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The Meeker herald., 1898-10-22

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The Meeker herald., 1898-10-22
Denver Directory.

OXFORD HOTEL Depot, nstn St s.;ssy Hsns pass r,s.s
C1nss. Popular Prices. KAPPLER 4 MORSE.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

E. T. Naghel was down from Chico
yesterday.
Miss Helen Howe has returned from
Bartlett Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Craig Of Chicago are
stopping at the Golden Eagle
Miss Lydia Schubert is spending the
month Of August at Pacific Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. A Mahoney of San
Francisco are at the Golden Eagle.
Deputy Surveyor General Frank
Wright is back from Bartlett Springs.
Mrs. L. Hembree and daughter Hattie
have gone to Santa Cruz for two weeks
E. B. Willis, wife and son returned
yesterday from Summit Soda Springs
Editor V. c. Richards of the Chico
Record" was in the city yesterday
Last night John Lindemeyer left for a
visit to Germany. He will be absent
three months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Paterson will
leave to-day for a months visit to the
Catalina Islands.
Herman H. Grau and family who
had been on a visit to Bartlett Springs
the past month, have returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. NJ Jones have re-
turned from a few days pleasure trip to
San Francisco and the coast. Mrs
Jones was absent five weeks.
This afternoon Judge Johnson and his
brother, Professor Joseph W. Johnson
will leave for camping trip in the
wilds Of Trinity County. They will
go to St Helena, Napa County by rail-
where they will be joined by relative.
The wagon trip Will be made from
thQra
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The Sewage Of Paris.

The sewage farm at Acheres, Wnlcn
is fertilized by the sewage of Paris,
has been successful both for the puri-
fication of the sewage and the produc-
ton of various crops. The sewage
which amounts to 17,66O,OO cubic feet
per diem, flows as far as Clinchy by
gravity, and is there raised lis feet
and distributed over the farm. At pres
ent the pumping station is Of LOO
horse power capacity, but it is to be
increased to 5000, and to deal with the
output Of the Paris sewers would re-
uuire a farm Of II, 100 acres instead of
the 2,471 acres now under cultivation.
The land is worth five times as much
as previously, and many Of the land
owners are eager to have the sewage
supplied to their properties. When the
sewage leaves the farm SO great is the
degree Of publication attained that a
bacterial examination reveals fewer
bacteria to the cubic centimeter than
in the case with most streams supposed
to be uncontaminated
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INDIGNANT NEIGHBORS.
They Cause the Arrest Of a Man for
Abusing His Sick Wife.

D. A. Lake, a vender of fiavoring ex-
tracts, who lives at Nineteenth and |
streets, was arrested last night. and
serious charge will probably be placed
against him.
About 9 o'clock the police were in
formed that Lake, who was drunk, had
thrown his sick wife, who was i'll with
typhoid fever, from the bed to the floor,
and then kicked over the lamp.
The patrol wagon was sent out. but
when it arrived on the scene Lake was
not to be found. The wagon was re-
turned to headquarters, but was again
sent out with instructions to wait for
Lake and bring him in, if it took all
night
When the officers again reached the
Lake domicile the man they were af-
ter was creating a disturbance on the
sidewalk, and they gathered him in.
The neighborhood was much excited at
the manner in which Lake had treated
his sick wife. He was locked up pend
ing an investigation
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turned their attention to some form
of diversion that may afford salts
factory substitute. The random run
has met with some favor, but 1t has
not entirely filled the bill The latest
suggestion is that the big cycle clubs
each hold what is known as a ''gymk-
hana," or set of cycle games and odd
feats performed upon the wheel. IhlS
form of sport has proved popular In
England and other European lands,
and has been tried in few instances
and upon small scale in this country.
1t has one appealing feature-it IS
adapted to both wheelmen and wheel
women almost without distinction. In
general the games require more skill
and agility than main strength, ana
for that reason may not gain favor
with certain class.
The first woman in England to adopt
the bloomer costume is said to be Mrs.
Bonser, the wife of a hotelkeeper at
Effingham, near Ripley, and Mrs Jet-
ferson, wife Of the well-known eXplOr-
er, the second.
In summer weather most cyclists
know how troublesome it is to have
a swarm Of insects around ones head
some of which will persist in getting
into the eyes. Accidents have thus
been caused Something ingenious in
the way of eye guards has just been in
troduced 1t has neither glass nor Gel
luloid and yet affords complete protec-
ton to the eyes. 1t has the appear
ance of an ordinary pair of spectacles,
but instead of glass a closely woven
netting is used
The earlier notion that it was easier
to train and do ones best for the mile
than for any other distance is set aside
by the findings of the up-to-date rae
ing man of the present.
Sea air is good for played out hu-
manity, but it does not improve the
bicycle. Cycling visitors at shore re-
sorts should rub the bright parts Of
their machines frequently with an oily
rag.
An expert says: ga popular fallacy
is the notion that, other things being
equal a machine with a low hanging
crank bracket runs easier than one with
a higher bracket. Elaborate tests eail
to show anything for or against the
idea so far as running qualities are
concerned. The statement, often made
that the chain runs easier down hill
may be answered by asking how it gets
up hill again to the starting point"
& +
THE average life of a CYCLE says a
dealer, should probably be from four
to six years. The chief means of de-
termining the length of it's existence
lies in the care bestowed on it, quality
of the roads, and its weight compared
with that Of its rider"
Cyclists desiring to join the Califor-
mia Associated Cycling Club may OBJ
tain full printed information and mem
bership blanks by sending their names
and addresses to Stanley G.. Scovern,
Secretary, San Francisco. The organi-
zation now has twenty clubs and 1100
members of the unattached class. It
gives each member a fine map and di-
rectory road book and a years sub
scription TO the official cycling paper
1t secures special hotel rates and pro-
notes good road work and genteel ath-
letic sports and exercises.
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Extensive TeIegranhing.

