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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03
State Statistics
Business OF a Year

The annual edition of the West
rosst Trade contains the following
.o,amercial statistics of the state OF
Washington for 1902:
Wheat crop, 26, 900 bushels;
value. $I6,65o,ooo.
Oats, 5000, 900 bushels; value,
s., 500 900.
Hay and forage crop, 900, 900
tons; value, So, 10000.
Fruit yield, S7,ooo,ooo.
Hops, a9,I76 bales; value 81, 800, :
900.
creameries and diaries output,
{ $4,000, 900.
Poultry industry, $4,000, 900.
Salmon pack, 777,4S4 cases; ST.,
O346S5.
Total fisheries product, Sc, 1905 80.
Coal mined, $500, 900 tons; val
lie, $3.50, 900.
Lumber cut, 1859, 900, 900 feet;
value ST., 500, 900.
Single cut, $500, 900, 900; $8,-
10000
Saw and Shiup1e mills in state
$50.
Other woodworking factories,
lad.
Lumber and Single output, s25,-
10000.
Lumber shipped foreign, 149,
97s, 900 feet.
coastwise lumber shipments, 425,-
!. ooo, 900 feet
\ sliipshezss east 553,e93 ooo
Single shipments east, 5,oo2,-
10000.
Number cars lumber sent east,
68,I4o.
Sanding timber in the state, 1885,
$4,000. 900 feet.
Railway mileage, 1878; assessed,
sI685Io73.
Lands assessed, 1885, $40 acres,
at S83,225,o31
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03
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Its weekly summary of import
ant news is complete and trustwor-
thy.
It's editorial comment on political
and domestic questions is non par
tisan; it aims to state facts in such
way that the busiest person can
use them as the basis of an intelli-
gent opinion. 1t reflects on every
page the wholesome, industrious,
home-making side of American life,
the life of noble aims and honorable
ambitions.
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on request. The new subscriber for
1908 who sends SI.75 for the new
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calendar for 1903 Autographed in
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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03

Spring wheat, average acres, IT,
o2o,996; production, ASSAY 342
bushels; farm value, $G55,4o6,642.
Oats, acres, 28,653,144; product
ION, 987 842,7G2 bushels; farm val
Tie December I, 1902, 1903, 584, $50.
Barley, average acres, o,66I, o63;
production, 134954o23 bushels;
farm value, December I, 1902, ST.
$50, 7o3.
Rye, average acres, 1913, 548;
production, 33,613,922 bushels,
farm value December I, 1902, ST.
oSo,7 o3.
Potatoes, average acres, 1905
587; production, 284,632, 787 BUSH
els; farm value December I, 1902,
SI3I, III, 436.
Hay, 39,825,227 acres; product
ion. 59,857576 tons; farm value
December I, 1902, S542, o36, 364.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03

improvements on 5000 ,8II acres
$I1,236,7I8.
Livestock, 1,353,653 head; as
sessed SII, 489.
Total assessed property valuation,
$500, 94o,138.
Northern Pacific land sales, H.
495,954 acres.
Government land taken, 1861
567 acres.
Puget Sound wheat exports, 49,
948,422 bushels.
Flour exports, 1,5o6,8 barrels;
value, S4,4I2 sos.
Total value exports foreign, $35,-
2I8, 2o9.
Value imports entered direct ,S13,
293, 1o7.
Increase in exports and imports,
SIS, 3,697.
Foreign commerce, S48, 511,3I6;
1892, IS, Ioo,63
Entrances from foreign, 2,2o6;
tonnage, I,23o, 698.
Clearances foreign, 2,222; ton
mage, 1,348, 898.
Number Washington flour mills,
%.
Daily capacity, 10000 barrels.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03

Furniture Of all kinds at Vests,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03

Eight Irish Frieze double breasted
Storm Overcoats, was 90 nm
$I2.oo; now................OO.U U
Three Storm Overcoats hH m
was 5000; now..........O 4.UU
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-01-03

