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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-05

ii i boat III midnight with any stranger.
| They feel positive that he was murdered
for his money. though he had only
about $23 in his pockets and gold
watch, and that his body was taken
across to the Jersey coast.
Coleman Ward, who was the bosom
friend of young Hardy for years, said
that he was greatly troubled. But |
feel certain now" he added, that IT
was murder
When did you change your theory
from suicide to murder?"
Mr.. Ward evidently was greatly dis
tressed. Finally, he said When his
father came back from looking at the
body and told me what he found there;
that his money and watch were gone.
Fritz as he called him, never needed
for money and there was nothing to
trouble him."
Didn't he borrow S. from your"
Eyes, he did, but am sorry anything
was said about that / wouldn't dis
tress his father and mother for the
world. He was most genial friend.
and never was in trouble of any kind.
He liked the water, and frequently
went sailing"
Thursday evening the father, Freder-
lex Hardy, shipped the body to Nor
folk, Va The father went to Keyport
and identified the body without look
ing at it, as the clothing established
the fact of identity without doubt.
The young mans name was written
in full on his underwear; his clothing
was known to his father, and even
cheap stickpin which he wore was
known.
At the autopsy bad bruise was
found on the left temple, and there was
a slight cut on the cheek, as if the face
had been dragged over the ground
after death. Congestion under the
skin Of the temple showed the blow
there had been received before death.
When the brain cap was removed 1t
was found this wound had been in
fiicted with great force, causing concus-
sion Of the brain, while the flesh was
crushed and broken at the temple.
The mark about the neck, which first
was believed to indicate the man had
been strangled, was found to have re-
suited from the color of the necktle
soaking through the skin.
Prosecutor Heisley, OF Keyport, said
the case plainly was one OF murder, and
that there was no need to hold an in
quest, preferring private investiga-
ton. He took exception to the atti-
tude of the Brooklyn detectives, and
said it was certain the crime had been
committed in New York and not in
New Jersey.
A close search for miles up and down
the beach about Keyport resulted in
failure to find anything bearing on the
mystery.
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THE TAX ACCRUEs.

WASHINGTON, November 4.-Commis-
sioner Wilson. Of the internal revenue bu-
reau. has decided that when banks loan
money without taking promissory notes,
and specified collaterals are pledged as
security for certain and definite sum OF
money as evidenced by memoranda and
entries on blanks, loan books, etc, tax
accruee as pledge The question came
up in case In Philadelphia
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-28
Her Voice Returned.

The Augusta Chronicle says: "A
remarkable case of returning speech
to young girl is reported from near
Berlin. Some four years ago the
fifteeh-year-old daughter of Joseph
McAtee, and granddaughter of Col.
Walter McAtee, suddenly lost her
power of speech from some unao-
coun,able cause. During these four
years the young lady has continued
her studies at school and is an cx-
ceptionally bright pupil. Last Fri
day while she was running to head a
COW in the public road she gave o.
violent cough, q lump came from her
throat, her power of speech returned
and she can now talk as we'll as any
person. 1t is a case that not onlv
puzzles the general run of people,
but cannot be explained by the medi-
cal fraternity" ...
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A Letter from an Gconee Young Man.

