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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

Mr.. and Mrs. George Morrcll of Bos-
ton are passing Il few days with friends
in this; city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

George w. Rock, who has been away
on furlouSh for several months, has re-
turned to camp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
DaiIy krnnehet Journdl
GARDINER.
Journals Telephone Call, 3-12.

G. w Averill arrived from brunswick
yesterday after n short business trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

buiIt 20 'lu y. TVS nine submarine war vessels
Their nra pn.idins and France has fifty.
ades ,r presence is expected to make BLOCK
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Savage are spend
ing n few days in Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
FAIRFIELD.

Lawrence, Newhall & Page Co, sent
4 crew of men to their NUMBERING opera
tons on Alder stream, Thursday morn
ing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

much QlSCOmfOrt. AS ClM0 W6UC Uy II
grew worse, and I was convinced that
was afflicted with Eczema. I con.
suited several physicians and a num-
Der Of specialists, and used several ex-
slight temporary relief. In February
I decided to try S. s. s., and in less than
a month experienced a change for the
better, and by May all symptoms had
ly cured, and have had no return OF
tho disease since. W. =. BEUSH,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

Manager Stockman,s Advertising Agency.
Station A, Kansas City, Mo.
fiery posons with which the blood-current is over
loaded. While external applications, such as
washes, soaps salves and powders aresoot hing and
cooling they do not enter into the blood itself or
touch the real cause of the disease but s. s. s.
does, and purifes, enriches, and strengthens the
ma with all its terrifying symptoms disappears.
ook on the Skin and its diseases. No charge Tor
me SWIFT SPECIFIC co.. ATLANTA. GA.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
wArEevIlLE ADVERTISEMENT.
LlGHTBODY'S HEADACHE POWDERS

Absolutely snfe contain no substance
that Is injurious to infancy or age. or to
those enfeebled by disease. No possible
danger of forming the drug habit by the
use of Lightbody's Headache Powders.
Pennington, Me, December 1G. 1899.
(;entlemcn:-i take pleasure in stating
that your Headache Powders have given
me almost instant relief in sick headache.
we keep the powders in the house. and
have several times given one to visitors
who were suffering from headache and IN
every instance they proved effective. j
cheerf,llly recommend them.
MRS T. H. RUSSELL. Perham st.
MISS j.. MORRILL,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

The warm spell came very near ruin
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18

thin acid blood and Gle
skin clears off and Ecze
Send for our free p'
medical advice.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
Cutting Scrape.

Last Sunday Sheridan Indian,
loaded with fighting fire water and
unprovokedly, initiated a carving con-
test with j. w. Bennett at the Ben Pal
mer ranch, Mr. Injun came out second
best, though Bennett received a slight
cut which, but for his dexterity in ward
ing it off, might have terminated his
earthly usefulness.
Tno.oo is something radically wrong
in the execution of the law, "no whis.
key to Indians. Record.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
Going to School.

Miss Helen and Beatrice ChartZ left
last evening for the bay. Miss Helen
goes to take her second years course
at the California State University,
and Miss Beatrice will take course
at the Irving Institute, preparatory to
entering the State University. The
two young ladies have shown capacity
for drudgery and to entertain educa-
ton, and their father proposes to in
dulge them to their full extent They
were both pupils at the Public scn..ool
at Carson bat neither graduated, owing
to the fact that there were no grad
uation classes the particular year they
would graduate-if they passed the
examinations. However, Miss Helen,
without graduation, and taking only
one year as a preparatory course, was
enabled to enter the University, and
to acquit herself most creditably, even
in studies in which she entered on
condition having made up" two years
behind in Latin and one year in Eng
Gsh History during her first years
course and she now enters her Sec
ond years course on even terms. The
"old man" says this is all due to the
fact that in the Public Sshool at Car
son the children receive very thor
ough education in arithmetic, math
mates, geometry and trfgonometry
also, in grammar and the fundamentals
in English History, and get a fair star
in Latin. He knows this from fact
that while he found his daughter de
ficient in Latin and English History
she was so far ahead in mathematics
generally that she could lease on OF
those studies and devote her energies
to her conditioned studies.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
PLAY BALL.
Carson Favored AS Championship
Ground.

