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WICKES PIONEER.. \Free Coinage of Gold and Silver at the Ratio of 16 to I.\ VOL VOL. I. WICK ES, MONTANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19,1895. NO. 11 . 11111.11•11111MIUM111111111111.111110 THE Wickes Hotel, • Wickes, Montana. We have recently secured control of this house and have fitted it up with new fur- niture from top to bottom. CLEAN ROOMS, NEW BEDDING, Table Surpassed By None. The only place between Hftlena and Butte where a first class meal can be had for 60c. RATES: $1.50 Per Day. Special terms made to those desiring reg- ular board. 11.1••••••••••—. 0 .--• THE Wicke - Hotel. Wickes, Montana. .!‘ CORNER OF ODDITIES. SOME QUEER AND CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFE. -- strange anti startling Stories of Adventure keret., ly Kevorded Mead - hill*, Scraps of Anecdote and Incident Reported by hit Exchanges. VT had I heard of Lucy Gray, And when I crossed the wild I chanced to meet at break of day That solitary She had a latchkey in her hand; She smoked a large , cigar; iShe was not, you must understand. As other women are. The moral is, I must allow. What any one can see— That girls are not constructed ncw The way they used to be. Pinkerton's Remit at ton. Detective William Pinkerton pur- chased three fine Japanese pugs of a local fancier a few days age. \Can you give me a bill of sale?\ be Inquired. \Certainly if you wish it.\ \I do; and just put a description of the dogs in it,. will your \Well—er—Japanese pugs ere hard to describe, because they are all alike, but I will try,\ promised the breeder. \You couldn't mark them so that there could be no mistake, could you?\ \What with a swallow fork or an under bit in the ear?\ asked the sur- prised breeder. \No I don't want them mutitieted,\ declared Pinkerton. \Do you want a horse brand stuck on them?\ \No of course not.\ \Then I don't know how I can mark them.\ \Well you wouldn't mind making an affidavit that I purchased these dogs from you, would you?\ \No; not if you will pay ter it.\ \All right; bring the pups over to the office of Chief of Police Crowley, will you?\ The dealer suspected a trap. He did not know but that the Chicago detective was planning his arrest for some crime and had resorted to that ruse to land ItIm in jail without a struggle. He hesitated for some moments, bpt de- cided that the best thing to do was to face the music. So he tucked the pups under his arm and walked over. \Chief said Mr. Pinkerton. as they entered pollee headquarters, \I have bought these dogs from this man, and he has given me a bill of sale and an affidavit to that effect. Will you give me a certificate stating that you saw the sale consummated?\ \Certainly. if you want it,\ said the chief, \but what are you so particular about?\ \Well I'm going to take these dogs back to Chicago, and I have a reputa- tion there.\ explained Pinkerton. \You are not affraid of being accused of stealing the dogs, are you?\ \Thai's exactly what I'm aflraid of. You see, every tine dog that gets loose in Chicago Is picked up by some one. I tisnally have about twenty dogs, and It has got so that every time a good slog is missed, the owner says 'Well. I guess Billy Pinkerton must have picked him up.' They're taking dogs away from me all the time, and I %ant to keep t liPHP The bill of sale, the affidavit and the certificate were all made out. Birds Frightened .to Death \I believe birds are the most sensi- tive little creatures on earth,\ re- marked a Kearney street dealer yester- day. \I have frequently found eases that looked suspiciously like suicide after separating birds that had been tept in the same cage tor a long time, and there is hardly a day that ROMP of my birds are not killed by fright. Any loud or strange noise or the sud- den appearance of a strange animal will scare them to death \On several mornings upon opening up the store I found deao canaries in their cages. I put them out of the way of all animals and I knew ,nothing could get at them to kill them. I was at a loss for the cause and changed their food, but still I would find dead hirds every morning. once after T opened the store a big gray rat ran acrosa the floor and I saw a canary flutter eround the cage a moment and then drop dead I set a trap, caught the rat. tilligg\ il the hole through which he amp. rind linsl no more dead bird \One night a little monkey got loose In the place and the ni , xl morning I found two dead canal's and one \lead parrot. Not a feather had been silty turbed on them so I know the Mob key did not kill them 'Whenever a brawl band pitses the place I have to close my fl o ors or I will find home of the birds frightened to death by the unusual noise. though a mimic hoz will make eveev !did In the store delirious with joy. Thel. ',mod t ive ears are not attuned to the lieax ler harmony of a military band. \Young birds just brought to iii. store are frequently frightened to death by the screeching of a parrot or the yelping of a pup, and a mischievotts boy killed one of my parroqttets by touching off a firecracker near its cage. An alarm clock will throw the whole aviary iuto hysterics.