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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-04-18

rTNHE annual meeting Of the stockholders
i OF the Long Pond Water Company will
be held at the Office OF the Hotel Clestes, sui
Ivan, Hancock county, Maine. on Wcdnes-
day, the second day of May, a. d. 1900, at 9
O'Clock in the forenoon, for the purpose OF
electin. board of directors, clerk and treas
urer OF said company, and acting upon any
other business which may properly come be-
fore said meeting. Per order.
CHARLES =. SIMPSON,
Clerk OF said company.
Dated April IL, q. a. 1900.
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Essr brook i m.gt"g good bid for
popular y ss health and pleasure re-
sort. A ho,ei b.iug tuiit at its miner
al spring on the western slope of Sugar
hill, near the herd of Molssses pond. 1t
Is reasonable to expect the guests to
gather at that hotel like flies. Who
wouldn't travel miles TO taste of water
from a spring on sugar hill near the
shore of Molasses pond, and with a
name like kaisgudor? All the prophet or
OF that hotel needs do now is to adver-
tise sugar plum bushes and caramel trees,
and his fortune is assured. By-the-way,
someone suggests changing the name Of
Molasses pond TO Eastlske. May the
spirit Of Tugwassah and his molasses jug
haunt you If you do! These old names
and old traditions should be preserved.
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FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY,

pY urgent request from many stalwart re-
ID publicans of this city as well as many
other towns in the county, hereby announce
myself as candidate for county attorney at
the next election. LYNwooD F. GILES,
Ellsworth Me
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Tn Irf.

so-a1~l~S~1~s~-~s~5~~o
COTTAGES The p room cottage and stable
I ! ON spriag ST., now occupied by d. r
Tr{bou. also upstairs tenement of sir
Ton1ns. with stable. on Hancock st. Posses
SION may hc taken May l. Apply 20 Mas. ID.
: Rows, Ellsworth,
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STATE OF MAINE

HANCOCK court of County Cumm.s.
sioners. April term. \. u. lssa
Upon thc foregoing petition the commission.
spon-ihle. that an inquiry toto the merits Is ex
Fesieui and that the Estltlansr- ought TO te
heard touching the matter 4si forth In their pc.
iitlun oTlrr Itsi the county commissioners meet
at tie hotel Of \ Z savage, at Northeast liar
Dor. ou Tuesday, Tho 3h tisS % MAY, A. D.
lao ri 10 u'ctsrk \. NJ, aud theusr proceed to
View the routc hamilton, Il ia said petition. imme
diatct after litci ssea. h.afinx vi the parties
and witnesses "a ii be hal At some Convenient
place iu the vicinity. AMI such other measure,
taken IN Tie premiss- tee eoH a=~ioncrs shall
Judge prnlst Aud II f. iuEsi4er
ordered That notfcc nf the tive. place and
purIo>. al tbs nI s-Iasst - 3neetina aforesaid
BE- Eirea Is all persons af4a aprf=aFatisns inter
e=tesi, b9 serving atte.tsai copy Of ih. NC.
tinag aud thir urteF thnrsan. upon the
clerk ot the tsHn 81 Nanat ne~rrt, and
by posting gp stie~tss! copies a. Aforesaid
in thru public places iu *sAi tasn, thirty
da At lrHst ictprv tito Etf7s. appointed for
said Visw, aud ~ pGb3rhtH< The petition and
or'tvr tt, fVuf, three @EEAz ~aEres=tFciF In thu
tlls"ufth tu'firar. u HrS -itaprS published
nj kN-1Hrth. In ID" eauUtE Of iis aFlaek, the
dr-l ruiiiraiiuft - i5 thirty dae@ AZ s.snst he-
fpr lus tifHs ~ 4rii lew TIA. al p..rAaus and
corlHsrtttou- tot rs,-issi MAJ attend Ana lie
hysi,i 81 t}4g tltak i'll
N.iset 5oHs k~uwtrns CLERK.
iri" cops II The petition Aai ustsr thereon
Attest iuHS hsowLros. CLERK
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April Z, 1862, is an important date in the
history of Bluehill, for at that time
Joseph Wood and John Roundy with
their fam lilies landed there, says the
Lewiston Journal in its short sketches Of
Maine history. Prior to 1850, it is said
there probably was not an English fam
lily east Of the Penobscot river except,
perhaps, that Of John Staples who, 1t is
said, lived near the French fort at Baga-
duce Neck, now Castine, and had son
William born there Nov. is, 175s; but
between 1850 and 1852 many settlers
crossed the river from Fort Pownal to
Penobscot. The two families above men,
now Bluehill,
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Our Southwest Harbor correspondent
says: 1.-The man who carries paint pot
in one hand and a roll of W bite cloth in
the other, the woman whose head is
covered with one OF her husbands old
caps and whose arms are full of rubbing
brushes, brooms, soap, water pals, mops,
securing bricks, dust pans, tack ham,
mers, and the man of the house " no tenn
porsriiy sleeps on the floor and eats cold
potatoes off the refrigerator top, and no
looks Ike dog which has been licked,
are very much i'll evidence, and suggests
spring, east winds, house-cleaning temper
and discomfort. The average man is lord
Ut tue ranch till about this time of the
yen, and ,hen he is next to nothing, and
RUnisH IL nla-tr indeed
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TO REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

