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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29
A Sad Bereavement.

Many friends will learn with sorrow of
the death of Dorothy Rebecca, the daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. w. G. Morrow, of
West Hickory, which occurred under
very distressing circumstances while
they were visiting the old home of Mrs.
Morrow at Kelleysburg, Indiana county,
on Thursday last. The child had been
ailing with bowel trouble for a few days
past and in the morning about s o'clock
the father had administered a mild dose
of medicine, in attempting to swallow
which the little one was choked, some of
the medicine lodging in the larynx. Be-
came unconscious, and though the doctor
almost Immediately performed the opera
ton of tracbeotomy, thus restoring respi-
ration, it was impossible to save the
babe's life. 1t was some hours later be-
fore other physicians could arrive, and
the child was kept alive for seven hours,
death ensuing at o'clock in the after
noon. The child was aged one year and
five months,-a bright, winsome little
miss of unusual sweetness for one so
young, and the stricken perents are as
sured of the heartfelt sympathy of friends
and neighbors in this peculiarly sad be-
reavement. Temporary interment of the
remains was made in Washington church
cemetery beside those of the child's
grandfather, on the day following lis
death. DR.. and Mrs. Morrow reached
home at West Hickory on Saturday.
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ClaringtOn.

Miss Cens Adams, of Br0okville, is
visiting at A. Il. Mechling's.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Aber and Mrs. Brecht,
who have been visiting Mrs, Aber's
mother, Mrs. Mays, have returned to
their home in Sheridan, Pa.
New wells are coming in every week
up in the Specify.
Mrs. Hogg, of Oxford, England, is yis-
iting her brother, j. G. Work.
Mrs. Keam and daughter. of Charlerol,
and Mrs. Ellsworth and family, of Edin-
boro, we're visiting at Philo Williams.
A. r. Mechling took in the Butler fair
last week.
Miss Jennett Weller and sister, of
Canonsbnrg, Pa, are visiting at r. w.
Brenneman's.
Corn rossts and chicken suppers seem
to be the rage at present.
The National Transit Co. are laying a
four-inch line from the pump station up
in the oil field. The two-inch line was
too small to carry all the oil that is being
produced.
Word came that Mrs. Shof1stall, daugh-
ter of j. B. Pearsall, is dead. She for
merly lived here. Her home was near
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Roger has been quite sick, but is
better at this writing.
Chas. Coon and family, of Marienville,
were visiting friends in town few days
last week,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29
Pretty Girl Suicides.

