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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-09
why Importations Have Decreased.

The investigations of the Ways and
Means Committee show that the reason
for the decreased value of importations
under the Wilson bill and the apparent
large excess in the value of exports is not
altogether that we are exporting more and
importing less, in proportion, than for
merly but that our exports are valued as
heretofore at the full price, and the ad
valorem rates of the Wilson bill encour-
age the differentiation of imports, as ad
valorem rates have always done. This
effect has been especially noticeable in
the chemical schedule, in which the sub
stitution, in the Wilson-Gorman bill, of ad
valorem for specific rates was more gen.
eral and sweeping than in any other sched-
ule. The decline in the invoiced value of
imports is too great to be accounted for
by ordinary fluctuations of prices or even
by hard times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-09
Don't Complain About Pensions.

The wealth of France is estimated at
$40, 900, 100000. that of Germany at $780,
600, 600, 900 and that of the United States
at $62, O0,O0O,0O0. The population of
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
DEATH IN ITS PATH.
Terrible Devastation Made by g
Cyclone in the South.
Georgia and Alabama Visited by an Awful
Storm-Twenty School Children Killed
at Arlington, Ga.-Family OF
Eight Drowned.

EUFAtA, Ala, March 23.-This city
was swept by cyclone yesterday
morning, in which death and disaster
played dreadful part. Hourly the
record becoWes more appalling. Men
were almost caught up from the
streets before they could find shelter.
Shutters, roofs, etc, gave way and for
two hours there was terror and desc
lation, when the cyclone passed off to
the northwest, coursing along the
Chattahoochie valley.
The reports soon coming in told of
the terrible devastation. The town of
Blakeley, in Georgia, was almost
lifted out of existence, and people
seeking refuge indoors were as badly
knocked around by cracking and fall
ing timbers as were those on the out
side, who were unable to dodge fence
rails and other flying missiles. The
most shocking story of all, however,
was that which came from Arlington,
Early county, Ga. An awful cyclone
swept down upou this place and ac-
complished work of horror that has
never been paralleled in this section of
the country. The bodies of eight chill
dren have been taken from the ruins
of the Arlington academy, and about
dozen others will die. Thirty-fve
children and two teachers went down
in the wreck of the building, and the
work of removing the dead and injured
is not yet completed. The Arlington
academy, fine structure, lay directly
in the path of the storm. 1t was
knocked into great heap, and the
work of death was done even before
the danger was realized The structure
was smashed into kindling wood and
the broken timbers and dead bodies
mixed together in sicl1ening con-
fusion. The two teachers, Profs.
Covington and Walker, were re-
moved from the ruins and
they were terribly injured Walker,
it is thought, will die. People have
not recovered from the awful horror of
the disaster. Nearly every home in
the community has been blighted by
the storms cruel work.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WAsHINGTON NOTES.

TIE president has accepted the resig-
nation of Silas w. Lamoreux as com"
missioner of the general land office.
THE interior department has rem
dered decision granting to the state
of Kansas 1900 acres of agricultural
college lands in lieu Of that number OF
acres OF double minimum lands, and
the governor of the state will shortly
be authorized to make the selection.
H. CLAY EVANS, of Tennessee, has
notified the president by letter Of his
acceptance of the place of commissioners
OF pensions
COL j. II. BRIGHAM, the new assist
ant secretary Of the agricultural de-
partment, expressed the opinion on
the Goth that the agricultural outlook
was very hopeful and that the presi-
dent, congress and the department.
would thoroughly cooperate in the in
terests Of the farmers.
AREoENT Washington dispatch stated
that Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, may
presently formally communicate to the
senate and the country the conclusions
derived by him from the European trip
he recently made in the interest of an
international conference
THE senate committee on Indian af-
fairs has under consideration bill APP
propriating 5000 "for improving the
grounds of the battlefield at Licking
ton, Mo-, providing that the ground
itself shall be purchased and paid for
by the citizens of Missouri"
A PROTEST has been sent to congress
against the removal from the free list
of books, educational apparatus, etc,
1t is signed by President Dwight and
all the members of the faculty of Yale
university at New Haven, Conn.
The supreme court of the United
States on the 29d announced its deci-
sion that the agreement in the Trans
missouri Freight association to main
tain rates within its territory was q
violation of the antitrust law of 1890
prohibiting contracts or combinations
in restraint of trade and must be aban-
doned. This reversed the decision of
the court below.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY gave recep-
ton 10 newspaper correspondents on
the 23d.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
KANSAS WILL RESIST.
Attorney General Boyle to Fight tho Pr
posed Stock Yards Injunction.

