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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22
ROYAL S Fs*Sns
" ABSOLUTELY PURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.


The Concord citizens interested IN tie
Bo'o 'n'he a' lnat pace nave buiil
mouse l'&za ieet' at the smart, ana some
iich samples 81 ore nave been taken out.
Ward Jones and Hiram caswell Of
North Anson, have completed the job
OF getting out 100 dozen Of shovel han
die blocks ID New Portland. They
were hauled to be shipped to {. Mar
7nal' factory III OAKLAND.
The engagement is announced Of ".
r. D Berry, clerk IN the auditors de
partment at the Maine Central Offices ia
Portland, to Miss Jane Rice Of Fairfield,
daughter Of ". Il. Rice superintendent
Of the bangor, ofoho Old Town rail
way.
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p'.''''' ~ i'spoeS 2iieiiH /. y. non
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ls employed III the once Of tie Plseata-
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oulu'ns d skating INK ana the plan Is
10 organize d BLOCK company with - or
more Suaies DIT 9IoV eaeh' mere mas
oeen ue'iahp ioi nan iof general
PuipoSes ioi sum- 1't1e' lhe opera
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H"iiS 'hui'aaS morning INT idini'S 9i
Ai'on 'eopei u Noith hdi1iaha' ais
ooFeiou 'n"' snol' cummings WIZ Oh
NJ nc me n"o ihaae sueh PioSiess
'n"' none u 'le eoh'eh's u hoase oi
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The following officers were elected at
'ne annual meeting OIL the flttsileld
orange last week MASTER Edgar
Johnson oVerseer' james henheY; leei-
ufer' everett Liboy' steward FRANK
OYER assistant steward haeI fatteh ;
chapidin' ."'s' hiiilps' treasurer 'eo'
w fal'eh' sec'e'afy' MIS-. ANNE M'
49, 81 ~ ''' - 0'-ie'
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w u" o''N' o'e9' = - '''''e oo'o'
Inc urn OF Lawrence Newman d 60,
Oh oha"mnt' does Dig business IN tile
manufacture Oh lumber ana II IS doubt
; iui II any othef urn IN the state handles
as much. The average shipment per
day OF LUMBER iof the months oil Au-
gust September and October was -
carloads. During the spring and sum
mef zz'ooo,ooo long lumber ana e'ooo'Vo
snort lumber was sawed. Monday, Dec.
Il, the mill was started up again and ~
men VIII be employed IN ana about II
during the winter
II
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22

The sweetest present for lady is a
handsome bottle of nice perfume. By
the way, Sampson has one of the pref
test show cases to select from in town.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22

Boston Journal: Expert staticians
estimate that the amount of money
spent for Christmas toys by the Ameri-
can people this year will exceed $45,-
DOC, 600 1t is happy and cheerful sort
of country that can spend that amount
in playthings for the children.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22

Editors wife. Poor baby's circulation is
very bad, John" Editor absent mindedly
Strange! He advertises himself we'll, too"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22

u had a running, itching sore on my leg. Suf-
fered tortures poan's Ointment took away the
burning anu llVilHE instantly anu 4ulehlS ti-
ling Green, o.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-22

The follo"iag books have teen re-
eeieed at he public library The past
Werk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

York. The understanding was that the
letter should be delivered to the executive
when young Ulysses reached the age of
16. A short while after the boy attained
his fourth year General Grant died.
Two years later Colonel Grant asked
General w. 7. Sherman to add his indorse-
ment to the letter of his old chief, and the
latter did so in a brief note, written across
the foot of the sheet. This double request
would naturally assure U. S. Grant Ill
the cadetship he wants, but he has an even
further guarantee in the promise of Presi-
dent Mckinley. In the summer of 1896
Colonel Grans passed through Canton with
his son, and at that time William McKin-
ley said that he would be glad to APP
point" the grandson Of General Grant to
the cadetship if he should be elected presi-
dent.
The other day Colonel Grant went to
Washington and presented the letter.
Young Ulysses has a good liberal educa-
ton on which to build a military career.
He learned German during his fathers
term as United States minister to Austria
Hungary under Harrison, 1889. SO. He
finishes his course at the Cutler school this
year and purposes to study one year at the
Columbia School of Mines, going to West
Point in 1899.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
STRANGE TUNNEL.

