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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-10-16

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-10-16

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-10-16
National Coffee s Tea Co.

Corner Vine Street and Oklahoma Avenue.
Guthrie. Oklahoma.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

 Sporadic relief has been furnished the northern natives from time to time mainly through the voluntary efforts of humane officers in the revenue cutter service, who were frequently afterwards kept busy in explaining to Washington why their stores were so used or the ex- penditures made.
 The government should furnish systematic and permanent relief for these natives. They can scarce ly be placed upon a reservation" but their wants can be supplied. There are not many of them, and yearly they grow fewer. Common humanity demands that they be cared for, not by a few private in dividuals or by missionary socie- ties, but by the government of the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
Notice of Forfeiture.

NOME, Alaska. August 9th. 1901. To R E. Lamont, Henry Heath, H. H. Keith and F.. $. Keith: You and each of you are hereby notified that have expended the sum Of one hundred and fifteen dollars, in labor. in performing the assessment work for the year laO, upon that certain claim known the Elm pire clain containing one hundred and sixty acres placer mining claim on Keith gulch, . tributary of Nome river, in the Cape Nome Mining District, District of Alaska. as will ap- pear by certificates filed August 18th. A. D. 1900, in the ofnce of the recorder of the said dis tr,ct in order to hold said mining propert / under the provisions of section 22a4 of thA Re vised Statutes of the United States. being the amount required to hold the same for the year igD, in accordance with an arrangement agreed to by all of the partners and co-owners at that time of the Empire Mining Company.
 You will please take notice. you and each of you. that if you do not within ninety days after the publication of this notice pay your prOp0r- tion or if you refuse to pay your proportion Of such expenditure aS aforesaid. as co-owner your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned, under said section 9324 Revised Statutes of the United States.
 ". L. SLATER,
 One Of the c0-0wnerS of the augi3-3m- aforesaid property.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
AauiIl,iStrator's Safe.

In the United States Commissioners Court for the District of Alaska, Second Division, Nome Precinct Before Hon. k. N. stevens, United States Commissioner and Ex-Ohcio Probate Judge. .. In the matter of the estate of Henry O'Neill, deceased.
 Under and by virtue of an order of sale made in the above entitled matter the a0th day or of the said estate will sell at public auction. at the hour of II h. nl, Wednesday,, August 2l, 1901. at the southwest corner or the court House in the city of Nome. Alaska, all or the right. title and interest of the estate of said Henry O'Neiii, deceased. in and to the herein after described real estate Each tract will be sold separately to the highest and best bidder The following is a description Of the property to be sold:
 Placer mining claim No [. Harris creek. Placer mining claim, No. |. Prospectors creek
 Placer mining claim, ONeills Discovery. Taylor creek.
 Placer mining claim No. ? Kennedy creek. Placer mining claim No. ,, Pioneer gUlch Placer mining claim No. 39, North Fork kOuxrOck river.
 Placer mining claim No. ? Above Discovery on Queen creek Placer mining claim No. I "A" Above Discov- cry on Eureka creek. Placer mining claim No. 1 Mosquito fork Of Kennedy creek Placer mining claim No. Above Discovery, on left fork of Harris creek.
 Also the ''Sncoe quartz claim on an un- numed creek about ten miles north of the mouth of Kennedy creek aud about forty miles south of the Arctic ocean
 All of siid claims are in the kougrock Mia ing District. District of Alaska: the interest of said estate in said claims to be sold being an undivided One-half interest.
 w. A. STERNBERG.
 Administrator of the Estate of
 Henry 0 Neill, Deceased Date of first publication of this notice July
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
Mineral Application.
lNotice for Publication-l

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
 St. Michael. Alaska July 10. 1901 Notice iS hereby given that A. N. kittilsen whose pos. office address, is Nome, Alaska, has made application for d United States patent for the placer mining claim known as No. :, above Discovery. on Anvil creek. being mineral sur ve- No. 42S. situate in the Nome Mining Dis trict. District of Alaska containing area of 1908 acres and more particularly described as follows:
 Beginning at COT NO 1, a pine post | it long | ins square in mound of stone, scribed l-4!S whence U l. M No , bears 3D deg 52 min W S9I4 1t dist and running thence; H deg 25 min SO.6 1t to cor No thence: n s deg 42 min ( ls62.7 fl to cor NO thence: n fl deg k3 min W BAY 1t to cor NO thence: n 4l deg 10 min B 1t to cor No } thence: t3 deg H min W l257.5 5 1t to cor NO thence; S g deg 39 min 33O. 1t to cor No l. the place of beginning, containing an areasof 1908 acres.
 The notice of location of this claim is record ed in the office Of the recorder of the Cape Nome Mining District. at page @. volume 46. Neighboring or adjoining claims are No 6 above discovery tunSuryeyed) on the W, un- known claimants on the "a 6, and n ".
 FRANKLIN MOSES 6w Register.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

