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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20


left dead ants. What mattered it that the
numberless punctures smarted as though
TO- 900 red hot needles were piercing my
skin. I was routing the enemy.
stMy efforts redoubled. I poured the
oil down my ankles and joyously watched
the head Of the columns that were mount
ing my shoes turn tail and scuttle of,
leaving thousands of dead ants in their
trail. The insects left on my body were
quickly disposed off, but while I was con-
centrating my attention on those the army
had been pushing on to renew the attack.
Evidently they had been only driven back,
not routed, and those afar off we're not
aware of tho formidable nature of the de-
Tense. Half the contents of my bottle of
oil had been used. 1t was necessary to
settle the ants with what remained.
Quickly I spread my rubber blanket
on the ground at my feet and, standing
in the center, emptied the contents of the
bottle around my shoes. In this charmed
circle 1 was absolutely safe. The ant army
charged again and again, only to fall back
bafied and terrified from the lake of oil
in which / stood. The terrible insects fell
sauirming and dying at my feet by squads
and regiments, but pass the kerosene bar
rier they could not, and at last the mass
moved off, beaten. I was saved"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
MA-KESOURWEATHER
PROFESSOR MOORE BEGAN AS PRINT
Err IN THE SIGNAL SERVICE.

Man who Is Now Chief of the Wealth.
err Bureau Came Up From the Rot
tom = Phenomenal Growth of the
Service Under His Administration.
Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the
United States weather bureau. is a ma
tive of New York state, having resided
for many years in Binghamton, where
he is well known. He entered the sig
nal service, now the weather bureau,
some rs years ago n has since de-
voted his entire time to the study OF the
service over which he so ably presides.
Mr.. Moore entered the service as a
printer, but his push, energy, ability
and perseverance soon won him pro-
motion. He vas promoted from grade
to grade until in 1891 he was appointed
a local forecaster in charge of the Mil
waukee station and the Wisconsin CHI
mate and crop service. His admins
tration of that office was so successful
as to call forth from the secretary OF
agriculture, Hon. J. M. Rusk, special
commentator.
While Mr.. Moore was on duty at Mil
waukee there was a vacancy in the
grade of professor of meteorology IN the
weather bureau. BY direction of the
secretary of agriculture a rigid competi-
tive examination was held to fill this
important position. The examination
was open to the world. Mr.. Moore easi-
ly won and was assigned to his new
duty in charge of the large ~forecasting
district of which Chicago is h~eadGrar-
tiers. There he made an excellent record
as a forecaster of storms and cold
waves.
In 1895 there was a vacancy in the po-
sition Of chief of the United States
weather bureau. The secretary of agrl-
culture desired to place at the head OF
the bureau the best equipped man in the
service. After looking owe the impor-
tant stations in the service Professor
Moore, who had administered the af-
fairs of the Chicago office with such
marked ability. was selected for APP
ointment as chief Of the bureau in
which he had served continuously for
many years. This appointment was
hailed with delight by the men in the
service.
The chief of the weather bureau. in
addition to being a scientist, has neces-
sarily to be d mai of marked executive
ability. 1t is recognized hat Professor
Moore is the best equipped chief the
weather bureau has ever had. His ad-
ministration has been able, energetic,
efficient and along progressive lines.
The growth and extension OF the
weather service have been phenomenal
Many new stations have been estab-
lished, including l6 aerial stations,
where observation j are made at hi-i.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20

during the wal with Spain in such a
manner the our war vessels lacked
nothing to make them efficient fighting
machines.
Mr.. Kenny was born in Iowa and APP
pointed from Vermont In 1852 as assist
ant paymaster. He served on the block
aiding sauadrons during the civil war
and was present at both attacks on Fort
Fisher. He became pay inspector in
July, 1884. and after holding several i'm
portant posts became general store
keeper in October, 1890. He went to the
European station in June. 1898, returned
to New York in January, 1886, to take
charge of the navy yard pay office and
was again made general storekeeper in
June of that veal
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
BATTLE WITH ANTS.
Narrow Escape Of an English Tourist
In south America.

