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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
kANTz.

The Kantx cornet band will fur.
nish music for a chicken, and waffle
dinner to be held at the adqGednc'
on Ascension day.ysr
Mira Thomas and friends Of Cen
terville, were the guests Of Lew
Harrold and wife over Sunday.
Henry Schsmbach is happy b..
cause ) baby girl arrived on the 2nd
Of Nay; being The birthday Of ID
mother. ''Tf' ~ /"
Clarence eHoltsapple and VIM,
Scbambach are employed by Hoover
Bros. They arel tearing out thu
acqueduct. I''h"
II. Hostefnan and G. A. Shemory
in company with their families spen,
Sunday At Hoover's Island.
J. h. Shelley and G. G. Giase die
some shopping at Suhbury, Satur'
day.
Your scribe took a trip to Mt
Pleasant Mills, Monday morning
Charles !. Hummel of Hofer, il
spending . few weeks with bis broth
er John Hpnlmel Of this place.
Mn. Zeno Spreakel and sister o
S6amokin, p, VIM. Sprenkle ant
wife, Of Flint Valley, and Mrs. /. c
sprenkel Of Kantz, spent Sunday a
Henry 6chOmbschA ..-' '-s. -.
JE Etoub Of this place left fo
lFtankija ';b9unty, where he j. en-
| gagged. il l1Abefing on the estate o
Mn Alt Nets of Freeb;ure
speats 'sw ~ vitk, irelstivss .n'
ffiesd1 ef.iis p!sce. 80. =. .-.,5 :, /: =
I: b lIaek Dock. wasin town Mon
Day siossiag aa hasines&
- ylrl,a.lI = - "
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
Never Came Back.

Cawkins 10 man he's tdst met)--
My clients always return to m~
again after I've, served them once.
Danks-You're lucky! Mine never
do. -.
Cawkins-Too badl -Er--are you 8
lawyer?
Danks-No, sir; I'm an undertaken
Judge.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
Sad Havoc,

Western Man-We had q terrible
confagration in Dugout City last
week. Only II houses left standing
Eastern NANNY goodnessl Ko,.
many were there before the firee
Western Man-Nineteen.-N. X
Weekly. %
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
The Pipst shivAish.

Newlywed latter the !nrst cloud hss'
passed)-Kitty, yon must not feel un
happy: why, is ny. opinion never ts.
count for anything? .:.. :.
Kitty (after. thinking II over)A--
.Eurely-sometimes-When we hav!
the same opinion yours will couns
and when Ne differ mine will.-N. Y
Tribune. '"|"r' -.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
Ne JOKE.

The saxon-it's : funny thing
but have you ever noticed that
Shakespeare never. introduced az
Irishmsn into any Of his plays;
There can. be but one construction
placed upon this, and that is ..,
Pat (intorruptine)-That he fne~
better. begobi than to make fun ct
an Oirishman.-AllyS SlopeI.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08

map ssrno sulAlsN .ssuN "a sucpsqsosd
0oAssU 'uonsnsqxs fGsuISaA s1uysQ dpo !.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-05-08
ALL CLAM ALLRGHENY.
Especial Corraspondencs.)

vsess6 'e4 saS county, but should -:
n, Watrss ana Psaaypaeksr hgurs IL
. Triangular soatsst st the polls the
struggle. t0r delegates wouId b csf-
taialysa lively one - we'll q one cal
culatsA to arouse great party interest
for the canvass after the nomination
6hali b made. ' ="
cocoon. FEELING MANIFESTED.
II 10 remarkable how the party work
ers throughout the state have held
within proper lines and not permitted
the contest over the governorship to
engendsr feelings Of bitterness such a.
would b likely to affect the polling OF
the full party vote after the ticket
shall be placed In the field.
While II 10 believed that the coming
state convention will be the best at
tended gathering of Republicans ever
held in Pennsylvania yet there is every
reason to believe that It will be one
of the most harmonious and at the
same time most satisfactory conven-
tions held in this state in many years.
That the nominee Of the convention,
whoever he shall be, will be loyalty and
ardently supported in the contest at
the general election there can be nc
doubt. The party organization was
never in a better condition. and the
Republican voters Of Pennsylvania
will stand by their party candidates
when they shall b named by the con-
.ention.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
coLoRED SOLDIERS ENGAGE IN
DRUNKEN FIGHT.
ONE MORTALLY WOUNDED
Both Were Members of the Twenty.
fourth Infantry, Stationed
at Fort Missoula.

