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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
Notice to Owner Before Tax Deed
Shall Issue.

State OF South Dakota.
County of Buffalo.
To A. l.. Spencer and John @. Thull:
You are hereby notified that on the 4th day
of November A. ID. 1895 the then Treasurer OF
Buffalo County. South Dakota; exposed for
sale at the court house in said Buffalo county
and sold at public sale the following de-
scrbed real estate situated In Buffalo county
South Dakota. to-wit: Lots No. 3 and in
Block No. 4 In the town OF Gam Valley. South
Dakota. for the taxes for the year 1894. due
and DELINQUENT thereon; that at said time
and place the then Treasurer of
Buffalo county. South Dakota, bid the
amount of said taxes, interest. penalty and
cost due thereon in the name OF said Buffalo
county and then and there issued certi6-
cate OF purchase therefor for said real estate
to said Buffalo county, there being no other
bidder Offering the amount OF taxes thereon
including interest, penalty and costs and that
the County of Buffalo. South Dakota. Is now
the owner and holder Of the certificate OF
purchase therefor and that the right of re-
demption will expire and deed for said land
will be made unless exemption from such
sale Is made within sixty days from the COM
pleted service Of this notice on you.
Dated this 9th day OF May 1907.
L. A. HUBBARD.
Treasurer OF Buffalo County. 8. d.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
Notice Of Meeting Of County
Board Of Education.

Notice is hereby given, that In pursuance
Of Article IL, Political Code OF South Dakota.
the County Board Of Education OF Buffalo
County. South Dakota will meet at the court
house in Gam Valley In said County. on
Tuesday, June II, 1907. at 1 o'clock p. M. for
the purpose OF selecting school text books to
be used I'm said Buffalo County for the next
five years.
Dated at Gam Valley. s, D.. May IS. 1907.
J. v. .DRIPS, County Auditor.
Secretary County Board OF Education.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department OF the Interior.

Land Office at Chamberlain, s: d. :.
March q, 1907 y
Notice is hereby given that Jesse j. Costei-
10 of Richards, S. d., has fled notice Of his
Intention to make final year proof In sup
port OF his claim, viz: Homestead Entry NO
1852 made Mar. 10. 1902, for the SEA section
30. Township lOS NJ. Range 70 w., and that
said proof will be made before the Clerk or
Courts of Buffalo County at his oLlice In
Gannvalley, S. ID. on May q. 1907.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous upon and cultivation Of the
land, viz; James B. Ross Martin j, Ling.
scheit, Alex Gilchrist, @. H. Nelson, oil or
Richards. 8. ID. -
CHAS. L. BROCKWAY. :,
Register ]
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
Notice Of Time For Hearing Peti-
tom.

ssts coanS ot SGah OF buo Rskota In County Court
d F VIII VI Masiss sSGs Of sas an fndss Esinss
allottee. Deceased. iioo
The State of South Dakota Sends Greeting
to the heirs at law and next OF kin Of the a
bove named deceased and to all to whom
thes presents may come:
Notice Is hereby given that Mrs. White
Ghost has filed her verified petition In this
Court. stating that said White Ghost died In
Buffalo County. South Dakota. that he left an
estate consisting of real and personal proper
ty and an inherited interest In real and per-
sonal property and an allotment OF real prop
erty under the provisions OF the laws OF the
United States, and asks the Court TO find and
decree who are the legal heirs of said White
Ghost. deceased. and the Court has fixed sat
urday, June lst. 1907 at ten o'clock a. M, at the
court house I'm the town of Gam Valley.
Buffalo Connt, South Dakota, for the time and
place of hearing said petition.
Dated this uth day OF May 1907.
HANS N. eleven,
County Judge.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23
in the National French Draft Association
born May 21, 1899
Will Stand The Corning Season

At the Model Ranch, 3 miles east and / mile north
If Gam Valley and at the owner barn IN Gam Valley
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-05-23

