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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
MANY MEDICAL WOMEN.
There Are c.OOO Female Physicians
Prncticing in This Countrx.

1t will surprise many persons to be
told that there are nearly 5000 women
ph! sisians practicing in this country.
he authority for this statement is DR.
Katherine G. Townsend, who makes this
estimate OF the total number of women
physicians in actual practice. She states
further that the average number of med
ical women gradutes each year is about
900.
Years ago medical woman had
hard time to make ends meet with the
proceeds OF her labor Now each large
city will show the names of several who
are earning $1,000, $4,000, $4,000 and
10000 annually.
Fifty-iye years ago this country had
not one woman physician. Colleges
would not graduate them, men abom-
mated them, and women had a contempt
for them
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first
woman to gain diploma from medical
college. She was graduated from Hobart
college, Geneva, N. Y, in 1919 hut n was
not until she had applied to 12 COLLEGES
that the Sacred" portals were open TO
her. Her sister, Emily Blackwell, had
similar difficulty in entering any medical
college. She finally graduated, however.
and these two sisters settled in New
York and founded dispensary which
developed into the present New York
!niirmary for Women and Children, with
its house staff Of 1S physicians. all
women.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
lAA MEAL is KIND.
This Traveller Says King Of Tribs
k Quite a Gentleman.
Cures Ruler Of Blood Poison end Il
Royalty Rewarded In Return
Interesting Letter 1ROm
Solomon lslan0s.

A letter has been received from Alvin
Scale, who is travelling in the interests
of the Honolulu museum, by his father
III fairmount, Ind. Mr.. Scale has been
s.d.n oA ,..e equator for the past two
yeats, anu Al mat time has been very
81, eess.ul as naturalist, securing
....n. specimens The letter is dated at
lIlu. Solomon islands, July 80. 1t runs:
Il am now among the real wild men,
the head-hunting cannibals of the Solo
mpm islands. and must say that the old
king of Alu is more of gentleman
than had hoped to find him. He has
become one OF my best friends; in fact.
ne caiis NE his son, and he gave me q
charm to put around my neck which
Only the princes OF the royal family are
A44uwed to wear.
l. all happened in this way. The
old ling stepped on the spine of a poison
ish, thing which usually results in
ueash to the native. for the fish is al
most as poisonous as rattlesnake
They sent Tor me to come. and see him.
He vas suffering the most intense pain,
anu his leg was swollen something
t.isntful injected somt morphine
inso the foot, which stopped the pain.
much to the old kings delight and -e-
lief. Then I washed the wound in anti
septic and dressed it nicely, and by
sreat care brought the old king around
all right. and he got we'll.
As might be expected, the old fell
low was very grateful. and he gave me
10 understand that l was to be one of
his sons. He gave me his favorite spear,
tipped with human bone, also one of
their very rarh old money cloaks. This
would be worth $3.50 to any museum in
the country.
The British governor Of this island
tclo me he had been trying to get one Of
these cloaks for 12 years, but had not
succeeded. They arc made entirely Of
native money. and are handed down
from generation to generation in the
ROYAL family. One is the price they pay
for white man's life.
This monarch has so wives, and less
than ten years ago he roasted rs to cele-
brate his brothers. death"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
TO TRAIN FOR DOMESTIC DUTY.
New Club Formed In London which
It II Thought Will Solve the
Servant Girl Problem.

An attempt will be made to solve the
British domestic problem by the for
nation of new club. to be called the
Arachne club, which will be stated en-
tirely by women of London. II is meant
to afford means of training young
women for domestic service, but they
are not to be asked to do any scrub
bing or similar rough work, which
will be left 10 the charwomen.
The training is expected to last nine
months. three devoted to ordinary
housekeeping and six to cooking. At
the end of the course servants will
have to pass examinations, for which
certificates will be given
The name Arachne has a rather mel
ancholy reference. Arachne was the
Lydian maiden, according to an Old
legend. who challenged Athene to con-
test in weaving. and was changed by
that goddess into a spider.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
DEAD-LETTER NAIL HEAVY.
shows Great Increase In lgas-
sent Misstves.

