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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.

The tax pook tor the collection o.
the special assessment upon i4e real
poses Of sewers has bee. laced II
my hands. All owners of real prop
erty lying in said sewer district NO,
2 of the city Of Pine Bluff, Arkansas
are required to pay their assessments
to me within thirty days from this
date. If such payment is not made,
property in district No. for the pur'
actions will be commenced at the END
of that time for the collection OF SAID
essment and for legal penalties and
costs.
Given under my hand this 25th day
of August, 1903.
RALPH ROBINSON. Collector
sep25
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16

(Continueh on fourth page.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16

capture by the Indians. The calami
ties which hit him through the loss OF
his boats were serious, but had the
asst at Astoria been maintained these
disasters could readily have been re
ffe The surrender Of the post
Was TIE crowning misfortune to him
CT the Var period. 1t not only meant
a less OF many hundreds Of thousands
Of dollars, but was a backset to his
prestige, and that of the United States
in the Pacific, gave Canadas big fur
company encouragement to prosecute
operations west of the Rockies, and
had calamitOus consequences for the
country
Once more Astor made an attempt
to arouse the interest of the Uuited
States government in his Pacific col
ony. This was in 1916. after the terms
of the peace theaty became known all
over the country and the recession Of
TIE OREGON region 10 tie tlllcu StdltS
was determined upon Astor appealed
10 Madison to give him the protection
of the American flag and a few soldi-
ers. in return for which he would re-
establish his post at the mouth of the
Columbia and extend his operations
along the Pacific. His request was de-
MED When repeated year later
after Monroe entered office, the appeal
was once more denied This was fatal
to the United States prospects of un
disputed dominion along the Pacific
coast Had this reasonable request OF
recognition been acceded to by either
Madison or Monroe, Astor would have
located at Astoria again. and. with his
:, pronounced advantage over his Can
adian rival. the Northwest fur com
pany, and over the British Hudson
(Continueh on fourth page.)
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16
General lndiHerences

Republican politicians visiting the
president from the West are telling
him with great unanmity that the
people OIL that way are either indif-
ferent regarding currency legislation
or are hostile And the reports have
it that ts.e president is also becoming
mdjfeten Springfield Republican.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16

For forty years DR.. Fowler's Extract
CT Wild Strawberry has been curing
summer complaint dysentery, dlarr-
nocc, bloody f1ux, pain in the stomach,
and it has never yet failed to do every
thing claimed for it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16
ontinued from page two. j

(ronrinued from page two.
in several divisions, arrived at
10 at different times between
arv and May. 1872. a few trap
however. not reaching there till
Earv 1918. In June. 1912. one OF
! stuarts. Crooks, Mcclellan and
| members of the party. all OF
h became well known in the his
of the fur trade afterward, and
! of whom had already made
started overland from Astoria
n Louis and New York to report
tstor the condition of affairs on
Pacific and. after many adyen-
tbev reached St. Louis at the
of April. 1873. ten months after
|war with England began, but Of
h they learned nothing until they
Ito St. Louis.
he war brought calamity to Astor
The Pacific and through Astor it
4 the United States a blow which
affected it to this day. although
fact is not commonly realized.
In Astor was driven out of Astoria
|S13, and when the small measure
(ecognition which he asked from
President later on was withheld
b him. thus keeping him out per-
Iently, the United States lost It's
bce to get easy and undisputed pos
Ion of the entire Pacific coast up
Russian America. or Alaska. which
|e to us by purchase long afterward,
bon P. Hunt, the man on whom
pr relied in such crisis as would
) on the Pacific, and who ought to
been in command at Astoria dur
|the troubled times which the war
! England brought, left that post
August. 1912, to carry out AstOr's
of opening trade with the Rus
fur company in Alaska. 9 This was
months after war with England
declared, but several months be-
this became known on the Pacific
et. He expected to return in a
months, but did not get back till
latter part of August, 1913. In
interval two OF the partners OF
|ada's Northwest fur company ar
ID at Astoria. told about the de-
|atlon Of war, and also mentioned
! "a British war vessel was heading
astoria to capture that post. Me
|gall and Mckenzie, Astor's part.
, at Astoria. but both British sub
+, discouraged at the outlook, sold
Pria to their rivals for a third OF
Falue, and when ..sJnt returned he
pd the NorthWesters in possession
|rVly afterWard, late in 1873, the
Flsn war vessel Raccoon arrived al
mouth Of the Columbia, and its
Fmander was angry at finding that
prize had escaped him, for the
now belonged to British subjects
LOOK possession. however, the Brit
nag went up, the name was chan
10 Fort George, but, as a conse
'Ace of the treaty of Ghent in 1914
'ne close of the war, the post was
gu back TO the United States, ano
name Astoria was restored.
As'or' however. never located there
'in' When the war broke out il
/ Astor asked President Madison
'e'tefs OF marque to equip an armed
'ei at his own expense to defent
mouth of the Columbia, but Madi
ignored the appeal. Had tha
uiisslon been given-and, of course
Vusht to have been given-Asto
u'u probably have maintained him
at Astoria. Notwithstanding th'
''"s or treachery of his British part
: Inc post probably would hav,
= maintained to the end of tn
! Notwithstanding the reverse
- Aseor met with at sea from tn
u MS vessels by shipwreck an,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16
Help Him Out Some.