The Oil City Blizzard Of Monday gives
the following account of the suicide of a
young girl at jamestown, N. Y:
Retta Atkinson, aged about 20 years, a
very attractive young woman, committed
suicide Sunday evening about 1880 o. clock
at jamestown, N. Y, by swallowing an
ounce of laudanum. 1t was thought her
home was at Washington, Pa, on account
of letters found in trunk from sister,
and dated at that place, but this afternoon
word was received from Jamestown to
the effect her parents resided at Walnut
Bend, near this city. Inquiry was made,
and it was learned her mother, Mrs. Will
liam Atkinson, widow, has resided for
a number of years at Walnut Bend.
A brother of the dead girl, John Atkin-
son, also resides with the mother. The
body will, no doubt, be taken to the fam
lily home and inferred in the Walnut
Bend Cemetery.
The girl for some time was a waitress at
the Sherman House, in Jamestown but
gave up this position and lived in a room
in house on Third street for about three
months and it is alleged the reputation
she had was not an enviable one. Sun
day night it is said she requested a man
living in the house to get her some lauda-
mum, as she had toothache He pur-
chased an ounce of the drug and she evil
IDENTIFY swallowed it all, for the bottle
found by her side was empty. The
jamestown Post this morning, in its ac-
count of the suicide. says:
Later developments in the case reveal
several sensational incidents which will
probably be Investigated by the police to-
day. 1t is reported that the Atkinson
girl had been kept in the room by local
young men, who watched her closely lest
she might see other friends. This life of
shame and degradation it is believed pro-
duced melancholy which resulted in
the determination to end itall with death.
Persons who knew the girl say she was
not over 10 years of age. 1t is understood
that the room occupied by the girl was
not her own, as is reported, but an apart
ment that was rented by young man.
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The Francis oil company, on the
property known as the Shipe e. Diehl
tract, about five miles from Marienville,
on the road leading TO the Buffam Farm,
struck well last week that bids fair to
make so barrel pumper. After being
shot the we'll was pumped for four hours
and put 50 barrels of oil in the tank, when
it was shut down pending the laying of a
pipe line. The new strike has created
considerable excitement, and leases are
being eagerly sought for. The company
will haye large force employed soon in
the rapid development of the territory.
During the past week Kellettville has
surpassed all former seasons by the
splendor of its social functions. The
event was an elegantly appointed lunch
con, on Thursday, at tho home of Mrs.
Snowman, where Mesdames Watson,
Shewman and SlCcum entertained seven
ty-five of their lady friends. The rain
interf fered somewhat with the plans o:
the hostesses but not with the joyousness
and hilarity of the guests. During the
afternoon the ladies were treated to the
unusual experience of tram ride, visit
ing Mr.. Watson's mills, viewing the im-
mense stores of lumber, and some there
were who could not but indulge in the
feminine delight of shopping. The guests
included friends from Tionesta, Nebras-
ka, II ickory, Endeavor and Kellettville
and one and all are loud in their praises
of Kelettville hospitality. In the after
noon and evening the finest weather fa-
vored the hostesses and their friends and
all returned to their homes with the eX-
preston that they had never been afford
ed such pleasant entertainment so hear
tily enjoyed by everyone.
The annual picnic of the w. r. G. at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Lede-
bur, German Hill, Friday last, while
perhaps not just as largely attended ss
some former ones, was fully as great a
success in pleasure and enjoyment for
those who were present, of whom there
were between seventy and eighty. A
gorgeous luncheon was spread upon the
long table under the apple trees, the va
riety and amplitude of which was sight
for the gods. The discussion of this feast
occupied something like an hour of time,
at the finish of which Judge Irwin re-
galed the "nickers" with one of his u.s.
ually classical orations, concluding with
the presentation of dozen solid silver
spoons to the genial host and hostess on
behalf CT those who have in years asst
enjoyed these annual gatherings. The
balance of the afternoon was delightfully."-
spent by old and young alike in social
chat, playing games and romping through
the pretty orchard with the freedom of a
parcel of kids. The day was one of per-
feet weather conditions, and the drive
home in the twilight was not the least of
the pleasures of the happy outing.
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Jury List, September Term, 1906.
GRAND JURORS.

GRAND JURORS.
Goodwin, Edwin, laborer, Green.
Welsh, j. c., farmer, Howe.
Emert, A. H., line walker, jerks.
Kinney, Ben, lab0rer, Howe.
Ikenberg, Adam, farmer, Kingsley.
Snyder, G. e., laborer, Howe.
Shatenbarger, Wm., laborer, Howe.
Albaugh, Earl, pumper, Green.
Levy, Isaac, teacher. jerks.
Blum, K. S., farmer, Green.
Stewart, G. j., laborer, Hickory.
Mccullough, J. r., laborer, Hickory,
Watson, Wm., teamster, Kingsley.
Kifer, Fred, farmer, Kingsley.
Briggs, Warren, laborer, Kingsley.
Osborne, Samuel, laborer, jerks.
Carson, Angus, jeweler, Tionests Boro.
Walters, Chas., laborer, Tionesta Twp.
English, N. M, laborer, Green.
Bender, Robert, merchant, Harmony.
Wilson, j. g., laborer, Howe.
Kelly, Jas. H., banker, Tionesta Boro.
Carlson, Axel, laborer, jerks.
Wiles, James, farmer, Tionesta Twp.
PETIT JURORS.
Elliott, Jas, farmer, Harmony.
Pierson, Levi, farmer, Kingsley.
Handy, Artie, laborer, Harmony.
Childs, Raymond, lab, Tionesta Twp.
Carson, Jesse, farmer, Tionesta Twp.
McCloskey, b. A, farmer, Green.
Vockroth, Albert, laborer, Green.
Cropp, John, pumper, Green.
Work, J. CALVIN, lumbernan. Barnett.
Cline, A. B., clerk, jerks.
Passauer, Arnold, lab, Tionesta Twp.
Coon, Charles, laborer, jerks.
Eminger, G. f., laborer, Howe.
Allison, l. II E, lahorer, Green.
Cuzzens, Jas, farmer, Barnett.
Overlander, S. j., lab, Tionesta Boro.
Stakeley, Wm., laborer, Kingsley.
Knight, Y. j., farmer, Barnett.
Davis, Ii. o., laborer, Tionesta Twp.
Anderson, G. T. ,ieweler, Tionesta Boro.
Mensch, L. H., merchant, Jenks.
Hall, Henry, farmer, Green.
Wilkinson, Wm., retired, jerks.
Jones, j. j., laborer, Hickory.
Fitzgerald, j. NJ, farmer, Barnett.
Kelly, j. W., shoemaker, jerks.
Rudolph, Harry, laborer, Kingsley.
Ball, VIM, laborer, Tionesta Boro.
Heasley, Elmer, laborer, Barnett.
Carpenter John, laborer, Kingsley.
Sibble, Ernest, farmer, Tionesta Twp.
Rhodes, Augustus, farmer, Green.
Richards, George, laborer, Howe.
Rose, Jas, laborer, jerks.
Cassatt, Frank, farmer, Barnett.
Faller, Phiip, farmer, Tionesta Twp.
link, Scott, laborer, jerks.
Hunter, A. M. laborer, Howe.
Clark, j. r., clerk, Tionesta Boro.
Freeman, L. E., laborer, Hickory.
Walters, George, laborer, Kingsley.
Lanson, F. R., agent, Tionests Boro.
Shreckengost, G. b., laborer, jerks.
Brown, w. c., laborer, jerks.
Lusher, Harry, laborer, Hickory.
Wilson, George, farmer, Harmony.
Harp, II. H., barber, jerks.
Eek, Geo, NJ, farmer, Barnett.
Jameson. J. W., driller, Tionesta Boro.
Emert, Nathaniel, far, Tionesta Twp.
Haight, j. j., farmer, Howe.
Siggius, Isaac, laborer, Harmony.
Maza 7 r lahorer Rarnatt
Reyner, T. j., merchant, jerks.
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Notice to Taxpayers.