Carson Favored AS Championship /
Ground.
If satisfactory arrangements can be
made between the Tonopah and Win
nemucca baseball teams, it is more
than probable that Carson will have
the pleasure of seeing one of the hot
test games of the National sport that
has taken place in this State in num-
Der of years. At the present time
there is a warm and friendly rivalry
between a few clubs throughout the
State as to which is entitled to the
honors of State champions. Winnie
mucca wants to play with Tonopah for
the honors and Tonopah is willing to
meet the Humboldt team half way.
Each team is confident to the extent of
$1,000, which would make the total
purse $4,000.
Thomas s. Robinson former cap.
tain of the Tonopah club was in this
city yesterday and stated that in his
| opinion the TOnOpah boys wOuid IKE
ITO come as far as Carson, as it has
always been recognized as hot-bed
for baseball in this State, and the
conditions here were most favorable
as to grounds, etc. c..,
If the Winnemucca team thinks. like.
wise and the match can be arranged
there Is no doubt but that large
crowd would witness the game and the
!; gate receipts would more than pay
the travelling expenses Of bottle leams
With a reduced ra.. On the rail
roads Reno and Virginia City would
send large delegations to witness the
game. It is to be hoped that the de
tails can be successfully concluded
and that the two teama win cross bat
n asis ct. n the ceSr future.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
the CALIFORNIA MAN ryssT.
Big Battle Now enxand More Expect.
ed IN the Morning.

81
ed in the Morning.
Red Wood Canyon, Aug, IA large
posse of man hunters are now here
within few miles of the fleeing con.
victs and all eager for battle. They
will take the trail just as soon as they
can have the group photographed for
Examiner. It took two hours lsat
evening to have the group taken for
the Chronicle. It was not time lost
as it gave the men a chance for
rest and time to study the maps of the
country.
Just as they were about to overtake
ten Of the convicts who were lust
ahead, Call artist rode up, armed
with kodak and ordered them to
halt This was done and a fine group
OF pictures taken for the Sunday pap
ers for sale at all the news stands.
This delay enabled the convicts to
gain a few miles but it does not count
much as the men on the trail are all
hardy mountaineers and know no such
word as fear.
Cool, Cal.,-About ten this morning
gang OF bloodthirsty men, supposed
to be convicts. broke in to a photog
graph gallery and compelled the pilot
ographer to take their pictures. He
took four groups and was then order
ed to leave the negatives and take to
the hills. If the convicts are ever
captured with these negatives it will
make their Identification comparativ-
ely easy.
Greenwood. Cal.,-The State militia
that was on the trail was ordered here
TO-DAY to be photographed before going
out in the wildes for the man hunt.
As big battle is expected here in
a few hours it was thought advisable
to have their pictures taken for friends
as they may never be seen alive.
Garden Valley-The noise of dead
ly conflict is now heard going on just
over the hill. An investigation with
a powerful field glass borrowed from
convict in citizens clothes shows
that there is a battle between rival
photographers from the staff of the
Sacramento Bee and the city papers
between which good deal Of prof
essional jealousy exists. kilograms
have just been sent to San Francisco
for three morgue wagons and more
films. News has just reached here
! from Solomon Mills that one OF the
kodaks found there this morning be
| longed to convict who was about
taking pictures of the militia 1t is al
SO rumored that the man who inter
viewed Sheriff Reese yesterday was an
escaped convict in the guise of re
+ porter. 1t is feared that several par
/ ties who have been posing as cores
pOndents near Lotus are convicts in dis
guise. A great battle is expected
here hourly.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
THE SIERRA NEVADA DEAL.
How Johnny skea Sold Out the Pool
and Nearly 3ot Hung.

