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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
TRAIN STRUCK AN OMNIBUS.
Seven Pleasure Seekers Mt Chicago
Were Killed.

Chicago. Feb. 2S.-An omnibus con-
tanning nine persons, eight of whom
were young men and women, who were
on their way to attend party in the ho-
tel at Blue Island, was struck by Grand
Trunk passenger train at the Western
avenue crossing south of Blue Island at
o'clock at night and six of the pleas
ure-seekers were killed almost instantly.
None escaped serious injury.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
THE ENTRANCE TO THE SOUND.
Work Being Pushed on the FOrtif-
cations at Townsend.

Port Townsend, March 1.-The work Of
fortifying the three conspicuous points
contiguous to Port Townsend, which has
been going on in desultory fashion for
some months, is now being pushed fer
ward under special orders from Secretary
Alger, and now the doubled forces at work
at Points Marrowstone and Admiralty are
being worked night and day to finish up,
and already preparations are being made
for placing the heavy guns which are due
to arrive any day.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
AN OPEN Letter. 10 MOTHERS.

We are asserting in the courts our right TO the
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," and
PITCHERS CAsToRlA," as our Trade Mark.
I, DR.. Samuel Pitcher, Of Hyannis, Massachusetts.
was the originator of" PITCHERS CAS- roRIA,"
the same that has borne aid does now bear thu.
facsimile signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original PITCHERS
CASTORIA" which has been used in the homes
of the mothers Of America for over thirty years.
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind yon hare aiaOdys bought, and has the
signature of CHAS. II. FLETCHER OH the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The centaur Company Of which
chas. II. Fletcher is President.
March 8, .s97. SAMUEL PITCHER, MD.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
GUARDS IN EVERY STATE.
Nearly Eleven Million Men AvaiIa-
able for Military Service.

Chicago, March IA special to the
Times-Herald from Washington, ID. c..
says: According to a report placed be-
fore President Mckinley there are now
available for military duty in the United
States l0,730,576 able bodied men, and of
these ll2,0s2 are already in the military,
forming the nucleus of tremendous
fighting force. This is without consider
ing the skeleton United States army,
which could, on short notice, recruit up to
100000 men.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot Ease, a powder for the feet
1t cures painful, swollen smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discov.
cry of the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes
tight-titting or new shoes feel easy. 1t is q
certain cure for chilblains, sweating, damp,
callous and hot, tired aching feet. We
have over 10000 testimonials Of cures. Try
it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores. By mail for 25c. in Stamps Trial
package FREE. Address Allen s. Ohm
sted, lie Roy, N. Y.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Beware of "cheap" bak-
ing powders. Alum makes
good medicine but bad food.
Ask your doctor. 81,
Indians for Scouts i'm Alaska.

Washington. Feb. 27.-The war depart
ment telegraphed General Merriam at
Vancouver Barracks, authorizing him to
enlist 100 Alaska Indians for services rs
scouts to the government relief expedi-
ton. Merriam telegraphed the depart
ment that Colonel Anderson, with four
companies of the Fourteenth infantry
sailed yesterday from Seattle for Dyea
to maintain law and order at that and
neighboring points in Alaska.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

Flesh Dropped From His Bones.
Lebanon, Mo-, Feb. 27.--The boiler at
Bunche's mill, at Ryan, rs miles south
east of here, blew out, knocking Bunche
80 feet into the saw pit. He crawled out
of the sluice of hot water, walked quar-
ter of mile to his home, with flesh fall.
ing from his body. After suffering in
tensely for 10 hours he died.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
COrteZ's EIay.

The flag carried by Cortez, the Span
ish conqueror Of Mexico, nearly 400
years ago, was until recently preserved
at little church in the capital of the
State of Tlaxcala.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Metals.

San Francisco, Feb. 2s.-Silver bars.
55sc; Mexican dollars. 45A@46c.
London, Feb. 2S.-Close: Bar silver is
quiet; 25sd per ouncsA( :
Lake coppert-Str hro''--~ ell 25.
Lesd-Dpn
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

1t is easier to let the hair grow long
than it is to write good poem.
Time is usually lively when men make
an attempt to Kill it,
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02


Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
TEN effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stom ach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in so
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, RY
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Inviting Ostrncism.

