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Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-02
nature of the ground would permit.
Flood ous.ripped Him.

Flood outstripped Him.
When he came within sight OF the
cabin 1t was half under water, and the
torrent threatened every instant to
carry it away. One end of the build
ing stood against an immense oak
tree with spreading limbs. BY climb
ing another tree Hendricks got into
the oak. About two feet above the
roof OF the cabin strong limb grew
out. From the limb Hendricks de-
scended to the roof, and as it was
composed of brusl and dirt, he quick
ly stamped hole through 1t. The
water had risen in the house nearly
to the bottom Of the bunk where Gill
bert lay. Hendricks dropped inside,
and, with water up to his armpits,
wrapped Gilbert in the blankets, fas-
tened rope securely around his body,
threw the other end over the limb
and hauled him up. He was a strong
man, and as Gilbert had been greatly
emaciated by the fever, it was not
hard to haul him up to the limb and
secure him at safe height in fork
of the tree.
Lashed to the Tree.
the sick man faced the storm. The
cabin. protected by the trunk of the
oak, stood fast, but a boulder, set
loose by the food, rolled down the
gulch and crashed through the side of
the building. When the storm had ex-
hausted its force the creek fell to its
normal proportions and Hendricks got
Gilbert to the ground, where he made
him comfortable as possible. Within
two weeks Gilbert had recovered. The
hole knocked in the side of the cabin
by the boulder had let in sand and
gravel. The dirt had peculiar look.
The men washed out some of it and
discovered several thousand dollars
worth Of dust, besides a 23-ounce mug
get of gold quartz. This led to a search
up the gulch and a placer was dis
covered, known as the Big Pay, which
ultimately sold for $780, 00 At %,
worth $4,000, Gilbert went back to
San Francisco and invested in real es-
tate. When he had made $780, 900, he
started back for Brooklyn, his old
home, but changed his mind and went
to Australia, where he gambled and
lost all he had. He went back to Cal
ifornia and tried his luck anew, but
fortune now frowned upon him and all
his later days were spent in poverty.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-02

These figures help us to settle the
question of whether the market will
pay more for heavy or medium hogs.
Taking the averages of all these years
we find it for each class of hogs to be:
Heavy packing s3.43@5.9S
Mixed packing ........ 3.43@5.7S
Light bacon ............. 3.39Q5.7S
This shows the difference to be very
slight, so far as the years quoted are
concerned.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-10-02
A Fortune in Hobnails

One morning Gilbert read in news
paper Of the arrival at San Francisco
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
The Twentieth Century.

We now stand at the threshold of
the twentieth century, and the nine
teepth is thing of the past 1t will,
however, always be known as the CEN
tury of invention and discovery, and
among some of the greatest of these
we can truthfully mention Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the celebrated remedy
for all ailments arising from a dis
ordered stomach, such as dyspepsia,
indigestion, flatulency, constipation,
nervousness and liionsness. 1t has
been one of the greatest blessings to
mankind during the past fifty years as
health builder. Many prominent
physicians prescribe and recommend
it. Take their advice, try bottle and
be convinced, but be sure to get the
genuine, with our Private Revenue
Stamp over the neck of the bottle.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
Life a Century ago.

One hundred years ago a man could
not take ride on steamboat.
He could not go from Washington to
New York in a few hours.
He had never seen an electric light
or dreamed of an electric car.
He could not send telegram.
He couldn't talk through the tele-
phone, and he had never heard of the
hello girl.
He could not ride bicycle.
He could not call in stenographer
and dictate letter.
He had never received type-writ-
ten communication.
He had never heard of the germ
theory or worried over bacilli and bac.
terra.
He never looked pleasant before Q
photographer or had his picture taken.
He never heard phonograph talk
or saw kaleidoscope turn out prize
fight
He never saw through a Webster't
unabridged dictionary with the aid Of
Roentgen ray.
He had never taken ride in an
elevator.
He had never imagined such thing
as typesetting machine or a type
writer.
He had never used anything but q
wooden plough.
He had never seen his wife using 8
sewing machine.
He had never struck match on his
trousers or anything else.
He couldn't take an anaesthetic ano
have his leg cut off without feeling it
He had never purchased 10-cent
magazine which would have been re
garded as miracle of art.
He could not buy paper for a GEM
and learn everything that had hap
pened the day before all over the
world.
He had never seen mechanica
reaper or a self binding harvester.
He had never crossed an iron bridge
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
Triaing With a Bulls Weakness

