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Douglas Island news., 1906-03-28

If you need an urgent excuse for hit ting the family bottle on Sunday just before dinnef,a story of sudden cramps in the stomach will usually work, but don't attempt to pull it off to exceed twice year,
 You may be half dead with acold but if you mention hot toddy, "Little Toots" will lose all interest in your case and say you are shamming.
 If"Lovie Pet" wakes you at ? a. m. and says she is certain there is tramp in the kitchen, get up at once even if you know it is only her imagination. If you fall over few chairs and break toe or two it don't make any differ ence.
 If you knock the clock off the shelf while fumbIing around at 3 d. m., for the camphor bottle, don't swear so you can be heard as far away as the bed, else you will be called awkward and clumsy.
 If Kitten" issues an order to you at midnight to hustle out to the shelf behind the stove and bring in the Castoria bottle-but, hold on, the Stroller is getting somewhat ahead of the prescribed premises of this article.
 Don't become alarmed if you see Sweetness" in conversation with the Stroller. He may know you of old, but he belongs to the "Brotherhood of Man" and never peaches.
 If "Honey Love" gets letter from some old friend that you never heard of, pretend to take greatinterest in it. although its contents may be as dry to you as Peruna advertisement. If Sweet Kidlets" mentions some boy sweetheart of long ago, act as though you are jealous. She will take pleasure in intimating that there was a time when she thought great deal of the fellow, when the chances are he was some jay who ate pie with knife and said "goshdurn."
 If you come in some day and see Sugar Plum" doing contortion act before the glass, don't imagine she is having a fit or practicing for a circus. She is only buttoning her waistor some other gimcrack that fastens in the back.
 If you are addicted to talking in your sleep, never dose off without first swallowing about yard of your corner of the sheet,
 The foregoing advice is for the first year of welded bliss only. The Stroller has choice selection of maxims and suggestions for the second year but they come high.-E. J. White in White horse Star.
Douglas Island news., 1906-03-28
THE srRoLLER,s ADVICE

Verify, this is an era of marrying and giving in marriage. Within the recent past nearly all the single men of the Stroller's acquaintance who,, by streak of good fortune, could get few hundred ahead of the game, have gone to the outside and returned with wives. They have joined the everlasting throng and will wear resigned looks the remainder of their days.
 The Stroller feels that it is his Chris tian duty to offer few words of advice to the new benedicts of which there are fully dozen now in Whitehorse. In the first place, "Little Sunshine" got line on you or you would still be single.
 In the second place"Little Sunshine" is going to keep that line on you and it will resolve itself into checkrein the first time you endeavor to sidestep the course she has mapped out for you.
 You have enlisted ESQ long as you both shall live" and the next, in fact, the only thing to doi to adjust your neck to the family yoke, It is upto you to make the wearing of it pleasant or interspersed here and there with wind gals, just as you elect.
 "Little Sunshine"p probably interprets the "to have and to hold" part of the marriage ceremony literally and is apt to cry and say "you don't love me any more" unless you sit around and"hold" her on your knee half the time. But don't fear for leg paralysis. She will soon get overit
 So long as "Ootsie Tootsie" flies to you on your return in the evening it will be plain sailing, but lookout for squalls when she begins to fly at you. (The word squalls" is used here in a marine sense.)
 A woman derives great satisfaction from catching her husband in a lie once in while, but don't lay yourself out to become q specialist in that line. Strawberries and Cream" will catch you often enough without any special effort on your part.
 It don't do any good to blow your breath hard on a handkerchief or your coat sleeve before entering the house. It may kill it momentarily but the third or fourth commission of breath is sure to show up strong as brewery.
 In all well-regulated families there is code of unwritten signals. This code is invariably prepared by the wife for the husbands benefit and, while strangers never see them, many a hus- band is kept in fear and trembling for two hours by mere look or motion of an eyelid-his wife's eyelid. The man never uses the code. He is the receiv- ing operator.
 Never argue with "Pet" If she tells 1 you black is white, admit it. You may say it used to be black, but you had better say it to yourself. ] If"Dovien is on to her job, and if she is like hermother and her grandmother, and she will be, she can switch from "Five Hundred" to @Old Hundred" without batting an eye. and you will not only be expected to follow suit, but you will follow suit.
 If "Chocolate Drops" takes notion to have Grace said at her table, you might as well memorize little spell at once instead of attempting any side stepping.
Douglas Island news., 1906-03-28