A great and steady increase in the re-
ceipts Of the dead letter Office is shown
In the departments annual report, re-
Gently issued, for the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1903 First Assistant Postmas-
ter General Wynne attributes the in.
crease to the more than corresponding
increase In the volume of matter PASS
Ing through the mails.
Total receipts for the year are placed
by Mr. Wynne at something more than
100000 pfeces-the largest in the his
tory of the Understanding those of the
preceding year by some $50, 900 pieces,
or the aggregate number 1896, ,2O5
pieces were opened. The money found
In opened letters amounted to 1854.
but this sum included money. generally
coin, found loose in the mails or in post
Offices. and consigned to the dead letter
ONCE. Commercial paper found, such
as drafts. checks, money orders, ETC.;
represented face value of 81 ,493, ,563.
The number of merchsa .dise parcels
received was 254.5S0, which were re-
stored to the owners as far as possible.
Photographs were found in 219.955 let
ters and parcels. Letters which con-
tanned postage stamps in varying
amounts from one cent upward num-
bered 249,955
The domestic misdirected letters re-
ceived numbered 554,201. There were
131. 1902 letters held for postage.
Under the regulations. deliverable
merchandise matter is to be hereafter
held for one year. instead Of two, az for
merly. before being sold, and this
change rendered necessary an addition
al sale during the year
The first sale was held in December,
1902. and the gross proceeds were 1855
The second occurred in February, 1903,
ana the gross proceeds were $5.24l.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
TRIP UNSUCCESSFUL.
Treasure Hunter Fails 10 Find the
Riches he Wa Looking Roe.
New York Man Travels $4,000 Miles,
But Says His Journey Wos Not
Dntirely in vain-story Of
Baeied Treasure.

Former Alderman George w. Sutton,
Of New Rochelle. N. Y, Is regaling his
friends with yarns about the good time
ae had on his 30,000-mile treasure hunt
ing trip, and every one who hears the
yarns declares that the narrator. al
though he failed to find the $50 900 900 he
was looking for, has the material in in
cidents and snapshots for book that
will pay him back the $4,000 he put
into the enterprise and give him a hand
some profit into the bargain.
Sutton says he. is convinced that the
tale of the buried treasure told them by
Capt. James Brown, an aged sea rover
oil Auburn. Mass, who organized the
expedition, was myth. Brown told SUIT
ton that in 1920. when there was revo-
luton in Peru, all of the national treas
ure and the gold and silver plate of the
churches We're loaded aboard the Amer
lean schooner Black Witch and taken to
Cocos island, in the South Seas, where
they were buried. He said that in 1857
he and Capt. Smith, of Salem, Mass,
who was the son of the master of the
Black Witch. went to Cocos Island in q
sailing vessel and found the treasure and
removed it to another isia nd, where they
planted it again.
Then they went on piratical ship and
captured some vessels bound home with
gold from Australia On the way back to
Australia the crew got to fighting and
all were killed or drowned except Brown
and Smith. Capt Smith tried to xiii
Brown, who shot him in self-defense and
threw the body overheard. This left
Capt. Brown the only survivor of the
expedition. He went to London, where
he married and then came to America.
The schooner Herman, upon which the
party made the voyage. was sold at the
island of Tahiti. and the treasure hunt.
ers. consisting Of Mr.. Sutton, his party,
Capt. Brown and his crew of seven
men. returned to San Francisco by
steamer. Mr. Sutton says that when he
left San Francisco Capt. Brown, who
is Is years old. was in Jail charged with
having assaulted the Japanese cook.
Mr. Sutton said he had a launch and
visited many OF the South Sea islands,
taking snapshots Of the natives and buy
ing trinkets Of them. II have several
trunks filled with souvenirs of all kinds"
Mr Sutton said. "and enough pictures
and material to publish book"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
NEW HELP TO ASTRONOMERS.
snow nori.ontal Renectin< Te,e.
scope Presented to Chicago Unit
vsrstty Placed at Williams Bay.

