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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21
Harris HIqh Gun,

1t was like old times Saturday at the
Hinsdale Gun club, when II shooters
toed the 16-yard line for a shoot at so
and 100 targets, which We're divided into
10, Is and 25-yard events. F. II. Harris
of Br%attleboro was high gun, with II out
of 100 targets thrown. Percentage won:
f. II. Harris, n; Jeffords. 70; Thomp-
son, 20; Martin, g.; C. A. Harris. 60:
Russell. So; Brown. 50; Holman, so; Wat
son, A; Smith, A; Bruce, 2S.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21

George b. Mcclellan, former mayor of
New York city, who spent eight years in
Congress, will contribute to the May
Scribner a paper founded on his observa-
ton of Leadership in the House OF Rep
resentatives.' In 1t he pays a striking
tribute to Speaker Reed as one of the
greatest Americans. Mr.. Mcclellan Is now
in Europe engaged in literary work.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21
DAMAGE by Forest Fires.

During the year forest fires burned
over an area of 5000, 900 acres. at a rough
estimate, at a loss of $25, 0O0, 900 and the
destruction of over 5000. 900, 900 feet OF
timber, says the Scientific American.
During 1909 the burned area was 1862, Ola
acres, as compared with 115, 900 acres in
1906. 1t Is charged that a considerable
number of the fires were caused by in
cendlarism, which has led the department
to offer a reward for the conviction of
the incendiaries. Precautionary means
are being employed by the department
to reduce the fires to a minimum. such
as the construction of roads and trails
and the establishment OF fire lines.
During the year $500 miles OF road and
10000 miles Of TRAN were completed. 1t
is that the forest be
equipped with lookout stations located
on nigh points with telephone communi-
cation; The principal causes of the fires
are gwen as the severe drouths and
railroad locomotives.
In Japan the divorce rate is three times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21

IN Japan the divorce rate is three times
greater than in the United states.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21
The GlenwOOd Ash Chute

solves the problem. 1t is located just beneath the
CRATE and connected by a sheet IRON pipe straight
down through the kitchen floor to ash barrel in
cellar. No part is in sight. Not a particle of dust
can escape. Just slide the damper once each day
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-04-21
Here's
Something
New

No more ashes to lug. No clumsy pan to
spill dust and dirt on the kitchen floor.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
STRANGE COINCIDENCE.

John Reynolds. a fireman on the steamship Edith was removed to Holy Cross Hospital this morning. suffering from fractures of two ribs sustained by falling into an open hatchway.
 pr. Hill was called and reduced the fractures and during conversation with the injured man learned that the last time he was in a hospital was some fourteen years ago he had re- ceived severe burns while working on the steamship Umatilla and was treated for the same at the Harbor Po- lice Hospital in San Francisco by a Dr. Hill. It happens that our Dr. Hill is the same identical person that had charge of that hospital at that time. The doctor was much moved at the coincidence and will keep the sick man we'll supplied with good things for the sake of "auld lang syne"
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
STEAMBOAT NEWS.

Tallentire and Granger expect to leave for Siberia tomorrow. They will establish several trading stations over there
 The Zenith, a sailing schooner ir charge of Captain Martin Johnson. is due any moment from the Kuskokwim river.
 The Trader, a gasoline schooner be- longing to the U. s. Mercantile CO, is expected to arrive from the Kusko- kwim river in company with the Dux- bury. due to arrive any day from that section of Alaska
 The Trader wintered near Bethel. and the Duxbury took in a large trad ing outfit this spring from Seattle to Bethel for the U. s. Mercantile Ca
 The Duxbury left Seattle on May 20 and the news of the Good News Bay strike being circulated in Seattle be- fore the vessel started the captain will take passengers from the Kuskokwim and freight to the new strike before coming to Nome. When the Duxbury arrives we will get the first authentic news from the strike.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
IRA RANK BACK -
 FROM THE STATES

