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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-13
Corporations and Farmers.

There is a great ialiacy current in
this country as TO the ownership, by
individuals. o. --ear in5a tries, such
a railways. tr,-ls. 81 IT,, and the
like. People hear the name Of Van
derbuiit, and they say, ''Oh, he owns
the New York Central system: or
Of Roberts, that means the PeHnsyl-
vania: or Of Clark. taatis tn Consol-
idato&. %o". IN p0iu. cf act, II 5
only during taa -!o"iug s,,-e--he
green-apple period, as it were that
properties Of this sort are held in
great blocks. SO soon a. the iruj,
ripens = system % dispersion sets IN
and the apples are divided. And SO it
is that Of ID. stock .. Inc New York
Central. there ,taHdS.in the name OF
Vanderbilt an amount far away from
a control: that the Pennsylvania has
more stockholders of record than il
has persons employed. although these
latter are in number an army corps:
while, though the Consolidated road
IS a very great aTai: and earns much
money. Mr.. Clark. VINO directs its
course and safeguards it, interests.
is simply the trustee and agent for a
great number of small holders, whose
average holdings are said to be under
s. 1000: and so on with all the other
large and successful corporations in
the saving and industrial parts OF
the country. 1t vas people in this
condition who got frightened last au-
tumn and showed Mr.. Bryan under,
and it is in the encouragement of the
small investor that safety lies. Mr..
~Stuyvesant Fish, who presides over
the de~Stines of the Illinois Central
Railroad understands this point, and
OF that road especial facilities and
credits are furnished to enable the
theifty men in its employ to become
posed of stock holdings in such
amounts as they are APPLE orwilling to
purchase. -Leslies Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-13
An Excellent Marksman.

"The most expensive shot l ever
made was in the mountains in a West
ern %state,' remarked an amateur
Nimrod, who has about a dozen guns
and rifles and half a dozen dogs, not
to speak of hunting suits innumerable
and divers sporting paraphernalia.
was after wild turkeys in a gulch where
it was said a gang of nine or ten had
their rendezvous. / was prowling
through a thicket when l heard 'em.
There they were all together eating
something. Whatever they were feed
ing on, it brought their necks all in a
bunch and my heart bounded with ex-
ultation. took careful aim at those
necks. and let fly with both barrels
from my shotgun. Well, sir, it knock
ed every n over, so closely had they
been standing together. l confess it
was like pOt-hunting and that l ought
to have flushed 'em first. 1 went for
ward to get my game.
Suddenly 1 heard a voice.
Hey, you thar"
81 looked up and there was of
the long. old-fashioned muzzle-load-
ing rifles pointed straight at me.
Did you kill them gobblers?'
Yes; all at one shot, too
well, you fork out 81 apiece.
Them's my tame turkeys. My cabins
over thar. See it? Them birds were
feeding cut of a trough, eating corn 1
put thar for 'em. Do you pay Or
"Ipay.'
And 1 did. 1t a a 80 shot. The
greasy, ragged hill-dweller and apel-
ogy for a farmer chuckled when he
took the money.
'I'spose We don't want the birds?'
Yes. l do l answered testify.
"'Wal. the folks to hum can tell
the difference tween tame and wild
birds, l cal'late.'
oh, keep EN- l said angrily.
$50 he took them to his cabin. and,
as | departed, he yelled out:
"Say, stranger, there's some of my
geese back thar We might try yer hand
at. That thar was a great shot of
your'n. Five to onst. Ho! Ho!'"
Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-13
Directory Of the PRINCIPAL Business Houses.

The following is published daily for the
benefit OF travelling statesmen, Strangers and
the public generally. It CannOt fail TO prove
of interest 20 all who intend tranSaCting bust
ness in Cape Cirardeau.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-13
For Six Cents

wewill send youDr. Kaufmann's great
Medical Work: 100 pages, colored
lates from life. The most valuable
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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-13
WINE OF CARDUl

Is a vegetable wine. It exerts a wonder
fully healing, strengthening and sooth-
ing influence owe the organs of woman
kind. 1t invigorates and stimulates the
whole system. 1t is almost infallible in
curing the peculiar weaknesses, IRE
gularities and painful arrangements of
woman Year after year, in the privacy
of home-away from the eyes of every
body-it effects cures.
WINE OF CARDUI Hs old for slice q
bottle. Dealers I'm medicine sell Il. Five
bottles usually care worst cases.
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The herald., 1897-10-26

