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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-09
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Plumes
4 s1Ipsr5 gilt FOR any woman
reflects a delicate compliments =
a wor:an's excuSZbic vanity
4 beautiful Plume bcXt ready
for tiIc giving.
Long. rich Cavalier Plumes-,
staple shades - rare coloTs ana
delicate hues for evening wear
novelty varicsated effects.
a rare offer indeed beauty
and quality at an unusual price
$50.
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CHAPTER v.-continued.

Back in Dawson, though he remained
true to his word and never touched
hand to pick and shovel, he worked as
hard as ever in his life. He had q
thousand irons in the fire, and they
kept him busy Heavy as were his
expenses. he won more heavily He
took lays. bought half shares, shared
with the men he grub-staked, and made
personal locations. Day and night his
dogs were ready, and he owned the
fastest teams so that when STAN
pede to new discovery was on, it was
Burning Daylight to the fore through
the longest, coolest nights till he
bla2ed his stakes next to Discovery.
In one way or another Ito say nothing
of the many worthless creeks) he
came into possession of properties on
the good creeks, such as Sulphur, Do.
minion, Excelsis. Siwash, Cristo, Al
hambra, and Doolittle The thousands
he poured out flowed back In tens of
thousands.
Dawson grew rapidly that winter OF
1896 Money poured In on Daylight
from the sale of town lots. He prompt
ly invested it where 1t would gather
more. In fact. he played the danger
Gus game of pyramiding. and no more
periloas pyramiding than in a placer
camp could be imagined But he
played with his eyes Wide open.
Corner lots in desirable locations
sold that winter for from ten to thirty
thousand dollars Daylight sent word
out over the trails and passes for the
newcomers to bring down log-rafts.
and, as result, the summer of 1897
saw his saw mills working day and
night, on three shifts, and still he had
logs left over with which to build
cabins. These cabins, land included.
sold at from one to several thousand
dollars. Two-story log buildings, in
The business part OF town, brought him
from forty to fifty thousand dollars
apiece These fresh accreticns Of cap.
ital We're Immediately invested in 9th
er ventures He turned gold ever and
eyer. until everything that he touched
seemed to turn to gold.
With the summer rush from the Out
sioe came SpScitl correspondents TOT
the big newspapers and magazines.
and one and all. using unlimited space.
they wrote Daylight up; so that. so far
as the world was concerned Daylight
ioomed the largest figure In Alaska or
course, after several months, the
world became interested In the Span
ish Var, and forgot all about him; but
IN the klondike itself Daylight still re-
NAMED the most prominent figure,
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AS IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS.

The man at the corner of the down
town alley was selling some kind OF
cement
II was worth 25 cents bottle, as
he explained to his hearers. but in or
der to introduce 1t he was making a
special price of one dime. good for this
particular occasion only. and he guar
anteed satisfaction or money re-
funded.
will II mend broken china?~ in
quired lean, understood man In the
crowd.
1t will mend anything but broken
promise or ruined character. Say.
my friend. here's couple of sticks OF
wood. fastened together at the ends
II you break them apart III make you
present of bottle
Carelessly the understood man took
the Joined sticks in his hands.
Then he gave them a sudden. vio-
lent wrench.
Blu they didn't break apart
1t Is saddening to have to spoil
story In his manner. but sometimes.
In the interests of historical accuracy,
il has to be done
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-05
CHAPTER vi.

