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The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-03
WITH ARKANSAS EXCHANGES
Where Your Trade
 is Appre ciafed

If every resident believed that his home town was the best that town would be a whole lot better than it is now.-Searcy Citizen.
 Carranza, it is said, never will sheathe his sword until Mexico's right to maintain anarchy is acknowledged and guaranteed-Ark Democrat
 Is Cole Blease's announcement for governor an indication that the South Carolina penitentiary is getting over crowded since he quit office ?-Arkan- sas Gazette
 Transatlantic passengers now wear tags, so they can be identified if their ship is sunk and their bodies washed ashore. It seems there would be about as much satisfaction in getting one of those tags as to get a dupli- cate of passenger train ticket from an Arkansas railroad, which will en- title the holder to one cent rebate for every mile, if the two cent rate is again established.-Pi Bluff Com mercial
The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-03
WEATHER REPORT

Thursday:
 Maximum 50 Minimum .............. .62 Fair Friday and Saturday.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-03

TRADE IN PRESCOTT
The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-03

Mrs. T. J. Mendenhall, of Rosston, was here this morning.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Lincoln an Inventor.

Among the inventions on file at the
patent office in Washington is one by
Abraham Lincoln. designed to enable
freight-laden fiatboat3 to work their
way over the sand bars of the Missis-
sippi river. Lincoln conceived the idea
when, as a young man, he was him
sell boatman ON the Mississippi. and
met the obstacles that his invention
was meant to overcome.
The invention consists of one or
more huge bellows attached to each
side of the boat. When the boat
sticks on shoal, the bellows are to
be inflated by means of a windlass
connected with upright poles attached
to the bellows. The idea is that the
air in the bellows increases the buoy
ancy of the craft, ana makes it draw
less water.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
GREAT MANS DEATH
Country He Served So Well Re-
members LincoIn'S Work
With Gratitude.

AT TWENTY minutes past ten
"A o'clock Friday evening, April IA,
1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot by
John Wilkes Booth in the back of the
head behind the left ear and mortally
o'clock the next morning, Saturday,
April 15, 1865, he died.
There have been many and vast
changes since that fateful day, and the
prayer which Lincoln prayed that the
country might be one again has been
answered in a way that would have re-
joiced his great heart. Not an ami
versary of his birth and death has
passed since his cruel taking of on
which some tribute has not been paid
to his memory, and so it will be to the
end of time among generous Ameri-
cans. wherever their residence or in
herited sentiments; for, however he
may have been misjudged in the con-
fusion and stress of antagonistic opin-
ion, there is none now who does not
praise him for his courage and his
faithfulness to his honest convictions.
He was born in Kentucky February
IL, 1909, and died in Washington April
Is, 1865, in his fifty-seventh year at
the very zenith of his powers. The
books are full of the story of his life
and work, but there are still many in
teresting facts connected with him
that have not yet been noted, uotwith-
standing the industry of those who
have collected great masses of every
thing they could find in any way con-
nected with his life and death.
Mr.. Lincoln. as everyone knows,
was shot by Booth while he was at
tending a theatrical performance at
Ford's theater in Washington. "Our
American Cousin" held the boards that
night and Laura Keene was playing
the part of Florence Trenchard for
the last time. She had already per
formed the same part for a thousand
nights. Five years before she had
played the role at McVickers theater
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

left by General Grant to close up
surrender matters at the courthouse.
The ragged piece of paper in which
the pens are wrapped was part of a
larger piece on the table on which the
surrender papers were written, and
which | took from the table to wrap
the pens in as they were handed to
me by General Potter, our Twenty
fourth army corps chief of staff, for
the valued souvenirs they were.
These pens have never been but
once since dipped in ink, and then at
the Soldiers fair in New York city
for my signature the evening General
Grant was there.
"(Signed( A B. LAWRENCE"
Z An even more detailed account in
Colonel Lawrence's handwriting, tells
of his coming into possession of bit
of the surrender table:
Piece of the table upon which Gen
Robert E. Lee signed the terms of
surrender dictated by Gen. U. S.
Grant, April 9, 1865. Colonel Mclean
said that Gen. p. II. Sheridan sought
to buy the table, but that he would
not sell it; that in his absence Gen
eral Sheridan left a $50 greenback
and carried off the table, from which
this piece had been broken off in
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

and somewhat bored by the attention
showered upon him.
81 do not believe there is another
man alive who witnessed that affair,
and l surely doubt if there is another
alive who can recall the first words
that ever passed between Lincoln and
Grant.
1T was understood in Washington
at the time that there was some doubt
about Grant accepting the commits
sion. He took the ground that if it
required him to relinquish active duty
in the field and come to Washington
he would prefer not to accept it. 1t
was finally arranged that he should
continue in active duty in the field
and take charge of the movement on
to Richmond which was much talked
about in that day"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

