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Douglas Island news., 1908-11-25

'" Fred Lawrence, who has been mining in Alaska for nine years, went to Seat tie recently with considerable money, where be disappeared. His father, Fred s. Lawrence, president of the Rocky Mountain Mining X Development Co.,, of Montreal, has taken up the search.
 Another strike has been made on the beach line near Nome, six miles east of the city It is probable that this news will induce many prospectors to try their luck there in the spring. As the news was not sent out until after na7i- gation closed, there are some who will doubt it's authenticity.
 From a patriotic citizen the Skagway town council rented shed in which to house a hose cart. The lease was for one year, consideration $1, the cart to be removed at the expiration of the lease. That was in 1904. Last week Patriotic Citizen put in bill for $500 for the rent of the cart house tor the 32 months that have passed since the lease expired.
 Peter Monohan, the discoverer of the rich gold diggiugs on Valdez creek re- gently arrived iu Seattle with Sl0O,OOO, the result of his fall cleanup. Mono han is one of the enthusiastic boosters of the Alaska -Yukon-Pa exposition and proposes to make an exhibit of his own, including hundreds of pictures, map of the Valdez creek country and many skins and Indian curios.
 A feature of the Alaska exhibit at the 1909 exposition in Seattle will be the map and outline of the government road work. The value of this work is shown in the big trade that the Ameri- can towns and trading camps are get ting along the internationaI boundary. Thousands of dollars are spent by Can, adians on the American side because they can reach the American towns the easiest.
 Southeastern Alaska papers are making sarcastic remarks about the following item which appeared in one of the Puget Sound papers: "Charles E. Peabody and J. H. Bunch, president and freight and passenger agent re- spectiveIy, of the Alaska s. s. Co.,, and R. D. Pinneo, of the traffic department of the Pacific Coast s. s. Co.,, left today for San Francisco for conference with George H. Higbe, manager of the Pacific Coast s. S. Co.,, relative to the handling of next years Southeastern Alaska business"
 The Seattle Union Record claims that the advertisements sent out to eastern cities presenting the oppor- tunities for employment in a highly. colored light are working an injury to Seattle, and that they nood the clIy with paupers who arrive penniless and become a charge upon society, or worse. "The grandeur of the scenery in and about Seattle is something to conjure with, but when that is used to bring the people here who have not the money to maintain themselves until an avenue of employment opens upit be- comes criminal and does more harm than good. Anyone stranded in Seattle is down and out unless they make bid for employment at a salary which will not keep clothes on their backs nor roof over their heads.'
Douglas Island news., 1908-11-25

It is said that in the country where the White, Copper and Tanana rivers all head there are only about dozen white men, but the country is "looking up"
Douglas Island news., 1908-11-25

:" Fred Lawrence, who has been mining in Alaska for nine years, went to Seat tie recently with considerable money, where be disappeared. His father, Fred s. Lawrence, president of the Rocky Mountain Mining X Development Co.,, of Montreal, has taken up the search.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-11-18

Che secretary of the London Men
licity society reports that street beg
5lng is on the increase. He has sta
Sistics to prove his words, of course.
But surely every man who has a pen
ny to spare must have read Or heard
by this time that he really does a
fellow-creature an ill-service when he
gives it to him for the asking, says
the Pail Mall Gazette
1t is Interesting to recall that a
code of European law in force for
centuries did actually make almssiv.
ing a crime always punished severely
with death in certain cases. But
this was LOCO years ago, before the
dawn of our happy civilization. It
must be confessed however, that
there was an appearance of common
sense about the famous Graias code,
which ruled Norway Iceland and
much Of England, doubtless, in lis
lime
1t BEGAN by laying down strict rules
to make each family support its own
Indecent members, or to show suAi-
cient cause for the failure. This is the
essential principle of q sound system
Ct lCOr relief, which We have suffered
% lapse under the direction of prog
ress. Having thus provided for the
respectable class of paupers, as 1t may
be put briefly, the legislator could
deal firmly with rowing mendicants
and their abettors. And he did.
1t is worth while to observe, how.
ever, that the family pauper had a
guardian or trustee, appointed by the
district council, who was responsible
for his decent subsistence; if this man
did not fulfill his duty or tried to es.
cape it, he incurred the terrible pen.
ally called observation-disclosures in
his house for three years; anyone who
found him outside WAS free to kill
him.
They stood no nonsense in those
days. An able-bodied person who
begged was outlawed-eQuivalen to a
sentence Of death. Anyone proved to
have been wandering for Is days with.
out visible means of subsistence was
held to be a beggar, within the mean
ing of the act and treated according.
ly. But the clause which most inter.
ested us was that which deCreed that
any man, whatever his station, who
gave money, or moneys worth, to a
yagrant, at the district assembly, OF
on his way thither, should be punished
with exclusion The crime of almsgiv.
ing was well understood in those
days. Perhaps l should add that the
Grajas code was officially promulgated
u 1116. But 1t had been in force, az
-ae premable declares. for centuries.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-11-18