Ira Rank, who recently returned from the states after having made trip out over the ice, is now busy getting things in shape for the season.
 When seen by representative of the Nugget yesterday he stated: "After closing up the affairs for the past sea son out in Seattle we found that we had experienced a satisfactory season in the trading busi-ess. and the com pany is now prcpaled to do twice the volume of busnejs this season over what they did, lost
 "The Bender Brothers has made one trip to Alaska this season with a cargo of lumber, salt and coal to the island called Sannack, which is some so miles to the westward of the pass. There are three other trips in sight for the Bender Bros. this season. to ports to the south of Nome and she may not get here this season. The Bender Bros. will carry the government supplies to the Kuskokwim country and points in that vicinity, and was scheduled to leave Seattle June 19.
 Captain McKenna will carry the government supplies north this sum- mer to Point Barrow and way ports. He is coming north with the F. s. Red field, a gasoline schooner
 "We will be sending boats to Siberia all summer and up and down the coast The mail to the north and St. Michael we will carry as per contract we have with the government. the same as last season"
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
HEARD ABOUT TOWN

Dr. E. E. Hill is to be chairman of the Fourth of July committee, appoint cd by the council.
 According to Dr. J. Nj. Sloan, there is no cause to worry over the rumors that are floating all over the town per- taining to the epidemic afrlicting peo- pie in the -egion of the throat.
 miner known as Montana" was taken to the hospital last night as a charge on the city according to the health officer. The man is believed to be insane and the city authorities will turn him over to the federal officials today.
 The barge in the mouth of Snake river has affected the channel SO as to spread it over a large territory. There is no defined channel to the stream and a small tug was searching for an hour or two in the vicinity of the mouth this morning trying to find water deep enough to allow of passage into the river.
 Along side of the sign in the park some person has placed a cabinet con- taining a woman dressed as if asking aims. We wonder what that has to do with our public park? Perhaps it means that everything connected with the playground will be donated to help the woman's cause along. Chas. W. Reed after spending a win ter out in the states Is so tickled to get back into the harness he just hates to quit when sleeping time |comes. Late at night one can hear him "tinkering away" as if bunch of good hard work after a season of loaf ing is the same as a nice delicate help ing of dessert after a good dinner.
 The sod and flower plots at the head of the public park are being made dog proof so we can expect the roses to be blooming soon.
 Fred Weller has a wireless pole now of sufficient height to catch almost anything flying through the air in the form of an electric wave. When he gets all his new apparatus installed he may be able to hear the swish of the dots and dashes after their rapid travel through space.
 Col. Jack 0usby of Solomon was in town yesterday having arrived from that port during the day.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
FOURTH OF JULY COMMITTEE.

After the common council adjourned last evening a meeting of citizens con- sisting of the common council was called to order and a committee ap- pointed as follows, to prepare for the annual Fourth of July celebration:
 Chairman, Dr. F.. F.. Hill; Taggart Downing. Breeding, pr. Fromm. Polet Mcclure and Darling and Kelly.
 The above to constitute a general committee and they in turn to ap- point subcommittees.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
SCHOOL BOARD IS
 ALLOWED sI2,ooo

All members of the common council were present last evening A com- munication was read from the citizens on Steadman avenue asking that a power drill on that street and King place be removed. Street committee ordered to have obstruction taken away.
 City Attorney reported an offer had been made to settle for the May prop erty now being litigated for taxes. Matter referred to special committee. He also reported the ordinance for the proper wiring of building was being prepared
 A communication was read from R. B. Rowl asking that a warrant for s25 he had never cashed and was lost be mailed to him as he needed the money. The warrant was drawn in 1903, on May 19, but nothing more seems to have been heard of it.
 The chairman of the street commit- tee reported all the lumber the city owned had been used up patching the streets and there was not sufficient to plank Mielke way.
 The city attorney reported a deed had been received from NJ. Krupp and wife to the property now known as Mielke way that it was a good and sufficient instrument and passed title to the city. The warrant which has been held in escrow was ordered paid to Conrad Breeding.
 The health and relief committee re- ported a ticket had been purchased for MT. Beck and he had been sent out on the steamer Senator, at an expense of sS5 to the city. That relief had been furnished Mrs. Pierce.
 The health office reported no pa tients in the hospital. only since being in the council room one of the officers had reported a miner had been taken there from Dry creek.
 That the usual colds. etc. was olite noticeable as is generally the casv af- ter the arrival of the chechacos. That there is no cause for worry over the affliction which is reported as attack ing people in the vicinity of the throat.
 The petition of the school board for $l5.00O and $975 for repairs on the Seward school building was then taken up. Reilley moved that the sum Of sl2.- 900 for running the schools be granted and $975 for repairing the building be allowed. After much discussion said amounts were granted and the clerk instructed to notify the board, and to state they are to keep within the appropriation granted.
 The council was then informed that Mir. Davies of the J. J. Sesnon Co. had stated the back taxes would be paid within a short time. That $I2.OOC would go to the city and s4OOO was in doubt, of the $l6,OOO due
 Yorkey stated he thought the com pany could now pay the taxes for they were holding up the merchants. and had held him up for warfage in amounts that would soon pay off the back taxes.
 s. N. Carman was then given a hear ing over his delinquent taxes. and after hearing his side of the case and that of the city clerks if was hard work to arrive at the exact state of affairs. A committee was appointed to look into the matter and report at the next meeting.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
MIME. THiRv RETURNS.

