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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-03-28

THE next regular meeting of the
BOARD of county commissioners IL
on Monday, April IA,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-03-28

of So. Glen Falls, N. Y, des-
cribes a condition which thous-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11

last to call must be the ogre who
guards the castle, said castle being a
large rock or fence upon which the
ogre places the tower-a rock at least
as large as a good-sized SNOWFALL.
Ogre cries bang" and the boys in turn
fling stones at the tower If one hap
pens to hit the tower he starts off at
once, the boys all following in swift
pursuit. If by chance he (the boy) can
pick UP the missile which he himself
threw, he is free. If caught he must
become ogre and guard the castle. In
case all the throwers miss the ogre
may catch any one of them if he can.
Whomever the ogre catches must take
the ogre's place and ogre takes the
captive's missile and bangs at the
tower.
The lad who hits the tower and Sc
cures his own rock the largest number
of times during the game wins first
place. Sometimes the boys choose up
and make it a contest of sides. then
rockity-bang becomes a real tug of
war conflict equal in stress to baseball
or golf. The boy who leads for the dav
wears home the badge of victory. and
to lead the score for the week or
month becomes a matter of highest
honor.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11

The sea takes a man to many a
queer spot. Mr. Ward, but never to a
queerer than that old hulk. Where
we stood was more like the round top
of tower than a ships deck an
though I'm no more a coward than
another, I'd have no stomach for a
gale o wind on such a craft. But
the color was queerer than the build.
Twas all grayish-white, smooth as
an egg an spongy like sodden cork,
so spengy that out boots left the print
O the big nails clear up to the fiat o.
the sole, an where Clark's was split
at the heel there was the split shown
sharp an clean with every tramp
Ice says he again. Ice an
freezin an thawin and dryin' and
soakin' an freezin'. That's what that
means.
The only part of the deck where
we stood that wasn't as flush as the
palm o your hand was the skylight
1t ran up the middle o. the poop an
was longish an low. l reckon it serv-
ed as a seat in the days the old scow
wasn't corpse. Brady was right
when he said it was covered over hut
'twasn't with tarpaulins Maybe they
didn't have tarpaulins in those days.
If not, they had what was as good.
Tour or five or perhaps eight or ten
thlcknesses o canvas and blankets,
but so matted that no man could tell
which was one an which was t'other,
the rain an the spray an the wind
an the sun had beat them so solid.
Tags o cordage hangin from the rings
at the sides showed how they had
been dashed, but the ropes had wore
out long before, an what held them
in their place was a crisis cross O.
chain. stout enough once maybe, but
rusted to fineness of a weddin ring
The whole was a dirty, washed-out
gray, the color somethin' of a wasp's
nest, an the most corpse-like thing
in the whole corpse ship
Ice says Clark again with a nod
of his head at the skylight: all that
was to keep the cold out. an by gum!
l guess they wanted it. every scrap!'
Then they don't want it no more
says Brady. It's hot enough here
Let's have it off. bullies.
The chains We're little better than
streaks O. rust. an so snapped with
the first tug, but I tell you. Mr.. Ward.
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came back. an we plunged forward,
grabbing at his hands. But if he was
late, so We're we. He had slipped past
reach, an as we watched we saw him
light on the table slowly and greasily,
an paw a it vagusly with his feet.
For minute he swayed there. his big
seaboots maxim no noise on the wood,
an his arms beating the air with
cramped jerks like as if somethin' held
his hands. Then he staggered an
rolled sideways to the floor, where he
lay on his back, II feet away, giving US
stare for stare, an we no more able TO
help him than if he was so fathoms I'M
der the sea. AS many men as you've
fingers I've seen drown, but never one
like that: yet drown he did, if I know
what drownin' meansl God have mercy
upon him, for it was an awful end!
Three great pants he gave-pants like
to split his chest; then he lay quiet,
an, as the hulk rocked to the heaVe
o the swell, the sunshine through the
port played backwards an forwards
across his face without so much as a
flaw in its light.
Brady pulled himself together first
After we'd failed to catch Clark S
hands, he had leaned over the skylight
dry sobbin' an prayin' like a mother
by a cradle; but at last he shook him
self as dog might comm out O. water
" I'm goin' down. Towson. says he.
" Down. cried l. Down? Why,
man. it's death! Do you see yonder ?"
" 'Arrah, then! have I eyes? Isn't it
that that takes me down? How far
offs the tablet"
" Seven feet. be it more or less
says 1, wonderin' if I had a mailman
on my hands next. What's your no.
tion?'
" My notion is the airs froze-not
with cowld, but with somethin' that
was in what's smashed on the floor
there. My notion is the cuddy was
caulked as tight as a captains gig,
an when the poor divils broke what
ever it was they found sudden death,
for the air must have gone solid in a
wink. See how they broke for the door
an missed it. That's my notion, an
