davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Carson City, New, possesses a more
than ordinary interest for the paleon-
tologist. The western declivity of the
Sierra Neyadas has thus far proved a
valuable field for their research. At
the grounds of the state prison, one
and half miles from Carson, may be
found footprints and fossil remains Of
both men and animals which inhabited
the earth many thousands OF years ago.
The prison was constructed on a lime
stone hill with view to utilizing the
convict labor in quarrying stone for
commercial purposes. In doing this,
the stone has been removed for an
area of one and three-quarters acres
to a depth of from fifteen to thirty-two
feet. No attention was paid for time
to the discoveries, but in 1882 Warden
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Garrad made report to the Geological
museum at Washington, which at once
sent men to make further research.
They uncovered more tracks and were
able to give the world their views.
The prints are made in what seems to
have at one time been the shore of a
lake, but is now solid limestone. There
are six series of the human prints.
The average length OF stride is two
feet six inches. The foot was incased
in sandal of length of eighteen
and one-half inches and a breadth OF
eight inches at the ball and six inches
at the heel OF the foot. Besides the
human footprints are those of the
mammoth, twenty-one inches in diam
eter; horse, not unlike the horse of the
present day; immense birds, some with
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
Helen Kilmurry, Eight Years Old, is a
Veritdble Child of Fortune.

Little Helen Kilmurry is little short
Of wonder in the multiplicity of her
gifts and attainments. Though but
years old, she plays the piano, sings.
dances, recites French prose and po-
etry, often appearing in charitable en-
tertainments, but in no way does she
neglect her studies at school, as her
standing, since she entered the Prince
Grammar school, is near the head OF
the class. This remarkable little miss
Is the only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Kilmurry, who live at 80 Clar-
endon street, Boston. The parents say
little Helen, when a mere child in her
swaddling clothes, would climb into
the piano chair at every opportunity
and run her little fingers over the keys
with great delight. When she was old
enough to stand alone she would dance
on her toes to the accompaniment of
her humming of familiar songs. At the
age of Helen began to take music
and dancing lessons and she has made
remarkable progress. She began to
read and write at the age of years
and entered school. All studies came
easy to her, and from the first she was
leader in her classes. Whenever she
appears in public-and it is only in
the interest of charity-her work ex-
cites the greatest wonder.
She has great penchant for dan
cling, and is now very skillful in vari
dances the hornpipe with singular
gracefulness, and the ballet, with all
the French figures, comes remarkably
easy to her.
She is bright, winsome little body
and not at all unlike other nervous,
healthy children of her age in the en-
joyment of all out-of-door sports, but
her best Fairgrounds are the parlor Of
her home and the music studio.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

New York World: Ten-year-old
Herman Silverman laughed SO heartily
last night that he dislocated his Jaw.
Nobody else seemed to have laughed 50
powerfully, and it was a genuine sur
prise to the rest CT the family to see
the boys face set in laughter after be
wanted to stop. Then he cried, but
still seemed to be laughing. The fam
lily thought he must have been struck
By another boy. and he was rushed to
Gouverneur hospital. There a surgeon
grasped his head firmly, gave it a
tweak and Herman resumed his serious
face. Then he said he had felt his
jaw move out Of place when he was in
the middle of his cachinnation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
Start a Bank Account.

A business woman. whose experience
has been long and successful, said to
me the other day: IF were asked to
give the best advice | could think OF
for young women who are earning
their own living, or who have the cares
and expenses of a household to look
after, and if | had to confine myself
to just four words, | should say:
Start bank account 1t is an easy
matter to do so nowadays, when both
the savings banks and others offer
women every possible convenience and
inducement. Besides, it is a good
thing to do, for several reasons. 1t
fosters feeling of independence and
develops business-like habits, two es-
sentials for a successful business wom-
an. Then, too, it is convenient and
desirable thing to pay bills by means
Of checks where it is possible to do
so. 1t preserves record of the trans
action and frequently prevents annoy
ances and mistakes. To my way of
thinking, bank account, even though
it be small one, should be looked
upon as necessity rather than lux
ury by every woman who has business
affairs of any consequence whatever"
-Demorest's.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
Baliey's Laxative Tablets cures ConstIpa-
ton.

