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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-20
WARD SIX.

Augusta, Maine. Feb. Is, 1913.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-20
WARD FIVE.

Augusta, Maine, Feb. Is, 1913.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
Read the Citizen.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To Andro Dragieh and Mike I4rceg
 their heirs. executors. admiuistrat-
 ors and assigns
 You and each of you are hereby notified that during the year 1912 | have expended the sum oI one hunG- red dollars in labor and improve ments upon placer mining claim Ne 1, Steel creek. tributary of Little Cinema ill the Fairbanks Recordiua District Alaska. ill order to hold your interests in said claim under the provision of section 2@24 of the revised statutes of the United States said expenditures being for your share of the annual assessment work for said year; and if within ninety days after the last publication of th,s notice you fail or refuse to pay to the undersigned as co-owner your said proportion of the expenditures aforesaid your interests in said claim will become the property of the an- dersigned, as co-oWner under said section 2324 R. s.
 JOHN PENONICH First Publication February T.. 1912. Last Publication May 19. 1913.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
RUBE WADDEll'S BEER
 ONLY PURE GINGER ALE

John Ganzel comes to bat with this story of Rube Waddell that may or may not be new. Ganzel. who never touches liquor in any form had gone into the bar room of the hotel with a friend and ordered q glass of ginger ale Just then Wad dell entered with a companion and ordered beer
 Not one of the drinks had been touched when Connie Mack. manager of the Philadelphia Americans. and also teetotaler stepped into the bar room to use the telephone.
 Connie quickly spied the Rube. bu, not as quickly as Rube had through the mirror, back of the bar caught a flash of the manager to whom he had pledged himself not to touch liquor all year
 With a quick motion Waddell ex holding up the glass so that Connie coud see it. he said
 I'm just having little ginger ale Connie Will you join me-"
 And in order to protect the Rube. said Ganzel in telling the story, "l had to drink the Ruhe's beer, the first and only alcoholic indulgence of my life
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To II. l.. Stoves and r. Gdllagh,r their heirs. executors. admiuis,rat. i ors and assigns:
 You and each of you are hereb. notified that during each of the wears 1910. 1911 and 1912 We expendr5 three hundred dollars in labor and improvements upon placer miniag tidlm known as Creek Claim No , on Willow creek a tributary uf Ester creek, in the Fairbanks Ecyordipg District, Alaska, iH order 10 hoff Sour interests in said claim under the provisions ot section 2%2i of the revised statutes of the United States, Said expenditures being for your share ot the annual assessment work Tor sad years, and fl within rire.,. da1s after the last publication of this notice you fail or refuse to pay 10 the undersigned as eo-owners your said proportion of the eXpcnai. lures aforesaid your interest il said claim will become the property of tHe undersigned, as co-o0uers. under said section 2&24 R <.
 N. ]. FITZPATRICK.
 l.. w GRIFFIN First Publication February T., 1913. Last Publication May i9. 1913.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
Millionaire s Son, Denied Girl of Choice, Lives Out Broken
 Life as Lone Bandit in Hills

MAYBELL, Col, Jan. 14.-There is one amending subject of conver sation among the cattlemen of this section and that subject is The Nightrider" Little tangible is known of him, his name, where he came from, what he looks like or, as a matter of fact, why he keeps to him. self and allows no one to see his face. From bits of information pick ed up here and there and put to- gether via the pumpkin route cer- tain mystery has been woven about the hermit of Moffat county.
 These facts are known: A man who judging from his activity and phy- ,, sique, is young, comes from out of the north every two or three weeks to exchange placer gold for food in the night. He arouses the keeper of the general store, hands him a written list of the supplies he wishes to purchase, and as quickly as these are prepared departs again into the night and the north. He does not actually mask his face, but wears long beard and while near the storekeeper keeps a slouch hat pull ed we'll over his eyes.
 The suspicion was at first aroused that he might be one of the noted cattle rustlers hiding in Devil Hole,' but the hermit has a club foot, and none of the outlaws in hiding in the hole is crippled in any way.
 The following story had been de duced from the facts as told by the storekeeper and from gossip thai has put this and that together and woven it into a whole:
 The young man is the son of a millionaire Fastener, who became an gered when his son wanted to mar ry the daughter of business rival
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
CHOKING THE BAT NOT
 POPULAR WITH RED SOX