The proverbial hatred of bulls for
articles of red color has almost driven
John Anschutz, Stowe township
dairyman, out of business. Boys en-
tered bis premises recently and adjust
ed set Of crimson goggles on the eyes
Of his black and white bull, Dexter.
When the animal woke up in the morn
ing he saw nothing but great stretches
of carmine landscape. The grass was
po longer green and he refused to eat.
The barn was red and the fence was
red. The girl who came to the farm
yard to milk the COW was red, and she
carried red bucket and stool with
three red legs.
With a loud below he made des-
perate dash at the red strawstack and
tried to butt 1T over. The red chickens,
the red pigs, the red ducks, the red
geese fed before his awful onslaught.
The weather boarding of the red barn
was shivered into crimson splinters,
aud the milkmaid with the red dress
and the red hair ran back into the red
spring house in terror, leaving the red
bucket and the stool with the three red
legs to be tramplel deep into the red
earth by the hoofs of the enraged Dex-
ter.
Dexter made another dash for liber-
ty, and ran believing around the farm
until almost exhausted. After an hour
of terrible misery he was found, and
the red goggles were removed. He
was too much fatigued to make an
other attempt to escape; and was quite
peaceable when he saw his MASTER
Phitddetohid North american.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
ALFALFA AND HOGS.
A Money Making Combination for
Western Farmers.

While alfalfa has proved wonder
full crop for the Western farmer, per-
haps in no way can the plant be turned
into good money more quickly than in
hog raising.
When the farmer can grow a pig in
eight months that will bring him $S on
on the ranch, and can feed such pig
on three-fourths steamed alfalfa and
one-forth cracked wheat, barley, or
peas, it seems to us that it is paying
proposition. Alfalfa will yield four
tons of alfalfa annually per acre, and
wheat, barley, or peas, will yield thirty
bushels per acre. We are not informed
as to tbs number of pounds of feed
that are necessary to produce such a
porker, but we know this to be the
cheapest ration in the calendar, and
are assured that it is most successful
one. The pig yields the quickest re-
turns of anything in the shape of live
stock that is produced on the farm. In
our boyhood days pigs were not mar
keted frequently until eighteen months
old, and sometimes older, and were
made to weigh very heavy. The writer
remembers buying hogs for the market
when an animal weighing less than 25C
pounds, live weight, did not go, and
the hog weighing $50 was preferred
This is all changed now, and the light
er, nice animals, are preferred. Now.
$50 pounds, instead of being the mini
mum, weight of the hog, is the maxi
mum weight cared for, and 150 to 200
pound hogs are desirable. We believe
these light hogs to be the most profit
able to grow. They are made without
dollars loss to the farmer. That is
the pig is kept growing right along
and as it grows older and its capacity
for consumption increases, its ration'
are increased until it becomes a porkel
fit for market. The pig that comes in
to existence in the early spring is mar
ketet in the early winter and nothing
is lost by the inclemency of the wealth
er.-Denuer Stocbnadn.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
Our Dead Presidents.

George Washington died at 81 of in
flammation of the throat and lungs
John Adams died at 81 from senile
debility.
Thomas jefferson died at 73 oi
chronic diarrhoea.
James Madison died at S5 of old age,
James Monroe died at 73 of general
debility.
John Quincy Adams died at 81 Of
paralysis.
Andrew Jackson died at 78 of con.
sumption and dropsy.
Martin Van Buren, died at 80 of ca
tarrh of throat.
William Henry Harrison died at SO
of pleurisy.
John Tyler died at 72 of bilious at
tack.
James K. Polk died at sc of chronic
weakness.
Zachary Taylor died at Sc of cholera
morbus.
Millard Fillmore died at "a from
paralysis.
Franklin Pierce died at 65 of inflam-
nation of the stomach.
James Buchanan died at n of rheu-
matism and gout.
Abraham Lincoln died at 56, assassin
ated by ]. Wilkes Booth.
Andrew jackson died at 81 from pa
ralysis.
Ulysses S. Grant died at So of cancer
of the throat.
Rutherford B. Hayes died at 20 from
paralysis of the heart.
James A. Garfield died at 40, assassin
ated by Charles S. Guiteau.
Chester A. Arthur dick at 56 from
Bright's disease.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

A good illustration of modern min
ing methods on the threshold of the
twentieth century is afforded in Cal
umet, Mich, where shaft nearly one
mile in depth is now being sunk, and,
by means of a telephone 5000 feet be-
low the surface of the earth, on the
fifty-third level of No 2 shaft, Calumet
& Hecla mine, one can stand at the
bottom of the shaft and talk to Chi
cago, Minneapolis, Detroit or Cincin-
natl, the mine telephones being con-
nected with the long-distance service,
as no grounded telephones are used in
the mine and telephone connection
can be had with any of the cities of the
country that are reached by the over
ground long-distance service.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
VERSED IN ROMANCE.
Manuscript of Scott's "IvanhOC' Was
Rejected by Many London
Publishers.