The active principle is cascara sa-
grada, plant found in California.
1t does not do the work for the bowels
but makes the bowels do their own
work. 1t gets the bowels back in the
habit of doing their own work, and
after they have been reused into a
state Of healthy activity, and the liver
and other organs also, they will con-
tinue on without medicine. They
will cure sick headache, billiousness
and liver troubles and constipation
and remove poisonous matter from
the system. Put up in 10 and rs cent
packages. For sale j. i. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

The English H is the father Of count
less jokes. We borrow one of the
youngest from an exchange. A pew
opener in England greatly astonished
a group Of women who were construct
ing evergreen notices and wreaths for
a Christmas celebration by announcing
that she had found "a stray hen a-lay-
ing in the pulpit Their excitement
was Gained when she produced large
green n which had strayed from some
text or legend.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

The shafts have depth of from
thirty to sixty feet and further inland
they may be double this depth. One
mine has nearly thousand employees.
The inferior pieces of amber are made
into what is called "ambroid." The
pieces are washed and dried, coated on
the outside with some chemical and are
then nodded with the aid Of heat and
pressure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
Gen. Grant and H:s Pony.

While the daughter of Brig. Gen.
Frederick d. Grant was being married
at Newport to a Russian prince her
father was riding up and down the
firing line between Paranaque and
linus in the Philippines. The firing
line between these two points is eleven
hiles long, and Gen. Grants mount is
little native pony only eleven hands.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Amber occurs III the so-called blue
earth, sandy clay with many grains
of quartz and granite. In the dry
state the earth is green and when it is
wet it becomes almost bla elk. The blue
earth is washed with water, the big
Jumps being reduced with The help OF
mallets and passed over sieves, and the
slime is returned to the sea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Mrs. Al declare its scandalous the
way these Englishmen drop their his.
Mrs. Z.-Think so? Mrs. Ayes. The
other day George was taken i'll from
oyerheating. Well, what should that
cockney coachmen do but meet every
caller at the door and tell them The
master is i'll from over-eating'i"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
UNDERGRADUATE GIFTS.

or forty-four inches, high. Gen. Grant
is a heavy man and his rat Of horse
often stumbles and falls under his
weight. On one recent occasion his
arm was severely bruised by the tum-
Bile. Horses of ordinary size are not
to be had in the islands, and even
understood ponies sell for $40.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
AM BER.

Amber Is found all along the Prus
sian shores of the Baltic, but prin-
cipally in the peninsula of Samland
All amber, found everywhere, is state
property, but the state cannot mine
amber without the permission of the
owner of the ground.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
CAMEL RACES
Enthuse the Lovers of Sport In Far-On

Enthuse the Lovers of Sport In Far-On
Algeria.
Camel races are held regularly in the
south OF Algeria, where valuable prizes
are offered for the encouragement OF
the breed of racers, and as much in
terest is taken in their preparation and
performances as in that Of race horses
at Latonia. The racing camels are the
result OF very careful breeding through
many generations, and in size, temper
and appearance they are so different
from the ordinary beast of burden
that they might almost be considered
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Before the beginning of the present
century digging was the only means
employed for obtaining amber. 1t was
done in an irregular manner, and in
1862 dredging was practiced, says the
Scientific American. This was contin-
ued until 1890, when mining by means
Of shafts was also resorted to. Diving
has also been practiced with great sue
cess.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
Child Marriages In India.

