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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-11-03


F;rst ard. Morris Orton, Jas. Brosnahan
Second Ward $500. j. j. Mahoney r. T. Burke
Third Ward 49,. "A. Harrington, Chas. Haugh
SCHOOL BOARD.
Members of Board of Ed~ucation-yohn
Mahon Chas. Hunter, w. B. Dickson, Y D..
Fox, J. j. Mahoney. ,.o
Clerk H. IruaA'
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-11-03
STATE COURT.

STATE SUPREME COURT.
Chief Justice. r. morgan
Associate Justices E. Engerud, c. j. Fisk
John Carmody and E. s. Ellsworth:
c1arl ~ Snnreme Court.,........R b. Hoskins
Reporter of Supreme Court.........F.W ". Ames
STATE OFFICERS
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-03-24
EASTER SHIRT WAISTS.

EASTER SHIRT WAISTS.
Our waists will stand wash
and wear and remain in shape
SO long as you wear them. Com.
bining smartness with service
ability, they are essentially the
most satisfactory Waist you can
buy. Lingerie and tailored
Waists in colors and white
.65 cents Is Is so B
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30

The Norfolk and Western

The Norfolk and Western
will, &c is understood, soon be-
gin the building of a two mile
extension of their Coal Greek
branch hey ond the Raven
Red Ash mines This will open
up some valuable coal aud tim
Der properties, and steps are
now being taken for their de
velopment. The mines now in
operation on this branch are
working full capacity. The
present activity along all lines
on Coal Greek Is surprising TO
one who has not visited this
section for some time, and with
the new development will be
one of the busiest branches the
Norfolk and Westean will be
operating This will certainly
be the banner year IN develop
ment along the Clinch Valley -
Tazewell Republican.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
BASE BALL MEETING

At a meeting of the Big Stone
Gap Base Ball Club held last
week. the following officers
were elected for the coming
season. L. O. Petit, manager;
Cary Dougherty. treasurer; l.
G.. Taylor. captain, Ernest Agee,
sub-captain.
Names Of several, among some
who have not been tried out on
the first team. were handed i'm
Some of the older players who
have added zest 90 the sport for
the local team in the past will
not play this season, as they
viii probably be out Of town;
however. the new material is
promising. and with plenty of
time for practice before the
Coal Fields League season
opens I'M the contests for Athle.
tc Association and FRITZ
ScheH cups. the boys ought q
win both of these handsome
cups.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
REPORT OF MER-
CHANT FOR LlCNNSk

Article XIV, Section D, of the
Amended Charter and Ordin.
inces Of the Town of Big Stone
zap. Virginia, provides as
follows.
" Section .. Merchants.
Every merchant. OF mer-
camille firm or corporation
engaged in the mercantile
business. shall pay "a license
tax for the privilege trans
acting business within the
corporate limits of the town
90 be graduated by the
amount of purchases made
by him during tho period
which the license is grant
ed. To ascertain the amount
of the purchases, 10 shall toe
the duty Of such merchant
on the first day of April of
each year. or within five
DAYS thereafter. TO make "A
report ~ writing under
oath. 90 the Treasurer OF
the town showing the
amount Of goods actually
bought by him during the
last preceding W e Y e.
months. or If hr shall have
Just begun, or be preparing
To begin IA the mercantile
business. make such report
of the amount of probable
purchases for the ensuing
year OF fraction thereof.
ANY person, firm or cor
p0ration violating this or
dinance shall be fined not
less than $1,000 nor more
than 800 90.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30

