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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25
Suing the Railroad

During the past week Philip Nagel
has got into the game and has started
SUIT against the Idaho & Washington
Northern Railroad, for damages in the
amount of$3 900.
RUNNER x Latimer, of Spokane, are
attorneys for Mr.. and Mrs. Nagle. The
claim Is made that the railroad has
buiit a track close TO the property of
plaintiffs in this city and has done SO
without recognizing their property
rights or reimbursing them for building
SO close to their property. They further
ailege that an excavation has been made
cutting them off from the rest of the
town and in that manner has greatly
damaged their property.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25
Directors Meeting

The following is the program Ion tine
meeting of school directors of Eastern
Stevens county, TO be held at Newport
Saturday, Feb. p, from ga IN. to 4 p In.
FORENOON PROGRAM.
School Finances and Business Meth
DDS of School Boards.-Supt. n. ID.
Showalter, Whitman county.
Some Tnwritten Duties of Directors
Supt. j H. Perkins, Adams county.
Round Table-Conduetea by Supt. j.
III. Perkins, Adams county
AFTERNOON PROGRAM.
Consolidation of School Districts
Supt. n. ID. Showalter, Whitman county.
When Are Directors Justified in Can
ceiling the Teachers Contract !-Supt-
]. III. Perkins, Adams county.
Round Table-0'onducted by Supt- n.
ID. Ehowalter, Whitman county.
The meetings viii be held at the Oreri
House and a cordial invitation is ex
tended to the public to attend.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25
News OF OLD TOWN

Constable Newsome was at Standpoint
Wednesday taking TO the Bonner county
jail Ed Bryant given Is days in jail for
being drunk and disorderly.
Messers. Fraser aDd Jeffry, of Spirit
Lake are building saloon addition to
the Ida McNeilly resort.
Early Sunday morning laborer on
the railroad construction work was
beaten up and robbed in a room at the
Palace Hotel and Bar. Davis had re-
Gently received his time check Of which
he had about s25 left when he and an
other man retired to the room. His
roommate, Smith, is supposed to have
been IN on the hold-up game and after
Davis had gone to sleep opened the door
OF the the room 10 TWO of his confeder-
ates. While they We're going through
HE clothes Davis woke up and put up a
fight during which he was sevefly beat
up about the head with the butt of a re-
Toiger. ID. N. Mangone, proprietor of
the place, Was alarmed by the noise and
came TO the rescue. Mangone grabbed
the revolver from Davis assailants but
could not work the gun which was an
automatic. The two men finally es-
capped during the scuffie while Smith
Was arrested and given a preliminary
hearing Monday before Justice Anker-
son, the Judge binding him over to the
Bonner county court. The other two
men are known but have not yet been
captured. Davis is recovering from his
injuries but is out $40 bill.
tuesday afternoon returning from
Standpoint whittier he had taken the
man Smith, accused of being in the
ioid-np OF Sunday morning, Constable
Aewsome encountered Lambert McAbee
at LaClede. McAbee is wanted at
Spirit Lake for obtaining goodg under
false pretenses and also for stealing. and
when he saw the officer was not anxious
Tor an interview so took to his heels
The constable was handicapped by a
considerable distance and was unable
TO overcome the fleet footed Lambert
although the chase continued for mile
and half. McAbee finally made his
escape across the river in row beat
while shots from the officers artillery
tore up the water about him. Wednes-
day McAbee made the mistake OF vent
uring down tins way and Newsome had
him nabbed near the Falls lie was
taken to Spirit Lake on the evening
train to receive the attentions of the
authorities of that place
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25
Power Deal Goes Through

