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Arizona republican., 1903-04-12
White w col Skirts

We've been waiting some time for the
new white Siciuians and storm serges
but they're here al last.
Especially pretty aye the S.c!llians-
bright lustraus and beauufull
They shed the dust nicely, therefore
they don't soil nearly as readily as the
soft loose weaVes.
The serge IS also c very durable and
stylish fabric and makes a handsome
skirt for summer ear.
Have them sp0nsed here and they
viii never spot or shrink in wearing.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-12
Wash Silks

We've spoken of these corded wash
silks before but since then several new
shades and styles have arrived and
once more we wish to call your atten-
ton to the very SWEETEST lot o; corded
was: silks that we've ever owned.
Plain white, plain black and almost
every conceivable color can be seen in
this new line and you should have at
least a shirt waist from them before
they're gone.
Absolutely fast color.
Arizona republican., 1903-04-12

hundreds Of dozens Of new pearl
buttons have just come by express and
To say they are very pretty is putting
it mildly.
Every size from the tiny ones as
small as a pin head to those as large as
q dollar is here in immense variety.
The assortment is certainly most
complete, ranging in price from lee a
dozen upward through hundreds of
styles to the real pearl hand carved
ones at 5000 a dozen.
No store in the southwest can show
you a more complete line of buttons
than we.
Buttons Tor all purposes are awaiting
you.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
nELIGHTED.

United States folks are moving into Canada at the rate of about 4O.OOO 8 year, and Canada is much pleased with them. A correspondent of the Colonizer, published in London, says: I have talked with scores of these American immigrants, both on trains and in ho- tels. and with many of those who have been here a year or two on their own farms. Most of them seem to have from S1o,OOO to s15,0OO. some much more. Two carloads, for instance, of these people with stock, furniture and ef- feets went up the Edmonton line one day in the past season, representing a cash capital, so one of their number told me, of sS00,0OO. Nor is it only the money these Americans bring in, but quite as much the men behind the money. Anything more widely differ ent than these men from the s1O,OOO or s15,0O0 amateurs from the old country could hardly be imagined.
 No wonder the Canadians are delight ed with the new arrivals. They would be good for any country, and it is too bad that they think it will pay them to leave the United States.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

system which will soon be complete. Thousands of Koreans are working on this line under Japanese direction; quays are being constructed so that ships can unload into the railroad wag- ons; Japanese merchants have bought the best positions on the line as well as around the terminus. which is in the center of F'usan; and there is bustle and animation in the Japanese quarter, where broad streets have been laid out. No foreigner can get any land there The Korean emperor from time to time issues edicts prohibiting the sale of land of Koreans, but these are diso- beyed and the Japanese buy as briskly as ever. In Seoul they own about one third of the immovable property in the town, and in Chemulpo the proportion is about half, while in other Korean towns their interests are almost equally important. Japanese money lenders make advances to the easy-going, in- pecunious Koreans on their land and houses, which soon fall into their hands. Thus the Japanese are rapidly making themselves masters of Korea in an economical as well as an educa- tional sense. There are tens of thou sands of Japanese workmen in Korea, from Fusan to Gensan, and yet says the Russian journal, the Japanese press works itself into a frenzy about Yon- gampho, a Korean village in which some Russians leased few acres of land in order to enable them to work to advantage concession obtained in 1896.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
THE FINANCIAL SLUMP" AND ITS
 CAUSES,

Various reasons have been assigned for the recent slump in the value of railroad securities. Some of these se- curities are included in the category of "gilt-edged' investments, yet the de- cline in their case has been proportion ately as great as in that of other rail- road corporations whose stocks were not rated as high by financiers. One ex- planation of the slump is that it is in part the result of the conflicting inter- ests of rival corporations. Another ex- planation is that holders of first-class securities have been compelled, by the stringency of the money market, to sell their holdings at less than their actual value in order to raise money for enter prises whose securities are not in de- mand at present. Finally, it is suggest ed that the decline in the value of some of the most desirable railroad stocks is connected with the general liquidation which is now going on throughout the country. It may be that one or all of these causes have contributed to the present unique condition of the stock market. Yet is is possible that there is another factor in the situation to which
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
4 PHILADELPHIA STIR