And United States Commissioner Stevens is still monarch M all he surveys. Just as we thought. Judge Moves couldn't make up his mind to fire Steve" That is to say, he might have "made up" his mind to do so, but he changed it with kaleidoscopic rapidity. And yet there are at least four men in Nome who had the judicial prom ise that they would be Judge Stevens successor. How many more there were we don't know.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

Many people wonder as to the nearing of the word Casadepaga, the we'll known mining district of Northwestern Alaska, which just now is attracting especial atten- ton. It is Spanish word, but how or why it was applied to any portion of this section we do not know. Literally, it means the talk ing of toll or a toll house.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

A man may work in "the States" at $50 or $2 a day, and at the end of a year he may have saved by strict economy S175. A man can work in Nome at 8 a day and board, and at the end of 90 days can have sat6a. at least s4DO. But if men were ever satisfied there would be nothing to kick about or to strike about.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

sitting by the warm fireside, with the aid of a pen and notary. There is some justification for the jump ing of claims so held. No man should be permitted to hold ground ad libitum without first demon strating that it is worth holding.
 The real prospector should be given a chance. The saloon and sidewalk miner should be given the grand bounce, but we don't know who will give it to him. The creeks should be prospected thor oughly, but so long as they are held by the means we have alluded to we don't see how they will be. As conditions now exist, a number of men can keep a creek to them selves for an indefinite time with out putting a pick in it, while waiting for some fellow with money to come along and offer a fancy price for it.
 This country needs MINERS, not spcculators and men who mine with pencil and hatchet, or those who, in the language of one of Sam Dunham's poems, ''loaf around town with the sports, on intimate terms with the lawyers, on similar terms with the courts"
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
The New Engine House.

The fire engine house and city offices in the N. C. COmpany's warehouse building are now in apple pie order. The engine, hose carts and other fire apparatus are on the first floor, in charge of Chief Stanley and Engineer Stetson. Chief Stanley also has an office upstairs and there are also located the comfortable offices of City Clerk McGinnis and City Assessor Watson. The engine house will also be used, so it is stated. for city council chambers.
 There will be general meeting of the fire department at the engine house on Thursday evening.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
TIMERS BY PROXY.

"A miner who recently returned stiom 8 trip embracing many weary miles on creeks and tundra plains ( complains about the indiscriminate manner in which whole creeks have
 been staked and the almost abso- ,lute lack of any evidences of pros pecting.
 The complaint is an old one, and how to prevent the inroads and ,ravages of hatchet and pencil miners is a serious problem. The
 work of this class does nearly, if not quite, as much to retard the development of the country as does that of the professional jumper. For instance, the legitimate miner goes out on prospecting trip. He does not believe in stalking a claim before he has thoroughly prospect ed the ground. He strikes creek and examines the geological forma- ition. He likes it, and just as he is
 about to sink a few prospect holes
 he casts his eyes up and down the creek, and he finds that it has been :, staked from mouth to source. The same experience is repeated on every creek that hs comes to, and ; unless he jumps claim he does not prospect 1t, but merely returns
 disgusted, sore at himself, the coun- i, try and the conditions which per init the tieing up of promising creeks indefinitely, for assessment 1, work is often done in this country
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

The trouble with a great many people who come to Nome is that they expect too much of the coun- try. They expect to find a small fortune at the bottom of the first hole they dig, and when they don't they immediately begin to knock.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
PASSING OF THE ESKIr1O.

