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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-07

Onion Associated Press Dlspasch TO Daily
chicffaln.
Buffalo, n. T.. Sept. 6, @ p. M
President McKinley was shot at
the exposition about 4 O'Clock this
afternoon.
The President was receiving In
the music hall when approached
By a well dressed stranger, who
a. he extended his right hand, T,
leveled revolver, that was cover
81 with a handkerchief, with his
Def and fred two ehole 10 rapid
succession. One ball entered the
Presidents left breast, the other
penetrating both walIs Of the abb
domen. When the President was
shot he fell into the arms Of De.
tective Gerry.
Detective Foster. who was
standingnear the President, knock
ed the assassin down and with
other officers quickly removed
him from the grounds to cave him
from being torn to pieces by the
enraged crowd. He gave bic name
A. Frederick Nieman and his resi-
dence as Detroit. He is Of polish
nationality.
When asked why he shot the
President, lie replied:
II am an anarchist; did my
duty."
The president was al once re-
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-07

II was shortly after 4 p. m. VIII en-
one Of the throng which surround.
ed the presidential party, a me-
dinm-sized man Of ordinary ap-
pearance and plainly dressed in
bIhck, approached as If to greet
he president.
Both Secretary Cortelyou and
PRESIDENT Milburn noticed that the
mans hand was swalhed in a
bAndage OF handkerchief. Reports
81 bysianders differ as to which
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-07
BADGET IS

ing waves of applause that ever
and anon swept here and there
.over the assemblage.
There was an instant Of almost
complete silence The pres idens
stood stock still. a look Of hesi-
fancy, almost bewilderment, on
his face. Then be retreated a
step, while q pallor began TO steal
over his features. The multitude,
only partially awars that some
thing serious had happened, paus-
ed in surprise. while necks were
craned and all eyes turned as one
to the ros,rum where great trag-
ecy was being enacted.
Then came commosion. With
the leap OF tiger three men threw
themselves forward, as with one
impulse, and sprang toward the
would be assassin. Two OF them
we're United States secret ser
vice men who were on the out
look, and whose duty it was
to guard against just such
calamity as bad here befallen the
president and the nation. The
third was bystander, a negro,
who had only an instant previous
ly grasped in his dusky palm the
hand of the president. As one
man the trio hurled themselves
upon the presidents assailant-
In twinkling be was borne 10
the ground, his weapon was
wrested from his grasp and strong
arms pinioned him down.
Then the multitude which
shronged the edifice began to come
TO realizing sense of the awful
ness of the scene of which they
had been unwilling witnesses. A
murmur arose, spread and swelled
to a hum Of confusion, then grew
to babel of sounds and later to
pandemonium of noises.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-07

moved to the hospital 10 the
Service building and the balls
probed Tor. The bullet that en-
tered the bseas; was found resting
on the breast bone and removed.
The abdominal wound ie more
serious and the ball has not been
located. Mrs. Mckinley has not
as yet been potifed OF the shoot
ing.
LATER-sept. z, ia. N. )-The
bullet which caused the abdomin-
al wound has been successfully
extracted and DR.. Rixey says the
President will recover.
Buffalo, N. T.. Sept. z. (6 a. m. }
"A bulletin just issued by physi-
clans reads: "The President is
resting easily. Temperature 10S,
pulse no."
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-09-07

Ia the event of the death OF
President Mckinley vice President
Roosevelt would become president.
The law Of presidential succession,
as fixed by the Forty ninth Con-
gress, is as follows:
vice-president, secretary ofstate,
secretary Of treasury, secretary of
war, attorney general, postmaster
general, secretary Of navy, secre-
tary of interior. 1t does not in
clude secretary of agriculture, as
his Office was created after the act.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
HAS THINGS HAPPEN,
An Illinois Town That Always Has
Queer Goings On.
Where the Preachers Once Struck
for a Raise I'm Salary-Travel-
ing Freaks Always Hit
the Town.

