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The American
Woman
in Alaska
y Mrs. cA. W. Greety "1
Wife of Famous Explorer Tells
of Her Experiences In the Far
North A City Where It Is
Nearly, Always Raining The
Gateway to the Klondike
Hardships Endured by Army
Off Jeers' Wives and Other
Women.
(Copyright, 1M, by Joseph B. Bowleg.)
(Mrs. t-Tenrletta N. Greely, wife of Gen.
A. VV. Greely, Uie distinguished arctic ex
plorer, has trafeled widely and as a re
sult of her observations has written for
publication with considerable success.)
From the nation's capital to Alaska
Is a far reach. Crossing the Alleghe
nies through the kilning regions of
Pennsylvania, so picturesque except
where defaced by man's grimy pur
suits; through busy Chicago; rushing
over the western plains; across the
Rockies and we find ourselves on the
evening of the fifth day at Seattle,
embarking on the steamship Humboldt
for the famous inland passage.
Here on the ship I am surprised
to see how many women are travel
ing to Alaska. Of course, the Inland
passage has been a favorite trip for
15 years or more, but the large pro
portion of women among the excur
sionists, many of them in parties of
two or three -without escorts, indi
cates that conditions have materially
Improved in this part of the world.
In fact, the ease and comfort with
which we travel greatly astonish me.
i. We were fortunate in having per
fect weather through the three days
and four nights of the voyage from
Seattle to Skagway, Alaska. I deplore
the limited space which forbids my
dwelling upon the surpassingly im
pressive scenery. With the exception
of occasional passing steamers and
still rarer collections of rough build
ings on the shores, usually salmon
canneries, we saw little of human life
'Until the third day, when we passed
several boats loaded with Indians.
In one Instance they had rigged an
impromptu and very primitive sail to
their rowboat, which contained some
12 persons, men, women and children.
These Indians, the larger proportion
women, were going to work in the
canneries. The only occupation for
the natives is the catching, drying and
canning of the salmon and a new in
dustry is greatly needed.
! Late on the third day we reach
Juneau, opposite which is Douglas is
land and the great Treadwell gold
mine. It is remarkable that the larg
est stamp mill 1 the world should be
found In this wild. An act of con
gress made Juneau the capital of
Alaska. The town is built on the side
of a hill so steep that the houses seem
to be hanging from It. Back of this
rises a sharp range of higher hills
that form a barrier protecting the
town from the frequent snow ava
lanches of the great mountains, which,
In turn, rise perpendicularly behind
this natural wall.
As illustrating the weather of Ju
neau, it is said that an old Indian
woman, on being asked if it always
rained in Juneau, after a moment's
hesitation, replied: "Sometimes it
snows." It was raining as we entered
the harbor, but we were not deterred
from a. stroll through the town. We
found good plank walks and saw some
quaint, artistic little houses and sev
eral churches with an effort at archi
tecture. I was struck by the frequent
evidence of woman's hand in the pot
ted plants in many windows, while
the women and children whom we
saw surprised me by being quite like
those one would meet in any small
-western town. A few Indian women
-were selling curios, among which bas
kets were the exception. The native
women are retrograding in basket
making. They have largely discarded
BOY WANTED
At Least He Was Truthful, If Some
what Undiplomatic.
The late Prof. Park, of Andover,
Mass., always gave generously to
charitable objects. Several years ago
the Sunday school children were in
terested in getting funds for the
Thanksgiving dinner for the Little
Wanderers Home in Boston. A lit
tle boy who was soliciting for this
dinner approached the professor's
residence and found the venerable
gentleman pacing to and fro on the
board walk in front of bis Louse.
The little fellow was quite baJhful,
but being anxious to obtain the pro
fessor's donation stated his errand.
"The reverend gentleman stopped in
'his walk, and as he looked down at
the embarrassed lad a kindly twinkle
.crept into his eyes.
