Rogue River courier., April 06, 1899, Image 4

MUTILATED MONEY
( '«»libilital ion
QÜAINT LITTLE TOWN.
How the Government Restore» In­
jured Bill» »nd Coin.
Now that we have po«*e»aions in th«
Wes’. Indie«, that rrgwn will breóme
far more interesting to American torn**
I i*ta. The prediction ia frequently made
| that Havana i« destined to be one of the
most popular winter resort* in the
Thcrc are «cveral expert« employed world; and not a few of the «mailer
by the government to in«peet the c»rr- ialanda. «orne of which art »carvely
known by name, will receive the pat­
rency offered for redemption In fhet
ever) person employed in the bureau I* ronage of a considerable part of the
in tome degree *n expert, brrauwe one Traveling public for excellent rrxM B».
of them ha« to pa*» on the grnuixene»« One of thewe little «pots t« the Dutch
of the money prearnled for redemp­ i*iand of Saba, which i» only a »bort
tion. and thia i* a difficult taxk. Re­ »ail from Porto Rico, and is one of the ! gTtjwl* gioomii
member. »hat thia monej come» to the nio«t unique »pecks of rock in the [ thrrr-quarieeu
trewaurj. a* a rul«, oaly whea it ia ao world. The day ia coming when tour­ I e*ea ikurt;, rum
badly worn that it will not pa»» car­ ist »tewmers «isiting the Le**er Antilles
“No. I’m Mire I wa* right-"
rent. ThU dirty, torn, grraay. ragged will, by unanimous demand, have to j Mr«. Twitter«. "But let me
stop
a
few
hour«
at
"aba.
money the expert* have to handle and
I »he «oy«, indulgently.
•*
The island i* only five square miles I tim« three i» »ixty-three.”
decide whether it wa* i*»ued by the
in
extent,
and
is
nothing
but
the
coni
­
government and »houid be redeemed at
•*-V’ha!f,** interject* the butarber.
it* face value or whether it i* the work cal top of an extinct volca no ri«mg
Au«i • aaif of threw- » une «i
sharply
2.w>)
fret
above
the
lev»
!
oi
of counterfeiter* and should be re­
half.” eoatanar* Mr*. Twitter», placid-
•ea.
About
m
«>
fret
tsp
the
«Uep
»
fected. It is not at all to the discredit
1 ly. “And a half of a half » a quarter.
top is a break ia
tic
>f the experts of the bureau that some of this mountain
That makr* aixty -three pin* one and a
wall
of
rock.
It
is
where
a
era
’
.tr
>>gus money haa got past them and
! half piua a quarter, or wruty-fi fir and
once
formed
in
the
Ude
of
the
m
jeen detected in one of the oflier* to
three-ajuarter*. or an even »ialy-five.”
ahich the piece» of the mouey gs> for tain, and the only important »r
“And there*« another half, mum,
i>r
mrut
on
the
island
«tanda
on
the
urther examination. TL>« doe* not
■wMi» the butcher, an lioo&ly.
of
thia
ancient
crater.
Vi«iu>r»
tc
jccur often.
“Yes.
I ni coming te
The peculiar province of one woman ifcLind land in a rocky cove and a»«
TwiUcm aeurt* him.
“And a half
I'
the
precipitous
path
coneiaf:r|t
«
f
»
» not to detect bad money—though she
times maty-five is—no. itMa half tiua-*
r«t
in
the
rock,
which
the
natía»
<
a an expert at that—but to put to­
three and a half—didn't I do that hr-
gether torn pieces of money **nt for proprlately rained “the Ladder.” N
ferre? Of course. .Now it’* three ,
Ijr
»
ju
little
house*
adorn
the
root
¿ratification ai.d redemption. Thene
half time* iixty-five— ot no. it mu
jirce« of money come from all part* b< om of thi* crater, and. owiiq
twenty-one and a half umen »ix mi
■hr
position
of
the
town,
it
i*
kr.>
>f the country and arrive under mo»t
No. that can’t be right. It
f the
extraordinary condition». Tbi* ia not is Bottom village. The
half times—tinieo—what U
«urpriaing. in view of the fact that pretty white house« amid
time* what? Dear me. I
they c*?me from experiences with fire •if the crater floor, with t
wouldn't interrupt me the
and water and gastric Jniers and many mass towering high behind them, is did!*
other powxtrefu! agent«. A not infre­ extremely unique and pleasing. Every­
“Herr** your steak, and it’« 90 cents,
quent accident to money is to be left in thing that the people of Bottom pa** mum.' ohnervew the butcher, ctokdly.
