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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-09-17

Clio, July IA, 1915.
The adjourned regular meeting held
in the council room was called to order
by President H. F. Bodine.
Present, Trustees Stout, Neelands,
Smith, Fuller and Taylor.
Absent, Trustee Houghton.
Minutes read and approved.
Trustee Houghton entered.
On motion the following resolution
was read and adopted:
Be it resolved by the common council
of the village of Clio acting under its
authority as board of health that the
dust arising from the excessive travel
upon the streets of the village of Clio,
be and is hereby declared nuisance
add menace to the public health and
that the street committee be and is
hereby authorized to abate said nui-
sance by thorough application of
water. oil or chemicals, using their best
judgment.
The following bills were read and al
lowed:
GENERAL FUND
Indian Refining Co., car 8037
gal .............."......SlSo 90
H. D. Griswold, services as spec
ial assessor and one day on
board of review .................. 90
B. E. Conlee, service as special
4QQ9QQOT D
j. c. Stout, day on board of
review .............. .........."..... w
Chas. HI. Reed, printing. .......... 76 19
H. F. Bodine, oil, telephone and
car Idre........ ..................... . OO
On motion meeting adjourned.
w. G. Goodrich,
Village Clerk.
Approved Aug. 9th, 1915.
uarhart r Podina President
Douglas Island news., 1915-02-17
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Cordova is threatened with a jitney bus.
 The Elks will organize a lodge at Seward.
 At Seward the price of bread jumped to 15 cents loaf
 The Wraugell saw mill has started up for the summer run.
 Plans for the salmon cannery at Knik arm have been completed.
 A new scbool bell now calls the chil dren to school at Petersburg.
 The real estate dealers of Seward have organized real estate exchange
 Arohdeacou Stuck has returned to Fairbanks, after an absence of two years.
 Wm. H. Blackwell, a pioneer citizen and business man of Valdez, died on February 4th.
 The Presbyterian church at Fair banks has decided to install a moving picture machine.
 Because of the mild winter, unusual activity is reported on the creeks in the Fairbanks district
 Thirty one children of the Wrangell school will give play, entitled, "Cin. derella in Flowerland."
 The cableship Burnside came north and found the break in the Alaska cable near Cape Fanshaw.
 From Fairbanks comes the report of a new strike on Healy river, with pay running S1 50 to the foot.
 It is now stated that James A.Smiser, the new U. s. attorney for the First district, is a "dry democrat"
 A member of the Seward town cOuD- cil for an assault made upon another member of the same body was aued $50.
 James Kingston, of Dawson, has been arrested as a suspect in connection with the murder of Schornborn, in the Chisaua.
 The announcement is made that the Pacific Coast Steamship Company will immediately purchase a vessel to take the place of the lost Delhi
 Professor Frank Garfield Davis, prin. cipal of the Valdez schools, and Miss Bess Estelle Carual, assistant princi- pal, were married on Feb. 9th at the Episcopal church at Valdez, the Rev. Charles S. Price being the officiating clergyman.
 Verna Ohis, of Cordova, was convict. ed of cruelty to his dogs by beating them with clubs and chains, and was fined SG5 and costs, making a total of slOO. In default of payment he was re mauded to jail and will serve it out at the rate of S2 per day.
Douglas Island news., 1915-02-17

