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The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17
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Meetings-Savannah Lodge No. 1892
G.. U. o. of o. F.; Joseph Lodge No.
&c, 1. o. B. B.; Irish-American Friend
ly Society.
Special Notices-Choir Boys Wanted,
ST. Johns Church; Notice to City
Court Jurors; A Home for $1,000, c. H.
Dorsett Specially Instructed To Sell,
c. II. Dorsett; Fine Residences For
Sale, C. H. Dorset: One Place and
Only One Jas. J. Joyce; General In
surance. w. T. Hopkins: My Own
Lard, NJ. S. Gardner.
Business Notices-Dlne Here To-day,
Sommers' Cafe; Tires, C. w. Thomas;
Edison Photographs, The Ray Com
pany; Electrical Work, Electric Supply
Company; The Seasons Novelties in
Silver and Gold, r. Van Keuren &
Co; Pure Cane Syrup, at MINISTER'S;
Brokers, Demere & Hammond, Books.
Newspapers. ETC., The Conner Book
Store; To the Leap Year Girl, Thun-
derbolt Casino: Corned Beef. Groot's
Market; Card Prizes. etc, H. Hymes.
Cadillac Agency-T. A. Bryson.
i
Foye & Eckstein.
January Clearance Sale-Rhodes-
Haverty Furniture Co.
From Now On-Savannah Gas Co.
Plenty of Milk-W. D. Simkins &
Co.
Now On Exhibition-Jackson & Gut
man.
Armour's Extract of Beef Demon
stration-Walsh & Meyer.
The Cleveland Bicycle-At Latti-
more's.
Charlotte Russe-Conida's.
Tooth -Solomons & Co.
These Prices Speak for Themselves
Daniel Hogan.
Special Sales in Mems Department
B. H. Levy &c Bro.
Just Received-Ludden & Bates, S.
NJ. H.
Six More Days of Mill and Factory
Selling-Leopold Adler
The Right Wedding Gifts-Thos.
West & Co.
New Subseribers-Bell Telephone Co.
Ladies Underwear and Corsets-At
Lhe Bee Hive.
I'd Own It, Ladies-Allen Bros.
Every Man Needs an Extra Pair of
Trousers-The Metropolitan Co.
Ring 700, That's ALE. & w. Laun-
dry.
Have You Heard About It--Falk's
Around the Corner.
Place Your Orders Now-Edward
Lovelrs Sons.
Reaching Countryward - The Del
monico Co.
House of Lords Ceylon Tea-Henry
Solomon & Son.
MISUNDERSTANDING Druggist.
Our Common Sense Harness-Leo
Frank.
The Pierce stanhope-R. V. Con-
nerat
Financisl-Stocks. Bonds and Cotton.
J. l. Mclean & Co.. New York;
Stocks. Bonds, Grain. Cotton, Hany
e. Co.
Savannah Theater-"The Gay Mr..
Goldstein," Wednesday, Matinee and
Night; The Knowles, All the Week.
Town Talk Flour-Dougan & SheftaH.
Foods-Postum Food Coffee.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy; Peruna;
Warmers Safe Cure: Herpicide; ar"
for Grip; Hostetters Stomach Bitters;
Cocex.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

ships entering and coming out Of it on
the Colon side. A great breakwater
will have to be built. AS all of the
material for such a work will have to
he brought from the interior it is esti-
mated that an adequate breakwater
will cost many millions of dollars.
1t would be interesting to know
whether or not the Isthmian Canal
Commission took into account the ne
cessity for the cost of a work of this
kind when it estimated the cost of
constructing the canal. The presump-
ton is that it did, though nothing in
regard to it seems to have found
place in those parts of its reports which
found their way into the public prints.
There is no doubt of course that the
construction of such breakwater as
is needed is within the possibilities of
engineering skill. In fact, it is certain
that it will cost less to construct a
breakwater at Colon than it would to
make a channel and harbor at Grey
town, if the Nicaragua route for the
canal should be chosen. Indeed, there
is ground for thinking that the open
ing Of a permanent channel at Gray
town would be very difficult under
taking.
1t is not probable that Panama will
object to the changes which it is pro-
posed to make in the treaty. She isn't
in position to object. The treaty, if
ratified by the Senate. will go back to
her with the changes, and will then
be ratified by body having authority
direct from the people. There are rea-
sons for questioning the right Of the
Panamaian junta to ratify it.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