have ha* to be carried up to this height
a stove, whence it ia taken in a bacf!y
**Oh* very well,' retorts Mrs. Twit-
charred condition, with only «»he* to on their heads. Much practice ha» uts , with sarcastic d: IgwHy. “Ifyouit-
reprc»eiu the greater port of it. Often made the natives very expert in this «ist ■
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it ia used by rat* to make their «eata; busine«* and IO) pounds is not aa un­ .ng to me.”—N*. Y« World.
or. buried in the dampness of a cellar, usual load and »«rm» hardly to impede
it rota away; or, swallowed by a cow, it the advance of the carrier up the long
FUNNY HONEYMOONS.
i« rescued from her itomich a slimy stone step*. Over InOv people, mostly
Dutch, white skinned rosy-chrrked ard
mas* vf paper.
•ame Thal Ila«* Baca >.»>•/ed b» £<
Here are the rule«of the treasury for tow beaded folk, live in the aett eir rt.
reatri« l’ropl»
T%l» aad
the redemption of mutilated money: and are certainly among th*“, v ry l est
Oth
n
Fur a piece of currency greater than specimens of »ucerssful eolci •/:
two-fifth» of the original note, one- in the tropic*. Seafaring and boat-
A feu, year
It i*
half the face value of the n >te 1« given I building arc their oecupat or
coupla living
For a piece as great aa three-fiflLa. the «aid they build the best fi«hir^ fc« its
Brookville, Ky
whole valne of the note is given For in the (anbbees They draw up the
trip a wagon r
umber for the boats with ropes and
a piece two-fifth« in war of the original
of Koi
nothing ta given. But thio lax provi­ then lower the bost* down the meur-
sion is limited by the law. which gives tain side. Saba 1« a Iso exception« I from
discretion to the treasury department the fact that scarcely any negroes are
to give full value for a note if the own­ to l»e found in the place <Fn moat of
er can prove to the «atiafaction of the smaller Writ Indies the populat
authorities that the note, or the mi«*- overwhelmingly black—N Y S
ing part of it wa* destroyed. This lax
POOR ENGLISH ARMY BOOT
provision open* the door to poaaible
fratsd. and many are the effort« made
by diahoneat pervjA« to Uhe advantage
of it.
The fragment* of money which come
to the treasury are turned over to one
It coat« S?5u to make an efficient
of the expert* and sorted out under
a year to ke
the microecopr for ideatificat»«. dier and another
They are picked apart and each tiny him in good going condition. By th«*
piece Uaxugued to it« piece like a part time Tommy Atkins ia thorough’*
of a puxsle. This is usually done on broken in he may be worth anything
gla»*, and the fragment« are eventual­ up to f 5 ‘*O or $f><•*> by the end
ly put between piece* of gia«* to hold »even years* •enrice. Mr. Atki
them together while they are measured therefore, one of hi» country**
to see whether there are two-fifth* or valuable asset» One mi in M)
three fifths of the note identifiable or army btlonn to the medica! aervi
wanner it W so little that the <-wwr and is de vol d to keeping the re
can recover nothing Sometime« it is a •ound and well
The weakest part of Thomas Athis
very aeriouw matter to the owner; but
the poor are not the only applicant* for is hi« feet
And pretty well 9»» per cent
th
«»•istaiwe to recover damaged money
At the time W K Y wider bi It's beauti­ rases in which soldiers have bad to fa
sick or fall out are due to the perennial
ful home at Newport wa« burned. Mr*
Vanderbilt—now Mrs. Belmont—sect trouble between the army bool and the
*b«ry plain maa-
in about Sl.OUO in mutilated currency, army foot. The
ont of which it w a« able to identify for euvrrs set the seal oa th >
redemption all but a fraction of the other measures having fa
iati Enq.
tboritie* have now dreid
•MB.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
his owr. el
Some of the experiences of the re­ Private J
First o
half a dosei
demption division
with
would-be
Hotel ehan.
