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Arizona republican., 1897-10-13
Mems Fancy Worstsds and
 Scotch TVesdS.
S7 50
S1l.5O

Tn single and double breasted sack styles. A great variety of different patterns of brown plaids and checks, bronze mixtures and overlaid plaids. Stylish brown and black checks, with or without double breasted vests. Every garment sewed with silk and lined with double7strength Italians, and serges equal to the kind you are accustomed to pay your tailor $35 for. Our special price,
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13

Mems fur Fedora hats in brown, black, stone, nutria, by far the best value ever offered at the price, Ac- tually worth $1.5O, $1.75. Special at
 85C
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13

Swell suits that look as if they were made to order, all wool fabrics, pop ular weaves, finely tailored, Italian lining, imported worsted2, cheviots, cassimeres, Scotches, Heather, tweeds, hobby plaids, stylish cheeks etc. Regular $10 and SIP suits.
 Our special prices,
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13

BOYS up to 15 years of age. Small sizes come with reefer collars, and finely trimmed with braid. Large sizes are double-breasted and have plain collars. Suits are all wool and latest style, as is every garment in the house. Come in blue and black cheviots, plaids, checks, Scotch mix lures, etc. These goods sold regu- larly at $6, $5 and $4. Our special prices,
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13

The latest fam style derby hat, Knox and Dunlap styles, brown or black, equal to any $5 hat made. Our price,
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13
Boys and ChiIdren's
 Clothing.

An infinite variety of colors, pat terms and designs to select from, big ger stock than we ever carried before. three times the variety shown by any other house in the city; prices posi- lively unmatchable anywhere. A fact ycu can easily prove to your own satisfaction by comparing.
Arizona republican., 1897-10-13

Reefer and Eton knee suits. ages 8 to 8. This is the most practical and becoming style ever shown for little fellows; made only of pure wool, in the most stylish and desirable color ing, patterns and weaves. A large va riety of this style to select from. Goods that were intended for $350 and $4 suits. Our price,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

THERE are many people right
here in the vicinity ofPullman who
should attend the dairy school, to
commence at tho college January
18th and continue for ten weeks.
There is something radically wrong
with the majority of the butter
makers in the Palouse country, but
that something can be remedied by
q course of instruction in the school.
There are some butter makers
whose product is spoken for long
in advance, and they could dispose
of a largely increased output, and
at prices that are more than prof
liable, but at times it is impossible
to find pound of eatable butter in
the market. Those makers whe
produce butter of undoubted quail
ity have regular contracting Gus
toners, and those people so unfOr-
tunate as to be obliged to buy in
the open market often have to &C.
cept an article in comparison with
which axle grease is most palatable
and wholesome.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18
Empty Stockings

Oh. mothers in homes that are happy.
Where Christmas comes laden with
cheer,
Where the children are dreaming already
Of the merriest day in the year.
AS YOU gather your darlings around you
And tell them the 'story of old,
Remember the homes that are dreary
Remember the hearts that are coldT
And thanking the love that has lowered
you
With all that is dearest and best,
Give freely, that from your abundance.
Some bare little life may be blessed!
Oh, 20 where the stockings hang empty,
Where Christmas is naught but name
And give--for the love Of the Christ-child
Twas to seek such as these that He
came.
ELLEN MANLY in Christmas Ladies
Home Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

A REVENUE law which increases
its earnings more than twenty-five
per cent. in four months and has q
prospect of continuing that increase
for several months at an equally
rapid rate ought not to be embar-
rassed by suspicion or denounced
by people who profess to be friends
of the party framing it, The Ding.
lew law, which started in under the
extremely embarrassing circum-
stances under condition in which
the country had been filled with
foreign goods prior to it's enactment
has increased its earnings more
than % per cent, and there is pros
pect that the earnings, which are
now over 100000 month, will
be increased from 100000 to ST.
100000 per month shortly after the
beginning of the new year. 1t is
thus apparent that the people who
are demanding that congress shall
Immediately legislate to increase
the revenue are doing an injustice
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