Sir Thomas is a good fellow, but he
is entirely too easy for the Yankee
skipper. In order to even things up
and give the Anglo-Saxon Irishman a
chance. Mr.. Herreshoff ought to go
over next year and build him a good
boat-.Nebraska State Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-16
IesSened tke Death Fate.

Ov.as - tn cool weather Of July
lie death rate in the large cities is il
10 16 pr cent. less than the average
for thqt month.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-12

stat, S54, sA'as. the congress appro.
nriated for the purpose Of enforcing the
various federal trust and interstate
commerce laws the sum Of $500 900. to
be expended under the direction of the
attorney general in the employment az
special counsel and agents In the de-
partment of justice 70 conduct proceed
ings and prosecutions under said laws
in the courts OF the United States
now recommend. as a matter OF the ut
most Importance and urgency, the ex
tension OF the purposes of this appro-
priatfon, SO that il may be available,
under the direction of the attorney
general and until used, for the due en-
forcement of the laws OF the United
States in general and especially Of the
civil and criminal laws relating to pub
lie lands and the laws relating to postal
crimes and offenses and the subject Of
naturalization. Recent Investigations
have shown deplorable state Of af.
fairs in these three matters of vital
concern. BY various frauds and by
forgeries and .perjuries thousands of
acres of the public domain. embracing
lands Of different character and ex-
tending through various sections OF the
country, have been dishonesty acQuir-
ed. 1t is hardly necessary 10 urge the
importance OF recovering these dishon,
est acquisitions, stolen from the people,
and OF promptly and duly furnishing
the offenders
Through frauds. forgcries and per
juries and by shameless briheries the
laws relating to tie proper conduct OF
the public service in general and 10 the
due administration ef the postoifice
department have been VIGOROUSLY VIC
lated, and many indictments have been
found, and the consequent prosecutions
are In course of hearing or on the eve
thereof. For the reasons thus indicat-
ed and so that the government may
be prepared to enforce promptly and
with the greatest effect the due pen
alties for such violations of law, and
to this end may be furnished with sufti-
cient instrumentalities and competent
legal assistance for the investigations
and trials which will be necessary al
many different points of the country,
urge upon the congress the necessity
of making the said appropriation avail
able for immediate use for all such
purposes, TO be expended under the di-
rection of the attorney general.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-12
NEED FOR TREATIES MAKING
BRIBERY ExTRADITABLE.

BRIBERY EXTRADITABLE.
Steps have been taken by the state
department looking to the making OF
bribery an extraditable offense with
foreign powers. The need OF more eff
fective treaties covering this crime is
manifest The exposures and prosecu-
tons of Official corruption in st. Louis,
Mo-, and other cities and states have
resulted in q number Of giyers and TAX
ers of brides becoming fugitives in for
eign lands. Bribery has not been in
cluded in extradition treaties hereto
fore, as the necessity for 1t has not
arisen. While there may have been
as much oficial corruption in former
years, there has been more developed
and brought to light in the immediate
past than in the preceding century OF
our country's history. 1t should be the
policy of the United States to leave no
place on earth where a corrupt man
fleeing from this country can rest IN
peace.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-12

Continued on sixth page.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-12
ALASKAN BOUNDARY.

