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The silver star., 1899-12-22

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Timber Land. Act June ,, ie7e.-Noties for
Publication

Timber Land. Act June 3 ie7e.-Notes fos
Publication.
United States Land ONCE,
Durango, Colorado,
November "a. 1s98.
Notice is hereby given that In compliance
with the provisions Of the act Of Congress OF
June o is.s entitled AN act for. the sale or
timber hands in IL States oftalifofnia oregon
Neyadn and Washington Territory, as eN.
tended to all the Public Land states by act oil
August I. lsas,
Frank W. Stubbs of Gradens. county OF
Nonteznma. state of Colorado, has this day
file, in this office his sworn statement No. sis;
for the purchase OF the ne Sc 1. 5 sse and
-. sv Of Section p In township 81 noith.
range II west n. NJ. +. NJ.
And will offer proof to show that the land
sought is more valuable for its timber or stone
than for agricultural purposes, aud to cst,b
lish his claim to said land before the Register
and Receiver OF this office at Durango. Coio.
on Tues ia-. tho anth day of Ja.,u.,. .aul
HI u.aii,.s as witnesses. James ttiliith, James
.fuss. George Soulen and Alexander ID 'rwerd,
all t;radens. Colorado.
ANY and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested TO lille
their claims in this office on Or before sal 3oth
day OF January. 100.
&c PERKINS. Register.
Fist pub. Nov. II, 1919 last pub. Jan -, 1900.
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W. Ii. Freeman desires to state that
in selecting tonight Tor the Institution
OF the Wooiman Lodge he was not
aware, being a stranger, that it would
interfere with any other meeting and
does not want 10 incur the i'll will of the
ladies Of the Rathbone sisteas, or any of
the ladies'.
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Railroad Notices.

HOLIDAY RATS. An open rate Of one
standard fare for the round trip between
stations in Colorado is authorized, mini.
mum rate 30 cents. Tickets on sale De-
ceniber %, "a, ., 30 aud 81. 1899 and
January /. 1900. Final limit 10 return
January ., 1900 Going passage TO be.
gin on date Q; sale. Continuous pass.
age in each direction.
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Charley Kelly came over from Mancos
today aud will help institute tho Wood
man lodge tonight. s. p. Thomas and
p. q. Ellis will also attend.
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The only safe plan is 10 have your
house insured. This Office can furnish an
low rate as any relinble company and
now IL the time to have II done.
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That lonesome look on Will Exon'n
face 10 accounted for by tho feet that
his wife went TO Mancos Wednesday.
but he'll look all right tomorrow when
ahe returns.
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The horse races to come off at Cortez
on Christmas day are exciting consider
able interest and will no doubt draw a
large crowd. Several parties from Do.
lores will attend.
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A Christmas entertainment will be
given at TIE School House Hall ON Sun.
day. Dec. "a, at 1880 p. M, under the
auspices of the Sunday school. Every
body is invited TO attend and pu, pres.
ents on the tree. Presents should be
brought 10 the hall in the afternoon. and
will not be received later than 7 p. M.
The silver star., 1899-12-22

Mr.J Sheer ,Sedalia. Mo. saved hischild's
lif. by One Minute Cough Cure Doctors
had given her up to die witq Group. It's
an infallible cure for coughs. colds. grippe
pneumonia. bronchitis iad throat and
lung troubles. Relieves at once. NJ. IL.
Ordway
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J.B. Clark. Peoria. H., says, Surgeons
wanted to operate on me Tor piles, but l
cured them with DeWit;s Witch Hazel
Salve." 1t is infallibie Tor piles and skin
diseases. Beware Of counterfeiis. M. II.
OrdWay.
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The STAR has turned out considerable
job printing the past two weeks. Bring
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ing them ready for 1900.
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Mrs. Hcndrickson and daughter, Miss
Ida, who were visiting o. d. Pyle and
family. left last Sunday for their home
at Pennington, y. NJ.
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Otto Roster. Of Rico. was in the valley
this week on business and had the mis-
fortune TO get lost while trying to find
this city Tuesday night.
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W. II. Freeman, state organizer Of the
Woodman, will institute lodge in this
city tonight and expects the charter list
will reach twenty.
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NOTICE.

II you want wire plyers or horse nip.
pers and haven't the money 10 buy
them, come to us and say so and We will
buy you some. but please don't steal
them from our shop.
II KRAMER Bros.
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Admission TO tho Red Mems dance on
Dec. %. will be sl.oo. Supper in the
upper hall at s-2j per plate. Everybody
invited
The silver star., 1899-12-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Moore came in from
visit TO Durango Tuesday and are Wis.
iting the family OF Geo. Moore,
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This Office will not handle laundry in
the future. We have enough on hand
without monkeying with that neuisance
any longer.
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The editor sat at his desk
With look of sorrow and deep de.
spar;
Christmas was at hand and presents
His money was with the delinquents
there.
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II this pencil pusher should get the
measles we will be "measley editor
beyond doubt.
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J. J, Harris & Co. have one OF the
most complete stocks of general
merchandise found in the West.
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Don't forget that the Red Men will
give dance on Dec. 29th.
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The miller says that no business will
be transacted at the mill until mex
TUESDAY.
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Old papers Il cents a hundred.

