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The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16
HILLS BLUFF AND BlUSTER.

Councilman Hill is not success even as
"peddler of hot air. On Monday night
at the meeting of the city council he in
dulged in a lot of self glorifcation, incident
ally dropping little incense on Bard and
Calvin. The talk was the merest rot, calcu-
lated to deceive no one except perhaps Hills
two conferees. The city is practically bank
rupt, and Councilman Hill cannot by bluff
and buster alter the fact. The present city
council has made "ducks and brakes of the
funds confided to it's care, and the people
know it.
The term of Office of this council has been
characterized by reckless expenditures and
wanton waste of city funds. The city has
nothing to show for the money expended
save a salary list. Councilman Hill was
quite careful not to make detailed state
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the
present city council.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16
A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

The death of the dowager Empress of
China, chronicled in these columns recent
ly, may bring important, perhaps momen-
tous results to the people of the Celestial
Empire. For many years the old empress
ruled China with an iron hand. She was
an exclusonist of the eXclusOnists; she
hated with bitter intensity everything that
smacked of western progress. She was an
Ephraimte that was to the last welded to
what we are pleased to call the ugly idols of
centuries of bigOtry and fanaticsm. To the
influence which this woman exerted was due
without doubt the Boxer uprising and the
horrible maSSacreS which followed. She
would with tiendish pleasure have impaled
every ''foreign devil without regard to
age or sex in her vast dOminons, could she
have safely done so.
The emperor of China, her nephew, was
as clay in her hands; she has been the domi-
mating influence that for years has kept the
Chinese comparatively in leash. Her death
may mean the emancipation of China. The
rightful Emperor of China was deposed
nearly thirty years ago, and the present
reigning Emperor, then a child of three
years succeeded him. The deposed potent
ate belonged to the Chinese Reform party,
and his undoing was due, it. is alleged, to
the machavellian craft of the late female
head of the great empire.
The deposed emperor has been an exile
for years, but the Reform party has lived
through all extremities. 1t may be now that
they will again gather sufficient force and
strength to completely change the existing
order of things.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16
PHIL IPPlNE TRADE UNDER The FLAG.

A bill has been introduced in the Senate
by Senator Frye of Maine to regulate com
merce between the United States and the
Philippines and in the archipelago itself,
which prohibits the carrying of any mer-
chandise or the transportation of passeng-
ers in foreign bottoms after July |, 1904, on
penalty of forfeiture. While it will ostens:
bly, bring the domestic and oversee COM
merce with the mainland exclusively under
the American flag, in accordance with the
coastwise navigation laws it will fail to ex-
tend the latter to the islands in their entir-
ETY. as it should do. 1t is, of course, spec
ial bill applicable to special condition,
which has been produced by treating our
transpacitic possessions as if they cOnst-
tuted foreign domain.
The trouble is doubtless due to the nsis-
tence of Congress to maintain tariff against
the admission of the products of the islands
into mainland territory, inasmuch as an ex-
tension of the cOaStwiSe navigation laws in
their entirety to the shores of the archipel-
ago would release all American vessels en-
gagged in transpacifc Philippine commerce
from custom-h house jurisdiction. The bill
creates, therefore, a fresh anomaly. 1t re-
cognizes the fact that for the purposes of
carrying commerce between the islands and
the mainland and throughout the archipel-
ago the Philippines are domestic territory;
but, respecting the commercial products
carried, the group must still be treated as
foreign soil and the American shipping en-
ga ped in the oversee trade mnSt Suhmit tn
the custom house regulations affecting for
eign bottoms. The Philippines and Guam
are now the only non-contiguous territory of
the United States to which the coastwise
navigation laws have not been extended, for
they are in full force and effect in Alaska,
Hawaii and Porto Rico. The bill is, at BEST
only halfway measure, specially contrived
to preserve condition which is as unwise
and unnatural as it is exceptional
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

The Juneau Dispatch publishes list of
probable candidates available for guberna-
torial honors upon the exit of Gov. Brady
from Office next June: "Wm M. Elmer, John
Tisdale and Thos. S. NOVEL; are all popular
men in this district and would prove good
material. Among the present federal ofici-
ais, U. S. Marshal Jas. M. Shoup, of this
division and Judge Wickersham of the third
division are mentioned. Collector d. H.
Jarvis would make good executive. 1t is
reported that that stalwart young republi-
can leader Thomas Marquam, of Haines, is
being urged by his many friends to enter
the race. He would receive a strong en-
dorsement Are there any more at home
like these?-Ketchikan Journal
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16
THE SALIENT POINTS ARE FEW.

