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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19

had taken Hoods Sarsaparilla stood
the long marches 10 Cuba much bet.
ter than the others
Our old and esteemed friend, E
Q. Hawkins. an enterprising carpen-
ter of Sprague, favors US substan-
TALLY this week. He has been q
subscriber OF the TINES from it's
beginning.
Mrs. DIR. W. III. Allen, of Rich
Hill, and her daughter Mrs. Brooks
and two children, of Texas, were
guests of Mrs. J. D. Allen Saturday.
VIM. Glover, farmer in the west
part of the county, formerly mail
carrier between Butler and Amster
dam, was taken suddenly i'll while in
the city Saturday and was taken to
Judge Dalton's residence. A physi
clan was called and for a time de-
SPARED of saving his life. He went
off into one sinking spell and was
pronounced dead but rallied. He
was able to be taken home Tuesday
morning.
Independence Sentinel 14.-"Well,
wellf' says the Columbia Statesman,
Sand our old time friend, John S.
Francisco, Mayor Of Butler, Mo, is
married. We wouldn't be surprised
now to hear that Doc Graham. of
Sedalia, has surrendered and gone
over to the great army of Benedicts.
Time works wonders" And what's
the matter of our uncle Henri of the
Columbia Statesman? He is not q
spring chicken by any means.
Sheriff Mudd left Monday evening
for Kansas with the necessary papers
TO bring back William Anderson, one
of the harness thieves who broke
Jail at this place more than a year
ago. Sheriff Mudd, who has been
on the lockout for Anderson since
his escape located him in the peni-
Tertiary at Lansing, where he was
serving a sentence of Que year for
stealing harness in Kansas His
time will be up the 10th and Sheriff
Mudd will be on hand to take him
in charge as he leaves the prison.
We are panied to learn of the
death of the infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. o P. Wilson, which occur
red Friday on the train from the
south, due here at 4:30 p. m. Mrs
Wilson has been in or near Butler
for week or more, where Mr.. vii
son was feeding cattle, and thinking
the child was not seriously i'll, start.
ed home Friday morning, Mr.. Wilson
leaving at the same time for Denver,
Colorado. -Montrose Correspondent
to Clinton Republican.
Hon. Jas. 81. Lay and son Henry
P. Lay, have formed law co part,
nership, Office in the rear OF the
bank of Warsaw. This will doubt
less prove a strong and popular firm.
Judge James 81. Lay is one of the
Oldest practitioners in the state. For
several years he has served on the
bench az circuit Judge, and won rich
honors as a jurist. II. P. Lay is wei
and favorably known aud ranks with
the best members of the bar in this
part of the state.-Warsaw Times.
The editor attended the Modern
Woodmen county convention at
Butler Tuesday, says the Foster
BeacsH. The Butler camp enter
tanned thu delegates at their hall
Tuesday night by initiating three
new members into the secrets Of
woodcraft. Butler camp slso served
az elaborate and bountiful feast in
homer of the visiting neigkbors and
during cur entire stay the Butler
neighbors did all in their power to
entertain their guests and We left
feeling IN our hearts g kinder feeling
toward our generous neighbors.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19
To Cure a Coldin One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund money
if it fails to cure. CSC. The genuine
has L. B. Q. on each tablet. 52-6m
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier
Insist upon HOOPS; take no substitute.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19
Virginia Items.

We write what we hear the virsiniana say is
true;
Dear Reader don I blame us If We hear 'ern ssy
What happens You.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19

II is said that the soldiers who
had taken Hoods Sarsaparilla stood
the long marches 10 Cuba much bet.
ter than the others
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-01-19
DEACON BROS. & co.

