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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

Game Warden Lowell, who has been
keeping Il sharp lookout this winter
along the Canadian border, sends word
to the fish and game department that
he recently caught a party of men in
the act of taking the hides and heads of
four deer over the line into Canada.
When he held them UP they declared
that the deer had been killed during the
open time last fall. OF course Warden
Lowell very much doubted this state
mcnt, but he gave them the benefit of
the doubt, and asked them to show
their hunting licenses. They protested
that they did not know a license was
required to hunt big game in Maine.
Warden Lowell told them he would
have to dctain them until they could
tell their story in court, but rather than
be subjected to this, they promptly paid
the fine which they knew would be i'm
posed. total of $3.50, and proceeded on
their Way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

The hearing, which was to have been
held in Bangor at the Bangor House
;hfs forenoon on the matter of approx
ing the articles of association of the
Northern Maine Seaport Railway Co.
has been postponed. 1t was not settled
yesterday on what date the postponed
hearing will be held, but the date will
shortly be announced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

Warden Adams, who has been patrol
ling the woods i'll northern Somerset
this winter, writes the department that
he recently came across the bodies OF
four dead deer, during a days tramp
along the numbering roads near Jack
man. None of the deer showed any
bullet holes or marks of violence, and
as all were extremely thin. the warden
writes that probably they died of some
disease, or possibly starved to death,
.th0egh reports of this kind have been
extremely few from the northern woods
this winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

The Capitol elevator well is being
lined with steel to hide the many wires
pipes. ropr.3. CONFERENCE.-The and other
things which render the interior of the
well so unSightly. When the steel lin
|inc is al complete. 1t will be painted
white. and the effect will be neat and
pleasing. The work is being done by
Charles l.. IloXic of this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

Copies of the revised Maine school
fGws were sent out, last week. to the
sHperintcn,lents III every city, town and
plantation in Maine. 1t is hoped that
in all the towns these were studied Suf-
ficiently SO that no municipality at yes
teriay's annual election made the mis-
taK& of electinS superintendent as the
other town officers are chosen. Und, +
the new law, the superintendent must
be elected by the experimenting school
committee ana cannot be elected III
town meetings as has usually been the
case i'll the past.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

The big mahogany bookcase ana
wardrobe. which stood SO long in the
private Office Of the Governor, is dis
pcnSed with since the executive de
l'Hrtmcnt has been rcmodclled, ana
vas, yesterday. moved down to the
office Of the State superintendent OF
schools. Here it matches the rest Of
The furnishings and will come in very
handy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-08

Captain James +. Mitchell, of tho
regular army. will complete, this week.
his inspection of the various organ
iZations Of Names National Guard
Last week he inspected Companies at
Dover. Skowhegan, Augusta, Water
vile ana Gardiner. Last night he in
srcCtcd Company ID. at Norway. This
leaves him only two companies to
visit, Company G, ut Biddeford. which
he will inspect Wednesday evening:
and Company F.. of Sanford, which
he will inspect Thursday evening.
1he Capitol carpenters are at work
tearing out the lockers in the Senate
lobby. These were large and not par
ticularly pleasing i'll design. They will
he replaced by lockers that are built
after the style of those recently con-
structed for the members OF the House
in the corridor near the executive
quarters.
AS result of a hearing held at st.
Adams. last Friday. the commissioners
Of inland fish and game have closed
Big Indian pond and Little Indian
ing. except on Saturdays, for two
years from March 10, 1904.
The following named new corpora
tions have filed certificates of organi-
cation here:
The Rubon Manufacturing and Sup
ply Co. organized at South Berwick for
the purpose of manufacturing supplies
for jewelers.. dentists, etc, with $4,000
capital stock of which $50 is paid in.
The officers are: President and treas
urer, Edward X. Graves of Waltham,
Mass
Colorado Iron Works company orga-
nized at Augusta for the purpose OF
manufacturing machinery. etc, with
100000 capital stock of which nothing
is paid in. The officers are: Presi-
dent F. l.. Button of Augusta; treasur-
or. z F. whittum of Augusta.
The Joslin Showcase company or
Sanized at Kittery for the purpose of
manufacturing show cases with $4,000
capital stock of which nothing is paid
in. The officers are: President. Ed
mund L. Joslin of Winthrop. Mass;
treasurer. Horace MITCHELL of Kittery.
E. S. Dingley company organized at
Pennington for the purpose of canning
fruits and vegetables with $4,000 capi-
tai stock of which $500 is paid in. The
officers are: President, Otis E. Ding
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01
Investments NeaIected.
Property for Rental.

