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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-10-06
City of Grand Rapids
Township % North, Range East
First Ward, Sergeant Plat

First Ward, Sergeant Plat
Unknown Subd frac. lot 7, lot "a 95
Second Ward
do Frac lot l. lot 10, blk 8 Sc 90
do Lots IL, block Is IL il n
do Subd, sw ne lot block II "a %
Third Ward sargent's Plat Neeves Addition
do Lot rs Block II Is Sc 80
do Subd, Frac lot lot 1 Is liz 6S
Fourth Ward
do Subd. NV sc lots As blk II Is 90
West Side
do A part of Sc ne as recorded
in vol 26 of Deeds page rs
Wood County Records u 81
do Lot in ne Sc recorded in
vol p of deeds on page 275
j.. Wood County Records 20 IS
do Lot III Sc ne recorded In
vol of deeds page 101 Wood
County Records except what
is sold to others s IA 90
do 80 square rods of land in
Govt lot 8 bounded on the
east by Wisconsin Valley R.
r. south by land owned by
Carl Borns, west and north
by lands owned by J.
Donly except what is sold II 81
do lot in NV ne recorded
in vol p of deeds page 196 w.
c.. R. IS % IS
do A lot in So NV as recorded
in vol of deeds page 344 ex-
cept part sold is 81
Scott & Jackson Addition
do Lot 1 Block 20 % 80
do "a 81 "a 81
Oak Park Addition
do Lots IA Block 5 Sol
DAILY & SIMPSONS Addition
do Lots 1870 Block so
do 2-S-4-5 10 10
do Lots 1-2-S-4-5-6 Block 81 sol
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-10-06
A residence lot valued at $3.50 to be

A residence lot valued at $3.50 to be
given away absolutely free. Any
person, man, woman, or child, who is
present at this sale in person and is
able to answer to their name when
called will be given a free chance to
draw this lot. You do not have to
make bid, you do not have to buy
a lot, ali that is necessary is for you to
be present at the sale, write your
name on the coupon and hand it in
when called for.
s, 1903 JONES and LIND
Managers of sale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-10-06
COUNTY CLERKS LIST
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK, |

Notice is hereby given that the following
described lands were sold by the county trea
the taxes and charges thereon for the year Of
1900. And the same are yet unredeemed in this
office, and the holders of certificates of sale OF
said lands will be entitled to tax deed Thereon
in accordance with the laws of this state unless
redeemed on or before the 21st day of May, 1904.
The taxes. charges and interest calculated 70
the last day of Redemption, due Cl each parcei
is set opposite each description below
Given under my hand and seal at Grand
Rapids, Wis, this 18th day of August, A ID.
1oO9 E. S. RENNE,
County Clerk Wood County. Wisconsin.
Douglas Island news., 1903-10-28

The Chinese and Japanese laborers from the canneries of Southeastern Alaska are going south, with the birds, to spend the winter and their summers wages.
 The Pine Creek Power Company, of Atlin will put in 1900 feet of tunnel this winter on the north side of Pine creek, to take the place of the Hume now used.
 Sixty-three republicans assembled at Wrangell to elect delegates to the Dis trict convention at Juneau. P. c. Me Cormack, w. D. Grant and A. V. R. Snyder were chosen.
 Charles Hilty, a Klondike pioneer and former owner of the Bear creek claims, shot and killed a man named Massey at Fort Gibbons. The men were drunk and quarreled in saloon There were no eye e-witnesses, and Hilty claims lfdefense. He is in jail.
 The Juneau chamber of commerce will ask congress for an appropriation of quarter of million dollars for the erection of capitol buildings at that place, and has appointed committee with instructions to secure options or suitable sites for such buildings.
 A Seattle paper says: Arthur C. Jackson, president of the Alaska Geographical Society, is meeting with much success in Alaska where he has been engaged several years in promot ing the work which his organization is doing" Arthur c. is engaged in work ing suckers and he is finding them, but not in Alaska.
 Nome will be in telegraphic com munication with the outside world by the middle of November. Lieut.. Will son, commanding officer at Fort Davis, says that combination of the De Forest and Marconi systems is to be put in at once between Safety and St Michael, distance of 100 miles, which will be the only wireless portion of the line.
 United States Shipping Commissions Bassett, of San Francisco, reports that since September 10 he has paid off Gin Frisco of course) 1866 sailors, consti- tuting the crews of 38 vessels engaged in the Alaska cannery trade. Thirty. six of the vessels belonged to the Alaska Packers Association. The total amount paid was S504 ,259.
 The secretary of the Alaska Club oi Seattle has been instructed to close 8 contract with the Hamm & Schmit2 Go. for home for the club in the new building opposite the Butler hotel. The building, which is now nearing com pletion, will be ready for occupancy about December 1. The club will occupy one-half of the second floor ot the big building.
 The Rev. c. E. Ryberg, of the Con gregational church at Nome, who has established a colony and mission at Quartz creek, for the benefit of the na' tives of that section, has written an open letter to the people of Nome, set ting forth the distress and the needs of the natives. It is pen picture oi distress and suffering, and shows the terrible condition into which the na' tives have fallen since the coming oi the white man to the shores of Seward peninsula.
Douglas Island news., 1903-10-28
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