To the Taxpayers of TioneSta Borough:
You are hereby notified that Saturday,
Sept. lst, 1906, will be the last day on
which rebate of per cent. off will be
allowed on taxes of 1906 in said Borough,
and all persons owing lax for 1905 in
Tionesta Borough, must settle the amount
of tax by Sept. lst, 1906, or levy will be
made at once, and shall proceed to col
lect the amount of tax by law.
II w. II. HOOP, Collector.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29
stomach Troubles and Constipation.

No one can reasonably hope for good
digestion when the bowels are consti-
pated. Mr.. Chas. Baldwin, of Edwards
vile, ILL.,, says: ~ suffered from chronic
constipation and stomach troubles for
several years, but, thanks to Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, am al
most cured" Why not get package of
these tablets and get well and stay well?
Price 95 cents. Samples free. For sale
by Dunn ~ Fulton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29

During the hot weather of the summer
months the first unnatural loosoness of a
child's bowels should have immediate at
tention, so as TO check the disease before
1t becomes serious. All that is necessary
is few doses of Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed
by dose of castor oil to cleanse the sys-
tenn. Rev. NJ. o. Stockland, Pastor of
the first NJ. Il. church, Little Falls, Mimi,
writes: 1--WE have used Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy for
several years AMI find il very valuable
remedy, especially for summer disorders
In ehildren.n Sold by Dunn a Enlton.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29

I can truthfully recommend Thomp-
sons Barosma, Kidney and Liver Cure
as fine medicine and cure for all you
claim for it. When commenced taking
il / weighed ia pounds and after five
months l weighed 1856 pounds. l am al
most entirely free from rheumatism and
my general health is greatly improved.
Susan NJ. Lyons, Titusville, Pa. AT
Dunn K Fulton's, If
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L. j. HOPKINS.
Individual Instruction

of the of the of the Meave Commercial College
Fiey furnished and complete study all that
make school, sufficient number capable
be employed give individual
The following teachers all experienced
instructors, employed Boyd Principal L. Stacy j. w. Don.
NELL Nan Macarthur Anna Haskiu r. Powell Carolyn MGlue Es
le Doane, c. E. Douglass H. d. Hickee and r. L. Jacobs faculty
and organization this kind deserves your you should
to tar with Il a our
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LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Joe Levi. Ad.
hammers. Ad.
Hopkins. Locals.
DR.. II. G. Reid. Ad.
Dufl IS College. Ad.
G. X. Shoup. Local.
Confirmation Notice.
VIM. b. James. Ad.
Robinson IL Son. Ad.
Oil City Trust Co. Ad.
Tionesta Hardware. Ad.
w. Ii. Hood. Tax notice.
Smart &C Silberberg. Ad.
Edinboro Normal. Local.
+. w. Devoe &C Co. Letter.
Nickel Plate Ry. Readers.
Court Proclamation. Trial List.
Penny. Ry. Two Ads. and Reader.
Meadville Commercial College. Ad.
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Horses! Horses! =!