M%issoula, Nov. 3.-Frank Scott was
shot in the abdomen early this morn.
ing by John Tyler, and is supposed to
be mortally wounded. Both men are
colored privates of the Twenty-fourth
infantry stationed at Fort Missoula.
They were in town during the night
drinking, and about 4 o'clock got into
a controversy in front of the Head
quarters saloon, in West Front street
They came to blows and Tyler, get.
ting the worst of the encounter, drew
a gun and shot Scott.
Tyler was placed under arrest and
Scott removed to the hospital at the
fort.
Attending physicians give but slight
hope for his recovery.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
WORST OF 1T.
MANY WITNESS ENCOUNTER
Which Lasted Ten Rounds and End
ed Without a Reconciliation
or Apologies.

Paris, No. 5.-The duel between
Count de Dion, president of the Auto
mobile club, and a prominent sports
man, and M. Gerault Richard of the
Petite Republique, took place today
M. Richard was wounded in the right
arm.
The encounter occurred at Neuilly
at II o'clock, and lasted an hour. De
spite the efforts at secrecy $50 per
sons, including journalists and photo
graphers, were present. Ten exceed
ingly lively bouts were fought. Count
de Dion was always on the aggressive
During the third bout Gerault Richard
claimed to have touched the count
but the seconds did not allow the
claim, which was repeated in the
sixth. De Dion opened the tenth bout
by fiercely attacking, the point Of his
sword touching Gerault Richard on
the inner right forearm, causing a
slight wound.
The seconds Immediately stopped
the encounter. No reconciliation oc
Cured, the participants leaving the
field without the usual formalities.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
SEARCH NOT ABANDONED
Officers Still Looking for Northern
Pacific HoIdup.

VAlthough he has thus far success
fully eluded those who have been
in pursuit of him, all hope for the
capture of the fellow who robbed the
Northern Pacific train at Bearmouth
and killed Engineer O'Neal has not
been abandoned. Search is making
and every clue, however slight. that
promises the slightest result is eager
ly followed by the secret service men
During the past week a number of
excursions have been made by the OF.
ficers into different parts of the state,
where it was claimed men believed To
be the robber had been seen. All
were fruitless.
A gentleman of this city informed
The Gazette today that it was certain
that the highwayman was somewhere
in these parts, that is in the state,
and that his capture was not among
the improbabilities. The difficulty
would lie in bringing about his on
| v%iction. So long a time had elapsed
since the robbery, he said, that it
would be hopeless to expect to lind
anything in his possession which
would incriminate him and tend to
establish his guilt. The only hope
the officers had was a rather slim
one-that the mail clerk whom he
| robbed and the trainment would be
able to identify the fellow beyond a
doubt. 1t was known to a certainty,
he continued, that the man who COM
mitted the robbery was the same n
who "held up" the train near Eugene,
Ore, about a year ago. The man
who committed that crime had been
trailed by detectives into Montana,
where the trail was lost and nothing
further was heard of him until the
! Bearmouth job.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07

nish all that is needed in order to es-
tablish those homes"
Mr.. Walsh said that in framing the
irrigation law every effort vas made
to guard against land monopolies
and to reserve the reclaimed land
for actual residents. The reservoirs
will be on government lands and their
water will be restricted to the use of
the men who have settled on the land,
and no sale of land will be made *
cept to actual residents. Eight hours
will constitute a days labor in con
structing reservoirs and canals and
a provision Of the act shuts out cheap
Chinese labor.
ut is something to stir a mans
heart continued Mr.. Walsh, when
he contemplates this change from the
gloom of the gray, dry, forbidding
desert to the sweet, green paradise
of irrigated lands, and all this change
the result of water, and a very little,
too, considering what a d~ifferencec it
makes from desolation to teeming
abundance.
"Outside of rtbose interested in the
question, very few people are able
to grasp the colossal significance of
what irrigation means to the arid
lands of the west.
Think of it," said MI. Walsh,
there are over 1000, 00O, 1000 acres of
arid land in the United States. Of
this 1870, 900, 900 acres, or a territory
equal to all of New England, with
New York, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia thrown in, will ultimately be
successfully irrigated by the S of
all sources of water. 1t is not the
dream of empire which may come
to a great nation when the conquest
of such a territory is contemplated
where 10000 900 people will some
time dwell, but it is the dream Of
independence which will come to
many a struggling family with the
announcement that one more fair
valley of arid America has been
thrown open to settlement at the
actual cost of reclamation"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
PERSONAL NOTES.