Philadelphia has been called slow
 town, but it can stir and make a stir.
 Its latest effort is in the form of a de-
 cision handed down by Philadelphia court. The judge had to pass upon a
 breach-of-promise suit. Evidence was
 brought forward proving unmistakably
 that the defendant had proposed mar riage to the plaintiff. There was no question either as to the proposal or as
 to its acceptance. The young man seemed in earnest, and the young wo-
 man certainly was. Undoubtedly a verdict giving damages to the plaintiff
 would have been returned but for one thing. The defendants lawyer put in evidence the fact that the proposal had
 been made on Sunday, and based his
 defense on the plea that as Sunday is 1 legally a dies non the impassioned dec- laration of the defendant was null, void and of no binding effect. In this opin-
 ion the court eoncurred. The proposal, it held, was perfectly genuine and
 bona fide specimen of its kind, and would have been valid if made on any other day of the week. Made upon
 Sunday it was worthless.
 Of course such a decision wont inter- fere much with Sunday courting and Sunday promising, but it is worth the notice of all concerned While young women should not 'let on" that they ever heard of it, it will be well enough for them to get the promises made un- der the gentle influences of Sunday con- frmed later in the week. In most cases there will be no difficulty in doing I this. '.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
Neglscsed Genius.

I can't help wonderin' what they'll do Without my Uncle Jim. There ain't no one in Congress knows One-half as much as him. I hate to see lem gropin' i'll Our national affairs. When he could, easily as not, Relieve 'em of their cares. He knows exactly what they need To put the country right; An yet the way he's overlooked Is almost imDolite. a.s.-. --u- ..t I'll bet these trusts would all reform An not sin any more a.s.+.. .e.;.. If they could hear the speeches which He makes down to the store. This country's like traveller, That's thirstin' day by day, With mighty spring of knowledge Distant jest little way, It keeps on ploddin' weakly, Its eyes a-growin' dim, A-tryin' hard to get along Without my Uncle Jim. M.
 Washington Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
PERMI7TED.

Ethel-'I can't decide which of them to accept" Kate-"Why, that ought to be easy" Ethel-'I know, but you see, Jack always gives me roses and Reggie always gives me violets, and the florist tells ne they cost exactly the same price" - Cincinnati Commercial -Trib- une. ...... -........
 "But you know" persisted the wife who is trying to work her husband for new outfit, that all women are slaves of fashion" True, my dear" replied the heartless husband, "but I'm not the man to give up money for the purpose of encouraging slavery in any form. '--- Chicago News. %- ''You have such beastly iiiotic jokes here. don't ye know complained the Briton Met a chap to-day who told me of man who called his goat Near 1y' because it was almost"
 'TIa! ha! you mean because it was tali butt ''
 Well. almost is the same as all but Philadelphia Press.
 Did you hear about the game worked oh hetihef HI IhS sh5 scldpet this ihotH- ing? Some sleek chap walked in and told Harker if he'd give him an ,nm- brella he'd go up to the roof and come down holding on to the handle" Did he?" "Yes; he came down in the eleva- tor. and I guess he's holding on to the handle yet."-Philadelphia Record.
 First Artist-"Old Moneybags would mt buy my pictures wouldn't even look at then."
 Second Artist-"Never mind, old man. He was more considerate of your feel ings than he was Of rnine.''
 How is tI1at?' '.-',,
 'Why, he refused to buy my pictures and Country.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
THEE ABS0RBING J4PANESE F.