*>n»s
thieve» are interevting One mao is the arvr.y
M» tico,
Kan»as «ent to the treasury the halve» tra«ned a
ih» roo
of some «mall bills with the edge* nice­ they in t
When a I
ly charred. sccompaAird by aa aflidavil part the w
I is not nr
mg fcr the
from the sender that he had pu lb
a tree
of iofhntri
money in his pocket, hurg his coal
bld
fence and that the coal had been
burned to the destrurtioa of part of
the Botes. It happened that the treas­
ury had redeem-d the other ba’vrv of
these note« ju»t l’w year* bef' re fur a
money broker in New York, an
Ing the case suspicious
out for the po«sibihtv
fraud The Kat> •a* ruan «u i [
of goad buvinrM «tandfing. i
banker» threatened the treat
rial« with dis mi Atal if they qu>
hi« affidavit They put the cai
hand» of the department of jiM
eventually the man pleaded guii'
wna fined 91 *M«>
A bank in Alabama received from
depositor a fragment of a t
bill, and the treasury people
dollar* for it. Later came a
coBipaaied by the other part o
a little charred, with an ilMai
the ar nd er had burned
of the note b* misfake
K Chicago mar. sei
o 13»• bills aad oi
with aa affidavit
halves had been <1
me mail t
*** came ii
ecial akRt n t
affidavit, w h<
some swtr-Mers and
prtwin for * year
ingtoa Star
rr ino
»♦erB,
ilectaioc
•I aa«l e**di«L, Creder
Yet «Locanti«
‘TLat rare n ng ‘ Mita Mn ri
in John ll«1*'lax( Gentleman,
i..i-»rue»e—a qaaiity Uiffermt troni
mew. atf«cii >a*le ne»« or ber evo
. a <|uahly wbi«b t ai» siisi «mly il
a! : ve naterra
nroug irep. u ruietnoactrai
Ihvreiur« in il* perire
dome
>d :n * ornati tbau ia
llsat any
AND WILL BE AT THE
I ki k.. r. g *
Promptly Reaches the Seat
A COMPLICATED CALCULATION
rwtiur*
lbw
UsnivJ
Hewrtle»«
u
W wwUíw i I • t lire
B 8.C
an«! tec
brauUf
• be ft
r » n IMP »
UTe r.
Womai
Evart
Rwtelbwr
Winter is e. try,™
time for dehcete people
Cojjhv coldk and pneumon,»
find them ciiy victims
Do you c&tch col<j
easily? It »hows th&t yo.jr
system is not in & conation t»
resist disease.
Tou will b<
fortunate if you escape pneu­
monia.
Nature is Always fightma
sffiinst disesse. The right kind
ef medicine n the Kind that
helps future by tonmg up th«
jyttem snd enabling it to res,*
iStASC. Such a tonic ¡t
Josephine, Wednesday, Apr. 19
9Í ph
It im I
Dr. Willems’ Pink p,||S
for PaJe P«op|4
tri mi
tiararter
By building up the blood »nj
Strengthening the nerwe*
pills retch the root of rn^ny
serious d stAses. such as sciAVcA. neurAlgu, rheum-
otism »nd All forms of we*kness, either in men or vtomen.
- I :
bumor -a
1! 1» P-«ri Wood. ■ popular yoanr lady of ArlinRtoo Ind mt , : "i
. -lh ,1th untlltwo Tvaraaaowbe, facial ncralcMdcrelopedUM
.»„pat.-ul L ms neatly 1 woaMkaw aemv atuchadnriM tlwirtt.
. ■ , t ir • .aol'le toever gtl a niyht , real I « iffered aeverely iron,
t . dieeierir maovweeka. < >u- phy.ictaa waa unable to help me. ,nd
.. fed .t-.tvr l-tor. t'lt with the same reaalt 1 u~-d different rvme-
. -
. ::h aobewrfft. Happenine to read ta tke newnpapar coocerr rr
t
rn f Ur William« Pink Pillai concluded to try the pill». When
1 St I.--: the aecornl box 1 waa better. I waa never more happy in my lite
t- ■
-the fact that I wa» eec.inr welL After takin» the third boa the
Dia left me and »ten I had duu-hed the fifth box I wa» well.
—RtuJunUa
Grafkic.
f
.
At All druijists or sent direct by the Dr Wiliums
Medicine Co, Schenectady. N.Y., 5o ♦ per box, 6 boxes.$2V
. m - every n
ficorpora.ed Unler the Law«.of California for $
Twenty-Five Years.
MíQf io »very a<l and every »uf>J
inuepid conrage,” »rule br y de u
beat La: a holiday kind oi virtu«
eeldom exen i*«d and ue
at ncce»»ity .
efiitn, and a
bring oack to
MONG THE AILMENTS CURED
MAN
ARPEES
BY THE ENGLISH
PHYSICIANS ARE THE FOLLCWIN l
■JHO i'X.’
Wil! contino*
leit, Ali the im,<vrtADt ne»»
üí UXí*
<n a ¡ ad aüö
ART
POLITICS
ladependent of parties, devoted to
■oed g jvernment. it will not hesitate
to a;ft:••* c*r d »approve, whatever
the »¡tuatioo may be.
