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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
BENNINGTON, VT, JUNE 80, 1918
Not all the old soldiers are going


Not all the old soldiers are going
to Gettysburg this week Many of
those. who are physically able are
deferred by the heat and hardships
they would be sure to encounter. A
day or two ago somebody asked j.
A. N. Williams, who is native of
Pennsylvania, but served through
the war in the Second Vermont regi-
ment, if he was going to Gettysburg.
NO. said Mr. Williams. ut would
be a hard trip and am afraid to go,
but" he added reminiscently Il am
not half as fraid as ] was when Twas
there fifty years ago.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
murder by Automobile"

That is the title conferred by the
indianapolis News upon class OF
crime that has become habitual the
country over. The particular case
in point, however, is located in Chic
ago
An employe of motor livery con-
Germ has been convicted of murder
with an automobile, and his sent
ence fixed at ID years in the peni-
Tertiary. The man under sentence
is Lawrence Lindbloom. Joseph
Weiss was run down by motor
car driven by Lindbloom. The
driver was arrested and charged
with the victims murder. 1t was al
legged that Lindbloom did not stop
until he had run two blocks beyond
the spot where the accident occur
red-and then only because bit of
the victims clothing became en-
tangled in the machinery. Three
days after the accident Weiss died.
His major injury was fractured
skull. Shortly after the death of
Weiss his seyen-years-old daughter
died, her death being fastened. II
was alleged by the family and
friends, by the accident to her
father. Lindbloom pleaded both ig-
norance of running down pedes-
TRAN, and also the loss OF control o.
his car. He said he saw a hat fly
up and thought he had hit some
one. but couldn't stop the machine"
The prosecutor employed unusual
methods in obtaining jury. OF the
~ men on whom he passed. fou.
were automobile owners. The trial
Judge, in his instructions. said that
II the jurors we're satisfied beyond
reasonable doubt that, at the time
OF the accident. Lindblom was driv-
ing his machine in such a manner
as to endanger human life. they
find him guilty regardless of whet-
her the killing was accidental OF in
territorial. The jury was out an hour
and Is minutes. The states attor-
ney, in discussing the case after
ward. said that since he assumed Of
fee more than 500 charges OF speed
ing had come before him, and that
out Of this number he had found on
ly q In which he felt justified in en-
tering a nolle prosequi.
He also said that this prosecution
would not be the last, that cases Of
speeding and accident 10 pedestrians
where IL was shown that motor car
drivers were at a fault would be
pressed with vigor. Lindbloom, the
evidence showed. was driving his
car at rate OF IS miles an hour.
This was far beyond the limit set
by ordinance in Chicago. The YER
rict Is unique and the case ought 10
have a deterring effect on careless
drivers -Haverhill Gazette.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
A PROBLEM IN FINANCE.
The Question That Lincoln Fired at
Secretary Chase.

The mysteries of finance were not
always. clear to Mr.. Lincoln, whose
craftsmanship was of another sort.
But his keen sense of humor would not
permit him to regard the difficult sub
ject as too profound for an occasional
Joke.
One day Secretary Chase of the
treasury department found on desk
In his office what at first appeared to
be a picture of an internal machine"
1t looked like goose, but on further
examination 1t proved to be drawing
OF an ingenious invention for turning
gold eagles into greenbacks, with the
secretary himself working 1t and slow
ly feeding 1t with yellow boys" at one
end, while the government currency
came out at the other end, whirling
about like the. leaves Of autumn.
While he was examining 1t the pres
( ident came In, as he daily did. for con-
sultation. Mr.. Chase handed him the
drawing, and his eyes twinkled as he
recognized the likeness of the secre-
sary.
Capital joke, isn't 1t. Mr. Chaser"
ae exclaimed
"a joker repeated the irate, secre-
tary. I'D give a thousand dollars to
know who left 1t herer'
''Oh, no." said Mr.. Lincoln temper
ately, ''you would hardly do that"
Yes, would stoutly asserted the
secretary.
+ would you, thought inquired the
president, with that deliberate manner
which characterized him when he was
really In earnest well, which end
would you pay fromy-YouthTs Com
panion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
unappraciatad help.