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-G. w.
Baker, the chairman of the National
Silver Republican party of California,
has appointed the following gentlemen
as an administrative committee for the
Silver Republicans of this state, by con-
gressional districts, as follows:
First district, A. o. Carpenter of
Ukiah; Second district, H. McCraney OF
Sacramento; Third district, d. A. In
gals of Alameda; Fourth district, John
M. Wright of San Francisco; Fifth dis
trict, w. A. Coulter of Santa Clara; /;
Sixth district, Sutherland Hutton of Los
Angeles; Seventh district, r. A. Thomas
Of San Diego.
These, together with the chairman anil
vice chairman of the provisional COM
mittee, namely, J. M. Phillips, First vice
Chairman l.. T. Hatfield, Second Vice
Chairman j. H. Woodman, third vice
chairman, constitute the administrative
committee of eleven Of the Silver Re-
publicans of this state.
The committee will meet in Los An
geles on Thursday, November is, 1897,
for the purpose of outlining the work Of
the Silver Republicans in the campaign
of 1898, and will formulate plan of or
ganization at that meeting which will be
strictly followed the coming year. The
meeting will be held at the rooms of the
Silver Republican club Of Los Angeles.
1t is the intention of the Silver Repub-
lican committee to enter upon discus
sion of the silver question from Re-
publican standpoint and to secure some
Of the ablest Republicans in the United
States to present their views upon this
question early in the coming year.
Among other gentlemen Of national rep
utation, Hon. Charles A. Towne of Min
neapolis has placed himself at the dis
posal of the committee for at least five
speeches in the populous districts Of the
state.
The herald., 1897-10-26

have been arrested. They embezzled
10000 yen of the banks funds in specu-
lation in rice and grain.
Over $4,000 people at Gifu who were
rendered Homeless by the recent floods
are now being supported by charity.
AWFUL FLOODS
September so heavy rainstorul
spread all over Japan and up to the time
the steamer Olympia left reports were
coming in of terrible havoc done. The
government railway was washed away
in several places between Hodogaya and
Kambara. A part of the tunnel between
Hodogaya and Totsuka collapsed ard
fell on five trucks of a train which was
passing through at the time.
AT Musasi twenty-five houses col
lapsed. AT Akashi twenty houses We're
destroyed and twenty-five badly dam.
aged. The Mainichi states that $4,000
houses are flooded at Nagoya. Mary
people We're killed.
According to an official report from
Aichi prefecture there are forty-two
villages, altogether containing 10000
houses, still submerged in the Kaito,
Kaisai, Nakashima and Haguri dis
u ii'to, Wihic oo,lVu pSdSdlllS stTe at pIes-
ent dependent on the rations of food is
sued by the government. The damage
to the rice crop is estimated to be not
less than 100000 yen. The Tokado rail-
way was blockaded by the collapse of
the Sattatoge tunnel. At Ashigara,
Shimogori, landslide occurred and wa
ter rushed out from the hillside and
swept away eleven houses, besides dam
aging some others. Another place, Ka-
jiya-mura, on the Arakawa river seven
houses were destroyed and the whole
district was under water. The Fujiki
river was in flood and carried away four
teen houses at Ugawara, besides DAM
aging numerous others, and the we'll
known mineral springs there have been
buried and have totally disappeared
from view. Along the Atini road bridges
were washed away as well as other DAM
age done, but fortunately no loss of life
is reported.
The late rice crops are reported to have
been almost completely ruined in many
districts.
An official report from Hiogo states
that the Takarad Cuka bath-house, well
known to most foreign residents, was
washed away.
There were twenty deaths in Arima
Two persons were killed, twenty-five
houses washed away, nineteen houses
destroyed and 1855 houses partially de-
stroped in Kako Gun.
The herald., 1897-10-26
TEA STANDARDS
The Present Regulations Need Some
Amendment

