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The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
HERE BEFORE COLUMBUS CAME
DR.. De Costa Says the Catholic Re-
ligton Antedatss the Great
Diso0vereR.

Rev. DIR. De Costa delivered a lee
ture before the Catholic summer
school at Detroit recently, in which
he aroused great enthusiasm by his
declaration that the establishment OF
the Catholic church in America ante
dated by hundreds of years Column
bus first landing al San Salvador. He
set out to show that the Catholic
church was established here long be-
fore the great discoverer even con-
ceived his plan. He said:
The Catholic church was founded
in America several hundred years be-
fore the time of Columbus, and al
though said to have been established
in Greenland in the tenth century
by Eric. this was only properly re
establishment, for the church had
been in North America long before.
Rome took care of the spiritual needs
of the people of Greenland and what
are now known as the New England
states long before the new world was
known 10 the old, save to those who
were in the secrets of the church."
DIR. DE Costa made his deductions
from what he learned about the adj
vent OF Catholic bishops into Green
land in 1896 and a44s.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
What Would You Give

To be cured of catarrh? If you or your
friends have this disease, you know
how disagreeable it is. It's symptoms
are inflamed eyes, throbbing temples,
ringing noises in the ears, headaches,
capricious appetite, and constant dis
charge of mucus. Fortunately its cure
is not question of what you will give,
but what you will take. If you will
take Hoods Sarsaparilla, the great
constitutional remedy, which thor
oughly purifies, enriches and vitalizes
the blood you may expect to be COM
pletely and permanently cured. The
good blood which Hoods Sarsaparilla
makes reaching the delicate passages
of the mucous membrane, soothes and
rebuilds the tissues and ultimately
cures all symptoms of catarrh.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
Tar Weed.

The well know .tarweed, which grows
wild to great extent in this county,
especially in the mountain regions, is
now being cultivated in the valley sec
tions of California with profitable sue.
cess. 1t is believed the mountain pro-
duct is better than the low valley prod
ucts, as it is Il hardy weed and grows
better in the cooler climate of the high
attitudes.
In years past it has been used extern
sively in cough medicines, cordials,
bitters and other compounds with good
success. 1t is used very extensively
for medicines, the greatest demand be-
ing for the mountain variety. Down
in Colusa county the farmers are cut
ting and shipping tarweed to San Fran
cisco, where it brings them $50 a ton.
A Modesto paper has lately claimed
that tarweed is first-class forage plant
A Tulare farmer is said to have car
ried his stock through the draught
seasons on that feed, and the State
University experts have found by
analysis that it contains more nutrative
elements than most of the cultivated
forage plants. A Modesto farmer cut
fifteen or twenty tons of tarweed and
fed it to his COWS for several weeks.
He finds that the cows eat it readily
and fatten ON it. On the other hand,
its tendency is to 'dry the cows, and
the milk will not produce butter."-
Peoples Cause.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
Death Follows the Bite of a Skunk

A dispatch from Ell Passo, Texas
says:
In the greatest imaginable agony
from hydrophobid spasms, Silas Car
son, a prominent Arizona ranchman,
died al the Sisters Hospital here this
morning The disease was the result
of a bite from skunk received three
months ago. When brought here by
his physician last night he was pale
and haggard, though entirely con-
and remaHreesaa 't6s kat he was sure tS while dls
and nothing could save him. A few
minutes later he was seized with fit,
which was repeated about every two
hours until his death this morning.
With each attack he was less rational,
and at times wild, even vicious.
Carson owned a cattle ranch near
Wilcox, A. I. Three months ago he
was camping out on the roundup in
the mountains. One night he felt
something under his blanket, and
when he felt to learn what it was
large skunk seized him by the finger.
Thinking there was no danger he paid
little attention to it and the wound
soon healed up. Four days ago the
wound broke out again, and strange
feeling overcame him. He went TO a
physician, who pronounced it hydro
phobia, and ordered him here for ex-
pert treatment.
Another person was bitten by the
same skunk and is here being treated
with a maidstone. The hydrophobia
skunk is common in Arizona and New
Mexico, and many victims have been
here this year for treatment.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Christmas is almost here and what
have you done for the folks back East?
You want to remember them in some
way. If times don't justify you in
sending them a ten-dollar bill or a
piece of silverware, or a dozen silk
handkerchiefs, let us make a sugges-
ton. Suppose you send them this
paper for year. 1t will be better
than long letter every week They'll
kuOW yUu az wOrf ssts~. -~r--
posted about you. 1t will delight them
more than anything you could send,
and will only cost $l.50.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Whipped a Woman to Death.

