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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
PART IL.
FOURTEEN PAGES.

There's giant for you" and the member of
the Amen Corner who had interrupted Abe"
Gruber's discourse on brace games in politics"
pointed toward the Broadway entrance of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. At the same moment a
brawny porter balancing ponderous Saratoga
on his left shoulder. emerged from the swinging
doors. walked along the corridor with light
step. and near the elevator doorway tossed the
trunk from his shoulder into his hands and
swung it TO the floor as lightly a handbook.
That fellow is Pat OBrien,' remarked the
amen Corner devotee. as Mr.. Gruber was
about TO resume his discourse. He's the big
gest as well as the strongest hotel porter in the
city. I understand that he tips the scales at
$50 pounds. and has been known to lift a 400
pound box Of paper and carry it off on his
shoulder"
A tall man, with soldierly rnustache, gray
hair combed so as not to straighten its curls,
and whose physique showed it had been devel-
oped by lot of hard work CHANGED to approach
the corner at this moment, when he was hailed
by another member Of its congregation with;
Hello Vaughan: you've been chief porter here
for the last century Say. is that right? Is
O'Brien over there the biggest and strongest
porter in town.
The chief porter nodded. with the remark:
You would think if he ever had TO put
you out
The New-YOTk hotel porter as this reply
would seem to indicate, has many more duties
and responsibilities than that of merely handling
trunks He is a 'sleuth' when the regular hotel
detective is somewhere else, a Waterman, a
policeman and oftentimes justice of the peace
Because of the public character Of a hotel open
as il is to all sorts and conditions Of people,
the porter frequently is called upon 10 act
promptly ana with cool head Should some
wandereT. for example, chance to go to sleep In
ar upholstered chair of the corridor, the porter
IS the man to dispose of the slumberer-
Should pistol shot be heard in a guests room,
II is his duty to break in" Should pick
pocket be ferreted out by the hotel detective IN
the act of going through some unwary VIC
tim in the barroom the porter is called upon
70 hold the niscreant until the police arrive.
The hotel porters of New-York, with a few
executions, are Irishmen. The strength of arm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22

Affairs either alone or in conjunction with that
Of the sovereign will have been sufficient.
No better illustration OF the absolute inde-
pendence Of the sovereign from all Legislative
control and interference in foreign matters can
be cited than that furnished by Lord Salisbury
durine, the closing years of the reign Of Queen
Victoria AS Foreign Minister he directed the
international relations of the British Empire IN
der the supervision Of the Queen without the
slightest regard for the wishes or views Of any
one save his sovereign Thus he took no one save
the Lord Chancellor into his confidence when
some twelve years ago. without the slightest
warning he suddenly made known that he had
a short time previously concluded, with the sane
tfon of the Queen and in her name, an arrange
ment with the present Kaiser whereby he
ceded to the latter the island Of Heligoland,
which is near the mouth Of the EIbe and within
striking distance of the coast Of Prussia, in re-
turn for Germany's abandonment Of the rights
which she lad until then enjoyed OF joint
protectorate with Great Britain over the Sui
tanate of Zanzibar.
This agreement. therefore. comprised the
actual cession OF British territory-that is to-
say an island which had been English for
hundred years or more-to a foreign sovereign.
Yet Lord Salisbury neither asked the author
ization of Parliament before nor it's sanction
after the conclusion Of the treaty and had IL
not been that the application Of the Great Seal
was necessary to the latter ii is doubtful
whether he would have taken the Lord High
Chancellor into his confidence. In the same way
Lord Salisbury. when Foreign Minister, con-
suited no one save his venera BILE sovereign on
the subject OF his agreement with the Kaiser
whereby he abandoned to Germany the rights
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22

