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The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31

Good people all. of every sort, give
ear unto our song. Hike this way
sure on March 4 and bring your folks
along.-Washingto Herald.
Thanks for your invitation, Jim;
twould please us to be there. Dost
have the price in pocketbook to pay
our railroad fare ?-Birmingham Age
Herald.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31
EVENLY MATCHED,

Magistrate Ito witness)-And where
we're you when this assault occurred?
Witness-Just across the street,
your honor.
Magistrate-Then why didn't you 90
to the plaintiffs assistance when you
saw him attacked?
Witness-Faix. l wasn't sure then
that he wouldn't be the defendant,
your honor.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31
Bluffinu Nature.

Over in France they are testing
some artificial clouds that are design
ed to protect the vineyards from the
too direct rays of the sun.
Think of a plant for the manufac,
ture Of clouds and hazes and artificial
rainbows!
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31

For what the mind wishes, that IL
also Observation-Disclosures
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31

A singer doesn't weigh his words OF
the musical scale.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31

Use Aliens FOOt.Ease
Cures tired ching sweating feet 25c Tr1al package
free. A +. Olmsted. lie Roy. N. Y.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31
ONLY ONE "BRoMO oUININE"

That is LAXATIVE BRoMO QuININE Loci 70
the signature of II. w. GROVE. Used the WORN
over TO Cure Cold in one Day. Csc.
The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-12-31

Dudley and Miss Mason were mar
ried the next spring and Clarke and
are often guests at their beautiful!
Lake Forest home. Withersbee's SO
called asylum. from which. aided by
the powerful Chinese tongs in which
he welded great influence, he conduct
ed his extensive smuggling operations
now atones for its past sins as one OF
the principal outposts in the wa
against The Great White Plague
Copyright, 1908. by w. G. ChapmanS
Copyright In Great Ryttain)
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Reliable ources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.

A Fairbanks barber shop is called a shaving parlor.
 The people of Yskataga want regu, lar mail service.
 Wrangell has the money promised for system of water works.
 Veterans of the Spanish war have formed au organization at Fairbanks. More than 100 men are employed at Cordova putting in the water works plant.
 The Cinema townsite embraces 3S7 acres, and the Fairbanks townsite 4l4 acres. Where is the man who tirst said, "Alaska is country of magnificent distances?
 A Skagway woman in preparing a goose for Thanksgiving found gold nugget in it's craw.. Sixty thousand tons of tin ore on the dump. That is the recent report from the Lost river tin mines. A warm spell at Fairbanks the mid dle of last month caused the merchants to display their garden seeds.
 The known area in which the Mata- nuska coal deposits are found com prises about 300 square miles.
 Stores and shops at Katalla are heat ed by oil burners. The fuel oil is taken from wells on Katalla slough.
 Laws against gambling are now wig orously enforced at Fairbanks, Private poker games are quickly pinched.
 In the past few weeks, Swiftwater Bill has buried one wife and married another. It's hard to keep a good man down.
 A helpless youngsCer Wno recenC4y saw the light of day for the first time, at Dawson, has been named "Bill Taft Smith"
 The pilot and officers of the Cottage City are held blameless for the acci- dent to the ship on the night of Oc- tober 16.
 It is said that the Indians are desert ing Haines and moving over to Hin dustucki. That sounds like a good place for them.
 The action of the Seattle marine board in suspending the license of Pilot Mccarthy, of the Str. Humboldt, has been reversed by those higher in au- thority. J.Tiffany Brereton, a Yakataga miner who has accumulated good-siZed poke, has started for the States in search of pleasure and wife. He is 65 years of age.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02

