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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
An important Case.

The inlatory steps in Il litigation of
great interest to corn packers through
out the State, were taken ut Phillips, Sat
nrday. In the fall of lsss the Franklin
Packing Company, erected Il very eNten-
sve corn packing plant at Strong in this
county, and contracted for Il large acre
age of corn, In that and the surrounding
towns. The unpreeedently early frosts
ruined the entire corn crop of the region,
and resulted in loss of many thousand
dollars to the company and the farmers.
Thegreat bulk of the corn raised was
rejected rs unfit for canning purposes
quite number of farmers, unwilling to
pocket their losses, insisted that under
their planting contracts the company
were bound to take the corn away what
ever its condition, and placed their claims
in the hands of T. \. Sawyer, for eollec-
ton.
"rhe company refused To pay the
claims aud as result certain of them put
in suit and the actians We're made return
able before Trial Justice j. w. Butter
field, at Phillips, April 9Th w. Fred +
Fogg, ESP, of Strong, appeared for the
defendant corporation.
The court rendered Judgment for tn,
plaintiff and an appeal was taken To thu
Supreme Court, and il will doubtless III.
timately reach the law court.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11

Mr. Hobart Wood Richardson. editor
and principal proprietor of the Portland
Daily Advertiser, whose death we an
nounced last week was an accomplished
scholar and an able writer. Besides the
work upon his own paper, he contributed
occasional articles upon mathematical,
historical and political topics to the At
lantic Monthly, Christian Review, llar
per's and other periodicals for the past
forty years. Mr.. Richardson was born
in Clinton, Me-, in 1881, and learned the
printers trade in the Waterville Mail of
flee. He was graduate of Colby Uni
yersity, class of 1858; was tutor and
teacher of Greek in that college from 1879
to 1862; was in the United States Land of
flee in Washington from 1868 to lsGI, and
connected with the United Coast Survey at
Portland as magnetic and tide obsery er
from ls54 TO 1866. He was editor of the
Portland Daily Press from 1866 to 1865,
and left the Press because he upheld the
course of VIM. Pitt Fessenden in the
johnson impeachment case. contrary To
the views of these of the owners of the
paper. In ls6S he, with others, bought
the Portland Daily Star and Price Cur
rent, and secured the right to revive and
use the name of the Advertiser. Since
1865 Mr.. Richardson has been editor-in-
chief, and of late years owner of con
trolling interest in that paper. He was
editor of tne Maine Farmers Almanac
from 1861 to 1874, and was Supervisor of
the tenth census in the western half of
Maine in 1850. lie has been member Of
the Maine Historical Society since 1871,
was q member of the Maine Charitable
Mechanic Association, and member of
the Executive Committee of the Long
fellow Statue Association and Soldiers
AMI Sailors Monument Association
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
GEN E RAJ

Gen. Clinton B. Fisk who war the Pro
hibtory candidate for the Presidency IT.
marks Both General Sherman and my
self feel happier all day long aud sl,ep
more soundly every night heeause our
old Corinth Comrade, Ben Harrison
sleeps tonight in the White House.
A divorce has been granted Maggie
Mitchell the actress, from her husband
Henry r. Paddock, by Chancellor Moiill.
the decree having just been filed in the
chancery Office in New York The evl-
denoe in the case was taken in New ,lrr-
sey and in New York, and the complain
ants main charge was adultery on the
part of her husband
The Rhode Island Lcgi stature nav
stands a tie on joint ballot. but there are
Ii more postponed elections
The terrible prairie fires which have
swept over portions of Southern Dakota
and Minnesota during the last few days
illustrates one of the great perils TO which
the settlers who are developing the re
sources of the great West are exposed
1t is through hardships and dangers
which would appall men of weaker
mold that the founders of the western
commonwealth have won success
Idaho is now trying to join the sister
hood of States. and Governor Stevenson
has issued call for the constitutional
convention at Boise City on the 18th OF
July. A more fitting day could scarce
have been selected The call was issued
upon the assurance from the idaho dele
gates in Washington that the territory
will receive admission next winter. Thl-
news has occasioned much JOY through
out the territory. The Mornons oppose
the Statehood,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
A Strange Ca 8 Q.

