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Douglas Island news., 1902-02-12

Ex Judge sehlbrede of skagway has engaged in the practice of law at Portland, Ore.
 A Dawson company is making pre- parations to export wild game to the United States.
 On February 1st it was announced that Lake Atlin was at last frozen over and safe for travel.
 Locations have been made on Gold Run, pup of Mush creek, and num- Der of adjacent streams.
 Coal of good quality has recently been discovered on Chignic Bay, 200 miles from Unimak Pass.
 The fare from Log Cabin to Atlin is 822. This is the price of the privilege of walking after dog team.
 The Aurora Gold Mining Go. is pre- pairing to install a 2o-stamp mill on it's property on Cook Inlet.
 Go. L, 24th U. S. Infantry, now sta toned at skagway, has been ordered for duty in the Philippines.
 The White Horse Star is again re- ceiving daily telegraphic news from the provinces and the States.
 A Mir. Lundsun narrowly escaped drowning January 18th by breaking through the ice on Lake Atlin.
 The Christian Endeavor Reading Room at Valdez is we'll supplied with literature and we'll patronized.
 The Y. M. c. A. Debating Society of Skagway has proved conclusively that war is not relic of barbarian.
 There are rumors of a big cut in freight rates on the winter route be- tween White Horse and Dawson.
 Bed rock on Lake creek, in the Big Salmon district, has been struck, and the results are most encouraging.
 There is said to be continual line of prospectors passing through Haines enroute to the Mush creek diggings.
 Henry D. saylor, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed U. S. Consul at Dawson, vice J. c. McCook, deceased.
 Development work on Miller's coal mine at Five Fingers shows four feet of coal at the end of the 1S3 foot tun- nel.
 Transportation companies are notify ing their Alaska agents that there will be heavy influx of travellers this sea- son.
 The steamer Bertha recently made the run from Seattle to Valdez, via in- side route, touching at Juneau, in ' days.
 No agreement as yet has been reach- ed at Ottawa as to the White Pass & Yukon R. R. freight and passenger rates.
 A correspondent of the White Horse Star wants to know whether snow shoes or moccasins are the warmest in wint- CT time.
 WIZ. Thompson, of the Yukon Sun, has been granted permission to study the Marconi system of wireless telegra- phy in his New York laboratory, with view to it's introduction between Ash croft and Dawson. |
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-12


 M. S. McKears, of skagway wants to learn the whereabouts of Eugene Lud- ders, who left Seattle in July, 1900, for Alaska.
 The Canadian government the pres ent year will expend s195,0o0 in build ing roads and trails in the Yukon district.
 The first application for patent to non. mineral land in the Valdez district was filed for publication in the News Dec. 1st.
 The ice in Lake La Barge is reported very thin and present indications point to an early opening of the rivers and lakes.
 Valdez, the theory of the changing of the Japan current to the contrary notwithstanding, experienced a cold wave in January, the mercury register 1 ing 15 below zero.
 John Erickson was given, at Victoria, a verdict of s, ,598 against the Canadian Development Co.,, for being left at St. Michael instead of being taken to Dawson as per contract.
 F. c. Schraeder, U. s. government geologist, will leave for Valdez the 18th Of this month to spend a season in an exploration of the Copper River basin, and in an endeavor to locate the source of the White River.
 The Koyukuk stampeders are find- ing the trail hard one and are tighten ing their loads. A party of IT recently disposed of half of their outfits at down river point for less than 50 per cent of cost price in Dawson.
 The Seattle Chamber of Commerce is urging the war department to make improvements in Dutch Harbor so that it can be made an intermediate point of entry for the transport service be- tween Seattle and the Philippines.
 There has been quite rush of boom CTS to Pyramid Harbor for the purpose of stalking out town lots in the be- lief that city is to spring up. Several parties have already found purchasers for their holdings. The persistent rumor that port on Lynn Canal has been ceded to the Canadians is ac- countable for the stir.
 The Seattle Times of January 3oth says that Perry Wiley, the man who discovered the rich Porcupine placer mining district, was arrested last night for creating disturbance in the lobby of the Hotel Northern, Wiley was trying to entertain the crowd with an imitation dance that frequently takes place in Alaskan concert halls.
 A new strike is reported from the headwaters of the Inoko, which stream flows into the Yukon 25 miles below Anvik, where is claimed were located extensive placer grounds which were very rich and easily worked. Accord ing to the information the discoverers of the new diggings took out s7oooin dust and nuggets in few days. One of the discoverers was man named Furguson who came from Oregon. The gold was in dust and gold bearing cop per quartz. It is claimed, according to what is considered inside reliable infor- nation, that the new diggings are sui ficiently rich to enable a man to take out upwards ofS15 day and sufficient ly extensive to warrant large popula- tion.
Douglas Island news., 1902-02-12
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Rliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condnesed. Information for Everybody.

