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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
Free Mail Delivery for Kick
man.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March %, 1900.

WASHINGTON, ID. g.,
March %, 1900
Hickman Courier
Hickman, by,
Dear SIR: have been informed by
the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral that the Department desires to inn
prove the postal facilities for the peo-
pie in the rural districts of the country.
In order to carry out this desire, the de-
partment has determined to require the
star route mail carriers to deliver mail
TO all persons who apply in the manner
directed by the Department TO have
delivered, and who will erect box for
the deposit OF their mail. The manner
of applying for the delivery of mail at
the residence Is as follows The person
desiring the mail delivered to his resi-
dence should file with the postmaster
at the postoffice TO which his mail is adj
dressed a request in writing for the de-
livery of his mail to the carrier on the
route to be deposited in said mail box at
the risk of the addressee, and II shall
then be the duty of the carrier Of the
route to receive from the postmaster any
mail matter that may be addressed TO
him, outside of the mail sack, and 20
carry said mani matter and deposit it in
the proper boxes placed on the line of
the route for this purpose. Such SER
vice, of course, TO be without charge TO
the addressee. This improvement eau
only be inaugurated when star route
contracts are renewed. l have been re-
quested by the Department to commune
cate with the people of the First Con
gresslonal District and ascertain their
wishes IN this respect so that if it Is de-
sired, the star route contracts, when re-
newed. may contain the above provis-
ions.
Will You kindly give this letter place
in you paper, or make mention of the
contents thereof so that the people liv-
ing along th1 postal route where the
contract expires may avail themselves
of the benefits of the Departments sug-
gestiOns.
Very truly your friend,
CHAs. X. WHEELER.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30

If troubled with rheumatism, give
Chamberlain's Pain Balm a trial, 1t
VIII not cost you a cent if il does no
good. One application viii relieve the
pain. IL also cures sprains and bruises
in one third the time required by any
9th + treatment. Cuts, burns, frost
bites, qulnsey, pain in side and chest,
glandular and other swellings are quick
ly cured by applying it. Every bottle
warranted. Price, 20 and so cents.
Cowgirl q Cowgirl. Hickman, and A,
M. Shaw, State Line, druggists.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
THE CONTEST TRIAL.

Judge Field not only reafiirmed his
inst decision Saturday but settled the
questions of fact raised about Gov.
Beekham's age, the time of Goebel's
death etc, and then went step further
and declared Taylor's present attempt to
hold ON 10 usurpation and issued an or
der directing him TO vacate at once The
case is expected TO come up in the court
Of appeals next Friday.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
Banker Routs a RObber.

y. X. Garrison. Cashier of the bank of
Ihornville, Ohio, had been robbed OF
health by serious lung trouble until he
tried DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption. Then he wrote: SIT is the
best medicine ever used for a severe
cold or bad case of lung trouble. al
ways keep bottle on hand" Don't suf-
fer with Coughs, Colds, or any Throat,
Crest or Lung trouble when you can be
cured so easily. Only soc and 81 90. Trial
bottles free 1t all drug stores.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
ATTENTION.

Members of ]. B. Ward Camp No. 98l
u. q. V. The annual dues are now due,
All who have not paid will do so at once.
Also all members that expect to attend
the reunion at Louisville will please let
me know by the LIST of April, so arrange
ments can be made for board, etc.
Ton DILLON, SR.. Com.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30

Representative Charles X. Wheeler
last week introduced a bill in Congress
directing the Mississippi River Commits
sion 10 cause a survey of the Mississippi
river front opposite Wickliffe. Ballard
county. Ii is proposed to construct a
levee that will protect the town from
overflow,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
HICKMAN, FULTON COUNTY KY, MARCH 30. 1000
Laces, EmbTOideTies,
Handkerchief and
White Goods.

Our lines OF these are the
completcst we have ever
shOwn. Notwithstanding
the heavy advance in cot
ton, are selling them at old
prices.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30
A NEW LAW.
Look Out 6rocers for the Pure Food
Law.