Aspecial dispatch to the San Fran-
cisco Cat from Columbia, S. c., says:
james Swink, whose people have
wealth and large interests in cotton
mills at Woodruff, Spartanburg Co., is
in Jail at Spartanburg, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Wilhelmina Pear
son, very well connected women and
leader in society, by whipping her to
death.
The affair of the whipping has been
kept from the public since its occur
renee in the middle of September
through the influence of Swink. 1t
probably never would have been
known had not Mrs. Pearson, after
terrible suffering for six weeks, sue
cumbed to the injuries inflicted. The
full story is not yet known, but the
main facts are that Swink discovered
Mrs. Pearson, who was a constant visi-
tor at his house and friend of the
ladies of his family, was bringing notes
from young man in Woodruff to one
of the ladies. The contents of the note
intercepted by Swink may be made
known at the trial. They can be con-
jectured now by the course pursued by
Swink.
He had barely made the discovery
when Mrs. Pearson called. Going into
the parlor armed with a stick or horse
hide, he beat the woman until she be-
came unconscious. When she revived
he ordered her to leave Woodruff and
she went on the next train to Gastonia,
N. G. There she was Joined by her
husband, who had been spending a
month in the North Carolina noun
tains. She became i'll on reaching
town and after suffering for six weeks
died of her injuries. Her husband
testified before committing magis-
trate that his wife's body was blackened
by the strokes of the stick. The young |
man who wrote the notes was warned |
in time to escape and is now in the
West.
Swink does not deny the whipping.
His defense is that it did not produce
death. The whole community is con-
stirred up.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
MARSHMALLOWS IN BLOOM.
Their Delicate Color Relieves the
Dark Green of new jersey
Swamps.

The Jersey meadows rarely come in
for anything but abuse. Suburban
travellers who are carried over that
marshy stretch of land twice a day
grow TO look upon it as one of the
hardships OF their days journey. AT
times they provoke condemnation no
less pronounced than the kind usually
directed toward Hunters Point. 1t
was this same stretch of reeds and
grass that gave rise to conundrum
that was very popular for awhile in
front parlors along the nne OF GER
tain New Jersey railroad. The ques-
toner used TO ask why the president
of the road was n generous man to
his patrons. The answer used to be
that he first gave every passenger a
scent crossing the meadows and then
passed all the oranges.
But there is something beyond the
scent of the meadows to attract at
tention to them now, says a special
to the Chicago Inter Ocean. They are
abloom from one end to another with
the marshmallow flower. and its dain-
ty color adds an exquisite tone to the
rank green that is usually the only
color visible to the eye. Every Au-
gust the flowers begin to bloom. This
year their pink and white blossoms
are scattered over the whole range
OF the meadows. Usually they last
throughout the entire month.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
Cheap Insurance,


Don't think you can afford
to run your chances when
life and property are at stake.
Money cannot bring back the
lives Of those you are bound
to protect; and to lose your
building means loss of time
and money. A good Light
ming Rod is the best and
cheapest insurance known.
H. B. BEERS, Agent,
Genoa, Nevada.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
ts-5Jd-I
Notice for Publication.