Congressman Robert Roberts Hit
made speech in little church out in
Palmyra township the other day. The
church was the particular edifce in
which the only preachers strike chron-
icled in history took place The church,
the occasion of the speech and some in
cidents of the immediate county sur
rounding furnish material for story
of more than usual interest.
Congressman Hit had BEEN invited
to. speak at the dedication of a grave
yard. The United States government
had recognized the occasion by sending
a big cannon, to be placed within the
Enclosure of Palmyra cemetery. Be-
sides Mr.. Hit, other government Off
cials took part in the exercises.
In the cemetery rested all The pio-
neers of the township. The burying
ground had been furnished up and re-
arranged. with a creditable attempt
at landscape art. In one corner a great
granite block marks the grave. Of
Charles Page. who during the civil war
became war correspondent of an
eastern paper, and was finally appoint
ed consul to Switzerland by President
Lincoln, While Page was abroad he
learned the process Of condensing milk.
lie sent for two or three of his broth
ers. all Of whom took advantage of the
opportunity, married Swiss wives, and
came back to America to make Lee
county famous in producing food ar
ticle now known throughout the world.
The Pages became immensely wealthy.
and some of them lie buried in this lit
tie resting place. One of the Page fam
lily was the first male child born in the
county.
The church in which the speeches
were made is neat two-story building,
the first floor being used as district
schoolhouse and the second, or upper
part, a substantially furnished church
room. This was the scene of the famous
strike of the preachers, which occurred
only few years ago. The congrega-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
Lived In Three Centuries.

Tacoma has one resident that will
have lived IN three centuries, if she
survives until after midnight, and there
is no reason to think that she will not
continue to live for years, yet as far as
her present physical condition would
indicate. She was born the latter part
of the Eighteenth century, has lived
all through tle Nineteenth century
and will tomorrow make start on the
Twentieth century. Mrs. Margaret
Allen, aged some days over the 102
years is the lady who bears the dis
tinction Of having lived in three GEN.
turtles. She makes her home with her
daughter, Mrs. John Morrison, in a
modest cottage at 9O4 North J. street.
A party of friends and neighbors
gathered at the Morrison home on the
evening of Saturday, December %,
three days before Christmas, to cele-
bra'e the one hundred and second an
adversary of Mrs. Aliens birth, and a
gay time they all enjoyed. Not the
least merry IN the party was the aged
centenarian, who danced and sang
just to show that time had neither
aged ler heart nor stiffened her limbs.
Mrs. Allen is a native of Scotland
She was born in 1venshire, Isle of Ust.
December %, 1897. Her father was
Duncan Macdonald, a ship carpenter
He lived to be very old, but as the
family has long lived on the American
continent they have no record OF his
death, except to say that it only oc-
cured only a short time before he
would have been centenarlan, had he
been favored with a little longer lease
OF life. Mrs. Allen even now occasion.
ally speaks of her father, OF whom she
was very proud, and expresses a won
der whether he is not still alive. Her
mother died when a comparatively
young woman, and she was reared bv
steprnothcr OF whom she was fond
and of VIII n she frequently speaks,
Tacoma News.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
The Lumbermen's Mercantile Company,
MARK E. REED, Manager

tIOn was one of the union order IN
which Methodists, Baptists.s I'resby-
terians and Congregationalists were
concerned-a preacher Of each tlenprn-
ination rotated in preaching. the com
pensation being five dollars a Sabbath.
One Hateful day the preachers came
together, and after earnest discussion
signed an agreement not to preach for
less than ten dollars a Sunday. The
matter on being communicated to the
congregation, composed of wealthy
farmers, raised commotion. 1t was
at once determined that the increase
should not be countenanced. The four
preachers were obdurate, and in con-
sequence the church was closed for a
year. An inqusitiee stranger who hap-
Pened in the neighborhood during this
interregnum was told the story by one
OF the former worshipers, who added:
1T simmered down to question of
hell or ten dollars, and we wouldn't
give up the ten!"
Not far from this church is the for
mer abode of William Meyers, known to
everybody in Lee county as Prophet
: Meyers, who had become impressed
with the belief that he owned the earth.
lie made and set up in his dooryard a
number of images, including Adam, Eve
and the serpent. 1t is said to have been
motley collection. People would drive
% miles 10 see the prophets display
| When Hayes was inaugurated president
the prophet" suddenly appeared in
Washington. He called at the white
house and demanded the keys of the
exective mansion, saying that the whole
| of it belonged to him. Hewas hustled off
to Jail, but not before some one from
Lee county had seen and recognized
him. He was quietly liberated and sent
off to his home in Palmyra township.
Some time ago a postal Inspector was
sent out here to go over a route select.
ed for rural free delivery. The old
Sterling road forms part of the route.
The official was at loss to know what
| had broken loose in the neighborhood.
lie saw people walking along on stills,
a woman wheeling wheelbarrow and
innumerable ragged and emaciated BIZ
cyclists. Where on earth are all of
these people coming from and what are
they doing?" he asked.
"Oh, this is an everyday occurrence"
was the answer. "These are freaks go
| ing arr End the world. This is the great
n1bli \ highway across the state, and
lneyS1ai come this way."-Cor. Chicago
Post
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
nNGLsE & GUNDERSON, Prop
Grant 6. Angle, Editor.
announcement.

