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The Holly chieftain., 1908-07-17

fice tie past week. They report
things on the q. V. in that thriv-
ing town.
]. II. hCilds. the glove manu-
facturer OF Pueblo, formerly of
Amlty. was caller here last
Monday. He reports a brisk
trade at the hub.
w. L. Cox, the professional
auctioneer, will henceforth con-
duct auctions in Holly every
Saturday at p. m. at the band
stand corner. Whatever YOU
have for sale list it at The Chief,
tain for MIR. Cox and he will han
die it for you.
r. and Mrs. H. f. Anderson
who live two miles northeast Of
town, spent Wednesday after
noon here, accompanied by Mr.,
Anderson's mother, Mrs. S. Z.
Anderson. OF 'l'ingley, Iowa, and
by their daughter, Miss Grace
Anderson.
Mr.. Ralph Randolph spent re-
cent week very pleasantly in
Denver. MIR. Randolph was es-
pecially pleased with the histri-
onlc work OF Miss May Buckley,
the actress.
Mr.. Harry Garfield has made
all arrangements to study the
great force of electricity at the
Denver Electrical school as soon
as he is graduated from the Holly
high school.
Mrs. John Davis has gone to
her ranch some eight miles north
of town.
The youngest pianist in Holly
IS little Genevieve Ross, Rev. B.
+. Ross's little daughter She
is six years old, and plays quite
effectively.
Mrs. Minnie Buckler is stop
ping at her ranch northeast of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Wood spent
the week of the convention at
Denver with their daughter,
Mrs. Lulu Jacobs.
Mrs. Dora Hurley is staying
at her ranch eighteen miles south
of town.
Mrs. Helen M. Simpson and
her daughters, Mrs. ]. B. Hardin,
Mrs. VIM. Z. Niece and Miss
Katie Simpson, were among the
prominent guests at the recent
reception given to Mrs. w. X.
Wright at .he Presbyterian
church.
For Rent-Room over First
National bank, $o.75 per month.
N. E. Butler.
Mr. f. Allen, state representa-
tive of the Denver Republican,
was doing Holly and its environs
last week in the interest of that
paper.
Auditor Stackhouse has return
ed from Denver, and his genial
presence again illumines the first
desk at the Sugar office.
The rainfall last Sunday was
most welcome, as it was a God
send to the dry farmer and 4
dust-layer for Hollyites.
Grocer VIM. Gill has his new
cdifce at Hartman under way,
and will carry ony the best of
groceries and provisions. Ross
Gill will be the manager, and his
assistant will be Harry Garfield,
both of whom are well known
here.
Mrs. Ella Garfield, familiarly
known as "Auntie" is somewhat
indi posed, but her legion of
friends in this vicinity declare they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
HEINE'S RELATIVES
 OF ARIST0CRACY

