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The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-24
AGREEMENT IS REACHED
 ON ALASKA COAL LANDS

ln land laws and the claimants will receive in addition prior rights to the selection of land under the leasing laws.
 Much satisfaction is expressed over the bill as it has been put together in committee and thcr" is every pros poet that it will hc passed and the goal lands of the territory saved from the fate of those in other sections O. the country which have passed irro- vocally into the. hands of private cor porations
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Mexican fcdcrals kept up d hot fir, at the rctrcating men. Many of the bullets from their rifles hit the ground and buildings on the American side o' the river
 There WaS a small outpost of Am "rican cavalry directly opposite to where the rebels made their crossing and tho sergeant in command of this post at enc" tclophoncd to his troop command'r who was about five miles ,o the wo*tward of what was going on.
 The captain commandmg the border petrol al l.oncr put his troops in mo- ton and arivcd at tlo scene on tho aallop
 When lh" American cavalrymen ar rived 'hr Mexican rebels were all across th. stream and the fcderals on the opl"stIr bank were firing ot the buidines and men on the American sidr.
 The \mcricln commander dismount- ed his mon and forming a skirmish lin" he moved towards the bank of tn, river Before he opened fire how ever. hc rode out within plain sight C. the McNicms and signacd to them to ceas" firing at the American side Of the river His only answer was volley of shots that kicked up the dust all around him and wounded his mount in the thigh.
 Wheeling. the captain gave the or Ger for his mon to advance and open fire on the McNilan federal troops and the American caValrymen who have waited patiently for months for just such an order did not loose any time II bringing their carbines into action
 The MeXicans have been fighting the constitutionalsts for nearly ;wo years but they have never been up against anything like the rain of bull lets that Jumped across the Rio Grandc when those fifty kaki clad C'ralrymen, dismountcd and lyin.s fln or the dusty Texas plains or making
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Alaska fields at any time when there
 is a insufficient supply of coal at
 reasonable prices" with which to car
 ry on all government work or to re
 lcve oppressive conditions. It is left
 solely to the judgment of the president
 aG to what oppressive conditions may
 be.
 The bill requires that the unreserv-
 ed lands shall he immediately survey
 od into forty acre tracts or multiples of forty acres and that these tracts te leased to competitive bidders but 1t also provides no one bidder nor any combination of bidders may lease at ono time more than five hundred ana sixty acers.
 One article in the bill which is de- signed to prevent the condition at present existing in most of the coa, fields of the country which are al | most entirely in the hands of the
 railroads. is that ,lc IF rad or oth.r
 coI DC ration eng gel :n Il carryill .i:e may acquire nlc.c ,,ai land tn l ia necessary for tIc sIp. rg of tnc amount of coal which it will require ir its business
 An arrangement is made in the bill which will clear up the pending claims to coal lands in A1aSka This is to tho effect that the present claimants must surrender all of their rights to the government which will make a refund of the money paid over under the pub
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-24
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
 PLEDGED TO REPEAL

remain q law and he will issue his appeal to the entire democratic rep rCsentation in the house and to unite .ll favor of the action he desires.
 on general principles the republic an members of the lower house will opposite the wishes of the president and they may still be able to count upon the support of some of the dem ocratic congressman who stood with the opposition before but it is be- licved that the appeal of the president with his statement of the facts of tho case will win over enough democratic votes to'nullify the action of tho re- publcans and the insurgents demo- crats.
 Tho democratic party in both houses has stood by the president to most remarkable degree in all of the leg islation so far put through by the ad- ministration and the question of the
 n;. tolls is the only one upon which the party has split.
 This is not a measure which will \ tally effect any section of the coun- wishes.
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MEXICAN SOLDIERS AND US,
 TROOPS ENGAGE IN BATTLE

The cause of the firing across the Eir Grandc river was a small band ut about forty constitutionalisls who were attempting to escape from a federal column and who had managed to reach the river ahead of their per suers.
 The rebels were mounted and thcy plunged into the shallow river and forced their horses over to the Amer ican side. While the constitutlonalist $ were in the river and as they rode up the bank on the American side the
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-24
Special Nugget Service.

