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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
BOSTON CON.


Manager Louis 5. Gates OF the Bos-
ton Consolidated spent yesterday nj
the local offices OF the company on his
way to the properties Of the Newhoilse
Mines & Shelters corporation. Accord.
ing to MI Gates development work on
the former company's property is be-
ing continued as eXpedltiously as pos
sible, and the results arc beyond All
expectation. Nearly 90 square sets of
timber have been raised above the sill
foor with the ore body exposed for As
feet between walls and 50 feet along
the strike
The Nevada stope has just been
started IN block reached by the Pea.
body tunnel and body OF sulphides
running close 10 per cent copper. with
gold and silver al ounting 10 4.i0 ner
ton Is IN view, This Is said to be one
OF the richest pieces OF ground on the
property and big things are looked for
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PLANS TO GET RICH

are often frustrated by sudden break
down, due to dyspepsia or constipation.
Brace up and take DR.. Kings New
Life Pills They take out the materials
which are closglng your energies. and
give you new start. Cure headache
and dizziness too. At z. c. ". l. Drug
Store, il2-ll4 South Main Street: 2sc.,
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JUST BECAUSE

your cough Is only in the throat and doe.
not trouble you now, don't think that y
much of a start Is the time 10 check II.
The slightest cough easily leads TO Pneu-
monia, Bronchitis and Consumption A
bottle Of Billiards. Horehound Syrup will
reach Of all. Sold by Il. G. NJ. |. Drug
Dept, liz and IA South Main Street B
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19

To draw the fire out OF a burn, heal
cut without leaving a scar. or 70 cure
hollis, sores. letter, eczema and all skin
ana scalp diseases, use De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve. A specific for piles. Get
the genuine. No remedy causes such
speedy relief. Ask for Dewitt's-the
genuine.--Sold by II. c. schrarnm.
durggist. where tho cars stop.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
WOOL.
ST. LOUIS,

81. Louis, April lo.--Wool. steady. Ter
ritory and western mediums, 23ass: fine
mediums zln5; fine, 1874.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19

All who desire TO consult the list
OF the representative professors and
music teachers OF Salt Lake should
read the Musicians Directory" In
the Saturday News"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19

F. r Snow g. Co, Stock Brokers
q Commercial Block. Both Phones 1879
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
NEW COPPER DISTRICT.
Pocopah. 20 Miles Northeast OF Bull.
frog Said tn be Very Rich,

Oscar Wilkins has returned from a
prospecting trip to Nevada. He has
made several locations OF rich copper
claims IN new district, Pocopah, about
20 miles northeast of Bullfrog and
within Is miles of the Tonopah railroad,
now being built.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
MUSIC TEACHERS.

Mounts Chow Chow is fine stun; Try
some. Your grocer sells It.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19

- T.. SO, Temple. Tel 9lO Ind. sIo-k
Bell.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19
LIVESTOCK.
CHICAGO.

Chicago. April 9-Cattle--Receipts. 4.
800 market slow and steady. .Beeves, SO
aG.l5. cows and helters. 1.15ff2.$ stock
ers and feeders 2,'5dt.6; Texans 5000
40
Hogs--Reccipts. 300; market 3 cents
lower, Mixed and butchers. 6,pgS. ~ Il
good heavy, 66on6r2is rough heavy, .. 5
a645: lights, s.tcas,7o; pigs, 6.odS.D;
bulk. 6.60d6.61is.
sheep--Recelpts, 1900 market strong.
Sheep, S,55de. Is, lambs, %.T5ai9.o.
OMAHA.
Omaha, April s--Cattle--Receipts. b.
300; market slow TO weaker. Native steers,
3 1915 80: cows and heifers, 3.Wq4. 20;
western steers. 3.2q4 90; Gamers, l.1tT
2,S; stockers and feeders 500 w;
calves, 100000; bulls and stass, $500
AS
Hogs Receipts, $500; market q cents
lower Heavy, 6i5as.52is mixed, et1iidp
SIS; lights. s.Nqs. va, pigs 6.Nas. q:
bulk of sales. 6.gdd45.
sheep-Receipts. 12,ocoi active to strong,
err. Yearings. 5I5us.a5 wethers, SOD
go; ewes. ..75a5.s lambs, 6. sos. H.
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e West & Co., Stock Brokers

u, +. Walker Block Tel. loss-x:
res, 35lO-X.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-19