Emil Alfred Norman, the man picked up in starving condition on an island near Ketchikan, has been found to be mentally unbalanced, and will be de- ported by the immigration service. He halls from Prince Rupert
 It is reported from Valdez that Dis. trict Attorney Spence is to appoint Senator O. P. Hubbard as assistant district attorney, to succeed Guy c. Brubaker. This is a position which Judge Hubbard formerly occupied at Valdez.
 An election for a uew board of Yukon councillors will be held some time in March. The woods are full of good men, but there are lot of good men who would make poor mem bers of the territorial legislature. The selection of the right sort of board is up 10 the voters and the voters seldom make mistakes.-Star.
 The natives at Sinrock are having considerable trouble with their dogs, which are attacking the herds of rein deer in that vicinity. These attacks are becoming frequent and while none of the deer have been killed by the dogs, several have been injured and are de velopiug into a danger which must be carefully guarded against. Nugget.
 A Washington dispatch says that ac- cording to a report just made to the department of commerce twenty one uncharted rocks have recently been discovered by the Alaskan coast survey party within forly-two miles of terri tory along the inside passage. One, six hundred feet high, comes within 17 feet of the surface. The pinnacles were discovered and located by the use of dragnets.
 August aud Alex Hanot, of Fairbanks are working on a new invention in scrapers that is commanding the closest attention of mechanics and mining operators in the Panama valley. The invention of the two brothers gives every indication of becoming of great importance to the northern mining in dustry, as, in fact, to all kinds of mining where scraping is an essential operation.
 The balibut steamer Rush, formerly of the U. s. revenue cutter service, has been sold by the U. S. marshal to sat- isfy claims brought against her in various admiralty actions. She was purchased by Capt. Harry W. Crosby aOd P. w. Wonn, of Seattle, for s9,O5O. It is reported that the new owners of the vessel will place a canning plant aboard and operate her in Boring sea the coming season. Purse seines will be used in catching the salmon needed. Pacific Fisherman.
 A petition to the Alaska road com mission is being circulated in Peters. burg and Scow Bay, asking for the building of a road between the two places, a distance of three miles. It is claimed that road along the beach could be opened at small cost The Scow Bay settlement gets its mail at this postofice, and, on account of tides, it is not feasible to make the trip by boat at all times. The road would also make available numerous good loca- tious for building homes and sites for warehouses. Petersburg Report.
Douglas Island news., 1915-02-17

During the trial of case in the Fair banks commissioners court, in which Katie Pinchette was accused of taking a S2O-gold piece from the pocket of k. w. Milton, the question came up as to "when is a man drunk?" The witnesses examined as to their opinion on this question seemed to think that a man was intoxicated "when he couldn't nav igate." The court held that the ques- tion was one that, in all probability, would not be answered in the same way by two persons. He said that drunk enuess was simply matter of degree in a mans condition, and itwas as hard to say when he became intoxicated as it is to tell when warm water becomes hot. He concluded that a man started to get intoxicated when be took his first drink, and from that time on it was simply a matter of degree.
 An apparently intelligent native of Metlakahtla some two weeks ago visited the Ketchikan Progressive office and requested that at least part of the story of the natives in reference to their opposition to Mir. Duncan be pub- lished. This was agreed upon and IS contained in the following, dictated by Mark Hamilton, a native: "I am one of the many whJ came from British Columbia to Metlakahtla with Mr. Duncan twenty seven years ago. The church missions had given S5O,OOO to establish place for tbe natives and carry on the work. This money was never used for houses or food. This is the origin of the troublo at the mission. The cannery, sawmill aud the water works was the result of the natives labor, together with S25,000 that was donated by the U. s. Missions. Subse. quently Mr. Duncan expressed a desire to retire from the Metlakahtla mission and told the natives that if they would give him $500 he would will them the entire property. This was agreed. the money paid over and Mir. Duncan left. A year or later thereabout, he was back and in full possession of the property valued at the time at S25,000. It is the claim of the natives that the property is their own from the fact that they contributed their labor and that the money was given for their benefit. Some ton years ago the natives de- manded government school of Mir. Duncan His answer was, Not until my head is cut off will there be school in Metlakahtla.' It is a we'll known fact that he is bitterly opposed to the education of the natives. Notwith- standing that fact the natives requested and petitioned the officials for the es' tablishment of a government school which has resulted in the present trouble. There are some who think that the government, by the establish- ment of a school, has spoiled Mir. Dun cans work and blame the officials for the present chaotic condition at the mission. That is wrong, as, long before the government officials appeared on the scene, the natives had agreed that Mir. Duncan's usefulness had ended. Mir. Duncan wants the natives to be- lieve that the officials are 'tools and 'meddlers, as he calls them, but the natives know better; they know that the officials are merely obeying orders, the result of the natives uuceasing complication fer relief"
Douglas Island news., 1915-02-17