WASHINGTON, D. C.. March a. Fh" opening of the great coal lands e. the territory of Alaska under the leasing plan as proposed in the bill which has been under consideration by the committee on public lands was agreed to today and the committed will at once report the bill back to the senate with it's approval
 By the terms of the bill 5,120 acres of Bering coal lands and 1880 acres Of AIatanuska coal lands will be min eC by the government when in the opinion of the president such mining becomes necessary by reason of an Insufficient supply of coal in the coun- try for the use of the navy which may be procured at reasonable prices.
 This provision of the bill will hit a hard blow at the coal trust which has for years held up the navy de- partment in the price of coal. With the always present possibility that, fl their prices to the government are not warranted by existing conditions, they will be debarred from bidding on navy coal contracts the companies in the ccal trust will now be forced to treat the navy in an impartial manner of see the government mine its own coal.
 Another clause in the bill which gives the president almost unlimited rcwer over the coal barons is that which allows him to mine in the
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EGGS
 BY POSTMAN
G2eelaI Nugget SerNI:e.

VDertdT Nug9et oeTN .e,
 WAsHINGToN. T.. C.. March B. No. ono nrod wolrN uow p1out the egg that cook sends in for breakfast fer Inc wise dwcuer in the city can make arranscmciits to have his hen f1uit sent in fresh every day by par B post according to d recent order nl Postmaster General Burlcson. With t4" new automatic date stamp that can now be tiX'd to any old hen and ti' rariN nt"inme delivery of rrga 'N parcels post the old question of "is it fresh" should forever be done away with.
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REPORT IS
 CONFIRMED
Special Nugget Service.

0E5vTaT TFUgget oGTVTce.
 Rio DE JANEiEp March 24.-The port that th" Nnos",".t expedition iast it, equipment on onr of the ri,- "rs of the interior has been confirm 'cd Tw" Hrazilians -ri.drs wcr"
 wn"d when the har1"s sank. Re. l"rts from tho interior state that thr colonel is undecided as yot whether to si.c up the expedition pr to return to Rio and roft. lIo has telographcd b lh New York progressive head . .'.:tors for IT." ,,tost party news
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OFFICES FOR LEGISLATURE.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24.- Delegate Wickersham of Alaska has introduced q bill in congress provid- ing for $45OOO increase in the cost of the public building at Juneau in order to provide offices for the leg islators and an Alaska llbraray and museum.
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-24
Special Nugget Service,

opecIaT Nu9qet SerVlce,
 EAGLE PASS, March 23.-The long anticipated clash between MeXicans and American soldiers has at last come and there was quite a lively lit . tie fight on the border Sunday after neon at McGees Crossing on the Rio Grande river Several Mexican feder- ai soldiers were killed and wounded and one American trooper was sori- oCsly wounded during the cnGagcmcnt which lasted for about twenty min utes.
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AT THE NEW EAGLE

Old Lswis Hunter Rye and tns Fa moIs Athsrton Bourbon wnisksya Distilled spring 1904 .1oo6 bought In bond and reduced to 90 per cent by U. 8. government, by the bottle oaIIon.
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WILSON INSISTS ON A REPEAL
STRIKERS ARE
 SENTENCED

NEW WESTMINSTER, March -24.- Judge Morrison in sentencing the Naniamo strikers gave Joseph Angelo, the organizer of the strike fifteen years and sentenced fifteen other men who participated in the riots fifteen months each.
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NOTICE.

All having bills against the Alaska Stampede will present them at once 10 ' V. sheldon, Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit Co.
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CARD OF THANKS.

Miss Barbara Meis;er wishes to thank her friends who so generously supported her and elected her the
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TO SEARCH
 FOR KURLUK
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 24-The Canadian g"lclumcnt announced to- d-y that 4 had dispatched the sperm Whal,r Herman endrr command of Captain r.',ts-n !" search for th" knIluh
The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-24
AT THE NEW EAGLE.

Heinrich Bros "Apolo Beer on draueht. also Select" by the bottle or case.
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Alma record., 1914-03-19
NOTICE TO PAVING CONTRACT

Sealed proposals addreA
to the city clerk and endorA
proposals for constructing paw
ment will be receivedbythe cit
council of Alma, Gratiot count
Michigan, until two o'clock p.
m, of March 81, 1914, and then
and there publicly opened and
read by the city clerk, for fur
nishing the necessary labor and
material for paving and other
wise improving State street
north from Superior street to
Elwell street, according to plans
and specifications therefor on
file in the office of the clerk.
Each bid must be accompanied
by a cash deposit or a certified
check on some solvent bank,
payable to the order of the
city clerk, for an amount equal
to five (5) per cent of the ag-
gregate amount of the proposal
as a guarantee that if the pro
posal is accepted a contract
will be entered into and the re-
quired bond will be furnished
for the performance of the
work. Plans and specifications
can be seen and forms of pro-
posals obtained at the Office of'
the city clerk or the engineers,
w. j. Sherman & Co., 6l3
Nasby Building, Toledo, Ohio.
The council reserves the right
to reject any or all bids.
By order of City Council.
Alma, Mich, March 10, 1914.
ID. w. ADAMS,
City Clerk.
Alma record., 1914-03-19