MANY little hearts will be made
glad next Saturday morning as we'll
filled stockings greet them, but
there are many also to whom the
Christmas time means naught of
merrimsnt, naught ofjoy, and their
little hearts are made sadder as
they see the evidences ofhappiness
and Christmas cheer about them,
but not for them. Can't you, dear
reader, take the edge from the sad
ness of some life next Christmas
day?
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

THE newly elected city officials
will be indicted into Office at the
next meeting of the conncil, the
first Friday evening in January.
We don't know whether or not this
can be taken by them as pre-
rnonition of evil, as the Friday on
which the official ermine will be
draped about their manly forms is
hangman's day, the day upon which
Durrant will don the black cap, be-
ing Friday, January 7th.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18
The Argument Unanswerab1e.

49,
The report Of Postmaster General
Gary, embodying as it does, the re-
ports and recommendations Of the
assistant postmaster general, is an
exceptionally important document.
A large part of the volume is de-
voted to an argument, to our mind
unanswerable, in favor Of the
prompt institution by this country
of a postal savings-bank system.
The array of facts and figures mar
shaded to shaw the timeliness and
importance of this step ought to
make deep impression upon the
congressional mind. The enormous
growth of the postal-order business
is adduced as showing how the peo-
pie already patronize the postal
service for the transmission Of
funds. That they would avail
themselves of it to deposit their
savings is beyond question. With
IN few years the deposits would
be counted by hundreds of millions
The time is certainly suspicious fol
the adoption of this policy of pos.
tai savings banks. Further than
that, however, it ought TO be pos
sible to combine that policy with
some plan for the improvement o.
the currency system.-Review 0.
Reviews.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

For the first time in its history,
Pullman now pays it's current ex-
penses in cash. And ord you no
.tice how frequently the treasurer is
issuing calls for warrants these
days? This all speaks well fer an
improved condition of municipal
finances, and for the success of q
council of business men.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18
A COUPLE of weeks ago the u. of

A COUPLE of weeks ago the U. of
I and the Spokane foot ball teams
played game at Spokane. The
sequel is now being enacted, and it
lie in perfect keeping with the past
history of the Moscow boys. The
U. of I. boys were badly beaten,
and as usual with them, have been
kicking ever since. Pres. Gault, of
the U. of l., addressed a most in
sulting letter to the Spokane boys,
and the latter responded with prop
or spirit. The Spokaneites need
not be surprised at the treatment
accorded them by Moscow; they
have but to look at the hysterical
actions of the latter when trounced
by Pullman, to see that the Mos
COW athletes lack the qualities OF
manly craftsmanship.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18
Total $40. .......$1O,932, GOA

Considerable difference exists between
these figures and those on last years as
sessment. The total valuation of the
county in 1896 as assessed by the assessor
and as equalized by the county and state
boards of equalizations were as follows
Assessors Valuations. $40, 900. 4e9
County Boards Valuations ll,O7l 044
State Boards Valuations 80. 12,OSO, $50
Since 1893 all taxes have been COM
puted on the valuation as equalized by
the county board of equalization. The
state board equalizes the assessments of
the various counties, for the single pur.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

AGAIN, and for the fourth time,
has Durrant been sentenced to the
gallows, his going out being set now
for Jan. 7th.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

to the law and to business interests
which are, of course, disturbed by
any proposition for further tariff
agitation at present.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

pose of ascertaining for itself the amount
of state taxes that it will fix as the
amount to be raised by each of the coun-
ties in the state. Each county auditor
is notified Of the amount liked by the
state board for his county. And he then
computes the rate that will be required
in his county to raise the money called
for by the state. In computing this rate
he uses as basis Of calculating the val
uation of the county as equalized by the
county board OF equalization and extends
all state, county and other taxes on those
valuations.
AS can be seen from the foregoing, the
total valuation of Whitman county for
the year 1897 as equalized by the county
board of equalization is I'll ,6Ze, o4Z' Inc
taxes computed on this valuation forsthe
nresent vear are az follows:
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18
.$331,021.77
Total. -,


