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Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

"A team belonging to Christian Fischer
ran away yesterday morning, but was
stopped near the Flick blacksmithing
shop before it had time to do any dam
age. Outside of broken single-tree no
injury was done to the wagon or horses.
The vehicle was loaded with wet goods
and these were iolted around consider.
able.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Harrington & Ross have decided to
discontinue business and are selling out
their large stock of groceries at great
reduction. The young men have con-
Quoted store in this city for the past
three years and many will regret to
learn of their sudden retirement.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

The Hazard brothers have disposed Of
their pharmacy in Pueblo, the sale hav-
ing been made this week. Their reason
for selling was not due to poor business,
as they enjoyed splendid patronage,
but as neither Of the gentlemen is a
practical druggist they were not in a
position to attend to the store and con-
duct the business as they wanted to.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Some parties from Boulder will COM
mence camp meeting in large tent at
the head of Main street Wednesday
evening, July 5th. Everybody will be
welcome. Come and bring someone
with you.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Mine workers should not overlook the
display ad Of the Iron City Mill. It's
of interest.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

The county commissioners will meet
Monday in regular monthly session as
usual, provided the attractions on the
streets during the celebration are not
too much for them to pass up.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Everything in the fireworks line can
be found at Rapin's.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. P. R
Some Monday, occasioning much Joy in
the Some household.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Watermelons at IIawley's-iust from
Texas. They're nice.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

A. B. Church, travelling passenger
agent OF the G. e. S. railway, arrived in
the city Tuesday morning on business.
Mr.. Church, in conversation with an
Observer reporter, said his road had had
printed several hundred large streamers,
advertising the celebration to be held
here next week, and was distributing
them at various points along the line
from whence We expect to draw crowds.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Fred Warwick, who fell and dislocated
his hip in Denver a week OF more ago
while skating at Manhattan is improving
rapidly and will be able to be about
shortly. He is confined in one OF the
hospitals in Denver. According to the
statement made by gentleman who is
familiar with the manner in which Mr..
Warwick was injured. the latter had
only had the skates on few times, but
was learning so rapidly he was teaching
others to do little fancy skating. He
had cut all the characters in the alpha
bet on the slippery rink, but that was a
little too tame for him and he thought
he would execute some fancy move.
ments Of a more difficult nature. He
succeeded nicely in cutting the figure
eight backwards with no trouble what
ever, but it was in trying toscut the
Dutch roll where he met with the mis-.
hap. Even in this intricate undertak.
ing Mr.. Warwick would have accom-
plished his desire, 80 the Observers 10.
formant states, had his feet not attempt.
ed to change places with his head.
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

A mother sent her small boy to the
country, and after week Of anxiety re-.
ceived this: II got here all right, but l
forgot to write before. A feller and ]
went out in a boat and the boat tipped
over and man got me out. l was go
full OF water that didn't know any.
thing for long time The other boy
has to be buried after they find him. A
horse kicked me over and I have to have
some money for fixing my head. We're
going to set barn on fire tonight and
should smile IL we do not have some
bully fun. am going to bring home q
tame woodchuck II can get il in my
trunk."-Exchapge
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

A marriage license was issued to q
popular young couple of this city last
week and il is stated that while "Barkis
was willin'" the young lady, before the
services Of minister were called into
requisition, weakened, and said she
didn't think she could stand the trying
ordeal Of a plunge into the matrimonial
waters. Hence no write-up OF the an
ticipated nuptials appears in this issue
Gilpin observer., 1905-06-29

Mr.. ]. G. Nixon, president Of the
Rhoderick Dhu mine at Nevadaville,
spent last Friday in close inspection Of
the mills OF the city. He was especially
interested in the Waltham Cyanide
plant. He states that ground is broken
at Black Hawk for a cyanide plant Of
l25 tons capacity and that many of the
operators OF Gipin county are making
extended investigations into the process,
as to its application to such ore as they
produce. At the Perigo mine cyanide
plant Of large capacity is being built at
the present time and will be in com
mission before the end OF the season.
Idaho Springs Gazette.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
Japanese Dwarf Trees.