Another important addition to the
buildings and equipments of the Uni
versity of Chicago has been completed.
This is the Snow horizontal rejecting
telescope. an adjunct to the Yerkes OBJ
servatory at Williams Bay, Wis.
/. The new building and instrument Is
the gift to the university from Miss
Helen Snow, who has established it as
memorial to her father, the late George
n. H. Snow, of Chicago.
The principle Of the telescope is to
produce the image OF a star or other body
to be examined in laboratory when it
can be examined or photographed by in
struments which could not be attached
to large movable telescope like the as
inch refractor in the big dome Of the OBJ
servatory, and where a room is main
tanned at a perfectly even temperature
and free from all atmospheric and other
outside disturbances which often hinder
observations carried on in the usual
manner.
A plane mirror 30 inches in diameter
is mounted on a driving clock that ii
may be set to receive the light from the
star or other body to be examined The
driving clock moves 1t with the appar-
ent motion of the star and the rays of
light are constantly reflected in second
plane mirror two feet in diameter. This
reflects the light through the long build
ing to a concave mirror at the further
end. This is also two feet ir diameter
ard so formed as to produce The image
of the star at the opposite end Of the 60
foot building in tho laboratory, where it
may h, sfufied with the instruments for
that psrpose. The laboratory may be
made perfectly dark. all rays Of light be-
ing excluded except the image of the
body reflected from the concave mirror.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
Sl.5O PER ANNuM


The Oklahomans claim to have the
,areest farm in the southwest 1t is the
iO1 ranch in the Ponca reservation and
IA so big that 1t is necessary to plant
several varieties of wheat in it-one OF
which ripens several days later than the
other-in order that all Of them may be
harvested at their prime. On this farm
the wheat fields are of 1000 acres each.
the cattle pastures are Of 1000 to 1900
acres each and pasture 5000 head an
nually, the corn rows are one and halt
miles long. requiring 500 mules and 300
men to handle the crop, and 1t takes
30 self-binders three weeks to cut the
wheat crop and dozen or more steam
threshers 40.days to thresh 1t. There are
10000 acres in the ranch.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
rioTIcr Fon punLtyArYox

department. of the Interior. Land Of
flee al Huron. 8. ID. September ~. 19O4.--
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup;
port OF his claim and that said proof will
tysbnrg, s. D. on November 1, 1904, viz:
Emil Mangin. II. Il. No. l747i
for the NlzNEk and. NJ NW,s Scctior
81: Township 12o n. Range rs w. 9TH p. NJ,
He names the following witnesses tg
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of said land. viz: Elmar Wcst.i
burg. G. o. Peterson. a: r. Lindburg ant
ANcl Peterson, all of Eales, S. ID. .,r
G. 4. BLAZE, Registe!
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10

Recently a number OF ST Ives, Eng:
land. fishermen were hauling in their
fishing tackle when they pulled in q
large fish. One of the men caught hold
of the fish and received such a shock that
he was i'll for two hours The other mer
also received slight shocks on touching
the fish, and they decided to wait unit.
1t died before unlocking it. 1t measured
four feet long and three feet across ant
had a black back and white under.
body. It was stated to be an electric tor.
pedo fish
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the IntcriM. Land OFF

Department OF the InteriGh', Land Office
at Huron. S. d.. September 3. 1904
NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup
port of his claim. and that said proof will
be made before the Clerk of Courts, at Get
tysburg. $. ID. on November 4, 1904. viz:
William II. Garbc, II. f. No. l7,5l5
for the nw14 section II. r. lls NJ, r. IS w.
5tb p Nj.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of said land, viz: Peter Swan.
son. William Foster. Hans Nelson, and
Duncan j Mckay. all of Gettysburg, S. d..
Oils G. A. BLAKE, Register
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
NOTICE ron puHLrcAruoN

