davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
LASSOEs MOUNTAIN LIONS.
Old CattlemRn Near Santa Barbara
CAL. Kills wild Animals
with Rtata.

There are few men who have had
courage or skill to lasso a mountain
lion on mountain and make him cap
tive. But there is an old cattle rider
in Santa Barbara county, Cal, who the
other day roped two lions. and with
out the use of gun or club killed both.
He is Bico Bejarra. a vaquero of San
Marcos ranch, near Santa barbara. Not
only did he lasso these lions. but he
caught them out of two big syca-
mores, where. 81 feet from the
ground. they crouched, treed by shep-
herd dogs.
The dogs got the lions up and a
party went to shoot them. G. G. Lamb.
a cattleman, would have killed them.
but Bejarra stopped him, saying he
would furnish sport for the company
Riding his trained pony close to the
tree, Beiarra lassoed one of the lions
The animal was roped- around the
body and as the RATA frightened the
beast was drawn. snarling. kissing and
clawing, to the ground Keeping out
of its way. Bico worried it to death
1t struggled and fought. but was soon
brought where it was ready to have
its throat cut. Meantime the second
lion had been closely watched. 1t
was next roped and the performance
repeated.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
MAIDENS ANXIOUS TO WED.
Man to BE Delayed with
Offers.

An advertisement for a wife in a
Chicago matrimonial paper may drive
Christopher Harrison, city engineer
of Everett. Mass, to marriage The
advertisement was inserted by some
of his acquaintances as joke. but
he has been so deluged with amorous
letters on pink, blue. green and pur-
pie paper that he is now seriously
considering matrimony. He has re.
ceived letters from Siwash Indian
maidens on bleak Alaskan shores.
Oklahoma bellies. Maine teachers,
Nova Scotia farmers daughters. Homo
lulu girls and southern and western
bellies.
''If | only wanted to go on mat
rimonial SPREE" he said brigham
Young would not be in it with me
and even King Solomon could not trot
in my class ] have female picture
gallery that could not be purcbas sed
with 10.000.o00 cigarettes, and if 7
catch the man who advertised for a
wife in my name there will certainly
be trouble" t
Harrison is considered good match
by Everett girls and several are ane-
ling for him He knows it
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
DELUGED WITH NEW WORK.
Locomotive Works and Car Shops
of Country Unable TO FIN Orders
Fast Enough.

The locomotive works. as well as the
car shops in this country, are over
whelmed with new orders. President
Galloway of the New York Central rail
road says he is having difficulty in ar.
ranging for delivery of new locomo-
tives. which are urgently needed on
the Central system before next fall.
Railroad men generally complain of
the scarcity of freight cars and the lack
of motive power Although tens of
thousands of new cars and hundreds of
new locomotives have been built within
the last two years. the abnormal, growth
of railroad traffic has surpassed even
the steady increase in equipment.
Western lines are constantly calling
on their eastern connections for more
cars with which to move freight east
ward, but the eastern lines are not
able to comply with more than half of
these requests.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
TO NArroNAL1zE TELEGRAPH.
Gigantic Scheme Proposed by Sir
Sanford Fleming for the British
Government.

Sir Sanford Fleming has addressed
long letter to William Mulock. post
master general of Canada, in favor of
telegraph service to girdle the globe
and owned by the state. The letter is
said to. be the beginning of a move
ment to nationalize the BILE and tele-
graph service Of the empire. The mat
ter, the writer says, affects Canada as
we'll as Australia.
The arrangement for the establish
ment of the Pacific cable has been COM
pleted. The arrangement implies
joint ownership. and in the opinion of
Sir Sanford 1t is the harbinger of a
complete system of state owned tele
graphs by land and sea.
With the telegraph system national
lied as suggested, Sir Sanford says that
messages will be transmitted to and
from the most distant British posses
sions at one-eighth or one-tenth the
rates now levied by the companies. In
concluding his letter the writer says:
british subjects in Canada, in Aus
tralia. in New Zealand. in India. in
Africa as well as in the mother coun-
try must unite in securing complete
emancipation from the grasp of the
great cable combine At the thresh-
old of the twentieth century high i'm
perial interests demand the cheapest
possible telegraph transmission and
the greatest possible freedom of inter-
course between all the subjects of her
majesty domiciled around the globe.
respectfully submit. therefore, that ac-
tion cannot be taken day too soon to
nationalize our telegraph system by
land and sea throughout the whole
empire"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
CAPE MONIES FUTURE.
Enthusiast Returned from Gold
Fields Draws Rosy Picture.
Claims Alaska viii be to United
states what south Africa Is to
England = Predicts Gold On.
pat of S15,OOO,OOO I'm 1901.

