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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

there twas his friend. Hem 81 1detec-
tive went. to- live in the same boarding
house 4 he found that Col. Bolton was a
3studious man, lived al correct life, was
.a Al; reader der Of new books, dabbled ii POI
etry and every few weeks went away
to- visit one Of the several little mines
about California in which he had In
vestme nts. Bolton was an expert
whist player, and h he had eYid Identity
travelled far and wide ins his early life
Ills shobb was water co1ors, and he
spent whole days in painting pastoral
scenes J, alone in his rooms fter din,
ner#hes genera lly 3 went to the theater,
where he took the least consp icuoua
seat. /. He never BOT any mail aid he
never 1e', sent any letters. but he devoured
It the tlvs z daily newspa pers at times. When
s55. 5I4t. ri. q Chapter in His Past.
Bolton was arrested in his + DOM one
day on a charge of highway robbery,
the landlady boiled with indignation,
and the other guests st ormed Col.
Bottoms pastor wrote a letter to a local
'newsp per denouncing the blackenina
ofEan honest mans name. When II
went abroad that Col Bolton was ac-
cnsed with being no less an OUTLAW
than the notorious y Black Bart, the
colone1's friends were crushed. They
began putting together facts about Col.
Bottoms absences from his rooms and
found that these NJ absences occurred
when robberies by Black Bart were
committed During Black Bart,s trial
it came out that he was born at sHan-
nibaI, NO. IN 1888; that he. was edu-
Gated for the law and had spent one
year at sOberIin college,, when he was
expelled for gambling Heschanged his
name, went to Chicago and enlisted il
a Wisconsin regiment in the civil war,
Next he went to the mines in: Nevada,
and drifted to. California, where he
made a first attempt at highway rob,
berry holding up the paymaster Of a
mine in Plun1as county The job was
so easily done, and he got about $500
SO quickly, that he gave his whole time
thereafter to- planning highway rob-
fberies.f He confessed that he had gone
as deliberately and studiously about
his career in highway robbery as one
goes about the practice Of a profession,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
a nc ORI0 Us BA NDIF
IS Col. Bolton, lie Led al LIE That
Was q Model Of Core ctness.

Ftr'eqll1leent stage robberies OF late in.
cal ifornia have led the people st that
region e & to believe that the notorious;
slack ',l, Bart the most interesting ban
Git the Pacific coast has ever known,
fi ~ 81 4 work again. Among the miners
ana ana Other other residents IN the mountain
regions 1a7g 11ls Of California there IS quite as
nv 81 romantic lore about Black Bart
as. there e. was about Dick Turpfn. No
other bandit in III America possibly
was was ever surround ed by such an air
Eo q romantic mystery as he has had
Ior: twenty years. His trial for high,
way va robbery at Visalia, Call in May,
1854. revealed a mass of information;
about slt.c' him. Though he was the, lone
performer IN some twenty-five stage
coach ho1d-ups in California alone, be.
tween 1867 and 1884, he was never once
.appre hended on the road. His arrest
came I'M }. about in this way !: In March,
1854, stage coach going from aSgoId
mining camp in the Sierras to Marys-
vile, Cal, was held up by a masked
lone highwayman, whom the driver
and all the passengers recognized as,
Black s Bart When the coach had rum
*b1ed out OF sight on its way down the
mountain, side Black Bart turned his
attention to splitting open the wood
sen box containing the Wells Fargo Ex-:
press company's treasure. Something
must have disturbed him In the midst.
OF his work. for when a party of OFF,
GERS hurried back to the scene later
that same day they found among the.
papers, empty purses and wrappings
& OF parcels dropped by Black Bart "a;
linen cuff. The robber had evidently
dropped it in a hurried fight to his
refuge MI : y s: =
f55 a. q, Gun Furnishes q Clew. Is hi s. -
The cuff was turned over to the .ex-
press company detectives. ) They.
found after weeks OF inquiry that the
laundry marks on the cuff were those
of Chinese laundry on Bush street
in San Francisco, and: that the cuff be
longed to one Charles b. Bolton. Then
1T appeared that Bolton was "a quiet,
Iunobstrusiye, spare man of about so
years. He lived in a modest boarding
house. where sedate and old fashioned
business men had rooms, and every one
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

