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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07
SeIf-Cleaning cistern.

water and sediment that have accumu-
lated below.
The cistern should be built in the
ordinary way and cemented fully TO
ne top. The conductor pipes should
enter through the cover, drain pipe
leave the cistern just beneath the
neck, or about three feet below the
surface. Into this is cemented GAL
vanized gas pipe which extends down
yard to within about two and half
inches of a depression in the bottom
Of the cistern.
It will readily be seen that as soon
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

gold from the grass-roots, and who
had PANIED the rim at hundred 9th
er places up and down the length OF
the creek and found nothing. was Gu
rious to know what lay on bedrock.
He had noted the four quiet men sink
ing a shaft close by the stream. and
he had heard their whip-saw going as
they made lumber for the sluice boxes.
He did not wait for an invitation, but
he was present the first day they
sluiced And at the end of five hours
shoveling for one man, he saw them
take out thirteen ounces and half OF
gold. 1t was coarse gold, running from
pinheads to a twelve-dollar nugget.
and 1t had come from off bedrock.
The first fall snow was flying that day.
and the Arctic winter was closing
down; but Daylight had no eyes tor
the bleak-gray sadness of the dying.
short-lived summer He saw his VS.
ion coming true, and on the big fiat
was upreared anew his golden city Of
the SHOWS Gold had been found on
bedrock. That was the big thing.
Carmack's strike was assured. Day
light staked a claim In his own name
adjoining three he had purchased with
plug tobacco. This gave him block
two thousand feet long and extending
In width from rim-rock to rim-rock
Returning that night to his camp at
the mouth of Klondike. he found In 1t
Kama, the Indian chief he had left at
Dyea. Kama was travelling by ca
noe, bringing in the last mail of the
year. In his possession was some two
hundred dollars in god-dust which
Daylight Immediately borrowed. In
return. he arranged to stake a claim
for him, which he was to record when
he passed through Forty Mile When
Kama departed next morning, he car
ried a number of letters for Daylight,
addressed to all the old-timers down
river. in which they were urged to
come up Immediately and stake. Also
Kama carried letters of similar import,
given him by the other men on Bo-
nanZa
ut will sure be the gosh-dangdest
stampede that ever was, Daylight
chuckled. as he tried to vision the ex'
cited populations Of Forty Mile and
Circle City tumbling into poling-boats
and racing the hundreds of miles up
the Yukon; for he knew that his word
would be unquestioningly accepted.
One day in December Daylight filed
pan from bedrock on his own claim
and carried it into his cabin. Here a
fire burned and enabled him to keep
water unfrozen in a canvas tank He
squatted over the tank and began to
wash. Earth and gravel seemed to fill
the pan AS he impaired to 1t cir
cular movement, the lighter coarser
particles washed out over the edge
At times he combed the surface with
his fingers. raking out handfuls OF
gravel The contents of the pan di
minished At is drew near to the
bottom. for the purpose of fleeting and
tentative examination, he gave the
pan a sudden sloshing movement
emptying It of water And the whole
bottom showed as If covered with but
ter. Thus the yellow gold flashed
up as the muddy water was filtered
away 1t was gold-gold-dust coarse
gold. nuggets. large nuggets. He was
all alone. He set the pan down for .
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