down its line. There was an era of law
lessness that lasted several days, and in it
one mar lost his life through an explosion
of dynamite chat wrecked a temporary line
the railroad Fad put down. When the set
Element between the railroad and mine
companies was reached, the railroad was
compelled to build this tunnel of steel
arches around the Portland dumpin order
that the road should not interfere with the
operation Of the mine. Dumping space is
of the greatest Importance to any mine.
There must be a convenient place for
throwing. out the waste rock that is neces-
sary to be removed in getting to the ore
bodies, and the construction of tho rail-
road around tht base of the Portland dump
as it is today would prevent the mine from
further dumping at that point.
After the agreement was reached a tenn
porary trestle was built over the line of the
railroad and a new dump started at it's end.
After the tunnel is constructed the waste
will be dumped as before, and the steel
arches will eventually be covered over with
waste rock to a depth Of IS feet or more.
The tunnel when completed will be 1000
feet in length and cost about $50, 000-a
right neat sum to be represented in terri
tory for dumping worthless rock.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
Ulysses iii.
General Grants Grandson to Enter West
Point and Become = Soldier.

General Grants to Enter West
Point and Become : Soldier.
Ulysses S. Grant III, son of Colonel
Fred Grant, who is to enter West Point,
is a manly young fellow who will be II
years old on next Fourth of July. just
at present he is a student at q private
school in New York city. He is tall and
sturdy and looks as if he had the making
Of a good soldier in him. He is proficient
in his studies and expects to be able to
pass the rigid examinations which appli-
cants to enter the national military acad-
envy must undergo.
The interesting feature about his ap-
pointment is that the request which was
recently presented to President Mckinley
was written by General Grant himself and
endorsed by General W. T.. Sherman.
When Ulysses III was in his fourth year
and his famous grandfather was near
ing the summer of 1885, which was to
prove fatal to him, the latter, who wanted
his small namesake to have o soldiers
training. bethought himself of writing a
note to the man who should fill the presi-
dents chair when the youpgster was of an
age to go to West Point and asking him to
favor the boys appointment. So he die
tated the letter referred to in a few brief
lines. This was done in the old Grant
home, 8 East Sixty-sixth street, in New
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

MeulcaI college and o1Isred TO SUCK darn
ing needles or hatpins or almost anything
the doctors would suggest through his
ears, nose, cheeks, arms, legs or any other
part of his anatomy they might select for
a small consideration. A purse was made
up for the man, and, to the establishments
of those assembled, he proceeded to carry
out his contract. He sewed his ears back
to his head, pinned various articles to his
cuticle with brass safety pins and nailed
his hands to the table, besides doing every
thing else he had promised. AS a wind up
to his performance he nailed his feet to
two blocks of wood and walked around
the room a couple of times.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

A little less than two years ago a rich
grain merchant of Odessa died, leaving a
fortune of 1000. 900 rubles to his three
daughters. under peculiar conditions. They
were only to inherit the money on condi-
ton that they become servants, washer
women or farmworkers for eighteen
months. The time had just passed, and
the young women have come into their
fortune. Two of them were chamber
maids, and the third a girl Of all work,
III odessa houses. They did not have
much trouble in securing situations. In
the course of their servitude the two
younger daughters received each more
Than 500 proposals of marriage. and the
eldest $50. They declined all, and now as
s8rf that they will continue 10 live in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
A WIZARD BURGLAR.
One Who Hid His Plumber In Mysterious
S-ubchatnbers.