Low Price Grocery and Hardware House
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
GENERAL NEWS

Miss Ellen C. Witter Of Denver. COL,
is the only woman authorized to prac-
tice before the Uunited States Land
Office.
For the frst time in it's history the
receipts of the San Francisco postofhee
passed the million dollar mark Tor the
year ended June 30.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has made an eiao-
crate report on prevailing conditions in
the territory in Cuba under his lurisdic-
ton and takes strong ground for an in
dependent government for the Cubans
under an American protectorate.
The discovery of 3 shorter route be-
tween Manila and the United States has
had q rather depressing effect upon some
of the troops, as il reduces their travel
paw. The old route was $3.50 miles. but
of late the transports have cut off the 200
miles required by touching ct Honolulu.
Dimes, quarters and half dollars are
being turned out by ell the mints as rap
idly as they can be produced. said an
officer of the Treasury, the demand for
fractional currency and silver dollars be-
ing unprecedented. The requests do not
come from one section Of the country,
but from every section.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

A German doctor says that only IN one
case out of fifteen are both eyes in good
condition.
The Board Of Trade of Pasadena, CAL.
is raising 5000 to pay q X ansas rain
maker if she shall. cause to fall an inch
of rain. She will operate by the liberia
tion Of gas.
Many animals in desert regions never
have any water except the dew on vege'
tation. A parrot in the London Zoo is
known to have lived 6fty-two years
without drinking . drop Of water.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany has agreed to aid in the constrnc.
tion of the Forestry building at the Paris
exposition, and will send logs to Paris OF
q diameter that will make a startling ex.
hibition.
A newly married man in Kansas City
discovered that his bride spent a great
portion Of the day converting over the
telephone with Q former suitor. He en-
gagged . detective in the central office to
take down the conversation in short
hand. Now the telephone has been re.
moved from the house.
Doctor Goldschnsider, Of the Univer-
sity of Vienna, says that ninety-nine
out Of one hundred cases OF i~llness. the
preesnce of q light in the sick room allie
viates the suffering Of the patient. He
says also that if children prefer . light
in their sleeping room they should have
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
INGERsO LII AND TALMAGE.

Anecdotes of Ingersoll are now in or
der. Here is . reported conversation
with Talmsge
"Then you would like to live in .
place. Brother Talmsge, where every one
had to be good by law !"
Certainly" said Talmage.
"You would like to live where every
one had to 60 to church regularly every
Sunday"
"Yes, that would suit me-"
Where no man could act q drink and
swearing was not permitted 7"
Yes, that's the place for me-"
"And where every man would have
to keep regular hoursf"
THAT would be heaven on earth"
said TAlmage. smiling and striking his
knee with his open palm.
well" said Bob, looking over his
glasses. YOU'D better 90 up to Sing
Sing. That's the way they do there"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
DATA.

A correspondent is informed, says the
Virginia Chronicle. that the greatest
depth attained in exploring the Com.
stock lode was 3,30S feet, the Joint
Union Consolidated. Mexican and Ophir
winze having been sunk to that depth
before deep mining was abandoned.
The records of work in the mines
named, submitted to the Comstock
Pumping Association before the present
work of draining the flooded levels be-
gan. show that in sinking the joint wiDze
ore was found extending from the 200
downwards to 1874 feet below the 300
level. This ore body was partially pros
pected on the 200 level, and showed
what is now considered paying value.
the assays averaging much higher on the
BOO, where the ore was merely tou ched,
and that in the bottom of the deep
WINE, POS feet below, was not explored.
In the Consolidated California Il Vir-
giuia, then known as the California and
Consolidated Virginia, two separate cor
porations, very little prospecting was
done on the levels below the 1000. On
the 200 level the openings from the
Joint WINE disclosed that the Comstock
lode has 0 breadth Of 500 feet between
walls, which show the lode almost YER
tical at that depth.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
..THEY SAY
Youths Companion.

Youths Companion.
Have you heard Of the terrible family
"Theyf"
And the dreadful, venomous things they
say?
Why. half the gossip under the sun.
II you trace 4. back, you will find begun
In that wretched House OF They"
A numerous family. 80 ! am told.
And its genealogical tree is old
For ever since Adam and Eve began
To build up the curious race OF man.
Has existed the House OF "They."
Gossip mongers and spresders OF lies
Horrid people whom all despise
And yet the best OF ms, now and then,
Repea. oueer tales about women and men,
Aud quote the House OF "They."
They live like lords and never labor.
A"They's" one task is TO watch his neigh
Dor,
And TO tell his business and private affairs
To the world 81 large they are sewers oil
tares-
These folks in the House Of "They."
II is wholly useless to follow . "They"
With a whip or 3 gun. for he slips away
And into his house, where you cannos go,
II is locked and bolted and guarded So
This horrible House of They"
Though You cannot get in, yet they gel
out,
And spread their villsinous tales about.
OF ell the rascals under the sun
Who rave come TO punishment, never ont
Belonged to the House of They"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

