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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-08-06

Whereupon the board adjourned
to meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
July Session, Fifth dav.
July 16, 1897.
Board met persuant to adjourn.
ment. Present: Frank Gwin,
Chairman, l. Fuller. G &c Grid
ley, Commissioners, f w Gooding,
Assessor, a S Senter Clerk.
Whereupon, the board proceeded
to complete the work OF equaliza-
ton and the following named per.
sons were raised to the amounts
set opposite their respective names
as follows 10. wit:
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
FLY TIME STRATEGY.
Fly Trap Dealer Gives Some In-
 formation.


 Nowadays people in civilized regions endeavor to keep flies out of their houses by having screens placed over the doors and windows. This, says the Portland Oregonian, keeps out the greater number of the little pests, but few always manage to find an en- trance through some crevice or cranny, and half dozen of these enterprising insects can cause about as much an- noyance to a bald-headed man during his after-dinner nap as the whole brood of them could do if turned loose in the room. In order to rid the house of the few flies who struggle past the screens, Hytraps of various sorts are frequently resorted to; but it is now found that these are not necessary. This secret. which is bound to be boon to suffering humanity, has been divulged by deal CT in fiytraps, who, when a customer called day or two since, was out of traps. In this emergency he imparted to his would-be customer the following recipe for keeping house clear of flies:
 Near the tops of the screen doors and window screens punch several holes from tine inside with some instrument about the size of lead pencil, thus leav- Ing slightly funnel-shaped apertures, having rough, jagged edge on the outside. This renders it impossible for the flies to enter through these holes, while the flies which have strayed into the house the first time they light on one of the screens crawl to the upper part, and, seeing these holes, imagine there is some place where they are not wanted on the other side, and out they go. "ln this manner" said the fytrap dealer, "a house can be kept per. fectly free from flies"
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

So eager were both Fritz and myself that we did not notice the approach of an old farmer who had sauntered up until he spoke to me almost at the wagon wheel.
 'Prospectin' for suthin', or goin' ter dig fish bait?' he asked, with a humor- ous twinkle in his eye. It's good place for both-right whar the Missourian ms did the last work of thar folly
 "Tm a railway builder, sir an swered, with dignity. I was proposir z to dig test pit hereto test the nature of the ground
 "'Ah-h.' he said, nodding wisely, as if the whole matter was clear to him. Well, the soils been we'll tested thar. That young feller's standin' now jest whar the Missourians dug thar cellar. We called it thar folly then, but thar's good reason for thinkin' it wasn't folly by long shot.
 "' Twas dozen years ago they come here, two of 'em, huntin' a water right for a ranch, they said. They had a chart of some kind that they went by. and were mighty particular nobody else should look at it. At last they located thar claim right whar we are nova quarter section, it was-and went ter plowin foot deep with a sub soil plow-over a two-acre patch. That's no way to a-break up virgin soil for plantin'. an we laughed at 'em a good deal. But that waIn't all. After the two-acre plot had been plowed and replowed they begun ter dig thar eel lar right whar that young mans a-standin'. No wonder we called that undertakin' folly-startin in ter build a house whar the creek would be sure ter wash it into the Arkansaw river in the first high water that came.
 "'But they just dug away, and when the cellar was about two-thirds dug they stopped workin' one day about noon, an one of 'em rode over toward Sterling. putin his horse to a good pace an lookin' as if he he'd business that couldn't be hiudered. l lived then in the sod house you see on the hillside, an', seein' the other man stayin' thar
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
FORREST CITY ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 13 1e