DeWitt's Little EarlyRisers purify the
blood clean the liver. in,igoraie the sys-
ten. Famous little pills for constipation
and liver troubles. II. Ordyay.
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J. j Harris & Co have in a new and
large assortment OF dry goods. Prices
are right and quality excellent. Call
and investigate.
The silver star., 1899-12-22

NJ. MacCwaig cut his stay in Denver
very short and returned home on Sun
day last.
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W. W. Dunlap came in from Disap.
pointment. Wednesday,
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D. F. Myer will spend Christmas with
his family in Durango.
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school children can get ruled cards for their
monthly reports al THE SILVER STAR Office
Six for cents.
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Irwin Brumley came in yesterday from
the range 10 spend the holidays.
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The snow OF Sunday night measured
FIVE and one half inches. in this city.
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Attend the Red Mems dance neg, Fri.
day night.
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Wood, the ieweler at Mancos, has the
finest line of lady's and gents solid Ge,.,
watches in western Colorado.
The Incr Ocean Hotel is the place to
stop when you 60 to Durango. Good beds
good meals and courteous treatment. are
assured you. l6tf
Hiss Annie f Cunning Tyre. Mich says.
Il suffered long time from dypepsia;
lost flesh and became very weak kodol
Dyspepsia Cure completely cured melt
digests what you eat and cures all forms
of stomach trouble. 1t never fails to give
immediate relief in the worse cases.-M.
II. Ordway.
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Twas nearly dead with dyspepsia. tried
doctors visited mineral springs.and grew
worse used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
That cured me-" II digests what you
eat. Cures indigestion. sour stomach heart
burn and all forms OF dyspepsia. u.
Ordway.
When in Durango you should stop ut
the Inter Ocean Hotel Chas. Fleck. pro.
prietor. The table is supplied with ev-
erything the market affords and you a.c
sure OF being treated courteously as well
AZ having a good comfortable bed L.
sleep in. Rates l.50 and 800 per day;
opposite Union Depot. iGu
Mrs r. R.Churchill. Berlin. VT. says. Our
baby was covered with running sores.
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve cured her"
ware of worthless countcrfcits.-M II.
Ordway.
Stop at the Inter. Ocean Hotel when
IN Durango 1911
IL takes but minute 10 overcome
tickling IN the throat and to stop "A cough
by the use'of One Minute Cough Cure.
This remedy quickly cures all forms Of
pleasant TO taBc.lt prevents consumption
A famous specific Tor grippe and its af.
ter effects. NJ u. Ordway.
TmE SILVER STAR prints all the local
news subscribe for it--s2.00 year.
"Onc Minute Cough Cure Ii the best
remedy ever used for coughs aud colds.
II IL unequalled for whooping cough.
Children all like it."writcs II. n. WilIiams
Gantryville. Ind Mover fails. II IL the only
harmless romcdy that gives Immediate
results. Cures coughs colds. honrscness,
Group. pneumonia. bronchitis. and all
throat and lung troubles. Its early use
! prevents consumption.--M. n. Ordway.
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]. 7. Quick goes to Durango tomor.
row TO spend the holidays.
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There it goes. See it! You ought to
have il insured.
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RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN R. R.
TIME TARrr

Real down the lrft column and up he riFlt.
Both tra take diHnrr at Dolores. Regular
freight trains do not carry passengers.
+. T.. Feake, Agent.
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Gl pound test wheat brings sll5 per
100 pounds.
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James Treece, a. c, Thomas and Geo.
King were visitors from the valley today.
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Dave MeKibben's little girl has been
quite sick with inflammation OF the
bowels and threatened with typhoid
fever. DR.. Haefeli is attending the
above cases.
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DOLORES DEW Drops.

800 G os- sc 90 -es-o p p'e7e -
Dolores is getting to be quite lodge
town.
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F. f. Peake visited Rico last Monday
night.
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Subscribe for The SILVER STAR a,
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THE SICK.

