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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-08-10

The concert of the Olympia Band
Saturday night will consist of solos
and DUETS by the artists OF the band,
Including trombone solo by M. Roy
Thompson. The concert will be worth
hearing, and the dance will be an ad-
ded attraction.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
LAKE IN AFRICAN MOUNTAIN.
Explorer Circumnayigates thei Entire
 Sheet of Water.

Explorer Clrcumnayigates thei Entire
 Sheet of Water.
 At a meeting of the Royal Geograph- ieal society in London an interesting report by Poulett Weatherley on Lake BangWeulu, in central Africa, was read. The explorer =circumnavigated the entire sheet of water His party reached the lake i'll August, 1896, and established camp at the southeast ern corner, 3,765 feet above sea level. The shores of the lake are absolutely free from shells and the water has no depth. He sounded in many places, but never found more than fifteen feet. Its surface was usually still, very strong wind raising the smallest sea. 1t appears to be nothing but flooded district. Mir. Weatherley thinks it was formed by the water from the great watershed Of the Tanganyika plateau The overflow is checked to the west and southwest by rim of rock, but the east and southeast has no such barrier, and in that direction there is vast swamp from twenty to forty miles in breadth. The Liposochi and Luena to the north and the Chambeze to the east are the chief contributors to the water supply. With twenty-five men he explored the island of M ba. wala, about twenty miles long and LOGO yards from the shore, and pro, ceeded toward the outlet of the Luca. pula, ultimately landing at K1rui isl- and A ff0. q cto 1,f !, island, which they found low, beauti- fully wooded, we'll peopled and culti- vated, they passed on to Kisi island. This they found not a bit like the island depicted on the maps. It pre- sented a most peaceful, prosperous sight, and in common with the other two islands, Kirui and M'bawala, it reared a good number of sheep-the broad-tailed kind-and goats. The people appeared to live a life of com plete peace and eontentment. Proceed ing in a northerly direction, the party reached the extreme north-northwest corner of the lake. Continuing their journey along the coast, they discoy- cred narrow peninsula stretching north and south, having on the west sheet of water about three miles in width, which extends the whole length of Bangweulu north and south, but is always separated from the lake by the isthmus. There was cotton every where, but not in large quantity, and the bark-cloth tree abounded.-NeW York Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
GET THEIR TIPS FROM CROOKS
Bank onscials rake Means so Protect
 Their Treasure from Thieves.

It is said by police official at city hall headquarters that some of the city banks, whose hoard of surplus cash has been increasing largely of late. have been experimenting with an ex- pedient long ill use by the Bank of England officials of paying known crooks for information of any contem' plated raid upon their vaults. The Bank of England's first experiment Of this kind dates from 1850, when the directors of the bank listened to a startling proposition made by ditch digger The laborer told the directors that he had discovered a new and un- suspected method of getting into the cellar vaults, where the gold and sil- yer bars were kept, and that he would sell his secret to them for money. The directors hesitated, believing that they had taken every preeaution against loss from the vaults in putting up heavy masonry, with plenty of iron bars, and by manning the building with armed watchmen. But finally they gri,-std t. ( nan, who seemed to talk fairly, a chance to try his plan. and a night was named for the undertaking. At the appointed time committee of the directors descended to the cellar and heard peculiar scratching sound under their feet. Two hours later the floor opened and the ditch digger bobbed up sereneiy, like the evil spir- It's in the spectacular drama All around them lay bars of precious metal, totaling in value 93,000000. The man explained satisfactorily how it was done and as a reward the direc- tors assured him an income from life on an investment of $10,000. The crook was content and it is believed he remained honest ever afterWard. But other cracksmen were tempted by his luck to try the same game and the directors were inundated with sugges- tions and tips on new methods of bur- glary and how to prevent them. Among other things, they paid $20,000 for a process, invented by young chemist, for copying the ink, paper, water marks and designs of the bank notes so perfectly as to defy detection. The directors found they could use his sys- tenn more satisfactorily and more proftably than their own in the pro- duction of their currency. Despite the fact that these expenditures have run up into big figures in the last half century the directors of today say that all the money was well invested.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
HISTORY IS ANCIENT.
ntes Back to the Time When Nineveh Was 8 Great Metropolis.

