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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26

The New York Evening Post wants
to know why it is that the nous Of
representatives, without any opposition.
passes a bill reducing to rs per cent.
of the Dingley tariff bill tie duties on
goods imported from the Philippines.
when it a impossible to get a bill
through during last session reducing
the rates on these goods more than %
per cent. 1t thinks that conditions are
about the same now as then.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26
We are under obligations to Messrs.

We are under obligations to Messrs.
Edwards & Broughton. OF Raleigh.
for q handsome calendar for 1908. The
calendar contains a handsome print Of
the state flag. Messrs. Edwards &
Broughton say: For the first time in
the history Of the state. - far as we
know. has our state flag ever been
printed In its own true and beautiful
solorA"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26

The chief features of the British
parliament just ~prorogued. was tt
passage of the educational bill. 1t
Is said thai under this measure Eng
land has for the first time in her history
a comprehensive public school system
education.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26
SOUND AS A DOLLAR

That is the result of a course
of treatment with SCOTS
Emulsion. We have special
reference to persons with weak
lungs and sensitive threats.
SCOTS Emulsion does some
things better than others.
This is one of them. 1t has a
peculiar action on the throat
and lungs which gives them
strength and makes them
tough.
That how SCOTS Emul-
sion drives out coughs, colds
and bronchitis. 1t keeps them
out, too.
Wen send you a Ilule to Try, il you ike
SCOTT s. BOVINE. 400 Pearl street. New York
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26
Liability of Judges Salary for Tax
alton.
Especial to The Messenger.)

Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh. N. c., December 22.-Chair-
man MCNEIL. of the state tax commits
sion. says that the opinion of Attorney
General Gilmer that judges salaries
are not taxable will be inquired into
and that new supreme court will pass
upon that matter.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-12-26
and Pills

Remove the cause of rheumatism-no
outward application can. Take them.
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
Che Conservative.

sistent are the representatives of the
people in this respect, that it is we'll
nigh impossible for the citizens Of
any state to select from their number
men who will push through an effect
i've anti trust law; yet these legisla-
tors and their constituents-who no
doubt have voice in the construction
Of the law-never fail to join in a
mighty chorus Of invective against
the judge who arrives at the only
conclusion ever left open to him :
that the industry which has the
greatest representation in the assem-
bly, is seeking to impose restrictions
upon less favored industries, which
it is by no means willing to have
applied to itself, which defect robs
the law Of it's virility, and proves
the axiom: Greediness bursts the
bag"
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
$211.SO

Other expenses which we are unable
to decipher, and which were prob
ably not intended to be deciphered,
bring the grand total up to $270. SO
and adding to this the livery bill of
$3.50 the total expense of being on
earth for three days in the city Of
Mexico, and seeing the city exactly
as an American city would be seen,
$3.50. &c.
Meanwhile the peon, whose sole
earthly possessions are about 30 cents
worth Of clothing and game rooster
or two, surrounds himself with his
half fed family, and alternately roasts
at midday and freezes at midnight
But we hear you ask why these high
prices do not aid the peon? The
answer is perfectly easy to under
stand high prices do not aid the
peon, simply because he has nothing
to sell, and quite probably never will
have. The rich bankers, dealing in
silver exactly as in this country men
deal in wheat, skin the poor man to
the bone and scrape the bone. Once
down, there is absolutely no chance
for him to regain his feet.
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
T he continued
failure of British
strategy in South
Africa is certainly
WORRIED
BRITONS.

endangering the supremacy Of the pres
ent ministry, and only the characteristic
tenacity of the Briton has enabled him
to countenance the continuation Of a
struggle so expensive in men and means,
and so monotonously unsuccessful The
Irish are evidently restless, and there is
ground for real apprehension that un.
less there is change for the better in
South African affairs, within short
time, the peasantry will have to be
dealt with. Meanwhile the reports
from the front recall the good old
Quaker minister who, after marrying
couple, remarked to the proud groom:
Friend, thou art at the end of thy
troubles The newly-wedded man
having shortly discovered that his wife
was regular vixen, reminded the
minister of the failure Of his prophecy
only to be told: "Verily, I said not
which end" So when the end of the
Boer war is said to be in sight, it is al
ways pertinent to enquire, (which
end?"
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
GREED AGAIN.

