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Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
The Bachelors Club.

We have had occasion a number of times to speak of them in the Journal. For d time they moved in a mysterious way Gods wonders to explore. We had tiguratively to climb into the back window to see them bucking new member with the billy goat. Every man of them, to be elegible, has had to show the stuff he is made of. They have been tried in the fire. They have been blooded too, for the club party to be given by them on New Years eve is to be an open handed offering to the best society in Wrangel Their pro- gram includes l6 dances and 8 extras new nineteenth century measures and then supper. Now, Hirsch. Flaw. Glover, Cole. Grant. Greif and Collins are on the several committees which is d guaranty of a we'll ordered. generous hospitality. which every lady and gen tleman complimented by an invitation may be pleased to accept, Prof. G. II. Edson will supply the music of tripping measures for busy feet. We hope to sit to view the magic scene where bright lamps shine on fair women and brave men, Il hundred hearts beat hap pity, when music arises with it's soft vOluptuous swell and soft eyes look love to eyes that speak again. and all goes merry as a marriage bell. You see, boys, it's little altered but covers the occasion. The compliments of the season gentlemen, may your shadows never grow less. If there are to be any elegible young ladies there, we pity the sorrows of these young men. We think as foil q husband and wives club should give them return party to help hang up the winter.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
Vancouver. B. C., Dec. H., lS9'

Vancouver. B. C., Dec. +, 1898. Editor Journal, Wrangel, Alaska:
 1 received several of your nice little papers and I think they are all right. Reading some of the funny items made me smile for the first time since l came to this rainy town, some five weeks ago. am glad to see pieces about the Stikeen route and mines, for l think that is the route and the old Stikeen district will come to the front yet and will claim it's share of people going to Atlin. There are great prep arations being made here by men anxi- ous to go or to send someone to the Atlih country.
 find by talking with would-be in- vestors that the mines and prospects around Wrangel are among the first spoken of and good ore is often seen here from that vicinity and from Van couver Island.
 While waiting tried my hand on writing about the rain. I hope Mir. Mckeand has recovered from his sick ness. l remain respectfully.
 MELVIN C. MARSTON,
 Late of the upper Stikeen Country. P. s. The quartz ore showed you from the Stkeen, ran i oz r. dwt or S91.00 to the ton.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
COMMUNICATIONS.

This column is open to the public. All com munications must be signed by the writer, not for publication. but as an evidence of good faith.
 We are not responsible for the views of our correspondents published under the head of communications.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
Listening to the Rain.

am listening to the rain. Beat against the window pane, As it drops from the caves, On the dead and fallen leaves, Moistening meadows long since grey. Softening all the travelled way. Downward in it's rapid flight. Falling falling. through the night, Listening To the falling rain, Memory takes me home again, Back across the dreary plain, Moistened by the Autumn rain, Cloudy days and pleasant hours. Suubeams shining after showers, Minging in q mystic flight. Charms me through the raing night. Sadly thinking through the rain. oft seem 1t home again. With Il loved ones sunny smile. Sharing all my thoughts erewhile, Listening to the rain drops tread, On the low roof overhead, Hearing but the soft refrain. only the pattering of the rain. Years of shine and rain have fled, Shadows hover OCT my bed. My head is sprinkled with locks of white And am sleepless through the night, Listening to the falling rain. Hoping to meet old friends again, Watching for the morning light, Waiting through the rainy night.
 Melvin (. MarStoI
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
Kind Words.

T. c. Wilson, formerly postmaster at Burlington. is now business manager of the Stikeen River Journal, published at Fort Wrangel, Alaska. Times, Sedro, Wash.
 Mr. T. G. Wilson, q well-known Lindsay boy, is now business head of the Stikeen River Journal. bright little weekly published at Fort Wran- gel, Alaska. on the border of the Arc tic circle. "Tug' was member of The Post staff many years ago. and his many friends here will wish him pros perity in his far northern venture. = Post. Lindsay, Canada.
 Capt. C. V. Gardner, editor of the DeadwoOd Times, in a letter to his old friend H. F.. Goldthwaite. says: II am in receipt of a copy of the Stikeen River Journal. l was much pleased to receive it. It certainly is d very credit able paper and the man who publishes it is worthy of all good works It is no easy matter to publish paper so far from the haunts of men. and make it newsy and interesting.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
THE PIONEER LIMITED. "AS OTHERS SEE US."