The salient points of the report of the
Senate committee on territories, the result
of the visit to Alaska, last summer, of the
subcommittee, consisting of Senators Dill
bingham, Nelson, Burnham and Patterson,
are briefly enumerated The report points
out the lack of transportation facilities in
Alaska, and the consequent lack of develop
ment, and strong contrast is drawn be-
tween the development of the Canadian Yu-
kon through government built roads and the
miserable paths, called by courtesy, trails,
in Alaska Another important point touched
upon deals with recommended change in
the mining laws, as follows:
THAT there be required certain amount Of as
sessment work on each mining claim staked out as a
prerequisite to the right to have claim recorded
person be allowed to stake out locate, hold
except by purchase more than one mining claim on
the same creek.
A further recommendation of the COM
mittee is that a fourth judicial district be
created for the reason that con account of
the great size of the present three judicial
districts and the poor transportation facili
ties it is impossible, in some sections, to get
justice at all
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16
TOTEM POLES VS.. LIGHTNING RODS.

Down in Southeastern Alaska the Repub.
lican brethren are in danger of being "all
torn to pieces" over scramble for the gov
ernorship. Gov. Brady's term expires next
June, and at least a sextette of "prominent
politicians have their lightning rods up
But we venture the opinion that Gov. Brady's
totem poles will more quickly attract the
lightning. And the governor has large
and varied assortment of these relics of a
bygone day in Alaska. But they are mighty
to conjure with, covered with moss and tun-
neled by ten thousand ants. But the totem
pole and the moss are towers of strength
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

to Gov. Brady. A photograph of a moss
covered totem pole with a Hydah house at
tachment will appeal to the SNUG, good men
of the East, where the missionary influence
apparently, is still strong enough for men
like Gov. Brady Sheldon Jackson and a
few other antiquated and moss grown, but
somewhat animated totem poles, to still re-
tain tremendous necessary grip on the
powers that be. This is why the totem
poles of Southeastern Alaska will, with
their ugly, villainous faces and grotesque
forms, continue to look down on the rotund
form of the missionary governor for another
four years, if the governor desires to con-
tinue in Office. And he does The mis-
sionary instinct is strong upon him. 1t
has been developing for nigh on to thirty
years. The totem pole will continue to
wave while the lightning rods will be laid
low in the dust of defeat and disappoint-
ment.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

The NOME NUGGET hereby circulation doubl
combined circulation of all other published
in Northwestern Alaska Advertising contracts
will be made subject to this guarantee.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

The property owners on Front street
west have been again compelled to "dig
down in their pockets and pay for the re-
moval of snow on the street. Great is
Economy, Retrenchment and Reform" as
illustrated by such eminent Reformers and
Economists as Councilman Hill ct al
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

Mr. Lampe proposes to give benefit for
the Nome News. It may need it, notwith-
standing it's many small CRAFTS, which, how
ever, seem to have been overworked.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

By the way, what about the actual cost
of that city hall ? The lot, all of which the
city does not own, we know cost $780,
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

Municipal politics, while quiet, as yet,
promises to become interesting before the
day of election.
The Nome nugget., 1904-03-16

If you wish to register for the municipal
election you must do so before April l.,
next
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
Mrs. Botkin Guilty.

The jury in the Botkin case,
which was tried in San Francisco
on Friday last returned verdict
of guilty of murder in the first
degree and fixed the penalty at
Imprisonment for life.
In view of the notice given by
Attorney Knight that an appeal
would be taken from the conviction
of Mrs. Botkin, District Attorney
Byington notified the witnesses for
the prosecution whos came from
Dover, Del, to remain III San Fran.
cisco temporarily.
On Saturday Joshua Deane, of
Dover, DEL, swore to complaint
charging Mrs. Botkin with the
murder Of his wife, Ida Henrietta
Deane, by means of the same poi
soned candy that caused the death
of her sister, Mrs. John P. Dun.
ming, and warrant for Mrs. Bot
kin on this new charge of murder
was served on her in Jail. The evil
dence in both cases being virtually
the same, this action will permit
the deposition of the Delaware
witnesses to be taken while they
are in the jurisdiction of the court.
tt is estimated that the cost to
the State Of California of the prose
cution of Mrs. Botkin thus far
amounts to about $50, 000.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was charg.
ed with having murdered Mrs.
John p. Dunning and Mrs. Deane,
both of Dover, Del, daughters of
former Congressman Pennington,
five years ago by sending them a
box of poisoned candy. The cause
alleged was her infatuation for Mr..
Dunning.
Over five years ago Mrs, Botkin
was arrested at San francisco,
where she has been kept in custody
ever since, Notwithstanding at
tempts of the Delaware authorities
to have her taken to that State for
trial. In 1898 she was found guilty
and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
She secured new trial, which be.
gan on March 10. The State OF
California had to appropriate over
So, 900 to carry the necessary wit
nesses from Delaware to California,
but, after considerable trouble,
succeeded in securing all the most
important witnesses now alive.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15

