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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
Porto Rico Customs.

WASHINGTON, June "a. - Acting
Secretary of War Meiklejohn has given
out the following statement covering the
customs transactions for the first five
months of 1899 in Porto Rico: Import du-
ties, $564, ,302: export duties, S0,G2l; ton
mage tax. $22,069: from other sources,
S11,S52 total, S607 1886,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
More Gold From the I<Iondike.

SEATTLE, Wash, June 24.-The
steamer Humboldt, which has just arriv-
ed from Skaguay, brought down go pas
sengcrs, $50 of whom were miners re-
turning from the ilondke goldfelds.
They brought treasure variously estimat-
ed at from $5O0000 to $l.000,000. The
value of the gold dust in charge of the
steamers purser was S2OO,OOO.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
Blaze ut Coney Island.

NEW YORK, June 21.-Another fire
visited Coney Island this morning. 1t
started at 1:15 O'Clock back of the stage
in Rosters music hail. at Jones walk and
the Bowery. There was panic among
the late spectators in the concert hall.
The loss will reach $4,000.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
Receipts ut Philippine Ports.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Acting
Secretary of War Meiklejohn has an
nounccd that the receipts from all sources
Mt the port of Manila for the month OF
April were S4j6.9S4; for the port of Iloi-
10. $45, ,534; for the port of Cebu, $50, 75S.
Total from all sources for the month,
S533 2T6
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29

TOLEDO, June 27.-Fire yesterday
entirely destroyed the Michigan Central
frcighthouse, partially destroyed the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton freight
house and burned 100 loaded cars, the ag-
grcgatc loss amounting to over 100000,
n very small part of which is covered by
Insurance
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
New RniIroad Building.

NEW YORK, June 23.-The Railroad
Gazette today gives the preliminary fig
ures of new railroad building for the first
six months of 1899. They show total
Of 1.1Sl .45 miles. This is an advance Of
some 30 miles over the preliminary fig
urcs of last year, but The Gazette says
there is every reason to believe that the
new railroad building in actual progress
is much more extensive than was that Of
n ypar ago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
Gates' Murderer Found.

CHICAGO, June 22.-Word has been
received here that Alexander Jester, the
murderer of Gilbert Gates, brother Of
President John w. Gates Of the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire company. has been
arrested at his home in Oklahoma after
% years Of unavailing search.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29

LONDON, June 24.-Eastern and
northern Finland, according to dispatch
20 The Times from St. Petersburg, are
threatened with famine and floods. The
late cold weather has ruined the rye crop.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
Locusts and Drought In Russia.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 26.-The
Transcaspan region Of Asiatic Russia,
which is under the administration of the
governor general of the Caucasus, Prince
Bariatinski. is threatened with famine,
owing to the prolonged drought and a
plague of locusts.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
steel RniIs For Russia.

PITTSBURG, June 2\-The CONNER
cial Gazette says: "The Carnegie Steel
company has contracted with representa-
tives of the Russian government to fur
nish that country with 100000 tons OF
steel rails for its immense railroad enter
prises in Siberia and China"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29

SANTIAGO, Chile, June PA tre-
mendous rainfall has interrupted all COM
munication between this place and the
rest of the country. The city of Valpa-
raiso is half under water.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
vatican Party Wins In Rome.

ROME, June 26.-For the first time
since 1870 the Vatican party has obtain
ed majority in Rome in the municipal
elections, and the fronts of the churches
are fantastically illuminated nightly in
honor of the success.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29

WASHINGTON June 22.-The month.
ly statement of the collections of internal
revenue shows that the total receipts dur
ing May We're $23,50O, 734, an increase
over May, 1893, Of Sc, ,402,6 GIG.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-06-29
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
HERRING, Atty.

ESTATE OF CMARLEs wHITMIRB, LATE OF GEN.
TIRE TOWNSHIP, DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given that letters OF admin
istration on the estate OF Charles Whitmire'
late OF Centre township, Columbia Co., Pa, de-
ceased, have been granted to George M. Whit,
mire, residing In said township, to whom all
persons indebted to said estate are requested TO
make payment, ana those having claims or de-
mands Will make known the same without de-
lay TO GEORGE NJ. WHITMIRE,
6-228t Administrator.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
ONE PURE BAKING POWDER.

