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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-30

You-all can see it by the color. Car
mack's sure made strike. Who-alfs
got faith to come along with me-"
No one volunteered.
"Then who-all II take a job from
me, cash wages in advance, to pole up
a thousand pounds of grub?"
Curly Parsons and another, Pau
Monahan, accepted, and, with his GUS
tomary speed, Daylight paid them
their wages in advance and arranged
the purchase of the supplies, though he
emptied his sack in doing so. He was
leaving the Sourdough, when he sud
denly turned back to the bar from the
door.
Got another hunch?" was the
query.
II sure have" he answered
"Flour's sure going to be worth what
man will pay for it this winter up
on the Klondike. Who'll lend me
some money!"
On the instant score Of the men
who had declined to accompany him
on the wild.goose chase were crowd
ing about him with proffered gold
sacks.
"How much -four do you want?''
asked the Alaska Commercial Com
pany's storekeepef.
about two ton"
The proffered gold-sacks were moi
withdrawn, though their owners Were
guilty of an outrageous burst OF merri'
ment.
What are you going to do with two
tons?" the storekeeper demanded.
I'll tell you-all in simple A, B, c
and one, two, three" Daylight held
up one finger and began checking off.
"Hunch number one: big strike COM
ing in Upper Country Hunch number
two: Carmack's made it. Hunch num-
Der three: amt no bunch at all. It's
cinch. If one and two is right, then
flour just has to go sky-high. If I'm
riding lunches one and two, just got
to ride this cinch. which is number
three. If I'm right, flour II balance
gold on the scales this winter"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-30

This time the trail was easier. IL
was better packed, and they were not
carving mail against time. At Forty
Milo they laid over two days for the
ca1e of the dogs, and at Sixty Mile
Davlight's team was left with the
trader Unlike Daylight, after the
terrible run from Selkirk to Circle
CITY. they had been unable to recup-
crate on the back trail. So the four
men pulled on from Sixty Mile with
a fresh team of dogs on Daylights
sled. The following night they
canaped in the cluster of islands at
the mouth Of the Stewart. Daylight
talked town sites, and, though the
others laughed at him, he staked the
whole maze of high, wooded island.
Gust supposing the big strike does
come on the Stewart" he argued.
"Mebbe you-all II be in on it, and then
again mebbe you-all won't. But sure
will You-all d better reconsider and
20 in with me on it.
But they were stubborn.
you're as bad as Harper and Joe
Ladue," said Joe Hines. They're al
ways at that game. You know that
big fiat jest below the Klondike and
under Moosehide Mountain? Well,
the recorder at Forty Mile was tellin'
me they staked that not month ago
The Harper & Ladue Town Site.
Ha! Ha! Hal"
Elijah and Finn joined in his laugh
ter; but Daylight was gravely in earn
est.
"There she isl" he cried. "The
bunch is working! It's in the air, l
tell you-all! What'd they-all stake
~ hi~ fat for if they-all didn't get
..a anrgr Wish I'd staked it."
rs.a rs his voice was provoca-
- I'd burst of laughter.
All g you, laugh! Why
open yet you-all are
tie mewing kittens. /
,.@ that strikes come on
1,. er and Ladue will be
mi'.,. Id il It comes on Stew
,rG g..- :ch tho Elan Harnish
f-,r,. s, a.. In them days, when
rur around maxim poor
1a.,h He heayed sigh OF
s Yell, suppose I'll
9u.a!I srub-stake. or
Ing or other"
me there was naught
ut bunch. But it was
lis would stake his last
na d poker hand, so he
.t lis - i'd effort on the bunch
lin t,. held in store a big
ii. .,.s per River. So he and
.~e co,,r2 Mons, with dogs, and
.ua shoes, toiled up the
N-gs,. gs:s & the Stewart, toiled
- a.a Ugh the white wilder.
.nending stiffness was
ts, : the voices Of men,
,a Ih ak, or the distant
&c. 81. Gold they found on
The r- in paying quantities.
and in the following May they re
turned to Sixty Mile.
T. a
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Ito BE Continued
Ate Nuts in Church.