'"The output of the Alaskan gold
fields for 1901 will be fully $4,000, ,oOO."
said Lyman S. Allies, of Seattle, who
left Nome City on October 25. at the
Waldorf-Astoria. New York, the other
night. Alaska will soon be to thu
United States what South Africa is to
England" continued Mr.. Allies. "One
of the vexatious things which the min
ers had to contend with this year was
the interminable squabbles over claims.
The overflow of miners from the Klon-
dixie struck us last spring and settled
on claims already staked. In some
eases they would rename creeks and
drive new stakes. and the original
owners have been fighting thousands
of these cases in the courts all the
year. The gold output for 1900 would
have been much larger but for this.
The beach claims at and near Nome
have been worked out. but back on
the creeks there is an unlimited
amount of gold. have good claim on
Oregon creek, 25 miles from Nome
and 20 miles back from the coast. The
latest important strike is on Kotze bue
sound bay of Good Hope. away off to
the north of Nome. Another impor-
tant strike that promises great results
is in the Bluestone Creek district,
west of Nome. and &c miles south of
Port Clarence. one of the two good
harbors of western Alaska. The Plue
Stone creek district has opened with a
rush. and it seems to be fully as good
ac bn fpr IL u
cleaned up $2O00.OOO this year. One
of the peculiar features about Blue
stone is that it was discovered and
opened up by 'tenderfeet' An expe-
rienced miner and his nephew were
asked to go and look it over. The old
miner went all over the territory and
told his friends that there was not
anything there worth the while and
came away. Afterward the tender
feet came, along and opened the dis
trict, with great results. Between
5000 and 1000 men are winterins at
Nome and doing Whist work they can.
All last year there were between $4,000
and 10000 in and arounS Nome The
general health was excellent. and in
this the people were happily disap-
| pointed. The run of typhoid in 1899
led everyone to believe that disease
would again be prevalent. but the
deaths were exceedingly rare this year.
There were good many fights over
territorial rights early in the season,
but things have settled down now.
Judge Stevens sits in criminal cases
and Judge Noyes is the district Judge.
Both are doing excellent work.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
A WASHINGTON CHARACTER.
Dwarf Does Thriving business SELL
ing shoe Strings 10 High
Officials.

Secretary Long travels up and down
Pennsylvania avenue, Washington,
with his green cloth bag in hand in
the most unconventional. manner, and
while on his way to the white house
to a cabinet meeting stopped near the
east gate, and after brief converse
tion with deformed little being, who
is known as "the presidents shoestring
man. bought pair of strings. and.
thrusting them into his green cloth
bag, put number of bright coins into
the hand of the vendor and went in
to sort his shoe strings and state pa
pers prior to the cabinet meeting.
Every member of the cabinet and the
president himself has stopped along
the sidewalk to buy shoe strings from
this dwarf. while the clerks of the state,
war and navy departments could not
be induced to spend cent for this use
full commodity with anyone else.
The police have driven most OF the
men of this class from the streets,
and only on account of unusual pat
ronage would he be allowed to hold
his present stand. No one knows his
udHle, anu no one mas ever dSheu.
Long ago, during the first Cleveland
administration, he became known as
the presidents shoestring man, be-
cause President Cleveland stopped one
day and, casting pitying glance at
the little figure standing almost shoul-
der deep in the snow, bought hand
full of shoestrings. giving in return
painful of coins. After that good
luck attended the shoestring man,
and business is so brisk that in the
worst weather he is enabled to re-
main indoors.
Though the price paid by statesmen
is pretty stiff for shoestrings. the
dwarf is conservative in his real
charges, and was never known to ac-
cept cent without making sale.
While his shoulders are almost as
broad as those of the president him
self, the little man stands scarce
three feet from the ground, and is as
strange vision as one ever saw.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
MAILS MONEY IN NOVEL WAY.
p. Pierce Wraps a Riil Around .
stamped Card and "a G0es
Through.

P. Pierce of 640T Rhodes avenue, Chi.
cago, has unbounded confidence in the
safety. of Uncle Sans postal service.
To prove it he wrapped dollar bill
around card. affixed two-cent sta MP
and bit of white paper bearing the
address. and started it on its way to
J. A. Wayland. a newspaper publisher
of Girard, Kan. When the novel packet
went through the Hyde Park postal
station it attracted the attention of Su-
perintendent Crumpacker. who delayed
it's transmission until he could get
from Postmaster Gordon a ruling on
the question of sending money through
the mails in that manner.
A search of the postal regulations and
a conference of the powers at the post
Office brought forth the decision that
it was a legal, though irregular and
somewhat unsafe way to send money
by mail. and the authorities allowed it
to go on its way.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
western Rates Reduced.

