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Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
friends are ready to vouch for him

friends are ready to vouch for him wherever he may go.
 MT. Courtney may possibly in- tend to establish himself in some place where he is not so we'll known as here on the Yukon. If so, how would the people of his new home be abe to detect the falsehoods ill the paper that tra- duces him? For the time being, at least, proper redress for the injury done him is impossible: how con- temptible, then. the spirit that would strike, from a safe distance, an unmerited blow that can not be parried
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
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Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14

Alaska, are fields of immense pos sibility. This year they will con tribute a fourteenth or a thirteenth of the worlds gold. One thing seems assured, placer gold is des- tined to become a more and more important factor in the worlds sup ply. With the end of the present war. who can predict the future of the alluvial fields of Siberia Who can compute the treasure that will be extracted by the great dredging machines which are just now be- ginning to wash the river sands of western North America. The re- gions nearer the poles of tue earth will be prospected pretty soon It seems more probable that the golden age is about to dawn than that the world will go hungry for gold.
 But, when all is said, what mat ters it whether the supply is large or small? As with individuals, communities. and races, so with the world at large: the benefit of gold is more in the seeking than the possessing-mo1e ideal than actual, more stimulating than nour- ishing. If all the gold in the world should instantly diminish by half the world could scarcely be called much poorer; doubled, 1t would not be materially enriched. But its wide diffusion over the earth has caused men to conquer the wilder ness and convert the waste places into regions of plenty: to make the desert bloom and to transform the arctic desolation into scenes of in- dustry and life.
 May man continue his quest for gold until the whole earth is brought under his dominion.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
WEDNESDAY, JUNE II, 1905.
IWR. COURTNEY CASE.

Instances do not occur wherein newspapers are justified in printing what are known to be falsehoods defamatory of public or private in dividuals. Truth itself, when told to the injury of one and the good of none, is wrong.
 Viewing the matter thus, we wish to say a few words regarding R. C. Courtney, wlo was last week grossly wronged by innuendo ard by direct misstatement in the Alas ka Forum. MT. Courtney is now on his way outside, i'll a region, probably, where Rampant papers do not circulate. Until recently he was United States commissioner at Circle, and he it was who issued the warrant for the arrest of Miss Beaumont, who pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal libel and was fned-not S265, as stated, but an insignificant sum, the costs i'll the case running the amount up to nearly S265. As commissioner Mt. Courtney refused to issue a warrant till the complaining witness gave bond for the costs; and 1t is ouly fair to state that it was his official duty to issue the warrant when the bond had been made. Mir Court. ney resigned the commissionership. to the regret of the people oi his precinct. to go outside hT medical treatment. For the same reason he resigned and was not removed from "a business position be had filled accep,ably lor four years. He let Circle with no blemish on his reputation. and a large number of
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
THE WORLD'S SUPPL I OF
 COLD.

The worlds output of gold last year was somewhere rear S35o,- 900, 900, and this years output is expected to surpass that sum. But decline is predicted by some in a very few years. A writer ill the Kansas City Journal says: The discovery of new mines is not keep ing pace with the exhaustion of those now being ked; so under existing conditions, if continued, the output must reach it's zenith within a very few years and then gradually decline However, in the past this precious and necessary metal has always been sufficient to meet the demand and probably it will still do so. New fields have invariably been brought in in time to replace the old and exhausted ones. Twenty years age the Rand WAS not discovered. Eleven years ago there was no Cripple Creek, Kalgoorlie or Klondike. Gold, for tunately, is the most widely distrib- uted of metals. There still must remain hundreds and thousands of undiscovered mines somewhere on the globe; but whether these will be unearthed within the next five years, or in time to couuterbalance the approaching deficiency, will, of course, be a subject of lively inter est until all doubts and fears are removed. -
 From a more or less superficial consideration of the matter, it is hard to conceive an early decline in the worlds gold supply. The va lidity of a statemen. by the writer quoted above that prospects for increasing supplies from mos, of the old fields are not good" k not ap- parent. Evidence is not fortheom- ing that the Rand, the 'rransvaal and the Rhodesian fields will speed fly decline. or that Australia and New Zealand will not continue we'll up to their presen, 6gures North America surely promises a small increase. which may jump to an euatmous one before the lapse ol i've years. British Columhia and the Canadian northwest. as well as
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
InCrea Sed Estimate
 of the Gold Output

