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Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-06-18
!: SPORTY GLENORA BARBER
Who Imagined Himself Il Bad
Man.
HE USES A KNIFE SERIOUSLY
GlenOra the Scene OF Operation

GlenOra the Scene OF Operation
Not long ago a tough individual from
the Sound country arrived in Wrangel
and announced that it was his intention
to go to Glenora and open up one of the
finest barber shops in Alaska. He
made himself very conspicuous on our
streets while here, giving the impress
On that he was u gambler of the old
school. After Il few days in Wrangel
he went to Glcnora. He had been in
that town but short time when he
started in to fill up on Canadian rye,
etc, 'and gave it out that he was bad
man.
He made the acquaintance of IL man
about town who happened to have Il
few dollars and together they proceed
ed to paint. The new acquaintance, it
seems, could not stand us much grief"
as the sporty barber" and the result
was that he was laid out. This was the
opportunity sporty" wa looking for.
No sooner had his new-made friend sue
cumbed to that condition which inevit-
ably follows the drinking of Glcnora
whiskey, than ''Sporty' performed the
''roll act relieving his friend of about
$40. Making his way to the nearest
gambling house he purchased chips to
the amount of his capital and proceeded
to play that system that never loses.
but the system was wrong it must
have been brace gamc-for sporty"
lasted quick, as the boys at the War
wick would say. Nothing remained
for him to do now but to return to his
friend e. and make another roll.
which he attempted to do, but the
friend had revived somewhat from the
effects of his jag, and sporty had to
resort to other tactics. He demanded
fore money but the friend refused.
u nd Il struggle ensued during which
Sporty" drew dangerous looking
'alife and plunged it into his friend
t.,ree times, intlicting wounds which
Ray h"f'Vn fAfHl,
~ alarm was given and ''oporty''
was rOundeu up a1iu uanpn s'.ov,,,:..
Charges of robbery. and an attempt to
commit murder We're preferred against
him and he was locked up. The jail
not being of modern build. the would
be assassin was put in irons. but during
the night following he managed in
some way to loose the irons and made
his escape. Every effort WAS made to
recapturc the man. but up to the time
of going to press no news had been re-
ceivtd as to his Whereabouts. 1t is
thought he came down the river in IL
skitf and is probably concealed some
place in Wrangcl.
Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-06-18

Theodore Carstcns will leave this
week for Medford, Wisconsin, in re-
Spouse to Il message that his aged
mother is very i'll. Mr.. tarsten will
return to Wrangcl in short time.
Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-06-18
PERSONAL.

Ex-Governor Dcwdney arrived on
the Amur to-day.
II. Shattuck, of Juneau. visited
Wransel this week
John Sales left for Glcnora yester.
day to be absent about two weeks.
DR.. Stanton will leave for klawak
tomorrow to be absent for some weeks.
MIR. }. X. Smith, purser of the Skag-
it Chief, paid this Office pleasant call
yesterday.
Mr.. Baker. agent for the {. =. r.
at Skagway, was II passenger on the
Tartar for Vancouver
Webster Brown. the surveyor. left
on the Tartar "Wednesday night for
Seattle. He says he will return in
about ten days.
W. l.. Bryant of Seattle. who has
been spending IL few days in Wrangel
returned to the Sound on the Tartar
Wednesday evening.
Fred Hyde, formerly OF june.
stopped a few hours in town Monday.
Fred will go through to the interior,
where he has some good prospects.
O'Donnovan Rosa. formerly of the
firm of Rossa x Sales. returned from
"a trip to Glenora Tuesday and left on
the stamer Farralon for Skagway.
Mr., G.. A. Prairie. formerly in BUSH
ness ON Front street has sold his stock
of goods to Mr.. Chilbcrg. and left on
the steamer Utopia Tuesday last for
Seattle.
Mrs. O. b. Bernard. wife of the SEN
ior member of the firm of Bernard &
Bachelor. arrived on the Elder from
Portland, Oregon, and will make this
her home.
Mr.. Henry Mcdonald. of Seattle ar
rived in town on Thursday last and will
remain for IA few days. 1t is probable
cate in Alaska.
Mrs. He'll left on The steamer Rosalie
Thursday, for Dawson City. Mrs. Hell
has many friends in Wrangel who will
regret to learn of her departure from
their midst.
II. b. Carter, general agent for the
G. Z. Il. at this place left on the steam
er Tartar Wednesday, on Il business
trip to Victoria and Vancouver. II,
will return in about ten days.
b. ~. Stephens, formerly employed
on the JOURNAL staff, has severed hi.
connection with this paper. Mr.
Stephens is Il Very cnterprising either
and it is hoped that he will remain il
Wrangel.
Fred Hughes. arrived Sunday on tn,
Tartar from Vancouver with twelv,
horses, which he shipped on TIL,
steamer Mcconnell last Tuesday t.
Glenora. Mr. Hughes will run
lin.
United States Marshall Shoup, &C
companied by deputies McNair, Cuda
by and Hanlon, passed through Wran
gel the first of the week, in charge O
seven prisoners, enroute to San Quen
tin. Marshall Shoup will only go a
far as Seattle as business calls hin
back to Sitka Immediately.
Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-06-18