Ed. Appeal.
note in a recent issue Of the
sAppea! an article Capicd from the
S. F. Chronicle about Johnny Skea
End the Sierra Nevada deal. 1t is not
Exactly correct and I desire to give
you some of the inside facts.
When Sierra Nevada began to go up
lat the time mentioned. every one had
an idea that it would prove a bigger
mine than the Con. Virginia. The
|Comstockers we're banking heavily on
the deal but it was not generally
known who was behind it. It seems
that Johnny Skea, General Williams
and three other, operators had pooled
the stock and each swore the most SOL
emn oath never to sell a share below
a thousand. They had caught old Jim
Fair short on the stock and there was
not enough lying about lose for him to
cover his shorts. It finally became
whispered about town that the pool
had Fair in the door and was going -
run the stock to a thousand dollars
and squeeze him good. OF course this
was good news for the street and from
$50 a share it rose steadily and touch
ed $88 think. There was a great ex-
citement in Virginia City and the day
it was $S8 the people raised several
hundred dollars to hire brass band
and go up and scramble Skea, as they
feared he might weaken and sell out to
Fair and break the pool.
1t was late in the afternoon when
the band started up to his house, when
the tickers sent the news over the
wires from San Francisco that the
sock was dropping about a dollar a
minute on the street after the Board.
This sent a shiver over the town
and the order to the band was counter
manded Then came cvpher dis
match that Shea ha1 sold out his hold
ings to Fair. Then a mob rushed to
the band and informed the band that
If they footed horn they would be
hung to the Ophir trestle work
Then they started to raid Skea's
house and there was talk Of lynching
him but he had taken to the hills and
was not seen afterwards On the Com
stock. He had sold to Fair enough
for the latter to make UP his shorts
and the price was said to be five mil.
lions. Just as every one predicted
Fair then went in with him ON deal
and got the money all away from him
Then Skea got full and couldn't pay
his five dollar fine. Then the victims
in the slump of the Sierra Nevada said
good enough
One of the Victims
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
THE. FORESTS THAT
SUPPLIED THE COMSTOCk
History Of the Last Drive that
FIoated Down the River.

about 10000 cords for this firm alone
Every stick was driven into the river
some of it going as far as Dayton,
where the Douglass and Rock Point
mill and the Sutro tunnel made the
demand. Others followed in the wake
of the pioneers and in 1868 half doz-
en- men were engaged in the business
and all doing well They each employed
a crew and when payday came at
the end of the drive there was the live
lies time that this section remem-
bers of.
At that time the Bonanza people,
Joe Douglass, Sharon and in fact all
the mill and mine owners on the Com
stock and along the river depended on
the supply from the head of the Car
son river. The supply was furnish
ed and what could not be hauled by
the railroad was taken from Empire
to the Comstock by teams which kept
many animals and men busy the year
round.
The Combination Drive.
1t was not until the year of 1875
that the wood contractors at the head
of the Carson conceived a plan. They
were to make combination drive.
The idea was to combine issues, take
the wood to Empire, and thus save a
seperate drive for each individual.
The plan was agreed upon and by the
flood water of the spring everything
was ready $4,000 cords of wood was
thrown into the river. By the time
that the first stick reached Empire
the last stick was in the stream at
Silver King, the head water. The
amount was more than the contract
ors figured on. The river was simply
one solid mass of wood for the seventy
| five miles and men were stationed
IRON one end to the other. In spite
of the immence drive very small per
cent of the wood was lost The plan
of the drive worked to perfection, but
| the amount of wood on hand glutted
the market Wood that sold for SIC
a cord the year before could be bought
for 81, and the result was that most
of the wood men were broke when
the settlement came. Those who sold
/ by contract before the drive came out
all right, but those who waited fol
the market had to unload in order tC
pay the men. The wood was sacri
feed and most of the wood contract
ors went out of business for good ant
ALL
After the drive the wood was cord
ed along the river bank and a double
tier of wood extended from the mill:
I at Empire to the Cook ranch. 1t wa:
gradually sold off and before the las
stick was disposed of some of it hat
rotted in the ground. This was the
last big drive that ever came doWr
the Carson river, and people along
the banks from Marklavii!e TO EmpiFs
date history from the time of the CON,
bination wood drive.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02

