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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-24

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16


ahAiety afst rear, pul' iet .nat matter, an
carFieu IseseIeaeless Tue mu-
Jorlty Of meh apoaro tne Loyal leaieu
Stevens. lhcs were suspIc,ous ~ nim.
some went - lar az : ueeiaie mat .ne
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nraot;callu fo,raS bv ennar,ar n,,n,hass
& snrrandar re Eraa 49, ~
was ouarrelsama a dasira - sic- - =
d-;sfurbanca evan ,nnt;ny saan,aa - ~.
sasa him rrh;nos haca1ne - rnhearaIsa
that an raaeh;1g Dutob Ha~har th~aa
members ~ the patti-
hone and Curf;s-acfnalIv loft me T,oval
From Dufch Harhor IN matters wore
not imnroved. Still the Toval sailed IN
Int rs tbev were entering Kotzahue
sound Stevens boldly made ) clean hraast
Of his duplicitv. az several member az
tho nartv aftersvard wrote Ha s,i+h
bra zenness declared tbat ba nod navar
been a tbat sect;on az Alaska hafora and
tbat heSknew If no rich dig0;nes IN tbs
nameless tributary Of the Kotzehue or
any other mart Of Alaska Chagrined AZ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

Ct rescue and Ultimate safety. Though !
had held OF the ladder. / was still under
water aud soon found that | was power
less, utterly unable to move ] had all |
could do to retain my bold on tho, ladder,
for leaden weights were pulling me back.
| was afraid to loosen my hold for fear
I should return to the bottom of the
Delaware, and yet l felt my strength
giving way.
81 struggled desperately to raise myself
sufficiently to grasp the second round, but
all effort was futile. / realized it was a
physical impossibility, as far as / was
concerned. If help did moi soon reach
me, / must relax my hold. for my arms
were paining me almost beyond endur-
ance.
Suddenly, above the din and roar of
the water and the sound of rushing
wind, l imagined | heard, Hold fast to
the ladder.p l redoubled my efforts, and
soon two powerful grips of iron grasped
each arm and raised me to the second
round. BY this time my head and part
of my shoulders were out Of water.
Again I struggled to help myself, but
sank back helpless. Again that powerful
grip of iron cane to my rescue-grap-
ping irons, | felt confident, judging by
the strength of the pressure-and this
time, after a few more struggles, l sue
ceeded In finding lodgment for my mon
strous feet.
"Step by step, interrupted by many
backward slides and with the aid of the
graphing irons, / reached the top round
of the ladder and from there was lifted
on deck, for my strength had fled.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
|, STORIES OF 5
J JOHN r. M'LEAN
= }
| Anecdotes About the HAN Who J
Wants to BE Goyern- J
or OF Ohio. \
By
Francis TaIbert

John X. Mclean, whom the Ohio Dem
ocrats ave selected to try conclusions
with George K. Nash for the governor
ship of the Buckeye STAG, has a most in
teresting personality. His campaign will
be all the more notable from the well
known fact hi he is ambitious to make
bis possible gubernatorial career a step
ping stone to the presidential nomination.
AS the chief owner of the Cincinnati
ENQUIRER Mr.. Mclean is the first great
editor to be seriously considered as a
presidential candidate since the disas-
trous venture of Horace Greeley
Washington Mclean, his father was of
Scotch descent. He was a shrewd, hard
working man and had accumulated a con-
siderable fortune when he bought The
ENQUIRER in 1852. The boy inherited a
share of his fathers sturdiness and
strength Of character, and the discipline
which the elder Mclean saw fit to inn
pose was accepted without protest.
After quitting school in Cincinnati
Young Mclean went to Harvard and aft
or that to Germany. 1t must have, taken
pluck. coming home from such an ex-
p~erience as this, to be assigned by his IA
her to the position Of office boy on his
1dBner 5 pHpef- Dut ~ = huAA1tSo -
he unhesitatingly took hold Of the work
and did it well. Promotions followed
until he had mastered every detail Of the
newspaper business.
John RS first appearance at an En-
quirer stockholders meeting occurred
when he was still a young man in the
employ of the paper, and connected with
1t is the story of a neat coup with which
he surprised his father al well as the
other stockholders. The young man had
heard of d block of stock held by a Ten
nessee party which he thought might be
bought. Without saying anything of his
intention to any one he slipped down
there and negotiated a purchase.
When the next stockholders meeting
occurred, John r. stroller into the room
and took a seat. The story continues
that when the meeting was about to be
called to order the father turned to the
son and said:
"Now, John, run along. We are going
to hold a Stockholders meeting"
81 know it, father" was the reply.
.aThats what I'm here for. | came to at
tend it."
MY son. said sturdy old Wash Me-
Lean, somewhat severely. as he looked at
the boy, this is a business matter, and
your pranks are out of place."
"Well father. just examine my creden-
tiaIs a zleaneut." was the young mans
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