The law recently passed by the Legis-
lature with an emergency clause, known
as the Pure Food Law, has been put in
TO effect in Louisville and number of
indictments returned against grocers for
handling adulterated foods without la
bells required by law. A test case has
been made and Judge Barker has held
the law 10 be constitutional. The in
dicted parties are 10 be put on trial In
dictments are liable TO be returned in
every county in the State. Read up.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30

Ninety nine times out of hundred
the spasmodic advertiser, the man who
advertises to-day little, one day next
week good deal, and then none at all
for long time, is the very fellow who
claims that advertising does not pay.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-03-30

Miss Eva Simons, of Memphis. is
visiting her sister, Mrs, b. j. Hertweck.
Douglas Island news., 1900-05-23

The excursion steamer Queen will probably make her first appearance at Douglas and Juneau this season on June 18th.
 Skagtown accuses Juneau of trying to assist Haincs in securing the loca- tion of detachment of U. S. troops at that place.
 The White Pass R. R. has just issued an elaborate folder, with maps, statis- tics and data concerning the great Northwest.
 Bennett will celebrate the Queens birthday, May 24, in grand style. 5000 in prizes will be distributed for various field sports.
 Doc Holiday, formerly wharfnger of Troup's wharf at Wrangel, will have charge of the railway company's wharf at White Horse.
 Twenty-Five men employed in the construction of the Dominion Tele- graph company at Atlin recently struck for higher wages.
 The festive burglar continues to find Skagway an inviting field for his shady transactions, and is industriously ply ing his aVocation.
 The Skagway and the Lake Bennett base ball clubs will fight for the cham pionship at the latter place on the Queens birthday.
 Ten tons of giant powder are stored within half mile of Skagway and ner- vous people thereabouts have troubles with their dreams.
 The SIoop Prospector, with a crew of four, left Juneau last week for Icy straits where some mining property will be developed.
 Dr. and Mrs. o. F. SearI, Skagway pioneers, have left that place for Nome, as has H A. Day, one of the leading at torneys of that city.
 Tracklaying on the White Pass R. R. beyond Caribou Crossing has been sus- pended pending the opening of naviga- tion on Lake Bennett.
 Cooks Inlet was open for navigation this year much earlier than for several years past. Her waters were navigable as early as March 2Oth
 J. w. Stanstield rescued a man from drowning in AtIin lake while on his way to Skagway last week. Thin ice was the cause of the mishap.
 Chisholm, Hall and Hanson are building a 1000 foot Hume on the placer claim at the mouth of Mckinley creek, in the Porcupine district.
 Oats sowed one month ago at Dyea have already attained a height of six inches. Yet some people say that Alas ka is not an agricultural country.
 A number of steam shoveIs and hy- draulic outfits will be in operation on the Kenai peninsula this year, and this section is said to be a particularly in viting one for this class of industry.
Douglas Island news., 1900-05-23
Alex SrnaIlwood, Prop.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
Mining District of Wrangel

Mining District of NrangeI District of Alaska.
 To c. ". Darling:
 You are hereby notified that l have ex- pended Three Hundred Dollars, in labor and improvements, upon the Alma lode to wit: Big Alma, Little Alma and Broken Pick claims, consolidated, on Prince of Wales Is- land, :. E. Alaska, as will appear by certif- cate filed December End, 1899, in the office of the recorder of said county Cor District), in order to hold said premises, under the pro- visions of section 2S24, Revised Statutes of fhe United States being the amount requir- ed to hold the same for the year ending Decem Der 31st, 1889. And if within ninety days from the service of this notice Cor within ninety days after this notice by pub Iication), you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as CO., owner, your interest in said claim will be- come the property of the subscriber under section 2S2l, of said statutes.
 Sign"ture:
 ALEX BERNSTEIN.
 Trustee. First Publication March II, 1900, Last publication June l5, 1900.
Douglas Island news., 1900-05-23
ALASKA BRIEFS.

