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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
POLITICAL DRIFT.

U1n a word, republican supre macy
means stability and prosperity. That
seems to size it up about right.-Troy
Times.
Ex-senator Wellington is looking for
ward to the coming session of cong eess
with considerable anxiety. If the SEN
ate remembers what he said about the
matyred Mckinley, and surely no man
could forget that, he will be expelled
from that body and given u stinging
rebuke that will follow him to his dying
day.-Iowa State Register.
UStatistics prepared by the treas
ury bureau of statistics show that the
United States stands first of all the
nations of the earth this year in the
matter of exports, displacing Great
Britain, which up to the present year
had held first place. Last year Great
Britain's average monthly exports
were about $6,OOO,O0O in excess of the
average monthly exports of this coun-
try. This year we lead Great Britain
by about $75O,000 a month.-Albany
journal.
CTUncle Sam has been one of the
most fortunate of real estate in
vestors. His Louisiana purchase has
proved to be splendid piece of prop
erty. One per cent. of it's annual
agricultural products alone pays the
total cost of that little piece of prop
er5Y, And that is saying nothing of
the mines, the timber and the manu-
facuring Industries that have been
developed since Jefferson, the original
eXpansionist, bought the tract near
ly 100 years ago. The United States
holds several other plats, including
Alaska Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, that are also giving a
good account of hemselves.-Troy
Times.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
A COMBINE OF SHEEPMEN.
Flock Masters In wyoming Plan to
Control Thousands OF Acres of Pas-
Iure Lands.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. Ga gigantic
combine is being formed at Rawlins
by the sheepmen of what is known
as the ''Sweetwater country" for
The purpose of excluding Utah flock
masters and local cattlemen from
ncroach.ng upon the Red Desert win
ter ranges in Sweetwater. 1t is
proposed to lease and buy from the
Union Pacific Railway Co. every al
ternate section owned by the COM
pany and thereby control approx
mately 100000 acres of the finest
winter feeding ground in the west.
BY leasing all the land, which will
give them control of alternate gov
ernment sections, the sheepmen will
hold full control and range conflicts,
which have been frequent, will come
to an end.
The sheepmen who purpose to lease
the land have offered the railroad
company a rental of one cent per
acre, or $4,000 per year. for the land.
The proposition has been sent to the
Union Pacific general land office at
Omaha. and it is expected that the
deal will be closed in n few days.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
PERILS OF THE SEA.
a British Ship Narrowly Escapes
Disaster, While n French Vessel Goes
Ashore During a Great Gale on the
Pacific Coast.


Portland, Ore, Dec. 6.-The British
ship Nelson, which was reported lost
off the Columbia river, was towed into
Puget Sound yesterday by the steam
er Walla Walla, bound from San
Francisco to Seattle. The hull of
the Nelson is practically intact, but
her bulwarks are smashed, life boats
and fore rigging carried away and
cabins damaged. There are only
three inches of water in her hold, but
the extent of the damage to her
cargo is not known.
The Nelson had a marvellous escape
from destruction, according to Capt.
Perriam, or that craft. She crossed
the Columbia river bar week ago
last night, and before she had gone
great distance she encountered
severe storm and was roughly han
died. Her cargo of wheat shifted.
causing her to list to starboard and
almost on her beam ends. In this
condition she was picked up by the
tug Wallulu and an effort was made
TO tow her to Astoria, but the tug had
to abandon her. Later the powerful
tug Tatoosh took hold of her, but
found it impossible to tow her in. ow-
ing to the fury of the gale and the
heavy seas.
The captain of the Tatoosh decided
to tow her to Puget Sound, but had
not proceeded far when the gale in
creased in fury and on Tuesday night
the hawser parted and the Tatoosh
was unable to find the vessel when
daylight came. The Nelson fired rock
-. Il, l,,.h+ +- oil irrl,f
but failed to attract attention. On
Wednesday the steamer Walla
Waila picked her up north of Grey's
Harbor. 4 high sea was on at that
time and it was with difficulty that
hawser was taken on board.
Aberdeen, Wash, Dec. 6.-Early
Wednesday morning, while the ter
rible storm was raging along the
coast, the French bark Ernest Reyer
went ashore off the mouth of Quin-
ault river, about 30 miles north of
Grey's Harbor. She struck heavily
ON the beach and the full force of the
waves pounded her further up the
shore, every incoming sea washing
over her. In the darkness and storm
it was impossible to see how far away
the land lay, but the officers and men
cleared away the boats and made for
the shore, all reaching land in safety.
The shipwrecked men are being cared
for on the beach by the Indians, but
they have no hopes of saving their
ship, as she now lies hard aground
with the breakers pounding her to
pieces. Masts, rigging and sails are
gone and she will be total loss. The
Ernest Reyer is steel-built bark of
$500 tons.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
!. Prepared TO Fight a Mob.