The deal by which j. J.. Drumheller
turns over the Standpoint Light K Pow
er company to Chicago capitalists who
have i'm view the location of a great
power system with Standpoint as its CEN
trail point has been closed. Mr.. Drum
heller who came up from Spokane last
evening, received telegram Wednes-
day stating that the firm of Howard,
Simmons x Co, which with Byllesby
K Go OF Chicago are i'm on the big deal,
had elected to close their option. Mr..
Drumheller will leave the first of March
for Chicago to arrange the details of the
transfer.
Engineers representing the eastern
purchasers are still on the ground look
ing over prospective power sites.
The scheme is stnpendons one if ii is
worked out in its entirety "a it no doubt
will be. The engineers and Mr.. Drum
heller are reticent as yet in giving out
details, but it is assured that the propo-
sition means thh location of great pow
er plants all over this section with
which to feed not only Standpoint but
other cities in this locality. inclusive of
Newport. Washington and kalispell,
Montana. The company which will
harness the big water power of this inn
mediate section will organize for the
purpose in the sum of ten million dol
lars. Byllesby & Co. are already inter-
ested in similar projects in various
parts of the United States.-Reyiew,
Standpoint.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25

An air space all around vour CHM
ney is the latest thing in Cement Chin
neys. This is a chimney that is better
than brick chimney. We furnish the
cement to put them up. c. r. CRAIG.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
One Way to Cure Hiccoughs.

Did you ever take nine swallows
of water to cure the hiccoughs? Do
you remember the time some one
scared the hiccoughs away by telling
you of the a whipping due for some
meanness?
Well, science has been studying
hiccoughs and has caught them by
the "nape of the neck The nine
swallows of water had a little science
in it, and so did the scare one. The
scientific hiccoughs cure consists in
pressing down to numbness the
nerve that connects the stomach,
heart, lungs and brain, the pneumo-
gastric nerve. The pressure par
TALLY and locally paralyzes this nerve
and of necessity the hiccoughing
must cease.
Have the hiccoughing patient sit
down and be at ease, with the mus
cles of the neck relaxed as much as
possible. Grasp both sides of the
neck somewhat toward the back part
and press down steadily and as hard
as the subject may permit for about
one minute, having the patient work
the head from side to side. Within
about one minute the nerve will be
numbed and rested and the spas
modic motion will cease. It may re-
quire longer pressure in some cases,
but the result is sure if practice is
maintained.-Ohio State Journal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
Irreyerent Jokes.

Biblical jokes and conundrums, the
quaint and queer muddling of we'll
known passages by little children,
and the parodies of well-known and
precious hymns are often funny, espe-
cially the ones that are not made up
by grown people. But they are also
harmful.
One comes to love the Bible, after
years of living with it. 1t has minis
tered to aching hearts and comforted
lonely hearts. 1t has shown us Christ,
and has told us that we could be bet
ter and truer than we were, and has
helped us in our fight to be. A thou
sand sacred associations live In the
simple verses of the Bible.
1t is cruel, for the sake of a little
laugh, to tell story, or sing a par
ody that will always spring into the
mind at the mention of a certain BIZ
Bile verse, or the announcement of a
certain hymn. Illustrations enough
there are in every ones mind. There
are hymns and verses that are ruin
ed for us, forever, and more are be-
ing disfgured all the time as wanton-
ly as souvenir hunters chip the corn
ers from the pedestals of famous
monuments, willing for the sake of
indulging a silly within to mar a no.
BILE work of human genius forever
Pilgrim Teacher.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
The Greatest of Them All.

My greatest loss, to lose my soul.
My greatest object, to glorify God.
My greatest prize, crown of glory.
My greatest gain, Christ, my Sa-
viour.
My greatest joy, the joy of Gods
salvation.
My greatest work, to win souls for
Christ.
My greatest inheritance, heaven
and its glories.
My greatest victory, over death
through Christ.
My greatest neglect, to neglect so
great salvation
My greatest privilege, power to be-
come a son of God.
My greatest crime, to neglect
Christ, the only Saviour.
My greatest bargain, the loss of all
things to win Christ.
My greatest profit, goodness in
this life and that to come.
My greatest peace, the peace that
passeth understanding Selected.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
Counting i'm China.

