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The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-09

All interested in the Main Spring camp ground are requested to meet there Tuesday, August l5, to repair the buildings and clean off the grounds. Bring something with which to worw and your dinner.
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The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-09
DECLARES FOR
 NEW CONSTITUTION
14,000 or More Majority in Ten nessee-COnference of May Ors and Other City Officials Recommend Arkansas Move.
By Clio Harper.

Little Rock, Aug. 9.-The action of the people of Tennessee, who, by a majority of 14,000 or more, have de- clared for new constitution, fur 'nishes another strong argument for the Constitutionalists of Arkansas. Shall our state continue to lag be- hind the procession, with it's out-worn document, and the many vital ques- tions confronting the people at this time?
 Another forward step was taken when conference of mayors and other city officials, held here last week, recommended that the legisla- ture shall call a constitutional con- Ivention for the summer of 1917. Ev- cry city in the state is vitally inter- ested in the revenue problem. Not all of them have been so fortunate in financing their affairs as has Little Rock through the superior tact of Mayor Chas. E. Taylor. And even in Little Rock it is realized that the change of administration to a less ag- gressive and resourceful man would bring about serious complications. The credit of municipality, like that of an individual, is based largely upon personality. When it becomes neces- sary to adopt make-shifts to "get by" it is imperative that necessary relief be given by removal of the consti- tutional restrictions that are today the greatest incubus on material ad- vancement in Arkansas.
 This is the sentiment, not only of those who are charged with the man agement of municipal affairs, but of the builders of good roads, the devel- opment of natural resources through foreign capital, and the upbuilding of public institutions. There are still a few of the ultra conservatives who fear that good men would not be elected to the convention, and hat there would be a tendency to run rampant after all the fantasies of eX- perimental legislation. But Dr.. Brough sounded the keynote, echoed by the business interests of the state, when he declared that it is time to stop playing peanut politics and to get down to business; that he has con- fidence in the people that they will elect their best and most representa- tive men to draft the new organic law of the state.
 The fact that the Democratic state convention put a declaration for d new constitution in the state platform
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-09

drawn to the eastern Isonzo to avoid severe losses to them but says the fighting in the Gorizia region con tinues with unabated stubbornness and the Austrians have repulsed sev- eral Italian attacks.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-09

adds to the strength of the Constitu- tionalists' plea, and will have strong influence upon the approaching legis- lature. It is the first time the party has been committed to it, and great hopes are entertained by the progress sive element that next summer will witness the assembling of a constitu- tional convention in Little Rock.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-08-09

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theory is that that was his fathers
tGustavusD home, and that on his mar
rage he built the house on his an
cestral upper Fairfax lands and called
1t Strawberry Vale Manor. His for
tunes declined and some time in the
twenties he removed. with several
members of his family, to Pickaway
county, Ohio, where he died in 1870.
His wife was born in Fairfax county
in 1880. died in Ohio in 1892.
The first of their children was Mary
Ann Scott, born at Strawberry Vale
January 10. 1904 She was married at
Western View in September. 1927, to
William Bussard Franklin of George
town. who was born in 1904. and died in
1879. Mrs. Franklin died at Chillicothe.
Ohio. in 1912. and her widower married,
in 1s45. Elizabeth Lee Bell daughter of
Charles Bell of FauQuier county. Mr..
Franklin was a member of the Whig
Society in 1920, and studied law under
Francis Scott Key. He and his wife
lived in Georgetown and three of their
children were born there-Catherine,
in 1928: John Scott Franklin. in 1929,
and Ann Love Franklin. in 1881. He
removed to Chillicothe. Ohio, in 1881.
Two of their children. born in Ohio,
were Gustavus Scott Franklin, L. S. N.
and Charles Love Franklin, L. S. y. By
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Rambler Writes of Old Strawberry Vale Manor

and died in Germantown. Pennsyi-
vania. January "a. 1851. He married
Elizabeth Ellen slesman Of Philadei-
Ellen Selden Scott. born al western
View April 2. 1917. and died at Cow
ried Philip Alexander Doddridge Of
Chillicothe.