CHARLESTON, S. c., September 20, 1890.
Editors Courier Please find enclosed
one dollar, which is to pay my last years
subscription to tho KEowEE COURIER to
September 1st, 1890. Please bc 80 kind
as to sond me tho COURIER another year
and change my address to CHI rlestop, S.
c., instead of Westminster, s. G. The
"Old" COURIER is so much like lettor
from homo l can't woll do " ithout it.
Tho weather is worry fine out on tho
Sea Islands this season. especially Johns
Island. Mosquitoes arc scarce, in fact I
haven't soon a dozen in tho past two
weeks.
Crops arc worry fine, especially Sea-
Island cotton, which is opening very
rapidly.
great deal of the corn will make on
average yield of forty bushels por acre.
Sweet potatoes, which are extensively
planted hero, arc worry good.
Well, wo arc all feoling muoi better.
The oystor crop is getting riHn and thoy
arc plentiful, too.
Yours, worry respectfully,
HOWARD VAUGHAN.
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bling sort of roar like the thunder
of distant artillery for some time.
But little later we saw the great
sight of the evening, and one which
comparatively few visitors are fortu-
nate enough to behold. An crup-
tion of the Giant geysor began, and
we hurried to it. This only occurs
about once a week, frequently at
night, and as there is no hotel there,
most people, even when there on the
right day, are unable to wait.
That was q sight never to be for
gotten. A large white valley or
basin, filled with geysors, spouting
steam from subterraneous boilers,
and in the center the famous Giant,
the greatest Of them all, throwing q
column of steam and boiling water
$50 feet in the air; a beautiful, clear
stream of cold water right at its side,
which received the overflow. The
full moon had just climbed above the
nearby mountains, and flooded the
valley with light. 1t gave tho whit
oned landscape weird look and
changed the columns of vapor into
gigantic spectros which assumed
hundred different forms. But, as
[ have said, the Giant in action was
the attraction, and as this most mar.
velous demonstration of natures
mysterious power was in progress
those there congregated from tho
fonr corners of the continent sang
"America," "Tho Star Spangled
Banner" and other patriotic songs.
The combined effect of these sur
roundings was to produce a most
vivid mental picture which will long
endure.
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The judicial department of the
German Empire has recently been
called upon to pass on the proper
abbreviation for 1900. The common
abbreviation for 1890 is, of course,
'09, but the German Judges have
decided that 100 would not do at all
for tho first year of tho next century.
Accordingly the year will have to lie
written ont in full on all German
documents. s
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MINERVA TERRACE.
magnificent Display Which Nature Has Given
the National Park

lips arc slightly parted and the teeth
can be seen. The right knee is bent,
and the foot rests against the calf of
the left leg. The arms are drawn
down tightly against the chest and
tho hands bound together with what
appears to have been leather thongs.
This figure furnishes matter for
much speculation and is q subject
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This is One of the Features of tho Park and Always
of Interest Visitors.

looking hole, probably an acre in OK
tent, full of boiling, scething water,
which gives off great clouds of steam
constantly.
A drive of nineteen miles brings
us to Lower Gcyser basin, where the
Fountain goyser and the Mammoth
Paint Pots are located. Moro will
be said Of Paint Pots later. At this
hotel we saw a number of bears,
which came down to eat near by,
whore refuse was dumped.
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ELOPES .W1TH A SOLDIER.
A DRIVE or TWEHrY.FOUR MILES MAZE
81 IN TWO AND A HALF HOURS.
SERGEANT HGTS us M|DDLE.MAN
For His Captain--Miss Lille Nj. FAINT and
Capt. J. H. Grant tho PRINCIPALS. ST..