Over seventy per cent Of all baking powders
contain alum. The i'll effects upon the system Of food
leavened by this injurious drug are attested by the
highest medical authorities. Alum baking powders
would be less dangerous were they fatal at once, for
then they surely would be avoided, but their baneful
action because imperceptible at first and slow in its
advances is no less certain.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
is certified By all authorities as free from alum or any
other adulterant. It's purity has never been questioned,
and while il does finer and b tier work, it costs no more
than many Of the adulteratcd powders.
1t received the highest award at the World.
Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1889 and at tn
California Midwinter International Exposition, (Sar
Francisco, 1894) a special gold medal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
Prosperity, Did You Say7
waves on!

That type Of prosperity which
enriches a nation and enables her
to become a power among earthly
governments-that prosperity
which encourages the most thor
ough development of her resources,
which calls into being new indus
tries and which makes possible
the realization of reward for every
hour of labor honestly performed
must be a prosperity which has
its foundation down among the
millions of common people; a pros
perity which has for its basic
principle the honest effort Of the
individual citizen. That is pros
perity in the true sense of the term
and a prosperity Of any other
character is fictitious, temporary
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
RANCHERS! THE UNION is t

RANCHERS! The UNION is the
only Rapid City newspaper making
clubbing offers that ARE clubbing
offers. All new subscribers before
March 18th will be given the Farm
Journal, an elegant 24-page home
paper FIVE YEARS FREE. No charges
except for The UNION, and that at
$l.0O a year. The Farm Journal
goes to you absolutely free for the
next five years. This offer closes
March 80.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
in 1906.

in 1896.
The Dingley tariff works both
ways in helping the trusts in their
robbery of the people. 1t is the
wall which shuts out foreign pro-
ducts and consequently stiles all
foreign competition in the Amer
can market. This occupation Of
the republican ''protection" policy
leaves the American millionaire
manufacturers free to form a trust
controlling the American output of
any product and leaves the Ameri-
can Consumer-the humble citizen
at the utter mercy Of these trusts.
He can buy a trust-controlied
article or lot buy at all. But he
MUST bay, hence he is forced to
pay his tribute to the trust. This
IS how Dingley ''protection"
,'protects" the infant industries OF
the country and the common
citizen. 1t robs those who can
east afford the robbery and places
millions in the Golfers of those who
least need it. 1t places the bur
iens of government upon those
least able to carry the load, and
cts go free those who are more
than able to carry the burden. 1t
strikes at the very foundation of
free government and make Justice
and equality a mockery and a
dream.
But whoop'er mp for Mckinley
and protection" Damn the
common people! This is an age
when plutocracy reigns and he
who dares to raise his voice against
such a condition is an s.anarchist"
and an enemy of the government.
We must protect these ''infant
industries if the policy places a
Mckinley patch on the seal of
every pair of American breaches
worn.
And the "wave Of prosperity
waves on!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
RAPID CITY )

latjou, on Tie main lin" OF the Fremont, Elk
horn IL Missouri Valley Railroad. 1t has eight
churches: two miles OF street railway; gus ana
electric light plants: perfect system OF water
works. second largest W rks in the world fOj
IN, ire. tID.ut of gold ore by the chiorinatiOD
process: extensive iron iOnnIry and machine
shops: largest Touring mills i'll the state lies
hut II mi eS from some of the largest Ini rich
~, deposits Of gold. silver, copper, irv!i, mica
and in in America; extensive steam tile and
pressed brick works; /. : government Indian
school land Office aud Weather signal station;
,.ro,d st . IS: massive business blocks; beauti
IN parks; state school Of mines; two banks:
four newspapers; ut the edge Of the creates!
range stock country III the west shipments for
1898. 81 ,OOO, 900: on i,apid river, the largest
stream in the Black Hills; county seat Of Pen
uington county.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31