Mabel wonder what's come be-
tween Myrtle Seymour and Tom Sedg-
wick?
Mildred--oh, haven't you heard? He
openly declares that he doesn't intend
to get a chainless wheel this year.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

We would rather be able to eat pork
sausage and buckwheat cakes every
morning for breakfast, than be Presi-
dent. T.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Money Order Offices in China.

Washington, Feb. 2s.-China has at last
been supplied with a money order system
and the regulations have been reported to
the state department by Minister DENNY
at Pekin.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

clTe Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness
rio after first days use OF DR.. Klines Great
Nerve Restorer. Send for FREE $500 trial
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Genealogical.

Old Resident-An' how mony childer how
yez?
New Neghbor-Foive: tree by me husbands
first wife. an two by first husbn's sec
Ond wife.-puck.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

After being swindled by all others. send us
stamp for particulars Of King Solomons Treas
ure, the ONLY remover of manly strength.
MASON CHEMICAL CO., p. o. Box 7F, Phil
adelphla Pa.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

The station-house lodging-room is mere
~ tramp steamer.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

Piso's Cure for Consumption Is our only
medicine for coughs and colds.-Mrs. c.
Beltz, 439 8th av., Denver. Col. Nov. s. &c.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

We notice that it'll steadies
never have fascii \ irls come to
visit them.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02
Oregon Lumber to yIadiyOstOck.

San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-The Pacific EX-
port Lumber Company has chartered the
big b itish steamship Ailsacraig to carry
lumber from Portland to Vladivostock,
Siberia.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1898-03-02

1t is the dance music that always
reaches the sole.
The times., 1898-10-30
COWBOYS WANT TO GO HOME.
Many of Col. Torrey's Rough Riders
APPLY for Dinchnrge.

Considerable dissatisfaction exists
among the officers and enlisted men of
the Second Volunteer Cavalry regiment.
attached TO the Seventh Army Corps.
commanded by Gen. Lee. This regiment
is composed almost entirely of cowboys,
sheep herders and other Westerners from
Arizona. Idaho. New Mexico and Utah,
and is known as ''Torrey's Rough Rid
ers."
The men were recruited by Col Torrey,
who is wealthy ranch owner and very
popular throughout the West. They en-
listed to fight the Spaniards. and would
have made splendid showing no doubt
had they been given the opportunity.
These men declare that instead of being
sent to Cuba or Porto Rico. as the Roose-
welt Rough Riders were. Secretary AIger
sidetracked them at Jacksonville, and.
now that the war is over he proposes TO
use them for garrison duty.
Torreys men object 10 the garrison
business. They are longing for the fresh
atmosphere of the West and conse-
quently many of them are applying for
their discharges.
Yesterday orders were issued at the
War Department granting thirty-two dis
charges to men Of Col. Torrey's regi-
ment, and there are many applications on
file to be acted upon.
The times., 1898-10-30
Not Bothered by Noises.

(From the New Orleans Times-Democrat)
Some lumber was being unloaded on Baronne
Street yesterday when piece slipped and hit the
sidewalk with report like torpedo. Everybody
jumped except the man who standing with
his back to the pile quietly smoking a cigar. He
kept putting and didn't take the trouble
to look around. There is man OF nerve said
the physiognomist Of the -neighborhood Il would
have known it even without this incident Look at
his profile and take particular note of that mar
row. projecting jaw and those eyes in perfectly
straight line. When you see man put up that
way don't monkey with him too freely. Such
face always denotes the blending OF moral
and physical courage that constitutes real vaor
You couldn't scare him with ten tons of dyna-
mite"
'Not il you let it off behind him." remarked q
bystauder because he's stone deaf
The times., 1898-10-30
TOBACCO IN CUBA.
High in Price and Very Little of II
Is in Sight.
CFrom the Hartford Courant.) }