SNA$OA <AS0AN' AoV AOSOAcAJ OAoSV-
ed by the Illinois
legislature has already been declared
invalid by the United States supreme
court because it contains an excep-
tion clause intended to exempt farm
products from the conditions of the
act. This is the usual fate of such
legislation, the trouble being that
those upright and virtuous legislators
who frame the laws always conscien.
tiously attend to it that every branch
of industry is forbidden to consoi-
date, excepting those in which ma
jority of the members of the assem-
bly, happen to be engaged. Then it is
only question of time when the
matter will reach the courts. and in
due course of events down will come
a decision that the law is antagonistic
to the provision of the constitution
which guarantees to all equal rights
under the law. So consistently incon-
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
ANOTHER KAN.
SAS CRAZE.

eties in New England entered the ter
ritory of Kansas to struggle for Afri-
can slavery on the one hand and uni
versal freedom on the other, that part
of Uncle Sans domain has been in a
constant succession of tumultuous
Mysteries. It had bled and indulged
in various civil commissions to attract
the attention Of the older states up to
1860, when it went wild over a
drouth, and it shrieked and begged
for food and finances all over the
United States Since then it has in
dulged in prohibition, populism, Mary
Ellen Leaseism, and Carrie Nation
Hatchetism and now it has developed
a Boy Orator Of five weeks of age, at
Harper in that state. This leaves the
adolescent Demosthenes of the Platte
in the rear by some forty years and
easily wins the belt for juvenile
defamation. This infant phenome-
non began talking when three weeks
of age, and now. at five weeks. it con-
tinues to reiterate the lugubrious
prophecy: "Six years Of famine in
Kansas" The prophecies of Bry-
anarchy made in 1895 and 1900 are as
gopher hills to the Rocky Mountains,
when compared to the famine fore.
casts of the Peerless Infant of Kansas.
Hundreds have crowded the home of
his father, John Shelby, of Harper,
who is laboring man. to hear the
eloquent baby make his forecasts.
This infant is rival to Bryan for
the nomination to the presidency in
1904 by all Of the followers of the
Chicago and Kansas City platforms.
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
The recalcitrant
editor Of the Mad
ison Mail will be
remembered as the
UNDER
SUSPICION.

remembered as the
very effective chairman of the popu.
list national convention who cast
aside all rules for the government of
such bodies, and seemingly by main
strength forced the populists to en-
dorse ticket upon which they had
no acknowledged candidate throwing
aside their own patriots, relegating
to the rear the initiative and referen-
dunn, government ownership of all
sorts Of things, two per cent money
and other principles for which the
pioneer populists contended. It is
this same Allen who now asserts that
there--is no affinity between the two
parties, and warns the so-called de-
mocracy not to undertake to dissolve
and absorb" the party Of Jerry Simp-
son, Bill Dech, Bill McKeighan, Jake
Wolfe and the other Bills, Jakes and
Jerrys who have fought, sweated and
been defeated in the name of all that
is populistic. Has this versatile states
man, journalist and campaigner ex-
perienced sudden change of heart,
or is he the tame steer sent out to in
gratiate himself with the mavericks
and ultimately lead them by easy
stages and sundry devious windings
into the Commemorate corral in
time for the fall roundup? Perhaps
he is sincere; perhaps he really in
tends to remove the ring from the
nose of populism and leave it's former
master to hold both ends OF the rope,
but the past acts of this new cham
pion of middle of-the -road-ism give
rise to strong suspicion that he
is posing for purpose. Later on the
whip will crack and shoulders will
be CALLED, but it will be too late then
to do more than below and sweat
and form resolutions as to what will
be done "next time"
The Conservative, 1902-03-13

ing the world, and incidentally his
family, how very little person may
subsist upon, we glance at the hotel
bill of party travelling in Mexico:
Lodging 3 days g rooms) IS SO. 90
Restaurant and wines ........ 12O. 80
Express. observation-disclosures. $50
Stove Observation-Disclosures. 1876
Tailor ..........,............ 2.25
Lost his nose glasses. ........ 11.00
Mineral water. r..,..,...... loo
$211. 80
The Conservative, 1902-03-13
AS has been said
in this journal the
line of division be-
LUXURY.

tween the classes in Mexico is drawn
sharply; one has everything that he
wants; the other nothing that he
wants. While the poor peon is teach
The Conservative, 1902-03-13

Ever since Blue
Lodges in t h g
South and Beecher
Bible Rifle soci-
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05