ANDERSON, Sept. 21.-Miss Lille
III. Fant, of this city, and Capt. j.
IL. Grant, of the Twenty-ninth In
fantry, were married yesterday at
Hartwell, Ga, twenty miles from
here. Yesterday morning at 10
o'clock Miss FAINT and former SER
geant of Company G, First South
Carolina Volunteer Infantry, left the
city in an open carriage drawn by
two of the fastest horses Anderson
affords, going in the direction of
Georgia. In less >han an hour after
t,-eir departure rumors were flying
around that Miss FAINT had eloped.
In the afternoon it was learned that
she had been welded to Capt. Grant
at Hartwell. The family of the
young lady opposed the match.
A telegram to the father gave a
brief announcement of the union,
stating that the couple had gone
from Hartwell to Atlanta, where
Capt. Grants regiment is now sta
toned.
The sergeant who drove the young
lady to the place of tho marriage
was seen to-day. He said he acted
in tho capacity of middle-man only
at the request of the young lady and
the captain.
Over the route taken from here to
Hartwell it is twenty-four miles,
which the sergeant covered in two
and a half hours. Upon arrival at
the end of the swift journey Capt
Grant was found in waiting, and at
1.3O p. M. the ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Mr.. Collier, q Bap-
tist minister. Then the telegram
was sent to the father here. At Q
o'clock the couple boarded the train
for Atlanta.
The Twenty ninth is ordered to
San Francisco Saturday, thence to
the Philippines. Capt. Grant will
take his bride to brave with him the
dangers of soldiers life in the far
away isles.
The bride is daughter of one of
Anderson's prominent business men,
MIR. G. W. FAINT. Capt. Grant was
first lieutenant in Company G, First
South Carolina Volunteer Infantry,
and was afterwards promoted to
regimental adjutant. Recently, upon
the resignation of Col. II. r. Thomp-
son, he was appointed to a captaincy
in the Twenty-ninth Infantry of tho
provisional army.
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from which one of literary talent
might fashion an interesting story.
Who is the man, who once walked
and talked as we, but who now lies
here nought but stone2 What is
the story of this tragody-the history
of this mans life and of its violent
ending2 Could those stony lips but
speak they might tell a tale of sor-
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forbids mention. One Of the pretti-
est sights is where q sharp turn
brings the great Teton mountains
suddenly into view to tl.s southward.
Soon after, to the loft, a beautiful
picture presents itself, A part of
Yellowstone Lake, surrounded by
high hills and mountains, presents
itself to the vision like the shifting
OF a scono upon the stage. It is
done 80 quickly and is so unlocked
for that the pleasure afforded by the
view il greatly heightened. &l.
BY noon we reached the Thumb,
an estuary, so-called because it is
projected from the main body Of the
Lake like the thumb from the hand.
Here we found a fairly good lunch
station, and the dock of the steamer
Zillah, a jaunty little craft which
plies between this point and Lake
hotel, some thirty miles away, by the
route followed. The road is shorter,
1t follows the lakeshore closely, and,
although rather rough, is an enjoya-
bic drive; first over q level stretch,
near the water's edge, among boiling
springs and pools, then upon the
crests of high bluffs, overlooking the
lake, from which beautiful vistas are
behcld-the lake, a yeritable gem in
the woods, far-away mountains,
whose bases are washed by these
crystal waters and whose crests are
capped with snow, and the little
steamer forging faithfully forward.
AS we neared the Lake botel we saw
as fine a sunset as one could wish to
see. Across the lake from us,
through rift in the clouds, the sun
shone forth sheen of perfect white
and from the castellated cliffs, which
rose abruptly from the waters edge
like some enormous fort, there came
a beautiful blending of colors.
JAMES D. MASSEY.
Atlanta, Ga.
TO be Continucd.1
Solicitor John 6 Wilson will nroboh1y
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ial and gallant Georgian, who is a
personal friend of each of our party,
and the numerous thoughtful kind
nesses with which nc favored us will
always be pleasant memory.
The Hot Springs, near the hotel,
is wonderful formation, or rather
series Of formations, covering in all
about ITO acres. Hills have been
built by the deposit Of tho waters
flowing from the springs, which arc,
of course, on top OF the formations.
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Anderson Advocate, Soptomber 18th:
"Quito number of farmers havo told
us that thoy expect to be about through
picking cotton tho first week in October
and will be ready to rip up tho stalks
preparatory to sowing grain. One gon-
tloman said that tho guano that was put
in last spring naI not beon assimilated
by tho plant from t,e lack of moisture,
and that tho sooaer tho stalks were rip
ped up tho bctter, rs it would prevent
tho second growth, started by tho fall
rains, from taking up this fertilizer and
would thus be thoro for tho grain that
will be sown.,
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row, Of love and advonture--matc-
rial for a romance which would hold
tho attention of the literary world.
NINETEEN MILES OF SCENERY.
From the Upper Geysor Basin to
Yellowstone Lake, where we lunchod,
is nineteen miles, through very
picturesque country Sf Forests, flow
ers, cliffs and canons, of which space
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-28

Splitting ordinances arc receiving n
good doal of attention. 1t is surprising
that such thing should be necessary,
but 1t Is a fact that many mon who claim
a place among tho most mannorly, do not
know, or do not observe, tho worry flrst
principles of good mannors; they VIC
with tho lowest in making themselves
disgusting. -
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BY JAxNEs. sHELoR, SMITH 8 STICK.

