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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Dry weather has been causing some
delay lately in the planting of potatoes
ana setting out of new berry fields.
Mrs. M. V. Wallace returned Satnr.
gay 70 GREENWOOD after spending few
DAYS IN Van Buren, visiting relatives.
Dr. Doolin, of Ash Grove, Mo-. was
IN the city several days this week the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. T. B.
Coppage.
Mrs. Lucas returned to st. Louis
Monday for further medical treatment
ana was accompanied by the doctor
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Some members of the gang of Texas
corner thugs at Fort Smith went a
little further last Saturday night. and
killed a colored man by Draining him
with rock.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Tuesday afternoon the first train over
the new Arkansas Central railway en-
tered Charleston and the occasion was
made one of celebration and rejoicing.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Ernest Kistler is making arrange
ments for the appearance in lecture at
Murta opera opera house on the night
of the Goth inst of Rev. Sam Jones,
the well known evangelist. From here
he will go to Shawnee, o. T., and
Ardmore, l. T., to lecture one night at
each place.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
FRISCO LINE" (sT. L. & 8. FL

FRISCO LINE" (sT. L. & s. F.
GOING NORTH.
No 2. Express 3;45 a. m.
No A. l:07 p. m.
No g. ST. Louis Limited 4:50 p. m.
No, 40 Local Freight $50 a. m.
GOING SOUTH.
No. ]. Express 12: 2 a. m.
No. g. 2:25 p. m.
No s. Texas Limited 1897 a. IN.
No, 80. Local Freight 7:08 p. III.
Trains 30 and 81 run daily except Sunday, bal
ance run daily
pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars on
ali through trains Through tickets on sale to
all points.
For full information call upon or address
Ii. HANREY. Tkt Agt
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

H. F. Meyer new cottage ON East
Main is nearing completion.
Nearly all the candidates made Van
Buren, their Mecca Saturday.
Mrs. Landon left Sunday for st.
Louis to purchase spring goods.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

There was a ''hot time" among the
Amazons of Babylon Wednesday morn
ing and later in the day they told their
troubles to the mayor and left their
spare cash with him.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Brewer, Tucker and Hiner, the three
members of the Texas corner gang
charged with the murder of the negro
Jackson last Saturday night, were
Wednesday bound over without bail to
await the action of the grand jury.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet All
Druggists refund the money If ii fails to Cure 2jc
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Hoods Pills and Hood Sarsaparilla
for sale AT JNo O'KANE's DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

To Cure Constipation Forever.
TAKE Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II c. G. G. fail to cure. druggists refund money
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

That Tired Feeling is due to impoverished
blood. Hoods Sarsaparilla enrcbes and vital
lies the blood and gives strength, energy and
vigor BE sure to get Hoods.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

! Hoods Pills are purely vegetable and do no
purge pain or grippe. All druggists, 25c. so
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Bedsteads made of o, or
Solid Hardwood
Stool Chairs 80
Homemade Chairs 80
Cane Seat Chairs go
Rocking Chairs l 90
Bureaus 90
Safes 9 so
Good Bedroom Suits 10 90
All other goods in proportion. Don
forget the place. G. J. MURTA.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
asy to Take
- asy to Operate

Are features peculiar to Hoods Pills. Small In
size. tasteless, efficient, thorough. As one maa
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
No-ro-Iiac Tor FIFTY Cents.

Guaranteed tobacco habit enre. makes weak
men strong, blood pure. Soc. 81. All druggists
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

The Frisco is preparing for the
erection of new depot at Fayetteville,
perhaps the wave of improvement will
strike here after awhile.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cnscarets Candy Cathartc. 1Oc or CSC
II G. e. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
CA9TO1IA.
The fac.
hgnature/ <NyN7+N every
Of SE<zZV LL[Ek<N wrapper.

Grove, the Fort Smith laundryman
has purchased the machinery of the
Home steam laundry and will add it to
his Fort Smith plant.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
M aking Room.

