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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
CREEDE'S MILLIONS.
A Great Legal Battle for the Miners
Fortune Begins.

Creole, like other mining camps
which have attained urban dignities,
is to have it's romance and its cause
celebre. When N. c. Creole, the dis
cCverer of the great Colorado gold
fields and the richest mine owner in
the state, died recently from the re-
suits Of an overdose of morphine, il
was found that he had made q will
leaving his entire fortune to his adopt.
ed daughter, little 6-year-old Dorothy
Edith Creole
1t happens, however, that there is
with her husband for long time, an:l
only last January signed an agreement
releasing all claims upon Mr.. Creede
in consideration of the payment OF
$4,000 Now that her millionaire hus.
band is gone Mrs. Creede regrets hav-
ing let him off so cheaply, and she has
begun in the courts fight to obtain
her share of the big fortune which
Creole dug out of the Colorado hills
1t promises to be an extended litiga-
ton, and little Miss Creole may he
wearing long skirts before judge and
juries finally get through with the
case.
The story Of how Creole happened
to adopt a daughter is a somewhat
romantic one. A year or so ago he
read in the newspapers of the sad
plight of woman who was in the
Los Angeles hospital with her child,
She was the daughter of Captain
Waters, the owner Of San Miguel ISL
and in the Santa Barbara channel. She
ran away and married John Mackay
Walker, a godson of Millionaire Walk
er. He led her such wrecthed life,
however, that she left him and was
sick and in want when she went to
the hospital. Creole generously came
ITO her rescue and later adopted her
little girl. Afterwards Mrs. Walker
secured a divorce from her husband
and married r. H. Bashford a re-
spectacle merchant Of San Francisco
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
THE POINT OF VIEW.

She was sweet little woman, with
big brown eyes and pretty air of
determination and hardly summoned
fortitude as she led a 4-year-old boy
into an uptown barber shop. She took
off his hat and dallied lovingly for a
moment with his long yellow curls.
Then she spoke to the man in the
first chair, but her voice faltered and
fell, and no one else could hear what
she said.
In a minute the little chap was
perched atop of a hassock placed in
a chair, big apron was around his
neck and the barber with comb and
shears in hand was preparing to be-
gin his work.
The little woman seated herself
resolutely with her face to the street
and gazed straight out at the stream
of teams and bicycles that fills Wood
ward avenue, just before noon, but she
didn't seem to see anything of the
long procession.
Snip, snip, snip" went the shears
and still she looked straight ahead be-
fore her. Then her head began to turn
slowly, but, before the fatal chair came
in view, she had recovered her nerve,
and Strengthened herself with a little
SILVER, fixing her gaze once more on
the opposite side of the street.
But that couldn't last long. Her
hands were beating nervously on the
arms of the chair, and the toe of a
dainty boot made rat-a-tat-tat on
the thing. She shifted uneasily in her
seat, and pretty soon her head turned
again, very slowly this time, until she
could see the devastation the shears
had wrought
one side of the little chaps head
was already shorn of it's long locks,
and the unfeeling tonsorial artist held
another curl at full length. Snip"
went the shears. The little woman
gasped and big tear rolled down her
cheek. She hicked it off, but another
followed it. She didn't look away
again, but the BARRIERS task was nearly
finished before she trusted herself to
speak.
Then she swallowed hard, tried to
smile, and said in a strained wobby
voice:
They're almost gone Low, baby"
Yes, responded the youngster With
an approving glance at his reflection
Ill the mirror, II guess Dick won't
call me little girl any more. DE
troit Free Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02

An interesting incident, apropcs Of
our embarrassed bee, was narrated to
Inc by the late Alphonso Wood, the
noted bot !. 81; He had received by
nail from California a small box con-
tanning hundred or more dead bees,
accompanied by lstter. The writer,
an old bee keeper, had experience, and
desired enlightenment and advice.
The letter stated that his bees were
dying by ousands from the attacks
OF a peculiar fungus" The ground
around the hive was Uttered with
the victims in all stages of helpless
ness, and the dead insects were found
everywhere at greater distances scat
tered around his premises. 1t needed
only casual glance at the encumber-
ed insects to see the nature OF the NAL
ady. They were laden two or three
pairs deep, as it were, with the pollen
masses Of milkweed.- William
Hamilton Gibson in Halper's Magazine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
INDUSTRIES OF CITIES.
=. he Making of Great Towns Depends
Upon Circumstances.

