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Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Market Prices at Klondyke.

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Following are the prevailing prices
Of the commodities of life in theKlon'
dyke gold region of Alaska:
Tobacco, per H., o..
Canned fruit, per can, $2.25.
Coal oil, per gallon, $3.50.
Lemons, each, 25 cents.
Oranges, each, so cents.
Liquors, per drink, so cents.
Miners picks, each, 81.
Shovels, each, ss to $1s.
Shoes, per pair, SIS to ss.
Rubber boots, per pair, S12 to S1s,
Flour, per 100 lbs, s12 to s12O.
Beef, per h., 81 to 81.
Bacon. per h., so cents.
Moose hams, each, $50.
Moose hams, per h., 80.
Rice, per h., rs cents.
Tea, per h., %.
Coffee, per h., $2.25.
Butter, per h., $3.50.
Eggs, per dozen, 90.
Potatoes, per h., $3.50.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Real Estate Transfers.

The sales of property by warranty
deed since our last report have been
as follows:
Frank A. Pearl to Jasper @. King,
lots / and 2, block 5, Muldrow's sub
division, Mexico, $500.
Geo. W.Newgent and wife to Olar-
ence A. Barnes, northwest southeast,
e-52-s and roadway adjoining, $1,000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

MRS. LEASE has about concluded
that what Kansas needs is not a Gov
ernor, but a governess.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

PROFESSOR ANDREE's arrangements
for his return trip are somewhat
shaky, but his facilities for sending
messages appear to be all right.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

THE man who starts to Alaska on
the spur of the moment will require
some other motive power before ne
completes the round trip.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Do you feaI weak, weary low spirit
ed, with poor appetite and disturbed
digestion2 You should try a bottle of
MACDoNALD's BARLEY ELIxER. 1t is
a stomach tonic, stimulant and blood
purifier, and its reviving and invigo-
rating influence is instantly apparent.
AS pleasant as the juice of a sweet
orange. Price s1.00. Sold by @. A.
RItCKNER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Mr.. DINGLEY will wait a few days
before deciding whether to throw
bouquets at himself or take to the
woods.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

THE real gold mine is not located
on the Klondyke, but in the stores of
the outfitters at Seattle.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Misses Callie and Beth Wisdom paid
q flying visit last week to Mrs. Jos.
Booth, of Champ, Mrs Carter Leeper,
OF Hatton, and to Fulton friends.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

PRrcKLY ASH BfTTERs cures the
Kidneys, regulates the liver and puri-
hes the bowels. A valuable system
tonic. Sold by @. A. BuCKNER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

ST~ATIsTICIANs say the gold output
of the world is sS,7s1, s5s, 200 and that
three counties yielded half of it in
fifty years. The United States annual
yield is $4,000, 900; Australia, $685.
100000; South Africa, $50, OOO, 900.
When the Montgomery county mines
are fully developed the yield of the
United States will be very perceptibly
larger,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
AS a soothing and strengthening ner

As soothing and strengthening ner-
vine, nerve food, or invigorator, DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is un-
equaled and is invaluable in allaying
and subduing nervous excitability,
~irritability, nervous exhaustion, ner-
vous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria,
spasms, chorea, Dr. st. Vitus' Dance,
and other distressing, nervous symp-
toms commonly attendant upon func-
tional and organic disease of the
womb. Ii induces refreshing sleep and
relieves mental anxiety and despond-
ency. Even insanity, when de-
pendent on womb disease, as is often
the case, is cured by it.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Miss May Owen, formerly of this
city, was married Sunday in Nevada,
where she lives with a married sister.
She married a Mr.. Aaron Hedges, of
Nevada. She is expected here to-
morrow on a visit to her brother, j.
Ii. Owen.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

THE Fifty fifth Congress will never
be able to live down its sugar scented
reputation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Antarctic Circle Explorers,