 Choking the bat 10 hit the pitching of modern twirlers wasn't popular with the Boston Red Sox
 Ty Cobb and other great clubbers insist that you have to choke your bat if you expect to get the base hits
 The Speed Boys say no There were just two of the Boston Red Sox regulars who choked their bats las, season.
 The lads who line them hard and far are the fellows who grip the bat at the very end and then take good healthy swing
 Among those who do not choke their bats are @S1uggers" Yerkes. Speaker. Lewis, Gardener and Cadv When Stahl is in the game the count is to against the choking of the war club The pitcher isn't included but when Wood is on the mound the fellows who grip the club near the handle have another vote. Wood also stands up there and whales al the ball, getting all the power he can behind his drive and grasping said drive producer so near the handle that his left hand is on the knob.
 There is a theory in baseball that choking the bat is more scientific. Those who favor that method main tain that the pitchers of today break their curves so quickly that the fel. low who grasps his bat at the very end and swings is sure to make a show of himself They say that by choking the bat the slugger can hit quicker and. while he may rot get the distance that the long swing CT does. he will get so many more base hits that he will be the gainer in the end.
 Ty Cobb says he used to think the best way was to take long swing. but that curve ball pitchers broke him of the habit Now Ty chops like Willie keeler used to do By choking his bat he is in a posi- tion to take advantage of quick breaking curve, if it breaks where he can hit it.
 Chopping hits may be fine thing But when you see those lads from Beantown standing up there with their hands at the very end of the handle and swinging from the should CT you are bound to have some doubts about it.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
PICTURESQUE FOOTBALL BLOCKED BY NEW RULES

Are the new football rule a sue cess?
 Have they accomplished the pur- pose it was thought they would when the rules committee adopted them last winter?
 Last years code was severely criti- cised by the general public as we'll as by many coaches because of the weak offense afforded teams. It was nearly impossible for evenly matched teams to cross each others goal line and to the average fan, as we'll as to most of the players. the touch down has ever been the favorite method of scoring.
 Wishing to encourage this play. the rules committee added it's increased scoring value until it equaled two goals, thereby adding to the Iattractiveness of the touchdown.
 To be sure. field goal from the 54-yard line is spectacular, but il only calls for individual praise, while the struggle at the goal line in which the ball is finally rushed over ol pushed back. is the result of the com bined efforts of each team and bring! fame to the entire eleven and more satisfaction to the spectator. Apparently the rules committed have failed in their purpose. In the Princeton-Yale, Harvard Dartmouth games four, perhaps, strongest ele vens in the country, were unable with all of their Brickleys, Moreys Flynns and Bakers to darken eacl others goal lines by rushing ths
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
BALDWIN HE|RESS
 SPENDS A MILLION ID HAVE GOOD TIME

JOS ANGELES.-Mrs Clara Bald win Stocker, one of two heirs of the Elias Jackson C'Lucky"D Baldwin estate, who already has heceived an proximately sl.5oo. 900 from the estate and who soon is to receive half of the remaining s24 4.0On. 900 or so. has arrived in Arcadia from Chicago in her specially built private car. bring, ing the first installment of her s1 .0O0- 0oo purchase Of rare gems. precious wares and other thing. in accordance wares and other things. in accordance with her expressed declarations to spend d million or two in order to have q really good time"
 The daughter of the famous turf. man. radiant over her return to her beautiful home in Arcadia. said as she stood on the platform of her car and viewed the throng which welcomed her.
 T am going to have the very best sort of a good time For what use is money if it does not give one access 10 real enjoyment of life? I have already started to have my good time. I'm having it and I'm going to have still more of it. I'm going to have all the good time that money will hily me Lavish in my DurChaenSo Of course. But. lavish as it seems I'm going to be still more so for I'm going to have a really good time
 BUYS S2oooo0 YACHT.
 Included in Mrs Suckers pur chases are S200,000 steam yacht diamonds aggregating in value s250 .0oo wardrobe costing probably s100,000, the famous Col Northam
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
Interesting Items
 From StagelandI

