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The Grit-advocate., 1900-04-13
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS.
Items Of Interest to People in
Sedgwick County.

of Colorado stockmen in Denver
this week.
T. J. Hall returned Tuesday
evening from Denver where he
had been transacting business for
several days.
Fred Quelle is again at work in
his blacksmith shop, after being
unable t. work for u week on ac-
count of a sore hand.
There will be a special Easter
sermon Sunday morning, togeth-
er with appropriate singing, at
the Congregational church at II
o'clock.
Don't forget that You can buy
all kinds of garden seed, in any
quantity, at Dyes hardware store
Y. P. S. G. Z. Sunday evening
at the Congregational church at
6.45 sharp. Subject: THE Bread
of Life" Miss Ida Walrath
leader.
w. D. Smvth last Saturday
made final proof on his home
stead, the northwest quarter of
section 22-11-44. Proof was
made before County Judge Turn.
er.
The Congregational Sunday
school and church choir will rem
der very beautiful Easter pro-
gramme Sunday evening at 7.3O.
An offering will be taken for the
Sunday school missionary work.
Bishop A. R. Graves and Rev.
Thos. Bakes, of Sidney, conduct
ed religious services in the Con-
gregational church last Monday
evening. Owing to the inclement
weather only small audience was
present.
DR.. c. f. Marsh, the Denver
dentist, will be at the Brown Ho-
tel for three days, beginning
Monday, April Is, prepared to
do all kinds of dental work. Don't
fail to call on him if you have
any work in this line.
J. W. Abbott has now had
charge of the U. P. agency at
this place for more than a week,
and he believes he is qualified to
fill the place indefinitely should
the chance to do so come his way.
He has many friends here who
hold the same opinion.
MIR. and Mrs. G.. S. Kinsman
visited friends in Paxton, Nebras-
ka, from Saturday until Monday,
when they started upon their
journey to Spokane, Washington.
Mr.. Kinsman has Il vacation of
two mouths, and he will spend
most of the time in Spokane.
At the M. f. church next Sun
day morning the Easter services
The Grit-advocate., 1900-04-13

Pocket knives, table knives.
butcher knives, all kinds of knives
at Dyes hardware store.
The oasis., 1900-01-20
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
oFTBE
DESERT LIMITATION COMPANY.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
 That we. the undersigned have th's day voluntarily associat ourselves together fo- the purpuse of forming il corporation under the laws of the territory of Arizona; and we hereby certify and declare
 FIRST. That the names of the ncorpora- tors are $. A. MckEowM. W. C. WooDAHp. and w II. GREER: and that ths name of the corporation is the Desert Lixivation Com pany; and that the principal place Of tran sacting the business of this corporation is at Patagonia. County of Santa Crux. Arizona Territory. but 1t may establish an office by resolution of its Board of Directors at the city of Los Angeles. In Los Angeles county. California.
 SECOND. The general nature of the busi- ness proposed to be transacted is that of mining and milling gold. silver and other D .ecious metals; buyins. selling and dealing in mines and mining stock; building tram ways to and from said mines that it may own. acqrire or control; extracting, buying selling and milling ores of all kinds, and for that purpose erecting stamp mills and smelters for the purpose of reducing and treating ores and running the same by steam or electricity or water power, or all com bined or separate.
 THIRD. The amount of the capital stock of this corporation shall be Fifty Thousand ts.jOO00 Dollars. divided into Ten Thousand 10000 shares of the par value of Five (s.,) Dollars each; and the same shall be paid m cash or in property at a fair valuation within B days after the stock is subscribed.
 FOURTH. The time of toe comme ncement of this corporation shall be when these articles are filed for record in the office of the county recorder of santa Cruz county. terri tory of Arizona; and the termination of its existence shall be twenty-five l25l years thereafter.
 FIFTH The afrairs of this corporation shall be conducted by Il Board of Directors con sisting of three '3 persons. who shall be elected at the first meeting Of the stock holders after the filing of the articles of in- corporation for record in the office Of the county recorder in the county of Santa Cruz. territory of Arizona. Thereafter directors shall be elected annually on the second Mon day of January in each year,
 SIXTH. The highest amount of indebted ness or liability for which this corporation is at any time to subject itself shall be Five Thousand (s5,O ,OOOl Dollars.
 SEVENTH. The private property of the stockholders shall be exempt from the cor porate debts of this company.
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this fourth day Of January, 1900
 <. A. McKEOWM, lseall
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The oasis., 1900-01-20