which England possessed in Samoa He did not
even show sufficient consideration for the feeI-
ings of his countrymen to make the announce
1nent of the arrangement himself. but permitted
the first news about the affair to reach them
from Berlin. and to this moment the Enghsh
people have been left in the dark as TO the exact
character and extent of the duid pro quo when
they have received from the Kaiser ~ TINS al
fair Moreover. although every one is aware
that some sort Of an understanding has existed
between Germany and England for nearly hVe
wears past with regard to the ultimate dispose
ton Of Delagoa Bay and the future control OF
the Dark Continent vet no one in England eN-
ceptine King Edward. Lord salisbury his sue
ceesor as Foreign Minister. Lord LanSdo"he'
and possibly the Premier Arthur Balfour' Is
aware of it's no ture and stipuIauons-
NJ more striking demonstration could De
given than this of the extent OF Ute bFi'lS"
sovereisn's prerogatiyes in all matters feld'lhS
- foreign noIicv. In Spain. which is consid-
cred as a country enjoying a far smaller degree
NJ constitutional rights and Of democratic pre-
-oe.,tives than England. the monarch cannot
oranate Spanfsh territory without the sanction
% tho Cortes But in Great Britain King Ed
ward may without consulting any one save MS
Foreign Minister. who is responsible TO him
NOT 10 Parliament-dispose Of English territory
70 a foreign country. Moreover. the people as a
general rule are content 70 nave II So oelnS
convinced that whatever the sovereign and hIs
Secretary Of State have done IN the matter
has been accomplished for the good OF the ma
ton and that although neither the purpose nor
the ouid pro quo may be apparent at the time,
vet i'm the long run the British Empire will lose
nothing by the bargain.
Occasionally there have been Foreign Min
listers who have failed to show themselves suf1i-
GENTLY mindful of the English sovereigns pre-
negatives In this matter of foreign relations.
and a notable instance was Lord Palmerston.
who was repeatedly called to account by Queen
Victoria In this connection. In order to make
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
ARSENIC A NECESSITY.

From La Nature. Paris
Arsenc-that terrible poison. abhorred of all peo-
pies for ages the chief ingredient of the phters OF
antiquity of the Middle Ages. when they were de-
signed to get rid of n troublesome enemy-aFsenic
Is neither more less than constituent element
Of the tissues of all living beings vegetable ami
nal. without arsenic no life is possible; TINS pur.
yevor of death Is one OF the great supporters OF
life Such is the apparent paradox affirmed by
Professor Armand Gautier. as the result OF physi-
ological and clinical observations.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-01

The White Pass R. R. is having trouble to get laborers. The wages paid are $500 on the American side and 1925 per day on the Canadian side of the line.
 A corpse, supposed to be the body of Bud Harkin, was discovered floating on the surface of Lake La Barge, about two miles from Upper La Barge on June 21.
 The body of J. c. Hamilton, a hunt CT, was found in lone cabin 300 miles up the Pelly River by Indians who mo- tifed the police. The cause of his death is unknown.
 With numerous cases of scarlet fever in the cityland a crying need for imme- diate action, the Skagway town council came to deadlock over the selection of health officer.
 Ava H. Jones and Frank Sawyer, transient traders, each lost their scows on Thirty Mile River by the vessels striking rocks. The former also lost twelve tons of hay.
 The Seattle men and Seattle capital which are becoming interested in the Alaska oil fields would indicate that results are expected in the near future from their investments.
 The Appolo Consolidated mining Company at Unga recently struck a large body of water in their 700 foot level. which caused much trouble and threatens to completely flood the lower level.
 Max SteiufeIt, one of the two Jews who was arrested at Dawson charged with a series of wholesale robberies, has pleaded guilty and turned Kings evidence against Sam Levy, his accom- plice.
 1t has long been known that the Aleu- tian Islands afford good grazing for cattle and sheep, but the Frye-Bruhn Company of Seattle is tue first to en- gage in the industry there on a large scale.
 A new word to designate an old pro duct has been coined by a Seattle chemist. "Alaskaline" is the word, and the we'll known ointment known as vaseline is the product to which it is intended to be applied.
 Thousands of dollars worth of tim Der are being destroyed by forest fires on lower Dominion creek, Fires are also raging between Hootalinqpa and Le Barge, destroying the telegraph poles for over mile.
 The Seattle and Catella Bay Oil com pany intends sending shipment of machinery to the oil fields at an early date. This company has ground just south of the big we'll, where it's opera tions will be carried on.
 The consecration of St. Savior's church at Skagway by Bishop Rowe, made seven churches that have been dedicated to the work of the Christian religion by this indefatigable divine in the short space of two years.
 Dr. and Mrs. .>Trueholtz were arrivals on the train last night from Fort Egg bert, at Eagle, Alaska. pr. Trueholtz is a surgeon in the army and was relieved by pr. Clayson, who recently went in for that purpose.-Alaskan.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-01

