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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

1t is stated that Brownlow and Evans
are lying down together in this dis
trict. Now, won't that be mess.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

Vote for Patterson, but if you cant
vote for Patterson, vote against Fl.
Clay Evans.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01
Election Notice.

The legal voters of the town of John
son City, Tenn, are hereby notified
that an election will be opened and
held at each of the town wards of the
said town Of Johnson City, Tenn, on
WEDNESDAY, NOV. %, 1906, for the
purpose of electing mayor; also one
alderman from each of the said wards
for the ensuing two years, as provided
in charter of said town, under an
amendment in chapter 210, article II,
sec ion of the act of 1897.
Also, at De same time to elect one
justice of @e peace for the corporation
of Johnson City, Tenn, for the ensu-
ing term of said Office, as provided by
statute. This, Oct. II, 1905.
GEO. W. WILLETT,
j. b. PIERCE,
J. A. VINES.
Commissioners.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

Vote for Geo. r. Duncan and lei
Washington county have true repre-
sentative.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

Vote for Harvey Hannah for Rail
road Commissioner for East Tennessee.
He is worthy and competent.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

Vote for Caldwell and let the First
district be represented by a democrat
again.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

-Four English girls have been arrest
ed near Manchester for poking fun at
an aged spinster's curls.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-11-01

Vote for Dick Barry for Floater and
you'll never have cause to regret it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12
IDIENTURERS HUNTING FOR SPANISH GOLD
Men Who Are TRYING to Find Lost Treasures Leave
Gravesend and Hope to Return Rich in Doubloons.
Such Enterprise Is Not Unprecedented

Canada, but he was tracked by those
who sought from him the secret of
the hiding place. Knowing his des-
perate position he gave plan on
parchment to a man named Keat-
ing, and then went away to the
north to meet death.
Heating visited the island twice,
discovered the treasure, and carried
away on each visit bullion worth
1000 pounds. Later on a mate OF
Pacific steam navigation cOmpa-
Iny's ship went to the island and re-
covered doublOons, which he sold in
Callao for 800 pounds, and after
wards organized party to take a
schooner there, though the eXpedl-
ton was broken up owing to the
Chilean war.
The only inhabitant of the island
is a German named Geissler, who got
Ia clue to the hiding place of the
Bonita treasure. He has lived there
off and on for nearly twenty years;
has built himself a house, cultlVateS
many kinds of fruits and other pro-
duce. has tanned the wild pig and
is living a regular Robinson Crusoe
kind of life. He is still searching
for the treasure, but he does not
appear to have found it.
Nearly a score of expeditions have
been made to the island. Admiral
Palliser. who was then on the Pacl-
fic station, landed a large party OF
sailors there in 1896, who dug the
soil and blasted the rocks under the
direction of an American who said
he knew where the treasure was.
Success does not seem to have re-
warded him, and three years ago
Mr.. Harold Gray went there with d
party on the yacht Rose Marine -
# is said that the entrance to
the cave in which the Lima plumber
is hidden is concealed by a large
rock which seems to be an integral
mart of the precipice. There is, how
ever, a hole in which a bar can be
moved sufficiently to enable a man
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

This was the busiest day in the
history of the LawtQn land ofhce'
saws a Lawton, Okla, dispatch. IL
was the first day for receiving bids
on the unallotted portions of the i've
hundred and five thousand acres IN
the Observation-Disclosures reser-
vation. The bids are to be received
during the entire week and if the
record of the opening day be taken
as a criterion it would not be sur
nrising if the total number OF plds
exceeded twenty-five thousand.
This means that thousands OF ne"
farms and thousands Of industrious
citizens will be added to the re-
sources of the new state of oklaho-
ma by next spring. Under the law
no bid of less than five dollars an
acre will be considered. Each DID
der may put in as many proposals
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

