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Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-04
Handkerchiefs and Neckwear

Ladies' Handkerchiefs Ladies quality hemstitched Handkerchiefs, sold at 121ac each Sale Price Mems all Handkerchefs unlaundered 121ac quality Sale Price Sc each embroidered Turnover Collars regular price Ladies Collars caf Sets Sale Price Ribbons
 Liberty Satin Ribbon, O. black, white colors regular quality Sale Price 21c yard Satin Ribbon No 6o in black, white all colors regular quality Sale Price 17c Black Silks
 2Oinch Black dc Soie Satin Duchess Cygne and Arrnures high grade regular price $125 Sale Price s6c yard Black Tafeta
 1ainat faac& edge Sale Price per yard 22inch Black Iafeta PURE DYE warranted
 silk Jour the selyedge) regular quality Price 75c
Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-04
Toilet Goods

Mennens Talcum Powder regular price Price 4c Homess Frosta regular price 21c Sale Price 15c Sheeds Paste regular price 15c Sale Price 12ac Tooth Powder regular price 2c Sale price 1ec Roger Amande Soap" Sale Price lie Toilet packages 1Oc kind packages 25c Tooth samples includes brushes 12Ac 35c; French Japanese goods soft and hard Dristies NC eacn violet regular 1Oc Sale Price
 
 Popular Perfumes La Lily Valley, 17c top Dressing Combs kind black amber only the 15c kind 10c Brushes unbeached bristes wood and bone handles usually sold 25c 50c each Sale Price ......................
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23

Ormsby county is likely to become
the center of a hop industry as plans
are being considered to give hop cul-
ture trial.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
FERRIS WHEEL AT
ST. LOUIS,

That the famous Ferris Wheel has
been rescued from the junk pile and
will be taken to the st. Louis Exposi.
ton is now believed to be an assured
fact, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Men are at work dismantling the
wheel for local house-wrecking COM
pany. 1t is said that the company
will be allowed to retain the first 500,
900 of the receipts at the fair grounds.
The cost of removal and setting up the
wheel is estimated approximately at
100000 After the amount named in
the concession has been received, 1t is
said one third of the profits will 60 to
owners of the wheel and the remaining
two-thirds to the treasury of the ex-
position. The value of the wheel as
junk is estimated at $50, 900, but because
of the expense attending its removal
the present owners are said to have OBJ
tanned the wheel for $s, 100.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
CARSON is EXCITED

The people of Carson, it is reported,
are wrought up over the rumor OF
buried treasure in some well in that
city, left there by robber long yeas
ago. 1t is nosy probable that there
will be such a we'll cleaning in the
capital city as never took place before
in all its history.
Just how the information got out is
not clear but the story as told by the
Carson News is as follows:
An important robbery occurred in
Virginia City and the plunder was all
in gold coin. The perpetrators of the
robbery hid their wealth but the OIL
GERS appeared to be securing testimony
that would eventually convict them.
They were very anxious to get away
with the money, but realized that they
were under surveillance, and knew
that an attempt at fight and subse-
quent capture with the booty would
be equivalent TO conviction, so they
carefully avoided the proximity of the
cache.
Things began TO get warmer ano
warmer for the robbers and finally
they decided to let i'm an outsider who
was not under suspicion, and accord
ingly they told Spaniard where be
would find the gold coin, and instruct
ed him to start for California with it
where all would meet later on and di
vide up. The Spaniard found thu
money alright, secured it and started
for Ca ifornia on horse. That was
of course, before the advent of the
& T. railroad, but careful as he was
the officers of Storey county suspected
him, and he was not far this side Q
Gold Hill before he realized that h
was pursued. He had good hors
and kept In the lead to near this cit,
but his pursuers were gaining and h
came into Carson not many hundre'
! wards ahead of the sheriff of Store.
county.
Realizing that to be found with tn
plunder on his horse would be equal t
J plea of guilty, he hastely threw tn
: sack containing the coin into well h
came to, on what Is now Main street
and rode as fast as he could. II
was finally overhauled sewers
miles from Carson, but of course tn
! most careful search failed to reveal an,
reason why he should be detained ful
3 ther, and he was allowed to go on wit
5 the warning that If he returned h
would likely pass away shortly there
! after. He knew that what was sal
} was meant, every word of it, and h
! stayed away to his dying day, whe
he took fellow Santa Claran into hi
) confidence and told him where h
! could md the money.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
TO PLANT
SHADE TREES,

