davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun., 1901-10-09

tives which have been and are be-
ing installed. The great Calumet
and Hecla copper mines have re-
Gently abandoned conn., ressed air and
steam for electricity in all their new
works. Cripple Creek and the Comstock
lode have now large electrical sinstalla-
tions.
Last, and by no means least, are those
great electro-chemical industries which
have been made possible only by the de-
livery Of large quantities of electric cur
rent at very low rates. Not only are the
calcium carbide and aluminium indus
tries absolutely dependent upon electric
current for their existence, but many
other substances, such as chlorate of pot
ASH artificial camphor and many of the
alkalies used extensively in the arts, find
by this means an alternative source OF
supply which will always keep the prices
of such articles down to moderate
level"
The sun., 1901-10-09
DOMINION SECURITIES co.

The Dominion Securities Company, No.
- Broad street. organized under the laws
of the State of New Jersey. has a charter
similar to that of the Railways Securities
Company. which the HarrimanKuhn-
Loeb syndicate brought out recently. This
charter enables it to deal in stocks and
bonds. and under it the company has
made number Of important acquisitions.
one of which is the Cape Breton Railway
Company. subsidies by the Nova Scotia
Government. This is the first of the SER
les of concessions, franchises. etc, re-
ceivable for the construction of the com
pany's projected system of railroads in
terlacing the province of Nova Scotia.
All subsidies, grants, etc, by enactment
of Parliament. as well as the entire issue
of capital stock and bonds in connection
with this construction inure directly to
the benefit of the Dominion Securities
Company. The cash subsidies granted bI
The sun., 1901-10-09

the Dominion of Canada and the province
of Nova Scotia are $6,4OS mile. Land
grants and other inducements for rail-
road building increase the subsidies to
about SS,O0O a mile. The government
permits the issue of first mortgage bonds
in the amount of $4,000 mile, and
second mortgage bonds to the amount of
$5,OOO mile, also a capital stock issue
OF S20.000 per mile. Under the above
the Dominion Securities Company will
complete about GOO miles of railroad con-
struction during the next three years.
The maximum cost of building the rail-
road, according TO the best experts and
engineers, will not exceed including
equipment, $4,000 per mile.
The Dominion Securities Company now
has ~ per cent. of the capital stock of
the Manhattan Contracting Company. %
per cent. of the capital stock of the Cape
Breton Railway Company, and also
81, 100000 bonds of that company, and
assignment of the Nova Scotia govern
ment's subsidy for the building of the
Cape Breton Railroad, together with
other valuable securities and grants, and
has just acquired the South Shore Rail-
way, which runs from st. Lambert, OPP
posite Montreal, to Sorel, which it will
complete to Lewis, opposite Quebec, to
enable direct entrance over the pro-
posed bridge into Quebec.
The capital stock of the Dominion Sc
curities Company is 81 100000, divided
into shares of the par value of 500 each.
Its directors and officers, i'll part, are as
follows: William Seward Webb, presi-
dent; John Jacob Astor, Samuel X. Gala
way, Henry L. Sprague. Arthur l..
Meyer Edgar Van Etten, Percy w.
Clement, Frank f. Webb. The Conti-
mental Trust Company is its transfer
agent, and the Standard Trust Company
registrar of its stock.
The sun., 1901-10-09

"The mining field has taken advantage
of the extent to which electric power can
be subdivided and the ease with which it
an extent which would have been re-
garded as highly improbable four or five
years ago. Mules in coal mines are rap
idly becoming an extinct species. owing
to the number of electric mining locomo-
Alaska forum., 1901-06-27

ALL huS1 IU NUMB. Unprecedented RuSh.-Dunham Is On
 His Way In.-Population of Alas
 ka Per Square Mile.
 Seattle, June 2.-The rush to Nome is unprecedented. Thous ands are going there in search of fortune. Three boats left here in one day, crowded to their utmost capacity, Fourteen hundred peo- pie are awaiting transportation. Steamship companies are putting on more boats. The present ac- commodation is quite insufficient to supply the demand.
 Skagway, June 7.-Sam c. Dun ham, ill charge of the Alaskan cen- sus and formerly connected with bureau of labor, is on his way from Skagway. MT. Durham was or ganizer of the Arctic Brotherhood, and is versatile poet.
 Chicago, June 2.-Jin Jeffries after Jnne 9 will transact his own business. His contract with Brady has terminated. Bill Delaney is to keep to Jim, who Is anxious fer more fighting.
 Washington, June 1.-The first half of the census report for Alaska has been made and discloses the fact that Alaska has one tenth of a person to the square mile.
 Dawson News, June IA: "The body of an unknown man has been found in the river eighteen miles below Fortymile and the case re- ported to the police. Major Prim- rose, commanding the Dawson di- vision of the police, has been offic- ially notified of the find and will have the case investigated as fully as possible" '"
Alaska forum., 1901-06-27