"a s.. SIS
garrison have. made his name more
known even than before the siege, was
almost t.given up when a boy, SO poor
was his general health. y :s 81
5 His destined career had to. be
changed for no other reason than that
his health would not stand it, aud he
had to- go out to the Cape in order to
seek that health which seemed to be
denied him in England Happily he
found it there, and fortune, too, at tho
same time; SO he, at any rate cannot
now moan his fate. e. 4 ssSssss5
Mcguire found at the Cape az man
still more influential than he himself
was to become, a man who also had
had to- leave gland and the prospect
OF being a clergyman, owing to his
weak state of health. This man had
once been intended for a parson, like
his father, and would have perhaps
ended his days as a country vicar had
not bad health stepped In and made
him give UP that idea and set out for
Cape Colony. Then his health became
renewed s. and today the whole world
: knows Cecil Rhodes almost as. well as
it knows any body: h
"a ]. The present kaiser has never been a
robust man, and as a lad was Still
I more ~ delicate. His deformed arm al
ways gave him much trouble III affect
ing his general health, especially in
his younger years But he has by
his splendid resolu tio on and care, gown
out Of this slant bad health, and to-
day be is q fighting man. With W ION all
Europe has to reckon "a man not cas-
lily to be beaten in what he undertakes.
Ss So that there is much hope for deli
cate boys after q il they have the.
right sort of pluck ID them. d
s Health and siren th are largelyssSa
matter OF will power, after al 4 !
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Concerning Belts

year ago it was considered grace
sful to- haYeft the belt merely ii folded
8astrailn ar around the waist. The shirt
waist 81 Or bodice came into his belt.
with fulLllnless and there was no at-'
tempt to- ma e the lines III and
smooth nlt Today al the fashions 81. the
waist line have changed. Even the
most gee 81 waist fits il with
that trig, bias look und the arms arm IS
and across the baclk of the waist the
sbeltSmtst be snao 10Th and shapely The
old leather elts VIII st do at all. Do
not think yourself economical Ii using
one, for itsi not the shape required It|
zig broad in front as In the back.
and keeps that sqllare look md r the
bust which is a ow consi dered one s5of
the marks of ignorance ID dressine
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
ENGLISfd !, EER AGE


Divided into Duk g.. icy, Ear1a
yl.eoun,tt lens.t T.ss.
s. am always asked y lot Eof ques-.
lions about the peerag said a. -
Jameson, Of Londo on, at the ldorf-i
Astoria, to a New y ork Tribune man,
Z; rs whenever q am in America, One
thiing that seems especially to bother
You people is that while d house Of
lords exists nevertheless lords, earls
and even mar4uises are to be found
among members Of the house Of COM
nous This comes about from the So
called courtesy titles borne by eldest
sons and heirs. For example, take the
cas- case Of the MARQUIS Of Lorne, now
ninth Duke Of Argyll, who married the
Princess Louise. He bore the title of
marquis during his fathers life by
courtesy he peerage is divided in-z
TO dukes, marquises, earls, yiscounts
and barons, and the spiritual peerage
into i arch bishops and Dish ops. The title
duke is very old Hannibal was called
Duke Duke Of Carthage The Doge Of: Ven
ice was a duke zA duke is addressed
as as His Grace and Most Noble and by
the crown as our right trusty and
right entirely beloved cousin Mar.
squlsesz We're formerly military leaders,
who guarded the limits or, marches of
Z the e kingdom. Hence, they were called
20; Lords Of the Marches, or Marquises-
They are addressed as Most Honor
able, and by the crown asS our right
trusty and entirely beloved cousin
! Viscounts, or vice countesses, were
sheriffs in earlier days. They are ad-
dressed as Right Honorable and by
the = Crown as our lightly trusty and
well beloved cousin Barons; origin
ally by tenure then BY writ. and now
by letters patent, are bearers or sup
.porters-from the etymology of the
word and are styled Right Honor-
able, and addressed by the Crown as
our rightly trusty and we'll beloved
The royal addresses: sound like a
game where you go on losing word,
don't they? The only title by tenure, I
sthink, now existent among us is the
Earldom of Arundel, which the Duke
OF. Norfolk holds by his tenrp Of Arun=
del Castle, but this was confirmed by
special act Of Parliament. Baronets
and knights. are both T addressed as
Sir but while the former is title
that holds with and descends in the.
family, the latter exists only during
the life of the holder. Sir William Van
Horne, who built the. Canadian Pacific,
is g. Knight y 49, ~ 81 81, e.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Il THE YARD MEASURE.
Standards Have Varied In the Different
..s.S.lsSs go Ages OF the World. =