Dawson News: Twenty-Five applica- tions have been received at the Dawson gold office for claims staked on Brewer creek, the newly discovered gold stream which flows into Stewart river a few miles below Barker. It is expected that twenty-five or more applications will be received within few days.
 Petersburg Report: If sea gull swallows a fish hook, what will happen ito the gull? Can he carry it in his interior department without incon- venieuce or i'll effect? Or has nature provided the fool bird with a digestive apparatus that will assimilate gal7an- ized iron? Or will the gull have to "qive up the ghost?" These problems were considered by spectators at the canuery wharf yesterday morning. A lot of halibut lines and hooks were piled on a fishing boat, some of the hooks being baited. A greedy gull tackled a bait, and the hook caught in his bill, holding him fast Simon Shel drup came to his rescue, but was un. able to get close enough to remove the hook. The bird, released, managed to work the hook out of his bill-and then promptly swallowed it, with the bait.
 xxx. Kuney, of the Alaska railway commission is at present engaged in studying snow conditions along the liue of the Copper River & Northwest ern railway and in obtaining data for use of the commission in connection with tbe proposed government opera. ton of this road. He was one of the locating engineers of the Milwaukee line, and had charge of the location and construction of snowsheds along the Great Northern. He was also last summer a member of the railway com mission, with headquarters at Ship creek. and had charge of the survey from that point to the Matanuska coal fields. He will go on foot over the CIR. & N. W. railroad b.tween COrdova and Chitina in order to make a personal in- vestigation of the road and it's opera tion under the most adverse circum- stances during the winter months.
 In a prophetic vein, the Seward Gate way says: The last real stampede to Alaska will probably come before the snow goes off the ground this time. It will be a big stampede-probably big ger thou the people seem 10 realize. It will probably be a coming of a different sort of people, though, and that is something to be remembered. Most of those coming to work in the coal mines will be different from the people who came 10 Alaska in the past. The old timers came just because it was some thing new to come to-something out of the ordinary rut. They could have made just as good, or better, money on the average somewhere else. The prob ability is that the majority of people who came to Alaska in the early days lost money and spent the best years of their lives without material profit. In the next stampede will be people of money who want 10 make more, but for the greater part it will be composed of crowds to whom the word money means something like two dollars a day. The latter are the ones that will open the coal fields and the only ones that could open any coal fields, or for the matter of that, the only ones that would open any coal delds.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-16

"LOok here, WiIkerson. maybe both OF
US have made q mistake"
the present mine puIIlStaKlng toll IN
figuring out the tIrnu vi the various
VEINS. would ieau tu that particular
pot Of gold which nad Uepu at the rnu
Of Gallon = youthfH rnInbuW OF hopes
WilkersOn was Determined To he mas
ter Of THE Master lNey He needed
the skilled ana OF Jonn DOrr win MS
engineering knuwledge
John DorT knew that there was u
tremendous secret III Gallon life rep
resented by the gotten Key which ae
had torn from his neck and handed 10
Ruth when n- VAS dying That Key
had figures on II He understood that
those scratches ou that golden surface
represented Sunrthlng tremendously
important, ana thai the ola man uad
committed Ruin To ms charge anu had
spoken OF Wihtr>on MS his turlnpI
partner ana Siliu "AikerSun Knows
What was II thai WiGerSon knew
II was better thupgh John 10 accept
his amiable advances nnd thereby pos
Sibly gain his confidence ana hnd out
tor Rnth's SAKE thai secret winch
Thomas Gallon hnd taken TO his grave.
So on the StSund daA after the rpStO
ration Of the uld ~cate of wages and
his own reapIOlntnient HI engineer IN
charge John went Down To the office
and said bluntly: Lack here. Wtlkpr
son. maybe both of MS hnve made u
mistake. fm sure my only aim IL to
help out in the promotion ot The Mas
ter Key"
WilkersOn received him amiably
I'm sure thy only interest In this bust
ness is to fetch into good ore All that
we are digging out now is dirt without
any pay In 1t"
II think ! know where we can strike
drst class stufr, Dorr returned. There
Is sure pay rock II we travel south
from that main tunnel We may have
to go couple of hundred feet"
Wilkerson looked at him shrewdly
THAT will cost money" he remarked
but Ill take this up with Ruth"
John looked at him with a faint trar.
Of the old enmity In his eyes He did
not IKE to hear the tirst name 81 the
mistress of The Master Key" on thus,
lips.
IF the mine Is not paying It's up Il.
us TO make it pay" ne remarked
When Wilkerson entered the hnng,
low Ruth perceived great change M
his attitude. He was no longer suIIen
and be was evidently worried. II wa,
clean worry. and she smiled al mn,
Had not her father come IN with rhnI
expression on his face man, Times
She put heI chin In the cup ~ he
bands and asked cheerfully What :,
II. Mr.. WilkersonY
May sit DOWN. h. said avk
wardly.
She mOuOned to II chan ana NJ, mn.
I'd out OF his pOckeI paper covered
with figures
Il think you UugnI 10 knnw now
things are going along Miss tIalluu.
ne said. with nnnSuui formnury
when your fatnet made ne Supenu
tendent OF .his mine did not reanz,
that the responsibility was so npavy a,
II Is We are not making any mune,
We are losing money ron rnn see ny
the reports which ! have mere that on,
cleanup Iateiy mas Deen tar .eS> man
our expenses. and our laSi one showed
nothing We must nnd tnr
vein again To do so We muSI nave
There Is no none, IN The
Master Key mine I"
That's what father USED To- say |
sometimes" said Ruth quietly But
Ne always got O. !"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-16
CHAPTER VII.
Wilkerson the Plotter.