]. ]. HEALY'S PROJECT. Healy Organizing New Company 1u
 England.-Jail Delivery In Tacoma
 Narrowly Averted.
 Seattle, June 8.--Captain John J. Healy will within thirty days ,form a company for the purpose of esta ablishing giant water and rail route between here and Siberia, via Valdez, Nome, Port Clarence and Boring Straits. The captain is now ill London arranging the scheme. The water part is already completed.
 From Valdez the railroad will be constructed up Copper river to the Panama; down the latter to the Yukon river, which 1t will follow to its mouth; thence on to Norton sound districts, providing winter facilities for trade over western Alaskan gold fields.
 Tacoma, June 1.-Several weeks ago 1t was found that locks to sev- eral cells had been tempered with on McNiel's Island. A watch was kept last night and two convicts escaped, reached the corridor, but were captured, thus preventing what may have been a wholesale jail delivery.
 London. June 1.-~Lord George Hamilton, secretary for India, an swers attack by Sir Alfred Hick- man on American locomotives in a letter, saying that Hickman is not familiar with his subject, as Amer ican machinists are far superior to British.
 Baltimore, June 1.--Joe Cans, of Baltimore, whips Bobby Dobbs, of Minneapolis, ill the seventh of a tWenty-round bout.
Alaska forum., 1901-06-27

VI IClAI tO
 DAWSON NEWS. Army Headquarters To Move To Skag-
 way --M Mckenzie Gees Hcme No
 Extra Session Of Congress
 Skagway, June 1o.-Announce- ment is made that the army head quarters will shortly be moved from St. Michael to Skagway. General Randall recommends the change. These facts were learned i'll Washington by military auth ority, who gives out the statement. Change was decided upon month ago.
 Skagway, June Eastern Sun day papers arriving here again printing great stories of the wealth of the Klondike and giving ex- haustive histories of the lucky miners.
 Seattle, June s. Receiver Me- Kenzie is here on his way to his home in Bismarck, N. D. He will not go to Nome until his health is restored.
 Washington, June S.-President McKinley's cabinet has decided that no extra session Is necessary.
 Newport, June A. Yacht Co., : stitution, which was built to race with the Shamrock, was disman- tied today in strong southwest wind while on trial spin. It is believed she has sustained serious injury.
 Vancouver, June IA. B. Me- Govern, New York broker, has purchased halfof the British '~olum- bia salmon pack, so as to compete with the United States salmon combine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
A DOCTOR THIS TIME.

Portland, May 6.-Dr. i. A. Rose,
a practicing physician, formerly OF
Yates Center, Kan, was on what
everyone supposed was his death bed.
He had Diabetes, and six of his brother
doctors were in attendance and con-
sultation at his bedside. They had
done everything that medical skill
could suggest to save his life, but they
were at last reluctantly forced to tell
him that he must prepare for death.
His aunt had been summoned to his
dying bedside. After the doctors had
given her nephew up, she insisted that
as last resort, ne be given treat
ment of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
From the very first dose, the tide
turned in his favor. His life was saved,
and he is hale and hearty to-day.
This case and its cure has amazed
the physicians, and is the sensation of
the hour. 1t is interesting to note
that while many others are being
cured by this great discovery in medi-
cine, the physicians themselves are
among the first 10 benefit, and that
while the simpler and more prevalent
forms, such as Rheumatism, Sciatica,
Bladder and Urinary Trouble and Fe-
male Weakness disappear before it,
the more malignant forms, such as
Bright's Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy,
which have always been regarded as
incurable, are yielding just as easily.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are fast super
seding all other treatments for Kidney
Disease, and as nearly all human sick
ness and suffering has its origin in the
Kidneys, the use of this wonderful
medicine is becoming almost universal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
INTERESTING ODDS AND ENDS.