The Pullman city levy of IL mills on a
valuation Of $3.50, 1897 will raise $5,S34.76
for city purposes.
Under the past laws taxes became
payable on the second Monday of jan
uary, and if one-half were paid prior to
June LIST, following, the remainder did
not become delinquent until the 1st day
of December. Under the present law
taxes are not due until February LIST.
Real property taxes may be paid in two
payments, the first before June 1st and
the second before December LIST. Per
Sonal property taxes must be paid in .
single payment, else they become delin-
quent on June 1st. All taxes bear Is
per cent interest after the date of delin-
quency. If one-half of the real property
taxes are paid prior to June 1st, the 9TH
er half does not become delinquent until
the LIST day of December, but if no pay
ments are made the full tax becomes de-
linquent on June first.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

yellow washing powder will make
your clothes the same color. Avoid this
by using Soap Foam. It's pure white.
The Hub Clothing House now has on
exhibition beautiful line of up-to-date
neckwear just received direct from the
manufacturers at New York.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

Taxes for the Year 1907.

The auditor has just completed the
work of extending the taxes for the year
1897, and has delivered the rolls to the
county treasurer. Past laws provided
that the tax books should be delivered
to the county treasurer on the first Mon
day of January Of the year following that
in which the assessment was made The
present law provides that the tax books
shall be delivered to the treasurer on
the first Monday in December of the year
in which the assessment 10 made, which
is month earlier than the time pro-
vided for this delivery under previous
laws. While all of the taxes have been
extended and the rolls completed and
balanced, not all of the tax work has yet
been finished in the auditors office. A
considerable amount of work remains to
be done tn preparing lists of taxes in the
various road districts for the road super
visors of the county, and there also re-
mains unfinished other work which
arises indirectly from the tax work, but
matters have been so arranged in the
auditors Office that this work can be
done without the use of the rolls.
The following shows the valuation of
the county AZ returned by the assessor
and as eqnalized by the county and state
boards of equalization
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

Nothing makes nicer holiday pres
ent than q gold watch or piece of jew
elry. See King, the ieweler.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

This is an Gage of Soap" Why use
any but the very best? Best soap mean
Hoe Cake. r. B. BRAGG.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

The Hub Clothing House carries the
Stetson, Dunlop and Queen City hats, in
all the correct shapes and colors.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-12-18

DrREcrcRs:--Alfred Coolidge, P. w
Chapman, Gay Lombard, J. j.
Humphrey, A. F.McClaine, Cash
n. Gaddis,
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

old spots which have become endeared to
them.
Hundreds of others view with indiffer
ence the rising waters, and remove from
first floors to second floors, and at last to
floating RATS and slowly withdraw to
higher points. only to be again pushed
back. The apparent indifference of some
of these people is astounding. They have
always lived in the same spot, and when
offers are made to remove them to places
Of safety. they shake their heads and re-
fuse to be aided. With sacks of corn
carefully preserved. and with an occasion
al rabbit or bird, they exc out scant ex-
istence. To them place of safety is a
strange land in which they have no kim
dred, and where existence can only be Sc
cured by exertion. They have passed
through other periods of flood and manag-
ed to live through it somehow and the
most graphic description of the horrors to
come fails to move them. The water
will drap bimeby.' they say.
1.-THE situation is worst about fifty miles
above Memphis. There the water stretches
as far as the eye can see. 1t is nearly
forty miles across at this point. Little
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

