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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
A GAUGE OF CONGREGATIONAL
SCHOLARSHIP.


Mrs. Mary e. Woolley, the new presi-
dent of Mt Holyoke college, is the
daughter of Congregational minister
She was graduated at Wheaton Semi
nary, Norton, Massachusetts. In 1891
MISS Woolley went to Dr. e. A
Andrews, the president of Brown uni
Versity, and asked permission to enter
that institution as special student in
history. This permission was granted
During her first year in Brown, Miss
Wooley was a marked figure on the
campus and in the library, where she
usually could be found in the afternoon
porting over some old Latin book or
hunting up some buried historical fact.
Her quiet, steady manner of work was
an inspiration to the men, and MANY
OF them did more faithful work because
Oh her presence in the classroom
Great things were prophesied of her.
Doctor Andrews predicted that some
day Miss Woolley would be at the head
OF some one of the large women S
colleges. She was not only interested
in the studies, but in everything else
pertaining to college life, and was
thoroughly up on the victories of the
Brown ball Nine. She was asked what
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
ODD FACTS ABOUT "TUMMY. /"
From a Biography Written
by His Private Secretary.

The following are facts culled from a
biography of the prince of Wales
written by his secretary:
He is colonel eight times over.
He has one private secretary, two
assistant secretaries and 8 staff of
clerks to assist him.
He receives 200 letters a day and
answers most of them.
He has every order Of nighthood in
Europe.
His uniforms are worth $4,000.
He is the chief horse owner, dog
owner and yatchsman in England.
He goes to church every Sunday
morning.
He started life with an income of
$4,000 year.
He loves to travel incognito in Paris.
His favorite vehicle in London is a
hanson cab, yet his stables cost SIS, 900
a year.
He has friends in every nation and
speakes German, French, Italian and
Russian.
He is feet 6 inches tall and weighs
$50 pounds.
He is 81 years old and has four
grandchildren.
When he was young he was very
tender-hearted, and cried for days
when tutor left him.
He is said to be one of the best shots
in England.
He sets the fashions in clothes for
the whole world
He has thirteen university degrees.
He has made more speeches than any
man in the world, but most short ones.
He owns the deepest mine in Eng
land.
He was the first Christian to dine
with the sultan.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
CLEANING FINE LACE.

Occasionally a piece of fancy-work
on the lace order does not show soils
enough to justify sacrificing it's lacy
newness to the process of washing
If such work is laid away for week in
heavy book between blue tissue
paper, having had rubbed into the soil
ed places calcined magnesia or pipe
clay, it will come out cleaned and
frightened by the process. This is a
good way to treat Battenberg and point
lace work which has become dingy or
yellow.-Woman's Home Companion
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
A BIT OF FELLOW FEELING.


A trainload of boer prisoners has
passed southwark from Orange river.
From their joyful faces one might
well imagine that they were going on
pleasure trip.
AS they passed through the camp
they waved their hands and crowded
up to the windows in order to get into
the picture of the ubiquitous snap shot
ter.
The attitude Of the soldiers toward
the prisoners is most admirable
The men are ready and willing to
perform any service for their con-
quered foemen, and only greet the
smiling faces of Cronje's burghers with
sympathetic grins.-South African
News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
GEN. HAZEN's POKER GAME.
Town Lots at Wichita, Kan, Were
Used for Chips.

