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The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06

Mrs. Benham-Many IA true word is
spoken i'll jest.
Mr.. Benham-That's sc. l little
dreamed when l said, With all my
worldly goods | thee endow, that you
would take every cent l had. -Twinkles.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06

The great fire of New York took place
in 1885. The value of property destroy
I'd OH this occasion was $50, 000, 000.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06
PURE FOOD.
CHEAP

Tea Garden Drips is a pure sugar product.
The sweetest and best favored table syrup ever
made.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06

and ES cured; no pay
N until cured; send for book. DRs. MANSFIELD
b PoRTRRFIELD, 838 Market st., Ban Francisco.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06

/ never used so quick a cure as Piso's
Cure for Consumption. j.. B. Palmer,
Box LII, Seattle, WASH, Nov. 26, 1896.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06

But I can guess where you are going,
"Yukon, of course"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-11-06
PURE FoOD.

Toboggan Maple Syrup is absolutely pure and
rich In flavor. Recommended by physicians.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
c. & n. W. R'y.
17201.
Local.

Attached to the check was a small tag
on which was written:
Found after thawing of snow On a
g 1cier, December 6, 1892, on top OF Coal
Bluff, 90 degrees 80 minutes north Iati-
tude, Alaska, near p. S. W. Co. Station.
Found by a sailor on U. S. Steamer
Bear
By the baggage checking system of
the road it is easy to ascertain that the
baggage had been checked by a man
named Hermann RadtlIe, from Chicago,
H., on February IL, 1890, to Council
Bluffs, Ia. At the latter station the bag
gage lay unclaimed until May 10, 1891,
when it was brought to Chicago and
sold at public auction for $3.50. Dur
ing all these years there has been moth
ing discovered to penetrate the mystery
as to how the bit of brass came to be
found away up in Uncle Sans frigid
northwestern territory.
What became of Hermann Radtke?
Why did he leave his effects behind at
Council Bluffs and what was his fate?
All these are the questions which the
Northwestern people have asked over
and over again. Several times in
Quiries have been made at Chicago in
the hope that the holder of check No.
17.2O1 may have had relatives who could
throw some light on Radtke's movements
after he checked the trunk, but each eff
sort has proved futile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
"FREE SILVER RUM
some of the kind from which Mexico q
Now Suffering.

Some Of the Kind from which Mexico ~.
Now Suffering.
An Associated Press dispatch the
other day announced in definite and
circumstantial way that millions OK doll
lars of New York capital are now being
Invested in Mexico. This will be Q
grievous disappointment as well as .
surprising revelation to many people
For previous to the late election the
goldite newspapers made great efforts
to convince the voters that the free COIN
age of silver would ruin the COUNTRY
and put it on a par with Mexico. Thou
sands of business men and large num-
bers of ''men on salary" voted against
silver coinage under the fear inspired
by these goldite newspapers, and the
declarations of the New York capital
lists that the adoption of free coinage
meant an end of new investments and q
withdrawal of old ones. 1t is not pleas
ing to these men now to read of the pur-
chase of Mexican railways by New York
syndicates, which are preparing to
spend millions of dollars in extending
and improving the lines. They are ut
terly unable to understand why this
capital leaves the United States, which
recently refused to remonetize silver,
to seek investment in a country where
silver is the single standard of value.
Perhaps if they would read an article
published in the Chicago Tribune,
headed Mexico in a Prosperous Condi-
tion,' they would understand why
United States capital is seeking invest
ment there. After declaring that Mex
leo is in prosperous condition, the
Tribune goes on to say "the revenues
are exceeding the expenditures, and the
treasury will show a large surplus at
the end of the fiscal year. Manufac-
turing industries are multiplying, and
agriculture is continuing to expand"
In view of the fact that this statement
appears in a goldite paper, and that
the Associated Press dispatch from
New York practically confirms the
statement, it seems safe to assume the
statement in regard to Mexico's pros
perity is true, though possibly the facts
might justify a still brighter showing.
Perhaps many of those who Mt the
last election voted against free silver
would like to have some of that Next
can free silver ruin brought across tho
line into the United States. The Chi
cago Dispatch thinks that about Co.,
100000 of our people would be quite
willing to be Mexicanized by having
our manufacturing industries multi
piled" and our agriculture probably
extended" How would this free sill
yer Mexican prosperity compare with
the McKinley-Hannag gold standard ar
ticle, which has closed one-half of our
factories, made agriculture unprofit-
able and compels our government to
sell bonds every six or IL months to
meet current expensesP-nlinois State
Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
TORN BY AvALANCHES.
Climbing Mount Tacoma Is More Dam
RerOus Than Ever.

