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The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27

last time. At the ultimate moment
she turned and looked back upon her
land of lost delights.
What pity that we hate each 9TH
err" she said to her husband 1T is
so inconvenient."
isn't it," he assented. He bowed
her out. The latch snapped behind
her. She walked to the pavement,
holding her little girl by the hand.
One more look backward escaped her,
and she gave a sharp crp.
my home, my home!" she said.
Mamma, you hurt my hand sol"
sobbed Claribel. why do you talk
SO? don't want to go walking I
want to go back to the nursery and
play with my dolls'
Inside of the house man flung him
self, face downward. upon couch and
cried:
my little girl! My little girl! How
am I going to live without my little
girl?"
Ten years later Mary Taussig and
her daughter entered the Auditorium
one Friday afternoon for the pleasure
of listening to concert by the Chi
cago orchestra. Mary Taussig walked
with the independent step OF one who
is in the habit Of walking alone. There
was clear and sad light in her gray
eyes. Her brow had grown loftier
than it had been in the days Of her
youth. Dignity and patience and kind
liness spoke in her every feature. AS
she moved along in her violet colored
garments no woman in the audience
that day, young or old, had a person
ality so appealing and SO picturesque.
About her young daughter there ap-
peared to be something unfulfilled,
The face wore an expression Of long
ing and the vague and enchanting
restlessness Of young girl, but some
thing suggestive of more definite re-
gret and deprivation. With the frank
disregard of beauty, which the young
can afford to assume, the girl had cos
tuned herself in black. Black plumes
shaded her face; her little chin was
hidden in her somber furs, and the
delicate hand with which she pressed
down her theater chair was gloved in
black.
| This slender hand caught the casual
glance of the gentleman occupying the
next seat, and he followed it with his
eyes till it rested on the owners lap
Still its fragile contour held him, as II
| it awakened memories, and he sal
| staring at it idly, with no care, aDpar
! entity, to lift his eyes higher.
He was man of middle age, prema
! turely gray, with serious and intel
! lectual face, and the manner OF ont
who is weary with too much work Of
responsibility.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
A HEROINE OF TEXAS
WHO DARED TO SURPRISE A
MEXICAN JAIL.
After Ride OF 200 Miles, Rescued Her
Lover and After Running Fights with
Mexican Soldiers Conducted Him In
safety Back to Texas-

The remarkable deed of a Texas girl,
Cora Brandon, who with wonderful
skill and audacity rescued her lover
and now her husband--from a prison
in Mexico, after running fights with
Mexican dragons. has placed her in
the lists of sensational heroines.
Last fall her lover, Randall Barret,
went to Mexico, with other cowboys, in
the employ Of wealthy cattleman for
the purpose of bringing a large head
of wild steers back to Blanco county.
For a time Barret wrote regularly and
then without any explanations his mis-
sives ceased. Some weeks ago the 9TH
er cowboys returned and gave the rea-
sons for Barret's silence. 1t seems that
the cowboys attended a dance in lit
tie Mexican town and that the festivi-
ties had broken UP in row. A Mexi-
can was wounded and Randall, accused
Of having shot him, was thrown into
Jail Before turning home the cow
boys had secured a lawyer to defend
him.
The brave girl Immediately deter
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
WHEN ONE is LOST IN FOREST
Advice OF an Experienced Woodsman 1,
VIII Ee Wise ta Follow.

You know how the redskins of old
used to smoke signals? Now, let
every sportsman in Maine or else
where who gets lost in the woods
make 4 sm0lIe. and the chances are
100 to ! that the searchers who are
looking for him will find him within
g few hours. Start the smoke on a
bare rock on a side hill. Make a thin
smoke and keep it up. Sit down and
take it easy and vary the program
by gathering fuel for the smudge or
bOughs for a windbreak or camp bed,
in the possible chance of having to
lie over night. Look for water to
drink. No trouble to find your way
back to your rock with the smoke to
guide you. Every professional guido
who takes out 3 party OF sportsmen
should instruct them in these partiC-
ulars. 1t will save painful worry,
hunger, starvation and too frequent
death. To a tyro in Woodcraft I would
much prefer making smoke than an
attempt 10 study the divides, or even
to follow q stream out. In q country
Of limited area, where the streams are
all short and seldom over fifteen miles
from the crown Of the divide to the
tide water, as in Nova Scotia, the lat
ter would be the best plan-to stick tG
the WatercOurSes and follow the down
stream current. In wilderness tan.
gle smoke is the best, though in
fat area Of dense forest it is 4 hard
chance for q men unsoDhisticated
smoke or no smoke. No man should
ever be without matches In a water
proof safe and serviceable jackknife
in his pocket. And above all things,
study the lay of the land before you
start out and see in which direction the
hills and valleys run. Getting lost
should be impossible when natura
makes all her paths SO plain, at least
it seems so TO me at these presents.
But then l have had fifty odd years OF
experience in all regions and latitudes.
As rule, a bewildered man, when he
finds himself lost, has not Travelled far
from his starting point. Distances
seem vastly greater in a strange woods
than they DO on turnpike, Indeed,
man cannot travel fast and far
through an undergrowth. So the logic
Of the situation is to stand still, hal
loo often, fire both barrels of your
gum and, finally, make q smoke in a
safe place, if you cannot find q sight.
ly one as we'll; and if you keep the
blaze covered with moss, punk and
green boughs it will not run, and il
will give one employment to fill uI
anxious time-Forest and Stream
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
Habits of Snakes,