The Sunday before Michaelmas day
saw, until recent times, curious Gus
tom at Kingston-Thames. The parish
toner's attended i'll force at the parish
church. armed with nuts, which they
cracked and ate throughout the serv-
ice. Nut cracking" however, was
not peculiar to Kingston. Goldsmith
makes his Vicar of Wakefield say Of
his parishioners: 'They kept up the
Christmas Carol, sent true-love knots
on Valentine morning, ate pancakes
at Shrovetide, and religiously cracked
nuts on Michaelmas eve."-London
Chronicle.
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SPECIAL NOTICES

7 EARN Shorthand by Mail. We have
l. the Greatest Shorthand System I'D
the World. You can learn it in less than
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far greater. You begin writing sent
ences with the first lesson. The cost IS
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Institute. Washington, d. Q.
oct30 3t&
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Two Of a Kind.

~ find that my husband has been
having the Office boy call me up every
DAY and humble terms OF endearment.
That's a nice way to fool his wife.
He's been going to the ball game"
How is it that you didn't catch on
to the voice."
We'll, I'm busy at bridge every
day and I've been having the cook an
swer the telephone.
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NOTICE,

ATOTICE TO STATE TANPAYERS..-
IN Tam now prepared TO receive the
state taxes for the year 1911. The atten,
lion Of taxpayers is respectfully called
20 the importance on paying the same
prior TO December1 /, 1911, as on that date
lpenalty,of five per cent will be added tc
All unpaid bills, and their collection en-
forced as required by law.
THOMAS w. ROBINSON,
octIl cod I'd City Treasurer.
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and in the following May they re
turned to Sixty Mile.
Ten days later, Harper and Joe La
due arrived at Sixty Mile. and Day
light, strong to obey the bunch that
had come to him, traded third in
terest in his Stewart town site for
third interest in theirs on the Klondike.
They had faith in the Upper Country,
and Harper left downstream, with a
raft-load of supplies, to start a small
post at the mouth OF the Klondike.
why don't you tackle Indian River,
Daylight" Harper advised, at part.
ing. There's whole slathers OF creeks
and draws draining in up there, and
somewhere gold just crying to be
found. That's my bunch. There's a
big strike coming. and Indian River
amt going to be million miles
away"
"And the place is swarming with
moose" Joe Ladue added. Bob Hen
derson's up there somewhere, been
there three years now, swearing
something big is going to happen,
living off'n straight moose and pros
pecting around like crazy man."
Daylight decided to SO Indian River
O flutter, as he expressed it; and lin
gered few days longer arranging his
meager outfit. He planned to go in
light carrying a pack of seventy-iVe
pounds and making his five dogs pack
as well, Indian fashion, loading them
with thirty pounds each. Depending
on the report of Ladue, he intended 10
follow. Bob Henderson's example and
live practically on straight meat.
When Jack kearns' scow, laden with
the sawmill from Lake Linderman,
tied up at Sixty Mile, Daylight bum
died his outfit and dogs on board,
turned his town-site application over
to Elijah TO be filed, and the same day
was landed at the mouth of Indian
River. He continued down Hunker
to the klondike. and on TO the sum-
mer fishing camp of the Indians on
the Yukon.
Here for day he camped with Car
mack, a squaw-man, and his Indian
brother-in-law. Skookum Jim, bought
q boat, and, with his dogs on board,
drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mile.
Then it was that Carmack. his broth
er.in-law, Skookum Jim, and Cultus
Charlie, another Indian, arrived in
49, - orty Mile, went straight to
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hTOTICE.-The annual meeting of thu
IN stockholders OF the ALEX ANDRlA
WATER COMPANY will be held 1T II
o'clock q. H., on MONDAY, November
I, 1911.
octlOtd GEORGE UHLER, Sec'y.
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q Kino Heart.

why don't you get married, col
onel7" Il am not SO cruel. It would
make one happy and a hundred I'M
happy."-Fiiegende Blastter.
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WANTED.
SITUATIONS WANTED

TOR RENT-FURNISH ROOMS.
Nicely furnished room with heat
and gas. Gentlemen only.
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CHAPTER w.
.s19

Copyright. 1910, by the New York Herald CO..
fCopvr;gbt. 1910. by the Macmillan Company
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30