Climbing Mount Tacoma Is More Dam
gerOus Than Ever.
Great changes have taken place around
the base of Mount Tacoma this year,
notably among which are the widening
of creyasses, the breaking away of sew
eral big lodges of rock heretofore
crossed in making the ascent and the
enlargement of mountain streams as
result of snowfields extending mile
further down the mountain side than
usual. Terrific avalanches have thun-
dered down the mountain, carrying de-
struction before them.
Recently a large Tacoma party came
very near being swept away by one,
The party included Judge Dillon, Prof,
Dewey, Olof Bull, Robert Newell, Messrs,
Wood and John. They were half way
around Gibraltar rock, at an altitude of
about 1000 feet, when a deafening noise
was heard. The next moment a ire
mendous avalanche dropped down the
edge of the frozen mass, being only q
few hundred feet away. 1t seemed as
though the mountain was tumbling
down bodily. Investigation showed
that an ice mass 300 feet long, $50 feet
wide and 200 feet thick, estimated to
weigh 100000 tons, had fallen over a
mile into the Nisqually glacier.
Undaunted, the climbers kept on.
They found that ledge of rock known
as the Camp of the Stars" on the east
side of Gibraltar, had fallen off into
Cowlitz glacier. On the south side an
other big piece of Gibraltar has fallen,
leaving only a narrow ledge, so that
climbers must use ropes stretched from
rocks at either end. Most climbers
must now spend the night at Camp
Misery, near the top. This consists of
rock ledge six feet wide and nine feet
long, protected by reef ten feet high.
Frequently six or ten campers sleep.
or try to sleep, here, the rocks protect
ing them somewhat from the mountain
winds, which have velocity of 60 to so
miles an hour. After spending the night
here the campers press on early in the
morning, and, on reaching the craters.
breakfast is prepared by making soup
and coffee over steam jets issuing from
the interior.
The increased width of crevasses has
made climbing more dangerous than
ever. A compromising feature is the fact
that mountain goats are becoming more
plentiful.
Two streams instead of one now is
sues from the Nisqually glacier. and a
side stream has cut into the glacier an
ice tunnel 500 feet long, through which
climbers can pass.-San Francisco
Chronicle,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Electricity cannot be stolen in Ger
many, according to decision of the
superior court. A man who had tapped
the current of an electric company TO
run his own motors was acquitted or
the ground that only a material nova
bic object can be stolen, and the juuSgy-
ment has just been affirmed on appeal.
Turin is going to hold an Italian
exhibition in 1898. It will include the
work of Italians abroad and of the Cath
olic missions. There will also be an
International exhibition of electric ap-
pliances and machinery. Among thu
special features will be athletic games
and review of romic art
The British board of trade has is
sued statement of the number of lives
lost by accident in British merchant
ships during the past year. The state
ment shows the average loss to be about
fve-siXths of one per cent. of the num-
Der of men employed. The percentage
of lives lost in sailing vessels is some
what larger than that of steamers.
In one of the chief squares of Patras
some important sculpture and an an
been discovered. The most important
piece is a statuette which is undoubted-
ly copy of the Athene Parthenos OF
Phidias. The head and arms and partof
the shield are missing, but it is hoped
they may be found % further eXcava-
ton.
A well-preserved mosaic, the CEN
trail figure of which is believed to be a
portrait of the poet Virgil, has been dis
covered at Susa, in Tunisia. The figure
has a smooth face, is dressed in white
toga bordered with blue. and is reading
from papyrus, which shows lines of
the Kneid, to the muses. of History and
Tragedy standing on either side. The
mosaic is believed to belong to the first
century after Christ.
There is said to be decline in the
art of cooking in France. It is asserted
that the chefs of reputation disdain to
prepare dishes of the ordinary kinds,
but endeavor to hold themselves in re-
serve for grand occasions, delegating
their regular duties to inferior cooks,
while on the other hand it is alleged
| that the chefs employers have forgot
ten how this or that dish should taste
and are incompetent to criticise.
From Desert to Pasture.-In East
ern Australia a hundred million
| sheep and great herds of cattle
| and horses now feed upon pastures
| covering fat ground which 80 years ago
was a desert of soft sand, so rotten
that the feet sank deep at every step.
| This once worthless ground has been
| beaten into compact soil by the feet of
the sheep and cattle, and it is believed
that other great desert expanses in
Australia may be turned into produc.
| tive pasture, and in a similar manner.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
BLASTED HOPES.