Tbe Whitehorse Star says that the shipments of ore from the Copper King mine to the Tyee smelter amounts to twenty tons daily.
 Henry Mitchell, former resident of Skagway, fell from the second story window of hotel at Portland, Ore, and was instantly killed.
 The Alaskan br&gs that CordoVa is getting to be "quite metropolitan" with cutting affray and a shooting scrape all in one night.
 At Cleary City no less than a dozen outfits are said to be tunneling into the hills for quartz, encouraged by the finding of rich stringers.
 The new government bridge built this summer over Canyon creek at the Forks, twelve miles from Sunrise, has been swept away by high water.
 Seward has a building industry, such, it is said, as no other city in Alas ka, possesses. It is factory for manu- featuring concrete building blocks.
 The Hot Springs Post is a new paper recently started in the Rampant dis trict. It is published every Thursday by Arbuckle X Ward at Hot Springs.
 R.R. Reed, arrested at Seattle charged with stealing S1S,O0O worth of gold dust from the Doan creek mine, near Fair banks, confessed that he had taken S1, 300 worth.
 Recent arrivals from Fairbanks over the winter trail report it as being in anything but good condition, yet numbe made the 37O miles in twelve days on foot.
 A Nome physician is said to have discovered nugget of gold in vermi- form appendix. This must be what the ardent surgeons have been so long looking for.-Katalla Herald.
 The Norton bay section comes to the front with discovery of gold quartz that assays s15O,OOO to the ton. The general opinion seems to be, however, that the find is only a pocket.
 Fairbanks is to have modern li- brary to cost S4,0OO The donor makes only one stipulation-that there must be a room in connection in which miners and others may smoke.
 The retail grocers association, of se- attle, has raised fuss becauee Eastern storage eggs of uncertain age are branded by Seattle dealers as "strictly fresh" Alaskans knew it long ago.
 John Doe has been on trial for vari- ous crimes and misdemeanors in almost every court in the land, but Richard Roe is the new Epicopal preacher to succeed Rev. Thomas Jenkins at Ketch-  ikan.
 At Valdez, Commissioner Joseph H. siIverman, of Kodiak, was denied ad- mission to practice law in Alaska be- cause of his character and general rep utation in the community in which he resides.
 An exchange says that the true dog musher is the man who is master with out whip. He may have used the whip to become master, but the man who uses it constantly will never be more than a greenhOrn at the art of driving dogs.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02
NO. 1

ACCOFOluR CO we'll duGuea"lCdIou Io- ports, Frank Watson, who was one of the men to early acquire extensive coal holdings in the Matanuska field, has lost all his claims in that region through his failure, it is alleged, to comply with the law governing the To- cation and patenting of coal lands.
 Major Wilds P. Richardson, chairman of the Alaska road commission, has gone to Washington to urge the neces- sity of having the trunk line wagon roads completed as quickly as possible. He will assure the government. that for every dollar it will spend on roads of permanent character it will be repaid many times in the additional output of gold.
 M. Robert Guggenheim, who has taken charge of the Seattle offices of the Guggenheims, besides being pro. moter of many big enterprises. is an authority ou dogs. He once took a team of Alaska malamutes to be exhio- tied at a kennel show in New York, where they attracted SO much attention that it became necessary to hand out Alaska information in pamphlet form.
 A fine of S35, 400 and the costs of the case, which will run into thousands, was imposed by Judge Reid upon the Japanese seal poachers recently con- victed at Valdez of killing fur seal at the Pribiloff islands. There are fifty nine Japanese in each of the two crews seized and the fine was $500 for each man found guilty. In default of pay ment the men must serve 300 days in jail at Valdez.
 An Alaska jury has again asserted it's independence by returning a ver- dict based on view of the case not shared by the judge of the court. It was in the trial of Young and Harper, at Valdez, two of the men charged with what is known as the Lake Creek hang ing. The verdict was not guilty. Judge Reid in discharging the jury omitted the customary formslity of thanking the jurors, and shortly after wards expressed his disgust at the re- suit of the trial, saying that he was not sure that it was not his duty to have discharged the jurors from further service during the term of court.
 The Seward peninsula exhibit at the A..Y.-P. exposition will comprise sam- pIes of gold dust from every creek in the district, samples of graphite, coal, gold ore, meteoric dust, antimony ore. quicksilver ore, trout, herring, salmon and other salt and fresh water fish; sienna, iron ore, sheelite, copper ore, concentrates, quicksilver ore and con- centrates, black sand, limestone, and iron conglomerate, copper galena, peb- bles, stibite, tin ore, stream tin, gold bearing pyrite, pieces of jade and pyr- rhotite, specimens of pay dirt. gravel. sediment and bedrock. bones of prehis- toric animals and birds, whalebones, walrus' tusks, native flowers, pressed flowers, antlers of caribou, moose and chuckchee deer, msstodon tusks and bones, mounted dogs, foxes. wolves and other animals, relics from Capt. Cooks landing in Alaska, telegraph poles put up by the Western Union in the fifties, and Indian cnrios by the hundreds.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02
MeCullocb Peak. a mountain which