"Well, my b:y." said' he. "wouldn't
you be sorry Jf I should have to go to
the poorhouse because I give you this
money "ir the uttie wanaerers am
' er!"
the vegetable dyes, which produce the
tender, mellow tints for which Alas
kan baskets were formerly noted, for
the aniline dyes with their crude,
bright colors. The supply of local bas
kets does not equal the demand and
many are imported from the United
States, to be brought back by trav
elers. Skagway, the termination of the In
land passage, was reached on a Sun
day in August.
. Skagway resembles Juneau in the
character of its rough frame bullu
ings, but there are fewer indications
of woman's taste. One good stone
building attracted our attention. We
were particularly struck with the evi
dence of precaution against fire, of
which there is a great dread in Alas
kan towns. There is an army post
here and the soldiers have actel as
firemen very efficiently In many in
stances. We attended the Episcopal
service, which was held in a small
room over a store in one of the rough
buildings peculiar to Alaska. There
were about 30 persons In the congre
gation. A small parlor organ was
very well played by a Minneapolis
woman, a teacher of music in the
town, and the choir consisted of four
persons.
Such a wonderful trip as we had
over the White pass! Skagway and
Dyea, situated on either arm of Lynn
canal, unheard of in June, 1897, were
towns of some thousands, of Inhabit
ants the following October. They are
the gateways respectively of the
White pass and the Chilcoot pass.
The only two convenient entrances
to the Yukon country, these passes
were made known to the world by the
misery, resulting from the rush
through them when gold discoveries
were first made in the Klondike re
gion. As the White pass was selected
for the railway, Skagway steadily
grows.
My attention was attracted, onthe
passage up, to a family disembarking
at Juneau. The man, the proprietor of
a shop, after two years alone In Ju
neau, was returning with his family.
The little wife appeared very much
dissatisfied with the first view of her
new home. I noted that it was the
women of the middle class who seem
to object most to life in these wilds.
The poorer women accept the discom
forts as pertaining to their life any
where and the few women of the high
er class who find themselves in this
country rise superior to the small
daily trials of life In a new and un
formed community. The wife of an
old army officer who surprised her
son In Alaska by a visit found herself
compelled to pass the winter in a log
cabin 15 feet square, which was the
best habitation" her son and his two
partners in the gold fields were able
to offer her. She found the quarters
rather limited for four persons, but
she not - only accepted the situation
with equanimity, but went to work
with a will, making her family of three
young men very comfortable.
The wife of a river captain, who
was also the daughter of a clergyman,
was "coming out" after having passed
the winter with her husband in his
boat tied up at the mouth of Stewart
river, which empties into the Yukon
about 75 miles from Dawson. She
seemed a very superior woman and
her experiences were most interest
ing. She told me that she had abso
lutely enjoyed the winter, although
she had not seen a human being but
her husband and the five employes of
the boat through the entire season.
The captain and herself had read
aloud to each other and played end
less games of piquet and other games.
They had walked regularly twice a
day on land, although snowshoes were
necessary. She had done a large
amount of beautiful embroidery, nec
essarily by lamplight, and had busied
herself In the care of house plants.
When she determined to pass the
winter on Stewart river, finding a
great demand for well-made dresses In
Dawson, this lady disposed of the
greater part of her wardrobe at prices
far beyond cost. On her return to
Dawson In the spring a luncheon was
given her by a number of friends, and
being asked what special delicacy they
could provide, she expressed a wish
for something fresh after her long
season of canned goods. A water
melon was the result of the confer
ence, which later she was startled to
learn had cost $7.50. This-' was not
so bad, however, as $25 had Been
paid In Dawson for a single melon.
The ever vexatious servant question
Is naturally more acute in Alaska than
elsewhere. Wages vary with one's
ability to pay. The wife of an army
officer stationed at Fort Egbert, who
had brought in a Japanese cook, under
contract at $75 a month, was forced
to part with him at the end of a few
weeks, as he was offered $125 a
month. The wives of. the officers at
Skagway were doing tyielr own work,
having also lost for higher wages the
servants they had brought to Alaska
with them.' But no hardship or diffi
culties seem to deter the American
woman, particularly of the army, from
what seems to be her place and duty.