I'm goin' to hack the air outen her"
We'll. sir, hack it out he did, but
the bottle went smash, an the bread
turned dust the minute the fresh air
struck it. So did the poor three souls
all but their bare bones, an their queer
burnt paper, so that all that was left
was the bit O. stuff you see in the
frame there. That's the yarn, an
maybe Irish was right. They say
folks can turn air to water now why
not to solid? For we don't know every
thing outside the world, for all our
cocksure ways. There's a powerful
deal goes on beyond so that we know
nothin' at all about, an that's the
fact"
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tween the two. She had great square
windows for ports, an except for the
ragged stumps O two masts she was
naked as a shell. There wasn't so
much as twisted end of a stay
stickin out from the side.
when she was a little less'n a quar-
ter of a mile off I sang out, an we lay
to an took stock
My! but her huh was smooth! The
old man O the Frisco hooker had
been a bully for holystonin', but Julia
K. never had her decks polished like
the side walls an gable ends O. them
cottages; no, sir. Their smoothness
was past words, an fairly beat me-
but Clark twigged it in a wink.
reckon he'd done some whalin in his
time.
Ice, says he. an whips of ice at
that
Blame NE if ever I saw such a
craft says l.
Haven't YEP says Brady. We'll.
faith! l have, or a half wan, anyhow
1t was high and dry on the Kerry
coast, an they do say it was there
afore Crom'ell's time, bad cess to
him."
All Capn Towson." interrupted I.
Il have it now. She was Spanish"
Maybe. sir, maybe What we saw
afterWard might ha' been Spanish, but
spain never made that mossel o.
shucks there in the frame Call her
Spanish, Mr.. Fard, though it makes no
odds.
What I've figured out is this. She
went bust, say, 40 degrees west an the
same north, an the southeast arm o.
the gulf stream bore her past the Az
ores Then she got south into the
equatorial current, an drifted west I'M
III the flow splits on Sam Rogue. when
down she came south again until she
caught the Antarctic drift, an crawled
away east on the 10th parallel Some
where near Saint Paurs a wind took
her, and away she went into the ice
where Clark made out she lay
zoo years an more. Long or
snort, it's there, to the best o. my
belief, that bit china metal went
aboard of her; though that, like the
reckoning I've laid out for her. is moth
in better than guesswork. It's mighty
little we know of what goes on in the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-11
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, pack ice way south, an one thing,s
| sure, in the ice she was. The pulpy
: sickness of her timbers proved that.
! For a while we sat eying her, when
| says Clark:
A corpse, boys. that's what she is
"a corpse
"A corpse that doesn't want no
buryin'.' answers Brady. Leastways
not till we've done with her. Here,
I skipper give us a tot O. rum all round
an let's go aboard. I've had as much
of half-inch plank as is good for me
| health
But Clark had a word to say. She S
100 years old, maybe 200, maybe 300;
happen she's rotton.'
" Rotten YOURSELF cried Brandy,
swirling the boat round with dash of
his oar. look now she floats. I'm for
boarding her, anyhow. Sixteen hum
dred miles in an open boat, when I
can have a sound bottom under me
and a deck over head? Not likely
No more passed until we were
squareiy alongside the hulk Still, for
all Bradys talk, the more 1 saw the
less L liked But Brady had no doubts
Saints be good to us!' said he
cheerfully. an standing up on the
thwart he gripped the edge of the port
an looked in-the upper port, you I'M
derstand: the under one was close on
the waters edge an tight battened
Then Saints be good to us. he said
again, but as if he had more need of
the goodness. an wasn't so sure it was
TO be had for the asking
- Well? said Clark. Wen?'
90 But it wasn't until the hull had
swung two or three times that Brady
answered.
g The skylight's covered over, but
I'm thinking Davy Jones is board, for
1 see what's like a bundle O. clothes
on the floor. Best shin up an whip
the tarpaulin off
" If one shins up, says I we all
shin up. We stick together, whether
here or there
" All it is, says Brady, an up he
climbs, with the painter round the
crook of his arm.
The port gave him a foothold. an
from there he could get grip o. the
edge o the deck; but, all the same, it
was no easy job. Once on deck, he
made the rope fast round the stump O.
the mast. so that me an Clark had an
easy road.
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90 have all the light on the sub
jec: you can" and he chuckled as if
at a joke. IN pull the blind up. There,
what do you make of it now?'
TO be frank, l didn't make much. 1t
was an irregular, fiattish fragment,
perhaps two inches square and slight
ly curved inward at top and bottom.
A stout thread held it in place against
a piece of millboard. and the whole
was framed and glazed like picture.
In color it was grayish blue, and its
surface smooth but dull. There was
neither inscription nor mark upon it
that l could see.
"Well?" and he shook me by the ell
bow with a kind of good humored, tri-
umphant Impotence. "Well?'
1T is-that is to say, it looks like
metal"
Cap'n Towson smacked his thigh
noisily.
The shanty's safe for this time.
Guess again mate
But l shook my head What was the
use of guessing. There was no doubt
that Cap'n Towson's mystery went be-