Two Irish lreize double breasted
s sis'@ oH Hes, a~ was $1,000
1y .';' s'S @a: 8 B n e: s6T W. $500
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

weather bureaus sounding balloons
will go before they burst, but it is
confidently expected that the instru-
ments they carry will record many
facts of value to science in regard to
conditions of moisture, temperature,
etc, in the upper levels of the atmos-
phere.
The temperature at ten miles, it is
already known, is 65 below zero, and
at twenty-five miles is probably 200
below. At fifty miles it must be near
to the absolute zero of space, the tenn
perature of the dark side of the
moon, which is 461 degrees below the
zero of Fahrenheit.
Heights far exceeding even the
altitude attained by DR.. Berson have
been reached by free balloons carry
ing automatic instruments. One of
these, the Aerophile, was sent up in
France several years ago, and. as
shown by the barometer in its bas-
ket, got up as high as ten miles
above the surface of the earth. OF
course, it had no human freight.
All of the seas and other waters
ON the earth were once upon a time
part of the atmosphere, being held in
suspension, but with the cooling Of
the crust of the globe much of the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

NJ SIZZLING self-recorded baro-
Ix69 A meters and thermome-
l05a WI tiers, are to be sent up
LiT 4lby the Weather bureau
"at Washington, for the
purpose of studying the region of the
upper atmosphere. concerning which
comparatively little is known
at the present time They will be
about three feet in diameter, and will
be much like the toy balloons one
sees on the streets, except that they
will be filled with hydrogen gas. The
instruments to be sent up will weigh
only two pounds for each balloon,
which, being set free, will rise until
it bursts, owing to the pressure from
within and the rarefaction of the sur
rounding air.
Each rubber balloon will be provid-
ed with a parachute, in order that,
when the little gas-bag bursts. the in
struments may not be dashed to des-
truction in falling. 1t is expected,
however, that use will be made in
similar fashion of paper balloons,
which will require no parachutes, be-
cause, when they explode, they lose
their gas slowly, and thus come down
in a gradual and dignified manner.
Each paper balloon will be about six
feet in diameter, filed with hydrogen
and coated with paraffin varnish to
render it gas tight One advantage
of such balloons of paper and rubber
is that they are quite inexpensive, SO
that the experiments made with them
need not cost so much.
Such balloons are called sounding
balloons" because the Weather bu-
reau means to use them for making
soundings in the great ocean of air,
on the bottom of which human beings
crawl about, just as the deep sea
fishes dwell on the floor of the aque-
Gus ocean. The atmospheric ocean,
instead of being composed of water.
is mixture of gases, and lately folk
have become anxious to find out
something about it-how deep it is,
and what it is like as to temperature,
density, etc, in the upper levels.
Curiosity on this subject is so great
that within the last few years many
adventurous men have risked their
lives in trying to make their way
as far skyward as possible-a most
perilious kind of enterprise, mas
much as the thinning of - air
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
A HARD-RoILED ROMANCE.
Cupid Puts in Little Time Between
the Seasons.

Cupid Puts in Little Time Between
the Seasons.
The following story comes from
Hazleton, Pa:
When Miss Emma Snyder of Lit
Teton wrote her name and address on
an egg which her father was shipping
to market she confidently hoped that
romance would be Matched out in
due season, and her hope was not in
vain.
A friendship directly resulting from
this effort to poach on the preserves
of Baltimore girls has 'ripened into
love-
THE egg also ripened in due sea-
son, after which it was brought forth
in overdue season and served I'D at
a Baltimore restaurant table, soft
boiled.
When one Mr.. Norwood, a commits
sion man, discovered the egg along
side his plate he was only amused If, >
he declared, the egg itself was as
fresh as the young woman who wrote
that I'd eat it, but 1 guess not. Take
it back. But stay, let me get that adj
dress and twill see what can do
Then he wrote to Miss Snyder and
asked her how she could do such a
thing and at that time of the year.
Miss Snyder wrote back and tried
to lay it on the hen, and thus the shell
of an acquaintance was broken and
Mr.. Norwood crossed the state line to
shake hands with his unknown cor
respondent.
He found her good-looking, and
also he found that her father was we'll
to do. This he didn't wonder at. Any
man ought to be that could convert
bad eggs into good money.
HE returned home. They continued
to correspond, and now they have
been married.
mr.. Norwood was supposed to be
q confirmed bachelor; but what is q
poor man to do when even the hens
of Pennsylvania are laying for him %
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
HE HAD cor AWAY.