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The board
of experts appointed by the secretary OF
the treasury to establish standards of
test under the adulterated tea act has
made a report to the secretary. The
board meets several objections which
have been raised to its rulings, and in
some instances asks that the existing
regulations be amended so as to meet
certain other objections. The board
states that it will endeavor to find
specific standards for teas from Canton,
and recommends that authority be
granted for the use of the No. 26 sieve,
No. 80 wire, to secure perfect uniformity
in determining needle leaf. 1t also rec
ommends that the word flavor" as used
in the present regulations be considered
as an index of quality and fitness for
consumption, and be not limited to the
particular characteristics of the tea dis
tricts from which the stands come. The
recommendations of the board will be
adopted by the treasury department
The board also asks that a meeting be
called early in December to establish tea
standards for the coming year.
The herald., 1897-10-26

otBtes, and excluding from consideration
has priority over the hen of the United
all sums owing or paid by said company
for interest upon other portions OF It's
indebtedness. but that said PROVISIONS
would not affect any right of the United
States or of said company prior to June
80, ISIS. And by the second section of the
said act Of 1915 It was provided that the
compensat due the railroad for SER
vices TO the government should be re-
tanned by the United States, one-half to
be applied 10 the interest paid by the
United States aud the other half to be PAID
over to the sinking fund to be established
in the treasury, to be invested by the Sec
retary of the treasury. The ninth section
of said act further provided that all sums
due to the United States from said COM
pany, whether payable presently or not,
and all sums required to be paid to the
United States or into the treasury or sink
ing fund, should be g. lien upon all the
property of every kind, rights and fran
chises, subject onlyto any paramount
lien. The tenth section made it the duty
of the attorney general of the United
States to enforce all the rights OF the
United States by proper proceedings
against the said railroad company, and it
should he The duty of the court to deter
mine the right of the matter without re-
gard to matters of FORM
BY the eleventh section of said act or
May 7. 1851. it was provided that If said
railroad company was in default of the
requirements of said act or other acts re-
lating TO it 70 rthe period Y six months,
such failure should operate as forfeiture
of all rights. privileges and grants and
franchises derived or obtained by it from
the United states and II should be the duty
Of the attorney general to cause the said
forfeiture to be iudicid 1y enforced)
COURT PROCEEDINGS
ST. PAUL, Milr., Oct. 25.--A motion
on the part of the government to post
pone the date OF the sale of the Union
Pacific will be made before United
States Judge Sanborn III this city to-
morrow. 1t is thought Judge Sanborn
will set an early date for the hearing
Gen. John G. Gown of Omaha, one Of
the governments counsel in the pro-
ceedings, reached st. Paul this morn
ing and during the day had an informal
conference with Judge Sanborn. He
said that the government desired at an
early date to make the motion referred
to. Ex-Governor Hoadiey, the chief of
the governments special counsel in the
Union Pacific case, is expected to arrive
in the morning.
KELLY Is COMING
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 25.--General So
iicitor Kelly of the Union Pacific left
for St. Paul tonight to represent the re-
ceivers before Judge Sanborn tomorrow
when final action on the governments
motion to postpone the sale Of the road
IL expected
The herald., 1897-10-26
KELLY Is COMING
WORLDS w. C. T. q.
Proceedings Of the Contention Meet
ing at Toronto

TORONTO, Oct. 25.--At the w. c. r.
U. session today, memorial solo was
sung by Miss Reed with great effect. and
short addresses were given by Miss Tilley
and Mrs. Sanderson of Canada; Mrs. T.
l.. Stevenson, corresponding secretary of
the National w. G. T.. U. of the United
States; Miss Agnes f. Slack, secretary
Of the Worlds w. G. I. u. and Miss Mu-
cit of Queensland, Australia.
A pleasant feature of the session was
the presentation BY Mr.. Ramsay, a CON-
,nercial traveller, of a magnificent ban
ner for the country Of the World W. c.
4. u. showing the largest increase III
membership. He accompanied the gift
with check for $500 to the World s
union IL 1t doubled it's membership this
year.
A long letter was read from Lady Her
ry Somerset, containing expressions of
regret at her inability to take her accus-
toned place in the convention on ac-
count Of her recent Illness.
Miss Westover of the New ork Trib-
une addressed the convention on Good
Humor in the Temperance Work Among
Women" She was followed by her
AdthCip IOhs NCStOSGip WIN SpOht Oil
his personal experience as miner and A
pioneer in the wsst.
Mrs. Charlton Edholm of England,
representing the Florence Crittenden
missions. told Of f1fty-one missions in
existence, with 5000 girls and little ones.
and with a record ot success in rs peg.
cent of the cases.
Miss Agnes Stack, the secretary.
brought In the report of the department
of petitions. and she was followed by
Mrs. E. ". Greenwood of Brooklyn, N.
Y, superintendent of the evangelistic
work, who gave report of her work.
Mrs. Boden of Derby, England, then
read her report as superintendent of
parlor meetings.
The report of the depa rtment of evan
gelistic training for the two years ended
October l, 1897, was presented and read
by Mrs. Fowler Willing. She told of the
evangelistic training school located in
that part of New oYrk city that used to
be known as 'IIell's Kitchen"
The school has received from unions
and other sources s1250. Expenditures
for the two years were about $6O0O leav-
ing the balance, paid by Mrs. Willing
$4750.
The herald., 1897-10-26