Sixteen thousand dollars is said to be
the record price paid for a cablegram,
that price having been paid for q
message sent by Henniker Heaton to
Australia in behalf of the British Par
liament. Reuters account of the mur-
.derer Deeming's trial, 1000 words, cost
$4,000. A 1,S0O-word dispatch from
London to Argentina cost $500. The
most expensive private message so far
lis that sent by the King of Italy TO
the Duke Of Abruzzi at Rio Jeneiro,
informing him Of the death of his
father, the late Duke Aosta, which cost
$3.50. The New York Times cable
dispatch of the proposed Spanish treaty
some years ago cost $1,000.
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ALL BUT HIS STOVE.
Thieves Made a Clean Sweep Of
Ambruster's Stuff.

Several months ago a man named
Ambruster, who lived in a houseboat
up the river near Bryte's ranch, was
convicted on a charge Of assault and
sentenced to serve a term in the Yolo
County Jail.
His time expired yesterday, and when
he returned to his river house he found
that it had been raided during his alb
sence and everything except the stove
was stolen. There is no clew to the
thieves.
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Sailors Superstitions.

Spanish sailors on certain days in the
week or month lay aloft at sunset and
beat the sheaves and pins of the blocks
to drive the devil out Of the gear, and
the noise they make is horrid din.
This is said to have originated in an or
der given which resulted in disaster A
certain Spanish squadron that had been
anchored some time was surprised by
the enemy and could not make sail
and escape as all the blocks were rust
ed and useless.
The Spanish sailor has no prejudice
against starting out on voyage on
Friday, that being the day on which
Columbus started on his voyage of dis
covery. English and American sailors
will not sail on that day if they can
help it, They consider the whole trip
hoodooed by such a beginning.
A sneeze at sea would hoodoo the
ship unless it happened to turn to the
right, when it brings good luck. Sail
ors have faith in odd numbers, and ma
val gunners carry out this belief IN
the number Of times they fire salute.
Whistling for wind is another favor
ite superstition of the men before the
mast. This is trick when ships are
becalmed, as whistles rash bid tenn
pests roar" A "capful of wind" or "a
bagful'' usually defines the quantity
The phantom ship, so often seen by
navigators, is not purely the appari-
ton of romance, but a mirage, some-
thing almost as wonderful, but not of
the supernatural order
The horseshoe is still a popular con-
tribution by sailors to the fetish Of
good luck A distinguished precedent
is given for this Lord Nelson believed
in the luck of the horseshoe, and had
one nailed to the mast of his ship
Victory.
A peculiar superstition is that If wo-
men are taken on board a vOyaging
ship some disaster will follow. This
may be the reason why no government
ship is allowed to carry women passen-
gers. Sailors, too, prefer ship that
has a masculine name, or is called after
some man, or is geographical. A line
of steamers will often employ certain
selection Of names TO the exclusion Of
all others The Cunard steamers end
all their names with ia a feminine
terminal, but one that has been the re-
verse of disastrous, since that line has
never lost a ship. Captains are quite
as superstitious as their crews, being Of
better education, and that may ac-
count for the names of sailing vessels
being identical with that of wife or
sweetheart Certain names are known
in the history of nautical nomenclature
as hoodoos They have been painted
over and other names substituted, but
bad luck attended the ship, and not
even reconstruction saved it. Then, IL
the name must be feminine, the crew
want something they are familiar with
One old tar who was told the name OF
a new ship was the Aurora said:
why don't they leave poetry to the
navy folk and stick to the Susannahs
and Mary AIMS and Jemimas Of my
day? Aurora! How is plain able
seaman to answer a hail with such
mouthful as that behind his teeth?'-
Chicago Times-Herald.
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Freight for the East.

