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The Mena star., 1898-03-23
THE TREATMENTS BALL.
A Big Crowd. Good Music and Mer-
 " Time.

The most successful ball ever given by the fire boys came off Thursday night at the opera house. The entire hall was cleared of the seats and was at times crowded with the dancers and the stage was filled with spectators.
 Tbe costumes of the masqnraders were of every description from the beautiful to the ridiculous, The mu- sic was furnished by an orchester com posed of Mir. and Mrs. Harry Firman Oscar Stuckey, Jack Knudsen and
 Gray, and was exceedingly good. The hall was decorated with holly and pine and looked very pretty.
 The boys went to great deal of ex. pense to make the affair success but some money was saved above expen- ses which will be used to improve their equipments for fire fighting.
The Mena star., 1898-03-23
From Rocky.
Health is very good.

Health IS very good.
 Mir, H. w. Cumming is wearing q broad smile on his face this week, an other fine boy at his house.
 While rambling up and down the creek one can see many fishermen and among them you'll see Dr. Connally enjoying the sport He says that as long as the fish bite good he en1oys it very much.
 The peach and the plum tress are putting forth their blossoms and a more picturesque scene we seldom ever see. It makes our hearts glad to see the honey bees stealing the honey from the tiny blossoms, and see the butterflies dancing among h branches
 Polk county is fast coming to the front. The advent of the iron horse has given the people market place for most anything they can raise on the farm. We are no longer forced to carry our fruit and vegetables fifty or a 100 miles to find a market for them We can sell any kind of produce al : most at our doors. LUKE.
The Mena star., 1898-03-23
OMAHA EXPOSITION.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Ration. button, who's got the but
 ton?" That Is the question that will
 be asked of every progressive citizen
 of Arkansas from now on until the
 arrangements are perfected for an ex-
 hibit of Arkansas resources at the
 Omaha exposition There will be
 5000 of these buttons. and it will not
 be difficult matter for the observant
 individual to locate them They will
 be worn on the lapels of the coats of
 of progressive ArkansaDs. The but
 ton will be badge of enterprise. On
 these buttons will be picture of the
 old Pike Mansion, now the home of our distinguished citizen, Hon. John c. Fletcher, which will be reproduced
 at Omaha and will serve as the Arkan- sas building. Ohios building will
 be the reproduction of McKinley's
 home at Canton. and Nebraska's build ing will be fac simile of MT. Bryan's residence None will be as imposing as the Arkansas structure.
 The idea is catching one. Every body applauds the suggestions of the commissioners From every section of the state comes enthusiastic approv- al of the efforts of those engaged in arranging for an exhibit at Omaha. No one will refuse to aid the laudable enterprise. It's object is to benefit f.. first class exhibit of the resources of Arkansas at Omaha IS as unanimous as that winch inspired the congress of the United States in appropriating $50. .000, ,00O for the national defense. No party lines were drawn on that measure; none are drawn on the prop osition to place Arkansas at the fore front in advertising her wealth of re- sources to the world.
 Our exhibit will be the states de- fense. Eastern and northern capital ists and sturdy farmers from the bliz- gard and drouth-stricken northwest. will be at Omaha in great numbers. Other states will reveal to them what they choose to advertise as magnif cent and marvellous resources Arkan- sas in its Fletcher mansion can exhibit not only magnificent and marvellous. but illimitable resources. To the world it is able to throw down the gage in contest for superiority in material resources with every assur- ance of coming out victor. It is in a position to defy all competition, and the citizens of the state should stand ready at all times to provide the sinews necessary to advertise its stu penduous and innumerabie resources Arkansas yields the palm of product iveness to no state.
 The very class of people that we have for years been trying to reach that we might impress upon them the advantages they woul secure by locat- ing in Arkansas will be in attendance at the Omaha exposition. Now is the time to catch them and show them what we have at our bargain counter. No one can deceive them after they have seen the real thing, and this is what will be spread before them in the Fletcher manson.
 Two ReautifuI Pictures Free.
The Mena star., 1898-03-23

Whooping cough IS the most dis tressing malady; but it's duration can be cut short by the use of One Minute Cough Cure which is also the best known remedy for croup and all lung and bronchial troubles. Plpkin & Hanes
The Mena star., 1898-03-23

Don't annoy others by your cough ing. and don't risk your life by neg lecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds. croup, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Pip kin & Hanes.
The Mena star., 1898-03-23
RAN CE :!