TIMER LAND, ACT JUNE 3, 1878.
United States Land Office, Carson City, Ne
vada, october 5, 1900.
Notice is hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of Congress OF
June 8, 1873. entitled AN act for the sale OF
timber lands in the States OF California, Ore
gon, Nevada, and Washington Territory"
PATRICK ELMER Of Carson City, County OF
Ormsby State OF Nevada. has this day filed In
this office his sworn statement No 6s, for the
purchase OF the SEl4 OF NW14 OF Section No.
81, In Township No. IL n. Range No. % e., NJ.
D. NJ, and will offer proof To show that the
land sought Is more valuable for its timber or
stone than for agricultural purposes. and to
establish his claim to said land before the
Register and Receiver OF this Office at Carson
City. Nevada. ON the 9th day OF December.
1900.
He names as witnesses: Christian Smith,
William W. Coleman, Horton b. Van Etten
and George II. Meyers, all of Carson City,
Nevada.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
abovedescribed lands are requested to file
their claims in this Office on or before said 9th
day OF December, 1890.
o. II. GALLUP,
Register.
Date of frst publication, Oct. Il. 1900.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The Elko Independent says the vote
ON Congressman in Elko county so far
as received gives Harrington AT, New
lands 467. This indicates that Earring
ton will carry his home county by less
than 100 majority.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops TO teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure
Send for circulars and testimonials.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

d. l. Bliss was seriously injured at
Glenbrook Sunday night. He was
stepping on the boat from pile when
the latter gave way throwing him
against the railing and severely injur-
ing him. DIR. Lee was summoned and
soon had Mr.. Bliss comfortable. Car
son Nescs
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09
Mckinley Elected,

VIM. Mckinley has been reelected
President of the United States. His
vote in the Electoral College will prob
ably be in the neighborhood of 300
Territorial expansion has received the
approval of the people and we will
now have four years in which TO give
1t fair trial. The people have shown
a decided determination to try the new
policy and will now stand back and
watch its development and the results.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The construction of Senator Clark's
new railroad between Los Angeles and
Salt Lake City is to be commenced at
once. An order was placed last week
for 5000 tons of rails to be shipped to
Southern California within thirty days.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

In Colorado. wild ducks have become
so numerous that they are regarded as
a nuisance, and some counties are of
fering premiums for their destruction.
In nearly all other states these wild
fowl are protected by the game laws.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

If you want San Francisco news or
live news of the world, read the Buk-
tetin. subscription price 80 cts. a
month, which includes a large Is page
Sunday edition.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Returns received from N out of 163
precincts in Nevada give Bryan 1858
majority and Newlands l ,2SO majority.
The latest indications are that the
Fusion ticket will carry the State by
o000
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The. Oldest public building in New
York Is ST. PauIs onapei, AT Une cor
ner of Broadway and Fulton street. 1t
was built in 1866, ten years before the
Declaration of Independence.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

While engaged in firing an anvil
salute during political speaking at
Eureka charge of powder was pre-
maturely discharged by a spark from a
bonfire. Ed. A. Hammer received the
force of the explosion in the face and
will probably lose his eyesight.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The big theatrical companies East
have held meeting and decided to do
away with all bill posting and trust to
the newspapers to advertise them, it
having been demonstrated that money
spent in bill posting is thrown away.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The Appeal says a couple of defeated
candidates in 0rmsby county are talk
ing of a recount, as a number of bal
lots were thrown out.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

By the end of the year coal will not
be used on any of the locomotives in
the State of California. All the en-
gines are being now converted into oil
burners.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

The Reno Journal says it is reported
that construction work on the MOO.
railroad will begin the latter part of
February and a40 miles of new track
will be laid in the next two years.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