The departure of the steamer
Xema from Gravesend on a mystic
HOus expedition to hunt for treasure
4 in a region which has not been
specified is another indication of the
fact that the spirit of adventure IS
still strong in the heart of the Eng
liShman The Xema belongs to the
Coils Diamond syndicate, which has
a capital of $4,000 pounds, and is
on the quest for precious stones al
4 legged to have been discovered on
/ the beach by a ship-wrecked sailor
who had been cast ashore on some
unnamed land. More exact details
have naturally not been vouchsafed,
and it remains to be seen whether
the enterprising adverturers are ac-
Z tnally on the track of treasure or
are merely on a wild goose chase.
Such enterprise is not unprece-
dented, for the age of romance is
/ not yet dead. The most recent ex-
petition of the kind was that OF
Earl Fitzwilliam, whose proceedings
excited much curiosity nearly two
years ago. Cocos Island, otherwise
3KnoWn as Treasure Island, which
was the scene of his adventure, has
.QraWn many ambitious men to its
sOeSolate shores. 1t lies about 800
miles west of Punta Arenas, on the
lcoaSt Of Costa RIGA, is mountainous
s8ad well wooded, with many little
|Vater courses in it's area of 16
square miles.
There is no doubt that a great
quantity of valuable plumber has
oeeh from time to time hidden there.
zap Bonita, a notorious pirate, VINO
carried on his murderous work first
f. Ine West Indies and then on the
SeSI coast of South America, made
we island his depository. He cap
|.uIed many Spanish galleons laden
GI'n treasure, and in 1921 he took
Tue vast treasure which was being
ETg5moYed from the City of Mexico.
I4e plumber was taken to Cocos'
ouefe a fight ensued among the
n nglloers of the gang as to its dis
iaouIlon, and many of the men were
Fam Bonita sailed to the West In
aleS with the survivors and was there
oPIured before he could recover the
u. another vast treasure representing
aI the available wealth of the Span
H. Us at Lima was. placed for safety
s1a me merchant ship Mary Dier, ~
cbs IN Callao harbor. Those in
TTg5dFge of it were murdered by Capt.
a l aaiIOmpson and his crew, who then
T5G id for the island. There they
- Iner plumber, but they were al
NJ wards captured by Spanish
lAan-of-war.
thomson escaped and reached
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

to creep inside. Heating has de-
clared that he saw there an image
of the Virgin of life-size in solid
gold, and vast quantities of gold in
bars and coin. The odd thing is that
so much wealth should be allowed
to be there so long untouched.
The search for lost treasure is
generally directed to the salvage of
wrecked ships, though the romance
of buried plumber on the Spanish
main still engages the imagination
of many wild spirits, and has led to
daring expeditions. Many years ago
William Phipps, the son of car
penter in New England, heard of a
treasure ship which had long before
been sunk off Hispanola.
He came to England and prevailed
upon the Duke of Albermarle and
several others to adventure sufficient
money to find him a ship. On this
he sailed, and was lucky enough to
locate the wreck, from which he
drew 100000 pounds. The duke
got 10000 for his share, and Phipps
only got $1,000, but he was made a
knight and governor of New Eng
land.
On our own shores there are sunk
en- treasures which have excited the
cupidity of many adventures. From
a Spanish galleon wrecked off the
Irish coast a man named John Gam
fished up 100000 pounds. The
specie had been packed in barrels,
but the woodwork had rOtted away
and the money was stuck together
in Jumps. A part of it went to build
a row of houses at Whitstable, still
known as Dollar row.
Recently a party has been seeking
the wreck of a treasure ship which
was cast away on the coast of Null,
and the duke of Argyll tells in his
book on the Western Highlands how
the Admiral of Florence, one of the
ships of the Armada, carrying
a vast treasure, was wrecked
in Loeb Duan. Several attempts
have been made to recover the
wealth, and Spanish doublOons have
been cast up on the shore. But
though old maps indicate where she
Law. no one has succeeded in enrich
ing himself out of her. 1t is strange
to find how much of these lost treas
ures belonged to Spain. Blake drove
sixteen treasure ships into Santa
Cruz bay, Teneriffe, and sank them
in water so deep that no one has
ever been able to get to them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12
opENING OF A BIG PASTURE IN THE WEST
r Hundred Thousand of COmanche Apache indian Res-
~ arvation to Be Settled Upon.

as he desires, but the maximum 10
he sold to any one bidder is limited
to single quarter. section. The bids
will be opened one week from today.
The great pasture thrown open is
watered on it's southern edge by the
Red river and contains large area
of very fertile land. Its opening to
white settlement leaves in Oklaho-
ma only one other large reservation,
the opening of which will probably
not be long delayed. This is the
three hundred thousand acres of the
segregated coal and asphalt lands of
the Chickasaws and Choctaws, in the
southern part of the Indian Terri
tory This reservation abounds not
only in valuable mineral deposits,
hut in fertile land, which has re-
manned a wilderness by reason of
its segregation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12
BOYCE MAKES PROPOSITION
WILL REDUCE POSTAGE UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
Government to Turn Over the