During the month Of June Sacramento
shipped over the Southern Pacific sys-
tenn, for Eastern points, 1884 tons of
freight, as against %. .221 for San Fran
cisco, 1865 for Oakland, 2.940 for San
Jose, 1884 for Stockton, 715 for Marys-
vile and 4,0SS for Portland Sacra-
mento's shipments We're thus made up:
Borax 130 brandy 5, canned goods
73, cattle 5,1S7, copper matte "a, fruit
(dried) SO, fruit (green deciduous) 6,916,
groceries 2, hops 80. horses 70. leather
164, lumber 139, miscellaneous 141,
ores 500, potatoes 29S, vegetables 531,
saddlery and harness 10, wine 1,245,
wool grease SO, wool (pulled) %, sheep
80 wooden goods .
The record-union., 1898-07-30
OPEN-AIR MUSIC.
Program for Sunday Evening on
the Plaza,

On Sunday evening the Foresters'
Band, George G. Holbrook conductor,
will render the following program at
the City Plaza. The concert will begin
at 7:3O o'clock and continue till $50:
1. Overture, The Minstrel. Laurendeau
2. Potpourri, "Lupercalia' .Dalbey
9. Waltzes, "1001 Nights. .......... Strauss
4. Cuban serenata, Leila" . Chambers
5. Jas. ]. Mackey, the renowned i'm
personator of Carol Johnson, in his
own creation, Winners in de Gran
Cake Walk"
6. Grand fantasia, Opera Maritana"..
7. Medley. Gems of Scotland". Mckay
s. Selection, "Offenbachiana" .Offenbach
8. Overture, Jolly Robbers" .Suppe
'.Star-Spangled. Banner, >,
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PAINFUL ACCIDENT.
That Which Yesterday Befe1l Row
land T. Mitchell.

While saving wood in the Harkness
Grammar School yard yesterday Row
land L. Mitchell had the misfortune to
lacerate one of his fingers so badly that
he will lose it.
Mr.. Mitchell was one of the gardeners
in Capitol Park until the recent change
IN the political character of the Capitol
commissioners, caused by the death of
treasurer Rackliffe, when he was re-
moved to make place for some Demo-
crat. tt.xsiIX
Mr. Mitchell is a first class citizen,
an intelligent, industrious man. and
taxpayer in the city. He is now in
a position to realize that misfortunes
never come singly
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Lee Is All Right.

Reference was made the other day to
the fact that a stranger was arrested
here on suspicion Of having stolen jew
elry in his possession. He gave his
name as Davis s. Lee and claimed to
be legitimate peddler.
Sheriff Johnson released him and tel
egraphed to the Chief of Police of Los
Angeles an inquiry as TO Lees stand
ing. Yesterday he received the follow
ing reply:
Davis S. Lee is all right
The record-union., 1898-07-30
CAR WAS IN MOTION.
Accident to DR.. HI. L. Nichols Last
EVENING"

City Physician III. l.. Nichols had an
experience last night which was ex-
ceedingly unpleasant. He was riding
on G street car, and at Seventh and
* streets started to change his seat in
side for one on the front platform.
The car on which DR.. Nichols was
riding was in the act of passing another
going in the opposite direction at the
moment he stepped out on the side
board, and as the tracks are rather
close together he was struck and knock
ed between the cars and received an
injury to one of his legs
The record-union., 1898-07-30
Hotel Arrivals,

Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel
yesterday: B. Marx, New York: M.
Lewis. Cleveland; G. w. Brown, Den
Yer; George E. Necombe, E. ]. Gumpert,
New York; G. w. Curran, ST. Louis; A.
Craig and wife, Chicago; d. B. Wiley,
A. Maloney and wife, H. G. Merrill, A.
G. Riding, A. S. Rix, c. A. Thurston,
r. NJ. Woodford, w. P. Taylor, E. B.
CaSttey San Francisco
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Y. M. C. A. Notes.