New York State was carried by Nc
Kinley by 6,0G0. Greater New York
Democratic majority is $1,000.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Two men beating drums followed G..
e. Wallace about the streets of Reno
Tuesday. They were arrested.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Dan Stuart is trying to arrange a
fight between Jeffries and Fitzsimmons
to to take place in Carson City.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Bryan's majority in Ormsby county
is 80; Newlands, IS; Fitzgerald, 1877.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Bryan carried Storey county by 155
and Newlands by 159. Fitzgerald's
majority is 259.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Returns from Oregon give Mckinley
a plurality of $1,000.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

California gives Mckinley majority
of 10000.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Senator Stewart has returned to
Washington.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Washoe county gives Mckinley
majority of IL. Newlands' majority is
165.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-11-09

Sutro gave Newlands thirteen ma
jority and Dayton gave him forty.
The age-herald., 1900-05-24

were six months ago they would break this long line. but they have lost all appetite for aggressive movements. They are con sidering defensive operations at Johannes berg and Pretoria
 Hunter on the left. Roberts In the center and Butler on the right, are marching against the doomed capital of the Afri- flanders and the Afrikander cause. Hun- ter is already north of the yaal river, and Roberts soon will be. Whether Butler will be able to force a way through the rugged Drakensbergs at once is questionable; but the advance of Roberts will soon compel the evacuation of the laagers of the Boers in that range. Theeir position will soon be rendered qptenable, and the entire British strength, which is overwhelmingly supe- rior will be concentrated against Johan- nesberg and Pretoria. When those cities fall the war is ended. and all talk of guer- fila warfare afterwards is nonsense. The brave burghers are not fanatics.
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
Roberts Movinq N0rthward.

London went wild over the relief of the garrison of Mafeking, but it takes no ac- count of the wonderful executive ability of Lord Kitchener in sending supplies over a line one thousand miles long, or of Lord Roberts, who is beginning an advance that will end beyond doubt the war. Today he Is marching northward, and If the queen s birthday could be postponed a fortnight it could be celebrated by a victorious army in Johannesburg itself.
 The entire policy of Lord Roberts seems to consist in driving the Boers into one locality in the Transvaal He does noth- ing to prevent their concentration. He does not attempt, and has not attempted, to cut off their retreat. He lets them move northward, carrying their guns and wag- ons along. Every commando will soon be north of the vaal river, >where possibly 50, 900 men will be concentrated.
 Butler and Roberts will soon be in touch. and the sweep of the advancing British line will then extend from Laing's Nek to Mafelsng, a great distance. If the Boers were as mobile and full of fight as they
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
JUSTICE TO GEN. WHEELER

From the New 4ork Journal
 When the Spanish war broke out Joseph Wheeler, then safely harbored in congress for life, offered his services to the govern ment in any capacity. His offer was gladly accepted It was felt that the veteran sol dier, who had won the stars of a lieutenant general of the Confederacy a generation before, would be an Invaluable aid in rally ing southern support to the war.
 General Wheeler rendered valuable serv- ice in Cuba, and then he was sent to the trying climate of the Philippines, where he worked with equal fidelity and success
 For all this the only reward he has ever received has been reduction in rank, with the prospect that he may be cast entirely adrift. He gave up his seat in cong:1s. because the president wished him to stay in the army, and now his patriotism may result in leaving him in his old age without moorings anywhere.
 The American army ought not to lose the name of Fighting Joe Wheeler. He is just where he belongs It ought to be the pleas ure, as it is certainly the duty, of the gov- ernment to put him in the regular service and allow him to pass the rest of his life in the well-earned peace of the retired list
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
Queens Birthday Banquet

London, May 23.-The usual queen's birth day ministerial banquets took place this evening. Lord Salisbury entertained at the Hotel Cecil. His guests included King Oc car of Sweden and Norway, the Prince oi lomats.
 colonial office included Canadian High Com. missioner Lord Strathcona and Mount Roy al and the Australian federation delegates.
 Mir Goschen entertained the Duke of York, many admirals, Commander Richard son Clover, the United States naval at- tache here and other naval attaches.
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
FATHER OF fl CHILDREN
Triplets Have Come Thrice and Twins Nine
 Times