Great cities are seldom pre-eminent
for any particular line of manufac-
lures. Their industries are too large
and diversified for any one of them
to show marked superiority over the
rest. Now and then a great industry
of some city is taken from it. When
ships were made of wood, London was
the greatest shipbuilding center of the
world. Then iron ships came into
use and London has lost her ship
building trade, which has been trans
felred to the Clyde, the Tyne and the
Wear, right at the sources of iron and
coal supplies.
The great vessels in which most
ocean commerce is now carried have
severely affected the interests of some
ports. Cities that once were seaports
are now inland, so far as any great
amount of ocean traffic is concerned
The largest ships of commerce could
once sail up the Avon to Bristol and
the Severn to Gloucester. The far
larger ships that now carry commerce
cannot reach these places, but are COM
PEELED to stop at Monmouth and Car
diff Cargoes were formerly landed
as far up the Thames as London
bridge, but steamers now have to stop
at the docks, some miles below that
point. Bremen was once one of the
worlds greatest commercial cities, but
her water front Is now too shallow for
deep-sea vessels, and her port is at
Bremerhaven, several miles below.
Hamburg, accessible to all classes OF
vessels, though 60 miles from the sea,
has reaped the benefit of Bremens
misfortune, which, however, has not
deprived the latter city of a large
carrying trade.
The making Of town or city may
sometimes depend upon what seems at
first a trivial circumstance. Silk Weav
ing is confined to towns where the
streams are particularly free from i'm
purities. Some waters are better than
others for silk dyeing, and this fact
gives Leek, England, it's pre-eminence,
for its waters are among the best for
dyeing purposes in Europe. Burton
on-Trent is famous for its ales. It's
superior water for brewing purposes is
it's sole advantage. --Chautauquan
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
HE EARNS HIS SALARY.
For SIS a Year the Mayor Enforces
the Law Himself

John Mccarthy, bluff, blunt and
No better evidence is needed to estab-
lish the fact that he is not striving
after the perishing emoluments of Of
flee than the statement that the salary
is $75 per year, and during McCarthys
four months incumbency in office he
has spent more than half his years
salary in helping out the unfortunates
who have stood before him awaiting
sentence. John Mccarthy joins with
many other people in the belief that
ii you want anything done do it your
self. When anybody is to be pulled
Mayor Mccarthy is present in flesh
and lends a physical hand. When
there is disagreeable work to be done
he is on deck with his coat off and
sleeves rolled up. When there is a
fight on he leads.
A few weeks ago the agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern railway
several times been fired" from a
freight train had attacked the crew
with rocks. Mayor Mccarthy, in the
absence of any police officer, jumped
into a carriage and hurried to the
scene OF battle. The contest waged hot
when he arrived, but without hesita-
ton he made dash for the leader,
who ran. Jack" started in pursuit,
and lively chase ensued through
yards, alleys, and out upon the prairie,
with the result that the tramp was
oyerhauled AMI lodged in Jail by the
mayor personally. while the North
western resumed business.
The report that a disorderly house
was being conducted on the edge of
the town came to the mayors ears,
and he set out on foot and invest-
gated, verified the report. and routed
the house
An epidemic of HOUSEKEEPING was
Producing a panic among the people.
Mr.. Mccarthy gave largely of his time
to the matter and finally bounced up
on the offenders, who proved to be
five boys of the ages of Is to Is, some
Of them of good families. The mayor
brought them before him. and not
only succeeded in getting confession
from them. but the place where the
booty was hidden. The very next day
three of the boys were sent TO the
reform school and the other two held
to await the action OF the grand jury.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
MOURNING FOR HIS PRIDE.
Here's a Good Story of Clever and
Witty Bishop.

