November 3, 1899 (4 pages)

y> ch. ge, oes Ie = se ca & Our a . the y are r; right ire LPP PP PP PDPPEPPPEDPDPLPPQBPPIPODLDE EE ELS SSS ~ Most Remarkable Exhibition, Last eveving a large. nuniber of people, including many ladies, attended the opening series” of performances given in the Schmidt building on Oommercial street -by Prof, Montague’s _ trained Australian cockatoos. The program opens with some pleasing feats of parlor magic by Mr. Uno, after which the birds are introduced. There are a dozen or more of them inall and they perform a great variety of remarkable tricks. They waltz, have chariot races, perform on. the ‘horizontal bar, . enact a fire scene with an ‘engine and} hose acti which one wd them enters a “furniture ria destruction,and pettorm many other feats that border on acts of human. intelligence. The exhibitions will continue tonight and tomorrow. night, and orrow afternoon there will be-a matined. Several distinct performances are givén each evening beginning at 7 o’clock ¢ and on Saturday afternoon between two and four o'clock. A Model Tose Carrier The new four-wheeled hose ne ~of ‘Nevada Company No. 1 was put in service last night. It weighs 480 pounds, has a ten-foot bed-and carries 450. feet « of hoge in a single layer, It will readily transport 700 feet if necessary. It ,, does not require. more than half &s “many men to handle it as the discarded . “t wo-wheeled cart did. The front wheels . Clear the -base.of the bed so it ‘can be ‘turned in little more thanits length. It was manufactured under contract, by Al. Attkineon’ of this city and the painter was’ R. H. Forman. It is a model piece of workmanship in every respect. “‘fix-Deputy Sheriff “Jim” “ Neagle who first. agitated the proposition to have such a hose carrier here ~ and the other members of Nevada Com_ pany are very. proud of it. ‘Pennsyi4 . vania Engine Company. proposes. a ee a ‘shmnilar wagon soon, Fo pee Johan’ Seliger’s Wilt. Attorney. Joba RB: Ty ‘Tyrrell today filled the will of the late John Seliger for ‘probate. George Perkins, Sachem of the Red Mén at. Grass Valley, and E. D. Goleman, the Odd. ‘Fellows’ Noble »Grand in the samé place, are named as executors. The will, which is dated May. 4th, 1898, provides. that ‘after a cousin in Germany has been given} ~-$1000 the residue of the estate shall be + equally divided between the. lodges of Odd Fellows and Red Men to which * ‘Beliger belonged. . All of the property “ Row known of ié a “house and lot on Long street in this city valued at $500 and mortgaged for $150. It is believed, however, that Mr. Seliger had some money deposited in a bank in Germary and lawyer T'yfrell has written there to find ont about it. Coming Amusements. “Cy ' Gorton’s New Orleans Minstrels have written to Manager Jacobs of the local’ theater for a date hére during the. week. . beginning the 20th instant. The Shirley Dramatic Company have the theater engaged-for the week beginning on the 27th instant and will give seven performances at popular prices. The Capital City Concert Company, including some of the best musical talent on thé coast, will give the first of a series of three concerts © on Saturday evening of next. week. Staples’ Remains Ar Arrive Tonight. It has been asscertained beyond a doubt that the man who was instantly killed at Red Biuff the early part of this week while stealing a ride on the Tailroad, was not James Kelley of this city. The remains of Charles Staples of Graniteville who died* from having his legs cut off when the other was killed, will be brought home for burial, _ arriving here on this eVening’s train and being taken to Graniteville tomor-'. row. The Sane Here. “Send in your items of news when they ‘are fresh,” says the Salisbury -(Mo.) Press. ‘‘We don’t like te publish a birth after the child is weaned, a marriage-after the honeymoon is over, a death after the-widow is married again, nor the notice of an entertainment after the job work is done elsewhere. and the editor is charged for admission.” To be Taken East. The remains of the late Ezra Towle, who died here four years ago this month, have been disinterred from Pine Grve cemetery and will tomorrow be shipped to his early home in. Verment where the widow now is. Jeffries-Sharkey Fight Returns. The big championship