Naples, June 13-The death of Princess Maria de la Rocca d'Aspro who was a Heine and niece of the poet, recalls the fact that nearly all the relatives of this apostle of liberty belong to the highest arstocracy of Europe
 The Princess de la Rocca was a daugf- ter of Heines best beloved sister, Char lotte. She leaves two sons, Prince de ls Eocca and Prince of Bitetto.
 The Austrian Heines, now known as the Barons and Baronesses von Heine- Geldern, have intermarried with the rich est and oldest aristocracy of the dual empire, and are famous as bankers and landed proprietors.
 The French Henes, Armand and Michel acquired an immense fortune under thc Second Empire and their sons and daugii- of the old nobility.
 Alice Heine of New Orleans, married, as young girl, the Duke de Richelieu, ] descendant of the famous Cardinal and her son Is now the head of that his- tcric house. Another son by the Duke d. Richeleu married Mile de la Roche foucauld a descendant of the famous writer. Her second marriage was to the Prince of Monaco, from whom she sepa- rated June, 1902.
 Karl Heine, the Paris banker. a nephew of the poet, endeared himself to his coun- t,ymen by many benefits and his wife. who was Mile. Furtada, left millions to charity.
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1852 he left Downieville with a large amount of gold dust, running into the thousands and consigned to Rideout & Co.,, bankers at Marysvlle. A heavy snowstorm was raging when he started cut, and within a day or two snow had fallen in the upper ranges to the depth of several feet. Jack did not show up at Marysville; neither did he return to Dow nievlle-in fact, he disappeared off the face of the earth
 Disappearance of Jack Gleason.
 There was the nine-day gossip. Some shrugged their shoulders and remarked that Jack had taken an easy way to make a stake; others believed that he had Teen plundered and murdered. He hal passed Nigger Tent, and that was the last trace of him. People forgot all about it ir a short time. Spring came the snow began to melt, and there was a solution. A passer-by on the trail just below Mig ger Tent saw a boot sticking up out of the snow a few feet from the path, and or Investigating discovered that there was a body attached. Digging away the snow he uncovered the corpse of poor Jack, as rerfectly preserved in it's icy mantle as if the killing had taken place the day be- fore.
 There were three wounds in his body. any one O. which would have been fatal, and no doubt existed that he had been r'a-laid and killed. Jacks old fren Is gave him a decent burial and were glad
 least that his reputation was cleared Two weeks later there came another de- xelopment that set all tongues wagging il, an attempt to reconstruct the details os the gruesome tragedy.
 Died Near His Victim.
 Not 50 yards away from where Jack s remains were found, and some two weeks later, by which time the snow had melt ed away, another body was discovered, lying prone on it's face, as If it had stum- bled and fallen in that position, and clutched in the right hand were Jack S alforjas with the gold dust intact inside.
 A bullet hole in his skull indicated how le had met his fate Fleeing with his tooty after having shot Jack. 1t was like ly that the victim, after receiving his Ceath wounds, revived sufficiently to bring down the robber in his flight. That was the accepted and probably true the ury. The robber was recognized as a notorious desperado who had hung out at pownieville for some months.
 Those old trails are plotted out and nave disappeared. Dusty roads took their places, and the shotgun messenger sue oeeded the express rider. There is mighty little gold dust shipped down out of the Sierra nowadays; it comes in bars, and Tn these decadent times from the point of view of the old-timer, the highwaymen lave lost sand-perhaps because they have lost opportunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
FASTEST THINGS
 IN THE WORLD

The world is in a hurry. Wherever we 20 we see trains whirling by, autos ead- ing in clouds of dust, men striving on foot, on wheel, on horse or in water, to make speed records. So writes Thomas |. Ritcher in the Technical World Maga- zine for July. But, do we realize wh at may be done while the minute hand Of the clock revolves or in an hour of tue twentieth century haste?
 Standing at the cross-road, we see a mere black speck in the distance growing with seeming sloth. We hear purrlns sound increasing developing, then leap Ing into a roar like thunder Volumes of aust rise like smoke from the mouth of fire breathing monster and the twen- teth century dinosaur flies, screams past merely an automobile racing at rate of from 80 to 120 miles in an hour.
 We stand at the railway crossing. In the distance an indistinct object winks into view, far beyond where the two lines of shining rails meet together upon the track bed. On it comes with swift spreading circumference; it whizzes by n breath-tal.ing rush and is gone almost before we realize that it is modern electric train. Such a train in Germany has been run at the rate of 1904 miles an hour
 On the sea shore we hear a scream, thin and piercing. A boat siren shrills it's warning. Something rises from the water snorting, splashing and tearing frantically through the ocean waves. It is past and ere we get our glasses to bear upon it. it is distant again. Merely a racing motor-boat, trying to make more than 30 miles an hour on the watery ture.
 Let us pause and take breath. Are we speed crazy? Sit back and take bird S. view of this old earth and you surely must conclude that something is the natter Some strange and potent germ has gotton into the blood of the denizens of this planet. noculating us with T handicapped mania It has fairly turned the brain of Mother Earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
LIVES GIVEN FOR
 GL|TTER|NG GOLD Trail Riders of Old Days Were Brave Men THE OCCUPATION PERILOUS Carried Gold Dust From Mining Camps to the Large Towns and Risked
 Life Every Day Among
 Hghwaymen.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
 There was no more picturesque figure of that picturesque period, the pione ar days, than the express rider-the man who rode the trails and was the link of communication between the isolated camps and the more populous mining town that boasted stage communication with Stockton, Sacramento, and '"rhe Ray" In the miners vocabulary, "The Bay stood for San Francisco, and not one in a thousand referred to this city by any other title. The name became obso- lete long ago, but the pioneer, when ,ie made his pile, took his departure for "The Bay" where he embarked for 'the states,' the latter meaning any point east of the Missouri river; there were no states west of that division line 60 years ago.
 This generation does not realize the ex- tent of the population that dwelt in the western slope of the Lower Sierra in the fftes. Each county had its political and corporate center, of which such towns as Nariposa, Sonora Mokelumne Hill, Pla- ceryille Nevada City, and Downieville were types but besides these there were thousands of outlying camps strung along the river banks, clustered on the principal creeks and tributary streams, perched un mountain plateaus, or in the depths of the canyons, wherever the rich deposits yielded golden treasurer to the seeker. These were the Red Dogs, Poker Flats, etc., of the pioneer days
 Mining Camps of 1851.
 Who would suspect that Murderer's Bar, on the American river, where limpid wa ter ripples over the whit sand and along uninhabited banks, boasted, in 1S51 of 800 inhabitants, with its express office, hotel, stores, and dozen or more saloons, and
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thought of any danger did not enter Lons mind.
 Hello, Jimr'-all Ino.cns were Jims- you sell 'em bow and arrows?"
 ''Yes, me sell 'em," said the Indian, closely scrutinizng Lon and his equip ment.
 "How much?" asked Hanchett.
 Me think s5 plenty cheap" replied the buck.
 So thought the purchaser and thrustng his hand in his pocket he pulled out a number of goiu pieces, selecting a half eagle and rendering it to the Indian. The luck, however, drew back, strung an ar row in his bow and, pointing to Lon with a grin, said: NO; you give me s20." At Indians Mercy. And then 1t flashed on Hanchett tn at the Indian had him at his mercy and knew it, and he reasoned that he had bet , ter comply with the demand if that amount would get him out of the scrape. Sc he counted out and rendered the s20. But the Indian reasoned to the same oonclsion as Hdnchett, and again rais ed the price.
 "One hundred dollars you give quick. D and he pulled the string backward with T menacing grin on his face. and before Lon took any action he added: Me want
 