II. f. Wilder, proprietor of the Fast
port Messenger disappeared last Novem-
Der. His hat and a small boat in which
he went to Lubec were found, the boat
bottom up, and he was given up by his
wife and friends as drowned. Within
three days his wife has received letter
from him at Pawtucket, X, |. He says
the last thing he remembers is standing
on the beach at Lubec. After that his
mind was a blank till he found himself in
the woods near Pawtucket. ragged, poor,
his watch and money gone. At the time
of the disappearance he was worn out
with overwork on his paper and sickness
in his family These cares, with loss OF
sleep, probably unsettled his mind.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
STATE NEWS.

Mrs Alinra T.. Rice, widow of the lat-
Il. ID. Rice. judge of the Maine supreme
lu,ilclal court, died at .ier her home in
Augusta, this morning aged -.
The supervising school committe. of
Saccarappa have engaged Mr.. j. H. Par.
sons, former principal of The Maine Cen
tral Institute at Pittstield. to take charge
OF the High School. Mr.. Parsons is n
successful teacher of large experience
and with excellent recommendations.
GOV. Bureigl has liked Wednesda,
May IL, as ''Arbor Day" and the Official
proclamation will soon be issued.
prisoner ID the Jail at Augusta, Me
has puzzled all the lnguists who have
tackled him lie cannot speak Eusllsh.
nor any other language that the wise inrn
OF Down East are familiar with, and they
have come To the conclusion that he il n
Modoc Indian
new post office was established Mon
day i'll Deering. Me Centre by the ~, l..
Office department and Mr. Charles :
Chadbourne appointed postmaster
Secretary R0sk finds that the the rol
OF employees of the agricultural depart
ment is 20 largely in excess OF the IT.
sources for the current year. that until
dlsmlssals than appointments In thr
seed division eighty EMPLOYEES were ,i,
missed and the force will be sill farther
reduced. Secretary iusk says he Is DR.
terinined that there shall he no dehclenc,
III the department FOR Congress 10 pro
vide for, if he can help It,
Hon. Elliott Wood of Winthrop has
been appointed postmaster of the Nation
I al h. pta
Hon. w, H. l5igelow lie is al home on
u three weeks leave Of absence
James Faulkner, one legged peanut
vender of Augusta, WAS indicted h, th,.
grand jury, Saturday, for bgamy The
indictment was brought about by Mr.
Mary Faulkner of Milwaukee, WIS. WIN,
got news of her missing husband through,
the pension department, Faulkner hnylli,,
lately received an increase of pension
Not long ago Faulkner married Marcella
Brennan of Augusta The parties are al
of German birth.
Prof A. w. Small of Colh, University
who Is spending this year at Johns lion
kiis University, is making II reputhtion
III III" depa TIN ut I hisio in the Ia Ter
institution ON Thursday of last week.
he delivered the sixth lecture of th,.
course on American lstor, arranged for
the teachers of the schools of Washing
ton, ID. {, His subject was "rle ForIna-
ton of the American Constitution The
lecture was scholarly discussion OF lht
subject as II stands llumined by The very
latest historical Investigations
The Star of the East opened her sea
son Monday morning, and will run u.
usual until next June. when her new
companion will share the work. Capt
Jason Collins will command her for the
present. but as soon As the kennebec is
in readiness this veteran captain will take
the new craft and another have charge Of
the Star.
The directors of the knoN \ Lincoln
Railroad held meeting at Bath, Satur-
day, and decided to put another passtn-
ger train on the road for the summer sea.
son The train will leave Rockland, ut :
4. Nj, and connect at Bath for Boston
returning will leave Bath al +. VI
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
A Beautiful Incident,

poor Arab travelling in the desert
met With "A spring of clear sweet, spark
ling water sed as he was only Ia
brackish wells, such water as this APP
peared to his simple mind worthy of a
monarch, and filling his leathern bottle
from the spring, he determined to 20 and
present it to the caliph himself
The poor man travelled a loro way be-
fore he reached the presence of his SOW
ereign and laid his humble Offering at his
feet. The caliph did not dies pise he little
gift, brought To him with so much tr,oub-
lie. lie ordered some of the water to be
poured into cup drank il, and thanking
the Arab with smile, ordered him to be
presented with reward The courtiers
around pressed forward, eager to taste of
the wonderful water; but, to the surprise
of all, the caliph forbade them to touch u
single drop
After the poor Arab had quilted the roy
al presence with a light and joyful heart
heart, the caliph turned to his courters
aud thus explained his conduct Daring
the travels of the Arab, said he, the
water in his leathern bottle became impure
and distasteful. But it was an Offering
of love, and As such have received ii
with pleasure. But well knew that had
suffered another to partake of il. he
would not have concealed his disgust
and therefore | forbade Won to touch the
draught, lest the heart of the poor man
should have been wounded
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
Resolutions.