The pens, one quill, the other
common steel pen, used by Gen. U. S.
Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee at the
surrender at ApPomattox Courthouse.
the doing Which piece he later
brought as a relic to Col. A. B. Law
renee in his office in the sheriff room
of the courthouse, also saying that he,
Mclean, had moved from Manassas,
Va, after the Bull Run battle, to es-
cape any more such. and to the safe
Appomattox Courthouse, Va, where
he had to endure the guying of the
residents for running away, etc,
and was now glad that they had an
eye-opening experience of their own
in war terrors, and that it was his
vindication which he was glad to
have. Also, that the Bull Run battle
was fought mainly on his plantation,
on which was Bull Run ford, Black
burn ford, Mclean ford. ETC.; that
General Beauregard used his (Mc-
Lean's) home for his headquarters
during the battle, and wrote his or
ders and dispatches there on this
table or stand, and so Mclean says:
| The war began on my plantation and
ended in my house on this table. So
| did not want'to sell it, 1 have had
a hand in the beginning and the end
of the war; and enough of it,
Il have since learned that General
Sheridan gave the table to Mrs. Gen
eral Custer.
THE certificate given me by Colonel
Mclean about this table is on file with
my Appomattox Courthouse surren-
der papers, where, under order of
General Grant, / acted as chief quar-.
termaster of the United States forces
at Appomattox Courthouse, Va. from
April 8, 1865, until we retired to Rich
| mond with effects.
"A. B. LAWRENCE,
Late Lieutenant Colonel u. S. ",
Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Army OF
the James"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

in Chicago the night of the day on
which Mr.. Lincoln was nominated for
president by the Republican conven.
tion, in May, 1860, and all unconscious
of the terrible tragedy, she played with
uncommon cleverness, and while yet
the theater was ringing with laughter
and applause, came the crack of the
pistol shot from the presidents box
that plunged the country into mourn
ing.
After Mr. Lincoln had been shot he
was removed across the street from
the theater to the residence of Will
liam Petersen, a highly respected mer.
chant tailor, who lived directly oppo'
site the playhouse, at SIG Tenth street,
This house is still standing, as is also
the old Ford theater, and both are now
owned by the government. There have
been few changes in the Petersen
house.
For 40 years Osborn H. Oldroyd
has been devoting himself to the as.
sembling together of an invaluable
collection, in which are included more
than three thousand relics, which con.
stitute, as Elizabeth Porter Gould has
said, zone of the most interesting and
valuable ever collected in behalf OF
a human being" The collection con.
tains $50 funeral sermons, about sew.
enty pieces of music, thousand vol.
umes relating to Lincoln, 300 portraits,
busts and medals, photographs OF
Booth, pictures of the assassin, the
family cradle in which the Lincoln
children were rocked, an original black
locust rail split by the young man,
then never dreaming of the place he
was to fill in the history of the world;
the family Bible from which Lincoln's
mother read to him when he was a
boy, and literally thousands of other
things in some sort associated with
the murdered president
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

Kentucky.
so-Abaham Lincoln February
1S6-Famiy moved Spencer
1SS-Death Lincoln.
ssoLincoIn family settling county,
s31-Abaham to at
1924
1833-Apponted a aIem.
to tn Ieais sIature.
1s35-Love Anne
1s36-Second election legislature.
193s-Thrd Legislature.
ture.
1s42-Married o Mary Todd
1s4eEected Birth
184S-Deeae he natio
1s5o-Birth William Wallace
of Lincoln,
hs56-Assisted o party
-Nomna and elected to the Pesd dency.
1s61-Inauguraed a Pres arch4
proclamation
1s64-Reelected Presidency.
Apri5
at Springfield III, May 4.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
pens THAT ENDED
]: GREAT CIVIL WAR
Precious Historic Relics Used
:hy Generals Grant and Lee Are
t Now Treasured IN
d Missouri City.

