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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

modified epidermic cells still corrobo- rates his story as to the virtues of that frigid cline as a hair-producer.
 My hair was always thick" he says, ESQ I cannot speak from personal ex- perence, but the way the dogs put on hair up there is caution; they get as shaggy as Shetland ponies; and now think of it, l never saw bald-headed fellow anywhere around there. To tell the truth they all look, after they have got to work, as though a razor and a pair of scissors were far more needed than a hair restorer and l think mis- sionary barber could do good work among them"
 c. H. Henderson, who has claim on Dominion Creek, and has been up in that vicinity for two years, heartily echoes MT. McLeods sentiments There is something about the intense cold, he asseverates, that makes the hair on man and beast flourish might fly. Dandruff and falling hair are un- known in that part of the country, but he thinks that the fact that people are too busy to bother with" their hair has something to do with its unusual growth.
 "A man who is vain enough to put his time in on trying to increase the thick ness of his hair" is this gentlemans s decision, twill generally manage to worry off what little belongs to him naturally. He will scrub it, and put fertilizer on it, and lay awake nights thinking about it until his head is as hot as a furnace and burns the roots of it to ashes; and end by getting up me shiniest kind of a bald head, but up there it is too cold to fool that way, and the hair gets chance for it's life"
 l.. S. Woodstock. an Alaskan of five years standing, puts in his testimony in regard to the efficacy of good freez- ing weather as a hair rejuvenator or resurrector, and another gentleman re- gently returned from the Arctic gold fields, who, not having made his pile" as yet, is averse to having his name in the papers," says he is seriously consid- ering the practicability of establishing a hair sanitarium in some reasonably accessible spot. where he will, for a satisfactory consideration, entertain bald headed guests, and tell them pleasing little tales about Alaska, past,
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
HUNTING FOR
 DURHAM'S GOLD

~ NCE more the treasure hunting craze has struck Butte County, This time people are digging for the long buried gold of old man Durham.
 It is true this gold has been be- meath the surface of the earth a long | time. So long, in fact, that many peo- pie have forgotten all about the man who put it there. and why he put it there. But that does not hinder their digging for it now.
 Long ago, when golden nuggets fresh from the bosom of mother earth were more plentiful than now, and sleek. fat cattle roamed by the thousands over the grass covered hills, Robert Durham rode on the top of the bright hued wave of prosperity. He had fortunes safely slowed away in different banks of the State, and all the time his herds were increasing in numbers. The world was going just as he wanted it to. and his only hope was that it would swing along forever in the groove that suited him so well.
 But as all lanes must have a turn ing, so did Robert Durham's road of life. From good health he was one day suddenly brought face to face with the grave. But I'll be all right to-mor- row." he said
 This happened one Saturday morn ing, and that afternoon a man called on Durham and closed a deal for the sale of many thousands of cattle The papers were signed and the money paid over. This sum with what he had on hand at the ranch amounted to about $100, 1000 in gold.
 At this time Durham was living at his favorite ranch a short distance out of Chico Had he been well he would have gone to town and put the money in bank, but as it was he was com pelled to postpone his trip and secrete the money. "I'll go on Monday" he told his wife. He was feeling Q little better at thls time.
 On the day following, Sunday, he was stricken with nervous fear over the safety of so much money in the house. He thought that some inkling of the gold being there might get out and that thieves would break in and steal 1t. He must hide it.
 Weak as he was from his late attack he managed, without being seen, to walk some distance from his house, dig a hole, and then make several trips back to the house for his gold which he carefully covered up with sods.
 'I'll dig it up again tomorrow and take it to the bank in Chico" he said, to his wife.
 But the morrow only found him pros trated completely. The doctor who had been summoned shook his head and said it was only a matter of minutes before the end would come. Old Dur ham then thought of his gold He must tell his wife where he buried it.
 Calling her to the bedside he pointed
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
INSURANCE AGAINST SHOT.

