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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20

"A dozen AIidIOlbD h0isfilfl charged dunn
on tAe herd,
dneed 10 u mere thread the darkness
became thicker the herd was m iDdis'
tinci mass, except when the lightning
showed everything IN M instantaneous
photograph The foreman, riding NJ
full speed, hnd nearly reaebed the herd
bnt, as shown by the lightning, his
horse seemed 70 be stpDdiDg stiI In an
upgnjnly pose on tho desert Then ay
erything waa dnrker ohm before
Once moro Spider game 70 the front
of The herd Ha bud increased tbe speed
of bis horse, for IN quicker time thaD
before his song went on
4Jus' stop drinkin whisky
An RAyu III ynr fnnka,
Thnn You u nlWt u hnyn tarbaeker
IN ynr o. terbpnkpr7~
The two storms met For u moment
there WAs hlipdipg light, followed by y
crash tint spill tho sky A dozen SIND
oWy horsemon, TINT senmod ~ rise nnI
NJ tlE around obprgpd down on the
herd, shouting and wpyinR hlnpkats
snW sis lnHhna from the forpmnn's
pistol Tho Ballet Girl who wua stand
Ing naAr me, lnrnhpd towDrd 4 rifn tint
leaned ugnInst The wheel ~ the eook
WnHun
The herd Tossed md sprgnd like boil
Ing wnter Spider durtnd forward 70
my md hold II por u moment u hest
tinted Thpn, with rom pf R~alloping
boots, " broke md Fnshad mndly Hwny
Tho thieves bnd slnmpodod the ppttle
The lightning Knfn ono more VIVID
fash and rnHsod Tho orpsh ~ thunder
followed seemed 10 tnnr 0pHn The
for Tho rnin descended Ike u liquid
enrtpin thnt concealed everything
no HE u|0HTIsuGp,1
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20

observed tiaes oreinan .'fahe cattle feels
THE thunder. too they ne gettin ofeasy
Reckon ! better go'n give the boys d
han.
The cattle were uneasy. | could see
that from whore | WIS ffan iiag They
tossed their heads and lowed and moved
here and there among themselves IA
grew darker each moment and the cal
tie became more restless Sometimes.
when eatfle ARE In this condition, the
sound 0f the human voice will tend to
quiet them Spider began to sing
.Tbef WAS an 81 geozar,
Al ne had Il wooden leg,
But lie meyer had fprhaeker,
10 tefJars he had Ter beg
Another ol RAtasr
Was ns sly III N fox,
An he HtW's had terhaeher
ID Ills oI iarhanlSer box
Spider voice ran sbrill and clear
over the desert, his song measured by
the regular hoof beats Of his horse He
passed back Of the herd, aud only an
occasional note above the lowing and
mutterinR Of the eattle could one hear
The air bad been still but now little
puffs of wind began f0 arise. and ghost
ly little Wiliriwinds eareered over the
desert The strip Of blue sky WAS re-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-04-20

Ilo nE p%osYINuGp,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
Letter From Alaska.

IoT. MlChAEl<o, ARtShd.
DEAR MOTHER AND FATHER
I am we'll and hope you are the same.
This is the far north sure enough.
am on the L. 8. A. transport steamer
which I described to you in my last
letter. We arrived here on July 4th,
but on account OF the prevailing cpl
demic az St. Michaels no one is permit
ted to go ashore. Among the many
things of exciting nature occurring on
our voyage was the sudden and unex-
pected death Of our Captaia who died
in bed, and his wife who is on board
making the trip with him did not know
of his death until she called him to get
up for breakfast.
We left Seattle on June 18th and
were six days out of sight of land, but
the seventh day we reached Chic-Nic
Bay, Alaska. There is an Indian viii
lage at that point where is located
plant for canning Alaska salmon. We
went in to Chic Mic to examine some
coal mines with the prospect of estab-
fishing a Navel coaliAg station there,
and were four days Investigating
The weather here in the summer is
elegant, and one evening another
young man and myself went out in a
row boat, rowing over to the Indian
village, where l bought two deer skins
for rs cents, which l will bring home
with me.
The reports about the small pox and
typhoid fever epidemic at Cape Nome
are not exaggerated in the least, as
those maladies are raging there. We
are lying out in the sea seven miles from
st. Michaels, but can see the pest island
and hospital snip; also four passenger
steamers tied up with their human
freight, quarantined of course. With
the aid of glasses we can see the tents
on the island.
The gold prospectors are in dis
couraging condition, only about one
out of a hundred is mining any gold.
Laborers are scarce here and S. O. day
is the wage scale. All tried to get to
Nome which is ia miles from here.
We are unloading cargo which will
keep US here about three weeks after
which we go to Nome. We do not car
ry passengers. At Nome the freight
will be transferred several miles out
which renders us safe from the prevail
ing diseases. We will be at Nome three
weeks, returning to Seattle about the
first of September. Be sure to have a
letter there for me. We have to take
good care of ourselves on board, there
| fore there is no occasion for alarm as
to my health, and no money would in
duce me to get off at this camp. 1t is
not as represented by big odds.
From your son,
WILLIAM MUNDY.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02