The authentic history and biography HI China is doubtless the oldest ln tne world. even antedating that of the 3&ws Those familiar with It's chro- ux3logy state that it embraces period from the year 122 of our era back to the remote period of 2,697 years before Christ. The historians of China en- hraee a succession of unintefruptea series of more than 2,4oo years. ine fa1ll and continuous history of the em- hire was compiled in the second cen fl1ry of our era. The great libraries of Pelkin contain volumes Of DOCKS z1ai1mb bered by the hundreds Of thou Bands In the archives of the govern zn1ent are still to be found the ancient nredictions of eclipses made with great aecuracy, together with works on as- fronomv which show a fair knowledge of that interesting science. Biogra- phies, very sueeinctly written, of the emperors of the most ancient dynas- ties still eyfst, and written works CT 1earned men are as voluminous as those of European nations. And all this learning and love of learning has been acquired without help or sugges- tion from any foreign people. II thelr anthentic histories reach back nearly five centuries ago, mythical history reaches still further back into the very night of time. When NlneVeh and Babylon were in the splendor of their might men in China were pre- dieting eelipses, making catalogues and giving names to the stars. But Nineveh and Babylon were mere mounds of earth and rubbish when China was great, and to this date the Civilization and life of the empire ara the wonder of the world.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
Unfnue Violin.

New York Tribune: A unique violin has been made by a Missouri man. The back is of cherry from table more than a century old, which for merly belonged to the Howard-Payne college. In the center of the back are inserted twenty-one pieces of wood from the Holy Land, one being from a grapevine that grew in the Garden Of Gethsemane. Around the margin are set in row small pieces of wood, dia- mond shaped, gathered from all over the civilized world. In one end of the back is inserted a horseshoe made of castor wood, and in the other end is the image of rabbit carved in cher ry. There are, in all, over 150 pieces of wood, and the only tools used in the manufacture of the instrument were pocket knife and half-iach chisel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
MORE ENGLISH IRON.
Timely Discovery at Kent in the Dover
 Coalfield.

When the coal boring was put down at Dover about six or eight years ago, by Mir. F. Brady, on the site of the old Channel tunnel works, there were indi- cations in the cores of the presence of iron ore in the strata between 5e0 and 600 feet from the surface. The indica- tions have now proved correct, says the London Chronicle Tn the course of sinking the No. 2 shaft a bed of valu- able ooiitic iron ore has just been struck at depth of rather less than 609 feet. The seam proves to be no less than twelve feet thick and probably ex- tends over great area, the quantity being practically unlimited. The diam eter of the shaft is twenty feet and the quantity brought to the surface in passing through the twelve feet amounted to about $50 tons Samples of the ore have been submitted to anal ysis, with highly satisfactory results, a washed sample of the ore yielding 45.S per cent of iron. On visiting the col fiery works today inspected consid- erable bulk of the ore and the mana
 
 ger informed me that washed sample tested at the works yielded between 30 and 60 per cent oS iron. The analysis shows that the ore is free from sul- phur and phosphorus. The ore is stat ed to be of much richer quality than the Wealden ironstone, worked in Kent and Sussex a century ago. Prof. Boyd Dawkins, in a paper read before the British association in 1894, described sample obtained from the original boring. From this it appears that this bed of iron ore is identical with that described by Blake and Hudleston at AbbotsDury, in Dorset, where it occurs between the Kimmeridge clay above and the Corallian rocks below. It is also practically identical with the val uable iron ore worked for many years in Westbury, Wiltshire. The ironstone presents very singular physical char acteristics. It is composed of dark brown, shining grains of hydrated OK, idle of iron, like millet seed, imbedded in a crystalline base, partly of call einm aud partly of iron carbonate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
Into the Cistern.
York Post

Last Monday little Jeanette Bates of Richmond, Ky, was playing around the cistern. when one of the boards broke and let her fall in. The three year-old tot, though, held onto the chain and kept her head above the water until her papa and some neigh bors got her out.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
Big Gambling Losses in England.

In the latest history of gambling in England, just published, there are some astonishing revelations as to the amount of money won and lost by men and women whose names were as fa- miliar as household words early in the present century. There are records of S1,000,000 having been lost at a sit ting, and the loss of S250,000 appears to have been very common occur renee.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
A Remarkable Bigamv Case.

A rather remarkable bigamy case came to light in Southwark recently. A Mrs. Little. wife of railway porter at Portsmouth, went to London and there married carman named Car ter. She paid visits alternately to her two husbands for some time without discovery, but during one visit MT. Little discovered the certificate of the second marriage pinned inside his wife's bonnet, and he communicated with his brother in London, who gave information to the police.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
A Curious Rescue.

4 curious rescue was effected recent ly in the County Wicklow, Ireland Some time in April last an unfortunate sheep became imprisoned on a part of the rugged cliffs arising from the banks of the Upper Lake Glendalough, and though many plans were proposed to get it down, no one was found will ing to undertake the risk, when a gen. tleman from South Africa volunteered to rescue the poor animal. After an Rrduous and exciting climb, he man. aged to reach the spot, and, having at tached a rope to the sheep, it was lowered to the lake, where a boat was ready to receive it. So hungry was a-zo poor brute that when dangling in the air it tried to bite at the tufts of grass on the face of the cliff It must have died of starvation in very few days more, as every bit of herbage within reach was nibbled to the earth
 Some idea of the risk this rescuer ran may be gathered from the fact that this particular spot has always been
 considered inaccessible, and that il took the gentleman fully two hours Y7a make the ascent. The lake Indet vshe cliff is forty fathoms deep.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
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Odd Condolences.