we two first talked. and there you"
'Don'ti".. she said, facing him.
'Don'tl"
"Ah, let me speak! want TO tell
you that shall carry the memory OF
that afternoon, and of your brave kind
ness. always, always! IL l were never
to see you again In this life, | should
always treasure 1t. II I died of thirst
in some Sahara, 1t would be the last
thing | should remember-your face
would be the last thing should see!
IL l."
In the silence there was the sound
of q slow football on the gravel walk.
and at the same moment he saw a
magical change. Shirley drew back.
The soft gentian blue Of her eyes
darkened. The lips that an instant
before had been tremulous, parted In
a low delicious laugh. She swept him
a deep curtsey.
'T am beholden TO you, sir" she
said gaily. "for a most knightly COM
pliment. There's the major. Come
and let us show him where we've
planted the ramblers."
(To Be Continued.)
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Cohoon and Allen

John O'Boyle, from Clare is visiting
with his brother, Phil O'Boyle
Harry and Hazel Freeman spent
Tuesday with Vena and Laura Childs.
Miss Edna Shellhaas spent vacation
at Ithaca, visiting her sister, Mrs. r. NJ.
Lamy.
Mrs. Du Bois and daughter, Helen
visited with Herlie Childs and family
Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Wright were en-
tertained Sunday at the home of Jake
Netzley
Helen and Warren Childs called on
Joseph and Michael Shellhaas Tues
day night.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Gallagher, and Mr.
and Mrs Arlic Conley were in Alma
Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Raycraft visited
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
Barnett Leonard.
Mr., Walter Bailey and daughter,
Rhea Of Jackson spent Friday at the
home of Herbie Childs
Mrs. S. Il. Kline is quite i'll at this
writing. Hattie Kline is al home with
her mother during her illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil O'Boylc and Mr..
and Mrs. John O'Boylc visited with Mrs.
Arle Conley, Mrs Allen and Mrs In
grcman took dinner with Mrs. Conlcy
Friday. Mr. and Mrs VIII Shawn
visited at the Conlcy home Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs 4. w Rock spent the
first of the week in Cadillac When he
returned to this vicinity with his bride
on Thursday, about forty OF his friends
and neighbors assembled about the
house and gave him an old-fashioned
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we got comp'ny, yo' trifin' op fan
tail, yo! Git outen heah!" She
waved her weapon and the bird, with
a raucous shrek of defiance, retired
in ruffled disorder. The master of
Damory Court looked at Shirley.
What shall we name him?'
I'D call him Fire-Cracker II he
goes off like that" she said And Fire
Cracker the bird was christened forth
with.
And now" said Shirley, lets set
out the ramblers."
The major had brought a rough plan,
sketched from memory, of the old ar
rangement of the formal garden. I'll
Just go over the lines OF the beds with
Unc' Jefferson" he proposed, while
you two potter over these roses" So
Valiant and Shirley walked back up
the slope beneath the pergola to-
gether.
With Ranston, putting and blowing
like a black porpoise over his creak-
ing go-cart. they planted the ramblers
crimson and pink and white-Va-
his hands plunging deep into the black
spongy earth. and Shirley with broad
hat flung on the grass. her fingers
separating the clinging thread-like
roots and her small arched foot tamp-
ing down the soil about them Her
hair-the color of wet raw wood in
the sunlight-was very near the brown
head and sometimes their fingers
touched over the work. Once as they
stood up, flushed with the exercise, a
great black and orange butterfly.
dazed with the sun-glow, alighted on
Valiant's rolled-up sleeve. He held his
arm perfectly still and blew gently
on the wavering pinions till it swan
away. When redbird flirted by, to
his delight she whistled its call so
perfectly that it wheeled in mid-fiight
and tilted inquiringly back toward
them.
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would be a great pleasure to me. an
pye you"
hOhl" breathed Shirley. That
would be too wonderful"
The major seized his hand and
shook II heartily. Il can answer for
the committee" he said. They'll
Jump at II. Why. sab. the new gener-
alton has never set eyes inside the
house. It's a golden legend to them"
Then I'll go ahead with arrange
ments."
He led them around ,.s house and
down the terraces Of the formal gar
den. and here the majors encomiums
broke forth again. "You are going to
