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ONE WYOMING MAN
In APRIL ASSEaAMEA1

Assessment No. III of the Pacific
jurisdiction, Woodmen of the World,
has been called. 1t contains the names
Of Twenty-Five dead members, only one
of whom was a Wyoming man-Samr
uel J. Groo Of Cokeville, who commit
ted suicide December l, 1901, leaving
his $4,000 beneficiary policy to his Ais.
ter, Mary e. Gee. The assessment
carries one other suicide and six acct
dental deaths.
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o 100000 O
o MRS. WARREN ILL. Q
, Senator Called to Her Bedside
} Feared She Cannot Recover.

o Washington, D. c., March "a c
Q Especial to The Republican y c
Q Senator Warren was called to {
Q Huntington, Mass, this morning c
Q by the dangerous illness Of Mrs. c
. Warren, who has been with her c
o sister for some time.
Q 1t is feared Mrs. Warren can c
o not recover. c
o 6
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WYOMING LIEUTENANT
TO BE BREVETTED.

Among the western officers of the
Spanish-American wal nominated for
brevet promotions for gallantry in ac-
ton, and confirmed by the senate. are
Lieutenant Harold D. Coburn of Lar
annie and Lieutenant L. l.. DIETRICH of
Cheyenne.
, 1902-03-24

Mutual Farm and Home Association
will buy you q farm or home and let
you pay for Il n follows:
4S.36 Per month for . $1,000 home.
1910 Per month for q $4,000 home.
$ls.05 per month for q 5000 home.
Without interest. Cheaper than rent.
Can n room I. Albany County National
bank building. ]. 8. Woody, agent.
1851
, 1902-03-24
CONDITION OF THE
WYOMING NATIONAL DANka.

"YOMINO MN BANK0
The condition Of the Wyoming Nat
ional banks at the close of busineSe
February rs shows: Loans and DIR
counts, $3,723,142; gold coin, $3.50, e37:
lawful money reserve. 372,485; indi-
vidual deposits, $4,391, 1894; average re-
serve held. 1872. O5.
, 1902-03-24

MISS WARREN
CHOSEN TO DEBATE.
Miss F. H. Warren of Wyoming, has
been chosen one of Wellesley colleges
three representatives in the debate
with vasser Oh the ship subsidy bill.
, 1902-03-24

Buy your stock certificates and min
ing blanks at The Republican ONCE and
eAcure the best
, 1902-03-24

Men. buy your Easter bonnets At
Woodruff Z TsrEy's.
, 1902-03-24

ArOm Lille CITY ny ~. A. dObWeus tD
United States deputy marshal, in which
he says that Il have Gus Sprouse. who
murdered Martin. Shall hold him sub
ject to your order" The telegram was
sent in 1859, and the charges from Lar
annie to Uintah, Utah, for the telegram
of fourteen words was 1856. as noted
on the envelope of The Union Pacific
Railroad Telegraph, once, Union Pa
cihc R. R."
Mr.. Boswell was shown the paper
and recalled the sending Of the tele-
gram. The following extracts are from
the Ogden special:
For a generation the use of the tele-
graph by oficers for the i~nterception
Of escaping criminals has been 20 COM
mon that people nowadays hardly
realize that but a third of q century
ago the hrst electric messages Of the
kind were used by Utah officers. The
old documents heretofore reproduce
show the envelope and copy of a dis
patch which was NJ of a number sent
III connection with the arrest Of a man
wanted on . charge Of murder, and is
claimed was the first dispatch sent to
q Utah oficer on such business. The
pictured documents are full Of history.
The Union Pacific had but recently
completed the telegraph line to Unitah
wh1chsattAaestEnfs was the terminal Of
the road, being rushed rapidly west
ward to meet the Central Pacific built
ing east. The town was full Of law
Iessness, incidental to the stirring
history-making epoch Of development.
One day q desperate character. August
sprouse by name, shot and killed q
man named Martin Earl. Sprouse es-
capped to the east, but was not up to
date. He reckoned without the tele-
graph. and was captured at Laramie
by Deputy Marshal N. X. Boswell, who
wired the sheriff at Uintah that he had
and would hold the prisoner. Boswell is
alive. and a prominent citizen Of Wyo
ming.
The cost Of sending the message was
eS.65. or almost rs cents per word. The
same message now would be sent at an
expense of not to exceed 40 cents. The
use Of the telegraph in the capture Of
the man was deemed of such import
that the message was filed with the
records In the subsequent trial and 10
here reproduced in fac smile.
Charles F. Middleton. now one Of the
drst presidency OF Weber stake, was a
witness for the state against sprouse
and was also one of the deputy sheriifs
who went after the desperate. He re-
members distinctly the events Of the
killing and the trial, and especially Of
the . made of the telegraph wires
In the case. Mr.. Middleton and Will
lam Brown we're the deputies who
went to Laramie and brought sprouse
back by train. The prisoner had many
friends and some Of them were of the
most desperate men in the west.
"Sprouse was IN irons when we found
him at Laramie, and 1t almost every
station passed on our return" say Mr..
Middleton. came messages to the
conductor Of the train demanding to
know II Gus sprouse was on his train
in u charge. These messages were
from Sprouse's friends who also made
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, 1902-03-24