skagway's jail is crowded.
 Sitka has a new restaurant.
 Kodiak has had coal oil famine.
 There is two feet of snow at Copper Center.
 Bob sled parties are the order of the day at sitka.
 A postofice has been established at Copper Center.
 The B. Y. N. stages were storm bound at La Barge Jan. 18th.
 The News reports brisk travel from Valdez to interior points.
 The trail from Iliamna Bay to St. Michael is $50 miles long.
 The White Horse Star suspended it's daily publication Feb. 1st.
 Four inches of snow fell in Dawson on the last day or January.
 The steamer Humboldt will soon be on her old Alaska run again.
 Prairie chickens are putting in an appearance along the Yukon.
 The steamer Vira Rial, now at Sksg- way, is to be taken to Seattle.
 The government reserve at Copper Center has been relinquished.
 A heavy travel has already set in toward the Cook Inlet country.
 The Trans-Alaskan R. E. Go. has its preliminary surveys completed.
 White Horse ladies have decided to learn to navigate on show shoes.
 The Alaska S. S. Go has acquired full ownership of the steamer Farallon.
 The Lucky Chance mine at Silver Bay has shut down for lack of water.
 A miner named Renard was killed at one of the mines on Hunker creek Jan. 24th.
 E. o. Sylvester and G. W. Graves, of Skagway, contemplate trip to Puerto Rico.
 It was P degrees below zero at the Chesna river diggings on December 3oth.
 A series of stampedes have been keeping Dawsonites busy for the past 30 days.
 Judge Wickersham has been oflci- ally notified of his transfer to the Nome district.
 There has been an unusually heavy snow fall in the Copper river valley this winter.
 A.V. Goepfert, manager of the Chi- koot cannery, says that in the lower depths of Lynn Canal there are enough shrimps to supply the United States.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21

From letters from , self made mer-
chant TO His SOM
If you gave some fellows a talent
wrapped in a napkin TO start with in
business. they would swap the talent for
a gold brick and lose the napkin: and
there are others hat you could start
out with just a napkin. who would set
up with it in the dr. goods business IN
a small way and then coax the other
fellows talent into II,
Pay day Is always month of for he
spendthrift. and he never able to re-
allie more than sixty cents on any dol
lar that comes TO hir1. But q dollar is
worth one hundred and six cents TO 4
good business man. and he never spends
the dollar.
Baron Munchausen was the first trav-
cling man. and my drummers' bill still
show his influence.
I always lay IL down as a safe propo-
sition that the fellow who has 10 break
open the baby's bank for car-fare to-
ward the last OF the week isn't going
10 be any Russell Sage when IT comes
to trading with the old mans money.
When / was a young fellow and out OF
a place | always made IL a rule to take
the first job that offered. and TO use II
for bait. You can catch q minnow
with a worm, and a bass Will take your
minnow. 4 good fat bass will tempt
an otter. and then you've got something
worth skinning.
You must learn not TO overwork 4
dollar any more than you would a
horse. Three per cent, is 4 small load
for il TO draw; six, n safe one, when it
pulls in ten for you it's likely working
cut West and you've got TO watch TO
see that it doesn't buck; when IL makes
twenty you own a blame good critter
or a mighty foolish one. and you want
10 make dead sure which: but IL IL
draws a hundred it's playing the races
of something just as hard on horses and
dollars, and the first thing you know
you Won't have even a carcass to haul
10 the glue factory.
Colts a nice. foolish game. and there
amt any harm in it so far as / know
except for the balls-the stiff balls n
THE beginning. the lost balls in the md
die and the high balls at the end OF the
game.
Adam invented all the different ways
in which a young man can make a fool
OF himself. and the college yell at the
end of them is just a firth that doesn't
change essentials.
There are times when it's safest 10
be lonesome. Use a little
sense. caution and conscience. You can
stock a store with those three commodi-
ties, when o get enough or them.
them. But you've got to begin getting
them young. They amt catching after
you tougher up a bit.
Culture is not a matter OF a change
of climate. You'll hear more about
Browning to the square Foo in the
Mississippi Valley than ysu viii in Eng
land.
The oply animal which tha RfhTa raIIs
patient is an ass, and that's both good
doctrine and good natural history.
The only thing you ever find in pastry
hat you don't put in yourself is flies
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21