fight between Jeffries and Sharkey takes place in New York tonight. The report of the * mill by rounds will be received at the National Exchange Hotel. Beqmjsoup st the ber from 11 to 12. Boston Baked Beans at the Grotto every evening from 9 to 12p.m._ tf Tell Your Sister A Beautiful Complexion is an im peony without good pure blood, sort that only exists in connection with ee a healthy liver pared ‘Karl’s Clover Root Tea acts in ‘ect health5 cbs. and 00 ots, it THE COCKATOO ‘snow. . Prof, Montague’s ; Trained: Birds Give a Keeping them in liver and kid the to Tork Publisher tans Upon bis Detractos. fe —_—_— ness =e the — CUS and Bartlett. Arkell of New York ‘aring left for the Plumbago gold quartz} mine on the Middle Yuba river. above Moore’s Fiat. stockholders in the. Plumbago. W. J. . Arkell is the President of the New illustrated weekly, “Judge.” shrewd, matter-of-fact «business “man. with no sense of humor andnothing ‘but contempt for so-called humorist 8 andwags. His visit to the coast has been madeone long drawn out agony by: the fact that apon his arrival in San Eransofts of -mouldy. “ghestn mouth.’ Some of the articles even said he not. only wrote the star witty drew the most notable of the. carica-. WM oe ee “It’s a nice, mess those scribbling scoundrels down there have got me into,” he said to the Transcrifr. man last night with a sigh, “and if I hadn’t beén obliged to stay, out here on ac+ count of business engagements I would haye taken the next train back home ~P after they began printing. their tommyrot about me.: From the morning the Chronicle ‘told that scandalous yarn about my sending a: “barrel of oysters and a lot of champagne to Admiral Dewey and accompanying them with some lithering nonsense or other about hoping the. Admiral would never meet the daughter of Fortine, because she was an unfortunate —” “Beg pardon,” interposed the Transcript, “bunt didn’t the Chronicle suy because the daughter was “Misforiane?*’ “Perhaps that was it,” said Mr. Arkell, “but there wasn’t any point to it anyway as far as I could see. As I was saying, from that moraing my isit was spoiled. Every time I apFeacod outside my room some of those. San Franciseo jays would: recognize me. They'd tell all the others in ‘hailing distance.that I was so-and so, and in less time than I could tell it there’d be a. mob of them around me rubbernecking and giggling like a Jot of chimpanzees. ““*He really does look awful fanny,’ one of them would: exclaim, and then another, cheekier than his fellow-idiots, would brace up to me and exclaim: ‘Say, Ark., old boy, we’re all dying to Noah what the latest joke is.’Then the meb. would tee-hee and poke me in the ribs till I was black and blue, all the time evidently trying to stir me up like a monkey in a cage. . You can believe that I felt like one. “Then the San Franciscans got up inners in my honor and put me down to respond to such meaningless. sentiments as ‘Laugh and Grow Fat,’ ‘The Fun of Living,’ and,the like. I managed to escape yesterday morning from the horrors that had surrounded me in your western metropolis. I sneaked out of there on the early morning}: train, congratulating myself that when I got up intothe mountain fastnesses of Nevada county I would be permitted to go about my business: unmolested, But I was just stepping off the Narrow Gauge train at your depot last. night when one of your esteemed fellowcitizens hollered ont: “Pll be dinged if there isn’t that comical cuss of the ‘Judge’ that the ‘TransonipT has been telling about.’ “J haven’t been able to blow my nose, pick my teeth or light a cigar in sight of anybody since I got here» but what they’re given me the ha-ha as though I was a jumping-jack. I am introduced to somebody, when the first thing he does is to try to be funny. I don’t see what he’s driving at, and by making some remark about the mines or the weather try to get him on a different tack, when he bursts out laughing, claps me on the baok till my teeth rattle and says: “¢That’s devilish good, (ald, Pd give half my claim if Thad a ne like yours.’ “Tt is gospel truth that. if thie thing keeps up much longer I won’t have any mind at all,” he added sadly. never wrote a funny thing in my:life, and the only thing I ever drew was a jack flash and I'll be switched if that didn’t meet its doom ina full hand that the other fellow held. The only stories or jokes I ever get off are some that I cut out of the fanny columns of the daily papers _jand commit to memory. As soon as I get. back to New York I'm going to swap off my stock inthe Judge Publishing Company for an undertaking establish-} for ment in Philadelphia and spend the rest of my days in solitude.” . “Poor fellow,” said his brother Bartfe a Repistlates’ the es ok Fiirestens to Seck Scctualen by. quite too ting ‘‘Judge’*and Going tuto. Busi-. ~ President J, B. Wheeler of the Ore-. # ‘sus Mining Company, accom panied “by jo! Paul W. Horbach of Omaba and w. Se facets rived here last evening and this morn-. ' York company that publishes the comic} He is a. 1946 cisco the pap rs eel ee oS his . tory, and, although for horror it com: = He. left two niianitl witha military governor ‘in charge. . Charles Bent, witha handful of men, = ‘was left to guard Santa Fe. The Mex. : fean’ governor, General . Armijo, . had fled on the advance of the hated Yan‘kees. His’people, no matter what their secret thoughts might be, had been the o months before the. Americans’ saw: trouble was imminent. a The-only man who escaped has told the story_ more graphically than any pen can Dertray it. Arroyo Honda. mostly Mexic: far away for aid to come. . The total of Americans in. the ce was 17, most of. whom were rou and mountaineers. The entire town turned out to an impromptu \mass meeting. on the plaza. It was dec to revolt and return to the Mexica tuthority. Well knowing that the tively insignificant in numbers, would resist such a step to the last, it was the town. But through some source or other Governor Bent had received a and ‘then, gathering his little band about him, fled to the only refuge the place afforded. “The next morning,” said John “AL bert, “they commenced tle attack by manding our arms and ammunition and an unconditional surrender of ourselves. I told the boys they could do as they pleased, but I knew treachery would lead us to certain death in the end, and 1 was going to die with my gun in my hands and not be murdered like a common dog. “This was the turning point in the matter, and they all concluded to fight it out as best they could.: The mén who came to make a treaty with us went back. Their forces were secreted behind the brow of a hill near by us, and one of them, after a manner of the wild Indians in opening a battle, came to the top of the ridge and ‘danced a jig and sang a song of defiance. 1 knew the time had come, and the sooner the bloody work commenced the sooner we would know our fate. “We of the mountaineers had collected in a building of considerable -size and the only one in the place that was two stories in height. The danca he Indian was within gunshot, and I killed him. Billy Austin stood close beQenCatarrh is ~ Not Incurable But it can not be cured by sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures which speach only the surface, The disease is Catarrh; it cures the disease permanently and forever rids the system of every trace of the vile complaint. Miss Josie Owen, of Montpelier, Ohio, os . writes: “I was afflicted from infancy with Catarrh, and no one can know the suffering it produces better than I,. The sprays and washes preseribed by the doctors relieved. me only temporarily, and thongh I used. them firmer hold than ever. I tried a number of blood remedies, but their mineral ingredients settled in my bones and gave me rheumatism. I was in a lementable condition, and after exhausting all treatment, was declared incurable. Seeing 8.8.8. advertised as @ cure for blood diseases, I decided to try it. As soon as my system was under the effect of the medicine, I began to improve, and after taking it for two months I was cured completely, the dreadful disease was eradicated from my sys‘tem, and I have had no return of it.” Many have been taking local treatment for years, and fi one worse now thanever. A trial S.S.S7.Blood ve it to be the sight remedy stinate case. tarrh. It will cure the most ob®@ Books mailed free to any adi address by } nao _— ve. ” eee pares favorably. with the massacre ‘at The Messrs. Arkell are} to 1 band of Yankees, although compara-_ Id. bring uews of t ie Pood Cincinnati Enquirer _ soe ¥. Tee t, and an. ‘lost it from cltement I forgot: “out in the world Aibert: eta a onee the mountains without food and ex‘posed to ergot echs pring He reached . last, the first to Of coursé, when a regiment aaited on the ah the Taos ‘valley.quickly quieted. General Kearny was at’ that . Was not long after that that the ext . = a ae : time in-eommand of the invading . Cai war broke out. One-half of thot %_*. Of the most artiste deforces. He made his headquarters at {D4 was transferred to Uncle Sain, wy Mat — gree characterize photoSanta. Fe and remained in active si-. 