Winfield (N. J.) Special Brooklyn Times: Homer F. Candee, the new postmaster at this place, has remark able family history. To begin with, bis father fought in the revolutionary war, enlisting when he was 21 years old from Connecticut in 17S3, six months before the war closed. After the war he was granted a pension. He had three wives He lived sixteen years with his first wife when she died. Sixteen years with the second, when she passed away, and sixteen years with the third when he departed. The third wife married again and lived six teen years with her second husband, when he died and she survived him ex- act}y sixteen years. Postmaster Candee was born in 1928.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-09
COST OF THE CUP DEFENDER.
Racing Yacht Has Cost Handsome
 Fortune to Its Owners.

A correspondent of the Army and Navy Journal having applied to it for information on the subject, that paper answers that the cost of the building of the Columbia has been variously estimated at from S100 GOO to $150,000, and for the Shamrock at from $150.000 to $200,000. It then adds: "A sum- mary of the cost of the Shamrock, based on estimates from various sources, is as follows: Construction and rig, $200,000; pay roll officers and men, including sailmakers and carpen- ters (eight mem, for four months at average of $40, $12,8o0; provisions for men and officers, at S5. a week for eighteen weeks, s7,200: clothing for crew, $1,000; for dry-doeking twice, $500; tender at $50 day. for sixty days, $9,000; tug0oat at $50 a day, for sixty days, $3,6Qo; derrick and lighter services, $500; lighter for storage of spars for six weeks, $500; freight for spars and sails by steamer, $500; pas sage for thirty workmen, triggers, etc, S5,000: total $242 ,600 If the special services of the designer, Mr. Fife, and of Sailmaker Ratsey, who came to this country, are a charge against the ae- count, the sum would, of course, be so much augmented. Reorganization shows that the Erin and Shamrock represent first cost of S725, 5,000. The cost of running the Erin increases the expenses to SS75, 5,000."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14

Again the Populsts, in national con
vention assembled, have sacrificed that
which is dear to every political party,
viz, the privilege OF honoring a member
of their organization with nomination
for Office, and have unanimously chosen
William Jennings Bryan as their stand
ard-bearer for the presidency. Tho
Populists are sincerely for reform, and
they show it by choosing man from
another party who has chance to win,
rather than lose their votes by casting
them for one Of their own members
Bryan today embodies the hopes OF
every true friend of the republic. Ho
is big enough and broad enough In
sentiment and principle for every re-
former to look up to as the exponent OF
all that is best for our country's future,
and, villiied and sandered as he has
been for four years past, he looms up
now as the one true American leader
in whom hope and trust may be placed
with security.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14

The coal companies organization,
known as the Taxpayers Association,
is reaching out in an attempt to throttle
the public schools. A seven-months
term, it is alleged, is all that the
revenues will permit in the surrounding
townships, and the law, they say, must
be lived up to strictly. 1t would not be
a bad idea il the law were enforced
and beginning might with profit be
made at the assessment of coal oper-
ators lands in the townships where
the revenues are inadequate to meet
the school expenses. Instead OF assess
ing coal land, worth $1,000 to ST., 200
an acre, at S5 an acre, let the law be
strictly enforced. Let the operators
pay an equitable share of the school
taxes, and the school funds will be
sufficient in few years to give every
pupil in the townships about us COL
lege education. Enforce the law and
let us see II meddlesome fingers won't
get neat burning.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14

1t would interest a good many Demo-
Gratis to learn who asked the Repnbli-
can anti-Quay bosses to interfere in the
selection Of a Democratic candidate for
the legislature in this district. The
Democrats are qualified to make a
choice without assistance from Mr..
Drake and his colleagues, and the
scheme to foist one of their henchmen
on the ticket will, If successful in the
convention, be resented at the polls
Men who are Democrats when it suits
Republican leaders purposes are not the
kind of Democrats who should represent
this district in the legislature.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14

When the matter of fire protection
for the Hill was first talked of-after
the territory was admitted to the
borough fire engine was suggested
as the only reliable safeguard. The
idea, however, was ridiculed by the
knowalls. Now, after waste of
money and time with other appliances.
council is back to the question OF buy
ing an engine. 1t takes a long while
for common sense to drive It's way into
some heads.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14
McMenaInin's
Gents Furnishing, Hat and Shoe Store,
90 South Centre Street.
Something About Our Store.