Gov. Durbin of Indiana was asked
the other day Il Senator Hanna would
accept the nomination for President.
He replied: Mr.. Hanna is a patriot;
and if the country demanded his nom
ination he would respond if it killed
him. Other patriots have been in the
SANG attitude" Is Gov. Durbin one
of the patriots in the same attitude?
And are We to understand that SEN
stor Hanna has abbreviated patriot
when he urges the country to stand
pat?"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for fair and colder weather,
preceded by rain on the coast, with
fresh northwest winds. Eastern Flor
ida, rain and colder in north portion.
with fresh southwest winds
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17


DR.. Jacob Gould Schurman, presi-
dent of Cornell and formerly a member
of the Philippine Commission, predicts
war between the United States and
Colombia. II believe, he said at Lock-
port the other day, that the Colon
bians will fight, and that the United
states troops will enter Colombian ter
ritory, until they raise the flag over
Bogota; and when the flag has been
raised it will not come down" This.
DR.. Schurman thinks. will mark the
beginning of the expansion of the
United States to the south on this
continent and precipitate spirited
discussion of our relations with the
other Spanish-American countries. The
conquest of Colombia, by the way, will
be but the beginning of our own trou-
bles. IF we expand and in doing so
neither admit independence nor treat
subject nations as political equals, we
shall bring about a despotism like that
of old Rome. and we shall likely meet
the fate of that nation"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-17

aration. He shakes hands with him
more or less stiff1y, and that ends it..
Not that the Englishman feels less
deeply than the Frenchman or the Ger
man, but his se1f-repression is greater.
He thinks it undignifed to "slop over. +"
And for the same reason the blush, so
we are assured, is going out Of fashion
in London.
The women are going to school them
selves not to be taken by surprise, not
to acknowledge by a flush that they
are conscious of suggestion, not to
permit their features to be the light
house Of their emotions. The woman
will present a stolid, imperturbable
front; her features are to be as those
of the sphynx. She win command her
feelings, instead of permitting them to
sway her and blazon to the world in
her cheeks any possible embarrass-
ment she may feel. So much for the
anti-blush school of philosophy. Mean
while we shall regret the decadence of
blushing. the flush is so charming.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02

What is said to be the biggest placer gold strike ever found in Alaska, was made few days ago on Little creek, an insignificant stream, a few miles from Nome.
 A stage line will be operated this winter between Dawson and Eagle by Mail Contractor Ben Downing, and there is talk of getting stage line company organized to operate to Circle and perhaps through to Fairbanks via Circle.
 Mortimer I. Stevens, city assessor of Nome and for more than year past editor of the Nome News, is in jail, charged with embezzlement. It is al- legged that his accounts are behind to the extent of S252248, and that he ad- mits shortage of $500.
 R.D. Fetherstonhough, the pioneer Atlin hydraulic man, will buy one or more steam shovels this winter with which to work Atlin gold bearing gravel next year. The shovels will be secured at Marion, Indiana, and at least one of them will be installed on Spruce creek.
 The Nome News says that Thomas P. Akers, first class sergeant of the United States signal corps, was placed under arrest early this fall and is now held to answer the charge of dedication. The specific crime with which he is charged is the converting to his own use monies received during the course of business at the telegraph office in this city. It is said that his accounts are over Sl, 600 short.
 According to Major J. F. A. Strong, editor of the Nome Nugget, who is now in Seattle, where he will spend the win ter, Nome will have produced more than s4,OOO,OO0 this year. He says the summer work will produce about S3,- 100000 and that the spring cleanup of the winter work amounted to sl, ,330,0OO. This is much smaller than was expected for the year at that camp, but that is accounted for on account of the lack of water in the first part of the season.
 The Chilkat Indians who have been hunting, fishing and trapping at Dyea and vicinity this fall are more than sat isfied with the result of their efforts. In week they killed more than 20 sheep and half that many bear, besides they have caught more than suft1ci- ent quantity of fish to supply them for the season. One of the Indians captur- ed six sheep in day; another took four into camp and another three. Three bears were caught one day last week in traps.
 Here is a suggestion that may be of value to good many people in Alaska. 1t is worth trial at all events. The Scientific American recommends the following method of getting rid of stumps: "In the autumn bore hole one or two inches in diameter, accord ing to the girth of the stump, vertically in the center of the latter, and about eighteen inches deep. Put into it one or two ounces of saltpeter; fill up the hole with water and plug up close. In the ensuing spring take out the plug and pour into it about one-half gallon of kerosene oil and ignite it. The stump will smolder away without bIaz- ing, to the very extremities of the roots, leaving nothing but ashes"
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02