lplenty of money. she always paid him good wages. She was kind to him and he does not care if she never pays him another cent. T while that lasts I'll manage to live along all right, guess. fu stay here as long as she does. continued the loyal old retainer
 Miss Morris is now totally blind and but for friends. who came to her rescue, would have lost her home a couple of years ago
 Edward N Hoyt has been engaged by Wallace Holeomb to play the leading part in Her Last Rehearsal, comedy sketch now running it's part was originally played by the late Lewis McCord Mir Holcomb has new comedy sketch in prog. ress, which he will call Vice Versa, Managers have expressed desire to see it tried out.
 The United Play company. Chica go, announces that it has secured the exclusive touring rights for the United States and Canada from the Liebler company, of Mrs Wiggs, Of
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
By w. w. NAUGHTON,

It is a far cry from Senator Brown of Los Angeles to Hercules. but the Senator's selfimposed task of squelch- ing the boxing game in California recalls contract once undertaken by the powerful gentleman who held the championship for feats of strength in the old mythological days
 ed upon to kill off the hydra. kind of water serpent Whenever "Herk cut off one head two others sprouted
 Just how many heads were in sight when hercules resolved to resort to strategy is not told, but he finally tri umphed over his snakeship by ap plying a firebrand to each stumI as soon as head was removed.
 The boxing game seems to be 8 hydra-headed proposition. Brown may cut off it's head in California. but ii present plans prosper new ones will sprout in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio and other places probably.
 The States mentioned are consider ing the passage of boxing mea sure framed on the order of the one under which the matchmakers O. New York are operating at presen and the followers of pugilistic pas times in the States named are op timistic enough to think that thei favorite sport is about to be legalized
 It simply goes to show how tho agitation against boxing ebbs ant flows down through the years.
 Speaking of New York. the repor of the boxing commission shows tha the patrons of pugilism have pait over $1,200.0O0 for the privilege 0 witnessing bouts in the space of year-or maybe fourteen months. O this the State received 5 per cent or $60,000. Maybe they have beel reading these figures in Massachu setts. Ohio and Illinois.
 Ad Wolgast was asked recentl
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

why he demanded such prohibitiy, sums when asked To box.
 His reply was There is q reason for everything I do. and I never change my figures If think am worth a certain sum ask for il and cannot he got any cheaper. If l don't want match that is offered me | name a sum | know they won't give. and the deal is off When I'm in the mood for fighting know just what l ought 10 get know too. that fellows who are asked tC box me ask more than is coming tC them. and l am not going to shade my price 10 suit my opponents Look at Frankie Burns He wouldn't box me in San Francisco when he was offered S3,ou1 But he took on Tom my Murphy right after for S1. 200 and got good licking"
 There was talk few days ago Of match between Jess Willard and Dan Daly. Jimmie Dimes champion. ship candidate If this thing comes 10 head the spectators will see thirteen feet of white hope in action for Willard and Daly each stand six feet six.
 But why Daly? Dams star of hope was supposed to have paled after he was pummeled by Jim Savage.
 Some of the Eastern sports critics said the announcement of Paris match between Jack Johnson and Al Palzer was received with derision
 No doubt it ought to be. But i: { eyer came to a head and newspap. CT bulletins of the rounds were being flashed on one street the taXicabs would have to go around the block
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

The rival refused as did the young and packed his daughter off to Flu rope. Such bitter opposition occurr- ed from time to time following this that the young man despared of ever gaining the girl for his wife.
 His nature was such that he be- came morose and taciturn and kept much to himself He could have Eo pleasure in the society of either men or women and decided to seek part of the country where he would not have to be near people.
 He came to Moffat county Some settlers here remember the coming of the stranger and declare that even at that time he refused to con verse with them. At Maybell he pur chaser a placer mining outfit and started into the mountains to the north. He must have discovered gold in the waters of the creeks iI that direction, because he brings 2 bottle filled with yellow flakes witl him on his nightly visits to May i bell.
 Several times in the last year pat | ies have gone out in search of the hermit's cabin in hope of locating the placer fields.
 The belief of some of the oldel men of this section is that the young man has discovered a valuable placer claim and is taking out gold ant storing it away, bringing to Maybel with him only enough to buy neede, supplies.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
COTTON WORM FROM EGYPT