Dandelion farms near PottsyiIle.
Pa, are very profitable.
The number of epileptics in Illinois
is estimated at not less than 5000.
incubation has lowered fatal cases
in cholera from ten to two per cent.
Two hundred canals have been
charted on the surface of Mars. The
narrowest are 30 miles wide.
About dozen hospitals in Massa-
ehusetts have both allopathic and
homeopathic physicians on the staff.
The Scriptures make frequent men
ton Of the practice of irrigation in
the arid Holy Lands and from Per-
sian, Greek and Roman writer's we
learn that in all the Mediterranean
countries OF old the people were more
or less familiar with the art.
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A Declaration
of independence.
~ SOPHIE ERICSSON HTTERmGToN
.l:tt.t.e.1ce.4oteclce:o.cc,tcQoQca3.9c

From the Ladies' World New York
Reprinted by special pcrmission)
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
MONTEZUMA'S WELL.
Pleasing Natural Curiosity in Arf-
coma That Has a Striking
Feature.

One OF the most pleasing natural
curiosities in the territory of Arizona
is the pool of water known as Mon
tezuma's well, says the Native Amer
lean. 1t is situated Is miles north
east of the old, abandoned military
post known as Camp Verde 1t is
$50 feet in diameter, and the clear,
pure water is about 60 feet below
the surface of the surrounding coun-
try. Some years ago certain mill
tary officers sounded the pool and
found that it had uniform depth
of so feet of water, except in one
place, apparently about six feet
square, where the sounding line went
down about 500 teet without touch
ing bottom.
The well empties into Beaver creek
only about 100 yards distant, the water
gushing forth from the rocks as
though it were under great pressure.
The well is undoubtedly supplied
from subterranean sources, possibly
through the hole sounded by the army
officers years ago. The sides of the
we'll are honeycombed with caves and
tunnels, permitting sightseers to de-
scend to the waters edge.
Montezuma's well contains no fish.
The flow of water through it is the
same throughout the seasons. Popu-
lar opinion has attributed the origin
of the well to volcanic action, but as
The rock surrounding it is limestone
it is more than probable that the ae-
ton of the water is responsible for It's
creation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
The Irish of IL.

One Of the city physicians tells an amusing
story about a charity patient, an old Irish
woman who sent him hurry-up call. He
found her suffering from nothing more Sc
rious than a severe cold. and prescribed ac-
cordingly Two days later when he dropped
in to see how she was getting along the old
lady was sitting up in an easy chair. her
head wrapped in a camphor-sa turated cloth.
We'll, how are you feeling to-day, moth.
err he asked
Much better, praise tn saints" was
the feryent reply. "Shure you're a foine
docthor Ii I'd a-sint fer We beforehand
Old niver been sick at all, at all. Detroit
Free Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
DosroN's BARBER REGULATIONS.
Board OfHeaIth Orders Sterilization of
All That BARRIERS Use ON Customers.

a special despatch from Boston, May 5,
1900, to the n. Y. sun gives as new regu.
lations Of the Boston Board of Health
as TO barber shops: Mugs, shaving
brushes and razors shall be sterilized after
each separate use thereof A separate,
clean towel shall be used for each person.
Material to stop the flow Of blood shall be
used only in powdered form, and applied
on towel. Powder puffs are prohibited. !"
Wherever Newbro's 'Herpicide" is used on
face or scalp after shaving or hair cutting,
there is no danger, as it is antiseptic, and
kills the dandruff germ.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

"See here, exclaimed NJ 2opleigh. 81
don. propose to have that burglar alarm
in our bedroom. Wen put it downstairs
in the hall"
NONSENSE" replied his wife. "Then we
won't hear it when it goes off. .
Neither viii the baby That's the main
point. Philadelphia Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

II understand" said one member of the
legislature, that the senator whom we re-
Gently elected was beset b. footp1ds and
robbed in Paris"
Dear met" answered the other member
of the legislature. Those Frenchmen have
such brutal and direct method Of getting
a mans money away from him. Washing
ton Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

Hix-Has your friend Wederly hobby?
DiX-Wel, | wouldn't call it a hobby
It's more like insanity.
"How's that"
Hes been married five times. Chicago
Daily News
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09
rhere Is n cInss OF Peonle