The doctor was once called In to
treat the spoiled child of the family.
After his departure the mother return
ed to the room and told the child that
the doctor had complained that he had
been very rude to him.
'Oh. mamma" replied the child. hes
just an old fogy! He got angry be-
cause l put my tongue out for him
before he asked me."-Youth's Com
panion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
Deafness Cannot BE Cured

~ local Applications. ,as they cannot
reach the u se.tspd ,tion OF the. ear.
fheis is only ,ne Wa u cure deafness.
Deafness is caused ~ an inflamed condi-
ton of the mucous liT.ns of the Eusta-
chan T"be. Which, tl.i tube Is inflamed
you have rumhlins sound or imperfect
hearing. and waea !, l. entirely closed.
Deafness is tie csul cad ualcss the in
fiammation can be tal'en out and this
tube restored 10 its normcl condition.
hearing will be Destroyed ft-cVer; nine
cases out OF ten are caused Y Catarrh,
which "a nothing hut an in1ihied condi-
ton ~ the mucous surfa >es.
We will five one Hundred ollhrs fprany case OF
Deafness (c :scd ny 'rr - n Gu nnut h 81 red BY
Halls Cata-- \ Curs Sebi fost rsul.rs. free.
FL CHENEY. & CO.. Toledo. tNhlo-
Sold by DrrsgiHs 7sc.
Take Halls Fanil.S iTtls sor constipation
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
Why Hair Turns White.

The color of the hair is due to iron.
which is picked up by the cells of the
bair folIicle In the little factory In the
skin where hairs are made. As one
gets older the little cells which work
at manufacturing hairs grow weary.
and they will not take up as much
iron as they once dld.-St. Nicholas.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
No slsvstor esrrIes on.

TO the heights Of success. The lad
der must be mounted round BY
round Insurance viii help you reach
the TOP. (Start your climb well in
suredD National Life ms. Co OF
Vt (Autuall Earle s. Kinsiev.
General Agent Mead Building, Rut-
land. VI Adv.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30

Have you any unmarried daughters.
Mrs. De WilloughbyT- asked the visi
tor.
''Oh, yes. Mr. vanderblOom. Ny
daughter Minnie was unmarried last
week BY Judge Cuttem.- replied the
ady.-Harper's.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30

The attitude OF unbappiness Il not
only painful; It is mean and ugly
lanes
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
Easy to Meet.

A man doesn't have to go very far to
meet trouble halfway. - Philadelphia
Inquirer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
LEES LADDER.


September has in turn consisted o.
sixteen. thirty. thirty-one and finally
thirty days
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30

WHO IG Women as well as men are
~ made miserable by kidney
mn and bladder trouble. Thou
I'D sands recommend Dr.. XII
mer's Swamp-Root the great
DI AME kidney remedy. At druggists
DIANE. In fifty cent and dollar sizes.
You may have sample bot
tie by mail free, also pamphlet telling ali about
Y. Address. DIR. Kilmer s. Co., Binghamtou
N. Y.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30

IL subscriptions payable in advance
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10

to bc condemnc, by this Interstate Rail.
rosd Company in q proceeding instisn
ted by II against the Mineral Develop
ment Company. Clinchfcli Coal Cor
poration. es al. in the Circuit Court of
Wise County. Virginia, and profile,
showing the cn,s and Ais. trestles and
hridges; which said plat and profile
are hled IN the Clerks Office Of Wise
County with the petition in this cause
at the time of the Institution Of this
proceeding.
III you have any defense to make 20
this application you win at the time
and place aforesaid make the same
known TO the said Court.
Witness the signature of the Inter
state Railroad Company by A. II.
Reeder, its General Manager, this the
nth day OF December. 1913
INTERSTATE RAILROAD COMPANY.
By A. II. Reeder,
General Manager
Bullitt * Chalkley. p. q,
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10
Notice