"A curious story is going the rounds
at Limoges, France, and has come to
light through an anonymous letter an
nouncing certain alleged facts to the
police authorities. 1t is asserted that
in 1901 two shoemakers named Valette
and Tricard, while effecting some re-
pairs to the cellar Of the house they
occupied, discovered a treasure con-
sisting of sum Of money and numer-
GUS valuable books.
The particular part of Limoges
where the residence of the shoemakers
was situated stands on the site of an
ancient monastery, and it is thought
that the treasure found may have
been hidden by the monks. Just what
truth there is in the reported discov-
cry is not yet known, but it is as
serted that the two shoemakers, who
were previously konwn to be in
straitened circumstances, have of re-
cent years lived on a quite different
footing and have been able to pur-
chase numerous house properties in
the district.
Their landlord is now taking pro-
ceedings with a view of testing the
accuracy of the local gossip and of
claiming the treasure or at least a
part of it.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-11-18
ENGLISH IDEA OF THE WEST.
Girl Really Knew as Much About It
as Many Of Her Countrymen.

An Indiana novelist thinks that one
OF the severest tests ever put upon his
risibles was endured at London din
ner table.
The American had been seated next
a rosycheeked, gray-eyed English girl,
who affected an absorbing and fat
tering interest in the United States,
about which she seemed to have inn
bibed the usual extraordinary ideas
of some Britons, especially with re-
gard to the perils to be encountered
in the more sparsely settled regions Of
the west. She tried her best not to
be incredulous when assured that
things We're not really so bad as she
imagined.
ut is reassuring to be told that
there are not rattlesnakes in all the
gardens she said with dazzling
smile, "but my cousin wrote me not
long since that he had seen over 20
wigwams in one little village. Per-
haps," she added, as her companion
made no immediate response, per
haps the wigwams are not as venom.
Gus as rattlesnakes."- Sum-
day Magazine.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-11-18
HOME BETTER THAN "CAREER."
so Declares Woman Who Has Made
Big Success in Business.

The distinction of being the highest
salaried woman in New York, in the
opinion of Miss Anna Louise Amendt,
who draws something near 100000 a
year, does not compensate for the
sacrifice of domestic ties which such
success exacts.
This is what Miss Amendt, who is
the most valuable employe of the big
gest real estate concern in New York,
told writer who visited her beauti-
fully appointed office:
Il suppose many women envy me,
but, to my mind, to be good mother
and wife is the grandest of all success
ses. Home is the natural sphere for
every woman, and no matter in what
direction her lines may be cast she
cannot entirely shake off that desire
to reign as its queen some time.
ut is just this one ruling element
in her life that prevents her from at
tanning equal success with men, The
average girl lives in hope that some
day a husband will come along and
shoulder her burden. 1t is only when
she rids herself of this thought that
definite success in business comes, for
concentration is one of the keynotes
to success.
"Another thing: Women are doubt
full of their ability to accomplish vast
results, and it is impossible to do a
thing as long as a doubt rests in your
mind.
when I started out to earn my liv-
ing | began as a stenographer with a
salary of SIG week. 1t was not such
a great while until my check was in
creased to $50. That did not look so
big to me, but it would have satisfied
the average woman.
"My checks continued to increase
until they ran into the thousands. OF
course, my usefulness had increased,
for | was not satisfied with being a
stenographer. l had learned every
phase of the business and could put a
big deal through with as much ability
as could any man in the office. l pre-
| pared all of the literature. In fact,
there is no part of the business with
| which | am not familiar.
"But with all my success | would
not advise the young girl to seek a
| career. For in my belief, the girl who
| gets married is on the right road to
happiness. Success in all lines is
hard
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
New Haven 00O02 O-S 5 4
 Hartford Q q 0 02 a 0-711 0
RONIER WAS HIT HARD.