Attorney General Boyle to Fight tho Pro-
posed Stock Yards Injunction.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 94,-The at
torney-general is preparing to resist
the stock yards injunction with all his
might, and the legal contest will be
bitter. The case comes up in the fed
eral court Aprild;2; Ex-Chief JUS
tice David Martin has been employed
by the state to assist Mr.. Boyle. The
principle of maximum rate is in
volved in the case, and should
the stock yards company secure
a permanent injunction then, it
would be useless for the populists
to think of holding an extra ses-
sion of the legislature to pass maxi
mum rate law. If a maximum rate
could not be established for public
corporation chartered and lying wholly
within the state, it is argued that it
would be waste of time and money
to try and establish a maximum rate
for railroads which run through many
states
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25

Work has begun at lola on new
brick and tile factory.
Topeka will soon build big audito-
rum in which to hold conventions and
other big meetings.
A Washington telegram said ex-Con-
gresham Blue is candidate for In
dian commissioner.
Secretary of State Bush has refused
to grant charters to whisky clubs in
some of the large cities.
The Santa Fe railroad has built
new elevator at Winfield with storage
capacity of 100000 bushels.
Gen. ]. G. Caldwell, of Topeka, is be-
ing pushed for governor of the sol
diers home at Leavenworth.
Corn for the India famine sufferers
was shipped from Great Bend recently,
with the cars profusely decorated.
A Topeka dispatch said DR.. Pitcher
would again be appointed superintend-
emit of the Winfield imbecile asylum.
1t was thought the confirmation of
w, W. Culver as state grain inspector
was void because the action was taken
before the new law became operative.
The state bribery investigating COM
mittee will begin work at Topeka
April 0, in the senate chamber. o. o.
Outcalt will preside and Frank Grimes
will be secretary.
Congressman Jerry Simpson, who
owns stock in the Medicine Lodge In
dex, threw it into the hands of a re-
ceiver the other day. The other fell
lows were using the paper to fight
Simpson.
Gov, Leedy recently announced that
he would not reappoint the police COM
missioners of Fort Scott, thus giving
the city home rule. 1t was regarded
as a forerunner for all other cities Of
the first class.
Sheriff Malmgren, of Salina, who
was recently removed from Office for
drunkenness, left home and was found
in box car in Kansas City, where he
had committed suicide. He was 81, 900
short in his accounts,
The Legislature reduced the salaries
of railroad commissioners from So, 500
to SO, 900, but increased the contingent
fund" from 81, 900 to $4,000, This will
enable the commissioners to keep their
pay up to the old figures,
Four well-known Kansans-J. NJ,
Simpson, of Mcpherson; G. s. Martin,
of Salina; ]. H, Richards, of Fort
Scott, and X. q. Wilcockson, of Oakley
were in serious railroad wreck near
Oakland, Md, recently, but they es-
capped injury,
The amended Australian ballot law
will not be effective until next sum-
mer some time, and will therefore not
affect municipal elections in April,
To head off the textbook law passed
by the Legislature the Eldorado board
of education met the other night and
adopted textbooks now in use for five
years.
S. G. Fleming, ex=cashier of the Ex-
change national bank at Eldorado,
pleaded guilty to forging notes for
$4,000 and was given five years in the
penitentiary.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. A. ]. Felt, of Atchi-
son, is developing strength as candi.
date for the Topeka pension ager6y.
e. r 3. ~
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
KANSAS NEWSPAPER WOMEN.
The State Press Association at Topeka
Elects Officers and Has Banquet.