Mime. rhiry has reopened a millinery parIor at No. IS Steadman avenue, where the latest styles of Hats, Inn ported dress trimmings are on display for short time only.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
"A ROWING WE WILL CO.,

For rowboats of all descriptions or gasoline launches for parties at any hour of the day or night, go to the Wagner boathouse, just west of the Snake River bridge.
 When in doubt try spin up the river or out into 5ering sea in a row boat. w. E. WAGNER.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
WEATHER RECORD
JUNE ts. 1911.

Temperature-Maximum, A above; 34 above. Barometer-30.3 inches. Weather-Clear. Wind-S. w, light breeze.
 ARTHUR GIBSON,
 Observer.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

Lewis Hunter. Atherton, Lacey, Mar quette by the case or bottle Seward Com1 Co
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

Just the thing for that outgoing friend, a basket of Mumm's extra dry. Seward Com1 Co.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

We will sell you four year old pure elaret shipped direct to us from the producer nt s1 per gallon. The Eagle.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

Get your fresh strawberries at the Royal Fruit Go.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

For fresh vegetables, eggs and butter go to the Royal Fruit Go.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

Royal Fruit Go. delivers to all parts of the city. Phone Black f4e.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

Get the best Claret, Port or Sherry from the Seward Com'l Co.,. Main 6.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
FASHIONABLE APARTMENTS
 ARE DESTROYED
Special Nugget Servies.

PORTLAND, June 20.-The fashion ionable apartments here in the city were completely destroyed by fire. The total loss to the building containing many high toned apartments is esti- mated at two hundred thousand dollars, partly covered by insurance
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ICELAND.
Nuggets Special Ssrxlss

COPENHAGEN. June l9.-Iceland has granted to all women the right of suffrage. and from now on the women will take a hand in all elections, also fin running the affairs of the country.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20
ROOMS FOR RENT.

TWO nicely furnished front rooms on D street, opposite Discovery. In- auire Mrs. wrigh', over MoIler < Ince.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

WRIGHT house now open under new management; all sunny rooms, soc and up. Mrs. F.. Wright, over Moller & Ince.
The Nome daily nugget., 1911-06-20

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished fiat, five rooms, next to Golden Gate Hotel on west.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

"Not Single Account Over
drawn" is the caption line of an
article on state finances in one of the
city dailies. That is nothing new.
The state auditor would not permit
any account to be overdrawn; when
the appropriation for any fund is ex-
hausted he refuses to draw warrant
on such fund. At the end of the fiscal
year, July 81, there we're large
balances on hand, but it must be re-
membered that many appropriations
become available at the commence
ment of the new fiscal year, Aug. l,
and a. few weeks hence the revenue
fund will be- reduced considerably,
and by the end of the calendar year
the state may be obliged to borrow
temporarily until the railroad gross
earnings tax commences to flow into
the treasury. Minnesota has the
largest permanent funds of any state
in this union, and every dollar of the
same safely invested in high grade
securities.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

