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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14

We believe thoroughly in
advertising. To prove it
we are going to use this
space for our own purposes.
We have advertising space
to sell, and We know it win
pay a good return upon the
price we charge for it if it
is properly used. Our pa
per goes into the best homes
in this community. 1t has
been going day after day
until each issue is welcom-
cd as an old friend Of the
family. The news it brings
is news Of neighbors. Of
personal affairs in which all
have more or less of a COM
mon interest. If one of our
readers called upon you, a
merchant, you would do
the best you could to con-
vince him that what you
had for sale was the best
he could buy. You would
show him the new things
you had got in recently.
You would tell him why he
should have them and why
they were better than he
could procure elsewhere.
You probably would make
a sale.
Your effort, however, would be
confined to one person.
You could tell the same
story just as effectively to
every reader of this paper
in each issue. You do not
believe it would have the
same effect?
If you told the story
in the same way it would.
We are ready
to do our part to prove it.
Do you care to try it?
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14

A reliatle Kansas newspaper
says, there are two strong Eefub-
Iican towns in Kansas in which a
negro Is not allowed to live. One
il NortonyilIe and the other is
Baileyyille, the home Of W ;. Bailey
the Republican candidate for gov.
ernor''
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14
Hagans Restaurant

at Uniontown is receiving many
comments tt is said te be The most
mo iein outside the largest Giles
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14

At once twenty-five men to worR on
the Beechurst paving Apply on the
work to the Dean & HOLMAN Co.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14
Wanted:

Smoothers and roughers. Induce.
ments for good workmen. Apply in
person or write,-The O. F Eggin-
ton Co, Rich Cut Glass Mfgrs.,
Corning. N Y.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14

Senator Tom Platt il credited
with dnhbing the President. His
Sitea4teei4v
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-14

TIE largest clearance sale of Shoes
ever held in Morgantown now in force
at Hirschmans.
READ Hirschman' new advertise
ment to-day.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
LEADING MEN OF THE IMPE=
 RIAL CANAL SYSTEM.

w. H. Blaisdell has been prominent citizen of Yuma for many years He has been enerprising and he has done much towards building up and developing the Ter ritory of Arizona As mining, mechanical and civil engineer he naturally drifted towards mining, and in that way did much towards developing the mining inter of the Territory and today he is largely interested in mining properties.
 His engineering abilities also led him to construct domestic water system for the city of Yuma his home, and later to install electric lighting plant, both of which properties managed by him.
 To the south of Yuma lay worthless eighty feet above the Colorado River The soil of this anything but fertile but Mr. Blasde having confidence in and climate, put in pumping plant with which to rrigae this and result he has thereon fine orchard that would be credit any country The
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12

silt pumped up from the river with the has changed the character of the soil and made it very fertile His orange orchard natures his Mediterranean Sweets so that they ready for market during the holidays His lemons are fine any raised the Pacific Coast and his cantaoupes last season ready for market two weeks earlier than those grown at ndo and they netted him $4oO
 When the California Development Company was formed to reclaim the Colorado Deta he appreciated the fact that there opportunity to construct an empire out of worthless material by bringing together the land and water neither one of which had any value alone but that brought together they great wealth producers
 He did all he could forward the enterprise and today he has the satisfaction of seeing his early hopes realized
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
Town of SiISbee.

The new town on the eastern border of Blue Lake has been chrstened Silsbee, in honor of Thomas H. Sisbee of San Diego, who has been a pioneer worker Tn the New River country for years past.
 Silsbee will be a noted resort Blue Lake is fine body of fresh water, alive with fish. Tn fact, there is no better fishing to be found on the Pacific Coast. The lake is nearly a mile in length by about half mile in width and a drive 120 feet in width will encircle the lake. The time is not far dis tant when Silsbee will become one of the most popular winter resorts on the coast, as the winter climate cannot be eXcelled if even equaled, in America. The Silsbee town site is the property of the Blue Lake Town Company.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
Mo-. B