MOT6 SuOW lSll III IuS uhOu NA4NJ ! last winter tLan for four years. Old timers predict trouble when the thaw comes.
 SS,O0O a year is paid to the Alaska Commercial Company for carrying the mail between Seattle and Kodiak, 12 trips year.
 Claim jumping on the Koyukuk, with deputy U. s. Marshal as one of the jumpers has aroused the miners to the fighting point.
 Prominent Ala5kans assert that with railroad facilities Alaska will produce 75,OOO,oOO in gold each year for an in definite period.
 No one seems to want the jobof fed eraI bank examiner for interior Alaska, says an exchange. Try Postmaster Cum, of Fairbanks.
 Forty expert fishermen from Boston have sailed north on the schooners Alice and Joseph Russ, bound for the Boring Sea, for cod.
 The action of the government in closing gambling at Nome was in re- sponse to movement started by the Mine Workers Union.
 The warehouse on the Keystone wharf at Valdez collapsed under the accumulation of snow, completely wrecking the building.
 A Nome congregation presented their pastor with miniature gold pan, pick and shovel. He took the gift, whether he takes the hint or not.
 Nine deaths, seven births and one wedding is the record in Yukon Terri tory for the month of February. Of the nine to die, five were Indians.
 Recent rules of the Canadian GUS. toms service provide that DO employee may hold any other position or in- terfere in local or general politics.
 Natives at St. Michael have suffered this winter, because of shortage of fuel. The longest severe cold since the advent of the white man is reported.
 Capt. Jarvis, former customs collect or for Alaska, has butted into the rail road question, and is opposed to con- gress granting aid to Alaska railroads.
 The Seattle Alaska Club estimates that Alaska will produce S32,o0o,0Oo in gold this year. This club wants to name Seattle's streets after the princi- pal towns in Alaska,
 Whitehorse stampeders have discov- cred an ore body,said to be 300 yards wide and 10 miles long. Because of it's diminutive proportions no one will care to bother with it.
 The Whitehorse Star says: If reports are true, the reptile that betrays the confidence of friend and, under the guise of friendship, wrecks his home, is still at large in our midst.
 It is said the question of wide open" or 9 "closed" town will be the. issue in the Ketchikan city election that will take place the first Tuesday in next month. Many people are contend ing,so say recent advices from there, that there are too many dance halls in the central portion of the city. It is said there will be warm fight for the election.
Douglas Island news., 1906-03-28

The Tanana Miners Association is sending out circular letters to every newspaper and mining district in Alas ka, with the purpose of forming fed eration of miners to elect delegates next fall to congress. The letter de- fines miner as one who is actively and personally engaged in the finding and developing of mi neral resources. 1t does not include those who speculate in mining as an incident to their pres ence in Alaska. Another paragraph says: "Beware of political graft. With us the resources of Alaska are our best graft" Another paragraph advises against overlooking man because he is broke. "The miner does not expect anyone to buy his way to be his repres- entative.n
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-02-02

VINO whorn THAT AHfioLEr,
street One OF my men. who was shsd
owing him. nabbed II In Q holy second
and here Il Is"
Baxter laid an enyeloI,e on the leaf
Of my desk between Graham and me
We saw that II was sddfessad 10 Miss
Annie Davenport. young woman
much admired In our town and of I'm.
hlemlshesi reputation. was amazed
and distressed that her name should bs
brought Into such an AFFAIR
"It's cpen." said the detective 20
Graham. see what you can make OF
A."
Il am not 30 clear as to that" an
swered Graham. IL would appear 20
mo that I might like the young lady's
permlssion."
Upon this Baxter made quite a dow.
cry argument. speaking OF the interests
Of justice and other lofty considera.
tons. but Graham and were not i'm
pressed.
who wrote thlsf'' I asked when The
detective paused for breath.
"You'ii know the name" said he
"waiter Alien"
i.dld indeed know the name ana shs
49, tCantinued on page 81
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-02-02
ASStrataslseamn
g Letters
., HOWARD FIELDING
c'pv'sA', 1904 ~ esass v. Hsas