alone, l went over 70 talk with him He was takin' it easy. sittin' at the edge of the cellar with a shotgun leanin' against the side ctose by him. He was polite, but short spoken, and didn't seem anxious for company, so I didn't stay long. The other Missourian came back after dusk with a wagon, and could see by the light of their lantern that the two were working in the cellar until late into the night. They went away, bag and baggage, before morn- ing and I've never set eyes on 'em since
 The old fellow looked at me quiz zically, as, taking from his pocket a silver coin, he handed it to me. What do yer think of that?' he said. I found three of 'em in the dirt that the Mis- sourians threw out in that nights dig gin. Ii 'peared as if they'd just made hole straight down in the cellar bot tom and then threw the dirt back into 1t again. was curious enough after maxim sure they were gone to dig the hole out agin. The three dollars and some bits of rotten leather was what | found.'
 'The coin he had handed me was A clumsily- Mexican dollar bearing the date of 1892. When I handed if back to him the farmer winked and nodded his head wisely.
 "'Those Missouri fellows knew their business he said. They knew about whar they wanted to dig, an did all that, plowin' to get at some landmark that would show 'em the spot precisely. All this new growth of grass and weeds came up whar the ground was plowed. The cellars long ago been filled up by sand brought down by the freshets. I don't think it's much use for anybody ter waste time sarchin' for silver treas ure in that place. Do you?'
 "I agreed with him fully and drove away without having disturbed the pick and spade in the bottom of the wagon. I hadn't really expected 10 find any treasure, l said to myself But the fact remains that Fritz, a stranger in the locality, had, in a somnambu- listic state, gone directly to the place, where a treasure had once been hidden buried, fully believe, under the pre- else circumstances narrated after his waking. The marvel of this you can explain on any theory you choose"-N. Y. Sun.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

| replaced. Then suddenly the scene changed about him; he saw houses and cornfields where he had seen none be fore, and he realized that while he was still standing in the same place, high grass was growing round him of a diff. ferent character from that which had been there when the men were digging
 This undoubtedly was the time of his waking, for his next thought was to get home. He did not know which way to go, but at last, after going miles in various directions, he located his bearings and found his way back to the house where we were staying. By this time he had discovered that the spot from which he had bepun to ra. trace his steps was several miles down stream, on Cow creek.
 of course the boys had their finn with him over his sleepwalking and dream, but as l am something of a be- never in dreams and clairvoyanee thought 1t worth while the next Sun. day to have my team hitched up and take d drive down the creek with Fritz He had been laughed at so much over his exploit that he was rather ashamed of it and not inclined to talk on the subject. But at last, as we passed A farmhouse on the prairie above the val ley. he exclaimed:
 Here's the place where I came up out of the creek bottom. Down there is the sod house that passed, and be- yond is the place where saw the men digging.
 "rou can turn off the trail and drive almost anywhere in western Kansas. provided there are no wire fences in the way. l turned the horses round. drove down by the sod house, and. directed by Fritz, went as near the place of his dream as we could. We had to ston short of it owing to a patch of high grass and weeds so thick and tangled that we could not drive through. Fritz. now growing excited, jumped out of the wagon and pressed his way through the grass, hunting for something that evidently was clear in his mind Once he almost trod on a rattlesnake, whose buzzing l could plainly hear from the wagon. but Fritz kept up his search.
 I've found it. he called at last Here are my footprints where I stood above the treasure. Here pointing to the southeast, here's the hill the men rode over when they passed out of sight
 T had slipped spade and pickaxe into the bottom of the wagon before starting away from the house, and I was all ready, being now excited my self, to get right out of the wagon and set to digging for the buried silver
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
sIMETALLiSM ABANDONED.
The Presidents Unimportsnt Cur
 rency Message.