Holyoke, Aug 4.-Holyoke hit Romer hard yesterday afternoon and Bridgeport was defeated, 8 to 1. Boucher, Massey and Burke were the leading stickers. Bridgeport played poorly in the field. Hilt's work being badly off color. Schmidt pitched fine ball after the first inning. O'Rourke, Sr, relieved Kennedy behind the bat in the eighth after the latter had in- jured his hand stopping a foul tip. The score: R.H.E. Holyoke 201O *-S11 1 Bridgeport. 10 000000 0-1 4 4
 Batteries-Schmidt and Armbrus- ter; Romer and O'Rourke, Kennedy.
 Sacrifice hits, Perkins 2, Arm bruster, Rogers, Hambacher; two base hits, Boucher ?, Massey 2; three base hits, Dolan; home run, Burke; bases on balls, off Schmidt 2, off Ro- mer 1; left on bases, Holyoke 4, Bridgeport 5; struck out, by Schmidt 6, by Romer 4; hit by pitcher, Phe- Ian; time, In 40m; umpire, Wilkin- son.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
WITH THE POOLISTS.
Holyoke Had the Winning Squirt and
 Won Out.

The race in the pools last week looked good for New Haven up to the final spurt made by Holyoke Tn the second game on Saturday. The Massachusetts city then plowed to the front with rush and beat out the holders of the New Haven ticket by just two rruns. New Britain was not far behind the leaders, only six runs separating her from the leader.
 In the National league two teams were tied for the honors, Chicago and Boston having 40 each. This was made possible by the unexpect- ed run making of Boston in the Saturday game, when she scored A times, while Chicago was standing still. St Louis, the team that at one time was believed to be of cham pionship caliber, made just six runs during the week and eight games were played by the team at that.
 There was another pretty race in the American league between Cleve- land and St Louis and Cleveland nipped the tape with a lead of only two runs. New York was the low est with but 12 runs to her credit. The following are the records in the pools in the three leagues, up to Monday of this week:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
THE DIAMOND
THE CRACK OF
 BATS DID IT
Springfield Trimmed Us in Just One Inning g--Joe Connor Was
 Upjustly Removed.

Waterbury was defeated in just one inning yesterday and in that same inning Springfield scored all her runs. Umpire Finn was the in dicator holder and if Supervisor Kennedy cannot improve the staff with any better timber he had bet ter call back Charley Kennedy, who knows the game and is honest about his decisions. Joe Connor lost a chance to complete the game be- cause of disputing a very rank de- cision at the home plate. Although it favored the home team, still it was a big blunder for MT Finn and was decidedly laughable to the ma jority of the fans, some of whom rooted for the visiting team after the raw ruling was made. This decision came in the fifth inning, when Wa terbury stood 1 and Springfield O.. Lauder hit cleanly to center field and was sacrificed to second by Shincel. Murphy hit a pretty one to center also and Waite picking the ball up, slammed it to Connor at the plate to catch Lauder, who was travelling for home. Joe stood on the line of base and it was impossible for Lauder to get to the home plate unless he put Connor out of the way. The ball was there ahead of him, however, and Lauder was touched out Con nor, as did almost everyone else, be- ieved Lauder was out, but Umpire Finn said he was safe. This an- gered Connor, as it would any catch CT who had made the same play. He walked to Finn and said What kind of decision do you call that?" ''It was correct decision" replied the umpire. "It was rotten," an- swered Connor. You are out of the game, Connor," said the umpire, and then few more bouquets were thrown the umpire's way. There was no mention of a fine made by MT Ump, and whether he has the right to put a man out of the game without first fning him is one of the things that the directors may have to settle. The decision was so funny to the fans that they gave the umpire the merry ha ha. Hirst took Con nor's place behind the bat. Water bury's other run had been made in the fourth inning. Fitzpatrick start ed off with a two sacker, took third on the next out and came home when Joe Connor let an inshoot get away from him.
 Springfield scored all her runs in the sixth inning after that phony dicision in the fifth. Standard, Waite, Burns, Scanlon and Mclean each hit safely and this with a bad error by Billy Lauder sent five men over the plate, sewing the game up for keeps. Lauder distinguished himself at the bat. having a hit each time up. The score:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
New England League Standing.
BASE BALL NOTES.