J. oeERNpoRFER.
Stock Broker.
Tel Bell 792 ia g. Main a.
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A. s. CAMPBELL.
CANNON BROS, BROKERS

Stock Broker 2is D. F, Walker Block.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29

lation. He had not had fight in two weeks. But
glorious spectacle!-as he passed the town he
caught sight of three four dozen in a general
mix-up the evee. Forthwith he launched
skiff and rowed ashore.
Excuse me-" he said to the first man he could
attract. " Is this free fight, my frend?"
The Kentuckan admitted that it was free to all.
and the riverman waded in.
Late that night he overlook his raft again and was
helped aboard Both eyes black, his lip was
cut, his chin gashed, his scalp laid open, and his
clothes torn; but light of ineffable satisfaction
in his face.
more than in extent, and from that they
down to a quarter-acre less. On a big raft
a raft of logs bound together with young saplings
BINDERS raft of boards and scantling piled
with deck-load of shingles and 1ath-there was
built rough board cabin, bunk house, with its
floor high enough to be out of the reach of occasional
Sometimes there two three build
lngS on rata cook-house and two smaller bunk
houses. Raftsmen raft like that big in
their eyes, and in the eyes of all who saw At
each end of the float number of sweeps, half
dozen or more, made of young saplings with bits
of board for blades, we're mounted in crotches.
dozen to twenty would constitute crew.
Anything floating in the current of the big river
tends ordinarily to keep in the swiftest water, which
is the channel. Where bends sharp it will
crowd against the bank the bordering snags.
Sometimes it will twist into an eddy sometimes
lodge a midstream bar or rock; but for the most
part the current carries it safely. Of course
rudder has no effect on drifting object But
with the sweeps at each end the raftSmen could
hold it out from the bank in the bends direct it into
crossings, and avoid the danger spots. Sometimes,
on windy days this was hard work, and big
necessary for emergencies; but for the
most part their days and nights were spent in yarn
ing, drinking, dancing, singing, fighting and card
playng-ln the easy, tantalizing, never-to-be-
abandoned ideness of drifting down the Great
Water Keel-boating had gone out of style by TS4o
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and across the water
the two captains cursed
each other unendinglv
and threatened dire
calamities. Calamities,
indeed, were already
arranged for both of
them. They bore down
on Grand Tower more
bent on speed than on
plotting around rocks.
The forward raft
would, if left to itself,
have kept to the chan
mel and swept out
around the Tower but
now the other, driving
down upon the rear
of the raft, sent it out
of the channel, farther,
farther, and in another
minute piled it up with
a crash against the foot
of the Tower rock
itself. Timbers buckled,
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crews met; but their last grand meeting was one
the river talked of for years afterward.
Dwight had started down from the head of navi-
cation with an acre of understanding pine
and generous deck cargo and crew of twenty
men. They had fiddler on board and were having
jolly, rolhcking trip, passing many smaller raft
on the way, until they came to the head of the
rapids at Rock Island There Dwight learned that
Maoney had gone down nearly two days before
him with big raft of pine lumber bound Dwights
was, for New Orleans. Maloney had left a few
haunting messages for Dwight to the effect that he
had waited long as the river would let him. but
had decided that Dwight aground somewhere.
Dwight swore string of fearful oaths He would
catch the blanketyblank before they reached Cairo
and show him who was the biggest man the river.
He danced up and down and called him all the
various Mississippi River epithets which occurred
to him; and as his raft the heavier he stood
chance of doing what he said he would. Still, at
Keokuk Maloney was twenty hours ahead, at Hanni-
bal he was eighteen, at ST. Louis he ten hours
to the good, and when two RATS drifting in the
same current ten hours is a good 1eeway
But if he had gained fourteen Dwight could gain
ten more. He kept his men at the sweeps day and
night AT Chester Maloney was only couple of
hours ahead, and as the the upper-river raft
swept down into the Grand Eddy they beheld their
discounted rival Strengthening out in the current
after an hour lost in getting out of its clutches.
The Grand Eddy Dwghts triumph. He
shouted and cursed at his men, roared at them,
dragged the head of his raft in against the Illinois
Point, with yell ordered all hands to the forward
sweeps and dragged it out again, leaving the
to choose its own way, and without losing inch
of his Roadway bore down in the main thread of the
current again toward Cape Cirque Hommes and the
Fountain Bluff, the heels of the fleeing Maloney.
If the race had been fierce before, it madden
ing now. Rounding before the Fountain Bluff and
Strengthening up for the Devils Backbone, Dwight
brought his big raft around broadside and his men,
as willing as he, toiled they never had before,
to sweep it on ahead of the current. They passed
Wittenberg only hundred yards astern of Maloney,
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SdlCl ny ali INV.
There are no wigwam
RATS, no raftsmen.
Their famous resorts
such as the old tavern
under the elms, in the
quiet reach below the
Devils Elbow, where
they rested after the
terrible chute - are
gone and for the most
part forgotten. But
the life itself will live
as long as men live
to read the stories
Mark Twain has writ
ten of them.
1t must have been
one of Little DAVIS
own family who came
down out of the upper
river and sailed by
Columbus, Kentucky,
one Saturday after
noon, wearied to desc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29

