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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02

place Off the northwestern coast Of
France. May 10, 1892, Russell and
Rookie being In command OF the allies,
and Tourville of the French, who lost
twenty-one ships, thirteen Of which
were burned. nm
Deeds Of Paul Jones. ~
In bright prominence In the thrilling
chronicles of sea fighting are the bat
ties at which the Stars and Stripes
have waved over triumphant men-of-
war; First of the American naval VIC
tories were those Of John Paul Jones,
the revolutionary captain, whose little
Bonhomme Richard and Pallas forced
the British Serapis and Countess Of
Scarborough to surrender after des-
perate engagement. although the Rich
ard sank the next day. Then there
was the famous duel between the fri
gate Constitution, captured by Isaac
Hull, and the British Guerrierre. on
Aug. 10. 1912, In which the Briton was
Inundated In thirty minutes. oJE5
I'VE have met the enemy and they
are ours" Is the watchword which
Commodore oliver Hazard Perry made
famous at the battle Of Lake Erie,
Sept 10, 1913. With nine vessels, car
rying in all fifty-four guns and 4s0
men, he defeated and captured the
British fleet Of six vessels. carrying
sixty-th three guns and 500 men, under
R. H. Barclay, of Put-in-Bay. His
loss was q killed and SO wounded: the
enemy's II killed and 81 wounded.
Among modern battles. In which the
terrible fighting machines constructed
by nineteenth century inventions have
met In deadly conflict. are the battles
Of the Yalu. Sept. II. 1894. in which the
Japanese defeated the Chinese feet;
the battle Of Manila Bay. May !, 1898,
at which Dewey made history, and the
battle of Santiago, July ., 1898, when
Cervera's ships were smashed In rec
ord breaking time. fr.,..,,,.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02
ly, addressing himself to Bicknell and

ly, addressing himself to Bicknell and
ignoring the ex-district attorney as II
he were not He, McTosh, was willing
to surrender the Office on an official or
der in writing over the chief clerks
signature. But did Bicknell fully un-
derstand what il might mean in loss
of life and property to put new man
on the wires at a moments notice?
Bicknell would have weakened
again, but Hawk was not to be frus-
trated second time.
Don't you see he Is only sparring
to gain timer" he snapped at Bicknell.
Then to M'Tosh: Get out of here,
and do it quick! And you can go, too"
wheeling suddenly upon Kent.
Donohue had taken no part in the
conflict Of authority. But now he
threw down his pen and clicked his
key to cut in with the &c. S." which
claims the wire instantly. Then dis
tinctly, and a word at time so that
the slowest operator on the line could
get 1t, he spelled out the message:
"All Agents: Stop and hold all trains
except first and second fast mail, west
bound. M'Tosh fired, and Office In
hands Of police"
stop him!" cried the shirt-sleeved
man. Hes giving 1t away on the
wire!"
But Donohue had signed his name
and was putting on his coat.
You're welcome to what you can
dnd," he said, scowling at the inter-
.loper. "If you kill anybody now, it'll
be your own fault"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02
A RIDE UP PIXIES PEAK.
Il Is Likely Almost Literally to eurst
Your Head Open.

u Is Likely Almost Literally 70 our1
Your Head open.
To take a pleasure ride that almost
literally bursts your head open is a.
novelty thrilling enough, 1t is to be
presumed, for the most eager thrill
seeker But that is what often hap
pens to him who essays the dizzy
heights of Pixies Peak, $4,000 feet
above sea level. ... -..,.-.
"I went up on the cog road from
Manitou," said a Baltimore man, "in
company with a party Of tourists, and
before we reached the Halfway House
there were two who exhibited such
positive symptoms Of distress that at
the first stop they had to leave and
take the next train Gown. The rest
of US continued In seat little
in front of us was a young girl who
had been growing gradually hysteri-
cal, and whom we had been watching
curiously to see what would happen
next. It happened. Suddenly she
threw up her hands and fell back
ward, with blood gushing from her
mouth, ears, eyes and nose. The con-
ductor. who was evidently accustomed
to such scenes, told her escort to lay
her fiat on her back, as the pressure
was less there than with the head high
in a sitting posture. Then, at the next
station. she was taken of and sent
back to Manitou by the wagon road:
They didn't dare to take her down by
train, as the quick change to the den-
ser air might have proved serious;
well, we kept going and reached
the top. I thought I'd take short
run in the fine, rarified air, and / did
took a dozen steps, when my heart
began to beat like a trip hammer. and
I concluded that running at that
height was not for me. They told me
you couldn't boil eggs or beans up
there. I don't know, because I didn't
try We had our pictures taken sit
ting on a rock up In that barren spot.
where nothing will grow but the edei-
weiss, and bought same souvenirs:
Then we came down, and. so far as l
am concerned, they can level the
mountain tomorrow. I'll never nave
any more use for, 1t. Manitou, Garden
of the Gods and North Cheyenne can
Won for mine. but no more Of that sky
business. ss."-Baltimore News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02
FREE PASS EVIL.


