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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

during the early days OF placer
mining on the Pacific coast. To
those who have known George
during the latter half of the past
century the news will be receiv-
ed with profound regret. Poor
George Noble, generous, will
ling to divide his last biscuit
with less fortunate pardner and
risk sven life itself for g. com
panion in distress; true type of
the early pioneers of the Pacific
coast, who are slowly but surely
passing away to that bourne
from whence no traveller returns.
AS we sit within the gloomy
Iprecincts of this annex of the
grave, what sad recollections
fits through the halls of memory
as imagination paints the scenes
enacted at the departure of these
young men from their homes in
the far East. We witness the
agonizing cries of a sad mother
parting with her dear child; the
suppressed sobs of a loving faith
er as he bids his son good bye,
God bless you, and no longer
able to suppress his grief retires
to weep in silence alone; the
heartrending cries of the young
wife, with a dear innocent little
child holding onto it's mothers
apron and crying in childish &C.
cents "dear papa when will you
come home" Alas, poor little
child, in great many instances
it was dear father predestined
to never more behold on this
side the shores of eternity.
When these early pioneers
took their departure for the land
of gold and setting sun they
never failed to take with them
little souvenirs. copy of the
good book with a lock of dear
mothers hair, a photograph of
an absent lover or young wife or
dear little babe, and many times
in after years has the writer
seen these sturdy men. when
their days toll was over, read a
chapter from the good book or
intently on a photograph of some
loved one while tear of regret
intrusively filed the luminaries
of the soul, as they thought of
the loved ones behind.
These advance guards of civil
ization journeyed by land and
sea, and the privations and hard
ships they encountered would be
too voluminous to record, with
no one to welcome. them on their
arrival but the savage Indian.
with tomahawk and scalping
knife, and very often one part
ner had to keep watch at night
to give the alarm when those
maaauding savages came to muir
der and scalp them. A great
many met death in this manner,
others got mangled by wild ami
mails, others succumbed to acct
dents and sickness and are in
TERED among the golden sands
of the Pacific coast, and the gen
tie zephyr chants solemn re-
QUEEN DER their lonely graves.
Yet while no stored urn or ami
mated bust marks their last rest
ing place, their names are indel-
IDLY inscribed in the tablets of
our memory, where Times eras-
ing hand can never eradicate or
destroy.
AT the close of the century a
great many have passed from
this transitory world to the great
beyond and while a great many
have accumulated wealth, the
large majority are doomed to
disappointment and find them
selves in their declining years
without the comforts of home,
where they might peaceably and
quietly pass away to an never
ending eternity. 1t is sad to think
that even one of these noble,
generous, old pioneers should
have to pass what little span of
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

Aguinaldo, it is said, has ac-
quired a new scrap book in which
to paste his obituary notices
during the coming year.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29

Wonder where Kitchiner will
eat his next Christmas dinner ?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-01-29
FRANK w. HUNT.

BY the Governor
@. j. BASSETT,
Secretary of State.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09
To The Inauguration.
"FLY COP" CONVENTION IN WASHING
TON NEXT WEEK.

w. FL. Ramsey, city detective
from Dallas, Tex, is at the st.
Charles. on his way to attend the
inauguration ceremonies m Wash
ington. ID. G.
sThere will be q monster re-
union, of detectives from I'LL parts
Of the country in the national ca
pital Just before March said
Officer Ramsey. "As the thieves
and crooks gather in Washington
at inauguration time, tho ny
cops" hold their assembly stimuli
taneously. I suppose it is rather
tough on those gents to tArov .
safeguard against dips but to
protect the immense crowds from
being robbed to q standstiA fhe
government thinks it wise to call
the detectives from all parts Of the
country into the play. The result
will be that pickpockets will be
up against it. coed and hard IN
Washington next week. During
the Mardi Gras celebration IN New
Orleans last week fly cops were
here from various cities to -appre-
bend dangerous characters. The
Texas representative was a shrew-
ed detective from Forth Wof.h."
Mr.. Ramsey states that "the
best train robber" Texas ever pro-
duced was the notorious Bunch" "
"He was the most desperate
| character the State ever ran down,
and he had to be killed to get him
finally. The late Charming Barnes
who robbed an Illinois Central
train near New Orleans last De-
cember, although a native Of Tex
as, committed no jobs in his own
commonwealth, his efforts at hold
ing up trains being confined prihA
cipally to the Western country
Times-Democrat
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

A Company was formed in New
Orleans with q capital paid up, OF
three million dollars, to prospect
for oil in eastern Texas and Wes-
tern Louisiana, The reports are
that there are good INDICATIONS OF
oil in Louisiana, and particularly
so in Ahse la Butte, near Bresuz
Bridge, In st. Martin parish. The
Company that was organized. re-
Gently. mostly with home people,
expect to resume the tests In y
short time.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09
70 THE PUBLIC.