Risks from war in any form are ex- cluded from the standard Massachu- setts fire insurance policy, but the com panies are apparently besieged with applications for such insurance, and the Attorney General has been asked to give an opinion to the Insurance Com missioner respecting the right of the companies to waive the war risk clause.
 AS he has already decided that fire policy cannot be made to cover loss by explosion, he will presumably decide that it cannot be made to cover loss by bombardment or by fire which has been started by a shell explosion or other war device. This would leave the seashore cottages and exposed city property to seek insurance in some other direction against the shots of Spanish cruisers.
 Some of the fire companies in New York are writing war risks on shore properties, notably the expensive villas maintained on the Long Island and Jersey coasts.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

! victim, who no longer lolled back, but who sat on the edge of his seat, his body leaning forward as far as equi- librium permitted, his features drawn, his eyes bulging, the whole being of the man fascinated, held as by mesmeric spell. When ultimately Gladstone paused and reached forward for his papers, in preparation for more serious matters of debate, his victim heaved a huge sigh of relief, and seemed to drop back into his seat, as if the cur had literally been released from the jaws of the mastiff.
 That Tory troubled Gladstone no more for many years, if, indeed, he ever did so again.
 In the old days when the crying abuse of purchase in the army was en- trenched in that last ditch of all hered- itary political abuse, the House of Lords, it was under Gladstone's coun- sel that the Queen, by royal warrant, abolished that evil forever Every measure of reform that he introduced in more recent years had to face the hostility of that same foe to popular progress-the House of Lords.
 SAMUEL SLOCOMRE
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

T HE experience of Roderick Dhu
 Smith-Who recently returned
 from the Klondike region with
 1 big budget of experience, quite
 little sum of money and a head of hair which almost qualities him to take an engagement as a Cir cassian girl in a circus-is of especial interest to large contingent of his fellow men and women. For be it known that Roderick before making hls perilous way to the Arctic regions, though otherwise pleasing to look upon and still on the sunny side of forty, was the owner of a head which made theater ushers, whenever there was a ballet on the programme, escort him down to the front row without even glancing at his seat check
 While this might have been consid- cred an advantage by some people, 1t was not pleasing to MT. Smith, who is an essentially modest man and averse to being made unduly prominent on any occasion. It is said, too, that his badness was the real cause of his starting out in search of gold, since he spent all his patrimony in the purchase of hair restorers, and it was necessary for him to do something, no matter how desperate. to retrieve his fallen for tunes.
 Be that as it may, he went to Alaska, and after a two years residence there has returned amodern Samson, as far as cheyalure is concerned, and he de- clareS that the transformation is en- t1rely due to the rigorS of the climate in that quarter of the globe
 The intense cold kills all germs and microbes" he asserts, and stimulates the scalp, and nature does the resi- and he proudly exhibits his lion-like mane as proof of what nature can do when she takes a fancy, unassisted by washes or oils or unguents of any kind.
 F. J. Mcleod, who has spent twelve years in Alaska and the Northwest, al- though he has not the pleasure of knowing Mir. Smith personally, and did not therefore see the sprouting and the bourgeoning of his especial crop of
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

II asked eagerly where the tiger was, and they told me that she had taken ref uge in a blacksmith-shop, and went after her. Within myself there was feeling ot elation.
 "In a few moments I found the tiger. She was covering in a corner, with her eyes afiame and her mouth wide open. Without waiting an instant for her to make the attack, attacked her and let her see that I was the master. It was a short struggle. 1 used my whip with all my strength, and she began to howl and started to run.
 This was my chance Dropping my whip, I seized her with my powerful hands. One stretched the loose skin of her neck and the other held tightly fur ther down her back.
 Instantly I raised her on my shoulders and carried her back to her cage, into which threw her with all my force She sank into a heap, shivering like a fright ened rabbit.
 ''At this moment the air was rent with plaudits, cheers and the clapping of hands Before an hour the country rang with news of my deed and l was famous"
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