Ou6 AO 110 LIZ AuL0CA Lh AS0c
S-ubchatnbers.
For many years Henry Ably of Sheffield,
La, has led a career of thievery under the
very eyes of the authorities, being suspect
ed of a series Of big robberios, but with no
substantial evidence against him.
In the town Of his home and in sur
rounding towns the people were in con-
slant dread of being robbed by some mys-
FERROUS person who passed through solid
walls and fast barred doors without leay-
ing any trace behind him except the abb
sence of goods he had come to take. Stores,
banks, depots and private houses were en-
tered with the greatest ease and the stolen
goods spirited away in the most unao-
countable manner.
All these strange burglaries have now
been cleared up, and it is proved conolu-
siyely that Ably is the mysterious thief.
His methods are as myg6erious as were
the crimes for which he is held. Beneath
the small frame house in which Ably lived
was found a cleverly concealed chamber
12 feet square and 10 feet deep. From this
chamber a passage led to another under
ground room beneath q shed at the back
of the yard. Midway in the passage was
still another vault. The entrance above
ground to this was through what appeared
to be an old fashioned well. A trapdoor in
the platform surrounding the we'll opened
upon q false bottom, where Ably used to
keep a case of beer and q few bottles of
whisky. This first compartment, with its
false bottom, was intended to put officers
off the track if the trapdoor were ever
found and raised.
In this clever system of s~ubchambers
and passages Ably had stored the plumber
of his burglaries. All sorts of goods were
found there and a great number Of empty
boxes and barrels, from which stolen prop
erty had been removed and sold.
The secret of his MISUNDERSTANDING
into carefully locked places shows him to
be q genius of no mean powers. For every
door through which he had passedAon his
unlawful mission of theft he had q key,
and every key had been made by him from
memory as an exact duplicate Of an orig
inal he had seen in the owners possession,
just as an artist might draw an exact like
ness from memory.
Three cigar boxes of such keys were
found in desk in his room. Among them
were keys to several bank buildings and
to the Iowa Central depot at Sheffield.
The man had such a wonderful, wizardlike
skill for reproducing what he had seen
that the most intricate keys were fashioned
by him from memory, and no lock seemed
; have been too complicated to battle his
genius.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

he OWNS REPUBLIC
How John Jacob Astor and
His Syndicate Control
Honduras
lNsPECTs HIS NEW DOMAINS
Wants Live Americans 10 Go Down
There and Develop the Riches
of the Land.

Just as a fiier John Jacob Aston has
Although this little Central American re-
public has a government of it's own he is
as much its dictator in fact as if he were
SO in name. The syndicate of which he is
at the head not only owns 900, 600 acres of
land there, besides controlling the rail
road, but conducts the business of the
Honduras custom house.
Recently Mr.. Astor paid q visit to bis
new possessions, running Town In his
yacht Nourmahal. First he looked at the
railroad. This road, while now only AZ
miles in length, cannot by running night
and day do all the business offered to it.
In the banana business alone it keeps
three steamships per week running to New
Orleans and two weekly to other ports.
Mr.. Aston went up to the terminus at
Potrerillos the first day and came back on
the bicycle inspection car. He talked with
Chief Engineer Lackie that night, and the
result was that the present line will be re-
laid to standard gauge and the plans for
the narrow gauge extension to Amapala
on the Pacific coast changed to correspond.
Next he spent a whole day in investigat-
ing the customs service. His syndicate
controls the whole export ana import pusl-
ness of Honduras by guaranteeing to the
government $500, 600 a year. The syndi-
cate has agents in every custom house,
spies along the border lines and revenue
cutters along the coast.
Since November, when they took CON
troll, the wholesale smuggling that had
gone on for years has been stopped, and
tho duties received jumped up in the first
--->I ---.Ll--. go Q0n Tret hour r,r1ch
greater this increased revenue will be
when the colonization scheme of the syn
dictate gets under way can only be imag-
ined.
On the third day Mr.. Astor and his
party attended the official opening of the
syndicate's bank, which is started with a
capital of $500, 600. The bank will have
charge Of the customs receipts and will
pay of from them, under a new bond is
sue, the debt saddled upon Honduras by a
lot Of foreign sharpers so years ago 1t is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