l represent only the best com panies, as follows:
 The Fire Association, of Phila- delphia.
 The Home, of New York. The American Central, St. Louis.
 The Springfield Fire and Marine, of Springfield, Mass.
 The North British Mercantile, of London and Edinburgh. The Fidelity and Casualty, of of New York.
 These companies aggregate S25, ,O00,00o of assets. Let me write your policy.
 E. A. LILLY, Agt,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17


Oecfsass In Nunbsr Of Horsss, cowds
\ M Cattle s7f Swine.
The, AgriculturaT+ Dcpa rtment At Wash
ington has Issued the following bulletin
on live stock: The returns OF the number
of live stock on farms In the United states
Jan. ! show 13,000,011 horses, 2,261, 160
mules, 1880. $50 mich cows, 20,264 ,le1
oxep and other cattle. 37,05O,000 sheep
AID 30, 750, 003 swine. These figures
show decrease Of 403, 100 In the number
of horses, 10o.841 In mich cows, ~, I'll
In oxen and other cattle and S4O, 2S3 IN
swine. There Is an increase OF S3S,Sl1 In
the number Of sheep and 42,O11 In mules.
While there has been an increase In the
number Of mich cows In each Of the New
Esgland States, and u considerable In
crease In the Northwestern States, there
has been decrease throughout almost the
entire South, and this fact. together with
a slight decrease In New York, Pennsyi-
vania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and I'LL
nois. reduces the total for the country Mt
large to six-tenths Of / per cent below
that Of last year. or the seventeen States
reporting a total of over 100000 hogs
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Missouri,
Kansas and Nebraska show an increase,
and Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and eight
Southern States a decrease. There Is
marked increase in the value of live stock
on farms reported from almost every Sec
tion of the country, the total value OF
farm horses having increased during the
year by sou, T13,011; that Of mules, $6,-
72S,912: mich cows, $65, ,033; oxen
and other cattle, $104, 1857, 21S; sheep
S25,100,191, and swine, $S.OJS,639-a
total increase in value Of 1926, 162 800, OF
1927 per cent.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
STRIKE is PROBABLE.
WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS
MAY QUIT WORK.
Refusal of Operators to Pay Chicago
Rates IL the Cause-Unless They DO
So the Men Will Go Out April First
--Bradstrcct's Report. SER.
Strike Spirit Rampant.

The coal miners of West Virginia are
about TO strike. Not in years has the
strike spirit been so rampant as 1t Is now
In the New River, the Kanawha and the
Fairmont districts the trouble is caused
primarily by the refusal Of the operators
to agree to pay the Caicago rate, which
IL 10 cents per ton IN excess of the rate
that is now paid in the West Virginia big
vein districts. The first step toward en-
Forcing the new rate was taken by the
New River men, 1890 of whom notified
the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal Associa-
ton that they demanded an instant recog-
milton of the Chicago scale. The opera
tors refused and the men Informed their
employers that if the rate was not grant
ed by April they would strike. The men
in the Fairmont district then took up the
10-cent increase and there also the OPP
orators refused the raise. The Fairmont
men will hold meeting and 1t is likely
that this district, so hard to induce to
strike under ordinary circumstances, will
soon be idle. The situation is increasing
In gravity.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
GEMS FROM NATIVE MINES.
Value of All Precious Stones Found 1
Thu Eou.frx In. RAz

Value of All Precious Stones Found In
This Country In 1907.
The value of the precious stones pro-
duced in the United States during 1897,
as shown by preliminary report submit
ted to the division of mineral resources Of
the United States geological survey ut
Washington by Special Agent George +.
Kunz, was $130,675, as compared with
$9T $50 in 1896. The principal items Of
this total are turquoise. 500, 600; sapphire,
$25, 700; quartz crystal, $4,000; tourma-
line, $9,025, and gold quartz, $4,000. The
principal features Of interest to the trade
during the year were the investments of
English capital in and the increased out
put of the Fergus County, Montana, sap
phire deposits; the further development
of the turquoise deposits in Santa Fe and
Grant counties, New Mexico; the devel-
opment Of tourmaline deposits at Mount
Mica, Paris, Me-, and Haddam Neck,
Conn.,. and the finding and sale of pale
almandine garnets from Cowee Valley,
North Carolina. The finding of large
quantities of gigantic quartz crystals
(rock crystal at Mokelumne Hill, Gala
veras County, California, was also Of con-
siderable Importance.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
NO HINDRANcE IN BUSINESS.
Continued Activity in Nearly All Lines
Reported by Bradstreet's.

