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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1898-06-11
Can You Sleep?

Honely language, like a homely girl,
may be so illuminated by direct intelli-
gence as to become positively fascinat.
ing. When We say, Eve had a good
nap" it's honely, but my, doesn't it
mean a lot. Many cant sleep-don't
even know what q good nap is These
weary ones toss. turn and agonize, wear
out their brains and hodies,-a useless
waste of energy and life. Pabst Malt
Extract, the BEST" Tonic, will bring
sleep to you-you will nestle to slunlber
like Il tired child. Take a glass Just be-
fore going to bed, and in ten minutes
you will go drowsily to Sunderland.
After a week or so sleep will come nat
urally and you won't need the Tonic.
Health, strength and mental calmness
come also to help the weak, the weary
and the heavy-laden, for PABST MALT
EXTRACT is the BEST Tonic.
SHORT Bros,
Wholesale Dealers.
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Wadsworth Dispatch,
Pose,sHto sEMt.wGEkly
$500 Per Annum.
UNCLE SANS DOMAIN.

with All of His Extravaganza He Still
Owns Over GOO, 600, 900 Acres.
The idea that Uncle Sam is at present
a landless old fellow has generally tax
en- possession of the people throughout
the country. This, however, is a great
mistake. He still has land enough to
give each u of his rs, 900, 900 children
a nice little homestead If eight acres
each and still have a ranch of over 49,
DOC, 600 acres left. In other words, your
dear old uncle still owns something
oven 600, 600, 900 acres, distributed as
follows throughout the various states
and territories:
Alabama. 532, $3.50 acres; Arizona.
Sd, 400, 2l1 acres; Arkansas, 3,922, O42
acres; California, 43, 841, 044 acres;
Colorado, 4,037, 204 acres; Florida,
l.797, 662 acres: Idaho. 40, 962, 800
acres; Kansas. l,046, $50 acres; Louis
lana, $40. 020 acres; Michigan, 522, 431
acres; Minnesota, gao, 049 acres; Mis-
sissippi, 4l,44l,220 acres; Missouri.
497, 764 acres Montana, 7I,432,9 OFT
acres; Nebraska, 10, 669, 1853 acres; Ne
vada, 61,578, $50 acres; New Mexico,
66, 9S3, 047 acres; North Dakota, 81.
1856, 293 acres; Oklahoma, s., 1O5, 238
acres; Oregon, 80, 892, 3I8 acres; South
Dakota, 1920. us acres; Utah, A.
S07,210 acres; Washington, n, 95S, 536
acres; Wisconsin, 454, 107 acres; Wy
oming. 1891, 5SS acres; Alaska, &c.,
SEQ, 500 acres.
About one-half this vast amount of
land lies, it will be seen, in Alaska, and
it is very certain that this will never be
available for homestead purposes, but
for mining purposes it's value in cold
coin may prove to be even greater than
though it were arabic. The larger part
OF the balance lies in fertile and pro-
ductive states and is all subject to home
stead laws.
Those who want homes should avail
themselves of the more liberal than
homestead laws of the United States.
This is the place for the surplus labor.
st. Louis Star.
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NIoAy ~ xNCCueuA
Up on the coasts and hills of Maine.
where the spruce gum is a source of gain,
where the ice crops in the rivers grow
ana the pine forests %splendors hide in snow,
Every man is ready
Down i'll the solemn everglades,
In the orange orchards pleasant shades,
BY the rivers, still and dark and deep,
"hcre The lazy alligators sleep,
Every man Is ready
Of in the Texas cotton fields,
Where The earth her snowy fiber yields,
Where the plains stretch out and far away
From the dawn TO the going down of day,
Every man is ready!
There in the big, strong Keystone State,
Whose muscle and Drawn have made her great,
Where the s,uiuy miner and mill hand give
10 labor the heart that makes ii live,
Every man is ready
Out in the blizzardous, cold northwest,
Where tie zero weather will stand the test,
Where the tops of The mountains scrape the
skies
And the wheatfields yield their golden prize,
Every man Is ready
Out on the California strand,
Where The sun shines soft ON a promised land,
Where the roses bloom and the hillsides laugh
With the fruit whose blood the gods lnay quaff,
Livery man Is ready
Sui ON TO the Puget country, where
The mountains loom through the misty air,
Where the great %primeval forests stand
As the sentineis who guard the land,
Livery man Is ready
Up in the fields where the daisies bloom,
Down in the city's dingiest room,
Out on the plains or in the hills,
Deep In the mines or in the mills,
From everywhere they're rising, then,
Ten thousand regiments of men.
And every man is readyi
w. j. l.. i'll New York Sun.
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REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION

NJ
several Comfy Central ron,.i,4e
far as repo,t.d 70 ,ho sa.sa,aaa
Stare Central Con,,;t,o..
Storey conutv-A p stodaa,1 CIT.
man; j NJ Gea,hart ssc,atary 80
Zi.vIer Dave un,,ar W;u;am
wood Virginia civ. ~ w;l,;aua
Len Ii,cban b.,,.r tola hin
Hn,,hoId, .o,n, T.o...
Chairman Stone Hans. u 1p...a.
Secretary. q N sbalien ba,oer cal.anaa.
Era,s yy;,law ,.;.,. M -.
field. Winnen,,cca
Washoe countv-G e T,,rat;, rha;.
man. T. 7 Cobn se.,o,orv.e e..a.aa
field. A G. Fletcba,. G ua,.l;n wv
Phillips. II 7 Tb,es P.no. Il 1a,nS
man. Thomas F;,vya,,ld u-aasmo.,h.
CIV Robinson GLENDALE. 1aa,aa -
Browns. Il co.,s va,l;
LYON conntv-C " pat,.,.nn CIT.
u, s'h, 1hair-
~ r,..1m iei''e'on
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Doy'e' hume eringlon, Carson; &c
Da''"iu' DaO'f!h'ple Empire.
Do'e'as couh'y-H sprinpme, eF,
0n"'rinan' 1ardnervilie; X Cook, Sec
le'a'y' oneriuan; ) W iiaines, VIM
'e'oy' GENOA Lo Eel, Fred behrman.
Gardnerville: N II johnson, Sheridan
CT Bliss, Glenbrook q N Folsom, Ho-
bart; w Ii James, Jacks Valley, J
Campbell. Walker River.
Lander county-R L Norton Chair
man 6 w McHardy. Secretary. 7. ste;-
ner, Simon Bray. Austin.
Churchill county-.J w Feronson
Chairman, Fallon. v m Mn,n,v se.ra.
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Notice OF
Forfeiture.
A CT NEVADA,

STATE CT NEVADA, l,s.
COUNTY OF WAsHoE. l'HS'
no MISS ANNIE WILLIAMSBURG are
i hereby notified that l have expended two
hundred dollars tS2du.00) In labor and improve
ments, upon the Ricafd lode, ledge or vein
known as the LaPlaIa Mine, situated in White
Horse Mining District. Washoe County, State
of Nevada, i'll order TO hold said premises, I'M
der the provisions of Section 1924. revised
Statutes of the United States, being the amount
required TO hold the same for the years ending
December 81. 1896 and 1897. And II within nine
ty days from the service Of this notice, Tor
within ninety days after this notice by publicu-
tationi, you fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion OF such expenditure as "
your interest in said claim will become the
p operty OF the subscriber under said Section
S324. Signed:
w. C. WILLIAMS,
Locator
Dated April 18th. 1898.
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Her Fad.

Maude-Papa says he doesn't mind
my latest fad if | can only stick to it.
Hilda-What is it?
Maude-A bicycle. = Detroit Free
Press.
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STATIONERY
CONFECTIONERY,

Have just received a Choice Stock Of
Fresh Candies and Nuts. | also have
a First-Class grade Of Cigars, Tobacco,
Stationery, Etc.
Call "for your mail" and see the
sweetest things in town.
A. W. MACPHERSON,
F. 0. Building, Wadsworth.
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Evidence.

Maid with a frown)-Why is love
supposed to be blindF
Youth with a smile)-Because he
has married off SO many everlastingly
homely girls. Truth.
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A Plan of the Future.

BY another year the enthusiastic anti
monopolists of Dawson probably will
be w~hooping it up for municipal owner
ship OF dogs. milwaukee Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-05

eventful months just passed. The spirit
of the occasion was not, however, one OF
imm 21iate expectancy for the few
months left to the existence of the Fifty
fifth congress, gave promise of little
more than beginning Of the mOmen-
tOus policies and problems growing out
OF the war.
AS usual all Washington turned it's
attention to the capitol for that gala
event, which marks the opening DAY OF
a session. The weather imposed no bar
riers, for the hurricane of yesterday had
given way to clearing skies and balmy
air. Long before the noon hour, when
the senate and house began their work,
the corridors We're filed with surging
crowds, centering in the rOtunda and
statuary hall, and pushing towards the
private galleries. No evidences remain
ed of the explosion and fire which re-
Gently ravaged the building.
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GREAT TOBACCO WAR.
Trust to Be AssaiIed by Company
Backed by Men of Millions.