BY way of practical joke a type-
written copy of Scott's "Ivanhoe" was
recently sent the rounds of the Lon-
don publishers, under the title, when
John Was England's King" 1t was
returned in every case. The London
Academy amuses itself by imagining
the form taken by the letters of re-
lection. 1t thinks Messrs. Macmillan
might have written somewhat like
this:
''Messrs. Macmillan e. Co. regret to
have to return When John Was Eng
lands King but they fear that inter
est in historical fiction is diminishing.
Their readers report of the story is
in the main favorable, but he points
out that the charge of initiating The
Forest Lovers one of Messrs. Mac
millan's recent publications, might
perhaps be difficult to rebut. In his
opinion the author of When John
Was England's King would perhaps
have made a better and more readable
book had he studied Mr.. Hewlett more
carefully"
Here is another burlesque letter:
"Mr. John Murry begs to return the
MS. of When John Was England's
King and to quote passage from
his readers report thereon: 4 do not
recommend this novel, although it is
painstaking and thorough. The au-
thor would, / think, have been wiser
had he chosen another name for his
hero. Ivanhoe has already been used
by Sir Walter Scott"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
The plain Plug" :"

An exchange contains the following
article which abounds in both truth and
poetry:
"The plain plug of man is the hap
piest man after all. His trousers may
bag at the knees and he may not be
acquainted with the latest style of chin
whiskers; he may not hold down a
throne or the presidency of railroad,
and he may not know the thrilling
Joy of having brand of socks named
in his honor, but as he potters along
through life he gets about as much
satisfaction out of it as his most dis
tinguished friend. He knows that
there is no crank waiting around to
shoot holes in his anatomy or bury a
cheese knife up to the hilt in his per-
son. He knows when he sits down to
his frugal meal that he eats his pie
with perfect impunity, for there is no
danger of it having been spiked with
rough on rats by the cook. No doubt
it is lots of fun to be all hailed when
you step out on your front porch, and
to have yourself misquoted in the pa
pers, and to know that as you hang up
your crown for the night and crawl
into your luxuriant couch that the po-
lice force is standing out in your front
yard to keep an admiring public from
throwing bricks through your wind
ows, but notwithstanding these ardent
Joys the common, everyday chap who
wears hickory shirt and hat that is
eight years out of style gets the most
pleasure out of his life in the long run.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

1t is said that the incoming legisla-
ture will be asked to examine the mer-
its of a voting machine, which, the in
ventor desired to have adoptes by the
State of Nevada. These machines, it
is claimed, cannot be jobbed and the
result of the days vote is known within
ten minutes from the time of the clos
ing of the polls.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
Love.

Love is trusting, love is waiting,
Love is hope, delight, despair,
Love is madness, love is hating,
Love is carelessness and care!
Love is wine and love is honey,
Love is pain and love is joy,
Love is evefything-but money
Just keep that in mind, my boy
-Chicefqo Times Herald.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

A hundred years ago there were no
farms west of the Mississippi; to-day
the Western wheat crop is 600, 900, 900
bushels, or one-quarter that of the
world.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

How are Your Nerves' you are
easily illustrated" can't sleep and feel
unrefreshed in the morning, your
nerves are weak. Hoods Sarsaparilla
makes the nerves strong by making
the blood rich and pure.
Sick headache is cured by Hoods
pills. 25c.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

Every boy in Germany from crown
prince to the meanest subject is obliged
to learn some useful trade. 1t ought
to be SO in the United States, and then
worthless boys and tramps would be
scarce.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

Extreme frankness characterizes at
least one business man of Otterville,
Mo. He closed up his store and left
this notice stuck on the door: "Gone
to the street fair at Sedalia. Will be
back when / get SOBER"
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

Editors who have opinions and cour-
age to print them seldom make sue
cessful candidates for office; they have
too many personal enemies.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

Never notice frown; try to chase ii
away by clever story or bit of good
news.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18

An old bachelor says the happiest
age of woman is marriage,
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-01-18
NEVADA MINERAL PAINT,
FACTORY OPPOSITE THE MINT
NUMBER 43.