An eminent writer on birds and rep
tiles declares that the notion frequent.
ly entertained that snakes fascinate
their prey is utterly exploded 1t would
be somewhat interesting if this gentle
man would tell us what power it IA
that snakes exert over birds which
draws them against their will within
easy distance OF tho reptiles jaws
The writer of this paragraph has seen
birds tluttering in the air above tha
heads Of snakes, apparently unable to
resist the influence that attracted
them. Whether it be fascination or
some other force, 1t unquestionably ex-
listed, although every one may not have
observed it, Snakes never bite. TC
bite would be impossible, from the
formation of their jaws. They strike
from above, fastening their fangs into
their prey. after which they dispatch
it, ordinarily by swallowing. Many va
rieties of snakes have the power to
conceal their young in their mouths
The tiny snakes play about the moth
ers head, and upon the slightest alarm
she opens her mouth, and they imme-
diately vanish, reappearing when tho
cause for alarm seems to have been re-
moved Whether the mother snake
has the faculty Of communicating their
danger to them Is not known: in all
probability she has. There are certain
fish that open their mouths and engulf
their small brood when danger threat
ems. The lover Of nature finds endless
opportunity for interesting research in
the study Of every form Of life.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
She Knew.

Bishop Whippie OF Minnesota says
that when he was abroad he did a great
deal of parish work in Rome. After
holding service in the English church
outside the walls, he overheard one
EnglishwomaD say to another: "Who
was the bishop who preached today?"
"The bishop Of Mimosa," she replied.
''He comes from South Africa. you
know"
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
MRS. ADAIR'S APPEAL.

Mrs Cornelia Adair who is now in
this country in the interests of the
hospital ship Maine, which it may be
remembered was provided by American
women in England for the nursing OF
wounded British soldiers in the Boer
daughter of the late Gen. WadsWorth,
of Geneseo, N. Y, who fell at the battle
Of the Wilderness. The idea Of fitting
out hospital ship originated with
Mrs. Blow, an American, and she, with
Lady Randolph Churchill, formed
committee of American women in
London to carry it out. The SUM OF
$155, 900 was raised in short time. Al
this juncture B. N. Baker of Baltimore,
Nd, president of the Atlantic Trans
port company, offered the steamship
Maine and it's crew to the committee, tc
be used as a hospital ship as long ~
the war lasted. This gift represented
an outlay of between $4,000 and $20,.
600 month. To equip the vessel the
committee expended S125,0O0, and as 1t
costs some $4,000 month to keep the
ship in service Mrs. Adair, who in the
absence of Lady Randolph Churchill,
is the head of the committee, comes
here to interest Americans in the work.
Mrs. Adair is we'll known in the
fashionable society of New York and
Newport. Her first husband was Mr..
Ritchie, of Boston. In 1867 she mar
ried John Adair, who was one of the
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27

great land magnates of Ireland ana
high sheriff of the County Donegal.
She is very wealthy in her own right.
Mrs. Adair, in an appeal to the Irish
in this country, mentions the fact that
years ago, when famine was raging in
Ireland, her father chartered a ship.
filed it with corn from his lands at
Geneseo and sent 1t across the Atlantic
to help the starving peasantry.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27

God works through human instru.
ments, through the natural laws that
he has instituted.-Rev P. c. Yorke.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27
a BRITISH HEROINE.
HER ESCAPADES AMONG THE
BOERS CAUSES SURPRISE.