Mrs. Jas. Hobson was welcome
visitor at the PRESS sanctum on Satur-
day.
Mrs. Frank Mundy, we are sorry to
learn, has been quite sick the past
week.
Hackett's log drive has arrived in
Howard's pond. He has double as
much as last year.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley and two sons,
of Pittsburg, are guests of John
Schlecht and family.
w. L Sykes and family, of Galeton,
spent Sunday in Emporium, guests Of
Geo. A. Walker and family.
Mrs. Kate Murphy, of Pittsburg, is
visiting her son, Michael Murphy,
proprietor Of Commercial Hotel.
Frank Gillroy and family drove
down from Heating Summit on Tues
day to visit friends in Emporium.
Jas. P. Melick, of Williamsport Ga
Zett and Bulletin, was calling on that
journals patrons in town yesterday.
Guy Bonham arrived in town on
Saturday from Franklin, Pa, and
passed few days with his wife and
children.
Mrs. j. ID. Hewitt, Of Galesburg, H.,
is guest of Mr. G. G. Fay and wife at
this place. This is Mrs. Hewitt's first
visit with her brother in SO years.
j. F. Parsons prominent and lead
ing business man Of Emporium, was in
town Monday, the guest of his old
friend Chas G. Ward.-Port Allegany
Press
J. Ross Kline and NJ. S. Kline and
son, of Ridgway, drove down TO En-
porium last Saturday. They are pass
ing few days at Sizervilie, drinking
the mineral water.
T. II. Norris came down from Port
land Mills last Saturday and visited
with wife and son Fay, as well as
othe friends until Monday. Mrs. Nor
ris returned with him.
Miss Myrtle Shaffer, of Sinnamahon-
ing, is spending a few day with her
little sister Shirley, and step-mamma,
Mrs. Emma Shaffer, of Church street.
Lock Haven Democrat.
Walter Warner and wife, who re-
Gently returned to Austin, are visiting
relatives in Emporium. Mr.. Warner
met with a serious accident while in
the west that came near causing the
the loss of his right hand.
Miss Myrtle Shaffer has returned
from Bradford, being called there on
account of the serious illness of hel
sister, who is in the hospital at that
place.
r. T. Mason, Of Emporium, Pa, wa:
the guest Of his mother, Mrs. VIM
Beclsman, over Sunday. Mrs. r. A
Ried left Monday for Sterling Run, Pa.
where she will visit her mother Mrs
Henry Mason, for two weeks. Remove
Record.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
A Few Observations.

To one who is fond of studying
human nature, there is no business that
offers so rich field as that of the
country newspaper, in every type of
human nature that has thus far been
discovered. The subscription book
can properly be called the index of the
towns people-a reflector, SO to speak.
1t has them all there-the good, the
bad and the Indifferent. You may
think you are onto them all, but you
are not, if at some time in the villages
history you have not studied the sub
scription book of the newspaper office.
Upon this book is the man who insists
on paying for the paper in advance.
He knows the exact day it expires, and
on that date he makes his annual visit
to the Office.
But they are not all this kind; here
comes part of the shadows of the busi-
ness. Here is class of fellows who,
when presented with a bill of account
swell up like a copperhead and get
very mad, for you have wounded their
dignity. They pay up and stop the
paper at once.
Another kind is a fellow who, every
time he meets you, duns himself. He
is coming to the Office right away and
pay it, and apologies for not having
done SO long ago. Again and again
we see him and again and again, as
earnest and suave as Colonel Sellers
ever dared to be, he tells you he is
coming to the Office right away-per-
haps that day.
We pass on: and here comes the fel-
low who never sees us. He suddenly
becomes attracted to something across
the street, and if he doesn't cut across
between the crossings, his eyes are
riveted in another direction until you
pass by. Then he moves on.
-.
But the meanest of them all is the
man who claims he doesn't get the
paper half the time, when it is sent to
his address every week. One man
who owes four years. subscription, and
gets the paper every week, when asked
to pay, not long since, got very mad,
cut up good deal, and then claimed
he hadn't received single copy during
that time.
~
And there are other kinds, too, that
cast their shadows amidst the little
bursts of sunshine that occasionally
creep into the office.-Hughesvill
Mail.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
EXCURSION NOTICES.

