Montana Plaindealer

THE MONTANA PLAINDEALER Published Weekly by The Montana Plaindealer Company. J. B. BASS, . . . EDITOR. Subscription $2.00 per year. Strictly in Advance. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter April 12, 2006, at the Post Office at Helena, Montana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Address all Communications to The Montana Plaindealer, 19 South Main Street, Helena, Montana. PEACE! PROSPERITY!! UNION!!! IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. The Editor's Song How dear to my heart is the steady subscriber, Who pays in advance without skipping a year; Who takes out his dollar and offers it gladly, And casts 'round the office a halo of cheer. Who never says 'stop it, I can't afford it.' Or "getting more papers each day than I read," But always says, "send it, the whole outfit, likes it- In fact we regard it as a buisness need." Ilow welcome he is when he steps in the sanctum; How he makes our eyes fairly dance; How he makes our heart throb We outwardly thank him and in wardly bless him. The steady subscriber who pays in advance. Exchange After all it seems as though our people in this section are capable of getting together on proposition which will bring to them lasting beneits. The indications point to a strenuous time in the political arena for this year, with a municipal election at hand, the selections of Delegates to the National Convention, the elections of a state and County ticket the pot house politician and ward heeler will be compelled to work overtime. After all in so far as local affairs are concernend, it is of little moment to our people which way the pendulum swings as they have not even had a look in under the present administrations in either City, County or State. The boomlet of Corby of Butte for Govenor has died a borning. In the first place he is an accident as mayor. It was simply a choice of the lesser evil, and be between two chumps. Corby was less a chump than Mahoney. But had a broadganged wide awake man like Jerry Mullins been his opponent Corby would have never heard the drum tap, except as a requem for his aspirations as mayor of Butte DOING SOMETHING. In incorporating and putting on foot the Afro-American Building Associatem in this City the colored people of this City have taken a giant stride in the betterment of the condition of the race in this section and will redoub to the credit of the promoters of the same in yrs to come. The crying need of the hour is for something which will be of a material benifit to these people, this need it seems that the Afro-American Building Association has happily solved and offer to the people a safe and sure investment whereby all may become interested in an enterprise which cannot but help pay a fair interest on the investment. The officers of the association aside from being men of known integrity in this community are thoroughly wide awake and progressive the performance of their duttes in their different position are guaranteed by an Iron Clad boud of one of the leading trust companies Every colored Citizen of Helena should make it a point to come out and attend the open meeting at St James Church Monday evening to the end, that they may become the roughly acquainted with the objects of this very Laudable enterprise. Those who expect help in their effort to get to the front must first help themselves. The men and women who are going to the front in the Afro-American Building Association are Doing Something which will in years to come redound to the credit of the race. Our people in this section could do no better than sends their boys and girls to the Western University at Quindaro Kans, which institution is doing such splendid work in preparing our young folks to go out into the world. IN MEMORIAM. The St. James litterary last Wednes day evening very appropriatly met and adjourned out of respect to the memory of its last President W. R. Dorsey, 30 minutes were devoted to Euolojistic remarks as to his life touching Euologies were delivered by J. B. Bass, J. E. W. Clark and Mrs. W. T. Osborne. A Committee was appointed to draft suitable resolutions of condolence and the vote was cast with the bowed head. The following committee was appointed G. W. Alexander, J. E. W. Clark, and Mrs. Geo. H. Lee. Helena, Montana, Friday, January 24 1908 ENTERTAINING RESUME OF A DEMOGRATIC LOVEFEAST BY THE CHICAGO BROADAX. Wendesday evening, the Jefferson Club celebrated the birthday of Andrew Jackson, by giving a banquet at the Auditorium Hotel, fully eight hundred followers of Old Hickory, who while president of the United States, had the nerve to close in on some of the bankers who felt that they owned all branches of the government, like the money gamblers and the bankers at the present time fell that they have been chosen from on high to run and control the government and the people as well whom they look upon as their willing slaves, sat around the banquet tables. Alderman William E. Dever, served as toastmaster and among the honored guests who furnished the oratorial feasts of old time Democracy were Hon. Adali E. Stevenson Senator William J. Stone, Hon. J. W. Kern, Edgar L. Masters, President of the Jefferson Club, and W J. Bryan, who launched his presidential boom while the banquet was in full blast. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, who is trimming his ls to make the race foo of Illinois loomed up Just at the proper time to receive the loud applause of the merry banquets. Old rattle-brained Jeff. Davis, of Arkansas, who should be wearing a striped suit and doing time in some pen, in his state, or in some federal prison, for his incendiary and treasonable mouthings against the government, and law and order instead of occupying a seat in the United States Senate, where he is a burning disgrace to the memory of former Senator Garland of the state, who was sufficiently civilized to have some regards for the civil and the political rights of all men of whatever race or nationality, was the only speaker who for some reason or other failed to show up at the banquet. To come right down to it, the world at large, or those who enjoyed the five dollar feast, heard very little about the achievements of Andrew Jackson, who was the first person in the United States to confer the title of Major upon a Negro for seemingly the speakers felt ashamed to refer to his career, they were silent to the fact that Andrew Jackson, had the law enacted in his stated in 1793, conferring the right to vote on the free Colored men of Tenn.; that his address to the members of both branches of Congress, in behalf of the Colored soldiers who lead the fight, while the so-called brave white men were running to the rear, and assisted him to win his great battle at New Orleans, will ever stand as the finest and the most patriotrc tribute that could be paid to the valor and courage of any soldiers. Andrew Jackson, was one of those old plain blunt Democrats who was not afraid to permit Colored men and women to White House while he was president of the United States, and he even rode by their side through the streets of Washington; to show that he took no stock in the social equality rot he permitted Colored men and women to dance in the parlors of the White House, what the speakers failed to say about Andrew Jackson in general without touching upon what he thought or said respecting the brave Colored soldiers, who fought by his side against the British in 1812, and saved the day for him on many a battlefield, during that war, and in the war with Mexico later on, would fill a large sized book! Throughout his set speech Col. Bryan in glowing terms assured his hearers that "victory would perch on the banner of Democracy under his leadership, in the approaching presidential contest," it is barely possible that he might be mistaken in this respect, and for our part we feel quiet sure that Col Bryan, or no other Democrat can be elected, president of the United States this year if the leaders of the party will permit such braying jerkasses as old Jeff Davis, wildeyed Anarchist Ben Tillman, Jim Vardaman, who is as crazy as a bedbug, John Sharp Williams, who never will have sense enough to be come a third-rate statesman and their like to come up North for the purpose of braying like long-cared mules over their dear "Lost Cause" for if they are permitted to travel through the North and unbosom themselves of their shallow dribblings on the 'Race problem' which they have assisted to create and maintain, in order to display their non-suqeriority over thousands of