Il had been exploring a forest in Cen
trail America, = said Walter Whitestone to
q correspondent, "and had established my
headquarters in the center of IN open
glade about so feet wide, when / became
aware of the approach of a moving mass
of insects whose natur I could not at first
determine, but which spread from side to
side of the open space in which | stood and
whose TANKS were lost in the bush. At
first ! watched the oncomlng army with
lazy indifference. To be afraid of such
minute creatures was too absurd an idea
to enter my mind. Only when the insects
were close to me did the stories of the ma
tiyes regarding the terrible power of the
ant army flash into my recollection. Then
1 jumped up in a hurry, gathered together
my travelling equipments and prepared TO
decamp. Al the same instant l became
aware, from sharp, nipping pains In the
lower extrelnities, that the vanguard of
the army had reached my outstretched
limbs and begun the attack. l glanced
hastily around me and, horror of horrors,
found that tho devilish insects had me in
a circle, cutting off all chances of escape,
except through their ranks. With the
skill of expert tacticians they had delayed
attack from the front until the wings had
had time to march ahead and meet in the
rear. The c~leyerness of the little fiNlds
struck me even in that drealful moment
when the danger of my petition became
every moment more apparent and the
creeping regiments were mounting up my
limbs, sinking numberless hungry beaks
into my skin and biting like a myriad of
tiny demons.
"Inspiration comes quickly to the man
who is being devoured alive by ants. 1
had in my camp outfit a bottle of kerosene
that ! carried always for a small lamp that
I used at night. Kerosene / knew to be
death TO insects. With h cried a l
tore open the fastening of my knapsack
and took out the oil bott !, the demon
army all the while marching relentlessly
up the red track they had q ade on my
limb BIS. A dash of the keros Q Re on my
tingling army and my enemies dropped
in writhing masses, ceased struggling and
lay still as they struck the ground. That
bottle of common kerosene oil was to save
my life. Ipoured some in the hollow of
my hand and rubbed it on my tortured
limbs. Wherever the kerosene touched it
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20

FIRST INTERNAL MACHINE USED IN WAR.
lops close to the walls of the town of St.
Malo. Some of the sentinels saw the ma
neuver, but before they could give notice
the vessel struck a rock about a pistol shot
away from the walls of the town. 1t was
badly injured by the shock, and the fire
caught earlier than had been intended.
The first thing that was heard was a bomb
shot by the English as a signal, and then
all at once, as if the fire had eaughtin two
or three magazines at the same time, the
most terrific explosion followed. Strange
to say, with the exception of the breaking
of a few window panes not the least dam
age had been dome in the town. The Eng
lish were not so fortunate. At least $50 of
the men ON board the shallops were blown
to pieces or drowned by the premature ex-
plosion of the machine which had proved
so internal to it's inventors.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
NEW JACK O. THE DUST.
Career of the Recently Appointed
Paymaster General of the Navy.

PayInaSrer Genefai OF tae navy
The navy has a new chief Jack o the
Dust. He is Albert s. Kenny, who has
beer promoted from general storekeeper
to paymaster general, with the rank of
real admiral and the pay of a brigadier
general. Not only will he have charge
of the pay rolls of Uncle Sans fighting
Jack Tars, but a great deal more be-
sides. All the repairs to ships, the pro-
viding of coal, provisions and clothing,
will be under his personal direction.
Over all of the seven seas he must keep
his eyes that none of u men-of-war's
men ma go hungry or i'll clad
The advancement of the new paymas-
ter general, who was jumped owe the
heads of several other pay directors. is
due to his marked ability for the work.
He showed this in systematizing the
purchase and distribution of supplies in
the navy. He was the originator of the
general ~storehouse and administered it
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
SOLDIER CORRESPONDENT.
Carried Camera, Notebook and Rife
In the Philippine Wars.