At his farewell address at the Wash
ington University. st. Louis. Professor
Johnson stated that consumption, diph-
liberia, typhoid and scarlet fever are
caused by prsventable infection, and
therefore more than $50. 600 people in
this country alone are sacrificed to ignor-
ance, indifference, Incompetence, or to
all combined. In the case Of consump-
tion, pneumonia and diphtheria the dry
ing of expeotorations in street and rail-
way cars. stores. factories. schools, no.
tells and even in our legislative chambers
has hitherto been a fertile source Of con-
tapioa.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

There is . struggle to introduce q par
eel post law to apply to the trade be-
tween this country and Europe. and
Germany has taken the lead in the mat
ter and fixed it SO that parcels can be
sent from or to Germany on German ships
at q fair price. The object is to avoid
the outrageous express charges. and such
an arrangement ought to be made with
every country OF Europe,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

From the News Of Aug. 81

From the News OF Aug. 81
The Ely Mining & Milling Co. have
made the fifth payment of $1,000 on the
Robust mine. A little over n half OF
the purchase price has now been paid.
The jury in the case Of B. B. Bird VS..
the Elko & White Pine transportation
Company ct al, brought in q verdict for
the defendant in the amount OF $50 So.
The Chairman mill has been running
for the past week and thus far has done
all that it's owners expected. Only ono
shift is being worked at present, owing
to limited tank capacity.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

G. b. kaufman Railway Supply Co.
A. G. Dietz & Company
Nowlin & Fassett
The Insurance Adiuster
Scott & Van Arsdale, 3 machines
N. X. Fairbanks Company
Porter Brothers Company, 5 machines
f. M. PARCELS
f. Chevalier & Company
Deere Implement Company
]. w. Dorsey
. Pacific Pine Lumber Company
Hulse, Bradford & Company
j. A. Folger & Company, 2 machines
}. Il. Scupham
Colusa Stone Company
Office Specially Company
Mahony Brothers
Weston Basket Company
Hobbs, Wall & Company
f. S. Moody
Charles Nelson
Williams. Belser & Company
Bruenn Piano Mandatory
F. b. Peterson & Company
Davis & Davis
Pacific Banker & Investor.
California Barrel Company
George A. Pope
Macmillan & Cos Publishing Agency
Gunnison, Booth x Bartnett
Z. q. Galpin
j. b. Haggin, 3 machines
Tubbs Cordage Company
Smith & Murasky
.GHAN 81 co.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Miller 4 Lux are arranging to ship
5000 steers from Winnemuoca TO 'ne
San Francisco market.
Tribune : The farmers have taken 10
planting trees along the lanes and AROUND
their homes, and in . few years the
Lovelock valley will be Q veritsble Far
adise.
Snowsheds on rollers are being con-
structed at Coldstresm on the Central
Pacific railroad, six miles west OF Trnc-
kee. 90 that they can be selescoped dur
ing the tourist season.
The new cattle quarantine boundaries
between Nevada and California. extend
from the southern end Of Marin county
to the southern end Of Eldorado, then
bending southwark to include Alpine,
Mono and Inyo counties in the district
outside Of quarantine.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
tsgion.

The Retail Butchers Association ct
New York is raising 9 $1,000. 600. 900
fund for use in organizing an effective
opposition to the wholesalers, who have
formed . trust and are putting the screws
to the retailers. The butchers are wbet-
ting up their knives and propose to do
some scientific carving with the trust as
the carcass. They admit that q keen
edge is necessary as the joints are tough.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

Women who wear imported switches
may be interested in . strange discovery
made ct Antwerp. In that city q bale
Of human hair. weighing l72 pounds. was
stolen from . railroad station. 1t was
afterwards learned that the hair had
been clipped from the heads OF lunatics
and convicts in public asylums and
prisons.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

A process has been invented in the
East for seasoning wood by electricity.
or by an electrical treatment, with the
the result that green lumber is seasoned
in q few hours as thoroughly as it can be
in the open air in Summer in several
weeks or months.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