To the Editor OF the Ledger.
MARTINsBURG, No., July 27.-Can
the LEDGER give information why ex-
plorers do not seek the South Pole as
p~ersistently as they do the North?
What are the climatic conditions OF
the South Pole? WEEKLY READER.
A number of expeditions from diff
ferent countries to the Antarctic Cir
Gle have been lost and several other
explorers have been so fortunate as to
return. All that is known of the South
Pole at the present is this: Nobody
has got nearer than within 100 miles
of it; icy barriers exist which quite
eclipse those of the North Pole; noun
tains have been discovered of lofty al
titudes, some of which are active vol
canoes; the land is covered with snow
at all times of the year; no human
being has been met with south of sc
degrees; nc vegetable growth of any
moment has been cen beyond 5S de-
grees; no land quadruped ia known to
exist beyond &C degrees. In no other
part of the world do frost and fire
hold such undivided sway. The vol
cano known as "Mt. Terror" con-
stantly belcbes forth lava and ashes
over the mountains of snow and ice.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Saving of $4,000.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, July 26.-H
is estimated here tonight by the boat
men who heard the elementary school
book bids read before the commissiou
this morning that the School Book
Commission saved $25, 200 per year =
$125, 900 in the five years to the peopk
of the state by rejecting all bids III
week and advertising anew.
Mrs. Joseph Laird, of Vandalia, w
the guest of Mrs. M. N. Nelson to-
day, while en- route home from Jones'
burg.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

THE value of the Missouri fruit crop
this year is estimated at $40, 200, 000, or
more than the wheat crops of Missouri
and Illinois combined with the Mis-
souri, cotton crop thrown in. The mag
nitude of the revolution implied in
these figures can best be appreciated
by those who remember the time--not
so very long ago-when it vas thought
"picayunish" for a Missouri planter to
sell his surplus fruit instead of giving
it to his neighbors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Mrs. Rice, sister Of Rad Robinson,
Of this city, died at her home, near
Clark, Monday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
Scant Bathing Costumes.


The i~rrepressible Bob White, writing
from Long Branch to his paper, the
Mexico LEDGER, mentions an instance
where some women and men persist
ed in shocking the modesty of the
guests at the hotel by bathing In a
state of nudity. This should not ap-
pear SO very shocking when we take
into confederation the modern seaside
bathing costume which frequently
consists of nothing to cover the fe-
male form above the waist, leaving the
breast and arms exposed, while from
a point six inches above the knees to
the feet, there is no covering. 1t is
true, the middle of the body is encased
in a fiimsy, gauzy something that but
tons up behind, fits skin tight, and
nudity would be decent compared to
it, especially when the buttons fly of
In the rear or the button holes won't
connect.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

NUGGETS OF gold r likely to be
worth their weight l n potatoes and
hardtack along the Klonkyke this
uiutar.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Miss Alice Brooks is the guest of
Perry relatives.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Rev. Xenophan Ryland, Synodical
Evangelist of Missouri, win begin a
protracted meeting ut the South Fork
Presbyterian church on Saturday
aveniuo. July 30, at 8 O'Clock.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

A. l.. Gard was in town from Aux
vase Tuesday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Married, Wednesday, July IS, at the
residence OF Mr.. Wright, in North
Mexico, Mr.Albert Chandler and Mise
Myrtle Burweli, both Of Martinsburg,
this county, Rev.I. F. Lusk officiating.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

Rev. A.W. Paisley will on next Mon
day night begin a ~protracted meeting
at Liberty Christian Church. Every
body Is cordially invited to attend.
Service every evening at 1880 O'Clock.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29

14-4t.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-29
TOWARD G

Em r higher etucaaon Of YOUNG Women Preparatory and Collegiate Courses
b.apbf, snmaaasse,AA faiE hcuMon Desartea and Physical Culture Location fesunfni md
Hn p%Tnas address 3 sG% ss1 P. ssssn' . sz Forh iusTassd catalogue living
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

If half that the press report as to
Republican matters in Maryland is
true, Senator Wellington of that state
is the worst knocked out man politi-
cally that ever got job. He abus-
ed his position to put his friends in
power in Baltimore, interfering in the
municipal contest there, and in the
primaries that sent delegates to the
convention. He attempted to officer the
state convention and he was complete
ly defeated. The committee on Gre
dentials refused to seat the Baltimore
delegates on account of Irregularities
in the primaries and adjourned the
convention for two weeks in order that
proper representation might be had.
Unless there is better work than that
by the Republicans in that state Cor
man will have it grabbed in short me-
ter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The new lynching law, that abro
gates the term of office of any sheriff
that permits a man to be lynched
while in his custody has an afterward
to it, and in rape cases where the peo-
pie are hot the likelihood is that the
lynching will hereafter be done before
the sheriff gets hands on the criminal.
1t will take more than the present
law to prevent lynching n Texas rap
list.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