All Shove, an intelligent Chinese
merchant, doing business in Boston,
was recently interviewed, and gave
to the reporter the following account
of the way marriages are brought
about in China:
There is no such thing as counting
among young people in China. The
bride and bridegroom never see each
other until they are about to become
man and wife.
Their counting is all done by their
parents.
Let us suppose that you have a
son and | a daughter of maria geable
age, and we are friends.
You tell me you want to get your
son married, and ask if l am willing
to give my daughter to him.
| say yes. l have seen your son
and like him, but you have not seen
my daughter.
But you hire female broker to
go and inspect my daughter, which
she does for a consideration.
Indeed, this is a regular business,
and many make a good living out
of it.
She visits my house, sees and talks
with my daughter, finds that her feet
are so small that she can hardly
ing the feet is still very prevalent in
China-and returns and makes a
most flattering report.
Then you and 1 come together, and
/ give you written paper embodying
my consent to the union, while you,
in like manner, signify your approval,
and give me paper signed by you,
and the engagement is completed.
You then cause a great number of
sweet cakes to be sent to my daugh-
ter from your son, and these are
given around to our friends as an an
nouncement of the betrothal of our
daughter.
The marriage itself may not take
place for a month, six months, or a
year after the engagement according
to agreement.
There is no religious ceremony of
marriage in China.
A friend of the bridegroom fam
ily-usually a man of responsibility
and POSITIONS chosen, who reads
the marriage ceremony from a book
which binds the couple, who, before
that time, had been strangers to one
another, to live together during life
''Are there not frequent instances
of unhappy marriages in this way?"
mo, indeed. On the contrary
such marriages are nearly always
happy. The young couple soon learn
to love one another, and live in har-
mony together
do men give bowers to their
daughters in marriage?''
Quite often; but if a parent dies
without giving anything to his daugh-
tiers, his property all goes to the
sons. The daughters get nothing.
"The father of the newly-wedded
young man furnishes his house,
though if he is poor, the father of
the bride does so secretly, so as not
to expose his poverty. The bride,
however, is expected to furnish her
chamber and bedding"
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
Words to Freeze the Soul.

"Your son has Consumption. His
case is hopeless These appalling
words were spoken to Geo. E. Blew
ems, a leading merchant of Spring
field, N. c., by two expert doctors
one lung specialistf1 Then was
shown the wonderful power of DR..
Kings New Discovery. after three
weeks use," writes Mr.. Blevens, che
was as we'll as. ever. I would not
take all the money in the world for
what 1t did for my boy" Infallible
for Coughs and Colds, it's the safest.
surest cure of desperate Lung dis
eases on earth. Fifty cents and 81
at all druggists. Guarantee satisfac-
ton. Trial bottle free.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
We Believe

That right living should be the
fourth RI" in education.
That home-making should be re-
garded as a profession.
That health is the duty and busi-
ness of the individual; illness of the
physician.
That most illness results from
carelessness, ignorance, or intemper-
ance CT some kind.
That as many lives are cut short
by unhealthful food and diet as
through strong drink.
That on the home foundation is
built all that is good in state or in
dividual.
That the upbringing of children
demands more study than the raising
Of chickens.
That the spending of money is as
important as the earning of the
money.
That economy does not mean
spending small amount, but in get
ting the largest returns for the money
expended.
That the home-maker should be
as alert to make progress in her life
work as the business or professional
man.
That the most profitable, the most
interesting study for women is the
home, for in it center all the issues
of life.
That the study of home problems
may be made of no less cultural value
than the study of art or literature,
and of much more immediate value.
American School of Home Eco
nomics.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29

To The Public.
I have opened In New Bern. N. c..
an up-to-date broom and mattress
factory.
Brooms and Mattresses OF all
grades and sizes at the very lowest
prices. Yours for business,
@. T. FENNER.
Address orders to Box AS.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29

o to be a robin
In the Spring.
when the fieetfng days Of April
Are awning,
And the air Is sweet with knowing
Where the hidden buds are growing
And the merry winds are going
Wandering.
0, to be a robin
With q nest
Built upon the budding branches
East or West.
Just to swing and sway and dangie
Far from earth and all its tangle,
Joining in the gay bird iangle
With a Zest.
0, 10 be a robin
Just to singi
Not to have the pain of hating
Anything
Just to race the foremost swallow
Over hill and over hollow
And the joy of life to follow
Through the Spring,
st. Nicholas
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
Town and Country.