The Woman's Missionary and
the Young Ladies' Aid Socie-
ties, of the Baptist church, will
have a joint meeting at Mrs.
III. l.. Moore's Thursday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Surface
superintendent Of the Woman's
visionary Union of the Clinch
Valley Association, will be with
them, and talk over the work.
All members are urged TO come
and have a full meeting. Any
visitor will be quite cordial
welcome.
Medicines that AID nature are always most
successful. Chsmheriains Cough Remedy
acts on this plan. IN ioo~ens the cough. re-
ieves the lungs opens the secreucns and
aids nature in restoring the system 60 a
healthy condiucH sold 10y Enterprise Drag
Co.
Congressman Slemp and his
brother, Mr. William Slemp. Of
Big Stone Gap. spent last Sat
urday night here as the guests
of Mr.. l.. Z Summers. They
came up from Bristol, where
they attended the republican
meeting Abingdon Nirginian.
The Paramount Club and a
mum Der of supplementary
guests. were entertained very
delightfully."- Thursday after
I noon by Mrs. Harry f. Weller
/ The club membership Is limited
TO fourteen. and Mrs. Weilel
was the member recently elect
ed 20 till the vacancy caused bs
Mrs. Paul Harrcll's having ief
the city 20 make her home a
Big Stone Gap, and entertain
ing the club for the first tim
she proved "A charming hostess
The Easter features were pre-
dominant i'm all of the details @
the entertainment -B r = { o
Herald-Courier. Friday
: Chamberlain. Stomach and Iiter Table
are safe. sure ard reliable and have hc0
praised hr thousands nf women wNN Haf
been restnred to health Through tlelr gent
- aid and curative properties. Sold hg Enie
+ prise Drug Go.
& head on collision betwee
o two freight trains occurred %
the l.. * y near Whites 81;
ton, In Madison county, Tue
= day morning about } O'Clock
i The north bound freight was
p double header. The engine
- were smashed into scrap-iro
- and three of the train cree
were killed and several othe'
injured The collision VIZ
K caused by the operator at Der,
e failing 90 obey the orders give
him for the trains 90 pass
II that point -Pineville Sun.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
GOOD ENTER
TAINMENT

The Dream OF Fairyland
given i'm the school auditorium
on last Saturday night, was in
every respect first class. and
enjoyed very much by those
present. The entertainment was
gotten up under the auspices of
Circles Nos one and two Of the
Woman's Home Mission Society
of the Southern Methodist
church. and the proceeds de-
rived from the entertainment
will 20 into the fund of the
society, and will be used TO
help pay off "a bill for plumbing
recently done in the station
parsonage.
The entertainment was com
posed entirely of children, aud
the way they performed their
respective parts spoke we'll OF
the very able and efficient
training they had received
This able training was done hy
Mrs. j. p. Wolfe. Mrs Ii A. W.
+ Skeen and Mrs. j II Mathews
At the urgent request Of
many who failed 20 see the
entertainment Saturday night
1t has been decided TO reproduce
it again within the next week
or ten days, at which time 10 Is
expected that "a crowded house
Will greet the children
The proceeds Saturday nigh
amounted to Sal 90.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
WRECK ON V. a X.

The Y. 4 X. passenger train
between this point and Wise,
wrecked Tuesday IN Orni n <
while making its daily run.
The wreck occurred about one
mile from this place and near
the bridge which crosses the
river. The passenger car, we
understand, turned entirely
over. No serious injuries were
sustained by any of the passen-
gers or trainmen and the car
was not badly damaged.-NOr-
ton Free Press.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
Kills Would Be-Siayer.

A merciless murderer is Appendicitis
With many victims. But Dr. Kings New
Llie Fills Kill 1t by prevention. They gent
" stimulate stomach. liver aud bowels, pre-
venting that ciogging that invites appendi-
cts, curing Constipation, Bili0usness,
2cilils, Malaria, Headache aud Indigestion.
oChat }. W Keily's Drug Store.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30

ness visitor to the Gap one day
last week
The farmers are busy now
preparing for the planting of
their spring crops
The prospects are fine for a
good fruit crop in this section.
AS much vacant land as there
is in and around Big Stone Gap
every family in the town ought
to have "a good garden this year.
James r. Hayer, of Preacher,
spent Sunday with his family
at this place.
J. l.. Wells. assistant super
intendent at Big Looney, spent
Sunday with his family at this
place.
Mrs. NJ. c. Bostic has been
quite i'll with an attack Of
grippe and tOnsOlitis. Mr..
Bos,ic is just recovering from
grippe
II. +. Benedict has moved his
family into the Muncy property
on Poplar Hill. Mr.. Costello,
who has occupied this property
/ for some two years. has moved
into the Harris dwelling on
/ East Fifth Street, until recently
occupied by J. +. Bum.
Josh Bullitt. son Of Capt. and
Mrs. j. +. Bullitt. who is at
tending school at Alexandra
j Va, spent a few days the pas
= week in the Gap visiting home
folks.
Mrs. J l.. Harrell, Mrs. JohI
. Henry and daughter, and Mrs
3 W. q Sheen, of Bristol. came
{ over last week on a visit &
Mrs Paul Harrell, at the Mont
Vista Hotel.
otis Mouser. sales and traf
tic manager Of the Stonega Cox
p and Coal Company. left Monda.
Z night OF business trip 4
Atlanta.
Mrs. ". 5. Beverley and son
y William. spent several days Oh
past week IN Bristol, where th
latter received treatment undo
Il DR. Stalev for ear trouble. w
D.. are glad Co state tina: he is yer
e much improved.
The regular monthly meetin
Of the WOman's Civic Leagu
y will be held i'm the school aud
.e forum on Friday afternoon
,r three o'clock.
Mrs. w. II Tompkins an
a little daughter, Ruba, Of a
n y hia, and Miss Rut
Whitehead. of Norton, we
visitors 20 the Gap Monda
as afternoon
The Virginia and Tenness
e.. Telephone Company has cor
ia menced the construction of
line from Chilhowie 10 BristC
a distance of about thirty fl
Is miles. When the line Is COZ
Ipleted this section will
r. enabled 70 get eastern come
Al ton by way of Bristol, whi'
will greatly improve the serviC
IN J. f.. Bum has received
contract from the Big Sto
Gap Land Company 10 era
A. the streets in the Poplar II
tie reservation, and commenc
work on same Monday J
reservation, which occup
=. eight acres, was recently "a
' of into lots. and have been 7
on the market.
GG..' a {. Anderson was busy
~ couple of days last week
o'' pairing the lntermont ten
EN- court and putting it in 20
zee shape for playing. Big Ste
10 Gap will have four teni
courts this year, as follo'
One at the intermOnt buildil
av one ct Mr.. Bullitt's residen
ms one at the school building. q
at one near the residence of w.
Polly, the latter two now be
.ad in course OF construction.
of
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1910-03-30
LOCAL ITEMS.

