davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26
MANATEE HUNTING.
A Winter Sport in Southern Waters,
 and How It Is Carried on.

A Winter Sport in Southern Waters,
 and How It Is Carried on.
 With the approach of late autumn to many lucky people, both on this and the other side, come thoughts of winter yachting on the Antillano Archipelago About the best days sport to be got out os West Indian cruise is a sea lion hunt although the manatee now freuuents the island in much smaller numbers than formerly. The American manatee is not to be confused with either the Steller or the Californian sea lion, the game of the Antillano sports man being the Manati-Australis, of which there are only two species. the one found in the Brazilian rivers. the other frequenting the estuaries of the Antilles and the reefs of Florida. Of the measurements of all the species of sea lion grossly Munchausenlike tales have been told. No account of a West Indian sea lion exceeding seven or pel- haps eight feet has been authenticated; indeed, a manatee that has attained this length is freak. Yet, though the game be rarer and of less heroic propor- tions than in the days of Hernando de Soto when, on account of it's unpalpal- atably fishy taste. the Franciscan fathers of Habana Dartool5 of it with "penitential grimaces on jours maigres. who that has ever caught LID his smear under the tempered glare of the waning year in the tropics, and has strolIed along the amber sand that edges one of the river creeks of an island in the Caribbean can forget the stimulus to
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26
Obsttnacy.

It's the contrairy chap that makes. this
 world a vale of woe; The fellow that keeps sayin' "yes' when 1
 keep thinkin' mo-" Or, it's the other way around. My thoughts
 he seems to guess, He loudly holers mo" whenyer I'm think
 in "yes." I've done my duty by him. I have labored day by day To lead him to the light an show the error
 of hls way. might as well be restin'. had better
 take nap Than waste my time in argument with that
 contralry chap. am sometimes sorry for him from the bot
 tom of my heart To see him so deluded. In some lines he's
 really smart. But his way O gettin' twisted on plain
 an simple fact Is most exasperatin' to q mind that sees
 exact. The queerest thing about him is that he
 can never see That he is holdln' out agin' the truth in-
 stead O me. In speakinl of ''contrairy chaps he smiles
 exceedin' grim, An honestly believes that that means me
 instid O him.
 From the Washington Star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26
Committee on Sewers.

The Committee on Sewers will meet 1T Rooms 10 and Il, City Hall. Tuesday, Feb ruary 26, 1901, at s p. m.. when the follow ing matters will be consdered:-
 Petition of Paul Heinig ct al. for sewer In Greenwood street between George and Oak streets.
 Petition of s. W. Chandler ct al for con. StructiOn of an outlet under Boulevard sewer to drain ground between Adeline street and old Railroad tracks.
 Petition of E. c. Terry ct al. for sewers In Ellsworth avenue from Goffe to Whalley avenue, in Whalley avenue from Ellsworth avenue to the Boulevard, and in the Boule- yard between Whalley avenue and Elm st. Petition of Ochsner & Son for sewer in State street between Mill River street and Neck Bridge.
 Persons interested. ip the foregoing are notified to attend and be heard without fur ther notice. Per order,
 JOHN WHITAKER, Chairman. Attest: JAMES B. MARTIN,
 fe25 2t Assistant City Clerk. District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 February 23d, 1901. of ELIZABETH M. DOOLITTLE,
 of New Haven, in said District, minor. cation for an order authorizing and empow- erng her to sell and convey certain real es- tate of said minor as by suid application on file in this Court more fully appears, 1t is ORDERED - That said application be heard and determined at Court of Pro trict, on the 1st day of March, 1901, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and that public no tice of the pendency of said application, and of the time and place of the hearing there on, be given by publishing this order. three times in some e newspaper having circula-
 LIVINGSTON W. cLEAvELAND, fe25 St Judge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week (seyen times)
 Display advertisements, per incb, one ln to sertion, $1 20; each subsequent Insertion, 4o cents; one week, $32O; one month, SlO; one year. $40. ,r
 Obituary Notices. ln prose or, verse. 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, NATL ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 50 cents each' Local Notices. 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to tne'r I own immediate business Gall matter 10 " unobjectionabe). and their contracts do ho' Include Wants, To Let. For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