Over on the sandspit one Eskimo woman, the mother of baby seven months old, lies ill of typhoid fever. In an adjoining cotton tent lies an other poor native woman, suffering from an attack of pneumonia. Evi- dences of squalor and filth are ap- parent; that neither woman lacks for what little food they eat or what little care they get is due to the kind white people in their vicinage. Near by the tents named are a number of others, inhabited by natives of both sexes. Unprin- cipled, villainous white men fur nish these poor people with vile liquor, and drunkenness and de- bauchery reign supreme, unheeded and unchecked, apparently, by the gopcrument ,odriaa., whose plain duty it is to attempt, at least, to bring these nefarious traflickers in vile whisky and native morals to book for fragrant offenses openly committed, SO it is alleged.
 The point we wish to make in this plain and unvarnished state ment of facts is that the federal government is to blame, largely, for the condition of the natives. The advent of the white man has deprived them of many of their sources of livelihood and susten- ance. The beach wood, which kept them warm in winter, has disap- peared, and they perish of cold; they have not the same incentive to hunt and fish, for the sea and land animals are also. disappearing or seeking more quiet fields, also because of the northward ma ych of civilization" And the native is learning the white mans vices all too readily and is being degraded, for he is willing victim
 During the past year or so whole villages at many points on the Boring coast have been decimated by the ravages of disease. Death has carried away scores upon scores, as their bleaching bones, which lie upon the tundra, and their deserted igloos bear witness.
 The race will soon become ex- tinct. Perhaps from a strictly utilitarian but inhumanitarian view point this would be we'll, for very many of their white brethren regard them as mere cumberers of the ground. But in the name of justice and decency they should not be permitted to perish from off the face of the earth. The federal government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to sup port ic luxurious idleness the red- man of the plains of "the States" These are considered "wards of the nation," and must be supported. The poor Eskimo of the frozen north is a pariah not to be consid- cred, and yet he ought to be con- sidered at least as a man and a brother of the redman of the south.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
Liquors For Family Use.

'"The Hunter" makes speciality of furnishing families with the same high class liquors, at popular wholesale prices that we sell over our bar.
 Our whiskies are the Genuine Old Hunter Rye and Old Crow Bourbon, the best in the world. Only $2.5O a bottle.
 We sell the celebrated Annheuser- Busch beer. We also carry in stock imported ales, porter and wines.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
Famous City of Chicago.

This well-known hotel has just been reopened as beer garden: stein of beer, l2a cents: pork and beans, chili con carne. limburger cheese, or any kind of sandwiches with stein of beer, p cents: nice spring beds, 5O cents: rooms, $l.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

"The Goldsmith of Nome and Other Verse;" by Sam C. Dunham. For sale at all drug stores and news stands. Price. S2.OO.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13
THE ILLS WE BEAR.

Tens of thousands of dollars of capital await investment in the mines of this section just as soon as it shall have been demonstrated that there is any security of title. Scores of men have come to Nome this spring with capital to invest, and upon acquainting themselves with the conditions prevailing, the opportunity to levy blackmail by jumping claims known to be pro- ductive, they almost immediately returned to their hcmes in the States. Thus the country's devel- ~opment is retarded, and the money that is needed to open up and de- -velop the extensive placer mines of this section is not to be found. No man wishes to buy a lawsuit, and yet, after few days residence in Nome, he finds that if he buys a smining claim there is quite likely to be lawsuit attached to it.
 These are stern facts It is of mo use to disguise the truth; the sooner it is told plainly, the more speedily may we hope to remedy ths ills under which we grean. The court is incompetent and in- adequate to afford relief. So liti- cgation increases, injunctions mul- tiply, claims are tied up indefi- nitely, and every man, woman and
 "lffers in consequence of
 ow court has adjourned
 'ember," and things arc
 so far as the disen-'
 of mining litigation is 7Ne We have already had SM .ule on different creeks, nj FM : may now expect disorder DIs Ghcrease, and bloodshed may @Aoilow.
 We are not pessimistic, but we propose to tell the truth. It would be infinitely better, judging by our experiences since the advent of the district court, that none had been sent us. Miners laws and methods of administering justice may be crude, but they are effective, and usually just.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

We are long in Old Crow and Maryland Rye If you choose. draw your own whisky out of the original barrel, at the Horseshoe, s58 Front St,
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

Regular lunch at the Hotel Colder Gate, D cents: regular dinner, Sl.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

All rye bread at the City Bakery, Front street.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

For real. pure rye bread, go to the City Bakery.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

No white flour in the rye bread made by the City Bakery.
The Nome nugget., 1901-08-13

Date of first publication of this notice. Ju 23 1901. 5w
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-27
new FENDER BILL IS
REPORTED IN COUNCIL.
Contains Essential Features of the
Original Measure, but States
Them More Tersely.