men of other races, they will drive thousands of honorable liberal-minded white men, who believe in fair play, away from the Democratic party, and Col. Bryan or no other Democratic candidate will be successful at the polls this coming November, but if such cattle as we have referred to are forced to remain down South where they belong, where they can freely talk about "how many Niggers, their ancestors owned before Slave-holders Rebellion," they are incapable of talking adout anything else, the Democrats would have a splendid chance of marching onto the White House this year under the leadership of a second Andrew Jackson one who would have e courage to give expressions to his honest convictions, and especially in favor of permitting all men, not white men, nor black men but all men to fully enjoy their civil and political rights, in all parts of this country Such a man be be Democrat or Republican is only fit to be elected president of the United States! The New York Dry Goods Store. MIDWINTER CLEARANCE SALE SPECIAL PRICES DRY GOODS STORE. Refreshments Served CoME ONE NORTHWEST STATES WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON AND MONTANA ITEMS. A Few Interesting Items Gathered From Our Exchanges of the Surrounding Country—Numerous Accidents and Personal Events Take Place—Crop Outlook Is Good. WASHINGTON NOTES. It is reported R. A. Ballinger of Seattle has resigned as commissioner of the general land office at Washington, D. C., and will return to this state so that he may make the race for the republican nomination for governor. A full grown cougar has made its appearance in the vicinity of the Lewis Cochran farm, six miles northeast of Colfax, and is terrorizing the people of that community. After deliberating about two hours the jury in the Gertie Griffin murder trial at Ritzville returned a verdict of not guilty. The Spokane high school debating team Friday night outpointed the Wenatchee high school team in the state interscholastic contest. Graduates of the Spokane high school who have completed the four years' course satisfactorily will in the future be permitted to enter the Armour Institute of Technology without first taking the examinations. John Haff of the cruiser St. Louis is dead at Vallejo, Cal., from the effects of drinking wood alcohol. Haff is the third sailor to succumb, two others are totally blind, and five others will never again be fit for active service. As a result of the tong war being waged in San Francisco, Lung Chow was fatally shot recently. Two assassins attempted to kill Jung Dang, whose life was sought, but the bullets went wild and killed Lung Chow. The new cruiser California went to sea from San Francisco recently for her final trial. The navy trial board was on board and it is intended to keep the cruiser at hard work for two days before an official opinion is formed. J. J. O'Connor of Wenatchee drove the first team and rig across the big Columbia river bridge at Wenatchee. It consisted of a sleighload of people, among whom was Judge R. S. Steiner of Waterville. George Lucas, a well known pioneer of central Washington, died at Cheney Saturday night. He located on Cow creek, southeast of Ritzville, 50 years ago, and resided there until four years ago. Richard David Harrington, aged 82 died at the hospital at Fort Stella-loom recently, where he had been since his health failed some two years ago. Mr. Harrington had lived 67 years of his life on the Pacific coast. At the annual meeting of the State Bee Keepers' association at North Yakima recently, H. H. Cole was elected president; L. R. Freeman, secretary; August Sipp, treasurer, and Jesse W. Thornton, vice president. The recent assessors' convention was the most important gathering of assessors in the history of the state. It records the first determined step toward a uniform taxation system for the entire state. An increase in the jobbing business of Walla Walla for the year 1907 over 1906 amounting to 25 or 30 per cent is reported. The plant of the suspended morning edition of the Seattle Times has been bought by R. F. Radebaugh of Tacoma, who will take it to that place. The body of Lillian Pratt, aged 22, who mysteriously disappeared from her home in Tacoma on May 27 last, was found in a dense thicket on the outskirts of the city recently by a surveying crew. China has just placed an important rush order for quick firing guns in Paris. John I. Handley, supreme vice president of the Fraternal Union of America, died Friday at his home in Denver, Co., of appendicitis. Police Inspector Edward S. Whitaker of New Orleans, who, accompanied by five men, recently attempted to kill the editor of the World, has been suspended, together with the men who accompanied him to the newspaper office. Work has been started on the new steel bridge crossing the Methow river at Pateros, 30 miles below Twisp. Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow, in a sermon in the Congregational church at Cincinnati last Sunday, argued that it was not wicked to play ball on Sunday, and stated that if he were mayor he would not try to enforce the law against Sunday ball playing. The New York police and private detectives have been asked to look for Horace W. Randall, vice president of the Hoquiam Lumber company of Hoquiam, Wash., who went there several weeks ago to visit friends, and seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Henry Brook, a Spokane pioneer, died on the steamship Roanoke on the Columbia river, January 16, while on his way to California. First chloroforming A. C. Finley, who was asleep in his room upstairs, two yggmen recently dynamited the safe in the J. C. Calder general merchandise store at Silver Beach, a suburb of Bellingham, and escaped with $253 in cash and checks. After a five year lease of state land has been once renewed for a similar period, no more renewals are permissible, under the law, according to an opinion rendered to the state land commissioner by the attorney general. The Exchange bank of Blaine has closed its doors. Tacoma jobbers of feed announce a reduction of 1 a ton in the price of oats and alfalfa and timothy hay. Oats are now quoted at $30 and $31 a ton and alfalfa at $14 and $15 and timothy at $24. The problem of the unemployed has already begun to trouble the public authorities in Seattle. The board of health unanimously adopted a resolution that hereafter no city will be permitted to empty sewage into any body of water or stream used for drinking pourposes by other municipalities until such sewage has been rendered harmless by some process to be approved by the state board of health. This affects a number of cities. George Price and Homer Richardson of Dayton have the ideal system of handling and shipping grain. They have large bins scattered throughout their fields and the grain is taken direct from the thresher to these bins, where it is held until they are ready to ship. Then it is carried to the cars in bulk. They figure that the cost of the tanks is not so great as the cost of sacks. An elaborate park system to furnish Walla Walla with one of the most complete recreation equipments of any city of similar size in the country is being contemplated by members of the park board. IDAHO NEWS. The postoffice at Freedom, situated on the Salmon river, between White bird and Lucile, Idaho, has been dis continued. Ten cases of smallpox have been reported at Lewiston, most of the patients being confined to the isolation hospital. Approximately 10,000,000 feet of saw logs will be cut in the timber surrounding Bayview this winter. Andrew Jkesth, a carpenter, who formerly resided at Spokane, committed suicide at Lewiston recently. The debate at Lewiston between the State Normal school and a team from the University of Idaho preps was won by the Moscow visitors, the question debated being "Resolved, That the United States senate should adopt a closure rule." The decision was in the affirmative. In the election of delegate to the university conference to discuss the four-year rule and other athletic matters, "Jack" Simpson, Idaho's football manager, was successful over Magee, Keys and Armstrong. For the first time in many weeks Wallace had telephone service Sunday. Ever since the supreme court decided that the Sunday rest law of Idaho was constitutional the authorities have enforced the law with an iron hand. MONTANA NOTES President Roosevelt will be petitioned by the labor bodies of Montana to pardon Lenihan and Plunkett, two linemen imprisoned for violating an injunction granted the Rock Mountain Bell Telephone company, protecting their