Scientists, and kindred cults, are here after to be rigidly excluded from the imperial court.
 Seattle. Feo. 5.-Tlmothy F. Ker- shaw has been appointed state fisher ies commissioer to succeed A. (. Little. removed by Governor Me Bride. The office will be removed from Tacoma to Seattle.
 London, Feb. IA special dispatch from Rome says that at q meeting of the reprcseutives of the Italian lodge, of Free AIasons it was decided that Italian Free Masonry should cease to be q secret society.
 Washington, Jan. 3I. The house bill providing for the creation of a per manent census bureau passed ny an overwhelming ma jority. A measure was also passed for the protection of ID ners in the territories.
 New York, Feb. 1.-The promised liberation of Miss Stone terminated in 6 failure, for the reason hat the Ameri- can delegates who carried the ransom out 10 exchange for her took too large d crowd of people with them.
 Sault Ste. Marie. Ont, Feb. 1l.-The new steel plant of the Clcrque sypdi- cate, winch will be ready in two months. is said to te the most modern pant Of it's kind in the world. and it k expected will make the cheapest steel ia the world.
 Paris, Feb l.-Mademoiselle Jeanne de Ni!lercuve, d government clerk, has been appointed secretary to the French consul a: New York. This is a new de- Iartuie and believed to be the first time d woman has been appointed to q post in the diplomatic scrvlce.
 Danville, H., Feb. ll.-F. NJ. ZellerS, patient at the national military hos pital here, has received letter from the American consul at Tien-,Sin, China, that his daughter, Margaret IellerS. committed suicide on December g and lett SIC, coo in gold for her father
 Paterson, N. J., Feb. ll.-Prepara- tions to rebuild the district swept by fire on Sunday are already beginning. The mililiamen are still on duty ln the etr eets. but the regulations have been relaxed. I here has been no disorder and the soldiers have had d cOmpar- atively easy talk in guarding property.
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05

cause much of the gold was widely dis Seminated in small quartz strlngers and in impregnated zones of the bed rock. It was not derived from d mother lode, but in the course of the destruC- tion of the bedrock the gold thus wide ly disseminated in small veins was con- centrated in the sands and gravels. This does not by any means preclude the possibility of the presence Of work able quartz veins in the region. In fact, some veins and impregnated zones carrying values have already been dis covered. Compared with the amount of material which has been removed and destroyed, the amount of bedrock now exposed and accessible to the miner and prospector bears relation of something like q thousand to one,
 if not Il million 10 one. There can be no doubt that gold is widely dissemi- uated in the veins found in the bed rock, though up to the present time but few have been found which carry values.
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
ENGLAND
 AROUSED The irish league Reigns Su- prcnle.
TINE AMERICAN EnD
Irish Pcasantry Believe the Reign of British Nearly Over Because Home Rule Has Been Treated So Kindly. Movement Now Revolutionary.

London, Feb. S.--A Dublin dispatch to the Pal! Mall Gazette declares that q firmly rooted belief in influential circles is that nothing short of revolu- tion is meant ly tEc United Irish League. and that while it. advocate constitut ;onal methods it is slowly but surely giving way to the strong phy- sical force section.
 According 10 a correspondent. Lord Sali>bury's speech on Wednesday be- fore the United Constitutional Club leads people to hope the government has at last learned thc lesson that home ru!c cannot be killed with k;ndne, $, that it has become aware of the terri ble havoc worked by the League throughout Ireland.
 lr,imen just from the United State, aver that no support will be given 10 the disloyal cause unless the discuss eiCns and scenes in parlimmcut giv" place to something mere acilVc in Ire land. The American end of the cam p4gn io being un ny men ali of the ,tamp of Fnerty, who recommends dynamite and rifles. The policy of kindness has convinced the peA,antry that the reign of the British Is almost al an end. lhc truth i> tLal the Brit i-h statute book is already suspended and the League supreme.
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
A Trail Monument.

Near the Dorothy creek roadhouse, on Nome river, there is a cutoff which. it is said, shor,ens the trail somewhat, but it sidetracks the U. 5. roadhOuse, kept hy il colored man. He saw hush CTS giving him the go-by. and he re- solved 10 have revenge. He found q dead dog, and placing it on it's feet at the point where the "cut-Otf' began, alongside of the defunct canine he placed huge sign, reading: II took the cut-uff Beware !.
 When dog teams saw the dog stand ing there erect and defiant. apparently, they made a bee line for him. only to sheer off with acceleI speed, when they found the animal was dead. toward the U. $. roadhouse. where the smiling colored gentleman awaited them. The truth of this story is vouched for by Tim Sullivan.
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
SWlTCnKaEM
 0M a STRIKE
Conductors and Braker1en in Sym pathy With Tfem-S Strike As-
 Sumes Grave Aspect.