No more home games this week.
 The Elks will go to Bristol to-mor row on the 1:1S trolley from the center. This will get them to Bris tol at 8 o'clock.
 Joe O'Rourke, the popular little shortstop, will join the Waterbury forces to-day. He has been pur' chased for $750 from the St Louis Nationals and will take Billy Lau' der's place on the infield.
 Harry o'Hagan severed his con nection with the local team last even ing and will go back to Lynn, which team has recalled him. Nichols will take his place on the first sta ton and Lauder may be played in 1 the field.
 A big crowd of rooters are going over from here to Bristol tomorrow to witness the game. If Waterbury wins that battle there Is no other team in the league that the Elks fear l and it may be a record for the team to go down the line without a defeat.
 Jimmy Ramon, manager of the Binghamton team, created a lot of trouble yesterday at WiIkesbarre in a New York state league game. He got into a wordy argument with DruTy. the Wilkesbarre manager, and was knocked down. After the game the two mixed 1t up again and Foxy Grandpa got the worst of the alterca- tiou.
 The only triple play by three broth CTS ever pulled off in the world, it is believed, was accomplished at Sioux City. Ia. recently in a game between teams representing the Mayfower Congregational and First Presby- terian churches. The brothers are Harry. Earl and Clyde Cummins., pitcher. second baseman and first baseman for the Mayfower team. With men on the first two bases, the batter hit a line drive to Harry. who shot it to Earl at second, and a quick relay to Clyde at first com pleted the play.
 Elmer stricklett. the former Brooklyn pitcher. broke a worlds record pitching for the San Jose team in the California outlaw league the other day. The little spitball twirler had no less than 13 assists, which is by far the greatest number a pitcher ever had in one game. Stricklett. be cause of his spitball. which results in the bstsmen hitting more 10 the in- field because of the inability to get a good. solid rap at the ball. always did have lot of fielding chances in every game he pitched. but never before has any pitcher had 13 assists.
 The Connecticut league Is not the only baseball organization that is having it's troubles with umpires. Five clubs in the New England league have signed a petition for a special meeting this week. as the officials of the league refused to call the meeting The managers and owners of the clubs are determined to take the mat ters of the lssgues into their owu hands From present feeling among them there looks to be a hsndwrft- ing on the wall for a change in the league oHeiaIs- t is said to be high Iy probable that the meeting when assembled wfIi proceed to afshsnd and then re-orgzniIe with new cm- cers-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
LETTER FROM LUNDIN.
Beats Best Man in Sweden-Uses Toe Hold On a Giant.

Hjalmar Lundin, writing from Stockholm on July 20, says that on |, that night he defeated Axel Krook, the best man in Sweden, for the Graeco-Roman championship. On account of his numerous wrestling engagements, MT Lundin was unable to go to London for the Olympic games, but he expects to go to Paris before he returns to this country in September. In his last match with Gotch, Lundin's leg was badly twist ed, but it is all right now and he says he is taking good care of him self. He is anxious to meet Gotch again provided the champion will bar the toe hold, for he says he has more speed now than he had last winter and feels stronger. Lundin says he knows Gotch very we'll, as regarding his wrestling work, and he has nothing to fear. About some of his matches, Lundin writes as fol- lows:
 "The other night I was booked to wrestle at a fair. It was advertised that I would pay two kronor for every minute that the local men would stay with me. Five fellows came up to try for the money. I knew that l could beat four of them any time I wished. but there was giant named Hedman, a powerful fel- low, who had a big following, and many even thought that he would thow me. We wrestled in the catch as-catch-can style. beat him in two minutes with the toe hold. He shouted Murder when I secured the hold and the people laughed at him for he had been telling his friends that he was going to pick up a little easy money by beating me. He did not know that there was such a thing as the toe hold and there were few in the audience who had seen 1t.
 "Axel Krook put up a good go in the Graeco-Roman style and there was some fast wrestling as long as the bout lasted. I downed him in 33 minutes"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
INTERNATIONAL ATHLETICS.
Irland Defeats Scotland in Annual -----. Meet ai Edinburgh.