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Land Once ut Huron, S. D.. October 81, 1907
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of her intention to
make fna proof IN support Of her claim and that
SAID proof VIII be made before the Clerk OF
Court at Gettysburg, s. ". on December D. 1904,
viz. Edna Morgan, II. Il. No l7G11
for , the Sw,t Sec 4; 7. lls \. r. IS W. 5sh p. NJ.
she names the following witnesses to prove her
land. viz:
kufns A.. Morgan. Kathryn NJ. Hoagland,
frank h'arieh'J Whiteside. all of Gettysburg
>. ID. L. q. BLAKE,
Register
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
Dresxmnkers to Race.

Considerable excitement has reigned
among the dressmakers' assistants in
the Rue de la Paix.. Paris, who, following
the example of the stock brokers, have
arranged walking race from Paris to
Nanterre. distance Of nearly eight
miles. Eleven hundred already have en-
tered, but 1t is expected 900 VIM start.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
Aln,O.t a Crime.

Since bad cooking is said to cause
drunkenness the law may have to take
he matter up, says the Chicago Daily
News. Then woman accused of having
perpetrated mince pie or a batch of
angel food with intent to commit great
bodily injury would have to look sharp
or the sheriff would get her for a boarder.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
CHANCE 0FA LIFErIafE.

No county in the west offers better in.
ducements to-day to the farmer desiring
to build home or to the capitalist look.
ing for profitable investment for his
money than is offered in the fertile lands
OF Potter county, South Dakota, which
can be purchased At prices which are
merely nominal when compared with less
productive lands but short distance
east. Here can be found railroads, school
houses, towns and villages ready built,
society organized and equal to that Of
the east on the one hand, and cheap fer
tile lands on the other-a combination
impossible to find In country either
older or newer than this. That this con.
dition cannot long remain is attested BY
the fact that some OF the shrewdest inves.
tors Of the west, cnnversant with the
value q such lands. ass rapidly buying
them up.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
CALLS AMERICAN LOVERS COLD
Psris Weiter Declares We WIN s.o.
Learn That Gold Aids In Heprv
Marriages.

American lovers are cold. This ia
the newest discovery Of Jules Hure
Huret, the Partisan Newspaper writer
now sojourhing in America. He doubts
thas all marriages are for love. and not
for ne COT as is cfsfmed rs has seen
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10

Louis Gouler. a French sculptor. e8
years of age, has beard seven feet in
length. When IA years old his beard was
1s inches long.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
Nothing Fanny Th....

II the man who laughed himself to
death at New York show had been at
tending 2 comic opera the ca&astrophe
never would have occurred.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10

William School will be in
Gettysburg on Saturdays and in
Lebanon on Mondays, il possible.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10

Also publisher of "ANPAO KIN" monthly.
the only paper in the Sioux language Except
One) in the United States.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-11-10
9'r..t Sitp ps...
E. 2. THORNE. PUB. & PRorR

Communications and items solicited from our
readers, which must reach us by Tuesday night
to Insure prompt publication.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
WORLDS FAIR FLORAL CLOCK
The Plants Will All be Ready to In
stall As Soon as Spring Wealth
err Will Permit.

st. Louis, Jan. IF. W. Mas, rep
resenting William F. Nichol, of Inc St
Louis Seed Co., called on Chief F. w.
Taylor, of the agricultural department,
Friday, to the completion Of
the indoor work on the floral clock,
which will deck the slope north o. The
Agricultural building. Mr.. Mas an
nounced definitely the plants to be used
in the clock. The numerals are to be
about fifteen feet high and two feet
wide, made of maroon-colored foliage
plant, the hero coleus." The blank
spaces between the numerals will be OF
grey hue, dusty miller" The center
of the clock is to be of verbenas of
mixed colors, in a fiat mass. Complete
ly surrounding the clock is to be a
band of foliage plants of a lighter red
than the numerals. In this will be used
the "coleus verschafellti." With the
floral work complete, the clock will be
120 feet in diameter.
Mr.. Mas announced that $4,000
plants used in the dial of the clock
were now being forced in pots in the
hot houses of the st. Louis Seed Co.
AS Don as it is definitely assured that
the winter is broken, these plants will
be carried out to the fair grounds in
flats" and set out on the clock dial.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
PRESS COMMENTS.