In order to make room for our i'm
mense stock of furniture which we
purchased recently we will sell:
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
THE PRESS one year and the Gazette
Almanac all for 81. 90 in advance.

Judge Orr, the general claim agent of
the P. & g., promises to have trains
running into Fort Smith over the spur
in six weeks.
The bridge gang has been preparing
timbers in the Frisco yard this week
for replacing portions of the trestles in
the rear of Main street.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
lOe 25c. II C. C. c fail, druggists refund money.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Next Thursday is ST. Patrick s Day
and all true sons of Erin will be wear
ing the green.
Mrs. j. B. Griffin, of GAINESVILLE,
arrived in the city Tuesday on visit
TO Mrs. A. Hays.
Attorney E. B. PIERCE spent several
gays at Paris, Ark, on professional
business this week.
Mesdames L. l.. Collins and T. NJ.
Laws returned Monday from their visit
TO Eureka Springs.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

ruucste Your Bowels with Cascarets.
lLc al nalhartic, cure constipation forever
-''' IL =. c. fail, druggists refund money.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Mrs, Frank Fealy, of Charleston. has
Seen the guest this week of her
laughter, Mrs. Jno. Kerwin.
~ b. Castleberry, of Boonville, was
.ue guest of Mr.. and Mrs. East a
portion of Sunday and Monday.
Inc piers for the Pee Gee s bridge
ooloss Poteau at Fort Smith are nearly
Completed says the Times Sun.
marry Wood left Saturday on short
90 osss s, trip 20 st. Louis in the interest
u The SHIRLEY & Wood Gro. Co.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

-, Everett Cooper came in from Girard.
III. Tuesday, with the intention of
again making his home here.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

The Rogers Democrat reports large
increases in the peach acreage of that
section this year. If the planting
throughout Western Arkansas con
tinues in the same ratio for several
years more we will rank alongside of
Maryland and Delaware as a peach
growing state.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

r, one OF the patients at the Charity
hospital, named J. r. Schill, died
sunday night of pneumonia.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

, Editor Matheny, of the Sloan
springs Republican, spent few hours
In our city Tuesday.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

Mr.. EDITOR: Please tell your readers
that the Quaker Valley Manufacturing
Company, 319 and 1921 South Canal ST. i,
Chicago. sell full line of high grade
household furniture direct from the
factory at 20 to so per cent lower than
retail prices, and will send anyone a
copy of their catalogue free. 4s-l7t
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

We will club Recreation, - a
monthly magazine, containing articles
on everything the name implies, with
THE PRESS at 81. 25 per year, to sub
scribers only who pay strictly in
advance. The regular subscription
price to Recreation is $100 per
year and it is considered the best
magazine in its line.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12
| Tie Beauty
|of HeaIth'd

Features don't mat
ter SO much. Most
any features will do
if the complexion is
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

F. M. Boatright has replaced his
handsome two story residence, de-
stroyed by the recent cyclone, with a
commodious one story dwelling
Others who lost their homes by that
calamity have replaced them, and aside
from the uprooted trees in the timber
land but little evidence remains.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-03-12

- Mesdames W G.. Bostick and Ben
oecherd visited relatives at Alma
several days this week.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

CalIy vested in the few corporations
named below:
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16
erich and Poor Alike Before the Law

erich and Poor Alike Before the Law"
W. +. Phelps.
Several years ago suit was brought
against the Pullman Car Company for
engaging in business contrary to their
charter-violating the law every day by
furnishing heat, light, water, houses and
even preachers and compelling on pain OF
discharge its wage slaves to use these
things on the cOmpany's terms. 1t per-
sisted in doing these illegal things just
the same-law or no law-when II some
poor men violate the law from necessity
they are at once put in prison Thus we
see there is one treatment for the rich
law breaker and another for the poor
law breaker. Now the Supreme court OF
Illinois has just rendered decision that
the Pullman company must not continue
its unlawful business! How would 1t
look for the court to issue an order
against a set Of thieves or sWindlers that
they must desist from their occupation?
Does the law treat the small law breaker
that way? No, it takes him by the col
lar and puts him in prison and confis-
Gates his illegal accumulation. But when
the courts approach the august presence
of the Pullman corporation it does so
with reluctance and humility. The judge
and court officers have passes. They give
these rich law breakers years In which
to obey the law and to return the IL
legal accumulation to the victims or the
public treasury as Is the case with
smaller criminals. The Pullman cor
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16
A0od'S pills cure all Liver his. 25 cents.