SCah0aE u lava vaIAed IN the Inherent,
s#S5}}4s ..ss Ages of tho World. 1.
The yard lis the British and Ameri-s
can standard of length. + Down to. 1924
the original standard OF Britain land
from which ours was copied was rod
which had been deposited in the court
lstof exchequer, London, in the time Of
Queen Elizabeth. In those days, says
the ST. Louis Repub lic, all measures in
tended for general use were taken to
the court of exchequer to be examined
by the proper officer. That official. took
the prop measure and placed it par
allel with the standard, and If found
correct placed certain marks OF identi-
fcation4 upon it. BY an act of parlia-
.ment in 1924 the old Elizabethan stand
!. ard was superseded by another, which
! had been constructed under the di-
rections Of the Royal society sixty -four
years previous. This act provided that
1.-THE straightslin or distance between
the centers Of two points in the gold
studs in the brass rod now in the GUS:
tody of the clerk Of the house of com
mons shall be the genuine standard Of
the yard measure in Great Britain
The act further provide that the meas
EEurements Of the rod must be made
when the temperature OF the brass rod
was at 81 degrees Fahrenheit. That
standard was destroyed BY fire in 1884
and the conmis sion. appointed to re-
place it made the yard measure now
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01


@ The soldier is so often looked upon
as being the embo diment of strength,
health. and activity that it may be
something new to learn that many eel
ebrated generals have as boys been
aanything but robust or noted for the
virtues just mentioned, says a London
paper. ;$ = .55<: n s. YYS > Ss gS~t 4
4 Lord Roberts is the most signal ex-t
ample Of this. AS a lad he was so del.
icate that when he went out to India,
on his first voyage there as. a soldier,
1t was generally supposed by his most
intimate friends and relatives that his
life would necessarily be short, SO pale
and delicate was he. We have several
independent accounts Of how the crew
Of the ship and some Of his messmates
pitied the tender-l ooking young Anglo
Indian and prophesied that an early
grave would be his! s35 II &
But the Indian climate, his native
climate, too set him up, and worked
wonders in him. How have those
prophets of evil been falsifed by what
we in our time see and know today!
The Duke of wellington was not at
all strong when a lad, and his mother
was often much concerned about his
health. AT Elton he got the reputation
Of being rather a silent, tactiturn,
somewhat su1len youth ss$ But it lis gen
orally believed. now that this was as
much due to his delicate health as to
any Individual characteristics OF 4 his
own Temperament ..4s n Il g$* 3SSss.ss:s
E Arthur Wellesley could not stand the,
knocking about and rough-and tumble
life that some Of his Elton friends enc
joyed. at that time, and they Weresnot
slow to make him aware Of the fact. y
.8Rochefort Mcguire, whose recent 5ad
ventures in aKimberle ley and help to the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
! CHAPTER XI.

IS rapid arti cula 8
ton had given g on Z
stance no time for
reply but her exs !.
element equaled
his, as she bent her
veil face upon
her y e hands I ! and LIS
tened ia dumb
alarm at the emo
tons rising to meet i 81:
his aVoWal Of love.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

IN
iehsa $500 R.sss,s, Ylsasse
Is 1are-
isrs', 800 l't' pre-
len rs
saEa lncessan e
Irom ner me pe1r lnea COUPLE MS
sraay sAsp1o pain
% lensi lsq llt'ts rs alo r. Ha Tag
usual val
$500 ~ sit7 S.oui lave TAKEN s'l
1sss, sip.oms ss q
80 sll.' y wv. n.is ssssi1ng up-
@ HIS onslance Gid not
10y tnsse utl.l laesously W y
oh ny Dtsll zovsIn ntsa ana
sAie lspiu - s aTa the Shore
: " the
n 81 sl ntiess man, ana
l5li 81 - sue say aim ION
VI ~ :, so 'ls. .sss
" u.llosl slon 3reagned In the
$500 u 8 !eN ma
~ {, ], III i ~ oidsrs-loud,
81 u Al ftu"ard
500 We s. string
s.. ~ III Lne SDe cleared
= =, ~ Ill la'e tetenda -
u q. - - s e entleman
W. q, - 3nll1seil as s. phy-
& ~ : fls e s.sssu ineo 9 swoon
- 8 ~ a. - sf5 etaa con
49, 90. Z. 8 g O, peiie0e !, ehe pa,
~ q 80 10 e 'o1'l y et1rtnly
q - = - - -, uoctor as
- &c " Wouiu plopaniy revive
e. ~ - = . = 81 once Wnen
= 80 80 ns'Ye So. eonnleo tne
Ineii s : e ance 1. - nay De:
o :, 4, = III i. neYer saW MN quite
= e'I - 1 Wy, 49, ). W zs:. Z !
= siy iily 5loos nci.s way PACK lnch
X. y - - IL s, Moln n.1l tne myers
igu 8 ~ ,neii u - c sli'' the ilps
~ : -, = - 80 sue eyes rs were IN
W 49, 800 !, ,apon ne anAlous group
u 1's;a;a 49, n.y. Eumaru and inc
800 -, $50 nin 10 MS state
go ,"eu - i1yeiy - constance
- &. nav ielsule to observe
-. =, .o, ,ii Ivy uiaWn ner at
800 ~ 4 49, = enpalAaelon naa
1851 :, pue .nrousn the almost desert
~ s e soun !l' tne measured throD
= 1ne powerIui engines me as they urged
llle Doat.enrotlsn tne wafer. Sne threw
open . WINDOW ana looked out. They
We're 81 Already 1ar down low the bay, the
spires OF tn llt. llessenlng II the dis
lance rl ana In me vessel s under full head
way. sne :. met n, EdWard at the state
r ''l door WIN TN the startllng lntell-
genc,e &C. for "a an instant ne looked as
aghast as as nerseI' tnen ne recovered his
eii-poeeees a,' Will q ss1hlle. one
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Ornamental Penn ansIlip cong