THE voice of Senator Plat, of New
York, is still for President Roosevelt.
The senator's lung power, however, is
rather on the decline.-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Republican abuse of Senator Cor
man will do him good. 1t is an an
nouncement to democrats that repub-
licans recognize his ability as a leader
and mean to do what they can to weak
en- his influence. The democratic party
will not push him aside because of any
thing republicans say of him.-Savannah
(Ga.) News.
THE subpoena servers found Per
ry Heath at last, or rather, Perry Heath
found them. And now the former first
assistant postmaster general and pres
ent conductor Of the Hanna boom fol
the presidential nomination will prompt.
ly start for The east to tell what hi
knows of the alleged Vaccinations o
Machen.-Ithaca IN. " Observer.
What are Porto Ricans? 1t has
Just been decided that they are mo-
aliens, but it is by no means yet con.
ceded that they are American citizens
At present, therefore, they are neither
fish, flesh nor good red herring, and they
will doubtless feel relieved when tn,
supreme court gives them some politica
status.-Indianapolis Journal (Rep.).
Mr.. Roosevelt has taken upol
himself to curb" San Domingo, and t
"clean up the 'intolerable revolution
nuisance" But Mr.. Roosevelt's I'm
quiet, spasmodic administration of al
accidental Office will end without any
thing done to punish those who com
mitted the postal nuisance, land fraud
nuisance, the Littauer glove nuisance
or a dozen other fragrant scandals RICH
under the eyes Of the white house. Oh
for an hour of a real reformer, a RI
tional and reasonable statesman In til
white touse.-Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
LEAVE TO ENTER MISSOURI.
National Guard Organizations of the
Various states May Enter Mis-
souri, With Arms.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 17.-By COM
mand of the governor, Adjt.-Gen. Will
lam T. Cameron has issued general or
der No. 2, dealing with national guard
matters as relating to the Worlds fair.
The order is as follows:
Permission is hereby granted to ma
tional guard organization of the va
rious states and territories of the Unit
ed States to enter the state of Missou-
ri, armed and equipped, for the pur-
pose of taking part in any ceremonies
of their respective states or territories
at the Louisiana Purchase exposition,
to be held in st. Louis during the year
1904.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-01-21
COSTLY BLAZE At BUFFALO
AVuarter of a Million Dollars Worth
of Business Property Burned.
The Fire Occurred In h Trianguiar
Block Formed BY the Junction
of Pearl and Erie Streets.

Buffalo, N. Y, Jan. 17.-Fire among
the wholesale establishments and
warehouses in the triangular block
formed by the junction of Pearl and
Erie streets, early Saturday morning.
caused a loss estimated at $250,000, d.
vided as follows: George Irish Paper
Co., 100000; julius w. Georger,
wholesale hat and cap dealer, 100000;
buildings, owned by H. w. Eames.
100000; VIM. Hengerer Co., $4,000.
The losses are pretty well covered by
insurance. Five firemen were injured.
one seriously. =
The ten-story brick Dun building
which forms the apex Of the triangle.
vas not damaged.
The fire started in Georger's store
and communicated to the George Irish
Paper Co.'S building and the warehouse
used by the Hengerer Co. All three
buildings were of brick, five stories
high and extended through the block
from Pearl to Erie street. The fire in
the Hengerer building was checked and
the Dun building was saved.