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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
BROOKLYN BRIEFS.

James Malone spent Independence day at the shore.
 Mir and Mrs Tyr of Third street have returned from the shore.
 MT and Mrs William Johnson are spending vacation ill New York.
 John Derwin and Michael Tier nan spent the Fourth in New Haven.
 John Roach and Charles Mccoy of Ansonia are visiting friends In this sec tion.
 Miss Kathryn Donahue of Bank street is visiting friends at South Nor walk,
 Miss Margaret Mitchell of Bank street is entertaining Miss Delaney of New York
 MT and Mrs Savard of Highland avenue are entertaining relatives from Torrington.
 Miss Anna Donahue of Bridgeport is the guest of Miss Mollie Lord of Third street.
 Thomas Delaney of South Leon ard street is spending few days in New Haven,
 John Lucy and Michael Herbert of New Haven have been visiting friends in this section.
 Miss Mary Dunne of Ansonia is the guest of Miss Murphy at South Riverside street.
 Mrs Almas of Bank street is enter taining friends from Torrington dur ing the holidays.
 Miss Susan Doherty of Railroad Hill street has as her guest, Miss Helen Malloy of New Haven.
 Joseph Dwyer of Bank street has returned home after spending few days with his father in Torrington.
 Miss Sadie Spender has returned to her home on Highland aven!e after q pleasant vacation spent ill New Ha- ven.
 Miss Mary Stokes of Leonard street after an extended vacation, spent i'll Kingston, Pa., has returned home.
 John Byron of Charles street has | returned from Scranton, Penn, where 1 he attended a meeting of the retail l COdl utdleIS dSSOCldliOlis
 -Michael Blanstield of Popular ave and George Stokes of Riverside street graduates of the law department of Vanderbilt University, are spending a two months vacation at their homes.
 Miss Lena Wood, student at the New Haven hospital is spending two weeks vacation in this city. During her stay here she will be the guest ot Mir and Mrs Charles Gensler of Ben Mohr.
 William Lallier, a popular mem Der of the Brooklyn Athletic club, now playing short stop on the New Haver | base ball team was completely SET ! prised yesterday afternoon. Just be fore the game between the Meriden and New Haven teams at Savin Rock was called the umpire, Horning, pre- sented William with gold watch. the gift of the members of the Brooklyn l Athletic club as a token of their appre citation for his work. William Dwyel | also member of the same club was presented with a gold ring.
 A good many syringes and other rubber goods are made merely to sell our goods are made to give enduring service. If any fault is found in ma terial or workmanship. we will re place the article To assurance o' worthy quality we add also the ad vantage of an assortment which iE cludes practically every kind o syringe made. A. c. Walker, 156 Bans street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
Koch. Boon to sou,h Africr.

BERLIN, July 5.-Another important discovery has been made by Professor Robert Koch. The professor is now at Iringa. German Southwest Africa. and in telegram from that place an nounces that he has found the origin of the tsetse disease in trypanosomata microbes in the body of the tsetse fly. It may now he possible to stamp out the tsetse disease. which annually causes the loss of an enormous number of cattle
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
prob,nr Death of wadsworth.

ISLAND FALLS. Me. July 5.-The town officers of Patten are investigat- ing the death of John Wadsworth of Mount Chase. whose body was found in the woods near his home with bull let hole in the head. It was supposed at first that he had committed suicide, but now the authorities believe that he was killed. possibly by accident.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
Flood on the Bad River.

PIERRE. s. D.. July 5.-HaIf the people of Pierre are without homes here on account of the food which has been raging on the Bad river. The crest of the food swept fifteen houses into .,,e swollen waters of the Mis- souri. and many narrow escapes from death are reported. but SO far as known no lives have been lost.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
Gun Firing Accident at Boston.


 BOSTON, July 5.-During the cere- mony of firing the national salute of forty five guns at Fort Warren. Bos- ton harbor. the charge of the sixteenth round exploded prematurely. injuring two privates of the Ninety-sixth com pany, coast artillery. one probably fa- tally. Private James J. Buckley. who was placing the blank shell in the breech Of six pounder, was fright fully injured. The explosion tore his left arm nearly to the shoulder, and the flying particles struck him in the face. shattering the bones of his chin. His face and other parts of the body were bruised and burned by the pow der.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
How Eight Convict. Celebrated.