When certain bishop was about to
make a visitation of his diocese his
wife said to him: Now, bishop, you
know you mustn't eat any mince pie;
for you know it never agrees with
you"
mo, | won't" said the bishop, and
Ior awhile he withstood the tempta-
ton in various quarters. But at last
he succumbed to an especially choice
piece, and it was so good that he ate
another. That night he was taken
violently i'll, and the physician who
was summoned was greatly surprised
to find how extremely nervous his
patient was over his condition.
why, bishop, surely you are not
afraid to die?"
oh no." said the bishop. Il am
not afraid to die, but ] am very much
ashamed to die christian Register
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
CHICAGO DRAINAGE CHANNEL.

The greatest feat of sanitary en-
gineering in the world. That is what
the completion of the drainage chan
mel, proper, of the Chicago sanitary
district, at an expense Of $27 200, 900,
will represent. 1t Is expected that this
event will lake place within a short
time; and when 1t does, the occasion
will he memorable, for this mammoth
undertaking has been hedged about,
from the time 1t was first seriously
proposed to the present, with almost
insurmountable difficulties, Indiffer-
ent legislators In the assembly of the
state OF Illinois; legislators who We're
interesting themselves In the enter
prise solely for the purpose Of secur-
ing DOODLE" hostility Of cities and
towns In the territory to be affected
by the operation Of the drainage chan
mel; unwillingness of Chicago citizens
to bear the expense Of constructing the
proposed canGl-theso were among the
contingencies that harassed those who
realized the inestimable value of the
waterway If 1t were once constructed
to say nothing of the formidable per-
plexities attending the actual building,
such as the eXcavating of thousands Of
tens of solid rock, the diverting OF
riN ers. and the devising of machinery
fitted to cope with the vastness of the
work.--John L. Wright in Lippincotts.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02

Tney We're unable to give bonds, and
Mccarthy personally bailed them out
and put them to work upon farms,
where they are now wrestling with
oats, wheat and weeds.
1t came to the knowledge of the
mayor that certain boys and girls were
making the cemetery, just east of town,
loafing place after dark. He per-
sonally made trip there, found them
and locked two boys and a girl in Jail
that night. The following morning
they were tried, found guilty and the
boys sentenced to eight days in Jail
and the girl ordered to leave town.
She had no money and the mayor paid
her fare out of his own pocket
Jefferson, Ia, dispatch in St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Judge Abraham Marks, the origin
all of Lawyer Marks in Harriet Beesh-
er Stows's Uncle Toms Cabin, is
stranded in Chicago at the age of
SO years. Many years Of his life were
spent in southern Louisiana, Texas
and in contiguous territory during
the wild days of 1870. He was
probate judge in San Antonio, Tex;
editor of the Monroe Standard in
Louisiana, which involved him in a
duel and half a dozen indictments
for libel. Speaking of the manner in
which his name came to figure in
Uncle Toms Cabin he said: Mrs.
Stowe wished 20 localize her story
and some one mentioned ny name as
the only attorney in the vicinity,
when she wanted a name for the char
acter of Marks. When | saw Henry
Ward Beecher on one occasion he
told me confidently that if / were
to see the original manuscript it would
be seen that he had written large
part of the book"
1t is said that the Prince Of Wales
visit to Marienbad was not due to
any necessity to take stronger waters
for govt. and gossip has it that his
trip was due to his strong increasing
dislike Of Emperor William. Truth,
however, says the princes trip was
dine to the arrangements made by
the emperor t. entertain the King and
Queen of Italy and hest of other prin
"A OK lo Call -
Homburg, beginning in September, and
tC the Prince Of Wales desire to es-
cape the inevitable round of functions
during the Austrian manoeuyers, for
which the Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught have accepted the emperors
invitation.
Gov. John w. Leedy Of Kansas and
Mrs. Leedy will visit Ohio this week
to attend the reunion of the Leedy fam
lily in Ankeny town, Knox county, on
next Wednesday. The Leedy family
settled in Ohio in 1911, coming from
Maryland. where the founders set
tied before the revolution. Between
1000 and 5000 delegates are expected
at the reunion, which takes place an
nually.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Of 81 Louis,
recently appointed minister to Russia,
is great grandson OF Col, Ethan
Allen. who captured Fort Ticonderoga,
lin the name OF the Great Jehovah
and the continental congress" His
grandfather married he second
daughter of Ethan Allen, aud took
prominent part in the early history
OF Vermont, and was made United
States circuit Judge for the second cir
cult by President Adams,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
OF THE MILKWEED.

