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Douglas Island news., 1902-11-05

Wrangel Indians want the South eastern Alaska forest reserve knocked out.
 Geo. L. Rice, formerly of Juneau, is now in the hotel business at Council City.
 The crew of the Excelsior,on her last trip to the Westward, captured a live deer.
 The orphanage at Kodiak has ex- ported 12O barrels of red salmon this season.
 Valdez business men are now hand ing over to Uncle Sam their license money.
 T. W. Griffith, passenger, died aboard the Excelsior on her last trip South.
 Turnips weighing 31a pounds, from the Klutena river, are on exhibition at Valdez.
 Ex-Collector Ivey has gone to Wash ington, D. C., to see what he can do about it.
 E. R. People has been appointed re- ceiver of the Geo. l.. Rice property at Skagway.
 Sheep Camp, on the old Dyea trail, has been completely obliterated by a land slide.
 It is said the Copper River railroad company will keep few men employed all winter.
 M. Dempsy, the discoverer of gold on the Chestuchina, has gone outside for the winter.
 There will be several steam thawers in operation in the Rampant district this winter.
 Platinum is worth sl9 per ounce Alaska prospectors should keep their eyes peeled. (
 The cleanup on Boulder creek, in the Atlin district, the past season, amount ed to s146,OO0.
 Buildings are being erected for the new stamp mill at the Engineer mine at Taku Arm.
 A MT. Bundy, gentleman of color is under arrest for destroying property on the Tazlina.
 "Fatty" Hinds, we'll known fireman on the White Pass road, has gone east to get married.
 Ex-Gov. Leedy, of Valdez, has sent 73I pound turnip to the Seattle Cham Der of Commerce.
 skagway is threatened with the es' tablishment of what the Guide terms HIGHS hlCcueu.
 The Canadian Bank of Commerce at Skagway now discounts Canadian money per cent.
 The skagway Alaskan advocates the election of ex-Collector Ivey as del egate to Congress.
 The moral clean up in Dawson last season offset the beneficial results oi the gold clean up.
 Deputy Collector of Customs Thom as, of Wrangel, has gone to Seattle te spend his vacation.
 A big hydraulic plant will be install ed on Resurrection creek, Cook Inlet district, next year.
Douglas Island news., 1902-11-05

Work on the Solomon Gulch hy- draulic proposition, near Valdez, is be- ing rapidly pushed.
 Pack trains are now operating on the government road between White Horse and Dawson.
 Skagway's dog catcher was recently fined S25 for killing another mans dog, and then he resigned.
 Ex-Commissioner Ogilvie has been operating a dredge on the Stewart river the past season.
 The A. c. Co.'s store at Katmai has been closed. This was the only store in that part of Alaska.
 The Crown Diamond mine near Skag- way has shipped 400 tons of ore to Ia coma for smelter test.
 White Horse figures that it will cost S240 per month to keep it's athletic club in proper condition.
 The Juneau Dispatch is otyet ready to support Ivey for Congress. Perhaps Juneau has dark horse with watch eye.
 The Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist congregations of Skagway will hold union services on Thanksgiving day.
 The Shrader party auctioned off 21 horses and two mules at Valdez, the animals bringing an average price of s43.
 Five Wrangel fishermen went on fishing expedition in an 1S-tou boat and made the record breaking haul of one fish.
 It is said that single team will have ! no trouble in hauling two tons or more of freight over the new Yukon wagon road.
 The new government wagon road IS expected to shorten the distance be- tween White Horse and Dawson to 5 days.
 It is said that Martin Hofstead and party who left Dry Island in a dory, and were reported lost, are safe and sound.
 The court headquarters of the 2nd judicial division of Alaska are at Eagle, and not at Valdez, as supposed by some people.
 Rampant merchants only allow s15 an ounce for Rampant gold while the government assay office declares it worth s163O.
 Canadians handled 70 per cent of the business of the Yukon territory the past season, as against 40 per cent the previous year.
 Kinney, originator of the Dyea Hot Air and Malamute R. R. scheme, seems to be cutting several large chunks of ice in Oregon.
 Specimens of Dry Island quartz show assay values ranging from $50 to s15o per ton. Dry Islandi is in the vi- cinity of Kodiak.
 Frank Kirbar, a Hunker creek miner, jumped overheard from the steamer Dawson on her last trip to White Horse and was drowned.
 The long hours of sunshine during the summer months accounts for the rapid growth of vegetables and cereals in the interior of Alaska.
Douglas Island news., 1902-11-05
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