Recent arrivals from Nome assert that the richness of the strike on Little creek has not been exaggerated.
 Swineford, of the Ketchiksn Journal, can't tell for the life of him what they want of marine hospital at Sitka.
 Waterfront Brown attempted to col lect oill from three men at the Mar conf last night and before the scene ended Waterfront was hammered like beef steak. The collector claims he was knocked out and then kicked. He was able to be on the street today, but was not feeling his usual buoyancy. His nose was split, both eyes of ebony hue, and not square inch of the face without scratch or big bruise. Blood has run profusely all over his coat, and the mans face is swollen abnormally. Dawson News, Oct. IA.
 J. Leach, of Leach $, Duggan, the we'll known owners of the celebrated No. 10 bench claim at the head of Dry creek, has returned from visit to the states during which he took in the Worlds Fair. "I was ashamed" said Mir. Leach, "of the gold exhibit from this section. It consisted of one little nugget and handful of beach sand. didn't tell anyone that was from Alas ka when 1 saw that exhibit. ."-Nome Nugget.
 R. G. Macdonald, purser of the Vic toria, says Nome was having better weather at the time the Victoria sailed than at that time any season in five years. The indications were that Der ing sea would remain open for some time after the Corwin, the vessel sched' uled to leave last, put to sea. Though threatened with prolonged drought in the early part of the season, it was drawing to close with much better showing than the most sanguine had hoped for,
 If the plans of the commissioner of Indian affairs are carried out the Alas ka natives who are attending the Indian schools at Carlisle, Pa., and Salem, Or, will be sent home, and no more native boys or girls from the territory will be admitted to those institutions says Washington dispatch of the 22d. Con- missioner Jones takes the ground that the Alaska natives are not Indians within the meaning of the law pro- viding for the education of Indians in the United States, and he holds that these natives have no right to enjoy the privileges of the Carlisle and Salem schools.
 The policy of the United States to- ward Alaska should be precisely what it has been toward all the other sec tions of the country during their pio- neer days. The government should make the Indians wards of the govern ment and provide for them without ex- pense to the people of the district, and it should permit the people to make and administer their own laws and levy, collect and expend their own taxes. The proposition is SO simple that no one with true conception of the American principles of government need think twice upon it. For more than century that was the American policy of developing new countries. There is no reason why an exception should be made for Alaska,
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02
The N0rthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody

The Atlin steamer Cleaner is tied up for the winter.
 Nome has republican club with a mem bership of 3l7.
 The Corwin will again be the last boat down from Nome.
 The ladies of Whitehorse have organ ized Morning Walk club.
 A sporty Skagwayan wants to bet a house and lot on Roosevelt.
 Ice or no ice, is the variegated story that comes from the Yukon river.
 The Skagway lodge of Eagles will give ball on Thanksgiving night.
 A. B. Hes, the Valdez promoter, is reported to have committed suicide.
 Hon. Joseph w. Ivey has received the endorsement of the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce.
 skagway has been visited by an "artist of note" says the Guide. Yes, but who signed the note?
 The Sitka Alaskan has at last dis covered tbat the matrimonial agency it has been advertising is fake.
 RIA. Kinzie, supt. of the Treadwell properties, has been elected president of the Mine Owners and Operators Club.
 The reason or cause of the Topeka's sinking is still sought after with zeal that is seldom displayed before an ac- cident
 The Steamship Victoria arrived in Seattle Oct. 26 from Nome, Alaska. She carried 516 passengers and S225 900 in treasure.
 Members of the Dawson Hockey club, will tour Canada and the States this winter, playing the leading teams ln both countries.
 The first mail stage of the season left Whitehorse Monday afternoon Oct. 24, at o'clock for Dawson with 75O pounds of mail and three passengers.
 A dispatch to the Record-Miner from Valdez states that a valuable tin de- posit has been discovered near Mt. Wrangell, the ore averaging B per cent tin.
 Anvil Masonic Club has received a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of the State of Washington for the organ ization of Anvil Masonic Lodge, F. &y A. M, in Nome.
 A big strike is reported near Rosebud Creek, a branch of the Stewart River. Prospectors believe they have the con- tinuation of the famous White channel, the gravel being similar to that found on Bonanza. The strike was made by men working on the government road leading from Dawson to White Horse. The gold was found at the surface and in large quantities on high bench.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02