After unavailing attempts to reach an
understanding on the Alaskan bound
airy question through joint high com
mission, followed by prolonged negotia-
tons, conducted in an amicable spirit,
a convention between the United States
and Great Britain was signed Jan. "a,
1903, providing for an examination of
the subject by a mixed tribunal of six
members, three on side, with view
to its final disposition. Notifications
were exchanged on March 3 last
whereupon the two governments ap-
pointed their respective members
Those on behalf of the United States
were Elihu Root, secretary of war;
Henry Cabot Lodge, a senator Of the
United States, and George Turner, an
ex-senator of the United States, while
Great Britain named the Right Hon.
Lord Alverstone, lord chief justice of
England; Sir Louis Amable Jette. X.
G. NJ. G., retired judge Of the supreme
court of Quebec, and A. b. Ayleswofth,
X. c., of Toronto. This tribunal met
in London on Sept 3 under the presi-
dency of Lord Alverstone. On the 20th
of October a majority Of the tribunal
reached and signed an agreement on
all the questions submitted by the
terms of the convention. BY this
award the right of the United States
TO the control Of continuous strip or
border of the mainland shore, skirting
all the tidewater inlets and sinuosities
of the coast, is confirmed; the entrance
to Portland canal, concerning which
legitimate doubt appeared, is defined
as passing by Tongass inlet and to the
northwestward of Wales and Pearse
islands; line is drawn from the head
of Portland canal to the fifty-sixth de-
gree of north latitude, and the interior
border line of the strip is fixed by lines
connecting certain mountain SUBMITS
lying between Portland canal and
Mount st. Elias and running along the
crest Of the divide separating the coast
slope from the inland watershed at the
only part of the frontier where the
drainage ridge approaches the coast
within the distance of ten marine
leagues, stipulated by the treaty as the
extreme width of the strip around the
heads of Lynn canal and its branches.
While the line so traced follows the
provisional demarcation Of 1878 at the
crossing Of the Stikine' river and that
of 1899 at the SUBMITS of the White
and Chilkoot passes, it runs much far
Their inland from the Klehinl than the
line of the later modus vi
vendi and leaves the entire mining
district of the Porcupine river and Gla-
cier creek within the jurisdiction Of the
United States.
1.-THE president here recapitulates the
details Of the imbroglio between Euro
pean powers and Venezuela and the
reference Of certain points Of the con-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-12-12
ISTHMIAN CANAL.

BY the act Of June %, 1902, the con-
gress authorized the president to enter
into treaty with Colombia for the
building of the canal across the 18TH
mus OF Panama, it being provided that
in the event OF failure to secure such
treaty after the lapse Of reasonable
time recourse should be had to build
ing canal through Nicaragua. 1t has
not been necessary to consider this all
tentative, as I am enabled to lay be-
fore the senate a treaty providing for
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

ceives an injection Of 500 centimeters
of toxin. Thus his antitoxic power is
kept up. He suffers no inconvenience.
His health is good, he exercises mod
erately and eats his sterilized grain
with relish. If he goes to pasture for
month or two, his antitoxic power
is impaired and he has to begin all
over again with his first dose of one
cubic centimeter of toxin which rem
ders him i'll as at first. After being
drawn from the horse, the blood is
sealed up and stands for several days,
when the serum, or thin portion, Is
extracted by means of a force pump.
This serum is used on guinea pigs
and its strength thus ascertained. 1t
is now filtered and purified, sealed in
small vials and passes into the hand
of physicians in general practice,
who introduce it into the circulation
of such patients as are suffering from
the special disease from whose germ
it was prepared. Their systems are
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
A Cure for Drnnsy.