They and the Umpire Swan to Shore.
and play ball in the river bed. One
summer. Just after | got OF the Lit
tie Potatoes and was playing second
base and pitching for the Stars We
had . dry season. The water vent
lower and lower until the crawnsh be-
gan to dig wells TO get water. and
we had 10 haul water ave miles from
some springs back In the hills for the
ferry boats to run on. The river got
dustier and dustier. We Kids didn't
mind Il, for every foot the river vent
down gave US a bigger ball ground.
Well. ~s played ball In the river bed
sinninE the championship except
,ffom fhe West Enders We we've a'ts-
:sao. anG -naliy SIons ~ sseyts'-;tcr
~ got matca game NitS them ..r
the championship Of the town-eL
ceptinE. Of course. the First Team
We played IN the river bed. II hap
pened that we had laid out the dis-
mond facing up stream II We had
laid IL out downstream We would have
won that game. and the cham pionship
In the eighth inning the score was
tied and We had a man ON second
base. ! was AZ bat. and rs | started
TO hit | heard a rushing sound. and
looking up the river ! saw a wall OF
water coming down six feet high.
There had been a cloud burst up tho
river aud the food was coming
took a strike and the runner stole
third All that was needed vas
hy to give US the lead and the game.
saw that the food would stop play
In about a minute. SO I whaled away at
The next ball and hit fly to the g, D.
ter fielder. The runner held third and
started home when the center fielder
caught the ball. Just as be caught lt
the food hit him and be started tor
the home plate a mile a minute. The
runner was tearing for the plate try
log to score and the rest OF us we're
digging for high grounds. The water
VAS too last for our man. Ten ieet
before he reached the plate the 4, "a
swept that center fielder past and 20
Gagged our man out. and they and tho
umpire swan ashore together ard
left the game a tie. The river went
to 30 feet-so We couldn't play OF tho
tie. and the championship Of Ports
mouth still Is undecided"
tCSpynEht. 1911. By Joseph y. BrwisAJ
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30
Passing Of the 'ela Man.

The big -brained. big-hearted. old
Roman men. whose integrity was "a
unQuestisned as their ability. are al.
most extinct. Their places are cut up
and filled by smaller. less able, often
much less honest men. II Is not that
the big men have gone 10 the cities
for they are not there; II is not that
they left no descendants-for in mors
cases than one cares to count. the
smaller. less able. less honest men
are their own sons. These latter fro
quently make "a much money IN a
year as their fathers did in ten, aad
show less character in lie time tran
their fathers did in a year.-CorEe ia
A. p. Conner. in In the February At
'antic.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30
Girl Led Field In Fox Hunt.

Miss Sarah Fisk. 20 years old. a
daughter Of Lewis S. Fisk Of Philadel-
phia. and a granddaughter o. John Dob
son. a wealthy Philadelphia. rode in
the biggest fox hunt ever held in
Brandy wine Hundred, this state. and
Delaware county. Pennsylvania
Miss Fisk led the 80 hunters through
the day and she took the fences and
other barriers In a manner that won
admiration from all.
After being liberated the animal
ran to cover. but the hunters found an
other scent which carried them into
Delaware.-Wilminston Correspond
encs Philadelphia rresa
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30
.DIN ON THE JOB.
lHARp LUCK TALES TOLD Nv
TRUTHFUL BALL
PLAYERS.
COULDN'T PASS THE NINTH
" Game. Had Been eight Innings
LovisvIIls Would Have Been WIN
ner-vetsrsn Scorers Hard Luck
Seal Brld~el's Classic.
sy HUct, 8. FULLERTON.