When Biders stepfather died his mother married a third time, and her third husband was the celebrated animal tanner FaimaH. It was through him that Bidel took up his dangerous profession.
 After engaging with different mounte- bank shows he at last found employment in the Circus BernSbo.
 Bidel had been with this organization for some time before the chance of his life came that made him famous. At this time the circus was showing in Bajona and until his opportunity was right be- fore him Bidel had not the slightest idea of the fame in store for him. Following are his own words of the event:
 ''The place was filled with people and the performance was about to commence 1 was waiting for my turn to go on when suddenly some one shrieked out, The. big tiger has escaped from her cagei
 This animal was the only one in our menagerie really dangerous. Everybody was afraid of her. Instantly all was con fusion and the shrieks of frightened peo- pie rent the air. At once I realized that my chance had come.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

tree -Don't-you-see- he man. aged to gasp, while his hand shook like a leaf in the wind.
 Dig at the" and then he drew a long breath and breathed his last.
 Of course a search was Immediately made for the buried gold, but nobody ever found trace of it. At least as lar as is known.
 There are neighbors who firmly be- lieve that some members of the family dug up the gold before the old man body was cold. The story goes that they then divided it among themselves ana kept the matter a secret. Others there are who believe just as stoutly that the gold is still in the place where sick, old Robert Durham secreted 1t.
 At any rate that is the gold some peo- pie are still digging for in Butte County to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
A Study of the Life of the Great English States man.
Bu One Who Knew Him.

"HE passing of England's Grand
 Old Man is an event of world
 wide interest. For more than half a century he stood in the +I,a al lxe,-S Of his
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
DOES THE GOLD OF A6KA
 CURE BALDNE6S? :?


present and future, to amuse and fn- terest them. and a hair-raising ghost story occasionally for it's practical et- fects, while upon their denuded cran1- ums will appear first the fuzz, and then the fur, and then the sleek and glossy hair, the possession of which IS the one great desire of their existence
The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
- HERE is a tide in the affairs of


 men that taken at its flood leads
 on to fortune" Had 1t not been
 for this tide and the fast that he A took advantage of it, Bidel would
 never have been a great animal tanner Bidel has just written book Of his own life which in q way is most interesting volume. It is full of narra- lives of intensely dramatic experience, but the great incident of his life stands out from these like a diamond in a pile of pebbles.
 According to his own story, Bidel was born in Rouen, in 1889; his father, trav- eled for the fairs with small circus whose principal ornament was an inn mense vulture. The unfortunate man was crushed to death under the car that served as his house. But the little circus continued to be the chief source of rev. enue to the orphan and the widow, When she remarried they began to grow richer and more important.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Gov. WoIcott Reelected and Eleven Of 10
Congressman Are Republican.

Boston, Nov. 81 A. M.-The vote of
the state at an early hour this morn
ing, was nearly complete and gives
Gov. Wolcott, Rep, plurality over A.
b. Bruce, Dem, of 7S,l17. The Demo-
cratic vote in 3l4 cities and towns out
Of 352 was 103, 700, which was somewhat
larger than the total vote of Williams
in 1896 and 24,000 ahead of his vote on
last year. Gov. Wolcotts vote is co.
coo behind that of 1886 and 10000 ahead
of that of 1897.
The Congressional delegation will
stand II Republicans and two Demo-
Gratis, a gain of one by the latter, while
the Legislature will stand practically
the same as last year. and will re-elect
Lodge as senator.
1 A. M.-Returns from Sal cities and
towns out of 1852 in Massachusetts, give
Bruce, Dem, 103, 700: Wolcott, Rep,
1S1 III. Same towns in 1896, gave Will
liams, Dem, 9S,S61; Wolcott, Rep,
241, 5S7.
2 A. M.-Returns from 346 out of 352
cities and towns in Massachusetts give
Bruce, Dem, 100000; Wolcott, Rep,
1921. The same towns, last year,
gave Williams, Dem, $3.50; Wolcott,
Rep, 243,29s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
MASSACHUSETTS coxGRessmEH.
The Vote for Each Candidate in the Several
Congressional Districts.