Republicans to Build Upon Something
More Substantial Than Confidence.
No little embarrassment is caused
throughout a wide section of country
rndiating from Chicago by the recent
bank failures in that city, and they
naturally invite the drawing of a con-
trast between the conditions as we find
them and those that were promised as
the effect of republican victory at the
late election. The public was given to
understand that it would not be nee
essary to wait for the Inauguration of
a republican president in order to en-
JOY the blessings of prosperity. 1t was
urged throughout the late campaign,
and by none more. earnestly or per-
sistentIy than by the republican cam
didate for the presidency, that the one
thing needful was restoration of con-
fidence, and that, with confidence re-
stored, normal prosperous conditions
would resume their sway. Incident
ally it was declared that republican VIC
tory was the one thing that was GER
tain to bring about this restoration of
confidence.
Well, republican victory was made a
TACT, and following upon its heels came
a few hundred assumptions in cases of
concerns that had shut down for cam
paign effect. These assumptions were
received with vivas and other mani
festations of approval, and it was gem
orally understood that confidence was
restored and that business could be e2-
pected to fairly hum. 1t is not hum
ming to an excitable extent, how
ever. Since the noise over the rally of
the campaign shutdown nothing has
been heard in the way of notes of glad
ness. Restored confidence hSs failed to
get in its work up TO date, and if there
is any material change in conditions, it
is for the worse. The best the republic
cans can say for the prevalent state of
things is that it is nothing in the way of
calamity to what we would now be ex-
periencing if Bryan had been elected,
and that, of course, isn't necessarily
true or conspicuousiy comforting. Tic
Only thing that is absolutely positive
is that republican victory has not
brought good times, although the q. O.
p. gave bonds for that yictory's faith
full performance of contract.-Ring-
hamton IL. W Leader.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
PlNeREE ON PROSPERITY.
says That Gold Standard Talk Has Had
Its Day.