With the New Year and Century Mr..
G. B. Gunderson succeeds to an inter-
est in the JOURNAL newspaper and
printing business, but there will be no
change in methods or management
except such Improvements as the COM
bined efforts of two interested persons
may accomplish. Fer the present
while Messrs. Gunderson and Angle
are attending the session of the legis-
lature Mr.. II. r. Gale, an old newspa-
per man, will have full charge of the
business. After that time Mr.. Gun.
derson will assume an active share in
the conduct of the newspaper, the Ed
itor relieved to that EXTENT and the
result must be improvement.
While it is with some regret that
alter fourteen years of individual ef-
fort and the building up of substan-
tial and prosperous business, an
interest is parted with. Mr.. Gun
derson lie, for various reasons, accept
able to the Editor and the patrons Of
the JOURNAL. With sundry outside
matters claiming attention, the news
paper has not received proper atten-
ton iii the past.
For the many favors and liberal
patronage extended to this paper and
Its Editor in the past, by the people
OF Mason County, we extend sincere
thanks, and hope to merit the contin-
uance 10y good works and due regard
for the public interest.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
Bryan is Busy.

There are compensations IN DEFEAT
Peace hath its victories as we'll as war;
and it is not always the successful
candidate who has ready money IN MS
clothes.
For a week William Jennings Bryan,
urrounded by six clerks, two private
secretaries and porter to shower OUT
opened envelopes, has been ooing
nothing but remove So notes from the
mail of enthusiastic perlons VINO ius'
for the views of the great leader hot
| from the mould.
No sooner had Mr.. Bryan announcer
his intention of publishing weekly
journal of political opinion than the
democrats of the United States began
to dig for their wallets. Silver certlh-
Gates began to fall in such numbers
that the leaves which litter the shaded
wales of Valambrosa furnish but a
futile and inadequate comparison,
On the first day came one thousand
letters containing the price necessary
to subscribe to the new paper. There
upon Mr.. Bryan sent out tor clerks
and strong man to empty waste
baskets. On the following day
twenty-ffv hundred; IN four days he
had sixty-two hundred subscribers,
and reports of mail blockade from
the west,
1t is not given to every man to start
paper on velvet, and Editor Bryan,
even far in advance OF the initial
number of his newspaper, is to be con-
graduated as fortunate man and is
to be regarded with some veneration
as unique proposition III journalism.
He will have small concern for print
ers' bills and ways and means, for the
first year at least.
Yet there is a gloomy side, even to
his future, upholstered with treasury
notes as it is. Mr.. Bryan has been
warned that since the organization OF
this great and glorious union no news
paper man was ever elected president.
There may be a reversal of political
history in this respect. but there is no
reason to look for it.-Olympian.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04


j. G. Sherman. the veteran editor Of
the Verniontville [Mich.) Echo, has
discovered the remarkable secret Of
keeping old people young. For years
ne has avoided Nervousness, sleepless-
ness, Indigestion, Heart trouble, Con
stlpatlon and Rheumatism, by using
Electric Bitters, and he writes III
cant be praised too highly. 1t gently
stimulates the kidneys, tones the stom.
ach, aids digestion, and gives splen.
qua appetite. e has worked wonders
ior my wife and me. It's marvel.
ious remedy for old peoples mplalntz
Only SOC at 9 " Danbar
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
INTERESTING PERSONALITIES

