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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Beet Sugar Notes.

Considerable enthusiasm is manltest
in New York state over the prospects OF
beet sugar plants. Another year viii
likely find plants at Dunkirk, Pennyan'
Corning and Sprengville.
The Chino, Cal. sugar company Is
now preparing fertilizer from It's refuse
lime cake. The lime cake is pulverized
and put mp in l0O.pound sacks for ship
ment. Orders for over 800 tons of 1t are
now in.
Land values have increased over %
per cent. in counties where sugar beet
plants are being erected This Is point
not generally taken into consideration
when the suIar bounty question is under
discussion.
The defeat of the bounty bill by the
Illinois legislature has about ended the
beet sugar agitation in that state. Cap
ital cannot be obtained for the erection
of factories and the farmers are IN con-
sequence disconsolate.
The poor prospects OF much OIL peach
crop this year will drive the farmers III
the fruit belt into other lines of agricul-
rure. and in the country around South
Haven most of them will grow sugar
beets for the factory at Benton Harbor
and tomatoes and cucumbers for the
pickle and canning factories IN that sec
ton.
The capital Is all subscribed for the
beet sugar factory for this city to cost
$500 600. \ meeting of farmers was
held this afternoon, at which contract
for beet acreage were made. The fac
tory will be built this season and Will o'
ready 10 handle this years crop of beets
The money was nearly all furnished b'
local capitalists. Contractors are here
and work will begin at once on th'
plant.-Correspondcnt from kalamazo,
| 10 Detroit journal of March H..
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17

Der year and still they insist that he
should be renominated for six years
more. The RECORD regrets very much
that an understanding cannot be arrived
AT. but Clinton must bear the blame
Gratiot has met her more than han
way. but she prefers to sink and disrupt
the party for the sake of life lease oil "a
good Job. Besides, they are waging a
war in the district that will never be
abated. What the outcome will be Is
hard to tell but it looks now as though no
choice would be made and the fight will
be kept up for the ten days from last
Tuesday.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Our Letter from Texas.
Written BY Little Girl VINO Formerly Lived in
Alma.
VALLEY MILLS, TEXAS.
Feb. 81, 1899.

VALLEY MILLS, TEXAS.
Feb. 81, 1899.
DEAR EDuOR:-
We have pleasure in reading the Alma
news in the RECORD and thought my
friends would like 10 hear the Texas
news.
We are glad TO hear that our city is
building such large factory and hope
il viii succeed We are all III good
health. Mamma health has improved
very much. 1t is very warm, about as
warm here as it is in the north in May.
1t was very cold here the 10, and II.
Ii was colder than it has ever been
known of i'm this state.
The farmers have sowed their oats and
are planting corn and gardens. The
22d of this month was Arbor Day here.
The scholars put new fence around
the school yard and planted flowers and
shubbery The flowers are in bloom
here in the door yards. The wheat
looks beautiful aud there are prospects of
large crop this year.
1t seems queer 10 us that they don
use any pennies here for change, When
You buy seven cents worth of anything
Won LAY five cents and when you buy
eight cents worth of anything you have
to pay ten cents They call change
nickles. dimes and bits They talk SC
queer here, they call peanuts grewevers
! Christmas mamma went down town &c
get some peanuts and she could not gei
any. She did not know until several
DAYS after, that they called then
grewevers.
We were out walking today and went
to the Boskey river. We got lots OF
stones. all kinds of shapes. We did MOI
see a snake but we saw snakes skin
The bridge is about one hundred anc
seventy-dye feet long and when We
were climbing mountains we got some
lHlHe- and cactus We saw sucl
beautiful red birds and blue birds. Ma
ma saws She would like to have :
couple of rcd birds 10 take back hom'
with her. wish you could see the buz
yards that are here and it is against tn
law 20 KIN them Mamma counted
forty of them the other day.
send nay love TO all the readers o.
/ the RE.oGD, especially TO my school
mates. ours truly,
nj ARN Ann ENloIEY.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Too Much Prosperity.