Besieged. Then Escaped, Was CAPTURED
Acted as Spy, Was Exchanged aud
Finally Found Herself Shut Up in
MafekinR.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-04-27

Misery loves company, but the COM
pany seldom returns the compliment.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
YOUNG MOTHERS,

Group is the terror of thousands
of young mothers because it's out
break is SO agonizing and frequently
fatal. Shiloh's Cough and Con-
sumption Cure acts like magic in
cases of Group. 1t has never been
known to fail. The worst cases
relieved Immediately. Price 25 cts,
so cts. and LOO, For sale by DR..
f. Wenz.
ON EVERY BOTTLE
or Shiloh's Consumption Cure is
this guarantees: "All we ask of you is
to use two thirds Of the contents of
this bottle faithfully, then II you can
say you are not benefited return the
bottle to your Druggist and he may
refund the price paid" Price Is ct
so cts. and $1.O0. For sale by DR..
F. Wentz
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
COMMISSIONERS JOURNAL.
REGULAR TERM.

COM MlSSlONE RS' JOURNAL.
REGULAR TERM.
Friday the 10th day of January,
1900.
Board met at 10 o'clock A. NJ, pur-
suant to adjournment.
Commissioners present, N. G. Sis
son, chalrman; A. N. Tucker, L. T.
Dittemore.
The minutes of previous meeting
read and on motion duly approved.
In the matter of Elisha Lockwood,
a sick and INDECENT person.
The board at this time took up the
matter of Elisha Lockwood a sick and
INDECENT person and on motion it is
hereby ordered that there be allowed
for the support of the said Elisha
Lockwood the sum of forty dollars
for the quarter ending the second
Monday in April, 1900.
At this time the following bills
were taken up and allowed and the
auditor is hereby authorized to draw
warrants for the several amounts al.
lowed as follows:
J. F. Cook, Jr., medicine fur
nished county charge ST SO
Cooper & Son sundry trips with
team in smallpox cases. bill
$26. 25, allowed "a 90
Joseph Buckle salary as assessor
and tax collector for fourth
quarter 1899 $50 OO
H. Miller work on gas house 2 90
Bart Wishard board of jury and
bailiffs IA 10
A. w. Post lumber for county AZ
The bill of Mortimer Parish fol
witness fees in case of State vs.. A. L.
Olson for 1928 was on motion reject
ed.
And at this time the board took q
recess until 1870 P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At this time the following bill.
were taken up and allowed and The
auditor is hereby authorized to draw
warrants for the several amounts al
lowed as follows:
Silver Blade printing supplies
for county officers $l36 II
In the matter of the formation d
new school district out Of parts of dis
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
NOTICE.

Notice Of the time for holding the
District Court OF the First Judicial
District of the State of Idaho, In
and for the counties of Shoshone
and Kootenal, composing said judi
cial district, for the yea 1900.
In the matter Of ordering the time
tor holding the terms Of the District
Court for the First Judicial District
of the state of Idaho In aud for the
Counties OF Shoshore and KoOtenai,
for the year 1900.
BY virtue OF the authority vested
in me, the Judge of said District
Court, by an act of the legislature of
the state Of Idaho, approved Decem-
Der goth, 1890, entitled San act to
Provide for the Fixing the terms of
the District Courts of the Several
Districts Of the State of Idaho, and
to add the sections OF this Act to
Chapter Three OF Title One OF the
Code of Civil procedure OF Idaho as
Sections 1884 and 1885," pages 4 and
OF the Session Laws Of the State of
Idaho, 189O-l89l:
1t Is hereby ordered that the terms
of the district court of the First judi
cial district of the state Of Idaho
shall, for the year 1900, commence
and begin in the several and respect
we counties within said judicial dis
trict on the following dates, to-wit:
In the said county of Shoshone
at Wallace, tile county seat of said
county Of Shoshone, on the Goth day
Of January, A. d., 1900, to be known
as the January term Of said court 10
county of ShoshOne; and on the Third
day OF September A. d. 1900, to be-
known as the September term of said
court in said county OF Shoshone.
In the said county of Kootenai, at
Rathdrum, the county seat Of said
county Of Kootenai, on the Goth day
Of March, A. D. 1900, to be known
as the March term of said court ia
said county Of Kootenai; and on the
18th day of November A. d. 1900, to
be known as the November term OF
said court in said county of Koote-
mai.
And it is hereby ordered that the
clerks of said court In each of said
counties Of Shoshone and Kootenal,
give uotice hereof by publication OF
this order in some newspaper publish
ed 10 said district and county ii
which said terms are to be held re
spectively for at least two consecu
tive weeks.
Dated this 9th day of December
A. d., 1899.
A. e. MAYHEM,
Judge of the First Judicial District 0
of the state of Idaho.
JNo. @. CALLAHAN,
(y1ork
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
JNO. G. CALLAHAN, Clerk.
BY A. Cook, Deputy.