ordered out by the War Department. Thus
thousands were saved who might have
persisted from hunger and cold. Nearly
lO,OOO persons were carried to Memphis
alone. Not all the villages, however, are
deserted. From some of them, which
stand on high ground, and where the water
runs through the streets at a depth of
only few feet, none of the residents have
departed, but make the best of the situa-
ton by plying about in small boats.
Some of the scenes are graphically de-
scribed by writer who covered the en-
tire section when the water was ut it's
highest, on steamer, which made its
way slowly over the vast body of water,
and stopped wherever human beings were
in sight to pick them up. He says:
I'm this body of water are occasional
spots formed by what under normal con-
ditions are lofty bluffs and high ridges of
land. On these are gathered the popula-
ton for miles about, sleeping and living
in the open air or beneath the meager pro-
lection of bit of canvas hoiSted above
them on strips of lumber or rough drift
wood snatched from the encircling waters.
Hunger, sickness, privation, loss of life
and property abound. Hundreds of these
Southern settlers remain in the inundated
districts and battle stubbornly with the
rcsistless waters, clinging tenaciously to
their few belongings, and 10th to leave the
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

pants lie basking In the sun, some blessing
God for its warmth, while others grumble
and curse nature for the abundance of
water. Some of the queerest sights to
be seen are where the settlers take to what
they call the 'scaffolding PLAN Groups
of four or five houses stand among the
trees, in which the stoves. rough beds and
a kitchen table are raised on scaffolds so
close to the roofs of the houses that the
occupants are obliged to stoop over as they
stand on floating platforms leaning over
the stove or table. The women and chill
dren are forced to lie on the bed while
the head of the house cruises about the
vicinity and gathers driftwood to be dried
and used for fuel"
The food of 1892 destroyed growing
crops and property to the value of $780,
100000. The present cannot be even ap-
proximately estimated, but it will far ex-
coed that of FIVE years ago. From st.
Louis to Cairo, all of that immense basin
that was created by the earthquake fifty
years ago, is deep enough to swim a steam
boat. This section embraces remarka-
bly, big part of the wheat fields of so.th-
ern Illinois and Missouri. The submerged
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
TeleRraphic Brevities.

Herman Lehuer. noted authority and
writer on chess. died at Berlin, aged 81.
Walter Scrymser, wealthy retired
broker of New York. died ut Elizabeth.
n. ].
1t is announced that June 20 has been
definitely fixed upon for the jubilee
thanksgiving day for the celebration Of
the sixtieth year of the reign Of Queen
Victoria. June % will be bank holiday.
Lee Kennedy of Lawrenceburg, Ind,
who was released on a charge of drunken
ness, went to the home of Huston Wright
and assaulted Miss Lizzie Moses, the Do
nestle, aged IL years. He was captured
later in the night and taken to barn BY
crowd Of men. who coated him with tar
and feathers, gave him . few lnshes and
ride On . rail He immediately disap:
peared.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

places Of safety by Mississippi steamboats,
which pick their way among the tree tops.
while other thousands still cling to their
homes and refuse to leave. Beds, stoves
and other furniture have been carried to
the roofs and there these stoical people
eat and sleep and sigh as they wait for
the waters to fall. In many cases, chick
ems, pigs and cows are with them on the
housetops. Should the waters rise to
where they are encamped these stoics will
build RATS, encamp on them and drift
whittier the winds and currents carry
them. Then. indeed, will the death list
DC swelled to appalling figures. But the
prospect is not so dismal, for the waters
are falling.
Though worse may come. existing con-
ditions are bad enough. From Cairo. ILL.,.
to Memphis. distance of nearly 200
miles. the river is over it's banks and the
average width of submerged land is TWEEN
ty-iive miles. 1t is long line of black
ness and despair, with the surface of the
muddy waters covered with floating tim
bers. wrecked houses, eddies of bloated
dead animals, with an occasional lifeless
human being mixed with the debris. Here
and there is mound or housetop. On
some of the latter are found suffering.
half-starved human beings and on the
former small groups of shivering animals,
wild and tame. 1t ia not an uncommon
thing to see cattle, hogs, sheep. coons,
rabbits, deer and bears thus herded to-
gether.
The Mississippi is a cruel stream ana
never spring passes that does not see 1t
leave it's banks and overflow the lOwlands.
These lands are mostly devoted to the cul-
tivation of wheat and corn in the central
section and cotton and sugar in Louisiana
and Mississippi. Above Memphis there
are no levees to speak Of. There are
few. but they are MS chat when the big
floods come. Tennessee is but little affect
ed even at the highest stages of the river.
The banks on the left are high and are
Exported by rocky hills that creep up al
81 sdst to the rivers edge. The volume OF
water is therefore thrown with all it's ter
rihle force to the unprotected sides of
Arkansas territory, backing up the small
er rivers and streams, causing them to
overflow the lakes, thus creating an inland
sea that adds new territory to its cruel
waste hour by hour until the entire sur
plus waters Of the north have gone to
Join the salty waves of the southern seas.
A few weeks ago the SHOWS began to melt
In the Allegheny and Rocky mountains,
ana this, with the spring rains, caused the
h'tie mountain streams to pour great vol
umes of water into the Missouri. ONO
and Cumberland rivers. These, in turn.
swelled the Mississippi into turbulent
torrent, and the waters broke through the
levees between Cairo and Memphis ana
caused a food greater than has been
known in Eve years.
As soon as the reports reached Memphis
and other points, relief boats were sent
out to bring the half-drowned people to
Places Of safety. Government boats were
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01