Boston, Nov. S.--The following is the
vote for congressman in the first dis
trict Zone town missing) Davis, Dem,
S769; Lawrence, Rep. 14.27S.
Second district, Zone town missing)-
Bisbee. DEM, 1885; Gillett, Rep, 1926.
Third district, Worcester ouD-
Thayer, Dem, 5l2O; Walker, Rep,
5117.
Fourth district. (complete)-Morse,
DEM. SAT-; Weymouth, Rep. 14.146.
Fifth district-Flynn, Dem, 13,439;
Knox. Rep. 14.O15.
Sixth district-Boynton, Dem, Gl52:
Moody, Rep. 14,227
Seventh district-Ramsdell, Dem. 49,
l0l; Roberts. Rep. 1921.
Eighth district, Gone ward missing)-
Mccall. Rep. 1912; Perkins, DEM,
$685.
Eleventh district-Baker, DEM, 6779:
Sprague. Rep. 12,501.
Twelfth district. five towns missing
Brady, DEM, 6137; Lowering, Rep, 49,
S22
Thirteenth district, three towns miss
ing-Luce, Dem, 1924; Greene, Rep.
1S.1iS.
Ninth district. one ward missing
Fitzgerald. DEM, 9197 Gallivan, Ind.
DEM, 4449; Krebs. Rep. 1864.
Tenth district, two wards missing -
Barrows, Rep. 1876; Naphen. Dem.
l416S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
TINE PRESIDENT VOTES.
Mis- Registration Number Is 1872, and He De-
posts Ballot No. 1873.

Canton, Ohio, Nov. S.-President Nc
on a special train. Accompanying him
were Mrs. Mckinley, General Hast
ings. Assistant Secretary Cortelyou
and Stenographer Rudolph Foster. A
number of the Presidents old friends
We're at the depot to meet him. The
fact that his train was not expected
until an hour later, was responsible
for a comparatively small crowd at
the depot.
The party took carriages and We're
driven to the M. c. Barber home. The
President exchanged greetings at the
house, and then accompanied by eight
or ten of his old friends he started for
the polling place of his precinct of the
ward.
At the voting place the President
greeted the election officials with a
hearty handshake. His registration
number was called out as No. 1872 and
he was handed ballot No. 1873. He was
in the booth a little over a minute,
after which he deposited his ballot and
returned to the Barber home for
luncheon.
The Presidential train started eastward
at Els =. NJ, after an impromptu recep-
ton at the station. Whenever the Pres
ident appeared on the street. today, he
was greetd by friends and acquaintance,
and those who came up to him were
given a hearty handshake and a pleasant
word.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
THE ELECTIONS.
Continued from page ~
ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATED.
Receives the News Of Election at His Home at
Oyster Bay.

Oyster Bay, L. l., Nov. S.-Col
Roosevelt was notified, tonight, Of his
victory by telegram from Chairman
Odell of the Republican state commit
tee, saying he had been elected Gov
ernor by from $4,000 to 10000 plurality
Col. Roosevelt was at his house IN
Cove Neck surrounded by his family
and some friends. After arriving home
during the afternoon from the city, he
spent the evening quietly waiting for
the returns to come in. News reached
the telephone Office in Oyster Bay be-
fore the dispatches from New York
We're sent to Col. Roosevelt's home.
A party of newspaper men, as soon
as the news came that he had been
elected, drove to his house and inform
ed him that he was to be the next Gov
ernor of New York state.
Col. Roosevelt was congratulated by
those present and during the night and
up to the time the telegraph office
closed there was a flood of congratu
latory kilograms for the successful
candidate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
THEY SEEM PLEASED.
The Defeated Democratic Candidates Say They
Are Satisfied With the Vote.

Boston, Nov. S.-Hon. A. B. Bruce,
the Democratic candidate for Governor.
was seen just before he left for his home
in Lawrence. Mass, and he said: Gov.
Wolcott is not any better pleased with
his vote, tonight, than l am with the
100000 odd | received at the hands of the
plain, hardworking people of the old Bay
state. The general result is all l could
wish for. The vote of today demon
strated that the Democracy of this state
is waking up and is girding on it's armor
for the great fight of 1900. 1t is a great
satisfaction for me to carry my own city
Of Lawrence, where the people know me-"
Hon. Edward j. Slattery, the candidate
for lieutenant governor on the Demo-
cratic ticket, said, tonight, on the result
of the election: Il am frank to say that
the result is eminently satisfactory to
me, personally and politically. the re-
suit is evidence of where the Democratic
party will stand in the next campaign,
and in the next Presidential contest OF
1900. The Democratic party is more firm
ly convinced. today, than ever. that the
Chicago platform will be reafiirmed for
the next Presidential campaign
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09