The editor of the Free Silver Banner
bent over his desk and wrote. Hot
scathing words oozed from the end Oh
his fountain pen and sprawled across
the white paper he was spelling forever
He denounced the government IN the
most fiery sentences at his command. lie
drew pathetic pen pictures of the misery
of the people under the rule OF the
money sharks and land grabbers.
starvation stalked across the land IN
seven-league boots. The monopoly
organs boasted of the return of prosper
itv. but where was this prosperity. VINO
has sent it: Surely not the people who
were compelled to earn their bread by
the sweat of their brows
A. he got up TO his work the editor
fairly ground his teeth He tossed on
sheet after sheet of matter that was
calculated TO show how all this misery
All these troubles might have been
avoided if Bryan had been elected, and
he predicted a complete oyerturning OF
affairs IN 1900.
They say prosperity is here ne
wrote. "but nobody except the monop-
ohsts can find 1t. And, not being sat
isdcd with the misery We have nc home
they want to annex lot more what
would Washington and Jefferson say II
they could suddenly appear among Us
Are our people going to permit this ms
take to be made: We think not. Two
years hence the Republican party VIII
be- swept out of Office. and then We shall
enact laws that Will Overturn the exist
ing order Of things Speed the day
when this mockery that they call pros
perity will have been forced aside
When with free silver, free trade and
isolation from the rest OF the world, We
may sit down and contemplate our
work
He read his editorial through. after II
was finished, and smiled a. he thought
of the CONSERVATION it. would spread
among 'the fools who Thought they
were satisfied with the existing orders
of things. Then he hunlDeIeu tne
sheets, and took them to the foreman
No use settin' this up, said the
latter, as he glanced through the stuff
and left thumbmarks upon the crumplec
pages.
Why the editor demanded will
fire in his eyes.
because the business manager ha
Just sent word up that he's got SO many
ads. Wei have to use the editorial col
umn to get EN- all IN.
The editor walked back to his desk
sat down, ran ms fingers through M
hair, and muttered:
On this PROSPERITY. anyhow l
there no escape from it;"-Clevelan'
Leader
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
. Here They Are.
Beet Sugar Factories Already in Operation ana
Those that VIII &c for the Campaign
of %
TACromE- ~ orHEIUoN.

TACroWE~ rs orERtupN.
Alameda Sugar 90, Alyarado, Cal,
daily capacity 500 tons.
Western Beet Sugar Co, WatsonyilIe,
Cal, daily capacity 600 tons.
Chino Valley Beet sugar Co, Chino,
Cal, daily capacity ooo tons.
Los Alamitos Sugar Co. Los Alaml-
tos, Cal. daily capacity GOO tons.
California Beet Sugar aud Refining
Co.. Crockett, Cal, daily capacity 'Go.
Oregon Sugar Co, La Grande ore,
daily capacity Boo tons.
Utah Sugar Co. Lehi, tab, daily
capacity 300 tons.
ogden Sugar Co Ogden, ! tah, daily
capacity BOO tons.
Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Co, Eddy
New Mexico, daily capacity POO tons.
Oxnard Beet Sugar Co Grand Island,
Neb., daily capacity $50 tons.
Norfolk Beet Sugar Co" Norfolk
Neb.. daily capacity 800 tons.
Minnesota Sugar Co, st. Louis Park,
Mimi, daily capacity $50 tons.
Michigan Sugar, Co., Bay City, Mich.
daily capacity $50 tons.
First New York Beet Sugar Co.
Rome, n. y daily capacity POO tons.
Binghampton Beet Sugar Co, Bing
hampton, n y, daily capacity 35o tons
Spreckels Sugar Co, Salinas, Cal
daily capacity 5000 tons.
Pacific Beet Sugar Co., Oxnard, Gal.
daily capacity 1900 tons.
Union Sugar Co., Santa Maria, Cal.
daily capacity 800 tons.
SOW BUILDING FOR TIE CAMPAIGN oi
1899
Illinois Sugar Refining Co., Pekin
III, daily capacity 700 tons.
Colorado Sugar Mfg Co.. Crane
Junction, Colo, daily capacity $50 tons
Standard Beet Sugar Co., Ames, Neb.
daily capacity 800 tons.
Bay City Sugar Co., Bay City Mich
daily capacity 600 tons.
Detroit Sugar Co, Rochester, Mich.
daily capacity 800 tons
Wolverine Sugar Co., Benton HarboI
Mich, daily capacity 300 tons.
Peninsular Sugar Refining Co., Care
Mich, daily capacity $50 tons.
West Bay City Sugar Co., West Ba
City, Mich. daily capacity 900 tons.
Alma Sugar Co., Alma, Mich, dali
capacity 900 tons.
Holland Sugar Co., Holland, Mich
daily capacity 800 tons.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
Grin Treatment.