All Of the renting agents report a
good business, and a very large de-
mand for houses and stores. The rent
ing Tor the year commencing In OctO-
Der has absorbed nearly everything
that was desirable. When there are
unrenied houses investigation viii
show some explanation IN the way ~
unaefirablllty either in price. location,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

Phillips would capture ship, man it
with a mixed crew of impressed re-
cruits and old pirates, and send it
away to scour the seas and rejoin him
at an appointed rendezvous.
To one of these captured vessels, the
Dolphin, he transferred his flag, and
to it took Fillmore and Cheeseman.
A man named Harraden, who had
commanded the Dolphin when she was
captured, was also retained on board,
the pirate chief thinking he might in
duce him to turn pirate, too.
Capt. Harraden was too much cast
down to do anything but bewail his
fate, but Fillmore and Cheeseman,
while secretly planning to get the best
of the buccaneer seemingly entered
into the spirit of the adventure.
For all that the chief pirates were
instructed to keep a close watch upon
the two boys, and 1T was seldom that
they could get an opportunity to talk
with each other alone,
Phillips used to compliment Fillmore
upon the cheerful way he took things,
and assured him that hewould in time
become as great a pirate as any that
sailed the seas.
THAT will l not, Thought Fillmore,
but he held his peace. ri
The two boys used to lie on deck,
pretending to be asleep, but keeping
a careful watch out of half-closed eye
lids for intruders, while, they conVersed
in whispers, and in this manner Fill
more was able to communicate to his
companion the plans he had Matched
for their deliverance, and to assign
him to the part he was TO play in the
affair
With great caution and watching
carefully their opportunity, the plot
was communicated to Capt. Harraden
and a day set for its execution.
Four others of the crew, recruits like
themselves who had been impressed
into the pirates service, were induced
to join them in the conspiracy.
One day at noon, the pirate chief be-
ing below in his cabin, Fillmore picked
up an AK which was lying on deck
and twirled it on it's point. This was
the signal. The sailing master, a vet
eran pirate growing old in wicked
ness, resisted, and in the struggle fell
overheard and was drowned. The
boatswain, another ruffian, was killed,
and when Phillips, hearing the racket
came on deck to see what was the
matter, he was attacked by the mutt
neers.
The old pirate made great fight for
il, but was finally killed by Capt.
Harraden. In the scrimmage the pi-
rate gunner was tripped up and fell
overheard and the rest of the pirates
retreated to the hold under command
of the quartermaster, the only officer
of the buccaneers left alive.
Having the pirates below matches
and being now in the possession of fire.
arms taken from the cabin, Fillmore
and his followers soon induced the
| buccaneers to yield and they were put
! in irons, while the Dolphin was head
ed for Boston.
ca
The boy captor Of the pirate craft
was arrested along with every Other
person on board when the Dolphin got
into port, but he and those who had
assisted him were honorably acquitted,
while of the others two We're hanged
and the rest imprisoned.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

more than a ton, If the old dons can
be believed.
The sight OF the grizzly photograp hs
was enough to make the lod dons fight
over their battles, showing a scar for
nearly every one. The photogra pher
found many of them in crumbling
adobe houses along the coast. Their
hair is white. their steps tottering, their
eyes half dim, and their speech grow
ing thick, but they remember most
wildly the battles OF their youth.
The two most famous grizzly fight
ing dons in South California died not
long ago within a few months Of each
other. They were Carlos Rodriguez
and Emedi Ortega, neighbors and RI
walls from boyhood. Different figures
are given of the number of grizzly
victims each man claimed, and the
question who was the more skillful
and daring fighter is often discussed.
One of the most thrilling encoun-
ters in which Don Carlos figured took
place on a mesa in the Santa Ynez
mountains. He was herding big
bunch of cattle there, with the help
of half dozen buckayros. One after
noon they located a grizzly, and ran
him into a field of chamiso brush
which covered the center of the noun
tain fiat.
All of the outfit were well mounted
ana eager for bear roping contest
whlch was their favorite diversion. No
amount OF yelling would persuade the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