Not unfrequently the mechanism so
we'll adapted exceeds its functions and
proves a veritable trap, as indicated in
my specimens. have found three
dead bees thus entrapped in a single
umbel of blossoms, having been ex-
hausted in their struggles for escape;
and q search among the flowers at
any time will show the frequency Of
this fatality, the victims including
gnats, flies, crane-tlies, bugs, wasps,
beetles and small butterflies. In
every instance the prisoner is found
dangling by one or more legs, with
the feet firmly held in the grip of the
fssure
Almost any bee which we may
catch ut random upon a milkweed
tngs. its toes being decorated with the
tiny yellow tags. each successive flower
giving and taking, eXchar ging COM
pliments, as 1t were, with his fellows.
Ordinarily this fringe cen hardly prove
an embarrassment. bat we may fire.
qnently discern an individual here and
there which for some reason has re !.
c.eved more than his share of the milk.
weeds compliments. Ills legs are
conspicuously fringeG with the yellow
tugs. He rests with discouraged air
upon a noighboring leaf, while honey.
and even wings. are seemingly for
gotten in his efforts TO scraIe off the
cumbersome handicap
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02

An attache of the New York Museum
OF Natural History mas been conduct
ing peculiar inquiry in the shopping
region. He has been inspecting fem
mime headgear there, and has compiled
a list of birds which he saw used In
adjoining the same. Forty species are
represented, including thrushes. warb-
lers, shrikes, fiycatchers, tanagers,
sv allows, waxwings, grosbeaks, spar
re VS., orioles. woodpeckers, jays. owls.
glcrse, doves, quails. shore birds,
hercns, gulls. terms and grobes In
all he saw 173 wild birds or parts of
TT EN- on the headpieces.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The cordiality Of the duke of York s
elcome TO Ireland surprises every
body.
1t was reported in London that ex-
lied Spanish anarchists started from
England for America.
DR.. j. b. Angel the new United
States minister to Turkey, has ar
rived in Constantinople.
J. Platt Belts broke the mile bicycle
record at Crystal Palace. London.
T me, minute 81 3-5 seconds.
Michael Angiolilia, alias Coli, the
assassin of Senior Canovas del Castillo
was garroted at Vergara, Spain.
Religious leaders of all the tribes in
the Upper Swat valley offered uncon-
ditional submission to Britain.
The frontier risings in India were
caused by Br tish treachery, Gen. Sir
Neville Cham berlain frankly asserts.
The tribesnen along the whole
northwestern frontier are reported to
be seriously menacing British India.
The British military authorities in
India are getting their troops ready to-
meet any uprising of the natives, no
matter how widespread.
A bomb exploded in Paris near the
Northern RuIlday station ten minutes
after President Faure left on his
journey to visit the car.
Drit re In
struck their officers, were punished
severely by Il Court-martial, one of
them receiving twenty-four lashes.
The Spanish queen regent has con-
Azcarraga, who is also minister of war.
The cabinet will not be modified.
The king of Siam, who is in London,
will not visit the United States, as at
first proposed but will re-embark on
his yacht at Marseilles and sail for
home.
Senior Sagasta, the Spanish liberal
leader, Is said to have written a letter
in which he stated that the Cuban
atrocities are raising a thrill of
horror In Europe.
A Berlin dispatch reports that Pres
ident McKinley's efforts have failed to
ascertain how long Europe will remain
silent if America adopts an offensive
policy towards Spain.
Baron Mackau, one of the chief
promoters of the charity bazaar in Paris
ut which over one hundred lives were
lost by fire in May last, has been
placed on trial in that CITY, along
with two other persons, charged with
homicide through their imprudence
upon that occasion.
Bombs were exploded in Constanti-
nople near the grand viziers office and
the police headquarters. An Armenian
was caught trying to ignite explosives
in the Ottoman bank and the sultan s
household was said to be in ahiect
tesro
The correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle, in a letter from Cuba, says
the paciiicos are dying by the hun
dreds their bodies tainting the air
close 80 a Spanish fort" The Chron-
iole correspondent remarks that a
private letter has been received at
Havana from Senior Sagasta, the liberal
leader in Spain in which he says:
"The atrocities are raising thrill
of horror in Europe, and | fear it is
| impossible to raise fresh loans with
Cut which we cannot retain Cuba.
German syndicates are buying the de-
vastatod estates at nominal sums and
| intend to go in extensively for coffee
planting abandoning sugar
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02