pY the solicitation of my friends and num-
ID bers of the staunch republicans of the
county, now announce myself as candi-
date for sheriff OF Hancock county. Having
served eleven seasons the police force at
Bar Harbor and during that time chief
of police three of the seasons, feel confident
that can serve the people of the county in a
faithful manner if elected. i ask all my
friends throughout the county to assist in my
candidacy. GEORGE p. BILILNos.
Bar Harbor, Me-. April, 1900.
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~~.--~. ---~----s #-l7-'~N- N-N47~0~rN0S~SNUGN-
yvIRsT- CLASS coat or vest maker. Apply
L At once. LsWis FRfEsp s. Co, Ellsworth.
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for salt.

4~---AN-~. ~-~~Cs-~N -~0~0N7N NS@>>N~'N~N~0
INARM- known as the Abram Tourtclottc
Mace situated in North Ellsworth. con-
tanning about fifty acres tllage and pastuT
age. Orchard City trees. Good nelGhbofhoou
church, school. pcsioiiice, railroad statlon' All
within twenty minutes walk. Wood lot ABOUT
ffty acres mile from home. Price to SUIT
the TINES For further information inquire OF
JosEPH W. MANN, Fire Department, state St.
BANGOR. or CHARLES L. HIeGiSs. Nicoiin, We.
II ling schooner &C. X. Tarbo&', OF
Il 81 tons, warranted sound and in good
order, will be sold at q bargain. FOR partSu-
lars inquire of c. c. COUSINS, Stonington, Me-
ISGGs FOR MATCHING o. some strong
r. vigorous Barred Plymouth Rocks, elp
per Is. Also Imperial Pekin Ducks Eggs
si.o1 per II. good hatch guaranteed FRED
Z. HAYNES, Ellsworth.
nNE dozen pigs six months old. They are
~ beauties. Apply to DIR. A. c. HAcERrhr'
Ellsworth. Ne.
kyTORE and house. cor. Main and Hancock
- streets. Inquire of g. A. PARcHEa
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Spft,al Motifs.
{. NSOsN(
NOTICE

N~N~~~~N~~S\JN1T>7 7N1ND'N@N7-
NOTICE.
"AVING sold out my business in Ellis
III worth all persons having unsettled ac-
counts can pay same to Stratton Wcseott.
II Main st. All unpaid bills will be left with
an attorney May Is. 1900. p II. srRarroS.
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Having been requested by a humble of re-
pubiicans throughout the county to again al
low my name to be used as a candidate for
sheriff IN the coming campaign, l ente. u e
field to work, and ask all my friends through
out the county to nelp me, and if elected
will endeavor to please and do my duty faith
fully for the people of the county. | ask for
your support. ELMER l.. kINGMAE.
Ellsworth. Me.
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COUNTY GOSSIP.
Seawsll has heard frogs piping.