willing to give all other religious organ
izations similar privileges, of course
Petty, late District auditor, who let a
clerk get away with seventy-fve thous-
and dollars, has been reappointed to
office, in the District building Govern
ment clerks are up in arms because they
are ordered to work seven honrs every
day. declaring it is too much for mortal
flesh and blood-It is denied that dis
patches were sent to the court of inquiry
suggesting the withdrawing of Captain
Cowles, the Presidents brother in-law,
for running the battleship Missouri into
the Illinois. Burton has returned
to this city and therelis strong senti-
ment in the Senate favoring his expul-
General Payne has
gone to Old Point Comfort to recuperate.
Secretary Moody AYERS that President
Roosevelt has always paid the entire ex-
penses Of government yachts used by
himself and family. Checks to the order
of Uncle Sam?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
Best Cough Medicine For Children.

When you buy cough medicine for
small children you want one in which
you can place implicit confidence. You
want one that not only relieves but cures.
You want one that is unquestionably
harmless You want one that is pleasant
to take. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
meets all of these conditions. There is
nothing SO good for the coughs and colds
incident to childhood. 1t is also GER
tain preventive and cure for Group, and
there is no danger whatever from whoop-
ing cough when it is given. 1t has been
used in many epidemics of that disease
with perfect success. For sale by Eli T.
Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
A Great Sensation.

There was a big sensation in
Leesville, Ind, when w. 81. Brown,
of that place, who was expected
to die, had his life saved by DR..
Kings New Discovery for Con,
sumption. He writes: 81 endured
insuferable agonies from Asthma,
but your New Discovery gave me
immediate relief and soon there
after effected a complete cure.''
Similar cures of Consumption,
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip
are numerous. It's the peerless
remedy for all throat and lung
troubles. Price SOC, and $1.00.
Guaranteed by Eli T. Reynolds,
druggist. Trial bottles free.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
WAYS TO ADVERTISE.
rhe wise Man May Easily See which
Is the Best Method.

Is the Best Method.
II you have goods to sell, advertise.
Hire man with lampblack kettle
and brush to paint your name and
number on all the railroad fences. The
cars go whizzing by SO fast that no
one can read them, to be sure, but
perhaps the obliging conductor would
stop the train to accommodate an in
quisitiye passenger.
Have your card in the hotel register
by all means. Strangers stopping at
hotels for night generally buy cigar
or two before they leave town, and
they need some inspiriting literary food
besides.
If an advertising agent wants your
business advertised in fancy frame
at the depot, pay him about 200 per
cent more than it is worth and let
him put it there. When man has
three-quarters of a second in which to
catch train he invariably stops to
read depot advertisements, and your
card might take his eye.
or course the street thermometer
dodge is excellent. When mans fin
gers and ears are freezing or he is puff
mo and s.nbew;np,, at the heat ia the
time above all others when he reads
on advertisement
Have thnusands Of little dodgers
nrinted ami hire q few bovs to dis
tribnta them You've NO idea how the
innk dealet and Manor and rag man
will rosnoct Won
a how With q bio n,acard IN a mole
Ia nm interesting object On the street
and lends q dienified air to vour estab-
nsbman+ ;1iro about +wo
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15

Several Republican Senators from the
West have made combined assault upon
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, on
the ground that he is ignorant of the
duties of his Office and not fit to be in the
Cabinet. After boys inadequate school
ing he became clerk and merchant in
St. Louis and Senator Hansborough says
''the Secretary of the Interior should be
lawyer and have, practical experience
concerning public lands" and declares
that Mr.. Hitchcock is inefficient and abso-
solutely without the knowledge that be
needs. Senators Clarke of Wyoming and
McCumber of North Dakota approved
the criticism; Senator Hoar contrasted
him with the able Secretary Chandler;
and Senator Spooner eulogized Secretary
Bliss by contrast as "a man who had
common sense"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
Robbed The Grave.

A startling incident, is narrated
by John Oliver of Philadelphia,
as follows: II was in an awful con-
dition. My skin was almost yell
low, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and sides,
no appetite, growing weaker day
by day. Three physicians had
given me up. Then l was advised
to use Electric Bitters; to my great
joy, the first bottle made a decided
improvement. continued their
use for three weeks, and am now a
well man. l know they rob.
bed the grave of another vic
tim" No one should fail to try
them. Only 80 cents, guaranteed,
at Eli T. Reynolds drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
A Thoughtful Man.