General Young, the next lieutenant
general, also rose from the ranks.
A joke that was no joke was the
Chinese maniac All Joke who ran
amuck the other day in the streets
of M%arysville, Cal.
The most remarkable thing about a
~24-year-old mule owned by a Kinks
vile (Mo.) farmer is the fact that
it was not sold to those British re-
mount agents during the Boer wal.
Webb G.. Ball of Cleveland has re-
ceived the appointment Of chief watch
inspector of the Vanderbilt system.
The watches Of all employees Of the
system are required to be compared
daily and regulated as often as may
be necessary.
Under the rules laid down by the
czar for the government of newspa-
pers in Russia the job of featuring
a scoop" is a perilous one. The
prospect of a free pass to Siberia
tends to chasten the joy Of the head
builder.
On his silver wedding anniversary
Charles ]. Swanson, a Minneapolis
manufacturer, gave to each of his
nine employees who had been with
him for twenty years a deed for forty
acres of improved land in Anoka
ty. The total value of the gifts was
$500.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
FOR ILLEGAL REGISTRATION
Seven Men Arrested at Forsyth
Charged With Offense.

1t would seem that there was some
thing behind the talk concerning col
onization and fraudulent registration
that has occasionally drifted up this
way from Forsyth. For several weeks
past the story has been that a sys-
tematic effort was making to stock
Rosebud county with illegal voters in
the interest of what they call down
that way the alexander gang"
Whether such Importation of fraudu-
lent voters has been really accom-
plished is not known here, but the
fact that arrests have been made Of
men on the charge of registering il.
legally would lead to the belief that it
is believed to have been done.
Says last nights Yellowstone Jour-
nal:
"Seven men were brought down
from Forsyth today and lodged in the
county Jail here for safe keeping for,
in the language of the warrant will
fully causing, procuring and allowing
themselves to be illegally register
ed. They gave the names of Joe
Franhovick, Mike O'Brien, Mike Yer
hanick, Andrew Duck, John Meers,
Phillip Demart, Nick %Ironcovick.
"The warrants were sworn out by
j. G.. Lyndes and the men were COM
mitted by Justice of the Peace Rod.
erick McRae for a hearing Novem-
Der Z at 9 o'clock in default of $1,000
bail each.
"This is an unexpected denoument
of the Importation of meu from Butte
and other places for election pur.
poses which has been carried on in a
bold and wholesale manner by Thomas
Alexander"
1t was reported here last evening
that many other arrests on the same
charge would be made before morn
ing, as there were a lot more warrants
and officers were looking for the men
accused of trying to corrupt the bal
lot by illegal voting.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
PERSONAL T

A New York policeman is to be
tried for selling himself for SO cents.
And probably he was dear at that.
For a young man destined to be-
come an absolute monarch, the crown
prince of Siam takes very kindly
to democratic ideas and institutions.
Count Victor Czaykowski, known as
Mouzaffer Pasha, and a Catholic, has
been made governor general of the
holy land by the sultan.
Prof. Michael I. Pupin Of Columbia
university, inventor of the ocean tele-
phone, began his career in America
as an attendant in a Turkish bath
parlor in Brooklyn.
The villa of Tommaso Salvini, the
distinguished tragedian, has been en-
tered by thieves, who stole medals,
gold crowns and many other precious
souvenirs of Salvini's career.
Should the dictum of the Missouri
valley homeopaths become the rule
of action the ears of womankind will
hear these saddest of sad words:
Farewell, a long farewell to all your
sweetness"
The British forces in South Africa
gave the Missouri mule a good adver
tisement in hal country, as the Beers
now propose to employ him in the
pursuits of peace. They respect his
ObStinacy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
CATTLE MEN MOVING.
Large Outfits Preparing to Range
Across the Line.

