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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28

have seen fewer women on the trail
than ] expected and in my Judgment
fewer than there should be. II they are
needed anywhere under heaven, IL is
right here, where there Is so much need
of good nursing, SO much difficulty in
securing wholesome and well cooked
food and so much call for words of
comfort and hope. / am more convinced
than ever likewise that as rule wom-
en- can stand privations quite as well rs
the SO called lords of creation. l have
seen good many discouraged men, but
thus fer have come across but one WON
an who wished herself back IN her old
home in the States This woman came
from the prairies, and, strange to say,
the jagged, rocky, almost perpendicular
heights, so skill and absolutely withoul
sign of life, seemed to terrify and appall
her rather than TO inspire and give her
peace. l called on woman across the
lake the other day who has pretty
camp in clamp OF trees. Her husband
was cutting logs four or Ave miles away,
which will later be whipsawed into "A
pOals oI6 ANlAiNN a. ANNtANNA oo hSA bNANi
but | am sure she will have no more oc-
casion To use it than she would IN the
streets of New York, Boston or Chica
go. A brave little woman is camped at
Crater lake with her brother. When |
say at Crater lake, | do not mean tho
shore of the lake, but right Oh the ice
of the lake itself. She does all the cook
ing for five men, whom her brother EN-
ploys, as well as for her brother himself.
1t may be imagined that it requires a
good deal of food for six workingnen
in this climate, but this slip of girl
is equal TO the task. At home she made
the desserts and busted little. Here
she makes great pots of beans, fries
quantities of ham, bakes mammoth
loaves of bread that seem almost enough
to supply bakery or restaurant. But.
she is as cheerful as though she enjoyed
it all and glad that she can help her
brother. To me she seemed little short
of heroine.
Rough on the Dogs.
If Oui6a, champion of dogs, could
walk from Sheep Camp to Bennett, her
heart would so ache for the cruelty
beaten, half starved and too heavily la
den dumb brutes that story to stir the
world would surely result.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
WOMEN SCARCrAsCOLD
Few of the Fair Sex on the
Way to the Klondike.
MANY HARDsHIPs ARE MAGNIFIED
Women Eud,.se Privations onite IA Wei
as Men-Nurses and Cooks In Great De-
mand - Dogs Overworked and sorels
Abused-Tho Power az Pride.
[From oa. speelaI corro.pordent.l

IFrom Oar Special Correspondence
LAKE BENNETT, Alaska, March 30.
Have you ever tried 10 keep stove
pipe perpendicular or facing the right
direction with the wind blowing a gale
wild blizzard afoot, the mercury be-
low zero and the snow whirling, eddy
ing and drifting with power enough TO
almost entirely change the face of ma
ture? Have you ever camped on lake
when the fire from the stove melted the
surface snow and forced you to paddle
about in several inches Of slush, blankets
wet and wood absolutely refusing to
burn? If SO, You can imagine the ooca-
sional pleasures of camp life in Alaska
during this perhaps most trying month
of the year. On the steamer coming up
a gentleman tried to turn me back at
that late day.
"Do you know what hardships you
will have to endured" he urged most
solemnly. "Why, partners desert part
ners lifelong friends become bitter en-
emies, and husbands and wives come to
hate each other"
1t is not quite as bad as that in this
camp, for thus far all reigns serene, but
there are circumstances that sorely try
ones patience. / would not advise q
bride to choose this trip for honey
moon, unless she were woman who
makes the best Of everything, no matter
what happens and is wise enough, like
B'rer Rabbit to keep OH sayin muffin"
Some Hardships Magnified.
Yet some of the hardships have been
magnified. Before 1 left home, for in
stance, the difficulties of the Chilkoot
were forcibly impressed upon me, but
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
THE MtHRATTA METHOD.
Queer Dsvices by Which Some Debts Arr
Collected In India.