If shade trees are wanted along the
roads and streets or about the house
start them in fruit cans, and when you
plant them take long thin punch
and make half dozen holes in the bot
tom of each can. Dig hole Is inches
deep, and set your can, tree and all in
the bottom of it, putting the dirt
about the can up to the rim. No water
will be needed during the summer
time on trees planted this way. As
they grow fill the hole gradually. You
will have trees that won't blow down,
and they'll grow faster.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
BRYAN PRAISES
ROOSEVELT.

The following telegram appeared
conspiciously in yesterday mornings
San Francisco Call, and was the sub
iect of considerable comment:
IOWA CITY, Iowa, October A.
William Jennings Bryan has at last
given up the free silver idea, accord
ing to Professor James w. Bradshaw,
of the Commercial College in this city.
Professor Bradshaw met Rryan on a
train on the way from New York to
Lincoln yesterday. The two are old
friends. In conversation on the train
BRYAN said, according to Bradshaw:
"While still believing that free sill
yer would be good thing for oui
country, the nations of the world have
settled down to gold basis TO such an
extent that it would be practically
impossible to substitute anything fol
the gold standard. think free silvel
will be considered at the Nationa
Democratic convention of 1904. More
over believe it will never again b
an issue.
II am out of politics forever. l shal
give all my attention to the law, m,
lectures aud the Commoner hereafter
mo man can say who the mex
Democratic nominee will be.
mo man in the Republican part.
equals Roosevelt in the esteem Of tn
common people; especially In tn
west. None equals Roosevelt in hi
power to command the respect of a
nations and to WELD an influence o
the world at large.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23

Two hundred head Of horses were
shipped east from Eureka county last
week. The animals brought S6 and
$40 head.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
From Walker River.

J. l.. Blackburn, the cattle man,
was al arrival from Walker river and
Mason valley last night. Mr.. Black
burn sold his cattle interests in the
south during August
AT that time range stock in good
condition brought $24 per head. Since
that time the price has dropped until
now they are only bringing $l5 per
head. The latest sale In that country
was by Rogers to Springmeyer for the
above price. There is no pasture lands
in this section, and hay is bringing
between four and one-half and five
dollars ton. j. w. Thompson has
bought two thousand tons for that
price.-Reno. Gazette.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
Become Independent.

A settler who takes up land along
the line of the irrigation canal and
has horses can get employment in
excavating it for himself and teams
and, if thrifty, will have enough
money when the work is completed
to clear his eighty acres of sagebrush,
fence it, in part, and seed 1t to grain,
hay or vegetables, with certainty
that he will always have ample sup
ply of water for irrigation. Report.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
CARSON VALLEY MAN
VISITS THE CANAL
SITE.

H. F. Dangberg of Carson Valley
and one of the largest landowners il
Nevada in company with Dispatch
| reporter visited the camps of E. B. &
A. L. Stone Co., on the site of the big
government canal.
Mr.. Dangberg has many miles Of
irrigating bitches to care for and will
soon construct forty miles more and
wanted to see the modus operandi al
the big plant here. His proposed dit
ches will not be as large as the one
under construction here but the prin-
ciple Is the same.
The Stone company now has two
camps, one at each steam shovel.
They have dug out about 1000 yards OF
canal and have about fifty horses aud
one hundred men at work.
The force and equipments of John
w. Beasley, subcontractor under the
Stone company left for the scene of
their operations yesterday morning
There were about fifty horses and
fifteen mel. There will be another
steam shovel and another crew Of men
added to the Stone outfit in a few
weeks.
The steam shovel digs the ditch at
the required depth but of greater width
and with perpendicular walls. Doubt
less almost the entire length OF the
canal will be "hand trimmed" and
that will require many laborers, the
estimate Is that at times the Stone
Company will have nearly two thou
sand men at work.
Mr.. Dangberg is granted to be one
of the best judges of land in the State.
He examined the soil where the steam
shovels are at work and said it could
not be beat for strength and produc-
tiveness anywhere and would never
wear out.
Robert Graham, the first settler, has
filed on 100 acres of fine land. 1t is
level. He has builta barn aud carp
enters are at work on a commodious
house. .-Wadsworth Dispatch.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO
TUNNEL THROUGH
THE SIERRAS