An old farmhouse, with meadows
wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy. who looks from
out
The door with woodbine wreathed
about,
And wishes his one thought all day:
%, if | could but fly away
From this dull spot, the world to
see,
How happy, happy, happy
How happy 1 should be-"
Amid the city's constant din.
A man, who round the world has
been,
Who, mid the tumult and the throng,
Is thinking, thinking all day long:
20, could I only tread once more
The field path to the farmhouse
door;
The old green meadow could | see,
How happy. happy, happy
How happy should be-"
British Weekly.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29
Chinese and japanese.

There is no love lost nowadays be-
tween the two big nations of the
Orient. The Koreans hate the Jap
anese because they have captured
their country and are exploiting it
for their own benefit. The Russians
hate the Japanese because the men
of the Sunrise Kingdom humbled
their pride and destroyed their pres
tige, in the eyes of all men. But
why do the Chinese hate the Jap
anese?
Count Okuma, creator of the Pro-
gressive Party and at one time Pre-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-29

All the strength and all the arts of
men are measured by, and founded
upon, their reverence for the passion
and their guardianship of the purity
Of love.-Carlyle.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
HOW MUCH CAN A MAN EARN?

Henry H. Rogers, vice president Of ihc Standard oil company. died last wcck at the age of 69 years and left estate valued at $lOO,OOOOOO. The figures are so stupcrdous that their import can hardly be srasped.
 The average yearly wages paid to working mcu in the United States is considerably under $500. The aver, age wealth per capita of the country is about $l45O.
 How did Rogers accumulate his y.st fortune?
 It will not suffice to say that Ros- CTS was a robber. that he employed interruptions means. Perhaps he did, but most men would do so if they had .ne chance. The system is to blame
 No doubt Henry II. Rogers had eX, ccpuouablc financial ability. no @ ,t he was a master of the gamble of high fiuance-no gamble in his case. since he held stacked cards; but the question inevitably arises. is it possible for one man to so greatly ,.ycrI 1rprba1 man mentally that he can earn. say $lOO.OOO.OOo in a life t.mr. while the other man can make but a bare living:
 Many men have made millions; countless thousands have toiled hard for the necessities Of life.
 The blame for swollen fortunes such as are possessed by mon like Rogers. Rockefeller. Morgan and liar .iman. can be laid to our faulty Sys- ;-m of economies. Modern business is conducted on sane commonseuse lines: but our stock exchanges, where r illions change hands annually. are simply legalizrd gambling institutions end the suckers" are up against a brace game"
 Some day this may be changed. In the meantime a few men will con. trol the finances of the country. At u.c present time O. percent of the en- gre wealth of the United States is ,rollcd by tirty-oue men. When gam lhug is prohibited in stocks and bonds, when the protective tariff is thing of the past. when we have reasonable trust regulation, when hanks cannot be wrecked practically with impunity. when watered stock is done away with:-wheu these things come to pass it will be impossible for one man or for fifty-one men to own and control a per cent of the country's wealth. And in the inverse r:.io the plain people will share more among hem.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
THE POLE HUNTERS

On, man goes South 10 find the Pole. and then returns and writes a scroll. which. published in the maga' zines. will stock him up with pork and beans. One man goes North the role to find; the journey is a beastly e'ind. and he comes back with frozen feet. and whiskers full of snow and Slee' and writes flapdoodle for the ueSs. and draws a nice fat cheQue, .uess. or stories of the Arctic waste I've read so much that can taste the Polar bears and Eskimo. and wal, !aS grease and uncooked snow; and though I'm tired, I'm glad. at least that there is no Pole in the East; and gladder still be it confessed, that there is no Pole in the West.-Walt Mason.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
Slowly the "undeslrables" are being weeded from the United States Sen ate. Some still remain.
AN OLD SONG.

r OWE. have wandered weary way. IL A weary way for thee, The east Is wan with the smile or tho
 day
 Open thy door 70 me MY hair is vet with the dew of tho AtL night
 That falls from the cedar tree. The shadows arc dark. but tho east Is
 light
 Open thy door 10 me THE stones of the road have bruised l my feet.
 The hours till morn ere three. Thou that hast s9lkeuard precious sweet Open thy door Co me. S,TAY not thy hand upon the. lock S Nor thy fingers on the key. In the breeze before morn the reetops
 rock.
 Open thy door to me. MY love is tho falrest. the only one. Atl The choice or her house Is she. The height ot the heaven hath seen tho
 sun.
 Open thy door Co me. TTNTE holy kiss of my lips and thine l Shall the sun have grace to see? The hour foreGoue of the night are nine. Open thy door 10 me.
 III. C. Burner.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