The estimate placed upon the gold output of Alaska and Yukon Territory for 1908 has been in- creased by r. A. Wing. of the Se- attle assay office. to ss2 .ooo, GOO. il not more.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14

Over sixty thousand people vis- ited The grounds en the opening dap of the Lewis and Clark exposi. ton.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14

It Is said that Miss Alice Roose- veh is engaged 10 marry Congress man Lougwosth. of Ohio.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-14
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
VASE OF THIRD CENTURY.
Relic Of Early italian Art That Il
Valued ut Very High
Figure.

Another family treasure Of great
value which has since passed into the
keeping ~ the nation Ia the Portland
vase. nov exhibited In the British
mus .um This vase came from Italy.
and what its age is no man knows.
though II has been proved that In A.
ID. l35. 1t was deposited in a sepulcher
under the Monte gel Grano. three
miles from Rome. and Il Is believed
to have contained the ashes Of the
Emperor Severus But. whether or
no. Pope Urban VIII. had II dug up;
and for more than two centuries II re-
posed In the Barberini palace at Rome.
In 1856 the duke Of Portland pur-
chased II from Sir William Hamilton
for .029 guineas, and deposited 1t in
the British museum 10 years later. The
vase is only ten inches high. In 1S45
q msI named Lloyd employed at the
museum. picked up stone and hurled
IL In a fit OF frenzy at the case which
contained the precious relic, The vase
was smashed into hundreds Of pieces,
but with great ingenuity they we're all
put together again. and as 1t now
stands Is said to be worth at the very
least, $4,000.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
TAPEWoRMs MAKE PEARLS,
Presence Of the Gems in Oysters Said
to Be Due to These Dead
Larva.

Prof. Herdman's recent investiga-
tons on the subject OF pearl forma-
ton have yielded some interesting con-
illusions. states the London Globe. In
the great majority OF cases 1t appears
that the. pearl is due to the presence
in the oyster Of marine tapeworm.
When the spherical larva OF the worm
dies nacreOus matter Is deposited
round 1t, and the resulting mass is
known as a pearl. The life history of
the tapeworm is continued in the bod
les OF certain species of file fish which
prey on the oysters. These file flsh,
again, are devoured by fisheating rays
or sharks. In these latter the tape
worm becomes mature, and sets free
numerous embryos into the sea. These
finally enter the oysters, and SO COM
plete the life cycle.
The small so-called seed" pearls are
caused by the deposition Of nacreOus
matter round small crystals formed in
certain muscles of the oyster. Per-
haps the most important result Of
PORT Herdman's work from the scien.
tiiic standpoint is the establishment
of marine biological station at Gale
for further research
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
INDIANS THANKSGIVING.
Red Men Of Reservations Take Great
Interest in White Mans
Feast Day.

Even our reservation Indians take a
great interest In Thanksgiving day.
or course they show their Indian ma
ture In their gaming and feasting,
but al their corn dance with which
the days celebration closes. they offer
thanks to the Great Spirit for the har-
vest. and the resident priest Is invited
TO bless the food provided for the
feast.
The Cheyennes and Apaches some
times give pony smoke, other tribes
are invited to a feast of their best
game. and vegetables, and on their de-
parture for home, the head of each
family is presented with good pony.
AS there are sometimes several hun
bred families as guests, you can un-
derstand that only wealthy tribes can
afford to give pony smoke, but each
tribe in their own way show that the
spirit of thankfulness is not stran-
ger to them.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
DRUMMER BOYS ROMANCE
tals One p.a No, Turn On, Like the
fnditisnsi Civil War
Story.