grizzly to leave cover. and one of the
buckayros, a dare devil Mexican, Of
fered to go in and drive him out He
dismounted and entered the brush
while the others gathered around, ri
atlas In hand ready to rope in the bear
the moment he appeared
The Mexican had not gone twenty
yards into the chamiso before his
friends heard a tremendous growing
and the rush of some heavy body
through the brush. The next moment
the Mexican shot out from the middle
Of the patch as though sent from a
cannon. He was thrown fully six feet
above the top of the thick brush. and
in falling back spread himself out in
such way that the boughs supported
him.
The grizzly, not understanding the
sudden disappearance of his enemy, was
rushing about, thoroughly angered. 1t
was only a question of a moment or
two until his rushing tactics would
shake the man to the ground, which
would have been the end.
Don Carlos, putting spurs to his
horse, dashed into the thicket, hoping
to attract to himself the attention of
the angry grizzly. His path took him
under the bush on which the buck
Ayro was supported, and, reaching up,
the don seized him by the legs.
At the same moment the bear made
a rush for the horse. With great diff
ficulty Don Carlos retained his hold
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

ing that a certain New York corpora
ton had lately deposited there. in Col
Places name. $500.
One day last week a stranger called
at Col. Places home and asked if he
wanted to sell the chalk ponds. This
stranger represented the New York
corporation which had made the depos-
it in the New Durham bank.
At the suggestion of the stranger,
they visited the ponds, first procuring
a long piece of iron pipe with which to
make boring tests. They got a boat
and rowed over the two ponds, insert
ing the iron pipe at intervals. Both
were amazed to find that the carbonate
of lime deposit covered the entire
ponds and in places was more than ten
feet in depth.
They returned to the village of New
Durham and took a train for Somers-
worth. Changing at Rochester, they
met a soda manufacturer of that town
whom Col. Place knew. They visited
his bottling establishment.
One of the first things they noticed
there as they entered was barrel of
what they at first took to be marble
dust, used in making carbonated wa
ters. 1t wasn't marble dust, the bot
tier said. but something which he had
found to be very much better. It was
from pond in New Durham. He was
using it altogether, he said, instead of
marble dust. He had eighteen barrels
of it in his establishment.
who owns the ponds?" Col. Place
ventured to ask.
II don't know was the reply. mo
one UP at New Durham seems to know.
All I know about it is that there is an
inexhaustible supply of this stuff, and
fhaf heats onxytbircr for
soda making"
Col. Place didn't bother to set his
Rochester friend right on the matter
of pond ownership, but mentally for
gave him for the trespassing.
Before Col. Place and the New York
er parted that day the latter asked for
a price on the pond property.
'Tll send you proposition in a day
or two. after / have thought the mat
ter over" the Berwick man replied.
The next day he sent proposition.
It was that he should receive a GER
tain sum in spot cash-an amount
which would represent the value of
several good big farms in New Durham
and that a corporation should be or
ganized to work and market the prod
uct, he to own majority of the stock.
Just a week ago to-day he received
certified check for the amount he had
ganization of such a corporation as
he had outlined. his name appearing
in the records as president and a con-
trolling number of the shares being
i'm his name. The corporation is cap
italized at $500, 900, and its name is the
National Chalk Company.
Guess We'll take little trip to the
Mediterranean next winter" Col. Place
remarked to his wife when he exhibit
ed the certified check.
1t is the intention of the incorpora-
tors of the company to begin immc-
date operations at the chalk ponds.
Dredging apparatus will be brought
there and set at work, the product
dried and crushed and shipped in bulk.
The supply is inexhaustible and the
work of preparing 1t for use Is very
simple and inexpensive.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