Mrs. Emma Louise Crawford is dead on Mo- 16 Eldorado, of embolism of the heart. She was one of the most popu lar women in the camp and all claims on Eldorado were shut down for the day on the announcement of her death.
 Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock does not approve the recommendation made by General Funston that the Al askan Indians should be put on res ervation in charge of an agent and treated the same as reservation Indians in the states.
 The prices of staples at Dawson. which have been way up in the air for weeks, dropped on the arrival of the boats from Whitehorse. Eggs tumbled from S22 a case to SIP; potatoes from 20 cents pound to cents, and all other staples in proportion.
 It has been expected for long time that the Canadian government would establish at Dawson an assay and gold purchasing office, but this the govern ment refuses to do, claiming that there was no need for such, and the dust will as usual be shipped out.
 The largest robbery in the history of the KIondike was reported last week, when S6OO0 was stolen from the sluice boxes on the hillside claim 30 below bo- nanza. The property is owned by Geo. Taylor and Mrs. Mcconnell. There is no clue to the thief.
 The Alaska Pacific Express Company has increased it's service to Alaska. Hereafter the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's boats will carry express as we'll as those of the Alaska Steamship Company. Heretofore the latter named company has done all the express business.
 The Klondike district is up-to date all the streams are swollen by the high water There has been some damage done. The latest reported was the washing out of the piers and the slip leading into the Northern Lumber Company's new sawmill on the Klon- dike river. The loss amounts to S650.
 A movement is on foot among the former Juneauites in Dawson, to have the people of Juneau to join them in raising the funds with which to eXhume the body of Joe Juneau, for whom the Alaskan city was named, and to have the same taken to Juneau and buried in the city which bears his name.
 From the Grindall mining district comes word that miners are scarce and are commanding $4 per day on the east side and s5 day on the west side of the island, and the camps are short of men. Capt. Dufield, superintendent of GrindalI Mining and Smelling Com pany, says the climate of the island is velitable paradise.
 Lower Spruce creek, from the falls, up as far as 140 below, will be put under operation this year, and it is un- derstood that one of the largest and most complete hydraulic plants ever brought into the district has been or dered. The capital is being furnished mostly by Seattle men. The prelimi- nary arrangements will be carried out under the superintendence of MT. Has lett, mining man of wide experience, says the Atlin Claim.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-01