percent. is the tax rate at Skag- way.
 The first snow fell at Skagway on the 14th.
 The assessed valuation of Skagway is S669,400
 38 vessels were engaged iu the Seattle Nome trade this year.
 Dawson prices begin to stiffen as the mercury begins to fall.
 The Canadians celebrated Thanks giving Day on Oct. 18th.
 The Ketchikan Copper Co.,, of Seattle, wants agents to sell stock.
 A family at Wrangell was poisoned by eating canned rhubarb. No fatali- ties.
 Wraugell wants a share in the gov ernment cable and is going after it with a vengeance.
 Dr. Cook, who made an unsuccessful attempt to scale Mt. Mckinley, says he will try again.
 Seattle shipped s11,O75,OOO worth of freight to Nome and the lower Yukon country this year
 The editorial writer on the Sitka Al askan, uses such words as "apropos" with calm bravery.
 The Pacific Coast Company will spend half million dollars on bunkers and shops at Seattle.
 The old McKinnon dock at Wrangell has finally succumbed to the inevitable and lies useless wreck.
 N. W. Powers, Yukon pioneer of 1894, is among the constantly growing horde of missing" in Alaska.
 Atlin has a club, says the Claim, Whether it is gun club, a whist club or q hockey club, is not stated.
 The Wrangell Sentinel predicts that there will be a great rush up the Stick cen next summer. So there was in 1895.
 George McCord, editor of the Yukon Catholic, monthly paper of Dawson. and Katherine Kreig, the vocalist, were married Oct. 10.
 Gov. Geo. E. Chamberlain, of Oregon, thinks America would have been justi- fled in fighting to retain it's Alaska ter ritory, if necessary.
 The Wrangell Sentinel wants a company to locate at that town for the manufacture of fish oil and guano, no matter if it does smell bad.
 Samuel M. Smith, a mining man from Dawson, fell into Elliott bay at Se- attle and drowned. He had been drink ing since returning to civilization. A pitiful story comes from the far North of six miners who were engaged to work in a coal mine on the Lis borne peninsula and then left to starve by their employer.
Douglas Island news., 1903-10-28

The Dawson electric light company has made the city rate for street lights that is 621@ per cent. of the regu' lar commercial rate The lights were put in last month.
 A lady in Wrangell is trying to re- move warts with acids. The remedy may work all right says the Sentinel, but her hands look as if they had run into a sausage machine.
 The gasoline schooner Barbara Hernster, owned by the Northwestern Commercial Company, arrived in Seattle on Oct. 12th, having made the run from Nome in A days.
 One of the men on the steamer Alas kan shot swan in Tongass narrows the other day which weighed 30 pounds and measured nine feet from tip to tip of the wings, says the Ketchikan Jour nal.
 The picking up of a bottle on the shore of Alaska which had been drop ed by the steamship Tacoma on her run to China shows that the far-famed Japanese current is no myth, says the Seattle Times.
 The freight steamship Meteor is dis abled in Boring sea through the loss of her propeller. She is about 150 miles in southerly direction from Nome, being presumably off the north end of Nunivak island.
 Monday was "snorter." The wind blew gale and the sea acted very boisterous; and Monday night she was a hummer, and small craft had to hunt their hole, says the Wrangell Sentinel of the 18th inst.
 On September 28 Chief of Police Noble Wallingford, councilman D. B. Hill and John Doe Sackett, all of Nome, were placed under arrest in Nome charged with attempting to blackmail woman of the town known as Anna Brown.
 Here comes an expert who says that the Tanana country will prove one of the richest in Alaska as soon as proper machinery is introduced. A district which must be operated by machinery begins slowly, but becomes perma- nent producer.-EX.
 The district court will convene at Skagway on the 2d proX., without "a grand jury. The latter is relic of bar barism as unnecessary to the admins tration of justice as it is unfair to those charged with violations of the law.--Ketchikan Journal.
 Lieut.. H. D. Coburn, stationed at the present time at Fort Niagara, N. r., and son-in law of Judge Brown, has been appointed adjutant of the Third battalion of the Eighth infantry, commanded by Major Terrett and with it's headquarters at Skagway.
 More encouraging news comes from the placer beds of the De Soto Con- pany. In the Council district this company has been singularly successful and the dredges owned by the company have been taking out gold at the rate of from s3 900 to s5,ooO per day. On Warm creek, where the company is now operating, pay streak has been struck seventy-tive feet wide and from four to eight feet deep.
Douglas Island news., 1903-10-28
The Alaska Steamship Compan y will