FtHty nessnGe.
 The expected has happened It came soon and in plain shape. President Me- kinley has completely abandoned bi- metallism. His currency message to congress was not the makeshift and shufiling affair that the country had looked for. It is straight-out decla- ration for the maintenance of the single gold standard, without any canting palaver about international agreement or the coinage of the home product.
 The presidents frankness is as re- freshing as it is startling. Heretofors he has obscured his intention and wish with regard to currency reform in haze of ambiguity and pretense. To the weak-kidneyed bimetallist his talk and promises meant bimetallism and to the bigoted monometallist they meant monometallism.
 The only importance attached to his currency message is contained in its po- litical effect. The document merely commits the presidents party to open and ayowed hostility to an independent American monetary system and prom ises the full strength of the organiza- ton to the support of a financial pol icy through which old world creditor nations have grown rich at the expense of new countries with new civilizations and new requirements. The message merely asks for executive authority for the appointment of a commission whose duty it shall be to make recom- mendations of whatever changes in ha Hi Ia, may be found necessary and expedient, and to report their conclusions on or before the first day of November next, in order that the same may be trans mitted by me to congress for its con sideration at it's first regular session."
 The president also tactitly indorses the action taken by the national mon- etary conference held at Indianapolis last January, and attempts to advise in advance the commissioners he will appoint that they should declare all legiance to the doctrine enunciated by the Indianapolis conference. He thus discounts the work of the proposed commission by prescribing conditions and restrictions.
 But the details of the message are of secondary importance only. The chief point of interest is the presidents de- sertion of bimetallism. This makes the issue between democracy and republic anism clear cut. It leaves the demo- cratic organization the party of bi- metallism and the republican organi- zation the party of gold monometallism There can no longer be any shuffiing and evasion in the republican party. Republicans who are bimetallists must now come to the democratic party. There is no longer the faintest glimmer of hope for them or the triumph of their cause outside of the democratic party. The democracy can accept the issue with renewed hope and courage. Republican defeat. if not complete an- initiation, and democratic victory arc now assured in 1900.--St. Louis Repub- lie
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
Timed His Drinks Reffer

A minister in the highlands of Scot land found one of his parishioners in- toxicated. The next day he called to re- prove him for it. Tt is very wrong to get drunk" said the minister.
 "I ken that" said the man, but then dinna drink as meikle as you do."
 "What-how is that?"
 "Why-ginit please ye, dinna ye aye glass O whisky with water after din ner?"
 Why, yes, Jemmy-merely to aid d gestion."
 And dinna ye take a glass O toddy every night before ye gang to bed?"
 ITO be sure-just to help me sleep. "
 Well, that's just IA glasses a week, an about 60 a month. l only get paid once month, an then if I'd take O0 glasses it wad make me dead drunk for a week; now ye see the only difference Is ye time it better than Ido."-London News.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
MOTHER IS GROWING OLD.

light '''S Are faded and dim to-day; ne brow once so fair. with no line of care. its harness has drifted away Anu the lace like a flower in its youthful
 bloom, 9 'ou''i u' Nlth its wealth of beauty untold As careWorn and sad, and plaintiye to-day For mother is growing old For you and for me hath the lines of care seen drawn on the patient face. And the form that Is bent and feeble now Hath lost its old-time grace. And the hair like a rift of drifted snow Hath lost its gleam of gold: me footsteps are tottering, quiet and slow TOT mothe is growing old. On lace and for1.l and in dim blue eyes Are the marks O. the passing years, Nade while the patient, tender heart was throobtng, percnanee, with tears For the safety of those sC loved, so dear. More priceless far than gold And 1t saddens my heart to feel and know That mother is growing old. And soon, ah, yes, alasi all too soon. VIII the quiet footfall cease The tender eyes will have sightless grown. The loving heart find peace. The willing hands will be folded low. The warm, sweet lips grown cold: Then, loyal and loving, and patient be To the mother growing old
 tion.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
PROSPERITY OF THE TRUSTS.
The Only Bene6ciaries of Republf-
 can Legislation.

The McKinleyism of 1897, that out does almost two to one the McKinleyism of 1890, is fraught with prosperity. The evidence is complete and convincing It has brought that prosperity to the sugar trust. The opening price of shares yesterday morning was 143. Nearly every other standard except the sugar post was deserted that brokers might operate in the trust so highly favored by congress by the Mckinley ism that is to bring prosperity to the country and has brought it to the sugar trust.
 McKinleyism has done much for the trusts, all of them are in high feather, they are the particular objects of re- gard of the government as administered by the republican party, but above and beyond them all is the sugar trust, now appropriately passed into the clutch of the Standard Oil trust, the all-devouring devil-fish of this country, whose chief proprietor throws a penny for a sop at college and rises in public places to thank the Lord that he is not like other men, a publican and a sinner.
 AhS PuoiiN"h P"i y iS eilS P"i y HoW, as always, of great moral ideas. It makes broad its phylacteries and takes uncommonly good care of all those i'm dustrial interests that pay big money into campaign fund, cry patriotically, down with democracy! because democ- racy is opposed to favoritism to class at the expense of the whole republic, and unctuously pockets the profits which a republican congress freely placed at their disposal. = Chicago Chronicle
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
THE WORST YET.
The DingIey BilI Is Had i'm Principle
 and Detail