The Yukon is still open.
 Valdez has five drug stores. Valdez now has fire warden. Coal is SIP per ton in Skagway. Valdez has circulating library. ,Wrangel is talking of incorporating. Valdez had meat famine last month. Valdez is to have court house and jail.
 Rabbit hunting is all the go at skag- way.
 The Copper river trail is being re- paired.
 Judge Rodman, of wrangel, has re- signed.
 Valdez is talking of street railway system.
 Dawsonites observed Thanksgiving Oct. 18th.
 White Horse has another paper, the Iconoclast. More Russian monuments have been discovered. All of the White Pass steamers are now tied up. Quite town has sprung up at Stew art Crossing.
 Buncoe creek is the scene of the lat est stampede.
 White Horse's hockey club is now in daily practice.
 Valdez real estate is changing hands at lively rate.
 There are countless numbers of wild ducks at Kenai.
 W. A. Bell has opened up cigar store at Valdez.
 The Odd Fellows will organize a lodge at Valdez.
 Three earthquake shocks were felt at Valdez Oct. 1st.
 Up to Oct. 10th Valdez had collected s92 in poll taxes.
 The Copper river valley is now under mantle of snow.
 Frye-Bruhn Go. have put in meat market at Haines.
 The first snow of the season fell at Valdez Sept. 27th.
 Copper river mushers gave dance at Valdez Oct. 18th.
 There will be nothing doing on Big Salmon this winter.
 Nome has had it's second severe storm of the season.
 Ex-Collector 1vey was recently made an A. B. at Skagway.
 The skagway Guide wants to know who owns the trusts. It's editor IS eyl dently thinking of buying few.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16

Ready made Linen Pillow Cases, per LIZ
Best quality Linen Toweling I2c
Special value in all Linen
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Hemsitched sheets ooxoo worth 81 Soc
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Best quality soft Bleaching I3c
Heavy quality Canton Flannel Observation-Disclosures. I3c
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16

tenants. yet all his efforts to prevent
such marriages were fruitless. 1 re-
member well one night after the war
when l was sitting with him and Gen.
Augur in his room at the Kimball
House in Atlanta, a second lieutenant
of infantry called to pay his respects.
What are you doing way down here?'
asked the general. I'm on my we'd
ding tour" replied the young officer.
And you second lieutenant! If I
had my way I'd put every second lieu
tenant who married to work on a
farm" said Sherman. well general,
If you will give me a farm I'll cheer
fully go to work on it," The general
laughed, congratulated the young fell
low and said he couldn't blame him, as
Gen. Augur long ago set the example.
1t is a little strange that two letters
came to me in Mondays mail that
touched upon the same subject. One
was from the West Point Military
Academy and contained a copy of Ed
gar Allen Poes letter to Col. Hayer,
then Supt of the Academy, asking
for a Certificate" of standing in his
class. Having been dishonorably dis
charged he frankly wrote that he had
no fright to expect anything more.
His guardian, Mr.. Allen had cast him
off and he proposed to go to France
and secure commission in the Polish
army. The other letter was from Mr..
NJ. r. Tunno. of Savannah. to whom
l had written for some reliable infor-
nation about Major Joseph L. Locke,
of my native state of Maine, who
graduated at West Point in 1923, No.
in his class, and was assigned to
the Second y. S. artillery, from which
he resigned in 1896, and became chief
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
SIDNEY HERBERT'S LETTER.
PROF. STEEL'S VERSION OF THE
NATIONAL HYMN "AMERICA."

