereby given that neither the Colum bian, formerly the Moss Mine, nor the owner thereof, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the lessees thereon. FRANK G. HOMES.
 First insertion March 9th, 1897.
Mohave County miner., 1897-04-10
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that neither the Nighthawk mine. nor the owners thereof, will be responsible for any debts contracted by the lessees thereon.
 JAMES T. LANGFoRD,
 Superintendent. Kingman, Arizona, Nov 23d. 1895.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-17

Eastern Panhandle farmers are
feeling very comfortable just now.
They have harvested the largest crop
Of wheatin the history ofthe Valley
largest in acreage and yield-and the
price is at least IS per cent above
that of several years past. One far
mer who is mathematically inchued
figures out gain OF $50 per cent.
He says the yield per acre is double
that of the average, which gives him
100 per cent. Then a gain of IS per
cent in price adds so to the 100 per
cent, making his $50 per cent. In
other words for every so cents receiv-
ed last year, he this year receives for
his double crop SI.25, the average
price being about 6625 cents pei
bushel. And on wool they are
quite com Portable with an advance o.
10 to so per cent over the free wool Of
last year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-17

Judge Golf has written gentleman
n Parkersburg that he is not. and will
lot be a candidate for the Senate.
'chis is a decision which is regretted
by his numerous friends and admir-
RS who have earnestly hoped that he
would accept the position, and who
we're ambitious to place him alongside
Senator Elkins and thus give West
Virginia position in the Upper
House that could not be equalled by
my State in the Union.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-17

Mr.. Gordon B. Gibbons, in his
Parkersburg News, asserts that Sin
the great compaign of 1894 it took
$50, 900 to elect Dayton to Congress;
SIS, 900 to elect Jim Huling, $I7, ooo
to lard Dovener, but in the Fourth
not cent was received from either
the National or State committees.
We are not posted as to the Fourth,
but we do know that no such sum cf
money was used in the Second, ard
Mr.. Gibbons knows his statement is
false. We also know the source of
his information and are fully aware
that this is not the first or only time
his informant has been proven
guilty of lying. Common decency,
even slight regard for the truth, should
impel the individual who concocted
the lie to retract, but as he is utterly
devoid of honor, we have no idea he
will do so.