Sedgwicll, Ark, June 22d.-Nr. w. S.
Taylor of this place says:
"NIy little boy had Dropsy. Two doc
tors-the best in this part of the country
told me he would never get better, and
to have seen him anyone else would have
said they were right. His feet and limbs
were swollen so that he could not walk
nor put on his shoes.
"When the doctors told me he would
surely die. 1 stopped giving him their med
cne and began giving him Dodd's Kidney
Pills. / gave him three. pills a day and at
the end of eight days the swelling was all
gone, but as l wanted to be sure, | kept OF on
ducing the quantity, till finally 1 stopped
altogether.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly saved my
child's life. Before using them he was
a helpless invalid in his mothers arms
from morning til! night. Now he is a
healthy, happy child, running and dancing
and singing. can never express ou
"Dodd's Kidney Pills entirely cured oul
boy after everybody, doctors and all, hat
given him up to die"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

from filtered sterilzed water and
fresh beef. After standing for few
Ihours the bouillon is strained, refill
tered and resteriliZed. For several
days, a process of reboiling, steriliZ-
ing and tiltering goes on in white
dust-proof closets, by men dressed in
most immaculate white. 1t is kept in
sterilized jars, stopped with sterilized
cotton. When this bouillon has be-
come absolutely free from all germs,
it is inoculated by having the bacilli
dropped in from the point of needle
of glass and platinum. The germs
multiply as rapidly as in human
body, for the bouillon is kept in a
warm incubator for about ~ hours,
when it may be seen to be covered
with a ghastly-looking, greenish
crust, toxin which is hideous mass
of the disease to be treated, consump-
tion. diphtheria or whatever has been
cultivated. 1t is then injected into
guinea pigs which die and are opened
and examined. If it is found that the
toxin was pure, it is injected into an
antitoxin horse. Before one of these
horses is utilized for this purpose,
he is tested to ascertain if he be free
from all disease, by receiving an in
lection of mallein a, fluid which will
arouse into activity any disease
which may happen to lurll in his
system. If he be healthy, the mallein
will not affect him. Being proven
healthy, the first injection of toxin,
hn1 "a fhip,l,1afr1
cubic centimeter, is introduced into
his blood from a syringe of glass and
silver by a thoroughly steriliZed, disin'
fected, white-clad, clean-shaven physi,
clan, in a white enameled stable Fo1
Z three days, the horse is very i'll, eat,
ing nothing. His bones are sore. lie
swells, then slowly RECEIVERS. In ter
days, he is quite well again, when an
other injection is given, this time o1
three cubic centimeters. He becomes
ill, but less so than in the first in
stance. Ten days later, 20 cubic
centimeters are administered The
effect of this is hardly percepti5le
Nv the end of two months, more thar
one pint or 500 cubic centimeters ar,
given without producing any ill-ef
fects. This dose would kill larg,
number of ordinary horses, but GU
friend has become immune, that is
his system is able to resist any mum
Der of live germs introduced, becaus
it contains so much of their owl
poison, that they have nothing t.
feed upon and die from AN overdos
of themselves.
Now that this antitoXin quality ha
developed in the animal, each mont
eight quarts of blood are drawn fror
him, while every ten days he still re
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Commission Knocked Out.

Cleveland, June 2O.-The West Side
market house commission was knock
ed out by the board of public service
Friday noon. The board adopted n
resolution providing that it shall
proceed to take possession of and
carry out the improvement of the
West Side market as provided for by
law, and that it shall proceed to APP
ply to the council for permission to
eXpend the necessary money to pro-
cure plans for the construction of a
suitable market at Pearl and Lorain
StrnntS
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Thrown out of Roller Coaster.

Cleveland, June 23.--A distressing
accident occurred at Forest City park
Sunday afternoon and as result II
young woman, Miss Minnie Toussant,
was so seriously injured that death
may result. She was riding in the
roller coaster machine with Two or
three other girls. all of whom We're
enjoying themselves mcrrily, when,
as a result, it is said of her own
movements, she was thrown out of
the fast moving car and dragged
some distance, receiving fractures
and bruises that may prove fatal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26