A tank Of water stood in the dining
tent wherein rare andcurious fish were
placed for the professors leisua'ely ex-
animation. Among these one day was
an uncommon specimen, somewhat lilo
our pike or packfish- It was foot long
and its mouth was armed with rows Of
sharp teeth. The professor, very near
sighted. was bending close down to ex-
anime this, when suddenly the fish
struck up and seized him firmly by the
nose. Here was demonstration OF
its unusual characteristic. This fish
was treasure. 1t was now dorbly
valuable as museum specimen The
professor was in ecstasy. In the midst
OF the next meal he was displaying his
scans, proud as q German student, and
nothing would do but that he must
show us the teeth of the fish. But the
fish was gone. "You have just eaten
him, sir" the cook explained. The pro-
fessors disappointment was too appar-
ent. He might possibly secure another
specimen, but hardly one which would
leap out Of the tank to seize him by the
nose, even IL he cared to venture tho
experiment.-New York Evening Post.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Girls Arc Larger.

At very recent debutnnte teas givez-
to introduce the buds OF the season,
wide comment has been made npon the
phenomenal size Of this new gem
Grafton Of women. In eight out OF ten
cases these very young girls are full
head and shoulders taller than their
mammals. Five feet eight or nine Inch
es is no longer regarded rs an unusual
height for debutante, and this Juno
esQue statue is supplemented as rule
BY broad, shapely shoulders, firm.
round waist, with harmonious proper
tions of arms, hips and bust. The new
woman from merely physical stand
point is not only fair to look upon, but
promises well with her clear eyes, rosy
skin and steady nerves as wholesome
mother Of the coming race.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
South Dakota has produced $50, 9o3,
GET Of gold and 81 .O51 ,S24 Of silver.
In China.

One Of the sights OF China Is the an
tique bridge of Suen-tchen-fow. two
thousand 1--WE hundred feet long and
twenty feet wide. 1t has on each side
fifty-two piers, upon which huge stones
are laid, some OF them twenty feet
long. Many thousand tons of stone
were used In the erection Of this Won
derful bridge. which is regarded by
engineers - Indicating constructive tai
ent % wonderful 10 that which raised
the EyptiAn Pyramids.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Sparks from the Wires.

Fire destroyed the Buchanan building
Mt Beaver. Pa. Loss, $4,000.
An English syndicate is trying to buy
seven breweries in Dayton, o. and is said
to have secured an option on six of them
for $3,OOO,OOO.
Gen. Julio Sanguilly, the American citi-
zen recently released from Moro castle,
Cuba, was given public reception in
Philadelphia in the Academy of Music.
The supreme council of the Order of
Equity. with Offices in indianapolis and
operating in fifteen States, has failed. Its
assets are $35, 900, and liabilities, 1900.
A bill to compel respectful treatment for
the United States flag was introduced in
the House by Representative Howe of
New York. 1t provides that any person
in the employ of the Government who
shall utter words that reflect or cast re-