4 .ss = drummer bop In sherman
array" relates l.. J. isHFy. u Chicago
and al the mature aEs u u fsli des
peFzisiy In love 9Th . little Eifl down
10 colamhla. Tsnn.. that ! thought a.
beanilful ~ an angel, aud sho SEEMED
Ia FscipFocais my Affections. stsp
though I uas = hated yankee,
-All the lime that nay command
stayed 81 her home ! managed 10 ses
bar once even day. and 81 nlshi che
wss ever In my dreams. thought that
death would 10 welcome " che did
DOT become ms uiis. and HhsH Out
force left ior Washington ali that kspi
ne from utterly breaking do~n ~as
Der promise thai she would answer
every letter ! wrote 10 her,
hut. alas though I wrote often and
lovingly. never a wofd came IN reply,
aud Tot months I sent about sick a.
heart because Of Der supposed faith.
lessneaa
We'll. about ala months ago vent
hack TO the south for the apt time Ip
a. yeAn. aud though Columbia uAs oui
Il my Nay ! couldn't omit a visit 10
The scene % my hst romance. Ny
uiie and grown daughter accompanied
me. aud I told them the a;ory aud that
meant TO see my sweetheart ~ Ions
ago u she siiil lived
Il had no dlfieuliy In hndlnE her
ana Ne had a great reunion. She ysf
n nne looking mairon and bad a dAugh
ter just the agc Of mine"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
SUBWAY SION LANGUAGE.
ssms~hst similsT - That kmpieyst
By Deaf snd panb
People

When the subway empress usin
started fFom hrcoklyn bridge. too
messenger boys who ssFe sisiihE To-
sslhsf bsssn suddsniy Ia maks siEns.
relates the Nss foFk Press. Al nrsi
lhoss sho looked % lhoaEhl that poss
sibiy These siEns mifhi b. oniy The
sipshs on ~ shlns after oonsamlns
siioas a. pie bsfoEs slaftihs On me
joafAsy. bat u sas soi manS mlhalss
bsfofs they began "a think olhsfsiss,
TIE lFain had hardly siossd 40 Eoihs
afoand the Worth street. curve bsiofs
tie .snsaase had definitely resolved a.
ssif ilta that q The deaf mute
There ~ss soms 'n.sfd speculation
a. go ho. deaf males ooaid possibly
fsisia positions shieh arc supposed 70
snlsil considerable siIbnsss ~ iohsas.
together 9Th = broad ana smiling sp'
pfoVli % the nimbiensss 9Th -hieh
ihs language ~ss carried on ss,-ssn
The too yaunEsisfs- A woman $40
sss more deeply Interested Than The
rect liisaied 81 she foafisenih street
siaiisn ~hsn the boys ava, hhs Tot
loved them np the steps and fosnd 10
hsF amsssmsni that. the momsni shst
smsrssd inlo che opsa atmosphere Of
the street. they burst into verbal ,slh
A stranger who walked hy hsf aide.
noiieinE her look a ssiohishmsni
slossd up snd said 10 her
-it is sstiihs TO be = Common shins
noe ioF messenger boys and those -ho
ere ctllEsd 10 employ tho subway ss
msaas of locomoiioa, 10 study the s'En
Language and ass H. AZ . matter of
fsd !. ls ihs oaly lansuaEs that can BE-
'hsari 10 any e,isat on the subway
sapfsss"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
AN APPEAL TO CAMPERS.
Pa,tlo, Of the Hoe Aamonishss Then
20 AID In fores, rressT-
vation. s.--

tsant again 10 raise my voice 10 an
APPEAL lot car. 81 the forest. says cas-
PEI whitney. 10 ou,ins Magazine. .'slp
the president and the lor-s, service ~
their magnlhceni .noris 10 preserve
our woods. ps sure before you leave
yugr camp that every las, bit Of your
oooklnE nrs has b-sn etiinEuished. aud
then srrapc diTt over the ashes. 20
the Wind may not siir into destructive
life ih. supposedly dead smbcu you
have left. No single inimicai element
IL more u a menace TO forest conscrva-
ton than the devastating hres which
sysry autumn sweep across great tracts
because Of careless campers who
Thought" they put out their camp hr.
And II you thus aid the prcsid' nj
ana the forest service you serve your
country and your own intefest-be-
cause the preservation Of our forest
lands concerns every citizen In Ameri.
"a. and intimately concerns our agri.
cultural Interests Every intelligent
reader knows that the agricultural In
tercsis come very near to being the
commercial bulwark Of America: poor
crops. tight money" IN a saying which
ought To be familiar with newspaper
readers
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
NOTICE.

