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Evening journal., 1904-08-08
wnI start Work On Road.

Contractors Stewart and Donahue
who were recently awarded the con-
tract for building the macadam road
between Odessa and Middletown will
start the work tomorrow. They have
ninety days in which to complete it.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08

Judieious advertising consists in
never letting up. As soon as you
stop you make an opening for
some other fellow, who can take
advantage Of the ground you have
titled and reap the harvest. II you
are trying to help your competitors,
stop advertising. " you want to
help yourself, keep on.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
LEVY COURT MEETING
President Chandler Authorized Odessa
Road Contract.

There was a short session Of the Levy
Court this morning. President Chand-
Ter was authorized to sign the contract
for constructing the Odessa road which
has been awarded to Stewart and Dom
ahue.
David Ecoff was before the court and
asked that the county build a retaining
wall IN front Of his property at Mar
shallton which faces the new Elsmere
road.
He claims his property has been dam
aged by the construction of the wall.
No action WAS taken.
when court adiourrfo this afternoon It
win be until September
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
MRS, NATION DEPOSITED $500
Saloon smasher Said to Have Cleared
s4oo in Delaware.

While i'm Newark last Friday Mrs.
Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon
smasher, is said to have deposited $500
In the bank there II is not thought.
however, that Mrs. Nation made that
much money at Whiteman's Grove. II
is estimated that she cleared probably
$50 at the grove and about $3.50 during
her stay in this city.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
Excursion From Gloueester.

The Wilmington Steamboat Company
this morning brought an excursion
from Gloucester 10 this city. The vis-
itors went to Brandywine Springs,
where they are spending the day.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
LOST, FOUND AND REWARD.

LOST-Hand-painted shirtwaist button
on Market street. between Fourth and
Ninth. Finder viii kinHly return to the
Evening Journal office
Evening journal., 1904-08-08

utes to an hour late when the wreck was
cleared away. The cause of the accident
has not yet been determined
Evening journal., 1904-08-08

The ship that Is too reckless may end
in being complete wreck.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08

titth district ...-.-'.-...'..-.. ... 80 ... 20
Second district ...... 81
Third district, "a
Fourth district .... ..... e.. ....... ..- 4e
Fifth district ..... ..... IS
Sixth district ..-.. ..... ....-... %
Seventh district ...... ..... 80
Eighth district. ..... ..... ............. 40
Ninth district ...... s.
Tenth district &c. ......... .'. ..... IS
-
Total, ......... ........ 475
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THIRD WARD.
FOURTH WARD.

First district ..... '-. ..,.... 2
Second district ..-...... ..... .., 80. IA
Third district ...... .... u
Fourth district ..................... y
Fifth district ............ ..... 6
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
MANY QUALIFY
FOR THE BALLOT
Total Registration Exceeded
That Of Two Years Ago
by Four Hundred
IN WILMINGTON 2,2S7 REGISTERED

An unusually large number OF voters
qualified on Saturday, which was the
first registration day for the coming cleo
tion. The total number registered was
22a7 compared with 1881 on the first day
two years ago.
The registering was especially large In
Republican wards. which shows that
many voters wanted to qualify so they
could vote at the primary election for
delegates to the State convention to-day.
The largest number registered in one
ward was the Seventh, where 1875 were
quallhed. In the Fifth ward i75 register
ed. The registration by wards follows:
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SIXTH WARD.

First district. ... ...... 81
Second district. ..........- 10
Third district sees. "A
Fourth district ....... ..... ...... y
Fif.h district ...... '.... e.. %
Sixth district .... ..... go ..'..... %
Seventh district ... ... .
rrotsi ... 1872
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
THE WEATHER

Tomorrow; Partly cloudy and
cooler, local rains. Wednes-
day, fair and moderate tens
perature.
Evening journal., 1904-08-08

First district ..........,............. %
Second ........... ...-...... ............... 10
Third ..... -.. 90. %. .......- '.. .''... A
Totai, .....-.... .........,.... ......... Al
SECOND WARD
First district ....- .........- .-.... ..... >
Second District .-.- ...... ...... 3
Third District .-.... ......-... 6
Fourth district, .-.... .....,-. -...-...... IL
Fifth district .............. ... e.. ...... 10
Sixth district ...... -..-.... -....... IL
Seventh district ..........., ......-. q. Is
Total,......... ....... ..... ............... 80
Evening journal., 1904-08-08
FIFTH WARD.