WikerSon the PlotteFs
VAY1 len be mad thoroughly learn
IN" ed his lesson Wilkerson cool
sESSE%5 ~. In spite OF the letter he
tE@&ssSgJ had received from Jean bar
nell IN New York. telling him Of her
willingness TO finance her scheme, de
termined he must be friends with John
Dorr, at least Outwardly. So he
smoOthed out the visible wrinkles in
his face. trying to veil the malicious
CLEAN In his eyes, and spent two days
quietly trying to show his anna bility,
not only to the miners, but to DOrr
himself
WilkersOn was absolutely certain
that his old partner. Thomas Gallon.
had really made rich lind and that
he had lost the location and accepted
THE Master Key" as a substitute In
the hope that by working 1t thoroughly
he might find the mother lode In
other words careful manipulation OF
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-04-16

Wilkerson nodded and said: I'm put
the men to work tomorrow. Dorr. Bet
ter have your plans ready" He stamp
ed out
"YOu had better go this afternoon"
Johu told Ruth. There Is no time to
lose"
IAN right" she said. "rn be ready
In an hour"
John smiled. "AIl right; III take
you over In the motor truck or shall
We ride to Silent ValleyT"
I've never been to New York" she
said timidly, and with that incense
quential logic which maidens have. she
added Let's ride I'll take Patsy and
you can ride Black joe"
Dorr did not understand at all that
In leaving her home for the great
strange city she wished her last hours
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12
TRIP over DAN PATCH
HELD UP BY SNOW
Experience OF Traveller Coming From
FaribauIt TO Mankato Was Related
In Letter ...

Ben Shimota. deputy county au.
Gi,or. was the recipient of a letter
from his brother Eman. telling of a
trip from FaribauIt TO Mankato
which took from liz Sunday after
noon 10 twelve o'clock Sunday night
says The Faribault News.
The trip was made On the Dan
Patch. and everything went all
right until the train reached War
saw; here it ran into a drift about
three feet deep and was stopped.
\ call was put in for another car
from Faribault and then the car
made another trial ut the snOwbank
the trial wps unsuccessful aud re-
suited In The caT" running on the
tracks.
About this time the second car
arrived from Faribault and was i'm
mcdiatcly sent back for tools 90 get
the first car back on the track.
TIE tools were secured and they
proceeded to MOrristOwn where pas
sengcrs were uulOaded to take the
SIS TO Mankato.
This car was about one and one
half hours late SO Mr.. Shimota did
not reach Mankato until twelve bells
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12
MINORS ARE KEEPING
= AWAY FROM SALOONS
Also Habitual Drunkards Are Not
Permitted to linger About The
Mankato Bullets

At the regular monthly meeting
of the Mankato Retail Liquor Deal.
ers' association, held late yesterday
at the Saulpaugh hotel, 1t was re.
ported that since the first of the
year there had not been one COM
plant of minor or a habibual
drunkard entering a saloon.
Twenty-Five of the twenty-seven
Mankato saloons were represented
at this meeting. 1t was decided tc
hold no more meetings until after
the city election, the saloon-keepers
declaring that the association was
not in politics.
II was rumored today that the
saloon-keepers were going to circu-
late through Blue Earth county q
petition against the calling, OF a
special election for vote under the
county option law, on the ground
that this would cause great deal
of extra expense.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12
LEAVES ESTATE FOR
BENEFIT OF COLLEGE
Mrs. Isabel A. higbee, Who Died
Friday. Left Property Valued al
About $4,000