1m Considetation of which old scores. x x -Eraphe. made by Moore ‘perintendence for more than a: year. . Were wiped out. No-spehalties. were ksh posts abies: for ‘At the expiration of. that pene the . exacted for, the Arroyo: Honda massaag Ng tuning out gs high-grade growing need of troops on the Pagife. cre, yet tt must go down ag-one of the}. Xy*4*-.-work axcan be attained: coast led to his withdrawal to Lower . @ in our Ww anoals.— ees. tte Sand soap, ‘ive contd a bar, at Gey ie 2 tora ~& Bon’e. ees Sooo, Te 4 oot . AOU. W, will meet at Odd Fellows gs, . hall at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. td if 5 Doe tok : : Pa Quilt teak OE Bet Gt Nevatia Olly Lode: [High Art. = oS eg perfection in headwear * for ladies is to be obtained wile mee son at theMillinery.Parlors of : lliss Eleanor Hoeft, ge Broad atrest, Nevada City. “The latfeatures of ~ Hoeft hats.sical ‘ Finish. co things that that. paper printed; but] most peaceable of ‘subjects, oyet the; & body of the army had not been. gone . [3 was & town of some 1,200 inhabitants, . + and Pueblo indians. . & It Jay in the Santa fe district, but. too . 2 ‘trappers'. & . determined to shoot all on sight. For . ’ this purpose the mob spread through ‘tip. He sent off to Santa Fe for help}: in the blood, and can only be reached through the blood. §. 8. 8. is the only , remedy which can have any effect upon os ~ On your Bower Work if you want to have a first-clase job We sell Pipe at the lowest market © prices, if you want to-do .your own work in making coni nections with the new city system. Or. we will take contracts to-furnish the Pipe, put it down and make all connections. We employ none but amicus workmen. and save -. Pioneer Hardware Dealer. PINE STREET, Let U Us Figure « money. inter, Is Coming On. : You raed 8 new sJedatiog or cooking stove. ~ stock is one of the largest in this partyof the State. We § ‘have the .bést makes sold anywhere, and the prices dre sarprisingly moderate for such stéves. George E. Turner, sending in to us a flag of ‘truce, de. Our To call and inspect the assortment while it is complete. The goods and prices will please you. SNELL & FLEMING. CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. Ths Fall and, ; Winter styles for this year surpass all past seasons’ ofodnaes in attractiveness. of Eastern importations, fresn from the Eastern manufacturers. There.is a grace and style about their cut that is irresistible, and the texture and patterns of. the goods are above the usual standard. Ladies, You Are Invited We have a. full line ee The wisdom of “Seizing Time (Watches) by the Forelock.” you can doubtless do better than tomorrow. The unprecedented demand for goods has caused the factories to raise prices so it behooves all those who wish to purchase WATCHES to do so while the old prices prevail. We have a large assortment to select from, and an honest bargain is our pride. A. & H. W. HARTUNG, “shee Permit Us to Suggest TO YOU, TO YOU AND TO YOU Today ae : Sequoia) TOWLE BROS. C [Nougat _ Cc A Marshmallows A N om N -. D hates 1D * And all other — E S Ea madaeee S Commercial Course, 6m. Shorthand and Typewriting course. wn FSIS TROMOIS aise ci ckesdeceat elses os cocks 50 -. Combination course—including Shorthand, Commercial and Ty pewriting—School year 9 mos. ‘Teachers’ course, 8 months.... 20 Review, English branches, 8 mos. . :. Review, English branches, 8 mos.. “1B ‘Fall term began September 4th, 1899; Send for Catalogue and first lessons in sorte ee free. D. BREHAUT, Principal. Maiyerille Cal.“ oe Premier Confectioner. . jam ss . Fash Diasiness Colege Purse Found. é A lady’s purse was found on Prospect Hill Monday. The owner can recover it by applying to Mrs. B. Guscetti and paying for this advertisement. 