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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-19

Alter many years of waiting and
complaining the people of northern
Montana may finally be rid of the
Cree nuisance. Collector Webster
thinks he has found the way, and to
him it appears dead easy" His
plan is to seize the horses of the vaga-
bonds and hold them for duty, only to
be released or condition that they
are taken back to Canada, the In
dams, of course, to go with them.
The idea of Mr.. Webster seems to be
a good n At all events, there
should be no serious objection ON the
part of anyone-unless it be the
Crees themselves, and that could be
easily and promptly overruled-to
making a trial of it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-19
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1902.

II 'El Mocho" should decide to save
his country by organizing a revolution
against Castro things certainly would
become interesting down Venezuela
WAY.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-12-19

MISUNDERSTANDING powdcrsmaelc iron:
alum. They look like pure powder,
and may raise the cake, but alum
is a poison and no one can eat food
mixed with it without injury to health.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

The man was fortunate in his Ian
guage who spoke of Mckinley as the
advance agent of prosperity" The
expression has been made the sport
of Democratic and Populistic orators
who by long custom have come natur-
ally to look upon the dismal side of
things. Republicans have their view
of the business situation and believe
that principles preached and practic-
ed by the party have helped and not
INSTRUCTED the nation in its forward
march to an increased business. They
have been in power and their party Is
not one to evade responsibilities
either for success or defeats. The
prosperity over all the country is SO
splendid that Republicans are proud
of the share they have had in it.
In the financial world during the
past week there was a healthy
growth. The increase in the bank
clearings was nearly three per cent.
The grand total of the bank clearings
reached $2.029, 796, 712. These figures
indicate no stringency in the financial
world. The increase in the clearings
was large in the cities located in the
Middle West. None of them report .
decrease.
The railroads are doing a heavy
business. Their carrying capacity is
taxed to the fullest extent. In not
a few instances freights have to be
delayed for want of cars, and this,
too, before the great grain crops of
the west have fairly begun to move.
The farmers business is in good
shape throughout the nation. r. G..
Dun & Co. say: Bright prospects in
agricultural sections far outweigh the
adverse influences which are still re-
tarding trade and manufactures"
All of the great factories are run
ming on full time to meet the de-
mands, and in many cases orders are
not filled at once, but are filed to
await their turn. There never has
been a time when the great factories
were SO pressed with work as they are
now.
The slight cessation of business for
the summer has about passed and
people are getting ready for the fall
rush. The volume of business in
this country for the next four months
promises to be unprecedented. For
that time prosperity will be a record
breaker.-Terre Haute Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Searching for an Issue.

Ex-Secretary Villas urges that the
tariff issue shall be revived and put
to the front. This was Mr.. Cleve-
lands counsel in his New York
speech. 1t is the last resort of those
who can see nothing else to suggest.
1t is based partly upon the old denun-
citation of protection as the creator OF.
monopolies and combinations, and
partly upon the claim that, whatever
may have been true in the past, the
existing tariff rates ON various
articles are no longer necessary. But
the trouble with this issue is that
under the existing tariff we have had
the highest domestic prosperity and
the largest foreign trade we have
ever had Industry has far-out-
stripped all previous development,
and commerce is stretching out its
arms in every direction. With bust
ness thus active and labor well en-
ployed 1t is impossible to make any
popular outcry on this subject. The
people have too vivid a recollection
Of the disastrous consequences of the
last Democratic tinkering with the
tariff to invite it's repetition. Turn
which way they will. the Democratic
leaders find no issue on which they
can hopefully fght--Philadelphia
Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
wilkes Booths Oil Well

About tho close of the year 1864"
said an old-time venango county,
Penn. oil operator. when the Prather
boys were securing about the oil
country trying to raise money to
buy the Holmden property at Pithole,
before oil had been found at that
lived petroleum center, John Wilkes
Booth was at Meadville one day,
waiting for train eastward on the
Atlantic & Great Western railroad,
now the Erie.I He was in the office
of the McHenry house. One of the
Prather boys was there talking up
the prospects of the oil at Pfthole
Booth became interested. He be-
gan to talk with Prather He stood
by window, and as he talked he
scratched his full name, John Wilkes
Booth, on one of the panes of the
window with the diamond in a ring
he wore. The upshot of Booths talk
with Prather was that he invested
Sic. 200 in Pithole property.
The Prather boys had bought the
Holmden well for 100000 and sold
it for more than $4,000 900. The
Homestead well, in which Booth had
his $4,000 investment, was only one
of dozen equally large spouting
wells, grouped at Pithole. Oil was
then Sc a barrel, and the smallest
fraction of ownership in a Pithole
well was e fortune.
1.-THE night that President Lincoln
was shot a thunderstorm, something
unusual at that time of year, gather
ed over Pithole. There was but one
flash of lightning and one clap of
thunder. This was not regarded with
any significance at Pithole at the
time, but subsequent revelations
clothed it with a significance that
awed the superstitious, and startled
those who were not
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