General Booths return to the United
States prompted a Brooklyn man out
at dinner the other day to tell a story.
says the New York Sun.
When General Booth first came to
his country a good many years ago"
he said. Il entertained him over night.
He went TO bed early and put out his
boots.
Il knew what was meant, and as I
had no Servant whom / could ask TO
black boots, l urned in and BACKED
them myself.
Some years later l told the story
in the presence of Darlington Booth.
saying that / had done for his father
wha would not a done for the
Prince of Wales and the son jumped
up and kissed me-"
That" said another man present,
reminds me of three other true stories
of Britons and their boots in this coun-
try, and they all illustrate how slow
the Briton Is to suspect the existence
of other customs than those he mas
been brought up TO.
"A clergyman of the Episcopal
church, entertaining a English
man, discovered his guests boots out
side the door after the guest had gone
to bed, and being unwilling to ask his
maid servant TO black them, very
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21

the balance OF mankind Is taking his
leisure OF his rest.
The Fayetteville Observer seems to
nave had trouble with that class Of peo-
pie Who think they could run the paper
much better than its managers and
who find fault with it for not conduct
ing the business on their IDEAS. The
Observer should not be worried owe
such a small matter. II that is the
greatest care it's editor has he is a
fortunate man. He can console himself
with one thought anyhow, and that is
that he is not by any means alone in
his vexation. The Observer says:
DAY before yesterday. a telephone
message was received at this office
from a third party asking us to say
that a certin person in his county de-
sired to decline a nomination. We, OF
course, did not publish this roundabout
declinatiOn. When n of the nominees
Of any of the factions or parties shall
address a communication of this nature
to The Observer and sign it himself, il
will be published. We learn hat COM
plant is made of The Observers course
by ~busybodies, who are presumed 10 be
Pritchardites or anti-Clarkites. We
desire in this connection to give notice
to all concerned that any complaints
which may be preferred against The
Observer, or it's editor, or its manage
ment, will be duly attended to at its
office, n that we invite all who think
they have cause for complaint TO state
it to US in the straightforward way sug-
gested."
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21

carried the:n TO his own room.
while his wife looked on. laugh
biackened them with great care
Furthermore. he keeps them UP for the
week of the guests stay without being
detected.
a titled Englishmsn of science visit
led a rural university in Pennsylvania
and was entertained. with his wife. at
the house OF the president, where. as
was not unusual. there was no servant
lat all
THE next morning the titled gentle
Iman's boots were found outside his
door, and he poked his head out long
lenough to say that as his wife vas not
very well she would like 20 have break
fast in bed.
5 the president of the university
BACKED the boots OF his titled guest
and the wife OF the president carried
up breakfast 10 the visiting lady.
"A Scotch member OF Parliament
visiting Henry George in his house
over near S~tuyvesant Square. left his
boots outside his bedroom, but woke in
the morning 10 find them in the con-
|dition in which they had been h night
before. Al breakfast Mr.. George look
ed quiZzlcally at his guest and said,
In this country W. black our own
bootS''
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
WILMINGTON HAS TO HUSTLE FOR
EVERYTHING SHE GETS.