Mssoula, Mont, February 1.-The switchmen's strike, inaugurated yes terday in the wards of the Northern Pacific railway has assumed grave aspect. The conductors and brake men have refused to make or handle any trains unless the switching is done by the regular crews of Ihe wards.
 The cause of the trouble wa, the d,s- charging of two men who refused to work with a road engine without sid,- board attachments. A state law pro vIdes that trainmen injured while at work in q yard Cn an engine without sideboards are alone held responsible for any injurie, and can cU!.ect no damages from the company.
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
NEVkDA'S NEW
 GOLD ORE CAMP
A Lively Place, With 5000 Inhabit- ants-Mauy Nome People
 Are There.

Commodore Felix Brown is in re- ceipt of q letter from Is. Goodrrienh, who was in Nome last year. in which Mr. Goodfriend tells some interesting things concerning the new gold camp at Tonopah, or Butler City, New, which he had visited. A copy of the Tonopah Bnnanza, weekly paper published at Butler City, accompanied the letter. The paper has healthy appearance, being crowded with "ads. '
 Speaking of the camp. Mr. Good friend says: 1t is going to be hum. mer. The town is built on the hillside, about co miles from Sodaville. on the Carson and Colorado railroad. Stages run daily; fare, $S from Sodaville to Tnnopah. The town has now about 3,010 inhabitants. and all are working or in business, not excepting raft oi sports of both sexes.
 All the ore has been shipped to the Selby smelling works or 10 Everett, Wash, for reduction. Nothing under $500 per ton is shipped. All under that is called low grade. and is piled up in dumps, awaiting future handling. The ledge starts right at the surface, and IS richer at the 2C0-foOt level than at the top. Water is hauled seven miles, and sells at $l.5O per barrel. There are about 30 saloons already, and more ready 10 open; drinks. l2a cents.
 You see lots of Nome people here w. 5. Elliott (Winnemecca Blll), Cush- man Gale, Clyde Jackson aud others. After Jan. l. when the lays or leases expire, 1t will be quiet. everyone thinks. but the deposit is too extensive and valuable to let it rest long. brought away two specimens, assaying $500 and $500 per ton. There are ever 500 mules and horses freishting there now, and more are being added con- stantly.
 II saw Dck Dawson. Charle! Springler and other Nomeiles around Frisco. Times arc good all ever the United States, and you poor devils in Nome are out of it"
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
How Nome Men Now on the
 Outside Are Pairing.
ANXIOUS TO BE BACK
Most of the Oid-Timers fmpatiently Awaiting the Departure of the First Steamers for Nome-Thc Outside Country Is Prosperous.

The mail by way of Iliamna bay, which arrived Wednesday evening, brought goodly amount of news, cov- ering the period between November and January P, or whereabouts. In it were many letters from Nome people, sojourning for the winter in various parts of the States.
 The NUGGET'S mail was large one, but it's news service by way of Dawsen had already covered the important events which have occurred in the great ''outside" since navigation closed.
 It is gathered from newspapers and letters received that an era of great prosperity prevails in the United States, but at the same time it is evident that the old Alaskans are longing to return, and many chechakos will arrive Ill Nome this spring.
 The NUGGET is in receipt of letter from T. J. Nestor. Everybody in Nome knows Tom Nestor. At the time of writing, January 3, Ec was in Kansas City, but had visited all the principal cit les on the Pacific Coast before going East and South. In San Francisco lie met Bill McPhee, Hank Summers, Dick Dawson, ex-A,ar>hal Vawtel', JGe Wood, R. T. Lyng, Jafet Lindeberg, Erik l. nd bloom and lot more of Nome people. who are wintering there. From San Francisco Mr. Neslor went East via New Orleans. He says that South eastern Texas and Sou, u,hern Louisiana were booming: there were big cotton. sugar cane and rice crops, and colored labor was being paid as much as S2.50 per day. The whole country has had d very good year and the merchants are feeling good.
 Mr. Nestor says: 'I went from New Orleans to Washington; got there the first Monday in December, i'll time to open congress. l got it started all right, ani think, with George Murphy to look after it the balance of the win ter the Great Council will do good work. I find in my travels that there i> great deal of inquiry about the Nome country. Of course. do not fail to tell them what we have there. think yoa will find q good class of peo- pie going to Nome this spring. J. b. Ihasard, Charlie H0Xsie and myself have secui ed staterooms on the Jeanie, and expect to arrive earlier than we did last spring.
 ''I had a letter from Charles HoXse q few days ago; he is in Portland en- toying himself. He is going to Cali fOrnia to look after some quartz inter- e,ts for Charles D. Lane. George Murphy was in Portland visiting Hox>ie: he was not going to Washing ton until after the holidays"
 Chief of Police Jolley las received Il letter from Charles E. HuXsje, in winch he says, among other things: "When l was out two weeks l was ready to go in again. There is no u,e talking about outside business, and when reach Nome again 1 shall stay a while. 1 saw Bill McPhee, Hank Summers and good many other Alaska boys, and most of them are waiting for d boat to start back, like myself. l am going to Washington, and will leave tomorrow for that city. Nestor and 1 will open up the Dexter m the spring. J. b. Thagard IS in Se- aule, and many people are preparin. to $" Lu Nome m the spring.'
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
TElECRAPHlC BRIEFS.