last Friday night IN town
G. II. Esser was down from /
Norton last Friday.
p. c. Thompson, of Bristol, /
was a guest at the Monte vista
last Friday.
Y NJ. Thomas, prominent
travelling salesman of johnson
CITY. spent a few days IN town
last week.
a. l.. Pugh, "a popular young
business man Of Bristol, was IN
town the past week.
r. f.. Litton, Of Dryden, was
among the prominent Lee
county business men i'm town
last week
NJ Kinnard, of Middles-
boro. was among the Life
Insurance men in town last
week
r p Scott. Of Ewing, was
among the Lee county people IN
town last week.
G.. G.. Cartright was among
the Appalachia visitors 20 the
Gap one day Lass week.
d Wilkinson. of Knoxville.
was "a guest at the Monte Vista
ON the 23rd inst.
j.. l.. Ellis, "A prominent
lumber dealer Of Salem, Va,
spent last Friday night IN the
Gap.
There's new song just out
called Failing Dew % SO many
things are falling due these
DAYS there's no music IN ~ foi
us. Exchange.
G.. b. Southwark, Of Stonega
was "a visitor 10 the Gap ias'
. Saturday
W y. Peery, Of Norton, wal
I'm town one day last week
r. ID. Baldwin, OF Knoxville
was guest at the Monte Visit;
Saturday.
Mrs. II. $. X Morrison i
visiting relatives IN Bristol.
~. s Beverley and daughter
Miss Virginia. spent Sunday a
Gate City.
j.. G. Nesbit spent Sunday d
Bristol
Messrs. A. X. and r. A
Morrison spent Sunday at Cat
City.
Mrs. W. @. Painter returne
Saturday night from a Wis
with relatives IN Bristol.
Guy II. Gnmer. OF Bristo
spent Sunday in the Gap visi
ing his brother, DR.. }. a. CLINE
q. NJ. Brown, who has bee
sick for the past TWO or thrt
weeks with the grip, is able
be out again.
James Body returned Sunda
morning from a visit TO b
daughter, Mrs. Z. l.. Olinger,
Preacher.
VIM. lessee. who is employt
in the Office of the supervisor
the census at Clintw God, spel
few days the past week in 81
Gap visiting homefolks.
The Golf Course of Il
Mountain Golf Club at th
place is being greatly improve
and put in first class conditio
This course is one of the best
the country, and will, no doui
attract a large number of Wis
Ors TO the Gap during the comil
~ summer.
The Intermont Dramatic CT
Z Is rehearsing for rural cOme
entitled the Valley Farm
one of the popular down Eas
variety, which viii be present
some time during next week I
the benefit of the baseball cit
Kills Wouid-Be- Slayer
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29