Old paper nickel a bunch at the
CHEF office
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-24

of houses his father had left him and got together a sum of three thousand dollars. He reached Dawson among the first, staked on upper Eldorado, and inside of a couple of months knew himself wealthy beyond the dream of aVarice.
 For few months he worked faith fully, and then it was necessary to visit Dawson. The second night in Dawson he needed some tobacco and left the cabin in which he was staying to get it. Passing gambling hall, he strayed ln to see the fun. There was in this mans blood, although he had never gambled before in his forty years of life strain that came from some long dead ances- tor. Throwing small poke of dust on the table more in fun than anything else, he played for small sums at first. But inside half an hour he was dead to all the noise and color about him, to all but the whirr of the dial that meant small fortune won or lost at each reVo- lution. He sent for his bank book, for the deed to his claim, and when the long rays of the autumn sun strayed over the dome late next forenoon, he was stripped of claim, wealth, every thing, except the clothes in which he stood. Never again opportunity came his way and today instead of driving in his own automobile and seeing his children educated at the best colleges of the country, he slaves twelve hours a day, his children are apprentices to different trades and he himself is a broken old man at the age of fifty.
 The wild and woody element in the life of the last frontier has at last been vanquished by the ever spreading tide of civilization. Even as Polly, the Duchess, Jack Ham blin, Jack Osborne, Tuba Bill and Tennessee Pardner dis appeared in the early sixties; as we'll as all the other whole -souled, genial, witty people that pertain to the beginning of a mining camp, so in Yukon and Alas ka the old time gamblers, the women who had five pounds of gold thrown at them sometimes in single night, as a reward for singing couple of home songs to men long separated from home scattered and fled. The fortunes they made came easily and went as easily. Few pictures of earth have as much of garish color, of large, free, swinging life, and finally, of hidden, hopeless pathos, as the lives of the underworld in the great gold rush that was the most picturesque feature of the last decade of the nineteenth century. The life has passed away, and all that re- mains are here and there few garul- ous old men who relate to all who have time to hear how they once "could sign my cheque for million, sir" in the days when Dawson hummed with the last picturesque appearance of the frontier life, such as the unrestricted AngIo-Saxon would have it.
 The Yukon Valley News mixes relig- ion and mining in way that makes the ordinary sinner wonder if it scofs, or alludes to the ordinance of baptism. It says: "Rev. M. E. Koonce arrived from Pennsylvania and lost no time in getting out to Hoosier creek. He is said to have gotten into harness at once. Two shifts are running on the hydraulic works and it is believed that Mir. Koonce found the situation pleas ing"
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-24
Exit Dance Halls and Gam
 blers in the North.
BY c. II. E. ASQUITH.

No more is the dance hall and the gambling house part of life in Alaska and Yukon! Official edicts issued from Ottawa aud Washington have abolished what were once the principal amuse- ment places of the seeker after wealth in the Northland.
 An era that began ii the days of 40, that has filled the pages of literature with it's doings, the life that Bret Hart immortalized in the "Outcasts of Poker Flat" and other tales, came to an end uuwept, uuhonored and unsung few weeks ago.
 It was pure coincidence that both the American and Canadian govern meuts should almost on the same day issue orders that dance halls, gambling, drinking in boxes, and various other evil, but hitherto considered necessary, elements of frontier life must forth with be abolished. From the issuance of that order, the ideal of the law en. forcers on both sides of the one hun dred rnd forty-frst meridian has been to make the north as safe, as sane, as quiet and as moral as Ottawa or Wash ington.
 No longer may Kipling sing "Never a law of God or Man runs north of the fifty-three." For at the present time not only frontier law, but the law of the quiet east is enforced as far as the Arctic circle, and in some places far north of the circle.
 The passing of the dance halls and gambling houses in Alaska and Yukon marks another step in the polishing off of the Northland. The people of the North in late years have been quietly advancing along all lines and the pre- vailing ignorance as regards the coun- tries will receive a shock of enlighten. ment in the near future. The Alaska Yukon-Pacifc Exposition which will be held at Seattle in 1909 to exploit the Northland will show Alaska and Yukon to the world in their true light.
 Although it will be the aim of the Exposition to give the people an idea of what the two territories have to offer in the way of homesteads, agricultural, commercial and industrial opportuni' ties, early life in the Northland will not be neglected and one of the most interesting displays will be the repro duction of frontier life as it used to be. Since the dance hall and gambling house have become things of the past, it has been planned to give the public an idea of just what frontier life was like. On the Pay Streak, the amuse- ment thoroughfare of the Exposition, enterprising Northerners will build rep licas of some of the famous old dance and gambling halls over whose coun- ters millions in gold dust have passed, and between whose log rafters five score mighty fortunes have been frit- tered away. It is expected that some of the famous gamblers of the early days, many of whom have since settled down and become citizens of weight and responsibility, will be present.
 The days of the picturesque gambler who staked fortunes on a single card, of the dance hall girls whom the min
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-24
The NOrthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