The Yukon government has decided to build road from the Kluane wagon road to Ruby creek. For this purpose $500 has been appropriated. This is regarded as ample for the purpose.
 The Whitehorse Star says there was more rejoicing at the depot this morn ing over two dogs that were being ship ped out of the country than over four hundred and ninety and nine that are still in our midst.
 With more than 1,OOO in gold in his hip pocket, about s2OO in gold in his vest pocket, and drafts for several hundred dollars more, Luke Frank, an Alaska Indian, was found sleeping on railroad track at Seattle.
 The Boring Sea Mining & Develop ment Co.,, which was organized in Se- attle in 1899 with a capitalization of s2OOOOOO, and which owns 1900 acres of mining land near Nome" is in the hands of a receiver in Seattle.
 A company of prominent Atlin men are shipping large quantity of white clay to the south. The clay is said to be the best for making the finest earth enware. CA. HirschAeld of the Atlin Claim is one of the promoters.
 The bunk house, together with a quantity of powder stored therein at Billie's Basin, has been burnt down. It is supposed to have been the work of incendiary but no clue has been obtain ed so far of the culprit,-Sitka Alaskan,
 Frank c. Wiseman, deputy United States marshal, who has been stationed at Ketchikan for some time, has been transferred to Haines where he will be field deputy. Mir. Wiseman was located at Haines before he went to Ketchikan'
 Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera, Diar- rhoa Remedy. This is the most suc- cessful medicine in the world for bowel complaints, and is the only remedy that will cure chronic diarrhea. Every bottle is warranted. For sale by J. Heubner.
 By the accidental explosion of 400 pounds of dynamite in a blacksmith shop at Council City, Alaska, on Oct 17th last, two men were fatally injured, seven others were seriously hurt and a large amount of valuable property was destroyed.
 Query?-Whereabouts in mans body is the proper place to look for his "pneumoasrtice?" It's up to Juneau's comic morning paper to tell its readers And while about it it may as we'll tell us what sort of beast a winged foul" is -Ketchikan Journal.
 That there will be not only some sui ferinp from lack of food in the Tanana this year, but that disorder may reign supreme at Fairbanks, is the opinion of Frederick Kiernan, an old Australian mining man who has just returned from trip through Alaska says the P I.
 The record cleanup this season has just been made on Discovery, Fair banks. The sluice- boxes, after a TUT of 41 hours, yielded 236 ounces, or ap proximately s4,OoO The pay was taker out by the ordinary windlass method four men in the drift, three at the windlass and one in the udbox.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02

Recent arrivals from Nome assert that the richness of the strike on Little creek has not been exaggerated.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-02

What is said to be the biggest placer gold strike ever found in Alaska, was made few days ago on Little creek, an insignificant stream, few miles from Nome.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
RHEUMATISM HAS
NOT RETURNED
MRS. W. T. LEOPOLD HOPEFUL.
OVER TwENTY-FOUR HOURS OF
RELIEF AND NO RELAPSE.

DIR. j. A. Stothart, Her Family Ply
stefan, Thinks Cure May Not BE
Permanent other Physicians
share the Same view--Had Ar
ranged to Take Trip for Health
and win Still Go-Mrs. Leopold is
stiII Suffering From Shock.
After more than twenty-four hours
of relief from rheumatic pains, Mrs
w. T. Leopold of No. 319 Waldburg
street, east, the story of whose mirac-
ulous experience with a fash of light
ming Friday afternoon was told in yes
terday's Morning News, is still con-
graduating herself. While she is fear
full that the malady will return, she
is exceedingly gratifed with even the
temporary relief, and hopes that it may
prove permanent.
Il feel very we'll to-days said Mrs.
Leopold yesterday afternoon to repre-
sentative of the Morning News. 1.-THE
rheumatism is gone, though I am still
somewhat numb from the shock
my rheumatism was pretty bad, and
l had arranged to go away for my
health. AS l had already counted on
going, l will go yet. l am sure it
will help me, anyhow.
Mrs. Leopold still Unstrung.
THE whole thing happened so sud
denly that I am still somewhat un-
strung, Perhaps it was the excitement
which helped, as we'll as the electricity
MY advice to those who suffer from
rheumatism is to try an electric treat
lnent, though of course everybody can't
be relieved as l was. For the last year
and a half l have been a sufferer and
the malady was severe this week. My
daughter was shocked more than was,
and was thrown entirely out of her
chair. The house filled with a sulphur
Gus odor, and l thought that something
was afire."
What Physicians Say.
DR.. j. A. Stothart, the family physi-
clan, in speaking of the case yesterday:
Mrs. Leopold has been suffering
from articulate rheumatism for some
time. In bad weather she would get
worse. This week the rains effected her
unfavorably.
Il have heard of similar cases of q
sudden cure from lightning or excite
ment, but am afraid that they do not
last However, I would be delighted
if it did in the present instance"
Other physicians when approached
about the cure said that medical books
contained no records of cures from
lightning, and believed that the rheu-
matism would surely return, especial
ly as it was of the articulate kind. In
the meantime Mrs. Leopold enjoys
temporary freedom from the disease
and trusts that the cure will be perma-
nent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
WOMAN WHO CLAIMS RHODES
FORTUNE FIRST TOLD STORY HERE
Mrs. Mary Virginia Baker Was Doing Missionary
Work in Savannah When She Made First Claim.