A man named Claw, the murderer of
Burns and Hcndritson on the Stikeen
river near Glenora, about the 10Th of
April. was brought down the river on
the Mono yesterday and transferred to
II tug boat which lay ont in the bay
near the mouth of the river. He will
be taken to Port Simpson where he
will be held for trial.
We hear but cannot substantiate the
report that the purser of one of our
most popular steamboats, whose name
is not entirely unconnectcd with the
Royal family is liable to be promoted.
There is society forming whose sole
business is the object of attending to
other folks affairs, and as he has all
the attributes of IL good and efficient
officer there is IL general feeling among
the members that he will make q good
president.
&. w. Barrett and man giving the
name of Jack Wilkes were arrest
cd this morning for the robbery of 1900
cigars from the store of Karl kober-.
stein, ON Front street. The thieves
effected an entrance to the store by I'M
locking the front door. which was only
secured by an ordinary lock, which
almost any key would fit. In the alb
sence of II commissioner the men will
probably be taken to Sitka to await
the action of the grand jury.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
Ell PARAI. SPANS SUBMARINE TORPEDO RoAT.

With the French the idea has been
to cover entirely the positions of the
guns and the men in the tops to give
the navigator chance to guide his
ship in action from point we'll above
the smoke OF the guns, and, too, to
bear aloft the searchlights. Where
ever closed in top is found on ships
of other nations it is of French in
spiration.
The British have almost exclusively
held to an open or uncovered top, the
only real protection to either guns or
men being the shields carried on the
weapons themselves.
With us the gunboats Wilmington
and the Helena represent the greatest
development of the military mast. in
all 1t means for fighting and signal
purposes, for coming the ship. and for
the carriage of that great shining eve
that is to look far into the night The
coming tower. so to speak, is just be-
low the lower top, and is reached
through the body of the mast proper.
just because of this curious type of
mast, one of the enemy's large auxil-
larry cruisers took one of these boats
for battleship the other day, and lost
no time in hustling for the distant
horizon.
The national tendencies of the va
rious navies are marked by the military
masts their recent vessels bear, and
whether they seek their inspiration
from Great Britain or France it is
easy enough to tell. The Russians are
unsettled; Austria is equally divided;
Germany leans toward the French,
while the Japanese and the Italians fol-
low the English
ROBERT G.. SKERRETT.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