 here or I kill you"
 Beads of precipitation stood out on the victims brow. The Indian had all the advantage, and he could see no way out of the dilemma; but he would rather die than give up the treasure. He being held up and robbed by a dirty buck would be q standing joke, and he simply could not l ear the prospect. He had made up his mind to throw himself off the mule and, unarmed as he was, taka the chances of an encounter, when, 50 yards away, Jack ! Parsons, his partner, turned bend in the trial road and rode into view. Han- chett saw him and yelled For Gods sake, hurry, Jack! Here is a d-d Indian holding me up!' One Indians Finish. The dusky thief saw the game was up. and turned to run up the hill, but Jack had taken in the situation, was a dead shot, and there was one buck turned into a good Indian without oelay. The neph- CIV got the bow and arrows, the vultures a feast, and Jack was hailed as spe- cial providence. And Hanchett took no more chances of going unarmed on that trail
 One might ramble on through unlimited pages, jotting down the incidents in the career of the pioneer trail riders, but enough has been written to recall to memory a class that vanished when roads were made and stage lines established, and with the record of one l will bring this article to close. ~Jack Gleason was the hero, and he was riding for an express company the name of which fail to recall, but it covered he routes in Sierra, Tuba and Nevada counties. His road was between Downis- vile and Marysvlle, over which he made round trip weekly. In the late fall Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
The World To Come,

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. in Harper's
 Bazar.
 A distinguished German scholar who had devoted his faculties to what he claimed to be the demonstration of atheism came consistently to his death Led. He was prepared, he said, 10 prove out of the expiring sparks of his own life that it must become a qrneched and blackened flame. He ob- served the process of dissolution calm. ly, with the long habit of scientific method. Friends, themselves unbeliev. ing and unhoping. stood about him, waiting to catch the last flicker of de- flance from soul to its God. For some hours he had lain unexpectedly silent, and with eyes closed. He had very dark, large eyes, piercing and powerful. Suddenly he opened them, and from their caverns shot out a fire before which the coldest scoffer in the room shrank back. With loud voice the old scholar cried out:
 There is another world!" and fell back upon his pillow. dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
WASH GOODS VALUES