and can only exist for a little time
to be swept aside by the first
passing breeze in the whirlwind of
eve changing conditions, leaving
misery, desolation and privation
in its wake.
If prosperity of the true charac-
ter-a prosperity which finds it's
birth among the millions and
which permeates the masses en-
tire-exists, it means happiness
and contentment, with the sun
shine of joy shining brightly into
every home and Illuminating every
freside. If such a type of pros
perity exists, the individual citizen
will be a home-owner instead of a
tenant, and no notion can have a
sounder foundation on which to
rest in safety as the years go by
than the happy homes Of its con-
tented people. Bring to the
people of a nation that condition
which offers a just reward for
every effort, and that moment you
make it possible for the individual
citizen to own his home. Make
the individual citizen a home
owner and you have created the
fount from which flows the purest
of patriotism-a patriotism which
is the nations glory in times OF
peace and its bulwork of defense
yea, it's salvatiOn-in timestof con-
quest. History since time began
bears out this contention and no
extended argument seems to be
needed to establish this principle.
But to come to the point, let US
lay aside all other contentious,
drop political prejudices for a mo-
ment and rise to hat height which
has ever lent its influence in mold
ing the glory Of the nation look
the COLD FACTS squarely in the
face, briefly review the conditions
of the American masses and meet
that condition manfully, patriotl-
cally and unfinchingly.
Holmes, who had charge of the
compilation of the indebtedness of
the United States under the CEN
sus Of 1890, publishes this state
ment: He divides the people of
this country into three classes.
Millionaires, 1900 families, less
than three one-hundreths per cent
Of III population; aggregate
wealth, $12,ooo, 100000, &c per
cent Of the wealth Of the peopl: Of
the United States. Rich, 1885,
900 families, or s.97 per cent of
population; aggregate wealth,
S3o,ooo,ooo 900, making a total of
these two, which he places under
one class, of S45,6oo,ooo 900, or
II per cent of the wealth of the
people of the United States, leav-
ing 80 per cent for the 81 per cent
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
Fruits Of the Trust System.

NCNCl WI TIC HlSloly VI III
country has been witnessed such
an alarming Capitalization of CAPT
tai and such Il rapid and contin-
uous formation of trusts and COM
binations to throttle competition
and rob the people as has been
witnessed under the present adj
ministration. Representatives Of
trusts have been chosen TO admin
lister the functions Of government
and as a consequence the govern
ment, as represented by the pres
ent administration, b VS. in
humble submission to these organ.
izations Of greedy capital. This
process has been fostered and
encouraged to such an extent that
hardly a necessity of life can be
purchased without paying unjust
tribute to some trust or comb
nation. Competition which bene-
fits the humble consumer Of these
necessities Of life is being grad
ually throttled-crushed out-and
the people forced to purchase
trust-controlled products or not
purchase at all. AS a specimen OF
this phase of the case The UNION
re-produces two Associate Press
kilograms which appeared in the
newspapers Of last week. They
well illustrate the point:
Lawrence, Kan, March a.
The Lawrence plant of the Ameri-
can Steel & Wire company closed
down last night. throwing about
900 men out of work. The mill
was bought by the trust on IAN
uary I from the Consolidated Barb
Wire company, and its continued
operation has ever since been IN
doubt.
Thus the system Of republican
"protection" fails to protect the
workingman, while it protects the
trust. Competition crushed, here
IS the next result as told by the
dispatches:
Pittsburg, Pa, March al
The American Wire and Steel
has made another ad-
vance of IS cents a key in the
price Of nails. Small lots are now
quoted at So. 80 a key, or $40 a
ton. This is an advance since
December Of S23 a ton.
An advance of $23 per ton in
nails since last December! Is it
costing more to produce nails to-
day than it was last December?
No. Then why this advance, this
levying OF S23 per ton tribute?
The trust controls the output Of
nails insthis country and while the
Dingleytariff shuts out the com
potion Of foreign countries, the
nail trust fixes the price to suit
and the American people foot
the bill and howl themselves hoarse
praising the administration which
encourages the combinations Of
capital that are robbing them.
What is true Of nails is true Of
nearly every other product. Nc
kLinleyis simply delivering the
foods, g the trust magnates who
purchased the presidency for him
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31
our population.