luckless ones from Klondyke to the
new diggings. News Of the discovery
reached Juneau Aug. in a letter
written on June %. O'Brien in his
brief letter declares that six of the
streams tributary to the Klondyke
have proven icher than the most san
guine had predicted, and that their
output, with the new discovery, more
than redeems the gold promise of the
Kiondyke.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
A SHARP SHAFT.

Montana mentions a mine that was
bought for % cents and sold for ST.
100000. Klondyke should understand
that it is not the only pebble on the
gravel train.-St Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02

Come up to nv house tomorrow
night said Herr Pantoffel. I'm go7
ing to celebrate my golden wedding.
Golden wedding? Why, man, you
have only been married three years"
Il know It; but II seems like 80"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
WOES OF KANSAS.

A delegation of Gotham waits has
left New York for Eldorado, Kan.
Waits and walls are about all Kansas
gets from the east.-Atchison Globe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
A CAPITAL CAPITAL.

Apparently the future capital of
the United States is In Alaska. A
good deal of 1t Is. any way.--Boston
Globe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-02
LEAVE HOPE BEHIND.

There are already more ways OF
getting into the Klondyke country
than OF getting out of it--San Fran
cisco Call
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-14
THIRTEEN CT UB DIMES IN NEWARK.
The Foes or superutition Driven from View Yori,
by the Raines Law.

by the Raines Law.
yesterday for It's June dinner. because the 18th
of this month and the Raines law had a conflict
1t was intended to hold the dinner In the roof
garden OF the New Jersey Central building in Lib
erty street and to make it a family affair. but
Trier. who runs the restaurant there, refused to
serve wine. Other hotel keepers were equally
careful, and Samuel X. Bergen, Receiver" OF
the club, persuaded the other officers to go to
Newark, where he lives, and arranged for an
which is conducted by Louis f Cooke OF the
Barnum & Bailey combination. The idea Of
giving the women O treat was abandoned and
the members and guests were told that they
would have an unrestricted opportunity Of eN-
pressing their opinions OF the Raines law.
thirteen places each. Only. four OF the tables
were filled. Over No. l presided Col. +. {. Ham
ilton. the Chief Ruler OF the club. and in his
charge were George Francis Train. former Con
T. p. McElroth. Theo. W. Davis, c. 1. Scham.
pain. Capt. Fowler, VIM. p. Condit, and Col.
Henry W. Rider. The other tables were pre-
sided over by VIM. c. Marion, First Vice Ruler
Ruler. and Mr.. Bergen. Receiver. There were
coffin-shaped black car wine lists at each plate.
and each one of the thirteen courses served at
thirteen minutes to z O'Clock had something
about II to bring to mind the traditions and laws
of the organization which detes popular super
stition.
vice.Presideut Hobart. the New Jersey United
States Senators and congressman, and other
men OF prominence sent regrets. Speeches were
made by George Francis Train; Thomas Dunn
eral others. and it was late at night when the
party broke up.