poration will now sell these illegally
held properties to themselves formed
into another corporation and will go Oh
just as before, the only difference being
that an additional set Of books will be
kept. And thus the majesty of the law
will be upheld and the public officials
will receive their private incomes from
the corporations as of yore. Private
wealth cOrrupts the fountains of govern
ment wherever permitted to exist.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16
The Inspiration of Hope or the Lash
of Fear.

OF rear.
H. w. Young.
Men will work much more eagerly and
cheerfully under the inspiration of hope
than the lash Of fear. Place within every
mans reach the possibility Of comfort
able maintenance, and you can dispense
with that fear Of the poor house which
is the incentive the present system re-
lies upon to-day to keep everybody dig
ging. The old theologies relied upon the
fear of hell to keep men from SHINING;
but better way has been found in plac-
ing before them the peaceable fruits of
righteousness, the delights Of harmony
and the inspiration Of higher life. Men
can be led much more easily than they
can be driven; love is a stronger senti-
ment than hate; hope stimulates while
fear enervates. Remove from the hearts
of men the black pail Of uncertainty, and
insure them an opportunity to create all
the wealth they need and security in its
possession, and this old earth will bloom
as never before.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

Mr.. Lawhead-"Why do you treat me
so coldly? Why didn't you answer the
note l wrote you last Thursday" Miss
BrushIey.-"Sir, l don't wish to have
anything more to say to you. You be-
gan your note by saying you thought
you would drop me a line. 1 want you
to understand that I'm not fish!"-
Chicago News.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

Bride-'Tm so afraid people will find
out that we're just married that I've
made viii promise to treat me in pub
lie just as if he had no thought for any
one but himself" Matron-"L adopted
that plan when 1 was married, and my
husband never got over it."-Tit-Bits.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

The biggest trust OF also far as
stock capitalization stands for bigness-
has Just been formed in the State Of New
Jersey. It is called the Federal Steel
Company, and its authorized capital
stock is OO,0O0,OO0. The objects Of this
colossal corporation are tersely outlined
in the articles Of incorporation as fol-
lows: Mining Of all kinds; manufac-
turing of all kinds; transportation OF
goods, merchandise or passengers upon
land or water; building houses, struct-
ures, vessels, ships, boats, railroads,
engines, cars or other equipment,
wharves or docks; constructing, main
tanning and operating railroads (other
than railroads within the State OF New
Jersey, steamship lines, vessel lines, or
other lines for transportation, and the
purchase, improvement or sale Of lands"
There is reason to believe that various
existing industries will soon gather un-
der the sheltering wings Of this eXpan-
siVe corporation. Some idea Of the vast
sums of money that have become con-
centrated In steel and iron companies
may be obtained from the list below:
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money IL 1t fails to
cure. Csc. The genuine has L. B. Q. on
each tablet.
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

certificates are being formally cancelled
and the trustees are assigning to the
owners the legal title to the stocks which
were formerly held In trust. The big oil
combinations are as folloWs:'
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