'TVHE two pens that ended the great
u Civil war are in Missouri. Only
once have they been dipped in ink
since the memorable day when u S.
Grant and Robert E. Lee made use
OF them in the Virginia hamlet dig
nified by the name of Appomattox
Courthouse. The present owner, DR..
E. p. Cronbite. a st. Joseph dentist,
would deem 1t little short of sacri-
tege for the pens to be touched by
any drop of ink destined to flow
into ordinary sentences. The pens
repose securely in Il strong box in
Doctor Cronkites st. Joseph home,
z015 Francis street They still are
wrapped in paper taken from the
Ehble on which the surrender paper
WAS signed.
The coming OF these historic pens
10 Missouri was not heralded. They
we're added to one of the most inter-
csting private historical collections in
the state. but collection the exist
dhce of which Is quite unknown even
iu st. Joseph save to those of Doc
Tor Cronkite's intimates who have
had the hospitality of his den on the
Gutrd HOor OF MS nome.
che pen came to Doctor Cronkite
from Mrs. A. b. Lawrence of War
saw, N Y. after the death of her
husband. Colonel Lawrence. who in
mis- lifetime was indeed an indefatig-
ftble collector. The colonel gath
cred together every Bible translation
hut two, while hts collection of coins
sold for $4,000 on his death. One
tie between the St Joseph collector
and Colonel Lawrence was the fact
that Doctor Cronkite's father was an
officer In the First New York dra-
goons, of which Colonel Lawrence was
lieutenant colonel
No better history of the pens prob
ably is to be desired than the one
written out in Colonel Lawrences
handwriting:
THE pens in this box, one a quill,
the other steel, marked at the time.
April TO- 1865, are the ones used in
signing the Gen. II. E Lee surrender
papers in the Col. Wilmer Mclean
house, where the surrender took
place at Appomattox Courthouse, Va,
April 10. 1865, and were given to me
an the Mclean house April TO- 1865,
as souvenirs with piece Of the table
ON which General Lee signed the sur
Gender dictated by General Gram.
The piece of table was given to me
next day in my office in the sheriff's
COON of the courthouse by Colonel
Wilmer Mclean, with a certificate of
its history. The sherift was William
Daniel Hix. now in Hixburg Appomat-
tox. Va, TO whom turned over the
surplus surrender property for dis
tribution among the poor and deserv-
sng of the vicinity OF the surrender by
verbal order OF General Grant to me
tn the presence of Maj Gen John
Gibbons, president OF the commission
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
IN ENGLISH CHURCH
Bust of Great American Has
Been Placed in Country of
His Ancestors.

IN THE parish church of the village
i of bingham, in Norfolk, England,
near the old cathedral city of Norwich,
lived many generations of Lincolns, an
cestors of Abraham Lincoln. A bust of
the great American, set up in that
church by committee of Americans,
is shown with the church. A descrip-
tion of the church by Rev. Milo H.
Gates, vicar of the Chapel of the IN
tercession and secretary of the me-
mortal committee is as follows:
"The building, dedicated to St. An
drews, is constructed of rough fints
with free-stone dressings. 1t consists
of a spacious chancel, nave with
clere-story, north and south aisles, and
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

act creating the rank of lieutenant
general of the army" said Mr. Rich
ards. while it was well understood
at the time that it was for the benefit
of General Grant, he was not named
in the bill 1t was the first time con-
gress had authorized the rank to be
conferred in the army since General
Washington held it.
president Lincoln summoned Gen
eral Grant to Washington from the
| field to confer about the appointment
Grant arrived at 8 p. m. at the old
Willard hotel At $50 he showed up
at the White House. l was there.
at was a kind of reception, as l re-
call. The affair was proceeding in an
informal way, the president. some
members of his cabinet, and Mrs. Lin
coin being in the red room, where
persons were being received.
THE affair was suddenly Interrupt
ted by a cry, Here comes General
Grant,
President Lincoln Immediately left
his place in the receiving line and
hurried to the door leading to the red
room from the vestibule, where he
met President Grant He promptly
recognized the general, although they
had never met before. My curiosity
had led me to the center of interest
II heard Mr.. Lincoln say: General
Grant, l believe this is the first time
we have ever met
ITO this General Grant replied:
Yes, Mr.. President, you are right.
You are right; this is the first time
we have ever met
'The rest of the conversation was
lost to me, as the two men came closer
together and moved away, talking in
| lower tones. l recall that Seward
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
"The First Americana