non-union employees from interference by the unions. If the news which reaches Whitefish concerning construction work on the Billings & Northern railroad is correct, the Burlington traffic via that line will be going through Whitefish long before the year has passed, and Whitefish will get another boost. Officers Michael Hogan and Frederick E. McClellan of the Butte police force have been found guilty at a public trial of extorting $10 from a negro. They have been dismissed by Mayor Joseph Corbin. Patrolmen Mullan and Wesson are also charged with grafting. OREGON SQUIB3. Judge Bean of Pendleton, Ore., pronounced sentence on Willie Hoskins for whipping his school teacher, G. W. Keller, of Echo, and fined the young man $50 and costs. Moyar Rodgers of Salem created consternation in sporting circles recently by conducting a raid on gambling joints all by himself. No arrests were made, and it is understood no warrants will be issued, but to all appearances the mayor has clamped on the lid good and hard so far as gambling is concerned. Regular trains are operating now as far west as Lyle, on the North Bank road. At the meeting of the Oregon Editorial association held at Portland it was decided that no more "free puffs" would be given to political candidates, but that the officesekers to gain publicity must advertise in the newspapers. NO IMMUNITY FOR ABE RUEF San Francisco, Jan. 20.—It is announced that the graft prosecution had determined to discontinue all negotiations with Abraham Ruef, the central figure in the graft cases, in the matter of granting him immunity. It was further stated that the prosecution would demand that Ruef be put on trial before Judge Dunne on one of the many charges of bribery for which he has been indicted. This determination of the prosecution came at the end of several days of fruitless negotiations with Ruef. No man goes to a banquet for the sake of the speeches he will hear SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE. A Review of Happenings in Both Eastern and Western Hemispheres During the Past Week—National Historical, Political and Personal Events. The James Donovan Shoe Manufacturing company of Everett, Mass., has made an assignment. Mrs. Grover Cleveland has been appointed by Governor Stokes a member of the board of managers of the state village of epileptics at Skillman, N. J. George Billups, proprietor of Billups' hotel, Park Heights and Heywards avenue, and his wife were instantly killed recently by being thrown from an automobile at Baltimore. Pope Pius is not seriously ill. The New York, New Haven & Hartford's new $39,000,000 loan has been fully subscribed for. The Catsburg coal mine, situated 30 miles south of Pittsburg, is reported to be on fire. The 40 men employed in the mine escaped safely. Every electric lighting and power company in New York city will be subjected to an investigation by the public service commission. It is stated that General Alfaro and his supporters in the Salvadorean army are now planning a revolt against the government. Two small St. Paul banks owned by A. Z. Drew, registrar and professor of mathematics at Hamlin university, have suspended payment. Minister Furniss has notified the state department that a revolution is in progress in Hayti, and that the town of St. Hare may be bombarded at any time. Influenza has Chicago by the throat figures given out by the health department showing that there are at present nearly 650,000 people suffering from the disease. Announcement is made in the London Times that that paper has not been sold, the rumors published being only in regard to negotiations for the sale of the paper. Public accounts of British Columbia presented to the legislature show a balance of revenues over expenditures of $1,595,113, an increase of $878,797 over last year. After having been divorced for 36 years, an accidental meeting brought Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ackley of Chicago together and they are now enjoying their second honeymoon. The Sovereign Bank of Canada, with 76 branches throughout Ontario, has gone into liquidation. Depositors in the bank will lose nothing, but shareholders are not apt to fare so well. Suffering from a homicidal mania, Miss Ann Audic of Nantes, France, recently, at New York, attempted to strangle the 3 year old son of her brother, Dr. J. M. Audic of Spokane. The Atlantic Coast line has agreed to all the terms of the railroad rate agreement suggested by Governor Glenn, conceding the right of the state to make rates. This was the last road holding out. Governor Hughes of New York, Henry Watterson and Booker T. Washington addressed a meeting held at Carnegie hall recently for the purpose of raising $70,000 needed by the Tuskegee institute. Mrs. Elizabeth Newman of Seattle has disapeared and foul play is suspected by her parents. Choking her into submission at the same time that he held a handkerchief saturated with chloroform to her nostrils to render her unconscious, an unknown man, thought to be a railroad switchman, and known to the police only as "Dan," robbed Jennie Smith, an inmate of a dive at Spokane, of five diamond rings and two diamond earrings, valued at $1000. Fire on the steamer Tremont at Tacoma, recently, did damage estimated at $40,000. Mysterious and baffling is the disappearance of Mrs. R. C. Keene, a prominent woman of Bellingham, made public when A. E. Bloom of Fern hill appeared at an undertaking establishment and tried to identify the body of Bertha Stastny, who committed suicide in her cell in the asylum, as the missing woman. It is reported at Merced, Cal., that on last Sunday a Scotland Yard detective arrested in that city two men who are accused of having committed a $200,000 jewelry robbery in London nearly five years ago. The bandit, Raisulil, presiding at a gathering of the Ben Iarous, Fahs and Anjos tribes, and Marabout Mulai Abd-es-Salem, governor of Morocco city, announce that they will refuse to recognize Mulai Hafid as sultan, claiming that Abd el Aziz still is the rightful ruler. The Sovereign Bank of Canada, a Toronto corporation with a capital of $4,000,000, has gone into liquidation and the association of United Canadian banks have assumed its liabilities. The depositors in the 76 branches of the Sovereign banks are to lose nothing. The bank's branches were in Ontario, Quebec, the northwest and maritime provinces. Six months ago a man gave us an item. Every since, when we ask him if there is anything new, he replies: "No, nothing more." MINERS RESCUED AT ELY. Pinned in Alpha Shaft 46 Days—Fed Through Steel Pipe. Ely, Nev., Jan. 20.—After having been entombed 46 days in the Alpha shaft of the Groux mine, A. D. Bailey, H. J. Brown and Fred McDonald have been rescued. Whistles all over the district blew loudly, while crowds cheered in the streets of Ely and every bell in town was ringing. "Ah," this was the first exclamation of Bailey when he reached the outer air. Without another word he toterted forward into the arms of comrades who stood ready to assist him and was led to the change room of the Alpha shaft, where in a few minutes he recuperated. "Is that you, Arthur?" queried Fred McDonald, as his brother stepped forward and embraced him after nearly seven long weeks of separation. "By George, it certainly seems good to be out of that hole," he said, as he was led away telling his rescuers of his terrible experience. On the morning of December 4 McDonald, Brown and Bailey and two Greeks were working in the bottom of the three compartment shaft, 85 feet below the pump station and 1085 feet below the surface. The cave occurred at 9 o'clock. The cable used to haul the cage from the third compartment of the shaft snapped and thousands of tons of rock, debris and timber fell down into the shaft. From the bottom of the compartment in which the men were working to the pumping station, a distance of 85 feet, a series of rickety ladders offered the only means of escape. With falling rocks and timbers streaming down upon them the five struggled up these ladders. Half way up falling timbers knocked the two Greeks from the ladder, killing them. Bailey, McDonald and Brown managed to reach the pump station. Its well timbered roof had withstood the rock and timber that came down the shaft, and offered them shelter and safety. Twenty-four hours afterward the three men who occupied the pumping station managed to make themselves heard by tapping upon the six-inch water pipe that stretched from the pumping station to the surface. It was this pipe that was the means of saving the lives of the three men. When communication was once established with the world above and the men had made known the fact that they were still alive, food and drink were immediately lowered through the pipe. This pipe line has been in almost constant use, friends sending them by its means the news of the outside world and messages of cheer. MURDERED AND BURNED. Widow and Four Children at Montana Ranch Home. Lewistown, Mont., Jan. 20.