to the mouth of Snake River, selected fine
tract of pine timber and began getting out logs.
The Indians found them there and surrounded
them, and the young went down stream at
their best speed in their bateau. When they
to the Falls of the st. CroiX they saw Indians on
both banks, and had time to pick landing.
They shot the falls, bateau and all, and by
good luck came through alive and secured their boat
again A little lower down they met the first steamer
to invade those waters, coming up with news OF
treaty with the Indians, throwing open these lands,
they turned back and secured their logs. The
next year there was a sawrnll at the falls, and
other building and the woods resounded to
the blows and songs of the
And when at last Mark Twain was able to run
away from school to go swimming, when the
neighbors called him Sammy" and referred to him
behind his back as that Clemens boy" the surface
of the river had begun to be covered with new
species of craft, manned by new race of beings
of sovereigns, rather. The craft were the RATS
of logs and lumber from the upper tributaries,
floating to mill and market along the stream, and
those who manned them drifted down the river,
monarchs of all they surveyed. Ten years later
hundred RATS day, manned by thousand, came
out of the St. Cro1X and started on their journey
down stream. Twenty million feet of logs and
lumber landed in Davenport in year, and as much
at many other growing river towns. One hun
bred to one hundred and twenty-five RATS shot
through that narrow and jagged Tight-angle, the
Devils Elbow, the Dells of the Wisconsin, and many
a rafter sank to death there when his craft broke
up under him.
Sixty-nine years have gone since the pine woods
of the St. CrOX valley were opened to the white
men. To-day an occasional log raft moves swiftly
down the river, pushed ahead of busy little
steamer, handled by orderly crew. In the long
desolate sunk lands below Cairo thousands of men
are rolling logs to the river bank sliding boards
down chutes to the deck of scows; but the logs
piled neatly in tiers upon the deck of mode-huled
barges and taken to Cairo or Memphis, and only
occasional raft is made up to be guided by tow
boat to Wolf River. Lumber goes cheaply and
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Logging on the Mississip1

flat-boating was on the
wane, and the hard
drinking, loud-swear-
ing, devil may care
" buckoes" of the keels
and flats drifted nat
urally into the hand
ling of rafts-the more
naturally because it
was all downstream
work, and they could
go back on the steam
ers.
In the handling of
their RATS rivalries
were intense. Along
in the ffties there were
two famous rafters,
Jack Maloney and Billy
Dwight, both Ken
lucky men who had
learned the river on
keel-boats. They hated
each other with a
hatred which would
have done credit to
mountain feudists of
their native State.
Many a brush they had
had coming down the
river in other years,
and many a head was
broken when their
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of the birth of Mark
Twain. Seventy years
ago the tepees of the
Sioux Indians were on
the banks of the upper
Mississippi. The Dako-
tas and the Ojibways
warred along the rivers
of Wisconsin. The Sacs
and Foxes still pos
sessed beautiful Rock
Island, to which, as
Black Hawk wrote,
our young men and
young women are ac-
customed to repair in
summer as to a resort
of rest and pleasure. "
A year later, before
Mark Twain had yet
cast knowing eyes upon
the Great Water and
sighed to be a pilot, a
band of adventurous
young men went up
the St. Croix River,
cautiously, through the
land of the Ojibways,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-29