Continued Activity in Nearly All Lines
Reported by Bradstreet's.
Bradstreet's commercial report says:
'COntinued activity in nearly all lines Of
-distributive trade, but more particularly
ut the larger cities Of the West, South and
far Northwest, continues to be the most
favorable feature coming under notice.
That the demand for dry goods, groceries,
hardware, iron and steel and its various
forms and building material is relatively
most active Mt the West seems evident
from the slight tone Of disappointment in
reports from leading Eastern markets,
where business is reported moving less
rapidly than at the interior. Other favor
able features include the heavier foreign
demand for wheat and -four, as indicated
by increased exports over last week and
last year and bank clearings heavily ex-
ceedng corresponding periods Of previous
years. Larger wheat and -four, but small
er corn shipments, are feature of export
trade this week. The total export Of
wheat, -four included, from the United
States and Canada this week aggregated
ASA, 761 bushels, against 3,252, 003 bush
els last week. Corn exports are smaller,
amounting to- only 2,2S5,056 bushels,
against 5,054, 600 bushels last week."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1913; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $4.o5; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $4.I5; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.02 to 81 o.;
corn, No. 2, 28c to 3Oc; oats, No. 2, 26c
to &c; rye, No. 2, 49c to sic; butter,
choice creamery, 19c to zoe; eggs, fresh,
DC to lie; potatoes, common to choice,
Soc to Toe per bushel.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping. $500 TO
$3.50; hogs, choice light, $500 to $4.25;
sheep, common to choice, 500 to $3.50:
wheat, No. 2, 95c to 96c; corn, No. 2
white, Bic to &c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c
to 30c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to S5.T5; hogs,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $500 to $4.75:
wheat, No. 2, DOC to $1.02; corn, No. 2
yellow, &c to Csc; oats, No. 2, &c to 2Sc:
rye, No. 2, 49c to 5Oc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to s.. 25; hogs,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2 red, DC to 9sc; corn, No. 2
mixed, Bic to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, Csc
to 29c; rye, No. 2, 53c to soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50: hogs.
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, orc to Doc; corn, No.
yellow, Bic to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Oc
to 31c; rye. Gle to 53c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. red, 09c to
$1.0O; Germ, No. 2 mixed. 30c to 32c; oats.
No. 2 white, &c to Csc; rye, No. 2, Gle to
52c; clover seed, $3.05 to $40.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 spring, 96c
TO Csc: corn, No. 3. 29c TO 31c: oats, No.
2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1, 40c to 5lc;
barley, No. 2, 3Sc to 42c; pork, mess.
$1,000 TO 5000.
Bufralo-Cattle, $500 10 $3.50; hogs.
$500 to S4.25; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2 red, Csc to 500; corn, No.
yellow, 33c to Doc; oats, No. white,
&c to 33c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50. hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 2 red, SLOT to $1.09; corn, No.
2, SIC to 8Sc; oats. No. ? white. 33c to
34c; butter. creamery, Ice to 21c; eggs.
Western. &C to lie.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
State News in Brief.