of the criminal eases ',ecause tue grand jury WAS sprndinp 'fs time on purely persoual quairel>. The jail cases were not Taken up until after the jury had gotten through it's fight over extrrrenus matters. The result wa- that all the time of the court had been consumed. none of the criminal cases could be tried and those indict- ed who dld not plead guilty must wait until April to stand trial, while the cuunty bears the expense. Why. the papers of Nugales have not told on"- tenth of the bitterness and strife over the Additional fued down there. "-Ari- zona Graphic.
The oasis., 1900-01-20
<. A. McKEOWM, lseall
 W. c. wOODARD, lSeall W. II. GREER. tSeali

State of California tss County of Los Angeles. On this 4th day of January, in the year nineteen hundred. before me, John l.. Elem ing notary.public in and for said county aud state residing therein, duly commis- stoned and sworn, personally appeared E, A.. McKeowm. w. c. Woodland and w. II. Greer. known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and they each acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purpose and con- sideration therein expressed. Witness my hand and official seal this January ith, 1900
 JOHN l.. FLEMING, (Seal Notary Public. in and for the County of Los Angeles. State of California. Territory of Arizona, ss County of Santa Cruz hereby certify that the within instru- ment was filed and subscribed at the request of w. H. Greer. January i1th, AID. 1900, at 2P. NJ. Book Miscellaneous. Witness my hand and official Sos. the day and year aforesaid.
 w. N. CUMMINGS,
 County Recorder.
 By LOUIS HUDGIN.
 Deputy.
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contrived such precautionary measures
for Disgusting the odcrs and carrying off
the gasses and vapors that the health in
spectors now let him work in peace. There
are no little nimble fingered helpers to tie
in the mouthpieces of these balloons as
In France, but a dozen girls over IA are
learning the trade and training to be fin
hhers, and number of strong healthy
boys are practicing at the secrets of the
rubber work.
In England there is book of blue
laws for the regulation of the rubber in
dustry, the mortality among the workers
having called attention to the need. And
the American bears these stipulatons in
mind and intends to leave no loopholes
for public complaint against his venture.
His process of making. however, is kept
as carefully guarded as though 1t were a
matter of national moment. So much en-
ergy and research has been directed to-
wards this matter of balloon making that
now when the problem is about to be
solved he would not have a competitor in
the rubber trade get wind of the method
for any consideration. The German chem
list in charge of the workmen shares this
feeling and a churlish factotum is posted
at the door to see that no spy or ennis
sary of the trade interest gets by.
The few individuals who work single
handed at the making of the toy balloons
have a hard time despite the popularity
of their products. They are mostly for
eigners who came to this country unac-
quainted with business conditions and ex-
pecting to make and sell their balloons
just as the bootmaker makes boots, or
the harness maker harness. They remain
obscure and unknown, sometimes with
out the money even to procure the crude
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TRAGEDIES OFF TOY BALLOONS.
The Manufacture of Red Rubber
Bubbles Is Deadly to Those Who
Work Over Them.