Whereas, 1t has pleased an All-Wise
Providence 10 remove by death from our
midsl. our beloved brother, Daniel u
Downs therefore be ii
Hesoiced, That while We how in hum
bile submission 10 the will of Him who
notetll the fall of the sparrow, yet we
cannot but mourn the loss of Il brother
who was dear TO each If us, and who was
ever faithful 10 his obligations rs an odd
Fellow, warm hearted and kind 10 his
brother odd Fellows, a kind husband aud
father and good citizen.
ReSoired, That we extend to his be
reaved family the warmest sympathy Of
each member of Evening Star Lodge, No.
Is |. q. u. f., of which our deceased
brother WAS an honored member; and
commend them to the care of Him who
has promised 10 be n Father 10 The father
less and the widows God and husband
HeSoird, That Il copy Of these rcsoln-
tons be sent 10 his family and also
spread upon the records of this Lodge,
and that they be published in the Somer-
sci Reporter
+. +. PtNNEll, Committee
w W BROWN on
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
Colby Notes.

At meeting of the managers of the
Maine intercollegiate Base Ball league,
Mr. Watkins of Oldtown- was elected As
one the League t'mpires. Mr.. {. W
Richards of Richmond a. another The
Spaulding League ball was adopted to be
used in all games. All games will be
played under the National League Rules.
Dodge and Adams of Lewiston are to
offer pennant. The schedule of games
il AZ follows.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11

The following are The appointments
for the Sophomore Prize Defamation :
Gorham, Cottell, l3assett, Smith, Watson
Leadbetter Rogers, Miss Fletcher.
The Presumpscots are to play on the
campus, April Goth.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11
To Oklahoma,

Farmers merchants, mechanics, capt
talists, laborcrs, intending settlers, and
All. OTHERS who are going to Dklaho-
ma County, should take the GRrAl Rock
Island Rol IL from Chicago, via Kansas
City and Caldwell, the nearest QUILTING
point on the Southern Kansas border, To
Pond Greek, in the Indian Territory.
South from Pond Creek, the route to
KINGrIslER, where the Government
Land Office is located, is by stage, going
through by daylight, over the "Olp Am
LENE CATTLE TRAIL. AMI STAGE ROAD.
the best in the territory. FAsl LMlrEp
NEsrIBriE EMPRESS TRAINS no extra
charge Chicago to Kansas City, and
FREE RECLINING CHAR CARS through to
Caldwell, arriving at Pond Greek daily al
10 10 +. NJ. For tickets or further in
formation apply TO your nearest Coupon
Ticket Agent, or address Geo. b. Smith,
Assistant General Ticket and Passenger
Agent at Chicago.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-04-11