At the postoffice, Gen. McGinnis
has ready for shipment to New York
one of the battlehags of the Eleventh
Indiana regiment, to be placed in
the tomb of Gen. U. S. Grant. This
is being sent at the request Of Gen.
Dodge, one of the trustees of the
tomb, who has asked each of the
states for two flags to hang in the
ed here it was found that all of the
regiments had turned their colors
over to the state with the exception
of the Eleventh.
This regiment has always closely
guarded the tattered remnants of it's
flags. At the time of the unwilling
of the Indiana Soldiers Monument,
the regimental association held a
meeting and voted to send one of its
flags to New York and the others
were sent to the state house for safe
keeping, as they were becoming SO
decayed with age that they were fall
ing to pieces
Owing to the tattered condition of
the flag, a blue silk banner, eighteen
by twenty-four inches, was made to
of the battles of the regiment were
worked in gold bullion. The flag was
with the regiment at the organization
of the Thirteenth army corps, and
was carried in every engagement of
that part of the army until the time
Gen. Grant left it,
When the regiment left for the
front at the beginning of the war.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
On the Field of Shiloh

Shiloh said the doctor, was
nightmare to the North 1t was our
first great battle in the West, and 1t
was, in fact, one of the bloodfest bat
ties of the war. So many conflicting
stories were told at the time that the
people were in frenzy and boat loads
or doctors and helpers and investigat-
ing committees were hurried to Pitts
burg Landing. The late Dr. E p
Goodwin and myself we're among those
who went to Shiloh from Columbus,
Ohio. to do what we could for the
wounded and sick We didn't expect
the battlefield to be so big, and when
we got there our party started to Walk
to Ohio headquarters
I'VE were disappointed at the cheer
fitness of the soldiers, and their In
difference toward us and our mission
We were depressed by the repellant
formalities at the several brigade
Headquarters and kept moving on At
last darkness came upon us and we
were practically lost In due time we
came upon q line of guards, one of
whom DIR. Goodwin knew, and he took
us to Gen 0arield's headquarters
We had known Garfield In Columbus.
and he received us all cordially. but
with the dignity of his military posi-
don l was just asking myself how
ve were to break the ice when Gar
neld caught sight OF Dr. H and shout
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Not . TRUST Panaeea.

The Instances in which tariff revi-
sion aimed at trusts would find an
other target might be multiplied. 1t il
not as a trust panacea that tariff re-
vision appeals to the more enlight-
ened students of economic questions.
The question for present statesmen is
to abandon tariff schedules that are
not necessary to preserve the life OF
home industries and to utilize this
tariff reduction in the securement OF
similar reductions on the part of other
countries which will benefit the Amer
lean export trade. The word used to
define this measure of statesmanship
is reciprocity, and the men who have
given it Endorsement include Blaine,
Mckinley, Roosevelt and many others.
Baltimore Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Matter. Of Pressing Moment.

Mr. Shaw says that the reciprocity
speech of Mr.. Mckinley at Buffalo has
been misrepresented- In what way.
and by whom? Is it the secretary's
opinion that Mr.. Mckinley on that oc-
casion laid down merely an academic
proposition? The speech is very far
from encouraging that Interpretation.
Mr.. Mckinley not only declared for
reciprocity. but gave 1T as his opinion
that the time had arrived for the in
auguration of the policy by the United
States There seems to be the fullest
warrant for the belief, indeed, that
had he neved he would have embodied
In his annual message to Congress .
Recommendation that an immediate
start be made In that direction Does
II. Shaw hold differently? II 20, his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Trusts and combinations can be reg
ulated by federal law and federal
supervision, as suggested by President
Roosevelt They can be made to show
their accounts. their real monetary
standing and responsibility, but they
cannot be destroyed if we remember
that change of name or even in some
degree of method will not change the
thing itself. If half the time given by
speakers and writer's to advocacy of
destroying the trusts were devoted to
formulating a practicable scheme of
regulating them, there would be an
appreciate gain for the country in in
creased public realization that the
trust question can be dealt with effec-
lively only by dealing with it temper.
ately.-Boston Transcript
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

STONY POINT. JULY 1e, 1877.