Work over Them.
New York, April N.-The bulk of the
toy balloons seen in this country are i'm
ported. Americans have proved success
full manufacturers of India rubber tires
and belt, of blankets. druggists goods and
the more important articles of the trade
and yet all efforts to make the toy bal
loon probably have failed. The records OF
The capital and business ambition that
from time to time has been enlisted in the
crusade are numerous, but to-day only
individual makers working on a small
scale are to be found and one factory Is
just getting on its feet and supplying a
limited quantity.
It's ticklish business making these ball
looms, risk both to the health and the
pocket" said the head of company that
makes the greater portion of the rubber
dolls,' balls, baby rattles, and durable
paythings scattered broadcast over the
country.
THE extreme thinness and hexibility
of the balloon is the trouble. To get the
sheet rubber into that condition and yet
preserve it's strength requires skill I'M
like that in any other branch of the rub
Der industry unless it be the coating of
water proof cloths. The fumes and resell
vents used In the process are injurious
to the workmen. Then the dyes, the brill
liant puppies, yellows and greens have TO
be applied and to persons of certain con-
stitution work at the trade Is suicide. Even
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poorest quality. The sailors methods of
hiding the tobacco are frequently original
ana crafty, but the customs "rummag-
ers, as they are called, have proved them
selves even moro astute, bringing the
carefully secreted stores to light with so
much ease that the army of petty SNUG
glers is gradually becoming discouraged.
or course, every one of the detected men
is brought up" and fined, and, while
ten years ago the yearly bag of sea-
faring men with unrighteous proclivi-
ties used to be nearly 1850, 1t has now
shrunk 20 2,200. Although 500 600 worth of
tobacco is captured for 1.-THE Queen S
pipe" the government doesn't make much,
If anything, out Of the transaction, for
1t has to keep a perfect army of officials
boatmen, ETC., to attend 10 the job of de-
tection, 1900 of them in all. Every ship
that comes into England, no matter from
what port she halls or who is aboard of
her. is searched for smuggled tobacco
and spirits, and the majority of the cul-
prits are run to earth at Hull, Southamp-
ton, Folkestone, Gravesend and the other
ports Of merchantmen, from the CONT
nent. Ships from America rarely offend
in this direction.
The customs "rummagers' and their
sturdy boats crews are stationed all along
the tattered coastline, and no ship has
more than anchored before they are
aboard, unwilling the sanctity of the
mems "sea-chests," poking under their
hunks, and even probing the tunnels and
smokestacks, if the ship be a steamer,
or rifilng the cross-trees and crows nest
if the suspect is sailing vessel, all these
localities being frequently chosen by the
erring salts to conceal their unlawful
boards. The searching operations are
guided by reports received from the reg
ular detective force allied to the rum
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London, April 1S.-If it were a favorite
rasrime with the American newspaper
reader to plod through the weighty reports
eminent, he might one day be astonished
and panied by alighting on this off-hand
entry: "Queen's pipe, SIC, OO0."
Probably his first sensation would be
twofold, mingling of regret at learning
that Her Majesty was the victim of the
tobacco habit, and of surprise that no at
tempt is made at hushing up the said mat
ter instead of blazoning it forth as If it
were a source of national pride.
But his surprise over these two points
would be a small thing beside that which
he would feel upon realizing the extent of
the sum apparently exhausted in crafty
ing the Queens unfortunate appetite-S2O.-
600 a year, If he looked again, to make
sure. his bewilderment would only be in
creased by the discovery that this large
sum ives set down, not as an expense, but
as a revenue.
As matter of fact. it is a revenue,
and that item of $2O,00 doesn't mean that
the Queen of England is either SO luxuri-
Gus or so energetic a smoker as the men,
ton of this sum in connection with her
"pipe" would seem to indicate.
The Pine Went Out Long Ago.
Her Majestys admirers may be of good
,heer-her pipe" has been out for forty
years, although it can be seen yet by the
curious. Few people do see 1t, however,
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THE oIrEEN,S PIPE.

