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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
|H:B.CBoHEM1AN
KING OF ALL BOTTLED BEERS.~
rom NJ. :
FELT HAT ON HIS TRAVELS.
Officials Make Unusual Efforts to Re-
store 1t to Owner.
Order from NJ. Cans


A felt hat blew off a tourists head
last year as he vas leaning out of
railway train window in Sweden. OF
the man himself nothing further is
known but the felt hat has become
famous all over the north OF Europe.
An employe of the line picked up the
hat where il lay and, being an honest
man. he tried high and low to find its
owner. Finally all local efforts failing,
he ticketed i. and sent it to the next
station, to be claimed by the owner.
No such person appeared and the hat
was sent on from station to station,
an additional ticket being stuck on
each time it set ont. Thus it has run
through the whole of Sweden and Nor
way, has been at UpSala and Trondk
jem, at Chrisiania and Gotebore and
MalmO, has been sent on TO Zealand
and Finland and is now being sent
through the north of Germany. COW
cred with labels inside and out. And
II 1t is no longer a fit headgear it is
at all events a remarkable monument
of northern honesty and perseverance,.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
Russia Needs Manchuria,

Tho Russian policy in Manchuria
may oe said to be due to the necessity
of finding new markets for her indus
tries. The great difficulty in carrying
out Russia's ambition in the Manchur-
ian market lies strangely enough, in
the transportation of her own mer-
ehandise. Despite her great railroad
she has no real advantage over the
foreigner. nder the present condl
2ay for its transportation, and even
Nder proper conditions the major
}rt of the f~eight will so by sea.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
IT Is FOR LADIES, TOO.
They Can Stop Their Hair Falling Out
With Herpicide.

Ladies who have thin hair and whose
hair is falling out can prevent the hair
falling out, and thicken the growth. with
Newbros "Herpicide" Besides. Herpi-
eide is one of the most agreeable hair
dressings there is. Herpicide kills the
dandruff germ that eats the hair off at
the root After the germ is destroyed,
the root will shoot up. and the hair grow
long as ever Even a sample will con-
vince any lady that Newbro's Herpcide
is an Indispensable toilet requisite 1t
contains no oil or grease, 1t will not stain
or dye. Sold by leading druggists. Send
aoc. in stamps for sample to The Herpi-
eide Co, Detroit, Mich.
For Sale by l.. b. Coon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
NEW TIME TABLE.

North, No. ,, Arrive Pine Bluff at
]: 10 p. M; arrive St. Louis ZIP
a. NJ.
North. No. 4, Arrive Pine Bluff a.
1:55 a. NJ: arrive at St. Louis 6: 56
p. nj.
North No 80, Leave Pine Bluff at
4:30 p. m.; arrive at Little Rock Z
p. m.
South, No. l. Leave st. Louis at
8: 45 p. m.; leave Pine Bluff at 3: Is
p. m.
South. No 5, Leave St. Louis at
S:56 a. NJ; leave Pine Bluff 2:05 a. m.
South, Nc. 81, Leave Little Rock
at sos a. m.; arrive at Pine Bluff
1875 a. M.
J. NJ DICKEY, Agent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
THE STOK ER'S PERIL
FEE IN THE DEPTHS OF AN At
LANTiC LINER.
Accidents Almost Unavoidable Con-
from; the Workers at Every Turn
"Ceiicecies" Sent Them From the
Cabin