William Gilbert Irwin, the soldier war
correspondent whose interesting letters
from the Philippines nave been read by
many thousands of persons all over the
country, has come home from the war
and is now busy with his pen
Mr.. Irwin went to the Philippines as
a private in the Tenth Pennsylvania
volunteers. Along with his rifle he car
ried a notebook and camera. When he
was not busy shooting the ~Spaniards or
Filipinos with his rifle, he took snap
shots at them with his picture box.
During the siege of Manila and while
the Filipino revolt was getting ready to
break out, as well as later, he sent cor
respondence letters to various maya
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20

- 1880
was a difficult matter to strike a telling
blow at a moving object, and but little
harm was done the condors.
Again and again the vicious birds at
tackled with talons and bill and beat fierce
ly with their wings. Both men were
scratched and torn, and their clothes were
in ribbons. They were beginning to get
tired.
At this point Frank put all his strength
into a blow that caught the largest con-
dor square on top of the head. This prac
tically knocked out the big condor, but
the other came on with redoubled fury.
She scratched and clawed n pecked, but
the two men were too much for her. The
steady shower Of blows began to tell, and
she tapped weakly for a few minutes and
Their larnely few off to console her disabled
mate, who was nursing his sore head on a
rock about 100 foet away.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
TOUCH NOT THE TOTEM
Tragic Fate Of Two Miners In
Alaska.
THE VENGEANCE ON VANDALISM.

sacred Regard For the Indian sym-
boil of Family Character = Savage
Patience, Followed by Quick Pun
ishment.
The North American Indian thinks
much of his totem, the symbol of his fam
lily character, the design Of his ancestral
escutcheon. When a member of his fam
lily dies and islaid to rest, the family to-
tenn is engraved upon q pole in the grave
yard, and the departed brave is honoredi in
death with a badge of kinship with those
he has left behind.
These totem poles are not to BIO t0yed
with by passersby, says the San Francisco
Examiner. They are as sacred to the In
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
Attempting Impossibilitie..

Female Emancipator-With all our
work the cause of woman does not pro-
gress. Why is itP
Male Philosopher-The trouble is that
the pretty girls spend all their time trying
to be brainy, and the brainy girls spend
all their time trying to look pretty.-New
York Weekly.
New Sealing Cover.
To temporarily seal pitchers and 9TH
err liquid holders a German has designed
a bale having an eccentric over the CEN
ter of the cover, with a lever IN the &C.
centric, which is turned to tighten it
after the bale is Drawn owe the top Of
the Jar.
The largest gas engine in existence Is
at Pittsiield. $50 horsepower. 100 revoiu-
lions per minutes, v~erticle, three cylinder
type, with two overhanging fly wheels:
Explosions occur at each revolution OF
engine shaft.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
A BIGHBINDDR AT BAY.
How Lee Sar Bow Faced the
Fire of Conspirators.
LIKE A REVOLVING TURRET.

An Example of Many Sided Chinese
Character-Ccnvicted and Hanged
ON Perjured Testimony of Rival
Highbinders.
The late Fresno battle among Chinese
highbinders, in which three were killed, is
not the biggest battle that ever took place
between the rival societies by any means,
writes w. @. Bunner in the San Francisco
Call.
The first really successful fight ever put
up by any tong OF highlander society was
the most disastrous of all. 1t was consum-
mated in the old Chinese theater on jack
son street in the early seventies. l saw
the result, which can never be erased from
my memory. The diabolical scheme was
evolved il the brain of the old rascal who
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
Disingenuous sorrow.

Benevolent Old Lady-What are you
crying for, my dear?
Weeping Little Girl-My uncle was 60
ing to buy me q bracelet, and now he's
deadl-Jewelers' Weekly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
Miss Braddon as Industrious as Ever.

Miss sBraddon is still, at the age of 81,
as Industrious as ever, and a new novel,
The Infidel," which has been promised
for publication soon, makes it sure that
1899 will not go by without a novel from
her pen. Since 1862. when she began to
publish in book form, she has skipped
,nly two years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20
Preferred the real Thing.

