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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07
From Another Bachelor.

To the Editor of the Post Dispatch.
In answer to IAN Old Bach"
l will state that l am another
"Old Bach" and from long ex.
perience with charming, bloom
ing widows and serapnlc dam.
sells. have found that it is best:
When you court maiden be seldom
in her sight,
But when you court widow, be with
her day and night.
Visiting maidens too frequent.
ly causes them to think you are
too easy to capture; that makes
them more independent. But
the more often you visit a wild
,ow, the better she likes it, in
fact, they are liable to show a
disposition to visit a foreign
country, that is, Lap.laud.
Again:
When you court maiden, praise,
commend and hatter,
But when you court widow, paren-
thesis I J your arms and at her.
Showing Indifference toward
women whom you admire makes
them more determined to cap
ture you. And nothing makes
a woman more Jealous when she
is1trying to win the love and
admiration of a man than the
arrival of rival.
A woman may not love more
when Indifference is shown, but
she will be much more eager to
win man.
The thing a woman most ad-
mires in man is fun, mirth and
joviality; therefore;
With easy freedom and gay ad-
dress,
A jovial lover never lacks success.
A reasonable amount of "taf-
fly" has a good effect upon a
woman Tell her that she
looks like a beautiful lily Grad
led in the golden glimmer of a
sun flushed twilight eve; and it
will tickle her risibilities; but
when you tell her every time
you gaze on her charming feat
ures it makes visions of ecstatic
JOY fit before you like the bang
upon the alabaster brow of a
whimsical dudine, then, she
will fairly boil over with joy
Gus animal ton.
st. Louis. ARMAND BATCHEL-
AIRY.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07
City Council Report.

The City Council met in
regular session at the council
rooms Friday 1. 1901.
Mayor North presided, AL
dermen present, D. D. Nelson,
A. Boulware, J. w. Bell, D. A.
Ely, ]. S. Scott and j. H.
Grady.
Minutes of last meeting read
and approved. Claims filed,
allowed aud warrants ordered
issued.
Jno. W. Stephens marshal..$ $500
j. A. Hickman spec. police zee. 1900
w. p. Young S"eet Com. ..... ..... 1900
J. S. Jarman oiling mills ..--..... 400
Monroe City Electric Light and
Power Co.. ......................... 80. 80
Raney & Saunders ....... ............. 200
Mccall &Son Mfg. Co. ............. l.99
A. Jaeger ...... =. ............. ....... 3l.02
H. Furgerson .... ....................... 200
Cost in Taylor case. .................... Ills
$210 .06
POLICE REPORT
Mrs. J. Holmes c"l fighting ...... $40
COLLECTORS REPORT
Revenue -................................ 3lS. 20
License. ............ ..... ... ....... I7.OO
Merchant Tax. ....... ... ... .... .. ... 1928
PollTax ....... ............ ......... 1850
Back Tax.............. 1920
Penalty. ..... ............... ............. 3.64
Total $431. 70
percent commission 1927
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07

a. W. Holmes was here from
Shelbina Saturday the guest OF
relatives and meeting his many
old friends.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07
The Coates Theater, the finest

The Coates Theater, the finest
one in Kansas City, was de.
stroyed by fire Thursday night,
in five minutes after a large au.
dieuce had lett it. The building
cost 5000, 900, insurance $40. 0O0.
The Whiteside company were
playing there. They lost every
thing and had no insurance.
Their loss is estimated at from
S15. 900 to SIS.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07

E. T. Branch and Miss Ma.
tilda A. Lilly, of near Warren,
were united in marriage at the
home OF the brides parents by
Rev. L. j. Marshall last Thurs.
! day evening,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-02-07

The council then adjourned
until the regular meeting in
March.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15
The NOrthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