diversion of water from the Colorado River and not from the Gulf of California. for be tween the Imperial Settlements and the Gulf of California there is land barrier sixty miles in width and nearly seventy-five feet in height above sea level, making it i'm possible for the salt waters of the gulf ever to find it's way into or over the Colorado Delta lands.
 But We quote again;
 Each day the encroachng civilization threatens the Indians, who have all these years possessed this land in peace.
 The Indians never possessed this land either in peace or war They could not live in this country. They would starve to death. No more brutal treatment could be thought of than to compel the Indians to live in this country until it had been re- claimed by the very people whom the writer of the article in the Detroit Free Press charges with driving out the Indians in or der that the land might be stolen by the white men.
 What arrant nonsense this is. If Bishop Johnson really authorized the publication of such stuff he is poorly qualified to go back EaSJ to eullSHtSn lhc pNpb'N ing the Indians of Southern California.
 Any member of the Yuma or Cocopah tribes could talk better sense and tell more truth. There is hardly a true statement in the entire article.
 Bishop Johnson has been to Imperial and ought to know that there is not a word or truth in the statements quoted above rom his article in the Detroit Free Press.
 What are the facts of the case? The h. dians have had free access to this land for ages past and they have been too lazy and worthless to make more than living on the moist lands along the Colorado River and in Lower California, where vegetation grew spontaneously and luxuriantly. They have done no more to develop the coun- try and take care of themselves and their offspring than have the coyotes and jack rabbits. A superior race has come along to occupy the land. Instead of driving out the Indians they have taken the worthless desert, where the Indians could not live and are making a garden of it and the Indians are now following up the white race and are finding employment where they could not live before.
 The Indians are not being driven out. The Yuma and Cocopah tribes today clothe themselves and live in luxury as compared with their condition fifty years ago before the white man made his appearance in their midst
 It is sickening to hear the twaddle about the poor Indian. One would think to near some misnamed philanthropists talk that the white men have no rights that the h. dians are bound to respect.
Imperial press and farmer., 1902-04-12
Wit or NOnSenSe---WhiCh? Either the Detroit Free Press or Bishop Johnson, Made Fool
 iSh Statements.


 for years as a paper that published many witticisms, but as a rule these witty say ings were so plain that they did not require to be labeled.
 The Right Rev Joseph H. Johnson, bishop of Los Angeles, has devoted much time and study to the welfare of the Indi- ans of the Pacific Coast. A few weeks since, he was one of a party that made trip from San Diego to Imperial with view to gathering information relative to various Indian tribes in San Diego county. He recently went East on visit to friends in Detroit Michigan with a view to after wards going to Washington to see if he could be any service there in benefitting the Indians of Southern California
 While in Detroit the Free Press pub lished an article regarding his work, which was copied by Los Angeles Herald of recent date. This article did not appear originally, we presume, in the funny column of the Free Press, and in it's reproduction in the Los Angeles Herald it was not given as a matter of levity, but as a matter to be considered soberly and in dead earnest However there are so many funny state ments in the artce published that we can hardly take the matter seriously. We herewith give some of those statements, so that the readers of the Press may judge of them for themselves.
 For instance. Bishop Johnson is made to say:
 The youngest city in the United States is situated in the county of San Diego, South ern California, almost on the border of Mexico. It is known as Imperial. Here a fertile narrow strip of land runs in lit tie valley enriched by the overflow from the Gulf of California, much in the same man her as is the Egyptian fertilization by the Nile. 9iEssf
 Whoever heard of enriching a valley by means of the overflow of salt water from the ocean or a gulf thereof? How could the water overflow from the Gulf?
 Again:
 The march of civilization is evicting the Indian from this last choice garden spot.
 The Colorado desert a choice garden spot! The most worthless piece of the earth's surface to be found anywhere! A country that would not support a jack rab- bit, to say nothing of an Indian
 Here is another extravagant statement:
 Already within the last year or two the settlement has reached the proportions of a town of six hundred inhabitants.
 We have not dared to claim more than two hundred inhabitants for the town of I'm perial although if the comic writer of the Free Press will wait a few days we will make the six hundred proposition good
 Now listen again:
 So wonderfully productive is the soil that measures are now being taken to turn the course of the Colorado River to further in crease the fertility of other portions of the county of San Diego not within the imme- diate circle of natural irrigation from the gulf.
 The soil of this desert country was natur- ally fertile, but it had no water, and hence nothing grew there except in small patches along the dry water courses, where an oc- casional overflow from the Colorado River started the vegetation. The first and only o++ennt Tn reclaim this country was by the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
LIQUOR MEMS FIzzLE
Association Hoped to Get More
in Fold, But They Didn't
Materialize.