Nothing richer has ever been pro duced by any railroad"
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 St. Paul Dispatch. "Prominent and discriminating peo- pie marvel at the creation of elegance and comfort wrought by modern car builders
 Minneapolis Tribune. "The PIONEER LIMITED stands today perfect in construction. gorgeous in finish and the acme of luxury and com fort
 Minneapolis Journal. "The PIONEER LIMITED" the only Perfect Train in. the World is now running daily between St. Paul and Chicago. on the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE X ST PAUL RAILWAY. Take THE PIONEER LIMITED for all.points in the United States and Can ada. Al agents sell tickets. J. w. CASEY. C. J. EDDY, Tray. Pass. AYt. General Agt.
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Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
Business Men.

The Journal has all facilities for turning out work at short notice Try us for your next rush" order in bill heads, envelopes, or any kind of office stationery. Low prices, high satisfac- tion and prompt delivery make strong trio.
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24
ALASKA HOTEL, F'S; sasy.'!4oss. sY1ass 90"

Cor K. K. Avenue and Main street. Rooms 25c to 75c. Special rates by the week. A strictly respectable family hotel. Fire proof brick and electric lights in every room.
 SEATTLE WARRINGTON
Stikeen River journal., 1898-12-24

Nothing richer has ever been pro duced by any railroad.'
 St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
H nOG.
.el Treatment Is the Reward tor

Cruel Treatment Is h Reward tor
Their Affection nnti Intelligence.
The Alaskan dog is almost human in
intelligence. He weighs about 100
pounds. Heavily laden he will trayel as
many as 60 miles a day.
With 20 dogs in a team no two oil
them are in a straight line from the
driver. When unhitched for the night
they pile upon the first blanket that IS
thrown upon the snow. and there they
stay. When you crawl into your sleep
ing bag and pull a robe over it the dog
will get under the robe. Unless you are
careful he will be inside of the bag in
the morning. Their endurance is phe-
nomenal, and they are capable of strong
affection. They are great fighters.
A traveller who recently returned
from Alaska says of the treatment ac-
corded these faithful animals:
The whip that is used on them is the
cruelest thing of the kind known to
man. Thirty feet in length and two
inches thick near the short handle, it
has a lash ten feet long that cuts like q
knife. The Russian knout isn't in it.
When the dog is struck you hear a
sharp yelp, and then your sleigh whirls
past a bit OF fur OF possibly a piece Of
bloody skin lying on the snow"
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
~ACEPhALouS BOOSTERS
Demonstrated That the Darnyard Hon
arch Can Live Without u He" Il. /.

Demonstrated That the D~arnyard Hon
arch Can Live without u He" d.
1t was once thought impossible that
q human being could live Il walk
with a broken neck, and perhaps still
more doubted that a rooster could live,
stand and be fed after the hatch had
severed it's head from the body But
such are the real hard facts, says For
est and Stream. The phenomenal
rooster was exhibited some years ago
in Huntington, w. Va. The exhibitors
said they got the fowl from a ftrmer
who had decapitated it, after w'lich it
got upon its feet. However this may
be, the headless, living rooster vas not
q deception. 1t was fed thr' ugh a
tube inserted i'll its throat. 1t $ obvi-
Gus that the farmers stroke WIS a lit
tie too high, and that a portio-l of the
back brain still re Ind partial-
ly performed its functions. How long
the fowl lived l did not hear. One
thing is certain-he died "garne.'
A negro, seeing millions in it," then
experimental On The g~allinaeeous
tribe, and sueceeGea iii turning out .
ldlT duplicate u tilN e-9iSSdia uNNEh@A-
Gus curiosity Qor whoal l. made a pic
ture of the rooster WITH ,9hiel Q adver~
tise). and he started Of a tour of ex-
hibition. He returned not 'oHg after
and told me he was doing well, and
could have made some money at de-
capitating ROSTERS for other parties
who wanted them for exhibition, but
that he was prevented By the authori-
ties, upon the accession of cruelty.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
DISEASE OF THE EASTER LILY.


Reault of n GOyernmen investigation
of n Flowers Ailment.
A special bulletin has been issued by
the agricultural department on disease
of the Bermuda, or Easter lily, which
is of much interest to the florists OF the
country. 1t points out that the fore
ing of the lily has become an important
industry in the United States. The
bu1As are grown almost exclusively in
bermuda, where they mature in July
and are then shipped to this country
to be forced in the following fall, win
ter and spring.
During the past five or six years the
disease affecting the lily has seriously
interfered with the profitable growth
of the plant. The government began an
investigation of the plant two OF three
years ago, and the preliminary report
saws the disease destroys in this our.
try from 30 to 60 per cent. of the en-
tire crop. exclusive of the bulbs which
fail to grow or that make worthless
plants, the loss from which ranges from
s 20 30 per cent.
The disease is characterized by spot
ing and distortion of the leaves and
flowers, and usually the stunning OF the
plants. The principal causes assigned
are worn-out soil, premature remova
of flowers and flower stems, premature
harvesting of bulbs, carelessness in Sc
lection of propagating stock, bad treat
ment during the forcing, and the dep
relation of insects. As remedies it IS
suggested that only strong and vigor-
Gus plants be used for propagation.
crop rotation should be practiced,
chemical fertilizers used and premature
digging avoided.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
A FINE FARM FOR SALE.