TO The Norton Land Il Improvement
Company, y Corporation. Norton
Coal Company. y Corporation, and
All Other Persons Whom Ii MAY
Concern
TAKE NOTICE that the Interstate
Railroad Company. public service cor
poration, chartered and doing business
under the laws of the Commonwealth
of Virginia, and authorized TO condemn
lands and other. properties. or any in.
terest or estate therein, for its uses and
purposes, will, ON the 9Th dav of Janun.
ry, 1914, that being the fourth dny of
the january, 1914. term of the Circuit
Court OF Wise County. Virginia. applv
to the said court 1T the Court House of
SAID county, in the town of Gladeyille
Tor the appointment OF five 90 disinter
ested trceholders resident in said conn.
~ to ascertain what would be "A lust
compensation for the fee of the strins
or parcels of land hereinafter described
the fee simple estate in which il nro.
posed 10 he condemned by the under.
signed, Interstate Railroad Companv
for its uses and purposes in construct.
ing, maintaining and operating an ok.
tension of its main line track from a
point at its present terminus at the
West end of the Town of Norton. Wise
County. Virginia. through the said
town of Norton. to point at or near
the Eastern limits of the said town of
Norton TO a connection with what was
formerly the railroad of the Wise Term.
mai Company, which last named rail.
road IS now owned and being operated
by the undersigned company: ana to
award damages, if any, resulting 10 tho
adjacent and other property of the said
Norton Coal Company. corporation
the said Norton Land & Improvement
company corporation. or to the prop-
erty OF any other person, beyond the
peculiar benefits that will accrue To
such properties, respectively, from the
construction and operation of the works
of the undersigned.
The said strips or parcels of land are
'he same mentioned, described and
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10

and profile showing the cuts and fills.
trcstlcs ard bridges: which said plat
and profile arc fled in the Clerks Office
of Wise County with the petition in this
cause at the time Of the institution OF
this proceeding.
II you have any defense to make TO
this application You will at the time
ard place aforesaid make the same
known to the said. court.
Witness the signature OF the Inter.
state Railruad Company, by \. III. Reed
or, i's General Manager. this the 9th
day of December. 1918.
INTERSTATE RAILROAD COMPANY,
By a. III. RecSler.
General Manager.
Bullitt & Chalkley. p. q.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10

G c. Pippin, of st. Paul,
owns probably tbs largest hog
in this section of the state. The
hog came from Ohio and is
three years old, ak and one
half feet long, nearly two feet
wide. three feet from the top of
his body 10 the bottom, and
weighs over lo0G pounds. Mr..
Pippin has refused 800 for the
hog, which he expects to kill
soon.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1913-12-10

The Ladies Home Mission
Society of the NJ. +. Church,
South, will meet with Mrs. j
III. Mathews, Thursday after.
noon at 300 o'clock. a. full at.
tendance ia requested as the
officers for the incoming year
will be elected at this meeting.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

ever. Of course, those that are in Nome now will have the first chances at the best claims but that won't deter thousands from making the trip the first moment any ship master is willing to take the chances of taking his vessel through the Arctic ice.
 Why, just now there are thou sands of old Klondike and Nome miners, as we'll as many more thou sands who never saw either camp, scrimping and saving to get a stake to go in and try their luck They believe there are as many millions if not more to be had there now than there was in the old, glad days, and each wants to get his share.
 Nome was a speck on the map until 1898. Then tramp pros pector stumbled upon it's rich beach. The spring of 1899 saw a consider able number of miners in the new camp. But it was not until the next year that the great rush began.
 That season there were 20,000 persons in the town, and in the 10 years that followed the mining part of the population added $40,0OO, O,000 to the worlds share of gold. It became town rather than a camp, with churches, schools, a municipal government, banks, telephone sys- tenn, electric light plant, fire and water departments and even a sys- tenn of sewerage.
 But the beach deposits began to give out in 1900. In 1911 they had practically been worked out except so far as they might be worked by steam dredges, and the maximum population since has not exceeded 4,000 in the summer, when it is possible to work the dredge,. and less than half that number in win ter, for the cost of living has always been so high there that it is cheaper to spend the winter in the States.
 The storm of last October did a damage of $1,5O0,OOO to property and made 500 homeless. The town boasts of being the most northerly gold camp in the world and the most northerly settlement with a town form of government.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