Who are injured by the use Of coffee. Re
Gently there has been placed in all the gro
Gerry stores new preparation called
made of pure grains, that takes
the place of coffee The most delicate stom-
ach receives it without distress, and but few
can tell it from coffee. 1t does not cost
over / as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit Is cts. and p cts per pack
age. Try it, Ask for GRAIN-O.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

Self-reliance is the way eonceit looks from
the inside-Detroit journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

did you ever visit a lunatic asylum"
No But | once spent a Sunday at house
party where everybody talked golf. Town
Topics
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-09

If a home is well regulated every girl has
her beat the same as a polieeman.-Atchi
son Globe.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
some Nice Roxn1Lnhs

"One of the most desirable posts at
Windsor castle" says a correspondent
of the Chicago Record, sis that of the
kings INNER who in ancient times
decorated books and manuscripts with
initial letters and who now prepares
the parchment commissions when hts
majesty is pleased to confer knight
hood or some other honor upon one of
his subjects. The man who now fills
the post has extraordinary skill with
the pen and brush, and his diplomas
and certificates were greatly admired
for their exquisite taste and skillful
execution. He receives a salary of
$1,000 a year. The clockmaker at
Windsor castle receives the same COM
pensation, and it is his business to keep
all the timepieces in repair. The his
Photographer, who is supposed to keep
a record of events, holds a hereditary
office, with a salary of $500 a year.
The master of music receives $1,000
and arranges concerts for his majesty's
diversion. The surveyor of pictures is
paid $1,000, the librarian receives So
500, the examiner of plays $1,000, the
keeper of the swans is paid $500, and
the bargemaster, who looks after the
boats used by the royal family at
Windsor, has a similar compensation"
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
A Cautions Man.

The familiar saw that no man can be
a hero to his valet was illustrated to
me the other day in an amplified and
peculiar form. 1t was while sitting
with a man of affairs that his stenog-
rapher entered, saying that a certain
other man desired to speak to my ac-
quaintance over the telephone. Take
1t, said my man and forthwith picked
up his extension machine, through
which he talked with the man at the 9TH
er end, tile conversation including mat
tiers of finance, politics and personal
business of a most familiar and conf
dental sort. He didn't mind me at all
i didn't count. We continued our
conversation, and just as was ready
to leave the stenographer entered with
several sheets of manuscript, which
she laid on the desk.
That goes on file," said my man.
Il invariably have a record kept of
my telephone talks, and I've found it
to pay. While talk the stenographer
holds the main line and puts it down."
| made up my mind that if had any
thing particular to say to that man
hereafter I'd tell him on the street or
In some place other than his office
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
Rang In It's Third Century.

The bell on historic old st. Johns
church, in Richmond, where Patrick
Henry made his famous speech prior to
the American Revolution, rang in the
twentieth century. This bell Is thus
given the distinction of being the only
one in this country, with the possible
exception Of that on old Liberty hall, in
Philadelphia, that has rung in three
centuries. Old st. Johns bell has an
interesting history. Many years ago,
when the old structure for which it
was made was repaired, the bell was
removed and sold. Later it's last own
er presented it to the Virginia Historic
al society, by which it was restored to
the church.-New Orleans Times-Dem-
ocrat
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
MethodicaI Punc1uat1on.

Speaking of W. 81. ("Coin'D Harvey,
a Chicago man said:
can amusing incident took place
while Harvey was editor of Coin, pa
per which he published in Chicago.
Harvey, in talking to one of his part
ners, took exception to the want of
punctuation in the paper. There isn't
enough punctuation he complained,
and Coin doesn't look right without it.
There ought to be comma once in SO
often, then so often a colon, and all
the rest. Don't you think SOP he wound
up appealingly.
"I do, indeed heartily replied the
partner, who was not wholly devoid of
humor. That's a great idea of yours,
Harvey. If were you,' he suggested
I'D draw up rule to that effect
Harvey thought it over, and the
thought commended itself. The next
day, therefore, rule reading some
what as follows was posted in the of
fee of Coin; Hereafter it is the rule OF
this office that articles appearing in the
columns of this paper must be punctu-
ated as follows: Every II words shall
carry comma; every three lines a
semicolon; every four lines a colon; ev-
cry five lines a period; exclamation and
question marks may be used as hereto
fore. The employees of this paper will
please observe this order New York
Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
Driveway of Twenty Miles.