ola papers 80 psr hundred At rAs
asDsbiicsa Ones.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
LOOK PLEAS ANT, PLEASE.

Photographer G. G. Harlan, of Eaton, O..
can do so now, though for years he couldn't
because he suffered untold agony from the
worst form of Indigestion. All physicians
medicines failed to help him till he tried
Electric Bitters, which worked such Won
ders for him that he declares they are a
eodsend to sufferers from dyspepsia and
stomach troubles. Unrivaled for diseases
Of the stomach liver and kidneys they
build up and give new life to the whole
system. Try them. Only SOC. Guaran~
teed by Johnsons Pharmacy.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
A. & M. COLLEGE.

Students for the Agricultural
and Mechanical College will please
not come to the college before
Wednesday, September Sd, when
it is hoped to accommodate all that
may come. Watauga Hall is not
quite completed, but it will be
nearley enough finished to be oc-
cupied September Sd. Examination
for admission and for supplying
conditions and deficiencies will be
held September 4 and 5.
GEO. T. WINSTON.
President,
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
The Republican Convention at Green's
boro.

no colored delegates we're allowed
to participate in the Republican State
Convention held at Greensboro yes
terday, and the only action of the con-
vention of any Importance was the en-
dorsement Of Judge Thomas N. Hill,
a so-cal;ed independent Democrat, of
Halifax, for Chief Justice, in opposi-
ton to Judge Clark, the Democratic
nominees. No nominations were
made for Associate Justices.
D. A. Long was named for Super
intendent of Public Instruction, D. H.
Abbott for Railroad Commissioner.
E. w. Timberlake, of Franklin,
fourth district; w. S. OBJ. Robinson,
of Wayne, sixth; H. F. Seawe1l, of
Moore, eighth; A. Coble, of Iredell,
tenth; H. R. Starbuck, of Forsyth,
eleventh; R. H. Mcneil, of Ashe,
thirteenth; o. B. F, Blythe, of Hen
derson, fourteenth; G.. D. Mashburn,
of Madison, fifteenth; Baylus Cade, of
Haywood, sixteenth, were nominated
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29

The Dowd & King Spply Com
panv, of Charlotte, has issued pre-
ferred stock to the amount of $15,-
600. Papeers to this effect have
been filed with the Secretary
Of State. This is in addition to ITO
shares of common stock. The stock
holders are w. +. Dowd, S. +. king
G. III. Chasmar, John H. French
and z. V. Kendrick.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
Mecklen burg Fair.

Mecklenburg county, in which you will
find the hustling city of Charlotte. is just
as busy now as it is possible to be, Com
mencing Sept. 80, and lasting till Oct. 4.
there will be held at Charlotte the first of
the opening of circuit Of Western Caro-
lima fairs for 1902. this being Charlotte's
first attempt, and Secretary Junius H.
Harden informs us that $40, 900 has been
laid aside by the fair association-S5,O 900
for premiums and the rest to be used for
pushing the enterprise to a successful ter
mination.
| FREE PRESS reporter had an interview
! with Mr. Harden on Tuesday and was in
| formed that it was not scheme for maxi
ing money. but was being gotten up for
the purpose Of having every parU of the
Safe represented. Mr.. Harden has fur
nished this office with a lot of premium
lists which can be had free on application.
The FREE PRESS man had the pleasure of
meeting up with several of Charlottes
business men while in that city last Tues
day, among them being G. w. Parker,
President and General Manager of the An
dreWs Furniture and Music Company, who
has decided to use the columns of this
paper to reach those who buy furniture
He has an ad ewhere-you should read
it.
Another very clever business man was
Mr.. I'll. B. Mcdowell, who is now proprie-
tor of the Star Laundry. formerly the
Leon, and which is asking for your patron
age when you want first-class laundry at a
low price.
Another of Charlottes hustling business
men with whom we met was j. A. Berry
hill, who was busy selling tickets for the
annual excursion via Seaboard Air Line to
Portsmouth, Norfolk and the seashore
from Charlotte and intermediate points.
People in Southern Pines can take this
"trip at the rate of $3.50 for the round trip.
A daylight ride will be given as the train
passes here at II o'clock noon next Tues
day, Sept 2nd
We had pleasant visits with Messrs Cra-
ter and Banks, of the Daily Observer, and
Dowd and Matthews, of the Evening News
The city of Charlotte richly deserves her
abundant success and growing popularity.
as her people unite and pull together when
matters concerning the city's interests are
up for discussion
The Association is quite anxious to have
the ladies of Southern Pines send exhibits
of all kinds of pantry supplies, canned
and fruits, pickles and pre-
serves this department being in charge of
Mrs j. HI. Wellington, of Charlotte.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29