In Japan are some very remarkable
trees They are hundreds of years
old and not a hundred inches high.
The most marvellous collection is in
Count Okumas garden, near Toxic
Here are pine trees that started to
grow in the seventeenth century, that
at the dawn of the twentieth century
are not too large to be carried in one
hand, pot and all. Others, whose seed
was planted about the time when Co
lumbus sailed for America, are already
outstripped by saplings planted year
before last
In another place is a grove of lili-
putian plum trees, gnarled and knotted
and twisted by centuries of wind and
weather, that are none Of them too
large to grace a dinner table, as they
often do when in full bloom. More
marvellous still, there are other little
trees, probably planted in the early
Sixties" that are still thriving Git is
too much to say "growing") in a tea
cup, while others planted before Cleve-
lands last term in office have not out
grown a lady's thimble.
The Japanese are past masters in
the art of dwarfing trees. They nip
off the trees roots and pinch its limbs
and starve it with little soil and let
it go thirsty and dry, but at the same
time keep the breath of life in it. I'M
til it becomes the veriest travesty of
tree, a manikin vegetable, with the
wrinkled face of an old man on the
legs of a little boy. Infinite patience
and skill and time are given in order
to stunt and dwarf into these gro
tesque growths.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
The aromatic Havana.

Apropos of the real enjoyment of a
cigar Cauthorne. the newspaper cor
respondent, in that most fascinating
story Of THE Tallahassee Cirp:
eff you will permit me. l will
smoke" said he, taking out a curious
cigar case of very fine workmanship.
at does not even amount to kind
ness on my part" she answered: "for
I enjoy the fragrant sweet of good
cigar"
THANK you, can never fully appre-
ciate an open air chat without the
company of this Indian luxury. But
really I am no great smoker. Two or
three day are all l take"
"You must be an exception. Papa
smokes twenty pipes full day, and
most gentlemen are always INDUCING"
eyes. they lose sight of the equisite
part of the thing which is a subtle
pleasure coming only to those who use
tobacco of the finest quality and spar
ingly."
Sometimes I abstain for several days
in order to get the full benefit of a
slow burning Havana"
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA.
UNDER CZAR'S~ RECENT MANI
FESTO, LAST ABSOLUTE MON.
ARCHY DISAPPEARS.
The New Empire Promises to Be a
Regime of Constitutional Liberty
and RepresentatiOn-Victory of the
People Widely Celebrated.

As an outcome Of the tremendous
agitation which has been shaking Rus
sia to the very core, the Gar has sur
rendered and has granted rights
which if consummated, will result in
civil liberty.
1t seemed for a time as though the
history of the French revolution would
be repeated; that the aristocracy and
the bureaucracy driving ahead in
their arrogance and self esteem, would
fail to recognize the overwhelming
force Of the volcano of public senti-
ment surrounding them, and by their
refusal to recognize conditions, plunge
the whole empire into civil war and
anarchy. But the handwriting on the
wall was recognized and the Car
compelled to practically capitulate his
imperial throne. True, promises are
thus, far more in evidence than fulfill
ment, but Count White has apparently
been made the real Russian leader and
much is hoped and expected in the
way Of a peaceful reform.
In old Russia, the Russia OF last
century, Of last year, of last week, the
Car was all powerful. Russia was
the last remaining absolute monarchy.
The policies of the government were
created and enforced by the Car and
his Grand Dukes.
Popular representation was fragile
promise. Free speech was under the
ban; freedom Of the press was I'M
known. Even all private mail was
subject to censorship. The prisons
were filed with political offenders.
Imagine casting a man into United
States prison because his political acts
were not relished by the government!
A system Of public espionage fol-
lowed every mans move.
Old Russia was divided into two
classes, the nobility and practical
slaves
Education of the masses was worse
than q farce.
What is promised for Russia?
The abolition Of the rule Of the Ro-
MANOR House.
Freedom of speech guaranteed and
freedom of person inviolable.
A limited monarchy similar to that
OF England with q guarantee of popu-
lar government, with cabinet respon-
sible to the people, and with suffrage
made almost universal, and with provi-
sion for a representative parliament
and for a general educational system.
The right of f1abeas corpus recog-
nized and the freedom Of the press
assured.
Following the Cars imperial mani
festo outlining the proposed regime of
liberty all Russia celebrated. In st.
Petersburg and Moscow the day was
one such as the Russians never before
had seen. The Slavic people, who dur
ing the long war just closed and the
anxious period preceding the an
nouncement of the new era of constl-
tutionalism, seemed self restrained,
gloomy and apathetic, gave themselves
fully to the eXuberance of the mo-
ment and spent the entire day in pa
rades and assemblies which for the
first time in the history of Russia were
freely permitted.
1t was stated as a significant omen
that after a fortnight of gloomy and
depressing weather, symbolic of the
days of the great strike, the sun shone
out brightly on the date of the Cars
manifesto, bright and radiant In
| dian-summer day.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25