The latest government census in IN
dia showed 6,016.759 girls between S
and 3 years OF age who were already
married. Of whom 10000 had become
widows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02
coolinr

Madge-I always select tragic stories
for hot weather reading Mabel On
what principle, dear !? They
make my blood run cold It'll Bits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

Rear Admiral Farquhar. who is to
succeed Rear Admiral Sampson in COM
mand. can show record of service to
his country which any man can well
be proud Of, for it covers a period OF
forty years. and contains many in
stances Of his bravery. clear-headed-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-11-02

ness in danger and ability to instantly
seize an opportunity and turn it to his
own advantage.
He was born in Pennsylvania, in
April IL, 1910. When small boy he
showed bent toward sea-faring life,
and was finally sent to the Naval
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30

have been paid in this county is set
for argument before Judge Winchester
Monday.
Two hundred railroad men We're set
back by the taking off Of the second
coast train on the Northern Pacific.
Work will begin in Il few days on
the new sewage system-a net work
covering the main portion of the city.
r. D. Hoskins was elected Grand
Captain Of the Hosts ut the meeting of
the Grand Chapter in Fargo yester-
day.
The Fargo Agricultural College will
get $4,000 from the federal govern
ment this year, an increase of 81, ZOO
over last year.
Hon. James A. Haight passed
through yesterday going west. He
has been at jamestown Strengthening
out the Lloyd bank matter.
Sheriff Mcdonald came down from
Washburn last night with VIM. War.
ner, who will reside with Warden
Boucher for the next two years.
The almanac editor calls the atten.
ton of the Tribune to the fact that we
are now on the down grade-yesterday
having been the longest day of the
year.
Editor Foley was appointed senior
steward instead of senior deacon in the
Masonic grand lodge, as the Tribune
announced yesterday. He is better
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
CITY AND COUNTY.
Ih,tySdMU.


Landlord Thurston returned to Man.
dan today.
County Commissioner Wclch is in
town from Glencoe today.
Joe Hare did not stay long at De-
troit Lake, getting back today.
Z. S. Reardsley returned from the
Masonic grand lodge at Fargo today.
There were 1923 filings ut the Bis
marck land office the first twenty days
this month.
Miss Mamie Mclaughlin left for
ElbowwOods this morning to remain
a couple Of weeks visiting her parents.
Mrs. NJ. II. Hughes, w. NJ. Of Bis
marck Chapter Of the Eastern Star. is
in Fargo today attending the Grand
Chapter.
Hon. E. A. Williams has gone to Free
port, ILL.,, and will return with the
children who have been attending
school there.
Miss Ella Campbell, the dressmaker
who has been with Mrs. Dunn for the
last three months, leaves for Mime
apolis tonight.
Mrs. r. D. Hoskins is attending the
session Of the Grand Chapter of the
Eastern Star in Fargo, of which she is
grand secretary.
Judge Winchester, Attorneys Allen,
Stevens and Patterson, and Stem
Ographer futile returned from Wash
.Washburn last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. 9. DeGraff came in
from Dickinson last night. That
lively town is liable to develop a scrap
over the incorporation project.
+? 1t has been stated that Ben Corbin
was to have a celebration and bowery
dance at his place on the Fourth, but
this is a mistake. Ben will celebrate
at Braddock.
Railway Mail Clerk Pape reported at
headquarters at st. Paul Sunday night.
Clerk Laid went to st. Paul Monday
night and Clerk Otis Wednesday night,
They will he assigned to new runs.
Mrs. Boyle, professor of languages
at the Fargo Agricultural college, has
resigned, and the Forum intimates that
there was some politics in the change
and that other ''resignations'' may be
looked for.
Gen. Ovenshine says that Maj. Franz
White, with a battalion of the FirsI
North Dakota, left the trenches ant
made a gallant and effective charge
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30