The Ladies Church Square I'M
provement Association having con-
tracted debt of &5O5,00 to built
the walk in front of the Church,
now need $4,000 to pay for the
balance due. r.
The Association now calls for
aid from the Patrons and Friends
Of the Church,for whose benft the
walk was built, requesting their
liberal contribution. 8
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09
Cheap Rates to- IS :.

Cheap Rates to 81 %
California Points.
Southern Pacific 'Sunset-Route'
has created an innovation in the
matter of rates to CALIFORNIA
points.
Commencing Tuesday. February
18th and every Tuesday thereaf-
ter. to and including April Both,
1901, the .sSunset Route will put
into effect second class tickets
from New Orleans, Alexandria and
intermediate points on the Main
line, to and including Beaumont,
81, so.
From other points at the I. Oh
| N. O. r. r., and from stations on
the G. H. &. H. Ry., the rate will
he S25, 60 added to the local fare
from such stations to Houston.
From all points on the MAR
] line of the g. h. 4 8. A. BY, ths
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

rate will be $500.
These colonist rates are 90 low
as to enable persona contemplating
a visit to California, to make it'un-
der circumstances unparalleled in
the matter of cheap transportation.
Excursion sleeping oars leave
New Orleans six days of the week.
through without change TO Cali
ifornia, the berth rate therein be-
ling less than one-third of the
standard charge.
For additional particulars, see
your agent, or address,
S. f. B. MORSE. i. j. PARKS,
| A. p. T. N. g. p. 4 s. A.
Southern Pacific, "Sunsst Route,
p. T. M..-G. 81. 4 A. s. BY:
IT. & N. o. R. R-G. 81. s n. Ry'
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

1t is not SO much what thenswspapers
say, as what neighbor says to neighbor,
or friend to friend, that has brought
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarr-
hoes Remedy into such general nae. 1t
is as natural for people to express their
gratitude after using this remedy - It
isifor water to flow down the hili. 1t
is the one remedy that can alwsys be
depended upon. whether baby b. sick
with cholera infautum or msn With
cholera morbus. 1t is pleasant. Daf6and
reliable. Have you a bottle Of 1t tn
YOUR home? For sale bv T. j. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

! The Gulf Co. Belle Isle salt
mines, have a natural gas we'll OF
SO pounds pressure, and the other
day vein of sulphur was struck.
The island may yet be bonanza
-Morgsn City Review.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09
REPORT OF THE GRAND
JURY.
To the Honorable the Judge of the
10Th Judicial District Court, of the
State of Louisiana in and for the
Parish of st. Martin.