A Giant Fire Cracker.
Watching the government engineers
cutting road along the side of the
canyon for the transportation of sup
plies to build the dam-60,000 barrels
of cement alone will be needed-the
writer observed the explosion of q big
charge Of dynamite, which burst with
roar, echoing up and down the cam
yon with deafening reverberations.
Immediately an oblong granite rock of
some 80 tons weight was torn from
its base and hurled down into the river
hundred feet below. Skaters Of
rock flew in all directions, and q great
splash OF water rose like geyser out
or the black depths of the canyon.
Yet this huge block of granite was
but a baby addition to the family of
boulders which had been detached by
more giant forces of nature, and
thrown into the river bed. A few
hours before we had crawled directly
under this rock in our canyon "explor-
alton" Returning, we were fain to
accept the assistance of one of the
road builders in getting across this
place, looking down the while into the
river boiling below among the rocks.
The engineering credit for this
great project with its great dam,
its enormous spillways, it's noun.
tain road building and its miles of
canals and huge tunnels bored
through the solid rock is due to
Jeremiah Ahern "a government dis
trict engineer who, almost cut off from
the outside world, has taken up his
residence for several years in this wild
canyon, once fastness of the Sho-
shone Indians.
he Government Irrig alton Program
What does all this great irrigation
work OF the government throughout
the west signify? Simply that the
nation has decided to use the money
derived from the sale of western
public lands to make its desert soil of
value, and furnish many home-build-
ing opportunities. 1t means that
many men will find employment in
the construction of dams and canals
in every western community, and that
finally, as the works are completed,
one by one new farm homes will be
esta blished. adding to the nations
wealth and balancing our population
now inclined cityward.
For a thousand years longer this
splendid dam site would likely stand
idle before private capital would de-
velop 1t to its magnificent full capac-
ity, for the difficulties in the way of
the engineers are many and unknown;
but the government will meet all OBJ
stacles and overcome them, and finally
turn over to thousand farmers q
perfect job of engineering, compare
bic to the great works nf' the Peru
Wan Incas, the Egyptian Rameses or
the British engineers of India-an en-
during monument for all time to the
wisdom of the present generation OF
America.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
Huge Precious Stones.

Prior to the discovery Of the South
African diamond few months ago,
weighing in the neighborhood of a
pound and a half, the largest perfect
diamond in the world was that which
was exhibited in Paris, having a value
OF one million dollars. This was the
most valuable stone in the world; the
largest and best ruby in existence is
owned In London, and Is valued al
$4,000. 1t has no parallel, even in
the Crown Jewels, and it is related
that 1t was once carried all the way to
st. Petersburg for the Car to have a
look at. The largest and most beauti.
full cat's-eye In existence weighs one
hundred and seventy carats and Is in
sured for 10000 rupees. The biggest
emerald In the world weighs 2,9SC
carats, and is in the Imperial JeweI
Office in Vienna.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25

Of his men to run up the flag" The
Stars and Stripes were hoisted and
big Alec" as he is known, yelled out,
Now fire and be ID to YOU" The
revenue cutter dipped its flag thrice
and turned away. Several times this
bold navigator has had set-tos with gov
eminent authorities. but short time
ago the Carmencita made a raid on the
copper islands and had a brush with
the revenue patrol, one of the crew be-
ing wounded and sent to Seattle, Wash,
for treatment.
The attention of Mexico having been
called to the illegal acts of the Car
mencita's crew. that government on
November 1, 1904. cancelled the Mex
lean registry. With this taken away
from him. MacLean had the name of
the schooner changed to the Acapulco.
1t is understood that when he dropped
into Drake Bay for supplies he had
only 100 skins on board taken from
the sealing preserves of the Arctic so
that government officials have suspect
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
Will Wed for Love Only.