McCulloch Peak, a mountain which was first seen year ago in the center of Bogoslov island, rising to height of 300 feet, has undergone another vol canic change and is now a lake 9 fathoms deep.
 The word comes from the Pelly dis trict that the Gillis concession people, on the McMillan river, are preparing to cut 1000 feet of lumber this. winter. Native trees will be feIIed and the lum- Der whipsawed.
 Citizens of Valdez propose to incor- porate with capitalization of s1,0OO to build toboggan slide. Going down hill is habit which the people of the glacier city probably formed during the railroad boom days.
 Captain John Truebridge has re- signed command of the steamer North western, of the Alaska Steamship com pany's fleet, to become master of the steamer Elihu Thompson, belonging to the Pacific Cold Storage Co.,, of Ia coma.
 Representatives of the four firms which have control of the whaling fleet on the Pacific, in meeting held at San Francisco entered into an agreement to dispatch none of their vessels to the Arctic next season. The industry is no longer profitable.
 The department was called out one night, at Fairbanks, to put out fire in the water wagon. This is not a joke, for the water tank was nearly de- stroyed by fire, caused by the stove which is used to keep the water from freezing becoming too hot.
 After having publicly accused Dep uty Marshal Bowers of being drunk when he served papers of the court, and making the statement part of the records of the court, Judge Reid dis covered that the man is total ab. stainer from intoxicating liquors of any kind
 The wonderful mail service in the "dead" season speaks volumes for the work of the mail contractors; as much for the carriers of it; and rebounds to the credit of Major Richardson, whose hobby and aim is to give Alaska fine roads, and who has so far accomplished wonders in that line of action.-Fair- banks Times.
 The publishing house of Harper Brothers has just issued from their press a book entitled "Young Alaska" by Emerson Hough. The author is an hunter, having spent sev- eral seasons in the pursuit of big game in Alaska. In this book he recites many exciting adventures and hair breadth escapes in hunting bear on Kodiak island.
 Judge Reid has granted the request of E. E. Ritchie, receiver of the Reyn- olds companies, to issue receivers cer- tiflcates to the amount of s10,0o0, the purpose being to do the assessment work on the mining property now in the hands of the receiver. At Horse shoe bay the Reynolds Alaska Develop ment Go. owns eighty-two claims and a half interest in two claims owned jointly with A. K. Beatson. At Boulder bay the company owns twenty-six claims and nine at Landlock.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02
PROFESS SSIONAL.
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION co.

FERRY TIME CARD
 LEAVE JUNEAU For Douglas and TreAdwell:
 S:00 a. n. 800 D. ID. s:SO am. 4:so p. n. I1:O0 o. m. TOO D. m. 100 D. m. 800 p.m.
 LEAVE DOUGLAS For TreadweN: For Juneau: s.15 q. DO. S:So O.. m. o.G5a.m l0:05 a. ID. ll:15 Q. ID. E'Oo a. m. Ir5 nm. i:45 p. m. s,5 o.m. S:S0 p. n. 4.A5n.m. 5:SS p. 10. 7.15nm. 7:S0 p. nn. ar5nm. 9:SO D. DO.
 LEAVE TREADwELL For Douglas and Juneau:
 s.9s m. S:25 p. m. io.Oo a.m. 5:S0 p. m. I2sOO I'm. 7:25 p. m. I:A0 pm. S;so 9. m. Sundays $500 Q. m. trips omitted
 ON SATURDAYS Boat leaves Juneeu for Douglas and TreHt
 well AA I2 midnight.
Douglas Island news., 1908-12-02

The Whitehorse Star says that the shipments of ore from the Copper King mine to the Tyee shelter amounts to twenty tons daily.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17
HEWSY STATE NOTES.