Reckless Manner in which Informa-
ton Is Given to the PubIic-Sur-
vivors of the Famous Confederate
Iron-clad Merrimac-The First -
Contributed TO the Fund for the
Purchase of the Home of Jefferson
Davis in Mississippi Contributed
by Northern ent
on the Need of the Navy of More
Officers and Men-An interesting
Letter From Sax annah-Other Mat
tiers of General Interest.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland, Fla, Nov.
15.-Capt. George McDerby, in my last
letter, should have been George Nc
Clellan Derby. > . = very full and in
teresting account of Sergt. Jasper's res
cue of prisoners at the Spring just de-
dicated by the Daughters of American
Revelution, can be found in Brig. Gen.
Peter Horry's life of Gen. Francis
Marion, very old and rare book that
may possibly be found in the Georgia
Historical Society's library. - Will
liam David Porter, who recently died at
Petersburg, Va, was a son of Commo-
dore mot Rear AdmiraD William d.
Porter. U. s. N, who died in 1864,
from injuries received at Vicksburg. He
was fine officer and cultured GENTLE
man. When a lieutenant in the navy
he wrote very popular song, my
Country's Flag of Stars" His sons,
w. d. and M. c., were in the C. s. A..
early in the Civil War; but later went
to the navy, where William D. Porter
became master. but I find no record
of his brother as an officer.
Prof. S. A. Steel's new version in
the Morning News of America. as "a
National Hymn" will hardly be ac-
cepted as such by the people generally.
1t does not measure up to the standard
of national hymn, in point of literary
merit, and Georgia has a dozen poets
who can give us much better version.
I'm the Days of Washington" is
the title of very interesting illustrate
ed historical article in the November
issue of the Ledger Monthly of New
York. 1t covers many events and
scenes connected with Washineton's
military career, and will prove valua-
bic to the student of history. The
Ledger comes out in a new and more
convenient IOTIn ana contains many ar
ticles of historical interest. = The
Savannah friends of the heroic Cant.
Austin r. Davis, of the United States
Marine Corps, who was killed in the
battle at Tien Tsin, in China, on July
IS, 1900, will be gratified to know that
splendid portrait of him, in Uniform.
has been placed in the Carnegie library
at Atlanta, with appropriate ceremony.
He was a gallant Georgia soldier, and
worthy the honors paid his memory.
But why should Davis and Brumby and
Winship be given public honors and
Naval Cadet Wood. who was killed in
the Philippines, be passed by with
hardly an honorable mention? 1t is
true that he came from the Way up
country of Georgia, yet he was no less
hero and deserving of public honors.
1t is more than astonishing the reck-
less manner in which some people give
out information to the press. Somebody
in Winchester, Va, announces the
death of Mrs. Boyce, in Clarke county.
and says "her father, Maj. Uriei
Wright, was graduated from West
Point, resigned his commission and en-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16

Some two or three years ago / CHANGED
to read in one OF our leading Southern
papers an editorial relating to Johnny
Lowlow, Robinson's old time clown.
The article referred to the noted fun
maker as living out few miles from
Cincinnati, old and infirm, and tasting
the dregs of poverty in his declining
days. The writer of the editorial spoke
most touchingly of the wretched condi-
ton of the man who had furnished so
much genuine humor for so many
thousands Of people.
When / read this article was, like
the writer of 1t, moved, for, though
many be the years since / saw him
how we'll do / remember old Johnny
Lowlow and his inimitable humorous
gemsl
But. recently, I have discovered that
there was no need of lamentations over
Iowlow He is still a very live old
fellow-many miles from the poor house
and, I hope, many years<from his last
resting place.
with Robinsons big show he was in
Calhoun a few days ago, where l met
him, ard we conversed most pleasantly
for a while. He, however, is no longer
a fun-maker but as, instead, running a
restaurant in connection with the cir
Gus.
The show bills had announced that
the great clown was with the circus,
but didn't say in what capacity.
The public supposed, however, that he
would appear In his old-time role.
Before the performance began. / ask
ed one OF the showmen II Lowlow, for
a fact, was with them and II he would
perform that afternoon. He assured
me that he was along but. instead OF
serving fun he was serving something
far more necessary-grub.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16

engineer of the Brunswick and Alta
maha Canal Company. Later, 1908,
was editor of the Savannah Republi-
can. Now, Lieut.. Locke was assistant
instructor of infantry tactics at West
Point when Poe was disinherited by
Mr.. Allan, and had often reported his
visits to Benny Ravens "blindtiger,"
and his neglect of studies. This anger
ed Poe, who wrote the following cpl
gram as his farewell to Locke:
John Locke was a very great name;
Joe Locke was greater, in short;
The former was well known to Fame.
The latter well known to Report"
The Association of Graduates of the
Military Academy has never been able
to obtain a full and reliable record of
Maj. Locke's career after leaving the
army. He is reported to have lived in
Europe from 1853 until 1862. and to
have died in Savannah in September.
1868, aged SIS years. Now, IL this be cor
rect, he could hardly have served as a
commissary of subsistence in the G. s.
A., with the rank of major, as Mr..
Tunno writes that he did in Savannah,
except for a very brief time. He was
a cadet of much promise and a class
mate of Gen. Hugh w. Mercer mo. -,
Gen. Jefferson Davis and Gen. Thomas
f. Drayton, of the c. s. A. If any per-
son has reliable information as to
Mai Locke's career after leaving the
Savannah Republican editorship, ]
should be glad to hear from that per-
son. Mr.. Tunno writes that he married
Miss Laura Bulloch. daughter of Mr..
VIM. H. Bulloch of Savannah, and had
one child, Miss Florence Locke, now
living in Washington. d. G.
Sidney Herbert.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
JOHN LOWLOW, THE CLOWN
Story of a Yamacraw Boy Who Is Now a Celebrate
Circus Han.
~, IoHN M NAPKINS OF CALHOUN GA