cally vested in the few corporations
named below:
Name. Capital.
American Bell Telephone Company ,926,O 900
New England Telephone and Tele- 49,.
CeatTai tJnion Telephone Chicagoj ;. 6,SOS,SO0
New York and New Jersey Telephone .....
Erie TeieSHraph iH and Telephone Co.. 50OO,cOo
Total capitalization n..........,.... .Sj6,725,OO
Popularity known as the whisky trust,
the American Spirits Manufacturing
Company now dominates the whisky dis
tilling industry Of this country. This
corporation is the successor OF the Dis
tilling and Cattle Feeding Company. Its
control of the market was disputed early
in 1898, when the Distilling and Distrib-
uting Company was formed, but very
soon harmonious relations were estab
llshed between the two concerns. Fol-
lowing are the whisky companies now
in the field:
Name. Capital.
American Spirits Mfg. Company =. .S37,O000O0
Spirits Distilling Company .....,...,. 100000
Standard Dlstilling and Distributing 49,.
company ...'.'''..''.'''''''''''''' |hVVV'UVO
Total capitalization. ......S01, 100000
More than $3OOOOO,OOO is represented
by the great. combinations Of electrical
companies, Of which the following are
the principal ones:
Name Capital.
North American COMPANY. ............S 5OOO0,O00
General Electric Company. y...,,....... 202IOOO
Electric Storage Battery ............ 135OO,OOO
NTS pany New ST'Io York; .'......,. o 100000
Kings County Electric Light and 200. ooo
Power 49,. .s...,..... .......''.'' 0'UUO'VVO
American Electric Heating Company 1O,0OO,0OO
WESTINGHOUSE Walker Electric ..... l5,OOO,OOO
ComSanV '....a'.............. 15,OOOOOO
-
Total Capitalization. .$139, ,S27, 900
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16


With England and France bgerOns attitude
MSEChARd JOlbeKs
fighting the 6d Of Chief Opefu in che TanSVaa the
Rhon . OminO
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

Noted far and wide is the great sugar
trust, which evades the antitrust law
under the corporate name Of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company Except
ing Arbuckle, who has apparently laid
his plans for long and determined war
fare, and the new-the Doscher--com-
pany, whose new refinery started to
make sugar last week, the Havemeyer
sugar trust has succeeded in overriding
all opposition. Claus Spreckels refinery,
in California, is under lease for ten
years to the Western Sugar Refining
Company, of which the trust owns one
half the stock. The two chief sugar cor
porations are:
Name. Capital.
American Sugar Refining Company. 5 75,OOO,OOO
Glucose Sugar Refining Company, 4O000,OO0
Total capitalization. ..,....... .... .S115, 900
The control Of the telephone lines
throughout the United States is practl-
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

In almost every American city Of Inn
portance there Is gas trust, and in
certain sections Of this country these
trusts control the illuminating gas COM
panies Of whole States. An enormous
aggregation of capital is represented by
the outstanding securities of these va
rious combinations. Following are the
names and capitalization of the leading
trusts Of this character:
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

One Of the most notable railroad and
industrial combinations in the world for
many years has been the anthracite coal
pool, which, by a tacit and carefully
guarded agreement, limits the produc-
tion Of antracite and fixes its price. Re-
Gently there have been indications that
some of the parties to the pool have ex-
ceeded the proportions allotted to them,
and have not strictly maintained the
price agreed upon. The compact among
the companies was secured in the first
instance by J. P. Morgan, and in the
denial that this compact had any legal
existence originated the phrase, can
agreement among gentlemen" The pro-
ducers and carriers OF bituminous coal
also have their pool to regulate output
and prices. Following are the names OF
the principal coal combinations:
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

Name. Capital.
Bay State Gas Company ..............S 50.OOO,0O
Consolidated Gas Company, N. ". 35,50O,OOO
Chicago gas trust ........... 80. 25OOOOOO
New Amsterdam Gas Company . 230O0,000
New England Gas and Coke Company 17.500,000
Brooklyn Union Gas Company. y.,..... 15500,000
Consolidated Cas- Baltimore ........ 1077l.O00
United Gas Improvement PENN , 150O0O00
Standard Gas Light. ............. .... 10O00O00
Laclede Gas Light Co. (S6. LOuisl . 100000
PHILADELPHIA company, natural gas. 100000
Buffalo City Gas Company ......... 100000
Detroit Gas Company ................ 4000,O0O
Western Gas (Milwaukee). .......... 100000
Total capitalization. ........... .SlS2 III, 900
The Advocate and news., 1898-11-16

More than 800 OUUO,OUO Is represented
by the great. combinations Of electrical
companies, of which the following are
the principal ones:
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-02
HAIKU SUGAR COMPANY,
An Exceedingly Prosperous Near-Net
Earnings of S217 ,32O.5O.