take us old folks back. sah." he said
with real feeling. This gyarden In
its original lines was unique. 1t had a
piquancy and picturesqueness that.
thank God, are to be restored! One
can understand the owner Of an es-
tate like this having no desire TO
spend his life philandering abroad. We
all hope. sab, that you will recur to
the habit of your ancestors and count
Damory Court home"
Valiant smiled slowly. II don't
dream Of anything else" he said. MY
life. as | map 1t out, seems to begin
here. The rest doesn't count-onfy
the years when l was little and had
my father"
The major carefully adjusted his
eyeglasses His head was turned
away. "Ah, yes" he said
The last twenty years." continued
the other, from my present view
point, are valuable mainly for con-
trast"
"As a consistent regimen Of pate
de foie gras," said Shirley quizzically,
makes one value bread and butter?"
He shook his head at her. "As star
walton makes one appreciate plenty.
The next twenty years are TO be here.
But they hold side-trips, too. Now
and then there's a jaunt back to tho
city"
Contrast again." she asked inter.
estedly.
Yes and no. Yes, because no one
who has ever known that blazing
changing life can really understand the
peace and blessedness of a place like
this. No, because there are something's
which are to be found only there.
There are the galleries and the opera.
l need breath OF them both"
And semi-occasional longer flights,
too" the major reflected. "A look-see
abroad once in a blue moon. Why
not?"
Eyes. For mental photographs-im-
pressions one can't get from between
book-covers. There's an old cloister
garden | know in Italy and a particu-
lar river bank in Japan in the cherry
blossom season, and tiny island with
a Greek castle on it in the Aegean.
Little colored memories for me to
bring away TO dream over. But al
ways | come back here to Damory
Court For this is-home!"
They walked beneath the pergola
to the lake, where Shirley gave cry
of delight at sight of its feathered
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population. where did you get than
from" she asked.
Washington. In crates"
"That explains It," she exclaimed.
zone day last week the little darkies
In the village all insisted circus was
coming. They must have seen these
being hauled here. They watched the
whole afternoon for the elephants"
Poor youngsters!" he said. IT'S
a shame to fool them. But I've had
all the circus / want getting the live
stock installed"
They won't suffer-" said the major.
"Rickey Snyder'n get them up three
ringed show at the drop of a hat and
drop 1t herself Besides, there's tourn-
ament day coming, and. they can live
on that. see you've dredged out
some of the lilies"
"Yes. take my dip here every
morning."
I'VE used to have a diving-board
when we were little shavers," pursued
the major. 81 remember once, your
father"
He cleared his throat and stopped
dead.
Please" said John Valiant, Il
like to hear about him"
"It was only that | struck my head
on q rock on the bottom and-stayed
down The others were frightened.
but he-he dove down again and again
till he brought me out. 1t was a mar
row squeak, | reckon"
A silence fell. Looking at the tall
muscular form beside her, Shirley had
sudden vision of a determined little
body cleaving the dark water, over
and over, now rising painting for
breath, now plunging again, never CIV
ing up. And she told herself that the
son was The same sort. That hard
set of the jaw, those firm lips, would
know no f1inching. He might suffer,
but he would be strong.
Half unconsciously she spoke her
thought aloud: You look like your
father, do you nct?"
"Yes," he replied. there's a strong
likeness. I have photograph which
I'll show you sometime. But how did
you know?"
Perhaps l only guessed" she said
in some confusion. To cover this she
stopped hy the pebbly marge and held
cut her hand to the bronze ducks that
pushed and gobbled about her fingers.
What have you named them?" she
asked
Nothing. You christen them"
Every we'll The light one shall
be Peezletree and the dark one Pilgar-
lie. | got the names from John Jasper
he was Virginias famous negro
preacher. l once heard him hold forth
when he read from one Of the Psalms
the one about the harp and the
psaltery-and he called it peezletree."
Valiant's laugh rang out over the
lake-to be answered by a sudden
sharp screech from the terrace, where
the peacock strutted, blaze of span
gled purple and gold. They turned to
see Aunt Daphne issue from the
kitchen. twig in hand.
Alma record., 1914-03-19
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Gardeners.