"Yonder is his place Of business -
said the Snowman, pointing to a big
covered wagon, blue painted, and mark
ed in large letters "G1encairn''
The wagon stood near the menagerie
entrance and, in close touch with it
was long, narrow convas tent, open
at each end. under which / saw a
couple Of walters hustling around and
heard the rattle of dishes as
I, with two friends, approached.
Several meals were being SER
we'd and, at the further end of the
tent we saw a man reading news
paper That was Lowlow, / was sure.
but he was busy and we would not
disturb him. We waited a half hour,
but the clown seemed very much alb
sorbed with the news in his home pa
per-the Cincinnati Inquirer. Present.
~ we ventured in anyhow, for, to the
three of us, there was no feature about
the great show which would afford so
much pleasure as shaking hands with
this world famous old clown and hear
ing him talk.
He greeted us most pleasantly, and
gave us some interesting history about
himself.
Il am happy to shake the hands of
you Georgians," said Lowlow, "for I'm
Georgian myself / have q lot of
dear friends in Georgia, especially in
Savannah, where / was born In 1s4f.
Col. Estih Of the Savannah Mornine
News, who ran for Governor of your
state, and who, I regret to say, was
defeated. was a boyhood friend OF
mine. In 1856, when Roblnson's circus
came to Savannah, Estill and rar
away with 1t. He served one day ane
returned home, but Johnny Lowlow il
with Il yeti"
Col Estill requests the Morning New
70 state that his friend. Mr.. LowIov
tthat was his name: he changed /
because the circus people, the news
papers and the public insisted on SMELL
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
Arfstocracy Rampant.
From Life.

And you say that young Van Oil
pan is one of the Four Hundred? You
astonish me. 1 remember his old man
when he ran tavern in Coal Oil
Johnny's time" And Capt. Pipelion
shook his head.
you forget. sir" said Mai. Cairo
Sim, that our standards OF aristo-
crazy have changed; accomplishment,
not birth. is the thing that commands
our respect to-day. Young Van Oilpan
is a remarkable man, sir. He is the
man who wrecked +. d. and O.; he
has been divorced twice; he won $780,
900 in one night IN Saratoga, and he has
an automobile record Of fourteen kill
ed and wounded. A member Of society?
He's a society leader, sir"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16

1t is more than astonishing the reck-
less manner in which some people give
out information to the press Somebody
in Winchester, Va, announces the
death of Mrs. Boyce, in Clarke county.
and says "her father, Maj. Uriel
Wright, was graduated from West
Point, resigned his commission and en-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
BY F. P. DUNE,

Copyright, 1902, wnrd Russ
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
E Q K s T EMS
PROMINENCE

straightforward, honest, business meth
Up-to-date ideas prevail, and if you want
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-16
We Save You Is Per Cent,

a perfect al
Flannette Perca
Ouing Robes MUSin Underwear.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21

In irrigating his land the farmer uses
many devices. Where running water
is at hand he turns it to advantage by
directing it over his fields in large
channels. These are banked in with
clay and subdivided into smaller and
smaller streamlets until every part Of
the ground has been reached. If no
running water is found, wells are dug,
and the water is drawn up by hand
and poured into the main bitches,
which are subdivided into numerous
smaller ones. Holes are dug in which
rainwater accumulates, which is baled
out when needed. The raising of this
water in most cases. especially in the
vicinity of Picking. Is done very labori.
ously by han -Forum
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21