Cuba and the Philippines
Hawaii and Porto Rico
These place* will be «inula.-.• :re*ted
_. Caspar W h i t n c y and W.
binwtdJie. who Làcwisc made*
*iudy oí me p acca
BEST
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Special article* w .1 appear on these
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: *r. m made «pecia. journey* :c the
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vithuiM
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u 'j*rin»n Expert Bpeciaiiut*
hoQuJ u> rraait in a great daft
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THE CONSPIRATORS
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and will b« full ci nme-y matter.
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ALASKA
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THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN EXPERT SPECIALISTS,
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JO Ctnlt a Copy
Sabttription, J4 OC a Year
Addre*» HARPER A BROTHERS. P*bli«her«. >ew Yorh N y.
Signals!
Do yoa take cold with
•vcry chance in the
weather? Docs your throat
feci raw ?
And do sharp
pains dart through j our
.hest ?
Don't you know the*« are
danger signals which point
to pneumonia, bronchitis, or
consumption itself?
if you are ailing and have
lost flesh lately, they arc
certainly danger signals. The
question for y on to decide is,
•■lias e I the vitality to throw
off these diseases?**
D n't wait to try SCOTT’S
EMI LSION *■*» • last re­
sort.” There is no remed>
equal to It for tortifsfng the
sy stem. Prevention is east
Grants Pass Marble and Granite Works
J B. PADDOCK, Propr
CAMERAS’
vjtice f , > r
¿T. B. PADDOCK.
Grants Pass & Crescent City
--STAGE LINE--
he >
K
( arrics I . S. Mails. Passengers andJStage Express.
M Hx«
D. Agee,
Azee Jr .
J.
un bol
. Cal.
vs daily between Grants Pass, Oregon, and Crescent
ng through the following interior points; Wilder-
' Anderson. Kerby. Waldo. Shelly Creek
Patrick's Creek.
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Gasquets.
TIME TABLE.
Emulsion
present» cotuamptioa and
hosts of other diseases which
attack the weak sod those
with poor Mood.
SCOTT’S EMLLSIOS is
the one standard remedy for
inflamed throats and laags.
foe colds, bronchitis and con­
sumption. It is a food medi­
cine of remarkable power. A
food, because it nosirtsbes the
body ; and a medicine, be­
cause it corrects diseased
co nd ft ions.
? I
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r
ruha-ed the Marble Stock and Bnsineaa heretofore owned and con
1 u »»on, I ini now in poeition to furnith anything in the line of
w rk either in MARBLE or GRANITE. I have had over a quarter of
of ex.^rirnce in th* Marble and Granite Busin era and can fill vour or-
pdy and give you the beet of workmanship.
make a specialty of construction work from your own design«.
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S. S. S. GOES
TO THE BOTTOM]
Put a piai
How to be Health
in Winter.
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ITT B lOHl CtoniMto *«w Yjri
Lx. i
WESTBOUND
inb. Pas
at \V aldo..
EASTBOUND
6
Leave Crescent City
Arrive at Waldo.......... 8
Leave Waldo................ i
Arrive at Grants Pass .
’ugh which this li...
____ ■_ is ; beautiful.
line r
pas-es
d from Gasquet to Crescent City. . Ex
J C HARPER. Grants Pass.Or.. Manager.
D octor
MEYERS
A CO. '•
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Cures the Worst Cases.
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vtf»T aueb
TV«
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fbttaMation
nut. Uba ot
'.j I- brvwk forth a^» •
r*- vi >ntiv tha: ever jy >
tra-'c of ia nt. ar4 nd» the »y«trm of it rarerer
Mr*.T " I.ce Moatg m--ry. Ala. wnW ‘ ’'•sm«y*<r*
ago I w»* tiwx' ^aPwi wuh jx* » >n by a rurae wb. irfeetcd
my bw •* with bì ««d ta nt. I wa* cvvrrwd with •• re* and
ulcer* fr '-m bead te f*»>t an4 m my grv«; extiwmity I |
to die. Several proauneet physic ar.a treated me I
to ao f'kfpsw
the mere îry 'and r* *aah which
gute toe
to add fuel to the aw* . fiara« which wm
GCftMCnng n>e. I wu adv «ed by fn^^d# who had ««en
wonderful eurwu made by it. to trj Sw ft » Specific
I im-
pr v*d *r>ra the »tart *• the medicine
to the (*.w of the tfvubîe and force th<
<11
txXUca cured me cvmpietely ” öwiXV»
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