judges and Jurors With Railroad
Passes In Their Pockets.
Nebraska Is not, perhaps, worse than
many other states in the matter Of
railroad passes. therefore the following
Nebraska incident may have been
paraIleled more. than once in other
states: ~. fu. '.lur.H
Not many months ago a man was
drawn for jury duty, and Immediately
he sat down and wrote to the manage
ment Of the railroad that trayersed his
town, explaining that he was drawn
as a juror, and asking for transporta-
tion. The pass was sent him and he
used II to travel to the county seat.
While in the jury box a. damage suit
against the railroad company was
called, and he was objected to by the
plaintiff on the ground that he. had q
pass furnished by that railroad, The
Judge sustained the objection and the
juror was dismissed from the panel.
his honor making some strong remarks
concerning the matter. l8 ..5.a..
And while that Judge was severely
criticising the juror, that same Judge
had in his pocket an annual pass over
that same railroad good for himself
and family. .-.a.. r..
And here is another incident that
actually happened in Nebraska:
A liquor dealer In western city
was arrested on the charge Of having
violated the excise law. When the
jury to try the case had been sworn In
and the taking Of evidence started, 1t
was developed that the defendant had
sent a gallon Of extra fine brandy to
a Juror in the box.
The Judge Immediately dismissed the
jury, denounced the Juror for having
accepted the gift from the defendant,
and then fined the defendant for con-
tempt Of court. When that had been
done the Judge called case wherein
a railroad corporation was interested.
The case was tried, and the Judge who
had fined the liquor dealer for giving
gallon of brandy to juror sat on
the bench during the hearing Of the
railroad case with an annual pass In
his pocket from the railroad that was
a party to the suit .....
II the liquor dealer was guilty Of
contempt or attempted bribery for hav-
ing given some brandy to juror, what
about the railroad that gave an annual
pass to the judge.-Commoner .-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02

ARREST that mani" said Hawk to
his policeman; but Kent interposed-
"If you do, the force will be two men
shy tomorrow. The Civic league isn't
dead yet" And he took down the
numbers Of the two officers.
There were no arrests made, and
when the ousted three were clear OF
the room and the building, Kent asked
an anxious question.
How near can they come to smash
ing us, M'Tosh?"
THAT depends on Callahan's nerve.
The night operators at Donerail, Scho-
field and Aqua Caliente are all Gull
ford appointees, and when the new man
explains the situation to them, they'll
do what they are told to do. But I'm
thinking Patsy won't pull up for any
thing milder than a spiked switch"
well, they might throw switch on
him | wonder somebody hasn't done
it before this"
The train-master shook his head.
"If Fischer is keeping close up be-
hind, that would jeopardize more lives
than Callahan's. But there is another
thing that doesn't depend on nerve
Patsy's or anybody's."
What's that?"
Water. The run is 180 miles The
,0lOs tank is good for 100 with
train, or a possible 160, light. There
is about one chance in thousand that
Callahan's crown-sheet won't get red
hot and crumple up on him in the last
20 miles. Let's take a car and 60
down to yard limits. We can Sit IN
the office and hear what goes over the
wires, even if we can't get finger In
to help Patsy out of his troubles
They boarded a Twentieth avenue
car accordingly, but when they reached
the end of the line, which was just
across the tracks from the junction
in the lower yards, they found the
yard limits office and the shops sur
rounded by a Gordon of militia.
"By George!" said M'Tosh. They
got quick action, didn't they? l sup
pose it's on the ground of the strike
and possible violence.
Kent spun on his heel, heading for
the electric car they had just left
Back to town." he said, unless
you two want to jump the midnight
Overland as it goes out and get away
while you can. If Callahan falls
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02