Burke, the little Louisville infelder
10 about as quick with his wits az he
lie with his hands and feet, as be
proved one day last summer. He was
playing third base and Dare Devil
Dave AltlEer. who just then was hit
ting like a fiend. was batting for Min.
neapolis and, as there was q runner
on FIRST base and no one out, Burke
expected Altizer would dump a bunt
toward third base. so he came creep
ing forward foot by foot. expecting
to get the bunt and throw 10 second
In time to force the runner there.
He was about IS feet from the plate
when AltiEer cut loose full force at
q fast ball and hit II straight at Burke
like q rife shot. The third baseman
saw It coming and dropped to the
ground like a fash. the ball whizzed
on over third base and down the line
for . twobase hit. q run scored and
Louisville was behind. Up In the
stand. near the front. = wild-eyed fan
stood and howled:
oh. you shirker. you yellow quit
ter. What made you dodge!"
My boy" called Burke In reply,
this 10 q game OF skill. not courage"
That Louisville club last season
had about the ouserest run Of hard
luck Of any team in history. II was
. pretty fair ball club. except that the
inneld was shot TO pieces BY drafting
OF the major leagues. and at times Il
played good ball. The great trouble
was that II couldn't get over the ninth
inning During the season the team
won one game In the ninth inning and
lost - In the final round after they
seemed TO have the game cinched.
II thsy had been playing sight-inning
games all season they would have
been close to the front instead Of In
tail-end position. 1t get so that when
the ninth inning came every one on
the team expected an explosion, and
II II failed to come the crowd rather
was disappointed.
Finally one day when they were
playing Indianapolis and the score
- . ~ v IN tnCAA AsNei WIN ANo wi
and no one on the hases and two
strikes on the batter the umpire nis-
called . strike that ought to have
ended the game. The batter promptly
r,ade base bit. the next mEn If: for
two bases. and with men on second
and third the next batter rolled an
easy bounder TO the short stop. who
scooped II clearly with plenty OF
time to toss II to nrst and end the
agony. Evidently the nervous fear OF
losing In the ninth again unsettled the
short stop. for instead OF lobbing the
ball over he threw az hard as he
could and threw wide and low six feet
outside the base. Owner Grayson
toppled over in a faint-thinking the
thirtieth game had been thrown away
In the ninth. but Myers dived out. eI-
tended ut full length. stabbed at the
ball with one hand. and by one Of
the most wonderful catches ever
made cf0ng to the ball and craw
nshed back to the base just in time
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30

-n.rse -vssrs 0nsv nas>s . &c.,
rua.- Asl sftst oasey fans TO ssks
the hone rus. ~ ehschs 10 his -
count via Morsias1.
One DAP last summer-sions In Au-
gust. Greuber. according 20 the vital
statistics. owed Moreland Nbs. II
happened that when Gibson came to
bat in the seventh inning John was
busy or not paying close attention.
and for the first time In four years be
failed TO yell: Here's where Gibby
makes a home run" Moreland called
TO him; Are you on. john Nav"
remarked Greuber Not this time.
You see. failed TO call when he came
to bat. and that's a bunch he won't
lift that home run today" And tho
frst ball pitched Gibby hit into the
left field bleachers for a home run.
Al Bridwell, the popular little short
stop OF the New York Giants. lives
down at Portsmouth on the Ohio river
and he has a story Of a play which
IL a classic. Every one knows the
peculiarities OF the Ohio river as re-
cards foods and droughts. Well.
this Is a story OF both.
When We were kids" relates Bird
well, we had a hard time nnding
level ball grounds. because there IL
hardly enough level ground around
Portsmouth to make n two base hit
on. SO we used to walt for low water
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30

TO retire the runner and save tho day.
Grsyson came to as the crowd was
departing and hurried sadly home
ward. still thinking the game was lost
and II was not until the next morning
that he discovered that Myers had
saved the team by his csteh-and he
refused to believe It until he read It
IN the papers.
The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-06-30

John Greuter. the Pittsburg vet
eran. who kept the oficial score OF
Braddock's defeat and has been the
Official scorer In Pittsburg ever since.
lost the hardest luck bet last season
that ever was recorded. John has
one great joke. II has been Joke
ever since George Gibson Joined the
Pirates. The joke consists OF calling
out loudly every time Gibson comes to
bat: Here's where Gibby makes
home run" He says that every time
Gibby bats during the season. Now
four years ago. over on the old park
IN Allegheny (excuse us - North
uide) George Moreland. the keeper OF
vital statistics In baseball. offered to
bet Greuber one dollar to one cent
that be could not call the turn on Glib
by making a homo run and Greuber
took the bet. On an average OF four
and a half times q game for over
three years oreuber solsmniy yelled:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-08
GERMAN SECRETS
EASILY DISCOVERED
Army Officials Are Alarmed at the
Easy Time the Spies
Had