Sealed Proposals for Improve
ments to Highway Bridge
Across Spokane River Near
Fort Sherman.
Sealed proposals will be received by
the county commissioners Of Koote-
mai county, Idaho, at Rathdrum, up
to noon of the 23d day of February,
1900, for improvements to highway
bridge across Spokane river near Fort
Sherman, Kootenai county, Idaho,
which include the replacing of the
west span of present bridge with one
of one hundred foot span, finishing
center pier Of present bridge and
building new pier for west support
of new span.
Also for the construction of shee +
boom extending from west Pier to a
point on west bank Of river opposite
pumping station, distance Of 1850
feet, the lower anchor of boom to be
independent of bridge pier in case
new pier is not completed.
If new pier is completed anchorage
will be made to same. Plans and
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20


specifications must accompany pro-
posals. or said proposals must be in
accordance with plans and specitica-
tions on file IN county clerks Office
at Rathdrum, Kootenai county,
Idaho.
Sheer boom must be completed
within thirty days from time of &C
ceptance OF proposal for construction
Of same, and bridge within ninety
days.
Proposals must be In part, each
proposal must be accompanied by a
good and sufficient bond in double
the amount bid.
The county commissioners hereby
reserve the right to reject any or all
bids.
JNO. G. CALLAHAN,
Clerk Board County Commissioners
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
HOW rs YOUR w1FEY

Has she lost her beauty? If so !.
Constipation Indigestion, Sick Head
ache are the principal causes. Karl's'
Glover Root Tea has cured these ills
for trasf century. Price 25 cts and
So cts. Bftmey refunded If results are
not satisfactory. For sale by Df. e.,
WentM
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-01-20
FOR the several amounts allowed as

for the several amounts allowed as
follows.
Fred GRANT for lumber furnish.
ed for bridge near Lane 1922 0b
Ed OlesUn for work on road in
district No. II SO
In the matter OF the application Of
Jno. g. Callahan for authority to ap-
point deputies.
At this time the application Of tno.
@. Callahan clerk of the district court
auditor and recorder for koutenai
county, Idaho, for permission to APP
pOint the necessary deputies and
clerical assistance for his said offices
was taken up and considered and in
the opinion OF this board such dep
uties and clerical assistance being
necessary to properly conduct the
said offices and to perform the work
necessarily connected Herewith.
Therefore, 1t Is hereby ordered that
the said Jno. G. Callahan be and he is
hereby empowered to appoint senior
deputy clerk Ut the district, auditor
and recorder, and clerk OF the board
of county commissioners at a salary Of
$4,000 per month and junior deputy
clerk Of the district court, auditor
and recorder and clerk of the board of
county commissioners at a salary of
$4,000 per month and deputy aud
itOr and recUrder at salary Of $50. 90
per month. And it is further ordered
by this board that at any time when
the business OF the said offices as
shown by fees collected that it does
not justify the employment OF said
three deputies the clerk must regulate
the clerical assistance in his said Of
fee and conform same to the volume
Of business transacted in said offices.
And the auditor is hereby authorized
to draw warrants on the second Mon
day of each and every month for the
salaries OF the deputies employed in
the auditors Office and for the janitor
at the court house.
In the matter Of the application of
James Roche to purchase the county's
interest to lots and block 81 town
of Occur d'Alene.
The application of James Roche for
the purchase of the county's interest
to lots aud 8 in block 81 town Of
Occur d'Alene was taken up and con-
sidered and on motion accepted and
it is hereby ordered by the board that
an assignment Of the county's interest
in and to lots and block 81 town
Of Occur d'Alene be made the said
James Roche upon the payment.of all
delinquent taxes. interest, cost and
penalties ON said lots.
And at this time the board ad-
journed until Thursday morning the
18th at 10 O'Clock A. M.
N. G. SlSSON,
Chairman.
Attest:
JNO. G. CALLAHAN, Clerk,
BY A. Cook, Deputy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-04-18

will have searched very thor
oughly over the unclaimed
localities themselves and in
nine cases out of ten the cream
of the gold-strewn gravel
benches will have been claim
ed. The Klondike people have
estimated that about $14 COO, 600
was spent by 10000 men in go
ing to Klondike, and in tran
sporting goods there in 1898.
The gold output of Klondike in
the same year was only 5000,
600 more than was spent"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-04-18
CANS OF GOLD,
Strange Sights In the Cape Nome
Gold Fields
Concluded from last weekly