The river-drivers are going into camp.
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STATEMENT.
BOSTON INSURANCE co..
BOSTON, MASS.
ASSETS DEC. 81, 1899.
Real estate, a % ooo m
Mortgage loans, az - "
Collateral loans ' ,s'oSo " "
Stocks and bonds $3.50, $1,000 w
Cash in office and bank 10 ,se 90 ~
Bills receivable, 10 .oo 80 20
Agents balances %, ' 80 20
Interest and rents a'.,o .
All other assets, 7'.ftS -
pad,,r, !, assets, s3,oe3, 274 SO
A"' "uAii''eu' 9s,7l0 81
.'teu assets, 2,96i.56s y
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1899
Net unpaid losses ARA .-o
Unearned premiums S 100. ~
All other liabilities, V o. 81 ..
Total, 49, - -
Cash capital, 1880 ad' ~
Surplus over all liabilities, SI9 ~ ~ 20
'''"' 'iSoiii.ies and surplus, s2,ssi.5s3 u
l.. b. GARDINER, Agent.
BUCKsPoRT, ME,
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- 49, ~ 1850


O-o~~~-~-~~N- Ns~@~~c~yNs~ S~nSsN~f~~S~~~-c
To the Honorable Board OF County Commits
si-uer- Fof Hancock county. Maine.
yINHE undersigned awneTs or interested par.
| ties ia property adjoining to or situated
along the pubic highway berlin referred to
- fo -o!srfSrnt that common convenience
ana necessity resulting from recent improve.
mepts require , notification IN the width of
the present county way o. highway leading
from the village e seal HarboHt In the town
Of Nount Desert, ia said Hancock county. and
that therefore NouE petitioners ask that aid
highway shall have its present width modf-
fed to and be hxvd Al forty & ~ ieet more
los 40 that after such modification Is made
IL shall follow course whose center line
shall be its present one but that instead of
having a width Of thirty three 1881 feet, as
now an each side 81 its present center line
II shall have a width of twenty {S1l feet, more
or less, OIL each side Of said center line; and
further, that such modification snail COM
nence At a point to be determined by the
honorable board of county commissioners
in the present center Of said highway at the
village of Seal Harbor, and shall continue
along its present center line To its present in
tersection with the road leading from the
village of Northeast Harbor 10 the village of
SomesyiJle, both also In said Hancock county
Your petitioners invite the attention Of
your honorable board to the fact that when
The present highway was laid out to a width
of four q rods fe6 fectl about sixty fdol years
ago, this part OF the county was but sparsely
settled and that what has nov become valu-
able property was then looked upon as being
almost wilderness OF rocks and trees, so
that then one rod more or less made no differ
ence to owners IF property along Its course.
Your petitioners are sctuatcd in making
this request, because numbers of improve
msnts hy WAN Of houses. stone walls, drive
WAYS. etc. have already been made en- lots
fronting this highway, and also because II Ia
desired to make other Improvements: but,
before doing so. Ii Is Of vital Importance to
all concerned that your honorable board
modify the width of the present highway and
fix IL as herein requested. so ns To make X
conform TO the many changes and improve
meutS made during recent years along Its
present course within the bounds mentioned.
Your petitioners aiege that common
ycnience, necessity. equity. aud a reasonable
regard for the outlay they have made and in
tend making In improving property along
said highway. require the Aforesaid modtaca-
tion in its pInsout Nidlh- and that when fixed
at the width herein aske 81 far, 81 will be ample
for the passing et vehicles going in oppo-
site directions aud will fuIfll all the require
ments Of present and future travel along the
same.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that no
ticc be given and proceedings be taken as re-
quired By Law Ia the end that said modisca-
lion NAV he made ard the width Hxrd as
hereinbetofe requested.
RICHARD DAVENPORT
and thiriy-eight others.
Northeast Harbor. Hancock Co., Maine,
January, 10. 1850.
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90 TIT.

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SsTORE on Franklin street recently occu-
- pied as an Office by Ellsworth water Co.
INQUIRE at A. W. CUsHMAS SONS.
CTORE- Rooms-frst floor and basement
- in Masonic block on state street, until
recently occupied by the Hancock County
Publishing Co. inquire OF JOIN b. REpMAS.
age Mt. in same building.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
Travelling Men Extend Their
Grasp for Trade.
PUSH ON no DAWSON.
Improved Transportation Facilities
Enable the Drum or to Enter the
Klondike Field Merchants there
Welcome Him.