J. B. Lincoln, representing Fischer
Bros. of Seattle, recently returned from
a trip to Valdez and reports business
represented there as follows: 8 saloons,
5 restaurants, bank, 2 hotels, 3 lodg-
ing houses and 7 mercantile establish
ments.
The Skagway News says that the
largest wood contract ever let on the
Yukon has just been completed by
Lancaster and Calderhead for the Daw-
son Electric Light plant. The specifi-
cations called for 1000 cords in 16-foot
lengths.
The sitka Alaskan says that the De-
partment of Agriculture is building a
small cottage out on the farm 16x30
feet, story and a half high; also a
barn 25x5O feet, story and half high.
These much needed buildings viii add
materially to the equipment of the De-
partment.
Sam Silverman, ,one of the best known
mining promoters on the Pacific coast,
has interested capital in the Ketchikan
district. Silverman is particularly well
known in Idaho, where he engineered
several successful deals, and was one OF
the first to exploit the now famous
Buffalo Hump district in that state.
The Sitka Alaskan says that Superin-
tendent Geo. Bent has a full force OF
men at work building a wharf at Rod
man Bay, and they have started to lay
out a road from the beach to the mines
a distance of about six miles. About
10 men will soon be at work and it is in
contemplation to erect a mill with q
capacity of so stamps.
Nv. Young has qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of John Hislop OF
Skagway, the railway man who was run
over and killed by the cars in Chicago
while on his honeymoon. The value Of
his property interests in Skagway is
estimated at about $4,000, and the ad
ministrator was required to give bond
in the sum of $4,000.
Late arrivals from the interior bring
reports of dumps of wonderful proper
tions on Gold Run, in the Klondike
some of them being as high as three
story buildings in the cities, and con
tanning thousands of buckets of pay
dirt. Most of them are conical and
have the appearance from distance Of
sharp mountain peaks.
The sitka Alaskan says that Mr.
Semple, of Sumdum, is expected about
the middle of May to build the over
head tramway for the Lucky Chance
If he deem it advisable he will &c
ahead with a full force of men, but the
proceeding of the work greatly depends
upon the amount of snow in the vicin
ity. AT present it is too deep to think
of going ahead.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15
For the purpose of affording amuse-

tOF JU6 pul pOS6 VI dhOiNAhS ohuN0N
ment to the passengers on steamer
plying between Seattle and Valdez, a
mock marriage ceremony was arranged
and the captain of the ship was called
upon to of1ciate. He performed the
services of common law marriage with
such impressive force and effect that
the candidates find themselves legally
welded. Upon this discovery, con.
sternation got in its work, and the
groom is prostrated by the shock of his
suddenly acquired connubial RESPONSE
bility. But the bride bushes and says
she will stand pat on the showdown.
The Skagway News says that the first
gold seen in Dawson from the Christie
china diggings, on the headwaters of the
Copper river, was shown by Mark Bray
who arrived few days ago from the
Copper district at the head of the Tan
ana. The gold is coarse and of what
Mr.. Bray terms the pumpkin seed"
style, being flat and similar in shape
and size to the pumpkin seed. He got
it from the discoverers while they were
on their way to the outside in Feb
ruary. 1t is of fine grade, and Mr..
Bray says it will run S18 to the ounce.
He has 10 or 15 of the nuggets, which
he had made into watch chain at
Dawson. He says all the Christochina
gold is coarse like this.
Barney McBlroy, of Dawson, has re-
ceived letter from Victor Virgil Low
ry, who left there five weeks ago for
Koyukuk. The letter was written from
Fort Yukon, which place Lowry reach
ed after a rather bad trip over the ice,
a large part of which was over prac-
tically untrodden and in many places
badly drifted trail. At Fort Yukon he
had met man just out from the Koy-
ukuk. from whom he learned that sew
eral of the creeks in that country are
turning out remarkably well, pans be-
ing taken from claims on Gold Bench
going from So to SIS each. Other rich
creeks are reported as having been dis
covered and the prospects of the coun-
try in general are extremely good.
About thirty laboring men were
brought to this city April 30th by the
Cottage City from Seattle, says the
skagway Alaskan. Carl Heinrich, who
acted as leader and spokesman for the
crowd, had letter to James w. Lewis.
1t purported to be an norder to Mr.. Lew
is to set the men to work on some min
ing property near White Pass, which is
about u miles north Of here. 1t was
dated at Seattle and said to be signed
by j. w. Rollins. Soon after arriving
Mr.. Heinrich started out to find Mr..
Lewis, but he had not proceeded far be-
fore he learned some things of vital in
terest to himself and fellow laborers.
These men have either been most gross
ly imposed upon by a heartless, un-
principled fakir, in which case not a
punishment which could be meted out
to him would be too severe, or the man
who has sent them up here has gone
crazy over his mining schemes. In
either case they find themselves land
ed in a strange city without any prepa-
rations made for their care and with
absolutely no chance of working for
which they were hired and transported
here. Moreover, belonging to the la
boring class as they do, have but little
available money.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15