yond the mere composition of the frag-
ment he preserved so carefully, and L
said as much.
You're right, sir, an, by gum! them
that goes down to the sea in ships see
mortal queer things. Metal says you?
Well, maybe it's; then again, maybe
it's glass, maybe it's pottery, an may
be lis somethin' of all three, that we
folks on our side of the world know
nothin' about l give you my word 1
don't know, and l never met the man
as could tell me. That's a bit O the
South Pole. that isl" and again he
chuckled, but checked himself. But,
by gum! it was no laughing matter
When l die, I'm a-goin' 10 leave ii to
the British Museum. l s'pose they IL
pound it to bits to see what it's made
of. Even then they wont be any the
wiser, an there's no more where that
came from-at least, l hope no., if
what ] think came in it. Mix your
grog, an I'll tell you how l came by it,
In a manner dye see, there's two
yarns in il, and I'm not SO sure where
to begin. To spin two yarns at once is
about as bad as to straddle a couple
of barebacked horses. Sooner or later
they'll part company and then where
are you? No. I'll drop the bark Julia
K Anderson, FIVE weeks out from
Frisco and bound round the Horn.
much as she dropped me, and that's
without so much as a by your leave,
an begin where she left off with three
of us-Tobias Clark, Joe Brady an my
self-adrift in the Pacific. When l say
we were about 10 degrees west and )
degrees south you'll know we were half
distance between tho Marquesas and
the Galapagos. Thanks be to goodness!
the ocean stood to her name, an with
the line so near we had no cold to
grumble at.
"Bein' there, there was two things We
might do, make east to the mainland
or west to the islands, an drift O. the
current settled it for US. When God
almighty sets the sea drifting" and he
raised his hand reverently as if in a
salute, why, it's only a fool that
doesn't say Amen an be thankful.
That means, dye see, we headed for
the islands.
"A day an a night we had made
our westing an with the sudden COM
ing o the morning Brady woke me up.
Glory be- says he, shaking me, the
trips over afore it's begun. an good
luck 50 with It. Look ye there. II thai
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All Sloppleton knew him as "Cap'n
Towson." Those of my friends to
whom l have retold his tale have not
scrupled TO call him liar. Well. may
DE so-maybe So but then, you did not
hear Cap'n Towson tell the story. and
i did
We had become very good friends,
we two, especially during the ten
days wet weather. Sloppleton is not
a cheerful place in a gray drizzle, and
a man wearies of the smell of twist to-
bacco and stale beer held in suspense
in the atmosphere of the local tap
room. On the afternoon of the 10th
day-a struggle of sunshine tempted
us out into the sloppy road, and when
the downpour recommended Capn
Towson's cottage was the nearest shell
ter, and there we retreated.
1t was not the first time I had been
his guest. and so the collected treas
ures of his seafaring life were more or
less familiar. Now, as Capn Towson
absented himself to hunt up the in
gradients of a friendly grog. I wan
dered aimlessly round the room and
took stock of its stale curiosities. one
thing only struck me as an oddly, and
II by reason of its inconsequence
rather than it's strangeness, and at it
was staring when Cap'n TOwson re-
turned with his hduid hospitality.
All" said he, you're a deep one,
you are, There you are at the Koe-I-
more first thing. I've always said I'll
give the whole shanty to the IAN that
tells me what it is, an now's your
chance, for what l say l stick to-"
IT'S a bit dark, Cap'n," l began.
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isn't the makings of land, o! call me
Bull
BY that I had my knee on the after
thwart, an was staring east with my
hands as telescope. The sun was up,
and. a point or two 20 the north. so
that the black spot was plain enough,
being no more than five miles away,
may be four the simmer O. the sea in
the sun maxim it hard to guess. Too
plain, for l turns TO Brady and says
to him, sudden like
"'BuHi Don't you know a derelct
when you see herr
by this time Clark had crawled out
o. the bow an was on his hands an
knees between us, leaning over the
starn.
Irish is right an Irish is wrong.
says he. which is a way them Irish
have She's blamed hulk, that's what
she is sure enough; but l guess she's
sound enough. for she rides high, an "A
tight bulk is better'n a crank cookie
shell any day in the week.
We'll, sir, as I say. 1 was steerin' .
an little by little, as the hulk bulked
again the sky, 1 liked its looks less and
less 'Twasn't that it had no masts an
was as bare o. bulwarks as a canal
barge. That was right enough in a
derelict, an I'd seen il from the first,
though Brady, in his hot haste had
missed that they were missin. No, it
wasn't that the decks were swept as
clean as if they'd been whitfield bare
with a jackknife, but it was the I'M
clancy look of her
Such a craft l never saw in all my
days She was driftin pOrtside an
as she rose on the sky she was more
Ike a brace O narrow, two-story cot
tages gone awash than a decent ship.
High an rounded at the bow. high an
rounded at the starn, an low in the
waist, with no kind of elbow room be-
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The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05
COTTAGE GETS WATCH
Engineer Mackenzie Receives
 Reward.