Has the state pure food commission
analyzed the so-ca]led "ice cream
powders" and ascertained the ingre-
dients which enter into them? If not
it should be done forthwith. We are
told upon good authority that large
quantities of this powder is used by
the manufacturers of ice cream and
that the stuff is injurious to health
that it is used to thicken the cream
and also to preserve it. But whether
the dope is injurious or not the public
is entitled to know it's component
parts. Is the pure food commission
alternating?
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

From an investigation recently con-
cluded by DR.. Wiley and his squad of
poison experts it would appear that
many of the decoctions sold as beer
are not beer-that is, they are made
from ingredients other than malt and
hOps-and the chief chemist proposes
to see that the manufacturers of this
"beer which is not beer" be required
to attach labels to the stuff setting
forth the names and quantities of it's
component ingredients. Brewers who
make their beer from other than malt
and hops will of course be denied the
use of the pure food label, which
most, if not all, of them carry on
their bottles at present. The doctor
is determined that the people shall
not be poisoned without their knowing
it-and the people should be grateful
to him.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

S4o to Sl5 per acre. Prior to the con-
struction of the ditch these lands we're
never overAowed. All that is <neces-
sary to prevent a recurrence of the
overflow is to enlarge the channel of
the Mustinka river.
The question was thoroughly dis
cussed by committees of the last legis-
lature and in both branches thereof,
and 1t was generally conceded that
the Traverse county farmers whose
lands had been inundated we're en-
titled to relief, hence the enactment of
the la" appropriating s35, 900 for that
purpose.
line attorney generals opinion is
based upon the decision Of the Sill
preme court in the road "pork- bar
rel" case. The two cases are not
analogous. It is preposterous to pre-
sumo that the state can despoil it's
citizens of their property and afford
the ones despoiled no redress. If a.
private individual we're to construct a,
ditch that would injure the property
OF others the parties aggrieved would
certainly have a good cause of action
against him. That the state has not
the constitutional right to redress
grievances inflicted by itself is a
forced and unnatural Interpretation
of the constitution.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

President Simon, the big black
niger with blacker heart, who has
been ruling the blacklist republic on
earth, believing discretion to be the
best part of valor, has thrown up the
sponge and, with his family, departed
from Haiti and left the capital in the
hands of two rival revolutionary
parties to settle matters between them
selves. Simon has proven himself to
be despot of the worst stripe and a
CRATER who has Systematically
robbed the public treasury. The
great mistake the Haitians made was
in permitting him to escape. He
should have been tied hands and feet
and fed to the sharks which abound
in the harbor of Port au Prince.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

The Duluth News-Tribune says that
"Colonel" Dunn owes the governors
staff a double-jointed apology for
characterizing the members thereof as
ian assortment Of bandy-legged, short
and tall, fat and lean, mismatched
cavaliers. " The Tribune further
says that he-"Colonel' Dunn-"is
always long on apologies" and it ex-
poets that one will be made Gin large
letters printed in colored ink, green
preferred" While this was not "Col.
onel' Dunn's personal size-up OF
the governors staff, he emphatically
refuses to permit an apology to be
made for anything which appears in
his paper. Had he undertaken to
describe the governors coterie OF
colonels the chances are that thew
would not have escaped so easily, for
the "colonel" is we'll aware that as q
squad of oddities the world knows
not their like.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10
rs 1T UNCONST1TUT10NAIo

On the spur of the moment the other
day the attorney general held that
chap. 1873, general laws of 1911, is un-
constitutional. The chapter in ques-
tion appropriates the sum of S35, 1000
for the purpose of enlarging and i'm
proving the outlet of the Mustinka
state ditch. 1t appears that in the
year 1896 the state completed ditch
that drained state lands in Grant
county; the ditch empties into the
Mustinka river. Owing to the sur
plus water conveyed by the ditch the
Mustinka river has overfowed it's
banks on several occasions and inun-
dated adjacent lands. In 1897 and
1908 crops to the value of 1928, 3O2 were
destroyed, and the value of 5000
acres of land was deprecated from
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10
COLLINS DIRTY TRICK,