When Wilmington want anything in
the way of additional advantages for
developing and extending her mercan-
tile and industrial her citiz-
Zens nave to take the matter in hand
and hustle to get it. Nothing. of the
kind ever comes this way unsought.
The industrial progress in our city is
the result of hard and persistent work
of her business men. And with all
their lard work they do not get all
they need-in the way, for instance, of
railway schedules on one of our rail-
roads and freight rates to the west.
While this is the case with US there are
many other towns in the state which
seem to have these advantages thrown
at them. The latest in this line is the
Southern's New York-New Orleans
Flyer which puts New York mail,
including the morning in
Greensboro at l o'clock in the afternoon
and in Charlotte about two hours later,
while they reach Wilmington at 10
o'clock the day after publication. A
Charlotte business man can send a let
ter to New York and receive an an
swer in the same or less time thar to
Wilmington. Wilmington's great pro-
gress in the last few years has not been
accomplished through any outside aid,
but rather in spite of many drawbacks
and adverse influences from beyond her
borders, matters over which her citi-
zens had no control. They nave not al
lowed these obtacles to dampen their
ardor but have striven with all the
more energy because of them to bring
their city to The forefront and are
meeting with astonishing success. This
energy and pluck is telling. Keep up
the good work and we will reap album
dant reward
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
LET THE SHOEMAKER STICK TO
HIS LAST.

The above is the translation of an old
Latin Maxim. The original we bellevel
is Ne Lultor Ultra Crepidam'. 1t is
a motto that it would do we'll for every
to put at the head OF its col
umns for newspaper men are more an
moved by outsiders trying to teach them
how to run their business than men in
any other calling. There was al
newspaper III in such a way as 10
please all its patrons or readers. and
by the way, most newspapers nave a
great many more readers h patrons
and it is generally that class of readers
of a newspaper who read it at some.
body else's expense who are he great
est kickers. 1t is remarkable that a
man who never pays for a newspaper
should be the one to kick the hardest
against what he finds in it that does
not suit his views. These
are a source of eternal worry to the
publishers OF a newspaper. They think
they know more h any n else how
the paper should be conducted, and il
they happen TO live in the home town
of the paper they think its business Of
flee is provided as a loafng place for
them in which to gossip, air their opin-
ions ON the events of the day and in
struct the newspaper men how to con-
duct their business and that the ex-
changes put upon the editors desk arr
there for them to read or take hom'
with them for more ~leisurely perusal
h e are interrupted in the once o.
some one. coming in to transact pusl
ness with the editor or manager. Ever.
newspaper man welcomes his fr1end
TO his office and is glad to see tne1
when he is not busy; blu there are
great many people who because thel
loafing time of day has come do not re
aIize that others has not also and tina
the busiest time of the force on a morn
ing newspaper is during the hours whe
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
His Life Was Saved.

MIR. J.. z. Lilly, a prominent citizen
of Hannibal, Mo-, lately a a wonder
full d~eliverance from a frightful death.
In telling Of it he says: Il Was taken
with typhoid fever, that ran into pneu-
monia. My lungs became hardened 1
was so weak I couldn't even sit up In
bed. Nothing helped me. / expected TO
soon die OF consumption, when 1 heard
of Or. Kings New Discovery. one DOT
tie gave great relief. I continued to use
it, and now am well and strong, I cam
say too much in its praise" This mar
velious medicine is the surest and
quickest cure in the world for ali tnroat
and lung rouble. Regular sizes so cents
and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Il. Il.
Bellamy's drug store; every bottle guar
anteed.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21

Wife Soured on Candy Maker
WEEDS Maker of ckle

Life was not all sweets to Mrs. Her
man Kramer, of 14G8 East Main street.
although her husband was a maker OF
candy n strong on taffy, 50 h ap-
piled for divorce and charged Mr.
Kramer with desertion.
While the divorce proceedings were
on Mr.. Kramer held deep In his breast
a yearning and a longing for Miss
Emma Lane. nineteen years Did, and
pretty0a maker of pickles.
The mixing of the arts were unusual.
but the depth Of their love was fathom-
less. Candy maker Kramer longed and
suffered his heart to turn somersaults
within his breast as the divorce case
proceeded.
Last Saturday morning the divorce
was granted, but the divorce was not
legalized. until the costs of the case
were paid.
Mr.. Kramer did not wait for his form
er spouse TO empty her purse into the
Golfers Of the county. but gathered
shekels Of his own and hired him swiftt
ly to the city hall and paid the costs
himself.
Miss Lane withdrew suddenly and
joyfully from the pickle factory and the
couple hurried for the depot to catch
the first train for Washington
Divorced in the morning, Mr.. kra-
mer found himself once more with wife
5 o'clock the same afternoon
The young lady's parents did not
know what had become of her. They
did not suspect that she was going TO
become q bride
The Lane house at I'LL yenable
street, was Jared the following Sab
bath with the news that she was mar
ried to Mr.. Kramer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kramer are happy and
hope that the Lane family will gradu-
ally get used to the situation.-Rich-
mond News.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
DON'T LIE.