one that can make the best sugar in
the least possible time with the least
amount of fuel. Evaporators are made
of galvanized iron or steel, copper OF
tin. They are usually supported on iron
arches lined with brick but sometimes
the arches are made entirely of brick.
Storage tanks, draw tanks, strip tanks,
buckets ana pals are of galvanized
steel tin or wood. We consider galva-
nized steel the supcriIr article because
it will not rust. Bucket covers can be
of wood or tin; spouts steel or tin.
Take a sugar place of 5000 trees or,
rather. one that uses 5000 buckets.
When the boss thinks it is time to
Sugar" the men are set to tapping the
trees. A thrcc-cighths or one-half inch
bit is used, and in large trees the hole
is bored about two inches deep, in
smaller trees only about one and a half
inches. Spouts are driven or screwed
in, buckets hung to each spout and
covers. if they have them.
Some trees are tapped in two or three
and oftentjmes four places, hanging Il
bucket to each spout of course. Then,
the weather being right, the sap runs,
and the teams are started as soon as
possible for the quicker the sap is
made into sugar the better the sugar is.
Men with pals holding sixteen
quarts go to each tree, collect the sap
and empty it into the draw tank,
which is being hauled about on a
"sugar sled" by pair of horses. These
tanks hold anywhere from twenty-five
to fifty pailfuls. When load is Sc
cured, the team is driven to the sugar
house, and the sap, by means of four
inch pipes, is drawn from the draw
tank to the storage tank.
The storage tanks are placed on q
staging on the outside of the sugar
house and connected with the evap.
orators by rubber hose or iron pipe,
the flow of sap from storage tank to
evaporators being regulated by auto
matte valves. Thus the sap enters one
end of the evapOratOr, working back
and forth through partitions and cor
rugations till it reaches the other end
of the evaIDrator, when it is drawn off
as 'sirup."
The sap is not handled" any from
the time the men pour it into the draw
tanks until it comes out finished
article. e., maple sirup at eleven
pounds to the gallon.
This may be put away in sirup tanks
and allowed to cool and settle, and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21
A New Specialist, the Corn Breeder.

Corn breeding has become a special
lied industry. The field for this branch
of farming is very great, as is shown
by the fact that the corn growers of IL
linOiS alone use over 100000 bushels
Of seed every year. OF course it is not
necessary that this seed be secured
from the breeder fresh every year, but
seed will not as a rule remain pure
more than four OF five years. 1t then
becomes necessary to again secure well
bred seed. AS yet the demand has been
but little developed. Farmers are Just
beginning to realize the Importance
and benefit of improved seed, but even
now corn breeders are not able to sup
ply the demand. That this demand will
increase far beyond the capacity of
corn breeders to supply there is no
douht.-A. ID. Shamel in Orange Judd
Farmer,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21
THE AMERICAN COW.
Mans Constant and Untiring Friend.
Treat Her Gently.

Treat Her Gently.
None other like the COW! There Is
not a thing from nose to tail but that
is utilized for the use of man. We use
her horns to comb our hair, her skins
are upon our feet, her hair keeps our
plaster on our walls, her hoofs make
glue, her tail makes soup, she gives
our milk, our cream, our cheese and
our butter, and her flesh is the great
meat of all nations; her blood is used
to make our sugar white, her bones are
ground to fertilize our soils, and even
her paunch she herself has put through
the first chemical process necessary for
the production of the best white card
board paper, and now they have dis
covered that such paper can be made
into the finest quality of false teeth.
No other animal works for man both
day and night. BY day she gathers
food, and when we are asleep at night
she brings it back to rechew and con-
vert into all the things of which I
speak.
She has gone with man from Plym-
outh rock to the setting sun. It was
her sons that turned the first sod in the
settlers clearing; it was her sons that
drew the prairie schooner for the stur-
dy pioneers as, inch by inch, they
fought to prove that westward the
star of empire takes it's way" and the
old COW graZed along behind, and when
the days march was done she came
and gave the milk to fill the mothers
breast to feed the sucking babe that
was, perchance, to become the future
ruler of his country.
Who says that much of what we are
we do not owe to mans best friend,
the COW? Treat her kindly, gently, for
without her words fail me to describe.
Colonel +. M. Woods in Farm and
Ranch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-02-21

Although hops have been grown in
this country for great many years,
they have always been inferior as COM
pared with the best European hops,
and, as they bring lower price in the
market and are not so desirable as the
Bavarian hops, cuttings of the best of
the latter were imported last year.
These cuttings have been placed in the
hop growing districts of the United
States and, according to the report OF
the secretary of agriculture, promise
to be far superior to the ordinary va
rieties grown, in addition to maturing
earlier and extending the picking sea
son.