NEW YORK, Dec. Mrs. Elm incline Pankhurst, the British mili- tant recently took farewell shot at New Workers, in a speech at Car negie Hall. She is now sailing the ocean on her way home, that being the understanding when the immi- grafton authorities let her in. Mrs. Pankhurst completed a tour of Am erican cities as far west as Chicago but her work was much like "car- rying coals to Newcastle" In fact the visit of Mrs. Pankhurst was a bit superfluous. In England, where her kind have been smashing win dows, burning houses and explod- ing bombs, women are a long way from obtaining the ballot, while in America in some of the very states where Mrs. Pankhurst spoke, women have the vote, and they got it without. violence. But, then, they do say one must literally hammer an idea into an Englishman's head.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

VIENNA, Dec. 2.-That he has succeeded in changing the sex of animals through transplanting cer- tain glands from the male to the female and vice versa, is the some what startling announcement made in a public address by Professor Steinach. In other words, Professor Steinach says he has made female animals male and male into female. To prove his statement he showed animals in which he declares, he has changed the sex. He declared that placing the male glands into female animals, changed the entire nature of the latter and vice versa He Be- lieves that similar operations are possible on human beings.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

Francisco and report to the owners of the Elvira. They will likely se- cure another schooner and the cap- tain expects that he will again start next summer for cruise along the Siberian coast. Mr. Swenson repre- sents the fur firm of Hubbard x Stewart, who financed the Belvedere expedition and will report to them at Seattle. The Belvedere, which is a 44O-foot steam whaler, is now safely quartered about 65 miles west of Herschel Island, at a place called Icy Reef. The boat is one that is sent on annual trading expeditions along the Siberian coast and thence into the Arctic. She had cruised nearly 5000 miles on the Russian coast and then returned to Nome with her cargo of furs, ivory, etc., which was shipped south from there. The whaler then loaded 200 tons of supplies for the Stefansson expedition and started for the Arctic, expecting to return south before the ice closed in.
 On the northward trip, the Belve- dere passed the Mary Sachs and the Alaska, the two Stefansson boats at Point Barrow, and had expected to overtake the Karluk in the Arctic and transfer the freight which it was earring for the exploration party.
 From inquiries made among the natives, Captain S. F. Cottle and MT. Swenson learned that the Kar- lux had passed Flaxman island about August IA, going eastward, but that was the last information that could be obtained. After the Belvedere went into winter quarters at Icy Reef, Captain Bernard, of the Mary Sachs, R. M. Anderson, who is second to Stefansson in command and travelling on the Mary Sachs, to- gather with Chipman and O'Neil, of the scientific staff, crossed the TO- mile stretch lying between their boat and the Belvedere, with the hope of finding some information of the Karluk, but without success.
 MT. Swenson walked 65 miles to Herschel Island, thinking that some news of the Karluk might be ob- tained there, but nothing had been seen or heard of the steamer.
 According to Captain Pedersen, who has had long experience in the Arctic, Captain Bartlett, who made the trip to the north pole with Peary, is master of the Karluk, and he took to an extremely northerly course after passing Point Barrow, although all other steamers keep as close to the shore as possible. The ice is always much heavier in the western Arctic than it is in the east, and it is feared that the mas ter, who won fame in the dash to the pole, misjudged conditions.
 The returning traders state, how ever, that as the Stefansson party was seeking a northern land, which is thought to exist, Captain Bart lett might have made dash through the Arctic and landed in some safe port. This is doubtful, however, and the majority of the whalers in the Arctic have given up hope of ever finding the missing ship.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

CLEVELAND, Dec. 2-Nine hum dred saloons, which recently offered any quantity of spirituous solace to the thirsty wayfarer, are now closed. The 900 emporiums were refused licenses by the new county commission. The saloon-keepers however, are not accepting the re- fusal without fight. They have organized to contest the new law under which they were refused license renewals. It is planned to institute suit in the federal courts protesting that the new law con- fllcts with section of the federal constitution providing against the taking of property without due process of law.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