There are vague rumers, confirma.
ton of which cannot be secured from
the Southern Pacific engineering de.
partment in this city, but which have
been SO often repeated that there is
plausability attached to them. The
rumors are to the effect that the rail-
road company has definitely determin-
ed to bore the Sierras and thus avoid
the heavy grades and snow sheds, as
we'll as decrease the distance over
the mountains number of miles,
says the Journal.
The projected tunnel will be nearly
| five miles in length and will start at
the upper end of Donner lake, emerg-
| ing ut what Is known az Wolf or Bear
creek.
The proposed tunnel will cut out all
the town of Truckee to the western
foothills, although it is probable that
local service will be maintained
over the line abandoned by the
through traffic.
1t is further rumored that work
upon the tunnel will begin early in the
spring, not only at each end, but in
the middle An air shaft is, of course,
indispensable in tunnel Of this length
and this shaft will be sunk and utiliz-
ed as place for hosting rock that
will he quarried from the central por-
ton of the tunnel, progressing each
way toward the end workings.
The engineering department may
continue to be stationed here, although
there is possibility that it will be
transferred to Truckee.
The track at the latter town will be
some distance from where 1t Is at
present but the right of way will not
be departed from until at the mouth
of Donner creek, where the road will
be considerably lower than where it
now crosses the high fill to enter the
snow sheds.
Surveyors have been working over
the line between here and the mouth
Of Donner creek to the effect that
they have secured grade of 52.s feet
to the mile.
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23

The new town Of Hartman, east of
Reno, will have its own peace officers.
There are eighty-four convicts In the
mention -,
The Record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1902-1904, 1903-10-23
STATE
NEWS

The new town Of Hartman, east O
Reno, will have its own peace officers
There are eighty-four convicts In thu
penltentiary.
Senator Newlands Is cutting up the
land back of the heights on his Rene
tract into town lots.
The crop of honey east of the Sierrs
Nevada mountains for this year a
mounted to 20 cars, valued at $3,OOt
each.
Gambling has dropped off to such ar
extent in Reno that it Is rumored Q
number of dealers will be laid off until
business in this line picks up.
Two prisoners dug out of the brick
prison at Belmont the other day, but
were recaptured some fifteen or twenty
miles from Belmont.
The Lake Tahoe Railroad Company
has discontinued the running of its
trains for the season.
A Truckee lady who was handling a
shotgun discovered it was loaded when
IL blew q hole big enough through
the wall to let cat In
Robert Graham, Of Duluth, Mimi,
l. the first man to settle on land near
Wadsworth included In the national
irrigation plan in Nevada.
One John B. Locke, who, under the
name OF Matthews, buncoed confiding
Renoites short time ago, Is now
under $1,000 bonds at Seattle for work.
ing the game there.
Hay is selling at 81 and So a ton In
the stack on the Truckee Meadows
and this will be a record breaking year
for the farmers.
babe" Mayer of Elko defeated
Kenzie who won the amateur cham
pionship at the Chicago Worlds Fair
In footrace at Salt Lake City on the
7th inst.
Sam Longabaugh has employed forty
men at his wood camp during this
season, and before its close will have
humed over 5000 cords to Ophir.
7. A. Henderson emphatically,
denies over his signature, In the Reno
Journal. that he Is engaged to wed Miss
Adelina Raffetto.
A few DAYS ago 1t WAS announced
that some one in Carson City had won
500 on a ten-cent lottery ticket.
II turns out that Henry Fothergill
is the fortunate holder.
The Palace Hotel, at Reno, is being
remodeied and renovated by the new
proprietors, Storer and johnson, and 1t
Is said will be made the Monte Carlo
of Nevada.
The Reno officers who captured
Murphy and Woods are now hopeful
that the reward money will be paid
them on November lst, such intima-
ton coming from the California au-
thorlties.
r1a efra'nla Report thinks that II
fbe Western Pacific transcontinental
road takes ia Reno, Carson and other
Nevada towns, which State exchanges
claim it will, 1t will be constructed on
the lines of corkscrew.
The Board OF Equalization OF Eure'
ka county refused to reduce the as
sessment of 81 per acre on the patented
lands, of railroad company. The
Central Pacific, through Mr.. Nixon,
asked the Board to reduce the assess
ment to so cents an acre.
A few days ago a Tonopah restau
rant man, who owed several bills lef
his place of business to go down towf
TO purchase some beef and during hi
absence creditors entered his establish
ment and carried awsy everything II
sight even to the stove on which par
of the dinner was cooking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
Failure ot Seven-Masters.