We offer for sale at $40 per acre, the
Overinan place, eight miles west of
Grangeville, consisting of 100 acres.
The home place comprises $50 acres,
with a new W story dwelling house,
36x36 feet, 2 feet high and containing
II rooms, with water piped throughout
the building, and cost $1,000; cellar and
woodshed 24x4S feet. horse barn 4ox6o
feet, all painted. Windmill, plenty of
running water, new granery 28xI6 feet;
smoke house. 3 stock barns, orchard OF
400 bearing trees, ETC., and gao acres en-
closed by an S-rail hog-tight fencing.
The other place consists of 4So acres
in three fields, enclosed with wire and
pole fence, with spring and reservoir for
stock. All good plow land except
about ten acres. A box house of three
rooms downstairs and two rooms mp
stairs; spring within 40 steps of house.
A thousand acres of pasturage adjoining
with fine grass, water and shelter for
stock the year round. $40 per acre buys
It. For further particulars call on A. F.
Parker Grangeville, or Cyrus Overman,
on the ranch.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
Handbook of the Tariff.

The understanding of the complicated
provisions of the new tariff has been
greatly simpliied by the issuance of this
manual. To digest the tariff law is no
easy task, but to digest the food taken
into the gastric receptacle is rendered
easy by the use Of that thorough stom
achic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t
prevents and cures malarisl. kidney and
rheumatic trouble, remedies nervousness
and insomnia, and removes constipation
and b~iliousness. Appetite, as well as
the ability to satisfy it without subse.
quent abdominal disturbance, is restored
BY this 6ne stomachic, which also &C
celebrates convalescs nee. Persons in ths
decline Of life, and the infrm Of ever,
ase and sex. end it of material assist
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
watd for II case ofCatarrh that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarfh Cure.
+ J.. CHENEY * CO, Toledo, ..
We. the undersigned, have known +.
J. Cheney toi the last IS years, aud be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus
mess transactions and financially able
to carry out any obligations made by
their firm.
WEST & TRuAx. Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O..
WALDIN6, k.NNAN & MARVIN, Whole.
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Test
imonials sent free. Price IS c. per bot
tie. Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
We have tried the 70

we have tried the road
toward the single gold stan
dard for so many years, and
on that road nothing but clio.
ser times and more frequent
panics have awaited us. Are
You not ready to return to
sound and well-tried bimetal.
ism, the double standard OF
our fathers?
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at Lewiston, Idaho.i

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before Jas. DeHaven, U. S. Com.
missioner at Grangeville, Idaho, on Dec.
"a, 1898. viz: William G. Hettriek for
the S Il NE X, N " Sc x sec 10. Tp &c
r L.
He names the following witnesses tc
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of, said land, viz:
Isreal Chapman, David A. Wilson,
Henry v. Telcher and John johnson, all
Of Grangeville, Idaho.
27-27 J. B. WEST, Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
The Heavens in November.
The advance guard of tn.

The advance guard OF the
great November meteor
swarm is due this month, and
on the nights of the 18th, 18th
and 18th astronomers in all
parts of the earth will be awake
and on the lookout. They
will be both surprised and dis.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11
MANILA ODDS AND ENDS,
Collected by our Regular Cor
respondent and are
Reliable,