It is related that a Boston street car conductor, being asked by an impatient passenger how long the delay caused by the breaking doYn of loaded wagon on the track was likely to last, replied; ''That is only matter of the merest conjecture"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

'They say my cousin is a wonderful doctor"
 'You bet he is! swallowed nickel the other day and he made me cough up two dollars. Topeka Capital.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

The British government is the owner of over twenty-five thousand csmels, which are. employed in transport ser vice in India and Egypt.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

which they sell, cutting the flesh into strips which, when dried, are called tasajo, and twisting out of the cured skin these curious canes which are to be bought in the shops of Habana and Port u-Prince.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26
Black Lace Dress

This evening dress is of black Chan tilly lace, over a white silk ground. The stole and sleeves are of Cluny guipure, draped and the waistband of poppy colored velvet
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

Two old colored men were standing in the outskirts of the mob at Topeka which was clamoring at the jail for Slater, the ravisher. "Don' you belieb da ought to bun dat white man at de stake laik dey did dat nigger at Leav- enworth?" asked one of them. Well" responded the other somewhat doubt fully, T expects 1t would be good poli- tics."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

Several hairdressers in Paris have adopted antiseptic methods. In front of each chair Is a gas burner. Metallic combs are used. The barber turns on the gas and before he commences oper- htions he slowly passes his metallic comb several times through the flame; scissors and razors are also purified by fire The risk from the brush is miti- gated by the constant use of antiseptic hairwash.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY l5 GENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH, {; TOR srx MONTHS, S6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

THE WEEKLY JO URNAL, Issued Thursdays, One Dollar O Year.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

lAL CARkINGT PUBLISHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

A new tea company influenced by Dr. Shepard's success, has just bought six thousand acres of land in Colleton coun- ty, South Carolina, intending to raise tea for the market. The company paid 0,OOO for the land and will plant but one hundred acres this season, as it is now rather late to begin the prepara- ton of the ground. Next year over five thousand acres will be planted, and the output is expected to exceed 3OOOOo pounds.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

The best we can say of King Milan of Servia, says The Saturday Review, lis that the rascal possessed persuasive tongue. One day when mob was bowling for his blod outside the Konak at Belgrade he came out upon the bal cony amid a pandemonium of groans, but before lapse of many minutes all were listening to his language with rapt attention, and soon his peroration was the signal for wild applause. He was bad king, a bad man, bad father and an abominable husband, and we can only plead for him that an evil nature and shameful education were accen- tuated by the blacket misfortune. His death leaves Servia, almost alone among civilized States, without an heir to the throne King Alexander is the last of the Obrenovitches, and cannot point even to a distant cousin with the remostest claim to succeed
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has had much hard luck. or something else. During the past fifty years it has lost nineteen steamships, and among the principal wrecks cited are those of the Golden Gate off the Mexican coast in 1862, when two hundred of the three hundred passengers on board perished, and of the steamer Japan off the China coast in the early '7Os, when four hun dred Chinese were drowned But much the most noteworthy disaster the com pany ever suffered was the loss of the steamer Central America in storm off Cape Hatteras in September, 1857. Of the 579 souls on board, only 152 were saved. There went down with the ship also some $2,0Oo,Ooo in gold from California.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-26

Inspector O.. B. Sheppard, of the Canadian Department of Fisheries, says in his annual report that unless some thing is done to prevent it sturgeon soon will be practically extinct in the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay district. In the northern part of the district, es- pecially in Lake Nipissing and rivers leading therefrom. they are still plenti- full but they are being slaughtered at a fearful rate, one firm having shipped seventy thousand pounds of caviare in the season. As the roe is the part of the fish that is of the most value, and it Is taken just before spawning, the sturgeon has no chance to reproduce Itself, and the end must shortly come. MT. Sheppard strongly advises drastic measures of protection for the fish for 8 few years.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05
MINES OF MADISON COUNTY.
The Easton Closed Down on Account
of the Eight-Hour
Agitation.