There is more Catarrh in this sec ton of the country than all other dis eases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be lh' curable. For a great many years ooc tors pronounced 1t a local disease an prescribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treat ment. pronounced 1t inCurablc. Scienc has proven catarrh to be a consutu' tional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J, Cheney X Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the mar ket. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoontuL IL acts directly on the blood and mucou surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case Il fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
 Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists. 75C.
 Take Halls Family Pills for consti' patton.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES,

Regular meetings of Skagway Aerie No. %. Fraterual Order of Eagles first and third Wednesdays in each month. in their hall on Fifth Avenue at S:3O p. LII. sharp.
 All members are requested to be present and visiting brothers are in yited to attend.
 HENRY A. RHODE, Worthy Pres
 J. NJ. Keller, Worthy Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
FULL QUART MEASURE

cid Famous Cedar BrcOE Bourbon Bottled in Bond, well Aged in wood. from the Renowned McBraycr Dis tlllery. Full Quart $l.5O, at the Pack Train. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
A Surf Heroine.

The first American heroine of tho surf who is on record as having been rewarded for her bravery was "MrS. Hopkins. a passenger on board the packet from Ellsworth to Boston, who received $lo from the MasSachu- setts Humane society for mcritoriouS exertions when the vessel was wreck ed of CohaSSet" in 1881.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
DIRECTORY OF FRATERNAL SOCIETIES
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD.

Regular meetings of Camp Skag- way, No. 1, every Tuesday at S:SO o'clock sharp, in A. B. hall, Broad way.
 Visiting brothers are cordially in- yited.
 J. NJ. Keller, A. c. r. J. Rosenberg, A. R.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
NEVER WAS X SUMMERS DAY MORE PERFECT

The result or the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, May 26, 1909, is as follows: Temperature time observat'n. S5 above Max. temp. preceding A hours S4 soove Min u u " i2 above Mean O3 above
 Barometer 29.7G
 Cloudy and Calm
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
Melbourne.

Melbourne. which consisted of thir- teen huts and was known as Bear grass at the time of Queen Nictoria'S accession. k now cla5Scd as the Scy- enth city of the British empire, coming in after London. Liverpool, Glasgow Manchester. Birmingham and Calcutta.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE
 ORDER OF ELKS.

Regular meetings of Skagway Lodge, No. 431, Benevolent and Pro tective Order of Elks, every Thurs day at 8 D. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth Avenue.
 FRED. CALLARMAN, Secy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
FREE AND ACCEPTED MAsoNs

Regular meetings Of White Pass Lodge, No. 1l3, Free and Accepted MasoGs, second and fourth Fridays Of each month, at s p. h. sharp, at Ma sonic hall, 225 Fourth avenue.
 Sujournins and visiting members are requested to meet with us.
 A. r. DRAPES Sccy.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
LADIES OF THE MAccAREEs.

Regular reviews of Hive No. 2, La, dies of the MaCcabees will be held the first and third Tuesdays in the month 1t S p. m. sharp, in their hall on Sixth avenue.
 All visiting members are cordially invited.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

These are days when the doubting "Cheechaco" may view the A. B. on the mountain and marvel thereat.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

Ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow camel,-Matthew, Chapter 22-24
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
The Sperm Whale.

Twenty minutes iS aS long os a sperm whale can remain under water.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27
Indian Ocean Islands.

In the Indian ocean only 37o out of 16,3O0 islands are inhabited.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

There Is certainly an ar of refine ment and style about the
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 We carry many of the Eaton, Crane G Pike writing papers, and can recommend them all.
 We also recommend other lines of cur complete stationery stock, such a blank. books, tablets, writing material fine assortment of Watcrman's and Parkers Fountain Pens, etc, etc.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

Senator Albert Hopkins of Illinois bas joined the Down and Out club"
The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

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The daily Alaskan., 1909-05-27

Home rule.