Providence, R. l., May 29.-Levi Bresson, who lives in the little town of Foster, has broken the American record of paternity, and is the happiest father in the state of Rhode Island.
 When he awoke this morning he found that he had become the father of a boy, his forty-first child. Thirty-six of his chill dren are living in fifteen different states of the union and in the Canadian provinces The present Mrs. Bresson is Lewis third wife.
 Mrs. Bresson No 1 was seven times the mother of twins. Mrs. Bresson No. was the mother of there sets of triplets and once the mother of twns besides three single children. His present wife has borne twins once and eleven single children.
 Bresson is 65 years old Of the thirty-six living children thirty-three have large fam lilies of their own. Eight of the grand children have families, too. Bresson owns a farm of hundred acres, and has never employed inyone in cultivating it except his own descendants.
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
HE ONLY pallY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Mayor Woodward Holds the Fort.

Atlanta has a mayor and also a city council, and one of the duties of the lat ter consists in periodically demanding the resignation of the former, on one pretence or another. Sometimes the council says he consults the record of the governors of North Carolina and South Carolina too frequently, and sometimes it says he is not discriminating enough in his personal visits inside the gates, to speak, of his own city, which is, of course, a reflection to some extent upon the city; and some times it simply says he has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a gentleman, all though gentlemen have as a rule been abolished throughout the republic, their places having been taken by plain men,
 But whatever the alleged cause be, it fails to find response in the executive breast of city that is very bumptious even with census staring it in the face. To the latest demand of this remarkable council Mayor Woodward thus replies: T have given your request for my resigna-
 
 tion, and I am convinced that the public interest makes it my duty to continue to fill the office to which the people elected me" This reply evidently covers the ground, and laps over to the next request of the city council. In classic American, it did the evening up. No one in the alder manic chamber had any appetite for dis putting or even discussing it. No one had any plan for turning the mayors Hanks. 'Let it." said the alderman presiding, "be filed" He might have added an expletive, but he did not, we are glad to say. It is still on file and Mayor Woodward is still at the head of the city government, where he will stay until January l, despite all bombardments of a resignative nature from the esteemed council
The age-herald., 1900-05-24
Euidemics From the West and South.

The peculiarly foul condition of this town at present is scarcely justified by the gen. eral situation In the west bubonic plague has gained foothold, and in Mexico yellow fever is already epidemic. The country will have to fight both and this town should smell much sweeter than it does. At pres ent it stinks nearly as much cologne did when Coleridge's pen was productive and picturesque.
 San Francisco is very indignant because Texas does not want any plague infection. As there have teen six deaths in China town, and presumably twice or thrice that |number of cases, Texas is wholly justified in establishing a rigid quarantine against California and the more rigid she makes it the better she will please the rest of the south that she is defending in at least one direction. But this part of the south is closely connected at Kansas City with an- other transcontinental line, and a celestial could drop off here at any time bearing in his person or goods the seeds of the dis ease. As it is disease bred in and from filth 1t Is plain the less filth we harbor the better our chance of fighting down a stray case would be.
 . The old battle against yellow fever will also be at hand soon. The chief source of danger will be Havana, but up to May Il not a single case of the disease had oc- cured. The sanitary care of the city is in the hands of Dr. Gorgas, who is doing all he can to keep it clean and free from disease But it would be unsafe to assume that the climatic fever will not reappear. It certainly will. When Havana has a complete and comprehensive sewer system the disease may be prevented altogether but such system has not yet been put in, and cannot be this year, and it is the plainduty of all ports and towns in this country to be alert and ready against an outbreak of the disease. There is but one thing to do-clean up and keep cleaned up. Beware of stagnant water and foul out buildings. Beware of filth anywhere As recent history shows, a filthy little town is the chief source of danger in this coun- try.