Of our population.
Here are MIR. She1man's tables:
The rich, 235,ooo families, own
S43,ooo.o 100000 of the wealth Of
this country. The middle classes,
1900, 900 families, W 81, 500,
900, 900 of the wealth. The work
ing classes, II,567,ooo families,
own SII,175,ooo,o 900 Of the wealth.
In other words, according to his
tables, the rich, 1916 per cent Of
our population, w 70 per cent of
the wealth.
According to Mr.. H | m e S
table the rich are 9 per cen of
our population and own II per
cent of the wealth of this conntry.
Commenting upon this, MIR.
Sherman says:
The United States of America
are practically owned by less than
100000 persons, constituting less
than to 50 of its adult male pop
ulation. Within thirty years, the
present methods of taxation being
|continued, the United States Of
America will be substantially own
ed by less than 5000 persons,
constituting less than I in 500 Of
the male population.
He says that this is ar under
estimate. and in the second article
adds:
If this system continues, the
coming of the Millionaire on the
one hand and of the million pau
6 pers on the other IS inevitable.
The poor, the or per cent Of
!, our population, pay more than
thirty times more upon the prop,
erty they own than the rich people
pay, and yet we refuse to levy a
, tax upon corporations. The rich
should pay, if they paid in pro.
portion to their wealth, S212,5oo,
900. They do pay $4,000, 900,
q The poor should pay $85,5oo, 900.
They do pay $273,ooo,o 900.
What is more, 81 per cent of the
popul1tion, according to Holmes
tables, own but $4,000, 900, ooc
of wealth, and 81 per cent o
our population practically to-day
have no property, and over 81 pei
cent do not own the homes il
% which they live.
They do not own their homes o.
real estate. Their property i:
, perishable and ought not to be
:, taxed at all. They pay, then:
over 5000 times on their property
more than the very rich; for the
very rich.
-. They are the people from whom
=. our officers are selected to receiye
big salaries and pretend to carry
on military operations; they are
the class who furnish the none
for the contracts.
These figures were not compiled
for political purposes. They rep
r e S tn e work Of the
country's foremost statisticians
gathered under government SUI
pervision and with government
! authority. The picture is not one
:, of prosperity among the masses 0,
!, humble citizens. 1t proves the
absence Of this coveted con,
dition. 1t shows the rapid drift
from a HOMECOMING system to {
system of cruel tenantry. 1t serves
as a warning cry to the nation. l,
is undermining our free institu-
tons and is a standing menace to
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-03-31

The UNIONS JOB printing depart
ment is kept busy these days. Good
work at lower prices than "the
other fellow" is what does it.
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Pay up your back subscription
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i've straight years.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

In The Bees wheel contest the winner
may choose any make. Start early and win
a wheel
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02
THE NEW METHOD OF
BLOOD PURIFYING.
What the New Discovery in Medi-
cal Science Has Accomplished.
Yourself When
flood Is Out o
The Eminent Specialists Free Offer TO All Readers
of 1.-THE Bee"

For a great many years it has been the
custom for sick people to say "My blood
is out of order. 1t needs purifying. l
feel all used up. My skin needs clearing.
My brain feels tired"
They are right. but do they act right?
They generally go and get laxative
(bowel- cleaner) to purify their blood.
Does their blood run through their bow.
els?
Science has today furnished proofs that
all the purifying that your blood needs, in
fact, all that can be done, must be done by
your kidneys.
All the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys strain or filter out the i'm
purities in the blood-that is their work.
Purifying your blood is not a question OF
taking laxative or physic
Does your blood run through your bowels? !?
What the bowel cleaner does is to throw
out the poisons confined in your bowels
ready for ABSORPTION into your blood, but
the posons which are already in your blood
causing your present sickness, 1t leaves
there.
There is no other way Of purifying your
blood except by means of your kidneys.
That is WHY bowel cleaners fail to do
their work-they fail to help the kidneys.
When you are sick then, no matter what
you think the name of your disease is, the
first thing you should do is to afford aid to
your kidneys by using DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, the great Kidney Remedy.
In taking Swamp Root you afford natural
help to nature, for Swamp Root is the most
perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys
that is known to medical science.
DR.. Kilmer, the eminent physician and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02
JOLT WEBsTER'S LABOR PAPER
Republican County and city Commit-
tcemen Decline To BOOST IL with
the Party Machinery.