The Gardeners.
He saw them coming through the
gate on the Red Road-the major and
Shirley In lilac muslin by his side
and strode TO meet them. Behind
them Ranston propelled hand-cart
filled with paper bundles from each Of
which protruded q bunch of Towering
stems. There was a flush in Shirley's
cheek as her hand lay in Valiants.
AS for him, his eyes, like wilful
drunkards, returned again and again,
between the majors compliments, to
her face.
You have accomplished wonders,
sab! I had no idea so much could be
done in such a limited time. You
have certain y primped the old place
up. could almost think | was look
ing at Damory Court in the sixties,
sah!"
That's quite the incest thing you
could have said, Major" responded
Valiant. But 1t needs the flowers" I"
He looked at Shirley with sparkling
eyes. How splendid OF you to bring
lCSl LhC a loDpCAs
With our bushels Of them? We
shall never miss them at all. Have
you set out the others?"
Il have, indeed Every one has
rooted, too. You shall see them" He
led the way up the drive till they
stood before the porch.
Cad" chuckled the major who
would think it had been unoccupied
for three decades? At mis- rate, you'll
soon be giving dances, san"
All" said Valiant. That's the very
thing l want to suggest. The tcurna-
ment comes off next week, | under
stand, and it's been the custom TO
have a ball that night. The tourney
ground is on this estate, and Damcry
Court is handler than the Country
Club. Why wouldn't it be appropriate
to hold the dance here? The ground
floor rooms are IN order, and If the
young people would put up with 1t. it
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AS they descended the terrace again
TO the pergola, he said, There's only
one thing lacking at Damory Court
Q sun-dial."
Then you haven't found it'- she
cried delightedly. Come and let me
show you"
She led the way through the maze
Of beds at one side till they reached
q hedge laced thickly with Virginia
creeper. He parted this leafy screen.
bonding back the sprtnging fronds
that thrust against the fiimsy muslin
OF her gown and threatened to spear
the pink-rosed hat that cast an ador-
able warm tint over her creamy face.
thinking that never had the old place
seen such q picture as she made
framed In the deep green.
Some such thought was In the ma
jor's mind, too, as he came slowly up
the terrace below. He paused, TO take
OF his hat and wipe his brow.
With the place all fixed up this
way" he sighed to himself. 81 could
believe II was only last week that
Beauty Valiant and Southall and
were boys. loafing around This gyar-
den. And to think that now it's Va
liant's son and Judith's daughter!
Why, 1t seems like yesterday that Shir-
ley there was only knee-high to a
grasshopper-and | used to tell her
her hair was that color because she
ran through hell bareheaded. I'm
about a thousand years old, | reckon!"
Meanwhile the two figures above
had pushed through the tangle into
a circular sunny space where stood a
short round pillar of red onyx. 1t was
a sun-dial, it's vine-clad disk cut of
gray polished stone in which its metal
tongue was socketed. Round the outer
edge of the disk ran an inscription
in archaic lettering. Valiant pulled
away the clustering ivy leaves and
read: Il count no hours but the hap
py ones"
'Tf that had only been true!" he
said
1T is true. See how the vines hid
the sun from 1t. 1t ceased to mark
the time after the Court was de-
serted"
I'll put moonflowers at its base and
where you are standing, Madonna
lilies. The outer part of the circle
shall have bridal-wreath and white
irises. and they shall shade out into
pastel colors-mauves and grays and
heliotropes. oh, shall love this spot!
perhaps sometime the best of all. +"
Which do you love the most now?"
He leaned slightly toward her, one
hand on the dial's time-notched rim.
Don't you know?" he said in lower
voice. Gould any other spot mean to
me what that acre under the hemlocks
means?"
Her face was turned from him, her
fingers pulling at the drifting vine, and
a splinter of sunlight tangled in her
hair like a lace Of firehies.
II could never forget it," he con-
tinued. The thing that spoiled my
fathers life happened there, yet there
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Copyr' M, 1919. by BobbsMerrill %.
Continued from page 81
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ALMA CASES SELF-TOLD

r. F. d. No. 4
w. ]. Washburn, retired farmer, K.
F. D., No. 4, Alma, says: II suffered
more or less from kidney trouble for
several years. Ny kidneys were very
irregular in action and some nights
l had to get up several times to pass
the kidney secretions. l had dull
pains in my loins and my back got
very lame. Doan's Kidney Pills have
never failed to relieve the lameness
in my back and regulate the action
Of my kidneys. l always keep Doan's
Kidney Pills in the house. They are
the best remedy l ever used for my
back and Kidneys"