Not so verv many months have passed
since the billed shirt found its wav down
the Yukon and into the Klondke mining
camp, and only a wear ago did trunks 20
bevond White Pass and down the river to
Dawson, thus supplanting in measure the
pioneer war bag. Following quick on this
advance in customs of old communities in
to the North came others, and now the
festive drummer with his heavy grips and
trunks full of samples is invading the
country and retaining it from the frontier
trader and Spectator to the ways that
exist in the sharp competitive fields of
older places. This story of the advance
of the travelling man comes from J. H.
Franck, the representative of Victoria
wholesale house, pioneer drummer in the
Yukon field. and one of the most persist
ent business solicitors in all the northern
region.
Thomas Alice" says Mr.. Franck, "is
the first drummer to go Into the Upper
Yukon basin with samples, and it was
only in March of this year that he entered
the field. | had been in before him, but,
owing to the fact the house ! represent,
Samuel Lesser x Co., carries onlv groceries
and such staples as are largely known by
their brands do not have to be troubled
win samples.
"Dawsonites are taking kindly to the
drummer, and are welcoming him, Thew
are beginning to depend on him to come
and show samples of his wares, and to
save them the trouble Of making trips to
the outside.
lowing TO the close transportation con-
nections, goods can be shipped through
satisfactorily from the outside markets to
Dawson without personal escort, and
therefore the merchants feel all the more
assured In getting their goods satisfactorily
after placing their orders with travelling
representatives.
81 spend nearly all my time In this field
and have just returned from a visit to
White Horse and Selkirk."
Among the travelling men to arrive here
of late was representative of the Ameri-
can Steel & Wire Company, who is here
on his way to Dawson and Nome,
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
Place Has Settled to MOder-
ately Temperate Ways.
OLD CUSTOMS ARE GOING
Mines Yield More than Ever, But
Are Owned by UndemOnstrative
Men Who Have Recovered from
the Shock of Sudden Riches.

Dawson City, Yukon Territory, July
The far famed CITY of Dawson today pre-
sents an appearance in marked contradis>
tinction to that which she previously en-
loved when money flowed like water over
bars and card tables and IN dance halls,
and everv miner dumped his well-filed
poke with the easy grace of millionaire.
Today one finds verv neat and SubStan-
tally built little CITY of perhaps 1000 peo-
pie, the streets filled with lazy dogs and
idle men wandering aimiesslvup and down
with no apparent object. Now and then
dog team passes by attached to laundry,
milk, soda water or garbage wagon This
is the common mode CT light transporta-
ton used here.
Stepping into a saloon you see two or
three men standing at the bar. and few
boosters and chubbers playing at the card
table of sleepy dealer. The arrival of a
boat Creates some little stir, as nearly
everybody goes to see who comes and get
the news of the outside world.
As matter of fact, Dawson the world
renowned home of bonanza kings and
glttering Monte Carlos, has lost its brill
liant and roseate hue of wore and must now
be relegated to her own CASA common,
every day town. TO be sure, the mines
are Welding more, doublv more than pre-
vously. but they are owned and con-
trolled bv men who are not of the high
rolling class, or have served their time in
that line and gotten over the first great
shock to their nervous systems when they
suddenly came to realize they were
wealthy, and live now settled down to an
everyday moderately temperate life.
The WELD this year is conservatiyelv es-
timated at betw cen thirty and thlrty-five
millions, exact figures being impossible to
obtain on account of the obnoxious and
unjust ROYALTY of ten per cent, which must
come out of all yields.
DR.. F. B. Whiting.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
SIX MONTHS TO REPENT
Illicit Liquor Traders Get the Full
Limit of the Law.

The two Iongshoremen. Harry Schofleld
and John Olson, who sold liquor to Indians
last week and were the cause of the lively
battle fought in Indian town by the inebri-
ated natives. have been allotted six months
in which to repent the errors of their ways,
during which they will sojourn IN the sea
side city of Sltka. Thev were given the
full extent of the lay.
Judge Sehlbrede pronounced sentence on
the men, and their time of service behind
the bars will date from last Saturday
when they were tried and found guilty
They will be taken to Sitka on the Cot
tage City, due today.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
Chilkoot Packing Company
Working Day andNight.
TO IMPROVE CANNERY
Company Will Increase Its Capacity
10000 Gases To BE Put UP This
Year--The Market Is Better Than
Ever Before.