The Russians know how to quietly but effectively absorb a country, and, according to 8 Russian paper printed at Port Arthur, the Japanese know Q thing or two in that line It is asserted that the first move of the Japanese in Korea was to capture the rising gen. eration by means of network of schools all over the country, in which a. Japanese programme of studies was carried out. This vast scheme has been prosecuted with extraordinary perse- verance. They then proceeded to make the two important Korean ports, Fusan and Chemulpo, Japanese in all but name, and to push their enterprises in all directions throughout the country. They built the Seoul-C Chemulpo rail-
 road, and are now working at a line from Fusan to Seoul. Fusan will be the most southerly point of railroad
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

investors have not paid sufficient atten- tiOn. namely, the effect upon the value of railroad securities of the construe- tion of the Isthmian canal
 For many years the canal project has been discussed in the congress of the United States. It has been charged time and again by the statesmen who were most active in promoting this en- terprise that the influence of the trans icontinental railroads was arrayed solid | ly against an interoeeanic waterway. When bills were defeated in congress the cry was raised by the canal advo- cates that the great railroad corpora tions were responsible for the setback to the canal scheme. When at last a bill was passed by the Fifay-seventh congress, money appropriated for the purchase of the French Panama com pany's property and authority given for an issue of bonds to defray the cost of completing the Panama canal, it was intimated that the transcontinental rail- roads had transferred the fight against the proposed waterway from Washing ton to Bogota. The Hay-Herran trea- ty, which provided for certain conces- sions of territory and other privileges to the United States by Colombia, was rejected by the Colombian congress. Suspicious statesmen at once asserted that the railroads which are opposed to the canal had exercised potent infiu- enee at Bogota and had persuaded the Columbians to exact conditions to which the United States could not as- sent.
 If it be true, as alleged, that the men who control the railroads which span this continent have been the persistent opponents of the project to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by a water way across the Isthmus of Panama or across Nicaragua and Costa Rica, it may be assumed that they had substan- tial, even if selfish, reasons for their opposition. Many hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in building railroads to connect the Pacific coast with the Atlantic. The freight traffic between the two oceans and the territo- ny intervening has reached enormous proportions. If the Isthmian canal re- aliZes the expectations of it's projectors it will divert from the transcontinental railroads very large part of the busi- ness which they now monopolize. Freight will be sent from New York in steamships to San Francisco instead of by rail as at present. The far west will ship its products to the Atlantic sea- board or to Europe via the ocean route and the canal. In fine, if the Isthmus waterway proves to be the bonanza
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

Miss Anna T. Jeanes of Philadelphia is doing large things for the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends. She has built new home for aged mem- Ders of that body, located at Washing ton lane and Greene street in German town, costing $2Oo,OoO, which will be duly presented at the February quar- terly meeting. along with an endow- ment fund of ssOO,ooO. Miss Jeane's fortune is estimated at $5.OOO,OoO, and within the last few years she has given above million dollars -s200,oO0 to be distributed among the Friends schools, $1O0,0O0 to repair Hicksite meeting houses, $20O,00O to the Spring Garden institute, and so on.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
BUsfNESS IN BaYONNR.

New Jersey has become somewhat cei- ebrated for it's justice, and there seems | to be a chance to add, to that reputa- tion. It is related that a MT. Calvin showed his money in Bart Mcsweney's s saloon in Bayonne the other evening l and soon he was found dead outside.
 One Mccarthy, an ex-convict, has been arrested on a charge of murdering him. | It was found afterward that another
 saloonkeeper, named Doyle, held an in- surance policy on the life of Calvin, who, before his death, declared that he
 had never applied for a policy nor been examined for one. Still another saloon
 keeper in Bavonne took out a hundred
 policies on the lives of his customers. Two other licuor dealers are known to
 have held policies on men who died re- gently, one of a fractured skull in front of his favorite bar; the other of alcohol fisn.s A laborer. who Is not known to have been worth over S5 at any one time in his life, died of rum and pneu-
 monia lately, and the man who sold
 most of the liquor to him took in $500 as
 soon as he was dead. John Cullinane
 held policy of $1,0OO on the life of his
 customer, Michael Connors. In August
 Connors was found in a lonely spot, dead. with his skull battered in. The
 policy has not been paid and no suit
 has begun for the money. Apropos of
 still another saloonkeeper, Bayonne
 citizen said: Sure, he had half the
 boys in town insured, and they was .dyin' off in fine style, when he was took himsele.'
 Business is business. but if there is such business as above indicated going on in Bayonne it ought to receive at- tention. And if it is going on in Bayonne it is probably not confined to that place.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each m sertion: Five Gents a Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch, one m sertion, S1.20; each subsequent insertion, 4O cents; one week, S3.20; one month, SID; one year, $40. # s ,-
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marrlagss, s, Deaths, and Funeral, 50 cents each. Locai
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