he day for the ornamental pen
man az Tar as the depar service
lls concerned has gone, B says an expe-5
:.rlenced offleial: some cases, nota-s
ply the terror dep rtment, the clerk
who was pended upon Ito: do the:
rnannental penWork was and IS lady
The typewrlt sup planted the or
#aanental writer and is now used IS.
eyeryt hing that goes out sof the de-
4partment. IN years gone by appoint
ments and conn issIons were always
made out ~ an orn amental wriit er, but
the ordinary typewriter app ointment il
regarded as good enough nowad
ashinEton Star. s7'sl.,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
w emit. Below.

The ground under the city st san
Salvador is. full Of caYerns Of unknown
depths. man was once digging a
we'll there. The last stroke he gave
with his pick, the 10 ON fell out and
she and his pick fell through nobody
knows where. N
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
BIcyc dies IA TIL Desert,

N the# lJeBert, 80
Practical tests have shown that Il 4
bicycle runs easill on the sand of the
African deserts, and IA due time the
camel wi n fol How the horse Il to soblis
won 8sl
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01

,and longing.
81 To her, What would have sounded in
leoherent to q third person, was explicit
and ferYent He knew her as his mate
land would not give her up !: asserted his
rights with i master authorit while
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
:yyane 81 Chinese. Exc1usiveness

299SS.99fS NfaneH OF .Chlnese ExcTusiveHess
$sJ The Commencement of the esta ISL
ment Of the so-called spheres of m
'fiuence IN China in 1897 s when
the Germ seized the Port of Kiau-
Cyhau, on the east coast of Shantaung.
and during the next month secured
from the Chinese a lease for ninety
nine years Of the \ town, .harbor, and
district. :: Two months later Russia got
possession Of Port Art thur and Talien-
wan, with their Al jacent waters, on 4
lease for twenty five years, with the
j Of renewal..s Within the
5boundar ies OF. the leased territory.
which are as yet underlined, Russia
has supreme control. Port Arthur
.harbor and the larger portion Of the
.harbor TalienWan are therefore closed
70 "a AL except the war vessels OF Russia
and China Il IN June, 1898, Great Brit
ain took possession OF Wef-Hai-Wel
and IS to hold the port as long as Rus
Rsia holds Port Arthur Finally. the
French in April 1898, secured
lease, OF KWang- Chau- an Bay. On
the east coast Of the Tien-C hau PEN
Ursula.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
! CALIFORNIA PRUNES- {
Variety Said to Be Superior to; tie
~ .EatF French Article. 49, ~

Variety Said to Be Superior to; tie
N.Y. E5 French Article ! -: - H.:
According to a statement made by
United States: Consul Joseph L. Brit:
tain, stationed at Nantes, France, the
quality Of the California prunes is SUI
perior to the French, and the duty is
not excessive, being: but 10 francs per
Kilograms, or less than one cent per
pound. If the prunes are carefully Sc
5lected aad tastefully packed in sub
stantil boxes, and are always as rep
resented by the samples, there will
soon be a much larger demand from
this part of France. /, was recently
shown samples Of. California aprieets
packed in fve-pound boxes. The first
layer was composed Of large yellow
fruit, while underneath the fruit was
not only small and inferior, but it was
very irregular in color Il The effect Of
such methods can be imagined. The
French people are not easily deceived.
and the California fruit dealers. who
anticipate orders after sending such
samples are making serious mistakes.
One. of the Nantes imp rters recently
received q consignment of California
prunes from New. York City. He told
me he could buy til EN- cheaper in Cal
ifornia, but he wished to- have them
guarantee by some one with whom
he was acquainted; hence the order
was given through the. New York
house. These Epruness were nicely
packed, but the dealer says he lost
about 20 cases in consequence OF the
boxes having been made from very
thin thin lumber measured one. of the
covers, and found the lumber to be less
than one-fourth of an inch IN thick
ness s7SssE5 IS ~ # II
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-01
Health /: 4 and Strength,
Instances Showing That They
Are Largely Naherof wiz Power. II s If


8
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-02

A handkerchief is usually one of Il
chief symptoms of a cold in the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-02
600 MINERS CALLED OUT.
ALI of the Grove & Co. Mines in
Cherokee County Are Idle
The Trouble.