The Rambler must tell something OF
the family owning Strawberry Vale
now. Mrs. Shook on her fathers aide
is descended from Jansen Hoagland.
who came, from Holland and settled at
Flatbush. Long Island. in 1894. Early
in the last century her grandfather
moved to Jefferson county, W. Va. and
established a wooden mill near Charles
Town. Then he moved to Middletown.
Loudon county, and established .
wooden mill. His son Jackson Hoag-
land. moved to Fairfax county and took
up lands in the ancient Scott grant
Mrs. Shocks mother was Miss Amanda
Hart descendant of John Hart OF
New Jersey. one of the signers OF the
Declaration of Independence. Mr..
Shocks father was Benjamin Shook.
who kept a hardware store at Harpers
Ferry before the civil war and before
the John Brown attack. His mother
was the daughter OF German princess.
a portrait of whose father hangs in
the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Mr. and Mrs. shook were married In
1873, and settled at Spring Hill. be-
tween Washington and Great Fails.
They went to Massachusetts, to live,
but owing to the climate. they re-
turned to Fairfax county and bought
Strawberry Vale.
The Rambler was led to this house
ID fnt.n r1 lArr
Lee once lived there. This man. as the
Rambler has written, was one OF the
distinguished members OF the First
Congress of the United States, and one
of the leading advocates OF the plan 10
establish the permanent seat OF gov
eminent of the United states on the
Potomac river. He died here March IL.
1927 Mrs Richard Bland Lee, born
Elizabeth Collins. daughter OF Stepnen
and Mary Parish Collins of Philadel-
mia, died in Washington June "a. 1883.
In reference to Mrs. Lee, the Rambler
took the following from the National
Intelligencer of Friday. June 20. 1858:
Death-In this city yesterday morning In the
tinction and usefulness. Mrs. Richard Bland
Lee, relict OF Richard Bland Lee. one Of the
of yirsinin, and for many years eminent
politician OF the Washington school, Mrs. Lee
was native OF fhs sr,,srr ,-Ss nam, n.r
age ut the time of her death nearly nine-one
years. The funeral OF the departed lady will
take place this day at O'Clock pm. from her
late residence. No. ans 9th street. which the
friends of the deceased and OF her family are
respectfully invited to attend.
At what time Richard Bland Lee lived
at Strawberry Vale the Rambler does
not know. The parents of Mr.. Lee. who
were Col. Henry Lee and Lucy Grymes.
lived on a plantation on Freestone
point. jutting out into the Potomac on
the south side Of Occoquan bay about
twelve miles below Mount Vernon.
They called the place Leesylvania, and
both are buried there. fiiia
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twenty-eight years minister of Over
wharton Parish, Virginia. and died In
ing born the twentieth of July. 1886.
and departed this life the first day of
April, 1888"
Such facts as have been preserved or
recovered concerning this old Scotch
Virginian and Church of England
preacher can be found in some Virginia
church histories. He was mentioned
by Bishop Meade in his writings on the
old churches and families of Virginia.
The Rev Alexander Scott had
brother. the Rev. James Scott, who was
also a Church of England clergyman
When he came to Virginia the Rambler
does not know. but he was in America
before 1888, for early in that year he
was married to Sarah Brown, daugh-
ter of DR.. Gustavus Brown and Frances
Fowke Brown. The marriage took
place at the brides home. Rich Hill,
near Port Tobacco. in Charles county.
Md. The brides mother was related to
George Mason, the builder of Gunston
Hall. The Rev. James Scott became
rector of Dettingen parish in Prince
William and Fairfax counties. the par
ish. If the Rambler's memory is in
Truro parish, with the famous Pohick
Church and the equally famous Christ
Church at Alexandria and Falls Church.
the Rev. James Scott lived on a farm
called Westwood, on Quantico creek.
1t was a glebe of four hundred acres
which the parish bought from Thomas
Harrison.
Mrs. Alexander Scott the widow Brent
had several children by her first marriage.
and many of them and their descendants
became distinguished in American an
nails. but IT would appear that the Rev.