says That Gold Standard Talk aaS hnN
Its Day.
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, has been
in Chicago looking up matters, and here
are some of his expressions;
my old companion and interesting foe
vested rights'-seems to have moved from
Detroit to Chicago. He is a monster which
needs severe treatment Mayor Swift VIII
need to sit up all night and fight with
two-edged sword to beat him as we DID
1t makes me tired to hear the corpora
tions talk. / have held that the people are
always supreme. They give the francnlse
and they can take 1t back. 1t Is nothing
more than a license, anyhow. never be-
lieved that any council had any right to
give away the streets for all time, and we
won in the insistence that the franchise
was nothing but q license, the license sub
ject to regulation in all things by the
grantors.
"Hackmen and cabmen have as much
vested rights as the man who owns the
street car lines. You never hesitate to
take the license from the cabman or hack
man as soon as he overcharges There is
no doubt that the street car companies
are overcharging. Their stocks are
watered to fill the ocean. They are robbing
the public and robbing the people who are
least able TO be robbed. 1t would be too
bad for the mayor to accept four cents,
when, IL four cents Is right and possible, he
might as well get three or two cents.
prosperity? Fiddlesticksi There can
be no prosperity so long as the country Is
at the mercy of the money lenders. The
social system is out of joint. We need
law against great fortunes. Men form COM
binations and put their hands into the
pockets of the poor They never take
from those who have, but steal from those
who have not. We need men willing to
stand for equal rights, to take a hand at
practicing equal rights. The public il
being MIXED for the sake of the few, and
the thing has got to stop before there can
be any relief
Gold standard talk has had it's day.
There will never be another republican
convention which will write that word in its
platform. There will next time be a strong
bimetailic platform, and this is what the
people want. They will have learned by that
time that prosperity does not necessarily
come by the election of any one man to the
presidency, and that prosperity cannot
come until the laws are radically changed.
Michigan would have gone for free silver.
but the gold men scared the people TO death
them with the promises of prosperity
whose sunshine is that Of Paradise alley"
1t will be interesting to our goldite
friends to note that the republican gov
ernor-elect of Michigan declares that
his party carried that state under false
pretenses. Gov. Pingree has an exceed
ingly long and level head.-IIlinois
State Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14

had never happened before within my
knowledge, and there were good many
jokes going round the Office about IL.
1 remember that 1 made one or two o.
the best of them. When he did arrive
he walked straight to his Office and
turned the key.
Headache after the jollifcation last
night" said the office.
Nv mother called round that morn
ing with the baby. don't believe in
women folk coming into the city at all.
but mother was so excited about father
having got good berth that she said
(you know what women are) that she
felt as though she must come straight
down and tell me the news. I knocked
at the door of Mr.. Kershaw's office, and
he unlocked it.
BEG pardon, sir, for troubling you,
but nv mother and the baby-anything
the matter, sir?"
go on, Billing" he said, and turned
his head away.
They've just called, and thought
perhaps you wouldn't mind if slipped
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14

with our copying ink. This letter hasn't
come out n bit clear"
whether for better or worse 1 an
swered, II can't tell you. Sometimes
getting spliced has one effect; some
tunes the other. But I'll bet you as
much as three'apence that we shall
notice an alteration"
1--WE half mind to take you," said
young Linkson, doubtfully, only I've
got a good deal of money out just now.
I've backed Swiftsure for twopence,
one, two, three"
"Take it or leave it," said. Its an
offer, and if you're not sportsman
enough to have a bet on, don't
"She's pretty, they say" remarked
Linkson. He gave twist to the copy
ing press and looked narrowly at Mr..
Kershaw hanging up his hat AMI
Sraoothing his rough hair. "One of the
young partners said she was as neat
little figure as ever
billing" shouted Mr.. kershaw, fu-
riously. from his office, come here at
once!"
To save argument I went.
'Will you be good enough to explain.
demanded Mr.. Kershaw, holly, Ito ex-
plain, Billing, the condition of this
table? Look here! I can write my
name on it,
$50 could I, sir" said. There s
nothing clever in that"
sWhy on earth isn't the place busted
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
A RAILWAY MYSTERY.
The Secret of a Missing Travellers Bag
gage Check

The Secret of Missing Travellers Bag
gage Check.
Some years ago a German traveller
by the name of Hermann Radtke desir-
ing TO better his condition in life joined
the swelling tide of emigration that is
ever flowing to the west with the in
tention of visiting the Pacific coast.
AT Chicago he purchased ticket on the
Chicago, Union Pacific & Northwestern
railway via the Chicago &, North
western line, checking his baggage,
for some unknown reason, to Council
Bluffs. The number of the brass tag
he received was 17,2O1-'and thereby
hangs a tale" which is unfolded in the
Pioneer.
The C. & NV. general baggage Office
has an unsolved mystery-the secret OF
check No. 17,2O1; or, what became of
Hermann Radtke?
The matter has mystified the North
western people during the last three
years and more. It was revived by the
recent turning up of the check from a
desk drawer which was being cleared
out.
In the spring of 1893 the general bag
gage Office received from San Francisco
an ordinary brass baggage check
stamped as follows:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
TAKE COURAGE.