Pittsburg, Kan, Jan. 2.-President
Wright of the United Mine workers has
returned from Weir City where he had
been to try and adjust some of the diff
ficulties between the men and the man
agement of the Grove & Co. coal mines.
The men at the Weir shaft came out
about nine days ago because the super
intendent discharged the check-weigh-
man employed by the men and they re-
fused to return until he was taken
back The men pay this check-weigh-
man and he had been true to their in
terests. Mr.. Grove told the men that
he was willing to keep the mems check
weighman but the superintendent was
a little muleiSh and wanted his way.
The matter was discussed and the men
offered to arbitrate but could get no
satisfaction, and the result was that
the men in all of the Grove shafts, one
at Weir and two at Steppeville, all came
out last night and will remain out until
the company can guarantee to give
them honest weights.
At present not wheel is turning, and
over 500 men have been added to the
list of strikers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-02
BLEW H1s EYES OUT.
Pathetic Case of Hartman Rink in a
Wichita Hospital

Wichita, Jan. 2.-The most pathetic
sight Wichita people have seen for
many a day was Hartman Rink of
Alva, o. T., who was brought here and
taken to st. Francis hospital. He is a
young man, probably 20 years old, and
Christmas day was sound in every part
of his body. Yesterday his head was
bound in white linen and both his eyes
were gone. A friend led him up the
street to the Manhattan hotel and when
the street car came along led him out
and into the car and took him to the
hospital.
For the last year he has been en-
ployed on a ranch IA miles out of Alva.
He did the cooking most of the time. A
few days ago he was preparing a din
ner for the hands. He was using a tin
syrup can to make coffee. The lid
screwed on and in order to heat the
coffee quickly Rink put the top on He
screwed it down too far and bending
over the stove to attend to the other
stuff that was cooking the top blew off
the coffee can and struck Rink in the
face, the steam and hot coffee scalding
him terribly. One eye was torn almost
completely out by the lid and the sight
Of the other one was destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-02

the hills on Spillman creek in Lincoln
county, and while there made prospects
through the hills on this mans place
and found rock, which he thought con-
tanned valuable mineral. He took the
gold to Colorado, where he had it as
sayed by the Standard Assay company
of Colorado Springs, the result of which
we take from the original report made
by this company, and it is as follows:
phic rock, gold ounces, .16. On a basis
of gold value at 500 per ounce this rock
gives a per cent of $500 per ton. Silver
ounces, 8. o. At silver based on 50 cents
per ounce, this rock gives per cent of
$1.30 per ton, making a total value of
$3.50 per ton The rock contains per
cent iron.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-02
Remarkable Fossil Find By
Farmer Dice.
Evidence of Prehistoric Civil
izatiOn Discovered
IN NEOSHO VALLEY.
Two Skeletons of Immense
Buffalo Standing Erect.
Were About % Feet Below the
Ground Surface.

Fort Scott, Jan. 2.-Evidences of a
prehistoric civilization on what is now
the broad prairie land Of Kansas have
just been dug from 80 feet below the
surface of the ground by J. w. Dice,
al Allen COUNT farmer. Mr.. Dice has
also discovered some most remarkable
fossils Of ancient animals. His first
discovery was on the banks of the Ne
osho river, where that stream joins his
farm, near Neosho Falls. It consisted
of the skeletons of two immense buff
falo which were found standing erect
between 20 and % feet below the sur
face. Their positions were natural, in
dicating that they had been suddenly
caught by some subterranean disturb
ance or swallowed by a bed of quick
sand. Immediately over them was
growing a walnut tree measuring feet
in diameter. This tree was without
doubt between 300 and 400 years old
Most interesting, however, of the dis
&C veries by Mr.. Dice are parts of a
human image, which seems to have
been made out Of concrete, though it
may have been carved from peculiar
stone not known to this age. These
the surface. To ascertain to what age
they belong or what hands probably
made them will be an interesting study
for scientists. The workmanship seems
to have been as artistic as modern
sculpture. The vicinity in which they
were found was occupied by the In
dams until about So years ago, and
since that time it has been an unfre
Quented prairie.