Thirty head of horses will be at the
Dubois and Brookville Fairs, for sale
or exchange. Don't miss this great OPP
portunity to get yourself horse or team.
2t GRANT SHUsTER
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i have had Bright's disease for three

i have had Bright's disease for three
years and have used several kidney rem
edies and employed four different doc
tors, without benefit. | have now taken
two bottles of Thompson's Barosma aud
am 70 per cent better. My general health
and appetite are improving every day.
Q. Il. Richtmyer, Thurston, Steuben Co.,
n. Y. Thompson's Barosma, SOC and 81 D.,
at Dunn IL Fulton's. If
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Have You 4!

Have you received copy of 1.-THE
Trust Company as Trustee for the Man
of Average Means?" 1t is an article by
Harold II. Rockwell published in The
Interior. We have issued it in pamphlet
form. We will be pleased to mail you a
copy upon request.
1t OIL CITY TRUST COMPANY.
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The most deceptive cause of nervous
ness is diseased kidneys. Thompson's
Barosma cures the kidneys aud tonics
the nerves. SOC and 81. Dunn ~ Fulton.
Annual Opening, Mead
Vile Commercial College,
Tuesday, September A, 'O6.
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ANNUAL OPENING.
SEPTEMBER 4th, 1906

Only school in the State of Pennsy affiliated with the
American Commercial Schools Institution of Washington D. c. and
will investigate school before taking Business Course Our
catalogue and other literature will request We
explaining work detail and want to hear from
interested in business education.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-08-29

whoever Tells you tne potato crop lS u
failure hereabouts this year, tell him he's
dreaming. The early varieties are not up
to the standard in size and quantity to be
sure, but the late tubers are making up
for the deficiency. Last week Mrs. Hen
ry Sibble, of German Hill, left large
size grape basket containing nine potatoes
at this office, the nine just filling the
basket, and averaging trifle oyer a
pound each in weight. Their entire patch
will average nearly as good as this sample,
running about ten hills to the bushel.
We hear of other yields which show for
nearly as good turnout, and farmers are
not looking for any sort of blight that is
liable to diminish the crop.
-Messrs. Wagner Il Wilson, who fin
ished numbering at Marienville last sum-
mer, have lately engaged extensively in
the same pursuit in the western country,
have purchased large plant at Monroe,
near Seattle, Wash, the consideration
being $3.50, 600. The deal includes the
entire mill plant and timberholdings OF
Stephens Brothers, consisting OF large
saw, shingle and planning mills. These
haye combined capacity of 100000 feet
of lumber per day and 10000 shingles.
Included in the deal also were one and
one-half million feet of lumber in stock,
four or five million feet of logs in the
pond, eight miles of standard guage rail-
road, locomotive, trucks, donkey engines
with full equipment for large logging
operations; about one hundred and sixty
million feet of standing timber, one hun
dred and fifty head OF live stock, and all
the store aud Office buildings.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04

siye, cost Ig from $3.50 to $4,000.
II can operate in any gravel hole in
which water enough can be poured
or collected TO float it. Whether
gold is or IS not in the bed can be
ascertained before the dredge is
placed. Unlike other devices for
performing the same work. the
dredge wastes no product 1t gets
all the gold in the bank
The grist once ground, there is
no hunting for a market. Uncle
Sam stands holding out his hand
for every srain OF it; and for it
he pays. at the Mint, $2017 per troy
ounce, fine, spot cash, in gold coin.
AIr. Del Mar states that gravel
containing as little as cents of
gold TO the cubic yard viii yield. at
the magic touch OF this Midas, a
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
The H4drauIic Prooeaa

For a time the hydraulic process
promised to reyolutionfze placer
mining. The method was known to
the Romans, UUC has been most wide
ly used in the United States since its
introduction 1862, in Placer coun-
ty, Cal. Its I use was as follows.
A placer mine was opened at the bot
tom of gulch. Water from the bank
above was carried out in a flume to
a point about forty feet above the
mine. thus furnishing a head. AT
this point the water was discharged
into a barrel. from the bottom of
which hung a rude. cowhide hose
provided with a tin nozzle. From
this hose and nozzle the water from
above was played with considerable
force upon the pay dirt: and. as the
dirt was washed away, the gold was
caught by the methods described
above.
From these crude beginnings de-
veloped the great industry of hydrau-
tic mining. by which mountains were
washed away. streams choked. fields
devastated. and nature ravished in
the interests of the gold miners. But
the process became such d nuisance
TO others than gold miners that it
has been practically abolished by
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
WORKING the Oredqe