Patsy CLARK, the Spokane millionaire
mine operator, has invested money in
the Ketchikan district. Clark knows
good thing when he sees it. 1t was his
money that developed Republic, the
best mining camp in the state of Wash
ington, and the fact that he has found
Southeastern Alaska an inviting field
for investment, is a recommendation
that will go a long ways toward estab-
fishing good reputation that will at
tract other capitalists.
a Sound paper says that what is un-
doubtedly the richest copper ore that
has ever come to Seattle was received
by F.. Albright from White Horse and
is now on exhibition in the windows of
the Seattle Hardware company's store.
This ore is from the older and more
developed mines and viii average over
$3.50 per ton. All ore in the White
Horse district is of the same character
"a bornite and chalcopyrite with chal-
cocite, and carries gold and silver
values.
The Ketchikan Journal is of the opin-
ion that the so.called cases of smallpox
at present prevalent among the Indian
population of portions of Alaska, is
merely skin disease. 1t then goes on
to remark that ga few applications of
hot water aud soap to the persons of
the victims and their filthy surround
ings would be sufficient for its com
plete eradication" In the case of the
Sitka Indians, it thinks the prayers of
its overwhelmingly righteous. popula-
ton might avail.
A curious stampede is on at White
Horse as the result of finding lot Of
fine particles of gold in the skin of a
wolf killed by a local hunter 1t is be-
lieved that the gold came from one of
the tributaries of the Wheaton river,
and that his wolfship accumulated it
on a bar that was denuded of snow and
ice. 1t being the first he had seen for
some months, he proceeded to roll in
the soft sand, and day after day, as it
softened with the sunshine, he contin-
ued his enjoyment until he had rolled
a trench that touched bedrock.
The White Horse Star of May 1st
saws that Hon. Ezra Meeker of Dawson
arrived Friday enroute to his old home
in Puyallup, Washington, in order to
be present at the celebration of his fif-
tieth wedding anniversary. Though
now over 10 years old, Mr.. Meeker is
as hale and hearty as many men who
have not seen half his years. He has
made four trips down the Yukon to
Dawson, two of them on scows loaded
with goods. His first trip inside was
made in June, 1898, at which time the
Log Cabin grocery was established on
Front street, near the Yukon hotel, 1t
will be so years ago this month since
Mr. Meeker was married. In 1852 he
and his wife crossed the plains with an
OK team, settling finally on home
stead in the Puyallup valley in 1863,
where, after years of toll and struggle,
beautiful home and fruitful ranch
we're evolved out Of dense wilderness.
OF the children born are still living,
and these with 10 grandchildren and
one great grandchild will welcome Mr..
Meeker back to the old home and assist
in celebrating the semi-eentennial OF
his married life.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15