—News of a frightful crime committed at the Old Bottoms ranch, on the Musselshell, 10 miles from Mosby, was received by the sheriff's office here. The message states that Mrs. Sluter, a widow, aged 40 years, and her four children, the eldest a girl of 15, were murdered at the ranch house, and the building then set on fire with the intention of destroying evidence of the crime. A resident of that neighborhood happened to ride past the house and saw it was on fire. When the blaze had been subdued to some extent, although the house was practically destroyed, the neighbors were horrified to find the dead bodies of Mrs. Sluter and her four children in the ruins. Owing largely to their efforts the body of the mother and those of two of the children were not badly burned, but those of the two others were burned to a crisp. The evidences of a murder were plain. The motive for the crime is not known. Bank Cashier at Texola, Okla., Is Over come. Texola, Okla., Jan. 20.—After a hand to hand battle with Assistant Cashier Jones two masked men robbed the First National bank at Texola of about $4000 in currency the other evening. Jones was found an hour later, bound and gagged and insensible from a blow on the head. "Hands up," in true western fashion, were the words that greeted Jones as he was working on his books. Jones raised his hands, but when one of the bandits turned to dump the loose change on the counter into a sack the assistant cashier attacked the other The two men struggled on the floor until the robber hit Jones on the head with his gun. A posse started after the bandits as soon as Jones recovered and could give a definite description of the men. It is thought that they are headed for the Texas panhandle. A Wonderful Record. Many so-called "specifies" and "cures" for rheumatism have already been brought before teh public; but when rheumatism, neuralgia and kindred diseases have become chronic and threaten serious results, you may rest assured that they will help but very little, if any. Although not recommended as "infallible," the peculiar qualities of St. Jacobs Oll especially adapt it to those cases which may be termed "chronic," and which have previously withstood all known "specifies," as well as the prescriptions of the best physicians. WIN ON FIRSTBALLOT TAFT CLAIMS HIS NOMINATION IS ALREADY ASSURED. His Managers Can See 502 Votes Now —Will Get All South Except Kentucky and Oklahoma—Leaves Biggest States Except New York for Other Presidential Aspirants. Secretary Taft expects to be nominated for president on the first ballot in the republican national convention. He expects to get at least 502 votes out of 980. The number necessary to nominate is 491. For the first time since the Taft campaign opened its managers tonight reduced their general predictions to concrete form. This is the way they line up the various states and sections of the country: States which have declared for Taft through central committees: California, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, West Virginia and Ohio; total, 180 votes. States which are sure for Taft: The entire south, with the possible exception of Kentucky and Oklahoma; total, 240 votes. States which are reasonably sure for Taft: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Iowa; total, 70. Territories sure for Taft, 12; grand total, 502 votes. In the Probable Class. To make up for possible deficiencies among the states classed as "reasonably sure," the Taft folks expect to draw from the following, classed as "probable": New York, 39 votes out of a possible 78; Massachusetts, 32; Connecticut, 14; Idaho, 6; Oregon, 8, and Washington, 10; total, 109. From this district would also come enough votes to make up for possible split delegations from Ohio and Iowa. Classed as "possible" are all the rest of the states of the Union excepting Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois, which the Taft folks graciously concede to Knox, Fairbanks and "Uncle Joe" Cannon, respectively. These figures are understood to have been approved by Charles P. Taft, the secretary's brother, who left Saturday for Cincinnati, after a two days' visit in Washington. Coincidental with his departure was that of Senator Foraker, also for Ohio —but they did not take the same train Taft Has Big Lead in Ohio. A statement given out at the Taft headquarters in Columbus, Ohio says A statement given out at the Taft headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, says: "Including the counties which acted today calls have been issued by the republican committees in 73 counties providing for the election, under the full provisions of the call of the state central committee, of 716 out of a total of 815 delegates. In over nalf the counties, including most of the large ones, and representing over 600 delegates, Taft has been formally indorsed by county committees. Taft tickets of delegates are in the field everywhere. Lake county, where an independent ticket is promised in opposition to the Taft ticket, furnishes the only opposition known. Lake county has four delegates." JAPS TELL OF THEIR FIGHTERS Let People Know They Are for Maintaining Peace. Tokio, Jan. 21.—Reports attributing sinister designs to the Japanese naval administration in connection with the Pacific squadron are absolutely unfounded. Vice Admiral Saito, minister of the navy, in an interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press today, said: "We have no secrets from America concerning the distribution of our fleet. Daily reports are handed the naval attaches, showing the whereabouts of every vessel, which can easily be ascertained. "In view of the sensational reports emanating from various quarters, we desire emphatically to say that no vessel of the aJapanese fleet is any nearer the Pacific coast of America than Yokosuka. Every one of the battleships is now on the home station, either at Yokosuka, Kure or Sasebe, and the entire flotilla of torpedo boats and submarines is at the same stations." Missouri Has an Enoch Arden Calfox, Me., Jan. 21.—Job A. Funk, a farmer, who mysteriously disappeared 14 years ago from his farm near Skidmore, this county, and who had been mourned as dead, has returned here alive and well. More than a year after Funk disappeared the fragments of a body found in Atchison county, six miles from Skidmore, were apparently identified as his and buried. August Ridge, a neighboring farmer, had been arrested at the time on suspicion that he had murdered the dead man. At his preliminary hearing Ridge proved an alibi and was released. During Funk's absence his wife remarried. Funk declines to state where he has been in the past 14 years, but he is said to have lived in Iowa. Father of 27 Children For the 27th time Oscar L. Darling, an Amityville (L. I.) civil engineer and inventor, has had a child born to him. He has been twice married. Twenty of his children are living. How Is Your Blood? If you lack strength, are nervous, have no appetite, don't sleep well, get tired easily, your blood is in bad condition. You cannot be strong without pure, rich blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla makes good, rich blood and keeps it good. Dyspepsia — "For six months my system was out of order with dyspepsia and impure blood. Spent lots of money in vain. ZUBA, Genoa, Genoa. Hood's Sarsaparilla cured me, Jos. S. ZUBA. No Appetite — "I was troubled with dyspepsia and had no appetite. I had a faint feeling after eating. My condition was run down, but Hood's Sarsaparilla was not. FLORENCE STONE. Sniderville, Wisconsin. Weakness — "I bless the day I heard of Hood's Sarsaparilla, as it cured me of the weakness. After grip, built my husband and after pregnancy, cozema and blood-poisoning in our children. Mrs. M. A. DELWORTH, Box 4, Embreeville, Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold everywhere. In the usual liquid, or in tablet form called Sarsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar. Prepared only by C. I. Hood Co. Lovell, Md. Hippo Is Dead. "Calliph," the great hippopotamus, which was for 22 years in the Central park zoo, New York, is dead. For several days past he had been ailing and in spite of all the keepers could do for him he gradually grew worse. Recently the head keeper entered his enclosure to see what could be done for him. Caliph raised his little eyes, gave a grunt and expired. Caliph was about 34 years old and was the largest animal of his breed in America, weighing something like four tons. Seware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and complete tolerance the whole system when entering it through the mucous tissue, but never be used except on prescriptions from never used physicians, as the damage they will do is to the good you can possibly derive from them. The only manufacturer by F. J. Cheney & Co., Teledio, is mercury, and is taken internally, at certain times upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system in buying Hall's Catarrh Curbe sure you buy in Teledio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonial free. Sold by Drummgists, price 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Dead as a Result of Hazing Edward Keiper, son of a prosperous merchant of Louisville, Ky., is dead in San Antonio as the result of a hazing at Rose Polytechnic institute, Terre Haute, Ind., in the autumn of 1906. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. There wouldn't be so many marriages if a man had an idea his wife would ever resemble her mother. A successful politician works as steadily as interest on a note. For that Dandruff There is one thing that will cure it—Ayer's Hair Vigor. It is a regular scalp-medicine. It quickly destroys the germs which cause this disease. The unhealthy scalp becomes healthy. The dandruff disappears, had to disappear. A healthy scalp means a great deal to you—healthy hair, no dandruff, no pimples, no eruptions. The heat-tidy of a testimonial The best kind of a testimonial— "Sold for over sixty years." Made by J. G. Ayer Co. Lowell, Mass. Also manufacturers of Ayer's SARSAPEILLA. PILLS. CHERRY PECTORAL. A girl is playing with a toy car in front of a door. ONLY $1.50 Our cross panel doors, not larger than 2"8"6"8", having five cross panels, 4" bottom rail, 5" stiles and cross rails 1 1/4" thick, only $1.50 per door. Made of thoroughly seasoned dry air lumber. The standard of quality in every way. We make all our new and we sell doors, windows, etc., at wholesale prices to anyone, and we make shipments anywhere, safe delivery guaranteed. Send for price lists and buy windows, doors, locks, hinges, etc., from us at the lowest prices ever heard of. Write your name and address plainly, and we will forward you copies of our price lists by return mail, free, postpaid, without charge. O. B. WILLIAMS CO. 1010 Western Avenue, Seattle, Wash. That can be played by all the family also an illustrated book of interest in the Home or Farm and sample of 220-MULE-TEAM" BORAX all for Oc and dealer's name. Address Pacific Coast Borax Co. Oakland, Cal. REV. TROUTMAN SENDS BEST WISHES FOR PE-RU-NA Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1908 SKIN DISEASES HUMORS IN THE BLOOD When the blood is pure, fresh and healthy, the skin will be soft, smooth and free from blemishes, but when some acid humor takes root in the circulation its presence is manifested by a skin eruption or disease. These humors get into the blood, generally because of an inactive or sluggish condition of the members of the body whose duty it is to collect and carry off the waste and refuse matter of the system. This unhealthy matter is left to sour and ferment and soon the circulation becomes charged with the acid poison. The blood begins to throw off the humors and acids through the pores and glands of the skin, producing Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually with a slight redness of the skin followed by pustules from which there flows a sticky fluid that dries and forms a crust, and the itching is intense. It is generally on the back, breast, face, arms and legs, though other parts of the body may be affected. In Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds; the acid in the blood dries up the natural oils of the skin, which are intended to keep it soft and pliant, causing a dry, feverish condition and giving it a hard, leathery appearance. Acne makes its appearance on the face in the because they do not reach the blood. S. S. S. goes down into the circulation and forces out every particle of foreign matter and restores the blood to its normal, pure condition, thereby permanently curing every form of skin affection. Book on Skin Diseases and any medical advice desired sent free to all who write. S. S. S. is for sale at all first class drug stores. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. W.L.DOVGLAS SHOES $300 SHOES AT ALL PRICES, FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, MEN, BOYS, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN. W.L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other man-made shoe in world, because they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and have greater value than any other shoes in the world to-day. W.L. Douglas $4 and $5 Bilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price. CAUTION. All $4, $5 Bilt Edge Shoes Cannot Be Equalled At Any Price. Serve by the best shop dealer everywhere. Shoes mailed from factory to any part of the world. Illustrated Catalog free to any address. "My Wife and I Are Strong Believers in Pe-ru-na." Catarrh and La Grippe. Rev. Geo. A. E. Troutman, Mt. Washington, Mo., writes: "My wife and I are strong believers in Peru." THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S, LONDON. I was cured of a bad case of catarrh when nothing else that I tried had any effect. My wife was cured from a severe case of la gripe, and we feel that the least we can do is to gratefully acknowledge the merit of Peruna. "My wife joins me in sending best wishes for your success." Throat Trouble. Rev. H. W. Tate, 920 Lincoln Avenue, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: "For several years I have been Don't be kidnapped—that is to say, don't let somebody lug you E. W. GROVE a protest. ONLY ONE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. Used the world over to cure a cold in one day. 256. Ever think how foolish it is to hear a grudge? Unkind feelings have no market value. The wheat yield in western Canada may possibly be 70,000,000 bushels. SKIN DIS HUMORS IN When the blood is pure, fresh and and free from blemishes, but when so- lation its presence is manifested by humors get into the blood, generally condition of the members of the body off the waste and refuse matter of the to sour and ferment and soon the circ poison. The blood begins to throw o- pores and glands of the skin, produce Salt Rheum and skin eruptions of var- with a slight redness of the skin fo- flows a sticky fluid that dries and form. It is generally on the back, breast, faec of the body may be affected. In Tette the acid in the blood dries up the natu- to keep it soft and pliant, causing a d hard, leathery appearance. Acne mala Toufered with blossom for forty years and could find nothing to wear, and could tried S. S. S. I suffered intimately tried S. S. S. I suffered intimately tried S. S. S. I burned and burning; postures would from which there flowed a sticky dish of crusts would come on the skin and when it catched off the skin was left as raw as a piece of meat. I suffered agony in the longest. I was illicted, but when I used S. S. S. I felt pure. There has never been any return of the trouble. Stockman, Neb. S. S. S. PURELY VEGETABE because they do not reach the blood. and forces out every particle of foreign normal, pure condition, thereby permitting affection. Book on Skin Diseases and to all who write. 8. S. S. is for sale a THE SWIFT W.L.DOVGL SHOES 300 SHOES AT ALL PRICES, FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY MEN, BOYG, WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN REV. GEORGE A.E.TROUTMAN. troubled with a peculiar spasmodic affection of the throat. It would seize me suddenly and for a few minutes I would be unable to speak audibly, and my breath would be greatly interfered with. I would be obliged to gasp for breath. "I finally concluded that it was some catarrhial affection which probably excited the spasm. It interfered with my vocation as a preacher, attacking me occasionally in the pulpit. "I had heard so much about Peruna as a catarrh remedy that I determined to try it. After taking two bottles, my trouble has disappeared. I feel sure that Peruna has greatly benefited me." Rev. P. E Swanstrom, Swedish Baptist pastor, Box 228, Granteburg, Wis., writes that from the use of Peruna he is perfectly well, entirely cured of chronic diarrhea and catarrh. Peruna in Tablef Form. For two years Dr. Hartman and his assistant have incessantly labored to create Peruna in tablet form, and their strewnno labors have just been crowned with success. People who object to liquid medicines can now secure Peruna Tablets, which represent the medicinal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet is equivalent to one average dose of Peruna. FITTS St. Vitus Dance and all Nervous Dis- cases permanently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE ga trial bottle and treatine. Dr. R. Kline Ld., 981 Arch street, Phila, Pa. Some people are always either feel- ing "pretty bad" or "just a little better." Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their child dren during teething period. Most men are optimistic as long as things are coming their way. DISEASES IN THE BLOOD ish and healthy, the skin will be soft, smooth when some acid humor takes root in the circuled by a skin eruption or disease. These generally because of an inactive or sluggish body whose duty it is to collect and carry of the system. This unhealthy matter is left the circulation becomes charged with the acid row off the humors and acids through the producing Eczema, Acne, Tetter, Psoriasis, of various kinds. Eczema appears, usually skin followed by pustules from which there and forms a crust, and the itching is intense. Just, face, arms and legs, though other parts in Tetter the skin dries, cracks and bleeds; natural oils of the skin, which are intended to a dry, feverish condition and giving it a makes its appearance on the face in the form of pity-plies and black heads, while Psoriasis comes in scaly patches on different parts of the body. One of the worst forms of skin trouble is Salt Rheum its favorite point of attack is the scalp, sometimes causing baldness. Poison Oak and Ivy are also disagreeable types of skin disease. The humor producing the trouble lies dormant in the blood through the Winter to break out and torment the sufferer with the return of Spring. The best treatment for all skin diseases is S. S. S. It neutralizes the acids and removes the humors so that the skin instead of being irritated and diseased, is nourished by a supply of fresh, healthy blood. External applications of salves, washes, lotions, etc., while they soothe the itching caused by skin affections, can never cure the trouble good. S.S.S. goes down into the circulation foreign matter and restores the blood to its permanently curing every form of skin lesions and any medical advice desired sent free sale at all first class drug stores. LIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. GLAS $350 FILLY D CHILDREN. sells more WOULD HARM FLEET WOULD HARM FLEET HORRIRLE PLOTUNEARTHED AT RIO DE JANEIRO. Reported That Anarchists of Different Nations Intended to Damage American fleet but Had Been Forced by Detectives to Flee to the Interior—People of Brazil Ignorant of Plot. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 21.—The Brazilian police have discovered an anarchistic plot here having as its object the destruction of part of the American fleet now lying in the harbor. The conspiracy, while centering in Rio de Janeiro and Petropolis, has ramifications in Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes. An individual named Jean Fedher, who resides in Petropolis, was the chief conspirator here, although it is understood that foreign anarchists are deeply involved in the plot. Fedher is believed to have fled to Sao Paulo, and the police who know him have been sent to that place for the apprehension of him. One of the detectives, who was well acquainted with Fedher, having served on the police force at Petropolis for some time, returned from that place today after having made investigation there, and had a long conference with the chief of police at Rio de Janeiro. The latter gave it to be understood that the Sao Paulo police are on the track of the archconspirator and expect to arrest him soon. Chief of Police Talks. In an official note the chief of police says: "Some time before the arrival of the American fleet at Rio de Janeiro the Brazilian government received word from Washington and Paris that the anarchists of different nations intended to damage one or several of the ships of the American fleet. The names and addresses of the conspirators were indicated by information which the police here had received previously from France and Germny. The police of this district are working with the police of Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes and every precaution will be exercised and the most rigorous vigilance observed, both on land and at sea, to prevent any injury being done." The chief of police after having made this official statement said he did not feel he should go into any further details with regard to the conspiracy, but he authorized the statement that the plot was organized by Fedher and he added that the people of the United States could rest easy, as all of the conspirators had taken refuge in the interior. As yet the people of Brazil are ignorant of the details of the plot to do injury to the visitors, although there has been some slight inkling of the matter. The impression which the exposure of this plot will create here will be a profound one, because it is the first anarchistic conspiracy that has ever been known in Brazil. Officer Hamman Knows Little A special dispatch from Petropolis gives an interview with Officer Carlos Hamman, who, it was declared, had been sent to Sao Paulo to arrest Jean Fedher, the alleged anarchist. Hamman is quoted as saying that the only information he has concerning a conspiracy was learned from the newspapers. He admitted, however, that he had been to Sao Paulo and Santos during the last 10 days, but declared his business had been entirely personal at these places. The dispatch adds that the police of Petropolis, upon order from Rio de Janeiro, were observing the utmost vigilance and are keeping suspicious persons under constant surveillance. Heat Wave in Australia. Melbourne.—There is much suffering because of the unusual heat wave here. The people are obliged to sleep out of doors and have had many cases of sunstroke. Thirty-two deaths have been recorded from this cause during the past few days. The theaters are being shut down. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 20.—The Rev. Dr. Angus Johnson, said to have been the oldest Presbyterian minister in the United States, both in years and point of service, died at Avalon, Tex., Sunday, aged 99 years and 10 months. Up to a month ago, Dr. Johnson actively pursued his duties as pastor of the Avalon church, and he had made arrangements to celebrate his hundredth birthday by preaching in Fort Worth and Dallas. He had been minister of the gospel for 72 years. Temperance Wins Knoxville Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 21.—In the city election held here Captain John M. Brooks, democrat, was elected mayor. Enforcement of temperance laws was the main issue, and the reformers claim 7 of the 11 aldermen are for temperance. CHARLES E. SMITH IS DEAD. Former Postmaster General Passes Away Philadelphia, Jan. 20.—Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Press, former United States minister to Russia and former postmaster general, died of heart trouble at his home in this city, aged 65 years. An $8000 violin may be worth the money, but it would hardly be classed as a good investment. Immigrants Rush to Europe. The rush of immigration to return to Europe keeps up and the figures for January will show an enormous increase over the same month last year. Already in 17 days 30,056 steerage passengers have left New York, as against 9067 last year. During the same period this year only 7138 steerage passengers have arrived at this port. The increase in eastbound steerage travel for this month is 210 per cent and the outward flow is greater by 320 per cent than the incoming. Funerals at Bovertown, Pa. Boyertown, Pa., Jan. 19.