Andalusia, Ala, Dec. 6.-Sheriff
Bradshaw returned to Andalusia yes
terday with % negroes, who are ac-
cused of completely in the killing of
J. w. Dorsey, n merchant, and Fale
Atkinson, city marshal, at Opp, We'd
nesday evening. The negroes were
pursued with bloodhounds and cap
tured by the sheriff and his posse.
There is great excitement and there
are fears that the friends of the dead
white men will attempt wholesale
lynching. The sheriff landed the
negroes safely in Jail here and has
taken precautions to resist the mob
In case one shall be formed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
A RecInrociIY RiII.

Washington, Dec. 6.-The Cuban
commissioners now in this city have
prepared the draft of bill designed
to carry out their views for remedial
tariff legislation for the island. This
provides for the admission to the Uni
ted States free of duty, after Janu-
ary !, of Cuban molasses and raw
sugar. and the admission of all other
cuban products to the United States
on payment of half the prevailing
duty. In return for this favor the
bill provides that the Cubans must
agree to admit to the island for half
the duty charged all other nations,
the products OF the United States.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
TRUSTS AND REPUBLICANS.
Position of the Party from the Out
set VIII he Maintained
Throughout.

Nobody Will be in any doubt as to the
attitude which President Roosevelt will
take on the question of the trusts. In
one of his messages to the New York
Legislature while he was governor of
that state he said, in speaking of the
trusts, that the first essential is
knowledge of the efacts-publicity." In
a speech at Minneapolis just before the
assassinat of President Mckinley,
Col. Roosevelt said that more and
more it is evident that the state,
and, if necessary, the nation, has got
to possess the right of supervision and
control as regards the great corpora
tions which are its creatures, partic-
ularly as regards the great business
combinations whiAh derive a portion
of their Importance from the existence
of some monopolistic tendency"
Nor is there the faintest reason to
doubt, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat. that this doctrine of President
Roosevelt, which will undoubtedly be
emphasized in his Forthcoming mes
sage to congress, will be heartily sup
ported by the republican party. In
the platform of the first republican ma
tional convention, that of 1888, held
after the formation of the first trust in
the United States, was this eXpression:
1--WE declare our opposition to al com
binations of capital, organized in trusts
or otherwise. to control arbitrarily the
condition of trade among our citizens,
and we recomend to congress and the
state legislatures, in their respective
Jurisdictions, such legislation as will
prevent the execution of all schemes to
oppress the people BY undue charges on
| their supplies, or by unjust rates for
the transportation of their products'to
market" This was just a year after
the formation of the sugar trust, the
pioneer in this line of industrial com
bination.
The position which the republican
party took at the outset in the career
of the trusts it will maintain to the
end. The party passed an antitrust
act in the congress chosen in the year
that this expression was formulated
and it was signed by the president
chosen in that year, Gen. Harrison
Al the legislation framed anywhere
in the country which has been at all eff
| fectve against the trusts has been
framed by the republican party. The
republican is the only party which has
| both the courage and the brains to
frame any laws against the trusts
which stand any chance of accom-
plishing their object. AS the trust
managers throughout the country
know and will concede, the republican
is the only party which they fear.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
SUCCESS OF REPUBLICANS.
Remarkable Strength of the Party
shown in the Recent
EIectIOns.