A Wealthy Chicago Man Asks the
Government to Turn Over the
PostofIice Department to Him.
To turn over the postal service of
the United States to a private corpor-
alton under strict public control is
the remarkable proposal made to
the postal commission.
w. D. Boyce of Chicago, publish
er, man of big affairs and several
times millionaire, made the propo-
sitio1, on behalf of himself and as
sociates whom he did not name, to
take over the postofice business and
run it on business principles.
The proposal includes agreement
Immediately to cut postage rates in
half. There could be no deficit I'M
der such an arrangement for the
government to meet, because the cor
poration would have to make ends
meet
Mr.. Boyce wants the postal cor
poration under postal commission
which shall be the regulating and
supervising agency of the govern
ment.
He proposes to pay Uncle Sam rem
tai for all postoffice quarters occu-
pied in public buildings, and over
against this he designs to charge
the government regular rates for all
services performed for it, These
government services he now esti-
mates at $25, 900, 900 annually. At
half the present rates this would be
cut to $12, 100000.
Applying business methods to
postoffice affairs would result in i'm
mense economics in transportation.
Mr.. Boyce figures that the expendi-
ture for railroad haulage would be
cut from $50,000,000 to about one
half that sum.
Cut Out All Sinecures.
He calculates likewise that Orna-
mental or political sinecures would
be eliminated. The political post
master" would get short shrift, and
! the deputy who does the work would
! be the responsible man.
Mr.. Boyce's proposition, he in
sists, is made in the utmost good
faith. Certain it is that it affords a
most effective talking point from
which to point out the weakness of
present postal management. Direct
comparison of the present postofice
organization with methods common
ly prevailing in private business and
in great public service corporations
is considered by the publishers the
most effective method of demonstrate
ing the unreasonableness of restric-
tions which the department is dis
posed to impose upon them. Mr..
Boyce's proposition may have it's
hole in the SKINNER" but it's author
doesn't think so. He says good man
agement will make the business pay
at half of present rates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

For chapped and cracked hands
nothing is quite as good as an APP
plication of DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. Put it on before going to
bed, use an old pair of gloves and
see what a difference the morning
will bring. Sold by Dawson Drug
Company
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-12

Closing out sale of fall goods re-
gardless of price at McLain Bros. &
Cos.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Refuses to Pe Executive
Head of the Water De-
partment U..less I" Sine
curists" Are Cut Out
WILL NOT EFFECT HIS SALARY
DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY CLAIMS
THERE ARE NO -.SINECURISTS"
IN THE DEPARTMENT, AND
PROMPTLY VOTE TO ACCEPT
HE PROFFERED RESIGNATION.

Clerk George I. Bouton yesterday re-
signed his position as executive head of
the Water Department. As Clerk of the
Street and Water Board, at salary of
$4,000, he was some months ago made
consultant to the Water Department and
his salary raised to $1,000. Subsequent
~ he was appointed executive head of
the Water Department His resignation
of that position does not affect his sal
ary. 1t is conceded that Mr.. Bouton is
more thoroughly conversant with the
water supply question than any other
man in the city. The water department
for years has been running behind in the
matter of financial receipts. 1t was
hoped that with Mr.. Bouton, as the exc
cutive head of the Water Department.
would be able to accomplish many re-
forms that would remedy the existing
state of affairs.
y
and Water Board, Clerk Bouton present
ed report that supplemented his former
report embodying suggestions as to the
best means of remedying the present con-
dition. In yesterdays report Mr.. Bou
ton asked that lot of ''sinecurist'' be
done away with
A conference between Mr.. Bouton and
the three Democratic Commissioners
President Hauck and Commissioners
Rooney and Nolan-had preceded the
meeting.
ted in open meeting and its contents re
Fealed, but not read, Commissioner Roo
ney arose and declared that there were
no sincures in the department He was
backed up in his assertion by Commits
sioner Nolan, and when Mr. Bouton
found that President Hauck was with
his two Democratic colleagues, he offered
his resignation as executive head of the
Water Department
All three of the Democratic members
of the Board voted to accept it. Com
missioners Berry and Knox voted against
the acceptance of the resignation, hold
ing that Mr. Bouton alone is able to
bring about reforms in the Water De
partment. But the Democratic members
of the Board held that these reforms
could be brought about without chopping
off the heads of number of Democratic
employees of the department.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
THE FACE OH THE CENT.
1t Is Not That of an Indian, but OF .
Pretty Little Girl.