Ii Was held by the thousands OF
shero-worshipping cheehaquos that Day
light was a man absolutely without
lear But BEETLES ana Dan Macdonald
mud other sourdonghs shook their
herds and laughed as they mentioned
women And they we're right. He had
always been afraid of them from the
time. himself lad of seventeen, when
Queen Anne. of juneau. made open
and ridiculous love 10 him For that
matter. he never had known women.
Born In mining-camp where they
we're rare and mysterious. having no
sisters, his mother dying while he was
sn infant, he had never been In con.
tact with them.
But It was left to the Virgin to give
him his final fright She was found
one morning dead In her cabin. A
shot through the head had done It,
and she had left no message, no ex-
PLANTATION. Then came the talk Some
Wit, voielng public opinion, called it a
case on too much Daylight. She had
killed herself because OF him Every
9ody knew this, and said so The cor.
respondents wrote 1t up, and once
more Burning Daylight, King OF the
Ksond;ke. was sensationally featured
in the stnday supplements OF the
United STATES. The Virgin had
Strengthened up, SO the teature-stories
ran, and correctly so. Never had she
entered a Dawson City dance-hali.
When she first arrived from Circle
Clty, she had earned her living by
washing clothes. Next. she had bought
a. sewing-machine and made mems
drill Darkas, fur caps. and moosehide
mittens. Then she had gone as a clers
into the First Yukon Bank All this
and more, was known and told, though
one and all We're agreed that Day
light. while the cause. had been the
Innocent cause of her untimely end.
Ard the worst OF It was that Day
vge. sEacw !! was true. Always wouit
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now when he looked back on it and
felt again the touch of her lips on his
hand. She was saying gocd-by, an
eternal good-by. and he had never
At that very moment, and
for all the moments Of the evening,
cooily and deliberately, as he we'll
knew her way, she had been resolved
70 die. If he had only known 1t. Tn
touched by the contagious mslady
himself. nevertheless he would nave
married her IL he had had the slight
est inkling of what she contemplated.
And yet he knew, furthermore. that
hers was a certain stiff-kneed pride
that would not have permitted her to
accept marriage as an act OF philan-
thropy. There had really been no saw
ing her, after ALL The love-6tsease
had fastened upon her. and she had
been doomed from the first to perish
OF It.
Six thousand spent the winter or
1897 in Dawson, work on the creeks
went on apace. while beyond the pass
es II was reported that one hundred
thousand more were waiting for the
spring. late one brief afternoon, Day
light, on the benches between French
hin and Shookum Hill. caught wild
er vision of things. Beneath him lay
the richest part OF Eldorado Creek.
While up and down Bonanza he could
see for miles. It was scene Of a
vast devastation. The hills, to their
tops, had been shorn of trees. and
their naked sides showed signs OF gor
ing and peiforating that even the
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HIZHnP ar Z1zr CHI 1f manu-
A>z/ZE /zNE IzAR7ZY <DklY 'EIL

mantle Of snow could not hide. Be,
meath him, Ia every direction, were
the cabins OF men, But not many
men We're visible. A blanket OF smoke
filed the valleys and turned the gray
day to melancholy twilight. Smoke
arose from thousand holes in the
snow, where, deep down on bedrock,
in the frozen muck and gravel, men
crept and scratched and dug. and ever
built more fires to break the grip of
the frost.
Organization izas what was needed.
he decided: and his quick Imagination
sketched Eldorado Creek, from NOUN
to source, and from mountain .op to
mountain top. in the hands of one ca
pable management. Even steam-thaw-
ing, as yet untried. but bound to come.
he saw would be makesfift. What
should be done was to hydraulic the
valley sides and benches, and then, on
the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges.
There was thever5 chance for another
big killing. ae had wondered Just
what was prscisely the reason for the
Guggenhammers and the big English
concerns sending IL their high-salaried
experts That was their scheme. That
was why they had approached him for
the sale of worked-Sdt claims and tail
ings. They Were content to let the
small mine-owners gopher out what
they could, for there would be mil
lions In the leavings
And, gazing down on the smoky in
ferno of crude effort, Daylight outlined
the new game he would play, a game
in which the Guggenhammers and the
rest would have to reckon with aim,
But along with the delight In the new
conception came WEAKNESS. He was
tired OF the long Arctic years, and he
was curious about the Outside the
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Wanted the Documents.

Commissioner General of Immigra-
ton Keefe was hearing the case of a
woman who appealed to enter this
country notwithstanding serious
charges had been brought against her
morality
Her attorney pleaded that she might
do better if allowed to start on new
lie here. Look at the case of Mary
Magdalene," he said. See what was
done in her case. Why cannot the
same be done in the case of this Won
am"
Mr. Keefe had been preoccupied. He
called TO the clerk and said: Get me
the record in that Magdalene case. -
New York World.
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THROUGH Moved oayIIah len ROARING eurnna naxllaht