Fritz" Heinze, of Butte City, Mont,
finds himself, at 81, in control of min
ing properties valued at from $50, OOO,-
600 to $50,OOO,OOO.
II never felt so happy as now that I
am plain Mrs Frederickson,' wrote
Princess Charles of Denmark recently
to her mother soon after arriving in
cognito at Monte Carlo.
John Brown, who has just been taken
to the county almshouse of Orange
county, New York, was once manager
of that institution and superintendent
, of the poor for that county. He was
once well to do, but is now pauper rs
years old and incapable of self-support.
The wife of the late Gen. Joubert is a
unitarian, as we'll as woman of mill
tary instincts. The story was told OF
her that when she was in. Amsterdam
a few years ago friend took great
pleasure in showing her the fine col
lection of pewter in the big Rijks mu-
scum. Her only comment was: 'Good
to make bullets Of"
Henry C. Bliss, of West Springfield
Mass, shows public spirit of novel
but intelligent character. Within the
last 20 years he has planted over 1000
trees. The work has been done sys-
tematically, and the effect has been
greatly to beautify the streets and
public places of that town.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has given the
old Stanford home in Sacramento, CAL,
to Bishop Mora, of the Catholic church,
together with a $4,000 endowment with
which to maintain it as an orphanage.
This is the house where Senator Stan
ford lived for 20 years and where his
son, in whose memory the Stanford
university was founded, was born.
Although the queen does not permit
smoking in her immediate neighbor-
hood, yet she keeps on hand stock of
the most superb Havana cigars for her
guests, and the consumption thereof
is about 5000 year. They are special
ly made for her majesty of the most
carefully collected tobacco leaves, and
when finished are Theoretically sealed
in glass tubes in order to guard against
deterioration, connoisseurs insisting
that the Havana leaf is affected by a
change of climate.
Q "a SToEIAs.
Bears the n The Kind You Have Always Bought
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
washingtons Satisfies Of Production.

Washingtons Satisfies OF Production.
Wheat crop 1900, $4,000, 900 bushels
$12, 0OO, 600.
Oats, rye, etc., produced, 50, 500, 900.
Hay product. $500 600.
Fruit yield, $4,OOO,OOO.
Hop crop, $4,000 bales, $1,000, 900
Creameries output, $2,5O0,O00.
Fishers product, 1900, $500, 600
Coal mined 100000 tons, worth
$4,000, 900.
Increase in output, 225,OOO tons.
Lumber cut, 100000 feet; value
$11, 100000.
! Shingles cut, 4,25O,OOO, 900; value
S., $1,000
Saw and shingle mills in state, 525
Other woodworking factories, 100
Total output for 1900, SIS, 100000
Lumber shipped foreign, 1877 1850, OO(
feet.
Coastwise lumber shipments, 275
100000 feet.
Rail shipments east, 1926, 900, 900 feet
Standing timber in state, 114,778
coo, 900 feet. T
Railway mileage, 1868; assessed
$24,415,l63.
Lands assessed, 15,974,33l acres, a
$7S, 234,2o6.
Improvements on 2,63O,357 acres
$1O,3 1892.
Live stock, 9s6,496 head; assessed
$e,572,O2O.
Total assessed property valuation
1927 ,576,523.
Puget sound wheat exports, 5,673
500 bushels.
Flour exports, 1921 ,92O barrels; in
crease, 100000 barrels.
Cotton exports, $4,000 bales.
Total value exports, $19, 872, 1892.
Total value imports SIS ,903,374.
Increase in exports and imports, 50
I3I ,42S.
Foreign commerce 1909, $25, 775,706
1890, $4,9O1 ,163.
Entrances from foreign, 1929; ton
mage, 1,178,515.
Clearances foreign, 2,O46; tonnage
1,262,36O.
Number OF Washington flour mills
80 Daily capacity, $4,000 barrels.
BENJAMIN Franklin was dining witt
a party of distinguished gentlemen II
Paris, when one of them said: "Thret
nationalities are represented here this
evening. l am French, my friend is
English and Mr., Franklin is an Ameri-
can. Let each of us propose toast
1t was agreed to, and the Englishmar
who was accorded first hono;s, said
"Here's to Great Britain, the sun thai
gives light to all the nations of the
EARTH" The Frenchman was rather
taken. aback at this, but he proposed
"Here,s to France, the moon whose
magic rays move the tides of the
world" franklin then arose with an
air of quaint modesty, and said
"Here's to our beloved George Wash
ington. the Joshua of America, who
commanded the sun and moon to
stand still-and they obeyed."
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04