. Princess Victoria Of England, the
only unmarried daughter of King Ed
ward, declares that If she marries at
all it will be for love. She is thirty
seven years old, and for twenty years
has refused to consider every marriage
proposal suggested by her father, the
King.
eff I marry, it will be to the man Of
my choice" she is reported to have
said. Father, mother, and govern
ment shall not choose for me. 1 will
love the man marry. if ever marry"
This bold declaration by the daughter
Of king has shocked royal and aristo-
cratic circles all over Europe, but II
has been read with delight by the
English people, and 1t appeals equally
to Americans.
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
HUGE IRRIGATION DAM.
ROCK BARRAGE ACROSS NARROW
CANYON IN MOUNTAINS OF
WYOMING.
Government Works Will Store Flood
Waters For Fertilization of One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Des-
ert Acres

A quarter of a century ago the
home Of the buffalo, and later cat
tie and sheep pasture, with an occa-
sional ranch house, the Big Horn
Basin in Wyoming is now the scene OF
a great activity incident to the build
ing of one of the largest of the govern
ment irrigation works. Some years
ago Colonel Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill, made a survey OF the
Shoshone canyon, and in connection
with General Miles, projected a COM
pany to construct a dam and irr1gate
some 10000 acres. The necessary cap
ital however was not forthcoming and
when the national irrigation law was
passed, the government took up the
proposition, and large party Of en-
gineers has since been employed on
the preliminaries of great work or
desert reclamation.
The Shoshone River dashes down
narrow canyon, with jagged and per-
pendicular walls, and at its narrow
est point the government has begun
the construction of the highest dam
ever built. 1t will cement together
The two canyon walls for 240 feet
above the stream bed, and its founda-
ton will go below the water line 81
feet additional, down to the solid bed
rock. The stream, where 1t passes
between these granite canyon walls. is
but 65 feet wide, and the dam will
form q great lake of 5000 acres, with
q watershed of 1850 square miles,
and storing enough water to irrigate
100000 acres through seven miles of
14-foot tunnels bored in the solid
rock.
Little Chance For Land Grabbing.
This will cost about $50 an acre to
be paid back to the government by
settlers, under the business-like pro-
visions of the irrigation law. The land
flood and then boiling over great rocks
itself is free under the homestead act,
and has been reserved by Secretary
Hitchcock from entry under the
Desert and other land laws not requir-
ing actual residence and home-build-
ing.
Few such picturesque and wildly
beautiful scenes can be found as this
Shoshone canyon. The river is sue
cession of foaming, rushing rapids, the
water coursing along in a deep green
flood, and then boiling over great rocks
and boulders in a white surge. Only
for q few hours each day can the sun
find its way to the bottom of this
deeply-cut gorge, the mountain sides
towering into the clouds two and three
thousand feet. From above the dam
site as one looks down at the engin-
GERS working on the founda tons,
directly underneath, they appear like
mimic men.
Giant Forces of Nature.
This Shoshone canyon and its sur
rounding mountains, are one Of
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25

not be in a position to guard their in
eerests, and a raid on the Russian seal.
Ing islands was the real object Of the
cruise. Great Britain, Canada and the
United States have an agreement to
prevent pelagic sealing, so that appar-
emily to protect the ships owner from
prosecution under either United States
or British laws. the ships name was
lchanged to Carmencita and registry
papers taken out in Mexico.
Thirty Devils at Beck and Call.
On May she headed for the north
ern islands, MacI.ean sitting aft, thirty
reckless dare-devils forward and cases
Of repeating rifles and ammunition in
the captains cabin. She had cleared
for Victoria for a cargo, but instead
sailed for the little islands in the Ber-
ing Sea, where it was understood a
new rookery was discovered.
Captain MacLean has had a varied
experience with the authorities, not
only on the Carmencita, but on other
vessels of which he was master. AT
one time a revenue cutter annoyed him
by demanding that his papers be sent
on board for examination. Upon his
refusal the revenue officers threatened
to open fire on him.
Invoked the Stars and Stripes.
MacLean hearing this, ordered one
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25