Many queer stories are told of tho per-
sistence and clever devices of the collectors
of bad debts, but even professional HUI
morist would find it hard 90 inNont any
thing more absurd than the method actu-
ally in use among the Mahrattas-at least
If travellers tales are 10 be trusted
In that country, so they say, when a
creditor cannot get his money and begins
to regard the debt as desperate, he pro-
ceeds TO sit "dhurna" upon his debtor
that is, he squats down at the deer Of his
victim tent and thereby in somo mystic
rious way becomes master of the situation.
No one can 90 in or out except ny his
sanction. RE neither himself eats nor al
lows his dobtor to oet and this extraor
binary starvation contest is Kept up until
either the debt is paid or the creditor gives
up the siege, and in the latter case the
debt is held 60 be Cancelled.
However strange it may appear TO Euro
peans, this method of enforcing demand
is an established and almost universal
usage among the Mahrattas, and seems TO
them mere matter of course. Even their
"scindiah, or chieltain, is not exempt
from it,
The laws by which he'dhurna" is reg
ulated arc as well defined as those OF any
other custom whatever When IL is meant
to be very strict, the claimant takes with
him a number of his followers, who sur
round the tent and sometimes even the
bed of his adversary, TO make sure that he
obtains no moIsel of food. The code, how
ever, prescribes the same abstinence for
the man who imposes the ordeal, and, of
course, the strongest stomach wins the
day After all, we have little right TO ridi-
cule this absurdity for our own laws still
provide, nominally at least, for starving
jury into a verdict.
A similar custom was once so prevalent
In the province and city of Benares that
Brahmans were sometimes Systematically
put through a course of training TO enable
them to endure long time without food.
They were then sent to the door of some
rich person, where they publicly made a
VOW to remain fasting until certain sum
Of money was paid, or until they persisted
from starvation. To cause the death of
Brahman was considered so heinous an
offense that the cash was generally forth
coming, but never without a resolute
struggle TO determine whether the man
was likely to prove stanch, for the average
oriental will almost as soon give up his
life as his money. Boston Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
Liars In a Battle ROYAL.

"In our part Of the states, said the far
wester, 1--WE have a salmon river which is
fed from boiling springs. AS the fish work
up the river they encounter the warmer
water, but so gradually that they become
acclimatiZed, as 10 were, and feel no incon :
yenience from the increasing heat. 30
much so, in fact, that when we 40 fishing
In the highest reaches we catch them ready
boiledr'
You don't say Well, now," chimed
IN the Canadian, that reminds me that
in our part of the world we have % salmon
river which has its rise i'm some tin mines.
A the fish work up they meet the suspend.
cd ore in such gradually increasing guam
titles that they get quite used to 1t. and by
the time they get within few miles of
the head of the river we catch the salmon
ready timed. and all we have to do Is to
pnck and ship IL. Angling Done Here.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
In the American Natural Gas District.

Passing through gas belt one will see
near the roadside, in farm lot, mud
despatched, weather beaten derrick, with
the apparently rickety accompaniment of
crude appliances made familiar years ago
in the oil regions--a small reversing en-
CINE, n rusty locomotive boiler, usually
without "a stack and leaking at every seam ;
tho ponderous wooden walking beam slow
ly oscillatiDg night and day, stopping only
TO give place to the use of the bull wheel
when the drill is raised and the sand pump
Is lowered or n newly dressed bit is put in
service. Crude as the rig and all its de-
tails may seem at first glance, every part is
soon seen To have its use, and the journey
of the bit from the surface to the unknown
and perhaps barren depths is always nc
companied by interesting and ever varying
developments. At night the measured beat
and chatter of the rig In the dim light of a
few Pickering torches of gas, piped from
some neighboring well; the trembling der
rick, its lofty top lost in the darkness; the
driller carefully manipulating tho temper
screw after each stroke, controlling the bit
at the end of rope perhaps half mile be-
low the surface, all form weird sight
Accidents are frequent, and the slightest
carelessness may result in dropping the
tools. the recovery of which requires pa
thence and often great ingenuity Hosea
Webster in Cashiers Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
POWERFUL MAGNETS.
That L. What Professor Bigeiow Calls the
Sun and Earth.