This story HAS 10 do with a CONVEX
whose villainous ingenuity in weaving a
plot which worked his liberty made or
phans of no fewer than a dozen happy
children and widows Of half as many
contented wives.
Seldom have the consequences of m
one mans act been more far~reaching In
disastrous results, says=thc Chicago In
ter Ocean. He spread misery every
where. To say nothing of the dead, he
sent sorrow Apto a score OF homes and
brought into @Ie lives of men and wom-
en- grief and heartaches which viii cease
only In the grave and with the welding
Of broken circles in the TworId beyond.
And In the light of subsequent events 1t
seems his treacheyous cunning contem-
plated murder most foul. the seizure Of q
snip and fight to the faraway sEsres or
inhospitable Siberia, a criminals para
disc.
In the furtherance and execution Of his
diabolical plans Stevens tplain George
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

The accumula tons of first editions, anG
more especially of autograph presentation
copes of the works Of authors who will
some day be famous, Should be prosecuted
with the utmost zeal, for hat way riches
lie. The sale one day this week of a few
presentation copies and manuscripts OF
Dickens produced enough money to sup
ply a nice little annuity; yet the original
cost can have been next to nothing
Take, for example, the petty cash book
kept by Dickens, when he was in the office
of Edward Blackmore. lawyer, of Lin
co1Ys Inn Field. 1t was a poor, faded
thing, crammed with unfnteresting fig
ures. but happening alto to contain
Dickinens's earliest known signature. 1t
was run up to a triae of fs5. The moral
is-Leave stocks and shares to others,
and eultivating the company OF. the great
est authors become possessed OF their
petty cash books.
Dickens in his young days, when ne sat
on a high school in that lawyers office IN
Lincolnss Inn Fields. must have built
some wonderfus castles in the air, and
seen his future fame manifested in a
thousand different and picturesque ways.
btu 1t MAJ safely be affirmed that not
even in his NEST fantastic moments did
he ever picture a sale at Sotheeby's where
the petty cash book ON which he ought
TO have been working instead of day
Dreaming would be sold to q hero wor-
shipper for fe5.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
BoARD OF POLICE.
Iomcial Proceedings.J

HI L k0NSSttt@-I
Regular meeting Of the Board Of Police
Commissioners, held in First Criminal
Court room, Wednesday,. August q, 1888.
Rresent-Ail the members.
Minutes OF last meeting approved as
PRESENTATION OF CoMMUNICA-
TIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Communications, etc, were received and
disposed of as follows
Communication from Clerk of Board of
Finance, notifying Board Of the fixed APP
preparations for the fiscal year 1899 n
ordered spread on minutes.
Board OF Finance
Jersey City, August. Is. 1898.
Hon. Board of Police Commissioners
Gentlemen-You are hereby notified that
the Board OF Finance has fixed the fDlloW-
amounts as the Appropriateness and
limits Of expenditures for your oBard, for
the fiscal year beginning December, 1899.
and rcding November, 1900.
Very respectfully,
"a. +. KALAHER-
BOARD OF POLICE coMMIssIoNERfis.
Salaries tsee schedules g
and J. m -. sSsg eaz e g
Hospital and di~spensariss Dee
sche1d1e K}ss<*ss s...*s.<@. - 19.UU W
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