In spite of the fact that little tobacco
has come out of Cuba in the last two
or three years. there is little of it 20 be
had there. and what is in sight in Ha-
vana is held at almost prohibitive
prices. W. ]. Hazlewood. who has for
many years been a buyer there fOf
Charles Soby. of this CITY, and other
importers. has recently been in Havana,
after an absence of several years. on ac-
count of the war. In a letter to Mr..
Soby he says that he had nearly hunted
the city over without finding any to-
bacco suitable for his use. He adds:
But 1 don't give up yet. as 1 still
have several places to GO You have no
idea how hard it is to find just such
goods as you need. My only chance is
in the cigar factories. A number of
them have what you want in old Vuel-
TO Abajo. but don't want to let a bale
go, at any price. / have bought some
Remedies. new and old. and some new
Vuelto Abajo. but at very high prices.
These purchases were for other import
ers. The new vuelto tobacco is not as
good a crop as in former years"
Continuing, Mr.. Hazleton says:
Things are in very bad shape here-pov-
erty everywhere There are more beg
gars in this city than in all the United
States. They formerly had $500 coaches
in this city. now they have l.500. Horses
and mules are dead and there Is no mon
ey to purchase more. Still, tobacco is
high and cigar manufacturers are rush
ed In later letter he writes:
After a lot of work, and running from
one cigar factory to another, l at last
| found lot of tobacco for you. 1t con-
| sists of forty-two bales of 1896 Vuelto
Abajo. I got this vega on friendship on
ly for such goods are not for sale here
| at any price. l am about through here.
I have purchased a small amount and
don't see any chance to do a large busi-
ness. One cigar manufacturer today ask
, ed me sl.50 pound for bale that weigh
ed eighty pounds, and not a wrapper in
it. They have paid such high prices in
the country that they do not know what
to ask Big dealers here have nothing
of amount The tobacco is in the hands
of small fellows who think that the
| Americans must have goods from Cuba.
price notwithstanding. 1 never saw 1t
| so hot here as now
Mr.. Hazleton paid s72 hundred for the
| tobacco purchased for Mr.. Soby. Besides
this there is an export duty in Cuba. an
| import duty in this country. freight. COM
| missions, etc, bringing the gross price
| to more than 81 a pound.
The times., 1898-10-30
He Lived Too Early.
(From the New Orleans TimesN }

NrIOHl tft NeW orleans Ilmes-D
''h Cyrano de Bergerac had lived in New Or
leans or any other enlightened city in this year
OF grace. 1885, said local surgeon who has
made quite reputation for successful facial
operations, 'he wouldn't have been historic
character The big nose that enibittered his life
and has given Mr.. Mansfield opportunity to
make the greatest hit of years. would have yield
ed readily TO simple treatment. I have had the
curiosity TO look into the little since the
phenomenal success OF the play, and from what
can read imagine De Bergerac's nose was not a
constitutional deformty, but morbid growth,
probably attributable TO some accident or blow
Had he lived in these times good surgeon would
have given him ether. made incision from the
corner Of the eye down side, turned back a
flap, dissected away the surplus nose, cut V
shaped piece out of each nostril, stitched the
skin in place and turned him out as good as new
slight would have been the only trace OF
the work. De Bergerac would have been a seri-
Gus loser in pathos, fame, and nose, but would
doubtless have enjoyed himself much better while
he lasted. It's quite an advantage sometimes to
live in the nineteenth century"
The times., 1898-10-30

While the largest body of troops was
still at Chickamauga Park, Gen. Breckin-
ridge had commission of three majors,
all surgeons. to take the testimony of
commissioned officers and nurses as to
the treatment of the sick in hospital. The
report showed most horrible condition
and its statements of fact have been con-
firmed by two chaplains and a surgeon of
the Eighth New York. Yet positively no
attention is paid to this by the Alger Re-
lief Commission in drawing up its report
on the history of that camping place,
The times., 1898-10-30
Rettinr in New York.