(Anthony Wayne. a letter written on
the eve of his most famous exploit shows.
was convinced that he would not survive
the attempt Stony Point: yet he led
that desperate attack. to use his own
phrase. Spear in hand.")
Highlands of Hudson! We saw them pass
Night on the stars OF their battle flag.
Threading the maze of the dark morass
Under the frown of the Thunder Crag.
Corps,
Trim in their trappinss of bum and
blue,
Silent. they skirted thu rugged shore.
Grim in the promise of work to do.
Gross we the ford to the moated rock.
Let not whisper your march betray!
Out with flint from the musket lock!
now let the bayonet find the way!''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
RECORD OF TIE PAST.

The hest guarantee Of the future ID
the record of the past. and over nfV
thousand people have publicly testi-
ned that Doan's Kidney Pills have
cured them of numerous kidney Ills,
from common backache to dangerous
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ances and sufferings from urinary dis
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stay cured Here Is one case:
Samuel J. Taylor. retired carpenter,
residing At 312 South Third ST.,
Goshen. Ind. says: "On the z5th day
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stating ny experience with Doan's
Kidney Pills. I had suffered for
thirty years, and was compelled at
times to walk by the aid of crutches,
frequently passed gravel and suffered
excruciatingly. took every medi-
cine on the market that heard about
and some gave me temporary relief
I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills
and the results l gave to the public
in the statement above referred to. At
this time, on the 10th day o. July,
1902, l make this further statement
that during the i've years which have
elapsed have had no occasion to use
either Doan's Kidney Pulls or any
other medicine for my kidneys. The
cure effected was a permanent one"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Tay-
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Y. For sale by all druggists. Price
80 cents per box
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
THE AUDITORIUM STOCK CON-
TESTS.
SPECIAL PRIZES.

Attention is invited to the semi
monthly cash prizes awarded on the
LIST and 10th days of each month.
In other contests of this nature.
special prizes are usually based on
results in the future.
AUDITORIUM SPECIALS"
are paid on the 1st and 10th of each
month, making them of immediate
interest.
To illustrate:-For the 1st half of
July $160.50 was paid to Ed J. Hamil-
ton, Wilsonvilie, Neb.; last half of
July $172.00 paid to Mrs. C. ]. Man.
gold, of Omaha, Neb.; first half of
August 100000 paid to Mr.. C. 1. Ber-
nard Of Fairfield, Neb; for the last
half of August $97.42 paid to VIM.
Buchardt, Blair, Neb.
THEY ALSO HAVE A CHANCE To
WIN SOME OF THE REGULAR
PRIZES-s2.50 TO 100000
The bank clearings have been as
follows:
1so1-Aug. Is. s1.ose.1s2; Sept 1. ST.
171.613; Sept 16, s1,127.sss; Oct l.,
81. 2o5, 423- 19O2EJuly 1. $1.o61 .o57;
July 16. s1.1s7,Oo4; Aug. 1. 1907 1853;
Aug. 16. $573. 075: Sept 1. $1.114,9ss.
What will they be on September
10th, October LIST. October 10Th, and
November list? Purchase tickets and
go to guessing
For daily Omaha bank clearirgs,
See the Omaha World-Hera1d, and for
more Information. see circulars or
address the Omaha Auditorium Co.,
Omaha, Neb., for tickets and details.
This Is everybodys chance. Buy
Auditorium stock tickets, good for
one share of common stock in the ON
aha Auditorium Co., and two free
guesses as premiums,-one guess for
special prizes and one guess on list
Of over 1000 regular prizes.
Tickets twenty-five cents. Time is
short Tickets going fast. Better buy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Indiana Regiments Battleflas

dramatic incident occurred that the
members of the regiment love to re-
late. The regiment was drawn up in
line in the old state house yard,
under the command of Colonel, after
ward General, Lew Wallace, and the
flag was presented to the regiment
before a vast crowd that completely
filed the inclosure AS the general
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Large Consignment of Wool

J. d. Wood. a rancher of Spencer,
Idaho. has sent to Boston the largest
consignment OF wool ever shipped by
one man from the west to the east.
1t amounted to about $50 900 pounds,
which At IA cents per pound yield Mr..
Wood nearly $685. 900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Too Old to Ride = Wheel.