A special telegram from Dillon to the
Helena Record says:
Men who We're over from Madison
county during the Wolff trial give a
rather gloomy report as to conditions in
mining affairs in the district immedi-
ately surrounding Virginia City. They
say that the Easton mine and mill has
be en- closed down on account of the en-
forcement Of the eight hour law and
that only ts2ae men are at present
working OH l..e property, which is sup
posed to be one of the best mines in the
county. On the dump there are nearly
10000 tons of good ore. Teams were en-
gaged a few weeks ago to haul this ore
to the railroad at Twin Bridges, but the
closing down of some of the smelters
caused the managers of the mine to give
up the project of shipping the ore at
present and the teams have been taken
off.
The two dredges operating near the
mouth Of Alder Gulch canyon, have also
suspended operations temporarily, the
reason assigned by The Records an
formant being that there was trouble
among the stockholders.
Frank Benton is shipping a car lead
OF ore from the Argenta district this
week to the smelter at Omaha. It is
high grade lead ore and carries some
value in gold.
Monroe Mann has just shipped car
load of fist-class Ore from the Sunshine
mine, in the Argenta district, to Omaha
for treatment. 1t Is said that tn re-
turns will be about 5000 ton.
A. p. BallOu and F. G. DeGaleyer. OF
f1cials OF the Montana Copper & Gold
company. were in town from Chicago q
few days ago and spent a few days at
the mines on Stone creek. The new
hoist and boiler have been taken to eho
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05

Cooke City, in Park county, is likely
soon to become the center of a good-sized
mining boom. if information from various
sources can be relied upon. A company
bacled by unlimited capital has been
formed recently to operate on a large
SCALE says the Carbon County Democrat.
1t is reported, Furthermore, that a rail-
road will be built into the place this sum-
mer.
Cooke City has several things to recon-
mend its future. In addition to being
located in an excellent mineral belt
where large bodies of ore have been un-
covered, it is within a stones throw of
the National Park, and in case railroad
is built offers a new route through the
Park. Aside from the freight hauled.
the railroad is in a position to handle a
large turist trade.
A railroad has already been surveyed
from Bridger to Cooke City, and the
bonds subscribed. The distance is about
100 miles. This company, it is under.
stood, received half interest in some IL
the best claims of the place as an en-
couragement to build. BY the terms of
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05

shipped gold brick from the free mill
ing ore 1t has worked. It is said that
there are thousands Of tons of good ore
on the dumps of both the Daisy and
Black Warrior. another promising mine
There are other promising claims with
plenty of ore on the dumps which only
need the means of transportation to make
them valuable mines and dividend pay
ers. Some of the ore runs as high as $106
in gold and copper.
Cooke City may well be called a poor
mans camp" With the exception Of the
large companies mentioned. most Of the
men holding claims are poor men. But
they have faith in the camp and are
holding on to their claims like grim
DEATH While too poor to do development
work. they keep up their assessment wO
work, they keep up their assessment
work and hold the price Of their pros
poets at good stiff figure. One claim
ant. 1t is said. refuses to take less than
a million dollars for his claim, although
| he was offered what seemed a big price.
| This illustrates the great faith those in
| terested in the future of the camp. They
| feel that if it is a waiting game the re-
| ward is certain.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05

the agreement the road must be started
by the LIST of July, 1901: otherwise. its
interest in the mining claims become de-
linQuent. From the fact that 1t will cost
several thousand less than was at first
estimated. is proof that the building Of
the road is not difficult task 1t is not
likely that the company now in the field
will relinQuish such valuable rights, all
the more so, as it is understood that there
is another company anxious to build on
the same terms, in case the original COM
pnay throws UP it's rights.
According to the Democrats inform
ant, since the formation OF the last com
pany, there are now three large COM
panies ready to begin development work
One of these is st. Paul company and
another an Oregon company. Each one
has plenty of capital back of it and Is in
position to operate on large scale.
The ore around Cooke City it is said
lies in large bodies, considerable or it
running into free milling ore. The Lodges
are wide and well defined and Of the
character to indicate fissure veins So ia,
improved with depth. The Daisy" min
as they have been followed they have
has ten-st-.m mill and recent.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05
THE SAPPHIRE MINES OF MONTANA