WaSnlnStOnlan. The story 1OllOWS:
 In October a terrific storm and tidal wave nearly destroyed the town of Nome, that once great gold camp on the edge of Boring Sea. Fire aided the waves in the work of destruction. Apparently the town, which in the days of it's glory held 10000 persons, but which since the beach diggings began to give out in 1910, had dwindled to an all-year- around population of one-tenth that number, had received blow from which it would never recover.
 But Representative Albert John son, whose constituents in the State of Washington have big interests there, declares the tidal wave and storm is the best thing that has happened to Nome since the day in 1898 when a stray prospector found gold on the desolate beach.
 
 ''That storm," said he on his way through New York to Washington from a spell-binding tour in New England, ''has driven the beach in- land four miles. Now do you see what it means? Nearly all the gold that has come out of Nome was washed out of the beach. The beaches were banned out or nearly so and the town began to go back.
 "All the gold was not above low water mark. It extended some dis tances out to sea, as far out as dredges could work with safety, so wealthy men have been getting gold with the aid of such powerful ma chimes as are used on some of the creeks in Alaska. That is rich mans method of mining.
 "But now with the beach driven inland four miles the gold that lay in deep water is undoubtedly in the sands of the new beach, and-well, Nome will be itself again.
 "You just wait until spring comes when it is possible to get into Nome and you will see the greatest rush
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

WASHINGTON Dec. 1-Estimated expenses for the running of Alaska and certain Improvements considered necessary for the ensuing year. contained in reports submitted today to Congress- The estimates include the following:
 Testing coal for navy purposes, $75,0O0 Public building at Juneau, $70,OO0.
 Aids to navigation, $60,0O0
 Lighthouse depot $40,000
 Contingent expenses $9 200.
 Salaries and expenses of the governor judges and federal officers $87,000
 Expenses of the legislature $47 93S
 Stka National Monument, 500
 General expense-Chugach forest reserve, $16;330; Iongass reserve, $22,300.
 Mine inspection, 4000
 Protection of game $20,000
 Suppression of the liquor traffic among the natives $15oOO Education of natives $200,000.
 Reindeer, $4 GOO.
 Medical relief $125,000.
 Roads and trails, $125000.
 Protection of seal fisheries $110O0O
 Care of insane, $77,5OO.
 Provision is also made for continuing the Seattle assay ofhce for which appropriation of $50000 is included estimates reported The total estimate of expenditure for the entire nation $ 000OOO The various items for Alaska aggregate $1 034768.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29.-Folowing long conference this afternoon between Charge dAars OShaughnessy and the Japanese ambassador all kinds orumors put in circulation One that seemed to be generally accepted in government circles to the effect that the difficulties between the Mexican and American governments would be settled within AS hour An effort made to get expres sion from President Huera but he refused to discuss the matter.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

We have just received from New York a story concerning Nome and the future of her golden sands that our correspondent writes by reason of recent interview with Congress man Johnson, editor of the Hoquiam Washingtonian. The story follows:
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02
Late Telegraph News

SALT LAKE, Dec 1-The city has been in a high state excitement for day past Yesterday Ralph Lopez the Mexican bandit shot and killed Deputy Sher Hulsey and Madrich battle ensued in the underground workings of the Utah Apex mne where Lopez sought safety Other officers also in the mine and is feared that they dead wounded They had lighted smudge intending to smoke out the bandit when he opened re with fatal effect is surrounding the mine but to this afternoon Lopez still holding out This morning the bodies of Husey and Madich recovered It is believed that the bandit will finally be starved week ago he shot and killed four and is such desperate character that officers of the law fear to get within short range of him.
The Chitina leader., 1913-12-02

VALDER, Nov. 26-A wire received today from Deputy Marshal Karl Armstrong to Marshal Brenneman tell ing of the epidemic conditions to the westward It states that deaths from measles had Aognak and that every family but his and other at Kodiak had So far there have been 20 deaths Aognak and 100 in all sections have died to date Doctors and supplies much needed The cutter Tahoma which reported having sailed from Seattle the 1t has not yet arrived.