The general appearance of the local
ity is white. &. ,,,... '.1 [..I
The principal attraction here, and
one which may be considered un-
surpassed by anything in the park,
is the terraces, of which there are
several. Minerva Terrace is the
most beautiful. 1t is about three
quarters of an aore in area, end Is
about forty feet in height. The
water trickles down the sides Of the
terrace, leaving deposits of different
hue. Such a variety and such
blending of colors. They look like
crystalized cascades of rainbows,
stilled by the magic of some noun
tain fairy.
There are many points of interest
in this vicinity. In tho nomencla-
ture of these places his satanic mai
esty has been highly honored, which
is probably natural enough, in view
of the prevalence Of heat and sui
phur in that vicinity. The Devils
Kitchen, fissuro about forty feet
deep, said to be the crater of an ex-
tinct hot spring, is tho chief object
of interest bearing these names 80
suggestive of tropical temperature.
From Hot Springs the start is
really made. The park is 60 by IS
miles, or about $500 square miles in
area. The road usually taken by
tourists is made by stage, and is
about ITO miles, and requires five
and one-half days.
About four miles out we passed
through Golden Gate, a pass both
rugged and pretty, between Bunsen
peak and Terrace mountain. The
road, cut out of the overhanging cliffs,
which rise 200 to 800 feet in height,
here cost $4,000 Il mile. The rocks
have yellow appearance, and rem
der the name quite appropriate.
Rustic falls, very high pretty cas-
cadc, is nice little gem in this
rough setting. In eight miles from
Hot Springs an ascent of 1890 feet
is made, and we reach Park plateau.
Along here begins growth of pine
trees. They are neither very large
nor tall, but stand in dense thick
ness upon the ground. Generally
speaking, this growth continued
throughout the rest of tho route, and
there were fully as many trees lying !
dead upon the ground as there were
standing. So much fallen timber /
never saw before. 1t literally GOV.
cred the ground in tangled mass.
WITH TIE GREAT GEYsERs.
Through the plateau tho road is
almost level. by noon we reached
the Norris Geyscr Basin, where We
took lunch with Larry Mathews, q
rcd-headed Irisbman, remembered |
by every one who ever saw him.
Norris Basin, while insignificant af-
ter having seen the others, is inter-
esting before you see the others.
1t is large basin, full of steaming,
boiling sprins and goysers, well cal
culatcd to make one feel "creepy"
and cautious.
-Four miles further on is Middle !
Geyser basin. Here arc Prismatic |
lake, Turquoise pool and Excelsior
gcyscr. The former arc two large
pools of clear, hot water of beauti-
full color. The latter is frightful
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The famous Anaconda smelling
works nre located 26 miles west of
Butte. The town contains about
$4,000 people, entirely dependent
upon this one plant, which is proba-
bly, one of the largest in the country.
Senator Hearst, the California mill
ionaire, was one of tho owners. It's
affairs are now directed by Mr.. Mar
Gus Daily. The general manager is
Mr.. Donahoe, who very kindly
showed lid around.
Ore is brought hero from the
mines at Butte, for water is neces-
sary in its reduction. Space forbids
an attempt to describe the process
of reduction in detail. The plant is
tremendous, and visit can but prove
interesting. When the copper is
finally ready it is poured out of large
ladies' into q shallow mould and is
taken off in slabs about three by
four feet, and an inch and half in
thickness. This pig copper is then
suspended in wits filled with water.
Sheets of prepared copper are also
imm Jrsed in the vats, electricity is
applied, and as if by magic the pig
copper melts away and is deposited
upon the sheets, each of which accu-
mulates about ninety pounds. 1t is
of a beautiful reddish yellow, and
has & granulated appearance. 1t is
then ready for market. Mr.. Dona-
hoe stated that the demand was far
greater than the supply. Shipyards,
manufacturers of wire and electrical
machinery, and the like, use most of
the output.
The Anaconda company's capital
is thirty millions of dollars, and large
dividends on that sum are earned.
1t has its own coal mines and saw
mills. One hundred and fifty cars
each of coal and lumber arc used
daily. About $4,000 hands are en-
ployed in all. The output annually
is $4,000 tons of copper, 100000
ounces Of silver, and $1,OO0,0OO
worth of gold. The gold and silver
together, mere by-produots, are
worth four millions annually.
We were greatly indebted to Mr..
Donahoe for his many courtesios and
attentions shown us, which rendered
our visit to his works one of the
most pleasant incidents of the en-
tire trip.
Leaving Anaconda we passed
Butte at night, when it presented !
pretty picture on account of being
on mountain side, so that a bank
of electric lights were thrown up in
strong relief.
Early in the morning we reached
Livingstone, Montana, and then
went southwark fifty miles over a
branch line ~ Cinnabar, near the
boundary of Yellowstone National
Park, where we took conveyance for
Mammoth Hot Springs. The road
is good, and leads through some
pretty scenery, along Gardiner river.
Two miles from Cinnabar we cross
into Wyoming, only small strip of
the park being in Montana.
~ MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS.
At Mammoth Hot Springs is the
United States army post, of which
Col Oscar j. Brown is commandant.
We were delighted to meet the gon-
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The readers of this papec. will lie be
pleased to learn that there is at least ono
dreaded disease that science has been
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and giving the patient strength by build.
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in doing its work. The proprietors have
have so much faith in its curative DOW.
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HalPs Family Pills arc tho best,
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Charleston and Augusta have quaran-
tined against all points infected with
yellow feVer. This disease is spreading
in Key Wost, and has assumed an alarm
ing phase at Tampa, Now Orleans and
Jackson, Miss.
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The Grandeur of the Yellowstone;
Kaleidoscope View of the West


