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Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

Down in the Dolomite district sev- en foot ledge of gold quartz has been discovered which has foot and half pay streak that gives an average assay value of g 900 per ton. Assays from this pay streak run as high as l33 15-lOO ounces of gold and 58 ounces of silver per ton. This property lies within one mile of the water and shipments are expected to be made by the lst of July.
 There are, properly speaking, four ov- erIand routes to Nome. First, from Lynn canal, via Skagway and the Yu- kon route in winter. Second, Valdez, by the way of the Copper, Panama and Yukon rivers. Third, the Cook Inlet Kushkokwin route, through the inter. for by numerous streams; and, fourth, the Boring sea route from Katmai across the Alaska peninsula and along the coast
 Peavy is the principal trading post in the Koyukuk mining district, lO4 miles below Slate creek, where there is U. $. land office, postofice and store. Bergman, 44O miles above the mouth of the Koyukuk, and 146 miles from the diggings, is another general supply post. A trading post, it is expected, will be located this summer at the mouth of Slate creek by the Alaska Commercial company.
 The trial of the Indian murderers was engaging the attention of the court at Skagway last week and continues to this week. The first one of the P to be tried was the informer, Jim Hanson. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and recommended that he be hung. Had it not been for the voluntary confession of Hanson the disappearance of Bert Horton and his wife would yet remain a mystery.
 The government recommends the fol- lowing one month ration to Nome pros pectors, and it applies to other Alaska districts, as we'll Flour and hard tack, 30 pounds; baking powder, 1 pound; rice, oatmeal, etc., pounds; dried veg etables, 225 pounds; bacon and dried beef, p pounds; butter, 31@ pounds; beans, 6 pounds; pea soup, 1 pound; dried fruit, ' pounds; sugar z pounds; tea (21% pounds of coffee to be substi- tuted for 1 pound of tea) pound; salt, 125 pounds; miscellaneous, pounds; total of 9225 pounds, or daily ration of trife over pounds.
 As far as has has been ascertained the true bed rock in the Nome tundra districts is soft sand stone or mica scnist. and is encountered at depths varying from 20 to 60 feet. Overlying this. in alternate stratas of various tbicknesses are found the formations in the order herewith presented: Sur face covered with tundra moss and grass: dark brown or black peat; blue clay; gray sand and gravel; fine ruby sand carrying metallic gold; blue clay; white sand; gravel and sand; gray sand with cross bedding; gray gravel; gray sand and gravel; ruby and black sand with metallic gold; yellow sand; loam and clay; fine gray gravel and sand; coarse gray gravel and sand; fine gray sand with some gold; loam and areana- ceous blue clay; gray sand and gravel; yellow and blue clay; yellow sand; gray gravel and sand; gray sand; ruby sand and black sand with gold; loam and clay; bedrock.
Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

The following business men of Ben nett have embarked in mercantile pur- suits in the new town of White Horse: Whitney X Pedlar, general merchant disc; Shaw Bros, and P. Burns X Co.,, butchers; c. Racine, hotel; Victoria Yukon Trading Co.,, Otto Partridge, Tennant $ Baker, and the Yukon Con- solidated Co.,, lumber; T. West, Fred Trump, Frank Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, hotels; and the Bennett News Go. The town now has, according to the Skag- way Alaskan's report, five hotels, four restaurants, four saloons, two barber shops, one news stand, one steam laun- dry, two hand laundries, one hardware store, four general merchandise stores, two butcher shops, three lumber yards, one bank, one hay and grain dealer, an assay office, and four physicians and two sign painters.
 A United States engineer and geolo- gist who visited Koyukuk in August, 1899, says that at that time but two mining districts had been organized Slate creek and Myrtle. Sluicing had been commenced on but two claims, one of which, on Myrtle creek, report ed the gravel as yielding 36O to $8O per day per shovel. The gold clean look ing and coarse, considerably rolled or fiattened, and shows travel. The larg- est nugget taken out weighed nearly S2O. At that time there were 75 men in the district. IT. 1898 the country was run over by from 1000 to 1900 men, who found nothing, and came out with the report that the country was no good. The country rock is principally mica schist and slate. It is uplifted and stands on edge, while the gold occurs in shallow creek and gulch diggings. Recent prospecting, however, shows that the benches along these creeks are auriferous and frequently prospect from 3 to 5 cents per pan.
 According to the Sitka Alaskan, a corporation known as the Monte Cristo Gold Mining company, with a capitali- zation of S8,OOO,OOO, is about to take hold of and develop some quartz prop critics on Baranoff island. The propo- sition submitted to and approved by the company applies to 2l claims and provides for running tunnel sixteen hundred yards long, running from one bay to the other, thus cross cutting the various claims. Each end of the tun- nel will be 100 feet above high water mark and directly over the stamp mills. The idea is that the ore as it is put out from the tunnel can be dumped at once and crushed, and thus, virtually, the tunnel will pay for itself. As this work progresses the company will de- eide upon the necessary plant required. This will, probably, be about 250 stamps at each bay From these mills the crushed ore can be shipped, water in Yule bay being deep enough to permit a large vessel to come within about hundred feet of the shore.
Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