12 1-2c Huck Towels 10x3o-nch, firm, well made, with borders of fast colors. Blue Pencil Price,
 dozen dozen.................:...................si.0 .si.0o
 22x44-inch Bleached Bath Towels, sell regularly for 25c, Blue Pencied to $2I5 dozen or each .t8c
 SIPS Crochet Bed Spreads, the firm close weave kind in neat Marseiles patterns. Blue Penciled
 to ................. ....... .85c
 45-inch French Lawn, sheer smooth quality, our regular 25c value, Blue Penciled to. .l8c
 32-inch Persian Lawn, sheer, smooth quality, 15c and 18c values Blue Penciled to ........... IF l.2c
 3}-inch Shirt Madras in neat patterns for boys and mems shirts and childrens suits; regular 15c and 18c values, Blue Pencled to..............t2 to l.2c
 All 4Oc to soc Silk and Cotton wash fabrics for waists and dresses displayed on Mondays Blue Pen cil Table at at...................... .25c
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the express companies that fiourished at tfat time-Adams & Co.,, Page, Bacon, or N els, Fargo 6 Co.-or else established route on his own account. His business was to carry the gold dust gathered at the smaller camps to the big towns reached by the stage lines when it was sent to "'The Bay" and returned with the coin needed by the merchants; and it was a most perilous occupation.
 The trails were infested with highway men, Mexican bandits aid other knights of the road" who lay in wait to relieve rim of his precious burden, and who did not hesitate to kill as well as to rob, and it called for nerve and pluck In the ful- fillment of his duties. He was marked man. well known to every cut-throat and desperado throughout tho section that he travelled and he had also the reputation of being afraid of nothing that walked on earth: therefore he was not looked upon as easy game In consequence, IL was only by ambuscade and ambush that he fell victim, and as he was generally on his guard, he escaped surprising number of these.
 A Few Still Living.
 There are but few of the old express tnen living; know of but one-Lon Han- chatt, who in the '50's carried the treasure between Moores Flat and Nevada City lie never lost collar, although he had a number of narrow escapes. He recalls che that, while ludicrous in its termina- tion, was rather serious in the happening 1t was on his return trip from Nevada City. As a rule he carried back nothing of value, and therefore there was no dan ger to be apprehended. It befell that on this particular occasion his pistol was out of order and he had lief. it for repair at the gun shop in Nevada City, having an ether at Moores Flat which he could util- ize on his return, and also happened that Q he mounted his mule he was called into the bank and requested to carry to the Flat $3OOO in coin for the use of one ot the merchants at that place. As no one knew of the transaction, he did not hesi- tate to undertake the trust, nor did ne think it necessary to arm himself; no one would think of holding him up while go- ing in that direction. So he started out and by noon had reached the Backbone ridge, the divide between the South and Middle Yuba rivers and where he usually met his partner, his co-expressman, who alternated with him, it being a daily service.
 Wanted Bow and Arrows.
 Just before he reached the top of the ridge he saw a buck Indian sitting on the upper bank in the shade of a pine and he also noted that the Indian had a bow ana arrows. Now. Hanchett had small nephew back in Ohio who had intimat sd in his boyish letters to his uncle that real bow and arrows was the height of lis ambition. and please wouldn't his un- cle send him one from California;? Here was a chance to procure the articles, and he pulled up the mule an.- started dick CT for their purchase
 The buck was sturdy villainous-lool, Ing brute, and in those days many of the aboriginals were bad Indians. but the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14