great world of which he had heard
other men talk and of which he was
as ignorant as child There were
games out there to play. It was a
larger table, and there was no reason
why he with his millions should not
sit in and take hand. So 1t was,
that afternoon on Skookum Hill, that
he resolved to play this last best Klon-
dixie hand and pull for the Outside. 1t
took time, however. He put trusted
agents TO work on the heels of great
experts, and on the creeks where they
began to buy he likewise bought
Wherever they tried to corner a
worked-out creek. they found him
standing in the way. owning blocks of
claims or artfully scattered claims
that put all their plans to naught.
Followed wars, trgces, compromises.
victories, and defeats. BY 1888, sixty
thousand men were on the Klondike.
and all their fortunes and affairs
rocked back and forth and were ar
fected by the battles Daylight fought
And more and more the taste for the
larger game urged in Daylight's mouth.
Here he was already locked in gran
pies with the great Guggenhammers.
and winning. fiercely winning. POS.
sibly the seyerest struggle was waged
on 0phir, the yeriest OF moose-pas,
lures. whose iow-grade dirt was vaiu.
able only because of Its vastness. The
ownership of a block OF seven claims
in the heart of 1t gave Daylight his
grip. and they could not come to terms
The Guggenhammsr experts conclud
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he remember that last night be had
seen her. He had thought nothing OF
1t at the time; but. looking back, he
was haunted by every little thing that
had happened. In the light OF the
tragic event, he could understand
everything her quietness, that calm
gertrude as il all vexing questions OF
living had been smoothed out and
We're gone. and that certain ethereal
sweetness about all that she had said
and done that had been almost mater
nal. He remembered the way she had
looked at him, how she had laughed
when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis-
take in stalking the fraction on Shook
UNI Gulch. Her laughter had ben
lightly joyous. while at the same time
1t had lacked its old-time robustness.
Not that she had been grave or sub.
dued. On the contrary, she had been
so patiently content, so filled with
peace. She had fooled him, fool that
he was. He had even thought that
night that her feeling for him had
passed, and he had taken delight in
the thought, and caught visions of the
satisfying future friendship that would
be theirs with this perturbing love
out of the way.
And then, when he stood at the
door. cap in hand. and said good night.
It had struck him at the time as
funny and embarrassing thing, her
bending over his hand and kissing it.
He had felt like fool, but he shiyered
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-05
SYNOPSIS.

Elan Harnish, known all through Alas
ka as Burning Daylight" celebrates his
Both birthday with crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tiyoli. The dance leads
to heavy gambling. In which over $1,000
IS stalSed Harnish loses his money and
his mine but wins the mall contract He
starts on his mall trip with dogs and
siedge. telling his friends that he VIII be
Burning Daylight makes a sensationaliy
rapid run across country with the mail,
appears at the Tivoli and Is now ready
to join his friends in a dash to the new
found In the up-river district Earnish
buys TIVE tons of -four which he declares
will be worth Its weight in gold, bat
the big fat desolate. A comrade discov-
ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har-
vest
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NeIOs Notes of Wisconsin


Green Bay=A party of twenty
five narrowly escaped being serious
ly injured and some perhaps being
killed when broken rail caused the
wreck of Wisconsin and Michigan
logging train in the vicinity of Wan
saukee. Three cars were thrown in
to ditch and Conductor Percell was
badly cut and bruised.
Madison. The Southern Wiscon-
sin Railway company granted the in
crease in wages demanded by the
employees. The wages per hour I'M
der the new agreement will be.
First year, 16 cents; second year, IS
cents; third, fourth and fifth years.
20 cents; sixth year and thereafter,
% cents.
La Crosse Engaged all day
Christmas carrying messages of good
will and glad tidings, the last tele-
gram Frank Rimmert, II year old
messenger was called upon to de-
liver was one conveying to his moth
er the news of his sisters death in
Mason City, Ia.
Wausau.-After being sought for
over year by the Marathon county
sheriff on warrant charging for
gerry, Irving Alderman, a Wausau
boy, was discovered serving a SEN
tence in the prison at Waupun. for
burglary, having been committed
from La Crosse.
Green Bay-Fire broke out at the
Green Bay hospital and James Kerr
former collector of customs, and
other patients had to be carried
across the street out of danger
About $4,000 damage was done
Waukesha.A mail pouch was
stolen from the 500 depot and robbed
of. its contents, part of which was
found in an icehouse later The
mail was from Madison and vicinity
and was unimportant.
Madfson.Frank ID. Reed, for
seventeen years deputy clerk and
court reporter of the United States
circuit and district courts for the
western district of Wisconsin, has re
signed to practice law.
Madison. The first annual road
school of the Wisconsin highway
will be held in the cap
itoI February 1915. Moving pic
lures will show various road con
processes.
Madison. Receipts at the postof-
flee here for stamps and envelopes.
for the six days preceding Christ
mas, were $7,272.9S, or an increase
of $3.50 a day over the same period
in 1910.
dgeville.-Thomas James, aged
70, a native of Dodgeville. died on
day after a few weeks i'll
ness. His was the fourth death OF
prominent citizens within one week
Shawano While attending Wit
tenberg academy, Leo Krause of this
city and Martha Luebke of Bonduel
were bitten by mad dog and are
in Madison for treatment.
GAINESVILLE. -Thomas o. BiFkness,
aged 81 years, of Orfordville, is dead
of a fractured skull sustained in
fall down stairs.
Milwaukee movement for
holding a corn, grain and alfalfa
show in the Auditorium within few
weeks has been launched by Secre-
tary Cannon of the Citizens Bust
ness league The exploitation or
northern Wisconsin as an agricu-
Lural section is a prime motive OF tha
Marinette Saloon men of Mari
aette and Afenominee have been bui-
coed out of several hundred dolla-
BY two strangers who took orders for
: hiskey which they said was at Nil
waukee and obtained advances on
bach Durchasc
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lATES HIGH ENDUGK
sEccND-cLAss INCREASE ELAk
sTIRs PUBLISHERS.
Efficiency of Hitchcock,s Manaoemen,
Of the Pest Office Department
Attacked by the A. N. P. A.