JoHE JACOB AST0R ON
this great debt, s25, 900, 900, that has kept
! Honduras undeveloped and so far behind
her sister republics.
--rtside Of these special matters the bank
Wiifuo a generaX business. That its stock
holders are to BE counted among the for
tunate ones Of the. earth may be seen when
the fact is knows tshat-$he statements of
Guatemsla's six banks for the last half of
1896 show on $40, 00o, 900 capital net earn
ings Of 81, 45o, 470. so, making an annual
dividend of about SO per cent.
Guatemala is next door to Honduras
and is in nowise ahead of it in natural
advantages. All that Honduras wanted
was some capital and the energy neces-
sary to lift its debt burden. Tha once
done, and it win be what the great natu-
ralist and traveller, Humboldt, prophesied,
tsthe richest country Of its size in the
world
Again, Honduras Is very rich in pre-
cious stones and metals, and the 500, 600
acre possession u n through the mining
districts. When all these things are con-
sidered and added together, it may be
easily seen that Mr.. Aston bids fair to be
the first American Millionaire.
Tho people of Honduras are delighted
with the chances opened up to Q by
the coming of the American syndicate,
and from all along the north coast they
gathered to greet the Nourmahal. They
vera ~astounded at her size and elegance
when she steamed in, and when Mr.. Astor
good naturally announced that visitors
were welcome they swarmed aboard.
Honduras is just about the size Of New
York state, and every square foot Of the
-----l~-~I for%sfo Nrxu VouIz
state Is not ovcrcrowded with 5000, 900
inhabitants. Honduras has only 350,0 600
population. Two hundred colonists have
gone to Honduras since the syndicate be-
gan operations last November. and every
steamship from New Orleans now is tax
ing from rs to 80 settlers. Most Of them
are fruit growers from Florida. There are
a lot of farmers from Illinois and ancher
from Texas. and a group of 30 Cubans
have started a tobacco planting colony.
Tbe members of the syndicate are now
considering further colonization schemes.
at may as well be understood right
here said one menber recently, THAT
the eradicate is not a charity organiza-
ton. Wa will not take settlers down free
III give them. land or lend them the
anoseyNvilb wh.ich to start We wants sue
cessful ~fafzsess ssid mechanics and trades
men. yge want persons who know their
business. ;ssa ~. are quite willing to talk
business With all SUCH
So, ven sec, ar. Astor and his fellow
capitalists vasst only such mon as may be
useful. Many Americans have already
made homes in Honduras They are rails
ing coffee ard banauas there. Both are
good crops, especially the former. Near
Santa Cruz arc so new coffee plantations,
all owned BY young Americans. Each
plantation has from 10, 900 to so, 900 trees
and their owners will after the fourth
year have incomes ranging from 81, 5ooto
$4,000 a year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

Making q Hole First and Building q
ounta Over 1t.


Mountain Over It.
Tunneling through mountains is com.
mon feat of engineering, but it has been
left to Colorado ingenuity to mako a tun-
mel in the open air and build a mountain
over it. Although it's arches are being
raised in the open air the tunnel is de-
signed to give a railroad a way under
rock, and it is being constructed of steel
to withstand tho enormous weight that
will eventually some upon it.
When the Golden Circle extension of the
Florence and Cripple Greek railroad was
projected from Goldfield to the Victor
mine, on Bull hill, there was only one
route possible for the line, and that lay
around the dump of the Portland mine,
on Battle mountain. A hard legal fight
was made for the right of way, and before
the line was fully established armed forces
were employed by the Portland company
to prevent the railroad from throwing
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
Arrowhead il Hss Cne.f.

About forty years ago a Kurmi, resi-
dent of Bara Banki district, during a
fight with dacoits, received an arrow
wound in his chest. He pulled the shaft
out. but the iron arrowhead, which
measures over 8 inches, remained I'M. A
chest, and during a fit of coughing the
arrow-head became visible. and was ex-
tracted by the mao" in attendance. The
retention Of the arrow-headsin the chest
for over forty years has, from his
account. caused him no serious neon
Observation-Disclosures Pioneer"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