Total, o.. ..... &C.. ... ........ ...
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

New York. Dec. 2O-Through the
generosity of it's treasurer S. r. Gug-
genheim, the Public School Athletic
League has been enabled to provide
one Of the new sub-target machine for
the use of the High School boys of
Greater New York. This has been ur-
gently advocated by Gen. George w.
Wingate, president of the league, whose
connection with rife practice is well
known.
The gun machine is an apparatus
which registers the accuracy OF aim
of a gun as II is held I'm the hands OF
a soldier. The soldier takes the gun
and aims II at a much reduccf trr~~t
which represents the size OF the tar
get at 600 yards. To the gun Is attach
ed a series OF levers which, while not
interfering with complete command
Of the gun, move a pointer over a sub
target showing the exact point that "a
projectile would strike the distant tar
get, If fired from the gun at the ti.ne.
BY the movements Of the pointer over
the sub-target the instructor can see
whether the soldier is holding high or
low or too far to the right or left,
and correct any error. When the trig-
ger Is pulled an automobile electrical
device registers upon the sub-target
the exact point OF the hit"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

she met others. who were returning
from church.
When the other church attendants
reached the scene Lucian Lucas was
lying across the track. His brother
was a foot beyond him, lying against
the bank. In his hand was a revolt
yer. and two of its chambers were
empty, indicating that when the as
sassins began shooting he pulled his
gun and returned the fire.
Adkins was twenty yards from Ira
Lucas, and he was the only one who
manifested signs of life. He did not
for a moment regain consciousness
and the physicians say he never will.
He had no revolver. A search of Lu-
clan Lucas body revealed that he had
pistol. but every chamber was full.
Miss Williams is a nervous wreck
in consequence of the awful exper-
fence
Inside of an hour nearly $50 armed
men gathered at the farm house where
the three bodies lay and started out
to run down the assassins. 1t is known
that two other young men living near
Midkiff are desperately in love with
Miss Williams.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
YOUNG MEN WERE SHOT DEAD
WHILE ESCORTING A YOUNG WOMAN
Desperate Work Done After a Church Service
in West VIRGINIA

Huntington, w. Va, Dec. 25-Two men
are dead and a third is dying from
bullets fired in the darkness tonight
while they were going home from
church in Midkiff, Lincoln county.
twenty-five miles from here, with a
young woman. The dead:
Lucian Lucas, aged o.
Ira Lucas, brother aged 20.
The dying:
Octave Adkins, aged 10.
The Lucas brothers and young Ad-
kins at the close of the service started
home along the railroad track With
them was Miss Mabel Williams. who
lives near the Lucases. They were
passing through cut flanked by dense
woods, when they became targets for
a rain of bullets.
Lucian Lucas, whose arm Miss VIII
liams was holding, fell dead at her
side. Ira Lucas dropped, mortally
wounded, and died in a few minutes.
Adkins received two bullets, one en-
tering his breast and the other his
right shoulder
Miss Williams was unframed. Left
standing alone with two dead men and
one dying at her feet, she turned and
rushed down the railroad tracks until
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

! it was thought that tracts of forty
acres, or a quarter of a quarter sec
ton, was as small a division as could
be reasonably made the subject of per
sonal inspection. This acreage was
adopted as the unit i'm determining the
grade and value of land; but even this
required the locating. inspecting class
flying and valuing of nearly 100000
tracts of land.
las for safeguarding the occupancy
and improvement rights of the people,
their houses. barns. fences and other
improvements had to be located by
actual surveys and with minute accu-
racy Perhaps hardly a man in the
territory knew the sectional divisions
OF his farm or the sectional line of
single one of his improvements, and
hence there was no source of accurate
information respecting these matters
except the surveys and location of inn
proVements made by the commission"
The report adds: 1--WE have been
daily witnesses of the distress of the
people caused by delay. not only of the
approximately 10000 citizens of the
tribes, but also of the estimated 600,-
600 other residents of the territory
whose legitimate interests suffer from
an unsettled state of affairs. 1t will be
seven years consumed in this work If
1t is completed, as we expect, by July
l, 1905; and the administration of these
communal estates, amounting to nearly
2O,O0O,000 acres of land, and to perhaps
hundreds of millions of dollars in act
ual values. will then have consumed
that amount of time and have cost less
than 10 cents per acre We trust that
a consideration of the facts here stated
will lead to the conclusion that, under
the circumstances, the time consumed
has not been unreasonable or the cost
unduly great"
Speaking of the difficulties connected
with the allotment work. the commits
sioners say that Spectators not over
scrupulous in their business methods
have attempted in every way to influ-
ence the work with a view to personal
gain"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