There seems to be some personal
feeling between Rend, the Chicago op-
orator and Ratchford, the president of
the mine workers association, and it
had its effect in preventing any harm
ony of action in the conference. Rend
talks as though the operators would
not "give in" no matter what results
were reached in the meeting. There
is nothing for the miners in a dose
like that.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
TO CORRESPONDENTS

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
cIrY cIRcuLAr1oN NOTICE.

Mr.. Dan C. Bitter, from date, has
been given entire charge Of the City
circulation of the Daily and Sunday
Light and will deliver papers to sub
scribers and collect for same. All
complaints for non-delivery and
changes can be given to him or tele-
phoned to the office.
z. B. JOHNSON,
Manager, San Antonio Light.
San Antonio, Texas, Nay 9, 1896.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Houston Post misses it as usual
when it says that Galveston can COM
pei the Mallory people to come to taw.
Galveston does not own the Mallory
line, the thing is twisted the other
way. See!
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The Nebraska Republicans are not
unwise in leaving out all reference to
financial policies in their state plat
form. That state has ticklish nag
to ride and as there is nothing in the
state convention that requires any fl
nancial action it was well to let the
sleeping dog lie
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

That st. Louis man who lifts a trifie
of ODD pounds over two tons at one
straight lift, not on lifting machine,
would not require any help to lift his
OK or ass out of a pit on the Sabbath
or any other day. Louis st. Cyr is
not in it with this fellow by more than
600 pounds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

So long as Kentucky towns are tax
ing themselves increasingly to sup
port schools there is hope for the state.
Money put into educational work is
out at good interest and capital Sc
cured.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The Kaiser is not troubled With
bomb throwing anarchists. Do they
think him non compos and so give
him the same leeway that the aborig-
ines usually do to those who are
weak minded?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Not one of the 500 G. A. r. who Wis
tied Toronto could be prevailed on to
carry a British flag in their procession,
and as that was required as a condi-
ton of "Old Glory" floating at the
head of their columns they hired a
Kanuck kid to carry the union jack.
No Britishers in that crowd.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Hawaii and Japan are talking over
that arbitration business, and will I'M
til Uncle Sam steps in and taking pos
session of the islands in the Pacific
ends the useless controversy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Railroad lines in general show a
disposition to advance grain rates ow-
ing to the rush, but on the other hand,
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phis announces a cut for two weeks.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Those who wish to see the largest
ship that ever entered the port of
Galveston can go donw now and over
look the European fresh from South
Africa She will be out of quaran-
tine on Sunday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

1t is unfortunate that San Antonio
has such a reputation for being ''wet"
that Jupiter Pluvius has concluded
that rain is not needed here. Jupiter
is very much mistaken in his calcu-
lation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.

AUTHORIZED CULLECIUhS.
The following named are authorized
collectors of the Light:
H. C. SCHUMACHER, Advertising.
w. T. SCHUMACHER, Advertising.
DAN C. BITTER, Subscription.
HARVEY L. STEELE, Subscription.
Subscribers are requested not to pay
their subscription without taking re-
ceipt.
T. B. JOHNSON, Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

San Antonio is cOmpIimented in be-
ing chosen as the seat Of that conser-
vatory of music. She is placed under
bonds as it were by this choice to sus-
tain 1t with all her enthusiasm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

There is money enough in America
to buy bread for those $4,000 starving
miners in Indiana, and there should be
justice enough in the, country to see
that they work at living wages.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Lee says that the newspapers have
painted this. Miss Cisneros business
altogether too gorgeously. This will
be accepted as pretty near the truth,
that is if Consul Lee really did say
so.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The Mallory line will not confer,
but announces its two-cent rate per
hundred pounds right along. AS long
as that rate lasts there will be bust
ness. but how about the financial re-
turns?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