Mrs. Eva Devoe of East Syracuse,
N Y, Is an up-to-date girl, although
she Is 100 years old She wants q
bicycle, as she hates to be behind the
times. MY family" abe says.
seems to think I'd better not have
one, ana maybe IT would look queer
to see the mother Of . 72-year-old
girl whiriing on . wheel"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

views at some length GA that point
would be read with very great interest
by the country. Reciprocity and .
limited tain revision are matters Of
pressing moment, and the Iowa Re-
pubhcans enjoy the credit of being
leaders in the movement-Washin
ton Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

In the ease of the girl who nnasquer-
AIDED i've months as = boy. and learned
to smoke. swear and fight. too much
blame should not be laid on the cos
tune. She might have remained In
uresses and become the ingenue of Q
mining camp theatrical eonnanS-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

brate the iftfeth anniversary OF his
arrival in that region by camping out
in the spot where he camped just
nifty years ago. It's nuggets to but
tons he'll get more rheumatism than
enjoyment
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Now that persons have begun to die
to the strains of ragtime songs their
places in vaudeville ought to be SUI
perseded by funeral marches so that
the musical demand may be equal
lied.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

when q man Is married." says
Bishop Potter, he learns that in all
things he must defer to the wishes
and judgment of the other sex"
Which shows that this is not the first
time the bishop has been to the bat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

A telephone girls romance has
ended in the divorce court 1t takes
SO little to change Hello" to
What's the name Of that place where
you don't have to build nres In the
morning?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
An Irish centenarian.

In the village of Shragh. County
Kildare, Ireland, there is living Anne
Staunton, who has recently reached
the age of Ill years. Considering
her great age she is clear in her in
tellect, and can recall distinctly many
events of historic interest. She en-
joys the best of health
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Alfred Austin IL accused OF playing
the flute. Perhaps that is the reason
his poetry trills instead of thrills.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

One Chicago dentist has sued an.
other for $4,000 because the former
made q charge Of plagiarism against
the latter. It is something new for
q person to enter the literary field
with q pair of forceps-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

An Industrious laborer fastened a
pair of ice tongs to his feet by mis-
take and was jerked into the air and
dropped, to his injury. This is the
record for cold feet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27
Old and Worn.

Our Democratic contemporaries
would have us repose in the sweet be-
lief that they are valiantly fighting
the trusts, but when we read their
editorials we are forced to the con
clusion that they have simply busted
on some of their old free trade argn
ments and are now attempting to
foist them upon the country in q
new guise.-Waverly (Ohio) News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Tough soldiers mistook Jim Corbett
for a farmer the other day and got q
beating. When thousands Of people
mistook him for q champion pugilist
they lost their money. Surely Jim is
q hard man to size up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

The public is always sure to sus-
pect that there is hen on when Rus
sell Sage goes a-croaking.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

King A1phonso is said to be think
ing of having a punching bag fixed
I'D at one side of the throne.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Men have died for love and worms
have eaten them" but the love that
drives a rejected lover to self-slaugh-
ter has a large admixture of the base
alloy of vanity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Even in its annual production OF
i. mineral wealth it seems this is bill
lion dollar country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Rev. Sam Small hasn't even set MP
the claim that he was afraid of the
Vermont water.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

1t requires an effort to conceive OK
Uncle Russell Sage as the financial
stormy petrol.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

The Shah of Persia refuses to trav
ell faster than twenty miles an hour
But wait till he gets an automobile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

In Kansas the latest hailstone COM
parison is ''the size of tea-cups." In
Kentucky it would be 1.-The size of tod
dy glasses"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

John w. Gates is reported to have
lost about $5,00O, 900 last week. But
that's nothing. One or two evenings
at poker and he will be even with the
game again.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

you complain OF being half
starved on account of the high
prices. Why man, you are making .
fortune on your truck farm"
That's jest it I can't AFFORD to
eat any of my vegetables when they're
wuth 20 much In the market, b-goshls
CHICAGO Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

It is safe for anybody to make
political predictions now; they will
be forgotten long before election day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Is there not an error of grammar
in the proverb, Honesty is the best
policy?" Or is there a third policy.
which is neither honesty nor dishon-
esty?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Europe seems to be the only place
where any one can go for rest, and
If J. P. Morgan thinkers with it much
more it will be as nerve-wrecking as
America.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

The grindstone trust cannot hope
to succeed unless it takes in the small
boys who are usually pressed into
service to do the turning.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

A California hunter tells of his wild
ride on q wounded deer. Some peo-
pie will insist on adding insult to In
jury.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

When King Alfonso hears what q
good time the cars cousin is having
in this country he will want to come
here himself.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

Never mind about the derivation
of the name Chicago. A she-caw-caw
by any other name would smell as
sweet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-09-27

When the office takes the trouble to
seek the man it becomes the duty
of every intelligent citizen to assist
in the novel search.