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ARE WILLING TO PLEASE.
Thing to Win, According to
Their Programme.

The straits to which the repub-
ican party. has arrived in the tariff
and the trust questions are extraor-
binary and must entail trouble
when the spellbinders are trying,
later on in the campaign, to explain
just where the republican party
stands. The newspapers publish in
terviews with several members of
congress who differ ON these sub
jects. Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, in an
interview published in the Washing
ton Post, August q, says:
1.-THE tariff will be revised some
time, but not at the next session of
congress, or by the succeeding con-
gress unless there is check to the
present prosperity" AS Mr.. Cannon
is one of the republican leaders Of
the house of representatives and is
chairman of the committee on ap-
preparations, his statement must be
taken as good authority for the fac
ton which he trains with. If that
faction, which includes about all the
leaders that now control congress, is
able to control the organization of
the congress to be elected this year,
there will evidently be no tariff re-
vision or trust legislation. The
trusts would seem to have a firm
hold on this faction of the republican
party, for tariff revision is the only
legislation these trusts fear who are
protected by the tariff. Senator
Pritchard, of North Carolina, in ali
interview in the same paper and on
the same day as Mr.. Cannon, says:
81 have no sympathy with the de-
sire to tinker with the tariff. d.
I shall certainly oppose any effort to
reform the tariff"
In Massachusetts, there are candi-
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RidicuIes Roosevelt.

The Neue Wiener Tagblatt, in an edi-
torial on President Roosevelt's speech
in regard to trusts, ridicules his sug-
gestion of state supervision of these
combinations. The paper says it can
assure Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Carnegie and
Mr.. Rockefeller that the president does
not mean any mischief. 1t goes on to
say:
That military imperialist Cthe presid ent)
sees In trusts a national source of power
and a medium for American ecor omic inn
perialism- Accordingly, he takes them un-
der his powerful protection. Europe knows
what to expect from Mr.. Roosevelt, who
was once the reputed opponent of trusts
out Who now has been transformed into
a reckless economic imperialist Special
to the Chicago Inter Ocean (rep).
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OIL WELLS ON FIRE.
In the Beaumont Field All the Tanks on
the Keith Ward Tract Have
Been Burned.

Beaumont. Tex, Sept. 13.-The fire
In the oil fields is still raging. Hig-
gins 37,0O0-barrel tank is burning;
Woods gusher is shooting a column
CT flame so feet high; gas escaping
from other wells is burning. The fire
has been confined to the Keith-W Ward
tract, on which all the tanks have
been burned. The damage thus far
is estimated to be 100000.
Careless work on the part of a
white man caused the disaster. The
man, whose name has not a, been
learned, went into the settling tank
of the Keith Ward tract on Spindle
Top, with a lighted lantern, and an
explosion followed. The man es-
capped with serious burns but a mo-
ment later the tank burst and the
blazing oil spread over the Keith
Ward tract, which comprises ten
acres. Derricks were ignited and
burned like finder.
The oil field is about four miles
southeast of Beaumont. Its area
does not exceed $50 acres and prac-
tically all of the wells are on. what
are known as Spindle Top Heights
and Gladys City.
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CRUSADE AGAINST JOINTS.
Indian Territory Judges and Jurors De-
termined to Check the Increasing
Sale of Liquor.

Vinita, I. T., Sept. 1a.-Acrusade has
been inaugurated by the grand juries
now in session throughout the In
dian territory against the jointists
and "boot-leggers" engaged in the il
legal traffic of intoXicants. In no
section of the union are the prohi-
bitioh laws 80 stringent as they
are in the Indian territory and in no
section is so much crime directly
traceable to the traffic in intoxicants.
The congested criminal dockets of
the federal courts in the territory
suggest large criminal element, yet
in their charges to the grand juries,
the judges in two of the largest
districts stated that so per cent. of
these crimes were caused directly
from the use of intoxicants. The
chances taken by the ''boot-leggers"
from Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas,
from whom the principal supply is
received, suggests large profits.
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PRESS COMMENTS.