NASHfNGTON. Feb Govern ment officials have become alarmed 5E the discovery that | HeN cotton boil worm has been found in cot ton shipped to thp United States from Egypt. Efforts will be made 10 prevent the importation of the pest into the United States.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

Maurice Costello. a prime fayorite with Fairbanks moving picture pat rons, is now on a tour of the world Of this the Dramatic Mirror says:
 Starting on tour of the world that probably will last for about q year, members of the Vitagraph com pany left New York en route to Japan by way of San Francisco. The party sailed from there on the Tanyo Marn December 13.
 Those in the company which plans to make pictures in practically every country in the world are Mir. and Mrs. Costello, who will be accompan- jed by their daughters, Helen and Dolores; James Young and wife (Clara Kimball Young) and Mir. and Mrs. w. " Famous. G. F. Mullin will accompany the party as scenario writer, stephen Smith will be busi ness manager and Harry l.. Keepers the camera man.
 Allel several lhoHtHS HdNe peeH spent in Japan the players will visit China, India, Egypt, the Holy Land and Turkey Then it is probable that England, Scotland. Ireland, France and Italy will be visited. Be sides producing interesting dramatic stories it is the purpose of the com pany to make pictures that will show the customs of foreigners and the surroundings in which they live.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

ball The public. after watching l2U minutes Of actual play. was robbed toi d touchdown and had to leave the field content with scores by the air line. which. it cannot be disputed possessed certain element of luck.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
NOTICE OF EOREElIlRE

To j. Sturtevant, Il. MrCrofle II. l.. Stoves and r. Gallagher. their heirs. executors, a#HHisttu- tors and assigns.
 lou and each Gf 3ou are hsr-5,, notified that dEriH& eae4 ot she years 1910. 13I1 aud f,f- e.e tNHead- ed three haudred dollars i'll labor anI improvements upon i.ast Channel Association placer mining claim situate above No. creek claim. aA adjoining No. creek clam. on Nllz .oW creek tributary oI ES er Greak. 1t | above Ester creek. ill the Far 3anks Recording Bisttat. Alaska Tn order to hold seaF interests la said association under fI.e prov Nisio4s of section 232i of Ihe revised staf- utcs of the Gmted Sea .#s. said ex- pendlturcs being Tor loar share 1# the annual assessment work for ,ai }cars; and if within Hiaety days after the Iast pahIi. atGen of this Eo- uce you fail CT refuse 10 pay t0 the undersigned as c0.oNuers your saiI proportion of the expenditures afUre. said your interests iu said assoria- ton will become the property oI the undersigned. as co=onuers, under said section 2324 F. $
 W. J. FITZPATRICK.
 F. W. GRIFFIN.
 II. SERRER.
 First Publication February T.. 1918.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

tditHleu atlfeSS, uleu III BFOOkly Il few weeks ago. She was only 3f years old. She was at one time leading lady of the original Frawley stock company in San Francisco.
 Mme. Nazimova. the interesting Russian actress, was quietly married to her leading man, Charles F. Bry. ant. in New York on December 5th. Frederick Warde, the Shakes pearean actor, has obtained from the estate of the late Sol Smith Russell the rights to the one-act play, "Mr Valentines Christmas" which he ex, poets to produce in vaudeville Phoebe Davies (Mrs. Joseph R. Grismer), known to all theater-goers the country over died at her home in Larchmont, N. Y, on Dec. 4th, Miss Davies was generally regarded as native of California, but was born in Cardigan, Wales, in 1864, and went to California with her parents when a tiny child.
 She made her debut on the stage at the age of IT. playing the leading role in "Chispa." After that she starred in several plays, but for the last twelve years she has been ap- bearing in Way Down East" in which she also played in London. report was current that Mel. bourne Mcdowell. the late Fanny Davenports husband and leading man. was going to retire from the stage, which the actor strongly de, nies. He says he is now just 51
 ractically in the prime of life, and hopes for many more years of useful ctivity.
 Mrs Annie Adams mother of Maude Adams. has returned to the stage after an absence of several years She is now appearing in Pacific Coast cities in The Buffers Secret. play especially written for Mrs Adams
 Col Wm. F. Cody Buffalo BilD who is responsible for all the wild west heroism and romantic adven turing of the American boy, and who has stimulated in him the scalpine and broncho-busting instincts, unti he exercised it in the shooting and burning -at-the-stake of his little brother" and, for diversion, occasion ally relieves him of his scalp lock announced in Denver, some days ago that he will no longer be seen in the sawdust arena on his gallant calico steed. He is henceforth to leave al this to his partner "Pawnee Bill, and he himself will be managing di rector and ride around in carriage and make a speech of introduction.
 Col Cody has gone to his mine forty miles from Tucson. Ariz. where" as be says, you are putin, into nobody's business and nobody Ii putting into yours.'
 Hugh Hopper has been gardene for Clara Morris (Mrs. Frederick c Harriott) on her estate. at Riverdale for many years, and now that thu aged and invalid actress is unable t pay him he refuses to leave her em ployment.
 Hopper is now 60 years old, ant for eleven years he has received n' salary from the good woman, h' says, but he we'll remembers how. il the good old days, when she ha
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