Mrs. Langtry's appearance in a play,
portraying scenes from her own life, in
London recently. is said to have been
successful. There is nothing remarkably
surprising in this. There have doubtless
been scenes in Mrs. Langtry's life which,
if staged with lifelike accuracy. would
prove a bigger attraction than Lydia
ThomIson's most spectacular snccess.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
A Few Prominent San Francisco
Users Of the Oliver Typewriter

Pine Box Manufacturer Agency, "a
machines
Pacific & Sunset Telephone Company,
81 machines.
Harpers' Weekly Club, 8 machines
United States Weather Bureau
Germania Life Insurance Company
National Life Insurance Company
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co.
Atlas Assurance Company
Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
5 machines
San Francisco & North Pacific r. X.
San Fran. & San Joaquin Valley X. X.
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 2
machines
Postal Telegraph Company
San Francisco & Pacific Glass Works
Abner Doble Company, 2 machines
Fire Alarm & Police Telegraph Co.
George w. Gibbs & Company
Columbian Banking Company
Pacific Newspaper Syndicate
Young Mems Christian Association
Young Mems Institute
Scribner's Sons Company
Globe Publishing Company
The Reynolds Company
Revista Hispano-Americana
California Democrat
Sunset Photo Engraving Company
San Jose Brick Company
Western Expended Metal & Fire.
PROBING Company
s. f. Slade Lumber Company
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
Notice to Creditors,
In the Third Judicial District
Court OF the state of Nevada. -
n for Eureka County.
In the Matter OF the Estate OF James
White, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ undersigned has been duly s~ppoinsea
and qualified by the Third Judicial District
Court of the State Of Nevada, in and for Eu'
reks county. ss Administrators of the estate OF
iames White. late Of said county. deceased
All creditors having claims against said
estate are required to file the same with proper
vouchers attached. with the Clerk of the Court
within three months of the first publication Of
this notice. EMMA j. WHITE
ADMINISTRATIVE OF said estate
Dated Eureka, Nevada, August 2. 1899,
PETER BsKKx, Attorney fer Administrators.
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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09
2. q. HARMON,

A TTORNEY AT LAW AND NJ
"a tary Public. o~fice-Ryland's buiI''"s
Batsman street. opposite the Jackson h0''''
Eureka, Nevada.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-09-09

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importance and character.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25
Why Sheen Are WOOllY.

II you want to ask sheep where he
got his wool and why, take dog into
mountain pasture band and if the
sheep are afraid of the dog they will
invariably run uphill rather than
down. You have your answer. The
ancestors of the domestic sheep, like
wild sheep Of the present day, lived
among high mountains and needed
their woolly covering to protect them
cgainst the constant cold Of high at
mospheres. They chose the high and
inhospitable region to live in because
they found the fierce flesh-eating ami
mails of the plains too strong for them.
A proof Of these facts is that the wool
grows on sheep the year round
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25

her father to live In more style, but
he was a plain old-fashtoned man, the
Russell Sage of Fall River, who knew
the value of dollar to the hundredth
part OF a cent, and he did not care to
indulge in what he called the extray-
agances of modern life. With her new
house she bought pair OF horses and
carriage, engaged coachman, and
now she drives out every day in style,
going shopping. occasionally doing
little visiting, making calls on her
banker, attorney or agent, as business
may require, but otherwise she Is sell
dom seen. for she makes very few
social calls, and l doubt IL she often
attends church at least in Fall River
"The two sisters are jointly taxed
ON property assessed at $219, $50. This
does not include mill or bank st7cks
The sisters paid $3.909.77 taxes for
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25

between the falls and whirlpool rap.
Ids. This years bridge has been re-
markable. Never before has the jar
been on such an immense scale. Hun
dreds Of thousands of tons 0 ice are
piled, some of it fifty feet high, in the
gorge and along the banks. So great
at times is the pressure on the jam
by additional Ice that the monster
structure moves out under it. This
happened a few days ago, when many
persons We're on the bridge, which
moved down the river 900 feet before
1t stopped Great crevasses open sud
denly, or, closing under the same tre-
mendous pressure, form huge ridges
and upheavals. Some Of the views
taken show how the ice is hurled up
and thrown with fearful force against
whatever happens to be in its path.
Huge iron and steel cross girders, sup
porting many tons on the new steel
arch bridge, were bent or twisted a.
If they were so much wire.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25