New York Dec. 5.-A great tobacco
war which will completely overshadow
the conflict of millions now going on in
sugar trade, is about to be fought be-
tween the American Tobacco company
with its creature, the Continental Plug
Tobacco company, on the one side and
Union Tobacco company, recently in
corporated at Albany by the Widener-
trolling interest in the Metropolitan
Street Railway company and other
great traction interests throughout the
United States, on the other.
Associated with the new company in
the conflict will be Liggett & Myers of
st. Louis, Weissinger & Co. of Louis
Vile, the StOrg Tobacco company and
the other plug tobacco concerns that
summer and to allow themselves to be
absorbed by the plug trust organized
by the American Tobacco company
The true character of the new Union
Tobacco company is but slowly deveI-
Oping. When news of it's Incorporation
was telegraphed from Albany about six
weeks ago comparatively little atten-
ton was paid to it in WallStreet, which
was then concerning itself with the
new Continental company under the
auspices of the tobacco crowd" whose
manipulation of the American Tobacco
stock was the sensation of the street.
Wall street began to open it's eyes,
however, when the news came from AL
bany that IS. .0OO, 900 of the Union To-
baccO cOmpany'S capital had been paid
up. Then the street. began to console
itself with the idea that the new con-
Germ was to be a friendly competitor
of the trust.
By and by, however, Wall streets
convictions changed to doubts. RumOrS
came from Louisville, KY, and Rich
mOnd, Va. that agents of the new COM
pany were buying up great quantities
of tobacco.
Then came the announcement that the
National Tobacco company, makers of
ci9arets, mad been absorbed by the new
company. That explained the Richmond
purchases. Richmond is the market for
cigaret tobacco. But what did the new
company want with old filled leaf, suit
able only for plug tobacco? Wall street
guessed in vain.
The mask was dropped Thursday af-
ternOOn, and behind it were the millions
of p. a. B. Widener and w. L. Elkins,
the traction kings.
To the CONSERVATION of the tobacco
made that William H. Butler, late vice
president of the American Tobacco COM
pany and had been elected president of
the new company. All the secrets of
the trust were in the hands of its rivals
Every day there have been developments
that StartIe the friends of the trust. To-
day came the statement that William Will
son, the agent of the Union Tobacco COM
pany, had been dispatched to Louisville to
buy site for the greatest plug tobacco
factory in the world.
1t is to employ 5000 hands and have a
capacity double that of the American To-
baccO company's great Louisville plant.
begin to puff from cheaper cigarettes all
over the land.
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PICK THE TWENTIETH
Fort LeaVenwOrth Regulars
Are to Be Sent to Manila.

Leavenworth, Dec. 5.-The Twentieth
United States infantry at Fort Leav-
enwOrth has orders indicating that It
will be sent to Manila to relieve one of
the volunteer regiments or to increase
the force already in the island of Lu-
zOn.
The first intimation that the regiment
was to be sent to the far east came sew
eral days ago in the form of an order
from the war department notifying the
officers to make requisition for such
food and supplies as will be needed in q
tropical climate. Orders have been for
warded for the regiment to be in read
mess to move on short notice. Tt is be-
Heved that it will soon be on its way
to San Francisco. The regiment still
lacks about 175 men of it's war footing
but is being rapidly recruited to its full
siren b.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-05
A TOPEKA SANITARIUM.
The Beautiful Knox Place Secured for
This PurpoGe.