What was intended as a general NEE.
ing of all the liquor dealers in the city
at the Avenue House, Five Corners, yes
terday. cid not materiaiize, as there were
only a dozen men in the trade present 1t
was explained by Joseph H. Buckridge,
State Organizer that the weather was
greatly responsible for the very slim at
tendance.
The purpose of the meeting was to ex-
plain to those liquor dealers who are not
members of any organization, the bene-
fits of union Mr.. Buckridge and G..
Frank Southern were to PROFOUND the
principles of the Hudson County Liquor
Dealers Association, SO that the ignorant
might hasten to the shelter offered them.
1t was to have been pointed out that or
ganizee liquor dealers were responsible
for the repeal of the revenue tax and that
only organized dealers could hope for
success in the fight against the anti liquor
leagues.
Those present had a discussion on ways
and means of gathering new members to
the fold
The alleged persecution of reputable
dealers IN Essex and other counties by
the Law and Order League people was
talked over and 1t was agreed that any
attempt by that organization to punish
persons conducting Objectionable resorts
would have the earnest support of the To-
cal dealers association, which was also
prepared to resist any movement directed
at reputable dealers.
On July / next the remaining sixty
cents of the 81 revenue tax on lager I'M
posed at the time Of the Spanish Ameri-
can war, will be taken off. OF the forty
cents already reduced the brewers have
retained fifteen cents and 1t was decided
TO make an effort to compel them to take
off the full tax after the same has been
removed by the National government.
The dealers present expressed them-
selves in accord with the Excise Commits
sioners in the matter of having all apli-
cations for licenses in hand by June 20,
and not allowing dealers TO do business on
certificates as heretofore. 1t was thought
that by refusing licenses to questionable
resorts the number of saloons in the
caty would be reduced by about 100.
An effort viii be made to hold another
general meeting next month.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
NO. JERSEY SUES
viii Receive Newark's Ex-
cessive Assessment Under
the Voorhees, Act.

The North Jersey Street Railway COM
many d 5es not psopose, to submit to the *
cess.ya asses sments of the Newark Tax
Board without a fight and to test as
right suit has been begun in the su-
creme Court to review the assessment
The company claims that under an or
dinanee OF she Newark Street and water
Board adopted In 1892. the corporation " as
10 nav 5 per cent of the annual gross
raceipts in. consideration of its privileges
and that since that time this sum mas
been set aside and deposited IN the city
treasury.
But under the Voorhees, franchise tax
act the authorities, the company says
are en6eavoring to collect So SSS2.2 ~
The sum of sSl s47.99 has already peen
na;d for 1901 and the contention OF tne
aonns,iai ainaalta is that the Noornees tax
t,,,nosing a two per cent. return on gross
receipts, provided that only IN eases
where cities may have imposed a less laN
man this, was the assessment to oe
rais.pd 1t was not even in such case
- % above the limit of 2 per ceat. Tne
ac+ they say. does not interfere now
avsy where the tax is already above tns
ner cent and the company havihs
.siven up the per cent. object 10 pasiiis
vet 7anot41er 2 per cent assessment.
A r,,le to show cause why a cerlloral
soould not be issue has been allowed ane
+his II is thought, may result IN an
other attack upon the constitutlohaheS
of the voorhees, act.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
CITY WAGES RAISED
PAYERS Now Get $3.50 and
Hammers $3.50 a Bay.