Deeds for town lots were used as
poker chips in the "boom" days of
Wichita, Kan. 1t was then that Gen.
Hazen, the first husband of Admiral
Dewey's present wife, won fifty or more
lots, fully a third of the town as it then
existed. Mrs. Dewey now wants to sell
the lots, but is having trouble to prove
title.
Harvey Fleming, now editor of the
Kansas City Journal, and Charles A
Edwards, correspondent of the Houston
Post, were in Wichita in the early
eighties and knew about the town lot
game. Mr.. Fleming said:
General Hazen was in Wichita TAX
ing observations. The town was filled
with real estate agents. boomers and
spectators. General Hazen, Dave
Payne, oklahoma Harry Hill, Captain
Crouch and Dave Bancroft. Payne,
Hill and Crouch were all interested in
the opening for settlement of Okla4
homa
Cash was played for when the game
began, as General Hazen was averse to
putting up real money against the ficti-
tious values of town lots After Gen.
eral Hazen had secured most of the
cash in sight of other players, to con-
tinue the game, they reached an agree
ment of an upset price on all town lots.
This was satisfactory to General
Hazen.
''The game went on. First one man
would own an entire section of the city.
and then another would hold title.
"a stack of blues would often repre-
sent an entire subdivision. General
Hazen, Oklahoma Harry Hill and Dave
Bancroft playing. Bancroft opened.
Iazen drew three cards. Hill one and
Bancroft stood pat.
Bancroft bet a few city lots and Hill
dropped out General Hazen raised
the bet and Bancroft, believing he
was bluffing, tilted it again General
Hazen saw the raise, and went him a
few lots better. After another raise.
Bancroft called and General Hazen
laid down four kings or queens, I don t
remember which. Bancroft had a jack
full. In this way General Hazen be
came the owner of the fifty town lots
Nearly everyone who participated
in this game is dead. Captain Crouch
was shot in Oklahoma shortly after
the territory was opened; oklahoma
Harry Hill was kicked in the head by
mule in Texas and died; General
Hazen is dead. I don't know how
Payne died, and [ do not know that
Dave Bancroft is in the land of the
living.
when the bottom dropped out OF
the Wichita boom, the values OF
property rapidly decreased. Property
IS now going up, and if Mrs. Dewey
can prove title she has a fortune
there. ~
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
PIANO PRACTICE AND SINGING.

Nothing else is of such assistance TO
a woman who wants to become a singer
as a thorough mastery of some musical
instrument. I could play the piano
when I was five years old, and was
moderately adept on, the violin when l
was eight. Of course, my first in
tentions were to become a virtuoso of
the piano, and therefore devoted my
self to most thorough and exhaustive
study of the instrument. which it is
scarcely to be expected that any woman
merely intending to become a singer
would do. But nothing in my entire
career has proved Of such value to me
as the sound musicianship that I ac-
quired then; SO would put at the
piano as soon as she was old enough
any girl in whose future I was interest
ed. She should learn that thor
oughly. Her early years should
be passed in acquiring knowl-
edge of these instruments. If she
should fail to do that, and fail to take
any interest in them, I should be very
doubtful for her future as a singer
Madame Sembrich in Woman's Home
Companion
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

she found to be the difference between
the men and the women Of the college.
Her reply was Enthusiastically frank:
The girls study harder; the men think
more"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
FATAL Neutrality-suspicious..

Il thought that girl was in love with
me, so felt kind O. forced to propose.
"WelI?"
She declined me, saying she had
only been unusually friendly because
I was so pathetically ugly."-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
AT THE BASEBALL GAME.

Dolly Swift-Why are so many of the
girls fairly throwing themselves at
young Munniman?
Sally Gay-Because he is such good
catch, presume.-Smart Set.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
AN ILLUMINATING QUESTION.

He-She must be from Chicago.
She-What leads you to think so?
E'I overheard him ask her how long
she had ever been single at one time"
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-05
TIMING NEWS.

dollars worth of gold have been ta- ken out with dry washers in the last half century, and where many are still doing we'll by following the same primitive method, there will soon be a change. The big dredge of the Advance Gold Dredging com pany now lying at the foot of Main street is now nearly complete and will shortly start for the scene of its operation at the Potholes. It is model machine; 1t embodies the best points of all other dredgers besides adopting a number of prac- tical ideas entirely new. J. B. De- vine, who has extensive interests iD that section and Ira Smith, assis- tant prison superintendent and an indefatigable promoter, who have a lively interest in the success of the modern dredger scheme, returned Friday night from the Pothole sec tion They state that the new pros pecting drill is working well and that the showing of the borings is highly satisfactory. Yuma, some decades ago Was the supply point for this self-same section, when it was producing fabulous quantities of placer gold. That 1t will be in the same position again in the near future, only on a much larger scale, is almest certainty. The Colorado river has been at work constantly for unknown ages, and the auri- ferrous wealth that floods tore from their mountain fastnesses has been deposited along its course for count less centuries, where 1t lies Tn de- posits of silt, offering fortune to h. telligence and brawn.
 Arkansas capitalists have secured bond and option on about five hun dred acres of placer ground in the Laguna section, owned by the Yuma Colorado River Gold Dredging company. The prospective pur- chasers have thirty days in which to examine the ground and the bond calls for twenty thousand dollars, payable in various installments. The syndicate proposes to put a big dredger on the ground if the prospecting shows satisfactory re- suits, of which there Is little doubt.
 Later in the fall another expedi- tion will leave Yuma for the pur- pose of rediscovering the ''Lost Frenchman" mlne. That such a mine exists there Is no doubt, al- though many fruitless efforts have been made to find the same. The difficulty lies Tn the fact that the to- pography of the desert changes, the wind continually drifting the sand; but the tradition will be hand ed down until some prospecting party is successful
 It is reported that a rich strike has recently been made in the Col den Eagle, one of the Harqua Hala group of mines. The mill which
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-05
Official Minutes. Continued from second page.)