Forty years ago scientists discussed and
discarded the theory that the sun and earth
were powerful magnets. Professor Frank
II. Bigelow, one of the chief meteorologists
at the national weather bureau, thinks
they were too hasty in discrediting the
idea. He believes the sun and earth to be
two spherical magnets, as suggested; that
rays issuing from permanent magnetic
state in the suns interior reach out and
combine with the earth S magnetism; that
an outer shell of the earth is permeated by
these rays; that the sun action causes the
magnetic changes shown in variations of
the magnetic needle. Professor Bigelow's
researches along this line have been in
progress for several years and are still be.
ing carried on in the weather bureau
building
All of the important magnetic observa-
tions have furnished data from which his
conclusions have been drawn. Needles at
given moment are pointing in certain
directions at the several stations. They
all suddenly tilt forward. This is due to
Strengthening the external magnetic field
surrounding the earth. Following out his
theory, he explains why years in which
auroras are most frequently seen CORE
spond with those in which the greatest
number of sun spots are observed, as we'll
as with the years when the greatest num-
Der of disturbances have been detected in
the magnetic field of the earth. As one
proof of his theory Professor Bigelow uses
the fact that the material forming the CO.
roma of the sun (seen during total eclipses)
is divided into rays corresponding to the
magnetic lines surrounding the poles of a
horseshoe magnet when placed beneath u
paper upon which iron filings are spread.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
Worth the Cost.

Wife, think we ought 10 have our
daughters voice cultivated, John, II 10
doesn't cost too much.
Husband-It can't cost too much, nv
dear, II IL will improve it.-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-28
Peculiarly Penetrating.

I was fully prepared for cold weather,
but not for the penetrating quality Of
the snow, which when melted quickly
goes through any garment unless it be
of thick rubber. When Me clothing is
brought near the fire, the snow soon
melts upon it. but as soon as the wearer
goes out again, of course the garments
freeze and become uncomfortable, If not
dangerous 10 health. Where fuel is
scarce and the tent is small, it is by no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
WOMAN TURNS DETECTIVE
And Causes Arrest of a Noted Dia-
mond Thief

Chicago, Sept. Through the pres
ence of mind and tact of Mrs F. G.
Logan, wife of a prominent board OF
trade operator the police have been en-
abled to arrest Ernest Russell, who is
said to be wanted in Cincinnati. Kansas
City, Milwaukee and other cities to an
swer the charge of stealing diamonds.
Russell is charged by the police with
having made it a practice to secure
employment as butler in the houses of
wealthy people, and after gaining the
condence of his employers rob them of
their valuables and disappear. Russell
called on Mrs. Logan as an applicant
for a buffers position. Mrs. Logan hav-
ing heard that he was wanted by the
police contrived to get him to wait
while she telephOned the police depart
ment of his presence at her house AS
Russell was leaving he was arrested by
two detectives who were sent in re-
Spouse to the telephone message.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
OKLAHOMA'S CONDITION.
Annual Report Sent to the Secretary
of the Interior.

Guthrie, o. T, Sept. 1.-The annual
report of the governor of the territory
to the secretary of the interior was
completed and signed by Governor
Barnes today, and will be mailed to the
secretary tomorrow, accompanied by a
thirty fine photograp hs, showing col
lege and school buildings, farm scenes,
orchards, vineyards, fields of grain,
fruit and grain displays, cotton fields
etc.
The report is the most complete ever
sent in from the territory, and covers
200 typewriter pages, containing over
1000 words, and when published will
make a complete handbook and blue
book of the territory, as it covers al
most every subject of interest to the
people of the territory or the prospec-
tive settler or investor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01

The shopkeepers of Paris, London
Vienna and Berlin were all greatly af-
fected by the war. Their business suf-
fered immensely. I was surprised to
learn that our war had so great an in
f1uence on trade in these cities. But the
merchants in many cases were simply
wringing their hands in disappointment
over the falling off of trade, owing to
the lack of American travel on the con-
tinent and in Great Britain. Americans.
I know now, are great retail buyers in
these European cities and spend mil
lions annually. The amounts of money
they have been spending annually are
certainly fabulous.
In England we noticed the remark
ably strong friendly feeling toward our
country and they were everywhere hop
ing and expecting that we would whip
the Spanish and rejoicing over our sue
cesses. I was presented with hand
some miniature American flag set in
diamonds and rubies which [ wore on
the lapel of my coat everywhere on
our trip. While I had an immensely
good time I was never more glad in my
life to get home to Topeka again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
LOCAL PRIDE RESPONSIBLE
Fort Scott to Have a Handsome Park
and Modern Race Track.