Reduced Rates 10 Kane via Pennsylvania r. r.
For the meeting of the Northwestern
Pennsylvania Volunteer Firemen's AS
sociation, at Kane, August 1917, the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
sell excursion tickets to Kane from all
stations on its line within one hundred
and fifty miles of Kane at rate of one
fare for the round trip minimum rate,
25 cents) Tickets to be sold and good
going August IA, Is and 16, and to re-
turn unit August IS. 1709-23-2t
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
Reduced Rates to Detroit via Pennsylvania
Railroad.

For the Biennial Conclave, Knights
of Pythias, at Detroit, August 81 to
September /, the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company will sell excursion tick
cts from all stations on its line to Detroit,
at rate of single fare for the round trip.
Tickets will be sold on August 25, 26,
and 81, good to return between August
% and September 5, inclusive; but by
depositing ticket with joint agent at
Detroit not later than September 1, and
the payment of fifty cents, return limit
may be extended to September IA, in
elusive. 171O-23-3t
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
LOCAL. DEPARTMENT.
Personal GOSSIP.
H. e. DODSON.

Contributions inUited. That which yoH SCould
like to see in this departmental us kROIC bY pos
q card. or letter, personally.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02

If you want a Tenant.
Ifyou want Boarder,
fyou want to Sell Anything,
1fyou want to Borrow money,
Advertise in the PRESS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-08-02
Administrators Notice.
Estate of ELLAS PETERS, deceased.

T ETTERS of administration on the Estate of
IL Elias Peters, late of Shipper township,
Cameron county, Pennsylvania, deceased, have
been granted to William l.. Thomas, residing in
said township, to whom all persons indebted to
said estate are requested to make payment and
those having claims demands, will make
known the same without delay.
WILLIAM l.. THOMAS,
Administrator.
GREEN g. SHAFHBR,
Solicitors.
Emporium, Pa, June 25th, l9OO.-n18-6t.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-21

Workingmen, arisei Workingwomen
arise! Can you not hear the music OF
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05
THE DoXENER RING.

The Intelligencer, with that lack of
mitted and ex parte ring organ, hiding
behind the phrase Several of Captain
Doveners Ohio County Lieutenants, -
prints a tabulated statement which
modestly gives the present Congress
man 20S votes in the Congressional
Convention and Judge John A. Camp
bell 49, 129 being necessary to choice.
This is scarcely fair to Capt Dove
rer, and is much less than he has a
right to expect from the Intelligencer.
That paper, having just regard for
the ring it serves, and the clique it
caters to, should have given the whole
shooting match to Dovener, and dem
onstrated, by argument and figures,
that Judge Campbell was a beaten
man; had no standing whatever, and
would have some difficulty in finding
a delegate willing to present his name.
The Intelligencer is entirely too mod
est in its factional partisanship. 1t
should "go the whole hog"
Judge Campbell's figures differ ma
terially from those printed in the In
telligencer, and it is the distinct
impression of the Judge and his friends
that he has rather more than a fight
ing chance. 1t is also their settled
impression that they have had rather
less than a square deal in the cam
paign preliminary TO the Convention.
OF this latter proposition there is not
the least doubt. This year, as two
years ago, Judge Campbell and his
friends have been compelled to fight
for an almost hopeless cause. They
nave been handicapped, misrepresent-
ed, maligned and ill-treated in about
every county of the First Congress
sional district, and through the attitude
OF the ring Republican press, led by
the Wheeling Intelligencer, the anti
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05
DIED.