 and ordinance, and shall continue for the period of of forty years from the first day of July, A. D., 1900. Section 4. This resolution and ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Recorders report taken up ex- amined and placed on file.
 The reports of the justices of the peace of Tyson Wells, Fortuna, Tol- tee, Harrisburg and Yuma precincts, taken up, examined and placed on file, At 12 m. the board adjourned to meet at ? clock p. m. as board of equalization.
 The board met pursuant to ad- iournment.
 Same members present.
 The board proceeded to equalize taxes as follows, to-wit:
 Assessment lowered on property of David Balsz
 Assessment lowered on buggy, S5OOO.
 Assessment raised on F. G. Blais- dell's telephone lines.
 At 4 o'clock the board adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock a. m:, July 6, 1900, as a board of supervisors.
 F. G. CoTTER,
 Chairman Board of Supervisors Attest: W. E. MARVIN,
 Clerk Board of pervisors. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERvIs- l oRs OF YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA YUMA, ARIz., July 6, 1900. The board met pursuant to ad- iournment.
 Roll called.
 All Members, Assessor, District Attorney and Clerk. present.
 Minutes of previous meeting read corrected and approved
 The board proceeded to audit and allow accounts as follows, to-wit Geo M Thurlow, justice fees
 2nd quarter, 1900 $41 50 John Stoffela, assigned ac-
 count of W A Werninger,
 coroner's fees 2nd quarter,
 1900 10 30 J w Dorrlngton, assigned
 account P F Burke, con-
 stable fees and mileage
 2nd quarter, 1900 54 15 F G Blaisdell, telephone
 rent 2nd quarter, 1900 ' 50 A Carlisle & Co.,, book K of
 Mines, 2nd quarter, 1900 IA 15 F l. Ewing, assigned account
 CHI Br1nley, salary clerk
 district court 2nd quarter
 1900 50 % John Stoffela, assigned ac-
 count w A Werninger,
 three demands justice fees
 2nd quarter 1900 35 50 John Gandolfo, district at
 torney's office rent 2nd
 quarter, 1900 60 co
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-05

ary county treasurer, End
 quarter, 1900 25O % W H Elliott, county survey
 or's office rent, 2nd quar-
 ter, 1900 IT co A Frank, salary probate judge
 2nd quarter, 1900 75 % F L Bayley, county supplies
 2nd quarter, 1900 1 " Frank M Doan, registration
 fees 2nd quarter, 1900 g 60 Frank M Doan, coroner sfees
 2nd quarter, 1900 10 % John Gandolfo, assigned ac-
 count R $ Hatch, par sal
 ary February, as jailor 20 co E F Sanguinetti, assigned
 account R s Hatch, part
 salary jallor, 2nd quarter,
 1900 50 co Geo. M Thurlow, assigned
 account R $ Hatch, part
 salary jailor, May, 1900 40 % B F Sanguinetti, assigned
 account R $ Hatch, salary
 iailor April, 1900 90 co J w Darlington, assigned
 account R s Hatch, part
 salary jailor, May, 1900 9, % F l. Ewing, assigned account
 RS Hatch, part salary
 jailor, June, 1900 17 % R s Hatch. salary jailor,
 June, 1900 90 % R s Hatch, part salary jailor,
 May, 1900 10 co The Johnson Co.,, burying
 county dead 2nd quarter,
 1900 40. co John Stoffela, assigned ac-
 count U G Wilder, nine
 demands, constable fees
 2nd quarter, 1900 62 so John Stoffela, assigned ac-
 count c H Brinley, fees
 clerk district court, 2nd
 quarter, 1900 152 B D l. DeVane, tax collector
 commissions, 2nd quarter,
 1900 23 51 At 12 m. the board adjourned to meet at ? o'clock D. m. as board of equalization.
 The board met at o'clock D. m pursuant to adjournment.
 Same members present.
 The board continued to equalize assessments. At 4 o'clock p. m., the board ad- journed to meet at 10 o'clock a. m. July ', 1900, as a board of super visors.
 P. G. CoTTER.
 Chairman Board of Supervisors. Attest: W. E. MARVIN,
 Clerk Board of Supervisors OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERvIs ! oRs OF YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
 YUMA, AzIz., July ', 1900. The board met pursuant to ad-
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-05