Life among the stokers on board an
Atlantic liner is described by a con
trihutor who put in a voyage as an
amateur coal trimmer. AS coal trim
mcr. he says, had to wheel my BAR
row through narrow tunnel fill it
18th coal from the bunker, wheel it
back again, empty it at the stokers
feet and Keep on until the watch was
over, but this apparently simple oc
cupation was not without its perils.
The glass cylinders which show the
,epth of water in the boilers may
!Irst twice a day but save for an oc
siOnal scalding a man is not often
.jured by this. Far more serious are
the consequences of his opening the
doors of his furnace without first shut
ting off his forced draf. A careless
man perhaps one who has boarded
the ship the worse for .fauor-may, on
;'rting his watcn. forget to shut off
he three checks at the side of the fur
i&ce which regulate this detail. On
eFennR the door a binding draft will
into his face and probably scorch
him frightfully
There is no limit to the n,l1oher Of
minor casualties. As | trimmed at my
aarrow the ship would give sudden
,u;oh and ray spade would fly out OF
ny hand. II I wheeled it through the
tunnel without knocking my head
gssainst the side | considered myself
fortunate. With the roll OF the ship
tools woui,i fly about in ali directions.
A rake which had been lyin. idle at
one side Of the stokeholl, would come
violently sliding toward one. If you
stood in the neiShborhood Of a hatcn
anything might come suddenly down
On your head. Perhaps shovel has
been mislaid somewhere above, Sc
down it 'Would come with a crash
During gale it was no unusual
thing Tor miniature NIAGARA TO rush
down the Nentilotoi and drencll any
one who happened IL be standing
near. A sea. too. will sometimes alight
on mass OF clinkers and save the
trimmer his task of extinguishins
them scaldinE him and his neighbors
the While by an upward rush of steam.
The stock dinner dish in the stokehold
is noodle" mixture oi meat. pota.
toes and soup. For breakfast. hash: !:
for tea, meat-of a kind-and bread.
AT every night the chief steward
sends the men on the watch just over
a huge tin con aiming the leayings
from the saloon passengers, dishes. It
is received from the steward bv a
'rlmmer-who no doubt gets his first
whack at some dainty morsel. Meat
fish, mayonnaise of lob.ster, green
vegetables, pastry, tarts, fat from
joints are al jumbled together in 4
mixture OF gravy and soup AS to
who gets which is matter OF ply
steal contest. The "blackies' simply
rush for the pan, and sometimes
topple over the trimmer in charge he.
fore he has had chance himself
Royal Magazine
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
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eqL 'luoWuI9Ao5 aUn 10 soa!uoIr
eql uI punoJ 90 ol 81 Va!qM onlet
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9ouesqB 10 oAeol uoA!5 ueeq So,
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10 IosseJoId eua 'uHQSneIoW D "
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
IRON MOUNTAIN READERS.

Home Seekers Excursions to Indian
and Oklahoma Territories, Mexico ano
Texas-All points rate of one fare plus
81 for round trip Dates of sale. first
and second Tuesda..'s in October and
November. Twenty-one days return
limit
Grand Royal Arch Mnsons Annual
Convocation, Little Rock, November
16-19-One and one-third fare for the
round trip on the certificate plan.
Special One-Way Rates to the West
Dates of sale, September Is to No
vember 80, 1908 helena and Butte,
Mont, $31 80; Ogden and Salt Lake,
titan, $50; Spokane, Wash, s34; Port.
land Tacoma and Seattle, $3.50. Cor
"espondlngly low rates to all other
points in this territory.
Annual Arkansas state convention
and B, y. P. T.. Helena. Ark, Novem-
Der 1G TO %. For this occasion the
Iron Mountain will sell tickets to
Helena and return at one firstc lass
fare for the round trip. Dates of sale,
November 16 to IS: final return limit
OF November "a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
A Sad Outlook.

Auntie-"Do You let your husband
lave room TO himself? Mrs. Nc
Bride-"Oh. yes; of course; he mus>
have a place to smoke in. Anntie-
"You poor dear. l see you- future
through rain of tears Hel sneah
ui: there and lock himself in W. encss'
you want to talk to hitu 'e lans!y
" mark NV words ~ ~
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09

Special one-way, second-class colon
lists rates to the Northwest.-Rates
and arrangements outlined below will
govern in the sale of one-way, second
class colonist tickets to destinations
shown and to intermediate points ef
fected. Rates, Pine Bluff to Billings,
Mont, $29.65; Hinsdale, Livingston,
Logan, Cinnabar Helena, Butte, Mis-
soula, Anaconda, Mont, 1920; Spo-
kane, Wash. $34.7O; Portland, Ash
land, Astoria, Ore, Tacoma, Wash,
Victoria Vancouver. B. G., 1920,
Route only via st. Paul and the Great
Northern railway, using rate SO quot.
ed. Dates of sale Daily, September
Is to November 80, 1903, inclusive.
S. NJ. DICkEY. Agent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
IVV1Agks[IaNsSIs}Ss
taAsszMSSssgz= GEs,ssss G SsAsisssss sxySGtS SSSss tSSSs