How different the Roosevelt of
former years-ardent reformer, i'm
patient critic of authority, unfalter-
ing champion of independence and in
dividual initiative-from this Roose-
welt, who from the accidental van
tage ground of exalted public sta
ton, throws dust in the eyes of the
people, sees no ills worth mention
ing, and exudes only words, words,
Observation-Disclosures Record.
Both as to their position with
regard to the trusts and with regard
to the Philippine atrocities the dem
ocrats have been justified out of the
mouth of the president himself. The
democratic positions can be justified
by other argument than the presi-
dents Endorsement, but a ready an
swer to republican criticism is:
Your president and chief leader, by
saying exactly what the democrats
have been saying, has admitted that
the democrats are in the right
Houston (Tex.) Post.
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EpIGRAMs.

Live merchants are reproof to an
tiquated ideals.
Advertising in the local paper IN
duces home patronage
The most successful merchants are
the most persistent advertisers.
The local newspaper is the telescope
through which people gaze at the mer-
chants stock.
Advertising is to business what'sea-
soning is to food-it encourages
healthy conditions.
The best evidence of business resus--
citation is the discarding of the habila-
ments of dead methods of advertising.
If the merchant will let the people
know what kind of stock he keeps, the
people will let him know the color or
their money.
A healthy person cannot tell what
particular article of diet is respon-
7sible for his physical condition. Nei-
Their can a prosperous merchant al
ways decide what display line in his
advertisement has increased his BUSH
ness.-Oak Park Qll.) Argus.
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dates for the republican nominal
tions for congress who have declared
for free raw material, and so want
the tariff revised. In Wisconsin at
least three congressional district
conventions declared for tariff re-
vision. In Minnesota Congressman
Eddy, in an interview, declares that
the republicans of the whole state
demand tariff revision. This view of
the case is Endorsed by the Mortified
News, which is owned and edited by
Congressman Heatwole, who in the
last issue of that paper said:
1.-THE people of the northwest have be-
come fully convinced that they are paying
excessive prices for protected trusts goods
which are being sold cheaper in foreign
markets than at home. They are beginning
to realize that the foreign trade of the
northwest, especially in its food products,
will be diminished and is liable to be de-
stroyed unless some of the tariff schedules
are modified
This would indicate that the whole
state is ablaze for tariff revision
against the trusts. Senator Cullom,
of Illinois, declared in an interview
at Atlantic City last week, that Hhe
favored tariff revision.
How will these republicans recon-
Gle their differences when on the
stump this fan, some talking for ul-
ira protection, others for free trade
in hides and other raw materials,
others for partial tariff revision, and
still others for the removal of the
uuty on trusts protected products.
The republican congressional COM
mittee, in sending out the army of
spellbinders they have promised, will
have to instruct them to prepare at
least three different speeches to fit
the localities they may visit. If vot-
ers living near the line of congress
sional districts should attend meet
ings in both adjacent districts, and
hear the spellbinders talking on both
sides, or even all sides, of the ques-
ton, will they be convinced that the
republican party is sincere in it's tar
iff policy?
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POISON KILLED SEVEN.
indian Territory Cotton Pfckers Inhaled
Dust from Paris Green That Was
Used to Kill Worms.

Paris, Tex, Sept. ia report has
been received here of a wholesale
poisoning which is said to have oc-
Cured in the Kiamihci valley, l. T..
A farmer recently applied paris green
to the cotton in his fields where the
worms were doing damage. There
had been but little rain since the paris
green was applied. Three or four
days ago seven cotton pickers, four
men and three women, went to work
in the patch where the poison had
been applied. Late in the evening
they became sick and during the
night all of them are reported to
have died. Their deaths was said
to have been caused by inhaling the
dust from the poison.
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TRUSTS ARE WAXING FAT.
> Them and No Reform Promised
to That End.