The seven masted schooner Thomas w. Lawson, launched in July, 1902, Is an acknowledged failure. She is the largest schooner ever fioated, her measurement being 395 feet length over all, 50 feet beam, 34 feet 5 inches depth, and her draught when loaded 26 feet inches. Her displacement Is 10000 tons. She carries 43,000 feet of canvass, Gld each of her steel masts is 135 feet high with pine topmasts 5S feet long over all. She cost $250,000.
 Three troubles were encountered at the outset There were few harbors she could enter; there were few har- bors that could furnish a full cargo, and she proved to be a ship that could not well be handled in unfavorable weather. lt tooA an hour to put her about in head wind So she is to be dismantled, and the hun is to be trans formed into a plain prosaic barge. Thus limit has been discovered to sailing ships, and perhaps after a while a line will be drawn in steam propelled vessels. The latter are built up to 700 feet in length, and surely profit and convenience will forbid much larger ships. If they do not, har- bors will soon have to be deepened, and piers heightened, and channels widened-everythin in fact will have to be changed except perhaps Old Ocean itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
FOR ANOTHER MODEL VILLAGE.

Ashevilie (N. @ Telegram to the New
 York Sun.
 George W. Vanderbilt is to establish a railway station and build another mod el village" between Hendersonville, N. C., and Brevard. N. C., about thirty miles from Asheville. The work will be- gin soon, and s1.oOO.o0o will be expended in bringing il to the high standard of his other model village at Biltmore If this plan is carried out many acres of forest land will be converted into sites for handsome residences and stores This Is what has been done at Biltmore vil- lage.
 Mir. Vanderbilt owns many acres of tim Der land around the proposed village, and further to the east, toward Mount Pisgah are his great hunting preserves of sO,Ooo acres The Biltmore estate has contracts for the delivery of great quantity of timber products from this region MT. Vanderbilt has expended approximately slO.000,oo0 in Western Carolina, and in Buncombe county he pays taxes on some thing like s1. 200, 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
Fresh Meats Are Scarce.

Fresh meats are rather scarce in Bir- mingham just now" said Jesse W. Brown of the Cudahy Packing company yester- day. "and good steaks are rather difficult to obtain.
 The shortage Is due to the disastrous floods which have come upon Kansas City and other western towns during the past few weeks. Railroad traffic Is badly crippled and 1t is with the greatest diff ficulty we are able to get cars of meat delivered While the railroads are doing everything in their power to relieve the situation their tracks are washed away and they find the task impossible.
 While the supply of fresh meats has been considerably lessened there is no danger of a meat famine in Birmingham as the stores already on hand will be able to partially supply the demand until the situation is relieved.
 "The butchers and wholesale houses have not taken advantage of the situation but are selling meats at the regular price. So far I do not know of a single man who has advanced the price of his meats on account of the short supply"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
Poll Tax and Voters.