The Alaska Steamship Compan y will issue pamphlet advertising South eastern Alaska, and F. w. Mcdowell, the "water front" man of the Seattle Daily Times staff, is now in the North for the purpose of securing the neces- sary data from which to prepare the "copy". The book will be illustrated and it is the purpose to make it an authority on this country.
 The United States geological survey will have parties in Alaska next year Investigating the mining resources of Southeastern Alaska, the formation in the Yukon country and the oil deposits of Alaska If the appropriation is ample parties will continue the study of the geology of the Nome district and will conduct an investigation of the coal supply of Nome. The Copper river country is also demanding in- vestigation, but it is not likely that any work will be done in that district during the coming year.
 Inquiry has been received as to Henry Bennett, commonly known as Harry Bennett, one of the early pioneers in the Klondike about the time of the first gold rush. It is SUD- posed that between the years 1887 and 1890 Lake Bennett and Bennett City were directly associated with his name. Since that time nothing has been heard from him by his family. He would be about 50 years of age. For time ke was with the Hudson's Bay Company exploring, and for time enlisted in one of the Canadian militia regiments stationed in British Col um bia. Any information will be thankfully received by his family if addressed care of the British vice con- sul, Seattle, Wash.
 At the head of Reed river, a tributary on the north side of the Kobuk, there exists chain of hot mineral springs, the temperature of which keeps the l grass green in the immediate neighbor- hood the year around. Those who have visited. the springs in the winter declare that with the temperature at 50 degrees below zero, once inside the green belt surrounding the springs, one can disrobe and bathe in the open air in perfect comfort. Several who were suffering from rheumatism speak highly of the curative powers of the waters.
 What is probably the largest, if not the only, exhibit of tin ore of any inn portance ever shown in the United States has for the past two or three weeks been viewed by Seattle people on the third floor of the Pioneer building. A magnificent lot of quartz is shown, besides several sacks of the fifteen tons of placer tin recently brought down by Jos. Nadon, president of the Alaska Tin Mining Company, of Delaware, with headquarters at Providence, R. l. MT. Nadon personally superintended operations this summer and is enthu- siastic as to the future. The fifteen tons, which assays 50 per cent, were taken from 600 yards of ground in the York region above Nome. He travelled over twenty square miles of territory and found placer tin everywhere, and it can be made to pay when worked on large scale. Next year the company will have large plant and they expect to take out from 400 to 600 tons.-N. w. Miner.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19
Notice.

VALDEZ, ALASKA, March ls, 1903. Intelligence having been received at this Ofiice that horse belonging to Mir. Schaner is suffering from the glanders, a highly commun- ieable disease among horses, and as MT. Schaf- people of Valdez with fresh milk, Iinvesti gated the matter. as many people are fearful of con tracing the disease. For the benefit of the state that on consulting the hest authority, ind 1t is impossible for cattle to contract the disease known as glsnders; and as the diseased horse is isolated, any further danger of con- taminatiOn is improbable.
 CHAs. E. wINASs, NJ. D., City Health Officer.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19