moment and thought long thoughts.
Then he finished the washing, and
weighed the result in his scales. At
the rate of sixteen dollars to the ounce
the pan had contained seven hundred
and odd dollars. 1t was beyond any
thing that even he had dreamed. His
fondest anticipations had gone no
farther than twenty or thirty thousand
dollars to a claim; but here were
claims worth half a million each at the
least, even If they we're spotted
He cid not go back to work In the
shaft that day, nor the next. nor the
next. Instead, capped and mittened, a
light stampeding outfit. including his
rabbit skin robe, strapped on his back,
he was out and away on a many-days'
tramp over creeks and divides, in
specting the whole neighboring terri
tory. On each creek he was entitled
to locate one claim, but he was
chary in thus surrendering up his
chances. On Hunker Creek only
did he stake a claim. Bonanza
Creek he found staked from mouth to
source. while every little draw and
pup and gulch that drained into 1t was
likewise staked. Little faith was had
in these side-streams. They had been
staked by the hundreds of men who
had failed to get in on Bonanza. The
most popular Of these creeks was
Adams The one least fancied was
Eldorado. which flowed into Bonanza,
Even Daylight disliked the looks of e.
dorado; but. still riding his hunch. he
bought half share in one claim on 1t
for half a sack of -four. A month
later he paid eight hundred dollars for
the adjoining claim. Three months
later enlarging this block of property,
he paid forty thousand for third
claim. and. though it was concealed
in the future, he was destined, not
'ong after. to pay one hundred and
the creek that had been the least liked
of all the creeks
In the meantime, and from the day
he washed seven hundred dollars from
single pan, and squatted over 1t and
thought long thought, he never again
touched hand to pick and shovel. AS
he said TO Joe Ladue the night of that
wonderful washing:
Joe. amt never going to work
hard again Here's where | begin to
use my brains. I'm going to farm gold.
Gold will grow gold If you-all have
the savvee and can get hold of some
for seed. When | seen them seven
hundred dollars in the bottom of the
pan. knew had seed at last
The hero of the Yukon in the
younger days before the Carmack
strike. Burning Daylight now became
the hero of the strike. The story of
his bunch and how he rode 1t was
told up and down the land. Certainly
he had ridden 1t far and away beyond
the boldest, for no FIVE Of the luckiest
held the value in claims that he held.
And. furthermore, he was still riding
the bunch. and with no diminution Of
daring
CTo BE CoNTINUED.)
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

A month passed by. and Bonanza
Creek remained quiet A sprinkling
of men had staked; but most of them,
after stalking. had gone on down to
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

Forty Mile and Circle City The few
that possessed sufficient faith to re-
main were busy building log cabins
against the coming of winter Car
mack and his Indian relatives were oc.
cupied in building a sluice box and
getting head of water The work
was SLOW for they had to saw their
lumber by hand from the standing tor
est But farther down Bonanza were
four men who had drifted in from up
river. Dan McGilvary. Dave Mckay,
Dave Edwards. and Harry Waugh
They were quiet party, neither ask
ing nor giving condolences. and they
herded by themselves But Daylight,
who had PANIED the spotted rim OF
Carmack's claim and shaken coarse
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

las the water rises above the drain, #
will begin by force of gravity to flow
from the bottom up through the gal
vanized tube and leave the cistern
from the bottom, thus sucking out the
foul water and sediment from below
and leaving the clean, fresh water at
the top. 1 invented this device and
have had one Of these cistern In OPP
Grafton for seventeen years. The wa
ter has always remained pure and
sweet, and without any attention what
ever to cleaning. There is no patent
and the additional cost of this simple
and sanitary device is about two and
a half to three dollars.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07
SYNOPSIS.

Elan Harnish, known all through Alas
ka as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
Goth birthday with a crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tivoli. The dance leads
to heavy gambling. In which over 100000
10 staked Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract. He
starts on his mail trip with dogs and
Biedge. telling his friends that he will be
In the big Yukon gold strike at the start
Burning Daylight makes sensationally
rapid run across country with the mall
appears at the TiVoli and Is now ready
to Join his friends in a dash to the new
gold fields.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07
CHAPTER v.

Still men were without faith In the
strike. When Daylight, with his heavy
outfit Of flour. arrived at the mouth OF
the Klondlke. he found the big fat as
desolate and tenantless as ever Down
close by the river, Chief Isaac and his
Indians were camped beside the
frames on which they were drying sal
mon. Several old-times were also in
camp there. Having finished their
summer work on Ten Mile Creek, they
had come down the Yukon. bound for
Circle City But at Sixty Mile they
had learned of the strike, and stopped
off to look over the ground They had
just returned to their boat when Day.
light landed his -four. and their report
was pessimistic. But an hour later,
at his own camp. Joe Ladue strobe in
from Bonanza Creek. He led Daylight
away from the camp and men and
told him things in confidence
She's sure there" he said In con-
clusion. 81 didn't sluice 1t. or cradle
1t. PANIED it, all In that sack. yes
terday, on the rim-rock tell.y you you
can shake 1t out of the grass-roots
And what's on the bedrock down in
the bottom Of the creek they amt no
way of tellin' But she's big. | tell
you. big. Keep 1t quiet, and locate all
you can. It's in spots, but | wouldn't
be none surprised If some Of them
claims yielded as high as fifty thou
sand. The only trouble is that it's
spotted"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07
Best prauqht Horse.