Measles are quite fashionable in Do
ores at present. The worst cases are
Ivy Wallace. who is threatened with
pneumonia. Nellie Num- and Della
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29
WOMAN FIGHTS A LEOPARD


An Exciting Episode ~ tine FnAAa0et
phfn Exposition.
Mile. Moreli,, a trainer Of leopards in
| the Hagenbeck show, now at the Export
| exhibition Ii Philadelphia, had a fierce
| fight with one Of her charges the other
| day. The fight lasted about ten minutes,
! and as q result the young woman went
| to the University hospital with her chest
| torn and a piece bitten out Of her left
| arm. The leopard which attacked her
| was pierced several times with the tines
of a p~itchfork.
Mile. MorelIi opened the door Of the
| cage in which the big leopard Rapier
| stood snarling. She was clad ma French
| blouse Of deep red and tights of the sf1ne
hue. In her right hand she had a whip,
and in the left, which she kept behind
her back, was a revolver, for she antici-
pated trouble with the leopard and was
prepared to subdue him. As she entered
Rapier lowered his head and, showing
his teeth, skunk into the far corner The
young woman went near him and spoke.
The only attention he paid to her words
was to lash his tail angrily and spit.
Without further words she raised the
whip and brought it down on the back Of
the animal. He retreated, and she fol-
lowed, striking him a second time, he
last cutting his face.s He crouched for a
spring, but she hit him a third time with
the lash, and he ran whining to the other
side of the cage. The trainer again gave
an order,b but he refused to move, and she
struck him with the whip. In an instant
and without giving warming the leopard
leaned into the air and landed on her
shoulders, his left fore paw sinking into
her chest and tearing off the clothing.
So quick had been the spring that she
was unable to bring the revolver into use,
and when he struck her the weapon was
hurled to the other side OF the Gag
Reversing the whip, Mile. Morelli beat
the animal on the head until he loosened
his grip and sank to the floor. Guards
had been trying to get in to her assist
ance, but the door was locked, and moth
ing could be done. Ore of them had Sc
cured a three pronged fork, which he
passed through the bars, and as the ami
NAL fell the trainer backed toward this
and raised it just as he was about to
spring for the second time. He leaped
and landed on the prongs, which ran into
his breast. He fell and ran, but the wo-
man followed him, striking him at every
step with the sharp points. Not until he
! was exhausted did she stop prodding
him. She then walked to the door, open
ed it from the inside and fell into the
arms of a guard. Her left arm was help
less, and her chest wa terribly iacerated.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29

I GRANT HOMESTEAD, CONN
Of the first church and clerk Of the sauae
through all his life, evidently having been
SO on s~hiphoard. He compiled the old
church records, from which alone all East
historians have beer able 10 secure any
worthy facts. These. With his fown rec
ords, so beautifully kept, comprise he
only sources Of authority for the region
Stiles history says Of him. Few men
filed SO large a place In the early his
tory Of Windsor or filed It 80 well He
was known as honest Matthew He
ment.
tied in the vicinity Of Windsor and Anrt~
ford came the first euunciafion Of pure
American principles. Il Is mot written b
the books, but is true, that many weeks
before the Deolaration-.ok Independence
was written IN PhiiadsFphia Couneccicne
men drew up q declaration In Hartford
fully the equal OF the famous -Phlade&-
phia document. ]
This Hartford document IL stffl intact I
Matthew 6rantsdied In WIndan Dee
16, 1881, after the King Philip II
which be took a hand. Matthew 6nsk
son. Samuel Grant. wa born In Dor
chester Nov. II, 1884. About .1670 be
moved across the Great river TO WHIST
was then known as Windsor Farmeaf
now East Windsor hil There he builf
a house near the Great river md had
charge of the ferry. That Same ferry
line Is still doing service at the oidsstand
and Is M of the oldest active inntitn-
tons in America The great freshet Z
little later led Samuel 20 move farther
up from b stream to what IS nov, the
regular Windsor street.
Here, not later than 1897, he built his
new house, which Is still the Grant
homestead. This homestead has never
been out Of the family or bad a deed, ex-
cept from the Indians. having been con-
tinucusly entailed to the present owner,
Hon. Roosevelt Grant, and through him
even to his children.
Ebenezer Grant, the grandson of the
first Samuel. enlarged the old house II
1851. building a really palatial residence
Its third owner, Captain Ebenezer Grant,
was the leading citizen OF town and
church, being an extensive Indian mer-
chant. He was also the holder Of every
important Office, a graduate from .Yala
college as classmate with Jonathan Ed
wards, captain OF the train band and
led the expedition to Deerfeld 10 11z5'
Many Of the bills for the building Of
Fort William Henry are receipted %
Ebenezer Grant. and Captain Noah
Grant, great-grandfather of General
u. s. Grant, served IN the French and
Indian war as a brave scout with Put.
nam, Rogers and others. He did grand
service in Vermont and New York. "a
that In 1856 he received a gratuity from
the Connecticut assembly for "~extznordi.
nary service and good conduct Iatcf
he was killed foD his country Just north
Of Saratoga, In sight OF Mount Ne.
Gregor, where his more famous but ID
more brave g~reat-grandson Ulysses died.
Such is the bond Of the centuries.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29