San Francisco, Feb. 24.-The Fourlh h infantry has returned from the Philip pines and will be stationed in Texas.
 Tacoma, Feb. lO.-1'he Lake View post office. near this place, was visited only small booty.
 Washington. Feb. lO.-Rear Ad- mirals SalnpsOn and Cromwell have been placed on the retired list, having reached the age of 63.
 Fairhaven, Wash, Feb. 1l.--Arihur Shack and William Carey were kilt d in the Chuckanut cutoff by Great Northern |! ain today.
 Washington, Feb. ll.-A bill now before congress provides that the sec retary of war shall furnish detail from the regular army to protect the presl- dent without unnecessary display.
 Port Townsend, Feb. 1O.-A wireless telegraph system will be established by the United States government from Tatoosh island at Cape Flattery to Port Crescent on the mainland.
 London. Feb. ll.-A cable message from the Transvaal announces that the output for the month of January is a, 34O ounces of fine gold, compared with 52,S97 ounces in December last.
 Washington, D. C., Feb. 10-Judge Advocate Lemley and Solicitor Hanna have filed scathiny reply to the air peal of Admiral Schley, directly cEarI' ing him with evasion of the real issues Detroit, Feb. 1.-The Detroit City bank has suspended. The failure Ina. caused the closing down of several Colorado and Idaho mines. in whict the chief officers of the bank were in terested.
 Berlin, Feb. s.-Emperor William i. incensed at the spirilualist movement anu has issued c modification that al persons in any way corrected will spirituAlists, faith headers, Christian
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Placer Claim Skinny"

To Stephen McGovcrn, co-owner:
 You ar hereby notified that have expended during the year l!Ul oLe hundred dollars in luDur and improvements tu the bench claim .SIinnv." si gate on Inc left limit of DIhi creek in the Eouea1ok precinct. district of A,.slla of which said cl i'm ths location certiii- c.tc apO'ar> ot rc."rc iu volume Id, at p3gc o9. in Ee office f the recorder tf said precinct, in orCcr to hold olid claim under the provi ions of section 232l of Inc revised statutes of the United St4teS. and the amendments thc:eto, Gppro ed .Jdnuary 22d. 1880. concerning annucl llboT upon mining claims. being. the amount required to held said placer claim during and for the period ending on the 5iSt day of December. 1901. And i. wi hin min aty dIyS from the first publ cati on of this IUtice you fIil or refuse to contribute your DO 'tion ot such expenditure ao co-Cwner, Y, UT interest in lhc said claim will become the ,1s, ,,crty of tho subscriber. your co-owncr, who has made the required expenditure bI the te1 ms Of said section.
 J. A CHIDESTER. Dated, Dahl creek Alaska, January lsJ I.02.
 III-W 3m S
The Nome nugget., 1902-04-05
Progressive Whist Party.

MT. and Mrs. J. r. Dakeman enter- tained party of friends on Tuesday evening. March 25, at their home. in East Nome. Progressive whist was the principal feature of the evening. Re treatments were served at ll:30. and the party broke up at l;30. Those pres ent were: Mir. and Mrs. Packwood, Mrs. Anderson. Charles A. Gayle, Cecil ]. Barcroft. Frank R. Gibson, H. NJ. Love, NJ. 0. Milligan, C. r. Chad hourn, C. lt. Mayhem, Fred Packwood. H. NJ. Love won the first prize, and Cecil BarCroft the buOby.