had tops that were practically steel
duplicates of those Of the late war;
and but for the presence of modern
rapid-fre guns, were really of less
defensive value than those OF thirty
odd years ago. It wasn't till we be-
gan to build our battleships that We
really launched out into regular mod
ern military masts, and then we fol-
lowed in principle the practices OF the
French.
The modern mast On fighting ship
is purely for military purposes, name
ly, on such ships that are without
spread of canvas of any sort, and its
duty now is principally for service
that was once merely incidental to
those of the sailing ship. To bear Sig
nails is it's first mission, and then to
carry an armament of rapid-fire guns
with which to meet the attack or tor
pedo boats, to sweep the open ports,
and to enfilade the unprotected gun
stations of an enemy. With Calling
guns pouring out veritable rain OF
bullets at the rate Of 1000 minute,
and with other heavier automatic guns
capable of hurting a hundred or more
of one-pound shell in the same time
the modern military top is something to
be considered where the hand grenade,
the stink balls, and the rocks OF the
past might be dismissed with q shrug.
There is but little doubt that the
French have set the pace for the mod
ern fighting top, and so luxuriantly
have their vessels developed these
growths in riotous profusion and va
rieties of forms that it was no wonder
we soon heard of wanting stability In
their ships. Their most recent de-
signs are decidedly moderated, but still
bear the hall mark of great freedom.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

modern naval vessels and the cut of
the Chitose's mast is typical
AS the ships grew in power their
masts had to be heightened by splicing
on additional spars, and to give spread
for the stays and shrouds that held
them in place, a platform was built
at the top of the lower mast. There
the archer and spearman found ample
room for his work, and the Saxon
chronicles of that lusty writer, Sir
John Froissart, in the latter part of
the fourteenth century give as some
very interesting accounts of the dam
age inflicted upon the French, the
Spanish, and the Genoese by the top
men of the British ships. Down up
on the fragile structures of wood they
hurled great stones that bore down
the foe in great bleeding masses, tore
through their decks, opened their
seams, and sent them to the bottom i'll
a style that Sir John makes highly
commendable.
In the seventeenth century we find
the tops broad and open save for the
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

after part, where a wooden breastwork
was reared to shield the topmen. Why
only the after part should have been
singled out for protection is open for
speculation; but it is not improbable
that the sails before the mast covered
to a great extent the marksmen in the
top and behind the mast only did they
need supplemental protection. These
wooden bulwarks in the tops were va
riously painted according to the ma
tionality of the ship; and for couple
of hundred years that style of top
prevailed, and in form, square behind
and rounded in front, still is in vogue
in modern sail powered naval YES
sells.
During all the frigate actions of the
war of 1912 the sharpshooters in the
tops of the various ships did excellent
work, and there it was the marine
showed what could be expected of him.
even though he stood out with no
shelter other than a stray hammock
or so hastily triced up for his protec
tion.
The first of our ships of the new navy
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

never knew their worth 1"e h"SC oef9eoRt.
until used them for the cure of chronic
dyspepsia. For two years l suffered and
doctored for the aggravating trouble but
could only be helped temporarily.
81 think dyspepsia is one of the most
stubborn of ailments, and there is scarcely
a clerk or Office man but what is more or
less victim. Some days | could eat any
thing. while at other times l would be
starving. Those distressed pains would
force me to quit work.
II tried hot-water treatment thorough
ly, but it did not affect my case have
tried many advertised remedies but they
would help only for time. A friend Of
mine recommended Dr. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, but did not think
much of them.
II finally was induced to try the pills and
commenced using them. After taking a few
doses found much relief. do not remem-
Der how many boxes of the pills used, but
/ used them until the old trouble stopped.
know they will cure dyspepsia Of the worst
form and am pleased to recommend
them
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt
of price, SO cents a box or six boxes for
SO so, by addressing DR.. Williams Medicine
Company. Schenectady, N. Y.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
,or-We must all die
Pointed Paragraphs.

It's a pity that some men can't even
hope to have brain fever
More work would be done for pos
terity if it wasn't such slow pay.
A man looks once at a girls face: a
woman looks twice at her dress.
It's harder for musician to compose
a squalling baby than popular song.
1t is an fndisputable fact that fall
man lives longer than a short one.
A great many financiers have their
loose change tied up in old stockings.
The value of golden opportunity
depends upon the amount of gold there
is in it.
When man is in trouble he believes
a good many things that he would
doubt at any other time.
It's surprising how ignorant girls can
be at times. They all knor what > kiss
means, but they always insist on hav-
ing it repeated Chicago News
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
Afrfca's Ancient Sea.