Large Outfits Preparing to Range
Across the Line.
If report is to be believed not a few
of the large cattle n of the
northwestern states are looking across
the line as the place offering the best
inducements to men with big herds
and who are not yet prepared to adapt
themselves to the changed conditions
of affairs on this side. Settlement of
the public lands and o~vercrowding of
the remaining range are the reasons
that cause them to consider the ad-
visibility of removal of their stock
to the shelter of the Union jack.
Among the more prominent ones
who have about concluded to drive
their herds onto Canadian soil are
Conner Bros. of Spearfish, S. D. Their
cattle are scattered over the ranges
of South Dakota, Wyoming and
southeastern Montana. All of these
are. crowded and it has resolved it.
| self to a question of reducing hold
ings or removal. The latter horn of
the dilemma has been chosen by the
firm. M. C. Connors, the senior mem
Der of the concern, is at present in
British Columbia looking up a loca-
ton.
The Connors Bros. will be the Sec
ond large outfit to remove across the
line, the first to make the move be
ing Day & Cresswell, who went there
about six months ago. Like the Con-
nors they ranged principally in South
Dakota. A year ago last summer they
sold their herds to the Franklin Cat
tie company of Deadwood and during
the last six months have placed 49,
900 head of southern stock on the
range near Assinniboia.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
ANOTHER RAILROAD RUMoR
Now It Is the "Elkhorn" That Will
Build West.

ouItO "CSIs
Y The latest rumor regarding pros
pective railroad extensions of inter-
est to Montana comes from Butte.
1t is stated there that engineers have
completed a preliminary survey for
extending the Fremont, Elkhorn &
Missouri Valley road from it's present
terminus, Casper, Wyo., to st. An
thony, Ida. The same report says
it is understood" that actual con-
struction of the proposed extension is
to begin early next spring.
1t is believed that once undertaken,
the new line will be continued to
ONE point on the northwestern
coast, probably Portland, Ore, with
branches to some of the other import
ant cities in that direction, very like
ly Tacoma and Seattle. A line to Og-
den and Salt Lake also enters into
the conjectures of the probable in
connection with the proposed extern
sion. >
Should the "Elkhorn' which is a
part of the Chicago & Northwestern
system, conclude to push westward
it would tap M of the most valuable
mineral districts in northwestern
Wyoming. AS surveyed the line will
follow the White river for many
miles, running south of the Yellow
stone National park and the Jackson's
Hole region, one of the widest spots
still remaining in the great west.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
HOTEL OPENING.

Invitations Received to Dedication OF
Cody's New Hostelry.
The following invitation has been
received by a number of persons of
the city:
Colonel w. F. Cody earnestly de-
sires your presence on the occasion
of the opening of his new hotel The
Irma,' at Cody, Wyo., on the evening
of November 10, 1902. Dancing"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
WAGE SCALE
IN MONTANA
PER CAPITA THE STATE LEADS
ALL OTHERS.
SECOND IN one RESPECT
While Paid Less the Labor of Arizona
Shows Greater Ratio Of
Production.

Commissioner j. A. Ferguson OF
the state. bureau of agriculture, labor
and industry, is just completing a por-
ton Of his biennial report that will
prove of exceeding interest to stu
dents of the question of wages and
production of employees in the state,
as we'll as to the citizens Of the state
in general.
The report gives comparative fig
ares for 1890 and 1900 and from these
it is seer that relatively speaking
the wage were much higher in the
first named year than they were for
1900. In the year 1890, the report
shows, the total number of employees
in the state, including all salaried and
Office employes-male, female and
children-for which the figures were
returned, was 1896, and they receiv-
ed in wages the sum of $1,948,213, or
an average for the year for each en-
ploye of 1928. The total value Of the
product from their combined labor,
including receipts from custom work
and repairing was $5,507, 573, or an
average for each employee for the year
of $2,O43. The average salary for Of
fee employees for that year was 1856.
In 1900 the whole number of m
ployes reported is given as 1O,117, in
Guiding the same classes of employees
as for 1890. The total sum paid for
wages was $1,000, 1856, an average for
the year of $7SS, and the total value
of the product was $751; 75 ,2S4, an
average product for each person of
!$5,642. The average salary for Office
employees vas $1,4SS.
From these figures it is shown that
while each employee produced a value
of $2,043 in 1890, for which he receiv-
ed as wages 1928, the rate Of produc-
ton in 1900 had increased to $5,642,
for which the worker received $788.
"In other words the commission
ed says, "the wages had Increased $65
a year, while the per capita of pro-
duction had increased $3.50 a year
conclusive evidence that, considering
the ratio of production, wages were
relatively much higher in 1890 than
in 1900. Nor should the fact be lost
sight of that salaries Of office en-
ployes were advanced from $685. in
1890 to $1,4SS in 1900, equivalent to
an average advance of 1888 a year, as
against an advance of $65 a year for
all employees.
1T is also well to remember that
in the 1900 report all the shelters and
reduction works were included, which
was not the case in 1890, a circum-
stanc which undoubtedly accounts
for a great part Of the advance in both
cases, salaries and wages in these
industries being comparatively higher
than in the various trades and en-
ployment more steady, Improvement
in the trades being generally confined
to a reduction of hours"
A table has been prepared by the
commissioner which shows the com
parative wages and production of
Montana and other western states.
From this it is seen that while Mon
second in the matter of per capita
production, being led by Arizona.
The figures for the several states are
as follows:
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
Pro-