The Skagway News, in a review of
the Porcupine district, says that during
the past winter and this spring $50 tons
of mining machinery and supplies have
been taken in over the snow, and that
the present season will be the busiest
in the history of the camp. Six claims
on Mckinley, eight on Cahoon and
eleven on Porcupine have everything
in readiness for the commencement of
work. Besides these, ten or twelve
claims will be worked on Nugget and
Salmon creeks, fifteen or twenty claims
will be developed on Glacier creek and
Grisly creek will be thoroughly pros
pected. Twelve large outfits have also
been taken to Rainy Hollow by parties
who will do development work there.
Three returning miners to Valdez
from the newly discovered Norman
district placers are enthusiastic over
the prospects of the new discoveries
which, they say, offer the greatest in
ducement for the "poor miner" by rea-
son of their accessibility and the mod
crate richness of the ground. All
three are agreed that by the primitive
placer methods the individual placer
miner can easily make from SO to $l5
day, and possibly double that amount
on the good creeks. The new diggings
are but thirty-fve miles to the interior
from Kuskokquim bay, and light
draft steamer can run up Cripple creek,
one of the richest streams of the dis
trict, to within five or six miles of the
mines
Mark Bray, recently arrived from the
Tanana, displayed at the Dawson News
office knife of native manufacture
which he brought with him from that
practically unknown country. The
blade, which is about 18 inches long,
is made of pure hammered copper, as
are also the rivets with which it is fast
ened to the handle. The handle itself
is formed from the shin bone of a
moose, and is beautifully carved and
grooved, the knife being remarkable
work of native art and a great curiosi
| ty. Mr.. Bray says the Indians with
whom he lived use copper to make bull
lets and other implements, such as for
digging roots, ETC., the metal being
found in great profusionin in the streams
of that far-off land.
The Skagway Alaskan says that there
comes queer quartz mine story from
Klukwan. 1t is here given as reported
by an arrival from there yesterday.
Late last fall T. Gardner went into the
Bear creek country and when he had
returned he told John Thomas that he
had found the richest quartz PROPOSE
ton he had ever seen during his years
of experience as miner. They started
to more thoroughly investigate the
prospective Eldorado. After they had
gone several miles on their journey
they observed three men following them
closely. Gardner and Thomas suspect
ed the others were on the scent and
we're coming with the object of learn
ing the whereabouts of their find and
returned to camp. They are now at
Troy awaiting the melting of the snow,
when they will make another attempt.
When you pass ohman's hall, step in
and try the virtues of the finest liquors
on the Island.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION co

oPERATINe STEAMERS
'FLOSIE" and LONE FISHERMAN"
FERRY ROUTE
DAILY TIME CARD.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-05-15

When you pass Ohman's hall, step in
and try the virtues of the finest liquors
on the Island.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-05
A RISING CLOUD.

When the American troops left Pc
king the British and japanese soldiers
gave them formal send-on, but the
dispatches add that the Germans were
conspicuous by their absence" Despite
/ the smooth words Of the diplomats
such occurrences are usual wherever
German and American soldiers and
! sailors meet and they have been SO
ever since the Brazilian emcute in 1898,
when the United States, contrary to the
| German policy, threw it's influence on
the side of the republic. Nothing Sc
rious happened, however, until 1898,
when Admiral Diederichs showed his
hostility to Admiral Dewey, and but for
the latters stern attitude and the hint
of Captain Chichester of II. NJ. $. Ter
rible that, in the event of German inter
ference he should take orders from the
American flagship, there might have
been the beginning of a great war
The situation as it stands does not
grow out of an American dislike of
Germans or Germany, for there is none;
but of imperialist German dislike of
the United States as a commercial rival
and of a spirit of defiance against the
Monroe doctrine. There are also rea-
sons which relate to the Kaiser's natur-
al dislike of republics and to the effect
which this particular republic has had
upon the domestic politics Of the Ger
man empire by absorbing and lettering
the estate of so many millions of Ger
man subjects All these things irritate
the Kaiser and account, not only for
the attitude towards Americans of Ger
man military and naval men but for the
prodigious energy which is being i'm
parted to the naval preparations of the
empire
German commercial interests say that
unless the United States can be crush
cd Il will control the trade of the world;
German eXpansionists say that un-
iess the empire can lay plans, without
American hindrance, for ventures in
South America, its destiny VIII be to
move in a small area of world-intluence;
the Kaiser knows that the spectacle of
Il free government becoming the strong
est and richest power must wreck the
prestige of all Kings and make trouble
among their subjects. Many n great
war has had it's beginning in smaller in
Certives than these.
There is no doubt that the United
States Government seeing what is i'm
pending, is getting ready for 1T as fast
as It can without causing alarm. Never
since the Civil War has money been
spent so prodigaly on ships and guns
and forts. America has even forgotten
her traditional dread of a large stand
ing army. For twenty years she had
let the navy rot; now she is taxing the
capacity of all her shipyards to build
an offensive and defensive fleet of the
highest class. When the summons
IL, I,n vii he Az 70 IN
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-05