The man who cannot afford to lose
money is daft when he makes a wager
on the results of an election unless the
conditions are extraordinary. Nothing
in this world is more uncertain, within
limits. than what is called the floating
or independent vote where it has the
balance of power. There are States
where anything but Republican or a
Democratic majority would be in the
nature of miracle or revolution; but
there are others where one or the other
party has a majority that fiuctuates
and may disappear entirely without ex-
citing wonder. An instance of the latter
is New York. Often the Democratic
majority in the City of New York is
large enough to overcome a diminished
Republican majority in the interior,
sometimes it falls below this and with
an increased Republican vote in the ru-
raj districts that party has considera-
BILE majority. So many and diverse are
the interests of the people in so wide an
extent of territory that unless there is
an issue of superlative Importance, a
The times., 1898-10-30

OF two army appointments of surgeons
for special work in Cuba and Porto Rico
both men being from Houston, Texas,
neither is eligible for membership in any
reputable county or State medical socie-
ty, according TO the Southwestern Medi-
cal Record. which says: "one has been
out of practice for several years and is
great advocate of the dosimetric sys-
TEN of therapeutics, while the other is
unclassified. The surgeon general evi-
IDENTIFY wants to please all sorts and con-
ditions." The same surgeon general was
responsible for the appointment of a
horse doctor as chief medical officer at
Chickamauga and subsequently In Porto
Rico.
The times., 1898-10-30

In the New York Court of Appeals
there is relic of the Roosevelt admin
istration of the police department I'm the
form of an appeal from the decision of
the city comptroller. The latter refused
TO pay a bill of some 5000 incurred by
the police who were appointed by Roose-
Welt to get evidence against the saloons.
Among the items are dress suits, patent
leather pumps, wines, etc. The patrol
men were dressed up in swell clothes and
instructed to call at saloons where they
were to induce the proprietors to sell
liquor unlawfully that they might be ar
rested. That is a shameful chapter in
the history of the reform administration.
A typical case was that of a policeman
who aroused saloon-keeper. Sunday
morning and said he was very sick and
needed a stimulant. He appealed to the
man as a friend, professed to be in great
pain, and when he got the liquor he i'm
mediately arrested the saloon-keeper 1t
was by such methods that Roosevelt en-
forced the Raines law. The comptroller
refused to authorize the payment of the
bills, holding they were not for proper
expenditures.
The times., 1898-10-30
Ponce de Leon Redivivu..

tFrOm tfe JlCAsONNIIIt IIlIIts- I IIIVII.T
Every atom drifting in the vast ininitudes;
every star that whirls in the boundless realms Of
space; every flower that lifts up its head TO the
sunbeams; every mineral pulsation that throes
through the arteries OF the earth; every tree that
stands in the forest solitude; every bird that
spreads its wings to greet the morning sun; every
fish that swims among the coral caves OF the
sea everything above and about US, has its cherni-
cal affinity and its law and its government As
far as man is concerned he may not realize its
forces in the hey dey of his life, and it may creep
upon him in silence when temples are frosted
and the cternties seem Just before him. still all
creation with its endless webwork is a brother
somewhere its sympathetic counterpart and It's
hahn. Science calls this the unknown and un,
movable. the silent and immutable forces o'
evolution; but the ordinary workaday lsyman
calls it the infinite wisdom of an ail-powefiui
God
The times., 1898-10-30
THE FRENCH ARMY.
The Life in 1t Is Not Easy for Men
From Civil Ways.
(From the London Telegraph.

Nffom tne LONDON Biography
Two famous entertainers of the pub lc
have been lately going through their mil
tary service near Paris with mingled feel
irgs. They are NJ. Laugier. OF the Come
die Francaise, and Polin, who may be
called the cafe-concert Kipling of the
French Atkins. The theatrical artist
from the mansion of Moliere did his thir-
teen days without a grumble or a groan.
So says his comrade In arms Polin. add
ing that although the Comedie Frarca Sc
man went through his drill like a Saint
Cyr student. and found everything perfect
in barracks. he was not able to reach the
rank of corporal.
The popular music hal! impersonator of
the Gallo linesman has a different tale to
tell about himself. A few days drill
knocked him up. so he put his name on
the sick list. The colonel. however. laugh
ed at him and sent him to the right
about, remarking that his place was in
the ranks and not in the hospital. Soon
after that Polin marched forty kilome-
tres. went to bed tired at 10 o'clock. and
had to be out of roost at midnight in or
der to go to Paris for the strike. Pol.n
did his best to amuse his comrades by his
songs and patter. One of his sergeants
made him sing until he was hoarse every
night. and then nearly shook him to
pieces next morning at drill.
The entertainer also found some
strangely inverted roles in the regiment
to which he was attached. Thus. gov
ernment upper clerk was amazed to hear
himself ordered about by a sergeant who
was his office messenger. a young dan
dy tried TO get out of night march. as
he was invited to dinner by countess.
but his colonel was inexorable- Poiin
further relates a story of provincial
soldier who was under the impression
that the entertainer was one of the lead
ing stars of song at the Opera
The times., 1898-10-30
READ BETWEEN THE LINES.
Conflicting Opinions of Secretnr,
AIger's Voting Order