\ A csem of Abandonment. A ring for a messenger went in from an Eddy street lodging house yester- day. anti the boy who responded found K man walking nervously up and down in frt,nt of the house with a bundle of flannels in his arms. He was shaking it up and down and saying: \Shh-h-h: sh-h-h-h! Here take this down to the drug store on the coruer and tell them it is for Dr. Deane.\ \Another kid they want to get rid of,\ muttered the boy. He carried the bundle carefully to the drug store and laid it on the counter with the information; \Here's eomethin' a feller sent down for Dr. Deane.\ \No you don't. You just pack that out of here,\ ordered the druggist. - This is no foundling asylum. I've seen that kind of a pargel before.\ A faint cry came front the parcel. ' \There I told, you. I'm onto that game. Take it out.\ \Where to?\ asked the boy. \Well you may find Dr. Deane at the Receiving Hospital.\ A policeman stopped the boy a block , away and asked him what he had. \A kid feller wants me to take to Dr. Deane.\ \Ah ha! Another case of abandon- , went. Where did you get it?\ The boy gave all the details and a de- scription of the man. The officer then ordered the boy to take his charge to the Receiving hospital. He found Dr. Deane there and delivered the parcel. \What do I want of a baby?\ roared Deane. \Where's the matron? The doctor unwrapped the flannels. \Oh -- yes -- that's all right, boy. This is the pug pup Berry promised to leavt at the drug store for me.\ A Mot Pavement. Perhaps the oddest pavement ever laid is one just completed at Chino, Cal. It is made mostly of molassess, and if it proves all of the success claimed for it it may point a way for the sugar plauters of the south to profitably dispose of millions of gallons of useless molasses which they are said to have on hand. The head chem- ist of a sugar factory at Chino, Mr, E. Turke, was led to make certain experi- ments, of which the new sidewalk, a thousand feet long, from the factory to Main street, is the result. The molasses used is a refuse product, hitherto be- lieved to be of no value. It is simply mixed with a certain kind of sand to about the consistency of asphalt: and laid like an asphalt pavement. The composition dries quickly and be- comes quite hard, and remains so. The peculiar point of it is that the sun only makes it dryer and harder, instead of softening it, as might be expected. A block of the composition, two feet long, a foot wide. and one Inch thick, was submitted to severe tests and stood them well. Laid with an inch or BO of its edges only resting on supports, it withstood repeated blows of a ma- chine hammer without showing any ef• facts of cracking or bending. A Lary Stan's labor Ile can be seen at Longport, near At- lantic City, New Jersey, and is prob- ably as lazy as any amateur fisherman that ever baited hook or hooked bait, lie was seen the other day with three lines in the water. Ile was catching as many fish as the others with vonsider- ably less effort. The lines of this in- genious individual were fastened to small pieces of umbrella ribs about twelve inches long. About one inch from the end of the wires were fastened small sleigh belle. When he cast the line Into the water he drew It taut and then stuck the wires Into the ground. When a fish would nibble at the bait the bell would jingle anti thus draw the attention of the ' fisherman to the line. It Is beautiful The old man drops his Rah a lino, ad when the% call on him they ring a bell. He is not sompelled to think, everything is so totafortahle about him. A Mathematical Wonder. When Zerah Colburn, the Vernette mathematical \prodigy visited Har- vard College, he told in four seconds the exact number of seconds In eleven years, and anawered other similar questions with ft4111:11 facility Ile could no more tell how he did it than a child In singing ran tell the laws of melody, but it is certain that It was done under natural law and not in opposition to It. It Is hardly rioolitful that all ct h law\' are extremely RiMple anti that they