An experiment station says that the
closer a draught horse is to the
ground the better both for service and
endurance.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-12-07

A man is as young as he feels-and
a woman, but she doesn't always
look II
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
KEEP YOUR SMOKEkOUSE FREE FROM FLIES

The shippers commonly found in
cheese and meGts, are the young
Of small flies. They sometimes be-
come an intolerable nuisance in
smokehouses, attacking ham, bacon
and the like during the process Of
smoking or before they can be cased.
Where house is once thoroughly in
tested, the flies are found in swarms
everywhere ready to attack the meats
as soon as there is the least oppor-
tunity. Windows should be closely
screened, the walls should be white
washed frequently so as to keep all
crevices filled up; the floors should
be kept clean and should be as solid
and smooth as possible to prevent the
development OF maggots in crevices
filled with greasy substances. The
flies can be killed by fumigatIng with
tobacco or pyrethrum. For this pur-
pose the room should be closed tight
ly in the evening after the work is
done or on a Sunday or other day when
work ceases, and a sufficient guam
tity OF either tobacco or pyrethrum
should be burnt on live Goals to fill
all parts OF the room. It should be
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28

vanity IN her pocket, and serve as o
foil for her luckless stepcousin, Elise
She was sorry for Elise. whose life
ran sluggishly between drab walls. II
had taken all her own mothers tact
and diplomacy to compass Elise's be-
ing where she was. Peggy had been
q little worried at first-rElise had so
few social accomplishments, and
though Peggy was kind she hated car
Fying dead weight. But by and BY.
when there were evening exhibitions
Of drawing-room accomplishments
Elise had shown such grace, such
lightness, such rhythmic harmony OF
motion as to redeem herself
But she had never yet done the
cakewalk, save in the privacy Of their
own chamber, q big, airy and secluded
one, high up in the tower Peggy had
practiced 1t with her, enough to make
sure they would not fail. She ha1
thought rather proudly Of thefbensa-
ton they would make, quite eclipsing
Marie Dene. straight from Paris. and
still Affecting the airs Of her Partisan
training. It took her all aback. though.
to think Of dancing In such guise as
would make her a fright. Notwith.
standing. she agreed generously to put
herself out OF the question. partly
through indolent good nature, partly
also through the impelling Of some.
thing under the surface which she
felt in Elise
She aid not sense the hidden thing
untu thew came ont for their turn
The big house party had turned Itself
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
TO STOP MAIL ORDER LlSCENSES
Governor Hadley Asked to Put an
End to Marriages on Phone
Call at Joplin.

Carthage, Mo-, Dec. 22--In an effort
to stop the marriage license by
mail' system they say has been car
ried on illegally for q number Of
years, Jasper county officers have ap-
pealed to Gov. Hadley. They claim
hundreds Of marriage ceremonies per
formed at Joplin by justices Of the
peace are not legal.
County Recorder Frank Logan and
his predecessors. 1t Is said, always
have refused to issue marriage H.
cense unless both parties appeared
and there was proper proof that both
we're over age or had the written con.
sent Of parent or guardian.
They claim, however, that certain
Joplin justices of the peace long have
been following the practice Of tele-
phonlng to Neosho, the seat of the
adjoining county, and instructing the
recorder there to fll out and mail
marriage licenses for couples and
then performing the ceremony be-
fore the license arrived by mail.
II is claimed that the justice has
no right to perform a marriage In
the absence Of the license, and that
court test would set aside such q
marriage and cause innumerable din.
Ialties.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28

tainty. Dairy Thermometers cost
about '25c and can be obtained &C
drug stores and dairy supply houses
Starters, or pure cultures Of sour
milk are often added to the cream 70
aid in souring the cream and develop
ing favorable favors in the butter.
This is practiced in creameries but
on the farm 1t is not practical. The
only starter commonly used on the
farm is buttermilk. Buttermilk nom
one churning can be added to the
cream for the next and often prove.
quite beneficial.
The churning temperature 10 also
variable and no hard and fast rule can
be made in this regard. In winter
when the cows are on dry food the
fats in butter have a higher melting
point and It will be necessary to chafn
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28