"AsI have told you often before, my
son, economy is wealth.
II know it is, dad, but if it's the same
to you I'd rather have the genuine arti-
Gle. "-Richmond Dispatch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-20

Seven hundred of the 5000 miles of
Japanese railways are owned by the
Government. All trains run. at a speed
of 20 miles an hour. Recasy 100 Amer
lean locomotives wefSoFdered. The
freight ears are of 5 to S % capacity.
The large American freight cars are to
be introduced.
The Vienna authorities have forbidden
"a meeting advertised to take place in
furtherance of the cause of vegetarian
ism on the ground that it would con-
stitute a danger to the well being of the
State.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25

"a man may be stronger than q
woman" said Eli Perkins at the
Sorosis dinner, "and so is a mule
but mentally they are on an equal
| ity. Woman was first at the cross
and last at the grave. When men
speak CT the lnferiority of women
think of the burning words of
Lily Devereux Blake: woman
inferior?" she said with lofty scorn.
why, woman 8 money fitted out
the boats that brought the discov-
erers over to America; woman's
money fitted out the 'Mayflower;
the American flag was d designed by
woman, and the Americans ma
tional bird is henl Yes, it is.
You have all heard of the famous
eagle, Old Abe who accompanied
the Wisconsin, regiment all through
the war. Well, after fighting was
all over. old Abe was taken to
Madison, in the state of Wisconsin
to end his days in honorable retire
ment; and he spent all his leisure
time in laying eggs" The walls Of
our sacred capitol, should have
echoed screams of laughter at that
splendid thrustl
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
Toponis, Sept. "a

Threshing time is now at hand.
Mrs. Charley Jones is going tc
move to Shoshone in the near
future.
Mr.. Ches Sims will not move to
Washington as he previously in
tended doing,
Will Daniels and Lee Sims, have
just returned from Montana, where
they have been for the past two
months.
Mr. c. K. Sims came home from
Camas few days ago. He intends
to soon return to Camas, and ride
in the hills.
Miss Libby Jones and mother
have mogsdlon the Roy Jones ranch
where Miss Jones has been engaged
as school teacher.
The hay crop is not nearly as
good as heretofore, however there
is quite lot Of hay, judging from |
what we see in this locality.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATIC N.
Land Office at Haley. Idaho.

September 18th. 1899.
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 John F. Hansen, clerk of
the District Court at Albion, Idaho, on
Nov. Is, 1899. viz: Locklin IL. Norton.
II. E. 119S, for Lot 2. Secs 10. SEX NJ;
u, Sec. 8. TIP. S. r. 14Ek
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz:
G. W. Arthur, of Kanoka. Idaho.
Joseph S[adalene, of Kanoka, Idaho.
Isaac Able. of Hagerman, Idaho.
Lee Vader. of Hagerman, Idaho.
ANY person who desires TO protest
against the allowance OF such proof. or
who knows of any substantial reason,
urder the law and the regulations of the
Interior Department, why such proof.
should not be allowed, will be given an
opportunity at the above mentioned
time and place to cross-e7a n 5ne. ,the
witnesses OF said claimant, and TO offer
evidence in rebu,tal OF .hatasnbmitsed
by claimant.
r. j.. Sharp. Register.
(E;rct ~, Sont 10 loet n, %
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
The weather is too fine TO last

The weather is too fine TO last
Mr. Woodwork, our popular mer-
chant, is doing quite rushing bus
mess of late. The store is full from
early morn until late at night,
Mr. Shay just finished putting up
hay on the E. L. Woodwork ranch
and took his departure for home,
Sunday. One of the stacks that
he and Lee put up, leans little
towards Sboshone, but perhaps
their hearts also lean in that direc-
ton.
Traveller.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25

Get your bran and shorts at Senter'.
80 cents per hundred.
If YOU want the best -four in the State
get the Rose of Idaho at Senter,s.
Bread, cake and pastries of all kinds
made to order. at the Lincoln House.
Ifvou want first class Tea and Coffee,
get 1t in bulk from The 4. S. Senter
Estate.
Gloves, of every grade and description,
both dress and working gloves at Sam
Holt's.
The A. S. Senter Estate carries the
finest line of fresh candy and nuts. in
the city.
Call at the A. s.. Senter mercantile
establishment and examine the new
stock of socks and handkerchlefs for
gentlemen.
ICE CREAM.
You can get Ice cream on Sundays at
the Lincoln House.
Doc Smith is knocking Montgomery
Ward and Company's prices all out of
shape. This is no joke.
FoR SALK-Wall tent, 915x12 feet, 10I
ounce duck, as good as new: Apply at
Depot, Shoshone, Idaho.
Large shipment of dry goods, outia
dress goods etc. now on the1
road for the A. S. Senter Estate.
A fresh line OF oranges, lemons and
bananas, arriving every day.
Geo d. Sayiers and Co.
Losr-a small bay mare branded with
! small &c" on the right shoulder. Suit
IbIe reward paid for the recovery of said
mare. Elias Parry.
FRESH,OYSTERS.
/ shall have fresh oysters on handt
fter August 25th.
A. MGomes.
Weare head quarters fcrsthe famous
ley Brand Family soap. II
Geo. D. Ssyis1a and Co.,
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
NOTICE.