The essential operations of the
dredge are simple: First, the ma
chine is placed in a depression,
which is filled with water enough to
float the boat. When all is ready,
the prov is thrust against the gravel
bank and the machinery is started
The first bucket bites a mOuthful
out of the bank and starts upward
and backward toward the boat The
second bucket, just behind, like
wise helps itself 10 the gravel and
procee;s on its course, following its
fellow, to be followed by the entire
chain of buckets, each in turn gnaw-
ing, crunching. grinding away at the
bank of gravel much as a hungry
boy might eat his way into hunk
of pound cake. And as the bank
wastes away the boat follows it up.
On the boat itself the screens,
sluice boxes, rifles, quicksilver, etc,
separate the gold from the debris,
and the rearwaTd-running elevator
carries away the rubbish, heaping
it up far in the wake of the boat.
much as a modern stTawstacker
heaps up the straw which has
passed through the thresher.
Now, as to the practieability of
the process.
For these days of great business
this machine is relatively inexpen-
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
The Worid's Undug Gold

Much of the worlds undug gold
lies scattered about in gravel beds,
or ''placers." To be discovered? Not
all of il. Jy any means.
The whereabouts of much of this
gold has long been known. But
the precious metal has been like the
good fish in the sea-" or the little
birds with tails all unsalted. How
TO capture these good fish" or TO
get the salt on the tails of the bird
lets, has been the problem which
fishermen and hunters have grappled
with; and, similarly, how 20 get the
glittering grains out Of the aurifer-
Gus gravel beds and prevent the pro-
cess from costing more than it came
TO has been the problem with the
gold miners. A few facts as to gold
mining. dry, though, they may ap-
pear. are here necessary.
First, what is gold placer?
Gold occurs in the mother lode
in quartz, often in combination with
other metals. In cases, through the
action of geologic forces, the quartz
becomes broken up. The rain falling
upon it bears the resulting sand and
gravel, freighted with its precious
cargo of golden grains, into water
courses. Here the gold, because of
its greater weight, settles TO the bot
tom OF the stream. Upon this layer
after layer OF gravel and sand,
through the action Of subsequent
freshets, is deposited, burying the
original deposit. Thus in time accu-
mUlates the gravel bed known as the
gold placer. 1t may be in the bed
Of a river or ip the bed of what waS
once a stream.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
The Great Problem Of Cold Mining Has
Been Not to Discover New Fields. But to
Work Known Fields at d Profit, and This
Problem Has Apparently Been Solved by
the New God DTedge.

er than any of these are the aurifer-
ons CT Brazil. Australia, and 81
IBERIA"
The methods employed in placer
mining have, in the past, been for
the most part, extremely primitive
and crude. The miners task has
been, first, to dig his gold and, sec
ond, 20 wash it, For the first work
he has commonly used the pick and
shovel; and, for the second, the pan.
Into the pan was shoveled gravel
aud sand containing gold; water
was next added; the pan was shak-
en- and the gold, because of its
greater weight, settled TO the bot
tom. An improvement over the pan
is the rocker, a trough mounted on
rockers something like a child's
cradle, and used in IL Ich the same
way as the pan.
The Spaniards have Washed out
The Washington times., 1906-02-04

over a small piece or carpet or bur
lap; in other cases an amalgamated
silver plate is used; but in each case
the object is the same-tO catch the
fine gold The heavy particles Of gold
are caught in the rifles while the fine
particles either amalgamate or are
retained by the carpet, while the
light material or tali:ngs is washed
away."-Census Report, Mines and
Quarries." p. 572.
A word as 10 the process of ANAL
gamation. If quicksilver is mixed
into a mass OF diluted gold-bearing
gravel it readily unites with the
gold, forming an amalgam, thus sep
arating the gold from the other mat
ter, this amalgam is next subjected
to heat which vaporizes the quick
silver and drives it off, leaving the
gold free.
The Washington times., 1906-02-04
Alaskan Placer MiHinq

The following extract, descriptive
of placer mining as it was conduct
ed in Alaska as late as 1900. is
quoted from an official report: "'The
mining on the beach IS the simplest
operation possible, a rocker being all
that is required in addition to a
shovel and a pick and good, strong
back. The dirt is snoyeied up and
thrown onto a coarse screen, which
removes The larger stones and trash,
the latter derived from the Drift
wood, etc. from the sea. The fna
dirt passes over series of rides.
which are snail obsyruetiens. and is
finally washed OF. leaving the heavy
gold. In solne caszs Ine tailings pass