There is scarcely a camp in Alaska,
however remote or unpromising, that
is not graced by the presence of re
fined women.
THE MONEY
"No, sir," the boy promptly replied,
whereupon Prof? Park threw his head
back in his characteristic way, and
laughing heartily, handed the boy a
dollar bill.
The Sneeze-Wood Tree.
This queer name l's given to a cer
tain tree that is native to Natal and
other parts of South Africa. Work
men cannot saw or plane it without
sneezing, the dust having precisely the
same effect as the strongest snuff,
The wood has a bitter taste, and in
sects give it a wide berth. For this
reason it is much used for work that
is required to last a long time. ,
An Indulgent Depositor.
Pat Shaughnessy, hearing that the
bank in which he kept his savings
had failed, rushed around with his
bank book and demanded all his
money. The baying teller straight
way began, to-count it out. "d, ye've
got it, have ye?" said Shaughnessy
with a sigh of relief. "Kape.it, then.
01 don't want it as. long as ye have
It" Everybody's Magazine. '
TRADE AT HOME
Why Farmer Should Give
His Support to the
Local Merchant.
PRESERVES HIS OWN MARKET
Depreciation of Village Property
Must Inevitably Mean Deprecia
tion of Agricultural Property
and Encouragement of '
Monopoly.
.Cojyrlght, 1906, by Alfred C. Clark.)
The most serious problem taat con
fronts tho ' rural towns and villages
of this country is the competition of
fered local enterprises by the cata
logue houses of the large cities. It is
a problem for which a solution must
be found if the prosperity and sta
bility of the nation Is to stand.
And the solution of th!3 great prob
lem lies in the hanr'i of the people of
the towns and villages and the farms,
especially the farms.
The people of the rural communities
have everything to lose and nothing
Give your town a chance by patronizing your local merchants and you
may confidently expect its growth in business and population and a raise In
real estate valuation. Send your money
iook tor tne reverse, i ne picture tens
to gain by sending their money to
the catalogue houses, by passing by
their local merchants and sending
their dollars to the concerns who have
absolutely no interest In their com
munities. These catalogue houses do not pay
taxes in your town; the local mer
chant does. They do not build side
walks in your town; the local mer
chant does. They do not contribute
to the building of roads over which
the crops of the farms are hauled to
market; the local merchant does.
They do not help to build school
houses for your children; the local
merchant does. They do not assist In
the support of your churches; the
local merchant does.
But there are some things the cata
logue houses do for you and the
first and greatest of these Is to assist
materially in bankrupting your com
munity. The . dollars they take awayjy
never come back to you. iney win
never help to make a city of your vil
lage. They will never increase the
value of -your real-estate holdings by
making local improvements.
Let us look at the subject from the
standpoint of The farmer, for It is the
farmer who Is the greatest patron or
tho catalogue houses.
The town or village one, two or
three miles from his home is his mar
ket for the butter and eggs and other
nroduce of his farm. The half dozen
or more merchants of the town, each
anxious to obtain his full share of the
business of the community, maintain
a competition thr.t affords to the
farmer at all times top prices for the
products of his farm. It is these half
dozen merchants that make farm
profits possible; the profits are in no
way due to the catalogue houses of
the cities.
But the farmer persists in sending
his dollars to the city. He wants a
buggy, or a set of harness, or a pair
of stockings, or any of the necessities
or luxuries of life, and to get them he
takes out his mail order catalogue and
looks at the finely printed cuts, reads
the well written description, and, pass
ing the local merchant by, the mer
chant who has purchased his produce
at the best market prices, the mer
chant who has helped to build 'the
community, he sends his dollars to
the catalogue house In the city and
takes what they choose to send him.
What is the result?