The annual meeting ofthe stockhold-
ers of the Bennington County National
bank OF Bennington, Vt, will be held,in
their banking rooms the 2nd day of
January, 1906 at 10 O'Clock a. m. for
the purpose of electing a board of
directors for the ensuing year and to
consider such other business as may
come before it.
Clement n. Cone, cashier.
December /, 1905.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
MONKEY AND THE LADY.
Feminine Fashionabl Has q New
whim which Makes Her
Conspicuous.

The monkey IL being adopted a. a
pet by some women In these DAYS.
This fashion IL exhibited 10 the world
because Il 10 the thing TO do to take
the monkey out driving with you. u
YOU own one. says the New York sun.
II take my monkey out driving. lust
~ wcald a pet dog" explained a plo.
nesr In this field.
fier friends did not believe her until
the other day. when one Of them came
forward to corroboraie her.
Il saw her" said this witness. Il
was on side street. standing at the
curb about TO cross the street. when (
found my eyes fixed upon the almost
human eyes OF a monkey walking on
the top Of the closed doors OF pass
ing hanson.
Back Of the monkey she sat looking
AZ pretty as picture and evidently
much pleased with the attention that
her pet was drawing to himself. not 10
mention herself.
"He was not one bit the barrel-organ
type Of monkey, bur a dainty monkey
wearing no other coat than his own
natural fur. the color Of a fawn with a
sheen OF satin.
"A silver collar set with turquoise
circled the little creatures neck. A
silver chain attached the collar to the
mistress hand. She. by the way. car
ried out the silver and pale blue color
scheme charmingly in her own attire
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
THE EVENING BANNER
81 The posi-ofios. iisnningloa
W, Dec. II. is<ui. as second class
mall matter,


Il i mol much saeosrasesnsai 70 .
sFaiiisss state NJ learn thai Ass Jsf'
10Y osss nolhins sed has si,oco.o 600 In
ia pocket
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26

Ne. YORK.. 600 has sesn reduced TO
seventy nles. isssinE al psrsees
-hoss sole claim IA social fsms IL that
lhsy arc ia The hss- hcsn class.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-12-26
Hard to Quench.

Cholly-Do you think thisA cham
payne is very dry.
Jimsy--It must be. 1t makes me
fearfully thirsty.-Detroit Free Press.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07

Marie Welcker. the next to his last wife. Her sister, was the last wife and the main witness in the case. He married Marie and soon secured from her all the money she had. He discovered that her sister had money also. He therefore deter mined to marry her, and to that end poisoned Marie. While she was slowly dying of 'strichnitie, with which he dosed her, he was making love to her sister. He married the sister, Bertha, few weeks after 'Marie's death, secured her money and went to New York.
 Something of the story then came out and the newspapers made much of 1t, Hoch began to make love to a widow i'll New York who read the newspapers. She became alarmed lest her lover, who so answered the description of the Chicago man, was the one described, and decided to tell the police and let them investi- gate before she trusted her happi- ness and money to aim
 His arrest followed He took tue matter as grdat joke and enter tained the police with witty quips at the expense of the wives whom he was then only supposed to have married. The trial was marked by sensational features. and crowds were in attendance at every session of the Court, while the newspapers were almost unable to supply the deuand, morning and evening"
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07
MT. Hudson
 Is Responsible

Editor Yukon Valley News.
 In order that no mistakes may be made, I wish to state that the arti cles which appeared in your paper of May Y and 3I respectively and signed "A Miner" are from per sonal observation of the under signed. If any censure or credit IS due any one 1t is the author only, as no one aided in any way what soever. It was done to call evil doers'to account. If that has been accomplished there will be no need of going further with the subject. I trust the management of this publication and the miners of tue precinct, as we'll as all other patrons of the paper, will pardon me for the space taken. l hope in future, if l should write again. it will be for this paper in a description of my fellow miners efforts to uncover the yellow metal in the various creeks of this district.
 Respectfully, $. K. HuDsoN.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07
MISSING MAN
 ONCE AT TANANA
; |; .:,i |