Charlotte is to have an electric fire
alarm system,
1t is said that the proposed Pontiac and
Flint electric railroad is assured.
Farmers fifteen miles south of Saginaw
have drilled into coal veins six feet thick.
The livery stable of John Chamberlin at
Carson City burned. Loss ST. 100; insur-
ance $500.
William Haldanc, founder of the Grand
Rapids furniture industry, is dead, aged
OF years.
Cornelius Rutherford, alias Francisco
aged 16 years, committed suicide in Good
win township.
The Port Huron Grocers and Butchers
Association, recently organized, is waging
war on all gift schemes.
Accountants who have been working on
the books Of West Bay City say that $23,.
600 cannot be accounted for.
BY the death of an aunt in Australia
three children of Mrs. NJ. jaeger of Esca.
naba will receive $1,000 each.
A man named Rife, working in the
woods near Cheboygan, was caught under
a falling tree and seriously injured.
The building of the Battle Creek, Gull
Lake and Kalamazoo electric railroad Is
causing boom in real estate along the
line.
The Crump Manufacturing Co. of Bay
City has received orders from the East
for large number of dynamite and cart
ridge boxes.
The heirs Of Harvey Warren of Gales
burg have divided his 100000 estate in
an amicable manner. The widow was
given $4,000 in lieu Of dover.
At st. Joseph, b. f. King died at the
age Of 70. He was father of Ben King
the poet, and was formerly one Of the
wealthiest men In the county.
Eighty thousand pounds of sugar beet
seed will be distributed among the farm.
ers who have contracted to grow,the beets
for the sugar factory at Bay City.
The Industrial works of Bay City. man.
ufacturers Of heavy railroad machinery
is now running day and night. There are
more orders ahead than at any time since
1890. ~
Manager Melville Of the Detroit Dry
Dock Company announced that a dry dock
VI ciEC W dctOiinOuutt Tie idTk-
est ships on the great lakes is to be built
near Detroit, -
Omer Is assured of large grist mill in
the spring, as the cash has already been
raised for II. With the coal and limestone
nearby to be developed, the town promises
to take on quite boon in the spring.
]. w. Clark, master mechanic of the
pcninsular division of the Chicago and
Northwestern hallway Co., at Escanaba
has been succeeded by Frank Slater OF
Chicago.
Mrs. William Case of Mosherville has
recovered verdict Of $1,000 against the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. She
wac put off a train at the wrong place
while on her way to Berwick and sustain
cd severe injuries in the darkness.
Lansing Council has granted franchises
70 both the Lansing, st. Johns and ST.
Louis and Lansing, Dexter and Ann Ar
Dor Railway companies, The routes are
satisfactory to the companies, which
promise to begin work at once.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
WHEAT IN FARMERS HANDS.
Crop Returns Show that 121, 100000
Bushels Are Being Held.

Crop Returns Show that 121 100000
Bushels Are Being Held.
The consolidated returns OF the differ
ent crop reporting agencies Of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture made up to March l
show the wheat reserves In farmers
hands on that date to. have been the equiv
alent of 220 per cent of last years crop,
or about 121, 00O,0 bushels. This Is
33,000,0O0 bushels In excess OF the
farm reserve reported one year ago, but
the result OF the special wheat investiga-
tions made by the department last fan
would indicate that the crop of 1896 was
larger than the department had reason
to believe ut the time. The corn in farm
ers' hands as estimated aggregates 1885,
100000 bushels, or ALI per cent of last
years crop, as against I ,164, 0OO, 900 bush
els, or 81 per cent, on hand on March l,
1897, and 1.072, OOO, 900 bushels, or 49.S
per cent. on March /, 1896. The proper
ton Of the total crop merchantable Is es-
timated at S6.S per cent. or oats there
are reported to be about 272, 100000 bush
els, or $3.50 per cent, still in farmers
hands, as compared with 313,OOO,OOO
bushels, or 44.2 per cent, on March !,
1897.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
TO SEARCH FOR ANDREE.
King Oscar conditiona1ly Accepts the
Offer Made by We1Iman.

King Oscar Conditionaliy Accepts the
Offer Made by We1lman.
The State Department at Washington
has received from the government of Swe-
den and Norway King Oscars conditional
acceptance of the offer made through the
United States government by Walter
Wellman to carry free of charge upon his
north polar expedition steamer Laura,
which is to sail from Tromso, Norway,
June 20, party Of Swedes to search for
their countryman, Professor Andree, in
Franz Josefland. "The government of
the king does not expect to send out n
search expedition" says the minister of
foreign affairs at Stockholm, 'but IL no
news Of Andree is received by July graf
itude would be felt il Mr.. Wellman were
TO permit several persons familiar with
the arctic regions to accompany his expe-
dition for that purpose. The government
OF the king has learned with deep graft
tude the courteous and generous offer
made by Mr.. Wellman."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17

Two Adrian colored lads, Chas. John
son, aged 10, and Norval Simmons, Is.
were drowned at the ice pond on Spring
brook avenue. Both went out with snow
shovels in the morning to clear place to
skate, leaving about IL o'clock. John
sons boy not returning to dinner, Mr..
johnson at once set out to look for him,
and soon discovered hats and mittens on
the ice. A raft was hastily improvised
and parties went out to the center Of the
pond, where the ice was broken, and there
in five feet of water both were found dead.
Every effort to resuscitate them failed.
No one saw them there, and the way the
accident occurred is entirely surmise.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
CLIPPERToN ISLAND DISPUTE.
Mexican Government Wants $1,000
600 from Phos phate Company.