It is not free trader" but an old time republican protectionist who char acterizes the senate tariff bill as .the most outrageous one ever given to the people of this country" Senator Teller, who voted for the bill because he be- lieved in giving to the republican party the full responsibility which should ac- company power, says this. He declares that it is travesty upon the prin- ciple of protection" measure of "de- signed exclusively for the benefit of corporations, with little regard for rev enue and none for the people"
 The list of 130 articles enumerated by Senator Vest on which the duty has been increased in order to strengthen the monopoly that controls them bears out this statement. We'll might Senator White exclaim as the measure passed: ."I hope that the trusts in the United States will now give the chairman of the republican national committee a receipt in full"
 The bill is bad in principle and bad in detail. 1t puts the highest duties on the commonest necessaries of the people and essentials of mdnufactur- ing. It will not meet the defici- ency in the revenue, which was the only excuse for legislation at this time. If the Mckinley bill was blunder and the Wilson-Gorman bill betrayal, the sem ate bill is crime.-N. Y. World.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
Pure Mhite sparror.

The Mansfield (Pa.) Advertiser says that a pure white sparrow has been seen in Mansfield number of times re- gently.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
Russia's Merchant Navy.

The merchant navy of Russia num- bers only 2,s70 sailing vessels on for eign seas The steam merchant fee. on the Baltic numbers but 92.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13
No doubt a majority of the tariff

No doubt a majority of the tariff tinkerers would have been perfectly will ing to make fair division of the plum der if the sugar trust had been less rapacious. But that insatiate octopus wanted the whole thing, and all other claims had to give way.-Kansas City Star.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

The nation is now in position to begin another agitation for a revision of the tariff ystem.-Chieago Record Qnd.).
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

President Mckinley, in his "cur- rency message" discriminates sadly be- tween assemblages of business men. While he refers approvingly and with some emphasis to the convention of bankers, brokers and stock gamblers at Indianapolis, and declares it ex- pressed the sentiment of the country. he notably refrains from mentioning the Trans-Mississippi convention which met at Salt Lake City, presided over so ably and satisfactorily by William Jen- nings Bryan. and which almost unani- mously declared in favor of the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen toone. Is the eyesight of Mc- Kinley affected with the same disease as that of Cleveland-whiehp prevented him from seeing across the Mississippi river?-Hlinois State Register.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-13

-Hurrah for high tariff and pros- perityl Trust stocks have advanced iI value $2o0,030, ,000since the Dingley rates were agreed upon. The barons knew their business when they backed Hanna and Mekinley.-St. Louis Republic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-13
GOD HELP NEW YORK.
Chattanooga Holds a Prayer Service
for Gotham's Benefit.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. 49, - In
compliance with a request from min
listers of Greater New York a, largely
attended prayer service for special
blessings upon the mighty consolidated
metropolis was held yesterday after
noon at the First Baptist church.
Earnest supplicatiOns that a reign of
social and civic righteousness may
come to the great city We're sent up by
Rev. G. NJ. Mitchell, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church; Dr.
Westhafer of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Rev. J. D. Haymore and other
ministers.
In his prayer DR.. Mitchell spoke of
the power for good or evil in the hands
of the newly elected mayor. May he
do his duty toward Righteousness and
Christianity fearIessly and to the moral
uplifting of the great municipality, ="
said the preacher and may he lift
his hand against grinning vice wher-
ever it stalketh in the city of which he
is the executive head
Other prayers were in the same
strain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-13
DEATH FOLLOWS DISPLAY.
Mrs. Harmon Dies at the Conclusion
of a Sham Battle