THE WORLDS TAILEsr MAN.-lvan
Machnow Is the tallest man that has
ever lived, for he stands feet "a inches
in his socks and weight 2S0 pounds
although he is only % years Of age
This extraordinary man WIS born ir
Charkoff, Russia.
When he was years old he was as
big as an ordinary man. At II years
of age he was feet inches, and al
IA he was 8 feet inch. When al
Warsaw Machnow was drafted as
recruit of the Imperial guard, but he
quietly slipped over the frontier te
avoid serving.
His Journeys are not source 'oi
pleasure to him, for both IN the trair
and on the boat he has 10 spend mos'
of his time in a recum5ent position
He was met at London by van COM
fortably upholstered and fitted with
hugh couch for the giant to recline
on and drawn by four horsss.-Pau
Pioneer Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-02
Blake Turns on Dutch.


Blake defeated him again, Feb. 1920.
1853, off Portsmouth, destroying eleven
men-of-war and thirty merchantmen;
again off the North Foreland, June 2,
driving the Dutch into Calais roads,
and on July 81 took final revenge by
crushing the fleets Of Holland and kill
ing their admiral.
At the battle Of Camperdown. south
of the Texel. Holland, Oct. IL, l7s7'
England again conquered the Dutch
on the sea. and ended their aspirations
for maritime power. Duncan COM
manded the British and De Winter the
Dutch, fifteen of the latters ships be-
ing captured or destroyed. But at La
Hogue the Dutch were the allies OF the
British and helped them to defeat the
French, thus averting a descent upon
the English coast, and probable inva-
sion of the island. The battle took
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11
SANTA CLARA
 NOW IN PORT
Steamer Arrives from Seattle With Passengers and Much
 Freight

Steamer Santa Clara, Capt. Schage, arrived in port shortly before two o'clock yesterday, seven days out from Seattle, She brought full cargo of general supplies for the Alaska Cent ral beside some freight for local business houses. She also brought 100 tons of coal for the coast survey steamer Patter- son. The vessel left Valdez Wednes- day morning at nine, as reported by cable, but she spent twelve hours unload ing lumber at Fort Liscum and left there at 10!50 that night,
 Among the passengers on the Santa Clara was J. R. VanCleve, master me- chanic of the Alaska Central, who went outside to purchase machinery for the railroad. He was accompanied by Mrs. Van Cleve and their two children.
 Among the freight brought on the Santa Clara was saw mill and machine shop supplies for the Alaska Central, purchased by Mr, Van Cleve, This is only part of the machinery bought by him for the railroad. A new cylin- der press and other office supplies for the Gateway also came on the steamer.
 The Santa Clara left Seattle the morning of August 3. Her only stops were at Ellamar, Valdez and Fort Lis chm. She reports that the Edith sail ed for Seward August 1 by the outside passage, bringing material for railroad construction.
 The frSt-claSs passenger list of the Santa Clara for Seward, numbering twentyone, was as follows; G. w. Ma, honey, James Butler, I. R. Grouse and two children, H. E, Grouse, P. Burling, B. C. Kingsbury, L. M. Turner, Will Griffith, H. N. Summers, J. H. Quinn A. Lambeth, J. R. VanCleve, Mrs VanCleve and two children, Mrs, Me, Innes. w. Armstrong, w. H. Hickey B. C. Taylor. Fifteen steerage pass, engers were also carried.
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STEAMER VALENCIA ARRIVES