That the work for better social
conditions might be continued after
her death, Mrs. Isabel A. Higbee.
prominent Minnesota club woman
and social service worker who died
last Friday in ST. Paul, provided in
her will that her estate should
be used for the cause for which she
labored the greater part OF her life.
In the document, which was filed
in Ramsey county probate court,
Mrs. Higbee left personal property
valued at $1,000. and real estate
worth $1,400.
The net income from the person.
atty, which Is TO be invested by
the Minnesota Loan and Trust COM
pany of Minneapolis. is given to
her daughter. Lorna Higbee Leland.
and after her death is to go 10
Carleton college. Mortified, for the
support of the sociological depart.
meni
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12
WILL URGE PASSAGE
UNION DEPOT BILLS
Commercial Club Committee Held Con-
ference With Senator ]. W. Andrews
and Representative Gerlich

Monday afternoon the Commercial
club committee on legislation to en-
able the state railway and warehouse
commission to require railroads to
build union depots in cities where
they are needed, and where the rail-
roads refuse to build them, held a
meeting with Senator J. w. Andrews,
and Representative J. G.. Gerlich.
The committee has prepared bill,
and presented IL with the request
that these gentlemen introduce II
and endeavor to secure its passage.
Senator Andrews and Representative
Gerlich said 1t would strengthen
their hands i'm the matter. IL Pc
tition was prepared asking them to
pass the bill, and signed by about
forty well known businessmen OF this
city.
The committee approved of this
idea, and Secretary e. +. Soaring
was busy yesterday circulating the
petition, and secured forty signers,
and the petition was forwarded last
evening. Consideration of the matter
will come up i'm the house today.
Representative Gerlich is chairman
of the transportation committee OF
the house. and the petition was to be
referred to that committee today.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12
An Extra Meeting OF the Con-
gress May Be Held
STATEMENT BY ELLSWORTH
New Congressman Gives His Views On
Politics and Several Matters Of
National Comment

Congressman F. F. Ellsworth ar.
rived home from Washington last
evening, where he attended the spring
session of congress, and will spend
the time, until next session is called,
at his home in this city, and in
attending to his law practice. Dur
ing an interview with the new con.
gresham this morning it was easily
seen that he had fitted perfectly
nto the congressional mich won by
him through sterling personal worth.
When questioned concerning the
work of congress, Mr.. Ellsworth
stated that an extra session will be
called this fall, made necessary by
the fact that the postonice appropri-
alton bill and some others did not
pass, and because or the democratic
program. There Is a general feeling
nat il foreign complications should
come up, or il there should be war
with Mexico. II will be necessary to
have special session of congress
before fall. =. -.
Relative to Business Conditions.
What is the opinion in Washing.
ton in regard TO the financial Condi-
tons OF the country he was asked.
GENERALLY speaking, the men from
eastern cities whom met in Wash
ingtOn commented upon the close
money conditions, and the general
depression in business. They are
predicting change of admfhistra.
ton in 1916. There is feeling that
depressed business conditions are not
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-03-12

ST Paul. March lO.-Only twenty.
eight Of 1872 cities and villages in Min.
nCsOta which voted on the liquor
issue made "a change in their attitude
towards the saloon. OF these twenty.
four joined the dry column while four
which had been dry elected to be.
come wet again.
Rochester was the largest city &c
vote and an unusual interest was dis.
played there, more than 1000 ballots
being cast The vets won by a ma
iCrity of seyenty-seven. while a veal
ago they had 1G4 to the good.
Only two towns OF any size changed
from wet to dry. These were Wade.
ma, the county seat of Wadena coun.
~, and jackson, county seat OF Jack
son county. In both the drys won by
comparatively narrow margins. Pine
Island, Goodhue county, went dry for
the first time in its history by a ma.
iority of thirty.
In an election marked by the heav.
lest vote ever polled In the village
White Bear remained wet The wet
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