Widows Prey Chooses the Lesser OF
Two Evils.
Where I had stopped to water m,
hurse by gOod-sized wayside pond al
old woman was sitting with a deter
mined look on her lean visage and a
good-sized hickory club in her knotted
band; she hailed me as was about to
ride away, and 1 stopped to see what
she wanted.
Stranger said she. 'show long kin
a man kritter stay under water?"
The average" replied l. ..is about
a minute, but exceptional cases have
been known when they have stayed
under longer
WALL this is one o. them there ex-
ceptional cases.
The record, 1 believe, is four min
utes."
Not longern that?"
mo, certainly not longer Why do
you ask?"
.'Wall-yeh know Josh Birdsell?"
mo, 1 don't believe 1 do
wall, Josh has ben settin' up with
me a-holdin' hans fer nigh on three
years now. Stranger, wouldn't yeh
low from that tibet he had Serious in
tentions?"
4 certainly would"
fhet's what I lowed, an when he
come over ter my house this mornin'
an lowed tibet he was figgerin' on
marryin' the Wilder Benson-wall.
Shet's when it come on He lit inter
the road a-movin' an with me jest
clost enuff ter tech his coat-tails, but
not clost enuff ter git a holt onto 'em.
Thet's erbout all, 'ceptin' when he got
this fur an could feel my breath onto
his neck he duv inter the water yere,
an 1 ben waitin' fer. him ever sence' -
why! He must be drowned"
''D'ye reckon?"
why, he must be-
Then yeh don't reckon they's any
use O. my waitin' any longer?''
Il should think not!"
Then 1 reckon I'll be joggfn' along.
Nice day."-Houston Post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau
of navigation, says that the Ameri-
can navy has grown to very respect
able proportions, even if it is not the
largest i'm the world.
Il remember" said the admiral, in
making good his assertion, that one
day a friend introduced me to a Con-
cago man. After commenting on the
fact that 1 was an officer of the gov
ernment's sea fighting establishment
he said: BY the way, where is the
American navy now" 1 told him,
and it did not take very long to do
it, either. Now if / were to attempt
to answer that question offhand 1 be-
lieve that 1 should make an awful
botch of it. The American navy is
scattered to the four quarters of the
globe and it would take me two hours
to read printed report detailing the
location of all the ships"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
A Cure for Rheumatism.


Alhambra, Ill, March 23d.-Physf-
clans are much puzzled over the case
of Mr.. F. j. Oswald of this place. Mr..
Oswald suffered much with Rheuma-
tism and was treated by doctor after
doctor with the result that he got no
better whatever. They seemed I'M
able to do anything for him, and he
continued to suffer till he heard of
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Mr.. Oswald began a treatment OF
this remedy, which very soon did for
him what the doctors had failed to do
and they cannot understand it
This is the same remedy that cured
Hon. Fred A. Busse, our State Treas
urer, of a very severe case of Rheu-
matism some years ago and which has
since had an unbroken record of sue
cess in curing all forms of Rheuma-
tism and Kidney Trouble.
There seems to be no case of these
painful diseases that Dodd's Kidney
Pills will not cure promptly and per-
manently.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

makes breathing difficult at three
miles above sea level, and little fur
Their on no human being can survive
for any length of time. Up to date
only a very few individuals have sue
ceeded in passing the four-mile limit.
The famous Eiffel tower at Paris.
which is probably ten times as high
as the Tower of Babel. is the tallest
structure ever erected by human
hands, attaining an elevation of 1000
feet. A kite has been flown from
Blue hill, near Boston, at a height of
a mile and three-quarters. The high
est place permanently occupied as a
residence by human beings is the
Convent of Hanle, in Thibet, $500
feet above the sea: but the village of
San Vincent, in the Bolivian Andes.
is only 500 feet lower 1t is observed
that jewellers at such attitudes are
always physically weak, the atmos-
phere at $4,000 feet being of ony one
half the normal density and supplying
an insufficient amount of oxygen to
the lungs.
Up to the present time the Hottest
point on the earth reached by a
human being is Pioneer Peak, in the
Himalayas (nearly $4,000 feet),
which was assembled in 1892 by W. NJ
Conway. The next best record is
held by E. A Fitzgerald, who in 1897
conquered Mount Acorcagua (22, 1922
feet). in Argentina, which is suppos-
ed to be the highest summit in the
western hemisphere.
Mount Everest. in the Himalayas,
is five ard a half miles high, the loft
lest peak on the earth, and more than
a mile higher than Pioneer Peak One
may assert with confidence that it
VIII never be climbed, inasmuch as
no human being could survive for
even a few minutes on its summit
Nevertheless, men have gone as high
as that. and even higher-in balloons
In 1862 two enterprising English
aerorauts, Coxwell and Glaisher,
reached an altitude of i've and a half
miles in 4 balloon in safety. though
beth OF them became unconscious and
nearly died Ten years later, in
France Croce-SpineIli. Sivel and lis
sander got up in balloon to within
1000 feet of the same level. and the
first Two died for lack Of air. But
the final achievement. which as yet
remains uneQualed. was that OK DR..
Berson. in 1898. who, with the help
pf tank of oxygen, nearly attained
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
The Rum omeIet.