without opposition for judges of the
Superior Court.
Outside of the fact that Senator
Pritchard thoroughly dominated and
controlled the convention, and to-
gether with the help of Capt. Price,
of Salisbury, buried all hopes of fu-
ture Democratic success, the 1902 Re
publican State Convention was moth
ing more than social gathering of
Federal office-holders, a sort of expe
rience meeting, and one for the pur-
pose of finding out how many mem
bers of the defunct populist party
would join their ranks.
The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1902-08-29
LATE LOCAL NEWS.

III \ L IL ho o41L VI ~ ~
.ss.:..:.
The Southern Pines Hotel is having
a new front porch added.
Miss Penny, of Wilson, is the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Marks.
R. G. Dunn, of Raleigh, was the
guest of J. N. Powell this week.
F. H. Weaver and family will reach
home tomorrow morning, after spend
ing some time in Virginia.
Sustain the regular business instia
tutions; patronize the bakery, if you
want good bread, pies and cakes.
Mr.. Bruhn shot and killed 6-foot
king snake in the yard of Mr.. VIM.
Saunders Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Swift, who went to Pittsburg,
Pa, some weeks ago, is Disguised
with the weather and will soon be
with us again. He says it has been
cold and wet.
c. F. Won Herman, Chief of the
Weather Bureau at Raleigh, was
guest at the Southern Pines Hotel
yesterday. He is making tour of
the State in order to see that all the
weather stations are in good order.
E. E. Johnson, of Connecticut, has
rented the Smith Cottage through
Junge & Beck, and will spend the
winter here. Messrs. Junge & Beck
have also rented the Schaffner cottage
to Mr.. Lindsey for his music school
We were pleased to receive from the
Hon. John H. Small, member of Con-
gress from this State, copy Of very
interesting speech made in the Ma
tional House of Representative June
28, 1902, in which he treats at length |
upon the resources, progress and pos
sibi1ities of North Carolina. If people
interested in the development of this
State could get zoe 900 copies of this
speech distributed throughout the
North, East and West we would re-
ceive benefit hard to estimate.
Miss Frances Page, of Aberdeen, visited |
with the Misses johnson oN er Sunday
Mr. Will Heizmann has gone to Reading
Pa, after visit to his father, Mr. A. Heiz-
Manu.
Mrs G. j. Brown and family have gone
to White Plains, New York, to reside per
rlanently.
Mrs. c. f. Peck was in Raleigh Monday
making arrangements to send Miss France
to Peace Institute
The Sunnyside Cottage. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. B. Eastman, has received many i'm
provemeuts. and will be in good working
ing order this teason.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
ANTlSEPTlCS.
They DO Not Destroy, II Is Said, but
Only Arrest Germ Life.

They DO Not Destroy. 1t Is Said. but
Only Arrest Germ Life.
The Edinburgh Scotsman begs leave
to correct the erroneous belief that I'M
plies that antiseptics can prevent de-
cay. Decay may be arrested without
killing the microbe which would pro-
duce it. a few drops of solution Of
carbolic acid added to -four paste will
keep it sweet for a certain time, not
because the germs in the paste are de-
strOyed, but because these germs are
hindered for the time being in their
growth and multiplication and because
the paste is rendered temporarily an
unsuitable soil for the growth Of what
ever microbes may fall from the air In
to it.
When the effect of the acid has worn
off and disappeared, we see the paste
going to the bad as rapidly as If 1t had
not been treated antiseptically at all.
Molds will grow in 1t, and it will decay
In the fashion familiar TO everybody.
1t is in this way cold may act as an
antiseptic when it is used to preserve
meat and fish. There is no destruction.
but only arrest of germ life. If we wish
to kill microbes, therefore, we not only
have to use a disinfectant, but we must
employ it in proper proportions and see
that it thoroughly attacks the germs
we wish to destroy. 1t is for this rea-
son that all attempts to kill germs
which the air may contain are worse
than useless. We cannot "disinfect' the
air. If we could do so, we should re-
Uuire to saturate the air with our germ
icide to such an extent that to breathe
it would kill us.
We get an excellent example of this
fallacy of "disinfecting air" when we
reflect that in using burning sulphur to
purify a room after a fever case we
have to use it in such way and in
such proportion that it is impossible for
any person to remain in the room at
oil
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
A RIVER OF LAND.
Astonishing Amount of Earth Thnt
Flows Down the Mississippi.