Our store is stocked with all that is new and desir-
able in spring and merchandise in lines We
have steadily aimed to build up reputation for fair and
honest dealing with patrons and to do this
afford to sell article except for what really is We
employ no deceptive schemes, give away chromos,
we Go not sell below cost do sell the class of
goods at two prices We give the best service and ae-
ton cheerfuly refund money if purchases are
not satisfactory and accord to- every patron friend
stranger the same treatment If you desire to buy
store where these principles gidy followed, call
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-14
ADVERTISING.

Nothing, except the mint, can make
money without neutrality-suspicious.
l would as soon think of doing busi-
ness without clerks as without adver-
tising.-John Wanamaker.
When you pay more for the rent of
your business house than for advertis-
ing your business, you are pursuing a
lot it be known.-Benj amin Franklin.
The Princeton union., 1900-10-18

a. d. 1900, at the once Of the county auditor, Ia
the village OF Princeton In said county,
And 1t Is further ordered. that notice of the
posting copy Of this order in one public place
In each Of the school districts to be affected by
said petition; and by handing TO ana leaving w
tricts, personally, copy Of this order. at least
ten days before the day appointed for such
hearing, and that copy Of said notice be pub
pers, to-wit: The Princeton Union and the
Mile Laos County Times.
Chairman Board Of County Commissioners,
Mile Lacs County, MINI, a
F. E. WHITNEY, County Auditor and ex-
officio Clerk OF Board.
[Seall
Application by Preston T. jackson for pur-
chase OF "a Of sW4 OF section 2l, township 80,
range 26, was presented to the board. After
careful investigation Of the matter the board
considering the amount offered to be reasona-
ble on motion it was unanimously voted to
recommend that the said application be
granted. ~ 5a-s- s*s>E + &
In the matter Of the petition presented by j.
II. Ward and containing seventV.nlne sigma
bonds of the county in the sum Of $25 900 for the
purpose Of constructing and repairing roads
and bridges be submitted to the voters OF the
ing resolution was offered and, on motion was
adopted by unanimous vote .~,,
Resolved, That the county commission
ers of said county deem it necessary and for
the best interest OF the inhabitants thereof, to
| issue the bond of said county for the purpose
| of constructing and repairing roads and bridges
| to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars
| ($25, ,OOO), to become due and payable twenty
(20) years after date thereof, with interest pay
able semi-annually at the rate OF four per cent
per annum; and it is further resolved, that a
proposition for issuing the aforesaid amount OF
bonds of said county, for said purpose, bearing
interest at said rate and payable as aforesaid
| be, and the same is hereby ordered and di-
rected to be submitted to vote of the electors
of said county at the general election to be held
on the 9th day of November, A. D. 1900.
In the matter of the appointment of Judges
| for the election district composed OF township
43, range Is. for the general election OF NOvem-
ber g. 1900, on motion Peter Schlin (clerk) JOhr
| Skretting and 6. w. Freer were appointed
judges OF said election district by unanimous
vote.
In the matter of the petitions for refundmen
presented by F. d. McMillen and F'linklnge!
Bros, as attorneys for the administrator o
the estate of r. r. Medd. motion, it wa:
voted that action said petitions be deferred
until the next meeting of the board.
On motion the board adjourned to Tues
day, December 4th, 1900, ut 10 o'clock A. NJ.
JOHN MCCoOL,
Chairman Board of County Commissioners
Mile Laos County, MINI.
Attest: =,
E. E. WHITNEY, County Auditor and ex
officio Clerk of Board.
| [Seal
The Princeton union., 1900-10-18

CTATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY OF
~ Mile Lacs.-ss. In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate OF John Bullard.
jr., deceased.
The petition of Willis E. Bullard having been
duly made and filed in this court. representing
among other things that one John Bullard, jr.,
who resided last prior to his death at Fowler,
intestate at said Fowler, in the
county, of Clinton, State Of Michigan, on
the 18th day of December, 1920, seized of an
estate of Inheritance in certain lands in the
county of Mile Lacs, State of Minnesota de-
five years have elapsed since the death of said
John Bullard. jr.. deceased, and that admins
tration has not been granted or had OF said
estate in this State, and praying that the de-
scent Of said lands be by this court determined.
be entitled thereto by law.
Now, therefore, 1t is ordered that the said
petition be heard at a term of this court to be
held at the court house, in the village of
Princeton in said county of Mile Lacs State
of Minnesota, ,,on Monday the 18th day Of No
vember, A. D. 1900. - All. FL.
1t isfurther ordered, that notice of said hear
ing. of said petition be given by the publ
cation of this order for three successive weeks
in the Princeton Union, a weekly newspaper
printed and published in said Mile Lacs
county. * =. I >,s5ri E5s%4%
B. M. VANALsTEIN,
probate Seal Judge Of Probate.
S. & o. KIPP, Attorneys for Petitioner.