The scheme to have the republican party
organization used to boost a proposed new
weekly republican labor paper in the inter-
est OF John l.. Webster's perpetual candi-
dacy for United States senator met with an
unexpected jolt at a meeting called by the
chairman of the city and county commit
tees at the Mllard yesterday afternoon.
The meeting was attended by some thirty
members OF the two committees, but not a
quorum of either. The proposition was pre-
sented that the committee secure 500 pre-
paid subscriptions and turn the money over
to a trustee named by the promoters. The
chief advocates of this plan were Charlie
Morgan, Charlie Unit w. A. Saunders ana
Bobby Baldwin, all of whom eXpatiated upon
the beauties of a labor paper that would
support republican candidates irrespective of
theiT hostility or friendship for organized
labor.
When the views of other members present
were ELECTED through remarks by A. c.
Troup, Il. Benedict, Ed Taylor, Fred Brun>
ins, James Austin, II. p. Mccoy and n
number of others, who saw nothing to be
gained by such a perversion of the party
machinery, the proposition was modified
into the following resolutions:
Resolved That we believe a republican
weekly labor paper should be established in
Omaha"
But even this was voted down by 10 noes
to Is ayes, the Is ayes including Bobby
Baldwin and three or four other rousta>
bouts. who, though not members of either
committee had been introduced into the
hall. There being no prospect of securing
the endorsement in even more diluted
form, the meeting adjourned.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02
CROW DOES NOT SHOW UP
Omnha's New Postmaster Fails to
Enter Upon Discharge of His
Duties Today.

April 1 being the first day of one of the
quarters of the fiscal year, it was expected
that the recently appointed postmaster,
Joseph Grow, and the recently appointed
surveyor OF customs, Cadet Taylor would
be on hand bright and early at the govern
ment building to take up and assume the
duties OF their respective offices. Neither
of these officials was on hand, however
At the postoffice both Postmaster Martin
and Deputy Woodard were in the post
masters room at an early hour, waiting the
coming OF the new man. Nine o'clock came
the old officials went to work the same as
though no change was contemplated and
took up the routine of the daily business
The failure of Mr.. Crow to step into the
of1lcial position will work considerable in
convenience at the postoffce, because when
he takes hold it will necessitate the opening
of a new set of books and the breaking from
the old to the new. Had he been at the
Office on time, he would have started in
with the beginning of the quarter and busi-
ness could have gone on without Interrupt
tion.
Cadet Taylor, the new surveyor of GUS
toms, was at the Office Friday night, but
did not intimate when he will assume
charge 1t is understood that he has not
received notice of the approval of his OFF,
cial bond and consequently he can do
nothing in an official way until this notice
is received.
1t is probable that both Postmaster Grow
and Surveyor Taylor will take charge of
their respective offices Monday morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02
J. C. RICHARDSON is DEAD
President of Richardson Drug Com
pany Passes Away at Pasadena
Carbuncle Causes Death.

]. Clifford Richardson of st. Louis, presi-
dent of the Richardson Drug company, died
Friday morning at Pasadena, Cal, where
he was spending the winter with his wife.
The direct cause of his death was a car
buncle. He was about As years of age. The
Richardson Drug company formerly had
wholesale house at st. Louis and another
at Omaha, but the former burned some
years ago and the business was then con-
fined to the Omaha house. c.. r. Weller OF
this city, vice president of the company,
was with Mr. Richardson at the time of his
death. Accompanied by Mrs. Richardson
he will leave California with the body OF
his partner today, and the funeral will be
held in st. Louis next Wednesday.