Fort Scott, Sept. Negotiations for the
purchase of the Bourbon county fair
grounds from L. L. Thomas by a local
stock company have been pending for sew
eral days and the deal was finally con-
summated last night. The grounds will
be converted into a driving park on a
strictly metropolitan plan and will be a
big thing for Fort Scott.
The new company has well laid plans
for the conversion of the grounds into
public park and strictly metropolitan race
grounds, and it was for this purpose that
the company was organized. The i'm
proVementS will be commenced next week,
the company having a deposit of 81 500 in
pank now for the purpose. 1t is the in
tentlOn TO convert the east side of the fair
grounds-about 10 acres-into a park.
Elght hundred trees will be planted and
two pretty lakes will be laid out.
The greatest improvement will be made
IN the racing park. The amphitheater
will be moved back. raised to a higher
10undat1on and handsomely improved.
The track will be entirely rebuilt on the
latest plans. 1t win have a wide stretch
and will be best half mile track in this
country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
TROOPS CLEARING OUT.
Camp Thomas Will Be Deserted in a
Few DAYS.

Chickamauga Park, Tenn. Sept. 1.-The
Third corps headquarters. division head
quarters, divisional hospitals and ambu-
lance corps leave Camp Thomas tomor-
row for Admission, Ala. The regiments
of the First division of the corps viii also
begin moving tomorrow It will be i'm
possible to get all the regiments of the
corps out this week, but they will be han
died as rapidly as possible and viii prob
ably all be gone by Tuesday or Wednes-
day of next week. All the artillery bat
teries are expected to get away before
Saturday night General Breckenridge is
very anxious to start them home and be-
ieves he will be able to get transporta-
ton for all tomorrow or Saturday.
50 ma ter1ally have the conditions in the
hospitals improved during the last few
days that there is now but little complaint.
me number of patients is decreasin rap
ldIy and there are but few deaths-A num-
per OF sick men unable to travel are left
by each departing regiment and on this
account the general hospital must be
malntalned for some time to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mrs. Washington G. Benedict of Bos-
ton is visiting the family of her cousin,
Mr.. ]. r. Sibley.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. KoOntz of Spokane
Falls. Wash, and Mrs. A. B. Scrantz
of Davenport, Ia, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. w. o. Nevill
Miss Nellie NeviH has returned from
a months visit in Omaha and Daven-
port, Ia.
Miss CalIie weIIhouse will leave Fri
day for months visit with relatives
in Cincinnati, o.
DR.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Callahan have
returned from a months visit with
their daughter, Mrs. Harry Miller in
Ell Dorado.
Emily and Miss Hila Hinckley are go
ing to Kansas City Saturday to spend
a week with Miss Mamie Vandegrift.
Mrs. D. S. Eckert is expected home
next week from an extended trip in the
Mrs. o. P. Updegraff and children are
going to Omaha Monday to spend a
week
Miss Daisy Hayes is going to enter
tain at thimbles saturday afternoon
complimentary to her cousin, Miss Ollie
Hayes of Troy, Ohio.
Miss Grace Weiss has returned from
a several weeks visit in Atchison-
Miss Helen McClintock has returned
from a weeks visit with Atchison
Dell Small came over from Atehison
wednesday TO WISH his SlSl0Is mis-.
Walter Noble.
Mr. Earl Case has returned from the
north where he spent his two weeks
vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Haines have
returned to their home in Sabetha, af-
ter a few days visit with Mrs. Haines'
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Moon.
The ladies of the Home Missionary
society of the First Methodist church
are going to give a lawn. fete Friday
evening at the home of Mrs. Frank
Cope at 4O1 Tyler street, to which their
friends are invited.
Mrs. T. L. Crouch and daughter
Mamie have returned from Omaha.
The marriage of Mr.. Louis He'll of
Topeka and Miss Della Watkins was
solemnized at the home of the bride
in Lawrence Wednesday, August 81
The wedding was quiet, only the rela-
tives and a few intimate friends being
present Rev. c. NJ. Sharpe of the
Christian church officiated. The groom
is son of Mr.. Peter He'll and is in
business with his father.
The following young ladies. chaperon-
ed by Miss Gertrude Barnes, spent
Tuesday at the Smith farm southeast
of town: Miss Winnifred Campbell,
Miss Nell Chambers. Miss Della Smith,
Miss Edith Durrant, Miss Alice Hop
kins, Miss Nora Chesney, Miss Ger
trude Lewis, Miss Maude Smith, Miss
Lola Pankey and Miss Bernice Smith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
MILITARY HONORS.
The goth Kansas to Meet the Ha-
waiian Carnival Queen.