three times as great and there are
sapphires all the way down. The deeper
they go the harder the formation be-
comes, requiring greater expense 70
cause disintegratiOn. All dirt that is
worked over this year win be exposed
through the late fall and winter to the
elements. causing disirtegration, and
next year it will be washed over again
in the, sluice boxes and there may be
extracted as many gems as We're found
this year.
Through the summer many gems are
thrown aside as culls, but men are left
at the mines all through the winter and
they devote their spare time to sorting
ever the culls. There would, however,
be no danger in leaving the mines un-
guarded through the winter. for nature
protects them. After the water freezes
30 one can extract the sapphires from
their hard. clayed bed.
The output for this season will be very
large and some particularly fine stones
have been secured. The largest stone
yet found at the mine was discovered
early in June of last year, and IT
weighed 10 carats. The demand for
the sapphires is constantly increa sing
and the supply is insufficient, despite
the fact that many individuals are also
engaged in in mining them at various
| spots along the Missouri river in ad-
| dition to the Yego mines. Some stones
| are shipped direct to London where
| they are cut. while others are sent tc
Antwerp for that purpose. But abou,
half of the product finds it's way back
/ to the United States. several large
American companies having contracts
with the English firm to which the MIN.
| ing companies sell the product. The
duty on the cut gems is only 10 per cent
! The actual mining season IS from Apri
Is to October 81, or until water freezes
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05

recent issue Of the New England
Statist, published in Boston. contained
the following in relation to the Shannon
Copper company of Arizona which is
about to be given a new lease on life by
men whose association with Butte mines
polished their education in the matter of
conducting large enterprises:
Philip Wiseman, general manager of
the Shannon Copper company, formerly
corrected with. the Colorado Mining and
Smelling company Of Butte, Mont, who
Is now In Boston for the purpose Of pur-
chasing equipment for the property of
the Shannon company, at Clifton, Ari-
iona. says:
Our company. at the present time, Is
in possession of 600 acres of mining
ground in the heart of the Arizona copper
district. The present development work
shows very large tonnage of ore block
ed out; $4,000 feet of development work
having already been done on the prop
erty.
We expect to have our smelter in OPP
Grafton about the latter part of the pres
ent year. The plant will consist of two
furnaces, of a capacity of 500 tons Of ore
per day. if it is deired to smelt that guam
tity. We shall also start work upon the
construction of concentration. 1t had
been originally planned to construct a
concentration of a capacity of 500 tons per
day, but ore developments have been
such that we shall build one of ]. 000-ton
capacity. The concentration should be in
operation in from sixteen to eighteen
months"
Paul 0. Wells, the metallurgist of the
company, for some time connected with
the Boston Montana and the Anaconda
companies is at the present time in Chi
cago. also negotiating for the purchase
of equipment for the property.
The railway to the smelter site is al
ready we'll under way. 1t will connect
with the Arizona and New Mexican rail-
way at Clifton.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05
Boom for Mammoth.

Mammoth is on the verge of a BOOM
That is the word that reached US Friday
morning. A well known capitalist OF
Omaha, Mr.. Dougherty is behind the
scheme and it is understood that a so
stamp mill will be erected at once to be
run by electricity generated by water
power from the South Boulder A
townsite has been plated on the fiat
below town and everything is supposed
to be on the hump from now on. The
men a work in the mines have been laid
off until the mill is erected. Hurrah for
Mammoth.-Pony Sentinel.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05
One Of the Most Remarkable Deposits
of Gems in the World Found in
Fergus County-How the
Stones Are Taken Out
One Weighing
10 Carats.