and surely, Initiating the man as faith
fully as might be. The hobo saw the
bear coming up after him. As yet he
knew nothing about the rope. The high
er be rose the lower his spirits sank at
che sight, and the bear climbed on
Up, up they rose until both were near
the top,
Just then the hobo struck the rope.
He grasped it Immediately and swung
clear Of the tree. The bear reached for
him and tagged him on the leg. His-lasf
remaining shoe surrendered to the touch
and fell to the cement below. The bear
uosed along the swinging rope. He be-
gan to gnaw at it, as il he really knew
that his prey was escaping. The hobo
reached the railing in s@ety. The gnaw-
ed off rope ratified down along the side
Of the stone prison.
The almost fainfng hobo, assisted by
the friendly keeper, scaled the fence and
fell into a heap on the grass. As he
struck ground the bear in the tree rave
a loud growl of anger. He seemed to
realize that his prey had escaped. Out
of pure fright the hobo struggled to his
feet and continued the race into the
darkness toward the fence over which he
had undoubtedly entered the zoo. The
bear slowly and m~ournfully descended to
his deserted couch.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
TRAMP IN 4 BEAR PIT.


ing lei by q Keeper.
Excitement reigned supreme at the
| Philadelphia geological gardens night
recently when one Of the keepers was
| called upon at midnight to rescue q man
from the clutches of the cinnamon bear.
into whose cage he had accidentally fall
en-.
There are two bear pits In the gardena.
They are built Of stone and sunk into the
ground like huge cellars, upon whose
foundations two houses are vet to be
! built. They stand side by side and are
about 80 feet deep. The bottom is paved
with cement, and there Is an old dead
tree standing upright in the center Of
each of them.
Keeper Murray, hearing q cry for help,
rushed to the railing and peered over the
edge. The moon came out from behind a
cloud for a moment and enabled him to
make out a figure of a man in the pit
which bad been set apart for 70 years as
the private residence of the cinnamon
bear.
The man was in active motion, and so
was the bear. The man was leading, and
both were describing eccentric circles,
using the dead tree as a center. Every
now and then the man would get far
enough ahead Of the bear to pause in his
career long enough to shout for help.
There was light enough for the keeper
to see that the fleeing man was a menu
Der Of the fraternity who make their liv-
ing by doing nothing all day and go to
sleep every night tired. He was in real
ity a hobo, but whatever led him to mis-
take a bear pit for a lodging house was
beyond conjecture and causes wonder
among the keepers to this day.
The only explanation that Keeper Muir
ray could see was in that the hobo had
gomez 10 sleep on a long plank which was
laid across the top of the cage by the
workmen who were relayipg the stones
and one end of the planlxhad slipped off
and fallen down the pit. making a per-
feet ssshoot the shoots for the tramp,
who found himself sliding and woke up
at the bottom of the pit. The plank was
found in the morning lying in the pit.
Realizing the gravity of the situation
and noticing that the hobo's cries were
growing less frequent as his need for help
grew more urgent. the keeper slipped rap
idly away. He came breathlessly back in
a few minutes with a rope, with which
he promptly lassoed the top of the dead
tree, attaching the other end to the iron
ratings which surround the top Of the
pit.
All this happened in less time than it
takes to tell it. The go as you please
race below continued. The only change
was in the condition Of the contestants.
Both the hobo and the bear were grow
ing weaker. They seemed to have set
tied down to the pace with a grim deter
mination to fight it out ON those lines if
it took all night.
AClimb the tree!" shouted Murray a
dozen times.
The hobo watched his chance and
swung himself into the branches. The
bear made several laps alone before he
discovered his mistake. Then he also
climbed the tree. Murray, at the top,
was watching the proceedings with an
interest that was not feigned.
The man assembled the tree slowly, but
surely. The pear also assembled slowly
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