An epidemic of small poX is reported in the Western Alaska cannery camps.
 At Wrangell, John Kassunk and Lou ise Stuteen were quietly married on July fourteen.
 Just at the time of the Christian En- deavor convention the Seattle water supply ran short.
 The town of Homer now has white population of forty, which includes six women and several children.
 The property of the Jualpa Company, which is back of Juneau, is advertised for sale by the U. s. Marshal.
 Seven men took out 407 ounces of gold in twenty days on Poor Mans creek iu the upper Kahiltna region last month.
 The board of road commissioners for Alaska has declared that all roads and trails constructed by it shall be, sixty feet wide.
 A small steamer built at Valdez was purchased by the federal government before it was launched. The price paid was Sl5,OOO
 George Krascing, one of the best known miners and prospectors in the Rampant district, died at Thanksgiving on June 13, of pneumonia.
 The Solomon like glory of Rev. Fath- CT Duncan, the missionary king of Met Iakahtla, causes other missionaries to be afflicted with a reservation itch.
 Miss Alice B. Hamblett, for some time the teacher at the government school at Port Gravina, died on July Sd, at the home of her sister at Seattle.
 The first act of self government in the Philippines was the election of members of the house of representa- tives on July 2Oth. Alaskans will please take notice.
 A Bonanza creek miner tried to draw the cap of a dynamite cartridge with his teeth, and as a result of what fol- lowed, he will talk with his hands for the rest of his life.
 A description of the "Fourth at Sul- zer," as published in the Ketchikan Miner, gives the dinner bill of fare, which starts in with chicken soup and winds up with monkey nuts.
 A theory in regard to the explosion on board the barge Japan, which oc- cured near Ketchikan, is that stowa- ways became involved in fight, a shot was fired and the dynamite did the rest.
 Spruce creek appears to be like the biblical widows cruise of oil,' which never failed. Every year we hear it will be worked out by the fall, but every summer some one finds spot little better than ever-Atlin Claim.
Douglas Island news., 1907-07-24

CTS nightly pelted with nuggets of gold as they sang their turns, did not end with the civiIizing of California. For, when Klondike was discovered, and half million people started on a wild rush northward, foremost in the weary clim bers of the Chilkoot, first to build at Log Cabin City, leaders in the cross ing of Linderman, and not the last to brave the terrors of Whitehorse rapids were these gamblers and these women who went north to prey on the gold winners.
 In those days when thousands were flung about as lightly as two bit pieces today, nothing was too insignificant to escape betting upon, no sum was too great to risk, One man lost six hun dred thousand dollars in a couple of months; others were content to win or lose ten thousand dollars nightly. Pro- fessional men in Dawson expected to win or lose from three to four or five thousand dollars nightly at the card tables. Seldom was less than a hun dred dollars staked.
 Much of this money went to the dance hall women. It is tLe fashion to decry these women and to assume that they are all bad beyond redemption. But that is far from the truth. Many of the women in the dance halls who danced nightly with the miners and who shared their drinks, were as inno- cent of wrongdoing as the most care fully protected convent girl of Paris or New York. Indeed, in the early days before the mothers, wives and sisters of the miners arrived in the country many of these women married we'll. Many who today are taking their place as leaders of society in hundreds of towns throughout the United States women known as the wife of the rich miner. MT. Blank-frst met their hus- bands on the floor of Dawson dance hall and charged them five dollars for the privilege of dancing half dozen rounds to the screech of tho cheap photograph.
 "A new country gets the best of them" said London in Dawson. "Look there at Lucille, with the face of an angel and the tongue of gutter devil, at Mollie who looks like one of Gains borough's old English beauties stepped from her frame to revel out the century in Dawson dance hall-and Eva, what mother that girl would make"
 This is the life that the recent law has forbidden. Gambling, that is open gambling, has long since been stopped on the Canadian side but it has con- tinued in secret. On the American side it has been open till this recent order. But for the past four years both these have lost the interest and the sensa- tional features of the early days.
 