Steamer Valencia arrived in port Monday at } a. m. with 443 men to owork on the Alaska Central. She also brought 9 horses and several hundred tons of supplies for the railroad comm issary. Men were placed on trains and sent to the front as fast as they could be ticketed through. About l50 were sent around to Seldovia and from there taken up to Turnagain Arm to work on that part of the line.
 Among those who were billed for the railroad on the Valencia was women who gives the name of Mrs. $. E. Curtis. She cut her hair short, dressed in men'S clothes, and with a pipe in here mouth passed muster with the employment agent and at the gangplank of the steamer. On board however, her sex was discovered and she was transferred to the cabin, wheer she resumed female attire. She was travelling with bar ber named Young, who, she says she intends to marry. Both will remain in Seward.
 The Valencia also brought one stow away, a boy of l4, who has obtained job as water boy.
 The Valencia made fast trip. She left San Francisco July 3l at 6:36 p. m. She reached the enterance of Resur- rection bay at 10 p. m. Sunday, but did not4come inside until day light because no one on board had ever navigated the bay. She belongs to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
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ALASKA NEWS
 CONDENSED
Mining and Other Items from all Over the Territory, Collected
 and Boiled Down.

There are indications that the opcr- ation of profitable quartz mines which always follow the working out of placer fields in mining countries will not be so far behind the van of civilization in the Panama as usually is the case. There are several large crews sinking shafts and driving tunnels into the Pedro dome discoveries and it is said the prospects are getting better all the time. Capt. Barnette, who is working many men in the quartz claims, is con- fident that the Panama will be noted for its quartz production as greatly aS for its placer output within few years.
 Swiftwater Bill is again to the front, having struck rich pay on his Gateo City ptoperty on the Panama. It k said he is now maintaining two homes, one at Fairbanks. the other at Gates City, and lives in pomp and oriental splender. He certainly is. to quote his own language, de swiftest ting dat ever hit de country"
 A genuine quartz proposition has been discovered in the Little Windy Arm country, on the upper Yukon, ten miles from Carbon Crossing, on the White Pass X Yukon Railway. The ledge extends for ten miles and coor Mir. Conrad, the owner, in the neigh borhood of $25,0OO. He expects to ship 100 tons of gold and silver ore daily. and all told declares he has the great. est mining proposition to be found any where in Alaska.
 Eight million dollars is the sum which the operators from the Panama country claim will come out of that dis trict this year. They say that the gold is there ready for shipment as the result of the season s cleanup, and that the Panama will surprise the world be- fore it's resources are anywhere near exhausted.
 J. J. Underwood of the Nome News has charge of the Seward PeniSula eN- hibit at the Lewis Sl Clark fair, which is said to be one of the mort attractive there.
 The exhibit for the most paat is min eral and there are samples of pay dirt from l3G different creeks winh an ounce sample of gold from them, There are also two tons of tin ore from fifteen diff ferent mines. Also coal, galena and tale. He also has very good eXhibi- tion of the flora of that part of Alas ka. as well as birds and fish. An inter- esting feature of the display is 5000 worth of Alaska furS. This exhibit was gathered by the Nome Chamber of Commerce, which raised 83,5O0 for the purpose.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11

|a>Ea canneries will have a larger
 og.re salmon pack this year than according to Capt. Jarvis, manager ae Northwestern Fisheries canner-
 ae says the Bristol bay pack will f4y exceed that of last season. lmgnik cannerieS, which had a
 run last season, will have about >.me output as in 1904, Other can e' generally will show an increased h. The run will close about the Of August. Capt. Jarvis sailedfOr Dez on the Bertha. A little later ''Il proceed doEH the coast to in canneEy operations.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11

The strike on Trail creek which re- suited in small stampede to that place some days ago is showing up very favor ably. Mir Babbage the jeweler who staked the original looators reports that the two foot ledge has been un- covered for 300 feet. From present in- dications the gold will run from $500 to $500 to the ton. Ten pounds of the quartz in which no gold was visible to the naked eye was puIverized and $l extracted as a insult. The quartz is a white parphoty carrying ffee gold. Mr. Graham of the firm of Baggage x Ora ham left on the Portland Sunday stof Juneau where he will purchase if pos sible three stamp mill which is locat- ed there.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11
Building Work is Active

Building operations have assumed additional activity since the arrival of a large stock of lumber on the Port land and Bertha. Work which has been suspended because of lack of ma terial has been renewed, and start has been made on several new buildings.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11
COAL EXPERT HERE
Comes to Investigate Deposits
 Along the Matanuska