Arizona, hereby certify, that the following is full, true and correct account of the days and miles to which each supervisor of the said county and territory is entitled to for the quarter ending June 30, ) 1900, towit:
 P G Cotter, 4 miles at 20 cents a mile so P G Cotter, 2 days at $5 day 35 % P G Cotter, total 2nd quar- ter, 1900 35 80 c V Meeden, 4 miles at 20 cents mile 80 c V Meeden, ' days at $5
 day 35 co c V Meeden, total 2nd quar- ter, 1900 35 80 T W Underhill, 255 miles at 20 cents mile 51 co T W Uunderhill, 6 days at
 $5 day 30 co T w Underhill, total 2nd
 quarter, 1900 81 co In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand this 7th day of July, A. D., 1900, SEAL A. FRANK,
 Probate Judge. ) Attest: W E MARVIN,
 Clerk Board of Supervisors. ) The board continued to audit and allow accounts as follows, to-wit: P G Cotter, salary supervis- ) OTIS, 2nd quarter, 1900 $35 so c V Meeden, salary supervis-
 ors, 2nd quarter, 1900 35 so B F Sanguinetti, assigned ) account T W Underhill, sal
 ary supervisor, 2nd quar-
 ter, 1900 S1 co E F Sanguinetti, assigned } account W B Marvin, sal
 ary recorder, 2nd quarter,
 1900 25O co
 The bill of J W Burlington for ) county printing, in the sum of l $174.oo, was referred back to said J w Darlington for correction. Ewing X Pool, ice 2nd quar-
 ter, 1900 19 % John Stoffela, assigned ac- count of P F Burke, con
 stable fees and milage, 2nd quarter, 1900, amount claimed $47 To, amount allowed A 20
 John Stoffela, assigned account P F Burke, for guarding Carlos Secenia, rejected, because same item has been previously allowed
 At 12 m. the board adjourned tc meet at 2 o'clock p, m as board of equalization.
 The board met at ? o'clock D. m pursuant to adjournment
 Same members present.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-05

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERvIs l oRs OF YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
 YUMA, AzIz., July ', 1900 The board met pursuant to ad- journment.
 Roll Called.
 All Members, Assessor, District Attorney and Clerk present. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved.
 The following IS ordered spread on the minutes, as follows to-wit:
 TERRITORY OF ARIZONA,
 County of Yuma.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21
Crane Carried His satcbel.

Arthur a. Leeds of Tioga met Ste
phen Crane once under circumstances
which showed how little the novelist
traded upon the fame that came to
him. Mr.. Leeds got off n train at Del
aware Water Gap. The only man on
the platform was bumped up against
the side of the depot gazing into space.
He looked like a farmers boy. His
trousers were baggy, his coat battered
and his hat rowdy.
Say, carry this stuff to the hotel for
me, will YOU" asked Mr.. Leeds The
man grasped the bags and started in
the wake of Mr.. Leeds toward the
hotel.
When the hotel was reached, Mr.
Leeds lost sight of his porter for few
minutes while he greeted friends.
Looking around for his baggage, he
saw the man who had packed it to the
hotel sitting on the piazza with his
legs on the railing. He was reading 4
book.
who's that MANI" asked Mr.. Leeds.
"Oh, that's Stephen Crane" some one
said The next day Crane left the place
before Mr.. Leeds had an opportunity
for eXplanations.-Phila North
American
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21
An American Novelist.