There will be a meeting for young
men at the rooms of the Young Mems 5
Christian Association on Sunday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock. j. H. Lawrence.
President of the association, will speak.
All men are welcome.
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How They Lined UP.

Yesterday Judge Hart admitted to
citizenship Charles Ennis of Canada,
John Horsens of Denmark, Peter Kuhn
of Germany and Robert Oman of Swe-
den
Judge Johnson admitted George Nett
of Switzerland.
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Found But One Hog.

Albert Grubbs. the scavenger, was
sent out yesterday by Mayor Land to
see if he could find any dead hogs in
the river. Grubbs inspected the river
for seven miles up. and found only the
carcass Of one hog and one COW. They
were not, however, in the water, but
some distance up on the bank. The
carcasseS were removed
The record-union., 1898-07-30
Murphy's Body Recovered.

The body Of Murphy, the deckhand
of the steamer Acme, who fell over
board about a week ago, was yesterday
recovered from the river at the foot of
n street. 1t is now at the Morgue.
The body was discovered by having
lodged in the paddle wheel of the
steamer Jacinto.
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Hart Still Confident.

A letter was received in this city yes
terday from w. HI. H. Hart, now in
Washington, in which he expressed
confidence that the Government would
accept the brigade which he proposed
enlisting on this coast.
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night, and came out of it with a severe
cut over one Of his eyes. He was patch
ed up at the Receiving Hospital by As
sistant City Physician Ogden.
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BEFORE

Others have failed you should consult the
731 Market street, San Francisco, and get
an honest and reliable opinion concerning
your ailment. 1t isn't hard to convince
reasonable sufferers that five skillful ply
sicians can do more for them than any
single physician with only one brain and
one mans experience and intelligence.
Come before others have failed and thus
diminished your chances of speedy relief.
The record-union., 1898-07-30

A Prince of Wales is of age from his
birth, and a chair is placed for him on
the right of the throne in the House of
Lords
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A Mix-Up on the Street.

III. ~ Beeler had difficulty with an
other man at Third and ] streets last
The record-union., 1898-07-30

New York Tribune: Club runs hav-
ing fallen into a measure of disre-
pute with the large cycle clubs, the
members Of these organizations have
The record-union., 1898-07-30

Save money by buying your tea and
coffee of j. McMorry. 531 NJ
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A Genuine Surprise.

An estate Of several thousand dollars
has fallen to Charles r., Edward and
Lulu Stickney Of this city, through the
death Of an uncle In Fulton, n. Y,
whom they had never seen
The record-union., 1898-07-30
SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON, wholesale hard
phaetons, Balm farm and header wagons.
Send for Catalogue.
The record-union., 1898-07-30

At the next meeting Of the Board of
Governors. August 9th, of the c. A. c.
c. there ought to be a full attendance,
as four important amendments to the
laws are to be passed on, one to strike
out the word amateur; another to
give every club three delegates in the
board, and every fifty unattached
members of the c. A. C. c. one dele
gate. The others simply adjust other
sections to fit the proposed amend
mentS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-05

