Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-14

shall. a correspondent of the Rockland
Courler-Gazette, while drifting off Hat
tefas Shoals, in the schooner George II,
Ames. on the night Of Sept 25, and a
steamer with tow passed them in the
s atarnness. The tow was a large. tramp
steamer and as 1t passed Marshall called
steamer ahoy!' and was surprised to
near an answering voice. rs that you,
Alvano? Mr. Marshall was SO surprised
that it was several seconds before he got
ms voice to ask further questions, but
he quickly learned that the voice was
that OF Captain +. b. Barter of the
schoolmate and old friend of boyhood
days rescued. from the wreck of his YES
sci which had gone down in a heavy sea,
and on board tramp steamer. And then
the ships passed off into the darkness.
Down at the State prison the officials
are beginning to think that the State
courts must be working nights and Sun
days. Accessions to the prison popu-
demned men are brought in squads of
four to ten men each. The prison Off
Gals are kept busy receiving them, mt
ting them out in appropriate dress, and
tiers. The work of assigning them to dit
ferent shops is done by Warden Smith,
The men are brought into. the guard
room; asked ed their heir name, age, length OF
questions quickly ELECTS such information
as the warden desires and the assignment
is soon made, The whole number in the
prison Thursday, was POS. The prospec-
tive increase will swell the number so as
to equal, If it does not exceed, the larg-
est number ever held in the prison at one
time. There are none to be set free the
present month, and only two whose sem
fences will expire in November.
A bold robber on Portland pier on
Monday afternoon succeeded in getting
away with about $50, the property of
Wj11inr e. VI he l.
ers. 1t was about noon and Mr.. Car
ter was at dinner and there was only
one man about the shop. A young fell
low came into the place and asked 10
look at city directory. He was taken
into the office by the clerk and shown
the directory and the clerk being very
busy then returned to his work in the
outer shop, some distance away FROM
the office In few minutes this
young man went out and some time
later the clerk heard a noise in the of
flee as if some heavy object had fallen
| to the floor. He turned to look toward
| the office and at that minute saw q
man rush out of it and through thu
door on to the wharf. The clerk ran
to the door and caught sight of the
| man rushing up the wharf. The safe,
though the proprietor is sure it was
locked had been opened and rified. No
clue to the robbers.
| rats all summer. They have swarmed
about his stable, carrying off eggs and
chickens, and gnawing into the grain
boxes with persistent teeth. Saturday
noon he carried home an innocent look
ing little steel spring trap with wood
en- background. He baited it with piece
of tough meat and left it in the stable.
| Just as he was about to sit down to din
| ner he heard the trap tumbling about in
| the shed and ran out. 1t had Il rat.
Twice before dinner was over he was
| afternoon. he worked with feverish I'm
patience and hurried home at night. Sat
urday night he caught five before bed
time. Sunday. morning at breakfast his
| upon 'Subduing of the Earth and asked
| him to go. He had headache and
| couldn't. After she had gone neighbor
dropped in and asked him to go fishing.
ter on another man came in and asked
him to go after cartridges. mo, sir, not
| if there were deer in it. I'm having more
sport out in my barn than I've had for
years. See here and he led the way out
| to where a sleek coated weasel was just
nibblng at the trap, and pointed at So
dead rats be axc 6Gn exctedy
| came in over the Grand Trunk today.
| This is for export and will be shipped to
| Paysandu and other South American
| ports. This lumber comes from Canada
| and one of the leading shippers recently
| said that he believed the lumber cut
would be small this winter, and that next
year would be quiet one in the lumber
| trade. The heavy stocks available on
! both sides of the Atlantic would keep
| prices down this year, and he believed
| next springs business would open up on
| low range of prices. To have large
! output this winter would be to invite dis
| aster to the trade next year. The chief
reason for stating that the cut would be
small. he said, was that as operations are
| conducted here it is necessary for the
| large buyers to make advances to many
| operators. They will not be disposed to
| take any risks in that way this winter.
| Small operators usually get advances or
| supplies from merchants near them. The
latter will not care to speculate largely
| on the present outlook. which is anything
but cheerful as regards prices for Il con-
| siderable time to come. In Nova Scotia
| the operators own the lands outright.
They feel that it would pay them much
| better to let their timber get another
years growth and come then on a buoy
| ant market, than to pour further stocks
on an already overloaded market and be
compelled to sell at Improbable prices.
The growth of the timber will pay the in