We the Grand Jury impaneled
by this honorable Court beg to say
In this our final report, we want
merely to reiterate the findings
and recommendations contained
ed in our final report of Septem-
Der 9Th 1900.
Desiring however, to callth at
'tention Of this Honorable Court to
the pitiful condition of the front
gallery Of the Court house and the
steps leading to the Court room,
% we'll as the bridge across the
Teche in the Town of st. Martin
ille. |
Your Grand Jury believe that
be authorities of the Parish could
.st q very small expense save a
greater one to this Parish by look
'iae into The condition of the bridge
at st. Martinville.
I'VE are glad to say that we find
q decided improvement in the con-
EDITION Of the Jail.
'orFICERs-ADDITIo POLICE JU-
ROfss.
As sworn inquisitors of the law
Tor the Parish Of st. Martin, ex-
'pec4ed to investigate and look in
10 VII matters and complaints of a
public nature and character, and
rs In offer to aid an assistance,
not only to the Honorable Court,
but to the State at large, towards
'correctine and righting certain.
4 nag rant wrongs nd abuses, which
rave lately occuiisdsih this Parish
k( I'd which have afonsed the resen-
RI nent and indignation Of all law
III idine men as we'll as the official
a ,urnxl Of the Parish.
"a We deem it our solemn duty to
= %pprise this Conrt of certain gross
SDeps'itips and misrepresentation,
Nbereby the chief executive of the
\ State, was by far too easily indu-
sd TO appoint two additional
members Of our Police jury, one
s. fok TIE 9Th ward aud one for the
StA ward Of this Parish, thereby
utterly destroying the end of po-
puler Government and complete
y disregarding the expressed
wishes of the people Of this parish.
We beg to report that the GEN.
Isus of the year 1900 shows that
The total population of the 4th
Ward OF this Parish, has at no
Thine exceeded 4771, and that the
5popuhtion Of the 9th ward of this
( PsrisA, has at no time exceeded
AE1as5. .
We have proofs that prominent
citieens of this Parish have fully
appEised the Governor OF this
State Of those facts and still his
excelleEcy has allowed this gross
Injustice and wrong to go uncor'
tecte6
Nov with sincere intention
scaely of discharging our sworI
duties and with the view of ex
pressing our official condemnation
= such wrongs aud abuses, esps
viaiiy when tolerated and encou
taged by those high in Office ant
~ honestly considered, that such
Soutse, if unrebuked, can but ul
&imAtely destroy and nullify tn
= lnsgpreciable rights of popula
0peTnment. We most respect
& lklly call these matters to the al
>satioe Of this Honorable Coul
md do now earnestly require an
tsstruct the representative of tn
kW-the District Attorney, to re
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

Oats at s1,75-L. G. Dhchsrhp.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1901-03-09

Wall paper at L. G. Duchamp'
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
STARTED NOME BEACH RUSH.
At Deaths Door Man Makes Lucky
Strike.

At Deaths Door a Man Makes a Lucky
Strike,
"When the news of the Cape York
discovery reached Nome, that district
was in tile throes of the beach excite
ment. The man who started this rush
is now q firm believer in the adage, it
is always darkest before dawn. His
life had been spent in a vain quest
for riches He had mined in Colora-
do, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Two
years before, when old age had come
upon him, he had started for the Klon-
dixie. Ill luck pursued him. On all
sides were men with claims from
which they were taking wealth, but
wherever his pick and shovel touched,
the ground seemed to be worthless
He drifted down the Yukon. Hearing
that the streams about Nome were
rich, he struck out for this EldoradO,
in the summer Of 1899, only to find
that every promising claim along the
creeks had been taken, some Of them
two or three times over. His money
was gone and so were his provisions.
Age and hardship had worn him down
so much that when the scurvy seized
him nothing seemed to be left for him
to do but to await helplessly the re-
lief Of death. His tent was pitched on
the seashore, and there he lay watch
ing the excited crowds arriving in
boatloads from Seattle. He spent the
long days idly washing the sand with
in reach Of his pan. The occupation
in which he had used the many fruit
less years Of his life was become the
solace Of his dying hours Suddenly
a strange gleam caught his eye. Ho
began to wash the sand eXcitedly now
and with microscopic care.
"a group OF treasure-seekers on their
way to a creek noticed him bent over
the pan.
Lookln' fer gold, amt yeh? they
cried, guyingly.
eyes retorted the sick man, and
what's more I've found it,
"In a day the mad tide Of gold-seeh-
ers was rushing to the beach. The
sick mans luck brought back his
health, and if he had not been tied
down by long custom to the restless
life of a miner his wealth would have
secured for his closing days afIluence
and comfort "-Engene 3. Palmer in
Ainslee's.
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
The Edwards Of EnrInnd.