080-lw Champion Boot Black: Stevens at Wild’s barber shop. Tan and colored shoes aspecialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. tf MEN AND WOMEN, GOOD ADDRESS, TO travel and appoint agents; salary $75 month, expenses; rapid advancement. Unusually brilliant opportunity. Address, with reference, BUTLER & ALGER, New Haven, Connecticut. a2l-6w Nevada County ‘Directory. ' Copies of the Nevada County Directory can be obtained for 50 cents. By mail 75 cente. 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y> ch. ge, oes Ie = se ca & Our a . the y are r; right ire LPP PP PP PDPPEPPPEDPDPLPPQBPPIPODLDE EE ELS SSS ~ Most Remarkable Exhibition, Last eveving a large. nuniber of people, including many ladies, attended the opening series” of performances given in the Schmidt building on Oommercial street -by Prof, Montague’s _ trained Australian cockatoos. The program opens with some pleasing feats of parlor magic by Mr. Uno, after which the birds are introduced. There are a dozen or more of them inall and they perform a great variety of remarkable tricks. They waltz, have chariot races, perform on. the ‘horizontal bar, . enact a fire scene with an ‘engine and} hose acti which one wd them enters a “furniture ria destruction,and pettorm many other feats that border on acts of human. intelligence. The exhibitions will continue tonight and tomorrow. night, and orrow afternoon there will be-a matined. Several distinct performances are givén each evening beginning at 7 o’clock ¢ and on Saturday afternoon between two and four o'clock. A Model Tose Carrier The new four-wheeled hose ne ~of ‘Nevada Company No. 1 was put in service last night. It weighs 480 pounds, has a ten-foot bed-and carries 450. feet « of hoge in a single layer, It will readily transport 700 feet if necessary. It ,, does not require. more than half &s “many men to handle it as the discarded . “t wo-wheeled cart did. The front wheels . Clear the -base.of the bed so it ‘can be ‘turned in little more thanits length. It was manufactured under contract, by Al. Attkineon’ of this city and the painter was’ R. H. Forman. It is a model piece of workmanship in every respect. “‘fix-Deputy Sheriff “Jim” “ Neagle who first. agitated the proposition to have such a hose carrier here ~ and the other members of Nevada Com_ pany are very. proud of it. ‘Pennsyi4 . vania Engine Company. proposes. a ee a ‘shmnilar wagon soon, Fo pee Johan’ Seliger’s Wilt. Attorney. Joba RB: Ty ‘Tyrrell today filled the will of the late John Seliger for ‘probate. George Perkins, Sachem of the Red Mén at. Grass Valley, and E. D. Goleman, the Odd. ‘Fellows’ Noble »Grand in the samé place, are named as executors. The will, which is dated May. 4th, 1898, provides. that ‘after a cousin in Germany has been given} ~-$1000 the residue of the estate shall be + equally divided between the. lodges of Odd Fellows and Red Men to which * ‘Beliger belonged. . All of the property “ Row known of ié a “house and lot on Long street in this city valued at $500 and mortgaged for $150. It is believed, however, that Mr. Seliger had some money deposited in a bank in Germary and lawyer T'yfrell has written there to find ont about it. Coming Amusements. “Cy ' Gorton’s New Orleans Minstrels have written to Manager Jacobs of the local’ theater for a date hére during the. week. . beginning the 20th instant. The Shirley Dramatic Company have the theater engaged-for the week beginning on the 27th instant and will give seven performances at popular prices. The Capital City Concert Company, including some of the best musical talent on thé coast, will give the first of a series of three concerts © on Saturday evening of next. week. Staples’ Remains Ar Arrive Tonight. It has been asscertained beyond a doubt that the man who was instantly killed at Red Biuff the early part of this week while stealing a ride on the Tailroad, was not James Kelley of this city. The remains of Charles Staples of Graniteville who died* from having his legs cut off when the other was killed, will be brought home for burial, _ arriving here on this eVening’s train and being taken to Graniteville tomor-'. row. The Sane Here. “Send in your items of news when they ‘are fresh,” says the Salisbury -(Mo.) Press. ‘‘We don’t like te publish a birth after the child is weaned, a marriage-after the honeymoon is over, a death after the-widow is married again, nor the notice of an entertainment after the job work is done elsewhere. and the editor is charged for admission.” To be Taken East. The remains of the late Ezra Towle, who died here four years ago this month, have been disinterred from Pine Grve cemetery and will tomorrow be shipped to his early home in. Verment where the widow now is. Jeffries-Sharkey Fight Returns. The big championship fight between Jeffries and Sharkey takes place in New York tonight. The report of the * mill by rounds will be received at the National Exchange Hotel. Beqmjsoup st the ber from 11 to 12. Boston Baked Beans at the Grotto every evening from 9 to 12p.m._ tf Tell Your Sister A Beautiful Complexion is an im peony without good pure blood, sort that only exists in connection with ee a healthy liver pared ‘Karl’s Clover Root Tea acts in ‘ect health5 cbs. and 00 ots, it THE COCKATOO ‘snow. . Prof, Montague’s ; Trained: Birds Give a Keeping them in liver and kid the to Tork Publisher tans Upon bis Detractos. fe —_—_— ness =e the — CUS and Bartlett. Arkell of New York ‘aring left for the Plumbago gold quartz} mine on the Middle Yuba river. above Moore’s Fiat. stockholders in the. Plumbago. W. J. . Arkell is the President of the New illustrated weekly, “Judge.” shrewd, matter-of-fact «business “man. with no sense of humor andnothing ‘but contempt for so-called humorist 8 andwags. His visit to the coast has been madeone long drawn out agony by: the fact that apon his arrival in San Eransofts of -mouldy. “ghestn mouth.’ Some of the articles even said he not. only wrote the star witty drew the most notable of the. carica-. WM oe ee “It’s a nice, mess those scribbling scoundrels down there have got me into,” he said to the Transcrifr. man last night with a sigh, “and if I hadn’t beén obliged to stay, out here on ac+ count of business engagements I would haye taken the next train back home ~P after they began printing. their tommyrot about me.: From the morning the Chronicle ‘told that scandalous yarn about my sending a: “barrel of oysters and a lot of champagne to Admiral Dewey and accompanying them with some lithering nonsense or other about hoping the. Admiral would never meet the daughter of Fortine, because she was an unfortunate —” “Beg pardon,” interposed the Transcript, “bunt didn’t the Chronicle suy because the daughter was “Misforiane?*’ “Perhaps that was it,” said Mr. Arkell, “but there wasn’t any point to it anyway as far as I could see. As I was saying, from that moraing my isit was spoiled. Every time I apFeacod outside my room some of those. San Franciseo jays would: recognize me. They'd tell all the others in ‘hailing distance.that I was so-and so, and in less time than I could tell it there’d be a. mob of them around me rubbernecking and giggling like a Jot of chimpanzees. ““*He really does look awful fanny,’ one of them would: exclaim, and then another, cheekier than his fellow-idiots, would brace up to me and exclaim: ‘Say, Ark., old boy, we’re all dying to Noah what the latest joke is.’Then the meb. would tee-hee and poke me in the ribs till I was black and blue, all the time evidently trying to stir me up like a monkey in a cage. . You can believe that I felt like one. “Then the San Franciscans got up inners in my honor and put me down to respond to such meaningless. sentiments as ‘Laugh and Grow Fat,’ ‘The Fun of Living,’ and,the like. I managed to escape yesterday morning from the horrors that had surrounded me in your western metropolis. I sneaked out of there on the early morning}: train, congratulating myself that when I got up intothe mountain fastnesses of Nevada county I would be permitted to go about my business: unmolested, But I was just stepping off the Narrow Gauge train at your depot last. night when one of your esteemed fellowcitizens hollered ont: “Pll be dinged if there isn’t that comical cuss of the ‘Judge’ that the ‘TransonipT has been telling about.’ “J haven’t been able to blow my nose, pick my teeth or light a cigar in sight of anybody since I got here» but what they’re given me the ha-ha as though I was a jumping-jack. I am introduced to somebody, when the first thing he does is to try to be funny. I don’t see what he’s driving at, and by making some remark about the mines or the weather try to get him on a different tack, when he bursts out laughing, claps me on the baok till my teeth rattle and says: “¢That’s devilish good, (ald, Pd give half my claim if Thad a ne like yours.’ “Tt is gospel truth that. if thie thing keeps up much longer I won’t have any mind at all,” he added sadly. never wrote a funny thing in my:life, and the only thing I ever drew was a jack flash and I'll be switched if that didn’t meet its doom ina full hand that the other fellow held. The only stories or jokes I ever get off are some that I cut out of the fanny columns of the daily papers _jand commit to memory. As soon as I get. back to New York I'm going to swap off my stock inthe Judge Publishing Company for an undertaking establish-} for ment in Philadelphia and spend the rest of my days in solitude.” . “Poor fellow,” said his brother Bartfe a Repistlates’ the es ok Fiirestens to Seck Scctualen by. quite too ting ‘‘Judge’*and Going tuto. Busi-. ~ President J, B. Wheeler of the Ore-. # ‘sus Mining Company, accom panied “by jo! Paul W. Horbach of Omaba and w. Se facets rived here last evening and this morn-. ' York company that publishes the comic} He is a. 1946 cisco the pap rs eel ee oS his . tory, and, although for horror it com: = He. left two niianitl witha military governor ‘in charge. . Charles Bent, witha handful of men, = ‘was left to guard Santa Fe. The Mex. : fean’ governor, General . Armijo, . had fled on the advance of the hated Yan‘kees. His’people, no matter what their secret thoughts might be, had been the o months before the. Americans’ saw: trouble was imminent. a The-only man who escaped has told the story_ more graphically than any pen can Dertray it. Arroyo Honda. mostly Mexic: far away for aid to come. . The total of Americans in. the ce was 17, most of. whom were rou and mountaineers. The entire town turned out to an impromptu \mass meeting. on the plaza. It was dec to revolt and return to the Mexica tuthority. Well knowing that the tively insignificant in numbers, would resist such a step to the last, it was the town. But through some source or other Governor Bent had received a and ‘then, gathering his little band about him, fled to the only refuge the place afforded. “The next morning,” said John “AL bert, “they commenced tle attack by manding our arms and ammunition

and an unconditional surrender of ourselves. I told the boys they could do as they pleased, but I knew treachery would lead us to certain death in the end, and 1 was going to die with my gun in my hands and not be murdered like a common dog. “This was the turning point in the matter, and they all concluded to fight it out as best they could.: The mén who came to make a treaty with us went back. Their forces were secreted behind the brow of a hill near by us, and one of them, after a manner of the wild Indians in opening a battle, came to the top of the ridge and ‘danced a jig and sang a song of defiance. 1 knew the time had come, and the sooner the bloody work commenced the sooner we would know our fate. “We of the mountaineers had collected in a building of considerable -size and the only one in the place that was two stories in height. The danca he Indian was within gunshot, and I killed him. Billy Austin stood close beQenCatarrh is ~ Not Incurable But it can not be cured by sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures which speach only the surface, The disease is Catarrh; it cures the disease permanently and forever rids the system of every trace of the vile complaint. Miss Josie Owen, of Montpelier, Ohio, os . writes: “I was afflicted from infancy with Catarrh, and no one can know the suffering it produces better than I,. The sprays and washes preseribed by the doctors relieved. me only temporarily, and thongh I used. them firmer hold than ever. I tried a number of blood remedies, but their mineral ingredients settled in my bones and gave me rheumatism. I was in a lementable condition, and after exhausting all treatment, was declared incurable. Seeing 8.8.8. advertised as @ cure for blood diseases, I decided to try it. As soon as my system was under the effect of the medicine, I began