national party in power always
has reason to expect a revulsion of
popular sentiment in the years be-
tween presidential elections. 1t has
not come this year in any state where
national issues have been made promi-
nent. The loss of a republican sena
tor in Maryland-if he is a republic
an--iS but an incident in the cam
paign for the suppression of the
negro vote in the former slave states.
The white man" issue simply over
shadowed the bread-and-butte issue.
Elsewhere the determination to stand
by and strengthen the republican par
ty is plainly evident. There is no
doubt of the reason for it. People
are prosperous and wish to remain
so, says the San Francisco Chronicle
They do not wish, even when no ma
tional issue is at stake, to encourage
the advocates of commercial chaos
by showing the slightest disposition
to desert the party of protection and
prosperity. In Pennsylvania this was
almost painfully evident. The repub-
lican machine" in that state is dis
gracefully corrupt. The masses of
the people of Pennsylvania are as
honest as we are or as any other peo-
pie. In due time they will reform
their state government. But not now.
The one thing most desired by the
people of Pennsylvania is a continu-
ance of the present era of prosperity.
They believe that to be bound up in
the success of the republican party
and in adherence to it's national prin-
ciples and traditions. They want no
disturbance of the tariff situation in
any form or under any pretense.
With them this is the paramount is
sue" and so long as tariff tinkers and
reciprocity mongers are abroad in the
land so long will they vote the repub-
lican ticket on all occasions, regard
less of local issues.
In Ohio national issues are always
to the front. 1t is the home of ma
tional issues and a breeding place for
national statesmen. With governor
and Legislature to elect and most
cities free from confusing local is
sues, the Ohio republicans beat all
previous "off-year" records with the
magnificent majority of $4,000. New
Jersey, Nebraska, Massachusetts,, the
Dakotas-all the eastern states show
the remarkable strength in the repub.
lican party. The lesson of this is that
republican principles have brought
national prosperity and the people
have faith that the full-dinner pail
will not again be kicked over as it
was in 1892. They want no tariff
tinkering, no fake reciprocity"
They want the business of the coun.
try let alone.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
BUENT STARCH.
A Fire I'm the Trusts Plant at Des
MoInes, Ia, Causes 100000 Loss.

Des Moines, Ia, Dec 6.-Fire was
discovered last evening in the plant
of the National Starch Manufacture
ing Co. in the southeastern part of
the city. The city fire department
was summoned, but lack of water
prevented it from accomplishing
much, beyond keeping the fire from
spreading to adjoining property. The
fire burned for several hours and the
plant was entirely destroyed, ex-
cepting the grain elevator and the
engine house.
The .oss on building and contents
is estimated at 100000. The amount
of insurance is unknown as such
records are kept in New York. Sew
eral hundred employees, who were
about to quit work for the day, es-
capped in safety. The plant belonged
to the starch manufacturing trust,
which has its headquarters in New
York City.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
Arrest of a Counterfeiter.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 6.-Jacob
Brill. of Louisville, KY, was arrested
here Thursday charged with counter
feiting. He was trying to pass coun-
ter-feit SIS gold pieces and silver dol
lars when arrested. At his room a
complete outfit of counterfeiters'
tools was found. According to BrilPs
story, he recently was released from
the Kentucky penitentiary, where he
served a siX-year sentence for coun-
terfeiting. The police here say his
work is unusually good and that he
is an expert counterfeiter. Brill
says he has no confederates and that
he has passed much spurious money
hara
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