Recent studies of the animal life of
Lake Tanganyika have shown that that
lake differs from all other African lakes
in possessing inhabitants that belong to
the oceanic species. Still, these sin
gular denizens of lake Tanganyika are
not exactly like the marine organisms
Of the present day, and the conclusion is
drawn that a sea, connected with the
open ocean, once occupied the parts of
Africa where Tanganyika now lies and
that the lake is the last remnant of the
ancient sea.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
The super Volunteers.

We've been the Roman army ana we "
been the Paris mob.
We've marched with Dave Belasco ,
boys in blue;
We've fought in Shenandoah" and
we've often had the job
OF assisting in the Tanning of the
Shrew."
We're battle-battered veterans of every
blessed age.
We can stand before stage director
damn;
But we've made our last appearance
and we're going to engage
For a season on the road with Uncle
Sam.
We've rushed across from r. to L., pur-
suing empty air,
We've done some noble slaughter in
the wings;
We've fired thousand volleys on a. Zoe
that wasn't there,
And it seems to us we're fit for better
things.
We want to feel the fever of a realistic
fight,
And we want to storm fort that
amt sham;
We're sick of being soldiers at half
PUNK per night
So we're going on the road with Uncle
Sam.
And it isn't for the glory and it isn't
for the pay,
For none of us expect to be a star
But it's just the human longing for the
madness of the fray,
It's the longing to be really what we
are.
So we quit the Roman army, and we've
laid the props aside,
And the stage door shuts behind us
with a slam,
And we amt afraid of dying-for we've
very often died.
And We'll gladly die again for Uncle
Sam.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
THE EVOLUTION Of THE FIGHTING TOP.
For Centuries Before the Christian Era They We're
Used Egyptians and the Military Mast

As place of peril the fighting top
of modern man-of-War is the most
exposed position in a heated action,
cut off as it's occupants are from all
shelter1ng armor and poised high and
clear as q tempting target for an en-
emy's quick-firing guns. Let that
mast be torn away and swept over
board by the tempest of small shell
that ships of to-day can bring to bear
upon unarmored parts of a foe, and
the brave defenders must go to GER
tain death without the chance of bit
of floating spar, as in the Olden days,
to hold them up till succor come af-
ter the fierce rush of conflict.
The story of the fighting top reaches
way back centuries before the Chris
tian era; in fact back to the earliest
time when war craft might pardonably
be called ships by virtue of their Sue
cessful struggle with wave and tenn
pest; and, amid the rapid changes of
to-day, it is hard to trace the connec-
tion between those ancient craft with
their rude equipments and the modern
battleship, fierce and strong, by right
of the power she has plucked
from the bowels of the earth
and turned to her own purposes of
might and majestic dominance.
The carvings and drawings of the
war craft of the ancient Egyptians and
Asiatics. two thousand years before
Christ, bear the embryo of the mill
tary top perched at the masthead OF
the single spars that bore their sails
then It.Was merely a rough basket
like arrangement in which one or two
men might stand and assail the war
riors of the foe where they crouched
behind the sheltering bulwarks Of
bucklers hung against the Sides Perch
ed high above, the men in the ga
bie," as later it was called, picked Off,
like sharp-shooters, the enemy before
he could come aboard or tempted him
into open exposure and the conse-
quences such rashness brought.
Down upon the foes deck the hurt
ling spear was sent, while the top
men rested far above retaliation save
from the enemy's topmen, if he had
any During the time of the naval
struggles between the Greeks and the
Romans, the fighting tops disappeared,
for it was customary then to lower the
masts and trust only to the great
sweeps or oars when going into ac-
ton. Strange as it may seem the mer-
chant vessels alone carried fighting
tops then, and for the purpose only
of meeting the attack of pirates, with
whom nearly every sea was then in
tested. Those tops were not unlike
casks, and, with two or three men in
them, could be hoisted we'll up and
into position in time to be of service
Many of our large merchant liners and
all whalers carry a somewhat similar
arrangement we'll up on their masts
to-day, and. from the crows nest, as
1t is now called, most of the lookout
duty is now done. The Japanese have
adopted something of the kind for their
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
Substitute.