Olaf Gilbretson, of Irene, marketed q
hog last week that weighed 600 pounds
and brought him cash $3542
The Mitchell Corn Palace association
have fixed the dates for the exposition
next year from Sept. ~ 10 Oct 2.
Lead business men and firemen have
combined in an effort to secure the state
firemen's tournament which meets in
June.
The scandinavian Lutherans have
organized a society in Faulkton and
propose to erect church in the coming
year.
William Connors, of Madison, while
on visit to Sioux City last week, was
hit on the head and relieved of his roll
of money.
The Methodists dedicated a new
church at Draper last Sunday. DR.. w.
w. Carlton, of Mason City, preached
the sermon.
The Aberdeen Baptists have started
to work to raise SIC, 900 to build new
church to replace the one recently
destroyed by fire.
The Methodists, of Claremont, dedi.
Gated new church Sunday. Rev. W.
H. Jordan, OF Minneapolis, preached the
dedicatory sermon.
Senator Gamble has introduced bill
to have the government open 1,750, O0C
acres more Of the Rosebud and Pine
Ridge reservations.
Leslie n. Shaw, former secretary OF
the United States treasury, is looking
after mining properties which he owns
In the Black Hills this week
The newspapers generally report that
there is trouble In the family of the
Sioux Falls Critic. Mrs. J. A. Ross 10
suing her husband for divorce.
Among the appropriations asked from
the present session of congress are for
public buildings at Huron, Lead, Water
town, Mitchell and Sioux Falls.
The vital statistics report Of the state
for the month of October shows 1.023
births, $40 deaths, 457 marriages, 40
divorces and 665 naturalizations.
The large droves of sheep which for
merly were run across the Missouri
river are now divided into small punches
because homesteaders have taken up all
the land around water holes and put
the big owners out of business for lack
of water.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17

At last weeks term of Minnehaha
circuit court jury found j f. Haugen,
Dell Rapids druggist, guilty of selling
liquor contrary to the state law.
James Boland, of Condo, is a fugitive
from justice, having, it is claimed,
issued bogus checks to square gambling
debts and left for parts unknown.
The four year.old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Tronie, of Lead, mistook
cathartic pills for candy and ate the
contents OF box. Death resulted in
four days
Senator Gamble has introduced in
the United States senate a bill provid-
ing for new government land district
in South Dakota with offices at Belle
Fourche.
After sixteen years continuous labors
w. B. Sherrard last week relinquished
the actual management OF the South
Dakota Childrens' Home at Sioux Falls
to Rev. A. ID. Stuckeman.
The new administration building for
the Aberdeen Normal will be dedicated
December 49, This school is fast
becoming one of the best educational
institutions In the northwest.
The Pierre newspapers claim to have
inside information that the Milwaukee
Railway company will have con nect-
ing line built between Presho and the
state capital before the first of June.
Dottie Lincoln, q fifteen year.old
Spearfish girl has disappeared from her
homo. The girl was last seen In Dead.
wood last week. Sheriffs Of the state
have been notified 70 be on the lookout
for her.
While section men were riding on .
hand car near Kirk, in the Black Hills.
the car collided with an ore train and
Ave Of the men were injured. z. H.
West, bridge foreman, will probably
die Of injuries received.
a
In Chicago. last Thursday. the hear
ing Of further testimony in tho South
Dakota railroad rate case was continued
until next month upon the motion Of
assistant attorney general. p. W..
Daugherty, who said he was not pre-
pared to proceed with the investigation
at present
Articles of INCORPORATION have been
filed with the secretary of state for the
Mary Walker Home for Crippled and
Deformed Children at Hot Springs.
This is without capitol stock, and is
founded by Mary Walker, Of fedora,
Iowa, its purpose being to care for and
educate such unfortunates.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17