the Milwaukee crossing, and returned
to Moorhead where he took the train
for the south.
Land Commissioner Hermann has
completed the apportionment Of the
fund Of $325.O00 appropriated by the
last congress for continuing the sur
veys of public lands. Surveyor Gen
eral Williams Of North Dakota is al
lowed $4,000 for this work. South
Dakota gets $4,000.
Charles o. Spetz. the popular clerk
of the Boston" left today for a va
cation. He will visit Slaughter and
take in the midsummer festival Of the
Lutheran church. This promises to
eclipse any previous event Of the kind
and four Or five hundred people are
expected to be present.
Thirty-two graders came in on the
noon train in charge Of p. X. Eastman
of AnOka. to begin work on the first
twelve miles of the Bismarck, Wash
burn & Fort Buford railroad. They
are at the Grand Pacific. Their
teams and grading outfit are expected
to reach here on a freight this even
ing.
The growth of young and old trees
in Bismarck this season is simply
phenomenal. However, many need
trimming-in the interest Of pedes-
trianism-and now is a good time for
it. Make a clean cut Of the limb on
an angle of about IS degrees, and if
the limbs are large cover the wound
with tar or beeswax and resin mixed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
on the insurgents concealed in thicllets
in front of his position.

on the insurgents concealed in thiclSets
in front of his position.
According to the jamestown Alert
the Northern Pacific has decreased it's
passenger rates from + to 3 cents Il
mile in Montana. 1t is probable that
Manitoba is meant. Passenger rates
in Montana have been 5 cents a mile.
There was a jolly surprise party last
evening at the h%ospitable home Of Mrs.
VIM. Monroe, for Miss Mae Challoner,
who left for her home at jamestown
on the midnight train. About four
teen couple enjoyed a pleasant evening.
The following directors have been
reported as elected ut the school cleo
tons Tuesday: Burnt Greek district,
Philip Harvey and Henry Baumgarten;
Menoken district. V. NJ. Craven and
r. Schwab: Francis district. Thos.
Hall; Gibbs district. Fred Sabot.
Ben Corbin. the famous wolf hunter.
was in town today, and says he has
killed y of the varmints in the past
month. Lots of the small grain is
knee high and some barley is beginning
to head out. and crops generally never
looked better. Ben says there is lots
of fine land in the southeast corner Of
this county still vacant.
Mai. John H. Frame. with the North
Dakota volunteers, in a report upon the
operations of the Second battalion of
the regiment which he commanded
during the engagement of Feb. i and 5,
| CnA0t.c in hir1oncf fo1sYoc of tho n n NC
and men of his command. saying the
officers were cool. brave and vigilant
and the men steady and determined,
executing all orders with promptness
and perfect order.
1t is possible that a little hustling by
the owners of the Dickinson Pressed
Brick works might result in North
Dakota brick being adopted for the
buildings at the new military post
here. If their use was approved for
the first buildings the contracts for
which have just been let. it is likely
that they would be used when the rest
of the sixty or more buildings planned
for r erected.
According to the Minneapolis Journal
ex-senator W. D. Washburn closed a
contract last week with E. s. Page &
Co. of Anoka for the grading of about
twelve miles of his new railway. the
Bismarck, Washburn & Fort Buford
Mr.. Washburn said yesterday that he
expected to close another contract dur
ing the present week for work on al
additional twelve miles. thus preparing
approximately twenty-five miles for thu
laying of the rails. The work will
begin at Bismarck and be advanced il
a northwestwardly direction.
While staying at st. Paul, Mayor
Patterson visited New Richmond, Wis.
and describes the work of the cyclon,
as awful. Several telegraph pole!
fairly bristled on one side with piece.
Of hay and straw that had been driver
into the wood for perhaps an eighth O
an inch by the force Of the wind. 4
large burglar proof safe had beel
picked up and carried over a block
and there were hundreds Of other in
stances of the indescribable force ex
erted. If the cyclone had struck a
st. Paul instead of so miles away, i
is hard to realize the destruction tina
might have been wrought by the wrecI
of ten and twelve story blocks.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
Saturday..