Mrs. G. y. Williamson, one OF the
most widely read noveliStS in England
at present. is scarcely known even 10y
name in this her own country. She
was Miss Alice Muriel Livingstone Of
Poughkeepsie, y. y. Her career be-
gan as an actress. and In her first
novel, "The Barn Stormers," one will
find much photographed experience.
After acting for a time Miss Living
stone turned her hand to journalism
and went to London in 1892 as the
correspondent for four American
papers. Her marriage to the editor
of Black and White settled her in
England, and she then took to novel
writing. We should have said, 4 priori,
that one of the most difficult things
for an American to do was TO write
stories for the middle and lower Eng
IiSh classes which should suit their
peculiar tastes. But this is another Of
the things the American woman can
do when she puts her hand to 1t. She
writes frankly for the million and sue
ceeds in reaching them. The innumer-
able readers of the feuilletons in the
halfpenny morning papers of London.
such as The Daily Mail, and those who
depend for fiction on cheap weeklies
of enormous circulation, such as
Llyod's, have no greater favorite than
Mrs. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21
The Last Chinese Actress

Many visitors to the Celestial king
dom have noted the absence Of women
from the stage. All the roles in a Chi
nese play are taken by men. This sim
gular custom is traced back to a wom-
ans whim. The Emperor Yung
Tsching married an actress at the be-
ginning Of the eighteenth century,
when women were allowed on the
stage. The emperor died and the en-
press dowager ruled the country for
her son. the Prince Kim Sung.
To satisfy her vanity this shrewd
and most peculiar woman issued q
decree in the year 1916 forbidding, IN
der penalty of instant death by the
sword of the eXecutioner, any member
of her sex to appear on the Chinese
stage. after me, no one" said the
empress dowager, and since her day no
woman within the reach of Chinese
law has dared to test the strength OF
her decree. In HongkonG Ca British
colony women have played in Chinese
theaters, but never as yet, we believe,
in San Francisco.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21

them of the best traditions Of the old
hospitality of the court of Spain, she
had not emerged from her retirement
since the death of Alfonso MI.
The women were arrayed in brilliant
new gowns, and the men, by command.
appeared in knee breeches. The large
dining hall of the palace, hung with
unique tapestries, was the ballroom.
and when her majesty and her daugh-
tiers appeared the diplomatic corps
stood waiting,
The princesses danced the first waltz
with two young grandees of Spain.
They wore dainty pink gauZe dresses.
The Princess of AsturiaS seemed sad.
while the Princess Maria Teresa, or
the Infantita. as she is styled. looked
very merry and very Spanish with her
soft, dark eyes. The queen did not
dance, but graciously attended to her
guests and looked truly regal in her
splendid mauve satin toilet embroid-
cred in Louis XVI style and with her
superb tiara of diamonds. Her sister
in-law, the Infanta Isabel, wore dark
blue gauze and rare jewels. The little
monarch was in bed when his palace
was the scene of so much gayety, as
he is not yet considered grown up
enough for anything but stiff court GER
cmOQieS ,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21

some senators employ two or three
and then find there is great deal
which they must answer or attend TO
in person.
The daily sessions from u to about
5 take up half u day, and committee
meetings often take up the other half
for two or three days in the week. 1t
is hard 70 tell when the busiest mem
bers. who are never absent from q SEES
sion or from a committee meeting. find
time TO prepare the elaborate speeches
which they sometimes deliver. 1t is
not strange. then. that so few members
of either chamber are found in the
reading rooms devoted to them in the
Congressional library. When they want
books from that or any other deposit
tory, they have them sent to their
homeS.-Independent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-21
Information Picked In.

While 1 was waiting at the handker-
| chief counter for some change, l over
/ heard n conversation that was very
suggestive. You can see and hear a
good deal while you wait for change,
| if you take things easy and don't get
| warm because it is so long coming.
One of the two ladies was buying
some very dainty handkerchiefs-the
embroidered kind that you can get at
various prices from IL cents upward.
With three of these, she said, she was
going TO make a bureau scarf, joining
them with strips of lace insertion.
After they were Joined she would put
a lace frill around the edge of the
whole. and there you are with n very
dainty, easily Numbered bureau cover.
A single handkerchief of the same pat
tern was to serve as a pincushion
cover. Great idea, isn't it? She could
use it on her polished bureau top with
out anything under it, or she could
have a coIored foundation slip just as
preferred. Lace handkerchiefs with
lace edges and insertion could be used
instead of the embroidered, II one
wanted a little richer effect. Bands
Of ribbon could be aIternated with the
lace insertion by which the handker-
chiefs are Joined together, If variety
were wanted, or some of the beading
TO be bought by the yard could be put
around the edge, and to this the lace
ruffie sewed. Then narrow ribbon
could be run through it, with little
rosettes at the corner. But the idea
could be worked out in a hundred
ways, and 1 will let you think up the
rest. l have furnished the foundation,
or rather not I. but the clever buyer
of the handkerchiefs.-Pit Press.