farm the milk should be separated as
soon as It comes from the COW. At
this time 1t will be at the best tenn
perature for separating, about 80 de-.
/ grees F. and the skinned milk will
be at its best for feeding the calves.
If milk is to be held for some time
before separating it should be warmed
to IS degree or 80 degrees +,
For making butter and in selling
cream, believe that cream testing
from 30 to 35 per cent is the most de-
sirable; cream Of this thickness Is
easily handled and about right for
churning. The care of cream from the
time 1t is separated till the time it is
churned is Of great Importance The
cream should be cooled Immediately
after being separated This cooling
can usually be done in water tanks
on the farm and not effect the water
for the animals. In cooling warm
milk or cream 1t should be left UNI
covered so that the animal heat will
have chance to escape. BY stirring
frequently the cooling will be made
uniform throughout the cream. When
flies are bad cheese cloth should be
placed over the container. In mixing
warm cream with cold cream the
warm cream should first be cooled to
the temperature of the cold cream,
before 1t is added.
1t is generally agreed that sour
cream can be churned more readily at |
q lower temperature and with less loss
than sweet cream The holding tenn
perature or rlpenlng temperature
would then depend upon the number
Of churnings. a week. II the cream
will be, sweet when we get ready to
churn. the souring must be fastened
by raising the temperature. The
higher temperature will cause an in
creased activity Of the bacteria and !
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28

A Iitle bank in the south blew up
one day and q bank examiner came
down to look 1t over.
As he was working be noticed an
old negro walking back and forth In
front Of the bank, stopping each trip
TO look anxIously at the door. The ex'
aminer finally went out and asked:
whats the matter with youf"
Boss" the negro replied. Il done
had fo'ty-eight doIlahs In dat bank"
@Oh, well, you mustn't worry. Banks
tail frequently. you know. It is moth
ing UNUSUAL. Wen make an sxamina-
tIon and you'll set all that is comirJ
10 you. Didn't you ever hear Of ..
bank blowing up beforef'
Yes, sab, I done hear ten Of Il
But, boss. this yer ls de fust time !
evan had one blow up right IN nah
lace.--Phlladelphia Saturday Even
Ing Pest
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
KANSAS FARMERS ARt WEALTHY
Per Capita 10 Greater Than In Any
Other State In the
Union.

3 Topeka, Dec. 27-The per capita
wealth Of Kansas is greater than that
Of any other state, and 1t is the farmer
that has the money.
Kansas has population Of 1885,
CAT, men, women and children. The
total assessed value OF all real and
personal property is S2.777,O73 ,762
This gives per capita wealth Of
.$1,646.31. ,~s
Carrying out the per capita figures
for the different counties Of the state
II is shown that the farmers could
cash In their property for more than
the jewellers In the cities.
Cherokee County is the poorest in
the state. there being only about S745
for each person in that county. But
there Is a large foreign population
there that works In the mines and
owns little or no property.
Clark county, away out In the south.
west corner OF the state. once a part
of the Great American Desert, is
where the real wealth Is, showing
SS,S72 for each person in that county,
the largest per capiter" in the state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28

left tightly closed for from eight to
twenty-four hours. At the end Of this
time the flies will have been de-
stroyed, but the maggots will not It
will be necessary to repeat this opera
ton two or three times at intervals
Of a week, to destroy the flies as fast
as they hatch, and before they have
an opportunity to lay their eggs. II
some cases blsulphide of carbon may
be used to fumigate. This must BE
done when there is no fire on the
premises and the house, which should
be left closed twelve hours at least,
should then be aired until no trace
Of the odor remains before fires are
again introduced. Carbon blsuIphlde
is as lnflammabIe a. gasoline and
should be handled with equal care.
When the meat is already infested,
the infested portions should be trim
med away and clean salt rubbed into
the surface exposed by the trimming.
To avoid making the meat too salty
the extra salt should be rinsed off.
The object Of this treatment Is to
harden the surface which has been
exposed by the trimming.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
PACEERSHAl10
ABllllNIIPANS
Trial at Chicago Shows Greater Com
bine Was Contemplated.
FAIL TO FINANCE UNDERTAKING
Original Agreement 10 Shown, Giving
Details Of Proposed $500, 200, 900
coneern-6ouUht Up
independents.