TT was only the
other day that
the world cele-
- brated the seven
tieth anniversary
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13

Dress goods, silks and trimmings "the newest" at HarrisDn's.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
GUARD II
The Eye ShoUl Receive
 Every Consideration

The eye is the most sensitive organ in the human anatomy, and sight the most useful of the senses. To neglect the eye is to endure pain and misery sDd to court impaired vision and even total blindness. The north winds, fill ed with particles of drifting snow and ice, and the reflections from sun-kissed mountaies and wind-swept snow fields, make a northern winter time when every precsution should be taken to guard the eye. Should nature, through pain or otherwise, warn you of approaching danger, by all means heed the warning. We test the eye free of charge and furnish glasses, ground to the point of perfection, to fit the need disclosed oy science. Our prices are reasonable.
 Our stock of watches, clocks, glass ware, silverwsre, souvenirs, novelties and jewelry is up-to-date in design, A l in quality and of 8 quantity and variety to suit all tastes and uses.
 Our repair department challenges comparison.
 J. IKUTA,
 Jeweler and Optician.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
GOOD PRIZES
Chances For Firemen'S Dance
 Ticket Holders

There are some good chances for the ticket holder for the Firemen's dance that will take place tomorrow night to get several times the value of their money back in prizes,
 A. NJ, Laska, Skagway's pioneer cigar manufacturer and dealer in smokers supplies, has offered three elegant door prizes, to be drawn by those holding tickets The prizes consist of a box of fine cigars, a smoking set and shaving set. Every ticket holder will have a chance in the drawing.
 Tickets are being sold with appreci- able rapidity. Already a sufficient number have been disposed of to insure 8 grand success.
 The dance will be at Elks' hall.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
ALBERT MONK
 IS IMPROVING

Albert Monk, who left Dawson last June suffering from paralysis as the effects of falling down a shaft on DO- mipion in the winter, was unable to sit up iu bed and had to make the trip across the continent In couch. He now writes to Dawson friends that he Is able to sit up in bed, and that he is doing much better than ever, with promises from the attendant physician to get hin in a chair before long. Mrs. Monk is in better health than when she left Dawson, snd their daughter Elizabeth is rugged and doing we'll in her school.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
The WhitePass & YukonRoute
TIME TABLE No. 13'
 (Daily Except Sundsy.)

Inspected min
 with full and75 pounds with each half fare ticket
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
Notics to Public

The municipal taxes for 1905, due to the town of Skagway, Alaska, will become delinquent February 2S, 1906, at the hour of p. ID. on said day. II not paid on or before that date, a pen. alty of 20 per cent will be added to the amount due and interest al the rate of 8 per cent per annum will be charged on the whole amount due for taxes and penalty from that date.
 Dated at Skagway, Alaska, February 3. 1906. H. Fl. Draper, Municipal Treasurer, Town of Skag'
 way, Alaska.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13

The United States district attorney out at Nome has begun proceedings to destroy an alleged grocery trust It is conterded that the grOcers Of the northern camp organized shortly after the close of navigation for the purpose Of charging x.OrtiOnate and unreason- able prices for their goods.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBLE
 TTX