—Saturday was another day of funerals resultant from last Monday night's theater fire, in which 173 persons lost their lives. Sixty funerals took place, and so great was the demand for undertakers and hearses that additional assistance and vehicles had to be impressed into service from neighboring places. There were no regular church services. The entire day was given over to funerals and the work of getting together the broken congregations. MIX THIS YOURSELF MIX THIS YOURSELF GIVES RECIPE FOR SIMPLE, HOME MADE KIDNEY CURE. Inexpensive Mixture of Harmless Vegetable Ingredients Said to Overcome Kidney and Bladder Here is a simple, home-made mixture as given by an eminent authority on Kidney diseases, who makes the statement in a New York daily newspaper, that it will relieve almost any case of Kidney trouble if taken before the stage of Bright's disease. He states that such symptoms as lame back, pain in the side, frequent desire to urinate, especially at night; painful and discolored urination, are readily overcome. Here is the recipe; try it. Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Take a teaspoonful after each meal and at bedtime. A well-known physician is authority that these ingredients are all harmless and easily mixed at home by shaking well in a bottle. This mixture has a peculiar healing and soothing effect upon the entire Kidney and Urinary structure, and often overcomes the worst forms of Rheumatism in just a little while. This mixture is said to remove all blood disorders and cure the Rheumatism by forcing the Kidneys to filter and strain from the blood and system all uric acid and foul, decomposed waste matter, which cause the afflictions. Try it if you aren't well Save the prescription. Prices to Producers at Spokane. The following list may be taken as a fair standard of prices paid to local producers by the city markets for the commodities named: Poultry—Live hens, 13c, dressed, 14½c; old roosters, 11c, dressed, 12c; live gees, 13c, dressed, 15c; live ducks, 14c, dressed, 15c; fancy live turkeys, 20c, dressed, 22c. Eggs—Strictly fresh ranch, $7.50 case. Stock—Live hogs, 5@5½c, dressed, 8½c; cows, live, $2.50@3. Mutton—Dressed wethers, 12½c; ewes, 11c. Veal—Fancy small, 7@8c lb; large, 5 c lb; steers, live, $4 cwt up; dressed, 7@7lb; c Fruits and vegetables—Potatoes, 50cwt; new turnips, 1c lb; lettuce, 10c lb; string beans, 7c lb; apples, 75c@$1.50 box; peppers, 50@60c box; squash, 75c@$1.25; pears, 75c@$1.25 box; peaches, 60c@$1 box; tomatoes, 35@40c box; plums, 20c per crate; cabbage, 1c per lb; beets, 1c lb; dry onions, 1½c lb; crabapples, $1 sack, cucumbers, 50c per crate; home grown watermelons, 1c lb; grapes, 75c@$1.4-basket crate; citrons, 75c doz; horseradish root, 12½c lb; celery, 65c@75c per dozen bunches; prunes, 60c@75c crate; parsley, 20c doz; pickling onions, 8c lb. Cheese—Wisconsin and Hazelwood, 18c lb; domestic, 20c¾ Swiss, 30c lb. Hay, bale—Oat hay, 14@15 ton; wheat hay, 14@15 ton up; alfalfa, 13@14 ton up; timothy, $19@20 ton up. Hay, loose—Timothy, up to $20; wheat hay, 13@14 oat hay, $13@14 Coast Wheat. Davenport, Wash.—Bluestem, 70c; club, 68c. Colfax, Wash.—Bluestem, 70c; club 68c; red, 66c. Barley, $1; oats, $1.05 Portland, Ore.—Club, 85c; bluestem 87c; valley, 85c; red, 83c. Tacoma, Wash.—Unchanged. Blue stem, 85c; club, 83c; red, 81c. Pleads for Lover's Release. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 20.—Stealing into the private office of Governor Sheldon, Miss Inga Anderson threw herself at the feet of the executive and began an impassioned plea for the release of her convict lover, John Martin. Sobs, prayers and moans formed a part of her pathetic appeal. Falling to soothe her, the governor darted out of the office. Miss Anderson came here from Alaska to plead the cause of her sweetheart, who was convicted of swindling. Filipino Delegates Arrive Benito Legarda and Pablo Ocampo delegates to congress from the Philippines, have arrived at Washington, D.C. Guaranteed Pure and Wholesome. You save money and avoid failures in your baking if you use KC BAKING POWDER 25 Ounces for 25 Cents Here is true economy. You cannot be sure every time or have your food dainty, tasty and whole- some if you pay less or accept a substitute. JAques Mfg. Co. Chicago. CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paragoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opinum, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacca—The Mother's Friend. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. MADE FOR SERVICE IN THE ROUGHEST WEATHER AND GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY WATERPROOF TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKERS $350 This trade mark and the word TOWER on the buttons distinguish this high grade slicker from the just as good brands. Pure as Mother's Bread: INLAND CRACKERS In the... RED PACKAGES Not made by the Trust. GOVERNMENT LANDS. BLUE PRINT MAPS OF STEVENS county showing all vast government land, $2.50. Township blue prints of Stevens, Perry, Okanogan, Douglas and Ghelan counties, $4 per township. Frank R. Corbaley, 85 Washington street, Spokane, Wash. $n NU No 4 8 WHEN writing to advertisers please mention this paper. She Killed Him. Ellensburg, Wash., Jan. 19.—At an early hour of the morning Mrs. J. C. Norris entered the room of Thomas Murray, an adopted son, just past 21 years, and, with a 32 Colt revolver, shot him in the left temple, and from this wound he died shortly after 3. Mrs. Norris went downstairs and took the contents of a box said to contain rat poison. She told the callers that she had killed Tommy, as she called him, and she was glad of it; and that she, too, would soon be dead. She took too much poison and soon began to vomit, and as a result she will possibly recover. Sviridoff Is Shot Down: Krasnoe-Ufimsk, Russia, Jan. 21.—M. Sviridoff, president of the local zemstvo, was shot Sunday by a brother of Mile. Ragozinnikova, the murderer of General Maximoffsky, director of the department of prisons of the ministry of the interior, on October 28 last. It is supposed that the murderer took the step in revenge, for M. Sviridoff refused to make an investigation in behalf of Mile. Ragozinnikova during her trial. Why This Talk. Considering the smoothness with which exchanges are progressing between America and Japan relative to the adjustment of questions growing out of the immigration of Japanese laborers into the United States, the officials of the state department are puzzled to account for the publication in various foreign capitals, as well as in this country, of reports calculated to convey the impression that there is serious friction between the two countries over this subject. He Prescribes Kite-Flying Kite flying as a cure for nervous ills of people who devote most of their time to the labors of society life is advocated by Dr. J. B. McKenzie of New York, who says he put his new cure to trial with highly beneficial results. The churches are full of storage battery Christians who have to be charged about twice a year with a revival. The dynamo Christians keep the machinery of civilization going without a break. The hands of the housewife will be kept soft and white and free from all chap, redness or roughness if borax is used. HOWARD E. BURTON, Assayer and Chemist, Leadville, Colo. Specimen prices: Galvanized steel, wood, silver; goo; goo; zinc or copper, $1. Cyanide tests: building envelopes and full price list sent on application. Control and umpire work solicited. References: Carbonate National Bank. Somehow it is hard to realize that the tired and worn out father was once so young and so audacious that he dared to hope for happiness for himself. Truth and Quality appeal to the Well-Informed in every walk of life and are essential to permanent success and creditable standing. Accordingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is the only remedy of known value, but one of many reasons why it is the best of personal and family laxatives is the fact that it cleanses, sweels and relieves the internal organs on which it acts without any debilitating after effects and without having to increase the quantity from time to time. It acts pleasantly and naturally and truly as a laxative, and its component parts are known to and approved by physicians, as it is free from all objectionable substances. To get its beneficial effects always purchase the genuine—manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. LOGALS Trade with the Helena Packing Company. Harry Jacobs has been on the sick list for a few days this week. Henry Martin spent Sunday over in Butte. J. E. Ellis received word that his mother who has been every ill at Washington D. C. is much better. The Afro-American Building Association held a special meeting Monday evening and decided to hold a public meeting at St James Church on next Monday evening at which the public is invited to attend The newly organized Band held two meetings this week and will soon be an actual fact. Uncle Dave Gordon has been on the sick list for the