Pretty Little Girl.
Mrs. Sarah Longacre Keen, who liv-
ed aud died In Philadelphia, came
nearer being the queen of the Ameri-
can mint than any woman who ever
lived. With the exception Of Queen
Victoria. whose image was engraved
on every coin of the British and In
dian empires, Mrs Keen was first In
the number of her metal photographs.
Her face as girl of twelve summers
is to be seen on every American cent
coin factory.
1t Is usually assumed that the face
on the head side of the copper Is that
Of an Indian, but close look will re-
veal Saxon profile. Just borrow q
cent and look at it. The setting Is that
Of an Indian
Between 1928 and 1910 james Bar
ton Longacre was chief engrayer in
the United States mint in Philadelphia.
In 1885 competition was opened for
sketches and engravings for the new
copper cent that was to be issued and
which has since been In service. There
were over a thousand designs offered.
The prize was good one. Longacre
racked his brain for some original and
singular design that would strike the
judges, but for months he failed to
satisfy himself.
One morning number of Indians,
with their chief, who had been to pay
their respects to the great white chief
In Washington, came to the city and
were shown through the mint. They
were introduced to the white chiefs
picture maker, who was just then
showing his young daughter Sarah the
great concern. The old chief was at
tracted by the sweet faced maiden and
her interest In his feathers and paint.
She childishly wondered how she
would look in the feathered headgear.
This was told the chief, who solemnly
divested himself of his feathers and
had them placed on the girls head.
The effect was so striking that the
father took time to make a sketch Of
his own amusement.
At the last moment of the period
given for sending in engravings he be-
thought himself Of the possibility Of
the combination of Indian feathers
and Saxon sweetness. He got 1t in,
and much sport was made of the child
at the time In the city because Of the
incident. The sketch passed through
the seventh Sitting and finally reached
the last round. By one vote 1t won,
and ever since Sarah Longacre's young
face has served for the humblest of
coins, than which no single coin In the
world has such tremendous circula-
tion.-Detroit News-Tribune.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
ePlDERs or cEYLoN.
rheir Golden webs VIII Ensnare
Eirds and Lizards.

their Golden Webs VIII Ensnare
Eirds and Lizards.
Far up IN the mountains Of Ceylon
Mcre is a spider that spins web like
bright ye.lowlsh silk, the central net
Of which is five feet III diameter, while
the supporting lines or guys. as they
are called, measure sometimes ten or
twelve feet The spider seldom bites
or stings, but should any one try to
catch him bite he will, and, though not
yenOmous, his jaws are as powerful as
a birds beak.
The bodies of these spiders are very
handsomely decorated, being bright
gold or scarlet underneath, while the
upper part is covered with the most
delicate slate colored fur.
So strong are the webs that birds the
size of laills are frequently caught
therein, AMI even the small but pow
erful scaly lizard falls victim. &
writer says that he has often sat and
watched the yellow monster-measur-
ing. when waiting for his prey, with his
legs stretched out fully six inches
striding across the middle of the net
and noted the rapid manner in which
he winds his stout threads round the
unfortunate captive.
lie usually throws the coils about the
head until the wretched victim is first
blinded and then choked. In many un-
frequented dark hooks of the jungle
you come across skeletons Of small
birds caught in these terrible snares.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Elvin Farnham, Alias John
Smith Found By Police
Hiding Under q Bed In
Home of DR.. Burdette
Craig
DOCTOR AWAY FOR SUMMER
THIEF HAD BOOTY. CONSISTING
OF JEWELRY AND SILVER
WARE, READY FOR REMOVAL
WHEN POUNCED ON BY THE
POLICE MADE INTERESTING
CONFESSION TO CHIEF MUIR
PLY.