Special One-Wsy Second Glass Colo
nists Rates to California.--The follow.
ing rates and arrangements are auth
orized for the sale of one-way second
class co4eflists tickets to San Fran
cisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and
San Diego, California, Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah; Granger, Wyoming
also to Prescott and Phoenix, Arlz..
and all Intermediate points on direc.
lines taking higher rates. The same
rates will apply to such branch line
points as ordinarily take the Califor-
MIA common rate. Rate-Tne rate
will be $50 Dates of sale-Daiiy
September Is to November go. 1902
inclusive.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-11-09
Business


Having bought Ethe grocery
store of Mr.. F. G.. Smart, |
solicit a share of the public's S
patronage upon the guarantee
that my prices are reasonable
and my stock to be the best
quality and freshest goods to
be had. Prompt delivery to any
part of the city guaranteed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
FIRE INSURANCE
Progress Of the Business During the Quarter
Century.

can be approximated. In the year
1888 this city paid to these joint stock
fire insurance companies the sum of
1924, 800 in premiums on fire insur-
ance policies in force that year. In
1898 this sum had increased to $1,153,-
O99; and in 1902 it had increased to
$l,319,794. The record of the current
year will show a fair increase on that
of 1902. I'm this comparison it should
be noted that the figures for 1883 in
clude the premiums received by Min
neapolis companies for certain lines
of outside greenhouses, with grain,
owned by Minneapolis men. If these
were reckoned in the receipts of 1903
they would swell those figures to about
$1,5OO,00O.
No record has been kept of the in
surauce in force in Minneapolis, but
If the average of 81 per annum per
hundred of insurance is taken, which
estimate is high, the fire insurance in
force in this city last year would
amount to about S132, 100000. This
figure is doubtless much below the
fact, as the assumed rate is high, and
as there are twenty or more mutual
and other stock companies doing bust
ness in the city whose business is not
reported to the underwriters associa-
ition.
| During the past twenty-five years,
while many fire insurance companies
have gone out of existence (the total
! of defunct companies in the United
states in the past forty years being
over 1,4o0). the quality Of the average
company has much improved The
chances are that no great fire here
would drive any insurance company
Unto bankruptcy as the Washburn mill
| fire did, or even stagger it. The fire
insurance business is now OH basis
much more sound than in those DAYS.
This is not to say that all fire insur-
ance companies in these later days are
making good profit, for there are
Icompanies that have recentlyA closed
and many that have restricted their
business. But the business itself is
mot now one of large profit and loss
1 and reckless reckoning, as it was in
/ too many cases a. quarter-c century ago
1t is now much more nearly reduced
10 an accurate science, making rates
more safe for the companies taking
the risks, and more equitable for the
/ insured. BY the. new method sched-
ule of rates is established that may
be applied to any risk whereby its
rate of insurance may be estimated
much more fairly than under the old
state board rates.
Under the old order building risk
was arbitrarily rated in lump at the
Whit OF an inspector, whose Judg-
ment might vary from day to day, or
whose rating might be overturned by
4 the judgment Of his successor in Of
flee. The new system of rating be-
gins with an arbitrary basis of a 1
| per cent annual premium on a stand
4 ard building in each class-mercan-
/ tile, manufacturing, residence, etc.
The standard store. for example. is a
/ Continued on Page Four. Real Es-
j tate and Insurance Section.)
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

A quarter of a century ago the fire
insurance companies doing business in
Minnesota were more than commonly
interested in the city of Minneapolis
for the reason that during that year,
1878, occurred the great flour mill ex-
plosion and resultant fire that wiped
out the Washburn A mill and two sur
rounding groups of -four mills. This
fire was the most notable one that
ever occurred in this city. Beside the
loss of life that drew wide attention
to this disaster, the property loss by
the explosion and fire was greater
than that involved in any subsequent
fire in the city. A large part of the
insurance companies doing business in
the state of Minnesota at that time
were represented on the list of under
writer's on tho burned mills.
On the Washburn A mill, for ex-
ample, there was All insurance of
$175.551, carried by no less than
eighty-six companies. At that time
there were but 1870 companies licensed
to do business in the state. On risks
as large therefore as the largest flour
mills it was necessary for the owners
| to go outside the state for portion
of their insurance. This was found
to be the case in this mill fire. OF
the eighty-siX companies represented
in the Wasbburu mill loss. about a
score were outside companies, and of
these several failed before the loss
! could be adjusted. This involved a
succession. of long and expensive law
suits that in the end cost more than
the insurance money recovered. OF
! the eighty-six companies mentioned.
forty-eight have since failed or retired
from the state, and but twenty-three
are now doing business here.
One item of interest to the insur-
I ~ 1.
brought about by the Washburn mill
explosion and fire was the installment
of dust collectors, that now are COM
| mon in factories everywhere, and that
are exceedingly effective in reducing
/ fire risks.
Since the year 1872, the year in
/ which the insurance department of
! this state was organized, there have
] been no less than $50 companies Ii
censed to do a fire insurance business
here. OF these total of 285 have
failed or have Withdrawn from the
state, leaving but 165 now in bust
ness. Nearly all of these are repre-
scented in Minneapolis. to-day by 10
separate agencies.
The growth of fire insurance III
force in Minneapolis in the last quar-
ter-century has increased even more
rapidly than has the population and
wealth of the city. Accurate data
covering this period is not to be had,
4 for the city itself has kept no such
data, nor did the state insurance de-
partment keep III it's early years a
separate record for Minneapolis. In
/ the year 1888, however. the Mime
apolis Underwriters association was
formed, an organization by which the
Ijoint stock companies doing a fire i'm
surance business here attempt to put
system into their work. This asso-
citation has data whereby the city's
insurance for the past twenty years
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