Hooks and Eyes in black and rust proof white metal. Regular 5c cards. Blue Pen cil Price, cards for. ...5c
 Hair Pins, shell and amber, half dozen in box, price I0c. Blue Pencil Price. .5c
 Klenert's Seamless Dress Shields, which sell for 2Sc. Blue Pencil Price l0c
 Stockinett Dress Shields, the 15c kind
 Blue Pencil Price ...9c
 Box Stationery consisting of good grade linen paper and envelopes; 25c, 35c and 38c boxes Blue Pencil Price. ...... l0c
 Shrtwast Pearl Buttons that sell for 12 l-2c and 15c dozen. Blue Pencil Price Sc
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tributary population up and down the river of 2000 or 5000 more? Yet it was 10 years after it's settlement before a wagon road reached it. Hundreds of other pros porous camps were in the same condi- ton.
 The miners were perforce content With the crooked trails that wound up and oown the mountain sides, in and out of the canyons, across pleasant pineclad flats, and along the windings of the creeks. The pack-mule solved the trans portation problem, and the miner on his weekly visit to these little centers of life, packed his flour sack with his supply of g1ub-bacon, beans, coffee and tobacco to the log cabin near his claim It was his wants and necessities that created the expressman. Isolated ani banished from civilization, he must needs keep in slight touch with it.
 The company of Tom and Dick and Ned, who were working close by him, and whose cabins were in close proximity, was well enough in it's way. He would have gone mad had there not been some semblance of humanity in reach, but the wide world was beyond the snow peaks of the mountains, the gold that he dug was only talsman that would restore him to what he had temporarily lost, and the expressman was the link with what in his homely dreams seemed at times an unrealty.
 The Miner as Reader.
 Steamer Day" was sure to bring him a letter from far-away home-from mother sister, or sweetheart; the nearest post cffce was 10, 20 miles .way; he looked to the mail rider for it's prompt delivery, and what was the fee of dollar7@the usual charge-alongside of the happiness that the missive brought! And then there was the newspaper-the miner usually subscribed to one of the eastern jour rsls. To be sure, the news was month or more old, but it was fresh on Jackass Gulch, or Arkansas Flat, and while he poured over its columns by the light of 2 fiuttering candle of the blaze of a pitch Fine knot, he forgot for the time the rude shelter and the ruder environment.
 The mail rider and the express rider were distinct and apart The clientele of the former was the miner and his com- pensation was the fee he charged for the delivery of letters, the sale of newspa- rers and the charge for such errands as te might be intrusted with-some article needed from the store, some luxury that the camp on the river did not have in stock. He rode the trails twice a month orving pack-mule loaded with newspa- per literature, and his trips occupied three or four days time depending on the number of his customers. It was an ar duous but not dangerous business, as he was seldom the bearer of anything cf value. Many rider grew rich and pros- porous for time, but with the gradual depletion of the shallow diggings and the abandonment of the placers, like Othello. his occupation was gone.
 The Express Riders Risks.
 The congressman proper was another in dividual He was either in tn employ of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
MONEY-SAVING IN NOTIONS

Corset and Boys Skeleton Waist But tons with two eyes. Regular price Sc dozen Blue Pencil Price, 2 dozen for DC Fresh Water Pearl Buttons, clear cut, in perfect sizes. Blue Pencil Price, dozen
 Jet Head Pin Books, the 10c sizes. Blue Pencil Price ............... .5c
 soc ladies Belts, all strictly new styles. These are elastic Belts in solid colors; Per sian patterns, gilts and white, and many beautiful solid colored leather ones. Blue Pencil PrlCe... .................... 38C
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Dispatch Boat of Bronze.
From the Pathfinder.

FTOm CIlt f7dCIIllIlUtT
 The waters in Brazil contain so much decomposed vegetable matter that thin steel does not long withstand its deterio- rating action; hence, the Brazilian gov ernment, when it made contract for a new dispatch boat. specified that the hull propeller shafting and propeller should be made of bronze The waters have no cor rosiye action against this metal, and the government, while having a more expen- sive boat than one made of steel, will possess one that is very much lighter thar a vessel of the same size and kind built of steel or of wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-14
The Worm.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harpers Weekly. Teacher (to class). Did you know children that the beautiful silk dresses worn by ladies come from little worms?" Bessie (excitedly). Yes'm. That's our
 papa's."
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Ladies' Knit Pants, made of best quality cotton, loose trimmed at knee or tight cuff knee. Regular 25c and 35c garments, all at 19c
 Boys Vests, made of best grade of pure white bleached cotton, either short or long sleeves, with drawers to match. Regular price, 25c. On the table Monday at. -. 19c
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EMBROTDERIES

An odd lot of dainty Swiss Rufflngs in pretty styles for fronts and cuffs for shrtwaist Trimmed in narrow Val Edges double plangs to pretty Swiss Elm broidery insertions; 50c 65c, and 75c values. Blue Pencied to ....................... 35c
 All of our 50c 65c and 75c Embroderies in all qual- ites of Swiss, Cambric, and Nansoo in widths ranging from to 12 inches (some in match ses). Blue Pen ced to .................... .35c
 An odd lot of dainty Swiss, Cambric and Nainsool Embroidery Edges worth from 15c to 25c yard. Blue Penced Monday to ......................... .121ac
 Odd Edgings and Floncngs-about 100 pieces of exquisite patterns Nansook and Cambric suitable for summer or fall garments, widths from to 10 inches.
 Former prices 25c to 50c Blue Penced to. ...... 200