Grip can be broken up in rom one to
three days by the prompt use OF Downs
Elixir. II has done il. 1t Will do II
Try itbcfore pneumonia OF consumption
sets in. After grip, BaXter's Mandrake
Bittcrs are natures remedy for e.xpeli
ing all grip poisons from the blood
regulating the bowels, strengthing the
nerves, aud imparting vigor TO the sys-
tenn
With these long-tried remedies at
hand, the worst case OF grip can be
conquered We sell them and guaran'
tee them 10 do as recommended, OF
money refunded. SHARAR \ MCi-
uoLLAND. Successors to b. ). Webb
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
THE DEADLOCK.

The judiciary convention at 1T. johns
j. in critical condition. The conyen-
ton was called to order Wednesday,
March sth, and Clinton county dele
gates insisted Oh having the chairman
of the organization until Friday when
II was conceded 20 liratiot county, j. y.
Mccall being the choice. Seven ballots
were taken Saturday with no result ana
an adjournment was taken until Tues
day last at one o'clock, at which time
balloting proceeded until twelve o'clock
at night with no results, there being los
ballots taken. The disposition on the
part of Clinton people is very selfish.
They insist on the denomination of
Judge Daboll. or let the party 20 with
out a candidate, practically leaving it to
the democratic nominee. All kinds of
arrangements have been proposed.
Tuesday the Gratiot delegation, thought
perhaps if some other candidate
than MIR. Searl be presented, a cOmpro-
mise could he made. TO this end il was
proposed 10 present anyone Of five
Gratiot caudidat,s, viz: o. w. Gid
dings, X. s Scarf, w. 4. Leet, y. S
Sawyer or i. l.. Potts, If they would
agree upon the same. This was ignored
with the reply that It was Daboll or ne
candidate. Judge Daboll has held til,
office ten years and four months up tt
January /, IJVO, st u salary VI SI,oU'
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
A public Notice

Il seems that Il. r. Griffith has for
gotten that he signed All agreement
with the rest of the business men OF
Alma TO close his place of business each
evening at seven O'Clock for period Of
three months We hope TINS notice vii
be sufficient to remind him that If he
wishes to retain the esteem Of the bal
ance Of the business men ne will keel
his part OF the agreement IN the future
AI-AA BgsISLss MA.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17

mere To Come Il ! INC
When YOU viii be IN sore need OF some
Ching O.. ease che pain OF bruise, cut,
bum, strain, rheumatism, DeurallEa, or
,ome. other ailmeut either on your own
person or that of some of your family.
Would IL not pc wise 20 have a bottle OF
that best of all pain cures, Henry \
Johnson Arnica and Oil Liniment,
handy D., i'm case OF any accident Also
good ion horses and cattle We sell II
and guarantee /. 20 cure or money re
funded SHAkRAR * MULHOLLAND.
Successors TO b s. Webb
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Republican Caucus

The Republicans ot Arcadia vii hold eau US
i'm the old Polla-Ay block, Alma. ou trldoy'
Mar.h 3ith. for the purpose of nominating
township ticket and trausactns 'uch o'uc'
business Us may come before the rhu'u-. .,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-03-17

A good house aud lot for sale at bar
gain. Call ON I =. Gilman. l045-f
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.


Wheat-Walla Walla, $50 500; Val.
ley, $4,000; Bluestem, 6l@6s1Sc pen
bushel.
Flour-Best grades, $S.25; graham,
So. .e5; superfne, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats-Choice white, 35@S6c; choice
gray, 33@S4c per bushel.
Barley-Feed barley, $l5@18.60;
brewing, $1S.50@l9.00 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, SIT per ton; mid
dlings, $a2; shorts, $1s; chop, sic per
ton.
Hay-Timothy, $s@1l; clover. "
as; Oregon wild hay, So per ton.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 45@60ci
seconds, 4o@421ac; dairy, So@s5ci
store, 221a@27hc.
Eggs-21 @2216c per dozen.
Oregon full cream, lSc
Young America, lac; new cheese loo
per pound.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $3.00@
400 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs
$2.O0@3.50; geese, $6.00@7 for old
$4.5O@6.50 for young; ducks, $4.60@
500 per dozen; turkeys, live, l2h@
lao per pound.
Potatoes--50 @ 60c per sack; sweets
2@2Ac per pound.
Vegetables-Beets, 81; turnips, 90c
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cauli
flower, zoo per dozen; parsnips, VI
beans, 5@6c per pound; celery, zoe
75c per dozen; cucumbes, SOC pc
box; peas, 3@4c per pound; tomatoes
25c per box; green corn, l2h &
I5c per dozen.
Hops-7@ 10c; 1897 crop, 6@6c.
Wool-valley, 12@lSc per pound
Eastern Oregon, 8@1sc; mohair, 27(
80c per pound.
| Mutton-Gross, best sheep, wethel
and ewes, 31Sc; dressed mutton, e1
70 per pound; lambs, 718c per pound.
Hogs-Gross, choice heavy, $5.O'
light and feeders, $3.50; dresset
$6.00@7.00 per 100 pounds.
Beef-Gross, top steers, $3.50 @ 4.0'
COWS, $3.50@4.00; dressed beef, e@i
per pound.
veal-Large, eH@7Kc; small, 81
s}kc per pound.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
sRADsTRsET's REVIEW.
Dlstributive Trade IL still OF an kn'
couraging Volume.