AAY visitor had an exeeilen,
" counterfeit " q frank de
neanor. yet I observed that
be desired strict privacy for
our ihnfsisw and that be was inter.
es,ed ID The question whether tie sound
NJ our soicss would penetrate sthe thu
Partition which separated my npod<st
sanctnuI frpm the composing rosan at
Che newspap.r. lie drew a chair very
Close to mine and IaId clipping on the
Desk. \
q g'ould ySu h.ll ms ald be swks
~,o,s that 4ruslsis l NU- f0U
Iflvas a llabored disquIsItIon ON the
reading of rryptosrams aud had been
brlmed In Ihst weeks saturday supple
n'snt With sppll hope . nj part that
tsatiiniS. zatl 4 = nc Vas sritfrn
by iiayid tFahnm hr.aisupf ~ foIt
posipg rom. w W ~
'vsmldi Gee Mr, Graham" he asked,
"yd,l mhi send him your card" said
'thel rva one. not the one you sent
10 mep q rF0ef
lie syed eie with mild surprise
what nlhke. you thlnk"-- he began.
but eus ID upon him ftH
4 don't think: l know. You are y
posiofiice detective. aud your name "a
Charles Baxter. You are in this town
TO investigate the robbery here last
week. I'm Investigating II also as q
part of my business. and that's how !
happen 90 know you"
Right" said he. "But 40 for the
card
I'VE shall not need Il now I'll send
for Mr. Graham"
Ny foreman was tall thin. long
faced Scot with hard mouth and
mild eye The intellectual upper half
Of his head seemed TO take n broad
View aud 20 enjoy the problems Of this
world. but from the bridge OF bis nose
10 the point OF his chin he was the pie,
ture Of narrow precision.
Il want you 10 help me In the matter
cf this pos,ofiicc robbery" said he. "and
this Is the special point The job was
done by two men. aud We know one Of
them. but It's the other who has the
plumber, The fellow we've got our eyes
on hasn't a cent Of II. and be Ia keep.
ING away from II and from his pal.
Hes ~ smooth an article as I've en-.
couniered In many . day. We could
arrest him any minute: but. though we
have a moral eerishy that he's guilty.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-02-02
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-02-02

coulsll,i lassz 40 :s.lsh oa IL lasai ev.
ltlenee. And, anyhow, we should ize
the pal aud lbe ~. fof liza sife
thing der tre' man NoetIn't saueal-
10 hnsilt sss.ssii near this town sine
the night Of the robbery. Hes living in
1 boarding house In siaphope. twenty
miles west Of Us. and his paiIeaes
seems to DO about ~ long suffering o.
ours. His snly mistake Il that BE-
writes letters. and we've trapped one
ef then. 10 started to mail Il yestcr'
day afiespopn md dropped u on The
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

TO MARY J. SOPER. WIDOW. JOSEPH
Wood, sole surviving executor under the will
9r,s,a Of Jonn S WSod decd , William " mr., p Edwards
decd. Adelaide ]. Mitchell, widow; Laurent
6. Mitchell. Charles A. Mitchell, Adelaide
Cecilia Stevens. James Stevnes. her husband;
Francis s. Wetmore, Laura ". Wetm0re, his
wife: Cecilia ]. Lockwood. Daniel Lockwood.
Nuyse. her husband; Margaret Ginocchio.
John B.. Ginocchio. her husband; Joseph
Charles LongInotto. Mary Longinotto. his
wife: Hazel Burger. infant; Eloise Burger.
infant; Mary Tonnele. widow. Laurent J.
Gedney. Mary Gedney. his wife: Joseph B.
Gedney, Kate A. Gedney. his wife. and
Thomas Sullivan, tenant
made by the City Collector of Jersey CITY on
the Sth day OF October. 1896. the Mayor and
Of one thousand and seventy dollars and thir-
ty-one cents all the land and real estate situ-
ate ate, IN n. Jersey City, in the County Of Hudson
street, which Is laid down and designated as
Lot 8, In Block number 346. upon an assess
by the Commissioners OF Adjustment" ap-
pointed In and for said city by the Circuit
Court Of the County Of Hudson. a certified
office Of the City Collector Of Jersey City, on
the 3rd day Of June, 1898. said report ard map
visions Of an act OF the Legislature Of New
Jersey. passed March 3oth. 1885, entitled:-
An Act concerning the settlement and col
lection Of arrearages of unpaid taxes assess
ments and water rates or water rents In
cities OF this State, and imposing and levying
a tax assessment map and lien in lieu and
instead of such arrearages, and to enforce
the payment thereof, and to provide for the
sale Of lands subjected to future taxation and
assessment" !"
And the several supplements thereto.
And YOU are further notified that you appear
to have an estate or interest In said land and
real estate. and unless the said land and real
estate shall be redeemed. as provided in said
acts. before the expiration OF six months from
and after the service hereof. deed for the
same will be given conveying to the -dayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City, the fee simple of
said land and real estate according to the pro-
VISIONS of the said act.
Dated Jersey City, N. j., May is, 1906
THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF JERSEY
CITY.
NJ NJ. FAGAN.
Mayor
GEO. NJ. MCCARTHY.
Sale No. 5s4i
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