AS Lowell said of him, Lincoln was
the first American. Whitman calls
him "the sweetest, wisest soul of all
my days and lands" And today he,
the leader in great Civil war, is
loved and revered by the South as by
the North. Some of the noblest trib-
utes ever paid to him have been those
paid by the Southeruers. He belongs
to the whole nation, and he is the
only man since Washington of whom
that can be said
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

a battlemented tower 100 feet hign,
containing fine chime of eight bells
cast originally in 1919, on one of which
is inscribed: 'Omnis, sonus, laudet,
Dominum.'
THE nave, one of the best exam
pies of fourteenth-cen architec
ture, has five clere-story windows on
each side. 1t is separated from the
aisles by pillars resting on quatrefoil
columns. Formerly at the east ends
of the two aisles were chapels, prob
ably erected early in the fifteenth cen
tury. The east window of the south
aisle is one of very great beauty, con
tanning mixture of geometrical and
flowing tracery. The other windows
to the north were probably once the
same, but have since been replaced
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Saw the Future Clearly.

1 am glad l made the late race. 1t
gave me hearing of tie great and
durable question of the ege. which 1
could have had in no other way; and
though l now sink out of view and
shall be forgotten, / believe l have
made some marks which will tell for
the cause of civil liberty long after I
am gone.-Lincoln's letter to DR.. A. G.
Henry, November 10, 1858.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
MET IN THE CAPITAL
First Time That President Lin
coin and General Grant
Greeted Each Other.

r HERE is man in the public serv-
a ice in Washington who saw the
first meeting between President Lin
coin and General Grant in the White
House nearly sixty years ago.
Charles H. Richards, who for more
than fifty years has worked in the
stationery room of the senate, saw
the meeting. In an interview Mr..
Richards narrated the incidents con-
nected with the meeting and recalled
the first words ever exchanged be-
tween the two great figures on the
Union side of the Civil war. Mr..
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

a n d S t a n t o n
crowded forward
and greeted the
general and that
Mrs. Lincoln also
greeted him cor
daily.
General Grant
soon was hustled
into the east room
and as he sat ON
a sofa he was
surrounded by a
great crowd. He
onnnanI Dn1IAgt
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
bingham Church.

by perpendicular tracery. The chanceI
window, 36 feet high and IS feet wide.
is filled with ancient German glass dat.
ing back to about 1900. Apart from
its historic interest the church is well
worth a visit by anyone who is inter-
ested in church architecture. For the
building is quite the best preserved
of it's style in England."-New York
Evening Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
Not Bitter In Defeat.

The emotions of defeat at the close
of a struggle in which l felt more
than merely selfish interest, and to
which the defeat the use of your name
contributed largely. are fresh upon
me; but even in this mood | cannot
for a moment suspect you of anything
honorable.-Letter from Lincoln to
j. j. Crittenden, November 4, 1858,
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
LINcoLN's BIRTHDAY,

A day of joy. a holiday;
day ia festal colors dressed
To honor one who knew not play.
Nor ever tasted resti
Oh. man of sorrows and of tears.
Would we could bring to you
Back through the pathway of the years
One touch of comfort true!
Would that your eyes might penetrate
The shadows in between,
Through all the clouds of war and hate,
And mists that intervene,
Into the hearts of all the throng
OF living men to find
Your name and fame the first among
The treasures of mankind!
John Kendrick Bangs.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

Richards was ap-
pointed to his
position in the
senate stationery
room on the rec
ommendation of
Charles Sumner
and Henry Will
son. He is a ma
tive of Massachu-
setts and was ap-
pointed from that
state.
Congress had
just passed the
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06

We, strive in narrow, selfish ways
To win advancement or have praise,
To gain rewards. TO hear applause,
To be accounted great or wise;
We make convenience a cause,
And ever look with watchful eyes
For that approval. right or wrong,
Accorded by the noisy throng
TO them that have the wit to see
Which way the crowds intend to fare,
And brazenly pretend to be
The God-sent. glorious leaders there.
He saw with vision true and clear,
And. crushing doubt and scorning fear,
Advanced, with conscience as his
guide;
Discerning where the course was laid,
lie waited not for wind or tide,
Nor for the mob's approval stayed;
a giant where weak pygmies rose
To jeer and clarnor and oppose,
He pressed with godlike earnestness
And an unconquerable soul
Through hellish hate and bloody
stress,
To die a martyr at the goal
The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
II [