Even New Workers have, as a gen.
eral thing, little idea of the change
that is coming over New York in re-
spect to its external appearance. The
improvement that has been wrought
by the great system Of beautifully paw
ed streets and the cutting through Of
parkways and driveways is unknown
to most Of our people. I wonder how
many there are who know that, with
the finishing of the viaduct across
Manhattan valley at Riverside drive,
we have practically completed a 20
mile driveway. AS soon as the new
avenue that is to connect this viaduct
with the French boulevard to the north
Of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street has been finished there will be a
continuous stretch Of roadway from
Seventy-second street and Central park
to One Hundred and Tenth street, to
Riverside drive, to the viaduct, to the
French boulevard, to Dykeman street,
to the speedway, to st. Nicholas ave-
nue. and back to the park. This beau
tiful drive, nearly 20 miles long, is
lined for almost its entire length with
handsome dwellings, and the pave
ment is the most perfect in the world
New York Letter.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05

A young man and young woman
lean over the front gate. They are low
ers. 1t is moonlight He is loath to
leave. as the parting is the last. He is
about to go away. She Is reluctant to
see him depart. They swing on the
gate.
"I'll never forget you," he says, "and
IL death should claim me my last
thought will be of YOU
''Ill be true to you," she sobs. "I'n
never see anybody else or love them as
long as live"
They part.
Six years later he returns. His sweet
heart of former years has married.
They meet at party. She has changed
greatly. Between the dances the rec
ognition takes place.
LET me see," she muses., with her
fan beating tattoo on her pretty hand,
was it you or your brother who was
my old sweetheart
"Really l don't know" he says.
Probably my father" : London An
SWerS.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
Once Ours. Now Britain's.

Do you know, says a writer in the
New York Herald, that the British
have one Of our warships tied up at
dock in London flying the British flag
and regularly commissioned in the
British navy? What is more, she is
called the President, and on her bow is
the figurehead of John Adams carved
out of huge chunk of American wood
and handsomely gilded. For quarter
present berth near the East India
docks, most of the time stuck in the
mud. There is some doubt whether
she would float, and it is probably true
that she would go to pieces If sent as
far out to sea as the mouth of the
Thames. She was captured by the
British in the war of 1872.
The lines of the President are still
beautiful. She must have been a very
handsome ship under sail. Although
one of the largest ships in the world at
the time of her launch, she would be a
mere pygmy beside one of the great
warships Of the present day. Yet she
Is more picturesque even in her present
dismantled condition than the Brook
Ign, Oregon or Kearsarge.
The President is now used as a drill
ship for the Royal Naval reserves, hav-
ing been fitted up for this purpose in
1861 at Chatham. Until 1876 she lay
at the City canal, river Thames, and
was then moved to her present berth.
Amador ledger., 1901-04-05
A Penalty For Beins Po1ite.


1t is more difficult to be polite in the
city Of Hamburg than in any other
place In Europe. There the most chiv-
al1ous man has to think twice before
giving up his seat in car to lady, as
he may be turned off the car for DO
likeness. 1t seems that the Hamburg
trolley cars will seat, according to size,
20 or % persons, 10 to IA on each side.
In addition four persons are allowed
on the front and five persons on the
back platform. When the car is full,
the conductor hangs out a sign, BE
Detzt," which means occupied" and is
absolutely forbidden to take on another
passenger until some one gets off the
car.
Sometimes, while the conductor is in
front collecting fares, lady will step
On the car which Is already occupied"
As there Is no conductor on hand to
prevent her, the lady steps inside, and
the gentleman who may offer her
seat comes out and takes his stand on
the platform. When the conductor aft.
er going his rounds returns to his post,
he promptly requests the gentleman to
step OF the car, as he has forfeited his
seat and the car is fully occupied"
Should he refuse to leave the car he is
put of. The policemen on the streets
are instructed to watch the cars sharp
ly, and II they ind a car carries even
one more passenger than its proper
complement the conductor Is fined Y
cents, which is paid to charity fund
Of the street railway company.-Phila-
delphia Press.