Greatly reduced one way rates will
be in effect from Chicago via the
Wisconsin Central Railway to points
in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana,
Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia each Tuesday, commen-
cling February 18th and continue un-
til April 30th.
For detailed information inquire of
nearest ticket agent, or address
T. D. Campbell, D. P. A., AZ Carew
Building, Cincinnati, o., G. E. John
son, d. P. A., 62l Park Building, Pitts
burg, Pa, or Jas. c. Pond, Gen'l Pas
senger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

If we want to be at the top, we
must be willing to be at the bottom.
If we want to obtain much, we must
be ready to give much. Christian laws
are .paradoxes. 1t is the one who is
content to have nothing who alone
can possess all things. He who was
greatest of all, and yet who was the
servant of all, said plainly: "Who-
soever would become great among
you, shall be your servant; and who
soever would be first among you, shall
be bondservant of all" Do you want
to be great? Then you must be will
ing to serve faithfully until you are
greats. S. Times.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
Naturalist. Barred from Tn,net.

The class of explorers whom the un-
gentle Thibetan turns out of his coun-
try with more asperity than any other
is the naturalist. Before Sikkam was
annexed man of science had .been
through the country collecting speci-
mems of the animal and vegetable life
of the little kingdom, and the Thi-
betans now are convinced firmly that
any man who collects moths is real
ly trying to grab territory. 1t is
safer. says the New York Press, to
cross into Thibet with a drawn sword
in ones hand than with a, butterfly
net
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
Truths Tersely Told.

Courage is the cure for discourage
ment.
Money makes the mare go, but it
cannot keep happiness in the saddle.
The judgments of God are las low
ing as His mercies.
Saints crowns are not awarded on
the merits of their frowns.
The feet will go where the heart is
inclined.
The wages of sin are always paid
right on time.
Tho fall of the sinner is like that
of meteor, the farther he falls the
faster he is consumed.-Ram's Horn.
Don't let the little ones suffer from
eczema, or other torturing skin dis
eases. No need for it. Doan's Oint-
uent cures. Can't harm the most
delicate skin. At any drug store, 80
cents. sS It
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
WANT CORN GROWN.
Germans Seeking to Have Their Coll
Onies Produce This Cereal for
German Markets.

According to Consular Agent Harris,
the German Colonial association is So
Letting the government to take steps
toward introducing and protecting on
large scale the growth of Indian corn
in some of the German colonies. The
German empire imports about $32,000,-
900 worth of corn every year, the major
part of which comes from the United
States.
If the soil and climate of any one of
the colonies should be favorable to the
growth of Indian corn such a step
would no doubt be of some Importance
to that particular colony. But should
any of these colonies be able to produce
the corn which grows in the Mississippi
valley (Which is not apt to be the case).
it will be many years before the
American farmer need fear competi-
tion from this source.
The Woermann line, which plies be-
tween Hamburg and Togo. charges
$3.50 per ton for foreigners between
these points. The North German Lloyd
charges on the average $2.75 per ton
from New York or Baltimore to Bre-
men. Often large quantities of corn
from the United States are taken gratis
as ballast. Until Germany has better
shipping facilities with her colonies
the freight on corn will amount to as
much as the original. price of corn per
ton in America.
To make good this difference in a
degree the Colonial association pro-
n n
colonies free of duty. In 1899 the gov
ernment's income from the duty on
corn amounted to S7740.0 900. The duty
on corn imported from the colonies
amounted to Sl.430.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
To Motnsis ui i.zrys faa.-s.IIlss.

In this workaday world few women
Is not constantly demanded of them
in their daily life.
Mrs. Pinkham makes special appeal
to mothers of large families whose
work is never done, and many of
whom suffer, and suffer for lack of
intelligent aid.
To women, young or old, rich or
poor, Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass,
extends her invitation of free advice.
Oh, women do not let your lives be
sacrificed when a word from Mrs.
PinlSham, at the first approach of
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

Spokesman-Madam, we are COM
mittee from the volunteer fire depart
ment, of which your late lamented
husband was the respected chief, and
we called to express our sympathy.
Widow-Oh, it's SO kind and good
of you. l know Henry was thinking
of you when he passed away, for just
before the end come he rose up in bed
with a far-off look in his eyes, and
shouted: "Turn in second alarm.
We can't handle this fire. without
a,.l.,.ia
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

weakness, may fill your future years
with healthy joy.
when l began to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was
not able to do my housework. l suf-
fered terribly at tipe of menstruation.
Several doctors told me they could do
nothing for me. Thanks to Mrs Pink
hams advice and medicine | am now
well. and can do the work for eight in
the family.
81 would recommend Lydia e.
Pinlham's Vegetable Compound to all
mothers with large families. . MRS.
CARRIE BELLEvu.LE, Ludington, Mich.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
This season there is a large deaf