son City. Moore was accompanied by
his son, Morris r. Moore, N. c. Wood
ring and G. F. Compton, all residents
of Seattle. The party left Dawson on
September 7th. At that time not a
pound of flour could be obtained. There
was plenty of 1t in the town, however,
the available supply being held for
higher prices. Enterprising spectators
with money had cornered the flour, and
while their warehouses were filed to
overfowing there was not an ounce for
sale. Mr.. Moore states that when he
left Dawson threats were being made
that the warehouses would be raided
and that the people would help them
selves, paying, of course, a liberal price
for what they took. The stores would
not sell more than six cans of milk.
three cans of meat and other articles
in proportion to any one person Canned
meats sold at 75 cents a can, milk at 80
cents, beans at % cents and sugar at 30
cents a pound.
Six steamers were daily expected to
arrive from st. Michaels and their ar
rival would end the flour corner and in
sure ample provisions for this winter.
On their way up river and lakes Mr..
Moore and party met from five to
twenty-five boats daily going down to
Dawson City. They only heard of one
wreck en- route, no lives being reported
lost.
Dominion, Sulphur Quartz and Mon
tana creeks and branches of Indian
river, a tributary of the Klondike and
Mooseskin creeks, a tributary or the
Yukon, a few miles below Dawson.
which were discovered last summer, are
all exceedingly rich, but do not rival
El Dorado or Bonanza creeks.
CAN'T LEAVE DAWSON
VICTORIA, B. c., Oct 25.-Men who
came down on the Farallone from Dyea
having come overland from Dawson
City. say that the day before they left
Hansen, one of the managers of the
Alaska Commercial Company, arrived in
a canoe and told of the abandonment of
the efforts to get food up the river to
Dawson.
Fully 400 miners at once made prepara
tions to start out over the trails but the
Citizens Committee refused to allow
them sufficient provisions for the jour
ney so, save those who had already
started, all will have to remain and
share in the privations in Dawson.
Charles Fries of Tacoma, who came
out with Butt Woods and Archie Burns
says that besides the famine, a mys-
terious disease has broken out which
is carrying off an average of five men
daily. Twenty-four hours after the vic
tim is attacked he turns black from the
waist to the throat and two days later,
in a majority of cases, is dead.
On his way out over the Dalton trail,
which at many places runs along the
Yukon's banks, the Fries party met
many boats bound down. He estimates
that about three hundred boats are now
going down the river with from four to
seven men to each boat.
The Fries party was the last to leave
Dawson. At Five Finger rapids they
fell in with the party headed by James
Stuart of New York which left six
days before and after leaving Dalton
they caught up with the party of John
Fry of New York with an Indian guide.
This party ran short of food and for four
days none had any food save an owl
which they shot and some soup made
from rawhde strap which they were
using in packing their goods.
The Farallore brought down about
500, 900 in gold.
The herald., 1897-10-26
A Stockton Brute

STOCKTON. Oct. 25-Samuel Nowln
was arrested last evening on charge of
attempted criminal assault upon Julia Juil-
lerat, the 13-year-old daughter of a con-
tractor. Nowlin was intoxicated at the
time. He threw the little girl down and
began to choke her to prevent her from
screaming. The screams of the child at
tracted two men to the rescue. They held
Nowlin until an officer arrived. This after
noon Nowlin disclaimed any criminal in
tent and was discharged at his preliminary
examination.
The herald., 1897-10-26
PILE PULLING
Adjourned Uutil the Courts Give Some
Direction

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-Acting
under an order by Judge Hebbard made
this morning modifying the injunction
granted by Judge Slack, the harbor COM
missioners ordered the immediate re-
moval of the piles on the Devisadero
street water front. which have caused
such bitter strife in and out of the courts
between the Fair estate and the Pacific
Gas company. The tug Governor Mark
ham, with a pile-driver in tow, was dis
patched to the spot, but low water in
tervened to prevent the contractors from
showing the value of their threats Of
armed resistance.
After the threatened outbreak of hos
tilities had subsided, Judge Hebbard set
aside his first order and fixed the entire
proceedings for hearing tomorrow
morning. 1t is believed the settlement
of the controversy will now be left to
the courts.
The herald., 1897-10-26
A Dreadful Death