Miss Aldyth Ward was an arrival
from Fargo today.
The Catholic Foresters will give. a
dance at Mandan July 3.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. G. DeGraff returned
to Dickinson on the noo train.
Hebron reports suckers to the ex-
tent of V $1,000 circus day.
Lieutenant Governor Devine has
gone to his home at LaMoure.
Secretary Poole left last night to
spend Sunday at Spiritwood Lake.
Gen. and Mrs. Hughes returned from
the Eastern Star Chapter at Fargo
this noon.
BY a vote of SO to so Mandan decided
not to issue $4,000 in bonds for the
new school building.
Attorney Allen went east last night.
He has been notified by U. s. District
Attorney Rourke Of his appointment
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
WHY WOMEN ARE NERVOUS.
British Medical News.)

The frequent cases of nervous pros
tration or utter collapse of the ner-
vous system under which women Ego
all to pieces" as the saying is, have
caused much thought and investigation
on the part of physicians.
Certain inorganic substances are
well known to cause various forms of
nervous diseases which are readily
traced to the poisons producing them.
Further research leads to the belief
that alum is a prevailing cause of So
called nervous prostration, for the
symptoms it produces on the nervous
system after it's absorption into the
blood are very remarkable indeed.
Experiments physiologically made up
on animals by Ortila, Professors Hans
Mayer, Paul Seim and others, show
that alum frequently produces no WIS.,
ible symptoms. for many days after
its introduction into the body. Then
follow loss of appetite and other ali
mentary disturbances, and finally Il
serious prostration of the whole ner-
vOus system. The most prominent
physicians now believe that nervous
Prostitution and many affections of
the erves from which both men and
women suffer are caused by the con-
tinued absorption Of alum into the
system.
1t is probable that many medical
men are unaware of the extent to
which salts Of alumina may he intro
duced into the body, being under the
impression that the use of alum in
bread is prohibited. Alum, however,
is still used surreptitiously to some
extent to whiten bread. and very
largely in making cheap kinds of bak-
ing powder. In families where bak-
ing powder is generally used great
care should be exercised to procure
only those brands made from cream of
tartar. The alum powders may gen.
orally be distinguished by the lower
price at which they are sold.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy.
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA F1G SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the n perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently: Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub.
stance, and it's acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing fies
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinalqualities Of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG r co,
oAN11ANCIDcoSoAI
10U10v1LLB. Ky. NEW YORK, n. Z.
Fog sale b III Druecista-psj1 &C. pesbotlo
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
Friday.

Joe Feldhauser, who has been quite
sick, is reported better.
Fort Rice will have a bowery dance
on the Fourth at Ed Timms' place.
Miss Addie Wilson of Fargo will
visit Bismarck friends next week.
W. P. McCumber, land agent for w.
D. Washburn, came in from Washburn
last night.
Hereafter the delivery windows at
the postoffice will be open on Sunday
from - noon to 1 p. m.
The hearing of the application of
Burleigh county stockmen for a per.
manent injunction restraining the
authorities Of Emmons county from at.
taching their stock on which taxes
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-06-30
Monday.

aEHT-.L +4 lTsH"h#E .HE.E
Attorney E. G. Rice of Mandan is here
today.
Han. T. Allshouse was in from Steele
Sunday.
Attorney Allen returned from Fargo
this noon.
Governor Fancher returned from the
east Sunday.
Judge Fisk Of Grand Forks came in
on the noon train.
Attorney Marion Conklin Of James,
town spent Sunday here.
Examiner r. E. Wallace and Cashier
Pye drove to Braddock yesterday.
Kidder county old settlers hold their
annual picnic next Wednesday at Lake
Isabel.
Receiver Satterlund left for st. Paul
Saturday night, accompanied by Carl
Peterson, who will visit with friends
there.
The county board of equalization meets
July.3, when those who have kicks to
make on their assessment want to be on
hand.
DR.. Treacey, when in Steele last week
told the Ozone there was more business
and less politics in Bismarck than in
twenty years.
2. 2. sandager Of Philadelphia spent
Glenullen today. He is a brother Of
Andrew Sandager Of Lisbon, Of lottery
bill fame, and formerly livedlnear New