Alexander Scott Left no children. for his
estates were inherited by his brother. the
Rev. James Scott. And it is in the will Of
the Rev. Alexander Scott that one gets
some light on his holdings in the vicinity
of Washington. Under that will James
Scott inherited the Dipple estate and eight
county. 2,S23 acres on Carriers run in
Fauquier county. 1850 acres elsewhere
in that county and a.o0O acres In Fair
fax county. He also inherited thirty
corning this will may be found in Hen
ing's Statutes of Virginia. but the Ram
bier does not now know how these lands
were obtained by the Rev Alexander
Scott 1t may be that some of them came
through his marriage to the widow Brent,
but the Ramblers belief Is that they were
pense for the importation or assisted i'm
migration of Servants" or indentured
white settlers The Rev, James Scott.
1850 acres in Kentucky for an importa-
ton Of SO servants" and that tract ne
bequeathed to his sons and the children
VI 1T. WI brown.
When Rev James Scott died. his will
being probated August 2. 1882. he left
some of his Fairfax county lands to his
son john and he left his Fauquier county
lands to his sons. Gustavus and Will
liam. portion of the Fairfax lands
going to Gustavus James Scott's will
is long and minute one. dealing with
numerous household articles such as
chairs, tables. bed sheets, blankets. pill
lows and the like. The witnesses to
the will were John Macmillan, George
Graham. Robert r. Young and David
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his second marriage Mr.. Franklin had
several children. who are still living
His first child by the later marriage he
named Richard Bland Lee Franklin.
That child died i'm infancy.
Jane Selden Scott was born at Straw
berry Vale October 16. 1906: married
William Ballard Brown of Norfolk at
Western View October 30, 1925, and died
at Columbus. Ohio, September II. 1881
One of her sons was James Finley
Brown. noted Columbus editor
Gustavus Scott was born at Straw
berry Vale November IL. 1907, and died
at Gallatin Mo-. in 1867. He married
Elizabeth Donalds of Chillicothe in 1s47
John Caile Scott was born at Straw
berry Vale July H. 1909. and died at
Philadelphia February 5. 1875. He mar
ried Louisiana Slesman, daughter of
George S1esman of Philadelphia, in
1892.
There were other children of John Gale
Scott and Ann Love. There was Har-
riet Lane Scott, born in Alexandria in
1871 and died in Columbus, Ohio, in
1865. Her first husband was Ashabel
Renick and her second was the Rev.
Thomas Woodrow of the Presbyterian
Church. an ancestor of President Will
son. Another child Charles Love
Scott, was born at the Love home,
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Crowley. There was a supplementary
will explanatory of some of the pro-
visions of the first will. and the wit
nesses to that were Thomas Mason.
David d. Jameson and Robert X.
Young Sarah. his widow, died in the
spring of 1884 and was buried at Dip
pie. The Rambler understands that one
of the daughters of Rev. James Scott
and Sarah Brown became the wife of
Col. Thomas Blackburn Of Ripon Lodge.
not far from Dumfries
When Gustavus Scott died he left the
Fairfax lands, which he had inherited
from his father James. who had them
from his brother. Alexander. to his son.
John Gale Scott. This Scott was close
ly identified with Strawberry Vale
Manor Whether he was the builder of
the house the Rambler does not know,
but several of John C.. SCOTS children
were born there. John Gale Scott was
born in 1882. In 1902 he married Ann
Love, daughter of Samuel Love of
Salisbury. Fairfax county. At the
time Of his marriage this John Scott
was living at Western View, in Gull
pepper county. Va. and the Ramblers
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connecting the town of Candle with the
gold bearing creeks. Both lines are OF
a narrow gauge. At this writing Meth
err is working.
The summers of the Seward PENN
sula are delightful. AS write this the
air is full of ozone and the thermorh-
eter is about eighty degrees above zero.
The country is covered with green.