Tne preference of the English people
for the name Edward VII. over Albert
1. is easily understood
Albert has never been a royal name
in England, and not often on the Con
tinent. 1t has no great associations
anywhere. The name Edward is bound
up with the greatest events of English
history.
Even before the Conquest the laws Of
Edward the Confessor became the
standard by which men judged the
state Of their liberties for the next
century and a half
After the Conquest Edward I. he
came the greatest Of all English SOW
ereigns He may be called the father
Of the English Constitution with it's
distribution Of the powers Of govern
ment among King, Lords and Com.
mons, and he was a great administra-
tor and a great general as well
Edward II. was weak, but Edward
III. was a ruler of good character and
ability, and the most splendid military
triumphs in English history-the vic
tories Of Crecy and Poitiers-illumin.
ated his reign. The credit for them
belonged, however, to another Edward,
his famous son. the Black Prince.
Edward ~ was a dashlng adyentur
er, whose meteoric fights on and of
the throne in his struggles with Hen
ry VI, Queen Margaret and Warwick
give dramatic interest to the Wars OF
the Roses.
The sad fate of the little Edward ".
murdered with his brother by his
wicked uncle, the ogre Richard III. in
the Tower, has a place in all chlldren's
story books along with the touching
tale Of the "Babes in the Wood"
Finally Edward w., who died at
sixteen showed such precocious prom.
Use that his people could imagine any
thing possible If he had hved.-New
York Journal.
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
nrensurlnr a nrsteor,s Flirht.

The Yale Observatory has recently
been equipped with a device for de-
terminng the velocity Of any meteors
whose trails are photographed. 1t
consists of a bicycle wheel carrying
on its periphery a number Of opaque
screens, so adjusted that on rotating
the wheel the lenses Of the photo.
graphic cameras are obscured for def.
mite intervals. By employing two sets
Of apparatus at stations some distance
apart, in this instance nearly two
miles, sufficient data may be secured
10 enable the speed to be calculated.
In five instances the deduced speeds
ranged from twenty to twenty-four
miles per second
Tue wheel is revOlved by means Of a
small motor making from thirty to
fifty revolutions per minute. The ex-
act number is automatically recorded
with great accuracy to permit Of the
determination Of its speed.
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
Her Life Went Out with the Tide.

The old superstition that from folks
dying near the seashore the life goes
out with the tide was curiously full
filed in the death Of Queen Victoria
According to the official announcement
the Queen died at $50 p. m. on Tues
day. The British tide table shows that
It was high water in Splthead, meas
Cowes, about twenty minutes after
noon on that day. So It would be dead
low water at $50 o'clock in the even
ing and at low water the dying Queen
OF England "Went opt with the tide"
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
Hns Trnyeled ooo.s4O MIC.

A remarkable case Of physical endur-
ance is shown in the record made by
Fireman Charles Bellamy, Of the Burl-
ington road, who has closed up his six
teenth year with the railroad COM
pany, eleven years Of that service be-
ing as a fireman on the fast mail be-
tween Galesburg and Ottumwa, and
later between Burlington and Creston.
In all this time Fireman Bellamy has
never lost a trip or received a scratch
on the engine through accident. He
has made since firing 6O6SlO miles and
burned 32,501 tons Of coal. Mr. Bell.
amy's case is a maryel.-Iowa State
Register.
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
A COUNTRY ROAD.

A dusty, stony way, whose bordring
Is thick with blacliberres and golden
Abrupt. bare hills on one side looking
And from the other you can see the
town
Follow the rivers course through mead
ows green,
Ger which thick woods and marble lodges
lean.
A little further, where the road descends,
A brooks soft tnkle with some bird song
blends,
(Gone from its edge the dear old danes
small cot
Half hidden by quaint Aowers;) lush ber-
gamot
Makes sweet its banks, its depths the boys
still swim,
Or watch the minnows from some willow
limb
Upon its bridge how often l have stood
Watching the west, whose glory seemed
to flood
With tenderest light the poorhouse and
the graves
Beside it turn to gold the brooklet's
waves
Till from the hill, 0 dearest sight Of all!
I saw my father and | heard him call.
- Ma
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23