Nearly two months after it was an
nounced in the Morning News that
Mrs. Mary Virginia Baker, nee Rhodes,
claimed to be an heir of the late Cecil
Rhodes. the South African diamond
king, press dispatches from North Car
DINA located her in that state.
Readers of the Morning News will
remember that Mrs. Baker was in Sa-
vannah in April doing mission work.
and that while here she learned that
several years before an advertisement,
inserted by her aged father in a New
York newspaper. asking for information
concerning her whereabouts, had been
published.
Mrs. Baker called at the Morning
News Office and told of the information
at the time she received it. She was
anxious to learn something about her
fathers death and incidentally men
toned that she was a cousin of Cecil
Rhodes.
Mrs. Baker Wrote to London.
Mrs. Baker was advised to write the
authorities in London and interested
several persons in her case. She re-
NAMED mere ABOUT Two weeks, uOIlB
missionary work, after which she went
into the country. Since then nothing
has been heard Of her in Savannah.
Mrs. Baker is woman about 45 years
cid, and was born in Salem, Va. At the
age of IA she married and moved to
Georgia. Her first husband lived only
two or three years. and at the age of
IS she was married to her second hus-
band, who was a minister. He was
killed in a runaway in Ware county
about a year ago, Mrs. Baker said.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
Parents Had "a quarrel.

Mrs. Baker said that just before the
outbreak of the Civil War her father
and mother quarreled over religion and
separated. Her mother was a member
of the German Baptist Church, and in
sisted on wearing the peculiar garb OF
the church, much to her fathers dis
pleasure.
Her father she said was a member
of q Virginia regiment, and when the
war ended he did not return home. 1t
was generally supposed that he had
been killed in battle, Mrs. Baker said,
until year after the war, when her
mother learned that her father had re-
turned to England.
Heard Father Was Wealthy.
Twenty years ago Mrs. Baker learn
land that her father owned a magnifi-
cent mansion, and was reputed to be a
very wealthy man. She never received
letter from him and never wrote to
him. After her mothers death she
tried to forget her father, and believe
that he was dead and she heard moth
ing more until she was informed of
the advertisement which appeared in
the New York paper. She said that her
father knew nothing about either Of
her marriages.
Mrs. Baker had a. picture of her ia
ther. which was given to her by her
mother before her death. She was also
in possession of a picture of William
Rhodes, her fathers uncle, and Cecil
Rhodes father. Mrs. Baker learned Of
her fathers relationship to Cecil
Rhodes through her mother. She de-
clared that on account of the quarrel
between her father and mother that
her mother never communicated with
any of her fathers relatives.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-12
CITY BREvITIES.

Sam Jackson, a negro, was arrested
yesterday morning for stealing stand
ards from cars Of the Seaboard Air
Line. He was caught by Special ON
Ger T. l.. Crowell.
The criminal cases in the City
Court in which jury trials have been
demanded will be tried on Monday.
There are several jury cases to be
tried and It Is probable that more than
the one day VIII be required to clear
the docket.
The annual outing Of the Sunday
school Of the Christian Church was held
yesterday at Tybee. Both morning and
afternoon trains were we'll filled with
members Of the school and their
friends. The shower which passed
over the city happened at such a late
hour that few were kept from taking
IN the excursion. Much OF the sue
cess OF the picnic was due 70 the e.
forts Of supt A. A. Artley and the
committee which had assisted him IN
making the arrangements.