The annual international athletic contest between Scotland and Ire land took place a little more than two weeks ago in connection with the International exposition at Edin- burgh. The programme contained eleven events, and as only the firsts counted. Ireland secured the victory by points to 8. Several of the win ners are we'll known on this side of the water, notably Denis Morgan. for merly of the New York A. C., who won the 16 pound shotput with the fine put of 45 feet 10 inches. Con Walsh, member of the Canadian Olympic team. represented Ireland in the hammer throwing and won with a throw of 162 feet inches. Con Leahy won the high jump. getting over the bar at feet. Lieutenant Halswelle had an easy win in the 40 yards It was the fourteenth annual contest. Ireland having won nine and Scotland five.
 Half mile-won by c. \. Murphy, Ireland. Time. 2 minutes 4-5 second.
 Throwing a 16 pound hammer Won by C. Walsh. Ireland, with a throw of Ie2 feet . inches.
 100 yard run-Won by P. ]. Roche. Ireland. Time. 10 3-5 seconds.
 Running high iump-Won by R. C. Duncan, Scotland.
 One mile run-Won by H. T. Jamieson. Scotland. Time. min ufes 34 seconds ar.
 Putting Is pound shot-Won by Denis Morgan. Ireland. with a put of l5 feet 10 inches.
 120 yard hurdIes-Won by T. ]. Ahearne. Ireland. Time. IS 4-5.
 44o-yard run-won by Lieutenant ". HalsweIle, Scotland. Time. 5I 2-5 seconds.
 Running broad iump-Won by T. ]. AhesTns. Ireland, with a jump of ga feet 5 h inches.
 Four mile run-won by I. Murphy, Ireland. Time. 90 minutes AS l-s sscondR
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
BAD THROW LOST GAME.

New Britain, Aug 4.-The fans who attended the New Britain-M Meri- den base ball game at the Electric field yesterday afternoon landed a bakers dozen of rounds for their money. Not until the thirteenth in- ming had been played did Cabrera make the winning run.
 The winning run was made in a peculiar and sensational way. Ca- brera was the first man up in the thirteenth inning for the local nine. He slammed the ball between second and third. Both Hayward and Bar bOur went after it. It took a vicious bound as it drove past Barbour into Hayward and the latter missed It and then started to chase it into left field When he got 1t. Cabrera, who was stretching his legs over the ground a la Hogan Yancey. was al- most 60 second. Hayward made a wild throw of the horsehide and it sailed over SOfeI's head and went into the crowd on the side of the feld- In the meantime Cabrera was still doing his sprint around the bases and landed home before the ball could Dc secured The score:
 R-H.E- x T. oebe0OI00aOOI-2 M-dn e80se-I 4z
 BatfeTies-Coughliu. Ward and RufznEes Stevens. Plank and Bridzes
 His. Of Stevens sin : innings. On CoaEhIin In s innings. oH Plank 2 In z Innings. oG Ward l In in-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-04
THE AVERAGES
WE ARE NOT
 IN THE SWIM
No Three Hundred Hitter in the Waterbury List-Just Where
 We Stand.

There was some decrease in pitch CT supremacy last week, despite a no hit game by Ward and one or two other clever twlrler p7ifoim~ ances. Some of the batters got busy and with the aii of two new com CTS into the league the 300 class was increased by three, even trough Nichols of Waterbury fell a victim to the elusive shoots and re- tired from select company after q fine spurt.
 The additions to the list this week are Standard and Maggert of Spring field, Dolan of Holyoke and Miller of Bridgeport. The last named has hit well in the dozen games he has play ed, and If he can keep it up will be decided addition to the batting strength. Maggert has only played a few games, too, 16, including his five with Waterbury. He did not do much under Manager Durant and so was allowed to drift to Springfield, where he has hit over 400 in II games.
 The advent of Dolan in the select class is of interest beyond the ordi- nary because it furnishes another il- lustration of back number pitcher graduating into the tiptop batter class not a rare thing by any means, Some of the greatest batters in the big leagues to-day were formerly pitchers. Seymour and Dolan or New York are two instances. The two best known instances in this league were in the cases of Pat Dougherty and Pop" Foster, both clever pitchers, who turned out to be the leagues star batsmen, also star stickers in the majors. Luby of Springfield is another and more recent example.
 There are round dozen of 300 hitters to-day and every club is rep- resented but Waterbury. Rising i. still the leader and O'Rourke is third, really second, as Maggert has played but a few games. The rec