what happered. AS a matter of ex-
perlence 1t insured his drowning, for
the boat capsized and overturned
twice. 1t is possible that he might
nave got out alive had he been free;
as 1T was, he was held down by the
boat and drowned the first time his
cockleshell turned over.
big Free Show.
At least two sizable vessels have
gone over the falls-the schooner
Michigan, in 1928, and the steamer
Caroline a little less than ten years
later. The Michigan's voyage was pre-
arranged, and was enjoyed by thou
sands gathered on the American and
Canadian shores. The Michigan was
then the largest vessel on Lake Erie.
She drew too much water, in fact, to
enter some of the best ports, and had
never been profitable. For that rea-
son, and also because she was some-
what decayed Gin her uppers,' her
owner, Major Frazer-a New Yorker,
by the way-suggested to the "keepers
Of public houses" near the falls and
to the owners of various steamboats,
and stages that it would be a good
thing for them to buy the boat and
send her oyer the falls, trusting to
the money the spectators would spend
to get their expenditures back. The
suggestion was adopted, and Septem-
Der 8 was chosen for the exhibition.
be believed, Buffalo and all the ad-
joining country in this state and Can
ada virtually was deserted on that
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25

! A score or more Americans were asleen
on the Caroline, unarmed, it is said
Al all events most of them were
drlVen away; one, Amos Durfee, was
killed on the deck. Then the boat was
cut loose from its moorings, towed ont
INTO the stream, set on fire and let go.
IL was declared at the time that sew
eral Americans were still on board
When this was done, and that thew
were either burned to death or sent
TO destruction, but this was never
proved. Old man Scranton used to
describe the sight Of that burning
steamer floating down the river and
going over the falls as the weirdest
and most impressive spectacle he ever
saw.
Inc excitement caused on both sides
OF the river by that episode was ter
rifle. and Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull
came nearer fighting over it by many
degrees than they did over the Vene-
zuela boundary few years ago. In
1S41 Alexander Mcleod, a Canadian
who was Of the British party. was
tried in Utica for the murder of DIR.
fee and acquitted. Mr. Scranton used
to say that it was then the general
impression in both countries that Nc
Leod's conviction would have brought
on a war between the United States
and England. Scranton never got any
pay for his boat, though he held an
indemnity bond against British moles-
tation signed by the mayor Of Buffalo.
Niagara to-day presents a delightful
appearance. The greatest of all the
attractions this winter Is the remark
able ice jam in the gorge below the
falls known as the ice bridge.
An "ice bridge" at Niagara Falls is
not an arched raised structure, but a
foe OF impacted ice which has come
over the falls and jams in the river
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-08-25

CARA hotel men, and they would no
doubt see to it that every winter has
FITS bridge If they could. The bridges
are always dangerous, yet the sight
|seers invariably gather upon them, and
many narrow escapes from death by
the Ice giving away, similar to the one
reported a few days ago, occur. Sui
|cides on the ice bridges are rare, and
most of the few that have taken place
1ave been by shooting, not by jumping
nto the water.
Curiously enough fair proportion
bf all those who kill themselves at
Niagara use the bullet, but nearly
livery one SO manages it that his body
will go over the falls. Bodies that
bass the cataract are invariably
Itripped naked by the combined action
pf the water and the jagged rocks.
Professional swimmers have for years
been ambitious to swim or float
through the Whirlpool rapids below the
alls, and one at least, Charles Percy,
managed to 60 through in a closed
'oat about twelve years ago. Two
professionals. and possibly others,
ave lost their lives in the attempt.
One Of these victims was Capt. Mat
hew Webb, an Englishman who had
urvived some surprising aquatic ex-
eriences, and who attempted to swim
he rapids without protection of any
ort on July "a. 1883. He was evil
emily killed by being dashed against
le rocks before he had timo to drown.
The other victim was Robert w.
lack OF Syracuse, also English by
lrth, who tried the trip on July 4,
sSS, In an open boat named the Phan-
pm. built from his own special de-
.gns. His craft was so constructed
sat the inmate could be strapped fast,
nd he argued that this precaution
ould increase his safety, no matter