We think we suffer greatly now.
Through the long wakeful night
IN pain OF body or of mind
We toss till morning light.
Dear friends forsake us and we mourn
Their loss, or fortune flies,
Or foes with weapons keen assail
A truth or cause we prize
This worlds a wilderness of woe"
We solemnly declare.
us life worth Iving?" we inquire
Does Joy dwell anywhere?
Methinks the nut-brown acorn had
The same doubts as IL lay
Buried in earth, so coarse and cold
And dark, day after day.
But life within it could not rest.
It struggled to be free
With throes of pain 1t burst its bonds,
And 10! great oak-tree!
Lofty and strong and beautiful,
Its branches spreading wide.
Its green leaves whispering to the breeze
1t stands in power and pride.
And so to Us will come a change
More beautiful and grand
Than ever nut-brown acorn knew,
In any cline or land.
The God within US cannot rest,
But will at length arise
In might and majesty and power
And bliss. beyond the skies.
Then let US courage take, and strength,
Though rough may be the way,
Each step will lead us higher on
Towards realms of perfect day.
elizabeth A Kingsbury. in Woman's
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14

anu DdDS INC 1O"SA DAN1oN'
''Billing!"
"Sir?"
'Do you mind-do you mind bringing
your baby in here for moment?" He
coughed as though there was something
in his throat. Il should rather like to
see him."
"OnIy too proud, sir"
brought the baby in myself, because
/ was afraid mother would drop her
aitches and make NE look silly in some
way. sat the little beggar on the table,
and I'm blest if he didn't put out both
his chubby arms to Mr.. Kershaw.
Fact!
Il expect he amt the baby yours is,
SIR remarked, respectfully. Mr.. Ker'
shaw was patting the tiny chin and
whispering baby-talk to the little kid.
NO, Billing" he said. NO" He
turned away again so that 1 couldn' t
see his face, and kissed our baby. MY
| boy-er-died last night"
What I want to add is, that Mr.. Ker-
shaw has never been the one he was
in the old days. He's as kind-mannered
a senior clerk as you'll find between
Temple Bar and Aldgate. And I've no.
ticed that in the street sometimes, when
baby goes by and he catches sight of
| it, Mr.. Kershaw will stop-it don't mat
| ter who he's with-and he will watch it
until it goes right out of sight.-ldler
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-14
SUGGESTS A QUESTION.
Justice for q Firebug in New YOrk-PraIs,
worthy Promptness.


worthy Promptness.
Justice, though blind and clad in ap
impeding chlamys, trod swiftly on the
trail of Isaac Zuker. No sooner was
Zuker convicted of having fired build
ing for the insurance money than he
was sentenced to SO years in the state
prison at Sing Sing. No sooner was he
sentenced than he was taken to the
Tombs; no sooner reached the Tombs
than he was shipped to the peniten-
tiary; no sooner arrived there than he
was shaved and shorn and thrust int,
the striped garb that distinguishes th,,
convict.
This is all eminently praiseworthv.
and Sheriff Hansen and the other Off.
Gals concerned deserve unstinted praisa
for their efficiency and promptness.
There can be no complaint at all
against the proceedings. Zuker com
n:itted the crime. and his punishmant
should be severe and should begin i,y,-
mediately. The only reflection tba4
could be made is in the form of n ouev-
ton:
Suppose Zuker's crime had not baon
crime against property. would he bava
been railroaded through as rapidly ..
n. Y. Journal.