I. G. Seeley-10 Washington avenue S.
S. s. Small--36 washington avenue S.
c. B. Smitl-10 Washington avenue N.
S. P. Snyder-l6 Hennepin avenue.
W. Spooner-1 Harrison block.
J. Thompson, Jr.--11S Hennepin avenue.
Wass & Mattis--221 Washington ave-
nue. S.
II. T.. Welles-14 Third street n.
l.. S. Weymouth--213 Hennepin avenue.
E. White-201 Nicollet avenue.
j. c. Whitney-Over First National
bank.
II. j. WHEREOF Henrepin avenue.
Williams, Menage & Co.-2a Washing ton
avenue S. :9--5E-SE 81 -.=.-u.>. ~
"A. B. Wood-Room Harrison block,
G. B. Wright--Northwest Bank build
ing.
r. Wyman-1O1 Washington avenue S.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
REAL ESTATE
IN MINNEAPOLIS

Continued from Page One, Real Es-
tate and Insurance Section.)
: 6. N. MISUNDERSTANDING building
+ Charles Morse-120 Washington ave
nue. S.
D. L., Peck-25 Washington avenue S.
Pierce, Green & Co.-Second, corner
Nicollet avenue.
c. F. PillsburySs Washington ave-
nue. S.
J. 6. Richardson-e7 Washington ave-
nue. S.
Sawyer s. wyman-26 Washington ave-
nue. S.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

Loan money on residence and
business property.
Rent houses, flats and stores
in any locality.
Are agents for reliable insur-
t. ance companies.
7 e Have for sale a good variety of
real estate in every part of
the city.
Give special attention to the
care of property for nom
residents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

CONTINUED on Page Four. Real Els
tate and Insurance Section.)
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
CLAIMED SATAN As 4 k'ssmA.
Young wifs's E3orts to Reform H.s.
band Proved . Failure

AL LE'
A story is submitted concerning q
young Philadelphia matron whose hus-
band Nature never intended for .
drinking. man. so that very little wine
affected him, and very little more
acted as a delirient. While UNDER
standing that nothing of viciousness
inspired his Indulgence. she grieved
none the less for the. loss: Of his So
ciety o. evenings; he caina, home late
usually befuddled; and the, mornings
found him too i'll to be sociable. Her
plan to cure him was primitive, to
say the least. A Mephistopheles cos-
tune belonging to her brother was
kept in readiness. The uncertainty Of
his walk and the ineoherent mumbling
that accompanied his accent told her
he was at his worst; SO. when, no
reached his bedroom, she leaped' out in
the dim light, struck an attitude after
Edouard de Reszke, and. said in her
deepest contralto:
Come! Satan calls you! 1 am he!"
I Satan, Ell? Zat-zat so?" hic-
.coughed the husband. Well. ole boy.
s-s-shake hands! We're brSthers-'l-
law! married your sister"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
Thinks An Are Too We'll Paid.