In lieu of the original fender bill, Act
ing Chairman Boyce of the Committee on
Railroads reported to the City Council
yesterday, recommending its passage. an
entirely new measure containing the same
essential features as the first, but stating
the law in a more terse and explicit man.
ner.
The substitute bill lies over two meet
ings. according to the rules. 1t imposes
upon the Board of Public Improvements
the duty of passing upon designs for fend-
ers and wheel guards. and empowers the
board to cancel. at any time, for reasons
suf1clent to the board, any design formerly
approved. This authority will enable the
board to cancel designs of impractical fend-
ers now in use.
Whenever the board may pronounce a de-
sign unsuitable. notice shall be served upon
an officer Of the corporation concerned to
submit Il new design and to provide a new
Ienqer. Failure to comply with the order
shall constitute a misdemeanor. subject to
a fine In the police court of not less than
slOo nor more than $500. Each days in
traction shall be deemed a separate Of
Tense.
The bill forbids the use of dilapidated,
broken, worn or distorted tenders. An inn
practical implement may not be carried on
more than one round trip under penalty of
line TOR misdemeanor. The fine would be
from SlC0 to $500
BY holding two special sessions the Coun-
ell could transmit all important pending
blllS TO the House of Delegates.
On motion of Mr.. Markham the bill de-
c!arins consumption a communicable dis
ease was laid over for two weeks. The
Council ordered 100 copies printed. A COM
munication was received from the Board of
Health urging the necessity for completing
the Cabanne storm sewer. The report of
the Auditing Committee which investi-
gated the accounts Of city officials, was
aDproVed
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-27
GOOD For ST. LOUIS.

There should be reasonable guaran-
tee Of increased trade for st. Louis in
the recent incorporation of the Santa
Fee Central Railway Company and the
Albuquerque Eastern Railway Company,
both of which cross and connect with
the Santa Fe Railroad and will he feed
ers for that system.
This development is in line with the
general increase and betterment of rail-
road facilities in what is the most prom
Using section Of the United States to-day.
1t is destined soon to be followed by a
notable growth Of railway building in
Oklahoma, "A continued development Of
transportation interests in Old Mexico is
also one of the certainties of the si,ua-
ton.
All of which Is to the vast gain of
St Louis and calls for the heartiest en-
enlargement of ST. Louis capital. New
Mexico, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory
and Old Mexico are strictly within st.
Louis's sphere of trade influence. The
next ten years should witness reach
ing out for trade on the part of st.
Louis merchants calculated to insure q
manifold increase in field where this
city possesses every natural advantage.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-27
TOO MICH CHIEF.

Judge Stevens's acquittal instructions
to the jury in the Fosburg case at Pitts
field, Mass, and the jury's instant YER
dict that Robert Fosburg was not guilty
OF the charge of killing his sister, may
be heartily commended as based on the
evidence brought out during the trial.
The holding Of young Fosburg for the
death of his sister seems to have been a
case of too much Chief Of Police. This
Pittstield sleuth, having failed to appre-
bend and arrest the masked criminals
who invaded the Fosburg home in the
dead of night, and, being discovered,
shot down the girl who stood in their
way, advanced the theory that there
were no burglars and no burglary, that
May Fosburg was killed by her brother
Robert in the course Of a family quar-
rel. Having evolved this theory, he pro-
ceeded to make the facts fit the theory,
whether they would or not
A Chief of Police can do much to
fasten crime on an innocent person if
he is SO inclined, and the Pittsfield Chief
of Police used all the machinery of his
Office to convict Robert Fosburg Of the
murder Of May Fosburg. Happily, he
has not been able to weave a web of
circumstantial evidence quite strong
enough to bag his game, while the direct
evidence brought out points unmistak.
ably to Fosburg's innocence. The yer.
dict now just rendered is a righteous
verdict. 1t should be followed by the
appointment of a new Chief of Police
In Pittsfield.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-27
COSTLY NEGLECT.

In the official report made TO the War
Department by Captain Edward Burr,
engineer officer in charge of the work
of removing snags and wrecks in the
Mississippi below the mouth of the Mis-
souri,. there is logically and unavoidably
a condemnation Of the folly which pre-
vented the passage Of the last river and
harbor appropriation bill by Congress.
1t is shown by Captain Burr's report
that the Mississippi is steadily return
ing to its natural conditions because of
the abandonment of all important woNl
i'll the way of improvement of channels
and protection of banks. Much of the
costly work heretofore done by the Gov
crnment is being made valueless by the
rivers action, low that all safeguarding
measures have been practically discon-
tinued. The one certainty of the situa-
ton Is that vast sums will have 10 be
expended to overcome the disastrous eff
fectS of the cessation of river improve
ment work.
The miserable policy which brought
about these conditions cannot be too
strongly condemned. 1t seems almost in
credible that the worlds greatest water
way, in the greatest commercial and az
ricultural country in the world, should
be SO willfully an1 Intentionally neg
lected by the Government. There is a
recklessness in such course which
must surely amaze all other nations.
And the pity of 1t is that sectional Drei.
udice has much to do with this wan;on
neglect of the Mississippi River. The
people Of the great Mississippi Valley
are being made to suffer because for
tune did not see fit to commend theil
| interests to the attention Of a Govern
ment which finds it difficult to ses
| farther westward than Ohio or farther
southwark than the national capital in
i contemplating national situation.