At Fairbanks, Judge Lyons recently sentenced Ed Lord to serve ten years in prison for robbing Blanche Smith
 The s. $. Hum boidt broke her thrust shaft coming through GreenVille ehaD- nel on the 22nd inst. and was lowed back to Seattle.
 Fl. L. Faulkner is to be given time to become full fedged citizen, when he will be made U. s. marshal for the First division in Alaska.
 James Powers, serving sentence in the Juneau jail for selling liquor at Petersburg without license, died of typhoid fever last week.
 Mrs. Anna l.. Krause, of Skagway, was recently arrested for the theft of an old shawl. The shawl is said to be 300 years old and worth S30,0G0.
 The revenue cutter Rush with Judge Cushman's travelling court started for the Westward last week. The route of travel extends as far az Dutch HarbOr.
 The Panama Leader says there is ao work for the laborer in the interior of Alaska, and it advises all such to stick to their jobs outside if they have any.
 The interstate commerce commission has decided that it has no jurisdiction over the transportation companies in Alaska, both railroad and steamship lines
 That dope about fund of S50,000 be- ing raised to get Gov. Clark out of his job was almost rotten enough to have come from Golfers Weekly.-Valde2 PrOspector.
 Two native children of Haines came near deaths door from eating dried apples obtained at Joe Smiths ranch, and Joe thinks he is victim of the dog poisoner.
 Mrs. Ella Helm, New York woman, has commenced suit to recover a share of valuable mining property at Nome. She claims that she gruSstaked the original owner.
 Sutherland and Boyce have returned from Washington, D. O., claiming that they got what they went for-Vindica- tion. They deny that they were seek ing to be re-instated-
 An old soRrdough, who, like the rest of his kind, is firm believer in Alaska and all that therein is, has made sug- gestion that Fairbanks and district should hold horticultural show.
 A good business in fur is reported in Interior Alaska. The Tanana Leader says the Fort Yukon traders had the best season in several years. Among other furs brought in were 10,G00 musk. rat pelts.
 The esnnery tender MiEpah, large gasoline launch, blew up at Koggjung, in the Bristol bay region, on or about June 2. The engineer was killed out right and ether members Of the crew were injured
 The Alaska Development company has disposed of it's oil lands in the Katalla fields. The property was par- chased by a syndicate composed of British Columbia capitalists, resident in Victoria and Vancouver. The price paid was ss50,0oO.
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.

lHlUl lldLIVH HUH LFOA UUuJ
 Skagway will celebrate on July 2nd.
 The Sunrise trail is at last open for travel.
 Ketchikan is anxious Go welcome the millionaire.
 The Haines Pioneer Press reports a big strike on Porcupine.
 The first rain for eight months fell at Whitehorse last Wednesday.
 The spring cleanup of the Nome dis trict is estimated at Sl,175,000. Congress has appropriated S24O,OOO for public buildings at Juneau.
 The Valdez Prospector calls it "con- stipation of Alaska's resources"
 The Ketehikan jail is leaky. One of the inmates escaped to Prince Rupert.
 The schooner Matthews was caught in the ice near Topkok and hopelessly crushed.
 Fires raging on the right limit of the Yukon below Dawson have done inn mense damage.
 The contract for, the repairs to the Yucatan has been let to a Portland firm for S89,000
 Mrs. Sweet has been reelected prin- cipal of the Valdez school That's something like it.
 There will be no saloons on the creeks in the Iditarod is the decision of the powers that be.
 Wrangen business men have organ ized company to operate line of gas oline boats on the Stikine river.
 The Stedmsn hotel at Ketchikan was sold last Saturday by the U. S. marshal to M. & K. Gottstein for S23,543.
 The request of Gov. Clark for an ad' ditional deputy marshal at Haines and and Petersburg has been granted.
 Sl22,000 will be paid by the govern. ment to the Puget Sound Dredging Go. for the completion of the St. Michael canal.
 The B M. Behrends Mercantile Go, one of the largest institutions in South eastern Alaska, will locate branch in Haines.
 s. H. Stevens, editor of the Nome Gold Digger, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.
 All places along the Yukon from Tanana to Kaltag are reported prac- tieally deserted on account of the Iditarod stampede.
 A bunch of eTangelists recently struck Whitehorse, but after inspecting the work of Stroller White they con- cluded there was nothing for them to do and they headed for Dawson
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29