"A vulgar and impertinent wild ass" is the gentle way in which the leading newspaper of South Carolina describes Senator Tillman.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

The chief factor in the recent changes in the Russian ministry is said to have been the infiuenuce of certain M. Bezobrazoff, who is spoken of as a fa- vorite of the czar. M. Bezobrazoff be- gan his career by serving in the horse guards regiment At the beginning of the reign of Alexander III. he became the heart and soul of an organization formed to protect the person of the monarch. In various ways he strength ened his influence at court and during the last few years he has repeatedly laid before the czar memoranda on im- portant affairs of state. Since the days of Catherine II. and Paul I. no court favorite appears to have such a decisive influence upon the course of public affairs as M. Bezobrazoff.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

and, petitioning to see the governor of the prison. learned for the first time all that had happened.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

A Henry county (MissourD man who Is far behind on his subscription to his county seat paper wrote to the editor the other day asking what was the best way to raise hogs. The long-suffering newspaper man replied: Ask your parents how they raised you"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

Tasmania has recently supplied an extraordinary story due to the walking craze that has swept over Europe and the British colonies. There forty com petitors entered for prize offered by a firm of whisky manufacturers. The route was to the summit of the Pinnacle, the highest peak of Mount Wellington, which forms picturesque background to Hobart, the Tasmanian metropolis. In spite of indictment weather the competi- tors started from the city at 2 o'clock in the afternoon clad in light walking cos tunes. Half way up the mountain they entered a heavy snowstorra. Search parties found two of the competitors frozen to death, others rigid with cold. some temporarily demented and others who had lost themselves. Few succeed ed in reaching the Pinnacle. The one who was adiudged the winner covered eighteen miles in two hours and forty four minutes. .#
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

The annual report of Governor Brodie of Arizona is not brief. It covers about 270 pages of fine print, or 225, ,00O words. He thinks his present compensation is inadecuate. He wishes the irrigation movement would get brisker gait on it. Upon his beloved territory he pro- nounces this glowing eulogiun: 'tArizo- na has the purest, dryest, most health giving climate, more continuous sum- shine than any place on earth, highly favored vegetable life, one of the finest and most valuable forests in the world. lilnitless resources, great grassy plains, vast herds of cattle and sheep, the rich est mineral section in America, one of the richest natural subdivisions in the country, a wealth of gold, silver and copper, the best public school system in the United States, and population of most excellent morals and whole lot of churches to keep them in repair"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

There has just occurred at Madrid a case that is extremely rare, if not ab- solutely unique, in criminal annals that of a man imprisoned on the charge of murder, and being sentenced to death and afterward reprieved with out his knowing it. The man, named Jose Espero Cuellar, had, in circum- Sstances of great provocation, murdered a faithless sweetheart, and, although he was in jail, trial for the crime had been conducted without his being pro- duced, or even knowing that the case had come on. Even when sentence of death was pronounced, nobody deemed it his immediate duty to inform the per son most concerned. One day, some time after reading newspaper that had been allowed him, Cuellar there read the announcement of his reprieve,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-20

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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-15
BODIES WERE EXHUMED.
Had Lain i'm FIT. Gaines Gene.
terry More Than Fifty Years.