Mexican Government Wants $1,oOo,-
600 from Phosphate Company.
The Mexican Government will attempt
to compel the Oceanic Phosphate Com
pany OF San Francisco to pay an indem-
nifty OF 81, DOC, 900 for unlawfully shipping
guano from Clipperton Island, in the Pa
cifc ocean. Although the Mexican Gov
eminent claims the ownership of this
island and presumes to the right to de-
mand this indemnity for the foreign en-
croachment upon its territory, the phos-
plate company is equally convinced that
II has as much right to the island as the
Mexicans. The company took possession
OF Clipperton Island IN 1885, and since
that time has been steadily shipping
guano to San Francisco and to Honolulu,
receiving from SO to $50 ton for it. In
August of 1896 several shiploads were
sent from the island, the revenue from the
sale of which the Mexican Government
demands.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Family of Giants.

A remarkable family of giants has been
discovered at Leslie. acknowledgements
Of the father and five childTeny-four sons
and daughter, and their average height
is q feet 9 inches. The father is the tall
est, being feet SA inches in height. The
sons range from feet 8 inches to 6 feet
2 inches. and the daughter, who is bat IA
years Of age, measures O feet Inch. Sew
eral opportunities have been presented to
these tall people to travel with sideshows,
and at one time the father claims to have
oertopped the giant with the Barnum
show, by stepping on the platform beside
him and looking over his head. The fam
lily is among the best citizens of Leslie.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Her Face in Enduring Stone.

The memory of the late Miss Frances
K. Willard will be perpetuated in New
York's new State capitol by the carving
Of her portrait at the head of the grand
stairway. Besides the portrait of Miss
Willard, will be those Of four other Amer
ican women of celebrity. These will be
those of Captain" Nellie Pitcher of rev
dictionary fame; Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clara Barton of the Red Gross Society
and Susan b. Anthony, leader in the
movement for equal suffrage for nearly
sixty years.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Concert for Bcreaved Ones.

NohSCTt DeTcuNeu Ones.
The audience which crowded the Ma
tional Theater in Washington, d. c.. Mt
the woman's concert for the benefit Of the
families Of the men who lost their lives
in the Maine disaster, was In every way
the most notable body ever assembled in
a Washington theater. The President
and Mrs. Mckinley occupied seats in the
box of Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Long, while in the immense audience were
Secretary of State and Mrs. Sherman, the
Postmaster General and Mrs. Gary, the
family Of the Secretary of War, Mrs.
Gage, the Attorney General and Mrs.
Griggs, Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Roosevelt, Senator Hale and Representa-
tive B0utellc, chairman of the Naval At
fairs Committee Of the House, with al
most the entire body OF Washington So
ciety and thousands of sympathetic resi-
dents of the capital, including sixty sail
ors from the navy yard, who filed one
entire row of reserved seats In the gal
lery. The long program closed with THE
Star-Spangled Banner" the audience ris-
ing and joining In the chorus. Twenty
officers of the army, navy and marine
corps, each in full uniform, acted as ush-
ers, while prominent young women Of the
navy and army families sold programs
and small flags, which were waved vigor-
ously by the eager purchasers during the
singing Of ''The Star-Spangled Banner"
A large crowd collected In front of the
theater just before the close of the per-
Torrance. The Presidents appearance
ut the doorway with Mrs. Mckinley on
his arm was the signal Tor an outburst Of
cheering, waving Of flags and handicap
ping. Both the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley seemed pleased Mt the demonstra-
ton and smiled rs they acknowledged it
with a slight inclination Of the head.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Liquor License the Issue.

Village special elections occurred
throughout Minnesota, liquor license be
ing the principal issue. License carried
the day ut Kerkhoven, Dexter, Ashby,
Madison, Pipestone, Fairmont, Madelia,
Hector, Bellingham, Fairfax, Browns
dale, Henning, Sherbnrne and Spring
Valley. The following places went dry:
Austin, Montross, Window, Eyota, Clark
field and Hayfield. ~
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Prisoner Escape from Jail.

All the prisoners in the county and fed
eral jail at Perry, o. T., escaped. At
midnight one prisoner made pretense of
being sick and induced Turnkey Wells to
bring him some water. BY some means
the prisoners had got out of their cells
and were in the Jail corridor, and when
the jailer appeared they pushed him into
q cell, gathered up firearms and escaped.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-03-17
Catalonia lowed Into Port.

The steamer Delaware picked up the
Cunard liner Catalonia ON Friday, 500
miles from Halifax, bouBd from Liverpool
to Boston, and towed her, into Halifax
harbor. The CatalQstia bad sustained
break in the crank shaft between the low
and intermediate shafts; her slide valve
gear was broken and her cylinder shifted.