Governor Wilson seems to be labor ing under the old-fashioned impress, sion that the first duty of the new schoolmaster is to lick the big bully who terrorized all the pupils under the old teacher
 Read the Citizen.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03
latest Outside Sporting Dope
NOLAN WAS THE KNOckER

NOLAN WAS THE KNockER.
 Who "kHocked. Willie Rft,his th, hardest
 Why Billy Nolan. the man vhe later made him Hshtweight cham piou
 IL Is strange story this. of tn, man who made Ritchie a title.holder standing in the way of his earl! success Nolan admits that he one, swung the hammer" and swung il hard, on his present protrge. H. more than compensated for this by later making Willie the champion dizzy height which Willie hardly would have attained hut for Nolan's undouhted managerial genius
 Adding an interesting angie to the story is the prediction made by NoIar more than q year ago that he would have man who would wrest Vol gast's tiIle from him inside oi twelve months Al that time he had ltpl thf'il Sft-ll INllt-lllf' DON. ana ll1lIt realized that he would he the in strument through which he would accomplish the Dutchman's downfall
 T went 10 Los Angeles year ago last Thanksgiving to see the Vol 2ast-Welsh fight" said Nolan. | was supposed 10 he out of the game but in reality was harboring an am hition to get hold ot a lightweight of championship possibilities,
 At the time I told friend oi mine that I expected to develop some youngster who would wrest Wolgast's < title from him inside of year
 T had an idea that Ritchie would be the man. In fact when WolGasts Illness made it necessary to substi ute Ritchie for him. | didn't even take the trouble to see the battle No use in me hanging around tc see that amateur fight, told Jack Welsh. That shows how much knew about Ritehie at that time
 Then later put every possible obstacle in Rtehie's way when he made that first match with Wolgast the four round affair in San Fran cisco. was managing Attell at the time and wanted Wolsast for him Attell had been on my ranch for nine weeks and had returned in fine con, dition l figured that he was the logical opponent for Wolgast, and that if would have made it q come back match all around
 "Ritchie. however. beat me to it l couldn't see him al all and my opposition resulted ill the receipts dwindling to less than half what had been expected
 That was my first good look al Ritchie His showing convinced me that he had material from which a did not hesitate when he asked me to take him under my management That was about four months before Ritchie beat Wolgast. and fulfilled my prediction of year before to d nicety
 Then began the long course of training that was 10 reduce Ritchie 10 a weight that many regarded as impossible will not say what Kit. chic weighed when I took him in charge. He went into the ring strong and rugged, and the results certainly justified the long course of training 10 which l subjected him.
 Tn the meantime. l took occasion to run down and see Wolgast box Rivers. returned home convinced that the champion had collapsed in that fight This made me doubly con fident that Ritchie could beat him.
 Strange how things work out in this world unused Billy. as sort Of an afterthought. He then began to tenderly fondle his bald spot anC discuss the probable price of hay.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

the Cabbage Patch" The first com
 pany presenting this play under the direction of the United Play company opened Nov. 23.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

Sooner or later woman gets to judge her husband by the way he acts about his collar buttons.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

Silence may be golden, but silver will shut a mans mouth just as ef- fectiyely.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

In order to be a social favorite : man may be a cheerful liar.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

It takes more than soft answer to turn away the book agent.
The Alaska citizen., 1913-03-03

Doctors disagree-except as to the size of the bill