About eight miles from the Foun-
taln MOTEL Upper Geyser basin is To-
oated. Here are to be seen, perhaps,
the most wonderful geysers in the
world. Old Faithful is the tourists
friend, as every one going there sees
it in eruption. Every 65 minutes it
is in eruption, night Or day, rain or
shine; and it really is about as fine
as any, 80 far as appearance goes. 1t
throws up n. column of water and
steam about15e feet high. "
Wo had intended spending the
night in this basin at a camp, there
being no hotel, but tho camp was
crowded. Corporal M. j. Whalen,
in command of the army post there,
very kindly gave us accommodations.
The post is in the center of the basin,
on the brink of river, right in
among the geysers. In every direc-
ton, far and near, columns of steam
are rising constantly. Camping here
amid this bunch of wonders, proba-
bly, over a cauldron Of boiling water,
sharing briefly the life of the soldier,
was q novel and interesting expert
once. The bath-house was supplied
with hot waite, from a boiling spring.
Not far away hot house was kept
at proper temperature by tho same
means.
THE GEYsERs IN ACTION.
The geysers seemed to understand
that we wished to SEQ them do their
best, for about 7 o'clock they began
to spout. First the Lion, the Lion
ess and the Cubs were in action, fol-
lowed closely by the Castle geyser.
The crater of this one is about fif-
teen feet high, and tho name is quite
appropriate. 1t made fine display,
and then gave forth heavy, rum
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A remarkable sight, not, however,

Of the park, but in it, was a genuine
petrfied man, which was found by
the exhibitor, in the Missouri river,
near Fort Benton. The figure is
that of a wcll-developed, muscular
man of medium size, perhaps thirty
five years of ago, and perfectly natu-
raj in every line and feature. The