or condition. The demand that arises
in October from disappointed tenants
and later on from the influx of new
citizens will find a poor list to select
from.
There are fewer vacant stores than
ever before in the history of the city,
and it is almost impossible. to rent a
first-class store in the city.
Vacant Lots.
Well located residence lots are be-
coming very scare. Their number is
being reduced with every sale, and the
seriousness of the situation is that
there is no real f1rst-class territory to
the south, the direction in which the
city extends, which can be taken in.
The great need to-day are cheap lots
for people of small means.
Some Valuable Buildings.
AS showing only in small part the
value of the building that has recent
ly been done in Savannah or is now
under way it is necessary only to men
tion some of the larger buildings re-
Gently completed, now under way, or
to be begun in a short time Chief
of those finished in the last year
stands the Germania Bank building,
erected at an approximate cost of
$SOO,0OO while there is now building the
new lily Hall, to cost $l5O, 600 and in
a month work is to be begun on the
new home of the National Bank of
Savannah, which, if present plans are
adopted, will cost $350,OOO to S400, 900,
and the new Masonic Temple, to cost
in the neighborhood of SIS 900.
There is also a. possibility that in a
short time the Young Mems Christian
Association will be able to start new
home, which, It is now planned, will
cost not less than $4,000. Another
piece of work that will swell largely
the building values of the present year
is that of the new Marine Hospital
building, to be erected at a cost OF
$125,000 and the building of new quar-
ters and other houses at Fort Screven,
Tybee. at cost, in round figures, of
500, 900.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01
LASSOING GRIZZLIES.
Dangerous Sport That Has Now
Passed Away.


From the New York Tribune.
In the mountains of the West, the
vast and tumbled Rockies and the
Jagged far-reaching Sierras, the griz-
Ely has become the particular desire
of the most modern OF hunters, the
men who sally forth with rapid cam
eras instead of repeating express rifles,
who press a high speed shutter in
stead OF a hair trigger. 1t takes dar-
ing nerve to face one of these fierce,
fight-loving creatures with nothing
more death-dealinR than a camera,
and the Photographic hunters tell Of
many narrow escapes.
They are not the first grizzly hunt
ers. however, to scorn the rife in
hunting the huge bears. One OF the
camera hunters found this out a. few
weeks ago when he settled down for
a rest by the Pacific in the Santa
Barbara valley after a successful,
though bloodless, campaign through
the California mountains. in which he
secured a number of fine grizzly mega
tives. II was not long before the old
Spanish dons. who form the oldest
settler" portion OF the population, heard
OF him. and came around 70 see his
brave pictures" as they called them.
No hunters ever knew the grizzly
more intimately than these men Of
mixed Spanish and Mexican blood.
They hunted with RATA and bowie
knife, scorning the safety OF the rife
az do the camera hunters OF to-day.
But the game they played was more
dangerous, for they had TO be In Al the
death, while with the man Of dry
plates and Aims there is no such end
The excitement OF the personal con-
nlct more than repaid the Spaniards
FOR the risks they ran, and they ran
many, for IN those golden days. IN
the DIAL and Santa Ynez valleys. there
was a grizzly for every acorn-bearing
wild oak. and some Of them weighed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01
TWO PONDS WORTH FORTUNE.
Maine Farmer Suddenly Finds Him
self Rich.
From the New York Sun.