Chicago, Dec. 27.-Details Of the
plan for $5OO,0OO,0O0 merger Of the
Armour, Swift and Norris interests
in 1902, by which, the government
contends, 1t was sought to control the
meat industry Of the country, were
revealed In the trial OF the ten Chi.
cago packers before United States
District Judge George A. Carpenter.
The contract, which was dated May
81, 1902, was read to the Jury and Of
fered In evidence by counsel for the
government. The original agreement
was produced in court by Albert H.
Veeder, attorney for Swift G Co., who
was called by the government as Its
first witness.
Attorney Veeder testified that the
plans for the giant merger were
abandoned, and that In March, 1903,
the National Packing company was
organized to operate certain independ
ent packing companies purchased with
view to including them in the big
company.
Under the terms Of the agreement
the three large packing corporations
and their subsidiary companies, to-
gether with recently acquired indie
pendent companies, were to be merged
into one giant concern, Armour,
Swift and Morris to receive bonds and
preferred stock Of the new company
in payment for the value of their
tangible property.
In addition to this, the promoters
were to receive $25,OOO.OOO worth OF
the new company's stock for intangi-
bic property and a large block of
common stock for their good will,
this amount to be fixed by the earn
ings Of the different plants during the
first year of the new merger.
The promoters planned to borrow
l9O,0O0,OO0 to finance the giant cor
poration. The appraised valuation Of
ArmCar, Swift, Morris and their SUD
Iidiary companies was given at $780,
100000
Each Of three promoters deposited
!, 100000 with a Chicago bank as an
violence Of good faith, but they were
compelled to drop the plan because
Il the failure Of certain New York
capitalists to furnish the funds needed.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
GDO1ROlDs INTEREST KANSAS
COUNTY OFFICERS PLAN Big
MEETiMe AT MANHATTAN.
Most Important Event Of Its Kind
Ever Held IN the. Stats TO be
January II and 20.


Topeka, Dec. zz.--Whatsls regarded
Is the most important 5000 roaol
meeting ever ntel IN kansas VIA %
ateMannattan JanuaryslI and IL. Inc
commissioners ana clerks OF every
county IN the STATE nave peen asked
% meet there, ana practicaly tne on
tire meeting VIII pc; aevoIed 70 learn
ing now TO puilo gooq Foaas.
: j.. L. Leland, clerk OF sedsWick
county ana secretary OF tne associa-
tions urged lnaL tne annual meetins
Do held a. Manhattan 30 tnat tae
county commissioners couiu see tne
improved roads OF VARIOUS types Dull.
tnere py the agrlculturai coliese ana
also see tne improved highways AZ
the county Ine staIe nisnWay en-
gineer ana otner ROAD workers are
also at Mammalian
Inc idea Oh tne good roaos advo-
cafes ID 70 get tne county commas
sioners VINO attend the meetings 70
agree to build roadways from tne
county SEATS winch are ALMOST III
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-12-28
.POMPADOUR
SISTERS
OoDgrisAt, IN. b Assosiassd Li,sny PTs.Ll

4
"The Pompadour sistersI HorTorsi
Elise. you know can't wear pink
with my red cheeks and red hair Il
makes me q blowsy peony! And you
are angelic in pale blue" Peggy said
discontentedly. hinging herself back
on the sofa.
But you Will Just this once!"
Elise, entreated. her eyes sparkling.
For my sake! You know my one
talent-my gifted feet. can't sing
I'm not Q bit clever-I have never
been anywhere but home and to
school. But can dance. Do help me
to show I'll For special reason. -
I-want to show I'm worth WHILE"
80 you'll be asked again?" Peggy
Queried. Poor chick-a-biddy! Is this
house party really 20 much to your
What would 1t be to you. II It was
your hrst-and you had never had a
chance to be young. or have funT"
Elise asked almost fiercely. IF you
had to dance by stealth-up in the
garrett, with nobody to see--and all
the music. what you could make on
comb?"
Tell mellow did you ever hit on
this frilly cakewalk? To think OF
the Pompadour as godinother to
cakewalkl" Peggy commented, smil-
ing.
ME-. Inni,oA ,,,r.ynA axHyn~ xhnnn