Lancaster, Pa, Nov. 19.-Immediately
following the last report of musketry
of a sham battle in Columbia last night
between the local Grand Army posts
and Company c. Fourth regiment, n.
6. P, preceding the production of
1.-The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" at the
opera house. Mrs. Elizabeth Harmon
was observed to stagger up to a tele
graph pole, which she cIutched for sup
port.
She was carried into a nearby drug
store, where she said to a lady attend
ant: 4 believe that am going to die"
AS she uttered the last word she
sank back and expired. Mrs. Harmon
was a healthy woman, and her sudden
demise was a surprise. She enthusi-
astically applauded the soldiers in their
manueVers, and it is thought that her
death was superinduced by mental
strain and excitement. Owing to the
circumstances of her death it was not
reported until today, lest it would in
iure the success of the entertainment,
which was for charitable purposes.
Deceased was a young and popular wo-
man and leaves a family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-13
A Veterans Battle.
A MEMBER OF THE FIFTY-THlRD ILLINOIS IN
PANTRY HAS A HARD TUSSLE.
Afflicted with Stomach TroubsSsughf the Aid Of
Physicians Without Avail, He aE Last Cures Himself.
An0ihsg St8Ey from Cherokee KAN
From the Sentinel. Cherokee, Kansas.

though someone was running knife through
her. Several physicians were called, but
Miss Rex could get relief and her life
was despaired Of Finally q relative induced
her to try Pink Pills for Pale People. OF the
result Miss Rex says:
" When 1 commenced using DR.. Williams
Pink Pills was sOweak and Frustrated that
l could not walk step, but within a week
afterward was SO much better that could
go about the house with but little incon-
Yenience, and when had taken less than
two boxes of the pills I found myself entirely
well and free from all pain. That was two
years ago I have been well ever since and
can now easily walk six miles"
4. c. Sprague, Justice of the Peace, CherO-
kee, Kansas, on July 22nd, 1896, said:
u suffered with rheumatism for three
years and spent hundreds of dollars for medi-
cine but could get no permanent relief I
Wc5 treated by several able physicians with
out result So I purchased some of DR.. Viii
Hams Pink Pills at PendletOn's drug store
and commenced to take them. I was sur
prised to perceive that I began to improve
at once and by the time I had used up two
boxes of Pink Pills / was completely free Of
the malady, and there has been no recur-
renee since, and that was three years ago."
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
contain all the elements necessary to give
new life and richness to the blood and re-
store shattered nerves. They are sold IN
boxes never in loose form, by the dozen or
hundred) at so cents a box, or six boxes Cor
$3.50 and may be had of all druggists or
directly by mail from DR.. Williams Med1s
cine Company, Schenectady, n. y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-13

James O'Malley, a Union war veteran,
who served in Company /, Fifty-thlrd lii
nois Infantry, and who has resided on his
farm in Cherokee County, Kansas, for the
past twenty years said to a reporter recently;
s. was afflicted with stomach trouble for
five years and during that time l suffered IN
-ersely. Just after meals my stomach would
pain so that I could scarcely endure II.
/ sought the advice of several good physi-
clans but the relief l got from them was
short lived, for in few days the old trouble
would return.
81 1 began to lose hope of ever being cured
and felt utterly discouraged About this
time friend urged me to try DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People As had taken
so many remedies without receiving any
benefit 1 had grown skeptical, but as my
friend became so urgent l decided to give
the pills trial. with little hope, however,
of getting any relief. But I was soon unde-
ceived, for before I had taken half dozeE
doses of Pink Pills I noticed a decided i'm
provement and by the time I had taken one
and a half boxes of the pills was COM
pletely cured and have been entirely free
from pain in the stomach ever since, and
that was two years ago. keep box of
consider them invaluable"
Mr.. O'Malley's post Office address is Mineral
City, Cherokee County, Kansas.
Two years ago. Miss Clara Rex, a resident
of Cherokee, Kansas, was taken with severe
pains between her shoulders which confined
her to her home for three months. She was
threatened with consumption and the pains
in her breast and shoulders she says felt as