There are wild flowers everywhere, and
the lowlands have a thick mat of vege-
tation composed of mosses, grass and
flowers. There are many bushes and
blueberries and SaImonberries are to
be had for the picking. The greater
part of the country is rolling, and there
are rounded hills that rise to a height
of from 500 to $500 feet above the sea
so far, the most of the gold has been
found in tle beds of the creeks and in
the coastal plains. consisting of old sea
beaches. This gold is all free gold. but
ii is believed that quartz gold will yet
be found in the mountains.
Until 1898. when the gold fields of
Nome were discovered. the Seward pc
ninsula was one of the least known
parts of the world. Ii was looked upon
as a barren waste, and its only popu-
1ation three or four hundred Eskimos
and score or more of whites who
was so Notwithstanding the country
was one of the first to be discovered by
the Russians. 1t is now two centuries
since they learned it existed. and. two
years after our Declaration of INDIE
pendence was signed. Capt. James Cook
Travelled along the coast and surveyed
it, The Russians established fur
trading post at st. Michael in 1885, just
two years after Chicago became an in
corporated town. They built block
house there and continued their settle
ment until Alaska was sold to the
United States
After we got possession of the ter
ritory we learned that there was some
gold in the peninsula: but it was not
until the stampede to the klondike oc-
Cured that much attention was paid
to its possibilities. After that pros
pectors began working along the south
coast. They found some gold near Go
lofnin bay, and then drifted north and
prospected along the Snake river. which
flows into the ocean at Nome. Here
good indications were found, and here,
in 1898, the three lucky Swedes. Jafet
Lindeberg, Erik Lindbloom and John
Brynteson, made the discovery on Anvil
creek which showed that Nome was to
be one of the richest placer gold camps
OF the world.
The news Of the discovery Of the three
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that family. Three thousand acres of
land in that part of Virginia was
Scott grant. This old house and the
them bring to the Rambler's mind a
family which is related to large num-
Der of the land-holding families of Vir-
ginia. Maryland and the District of Co
lumbia. and whose descendants today
are numerous in the middle west, espe-
cially in Ohio. Near the house of Straw
berry Vale are graves, but no monu
ments to indicate whose bones rest
there.
There came to Virginia, early in the
eighteenth century, and certainly prior
to 111T. Scotch clergyman, whose
name was Alexander Scott. He was
born in Dipple parish, Elgin, Scotland
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IL.
INVENTED
CLEANSING BATTLEEIELD.

and their hidden corners must be by
some continuous irrigation of the
wounds with a chemical liquid capable
OF killing the germs. but. as the rou-
tine authorities claimed. all known
antiseptic liquids which killed microbes
were SO caustic that they would also
XIII or dangerously lrrtate the living
tissues corrode to the blood vessels
and cause hemorrhage.
IL was then. in this dilemma. that
Dr. Carrel asked the American chem
list. DIR. Henry ID. Dakin. to search for
the magical, unknown liquid which
many famous authorities claimed could
not be successfully applied, even should
IL be discovered
Dakin got to work. Aided by the
French chemist, Daufresne, they studied
perfecting the sterilizing solution
which saw. shining, limpid. pale pink
and beautiful in a great glass ampoule
high up at the head of every brass
bedstead Of the Compiegne Hospital.
and often at the foot of the bed. or
wherever IL could be hung-the magical
pink liquid which saves poor soldiers"
They found it in September, 1915. 1t
is. chemically, hypochloride of soda in
> per cent solution. Its formula has
been given to the scientific world.
ready. 1t kills the microbes without
irritating the tissues. without being
poisonous to the organism. remains
able and costs less than l cent per
quart.
Even today the most striking thing
is carrels method of applying the
liquid, although. of course. 1t Is used
in congresses on trepanned skulls and
In other special ways In special cases.
and he carefully points out that this
method OF irrigation Is "only a method.
and we have others.
Hanging high. at head or foot of the
bedstead, or at both--but always high,
to obtain a good pressure--is the great
ampoule of pink liquid: Leading down
from IL is a long, flexible rubber tube
which goes straight to the wound.