will toe dittenverroi as soon AR - Veld Igators cot loose from accepted theories and apply modern scientific methoila of petsietent experiment and compartimit to mathematics It might to he taken for granted. when ouch tin explained phenomena sue witnessed that \the last word' . has not been oak in mathematics or anything else. _ . Earl Cairlogan. lord lientenant of 'fr- land. and 'sod lialsburv. the lord chancellor, are the only two members of the new British cabinet who are eh- snlotely whiskerlowt, SCIENCE UP TO DATE RECENT DOINGS IN MANY FIELDS OF INDUSTRY. ills, o.rry of Another liner/men t he issing 1.11.4 Mystery—A Cut oUS Animal Is t he Pongo A Garni , ox- stesAnrIng Device—Notes. ONALD B R N S. dealer In animals, of 167 South street, New York, recent- ly received from the custom house stores the stuffed body of an animal which is a curios- ity. Its ugliness is fascinating. T he late lamented Chi- ko was an Apollo compared with this c brute. Mr. J. B. Gaylord shipped the closed when desired. A locking arm is pivoted on the shutter near Its lower body from Singapore. The customs its - Inner edge, and the pivot pin is provided spectors refused to admit it, claiming, Mr. Burns vows, that it was the body of a dead savage. It was locked tip in the Cnited States stores until it was definitely identified as pongo. The beam. a male, is only four feet In height, but it measures over seven be- tween the ends of the outstretched arms. Malays captured it in the • mountains of Malacca and brought it in safely as far as Singapore. Here it escaped and severely injured one of the party. In revenge they stoned him to death. The body is covered with long, loose, red hair, and has a pair of chin whiskers and a mustache. The face is almost flat, the mouth enormous. Front cheek bone to cheek bone the dis- tance is a little over 14 inches. while from the chin to the top of the forehead is 16 inches. It is a good specimen of a well -developed Borneo pongo, a species of °rang outang which is found in the islands off the coast of Asia. They live on vegetables and build nests in trees. On the ground they are awk- ward, using their arms like crutches and swinging the body forward be- tween them on their bent knuckles. Electric Lights In Co miry Houses. It Is stated on what is thought to be good authority that within a few years electric lighting by means of windmills will be common in all country dis- tricts.. The wiqdpull has great possi- bilities if properineranged. It is sug- gested that water may be plumped to a reservoir and then utilized as a power. The objection to the windmill is that there are many times when there is uo breeze and, of course, the windmill is stationary. This would be certain to occur when It was most needed, and might cause great inconvenience. A well -filled tank or reservoir with a good pressure would, on the contrary, be al- ways In working order, of course, ae- ridents being allowed for.. The beet reservoir would he of pipe Mantling uu- right and closed in with suitable ma- sonry, spaces being left for air -cham- bers to prevent freezing. The water - pipes could be lald tinder ground. and in this way a tank anywhere from ten to thirty feet high might be filled by suit- able pumping apparatus. An extremely small stream would be . sufficient to operate a dynamo, and every house could have its independent electric plant. The advantage of bright lights all around one's garden and farm tmildings will be readily understood by - the average farmer. Garment -Measuring Device The illustration represents a device designed to facilitate making accurate measurements of a person for the cor- rect draughting and cutting of coats, rests, etc. It consists of two upright telescopit standards, the to he placed at each aide of the person to be meas- ured, and forming supports for several other Pliable meaatiring attiohments ki s s , tilde on the standards, and con - ten.. nil% arranged for taking the dif- ferent measerements requited. A sleeve hole measuiring device IR carried by one of the standards, there being a strip projecting horizontally therefrom, While also supported by the atandarda IS a btP41 strip, a hack strip being secured to the neck plate, breast strip, Hid the strip carried hy the Riney, hole tesiee A ahotildet tape Itt se-ored to the breast strip at !Ito front And rear, the attachment rut he rear being at the point where the ha' k strip unites with the breast \'trip and a ..boulder strip Is secured to the shoulder tape at the front And to the breast strip at the rear fla• frogs Cen ens p.1 f hereleal•. Among the prettnlited blemsdrige