ths Hawaiian uepubiic. hut N Japan
hnd secured The same rights Tor hct
uubinrts that Tho subjects ana ritiz"ns
W other f1rrirn powers enjoyed, sh"
would not have hssitntod 20 acquire q
majority ~ votes md 20 make Tho
most ~ the chance thus given hor. y
70 four mr. Two yeats ago that the llt'lr
brown mon yunturod into strained rcin-
lions vi'h The United states over lIa-
wnU7 n f. hardly three years since
tho inct steamer load ~ "frne laborers"
and students were dumped on our
whntvcs. every man ~ them with $50
IN his pocket. money loaned him In
Japan ard subsequently returned 10 the
donor. These people came for pur-
pose witch the act u annexation In
SANITY checked since then the free
laborers and students have been going
and not coming.
So In dealing with annexation we
must not merely think OF what we got
into but what we escaped, and the bal
anee Is In our favor. II even justlfies
our esteemed contemporary. the indie
pendent In raising the Stars and Stripes
over Its building and getting practice
with the nasal Yankee accent
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-05
FEDERAL COURT.

Among the twelve Chinese who ar
rived here on the China two weeks ago
and were held at the quarantine sta
ton pending the settlement of the ques-
ton of the legality of their being al
lowed TO land,are a pretty little l1-year-
old Chinese girl and a comely young
woman of about 81. They were with
two Cinnamon before Judge Estee yes
terday morning, while T. McCants
Stewart presented their case. They are
of the unfortunates who have been Wis
iting in their native land and returned
too late to register. As they claim to
be native born, however, they have a
better chance of being allowed to re-
main than those who are merely resi-
dents here and unregistered. 1t Is
claimed that as the United States ac-
cepted all citizens under the terms of
annexation the native-b born Chinese
cannot be deported At 3 o'clock in
the afternoon the case Of the four Ce-
lestials came up for hearing and Judge
Estee refused to allow the prisoners
ban, The matter was continued until
Friday morning
Preliminary hearing u the case of the
captain and mate Of the Sea King
charged with brutal treatment Of a
sailor, was had yesterday afternoon by
United states Commissioner Robinson.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-07-05

seen AH far AH tho iiaNaiIana afe rIh
rernrd they would have iost their pain
gate md their Territorial offices, whif
mon of The Enrnrsi Patriot type would
have come here in ewnrme t5 exploit
them their Identity would have been
lost in The mass ~ 300 900 California
voters their schools would have passed
under control ~ California state su-
porinfoudeni they would have hn1 ut
tle or nothing left except county and
city government aud ~ az the present
rate ~ growth IN the white yot" and
decrease in the native vote. the time
must aeon come FOR them TO be I'm q
minority oven those menrer opportnni-
tics 'or public place might yet have
been Vroqtoh from them. We cannot
imagine worse plight for the Hawaii
ans than tho annexation which Humph-
reys went TO the Coast 90 work for and
which his paper is urging with It's dying
breath
But that rs always the way with IN"
cnrpet-bag politicians who pretend 20
love and lead the dark races. The oh
Iect of such people IL to bctray and
ruin: fortunately in the present case the
Hawaiians will be protected by phal-
anx which the marauding braves of
politics cannot pierce.