Dlstributive Trade IL still OF an I'm
couraging Volume.
Bradstreets says: Distributive trade,
while smaller at some markets, is still
Of encouraging volume, industry 10 ac-
tive, railway earnings heavy, prices
still tend upward and bank clearings
increase, while failures lessen. Fall
festivals and other celebrations at sew
eral cities have had an appreciabls
effect upon retail trade, and proved .
stimulating factor in Wholesale lines.
Industrial activity is widespread, and
strikes are fewer and less costly than
in most years. Though lessened by
holidays, bank clearings, swelled partly
by heavy October disbursements and
partly by general business expanding
tend to enlarge as the season advances.
Business failures are apparently az
q minimum, and liabilities are certain
" less costly than for many years past.
Prices as Q whole manifest aggressive
strength. Farm products are especiai'
" prominent in this direction, the
South's greatest staple, cotton, owing
TO short crop, advancing, and, owing
to active speculation leading in extent
Of gain with an advance of nearly n
q cent for the week, of nearly cents
as compared with year ago and OF
quite AZ cents as compared with the
low water price touched in the season
of 1889. .
Iron and steel hold all OF their ole
strength.
| Wheat (including fiour) shipments TO-
the week aggregate 5, 1S3, SSs bushels
against S,s72,455 bushels last week
s, 5,497, 27s bushels in the corresponding
week of 1898, 4,s23, ,46l bushels u
1897, 4,05o,772 in 1896, and 2,244,S2
bushels in 1895. Since July /. thi
season, the exports of wheat Aggregate
So, 500, AIS bushels, against 50, ,4ss, IL
bushels last year, and go, $50, ,4l2 bush
els in 1878.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
:l:l:l2YD

ssThe craze for fast time on railways
Is taking new feature" observed q
prominent railroad official TO Star
writer recently. ''It ia the shortening
Of lines and reconstruction OF surveys
in order to make given line as
straight as possible between two points.
It is, in fact, scheme 70 make time
by saving distance. A railway with
out curve or cutting is, OF course,
splendid thing from an engineering
standpoint, but it is very tedious
affair to the passenger. To thoroughly
realize how extremely monotonous
long Journey on q railway without
curve or cutting is, one must travel on
the road from Buenos Ayres to the
Andes. That railroad beats all known
records for having 400 miles Of tracks
almost on line, such as mathemati-
clans describe as the shortest distance
between any two points. No one who
has not seen this remarkable stretch OF
road, straight In front and behind as
far as the eye can reach, even when
aided by q field glass, can grasp what 1t
means or what an amount OF wearisome
monotony it involves and entails. -
Washington Star.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
A wnr-Time Arlsssks.

In q Missouri court recently rather
novel case came up for decision. Dur
ing the civil war a certain Northern
soldier went into the service, leaving q
young wife at home. In due time the
news reached him that his bride had
died and when the war ended he did
not return to his old home, but settled
out West. He married again, and with
his second wife accumulated large
amount of property in nratt county
Not long ago he learned that his first
wife had not died, but, supposing him
TO have been killed, had married an
other man. This man died, leaving
her widow. When the Pratt county
man learned these facts he brought suit
for divorce, and the woman in the East
heard Of 1t and went out and fought
the case, asserting claim to part OF
the Pratt county mans property,
However, after the lawyers had made
a great fight before him, the judge
granted the divorce and left the Pratt
county man free to marry the woman
who has been living with him for many
years as his wife.--N. Y. Tribune.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
ALONG THE COAST.
s1ems Of General Interest Cleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
states.
The stage Robbery.