The managers of the Parkhurst Will
low Bark Co. closed negotiations, to-
day, with Mr.. John D. Knox, owner of
Belvoir Place, for opening an Institute
and Sanitarium at that beautiful su-
burban villa, on January 1st. Belvoir
Place is admirably suited for the pur-
poses of an Institute of this kind, and
not one of the many now in operation
in the United States has more elegant
quarters or pleasant environments than
will have the Topeka Institute. The
humane feature of the work was the
only thing that caused Mr.. and Mrs.
Knox to give their consent to the plan
of opening their house to the Institute.
The Parkhurst remedies for the cure
of liquor and morphine addictions were
discovered in 1892. They are purely
vegetable and in the nine years of their
administration no one has ever been
harmed, mentally or physically there
by. Thousands have been treated and
the record of permanent cures for the
liquor habit is over 80 per cent There
is not now on record a single relapse
of a morphine patient treated at any
of the Institutes. Institutes are now
in successful operation in Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, California and several other
states.
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building is taken down. Firemen are
still throwing water on the Rogers,
Peet & Co. ruin. The destruction of the
building and the contents is absolute
and everything in the eighth floor of the
Home Insurance building must have
been consumed. Except for broken
windows the top of the Postal telegraph
building seems little hurt.
Tearing Down Walls.
New York, Dec. 5.-A large force of
fremen was still busy at o'clock this
morning pouring water in the building
involved in the big Broadway fire last
night. A gang of men was set at work
tearing down the walls of the buildings
in which was the store of Rogers, Peet
& Co. Deputy Chief CrOcker stated that
in his opinion the losses would not be
as heavy as was at first estimated. He
places the total loss at $500, 900.
F. J. Cochran. night superintendent
of the Postal Telegraph company said
today that none of the wires of the
company was damaged. The fire is re-
garded by underwriters as one of the
most significant happenings in years
and will undoubtedly have an import
ant bearing on the adjustment of rates
for that class of buildings. Underwrit-
ers have been frank to admit for a
year or more that their estimation of
the hazards on fire proof buildings was
to a large extent. guess work, since they
had no reliable data to govern calcula-
tiOnS of that sort.
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IN THE HOUSE.
Speaker Reed Summons the Members
to Come to Order.


Washington, Dec. 5.-Exactly at noon
Speaker Reeds gavel came down with
a sharp crack, the great ebony mace
entwined with silver and surmounted
by silver eagle was lifted into place
upon its green marble pedestal the
spreading folds of American flags were
broken to the breeze about the brilliant
stained glass ceiling and the house Of
representatives entered upon the clos
ing session or the memorable war con-
greSS. The scene within the great hail
was animated, brilliant and picturesque.
The sea of desks within the brass
rails which cut off the Iobbfes, spread
ing in Sem1-circular lines from the
speakers rOstrum like waves from n
center, were a veritable flower garden,
a majority of members were in their
place while about encircling galleries
were banketed to the doors with people
The assembling of a session of congress
is always great magnet for the multi
tude, but today the attraction was
fraught with the added interest Of all
the memories which clung about the
war congress, the triumphs and the re-
verses of the recent political battle at
the polls, and the eagerneSS to hear the
president with its review of events
which has crowded to the stage during
this period and its recommends
tions of policies for the future The
public seemed to feel that this was to
be an epOch-malSing session and for
hours before noon steady stream Of
people debouched from the corridors in
Even the private galleries were crowd
ed an hour before the hour for the con-
vening and they contained many dis
tinguished in social and official life. The
dainty creations of the milliner's art
and brilliantly superb gowns gave color
to the picture
The members began arriving shortly
before II o'clock and the halls COM
menced to buzz as they EXCHANGED
greetings, congratulations or condoI-
enCes.
Some of the members held regu' r
levees as they appeared. This
markedly true of Mr.. W. a. Stone. rf
Pennsylvania Mr. Sayers, of Texas, AID
| McMillin of Tennessee, each of whom
/ was chosen governor of his respective
state at the recent election. Here and
| there throughout the thrOng was an
| officer in full uniform, an unwonted fig-
| ure on the floor and a vivid reminder
| of the war.
The floral tributes which the scurry-
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A.-May y.
Q.-Where.
A.-At the store where I work
Q.-Who was there?
A.-Walter Carpenter.
Q.-Collins came in?
A-Yes.
Q.-What conversation did they have?
A.-Carpenter asked him to drink
some mead and he did So
Q.-What was said then?
A.-Carpenter says you're down early
this morning, John.
Yes, I felt kind of sick and thought
I would walk around.
Q.-Then what?
A-John asked him to have a cigar.
Q.-What then?
A.-Carpenter then went out and Col
linS asked me to go on the other side of
the store. I did so and he asked me il
I got a note from him. I told him I had
a note but no name was signed to it.
it.
Q.-You received note?
Ayes.
Q.-Who brought it?
A.-Boy Harper.
Q.-What did you do with the note?
A-Tore it up.
Q.-What was in the note?
The defense here objected and Mr..
Hayden said to the court:
Some time ago we made a, demand
upon the county attorney for a copy of
all letters, kilograms, and other dOcu-
ments which would be presented at the
trial. This was furnished, but no ref
erence is made to this note.''
Mr.. Hayden then read letters which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-05
The Fire Was Spectacular.