One after another the doors of the
local stores are closed, and where at
one time there were half a dozen mer
chants, each bidding for his share of
patronage by offering fair prices for
that .which the farmer had to sell.
there is now but one merchant who
has a monopoly, not enly of the sell
ing, but of the buying as well, and he
pays what he pleases for the farmer's
produce. ,
The farmer can continue to send his
money to the catalogue house in the
city for his supplies, but he cannot
send his produce to the same place.
In disposing of that he Is absolutely
dependent upon his local merchant,
and by his patronage of the catalogue
houses ho had killed competition, and
must now take whatever is offered for
what he has to sell. .'
Mr. Farmer, are you helping to kill
the goose that is laying your golden
3gg? .M '
Are you sending your dollars to tile
:atalogue houses and by, so doing kill
ng the local industries of your town?
Aro you putting your merchants out
it business, and creating a monopoly
hat will pay you what it pleasea fox
.be products of your farm? ...
If you are doing these things It li
time for you to stop anf consider the
future. You will have to look but a
little way ahead to see the result, and
it will not be an attractive picture that
greets you. The prosperous com
munity of which you are now a part
will fade like the summer flowers be
fore the winter winds, and almost as
quickly. '
It is the fact that there Is a market
within close proximity to your farm
that makes your acres valuable. The
men who maintain this local market
for you are the men who cause the
railroad trains to stop at your town.
Tak;e them away and soon the town
will be wiped off the map. The
churches will close tof lack of support
The schools will cease to be a pride,
and your sons and daughters will lack
the opportunity that Is theirs by right
of birth, and your acres, that are now
valuable because they lie in close
proximity to a market, will show a
depreciation that will astonish you.
Tur interests are identical with
those of the merchants of your town.
By sending your dollars to the city
you may cause the merchants to close
their establishments, but when they
are forced to this they pan pack their
stock of goods and go elsewhere, but
you cannot rack up your farm and
move it; your acres must lie in the
to the catalogue houses and you may
tne story or the possibilities.
bed you have builded for them whether
it be fair or foul, and it is "up to you,"
Mr. Farmer, to spend your money at
home, and In this way you can solve
the greatest problem that now con
fronts this country.
Will you do it? ,
YANKEE IN DIAMOND FIELDS.
Commissions to Study a Country
Which Produces Such Men.
Mr. Alfred Mosely is an Englishman
who admires American ways so much
that he sends commissions here to
study us.
Mr. Mosely does not admire us
without a reason. It is not a very
specific reason. Its name Is Mr. Gard
ner F. Williams, and it Is by way of
being an American mining engineer.
Mr. Williams directs the diamond out
put of the world.
Mr: Mosely made his fortune in
South Africa. He watched Cecil
Rhodes' dream of empire develop and
knew the men who made It real. The
one who took his imagination was
Gardner Williams, x
Here was a man who had left
Michigan at the age of 15 to go with
a pioneering father to California in
the flush days of the early mining
camps, had had a taste of California
mining, had gone when still a young
man to explore In South Africa and
had become a general manager of the
great monopoly of the diamond
mines.
A fighter of financial battles and a
manager of men, a writer, a scientist
and one of the world's greatest en
gineers, he .so stamped his personali
ty on the people among whom he
lived that he was feted and cheered
by all South Africa when he retired
last spring and came 'back to the
United States to build a home for his
leisure years in the land of his birth.
World's Work.
Reed's Unruly Tenant.
There used to live in Portland Joseph
Reed, an uncle of the late Speaker
Reed. He was a very large man, and
was never known to lose his temper.
He had an office on-Exchange street,
up one flight of stairs.
One day he sent one of his tenants,
who was. behind ,ln his rent, a five
days' notice to move, which made his
tenant very mad. He called on Mr.
Reed boiling oyer with rage, using
some very profane language.
Mr. Reed was sitting and writing at
a desk. He replied in his quiet, easy
voice: "Mr. Stevens, you are mad.
and you must not come up here when
you are mad."