should the average citizen stop to
consider the amount of timber that
has been buried in the Comstock mines
he would be surprised and amazed.
Whole forests have been cut to supply
the demand, and as q hundred differ
ent parties have had hand in the cut
ting and bartering of the timber the
amount used will never be known.
All that is left to mark tie record is
the fast decaying stumps of the mann
9th pines and other trees that are sup.
porting the dangerous ground hundreds
Of feet below the surface of the old
lode.
The mountains west of Carson were
cleaned for the prrpose of furnishing
timber and wood for the mines and
mills. The axe of the woodchoper
then went further back and raked of
the hills about Lake Tahoe. 1t was
crime, but that is ancient history.
Thousands of train loads of dimen-
sion lumber was sent to the mines
where they are buried in drifts that
are abandoned and in a number of
instances the timber went into the
wild cats that never gave back a dol
| lar for the value put into the ground
The amount used for timber will never
be known, as most of the books of the
old companies have gone to the waste
heap and the contractors who cut the
timber are either dead or have moved
to other sections. However the old
timer remembers the old bell teams
that hauled the forests to the Com
stock, and most of them can recollect
when the forests back of Carson were
covere with the virgin pine and the
big trees extended down into the val
ley.
On Carson River.
! Carson River, or the valleys at the
headwater, furnished most of the fire
wood that steamed the boilers that
! brought the bullion to the surface.
The mills along the river that crushed
the rock were also supplied with wood
from the river and the number of
cords that they required would reach
into the million mark. A trip through
the section that furnished the fire.
; wood is interesting. For miles anev
miles the hills and valleys are de-
nuded of the best timber that could
F, be found The wood man had an
easy game. He cut along the banks
! of the Carson, waited for the high
water mark and made a drive down
the river. The distance is fully sew
enty-fve miles, but there was little
loss on account of the distance.
Among the first men to go into the
business of driving the river were
Sabin and Bryant. They went to the
head of the Carson in 1863 The first
years cut amounted to 5000 cords.
The wood was cut in four foot lengths
"a was split when II reached EN-
pire. The following year the wood
was split on the ground and the am.
cunt increased to 10000 cords. From
that time ON the amount averaged
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
District Court.

District court was in session for 4
short time yesterday morning with
Judge Murphy presiding and the fol-
lowing business was transacted.
A grand jury will be drawn for the
10th. inst.
DEGREES for final distribution were
made in the following cases.
Jacob Weber, Jos. WOlfenberger,
and w. NJ Russell.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
Bicycle Meeting.

There is to be a meeting of the
bicycle boys at the court house on
Monday evening at 1880 when every
one who has any interest in bicy-
cling or it's future is epected to be
on hand Business of the welfare OF
the club and the city is to be discuss
ed Everybody is invited.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02

Veal loaf. Chicken. veal and ham
pate. Spiced sardines and soused
tonkue.-Kel1y, Arlington Block.
Ask your 'egrocer. Ed. Walsh, tor
Jones. Paddock 4 Co.'S, premier MocA
- JnWnr UunDoA In
- .-i-Ag.4ffa- -
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02

Work will be resumed in the North
Rapidan mine at Como, next Monday
with a full force of miners and BartOns
stage will make daily trips between
this city and that place, except Sun
day, leaving here at p. m. and arriv-
ing at Como at 80 p. m-Chronicle.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02
Fight Declared of.

San Francisco, July 31.-The Brit
and O'Keefe fight was declared of
tonight because O'Keefe was nine
pounds over weight. The money was
returned to a large crowd at Mechan-
les Pavilion. No arrangements have
been made for a fight in the future.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-08-02

Marshall Emmitt has returned from
a business trip to Gardnerville.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-22