The republicans are talking all the
time about the great prosperity of the
country. Prosperity is their battle-cry
during this campaign. The whole coun-
try is prosperous, they say, and they
point TO the alleged increase in wages
of the laboring class as one of the
causes as we'll as one of the evidences
of this universal prosperity which they
boast Of as the result of republican
legislation and republican administra-
ton of the affairs of the government.
They say that whenever labor gets
plenty Of work and is well paid then
there is bound to be prosperity and
that the country is now witnessing
both these happy conditions.
These republicans have been given a
Knockout blow, and it comes from one
in their own ranks, from d republican
official. and it has raised a howl in the
camp, and the party leaders are mad
and threaten the removal of this
traitor in the camp from office-be-
cause his party fealty did not out
weigh his honesty and devotion to duty
sufficiently to induce him to falsify the
statistics in his office and max I'M
true report.
All this stir among the republicans is
on account of the report issued by the
statisticfan of the state Of Indiana, in
which he states that wages in that
state have not advanced under the
Dingley tariff bill. In the eyes of the
republican bosses this is an u%npardon-
able sin. Here, on the V of a most
important election a man put in office
by their party is SO ungrateful. so base
as to issue such a statement. When he
pleads duty and honesty in the dis
charge of his office they scowl at him
and ask what are these when put in
the balances against party success.
Why could he not change the figures,
or, if he was too timorous to do that,
then why not suppress the facts and
issue no report at all. There was no
necessity, they say, for him to an
nounce to the world this fact so dam
aging to their party. 1t shows total
absence of proper party spirit and base
disregard of party success
This official statement of the statis-
tician Of the state of Indiana knocks
from under the republicans one of their
props in this campaign-the1r|
claim of protection of the interests OF
the laboring man in the enactment OF
the Dingley high tariff bill. Figures,
which do not lie, show that in the statel
of Indiana this bill has done nothing
for the wage-earners in the way OF
raisino the price of his labor, while It
has increased to him the cost of every
article of merchandise which he has to-
purchase for the support of his wife
and children. What is true of the con-
ditions in Indiana is true in every other
state in the union-the laboring man is
not helped by the republican system OF
a protective tariff, but, on the con-
trary, he suffers from it. His wages
have not been advanced, while the cost
of living has been greatly increased
Still the republican leaders tell the
w~age-earners their party is his friend
and is entitled to his gratitude and his
support.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-21
Democratic S~peakings.

The followirg gentlemen will speak
at h times and places stated:
HON. LOCKE CRAIG
Columbia, October 21st.
Roper, October 22nd.
HON. CYRUS B.. WATSON.
Siler City, October 21st.
Causey, October 22nd.
HON. LEE S. OVERMAN.
Monroe, October 28th.
Wadesboro, October goth.
Rockingham, October 3Oth.
Lumberton, October 31st.
Fayetteville, November 1st.
HON. CHAS. L. ABERNETHY.
Turkey, Ocober goth.
Clinton, October 20lh (night.)
Honeycutt's Muster Ground, October
Indian Springs, October 22nd.
Lowland, October oath.
Hoboken, October oath (night.)
MesSic, October 18th.
Vandemere, October 25th (night.)
GOVERNOR CHAS. B. AYCOCK.
Columbus, October Goth.
Rutherfordton, October 21st.
Lincolnton, October 22nd.
Concord. October 23rd.
Lexington, October oath.
Shelby, October 25th.
HON. A. H. WHITE.
Richards, October 22nd.
Catherine Lake, October 23rd.
Fort Barnwell, October 9th.
Mocksvile. October Doth (night.)
HON. r. B. GLENN.
Rockingham, October 18th (night.)
Monroe, October Goth (night.)
Charlotte, October 21st mighty
F. NJ. SIMMONS,
Chairman State Dem. Elk. Com.
ALEX j. FIELD, Secretary.