OF fire at midnight and tramped ten
miles to see the finish Of a great re-
gatta. But something was about to
take place which seemed entirely be-
yond his attainment. Two hours
passed before he solved the problem.
"Takin' the rest cure. kid?" asked a
passing sailor as he SHE'D a stick at
Sandy's shins.
Sandy stretched himself and smiled
up at the sailor. 10 was 2 smile that
waited for an answer and usually got
TIA smile 80 trimming over with good
fellowship and confidence that II made
a lover Of friend and a friend OF an
enemy
ITS a trip THAT I'm thinkin OF taxi
In" he cried blithely az he jumped
10 HIS feet Here's the shillin' / owe
you, partner, and may the best luck
we've had be the worst luck that's
comm"
RE tossed the coin 70 the sailor. AMI
thrustiHg his hands IN his pockets. ex-
ecutcd n brief but brilliant pas aeul,
ana then went whistling away down
the wharf he swung around right
cheeriiy. bis rags nuftcrinR hts chin
in the ar, for the wind had settled
iu one directions, and the weather
yane end Sandy bad both made %
their minds.
The sailor booked after him f0naiy
Hes q bi00miu good llffle chap" he
raid ~ q man near w.. Carries = clyn
tongue al his hea9 Tor everybody"
Ihe man Frunfod. "ifr'a 100 ~ and
on 1e SAID. 'hen never come ~
uuurff"
THo day. Later. fhe Amfrlrf, cutting
hrf Way affarf the tfIanfIc. rafried
one none nHsarUNff fIsu fh0 FffIae
tered W. flf " Itf1oof eNnnr aaofe
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

a silent Scotchman who, instinct told
him, must have been his father. and
the other--oh, tricky memory that fall
tered when he wanted IL 10 be so clear!
was the maddest, merriest little
mother that ever came back 10 haunt
a lad. BY holding tight to the MEM
DRY he could see that her eyes were
blue like his own. but her hair was
black. He could hear the ring OF her
laugh as she told him Irish stories, and
the soft drone OF her voice as she sang
him old Irish songs. II was she who
told him about the fairies and witches
that lived uD behind the peat flames.
He remembered holding her hand and
putting his cheek against Il when the
goblins came too near. Then the pic
ture would 90 out. like a picture In a
magic lantern show, and sometimes
Sandy could make II come back. and
sometimes he could not.
After that came succession Of
memories. but none Of them held the
silent father and the merry mother
and the little white house on the
heath. They were Of new faces and
new places, ~ temporary homes with
relatives in Ireland and Scotland. u
various schools and unccafiuK work.
Then came the day. two years aeo.
when, Foadcd BY some Injustice. real
Or imagined. b. lad run aWay ~
England and struck ouf alone and
empty -handod A. care f0f himself IA
had been rough experience. nud
there were days that b. was glad A.
forget boz through n aN fhf faafo ~
freedom fH1 Dffu NNfrf ID 30 mouth
Fof Three Nffkn he hnl been hang.
lue about fhe 9cnkr picking up 5pba
bore enc fheff. accommodating ary
ono who wanted ~ be accommodated
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
IMMIGRANTS MET
THE AMERICAN SANTA.
Christmas Trees and Good Cheer Mt
Ellis Island.


New York, Dec. 25.-New York city
was treated to a Christmas snow
storm, accompanied by a high wind
and, a decided drop in temperature. BY
10 O'Clock tonight the wind was blow
ing thirty miles an hour. At that time
between four and five inches of snow
had fallen, which brought the record
for the month UP to twenty-nine
inches, the heaviest snowfall for De,
cember recorded here in many years.
In spite of the storm there was no
lack of interest in the celebration of
Christmas throughout the city, al
though the festivities were toned
down by Sabbath solemnity and in
some places were held in allegiance I'M
til tomorrow.
churches were well. attended and re-
llglous services were held in nearly all
the philanthropic and charitable insti-
tut1ons and at the Police Court prisons.
On Ellis Island 1000 aliens of many
nationalltes were introduced to the
American Santa Claus Later in the
day, when the number had swelled to
NV bAASS NNAC 6lNSil d C0IlSlfldS Qll-
ner, with all the good things appropri-
ate to the occasion.
Owing to the late arrival of the Sat
urday ships, an unusually large num-
Der of immigrants We're obliged to re-
main at Ellis Island over Saturday
night and to spend their Christmas
morning there. The first surprise came
at breakfast. On the long tables were
large number of little four-foot-high
Christmas trees. All the children re-
ceived toys and candy and the women
fruit and candy and the men pipes and
tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, etc.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
MRS. CHADWICK HAD
A PEN CHANT FOR FURS.