While out ON an automobile ride ON
the Boulevard about two o'clock yester-
day afternoon Mrs. Hughes, wife of J.
NJ. Hughes, a we'll known house mover,
espied a man forcing an entrance
through one of the east windows of the
home of DIR. Burdette Craig at Boule-
yard and Glenwood avenue. The auto
ephone pay station and the police of the
Montgomery street station notified. The
doctor and his family are away ON sum
mer vacation. Roundsman Noonan sent
out Patrolmen Wohlleben, Maxwell,
O'Rourke. Dougherty and Johnston, who
were ON reserve duty. They surrounded
the house Patrolman Johnston entered
the house and discovering evidence of
looting of the premises, he made search.
He found a man. who said he was John
Smith. twenty-five years old. hidden un-
ucI IL USt. kit Hill ltStu To give Ills
residence. On investigation it was
found that all the bureaus and cabinets
in the house had been ransacked and
jewelry and silverware and loaded re-
volyer had been packed up ready for re-
moval.
Dr. Craig, who is at his summer home
in Pond Eddy, Sullivan County, New
York, was Immediately notified by the
police.
The prisoner, who first said he was
John Smith later gave his name as Elvin
Farnham and said he originally hailed
from Buffalo. He said he got into trou-
BILE in that city and entered the Hospi-
tai Department of the United States
Army, and was obliged to get out an ac-
count of the use of morphine and rum.
According to his own story, he then went
to Cleveland. Ohio. That was two years
ago. He says he was arrested there for
house robbery and served nearly two
years time.
Farnham told Chief Murphy that he
didn't care much what became of him,
as he believes he will be as well off in
Jail as out of it.
Farnham was arraigned before Police
Justice Manning this morning, and held
in $1,50O bail for the Grand Judy ON
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
Mistakes of Authors.

The author of don Quixote" makes
the party at the Crescent tavern eat
two suppers In one evening. Scott in
one chapter Of "Ivanhoe" gives the
Christian name of Malvoisin as Rich
ard, subsequently altering it to Philip.
Pope makes q weasel eat corn. Kings
ley makes John Brumblecombe read
the prayer for "All sorts and condi
tions of men," though in the time of
Elizabeth the prayer book did not con-
tain it. Sir Archibald Allison speaks
of "Sir Peregrine Pickle" when he
means Sir Peregrine Maitland, and
the same author translated 'droit de
timbre" as timber duty "a howler,"
which is only equaled by Victor HUI
go's translation of Firth of Forth"
premier de quatre. London Acad-
emy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
NO SENTIMENT IN sIGHs.
They Arc Simply Caused by "a Desire
Tor More Breath.

They Arc Simply Caused by a Desire
Tor EIore Breath.
The sigh which from time immemo-
rial and by all the poets whoever sung
has been regarded as a matter of SEN
timent and connected with the emo
tions, is declared by physicians to be
as purely physical phenomenon as Is
the sneeZe or cough. A well known
Philadelphia doctor, speaking of this
the other day. explained that the sigh
Is natures method of making one take
a deep breath. When the lungs have
been getting insufficient air q sigh is
the means by which they are replenish-
ed, or when the air has been impure
the sigh which one often takes in step
ping out into the open air Is from the
same cause.
The doctor admitted that people
sometimes sigh from sorrow or other
mental Ill. but maintained that this is
partly because 1t has been accepted as
the expression Of grief through ages as
long as kissing and handshaking have
been accepted as signs of affection or
friendship Another reason why sigh
follows a sorrowful thought is that
such thoughts are often concentrated
and Intense enough to cause INSULT
Client breathing When the lungs suf-
fer for certain time from this insult
fciency the sigh follows. Sighs are
often caused, too, says the same au-
thority, by certain sorts of indigestion.
Philadelphia Record
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-07-17
They Beat the Royals Yes
terday In a Closely Con-
tested Game In Montreal
SAILORS SHUT GUT B SONS
UNABLE TO SOLVE PARDBEs
DELIvERY THE LATTER
MEEKLY SUBMITTED TO A
BEAUTIFUL COAT OF WHITE
WASH, WHILE THE NEWARK
MEN TRAvERsED THE CIR
CUT EIGHT TIMES.

The Skeeters won from the Royals
yesterday, and thanks to their old enc
mics, the Sailors, who knocked out the
Bisons. they are again ON the top perch.
In yesterdays game with the Royals
the latter started off with brace of tai
lies in the first round They were held
in check, however, until the eighth,
when they made a savage attack on
Foxen. the Jersey City pitcher, and sue
ceeded in adding three more TALES to
the brace won in the first inning Mean
while the Skeeters had piled up half a
dozen runs, one in the second, two in
the sixth and three in the seventh. In
obtaining their two in the seventh they
were aided by Monreal's errors. That
the score was not tied in. the eighth, and
possibly beaten. was due to the splendid
field work of Grant, who was covering
third base. The Royals made another
attack on Foxen in the ninth round, and
had it not been for corking double
field play by Keister, Bean and Cassidy,
the victory would probably have gone to
the Royals. The seore:-