Dan Puilen, Of SkagWay, the nrsC cadet appointed to West Point from Alaska, has just graduated from that institution and has been appointed a second lieutenant in the engineer corps of the army.
 Miss May Ogden, a young lady from Tacoma, arrived at Whitehorse on the way to Fairbanks with we'll developed case of diphtheria. She was placed in quarantine and there is little fear that the disease will spread.
 President Taft has sent to the senate the name of c. D. Murane, the present ! district attorney of the third judicial division of Alaska, as judge of the sec- ond division and nominated Charles Walker for the position made vacant by the promotion of Murane.
 On July lst, the field division of special agents of the general land office in Oregon, Washington and Alaska will be turned over to l.. l.. Sharp. An drew Christianson, the present chief, will be detached and made special agent to investigate the Cunningham and Greene coal claims
 News comes that the government geodetic survey boats working in Cook inlet are using coal mined on the Me- Alpin claims on Kachemak bay, near Homer, and the engineers of the vessels report that the coal is of good steam ing quality. It will be used by the survey boats all summer.
 Greater care has been exercised in selecting men fer the construction of the Copper River railroad than has been the case in the past. It is noticed on all sides, says an exchange, that greater proportion of American citi- zens have been engaged, with gratify- ing results.
 Capt. C. l.. White, of the Pacific Coast Steamship company, who has been master of the steamship City of Seattle, will take command of the steamship Ramona, owned by the same compaRy, which has been chartered to take the party of gacob H. Sehif, the New York banker. on cruise in Alas kan waters
 Abe Spring says that the reason that there has been no legislation favorable to Alaska is beca9oe the men running Alaska's business are lot of crapks. Now, while we admit that Abe is a crank we deny that he is running Alas ka's business, although his anxiety to testify at Washington in his own be- half showed that ae would like to- Alaska Citizen.
 With the sailing yesterday of tbe schooner Bender Brothers from the Schwabacher dock goes the only means of communication with the outside world in a whole year for three white people-Dr. Edgar O. Campbell, his wife, and Miss Anna Anderson, who are engaged in Indian educational work for the government at Gambell, on the St. Lawrence island, in the Boring sea. Since last October no word has come from these people and none has been expected. pr, Campbell and his wife have held the remote post for several years and are apparently happy, even with the faint touch they are able to keep with civilization, just one ship a gear-Po Post.Intelligencer.
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29

A chain of wireless telegraph and telephone stations in Alaska to give long distance wireless communication with the states as we'll as local service between the cities of Alaska, the Yukon Territory and British Columbi is the plan of the North American Wireless Corporation recently organized in New York.
 The Demon Rum is slated for some sharp jabs this summer in Alaska from the pen of Mrs. Cornelia Templeton, Jewett, an energetic little woman man. aging editor of the Union Signal, the official ". c. T. U. publication. Mrs Jewett is coming to Alaska as the special representative of the organiza- tion. She will also aid in organizing local branches of the w. c. T. U. in the territory. She will establish head quarters at Seward
 The Cordova Truth says: It is the intention of the powers that be to force each of the 3,000 men out on the line to pay an S6 road tax this season It was the intention to force this work as soon as the new coR2 missioner was installed in his office at Chitina, but it was feared this might cause many of the men to vote against the Guggen helm candidate so it has been post pGned unti after election. At SS apiece the 5000 men will pay s24 ,00G to build roads that they will never see. The law provides that by serving notice on any corporation that man may be working for, such corporation is bound to hold the money out of wages dues and it also provides that any resident who, if only for one day, refuses to work the two days or pay the SS, can be fined S2G.
 The most recent reports from the IditaroG are very favorable. Some ot these reports indicate that the tditarod is the greatest Bonanza ever discovered in the North, not even excepting Daw- son. Bat this claim seems eXtravagant- There has not been sufficient develop. ment work done to prove that lditarod is equal to either Nome or Fairbanks But there is every indication that 1t ls productive camp, and wall take it's place among the prominent producing gold camps of Alaska. The lditarod Is tributary of the Innoko. Otter creek a tributary of the Iditarod. is the place where gold has been found. Discovery claim is on Otter creek, about 20 miles frosa it's confluence with the Lditarod The pay streak has been located dis tance of more than two miles. The various tributaries of Otter creek ia which pay has been found drain an area of about thirty square miles. Good prospects have been found on several other streams. and it is probable that prospecting and development work this seasen will show that the pay has 6 much wider area than is indicated bg the present reports. This area is big enough, if the auriferous graVels are extensive and rich. to produce millions of dollars werth of gold. Pans Of gravel running as high es,S27.50 are re- ported from the Iditared diggings. Pay streaks l5o feet wide with gravel six feet in depth, averaging five cents ts the pan, are also reported. To the ex~ perienced miner the fve,eent gravel sounds better than S27.50 to the pan.- EEom June Alaska.Yukon Magazina.j
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29

Dan Pullen, of Skagway, the first cadet appointed to West Point from Alaska, has just graduated from that institution and has been appointed a second lieutenant in the engineer corps of the army.
Douglas Island news., 1910-06-29

Miss May Ogden, young lady from Tacoma, arrived at Whitehorse on the way to Fairbanks with we'll developed case of diphtheria. She was placed in quarantine and there is little fear that the disease will spread.