Concluded from last week.
Zone successful man at Cape
Nome is 4-4Dert McDuffy. He
was born in Hoboken, n. T.,
about fifty years ago, and was
a Bowery saloon keeker for
years. He says he IS the cou-
sin of Harry Hill Of New York.
For ten years he has run faro
and roulette gambling halls in
Seattle and Butte city. He
took about $4,000 to Cape
Nome and opened the Royal
Bengal saloon. His gambling
place is not SO gorgeous as one
might infer from the name,
but it is a wonderful money
maker. 1t is low, one story
affair of pine board walls half
the way up and rough sawed
pine boards for the upper walls
and roof. It's interior area
is 3Ox4O feet. Mud and moss a
foot thick coat the roof for the
sake of warmth within the
structure. Earth is heaped five
feet high about the log walls.
The bar and tables are unpaint-
ed. The glassware back of Nc
Duffys bar is the most dazzling
in all Nome. 1t consists of two
cheap mirrors and about three
dozen common bar glasses.
The whole could be bought
anywhere in the States for So.
The rent of the establishment
is 500 a week. or six ounces of
gold, and the landlord had been
lamenting all winter that he
had foollshly given a lease for
such beggarly sum.
Money lending at Nome is
a great business, and several
people who learned the tricks
Of the business at Dawson are
making lots of money. They
never lend over 500, and the
extreme life of the loan there
is thirty days. So man turns
his capital over every four
weeks at good profit. The es-
tablished rate of interest is 10
per cent. month. But when
there is some element of risk
involved, and the borrower be-
trays his urgent desire to get
money, 10 and 20 per cent a
month is charged. Almost
always the interest is deducted
from the loan when it is made.
l have known ignorant miners
to give a bag of gold dust as
security for a 500 loan, and
then pay 10 per cent interest
in advance on the loan.
THE richest part of the Cape
Nome gold field is the neigh
borhoood of the Anvil, Snow
and Dexter creeks. But the
prospecting of next summer
will undoubtedly reveal some
rich gravel in localities where
lit is now least suspected.
Anvil Greek has the very rich
est gravel known there up to
the time / came down the coast
The original Nome claims
were made there, and the
pioneers, Lindholm, Byrnstein
and Linderberg, chose wisely
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-04-18
MAN OVERHEARD!

for they shipped from their four
claims on Anvil Creek to San
Francisco last year gold that
paid them $264,OOO. l happen
ed that way one evening last
July and I saw four pounds
and nine ounces of gold that
had been sluiced out there
during the seven hours pre-
vious. All of these three Nome
pioneers could not have raised
$500 between them a year and
half ago. A Swedish Luther
an missionary named Carlson
owns the richest claim on
Snow Greek. He has not
developed his property any
where nearly SO rapidly as his
neighbors have theirs, but he
took out about $37, O0O:in a few
weeks last year, and he intends
to spend every cent of it in
improvements to his property
this year. r. T. Lying, a native
of Rochester, N. Y, and for
years a superintendent in the
Alaska Commercial Company,
owns claim No. 8 on Dexter
Creek, and from July7 to Sep
TENDER last, he took out 248
pounds of gold from the gravel
ly beach. He bought the claim
for $500 from a disheartened,
homesick man, and in less
than sixty days G. D. Lane of
San Francisco offered him $50,
coo for the property.
1T is almost useless to warn
man who has the insatiate
hunger for gold within him to
keep away from such wonder
full region of gold as Cape
Nome, but all the stories of
hardship, suffering, starvation
freezing that came out from
the Klondike when thousands
of men rushed there two yea. 3
ago will as surely came from
| Nome. All the warnings of
old time miners to tenderfeet
to keep away from the Attic
mining camps in 1898 had no
effect, and there have since
been some very pitiful exper-
fences of deluded men up
there. Nevertheless, / wish. to
urge every one but the strong
est and most robust not to
tempt Providence by going to
Cape Nome to mine gold.
Nowhere in all Alaska does
the wind blow harder and
coldef than at Nome. In the
winter it comes from the moth
west across Behring Sea, and
so strong that no vegetation
has ever grown in it's face but
the Attic moss that covers the
marshy lands all over Cape
Nome. If the men who are
abandoning fairly good in
comes, and leaving homes,
families and friends to go to
! Cape Nome to get rich at dig
ging gold, only knew what
risks they are taking and how
little chance a tenderfoot has
in a stampede into new gold
fields alongside of experienced
|.gold seekers they would give
the matter more considera-
ton. Long before any of them
can now get to Cape Nome re
/ gion all who are now there