M. M. Austin, Of Winchester,
Ind, knew what to do in the hour
of need. His wife had such an un-
usual case of stomach and liver
trouble, physicians could not help
her. He thought of and tried DR..
Kings New Life Pills and she got
relief at once and was finally cured.
Only 25c, at Eli T. Reynolds drug
store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
SOFT COPE

Like the running brook, the
red blood that flows through
the veins has to come from
somewhere.
The springs of red blood are
found in the soft core of the
bones called the marrow and
some say red blood also comes
from the spleen. Healthy bone
marrow ard healthy spleen
are full of fat.
SCOTS Emulsion makes new
blood by feeding the bone
marrow and the spleen with
the richest of all fats, the pure
cod liver oil.
For pale school girls and
invalids and for all whose
blood is thin and pale, SCOTS
Emulsion is a pleasant and rich
blood food. 1t not only feeds
the blood-making organs but
gives them strength to do
their proper work.
Send for free sample
SCOTT BOVINE. Chemists.
soc. and 81 90 !; all druggists.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
Sciatic Rheumatism Cured.

IT have been subject to sciatic rheuu,a-
tism for years" says E. H. Waldron, of
Wilton junction, Iowa. my joints were
stiff and gave me much pain and discom-
fort. Ny joints would crack when
Strengthened up. / used Chamberlain's
Pain Balm and have been thoroughly
cured. Have not had pain or ache
from the old trouble for many months.
1t is certainly most wonderful lini-
ment." For sale by Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15
MARRIAGE Licenses.

Charles Lex Reed and Nellie
Walmsley Beaston, both of Chesa-
peake City.
Lewis Baldwin and Margaret
Gillandi, both of Port Deposit.
Walter Francis Michigan and
Emily Ann Richie, both OF Pilot.
Colored-Frank Daniels, OF
Philadelphia, and Dolly Frisby, of
Elkton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-04-15

Brevities Congress is all a-flutter in
expectation of McCall's report concern
ing corruptionists.-The case of Turner
ordered deported as an anarchist has not
yet been decided by the Supreme Court
Secretary TAFT has placed the Y. M. c. A.
in charge of the military posts and is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08
Ca ToEIA.
Bears the 1hs'Kind You Have Always Bought
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MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York. March There was a short
lived squirt of activity in the stock mar
ket. this morning. and some appearance
of nervousness owing to the general con-
v1cticn that the supreme court would
hand down its decision. today, in the
Northern Securities case This supposi-
ton extended as far as London and af-
fected Americans there before our open-
ing Apparently the expectation was mod
flied before the supreme court assembled
and the early declines were pretty gener-
ally recovered. When II was definitely
announced that the decision would not
come, today. the market relapsed into
degree of stagnation that has not been
equalled before since the present era of
dizziness set in, Northern Securities it.
self was forced down nearly two points
in the curb market and then rallied.
:, The morning development was hurt by
ing the continued uneasiness there. Our
own market was confronted with the de-
Nfirement of the lines in the freight rate
war: The policy of continued heavy bor-
rowings by railroads. indicated by the
loan expansion in the Saturday bank
statement. comes in for additional criti-
cism, In tie last haff hour of the mar
ket the short interest accumulated on the
decline OF this morning and Saturday COW
ered their contracts and lifted a, number
OF prominent stocks a point over Satur-
day. The closing was irregular below the
best.
Bonds were steady. Total sales. par
value. Sl.210,O1O
United States bonds were all unchanged
on the last call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08
Pointed Paragraphs.

Soft coal causes lot of wrath that
can't be turned away.
Stationers are about the only men
who are able to keep diaries.
The fit of a small boys trousers de-
Ponds upon the size Of the pockets.
Though the world may owe all of us
a living. only a few are preferred cred
itorS.
If We are to judge people by what
they say. some men must live on hay
and thistles.
Don't sit down and wait for some
thing to turn up: turn up your sleeves
and get busy.
When a young man has anything to
say during courtship he can figure on
holding his audience.
Call a man n diplomat instead of a
liar and he will be pleased; yet it
amounts to much the same thing.-Chi-
taGo News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08


symhOliZcs according to one authority
the perfectly rounded state, rising
like a halfglobe from broad found
ations of the common people to the
delegated official hierarchy at the top"
The state capitol of Illinois rejoices in
Il mansard roof instead of a dome,
while the capitol of Delaware more re-
semhles village high school building
than the home of a state government.
Many OF our state capitols, particular
ly in the western states, are limitations
of the capitol at Washington. They
belong to the architectural period
when every we'll to-dO carpenter em-
bcllished his home with Grecian
pOrtico, and when the county commits
si0nerS everywhere erected court
houses IL imitation of the Pantheon.
The New York capitol is the most eX
pensive capitol in the country. In fact
the building at Albany is one of the
most expensive public buildings in the
world, and has cost several times more
than the capitol at Washington, but
it has at least the distinction of not
being an imitation OF the national
capitol. There is no more beautiful
state capitol in the country than the
one at Hartford, Conn, which also en-
JOYS the unique distinction of being
one of the very few public buildings
ever constructed within the lppropri-
ion n,.,l.. r., it