]. C. Foster. whose wife resides in Seward, has been missing since August, 1903. At the time of his disappearance he was about 50 years old; he was of dark complex ion, and about 5 feet 8 inches high. His occupation, when not engaged ill placer mining, was that of car penter.
 MT. Foster and his wife were at Nome several years ago. They re- turned to w ishington, and MT. Foster left his wife in Seattle and again came to Alaska i'll 1903. A letter dated Panama, April 2S, 1903, was the last Mrs. Foster received from him; but daughter living in Wenatchee, Wash, received one written in August of the same year from Panama, stating that he had received no letters from his wife. In this letter he stated that he was doing we'll and had big surprise for his wife, but did not think he would go out that fall. In the meantime Mrs. Foster had written repeatedly, and she fears that her husband failing 10 get her letters. started for tue outside and took passage on the steamer Discovery. which was lost with all on board near Cape St. Elias. Nov. 9, 1903.
 Some of the readers of the Yukon Valley News surely knew Mir. Eos ter at Panama. Perhaps some one who left the illlated Discovery may have met him Any such would do an act ol kindness by addressing Mrs. J C. Foster. Seward. Alaska. The Gateway ot that place says Mf. Foster was devoted to his wife.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07
Yukon Placer Gold
 SEQ, for IOOS

The Seattle assay office estimates the placer gold output of the Yukon basin and Seward peninsula for the present year at SEQ. 1000, 900. The production will be divided about as follows: The eKlondike, SIo, ,ooo, : GOO; the Tanara, $, ,ooo, 900; Nome, s. ,ooo, ,ooo; Circle diggings, $780, 900; Rampant, S25o,ooo Not in cluded ill the estimate are Atiin and the Koyukuk, with about SI5o, 900 each.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07

According to the Skagway Alas. kan Simons and Blake will soon be due to pass down the Yukon en route to the Panama with forty new dance-hall girls. The aggregation of femininity will be carried by the launch Happy Hooligan. towing the barge Gloomy Gus. loaded down with liquors and dance hall para 'phernalia.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-06-07
Married Twenty Women and Murdered Seven---MOney
 the Motive.


 for three weeks and developing evi- dence that has astounded even the police in its revelations of criminal depTavity, was convicted ill Chicago on May 20 of murder i'll the first degree. The jury recommended the death sentence, a most unusual thing tor jury to do, the action representing the temper of the jury and the conclusive nature of the evidence.
 Hoch, who at the time of his ar rest, affected the humor of joker and attempted to laugh the charges away. now takes on a very different air and says he is ready to die.
 The death penalty being imposed, there will be no further hearing of this strange case in court. But it IS conclusively shown by the incl dental evidence in the trial of this case that most that has been said of Hocb's astonishing career is true. He was truly a modern Bluebeard. He had as many as twenty wives. For years his marriages have fol- lowed one al other at an average interval of a few rronths. Some of his wives he deserted upon the day of the wedding. Some ne fitted up apartments for and lived with awhile. Seven of them he mur dered, according to the belief of the police. In every case the sole purpose of the fiend seems to have been to get the money of bis vic tims; for, this having been ob- tained, he in every case at once deserted the woman and sought new fields and new victims. He made speciality of German widows, for the reason, he said, they were easier than any other kind in such matters, gave up their money and reposed confidence more readily in his protestations of love.
 He did not murder wantonly, but where it was necessity to or a more convenient method of getting lid of his victim he did not hesitate. In two cases where he had furnished up apartments for his new bride he killed her, sold the furniture before il was paid for. and moved into an other part of the same city Chicago in these iustances-aud did the tric k again lt was these lesser crimes of selling furniture bought on ,he instaIlmept plan. and for which he did not pay, that led to the discov' cry of hts greater crimes.
 He was tried for the murder oi