, Mr.v Stevens , kept right on, only
worse, if anything, when Mr. Reed
started to get up, saying in the same
easy tone of voice: "Mr. Stevens, you
must, go right down stairs, or I will
have to cuff you." '
Mr. Stevens went quietly down
stairs.
In After Years..
Father Time had been swinging hla
scythe for 20" years when they accl
dentally met again. He was a bache
lor of 45, bald and slightly disfigured,
but still in the ring. She a spinster,
fat and 40, but not as fair as she used
to be.
"Do you remember,, she gurgled,
"how you proposed to - me the last
time we met and I refused you?"
"Well, I guess yes," he replied. "It
Is by long odds "the happiest recollec
tlon of my life." v
And seeing it was a hopeless case
she meandered along on her lonelj
way. . :
HAVE ODD BELIEFS
PET SUPERSTITIONS FOUND THE
WORLD OVER.
Strange Remediee and Meant of Ward
ing Off Disease Mystic Number
Barred From Austro-Hurv
garian Hospitals.
"Pet superstitions and delusions can
be found in every household. When
there is a case of sickness in the
bouse and some domestic animal dies
you will find that some think the pa
tient will surely recover. The most
persistent superstlons in the world
are those that are based upon the
habits of animals," said Dr. J. Dudley
Morgan, of Washington. "If one is
walking at night and a spiderweb
brushes the face It is supposed to
mean that a ghost is following, but in
daytime it tells that a stranger Is
coming. The neigh of a horse Is a
portent of death which will come from
the quarter from which, his head is
pointing when he neighs.
"The hair of a dog, the skin of a
snake and the pelt of a black cat are
believed to possess medicinal qualities,
while the handling of a toad is said to
give warts. German Canadians are
full of superstition. A white spider
crawling toward one, the howling of a
dog, the sight of a snake all foretell
death. The killing of a toad or the
crowing of a hen foretells rain. If the
cat washes its face it means that vis
itors are coming. If a bee stings kill
it and the wound will not swell.. The
black tooth of a hog and the blood of a
black hen have curative powers.
"In a certain district in Germany the
touch of a corpse's hand is still re
garded as curative of many local ills.
Less grewsome Is the remedy for
hernia still applied in the marsh coun
try. On the night of St. John the Bap
tist's day, June 24, a patient must be
dragged through the split of a cleft
ash tree. Three men bearing the
first name of John must perform the
operation and it must be conducted in
dead silence. For erysipelas a fire Is
lighted and a pinch of ashes from it is
rubbed on the skin, to the accompani
ment of a saying to the effect that the
ashes and the sore went over the Red
sea together, the ash came back but
the sora never again. "
"Recently in Georgetown a police,
man was bitten by a supposed poison
ous snake and the old remedy of kill
Ing chickens, cutting them open and
applying them to the bite until the
chickens were cold and did not turn
black was tried. Twenty-six chickens
were used on the policeman in ex
trading the poison. This remedy for
cramps is used to-day in other places
than Georgetown. 'On going to rest
put your slippers under the bed and
turn the soles upward.'
"In the wards of Garfield hospital
last fall there was a patient who in
sisted on keeping several apples under
hi3 bed to help the dropsy. The things
that people will carry within their
pockets, wear around their necks or
bodies or put on their fingers are
legion. Have a white potato in each
pocket of your trousers and you will
never be troubled with rheumatism or
if you suffer with cough and cold ex
change the potato for a lump of cam
phor. No doubt there are some of us
who now have a horse chestnut in our
pockets or are wearing a nickel ring.
Several years ago the writer was In
duced by an intelligent and consid
erate friend to wear a nutmeg for ob
stinate boils.
'In no other western European
country is superstition so prevalent as
In Austria-Hungary. Quite recently
the chamberlain's office changed the
number of box 13 in the Imperial opera
house and the Imperial Court theater
because the publid objected to sitting
in a box bearing this unlucky number.