MASTERS Said OF LANI1-IN
Chancery Of New Jersey.
Between Martin Shea, ct ux.. eli ala.
complainant and Eliza Shea, st ais, de-
PENDANTS.
On Bill for Partition Decree for Sale.
Charles @. Kelly, Solicitor.
BY virtue Of the decree for sale made
ID the above stated cause, bearing date
August 10Th. 1905, /, Charles j. Roe,
one OF the Special Masters of the said
due to the highest bidder, on the prem
lses' at No. 1917 Mercer street, iai Jer-
sey City, New Jersey, on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9Th, 1906.
at two o'clock In the afternoon. the lands
mentioned and described in said dNcreee,
as f0llOWs:-
All that certain tract of parcel OF land
and premises, hereinafter particularly
described situate, lying and being in Jer-
sey City, IN the County Of Hudson and
state OF New jersey;
Beginning at point on the northerly
SIDE OF Mercer street one hundred and
twenty four 124) feet easterly from the
east line OF Grove street. being the west
erly line of lot numbered twentyseyen
20 zee running nOrtherly seventy
nine (79) feet, more or less, until it
strikes the rear line Of lot number nine
teen ll9). which fronts on Wayne street;
thence easterly along said line sixteen
ll6) feet and eight 81 inches; thence
southerly parallel with the line first
rum to, through and beyond party wall
standing partly on the premises hereby
conveyed and partly on the premises next
adjoining easterly thereto until 1t
strikes the north line of Mercer stree:
thence running westerly sixteeem (16j
feet and eight (0 inches, to the place of
beginning. = -
Being sixteen (16) feet and eight (S)
inches OF tho northerly part of Lot mum.
per twenty-seVen (27), as the Same ie
iaid down ON map Of property belong
ing to A. Mann, Jr., and being the same
premises conveyed to James Hone Nv
Hosea y. Clark and wife, by deeei fIhted
January u, 1873, recorded January 81
1873, in Book 254 of Deeds for Hqldeon
county, ON pages 73 &c.
lnctud6ng the estate and Interest," Il,
DOVER of Annie Shea (wife of Martin
Shea(, Katherine Shea, (wife of Patslak
Shea(, Elizabeth Shea (Wife of ILeniv fs
Shea, Ellen Shea (wifeof 10 mes r. S6eol
Mary Hope (wife Of James Hope). Mar,
Hope (widow Of Richard Hope.)
Together with all and singular the
hereditaments and appurtenances to III
saad premises belonging or IN anywiso
appertaining. 5 -
the SALE >ASs -
Dated Jersey City, September /. 1eo6
CHARLES ]. ROE.
Special Master IN Cha1,nor.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the Com
mlssioners Of Assessments for Jersey
City, n. j., viii meet at their office,
Room 80, City Hall, Jersey City. N. j.,
on Wednesday, the 18th day of October,
1906, at $50 o'clock A. NJ, to appraise
and determine the value Of the lands to
be taken and the damages that may be
sustained By reason of the
OPENING AND WIDENING OF
GATES AVENUE,
between a point S5S 17-100 feet east of
Hudson Boulevard and Garfield avenue.
The land TO be taken for said opening
of Gates avenue may be described as fol-
The avenue, between a point S5S
ll-lOO feet east of Hudson Boulevard
and Old Bergen road, to be IS 36-1O0
feet in width, being 27 6S-100 feet meas
ured at right angles on either side of the
following described center line, to witt
Beginning at point in the westerly line
of Old Bergen road distant SO 91-100 feet
measured southerly; along the westerly
line of Old Bergen road from the inter-
section of the same with the southerIv
line of Plot M, Block 1877, city map:
from thence running westerly and par
allel with the southerly line of said Plot
M, 40 70-100 feet to Gates avenue, as
now opened easterly from Hudson Boule-
ward. The land to be taken for said
widening OF Gates avenue may he de-
scribed as follows:-The avenue, be-
tween Ocean avenue and Garfield ave-
| nue., TO be 90 feet in width, being 25 feet
measured at right angles on either side
OF the following described center line, to
Beginning at a point in the easter
| " line of Ocean avenue where line