The bodies of James 2. Holmes, who
died Jan. 26, 1856; Mrs. Martha c..
Holmes, who died March 10, 1851; Mrs.
Victoria Troutman, who died Sept. 80.
l849; Mrs. Claude Russell, who died
April 81, 1851, and Mrs. Fredonia c.
Watson, who died Jan. 1856, were ex-
humed at Fort Gaines Wednesday for
reinterment at Fort Valley. Two bod
les were in metallic caskets and were
in good condition one in a tin coffin
and one in ceder coffin had kept poor
ly, but one in plain 'pine coffin had
kept best of all. They were all promi-
nent and influential in ante-bellum
days AT Fort Gaines. They were the
father, mother and sisters OF Mrs. John
T. Troutman. Sr., of Fort Valley.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-15
STRANGE SKULLS IN FLORIDA
A Number of Hunsan Skulls Dug
UD by W0rkmen.

While a number of workmen were
engaged in digging 8 pit "a Jew miles
east of Cedar Keys, in Levy county,
Fla, Tuesday they mnearthed num-
her of human skulls and bones, which
excited a great deal of curiosity. Two
of the skulls were taken to the city hv
s. w. DeBose, principal of the colored
school. He carried the skulls to the
Sun Office, where they were carefully
examined by Senator McCreary and
others. They are Very heavy, being
about three .eig hths OF an inch in thick
ness at the top. They are supposed to
he the skulls of an extinct tribe OF In
dams which existed come two hundred
wears ago, although they were In a
wonderful state of preservation. An
other strange feature of the nYsterl-
Gus discovery was the fact that the
subjects, Judging from the position In
which the bones were found, must
have been buried head dowEa ward.
The belief of their Identification is
strengthened by the fact that, II his
tory is correct. this manner of inter
ment was common among the lRdlans
300 wears ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-15

Recently published statistics show
chat the people of the United States
are great drinkers, and that the con-
OF drinks, both ''hWHd" and
"soft," is increasing faster than the
rate of growth of population. Since
1880 the consumption of alcoholic bev-
,erages has been almost doubled. In
that year tie per capita consumption
was a small fraction over 20 gallons.
In 1902 the figure had increased to
q9:48 gallons, or over SO per cent. Dur
eng the same period the consumption
of coffee had increased 81 per cent,
while that of tea had decreased nearly
43 per cent. In 1902 it is est mated
that the country paid for stimulating
beverages of all kinds-tea, coffee,
Cocoa, ETC., as we'll as alcoholic drinks
nearly Sl.S10, OOO,O 900. OF this sum
$L,I72, 100000 was for alcoholic bever-
ages and the balance for the non alec
ho2ic sort. It is calculated that one
out of four of the population is con-
sunar of strong drink in some form,
either occasionally or habitually, and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-15
$50, 200, 600 IN GOLD LOST.
1t Treked When Pretoria Fell in
the BOer War.

That the great sum of sc, 100000 in
gold should disappear as completely as
if the earth had opened and swallowed
1t up sounds unreasonable. yet that is
what has occurred at Pretoria. A few
days before the capital of the South At
rican Republic fell into the hands of
British in the late war that sum in the
gold coins and bullion was known TO be
in the public treasury of the Beers
BIT when the British took possession
of the city the gold had disappeared
and no trace OF it has since been dis
covered by the authorities. There are
rumors that it it was carried to Europe
and others that it was brought to the
United States, where it now is. But
there is nothing authentic TO back up
either story. The matter has been
placed in the hands of the principal
detective agencies in Europe and the
United States with a promise of 20 per
cent. reward if the money is recover
ed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-04-15
STRONG BID FOR NOTORIETY
Town AdvertiSes Itself as Chief
Divorce Center.

Canton, town Of South Dakota, Is
making strong bid for no:oriety of
an undesirable sort. 1t is advertising
itself IS the chief divorce center OF
South DAKOTA and making bids for
"the eastern business" in divorces,
which is estimated to be worth $1,000
per divorce case. In Sioux Falls there
are newspapers and correspondents
who s'write up'' the members of the
'diyorce colony" thus giving them
more notoriety than they desire. Can
ton has passed au ordnance prohibiting
correspondents in the town, and the
newspaper there is OF such limited
circulation that nobody pays any at
tent:on to it 1t is estimated that the
divorce business" brings into South
Dakota hardly less that $i,OOO,OOO
wear. and Canton wants to get her
fingers one some of the money