Among oIoeholdcrs in Washington
Comptroller Tracewell of the treasury
is regarded as a most extraordinary
person. Mr. ~Tracewell's salary is S..
500, and he thinks he is overpaid.
Worse than entertaining such a heter.
odox opinion, however, is the fact that
he has rot hesitated to give expires.
sion thereto. During the recent ses.
sion of congress he was giving a sub
committee scr.e Information regard
ing his Office. The chairman compli-
menteq him by saying: You are the
first mar government officer who has
appeared before us who did not ask
for an increase OF salary" Tracewell
replied bluntly: I'm getting a blank
sight too much now" In private ION.
v%ersation cater he said: Considering
the hours OF their labor end their re.
sponsibilities government employees
are paid more than any other class of
men in the world" All of which is
regarded in bureaucratic circles as
little short of revolutionary.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
senatorial story TeIIers Go.

With the passing of the fi~fty-sev-
enth Congress two of the best story
tellers in the Senate retired to private
life. For twenty years the wit Of
George G. Vest OF Missouri has enliv-
ened the c]oakrooms. and John p.
Jones of New ada also closed his pub
lie career. While Senator Vest was
brilliant on the floor, he was wittiest
in the smoking-room. When surround
ed by q group of a%ppreoiative listeners
he would tell stories and make jests
by the hour. Senator Jones also has
not kept his fun under a bushel. He
is extremely serious and profound in
debate, but in a free and easy discus.
sion in the cloakroom his quaint
humor is second to that of no member
Of the Senate, Both will pe greatly
missed by their old colleagues, who
mourn because there are none in the
present senate to take their places.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
Get your pictures framed and
thus avoid their becoming des-
troyed. C~asey-Marshall Co., does
raining at a reasonable figure.
HE STOPPED TIE BELL,

Applicant Had Good Right to Demand
a Free Seat.
The requests for theater favors in
the small towns are very troublesome,
says the Chicago Inter Ocean. Every
person of local standing feels that he
has a right to admission at least, while
the trustees and the constable feel
that they are entitled to private boxes.
Some Of the requests are decidedly
unique.
Recently a company played in a
small. Southern city. The manager
was taking the tickets at the door OF
the theater, and the natives were
struggling to get in. Suddenly" he
tells, "a long, thin, bushy chinned in.
dividual divided the folding doors
with his shoulder, whispered ccnfden-
TALLY: I stop the bell | asked him
to repeat. I stop the BELL he said
again, in a hoarse whisper. You will
have to see the opera house
and tell him what you sicp,' j said,
reaching for tickets. He tripped up
several ladies while backing out. Soon
the manager Of the house came in,
saying, He's all right. he stops the
bell l allowed him to so in, and at.
ter the people were seated l asked the
local man what he meant by he stops
the bell Well said he, this man
is the %janitor OF the Town Hall, right
opposite, and on show nights" he
does not ring 8 or 10 on the town
clock. Nou see,' he said, it would dis.
turb the performance and SO the pool
people Go not know what time it is
until II o'clock when the opera house
is open. Ii l had turned him down he
would have rung out 9 or 10 every
half hour to get even"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
She's Pretty, but He's strong.

89FE4.-8II L#tlsMlS1HT-E0 ONEfy-a
jenkins ownsaa house IN p Brooklyn
suburb. It is now for SALE. and his
tenant, Or. rather his tenants pretty
wife, has, 4 aS number Of callersfwhG
wanted TO FIX overtime property, says
The NewsYork Press. ThstSot1ef dayy'
Jenkins received q letter Of eomplaltint
from his tenant, Of which th1saSsis
copy; Ssys .sss s sg u #s
Dear sir--I haEe cqmpiAtnt %
make about the nan VINO come out
them think it NECESSARY to tell "a.
wife how pre~ttyasfhesis white they are
looking over hepropeTty. l want tn
NM sthatsorne Of these days I
Il going to take aAday off from my.
Wo1K and then II any OF those men
tell my wiieft:.at shlstSiis pref
SIIMitilssbe around to snow them her
gRsRata sDrettY strong" saa;
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09

Before Contracting for your
house or barn or any other build
ing, please be sure and figure with
the Mandan Mercantile Co, who
are in a position to make the low
est bids on building complete.
We have built all Of the modern
dwellings west Of the Missouri
River and would take pleasure in
referring reference. Have also
built some large modern stores.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
Bud DobIe to Return to Track,

Budd Doble. the man with the
catarrhal name," and once the star
of all trotting horse drivers and train.
ers, will be seen in the sulky again
this season. The veteran wants to
get back into the, game, and he
thinks his horse Kinney Lou looks
like the entering wedge to fortune on
the trotting track. I'd