Washington.-The A. N. p. Al.
through Its postal committee of which
Don. c. Seitz Of New York is chair.
man. has joined in the fight against
the proposed increase In secend-class
rates and in It's last bulletin the com.
mittee attacks the management of the
post Office department. The bulletin
Is as follows:
The extent to which the post
office department does not carry sec.
ond-class matter is we'll revealed in
the following abstract of inquiry of
publishers conducted by house com,
mittee on expenditures in the post
oiiice department (William A. Ash
brook, chairman) concerning the vol
ume, weight and handling OF the out
put OF publications entered as mail
matter of the second-class for the
fiscal year-ending June 80. 1911.
Inquiry was made OF all publish.
ers, apDroximating thirty thousand. Of
which nearly seventeen thousand are
weekly publications.
More than ten thousand returns
We're received. embracing sixty-six
plus Per cent. Of all tonnage OF pub.
LEGATIONS.
The publications reporting repre-.
sent an annual output of more than
six and one-half billion copies. tbs
weight of which was one and three.
quarter billion pounds.
These publications delivered by
mail in such period weighed 63S.0l2.
902 pounds.
They delivered by their own car
riers, newsboys, and news companies
S40,466,574 pounds, of which an unas- /
certained percentage was carried to
destination by express and other rail
shipments outside the mail. They de-
livered by express. 2O2. 729, $40 pounds,
and by other rail shipments 121.4a1- |
T4S pounds. The rate by express ana
rail varies from n to 1 cent per
pound. but the bulk of these ship /
ments went at rate of Il to "a cent
per pound.
The post office for the year end.
ing June 80 1911, handled 951,0Of,. |
$50, and excluding one-half million
pounds free In county matter, II re
ceived one cent per pound.
All this goes to add to the abb
surdity Of the proposed Hitchcock leg.
islation doubling the second-class rate
from one to Two cents per pound, and
limiting the privilege to publications
that carry as much reading matter as
they do advertising.
The proposition was stupid enough
when the postal deficit reached $17,. f
100000 two years ago. 1t becomes
In face of a surplus.
What business has Transports
ton corporation, which is all the post
Office is, to prescribe how business
shall be conducted?
Newspapers cannot afford to ex.
pand their columns beyond the call
OF the days news, nor can they be
expected to control the requirements
Of their advertisers who have a right
to reach the public as copiousIy as
they care 10.
1T cannot be assumed that such
legislation viii ever get by congress.
But publishers are requested to fight
the theory that the right to send their
output by mail is privilege" The !
figures show it is not.
The post office is badly man
aged business. That is all. We
should fight its dictation, its censar
ship and its inefficiency.1
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Dire Necessity.

Yes. sir. in a year from now thia
Amalgamated Balloon stock will be
worth $4,000 and I'll sell it to you for
so cents. I"
"H itll be worth $4,000 N year
from now, why don't you keep ii your
seif?r
Wen, you see. need a shave and
q hair cut. and I'd be holy show il J
waited that long Judge
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A eacksIidina Santa Claus.

Mrs. Peayish says that before they
We're married Mr.. Peavish used to say
that if she would let him be her Santa
Claus he would devote his life to slid
ing up and down the chimney for
her. And now it makes him mad to
have to take up ashes from the grate
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-01-05
Went Deep for Foundation.

In excayating the foundation of New
1ork's municipal building new
record has been made for depth At
the southern end of the structure,
which will house between 5000 and
5000 city employees when finished, the
"sandbags" went down 1879 feet below
the carbline, or 1O7 feet below sea
level.
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Love at First siqht.

And did you ever love any girl be-
fore YOU were introduced to me,
Charlie?" said the bride of a few
months.
oh, yes" was the mans reply.
You did,
"surel When l first saw you"
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Consistency.

Il suppose you always say exactly
ahat you Think Il try to-" replied
Senator Sorghum, bur also try to
Vcid thinking anything II would not
e expt dent fer me TO say
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NJ
MILWAUKEE,. Lan ? -.