Engineer Walter :, Nc Ksnzls has been presented with a handsome gold watch by the railroad company for his splendid work In slvlng his train last fall when a coach left ihe track on Tunnel mountain this slje Of the high bridge, li was solely owing to the presence of mind Of Mr. Me Kenzls and his prompt action thta terrible catastrophe was averted. The company has now recognized the ser vice rendered. and through General Man ager Newell, has made the present of a very beautiful gold watch which Is on exhibition In P. E. Kem's window.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05
Steamed Into Port Yesterday
 With a Load.

The Cottage City reached port yester- day at neon. She had IIS passengers for here and Ios tons of freight, half ot which was for the Interior.
 The Cottage had a pleasant run North, having enjoyable weather all the way up.
 She sailed for Sltkl and Seattle, Inst night with 8 passengers aboard.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05
THE AMUR
Brings Banner Freight Load
 of the Season.

The Amur Capt. Mcleod, swung Into Moors's wharf vestsriay st Iz:3o p. m. she brought the Iarges, freight load land si at Sllgwly this year. She had 700 tons aboard including aS head oi steeis for N. P. Shaw
 The Amur had 8 passengers, several being prominent men of Dawson.
 She sailed South at midnight with sew ersI bound for Vancouver and Victoria.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05
Humboldt Mex, Saturday

There will be no fast steamer in port un- tlll next Saturday. when the Humboldt Is due.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05

Regular boarders wanted at the Golden North restaurant; sI per day. Good sefV- lee guaranteed.
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An the delleacies of the season at the Royal Cafe. Lunches put up on short notice.
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Allklnds of pies and cakes at the Boss Bakery.
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New wallPnps5 rooa patterns, Peoples

Get prices at Royal Laundry for family work, special rates ln rough dry, next to new electric plant.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05

Golden North Restaurant. Home cook Ing and unexoellsd service. Golden North Hotel building.
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French dinner at the Royal Cafe every Sunday at Ifa m. Co SD. m. Private dining rooms for ladies.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05

Blank books, oiiice supplies; lowest prices ln Alaska. Bakers Book Store.
 Valdez has a Japlnese dog catcher, who
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Mining blanks at this once

Furnished rooms and houses for rent advertised ln the Daily AlasNan-alWaYs bring plenty of applicants.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-06-05

Lemp's Famous Culombaohor Beer at tho Comm sroo,