Felt Shoes for the children at J. Fish X Co.
 Leave your property for rent or sale with Mikesell. Fresh meats of all kinds at the Seattle Market;
 Wellington coal for sale at office of the P. P. X N. Co.
 If you want to sell or buy it will pay you to see Mikesell.
 Cash paid for secondhand goods of all kinds. Richards X Co.
 Goods stored and cash advanced on articles of value. Richards & Co Throw away yonr old truss and buy new one at the Owl Drug Store.
 You can have a guess without being a purchaser at the Seattle Meat Market.
 "The Tailor makes the man." See the American Tailors. Key stone avenue. Fresh oranges, lemons and ap- ples received on every boat at the Candy Kitchen.
 Hathaway X Kaake have now on hand a full line of Window glass of all sizes.
 All kinds of woolen overshirts and heavy and light wool under wear at the Lion store.
 Parker Bunk House, on Key stone Ave. Bunk, stove and wood. All comforts, 25c per day. Save money and hard work, how? By getting your prospecting outfit for next season from R. Blk, Cop per Center.
 Lots in the Von Gunther and Crary additions for sale by Mike sell. A good chance for a profit able investment.
 Denver Ed. Smith, the noted pugilist will give lessons in the manly art at reasonable rates. For particulars see Denver Ed, or call at this office.
 How is it that everyone stops at the Tiekel City roadhouse on their way to the interior? Because their patrons are given the best of accom- modations, besides the horse feed is the best of any of the interior stopping places. You push the button and let me do the rest. Send your films or plates and I will finish them com plete and print copies as wanted.
 L. c. Larsen, Photographer,
 Keystone Ave-, Valdez.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19
Hats Without a Woolen String

l.. w. e. Stull Expert Matchmaker.
 Smoke Espinas cigars. Fine Watch Repairing at Kerns. :: A few good houses for rent, Mike sell.
 Pumps put in. Apply to Yak shaws.
 Razors and pocket cutlery at Brownells. - = Pure medicines at Broadway Pharmacy. For Rubber Gloves and Mitts call at Lion store. :. Best snow shovels in town, only $1,OO,.at Richards.
 If your best girl likes oysters take her to Wikidel's.
 Fresh Candies made every day at the Candy Kitchen.
 For fresh young meats call at the Seattle Meat Market.
 Cash paid for secondhand goods of all kinds. Richards X Co.
 600 pounds of fresh candy just received at Shaw X Williams.
 Goods stored and cash advanced on articles of value. Richards x Go.
 An excellent three-room cottage for sale at reasonable price, Mike sell.
 Rev. c. l.. Hosiord will leave on the Nome City for his home in Nebraska.
 Chase and Sanborn's Celebrated Coffee is to be had at Temple X Dougherty's.
 k. P. Meiss arrived on the Nome City and will leave for the interior in few days.
 w. Robert Hildreth, brother of H. H. Hildreth, was an arrival on the Nome City.
 Capt. Love, who took the dis abled Newport to Seattle, returned to town on the Nome City.
 Mothers, put your boy in a new suit of clothes at Fish X Co.'s. and make him and yourself happy.
 Through an error in last issue, the passenger list of the Portland was givenas that of the Santa Ana.
 We are now selling "pop" and will deliver to any part of the city. Distilled Soda Water Works, city.
 w. B. Jack, a we'll known Cook Inlet mine operator, arrived on the Nome City and spent several days in town.
 You can have a large turkey if you guess the number of beans in the bottle at the Seattle Meat Market.
 Mrs. Floyd Santee and son ar rived on the Nome City, for visit with her brothers, c. N. Crary and w. H. Crary.
 
 A limited number of King Island Muck-lucks, have been secured by Miller, and are now for sale, cheap, at his store on Keystone ave. The best footwear for winter travel.
 The silk waists shown by Fish X Co. are the swellest goods ever offered here. They are all of the finest quality silk, latest design, and the price puts them within the reach of all. No two waists alike.
 The Moose dance Tuesday night was as usual very pleasant affair. The Nome city being in port sev- eral of the officers and passengers attended, among whom were MT. and Mrs. Paul Buckley, who stopped over on their way to Port age bay.
 The Seattle Market feeling gen. erously inclined proposes to give away as a sample, one of their fine large turkeys. In order to give every one fair chance for the bird, they have bottled up an un. known number of beans, and will allow every one to guess. The one making the nearest guess to the number will receive the prize.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19
HaineS & Brown, THE THINKERS

are now prepared to do all kinds of Tin and Iron work at short notice. Their work is tirst-class and charges reasonable. Located on Mckinley rear of PROsPEcTOR office.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19

For sale, a fine 5 dog team, we'll broken and good workers. Apply to Grant Sweet.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19
wANTS--FOR SALE.