New York Dec. 5.-The fire which
wrecked the building on the west side of
Broadway between Warren and Cham
bers streets last night and this morning
wasthe most spectacular as well as the
most Obstructive that New York has
known in years. 1t was also the first
in which the fire department contend
ed against as a we'll rooted blaze in the
upper stories of a modern sky-scraper
and the result realizes what Chief Bon
ner has repeatedly said, that the fire
fighting forces cannot work 125 feet
above the ground.
At o'clock this morning the eighth
story of the Home Insurance Company
building was burning furiously- On the
floors above the inhammable material
had been exhausted. The first estimate
of the loss, a million dollars, was under
rather than above the real amount
The buildings were well insured.
During the fire Broadway was rOped
off by police and cable cars were not
able to run. A great crowd gathered
in the street to watch the blaze and
the operations of the hremen. The
Rogers, Peet & Co. buildings ruin, with
all its contents, seems to be complete,
though the walls stand. It's destruc-
tion was very rapid, an hour cOmplet-
ing the wreck. The water tower threw
a deluge of water into the Rogers, Peet
& Co. building which was only five stO
ries high, but was of no service to the
lofty Home Insurance building next
door The flames which were devOur-
ing it were much higher up, apparently
out of reach of the water. The upper
windows looked like open furnaces. The
building was fire-prOof to the extent
that its iron frame stood firmly, but
the interior burned furiOuSly. The Oc-
cupants of the insurance and telegraph
buildings had ample warning of dan
ger and there was no casualties or panic.
The elevator was run until all persons
got out safely. Indeed. the Home In
surance building elevator was operated
after the danger point had been reached
and fell one story while loaded with fire
men.
a gun store on Warren street in the
rear of Rogers, Peet & Co, gave the
firemen much anxiety but was saved
by hard work. 1t contained much am
munition.
The Merchants Exchange National
bank occupied the street floor of the in
Surance building and the insurance
company the second floor.
At daylight this morning Broadway
was still closed to pedestrians and wag-
ons. The Warren street wall of the
Rogers, Peet & Co. building has fallen
inward but the Broadway street front
stands in a perilous state of dilapidation
and the authorities may not open the
street until the wrecked frame of the
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had been passed between the attorneys
for the defense and the state and ad-
dressing the court made formal objec-
tion to the action of the county attor-
ney in failing in all respects to give the
defense any information concerning the
note to which Miller, the witness, re-
ferred to.
In replying to the request of the de-
fendant's attorneys, the county attor
ney stated that there were certain writ
ten instruments in the possession of the
witnesses which would be presented at
the trial, but that he could not furnish
them prior to the trial.
In replying to this Mr.. Hayden said
today that the defense was clearly en-
titled to the benefit of the doubt con-
cerning the Miller note, and that the
testimony was Irrelevant and incOmpe-
tent. The court Overruled the objec-
ton.
SAYS John Collins Asked for Poison.
Odd you receive any other note
the night before you saw Mr.. Collins in
the morning?
A-No, sir.
Q.-Now you may please state con-
tents of that letter?
A-Friend E: Meet me at store to-
morrow morning at 7:90 sharp. Matter
of business.
Q.-Was it printed or written?
A.-Written.
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The Body That Declared War
With Spain
Again After the War
Is Over.
WEATHER is BALMY
After a Hurricane on the Day,
Before
And Large Crowds Surge to the
Halls of Congress.

Washington, Dec. 5.-Congress reas-
sembled at noon today under circum-
stances of unusual public interest. The
same congress six months ago declared
war against Spain and now. with the
war fought and won, it came together
again for the first legislative considera-
ton of the questions developed by the
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Odd you see him in the morning?
A.-Yes, sir.
D.-What did he say?
Ale said he wanted me to do him
favor.
Q.-What did you say?
Al said all right, I'll do it if I can.
What is it2
Q.-What did he say?
Ale said he wanted some poison
that would dissolve in water.
Q.-What did you say?
Al told him I would give him the
poison but he would have to sign up for
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