Assistant Gttefal llchtl anu passenger
Agent, at Chicago
ScRGHNtR's M>bAHlNr lnf April i, notable
for the variety Of lis contents, which include
popular articles on railroad affairs, ship build
ing, mountain sllmhing, and the anatomy Of
contorlonst, literary "reminiscences OF Scott,
DeQuincey, Burns and br. John Brown, pa
per ON lhscn. the great Norwegian dramatst
and one Of the much-pralsed SERIES Of End Pa
pers, the writer for this month being Walter Pa
ter, author of "Malins the Epcnaean.' The
illustrations show equal richness, variety and
interest.
A paper which is sure to cause wide discus
sion is 1.-THE Prevention or Railroad Strikes,
| by Charles Francis Adams, President OF the
| lniDn Pacific The author has held this re-
markable paper unpublished for more than two
years, thinking that the time was not ripe for it
/ Events of the past year, especially the Z. u
and @. strike, have convinced him that deep
seated trouble exists in the relation OF railroad
employees to railroad companies; and that his
paper may be a timely contribution to an i'm
portant discussion. He advocates the division
! Of employees into temporary and permanent
service, the former being probationary and a
step to promotion, The permanent service
should have certain rights and privileges
would would cause it it to be eagerly sought
such AS freedom from fear Of unjust dismissal
tribunal where the employee can be heard in
| his own defence the possibility Of rising 70 an,
position insurance and pension funds; and Al
| active voice in the management Of the road
/ through a representative system resulting in d
council Of employees who would act through a
small executive committee. The paper is, al
in all, enc Of the most important in the Railwa,
series.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO, Nov. 2-[Special Telegram to
The BEE. J. CATrLE-The receipts were di-
vided at 1000 natives and 1000 rangers and
Texans. Th Z, was scarcely two loads of
good natives among the arrivals, and Mr..
Morgan well known buyer OF export steers,
left the market early on account of being
unable to find what would suit his trade.
Common and medium, every day sort of
steers sold slow and the general market
closed lower and unsettled on everything but
extra and prime natives. Texans were
closed out at about the lowest prices this
season, especially on cows and canning stock.
Native butchers stock, particularly old and
emaciated cows, are also the lowest for the
season. Choice TO extra beeves, g. 40
Cd4 90; medium to good steers, 1850 TO 1900
lbs, $3.S0tg430; 1900 to 1850 lbs, S3409
4l0; $50 to 1900 lbs, s275(93. 75.
Stockers and feeders, 81. .00p275; cows, bulls
and mixed, Sl.00026O; bulk. s1.6002. 90.
Texas steers, 81 l0(o2.75; COWS, 81. 40(92. CO.
Western rangers, $2.4OC93.50.
HoGs-The demand was fair and prices
steady on packing and heavy, few lots sell
ling early at "a shade stronger prices, but the
bulk sold right around the same as yester-
day and so closed Light sorts sold at an
advance of Sc from the opening to the close
Packers paid $2.65Cp3. 60 for odds and ends,
s. S0d3.90 tor straight loads-a large per
cent at 3S0-and shippers paid $3.90a3.95.
Light sorts sold at $40004.l5.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
WYOMING OILS.
The Many Uses to Which They Can BE
Converted,

LANDER, Wyo., Oct 25. In my last letter
stated that oil was found in very large
quantities in the lower sand of the Dakota
Group, leaving the reader TO think that this
was the last and only sands in which large
quantities Of oil was found or could be found.
AS explained in that letter, 'the depth OF the
oil depends upon the physical conditions of
each and every basin or portions thereof" l
have found immense flow OF oil emanating
from the iurasie formation which underlies
the Dakota in q largs majority of cases
throughout the Wyoming oil fields.
In places where the Dakota does not seem
to exist, we are not quite clear as to why It
has disappeared, or why that formation was
not regularly deposited throughout this field
as in great majority OF its area. 1t has
been suggested that duringth glacial period
IL has been cut on leaving the jurasc which
underlying it retained all the oil OF the once
upper Strata. Let thus be as it may Il
demonstrates the fact that at almost any
point on the oil belt oil can be obtained at
various depths and in various formations,
and IL is now frequently expressed, by those
who have studied the field mostly by the
practical use OF the drill. that there are good
grounds for at least FIVE horizons or five oil
sands, each sand containing grade of oil
having different market value and useful
In themselves. When combined and treated
as n whole, there Is centralized in this com
Dination result that can only be
found from the combined oils of
the new and old world. However ex-
tensive this idea may seem to the casual
reader or the ordinary oil expert. these facts
have been quoted TO the writer for the past
six years us to the great value of these oils
By advanced chemists and oil refining ex-
perts and others who have surveyed and
distilled oils of both worlds, and know
whereof they speak.
From these oils can be distilled the finest
table oils in use. The best olive oils will be
made from Wyoming petroleum. 1t is sus-
soptible of making fine alcohol as well as
the finest extracts now used in any well
regulated culinary department TO the
chemist this field promises the richest of re-
search, and TO the capitalist the greatest
boom and reward OF merit.
With these facts staring us In the face
coming from practical tests in the field and
not from visionary theorists dreamers or
claivoyants, what better or stronger evil
dence do METROPOLITAN cities like Omaha,
Denver or Portland want than pipe line to
limits, TO manufacture its crude material
into all the mercantile commodities, of which
it's susceptible, the crude material to be
used as fuel or gas, and many other ways of
usefulnes. Omaha alone would consume at
least seven thousand barrels daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
OMAHA LIVE $ rock.


Saturday, Nov. Q.
There we're only twelve loads Of cattle on
to-day's market but eighteen loads we're re-
ported to arrive late and were counted in
the receipts, although they did not arrive in
time for the market Cattle good enough
TO suit the packers sold quite readily, ma
tives bringing s3.5066425 and westerns So 15
@300. The half fat stun, cattle that are be-
and barely good enough tor killers, are very
slow sales. The holders Of such have found
1t very hard work even to get bid. The
supply of feeders and stockers was made up
largely of northern cattle and the trade was
slow. Such cattle as sold brought about
steady prices, natives going at s2.50(a2 60
and few westerns at $3.50. Native cows
sold at 81. l5G2l5
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
Building Her a New Nose.