COOK wANTED-$l2 . week and room. Will Npay $2o week after the first month. Apply at this Ofice.
The Alaska prospector., 1903-03-19

The red sleds are gone. The Sil- yer Dollar shovels and Washoe picks were too good to last but just wait until the Nome City gets in and Brownell will have all these galore.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06
A pretty home wedding yesterday

A pretty home wedding yesterday
was that of Miss Grace Ethelyn
Christian and Mr.. William ]. Ed
wards. The ceremony was per-
formed at 7:30 o'clock in the parlors
of the brides home, 1929 West
Beale place, by Rev. J. F. Cannon,
of the Grand Avenue Presbyterian
church. All of the arrangements
were simple, though elegant, and
carried out with pleasingly dainty
effect. At the appointed hour the
bride entered with her uncle, Mr..
V. L. Slack, who gave her away.
She wore a stylish going-away
gown of dark blue cloth, tailor
made, with a bodice of the same
shade of silk, trimmed with hand
work and chic plaid buttons. The
hat snd other accessories matched
the gown, and huge bouquet of
violets was worn upon the corsage.
There were no attendants except
the best man, Mr.. Charles Crockett,
of Union City, Tenn. The rooms
were prett11y decorated with flow
ers, the dining-room being a SYM
phony in the rich crimson tones,
with lights shaded to harmonic.
There was no reception, the bride
and groom receiving the congratu-
latious of their friends informally,
after which they left for a honey
moon tour South, which will include
Tennessee, Georgia, Tampa, Palm
Beach and other points IN Florida.
They will be at home after April l
at 1922 West Beale place. A num-
Der of out-of-town guests came on
to attend the wedding, among them
the brides grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Beach, of Hamburg, Ia;
DR.. Thomas Wyatt and Miss Susan
Duncan, of Kansas City, and Mr..
and Mrs. F. o. Watts, OF Nashville,
Tenn. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06
FASTER TIME

Effective December 7, the Chicago
and New Orleans Limited, fast vesti-
bule train, will be split out of Chicago,
running from Chicago to Memphis as
Pullman car train only. Train No.
3, the Limited, carrying only Pullman
sleeping cars, dining car and buffet
library car will leave Chicago daily at
100 p. m. for Memphis, Hot Springs,
Nashville, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and
arriving at New Orleans at 7.40 p. III.
the next day. No coach passengers
will be taken on it, they being carried
to the above points on new train No.
% having coaches only and leaving
Chicago at 5.25 p. m. daily and arriy-
ing at New Orleans 40 p. m, the next
day. This coach train will also carry
every Wednesday out of Chicago the
San Francisco Excursion Sleeping Car
running via New Orleans.
In addition, the New Orleans Spe-
clal, fast day train, with through sleep
ing and buffet-ibrary cars, and serv-
ing all meals in dining car, will leave
Chicago daily at 1000 a. m. and arrive
at New Orleans at 1856 next morning,
connecting with the Sunset Limited
of the Southern Pacific for Houston,
San Antonio and San Francisco, the
Sunset Limited leaving New Orleans
daily at 11.55 a. M. Tickets and fur
ther information Of railroad ticket
agents.
A. III. HANSON,
Gen. Pass, Agents--
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06
FARM FOR SALE.

108 Acres, near Paducah Junction,
known as the Dyer Farm; nearly all.
in cultivation; 7 acres timber; all un-
der good fence; good wells and SPRING.
two houses and a barn.
For further information apply to-
Esq. Crawley or R. H. Cheatham,
Paducah Junction.
f27 w. G. MITCHELL, Prop'r.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06

L. S. Parks of Union City, Tenn,
is visiting A. F. Thomasson. Mr.,
Parks is president of the First
National Bank of Union City, and
has just returned from trip to
Cuba IN company with F. o. Watts,
president of the First National
Bank of Nashville, Tenn" who
spent several days here last week
with Mr.. Thomasson. The gentle
men were highly pleased with Hat
tiesburg and spoke enthusiastically
of its future. Hattiesburg Miss
Daily Progress.)
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-03-06
5000 california 5000.

One way second class colonist tickets
will be sold daily during February and
March at above rate from all main line
cupon points on the Mobile and Ohio
r. R. st. Louis to Meridian, inclusive.
Ask your home agent or write Jon.
M. Beall, A G P A, st, Louis, for full
information.