fight produced by the decomposition Is by air and moisture of certain chemicals that are eoinpressed into tiny rolls or rods. Upon being exposed to damp air, the end of the rod slowly ilk:solves, gen- erating a powerful, clear and not un- wholesome gas that eau be piped through a dwelling and used after the ordinary fashion. There is nothing in the range of average wants that Is niora needed than this. The Veiling prob- kin, especially in Rubin - Ain localities, Is a stupendous one to struggle with. Small towns where gag is used make the cost of such lighting almost prohils Rive, When one can have the material for gas supplied as one of the regular needs in an ordinary rod or tube at so much per yard or pound, the question ot: lighting will be robbed of many of its unpleasant features: An Improved Shutter Fastener The illustration represents a simple and effective device for holding open a shutter, permitting it to be readily with a collar separating the arm a slight distance 'front the shutter, as shown in section in the small figure, there being lock nuts on both ends of the pivot pin. When the locking arm is not in use it is carried to an upper position and rests upon a keeper, as shown at the left in the engraving, but to lock the :shutter open the arm is carried down to the position shown at the right, when it engages the window sill, the short end of the arm being then engaged by the keeper to prevent the arm from dropping too low. ... m et long New in Bicycle Tires. A leather tire il4 the latest improve- ment in this importan,t vehicle. It Is said that leather Is more durable and In every way more satisfactory than rubber. and will, before long, entirely supersede the latter material. By a new process, leather Is to be made thorough- ly waterproof. is quite aft elastic and much less likely to be cult and punc- tured than rubber. Another improve- ment in bicycle tire Is the automatic Inflator. By a very simple device the tire may be set at a standard and pumps itself full of air as the rider pro- ceeds. Front the ordinary valve clear through the tire to the outs/de there is a rod, with a had on the end. which Just touches the inside of the periphery of the rubber tire. When the wheel re- volves so as to press against this cushion, it moves in with the usual .pumping process, forcing the air Into the tube. When the pressure is re- laxed, as the wheel turns away front that side, the rod springs back and re - mainly so until the wheel again turns to thim point. It Is an exceedingly simple and practical invention, and saves a .great deal of pumping, which must al- ways he done when one has the least tints to spare. --- Intlestrystible Lamp Wirilta. There Is a new wick which Is made of a sort of lay. The Nay when soft, has fine veg titble fiber mixed with It. and this I, y interise heat burned out. This lea the clay full of tiny holes or pipes tui through them the flame draws th oil by what Is known as cap- illary attr lion. The dame is aald to he perfectly orless, there is no smoke and the light is leer and white. The wick Is practically Indestructible, and requires no training or care• for a long time, and then may. It Is said, be platted on 11 anal ere tied 'Matfett out, re- maining there untIl It reaches a clear red heat. 91TIORI while. The only °Wry - (Ion to4 - hese ai.•km In their ettrenie delicacy, as a little blow, or dropping • hem, of course destroys them alto- gether. In the management of lamps experts say that chi 111110V • Rh011141 never ne touched with eater RR It renders them more likely to break Th , retmon for this is that Owl,. are certain' portions of the glass that may not have been thoroughly fired. Moist lire getting into this Is abeorbed, and when the chimney becomes instantly hot the ea - partition cracks the chimney. It is a curious fact that an article In such universal use as a lamp is ao little understood and RO awkwardly handled Elortrielt v and Mining hi has been the r uatorn in almost ati coal mine' to employ ?nub, to draw the coal cars but thla oci npation of the mule is practii ally gone Electrielty by the trolla) system has stiperaedeil this much -101~d anlmal, and trains of ears are tit agged bv the aid f the trot let wire An experiment of using me, tele uu.a en has proven so sat Pea, t (Iry that It is said to he only a question of time when no other means of hand - Ile, coal will be employed MONGREL RACE IN DELAWARE. _ African and Indian Blood Mingled In a Tbrif ty community. There has been much speculation about the so-called Moors living in Kent and Sussex eounties, Delaware, says the Milford (Del.) herald, These