TO THE DEAF-A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by D. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums gave G1,OOO to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Apply to Department A. The Institute, 780, Eight Avenue, New York, US. A.
Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

UNCONVENTIONAL CHURCH H. Ham mond Cole. pastor. Regular services every i" tbe eyenins, at 7:45 o'clock. Sunday School iT tbe afternoon at o'clock. The Society ot Christian Eudeayor meets every Wednesday, evening at 7:l5 o'clock. Seats free. The puDitc cordially invited to attend.
Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27
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CATHOLIC CHURCH;

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Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services held at Odd Fellows Hall every Sunday evening.
 Rev H. J. Gurr. FRIENDS Regular services at the The New Friends Church.
 Sabbath School iV o' III III Native Services II "i ir: I- EVeniue Services For Whites. IF Prayer meeting. "Wednesday evening at 63 5:69 Christian EndeavCr, Friday evening at S:D Junior C. E Saturday -;o Teachers meeting every Monday evening aS o'clock at private houses. Any and all are cordially invited adu WeI- romed at all of these services.
 REV. C. \. REPLOGLE, Pastor.
Douglas Island news., 1900-06-27

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Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Fought Before Their Wives

Chicago, Nov. "a special to the
Chronicle from Elberton, Ca, says:
.'An alteration between James r..
Hammond and T. J. Wall, brothers
in-law, living eight miles from here,
resulted in a duel between the men
wherein Wall was killed, the two wives
being the sole witnesses to the battle.
Wall was beating a negro for disobedi-
ence, and refused to hear his wife's
plea in behalf of the colored man.
She then went to Hammond, her
brother, asking his intercession.
upon this Wall hcoa-'a incensed,
and drawing a revolver chased Ham
mond from his presence, threatening
to kill him. Hammond obtained a
shotgun. The relatives met again in
less than an hour, each accompanied
by his wife. A duel then ensued. and
Wall was instantly killed, while Ham
mond escaped without injury. The
women were the only eye-witnesses."
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Goulds to Paw Boni's Debts

New York, Nov. 3.-On the authority
of IAN intimate friend of the late Jay
Could" the World announces that the
debts of Count Boni lie Castellane will
be paid in full by the Goulds at once.
"The scandal attending the Claims
amounting to $4.70O,O00 against the
spendthrift husband of Countess Anna,
is to be stopped" the World AIDS
"a lump sum probably will be con-
tributed by George, Helen, Howard,
Edwin and Frank Gould, to wipe out
these debts, as they consider the hon
or of the Gould family is involved"
Incidentally, the World article says:
''It was ELECTED that the Gould mill
lions have necessarily doubled sine Jay
Gould's death. That Annals share is
nearly $18,000,000 and her income
nearer $1,000,000 than the 100000
mark as heretofore stated. The value
of the Gould estate is now estimated
at $125, O00, 000."
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Mrs. Craven Must Answer

San Francisco, Nov. 3.-The motion
of counsel for Mrs. Nettie Craven to
set aside the indecent of the grand
jury charging her with perjury came
up this morning for hearing in Judge
Cooks department of the Superior
Court. 1t is based chiefly upon the
ground that prior to and at the time
of the investigation which resulted in
the drawing of the indictment, certain
or all of the grand jurors were preju-
diced against the defendant
Mrs Craven was present with a
nurse In appearance she was greatly
improved, although she still goes
around on crutches She kept calling
for water, and two or three times it
was thought she was going to faint.
The court took recess at noon to
permit her to leave the room.
After a number of jurors had testi-
fed as to the fairness of their verdict
it was announced that the testimony Of
all the jurors would be on similar
lines.
The attorney for Mrs. Craven then
substituted a motion to nuash the in
dictment, which was promptly denied
by Judge Cook on the ground Of an
insufficient showing in support of the
motion. Attorney Ricrdan then fled
an exception to the ruling and on No
vember he will file demurrer.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Bloody Butchery of Prisoners.