The State Press Association at Topeka
Elects Oflcers and Has Banquet.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 20.-The Kan
sas Women's Press association held its
convention here yesterday. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing year; President, Mrs. Olive I.
Royce, Phillipshurg Dispatch; vice
president, Mrs. Minnie H. Morgan,
Cottonwood Falls Republican; secre-
tary, Mrs. Belle E. Harbaugh, Erie Rec
ord; treasurer, Mrs. May +. Rupe, Clyde
Herald, Papers were read by Mrs.
Ella B, Newell of the Atchison Cham
pion, Mrs. Harbaugh, Mrs, s. A. Thurs
ton of Topeka, Miss Zu Adams of To-
peka and Mrs. Rupe. The convention
concluded its work with banquet at
the Copeland hotel last night. Covers
were laid for 80. Mrs. Royce presided.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.
List OF the Lines Being Projected Expected
to Exceed Amy in Recent Years.

CHICAGO March 21.-The Railway
Age presents o list of new railway
lines which are either under construc-
ton or are projected with some rea-
sonable prospect of being built. Of
course this list does not include all the
lines which are talked of, for there are
tens of thousands of additional miles
laid out on paper and in various
stages Of agitation and advertisement.
The list includes 800 different lines
in 46 states, aggregating in all 1T,5l1
miles. If 20 per cent. of this total is
actually built this year, it will mean
nearly as much new construction in
1897 as has been completed in the last
two wears combined.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25

WASHINGTON, March 90. - Senator
Pettigrew's bill to grant settlers the
right to make second homestead en-
tries is of the greatest Importance to
the west, inasmgch as it will not only
permit those who have forfeited past
entries, but have perfected them by
Communication, to enter any quarter Sec
tion precisely as if they had not ex-
hausted their rights.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
A College Deht RaIsed.

At the recent session Of the South
Kansas conference at Winfield enough
money was raised to pay debt of $685.
600 on the college at Winfield, OF this
amount So, 900 was given by President
Robinson, of the First national bank
at Winfield, and $4,000 by w. w. Him
shaw, a Reno county stockman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
Traffic Associations WIN dissolve.

CHICAGO, March 94.-The impression
prevails very generally among railroad
officials here that the supreme court
decision in the Transmissouri Freight
association case would be followed by
the speedy dissolution of all the traffic
associations. In face of that decision
it is plain that none of them can be le-
GallV maintained.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25

The music to be used in the next an
nual jubilee at Hutchinson has just
been made public and it, with other
information, will soon be sent to the
various towns of the state where there
are large choruses. The jubilee will
be held May Is to q.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
Members of the Text Book Commission.

Members of the Text-B Commission.
The Legislature adjourned sine die
on the Goth, after the senate had con-
frmed the school textbook commits
sion, composed of A. V. Jewett, S. w.
Black, S. M. Nees, A. II. Lupfer, s. /.
Hale and w. J, Hurd, fusionists. The
two republican appointees, D. o. Nc
Cray and Senator Lamb, were not con-
frmed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
institute Conductors and Instructors.

The state board of education has de-
cided that an institute instructor must
have four years experience and be 25
years of age. Institute conductors
must have seven years experience in
teaching and be 2S years old
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
WIN interest second-Class cities.

The law requiring the election of
marshal, clerk and street commission
er in all second-class cities of the state
has become effective and elections held
in April will come under its provisions.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
VIII Please Kansas Soldiers.

The appointment of Gen. Powell
Clayton, of Arkansas, as minister to
Mexico, will be gladly received by a
great many Kansas ex-soldiers who
knew him as an officer in the Sixth
Kansas cavalry.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
A Ilansas BOY MIsslng.