When 1t reaches the wound this rub
Der tube branches, often by means OF
a fork-pronged glass Joint. into as
many little rubber tubes of all lengths
necessary, closed at their ends. but
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July 30. 1856. and he died at his estate
which he called Dipple. I'm Stafford
county. Va, about thirty-five miles
SON of Rev John Scott of Dipple par
ish Scotland. who was born in 1850 and
died in 1726. Rev. Alexander Scott
married, on May ~, 1717, Sarah Glib
bons Brent. n daughter of William Glib
bons of Wiltshire, England. and the
widow of William Brent of Richards,
Stafford county. near Aqua creek.
The old estate of Dipple is about two
miles from Richlands station, on the
railroad to Fredericksburg. and there
one may read a gravestone inscribed ::
Here Ives the body of the Rev. Alex
ander Scott. A. NJ. and Presbeter of
the Church of England, who lived near
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How the poor rough fellows delight
in their pink pajamas, II was worth
the trip to see them.
And the long session Of scientific ex-
plantations. with the living subjects be-
fore me. grew. itself. to be a wonder
ment. well worth the labor I had taken
to obtain three days at the front from
the French war department Profess
sionaI men will find the story told for
them In technical reviews. which are
hurryinR to get IL out ahead OF each
other. This Is what I saw and heard
All the same. / have tried to preserve
the sharp. clear explanations of Dr.
Carrel, given beside the patients. in
sight of the wound. or in the iabora-
tories. before a blackboard. with for
mulas and colored slides projected on
q screen, which follow the course OF
the magical healing OF wounds which,
otherwise. in half the cases, would
have meant amputation or death.
First. l must tell the Iife-and deaf IA
assistants and all the hospital sur
geons in this war land. IL may be added.
all the surgeons and doctors who have
TO deal with wounds in all parts of the
earth. The after-war applications of
the discovery will be one compensation
of the hateful slaughter.
The problem was to find liquid and
q method of applying IL which would
keep wounds clean from the micro bes
which so nearly always infect them,
ana kill the microbes without killing.
burning or eating away the living It's
sues OF the wounded man At the same
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lucky Swedes caused the great stampede
to this part Of the world. In the fall OF
1898 Nome, then called Anvil City, had a
population of $50. BY the end of the
next year it had 5000: and the first and
second sailings of 1900 alone brought in
10000 more. row of tents and shacks,
five miles long. was built along the sea-
shore. The country about was honey
combed with pits. During one year 4.aoo
mining claimS were recorded. and from
fifty of these claims was taken out more
than a million and half dollars worth
of gold
Then the first gold was found in the
sands of the seashore. II was discovered
by a United states soldier. who was ac-
customed to pan out enough every day or
so for an extra meal Then missouri
BIZ made his big strike. washing out
$4,000 worth of gold in one day; and
little later 1000 men Were engaged IN
beach mining. They averaged from $50
to 500 day each, and within less than
two months they had taken out more
than a million dollars by means of hand
rockers from the sand in front or Nome
This gold was found in kind OF ruby
sand which lay on the shore in beds OF
from six inches to two feet in thickness.
Some of the sand was rich In gold, and
the beach mining created great excite
nlent i. All sorts Of theories were ad-
yanced as to gold in the ocean. and every
one expected to make fortune. Many
got as much as from IS to SO pan: and
not few took out thirty or forty thou
sand dollars each from their little sea-
shore claims. Today any one can wash
three or four dollars day out of the
Nome sands. and there are some miners
still at work there.
When the beach mining was at its
height the people went crazy. Mining
cradles were in great demand and the
price of lumber rose to $500 thousand
feet Coal brought from $50 to 500
ton, and cabins and shacks of one room
sold for 5000 each. Wages at once
Jumped to $40 a day, and during part
OF the time to 81 an hour. Then the
sands began to play out. In 1900 those
in front of Nome yielded s350.000. but
the next year they had dropped to $780,
900, and now their output can be count
ed by hundreds. 1t is the same with
the other beach mines along the coast
Some of them yielded hundreds of
thousands of dollars, but they were
soon washed out.
In the meantime the output of the
mines discovered along the creeks flow
ing into Snake river and on the plain
back of Nome steadily increased. and
it is this region that is being mined
today. II you will imagipe grassy