The chiefs of the two factions of the
republican party are wide apart on the
policy to be pursued on the most i'm
portant issues. Senator Hanna says
there are no monopolies but patents,
thus inferring that no legislation is
necessary on the trust question. Pres
ident Roosevelt has taken the stump to
prove that Hanna is wrong and is rec
ommending publicity of the trusts
transactions. In his Boston speech he
refers to Hanna as one of ''those gen.
tlemen of large means who deny that
the evils (monopolies) exist are act
ing with great folly" He also tells
the New England people that it may
be necessary to amend the constitution
so as to be able to control the trusts.
As it requires two-thirds majority in
congress to propose an amendment to
the constitution and then requires
three-fourths of the legislatures of the
states to ratify it, most of us will be liz
our graves before the presidential plan
is accomplished. The president does
not say word about abolishing or re-
vising the tariff on trust productions,
that the trusts are selling here for
nearly double what they are charging
foreigners for the same goods. His
plan would seem to be to prolong the
agony of the people for an indefinite
period, while the coal trust, the beef
trust and all the other trusts slowly
bleed them to the point where they can
no longer resist.
There is another short road to re-
straining monopolies provided in the
much abused antitrust law, which in
it's second section provides that:
Sec. 2. Every person who shall mo-
nopolize or attempt to monopolize, or
combine, or conspire with any other
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ATTACKED BY WILDCATS.
Farmer Near Anadarko, Ok. Fought
Fiercely for Half Hour and Re-
ceived Painful Wounds.

Anadarko, Ok, Sept. 13.-Robert w.
Billingley and his 16-year old son
were attacked by three wildcats
while cutting corn in the bottom land
adjoining the timber eight miles east
of Anadarko. The boy fed. leaving
his father to battle with the ami
mails, After fight lasting nearly
an hour, Mr.. Billingly succeeded in
killing one and wounding another.
Mr.. Billingly's right hand is LAGER
ated. He also has scratches about
the head and shoulders.
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MRS. E. SAILER.

President German Relief Association,
Los Angeles, Cal.
a day at time how l would feel the
next day. Five bottles of Lydia E..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
changed all that, my days became days
of health, and have enjoyed every day
since-now six years.
1--WE have used considerable of your
Vegetable Compound in our charitable
work, as we find that to restore poor
mother to health so she can support her.
self and those dependent upon her, If
such there be, is truer charity than to
give other aid. You have my hearty
endorsement, for you have proven
yourself true friend to suffering wo-
men."-MRs. E. SAILER, 1868 Hill St.,
Los Angeles, Cal.-S5ooo forfeit If aboue tes-
timoniai Is not genuine.
No other pers on can give such
helpful advice to women who
are sick as can Mrs. Pinkham,
for no other has had such great
eXperience-hera address is Lynn,
Mass, and her advice free-if
you are sick write her-yOu are
foolish if you don't.
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MRS. STEWART KILLED.
fhe Wife of the Senator from Nevada
Meets Her Death Through Her Auto
mobile Hitting a Telegraph Pole.

San Francisco, Sept. 13.-Mrs. Will
liam M. Stewart, wife of the United
States senior senator from Nevada,
was killed yesterday at Alameda,
Cal. Mrs. Stewart was riding in an
automobile with Henry Foote and a
young man named Taylor. Through
an accident the machine ran into a
telegraph pole and Mrs. Stewart was
thrown against the pole with great
force. She was so seriously injured
that death soon followed. Her home
was at Washington.
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BIG COUNTRY ON FIRE


Tacoma. Wash, Sept. lathe near
sst disastrous fire is at Eima, &C
niles south of here, where six large
lumber mills and ten houses have
been burned. At nine O'Clock yester-
lay morning all wires to Gray's Har-
Dor country went down and no word
IAN be received from Elma or Aber-
1een.
At Centralia, Lewis county, dark
ness caused all business to stop yes
serday.
Reports from Shelton at noon
stated that nearly all of the mills
n Mason county were on fire. The
town of Mitlock.- that county, was in
imminent danger of total destruc-
lion and over 500 acres of timber 100
feet high were burning.
Sixteen miles from Olympia the
Bordeaux camps in the Black Hill
district are in great danger. Forty
men on horseback have gone to res
cue women and children.
In Tacoma a heavy darkness set
tied down. Boats could not pass the
narrows on account of darkness. In
Olympia the electric plant shut down
and at noon it was as dark as the
blacklist night.
The lower sound country is COW
cred with dense mantle of fog and
smoke, coming from the many for
est fires prevailing along the straits
At Twin, Clallam county, Thompson's
big logging camp was totally de
stroyed by fire, which, for a time,
threatened the lives of the men and
animals.
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CLAIMED THE REWARD.
Michigan Man Who Stole Fifty THOUSAND
Dollars Weary of Wandering Over
the Earth.