TACOMA. Wash. July 5.-Eight con- victs escaped from the federal peniten- tiary on McNeilrs island yesterday. leaving the island in two small boats. Before embarking the convicts disabled the government launch by destroying the dynamo. and the officers were un- able to take up the pursuit for several
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
IaaInusr Cnused Mnrder

CAMDEN. \. l.. July 5.-Antonio Grockosski was shot and killed by Jo- seph wIsnusiski here during a quarrel over attentions Grockosski paid Mrs. wisnusiski. The murderer waited the coming of the police and admitted the crime
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
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PORTLAND. Ore. July 5-Senator Mitchell has been found guilty by jury here of the offeRse charged against him. for which he has been on trial several days. that of accepting money for practising as a lawyer be- fore the courts of the federal govern
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
aerars Nat Brak.n.

CHICAGO. July 5.-Returns ID to midnight last night. covering Fourth of July fatalities. accidents and fires. show that q are dead and 53s injured on account of the celebration Like figures a year ago showed 4s fatalities and 1-545 injured
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
sson,,. a Canal Director. Held.

STAMFORD. Conn. July ST. F. Shonts of Chicago. chief of the Pana- ma commissioners. has been arrested rera on a charge of violating the auto mobile speed law. He had party of women with him and covered an eighth of a mile in twenty-five seconds, 1t is alleged.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
How the B. R. IT. Celebrated

NEW YORK. July 5.-It was esti- mated that more than 100000 fares were collected yesterday by the Brook lyn Rapid Transit company. The use of discarded rolling stock was resorted to. causing amusement to some and consternatiOn to those who saw such cars for the first time in the streets.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
w,,,r yonp,or.. uo,her pyi.s.

NEW YORK. July 5.-Mayor Ton l.. Johnson of Cleveland is at the bed side of hi. mother. Mrs. Helen John son. at Fort Hamilton Mrs Johnson who is in her eIghtiefh year. is not eD peeted to live many days She is sui ferinz from the infrmities of old ass.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
L,ss,. s,.cI Ma. pss rs.

NEW YORK. July 5-Ihe postmae ter at Mariners Harbor. found wound ed and senseless. told a story of being knocked senseIe<s by a little bIact man and his ofsce robbed of s1-20 h cash and stamps
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
Bnrn-d the Cxar In Emsr.

BOSTON. July 5.-A number of Rus sian residents of this city celebrated Independence day hy burning Emperor Nicholas in etigy at Arlington Heights. The effxv. carefully concealed. was carried from this city to the place of demonstrsfiOn-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
s,s.a.e.. Cane while a.se~p.

IDALIA. Colo. July 5.-Bryan Gil lespie. seven years old. son of T. B. Gillespie. has lost his eyesixhf while asleep. Physicians are unable to deter nine the cause of his plindne1s-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05
E,eur.ioni,t Dro~ned ct Hop.see.s.

LAKE HoPATCoNG. \. J. July :. In sight Of hundreds of excursionists from New York and other points David Jonss. eighteen years old. of Richarf-s Mine- near Wharton. N T. was drown here For ho1re crowd watched at tempts to rescte the body by diving and dF7zzns il it- bat 1t has not been recoreud-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-05

Taft sxa Party ss sns Frnrefseos
 SAN FRANCISCO. July 5->erefs Ey of War Taft and Philippine - party. inciuding NIss Hoeoevelk e sovuG h 0b dty 1ngt GGnG
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c..trn Rename. H.r.rif.