Gratis claim congressional gains, and a
close result on the state ticket. The
Republicans are equally confident.
The Republican state committee have
a dispatch at p M. from George B.
Cox of Cincinnati, stating that Hamilton
county gives Republican plurality of
1850. AS the county gave Bushnell a
plurality of 1850 last year. this is a Re-
publican gain of 1900 in the county. The
vote of both parties is less everywhere
than last year, but early reports show
that the Democratic losses greatly ex-
coed those of the Republicans, so that
the latter expect large plurality on the
state ticket and a gain of two congress
men.
Incomplete returns indicate that the
Republican plurality on the state ticket
will exceed the plurality of 81, 109 for Nc
kinley in 1896 and probably double the
plurality of IS. l0o for Bushnell for Gov
ernor, last year. The Republicans elect Is
of the q congressman. and four districts
are carried by the Democrats. Two dis
tricts, the Sd and 18th, are in doubt.
At midnight Chairman Blacker OF
the Democratic state committee con-
ceded the state TO the Republicans by
over 10000 plurality and Chairman
Daughty OF the Republican state com
mittee claimed about $4,000.
The Ohio Congressional delegation
remains the same as at present. Is to
6, each party carrying the same dis
tricts as at the Presidential election
two years ago.
Cleveland, Nov. s.-Returns in at
o'clock indicate that Kinney, Rep, for
secretary of state, has carried this city
and county ,by 10000. This is a gain of
5000 over the Republican plurality of one
year ago.
Cincinnati, Nov. S.-Returns from
Hamilton county indicate that the
whole Republican ticket is elected by
1000 to 5000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
B0sIUN's VOTE.
Gov. wolcott Again Carries the Democratic
City, BY About 1900 Plurality.

Boston. Nov. S.-Roger Wolcott, the
Republican candidate for Governor,
again carried the city of Boston, in to-
days election. In 1897. Boston cast 3d.
S66 against 24,933 for Williams, his OPP
ponent, thus giving him a plurality Of
1898, with Gold Democrat in the field.
When the vote was counted, today, the
total vote was found to be at least 5000
greater than last year and Wolcott had
plurality of little less than 1900
The returns from two precincts out Of
191 We're very late.
The vote reported from the other 1879
precincts was $3.50 for Wolcott and
31.442 for Bruce. In the two precincts
which We're missing, Williams, last
year, had 342 and Wolcott S23, plural
ity of 10 for Williams
The loss on the state ticket for the
Democrats was looked upon philOsoph-
ically by the members of that party
who considered themselves amply COM
pensated by the gain of a congressman
in the next House in the election of
Henry F. Naphen in the 10th Congress
slonal district over the present Repub-
lican member, Rev. Samuel j. Barrows,
who was defeated in a fiercely contest
cd fight, by about 1000 plurality, Bar
rows being squarely on the gold plat
form, Naphen coming out squarely on
IL to ratio.
Congressman John F. Fitzgerald, the
only Democrat in the House from New
England, is returned by the 9Th district
after one of the bitterest and most hot
ly contested of fights. His plurality
over Franz Hugo Krebs, Rep, was
nearly 5000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-09
REPUBLICAN, CHALLENGER ARRESTED.
Contested Right Of Fioater- Charged With Dis
orderly Conduct-Aiterwards Released.

New York, Nov. Soto Rosealsky,
former assistant district attorney and
Republican, was arrested in the lth
election district of the Sth Assembly
district. this morning. Rosealsky. who
is a Republican challenger, contested the
right of Frank Reilly. an alleged float
er. for whom a warrant for illegal reg
istration had been issued, to vote.
There was some discussion and Roseal-
sky was arrested for alleged disorderly
conduct.
He was taken to Eldridge street sta
ton followed by an immense and excit-
ed crowd. The police of the Eldridge
street station charged the crowd but It
refused to dispense until Acting Cap
tain Zimmerman brought out the re-
serves.
Rosealsky was discharged by Magis-
trate Flammer, who said that the p0-
liceman had no right to arrest him.
Reilly. the alleged floater, was held in
$1,000 bonds for trial.