The Seaboard Air Line Railway, Of Ports
mouth, Va, is advertising a beautiful, but
comparatively little known, region on the
West Coast of Florida in three booklets
called THE Land Of Manatee." They are
issued by the Seaboard, but can scarcely be
termed a railroad advertisement, as the
only mention of the road is in a brief and
modest note printed on the inside of one
Of the cover pages. They are, in fact, a
description of Manatee County, Florida,
with some account of its history and its
many interesting features which will ap-
peal equally to the general reader, the in
weston, the fruit and vegetable grower, and
to the tourist and sportsman. The author
IS Mr. Morton M; Cassaday, a writer of
experience. The beauty of the Manatee
country is well described, and the marvel
Gus fertility of the soil and equally won
derful healthfulness of the climate are told
OF in a way to leave NJ doubt in the read
ars mind. Manatee county must be the
garden-spot of all Florida, and the won
der, is that it has not sooner been settled
and the latent riches Of it's soil turned into
good American dollars. A most charming
feature of these booklets is their typo
graphical appearance. They are printed
on handmade paper, and are delightfully."-
Illustrated with Photographic half-tone
plates ana ornamented with decorative de-
signs in flat monotones that make them
really valuable brochures. Persons in
terested in Florida, and especially in the
possibilities of orange growing and truck
gardening, below the frost line, will find
these booklets not only interesting, but full
Of valuable and practical information.
They may be had from representatives of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, or upon
application to the General Passenger
Agent, Portsmouth, Va.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-22
MEN In PUBLIC LIFE.

DR.. Daniel Elmer Salmon, chief of the
bureau of animal industry of the agri-
cultural department, has held that
Office since 1854, and has been in that
department Of the government since
1879.
L. s. Elmer, assistant chief clerk of
the post Office department., is known
as an authority ON postal laws and reg
ulations both of this country and of
foreign countries. He compiled the
postal manual, which enables clerks
and business men to learn quickly the
rates of postage on all articles. 1t is
in concise form and gives briefly the
salient points of the postal laws. Mr..
Elmer has been in the service about 20
years.
Hugh Mclaughlin, the veteran demo-
cratic leader of Brooklyn, has been
suffering from insomnia, so he called
in a doctor. "You are smoking too
much," said the medical man after
making an examination, and he began
to write a prescription, doubtless
thinking that Mr.. Mclaughlin was too
old to drop a long-established habit.
"Will stopping tobacco have the same
effect as this medicine you prescribed"
asked the old gentleman and on receiv-
ing an affirmative answer he said:
'Then you may keepyour prescription.
l will use no more tobacco" And he
has kept his word, though up to that
time he had both smoked and chewed
the weed for many years.
Secretary Shaw went over to the
treasury department one morning ac-
companied by q friend from Iowa.
While the pair were seated in Mr..
Shaw's private Office the secretary
found a letter which particularly in
terested him. Leaning back in
his chair, he put one foot
on the corner of his desk. In half
q minute a mar dashed in, revolver in
hand, and, covering the visitor, said:
SIS this man trying to rob you, Mr..
Shawl" "No, no." shouted the secre-
tary. 'He is my friend" After some
further excitement it developed that
when he put his foot on the desk Mr..
Shaw had pressed a button that calls
a Waterman. The man came in a
hurry, just as he had been ordered to
do.
President Roosevelt has decided to
bar lighted cigars out of the white
house and with the view of making
known his desires regarding the mat
ter has hung over a mantel in the
public reception room the familiar
sign: mo Smoking Allowed" Some
time ago Arthur Simmons the colored
doorkeeper who has been at the white
house for many years, was made smoke
Inspector, but he found that his efforts
to put a stop to the nuisance provoked
a good deal of tall language among
offenders. MI. Simmons is of a pious
turn and naturally that sort of talk
shocked him exceedingly. Therefore
he begged to be relieved from the task
and so Mr.. Roosevelt has hung up the
sign.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-22

The implement dealers have organ
lied; the beet packers are following
suit; the stenl producers, the sugar
makers, the millers, the butcher, the
baker, the candlestick maker, every
profession and every trade has its
association or its union. What are the
farmers of this country going to do
In this direction? Will they be the
last to get together for mutual pro-
lection and welfare? And after every
citizen in the United States is a MEM
Der Of q trust, union or mutual ben
eft association, how much better on
will we be than in the old das-s Of in
dividualism and free competition?
Let the farmers take this up before
It is too late to do them any good ex-
cept defensive. What is first needed
II q leader. Where is there a Moses7
-~Colman's Rural World.