drawn parallel with the northerly line of
Gates avenue and distant % feet meas
ured southerly and at right angles there
from would intersect the same: from
| thence running easterly parallel with the
noftherly line of Gates avenue 339 7S-
l00 feet to point in the westerly line of
Garfield avenue.
| All the private lands within the lines
OF the foregoing descriptions being re-
| qulred for the opening and widening of
Gates avenue as will more fully appear
by reference to the resolution in regard
to the same, adopted by the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners July
23rd, 1906, and the petition ON file in the
office of the Clerk of said Board AZ
which time and place the said Commits
| sioners of Assessments will hear all mar
ties interested who desire to be heard be-
fore them ON the value of the land to be
taken, and the damages which any owner
or owners of such land or of any interest
therein may sustain by reason of the
aforesaid opening and widening of Gates
avenue.
The above proceedings are taken un-
der the provisions of Chapter 2S9 of the
Laws of 1895.
CHARLES MERKER,
| THOMAS p CONNELLY.
THOMAS f. MURRAY,
Commissioners of Assessments
Dated Jersey City. N. J., September
2Sth, 1906.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
no coNTRACTORs.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals will be received by
the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners on Monday, October s, 1906,
lat O'Clock p. NJ, in the Assembly
Chamber of the City Hall for the
REPAVING OF BRUNSWICK
STREET
from First street to Newark avenue in
accordance with specifications on file in
the office of the Clerk of said Board.
Blank forms of bid and agreement of
sureties must be obtained at the office of
the Chief Engineer, City Hail. Jersey
Payment for work herein advertised
for, is to be made out Of License Moneys
in hand.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
1907 Standard
of Cost.
About 200 lineal feet of curb stone
5"x16~ set in concrete at per
llneal foot .......... ...-..... 30
About 2,300 square yards repay
ing on concrete base at per
square yard ................ 1 80
About LOO lineal feet. resetting in
concrete and dressing curb stone
at per lineal foot ....... .35
About 300 square feet relaying in
concrete and dressing bridge
stone at per square foot ..... .25
About . reset manholes, complete
each ................. 5. 90
Time allowed for the completion of the
work, GO working days.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed
envelopes endorsed, Proposals for the
repaying of Brunswick street, directed
to Mr.. Jas. s.. Nolan, Chairman Of the
COMMITTEE on Streets and Sewers and
handed to the Clerk of this Board in
open meeting when called for in the or
der of business relating to sealed propos-
ais.
The bonds required to be furnished
ON proposals fand a. possible subsequent
contracb are those of some surety COM
pany authorized to do business in the
State of New Jersey
Bidders must state a single fixed ner
centage of the hundred per cent stand
ard above quoted for which they will fur
nish all materials and do all the work
comprehended in specifications and if
hnal award of contract be made the per
cent. SO stated will form the basis upon
which payment will be made for an
items.
The Board reserves the right TO reject
any or all proposals if it is considered
for the best interests of the city SO to
do ~ -
The attention of bidders is especially
called to Section Z Chapter 1874 of fhe
Laws 1891, under the terms whereof no
contract shall be binding upon the city or
become effective or operative until the
the bonds offered by the contractor have
been approved as to sufficiency by this
board and as to form by the Corporation
Counsel the President of this Board hay-
ing the power to examine the pronosed
bondsmen under oath. '''ss :
Wy uBy order OF the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners. 's'''
GEO. T. BOUToN,
n, Clerk.