ITX
 There can be no questioning the Po- sition taken by Mir, Wildt, in com munieation that appears in this paper today, that transportation companies should be compelled to provide their carriers with all the life-saving apPli- ances science has disclosed to be neees- sary for the security of their passen- gers and employees. If, iu the case Of the Valencia, fault is found to lie with the officers and managers of the own ing company, the law should be en- forced. If it shall be found that the law does not provide for the msinten- ance of proper safeguards on the part of the operating companies, the law should be changed, and the penalties for it's violation should be such as will insure Its enforcement.
 However, it has become an accepted principle that life and proPerty-sa7ing is governmental duty. Communities recognize that and provide fire depart mencs. health boards, emergency hosuitals, etc. Communities cannot protect the sea, as that belongs to na- tions. The charting of the ocean the markiog of dangerous places, the main teuance of fog signals and life say. inc stations and the equipment of the revenue marine havs been among the important works of the United States and all other maritime countries. That being the case, the United States and Canada cannot avoid the responsibility for the terrible loss of life with the Valencia. In fact, they are not trying to avoid it.
 Within t=w days after the wrecking of the Valencia the United States senate passed a bill, providing for liie-sav- ing station at Neah Bay, near Cape FIauery: the secretary of the treasury telegraphed au order to the revenue cutters and collectors of customs dt- rectiug that it is the duty of cutters on Ppcet sou d or iu Alaskan waters to proceed. instanter and without further order, to any vessel in distress or to any place where life is in peril lthe order was iu accordance with circulars issued long ago, never countermaaded' but oftea disregardedl, and Major GIassford hastened to suggest that the Burnside be equipped and used as a l'is-sa7ing vessel, as well as for her present duties. All these are smphat- ic admissions Of governmental respon- si5ility.
 The Canadian government has been scarcely less active in preparing to meet it's duty, should 1t be found nec- essary to perform it again.
 That the United States and Canada have not lifs-saTing stations within easy reach of the point where the Va lepcia was wrecked is the result of neg liqeuce that reasonably can be desig- mated as criminal. That both couu- tries had war vessels and revenue cut ters. subsidized wreckers and other craft within few hours of the ill-fated buman souls, who had been caught in one of the most awful traps provided by the sea, and yet permitted them to hang helpless,y in the fast-dissOl7ing rigging of their impinged vessel for from 50 to 60 hours, only to drop, one by one, to unmarked graves in the mer- ciless ocean, is crime that should cause the blush of shs me to come to every face in North America.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
Lame Back

This ailmeut is usually caused by hsumatism of the musles and many be cured by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm two or three times a day and rubbing the part vigorously at each appIicgrion. If this does not afford relief, bind on a piece of flannel slightly dsmUened with Pain Balm, and quick relief is almost sure to follow. For sale by Wm. Britt.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13

The author of silence is golden" might have had in mind Col. Mann' of Towu-Topics. He made much by silence.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-02-13
KEEP YOUR HEAD UNCOVERED.
so Constant Wearing of a Hat PrOpO-
 gates DandruR Germs.

7 gre are many men who wear their 50, practically all the time when awake ., nre blessed with a heavy shock of yet if the sCalps of these same men -r- became infested with dandruft or 8. the parasites would multiply all he quicker for lack of air. Badness .Og | ensue as the final result New ITO Herplcide kills these germs and ttInllates unhealthy hair to abundant -rowth. Herplcide Is a pleasant hair iresslng as well as a dandruft cure and contains not an atom of injurious sub rtance. Sold by leading druggists. Send nc. In stamps for sample to The Herpi- tide Co. Detroit. Mich.
 Wm. Britt, Special Agent.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-09-19
KEEP THE TARIFF STEADY.
sound Republican Doctrine For Con-
sumner and Producer.

The Springfield Union, after standing
pat in the belief that the manufacturers
don't want tariff revision, suddenly dis
covers that the consumers do. which leads
1t TO view the situation in quite a different
lighr.-North Adams Transcript
This is what comes OF wabbling anG
straddllng. To be on both sides OF the
tariff revision fence at one and the
same time seems to be quite the fash
ion among Republican newspapers in
Massachusetts. This situation must be
more or less wearing on the nerves, to
say nothing about the seat Of the trou-
sers. If the Union and a lot Of New
England journals OF kindred type would
only find themselves on the tariff Ques-
ton and then stay found it would be
better for their peace of mind and like
wise their reputation for consistency.
A good place to begin at would be 70
endeayor to convince every one of the
consumers that be Is first OF all pro-
Queer, either Of labor or Of the products
OF labor, and that If he wants to con-
tinue to have the best possible market
In which TO sell his product, whether IL
be labor or the product OF labor. he had
best keep the tariff steady by letting
the tariff alone.
Secretary Shaw brought out this point
most forclbly in his st. Louis speech Of
April 20. We should think that very
wide circulation and reading OF this
admirable speech among New England
consumers would help some. And yet
we do not suppose that half dozen
Republican newspapers IN New Eng
land have printed Mr.. Shaw's speech
In full or have printed any consider
able extract from 1t. The ability to
recognize sound Republican doctrine Is
In danger of becoming one OF the lost
arts.