That rapist who promised to wire
the sheriff from heaven next March
got hold of the other place that begins
with and h. The place that he will
wire from no doubt is the antipode to
heaven.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The famous Khyber pass, in north
west India, is in possession of the mu-
timers. This leaves the road for the
ingress of the mountain tribes open
to the rebels.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Southern seaports have not cut
their eye teeth yet, but they are al
ready cutting into the business of the
northern ports to very considerable
extent. There is more to follow.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The music between the bulls and the
bears in the wheat pit has only COM
menced. AS the farmers hold the
bulk of the grain, in their own hands
they will notl for the music this
time.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Uncle Sam has concluded not to
freeze the noses. off his biologists in
Alaska this winter. He will spring
that on them in the spring. 1t would
be wise for others to follow suit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

As it was in the beginning, is now
and shall be, San Antonio is several
laps ahead. of any other city in the
state in the matter of school census.
Only Houston thought it could be 9th
erwise.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Maryland politics is peculiar. Cor
man retires from state management
willingly and Wellington the Republic
can boss, finds his waterloo at the
hands of his own party.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Great Britain is ready to chip in
with France and Russia and pay that
indemnity for Greece. Russia and
France are too busy embracing" just
now to attend strictly to money mat
tiers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Cuba is steadily settling down to a
condition of hopelessness, so far as
the defeat of the rebellion is concern
ed. That has passed beyond the ex-
perimental stage. Cuba will finally
win her freedom.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

There is not a newspaper of any re-
pute in Texas that advocates lynch
ing, most of them rebuke the practice,
all of them combined cannot prevent
it. The epidemic lies in the air, like
dengue.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

1t is like going around Davie Jones'
barn to get Into the back door, to go
around by the Yukon to get into the
Klondike. That whole business up
there seems. to be inverted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The less stock a man takes in those
Klondike stories until he finds out
whether or no they are inspired by
men with claims to sell, the better for
his cash and his comfort.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

More than an inch and a half Of
rain has fallen at Eagle Pass this
week, not in one dash, but in steady
soaking rains that do the country a
power of good. Yet it comes not here.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

That conservatory of music that is
to be opened in this city will add one
more to the high grade educational at
fractions of this metropolis of the
great southwest. 1t comes to stay.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Uncle Sam has a large family OF
school children and it is growing.
There are 100000 more in the public
schools Of the nation now than there
were in 1890. A 80 per cent. increase
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The man who browns his wife in a
well should be drowned as well. Such
men are only fit to be used as compost
for enriching the soil. There is no ex-
cuse on earth for their being on earth.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Alaska is like stephen in the song,
mighty deceivin'. Look it up on the
map and figure how many hundred
miles the western point of our Alaska
property is west of Honolulu.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The true American party is the one
that puts America first and does II
first, last and all the time.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

1t was not question of men in Uru-
quay, but of policies and as Borda's
policy is still adhered to the rebels
are still in arms and will be until one
party or the other is whipped out.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

If Organism could not win on 5
cent dollar in 1896, how can it win o.
a 43 cent dollar in 1898.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1897.

That fight in Uruguay will go on all
the same, Borda being dead, as when
he was alive.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

There is lull before the storm in
Spain. What will be end of the
change there no one knows.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The mutineers in India are giving
the British forces in the Punjaub the
hot end of the poker.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Silver is going down, but Mexican
bonds are anxiously sought after by
the London bankers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The Afridis people seem not to be
afraid to tackle the British troops in
their strongholds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Free silver enthusiasm in New York
has gone into winter quarters very
early in the campaign.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Alaska laps way over the north end
of the Pacific ocean and makes us
near neighbors to Japan.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

AS between pure greenbacks and free
silver at 16 to 1 the greenback will
get it every time.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Bailey is counting speakership
chickens before they are Matched. Not
an uncommon fallacy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Greenbacks instead of. free silver
will be the issue of the cranks in 1900.
Such is life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Tammany is sick of it's late declara-
tons in favor of the Chicago platform,
free silver and all.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The British tennis players also rem
der homage to their American victors.
1t is our year.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

The American party that had its
bornin' in st. Louis, is nothing more
than a greenback crowd.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

Cotton is going to camp on the trail
Of wheat. There is not doubt Of
4 raise. Short crop.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-28

All contracts or bills must be approx
ed by the Secretary or Manager.