"The capacity of the Mississippi Tor
filing up canals and old channels Is
something awful" says John Swain In
Ainslee's. Government engineers have
found that the amount Of solid matter
annually carried PAST Vicksburg in sus-
pension is enough to make block or
earth 300 feet high and a mile square.
Fifty feet off the top of this Is spread
around on the valley between here and
the sea, and the rest goes out into the
gulf Of Mexico to build up more conti-
nent.
"Think what that means Instead OF
river of water this is river of land.
1t would make a solid stream Of earth
five feet deep and nine feet wide, How
ing night and day as fast as man can
walk. four miles an hour, all sliding
down off the northern half Of the coun-
try toward the sea. Year in, year out,
that endless line OF earth goes on. 1t
would take q force Of more than 0O,OOO
men working In eight hour shifts to
throw the dirt into the stream. suppos-
ing the river bed were rigid and an in
exhaustible supply of dirt on the bank.
1t would make 25,0O0,0O0 wagon loads
every year.
"But here-what are the use of such
figures? Below Vicksburg-and above
1t. too, to an extent-we have the earth
itself to speak for it. Except for the
occasional fragments Of the line Of
bluffs along the eastern edge below
here which bob up at Fort Adams. at
Natchez, at Grand Gulf. at Baton
Rouge, at Port Hudson. there is moth
ing about the level of the high water
river except the artificial levees. These
are In places miles back, great earthen
banks, sometimes thirty feet high or
more, sodded and free from trees,
which protect the wonderfully fertile
region behind them.
"And all this level country which
the river overfows and fertiliZes Is
constantly increased by this river Of
dirt which the Mississippi brings down
from the inner region. gathered all the
way from the Rockies To the Allegha-
MES. Sometimes the river starts to eat
away this land that it has made. In a
single summer. if 1t will. it eats away
half q mile of 1t out of some bend. 1t
cuts it out sometimes an acre at a
bite and takes with it forests, houses,
levees and all else
1.-THE river is not uniformly moving
stream. One side or the middle moves
swiftly; the other parts are still or
sluggish. Sometimes even these run
up stream. The swift part is the chan
mel current and runs in the deepest sec
lions. 1t makes crossings whenever
driven off shore by a promontory.
These crossings are dumping places
for the surplus earth the river has
picked up in the bend it is eating"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
Co-operative Funerals.

Joseph ChalifOux. P. Chalifoux and
Theophile Bonier of Chicago have
formed a cooperative funeral expense
society, have had it incorporated al
Springfield with a capital stock of $1O,'
600 and will soon send agents about the
city to solicit subscribers. The Chan'
foux brothers are funeral directors OF
thirty-five years experience and have
come to the conclusion. they say. that
many families in humble circumstances
and unable to stand the expense OF a
funeral will be glad to join the new
society.
The schedule arranged by Joseph
Chalifoux. who has made study OF
the question both in this country and
in Canada, where he is interested In
an undertaking establishment, follows
Infants up to five years Of age, 81
per annum.
Children and adults from five to thir-
t. years old. 10 cents per annum.
Adults from thirty to fOrty-fve years
old. 81 per annum.
Persons from forty-6ve to ffty-fve
years old, $3.50 per annum.
Persons from fifty-fve to sixty-tve
years old. $3.50 per annum.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
Fishing Through Street Gratings.