Henry Allen Howard of Chicago is one
of those nerveless people who are proof
against jabs and stabs of all kinds and de-
scriptions. Mr.. Howard thinks he has hit
upon a plan to utilize his physical pecul-
~iarities to great advantage. In short. he
has announced himself as a full fedged
candidate for ruler of Patagonia.
The ceremony by which these Patago-
mans select a ruler is a revolving one to the
ordinary civilized mind. It makes the
blood of a man supplied with the ordinary
complement of nerves. allotted to mankind
run cold, but to Henry Allen Howard the
prospect of undergoing the ordeal brings
no terrors. In fact, it would be undertake
en- by him as an everyday occurrence.
TIL system used by these South Ameri-
cans of muscular mold when selecting a
king to rule them in peace and lead them
in war is as follows: Every ten years feet
footed couriers are dispatched throughout
the length and breadth of Patagonia to
summon the ablebodied men of the ma
ton to a grand powwow at some central
point in the great plains. When the braves
are all assembled and the king has called
the meeting to order, volunteers for the
position of ruler for the ten years to fol
low are called for.
The king Of Patagonia rules for but ten
years, and theh a new monarch is selected.
Nobody is barred who wishes to undergo
the ordeal through which a ruler of these
people must pass, whether be be a mem
Der of their race or not. The -Patagonians
love a brave man above everything and
likewise despise a coward, and any man,
be his skin white, black or brown, who is
able to successfully undergo tho terrible
torture to which all aspirants to the king
ly scepter are put is good enough in the
eyes Inc estimation of these strange peo-
pie to be invested with the mantle of
sovereignty over all the Patagonians and
given a power to rule that might be enyied
by a car.
The details of the ceremony show tor
ture of the most revolving kind. and the
man who can go through the ordeal with
out winoing must surely be possessed OF a
heroic heart. Two hundred or 800 of the
staiwart braves of the tribe generally vol
unteer to undergo the torture. Each is led
in turn to a tree, against which he Is told
to stand erect, with his arms held straight
up above his head and against the trunk
| of the tree. Then one of the cid men OF the
tribe, selected by the braves to perform the
| ceremony, seizes a stone hammer of native
mold and nrnceede fo naii the asr,irsnt to
. Iinoshin ~ fhe traa With r;vets- maf1o of
: -ood II wonderf,,l hardness whieh il
found in that nart Of the world These
rivets are driven through the hands of the
/ applicant and hrough the feshy portions
Of his lower limbs.
If the ~oIuntee shoulds stand thi4shorri-
BILE torture without murmuring and with
| out giving external evidence of suffering,
he Is hailed with a mighty acciamation
and n-ronounced fit TO undergo the finish
ing touobes of the which CON
sist of a selected number Of the braves APP
uroacbipg the transfixed Applicant with
knocking gestures and cries Of derision and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.

The following claims were presented
John Tully, $56.26; John Boyd, 500;
$13. %; James F.. Stewart Co.. $3.50; 0. C.
~Stringham. SIPS. John S. Refill, $40; F.
Maypother, 800; Chas. P. Knoeller, S2S.T5;
M. Kearney, $685.: Patrick Welsh, SLIPS.
Received and referred to their appro-
pirate committees.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMIT
TEES.
The Committee on Streets and Sewers
reported on certificates of Chief Engineer
In favor off,
William Byrnes, retained percentage,
sol. &c. on account of contract No. ISL.
Edward O,Neil, retained percentage,
s227.71. on account of contract No. 99S.
james f. Stewart Co., $99.6S. on account
Of contract No. Loaf.
Edward w. Conlon, $500. OH account OF
contract No. loss.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

Miniatures Of historical p~ersonages set
around with diamonds. are very fashion
able for wedding gifts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

[Oficial ProceedinRs-I
Regular meeting of the Board OF Stree
and Water Commissioners held on Mon
day, March rs, 1888, at two o'clock +. M.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

The Committee on Public Buildings.
Docks and Parks reported On claims of
John Brownlee, 500; Benz. NJ. Gerardin,
$25; A. e. Nolan, $50. %, as correct.
The reports We're accepted.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

Assessments in this Schedule are as fonows:- -
Improvement of Seventeenth sue. irh henHSn street =" 'SSA oN|
mn 1m nmm 81 erie snss from Threnh to Sixteenth streets eonarmed July
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

Resolved. That all proceedings heretofore
taken by his Board in the matter of the
proposed Improvement of Lexington ave-
nue., between West Side venue n Mar
cy avenue, as petitioned for on July 6.
1897, by George f. Gantz and others, be
and the same are hereby reconsidered
and rescinded. and that all action on the
basis of said petition cease.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Mayor
the Honorable Board of Street and

water commissioners.
Gentlemen-I earnestly request your
honorable Board to take all possible steps
toward the collection of water rents hat
are due. Many of the city employees are
unable to obtain their pay, and there are
also many claims that are awaiting pay
ment. If necessary stringent measures
should be taken to compel deiinquents to
pay up. l trust that your honorable
Board will give this matter the degree of
care and attention which it calls for.
You respectfully,