Poll taxes to the amount of $145,912 have been paid into ,he state treasury, thus showing that g. l,20l persons hold poll tax receipts. About 25,00O more should be added on account of men over forty-fve years of age and ex- empts of various sorts, making the vot- ing strength of the state about 125,000, all white except about 4000.
 Jefferson paid in as poll tax $16,097, and Montgomery follows with s3604. If Montgomery had paid poll taxes in equal proportion, 1t would have contri- buted about twice as much as 1t did. Russell county contributed in poll taxes but $799, showing that it has but 530 voters under forty-five years of age.
 Jefferson's payment of poll taxes snow that 11.271 persons in the county have paid poll taxes, and the full vot- ing strength of the county must be be- tween 15,0OO and 16,OOO, and if the county's poll tax payments are well maintained it's Z assIDle vote will soon exceed that of any congressional dis trict in the state.
 The average county in the state pays in just about s20OO as poll taxes, thus qualifying 1900 men to vote, and rendering the county's full vote about 1700 Just about as many counties have a smaller vote as have a larger vote, excluding Jefferson from consid- eration. llo only counties whose poll tax payments exceed 5000 are in in order Jefferson, Montgomery, Mobile, henry, Tuscaloosa, Madison, Talla- poosa and Blount. rwenty-six more pay about s2OOO each; thirty more pay etch more than 5000, and two-Wash- ington and Russell-fall under the S1000 class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08

washington. June '. Y Cspeciai) = Ad Wimbs of Greensboro. Ala, contributes the following to the editor of the Wash ington Star:
 In your paper a gentleman has seen fit to designate me as the negro leader. can only say I am not the negro leader. but I have opinions Of my own, and am not afraid to express them. I undertook to show the recent converts to republI- can doctrines and the ingrate white re- not creep democratic doctrines into the republican party in Alabama, thanks to the man in the White House He was very prompt In rebukins the. Lily Whites. and now they are like drowning men, catching at straws. If these men were in earnest about building up the republi- can party the folly of their judgment is to be deplored. Why should they drive out of the party the registered coiored voters and estrange from the party the other men who will under the permanent plan become registered voters7 We'll, their last excuse is that the democratic registration boards only registered negro democrats, and that we were excluded because we were democrats. They are now chasing eolored men as democrats whom they have elected time and again as delegates to the republican national convention. Two of the delegates driven from the convention were delegates to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08

were told as long ago as 1898 that the tariff would be revised by its friends, ]" and now the republican leaders say 1t sLall not be revised until 1905. They do not say It will be revised then.
 There Is but one remedy-turn the Dingleyites out, The robber scheme Is a mutual one. The few are permitted to rob the many provided they will foot the campaign bills, which are very heavy. In other words, 1t is a scheme for supplying campaign funds with in cidental individual and corporate rob berries, all at the expense of the con- sumers. The people cannot be fooled all the time, and if they do not wake up to their duty and thelr own protec- ton in 1904 they should not after wards complain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08

J. s. Kimbrough in the Columbus En-
 qulre-Sun.
 Apropos of the investigation being made by the federal grand jury into the condi- tions heretofore existing at the differ ent convict farms in some of the counties of Alabama, the writer would like to add an experience of his own several years ago in the rescue of two negro boys from Phenix City Ala. who were decoyed away from their homes by an agent of one of these farms, located near the city of Dadeville, in Tallapoosa county.
 According so the statement of the boys. made after their release. they were prom ised about double what their labor was worth by this agent to. work on a farm near Opellka, in Lee county, with the understanding that they would be well treated and given the privilege of re- turning home on the cars to see their folks when they desired to do so. They were put aboard the cars at Knights given whisky to drink, and instead of getting off the train at Opelilka, they were carried on to Camp Hill, in Talla- poosa county, and marched from there to the farm some eight or nine miles distant, arriving at their destination late in the afternoon. Without having been given anything to eat during the day they were turned over to an armed guard, who ordered them to go to work at once.