 Many men today, bent and broken in fortune, look back to those early days with bitter feeling, with the wonder so common to all humanity, "How could 1 have been such fool?" For there were hundreds of men who had worked hard all their lives, who went north with the rush and in few days picked up fortune of>nearly a million and in a few monthslater were without dollar. The>sto of one to- day, caretaEer in big Seattle sky scraper, will tell the tale of many.
 This man was about forty when the discovery was made. He sold couple
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
Prominent Farmer Dead.

Last Saturday afternoon VIII
liam Horton, a prominent farmer
of Person county, was found dead
by the roadside a short distance
from Roxboro. When Mr.. Hor-
ton left Roxboro for his home he
appeared to be in his usual good
health, and it is supposed that
heart failure was the cause of
his death. The deceased was a
prominent farmer and was we'll
known throughout the State. He
was tile father Of w. N. Horton,
who holds a position as Dispatch
er in the Southern railway office
i'm this city.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
COlored Flremen Here.

Every train that has reached
the city since Monday afternoon
has brought in large numbers of
the colored fremen of the State.
At this writing it is estimated
that there are not less than six
hundred visitors here. r. o.
Everett delivered the address of
welcome to the large body and
after he had finished his remarks
the association got down to re-
gular business. On Thursday
the races will take place on Fay
etteville street, in Hayti, and
the outlook now is that quite a
number Of companies will enter
and try their skill in an effort to
win the prizes which are offered.
So far as we can learn the men
are conducting themselves in a
very orderly manner. The Dur
ham colored firemen are doing
all in their power to make the
visitors enjoy themselves and
there is no doubt but what each
one is having his full share of
the fun offered.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
Raid on Crapshooiers.

Late Saturday night or early
Sunday morning the police got
busy and rounded up several
negroes that were endeavoring
to lose their weeks earnings or
win the other fellows by shoot
ing crap. The game was on at
the home Of Pomp Long in Hayti,
capturing Pomp Long, Ben
Chavis and Mack Aston. the
latter breaking away in the scuf-
file and making good his escape,
as he thought, but was met at
the door by a citizen that ac-
compained the officers, who held
on to his man and the three were
brought to the city lookup.
Monday morning Acting May
or Underwood heard the evil
dence in the above case and all
of the defendants were placed
under a bond of $25 each. Only
one of the number gave the re-
quired security while each Of the
others were locked up in Jail to
await the action of the grand
jury.
A second raid was made about
the same time on some negroes
that occupy the SECOND story of
the building occupied by Mark
Switzer. Five negroes were ar
rested in this raid and claimed
that they did not know it was
against the law to play cards on
Sunday. They gave bond for
appearance at the trial.
After hearing the evidence in
the last named case the acting
mayor decided that there was
not enough grounds upon which
to send the defendants to the
grand jury, and each one was
required to pay a fine Of 81 and
an equal part of the cost. The
entire amount each defendant
paid was $2.32.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
lealh Of Iaseph Smith.