William Griffith, the mining engin- ger and coal expert from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who arrived in Seward on the Santa Clara, was sent by Pres ident Frost of the Alaska Central to make an exhaustive examination of the coal deposits of the MatanuSka. He will sail for Seldovia on the Excelsior and go around by Cook Inlet to the re- zion he is to investigate. He stated last night that he had no instructions except to learn everything possible of the coal measures of the Matanuska and report hi, opinion. He will prob ably be engaged six weeks in the work.
 Mr. Griffith saw President Frost in Chicago as he came through that city. He says that Nlr. Frost did not definite ly inform him that he will visit Sew ard this fall but Mir. Griffith under stands that if he comes it will be very soon.
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11
Wants a Cool Place

B. c. Kingsbury, wealthy mining operator of Spokane, came on the Santa Clara to get away from the heat of the Inland Empire, which he says was sOmethihg fierce when he left spokane late in July. He will return on the ExcelsieN
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11
MacArthur Ia Port

The coast survey steamer McArthur, Capt. Densen, arrived in port late yesterday afternoon and will remain until Monday, when she will sail for Cross Sound to engage in survey work there,
Seward gateway., 1905-08-11

A party of Detroit spectators headed by Wm. L. McAlpine of that place, passed through here on the southward trip of the Portland. They have spent the past few weeks at Anchor point on Cook Inlet where they located l25 coal claims of 16O acres each. The party recordered their claims during their stopover here and stated that they would open work extensively in the spring. It is their intention to rush the work of development and tofurther that end they will put on steamer of their own to carry their products to Sounds markets.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-15
By ELEANOR LEXINGTON.

~ s. . H p 80 - y - " -
Another forefather was Ralph Chap
man, who came over in the Elizabeth
in 1875. His marriage with Lydia Wells
is the first che recorded In the town Of
Duxbury. It was one Of these early
fathers who recorded upon his wife'a
tombstone that she was
"A good woman, en- the people
IL witness; q better daughteN
4. As her parents, are witnesseal
A most excellent wife.
4 As her husband Is wttnssE
Second to none IN pisty. !.
As God is. witness"
The Chapmans settled In virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, as well as
in New England: The Virginia family
G man poen W u Vans in sa a9 be ona
governor Of Alabama Another Of Yir-
GINA Is famous sons was Nathaniel
Chapman, who was the first president
Of the American Medical association,
and stood at the head of his profession.
A southern poet and author was John
.Abney Chapman, whose grandfather,
Giles, came from Yorkville to. Virginia
with him is still in good preservation
and is probably the oldest Bible. OF fhe
King James version in the United
States.
The Chapmans were always ready:to
shoulder their muskets. We find repre-
sentatiEes in all Of the Indian wars and
in the great struggle for Independence.
Jabez CHAPMAN Of East Haddam was
an officer in the Revolution and one
tion Of the United States in 1888. Rev.
Jedediah Chapman was called the rebel
preacher by the British, and he was
such an outspoken patriot that reward
was offered for his head. A band OF
forty. took an oath that they would
neither sleep nor eat until he was in
their power, but she always outwitted
them. Upon one occasion he was pur-.
sued by British soldiers and was nearly
in their grasp, but, reaching the top Of
hill. he turned and waved his hat to
them. This saved the day for the
preacher, for the soldiers supposed that
the American army was near, but hid
turned and galloped away. The "rebel
preacher was chaplain in Che army.
Not less than sixteen different
branches Of the family are designated
in Burke's Armory by their respective
| coats-of-arm Those of London and
Yorkshire families are in the main alike
"a crescent for the. arms and the same
motto as that given in the reduction,
which is the coat-of-arms borne by the
Chapmans of Whitby. This is also the
arms Of the Irish branch. The shield is
per chevron ardent and, gules, cres-
cent counterchanged. Crest, a dexter
arm, endowed, habited in mail, hold
ing in the hand broken fitting spear,
entitled with a chaplet Of laurel. Motto,
| Crescit Sub Pondere Virtus 20 Vir-
4 tue grows under the imposed wright, ,
/ or seVirtue increases under affection.
The crescent is token Of the crusaders,
and it also signifies one who has been