Through the long, hard winter-still
famous as the "big winter'-the young
lineman had done his work as well as
a man could have done it. From No
vember a. 1879 until the second week
in March following. no trains were run
on time between Wells, Minnesota, one
hundred and fifty miles west Of the
mississippi, and Flandreau, Dakota,
lhe western terminus of the road; and
IN all those months not a dozen trains.
freight or passenger, passed over the
entire length Of the road. The prairies
west of Jackson were buried under
snow drifted to an unheard-of depth,
poles barely protruded above the crust.
But on every day Of that long, cold
winter the wires west Of Jackson were
working" and twice between Decem-
Der 1st and the day in March when the
big rotary snow-plow cut its way
through the disappearing drifts the
boy had tramped across the crusted
snow, from the point where the three
big engines working westward were
"bucking" the drifts, TO the crew Of
farmers and sectlonmen slowly shov.
cling their way eastward.
With the last week in March the sun
had melted what little snow had been
left on the right Of way by the shovel
lers. On the open prairles great bare
spots Of grass alternated with wave
like drifts-shadow of their former
Belves-and every tiny brook and swaio
was turned into n raging torrent or
lake by the melting SHOWS. The warm
thinook, sweeping eastward from the
far mountains, tempered the atmos-
bhere; and when the young lineman
Bet out oD his velocipede car to inspect
Avery foot Of wire in his division, ma
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
Z
EBOYS PLUCK

7 n the fall Of 1879, when was su-

Z n the fall Of 1879, when l was su-
perintendent of telegraph service
on the Southern Minnesota Rail
road, line-repairer named Frank
lin sustained a severe injury by a fall,
and during the winter was unable to
attend to his duties. In reporting his
condition, he recommended that Jona-
than Hardrubble be employed in his
place on the Western Division, as
Hardrubble knew the line thoroughly,
and was competent and truthworthy.
On this recommendation immediate
ly sent instructions to Hardrubble to
assume Franklin's duties, and he did
so. Save that his division was kept
in excellent condition, and his reports
were concisely worded and written in
a neat round hand, l knew nothing
of him.
One morning in April l received a
tersely worded note from the general
superintendent telling me that he had
been informed that the lineman on
the Flandreau Division was a sixteen
SsAA -bAb IVY anu euESSolllS IAlll a
man be appointed in his place
was not only surprised to learn
that my model lineman was a boy, but
regretted to discharge him without
cause, as he had proved painstaking
and efficient Furthermore good men,
willing to bury themselves on the Da-
kota prairies for forty dollars a month,
were not numerous, and undoubtedly
difficulty would be experienced in find
ing a man to accept the place. There
fore l took a half dozen monthly re-
ports that had been submitted by
Hardrubble and stepped across the
hallway to the superintendent Office
to make a personal appeal for the boy.
The general superintendent was a
thorough railroad manager of long ex-
perience, sometimes gruff but always
Just, and was not without hope Of in
lucing him to rescind his order. He
listened to my statement and then
shook his head.
There is too much hard work and
responsibility in that position for a six
teen-year-old boy" he declared, en-
phatically. "He may doShis work well
for a time, but occasion will arise
when he will fail. and fail in such a
manner that it will mean heavy prop
erty loss, if not loss Of life. 1 must
Insist that you replace that boy with
a man"
As the superintendent finished
speaking and I was about to leave the
room, a messenger entered with a tele-
gram. 1t was long and evidently i'm
portant, as the superintendent read it
through twice. He folded it into a
small compass and slipped it into his
pocket, and as 1 started to leave the
room said:
81 have changed my mind about that
boy, Gregory; you need not discharge
him And when opportunity to do
anything for him arises, Just call my
attention TO the natter
It was two weeks before I knew the
meaning of that unexpected change Of
orders
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23

He came with sturdy stride and swinging
My hand in his, I told my days whole
OF joys, that meath his bright smile
seemed to grow,
Whlle lessened was my every childish
As his sweet words fell on my soul like
BALM
While. we walked homeward through the
fragrant calm.
Unchanged the scene (time sometimes
spares old joys,)
view 1T now beside two merry boys.
"ho' as they play, mark not the tears
My eyes as / gaze upward toward the hill
mat OFT my father cleared with sturdy
stride,
feeble his gait long, long before he died)
Beside the margin of this little stream,
Inc vanished years to me one long day
seem,
Their joys grow brighter and their griefs
pain less
In this dear spot his mem'ry seems to
bless.
The scene is commonplace no doubt to
To me it is the great earth's sweetest
y NJ. Mccarthy, in Boston Transcript.
The suburban citizen., 1901-02-23
Number.

Il sing in numbersw faltered I, wish
ing to be understood that l was poet
css by trade
The world contemplated me with
marked unsympathy.
What numbers" it demanded,
roughly, and in that moment | became
conscious that its eyes we're directed
particularly at my feet.
Shall l never live down my past? Is
it never to be forgotten OF me that
was born in Chicago?