The Street and Water Board adopted a
resolution at its meeting yesterday after
noon raising the wages of the PAYERS and
hammers. Heretofore PAYERS and ram
mers in the city's employ were paid 81 a
day for eight hours work. while rammers
received $3.50 a day for the same number
Commissioners always allowed them a
occasions the Street and Water Commits
sioners received protests from District
Labor Union No. 406 against the scale Of
wages paid PAYERS and hammers. The
union urged the Commissioners to raise
the PAYERS and ranmers wages TO the
scale specified in the rules OF the union
$4,5a a day for PAYERS and $3.50 a day for
rammers This the Commissioners did
yesterday. The action of the Commis-
sioners was unanimous
Mayor Fagan recently won the hatred
of the labor unions for informing the
Street and Water Commissioners that
they would have to do away with some
of the street employees because he con-
s.dered too much money was being paid
out for street labor and his ideas was TO
economize. Today the resolution book of
the Street and Water Board will be sent
to the Mayor Both the Street and Water
Board and the PAYERS and Hammers
Union, particularly the latter. will watch
and wait with patience for the Mayor 3
action IN the matter.
This morning the Mayor refused to say
anything concerning the action of the
Street and Water Board when informed
thereof by a News" reporter.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
RECORD YEAR IN GLASS
Exports Have Doubled Any
Previous Like Period.

Especial to sThe Jersey City News.')
MILLVILLE, May 2S, 1902-The season
in the South Jersey glass factories will
end next month The present years work
exceeds any in the history Of the indus
try. and the manufacturers say the ex-
port of glassware has doubled that Of any
other year. The plants. with the exeep-
ton of More-Jonas. at Bridgeton and
Minatola. have run full blast since last
September
The glass workers at Millville Bridge
ton, Glassboro, Vineland, Clayton, Wood
bury. Williamstown, Swedesboro and
Salem have selected the delegates to at
tend the annual conventions. The green
workers will hold their convention at At
lantie City July 4 and it promises to be
the most interesting session yet held.
The workers general committee and
manufacturers held their preliminary
wage conference at Pittsburg Saturday.
No unusual demands were made on the
part of the manufacturers and the meet
ing was harmonious throughout
The Indications are that the manufac-
turers are satisfied with last years lis
and will not ask for any reduction. Whit
make several Improvements to their
plant during the summer season, and
some new buildings will be erected.
Il. C. Wheaton & Co., also of Mtllville,
ing another tank. Whitney & Co.. OF
Glassboro, will have new tank working
next season. while Swedesboro will have
an entirely new plant. 1, Ths workers i93k ZOE
large number of foreign orders whlch can
not be filled this blast.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
TROLLEY PLANS
North Jersey Street Rail
way Co. Gives Out
Contracts for I'm
provements.
READY TO SPEND $1,000. 900
Work Already Begun on New
Power House and New
Cars Are Being Built.
READY TO SPEND 1000. 900

All the contracts for the Improvement Is
of the system on very large scale nave
been given out by the North jersey street
Railway Company. Already has peen
made the announcement that the COM
many is prepared to spend SLOoo.V5o on
making the system as complete as pos
sible.
With sixty new cars ordered the COM
many had to build an addition to the pres
ent power house on River street, Newark
10 suppsv the additional power required.
Then that also meant new engines ana
new generators and a whole lot OF tnlnss-
The Executive Committee had specinca-
tions made and bids received ana tne
work is divided as follows
Threes engines of $3.50 horse power nave
heeq1 ordere from the Brown-Corllss Eli
gine Co of New York.
Three generators of $50 kilowats to the
General Electric Company The cost OF
engines and generators will foot up ABOUT
sixfv cars from the John Stephenson
Car Co. Of E.izabethport
Feurdation work and main building TO
B. NJ. & j. f. Shaniey Co
The new cars are to be delivered by
September /. and the company expects
the power house and its equipment Will
DO ready, on that day.
pans for new roads are in the hanos
of the eompany's engineers. Bayonne Is
70 have two new lines, one on the east
and one on the west side. Jersey City
may have a new branch on the west
side and in Lafayette, but all those are
IN embryo and not ready for pubic an
,nouncemenr.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
MEMORIAL DAY PLANS
soldiers Monument Before
City Hall To Be
Decorated.