At its annual meeting in Mitchell
last Thursday the Retail Agricultural
Implement Dealers OF South Dakota
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: j. Il McDougal, Brit
ton, president; B. @ Watson, Cham
berlain. vice president; f. @. Barton,
Vermillion, Secretary and treasurer
The new directors are George Waskey,
Madison, and r. " Oambell, Redfeld
Fred X. Davis, George Norris, just
Peterson and Elmer Voight were
arrested at Davis last week for the rob-
berry of the Davis postoffice on Novem-
Der /, 1907. They were seen on the
by citizens who sent for the United
States authorities at Sioux Falls When
arrested the men had in their possession
complete outfit and were evidently
about to repeat their former job. Davis
has served two terms in the peniten-
tiary.
What is believed to have been an
attempt to poison the family Ct John
KaIinen was frustrated by accident.
Karinen killed beef on his ranch near
Camp Crook and set the liver in pan
outside the house door Finding that
the family did not require il, the meat
was fed to the hogs. A 400-pound
animal bit into the liver and soon fell
over dead. The meat was analzyed and
found to contain quantity Of strych-
nine. The authorities at Camp Crock
are investigating the case.
Eight young men, all residents of
Canton, two Hemstocks, two Andersons,
Win True, Joe Dusen, Marion Stanley
and Charles Weber, have been and are
being held as fire bugs and burglars.
Last Thursday States Attorney Carlson
went TO Sioux Falls, where he found
Stanley, and four hours grilling sue
ceeded In getting q confession from
Stanley, duplicating himself and FIVE
others a. having set fires that caused q
loss Of over e60, 900, which included the
big mutual lum Der yard, one hotel, an.
elevator, warehouses and barns. STAN
ley at first was indignant to think any
one would accuse him, and swore to his
innocence, but the attorney kept pound
ing away until Stanley broke down and
confesses to the fires Friday. Friday
he was brought to Canton and, in the
presence of the Hemstocks. the recog-
nized leaders, they, too, confessed, and
now the horrible story is complete. 1t
is the most startling confession Of crime
ever reported in the state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17

The railroad committee of the Mime
apolis Commercial club has been mott.
fed that they have been successful in
securing n reduction of practically one
sixth IN the freight rates from the Twin
Cities TO the Black Hills
Chief Hump, tie leading chief on the
Cheyenne River reservation, died al
Cherry Greek last Friday after an i'll
ness of several days. Hump was at the
head of the band who caused the trouble
which ended in the Wounded Knee fight
in 1890
Senator Clapp. of Minnesota, has rec
commended to congress that some of the
government Indian schools be trans
ferred to the government of the states
in which they are located. The bill pro.
vides that the Cham berlain school go to
South Dakota.
1t is announced in State Treasurer
Cassill's home, at Canton, that soon
after his term of Office expires he will
close his South Dakota affairs and
remove to Spokane, Wash, where he
has purchased an interest in large real
estate concern.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fawcett
traded an Arkansas farm "unsight an
unseen" hor a home in Alpena. So dis
appointed was the lady when she saw
how badly they were beaten that she
took carbolic acid one day last week and
died from the effects.
John Braunsreuther young farmer
Of GAINESVILLE, has lost both hands in O
corn shredder, the accident being the
worst recorded In Yankton county from
corn shredders. Braunsreuther wal
operating the machine and got one hand
oaught. In frantic effort to free the
imprisoned hand he got the other one
caught, too, and both were cut TO pieces
when removed. The injured man 10 in
Q Yankton hospital and both hands have
been amputated.
The mysterious disappearance Of three
persons, Tod Mcpherson, and the Steg.
meyer brothers, in Gregory county,
during the past few months. and the
fact that each Of the three was known
to have a considerable sum Of money
upon his person at the time of disappear
anoe gives rise to the belief that there
is an organized band of thieves, who
will resort to murder. in Gregory county,
or in Nebraska, who work in this state
and that the three men have fallen VIC
Tins to the gang, relieved of their
money, killed, and their bodies hidden
or thrown in the Missouri river
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17
CHAIRS.

When buying chairs
you are always care
full to buy which will
last the longest. We
are selling such chairs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17
10 PER CENT Cash DISCOUNT
ROCKER Department

Our line of rockers has never been
more complete; in fact we pride
ourselves of collection of rock
ing chairs second to none to be
found anywhere. Sewing rockers
of the latest style from $1.5O to
$3.50 All of the latest styles and
finish in our easy rockers from So
to $50. Every one from the cheap
est to the best are values.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17
BOOK CASES

Book Cases, Ladies Desks, China
Closets, Music and Photograph
Record Cabinets. All of which
will prove very acceptable as
presents.
YOU are familiar enough with
the stock of our furniture
store to know we practically men
toned no part of the large stock
which we generally carry and
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17
TABLES.

Our library tables are up-to-date in
style and finish. You will miss it
if you don't take advantage of this
special offer. The prices are right.
Parlor tables from $1.00 to $500
are from an assortment which can
be better. Our quartered oak
hand polished parlor tables are the
very best we ever owned. There
are bargains in this department.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-17

Olaf Gilbretson, of Irene, marketed q
hog last week that weighed 600 pounds
and brought him cash $35.42