CARACAS. VenezueIs- July 5-By set of the venezueisn congress Presi- dent Castro has been authorized to use the oncsal title of 'restorer of yenexs- e1n-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11

went at once to a vacant log cabin on
1875 feet from the recorders Office. | had
brought a sheet iron stove in the sledge
from Nome. The cabin had floor, but
no lathing whatsoever. The thermome-
ter was sixty below zero when we
opened the door-cold much more in
tense indoors than out and much less
endurable.
"In my frozen, famished condition
set up the stove and built a fire. then
closed the cabin and went up to the
Office, from a window of which l soon
discovered that the cabin was on fire.
The Esquimaux of the village turned
out with buckets of water, which froze
two inches on the floor the moment it
struck it. The cabin was saved. but
there was no sleeping in 1t that night.
I was put up in a hut with an Esqui-
mau who cooked for the judge, and
there for ten nights 1 slept on mat
tress on the floor before the fire. 1t was
an awful experience, but we had plenty
of good Venison steaks The cabin on
the river cost me $500, and 1t is still
my home. 1 have many comforts now,
including a rubber bathtub and cellar
1 live there, as 1 have always, alone
with my dog Faust. He's a water
spaniel, and 1 have had him for fifteen
years. He is a better sentinel and a
more intelligent companion than a bat
TALON of soldiers"
After two weeks of typewrting Miss
Fitz was made deputy practically the
recorder. for when her ability was dis
covered all work, ii not the respon-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11
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sibility of the office. was thrust upon
her.
"And the mining company"
1T got my first two months salary as
deputy" said Miss Fitz. "Then the
contract was ended. | was free. The
spirit of the country, the fever of pos
session, seized me-"
AS deputy recorder every mining
claim In the district of Council City
passed through Miss Fitz's hands. Hers
was the power of notary to draw up
contracts, etc. During her two years
term of Office she made an abstract of
the whole of Ophil creek. Council City
is located at it's mouth. Patiently,
laborously she went through all the
records, during those long Arctic
demons, to see if any claim had been
overlooked, lapsed or Jumped"
when prospector grub stakes,
that is, finds a bit of land that he thinks
has gold" explained Miss Fitz, "he
marks it with four stakes and has his
claim to it recorded by the deputy"
The law exacts nothing from the grub
stalker the first year, but if he fails to
work his claim the second year to the
extent of 800 he forfeits possession
and the next person that stumbles upon
the ground may claim it as his prop
erty. When a newcomer sees snow
coming on and the river closing up he
is liable. in the vernaeular of the region
''to get cold feet" He will do anything
TO get out of the country-sell or jumI
his claim. In this way claims upor
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11

the rough timbers. They say boards
grow soft from sleeping on them," she
smiled, but don't you believe it.
"The thermometer was always 40 to
so below zero. No one that has not
encountered it can realize the cold of
Alaska. During eight months all COM
munication with the outside world is
cut off, all waterways are frozen over.
We were more than hundred miles
from Nome where 1 learned the re-
corder had gone. There were no cross
roads no trail save one buried in snow.
I hired a team of Esquimau dogs and
driver who reluctantly undertook the
journey. l was strapped like bag of
wheat to the body of a sledge with
ropes of reindeer. Then blankets were
piled on and finally a canvas, the
whole holding me in so tight l could
scarcely breathe. Seven miles from
Council City we struck the most awful
blizzard known to that region of bliz-
yards. Dogs, sledge and guide were
blown time and again off the trail.
Four days and nights of this awful
| SlTuBBle against COlu Wluu ana SNOW
drifts finally brought us to Nome
There was then but a single road house.
today there are road houses every ten
miles
Rlgors of an Active Winter
my face was literally frozen. The
physical discomforts and suffering were
unspeakable. But all was forgotten
when 1 saw the recorder and made
known my burning, rather freezing,
want" smiled Miss Fltz. brave in a
Fifth avenue Easter hat, her dainty
person giving no hint of the savagery
through which she had passed. "The
recorder said he wanted man. OF
course I knew that before setting out.
Finally he agreed to take me into his
office as typewriter With that assur-
ance 1 went back to Council City over
the same trail, meeting everywhere in
creased hardships. The dogs were al
most as badly frozen as /. Provisions
} gave out-the whole is too horrible to
} recount, then no one would believe 1t,
} she laughed.
. There was no hotel. lodging house
no accommodations in Council City. j
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11