'You want trip to the seaside? Non
sense, Jones! Put little salt in your
morning tub, eat fish at every meal,
walk up to town and back SO as to tire
yourself out, sleep on the floor and let
the house be dirty, and you'll fancy
you're at Margate. ''-Piek-Me-U
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
An Endless Affair,

Smith-Old Graspey invited me to
take lunch with him yesterday.
Jones-Did, Ell? I suppose there was
no end to the good things you had to
eat.
Smith-Right you are There was
neither beginning nor an end to them,
Jones-Why, what did you have?
Smith-Pretzels.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
A Wonderful Woman.

Bilkins-My wife used to be rather
foolish, but she's one Of the most calm
and sensible women in this town now
Why, do you know what she did yes
terday?
Orcutt-No; what?
Bilkins-Saw telegraph boy COM
ing across the street toward our house
and never tainted or hollered that she
knew something had happened to
mammal"
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
neamfx ra 93Iood Deen.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beuty without it. Cascarets Candy Ca,
thrtic cleans your blood and keeps II
driving all impurities from the body: Be
gin to-day to Danish pimples, boils.
blotches, blackheads, and that sickly
bilious complexion by taking Cascarets--
beauty for 10 cents. All druggists. salts"
faction guaranteed. 1Oc. 25c, SOC.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
Guessing at IT.

"And so Ollie Proudfit is engaged TO
that Miss Newrich? l thought he used
to say he would never marry any girl
who didn't have family tree to point
to-"
eyes, he did say SO, but the fact that
she is a peach may cover the ground,
in his estimation
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
From a Masculine Standpoint.

Mrs. Peck-This talk about an honest
man being the noblest work of God is
the rankest kind of nonsense. What's
an honest woman, I'd like to know?
Mr.. Peck-She is probably classed
among the rarest, my dear.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

Claude thought you were not go
ing to pay more than $50 for a wheel?
Maud didn't mean to when I went
into the store, but he said If I'd take
the $50 wheel he would let me have a
dollar pump for SO cents.-Indianapolis
Journal.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
1t OUGHT.

Wallace believe there is some
truth in the charge that the working
people are falling away from religious
observance.
Ferry-If that be true, it ought to
make religion fashionable again.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

and liberal commissions, refund the cash for
all goods not giving the consumer satisfaction.
Long terms of credit First-elaSS scheme
statesmen wanted. No bond required. Sales
made from photographs. We guarantee $4,000
per month on mail orders. Address with stamp,
Brenard Mfg. Co., Iowa City, Iowa
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
Rnw1ed Ont.

'I thought you were going to the
war"
$50 l was; but the heartless recruit
ing officer wouldn't allow me to take
my bicycle along" Philadelphia
North American.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

A bath with COSMO BUTTERMILK
SOAP, exquisitely scented, is soothing and
beneficial. Sold everywhere.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.

Flotsam and Jetsam from the Tide oil
Fun-some Good Jokes and Sharp
Sayings Original and selected-Pointod
Paragraphs.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

A boy is always eager to go to the grocery
for any purchase which he can nibble on the
way home
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
To Cure ConstinafIon Forever.

The dresses alone in first-c1ass panto-
mines cost tn etidy little sum Of $4,000.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
We Paw EXPENSES

The judgment of Solomon was great, but he
never tried to umpire base ball game
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

popular and efficient
than Max r. Davies,
first sergeant of Co. b.
He has been a resident
of Detroit for the past
six years, and his home
is ct 416 Third Avenue.
For four years he was
! connected with the
we'll known wholesale
drug house of Farrand,
Williams & Clark, in
the capacity of book
keeper.
Il have charged up
many thousand orders
for DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People, J"
said Mr.. Davies, "but
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

Take CascaretS Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If c. G. c. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05

The warm hand-shake-the pepper-box.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-07-05
A cuARDsMAN's TROUBLE,
From the Detroit (Afich.) Journal.

The promptness with which the Natiope,
Guard of the different states responded 70
President McKinley's call for troops at the
beginning of the war with Spain made the
whole country proud of its citizen soldiers.
In Detroit there are few guardsmen moro