Woman's curiosity has led her into
strange places and through remarkable
experiences, but few women have ever
gone to the bottom of a river Just to see
how things looked there Miss Elizabeth
Muda Phillips has, however.
She is a Philadelphia girl. She saw
some divers about to descend to the bot
tom of the Delaware river on errands of
a strictly business nature. She became
fascinated by the sight and finally per-
suaded Mr.. William U~rquhart, foreman
of the Philadelphia Construction COM
i to let her takd@a trip down in a
diving suit. Her experiences she de-
scribes in the Philadelphia Times as fol-
lows:
.sThe tugboat IsabJ was moored to
the pier, and in the cabin / exchanged
my feminine apparel for the cumber-
some divers dress, which of itself weigh
ed me down. l was completely slowed
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
-saza. INC 1sI1Ip1noa Grams.

Private @. w Freeman, Company A
Of the Colorado regiment, claims the
distinction OF first introducing the divert
ing little game q craps among the simple
natives Of Luzon. They seemed anxious
TO gamble. he says, and SO he supplied
them with the bones at IS a pair. Free
man is an adept with dice and is re-
puted to have brought with him from
the Philippines $4,000 which he secured
In his operations. One pay day he elea,s-
cd up $1,000, but that was u excep-
tiolai run, lie says.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
MARooNED.

Stevens; that is his name) took into good
account the love of men for gold. In the
dark recesses of his prison cell and from
his inventive and rascally brain he ev0lv-
ed a scheme and a tale of a great gold
find in the unexplored regions of Alaska
which, as be afterward admitted, exist
ed only in his wicked imagination In
short, the story was concocted out of
whole cloth. lie did not stop to think of
the consequences.
Some years g Stevens tripped in his
crooked career and fell into the clutches
| Of the law which he had so long defed as
smuggIer. The judge sentenced him to
ten years Imprisonment in the state PEN
itentiary at Walla Walla. In the round
Of events political J.. +. Addleman and
O. d. Butter6eld were appointed chief
and deputy turnkey, respectively, at
Walla Walla. As such they had the
handling of convict mail, which included
the careful reading Of every letter before
delivery to the prisoner to whom it was
addressed.
One day q missive for Stevens came.
1t was a decoy letter, it now seems GER
tain. Some one sent the letter, and I'M
q~uestionably at Stevens instigation, from
San Francisco. In it, as Butterieid and
Addleman subsequently related to their
friends, the writer besought Stevens to
impart information he was supposed to
possess concerning fabulously rich geld
diggings on the uppe reaches OF a name
less tributary of Kotzebue sound The
fictitious parsonage submitted a PROPOSE
ton to employ Stevens as a guide.
Butterfeld and Addleman fell into the
r1nt Tho schnma worked eharmingiy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

these knobs Of earthenware can only be
conjectured, as bears do not carry their
hearts on their sleeves for savants to
publish. 1t has been supposed that he
mistakes the insulators for his fayorite
crab apples, and there is little doubt that
he regards them as something good to
eat. Perhaps he thinks them bees nests.
At all events, there is q large wood
pecker in Norway which is deluded by
the hurnming of the wires in the wind
like an Acolian harp and fancies that
there is a nest of insects inside the pole.
To reach them he tolls for days and
pecks great holes into the wooden posts
or even through and through them, only
to discover, as men have done before
him, that his promised feast Of delights
was a phantom OF his own creation and
his labors all in vain.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
MIscHIEvouS BEARS.
Wreck the Telegraph Lines Up In
the Maine Woods.

Telegraph wires, whether strung on
poles or laid aleng the bottom of the sea,
are harmless, inoffensive things and by
no means attractive in appearance. Yet
they have numerous enemies, in the ami
NAL world as well as in the vegetable
world. A newly erected line which runs
through the forests of Aroostook, in
northern Maine, has been damaged by
black bears, which persist In climbing
the poles and breaking off the porcelain
cups or insulators that support the wires.
Whist singular fancy hruin has taken for
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
A HEROIC TEXAN.
intrepid omcer Who Has Captured
MANY Dcsperadoeg.