Comparing the figures 10! Montana
and Wyoming it is seen that for $40
more in wages the Montana employee
gives a production 1921 in excess Of
the employee in Wyoming.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-11-07
Shropshire Sheep.

Thirty head of registered Shrop-
shire bucks, ranging in age from two
to six years old. Price $3.50 per head.
inspection invited.
G. J. DE BOOR.
SIT Musselshell. Mont.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-21
SHORT SPECIALS.

The queen regent has commissioned Senior
Sagasta to form new cabinet for Spain.
The heirs of the late Senator James Fair
will soon erect magnificent hotel on the
summit of Mob Hill in San Francisco.
Jacob Sherman, one of the pioneer silk
manufacturers of this country, died at
his home in New York, aged rs years.
Beet sugar men of the west, represent
ing $1OO,0O0,O00 of capital, are organizing TO
hight the sugar trust, or American Sugar
Refining company.
The steamer Menominee, which~sailed
from New York for London, carried 40
Montana ponies consigned to w. E. Drury,
the veteran English polo expert.
The movement to make room for British
women in the political and professional
heids grows apace in London, apparently
without much assistance from the opposite
sex
Thieves entered the apartments of julius
Kruttschnitt, vice president of the South
ern Pacific Railway company, in the Hotel
Richelieu, in San Francisco, and stole Jew
elry worth 81, 600
Comandant Luc1en Young of the United
States navy, arrived in Chicago to take
charge of the Ninth district of the light
house department, succeeding the present
inspector, Commander F. NJ Smpands
The American Steel and Wire company,
of New York, has been awarded the con-
tract for furnishing 3,343, 900 feet of copper
wire for the electrical power circuit of the
worlds fair, in st. Louis. The price is
$500, 600.
Tecumseh Mcclure, an aged Chickasaw
indian, is dead at his home near Davis, l. T.
lie was prominent Indian, and had held
during his life most of the important Of
fices of the Indian government. He is the
third prominent Chickasaw Indian to die
within the past week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-21
Like a Boomerang.

London, March 1.-THE extraordi-
nary effect of lyddite has been revealed
by the statement that, during the re-
cent experiments with the hulk of the
old battleship Belle Isle, shells contain
ing that explosive refracted fragments
upon the attacking vessels, which were
300 yards distant. Other fragments
dropped close to gunboat situated
1000 yards abeam of the line of fire.
The deduction drawn is that when lyd-
dite is used there is danger for a
friendly vessel at least 1900 yards
away.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-03-21

the members of the committee asked
Senator Morgan what were the pro-
visions of a certain treaty with France
which had worked itself into the con-
troversy. Much to their surprise the
senator did not answer, but sent his
clerk to Senator Cullom's room for a
copy of the volume containing COM
pilation of the treaties entered into
by this nation with foreign govern
ments. When the clerk returned Mr..
Morgan laboriously looked up the
treaty in question in the index and
then proceeded to enlighten the other
senators. He held the open book be-
fore him while he repeated the pro-
visions of the treaty, but the other
senator's noticed that not once did he
glance at the printed page while he was
reciting the provisions.
'Why did you send for the book if
you knew the text of the treaty by
hearth" asked Senator Elkins.
WELL" replied Morgan, 81 could
not remember for the life of me wheth-
er it began with This, or "a and I
wanted to make sure"