1t is a singular fact, recently demon
strated by experiments made by
French scientists, that you can not
drown an ant. The purpose of the ex-
Eeriments was to determine how long
insects would be able to resist
asphyXiation after they had been sub
merged in water. An ant immersed in
water doubles itself up and becomes
absolutely inert, but upon being re-
stored to the air comes to life in a Pc
riod varying with the length of it's i'm
mersion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

Eight large cases in which are con-
taied the sarcorhagus of an Egyptian
princess who lived as early as 400 b.
c., household utensils of still earlier
date and other antiquities of the ut
most scientific interest, are now in the
basement of the Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg. They came from Egypt, by
way of London. and constitute some
of the choicest finds made during the
last year at Abydos, in the desert sew
eral hundred miles above Cairo.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
one dol ar per square for one insertion and ffty
cents per square for each subsequent insertion
Rates by the year or fo- six or three months,
are low and uniform, and VIII be furnished on
application.
Legal and 0nicial Advertising per square.
three times or less, ~: each subsequent lnSer-
tion 20 cents per square
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser-
sertion: cents per line for each subsequent
con >ecutive insertion
Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per
line Simple announcements of births, mar
riages and deaths VIII be inserted free.
Business cards five lines or less, 10 per year.
over hve lines, at the regular rates OF adver-
tislng.
No local inserted for less than rs cents per
issue
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

About a year ago there lived in the
north of London a retired clergyman
who handsomely aided an otherwise
slender income by writing sermons
for other men of the cloth. The SER
mon writer died rather suddenly, but
left good supply of pulpit material.
This was about all he did leave, how
ever, so his widow, a clever woman of
education. took up his work. She has
been carrying on the business" ever
since, and the fact was discovered on
Iy a month ago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

There is one country in the world
where 1t is considered a crime to
smoke. Abyssinia is the region, and
the law forbidding tobacco dates from
the year 1912. 1t was at first merely
intended to prevent priests from
smoking in the churches, but it was
taken too literally, and nowadays even
foreigners have TO be careiul not to
be seen smoking.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

A great slide" is threatened in the
mountains near Annecy. in France,
where the entire district of Ayse is
threatened with destruction by great
mass of earth many thousands of GU
bic meters in volume, which is slowly
slipping down the slopes and must
surely overwhelm the valley. The
population looks forward with dread
to the autumnal rains.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

A French general has inaugurated
a plan of permitting and even encour-
aging soldiers to sing when on the
march, a privilege which has been
strictly denied until recently. 1t has
also been arranged that any soldier
who can play on any of the smaller
musical instruments shall be provided
with such instrument at the expense
of the state.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

When horses sleep many of them
point one ear forward. Why this is
done is not known, but it is thought
to be habit that has been brought
down from the time when they ran
wild over the plains and when they
were compelled to be on their guard
against enemies. Cattle seems to sleep
without any cares, both ears are al
ways in the same position.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

Through the generosity of a Boston
man and a Harvard graduate, whose
name is Withheld from the public for
the present, Harvard is soon to have
another building added to it's collec-
tion. The new structure will be built
on the land now occupied by Foxcroft
House. The original amount intend
ed to be given was $4,000, but this
sum has been nearly doubled.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

The United States is bound by treaty
with Colombia to protect the Isthmus
of Panama from foreign invasion. This
treaty was made in 1876 and by it's
terms Uncle Sam promises to guaran-
tee the perfect neutrality" of the 18TH
mus. This of course applies only to
outside interference and has no bear
ing on domestic troubles of the type
of the present liberal insurrection.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

A very curious custom in Seoul,
Korea, is the law which makes it OBJ
ligatory for every man to retire to his
home when the huge bronze bell Of
the city has proclaimed it to be the
hour of sunset and the time for closing
the gates. No man is allowed in the
streets after that hour under pain of
f1ogging, but the women are allowed
to go about and visit their friends.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
Japan has only one orphanage. vet in