Berlin, Nov. considerable impa-
thence at the meagerness of the news
from China is finding expression here.
The inference is that German censor
ship over such information is very
strict.
Letters from privates in China begin
to find their way into the Social Dem
ocratic papers, showing that the Ger
man troops give no quarter. The
Bremen Buerger Zeitung publishes a
letter from soldier in Peking, who
said he witnessed the following scene
Sixty-eight captives, some of them not
vet adults, were tied together by their
pigtails, beaten until bloody by the
Germans, compelled to dig their own
graves and then shot en- masse.
The Halberstader Volkszeitung prints
a communication from Peking in which
the writer says; "No prisoners are
taken. All are shot or, peferable sab
cred to save ammunition. Sunday
afternoon we had hayoneted seventy
four prisoners. They had killed one
of our patrolmen. An entire battalion
pursued them and captured seventy
four alive. 1t was cruel; it was hides
crihahle
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Ortega Branded as a fiend

San Jose. The trial of Jack Ortega,
local prizefighter, for felonious as
salut upon Oracle the eleven-year old
daughter of M. Gamble terminated
in verdict of guilty, the jury having
been out about eight hours. The Of
Tense was committed on the night of
August 26, and the details were so bru-
tai as to be indescribable. Mrs. Gam
BILE, the mother of the child, upon
hearing the little ones pitiful story,
went into commissions and died within
a few hours.
The entire community has been in
tensely wrought up over this case,
and the verdict is heard with great
satisfaction
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
San Jose.-On the 26th of last Aug
ust Oracle Gamble, an eleven year old
child, was raped, and her mother died
from the nervous shock Jack Ortega,
local pugilist, was suspected and his
arrest was followed by a most con-
vincing chain of circumstancial evil
dence which connected him with the
case. At the preliminary examination
he was positively identified by the
child as her assistant and two other
witnesses claimed to have seen Ortega
with the girl in his buggy on that
night
The case aroused considerable feel
ing here and to avoid threatened lynch
ing the prisoner was removed the
night following his arrest to Redwood
City. The Ortega family is one of des-
bers having served terms in States
prison and reform schools.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA items

One hundred workman employed on
the big Santa Susanna tunnel at Chats
worth Park are said to be on strike.
Mrs. Julia Williams of Bella Vista,
the oldest woman in that section of
California, is dead, at the advanced
age of 95 years.
Nine hundred dollars in coin was
found in the cabin of J. A. Freburg,
who was killed at the Declez quarries.
A young man of Tulare who threw
stones at a Chineses laundry was given
sentence of $50 days in the County
Jail.
The quail season has opened in
Santa Clara county. The shooting is
limited to twenty birds per day per
man. 1t is unlawful to snip birds out
of the county.
Juan Purreia of Lakeside, San Diego
county, is probably the Oldest vo-o-.
the State of California. On the Great
Register he appears as 10 years of
age. He states that he is not able to
mark his own ballot.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16

irving at the Indian school early in
the morning, horse was stolen on
which the stolen saddle was placed.
Later in the day they arrived at
Jacg Gibson's stock ranch on New
river, where they held up the man in
charge, but the amount secured is not
known.
About 5 o'clock they arrived at God
dard's station, a small road house On
the Black canyon road, and Goddard
being absent, they held up the man
in charge, one of them covering bin
with revolver, while the other robbed
the place, securing about $500 IN money
and jewelry. Mounting horses, they
rode in an easterly direction for few
miles, when they dismounted and
fiendishly cut the threats of both
horses, leaving them weltering in their
blood with saddles and brides on. even
leaving their coats tied on the saddles,
and then they struck out afoot.
The sheriff's office was notified early
this morning of the crime and officers
started Immediately to take up the
trail. The Cherokee Indian is said to
be quite young, while his companion
is not yet out of his teens. Both are
we'll known and capture is certain.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
The New Shamrock

New York, Nov. Sir Thomas Lip
ton is comforting at Glasgow with Geo.
l. Watson, the designer of the new
challenger for the Americas cup, says
a London dispatch to the Herald.
From authoritative sources IL is
learned that Sir Thomas's visit was
for the purpose of signing contracts
for the building of the yacht. These
have been placed with the Hendersons,
Meadowside yard, the builders of the
Thistle, the three Valkyries, the Brit
ANNA, the Meteor and the Sybarita.
The date specified in the contracts
for the handing over of the vessel is
March 80. The framework will be
laid down this week.
The greatest precautions are being
taken to preserve secrecy regarding
the design. A footpath along the
banks of the Clyde, which skirts the
Henderson's yards, is already closed.
AS to the plans for the sailing of
the defender of the cup, what E A.
Willard, the manager of the new boat,
may do in the matter of selecting a
skipper, remains to be seen.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
MINERS TORN INTO sHREDs
Auful Explosion in West Virginia Mine

Phillip CIV. Va.,) Nov. S.-Thirteen
miners were killed by an explosion
that occurred this morning at l O'Clock
at the mines of the Southern Coal
and Transportation Company at
Berrysburg, six miles from this place
The force of the explosion was SO
great that mules we're killed at the
mouth of the mine and cars were
blown forty feet from the track. One
man was blown in two at the lolns
and his body thrown against pile
of lumber at the mouth of the mine.
Two men were found sixty feet from
the mouth of the mine.
An hour after the explosion hum
dreds had visited the mine. The sight
was a most horrible one. Strewn along
the main channel and about the open
ing were the arms, legs hands and
other portions of the bodies of the
dead miners. The miners insist that
the explosion was caused by fire damp.
The night shift went on duty at z
O'Clock. Everything went smoothly un-
til about midnight, when the explosion
occurred. The dead were mutilated be-
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Queen Makes Heroic Rescue