Will Potter, a Marysville young man
who went to Cuba to fight for the in
surgents, was wounded late in Decem-
Der. His parents heard from him in
January, but since then no word has
been received and his friends are I'M
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25

Points Regarding the Textbook Law.
State School Superintendent Stryker
thinks the schools of the state will re-
ceive great financial benefit from the
competition of the various schoolboole
companies under the new textbook
law. He says the law will apply to
every county, Notwithstanding exist
ing contracts, and that now boards OF
education have power to abrogate con-
tracts made by their predecessors.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
.Wanted--An Idea /!

Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth
Write JOHN WEDDERBURN 4 CO., Patent Attor.
neXg, Washington, ID. c. for their Of 800 prize oer
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Tho Now RnnltIng LAW.

Bank Commissioners Breidenthal ex-
presses qualification over the workings
of the new banking law and the
promptness with which bankers are
adjusting their affairs to the law. He
is now preparing a statement showing
the exact financial status of every bank
in the state as regards their capital
stock, loans cash on hand, deposits,
overdrafts, amount of real estate, and
sums loaned to depositors.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-03-25


tives in Missouri, found that his house
and barn and all their contents had
been stolen from his farm.
JOHN HULL, an employee of the Erie
railway at Servia, Ind, shot his wife,
the ball entering her throat and pass
ing upward and through her cheek,
Hull then turned the revolver upon
himself, the bullet going through his
head inhicting wound which proved
fatal The pair had separated and the
husband wanted his wife to live with
him again and she refused,
Ii. MCKAY TwoMBLY, son-in-law OF
the late William II. Vanderbilt and
proprietor of a dairy which cost 50, 0OO,-
900, has gone into the milk business,
to the CONSERVATION of the other local
milk dealers who sell milk for living.
Mr.. Twombly owns the Flopham dairy,
near Madison, n. D.. and the milk deal
ers of that place complain that they
cannot compete with a millionaire
dairyman.
The food situation on the 10th in
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota was
reported as being very threatening.
Many cities We're submerged and an
immense number Of bridges had been
washed away all the streams being out
of their banks.
Az awful tragedy was enacted on
the night of the goth near Orriclk, Ray
county, Mo- Bee Rainwater shot his
wife, his mother-in-law. his step
daughter and his brother-in-law and
then blew the top o, his own head off.
All the five are dead. The murderer
was said to be of morose disposition
and did not live happily with his wife,
frequent separations taking place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22

Persons seeing this advertisement and
having business in that line, will find it
to their interest to communicate through
his paper.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22
LONGEVITY OF MAN.
People Who Have Attained to Remark
able Old Age.

People Who Have Attained to Remark
able Old Age.
It was Prof. Hufeland's opinion that
the limit of possible human life may
be set at two hundred years-this OF
the general principle, says the st.
Louis Republic, that the life of nearly
all living creatures is eight times the
years, months or weeks of its period
Of growth. That which quickly comes
to maturity quickly perishes, and the
earlier complete development If
.eached the sooner bodily decay en-
sues. More women reach old age than
men, but more men attain remarkable
longevity than women.
Horned animals are shorter lived
than those without horns, fierce longer
than timid, and amphibious creatures
longer than those which inhabit the
sir. The pike will continue to live fo,
,ne hundred and fifty or one hundred
and seventy-five years, and the com
mon turtle is good for at least cen
tury. Passing up the scale of life t.
man and skipping the patriarchs we
traordinary longevity.
The ancient Egyptians lived three
times as long as the modern lotus eat
ers. Instances of surprising and
authentic longevity among the classic
Greeks and Romans are not at all rare
Pliny notes the fact that in the reig1
Of Emperor Vespasian Us A. D..
there were 1874 men living in limited
area on the River Pc who were 10'
years old and upward. Three Of these
were 140 and seven others over 100
Cicero's wife lived to be 103, and thu
Roman actress Luceja played in pub
lie after she had celebrated her on,
hundred and twelfth birthday.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22
FARM NOTES.