This paint is made of pure mineral ground in the best
Lnseed OIL and is remarkable for its high polish and last
ing qualities.
1T is FIRE PROOF.
1t is manufactured in many co1or and the best paint
going to paint houses inside and OUT barns fences wagons
and machinery
1t leads all others because it is just beautiful and
much better and cheaper than ordinary paint 1t is
FURNISHED
and ready for in barrels by the gallon about
half the price asked for paint
NO LEAKY ROOFS
After using this paint Shingles painted with it will
not bulge up kink They will lay flat though made
of slate, as the paint dement's the shingles together
Many of the leading citizens of Carson have used this
paint and pronounce it far better and cheaper than any
other paint 1t puts coat like enamel and never
cracks or peals off, Address
Nevada Mineral Paint Co., Carson
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-09
BRENNAN BUDGET.

Unique Traveier--City Council Meeting.
Wreck IN Railroad Yards--Notes.
Brcuham. TcNae. October s. Perhaps the
most unique traveller and schooner thnt has
ever touched al, this growing port on tie
rolling TcSus prairlrF came Ia last Sarnr,
day evening and east anchor along the
southern limits for he night No one oh
,crycd him particularly IN the growing
dusk md consequently he passed tho night
without any calicrs
Early sunday morning Constable X, H..
Buroh chanced 20 fall into conversation
with this trs,elstanod visitor from an.
other country. and his story was quite In
tcrrsting His name was Roger Make.
ham Garrison, and be hats from sclkirk.
paar Wluuepeg. away up In Manitoba, In
Canada aud be left home on wheels
The manners. dress. appearance and
everything about HIN indicated that he
was above the average and that he was
out on q pleasure iauut as well az In quest
Of his lost health lie was apparently
about ~ years old ana stated that DC was
en- route To Galveston.
1br regular semi monthly meeting o. The
CITY council was held MonihN afternoon
with Aldermen Brennan, Burrh, Farmer
aud Mathis present. Mayor James A. VII.
kins presiding.
on motion. the Campbell, Grace aud May
neld Telephone company were granted the
r'gbi 10 operate a telephone line within
ih, territorial limits ~ the city but ihis
action was resclDded and placed on ole f9r
+ sufr action when there was fun board
Of pidtImpn present
Experimentation Booker Of The water
works. who was ~ u PREVIOUS meeting ap'
p0lutpd n committee ~ one 80 inVeslirat
ihc psp 81 an Ha q fucl, with q view ~
adopting II az the wHter works reported
thai he had made o trln to North Texas
f0r the purpose and tue result ~ his In
ycttientions were placed on ME for future
guidance.
Adorned Burch and Mathis we're mp
routed 4 committee to look after the con-
ttrrt ion Of q dog pound
frsight uain roilined with box CIR
In tho sommcfvilc yards Monday derail-
log th6 ear and throwing three ears ~ tie
freight train into The ditch The train
vas tpking siding and tie empty car
vas ffanding on the main line irnck when
,t,e NJ, ldent occurred The debris was an
"a the siding. hence there was no delay
Al iay MN Friday Mr. Adolph Roerth
hpf Mes Meta Teeth win be united ia
marriage. Rev. II. a. LestefipaAn onieiat.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-09

i isy for securing crops. but owing ~
wy dfy condition Of the ground Utfie niog
( lnE ana planting were done. About M ios,
OF Tue corn crop WIS housed. considcraIGo
,nuon was picked aud ginned. and A laree
"fnyuhl Q! Day was harvested
hl.A OF inc rice crop has hceu secured
hhh threshod ANA the Yield of this Srnn
mas generally been good '''P
~ a great many sections In tho eoptrot
portion or tho state picking cotton mas
peen completed aud the nelds have been
Abandoned TO stock
COMPLAINTS Of an unusually Eight Weld Of
COTTON continue 60 he received ana uni
rev cases are on record whore The crop has
iuri0d ont satisfactorily few touuR
hollS are appearing on early planted cottou
but The season VIII hardly allow them 10
mature. Boil weeyi and army worms afe
hcWOusly damaging late cotton and an I'M
dlcdtions point 10 the fact that little or
no top crop viii be made
A number of localities report wheat and
oats rs mp. but insects are niurine these
crops, aud only a few good stands have
been secured. The majority Of ehc wheat
and oat crops still remains 10 be seeded.
thc dry and hard condition Of thc ground
being responsible for the delay in his
work Ribbon cane Is doing fairly well.
but needs rain Peas, potatoes, turnips
and, In fact, all garden and truck produce
ire failing fast for want Of moisture.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-09
Nonro SHOOTING at Plum.