Intrepid 0ftIcer no Has NhRtuh
Many Dcsperadoes.
Easily n of the most interesting men
in Texas is Captain Fred Beali. now OF
Forth Worth, but for years known all
orer the Lone Star State as an intrepid
officer of the law
Since he was 20 years Of g he has
either been a state or a United States Of
fcer, says a correspondent in the st.
Louis Republic, and at p time or an
other HIS had a hand in the apprehension
Of all the desperate gangs that infested
this vast piece Of territory from east e
west and from the Mexican border to the
northern end of the Panhandle.
1t is said Of Captain Beali that ne was
prominent from the time of the widest
territorial disorder and depreciation to
the period of total renovation which
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

to be a dead snake in a few minutes il
they were not separated. The keeper
did not pause. He threw open the door,
jumped in and was soon using all his
strength in desperate efforts TO tear them
apart. The crowd surged up to the glass
cage, greatly excited.
After a struggle be seemed to sue
coed. The snakes slowly unwound, but
before he was able to get himself clear
Of them and escape they had twined
about him. :
Other keepers, attracted by the ex-
element. arrived in the snakeheuse and
pushed through the crowd to the Gagged
man. Three Of them jumped in and beat
the big snakes until they freed the cap
hive. The victim was badly bruised, but
otherwise not injured.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16
BATTLE WITH PYTHoNs
Reckless Mans Desperate Encounte
With Two Huge Reptiles.

There is a snake keeper in the Phila-
delphia zoo who won't do it again. He
tried to separate two large pythons which
were fighting for the remains of a half
devoured chicken and suffered the pro-
verbal fate of the ~peacemaker-
When pythons fight, it is to the death,
and the weaker L these two was bound
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

800
response as ne puiiea OUT ms STOCK anq
named II 70 ms ~astonished Iather.
IN ioil washington mclean SOFA ms
halr interest IN Inc ENQUIRER 20 John 4.
q TRANSACTION was lesuafu IN Jusl
ABOUT the same way as u tue purchaser
mad peen a rank OUTSIDER
present prosperity 2 u Of
Inc ENQUIRER are tne WORK OF 5ohn D.
mclean Wnen ne loon hoia OF y IN
1853, It's daily circulation was lo,Uoo.
Twelve years later u mao a Circulation OF
o5'oOV, whic1 ran up 70 oaooV saturdays
and between oo,ooV ana fo,ooo on Sun
uays.
1t is an evidence OF ms keen business
sense that ne foresaw the tighI Tunes o.
1853 nearly a year before the banks sus-
pended payments and prepared Tor them
by boarding every dollartof currency IN
his tin boxes IN the vaults OF a safe de-
post company, and when the suspension
came he had slf3,000 IN cash on hand-
The advantages this gave him We're
great. On one occasion a prominent pa
per manulactirer came TO MN ahu Whit
ed to sell him some paper at very low fig
ures.
What are your best rates Tor q million
pounds9D asked Mclean.
"A million ~pounds.' Qaeried the manu-
facturer. Let me see." Then, after a
mental calculation, ne answered, Mr-
MeLean as times are tlghf' ana tns
amount You want is a large one, l Will
let you have IT for . cents a m
The result OF the bargain was that Nc
Lean pald cash Tor the paper as Il was
a ,,o,,nd and tbis at n fine when some of
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-16

NOTICE 70 cEEplToRs-EsTATE or
Charles B. Thirston, deceased, Ida Armour
rhurstoa. execuErix Or Charles B. TA4rzton.
BY order Of the Surrogate OF Hadssa
Is the creditors Or said decedenf to bring IN
their debts, demands and claims against me
estate 81 said decedsnt. nuder oath or amin
nation within nine mcnths from the date ~
said order, or they VIII be forever barred o<
auv action, therefof against said executf{x