Japan has only one orphanage, yet in
no other land are fatherless children
better cared for. Every family cares
for the sick, destitute or orphans near
est to it. There is a superstition that
a childless house is accursed, and peo-
pie who are not blessed with children
of their own never rest till they have
adopted some waif.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12

UThe president wants congress. tr
do whatever is reasonable and practic
able to help the development of great
regions in the west which have more
lack of water than of any other essen.
tial factor in their growth. In all sucl
matters the New Yorker, born and
bred, who is at the head Of the nation,
understands the needs of the west as il
he were a native and resident of that
part of the country.-Cleveland Leader
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
JOB PRINTING.

The Job department of the PRESS is complete
and affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work. PARTICULAR ATTENI ION PAID TO LAW
PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear
ages are paid except at the ortion Of the pub
Usher.
Papers sent out OF the county must be paid
FOR Ii ndYnncR.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
WHAT A LEADING AGRICULT-
URIST SAYS OF WEST
ERN CANADA.
"rof. Thomas Shaw of Minnesota
University Gives an Unbiased
Opinion.

In letter to "The Farmer" "St. Paul,
dated Sept. 1st, 1901, Prof. Thomas
Shaw, of the Minnesota State Univer-
sity, has the following to say, after
having made trip through Western
Canada:
"The capabilities of the immense
area known as Western Canada are
but little understood on this side of the
line. Our people are apt to look upon
it as a region of frost and snow, a coun-.
try in which but small portion of the
land relatively will ever be tillablei
because of the rigors of the climate.
True, the climate is cold in winter,
but Western Canada has, nevertheless,
just that sort of climate which makes
it the most reliable wheat producing
country in all the continent.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
QUALITY OF LIVE STOCK.

1t was pleasurable surprise to.
note the high quality of the stock. The
average of quality in cattle is higher
than the average of cattle in our State,
unless in the dairy classes. This opin-
ion is not reached rashly or without
ample opportunity for investigation.
l spent three long days in the show
ring at Winnipeg making the awards,
in the beef classes. l question if any
Of our states, single handed, could
make such showing in cattle. 1t was:
my privilege to make the awards at
several shows, and at all of them
were evidences that much attention is
given to the improvement of the stock.
l noted carefully the character of the
herds that graZed along the railroad,
and everywhere the high average of
the quality of the stock was in evil
dence.
REASONS FOR QUALITY IN STOCK.
The quality of the grass is
good. Many of the settlers came
from Ontario, and had been schooled
as to the value of good stock before
going west. The railroads and the
Government have taken deep in
terest in making it less difficult and
costly to the farmers tH secure good
males.
Those who are anxious of changing
their residence should bear in mind;
that the lands in Western Canada are
many of them free and others reason,
ably cheap.
Information will gladly be given by
any agent of the Canadian Govern
ment, whose advertisement appears
elsewhere.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
Published Every Thursday
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
ADVERTISING RATES:

Fer year, w
tf paid in advance. .............. "
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-12
AN IMMENSE AREA.

Western Canada is not only an inn
mense area, but the same description
will apply to those portions of the
country that are capable of being sue
cessfully titled or grazed. Nearly all
of the prairie Province of Manitoba can
be brought under cultivation, although
probably not one-third of its sur
face has been laid open by the plough.
Assiniboia to the west is grain and
stock country. Saskatchewan to the
north of Assiniboia has high adapta-
ton for the same. This also may be
said of Alberta to the west. Here lies
what may be termed grain growing
and stock producing empire, the re-
sources of which have been/but little
drawn upon comparatively, viewed
from the standpoint of the agriculture
list. VIXEN it is called to mind that.
even in the Peace River Country, sew
eral hundreds of miles north of the
Canadian boundary, wheat was grown
which won premium at the Worlds
Fair in 1898, the capabilities of this
country in wheat production loom up
more brightly than even the brilliant
Northern lights of the land that lies
toward the pole. ,