In Winchester, England, it is quite a
common thing to see men fishing
through the street gratlngs. Under the
High street there flow several streams
which ultimately discharge into the
river Itchen q noted trout stream.
These streams receive the storm and
surface water from the street by means
of the ordinary street grating. The line
is dropped through and fastened to the
end of a stick small enough to go
through the crate. When the fish is
hooked, the line and stick are dropped
through the grating, and the fisherman
rushes to the point where the stream
energies from under the street and Is
there able to recover his line and land
his fish.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
MISSISSIPPI VESSELS.
Rueer Craft That Ply the Upper
Reaches of the River.

asst. Paul is at the head Of naviga-
ton on the Mississippi
"That sentence from the old geogra-
ply stands out wildly In my memory"
says John Swain in Ainslee's I'm boy
hood | pictured throngs Of smoking
steamers blowing up to the wharfs or
this Minnesota city. OF course in the
winter they would be frozen out, but in
summer and through the autumn, when
the grain crop was moving, l imagined
barges Of wheat and corn, steamers
loaded with flour and all the incidentals
of the commerce of the northwest.
"But there are limitations to that
navigation on the upper Mississippi
which the geography failed to mention.
This young man Mississippi spreads
out valiantly to fill big channel. He
receives the floods of the st. Croix and
lower down of the Wisconsin, but still
he is, after all. only young fellow, and
when he aSpires to spread he becomes,
as other young men, very shallow. So
it is that at many times in the year the
visitor to st. Paul and TO the river be-
low it. especially at that time of the
year when the crops are moving, VIII
wait in vain for a steamer for st. Louis
and will find lodges of rock and big
sand bars obstructing the channel SO
that a raft would have difficulty in
moving down stream. For months Of
the year no steamers come to st. Paul,
and only when there is a fairly good
stage can the steamers of the Diamond
10 line work their slow way up from
Davenport as a connection with the
world below.
"Such steamers as they are too. There
have been jokes without number about
these shallow river steamers that can
run on heavy dews and that are said
to be built of iron. Imprinted, because
on damp days the iron will sweat
enough to allow them to run. 1t has
been said that at times the pilot sends
a man ahead with a sprinkling can to
wet down sand bars and that tub OF
water and a hose are kept on deck for
use in emergencies. OF course these
are wild exaggerations. but, as a mat
ter of fact, the steamer that cannot run
on eighteen inches or, at best on two
feet of water must stay on the lower
river. Even there she will have her
troubles. Far below Cairo l have seen
a steamer loaded with COO bales Of cot
ton and 800 sacks Of seed run into
landing over a bar on which there was
but four feet Of water. There are long
stretches Of deep water near st. Paul,
to be sure. where boats could draw
many feet, but the river steamer has
to be able to go over reefs and bars.
and of these there are many. For the
rest, they are the same old fimsy.
noisy, cheap. sternwheelers that were
run in Mark Twain's time before the
civil war;"
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
WHAT IS TEMPERAMENT?
No Wonder This Child's Brain Is All
In Middle,

The half dozen blocks about Dupont
circle include the homes of as many
scientists of national reputation. These
gentlemen of course know each other
and meet frequently. Not long ago one
Of their neighbOrs began to wonder
whether such intimate intercourse
among scientists was a good thing,
Lis cogitation having had its rise in the
following incident:
His little daughter has just reached
the age when she asks 200 questions a
day. About month ago her father
spoke of some author as lacking the
proper Temperament" for writing on
history. That word Temperament"
apparently took root in the youngsters
mind. What was temperament? She
asked that question twice an hour for
an entire week
Finally her father gave her note to
Professor - and sent her off to find
out. That scientist answered the que
ry as follows: Temperament is an in
dividual tendency to the rise Of GER
tain mental state" Father and daugh-
ter wrestled with that little while and
then applied to second member Of
the scientific group for help. No. 2
called temperament IAN ensemble Of
hySical and mental traits arising from
fundamental constitutional differences
in individuals" This put the little
girls father completely at sea. So No.
3 was tried. His judgment was that
Temperament is the psychic resultant
Of the whole organic life Of the indi-
vidual." BY this time hope was aban-
doned. But when No. 4 volunteered to
make 1t clear the family spirits re-
vived. Temperament is general dis
position of the mind" he wrote. ''the
distinctions Of which depend on the
dominance of one or the other of the
physiological systems"
And now the family dictionary is
worn out -WaShington Star.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-04-26
pro,se of Work Well Done.

Perhaps there is nothing else so
productive of cheerful, helpful service
as the expression of approval or praise
Of work well done, and yet there is
nothing so grudgingly, so meagerly
given by employers. Many of them
seem to think that commentator is
demoralizing and that the voicing of
appreciation will lead to listlessness
and the withdrawal Of energy and In
terest. This evinces but poor knowl-
edge Of human nature. which Is al
ways hungering for appreciation. But
how mistaken such views are Is shown
by the loyal and unstinted service Civ
en- to those large minded men who
treat their employees as members OF a
family committed to their care.-Suc-
cess.