complained before they began their
present instruction. They are the
fruits Of our sixteenth century states
manship in the midst of a nineteenth
century world.
The description given in the consular
reports Of the condition Of the planta-
ton labor market is the same thing
which we hear now coming from all
parts Of our own South, where the
shiftless, improvident, Incorporate ne
gro element Is described as a menace
and handicap to all Industrial ambi-
ton. The complaint that mortgage
debts are accommodating to the point
where estates have to be sold under
the hammer, and that cash Is so scarce
as to require resort to barter, is the
wall which has become familiar to us
in the literature and oratory Of our ag-
ricultural West The charge that H.
lusory signs Of prosperity furnish only
a thin cloak for the exaotion of enor-
nous and inequitable customs taxes.
is but the echo Of the complaint Of our
own people in many manufacturing
districts, where our Republican protec-
tive system has fostered artificial as
opposed to natural enterprises, has
been always interpreted to the advan-
tage Of the treasury and against the
taxpayer, has closed many foreign mar
kets altogether against our products
by 1nC1tlng retallatlOn, ana elsewhere
has hampered our commerce by so In
creasing the cost Of production as to
compel us to charge prohibitory prices
in marts where wiser nations compete
with us.
What, then, have we to gain by TAX
ing Cuba into our fold? And, If a new
set Of difficulties and iniquities should
stir the Cuban soul against the famous
American system" Of self-enrichment
bu collaboration how do wa know that
We should not presently have a Cuban
instruction on our hands, in which
Spain could take her turn at playing
the "friendIy mediatOr?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-05

CrooEstOn Artist COnfesses to Have
Worked the Hoax.

Special to The St. Paul Globe
CROOKSTON, March 4.-''Lucky' O'Brien.
man of remarkable skill in making plaster
casts, who has known Crookston a home.
although he has spent considerable time on
the Pacific coast during the past ten years.
left for that country yesterday.
1t is now known that Mr.. O'Brien is the
man who manufactured the famous ''petrifled
man" that was found near Warren two years
ago and which was a source of costly litiga-
ton to the owners. The moulds were made
here, and the man whose form furnished the
model is still citizen of Crookston. The
stir was taken TO Warren and planted on
farm near there. Subsequently it was dis
covered by a party of road workers, one of
whom knew where the gang of men should
be worked in order TO find it. Its subsequent
history is well known, and 1t is now being
exhibited in Canada.
Two months SINCE Mr.. OBrien secured q
cast OF female figure, using as a model a
colored woman who was living in the tender
1oin district of the city A quarrel arose over
the payment she was to make for this figure,
and one night the figure was demolished by
an agent of the woman, who gained access to
the work shop of O'Brien. He still had the
moulds however, and another was made,
which has been disposed of to Iowa parties.
1t Is likely to be heard of as an attraction at
county fairs there next fall.
Before leaving Crookston, o. Brien gave up
to his friends the details of the whole bust
ness.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-05

Mayor Miles B. Preston has been
Hartford's chief executive for two
years. AS result Of his economic,
wise administration, the municipality
has prospered, and today stands high
among the leading cities of America.
Mayor Preston is the first chief mag
1strate of Hartford under the consoli-
dated form Of government, beginning a
new period in the municipality history
Of Connecticut's capital.
He began at the bottom round Of the
ladder less than rs years ago, coming
to Hartford without business &C
quaintance or friend in the city. AS
a man Of the people, but also a
thoughtful conservative official, fully
conscious Of the responsibility Of his
high position and Of his recommends
lions. Mayor Preston's statement Of
the decided benefit he has derived from
Paine's celery compound must carry
more than ordinary weight in every
home, where there is need of recupera-
ton. and Of a remedy that is beyond
any reasonable doubt reliable. This Is
what Mayor Preston said:
MAYORS OFFICE, Hartford. Conn.
The modern man Of business, be he
ever so sturdy, finds often that the
continued pressure Of affairs has caus-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-05

other materials fer making bone; in
the brain and nerves it leaves other
materials again for making nerve-mat-
ter, and so on
But it takes rich. pure. highly vital
lied blood to do all this, and this is
the powerful lever which Paine's cell
cry compound takes advantage of to
make the weak body strong, and to
drive out disease from the system.
Paine's celery compound supplies just
that needed, appropriate food that the
overworked nerves are often too feeble
to extract, unaided. from the mass of
food taken into the stomach. Paine's
celery compound increases the appetite
and puts the digestive organs into
shape to pass the food over to the
blood in such a perfectly prepared con-
dition that the change into nerve,
brain and tissue substance is easily
and fully brought about. without waste
of nervous energy or wear upon the
liver, kidneys, heart or stomach.
In this scientific, accurate fashion.
Pa1ne's celery compound permanently
cures stomach troubles. disordered liv-
er, kidney disease. indigestion and ALI
unhealthy conditions that grow out Of
overworked, underfed nerves and or
gans.