prosperous homes for themselves and
families, and raise an annual produces
Of a couple or three million dollars.
In the canyon proper the great
forces CT nature have wrought won-
derfully. Enormous granite boulders
have detached themselves from the
mountains and rolled down thousands
of feet crashing their hundreds and
thousands Of tons into the rocky
gorge. Here the river continually
plays upon them, searching out the
seams and splitting them up, and
wearing them away and polishing
them smooth.
The Rock Pile of the World.
In the canyons middle, below the
dam site, the jungle Of rocks in the
narrow river bed appears as though
thousand blasts of giant powder had
rent the mountain sides and tumbled
every rugged projection into the
depths below. There is no dirt or
sand in this river bed; everything is
rock. The imperishable granite, gray,
pink, and vari-colored, Oldest of the
geological formations, made by the
welding of various substances when
the globe was q molten mass; the
later limestones and black volcanic
rocks, conglomerates also melted by
great heat, the hard red sandstone and
it's white and brown contemporaries,
formed from the grindings of other
rocks subjected to enormous pressure,
and lastly the geyserites and sulphur
rocks, soft and honeycOmbed, the re-.
suit Of ceaseless spoutings of steam
and hot water from the earth's bowels
all are found in wonderful profu-
sion.
Below the canyon where the river
runs more peacefully, all these forma-
tons are represented in the huge beds
OF cobble stones and smaller boulders
over which the water plays. The cob
blestones were themselves once Jagged
rocks, detached by wind, water, frost
and sun from their mountain bases.
and rolled and ground by river force
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
DRESS REFORM FOR WOMEN.
Advocate of Practical Walking and
Working Carb-Relief From
Heavy Skirts.
DR. Cora Smith Eaton, of Minneap-

DR.. Cora Smith Eaton, Of Minneap-
oils, Mimi, believes that many of the
suffer are the direct result of the
clothes they wear. She says that in
her professional capacity she tries to
impress upon her women patrons the
need of dress reform. mot the old
time hideous bloomer costume Of
years ago." laughed the doctor, "but
n rational, sensible and beautiful
adaptation of our clothes to our
needs"
"And what are our needs" was
asked.
Normal, unrestricted movement; a
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25

racy in fitting his schooner Car
mencita in violation of the sealing
laws, he was arrested at Victoria, Brit
ish Columbia. The Department of State
received telegram announcing the ar
rest Of a crew made up Of men said
TO be
''As choice a bano of pirates and cut
threats as ever manned a pirate craft
since the days of Captain Kidd"
MacLean'S home has ever been on
the sea; he knows no life but that on
the oeep blue and he finds no enjoy
menL on shore. He has been a rover
and not freight carrier, and any dare
devil enterprise at sea that needed a
strong arm could find an adherent in
Captain MacLean, whether in search
II pirate treasure, running a contra
band cargo or illegally poaching for
seals found him the man; he has had
experience in all. MacLean's ship, the
Carmencita, was formerly the Jenny
Thelin, built in 1869, when speed and
not carrying capacity was desired.
Poaching for Seals.
What the rakish looking schooner
did prior to 1894 had nothing to do
with MacLean's operations, but it was
alleged in April, 1904, that the schooner
was chartered and QUILTED for poach-
ing cruise among the rookeries of the
far north. The Russo-Japanese war be-
ing then uppermost in the minds of the
two nations concerned, it was consid-
cred by the poachers that they would
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25

natures great handiworks. All has
been cut out by the silver stream,
rushing in its bed below. For count
less ages 1t has eaten its way through
granite and limestone, wearing, wear
ing, wearing away. For centuries and
ages il has flowed. ceaselessly and
likewise uselessly on its way to join
the flood of the Missouri; now 1t Is to
be harnessed and made to produce for
man. A thousand farmers will make
Charlevoix county herald., 1905-11-25
Capt. Jeremiah
AkeYn.
though really modification

order, though really modification
Of the Empire.
1t Is a delight to watch the doctor
move about in her brisk, energetic
way. Her body, sensibly clothed,
and beautifully poised, with that fine,
straight line beloved of physical cul-
turists. from the head to the heels, is
responsive to the many demands of
her busy life. 1t would be impossible
for her to accomplish her work, she
says. hampered by the usual style Of
dress