We worry over little cares,
We mutter foolish. selfish prayers,
Aud think that God will deign to heed /;
We scheme to keep our brothers back,
We long to dazzle or to lead,
And sigh for riches that we lack;
We covet honors and are proud
60 win the favors of the crowd
That for a little while has time
70 cheer us where we strut, to let
Cs fancy we have grown sublime,
And then is ready to forget.
Nv.
We read the sad appeal that lies
Within his kindly. sunken eyes
And learn little of his lore;
We mark the lines upon his brow
And dirnly see how much he bore,
And in our weakness wonder how;
We gaze upon the sculptured face,
And all the patient sorrows trace;
We search for vanity. for pride,
That, human-like, he might have
claimed.
Then thrust our little cares aside,
And turn away, and are ashamed.
The Chitina leader., 1915-05-11
Some of the New Laws

Workman's compensation act.
A ballot law, and corrupt prac-
tees act.
A law providing a bounty of SO
on wolves.
A uniform school law.
A law reducing Indian liquor sell
ing to a misdemeanor and making
the Indian solicitor an accomplice.
A general mining law.
A law providing for the assess
ment of unpatented claims.
An s-hour day law for placers
Quartz passed in 1879
Acts referring to people the
liquor and general S-hour questions.
A new mine inspection act.
Five new banking bills.
Twelve acts correcting defects in
the statutes of 1918.
An act pensioning aged and
INDECENT prespectors.
An act severely Furnishing trafticI-
ers in women.
Acts revising the laws of munich
nal elections and taxes.
An elective attorney general.
An act establishing the political
status of Indians.
An act providing local govern
ment in certain native villages.
An act preventing professional
jurors.
An act compelling travellers to
register at roadhouses.
An act providing for incorpora-
ton of second class cities.
A restaurant food inspection act
Memorials asking Congress to re-
move limitations on Legislature
particularly in regard to Alaska
Fund" fish, fur. etc.
Memorials asking for full form
of Territorial government, for postal
savings banks, for equitable parcels
post rates, and for wireless stations
in various parts of the interior and
the north. 4a-
The Chitina leader., 1915-05-11
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE

To Ben c. Hannah, administrator of
the Estate of James Garrett, de-
ceased and to his heirs and
assigns of said James Garrett.
You are hereby notified that l, the
subscriber, Ringwald Blk, have ex-
pended and paid for your share in
labor. and improvements upon the
Jacobson Placer Mining Claim for
the year 1912, 1913 and 1914,
Said Placer Mining Claim is sitg-
ated on Slate. Creek, Copper Center
Recording Precinct, Alaska. The
notice, of location thereof is of
record in Book |, Page 1870 of Min
ing Locations in said recording office
at Copper. Center Alaska. To which
book and page reference is hereby
made for a more particular descrip-
ton of said claim. Such expenditure
was made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
claim under provisions of Section
1924 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States and the amendments
thereof providing for annual labor
upon mining claims. That is to say
that an hundred dollars worth os
labor and Improvements was made
upon said placer claim and that / as
co-owner have expended the amounts
which were for the interest of said
CARROTS estate.
You are further notified that I'M
less you pay your proportion of such
expenditure together with the cost of
this advertisement to the under
signed within ninety days from the
last publication of this notice your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the undersigned CO.
owner under said Section 1924, Re-
vised Statutes of the United States.
RINGWALD BLIX.
First publication, March 8, 1915.
Last publication, June IS, 1915.
The Chitina leader., 1915-05-11
Since Capt. Frederick Mears,

Since Capt. Frederick Mears
member of the Alaska Engineering
Commission, took up his headquar
ters at Ship Creek a week or more
ago he has been deluged with in.
quiries of ell kinds from the hun
dreds of men who have gathered
around the construction camp. This
has prompted him to make the fol-
lowing announcements:
The following appointments in the
railroad force are announced for the
information of all concerned: e.,
R. E. Remore, carpenter foreman,
will have charge of all carpenter
work at Ship Creek. A'>--. So. l-s
Dave McEachern, pile driver fore
man, will have charge of all pile
driver and dock work in that
vicinity. 4'>E# @ 42.s- -
c. G. Jones, foreman. will have
charge of all grading, track laying
and clearing gangs. ~
K. X. Kinney, locating engineer,
will take charge of locating party
No. 1 and will make final location
in that district from Eagle River to
Matanuska coal fields.
=" c. r. Brock, ir, locating engineer,
will take charge of locating party
No. 3, and will make preliminary
md final location in the Broad Pass
District.