Col. James A. Place, Berwick
farmer, has just made small fortune
cut of the sale of a piece of property
that he had almost forgotten he own
ed. 1t took him two days to find his
deed, which was finally located among
some discarded furniture in his barn.
The property he sold comprises two
ponds, whose total area is $50 acres in
New Durham. N. H., at the headwa-
tiers of the Cocheco river. They cost
him $500 thirty eight years ago, and
he has thought many times since that
his horse" sense must have been OH
a vacation the day he made the trade
with his Uncle David.
The ponds are locally known as the
chalk ponds, and are so called because
of deep deposit of carbonate of lime
covering their bottom. About all the
farmers of the neighborhood have at
some time visited the ponds and taken
home some of the chalky deposit for
use about the house as a polish, and
carpenters for miles around have used
il on their chalk lines. Not until a
few days ago was any one here aware
that there is a mint in those ponds.
In 1865 Col. Place was keeping
store in Salmon Falls, N. H., and was
postmaster of the town. One day he
D1OuRnL QOWn IIOln MS ulcle 5 DOnQ a
barrel of chalk deposit.
His brother-in-law dropped in, and
seeing the chalk asked about its use.
1t seemed to him pity that such a
fine polishing material should be UNI
der water in a backwoods pond, and
he declared that there would be for
tune i'm peddling II as a silver polish.
Postmaster Place, whose speculative
instinct suddenly asserted itself. drove
over TO Somersworth, where his Uncle
David was then living. and made him
an offer of $500 for the two ponds. The
offer was taken on the spot and deed
OF the property given.
Several barrels OF the white deposit
were hauled down to Postmaster
Places store and he waited for the
silver polish market to come into his
immediate control. 1t didn't come for
some reason or other, and he con-
Guided that he had a white elephant on
his hands.
But as the ponds were not taxed for
much and he was doing we'll in bust
ness he allowed himself to forget about
the sinking Of the 5000 he had con-
tributed to his uncle's Golfers.
For thirty-eight years Col. Place
didn't visit his chalk ponds. The thir-
weight years expired last week He
made a visit to them then, and under
somewhat romantic circumstances.
He recently received from the bank
OF New Durham a formal request for
a presentation OF his deposit book for
verifcatlon. He couldn't understand
the meaning OF this request, for he had
never deposited dollar In New Dur
ham. except the amount he sunk IN the
ponds, which he never expected 70 re-
cover.
They must have sent the notification
10 tho wrong place. he thought he
wrote for an explanation, and received
a letter from the bank treasurer stat
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01
HOW JOHN FILLMORE
CAPTURED A PIRATE.
The Strange Adventure of Great
Grandfather of President Fillmore.

The Strange Adventure of Great
Grandfather of President Fillmore.
From the Pittsburg Leader.
If you go down to Ipswich. that
quaint old Massa chusetts seaport town
they will tell you many stories there
of old times and those who lived in
them. And most of all they like to
tell the story of President Fillmore
great-gra ndfather, John, an Ipswich
sailor boy. who put an end to the ma
raudings of Phillips the Pirate, cap
turing his ship and brought IL with its
pirate crew safe into Boston.
John Fillmore was a boy of unusual
strength. large Of frame and cour-
ageous Of heart. Ipswich boys went to
sea at some time in their lives, else
their education was not considered
complete. so. Of course. he went forth
on a ship as soon as he was old
enough.
This was in the first quarter Of the
eighteenth century, when pirates did
not confine their cruising to the Spanish
Main, but sailed up and down the
coast from the West indies TO Nova
scotia. capturing ships and recruiting
their crews from sturdy young sailor
boys impressed from the merchant
vessels and the fishing fleets Of New
England. The ship In which Fillmore
sailed was captured of the coast by
the notorious pirate Phillips. and John
and his chum. Edward Cheeseman,
were told by the 5uccaneer that here
after they would be- members Of his
crew and he would lake frst -class
pirates out Of them.
So with the two boye added 20 his
gang Of cutthroata Phillips sailed the
Jolly RoRer-the black haR, with the
skull and erogsbouea-nylnG. sinking
capturing, numbering and ravaging.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01

on the unconscious man, as the horse
tore through the brush with the bear
in close pursuit. Both men and beast
were badly bruised and torn with the
brush. The grizzly followed them into
the open, where he was quickly en-
tangled in the riatas of the others.
On examining the man to whom had
come the catapult experience, they
found that the bear had all but scalp
ed him with a single blow. For long
time the follow was not right in his
head, but he finally recovered.
Emedi Ortega was a most powerful
ly built man. more than six feet in
hight, and of extraordinary strength
and courage. For many years his rec
ords for distance and accuracy with
the rata were equalled by no one.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-01
Sanford. Fla.

/ believe that those ordinary trout
bles known as Biliousness. chills and
Fever. or Fever without Chils. can
be promptly relieved and cureds by
faithfully taking Johnson's Tonic ac-
cording TO directions--2 teaspoon
fuls every 3 hours-s doses in "a
hours. until one or two bottles be
used In about Z years I have sold
not less than 90 10 20 gross. In most
cases. when II Fails to cure" It Is not
faithfully or intelligently used. I
have refunded for bottles IN as many
years. r. a. PHILIPS