rba members of G. Van Houten Post,
q A. R.. have decided upon the
rse,oorial Day programme and have ar
ranged most interesting exercises. lhere
,-,lI he a parade. graves will be decorated
and the new plot recently purchased IN
Bayview Cemetery will be dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies.
on Friday morning at S o'clock COM
ynittea will go to Bayview Cemetery and
viii be assisted in decorating the graves
bv stxty-five pupils from the public
schools on the Heights At O'Clock In
the afternoon the parade will take place
The veterans win assemble at the quar-
ters on Belmont avenue. The cadets of
No. public School and the Spanish
American war veterans will join in the
parade
The line OF march vii be along Bergen
avenue to Forrest street, to Ocean ave-
nue to Carteret avenue, to Ar
lington avenue, to Wilkinson ave-
nue.. TO Garfield avenue, to south gate
Of the Bayview Cemetery Here the ex-
ercises VII take place. The ritual will be
read and the plot dedicated. General
Thomas j. Brady will deliver the Grafton
Contrary to expectations. the veterans
will decorate the soldiers monument in
front Of the City Hall. This magnificent
statue, which has been subject to much
adverse criticism. has gone unmarked
ever since 1t was erected, save for few
bay trees which Custodian Datz of the
city Hall placed at the base of the monu-
ment.
The members of Van Houten Post, No,
g. q. A. r., have decided to decorate the
monument at 10 O'Clock and to do it in
rreat style.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-28
TRIED TO KIDNAP
Attempt to Entice -Four
Year Old Child
From Home.

This morning in the First Criminal
Court, a German who gave his name as
Ludwig Mercer, thirty-five years Of age
no residence. was arraigned before JUS
tice Hoos on a charge Of attempting to
lSidnap four-year-old Katie Finn. Of No.
III Twelfth street. He was remanded
until tomorrow morning in 800 bail for
further hearing.
The child's mother related to Justice
Hoos that a few days ago her child came
running upstairs to her and asked her to
wash her face and hands as there was a
man on the street who had given her a
penny and had asked her to take a walk
with him.
Mrs. Finn said that she Immediately ran
downstairs and took her child with her,
but that there was no man in sight at
that time. The mother also stated TO the
court that this was the second time
this had happened
Yesterday afternoon the man put In his
appearance again and was seen by a
neighbor of Mrs Finn, Mrs. Neary who
resides at No. 17S Twelfth street. Mrs.
Neary saw the man entice the child into
the hallway of one of the houses adjoin-
ing her home. She called out to Mrs.
Finn.
The man heard Mrs. Neary's outery and
ran from the hallway down Twelfth street
to Henderson street. where he disap-
peared.
At this time the child ran upstairs. cry
ing, to her mother Mrs. Finn and Mrs.
Neary followed the man over the same
ground and on their way met Patrolman
Maxwell of the Seventh street station.
Maxwell went through Grove street to
Fourteenth street, and as he reached the
corner he saw a man approaching who
tailed with the description given him.
The policeman placed him under arrest
and brought him to Mrs. Finn's house,
where he was recognized by Mrs. Neary
and also the child. While Patrolman
Maxwell was bringing him to the station
large crowd gathered and at times it
was all Maxwell could do to keep them
from doing bodily harm to his prisoner.
The child. who is a light haired blue
eyed youngster, and an exceedingly pret-
ty baby, was with her mother this morn
ing in court and identified the prisoner.
Again asked if he had ever given her
/ pennies. she replied Yes and added,
Mt Wd1ll6Q 70 tdAS AtlC away Win
While the examination was going on.
Detective Lee stepped up to the court
and informed the judge that he was posi-
tive that the prisoner was a man named
Kahter. who was locked up in this city
about three months ago on a similar
charge. but who was discharged as the
evidence was not sufficient to hold him.
Justice Hoos asked Mercer if that was
not true. and he admitted being locked up
about that time and that his real name
was Kahert. The prisoner speaks very
little English, and it is thought that he
IS little bit demented. as on his person
were found a number Of letters addressed
to my Dear Girl,7 and Annie and
Rose" which were dated a year back or
more. stating how much he loved them
and could not live without them.
He will be brought up for trial tomorrow
morning when Mrs. Neary will testify
against him.