A special commission of three of- ficials of the interior department has been sent to Alaska to look into the all legged abuses of the Indians and to make report in the premises for sub mission to Congress next winter. The commission will also investigate alleg- ed attempts by lum bermen to take up valuable timber lands with script and similar other violations of law.
 It was made plain to Senator Dietrich Sunday night, that Skagway wants ter ritorial government and wants it bad ly. There was not a discordant note at the meeting of the chamber of con- merce and other citizens that was held Sunday night, at the chamber of con- merce room, and when the motion was put that it was the sense of the people of Skagway that they would be satis- fled if the congress which will have it's first meeting next winter would give us that and nothing more, there was none to vote nay.-Alaskan.
 The Atlin Claim rejoices over recent reductions in freight rates from Puget Sound points to Atlin. On less than car lots the tariffs range from S315 to S505 per hundred pounds. The Special Commodity rate, shipments of not less than carload lots, is cut down to S2.75 per 100 pounds, while potatoes, which last year cost S5.05, this year will cost only S3.75 per hundred in small ship ments. The rate on hay, last year, av- eraged S70 per ton and oats S61 per ton from the Coast, will now average S5250 and S47.50 per ton.
 The secretary of the Fishermen's Union on the Fraser River, is authority for the statement that there will be one of the greatest strikes on the Eras CT this year that has ever been known in British Columbia. The fishermen are still holding out for IS cents per fish during July, and F cents during August, but the canners still object to the flat rate and demand that the fish ermen come to terms on the sliding scale. The difference lies between the flat and sliding rates. The union has declared strike commencing July l, if the canners do not agree to grant what they ask.
 On May 3d marriage ceremony was performed under the skies, in front of the Commissioners office at Kayak, says the Valdez Prospector. The con- tracting parties were Jacalo, an Indian from Chilkat, and Florence, an Indian woman from Yakutat. It is more or less of romance. It seems that Flo renee was one of the three or four wives of Chief Johnson, of Juneau, and when the edict was proclaimed in Ju- neau annulling the marriages of all but one of the polygamus Johnson's wives, the present Mrs. Jacolo was one of them. She emigrated to Yaku tat, and during her visit there she met her husband. In the meantime an old and decrepit squaw at Chilkat wanted Jacolo to jump the broomstick with her, but as Jacolo had met Flo renee it was all off with the Chilkat representative. The bride and groom stayed Oh the island for a week, until the wrath of the centennarian had somewhat abated, and then returned to their home accross the bay. This is probably the first marriage of any kind that has taken place in this district.
Douglas Island news., 1903-07-01
The rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

AhA AVA AAASSSAVA ANA N J
 AtIin has already sent out 1903 gold brick.
 Valdez burned sl8,ooo worth of coal last winter.
 The Al6atross is on the way north with the fish commission.
 All loyal Dawsonites continue to cry down the merits of the Panama.
 The Alaska Yukon Gazetter and Business Mems Directory is out.
 523 empty beer kegs came up the riv- CT from Dawson on one of the fFst boats.
 Richard Fremont, soldier, has been arrested at Skqgway on the charge of forgery.
 The earthquake struck Sitka, but not hard enough to wake up that sleepy old town. Rev. F. c. Taylor, the Episcopal preacher at Valdez, has returned from visit to the states, bringing a wife.
 Wonders will never cease; citizen of Sitka has dug well and no more depends on Indian river for water.
 All Yukon river steamers are now carrying full cargoes. The rapid rise in the waters has made this possible.
 Two hundred and nine money orders amounting to S14,OOO, were issued in one day last week at the Dawson post office
 The revenue cutter Bear sailed from Seattle on June 16, for her annual cruise along the coast of Northwestern Alaska.
 The Skagtown Fourth of July God dess of Liberty will be chosen in the good old fashioned way-at 10 cents a vote.
 The temperature at Dawson on June 16 came within one degree of reaching the record of last year, the thermome- ter reaching 89 degrees.
 Over at sitka the Christian Endeav- or Society in announcing the subject for a meeting, "Gold or God" puts the gold first with big G.
 A.C. Hirschfeld is again in charge of the Atlin Claim having returned on the first boat in from Vancouver, where he spent the winter.
 The Monarch, large Yukon river steamer belonging to the Scandinavian American bank of Seattle, is tied up, because of a lack of work for her to do.
 The first shipment of gold arrived at Skagway June 22d from the spring clean up at Dawson. There were IA boxes besides several pokes of gold, and the total shipment amounted to e721. 900. It was all in charge of the Alaska Pacific Express Company.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-06-25
FORTUNES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS


More than 81 100000 Is expended fcI
photographs every year n-New Yorh
city. Upward of 400 photographers
reap this harvest, ranging from thu
Bowery tintype man to the ultra-faSh
ionable artist with studio on Fifth
avenue.
Be 1t raining or shining. in war or
in the piping times of peace, thous.
ands seek the skyllght galleries every
day with the fell intention of being
took" The present era Of prosperity
is entirely favorable to the natural
vanity which prompts the average man
and woman to face the camera.
Photographers who maintain expen.
slve establishments and cater to the
swell set share largely in the advant.
ages of the good times, but their ellen.
tele, the wealthy folk, who spend from
$1,000 to $1,000 year regularly for
photographs, do not vary much in
their orders whether the times be good
or bad. 1t is the average business man
and wage-earner, and more especially
their families, who swell the photo.
graph mans wallet these days, and
thousands of such families spend from
$50 to 500 year.
Next to theatrical people, society
folk get their pictures taken oftenest.
Actors and actresses, so photographers
say, are by no means the best of their
patrons. and some Of the studios de-
cline their trade altogether, the prln-
clpal reason being that they are bad
pay. A member of one prominent firm
said 1t was found inexpedient to deal
with theatrical people and their regu-
lar patrons; 1t was like trying to mix
oil with water, since the requirements
OF the theatrical photograph in acces.
series and background differ widely
from ordinary phases Of the art. Not
few fashionable women, however,
like their pictures In the style and
siml!tude Of actresses.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-06-25

A. A. Boyce, farmer, living three
and half miles from Trenton. Mo.
says: "a severe cold settled in my kid
neys and developed so quickly that
was obliged to lay Off work on account
of the aching in my back and sides
For time | was unable to walk ut all
and every makeshft tried and all the
medicine | took had not the slightest
effect My back continued to grow
weaker until | was unfit for anything
Mrs. Boycc noticed Doan's Kidney
Pills advertised as a sure cure for just
such conditions and one day when ir
Trenton she brought n box home from
Chas. A. Fosters drug store. ! follow
ed the directions carefully when takin,
them and | must say | was more thar
surprised and much more gratitled &c
notice the backache disappearing grad
ually until it finally stopped"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr., Boyct
will be mailed on application to any
part OF the United States. Address
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, y. Y. Fol
sale by all druggists, price 80 cents
per box.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-06-25
HOW FORT SAN CARLOS pELL.
German Gun-ers Loaded shsiis vita
LimburSor Cheese

German Gunners Loaded shsiis vita
Limbursor Cheese
In Fort San Carlos the Venezuelan
garrison was pluckily withstandlns the
steady fire from the German warships.
Shell after shell had exploded around
them, men wounded or dead lay here
and there. yet manfully they stuck TO
their guns and knew no fear, accord.
ing to a writer in the New York Times
DO you worstw cried Gen. Bello,
hoarsely, shaking his powder-stalned
fist at the -belching ships riding
beyond the bar.
And, though the brave Venezuelan
knew II not, the worst was already
coming his way.
From the smoke-clouded gun deck
Of the German flagship Brave Bill"
Pilsener. gunner's mate, had climbed
to the bridge, where the squadron com.
mander, In vexstion, was pacing back
and forth.
II beg to report, SIR" he began, salut.
Ing and speaking with the peculiar
Williamsburg accent, that have n
scheme to put them venezrelaDs outer
commission"
Vel, vass lss?' returned the com.
mander, impatiently.
why" explained the gunner's mate
with cruel, devllish light in his eyes
we've got sixteen cases of llmburger
cheese and nine barrels of sauerkraut
left in the hold, and would suggest
| that we load some Of our shells with
the stuff"
The German commander recoled NJ
| first from so dabolical and uncivlized
method OF warfare, but he was bent
| on victory, and in the end he yielded TO
the idea.
Behind the defiantly laundering walls
OF the fort brave Gen. Bello was max.
Ing an encouraging speech to his men
Remember the customs receipts"
he concluded, In burst Of patriotism,
and cheer went up from the powder.
coated throats of his men.
Just then the first OF the llmburgcr
and sauerkraut charged shells from the
fiagsbip's main battery exploded over
the fort. AS the thick. dense odor
settled down around them the patriots
panic-stricken drew their cutlasses and
cutting their way through 1t fed fran
tically from the fort to the clear ozone
Of the hills beyond.