Butter-Extra creamery -
pms, &c; firsts. 80 @s4c: secops
Sse SOC: process, ESQ 6e; dai,,
Cheese-American, full cree,
Twins. 151sc; daisies. new 15iL an
Ice; Young Americas. 15L@1-
ionsnorns, 16c; Swiss, 140 16e
Eges Current receipts fresh o.
to quality, 23Q28e; recandled a.
tras, S2 SAC, seconds, 1s@15c
Live Poultry Fowls. IN.
ROSTERS, nc; springers, he
Potatoes Wisconsin. sacked
track, 77@8sc. 0'
Hay-No. l timothy, 2O.50 ella.
yer, 1900; No, l prairie, 1900
Wheat-No. northern. los.
los; No 2 northern, l.0em1o-.
No. l durum, 1.01@1.O2: No
durum, 99cib1. 90.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, SIC.
Oats 3 white. 47hc; stand
ard. 4S1ac.
Barley Wisconsin, 1.S0; No
l.24; medium, 12S.
Cattle Butchers steers, 4.500
SIS; heifers, 310@5.60; COWS
$3.50 @5.25; feeders, 3.60a4so.
calves, 6.75@S.00.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, S. so
a $40; fair to best light, $3.50
SOS; pigs, 4.75@5.60.
Sheep Lambs, 40O@5.50; ewes.
3.0003.75.
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Minneapolis. Jan. 3. 1872

N11I1I5dpUIIo, Jan. q, I5Iz.
Wheat No. 1, hard, 1881; No.
1, northern, 1.0SA; No. 2, northern.
Los Il Corn-No. 3, yellow, 60c.
Oats No. 3, white, 45c. Rye-No.
2, SO &c.
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Chicago. Jan. 3. 1912

Cattle Beeves. 4.75@S.50; stoc,
ers and feeders. 3.25@5.S0; cows
and heifers, 2O0Q6.4O; calves
55008O0.
Hogs Light, 5.SO@6.15; he.vy.
SIS @6.25; rough. $40 5000; pigs
5.10@ 600.
Evening journal., 1912-01-31
Lace Curtain Sale

Lace Curtain Sale
All Pair Lots ................. 80 per cent off
All Pair Lots .............. .33 1-3 per cent. off
All 3 Pair Lots ................. % per cent. off
Nottinghams, Brussels, Tambours, Irish Points,
Arabians, Renaissance, Antique and Cluny Lace
Curtains also novelty curtains in nets and scrims,
embroidered Swsses and ruHled musins all included
One pair lots priced 45c, from S5c up TO $1,000
from $1,000 pair.
from $1,000 pair.
Three pair lots priced 75c from siOO up to 5000
from Sl2-0O pair.
Second floor.
Evening journal., 1912-01-31

LinOleums, imported and domestic, in
laid linolcums, colors never wear off,
SLIGO grade at Sl.25 square yard laid.
Fourth hoor-Use elevator.
Evening journal., 1912-01-31
NEWPORT

SPECIAL to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NMPORT. Del. Jan. 31.-Mrs J.
Gallher who has been spending the
wintr with her sister. Mrs Barker.
of Dlmar. has returned home and is
nowyeriously i'll.
Th Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ
e CiIrch will hold its monthly bust
nessand social on Thursday evening
insteh of on Wednesday evening as
previuslv arranged.
W.F. Groome left this week for a
rnont's visit in Florida.
=. Y. Gano is on a business trip TO
NewYork city.
Mis- Vera Cooper spent the week
end Fith friends in Philadelphia
HI. Krebs, president of the Krebs
Pigment and Chemical Company, is
on 4 extended trip to Florida
R;ph l. Work has returned from
weeks stay at his home in Elkton
Mis- Elsie MacNamee Of Elsmere
iwasthe guest of her cousin. Miss
Bess Maclary. on Sunday.
MIN. Owings spent Sunday in
Philadelphia.
Thl Misses Helen and Reba Cum
ming were guests Of Miss Mary
Maho on Sunday
Mrs William Stewart has been en-
tertaiing her granddaughter. Mil
dred lurrender. of New Castle.
Mrs Beulah Myers and children OF
Wilma gton. have been visiting her
.pareis. Mr.. and Mrs. William Ruth
Mr.. and Mrs. John Scarborough
have cen entertaining Miss Margare
Keele Of Newark. Mrs. Harry Brake
and RS. Edward Dougherty o. viii.
ming5n. Miss Helen Patton Of New
Castl and j. 7. Scarborough Of Mid
dleton.