That was dirty, underhanded trick
which P. V. Collins played the county
superintendent and school boys of
the state. Asking the superintendent
to enroll number of boys from the
territory under their jurisdiction for
a three-days' visit, with all expenses
paid, as his guests at the state fair,
they, in good faith, accommodated
Mr.. Collins-they knew that many a
boy who could not afford to pay his
expenses would be delighted to &C.
cept the ''hospitality" of the "great
philanthropist." A little later each
boy whose name had been sent in to
the plausible schemer received
notice that in order to be entertained
at the fair "free of expense" he would
be required to secure 20 subscribers to
Collins alleged farm paper. Hence,
the poor little fellows who looked for
ward to pleasant time at the fair
we're sadly disappointed they knew
that to obtain 20 subscribers to a
paper so little known as Collins
would take several weeks of hard
work, that they we're up against a
hard proposition. So most of them
declined the offer, and not with
thanks " either. There is not {. paper
in the state which would not pay the
expenses Of any number of boys to the
state fair upon the conditions pro-
posed by Collins. It was a deeply
laid mercenary scheme that failed to
work-a scheme that cannot do other
than act as a boomerang to the de-
signing benefactor" who is re-
sponsible for it's creation.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

persuasion, has adopted resolution
providing that all cases of corporal
punishment and solitary confinement
of either boys or girls must be i'm
mediately reported to the board of
control for their information and
action.''
1.-The great heart of the governor''
could not have been touched to anv
great extent or he would have done
something more than write two mean
ingless letters. Action speaks louder
than sympathetic exclamations and
moist eyes. Either Governor John
son was woefully remiss in his duty
or he discredited Mrs. Pearson's
statements. The presumption is that
he did investigate and found the
charges unsustained. Certainly any
governor with red blood in his veins
would have personally investigated
the charges and, if he had found them
sustained by the facts, would have i'm
mediately caused the removal of the
superintendent of the Red Wing
school and the board of control if
necessary and argued the law points
afterWard,
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10
Senator Clapp is long on bombasti

Senator Clapp is long on bombastic
oratory but short on facts. In a
communication to the St. Cloud
Journal-Press he attempts to- correct
refutation of misstatements con-
tanned in one of his anti-reciprocity
speeches. The Journal-Press comes
back at the senator with a few facts
and figures which completely dis
approve Of his 6ne-spun theories, and
concludes with this parting shot: "If
Senator Clapp does not understand
this simple proposition we shall be
glad to give him further instruction,
and will do it with kindest regards
and cordial good will"
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10

In speech on the statehood bill
Senator Borah of Idaho vigorously
attacked the principle underlying the
recall of the judiciary and declared it
to be his uncompromising and de-
liberate opinion that without a free
and independent judiciary popular
government would be ''taunting,
tormenting delusion." It would be
even worse than that.
The Princeton union., 1911-08-10
WHIT COY. JOHNSON COULD or
SHOULD HIVE DONE

EH-IT COY. JOHNSON COULD OR
SHOULD HIVE DONE.
In lengthy article in the Mime
apolis Tribune of the 3rd inst, Mrs.
Belle Pearson, who was for several
years "Chairman of the Mothers
Club Committee in the Minnesota
State Federation Of Woman's Clubs, 81
airs her views on the Red Wing Re-
form school imbroglio, and tells of a
particularly fragrant case of inhuman
treatment of little girl named
"Maggie" which she brought to
Governor Johnson's attention in the
spring of 1906. We quote from Mrs.
Pearson's article:
"As immediate relief seemed i'm
perative it was decided upon confer
ence to take this matter directly to
the governor.
"He granted US an audience and
gave Miss Benton's story the closest
attention.
''When she came to the story of
Maggie the great heart of Governor
johnson was touched.
'His sad face grew sadder and he
rose and paced the floor.
" Poor child! Poor child!' he
kept repeating and I noticed that his
eyes we're moist.
"Can there be greater tribute to
this noble man than the fact that he
suffered over the wrongs of an un-
known child?
I'm conclusion he asked that Miss
Benton send him certified statement
so he could lay the matter before the
board of control, and he asked that
my name be added to the document as
additional guarantee.
Mrs. Pearson publishes two letters
she received from the governor in one
of which he informed her that a fe-
male physician had been appointed
for the Girls Training School at Red
Wing, and in the other be said:
1.-The state board of control, with some