in a short time.
 Skagway has inaugurated clean streets campaign.
 Forty-fve men are at work at the Suettisham cannery.
 The old soldiers of Skagway will ob- serve Decoration Day.
 Two steamers will ply the waters of the Stickeen this summer.
 Cars are expected to be running into White Horse by July 3lst.
 The trail over the ice on Lake Tagish is now thing of the past.
 The steamer Reaper, being built at Bennett, is nearing completion.
 Skagway boasts of Sl59,4OO worth of building improvements last year.
 A rate war is threatened by owners of steamers plying Alaskan waters.
 An expedition has left Skagway to prospect the Cooks Inlet country.
 There are 500 men at work along the lake division of the White Pass R. k.
 J. w. Graham killed 9O-pound mountain sheep near Glacier last week.
 A new strike is reported from Living stone creek, a tributary of the Big Sal mon.
 E.O. Sylvester has been elected pres ident of the Democratic Club of Skag- way.
 Ketchikan proposes to spend 5000 to make it's 4th of July celebration sue, cess.
 Walter Carter, a well-known Alaska miner, left last week for Delagoa bay, South Africa.
 The steamer w. K. Merwin was the first of the Yukon fleet to leave Daw- son for Nome.
 The Mission Indians have organized base ball club and are looking for paleface scalps.
 Wild geese and ducks and other spe- cies of water fowl are very plentiful along the coast.
 It has been proposed that the govern ment stock Kadiak Island with 150 or 200 head of deer.
 A crew of men has been taken from Juneau to Montana basin to develop the Crown Point.
 The Norweigans of Skagway celebrat- ed the anniversary of their national natal day, May r.
 The Atlin Globe plant has been nov ed to White Horse, where j. T. Bethune will publish a paper.
 Bear are beginning to show up in the Porcupine country, sure sign that spring is getting ripe.
 Robert Sengfelder of Skagway writes from Seattle that 12O vessels will sail from that port for Nome.
 M. J. Heney, the White Pass R. R. says that he is hiring all men who apply for work.
 The Yukon steamer Florence s. has. been chartered to run on the Koyukuk to the new gold diggings.
 Beginning June 1st the Seaolin will | make two trips a week from Juneau to Sumdum and Snettisham'
 Ten and fifteen degrees below zero is considered exceptionally cold weather n the Cooks Inlet country.
 There is not a soul at the once popu- ous Sheep Camp, the Scales or at the Canyon on the old Chilkoot trail.
 A pack train that recently tried the alice route on Lake Bennett, lost nine head of mules by going through the ice. The steamer Flora left her winter quarters at Lower Le Barge last week md started in wake of the ice for Daw- son.
 One hundred and fifty tons of ma erial for the Atlin- Quesnelle telegraph inc were unIoaded at Wrangel last week.
 Skagway sportsmen amuse them selves by shooting eagles. Five or six lave been slaughtered in the past two
Douglas Island news., 1900-05-23

First Publication March IT, 1900. Last publication June l5, l9OO.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16

ity OF Instances where business men have
been induced TO enter the arena OF poll
tics they have become as partisan in the
protection OF friends and strikers as the
professional politician.
Undoubtedly municipal ownership OF
public utilities gives the city the oppor-
tunity to reduce expense of citizenship,
and in placing the city's revenues In the
hands OF the city government provides
1t with the means OF effecting needed and
permanent Improvements. But 1t can not
DO denied upon the other hand. II the
control Of these revenues be left to clique
or faction that perpetuates itself by ex-
tended patronage within such clique or
faction--widened to suit political emer-
gencies as they arise-that an effectual
remedy has not yet been found for mu-
nicipal mlsmanagement and extravaganza.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
REruGro COUNTY CONVENTION.
Chairman Saw to 1t that Bailey Was
Not Endorsed.

Refuglo, Texas, May 1.-THE county
democratic convention of Refugio county
met today and appointed delegates to the
various conventions and instructed as fol-
lows: j. D. Sayers, for governor; Finley
for comptroller; Storey for railroad COM
missioner; Peasants and Gill for judges Of
the First supreme judicial district; r.
Kleberg for congress- unin Sfrlcted for
representative to legislature for Eighty
third district. No senatorial instruction
or delegates appointed, and no county
nominations and no delegates appointed
or instructions for district judge, Twenty
sourth judicial district, or district attorney
for same district. The sentiment OF this
county is largely for J w. Bailey. who
would have been Endorsed but for the fact
that the chairman was a Chiffon man. and
appointed the committee on resolutions,
then retired with them and wrote the same
according to his own ideas. When asked
about it, he said I'VE were opposed to
mentioning Bailey"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
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THE MUNICIPAL PROBLEM.