A typewriter announcement was pro-
mulgated in the War Department yester-
day. 1t informed the male employees of
the department that they could go home
to vote under certain conditions. These
conditions are somewhat cloudy as they
appear in the announcement, which fol-
lows:
When request is made by employees of the de-
Partment for leave Of absence to enable them TO
go home to vote, permission. irrespective OF party
viii be granted. II it can be done without detri-
ment 10 the public service; the time so absent to
he charged against the annual leave authorized
by law, if leave is exhausted. the time absent
10 be without pay. r. A AIGER
Secretary of War.
Democratic employees of the War De-
partment read this notice twice. At first
they read it straight; then they read it
between the lines. The latter reading
convinced them that 1t would be fool
hardy for any disciple of Jefferson and
Jackson to make application Tor election
leave to go home and vote for the candi-
dates of his party. To do so would be TO
place himself under the ban as a marked
man.
They argued Furthermore that the
clause referring to the ''detriment to the
service" would be an effective barrier to
any Democratic employe being granted
permission to go to his home to vote, es-
| pecially If his home happens to be in New
| York or one of the doubtful States In
| that case his application for leave would
] be refused and he would be promptly no.
I titled that he could not go to his home. as
| his absence would be a detriment to the
public service.
! An employe characterized the order as
"a clever piece of Algerism," and said it
I was pretty loud hint to Republican en-
( ployes that they should perform their
duty by proceeding to their homes and de-
| posting their ballots for the candidates
! of the party. No question of 'detriment
! to the public service will be raised in
! the case of Republican clerks who have
4 votes In States where the results are ex-
pected to be close, no matter how urgent
! their official duties may be.
| 1t is said that a clerk whose home is in
| New York State and who is known to be
a Democrat has been refused election
leave on the ground that his services can
not be dispensed with.
The times., 1898-10-30
LIEUT.. HoBsoN's PLANS.
He Will Submit Them to the Con-
strnctiOn Hoard

strncttOn HO0ru-
Lieut., Hobson appeared yesterday after
noon before Capt O'Neil and other
members of the Construction Board of
the Navy Department and explained in
detail his views as to the best means for
raising at least three of the sunken Span
ish ships near Santiago.
As the meeting was entirely informal
no action was taken by the board upon
Lieut.. Hobson's suggestions. but they
appointed Monday for regular and
formal hearing. Lieut. Hobson's views
will then be officially received and acted
upon. and the board will make such rec
concentrations to Secretary Long as they
see fit.
Briefly stated, Lieut.. Hobson's plans
contemplate the construction of u steel
suspension bridge from the shore to the
Cristobal Colon, which is lying on its side
and is being constantly swept by the
heavy seas. The ship will first be fioated.
still on her side, and then pumped free
of water, after which she will be towed
to the shore and made watertight.
To do this. he proposes to use air bags,
inclosed in strong steel cases, just above
and below the level of the water. This
work, however can only be carried on in
comparatively calm weather.
The Vizcaya, which has been pro-
nounced a structural wreck, is, in Hob
sons opinion. still worth about 2,500, 600.
and can be redeemed at cost of about
one-fifth of that amount The Colon is
worth a million more than the ViZcaya.
The Reina Mercedes. which was sunk
by the Spaniards to block Santiago S
harbor, is also worthy of being lifted f.oul
her resting place, and Lieut.. Hobson
hopes on Monday to demonstrate that he
can raise all three of these ships at the
expenditure of a trifie of their actual
value