Muskegon, Mich, Sept. 13.-Luther
W. Shear, district agent of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company, prominent churchman and
society leader, who disappeared on
June II, leaving behind him alleged
forgeries and debts to the extent of
$4,000, quietly walked into the pres
ence of Sheriff Payne at the county
Jail yesterday and gave himself up.
81 came by myself to save the $3.50
reward" he remarked. 81 am tired
of wandering about the land, a fugi
tive from Justice"
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James Cahill, of Virginia, is prob
ably the only person in the United
States who has in regular use upon
his farm an elephant, which is used
for farm work. With the swaying
beast hitched up to a pillow he can
turn more ground than any of his
neighbors with a team of horses,
and when it comes to hauling logs
the\ elephant will walk away with
ease with logs which the best teams
of his neighbors cannot move. The
elephant eats little more than a
horse,
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person or persons to monopoliZe any
part of the trade or commerce among
the several states or with foreign ma
tions. shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and, on conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine not exceed
ing $4,000, or by Imprisonment not
exceeding one year, or by both said
punishments, in the discretion of the
court"
If President Roosevelt will instruct
his attorney general to proceed
against the trust magnates under this
section through the criminal courts
there is hardly a doubt that many of
them could be convicted.
The attempted prosecution of the
trusts in the civil courts is too slow a
process even if eventually successful.
The beef trust and the Northwestern
railroad merger, the only ones that
have been attacked, do not seem to
be worried by the proceedings. In
fact, the beef trust is perfecting a
more perfect combine. Under the Grim
! inal clause of the law there would be
quicker action if the president really
means to fight the trusts, and if the
present attorney general is slack and
nonresponsive to public opinion there
are other lawyers who have not been
corporation attorneys that can be
drafted for the battle.
The coal and beef trust magnates
would hardly care to spend year in
the penitentiary and would doubtless
obey the law rather than do so. The
coal road presidents would tumble
over themselves in their efforts to ar
bitrate their differences with the strik-
ing miners and the beef trust mag
mates would reduce the price of beef
to reasonable figure rather than take
chances of being convicted.
President Roosevelt has the trust
question in the hollow of his hand if he
wants to grasp it.
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Natural scenery is to be given a
chance for its life in France by a
tax placed on all advertising signs.
This bill is introduced in the French
assembly by the president of the So
ciety for the Protection of Land
scapes, the very name of which is
q revelation here where landscape
appears to have no rights which a
man with bucket of paint is bound
to respect. The grandeur of the
scenery is educational, and while pills
and cigars are desirable we can just
as wen swallow them and smoke them
without destroying it.
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The day Of the lightning rod is
passing. The governments latest
census returns shows that Frank
Inns invention for protecting the
house is little used to-day. No cleo
trical manufacturing establishment
reports it among its products, and,
so far as the census expert has been
able to learn, only one American
electrical engineering firm makes a
business of setting up the rods or
designing them.
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Blanche K. Bruce, the colored man
who was at one time the registrar
Of the treasury, is publishing paper
In Bond, Miss, it's avowed object be-
ing the elevation of the colored race
in accordance with the plans favored
by Booker T. Washington. He ad-
vises all negroes ito buy homes, edu-
cate their children industrially, serve
God and practice morality, tenn
perance and let gambling and poll
tics alone"
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A Russian who is now a porter in
a hotel in Vladisvostok served out a
sentence of 20 years Imprisonment
in Siberia for numbering the in
habitantss of whole village in order
to avenge an insult that had been
offered by the marriage of his fiancee
to another man. According to his
ideas and those of the class to which
he was born he could hardly have
acted otherwise without becoming
an object of general contempt.
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Gov. Crawford, of Kansas; Gov.
Ramsey, of Minnesota; Gov. Hol-
brook, of Vermont and Gov. Sprague,
of Rhode Island, are the only sur
viving war governors. Gov. Crawford
Is the youngest of the four, having
been elected out of the army in '64,
In his twenty-ninth year. He occa-
sionally corresponds with the other
governors and they have had in years
past war governors association.
The Minnesota and Vermont veter-
ans are in their nineties, but both
were able to go to the polls and
vote last fall.
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NEBRASKAN SLEW THREE.
Awful Work of Gottlieb NIegenfind Near
Pierce, Neb.-Attempted Criminal As
sault on His Dead Wife's Sister.