The native population of the
Island of Luzon is divided in
to three classes. The first
class is made up of the igno-
rant, lazy, improvident por.
ton who ask nothing more
than to be left alone to eat
what they can get and sleep
as long as they may please.
That class does not care for a
general or a local government,
nor for any government at all.
Their chief aim in life is to lie
down and get up, at will, like
dumb driven cattle.
The second class is made
up of sympathizers with the
Spaniards-those who were
taken into the confidence OF
the Spaniards, and who shared
some of the big profits of gov
eminent contracts and got
"divies' in revenues and 9th
er favored collections-the
class that ate at the pie coun'
tiers.
The third class belongs to
Aguinaldo's followers. Aguin
aldo is willing for Americans
to run the general govern
ment of the Island and he
wants to rule and dictate ir
local affairs. AT this writing
no understanding has beer
reached by the governor.gen
eral and him. They have
never met. Aguinaldo fears
that all negotiations must b.
carried on through an inter
prefer, he may be entrappet
and get the worst of the bar
gain-that he will draw tn
short end of the straw. w
can tell him, in the genera
wind up, he will get it whetf
er he draws it or not.
Old-time English settler
say the Island is rich in Goa
but gold is to be. found only i
small quantities. From tim
to time Englishmen have ser
out experts to prospect and r.
port, but no reports have eve
been favorable to investmen
in mining schemes.
The interior of the Island
but little known. 1t is inha'
tied by tribes that live in bills
full ignorance of the civilize
world whose people never mi
gle with the whites Of any n
ton. The most of the int
Tor is covered with its origin
forest growth and this
dense and almost impenetrab|
The Spanish governme
made no pretensions to &C
troll the interior. That h
been left to itself for all tim
Spanish rule was confin
principally to the range
Spanish guns, and these we
used along the coast. Q
troops are eager to invade t
interior country, to exami
its mountains, prospect |
minerals and see the "w
man of Borneo," who ne,
came to town.
Aguinaldo, the insurgs
leader, honestly admits Il
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11

Notice the advertisement of Ed
ward stahl, assayer, in another
column. Mr.. Stahl has had 30
years experience as an assaye r and
metallurgical chemist.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11

one, is not beheld by some OF
the watchers. The main
of the meteors is not
due until November, 1899,
but their advancing columns,
broken into parallels and sep
arated by considerable gaps,
occupy 30 mnch space on the
celestial highways they trav-
erse that millions of the mys-
terious little bodies must al
ready have reached the neigh
borhood of the earth's orbit,
and it can hardly happen that
many of these will not become
entangled by the terrestrial
attraction, and dart their fiery
spears through the upper air.
The reader may like to be
reminded that this, the great
est known ''meteor shower
has a period of 1914 years;
that the history of these me-
teors has been traced back to
the year A. d.. I26, when the
planet Uranus is believed to
have captured the wanderers
and turned them into a per,
manent orbit around the sun;
that a comet (Tempel's) is
known to be travelling in the
same orbit with them, and
that the world was astonished
at the magnificence of the dis
plays which they made in 1888.
and 1866. AT their return in
1866 changes had taken place
in the array of the meteors,
indicating a considerable scat
tering, and in November enor-
nous bodies of them were still
rushing across the earth's
orbit, and another splendid dis
play occurred.
The point in the heavens
from which the meteors ap'
pear to radiate is situated
within the curved blade of the
imaginary "sickle" which
marks the constellation Leo,
This is not well risen I'm
til midnight, but late in the
evening meteors radiating from
it may be seen shooting up
ward from the northeastern
horizon. Observers are ad
vised to begin watching 70.
them about II P. M. on No
vemper IL, keeping up thu
watch for five nights altogethe
and continuing it until tn
morning twilight begins. For
tunately, there will be n
trouble from the moon, whicl
is "new' on the 18th.
| The November meteors ar
t very swift in movement, sine
] the earth meets them thea
+; on and they frequently e,
hibit bright colors and leav
brilliant trains.
e If the expected display o
5 the 18th or 18th does nc
equal expectations, anothe
I chance will be presented Q
t the night of the 18th, whe
the celebrated Andromed
) meteors are due. These al
n believed to be a part of tt
a debris of the vanished conn
1t of Biela, and they furnishe
d dazzling spectacles in 49,
and 1885. Their period
d Il years. During the Shove
of 1885 an iron meteor, ST.
lie posed to belong to the Andr
media swarm, and subsequer
IL " famous under the name
y "a piece of Biela's comet" fl
IN at Mazapil in northern MeXic
r Unlike the November Il
I'd meteors, which are known
Sc the Leonids, the Androme,
rs meteors are slow, because th'
d, overtake instead of meetil
of the earth. Their color is Fl
r. quently reddish. The Fl
til moon will interfere with t
es observation of these meteo.
i'll whose radient point is ov'
es head between 6 and 10 o'clo
70 in the evening.
90 -e-
How's This?
Is We offer One Hundred Dollars
watd for any case ofCatarrh hat can
Is. he eurad nv Hallts Catarrn Cure
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11

Four lots in Houston, Texas,
value $1,000, nicely located, to
trade for mining property. Farms
iii California and Missouri to trade
for s,lme in Idaho county. Farms
and ACCOMPLISHMENTS wanted. w.
I. Fogle, Grangeville, Idaho. %
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1898-11-11

The most complete line of Hardware
in the State to select from, at bedrock
prices, at the Pioneer Hardware Store,
Lewiston. Established 1864. Z. G.
BUNNELL, Proprietor.