# A correspondent writing from Helena
says that Fergus county, Montana, pos
sesses one Of the most remarkable mines
in the world-the Yego sapphire proper
ties-in that the precious stones are
found in regularly formed veins like
gold, silver and other valuable metals,
whereas in other mines diamonds, sap
phires, opals and other buried treas
ures are found in pockets or clusters
Consequently a description of this
unique mine and it's mode of operation
will prove interesting.
The sapphires are found scattered all
along the lead or vein, and as in many
other kinds of mining, there is much
dead work, as Well as frequent rich
strikes. Last month, for instance, five
blocks of ground We're worked, from one
10 900 carats were extracted, while from
another of equal dimensions only "a
carats were taken and the cost of work
ing the block from which the 10000 car
ats We're taken was only about one
tenth that Of working the other four
blocks from which 5000 carats We're
re allied.
The sapphires are found in a perpen-
dicular lead of dry clay, with wall rock
en- both sides. and, as this clay forrna-
ton is mined, it is thoroughly washed
and the gems extracted and picked over
They are of all sizes and various de-
gfees of excellence, but the amethystine
Gem continue very rare. So far The com
rany has worked only so or 60 feet, but
prospecting has been done to depth
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05

mine and men are avtively engaged in
placing them in position. 1t Is expected
that the hoist will be in running order
within the next two weeks and active
development work will then begin on the
shaft. which will be sunk to the depth
of 500 feet
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-06-05
Placer Ground Reported Sold

The sale OF the Greenwell and Vaughn
placer property to Edwin Haskell of
Wisconsin is reported, the considera
ton being $4,000 in cash. The claims
are located near the falls on Libby
creek in the northwestern part of the
state. The new owner it is said, will
place modern machinery on the ground
and operate on an extensive scale.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-02
FOUND OH.

A Trained Nurse Discovered Its Effect.
No enc is in better position 70 know the
value OF food and driuk than trained
nurse
Speaking Of coffee. a nurse of wnkes
Barre. Pa, writes Y used - drink
strong coffee myself ard suffered greatly
from headaches and tndigestion- while
on visit 70 uly brothers had a eoo5
chance TO Try Postum Cereal Food COZ
fee. Tor they drank IL altogether n place
Of ordinary C0nee- IA no weeks sffer
using Postum I found was nueh heae-
feed and fnallg nlT headaches disappear
ed AID also che Indigestion
Naturally / have since Used Postum
among ny patients. ard have noticed a
marked benefit where coffee bas been LETT
OF and Postum used
7 observe a c.1ri1ls fact zh15t P7sruU
used among rn5thers IL greatly hei7E
the Eov q u-Iz IL cases where co1ee 81
inclined 70 dr. Il up. ard where To-
causes nervousness
7 find trouble Ia gstl-C SERVANTS g.
make Postum properly IheF most e.
ways serve X before Z has b@s- o
long enorSh r ssoald - ease1 1r
= inmates and sereea Hl-a csG. e1er
* IS certainly = deisclels oevsrzes- 3lrs
EIIa c. Burns. - Z so1zh -. W-sAes
Barre. Pa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-02
GIVEN ogATH SENTENCE.
Joseph 3. Hinton Receives Judge
Decree Without Emotion.

Joseph 3. Hinton Receives Judges
Decree Without Emotion.
Phmipsburg. April s0-A two weeks
term Of court has just closed here. JOS
eph B. Hinton. who was convicted Of
murder in the frst degree, for Killing his
sweetheart; Maggie Shurts. at Logan on
the 4th day Of last February. was given
the death penalty. IN receiving the SEN
tenee he was perfectly cool. not exhibit
ing the least sign OF emotion
This Is the first conviction for murder
in the first degree ever had in this coun-
". aud the case was one OF considerable
interest
The judge II commenting upon the case
stated that this peculiar crime is becom-
ing quite prevalent. and might eventually
necessitate the keeping young ladies IN
close surveillance IN accordance with
the Spanish methods.
The city authorities here are sinking
well thirty feet IN diameter 70 be used
in supplying water FOR the city water
works. IA making the excavation many
curious fossils have been discovered.
which plainly Indicate that this country
vas once the bed OF = lzSe CT inland ses-