New York, Dec. ga Cleveland, O.,
dispatch to The World says:
Receiver Nathan Loeser was notified
early this morning that an express
company had received the trunk from
New York City addressed to Emil
Hoover, and on which was the name
Chadwick" The trunk was taken to
the residence of d. L. Pine, in Glen
vile, where young Hoover is making
his home
The receiver Immediately took steps
to obtain possession of the trunk. Late
tonight he refused to say what was in
it, but it is supposed to be the trunk
which was spirited away from Mrs.
Chadwick's apartments in the Holland
House in New York.
All that Mr.. Loeser would say was:
I'VE are locating considerable prop
erty belonging to Mrs. Chadwick. AS
to the stuff which disappeared in New
York.. we have traced it and will Sc
cure possession of it Immediately. This
baggage contains very valuable MOLE
skin suit and some jewelry, in addition
to other property, which had been
pledged in New York, and we will
have possession of it also in a short
time. Mrs. Chadwick has many furs
stored about Cleveland and these are
being turned over to us.
I'VE made a hurried examination of
the contents of the Chadwick house to-
day, and there seems to be any amount
of furs there. We found a sealskin
suit, beautiful sable coat, boa and
mum of very great value, a suit of baby
lamb, chinchillas and hats of furs.
should say that there were a hundred
boxes of hats. many of them of fur,
TO match suits, and all of them bearing
the label of Nine. Louise, the New York
milliner who has a cla'a against Mrs.
Chadwick. This indicates in part how
the woman spent her money"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
THREE KILLED WHEN
ICE YACHTS CRASHED.
They Were Going Mt Speed of 80
Miles an Hour.

They Were Going Mt Speed of 80
Miles an Hour.
Syracuse, N. Y, Dec. 25.-Three men
were killed and three more seriously
hurt in crash of two ice boats speed
ing before a gale of wind at the rate
of fifty miles an hour on Onondaga
lake this afternoon:
The dead are:
james Jackson.
Charles Markham.
George Todd. all of this city.
The injured are:
Fred Warner.
Otto Schilling.
John Sessler.
The accident occurred after the first
Of the seasons regattas of the Onon-
daga Lake Ice Yacht Club. which at
tracted fully 1900 persons to the lake.
over it's CLASSY surface a fierce gale
drove the fleet of ice yachts at ex-
press train speed. Toward the close
with Fred Warner at the tiller, bore
up the lake with the wind abaft the
Blitz, with Caleb Joss steering, ap-
preaching in the opposite direction.
Each craft carried five persons.
AS the yachts neared each other,
and it was seen a collision would re-
suit should each hold its course. each
turned to avoid It, There was a blund-
er, the responsibility for which will
be investigated later, as each skipper
veered in the same direction then veer-
ed i'm the opposite direction.
The crash came In an instant, the
yachts blowing into each other head
on with such force that a second later
they laid upon the ice i'm a tangle of
splinters, broken cordage and insen-
sible bodies.
Jackson and Markham were struck
on the head, Todd's skull was fractur-
ed in two places. and Sessler's leg and
four ribs were broken. Two others
were more or less hurt and the other
four on the boats were seriously shak-
en- up.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
DAWES COMMISSION ON
ITS WORK AMONG INDIANS
Explains the Long Tim, Consumed and the Great
Expense Involved

Washington, Dec. 25.-The annual re-
port of the Dawes Commission on its
work for the five civilized tribes of In
dams in Indian Territory, which was
made public to-day. is a general re-
view of the partition and allotment of
the lands of those Indians during the
past six years.
THE time consumed in the change
from the old system to the new" the
commission says, has been a most irk-
some period to the people of Indian
Territory, and the commission is not
unmindful of the fact that to many
candid observers the execution of the
task has seemed to be both tedious
and expensive"
While admitting that criticism was to
be expected, the report goes on to say
that it is not just and TO show that
the time has been we'll occupied in Sc
curing correct roll of the people in
obtaining a correct inventory of their
property and in locating improvements.
OF the difficulties of these various d.
visions of the work they say:
Every adult or head of "A family in
the total of more than 200 900 citizens
and claimants was personally exam
med and his previous tribal record was
looked up. OF this number, and in this
way, more than 10000 have been ex-
amined since June g. 1898. The pro-
ceedings were all taken down. especial
ly as every case could be carried to
Washington on appeal. and often the
record of single case was hundreds
of pages in extent. OF the above num-
Der of people, approximately 10000 will
be finally adjudged to lawfully pos
sess tribal membership and property
rights; and it can easily be seen how
less careful course of procedure would
have utterly dissipated the properties
of the tribes.
"As to the appraisement of the land,
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
BRITISH ARE SORE
ON GUATEMALA.