For some time the friends and
relatives Of Joseph Smith have
realized that he could not survive
very long. Last Friday night he
breathed his last. The funeral
and burial took place Sunday.
Joseph Y. Smith was 36 years
Of age and had spent the most of
his life in Durham, and was in
many positions of trust, where
he came in contact with our citi.
zens, and consequently was we'll
known. He leaves a wife, three
children and an aged mother.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
Death Of q Child.

Master Austin Trice, the 15-
months-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Pickett, died at the home
Of his parents near Lakewood
Park Monday morning at Q o.
clock. The child had been quite
sick the past few days and its
death was notunexpected. Spinal
miningetis was the immediate
cause of its death. The funeral
services were conducted from
the residence this morning at 10
o'clock by Rev. A. ID. Hunter,
pastor Of the Yates Baptist
church, and the interment was
in the family burying ground
near the home place.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13

Workmen are busy digging
down the embankment on the
east side of the Norfolk and
Western railroad and we are told
that a large storage house Is to
be erected on the site. We are
not informed as to what size the
building will be but from the
large space which Is being graded
the structure will evidently be
qiite q large one,
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
A Runaway Marriage.

Monday night about 10 o'clock
there was a runaway marriage
solemnized at the home of Elder
I. Y. Monk. The contracting
parties to this nuptial were Arch
L. Paschall, who resides on Ais
tonavenue, and Mrs. Pearl Hicks.
Both of the contracting parties
are well known and have many
friends throughout the city.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
STOLE THE CASH BOX.
gegrO Enters Store Of ]. A. HeSSee
and Relieves Him Of $500.

uhn hvhuN1u hAtN VI TtOyvVs
Last Saturday a negro was
seen loafng around the furniture
store Of J. A. Hessee on Corco-
ran street, and what he was. do
ing could not be ascertained un-
til he stole the cash box of the
store, which contained about
SIS.
About s o'clock Saturday night
he came in the Parrish street en-
trance, while Mr.. Hessee was
sitting in the front door. Mr..
Hessee heard a noise in the
store and upon looking around
saw the negro as he was making
his way out the Parrish street
door.
Hessee ran around the corner
of the store, in the hope of head
ing him off, but he was not in
time. The negro. as soon as he
found he was detected. broke
and ran. Hessee ran after him,
calling to the people on the street
to catch the negro that had stole
his money. No one made an ef-
fort to stop the flight of the thief,
who was fleeter of foot than
Hessee, and was gaining ground.
Whenthenegro reached Orange
street. he turned into that thor
oughfare and darted behind
some building material. Here
all trace of him was lost. A
crowd soon gathered and a search
of the premises was made, but
without finding the fugitive.
Mr.. Hessee kept the money in
the drawer of a desk, in the rear
of the store which was not lock-
ed. In the drawer was a small
pasteboard box. In this box was
the money. that was stolen.
There way a twenty dollar bill
and the other fifty-five was in
FIVE dollar bills.
The thief had evidently seen
Mr.. Hessee put some money in
the drawer and decided it would
be an easy matter for him to
sneak in when the proprietor
was engaged at the front of the
building. He must have seen
Mr.. Hessee sitting in the door
from across the street and went
around to the Parrish street door
and sneaked in. Had it not
have been for the noise he made
lin getting the drawer open, he
would not have been detected.
The negro was described as
being shabbily dressed, wearing
cap, weighing about 140 pounds.
The police were notified as soon
as the chase was over and there
is an effort being made to find
the negro, but it is doubtless il
he is ever seen again, as he had
a good start of the officers, and
the description was such as to
give little hopes.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1907-08-13
Notice'of Administration

Having qualined as Administrator Of
Edward McAdams, late of Durham
County, this is to notify all persons iu-
debted to his estate TO make immediate
payment to the undersigned, and all per.
sons having claims against said estate
are notified TO present the same to the
undersigned, on or before the 9th day Of
August, 1908, or this notice will be plead
in bar Of their recovery.
This the 9Th day Of August. 1907.
THE FIDELITY BANK.
Administrator Of Edward McAdarns,
deceased.