VIRGINIA CITY. New. Oct 25.-Mrs.
Michael Carroll died today from Injuries
received as the result of horrible acci-
dent on Saturday night. She was alone
in her house and was about to retire.
Having lighted a candle, she threw the
match to the floor. The match was not
extinguished and caught her nightgown
setting 1t on fire. She was terribly burned
from her waist down, the flesh being IT.
orally baked. She remained alone in the
house until o'clock Sunday morning. when
she was discovered by her husband She
died at this morning
The herald., 1897-10-26
TURF AND TRACK
Favorites Win at Louisville-Run-
ming Race Results

L
ming Race Results
LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. 25.-The con-
tests at the Louisville Driving and Fair
association meet this afternoon were all
for place, both events that constituted
the program going to odds-on favorites
in straight heats.
Glass 2:20, trottlng, stake $1000-The
Monk won in straight heats. Time,
2:16, 2:15, 2:13is. Louis E. Mac, Ma
bel, Moneypenny, Edmonia, Medium
Wood and Baroness Marguerite also
started.
Three-year old, 800 class, pacing,
stakes $1OOO-Mss Margaret won in
straight heats. Time, 2:14, 2:14A.
2:13A Samaitina, Patchen Boy and In
elusive also started
AT HARLEM
CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-Bannockburn
was the first favorite to win at Harlem
today. Summary:
Six furlongs-Lady Cordell won,
Henry Ormsby second, Mon Bijou
third. Time, 1:16%4.
Five furlongs-Flo Honey Dew won
Denial second, Ben Frost third. Time,
1:O21s.
One mile-Paul Griggs won, Macy
second, Ulysses third. Time, 1:41.
Five and a half furlongs-Bannock-
burn won, Pacemaker second, st. AL
fonse D. third. Time, 1:0S.
g Mile and an eighth-Moncreith won,
Charley Christy second, Muskalonge
third. Time, 1:54k.
Seven Acknowledgements won, Jer-
o1 hi
1929.
AT WINDSOR
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 25.-Results at
Windsor:
Half mile-Royal Festival won,
Purcy second, freight third. Time,
O:521h.
Five and a half furlongs-Jolly Son
won, Oakleaf second, Pardon third.
Time, 1872.
Four and a half furlongs-Early Bird
won, Marcus Mayer second, Huse Hop
kins third. Time, O:59.
Seven furlongs-Helen H. II won,
Robert Latta second, Miss Rowett
third. Time, 1:35.
Six furlongs-P. Dunno won. Her
Excellency second, Graefin third. Time,
1:20.
AT LATONIA
CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 25.-Latonia
results:
Six furlongs-Colleen won, Myth Sec
ond, Discount third. Time, 1:16h.
Seven furlongs-Linstock won, Isabey
second, Han dor third. Time, 1:2S%.
Mile and a acknowledgements won.
Rassendylle second, Lulu Frey third.
Time, 1:49A. Miss Ross finished sec
ond, but was disqualified for fouling
Rassendyll.
One mtle:-Sister Stella won, Madeline
second, Ardath third. Time, 1:41h.
Five furlOngs-Miss Arnold won, Cen
| trum second, Deyo third. Time, 1:O4.
Mile and a sixteenth--Performa
won. Fresco second, Sir Ebony third.
Time, 1:49N.
ARIZONA RACING
| PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 25.-Racing on
the local track will be controlled this
winter by the Phoenix Racing associa-
ton, organized today with ex-Mayor
j. d. Monihon as president. There will
be a meet holiday week, and another
early in the spring.
The herald., 1897-10-26
A Poisoned Egg

SACRAMENTO, Oct. Pa week ago
Young man named Fred Germanhauser ate
a meal Of ham and eggs at an eating stand
and was seized with symptoms of poison
ing Yesterday, when it was thought he
was improving. he was taken with brain
fever, and his condition is regarded as
critical. 1t is thought he was served with
an egg that had been charged with arsenic
or strychnine for predatory animals, and
that it was sent to market with others.
The herald., 1897-10-26
The Seal Conference

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The interna
tional seal conference met again at the
state department today, with all the mem
bers present. The proceedings are secret
In the sense that no one but delegates are
allowed in the meeting room, save certain
persons who are called upon to give ex-
pert testimony as to the conditions of seal
life and the state of the market for seal
skins. The conference will be In session
some time.