Mexico City, Dec. 25.-The news from
Guatemala shows that there. is much
feeling on the part of the British resi-
dents regarding the non-payment of
the debt due to British bondholders
and it is understood that the British
legation will be removed from Guate-
mala City to either Nicaragua or Sal
vador. There seems to be no prospect
of the Guatemalan government COM
plying with the obligations to foreign
creditors. The best people in Guate-
mala deplore the attitude of the gov
eminent and its disregard of its OBJ
legations
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
THE MAKING OF
A ST0WAWAY.
How Young sandy KiIday started on
His First Voyage of Discovery.

How Young sandy kildRy started on
His First Voyage of Discovery.
From Alice Hogan Rice's SANDY" In
the Century.
An English mist was rolling lazily
inland from the sea. 1t half envel-
oped the two great ocean liners that
lay Juggling at their moorings in the
bay, and settled over the wharf with
Crime determination to check, as
far as possible, the traffic of the morn
ing.
But the activity Of the wharf. while
impeded, was in no wise stopped. The
hustle, rattle and shouting were, in
fact, augmented by the temporary in
reference. Everybody seemed in a
hurry, and everybody seemed out of
temper, save a boy who lay at full
length on the quay and earnestly
studied a weather Vane that was lazi-
ly trying to make up Its mind which
way to point.
He was ragged and brawny and pic
turesque His hands, bronzed by the
tan of sixteen summers, We're clasped
under his head, and his legs We're
crossed, one soleless shoe on high
Wanting its nakedness in the face of
an indifferent world. A sailors
blouse, two sizes too large, was held
together at the neck by a bit of red
cambria, and his trousers were anchor
ed to their mooring by a heavy piece
of yellow Irvine. The Incidence of his
position, however, was not indicative
of the state of his mind; for under his
weather-beaten old cap. perched side
wise on a tousled head was a COM
motion of dreams and schemes, ambi-
lions and plans whose activities
would have put to shame the busiest
wharf in the world.
It's up to ye, Sandy Kildayl" he
said, half aloud, with bit of a brogue
that favored his speech as the salt
havors the sea air. You don't want
to be a boomin old weather vane, a
changin' your mind every time the
wind blows. Is 1t go or stay?"
The answer. instead of coming, got
sidetracked by the train of thought
that descended upon him when he
was actually face to face with his de-
cision. All sorts of memories came
rushing pell-mell through his brain.
The cold and hungry ones were tho
most insistent. but he brushed them
aside.
The one he chung to longest was the
earliest and most shadowy of the lot
1t was of a little white house on an
Irish heath, and inside was the biggest
fireplace in the world where crimson
flames went roaring up the big, dark
chimney, and where witches and
fairies held high carnival There was
big chair on each side the hearth
and between them a tiny red rocker
with flowers painted on the arms of It.
| That was the clearest of all. There
were persons in the large chairs. one
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

Bishop NeeIy's Farewell.

Philadelphia, Dec. 25.-Bishop T. B.
Nicely, who was elected bishop at
the last general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and as
signed by the board of bishops to
South America, delivered his farewell
sermon at Union Methodist Episcopal
Church here tonight, and will sail for
South America this week En- route to
Buenos Ayres he will make an eight
day stay at Panama, where he hopes
to found a mission.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26

making many friends and little mon
ey. He had had no thought of embark
ing until the big English liner Great
Britain arrived in port after breaking
all records on her homeward passage.
She was to start on her second trip
to-day, and an hour later her rival.
the steamship America. was to take
her departure. The relative merits Of
the two vessels had been the talk of
the wharf for days.
Sandy had made It a rule in life to
be on hand when anything was hap
penng. He had viewed cricket matches
from treetops, had answered the call
The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-26
SMOKE CUT OFF
THE LIVES OF TWO.

New York, Dec 26.-Two women lost
their lives and two other persons were
overcome by smoke in a fire in Allen
street early to-day. The dead:
Mrs. Fountain, 50 years old.
Miss S. Kelly, 40 years old.
In a hospital In a serious condition
are owen McGrath and his wife, who
were overcome by smoke and were
taken out of the building unconscious
by the firemen. The fire followed a
Christmas celebration and was caused
by the overturning OF a lamp.