last few days. Charley Dillard of Topeka Kaus is expected in the City this week to take charge of Llyods place under the Montana Bank. Mr. Fred Simons a brother of Mrs. J. B. Bass is expected in the the City within the next fort-night where he will make it his location. Mr. A. Simms and W. Howard were initiated into the Golden City Lodge of Odd Fellowa on last Tuesday evening. C. C. Matthews was out among the boys this week. Harry Saulsburg says he is preparing for a big business by the Spring time. J. B. Bass spent last Saturday in Butte in the interest of the Plain-dealer. The new quartette has been some time in materializing. Mrs. C. E. McEvoy who has been on the sick list, is much improved. J. H. Tucker who figured in many and varied experiences in this City some time ago is reported now in Pueblo Colo. as a propriator of a drink shop. Mr. T. Marlowe and wife have returned to this City from Spokane and say that they will make this City their future home. C. H. Mason writes from Hot Springs that he will mak Helena his future home. For Sale; - Business of Second hand furniture and small stock of wall paper. Inquire at No. 110 Broadwsy. Savings securely cared for Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. Money always ready when called for Booklet about "'Banking by Mail'" sent free on re- quest Union Bank and Trust Company, Colored Congressmen In the United States. Since the adoption of slavery in the United states in 1863, many peo- roes have held official positions. two were United States Sena Twenty-two Representatives; three Registers of the Treasury; several were Lieutenant Governors of States. About forty have held diplomatic and consular positions; many have been officers in the army; six were Recorders of Deeds in the District Columbia. A fine engraving of these Negroe Congressmen has just been issued giving accurate potrates of each also the Congress in which they served and the years of service. In the picture the two Senators, Messrs Revels and Bruce, occupy the center of the group, surrounded by the other twenty Representatives. In the background, the Stars and Strips in color. This beautiful engraving, with a booklet containing biographies of these eminent men, is sold for one dollar. This engraving is a graphic political history of the Negroe in America. No home, library,office or school-room will be complete with out it. Send for one-to-day. The Colored American Novelty Co. Washington. D. C. P. O. Drawers 2818 Agents wanted. N. B. We also have in stock large engravings of Frederick Douglass Paul Dunbar, Toussalut L. Ouverture Booker T. Washington. W. T. Vernon Register of the Treasury, Phillis. Wheatley and souvenir post-cards of Kelly Miller, DuBois. S. Coleridge Taylor and "Everything about Colored People" in books, pictures, inventions and souvenirs. Golden City Lodge of Odd Fellows is by a large margin the strongest Secret order in the Northwest. Do not fail to attend the meeting of the Afro-American Building Asso St. James Church Monday evening. Everybody is invited to come out and hear the message of Hope for our people in this section. The Lincoln Day Club is making preparations for a grand time on the evening of Feb.12 which is Lincoln Birthday. Mrs. Osborne will have charge of the programe on next. Wednesday evening at the literary and everybody should turn out as it will no doubt be a good one. There will be an election of officers at the next meeting of the literary. Mrs. H. J. Baker is on the sick list again. Church and Society Directory St. James African Methodist Episcopal church, located at Co. 5th Ave. and Hoback street, Rev. W. T. Osborne, Pastor Services Sunday at 11 a. m, and 7-30 p. m. Sunday Schol. 2 p. m., Mrs. N. Ford Supt., Carrie Dorsey, Chorister, Florence Anderson, Secy Prayer Meeting Wednesday Evening. Class meeting, Friday evenings. R. J. Fletcher Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M, meets the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month at 14 1-2 South. Main I. Ford, W. M.; J. D. Hart, S. W. E. Clark, J. W.; Geo. Alexander, Secy W. R. Dorsey, Treas. Byrd Lodge No. 11, A. F. and A. M, meets the first and third Monday evening of each month at 14 1-2 S. Main St. W. C. Rose, W. M.; G. M. Lee, S. W.; J. Harris, J. W.; Chas. Ecton, Secy H. J. Baker, Treas. Bethshein Lodge, O. E. S., meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday evenings of each month in their hall in the Lucas Block. Mrs. Chas Johnson, W. M.; Mrs. N. Ford, A. M.; Albert Napper, W. P.; Mrs. M. Simmons, Treas. Mrs. C. C. Matthews, Sect.; Mrs. Jos. Clark, Con.; Mrs. J. Harrison, A. B.; M. O. J. Arnett, W.; Chas Johnson, S.; Mrs. L. Napper A.; Mrs. J. Crump, K.; Mrs. M. A. Cole, Esther; Mrs. E. Dorsey, M.; Mrs. George Alexander, Electa. Golden City Lodge No. 3455, G. U. of O; F., meets the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month. W. R. Dorsey, N. G.; W. Mason, V. G.; J. Crump, P. N. G.; R. Brown, N. P.; J. L. Ellis, Secy.; W. Cottles, Treas.; J. Tolbert, P. N. J. Household of Ruth, No. 842, meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evening of each month. Mrs. Sadie Ford, M. N. G.; Mrs. Lucy Nicholson, P. M. N. G.; Mrs. Elanora Johnson, R. N. G.; Mrs. Carrie Johnson, N. G.; Mrs. Georgia Irvin, W. R. Pride of Montana Lodge, No. 4, K., of P., meets the 2nd and 4th Monday evenings of each month at G. A. R. Hall. J. W. Crump, C. C., H. Robinson, V. C., S. Smith, M. of F.; W. Cottles, M. of E.; J. H. Howard, K of R. and S.; D. Gordan, M. at A.; Geo. Harrison, O. G.; W. C. Irvin, I. G.; A. Napper, Prelate. WEDDING BELLS Mr. Hughlia Anderson and Miss Hattie Grisson were united intothe holly bonds of Wedlock at the home of the brides 204 Lyndale Ave. on last Monday evening, Jan. 20. While Mr. Anderson is not so well known in this Community, from his short stay, he the apperance of being a good jolly fellow; the bride is well known, in tact was born in this City, the daughter of one well known Citizen L. L. Grisson. The Plaindealer wishes the nappy couple a pleasant voyage over the sometimes tumultons sea of life. SURPRISE PARTY. Miss Pearl Palmer gave a very delightful surprise party on Miss Vera Simmons. 406 Benton Ave. Monday evening. The evening was spent at playing cards and different games. A dainty lunch was served at 11:30. Thos present were: Miss B. Griffin, F. Anderson, Vera Simmons, M. Walton, p. Palmer, A. Owens, Mr. A. Palmer, Harry Jacobs, Gus Mason, John Reid, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ellis, and Mr. and Mrs. H. Simmons. YOU CAN FURNISH YOUR YOU CAN FURNISH YOUR HOME COMPLETE For Half the Money required at other stores, if you will come to our Sew department for your Furniture, Carpets, Stoves Furnishings. This Department is not filled junk, but clean fresh goods that have been use Furnishings. This Department is not filled with old junk, but clean fresh goods that have been usedslightly and are practically as good as new. Arthur P. Curtin, Arthur P. Curtin, Reliable Housefurnisher, Grand Street 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS Copyright A.C. Areas sending a sketch and description may quickly asserten our opinion free whether an intention is probably patented, an intent merely confidential, HANDBOOK on Patents sent from. Ouest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munro & Co. receive these marks here. Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms. $3 a year; four months. $1. Sold by all new dealers. 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Week or Month Apply 115 East Cutler Street Helena, Montana will come to our Second Hand De Carpets, Stoves and House event is not filled with old that have been usedslightly as good as new. Curtin, --- Makes Weak Nerves Strong. It can be relied upon in all cases of Nervous Exhaustion, brought on by over-work, or great mental effort. It restores Nervous Energy. It allays irritation. It assists the Nerve Cells to generate nerve force. Its soothing influence upon the nerve brings restful sleep-nature's rest period so essential to the tired, worn-on mind and body. For Headache, Neuralgia, or any pain or distress, you will almost instant relief by taking Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills. They are sold by all druggists, and you may try either of these remedies on the positive guarantee that if the first bottle or package does not benefit, your druggist will return your money. We repay the druggist the full retail price so it is to his interest to refund if called upon to do so. 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