Mrs. E. Hoffman, of 80 Manjer street,
Brooklyn, had the misfortune some
years ago to lose her nose. The support
ing bone which gave it shape was en-
tirely consumed by disease. To-day,
says anew York dispatch, Fl. L. r. Teta-
more, curator of the Long Island hospi-
tai, cut the sunken skin where the nose
once was and inserted the breast bone
removed from chicken. He left at
tached to the bone the outer cartila-
genous tilament and the periosteum.
These he sewed to the flesh of the nose,
and over the bone drew portion of
the periosteum cut from the forehead
of the woman. The breast-bone of o
fowl was used because it gave proper
shape to the nose. III it does not of it
self take root and grow, the doctor ex-
poets that it will assist in the formation
OF natural bone. This is the first ex-
pertinent of the kind. Two months will
be necessary to determine its success.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
The Fruit of Violence.

In no case is the folly of violence in medi-
cation more conspicuously shown by its fruit
than in the effect upon the intestines of
excessive pnrgation. The stomach and bow
els are first painfully griped, then the latter
Is copiously, suddenly and repeatedly evacu-
ated. This Is far beyond the necessities of
the case, most unnatural, excessively debili-
tatng. The organs are incapacitated from
resuming their function with normal moder-
alton. An astringent Is resorted to which
reduces them to their former condition of
inaction. To this monstrous and harmful
absurdlty, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Is
the happy alternative. 1t relaxes gently,
naturally, sufficiently, it diverts bile from
the blood into its proper channel, it insures
healthful digestion and complete assimila-
ton. 1t is a complete defense against
malaria, and conquers rheumatism. neural
gia, nervousness, kidney and bladder trouble.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
Woman Want Bread.

In the halcyon Indian summer OF her
life Miss Susan b. Anthony has learned
a thing or two says the Kansas City
Times. She held forth in st. Paul last
week and set every body to wondering
by announcing her subject as "Women
Want Bread and not the Ballot" Re-
suit, u big audience to see why Miss An
thony had changed the song of SO many
years. Then she treated them to the
same old ballot craving wall which has
been echoing down the corridors of
time since the memory OF man runneth
not to the contrary. Miss Anthony may
be studying dime museum methods with
a deeper object than appears on the sur
face, She would prove big card.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
Live Stock Notes.

M. l.. Simmons, of Dow, City, marketed
hogs
James B. Hume, vf Madison, marketed
hogs.
Harry Kuhl came in from Aspnwall with
hogs. 6sIr
Henry Wehrman, of Nelson, had hogs on
market. ifb'
William Patterson, of Stockholm, visited
the yards. t0g
S. S. Hadley, of Cedar Rapids, marketed
some fine 1925 cattle. lo
J. S. Fordyce. of SCHUYLER, was in with
two double-deck loads of sheep.
Secretary A. l.. Lott has issued a call for
the meeting OF the Live Stock Exchange
Monday at O'Clock.
Twenty-seven thousand one hundred and
nineteen head Of range cattle were received
at the yards during October.
Some time ago a notice was published re-
questing Iowa shippers along the line OF the
Chicago ~ northwestern road TO load stock
Tor NO. 20, the fast freight west on that road.
On one or Two occasions during the past
mohtn that Train was behind time which
brought the stock late into this market.
This led to a correspondence between Acting
Presldent Baocock and the officials of that
road. and yesterday letter was received
from Mr.. hopkins, superintendent of the
iowa division, saying that in case of uns
aVoidaoIe delays TO No. Is he will make up a
special at Boone and bring the stock in on
the time OF No. Is.
PAXTON HOTEL, OMAHA-Special at
tentlon TO commercial men. Finest aud
largest hotel In the west. Kittredge Il
Brainard, prODriatora
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
FINANCIAL.

New YORK. Nov. Especial Telegram to
The BEE. Observation-Disclosures on the
street and a, the resorts did not tend to help
matters much at the opening of the stock
market to-day. The Saturday half day ses-
sion closed, however, without anything
eventful. The market was continuation OF
that of yesterday, trusts and Missouri Pa
cihc monopolyzng attention, while all three
were specially weak. The opening Of the