I claims have been and continue to be
Jumped"
| In making an abstract of Ophir creek
during the first year as deputy recorder
| (1901-O2) Miss Fitz found from seventy
| five to eighty claims that had lapsed
or been Jumped The law entitled
her to them. She hired miners and sur
veyors to stake the ground, retaining
one-third interest in each claim as her
share.
1.-THE claims were on what is called
low ground" said Miss Fitz. ITO work
! them would require large machinery
which | had not the money to buy. L
sold nv shares to a mining company,
taking cash and notes for payment of
the balance. 1t was my first bowling
acquaintance with fortune"
jealousy Aroused
Up TO this time as typewriter and
| government servant Miss Fitz fioated
amicably with the flotsam and jetsam
that make up the isolated life of the
north country, but when it became
known that she had a few dollars
ahead-dollars made in ventures on
which able bodied men had staked in
many instances their all, the enVious
and disgruntled found a target. She
was charged with using the recorder
office for graft 1.-The books are open
for inspection" said Miss Fitz to the
malcontents. Anybody may exam
inc them and claim what he finds. II
you spent nights for months, as
have, digging into the records instead
of drinking and card playing at sa-
looms, my finds might have been
yours" But the disgruntled were not
to be placated.
Their charge was taken to the judge
a: Nome.
"Thats a mighty clever little woman
you've got down to Council" said the
judge in giving his decision. "She's
earned what she's got. The law gives
it to her. and / hope she'll get all
there's in it,"
But my first real luck" smiled the
fascinating little "grubber," "came with
my last discovery. 1 was poring ove'
the records one night by the light of
murky lamp-it's never daylight but
two hours at midday during Alaskas
six winter months-when a poor lg-
norant miner came into the cabin.
"Look it up, Miss Fitz,' he said. !
know it's there somewhere in the bend
of ophir, bit of ground-hidden
treasure. II you find 1t for me I'll give
Won a one-fourth interest"
In following the miners directions
Miss Fitz discovered that ophir creek
had been surveyed in 1898, when the
stream was covered with snow. In the
chart It followed a straight line, but, as
the miner had said, at certain point
the creek made horseshoe bend. Al
the ground within the bend, the records
} disclosed had been staked save a little
triangle lost between two larger claims
; A Deal In Mines
"Before morning" said Miss Fitz, 81
drew up deed. which the miner signed
giving me fourth interest. That day
the ground was staked and christened
One sunday some time after the minei
, came TO my cabin. He was drunk, dis
heartened, and declared he was goins
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11
THE VILLAIN IN A FIX

Now, then! Your hands are tied.
q wish this act was through.)
So wretched girl, to say 1 lied,
That l was false to you.
Wen see who's false before the night.
(My wig is getting loose
I wish they'd turn that calcium light
Ahal I've found a moose.
Now girl I'll strangle thee and throw
(Oh, lordl the trap doors tight)
ri hide thee where no one will go.
(That cue came out all right.)
But bark! The hounds are scenting me.
Hear how the echo rings!
Farewelll 1 dash me to the sea,
CAT last I'm in the ''wings").
FRANK ]. ALSDORF.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-06-11
THEY were discussing spring fash