But this superstition reaches Its height
in medicine. Speaking of the health
exhibition, Dr. Heinrich Grun declared
that In many instances superstition,
and especially local superstition, was
an absolute means to public health. In
the Austrian hospitals one finds no
block or pavilion 13, no ward 13 or
staircase 13. Very few patients will
consent to be operated on on the thir
teenth. And in that respect Friday,
too, is considered just as unlucky."
Severe on Arabian Women.
In a recently published book on
"Carthage and Tunis" the author
gives the most unattractive .pictures
of Arabian women. The Arab himself
he says, is generally "beautiful and
romantic enough to turn the head of
almost any woman," but the women
seem to be dirty, fat, silly, idle and
what we should really cair vulgar in
mind as well as In appearance. Obse-
slty seems to be a sine qua non of
Arabian women, and figures have usu
ally lost all their outline by the time
they make a good marriage. Yet the
craze for western clothes seems to be
growing upon these Tunisian beauties.
It seems they take a great interest in
the blouses of English visitors, and
when a harem can be penetrated it
gives the occupants exquisite joy to
finger and study the dress of their
English sisters.
Contributory Negligence.
The family jar waxed fiercer.
"You may talk about my being
to
blame for our marrying!" shrilly ex
claimed Mrs. Vlck-Senn. "John Henry,
did I hunt you out and make love to
you?"
"No!" he snorted. "But you conld
have given me the glassy eye and sent
me about my business, and you didn't
do It, madam you didn't do it!
Common Variety.
"Any big guns around here?" asked
the stranger who was taking up sub
scriptions for a high-toned magazine.
"No, neighbor," replied the postmas
ter of Bacon Ridge, "but we have
plenty of old guns."
"Old guns?" s
"Yes, you will find them behind the
stove talking politics. They are out
of date, rusty and always kicking."
No Smoke Nuisance.-
"No," said the pessimist, dismally,
"I don't expect to get to heaven. My
luck '11 be the other place, VII bet
you"
"Woll, replied the cptlmiBt, "even
if we do go there we may find that
they use hard coal." F'iiladelpbia
Pross. . . - ,
STATE ODDS
REPORTER DETECTIVES.
Police Chief Recommends That They
Be Given Police Power.
Cleveland, O. TLa police reporter
In his native state Is a highly Intelli
gent being and can give the best po
lice department sleuths cards and
spades and then beat them at their
own game, in tne opinion or meT.
Kohler, who bosses the Cleveland
bluecoats.
In his annual report to Mayor John-
eon Kohler makes the recommenda
tion that the police reporters employ
ed by the various Cleveland dailies be
given police powers.
"Because of their peculiar training
the police reporters are best fitted to
mingle in all classes of society. They
are quick and decisive in thought and
action. I wish to give the regular de
detectives full credit for their ability,
but the nature of police work in a city
of more than half a million population
is undergoing changes to which the
present detectives can not always
adapt themselves.
"The force should he enabled to
have police reporters at its command,
men of sufficient training and ability
to be able to mingle with any class of
society, and who would not be known
to the public as being In the employ
of the city."
"IT WOULD KILL MOTHER
If I Married You To-Day," Said the
Tearful Bride.
Marion, Ohio. After six years of ar
dent courtships, during which time his
marriage to Miss Mabelle Topliff, aged
21, of La Rue, has twice been post
poned, Correll Bell, aged 24, cashier
of the Big Four Railroad at Union City,
Ind., left Maridn for Union City con
vinced that the third time charm is a
humbug.
Bell, who Is a son of School Super
intendent R. M. Bell, of La Rue, ar
rived here Thursday. He procured a
rig and drove to the home of his sweet
heart. There he found the entire fam
ily in tears. The minister had come
and gone. '
"It would kill, mother for me to mar
ry you to-day," said the tearful bride.
"Very well," shouted the would-be
benedict, "I'll go back to Indiana, but
it will be the last time I'll ever 'marry'
you."
The license was returned.
GEN. WARNER IN RACE.
Announces Candidacy For Insolvency
Judgeship In Cincinnati.