BERLIN. Jan T. Alarmed by the
story of the ease with which Captain
Trench and Lieutenant Brandon, Eng
lish army officers, gained access to
the German military Notifications at
Borkum for which they are now serv-
ing sentences in fortresses, the kais-
er has ordered elaborate precautions
airy measures to be taken hereafter.
He has also instructed the naval and
military authoriti to prepare for a
minute report showing in what partic-
ulars the present projections failed.
II is feared by German military au-
tborities that many of the secrets OF
the German military and naval bases
are already known to foreign powers
as it is inconceivable that Trench and
Brandon were alone guilty of spying
in Germany. Changes will be made
to minimize the value of any such
knowledge in the possession Of their
enemies.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-08
NO REVOLUTION
IN HONDURAS
Advices From y. S. Commanders II
Southern Waters, Say All
Is Quiet


rGate City Leased Wire Servieel
WASHINGTON, Ian. Further
assurance tina. there have been no
Revolutionary outbreaks in Honduras,
was received at the state department
tonight in a telegram from Command
er Hayes. of the U. S. 5. YorKton an
Amopalia on the Pacific coass.
Commander Hayes states that not
withstanding rumors to the contrary,
ali is quiet there
Commander Davis of the Tacoma
reports that it is rnmored that the
Bonilla force lave captured the Island
OF Roatan. This island is more than
100 miles north of Puerto Cortez on
the north Atlantic coast of Honduras
Minister McCreery at Telegapaila
asserted today that there was no rev
olutionary disorder known OF * the
capital.
Minister of Finance Paredes. OF
Honduras, failed to appear at the
state department today to confer
regard to the proposed loan OF slo,-
0O0, 900 to Honduras, said officials to-
night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-08
Was The HOME
OF BAD men
six More charred Bodies Found in
the Ruins of the Sydney Street
House in
London.
CONTEMPLATING PLANT
Supposed Anarchists May Have Been
Gang of coiners and Rob-
bers Instead Of
Nihlists.
snecial to The Gate City.l

LONDON, Jan. THAT there We're
eight or more desperate men, armed
with the most modern of high power
automatic pistols, barricaded in the
Sydney Street house during last
Tuesdays battle with the police and
Scotch guards, was proved tonight
when searchers came across six adj
dittional charred bodies in the ruins.
Two were found Immediately after
the battle. In addition 10 the bodies,
the police found one of the most com
plete coming plants they have ever
seen outside the royal mint. AS many
of the dies were for foreign countries,
the continental police have been no.
tilted, and an interchange of cables
indicates to the police that the men
were connected with au International
band Of counterfeiters.
Perhaps the most startling admis-
sion of the police, however, is that the
dead men may have had no connec-
loon whatever with the recent tragedy
in Hounds Ditch, when three unarm-
ed policemen were shot to death by
band of robbers engaged in tunnel
ling their way into a large iewelry es-
tablishment.
1t is certain, however, from evidence
discovered in the burned fortress that
the dead men were connected with the
earlier Toltenham outrage, with the
notorious bank robberies in Scotland
and with a number of other DARING
crimes which Scotland Yards has
been unable to fathom. That the
men were desperate criminals there
can be no doubt, but the belief is
llessening that they were notorious
anarchists. In spite of this, however
there are many officials connected
with Scotland Yards who still main
tain that the men we're merely en-.
gagged in counterfeiting and other
bold crimes to secure money with
which to carry on their propaganda
of anarchism and nihilism.
In the ruins Of the Sydney Street
house tonight near the six charre;i
bodies, the police found number Of
ingeniously constructed time bombs
which had not exploded.
The mechanism Of these bombs in
dicates that they were the handi work
of some master mechanic. The great
care exercised in their manufacture
strengthened the belief of adferents
of the anarchist theory that the mer
were really nihilists. These othc:-i-
j declare that there was on foot a plo
to kill King George. either before
or at the time of his coronation II
June