Pierce, Neb., Sept. 1a.-Gottlieb Me
genfnd shot and killed his former
wife, Mrs. Anna Peters, shot six
times at Albert Breyer, her father,
who died, and shot the wife of
Breyer in the shoulder, seriously and
perhaps fatally wounding her. After
the shooting Niegenfnd left the
house and meeting Mrs. Peters sis
ter, Lena Breyer, attempted a Grim
inal assault.
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1t Is a stiiwelI Line.

Guthrie, Ok, Sept. 13,-It develops
that the Kansas City, Orient & Gull
is behind the new line recently char.
tered under the name of the Guthrie
Shawnee & Coalgate. Ex-Gov. Barnes
is president of the road. The Orient
needs this line to secure coal from
Indian territory
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Don't Want Girl Babies.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. 13.-The COM
mander of the Cossack station at
Wertschink, anxious that his district
should show preponderance of
males, has ordered that the father of
every girl baby born in the district
shall receive so strokes with the
knOut
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Workmen Are No. Paid.

Santiago, Cuba, Sept. 13.-The san
itary employees have struck work, the
streets are not swept and no rubbish
has been moved for two days. The
city is in a filthy condition. The
cause of the strike is that the mer
have not been paid for two months
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There is a supeestion that the

There is suggestion that the
democracy is assuming its former and
most wonderful solidity when Hon.
William F. Villas is chosen as delegate
to the Wisconsin state convention and
accepts with the assurance that he will
take off his coat to help elect the ticket
placed in nomination. When strong
fsssn like him appear under the Give
branch the day of concerted and har-
monious action is at hand.-Detroit
Free Press.
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A Girl Killed In . Runaway.

Beatrice, Neb., Sept. 13.-Miss Ida
Brockins, daughter of a wealthy
farmer, living near Adams, was
thrown out of a wagon yesterday,
dragged by the runaway team and
kicked to death.
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Proposals have been issued by the
Indian warehouse at ST. Louis for the
purchase of $4,000 pounds of dried
apples, $4,000 pounds of dried
peaches, $4,000 pounds of dried
prunes and several casks of drugs
and medicines. A rapid increase in
the death rate of the population of
the Indian reservations may be con-
fidently looked for within the next
DO days.
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Praise. the Confederacy.

St. Joseph, Mo-, Sept. 13.-Ad-
dressing campfire of ex-confederate
veterans here, Senator Berry, of Ar
kansas, declared the confederate sol
der performed greater acts of valor
and heroism than any other in the
worlds history, and pronounced Lee
the greatest general who ever led
an army. eff jeff Davis is a traitor,
am a traitor, too," he said.
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Fifteenth REGIMENT Home

Washington. Sept. 13.-The war de-
partment is advised of the arrival of
the transport Meade at San Fran
cisco, from Manila, with the head
quarters band and staff and compan-
les A, B, c, d, G, II, 1, K, L and NJ, Fiji
teenth infantry, with $40 enlisted men
and officers of that regiment
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There have been three national con-
ventons in st. Louis, the democratic
In 1876, the democratic in 1888 and
the republican in 1896. The Business
Mems league of ST. Louis has been at
work since the postponement of the
worlds fair until 1904 to secure, if
possible, both the democratic and the
FEARS hence.
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Four per cent on 100000 is the
sum Charles M. Schwab, the steel
king, is to pay annually for an I'M
furnished apartment of II rooms on
the Sixteenth floor of the Ansonia,
Broadway and Seventy-second street,
New York, with private elevator serv-
ice. Only few years ago this would
have been a startling annual rent
for anyone to pay.