The salmon run on Lynn Canal was
probably never better than it IS at the pres
ent time. The Chlkoot cannerv is kept
running at its full capacity, dav and night,
and cannot keep the great stack of silver
salmon being caught from growing. IT,.
Keegan. manager of the cannery was in
Skagwav Yesterday and in speaking of the
business of his company said:
1--WE are actually getting more fish than
we want, and all we get is caught at the
cannerv site. We find it unnecessary to
send farther down the canal. We have
been running full blast for several weeks,
and expect to continue the same during the
season.
Our capacity is $50 cases per dav and
we viii turn out about 900 cases during
the season. ! never saw better place to
put up fish than we have here. We are SC
well pleased that we propose to improve
our plant and increase our capacity.
"The market for salmon is improving
all the time, and is really now better than
it has ever been. There is demand fol
more salmon than can be canned on the
Pacific coast OF course the price cannot
get much higher, because after reaching q
certain point we have to compete witt
other food products where the supply i:
not limited by four months season.
"The fishing industry of Alaska, all
though immense, running into severa
millions annually, is only in its infancy.
"Our cannery is now the only one or
LYNN canal"
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
Steamer Sifton Will Go
Through White Horse.
WILL PLY TO DAWSON
Scows Going Down the Lake from
Bennett in Large Numb ers- Water
Expected To Rise In the Lake
Eighteen Inches.

Ghe steamer Clifford Sifton, belonging
to the Dominion Steamboat Company, is
to soon shoot the White Horse rapids, to
get to the DawSon-White Horse run, on
which she will plv. The boat has been
running on Lake Bennett and the other
waters leading to the head of White Horse
rapids.
With the departure of the Sifton, the
Australian and the Cleaner, belonging to
the &. D. Co. will be the only large steam
ers remaining on the lakes. The Cleaner
covers the run to Atln and the Australian
is used in carrying freight and passengers
from Bennett to Caribou.
The news as to the proposed shooting of
the rapids by the Sfton was given by
Capt Guy Z. Lamont, master OF the little
lake steamer Mabel F, who was in the
CITY during the week. He said:
Bennett is still furnishing quite fleet
of scows for the Dawson trade, and the
Mabel f is engaged in towing to Sixty
Mile river, where the stoWs catch a cur
rent and proceed bv themselves. The
charge for towing a scoW from Bennett to
Sixty Mile river is 800.
81 think the water in Lake Bennett will
rise eighteen inches more this year. How
ever, there is plenty of water in the lake
now for easy navigation, but more water
will do no harm.
Finishing touches are being put on the
Taku and Atln tramwav."
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19

card bearing view of the magnificent
scenery along the route.
There are fifty-three cards with pictures
and two extra containing information in
regard to distances, and so on, interesting
alike to resident and tourist. The back of
the cards are highly Illuminated and illus
trate this route as the gateway to the Yu-
kon. There are pictures of Skagway,
Bennett and Dawson, Reid's Falls, Atlin
Lake and several other points, as we'll as
all the most picturesque views between
Skagway and Bennett.
The cards sell at one dollar pack and
are to be obtained at the railway depot
news stand, at Barley's and at Ritter's.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
HIGH OFFICIALS COMING
Governor General of Canada and
Lieutenant Governor Of b. G.

Governor General Mimic, of Canada
and Lieutenant Governor jolly, of British
Columbia, are expected to arrive in Skag-
way soon on their wav to the Yukon
basin on visit. The news of their com.
ing is given bv S. N. Irwin, general traffic
manager of the railroad, who has just re.
turned from trip to the south.
The British revenue cutter Ouadra will
bring the party to this port. Just what the
itinerary o! the distinguished visitors is to
be has not been learned.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
To Buy New Stock.

Mr.. Sam @. Kaufman, the resident man
ager of Kaufman Bros branch store at
Skagway, is in this CITY enroute east to
purchase winter goods. Mr.. Kaufman is
an old residenter of this CITY, and is one OF
the ultra swell merchants of the ctv on
Lynn canal. In speaking of the city OF
large pretensions he says that business is
prosperous Juneau Dispatch.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19

The reduction sale of Spencer Atkinson
COMPANY announced some time ago still
continues, and is becoming more and more
appreciated each day. One of the re isons
for this constantly increased interest Is
that when he marked down the prices on
his goods, Mr.. Spencer did not Tighten his
weights or shorten his ward stick. He
gives full measure and full weight at the
lowest prices ever seen in Skagwav. His
sale is a success.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-19
Leaves For Jack Wade.

}. n. McCourt, who has been in Skag-
way since July Ist, a a witness in the
Jack Wade creek mining cases left vester-
dav for the interior. Mr MeCourt was a
pioneer in Skagwav, having built one OF
the first residences in the city, that which
is now the home of F. T. Keelar Mr. NC
Court was the first clerk of the first coun-
Gil OF SkagWav.