La Grange. Texas. October Two ne
eroes Lewis Mcintyre and Miles Anderson,
engaged IN a shooting ARRAY az Plum a
small place about six miles west Of this
city. last night Anderson used o 92-callber
plstol and Mcintyre 44.callher Win
chester. with the result that Anderson got
a winchester BAN under his left shoulder
blade. which would no doubt have result
cd fatally had he not stumbled aud fallen
inst as the other party hrcd, causing me
6uliet 10 come out Al the top 81 the shout
der instead of going through his body.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-09
,ossoossssssssS ssoOssssooseoe

ward Of 400 bales have been received THIS
season about one.hnlf NJ the crop raised
here two thirds of which Is gathered hAh
ready f0r m7rkct.
Caldwell. Bureson County. TeTas, octo.
her q There have been received az re
different cotton yards iu tne city during
the present season up ~ lhhrs1hy NOON
4iGs square bales and 1902 round bales.
Moody. Mclcnan County Texas &C,
tobcr 5.-Cottou Is nearly AN OUT lnr
farmers express the opinion thai - PCT
cent az the crop h picked qud about three
nfths NJ what Is due 20 ho0dy's territory
has been marketed
Texarkaua, Bowie County, Texas, ociooeI
Gone hundred ana zen halSs W H.
were sold hero Yesterday hy farmers tue ne
price paid averaging cents. ne ~
slgnment was the largest thus Ihr hane
here this season,
Loclhart, Caldwell County. Texas oct'-
her The following statement gives tue
Inclbgrt cotton husiiAsS M 10 date: NUN
her of bales compressed 500, gluncd ~ tus
cts gins tDlh square sr-Ss ana "a ,ine
bales. weighed az the COTTON 9hIu NV"
warrenton, Fayettie County ie1ah' oC.
tober g JThe weather for the past wees
mas been clear aud warm. Win srJnus
MORNINGS, aud rain is needed i4t sSaio,,Gy
ana sfo.k water. Today Y W quite ,l"uas
and rain nefore morning y nVt az 90 NICK
likely. There j. very llitif ~ ',inpeb az
and only ;isa bales have neeh slhinv AZ
IN igco hi date Very little COTTON ~
being sold. Int 1t Is being held Tor ps''e'
prices, No. oc
wharton wharton County, Texas DC
tohcr G. Wen irrigation has been p'"'ep '
a splendid success, AZ the Lunqul5S' l ~ a a
~ eiehf acros which was whis.ru ~
Veil $40 bushels wero raised, The petais.
AMI SUNNY weather has been very ,alfns an
~ ~ ~ ,.'iintv AZ Lane CITY setelNi
a lev bnlldipgs are 10 course % CONSTRUCT
and work an tho harvesting Of V, sass.,n q
49, ,isss ana IL begluulug 20 rlpen u WIZ
81 ready for cuttlag Ia a Re" aAJh
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-09
FHE CROPS OF TEXAS.
mort Is Favorable Except as to the Yield
" of the Cotton Crop.

The report Of tho United
gss'~ s,,ment Of agriculture, weather
&C. go section, for the week ending
/ 4, October !, 1901
~ ,,.,e-The mean temperature for
~ d,lermlned from the records Of
~. .rr,ber Of regularly reporting sta
Y. attributed throughout the state,
!. ,.grses which varies only sliEhtly
n Temperature usually expected at
~, Of the year. Excepting the
sg.las where normal thermal con
stsIped. warm days ana cool nights
,'.a he rule throughout the state.
~ NV Temperature during the week.
Sia, eeeurred az Beeville on the
~ n lowest Is degrees, M Kerr
/ ll' se Ia. "a and 81.
9A.etfsn-- Light to heavy rains 0c-
fstti w ssetions Of the Panhandle dur
III 'llitm portion of the week, aud
" 500 reported iu n few localities
~ .,,hwsst and west central portions;
ny FL III sfaGleally no rain fell over the
Itisi,st n many places q drouth pre-.
~ se.o,tgaier Is getting scarce, small
srt low. and In some places wells
slalss ,lpe dry and relatively warm
III Sgr5e the week has been very