Columbus. O. Each succeeding day
brings to light another candidate for
the insolvency judgeship in Cincinnati.
Gen. A. M. Warner, one of the old-
school attorneys of the Queen City,
called at the office of Gov. Harris to
urge his own appointment to th6 va
cancy.
Gen. Warner was formerly command
er of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He has a splendid war record, Is wide-
y known in Cincinnati and has the
indorsement of many of the older
members of the bar, as wall as of vet
erans of the civil war.
Boy Blinded By Toy Cannon.
Hamilton, O. Anthony Fuerst, 15, of
1067 South Z ;cond street, will be
blinded for life as the result of a New
Year accident. The boy was prepar
ing to welcome the New Year with a
toy cannon, when it exploded. His
left eye was destroyed and the right
one will probably be lost also.
Aikin Law Valid.
Cincinnati. The Aikin liquor tax
law, which increased the old Dow liq
uor tax, Is a valid law. This is the
decision of the superior court in gen
eral term. The per curiam opinion de
cides in favor of the law, as the bur
den of proof to show its Invalidity has
not been sustained.
A
Divorced Anyhow.
Upper Sandusky, O. Herman E.
Stutz was granted a divorce from
Grace Stutz, of Toledo. The proceed
ings were the outcome of his damage
suit for $10,000 against former Prose
cuting Attorney Benjamin Meek, which
was decided In the defendant's favor.
Judge' Banker Sued.
FIndiay, O. Probate Judge Gideon
(i. Banker was sued by his sister, Mrs.
Flora McConlca, for $207, alleged to be
due for boarding his daughter Mamie.
Mrs. McConlca Is the wife of T. H.
McConlca, an attorney for the Stand
ard Oil Co.
Critic Shoots Piano Player.
Springfield, O Not liking the tune
that Mrs. Roma Young was playing on
the piano, Henry Bowman, a laborer,
boarding at the same house, drew a
revolver and shot her. The wound is
said to be developing dangerous sjunp
toms. Charmed Life, This.
Columbus, O. Falling 400 feet in
mine cage did not result fatally to Ed-
ward Garighty, a miner, who was re
ceived at St. Francis hospital for treat
ment An vnmlnfl.tlrtn rilapinspri rnnt
bruises about his legs were the only
Injuries he sustained.
Books Show Discrepancy.
Dayton, O. A gigantic discrepancy
Is said to exist in the affairs of the
Dayton Gas Light and Coke Co. Ac
cording to present figures, it amounts
to $200,000, with the possibility of its
being increased to half a million.
Widow Mediums His Downfall.
Youngstown, O. Widow mediums
were the downfall of Leonard A. Ulle,
according to the allegations of a peti
tion for alimony filed by his wife, Jen
nie B. Ulle. She names two widows
who, she says, are Spiritualistic me
diums. -7 ' ' '
Hamilton's Growth Shewn.
Hamilton, O. The growth of Hamil
ton was attested by the- report of the
Hamilton post offlGe for December.
The receipts for the month were $T,
279.47, an increase of $1,075.93 over
December of the previous year.
AND ENDS
WAS MAKING UP TIME
When the Cleveland Street Car Struck '
a Trolley Pole.
Cleveland, O. Eight persons were
severely injured on a south-bound
Euclid and West Fourteenth streetcar
at the corner of West Fourteenth and
Fairfield avenue, where a patent elec
tric switch failed to work, throwing
the car against a trolley pole.
The car was in charge of L. R.
Peters, conductor, and Ed. L. Froby.
motorman. There were about 30 pas
senses on board. Th motorman wa-
making up time. In some manner,
which he is unable to explain, tha
front trucks turned, while the rear
trucks kept on the straight track. Be
fore the speed of the car could be
slackened it described a perfect aro
and struck an iron trolley pole.
Conductor Peters was hurled against
the platform rod and received a brok
en arm. Two strangers who were
standing by his side were painfully in
jured, but declined to receive medical
attention. D. D. Jago was sitting on
the rear seat and was pushed through
the window, sustaining a serious cut
below the knee.