magers," who have the delicate duty OF
mingling, disguised, with the sailors In
their shore haunts, and surprising tnelr
secrets out of them, all of which involves
the double reflection that il not only
takes q tremendous number Of men TO
fill the Queens pipe, but that the lunatics
and bugs of England are smoking tobac-
co that costs more in the getting than
any other in the world, even If it is bad
tobacco.
a Curious Museum.
AS a result of the activity of the rum
magers" the Custom House has started
a small museum, stocked with various in
genious devices that have been used by
bold, bad smugglers, only to fall into the
hands of Her Majesty's ferrets. This col
lection begins with an innocent-lookins
scrubblng brush, but one that upon, being
lifted is curiously lacking in weight. In
truth, II is hollow, and when discovered
was stuffed with Cavendish. Beside II
Is an accordion found full of cigars in
stead of music. Next comes a long cord,
with cigars knotted in 1T, one about every
five inches which the hardy seaman had
worn coiled around his body and cheek by
jowl with this stands a demure clock,
pointing to g. This clock had tobacco
works. An apparently well thumbed copy
of "Pilgrim's Progress" on being opened
reveals circular holes out in Bunyan's
text, wherein Matches lay hidden in beds
of cotton wool. A ponderous treatise on
medicine contained besides its invaluable
precepts, certain shred tobacco, and more
Of the same had been concealed from the
gaze Of the vulgar in a loaf of bread,
whitfield out inside so that nothing but the
crust remained. A common keg sounder
was hollow, too, and had held a good
dram of brandy. Gourds are plentiful. and
there was a soldiers canteen, furnished
by Her Majesty. and used in trying to de-
fraud her.
The London Custom House.
The Custom House Is neither attractive
In Itself nor fortunate in its location, for
II forms the center OF one Of the most I'M
pleasant nelghborhoods OF London-reek-
Ing. vile smelling Billingsgate. the native
heath Of the hshmonger AZ this point in
It's course the Thames becomes even mud
der than ever, and IL damned with a mot
ley throng OF. red sailed craft Of every
shape ana hue. Upon the uDloyeiy pros
poets thus furnished, anoat and ashore
the Custom House looks out. low, Old fash
loncd ana Eriny as II has every right 20
BE-, tor n a. an Old timer, even among Lon
don buildings. Just around the corner ~
The monument built IN memory Of the
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rubber to work with, or for the necessary
help and for proper quarters to work in
When at last their balloons are completed
they have to depend upon peddling them
as method of disposal. They are usual
ly skilled I'm their trade, having worked
at good trade schools in the old countries
but without the force and ability to create
interest for themselves. They work in liv-
ing rooms unknown to the authorities and
known only to the man at the grinding
shop who sharpens their tools, and the
dealers from whom they get the rubber.
Sometimes they impart portion of their
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and beyond those who work around 1t, few
even know where it is.
Inc Queens pipe is a mysterious QUO
lare furnace down in the underground
'esses of the customs building in Bl--
ngsSate, on the Thames. Until about
55S it used to be charged and lighted
nee year. All the tobacco that 'unscru-
'ulous folks attempted to bring into the
Jngdom without the formality of paying
thereon, and which was pounced
ION by Her Majesty's alert customs ofil-
- us, was dumped into that furnace, and
urnt Offering made of II. The custom
/ lie of to-day say "all' with perfect
& 'lty. and they shook their heads Sc
~ when l fTivolously limited that some
nds" occasionally might have been
l from the burning for the private
tation of their predecessors In Office
ere used 10 be some absurd old for
ny thai had to be gone through with
WI en- the tobacco was burned-just what
no Jody now can tell-but the whole bust
ness was done away with long ago, and
me captured Smoking mixtures"-which
i ST year amounted to 61l5 pounds-arc
- II TO better use. Lunatics and bugs get
the benefit of them. The first are in the
government asylums for the criminal in
sane, the Latter have their local habita-
IONS amcng the plants in the Royal Bo-
lahical and the Kew Gardens. Neither
The lunatics nor the. bugs get cigars
,hese are sold at public auction in MincinS
iane-hut the best of the captured smok-
ing tobacco is served out to the inmates
OF the three great British institutions
& mentioned. Why the criminal insane are
mus especially favored by the government
could not be satisfactorily explained by
me customs people with whom talked,
pht they volunteered the Information that
inc best OF tho tobacco was poor stuff.
leaVing the happy inference that no one
" lunatc could be induced TO smoke
81. As for the bugs they are even less
70 be enylvd. for they get the tobacco
,hat Is regarded as absolutely impossible
rom smokers view point. That doesn't
indicate any lack OF courtesy on the part
OF the government. for II doesn't care
very much about the bugs, anyway, and
uses this tobacco only for the purpose OF
destroying them by fumigation.
siruEEicd TObnccO.
The greater part OF all this tobacco.
practically 'hc whole OF 81, IN fact. comes
rom Holland and Germany. and n
wyusht b, the lowest class Of common
s,ipfs, whO Try 10 run" the tobacco.
s'"fr for their own enjoyment on land,
~ 4 Eift 10 friends, or 20 soil to small
N'oisir, ana rs almost Invariably Of the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29