Municipal mlsmanagement and extrava-
gance have long been propositions to
claim the attention of reformers and
economists, These have not been able 10
evolve systems OF city. government sufa-
cient unto the evils complained OF.
Municipal ownership of public utilities
has been tried and to degree has been
satisfactory to the extent of trial Il is
doubtful. however II this is the solution
OF municipal ills so long as partisan poll
ties shall control in city elections.
Public utilities may be cheapened to the
consumer. but SO long as fractional poll
ties shall control in the administration OF
municipal AFFAIRS 1t is quite obvious that
Acknowledgement and extravaganza must
continue to exist
All that municipal ownership OF utilities
might accomplish in the way of reducing
the expenses OF city residence is Offset
BIZ system OF politics that opens the
route to an extension OF official patronage
and affords an invitation TO increased ex-
penditures-rarely resisted by the faction
In power. To remedy this evil and to de-
stroy this dangerous tendency newspapers
and economic writer's have In vain begged
of business men that they take hand
in municipal politics, to the end that fac
tional strife be obylated and the best and
moet wholesome public interest be con-
served But strange to say. in the major
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
HOUSTON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 1o.
TEN PAGES TODAY.
NEw lrnsEY,s coMpErIron.

In the inception OF the mammoth trust
gamble New Jersey saw It's opportunity
20 replete It's treasury by inviting the COM
bines 10 organize under It's liberal charter
laws. The result way that, while otner
states In dread OF the evil brood opposed
their organization with more or less re-
strictive laws and legislation, New Jersey
spread wide Its welcoming arms and babe
them enter, multiply and overrun the
earth. They came, they fructihed under
the inspiration of congenial air and eli
mate, and have about possessed the earth
and the fullness thereof. For all these rare
facilities extended the octopus" New Jer-
sey has enjoyed a plethorlc treasury and
brought down on It's devoted head the
maledictions of ITS sister states.
New Jersey had monopoly In the busi-
ness Of trust manufacture and New Jersey.
revellng in its shame and blinking it's I'll
procured gold, laughed as far up It's sllken
sleeve as the crook OF tho elbow at the
rage 1t had aroused IN the simple act Of
feathering It's own nest.
But New jerseys monopoly is no more
Little Delaware, almost lost to fame and
public concern except for the memory OF
tho stream Washington had the hnrdihood
to GROSS when winter held It In grip and
blocked It's current with chunks of ice. now
ambles to the front and proposes to mako
It easier and cheaper for trusts to organize
under rs laws than under those of New
Jersey.
Thus ia Now Jersey threatened with the
extinction OF its glory and the depletion
OF its treasury.
Competition has laid Its wthering blight
upon the blue State, and 1t must reduce
its figures II it shall prevent the trusts
from seeking a more inviting field,
The New York Commercial, commenting
on the passing OF New Jerseys glory as
well as on the methods of its rival says:
Delaware knows what she wants and asks
for II. she does not put uu any snwdust
game. She has policy OF unsophistioated
irankness in going straight TO the point OF
her desires. only equaled by that of GER
tam great ADMIRAL In going for the presI-
dency. Delaware wants New Jerseys cor
poration business and just blurts It right
out In the broadost sort Of way, Jersey lays
OF corporations organizing there. Delaware
hNes her like tax at Is cents per $1,000 Jersey
lays a franchise tax on such corporations
Of l-l0 OF ! per cent. while her dlminutive
rival lays but 100 of per cent. each up to
SoOo,00O Up TO s50Oo00O Jerseys Tux is
l-2O OF por cent. while Deiawares Is but
half as much Over 100000 jerseys tax
is $50 million and Delawarc's $50.
Competition destroys monopoly as a gen.
eral proposition, but here is competition
that encourages monopoly in one direction
more evil and monstrous than all--whlle
discouraging monopoly simply in the price
which monopoly must pay to get into
business What next? 1t was thought
New Jersey had reached the limit of lib
erality. Does this mean that tho States
are arriving at the conclusion that tho
trust is an economic fixture, and that It
is good 'ilnanoe" to get into the field for
the business Of trust organization?
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
IN THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
(BY L. A. pETITl