Farmer Hornihand: Hello, there!
Well, If it hain't ST Smith. Blamed if
1 hardly knowed ye without yer
whiSkers-
81 Smith: Ya'as, that's whut every.
body tells me- Ye see, 1 wouldn't a.
shed 'en, only l was blamed fond O.
rum omeiets an ordered one ev'ry
time 1 come to town. TIL last time ]
tuck one l didn't notice tn Teller
nghtin' tn match, an pretty soon TIL
blue blazes wus up in my whiskers
an 1 had to jump inter a water bari
t put 'em out My life insurance
company got onto it. an threatened t
cancel tn policy if l didn't either sned
my wh1skers or quit eatin' rum ONE
lets, an bad as l hated t part with
EN- l took my chice.-Ba1timore
American
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
She Found Bank RrIls

Mrs. Mary McClintock OF Claremonf
N. H.. In sorting paper stock at = pa
per mill the other day found two let
tiers containing bank bills issued by
state banks more than forty years
ago. before the days of the national
bank The three bills found were: a
SO bill. issued by the Commercial
Bank of Whitehall. N. Y, in 1855, ana
two 81 bills. one issued by the Union
bank of Troy. N Y, in 1861, and the
other by the Stark Bank of Bennins-
ton. Vt. in 1862.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Mrs Hetty Green, the richest wom-
Al in the world. has had considerable
to say in the newspapers from time
TO time about folks and things She
says women who fuss and rufhe, rub
liquid rouge on their noses and loll
around are fools-real fools. Several
OF the newspapers-the yellow news
papers, of cCurse-said Hear! heart"
to this. and when Hetty added that the
sensible women were those who stayed
home AID baked and brewed while
mother rested a line or two was
princess compared to the anemone
patecs kind of lady-fiower there were
these real demonstrations of ap-
piause" and great applause" the re
porter works into his report about
prominent citizens speeches
Now Hetty, the female Midas. says
women never get rich partially be-
ca!lse they can't save the HUCeus for
a start; but the great cause, she says,
is that by the very nature of the
girl she is not often splashed by the
tide that leads to fortune. She is not
around among men to hear of the snaps
and the legitimate opportunities In
other words, Mrs. Green thinks these
fair creatures should mirgle with the
male sex more and be good fellows,
that they may learn much of business
ard business chances. Hetty'S idea
m9y be seconded by a few men who
RIVER seem to get enough women near
them. but the average manly man with
l. good home would ponder awhile be-
fore ne took one of these dear mixers
into his own nest for a helpmate
through life.
Nest men are jealous as the very
old scratch about their wives and re-
spect woman with quiet past more
than oCe who has to plunge into
stocks and becomes mannish simply
for gold. One sex craZed after lucre
is CROUCH, and it is restful to come
home and find your wife gentle and
femiIice rather than bull or a bear.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
woman Given Puoljc Office.

A curious recognition of the right
of women to hold public Office has.
with little galiantry. been made in
Pike county, Pa Porter township
has so few voters that Mrs Sarah
Miller was placed on the Democratic
ticket for school. director, there be
ing no other available candidate, one
Democrat being the nominee for
three local Offices
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