Saturday. June End, 1900.
at o'clock p. m, William Ellsworth,
aged AZ years.
Funeral from residence OF his brother,
George Ellsworth. S505 Jacob street. this
(Tuesday) AFTERNOON at o'clock. Inter-
ment in Mt Zion cemetery. Friends are
invited to attend.
HAMILTON-On Monday. June 4th. 1889,
at 6:i5 o'clock p. m. at the residence OF
his mother, 20 Sixteenth street, Charles
List Hamilton, in the 2sth year of his age.
Funeral notice hereafter.
RETZER-On Sunday June Cd, 1900,
suddenly, at $50 o'clock p. m. at resi-
dence of his brother-in-law, VIM. Salade.
No. sos Main street, Charles r. Retzer. in
his 54th year
Funeral services this CTuesday) after
noon at $50 o'clock. Friends of the fam
lily respectfully invited to attend. Inter-
ment at Mt. Wood cemetery.
CARROLL-On Sunday, June Sd, 1900. at
3:15 p. m, at Brookside, Flora Virginia,
aged is years, months and 3 days.
daughter Of George T. and Lucy Carroll.
Funeral from residence at Brookside at
8 o'clock to-day. Interment at Peninsula
cemetery.
Quaker City papers please copy)
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05

Dovener men have been compelled 70
appeal to the Independent and Demo
cratic papers for the publicity essen
tial to a fair public understanding of
the situation, denied them in the Re
publican party organs. Judge John
A. Campbell has not had fair show
or square deal. Two years ago he
got neither, and the experience has
been duplicated. He knows it, and his
friends know it. But he has had the
nerve and the grit to fight a close
corporation of official ringsters, and
those who know him are very sure he
will continue his fight until he has
compelled fair and square expression
of his party in this district, and when
that stage of the game comes Capt. B.
B. Dovener will be knocked out in one
round. The Dovener men know now,
as they knew in 1898, that they dare
not give the Hancock county man a
fair show. AS a result of this knowl-
edge, he has not got even ordinary
decent treatment But, time makes
all things even There Is satisfaction
in that eternal truth.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05
A MISERABLE FARCE.

The grand jury of the Criminal
Court of Ohio county yesterday fell
far short of its duty and the expecta-
tons of the public.
1t was specifically charged to make
an investigation into the allegations of
attempted bribery and the rumors of
actual bribery of members of the City
Council of the city of Wheeling.
Council, by an unanimous vote,
asked for an investigation. No in
vestigation worthy the name was had.
A few witnesses-half a dozen or less
were summoned but naturally they
did not know much, the subject was
dropped, and no indictments were re-
turned. There appears to have been
no real purpose to go into the matter
with earnestness or thoroughness.
To use plain language, it was a farce,
and those who for a day or two may
have quaked in their shoes were last
evening smiling broad and compre-
hensive smiles.
Is anybody afraid to go into this
subject with a determination to sift
it to the bottom? Why could not the
grand jury of yesterday, now simply
matter of history, have summoned
fifty or one hundred witnesses-mem-
bers of Council, ex-members, city Of
ficials or ex-city officials, heads and
secretaries of corporations, confiden-
tial employees and go-betweens, direc-
tors, managers and attornies of cor
porations, saloon keepers, gamblers,
slot machine men, bar tenders, police,
reporters and all and sundry who
might be suspected Of knowing some
thing? Why did it not send at large
for persons and papers, and take a
week to the work, if necessary? The
result of yesterdays very lame effort
Of a few hours, will create the
distinct impression that no ad-
equate investigation was ever in
tended, and that all concerned
knew it, 1t will not serve as an ex-
cuse for the jury that it found moth
ing. 1t didn't try to find anything.
Its effort, if it may be called an eff
fort, was confined to an application
of whitewash to people under suspic-
ion. The jury neither did credit to
itself, to the court, to Council
or to the public. It's work will
satisfy nobody on the contrary,
it will deepen the conviction that
there is something SO radically
wrong that it cannot be gone
into with safety to lot of people.
The situation is one to be deplored.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05

men united il purpose, and dominated
BY but single idea the extinction
Of Republican rule in this State
There will be some small differences
as to candidates. That is inevitable,
and it is a healthy sign. A lack of
competition would mean a party list
less, inanimate, dead There is no cut
and dried programme; no slate pre-
pared in advance by a small clique of
ringsters; no effort on the part of the
few to dictate to the many; no voice
will be stified and no candidate handi-
capped. In this competition for party
honor and party leadership, the race
will be fairly won by those who are
swift and strong capable and popular
wholly fit to take the leadership in
campaign destined to be successful.
The list Of candidates is a long one.
1t is made up of men whom both the
party and the people can trust. No
odds who is selected for any particular
Office, no mistake will have been made.
Many of the best men in West
Virginia will be presented to
the Parkersburg Convention for
its selection of candidates, and
under the banner of Democracy and
in the name of the people those select
ed will go forth conquering and to con-
quer through the votes of their fellow
citizens.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05
ro-MoRRow,s GREAT CONVENTION.