NURSE GOE8 INSANE
As Result of Being Bitten By a Negro
in Hospital.
Dayton, O. A deplorable case has
come to light at the Miami Valley hos
pital here, in which Miss Grace W.
Merrill has lost her mind and had to
bo taken to her home in St. Johns
burg, Vt.
Miss Merrill was bitten by a vicious
negro in the hospital last October,
while she was cleansing his mouth
and caring ' for him in the regular
course of her work while a nurse-student
at the hospital.
All that medical skill could do for a
patient was done for Miss Merrill, bub
no practical relief has been afforded
her in her great affliction.
The condition of her insanity haa
now resolved Itself Into a fear of
every one who approaches her.
Miss Ella P. Crandall, matron of
the hospital, accompanied Miss Merrill
to her home.
FORCED TO STEAL
Was the
Child Wife, According Ta
Her Confession.
Lima, Ohio. Claiming her husband
had coerced her into many thefts about
the city, Nellie Doyle Davis, the child
wife of William Davis, made a com
plete confession of a startling charac
ter. She was arrested a week ago,
charged with robbing the cloakrooms
at St. John's Catholic Church during
Christmas services.
She alleges her husband made her
drink a half pint of whisky, then es
corted her to the church, and waited
for her reappearance with the stolen
garments. She further states that her
husband made her choose between be
ing a thief or receiving the attentions
of other men.
Davis has left the city, but the grand
jury will Investigate the child wife's
story.
WEBBER MARRIES.
Former Congressman and Bride Leave
For Washington, D. C.
Medina, O. Former Congressman
Amos R. Webber, of Elyrla, and Miss
Nettle Finch, of Hinckley, this county,
were married by Rev. Charles Sfearles,
of the Free Baptist church. Hinckley
Ridge, where Miss Finch had made
her home. They left Immediately for
Washington, D. C, where Mr. Webber
is working with leading ministers for
the passage of a bill prohibiting tho
sale of liquor In the District of Co
lumbia. Two Codifiers Take Oath.
Columbus, O. The oath of office
was administered by Chief Justice
Shauck, of the supreme court, to L. C.
Laylin and H. L. Sibley, members of
the state codifying commission, and
they organized by electing Mr. Laylla
chairman. Hon. James E. Campbell,
the democratic member, was not pres
ent. Attempt To Organize AH Trades.
Cleveland, O. Concerted effort Is to
be made by the American Federation
of Labor to organize all the trades in
the state of Ohio. This city will be the
headquarters of the movement. T. F.
Flynn, national organizer, will have
direct charge of the work.
Drop in Marriage Licenses.
Findlay, O. During tto year 1906
341 marriage licenses were Issued in
Hancock county, against 374 for 1905.
There were 75 divorce petitions filed,
malting one in every fourth couple
agree that marriage was a failure.
Harris Is Committed.
Toledo, O. Lem P. Harris, former
efty clerk, was adjudged insane and
committed to the state hospital. Haiv
rfs was at one time one of the most
prominent political lights in this seo-
"on or ta 9late ana was rePU0"-
candidate for mayor.
Waylaid and Stabbed.
Youngstown, O. Waylaid m an al
ley fn this city, Joseph Woodowltcn
was stabbed in the groin, by Joe Saph
er, he say. Both men are Slavoks;
There was an old grudge between-
them.
To Form Aero Club.
Cincinnati. Norman O. Kenaa will
urge the business ms of this city to
form an Aero clan. Mr5 Kooa-n in
vited the Aero Clb of Amerrca to
start the international ballwn races
from this city next October. Tlho club,
however, selected St. LouJs;
Treat For the Commissioners.
Columbus, O. Gov. Harris end At
torney General Wade H. Ellis hav
accepted invitations to address the an
nual meeting of thi Ohio Association
I of County Commissioner! to be Tfle.14 at
I Dayton January 5,

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