Nature evidently intended that the
pig should eat little at time and
often, and its stomach was fashioned
accordingly. The most successful
breeder is the one who recognizes that
fact and governs his feeding operations
accordingly.
We judge of farmer by his own
farm and of farm by what we see in
passing it, says contemporary. If
all is neat, and tidy, fences and out
buildings, as well as dwelling houses,
in good repair; if tools, wagons and
machinery are housed and painted,
animals sleek and contented, we are
satisfied that the owner is good farm
er and prosperous.
Straw may be added to the barnyard
manure because it is plentiful, but it
is better to utilize the straw in some
manner before it reaches the heap.
It should be cut with feed cutter and
used for bedding before throwing it
away, in which condition it is an ex-
cellent absorbent and more quickly
decomposes in the heap.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22
Something New I'm Bicycle Frames.

Something New In Bicycle Frames.
1t is stated that a well-known Eng
1ish firm of bicycle manufacturers,
with factory in this country, proposes
to put on the market next season,
something new and startling in the
way of frames. 1t is to be dissimilar
to the pattern now in use and quite
light. The principle OF its construc-
ton is tension, as opposite to compress
sion. The lower part of the frame is
to be the same as that now used, but
from the bottom bracket two stays
spring, one attached to the top of the
steering head, and the other 10 the
same height, but running backward to
nearly above the hub of the rear wheel.
The rear forks are to 60 further over
the front of the wheel and to be at
tached by a rod to the steering head.
From the steering head to the back
stay is to depend steel wire on which
the saddle is to be fixed. The wire is to
be continued down to the back hub.
When the rider is on the saddle the
wire says down about six inches and
the back wire becomes taut immediate
ly. The tubes are to be thin and
light, and the machine, when COM
plete, is to weigh only fourteen pounds
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22

milk and finally the flour. This
should make soft dough. Sprinkle
the molding-board with flour, and,
putting a small piece of dough upon
it, roll down to the thickness OF about
an inch. Cut with a round cutter
that removes a piece from the center,
dropping the cakes into kettle of hot
cottolene, cook them for six minutes,
turning often. Lift from the fat with a
skewer and drop into a colander TO
drain.
The cottolene should be about three
inches deep in the kettle. 1t must
not be so hot that blue smoke rises
from the center, as thu. would scorch
the doughnuts before they could cook
through; yet the fat must be so hot
that the cake will rise at once from
the bottom of the kettle where it drops
when first put in.
Two tablespoonfuls of rich cream,
added to the milk when mixing the
dough, will make a great improvement.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-10-22
Opposite Patent 0flce, WashInstee. o. c,

IN the Superior Court OF the State of Washing
i ton.
A. A. Phillips, as Receiver of
The First National Bank Of
Olympia, Plaintiff,
Robert Frost and Mary L.
Frost, T. N. Allen, Trustee,
Henry W. Lamberton and Summons
Margaret p. Lamber.on, for
partners under the firm Publication.
name of the Winona Deposit
Bank, Hubbard, Spencer.
Bartlett and Company,
corporation, and William
Duckering, Defendants.
The State of Washington to the said Henry w.
Lsmberton and Margaret 2. Lamberton, partners
under the firm n"m" of the WinOna Deposit
Bank and Hitbard, Spencer, Bartlett and Com
pany, corporation, Defendants: You are here
by summoned to appear within sixty days after
the date Of the first publication of this summons.
September, 1897. and defend the above entitled
action In the above entitled Court, and answer
the complaint Of the plaintiff, A. A. Phillips,
Receiver Of The First National Bank Of OIym-
swer upon the undersigned, attorney for plain.
tiff, at his Office below stated; and in case Of
your failure so to do judgment will be rendered
against you according to the demand of the
complaint which has been filed with the Clerk
Of said Court.
The object of the action is to foreclose q
mortgage given by the defendants, Frost and
wife, to said bank on the 9th day of January,
north half of the northeast quarter Of section
eighteen Cs), township (16) north Of range one
~ west situate in the county of Thurston, Wash
ington, to secure the payment of promissory
note of said Frost and wife to said bank of date
the 9th of January, 1884, for the sum of n We hun
bred dollars and due six months thereafter.
T. N. ALLEN,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
P. o. address, Olympia, Thurston county,
Washington.
Date Of first publication, Sept. 8, 1867,