This season there is large death
rate among children from Group and
lung trOUbles. Prompt drtfUn win
save the little ones from these terri
BILE disease. We know of nothing SO
certain to give instant relief as One
Minute Cough Cure. 1t can also be
relied upon In grippe and all throat
and lung troubles Of adults. Pleasant
to take, ". 3, Smith \ Co.., drug
Gtsts. .'.lN ~
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31


1t has been fully demonstrated that
Ely's Cream Balm is a specific for
Nasal Catarrh and cold in the head.
This distlnction has been achieved
only as the result Of continLeu suc'
ceseful use. A morbid condition Of
thenenbrsfne In the nasal passages
can - Gated by this purifying and
aas!'Hf 1xoAt At1eat Sod nv dz1ggists
o. y vzu be mailed for 80 cents by
~ D1peetso1sW
!. -! ! { y B; sIS|:.' ] !
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

Paris latest innovation in street
lighting is oil lamps. They are not
the sort of lamps used hundred
years ago, when the cry was "aris-
tocrats 10 lanterne." but enormous
structures that give out 1000 candle
power each.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

Pepsin preparations often fail to
relieve indigestion because thev can
digest only albuminous foods. There
is one preparation that digests all
glasses of food, and that is Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure. It cures the worst
cases of indigestion and gives instant
relief, for it digests what you eat. w.
r. Smith & Co., druggists.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
The Only SOIutiCn.

Margaret +, Sangster says the serv-
ant problem viii be solved during the
twentieth century. Can it be possi-
BILE, exclaims the Chicago Times-Her-
aid, that she things people are going
10 learn to live without eating?
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

"Are you engaged to her." asked
his chum.
81 think so," answered the student
of feminine nature.
"Aren't you sure ?"
"only reasonably 90. There IL al
ways an element of doubt In these
matters. Wewere engaged yesterday,
but ! haven't opened this morning's ;
mail yet"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

The ordinary annual crop of silk in
China is estimated at about 2l,OOO,OO
pounds, Of which over 60 per cent. is
consumed in the country where it is
produced. ~ 4. =.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

Cafe, Observation and Parlor Cars
on Florida and New Orleans trains,
Queen and Crescent, Southern Ry.
and Plant System.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

No doubt, remarks the Chicago Rec
ord, the Chinese feel at this time as
able to owe. $2OO,ooO,ooo as any other
sum.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

- hours Cincinnati 10 sJacksonville
and New Orleans, Queen b Crescent
Route and southern Ry.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31

Five editors were chosen to sit in
the Nebraska legislature at the re-
cent election.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-01-31
Notice Of Appointment.

Estate Of Edward Frost. decreased
The undersignsd has been appointed and
qualified - Administrator de bonis non OF the
estate Of Edward Frost, late Of Highland
county, 0his., deceased
Dated this Let day Of January. A. D 1901.
LEVI WILKIN
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25
visited with little rain last wedneu

day night.
Miss M. Shoemaker, of South OF
turnwa, after visiting friends and rel
atives here the past two weeks, re-
turned home last Saturday.
Thos Lambert came home Monday
from Ottumwa where he had been
taking treatment for his eye from DR..
shelton.
Mrs. ]. c. Hale returned to her
home, 1921 West Main street, at OF.
tumwa, last Monday after spending
week with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. w. Terry
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Reed are on ex-
tended visit with relatives in Chicago.
G. P. Jones was business visitor in
Abba Tuesday of this week.
Gerry Cosman took car load of cat-
tie to Chicago Tuesday and will ship
hogs to Morrell G Co., of Ottumwa,
next Tuesday.
Albert Brain lost a fine Short Horn
COW last Sunday on account of heat
| DR.. Woodruff lost fine western
trotting horse last Sunday night.
| John G. Wilson, cur leading mer.
chant, made flying visit to Abba last
| Tuesday.
| The coal mines at this place are
fast giving out and the mines of the
Deep Vein Coal company will soon be
a thing of the past The miners are
seeking employment at other places.
Mrs. Chas. Thornton, whose hus-
band was killed in the mines here on
the 9Th of June, moved her goods to
Ottumwa and will make that town her
future home.
The many friends of Miss Fern
Hughes gave her quite surprise last
Saturday evening, it being her 14th
birthday. All present report good
time.