Tomorrow the representative DEM
ocrats OF West Virginia, TO the num-
Der of probably two thousand, will
assemble at Parkersbrrg, either as
delegates, alternates, or party patriots,
to name ticket which will meet with
the hearty and enthusiastic approval
of majority of West Virginia's voters,
and in its election redeem the State
from the mal-administration under
which it now exists. The gathering
will be one notable for its size, its per-
sonnet and its enthusiasm. 1t will be
an old-time conference of the Democ-
racy, made up of men united in pur-
pose and wholly sincere in the deter
mination to bring about g complete
removal Of existing conditions. From
the upper Panhandle to the springs
OF GreenhrierA and from historic Har-
per's Ferry to Me Big Sandy win come
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05

nit? What new crime is she devising to
augment her sway? One moment she IS
said to be encouraging the rebels. An
other moment she is reported to be play
ing into the hands of Russia or Japan.
Whatever her game may be. there are
many evidences that the great ramshackle
empire of China is tottering to its fall
In its colossal disintegration what VIII
she has dealt in poisons and death She
has been barrier to a.. progress. Those
who have opposed her have been cour-
teously invited to die.
When she began TO dream of power, the
Emperor Tung Che passed away myster-
iously. His wife. the Empress All Lu Ia,
soon followed.
For awhile Isl An reigned, in conjunc-
ton with the other Dowager Empress.
Tsu Isl; Isl Ans imperial dreams broad
ened. Tsu Isl died suddenly, of heart
failure, it was said. A little six-year-old
weakling, Kwnag Su. nephew of Isl An.
was appointed emperor. Isl An hid him
in the royal gardens, where he became a
medicated invalid.
Then the rulers of China became Isl
Ans puppets. She deposed Kwnag Su.
and put up nine-year-old boy, Pu Tsuan.
as Emperor. He knows no Chinese, speak
ing only Manchu. Thus her power be-
came absolute
Those who baked rejoined their ances-
tors. The Empress decapitated a dozen
members of the reform party. Kwnag Yu
Wei, their leader and the most liberal man
in China, fed for his life. Two of the
ministers were beheaded.
Marquis Eseng stood in her way. He
was invited to the Chinese heaven. His
friend, Prince Chung, followed by the mar
cotic route.
The vast sum of $500, 600. ooo was raised to
build a navy. Isl An took it to build a
garden. This garden she further beauti-
fed by a $4,000. 900 army appropriation. At
intervals men have continued TO die at
opportune moments for the furtherance OF
her ambitions. Even the Borgias could
not surpass the depth and breadth of her
crimes.
Would it not be better for the world at
large, therefore, If in the inevitable fall
of the empire this iint-hearted old woman
should tumble from her throne into OBJ
livion?
She has been check to all mental adj
vancement in the empire for forty years,
during which dozens of missionaries have
been murdered and the commerce OF the
world has been Systematically hampered
But the tether of Isl An is short. The
powers of the world are quarreling about
her DOORS and in the coming tempest
old Isl An is pretty sure to be over
whelmed When this happens all China
and the civilized world should be glad.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-05
SHALL WE PARTICIPATE.

During the recent excursion of the
West Virginia Editorial Association
to Buffalo, a visit was paid to the
grounds wereon the Pan-American Ex-
position of 1901 is to be held, and it
was then and there suggested that West
Virginia would be great gamer by ad-
eQuate representation upon the coming
occasion, and that the Legislature, at
its session this winter. be asked TO
provide for suitable State building
and a proper display of the resources,
manufacturing and business interests
of West Virginia.
The matter is one worthy OF serious
consideration. The Buffalo Exhibition
is going to be big thing. The re-
sources of the directors already aggre-
gate nearly six million dollars, and
over twenty large buildings. of hand
some design are assured. The general
government has appropriated half a
million dollars, and the State Of New
York three hundred thousand. Canada.
Mexico and many South American
countries will be adequately represent
ed.
We of West Virginia have an inter
est in this matter. To participate
would do us good in more ways than
one Let us take counsel together.