The report of the Haiku Sugar
Company for the year ending Septem-
ber 10Th, has just been issued. The
sugar output was 4.64S.5 tons, and the
average price realized was $GS.54 per
ton. rhe average polarization was
96.757 degrees.
The estimate for the next crop is
5,460 tons. The company has planted
go acres and will cultivate AIS acres
of ratoonS.
The gross receipts were $300,21661;
the operating expenses, $172, 2,S96.11;
net earnings, $2l7,32O.5O. There have
been paid in dividends 100000, and
for expenditures for material, labor,
and stock. $59,5S7.33; leaving an
available surplus of S56.Ss4.O7
President Baldwin in his annual re-
port says:
We have had more favorable wealth
er for our crops on Maui this year
than we had last year, which was an
exceedingly dry year
The rainfall on the plantation for
the year from October I. 1897, to Oc-
tober /, 1898, 39.7 inches, fairly well
distributed through the year The
Hama<ua ditch has given us a fair
supply of water most of the year.
BY vote of the directors of the COM
pany we contracted with the Fulton
Iron Works of st. Louis for six roll
Ter mill, to be erected in connection
with the three roller mill we now
have in our factory, and for a large
engine with gearing to run all three
mills. The contract price for the
above plant is S33 1861 60, delivered in
San Francisco. We are now erecting
this machinery, and we will have it
ready so that we can commence mil
| ling January 1st.
The directors also voted to purchase
of Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago. his,
another pumping plant, to deliver
100000 gallons of water in twenty
| four hours to 400 feet elevation. The
contract price for the above plant is
| S2s.s5O.
This pump will be placed in the
Maliko gulch, near the pump already
located there, and will he erected rea-
! dy for use on or about July I. 1s90
The two pumps will together give
MS pumping capacity of 9,5OO,OO0
| gallons in twenty-four hours.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-12-02
SOUGHT THE MISSING BOAT
THE MOKULELE'S CRUISE FOR
THE STARBUCK'S MEN.
Captain Townsend Went Out of His
Course and Sailed 224 Miles in the
Fruitless Search.

Captain George Townsend. of the
smart schooner Mokulele, made a
search for the missing boat crew Of
the burned ship VIM. II. Starbuck.
He got into Hilo last Saturday Just
about the time the news was received
there from Hookena by telephone of
the arrival of Captain McDonald's
boat.
The greatest excitement prevailed
in Hilo over the news. 1t was con-
spicuously bulletined in all the store
windows and was the topic of conver-
sation on the streets, superseding for
a time the City of Columbia theme.
Captain Townsend was urged by
many people there to go out of his
course in search of the boat. This he
consented to do. He secured all the
available information, though for
some reason this was not very def
mite. He however learned the latitude
and longitude in which the disaster to
the Starbuck took place. Taking into
consideration the winds he figured
that the missing second mates boat,
running before the trades, might have
made more nOrtherly course than
the captains boat and come up on the
windward side of Hawaii, as the cap
tain's boat came up on the leeward.
Accordingly Captain Townsend made
all haste in discharging and taking on
cargo, and was ready to sail by 300
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
He made a course due northward for
So miles, about the distance he judged
the wind might carry the boat in that
direction, thus sailing directly across
the track the boat might be expected
to be in if his judgment was right
that she did come to the windward of
Hawaii. Then he hauled up to west
by north, still sailing on the general
principle of hoping to intercept the
boat He kept this course for 11o
miles, then sailed southwest 81 miles
to Koko Head. thus recrossing the pos
Sible track of the boat.
\ sharp lookout was kept up during
the whole time, but without being re-
warded by seeing the boat. The PA
miles of this course were sailed in
twenty-siN hours.