the natives carried clubs and stone hatch
cts, which are never taken out on a
friendly excursion.
Some former experience prompted a
prudent course, and all sail was set on
the yacht, and she was headed for open
water, but at first under a breeze so light
as to permit the islanders to gain on
them.
Every one on the yacht was armed to
the teeth. They stood with set white
faces along the rail.
Providentially the land breeze quicken
ed, and the yacht began to distance her
pursuers, for pursuers they were plainly
seen to be, and savage and enraged pur-
suers, too, as they saw the yacht slowly
but surely gain safe water. So there was
no fight, the gun were put away again,
and all on board breathed a sigh Of re-
lief.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29
Gold Lace TO Distin-
guish Thorn From
Walters.

shall no longer be mistaken for walters
at White House dinners and other cere
monies of state.
Senior Don Antonio Lao Arriaga. the
present dean OF the Latin-Ameriean
diplomatic corps, is the father Of this
innovation. Ever since he succeeded to
the deanship upon the death Of Maths
Romero, the Mexican ambassador, Senior
Arriaga has been urging the adoption Of
a c-eremonious uniform by his colleagues.
In order to remove the objections Of
several of his confreres, Senior Arriaga
determined to sound the American secre-
tary Of state as to his views upon this
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29
CHASED BY %cANNIBALs.
Close Call For a Bridal Couple In the
Solomon sInnds

Close Call For a Bridal Couple In the
Solomon island
News has just been received here that
the Count md Countess Fes&tics of New
York, the long distance bridal couple Of
the world" have once more had q mar
row and thrilling escape from capture
and death at the hands Of a party of saw
age cannibals.
The young couple were revisiting the
Solomon group Of islands, where they
had called several times before, and were
becalmed in a little bay where it was
their intention to land.
They were seen from shore. and a
number of canoes put off. At first the
voyagers supposed that a party Of natives
were intending I'd pay them a friendly
visit, but when the natives were fairly
out in the bay it was seen that they were
in the long war canoes and that many Of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29

1890.
An interesting gathering viii be bell
In Windsor. Conn, on Oct. 81. Il viii bt
q reunion of the Grant family Of Amer
lea. Grants are scattered from coast to
eonst, and nearly all Of them, with the
help Of a skilled genealogist, can trace
their origin back to that STURDY old fuTi-
tan, Matthew Grant, who founded re
town Of Windsor and whose direct De-
scendants still live there. Ulysses =
Grant, the soldier president, wa prona-
bly, the most honored member Of the Tam
lily, but many other Grants have deserved
well OF their country.
But high and low, rich and poor, al the
Grants who can will be at this great faro-
lily gathering. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr-, 3
president Of the family association, and
Roland d. Grant. D. D, is the FIRST xice
president.
The story of the founding Of the family
is an interesting one. Matthew Grant,
with his wife Priscilla, landed at Boston
May 80, 1880, from the good ship Mary
and John This ship had sailed from
Plymouth on March 20 Of the anne year.
Matthew Grant was constituted a free
man in Boston May IS. 1881.
Evidently because OF his d~isplezsure
with the lack Of pure liberty of coascierce
he, with others, again moved westward.
"emigrating IA days into the Wilderness |"
settling anew on the west banks Of the
Connecticut, or Great river" This was
In October. 1886. This party there found
ed the town of Windsor. located q rev
miles above Hartford. with which town
it long divided honors.
Matthew was one Of the important men
of the new community. IN the colonies
he was the first public surveyor. laying
out the lines between Massachusetts ard
Connecticut. He was town clerk for q
years. selectman for many years. deacon
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29

was another Of black melrose as to gown
and heavy peau de sole as to a long lar
tie fulled from a deep yoke. 1t hung
straight to below the knees in front to
the left In massive folds, but was lifted
on the right side in toga folds to the
bust. The yoke had the high iaring col
lar stitched many times around until 1t
was fairly stiff. Then there was a long
sack coat, as shapeless as such coats are
made. This was worn with a homespun
plaid skirt and a hat OF the "stovepipe'
variety In silk beaver. Very mannish,
the whole thing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-29

shows a graceful young woman holding
a laurel crown above her head with both
hands rs If she were about to place it
upon the brow OF some c~onquering hero.
1t is seven feet high and stands on q ten
fool pedestal.
Miss Marshall is a tall, generously
built young woman, with dark eyes and
hair, an oval face and an expression Of
unusual sweetness. The point, however,
most strongly recommending her to Mr..
Ruckstuhl and other sculptors is her pro-
portions, which are said to be very near
ly perfect.