THEY were discussing spring fash
ions in the lobby of the woman S
hotel. Varied trades and profess
sions and leisure ladies had their say
in the eternally feminine way when a
breezy little woman Clipped in: "Oh
bother it all! Come to my country,
where no one cares whether sleeves are
big at top or bottom, skirts plain or
fiounced, hat on straight Or
"Joy!" chorussed the lobby.
Council City" said the little wo-
man with shining eyes.
Hundreds of men to one woman and
untold gold-to get!'
And from that Adamful Eden you
come to a woman's hotel?"
"Antidote," smiled Miss Frances Fitz,
famed in Nome and Council districts.
"Came here yesterday, but leave to-
morrow--leave to work my claims"
Claims? How lovely! Christian
scientst?"
Claims on Ophir Creek, Alaska"
"Oh!" wheezed a buXom healer.
1t was Miss Frances Fitz's second
visit east since the summer of 1900,
when, as typewriter, she embarked
with mining company in quest of
gold on the shore of Nome. Today the
erstwhile typewriter holds controlling
interest in several claims covering
forty acres of as rich mining land as
skirts Ophir Creek, Alaska's longest
and richest gold stream.
How this brave little woman, low
voiced, modest but masterful, fell into
these claims after hardships and perils
that CONCEAL the blood and make the
hair stand on end, how she organized
last August a company and disposed OF
stock, retaining herself a controlling
interest, then came to buy hydraulic
machinery in the states, from which
she has now sailed for Council City
four thousand miles-to pay dividends
in October, is red blood romance and
adventure before which book mad,
"best sellers" are anaemic.
IF a third of the dangers and dis.
comitures through which l passed ii
the pioneer days of 1900 and 1901 wer,
told" said Miss Fitz thoughtfully, INC
one would believe them. How 1 liveC
through some of them is now a mystery
to me. Indeed, comers of 1908 and 100
might easily question the veracity o
my past experience. so great. are tn
changes five years have wrought in tn,
Nome country"
Made money!"
Gold in TypeWritinu
"Of course / made money-bil
money" she said, from the first day
set foot on Alaska, but it all went tn,
first eighteen months into the treasur,
of the mining company that took m
there. 1t was in the contract tha
every penny 1 earned In Alaska durin,
that stipulated time should go to tn
company. 1 was an expert typewrite
and an experienced bookkeeper. A
company after company came in an
litigations multiplied my services wer
at a premium. had practically every
thing my own way. You see was tn
only typewriter in sight. 1 paid $50
week rent for corner in a lawyer
log cabin at Council City. and IS for
rough deal table to put the machine OF
l got as high as $3.50 a page; to thi
day never less than fifty cents a hun
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to sell out his share. My chance had
come, but the poor fellow was too
drunk to know what he was doing. To
protect him from himself told him to
come to the office Wednesday, and it
he still wanted to sell would buy him
out. 1 felt sure by that time he would
have sobered and changed his mind.
The appointed day he showed I'D. still
the worse for liquor and boisterous in
MS desire to sell and leave the country.
carpenter was fixing shelves in the
Office. He overheard the miners threat.
and before I realized what was being
done the carpenter had bought the
miners claim, and as deputy I had TO
draw up the papers, apparently sign
ing away my first tangible passport TO
fortune. The carpenter was now nv
partner
Later the surveyor came to me, say
ing he believed there was more land
coming to me than the stake indicated.
While he was surveying my ground
Joe King, the Monte Cristo owner OF
the adjoining claim, employed nv man
to survey his ground. King insisted
that stake we supposed belonging to
Joe Kings claim was the boundary line
OF mine. A resurvey of the whole c)n-
tlrmed the truth of King y assertion and
verified the surveyors suspicion.
I'm this way I came into possession
of the triangle-'Frances.' 1t didn't
seem worth while imparting the good
news and when the carpenter got cold
feet I bought him OUT
Miss Fitzs term as deputy recorder
claims she bided her time for the third.
1t came last February to complete this
gold trilogy in the colorful life of this
plucky little woman, bent upon getting
out of her possessions wherewithal to
comfort her mothers old age and teach
the Esquimau to cook and to educats
him to be more humane in the treat
ment of his faithful friend-the dog.
News came to Council last Febru-
ary." said Miss Fitz, that Joe King
| d
which city he had come from San Fran
cisco, where he had lost heavily on ths
races. 1t was rumored that he wanted
to sell his claim. The man he counted
upon had his money tied up in other
properties. Joe wanted cash. With
enough of money to clinch a bargain J
went to Seattle and met the famous
rough diamond of the gold field.
Securing the Mine
ITO make and lose large fortunes, as
everybody in the north country knows,
is Joe Kings joy. He has heart big
as Alaska. Enamoured of a vaudeville
singer of Nome he erected for her on
his claim a $1,000 log cabin and fitted
1t up with brass beds, piano, and lux
uries of the east. Mrs King is a pretty,
dark-eyed, clever, refined young
woman, and her devotion to the big,
uncouth miner is one of life's anomalies.
had always admired Mrs. King and
had been kind to her when she drove
III her dog team 10 my newspaper
office. Big Joe King remembered 1t
the day made known my desire to pos
sess his claim. There is nothing dearer
in the world to the big fellow than
the little woman he was obliged to
leave on the coast and who had writ
ten to him that day to let her como
to him. Turning a deaf ear to higher
bids, Joe King decided me his claim"