Austin, Texas, May 15--Today's San An
tonic Express contained the following:
Austin. Texas, May 15.-The friends
OF Congressman h. f. Burke of the
sixth district were much gratitied over
MS success in Navarro county. which
mas given him the nomination for an
other term. IL Is stated by persons
VINO arrived today from Corsicana that
the race between Hon Ham Gossett
ana Burke was made on the expansion
issue, Notwithstanding assertions that
have been made to the contrary, and
that Burke's success Is looked upon
in the Sixth district as a victory for
the advocates Of the limited expansion
declaration embraced in the demo-
cratic State platform OF two years ago.
1T is the opinion In State official cir
cles here that the result OF the Sixth
district Will have an important effect
and that 1t indicates that it is the will
OF the democratic party that the COM
ing State convention should reaffirm
the limited expansion plank embraced
In the platform of the last conven-
ton.
The above Is without foundation in fact
In, the slightest particular In the first
place, there was no visible qualification
expressed by any one here over Judge
Burke's success in Navarro county, and. in
the next place, no one arrived here from
Corsicana. nor made the statements re-
ported by the Express correspondent.
AS to constituting Burkes success as a
victory for the Limited expanslonists, >
no one but the Express correspondent
who alone knows what limited expansion
means-has thought OF 1t in that way,
Neither is 1t the opinion in official circles
that the result in the Sixth district will
have the effect the aforesaid correspondent
hopes for. The counties of the Sixth dis
trict have invariably endorsed Mr.. Bailey
and his position on expansion to date. and
the issues Burke ran on in Navarro coun-
ty were Trinity navigation and new
Federal building for Corslcana-nothing
more. AS to expansion, the Burke people
were mighty careful to keep quiet in that
county.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16
NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE.
Tnrrant County Grand Jury Instruct
ed tn Investigate.

Fort Worth. Texas, May 15.--In charg-
ing the grand Jury District Judge Dunk
lin took occasion to say something concern
ing the loss OF Ifs through negligence;
ne instructed the body to look carefully
into the cases of negligent homicide.
whether committed In carelessly doing of
a lawful act In such way as to cause death
OF some one or carelessly doing OF some
unlawful act when resulted IN the death
OF some other person. He said that II all
OF the employees OF corporations and agents
or employees OF any other persons were
prosecuted for negllgently killing some
body that the lives OF many persons would
be saved, the corporations and employers
would be relieved OF many heavy damage
suits, and the courts OF a large part OF Its
litigation. He said that the law doesn't
contemplate that parties who carelessly
caused the death OF another shall be In
dicted for murder. but It does provide, he
stated that when they do an act. lawful
or unlawful In a careless manner where
so doing ieopardizes and destroys the life
OF another being and the testimony shows
beyond reasonable doubt as 1t has to
IN all criminal cases, that II was care
lessly done that the party doing the care
less net shall be punished by criminal
prosecution not for murder. but for negli-
gent homicide.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-16

all kinds Texas ought 10 be among the lead
ers Of this or any other country. We have
source OF wealth In our timber second TO
no other OF the resources OF our great state.
~
year for the election OF legislature that
Will give the press of Texas Just libel law
Caldwell News-Chronicle.
II legislature Is chosen that Is composed
of really intelligent and broad -viewed men,
men who are not professional politicians and
have not been running for office often enough
to treasure grievance" against some little
irresponsible paper that they have allowed to
emhltter them against the press as whole,
the reputable. responsible papers OF the
State may get some degree OF justice and
protection. But II the politician continues on
top--he would fetter rather than free the
press.
TIE agitation looking to the dammlng OF the
Rio Grande has begun. When II Is accom-
plished especially by international agreement,
aud irrigation bitches are dug, the valley of
this river Will be sufficiently productive to
sustain 1000, 600 people. II may be a Utopan
dream, but. II is entirely possible OF realiza-
tion.--Laredo Times.
II would not be "a Utopian dream II we
could once get the government back to the
development of our old territory instead OF
pushing its conquests and expanding Its en-
ersies and millions IN distant fields. The arid
regions Of our great West could be made to
furnish free homes for millions of people If
fourth of the money were devoted to their
reclamation and preparation for agricultural
purposes that we arc now wasting on the
Philippines where no opportunities for home
seekers are presented and whose commerce
In hundred years would not equal the pos
sibilities of West Texas and the Rio Grande
valley under thorough system of irrigation