1t was Hamlet who was made to
cay:
Diseases desperate grown
BY desperate appliance are rcliev'd
Or not at aE.''
ana the worst of it is, one feels after
reading the daily papers. that his own
private ailment is a desperate one
Argument is persuasive when at its
best, and if ever an argument is
clothed in the garb of perfection it is
when 1t tells of disease that man
is heir to- We have, ere this, perus-
ed goodly article in some worthy
publication, telling of the cruel raw
ages or tapeworm, and by my with
ers, Horatio, we have fs:t the worm
gambol and twist within us. So wen
have the ubiquituous advertisers ted
their story that we have felt the
nauseating stransulation of cata-rh.
the pestiferous caEkerirs of the
dread diphtheria. the excrutiating
twsnges OF the warping rheumatism.
the sharp knivings CT the purulent
appendicitis and other strenuous
troubles that delight in mans un-
doing. Had we wooden leg and
toes o. cork, the gout would pain our
very limb when reading thus and so.
20 lar as we know we are as healthy
as an alley billy goat We can eat
almost anything the goat can lex
cept cansl and enough CT it to foun-
Ger a Iatboat-but we have synlp-
toms We can't help it when we
Tea4 tne advertisements which des-
That dire disease. whose ruthless power
: liners She leaGty's transient hower."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
The Manila TeIeqraph Gable.

The most hazardous section of the
Manila telegraph cables is that com
pleted between San Francisco and
Honolulu. in which the sea bed is
precipitous, with valleys 3D. 900 feet
Deep The next two sections. ex-
tending to Guam. will cross level
plains of mud at a depth of about
$4,000 feet, while the last section Is
over q series of mountains.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Napoieon's Road Over Pass.
The road constructed by Napoleon
over the Simplon pass has 264 bridges
and rises to height of $3.50 feet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04


We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props Toledo o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. ]. Cheney
for the last IS years and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and hnanci-
ally able to carry out any obligations made By
their firm.
WEST & TRUAX. Wholesale Druggists Toledo
Ohio; WALDINC5. KINNAN & MARVIN WhoIe-
sale Druggists. Toledo Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting
directly upon the blood and surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills the best.
Marriage is sometimes a failure ana
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
oriuin of Tissue Paper

The fimsy paper called tissue pa
per was originally made TO place be
tween tissue. cloth of gold or silver:
to p1event its fraying CT furnishing
when folded
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04


The editor of one of our exchanges
is much elated over the fact that the
hens are laying again. He must take
eggs on subscription. This reminds
as of a setting hen Did you ever try
to break up a hen that wanted to
set? When hen gets notion into
her head she is due to set, she will
coddle down onto a china egg, base
ball or a crOQuet spheroid and be as
immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar.
Argument never touches her and moth
ing avails but muscular interference.
This is not easily consummated. The
average hen chooses to set in a corner
where she commands the Thermopy-
1aen Pass with a sharp bill and bat
teTing wings. She is as unreasonable
as other females when strenuously de-
termined, and fights against intrusion
with bravery worthy of a better cause
than nursing five-cent door-knob.
she wants to set and she remembers
this to the utter oblivion of all else.
And she will set unless you throw
fear of pain to the winds, grasp her
firmly by the neck and duck her in
the rain barrel whenever she persists
in lowering over the knobs and the
balls An reproducing hen that lays
piously, cackles joyously and forgets
TO set unless sufficiently urged, is
mortgage litter. but the hen that ia
sists on Matching a miscellaneous pro-
geny of ping-pong balls. pepper-boxes
and igneous rock should be made to
feel the contumely of every honest
chicken fancier. What we need in
this country is people and hens that
viii stay on their eggs when there are
eggs under 'em, and forget to set
when they might better be hustling
for grub.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Foreigners in German Empire.
or the 757.000 strangers living in
the German empire. 900. 900 are Austro-
Hungarian and $4,000 Dutch
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
ResembIance

This is a bust OF papier mache.~
VISITOR swan. If he don't look
enough like George Washington to b~
his brother-"-Town and Country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04
IN THE UPPER REGIONS
Interesting Experiments Planned by tie Weather
Washington For Studying the Atmospheric
Wrest Secrets From Nature.

the six-mile level, where the highest
clouds, supposed to be composed of
snow crystals or icy crystals. float
He found the temperature 81 below
zero.
There is no telling how high the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Astronomy interests a few, but gas
tronomy catches the multitude.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Clear white clothes are a sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
Large o. package, 5 cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance
Starch is taking the place of all
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
For children teething softens the gums reduces In
oGE2mation, Ays pain, cures wind ,ofic 25c bottle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-04

An Observant man may forget lot
that he hears if he only remembers
all that he sees.