To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that /, Fred w !.
Gooding, of shoshone, Lincoln County,
Idaho. intend to apply to the District
| Court, in and for the County Of lincoln.
State of Idaho, at the November term of
said Court, for 1899, for decree for the
right of the use of water of Little Wood
river for the purpose of irrigating the
E1s OF SW14 and VIZ ofSE14 of Section
36. Township 5, s. r. IS East. Said
land now being owned by Fred w, Good
ing. Said land IS arid by nature and
applicant claims. ofrthe water of Little
Wood river, flow OF two Cubic feet per
second OF time, which has been hereto
fore and is TO be diverted onto said Sec
tion IS. about 400 feet above the dam on
said river, once claimed bv Martin John-
son and Augusr Gambler, and about 1000
feet below railroad bridge No. 22l. The
amount of land now in cultivation is
about 100 acres. That said water in
quantity now claimed by F. w. Good
ing. was diverted by the predecessors of
said F. w. Goodlng and former claim
ants of the land above described, in May,
1885, and at that date, the predecessors,
of F. w. Gooding and former claimants
OF the above described lands, had fifty
acres of said land in cultivation and
claimed 300 inches. of the water of Little
Wood river t. irrigate said land, and
did, in the yearof 1895, divers of said
water, at the place above described,
fully 100 inches, for the purposes for
which said water was claimed by the
said predecessors in interest OF the said
Fred w. Gooding. Dated this 9th day i,
Of f,September, 1889.
FredN. Gooding..
BY J. s. Waters, hisattorney.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

Hagerman, Sept. %, 1899
| ]. L. Fuller is visitor in ou
burg, to day.
W. V. Irons made a flying triI
to Shoshone, this week.
VIII Syster was down to Hager-
man, from Kanoka, this week.
doctor" G.. G. Allen received an
urgent call to 60 to Bliss, Monday
Born-To Mr. and Mrs Clifford, q
girl. Mother and child doing well.
A. n. Conklin and sons are at
Bliss putting up the new school
house.
VIM. Snodgrass and his brother
are running the Salmon seine at
the Millett Island.
W. L. Meigs is again in the
horse business. He traded horses
recently with Mr.. Savage.
Mrs S. E. Gridley ac complained
by her little daughter, Eva, went
to Shoshone, today on business.
Trouble in our school again as
usual, Parents should look a little
more carefully to the home training
of their children.
DR.. Hale pulled big tooth for
Mr.. Burkhard, this week. We
have not vet learned whether the
Dr., Burkard, or the tooth got the
worst of it.
Sept 24th.
A large number of the relatives
and friends of Mr.. and Mrs. T. w.
Snodgrass met at their residence on
Saturday eve, Sept. 3d.. The party
was intended as surprise for Mrs.
Snodgrass, on the occasion of her
twenty third birthday, and indeed
it was such, as not the least idea
Of what was going on, entered that
young lady's mind until the arrival
Of her friends en- masse. The rooms
we're at once cleared, and the guests
enjoyed themselves by dancing un-
III twelve O'Clock, when all present
partook of bountiful. repast, fur
nished by the ladies of the party.
Music was furnished by Messrs
Able, Trobee and Syster. after a
cost enjoyable evening, and with
hearty congratulations to the host
md hostess, and wishing them
many happy returns of the day, the
,uests departed to their homes.
Pathfinder.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25

Custer, at the CITY Meat Market, re-
ceiyes fresh water hsh and salt water
hsh every Thursday.
Call at Sam Hollis And look at his bar,
gains in shoes, dry goods, corsets, etc.,
Great ,slash in Prices,
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-25

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