Gen. Sir Henry Mcleod Leslie Rumble,
X. c. b., c. VI. G., ID. S. o.. now serving
in the British army in South Africa, has
seen warfare with the Beers before. He
served in the Zulu war in 1879, and two
ing Potchefstroom against the Beers un-
der Cronje. being wounded during the
siege. When the garrison, who had held
the place so long against such desperate
odds, were allowed to march out with The
honors Of war, Sir Leslie Rumble was one
OF the five officers whom Cronje especially
honored with an invitation TO dinner. Sir
Leslie Rumble was born In Newton Abbett
Devonshlre. in 1856, and entered the Royal
Artillery In 1876.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-29

M. Felu. the woll-known armlees Bel
eian artist, who recently died in his sew
entieth year, was an. extraordinary exam
Pie OF what training and pluck may do
20 overcome natural defects He was
armless from birth and as an infant was
taught by bis mother to grasp and gather
flowers with his toes. Practice and per-
severance made him clever In using hia
feet and, taking mp art as a profession,
he copied some Of the masterpieces "a
Antwerp where ne was wen known TO
large numbers OF British tourists among
whom he found ready buyers. NJ Felu' )
Pic Tres have high artistic value, which
was recognized by both the Qeau Regent
Of Spain and the King Of Portugal, who
not only bought his paintings but be-
slowed decorations upon him
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knowledge, to the boys employed to help
them, but the youngsters quickly forget
and hire out alt some other business when
the balloon maker has encountered dis
aster and moved away from the neigh
borhood for lack of rent money. 1t IL
curious to hear of the ups and downs OF
both the large and small manufacturers
OF the toy balloons, meanwhile the pretty
trines ride the air as daintily as soap
bubbles. sometimes showing business let
tering and advertising crests. but giving
no hint OF the risk and tragedy that at
tends their making
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"A curious case OF historic ancestry
has just been discovered In Gascony. There
lives in "A village OF the old province a
peasant named Aueusto de Meyers. who
In lineal descendant 81 Miles de Movers.
marshal OF France in ;.v reign Of PHILLIP
tho Fair This noble was one Of tho most
powerful vassals Of tho monarchy, and
was In high command AZ the battle of
creey. His humble desoendant goes daily
10 work IN the vineyards. and IL little ar
fseted by the fallen fortunes OF his fam
NY
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THE "QUEEN'S Pipe"
YIELDS $50, 600 A YEAR.
Curious Old Brick Oven in the Depths of the
London Custom House.


e at Auctfo
Are Prescr
Edwards Cigars of Tobacc
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Prof. Dean c. Worcester, who has re.
signed his chair IN the University OF
Michigan. has had an offer Of a salary Of
$4,000 a year az manager OF certain min
ing interests IN the Philippine Islands. and
when his duties as commissioner are full
filled he may accept the offer. His salary
az the University OF Michigan was 81, COO
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--IIe-'lf there could be any slower
amusement than playing chess by mail. !
should Ike 10 know what n could be-"
Hln-"They might use a messenger boy"
indianapolis Journal
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American balloons.

An American maker OF rubber sursi-
cal appliances has lately originated m
method for partially overcoming tho
harmful Influences OF working IN rubber
and has started factory for making toy
balloons by this new process. Three times
he ccsayed tho manufacture ana was
stopped by the city authorities 10 whom
DelRhbors had reported the place as a
nuisance, within q year, however, be has