New York, Nov. ga dispatch to
the Journal and Advertiser from Lis
bon says:
! The Queen of Portugal, at Cascals, a
fashionable resort, made a thrilling
rescue. She has been staying at the
palace of Cascals and was on the peach
watching her boatman, Crooms, bring
ing his boat in to shore. Suddenly
a huge wave overturned the boat.
Croom's arm was broken and he was
overcome by the undertow, which car
ried him beneath the waves. The queen
is an expert swimmer. Seeing that
her boatman was drowning, she sprang
into the sea before any of her attend
ants could prevent her. With rapid
strokes she swan to the boatman's
side and held him up until persons put
out in boats and rescued both the
queen. and her boatman. Crooms was
taken to the royal palace.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
TELEGRAPH|C RESUME.
The Beers and English Still Vigorously
Contesting.
OTHER HApPINGs OF INTEREST.
Reported From All Parts of The World
Which are of Particular Moment to the
Busy Reader.

Jackson, Miss, Nov. 5.-The State
Board of Health officials report one
case of yellow fever at Natchez. The
source of the infection is not yet
known. The patient is the wife Of the
local Baptist minister.
Waco, Tex, Nov. 5.-The suit of the
State of Texas against the Waters
Pierce Oil Co., for penalties amounting
to 100000 for alleged violation of
the antitrust law of 1889, ended to-
day in favor of the company.
New York, Nov. 5.-John McQuaue, a
clerk in the War Department, is lying
in the emergency hospital, his life in
the balance, says Washington special,
to the World. His neck was broken
during a football game last Sunday,
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Severe Earthquake

Layton, Cal, Nov. 5.-Several dis
tinct earthquake shocks we're felt in
Cahto, Mendocino county, today. The
first shock, which occurred at 2:15
o'clock this afternoon, shook some of
the largest buildings in the town. At
2:4O another shock, equally as severe,
was felt, and shocks continued at brief
intervals until o'clock At 6:32
o'clock this evening the severest shock
of all was felt, followed several seconds
later by a loud report, which made
windows rattle. In several sections OF
the town chimneys and old walls top
pied down. A strange feature of this
visitation of temblors is the violent
disturbance of the mud volcanoes To-
Gated near here. They Immediately
became violently active, belching forth
mud and warm vapOr. Their roar can
be heard miles away.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Safe Robbers Jailed

San Francisco, No. 3.-Chief of
Detectives Seymour believes that the
perpetrators of the recent attmpts to
rob the safes of the Pacific Rolling
Mills, the Bauer Lamp and Reflector
Company and the Brooke, Follis Elec-
trio Supply Company in this city, have
been run to earth in Chico. They are
ex-convicts, and are known as Clarence
French, alias Edwards, alias Charles
are under arrest at Chico for robbing a
hardware store.
Both men are expert electricians,
and the methods they pursued in COM
hitting the robbery that has landed
them in Jail tally in every particular
with those pursued in the offices of the
three firms mentioned.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
Hustled Out of Town

Mansfield, O., Nov. A vigilance
committee of men and boys cap
tured a Dowie elder, Mark Loblaw,
of Chicago, accompanied by woman,
hereabout noon today. e. H. Leiby, a
local Dowieite who was with them
was chased to a swamp and made his
escape. Loblaw and the woman were
taken to the Erie depot and after be-
ing held there for two hours were COM
PEELED to buy tickets for the next
town. In the meantime, another elder,
who refused to give his name, were al
so brought in by a citizen and put on
the same train. Both men were kicked
and cuffed by the crowd which num-
bered several hundred, before the
train arrived.
While the unknown elder endeavored
to make speech from the elr plat.
form of the train, he was oelted with
stones and gravel.
Mesa free press., 1900-11-16
PIucky Woman Kills a Robber

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. ga shotgun
in the hands of nervy woman ended
the career of Ventura Pace, a Mexican
robber, in a sensational fashion to-
night. Mrs. Lena Peterson, residing
in the southern part of the city, heard
a noise in the cattle corral in the
rear of her house. Taking gun, she
went to investigate and saw man
trying to get calf out of the corral.
She called to him and he started to-
ward her. She commanded him to
stop, but he hurried on and she fired
both barrels into his body at distance
of few feet. He was killed instantly,
and coroner's jury returned verdict
fully generating her. Pace was a
half breed and desperate character,
having but today been released from
Jail.