thus REINFORCED by poison to the
disease which was preying upon their
tissues.
While some aqtitoXins have been
obtained with comparative ease, eX-
periments with typhoid germs have
proven very unsatisfactory. In 1854
Koch discovered the bacilli of ty-
phoid. They are rod-liie and thick
with the ends rounded, and some
times Joined in filaments. They pos
sess little hair-like projections called
tlagella and move very rapidly. They
are found in water, milk and meats
and gain entrance into the system by
various methods. Many experiments
have been made to. secure an antitoN-
in from bouillon, but to no great pur-
pose. 1t has been nearly impossible
to obtain the Juice between the
cells" of typhoid bacteria without de-
stroying the chemical action of
germs themselves. No really satis-
factory results had been obtained
until, recently, DR.. Allan McFayden,
of the Jeaner institute of preventive
medicine, one of the leading bac-
teriologists of Europe, after much
research, has discovered a method of
manufacturing antitoXin for typhoid
which, it is generally believed, will
soon be universally adopted. The
microscopical cells of the typhoid
bacilli ars so small and pliable or
elastic that no mechanical agent
could destroy them. Freezing does
not injure them.
1t occurred to DR., McFayden to
freeze the cells by means of liquid
air until very brittle, then to crush
thousands of them together in a NOR
tar. This first and most difficult
step has proved great success. The
mass now dead, so far as its power oi
communicating disease is concerned
is allowed to become warm again
and is still chemically alive as tc
its qualities from which antitoNir
may be prepared. Repeated iniec
tions into animals have produced {
serum, which, it is believed, vii
prove efficacious. 1t is too soon after
its discovery for a large number o.
experiments to have demonstrated
its successful use, but results so fal
obtained are very promising. n
present about all one can do for
typhoid patient is the administration
of baths, nourishment and stimu
lants. If the new process be prove
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
GERMS OF DISEASES.
They Are Now Being Harnessed by
Medical Investigators.
How Bncini Arc Isolated, Tested ana
PrOpagnted d-Importnnt - Part
Played by Horses and
Guinea Pigs.
Especial New York letter.


T@HlS is essentially the age of an
titoXins, extreme cases of the
hair of the dog" curing the
bite. New discoveries are constantly
l being made, both of the specific
germs causing certain diseases and
methods of utilizing them for their
own destruction. 1t is well known
that if a person were shut up i'll
room for an extended length of time
where no fresh air was allowed
to enter death would ensue be-
cause the air in the room, breatheQ
over and over, would become charge6
with poisons given out by the body,
and there would soon be no fresh air
to feed upon. In the case of n dis
ease germ much the same condition
prevails. 1t must have fresh material
to feed upon, as the juices it throws
off are a certain poison to itself.
Hence, if to the blood of person
containing germs of II disease, a sut1i-
cient quantity of the etfete material
furnished by the germ itself be
added, the small pest dies because it
has no fresh food, free from its own
specific poison, upon which to feed.
In the case of many of our most com
mon and virulent diseases the bacil-
lus has been isolated and for their
treatment an antitoXin has been Sc
cured.
Nearly everyone is aware that the
-antitoXins in general use are OBJ
tanned from horses, and the methods
of securing them are being constant,
ly improved upon. OF course the first
thing to be considered is the isola-
tion of the offending microbe from
the thousands of different variety
which surround ii. This presupposes
the fact that the wicked one is Sc
well known as to be recognizable;
that his portrait hangs in the germ
rogues' gallery.
After the bacteria are removed
from a sufferer, they are more care
fully cultivated than most plants, the
usual medium being bouillon prepared
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Postomce Robbed.

Clyde, June 24.--IIarly Tuesday
morning the postofiice building in
this city was entered, the safe blown,
stamp drawer robbed of its contents
and all the stamps and money in the
safe taken. Until the books are eN-
amined the loss cannot be stated, but
it will be considerable, it is thought.
The robbers entered through rear
window. Officers are out in search
of the robbers and may land them
before night. Several suspicious
looking persons were seen in the Vi
cinity of the postof1ice early Monday
NIGHT
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-06-26
Crusade Aratnst Child Labor.

Columbus, June 2O.-State Inspector
Morgan, of WORKSHOPS and factories,
Friday announced his intention to
make a crusade all over the state
against the employment of children
in factories. He has started this cru
sade with the arrest of the superin-
tendents, at Hamilton, of the Miami
Valley knitting mills and the Ameri-
can Canning Co. plant. Morgan will
make a personal tour of Inspection in
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo and
other cities, and cause the arrest of
all employers who have in their SER
vice children under Il years old.