The Beers have favored the Brit
ish plum-pudding with bitter sauce
this Christmas time.
THE w. c. +. U, has placed the os-
cnlatnry exercise under ban. 1t will
soon become an cold maids order"
The JOURNAL now enjoys the rath.
erunusual distinction of having two
members of the legislature on its staff.
1t ought to shine.
PRESIDENT Mckinley and several
members of his cabinet will visit Pu-
get Sound in May. This will be the
first presidential visit since Harrison's
time.
SOME OF the newspapers are endeav-
oring to provoke anew the century dis
cnssion by stating that we have passed
the first milestone of the twentieth
century.
IGNATIUs DoNNELY, late vice-presi-
Dental candidate of the Middle-of-the
Readers, father of the famous "Omaha
PLATFORM" author of several good
books and the claim that Bacon wrote
Shakespeare, is dead.
SEATTLE people are bound to lave
that battleship. The Moran's have
scaled their bid down to the limit, and
the business men are raising bonus
of 100000 to help the firm to carry
the contract through. 1t will be a
great card to Puget Sound to turn out
another fighting vessel like the Oregon.
The Canadian Pacific will put on a
double passenger train service between
New York and Puget Sound, begin
ming May /. Under the new arrange
ment the Imperial Limited" will
make the run from Puget Sound to
New York, 3,511 miles, in three days
and eight hours, Or 20 hours less than
ever before.
The question of state roads will be
introduced in the coming session, and
among the propositions asking for
state appropriations will be a road
from Montesano to the Columbia river.
It might be good idea to encourage
the building of connecting links, be-
tween sections of the country, but it
is doubtful if the state is justified in
fathering many OF these propositions.
A PRIMARY election law, modelled
after statute of the state of Mime
sofa, is being advocated, and will be
pushed before the coming session of
the legislature, in an effort to purify
politics and abolish machine bossed
conventions. The idea is good one
but hardly goes far enough. Bossism
in political parties exists only by
reason Of the indifference of the
average voter in the matter of pri-
maries and conventions, and, TO over
come this indifference, voting at the
primary should be compulsory. It
would be we'll to insert clause maxi
ing the vote at the primaries neces-
sary qualification to vote at the cleo
ton proper, unless good and sufficient
excuse for failure be given. Aberdeen
Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04

Ii troubled with weak Digestion,
belching, sour stomach. or if you feel
dull alter eating, try Chamberlain's
Stomach aud Liver Tablets. Price, 25
cents. Samples free at G. V. Dunbar's
drug store.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
.$22,O28,775 u

The report of the assay Office is.fully
confirmatory of the statement made in
the annual review of the POST Intelli-
gencer that the gold production of the
new and much abused district of Nome
for 1900 was at least $4,O00,OOO, OF
fetal figures prove this estimate to
have been extremely conservative,
since, in spite of the lack OF water du-
ring the early part Of the mining sea-
son and the vexatious litigation
throughout the entire year, there has
been deposited in the Seattle assay Of
flee, direct from the placers at Nome,
dust and nuggets to the value Of So,
723s 272.14.-P.I.
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-01-04
Forty-Six Tons Of Gold.

At the close of business for the nine
tenth century Assayer Fred A. Wing,
of the Seattle Office, announces that
during the closing year of the century
his receipts have issued for forty-six
and one-elghth tons of gold and silver.
Throughout the year the treasure
poured into the office in steady
stream reaching its highest mark and
breaking all records for single month
in July, when in twenty-six working
days over fourteen tons of precious
metals were received.
The prodigious quantity of gold re-
ceived during the year, as weighed at
the assay Office, amounted to | ,345, 122,
Al troy ounces. 1t was owned aud de-
posted by 7,lO6 persons and concerns
Its total assay value was $22,O38, IT'S,
II. The average Of the deposits is 100
ounces, valued at over $500 to each.
The bullion. as accounted for at the
assay Office, came from sources as fol-
lows:
The kondike. {. SIG, 946, 437 ,O8
Alaska. ..- a, 291, 73O 40
British Columbia .667, 225 AZ
Washington and other states 133, 3S217