Il transpired that Van 9. Alexander,
the man who gave up $l7o of the money
stolen from the United States mails ON
the stage near westfali Or, on Sep
tember %, is admittedly the main perr
son responsible for the hold-up, The
indications during the examination in
United States Commissioner Hailey's
court here on Saturday, pointing to
Alexander as the one planning the rob-
berry, with the two boys as his accom-
plices, are confirmed by the develop
ments. 1t is announced here that this
phase of the case will be called TO the
attention of Judge Bellinger, OF the
federal court at Portland, before whom
the two boys are to be tried.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19

The o. R. g. N. and Oregon Short
Line have added buffet, smoking and
library car to their Portland Chicago
through train, and dining car service
has been inauguarated. The train is
equipped with the latest chair cars,
day coaches and luxurious first-class
and ordinary sleepaIs. Direct connec-
tion made at Granger with Union Pa
cifc. and at Ogden with Rio Grande
line, from all points in Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho to all Eastern cities
For information, rates, ETC., call on
any o. r. s. N. agent. or address W.
H. Hurlburt, General Passenger Agent,
Portland.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
Zig steam Heating Plant.

Upwards of 5000, 900 is to be spent
by the Boston capitalists who have pur-
chased the plant of the Seattle Steam
Heat g Power Company, and six Of
the street railway lines of Seattle, in
the erection of new and modern power
plant and in the rebuilding and the
distributing SYSTEM. This part of the
plant will be almost wholly recon
structed, new mains being laid In con-
formity with the latest ideas OF steam
engineering. This is but the beginning
81 large improvements which will be
made. Plans are now being drawn for
the new building and plant, which will
be finished by January l, and for the
rebuilding of several of the street car
lines recently purchased.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19

At Tacoma while In some lines tho
supply Of skilled labor In equal 10 the
demand. there are Others in which EN-.
ployers complain Of lack Of help and
could employ moro men II the right
kind offered. Men employed ON scrap
ers and graders ON the streets are paid
$i.75 day, while men in positions
recurring somewhat harder work get W
a day. Skilled artisans, such as car
pcnters for finishing work, get from
S2. .25 10 80 a day, Machinists' wages
run from $2.25 10 $3.50. depending
largely upon the ability Of the man and
the nature OF the work.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
sIlliIena.

A small boy was one day asked by q
clergyman ii he knew what was meant
by energy and enterprise.
''No, sir, don't think | do"
The clergyman said;
"well. will tell you, my boy. One
Of the richest men in the world came
here without u shirt ON his back, and
now he has millions"
"Millionsi' replied the boy. How
many does he put on at time"--
Spare Moments.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
Motioned Sustained.

Judge Burnett, of Salem, has sus-
tanned motion for non-suit against
the plaintiff in the case of L. H. Nc
Mahon VS.. The Canadian Pacific Rail-
way Company. The action was begun
to recover about $3.50, alleged to be due
the plaintiff on account of advertising
In the Woodburn independent and the
Salem Independent. The defense
claimed that the agent who made a
contract for the advertising had no au-
thority to do 50, and that the newspa-
per company was to take pay in trans
portation.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19

There 10 more Catarrh In this section Of the
country than all other diseases put toSethers
and until the last few years was supposed TO 90
incurable. For great many years doctors pro.
nounced IL local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failtng 20 cure
with local treatment. pronounced u incnrapie.
Science has proven catarrh TO pe acons.,.u' i..,
tionel treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, mau-
uiactured by r. J. Cheney a Co. Toledo, OHIO,
Is the only constitutional cure on the market.
n teaspoonful. II acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system. They ohei
one hundred dollars for any case u taie Y
cure. Send for circulars and testimonies. ~
dress, F.J. CHENEY u Co.' Auee""sv'
Sold BY Druggists, 7bc.
Uall,s Family Pills are the best.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects Of the well known remedy,
SYRUP or FTes, manufactured by the
CALTFoRNrA FIa SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
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incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
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dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
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every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and It's acting on the Kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
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laxative.
n the process Of manufacturing hgt
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remedy are obtained from SIENNA anc
other aromatic plants, by Q method
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Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-10-19

The Willapa hatchery will be COM
pleted this week. AS steelheads are
more numerous in Willapa river than
In any other stream in this section, a
special effort will be made 10 propagate
them here, and to stock other streams
form this hatchery. The propagation
of steelheads has not as yet been at
tempted in any Washington hatchery.