people are usually swarthy, black - haired and black-eyed, though Borne - times of a fair complexion. They are mostly farmers. They have their own schools distinct from the general pub- lic school system. and they associate neither with whites nor with blatiks. One theory has been that they are of the Moorish race and that their aneest- ors were Spanish Moors wrecked on the coast more than a century ago. An- other tradition represents them as de- scendants of the Nanticoke Indians, George P. Fisher, a lawyer long prac- ticing in Delaware, writes to present what he regards as satisfactory evi- dence as to the origin of these people. He has been acquainted with these people all his life. Noke Norwood, a giant of the tribe, erect and black - haired at 75, he knew from childhood. When Mr. Fisher became attorney gen- eral of the state he was called upon to prosecute Levin Socktim, one of the race, for selling ammunition to Isaiah Harmon of the same race, the intliet- ment having been found under a statute of Delaware making it a mis- demeanor to sell arms and ammunition to any negro or mulatto. Harmon was a Mall of 20 years:. with excellent Cau- casian featurea, dark chestnut hair, rosy cheeks anti hazel eyes. Mr. Fisher thought him the handsomest man in the courtroom. Nevertheless. Lydia Clark, a kinswoman of Harmon, testified for the state that according to a family tradition. some years before the revo- lutionary war broke out, when she was a little girl, their ancestress, a woman of Irish birth, owning and cultivating a farm of r stag v et - p -eroagfose4o a farm in the Indian River Bemired, Sussex county, a few miles ['tom Lewes, bought of a slaver was driven into Lewes Creek a negro slave who professed to be a chief of one of the Congo tribes. The woman, whose name was Regius shortly after married her slave. and their children, not being allowed to assoviate with the whites, intermarried with the remnant if the Nanticoke Indians then still living in Sussex county. The witness, a very old woman, looked like an Indian of pure blood. AN UNDERGROUND CITY, The Singular Ilisenrery Made by Pens.. slam. at Knrk I. I en( nal St.ix. In a chain of rocky hills on the right bank of the Amon Diara, near the liok- haran town of Karki, in Turkestan, are a number ef large caves, which, upon examination. were found to lead to an underground city, built appar- ently long before tit\ Christian era. Ac- cording to ofilgies, inseriptions and de- signs upon the gold anti ailyer nioney unearthed from among the ruins the existence of the town dates back to some two centuries before the birth of Christ. The underground Bokharan city is about two versts long and is econ- potted of an enormolis labyrinth of cor- ridors. streets anti squares, eurrounded by bowies and other imildings two or three stories high. The etlifleem contain all kinds of domestic utensils, pots, urns. vases. and RO forth In some of the streets falls of earth and rock have obstructed the passages but generally the visitor can walk about freely with- out lowering his head. The high de- gree of civilization attained by the in- habitants of the city is ahowt, Its the fact that they built In several mode* by the symmetry of the streets ant, square. and by the beauty of the clay and metal utensils and of the orna. ments and coins. be Silver Confer.... . She silver conference at Washingtim completed Its work yesterday with the adoption of a .red,hot free silver plat- form and the formation of a fuli- fledged plan of campaign. with a na- tional committee. an PIPcill t•orn In It - tee and all the citatomarv paraphernalia of a political organ izat ion. The avowed VIII' pate of this machinery Is \to secure in the next Democratic na- tional convention the maintenato, of the time-honored principles ant policies of the Democratic party.\ That eounds like an plaetir phrase, butt the Rolf- e y led - bimetallic forces\ know exact- ly what they mean by it So will ev- crybod1 ebse who reads their platfortn with an understanding heart. Vino os's \1.ary firm One of thue queer/Y.1i clubs, or t world Is the I Sly 'tilt'' of Violin it is Paid ti hove a menthe/ship of 1 , l4i and there are thousands waiting rut itilmk- slim No mernher of this organ i7.' Ion can tin anything for A living ant the slightest suspicion of work that res mom her means ,his exellIsitm A R•nnion of Manta, hero was a family reunion at Tion- r•sta • the other day In 'Which ale song of Mr end Mrs. flaruleu Coleman perticipeted. The aggregate height of the six Is 37 feet i• inchea. The tallest Is 6 ftrt S inches high and the skortest 6 feet. •