The announcement that the Santa Fe
railroad has offered free transportation
to San Francisco and return for two
ladies to accompany the Hawaiian
queen from the coast to Topeka is a.
mistake No transportation has been
offered and as yet no selection has been
made as to the parties who will consti-
tute the party.
This morning a telegram was sent to
Dan H. Case requesting him to send an
Hawaiian flag to be used as the queens
colors during the festival If possible
the flag that was lowered in Honolulu
when the Stars and Stripes were hoist
ed over the palace will be the flag that
will be sent.
In proper time the war department
and Col. Funston will be communicated
with and if the Twentieth Kansas is in
San Francisco when the queen arrives
it will meet her at the boat and the To-
peka- company will act as her escort
while in San Francisco. The Twentieth
Kansas regiment band will head the
procession.
This morning President c. K Holli-
day Jr., announced the following COM
mittees:
Committee in charge of reception of
the Queen-C. K. Holiday Jr., chairman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
NEWS FROM HOLTON.
Items of Interest Incidental to the
Rival Fairs.

Holton- Sept. 1.-Competition is the
life of business. One would hardly ex-
pect this rule to apply to fairs in a
country town but it seem to. The at
tendance at each of the rival fairs is
better than it ever has been before.
Each had very successful day yester-
day, both in point of attendance and
merits of the entertainments The half
mile track leads in the quantity and
quality of exhibitions. The kite track
in the merits of the speed contests. At
tendance is about equal at the two
tracks.
The programme at the kite track
Friday will be as follows:
Free-fOr-an pace; $500.
Rob Riley 2:1O
Direction 2:08A.
John A. See 2:121A.
Russell 7 2:111s.
Heir Loom 2:15.
Syzygy 2:13k.
Nell Cafery 2:12A.
Farmers trOt: $50
One mile novelty running.
Indian pony race mile dash.
IS running race
At the half mile track there will be
2:27 trot for $780, in which are entered
Hereto Medium, Phyllis j., Hydrastine,
Happy Thought, Head Light and White
Stockings. There will also be a 2:35
pace in which there are numerous en-
tries.
r. I Lee, owner of the bay stallion
Jack DaW, is very proud of the show
ing the gait of this horse is making in
this town. Besides Mr.. Bradbury's fast
mare Lady Bird, 2:23sz, who starts in
the 2:15 c-ass today at the mile track,
is her full sister. Lady Ethlyn, a two
year old owned by the popular black
smith, Dan Duggan. This mare trotted
second at the half mile track in 2:33,
and unintereSted hOTsemen who wit
messed the performance were unani-
nous in the opinion that she could have
won the race if she had been driven
out. Then there is Lea Garda, owned
by Lee himself, one of the most con
sistant performers on the track, and
Victoria, formerly called Easter Bird,
recently sold by Willis Bros. This mare
is four years old. She was never train
ed until this season. She can now trot
in 2;2O.
The genial and popular horse buyer,
Bert Zirxle is around both tracks look
ing after some good horses for the east
ern market. He is offering good prices
and is getting a ne lot of fancy road
sterS.
P. H. Butler, the experienced running
horse man formerly of Silver Lake now
registering from Kansas City, is max
ing himself generally useful in managing
the running events at both tracks.
Secretary McGrew of the half mile
track is one of the most competent men
who ever OBLIGATED in a like capacity.
Among the Topeka people attending
the races are r. E. COwdry. J. W. Bell.
NJ. A. Low, Dean Low, William Brad
bury, r. I. Lee, P. H. Butler, Jerome
Mowers, Albert Parker, John Banner
man, lack RansdeIl, N. Leash, DR.. G.
Q. Pritchard and w. r. Kukendau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
CHIEF ELLIOTT DEAD.
Had Spent 40 Years of His Life
Fighting Fire.

Detroit. Mich. Sept. flames R. Eli
oft the veteran chief of the Detroit fire
department, is dead from stomach trou-
Chief Elliott was So years. old and had
been member of the Detroit , FIRE depart
the position of chief since 1865. Prior to
the organiza ton of Detroits paid fire de-
partment Mr.. Elliott a prominent
member of the volunteer department.
During his forty years of service fighting
fire Chief Elliott attained the reputa ton
of being a fearless man he having had
many narrow escapes from death in burn
Many of the dead chiefs friends say
overworkr as much as anything, contrib
uted to his death.