to improve, and after taking it for two months I was cured completely, the dreadful disease was eradicated from my sys‘tem, and I have had no return of it.” Many have been taking local treatment for years, and fi one worse now thanever. A trial S.S.S7.Blood ve it to be the sight remedy stinate case. tarrh. It will cure the most ob®@ Books mailed free to any adi address by } nao _— ve. ” eee pares favorably. with the massacre ‘at The Messrs. Arkell are} to 1 band of Yankees, although compara-_ Id. bring uews of t ie Pood Cincinnati Enquirer _ soe ¥. Tee t, and an. ‘lost it from cltement I forgot: “out in the world Aibert: eta a onee the mountains without food and ex‘posed to ergot echs pring He reached . last, the first to Of coursé, when a regiment aaited on the ah the Taos ‘valley.quickly quieted. General Kearny was at’ that . Was not long after that that the ext . = a ae : time in-eommand of the invading . Cai war broke out. One-half of thot %_*. Of the most artiste deforces. He made his headquarters at {D4 was transferred to Uncle Sain, wy Mat — gree characterize photoSanta. Fe and remained in active si-. 1m Considetation of which old scores. x x -Eraphe. made by Moore ‘perintendence for more than a: year. . Were wiped out. No-spehalties. were ksh posts abies: for ‘At the expiration of. that pene the . exacted for, the Arroyo: Honda massaag Ng tuning out gs high-grade growing need of troops on the Pagife. cre, yet tt must go down ag-one of the}. Xy*4*-.-work axcan be attained: coast led to his withdrawal to Lower . @ in our Ww anoals.— ees. tte Sand soap, ‘ive contd a bar, at Gey ie 2 tora ~& Bon’e. ees Sooo, Te 4 oot . AOU. W, will meet at Odd Fellows gs, . hall at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening. td if 5 Doe tok : : Pa Quilt teak OE Bet Gt Nevatia Olly Lode: [High Art. = oS eg perfection in headwear * for ladies is to be obtained wile mee son at theMillinery.Parlors of : lliss Eleanor Hoeft, ge Broad atrest, Nevada City. “The latfeatures of ~ Hoeft hats.sical ‘ Finish. co things that that. paper printed; but] most peaceable of ‘subjects, oyet the; & body of the army had not been. gone . [3 was & town of some 1,200 inhabitants, . + and Pueblo indians. . & It Jay in the Santa fe district, but. too . 2 ‘trappers'. & . determined to shoot all on sight. For . ’ this purpose the mob spread through ‘tip. He sent off to Santa Fe for help}: in the blood, and can only be reached through the blood. §. 8. 8. is the only , remedy which can have any effect upon os ~ On your Bower Work if you want to have a first-clase job We sell Pipe at the lowest market © prices, if you want to-do .your own work in making coni nections with the new city system. Or. we will take contracts to-furnish the Pipe, put it down and make all connections. We employ none but amicus workmen. and save -. Pioneer Hardware Dealer. PINE STREET, Let U Us Figure « money. inter, Is Coming On. : You raed 8 new sJedatiog or cooking stove. ~ stock is one of the largest in this partyof the State. We § ‘have the .bést makes sold anywhere, and the prices dre sarprisingly moderate for such stéves. George E. Turner, sending in to us a flag of ‘truce, de. Our To call and inspect the assortment while it is complete. The goods and prices will please you. SNELL & FLEMING. CORNER BROAD AND PINE STREETS. Ths Fall and, ; Winter styles for this year surpass all past seasons’ ofodnaes in attractiveness. of Eastern importations, fresn from the Eastern manufacturers. There.is a grace and style about their cut that is irresistible, and the texture and patterns of. the goods are above the usual standard. Ladies, You Are Invited We have a. full line ee The wisdom of “Seizing Time (Watches) by the Forelock.” you can doubtless do better than tomorrow. The unprecedented demand for goods has caused the factories to raise prices so it behooves all those who wish to purchase WATCHES to do so while the old prices prevail. We have a large assortment to select from, and an honest bargain is our pride. A. & H. W. HARTUNG, “shee Permit Us to Suggest TO YOU, TO YOU AND TO YOU Today ae : Sequoia) TOWLE BROS. C [Nougat _ Cc A Marshmallows A N om N -. D hates 1D * And all other — E S Ea madaeee S Commercial Course, 6m.. 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